Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, March 20, 1890, Image 2
TKE LITTLE PEOPLE. Br JVUS OItEKNLEAI' WHITTIEB. DREARY placo would I \ be this earth < /A\ Woru thero no little 1/ IA „ , people in It j . ' I I Won- thero 110 cliil jf"! t ilreii to begin it. rntMi, v^z, W/f iil.'K / ! wan Is slumbei iLffVi \vl . tending: . AI •. Ml W/S'' No littlo kueo in pray . L CS*y.\//' IT to bend, t. ~M. */C * - N Our liua the Bweot V-r.W.v'j r ~^ 6 words lending. ' £F~ '' Tbo Bteruer souls would lie more stern, Unfeeling natures more inhuman, And no man to stoio coldness turn, And woman would bo less than woman. Id fa's song, indeed, would lose its charm, Wore there 110 babies to begin it; A doleful place thi> world would be, ~ Wore there no little people in It. HE THREW IT HIS HANDS CAPTURING AN IOWA DESPERADO j AND MAN-KILLER. "Itig Sum" Was :i Tougli Customer, but 1 Ho Quailed in the Presence ot "Old j Jack "—An Episode of tlio Early Settle ment of lowa. I HEN lowa was al / j/l A | mitted to the Union J/ \'r) ' as a State there it~~tf 'M A were within her | Sg) k? ' M'l, borders many rough J var- 1' 'd characters, who had left their quiet I homes in the older ] States and sought \-EF7f7 *' le u^( l West in a \—r T 1' V pure spirit of adven .J.jAtmo. Most of these ' l nsS3-\k- men, tiiougli brave ! - to a fault, were peaceably inclined, and rarely partici- j pated in those brawls and affrays j which are of such frequent occurrence in frontier communities. Unfortunate ly there were others who were never so j happy as when engaged in knock- down j arguments or shooting scrapes. Toter- j rorize a town or a neighborhood was their delight. These were the "bullies," the "desperadoes," the "terrors," as they were variously characterized. It was one of these pests of good society that has prompted the penning of this littlo sketch. Shortly after the admission of the State a brutal and unprovoked murder was committed at old Fort lies Moines by u notorious desperado known as Big Bain. Big Ham was one of many of that class who spent their summers in the mountains and drifted back to the border of civilization to spend their winters. While the majority of them ■were honest plainsmen, Big Sam was a ruffian of the most pronounced type, and was never so well satisfied as when bullying some inoffensive stranger. His latest victim had been a young man from Ohio but lately arrived in the country. 1! of using to dance in a saloon for Big Ham's amusement, and calling him a cowardly ruffian when the bullv threatened him, was suffi cient to raise Big Barn's anger to the killing point, and he shot the young man dead 011 the spot. Idealizing that for once he had car ried things too far, and that vengeance was about to be visited 011 him by a neighboring vigilance committee, Big Ham lied to the then strag gling village of Council Bluffs. The news of his crime soon followed him. and also the announcement that the Governor had offered a reward of SSOO for his arrest. Several local officers attemjited liii arrest without success, for he was verj watchful and suspicious of all who ap proached him. Besides, lie had badlj wounded one officer who had attempted his arrest. Tiie desperado was dis tuvbod 110 more after this third attempt and he became quite bold and full o: swagger. Stopping at the De Koven House in Council Bluffs at the time was a mar who. like Big Sam, wintered in the settlements and summered in the mountains. Unlike Big Ham, Old .lack was no desperado. He was nervy and gii clear through and lie would go two oi three miles any night to spin a mar velous yarn 01 border adventuro, to some company of westward-bound emi grants, or do them a kindness. old Jack was seated in the bar-room of the hotel one morning when a couple of officers came in. As they stepped up to the bar one of them remarked: "1 wish we could take that fellow, i It would he a pile in our pockets if we did, but it's most too risky a job for air." "Yes," remarked his companion, "a fellow might get him, and again he might not; but I would like to see him punished for so cowardly and uupro j voked a murder as that was." "Who is it you are talking about?" | asked Old Jack, rising and walking toward a window looking out on the •treet. "Why, Big Ham, of course," was tin ' reply. "There ho goes, now, into that saloon over across the street." Old Jack glanced across the street i and saw the burly figure of Big Sam I enter the saloon and pass toward the 1 bar. "Well, he don't look like such an aw- ! ful had man; what has he done?" asked Jaek. 'i hereupon one of the officers brieily outlined the crime for which Big Hani I was wanted. "Well, a fellow-that would kill an other that way ain't tit to run loose. | Just you deputize me, and if I don't i got him for you just see that I get a ; decent plantin'; that's all I ask," said Juck. "Agreed," said one of the men, "but ' just remember the risk you run, and you are under no obligations to do it." "Never mind that, only give me the papers," replied old Jack. He was forthwith deputized, and pin ning a star on his vest underneath his coat, lie crossed the street and walked into the saloon which Big Ham had entered a while before. Stepping to the bar, lie called for the drinks, then remarking in ca ual way that he did not like to drink alone, he turned toward the man seated at the stove and said: "Corne up, stranger, and drink with me." "I don't care if T do," responded Big Bam, as he arose and swaggered up to the liar. T'hey both drained their glasses. As old Jack put his hand down to return ] to his jacket the change ho had re ceived from the bartender, ho let the money fall to the floor, and. dexterous ly whipping out his pistol, he had Big Ham, wiio was leaning hack against the bar watching him closely, covered before he realized what was coming. , "Throw up your hands, and lie quick about it," commanded Jack; "you're I my man now," and Jio pushed aside the lapel of liis coat and showed his star. "Don't!" lie exclaimed, as Sam's hand started to drop, "don't, or I'll ! kill you." Up went the hands, for big Sam saw he had met more than his match. "Here, barkeeper, just step around here and put these bracelets 1 have in my pocket on the gentleman's wrists, will you?" said Jack, addressing tho dispenser of drinks. The man com plied. "Now, open the door for us and you can have that change on the floor for your trouble," said Jack. "Now, Sam," he said, as the door swung open, "just walk over to the De Koven House, ahead of mo, that's as far as we'll go now." Sam complied, and at tho hotel ho was turned over to the waiting officers, who deprived him of a couple of re volvers and an ugly-looking knife. As old Jack surrendered tho star he remarked that "he was done with it." "Well," remarked big Sam, "if I had known you were doing this for fun, somebody would have died." "Well, I guess you know who would have died," was all old Jack replied. Big Sam was taken to the scene of his crime, where he suffered the full l>enalty of the law. W. L. FRENCH. Loveland. lowfl. ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL. Die Juvenile Attendant Cavalier— Latest Tomfoolery of (.iolliam's I'einale Anglo maniacs. MONO tho prod ucts of modern society there is 110110 more re markable than tho juvenile nt- tenilantcivalier. \ A do/.cn rich and l highly respecta- I bio New York matrons now provide the m - selves each with what she is pleased to call "e useful boy," and, to do her justice.it must bo ackuowlo Iged that she compols the young man to earn his qualifications Mrs. Grundy herself has accepted him and the husband heeds him not. Indeec j he is rather regarded by that individual 1 in the light of an understudy, as ho re lievos Monsieur of many little social duties which would otherwise sadly in terfere with his own engagements whether of business or of plonsure. Then | was a time when a married lady of por -1 sonal attractions would scarcely hav ventured to go about everywhere with t Sood-looking young man who was not hei usbaud. Nowadays we look for tin harmless, necessary "tamo cat." Tin fashionable matron takes much prido ir tho appearance of her cavalier, aud tc qualify for the position he must in t measure be ornamental as well as useful Furthermore ho must in no wiso bo awk ward. lie must be able to put a cloak round Madam's shoulders as carefully ai her maid, and to adjust an opera hood without ruffling the hair. It being part of his duties, too, to attend to fans, bouquets, opera-glasses, programmes, dogs, and nil such impodimontn, it ifi necessary that he should not indulge iu tho old-fasliioned occupation of wool gathering, while on no account must he permit himself to cherish the usual mas culine aversion to "shopping;" for, whon he is not dispatched alone to execute my lady's orders, which may range from a box at the opera to a box of poarl powder, ho ia required to be in attendance when she makes tho rounds of dry-goods empori ums. To tho on-looker the value of hia presence on these occasions appears lim ited, for it seems ho does nothing but balance himself on the edge of chairs, adjust his tie in every available mirror, and occasionally make mildly facetious and more frequently impertinent com ments on tho goods. At the restaurants 1 he secures luncheon, and being well-drill i ed in Madam's likes and dislikes, he tliua saves her the troubloof choosing her own 1 faro, and tho infliction of getting what she detests. Ho is useful, too. in find ing the carriage after the thoa'or or after noon party, and addod to all thoso ser viceable, if not exactly intellectual quali ties, are the advantages that he can bo snubbed at will, that he never dare grum ble liko husbands, and that ho nevet bores with tho wearisome attentions of older men. To what end do theso per fumod dandyettes run errands and act ni footmen to other men's wives if not to play at being gay lotharios? Their reward is ill it they get taken everywhere, and everybody has to treat them with soma degree of civility. Then they are in the ! train of a pretty, or, at least, a popular | woman, a distinction which all youths envy. They live on tho metaphorical milk and honey of the land; they bask in luxury and revel iu all tho best onter- | tainmonts, pick up "good tips," and event- j ually, if they are smart, secure a rich bride. The Astors and tho Yanderbilts, or at ! least the more socially consequential ones among them, will sail away for Europe j next week; but in the meantime they are i giving dinners, receptions, and balls at a furious rate. Chauncey M. Depew, you know, is not only a business associato of tho Vanderbilts in railroading, but he mixes familiarly with them in society. At the opera, the other night, I heard Mrs. William Astor remark: "I do be lieve, Mr. Depew, that you have been helping Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt to make out a time-tablo. Surely, she crowds in more entertainments without collision than I can succeed in doing." "Did you over see a man making a railway time-table?" Mr. Depew jocosely responded. "Well, this is tho way he does it: A thread of a certain color*rep resents every train that is run over the lino close to others. With two or three of these different colored threads stretched along tho route, and by means of markings of their running time, ho lays out tho new schedule. Wherever the threads have to cross, owing to tho com parative slowness or swiftness of the trains and their relative times of inter fering with oacli othor, tho layout of threads enables him to fix the figures ex actly and successfully. Now, this is a secret," and ho glanced with twinkling eyes at the group of a dozen hoarers. "I spout two days laying out a time-tahlo in that manner for Mrs. Vanderbilt, and if any of her entertainments should come into collision she would hold nio responsi ble."—A'eio York letter to Chicago Led- A Wise Bird- Customer— I've been cheated. I thought, you said this parrot would talk. Bird Fancier—No, sir. What I said was that lie had been brought up in the company of learned men and was full of philosophy and scholarship. OJ course, he don't talk. Mere idle words Jiavo no attraction for him. Hut lie's a remarkable parrot because he's a great thinker.— Munseifs Weekly. Cause of His Sorrow. Brown—What makes you so glum, Smith? Smith You'd bettor ask! Why, only last week I got an annual pass on the railroad, and here's my rich uncle gone and diect and left mo all his proprety. Of course, I shall have to move into his house in the city, and then I should like to know what's my pass good for ? Boston Transcript. V SI.])TEKi!A>EAM ELOW rHE SUBJECT OF IKKIGATION DIS CUSSED. V Or ©at Area of Our Country in Wlilcli an Artificial Water Supply Only Can Render Agriculture Remunerative-Mil lions of Dollar* Involved \ Sememe by Which Millions ol Acres of Now Unin habitable Uainls May Re Rondo rod Pro ductive. /"TIW HE subject of -" irrigation is one - ~ • L - t I that must, of n necessity, soon j *^ l ■ W i". command more 1 -—r&r attention from ! Horace G reeley'a monition to "go K<) widely heeded llt re * BllO preciable part of the Union which re mains as distinctively new and un settled. But six Territories remain unadmitted as States and these already contain so many people that they are almost ready to "knock at the door." The processes of working over and filling up have begun, and will soon bring impressively before the people of tlio United States tlio fact that at least two-fi f ths of the total area of our great country, not including Alaska, will re quire an artificial water supply to rem P Q.yw / """ Ik PI CHIEF DOMAIN OF THE UNDERFLOW. dor agriculture tliercon certainly re munerative. On two acres out of every five in the Bum total of tlio United States, there must he more or less ir rigation to secure success in farming— and all could employ it profitably at timos. Tlio arid and semi-arid lands, which ' constitute the two-fifths mentioned, cover about 1,800,000 square miles, or more than 800,000,000 acres. If this area could be thoroughly reclaimed by irrigation, it would add more than 40,- ; 000,000 possible homos of agriculturists to the treasures of the resources of the United States; because, it is demon strated that, on thoroughly irrigated land, an average family may live well off less than twenty acres, the average yield from irrigated land being four times the average product of non-irri gated. But large areas, which are in cluded in the arid limits, consist of mountainous country, consequently unsuitable by nature for agriculture. Notwithstanding this, it has been esti mated that, when all available sources of water supply for irrigation are util ized, there will only be water enough to irrigate about one-fourth of the land needing irrigation. This estimate in cluded only the surface waters, liow over, from melting snow, rains, and natural springs, aided by artesian wells and pumping machinery. But there is another source of water sup ply, hitherto unnoted, which is des tined to become a factor of most wonderful importance in the prob lem of the reclamation of the arid lands. It is the underflow. Thus is the broad and deep subter ranean volume of water which slowly flows through the sand and gravel un derlying most, if not all, the streams Which traverse the plains adjacent to the Ilocky Mountain system, those plains constituting the greater portion of the land which will require irriga tion. These underground streams, which, extended investigation shows, flow steadily, though slowly, through their sandy medium, are probably much greater in volume than the streams upon the surface, and there aro indica tions that tlioy aro also much more nu merous, and there is little question that thoy are, in largo measure, distinct from surface streams in the direction of their flow. But little investigation has been made as yet into the extent of these underground bodios of water. In the valley of the Arkansas Biver, particularly that part extending from the 100 th meridian westward somo 300 miles, the subterranean flow is both wide and deep, and is an average of but three feet below tlio surfaco of tlio low lands along the river. At Garden City, Kan., which is on the Arkansas River, fifty miles west of the one hundredth meridian and sev enty miles east from the ivest line of the State, the water-bearing bed of sand and gravel is 310 feet deep; anil engineors, who have made a study of the matter, find it probably over fifty miles wide. Though it is not probable that such depth and width aro, by any moans, uniform, yot that a great width and dopth are maintained throughout the 000 miles mentioned, has been demonstrated. This renders the use of improved pumping machinery cheap and effective, to a limited extent, for the purpose of raising water to the sur faco for use in irrigation; but, a sys tem is available which will utilize those vast subterranean stores of water, and which is simple, cheap, and pormanont, costing comparatively little either to establish or maintain it. The quantity of land which may be placed under irrigation by this means, and which has no other certain source of water supply, in the Arkansas valley, will be more than 4,000,000 acres, in Kansas, and an equal area in Colorado. These lands are too far from the mountains to bo sure of re ceiving any appreciable portion of tho surface Maters emanating from that source, because so much good land, which must have irrigation, lies nearer to that source of supply. There is no appreciable surplus of local storm M aters falling upon these lower lands, because, on those plains, five-sixths of all the annual precipitation falls be tween April 1 and ,September 1, and is absorbed by tho soil. This, how ever, gives so nearly a sufficient rain fall, through the growing season, that but little additional moisture in the May of irrigation is needed; hence tho water supplied for irrigation will serve a relatively large area ot land. The lands reclaimed in this M ay, therefore, will not only be so much net gain of irrigable area but the M ater obtained will irrigate and reclaim a relatively large amount of land. This immense underground water supply, while probably derived, in the main, from the percolation of tho Ar kansas River and its tributaries, is probably largely supplemented by un derground currents from distant sources north and west. While these remarks apply particu larly to the Arkansas Valley, which the M'liter has made a special study for some years, yet sufficient is known of a largo number of other streams, as the Platte, Canadian, Missouri, etc., with their tributaries, to convince the wri ter that the area of land which will ultimately bo reclaimed by irrigation will at least double the amount at pres ent estimated as reclaimablo. The great value of this method of securing a water supply lies in this: That the water caught and held back in the mountains by means of storage reservoirs, lakes and forests, and spread out over the lauds nearest to these sources of supply will speedily find its way, in large measure, into the underflow, and can thus be used again and again in its progress down the long slopes which it must traverse on its way toward the sen. That part which does not thus sink again and ngaiu into the under strata, will rise into the air by evaporation to bo again deposited either upon mountain or plain in the form of rain, snow or dow. None of that part which is evaporated can be lost. The accompanying map shows the generally accepted boundaries of what is known as "the arid region," and be- j tween "the two shaded lines on the I right is shown the strip of country I which will be most benefited by the ' development of the vast subterranean I sources of water supply for irrigation, which may be tapped and utilized in hundreds of places, not only in the region thus outlined, but throughout the entire territory in which irrigation is needed. The lands which will thus bo furnished with irrigation are in very largo proportion smooth as to surfaco, possessing soil of great depth and ex ceedingly rich, and having a fine cli mate. They are too far from the moun tains to secure a reliable supply of water from torrential sources, and, at the same time, they already contain many settlers who have been tempted, or gone mistakenly, beyond tho boun daries of iiumid areas. Hence, tho underflow will not only furnish to many million acres of rich land tho only sure means of irrigation, but will turn the sorrow of many thousand toil ing settlers into joy by giving to their arid homesteads the means of tho high est degree of fertility and a certainty of much greater success in farming than can be secured by natural rainfall- A RECENT writer states that in many parts of the United States unprovided with water-power it would be not only possible but profitable to use wind power for milling. In European coun tries wind-driven flour mills, even of considerable extent, are no uncommon sight; and one firm is said to have a mill operated by steam and another operatod by wind, and to have found the latter the more successful financi ally. To get the best results, this au thor asserts that the mill should have a capacity of 150 to 200 barrels, and would need a wind wheel at least 85 or 00 feet in diameter, which should not approach nearor than fifteen feet to tho ground. IT is rather surprising that wo can not yet positively answer tho old ques tion. Why is the sky blue ? Professor Tyndall explained the color as due to Iho smnllness of tho solid particles in the air, which nre thus ablo to reflect only rays of short wave-length; but a later investigator, Professor Hartley, believes that, tho mysterious ozone ex ercises somo influence on tho rays, as a small quantity of ozone gave a sky blue in a tube two feet long. ALL A HOLT PARROTS. INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING THESE BIRDS. Tho Parrot, of Soatli America. Culm. Mexico, noil Oilier Countries How la Fooil Tito in, Preserve Tliolr Health, ami Prolong Tlieir I.ives. There are a great many parrots ID Chicago, some of them fluent talk /S"\ ers, and the / j,\ > \o wne rso i j AhMtliiiik a greai /ifcU deal of them y\V' —much more / IV y in many in- II y stances than V W their friends \ \>a and acquain tanees think. TJr Pew people, II however, I t know the dif || I fercneo bo- I i i tweon the va- II 1 rieties of the I ■ ' wonderful ,; tropical bird, 11 and few per // sons seeking At one wou 1 d A | J \ know how to 13s I make a wise purchase, or, having se cured the prize, how to treat it prop erly. A parrot enthusiast in a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle gives much interesting and valuable information, which is here reproduced: "I suppose you know that every ship from the Isthmus lands at least a score of parrots in San Francisco," snid an enthusiastic bird-tamer to a reporter recently. "What becomes of them?" "I believe most of them die within a month for want of proper care, and very few of tho rest learn to talk. It wouldn't bo an exaggeration to say that half tlie population of San Fran cisco has tried its hand at parrot-keep ing, but a good talking bird is as rare as ever, and will always command a high price. Of course, all tho parrots don't come from the Isthmus or the / i coast towns where the steamers call. But enough come from theso points at a low figure to make it well worth while for a man to undertake the business of training and acclimatizing them." "Some varieties are better than others, are they not ?" "Yes, but practically any parrot can be trained to talk if you commence when the bird is young. Thoro is a common but. foolish notion that it is only the male birds that talk. As a matter of fact there is no more differ ence in this respect than in the huiSan species. The hen parrot can do her share of talking about as well as a woman's rights advocate." "Do the different kind of parrots re quire different food ?" "Certainly; that is one of the secrets. Let me describe to you here the kinds of parrot commonly met with in this country. Of course you know they are all imported and acclimatized, the bird being strictly tropical in its natural habitat. The Mexican double yellow head parrots are among the best birds we get; they have better talking power, greater sharpness in picking up words and tricks, and a more pleasing human liko voice than the other varieties. Tlioy are also quick to become attached to their owners, and to make strangers feel like strangers, which is ono of tho chief charms of a parrot for the average man or woman. That's human nature, isn't it ? If a parrot will talk to every- body tho owner has no use for it. This vai ietv has another good quality; that of fearlessness. A Mexican double yellow-head parrot will convinco any cat in about two minutes that distance lends both enchantment and safety to the view. As to what these birds can learn, I will only say that they have been taught to imitnto all tho animals in the barnyard—the rooster, the dog, tho pea-lions, tho turkeys. They can be made to repeat half a dozen letters of the alphabet in succession, spell words, and, as to swearing, they will pick up 'cuss' words as quick as any 10-year-old gamin. "Farrots are reckless feeders, and that is the cause of most of their ail ments. The birds naturally live on seeds and fruit, under conditions which permit them to have frosh food nt all times and plenty of air and sunlight. Hut a parrot in captivity is kept in a state of chronic irritability by hot and improper food coffee, meat, stale bread, sour vegetables at the bottom of its cage— is it a wonder that the bird sickens ? "Tho hardiest of all varieties is the African gray, but it should never bo fed with soft bread, which agreos well with other parrots. The proper thing for this bird is a diet of water, crack ers,-pilot biscuit, hemp, and occasion ally a piece of mealy apple or a pea nut. "There is no whistler to beat the African gray, and it never screeohos. Of course, this bird comes high, be cause it lias to come byway of Liver pool and New York, or round the Horn; but it is a jino pet, aud, as J have suid, a hardy bird. A. good Atrlcan parrot is not dear nt SSO or even $100." "What other varieties come here?" "The Cuban parrot. It is a very beautiful bird, a good talker, and a fair rvliistler. This is a delicate variety till thoroughly acclimated, and is sub ject to all the rules about a limited water diet." "Are there any South American par rots in the market ?" "They arc scarce, but one of the best is the Maracaibo. It is almost as beau tiful as the Cuban variety and about the same sizo. One of those birds is said to have been taught to talk both in German and English and even to whistle airs. Most of these go to England. A Maracaibo parrot is worth anything from $lO to SSOO, according to its accomplishments." "What about the redhead parrots?" "There are two varieties usually met with—one is the Mexican, the other the l'orto Itico. Those are very much alike, with one exception—the feathers of the Porto ltico bird aro tipped with red on the back and breast, while the Moxieanjvarioty is a solid green, with the rod patch on the head much larger and brighter. The Mexican birds are fairly hardy and have very bright, ex pressive eyes. They make splendid talkers and good whistlers. They are also quick to loam tricks." "You spoke of double yellow-head parrots. What does 'double' mean?" "Oh, thore is a single yellow-head in which tlio golden area is much smallor. This variety is not as good a whistler as tlio other parrots, but it is the most docilo of all and a rare talker. Once tamed it will make friends with any body. borne peoplo think less of it on that account, but it is a good bird to havo around where there are children.'' "Parrot improve rapidly in value ac cording to their talking powers, I sup pose?" "Yes, so much that a good talker is worth SIOO, where a finer-looking bird that can not talk is only worth $10." Is Work n Pleasure! 15. MAX, writing in the Detroit Free Press, makes some sensible remarks touching this sub ject. He says that tlioso amiable friends of the hu man raco who work (byway of killing time) when tho im pulse moves them, aro in tho habit of assuring us that no pleasure equals that wlii c h is derived from work. In one set of circumstances that is true. In another set of circumstances it is radically untrue. Tho writer says that after sitting at his desk for eight hours, a foot-race, a club-srvinging match or any physical labor is a lux ury, a literal rest from weariness. Of course pleasure is the accompaniment and the product of work so performed, lie says ho has not discovered that there is much work of the drudgery kind that is in itself pleasurable. Primarily (and scripturally) work is called a curse; yet Newton delighted in tho work which dominated his life and ofton made him forget his English man's dinner. Wo hear of composers made ecstatic by their work and obliv ious of tho ordinary demands of the body in presence of their own crea tions of entrancing sound; but it is littlo to the purpose to point out tho exceptional and abnormal persons who livo in a kind of sweet delirium, which tho big world of toilers can neither feci nor understand. It is true that work is often a source of pleasure, tho degree of which de pends upon tho worker's capacity for pleasure. This capacity in its turn depends on one's environment, habit, and education; but work in tho ab stract—tho work that is done on com pulsion, which is true of most work is more painful than pleasurable, However, oven dull plodding and hopelessly monotonous drudgery be come an inspiration nnd a joy when undertaken at the command of love. No merely selfish joy ever equaled the joy of that worker who bends his back under tho heaviest burdens of this world that the objects of his love and solicitude may be the gainers by his endeavor and sacrifice. The mere laborer is a despairing or a stolid slave. The true worker must have underlying his life some clearly defined object for which he works. Without it, his energies early become bankrupt, and his struggle bears about the same relation to work in its nobler senso that the spasmodic and vain clut things of tho drawing man bear to the strokes of tho bold and easy swimmer who disports himself for nastiroe How Old Vanderbllt Was Caught. "I was coming down the Hudson one night," said General Spinola, "in com pany with Cornelius Yanderbilt, Thur low Weed, Dean Richmond and George Law, when Weed proposed a game of poker and I was asked to come in. I hesitated, for I had only about §I,OOO in my pocket and I knew it was to be a game without a limit. I mentioned the state of my finances to Law, but ho told me to tako a hand, and said he would back me to any amount. 'I am willing to lose §30,000 or §40,000 to night,' ho said, 'and to-morrow I will tell you my reason.' So the game started and I staid in, hugging tho shore pret ty close, and getting startled every once in a wliilo when somo one went §I,OOO blind. When we quit at day break I had won about §4,000, but Law had lost ton times that amount. The noxt day I met him. 'I will tell you, Frank,'he said, 'why I lost that money. I wanted Yanderbilt to think I was a sucker, aud so I played like one. The result was that to-day I sold him a lot of steamboats for nearly SOOO,OOO more than I expected to get from him. Don't you think the money was well invested?"— New York World. THERE is hardly any man so friend less in this world that ho hasn't at least ono friend ready to tell him his faults- The New Senator from Ohio. Calvin S. Brice, who was recently elocted to the United States Senate from (>hio, was born in Putnam Coun ty, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1815. His father was the Eev. William K. Brice, a well known Presbyterian minister, who went to Ohio from Maryland, and preached for many years "in North western Ohio. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Stewart, of Carroll County, and was a woman of unusual ability and fine character. Senator Price's early training was careful and thor ough, and at the age of thirteen he en tered the preparatory department of Miami University at Oxford. When tho war broke out he left his studies, and, although not yet sixteen years of age, he enlisted and served until the CALVIN S. BBICE. expiration of his term, and returned to the university, and in Juno, 18(53, graduated. He went to Lima, where he taught in tho public schools, nnd in the sirring of 1804 ho recruited a com pany and re-entered the service as Captain of Company E, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infan try, and remained in the service until the end of the war. He was promoted while in the field to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of tho regiment for meri torious service, but Lee and Johnston laid down their arms before he mus tered in for this oftice. Senator Brice returned to Lima and prepared him self for the law, graduating at Ann Arbor, and in 1800 was admitted to the bar. In the year 1869 '7O ho became interested in railroad building, and began to amass the fortune he is now enjoying. He is Chairman of tho Na tional Democratic Committee, and is an active political leader and success ful financier. Judge Cooloy and the Ticket Scalper. A railroad ticket agent yesterday, in commenting upon the indiscriminate cutting by brokers, told this: Judge Cooloy has away of rounding up the scalpers that puts a stop to their opera tions in short order. He does not wait for the railroads to bring in evidence against them, but just goes out on a still hunt by himsolf and generally goes homo rvith his bag full. The last time he was in Chicago he dropped in sort of incidentally upon one of the most obnoxious of the brotherhood and brought him into camp in a manner which gave the other scalpers cold feet for a month. "What can I get a ticket to New York for?" said ho, leaning confiden tially over the counter and tipping a wink to the man behind. "Seventeen," replied the broker briskly. "Can't you do any better than that ?" responded Judge Cooloy persuasively. Well, the broker thought tliat he could, and finally arranged to give tho Judge four tickets way down below the legal rate. "Well, bring them around to my room at the Grand Pacific to-night," said tho Judge, "I havn't tho full amount with me." So at the appointed hour the broker appeared at the rooms of the Judge. The Judge recoived him kindly. "Hold up your right hand," said he casually. The broker did so with some amusement. "Now," con tinued the Judge, "do you swear to tell the truth, tho whole truth and nothing but the truth ?" "I'll bo d if I do anything of the kind," said the broker, as his express ion changed to blank amazement, and his hand dropped liko a shot. "Oh, I guess you will," returned Judge Cooley with a careless drawl; "hero's my friend, the United States Marshal, sitting by my side, and you will be given over to his custody if you don't. So, now, sit down in that chair and tell Judge Cooley, of the Inter state Commission, all about those tick ets you offered to sell hiin bolow the legal rate this afternoon. I want to know exactly how much each road got for them and your commission." The broker fell in a limp heap in the chair, and before ho had left the room the Interstate Commerce Committee had exacted somo information which struck the brokers all in a heap the day after.— Minneapolis Tribune. PnoF. MOLBIUS has proved, as lately stated to the Berlin Physiological Soci ety, that tho anatomical arrangements of tho flying fins and muscles make flight impossible. The fish simply shoots up out of tho water when fright ened, nnd is carried along by the wind, The buzzing of tho fins, which has been urged as proof of real llight, is pro duced whon a strong current of air strikes tho fins of even a dead fish, and tho rising over the crest of a wave or the bulwarks of a ship is explained by tho ascending currents of air produced wlienover n strong horizontal wind strikes an elevated object liko tho wave or shin. "CHANGE of climate is what you need," said a high-priced physician, after he bad listened to all the details of the patient's case. "Change of cli mate 1" exclaimed the patient, in sur prise. "Why, man alive, I've never had anything else. I've lived light lioro in New England all my life." IN a catalogue of Mexican meteorites prepared by M. Antonio del Castillo, one mass is mentioned whioh was broken up and fell in widely dispersed fragments, portions being found in threo places at tho angles of a triangle whoso two longer sides were some fifty-five miles and thirty-five miles. In one of those places two plates were discovered about 250 yards apart, hav ing evidently formed ono huge plate, weighing more than eighty tonß, which broke near the ground. AN English doctor roports over thirty cases of headacho and facial neuralgia cured by snuffing powdered salt up tho nose. THE censure of ignorance is about all he real praise we got in life.