THE SONG OF THE AXE. Ha>k to Ihe axe! see the trees fall! The axe. as it swing*, bis s song for all! It sings yeo ho ! for the bounding ship, As it hews her stout planks down, It sings of the wain on the harvest plain, Anl the coach for ray lord in town ; The festive board with its light and song, And hey! for the dancing floor. Where the lovers vow, as they float along, To lore for evermore. Bark to tbe axe! see the trees fall! The axe, as it swings, has a song for all! But a tender tone tbe nxe must keep, As it shapeth tbe ted of rest, Wbpre the maiden sleeps her last long sleep, With a rose upon her breast. It seems to speak of the long good-bye, And the ship that came in vain, And then u love that will not die However the years may wane. Berk to the nxe! see the trees fall! The axe, us it swings, has a song for all! So the axe toils on, by sun and star, Under the woodman's hand, Plank and rafter and mast and spar Gome forth at his command. And the world wags on in peace and strife, With laughter and tears for ad, And the song of the axe is the song of Life, And we—are the trees that fall. Hark to the axe! see how they fall! The axe, as it swings, has a song for all! —[F. E. Weatbeily. SECURING THE CONTRACT. BY A. 11. GIBSON. A slender girl about twelve years old, with dark hair and eyes, was watering some thirsty morning-glory vines, which she was trying to train up the sides of her dugout home. 4< Callie!" called a man's weak voice from within. Dropping the basin of water, she en tered the dugout. On a home-made bed in one corner lay a man of about thirty nine years, his face was flushed with fever. 4< Do you want anything, Pupa?" she . asked, approaching the couch, and i stroking the dark hair away from the I hot brow with her cold, dump fingers. "It's almost time for you to go and drive up Bossy, isn't it?" he asked, look ing up tenderly into the child's face. 44 Yes, Papa. llow are you feeling j now?" "A little easier. The fever is going down slowly. You may give me u sup of water, then go and get Bossy." She gave him a drink in her own little tin cup, the best drinking vessel which their humble habitation afforded, then she ran out back of the dugout to where the horses were lariated on tho rank prairie grass. Slipping the lariat rope oft* Dolly's neck, Callie put a bridle 011 tho gentle creature's head, led her to tho side of a ravine, jumped lightly to a seat on her back, and dushed away across the prairie. The sun was just setting when she found the cow and started her toward home. As sho emerged from a little thicket, fringing a stream, a horseman drew rein before her. Hello, sissy!" was his coarse greet ing. He was a tall, stoutly-built, middle aged man, with a burly face and rod bristling hair and beard. He was coarse ly dressed, and wore immense spurs at tached to the heels of his heavy boots. Altogether the man presented anything but a ploasing appearance, and it was very evident from the expression which flitted across Callie's countenance that tho encounter was u disagreeable one to her. "Good morning, Mr. Simmons," she re turned 11 little coolly, starting hor pony around him. ' 4 l low s your pap?" he inquired, keep- I ing after her. "lie's havihg the chills and fever ! again," she replied, shortly. "It can't bo very healthy on your claim. I'd try to persuade your pap away, if I was you. You'd bettor leave 1 the claim anyway." "But I guess wo won't, for we like our j claim," she returned, with flashing eyes. "Pap says he will have better health 1 when he gets used to the climate. Go' on, Bossy!" she said to the cow that had ' stopped to graze. Without looking behind her she hur ried away toward the dugout, leaving the man gazing after her with an evil light fti his yellowish gray eyes. " That gal's a smart one, an' will bo n hard one to head oil'. I reckon, for a small one. But her dad's bein' sick gives me u good time to strike, if I can only git Jim Dawkins to help me. I'll go an' see him, ' and lie rode rapidly away in an op posite direction. Abel Norris and his little daughter Callio, the only remaining member of his family, had come from lowa that spring. The long journey had been made in a large covered wagon, and thev had settled 011 a claim in .Southeastern Kansas. This was in 1869, just after the fam ous Joy land excitement, and parts of the country were entirely new and un settled. They had some trouble with Bill Sim mons, u quarrelsome character who lived en 1 hunderbolt Greek and was known as one of the worst agitators among the anti-Joy settlers. Ho asserted a prior claim to the land taken by Mr. Norris. But there was not the slightest evidence of former occupancy, and Simmons be ing unablo to show a title to the land Mr. Norris refused to give up the claim. 1 nhocding the threats of Simmons, ho went to work and constructed a dugout in tho hunk of a deep ravine. When Simmons saw that the new set- tler was not so easily scared off by fals< statements of former ownership, he hac declared that he would organize a gun/, and set Norris and his etiild out. Bui the uuin from lowa wus a brave one, anc paifl 110 attention to the threats. When Gallic returned to the dugoui nlie milked the cow and prepared a littU s ipper. After her simple houiehoh duties had been attended to she sat dowi by her father's couch and fanned bin until ho fell asleep. 1 hen, going to the door of the dugout the looked out. Night had closed in ov< the prairies, and a thousand stars frou the deep blue vault above her seernei smiling and coquetting with the myriad of wild flowers all around. A soft wim Btirred the morning-glory vines by lie nide, then died away among the wild in digo and rosin weeds down tho ravine. "Poor Papa!" she said, pityingly, a? the gazed at his thin face, looking so pale and death-like in sleep. " 1 must ret some fresh water before I go to sleep, 10 lie can have a good, cold drink when oe wakes up." So saying she took a small tin bucket ind quietly atole from the dugout, about -hroo hundred yurils from which a clear ittlo spring issued from the rocky side f the ratine. I Sk reached the spring and had just filled her bucket with the cold, delieious ! water, when she heard horsemen ap proaching up the ravine. A cMla's natural timidity caused her to dart behind a thick chuinp of bushes and wait for the riders to pass. Instead of riding on, however, they halted by the spring, only a tew feet from Collie's retreat, and begun talking. Peering between the leaves of her covert, her keen eves could dimly make out the outlines of two men. She was not long in recognizing them. They were Bill Simmons and Jim Dawkins, men who were not friendly to her father. 44 1 like the looksof it, 'returned Daw kins. 44 You're sure there's coal hero ?" . 44 Yes; I've prospected all along this I ravine, before 010 Norris come out to this kentry. I tell you, Jim, for a fact, the whole place is underlaid with coal. There's a fortune in it for the owner, an' the railroad's comin' near here, an' will muke easy transportation," assured Siin- I mons. 44 Does ole Norris know there's coal on his claim?" "Don t think he does. You know he's been sick most of the time since he come into the kentry. an' he hain't had much time to look around." "No, he huin't been hero long. But how do you propose gittin' the claim away from him?" asked Dawkins. "Contract ahead of him." "Huin't he contracted for the claim yet?" "No." 44 Are you sure, Bill?" "I've beon watching tho land office purty clost, an' 1 know Norris huin't got u contract yet for this land." 44 Why don't you contract for the claim yourself, without uskin' my help?" asked Dawkins a little suspiciously. 44 Simply because I hain't got money enough to pay for gittin' the contruct," replied Simmons. "I have 'bout half enough. I reckon. But you have plenty of spondulix, Jim, an' kin help me if you will. We kin ride over to Fort Scott an' git a contraet writ out for this claim be fore ole Norris kin help himself. He's down with the shukin' nger, his little gal says, so wo have the best chance in the world." ' "How soon can you bo ready to sturt for Scott to git tho contract? I want to start to Missouri to-morrow." 44 I'll tell you wot we kin do. We'll start to Scott before sunrise, git the agent to attend to our business early, then you kin go right on to Missoury. I'll ride back to the Thunderbolt an' muster up a gang to help mo set ole Norris off of tho claim." "The very thing, Bill I'm with you an' will furnish you all tho money you need." They rode awav in the darkness, leav ing Callie alone by the spring to think overall she had heard. "110 shan't got papa's claim!" she cried, her eyes Hashing resolutely, as she returned to tho dugout. "Papa's been going to see the agent about tho con tract twice, and both times he has been taken sick. It's too bad!" < >ll reaching the dugout she found her father awake, so she told him about tho conversation which she had overheard be tween Simmons and Dawkins. "So this is a valuable coal claim, is it, and Simmons has been prospecting on it?" Norris repeated, when Callie had finished. "That accounts for Bill Sim- I moils' great efforts to scare mo off the land. And ho and Jim Dawkins are go ing to take advantage of my sickness and contract under mo, are they? Karly J to-morrow morning! Why, we have no < chance at all, Callie. They will get the claim from us in spite of all we can do," | ho said, despondently. 4 'No they won't, Papa! There's a chance yet," cried Callie, springing to j her feet. I "I know, if I was able to ride uhead of them to the land office," said Norris, with a groan. "But I am too weak to travel that far if tho prize was tho whole of Kansas. We'll have to let the villains have it, Callie. A sick man can't tight, his enemies." "But we won't let them have it, Papa. I can ride Dolly to the land office und tell tho ugent about it." "It is too long a ride for you, my child," said the sick man. "Besides, my presence would bo necessary to secure tho contract; then I haven't money enough to pay down. There's only $250 under that rock." "I'll tell you, papa," she cried, eager ly. "Lot me take that to the land agent, tell him the story, and maybe he'll keep the claim for us till you can pay the rest. l)o lot me try, papa* It will do no harm, and 1 may save your claim. I can start on Dolly long before daylight and beat Bill Simmons and Jim Dawkins to Fort , Scott. You must let me go, Papa." j She was only a little girl, and it was fifteen miles to the land office. It seemed a difficult, fruitless undertaking for her to try to outwit two bold, reckless men, who were so obstinately bent on getting the claim away from them. Callie went over the situation very carefully with her father. At last, see ing how determined she was on trying to save the claim, he gave a reluctant con sent to her going. She began making preparations for her journey, which were soon completed. Then seating herself by her father's j couch she listened very attentively to his instructions. The moon came up soon after mid night. Its light would relieve her long, lonesome ride. Taking the $250 from beneath a large, flat rock by her father's bed, she con cealed it in the bosom of her dress. Then kissing her father, and bidding him not worry about her, she left the dugout and mounted Dolly, who stood bridled and saddled, waiting to carry her young mis tress on her mission. .She started across the prairie at a brisk trot. The moon shed a deep, golden ' light over the August-parched grass, and chased away the dark shadows down the lonely hollows that yawned across her path, ller horse startled the birds asleep in the grass, and sent them flitting wildly away in the night. She started nervously when Dolly shied as a coyote ran howling down a rocky ravine. Every sound held a nameless terror for the little girl, but she kept bravely on. The sound of a mock ing bird trilling 011 a cottonwood by the roadside re-assured and encouraged her. The rosy flush of early dawn was just lighting tlie hills around Fort Scott as Gallic reached the outskirts of the place. W itli strangely throbbing heart the little girl, tired and pale from her sleep less night and long ride, urged Dolly for ward down the smooth, dusty road. Some men were already at work, breaking rock to repair a bad place in u deep, ugly hollow across which one of tho leading streets of the growing town must pass. Halting Dolly she inquired the way to tho land office. Ihe men exchanged peculiar glances, hut one of them pointed out the building where tho land airent had his office. Thanking him for the information, she r YARNS BY FI NNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Consistent in All Things—Something Turned Up—A Smart Young Mun— It Depends—The Winter Girl, Etc., Etc. CONSISTENT IN ALL THINGS. The Rev. Mr. Blank (at the rehearsal •f the wedding ceremony, to the groom) —And now. Mr. Canvas, have you the ring? Mr. Canvas—Yes, sir; three of 'em. "Why, you don't need three rings!" "1 know it; but you see I'm in the circus biz, an' I thought 't would bo a purty good ad for my show to have three rings used in the ceremony. See?"— [Medina Gist. HOMF.TIIINQ TURNED UF. Kind Lady—Why do you stand here so long, my poor man? Trump—l'm waiting for something to turn up. Kind Lady—l'd like to help you, but I can't. Here's five ceuts, all the change 1 have. Tramp—Thankee, mum. Kind Lady—Do you think anything will turn up? 'Tramp—Y'os, indeed, mum. Follow me around the corner, mum, an'you'll see u beer-glass turn up. —[Good News. A SMART YOUNG MAN. Applicant—l wish to get a place for u smart young inun. Employor—A friend of yours, I sup pose? Applicant —Yes, sir; a very good friend. Employer—You can vouch for his übility, I presume. Applicant- -His übility is Al. Employer—Tell hiui to come to work in the morning. Applicant—All right, sir; I'll be on hand ready to work in the morning. Good day, sir.—[Yankee Blade. IT DEPENDS. Willie—Pupa, how much does a rod measure? Mr. Billus (retrospectively and some what bitterly) —lt* you sign the contract without looking at it closely, my son, it measures when you come to pay for it about WW feet, and as a protection against lightning it isn't worth a—it isn't worth—run out now and play, my son.— [Chicago Tribune. THE WINTER GIRL. Now the dainty winter girl Sets my brain once more a whirl; Smiling from her mass of fur— What has earth to equal her? ONE KIND OF A MAN. He cringes and bends to the men who employ him, And meekly takes insults and slights, And never finds fault with the things that annoy him, Or stands like a man for his rights. But he can bo arrogant, too, when he chooses To people life's chances huvo placed In his power, and his meek little wife he abuses When the cooking is not to his taste. —[New York Press. AS THEY MEET ON THE STREET. Augustus—Ah. Cholly, what an old pirrte Carlotta's father is ! Cholly (still suffering)— Yes—a regu lar freebooter.—[The Ledger. GOOD AH A SELF-WINDER. Stranger—Have you any self-winding watches? Jeweler—Self-winding? "Yes, something that will wind itself, you know. My wife bus been pestering ino for a new watch, but I know she'll never remember to wind it after the first night, and it will rust out, just like the old one." "I have nothing of that kind; but I have a patent phonogruphio watch which shouts 'Wind mo,' at the proper time every night." "That won't do. My wife'll just say 'ln a minute,' and then forget all about it. I'll tell you what wo want. Y'ou fix it so that when it needs winding it will start up and whistle 'Comrades' until sho attends to it."—[New York Weekly. T.I BY WERE INTELLIGENT. "Well, how do you like our village?" asked a nativo of a rural hamlet, ad dressing a gentleman who had recently taken up his residence in the community. "I haven't had much time to form an opinion yet," was the rather evasive ro p'y- „ , "Do you find our people intelligent— quick of perception?" "Intelligent—quick of perception! I should say they are. They already know more about my affairs than 1 do myself." —[Now York Press. HE PLAYED HIS PART. Front Hank—l had to laugh at Quick step in the sham battle. Rightwheel Why? Front Rank—When he was killed he said, " O, death, where is thy sting?" ONE ON HIOKR. "It isn't square," said Mawson, pet ulantly. "What isn't?" queried Hicks. "A cirolo," replied Mawson, his pet ulance disappearing. NAMING A FART HOUSE. "A fast horse, is he?" "'Trot's like a streak of greased light ning." "Well, that's fast enough. What do you call hiin?" "What Ma Says." "What Ma Says! 'That's a strange namo. Why do you call him that?" "Because what ma says goes." BCIIOOL-IIOOK PROGRESS. School-book Publisher—Hooray! I have found it! Send a printer here! Start the presses! We'll got out a new and revised sot of school-books! Hoop la ! Superintendent —What have you found, sir? Publisher—A now way to pronounce an old word.—[Street's Good News. NO ATTRACTION FOR THE POLICEMAN. First Burglar—l think we might give old Bullion, the banker's place, a tifal to-night. He has discharged his female cook and hired a man in her place. His house should be a safe one to crack now. Second Burglar—Why is it safer than when he had a female cook? First Burglar—Because there ain't likely to be any policeman hanging around the house now.—[New York Press T TRANSFERRED. The garden gato has ceased of late A load of lovo to boar, But/ double weight is now the fute (M many a parlor chair. GIVING HER A LESSON. Cora—.John, can't you take me to the theatre to-night? .bdn (crabbedly)—No, I can't, and won7; don't ask mo. Cora (astonished) —What do you mean, sir. speaking to me that way? John—You said you'd ho a sister to me, and I'm treating you a• if you were. —[New York Herald. WOMAN'S ANCESTOR. Alice—Do you believe man sprung froin the ape? Jumbo—No; but I believe woman sprung from a mouse; in fact, I've seen her do it. HELD THE LIGHT. "Mr. Lightemup. you said you once officiated in a pulpit. Do you mean by that that you preached?" "No, your Honor; I held the light for the man what did." "Ah! The Court understood you dif ferently. It supposed that the discourse came froin you." "No. sir; I only throw'd a little light on it."—[New York Press. DOUUI.Y DEFINED. Tommy—What is a "running ac count?" Pti suys it's an account mer chants have to keep of their customers that are in the habit of running away from paying their bills. I'ncle—That's one definition of it. Tommy—ls there another? I'ncle—Y'es. A running account is, in some instances, uu account that gets tired out running after u while, and then it becomes a standing obligation.—[Bos ton Courier. A SAD END. "How's that black and tan dog of yours?" "Dead." "Dead?" "Y'es. Swallowed a bunch of wutch keys and they wound him up."—[Brook lyn Life. ONLY IIEU BROTHER. Ho—l think I have a right to an ex planation. Y'ou permitted a young man to kiss you at the party last ovening. Sho—lt was only my brother. He—Your brother? She—Yes; young Smith. lie pro posed to me onoe, and I promised to be a sister to hiin.—[New Y'ork Press. A LITTLE DRAWBACK. "Dick Skinner says marriage is a fuii uro." "A failure? I thought he married a fortune?" "Yes—but the girl that went with it has suspended payment." LEAVING WELL ENOUGH ALONE. "Y'ou admire Miss Sweote very much, I hear." "I do." "I suppose you will try to got to be better acquainted with her now?" "No. I probably shouldn't admire her if I were better acquainted with her." REVERSING IT. Mrs. Bloombumpnr- There is an Amer ican in Kugland who claims to be able to make gold. Bloombuinper—That's odd. General ly Englishmen come to this country to do that. THE TELL TALE EVIDENCE. Mother —I think our John is courting some girl. Father —Hey? Is ho beginning to have vaseline on his hair? Mother -No; he is beginning to have it on his shirt bosom.—[New York Press. BELIEVED HIM. Cora—Didn't you think he was trying to Hatter you when he said you were beau tiful as an angel? Dora—No. "Why?" "Because I thought so myself." The Crazy Ball. Street pedlors have a new catchpenny device on their trucks that is quite an amusing thing for old as well us young folks. They call it the "crazy ball," and it is well named. For ten cents you can buy one of these things and see tho laws of gravity defied. It looks like an ordinary wooden ball, about the sizo of a tennis ball, but you can't roll it in a straight line to save you. Of course tho secret of the thing's queer actions lie in the fact that it is loaded on one side. This makes every movement of the ball eccentric. If will roll up hill of its own accord, and it will refuse to roll down hill. If you try to roll it from you it will perhaps start out all right and then turn around and roll back, or maybe it will go offsidewise and describe a wobbly circle around you. All its movements arc jerky and spasmodic. Give it to a kitten to play with and the chances arc that the kitten will go mad, while a baby will cry with vexation over its eccentrici ties. A grown person who is not up in spherical geometry will assure you that it is wonderful. It is not. It is only some sharp fellow's way of gathering in the dimes. Nevertheless ere long tho city will ho flooded with these "crazy bulls."—[New York Herald. A Life of Magnificence. 'The foreigners in the far Fast live in a magnificence hardly known to the Western world. The dwellings of the members of the various silk and tea firms arc real palaces in themselves, and as servant hire costs almost nothing, the retinue ot' attendants is so great that many European Courts could not com pete with them. Upon inquiring of sev eral of the ownors of those establish ments why they were conducted upon such an elaborate seulo, the writer was informed that "when one comes East and hurries himself for purposes of gain in this country, lie gives up all civilized pleasures, attachments to which one is bred, and unless he lives in this style, there is really nothing to live for."— [New York Times. The Hennepin Canal. It is reported that active steps are taking to push the condemnation suits begun to acquire for the Government ti tle to the land noccssury for the building of the llcnnopiu Canal, which is pro jected to connect the Illinois River at Peoria with the Mississippi at the mouth of Rock River. The route of the canal is ninety miles long, and the Government lias already secured possession of a con siderable portion ot the right of way. 'There is $500,000 now available for the work of building the canal, and it will begin as soon as the right of way is se cure. 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