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Buck Cantrill. Vietorio Hpring (Tex.) Letter In Philadelphia I iliim. TbU In not much of a place and never will be. A tiny creek flw from the spring and 1U water are utilized for irrigating imrpoet About two mile from the spring the creek loses lt'If In the sandy alkili soil, and here the farm end The proprietor of V'lctorlo Rprinz raises corn, potatoes, kershaw and barley, and aells all that bl place produce! at good price. His fann comprises about one hundred acre, but that ii a Lig tract to work on the frontier, where agricultural labor U crude and untrained and the Implement of agriculture are of the rudent potwible descrip tion. Tbe spring is on the government road which leads from Foil Davis to To) ah and being a half-way water-bole, U a favorite topping place for the United Htate teams ters. There In not much graia in the neigh borhood of the iirlug, but the water u ex cellent, and although thousands have camped here there I (till an abundance of nieso,uite root to be fouud for fire-wood. I used to atop here yean ago, when there was no ranch and no irrigating ditcbea, lu only visitors were predatory Indian bauds and partiea of acouU and hunters. After the Vietorio raid in m thin section of the country began to ivttle up a little A few cowmen came In and located ranch?, and at the princijiol spring and water holes farms were laid off and Irrigating ditches dug. The hacienda at Vietorio was the Hint one built. Immediately following the arrival of the honest emigrant there was a consider able influx of desperadoes and rustlers, and we were kept tolerably busy rounding tliem up. There is a small trading store here und I am writing this letter at a table on the porch. I can look over a wide field to a thick matte of willowsandcDttouwoods. Unlertho spreading branches of one of the largest of tbe last named trees Is a grave, the hltory of which I propone to tell It wus unmarked until a fi-w mouths ago, when it whs enclosed by a neat railing and a stone was sut up at Its bead. Flowers have been planted on the grave, and the dark-eyed inocliuco who ac companied me to the xst when I visited It a few minutes since cxpluiued the renwju of tiio chungc The bcadstono Is a plain shaft of white marble and bears this inscription: Vl'C'KNEK CANTIULL, PiKnOcTonpn in, ism), Aged Yeaiw. He Wan a boon Kox. I knew Hiuk Cantrill well. I was on? of the party Unit rounded his outfit lip ami 1 Stood hiwidH him when he died front the won in Is received during his last light, itii w as a brave man and ho die ! gntne. He was typical Texas bad man a gambler and a roblsr, and jmikhuvkI of such during thnt no danger iIiiuiiUhI him. Hu first distinguished liimself in Menard and Mason counties, where lie "punched cows" for a living. Becoming embroiled In one of the many cow wars, which for several years raged fiercely in these counties, he killed a man, saved himself from the iH'uitcntinry through powerful infill- cure ami became a rustler. He was on the fugitive list for several years, and although rounded up many times by the civil olllcers and the stutu troops always limnugcd to e- caie. lie came up into Presidio In tho slim mer of Jkho, and at flint operated in eoni' pnny with Jesse Kvims, who wai "Hilly the Kill's" partner prior to the breuklug out of tho "Lincoln county, New Mcxleo.cow war." Huck fouud It luiiHswible to get uloug with Evans, and after milking one or two raids with thnt celebrated dtwicrado, ho bruuehed out for himself, and being Joined by several men as diwperate as himself, becuuie their leader. The outllt had a camp in tho Prison mountains, and for several months they wore terror to ranchmen and the overland tiav elors. We got on their trail in tbe early irt of KcptcmiKT, Inni, nnl pushed them so closely that they wero obliged to break their ramp and seek a more secluded lildlug place in tiie Mutiiitulu of Death. It was wulie thpy were in this now ramp that Duck started to pay a visit to El l'.'.wi for the hi hk wo of purchasing some necessary supplli. He went by way of t'arlia pass and traveled alone. On the night of the II Hi of (September he cauied at a little water hole alsiut twelve miles southwest of Aute ' lope spring and near the head of Aisicho pas, ills journey that day had liecn over high uiouiitains and through rough and rocky canyons, and he was very tired. After picketing liis bono lie ato supper and then rolled himself in his blanket to get the sleep ho stood so much In need of, His ryes were hardly closed when ho heard the tramp of lions coining up the iwss. Hastily spring lug to bis feel he kicked asido the smoulder ing remain of his ramp fire and saddled hi home. He was Just on the point of mounting when the on coining outllt galloisd up to the identical water-hole at w hich he was ciiiiiihhI and he found hi rutivut cut on". It was a party of ranger returning from a scout aftorludinn in tho (Sierra Diablo, and when lluck at tempted to lead his horse by them he was discovered and sternly rouimuiidid to hiilt. Instead of obeying this mandate he sprang iikiii the back of his horse and daxhed down the canyon. The ranger discharged their six-shooters at the fleeing man and several of them stiirttd in pursuit, llis horse had becu badly wounded anil he only rodo him a few hundred yard w hen the animal fell deaiL Duck was woiiiuIihI also through the right shoulder, but he disengaged himself from the dead borne and broke for the chnpjiarnl Just as the ruugcr ilaslnd up. Wo lxat tho niewiiile brush pretty thoroughly in lenivh of him, but, the night lieing dark, we were unable to llud him and we returned to the wnier-hole, carrying hit horse trappings and Winchester. It was frvru soneaer found In the aaildle pocket tint we were able to establish the identity of tV mau and the nxt morning we made further seaivh for his trail. After a great ditd of diUleulty it was found, but we could djily follow it a short distance, on account f the rocky nature of the ground. Duck arendel the mountain on the left of tliewatiT-holr, and finding some waver among the rocks on top dressed his wound viul tk down tli ridge toward Vietorio. IHiad ,wt considerable bhssl and felt weak. Al night he walked and the suu was ftcveral hours high when be reached a point opposite, the spring. He was uow completely broke diy n ami hunger added to his misery. In his flihjt lie had dropd his six-shooter, and although there was au abundance of small game about him he was unable to kill an v. He deter mined to go dow n to the spring and lsg for something to eat, Tho owner of the little .'nnii al this time was a man hums I Horn well, and 1st bad a cow and sWp ranch above the iring. His family im nt the spring. IVscviiding the mountain km k air proaclwd Uio rasa boldly. liornwt-H'i w ife met bim at the door, and he saw from the quick start that she gave at the sight tf hi foot Uiat klie recognised him. "Yon know uieT he said. 'Yea," an.wered the woman. "You are Buck Cantrill." "And I'm wounded, hungry and unarm!,' be said, holding up the anu he had rudely bandaged. "1 took some bom from your range oooe " "Never niintt Uiat," Interposed the woman. "Come in." "1 haven't any money to pay yon," be added, pausing In th doorway. But" "That all right," she said, Interrupting him. "Let mo look at your arm, and when I have fixed that I'll get you some break fast" Buck snt down near a window and the woman dressed bis arm. Afterward she pre pared him some breakfast "You look tired and sleepy," she said, when be rose from the table. "Yes," be answered, "lam very sleepy. -walked all night." "There Is a good be 1 in the other room," aid Mrs, Horn well. "Lie down and get some sleep. You will not be disturbed and I will wake you up before night" "Where's Bornwelir "He's out on tbe range aud will not be back before to-morrow." Buck berituted a moment, but was Anally prevailed uon to lie down, and he soon fell into a profound sleep. Early in the afternoon the ranger w ho had surprised him the night before rode up to the spring and several of the men went Into Bornwell's bouse. They little dreamed that in the next room the dreaded rustler was quietly sleeping. The ranger made a camp and cooked their dinner at tho spring, and when they dually rode away Mrs. Born well aw akened Buck. Hhe bad dinner ready for him and while be was eating she told him aliout tbe rangers. "There i a good X)ny lu the corral," he said, flnully, "but It belongs to our Hally. She's at school now at Davis, and if anything should hupjien to 'Billy' she'd cry her eyes out If you'll promise to send the pony back you can ride bim away, fur you are too weak to walk." A mist dimmed the rustler's eyes aud his voice trembled a little when he soko. "I m a liar. I case, be said, ''aud everybody gives me a bad name, but I never forget a kindness and you have been as good to uie as mother. His voice softened at the mention of that name and for a moment he was silent Finally he spoke: "If you II trust me with tho txmy 1 11 sue that he is brought back," he said. Mrs. Ilornwell got a saddle, caught up the Hiny and brought him around to the door ready to be ridden. When Buck was in the saddle he held out bis huuiL "Buck L'uutrill never forget a kindness," he said, "und you'll find tliui I'm always your friend for my moth 'r sukv Team sto-j I iu In eye when he rode away. Mrs. Born well rstumcd to her work, and when her husband r.imo home the next day shes'iid nothing to him alsiut Buck' visit A tim e days' lest in camp brought the out law around nil right again, and on" morning he mounted hi, horse to lukeHully Born well's isniy "Hilly" laek to Vietorio. Spring. When he rodu up to t lie cusn a Mexican woman ciiine out to meet him. Hhe told him, in answer to his Inquiry after Mrs. Born well, that his bi'llefui.'tress hud been taken suddenly 111 that looming and was in bed moaning with iiiin, Buck entend tho house and ap proach d the 1' Wide of the sick woman. "Are you ill f he usked. "Yes," wm the feeble answer, "It I my heart. I shall die this time and I have no one to sen I for Sally." "I'll go for her!" answered Buck, quickly, "and fetch out a doctor, also. You will get better." "No," coutrndiutol Mr. Bornwoll. "I will die this time, I would like Sally to ba here, but Von must Uot go for her. There Is danger" "D-n tho danger!" cried Buck. "I'll risk it," and rushing from the room ha mounted his horse again, Hint putting a side-saddle on Billy for Sully Boruwcll to rido back. He lisle bi'ihkly and reacheil the post Just after retreat. Ho dashod through the town with his Winchester cocked and thrown across hi arm. He wo recognized by alum di-ed people, but no one ventured to stop him. Biding straight to the doctor's house he culled that gentleman out on the porch aud niado known the object of bis visit. "Her daughter is going to school here," he said in conclusion, "and I brought out this lxiny for her to ride back. I'd see that she got it invsvlf, but I've got plenty of enemies here and I must vumos isiro pronto. ill you see the girl and escort her homer' "Yes," answered the surgeon, and Buck gnlloissl away. Ho hail the gauntlet of the town to run again, and this timo a deputy sheriff saw him und hurried to the Jail to notify the rangers. The rustler was not a mile from town when a lmrty of men were iu hot pursuit When he arrived at the spring tho sick woman's hus band had just returned. Mi's. Ilornwell was much worse, but she was comforted by Buck's assurance that her daughter and the doctor would sihiu be there. "I'd stay hero with you," he said, "but I e xpect there' a squad of rangers at my heel. I'm going over on the other side of the creek to get a little sleoi. When the doctor come send somelssly over after inn." He picketed his horse and lay down under the cotton woods, about threo hundred yards from the rasa. Tow aid inclining the doctor and the dvlng woman's daughter arrived. Behind them wn a squad of rangers, and when they rode up to tho door Daniel Bom- well went out to inert them. "You nit) hunting for Buck Cantrill" be suid to the sergeant ill command. Yes," was the answer. "Have you seen him!" "Ho was here alsmt three hours ago." "Where is he nowT "What'l! you give me to tellC "There is a rew ard of $1,000 out for him,' said the sergeant. "If you will tell us here is, and wo succeed lu capturing or killing him, I'll see thnt you get ttOO." Make It two hundred ami I'll take you to the iHit where he Is now sleeping." "All right!" cried the sergeant, and be or dered the men to dismount Born w ell conducted us through the corn field aud we crossed the creek below the matte. He is lu the grove," whispered Born well "I promised to wake him up lieu the doctor came. We crept along through the reeds which frilled thenvek Umk and Born well walked boldly forward. At the edge of the timber he was halted and we heard the click of Buck's Winchester. "Who's there f" he asked. "Me," answered Bornwoll. "It's all right, Buck. The doctor is here. He say she cau't live long and she want to are you." Thus assured Buck came out of the matte and walked toward the sst where we were concealed. When be was a few fn't distant the sergeant cried, "Surrender," and wa sju-nn; up toai ie-t him, H'arago!" he cried, ami jumping back thir up liis Winchester and fired at the ser;:yit, who w in advance. '1'lu'Vullet only grazed the sorgiviiit's head, but the slio k stunned him and he fell back In the msU. We thought him dead and fired uMir,the outlaw. He ran back toward the croveiuipiug and we knew that he was wounded. "Surrender Buck V yelled one of the men. "Never!'' M th u Hunt answer, aud be discharged hi Win, h,-t. r again. We returned tb lire, but still kept In tbe shelter of the re Is. Several of the men ironed the creek and hurried through the orn to surround tit-tittle grove. There was a silence of sovuiai uiViiulv, but Anally Buck potei "You've got me at hut d-n you!" be said. "I'll surrender." "Throw tip your hands then aud come outr we commanded. "I can t." wa the answer. "I'm wounded!" We thought this a ruse, but flually two of the men volunteered to creep toward tbe trove and ace if he was really Ijadly wounded. Buck seemed impatient at Uie delay and called out airaiii: "Come on, you d d cowards! I can't hurt rou." AVe all rushed forward now. He was lying right on the spot where we afterward buried him, and when we lifted bun up the blood mished from a half-dozen wouml in bis body "Where's Dave Bornwell, the cowardly bound f be asked. We looked around for Bornwell, but be had disaDOeared. "He ha gone to the house, I reckon,'" said one of the men. "We'll carry you over there." "No. no!" he answered. "I'm dying. Tell her hi wife that I remembered her to the last I'll settle with bim for betraying me when I meet bim lu helL She is good, like my mo" He trugglcd to complete the sentence, but only ga?d, shuddered and his limbs straight ened iu death. Wheu we reach! the caa Mrs Bornwell was dead also and ber (laugh ter was crying bitterly. We buried Buck where be died. Bornw ell moved away and I think went to tbe states. He never came forward to claim hi share of the reword. It was not known positively what section of the couutrr Buck was from, but It wa after wards learned that he had an old mother llv fug In Illinois. She sow a notice of hi death lu the paer and wrote to the commander of the Frontier battalion about bim. In ber let- tor she said : "I am a oor woman, aud Buckner always took care of me. He was a good sou!' A few montlis ao she died, and on her deathbed requesttd that a portion of the scanty stock of money she left be devoted to uiurklng Buck's grave and that dowel's be plauted on it. Her wishes were carried out The Agonic of ('iiuipiioltion. Anthony Trollop" 1 But at Inst I feel thnt I have bim perhaps by the tail, as the Irishman drive his pig. When I have got him I have to bo careful that he shall not escape me until that job of work l done, (iraduull , as I walk or stop, a I scot myself on a bank or lean against a tree, ierhasi us 1 hurry on waving my stick above my head till, with my (puck motion, the sweat droist oouie out uiion my brow, the scene form itaeit for me. I see, or fancy thut I see, w but will be fitting, what will be true, bow fur virtue may be made to go without breaking the link which binds it to humanitv, how low 1 'iiorauce may grovel. how high knowledge may soar, what the writer may teach without reisdling by seventy, how he may amuse without descend' ing to bulTounerv; und then the limit of pathos are searched and words are weighed w hich nlmil suit, but do no m ire th iu suit, the greatness or the suialluessof the occasion. We w ho are slight may not atk-uipt lofty thinrs or mukii lidiculoii with our little fable the doings of the go 1. But for thnt w Inch we do there are appropriate terms aud boundaries w hich may be reuched but uot surpassed. All this ha to Is) thought of and decided iisin iu reference to liioae litt le plotting of which I have sK)ken,each of which iin to be mode the receptacle of jiathos or of humor, or of honor or of truth, as fur as the thinker may be nble to furnish them. He ha to see, about all things, that iu his attempts he shall uot sin again nature; that In striving to touch the feeliug he shall not excite ridicule; that in seeking for humor he does not mUs his oiiit; that in quostof honor and truth he doe not become bom- tsistic and struitlaced. A clergyman iu hi pulpit may advocate on altitude of virtiire titled to a niillniniinu here or to a heaven hereafter; nay, from the uature of his profession he must do so. The poet, too, may soar, a high a he will, and if words sulllce to him, need never fear to full, because llis idea are too lofty. But be w ho tells tules in prose can haidly hoe to be effective as a teacher unless he binds him self by the circumstance of the world which he tlnds around him. Honor mid truth there should be aud jiathos and humor; but he should so constrain them thnt they shall not seem to mount into nuture beyond the ordr uary habitations of meu and women. Thaddeu Hicvensi Baptised a Catho lic. Interview with his Housekeeper in Phila delphia Times "Mr. Smith, it is both allirmedand denied thnt Steven, just prior to hi death, was ba tizod in the Catholic faith. What are the fact!" "Out of those very windows," was the em phatic reply, a she ixiinUd to tho street, "Mr. Steveus once looked across to youder pump and said that he would rather go a humlivd miles to be administered to by one of those pure, tender Bisters whom ho had seen iu Washington thau to send across ' the street there for all the clergy iu the country. On the afternoon of tho day of his death, 11th of August, isis, I sai.l to him: 'Would you have any objec tions to being baptized C 'No,' was hi reply, and just nfUT two colored men, many of whom from all parts of the country came to the house to pray for hi recovery, had left, two hour before, his death, Sister Lauretta O'Ueilly, of Washington City, Imptized him. And," continued Mrs. Smith, whom it must be ivmcmts'red is a devout Catholic and her self claims to have induced Stevens to this step, "I believe that he is safe lu heuveu to-day," The Sjiodileaa of Nnoiidullx. Courier-Journal. Two exisisition visitor were passing ths huge statue of Law, Justice aud Mercy, where, in hammered xuic, Mercy is spread ing herself over Law and Justice. Suld one of the visitors: "That group I wrong. The Goddess of Mercy ha uo buaiucM there!" "Why, how sof" aked the other, a little surprised. Because," returned the first, "Mercy has nothing to do w ith getting a man off. 1'ut up there, instead of Me rev, the (Sisldess of Sixmdulix, and that group would be perfect." Aud then the visitor strolled on to it they were to encounter any more criminal work of art rrtrlfleit rtinipktiiA, Exchange. A Santa Rosa (Cal.) paper entertain its readers with a story about a petrified pump kin brought from Mendocino county. The report is that a farmer some years ago ha I a lot of pumpkins washed away by a fivshct do u a ravine, and for a numUr of years the pumpkin were olwerved where the water had lodgid tliem, but noone had ever thought they had turned to stone, until the other day a man attempted to pick one of them up, when be discovered that it was very heavy, and had turned to stone. A Unit fifty more were in the same condition. Acoaiainc. Exchange. "When does a nan become a seamtressr "When he bems and haw." "No." "When he thread his way." "When he rips and tears." "No." "Give it up." "Never, If he can help it" COUNT VON MOLTKE. The ;eraian apleoo. Wh Moves Mea aa lie Movra heaa-Pleren. Loudon Times. Tlie advance of the German armies over France was like the itrpetusof a mau skating one false step would have brought a heavy fall and on Jloltke was not admirable only in liaviutc drafted and executed point for point the most elaborate plan of campaign ever conceived, but in having accurately foreseen all the demoralizing e fleets which defeat would produce upon his foes. Had be made any miscalculation : bad the French shown spirit when he expected them to be cowed ; had they resisted stubbornly wnen be bad reckoned that they would yield the end of the war might have been very different from the beginning. More than once the silent commander must have been anxious in spirit; but he let nothiug of this be seen. A foreigner who called upon him at Versailles in tbe midst of the siege of Paris, and on a day when a great sortie was expected, found bim quietly reading an Jinghsh novel. He is an extraordinary man. A diplomatist who met him in the Wilhelm strusaa of Berlin the day before he went to the seat of war would have taken leave of him in a hurry, suppos ing that he must be bim ; but Von Moltke said, "I have nothing to do. aud went on chatting with his usual composure. In this incident wa re vealed the whole strength of the Ger man military system, which allots to each officer just as much work as he can easily and efficiently perform. The formula of the whole system may be defined as the constant set-rch after able men; and, as the princes of the roval house of Prussia have steadily adhered to the principle of letting morit be recompensed and incompetency shelved without favor or fear, they have been contributors equally with the bent of their generals towards the events which have made Germany what it now is. The organization of the German army has much in it that produces awe as well as admiration on foreign minds, The staff office in lierlin, over which Marshal von Moltke presides, has de partmeiits as mysterious aud inquisitor ml as those of tho Roman curia ; and the place is iu fact a military inquisition Maps of all countries and cities of Eu rope ore there, with plan for inv,.diiig these localities, and minute details as to the accommodation which the invaders would find in the wv of board and lodifinc. When Gen. von Gobeu, at tho head of the Eighth army corps, ill ached itito lto'.ien, he astounded the inhabitants by sending out, within half an hour of Ins entry, adjutants who marked on the door of eacli house the number of billets it was to furnish. l'rotosts were of no use. The general had his instructions what each house could do and must do ; and he knew, moreover, that the citv was in a position to supply 40,000 pairs of boots, 10,000 flannel waistcoats, and 10,000 good ci gars to his men at twenty-four hours' notice, rerhapstho stall ollice lias thoroughly considered the capabilities of London in the same manner. Marshal von Moltke may well take his ease, attend with methodical punctu ality all sittings of the roichstag, play his rubber every oveniug, and devote so many tranquil weeks yearly to bot' onizing and agriculture on his estate at Kreisau. Tho system which has reduced the management of armies to the pre' cisiou of a mechanical science was not constructed in a dav ; but now that long expeneuce has shown how well it works its principal engineer can leave it with out misgiving to be regulated, during his occasional absences, by tho export pupils whom he has trained. The marshal himself disclaims the idea that he is a necessary man. It is tho very essence of his svstcm, as he maintains, that it shall always bring out men of genius so long as any are to be found in Germany; but on this point foreigners, while recognizing all that is good m l'russiau military administration, will uot readily concede, that men like the marshal are easy to replace. Tarring and Feathering a Church Organ. Cincinnati Enquirer. The funniest tiling we have heard of liitdv, and at the same tune the most absurd, occurred in a New Jersey vil lage. It was nothing less there cer tainly could be nothing more than tarring and feathering an insignificant church organ, for the reason that tho organist was unpopular. The organist happened to be a lady, and not even the roughs of a religious body had the audacity to add to hor angelic wings the common feathers of the barn-yard fowl and attach them to her person with vile tar. If they had tarred and eathered the organ because it in continently squeaked aud because its reedy lungs wero always nfllietod with asthma on a Sunday morn ing, and hoarsely added their noble voices in the songs of praise, we could have commended their conduct, for if there is ono thing on earth which we despise and which seriously interferes with public worship it is a cheap nnd Mutant mclodeon which lifts its husky and impudent voice above the general discord of congregational singing and introduces a confusion worse confounded into the confoundod confusion thut al ready exists. Hut to disgrace even a mclodeon for tho sins of a lady player who occasionally strikes a wrong note is evidence that religion has not got a very tirm grip on that little New Jersey community. M ai Marh "Obleea-ed."' Arkausaw Traveler. A merchant, after satisfying himself that A certain customer did not intend to pav his bill, sent him a receipt for the full n in mint. ly return mail he re ceived the following note: "I'stor have my doubts about you bcin'a geutleman, but I am satisfied on that tint. There is a great difference in mea. One time I owed a fellow a bill, and after dunniu' me nearly to death he sent me a receipt for half of the amount, and blamed if he didn't finally make me pay the other half. But you have done the square tiling by me, an' I am much ableeged to J uu. Oar WIH AnlmaU mni ClvIIIlon. Chicago Times. The character of the wild animals of a country exerts a most powerful influ ence on its settlement and the prosper ity of its inhabitants. In this respect the territory occupied by the Luited States was most remarkable. In the opinion of an eminent naturalist, it con tained no wild animal that was uot of more benefit thau disadvantage to the sottlers. It abounded in fur-bearing animals, whoso skins were in great de mand in all the great centres of weilth and civilization. These skins consti tuted a source of wealth to the early settlers. Hunting and trapping were profitable employments when people could not engage 'iu farming. Some of the skins were converted into garment and others iuto money. The skius of buffaloes were made iuto garments, em ployed as coveriutrs for bods, or used as protections in i-le'ghs. Moose, doer, antelope and bears furnished meat until domesticated animals could be intro duced ond raised in sufficient numbers to supply the people with food. Their fat aud hides were useful for a great variety of purposes. Babbits, spiirrels, ground-hogs, opossums and 'coons a!so furuisned valuable meat and skins. Foxes and bears did some damage, but were use ful in keeping in check many of the small animals that rank as vermin. They were easily caught in 1 . n. 1,,'lln,l Uv t)a naa nl tirA-nrlllH. king's vi siucu s ." v v. . . and their skins were very valuable and brought a UI311 price ai a uiuewm-u agricultural products raised at a dis tance from water communication could r.n I.a cil.l tnw niniiAv ni oYclinmreil for livy ' 'C nv.it ivi ."'.-,' - -"c artiides of food aud clothing. All the native animals of this country are of easy extermination. Most 01 then: d.s- ojpear before tuo marcu 01 Ciunza tiou, and only stay ns long as thoy are .. 1 1... l,.v J,,!',.,!,-,,, London's Mlshtlnea. "Bob O'LinqiieV London Lttter. London is the great commercial mag net that draws towards itself the bulk of Britain's trade. If one were to soar above London in a balloon and "view the landscape o'er," trains by the hun dred would be seen winding across the plains with their smoke stacks pointing toward tho great city. From Ediuboro and Glasgow on the north; from Liver pool and Birmingham on the west; from Bnguton and -New liaven on tne south und iroui Chatham nud Dover on the east they come like a monster colony of ants returning to their underground home after a foraging expedition. Liverpool is postively a great railroad centre; Manchester is comparatively important, but London is sup-.lutively mighty. Let me manipulate the old multipli cation table a little and present you with a fow eloquent statistics: Lon don has fourteen terminal railway sta tions from which 110 fewer thau 2,202 trains depart daily. Nearly 1,000 of those leave between 10 a. in. aud 10 p. m. ; 320 trains leave daily from one sta tion. Boferring to the underground railway this wonderful liue forms a complete bolt (or inner circle) around the whole of the inner part of Loudon. Between Farringdon and Moorgate streets 5C8 traius run every week-day nearly twenty-four traius au hour or one nearly every three minutes. The Metropolitan Underground Railway company conveys about 70,009,000 pas- scngers aunually, or nearly l,oU0,000 per week. Great and mighty are thy works, on .London 1 The True American. Boston Transcript. Why does that gentleman rise from his seat? Because be gets out at the next sta tion. But we have not got near the next station yet. 1 beg your pardon, t rom an Ameri can point of viow we are very near it. It is less than a mile awav. See, he rushes wildly toward the door; and now he is on the platform. Is be not in clanger .' The only danger he dreads is the danger of losing one-qunrter of a sec ond. Ah, we are almost at the station now. Will he not wait until the cars stop? Jo, indeed ; that would be a waste of precious time. 1 here he goes. Good heavens! he has fallen 1 The cars have run over him. Yes, such things frequently barmen in America; but. you know, where one is killed, half a dozen jump oil' success fully. The chances of death are only one iu six, or thereabouts. They have picked him up. His lips move, lie is speaking. "Yes," he says : "I die a true Ameri can. A ltclapse Into Meml-Barbarism. "The Indian may dwell with the Cau casian for years, aud live as the white lives, but on returning to his tribe he will fall into the habits of savage life -1 ....'ll iL.i :en t . suu wm incier 111 in uie, iuuian Agent Gardner said in an interview with a re porter for Tho Denver Tribune, and he instanced Chipeta, the wife of the Col orado Chief Ouray. She bad little communication with the whites, but her husband taught her to live as they do. Her bouse was well f urnislied. and provided with many conveniences that are luxuries in border life. She always had her cook, and her table was sup plied with good food, well cooked, served in an elegant platter, and eaten with knives, forks and spoons. Ourav died in 18N0. About a year ago Chipeta married again, nnd returned to the old ways of her childhood among her tribe. She has three trunks full of valuables stored away in the otrencv store house. One of them is filled with silverware presented to her by the la dies in tho city of Washington. For these she has no use. Xo Sledlrlue from poon. Exchange. German doctors nronoso to tliscir,! the teaspoon aud 'tablespoon in measuring medicine and admit ) metrical system in their prescription 01 liquids, uauged glasses marked in the scale of one. five, ten unnii ct. are to be used, which will render the' administration of medicine more accurate. WHAT SAVED HOOKER. How a Twenty-Two tton Battery Killel the P Chancellors vllle. ir Quad in Detroit Free Press. The movement of Jackson across Hooker's- Hank at Chancellorsville and around to his rear was a complete sur prise. Bv o'c oi k in the evening his lines of battle were formed ond the order to advance was given. Scouts had reported the Eleventh corps in bis front, and the attack was as swift and disastrous as wLtawind. Most ot the Federals in the Eleventh were preparing supper or eating it If there were any pickets in rear of the Federal army they were picked ap so suddenly that no general alarm was given. All of a sudden the mighty tread of battle-line and the crash of musketry fell upon the ears of tbe un suspecting Federal, and the panic, which ensued was but the natural finale. A few men got into hue here and there, but the resistance nie.ted awav as the line advanced. It was a furiivts fire which J ttcksou's men poured into the Eleventh. They were elated and enthusiastic. And they swarmed through the pine forest as if their num bers were endless. Men have said that the panic would have extended no farther, and that the corps would have speedily recovered from the surprise, and men have written that but for one man's coolness at the critical moment Jackson would have driven a wedge into the Federal army. Gen. rieasouton, then commanding three regiments of cavalry aod afield batterv, lav in jiosition to be run over bv the frightened fugitives as they sought a place of safety. In the midst of the most embarrassing confusion he sent a regimont of dismounted cavalry forward to form a line and check the Confederates, aud the other regiments, mounted, at once charged into the mass of fugitives and drove them clear off the lieid 011 the left of the plank road. Then, one by one, twenty-two guns were brought to tho front and nn limbered. The bpot where each gun stool was plain to view in 1X81, and may be for several years to come. It was in the cleared field to the left of the Chnucellorsvillo plank road, and about half a mile below the famous brick bouse. The guns enfiladed Jack flno'fl whole front, aud the moment his lin.sa liroko cover thev were met with such storms of canister that whole regi- . it r a H nients lay down alter tne nrsi voney. For the first auarter of an hour theso guns were supported by cavalry alono, but as regiment alter regiment was picked up, whirled about, and sent to the gap, the support soon became a di vision. Other batteries were rushed down the plank or across tbe fields, and bv and bv Jackson's colden moment had passed. The Federal army had faced to the rear, and the great gap bad been closed by artillery.' Just at sundow n Jackson grew restive under the terrific fire, and ordered a general advance. Long lines of men Biiranir to their feet and rushed forward with cheers and yells, determined to have the guns. It did not seem as if anvthhiir livinsr could cross that onen space of 000 feet with such a tornado of canister sweeping over it, but whole regiments charged up to within fifty feet, and scores of Confederates dashed in among guns and were killed there. The charge was repulsed, but to be made again and again. When night bad settled down Jackson gave it up. He could not drive his wedure past the muzzle of Fleasautou's guns. He had linmluiiikpil Hooker, routed a whole corps, and laid his plans for a great victory. That storm of canister chocked him death brought his plans to naught. The Confederates who advanced against theso guns defied death ten thousand times over. Those who were killed were in most instances riddled and torn to pieces. Uie burial parties found corpses with fifty wounds, and heads, legs and arms More scattered all olong the front. Not one singlo wounded man was found on that battery front. On the rirlit flnnlf. whora tliA mina Imd an eufilado on the plank rood, the rail ienees were torn into splinters, the cround cut as bv n liinnlro.l ilra.ru nnd scores of Confederates lying in tho highway ditches were wounded by stones, splinters and fragments of rocks. Knnd That Kings) in the M ind. San Francisco Call About twenty miles south nf Still water, Churchill county, on the Sand Springs Hat, nt tho foot of the moun tain, there is a bean of sand nbont 100 feet nigh nnd nearly a mile across which sings in the wind and is con stantly changing. It is thrown by the wind, which there has a circular mo tion, iuto a vast round wall with a hol low in the centre half a milo across, which goes two-thirds of the wav to tlm bottom. It is' steeri and hnrd to climb to the top, and on the inside is even more steen. so Bteen that no otia ha ever dared to go down for fear that the toose sana would slide down and bury them ur. There are similar dunnn nn the Sandwich islands, on the Hebrides, and on the Atlantic coast. Three Mortal Injuries, Crawford in Chicago News. I asked Dr. Bliss this auestion last night: In the light of the informoti you in the post-mortem, do you think . 1 H fs . . uarneias uie could Have been saved? Most decidedly no. The medical profession is unanimous upon this sub ject now. Garfield received three in juries, either of which would have made his death absolutely certain. The shat tering of the vertebra was one, the rupturing of tho splenetic artery was the second, and tbe carrying, of tbe pieces of tbe denuded bone from the shattered ribs into the system was the third." lor Future Weak l.nns. A writer in The Trovidenee Journal, referring to the efficacy of the b.vnio odor of line for weak lungs, ma ,es this suggestion: Very probably tne day will come when pine and spruce j illows will be as frequent a household appur tenance in our bleak climate as the ijui nine bottle has long been in the south ern and western states.