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.