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AND IN MIDSUMYtR k.11 I tell yoa bow on day dryland wo wntt br .11 .boat, .,rT fu! "...1 ,-.t " -V tempi grand. '". fairies w.loom. uh irtfr--"IU"l,,,A .1, i lie sreen roifd aisle w went, T"r'"'b.,i'!,JTra.n.ful tread. &lli ' . . . i.,Ue our nui.i'y . F"r u . ' .w. ralaed IU need: the hlurbell hunf, unroll- orcnie nU .. . likH uliuau at morn, VUB ' ,,., . I,..,. nwn.a.,"..i..n ell forlorn." U " .. -1 i x-na our war 'edrohin flaunted red. .riibrt a narrow mm a . .hry fern tb. Ir shadows spread; ,lP ' I... r..M (I.. Ir ir W" camp,"" - ........ V -a itn atiury petule ehaate. . h, fragile "is-edwell blue SaJ W on our .urI""f h""- iuf Frwhjrf Wo sought tho Uuol !rr the water """" u""m inA we found It or tba night, 'rr. . - u. . i.tufv Bluom. ..n.,f Irt stood on guard. clinic o'. r tho virgin queens Ever laiwi"" Like q " the "lie white Where no want baud could reach. Kodllyl tM,t coul'1 ",r' Lnrin.ly ldi allien To ew h ,M' n brl Queen, And t' l'I''d 0,lt to where th heath La"!'"1 heaven In robe of green. Hfi we gathered trenauro trove Eyeuriiiht. milkwort, cuikoo ahoea Till our bie-ket. overfull. Many a precious bud must loaej Till the nuiai't Klory fell on tbu blonaoina In our band. And. with lliiKerlng gluueea. wa Bade furewcll to fulryland. Chamber' Journal. THE RED LIGHT. TVo years ago I had qualified as stok- antl, together witn too engineer, inlr.r. rau the ueniu-Vienna express itlio Berlin-Falkenberg division. Our tin left the Central station at 6 :30 in h afternoon, and on tliut purtieulur I wan in the roundhouse at 8 o'clock tne that ine nrenoKu'inuui;.wJ- in running order. According to the eugiueer had to be in the udhuuse an hour before the departure the train, aud usually Uuusicr coin ed with the greatest punctuality. irthler. today it wan a quarter to 5 id itill he had not come. I tried the Jxlbox, tho two steam pump that toe the water from the tender Into the and uv diliuoutly to the firo, Lch wiuired to be iu the beat pinible Lition if ' ware to make the re tired rnu of 91 minutes in the given Jut). We could not allow ourselves full jeed until we una passea me siuuuu kosi-Lichterfelde. Then there were 111 almost 02 miles in a strotch, and aly at the larger Btat ions through which wc passed was it necessary to slacken nflr awed. i It was Hearing 6, aud still no sign of 3auler. I had oome to the conclusion iut he was ill or that some accident WA haout'iied to him. aud was just on be point of going to the superintendent ttlie locomotive house and reporting e case to him when I saw Hausler ap- koachiug iu considerable haete. fie gave e a hasty nod aud merely asked if ev tybiug were ready. Thou he mounted locomotive aud tried all the valves ' himself: but. while at othor times he tide this most important inspection of i locomotive with great care, today he Jd it hustily and with a luck of atten tion. Iu the midst of his inspection he stopped suddenly and seated himself apoii the tool chest which is attached to tie tender. For a good five miuutes he s staring blankly before him ; then he laughed outright aud asked me again, "Is everything ready, Max?" i "Of course, Here Huusler,". I replied. "It's about time we ran out of the Bhed, for we have to push a couple of locomo tives out of the way before we get I clear track to the depot " j' Yes, yes, "returned Hausler hurried ly, then rose and went to his post If I had not known that he was a remarka bly abstemious man, I should almost have thought he had drunk too much, bpt that our conscientious Hauslor fhould come ou duty with his brain be fogged was inconceivable. We rau out of the roundhouse quite slowly, made obr way carefully between the locomo tives, aud, according to orders, stood outside the dopot at ten miuutes before tke train was to start, not having cou pled as yet. We had a good head of steam, and all the valves lut off the su perfluous vapor. i"How is your wifo?" I asked, to rtiuse Hausler from his lethargy. ("My wife?" he asked, with a start '(She is very well, very well she knows I nothing yet" "Has something uupleasant happened 1 1 you, Here Huusler?" "Unpleasant to me? No; I know of lotbiug. Did I say anything? It was ily a way I have of tulking, aud my tfife must not kuow about it, " 4 Two great tears rolled down his Jieeks, but he turned quickly away to ide his sobs from me. I was at a loss Jo understand his behavior j but, after a few seconds, he turned to me again aud Iu face was calm, even sinister, j "Don't you feel well?" I asked. 1 "Oh, yes," he answered hastily, im very well, very well indeed. i The three strokes of the bell an loaned the time for departure. The twioa rerjeated siimal of the conductor lave, as the order to start Hausler woke ut of his revery, gave the whistle of tesnonae. and then, as deftly as ever, he et the train in motion. ) Unless some accident should occur we would make our 91 minutes. It was ex ctlv 1 -m when wn at last nulled up in feenberg, and punctually at 7 o'clock f 1 minutes, we steamed iuto Falken- rws. Wa were nncouDled aud ran upon de track. Four minutes luter the Irain sped on its way. We ran our loco motive first to the water crane and filled jfor the return trip. Then we took in oal and ran upon the turntable to be set F'ght for the home run. Lastly, we ran croat on a siding, aud after Huusler Md fulfilled his duties as engineer he ,ent into the engineers' house to rest a it I had to stay upon the engine, but fconld take a little turn off for relnxa- ?ioa, thauka to the polisher. The fire in jhe boiler was kept low, so that it did ot go out aud could be bronght to full ,eat a half hour before starting. The Machine could not runaway, for it stood !cn a "dead" track and the pressure of tearn was lowered so quickly that I was afe in leaving it to the care of the pol "her. It was an hour after our arrival hen I went into the engineers' quarters "d hnuted up Hausler in the large wsjticB room. The engines' roonj in Falkeuberg is fitted up with tables. chairs and some I looping couches. There small libiary at band from which one can inform himself by vrlout tech- leal works, and Hausler formerly made use of this library to study different treatises ou locomotive coumruction, the science of mechanics aud so on. Toduy I fouud bim busy writing. There were, besides ourselves, two en gineers, who lay uikiu the couches asleep. Huusler wrote with speed which I was not accustomed to see in him. Ho utxlded to me as I euterd and weut ou with his writiug. I thought I noticed that the letter upou which he was enguged, aud which a lreudy covered at li'itt t three octavo sheets, concerned lurge sums of money, and the name, Hothst'liild, too, I obaervod repeatedly. I asked Huusler whether he would not tuke a little something in the way of re freshment He was, as I have said be fore, never inclined to be dissipated, but lie was accustomed to drink at least one glass of beer and eat a trifle, because he ditl not get home for supper until 11 o'cltx'k. Today, however, he refused, explaining: I have no money. I shall, in fact, huve to go hungry, for I cannot eat agaiu. Everything is gone, quite gone. " This manner of tulking naturally struck me as strange. It was not iuteud ed as a joke, fur Huusler did not ltxk as if he could joke. But if it was meant In earnest it gave me cause to fear for Huusler's reusou, and the uneasiness which hud tuken possession of me increased. I could only stay in the engineers' room long enough to get a mte to eat and to drink a glussof beer. Theu I had to go back to my engine to start the fires into fresh life and get up the pressure of steam. I threw coal Into tlie nrebox, rakod the fire until it burned briskly, and hud steam up again iu a short time. When it came time to run acnata to the truck whero we were to be coupled to tlie Vieuuu express, I sent tlie polisher to Huusler, for the lutter, contrary to his custom, did not appear of his own accord. He did not test the working of the feeding pumps aud valves, either, as was his wont. He seemed today to rely eutirely upon me aud my conscientious ness. The train come promptly into Falkeu berg, a little before 9 o'clock, aud the change of locomotives hud to be made as quickly as possibla This train was full of passengers and had over a dozen coaches. As fur as Herzberg we ran at a nor mal ruto in IJ minutes. Then to Juter bog we hud IS minutes, schedule time, and I noticed a constantly growing agi tation ou the part of Huusler. He talked to himself, flung out angry words which sounded somotimes like a curse, gestic ulated violeutly with his hands and seemed to forget eutirely where we were. Throuah tlie three intervening sta- tious to Juterbog we ran at a terrific mte. with no sluckeuiug of speed. did not dure to call Huusler's attention to his gauge, for on this point he was verv sensitive, but when, before reach ing the Juterbog station, we received thn tBleirranhio sianal to slow up, aud Huusler did not mind it in the least, I stenned up beside him aud turned tne lever a little myself, for otherwise we wnnltl not. under any circumstances, have been able to bring the traiu to a .rnndxtill in the station. Whereupon Hun uir closed the reuulutor himself .d kent his Dluce dongedly at the step. At 9 o'clock 63 minutes we pulled out of Juterbog and 14 miuutes luter drew no in Luckeuwalde, Contrary to i,ia dnnnrtmeut on the preceding trip, ttu..uW had become very quiet, but his ,.,. dnrUnned rx-rccctibly. and when, shortly before coming to the statiou, I reached for the throttlo, thinking that Huusler would again forget to slow up the train, I received from him a rough push, and his voice was raised to almost . enroam as be called to me: "What do That is my business 1" The stop of a minute in Luckeuwalde was utilised by me to put on iresn coai. Then we sixmI away again. Nearly 81 miles that is, half the run to Berlin now lav before us. Hausler waa at his post .Suddenly he laid hold of my arm aud said : "Did you see hiinr "Whom?" I aked, in astonishment "He looked out of the coupe iu Falk- onhnro " Ha d HUUSler. ".He COUlPB from Vicuna, and 1 ve go time." "Whom do you meau? I asked, nat iirnllv anmrised. - V .. . . - . nn. - Rithwhild." said uausier. nu . M I r..iiiu fmm Vienna to carry on too onld that he has stolen iroui me, auu now he intends to carry me off too. But T'a Dlt. him fast this time, lurow ou mnl wa need stoain I" I opened the door of tlie nreDox auu saw that enough coal naa Deeu uu. iu. "It is not yet time to throw on more, iT,rr Hiinslor." I explained. Iu a rage he seized the cnain, ny means of which one opens the self clos ing door of the firebox, and excluimed anarily : "Shovel in the coal; I need more ateam. I am goiug to run straight limn iv h Ttnrlin. directly into the aea, Tl.n.a T will drown Rothschild, and thon he shall not take my gold again. Will rn nliov ma or not?" Hausler suddenly seized a double screw wrench which hung convenient to the enniueer's deck, raised it aloft, and looked aa if he would strike me down. ff hMiif rtn rnnl nutil Hausler cried : "Enough, for the time! But look aft o. fl I need 60 atmospheres pres sure. We are going to run three hours yet, without stopping. Any niua is likely to find It uncom an hA aloue with a person it whom he suddenly discovers trace of iuunuitv. But the matter becomes some what nravsraud more complicated when nim ia in the ecuiDttllV of a madman nnon an express locomotive which '..roinrr alieud with a velocity of n,ii,.,i mi hour. I will add just here lint T did not tremble for my own life. but I thought with terror of the 800 passeugers iu the traiu behind tis, who hud no suspicion of the dunger which hovered over them. The engineer, out of his mind, as it appeared, standing close on the brink of iusuuity, and de termined, under no circumstance.. bring the train to a stop in the terminal station at Berlin, but to fotge ahead with it that is. to cause a catastrophe in which probably half the passenger would meet their death I Of what use was it for me to try to force Hausler from his position at the decisive hour and bring the locomotive to a stundstill? He would strike me down if I merely reached out a bund. I looked at bis eyes. Burning with as be watched me suspiciously. I mlgbl gesticulate aud call ever so loudly, to draw the attention of the official in the station through which w passed. It would be of no avail, for only on man could stop the train, aud that wa Huus ler, the mad engineer. At first I was aa one paralyzed, but then I told myself it was slitter coward ice to give everytbinit on for lost. I I would gladly have talked to Huusler, but I knew uot what I ought to suy. I should only provoke him by opposition. I aud to begin an indifferent couversution that was a tusk to which I did uot feel myself equal. Nevertheless, I must ; do something to divert his atteution from ma He continued to regard me ! with the suspiciou thut is peculiar to all demented persons anil ouly ordered me, i now and theu, iu crisp words, to throw 1 fresh coal into the firebox. The iron wrench he held firmly, aud every time he gave me the commuiid to throw ou ' coal he raised it threateningly. It was necessary for me to culm him aud dis tract his attention, because my aim was ' to get possession of the two large screw burs which luy iu the chest behind me. ' There was no otiier possibility of saving ! the train and passengers but to strike 1 Hausler down at the critical moment. Uod kuows it cume hurd enough for ! me to fell to the floor, like a wild beast, I a muu whom I honored and loved. But I when it was a question of the rescue of ' 800 humau beings there could be no room for hesitation. Luiitlingsfelde was passed. We had nearly 15 miles yet to uiuko, and before us luy perhups 20 miuutes of time. I shall uever forget how frightfully absurd, In spite of tlie horror of tlie sit uation, I sccuied to myself wheu I ad dressed to Huusler the remark : "It is cooler than usual, this even ing." Hausler cast a lixik of distrust upon me and was silent. "You wife will be waiting for yon at the statiou," I remarked as calmly as possible. "That's no matter!" he exclaimed. "I shall run through, anyway. I shall run straight through, at one stretch, iuto the North sea. I shall not stop sain." "Won t yonr wife wonder at it? I asked as innocently as I could. Of course she will wouder, said Hausler, laughiug. " But w hen she sees Rothschild ou the train she will wouder no longer. She will kuow then that I am going to drown him. Besides, we shall return at once. She will ouly be ept waiting bulf un hour." We flew past MroHzbeeren without lessening, in the slightest degree, the peed of the traiu. W e were neanug Orosslichterfelde, where, owing to our being ahead of time, we might easily find a Berlin local standing ou tue track. The traiu had been aunounced from the lust statiou, aud the signal 'open" was up. Enveloped in a thick cloud of dust, which bad been whirled up by our wild flight, we rushed through IT'S A WARLIKE LAND ISLAND OF CRETE AGAIN FIGHT ING THE TURK. The LlttU Territory II aa Had a H tor my Hiatory Hi nee It i'aeaed I nder th Mo I era Yoke-He a Rebellion Al an oat Every Year. Key to the .Kgean, One of the Interesting islands of the world is the Island of Crete or Caudia, now iu Insiiireillon upilnst Turkish rule. It Is situated at the uiouth of the Acgciui Sen ami embraces an area of :t..'t( square miles. It has several excellent natural hurUtrs, hut owiii him this A ORKKK CHRISTIAN. to the Turkish system of lettltig every thing go to rulu, they are almost chok ed up with saud. The towns of (.'me. like other Ottoman towns, are not bit I looklug from a distance, for, from some strange freak of huiiinu uature, the Turks religiously whitewash every house and wall once or twice a year, so that a Turkish town looks a though built of nmrtile. But that Is a far us the Moslems ever go Iu the directlou of public cleatitlness, and on entrance Into the narrow, dirty streets, tilled Willi all maunerof offal and refuse from the houses, with homeless and ownerless dogs sleeping everywhere in the street, all Impressions of fulryluud are Instant ly dissipated. The Moslem and foreigners generally live In the cities ami towus; (he lireek Christians In the villages aud country, did the latter are. as a matter of course, expected and compelled to bear the greatest part of the burden of taxatlou. It has always been so ever sluce tlio Turk came on the Island, and It will the Sphaklntcs aud the Turks, and any enemy of the oppressor Is always wel come iu the Spuaklote Mouutalua. The Cretan who, from any cause. Is obliged to rlee from the Turks I certain to find security Iu the mountain village. He will not lie given up. No matter what tlit-cut are denotim-ed against thu who harlxir him. no matter what prom ises or rewards are held out to those a lio betruy him, In the gphnklote Moun tains he Is safe. The Cretans have had a stormy his tory since the conquest of the Island by the Turks. As already Intimated, In surrections have hceii very numerous, but the lust serious one. Involving the population of the whole Island, broke out Iu istltl. I.Ike every other move ment of the kind. It hcpiu In a protest acainst exeesslve taxation, and Iu a few duys from Its first appearHiiee the whole Island was in arms. Women and chiltlreu were hurried off Into the mountain caves, while the men organ ized themselves Into bunds and begun a relentless war fare aauiust Ihe Turks. Large ImhIIcs of Turkish troops were dlHpali-hed to the Island under the com inn ml of no less a louder tliun the celebrated Ostnar Pasha, and from April to September a number of desper ate battles were fought between the In surgeuts and the Turkish regulars. Sometimes the advantage remained with one, sometimes with the other side, but the Turks were signally beaten at every attempt to penetrate the moiiutulns, aud an armistice whs de clared pending the arrival of of the tirand Vizier, All I'usha. who proclaim ed a general amnesty. Hut the Insur gents did uot wiiui amnesty, they want ed Independence, or, at the lenst, the right of self-government, and the war began again and raged until IMtiU, when It was closed by the Intervention of the powers, the unfortunate Cretans gain ing little but reputation of being des perate fighters. hi the seventeenth century another desperute struggle was waged and dur ing the siege of the city of Caudia 80, (shi Christians and 70,(Mio Turk were killed. HOW ICE IS LOADED. METHOD OF H3US2 CONVEYINQ IT FROM TO SHIPBOARD. THE SELF EXILED. lusenWiM t:ieeatra and Hone Kmployed tiy the I-arf renobwnt Illier Concern . A Oreat ll of I-alx'r AeeomplUhed by lew lljmW. An interesting operation is the load- lug if iff from the inuminotli houses on thn bunks of the IVnola'cot iuto the large freight curriers that are almost constantly going up ami down the river bearing heavy cargoes of frozen Pouob scot to famff ports. From the top of the house tho ice j comes down in a most ingenious man- , tier. Au elevator is rigged outside the i building, and on it the ice comes down by gravity. There is a counteracting force iu a'big weight that gtxs up when the load comes down, and vice versa. To thecusual observer it looks as though the thing worked automatically. Two large bhx'ks of ice are pushed out upou the elevator ami they descend. As sixiu as they slide off, back goes thn elevator for another load, and this thing is kept up hour ufter hour. Careful observation, however, shows a strong wire that leads off some distance, and at the end of it sits a man, and the secret is out True enough, the thing works itself, but it needs a guiding hand so that it won't work tixi fast. The movements of the elevator are controlled by a friction pulley. Wheu the ice reuchea the bot tom aud onucuko slides off, tne eieva Now open the gat and let ber la, , And fling It wide, 'or alia balb liern elranaed (rota stain of )," HI. I'nter ertnd. Ind the angrla all were allenl. , 'Though I am i lranaed from itala of la," Hlie anawered low. I eame not hither l enter In, Nnr may I g." and the angel all were allent 'But I may nnt enter there," she aatdi "Cur I muat go the f nlf where Ihe guilty dead I. It. In their woe." ml the angvla all wer silent. ' If 1 enter heaven. I may not apeak My etiul'a dealr r.ir them thut are lying distraught snd weak In fliiniing fire." Ind Ihe angela all were allent HIiiiuUl I lie nearer fhrlat," she said. "My inlying lea riie alnful living or woeful drawl In Ihetr helpleaaneaet" Snd the angela all were allent. 'Khould 1 1 liker Chrtut were I To lure no mora fbe loved, who In their anguUh II Otitaiile the dmirt" and the angela all wer ailenl. . 'bbould 1 be liker, nearer bim. Forgetting thte ilngtng all (lay with the aeraphlm In aelrl.h lillMf" And th angela all were allent. New Vork Tribune. LONDON SQUARES. torn of th Uualnt llreathlng ! la th r.ngllah Metropolis Somn of theen are quaint and charm ing enough, being niontly laid out in the Dutch fashion, (faddcu square, near Regent street ; Red Lion and (jneeii ouures, Hi liltsiinsniiry, ure cnpuui tor would take a run up before the other ipeeiineus. i m. un... ."" - w came off were it not that the mau on Begem ""'. '' dozen mile i .. .I......!.- n. . Wee end tlm ! swav. There is a welcome unkempt- III! Ulll III liw e !" '" - ., t. ...,.l.l. Il,. Ocas ; tne Krl,ee i iu n w...,, ...w ire old trees ranged round its bonier in A RATTLESNAKE DEN. touied the nutive Cretans to the yok.'. continue to lie so until the Turk ha Ui hli.AA alus, TliA AIIDIIIA BJi it nuKKwl btHn exnolM. Hut time ban not ami IUII UlUiiO " f , . ... . . a I A........ l.n a through Herzstucke aud vveicneukreuze, seemed to muke veritable leaps. Like a vision Licbterfelde, with its bouses, flew past, aud we sped ouward toward the mighty Berlin station whose hundreds of lights gleamed fur ahead of IIS. I looked out toward the right and thoncht I could not be deceived when I noted in the far distance the red light of the danger signal for our train. We stood on the verve of a catastrophe; in few seconds not only my own fute, but that of the 300 passengers behind me would be sealed. Plainly I saw the signal "stop lor our train ; the station was not free to na. I ronld fool that my hair waa stand ing erect on my head from fright aud annreheusion. I became in a certain av.nnn insane myself. With mad swiftness we were nearing the damier sisnaL I seized Hausler arm aud cried with an awful voice in his ear: Redlinhtl" (Roth licht.) Hausler stared at me, and then cried: " Rothschild ! Whore is he? "Bed light, there ahead!" I shouted aouin. with all the force of my lungs. Rothschild, there aneaai" aia Hiinalpr. after me. Then with a piercing yell lie suddenly broke away aud swung bimseii out upon tlie narrow little gallery which run alniia the locomotive' boiler aud U nrov ded with a railing, ue suppose. iu his madness, thut his enemy, Roths child, was there iu frout of us and wished to get at bim. I tore tue neavy ..rotvluir nut of the tool chest: then I Home of Myriads of Heptllea Acci dentally Ulacovered. Ituttlesnake Creek, a small stream that empties Into the Wabash Hlver from the north a few miles from 1-ock-port, Is one of the most beautiful and picturesque streams In Northern Indi ana. One of the descendants of a pio neer settler in that region yesterday re luted the story that gave the name to this stream. Several miles up from the mouth of the creek, near where the two main branches which form the stream meet, lived Mort Kills, alxnit tifty year, ago. The pioneer's cabin stood oii the brow of a long hill, at the foot of which was a spring which supplied the family with water. In those early day rattle snakes were quite numerous, ami es pecially so Iu Ihe Kills neighborhood, and the father cautioned his four little Kil ls to lie very careful Iu their play lest thev be bitten. Oue Subbath afternoon, a the children were playing Iu the yard, one of the little girls, now Mrs. Alice Wilson, of Kokomo, suddenly broke through the ground aud fell Into au aperture up to her arm. Her cries soon brought out ihe family, and in drawing her from the cave three rat tlesnakes were found hanging to her clothing. Howu Iu the small cave could lie seen niiitiy other poisonous reptile. Although it was ihe Sulibiith, ami Mr. Kills was a devout yiiaaer. yet ue deemed the occasion one of moment, aud he sent for several of his neigh bors, and, with them, attacked the den of simkes. and when they got through with their work 61!1 dead rattler were piled up In the yard. An examination disclosed the fact that the spring at the foot of the hill from which the family used water was connected by a passage to the snakes' den. I ml la ua polls New. A Sl'IIAKIQTK HAUVKSTKK. aud, Indeed, every yeur they nuu u harder to bear, because every year tlie Increasing poverty of the Ottoniau (lov eminent and of Km local ouit-iuls mnkes the demand for money more merciless. There Is. however, constant friction A Young- daughter of Ihe Itevolutlon ' The youngest daughter of a revolu-J tlonary soldier, so fur as known, wa discovered at Lebanon, Conn., recently,1 and added to the membership of the Willlinatitlcchiipterof tho Daughter of (he Itevolutlon. She la Mr. Augusta Averv. and Is only .'ill year old. Her, father was 74 years old at the time of iher birth, lie wus doubtless one of the friction pulley acts at the top, and the elevator waits until the cargo is all off. Then the man releases the pulley and back goes the carriage, the heavy weight at the other end carrying it rapidly to thn top. From the elevator the ice slides iuto a run. In the center or mat, is au mu les chain that it fitted with pronglike attachments at certain intervals, aud a they come along Ihey come up behlud the cake of ice aud carry it to iu des tination. A short distance up the run is a plan er, a simple contrivance that removes the snow ice and evens the blia-k so that they will pack nicely in the bold of the vesseL The cake of ice pas serenely along, aud wheu they come to the planer pas easily uuder it, but at the same time they lose two or three inches of their height There i a provi sion in the contracts that provides for this, aud they read that ouly au inch or inch aud a half, or whatever the amount is, of snow ice shall be left ou the cake, and therefore the planing. Just beyoud the planer Is a man who gives the cuke a quick pull that briugs it ahead of the prong lor a momeui. a second look shows why this is done. By this quick movement the cske of ice is brought unon a pair of scales, aud in the second's rest thut it has before the prong on the chain gets along it i weighed and the figures placed upon the record that is beiug kept of the cargo. It is no small Job to weigh the Ice, for the cakes come along iu rapid suoce ion, aud the weight has to lie ascertain ed iu the ordinary manner and the re suit put dowu before the next cuke get along. From the scale the Journey to the ve gel is uninterrupted. The ruu is arrang ed so thut it extends over the vessel to the hatchway, and the rise aud full of the title are provided for by au arrange meut thut permits of the rising und fall I nu of the mil to correspond. Perhaps the most itigeuiona thing of the whole srstetn is thut by which the ice is put iu tho hold. At the end of the run and directly over the hatchway i a strong frame, aud In that there work a platform thut gtxt up and down some thing like an elevator at the house. Two bltx-ks of ice are slid upon it directly from the ruu, and the mau who control it minuses a friction lever, aud dowu it goes into the hold by it own weight, the speed being controlled Dy me man with the friction lever. The platform is susiwuded by four ropes that uuwiud from a cylinder as it descends, aud at the same time another and larger rope that appears from a distance winds upon the cylinder. " . . . 1 youngest soldiers In the war. There When the load is on tne pmuorm u ... .... in i. it-lit ni ier i iHiiiMiier or revo- I me muu, mo -n liitioiiurv aoldler belonging to the or-! loosened, and the rope that comes ovet tier. symmetrica.! way. The houses round are picturesque, beeuure eueb is distiuct It is given over to commission agents, merchants ami Inula generally, yet within but it few years it was a place of aeutecl residence, like a usual square. Mid we ilud the lute Cardinal Wiseman living in a substantial mansion here. Dickens, it will be remembered, placed Ralph Nickleby's house here, which is described on thcoecusioii of the party to Sir Frederick and Bir Mulberry as hav ing almost palatial apnrtmeut aud the richest furniture. As we wander round. we are struck with the melancholy tone of the liiclosnre. yet everything seems brisk enough, but it belongs to the old world. The square Itself is very attractive and original, with a sort of Dutch or forelgu air. We note the nu tree wnicn shelter it all round iu symmetrical line and thn Romuu warrior sort of tatue ill the center, arrayed in full armor aud representing George IL The grass and walks are luid out with a cer tain free and easy carelessness) mat ia very acceptable anil contrasts with Ihe trim, shaven, soulless treatment of m 1 ern squares. Altogether a visit to told en square will luterest Berkeley square every one know. Yet it has an extraordinury sympathetic attraction from its grass aud fine shad ina old tree. No oue, we may be sure. has noted that these leufy patriarchs seem to range in two rows down the middle, like an avenue. The fact is. It was the demesne of the luwn iu front of the old Berkeley House, which sttxxl at the bay k of Devonshire House. The munsions round are very flue, and the iron work, ruiliugs, eta, are all admired aud to be admired. There are some queer things to be told about square, for instiuice, that there was a Ueuaral Strode who had a mania for setting up statues in square at his own expense. We have seen equestrian statue iu Leicester square propped up with a broomstick, with portion broken away. Geutleuiaj's Muguziue. TWO-HEADED SNAKES. Intereatlng Kind of Reptile Found la tb Waters or Uraall. In certain part of Brnxll two-headed Mke are fouud aud tlsliernieu often catch them, for such reptile live In water. The body of the two-headed snake Is strlNd, giving It somewhat the appeai-auce of a common garter make. It I usually from oue lo three reet loug . The two heads are almost precisely alike In form, color and general ap pearance; one of them I very slightly I Ktonuui . a i 1 I sprung iuto the empty pluce, I dared uot between the Cretans and their brutal fv i,o eteam ut once, lest the train master, and hardly a twelvemonth DUUV V. . " ..I .... ., ...1.... passe Without lllMlirrccuoim nrcuauiK out In oue or another part of tne isiuiiu. GIFT OF A STATE HOUSE. Generally they arc easily and quickly ubdiied, for the Porte keeps nearly 30,000 troops on the Island, and every man is needed, too, In order to over awe the native population of avo.iKK). A oou a sign of rebellion appear in Quarter, an overwhelming force from the ueareHt garrison Is marched to the acene, the Insurrectionist, If caught are put to death, and the dis trict aasessed a heavy nue, which is 60 ilmnlil close ud on itself like a buna hurmonlca, aud a fearful disuater be the result Gruduully I pushed in tneinroi tie aud noticed thut the traiu was run ning slower. I turned on the steam for ri.a airhrakes aud heard directly th urindiiiir aud rumbliuK of the brake. Ti.Mii I ahut off the stuum the train cam to a stop close to the danger aig nul. Aunin I heard the piercing yell from Huusler, who had orouched on the frout nf the locomotive. I saw bim raise mm self aud leap from the engine; then he spraug up and ran shrieking away ! tu-Min tho shiniuu rails. Not a human being on that train naa aiiv intimation of the danger whicn naa threuteued us. Out of the stution came the Iinr.io exrjrfss beaded toward ua. With this traiu. which wa closely packed with passeugors, a 1 usual at thut lump of the eveuiug. we should have come iuto collision at full speed in thn station. Our train received the signal to go .ua .i.h I ateamed slowly Into the atatiim. We arrived ten minutes ahead of time. The inspector hurried up t nea with the conductor and demaudod an explanation ; they were amaxed to find me aloue, aud I waa so overcome by 11 that I hud gone through in those last few moments that I could with difficulty aivethem the desired information. Fran e , , i A wlian Uor,ul.,e waa naturally suryrieeu she did not see her husband, aud I could , i. wlr thn aad news that he bad gone insane. , the Sphaklote. who re to the re.t of I was myself so broken down mental- Crp,e w)lBt thP riertiers are to Morocco ly that I remained off duty for several or tue Illountaliieers of A.'giyinlstan are days by direction of the road's physician. ,0 ,lie dweHrg Indian plains. They Whim I renerted for duty ouce more, . . Xwvn ai)diied by the Turks, I learned thut Hausler. who was stark , f, waging a war with them that n..d had been cautured in the station .... ,,1H r).BtPr uart of two centu that same night, and the following ie MoH ny fomented ....., hd hen taken to a lunatio ., i,i, l, nil, Ilia: forts and asvlum. The cause of thi outbresk of .. k ... 1(.r(. and there at well insanity iu him wa the los of his en- K fninl t)l, mountain to tire aiivini'S. He naa mirueiru .v.. r.l.lna i.f Crete, in OPier uii-ueui. a small banker, and the lutter hsd ab- o r,,mll ie warlike descent of tha .,.r,nded with all his deposit. Trans- rom their lmost luaccmsl- i...-.t Vmni the German For obort . ... ....u-im of warfare hv atorie. 1 4vlopd jin undying hjtryd between A MOl HTAIM MONASTERY. the side of the vessel get In it work by turning the drum the other way and quickly bringing Ihe platform iuto it pluce. Out ou the wharf at the other end of the big rope i another lurge weight, thut does the work of pulling hack the tilulforiu. Away down iu the hold the work of stowing the Jcewa progressing rupiuiy, The ice is simply packed together in si smsll a space a possible, snd nothing is Dut around it. a many doubtless sup pose. At the batches, after the curgo ia all In. a little hay is thrown, but with the exception of that there is nothing put about the ice to keep It Irom moil Intr. Under the improved order of puck ina oulv from 10 to 15 per cent of the ice is melted, aud at times not so much as that. Bangor Commercial. Tb Faaal Legead. Almost every renowned man of an tlquity iu the middle age wa believed to be attended by a spiritu familiaris, aud not a few were suspected of beiug in direct league with the devil. Proba l.lv the oldest legend of which the Faust legend is a continuous thread i that of Siuiou Magus, mentioned iu the history of the Boost lea. According to Justin, he was a native Mirtim. a villaoe in Hamaria. He aa. no doubt, a man of greut iutelleo tual powers. He was the futher of the ael.ruil r.f the Unostics. It is also report ed of him thut he could muke himself invisible, that he could pas tlirougn flame unharmed, could transpose mat Id aud exorcise demons in claim to all these powers name lived in the mouths of tlie sort of Demiurg through , i.i .u..iii- I mauT ceuiar.es uuiu lumiiuiiroi ft.. r.. i.i.m.ii,',., will be In renal- working personality took hi place at aance style of architecture, and will 1 the popular fireside. Unusual .ccoui 800 feet long and 1W feel deep. The pli.hu.euts, gre.t erudition, were at atone dome will be f"t In diameter. , rriDuieo w ina .ui-.u- - ---"-' The Senate aud the House will be in and the general disposition . .,.... the Interior of the building, lighted from above and surrounded by the offi ces of the State ofhVlals. The quarries from- which the stone for the building I being taken are not fr from Ihe site of the rapltol. When It I finished the building will be a wortuy gin rrom the United Stats to 'ia UaU of Wab-Incton. The National Government Is Gener ous to Waahlngton (Mate. Perched on a bluff PJ0 feet high, over looking the city of Olympla sud the water of Puget Sound, the new State of Washington Is building a new capl tol. The foundation are already com plete. It will be till built of uutlve stone, and will lie surmounted by a dome which will be the only one of tune Iu the Lulled State, t or thirty miles as the traveler will up the water of Puget Suuud, the towering dome will be visible. The wluged victory perched un top of the dome will be IMH) feet hove the foundation of the building or 2'JO feet above the city of Olympla. Wheu Washington was admitted a a State the United State Government presented It with M.OOO sere of puli lle hinds, the proceed from the sale of which were lo be used In building a capltol. Two year ago the State tie- gun Issuing "warrant" for th land, a "warrant" being equivalent to a deed, aud asked architect to present plun for the new capltol. There were 188 plan presented, and those ent by Er nest Flagg, of New Vork. were accept ed. It wa found that to raise money by warrants Issued from time to time wn slow work, but there wa doubt of the legality of disposing of the land to the amount of ii.isnj.issi, tne amount ..... ..UIUI,lf.n tt all TiritnertVl means u.e r.-.. "' . ' nr.,.ed to snend on the building, at belonging to the t i.rist.au l'l''""-, - ' ..M1 ' e, Tll, , Hy ,b9 ter. make go But the rebels are not alw.y. cught.1 nJZ" 7.J ..,i .h.t ...eh a t,t. he laid Up in the mountain of the Island there ; " fortb. ; I. . hnrde tribe of bills Ilien gnowu a e-"-- -- - , . i. ... Wll U I lie nnunu " ' ' - tirma aaanmntion was strengthened on tha una hand bv dogmatic affirmation ou the part of the church of the exist nea f a Dersona 1 satan, with his un nierous household, and, on the other hand, by incorporating th magio art among the practical cieuoes, of which astrology and skhemy occupied no mean part Manurah. . . a- piait M-ir5 TUB !A. WITH TWO HEADS. mailer that the other. Thl I th ec ond head of the snake. But Ihe eye of thl second ueaa ar sightless, aud the mouth Is ouly a dum my mouth, the suake providing for bl living at the other head, which la th prlnclirsl one. The eeoud head Is, ap parently, more for ornament than use, alt bought It Is so perfect a deception that a close examination Is necessary to detect the working head from th or namental one. Owing to a peculiarity In the snake' method of coming to the surface of th water to breathe. ome observer hav thought that this second head possess ed some respiratory powers. In awhn mlng near the urfacc of the water th make always protrude lth hed above It. hi body describing the shap of a letter IL . laosBlalloa For Tllw Fwr. At the meeting of the American Pub Ho Health association at Denver, Dr. Manuel Oarmoua y Valle of Mexioo read description of his discovery of a certain our for yellow fever, which h ha used successfully In hundred of case. Hi method i to make a subcu taneous injection in the cellular tlaraa of the arm of a secretion taken from a yellow fever patieut between th fourth and fourteenth days of the fever. Thl effect a cure, but the disc oan b guarded aguiust in Ibis-way, Just a mallpox is guarded against by vaccina tion. Baltimore Buu. Poverty is very terrible, and some time kills Ihe very soul within us, but it i th north wind tnat lasne men Into vikings; it i th oft, lusciou south wind which lull thwn In dream- Quid. i