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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OEEGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1877.
NO. 36.
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Six Little Feet on the Fender.
In ray heart tbeie Hveth a picture
Of a kitchen rude and old,
"Where the firelight tripped o'er the rafter.
And reddeued the roof brown mould.
Gliding the steam of the kettle.
That hummedon the foot-worn hearth.
Throughout all the livdong evening,
Ita measure of drowsy mirth.
Because of the three light shadows
That frescoed the rude old room
Because of the Toicea echoed
Up 'mid the rafter' gloom
Because of the feet on the fender,
Six restless, white Utile feet
The thoughts of that dear old kitchen
Are to me o freth and tweet.
When the first dah at the window
Tells of the coming rain.
Oh, where are the fair young faces
That crowded against the pane,
While bits of firelight stealing
Their dimpled cheek between, t
West struggling out in darkness.
In shreds of silver sheen?
Two of the feet grew weary.
One dreary, dismal day.
And we tied them with snow-white ribbons.
Leaving them by the way.
There was fresh clay on the fender
That wary, wintry night,
For thesfour little feet had tracked It
Irosn the grave on the bright hill's height.
Oh! why, oa this darksome evening.
This evening of rain and sleet.
Best my feet all alone on the hearthstone?
Oh I where arc thot-e other feet!
Are they treading thn pathway of virtue
That will bring us together above.
Or have they made steps that will dampen
A sifter's tireless love!
Pat Yourself In Her Place.
The lose eommer day had crept slowly
away, and it was nearly five o'clock. The
boors at the reitwaT station were marked
as bj some gigantic clock that told the
laggard inmates br fcrcaming what
and clanging bell. The 4:30 accommo
dation bad gone east, the 'western express
due Here 4:55, bad thundered through
the Tillage, gone over the great viaduct,
aad disappeared round the Tast carve
beyond.
So oue counted the boars by the trains.
Ljdia bj name, a girl of the best lew
England type, quiet, and vet with an im
taeate capacity for doing and daring
should love and the occasion demand. The
local freigbtwould come next and then
then the wonld tee him again.
She laid aside her work, put some
split zephyr Tanity npoa ber bead and
went out towards the railroad. As she
approached the station she saw ber
brother, the station master, opening the
little freight house on the farther side of
the track. By this she knew the local
freight would stop this time. Her heart
beat the faster and she quickened her
step.
On reaching the passenger station
where the Tillage street crossed the rail
way, she looked up and down the line
and then crossed over and turned to the
left and walked beside the track towards
the freight house.
To understand all that took place on
this occasion, and to fally appreciate ber
consummate skill in controlling the
crests so quickly to crowd upon ber, wc
mast study the construction of the road
at this point. The Main Line fur more
thaa a mile to the right, or towards the
east, was perfectly ttnught and com
paratirelr level. To the left, or the west,
it crossed a deep ralley by a lofty stone
-viaduct, and beyond the valley it curved
toward the north and mounted the hill
by a long grade. Just east of tte pas
senger station a branch road entered the
Main line and there was, as supposed,
a cross-OTer switch. Beyond the passtrn
sssger station, on the west, was a short
etdisg ending a small freight bouse and
directly opposite was another siding with
a freight sbed and coal yard.
Lydia walked on past the freigbthouse,
and. crossing the side track, found a
large fiat rock beside the way, and there,
TiBO-cr the shade of an ancient apple tree,
she sat down to wait till her lover should
He coses 1 she beard tle three long
whistles sounding far down the line, and
a bright bluish mounted to her face. The
train would stop. That was the signal
for the station master. Her brother
came oat of the freight house, spoke
pleasantly to her, aod then walked on
towards the switch at the bead of the
siding.
Suddenly the Main Line track bef re
ber began to sing in sharp metallic mar
mars. The train had entered that si-c
tion of the road and he was near. Then
there carae- the sound of escaping steam
The engine was slowing down and the
steam, no longer employed, was buistin
with a load roar from the safely valve as
u impatient ot delay.
With a jar that shook the ground the
immense ft eight engine rolled past her,ind
the engineer, leaning out oi ins -window,
sodded to Lcr as be slid part. Then the
cars in long procession came into sight
and sored past with slowly decreasing
speed. Foot brakemen buy at the
brakes west past and still he carae not.
At last the rear car appeared, and a young
man swung himself down from the iron
ladder oa the car and sprang to the
groHad at ber feet.
A sooty man, clad in blue canvas now
black with smoke and dust. Only a
brakemani No; a trifle better the con
ductor of the freight train. A year ago
be had been glad to take tbe place of a
brakenaa, and already be had been pro
moted. Lore did it. He had set nai
loved Lydia in tbe days of his foolish
idleness, and she had insisted that be do
some maaly work or she could not yes,
site omld and did lore him; but be must
show him worthy ber lore. Already he
bad advaBced, and she was well pleased
with bis progress, aad they had become
engaged.
A grimy, dusty man in anlorely gsr
meets; bit, ia her eyes, be was a man
saa4e for better thtags. As he stood be
tide ber ose oesld .see in his clear eyes
i and sensible face that he bad good stuff
in him and was worthy of her love.
It becomes us not to linger while they
talk quietly together beside the track.
The train moved slower and slower till.
finally, it stopp-d with the last car jast
beyond the' switch. The iron hortewas
moved on, the station master signalled
with his arm in a curious fathioa, and
each of the four brakemen repeated the
motion in turn. White pun's of steam
rose high in the air from the farther end
of the train, and the last car backed
down, turned aside, and entered tte
siding. The station master left tho switch
and came hastily t iward the lovers.
'Good day, Alfred. Light freight to
day, only one car by the way, the brctk
chain is broken, you bad better drop the
car at the Repair Shops: The freight
can be thrown out without lea wag the
car."
So saying, the station master went on
Into the freight house, followed by the
rattling and rumbling cars. They grad
ually lost their speed and then came to a
stop with the end of the train lost in the
dark cavern of the freight house. There
was a shout from the building and then
one of the brakemen began to more bis
arms as a signal to go on. Again the
white pufls of the steam shot up in the
dutance and with a jar and quiver the
train started again.
Car after car rolled past them. There
were hurried whispers, a warm hand
shake and perhaps a kus, and then the
young man swung forward, grasped the
ladder on the last car, climbed quietly to
the tip and sat down. She stood gazing
after him as he was drawn away from
her, and smiled and waved farewell to
him with her handkerchief.
"Here, Lydia, you mutt help me."
It was her brother wbo stood beside
her with a banch of keys in his hind.
"The passenger train follows this at
oace ana I must go to the station. "Will
you please close the switch after them I"
She taik the keys mechanically, and
then turned again to gaze after her
lover seated on the last car of the retreat
ing train. It had pasted out of the switch
and was crossing the great viaduct and
moving more an J more-swiftly awaj.
To close aad lock the switch was nei
ther difficult nor dangeroas, and she
quietly walked on toward the end of the
siding till she came to the (witch post.
Hera she leased against the wooden
frame for a little spice, shading ber eyes
from the sun and watching rhe train. It
bad run around the ralley and was tam
ing into the great curve that crept up
ward in a long grade over the hill be
yond. It was now a mile away and she could
no longer distinguish any one on the
cars. She turned slowly away, seized the
iron bar of the switch and easily threw it
over into place so a to leave the Main
Line open J or me next vain.
she looked back down the road and
saw that the pisenger train bad entered
the line from the branch and was just
pulling up at the station to discharge
passengers. It may seem surprising that
a passenger train should be allowed to
follow a freight train so closely.
Bad engineering as this arrangement
was, it was not so senoas as it seemed.
for this passenger train did not follow
the freight except for three miles, when
it reached the end of its trip and was
turned off upon a siding.
bhe turned once more to look after the
treating freight train. It was ia fall
new climbing the grade on the great
carve.
Suddenly she pat op both bands to
shade her eyes, and leaned forward on the
switch frame. what had happened!
To tiny puffs of steam rose from the en
gine. It was the signal to stop.
Ahl the train has parted! Faint and
far away came the short, sharp danger
whistle. A. single car had broken loose
from the train, asd had been left behind.
It was standing alone on the track.
No. It was moving backward. It was
beginning to roll down the grade. It was
moving faster and latter. There was
man upon it her Iorer.
Inroluntanlr sue spread oat ber arms
and let them fall to her side three or four
times in succession the signal to pat on
tbe brakt-s.
"Hour foolish! lie cannot sec mc, and '
She leaned against tbe switch frame and
shook with fear and agony.
Tbe brake was broken.
Swift and swifter rolled the distbled
car. It was coming down the track,
gaining speed at every rod.
bhe sprang to tne middle oi the track and
tried to shoat to tbe engineer of the train
at the station. Sac made tbe motions to
back o Jt of daager. Her toague clove to
the roof of her mouth, and her cry be
came an inarticulate groan.
Onward came the car. She could see
ber 1-nrcr upon it frantically waving his
arms from right to left. it bat did it
meant Her brain seemed to be on fitc.
She could do nothing bat gaze on the
advancing car in dumb horror.
Ah! the nassengarsl Ciuld she not
Save tbcmf .i
With a violent wrmth she opened the
switch again and stood holding the bu
rn both hanJs. Better so, better oue life
lost than a dozen. Her feet seemed
bolted to the ground. She mut stny aud
sie him killed, and by her own band.
Ahl why bad she not th-rugbt of it
beforr!
Tbe crof sorer switch! Could she
reach it in time she might save him. She
snatched tbe key Trora the switch and
ran with frantic speed up tbe line. 8'ic
never knew how she opened that switch
With moans aud cries she threw her
sell across the line and began to run
down tbe other side. Could she reach
that switch before tbe car! Its roaring
rang in her ears. Panting, with almost
bursting oosom, she reached the switch,
opesed it, and stood -clinging to it at tbe
car came numbering over Hie TiauUCt.
She looked up at ber lorer upon tbe
car. He bad seen and understood the
change in the switches. His car, help
less tnougu it was, woaia cross over
to
the down track, and roll barmlestly along
tbe level line till its force was spent. He
was saved, and bj ber ready wit and
skill. The passengers in the train were
also saved.
She had saved him. Love had been
ber inspiration.
Great hravensl what that! Tbe ex
ptess! Tbe d.iwn express was coming!
All was in rain. He was lost. She
saw him throw up his arms in despair.
The very plan she had devised to save
im would b bis destruction. Better
far to have thrown him off the siding as
she bad intendeJ. Now he would meet
mote dreadful death, and the destruc
tion would include scores of lives instead
of a dozoo.
All this dashed through her mind like
as lightning. She felt her knees give way
ueneain ber, and lie clang to the switch
in depir. She had shot ber eyes to hide
tne comtng disaster.
Hark! The whistle oa the express.
They had seen the imminent collision,
nd were dning their best to avert It.
bhe, too, most do something. V itli a
louad she sprang to tbe next switch,
tore it open, and stood panting and
moaning beside it with the bar in ber
hand. She must save the train even if
she buried ber lover under the splintered
wrecK ot the car.
Onward came the car, thundering over
the viaduct and just ahead of the train.
It turned quickly at the switch, crossed
over and shot past her icto the siding.
lie bad one look at her upturned face.
It was full of love and helpless misery.
She was sending him to certain destruc
tion to save tbe express train.
i ne instant me car paea sne ooea
the switch and sprang back again to tbe
other switch aad closed it just in time t
see toe express train sweep past in safety.
la an initant tbe helpless car ran Into
the freight h-mse with aa awful pi mur
ing crash. The express palled up oppo
site the station, ana in a moment a crowd
of people ran shooting and frantic up tbe
line. &-une of tnem bad seen tbe whole
terformaoce aad knew what it mesat,
bat for the majority of them it was a
tragic mystery.
They found Lrdia upia the groaad by
the switch, and with the keys still
clutched in her band. What had she
donel Whit bad happened to her I
She could nut answer. Nature had
mercifully taken away ber senses. They
took ber up tenderly and earned her to
the station, and laid ber upoa a seat in
the waiting room. The passengers of tbe
two trains crowded the room and offered
every aid, for in some vague manner they
began to understand that she was tbe
creditor to the raloe of all their lives.
She had paid for their safety with costly
sacnace.
The freight train backed down to the
croas-over switch, and the engineers ef
the three trains met aad began to ex
amine tbe positions of the switches. A
number of men also came from tbe ex
press train, aad among them was one wh
seemed ia authority. He, too, examiaed
fhrfb 1 i n . rt 1 1 w ami fti amnfc- V
va V aJ VU.IM wa
plained tbe matter to htm aad listened to
bis remarks with becoming deference.
The little room in the station was
packed with people, idlers and others,
and they could with difficalty bring him
in.
"No," said one of the ladies wbo were
tryiog to restore the girl. It may be
too great a shock for ber. she mast not
see him yet."
3Iake way there, gentlemen. The
superintendent of the road is here.1
Tbe crowd moved slightly, asd tbe su
perintendent advanced into the room
lie took on his bat and spoke quietly
: people near, and then stooped
over tne unconscioas girl and sottly
killed ber like a father.
"She saved all oar lives, and I fear she
thinks she paid dearly for them.
Suddenly she opened her eyes and sat
up oewiiaerea.
"Where Unci Isbemuih hart! Oh!
Perhaps he is."
Let me alone, I tell rou," cned a big.
bald roict in the cro ad :MI must go It ber.
lie escaped from those wbo would de
tain biss.and in a moment was beside ber.
Same of the people laughed in f.olnb
others cried. Tbe mure delicate and
sensible were silent, for the meeting was
not for words ordoenpuoa.
After a slight pause the superintendent
said to tbe young man:
"I congratulate you, sir. l oa were on
the owl"
Yes, i. I was on tbe car and I sared
myself at the lat moment by jumping off.
I lauded oa a heap of coal and got a
rough tumble and that was all. The
csr is a heap of splinters."
Then the superintendent called the
young man nearer to him and spike to
him privately, aad prently they both
shook bands as if greatly pleased over
something. The young man sat down
beside the gi-I and wm.pereJ in ber ear.
"I re got the place, Lydia. We ic all
right now."
Then the bells rang, aod tbe people be
gun to disperse toward their trains. As
Uiry deiiarted, a small creature prob
ably a stockholder objected to tbe
proceedings, and remarket to the super.
Intendent that "It was not best to give fat
offices to brakemen for doing no hing.'
"I'reci-ely," sid the superintendent.
"But the worn to did something, and if
yoa wish to know the full measure of ber
splrnlid deed, go put yourself in her
place."
Trie eloping couple in this instance
were overtaken by the girl's father at
Casey station, Tennessee. He pulled her
out of her lover's wagon, put ber ia front
of himself on a mule's back, and slatted
f jr borne. The lorer gave chase, but bis
wagon broke down. Did bis presence of
mind desert bim in me emergency i .no.
He sboated, "Sally, if you love me, slide
off!" She wriggled out of ber parent's
grip, and slid off the smooth bask of the
male. Before tbe parent could get her
remounted tbe loTcr came up aloot, and
in a band to band encounter, triumphed
over the old man. Then the youu
ones mounted and fled.
Tub Spitz dogs ate to be congratulated
tint tber have never cultivated news-
paper literature. Tiior do sot know
that everrbodr is abusing them, and
looking at them with the ill-will born of
fear. Uat the jolly Spitz will bold his
piace among tne cmiarea in spite oi u
siumniators.
Easter in England.
Of Enter Monday rites various curious
relics still linger. One, called "clipping
the church," is performed br childtea of
tbe charity school, amid crowds of
people and shouts of joy. They place
their backs against the oaUide of the
church, and j iin bands till the circle is
complete and tbe building surrounded.
when the ceremony is orer, and they go
to another church.
Another custom in Darham is for men
to go about the streets and take off a shoe
from every woman they meet, uoless she
will pty a small fee to prevent it. The
next day, as l but fair, the women te
tort by ddng the same to men.
In some pans a still more ridiculous
custom is found, called "heaving" or
lifting." On Easter Monday the men
lift" the women, and on Tuesday the
women ate the lifters. It ia done Urns:
two strong men cross bands in tbe way
we use to call "making a chair, in my
school days, or they carry a chair lined
itb white, aad decorated with Sowers
aad ribbon. On meeting a woman in
the street, they invite her to take a seat.
and, in fact, insist upon it. They then
lift ber into tbe air three times, when she
matt kiss each of ber lifters, aad give
tnem taoner besides. In the time of
Edward I. this caitom was so general
that rrca the king was "lifted."
in b,ent, the young people on Latter
Monday "go a paddiag-pieing." That is.
go to public-bouses to eat padding-pie,
a dish about tbe size of a saucer, with
raised paste rim, aad cattard iatide.
And everywhere, and all tbe time, are
eggs, eggs, eggs; boiled aad colored;
stnped and mottled, and gilded; orna
mented with names, or mottoes, or pic
ture. Common oaes are variously
adorned with designs drawn with a bit
of tallow, which keeps the dye from tak
those parts. A better kind cf
decoration is to scratch the design with
a sharp knife oa an egg after it is dyed:
landscape, taottjcs, etc, can be made
very neatly.
A common game which, perhaps, rou
know is plated with Easter eggs. The
owner of a bar J -boiled Easter egg chal
lengesaayoae be meets to strike eggs
antn bim. If his egg breaks the other.
it is called "the cock of one," aad its
owner has the broken one as a trophy.
When it hai broken two, it is "cock of
two," and so oa. If aa eg which is
cock ef one or more is brokeo, the con
queror ad Js the number of trophies won
br tne ncum to bis own score.
Tne custom of making presents of
is said to be Persian, aad to bear
aliuuoa to tbe "mundane egz." from
which the world was fabled by certain
nations to have been derived. It Is a
cut to a anting Jews, Egyptians, aad
Hm loos, aad was adopted by Christians
ta symbolize the resarrtctioa. This fe ait
uf eggs, therefore, very properly occurs
at Eatter &. XicXoUi.
Up the Connecticut Valley.
Fifteen miles above Springfield the
Coanecaeut ralley is almoe t croteJ by
two ranges knoa as Jloaat Uoljoke
and Mount Tom, the two coming within
half a mile of meeting. Between them
fiowi the river, aad the scenery all about
is very pictoreaqae. Northampton lies
two miles farther oa; aad from here
many tourists make the ascent of Holy-
oke, where an inclined plane railway
bfta yoa a thousand feet above the air
ror ralley, aad shows a view that N. P.
litis pruoooaced uacqaaled. It being
too early for the Mountain House to offer
ummer indacemcats, 1 did not make the
ascent.
At Northampton Is the ccaly-estab-
lished Smith College for lYomen, which
I glanced hastily throagn. Ouly one
building Is yet erected, bat thtt is supe
rior ia arrangement aod finish to tbe best
college edifices ia New York. There
are few students thus far. and I believe
that for some reason what, I can hardly
guest tbe institution is lojkcd upon in
New England at a doubtful experiment.
It is bat four miles from Northampton
to tbe sceae of that awful Mill Purer dis
aster, and I happened to meet Jerome
Hillman the man who really did ride
djwn the ralley just ahead of the flood,
fur which act Collins U raves was so gen
erally praised and had from his lips a
modest account of that morning's work.
lie is reported to bare been tbe means
of saving ISO men and women, bat do
ing Uus cost him bis wife, wbo went
down ia the mad torrent, Four medals
were given to the four men whose ser
vices were most heroic, an 1 Uillcian bad
one i f them.
I d'in't know a prtttier ride than
that op the Connecticut Hirer Rtilwsy
to Bratlleboro. All the way is hist.nc
ground; and when you hear "Deerfield"
ca led oat by the brakemaa, yoa look
down to the sleepy hamlet, soon to be
bidden in the verdure of its great droop
ing elm, aad recall those stormy Indian
times of generations ago with dreamy
wonder. Is that indeed tho "old Deer
field" of tbe chroniclers 1 Then like
some other ancient things it is rciy
small of its sge. I have heard the little
church bell, which is said to have been
at the bottom of that Deerfield maaacre,
calling Canadian habitant to prayers, far
down the St. Lawrence. A. Drift, in
Ilural Home.
Texas it undoubtedly the greatest
cattle produclsg region oa earth. Tea
of her lire stock breeders alone own
1,025,000 cattle, besides horses and
mules, and six of them have 633,000
acres of pasture enclosed. Think of ber
hundreds of cattle owners, great asd
small, and realise, if you can, the mag
nificent proportions to which this Indus
try has grown ia a few years. Seven
years ago the census placed the figures
for the Slate 424,501 horses, CI, 322 mules
and aises, 423.018 milch cows, 132,409
oxen, and other cattle at 2,933,015; or
lor all the owners ia the State only
2,4GS,OO0 more thau are bow owned by
ten parlies.
Dimuix not your inferior, though poor.
since he may possibly be much your
superior in wisdom aad the Beble eadew
meats of the miad.
Turkey's Array.
Tbe Turkish empire is now pasting
through tin most dangeroas crisis record,
ed in its history. It will need all tbe fa
natical courage of ita people to keep it in
existence in the faer of the powerful foes
that seek its destruction.
The organization of tbe army of the
Empire is bated on the provisions of the
law of 1869, by which military service is
made obligatory on all the Mohammedan
populatioc. Recruiting is carried on by
a system of drawing lots and by rolun
tecring. Tbe duration of the service is
twenty years, of which four years arv
spent in tbe regular active army, or
"nizara," two years in tbe first reserve, cr
"idatyal," six years in the second reserve,
or "redlf," and eight years in the third
reserve, or "hlyade." Members of creeds
other than the Mohammedan are exempt
ed from service in the army, but they are
obliged to scire in the fleet when called
on.
Tbe Turkish forces are divided as fol
lows: The regular army, the
irregular
army, and the auxiliary troops.
Tbe regular army couusts, at present,
of seven corps. Tbe corps commanders
administer tbe affairs of their respective
commands directly, for the troops ia time
of peace have neither generals of division
nor brigade. These latter are appointed
only during time of war.
The present composition of the regular
army of Turker is;
Infantry Forty-oae regiments of the
tine, tao regiments of Bosnians, one reg
iment of frontier Greeks, and one regi
ment of frontier Servians.
Earh rrgiment of infanbrr has three
battalions of eight companies. Besides
tbe regular infantry of the line, there are
forty-oae battalions of riflemen and two
battalions of Herzegorinian troop, two
bittaliocs of Albania, aad one Gordon
battery, making a total of 179 battalions
of infantry.
Cavalry There are twenty-six regi
ments of six squadrons each, one regi
ment of six squadrons mounted on cam
els, and two independent squadroas in
the Turkish regular cavalry, making a
total of 161 sqaadrons.
Artillery Tail arm is represented by
seven regiments of field artillery of twelve
batteries each and one reserve regiment
of three batteries. Each battery has six
pieces. Total, seventy-five batteries aad
450 pieces. There are also tea regiments
of heavy artillery ,aad ose corps of artillery
operatives.
Engineers These eensist of o&e bri
gade of seven companies of sappers aad
seTcn com panics of operative.
After tbe law ef Jane 2, 1S), and
the imperial firmans of later dates con
ccaing the reorganization of the army,
the military forces ef the Empire should
be carried at 720,000 men until the end
of 1ST 3. Of this number the active army
wald furnish 520,000 men, tbe first re
serve 50.000 men, the second and third
reserves the ba aece 430,000 men. This
plan of organization requires an annual
coaticgc&t of about S7,000 men.
This force is oompused of sixteen reg
iments of m anted and foot police, tbe
basni-bazoaks, rolcateers, Spanis aad
Bedouin cavalry, aad has a total strength
of about 50,000 men.
These are represented br contingents
from the provinces that are net liable to
fcralsh mea Vj the regular active army,
or -nirim, and from tne semi-sorereiga
Stttc. in all ajut 60.000 men.
Lpper Aib tola contributes to this force
10,000 men ; Bnia 20.000 ; Egypt 1 5.0O0.
sad Tunis aad Tripoli 8,000 men.
Tne peace e&ectiva strength of the
Turkish army is 157,657 men and 26.040
horses, and includes the police (14.500
men.) In time of war, such as the pres
ent, tne lorces ot tne saltan are:
Active anar
.333,103
First reserve
luoAM
Second reserve
Police (mlHUrj) ,
SJSOU
taojuuu
uiyace, i&ird reserve.
Total rerular artar. .
..tyuoo
.. 31,11)
Irregular troops.
Auxiliary troops
Total war strength.
.616400
X. r. Herald.
SArcrr
Tsatx Lxoim. A
indicates the speed
flashing
light that
and dis-
tance of a train, aad shows whether it is
at rest or in motion, has been introduce!
as a rear light on freight trains. It is
formed of two lights one red and oae
white and designed to be placed oae on
each side of the rear (caboose) car, so that
they may be seen in both directions on
the Hue. A simple derice for hiding the
lights at interrals is affixed to each lamp
so that it may be made to "flash" or at
tersately appear or disappear, and by
suitable gearing this is connected with
one of the axles of tbe car. While the
car is at rest the lights are steadily risi
ble, when the train moves the lights flash
once for each revolution of the wheels.
and thus Its movement and actual speeJ
can be easily estimated as far as the
lights can be seen. Another advantage
results irum tbe tact that tbe white light
Is risible at a greater dtiUocs than the
red. The engineer of a following train
may from this keen within the limit of
a safe distance by keeping tbe flashing
ml light dim or quite obscure, and by
coming to a stop the moment the flash
tng runs slow or stops and the lights
become fixed aad steadily risible.
Nakrow Escape. Mr. J. C Wraxtoa
of Barlingtoa, hail a very narrow escape
fioaa a terrible death at the burning o
of the Southern hotel at St. Louis, the
other night A few days before the fire
Mr. Wraxton had gone to Marquette, and
from theuce by steamer to the northern
shore oi iake superior, wnere ne was at
tbe time of the fire. Had Mr. Wraxtw
instead of going as far north as be could
get, gono to St. Louis and put up at the
Southern hotel, and got a nice room right
under the roof, and slept so soundly tht
the alarm of fire would not awaken him,
lie might hare died a terrible death. Hit
many friends ia Burlington hare great
cause to congratulate tberaselrcs aad bim
oa his b arrow escape. Hwtk Egt.
Never listen to idle or loose coaver
ties.
Daniel Boone's Death.
Below is pablisbs-l a letter from Col.
A. G. Boone to the Clark Canty Dcnvy
erat. Col. Boone lives in Denver Citv.
Colorado, and Is a grandson of E'en
tncky's famous pioneer, and. the Paris
Oititen sais, was birnnear Greensburg,
Kjn in 1906. He is one of tbe comraU
loners to treat with the Sioux Indians
for the cession of the Black HilU coon.
ry, and was in Washington at the time
f writing.!
WasuutoTO. D.C- March 26, 1377.
Editort Clark CutUg Democrat Sirs:
I see in your paper of March 7 an ac
count of the death of my grandfather.
Daniel Boone, taken from the WttUn
Oititen, September, 8, lfcOO. This is a
hnax, and was published by a man whose
name I bare forgotten. I remember that
my father, J ndge Jesse Bione, oa seeing
it, went to the editor aad demaaded aa
explanation. The man said be had been
to Missouri to purchase land, aad oa re
turning be wanted to bare something ex.
citing in the account of his trip; be
therefere put this in. He gave ay
father a letter of apology with the above
explanation.
Tbe true account of tbe death of
Daniel Boooe is this: He died at the
bouse of his yoacgest son, Nathan Boone
(afterwards Lieotenaat-Colo&el in the
regular army) en Femme Osage rirer,
Missouri, in the fall of 1620, after a short
sickness. He never comp'ained, bat
seemed to bar- worn oat. I was close
by at the time. He had given cp his
fort at Lt Charette (which be boil t for
the protection of everybody daring In
dian hostilities) to Mr. Flanders Callo
way, wbo was married to my aaat
Jemima, the daughter of Daniel Boone,
who was captared by the saawnees sear
Boones bo roc gb (with Calloway's sister),
and wbo was recaptured, her father and
friends killing all the Indians. My
grandfather sometimes stopped with
Flanders Callowaj. The last year of
his life be spent with say father, and had
gone on a nut to ay uncle Nathaais,
where be died. He had not treated much
for seTeral years before his death. "Tbe
Life of Daniel Bocce by Timothy Flint"
is the most correct hittory of mj grand,
father's career. Rer. Timothy Flint, a
Bantist preacher, was teaching school at
St. Charles, asd I went to school to bim.
St. Charles is thirty miles froaa La Cha
rette. and Flint would come cp and
pead a few days with grandfather asd
take notes, repeating his visits frequently.
until be completed hit work. Grand
bet oa the contrary delighted ia coa-
Tersaisoa.
I merely write this ia order that the
people of Kentucky abors all others
may not be aisled by an anU nerUn
obi ta try of a mas wb ins they hoar and
who lived eleven years after his reputed
demise. Very respectful lv.
A. G. Booxe, Denver, CoL
A Very Sad Story.
On Biacoa areate, Jer?r Citr. resides
a family na-ned M rris-m. Tbe father
had been out of employment for nice
months, and the family was ia a state of
utter destitution. Oa r nJar Momsoa
gladdened the hearts of his wife and to
children with tbe announcement thtt he
as to obtain employment on the Jersey
City Jc Bergen horse-cars oa the follow
ing itooday. Later m the day he re
ceived $1 for rtooving a piano, and tbe
si gat of that dollar threw the starting
creature into ecstades. Tne wife sug
gested that the first purchase should be
a backet of cual, bat Morrison replied
mat ne would go out witn a bag and
gather oal on tbe railroad tracks west of
the tonnel. While thus engaged he was
rua orer by a c-nl-traln oe the Dataware,
Lsctawaana & Western Kaitroad at
West End, and both his legs and left
arm were cut off. He was taken to his
home, where be died in the evening.
Othcer snort, wbo bid Mxnsoa coa-
reicd home, states that be asver saw
snchanatsode of misery. Night came.
and there was no fuel or light of any
kind except the rays of the mooa as the
mangled remains lay stretched oa a bed.
The wife aad ber to children, wbo bad
not eaten a morsel daring the day, leu
the house and wandered trom oce under
taker's establishment to another, begging
some of them to bury her husband.
Morrison was a quiet man, of temperate
habits, and had been for three years in
the employ of the People's Gulight
Comniny, from which he was discharged
on account of the depressed state of the
times, lie was 33 years of age. Tne
distracted woman said of hi in that
more devoted husband never lived. IV.
1". Utrald.
Now there is another man who thinks
be knows bow to make bens lay, and be
communicates tbe process to oae of the
agricultural papers. It is ia the food, of
coarse. That what all these idiots say.
When will the true nobility of a hca be
understood! Hens are aot machiaea.
They are reasoning, thiaking beings. If
there is one sight more impressive than
annfhffr is t hi ttttnlrfn If fts wsst
to make a hea lay get on her best side.
Work on her feelings. This caa be dose
by studying her nature aad learning her
us tcs. mis accompitaaed, go to work
to show her that you ara her friesd and
not a grinding, grasping leech, with no
higher ambition thia worming eggs oat
of ber. vi hea a bea sees that you lore
her and respect her, that you are truly her
menu, laat you are ia aciiv sympaiay
with her reaching out for the uadeaaabie
la nature, she will just tura her toes ia,
tighten her jaws aad fairly fill the eatiro
atmosphere with eggs. Y oa caat lay for
a hen with food tricks. A hea despises
conceal meat. Daxbury J nti.
A cottTEXrORAKX sUtes that Vateatiae,
tho Yirciaia sculBtor. while at Staaatoa
last fall, was chirmed with the singing
by a little blind girl of a soag ia watch
occurred the line, aWbea shall I behold
thr face?" The musk, the words, aad
the touchitur presence of the little girl
with her hands pat up ia mute appeal,
ade a picture upoa the artist's miad.
which he has reproduced ia marble at
his studio ia Rkhnead.
War Power of Turkey.
The latest alrires ftom Europe indicate
that Russia bet Hares to engage alone ia a
conflict with Turkey. A decaying power
as lt has been assumed t be, and lagging .
in cirilizati- n as it certainly is, as a war
power it is still formidable; and with all
its religious faoatici.m aruosed. as would
be tbe put in a struggle with Russia on
the present Lsae, Vx success of the lat
ter, gigantx as it is, would be rery
doubtful.
Tbe character of the Turkish soldiers
has scarcely changed any for tbe la.t fifty
yera, or indeed in the whole conr of
Jheir history. The famous Mahmood the
Second once said to the Eugiith ambas
sador about I earing Constantinople for
the no ltd Congress of Verona, -I wish
joa the bleating of God, and success in
your efforts for peace; bat if it is Col's
will that there shall be war, man will sot
be able to prevent it." Aad that very
moment Rustia was threatening, with its
colubsal power, to crush and aanibilate
the Os man lis for tbe violation of the
treaty of Bucharest.
In this expression Mahmood gave rent
to the universal feeling of the Turks,
namely, the absolute predestination of
human fate through the will of God.
And this conviction lends to the Turks a
marvelous capacity for resistance, Loth ia
the cabinet and the army. Tbeir indom
itable warlike spirit is tbe essence of their
religion. Allah gave to Mohammed, as
the symbol of his office, not the tables of
the law, as to Moses, bat the sword, with
which to innit.ilttc all unbelievers; to
unite the entire human race under one
symboL
According to tbe Koran, the pad HQ ih
is the shadow of God, indjfac rule of the
world belongs to his alose; and this
boundless acmptioa is rooted in the
breast of the enure Moslem world. They
will thus lire through a series of defeat
that would crush other armies, aad be
satisfied with final victory, as they recent
ly were after a campaign of four
against the Servians. Tans far the Turk
ish officers asd diplomats have consid
ered the war as oae of a political char
acter, and in this capacity it has wanted
mesa i. tut tbe moment that Kaaata
would declare war, religious facadcism
would unlock Cj2en that have hitherto
bees dosed. A holy war in defense of
ftlsmism will summon to the corneas
every treasure that the Turk possesses.
Siace the com men cement ol the present
century tbe Turk have been eadearorisg
to reform tseir army after .European mod
els. For a long series of rears tha noto
rious corps of Jasiasanes were the stand
ing army of the Turks, asd finally became
their tyrant, even, entering into tte poli
tics of the cucatry asd seatisg asd un
healing rulers. Tney wtre bitterly op-
pxsted to every eSJrt to reurganxze the
army on a popular baais,anJ woes it waa
loe, they bruta.Iy aitsc.ed asd mur
dered masy of tha soldi er from the peo
ple la tztcir very barracks la UmcsusiisjO
p.e. This so exasperated Mahmood that,
in 1S26, be caused them to be collected
ta a patilic qaare of Cosstaatioople.
wbe& he ordered all the otner truopa to
Burrucad ihcia aad cut them to puces.
In Uus way a desperate nbus,; corps of
tuny thousand men were a-mimiticd, asd
disappeared from Tcxaisa history.
Since that period the obligation to serve
is the army has bees quite spare rai OS t&e
MussleSU, out on toe Christians Uteae
bave been forced to pay a bears bead-tax
ixut gw ts tne sujajti ot toe nntiug
lark, in reaaty ue burden ui izuuurr
doty bangs user abvut aixea muthxi
Moslems, sat by the time these ate sifted
out, fur a va.icty or reasw&a, not more
tnas four hundred thuusaad men are ia
active service ia the regular army. This
acabcr can, of cuur, be greatly in
creased by reserves aad volunteers, which
is always tbe result when tbe Contact as
sumes a religious ch-tracter.
There are now stationed is rarioss
parts of the realm sees army corps, un
der the command of genetata of us
highest rank. Then there are sixty -five
battaltuss of gesaianses, or armed po
lice, asd to these may be added the irreg
ular infantry known as the Bihi-Bixuaa,
ud tne irregular carairy bearing lac ap-
pelattoa ot apahts.
Tbe active army is sow largelr is aad
around C inatantidoplo, where they cftea
lire fur months without a cent d pay.
Nearly all the money that has been lately
collected by the state has gu&e fur steel
cannon ot tbe Krupp make, aud for all
kinds of noted die arms fjcsn our owa
country. The TurkUb array will be very
strong ia the defense. Russia will find it
a gtaut task to travel over Turkish roads
and force the pas-sages ot the Balkan
mountains, which are uatural lortreascs,
to say nothing of tne brtslbng guns alvug
the Danube; while tbe Turks icelcoafi.
d:at ia the protectioa of Allah.
Thk Utan-TOSET) Tkjuit. Yesterday
a gentleman residing in a neat, modest
cottage in the suburbs, caught a tramp
prowling about his back yard, evidently
trying to steal something.
Vt by doo x you come to tbe front uoor
if you want anything!" indignantly
roared the proprietor.
That's what I was looking for," was
the impudent reply.
kDida't yoa m-c it oa the other side of
the house I retorted the gratlemas.
"How was I to kaow that was the front
doorl No silver door-plaic, ao bell, no
ulephoae, no statuary, ao servant to taka
your bat aad case. Tell your boss there
is a gentleman out here wbo is waiiiag
for his breakfast."
When the geutlemaa got back with hk
shot-gua the tramp was aot there aay
more. Stn Antonio Herald.
M. Part, do Ckaiixc, ia a receat lec
ture, related a singular circamstaace rel
ative to the teachableaesa of parrots,
which may, perhaps, be take with eoate
allowance, lie stated that oae which ha
taught to speak also traasaitted hk e
qairesaeat to about tweaty o&crvwhite
tome of these, escaping; taught ether
wild ones, so that oae day he was r
prised, white walking ia the fores, to
hear French words Meadtd with she ehtt
teriag ef a amber of ths tirdc.