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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1886)
FACE TO FACE. Bad mortol coulilst tliou but know What truly it meant to die, The wings of thy noul would glow, And the hones of thy heart beat high; Thou wouldst turu from the Fyrrbontst schools, And laugh their Jargon to scorn, As the babble of midnight fools Ere the morning of Truth be born; But I, earth's madness above, In a kingdom of stormless breath I gaze on the glory of lovo In the unveiled face of Death. I tell thee his face Is fair As the moon-bow's ninber rings, And the glinm In his unbound hair Like the flush of n thousand springs; Ills smile Is the fathomless beam Of the star-shine's sacred light When the summers of southland dream In the lap of tho holy Night; Tor I, earth's blltulness above, In a kingdom of lmIcon breath I gaze on tho marvel of love In tho unveiled face of Death. In his eyes a heaven there dwells Hut they hold few mysteries now And his pity for carth'o farewells Half furrows that shining brow; Souls takon from Time's cold tlda He folds to his fostering breast, And the tears of their grief arc dried Kre they enter the courts of rest; And still, earth's madness above, In a kingdom of stormless breath, I gaze on a light that Is lovo In the unveiled face of Death. Through the splendor of stars Impearlcd In the glow of their far-off grace, He Is soaring woild by world, With the souls In his stronc embrace; Lone ethers, uiiftirred by n wind At tho passage of Death grow sweet, With tho fragrance that floats behind The flush of his winged retreat; And I, earth's madness above, '.Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath, Have gazed on the luster of lovo In the unveiled face of Death. lint beyond the stars and tho sun I can follow him still on his way, Till tho penrl-whlto gates are won In the calm of tho central day. Far voices of fond acclaim. Thrill down from tho place of souls, As death, with a touch like flume, Uncloses the goal of goals; And from heaven of heaven above Clod spcaketh with butclcss breath My angel of perfect lovo Is the angel men cull Death I Paul II. llayne, in Jarcr's Magailtv. Sandorf's Revenge, A SEQUEL TO MATHIAS SANDOttF AM DOOTOIt A.VTKKIU1T. 13y JTules Verno, AUTHOR OTP "JOUHNKY TO THIS CKNTUB op thus KAimr," " rnw to tup. moon," "AIIOCNU THE WOULD IN KIQUTX DAI'S, " " MICHAWi 8TJ1000KI'," " TWENTY THOUSAND liEAOUUS UNDHU THE BEA," ETC., ETC Xrantlatlotx cQpvrtghted by O. Jr. Ilanna. tsss. CHAPTER X COntinuki). floforo Hvo o'clook the Doctor, Pierre., nnd tho guido, mounted on thoir initios, wore climbing tho eoeoud stugo of tho nHccut tho forest zone. Not (hut tho trees thoro nro humorous for tho wood cutters us overy whom el so nro at work destroying tho nnoionfc forest, which will soon bo no more than 11 niythologio loiiioinbrnuro. Hero mid thurc, how ever, in clumps and groups, a'ong tho Bides of (ho lava Kt renins nnd on tho edgos of tho abysses grow beeohea and cults, nnd. almost blaok-loavod ligs; and thou, fctill higher, Urn and pines and birelips. Even tho cinder mixed with a little mould give birth to largo mosses of ferns, fraxinellas, and millions, rising from a carpet of moss. About o'ght o'clock in tho ovoning (ho Doctor and Pierre ha I already reached tho 11280 feet almost marking tho limit of perpetual snow, which on the flunks of li'na is abnn hint enough to supply nil Italy and Sioily. They woro then in tho region of blnok lavas, cinders, and ecoMro which stretches nway beyond an iminenso crevasse, tho vast olliptio amphitheatre of the Valla del Novo, forming cliffs of from 100J to 3000 foot high, at whoo base lie tho strata of trachyte and basalt which (ho olomouts havo not yot destroyed. In front rose tho oono of tho volcano, on which, bore and there, a fow phane rogams for mod hemispheres of verdure. This eontral hump, which is quito a mountain in itself a Polion on Ossa rises till it reaches an altitiulu of 10,874 foot alxivo tho level of tho sea. Already tho ground trembled uiidor foot. Vibrations caused by tho plutonio laboring ovor present in tho mountains, run boncnth tho patches of buow. Tho oloud of sulphurous vapors drawn down by tho wind from the mouth of the crater, occasionally reached to the base of the ooue, nud a shower ot soonio, like incandescent ookc, fell on iho whitish carpet, whore it hissed as it suddenly cooled. Tho tempornturo was then very low many degrees below zero and respira tion hud boconio diflloult owing to tho rarefaction of tho air. Tho travelers wrapped their cloaks mora closely round them. A biting wiud cut across tho houldor of tho mountain, whirling along tho cnowilnUos it had swept from tho ground. From tho height there could be seen tho mouth whore issuoil tho fnintly-lliokoring llaiuo, and many other seoondary craters, narrow boI fnlaras or gloomy depths, at Uio bottom of which could bo hoard tho roaring of tho subterranean lire u oontiuuous roaring, rising occasionally into n storm, ns if it wcro duo to tin immonso Jtoilor from which tho steam hud forced up tho valves. No eruption was anticipated, liowover, and all this intornnl rago was dijo to tho rumblings of the higher crater and tho eniolatious from the volonulo throats that opeuod out on to the oono. It was Uieu nino o'clook. Tho sky wusrtwplendont with thousands of ntara that the table density of tho utmoaphoro at this altitnuo rendered still mora sparkling. Tho moon's crescent was dip ping in tho west, in tho waters of the jEolinn Sea. On a mountain that was not an nctivo volcano, tho calm of tho night would havo been sublime. "Wo ought to havo arrived," said tho Doctor. "Thero is (ho Casa degli Ingcsi," answered tho guide. And ho pointed to a short wall having two windows and a door, which its post tion had protected from the snow, about fifty paces away to tho left, nnd nearly MOO feet below tho summit of tho con tral zone. Tins was tno house con structed in 1811 by tho English officers then stationed in Sicily. It is built on a plateau, at tho baso of tho larva mass named Piano del Lago. Aoic works nave now uccn com menced by tho Italian government and tho municipality of Cataninf for trans. forming tho Onsa degli Inglesi into an observatory. This house, which is sometimes called tho Casa iEtue.a, after having been kept for a long time by M. Qoniellaro. the brother of tho geologist of that name, had just been restored by tho Alpino Club. Not very far away, thero loomed in tho darkness tho ruiuB of Roman origin known as tho Tower of tho Philosopher. Prom it legend states that Empcdocles was precipitated into tho crater ; in fact, it would requiro a singular doso of philosophy to spend eight hours of Bolitudo in such a spot, nnd wo can quito understand tho net of the celebrated philosopher of Agn- gentum. liowover, Doctor Anfekirtt, Piorro Bathory and tho guido camo up to tho Casa degli Inglesi, and as soon as they reached it they knocked nt tho door, which was opened immediately. A moment afterwards they woro among their men Tho Casa degli Inglesi consists of only threo rooms, with table, chairs, and cooking utensils ; but that was enough for tho climbors of Etnn, after reaching a height of 0109 foot. Till then, Luigi, fearing that tho presenoa of his little detachment might bo sus pected, had not lighted a (Ire, although tho cold was extreme. But now, thero was no need to continuo tho precaution, for Zirono know that tho Doctor was to spond tho night at tho Casa degli Inglesi. Somo wood, found in reservo in tho shed, was therefore piled on tho hearth, and Boon a crackling flamo cavo tho needed warmth and light. Tho Doctor took Luigi apart and asked him if anything had happened since ho arrived. "Nothing," answorod Luigi: "but I nm afraid that our presonco horo is not as Fccret as wo wished. " "And why?" "Beoauso, after wo left Nieolost, if I nm not mistaken, wo woro followed by a man who disappeared just before wo reached tho base of tho cone. " That is a pity, Luigi ; that may pre vent Zirono from having tho honor to Burpriso me 1 Since sundown no ono has been looking round tho Casa degli Inglesi?" "No one, Bi'r," answered Luigi, "wo even look the precaution to nenrcli tho ruins of tho Philosopher's Tower ; there is nobody there." " See that a man is always on guard at tho door I You can see a good way to-night, for it is bo oloar, nnd it is important that we should not bo sur prised." Tho Doctor's orders wero executed, and when ho had taken his place on a stool by the lire, tho men lay down on tho bundles of straw around him. Capo Matifou, however, came up to tho Doc tor; ho looked at him without daring to speak, but it was easy to understand what, made him anxious. "You wish to know what has beoomo of Point Pcscado?" asked tho Doctor. "Patience 1 Ho will return booh, although he is now playing a gnmo that might cost him his neck." An hour elapsed, and nothing occurred (o (rouble tho solitude round tho central oono. Not a shadow appeared on tho shining slopo in front of the Piarro del Lugo. Doth the Doctor and Piorro experienced an impatience, and even an anxiety that they could not restrain. If unfortunately, Zirono had been warned of tho presonco of the littlo detaohmont, ho would never duro to attack tho Casa degli Inglesi. Tho scheme had failed. And yet, somehow, it was necessary to get hold of this accomplice of Saroany, failing Sareany himself. A littlo before ten o'clock, tho report of a gun was heard about half n milo below tho Casa degli Inglesi. Tlioy all wont out and looked about; but saw nothing suspicious, "It was unmistakably a gun!" said Pierre. " Perhaps some one after an eaglo or a boar 1" answered Luigi. "Come in," said tho Dootor, "and keep yourselves out of sight." Thoy went luok into tho house. Hut ten minutes afterwards, tho sailor on guard without rushed in hurriedly. "All bauds 1" ho said ; "I think I can BOO" 'Many of thorn?" naked Piorro. "No, only one 1" Tho Dootor, Pierre, Luigi and Capo Matifou went to tho door, taking care to keep out of sight. They Baw a man bounding along liko a ohnnioia, nud crossing tho linos of old lava which ran alongside the plateau, He was alone, and in a fow bounds ho fell into the arms that were held opou for him -tho ami of Capo Matifou. It was Point l'oo.lo. "Quick I Quick! Under cover, Doo tor I" ho oxohumod. In an iustaut nil wero insido tho Casa degli Inglosi, nud tho door was inuuodi ately shut "And Zirono?" asked (ho Dootor, " what ha become of him ? You havo had to leave him ?" "Yea, to waru youP " Is ho not coming ?" "In tweuly minutes ho will bo hore." "So much the bettor." "Not so much tho worso 1 I do not know how ho wai (old that you had first Bout up a dozen muu." "Probably by tho mouutaiueor that fallowed us I' said Luigi. "Anyhow, ho knows it," answered Pesc.ulo, "and ho saw that you woro trying to git him m a Imp. "Ho will coino then !" said Piorro. "Ho is coming, Mr. Pierre! but to tho dozen recruits ho had from Malta thero has been added tho rest of the band, como in this very moruiug to Santa Grotta." "And how many bandits arc thoro T asked tho Doctor. "Fifty," replied Pcscado. Tho position of tho Doctor nnd his littlo band, consisting of tlio eleven sailors, Luigi. Pierre, Capo Mntifou nnd Point Pcscado sixteen against fifty- was rntner alarming ; and if anyth.ng was to bo done, it should bo dono imme diately. But in tho first pre, tho Doctor wished to know from Pscado what had happened, and thi3 is vhat ho was told : That morning Zirono had returned from Catania, where ho had passod tho night, end ho it was whom tho Doctor had noticed prowling about tho gardens of tho Villa Bellini. When ho returned to Santa Urotta ho found a mountaineer who gavo him tho information that a dozen men, comitiR from different direc tions, had occupied tho Casa degli inglosi. Zirono immediately understood how matters lay. It was no longer ho who was trapping tho Doctor, but tho Doc tor who was (rapping him. Point Pes- cade, however, insisted that Zirono ought to attack tho Casa degli Inelesi. assuring him that the Malteso would Boon fiettlo the Doctor's littlo band. But Zirono remained none the les undecided what he should do, and the urgency of Point Pescado appeared so suspicious, that Ziroue gave orders that he shoiild. bo watched which I'escadc easily nnd immediately discovered. It is probable that Zirono would have given up his idea of carrying off tho Doctor had not his band been reinforced nliout three o'clock in tho afternoon. Thon, with lilty men under his orders, ho no longer hesitated, and leaving Santa Grotta with all his followers ho advanced on tho Casa degli Inglosi. Point Pescado saw that tho Doctor and his peoplo woro lost if ho did not warn them in time, so as to let them escape, or at least put them on their guard. Ho waited until tho gang were in sight of the Casa degli Inglesi, the position of wh'oh ho did not know. Tho light shining in the window ren dered it visiblo about nino o'clock, when ho was loss than two miles off, on the slopes of tho cone. As soon as ho saw it, Point Pescado sot off at a run. A gun was fired at him by Zirono tho one that was heard up at the Casa but it missed him. "With his acrobatic agility ho was soon out of range. And that is how ho had arrived at tho house only about twenty minutes in ndvauco ol Ziroue, CHAPTER XT. TOR FIOHT ON MOUNT .lTTXA. Whon Point. Pescado had told his story a clasp from the Doctor's hand thanked him for what ho had done. Tho next question was how to foil tho brig ands. Toleavotho Casa degli Inglesi aud retreat in tho middle of tho night down tho Hunks of tho volcano, with Zirono and his peoplo knowing every footpatli and every refuge, was to ex poso themselves to eompleto destruc tion. To wait for daylight to entrench themselves and defend themselves in tho house would be a far more ndvanta gious plan. Whon tho day came, i( they had to retreat , they could at least do so in broad daylight and would not go out like blind men down tho preci pices and Bolf.i'aris. Tho decision was therefore to remain and fight The preparations for tho defenco iinme diatelv commenced. Aud first the two windows of tho Casu degli Inglesi had to be closed and their abutters th inly fastened down. As embrasures thero were tho openings between whero tho rafters of tho roof rested on (ho front wall. Each man was provided with a lepeating riilo and twenty cartridge. The Doctor, Piorro and Luigi could assist with their revol vers, but Capo Matifou had only his nrms, nnd Point Pescado had only hia hands. Perhaps they woro not tho worst armed. Nearly forty minutes parsed and no attempt nt attack was made. Ziiono, knowing that Doctor Antekirtt had been warned by Point Pescado and could not bo Binprised, had possibly abandoned his idea. With fift' men nnder his command nnd all tho advan tages that a thorough knowledgo of tho ground could give him, he had certainly all tho chances on his side. Suddenly, uhout eleven o'clock, the Bsntry reported a nuinlier of men ap proaching in skirmishing order so as to attack tho hut on threo sides tho fourth side, backing on the slopo, nfforded no possible retreat. Tho niauunivro hav ing leon discovered, the door was shut and barricaded, and the men took their posts near the rafters with orders not to tiro unless they wero sure of their object Zirono and his men advanced Blowly aud cautiously, taking advantage of tho cover of Uio rooks to reaoh tho crest of tho Piano del Lago. On tho edgo there wero liraped up enormous masses of trachyte aud basalt, intended probably to protect tho Casa degli Inglesi from being destroyed by tho snow during Uio winter. Having reached tho plateau tho assailants could more easily charge upon the house, break through tho door or wiudows, and by moans of thoir super or numbers carry off tho Dootor uid bis people. Suddenly thero was a report ; a 'ight Fmoko drifted in between tho raftor.s; A man fell mortally wounded. Tho lan dits at once rushed back and disap peared behind the rocks. Profiting by tho uuovenness of (ho ground. Zirono gradually brought his men to tho foot of the Piano del Laso ; but ho did not do bo until a dozen shots had been tired from tho oavus of the Casa degli Inglesi and two more of his associates woro stretched dead on the snow. Zirono thon gavo tho won! to storm, aud nt tho cost of several wounded tho whole band rushed on tho C.isa degli Inglesi. Tho door was riddled with bullets, and two sailors were filigiitly hurt, nud had to stand aside whilo the strugglo grew brisker. With then pikes and hatches tho assailants attempted to break through tho door nnd one of tho windows, and a sortie had to bo undertaken to repel them under an inee.'sant fusilado from all sides. Luigi had his hand pierced by a bullet and Pierre, without tho assist ance of Cape Matifou, would havo been killed by a pike-thrust, had not Hercules seized tho pike and settled its possessor at ono blow. During this sortio Capo Matifou was quite a terror. Twenty times was ho Bhot nt, and not a bullet reached him. If Zirono won, Point Pescado was a dead man, and tho thought of this redoubled his rage. Against such resist ance tho assailants had again to retreat j and the Doctor and his friends returned into tho Casa nnd reuewed their posi tion. "What ammunition have you left?" asked he. "Ten or a dozen cartridges per man," said Luigi. "And what o'clock is it?" "Hardly midnight." Four hours still to daybreak ! Tlio men must be more careful with the ammunition, for somo of it would bo wanted to protect tho retreat at the earliest streak of dawn. But how could they defend the ap proaches, or prevent tho capture of tho Casa degli Inglesi, if Ziroue nnd his band again tried an assnalt? And that is what he did in a quarter of an hour's time, after taking all the wounded to tho rear under shelter of a lino of lava that did duty for an ontrenchment, when the bandits enraged at tho rcaistanc", and drunk with, fury at the sight of live or six of thoir injured comrades, mounted tho ridge and appeared on tho edge of tho plateau. Not a shot was fired as they crossed the open, nnd hence Ziroue concluded that the besieged wero running short of ammunition. The idea of carrying off a millionaire wns just tho thing to excito the cupidity of (ho scoundrels that fol lowed him. Such wns their fury during this attack that they forced tho do'T and tho window, and would havo taken tho house by assault had not a volley point blank killed livo or six of them. They had therefore to return to tho foot of the plateau, not without wounding two of the sailors, who could take no further part in tho fray. Pour or fivo rounds wero all that remained to tho defenders of tho Cava degli Inglesi. Under these circum stances retreat, oven during daylight, had almost become impossible. They felt that thoy were lost if help did not come. But whero could help come from? Unfortunately thev could not expect that Zirono and his companions would give up their enterprise vhilo they wero still nearly forty in number, unhurt, and well armed. They knew that tho besieged would soon bo unablo to replj to their fire, and they returned to tho charge. Sud denly, enormons blocks liko tho rocks of an avalanche camo rolling down tho slope, and crushed threo between them before they had timo to step aside. Capo Matifou had started thn rockB in order to hurl them over tho crest of tho Piano del Lago. But this means of defenco was not enough ; tho heap o( rocks would soon bo used, and the besieged would havo to surrender, or seek helu from outside. TO BE CONTINUT.n. Sturding- Exposure. Another belief shattered! Bees have always been held up before the eyes ol young people as 1 his personification of ministry, aim now i-oiues ;i ii.mii hum probably tinctured with labjr-reforni views -who asserts tliat lliese. cute lit tle insects work but three hours a dav individually, being divided into squads, which relio'vo each other and 1 1ms de ceive ordinary observers into the bo- ief that thev arc putting in a full day s work from sun up to sun down. How ho made the discovery is doubtless de tailed at length, and tlio fact properly sworn to before t-oitio justice of the peaee. At first thought it would sccin an extremely dillicult matter to distin guish any difference between a given number ot woruing noes oi too same pedigree, but tho naturalist no doubt made use of a microscope and has thus been able to note individual differences, the sumo as exist, in the human family, and probably in every animate family on the earth. It may vet be demon strated that bees, ants, caterpil lars, etc., have a language of their own, and perhaps even go to the length of naming thoir chil dren. Tlio old distinction between instinct" anil "reason ' is growing less every day. and tlio time may come when reasoning powers will be ne knowledged as belonging to all, or nearly all, animals and insects except the clam and June llv (also called "May tlv in sonic localities, and "Uroon Bay tlv" in others.) Some scientist will, very likely, mako an exhaustive study of ants ono of thoso days, and demonstrate that they arc not tho industrious.sagacious and provident toilers which (Hey Havo always been ro srarded, and that" Solomon was way oft his base when ho advised the improvi dent man to "(Jo to the ant, thou slug gard, consider her ways and bo wise." This is a great ago for discoveries, and while r.obody wislios to deprivo the ant of his (or her) reputation, if they havo been sailing under false colors, tho sooner they are unmasked the better. Let no guilty ant or Now York alder man escape. VeA'i Suit. A Vulgiu Fellow. "You know Poploy, don't you, Jiggs?" "Yos, I do, saw." "What do you think of him?" "He's a low, vulcraw fullaw, saw, a low, vulgnw fullaw." "What reason havo you for thinking so?" "Whv. saw, hablUi, saw. I am as saulted by pawBons who know him well, that he lives in a sawt ot place caiieu a bawillng house, and dwlnks some how-id Mutl called lawgaw beah that you buy taw five cents a glaws." Town Topics, ROBBING THE INDIANS. Alleged "Ciiln.'Wi'ul Occupation of the Crow Jtescrvntlon by Knvorcd. Cattlemen, Friends or the Accnt. Tho current number of Forest and Stream (New York) contains tlio fol lowing: The Crow Indian reservation includes about 4,500,000 acres of land in west ern Montana south of tho Yellowstone river. Except along the river bottoms it contains liUlo arablo land and no where can farming l.o carried on with out irrigation. But the broad prairies, rolling foothill?, and mountain parks are luxuriant with nutritious grass, and the reservation's advantages as a stock country are unsurpassed. This reser vation is all that is loft to the Crows of the broad lands that once wcro theirs. Here thev livo subsisting on what tho government issues to them, for few of them have made any progress in indus trial pursuits, and there is no gamo left. A few of the Crows have cows wh'ch were issued to them by the gov ernment, and they havo a good many ponies, but they have as yet done hard ly anything toward learning how to till the ground. Over tlio length and breadth of tho reservation the cattlemen's lr rds feed and fatten on the acres which belong to tho Indians. The few cows belong ing to the latter range with the tluiis ands owned by the whites, and are ab sorbed by them. It is the old story of the poor man's ono ewe lamb w'h.ch his r.ch neighbor coveted. The tresspassing of theso catllo on the reservation is expressly .forbidden by the regulations of the Indian depart ment, but under sanction of permits issued by Agent Williamson ton num ber of firms, the practice still continues. Having acquired this foothold, the cat t emeu propose to make still more sure of this great pasture land. They wish to secure it beyond a poradventuro and for all time. "They desire to fasten their grip upon these lands so (irmly that it can never bo loosened. Tins is their plan: They have arranged with the present agent to give them permits to throw their cattle on the reserve. Having secured these permits from Ihc agent, they have turned in the stock in large nunibors and are now taking possession of tho best locations. Tho permits which they have obtained rover the best agricultural and grazing lands on the reserve, and on these lands the cattlemen are building permanent im provements, wh'ch will enable them to hold the land should tho reservation ever bo thrown open to the public and to Llutl oil actual settlors. Among tlio firms and individuals who arc alleged to have succeeded in get ting permits to throw cattle on the re serve are the following: Briggs & Ell s, renewal of permit to graze cattle on the reservation, at 50 cents per head; llosk ns & MeUirl, permit to graze bulls on the reservation when not needed with the cows that graze north of the Yellowstone; Ash, permit to graze a small band of cattle on the reservation. It is believed that there is no law for this permit .system wh'ch is being car ried out by Agent Williamson, and that any cattleman has as much right to turn his cattle on the reservation as( those who have these permits. It is stated by tlioso who aro perfect ly familiar with Hie reservation that Nelson Storey, of llozeinan, is building a permanent ranch on the reservation near Pry or mountains, and that he has a permit to graze his cattle on the re serve. Whether he has such permit or not his cattle are there by thousands. So also are thoso belonging to I. K. 1) llworth, making with those of Storey perhaps twenty thousand in all. Last winter and spring they dotted the whole country between I'ryor river and the western boundary of the reserve. Storey had then a hay ranch and cor rals bn Clark's fork. Several of the cattlemen have boasted that thoy havo tho reservation securely in their power. It is not only the cattlemen who aro encroaching on the reservation, for Thomas Barry, a sheepman of Hock Creek, stated last spring that he had a permit to graze his hand of 0,000 on tlic reservation up to June. On tho south, a cattleman of Wyo ming, II. C. Lowell, whose stock ranges on Sage creok and Stinking Water, takes advantage of his prox imity to the reservation to graze his cattle there, too. As the case stands at present, tho eatt'enien seem in a fair way to gain absolute control of tho res ervation. This control will not benefit the Indians, who are at present una ware of this state of things aud would strenuously object were they not de ceived in the matter, and when tho timo comes for throwing open the reserva tion tho dcsirablo locations will be found to be all occupied by the cattlemen, who will find somo means of hold. ng on to them. Tho people and press of tho Yellowstone valley aro very silent on this matter, for the great cattle linns interested have too much iufiuonco to be openly resisted. The greator portion of tho reserva tion is now under tho control of tho cattlemen. The Crows receive littlo or nothing in return, certainly not enough to pay thoin for the risk to their own "small bands of cows nnd horses which are certain to be ab sorbed by the herds of tho whito men. The reservation should not bo thus tak en away from the Indians without thoir consent and handed over to the con trol of tho rich cattle linns, who. if thoy onco fairly beconio established in it, will with difficulty be removed. A searching investigation of this whole matter ought to lie instituted by the interior department. If tho agent lias any authority lor issuing thoso per mits it ought to be at onco removed, and tho agent too. Ho Soared Above It. "Hello Jim," said a gontloman to a friend whom ho met on the top of a mountain; "what on earth aro you do ing away up here?" Wolf, ou seo, for many years I havo beon 'under a oloud' in Chicago, and I thought 1 would get out from under it, if but for an hour, to seo how It seems, so I came up hero, and am last above thb cloutls." National Weekly Knowledge With Intelligence. A man may have intelligence, and can scarcely bo without knowledge. A man may havo a good deal of knowl edge and hardly have much intelligence. We seo multitudes coining out of our colleges every year with a good deal of knowledge and very littlo common sense. We seo men that have plunder ed right and left through the wholo of history and in all directions; but they aro not intelligent men after all. They do not know what to do with it, and they aro no more rich in knowledge than the ass that carries gold from tho mine to the mint is a rich ass. But where ono has both intelligence and knowledge and whore ho is growing in them both, that is a transceiidently noble thiiir. It is said, in the eager ness of sonic men for religion, that in telligence, or education, without re ligion, is prejudicial; and it has even been said that intelligence without re ligion is educated vice. Truth is sacri ficed here to a phrase. It is the di rect tendency of intelligence and knowledgo to produce morality. I aver, without fear of contradiction, that if you take the statistics of vice and of terrible crime you will find that by far the largest number of those that have stumbled on the threshold of life and aro ruined for life wcro men with out knowledge and without any reason able degree of education. Thoy are poor, ignorant creatures, that have fol lowed "their passions. I declare that education, or the development of the knowing parts of a man, gives to him so large a view of tho field of life that ho is more likely to s"e that morality is safety, than if he were ignorant; and that the general fact stands proved that intelligence and knowledge tend on the whole by immense measure toward goodness, respectability, virtue and morality. So that if we shall grow in knowledgo and grow in aptitude for in telligence and knowledge, we shall make a long stride away from animal ism and from the dangers that beset the passions and tho appetites of human life. Thero is, therefore, in our great land, a good deal of reason why we should bring to bear on nil classes of men tho sweaty laborer of the farm, the dusty men at the smith- or in the in no, everywhere, up and down, through society we should evhort men to abate their passions and to learn pleasure out of tho development of in tellect and knowledge. There is no reason in this land why men should be ignorant except original limitations of capacity. Wo are a reading people, and if wo were a thinking people in the same ratio with which we read wo should bo a very wise people. The food for knowledge was never so abundant. Henry Ward Bcccher. How to Toll Counterfeits. The United States Treasury Depart ment has, of late years, adopted for bonds and currency, a peculiar papor described below, and which is deemed a stronger protection against counter feiters than that used by the Bank of England, which has recently been dan gerously counterfeited in X'50, 100 and 500 notes. As the first issue of greenbacks, which were not printed on liber paper, wcio most dangerously counterfeited, but havo almost wholly disappeared from circulation, therefore, receive them with great caution, or refuse them if in doubt about their genu neness. All other genuine greenbacks, gold and silver certificates and later issues of national bank notes are printed on the government fiber paper; the first kind'with the liber distributed in short pice 's, localized with a blue tint, de tected by picking it with a pen; tho other wi'th the liber in two parallel threads, red and blue silk, running lengthwise through the note, seen by holding the note up to the light. The public aro cautioned not to draw theso threads out of the paper. If in doubt about tlio genuineness of any bank note in the report refuse it unless printed on government fiber paper. All national bank notes not in this report are gennne, whether printed on government paper or not. The counterfeit S10 and $20 silver certificates are not on government pa per. Somo of tho cotintcrfo't $5. $10 and $20 greenbacks (series of 1875) and 50 and $500 (series of 18G9) are an imita tion distributed fiber paper. Very dan gerous. These are all the counterfeits on the now greenbacks worth noticing. Bettor refuse all twenties, fifties and one hundreds, on the banks in this re port, unless printed on the government paper. All gonuino bank notes, having brown back and seal, have both kinds of the liber papor combined; while the counterfeit 10, on tho Third National Bank of Cincinnati. O., and the photo grapio counterfeit $5, on tho First Na tional Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., have no fiocr. These two are the only coun terfeits on tho Brownbacks., Bettor refuso all pieced notes. All United States currency having a brown soal has the parallel threads or cables. All United States currency printed sinco lbG9 is on government fiber pa por. Thoro are in circulation a great many vor dangerous counterfeit $10 greenbacks, dated 1875. All tho gen uine of that date aro on distributed fiber paper. Strength and Diet The Roman soldiers, who built -such wonderful roads and carried such a weight of armor and luggage that would crush tho average farm hand, lived on coarso brown bread and sour wine. They wero temperate in diet, regular ' and constant in exercise. The Spanish ' peasant works every day and dances half (ho night, yet eats only his black bread, onion and watormolon. The Smyrna porter eats only a littlo fruit and souiio olives. Ho eats no beef, pork or mutton, yet ho walks off with his load of 800 po'unds. The coolie, fed on rice, Is more nctivo and can endure moro than the negro fed on fat meat. Tho heavy work of tho world is not done by men who eat the greatest Quantity. Tho fastest or longest-winded horse Is not the biggest eater. Moderation In dlot seems to be tho prereqiusito for endurance.
