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.