1 i 1. i " ' caskl.' Belle. t at the teacbe tUU sat '.erable toceao. LtuD are food c-ooufli j h f r ie. -V" . x 0e ia i t tt. lair tuTi luti'iti lit ei from morning to 1 ,r t al. . e thin fa. a, fraud. - . I i tn t ui I, p r -n 8.M i thf ir swirl. ,ii j oiir mn ai a biro to girt. vant'cfVean is -a popular ocean, .". i t n 1 i r tiie .a. .-. i w ;' .mt mf-o u a J ull kind of thing-, r. s ro k ; !i it of ocoa n tor me. : i en i-r tin en-.w or the sunset gea : iii.mil annus laoe of light: c n i ! or lw n nth the moon'B ray e never a man in sight. $ i ' - ' . and the 0imie. It . ii i n, 1 in afraid. 'ii a u.u i man area Uoreto a ma! J. . i.. oi in n a good enough ooean, vv fi v it rti-tsi e- u tut ; uiing man and all that sort i.il uinjif ..-.- ' ' ' r 1- 1 ot cnxin for me. it to tot ts e sung of tbe sett. ( v t- Wi 1 sinjj; it a i lit -e si rvu-tiuf boach and no man within U:-,! . , - i a verv luirabrttmsthiuf. J--"1' . a:,.! t t.e summer t-otol. i mi tne eui-1 ami tiie swell, Vi Ui-out a toung roan are a bore to a belle. tv. Kus. la Yankee Blade. BRIGHT-EYES. it was in the month of June ' that V. riiLt-Eves, the Indian girl, who had ! ; a brought up by the old backwoods man, baas rarker, and his wife, as thus i" t's-ti child, went out into the woods to r.it her blaeberries. I here had been a fire in the woods i . t v, icier, and where it ran the 1 3 pew thick. When Bright i s til rilled her mils she would v, k down iato the village and go caR- - irttn house to house, "tsemes, i i it terries! who wants nice blue- t?mfs?" until she had disposed of them I. At.d what with the berries nd --afrw bark. which she sold to th . - :it, and wiatersrreen and cala u us ioot, and nuts in autumn, and 1 1 r little bead-work baea, there was ' i a s.v pnoufh to tmt bv to buv Briffht I . ci ht-r gray calico frocks, shoes for r i.r vrettv reet, yarn tor her stoctmrs. arsd those little stisl straw hats, which she trimmed with the gray wings of the turas that i atcer arker snot at umes. iiirht-efes was very independent, and icuaer oi sivms man recsjiving. To-dar. the berries bein? so thick. she bad a great harvest, and high noon had come and it was time that she went, home, tidied herself, and went .lown to the Tillage to be in time for the housekeepers who wanted berries for tea: when, as she gathered t.: her pails, slinging them to a sort of yoke she plaeed upon her nect, sne 3rd a ptosb hard bv. and after some search found a man lying among the underbrush, bleeding "from a terrible wound in his shoulder and apparently nest his end. ' " I he I.rst thiusT linsM-i-ves did was to stanch the wound as well as she eouUf. with certain herbs of which she toe a-, and bind it with her apron the t.- l ItJ ll'J 1UL 3.1U. In a little- time the old woodsman and his men arrived, and together they bore the wounded stransrer to their hmnp. 'llie rough, self-taught surgeon of iLe laee attended him: the 'bullet .v;H extraeted, the fever allaved . l h:i the, man had accidentally shot l! nisei t itad twn seif-evuleut from the v;?st and it was certain that h.td not L4right-Eye3 found h'tnf in the"-voods he ivoiiid have bled to death In a , very tie swrnisl jrratwiil. and not avers to cjirfiii'' his ft'elinjrs. Oi'l I'.u kt r, as he expressed it. 'took a shine to him." -, - -1 tiit!r!j lies a citv chap anil a college feihjw! bt& said, "he don't pnt The name he "ave them was Charles "Grahatn, and he would gladly have eomnensated his host for all the trouble aoif 'e"Xfenie fie hcid.Jjeen at. lint that itt the far west, at. that date, the thought of receiving paynient for saeh inmsrs was never entenaineu "sUv as long as vou like: we'reglad to liave von," r!sl Parker said, and Graham lingered.' I hat Brigat-Kvea was the attraction ft so.o verv evident. More tiiaa one man of the place had siisrrk-d an Indian girl, aod Bright Eves was a Christian and went to the iiltie church on Sunday, and drr-ss and had the wavs wore the of white - ' K'll. Moreover, site was lieautiiul h i it-rt-d at bis fanev. No one 1 no girl gave him her whole heart i! d sold; and when in the autumn he i i!'Uar, He supped a brignt ring v a jel ia it upon the girl's finger -lit'tore the snow fall I w til return s. f miiTV von." He left a!o many presents. Stuffs s .'re t-nstiv Itian tsnght-Kves liad ever woi n. iud the sir! set to work to fash- t ii thru into garments which she ,'. '.' 1 wear when she was his wife. iWt the snows eame and he returned nut: crr did an v message . come from n ril. And ieopie began to whisper when t -!4;e of the Indian girl, and to i..v tf. it ait the teaching on earth wou!4 not change a savagre; at last i': iLt-i-es held in her ai'ms a little , ' it Kinned balje, with it3 white latner's features and itslndian mother's 1 he olt people were not cruel to her. '1 s.ey tid not drive her foilh. But i..- iiimning thev awoke to find her S It , 1 will not staj' to disgrace you .',e li-iit written on a piece of paper Tirn-i to her pillow, .'-ion have been i good to me. Good-by." As fi,!' Charles Graham, he iiad bv 'J time almost forgotten the pretty Ii'.I,.n girl who had amnsed him that ujinnier In the wnods. and thought her Vi'ineu wen paid .tor in tne silk eses and the handful f trinkets he 3 given her. mieti-mes he said to himself: "She prettv creaturer' and laughed K That was all. brevery man one true 1VT comes It was not long beforFtJliarles "rnol his fate! One of his-own 'dy.- beautiful and attractive. ... i her heart to him, and whom ry happy with his Mar- pr her sake resolved to live Je'rk For Tier sake aVo, he de- rich. jlSF&ng ago. - The spirit of emi- jon wiJibroad at that time. From eastern bNtes thonsands went forth . .... tiie lar wesr-ui . search ot lortnne. r iriad. fertile lands were ready for them. Cities yet unbuilt were marked i ;ori great maps. With energy every i in conk! prosper, it was said. i ivim witn tins idea Charles Graham i.l his bride joined the throng. The ,Niine was neither easy nor pleasant i.utSjiev were full of hope, and the itiern-t of the long, caravan-like pro tt ioij- with its covered wagons, miuttitedNtien. and led horses, that day v 1 iy went farther and farther west--rd. ."i . Xt iiit ui.e evening they found them s .ies i.pon the verge of an Indian iM.-r,ieiit and though the very naeKS of Indian Was associated iu the mind of i, r ,'i'le settler with" treachery,, tbe tiTui were. all propitious. The gray I, .jvd (hkfs came forfhjq ueet them, i .e spiaws ofltered them corn and fish itiiif fmit.. The music of reed-flutes uud of laughter tilled the village as the Moon arose-. All seemed to speak of - Vice and plenty. Aary ith long sojourn in the . on Charles GrahamVivif reclined upon a . blanket spread under some great trees, ; and her husbaud sat le s"ide her. . A little half-breed boy who had bet-it plating at his mother's koee camp t C!:m;!ijr to her. and she took him in her arms and kissed him. As she did so the . tnutjier approached and stood bwikitig down upon them. Mie wore a liiank' i. and, with tt eeintd to shiidd tier f:iee. either In modesty or elijues. But she made friendly gestures. And a bov to whom sh HH-koned interpreted what she said to him. She asks the while suuaw who loves her little boy to sleep in her tent to night, and to eat tirst of her food in its shelter." Margaret Graham was delighted with the invitation. -..-- Conic. she said to her husband, "tt will lie something to remember in the futnm." " ' i Thev arose ami followed the woman to the tent. " " Within its shelter a feast was spread. The viands were tempting and the rreat calibashes were tilled with a lelifMtely flavored drink. This the woman, still veiling her lace, pressed umn .Charles Graham. lie drank rather t gratify tier than liecaiise he likinl it. and soon a drowsy feeling stole over him. his hands dropped to his sides, and he slumbered. . Hour after hour passed in obliviou. But at last a restfutness began to fall upon him; strange visions passed athwart his brain scenes of his early vouth. faces forsrotten for years, and for the tirst time iu his life he dreamed of Bright-Eyes, the Indian girl who had saved "his life and loved him there in the old woodman's home among the western forests. She stood before him. smiling into his face. He slipped a shining ring on her, brown tiuger. "Before the snow falls I will come back to marry you."' be said. 'Come soon;" come soon," she an swered, "for you are my all; my life, mv soul, my everything." 'With these words in his ears Charles Graham awoke, and, sitting up. gazed about him. The light of dawn was struggling through an aperture of the tent, the remnants of the feast lay before him. Beside him on the rug "lay his wife, closely wrapped in a blanket. How still she lay? He did not wish to disturb her. but she was so motion less that she alarmed him. He put forth his hand she did not stir. He flung back the blanket-from her face she Ta)- before him, dead. A great wound In her bosom, her face gashed in many places, and scalped, and tied by a thocg to her neck was a ring with a bright stone in it. and- a piece of paper on which was written: "So I return tt to 3-ou. An Indian woman can revenue herself. 1 have rone where you cannot find me. BRIG HT-EY Ei" There were strong, desperate men among those emigrants. As they listened to the hideous tale their com rade told,-, wrath took possession of them. They put no faith in the pro testations of sorrow made by tne In dians, and they were many and well armed. " . Before nightfall there remained of that peaceful little village nothing but a heap of ashes, among which lay the bodies of its men, women, and child ren. The massacre was complete. Several emigrants were wounded, but only one killed outright it was Charles Graham. They found him gashed with wounds, lying beside the body of his murdered wife. There they buried them, heap ing the stones high above the grave, and left them sadly it was a day no man cared to re member. But later, when the moon was risen, there came to the spot an Indian woman, with a half-breed child in her arms. In her eyes were no tears of pity or of sorrow. She stopped before the cairn of stones, and spurned it with her foot. "So perish all betrayers,- she mut tered, and taking her boy upon her shoulders, stalked awav across the prairie. Family Story Paper. CENTRAL AFRICAN COOKERY. Queer and Palatable Uishea Eaten With out Hath Cenmonf, As a rule onlv one principal meal is eaten in Central Africa, in the early part of the evening. It usually con sists of parrot soup, roasted or stewed monkeys, alligator eggs (also well liked by Europeans), and birds o every aesenption. iney aiso nave rnoambo, or-palm chops, and fish. A great - delicacy, so considered by Europeans and natives alike, is ele phants feet and trunk. These have somewhat the taste of veal. To pre pare them the natives dig a hole about live feet deep in the sand and in it build a large tire. After the sand ia thoroughly healed the fire is removed, leaving only the ashes in the hole. The trunk and feet are placed in this hole and covered with leaves, and after wards with hot sand. In two hours they are done. All carcasses of. animals w hich are to be cooked are placed on a block of wood and pounded until every bone is broken, care beirg taken not to tear or bruise the skin. They are then boiled or roasted on an open wood tire or in hot sand or ashes, w ithout remov ing the hide or feathers. The cooking is of a very inferior grade, the only spices used being salt and pepper. The kitchen utensils consist of common earthen or wooden ware. Very little time is taken for setting or decorating the table; knives, forks and napkins are dispensed with. Africans have several vegetables well liked by Europeans. K'gntti n'sengo is a dish eaten all over Africa. It consists of egg plant, small fish, somewhat like our sardines and the roots of the cassava or raanioca plant (called n'gutti), which have a knotty appearance and often weigh as much as twenty pounds. As the latter contains poison, the manioca is soaked in water for three to four days to extract the poisonous substance. It is then cut and sliced and small tomatoes are added. All is placed. in a vessel with water and seasoned with salt and pepper and boiled. Moambo, or, as the Europeans call it, palm chops, is a'so a favorite dish. , The palm nuts are first boiled in water until the pulpy substance loosens from the jit, then the shell, which contains a very delicious oil, is placed in a wooden mortar and crushed to obtain the oil. Whatever the meal consists of, meat, fish, mnstels, is put In a vessel, adding the oil and the pulpy part of the palm nut, also red pepper and salt, and is boiled. Roast or boiled squash (loenge) is generally eaten with it. Sweet potatoes (m'balla benga) are more farinaceous and sweeter than ours, but do not tasie so good. They are boiled or roasted. Bananas (bitaebe) weigh about half a pound each and are about 15 inches long. . When half ripe they are cut in slices and boiled in water with salt and pepper. i'sensi is a little .red bean, w.hich is boiled in water without salt or pepper, and is freely eaten. For peanut bread (chisnlu)the peanuts are first roasted and then crushed. This, mass is then rolled and put into the skin of a banana, adding a little pressure, form ing it into a body. It readily retains this shape from the pressure of the oily substance in the peanut. A Sumter ""county. Gofcrgia, man recently killed scyen wild turkeys in three shots'. " Three birds were killed at the first swot, "and two each at the econd and third sh'ci7 ' - - MlSSIXd LINKS, Stanley's favorite .btHkiu Africa were the Bible nnd Tennyson. Rider Haggard hears n certain facial resemblance "to the young Emperor of Germany. Col. Ingefsoll believes thill when ho lives through February he W safe for the rest 'of the year. The Rev. Ir. Storrs says that the principal duty of the college President those days is'to get money for the col lege. ' Mrs. Theodore Irving, the founder of the order of King's Daughters, is the widow of a. nephew of Washington Irving. Husrh'Mi-Leod. a Scotch crofter liv ing in 'County Ross. 'is galled the old est mau in Great Britain. His ag- Is 10t years. Bertha von Hillerii, the German artiste, is said to have made a jhU of money by speculations in Virgini.i real estate. Mrs. Morilla M. Ridker, the first wo man admitted to the New Hampshire bar, never receives a retainer or ac cepts a fee. Marion Crawford, the uovelist, has command of eleven languages, besides the ancient Sanscrit.in which he is fair ly well versed. Mrs. Robert Purvis and John Green leaf Whittier are said to be the only survivors of the founders of the Anti Slavery Soeietj". W. D. Howella wants newspaper writers to sign their articles. He says that a man writes w ithout conscience when he writes without a signature. All employes of the New Jersey Cen tral Railroad have been notified that they must abstain from the use of in toxfeating liquors while on or off duty. Lord Randolph Churchill does not regard himself with great favor. His political life, he thinks, has been a fail ure, and racing has leen more In his line. Dr. Gatling, of Hartford. Conn., the inventor of the'famous gun, is a com paratively old man. but Tie still keeps busily at work with his plans and con ceptions. George R, Graham, for years the ed itor of Graham's Magazine and the early publisher of Toe and of other celebrities, is yet alive, upwards of 80 years of age. The Rev. Joseph Parker of Loudou now preaches one minute sermons aft er his more elaborate efforts. He di rects these brief discourses to some particular class. Colored Cadet Whittaker from West Point, he of the clipped ears, is turn ing his opportunities to good advant ages by teaching a colored military col lege at Sumter. S. C John Greenleaf Whittier has atteud ed the little Frieud's church in Ames btiry. Mass.. where ha lives, for a pe riod of fifty years, but has never been known to ' -s'peak in meeting. " Mr. William Astor of New York en joys an income of $23,593 a day. Mr. John D. Rockefeller's amounts to $1S. 715. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's to $15. 000, and Jay Gould's to $7.4."0. Capt. 'Tillman, the leader of the fanners movement in South Carolina, owns 1,800 acres of land, runs iweiify plows, and lias a dairy supplied by forty thoroughbred Jersey cows. Richard Cannifhnnl, a well-to-do farm? r of Qtirien A:3'' C vinty. Mary land, has kept adj .. f u shim years, and it shows that it has iuvaiiubly raincd on the 2Cth of July during that 'lime. - ' "Ir.- Norviu Green,- the President of the Western Union 'Telegraph cotn oany. looks about 60, Is tall and na "nuuly. with grizzled whiskers, a face like parchmeut, and general gnarlod nd knotty air. M. Stambouloff. the Premier and practical ruler of "BqJgaria, is about iS . . '' . i . years old. He is short and rather stout, and with his round face, black mustache, and small gray eves some what resembles the Chinese. Mrs. Edison, the great electrician's wife, is a woman of 24. whose grace ful figure is a trifle above the average height. She has brown hair, hazel eyes, a clear olive complexion, aud is an unusually pretty woman. A voting Russian noble, the Bareness Lonbanowski. is going to ride from St. Petersburg to Odessa. l.oOO miles, to win a bet and break lhe record which was set some years ago by the Aus. trian Archduchess Maria Theresa. Mr. Andrew Carnegie will spnd more of his time in Englaud and Scot land than he has been in the habit of doing. He has taken a house in the south of England, in addition to Clunv Castle, in Scotland, which he has rent ed for the season. Senator Gorman is said to be the handsomest mau in the United States Senate. He is a Presbyterian and one of the few members of the Upper iiouse who pay sumcient respect to the Chaplain's praver to be present when it is uttered, tie has been nicknamed "Cardinal." Secretary Seward is credited with having made the remarkable predic tion during the dark days in tbe war that the Capital would be removed not to Chicago or St. Louis, but to the City of Mexico, which "will probably be the center of population of the United States one of these days." Mrs. Gen. Grant says she first met the General in 1844, and they were married in 1848. She has many of the letters written by him during the days of 'their courtship, and while she re gards these in their entirety as too sa cred for the public eye. she will make extraets from them for her book of reminiscences of her famous husbaud. John Greenleaf Whittier. the gentle Quaker poet, says: "Our dear society seems changing and becoming more and more like the Calvinistic and other dissenting churches, both in doctrines and testimonies. But the good work it has done aud the simple exterior of its life in the past will not be forgot, by tbe world it has made bettor and sweeter. Mr. J. E. Wingate of Houltou, Mo., has some very ancient family heir looms in his possession, among which are a powderliorn bearing date 1769, which went through the French and Indians wars and the Revolutionary War; a copy of commentary fin tho Bible, printed in London in 1677; and a pair of razors over one hundred years old. Mr. Conkling. though he generally knew the author of a chance quotation, was positively annoyed if he could not find the name. He" was never weary of discussing these three great and ab sorbing theme". Napoleon's destiny, Mary Stuart's life, and Byron's poetry. He alwajs declared that the lovely Scottish queen was his first love, and that she still smiled at him across 800 years. Mabel Jenness will be glad to learn that Muie. Dieblafoy, the well-known Persian archaeologist and novelist, rides her horse like a man, even in the streets of Paris. She acquired the male habit by donuing it in her jour neying and excavations with her dis tinguished husband, and now she likes it so well that if she puts it off iu the evening she usually puts it on again In the morning. Miss Mattie Hester U the United States mail carrier over lhe route froni Condar, Laurens County, to Lothair, Montgomery County. Gii.. a distance of forty miles through a sparsely set tled region, wleh stu traverses three times u week. S!a drives her own mail-cart, eaijrtes a revolver, and is punctual as the sun at alt seasons and in all weather. Beside transporting the mails, sh mamiges a farm, gets otlr lumber, splits fence rails, and con trives to sniiport a widowed mother. Hvw younger sisters, and u brother, w bile slm is ti't el id j ears of ago. RATTLERS CM BLUE TOP. A Farjr wli.i I'hIcIih TIiiii and Keep Them In llo'.low !."K. The Sustpteanna River rises in Central New Yor': and, flowing southward, enters the north-western corner ol Pen nst lvania. near Great Bend. Sus queha'una county, and taking a west ern course, follows ciosen i lie ixhi no li rv line of the two Stales. Ranges of hills, rising almost to tin dignity of mouglains. skirt its banks on i-itiiei sidu and present a rough, ragged, and rocky surface, so that cultivation is is almost out of the question; but wild and hilly and bart on as It was in many parts, the pioneers ot tne country, in tent bh securing homes and farms and a living somewhere ia that region, foiiuit-here and there a valley and a running stream aud a tlat place where they could plant a house aud clear up a few acres of land for farming. Among those streams is one named Snake Creek, which rislug lu a beantiful lake near Montrose meanders through a valley and finds iia way into lhe Sus quehanna about twelve miles from the lake In which it rises. This creek was so named by tho early settlers because of the fact that, w hile bears and wolve and other ferocious beasts wero Tory numerous In all that region, snakes were conspicuously more numerous. Oue of the highest hills, whoso head rises well lip into the blue, was named Blue Top, because of the large and luscious blue whortleberries were found on k In large quantities. The large rattlesnake wm found there, as heb? to-day, neatly as plentiful as the ber ries, and in the season of ripe berries he is exceedingly restive aod hostile to all intruders, A few days since, as a large party was ascending the uiouuiaiu, one o their number called attention to an object ahead of tiiein stretched across the road. As they approached nearer it turned out to lie a "monstrous rattle snake sunniug himself. Tho men got clubs and made an attack. For some time he fought, striking at them fur iously and Sashing his snaky eyes and darting his forked toward them, but he finally was killed. It "was ascertained that he had twenty-two rattles, and ueasured 6. feet 2 inches. On Snake Creek, a few miles abovr its month, an old nan of the name ol Chalkcr lives all alone who is so familiar with the snakes that by com inoo consent he is called Snake Chalker. His large farm lies along the creek, ex. tending up on either side to the very top of the hills. On one occasion, while passing that way, the writei hitched his horse at his gato and went in to see him. Hanging up all around the old-fashioned fireplace I observed what appeared to lie dressed eels, pre paring for the table. They were ex ceptionally large of their kind, and 1 asked where he caught Mich large eels. 'Eels?" said he. "Those are my rattlesnakes." "And whatureyou goiug to do with them?" . "Eat them. They are much finet than eels." Passing toward his back door, he said: "Couie out and see what I have in the yard." "Vou see these tubs, as I call them. in wnicn i fceeD them. These are hollow log sawed off about ten feet long, burned out aod made smooth in side, so the snakes cau't get out. 1 place one end of the log, or tub, abont five feet in the ground. I then pat tbe snakes down about twenty or thirty In each tub, and keep them, feeding them every day until I want to use them. Suakes, you know, come out of their dens on warm, pleasant days and lie on the rocks to sun themselves. I cut a small stick with a short crotch at one end. I approach them quietly. and placing the crotch on the snake's necK noid u priuiv down until I put a stout pin through his Hps. Then twisting it about so he can't open his moutn or bite, 1 nil my pockets, or a basket, and take tiiein home and re plenish mv tubs. When I want a snake to eat or sell I slip, a noose over his head and bring him up." A. I. Sun, HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? The Tiny C.n Buried Beneath Maaaea of Lilies and Pale Itoaebnda. The fur.eral processiou comes slowly along lhe street, says the Petroit Free ly-ess. Prawn by two milk-white ponies, the little white hearse with its nodding white plumes moves on. Up on its snowy, silken curtains, buried beneath great masses of lilies aud pale rosebuds, rests a tiny white coffin. All is white as purely white as the little souL that has flitted away from the waxen baby form Iring within the coflin. At the street corner stands a crowd of noisy boys, tossing a ball back and forth among them. The crush of the passing wheels falls upou their ears, aud, looking up, the bail is dropped, the loud shouts hushed, as each boy doffs his cap and stands in mute rever ence while the little white hearse passes by. A street car conies rumbling along the track, the bell upon the horse's neck jingling and clanging upon the air. The driver sees before him the little hearse, with its fiower-strewn burden, and feels his strong heart throb beneath his rough jacket. Tbe brakes are down, the bell hangs silent upou the horse's neck, while the driver w ith bowed head thinks of his baby boy, whose ruby lips he kissed to-day at parting, and thanks God that no flower-decked colli n lid hides away his laughing face, The passengers look out and the women whisper with a sigh: "Some mother's eyes have look ed their last upon her babv." Amid the grime and dust of the street a long row of laborers delve with bent form in the earth beneath. The roll of wheels Is heard, the weary bodies are lifted in vague curiosity. and each toil-hardened face softens as the little white hearse goes on its way to the grave. So on, bv merry girls, who check their gay laughter; by stern-browed men, who forget for a moment the mighty problem of money and trade and ambition, and give a lleetin thought to lhe world where the baby has gone, and where this remorseless struggle for wealth and fame and power will count for naught; on, on through the ranks of the weary and toil-ladeu, who gaze and sigh for the rest the babv has found, the little white hearse goes, teaching its lesson of love, of pity and of rest. Beating Dollars Into Oold-Leaf. There is a firm iu Cincinnati which each vear beats 21.000 gold dollars in to gold-leaf, aod as each dollar can be beaten into a sheet that will carpet two rooms sixteen and one-half feet square some idea may be formed of its tenu ity. It requires 1.400 of gold-leaf to equal in th.ckness a sheet of writing paper, and takes 280,000 of them, piled one uion the other, to equal an inch in thickness. A RIDE THAT RAISED HAIR. How the l'ueoirer nn a wild Kngln Wr Sated hy an Oltetl Track. "Talk about fast time." said a rail road mau on the Missouri Pacific train the other day to his companions, "but I have never heard of atrip that would beat otio I made myself some j ears ago, nor of any Imlf so excltin""-. I formerly lived at. Garrett, lnd.t the terminus of the central divison of tho Chicago division or the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.. Iliad little to do. and made the railroad vards mv loafing headquarters. At that limo"'Billv-( V had ati arrangement with the Wabash to transfer all New York freight at Auburn Juuction. nine miles instant, to the east of us. This was done by tho old switch-engine, tho 642, which made two trips to the junction dally. Well, oue day I climbed aboard a box car when the engine left with a few cars of merchandise to transfer. There wore six of us In the party four yard men, another follow, and myself." We had a jolly time going down; made the transfer, and were to come back light' that is.- with nothing but the engfue. We had all crowded on the tender, the signal was given, and Gent Potter, the engineer, threw himself forward pulled at tho throttle Valve, and the eti'iiio jumped forward as if shot from a cata pult. We did not think much of this at tho time, as Gent was a tine engi neer and handled the engine to suit his fancy. We went tearing over the rail, road crossing nnd frogs in a manner that was frightful. The tender rocked as if on binges. Something must be wrong, wo thought, as Gent was plac ing our lives in jeopardy. Climbing over tho coal we found the cab full of steam and Geut and lhe fireman banr- lug at the side of tho engine. "Jump bova. said lliev: 'In mn fot God'a sake The throttle valve Is poll, ed clear out and tho engine Is ninnin" wild,' "To biinii would have been iiist-int death. As one of the bovs said after ward, the telegraph poles looked like a flue tooth comb. The mile posts flew by with unseemly rauidltv. Ttm yard foreman claimed that a mile was covered in fW seconds, and not oue would doubt Ids word. St. Joe was in Sight. Would the track be clear? Onlv three miles to Garrett, with its net work of tracks, switches, aod spurs. The steam gauge registered ninety pounds. There was. no hone of the engiae dying out in five or six miu- utes. ith presence of mind the fore man dashed off a few words: "Engine wild. Telegranli Garrett to clear tho trick. "This he dropped as we oassul St. Joe. and the oiH-rator. vlear to com. prehend the siti; iti.in.seitt it to the dis patcher on the t-ast eid. without a call.' as w o lent uod afterward. There was Garrett In sight, with it.ta!l chimneys la-lehing forth smoke; there were the vards tilled wit'i frei-'ht-cars and engines. A we ot closer we could see thum hiary ing bit i. it ami thither. The other Vard euglue was rushing madly to the wst end of the yard. Tho main track was clear. V iiassert the depot like a pursued victim. a!e faces watched us in our flight. We passed the railroad s!ions.aud hun dreds came running to see the cause of the commotion. The engine was lu a quiver, the bell was ringing wildly with each sway of the engiue. the es caping steam whistled as if demented. and lire blazed Irom the hot bnxe. Theu'We j?:iw something . which made us think we were doomed. The switch to the coal chine was open, and the long 4'oiit could only cud in our de struction. We looked again, saw men working on the track, and then knew we were saved. What were they do ing? Why. bless my soul, friend, those fellows were oiliug the track of the chute. We struck tho ascent and slid up about 100 feet, and then the old CIS stood still and the wheels flew arodnd; sparks came from beneath them like from au emery wheel.. Gradually the engine slid down, the h heels utill in thefcrward motion, and thus the en glue died out. We all suffered a se vere shock to our nervous system. Jbnt had it not been for the presence of mind of the master mechanic, who or-r dered the oil poured on the chute track, 1 might not have been here to day." "Hqw fast did you go?' ' "Well, the first six miles w ere made in less than five minutes; the last three were made in much slower time, as the steam was exhausting itself rapidly." Globe-Deitioeral. NOT MANY WOMEN PAINTERS. The Fair Sea Ha Ponnd More Arreeable Field or Work. Women priuters a few years ago were a standing menace to the trade, in the view of the . men printers, says the N. Y. ,S'. and the question of their admittance to typographical unions threatened to become a burning issue in the labor world. In this city it was settled for the time being by the admission of women to union No. 6, with the condition that they be not al lowed to work for less wages than men. This handicapped the women heavily, for the trade is not one in which a woman can bold her own with a man on equal terms, but even at this it was not satisfactory to a large element among the men. who objected to having woineu in tbe trade at all, and the trouble continually threatened to break out in new spots. Meantime, however, the matter has been sum marily settled out of court, as it .were. Women don't want to lie printers any more. The introduction of the type writer and the opening of other lines of employment more agreeable and suitable for a woman seem to have re lieved the female labcr market of the greater part of tbe women who used to want to be printers. It is snid by officers of the Typo graphical union No. 6- that there-" are not over 300 women printers iu -New York now. One hundred of these are in the union. They work chiefly in large book printing offices, where the hours are easy and there is no rush. A few are in the morning newspaper offices working-as distributers, in tho afternoon. omen havo worked as compositors ou some of the morning papers, but the cases were exceptional, such as" where a man died and his widow was allowed to take his case until she could get something belter to do. It is thought that the number of women printers is decreasing constant ly in spite of the rapid growth of the trade. Men say it is a good thing, not only for selfish reasons, but because the trade, although generally classed as a light and easy one, is really top wearisome, too imhealthj. and in other ways unsiiited for women. Two Kinds of n Man. "What kind of a man is BiblingtouP" "No account at all. lie knows a dozen languages, is up in all tho sciences and arts in fact, he's read everything and remembered it all, but what does all that amount to?" "Well, bow about Staver?" "O, now you're talking! Slaver's a smart ' man a 'mighty smart mau. Why, he made $50,000 on just oue tnru of the market last week! I tell you Stayer's got brains, be has." Boston Tramcript. - . , - Drs. Gorham and Stephens have jusC extracted a tooiii tor J. h.. aictvinqey of Woolwich. Mo., which is iaid to be the longest human tooth on record. It Is an eye-tooth and measures oue -and nine-sixteenths inches iu length. A MUWMN JlVlNlNU HOP. A M'lH Who A1mV4 1'eeU an r.lertrlc Shock W lien Near Mineral. 'T ro;i 1 an article entitled 'The Divining Rn-I. with considerable in terest," said Mr. John Holmes, -of South McA letter. . T.. recently, especially as I am myself gifted with the phenomenal powers of which the article treats. Mv first experience with this power was thirty-two years ago. when I was a boy of leu years, aud it Is dot likvlv to be forgotten by inc. I was sent by my father one day to look for some stoek. and as 1 was crossing a mountain not far from my home 1 felt a strange sensation all through my body something like an electric current. As I proceeded it grew stronger until at last I stool root ed to tho ground. It took all my. strength to tear myself away from the spot, and w hen 1 did, I lost no time in getting back home. ntnL for months afterwards 1 could not lie prevailed on to go near that mountain. Two years later rich vein of copper was dis covered on the mountain where I had my first experience with the mysterious po'wer. The superstitious people of tire neighborhood loved to relate mv ad venture, they believiug that the fairief had guarded this treasure for centuries, and had trie I lo abduct me; they also predicted terrible calamities to befal. those who had broken into the fairy treasury. But the miners kept on, and all of them are rich men now. "This power, for which I know no name seemed to develop iu me with years, until I became so accustomed to it that I paid but little attention to it mauifestations,and it wasn't until about three yea.s ago that I became aware of the fact that 1 was. so to speak, a living mineral rod. Since that time, how ever, I have experimented with and made a study of this gift of nature, and I am convinced of its virtue in locat ing minerals. I am as helpless without the twig of hazel or jieach as a sur veyor without his transit. I may walk over the ground and feel the current all through my body, yet without the indicator! am unable to defiue the exact locality of the mineral. But the hazel twig has never failed to locate even a coin or piece ol metal hidden by parties desiring to test the powers of the diviuing rod. . "About a year ago my work was so situated that I bad to walk about one mila to and from my field of labor. At one poiut on the road I always felt the electric current. Finally I concluded to try the hazel and learn the cause ot the sensation. I found that the pro truding ledge tf lime rock was the agent. I had never heard of mineral existing In lime rock, but I broke off a few pieces ami sent them to the School of Mine to be tested. I was surprised to learn that the rock contained 15 1-2 troy ounces of silver t o the ton, This seems but a small quantity, buttill its presence attracted my nerves. I have often been asked why I do not cast my lot among ih miners of tbe Far West, but I ti 't familiar witU mining, and am sens;' . ! t!ie fact thai it rttj lire money in -neeeinj Some day., how ever. 1 mi" t k my hazel twig a:nl seek tux !.i!u:n- ill the Rockies." itiilti.t IJ ' . ' MEERSCHAUM IM CHUNKS. Come from Turkey, and Is Chiefly , I fl for Pipes. It The meerschaum comes from Turkey In boxes, A box holds about fifty pounds, and is worth from $20 to $300, according to the size and quality ot the pieces. It looks like plaster of parts smoothed off and rounded. The amber looks like beeswax or large pieces of resin. It conies in pieces, and is worth from $2 to $20 a pound. Meerschaum to make a five-dollar pipe costs abont $2.50. The amber tips raw costs abont one-quarter or one-half as much. When an order comes for a pipe the proprietor goes through the stock of meerschaum to get a piece ont ot which the pipe caii be cut with as little loss as possible. Four-fifths of the meerschaum is wasted, though the chips are often saved and nade Into imitation meerschaum pipes. The meerschaum is first cut on a cir cular saw into a piece a little larger than the pipe. If the cutting shows hole3 or cracks, the piece is cast aside. Then it is soaked in water for fifteen miuntes and cut the rough. shape with a knife. Then a hole Is drilled through it, and it is turned with a half motion. After the taming the stem is inserted. It is smoothed off when dry, boiled in wax and polished, then it "is ready to be sold. Tho amber is worked with a chisel aud turning wheel. Tbe chisel is sharp and razor-like. A clumsy operator would cut his fingers off with it. An old operator takes the piece of amber in his hand and rounds it with the chisel, the forefinger of the left hand serving as a gtyde for the chisel to play. W hen it is rounded it is held against the face of a roughened wheel until it is turned to approximately the required size. Then it is put in the same turning wheel and a hole is bored through it. This is for tbe more common and cheaper amber stems, the same kind that are put in brierwood pipes, which sell for 50 and 75 cents. It does not take more than a quarter or a half-hour to liuish one of these stems. A "stem for a more costly pipe will take a day. The shortest time in which a good meerschaum pipe can be made is three daj-s. . That is for a plain pipe. If the pipe is to be carved that time has to be added. Workmen have spent month? on carviug one pipe. The dust and chips from the amber and meerschaum are saved. The amber dust is melted and made into amberine; The meerschaum dust is chopped up and worked into a paste, from which the imitation meerschaum pipes are made. It is a common idea that real meerschaum can be told from imitation meerschaum by the fact that real meer schaum floats on water, but imitation meerschaum floats also. Imitation meerschaum can be made to color better thau real .. cerscliaum though it does not last so long and the color is likely to come in streaks. It is hard for a man wno is not in tne ousiness to tell a real from an imitation, meerschaum.- The best quality of meerschaum fre queiitly has air-holes and crack9 in it. Dreaming Out an Available Story, Having a severe cofd in the head , ,- m ... literary inenu oi- mine nad taken s hot bath before retiring and a dose ol fine whisky, says the Washington Post "I slept like a log," ho says, "until about 5 o'cloqk. When I awoke my head was as clear as a bell and I found myself interested in a peculiar storj which in all symmetry was passing through my mind. The plot was some what complicated, but thoroughly artistic. I was astonished and at first thought that my memory was recall ing some tale that I had read. As I reviewed the story, however, I realized that it was eminently original. Much pleased at this seeming presentation from the gods of a literary nugget 1 composed myself to steep and in the morning found that tbe tale was still mine. Some weeks later I received an order from a syndicate for a stciy of 10,000 words. I had thirty six hours in which to - produce the t-manuscript. The plot that had been tne outcome of a. hot bath, whisky, and sound sleen now oume into play and I had no difficulty in' completing my story within the allotted time. As 1 received $150 for it I am now patiently awaiting another -cold in the head." SEVEN DAYS0FTERR0R. 'Adrift with a t'orpma-Shark as I'nhldder PtMrfeltowc. - A remarkable story of the sea eoisef from St. Malo. the narrator being ar ancient mariner named Batiche, who. painful experience in.a small boat op the ocean, as related iu the London Teh-graph, ought to be a warrant for the truth of bis tain. Baiiche hac signed articles with the captain of r vessel called the Mathilde. in which he mailed to Martinique. While in the harbor of St. Pierre in a loat with thf cabin boy one day he was driven ocean ward by a gale of wind, and was knocking about for a week- on the waves In-fore he was rescued by a Norwegian bark. After the first night at sea Bauchf says that the cabin boy became partly lelirious Water was'filling the boat every instant, and in order to prevent the dying lad from being drowned in it the old sailor made pails of the legs of his pantaloons and was thus en abled to keep the bottom of the little craft tolerably dry. He had also to deprive himself of his shirt, which he utilized as a Hag of distress. On the third day the cabin boy died, and hardly was the breath out of bis body before seven or eight ferocious black sharks began to circle round the boat, which they sometimes almost touched. Rather than deliver up the dead body to the monsters of the deep Bauche kept it until it became decomposed. Being afraid of illness, be at length threw it overboard, after having said hi prayers over it, and the prey was speedily seized by the sharks, which disappeared with it. and did i t show up again for about tweuty-four hours or so. Bauche now felt" so utterly miserable that he was thinking ot throwing himself overboard when he was dissuaded from bis intention by the reappearance of the sharks, which, after eyeing him ravenously for somei time, actually began to gambol before him as if in anticipation of a good feed off bis body. "I did not want to be eaten alive," remarked Bauche, in his narrative of his perilous adventures. . "so I re mained where I was and. awaited assistance." On the seventh day the sailor lost consciousness, fell down in the boat, and was rescued in an insen sible condition by Captain Paderson, of the Wladimir. . fa his mouth the Norwegian sailors found what they first thought was an old quid of tobacco, but which proved to be part of the horn handle of his knife, which Baiu-hc was crunching to slave off hunger when he became un conscious. The rescued sailor, after having been taken to New Or'eans, obtained a passage home to St. Malo. Only the other day he went down to tbe port to meet bis old shipmates of the Mathilde, who had been wrecked off the coast of Newfoundland, whither they bad made another voyage since Bauche" disappeared at Martinique. The crew of the Mathilde had been rescued off tho banks of Labrador bt an English vessel. They had long; of course-, given np Bauche'and the cabin boy as lost iu mid-ocean, aud great was their surprise when they beheld the former in the flesh and as"bale and hearty as if he had never been without fowl on the deep for full seven days in an open boat ana in perilous eontiguitv to the teeth of the tigers of the oeean. A Ixst Kenln.-ltj Mine. One of the most tiersisfent and yet one of the most elusive traditions " ol Kentucky is that of "Swift's "Silver Mine." Half a ttozeV mountain coun ties claim to'liave withiu the borders of each the original mine, but as nc search has ever revealed the existence of argentiferous ore in any of them, half a dozen other counties claim that a mistake mar have been made, and hope the wonderful mine may be with in their own limits. 'Every "now and then some erson crazed on the sub ject makes bis appearance with a map or chart, assuming to show bv actual survey the location of the long lost mine. John Swift was in East Tennessee and eastern Kentucky as early as 1761. accompanied by two Frenchmen, and somewhere in that region 4hyx'oinedf or pretended to coin, large quantities of silver money. There were no mints in the United States then, and Swift was arrested upon the suspicion of be ing a counterfeiter. This was in North Carolina. The coin turned out to be purer silver than that of the British mint, and he was released. Swift left Bell county, Kentucky, because the In dians were troublesome, and he gave a lady of that county the journal of hia wanderings. His journal gave a vague account ot about $54,000 in 'crowns" which he and his companions concealed at various places in the mountains of eastern Kentucky to facilitate their journey and secure safety. Ever since that journal became public search par ties have huntd for the hidden wealth as persistently as ever Eastern people hunted for the hidden treasure of Capt. Kidd, or the Sonthern people searched for the secret treasureeave of Capt. Blackbeard. It goes without saying that nobody has ever found any sign of the treasure. True, there are more or less plausible traditions in various localities. For instance, in Carter county ancisnt tools and instruments nsed to coin money were found at the foot of a cliff many ?-ears ago. The crumbling away of a edge of the cliff had allowed the tools to fall from their concealment. It is claimed, also, that one of the first set tlers of Carter county found near his pioneer cabin a quantity of peculiar cinders so heavy as to canse him to have them tested. "The result was the extraction of sufficient silver to make several silver spoons, which, it was said, were as late as 1870 in possession of members of the . family. Crucibles, furnaces, cinders, and other relics of mineral smeltings, upon a small scale, have been found in several counties and attributed to a vicinage of Swift's silver mine. In 1871 three Cherokee Indians visited Wolfe county and carried away two sacks full of some weighty sub stance, which the " residents in the neighborhood united in believing was some Of Swift's silver. The presence of the Indians was. well known, their object plainly guessed, yet nobody watched them closely enough to dis cover the place where they procured their treasure. Moogretism at Lima. Lima, the capital of Peru, is pro nounced to be the headquarters of all the world s mongreldom. its popula tion is the product of three centuries oi race-crossing, and a scientific investi gator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the following crosses Cholo, offspring of white father and Indian mother; mulatto, offspring of white father and negro mother; quad roon, offspring or white father and mulatto mother; quinteroon, offspring of white father and quadroon mother; chino, offspring rf .Indian father and negro mother; Chino Cholo, offspring of Indian father and Chinese mother; Chino Oscuro, offspring of Indian father and mulatto mother; Sambo Chino. offspring .of negro father and mulatto mother; Sambo, offspring oi mulatto, father and Sambo China mother; Sambo Claro, offspring ol Indian father and Sambo Cbino mother. These are the most noticeable crosses. but there nre many others. ' A chicken with four legs, for wings aud two head has just been batched at Pel mar. 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