WELL DRILLING I her up on a mossy log, and then deftly l ways with the same resalt, till he and as gently as possible cut out the “Ah, but every out» isn't a dryad." “No. I’m especially engaged for the in illy gave up In despair, and came barb. Of course it was painful, but two summer in that capacity,” she said, near to believing that he had never been or three little gasps were all the sign she They were summering in the Sant« airily acknowleding his meaning. "When lost in the redwoods, but had falleD gave, and they cut him to the heart. Cruz mountains, the most delightful I’m at home," she continued, thinking asleep on an enchanted hill-side (as He tore up his handkerchief for a strip place in the most delightful state in the previous confidence called for a like re Grimm's people do) and dreamed the to wrap around the little bleeding toe. Union. The days were long, but full of turn, “I’m Miss Amy Desart, of—welt, whole thing. “And now,” he said, as gayly as he felt It was late in September of the follow to be consistent with a bad conscience, the interest that extended rambles and everything in general. We’re nomads." “I’m most happy, Miss Desart,” he be ing year before John Westwood felt able "fishermen always carry their catch sylvan discoveries confer. A tine stream, in which one could wade or gan in the stiff manner some people to take his annual vacation from busi home, I belive, and you can not walk." bathe to heart’s content, kept up its adopt when acknowledging an introduc ness cares. But the days grew so warm She yielded to this arrangement, say ceaseless conversation, like the hum of tion, “to find in you an angel unawares,” that he determined to break away from ing, “It isn’t far—I had just started out near and far voices. How beautiful in he concluded with regained ease. “And the hot pavements and ceaseless noise of to wade up stream for ferns.” the early morning was the light falling —and,” he went on mischievously, “I the city, for a week in the mountains. So Paul and Virginia wise, carefully on the ranks of giant redwoods; and think I was bitten by a rattlesnake some But where? There were mountains over the stones and up the road he bore north of him, mountains east of him, his sweet burden, to the door of Hepsi surely there never was a bluer, ( time this morning.” She turned in alarm and met his eyes, mountains south of him. He had only dam, where many explanations were the purer sky than that bent above it all! Amy Desart, book in hand, sauntered in which he could not repress a twinkle. to choose. The mountains to the north order of the day. down a leafy path, on which faint rays | “Why, you said you hadn't seen any.” , were the Marin county branch of the Mr. Desart gave him the long deferred “I didn’t see one, but I'm sure I must Coast range, of which Tamalpais is the letter, and they all forgave him for of light from the far sky sifted down through the redwoods'odorous branches, I have heard a good many, and one could most prominent feature. But Tamalpais capturing Amy so cruelly. But at his glinted on their scarred trunks, and fell easily bite me and I not pay much at is visible from the city, so they wouldn't wedding, some months later, he confided like silver arrows into the rich shade of tention to it, you know, in my per do The same fault attached to the to his friends at large that it was the mo mtains to the east, that rise from the finest catch he had ever made; and none the forest. The book she carried was a plexity.” She regarded him carefully, felt arid San Joaquin plains. Mount Diablo who saw his lovely bride questioned the pretext. The day was for dreaming, and that he was a gentle was heir great feature, and his infernal statement. And Amy declares no one what printed page could charm the eye, sure and saw besides the majesty was plainly visible from the city. can ever say that she “angled for a hus when there were a thousand distractions man, tempting the curiosity and challenging mischief in his eyes a great exhaustion, To the south were the Santa Cruz moun band.”—K. L. Carnarthen in Overland the admiration of a healthy nature? If that brought out the silver 'flask without tains, in whose depths his short-lived Monthly. romance of a year ago was enacted. It is a bumbling bee, a vagrant bird, a clump further misgiving. Trouble on th© Pacific Slope. “I came off at 4 this morning, without not strange that ignoring the charms of of yellow violets, or a broad “golden The topography of no other part of back” were enough to speak to a poetic any breakfast," and one could see his Mendocino redwoods, which necessitated soul, «r charm an artist’s eye, who could weariness was real. “You know,” he a day or two of steamboat travel, and the world is so adapted to de tire of watching the grander beauties of added, excusing himself, “I expected to steeling his heart against Donner lake velop dangerous floods and subsequent a redwood forest, or weary of the sud be back at the hotel by 6 with a deei and the snowy Sierras (which were periods of water famine as that of Cali den glimpses through opened boughs of for breakfast.” rather far off into the bargain), he de fornia, where the natural conditions are “You are staying atF----- ?” she asked. cided to seek the bracing mountain air destroyed, and the sheep industry of the the sublime blue mountains? So a book was quite a useless thing to Miss Amy F----- was a village on the line of the in the Santa Cruz range. F----- was state is actively engaged and has been only a few hours distant from the city, actively engaged for many years in de Desart, but at the same time her railway, about a mile distant. “I have been there for the last week, and yet the place was a wild, untrodden stroying the balance of power held by the habituul companion. She was aroused from her lazy dream but intend to return to the city to-mor wilderness—a wilderness possessing the forests upon the water supply. Count ing by a loud halloo. Indeed, she was row. I suppose you can show me the great advantage of accessibility. One less herds of sheep, cattle and goats are not immediately aroused, for the hal way to F-----?” had only to strike out from the station driven every summer up from the “Oh, yes. I am so glad it was full,” at F—•— in any direction to lose himself parched valleys into the moist mountain looing had been going on for quite a respectable length of time before her she said irrelevantly, as he returned her —as he had once proved—in a virgin meadows and woods. They have de drowsy consciousness stirred to the ef the empty flask. “You must have been and primeval forest. voured every blade of grass and stamped fect of something unusual, for halloo very faint. We are nearly to the path; He had no hope of meeting his quon out and gnawed away every bush and ing, save for owls, was by no means and Miss Desart’s compliments, and will dam acquaintances again. If they had young tree along the whole length of the common in those silent depths. Once Mr. John Westwood deign to partake oi been down at all, he felt sure they had Sierras. The reproductive power of the aroused from her summery stupor, she an informal lunch at Hepsidam?” flown before that. He assured himself forest is thus seriously impaired, if not “Mr. John Westwood accepts with that he would not have wished to meet utterly ruined. listened with growing interest. Tho calls continued at intervals, paus due informality, not to say that them, for they had treated him shab Nor is this the worst feature of the ing, seemingly in expectation or hope j he jumps at the chance. But bily. It was a most contradictory im situation. Overpasturage of the woods of some reply. Miss Desart concluded, where and what in the name pulse, then, that drew him the very first has destroyed the grasses and the as she heard no responsive halloo from of the redwoods is Hepsidam?” day of his arrival past the redwood shrubs, and now for the purpose of in “Hepsidam—as the name signifies—is cabin. If he had hoped for any sign of creasing or renewing the supply the any other part of the forest, that the call was from some one lost in the wil ‘a place in the wilderness,’ rented during his will-’o-the-wisp friends, however, he shepherds are setting fire to the forests, derness. As soon as her half somnolent the summer months to campers for a was disappointed. No sign of life was which by shading the ground check the brain had formed this conclusion, her small stipend. We have been down about the place, and he avoided it in his growth of herbage. A hundred forest voice took up the idea, and when an every summer for three years. But future rambles. fires may now be seen upon any summer other desperate and far away shout came here we are.” The large streams that flowed through day from any of the high California He stepped out on the path and stood to her ear, she answered with a musical the forest were famous for trout, and tc mountains slowly eating away, what call from her vigorous young lungs, at beside her. How fragrant and cool tho trout-fishing he devoted himself, as was once the noblest development of all the same time going in the evident di- j woods were. The broad, leafy path offering fewer opportunities for getting forest growths. The animals are graz made one sigh with pity for those who lost than hunting the wary deer. Sc ing, moreover, and the fires are burning rection of the sound. She was heard, for a responsive call were bound to tread the stifling streets with rod and line, a plentiful supply of upon the public domain of the United came in slightly louder tones, so she of the city. They soon reached the cot light literature, and a sportsman’s lunch States; and the government is indifferent knew that, whoever it was, he was ap- ■ tage, which was not far from where basket well filled, he would start out foi to this destruction of property or unable proaching her voice. Making a trumpet they struck the path. It was an idyllic the day. to prevent it.—New York Sun. repast that awaited them. Mrs. Desart of her hands, she cried, “Lost?” He was impartial in his choice of Agassiz and the Student. was as lovely and cordial as her daugh The answer came quite distinctly, evi streams, and often angled in the one The writer well remembers his intro dently trumpeted in the same manner, ter, and Mr. DeBart was full of bonhom- that flowed near Hepsidam. He choose mie and unconcealed delight, at meeting that one to-day, and made his way u( duction to the late Agassiz and how he “Yes.” She lost all her languor. Here was any one so recently from the city. the stream for a long distance by leaping learned his method of investigation. Having undertaken the study of “I wish I had had the good luck to from stone to stone, or by walking the something of lively interest to occupy lose myself in this vicinity a week ago,” mighty length of the redwood trees that natural history, I went to the professor her time. “Who are you?" she called. “John Westwood,” came the answer. said Westwood, regretfully, as he was lay, as they had fallen, in and across the and asked him where to begin. “Ah,” taking his departure, considerably later stream in every direction, and by wad said he, “so you want to begin,do you? All “Of San Francisco,” he continued. Unhesitatingly she plunged into the un in the afternoon. ing with his water-defying boots iu the right, here is a bluefish; now take it, dis sect it carefully, note all you see, and “Well, you can find your way here beautiful smooth stretches of water. dergrowth and trui'kless wayof the woods, her guide the voice, which kept up a easily now, and we shall be glad to see At last he reached a plane he judged come back to-morrow at the same time rather one-sided conversation—if that you at any time,” said paterfamilias, favorable alike for angling and for read and report.” Off I started with my fish. can lie called a conversation—as she only cordially. ing. It was a redwood trunk, soft with Yery carefully I went about my dissec answered occasionally to show him that “Thank you for your kindness, but my mossy growths, hid among mighty tion. In an hour or two I fancied I she was coming. She had no fear of vacation ends to-morrow,” he sighed. boulders; and from this shelter his knew all about that fish, but as I was being lost herself, for she had, time and They all joined him on his walk hotel line could play on a smooth pel>- not to report until the next day I kept at agrJn, roamed in the deepest and wildest ward, to make sure of his taking the bly pool that promised lots of trout. 1 it, every hour, finding something new. parts of the forest, which was full of right turns and angles which were to Here he ensconsed himself comfortably, I went to the professor at the appointed landmarks for her. take him to F-----, and it seemed to him baited his hook, flung his line out into time, feeling proud and confident that “Out hunting-and-lost-iny-way,” came that Amy was even more beautiful in the stream, propped the pole up near my natural discernment, for such I slowly and detachedly to her ears. the tender twilight than before. They at hand (which may be a scientific way was pleased to term it, had ^enabled me She stopped anil said .o herself : “I've parted from him as warmly as from an to fish, but was quite in the way of a to master the subject, and that I should a mind to leave him to his fate. The old friend, with cordial hand shakes all lazy young man), stretched himself at well acquit myself in my report. The idea of desecrating this sacred place around, and Mr. Desart told him to run full length on his broad divan, chose the professor listened to all I had to say, with a shot-gun 1” down any Sunday when he wanted a most conversational novel his pocket and in his quiet way remarked: “So, so, However, she proceeded to the rescue, breath of the redwoods—an invitation bore, and was soon deep in its pages. very good, but not all.” To make a long determining to give Mr. John Westwood cordially seconded by Mrs. Desart, and Behind him rose an absolutely perpen story short, I kept at that fish for a a caustic piece of her mind, when once shyly by Amy. They stood and watched dicular cliff, many feet in hight, dotted month, always the same answer, “very she had discovered him. (It is safe to him till he reached a bend in the road, from top to bottom with waving “five good, but not all. How I hated that say here, in parenthesis, that she forgot where he turned and waved his handker finger” ferhs. They were of such dense fish at the end of the first week. How her cruel intention long before she came chief, at which three handkerchiefs flut and large growth that no portion of the it did smell! I did not want to touch it, up to him.) She picked and crashed her tered in response, then the bend in the rocky wall was visible, and down and Hew into a rage at least a dozen way through the bushes for a mile, it road hid him from sight. They turned through the tops of the redwoods hun times, and yet each day I found some ■eemed to her, but distances are decep back on the path with rather a lonesome dreds of feet above, and over the living thing new, and so on until the end of tive when you have to work your way. feeling, for this bright young fellow, green curtain, the sun sent his flicker the month, and what there was then At last, he, waiting, gave a halloo whom they had not known a dozen hours ing rays. The trout were wary, and about that fish that I did not know was which sounded absurdly loud, when before, had proved such a jolly comrade gave him plenty of time to get inter not worth knowing.—Electrical Review. right on the heels of it the bushes parted, for the few hours of their acquaintance, ested in his book, which, being a lively How to Skeletonize Leaves. and a radiant wood-nymph, to be sure, that they honestlyregretted his departure. summer novel, caused him soon to for The usual method is to soak the leaves in a becoming costume of bull lawn, And though they would have disclaimed get the shyness of the denizens of the the soft, loose draperies of which she indignantly, and with truth, any sug stream. So in turning a page it acted for a long time in rain water until they had caught up to protect them from the gestion that they had suffered ennui be quite like a shock to his nervous system are quite decayed, but those who have brambles, revealing thereby the stiff em fore his appearance, still they began to when he saw his pole bend, and sud had considerable experience in the work broidered rutiles of an immaculate skirt, look forward to the possible Sunday denly show symptoms of falling head recommend a quicker method, the im and faultless feet shod in neat French when he would come again. They long into the stream. He caught it mersion of the leaves in a boiling alka walking boots. But her cheeks were might have had visitors in abundance, with the mental ejaculation, “It must line solution, the time of immersion to Hushed, her eyes were dazzling, and a of course. But, though not by any be a big one to pull like that!” and be regulated by the character of the cloud of shining hair rested lightly on means selfish people, they were still not straightway his book was forgotten. He Various leaves and the nature of the epidermis to be removed. When it is her white forehead. Her wide hat, gregarious to any extent. lifted the |>ole and carefully began to pushed far back on her head by some Their unsocial instincts were probably draw in the line, at the same time ad seen that the green part of the leaf is saucy branch, served as a frame to a be due to their fondness for traveling, and vancing to the edge of his nook to see dissolving put the leaf on a flat white earthen plate and cover it with clear witching face. the ease with which they had always his game. water. Then, being gently squeezed She beheld a tall young man in been able to gratify that fondness. Amy, An exclamation of pain greeted his with the fingers, the membranes will hunter's buckskin, leaning on a rifle. in fact, could hardly have told which effort to tauten his line, and there on a His brown eyes wore a shade softer than was her own country. She was as rock in the brook he beheld his catch. begin to open and the green substance usual, from their weariness, perhaps. familiar with France and Germany as He gazed in consternation It the sight of will come out at the edges. The mem His face was clearly cut, and a dark America, and Scotland she has always a girl seated on the rock, and bending branes must be carefully taken off with moustache adorned his firm lip. loved. But since they had discovered over a rosy bare foot, which bore in the the finger, and great caution must be For more than a moment they gazed the redwoods of California, she was in pink ball of a tiny toe a cruel black fish used in separating them near the middle into each other’s eyes, then laughed and spired by their grandeur to quite a hook. His effort to draw in the line rib. The skeletons must then be bowed. After thanking her en strong patriotism, for, though cosmo must have caused her acute pain, and thoroughly bleached bv exposing them thusiastically. he said: “I had politan bred, she was California born. called forth the moan which smote on to the fumes of chlorine gas. If to this no idea of compelling a young The next Sunday, John Westwood his ears. Her head was bent, and her vapor be added that of peroxide of to my rescue. I thought it was a boy could hardly conquer his desire to hands were busy trying to draw out the hydrogen the fibres of the leaves are strengthened, so that they can be readily who answered me, and fully expected to visit his new friends. But he ugly barb. —after being dried by pressure see a ‘barefoot boy, with cheeks of tan,' felt that it would be better taste to “This must be another‘Lorelei,’" he arranged instead of-----” he hesitated. let one Sunday elapse between his thought, “and these woods are surely bet ween folds of tissue paper—in bou “You will see no barefoot boys around visits. He was not very much expected, haunted. I'll be carried off by a pixie quets.—Boston Transcript. here," she said, hastily. “There is too to he sure, as they did not look for him next," Mesmeric Trance for Alcoholism. great a fear of rattlesnakes." Iwfore two or three weeks. But in that He hardly knew how to offer his ser A suggestion is made by The Journal “1 have not seen any." week, Mr. Desart received a telegram vices—as he was evidently unobserved, “Maybe not, for they are not fearfully that demanded his immediate presence it was awkward to break the silence. of Inebriety which is sufficient to open prevalent, or I should not be here. But in New York. And in a few days this But of course it was only fair that he up a new field of reform work. Hypnot once in a while you come across an ugly family, always prepared for such emer should help this damsel in distress. He ism, or a form of mesmeric trance into which individuals of a peculiar tem fellow. I always go armed myself," she gencies. were on their eastward way. was just essaying “Allow me," when she said saucily, producing a tiny, silver- I Mr. Desart, as politeness demanded, suddenly rose, without having extracted perament can be thrown by a person of mounted flask from the depths of a ca wrote a note of explanation and apology the hook, and attempted the feat of more positive mental qualities, is pro pacious pocket. to Mr. Westwood, whose address he in- I walking on her heel. Then raising her posed as a method of treatment for the It was but a glimpse of the flask he tended to transcribe from the San Fran eyes, she saw him helpless and guilty alcohol habit. The theorist claims that tlie patient can be hypnotized and while caught, for she plunged it back iini>a- cisco directory. His intentions were before her. in that condition made to realize the tiently. as if she resented the impulse of good, but when they had left New York "You!" she cried faintly, and let her familiarity. and were far out on the Atlantic, he dis skirts drop quickly over her feet, horrors and perils of inebriety. A shock “If you will follow me—," she said covered the still unaddressed note in one whereat the former became as wet as the to the brain centers is thereby imparted which is said to effect a permanent shortly. of his many pockets. latter. change in the patient's character.— "With all my heart. I love the woods, I It is unnecessary to dwell on the dis “You t" he cried in rapture; for it was Chicago News. but began to feel I should never get out appointment and surprise of Mr. West she! no strange pixie nor Lorelei, but of thia. 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