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Say an encouraging word to the weary, and
They to whom lite moms all darksome a
dreary,
Clio kindly eenteuee their sad hearts may light-
en,
One smile of love;their exietenoe may brighten..
Say an on g
ooura ing word to the erring,
Sin blasted, liunteddown, crushed anu'dsapair-
Oe
n w' when Sloe his worst form le reyealing,
rne word in season may wake better reeling.
Say an encouraging word to the toiler'
Poverty threatens him—help him to foil. her
—
When his heart siuks at the dark prospects
near him, h u and, cheer
Onehlin ng sentence may a trengt e..
Say an encouraging word to the weever
Mourning a Met one—what grief can be deeper 3
When the full heart is with agony aching
One loving sentence may keep it from breaking.
Say an encouragini word to all classes,
'Tia a heart -Lightner that nothing surpaeeea
An then 'tie , o easy and pie nsent to nae it,
How can one be surly enough to refuse it
A Yon Sailor's alio
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Three years ago I shipped on board the
.Niger, Captain Phillips. Oar voyage was
to Hilo, Sandwich Islands, and bank to
Paget Sound, whence we sailed. The cap
tain, offloers and crew were, when I joined,
all Americans and West Indlamen; but as
another hand was wanted besides myself,
I persuaded Jack 0nester, an Englishman
with whom I had become friendly to fill
up the vacancy. Jack was a fine looking
fellow, a jovial companion, and had lots of
information, which he knew how to use ;
but although he deemed and looked like a
sailor, he had not been long on board ship
before it became plain that he had not been
brought up a salt,
Oar captain was a Tartar and no mistake ;
and as he had the eye of a hawk, no fault
committed by man or boy eooaped him,
This was especially unfortunate for my Eng-
lish ehipmate. He had shipped on able -
seaman's wages ; but his defloienciea were
.se many and glaring, that our captain, who
seemed to watch his movements more care-
fully than those of the -rest of the crew,
often inflicted upon him punishments pain-
ful to witness. I had a strong attachment
to Chester, and stood hie friend whenever
I could, by taking some of his dutlee along
with my own ; but I was not always at
hand to help him, so he fell oftener than
ethers beneath the captain's displeasure.
One night, when I was at the wheel, the
wind rose into a gale. The captain. Dame
on deck and sat all hands to reef the top-
sails. The men were manning the halyards
to heist away, when poor Chester, inetead
of letting go the reef tackle, let go the wea-
ther fore -topsail brace, and away went the
yard fore and aft, By luffing up smartly,
however, we managed to get it checked
without carrying anything away. Bat Cap•
tain Phillips, frothing at the mouth, more
he would tan the foolish lubber's hide who
had done so clumsy a thing. Saying which,
he rushed at Chester with a piece of ratline,
which he brought down upon his neck and
shoulders, giving them a tearful out, He
was in the act of raising it ago n, all hands
looking on in silence, when a voice from
aloft roared out, "Hold your hand 1"
The voice was wonderfully loud and clear,
seemingly coming from the maintop. The
captain fell back, and looking up cried, in
g: eat rage: i' Aloft there 1"
" Halfoa 1" was the answer back. •
"Come dawn upon the deck," was the
captain's imperious order.
" Come up here and see how you will like
it," was the contemptuous response.
" Come down, I say, upon the deck,"
foamed the captain.
" Come up and fetch me," returned the
voice from aloft.
" Who le up there, Mr. Raseom?" Dried
the captain appealing to the first officer,
" No one, sir," was the reply, " as far as
I can eee, All seem present on deck."
The captain's rage was now terrible to
witness. "All seem present, Mr. Raseom ?
what do you mean ny that, sir I ask you
again, who is up there ?"
" No one known to me, sir," returned the
mate. " All are present. All are on deck,
In sight."
Sach was the case.' Bat the second mate,
without awaiting orders, sprang up the rig-
ging and looked over the top -rim, then made
the circuit ef it, looking all round the
masthead, and then reported himself alone,
" Tben the ship must be haunted 1' cried
the chief mate.
The captain hereupon dropped the rope s-
end which he had held in hie hand and went
below. It was evident that he was strange•
ly affected by what had ocenrrei. And so
my fellow -countryman escaped further pun-
ishment that night.
But in a few days our skipper had forgot-
ten his fears, and looking out for another
object upon whom to vont his spleen, I had
the ill -fortune to feel his wrath, He order-
ed me to make a knot in the end of an old
fagged rope to be need for a lashing. In a
little while I returned, saying that I had
made the best job I could of a rope which
was quite fagged out.
" Well," said he, " if that's your beet,
yon are as much of a lubber as your friend
Chester. But I'll dock yon both to ordinary
seamen's wages," I tried to show him that
the rope was too much worn to make a neat
piece of work of it. "Indeed," I said, " it
is sadly fagged,"
"Pegged is it ?•' cried he scornfully;
"then I'll finish it over your labborly back."
"No you won't," roared out a voice from
behind the long boat. The captain rushed
in the direction of the sound, but he fail.
ed to discover the speaker.
"Who was that? he cried In a storm of
wrath, adding : "Let me know who it is,
and I 11 thrash him within an inch of his
life."
" Will you ? hah 1 hah 1 hah 1" was the
mocking reply, dropping seemingly from
the maintop.
It was broad daylight when this took
place, so everyone could see that there was
no one up there. I was ae much startled
and mystified by the occurrence as was the
captain ; but neither he nor I, nor any of
the crew to whom he appealed, could throw
light thereon. But, whoever or whatever
uttered the words, my purpose was served,
as was Cheater's on a previous oocaaloti. The
irate Captain went below filled more with
fear than rage, throwing behind him, as he.
stepped upon the cabin -ladder, the rope's-
end which had so vexed him,
Sailors in general aro superstitious beings.
Whatever oahnot be molly made out or ace
counted for on natural principles Is laid to
the account of the supernatural, Our cap-
tain was no better in this respect than his
crew, for he was as illiterate as they except
in the matter of navigation and as rough
and untutored. He evidently beloved that
his ship was haunted, and that a spirit
from the vasty deep had a mind to torment
him by ate interferences, On retiring to
rest, at the and of his evening's watch, his
slnmbere were atoned by a loud and fear•
fill cry which seemed to enter the oablu by
the sidelight which wa left open, for ren".
Wetter,: 'The cry wee, mord by the second
officer* who was ea the venter -ilea, and
by Cheater who was at the wheel l neither'.
of whom could throw light upon the Paoli
dent to the captain, ivbo had rushed on to
the dook in a state of terror, and demanded
lu vain for the production of the offender,
From that day it was clear to us all that
Oaptain„Patllips was tormented by appro.
heneione of coming disaster. An' idea was
fixed in his mind that his ship was visited
by a apirtt from the invisible world, who
preferred to make iteelf heard bather than
seen, And this idea was strengthened by
the fact that wheu he was oa deck, and be-
came aegry at the conduct of any of the
men; eapeeially when Ida anger was made
manifest in oaths, and blows ; the unseen
but ever -vigilant visitor from afar would—
perohed apparently on the top of the main-
mast—utter the insolent laugh or the de.
loons warning, Qa these o0oasiona the poor
man would rush off to hie oabin,witb blanoh •
ed cheek and tottering limb, and there
abide until the gale in his moral eensibilitiee
ehoald eubside. That it was angry with no
one else but the captain was olear, from the
fact that it never took any notice of the
con not of anyothe rson The mate or
the boatswain might pe
ae;they liked, or
the men jibe and ohaft eaoh other; no mat-
ter—the voice was notheard—neither laugh
nor moan fell upon our earn. But moat of
those who lived In the forecastle were far
from being happy, many of them shared the
fears of the skipper ; and.I saw they would
much rather have braved hie wrath than be
tormented as they were by the "voices of
the night" or the "day." Myself and
Cheater were exooptiene. What hie opin-
ions were he would not say : he met all my
questions by adroit evasion. As for my-
self, I had no explanation to give, neither
had I any fear, for I ate, slept and worked
ea well as before.
Thus matters went on until we were
within two days' sail of the Iolanda. All
the while our poor captain had been kept
from tyranny by hie fears of the voice ; hut
now, exasperated by some fault in seaman-
ship cn the part of Cheater, and being the
worse for liquor, he hurled a belaying pin
at him, which struck him on the head.
Clapping both hands thereon, with a yell he
rushed into the forecastle. Its evident
the skipper expected to hear the voice, for
he looked nervously aloft; but when all
was silent in that direction, hie courage re-
turned, and he desired the second officer to
call Chester back to the deck. Getting no
anower to his call, the mate went below,
when he found the poor fellow delirious.
Returning to the deoe, he reported him to
be in a dangerous condition.
This filled the captain with fear. lie
ordered that every attention should be
paid him, which was done. That night it
became necessary to have all hands en
deck to reef, and while we were oa the
yards an awful ory, like that of a maniac,
arose from the bows of the vessel, and next
moment several of us saw a human form en
the rail near the fore -swifter, and then a
leud splash was heard in the water under
our lee.
The captain and chief officers who were
on deck rushed to the side. A hat was
seen for a moment bobbing on the crest of
a wave ; the maniacal scream was repeated,
when Captain Phillips, himself uttering a
cry, fell senseless on the deck. The mate
then hailed us who were on the topeail
yard—" Come down from aloft ! clear
away the small boat 1" We thought he
was as neer beside himself as was the cap-
tain : and so he was for the moment, for by
the time we had gained the deck he was
ready to countermand the order. Every-
thing was awfal beyond cxpreasion, the
wind and the water were raging wild ; it
was impossible for a small boat to live in
so rough a sea ; so, making a virtue of ne-
cessity, the search for the poor maddened
fellow was abandoned, amid vows of ven-
geance against the captain and tears for our
lost m69amate.
Forty-eight hours after this we entered
the port of Hilo. A vast ohange had oome
over the crew. The captain, knowing their
peculiarities, had supplied them with money
and copious libations of whiskey ; so, in-
stead of reporting him to the Consul, as
they had declared they would, they were
ready to shout hie praises all day long. In
this, however, I did not agree ; but unable
to bring the tyrant to justice single • handed,
I resolved to quit the Niger.
I did so, After hiding in the wcods
several days, I was caught and brought
back to the ship. As my adventures as a
fugitive are not essential to the unfolding
of my story, I pass them by, and take np
the thread of my narrative.
We set sail on our return voyage. Cap-
tain Phillips was an altered man. He ab-
stained from spirits, he controlled hie
temper, and this, with the addition of a fine
steady breeze, made our lives on board
happy. But, alas 1 we were doomed to a
sad ending -up of the voyage. Keeping too
near the land, and a squall laying hold on
the ship, we were driven on a lee -shore. It
was just after midnight when we struck,
and the darkneee was terrible. The shook
aroused me from my slumbers, and leaping
out of my hammock, I ran on deck, I
cried out to my shipmates, but got no an-
swer. It was not possible to reach the
after part of the vessel where the life -belts
were kept, so, acting on the Impulse
of the moment, I leapt into the sea,
Catching hold of a friendly rock, I was
saved. Daylight came after a weary wait-
ing. The first thing I saw was the dead body
of poor Captain Phillips, and not far from
itthat of our Chinese nook. The rest were
saved.
We made our way to Portland, where we
were paid off. Thermo I proceeded to San
Francisco. I had often asked myself
whence name those strange voices and fear-
ful words, which had so alarmed our cap-
tain and put most of the crew in terror,
and had so opportunely on one 000aeion
saved me from the vengeance of the cap-
tain. Bat it was beyond my power to
answer the enquiry, neither coald the mate
nor any of the survivors throw light there.
upon, Had we known what ventriloquism
was, we might have had therein a solutlon
of the mystery ; but I had never heard an
adept in that art, neither had any of my
shipmates, otherwise I judged such fact
would have been mentioned and the voices
accounted for on that ground. Poor Ches-
ter, when with tie our most intelligent chip;
mate, seemed to be as much in the dark as
the rest of ne, but he was not in the least
put out of the way by the oocnrrenoee,
though he loreahowed in Others the super-
natural idea.
Strolling along the streets of San
Francisco one night, about a year after the
wreck, ready for, anything in the way ef
amusement that might turn up, my eye
a
caught large poster which announced the
g g p
wonderful doings of Profopsor Meredith—
" the unrivalled and world-renowned Yen
triloquist."
" This," thought 1, "shall be the source
of m evenin 'sgenje ment,'i Turnip my
face y in the direction of the t' Hallof
f
Scienee and Emporium of Amusement,"
Stas soon seated in a snug corner of the
body of the building, and was not long in bo.
ing carried away by the wonderful sayings
end doings of the Professor, At last he
told us that he world hold •an; imaginary
ooavereation with a person up the chimney,
He did so, When in .the mideteef a dia-
logue, the porton up the line gave a derisive
"hah, hah, hah 1" I Wm startled. I
epreng from my seat. "Surely," said I,
hall aloud, " that is the Solea, and tone,
and words which -more. than We came from
the maintop of the ,Niger," And while I
was staring at the Profeseor, with eyes
ready to leap out of their aookets, he oamo
to the front of the stage to perform hie
part, Then, in epite of hie flowing beard
and other decorations, I saw in Professor
Meredith the identical Jaok Chester, who,
over twelve months before, was believed to
have leaped in a fit of madness into the sea,
and was drowned.
"Chester 1' I cried out, in my excite-
ment,
" Sit down 1" cried one ; " put him out,'
said some others, In the meanwhile I had
come to myself, and resumed my seat, but
not before I had got from the Professor a
sign of recognition,
When the performance was over, my old
shipmate, for it was he, beckoned me to
him, and taking me to hie private room, he
grasped my hand in all the fervency of -
dent friendship, " Sit down, Henry, my
boy," he said, "and you shall have a so-
lution of the mystery whioh hangs over me
and the past."
" How cane you to 'be saved from a
watery grave on that awful night when you
plunged into the raging sea ?" I impatiently
asked,
"I did not jump overboard," replied
Chester, laughing ; "neither was I any loss
sane than I am at thin' moment, The en-
tire affair' was a trick of my own inven-
tion to frighten the captain, and then get
away from his olutohea. My madness war
a sham, and the man overboard was simply
a bundle of old togs, topped by my old hat,
which I had jaet put together. The mo-
ment I pitches them over the rail I ®lipped
down into the fore -peak where I lay hid un-
til the night after the ship entered the pert,
when I stole out and went on shore, 1 had
taken Dare to lay up plenty of junk, and I
managed to avoid detection until the Niger
sailed. The cries which you heard from
the main -top, from behind the long -boat,
and In the cabin I need not now explain."
"No," said I, " alt is made clear by the
doings of this night."
" Exactly so," said he. And then he
continued—" I had performed as a ventrilo-
quist in moat large cities and towns in
Europe beforo you knew me ; but beocming
somewhat restless in my habits, and having
squandered all my earnings, in a fit of
raokleaenees I took to the sea, and in the
asp natty off a Sailor found my way to Paget
Sound. But I had not in me the staff of
which sailors are made, so after my adven-
' tures on board the Niger I went back to
my old profeasion, in whioh I have done
well. My wild Data are all sown, I hope,
and having learnt wisdom by bitter experi-
ence, I shall stick to that line of life for
which I have capacity ; a better thing than
splicing old ropes, or taking in topsail reefs
on a blo wing night.
" I should think so," I said. "Bat you
nearly killed the captain with fright, whilst
you ceased as many a heartache at year
supposed lose."
' For the latter I am very sorry,' re-
turned Chester. "Bat I cannot say that I
pitied the captain, His cruelty te me was
terrible, and he woutd poeslbly have end-
ed by killing me, but for my fortunate gift
of ventriloquism. All's well "that wends
well."
"True," I returned. "And I rejoice
that yon are alive to say so, You Rept
your secret famously, for neither Captain
Phillips nor any of his crew ever suspected
that incapable Jack Chester was the ghoet
that haunted the Niger," 1
THINGS TO REMEMBER.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which
magnifies small things bat cannot receive
great ones.
The darkest hour in the history of a young
man is when he sits down to study how to
get money without honestly earning it.
There is but little bad luck in this world,
but there is a great deal of bad management,
0 ae trouble makes us forget a thousand
meroies.
Vice stings in pleasure, but virtue consoles
in pain,
Man oan not become perfect in a hundred
years ; but he can become corrupt in less
than a day.
Nothing keeps a person from knowledge
and wisdom like thinking he has both.
Fight your own battles—ask no favors,
You will succeed a thousand times better
than one tsho is always beseeching patron-
age,
Some people, like brooks, are always mur-
muring.
If you talk much beware of those who lis-
ten attentively.
He is happy whose circumstances suits hie
temper ; but he is more excellent who can
suit his temper to circumstances.
Obstinacy is the heroism of little minds,,
A bad marriage is like an eleotrio ma-
chine ; it makes you dance, but you can't
let go.
Sitting down on a hornet's neat is stimu-
lating, but not nourishing.
A man may be so wrapped up in science
that he forgets all things else ; but he never
fools with electricity and gunpowder more
than once.
Kind words oost little ; but they do more
good than anything else.
The best way to look at a friend'e faults
is to shut your eyes.
Kindness, flavored with love, is the true
principle for association.
Courage is always greatest whin blended
with meekmeaa.
Mind your own busineas.
A Magnificent Broad Gauge Oity.
The City of Berlin, with about the same
population as New York, has 300,000 more
tgnare yards of streets than the American
metropolis. It has comprehensive educa-
tional and charitable systems, and maintains
twenty-three circulating libraries. Its an -
n al municipal expenditures are under $10,-
'0,00. The annual expenditures of New
York are nearly $36,000,C00, over $10,000,-
000 being required for salaries of cffiaehold-
ere alone.
It costs twenty-eight dollars a week to
feed a Orate tiger. At that rate what would
the monthly board of a oatamount to ?
Some manufactarers havo introduced pa',
per hate. There may be some inconvenience
t
about them, but it won't be felt,
`When a toll of lead 'pipe in front of a
hardware store begins" to wiggle and stick
out Its forked tongue, a man knows it to
time to swear off,
An Arcola woman set a speckled hen on
a dried•apple pie, and in three weeks the
hen hatched fourteen nightmares with bine
ribbons on their tails,
A WBO11E8ALE MURDERER..
Vie Career of a iianeat who ,Killed 'Thirty.
tyro *e a,
Adjt-Gen. Taylor o Colorado has In hie
cabinet, in the Barclay Block, a rude knife
sheathed in bnokekin, once the property ot
oid Biplaosa, the terrible Mexioan wbo
killed thirty:two white men, not out ,of
malice nor for the purpose of robbing, but
simply beoause he had a passion for blood.
Ake$, Eopinoaa was killed by a detachment
of Fret Colorado Cavalry, whioh was sent
from Fort Garland by Col. S stn F. Tappan.
The knife was presented to Lonta N. Tap-
pan, and by him to the collection in charge
of Gan. Taylor. It is an evil -looking weap-
on, made probably by Espinosa himself, the
blade being covered with dark spots, doubt•
Wee bleed, It !s a matter of oonjeoture on
the part of those who see it as to whether
this instrument despatched all of the thirty-
two
hirtytwo victims, a supeosition not quite plau-
sible, as the dreadful murderer was known
to have been very expert in the use of his
gun.
Nothing is known of the early life ofY Ee-
pinoea. He was first discovered selling
whiskey to the I idler's on the border of Mex.
loo and was arrested for this unlawful pro-
ceeding, the officer(' intending to make him
prisoner, He eluded them, however, made
his escape, and was not heard of for some
time. About this time dead
BODIES BEGAN TO HE FOUND
In that part of Gatorade. In the gulches,
in the mining oamps, among the recite, in
many a sequestered spat, bodies were found
which seemed to have been despatched in
the moat brubal manner. Week after week,
month after menth, this state of thing went
on. The ;Colorado earth was soaked with
blood which reeked in sun and shade, For
month no clue could be found to the murder-
ers. The many and frequent deaths were
inexplicable. Black mystery hung over the
young Territory, People were afraid to
venture out after dark, and, in fact, did
not feel safe even in the daytime.
After a lapse of long weary months, a
Mexican woman one day atoned Buten Paas
just above Trinidad, in oompeny with, a
white man, in an ambelanoe drawn by
mules. Journeying slowly along over the
steep rooks, the pair were suddenly sur-
prised by having their horses fired upon and
killed. The mac succeeded in making hie
escape in the mountdna, but the
WOMAN WAS TAKEN PRISO'+ER
by the two Mexicana who had killed the
horses. One of the Mexicana wetEip€noxa
The woman remained in captivity for som
time, but finally escaped one dark nigh
and made her way beck to her people, who
lived jest above Trinidad, at Pargoire.
During her captivity she had soon fixed the
identity of the numerous murderers with
which the Territory was ringing, She had
etudied the man, obeerved his plana, and
waspositive that she was right in her con -
elution. No sooner had she returned to her
people than the news went abroad, and
pnreult now became fixed on one Mexioan
named Eepinosa, who was believed to be
guilty of all this indiscriminate slaughter.
All th'hspponed in 1862 and 63, EepIn-
osa beings.heard of in Cwlifornta Gulch,
where he was again up to his old tuioke of
separating the soul from the body. Upon
the heels of the murders the minors of
California followed fast in hot parsuit of
the villain, finally overtaking and
KILLING A YOUNGER BROTHER
of Eipinosa's, who ravaged the country
under his leadership. Espinosa, however,
escaped his pursuers the second time, and
was next heard of •in the Sas Luis, valley..
In the meantime the Territorial Legislature
bad offered a large reward for him, dead or
alive, and several mea were out on the
eearoh.
Early one autumn morning, jest et sun•
else, it transpired that Espinosa was oamped
'near Grayback Guloh, in the Sangre de
Christo range, on Ghe southwest slope, about
twelve miles from Fort Garland. The man
in pursuit were on this side of the mountain,
feeling sure that Espinosa was somewhere
in the region, although they had no Idea
that they were anywhere in hie immediate
vicinity. A man whose name is Tom robin,
still living in the San Luis Valley was the
scout in advance of the soldiers. Tobin
was known as a dead sure shot, It having
been said for years, that he had never aimed
at any living thing and missed it, This man,
riding oautiously along in the autumn sun-
rise, was attracted by the smoke of, a camp
fire in the ravine. Quickly dismounting
from his horse, he
CREPT CAUTIOUSLY ALONG,
accompanied by one of the young men in
hie detachment, until he gained a place
where he could see, the first glance reveal-
ing two Mexicans leisurely cooking the'r
breakfast in the very heart of the ravine, It
needed but an instant for Tobin to see that
the grim, copper -visaged old man so care-
fully broiling his antelope steak on the coals,
was none other town Espinosa, who might
well have been christened the "Red Hand-
ed," Making up his mind in an instant
Tobin said to his companion : "1'11 shoot
at the old man. You aim at the young
ono 1"
These instructions, Tobin afterwards ex-
plained, were given because he knew his
friend was a poor shot, and he felt sure that
hie own aim was better directed upon Col-
orado's aroh fiend. Both men raised their
guns, both fired, and the unsnpecting
father of murders, old Espinosa, fell ever
the red coals,
A LIFELESS CORPSE,
In exact accordance with the notions of
Tobin,' the other man's aim failed in itspur-
pose, only wounding the young Mexican,
upon whom Tobin soon drew his gun and
despatched as qulckiy as he had done the
elder. The intrepid Tobin then sent his
companion to look after their horse, which
they had left some rode away, without any
witnesses save heaven and the blood-stained
rooks of the ravine deliberately severed old
Espinosa's head from his body, drew the
leng black Bair' up over his scalp, tied it in
a knot, and, making his way to the, epot
Where his friend was standing with horses,
stuck his saddle -horn through the knot of
the hair, and rode into Fort Garland, where
he was received with enthusiasm, ex Gov.
Gilpin, then the Governor of the Territory,
being there with soldiers, all of whom gave
Tobin a hearty reception.
The reward offered for Eqinosa was
large, but Tobin had great diffionity in ae-
curing it. One Legislature after another
considered, or pretended to consider his
olefin in a weary "circumlocution office"
kind of way, the years slipping by in the
meantime, Without Tobin's having received
a cent;' In the end, however, he received
half the enm'cffered, which was a very com-
fortable amount.
An for e Ea inoshe was a born desperado,
who never plundered,
p ' and who did hot corn -
mit murders an the -means of thought, because
gratifying re -
range, but limply it- is ,
" he had a fandy for the tragic,��g ,
It is a ring.
tiler fact that he never robbed the men he
murdered, money and valuable having boon.
frequently found on their dead bodie%, His
oharecter it one of the mod striking of any
don erariio's ever hoard of in the Wean,
andhiememory still lives in the hearts of
score of early pioneers, who, for a period of
two years, never lay down to sleep at night
without dreading hisapproaoh,
SOIENrunnO AND USE]'DL,
Sunlight has been put to an odd mein Brae.
eels Falling on a small shaft the rays cause
an upward draught ot air whioh sets a fan
in motion, and that, in turn, starts Machin.
ery that winds a olock.
The eleotrio-lighting dynamo at Li coin's
Inn Dining Hall and Library, London, is
driven at a rate of not leas than 12,000 re.
volutions a minute by a Person's high-speed
engine. It le claimed that this is the first
motor that has ever hien made to work at
the aotuai velocity of the steam as it es-
capes from the boiler.
The Popular Science News asserts that
the averagelength of life is oonstantly in-
oreaefng, and the time may yet dome when.
Perseus one hundred years old will exoite
no more curiosity than nae of eighty years
at the present time.
The invention of the type -writer datos'as
far back as 1714, when one Henry Mill ob
tained in England a patent for a devioe
that " writer in printed charactere, one at a
time and one after another," Bat it was
not until 1867 that it was improved so as to
work satisfactorily.
Attention has lately been called to two
races of men that must soon become extinct,
At the present rate of decrease, the Maerie
of New Zealand—now reduced, to leas than
45,000 from 100,000 in Captain Cook's day
—meet have disappeared by the year 2,000,
The Laplanders are estimated not to exceed
30,000 in number, and are gradually becom-
ing fewer.
Prof. J9eef K nroai, the statistician, final
that the rich class avarage fifty-two years
of life, the middle class average forty-six
years one and one-tenth months of life, and
the poor ohms average forty-one years and
seven months of life, From this it le obvious
that the possession of wealth and the result
of exemption from privation longbhens the
average life nearly ten years,
Dr. Bond states that for adalte the really
important elements of milk aro its albumin-
oids and state, which contain the nitrogen
and phosphates. Thede elements are pre-
sent in jut as large a proportion in skim
milk and butter milk as they are in where
milk. Whole milk is, however, the beat
food for the young, who often need an
abundance of fatty matter in an easily as-
similable form.
A curious needle is in poeseiaion of Q teen
Victoria. It was made at the celebrated
needle manufactory at Radditoh, and repre-
sents the column of Trajan in miniature.
This well known Roman osiumn is adorned
with numoroas scenes in sonipture, which
immortalize Trajau'e heroic actions in war,
Oa this dinabnutive needle scenes in the life
of Q seen Victoria aro represented in relief,
but so finely oat and so email that it re-
quires a magnifying class to see them,
A nice way to serve eggs with broiled ham
is to butter some patty tine, anrrnkle con-
soienaously with fine crumbs of bread, break
an egg into a seiner, and then, without dis-
turbing the yolk, go it it into the tin. Set
the tins into a hot dripping -pan and let them
Mend in the oven until the white is cooked.
Then after patting the thin pieces of nicely
broiled ham upon a hot platter, take the
eggs from the oven and turn out on the ham,
It is not necessary to close the oven door
whiletheeggs arein it, and indeed it ie_hat-
ter not to do so.
An eixaient method of disinfecting sick
and other waste pipes is to fill a two•quart
bottle with a solntfon of oopperaa, two
ounces of copperas to a quart et water—and,
fittf ig a perrorated cork to the bottle, with
a small glass tube Carnet through the hole in
the cork, invert the bottle over the opening
ef the waste pipes, letting the conteate drip
into it. Other germicides may be used, but
oopperaa is best for general purposes, since it
is cheap and not poisonous. If this plan
were universally adopted in cities the germs
of potential disease would be destroyed, or
sterilized and rendered harmless in their in-
cubative state,
LEFT TO DIE.
How a Young Lady Saeed a Soldier's Life
and Won a Husband.
Congressman Stone, of. Kentucky, says a
Washington letter writer, who walla about
the house and np and down the avenue on
crutches—havinglostaleg in the Confederate
service—is expecting his wife to arrive here
shortly from her Kentucky home, The story
of atone's marriage [e a strange and interest-
ing one, and proves again there are as
interesting incidents in real life as are told
in story books. Stone was a Confederate
soldier, and at the battle in Cynthlana,
Ii-ntnoky, was badly wounded. As he fell
nis hat went one way and his musket
another, and be found himself unable to
move to regain either. It was a scorching
summer day, and ho was obliged to lie on
the hot hillside exposed to the intense h eat
of the blazing sun, unable even to protect
hie face except by throwing his arm across
his eyes. Hie life blood was rapidly running
away, and he became weaker and weaker,
and soon was unable to speak or move.
The blaring sun which fell on his head and
face was adding untoll suffering, in his
enfeebled condition. After the fight he
was left with the dead and dying, for it
was supposed he could not live more than a
few minutes or hours. After the troops had
withdrawn, some of the people living in the
vicinity of the battlefield passed over it, re•
lieving the necessities of the wounded so far
as possible. As they passed near where
Stone lay suffering in the hot,snn, unable to
speak, a young lady in the party noticed
him and the suffering the sun must produce
if he were Mill • coneoious. Telling her
oompanions she believed he was still
alive, ohs prooured the ramrods from four
muskets lying near by, and sticking them in
the ground near his head, fastened over the
top a soarf from her shoulders to break the
rays of the sun, When the wounded were
gathered from the field it was found that
Stine was atilt living, and he was aent to
the hospital, There wad a long struggle be-
tween life and death, and he finally rallied
and slowly regained his strength, after the
amputation of hie right leg. The residents
of ^ the town and vicinity did all they
ooutd for the sufferers in the hospital,
sending them food and deliceoiea and often
visiting them, One day, after he had gain-
ed anffioient strength to speak and notice
those who visited the hospital, he saw
among tho visitors the young lady who had
probably saved his life by her klndneas
when ho lay helpless and speechless en the
battlefield.' When opportunity offered, he
spoke to her of the occurrence end thanked
her for her kindness. The;acgnaintanoo
thus begun ripened into love, and she is
HOW his wife,
A man of email atetnreg ives es a reason
foe his stunted growth that he was brought
f g
up, when a baby, on condented milk,
THAT TF,> J3,I$LB 00WBOY.
ye Roars like a Sucking Dose when the
d paohee are Around.
The cowboy is a good fellow in
I. haven't a word against his wthe
g vat him, but, on the
oontrary, a lively memory of many kind,
mimes at his kande. Ile is no rougher than.
most of ns would become by the banging
about of these savage: wildernesses, , His
virtues are more than a few, and as virile
as hie vioes. The wholesale damnation piled
upon him by some virtuous people le not
only ail net but foolish, As 'an Indian
fighter, uowever, he is a rank failure, He
gallops around at a safe dieta•noe, whoops
and swings hie hat and shoots (to the mor-
tal detriment of apace) and paralyzes every-
thing but the foe.
It you fanny from thisthathe is a coward,
you were never worse fooled. There is no
class of men in the world, I presume, more
utterly oontemptuous of death, He will
rub noses daily with the bony old conquer.
or without a twitch of the slid. ' But he
wants to know aboo t it, e to e
hisg oma.
In the bar -room broil, where the friendly
glass spills an ugly word, the wordiaeohoed
back by a blow, and the blow gots "answer
I the
flash of twenty revolvers'there the
oowboy is at home, He will stand like a
rock and fen the murderous music of the
44 s, his own barking bank defiantly. Shoot
him full of holes, and he will yet fetoh
down his man, sere he is acquainted—in
his own plirass, he "savvier the burro,"
But it Ie ' the danger that we know not of"
which " makes cowards of us all.1"
Whatever may be said to the contrary,
the oowboy knows nil about •Indians, it
isn't hie buslaces; A danger that he can
see he will faoe like a hero, but when it
comes to a hunt in whiuh he has to deal
with an invisible, an unknown, and a mys-
terious foe—he " len' there," I don't
blame him—it is simply human. To lope or
creep through a country bleak, rugged, and
desolate beyond description; amid a silence
heavy enough to break the heart ; seeing no
sign of life, yet knowing that any innocent
tutt of bear grana, any minus rosette, any
lonely rook may, without any warning, spit
out its little puff of ornate with a leaden
moesage to your heart—isn't it enough to
make any one a leetle shaky?
Jaet as poiatere on the dial of troth as to
cow -puncher and Apache, lot me tell you
come fanny little inoidents, which are
not only characteristio but true. List 0r
Leber, while 'Ozanne (popularly corrupted
to Hozanna) and his bloody band wore ridd-
ing in New Mexico and Arizona, hard
pressed by Crook's eflioient oeptatns, it
chanced one day that the old men and child-
ren of the band, accompanied by four or five
bucks who could fight, eweept down by
White's rancho, some twenty-five miles
south of this poet .They camped in the open
plain, half a mile fron, the house, killed two
or three beeves, roasted them, ate all they ..
could hold, and peeked all they ooald carry,
In the night they were up and away. In
that strong, stockaded rancho house were
twenty or twenty-five cow -boyo, armed with
Winohettere and nix -shooters. Did they
open on the superannuated foe Y Nary open.
They hadn't loat any Indians )
Again. Ulzanna a bund wit finally driven
into the Chiricahua Mountains, whence it
twice tried to cross the great San Simon val-
ley to the northeastern ranges, but was each
time deterred by seeing troops. At last the
hostiles made a night dash morose the Sal-
phur Springs valley, west of the ChIrioahuae,
.'heir stook was worn out, and, while the '-
rest rods on, three or four auoks swung over "
to the Sulphur Springs rancho for fresh
mounts. There were several .cow -boys ,a
sleeping in the horse, all "heeled" to the
teeth, and the coral which held the horses
was surrounded by a tall, stout palisade,
eecure)y looked and bare d. The Chirioa-
huae onopped down thi>isado with hatoh-
eta and rode off with all the stook 1 Not a ,r
shot was fired, and, in fact, the cow -boys .•
don't seem to have known of the vieit till
morning.
Capt. Crawford chased the remounted
band through the Dragoon Monntalne and
into the Male Mountains, There the hos-
tilet suddenly whipped around and made
for the Chiricahua Mountains again. Craw-
ford hung on their trail, tireless as a wolf.
The next day after they reached the mown
tains he name to where, hard run and with
failing stack, the hostiles had stabbed every
one of the animals to death and scattered on
foot among the rooks. Then he thought he
had them, sure, Just at this time the cow-
boys of San Simon Valley were preparing
for the roundup, and had congregated in
force at a range near the mouth of White -_d
tail Caffon, They had their twenty-five of
thirty prlmeiponies, all nicely eh o i and ready
for the round -up. They were - warned that
Indiana had been seen in the mountains that
day, and were advised to put their horses
in the stout corral. Bat no ; they insisted
upon lariating them out upon the grass
that night while they themselves snored
conscientiously inside the house. They'd
like to see any Indians get away with their
stook. Next morning when they awoke
andrubbed their confident oyes every pony
was gone, lariat and all, and Crawford's
tremendous pursuit found only the swift
trail of these fresh ponies sweeping far down
into Sonora where the savage riders were
safe from pursuit.
These aro fair samples of the fashion in
which the cowboy emerges from the diminu-
tive extremity of the cornucopia where he
has to deal with the lightning movements
and matchless cunning of the Apaohe.
The Horsebaok Cure.
There is a saying among the Ruestana
that a man who is fend of his horse will net
grow old early. The 4rab and the Cossack
are examples of the truth ''to the proverb.
They ,generally live long, ' joy robust
e andhave nouse i er ads
h silk av s and
blue pills. That vigorous ootogenarian,
David Dudley Field, tells us that he attri-
butes his remarkable vitality to the, habit
of horseback riding, and,if the truth were
known, it would doubtless appear that our
aturdiest,old men are those wbo have been
fond of the saddle, The taste for equestrian
sports and exercise which hae.:lately made
enoh progress in Brooklyn is, therefore, a
hopeful and healthful sign. It is not a mere
freak of fashion, but it development in the
direction of rational enjoyment and an as-
eurande that the rising generation will, be
less of an indoor and mere of an outdoor
' It means leas headaohe he
people. tartlet,
better appetites, stronger lunge,rosieroheeks
brighter eyes, soundersleep, happier spirits,
and a total oblivion of that organ which,
according to Sydney Smith, keeps 'mon a
good deal lower than the angels -the liver,
An instrument called the mehdomoter has
been designed for the study of minerals in a
state of fusion.
Edward Simplot Shakeahaft a wealth`
p , y
Englishman of Lancashire, became it con.
firmed drunkard, and leaving his Ilmiurious
home and hie friends, oame to ()Loveland,
0,, where he gave himself up unreservedly
to his parolee far drink, He lived in a
hovel, and spent the money that was sent to
himegii
r g lady from;lrngland for:wh[elley.
He died of alookolism,