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A TRINITY. Sweet Faith is like the daisy bright, With heart of gold and petals white, That blooms from morn uutil the night, And wakes from day to day. Each year, from spring till winter's gloom, Then only sleeps again to bloom And cheer life's rugged way. Pair Hope is like the cedar tree; No matter what the season be, Its verdure we may ever see. It tells us constantly? Though faded are the wayside flowers, Though lonely are the waiter hours, Of immortality. But Love, the greatest of them all, Blooms winter, summer, spring and fall, Nor night nor death its strengt h appalL Through all eternity Sweet Faith, Fair Hope within it dwell All flowers of its beauties tell? A perfect trinity. ?Emile Pickhardt. A GREAT MUTINY. Manv vears aeo. before the English gave up Tasmania a9 a penal colony, I was a cabin boy on the Australian packet t^ueen Boss. In those days every packet to Australia was crowded with emigrants, soldiers and adventurers, and on this occasion our passenger list had a great many of the latter. There seemed to be & regular hegira of bad men from Liverpool and London about that date, and I'll venture to say we had fifty aboard who had no respect for the laws of the land or the high seas. I was thirteen years old the day we left Liverpool, and I had already made one voyage to Australia and return with Captain Flemming. While we carried three cabin boys, I was engaged to wait on the Captain alone. He was very kind and fatherly to'me from the lirst day I 6et foot ou his ship, and I had a much pleusanter lot than usually falls to the boy who takes to the sea for a living. I don't say that I was any keener than the average boy of my age, but somehow when I came to look over our crowd as we were about ready to sail I saw trouble ahead. Two or three trifling incidents helped me to make up my mind to this. Most of the sailors who had been the other voyage had reshipped for this one. There was one whom I oositively hated ?a tall, evil-eyed,hang-dog fellow?and on the night before sailing, as I was doing an errand for the first mate, Mr. < otton, at a public hou?e near the dock, I saw this sailor and two evil-looking landsmen in close conversation over their ale. It so happened that I stood near them while waiting, and I heard one of the men address the sailor with: ''Now, Bill, it is all understood." "Yes." "Tf t.hrv r.nme aboard we are to helD >m take the ship.'' "We are." "The women and children and such others as doii't care to ioiu us are to be lan:ied somewhere, and then for a freeand-easy life." "That's the talk, mate," exclaimed Bill. ' And it is to be an even divide ot cash all around?" put in the second landsman. "It is. We shall have to have officers, of coursc, but one man will be as good as another, and it shall be share and share like." "And how many men have you ounded?" Bill spread hi- great, hairy hand on the tabl.e and counted off on his lingers. "There's Jack?and Tom?and Kobbins?and Whistler?aud?but I guess that's all. It's too early yet. When you want a man for desperate work don't give him too long to think of it." A i- matnf T nvna rt.i 11 ml n ??r?? tt q 11 /I l\.l lilia j. naa uauvu a??j, auv? when I returned to the ship I went diectly to the Captain's cabin aud related all I had heard. Some sea Captains, in their arrogance and conceit, would have covered .me with contempt. Captain Flemming listened to me attentively until I had tinished, and then he sent me to call Mr. Cotton and Mr. Johnson, the latter being the secoud mute. I had to repeat the conversation for their benefit. Mr. Cotton didn't take much stock in my story. He was one of those opinionated men who never take kindly to anything coming second hand. Mr. Kobinson believed I had overheard all I said, but scouted the idea that there was any plan against the ship. Thev were ordered to keep their eyes open in every direction from the hour we sailed, and when they had gone the Captain turned to me with: "Xow, Albert, I am satisfied iu my own mind, from the character of some of the passengers going out with us, that a plot of some sort is hatching. You can come and go without suspicion. Beginning to-morrow, I want you to keep cir? i-j.; L .... cuiaung mrougu me >uip. ivcvji juui eyes ar.d ears open day and night and you need do no other work. Whenever you see or hoar anythiug suspicious let me know." Most of the roughs and toughs came aboard at the last hour. They had. lots of frieuds to take a parting drink with, and four-fifths of them were the worse for liquor. 1 stood at the gangway and sized each oue up as they came aboard, and I wondered greatly that the officers didn't seem to notice what a rough crowd they were. The fact that nearly all of tlmn scented to know each other was in itself a suspicious incident, at least to my mind. I noted also, that in the first hour of sailing many of the toughs seemed to be acquainted with a round dozen of our men before the mast. From the hour of >ailin;* I wiis the ghost of the ship. I was engaged in a work which interested my whole nature, and I was too excited to sleep more than an hour at a time. While I had access to every part of the ship. I spent most of my time either with the sailors in the forecastle or the passengers in the steerage. I remembered the faces of the two men I had seen with Iiill in the public house, and realizing that they would be at the head of any plot, I hung around them like a coast fever. We had been out thirteen days Lefore I picked up a single word, and by that time I had inTf-r.'f holiorf> fh.-lt. f hsltl brought the Captain a cock-und-bull story. In going among the steerage passengers I put on an old suit, and those people supposed I had parents abourd and was going to tlic new land. I also assumed a trifiing way. and it was common enough to hear them s iy to each other that I was lig'it in tlie upper s'ory. 11m :g a')ont the two men a great deal, and as'l made them presents of toba co aud ran errands for them, they never drove me away. It was on the afternoon of the thirteenth day that the men were sitting on their chests, and I pretended to be asleep on a bund'e of stuff near them, that they were joined by three other men. The five were quite by themselves, and they had no sooner come together than Hill .said: :'I have good news for you. AYe lave twotve sailors w >n over, and there ire men among the pa?-enters tit to jommnnd a fri^ntc wh>? will g'ndiy oi i with us when the time comes. How 1 many names have you got down, Dick f" e "Thirty-eight," replied a gruff voice, \ which I knew to belong to a short, broad- t backed man with red hair and the look of a prize-fighter. "Since we started out t some of the men have turned chicken- t hearted, and are afraid of the noose, but i as soon as wo strike a blow there are six ) or eight more who will be with us." 1 "Thirty-eight and twelve are fifty." t mused Dick. "That's enough, if we 1 move together and move right, to capturc t a mon.nf.w.'ir. Tt's too oarlv to vilan vet. i We'll just keep our minds made up, i watch the officers and passengers, and r four weeks from now will be time to c settle the details.'' !i There was lots more talked, and when a I could get away aud have au interview t with the Captain in his cabin I told him i some things which made his eyes flash. 1 He fully realized that a plot to capture s the ship was hatching, but he had several weeks in which to prepare to checkmate it, and was not in the least rattled. He 1 cautioned me to say nothing t;> the mates or to any of the passengers, and ordered me to continue my espionage of the suspected passengers. We had on bo \rd, if i I remember aright, about loO soldiers and citizen* as first class passengers. The t soldiers numbered about thirty. There | i were perhaps twenty young men who t wore going out to take Government posts, s The rest of the first class passengers were I c tourists,speculators, ranchmen and women j s and children. I looked the lot over very t thoroughly, and made up my mind that t we had from sixty to seventy men among j the first class who could be depended on f. | to stand by the Captain. t The emigrants counted up fully 3.1U, \ but there were not over fifty men. A s good thirty of the lot were single womeu going out to tike service, ai;d the rest a were wives and children. I figured that i there were only seven inen in the steer- t who could fight for a ship. They could f not well be counted on, however, for a c couple of ruffians, armed with pistols, t could hold them in check when the hour <1 came. We had some twenty-six sailors, a a carpenter, a boatswain, a doctor, a j steward, four cooks, and two mates. If t all were loyal and she ship was not taken t by surprise, there were men enouirh to k put the mutineers down pretty quick. '1 But all were not loyal. Twelve of the t sailors had already been won over, and j a when the hour came to strike it was 11 likely the number would be increase 1 to | s twenty. I figured, and I think the cap- J v tain did too, that it would about be an | r even thing in numbers. After I made J o my second report he gave me orders to j a clean up all the firearms and load them s TUnftA ttrAKA nil L?/\rvf In V>lu r?oKin I r\ turesii. A uwc w ci can jvcjju tu uio . vr together with a lot of cutlasses and j o boarding pikes, and I spent two days on j n the weapons without any one being the ' c wiser. ( What bothered the Captain was to t know when the attack was to be made, n and he could hardly see the object of a one. No sane man, no matter .how tough t he was,could think of capturing the ship v and playing pirate with her. She had no a cannon, and in a few days at most would be hunted down by some war vessel. Mr. Cotton believed there was some plot to which the capture of the ship was only a part, but. try as hard as I could, I could o not get at the secret until long weeks fi had passed, and the remainder of our I voyage was only a question of days, r Then, one day, I got it quite by accident. I had gone into the forecastle at ii noon to see what I could pick up among I f< the sailors. I crept into one of the | b bunks and pulled a blanket over me. and j d in about an hour, or after the watch be-1fc fViair /linnpr fcliA rilftllin I t, I IUVV llitU UUIV/U UUUll UIUMVM v..v . W...M who had done most of the talking with s our Bill in the public house came down ti among the men. It was again-t orders, I) but he hud somehow slipped past the t mutes. I now heard him called Sam. It p seemed that all the watch below, as well J as a part of that on duty, w re in the t plot, and they made no bones of speak- ' h ing. Myprc-ence was, of course, unsus- s pected. ! t Then came to light what was afte ward e known throughout England as the s 44 Winston Conspiracy," of which the 1 papers were full for months. John Win- t ston, a noted and wealthy sporting man, I a was convicted of robbery and sentenced | t to penal servitude. He had a brother ! t James, who interested friends in anelfort j r to rescue him. Some were in for money ! s and some for the love of adventure. It took them a year or more to lay their b plans, and the money used up amounted ii to over .?15,000. Throe or four of the c conspirators secured places as guards in d the penal colony, a sloop was purchased , a o.r a coast trader, and when the Queen ; u Bess sailed she took with her as passen- ! g gers the rest of the gang. It was to be ! ii calculated in Australia when she would , p appear o!T the coast. Winston and other ; v hard characters were to make a break, j g secure the sloop, and stand out to sea. ' e When they met the ship they were to o ruu her aboard, and, with the help of the p rang iu the steerage, capture her. , h Wnnmn nnrl r-hiIdrrn and Slich as would n not joiu them were to be put ashore on 11 some island and the ship headud for ! v America. It was confidently expected a she would reach that country in safety, c and there was no law which would ?ji e ( the pirates up to justice. The Queen Bess was now within five days' sail of the coast, and Sam had come down to arrange the particulars. He believed the o'lii ers in total ignorance of the plot, aud 1 had no doubt of success. All were to be | ^ on the watch for the sloop, and as soou a as she was sighted every mutineer was to ,j appear on deck. If the sloop showed c signals of distress and a boat was sent off, t then the ship was to be taken while the ! r boat was gone. If the sloop ran the ship | aboard, as if by accident, the light :;. was to begin the moment the manceuvre J' was put into execution. Everything was given away, and I lay ,, thf-re and heard every word, and after- ' [ wa d got out of the forecastle without j; ; being noticed and reported to the Cap- j, tain. His first move was to call the ( j mates down, and afterward such passen- j t j gers as lie felt certain of. Very luckily g j for us, there was a trader aboard who j I was taking a lot 01 revolver* out to i { j Australia, with other traps. They were < | the American Colt, and were a nove'tv s then, lie had twenty-four of them in , his trunk, and when tl?cy had been taken \ into the cabin and loaded we felt certain I , what the outcome of the mutiny would j, be. The conspirator* were no doubt; J j supplied with pistols and knives, but we j j had six shots to their one. Nearly every : ] j male passenger was taken into the Cap- j j ! tain's confidence, and it spoke well for ! j th -ir discretion that not one single hint ; of what was taking pla c reached the ' J cars of the fellows impatiently hiding', : their tims in the steerage. i, At 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when j' we were about a hundred miles off the j j coast, a trusty sailor who had been sent i ] into the for^rigiiiug. ostensibly to make ] repairs, but in reaiity to watch for the sloop, came slowly down and reported her in sight from his elevation. In half an hour more she would be visible from ( the decks, and the conspirators would then make icndy. During this half liour the revolvers were distributed, the loyal passengers placed at advantageous points, and the sailors who were in tlie plot were sent aloft o.i o;ie pretext aud another. A They had no other weapons but theii ihcath knives, and one man with a re' rolver could hold four or five of them ii he rigging. "\V hen the sloop -was at last reported, ve saw a movement among the conspira^ ors and knew that they were making eady. The sloop was coming dowc vith the wind, while we were making ong tacks to starboart and port. Undei hese circumstances she could not well ay 11s aboard. Up went a signal of disress as soon as she thought we could see t, and she was brought into the wind to vait for us. We made a reach to the lorth, and then as we came back on the )ther tack wc swung into the wind not i cable's length from the sloop. She vas a small craft, her dccks not more ;han two feet above water, and there vere seven men to be seen above hei ail. Our captain picked up his trumpet ind shouted: "Sloon. ahov! What sloop is that?'" One of the men made a trumpet of his lands nnd shouted back: "The Annie of Sydney." "What's your trouble?" "Sprung a leak and going down. ?end a boat aboird and take us off." The captain had planned for this, and he boat was all ready. There were rons and muskets under the seat*, and he third mate and two of the disloyal ailors and five true men were told to go >ff in her. No sooner had they left the hip than the muskets were produced, he mate informed the two sailors that heir plot was discovered, and the boat mllcd straight for the sloop. When she jot alongside, the five armed men clamored up, and, after a brief conflict, in vhich Wiuston w.is killed, the other six urrendcred. Meanwhile we had our hands full .board the ship. As soon as the boat mllcd away Sam gave the signal for the iprising, and insiae of a minute the con ?? ? ~ fnwnnnefla fn / .oKin UCL was rii^my nuui luicvaous w loors. The orders to passengers were o shoot to kill and they obeyed. It is lue to the conspirators to say they made , brave tight* Had we not been fully >repared for them they would have aken the ship in five minutes. As it was, hey killed two men, wounded five and :ept the fight going for ten minutes, 'hen they sought hidiDg places. Only wo snilors actually participated in the ttack on the ship. These two and wenty-three of the conspirators were hot dead, and of the seven others rounded five died before we got in. The est of the gang were hunted up one by ne and clapped in irons, and were tried nd hanged on land. Three sailors ulfered with them and the rest were let iff. There was a great overhauling ol Ihcials at Tasmania, a rigorous punishaent was raeted out to the recaptured onvicts, and for the next live years -'apt. Flemraing and his good ship were he talk of the land and sea. He gave ae due credit for ray share of the work, s also did the public and the owners of he Queen Hess, and the voyage home ras my last. I left the ship's cabin for scholarship at Eton. ?New York Sun. The Climate of Alaska. It is remarkable indeed that so much f the surface gronnd on the Yukon is rozen solid to the depth of several feet, t is all the more so when we come to ualize the fact that during the summer t gets as hot there as iu the South. Durag the heat of the past season the miners ound it a great convenience to go in athing in the streams at least twice a ay, and to seek sandy places in which o rock the gold out of the gravel. At he breaking up of winter the hours of unshinc arc rapidly increasing, and coninue ?o until midsummer, when the sun earns forth twentv hours out of the wentv-four, while on the high mountain icaks it is for a period of seve:al clays in une not entirely out of sight during the wenty-four hours. Jiut during all this ie:it and long days of continuous sunhine, the sun's rays do not penetrate he heavy mosses that cover nearly the ntiie surface of the country, and conequcntly the frozen ground underneath ies in that state as if packed in an icelouse. After it once becomes fro/.eu, as ny damp ground will do in the winter ime, it quickly becomes covered with his moss, which is of a remarkably apid growth and attains a depth of oine two feet or more. During the heat of summer this moss iecomes dry to the depth of several aches, and the miners think that by a ontinuou3 burning of it as fast as it [lies they will soon have the gravel bars long the creeks at lca3t cleared off, being inder the impression that when the ;ravel deposits are exposed to the scorchng rays of the sun, and rain and atmosphere they will readily thaw out. When winter sets in the hours of sunshine ;radually decrease until during the shortst days the sun shines but four hours ut of the twenty-four. But at this icriod the aurora is most intense ana ;elps very materially in driving darkless from that dreary land. The therlomcter goes down to seventy degrees in winter, but the atmosphere is very dry, nd consequently the cold is not so percptible as one would imagine.?Juneau Ala da) Free Press. A Paradise for Shoppers. To any one who likes to "shop" \ingier would be a paradise; for even a cry small purchase necessitates a vast mount of this desultory kind of busiiess. Though the masculine intellect an not usually comprehend the charms if shopping, it must share in the feniiline delight that is sure to be inspired >y the bazaars of this strange city, ome are entered from the street; some rom the court which occupies the centre >f most Moorish houses; some arc on the rround floor, and some are tucked away a odd corners up stairs; but all are tilled vith the most fascinating wares that a natter-of far t American ever saw. Saudy cushions and slippers made of he famous Morocco leather, embroidered icarl's and tabic covers, gauzy Arab vraps and barbaric fabrirs, huge piles A rugs and quantities of brassware, Oriental costumes of great richness, icimetars, daggers and long Moorish juns inlaid with mother-of-pearl; the vhole set off by a floor of dainty tiled ind perfumed by the smoke of burning wstiles or the scent of attar of roses; ioesn't that sound attractive? In curious juxtaposition with these jarbaric wares, triple-plated knives and forks from Connecticut show that Yankee enterprise is not quite overcmkfd. even in Morocco. The pro :>rietor, in his robe and turbau, is stately ind courteous, usually speaking French md Spanish in addition to his native Arabic, and makes a harmonious figure in i lie picturesque seen;*. One can not, however, buy things in a hurry, unless lie is willing to pay fcveral times their value, but must take plenty of time to bargain, or, better still, pay several visits to the store before purchasing, car.h time slightly increasing his ofTci for the desired goods. If this course be pursued, the proprietor will gradually lower his price, until the goods can be bought for much less than the original figure. The more visits made the bettei ;iie bargain. ? Cormopolitan Magazine. :| AN UGLY BRUTE, i TRAPPING THE FOUR FOOl TKRKOR OF THE ROCKIES i The Fierce Grizzly Unawed by Ad vance of Civili/at ion?His Ca ture by Ponderous Traps? I Bruin's Favorite Food. | ' 'Tlie grizzly bear," says Trapper II , ''next to the Indian, is the ugliest ox mer that, the hunter, miner, or pros tor has to deal with. You don't hav depend on your cunning as a huntc jusuii; vuursun me sigut 01 one, iur ! arc neither modest nor 'scarce' about ting themselves in your way. A general thing, if the hunter isn't ex] enced, it will require more cunning skill for him to get out of the 9ight ! grizzly than it will for him to com sight of one. Since I went to the 1{< ies the Indian has been greatly a and tamed down, but the ndvanc* civilization has not added one iot; sweetness to the grizzly bear's tempt tended to dull his claws or loossen teeth. "As-far as danger i3 coucerncd, ] lieve there is more in trapping the < zly than there is in chafing him > a ride. Our traps are ponderous implements, as heavy as thice of ] black bear traps, and with jaws so that it requires two men using a leve i force them open so they can be set. attach a stiong chain to the trap, same as you do for the playthings call bear here in the East, but our ch i are strong enough for log chains. At i other end of the chain is a tt. tehee I iron ring or band six or eight incht diameter. This i-s forced, by pount it with a maul, over the end of a lot l l i i * - I jcui long ana Dig enougn at ouna 10 11 1 the iron band fit so tightly around it 1 j it can't be pulled otF. When a gri j steps on the pan of one of those g traj.s and the stiff jaws close 011 his : the heavy log serves as a hindranc | him as he drags it along by the chaii I his retreat to his haunts in the tan< j thickets he favors. A great deal of ( i ning has to be used in .vetting a trap a grizzly bear, for he is almost as S'cious as the fox, and will freque esert what has the appearance of a g meal if he makes up his mind that ( ger is lurking near. He never hesit I to ri^k danger that he may see positi confronting or challenging him. in I way of hunter, dog, or anything ( but a suspicious-looking object, the ' ture of which he cannot understanc 1 enough to start him oil about his b 1 riess and to keep him moving unti i has placed a good extent of terrii between him and the mysterious ci 1 of his fear. "And what do you suppose is the : vorite food of this fierce and hulk : monster? Ground mice, moles, gi ' and crickets. What do you think < great bloodthirsty beast, weighing 1, pounds, hunting and devouring such significant things as these? Yet a gri: bear will do that all day long. One trapped for several days for a big gri; i that was prowling about a mining ci 1 where I was staying, but I failed inci j attempt I made to lead the wily b | into my steel. I was about to give J up as a bad job, when I heard a gro ] mouse squealing near where the trap ] Bet, and I made up my mind to give , bear one trial with a few of these li | chaps as lures. After a long and tedi search, I caught a dozen mice, and, < ering up my trap carelessly with si deaa branches, I tied half a dozen of mice by strings to pegs in the gro around the trap. When I visited ! spot au hour or so later I found i Grizzly fast, with both of his paws in ' trap. The mice had ovcicome his fe and I put him out of hU trouble by lc ! ing h in with a few rille balls. A j that 1 would never have used anytli else but ground mice to tempt gria to my traps, but they are uot an c | thing to get hold of, and I had to . YYlLUUUt CI1U1I1 I ill C UV.Utl^IUil' j "I believe that the experience of | grizzly-boar trappers has proved tli ; grizly will invariably escape from a I if he is not overtaken by the hui ' within a few hours after being cau< ! It is to lessen the danger of this tlial ; the skillful trappers fasten the cloj the trap with the chain on one end o j Rome trappers fasten the chain at 'middle of the log, but that shows 1 the man don't know his business. Yi the chain fastened at the end of the < It is dragged along endwise, and cl 111 obstructions that would catch hold it crosswise if it were dragged f the middle. Nine times out of a grizzly will be caught by the trap far from the extremity of one of his I paws. Very rarely can it happen 1 both paws arc in the trap. On be t-aught the bear rushes with all the sp he can summon, and in a tremend ! rage, toward the nearest swamp thicket, neither of which he has 10 far to find. lie seems to know that life depends on his speedily ridding li Belf of the incumbrance of the trap, he tears onward through the forest mows great swaths in the undcrbri : He drags the trap and clog aga I trees, logs and rocks, and wheni I some obstruction holds them fast, 1 tugs and jerks his imprisoned foot, I ing to tear it loose. If the chain 1 i the clog in the middle the bear wo not go far before the drug wo be caught between two trees aud 1 j sec urely. Then one or two dctcrmi lunges backward by the bear with j enormous body would tear the 1 i loose, and the grizzly would esc to the swamj). I have more than o 1 come tip with my trap ami found notl: | in it but Jliu ragged and hlootly h i I some monster bear's foot, and such : been the experience of all Mappers. ' "The further a grizzly goes on furious march without riding himsel the trap the greater his rnge becon I If it happens to strike against a tree docs not hold there he will turn on ! tree and lear its trunk with his te< ' sometime; gnashing half the trunk :iv I have followed the trail of gri/.z ' through the thick timber while they v endeavoring to free themselves of tl traps, and have counted sapling a j sapling chewed to the ground as c | pletely as if they had been chopped d< with an axe, the trees being covered v I blood from the wounds made on mouths of the bears in their blind ra; j 'To come up with a half-ton gri; bear while he is in such a conditio! temper is like meeting a cyclone, you follow the trail, which is usu a loug way through the forest-, and pi , ably a mile or more into a swamp wl you can see but a few y.ir.ls about yo any direction, you are constantly exp a bear to rise up somewhere and chs upon you like an avalanche. There 1 been times when trappers have come with the bear at (he very moment v. he has at last succeeded in tearing 1< i from the trap. Then there is apt tc trouble for the trapper, unless he i quick as a panther and his gun is t I The bear makes one wild rush upon foe. Uc ceases to be a bear and I demon incarnate. Nothing can stop but plenty of lead wall poured into hii ? from a rifle by a man who knows jus where to pour it. If that fails to sto CED bear or cause him to falter, the life c j the man he is after isn't worth" an ounc of powder. He will be torn to pieces s quickly that it isn't likely he will knoi the what disturbed him. I have known c ,p- more than one trapper ending up in thii way, and have heard of many more."New York Times. The Author of Oue Poem. 6*U __ isto- Milwaukee SonHncl of recent dat says: There died at Bath, Steuben county rc to 'ast n,0nth' at t'10 "o? t eight, a man who wrote one celcbratei nnnfri nnrl ??c fnt? no tho nnlilin L*nnw j never did anytlrng else tliftt was remark l)U " able. Ilis death has not attracted a 8 . much notice in the press as would tha of a second-class variety show actress afn fndeed the first mention we have seen o 0 .,l it is not in a newspaper, but in the Ne^ ie ' York Cri'ic, a literary journal, whic vj copies an article on the subject from th iwc f local Bath paper. The man was .Judg J ?. G. II. Mo .Master, and his one poem 0 doubtless familiar to many readers of th !r, v" Smti/iel, since it is included in many c the current collections of verses, is a ., follows: L . CARMEN" BELLICOSUM. 'r.1/." In their ragged regimentals yitn Stood the old Continentals, iron Yielding not, ( our While the grenadiers were lunging, v,:it And like hail tell the plunging Cannon shot; r }r? When the flies We Of the Isles, the From the smoky night encampment, bore th y0U banner of the rampant n- Unicorn: . And grammar, grummer, grummer, rolitx 'he the roll of the drummer, 1 an Through the moral >3 Jd i Then with eyes to the front, all, .? And with guns horizontal, fsix Stood our sii-es: lake While the bails whistled deadly, that And in streams flashing redly ..,l? Bla ed the fires; " - As the roar reat On the shore leg, Swept the strong battle?breakers o'er th e to green sodded acres i on Of the plain; i i And louder, loader, louder, cracked the blac! alca gunpowder. ;un" Cracking amain I i for sim. Now like smiths at their forges . I Worked the red St George^ Cannoneers; ood And the villainous saltpeter lan- Rang a fierce, discordant meter ntrs Round our ears; . As the swift /I- Storm drift, tlie "With hot sweeping anger, came the hors ;lse, guards' clangor na- On our flank3. l ;q Then higher, higher, higher, burned the old ' fashioned fire -1" Through the ranks I ? x nen tne oare-neaaea coionoi tory Galloped through the white infernal iuse Powder-cloud; And his broad sword was swinging, And his brazen throat was ringing fa- Trumpet loud: liner Then the blue u^ Bullets flew, . And the trooper jackets redden at the toucl of the leaden 200 Rifle breath; in- And rounder, rounder, rounder, roared th zzly ""on s'x pounder, ,e j Hurling death. zzly Of this poem Edmuud Clarence Sted imp man wrote in the Qafaxy Maqasine, man; /cry years ago: "There is nothing like it ii east our language; 'tis the ringing character him istic utterance of an original man. Ther und is a pcrfcct blending of sense to sound was and of both to the spirit of the theme the To include a picture often ruins a song iltle but here we have the knot of patriot ous clustered upon a battle hillside, thepow :ov- der cracking again, the old-fasliionec ^me Colonel gallopiug with drawn sword the aud aa " Rounder, rounder, rounder roared the iroi the six-pounder. Mr. Hurling; death; l^e it seetn a heavier piece of ordinance, ant a,"?> charged with weightier issues than i ,ad" whole park of artilitry in a modern arma !,er ment. This song will last with th< memory of revolutionary days." It wa lies written when the author was but twent] W years old and first appeared in the Knick 410 erbocbr Mui'iii'ic lor February, 1849 ' .. under the signature "John McHrom.1 a McMastcr became a lawyer and at om a a time was County Judge of Steubei "''al' County. It is stiange that a man who a j1:1 twenty was capable of writing a poen ? ,j so original and striking that it was a "a once recognized as a masterpiece shoulc p. 0 have never made a further venture it literature, the Cruelties Ouce Practiced in Japnn li* The stone torture was usually the tirs p " ciuelty practiced upon a prisoner. 1I< and was forClCi t0 prostrate iiim.se!!, iac< rom downward, upon the apexes of fiv< tcn triangular-shape:l blocks of hard wood, not the front of his 1-gs being exposed to the fore sharp edges. While securely held ir this position heavy stones were placed on ;jno. the victim's thighs, and others were >:jcd s!ow,y Gilded, to increase the terrible lous i weiifht. until he became unconscious 01 or signified his intention to confess. (f() The box torture was a still more atro?js cious contrivance. Bound hand anc] ,jin. foot, the culprit was forced into a strong b ix about two feet square, having a covjlc eriug made to tit the inside and capable JS], of being lowered or raised at will. Heavj inst w"'gbts were placed upon it, and as >ver these were increased in number, depressjie ing the lid, the poor wretch within the {ry_ box was slowly crushed to death. icld 'n us'ng the water torture it was lUU believed that the torment of thirst ? ...1,1 n nfiennnr ? /Vinfwsa hij itlid wm"u iiivotbc <* [fnovuu icld After several days' subsistence m.(j 011 a suit diet, without rice and water, hjs the accused was shut iu a room where hi f00. could see ;ind he.ir the dropping of watei ,apC on all sides, but out of his reich. The ?ce cravings and sufferings became fearful lJ,,,, under the ngony. often approaching the f ,5J- bounds of insanity. has Deprivation of .sleep was effected bj placing the criminal upon a bed, or mat" h;s over which a small stream of water wa$ f 0f continually flowing. Attendants wert 11CS. in leatliness, and at the slightest indicaan(| tiou of slumber they would rouse their t]ie victim by ringing bells, boating drums, th or l'ie Application of fire to his body. ,,,y] The treatment rendered sleep impossi lies ^'c: I)()0r wretch's mind became dis ,.erc ordered tinder the torture and oftcntiinei heir h'm a faring maniac.?Munchestei fter Courier. Hvn Czar and Beggar. rith Tiierc is a story that is going around in the the French papers about the Czar. While ?-e. he was stopping recently iu the Castle ol /./Ay Fredensborg he was fond of taking little a of walks in the neighborhood. One day h( As was accosted by a beggar woman with 11 ally cliild in her arms. In pure Danish and rob- iu the roughest manner possioie ne ioiu lit'ic her to go away and lobe pretty quick it in iiuout it. The poor woman, terrified, ect- started off, but was followed by an ofirgc ticer. "Here,my good woman,"said tin lave officer, as he put some pieces of golc up into her hand, "it is the Czar who sends lien you t his, and lie hopes that you will for 3osc give his apparent rudeness of a mvnonl ? be ago. The fact is, he has just returned s as from a visit to his children, who hav< rue. the scarlatina, and was afraid that h< his mitfht bring the contagion to your child is a if he allowed you to approach his per him son." :| THE SIKH POLICE. Si e ! ONE OF THE FINEST PEACF f 0 | GUARDIANS IN THE WORLD. * r i 'I | The Sikhs a Nation of Brave War I ! riora ?How Sikh Policemen Manage the Chinamen in \ Oriental Cities. ! e One of the finest bodies of police ii ; the world, writes Thomas Stevens in tli* ' ! New York Sin, is the Sikh police forci J of British India. The traveler findSikh policemen on duty, not only ii ;! India, but at Singapore, I'enang. Honp o Kong, Shanghai, and all the Britisl t commercial colonies and treaty ports <> , the far Fast. The Sikh noliceman. tali. ,f distinguished, ami of martial bearing, i v ' a familiar aud picturesque feature oj h Eastern life as seen by every America! e who makes a tour around the world. Tc e the student and traveler who is an ad mirer of physical excellence in man, h? e becomes one of the stock reminiscence; of the tour, to be spoken admiringly o ^ along with the beauty of the Taj at 'Agr.t. the politeness of the Japanese and tlu St. Sophia mosaics at StambouL The Sikhs are a nation of warriors, occupying thegreater part of.the Punjab, in I northern India. Every man is born a soldier, according to the traditions of the tribe: and before tl.e annexation ol their territory by the British they were always conquering and levying tribute 0 on their neighbors Physically they are one of the tinest races in the world, and (j are conspicuously superior to any race in India. Preferring military life to any other, the great ambition of a young Sikh is to become a British soldier or policeman. Brave and warlike to the last degree, the Sikh regiments form the tiowef of the British native- army, and when employed in the police service they arc equally efficient. As one travels down the splendid mili- ' e tary highway known as the Grand Trunk t Iioad, which traverses the whole length ^ of the peninsula, the Sikh policeman be- > comes a familiar figure in the day's ride. I At intervals of five or six miles you pss* i little birch or adobe house8, frequently I nestling beneath the shelter of a grove J of sacred peepul trees or an arbor-liko I banyan. These are police chowkis, each i occupicd by a lone patrolman, whose t beat is the distance from one chowki to i another. i e Not less certain than the presence of ( the chowki itself would be a tall Sikh ( pollccmaa, standing like a sentinel out" side the door. As the Sahib or native of superior rank rides by, the policeman delivers a stiff military salute. With . left arm held stiffly down the side, body , straight and rigid as a fence post, tho t light hand goes up to the forehead, then out at right angles and down as stiffly ( agaiust his side as the other. This j , salute is duplicated as precisely, from i ( 1 one chowki to another, as if every figure ( were an automaton, and the motion of \ t 0 the arm a trick of springs and clock I t work. In build the Sikh policeman i9 tall and \ t . slender; he is active and wiry rather j , y than of powerful frame. Few are under ( a six feet tall, and the great majority are - an inch or two above. There uniform is j e of light material, suited to the hot ( f climate, and dark blue in color; their- t . headdress is a huge red turban. After j ; you have passed three or four of the j f 9 little chowkis, you come to a district ( . station, or headquarters of a superin- | 1 tendeut. This is a more pretentious ' i ( i afl'air, and is known as the policc thana. ! ? The thana is usually situated on the out- j c skirts of a town, and contains barracks J { 1 for a number of policemen, and a jail j e for the temporary accommodation of 5 . prisoners. Carbines and swords are f J 1 hanging up in the quarters of the thana, j 1 but the policemen at the chowkis, or j f met with on their beats, are seldom seen 3 i carrying anything more formidable than , a stick? I V j The sikh police are seen to best ad- ( " ! vantage in the Straits Settlements, or at [ ?, ' Ilong Kong and Shanghai. One sees ' t | them stationed here and there along the | 5 3 j streets of Hong Ivong, towering head ' | J and shoulders above the busy throng of I < j Celestials, their huge red turbans mak- | J \ ! ing them visible and conspicuous at a | t j long distance. Striking, indeed, is the t 1 : contrast presented between the tall, j c 1 | magnificent Sikh, with the fierceJ looking military mustache turned j j | up almost to his eyes, and the ? ' j querulous, squabbling crowds of under- j j sized Chinese, buying and selling, bar- j . } gaining and hawking, in the busy mar- j 5 ket places. Proud and martial is tho : t ' ! carriage of the policeman, his every look I jj > i and motion a proclamation of superiority J i ' l to the hustling, commercial wearers of j 1 | the queue. Nor is any love lost between !, 1 I Sikh policeman and the ordin:incc-vio- j 1 ! lating, law-dodging, decency-defying j ? 1 Chinaman of the lower commercial or- i dcrs. Nothing is more amusiiiir than to 1 j witness tiie keen relish with which noisy i , ' peripatetic strr-et hawkers and jinnkisha j | men are kept moving along, and mado 4 ! to toe the mark of the city ordinances n regulating their business. The Sikh 1 know- that John Chinaman speaks disrespectfully of him behind his back and 1 calls him black barbarian, and he seems to be ever hankciing for a legitimate . opening to s'.-i/.e a Celestial by the queuo : and shake the heathenish depravity all j 1 out of him. Now and theu one encoun- I ters a group of Chinese engaged in a noisy squabble over some bit of sharp j * practice in a bargain: the Sikh ponce- i " man on the neighboring corner hears itj and conr.s toward them with long, cagei : j strides. J .ike so many rats scuttling oil j ' at the approach of a dog, the bunch of | quarreling heathen dodge and disappear ; ?' among the throngs of their countrymen i !l in tlio market. ! 1S I happened to be in Shanghai when the i Marquis Tseng arrived there from Eu- J rope. Thousands of imperial troops were r< assembled to honor his arrival. The i 'j English municipality allowed The Chinese j soldiers to camp on the narrow parks ; 0 along the beach facing the water. Low J . railings fcnce o!I the greensward from I ho 1 street. Sometimes a group of Chinese j I1 braves would encroach 011 the road. Liko j an eager hawk, a Sikh policeman would , 0 pounce down upon them and hustle them | !' back over the fcnce, the brilliantly [ 11 ! gowned warriors eastily retreating to ; P | elude his authoritative shove. I '' 11 As policeman or soldier the Sikh seems " >. to the manner born; iu Shanghai he Ci stands guard over the American conces>1 sion as well as the English, both being " ' under one municipality, ne ib uu ?m- j ' lute as well as u born policeman. I have al I seen the I'unjabce police ufc their wrest- v 1 ling tournaments, and have se n t!:em ' ' flin<; cac-h other very neatly over their JJ 1 shoulders. In an encounter between one of "The Finest" and u Sikh policeman A ' there would be room for much specula- 1* I: tion as to the result. The Sikh would y j lack the bulk and muscularity of his op- i poncui, but as nimble as a dei'r on his t feet and supple as a snake inaction: as L j a wrestler he is quite as skilful as the best - wrestlers in the New York force. :i 2 ! 'J > j A Wisconsin man literally covered a ' j cow with notices of his wares, and then 7 i set her at large as an advertisement. FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. The total of the Hebrew race on the urface of the globe is estimated at 1,000,000. One of the curious names to be found n the Boston directory is Macy Marcj Hercy Massey. General Sumpt, Governor of the In- .. ralides in Paris, lost both his arnifi at sedan, but his artificial substitutes look 10 natural that few people know that lit s a cripple. It is a singular fact that gypsies do not nourn the death of their young, much is they love and cherish the living, rhey frequently follow a funeral with nerrymaking. flivtonn vnnra nirn P TT PnV? nf - Morgan County, Fia., cut down a tree hat stood near his house. The stump is itill green and lias increased an inch in iiameter, although no new growth of ) ranches has come from it. Diamond, a cat famous as a prize winlcr, and for which an offer of $1:40 is \ ;aid to have been refused, died in Hartord recently. She was of the tiger varisty, and was so large that she was unable ,o stand under an ordinary chair. Frank Hicks, a negro living near McJinney, Tex., is 117 y?ars old, and his iescendants, of whom there are six gen:rut!ons, number neatly 1,000. Proof of. lis great age is shown by a bill of sale iating back to the early slave days. A Norwich (Conn.) cocker spaniel hat spent his e;irly days in a family of :hildren and had his face scrubbed reguarly, will not now, in his old age, eat jrcukfast until his face has been Woshed. If his toilet is ncglccted he sits down md howls loud and long. An orange grower near Lake Eustis, ?la., found on one of his trees a fruit hat seemed to be about two-thirds \rnnrrn an/1 /vno.tViird Tnnun npinimmftn. le dug down to the root of the tree nid there found the living root of a perimraon tree twined among the roots of he orange. A citizen of Philadephia claims to have i knife that once belonged to Napoleon It is a superb specimen of the c itlert irt. It weigh's nearly a pound, and conains, besides four blades, nearly sixteen mplements, among them a small saw, a >utton hook, a gimlet, a corkscrew, an iwl, two lances, one for puncturing and he other for cutting, and a pai. of scisors. The rim and holster of the knife ire of solid gold. The handles are of >earl, adorned with the imperial arms in fold, surmounted by the Napoleonic N. Living Under Water. The length of time during which a U? ~_j ? )ersou can live ucuer wsht, mmuui u*? lid of any diving apparatus, is a ques*' ion in dispute among scicntific men. Some travelers have told marveloue itories of the natives of Eastern countries vho were able to stay ten, or even if teen, minutes under water, but there ;an be no doubt that these are absurd ixaggerations. It is well known that he ordinary divers for coral, sponge and jearl-oysters do not remain under more' , ;han two minutes, and the ''men-fish" vho exhibit in the museums do not ex:eed two minutes and a half. The doctors diller in their opinion a? . ~ o the time at which death comes in lrowning. Some say in three minutes, >thers in five, but none set a longer time han this, except the drowning person ' aints, when respiration and animation . :ease. , ' He A Frenchman, named Lncassagne, has >een for some time studying this subject, md the results of his experiments ana ibservations are given in the Rscui l-.ienti/ique. The man upon whom he !\pcrimented was a famous Hungarian wiminer named James, who, among >ther exploits, once swam from Calais to )over, and had remaiued under water or four minutes aud fourteen seconds. Before diving, it was observed he first ixpelled all the air from his lungs, and hen took a long breath. After he had >een under water for a minute his heartiinr nmo alnw irrAcmlnr and feeble. \.fter two minutes and thirty-seven econds there was a rush of blood to the lead, and his eyes appeared sunken. still he continued to breathe amply and egularly at the rate of twenty respiraions a minute, while at the same time - V he obseiver noticed that the abdominal :avity diminished greatly in size. 31. Lacassagnc believes from this, and rom tlie fact that James was continuity swallowing his saliva, that, in drawngthe long breath at first, he swallowed quantity 01 air, and that the ordinary expiratory channels being closed, he akes into his Iuu^s the air contained in lis stomach, ana from thence again aken. somewhat purified, iotohis lungs. "hat is, in other words, he makes of his toraaeh a reservoir for air, a fact which, f true, will account /or his ability torelain for such an extraordinary time uner water. This process, which tho ivcr performs instinctively and mehanically, 31. Lacassagne believes can nd should be learned by all swimmers, 5 giving them a far greater enduranc# nder the surface than they now posses*. - Youth'j Companion. A Powerful Magnet. A letter from Bridgeport, Connecticut, :11s of a magnet made of cannons; it lifts cannon-ball as if it were a needle: One of our leading army engineers has rought before the engineer classes of late n experiment of so startling a nature in ;s inception as to promise wonderful rejlts. It is a monster magnet made of two todman guns, which are connected at lie breech. Around the magnet thus jrmed is wound about twenty miles of nbmarine cable. The cable is some that as been used in "the torpedo service. It i wound and fastened in a substantial tanner. making a perm rnent magnet. V'hen electricity is applied some strange jsults take place. For instance, a bar of lilrosd iron thirty feet long, if placed in lie open cannon's mouth,cannot be drawn ut by as many men as can grasp it. Another instance of the strength of this ig magnet was illustrated Saturday with three hundred and fifty-pound cannon all. The shot was placed iu the mouth f the cannon on the negative side. On jvcrsingthe electrical current it fell from _ s position, but was attracted to the opositc cannon and clung to it* side. The ositive current was then reversed alterately with the negative, and the heavy mnon ball played between the two cannnaliL-a o <ur>tr hof-tvonn thft noles of a ? ""v w '>vv..w? r?- ~~9~~ )y magnet. Before ninny days there will e a public exhibition of this remarkably [.tractive magnet. cw Year Pro verbs of Oldea Time.. the grass grows in Janivcer, 5 grows the wo!"se for't all the year. January spring > worth nuething. n lor water, dearth; 'mler snow, bivu I. [ [arch in Janivetr, anuary in March, I fear. f Janra y calends be ?umme Iv gay L'wili bo winterly weather till the < Blend? of May. he blackest month in an the yoAi' s the tnoutli of Janivetr. : . $