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SJS GLB MAU30LEU*. *T r?8. KAPOLEON B. MOTAKQ2. Would that each aching, throbbing bre&it, Each sleepless and work-weary brain, Could here be brought to mark tLis rest? This long oblivion to pain. The tronble-waves born of to-day. The fresh-sprung grief, however deep, Appear to slowly ebb awav Beside this everlasting sleep. Lifct loving arms, grten tendrils cling About the ancient mausoleum. Till. hero, life seems perpetual spring, And death a half-forgotten dream. A thousand years! A thousand years I Since care could vex the one beiow; Done with life's follies, with its tears, Ten centuries or more ago. Ay, this is rest, a sleep, indeed I "No trivial lapse, to wake again With but a heavier dread of need, With but a keener sense of pain. A thousand years ! A thousand years! Nor summoned once to w ake and weep; No clamorous wants, no haunting fears; Av, this is rest?a welcome tileepi New Yi jRK CiTl*. THE MYSTEBIODS GOlfflER jococc-soe An Exciting Story of the War of 1812. JOHN K. KHHV CHAJPTE I.1? AN ADVENTUBE ON Cnp'n, \ eolfcould ' traTe|" fer QienaceE Macoa *s 80 6reat ' xTrmI^^^v^Bi ^at we must ma^? extraordinary ef' *orts t0 Set there. The enemy threat?J?*|hK^t2g=s??5 en the Ullage by ' land and by sea." "So I've hearn, T\SjMCap'n, but then, we're doin' ^*-?^pall we kin. There's one ' thing /SgMjT I'm quite certain on, Cap'n, VgS^k there'll be fun when we git ? xflgl there. My father fit 'em at i T^v^W Lexington an' Bunker Hill, an' /ffgjljj hie eon's not goin' to back out ? kNn The parties to the aboTe dia, logue were two horsemen ridflgJH ing Bteeds which by their lagiszfjk ging motions evinced hard 1 ^ ThA first sneaker wore f the uniform of an American infantry officer, while his companion's dress was half military and half civilian. It was the la6t days of August in the year 1814. Tlie second war with Great Britain had reached the climax. Only a few days before Washington City had been captured and most of the public buildu|A^nied. The news' 6pread^^^|^MBk^nd thousands of Am^^^^^^HHi^een careles* all along. as^W^^Wult of the war. now sprang to the defense of their country. Heretofore the war had been chief v on the northern border, but now hostifities had commenced on the east, and the whole Atlantic coast 6eemed in a defenseless condition. Militia companies were hurriedly raised and 6ea-port towns hastily fortified. The . whole Atlantic coast wbb in a state of excitement, and preparations for defense were maae ai evcijr first speaker was Capt. Griffith Alton, of the United StateB volunteer service, wLo had been dispatched with a single attend?nt, Sergeant Simon Kinman, "a downEast Ynnkee," to take command of the hastily collected militia at the small seaport town of Mnnoa. Manoa was situated m a convenient harbor, which wa6 landlocked and surrounded by high cliffs, promontories, and peaks. It was on a rocky portion of^tfce main coast north of Belfast, and its inhabitants once had hopes of its growing to a flourishing city. But its harbor was not safe at all periods of the year, and, it being off the main line of land travel, it has at this day dwindled down to an insignificant fisherman's hamlet. At the time of which we write, however, it was a flourishing little village, and, having aome excellent farming lands near it, was . of no little importance. Captain Alton had asked to be sent to the defense of Manoa, for it was his home. His pirents were both buiied there, and the girl who had promised to become his wife lifv'd in the large stone homo on the hill, at the north side of the villuge. Her father was an old retired tea captain, who by economy had mnn 1 ilur i,v a fnvfmifl. and Ola was his 6VU 'w ?- ?i only child. Her mother was dead.Perhaps Captain Alton'e an xiety stag' 5?-. not a little increased by the rumors Jfckh reacted his JSjor ? BrTbjits, of the English u. in command of five hundred Britibu soldiers, vas advancing on Manou. Major Bridges as an unsuccessful rival of Cnptain Alton's for the hand of the fair Ola. He had met her three Rummers before our story opens in New York, and pressed his guit until rejected, when the British officer fiew into a pa'sion and need such threats as would have cost him his commission had it been known by his superiors. Capt. Alton and he had met once on the field of honor, and the Major was wounded in the right arm. He had made eo many threats against the beautiful but spirited American girl, that Capt. Alton bad some serious apprehensions when he learned that the Major waB near *r *'"? - .? U1. 1 JI t juanoa wun a cous-tieriiuio j?uu ?ukd, and a British man-of-war had been 6ent to co-operate with him. The country through which the Captain and his single attendant were riding was broken and wooded. Id places, fields had been made by clearing the timber and breaking the ground. Hou-es had been built, and civilization appeared; but for most of the way they were in a thick wood. "How far are we from town naow?" tbn Yankee asked. "It must be ten or fifteen miles." Simon whistled softly to himself, while his keen bine eyes roamed about the forest. Simon was a typical Yankee,tall, with large Roman nose, angular features and lantern jaws. His long leg* come down below the body of the 6orrel horee he rode. The Captain wore a sword and brace of pistols in his belt, with holsters at his saddle, and his attendant, in addition to his pistole, carried a long rifle. Simon declared that he was "jest itching for a fight with them darned rod coat6, an* ye bet I'll make it lively for some o' them when it does commence." "If we can only reach there in time to get tne meu organized" ana prepared, eaid Captain Alton, "I bave no fears of a fight, especially if they have arms." "Haven't they got guns? I heard that two hundred muskets had been shipped there, with all the accoutrements and ammunition. Then they h'ave a long brasg twenty-four-pounder and four or five smaller pieces.' "Well, naow, what more d'ye want. cap n? Why we jtra ciean turn mo British army with 'em." Captain Alton smiled at the sanguine Yankee's answer, and said: "No, no, Simon. We have only raw ^ foliiers to fight British veterans. I V think the chances are npainst ns unless v we have time to organize and fortify and ( driL our troops." - __ . % * rt:e Tanfceu tapped his long-barreled rifie which lay across the pommel of his saddle, and said: "It won't be goo-1 for some of 'em, Cap'n, ef they should come there arter I git there. It'll be a pretty kittle o' fish they'll find." r. e must try and get there before they do, Simon, of all Coasting will be in vain." "I know it, C.ip'n, bnt I'm gettin a'most plaguy hungry," returned the lank Sergeant. Simon was a voracious eater, and his strong appetito got him into innumerable scrapeB during his army life, causing him to be reduced to the ranks a dozen times, to tie promote.! at the next en: gagement on account of his valor. It was past noon. Simon had for some time been casting anxious glances at the 6un, and then turning his eyes over the country. There was a long line of hills off of "which the timber had b^en cut, while on the left were several fields in f which the corn was in roasting-enrs. The Captain made no answer to the last suggestion of Simon, but rode along the dusty road in silence. "I 6ay, Cap'n, aren't them houses we see ahead on the left?" Simon asked. "Yes." "Don't ye suppose we could git suthin' to eat there?" "We might." "Well, Cap'n if we could git our horses fed 'n rest 'em a few minutes while we tase in 6ome Tittles ourselves, 1 tains we'd git to that teown a great deel sooner." The reasoning of the Yankee was sensible, and the Captain was not long in making up his mind to adopt it. They were approaching the residence of a wealthy farmer. His large 6tone mansion house, built in the Queen Elizabeth style of architecture, was surrounded by a stone wall, with half a dozen Louses in the rear for servants. There was a large shed at the road-side with a trough for feeding stock, and a well with an old-fashioned windlass. Our horsemen rode their steeds to the front gate, and were greeted by two or three loud-mouthed dogs. The farmer eiimo out in his shirt-sleeves. He was considerably frightened nt first, but when he discovered that they were Americans and not British, he wc*s considerably relieved. "Oh, ye aren't Britishers, ar' ve?" ho gasped,"as if he yet half doubted bis eyes. "No, sir, we are Americans," captain Alton answered. "Have you s on any British soldiers about here"?" "No," he answered shaking his head. "Ain't seen none, but they do say as how they are all over the country." "Havtj you heard from Manoa to-day?" "No, but yesterday I heard they were terribly ncart 'cause a British man o' war was co'min' to bombard 'em out o' town." "Have they been threatened with land forces?" "Dun know, but some 'un said that red coats war seen at Belfast a day or two ago, an' that aint fur from Manoa." ~ *1* ~ V?o/J rtrjwnrf nnitv tn JDOIUiO IUJD -ask any further questions, Simon, -whose keen appetite lost none of its edge by the information, put in: "I say, meister, can ye gin us suthin' to eat? I'm 60 pesky hungry that I wouldn't relish a scrimmage xiaow, even if the red coats were right before me." "Well, yes, I reckin' we can give ye a bite to ear," answered the farmer, who was too much alarmed to have refused, even if he had had an inclination to do so. "And our hosses too; kin ye give 'em hay or oate?" "Yes, dismount and tie them under that shed, -while I go in the house an* hev the women folks prepar* a sn&ck fur ye." "Will we find oats here?" asked Simon, who, dismounting, led his horse to the shed. "I will 6end a boy-with oats." Tha Captain dismounted and led his horse also to the shed, and made him fast to a post at the side of the feed-box. "Simon," 6aid the Captain to the Yankee,"ju6t loosen the saddle, but don't take it oft." "Why?" "The enemy may be much nearer than we think, and we may be forced to mount in a hujry." "Why,'they ain't nearer 'n JBelfa6t." "They were seen in Belfast yesterday," said the Captain, "and we do not know when straggling troops may come this way." "Well, I guess that's so, Cap'n," said Bimon, loosening his saddle girth. "I thought the boss would oool better by takin' it off, but I won't do it." The boy came at this moment with the oats. He was about thirteen years of age, and a bright boy, despite the fact that his uncultivated mind was a garden overrun with weeds. "Ain't you fellers afraid of the redcoats?" he asked. "No," the Captain answered. "They say they're round right close now." "Have you 6een any?" the Captain asked. "No; but Budd Smith 6aid -ie 6aw five or six gallopin' by hie hmso." ""When?" / *. "T'-day"' UJ^h/re does Budd Smith live?" "'font a mile down the road that goes rouf the frold." "Does your father know this?" the Captain asked, somewhat anxiously. "Ko; I recken not. I never told him." This somewhat relieved the Captain of a suspicion which was lurking In his mind that the farmer might be playing the tTaTftfr>NJbe Captain and the Yankee exchanged glat^s.. Perhaps it was more on account of tire peril threatening Manoa than personal danger that increased Captain Alton's uneasiness. "I don't know that we ought to wait here, Simon," he said. " 'Twon't do any harm, an' I am a'most dead for suthin' to eat," answered the Yankee. "But the enemy are scattered all over the country, and dangers thicken about us every moment. "NYe should haste to Manor* with all speed." ?i?r_ !_ fdTv'n' ? e *111 yu u kuvn uc?i , | en' git there a good deal sooner by heven' full stomachs." The horses were already crunching their oats, and our anxious Captain, seeing that Simon was determined to eat beforo ho left, at last contented, though w-ith great reluctance. Tbey went to the farm-house, and were conducted to the front room to wait a few moments until their dinner was ready for them. Simon carried his rifle, and the Cap* tain also kept his arms at hand, ready for an attack should one be made. Capta;n Alton asked ibo farmer if he bad seen any red coats himself. "Xo, I've seen none, an* goodness knows I hope I won't. But I hear 60 much 'bout 'cm, sir, that I think they must be gittin' thick as hopp. Them British'll never stop till they git the yoke on our necks agin, see 'f they don't. Tbey have gone nnd burnt Washington City, and next they'll burn Baltimore and even llanoa." The Captain took a more hopeful view of things, i.nd thought that the people of the United States were getting waked up, and would now throw all their forces into the work, and snatch victory from defeat. Dinner was announced and" the tired soldiers followed the farmer to the diningroom. Blocks came to wait on the table, and as Tjothtlie Captain and tue bergeant were decidedly hungry, they ate ravenously. Besides being hungry, the Captain was in a hurry, and nervous haste got the better of table etiquette. Tbey had just pushed back their chairs from the tabic when the bov, who b id reinaircd in tne front ya d, rushed into the dinicg-ioom crying: "They're coniin', theyre!" "Who?" cried the Captain, starting to his feet and instinctively laying his baud on his sword. "The red coaif, on horselaek?conj'^L earin' dotrc lie lane at a tallop." _ ^ <" -^Ta-&1, nao^, T>y tlie JfiinpiE Moses it'6 nbeout lime I was gittin' my artiller; for ba'kinV' said the Yankee. seizing hii long rifle. 'Jest show 'em to me. boy, 'i I'll be gawl darned if they doan't thin] a thunder 6torm's come." "Wait, Simon," Raid the Captain to th< Sergeant. Then turning to the fright ened farmer who was wringing his hand and groaning: "They'll have the yoke oi our neckB," the young Captain 6aid. "I there away out at the rear?" "Yes." "Showns out." They passed through a narrow hall t the rear kitchen door, and were in th back vnril. "Now, Simon, don't be to rash, cautioned the Captain.. It wa welT to flo so, for Simon was llKe an im patient war steed, ready for the fray. The Captain left Simon behind th bouse and crept around ihe corner to se how many red coats there were, and wha they were doing. They were six in num ber and had drawn rein at the stiles. "They're Yankee 'orses," he heard on trooper, who seemed to be leader, say, "ai we'll find the howners in the 'ouse. Bil you stay here with the hanimals and th rest o' us will charge in on 'em, and tak 'em at dinner." The Captain had the advantage of trellis vines, and there was little dacgt of his being discovered. He beckone Simon to his side and whispered to tb tarmer to go to_the front door and let i rhe troopers. Ihe larirvjr went to tu door. With swords drawn and pistols cocke ,1- a ilnctl nftPflKR Olfi ]flTV | mo uiu^uuuo luuuv u UWWM ? .? to the front door. One man was sei around to the right and one to the left < the house. "Now, Simon,' whispered the Captaii when he heard the order given, "yc must knock tLo man who comes aronn this way senseless, but don't fire a shot Simon understood the Captain an clnbbeil his gun. In a few moments tl quick Btep of the tiooper fell on his ea and just as he came arocnd the corner quick, sure blov from the clubbed gn laid the English dragoon ser.seless c the ground. The Americans spraug from behind tt house and ran down toward the stile The man who had been loft in charge i the horses was watching the road to s< if the Americans in the neighborhoc were rising up agdnst them, and did n see Capta n Alton and hie companion ui til they were half way between the horn and the style. Thi6 discovery was fo lowed by a shout, and raising a holbte he fired. "See hyar, Cap'n, I'm notgoin'tostar tha-at," yelled Simon, whose hat-crow httd been perforated by the bullet. Qui< as thought the Yankee Sergdant rais< his rifle to his face, and taking a has aim, palled the trigger. The sharp cra< of the rifle was accompanied by a yell agony. The horses tho trooper was holi ing, including the one on which he w sitting, began rearing nud plunging unl they broke away. TUe dragoon"fct wnom Simon had fire reeled a moment in his naddle, and the as his horse thundernj after t! other animals, lie fell forward on 1: steed's neck, and finally rolled off L back, falling limp and lifeless in t dusty road. Before the echoes of the shot hi ceased to reverberate among the tre tops, or the smoke had passed away, o American friends had leaped the fen and were at their horses. The dragoon hearing the firing, of course hastened the front door. At fiist only a c haos smoke, dust, snorting and running hors could be f=een, tut the officer in charge the squad discovered the America through the cracks in the shed, just thexuaounted their horses. *Vhere they go, Ihere they go!" 1 cried, firing a pistol. 3 he ball burie 1 i eolf in tbe snea, ana me Americans gauu ed down the road. They were screened 1 the hhed, until (hey wero bo far away th the fusees of tho diagoons were not da: gerous. "They're on foot 'rnow, Cap'n," 6Q Simon, with ft ha, ha, as tbey gallopi away, "an' I guess we'll be able to kei out o' their way." Their horses having been somewhat 1 freshed by the short rest and strengthe ed by the feed of oats nnd ha.v, were e abled to go at a much livelier pace thi before. The frightened horses of t troopers kept before them for two three miles, and then turned off into tl forest, 60 that tho Americans knew the was no danger of their enemy gettii mounts 6oon. CHAPTER 11. THE STOBTf?A MIDNIGHT ALABM. It will be necessary to precede Capta Alton and his attendant two hours iu o story and reach the little 6eaport town Manoa before they do. Manon, as 1 have 6een, was a tiourishinj?-'AitiJ/?-?r lage at the time of whv?l~tfe write, was wedged in ItnVeen two high blui of >iYs <vhich were dotted with cedar onks and other forest trees. Its hurbi was a 6mnll bay?too small, in fact, i be a safe harbor at all seasons, and i shores were rocky. The scenery wi nicturesqne. and, to the lover of the wi! in nature, beautiful. Slanoft creek eini * ' ? ??-a ' tied into tne Day on moj ouuiu smo < town. The houses were bniltol stone or woo and some were good substantial built ings. The chief dwell ng-house stood c an eminence in the north part of the vi lage?in fact, almost beyond the villa< limits. It was a large, substantial dwel "ing. two and a half stories in height, nr built of the gray grauite indigenous 1 Mnnoa. This was the home of Cnptai John Gatrell, nn old retired 6eainan, tl father of tLe young womm to who Captain Alton was betrothed. (Jn the evening of the day on which tl eventslecorded in our last < hapter o cuned, Manoa presented quite an an mated scene. Lone lines of earthworl were tnrown up aoouttne entire vniag Between three and four hundred men ar large bovs, including many negroes c well as 'whites, were still busy with pick elinvftit! enatlfls, nnd all kinds Of impl< ments, junking the embankment higfae The works were constructed with litt! regard to laws of military tngineerini but were much better than no defensi Considering tho fact that they worke without any recognized leader, those mc were doing remarkably well. There was a lack of order and organi; ation, but the picks, and shovels, an epades kept diligently picking and di( ging away, heaving up sand and gravi into large ridges, which were fast becon ing breastworks. On the side next to ti ocean, the ground being lower, the eartl ! works bad been raised eight or ten fe< hiyh. Several pieces of artillery, ranj ing from nine to ten-pounders, wei w.thin tbe works, nnd a long twenty-foi brass piece was mounted on a gun-oai riape near the highest part of the worki Order, skill, and discipline nlone wei lacking. The'men had streegth, conraf aud coolncFs. The sun was just descending ever tl wes-tern hills when two men mounted c | iadeci horses rode down the broad tho Ougnrare wmcn" lea 10 me tiijage. an picket, instead of baiting them, as well-trained soldier should have don< set up a shout of joy and waved his Btra hat in tho air. The west embankment was immediatol cove:ed with excited men, shouting an buzzahing, as Captain Alton and h: single attendant rode dowa the hi through a gap into the works. They nil recognized the Captain, ft these defenders of Manoa we:e eitb< villagers or fanners of the enrroundir country who hud known Griffith Alto i 110m doyisoou. -Lliey ic^ttiuuu ujiai no I prodigy and tbongbt him to be one of ti I most remarkable military men of tl I age. Uo bad always been a favorite, nn now tbcy iooked r.pon bim a3 h deliver from the clutches of an enemy wbos I cruelty and powers had been magnified |aMUAnd fold. old boy, .here jon _areJ / i rouretT Jack HatchcT, the Honest blacky smith, rushing forward and seizing the 3 young Captain's hand as he entered the a ?.-orks. "I knowed ye'd come, hey; I did, . It old feller. We're * all right now. boys, we've got plenty guns, cannons, an' Griff a to shotf us how to use 'em." "Hurrah fur Griff," yelled Henry ? B Sm.tll, the village carpenter, taking off a his hat and flingingit into the air. s Even Tommy Euffles, the gouteel little tailor who had never liked Griffith Alton since he had succeeded in winning the affections of the girl on whom Tommy o had 6et his heart, came forward to grasp ? the hand of the young Captain. t o "Here he is, sword, pistols, an' all, be t s gosh," yelled Sj Cole, the shoemaker, grasping* the hand of the new commander. . Griffith knew they had little time for rejoicing and congratulations. He demanded silence, and as soon as he could i ? get them quiet made a short speech, ( hastily mapping out a plan of defense, j The British were near Belfast, and their light horse were even then scouring the , country to keep volunteers from coming * } to aid in the defense. ? ' Tire a as ne was, ne organized tnem s a into companies, and selected the coolest, j e I best men for officers of each company. ^ I He even inspected their arms, had each 16 officer make a list of his men, and set Si- ( mon to drilling one of the companies, " while a second company he had rest, and 16 a third to labor on the works. 11 With remarkable rapidity he surveyed 16 and sketched the walls with his eyes, and mapped out the necessary height and <3 breadth of the works. He then gave the D work into the hands of Sam Perry, a stone mason, and A1 Jonas, a bricklayer, instructing them what was to be done. "When ye goin' to git them cannons ready for shootin', Griff?" asked Jack Hatchet, the blacksmith. "They 6ay's d how that ship's been in sight a time or two. Could see'r from off the cape, 'n <3 the's gittin' ready to blow us to etarnie isy-" r, "We can't mount the cannon before a morning," tho young officer answered, in " The works are not ready." in "But she'll be blazin' away at us by tnat ie "No she won't, Jack. The breeze is 8> from the land, and she can't warp in here d! in twelve hours, for this harbor is not the ?e easiest in the world to enter. Besides, k1 flon't you see tne 6Kies are lowering an? ot we're going to have a blow? You can dei pend on it, Jack, that ship will put out tc Re son where she can stand a gale." 1- "Wall, guess yer right." r, "There is no danger from a land attach either, for I learned an hour ago thai id Bridges is twelve miles beyond Belfast.' n "Why, Griff. I heard that the redcoat* ;k war all over the country." ?d "They are only small predatory bands, ty or scouting parties, sent out to recon3k noitre, and harass the farmers so as tc of prevent their concentrating." 3- "But our fellows are comin' in," said as the blacksmith; "we'll lick 'em, now thai til you've got here." Night came on. Dark clouds wbict d, had been hovering about the horizon be. n, gan to spread over the sky, and the wind be in low wails soughed through the treolii tops. It threatened to be a terrible night iii The 6ea was already dashing in foari h? crested waves against the lock bound shore. ad After partaking of a supper at the honst e- where he h ad established his headquarters ur Captain Alton lert Simon in charge, and ce hastened to the large house which stood ist on the hillside. tq "It won't do," he said shnkiug his head oj "That louse will be too conspicuous i ee mark for them to remain there during th< oi siege." us He reached the frontdoor, and his banc a! was extended to the bell-knob, when tbc door was thrown open and a bright, fairy ie like creature 1brew her arms about hit neck and pressed her kisses upon hii p. cheek. - "Oh. Griffith. Griffith! I am fo clr.c UJ r - w ai yon have come," she snid. "Papa is 8i Q. despondent to-night, and I am sure you: comiug will rouse his spirits.'' id [TO BE CONTINUED.] &d SP The Cowboy's Day is Gone. .e. I met a cowboy yo3torday who was rail. burning from the Western plains to his n- icme in Ohio. He was sad and his in *ce bore a doleful expression as he narratted the memories of happy ranch life never to be again. "The plains," re said he, "are nothing like they used to ag be. Instead of herds of buffalo and cattle they now have 'boomers' scrub stock *-J ? ? ~ ^ AAW/3 {na^An/1 AP nrNttf ttQU SUttliiVVtt^ uu^3j nuu iuobguu ui v/vi?boys, as in the past, the inhabitauts are jL settlers v?ho have during the past twenty ur years 'squatted' in nearly &vrj-3tete ar/ of Territory .vcax' of the Missouri Tiiver. So ye i\jug as they kept out of the grazing I' country we didn't mind them, but since ?-tt there has been such a demand for more land for settlers those fellows Live or crowded their society upon us until we to had either to fight, get out or accept ts them as neighbors. "I guess the general run of my kind of 0m fellows would much prefer the first 3f proposition, but it doesn't pay. As for the last, it doesn't go at all. I know we are rough fellows, and maybe we don'f seem any better in the eyes of the world than 'boomers' but that sort of calcula,e tion is agin' us. I guess no fellow ever i- made s success ef 'cow punching' who id was lazy, and I know I never met any f? fellow on the range who'd live in t ill schooner' and starve his family soonei m ' than work. A good many of us could get little herds and keep at the business le if it wasn't for the 'boomers,' but as c* they're coming we're going. I don'l think you'll find many of the old cowboys on the range after this year, and l(j next year you won't know by visiting is what was once cattle-range country thai b, there was sucn a set as genuine cowboys." J- Kansas Cilv Time*r. mm The Buffalo (N. Y.) Fire Department has lately received a novel fire engine, which has excited much interest in that m city. The carriage is constructed entirely of papier mache, all the different parts of the body, wheel-, poles and the _ rest being finished in the best possible manner. While the durability and j i- powers of resistance possessed by this : te material are fully as great as those of wood, the weight is, of course, much less. ?- ? The number of males and females is .. about equal and their average life is s. about thirty-three years; one-fourth of fo the inhabitants die before they reach ?e their fiftieth year. Of 1,030 persons ,0 only one reaches the age of one hnn* m dred years; of every hundred only r* six reach the age of sixty-five, and not 16 one in 500 live to see their eightieth year. w There is a married man in Atlanta, v Ga., -n ho wears eyo glasses with a gold "d rim. Hid wife wears eye glascss, too, is and the two pairs are just alike. They 11 are the parents of three children, the )r youngest being ten years of age. and jr each of the children is near frighted. 8 Thev -wear eve glasses, too. 11 "" mmm y a A Maine girl", finding ft inconvenient '0 to carry chewing gum with her, estab'? liqhed stations in various parts of the :I town, where she sticks her quids. One ;? is in a dry-goods store, one in the church ' a choir, one in her own dining-room, one [ at a school, and soon. MUSHROOMS. / LN INDUSTRY CAPABLE OP HUGE DEVELOPMENT. Che Natural and the Artificial Crops ?How Mushrooms Are Raised in France?Mammoth Mushroom Caves. Let us have home grown mushrooms; hey will be infinitely better and far iheaper than the leathery ones we have >een getting from Fiance for the past ian ^uiiLuij. This is the cry of leading restaurant nen all over the country, and it is the :ry of all who know what a good mushoom is. These squid colored things that people >at every day in the restaurants are not ;he sweet,wholesome product of our own loil, but they have been taken out of the ins which come by the hundreds of ;housands eveiy week from the caves and lellars of Paris and its suburbs. Tii a AN ARTIFICIAL MUSHROOM CAYK. Yet our own country is abounding Ivith underground places where there is Neither wind, sun nor rain to hamper artificial production, and no country in the world has such facilities .for mushroom cellars as we have everywhere in this broad land. This is the statement, in substance, of a dozen large mushroom dealers:.in New xoric, uosion aua unicago. A large number of persons who order stewed mushrooms, mushroom sauce and other dishes made of the fungus believe they are eating what has grown in open pastures. Let me tell them about this. There is a natural mushroom crop every year, juet as there is an annual crop of flowers and grasses. The mushroom season commences about the first week in August and continues till the last week in September, and in certain seasons well on into October. The whole face of the continent is then covered with plants of the mushroom family, mo3t of them wooden, insipid and sickening, many of them deadly poisonous. All the plants of this interesting fam ily, pretty nearly, which are unfit to eat are called toadstools, from the old superstition that in silent places, when the moon shone bright, the fairies came in the form of toads and sat round about on these fungi till Ihe dawn. It is very difficult for an inexperienced eye to detect the difference between some toadstools and the wholesome plant. But the difference is ns marked in structure and other respects as it is in taste. The true mushroom, that which reaches our market before the dew is yet dry upon it, is known as the Agaricus campetris. It abounds everywhere in open, wind swept pastures, but as a rule it thrives only in ground run over by horses, cattle and sheep, the fertilizers from these animals being the bo t known medium for the development ol the mushroom spawn, or seed. MaDy plants almost like the Agaricus grow under the -nflau'c 01" trees ov^d other umbrageous places, but many of dfegse are very unwholesome and even deachV^ For the genuine plant select^^whosc gills or under radii do not join thefitfem ?that is, do not grow to it?but leaveS^ well defined space all around between their points aud the stalk of the plant. A11 TT?r?rflAloco onH r\r?icrmnnQ funcn A.J niv "? r ? 1, that resem' the Agavicus have the ail1" growing fast to the stem. Moreover, the bulk of wholesome mushrooms are a beautiful, ?resh salmon pink in the gills, this color changing to a dusk madder brown. One other point, the skin is tough and definite and peels easily, which, as far as I know, is not the case with the harmful sorts. But no one keeping these facts in mind will ever gather a poisonous plant by mistake. Mrsnr.ooxi cellar. There is a common belief that our mushroom springs into existence in a single night. It doesn't. It takes some Weeks' underground growth before it bursts through the sod. The broadening out of the umbrella cap, or efflorescence, is due to air, difference of temperature and light. The artificially produced mushroom does not spread in this way. -L .1 . e 1 cui tne process iu uicuiwug buiuu^u , the ground is wonderfully swift. In the heart of Evangeline's Land this summer and along the higher ground of the Delaware I have watched by lantern light the fungus actually making its way up through the sod. Its coming is manifested by the snapping or move *?:nt ol Diacies ci grass or weeus lyinx in its way. This is why people who at sunset mark a piece of ground that has not a fungus upon it are so surprised to find it white with mushrooms at sunrise. Duriug August and September mushroom gathering is a very important industry through the United States and Canada. A farmer owning fertile pastures has the crop removed every morning by nine to ten o'clock, carrying home the gleanings in a bushel basket. But when the pastures are free there is great rivalry among the fungus gatherers, and it has come to be a custom in many regions for the pickers to sally out with lanterns before the dawn. And a I - ? . ? > . * r-~-_ . - . . ? wlerd sight it is to se$ half a score of lights bobbing t bout like will-o'-the. wisps over the loi lesomti uplands. Tne mushroom^ are all taken to the railroad station, Ty^ere *key ftre S?M *or thirl y to forty ceats a bushel to a middleman, who hustjles them off to a hundred markets. Tlhey are shipped to New York from every point for hundreds of miles around, and( in season become n freight just as regular as milk is. But they perish very spon, wilting in the sun or heat as rapidly hs a flower. As a rule it is only the perfect one3 that are bought for market, the shabby, broken or bug eaten one3 being retained by the gatherers to stew and jput in ketchup for domestic use. Hundreds of thousands of bushels arrive in the lar<?e markets ever? day, New York receiving by far tljie larger share They arrive in a good state of preservation, and the restaurant men pay for them only from fifty ceits to seventy* five cents a bushel. Tt ey are light, </? course, and do Lot "w eigh much in bulk. While the plant can ,be obtained in this way there is not a canned mushroom eaten, and people ;wonder how it is that these big, sprawling mushrooms are so much sweeter, softer and better flavored than the sm;all, tough, greenishyellow ones. Bat cc|ushrx>oms in season brought from the (fields sometimes become a drug in the itiarket, though the best connoisseur ofHhis luxury, a large cafe proprietor, toldl me: t "For the past si^c years the natural crop has been morfe or less a failure. Too much wet weatloer for some week9 and too much dry w et iier for others I take to be the causei A? a consequence all food purveyors ha ve been obliged to open French tins in . k.ugust and September?something quit? unheard of some years ago." ; Those who prized t he luxury of mushrooms forty or fifty y jars back grumbled that they could notlget; them at any season of the yeir, nld this stimulated importation from thelca; es and cellars lying outside of ParA st d also set our own people thinking pb, it raising the pfrnt artificially. I e A MC8HB00M &0V8E. 1 1 -? 1 Numbers had cellars attached to pri* vate gardens,' but only few- succeeded in raising mushrooms. Lack of attention to temperature, i nproper management of the beds, the use of inferior spawn and other mist ikes were fatal. Then some market gamlenera in Long Island, Staten Island, Manhattan Island and other points adjneewt to New York, as well as near Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, began hollpwing out caves and building dark places to raise the fungus. A few succeeded, and the rest, becoming disheartened by clnstant failure, abandoned the project.] The truth is they had not the knowledge nor the pi tience. They coulci easilly have imported expert mushroom gardeners from France, instead of learning from the imperfect and very meagrew literature, pictorial and otherwise, belonging to the subject. I may add Msre that all the drawings to be found ip the American Encyclopedia and the jother three or four publications on thefcubjectare to be traced back to a stupidJ inadequate and inaccurate work printld about forty years ago. \ i From that time on artificial mushroom raising has been carried Ion almost ove: the entire Union with varying success. The clumsy, thriftless ac d ill informed have gone out of the b usiness, but th? careful and industrious 15nes have made plenty of money. * Said another restauran ; man to me on t'uis point: "Why, some of them art fairly coining cash out of this thing, and no wonder. They know that the inferiority of imported mushn ioms leads us tc pay exorbitant prices for all that we car \get taken ScvsA rtom th.e beds. We hav< acttiaily to pay from $1. 10 to $1.50 8 pound for these home grc wn mushrooms just as soon as the natural season closes.' "Do you set artificiall r grown mush, rooms Trom American ga metiers ail -cuti year i"-und except in Au^ rust and Sep. temlry?" I asked anoth eif expert in muctrooms who keeps a lame restaurant in Liberty street. - j "No. That is the stupi< I ,and astonishing part of it. It almo st forces one to the belief that there is i io brains employed in the domestic busii t<j?s. For all their huge profits our mush: -dommen are timid. Do you know that just as soon j3 summer comes they close fu,i> the.'r cellars, caves, dark houses an ii mushroom erardens .ind do not start jt/iem going again till October. They Jd*> this year after year in spite of the sbjort natural crop of the six years just) jliot. They ought to run them at their (fullest capacity the year round, auu if Itfccy have an oversupply in August and September they 6?uld can them, as they do Jn Fran/"1From various other comp ent source^ confirmation was obtained c these stateinents. The facts generally as I gathei them from all reliable ? urces, aroj There are, round about Nov York, Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago and all the large cities, several market ardeners engaged in the artificial produ tion. There is a general understanding mong them to shut dcxra at a certain season, but when they are running the get close upon $1.50 a pouud for a they produce. A more plentiful si ?ply would bring down price3, and thusf.they stand together to maintain what i ' practically J a monopoly. 1 But look at the raagnitui of an industry of Ibis kind if pre 'erly developed. If you allowed but ft pound of mushrooms a day to every Sfty or sixty persons, and that is so low s a estimate as to be almost ridiculous, it i roulcl represent a production of 1,000,000 a day, or 365,000,000 pounds in a ye: it, which at fifty cents a pound, would mean $182,500,000 paid to thu mushrJom garden* crs iu a year. Who will say, then, this is an industry that the people should not hear about and that should remain in the bands of a few covetous persons# That all who read this smd who are interested in the subject may have d?ar views about the methods | of raising, I /".ve at some length the methods found the best by experts: In Paris thousands of persons are employed in the subterranean places. Here they work the twenty-four hours through at a depth of from sixty to 160 feet, thi light being so regulated and subdued as any way growth. A temperature of afeotrt dn^H five degrees Fahrenheit is considered tn^WB best. Stable manure is obtained fit the tortuous passageways of these caved! /.|j and fhe spawn is introduced into it, thd whole being compacted and then madg.s ready for fertilizing purposes. In England the spawn is mixed .wiUnf" fertilizer, usually from the horse, aacf, then made into blocks whioh are called 1 bricks. These bricks are capable of be^ ^ ing moved about and even shipped acrotf the ocean, and when portions of it a? ' heie and there introduced into the mudl- } room beds they soon begin'to develop and orerminate. In the French caves, however, the; - ; spawn is put into foam like flakes or leaves, it being then known as micellium^ ' The French raisera also use less manure than they do in England, and this, acrt '' cording to some authorities, accounts fa|j the inferiority of the Parisian plant; Moreover, the burface of each bed if ,: covered with about an inch of fine white stony soil. Moisture is indispensable to the matf forming the bed, and this is regulated Ify artificial means, the water being brought;-' il?A j*** A Uawa MII lium luc auiiatc. auutq uli, uuuviiuity of temperature is kept np. - * The different galleries bear crops in succession, the spawn being introduced * into one series of beds while the crop. ift _ being removed from another. The work! is thoroughly systematized, and the same rule prevails on this side. Thus oner Jl proprietor is able to send to the surface' or out of his cellars in one day crops : weighing from fifty pounds to three thousand pounds. These are at once: either prepared for the near market "in > Europe or sent to the canning establishments, and in this country they ore sent to customers or handed over to the a middleman. jB Imagine a range of beds, like that in the greatest of the French caves, extend- 1 ing for fully twenty miles of row upon 1 rnw nf Vto/la . - viz'til The Parisian caves not alone supply ; ' the city itself, but forward rast quouti- \\ ties to almost every city in Europe. The ' amount of capital invested in the indtatry u not very great, but the return is; ; astonishingly large. In Paris itself every one almost, in any kind of cafe, may b? retu eating mushrooms, the price, being . 2 within the range even of the peasant's parse. MUSHROOMS GROWING ON A SHELF. The fungi produced in these place, as I have said, do not spread or assume the umbrella shape, but are gathered while in button form. In the natural fields the mushroom springs very rapidly into the extended form. ^ The hole remaining when the plant is removed is filled with fine earth. The beds bear from six to eight months, then] the exhausted material is taken away and >2L sold for manure to the marketgardeners.^B a*a ?/\ i^vontvlifa in tTiP> X iiVi (J CUW UU UIHUguiw ? ? *?J ? 1 the temperature can be thus easily m&hx-J ^1 1 tained at a uniform point. j 1 | French experts lay much streess on the! value of virgin or fresh 6pawn, for experience has shown them that spawn' taken constantly from bearing beds loses' its potency for reproduction. The bed#.-? produce in about six weeks After the introduction of the spawn, which sets aside*"" ~ the theory that the mushroom grows to its full size in a few hour3.?New Tori '' Btrald. 1 Magnetizing a Knife. Take a pocket or table knife and !aj | its blade flat upon the back of afire 1 ] *hovel, as shown in the figure. With a pair of tongs held firmly in the hand rub the blade vigorously and always in the * samo direction, from point to base. Torn \ the blade over now or lhen, ;o that tht friction may be applied to both. After J rubbing of from forty to fifty seconds 'I A j the blade will be magnetized and b& capable of lifting a needle with hich it jA I is placed in contact, point to point. The^H magnetization will last a long time, s&y^H i La Nature, This experiment, vrhich i^H bot put down in works on physics, iflH very interesting and worthy of study** We have found that the point of a knife x.1 magnetized in this way constitutes the 5 forth Pole. I Considerate. ? 1 Bessie Bummer?"There's no reason m why both of us should get wet, 13uckhorn."? Puck. There are more holidays in Honolulu B than in any other city in the world. flw