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ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. I. m. grist & sons, PubUshers. } g, jfamilij Jteii'spairer: 4or "*? promotion of the goliticat, jsociat, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the ?outh. tkk?m;S;,c',p^thk?:crntsXE' "VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., AVTCPTsTUSDAY, AUC4T7ST 21, 1895. NUMBER 55. A DESERT CLAIM. By MABY E STIOOEY. fOopyTlfb*, BK by J. B. Lippincott Company.] CHAPTER IX. There was a small stir of surprise next morning when it developed that Jim Kittery had shaken the dnst of K 6 ranch frojn hiB feet and definitely retired from his harassing courtship. The boys brought back the horse he had ridden to the pianic, with the explanation that he had enoountered friends at the festivities with whom he had gone on to the P O ranch in that neighborhood, and he had sent a curt message to Mr Jfillery, saying, wunouc apoiogy, in me local idiom usual in such leave takings, that he "-wanted his time" and directing that the wages dne him, together with his other belongings, should be forwarded to him by the mail carrier. But the interest in this closing page of Jim's poor little romance was quickly forgotten in the more serious loss whioh had befallen the place. When Paul Brown, who always cared for his horse himself, went op to the barns that morning, it was to find the animal missing. There was at first no uneasiness on that soore, as the inference was that the fastenings the night before might not have been properly secured, or that the revelers might have let him escape from the corral in their sleepy maneuvers when they came home from the danoe, but when the boys came in with the hone herd they brought the startling news that not only had Paul Brown's valuable thoroughbred failed to be found, but the bay filly which Ellery had intended for his sister, by far the finest oolt on the place, was missing also. That the corral had been visited by rustlers the night before was the immediate oonolusion amid such excitement as had rarely prevailed at the K 6 ranch in all its history. The men were all hastily mounted Pllnrrr chavnlvr OUU icauj XV/X J/IUDU4W, XJ44V4J WMW. regretting Jim's absence now, when any defection in the ranks 60 serionsly oounted. The plan was for the party to divide and in the common phrase, "ride the fences" of all the fields, looking for 4 the point where the fngitives had passed through. The natural conclusion was that the thieves had made their way to the north, on aooount of the difficulties in any other direction, which appeared well nigh insurmountable, but on this side the oountry was hilly and broken, and progress in the night must necessarily have been slow. There was a possibility that with fresh horses and good daylight to favor them they might overtake their property, or, failing that, they might at least determine the course as to make ultimate-capture reasonably certain. But Paul Brown's part of the expedition was brought to untimely halt They had gone only as far as the deep ooulee back of the barns, where they 'were advancing in single tile down tne narrow trail, zigzagging to the bottom, when, as Brown leaned forward in the saddle eagerly pointing out to Ellery certain tracks he discovered in the soft mud of the trickling stream below, without an instant's warning his horse began buoking, and the 6addle at the same time lurching strangely to one side he had no time to save himself from an ugly tumble. He was almost stunned by the violence of the fall, rendered worse by the yielding, pebbly slope, down which he rolled helplessly, but a moment later he had scrambled to his feet and with inexpressible exasperation was examining the qaddle which had played him such a scurvy trick. "Well, I'll be hanged!" ho roughly ejaculated, incredulously regarding the broken ends of a strap, while the others crowded around to see. The ladigo straps on the off side of the saddle plainly had been cut and so deftly that the tightening of the cinches had butserved to weaken the break, reserving the actual giving way until some such strain as was involved in this steep hill should be brought to bear. It seemed mat no more cuaooncai scneme 10 umder pursuit could have been devised than this, and the others anxiously looked to their own trappings, which, however, were found to be all right, from whioh it seemed evident that the enemy, happening first upon Brown's saddle, which had been nearest the door, had been frightened away before molesting the rest "But I must go back and rig up new ladigos," exclaimed Brown sullenly, feeling an ugly wrench in his foot as he sprang upon his horse bareback, the saddle loaded up in front of him. "You fellows go on though. We've fooled away too much time already. Look sharp along the north fenoe. You'll find a cut somewhere. I'll be up with you before you've gone far." But he found, when he dismounted at the oorral, that his ankle gave him poignant pain. Already it had swollen until the pressure of his heavy riding boot was like a clasp of steel. He drew his knife and cut the lacing that adjusted its shoelike fit over instep and ankle, sharply extending the opening at either end in very wantonness of impatience, tearing out the leather tongne, which, relieved of the restraining lacing, flapped pesteringly np and down against his foot as he stepped. He was in a mood j , to interpret literally the Scriptural injunction and cut off his very hand if it should offend. The aoute physical pain, with the harassing feeling that he ought to stop and bandage the foot, perchance exchange the heavy boot for looser wear, seemed in his eager haste to be gone simply maddening. He was limping miserably toward the toolhouse. where he knew some ladigo straps were hanging, when Mrs. Ellery's musical voice called to him from the gate: "Oh, you are not gone. How fortunate! I want my horse saddled, Mr. Brown. Will you call one of the boys to attend to it, please?" "I am afraid the boys are a mile away by this time, Mrs. Ellery," ho returned, with grudging civility. "We think we are on the track of the thieves, and every moment counts now," adding this last by way of a broad hint, which he felt was excusable under the circumstances. But Mrs. Ellery was so comfortably persuaded of the entire reasonableness of her purpose that she could scarcely have imagined such an anarchical condition of things as that anybody should seriously object to furthering her desires. "Indeed?" she said, smiling inconsequentially. "Then if you are actually on the trail a few minutes one way or the other won't count for much. Perhaps you will not mind slipping the saddle on my horse before you go. Ar talissa has just aiscoverea raau sua is all out of yeast cakes," adding the explanation with a smiling pretense of apology. "We must have bread, you know, whether a horse is left on the place or no, and Miss Ellery has offered to ride over to Campbell's and borrow some if you will kindly bring round the horse for her." For Miss Ellery! With all his fieroe impatienoe to be off, that put a different face upon it. "Certainly, Mrs. Ellery. I shall be glad," he said, turning back to the barns. He had but just finished saddling when Miss Ellery, in her riding dress, came hurrying across the lawn. "I wanted to see you. I have run away from Mrs. Ellery," she breathlessly exclaimed as he met her at the gate. "You have not mentioned that you heard the noises last night?" "No. I felt a little cheap, to tell the truth, to have been fairly upon the ground and then have let them run off my own horse from under my very nose. And besides,"his eyes seeking hers in deprecating inquiry, "I did not know. I was afraid that perhaps Mrs. Ellery might have heard you as you went in. I could hardly afford to take chances of that sort " "Oh, she did!" she said in a voice of agony, her cheeks aflame. "I stumbled over a chair. Was there ever 6uch luck? The noise was enough to wake the dead. Nelsine oame flying in, thinking I had a nightmare, perfectly dumfounded to find me still dressed and out or bed. i told her that I had only fallen asleep in the hammock. It was horrible to have to fib like that and to think that now it may all come out"? "But why should anything come out, Miss Ellery?" he eagerly protested. "I assure you"? "You will not tell of it?" 6he cried in an anguish of entreaty. "Promise me that you will not whatever comes up. " "How can you ask such a thing? How can you imagine such a possibility? Don't you know that I would die a thousand deaths before I would let you have a moment's annoyance because of last night?" he protested, with a sort of furious tenderness. It seemed to him that this sting of her doubt, added to his physioal pain, must well nigh drive him mad. "How can you hurt me by jiinh'nor arinh a thinp. when VOU knOW ?how can you help knowing??that I am yours body and soul; that I could not be unfa.thful to you? Why will you torture me so?" "Hush, you must not," she whispered breathlessly, hurriedly turning toward her horse, which had strayed the length of the long bridle rein and was now quietly nipping grass. A mass of wild sunflowers grew raukly beside the corral gate, and in her sudden turn she had stepped back among them. The ragged petals of a flower brushed one hot cheek with a touch like an insect, and as she put up her hand to the spot she suddenly paused as though turned to stone. It 6eemed to Brown as if some thought had struck her which she was impulsively considering, hesitating, yet perhaps longing, to express, and he waited with a wild, unexpressed hope fluttering at his heart, looking at her with dumb questioning, until, still glued to the spot, she raised her finger and pointed. ""My GodP1 he hoarsely ejaculated, thrusting her aside with such rude force that she almost fell to the ground, while he furiously bent himself to trampling down the suftly glittering coil of mottled browns which now he saw for the first tirna It was such a combat as he had met numberless times before in his life upon the plains, but now, in the 6udden perception of the danger, with the time lost in the instinctive movement to save her, and with his stiffened, almost useless right foot, his cunning failed him by just so much as he left the ugly, swaying head free to throw itself against his ankle just at the point where he had cut loose the boot but a moment befora He had been pale, but now he was ghastly, his sunburned face like a carving in old ivory, 1?* Kie Viool nr?nn fVio UUl IJU UaiULilJ (^lUUUU 1UO 1IVV< u^/vu VMV quivering coil, nor stopped until its slow surrender to death was well assured, even reaching down then, from force of cowboy habit, to break off the rattles. "Will you have them for a souvenir?'' he asked, with a wan smile, holding out on his palm the dull husk of corrugated horn. "A rattlesnake, and my dress brushed right across it!" she gasped, pale as the dead. "And, oh, heaven, did it bite you? Oh, it cannot have bitten you!" wringing her hands wildly, the suffering in her eyes entreating him to reassure her. "Don't bo worried about it little girl," he murmured gently. "If there is whisky enough about the place. I dare say 1 shall pull through all right, and if I don't"? But Edith was flying toward the house, calling out incoherent explanation as she ran to Nelsine, who was opportunely coming around the corner from the kitchen. "Where is the whisky? Where?" she cried, seizing upon the bewildered woman and shaking her freuziedly as though she would wrest the information from her by sheer force. "Oh, I know, I saw some in your closet. Don't come with me. Go and do what you can for him!" "I'll take care of him," exclaimed Artalissa, who had heard through the open window, darting by them as she spoke. As Edith came out with the whisky the girl met her on the piazza, He calmly ground his heel upon the quivering coll. fiercely snatching the bottle from her hand. "I'll take care of him," she exclaimed again, as if repelling any interference, hurrying back to the bunkhouse. Nelsine was wild with excitement. "There was never a snake seen so near the house as that before," she cried. "And to think that it might have been either of the children! Where are the children?" peering anxiously about the lawn. "I can never feel easy to have them out of my sight again so long as we live on this dreadful place." "It is not the time to worry about the children. They are all right," retorted Edith sharply. "The question is, What can we do to save?him? If we only had a doctor! Can we not send for one? Oh, we must!" "But there is not a man on the place to send. He said himself that they were all a mile away half an hour ago, and they are farther off. by this," moaned Nelsino, olasping her hands helplessly together. "The Campbell boys might gU| 11 TV O iajuxu ?UU au uucuj. xuo uuvuui 1 would get here too late probably, but it is horrible to think of the poor man dying perhaps, and we all alone on the placa Oh, we never could endure it!" 1 "I will ride over and get the Camp; bell boys to go for a doctor," returned Edith briefly, setting her teeth hard together. "Don't worry, and do everything you can for hiru, Nelsina It hap1 peued?for me!" a sob in her voice as 1 she turned away her head, running toward the horse, which had remained nipping grass where she had left him, as contentedly as though no shadow of death had fallen across the emerald surfaca "The poor man! It will probably be too late," murmured Nelsiue hopelessly, mechanically keeping along beside her. "But you would better go, just the same, Edith. It will be a comfort to us afterward." TO UK CONTINUED NEXT FRIDAY. WHEN NIAGARA RAN DRY. Congressman Dan Loekwood, of Buffalo, says that within his recollection the great waterfall at Niagara was suspended, and that many people passed over its rocky places dry shod. He says that the miracle was wrought iu 1848, during the month of March. To he exact, it was on the morning of March 29, 1848, and for several hours the wonderful torrent did cease to flow, and the river ran dry. The preceeding winter had been a severe one, and the ice which had formed in Lake Erie was of pheuomenal thickness. There came on March 27, a sudden exceedingly warm spell of weather, which melted the snows, and a warm rain poured down iu torrents during the entire day of March 28. The ice was loosened, and a strong east wind drove it far out iu the lake during the night. But at sunrise on the 29th the wind came from the west, and as the sailors say, it was "blowing great guns." This terrific gale drove the immense mass of ice into the mouth of the Niagara river, where it was gorged and piled up from shore to shore, hermetically sealing the river from damming the waters back into the lake. Thus it happened that Niagara ran dry, its falls became black, barren rocks, and its mighty thunders were put to sleep. Within four or five hours tiny streams of water began to trickle through the gorge. The tremendous power back of those streams accelerated their flowiug, and in a short time the ice dam gave way, and there never was such a wild, roaring, mad Hood in Niagara before or since, and thus the cataract became itself again.?Boston Transcript. ffa?" Missouri furnishes the government cavalry horses at from $45 to $75 each. In some of the Pacific States a horse can be bought for $2 or $3, and is considered to be worth less than a good sheep-dog. JUistcUunrous grading. BETHEL BREEZES. Work of the Reaper?No Damage by Rain? The InduKtrioiiM LaclieR?Watermelons Plentiful?Dr. Campbell, the Model Farmer? Re-Union of Company A, of the Sixth?The Llthla Spring. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Forest Hill, August 19.?William Beatty Bigger, second son of Mr. James Bigger, died on Friday eveniug last, after an illness of only two days. Beatty was just 18 years old and a young man of most exemplary character. He was a student at Mr. Barron's school at Forest Hill, and left school Wednesday evening in apparently good health. He took sick that night with something like cramp colic, and although he appeared better for awhile, on Thursday he again took worse. His physician, Dr. Bigger, did all that medical skill could under the circumstances; but he died. His family have the sympathy of the whole community in this their deep affliction. His funeral was preached at the residence of his father by his pastor, Rev. McClain. He was buried at Bethel on Saturday, Rev. McAllister pronouuckon r\r1 i /if 5/\r* of tliD Ct PQDD in lug IUC UtUUU 1V/11UU t*W VIIV giM* V III the presence of a large number of friends. With the exception of chills along the creeks, the health of this community is, at present, good. Corn crops in this section are very fine, and the abundant rains that have lately fallen insures a large corn crop in this neighborhood. Cotton is late ; but with a late fall the crop will be a fairly good one. The rains, so far as we have been able to learn, have done no serious damage on the river or creeks. Some of the ladies have been a little frightened lest the rain would continue long enough to damage the fruit crop; but the sunshine of yesterday and today has restored confidence, and now, with smiling faces and busy hands, the good ladies are cutting and drying, canning and preserving, and making jelly and apple butter and jam. God bless the ladies. If it were not for their handiwork, we would go without almost all the good things wrtlro Kfti wAi?fK liwlnnr Wo nu n tuau uiaa^ niu tr ui ku ut tug. ?? v vmu put up with the gold standard, and take it out in stamping and threatening when the supreme court decides that the millionaire shan't pay taxes on his millions, and even smile blandly-when we receive four cents for cotton; but when there ain't any pie or jelly, or canned fruit, or preserves, theu the man becomes sour and makes things disagreeable for himself and all around him. I have been around a goodeal lately, and from what I see, the ladies of this community do not intend that their husbands shall become snappish or their friends grow cold because they have no nice things to eat. Many of them have already put up quantities of fruit, and are still canning, drying aud preserving it. The fruit crop is abundant and watermelons and cantaloupes are so abundant in many places that they are fed to the hogs. Mr. James Campbell has the fiuest watermelons we have ever seen. They are of the Duke Jones variety. Mr. Cook also has an abundance of fine melons of the Bradford kind. Every one, in fact, seems to have plenty of them. Dr. Campbell has the best vineyard we know of iu this section. His varieties have been carefully selected, and the grapes are of superior quality and flavor. The doctor is a model farmer us well as a skilled physician, and his crop shows that intelligence has directed the labor that worked it. The doctor made about 333 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of oats this year, lie tnresiies nis own crop wun a horsepower that works like a treadmill. This power is not straining on the horse lik? the old horsepower, and two good mules, without over exertion, can thresh out several hundred bushels in a day. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ferguson have just returned from a short pleasure trip. Mr. Ferguson went to Richburg to the reunion of his old company?Company A, Sixth regiment? and Mrs. Ferguson accompanied him part of the way, stopping on the road to visit friends. Mr. Ferguson says that all of the officers who were iu command of the company at the surrender were present. Captain W. T. I). Cousar ; 1st Lieutenant J. S. Prennen; 2nd Lieutenant John C. McFadden; 3rd Lieutenant Newton Gaston, and Lieutenant C. W. McFadden, who lost his leg at Sharpsburg. The last named was made chairman of the meeting. The reunion was a most enjoyable one, and the 25 old scarred and grizzly rebels, who are now most all of the company that is left, shook hands and fought over again many of the desperate battles that they were engaged in during the war. Mr. Ferguson says lie went tor a good time and that he had it; but that the time was too short to get half through, although many deeds of daring and funny episodes of catup life were recalled to his memory. The chief pleasure, however, was meeting once again comrades with whom he had marched though snow and mud, ! with whom he had been lulled to sleep by the din of musketry, and with whom he had stood shoulder to shoulder on many a bloody battlefield. The command was handsomely entertained by the good people of Richburg and ! vicinity. < Forest Hill Lithia spring still con- ; tiuues to attract people from all parts of the country. Our friend, 'Squire Culp, from Fort Mill, came over and took home several jugs of the water; and a few days ago a covered wagon, filled with jugs, drove up to the spring and took oflf a wagon load of the water. As soon as Mr. Wallace has the pipe fixed, we think the water will get much better, as some surface water now gets into the spring aud nfFects it more or less. Mr. Cook and Mr. Jas. Campbell went squirrel hunting one day last week. It was most too wet for squirrels ; but they got two, and 15 opossums. Mr. Campbell says John Bloodworth's blue dog is the champion 'possum dog of the county. Mr. Barron's school at Forest Hill is flourishing. There are now 55 pupils in regular attendance. They have established a literary society in the school, and will organize a debating society soon. x. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. The Weather and Crops?Death of Mrs. L. R. Roberts?Thrilling Experience at Doollttle For?l?Believes In the Old Burr Mill. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enauirer. Blacksburg, August 20.?After a week of clouds and rain, the sun came out bright and warm Sunday morning, cheering our hearts and dismissing, for the time at least, all fears of a freshet and consequent injury to the corn on the lowlands. The seasons have so far been most propitious in our section this year, the crops were never more promising, and fruit of everykind so abundant and so perfect. The meeting at Buffalo church closed last week. There were thirteen additions to the church, and the new converts will be baptized in a short time with those who will join at Mount Paran. On Wednesday morning at 1 o'clock, Mrs. L. R. Roberts died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Plonk, at Cherokee Falls, aged 72 years. She was afflicted for several months preceding her death with heart disease, and bore her sickness with becoming Christian fortitude. The loving and tender ministrations of her devoted children, among whom was Mr. R. P. Roberts, secretary and treasurer of Cherokee Falls Cotton miH, was a great solace to her in her last illness, and when all was over, they bore her body to the old Long Creek burying ground, in Gaston county, N. C., near which she had lived, and where she had worshirmed so loner, and laid it to rest beside that of her husband, Mr. John Roberts. Mrs. Roberts was a woman of fine mind and character, and impressed upon those about her the earnestness and force of a true Christian life, ever ready, by good deeds, to adorn the faith which she professed. Mr. J. C. Plonk and his brother Mike, had an experience in water on Wednesday morning before day, which they will never forget, and which came near costing ?hem their lives. There was very little rain at Cherokee Falls during the night, and they started to Blacksburg, intending to cross the small creek?Doolittle?at the ford near the factory. As they approached the stream, they noticed, to their surprise, that it was somewhat swol- : len; but in the darkness could form no idea of its condition and drove in. , Before reaching the middle of the stream the hit/rev was overturned and 1 the men had to swim for their lives. They both succeeded in getting out safely, and the horse, swept dowu with the buggy about a hundred feet, brought it and himself safely out. Of i course the gentlemen were drenched, and by the time they returned home 1 and donned dry clothing, they had i only 50 minutes to reach Blacksburg 1 for the northbound passenger train, ( which passes here at 5.40; but, by taking another road, they accomplished the distance in good time. A very ' heavy rain had fallen here and along ; the headwaters of Doolittle, hence its sudden and dangerous rise. 1 I was glad to see in The Enquirer i of the lfith instant, the complimentary 1 notice of Mr. Kiddle's burr mill flour, j After making a thorough test of the roller mill flour, I have used, when 1 I could get it, and advocated the use of flour ground by the old fashioned burr mill. While in some instances it is not quite so white, yet it is sweeter 1 to the taste and more nutritious. ' There is no reason either why it ( should not be as white and light as < the roller flour. Our farmers only ' need to be more careful in selecting 1 and cleaning their wheat from all impurities, and the miller in having his ' rocks in good condition, to produce a ?' very fine quality of good white, sweet, ( nutritious flour. The flour we are ' using now was grouud at the old Moore ( burr mill, on Buffalo, by Messrs. James ' TV T ?? ?*-! -? nn/1 T rvPAriU ACQ nf ivhont iUill till ailVi ?/l#OV>?/fcA *?*.V/OOj V?A VT iav%*? raised by myself, and I am sure that ' the bread and rolls made from it, will compare most favorably in appearance ] with any made from roller Hour, and I is decidedly sweeter, and has more nil- s triment in it. I hope our people, for < their own and their children's good, 1 will never think of giving up the old burr mill, unless they can get a better ' substitute for it than the present roller ' [latent process for making their bread. w. A. 845?" The value of all property used i for educational purposes in the United 1 States is placed at six hundred million f dollars; the public school property i alone is valued at four hundred mil- 1 lion dollars. MECKLENBURG'S RUAD. .Manufacturer's Record. The construction of macadamiz roads around Charlotte, N, C., is st being pushed, and in view of the ef feet of good roads upon Mecklenburg county, the following data with reference to road-buildiug in that county, given by the engineer in charge of the work, will be of interest: Most of the stone is furnished by the farmers, the county paying 40 cents per cubic yard for the stone piled on the road at designated places. A small proportion of the stone is quarried by the convicts. The road costs about $2,800 per mile. The couuty now has about 33 miles of first-class madamized roads. The number of convicts now engaged in road-building is about SO. It costs the county about 26 cents nor dov fnr pnph nnnvint maintained and worked on the roads. This cost includes food, clothing, shelter and guarding. The convicts live in camps at points along the road near where the road building is being done. The shelter is a cheap structure of wood and canvas, something better than a tent. The advantages of using convict labor are: 1. That an organized force can be better maintained than could be done with free labor for road building. 2. It is cheaper than free labor would be. 3. It frees the county from the expense of keeping prisoners without any return value. 4. It engages convict labor in healthful occupation without bringing it in competition with free labor. 5. It is the best possible punishment for the common criminal. 6. It cures the tramp nuisancer 7. The result (good roads) is a benefaction. The county owns a crushing plant, consisting of a stone crusher a 40-horse power engine and boiler. It also owns a heavy steam roller, screening apparatus, carts, mules, etc. Lands in the county have been materially increased in value as a result of the improved condition of the roads. Many new seiners nave Deen auracied by the new roads. Considerable capital has been invested in enterprises in Charlotte because of the good impressions made by the good roads leading out of the city. The road-building is done entirely by convict labor, except only a few skilled workmen. RAPID RAILWAY MAKINU When it was proposed to build the Central Pacific railway, a civil engineer of 25 years' experience reported that the line could not be completed in 20 years, with all the money in the Bank of England to back the enterprise. But it was built seven years before the expiration of the time fixed by congress. The act of congress allowed the Central Pacific to build its line eastward until it met that of the TTninn P.irnfin. Inasmuch as every mile of line brought with it a subsidy in bonds and lands from the United States there was a race between the two companies. As the tracks neared each other, the pace became rapid. The Union company laid a little over four miles in one day. Soon after the Central company completed six miles in a day. The Union company exceeded that feat by laying eight miles. Mr. Charles Crocker who was pushing forward the Central, said : "We'll take off our coats and beat them, but we won't try it until they ure so close that they won't have a chance to get back at us." When the Central approached within 14 miles of the Union the final struggle began. "We are going to lay 10 miles of track in one day ; you can make up your minds to that," said Mr. Crocker to his foremen, who had expressed doubts of the possibility of utilizing men enough to do the work. "I have been thinking the matter over for a fortnight, and I know what I am about. Each train load will contaiu material enough for two miles. As soon as one train has dropped its load, forward the rails as fast as the men can carry them ; then brine: un and unload another train. Have your men in readiness for spiking. Let the first man drive in only only particular spike, and pass on from Dne rail to another ; let the man who follows him drive in the secoud spike on the rail, and so on. See that you have enough spikes on hand, so that no man stops for an instant or passes iinother man. Then let the straight->*> " n n rl ^'AA tliof t Kotf orl. L" IIC Id lUllUtv, uuu cvt mat mvj auvanee without stop or hitch. Close du their heels bring on the levelers ind fillers, but not so as to interfere." Mr. Bancroft, who describes the icene, quotes an eye-witness: ''It was," said he, "as if an army passed over the ground, and left behind it a railway finished. I rode beside the workmen, and at times the :rack was laid as fast as my horse could ivalk. Ten miles, and 185 feet additional fvere laid in that day of days in the listory of track laying. 8??" The latest English religious nov?lty is a smoking service. The followng invitation has been widely circuated in Whitechapel: "If you want a uuoke free, come next Sunday afterioou at three o'clock to Christ church lall. A free cup of tea if you like, robacco gratis."