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GR..NDPA'S BARN. Oh, a jolly old place is grandpa's barn, Where the doors stand open throughout the da? And the cooing doves fly in and out, And the air is sweet with fragrant hay. Where the grain lies over f slippery floor, And the hens are busily Toking around, And the sunbeams flicker, now here, now there, And the breeze blows through with a mel sound. The swallows twitter and chirp all day, With fluttering wings in the old brown eaves, And the robins sing in the trees which lean To brush the roof with their rustling leaves. -Dumb Animals. 'A Mystery of the Sea and the Romance of a Wreck. CHAPTER VI HER OW SAD STORY. On a certain evening in the month of March, Kate Denham was sitting in the library of one of the least pretentious houses, as to external appearance, on Boylston Square. Its location, how ever, and interior display of cultured taste and of affluence denoted the house to be one of the best class of residences in the city. A few struggling rays from the gas-light on the opposite side of the street dimly afforded the only illumination to the apartment that would h.ve been acceptable to Miss Denham at that time; for, in an atti toe of complete repose, she had been sitting motionless and alone in the shadows of the heavy draperies of the window since long before the last rays of the setting sun had departed from the room. ' Her whole heart and soul were con centrated in her thoughts; for she had ] reached that crisis in her life that comes sooner or later to most women. To her keeping, Arthur Beckweth had offered his love, his honor, and his hap piness-he had asked her to become his wife. The promptings of her own MOTIONLESS AND ALONE. heart told her that she, too, could con fde her own honor and life's happiness implicitly in him; but yet she had re fused him. How hard it had been for her to withstand his earnest pleading. Ste; had tried to make him understand bitt< deeply she lamented his having be stowed his love on her in vain-she who could not bring herself to give him the single reason that decided her choice; and who had found it so diffi cult to hide from him the fact that here own heart's desire would be fulfilled if( it'were possIble for her to be his wife. In the quiet and darkness of the libraryt she was ever asking herself if she had acted wisely and justly in thus making both of them unhappy. "Yes, I have done right," she thoughit; "but I can not let him go from me without another effort to let him know why, for the present at least, I can not become his wife. If he will but give me the opportunity, I will ;prove to him that it is for his own good that I refuse him. He shall never know, however, what it will cost me to give up his love." While she was thus occupied with her thoughts, a crimson flush suffused her whole countenance as "Mr. Beck weth" was announced. She greeted , hin~in the reception room with a frank cordiality so much like her usual man iter that Beckweth, if he had come with any intent of renewing his suit, could not fail to see that his cause was still hopeless. He was much embarrassed, and like most men under similar cir cumstances, -after a few commonplace - remarks, he plunged abruptly into the E subject that was uppermost in his b mind. E "Miss Denham," he said, "I have e become possessed of some information F concerning your friend, Hattie Harper; a would you like to hear it?" "Hattie Harper!" she replied, with a y startled look; "what about her. You v surely do not mean-you have not what have you heard about her, Mr. j Beckweth?". Her evident surprise and manner of answering made him vexed with him self at his want of tact, and did not. ! serve to lessen his own embarrassment After a moment's hesitation he said: s "I find myself in a delicate position, t for I must own to you that I know con: II cerning Hattie Harper what I havet reason to believe you did not wish me to know. More than that, I can, if you wish, tell you much more about your self than I think you can ever have heard. The conversation after your graphic story of Hattie Harper's ship wreck, told that stormy night at Rock berg, makes me feel that -I have no I right to keep from you, however, the r knowledge that 1 have become pos-e sessed of." Kate had now fully recovered herself,f and, laying her hand gently on his, j armn, she said: Why you and I snoud not talk to eacin pther as the best of friends. As such, k am sure you need have no embarrass ment in this matter. It does not fol-, "WHAT ABOUT HER?" low that because there may be that in )ur lives which we do not care to have the theme of common conversation, Chat it must not be alluded to under some circumstances. If you have round out who I am, I am glad. for nly this evening I had determined to tell you mysef, should the proper op portunity present itself. It was my )wn sad story that I told you at Rock berg. I am Hat-tie Harper, and as you are aware, I told fou all of my early history that 1 know myself. Now please tell me, in the fullest detail, all use you have learned-not so much shout' as for me CHAPTER VI. REWS FROMt THE WREcK. --- Beckweth was deeply touched at the' ;ad tenderness with which Miss Den am had acknowledged herself to be aattie Harper. Unwrapping from a; package the initial letters that he had >btained at the junk-shop, together with several others just like them, he. old her how he had casually noticed; she first and what had led him to in-; restigate their origin. The others, he aid, had been nailed to a beam in a: ish-house at Rockberg. He had seen hem there from time to time ever: since his boyhood. These last had been, he association in his mind that had ,aused his perplexity at seeing their nates at the door of Mr. Flynn's shop.. Chey were known to have been taken rom a piece of the wreck that came shore during the storm that brought he little waif to Mrs. Harper. "With so much knowledge, acci lentally gained," he continued, "and; ith the tragic earnestness of your, tory of Hattie Harper still fresh in my nemory, was it at all surprising that I hould be interested in trying to obtain clue to what you told us was her, nost earnest desire to know? Of :ourse, had I been sure that I possessed'. ll the letters of the vessel's name, I ould have felt that I had accom lished a great deal. As it was, I puz ed a long time over these, supplying ne or more letters as I thought neces-. ary, trying to make from them a >robable name for a ship; but could ome tono satisfactory conclusion in the natter. I confess that my interest. had >egun to flag, when it received a new nd unexpected impetus through a let er from a friend. Mr. Wise. to whom introduced you this winter, thus loses a hasty note to me, written in Xicago where he resides:" He then read to her from the letter he following extract: "'By the way, rhile at the court-house here the other ay, I came across the will of a Mrs.' S SOVNGTE- IDE [. M.Hre.I -tsebqete rove. Harpr.n ti behe MissuDenhed eat propety ato hr adorton's dawher I [ite wo, th willer?' ont" sy "Th, le y eMistea, besknows ere Dnamd her supoe." wul aoe) for reasns wasichanghereby she roeaidnuity t wasf the simplea eat I moet at arHrticonl's clohngI iite you thes neroKteDeha "This, ou see, ThissI Dnhaeri knewn knear thetim you andHati Harper rereh one d then knoingwha.m Yelns, buhat doeas been ceingt ou owhy prsmy nmwna chamm,"sh eon thatbr, whe waddaed fsming eIvolntan argticed chld's clohould hts hadthae nafter she wate gonha" "Thked onke it.othinve kiss Den ilar he aime fts. fewrmoer's eaton "was smen knowin whur mth eelprobalways een shenherningwa ow chl.ptaents 'ownvr ama,' aluremtomlear" sheadethin smilingr :vlndre seundoutedlyhatsedshhal *hich, as you will see later, was wrong. "After receiving Mr. Wise's letter," Beckweth resumed, '"I became thor oughly in earnest to learn all that was possible about the wreck, for your sake; and fortune seemed to favor me from that time on. An English news paper was sent me soon after, which contained the obituary of an old mer chant friend of r.iy iather's. and whose acquaintaiPe I made mys.lf when in England. In the account of the life work of the deceased, the obituary mentioned the names of several of the famous sailing-vessels that his firm had built, or owned. Among these was mentioned the 'Xenophon,' which the account said was the fastest ship oni record up to the time of her loss, in the year 1858. Seeing that name 'Xeno phon' in such a connection and with such a history, together with the recol lection of the unusual combination that I had in these metal letters,caused me to once more play my 'game of let ters,' and that time with good results. You will notice, Miss Denham, as I place these letters on the table before you here, that I can make them read Xenoph-; or by another arrange ment, Xe-phon. Either or both of these would make the vessel's name to which they belonged Xcnophon by as suming that an N and an 0 are still wanting. All the evidence seemed to prove conclusively to my mind that such was the vessel's name." Beckweth then told her that, acting on that assumption, he had corre sponded with the deceased merchant's firm and learned that their bark Xenophon had sailed from Liverpool on the 20th of November, 18.58, for Halifax, N. S. -She carried, his corr. spondent had written, a heavy cargo of machinery which probably had shifted at sea and ultimately caused her to go down; for they never heard of her after she cleared from Liver pool She was not a passenger ship; but a memorandum still preserved in their office showed that on that par ticular voyage she had taken a cabin passenger as a special favor-a Cap tain John C. Hargrave, of the Royal Navy, and who was accompanied by his little child an.1 a nurse. Beckweth thus far in his explanation had confined himself to a direct busi uess-like manner, as if he were a law year talking to a client. He had not dared trust himself to do otherwise; and being still somaethat ill at ease, he now stopped talking, as if he were through. The beseeching look m Miss Denham's face. however, moved him to add gently, as he put a package of letters into her hand; "there is but lit tle more. Perhaps you had better read these by yourself; they will tell you all I know. No!" he hastily exclaimed; seeing by her startled look and confusion that his motive had been misunderstood." I will tell you. The shifting of the "Xenophon's" cargo accounts for her being so far out of her course as Rockberg; and also for the fact that no such vessel was ex pected in the vicinity. As for the rest, it has not been a difficult matter to learn, through my correspondents, who Captain Hargrave was; as will be seen by these letters. In them you will learn that he married a Miss Kate Denham, who died when their only child was about three years old. "0, Mr. Beckweth! how I have prayed to knowv this, even if I should be left homeless still, as it had proved that I am." Her voice showed that she was deep. l affected, and it was some minutes before she continued. "Ijf my fortune and years of patient perseverance on: my part could accomplish it, I had de termined to devote both to this very matter'. The knowledge now that I was not aiX outcast, that 1 once must have had a home and kindred, and that L may yet learn of them, is priceless to me." The unexpected turn that the eon rersation of the eveninig had takene the sudden acquisition of knowledge which for years slhe had so longed to possess, and the natural emotion that bad accompanied it had-driven the part that Beckweth had taken in herbhalf into the background icur the. moment.. She now began to ex-pr-ess her grati-, ude to him, but as she did soth thought of the relation in which tisy, stood toward each other, and her res olve of but an hour ago, came baik to. er with a suddenness that si' enced :ier. "0, Arthur!" she finally exi laimed, vith an entreating energy th.at brought im instantly to her side. "Kate!" he said, "I did not come ere to take advantage of your grati ude by pressing my suit; but do I uess right when I ask if what you aave just learned had t7.1y thing to do with your refusal of moi?" "It had all to do wifh it," she g'ently replied as she plaeed. her hand in his. "And so you thoug,ht you mxight do ty fatmily name a verong by marrying. me while your origin was so unce tain," he said to her a little after. "You dear, foolish one, it was-for me to decide what risk I ran in that dire tion. I knew you were Hattie Harper long ago-when I asked you to become my wife, but it was not until this morning that I learned of Captain Hargrave." A week or two later, when Kate was visiting Aunt Alice, Arthur said to her, with a merry twinkle in his eyes:. "Kate. you told us on a certain occa sion that you did not know where Hatty Harper was?" "I told you that Icould not tcu," she replied. (THlE END.] A DIA3OND STORY. The Cleve. Work Now Accomplished bp Dishonest Lapidaries. A well known diamond dealer, who has herome an expert from many years' nilingof precious stones, was near lv taken in a few days ago by a shrewd di:imond shark, whose new scheme de serves attention, as it is likely to be at tempted in some other quarter. The dodre consists in trying to palm off a eleverly "doctored" diamond as a very valuablie stone and in telling a plausible and picturesque story to give it coun tenance. The short, stout man, with a grizzled, gray mistache, who tried to victimize the jeweler in question, brought to him an elegat-looking solitaire ring, pur png to contain a diamond of unusual i.e and brilliancy. To the eye even :f the expert the stone looked all right, and the man tried hard to make a bar rain with him at once, without pro ceeding any furthor. As it looked, the diamond was easily worth ?200, and the man, who told a tale of dire neces sity, oflered to sell it for ?100. The story of the ,diamond as told by the man, who gave the name of Charles iarn ool, was that it belonged origin aliy to the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. In December 1871, when the Grand Duke, who was young and handsome, attended the reception given in his honor in the Academy of Music, an episode accurred that attracted consid erabic attention at the time and has beenu much talked of since. Sonic time ai:er the promenade, and when everything was in motion, the at tention of the Duke, who had gone up stairs with two of the gentleman of the committee, was attracted by a lady in :ae of the corner rows of curtained b::N'ont boxes. There were but two ladies in the box, one of them an elder ly lady and the other a tall, beautiful young woman, about 20 years of age, who had remarkably line eyes, which could net fail to be noticed. The Grand Duke expressed a desire to be introduced, which was soon gratified, and after standing for a few moments in front of the box he asked permission to go inside. In a little while he asked the lady to zo-ou the promenade, and otherwise showed his pleasure at meet ing her, but she mildly and persistently riused. As he rose to go, the Duke, holding her hand a moment and slipping from one of his fingers a diamond ring, pre sented it to her and asked her to keep it as a souvenlr of the occasion. The ladiy did so, and kept it for several rears, until at. last she fell into reduced circunistanecs and determined to get rid of the ring in spite of its associa tions. Such, in substance, are the facts of an ocurrer~c up)on which the man with the diaraond to sell told his story. He represe nted th at the diamond he had was th~e one gtiven to this lady, and he endelavored very clearly to trace its his to to her. The jeweler, however, in sisted upon removing the stone from the s- ting to examine it, and this the man allowed him to do. The man's willingness to do this very nearly t'arew the jeweler off his guard at t he Tast moment, especially as upon remov ing the stone he could see nothing wron~g with it. Taking up a microscope, however, he was able to detect, with a lcse scrutiny, a slight variation in the quality and texture of the stone between the middle portions and the ends. Then he held the stone near a lamp, andl in a few minutes the whole nature of the ingenious fraud dawned upon him. A smnafl real diamond of inferior quality formed the top and bottom, and a fine pierce of crystal had been sand wched between them, adding nearly ten tirnjes to the value of the stone. It had been so cleverly and ingeniously p)ut together with a, colorless cement I'.at it was almost beyond the power of detection. The man, of course, express ed surprise, and asserted that the dia mond was just as lie received it.-Tid 1J.it.. New Use for Glycerine. Surgeon-Major Cotter, in the columns of the Indian Medical Gazette, furnishes an interesting account of a patient sif fering from enteric-fever, and who was awakened every ten minutes by the dry ness of his tongue, which was parched and covered with sores. In the treat ment of this case the tongue was paint ed with glycerine frequently, the result of this application being that at the first trial the patient slept almost com fortably, waking up about every two hours wvith the tongue feeling dry, but not really dry to the touch; after re newed application of the o'lycerine he at once slept again. It ao appears that this treatment was resorted to in a number of other cases with similar re suts. une or inc novemtes in raris is a Di; wooden cow built in front of a cafe. The miilkmiaid milks a stream of milk pnch into a glass, and a placard pro claims the following astonishing fact: 'France has sent Bartholdi's goddess to. America, and America gratefully sends in return a mikmaid." The American Exposition Building in London is to be 210 feet wide and 1,000 feet long. There are are to be several smaller structures, ,including an art gallery capabj of holding 3,000 pie ures. The iain building will cover five acres, and is to be constructed of steel 'radls and corrugated iron. The use of steel rails in structures of this kind is a new idea, but has received the approval of eminent engineers. It enables the builders to put up or take down a building so constructed in a v-e short ti .* PRISON LANGUAGE. now Convicts Communicate in Spite of the Most Rigid Discipline. Incidents that must necessarily follow from intercommunication often happen in penitentiaries whero the rules are rigid and surveillance so close that a convict is never from under the eye of a guard or taskmaster, says the Indianapolis Journal. No matter to what extreme the rule pro hibiting conversation between convicts may be enforced, they find some means by which to inform themselves of what is go ing on or what is to occur. But. more than this, a convict may conceive the idea of i escape or revolt, and for him to communi cate it to one he wishes to have as an ac complice is not difficult. They bring others Into the plot or plan until twenty or thirty know it, details for the carrying out of which each is assigned his particular part. This necessitates a thorough explanation of minuto and calls for a system of com munication for which a limited use of signs would not answer. The system, whatever it is, involves, no doubt, an elaboration of signs, aided whenever chance offers the means by written communication. The secret use of the latter means for express ing ideas and purposes will not answer for the completeness of in formation convicts ob tain of what takes place in prison walls, for, whether any thing occurs in the officeor the most distant part of the prison, within fif teen minutes there is not a convict who does not huow all about it. Penitentiary officials have tried again and again to ob tain even a clew to the system, but they are no nearer a solution than when they first began-to investigate the matter. They know there is a system, and that it rests on signs, but whether on those made with fingers, eyes and lips, or the bringing into play of other features, or whether it de pends on all together, they do not know. Prisoners, to curry favor with the officials, often tell them what they have learned from other convicts. They go to the especial trouble at times in exposing plots, and are ready to reveal every thing except the means by which they learned the facts. No convict has yet given the slightest sugges tion which would lead to the discovery of the secret that has defied the shrewdest de tectives. "I have seen," said an ex-prison official, "two convicts, six feet apart, facing each other. They did not utter a word, nor could I discern the slightest move ment of the lips or eyes, yet I knew they were communicating something. They gazed at each other for a moment or two before I had a chance to interfere, butI am satisfied that one told the other all he wished to tell." Attorney-General Michener relates an in cident or two showing the perfection to which the convicts have carried their sys tem of conveying information among them selves. On his first visit to Jeffersonville to look into the matter of Jack Howard's short coming as Warden of the Southern prison he was sitting in the office of the prison one afternoon, when the Deputy Warden orsome other subordinate asked him if he did not wish to go through the shops. It was some thing he did not expect to do, bt't, accepting the invitation, they passed through the inner gates, crossing the first cell-rooms, out into the court-yard and across that directly to the shoe factory. They were not three minutes in going, nor did they stop any where until they reached the factory. The Attorney-General had gone but a few feet into the room with the prison officers when a convict stepped up, and, asking the latter if he could speak to the gentleman with him, said, on permission being given him: "You are the Attorney-General " "Yes," was the only reply of that officer. "Your name is MichenerC' "Yes; but how do you know that? I have never seen you before." "That is true, nor did I ever see you un til now, although I am from Shelby Coun ty." He then went on to tell who he was, where he lived in the county, and what he had done to bring him into the penitentiary. But the convict gave the Attorney-General further cause for wonder by telling him that he knew of his reaching the city the day before, how many visits he had made to the prison, and for what purpose. Leaving the shoe factory the Attorney General and prison offeer wvent into another room, separated from tihe first by an inter venmng room, and with nieither of which could any person in the thil'd have direct communication. Here Mr. Michener was approached by another convict, who told him about what the first had done, except he asked him to see the Governor in his be half. Going to the foundry, which is a con siderable distance from the shoe factory, the third convict came up to the At.rney General the inst.ant he entered the room. This man had the identity of the visitor and the cause of his coming to Jeffersonville as accurately a , the other two. IHe also wanted a pardon. On their way to another building the prison officials said to Mr. Michener: "Ev'ery convict who cared to know had aL information about who you are and why you havrd come within a few minutes after you came inside of the prison door. The convicts have no privilege of writing or speaking to each other, but so perfect is their system of com municating with each other that in forming plans to escape they can agree on time, leaders, methods and signals. But there is always some convict who, though not in the plot, learns all about it, and tells the details to the office rs. Investigation always brings to light enough incidents to convince us that their plans are being formed con stantly. Just after Warden Patton took charge three plans of uniting were discov ered and thwarted in one day." An ex-prison official said recently: " Not long ago I took a convict to Micigan City. I reached the prison about eight o'clock in the evening, after all the convicts had been locked up in their ells. No one knew of my being there but the offcer in charge at that time of night. I did not stay longer than five minutes, but turning over my pris oner I went to the hotel and to bed. When I camne down to breakfast the next morn ing there was a messenger from the prison stating that such and such a convict wanted to see me. A half-dozen in all wished to have me to come out to them. How they knew I was there nobody knows. Prison offcials are constantly seeing the effects of communication among the convicts, but can not deftect the system." Pure Water as Medicine. Dr. Brunten says, in the Pracliloner, that water is, perhaps, the most powerful diuretic that we possess. it has the power of i creasing tissue change and thus multiply ing the products of tissue waste which re slt from it, but it removes these waste products as fast as they are formed, and thus, by giving rise to increased appetite, pro'f'des fresh Dutriment for the tissues, and acts as a tr ae tonic. In persons who are accuostomed to take too little water, the products of tissue waste may be formed fast er than they arc removed, and thus accumu lating may give rise to disease. In the class of people who arise in the morning- feeling weak and languid, it seems that the languor must depend upon imperfect removal of waste products from the body, as we know that the seoretion of urine in healthy per sons is generally much less during the night thn during the day'. Such persons should drink. a tumbler of water before going to bed, in om4er to aid the secretion of urine SnA e~ ah u*.pmanuan amin th night A PHANTOM TRAIN. Strange Spectacle Seen in the Rarefied Air of the Black Hills. My companion then spoke concerning our mission to this bleak and barren spot, says a writer in the Leadville (Col.) Herald in course of a description of the lonely land scape of the Centennial State. "About twelve years ago," he said, "an old man by the name of Cearnals was the proprietor of a jack train with which he used to bring provisions and other commodities into that mining camp you see beneath you there.. This was before the railroads entered the fastnesses of these mountains, and every thing was brought by mule teams or by these jack trains into the camp. The treas ures which were found in the hills were carried out the same way. "One time the old man Cearnals did not arrive in the camp on time. 'Twas in the winter-and the coldest one, too, ever ex experienced in these hills. A searching party was sent out to find him and his train, as the people who had goods consigned to him feared that some accident had befallen. him. Near where we are now is where he andl his train were found frozen to death. And now each night may be seen the jack train just as they were, but inthe form of specters, filing along the way to the camp. Get out and we will go down the trail a piece and see them." We got out of the buggy, and fastening the horse to a stunted pine, we de scended the other side of the range on the road to Alma. After a most perilous and tortuous walk of half an hour, on account of the slippery condition of the ground, wich was covered with snow, my companion led me to a point near the old Leadville trail, which could be distinctly seen above us against the side of the mountain. Looking at his watch, he remarked that it was almost time for 'them' to appear. After kicking the snow from a couple of bowlders we sat down and in si lence awaited developments. M-y compan ion would not say a word. but simply puffed away at a cigar, his looks being cast in thet direction of the trail. We waited half an. hour, but it seemed a week to me, a cold: wind having arisen, and I was almost frozen and was wishing myself at home. "Suddenly my companion clutched me' nervously by the arm and pointed to thel trail. The sight that I saw made each in-j dividual hair on my head stand on end, for. there on the trail, coming around a shady; angle caused by a bowlder,was a jack train; of twenty-three animals. They all emitter a faint phosphorescent glow, which made; them appear all the more vivid against the side of the hill. They were loaded witbi different articles of merchandise, and the last one which the spectral driver was urg-: ing on with his short goad seemed to be. loaded with flour. Every once in a while as the train slowly filed along, this last jack. would lean his load against a projecting; rock, as if resting himself. This would cause the driver to punch it with his s'hort stick. The weird specters slowly passed from view around the hill, and, more dead than alive from fright, we made our way to, where we had left the horse and buggy. My companion informed me, while on our: way back to the city.that this strange.sight could be seen any dark night." SAVED BY A BLUFF. A Few Barrels of Gold Roiled L.i in Sight of Depositors Stops a Rua. General Mike Ryan. in talking of the Metropolitan Bank failure, recently told a Cincinnati Telegram reporter a good story illustrating the pover of blue. It was in connection with his assertion that with lit-, tle further aid from the other banks in the city the Metropolitan might have been saved., He said: " I have a brother connected with a bank. in Leavenworth, Kan. There are two banks there, and the rival to that of my brother was in a shaky condition. The president came to Ma:t and told him the .circum stances, and that if there was a run the. bank would be unable to stand it. Matt told him to keep a stiff upper lip, for he knew that the failure of the other bank meantthe failure of his own. He jumped on the train, went to Kansas City, got :.40.000 in coin gold and silver-in barrels, ran back to Leavenworth with the specie, and got half a dozen drays to the depot to take the, barrels to the bank. Meantime the, crowd of depositors had begun to gather: at the bank, demanding their money,; and. the old man was talking to them to gain: thne. All at once they saw the drays com ing up, loaded down with these barrels Matt was with the treasure, and shouted to the crowd to wpit about five minutes and theyd get their money, as it was there in the barrels. "In unloading the barrels, one of them dropped and broke. so that, through al crack, the anxious deposit~ors could see the shining gold, arnd, as it rolled up the steps. of the bank. .'-5gold pieces kept dropping out, and were picked up by the janitor. When the coin was all rolled in, Matt came out again and told all who had money thery to go in and get it, as the bank proposed tot pay them all off and start fresh, and didn't. want such a cowardif lot of depositors any way. -All the time he was piling on the in dignation he didn't want to be taken at his, word, as the bank had only $10,000 cash on hand, against $i00.000 of deposits made. Het ha brought $40,000, but there was still at shortage of $40,000. However, the game worked. The people wvere reassured by. the sight of the barrels of coin and went; away satistled. The run was averted and the bank pulled through all right." DA RING EXPLOIT. A Texas Cowboy Rides a Furious Bull in a Mexican Bull-Ring. The hull-fighters at Paso del Norte were recently enlivened during the proceedings by the daring exploit of a Texas cowboy, says the Seymour (Tex.) .Crescent, who was cheered to the eeho by the deusely-packed audience who filled every accessible nook in the vast amphitheater. The performance lagged a littl2, and the bulls would not fight in spite of all the pleadores might do. One or two of the bulls, after having been successfully goaded and worried without working them up to the proper fighting point, had been ignominiously driven out of. the arena, and a new one, full of fight and fairly bellowing with rage, had just been turned into the amphitheater, when a Texas cowboy who was present announced, for the honor and glory of Texas, that he would ride the bull, his legs tied around the animal's neck, his face to the tail, if they would first throw the bull so that he could get his legs properly around and underneath the beast's He was at once taken at his word, and the mounted Mexican bull-fighters soon had the animal lossoed and thrown. The cow boy then had himself fixed in the proper position, and now the furious bull was turned loose. To the wonder and astonish ment and intense delight of the audience, the animal was unable to shake the daring cowboy off, who not only kept his perilous: seat, but, after some wild plunges, succeed ed by some means in so maanipulating the, beast's horns that he was thrown. The: Mexican performers rushed at once to the. stuggling mass and in a twinkle had ther Texan untied and released. It was a won derful piece of darnng and dare-devitr?, an ~~ce.. any-2thing done by thle Mci