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BM ARP TAI^KS OP APRIL; and wondered. I started on again and got a little closer. Still the for*, i^as Lots of! ,,eadle »a* Uroad shoulders and arms The Orandchildren Fun Out of the This month did not begin rigid. April means to open, but it did not open. It was an April fool. Nothing shows in my garden but the pea* and onions. The flowers make no progress. There is no sweet south wind to breathe upon them—no sunshihe. On Monday the grandchildren imposed upon me with their Hindoo pranks. They gave me a cup of chocolate with whipped cream on top, and it was nothing but soapsuds. 1 pretended to be fooled, but 1 wasent; I paid them back in various ways. The Hindoos started this childish custom away back in the ages, and it still pleases the children. And now Easter day is at hand that is another name that came down from the Pagans. Ostera was their goddess of spting and it was cor rupted into Kstera. How these old heathen names do slick to us. The names of the days of the week and of the months came from them. So did the planets and the constellation*. Even the prophets and Job had to take them from the Egyptians, lint the Scotch people don't call it Easter. They say l*a*cha day, or pasaover day. They won’t pattern after anvbody, but John Knox, and he said Pascha. But there is a reason for railing it Easter, for the coamg of spring—ihe opening of the eerth abd the flowers is emblematical of the resurrec ion—the opening of the Savior s t Mob and His return to blees and comfort Hu peo-|ta»t two pla. Tbieday corraepjods rloaaly witb | was fnmi wj tbev akimbo. Nearer and nearer I drew to it, but it made-no sign. My horse pricked up his ears as-if alarmed. The road forked not far ahead, and I had resolved that if the ghost took one road I would take the other, when suddenly an old man stopped to cough and took'lhe sack from his shoulders and laid it upon the ground. 1 knew him instantly—old Uncle Tom Wilton, the hunchback—going borne from the mill with his grist across his ■shoulders and bis head bent forwani so that I could not see it iu the dusky twilight. Now, if both of us had reached the forlU of the road and had separated I shoiwd always have believed I saw a gWtT That old mill road and chuich and grive yard made lasting impressions upon me, and so did the mill and the poud and the spring-board and big whtel and the soothing sounds of the water falling over the dam. We had various adventures wi’h the country schoolboys on the wsy, for they dideut like the town boys—and they don’t yet. 1 remember that it was on April < fool day that I saw in the road just beyond tbe scboolbouse a package done np in brown paper, and as I bad met a man in a buggy » little while be fore, I supposed he had dropped it. 1 stop|<ed my burse and got down. Pick ing up tbe package I untied tbe string and took off the wrapper and founo aoothei wrapper and another string and then another and another and at Mg black bifg*, whose odor >ar. That kn J of bugs tba* advauc backward, ami >omn—i t»t J—t then a the i»U*h<ra ** Ann hardtt 1 never • ihtakiai bating 1 April f« •k* A At»l A»4rnt I mm the Jewish •tklJLJU r - Xow I want tbe yowag people to know that lust m another word that in—aa spring. It is preceded by lb si foolish festival called marrft gras—or fat bstf and conun—a forty davs ta remembrance of tbe Heitor's tong feat, aa 1 it enda with Easier, and tbe cum- man too and other rejotJingt. As tbe eld time almanacs wmsU say, a hoot this time took for Easter beta and ftowrre and Anerf.** Christ at— t* aa- etber festival day that is common to all Cbn*uea —me. The— are man v other day* dadtcnif d te the aamta, bet Ml cow— of time m eaa found that, there were net e«wmgb days Mi the year to go roand, and — tbe pope atoypot tbe aatauag ef w many and baa ana day set apart aa Alt a—wia day. Tbe —at day after that Is AW Sonia dev , an wbbb m—* * a—i by tba ftvmes t ‘ethanes far tbe aunts >4 tbe deed who are Ms pergatwry. It ~l that abont 900 yeera age a pti- from tbe bely land found a her- In Mrtly who told turn ef en open betw—a tbe cliffs ef the mono- by that remmenireU'1 wnb Plato bved and that be —Ipheru— sasnk grun— of tbe 1 < who were being tanneaied la I be bad known some of lhem i< tinmgb tbe prayers of tbe 10* this made tba devils Very mad could bear ibem cwmag tbe pneeta with awfnl iasprecat— Tbe ptlgnm |pld all ib* ta tbe abbota and m»ekt, and they bad a day art apart to pray lb—e bn1 aen* «mt of bell or ttad«e or ptrwalorv or ebatever it Is. H—idee the— leternational days Ultra are aatkmal dtfis 1a every coun try. Here we have i— Fourth of Jely and W—biugtoo's birthday and Hvco- thought with ration Day aad some other* (iennaay t tempt at its vka can't trU •ivertebc 'em Hore of h->vs juiuj- .1 fn m and idled aad screamed F«*ol !** 1 was so u»l I couhl mount my horse again, but 1 woM. baling mv w took it l M* -at fee that But bto >ui 10 i'uial 1 that How the First Discovery Was Made-May Give Cheaper Fuel. The excitement over the discovery of seemingly inexhaustible oil deposits in Texas appears to be growing. The. government experts, geologists and conservative business men consider the location of oil iu Texas and Ualifornia of far more hoportatofe than the dis covery of gold in. California. In fact, it is looked upon as a development that will have a tremendous economic yi- lluence on all the industries of the southwest. George F. Adams, an ex pert of the geological survey, has been sent to Texas to make an investigation and report upon the extent of the oil deposits and the manner in which they are being worked. An oflicial of the geological survey iu speakine of this matter to the Brooklyn Eagle's Wash ington correspondent said : --** Tbe oil is not the illuminating va- riety, hut is used fur fuel. It will supply the one thing that was before lacking to enable the tremendous re sources of that countiy to be properly developed. Texas is nearly the rich est Slate iu the I'uion iu natural re sources, but there are no coal deposits there. She has gotten her fuel in the past from Indian Territory, and after it bad been mined and *hip|»ed to 1 exas it cost between and i'J a ton. The excessive cost of fuel has done much toretani tbe operation of tbe de|K>sita of cement, iron and other tires with whirb Tex— ahnumts. The discovery I of a cheap fuel within her bordere j will work wonders with Texss inter- ****• |»aratus The utmost excitement prevails all cone ret I through Texas, and excursion* are run ,«riatn tba* (from tlit-tow— We—mowMo —*»«»- ■watw «■« to** big .geyser. Four thousand pe so— J recently visited Beaumont in a single j <LsV. .is may be supposed tbe town | ba« * Xpertcneed a tremendous br-om | 1‘eop.r are fl * king in and scouring and another dam constructed. The ut most caution had to be observed to prevent a spark from dropping into the oil, for a fire meant complete disaster for everything within reach. Had a conflagration occurred U would have extended to the spouting geyeer and would have been burning to this dfiy. An armed patrol of men, mounted on hordes, kept guard of the lake night and.day, and special care was taken to see that no sparks were dropped by passing trains. The great problem then before the mining engineer was how to control the flow and thus save the precious (laid. Finally her hit upon a scheme. A. long section of eight-inch pipe was secured and mounted on a movable carriage. One end of it was fillfed with a valve. Half way up this pipe a T-joint was made and a branch of a six-inch pipe was run out, also lilted with a valve. This structure was'then moved up to the side of the geyser, aud the eight- inch pipe slipped into position over Off old six-inch tube. The oi«eninga of the smaller pipe were. filled up with oakum and other material, so that the oil was escaping only through the lop of the main pipe an-1 out of the side section. The valve si the top of the main pipe was then closed, thus divert ing the entire stream off to one side through the branch section. This made it (tossihle for men to work about the base of the well. A deep trench was dug all around the- bsse of the geyser and then tilled in with a bell of roncme. Fr< m this concrete heavy supfioMing lines were run to ihc to >f the p the * was lbe o-unify buy mg np h If l»ruB|icct !A|f ft 0*1 mrt •' 1 rt -m m- oil an-1 almost •tsllofl* Bill Am: itt t ither hoii i * ot boofd lAg hooec*. Mll«s tielnf rsl • a have gni I# way up mmmrnmmm ■MMeaooom Srm Melts are brltlg *nok rf • rj otrk. MI* l *i»sivfe.a D»*r Aut isiil (Itsuill** »# are alaai rt lek- n ta 1 Vmh t c fWftlM caile lot tiatat t fMO rat S WO»l r of Oil. la reed ins- fc iChal* re prv«j|>p» m * a ; t .un e f k lilts rvy ho* h esa latroilaosd , sm! s* • * »r !• • p *l“i tlr armiwii l«JA Mlk*c» se otl Is n -rack the Aow ta • becked MV nf t ot taie »i 4* ttf the . it AAlt task care are etcofrd. i ’-[•re ere t*nur. H Ml ■ h carefall) a *»*iof of U t(k g told to 1 ‘ort Arthur. th< D<*orcet yjoa# t gj ■HMtfti ntsrhattmn £ t ■*< tli.r end Imaf V w !m fw* i I wtU Ik' kl r UJ-C«1 .« % Oil 1 Nil Ai< Sera that 1 he efookel kM d «4i »hlfA. IjKS* •** il f' •| irs.*S I sll»v« id to Aowh a Mrntpw mcfmrn of -and hrfu rt .• !aegen II- <* M|MKm ■a* wt i *M| th* thread -1 mptn MltoOi, Mil* l hr pay* a ro i) ali y n» Ikdk • mmf It am him, * m-uascif* of lhe « >• A*rt AA m h hoi ivt ilu i m add. M? Ni Elfllll] w joa| from eh**f aetit OM .%• 1 NrftAfA ti«l< rd. the «are EM re it. ued* lHAlhdtl If lot jelrO to t>» sad. ban o* •4 it dM tffN Hams sre preporui • • Letter •• CM. 1m **»’ * to th* dlti It ol ss id rs. (f * *Mn rmml 1® Ol Iasi. Th*. main iLtm; c AO AO tore !*><■ a plsrtdlf ta ||B i hat the opr rat or* arc wain fuf A • <l« Vvii IfMATAt than they i . *n watt no itll Mfe took core la take then |*f n* 1 !«• A ghiMI Ip mm r, oe s < ••-. ►<*» etofifN t4. mark, t. Fatte twiag th* di Wff* th<r ope, so that the wttol as securely anchored t foundation. When it veiything was ready. tbe branch |M|m» w— tl—4 and the stream was cut off. This operat.ou ruusumtd nine days, and in the meantime tbe oil was |M-unng out at the rate of any where between ?o AOU iu<t lisi.iaai barrel* a day. The esti mated value of tbe rrt iH-twcea 4u and ’«0 t eiiU n til |*e seen that en* h day 'a pi was worth in tbe ntighborh I'-o.iaar. After tbe fl*tw Lad • l*«« krd a Are occurred in obe ad -sk- • and 7ZUJUU> twirls we *tew, reirfeaenuna a Usm id pre ran Mr #9 act is , so it lalnct isf of bten J tbe re 4e- abowt It# AMfcr ihrlf f Ell t>re* of to! in IMuhar * fMMM I l suals | Have yea ever I Ml * I> M * he i tA*}Af4 gfroaely, Hat It hoavtn* all ead ahea a bea ansi * foil uoqie Ui k«A the | Among tIho* ■ ho be« eerep* •a her* naearthed A Al tea fat worm? that oil rtisred andci ale end Icog ssperware hAf 1 Of ISOf hi th# 1 t s Nr nelt>f R y. r KJ emi he foMl that •he Mill 1* be aHo •e*l I I • ltd to have been me-l< g tutu 1 e bees kli r n 1 I ft, p snat y ber tr«— b 1 In proa, sbe s* t by tbe otix ir-Mot from is to mn k brrkr ns. leMu r i* at a farm* , who l-esdent •nnk 1 11-- niaiiglctl .1 -mly dial iwtr impatient com pa topic td interest :t gets Uealment a* tbe norm is a national |ifct|ln t uick-witted and sc such fari-ity that any at- elaboratios gets on our #C h o«her until •MW "drehc g ’• eat adci lilt#; gr# of the ■ear*, tl bt a Hi tle|<Mi ute le tJ bet they AT# rii •bt on n* 4» dtecas* * tide ajli re, thus making |M |l iaA#| ibie to IA uch the •ante •hip it 1 by wet* re at int >•" ei • Mil. The j interrupting g«>vern(n >ent tdh i teh ere vn ry # nthue- tij r; we ere so usstic ovi rr the < 1 taco • rru 1# At >4 <! leclarv it# a train ot 1 that the ‘oil Mill fnrnieh a e hm p fuel Th# lAu t|.| te of a l«c r%«Hi ff (at# Are llPfl A#t#f A lliC. Th* ey Mr# OAt uf llA# » m! IA iV*t I A#CA t -at of Mt#, AAtl €iA# t y# At M #tr««ACrr II ten lie i ulher to ftovAA |wr»ot»# uai oi 1 ton. Th# riifhl #at i# l * #*9** am a nil# hi|(brr toAti IA# it ft. i<l UAijr WA# I® r«t*o i B fifteen haa per- III f#t t th# lnr^rMt {•mrentage of de- ti|» feel# |»r#% Ai.m if AlthUtt g fatr-haired |m«»> lb . iu 1 i4#o Hhoft #4 <hl )A more CM—W in tpMit then am H|| A t A nntrv loth, ami of e-i pmqdc the It# HAA ne here the iarg-4 eel pfopofli' i 1 uf A hortelghlr.! p*f- Mff •one. TLe cl f itAt etl .e ten* ot the o\0 Luther and tbe kaiser. Scotland that of Sir William Wallace ami Bruce and Jobs knox. Iu old Euglan-I they cele brate the queen's birthday, Magna ( barter day and Waterloo day and May day. May day is the happiest of all aad haa been long remembered in Tin Loxu !>i«tamk Trolli.v.— I A'. Johnson tells the I’hiladclpbia i Record that he Dow has all the uccer- jaary rights fir the rinislruction of bja |pn-|K*e.l electric line between Fhila- aud that it will Dot only for the local industries of Texas aad‘New Mexico, hut for Iran*- umf ■MTPAmponktt'TTi—snd -f.-r hipping interests in the gulf andWesT nMAA. . j • 1 1 delphia and New York, and that it will varsaand tong and in dancing around bt> ^ ( lhe ro(mt ; tth , UnlU1 HU<! ’ “''.I' — - f-nfoMning aweet poem called the *• May (Jueen. Mexico celebratea all the Uoinan Catholic day a and has one other that the rabble.call Judas Iscariot’s day. It ia the next day alter Easter. On the beautiful trees in the piazza or park they suspend pasteboard images of Judas Iscariot— images as large a* life, with little holes bored iu l^em from head to foot and in every hole is fastened a cannon cracker. At a given sigpal the fuse in every cracker is lighted nnd all of them explode nearly at the same time and such a terrific popping was never heard outside of a battlefield, and poor old Judas is torn and rent into a thousand pieces. This is just a sign of what they would do to him if they had him there alive, but I reckon it is more for frolic than any thing, for they shout and laugh and dance the hornpipe nnd' make dll the racket they can. Ben Franklin said that man was a bundle of habits. He might have added u and supersitions,” for most all people have some * belief iu super- * natural things. Two hundred years ago almost everybody believed in witches. Shakespeare wrote about them in “ Macbeth” and Burns in “ Tam O’Shanter.” The Puritans drowned many innocent women from mere suspicion of being wilches,^ The conceited, self-righteous rqscal? never accused a mao of being a wizard. It is tba women who have sufferetl in all ages. When I was a boy tbe young people were more afraid of ghosts than they are now. Ghosts arc very scarce in these days. I havent seen one in a long time. Iu my early youth I was the mill boy and I remember that one evening in the early twilight as I was astride my home and grist and going slowly home. I neared the country graveyaid of Fair- view church and saw, or thought I saw, a ghost ahead of me in tbe big road. It had anna aad tags, bat had no hand. It was whit* and going slowly from me. I checked my ham respect to the finest steam railway road-bed. The track will be laid with ii.’i-pound rails .tnd the cars will he of the latest and most improved pattern, seating sixty‘people, aud will run at a speed of at leaat fifty miles do Four. There will be no grade crossings so that the cars will go with uninterrupted speed. The faie from the heatt of Philadelphia to the heart of New York will be fifty cents, but fer'distabces of twenty miles tbe faft* will be only five cents. There is talk of a trolly line between Washington ami Baltimore. The trolley is growing piore popular every, day. / Kansas ^’ity, Mo.-, is claiming to be a great fruit distributing point, and in proof of the same “ points with pride” to these two consignments: In one day 1,000,600 bananas were received from the tropics, and on March 4th 2,- 006,000 oranges came -in, the shipment being made from Los Angeles,, Cal. This orange tiain was composed of tbirty-eiifht cars and a caboose. Thet;e were 3G4 boxes of oranges to the car, making 10,192 boxes in all. ; A mammoth black walnut tree on the farina of E. P. Gaus in Williams County, Ohio, has just been sold for 14,000. Several lumber dealeis have examined chips from this tree, and al have declared it to be the, finest sped men of that kind of wood they ever j’ saw. The t ree was eight feel in dia be tei, forty feet above the flump ant extended seventy-three feet from the butt‘to tbe first limb The women of a Long Island village improvement association have given up iheir office*, to the tn«o, as they feel, the latter are better quahlbd to discharge the duties. The idea giving up a public office because tbe milder thinks soother better Ailed to da the work it aa exdiutitly fenunioe idea, which would work hay diverted into practical naiitiaa i POINTA OF HUMAN ANATOMY The Differences Between Men nnd Women Eve*. Earn. Ton.- goes. Height. A Desperate Charge Under a Storm of Shot and Shell The Charleston Sunday News con tains a most graphic description of a thrilling incident at Murfreesboro, Ttnn., which is from the pen of Rev. Hjmry F. Hoyt, D.D., of Harmony Grove, Ga. The-Kero of the occasion was Rev. J. E. Dunlop, now a zealous and honored Presbyterian minister, living at Georgetown, S. U. Dr. Hoyt’s account is as follows : In the summer of 1802 a Confeder ate cavalry force, consisting of four or five regiments, was encamped at Mc- Minmille, Tenn. Forrest, afterwards general, but at that time racking only as colouel, was iu command of the brigade. The 3d Georgia cavalry regi ment, commanded by Cul. W. J. l«tw- ton, was'‘part of the fot;e. . In it wai a company commanded by the Rev. J. E. Dunlop, a Presbyterian minister, who had resigned the charge of hi* church in Baiubrulge, Ga., to buckle on the sword, and had lieen elected capum of a cavalry company, which he bail been instrumental in raising aud to whom his men were perfectly devoted. * At Murfreesboro was a force of Yankees, consisting of cavalry , artillery aU-1 lulautry, ami c*»usai«ral*lv out-1 miiutiemig the Confederates. Cul. For- 'est' decided to surpiiae and capture the Federal*, ami (bus gel auppiiej Vttd #rm* for htsVuen, hmm<v of whotnj 11 that tune 'had o« thing more rffef. { live than iloubU-bairvl shotguns. Ac- FffWBgfjni^BWtr »itwip one*»iTt»’diT aik , alter marching ail eight, reached Murfreesboro Xundav mottling just at the dawn of dry. Thw Federal |drk- «la acre captured, without giving an alarm aud our foe, aii urn •»o*i mus of danger, was quietly steeping. They were in two camp*, one on the oppo site sat* of 1I1* town from our ap- peunt h ami tb* other to the light aa a a entefwd. Thw gallant Wharton, of the Texas Itangwra, a ub part of thw command, was -w-twred to aim k the "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs not to make reply, Theirs but to do or die." Riding down the sharpshooters, clearing the woods, out in tbe open field they were met by a tempest of grape nnd canister from the artillery aud of minie halls from the infantry. Many a gallant* ridet and his horse went down under the storm of shot aud shey. But nothing could stay the headlong course of the fearless leader. Passing between the battery and the iijfantry, he sabred’one gubner, drove theiu all from their guns and caused the whole line of infantry next the artillery to waver. Had this gallant charge been follow ed immediately by that of our whole command we undoubtedly would have won the day.st that moment. But it was not. done. Capt. Dunlop dashed on after cutting through the line ot battle to the rear, anti when out of range of their shot baited to see who were left of his command. Seven men bad followed him through, and were all that were left. Turning to them, he said, with grim humor : “ Boys, the command w*s to reform and charge bick.” One fc>f the men replied : “ Weil, Captain, wc have followed you this far, but if you are going back through that line*of battle yon will have to go by yourself. We have had enough of it." < f course lie had uo thought ol doing »•. He was only putting his men pi the test. Riding (•round their line and ont of range of their »hot, the heroic little bend j-dnrd their command. It u not my intention to continue the hist Deacon Jones—what do yon think of our latest new convert? Do joo think It a genuine' case of conveisionf Deacon BHSwn—Dam afraid not. In the remarks he has made in prayer- raee$hg thus far he has not boaeted of being the vilest of sinnera.—Boston Transcript. She—,1 want you to promise to do what 1 ask before I tell yon what it is. Papa—But why not tell me what it is first? She—Oh, if I did you wonldn’t do U—Brooklyn Life. Buffers —*Buncom is a self-made man, isn’t he ? Wiffers—Yes. What made yon think so? Buffers—He seems to be so well eat* isfled with (be job.—New York West- iy--- The Justice—I don’t remember ever seeing you before. The Accused—No, Yoar Honor; you see, you don’t belong to war set.— Boston Transcript. The Old Man—Yoor love for my daughter seems to have grown very fait since you found ont I was worth *0 much money. The Young Man (admiringly)—No faster, sir, than the subject —Detroit Free Frees. no it | pn hr pto tAhr I the art* 11 0 U> I 1 end rvptng wv •* r s 1 •* <bl. it.i - nr 1 ’ part, was ta a npfwaW* »**(*- e attack wa* a 1 h* enemy, Vi it bte Ranger* b camp, yyiffhg it lbs tWrfiAed i WRll r ShlM Ariel ih* ir h*’d “5 re* I k the on* «4 the town, intupiele MU- thovt warning it.‘at into the and shouting, I vdrrsle, sud p>waeeet*m of lhe , seeing the smell ante, the I enkrrs. lUOtt* I- is an Kelt see with *f lhe human icreeae n not Uuniwest of maluni). s stnnlletl interval of ***und 1 tier d.eungui*hed with one with high. The nails uf t ted, and, alter Mb iilurtiN 1 | £ tuied irt un-l* r Furr Georgia, w< 1* li< tl**l of lh< mi the stony ••ugh the to* laoilaot*. e h- wildly eb«iu mthueo irh th« •hurt 00, an* it Iheir to n mp, 1 Then, Acuity a*-**, towu, directly which we were •IWDtM WuW 4 the < ret, ia whu re nut so 1 horse* ' b*i grow ltd a* 1 rn s* uke tl » rw*hed ( dug and cl »»m r -t.-ug ears of the distarce out .(her unrxp In the ren fronting the 1 charging. m Aghi, Mi •4*4. they •mp Tbe h wee the sessfni. striking char* sue ory ft the battle. My only pt JpiMg was tii n»imrt Ih, m««t rcharge i* svir witne-ased during T-wr years'expenenc* in the war. I ; Acrut to sny (hat hy sundown we raptnrrd the whole i-*ice t-f the enemy. The boy* threw away their shotguns, replacing them with improved arm*. The battery we kept till the war cioeed end good service it dal again*t its fore mcr owners. That night we started hark fur McMinaville, hailing only •••sg eaongh to parole our prisoners, with wh-en F-wrest did not wwh la he bardeae-l. W« remcoed owr ramp at MeMianvilie aoowt ao*Mt aw Monday, baling been in the saddle about fufty* eight hoars. That ireltle secwisd For rest's pe iwwmdh to the rank ef gen. erwt, and <*nr gsllant t apt. Ikwnlen sfterwenls heemne redone! ef kie isgt- ■seni, and was loved aad admired b I e*«Ty ri-se IU Ins coauuaixl. Ixwij m*i he live to do valient service to lb army of the Ijttd ol Uooto wader th iendershtp ml the great t'aptaia of an hoivatton. U. T. litre v. Harmoay tirnee, Ga. ** The boy," concluded the ocaUst, ** is coloreb lad.” Then, what do yoa tktak WAI put him at ?” •* t\ ell, what'e the matter with mg aa imr—ii.si— ps.«L» g/ him r* —1 WUII^GI TIAiM. ** Trane mean* teachsr, “ eaa any boy illustmitoa of He ass ?*' ** Yee, ma'am,’' spoks ap •• ‘trwwe parwat,' a itiUedriphts Reaoed. filHs; I bs skeptug al to greet ecriag, end such a din sleeping of t. A uoi-ju* battle leak place in North Itergea, N. J., a few deye ago. John anil hy resident, recently e black -I • n. lit re of the street up stood Uie IWw added Spaniard, a ha-id stallhm, to kts stable, aud tba aroerei Uua waa received with anger hy Itewey bark atalUoa of great beauty They fought whenever oppo,minty of t. nm .• broke their into the yard, tkai brick loan II me Federal guard, k some prison*rs tduruu 1 In thia w waU b ss a over As soon as lbs head •me iu sig'it this guard Tfce story of bow the first oil strike stumbled wo ami the ofiaumg uj- of the uuiookr<l for riches read* like a tale from *' Arsl-iau Nights.” A. F. .ucss.a Wa-bington milling engineer, was engaged as *uperinlt tnlenl of the Avery Hock Sait rainy*, in Louisiana, but having a disagreement with tbe management, he left and drif.ed over to Texas, lb aching Beaumont, which 11 about three hoers' ride from Galves ton, he weiit out pVo8{)ecUng for sul. pbur. He stghik some sulphur springs antTBbseavrd that a small quantity of natural gas was coming from them. n putting down , a well he ran across a slight deposit of oil, and this fact, together with the presence of natural led him'to believe that oil was to be found there. He accordingly sank a well for oil. About 1,000 feet were penetrated and asixf-inch pipe inserted, nside of this a section ol four-inch pipe 720 feet in length, was dropped The oil stratum had not actually been teached by the drilling machine, but it seems that it was almost touched al the lime the four-inch ^ipe was put inside the larger pipe. Suddeplj -those win were working the derrick th it was owering the smaller tube noticed that it tvas acting queerly. Something was lilting it from the bottom. Mr.^Lucas understood the signs and called to his men to. run for their lives. Thg oil had truret through the crust of earth that separated it from the drill and came spouting up with terrific; force. It pushed the pipe through the derrick, carried away all the machinery and finally threw the 720 feet of pipe high into the air. Fortunately, the pipe came down end first and hurt no one, but it buried itself deep into lhe earth. It has not since been-dug out. Turn ing about Mr. Lucas saw a slre.im of oil shooting out of his six-inch pi^eTo a distance of 200 feel in the air and flowing off over tbe plain at a terrible rite. There was no way to check the flow of the valuable fluid, and an il spread over the prmine aid was synl for to build dmms.^. Soon all thd male population of Beaumont waa out on the plains throwing np a wall of earth to hold the tei. A monster lake e>oo formed sod breaking through the dam ran off to a railroad track. A culvert tii. u. o* >tu. ul the nut ha U-i.rt UnuMG^ l uik uucjt- peced attack delayed F-*rrc*l and frus. tl leg i« •ir-mger I ihau the right. Toe bones of an aver-1 t (e >on-J. V\ but we got there, 1^. ige human male •kdt f'itf wt igli twenty j of Utkihg them hy •urprise, we reund pound*; those ef a woman are six them drawn up iu Hue of tialtle on the pounds lighter. crest of a dope in an old field, havtug That unruly member, the tongue of a gpivndid battery of six guns and a a woman, is also •unriler than that of | | utl g line of infantry supporting it. *d. grows the slowest, la fifly-t«>ur casts out »*f abuudred the left leg i* stronger |trai(<| his plan of surprising tbe camp •eyn ml. V\ b< n wc gi-t ibt r< , ipiAt nd another i Ut(bt * ft. r.» frrr-d, rod one n . biltrr* in i itaib<d >>ul • *nt 111 g together with eoch forte it seat b>Ah la the griH*wd. Qwickly Dtcking themeelvee np they rsenmed h-auliUes, kicking aud bui^ t■ ragalj Dewey Anally InaUned hi* teeth in >l«uuni's thruft and did not release h*e hold until the block wee J, 4-1 wa* ouVetvd wah blood le “I a man, given a man and woman of equal size and weight. It may be ap palling to reflect, but it is nevertheless Hue, that tbe muscles of the human jaw exert a force of over 000 pounds. The symmetry which is the sole in telligible ground for our hlea of beauty, the proportion between the upper and lower half of the human iiody, exists iu nearly all males, but is never found in the female. American limbs are more symmetrical than those of any other people. The recking chair, ac cording to an English scientist, is re sponsible for the exercise which in creases the beauty of the lower limbs. The push which the toes give to keep tbe chair in motion/repeated and re- teated, makes the instep h gb, the calf round and full, and it makt^rlhc ankle delicate and slender. British women are said to' average two inches more iu height than Ameri cans. Averages tor the height of wo- 'Eufcn show that those bora yt summer and autumn are taller'than those born in spring and winter. The tallest girls are.born in August. As far as boys are concerned, those who first see the light during autumn and winter are not*0 tall as those born in spring and summer. Those Iforii in November the shoitest; in July the tallest. * -• An average bead of fait hair consists of 143,040 hairs, dark hair of 105,000, while a red bead has only 29,200. Fair- haired people are becoming less numer ous than fortuerly. A person who has lived aevenjy years baa had pass through his heart about 075,920 tons of blood, the whole Of the blood in the body passing through tbe beiul iu about thirty-two Beat*. The heart beats on an average of seven'y times a minute, or 3(1,792,000 tiraea in the course cf a year, so that the heart of an ordinary men 80 years of age baa beaLrn 3,000,**00,(.•)•> time#. Th* heart beat* ten stroke* a mtouie lees when oo< te 1) tog down than when OM York Nwm. We were t.ie party surpnaetf. ’^tidcr this ui-looked for condition of things Forrest ordered Col. Ijtwton to draw up his regiment in frontof the Fedcal hues, iu a piece of woods which theh- tcred us to some /xtent, saying that he* with the rest of his foop, would ride around ^em and attack them in the rear, and ordering Lawton as soon as he heard his guns in the rear to charge them in front. Thus we stood for about two h urs, I suppose, wait yig to hear Forrest’s guns in the rear. In the meantime the Federal*, know- dug that We were in the woods, kept up an incessant lhe with their aitil- lery, Sending a continual stream of shut and- shell screeching over our hiqds, cutting down the limbs of trees, bursting over us, doing no particular damage it is true, but terrifying and demoralizing the men, most of whom had never been under fire before. Thus matters stood : We, with, our shotguns, listening to the music of the shells, ayd the Yankees-having, a per fect picnic in the way of target prac- lice; we being the ta-getr- Finally, becoming ennoldened by our continued silence, the sharpshoqt- Northern Indiana fanners are ex- pertmentrng in ihh domestication of quail and the results are reported as highly gratifying. Nearly evary far mer in that section has from one to three coveys on hi* farm and Is giving them kind and careful attention. Dur ing the snow season tbe birds .are fed regularly and on some of the fsrras they have become so tame that they roost with the barnyard fowls. The Uhitsd^ States Navy Depart ment will exhibit at Buffalo an 8 by 20 foot map of the world, on which wil be placed 307 miniature lead model* representing the War fleet* of all na tions and their location from‘day to day. Judjre John J. Jackson, of Parkers burg, W. ^'a., in point of service, is the ol lest judge on the United States bench, having received his commission from Lincoln in 1861. Dr. H. F. Gray-of Los Angeles, Cal., i& said to have purchased 5,000,- 000 acres of agricultural lands in Mexico, and to have obtained' a con cession from the Mexican government for the establishment cf a number of Mormon colonies thereon. These lands are divided into several large ers from the infantry crept down tir tracts, wbteh are situated in the States the edge'of the woods and, concealing themselves in the uuderb isli, began t-> pick at Us wi h their rifles, and. the whizz of tl eir bullets was getting to be uncomfortably close to our beads. CoK Lawton, noticing this, directed tits ad jutant to carry a verbal order to the major to send a squadron—two com panies—to charge those sharpshooters, drive them back and return to the com mand. The adjutant, to his excite ment, misunderstood the order and, riding up to the major.he said; ‘*The Colonel ord. i a that you send a squad ron of men to charge that line of battle, reform the men and charge tack. The order was delivered to Capt. Dunlop to axecule. I saw him straighten bimeelf to hi* full height in the saddle. 1 earn the fire, ol bailie kind.* in hie eye. I saw turn draw hie tab re and of Durango, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Vera Cruz.. He says that he will bring 6,000 Mormons from Utah and other parts of the United States to M< xico within the next few months and 1 cate them upon the lands which Jie haa- pur chased. Tbe Mormon colonies in the State of Chihuahua have had their population increased by the arrival of over 2,000 Mormons from Utah dur ing the last few month*. . * ** l c Hut the gtri gave no aign tl cal affection. “ And my life,” he continued, M Is insured for 120,000.” “ I am yoar*.” she sighed, M till death.”' HBleilelphi* Free*. Miatree* I hop* I didn’t disturb you nod your lover when I went into the kitchen last night. Cook—Not st ail, mam. Ot told him that yon was my chappyroo*.— Puck. * . New York city's tree planting asso ciation, composed of public spirited citixena, not only aet .oat *3,126 shade tree* last year, bnt secured tbe paaapge of law* empowering the park commis sioner* to take entire charge of street tree planting, *o that the work can be done on an exteoeiv* ecaie and ta .h* effective “ He would never have become so addicted to drink if it hadn’t been for the trouble ho had.” “ Why, what trouble did he have ?” ** He had trouble in keeping away from it.’’•-Philadelphia Press. u You are awfully, foolishly extrava gant,’’ said the matronly fnend. “ I know I am,” replied, tbe girl, ‘i Papa never wilUet me have money as long as 1 have a cent.”—Indiana polis Press. A good story is told of a Scottish soldier at Bloemfontein, who was just recovering from an attack of enteric. One day he suggested to the doctor whe called to see him that he would be grateful for awe* drappie. ‘‘No, no,” said lhe doctor. “ Do you know that your stomach is m such an nlcei^ atei condition that a spoonful of whisky would kill you ?” *‘ Aweel, sir,” replied the patient, “I must jult do without it; but, doctor, just come up close to me.” .The doctor obliged him. “ Ah v doctor,” said the soldier, sigh ing contentedly, “ yer breath’s vena refreshin’ I”—Scottish American. “I wish J bad the man where I could get at him,” said the yon woman. “ What man ?” asked the elderly woman. “ The one that advertised how to rid-oftaugb, red hands—for a doL ■get i Mr.”. You sent the dollar ?” “Yes', and what do yua think the baleful thing sent?” ** I have no idea." » He said the aaria* way was to pay off the rough, c: