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A* singer stood In the raarket-plaoe,
Sinning % tender Uy,
But no one heeded hu sorrowful face,
No one had time to stay.
He turned away ; he sang no more ;
How could he sing in vain ?
And then the world came to his door
Bidding him sing sgain.
But be recked not* whether they came or
went e
He in his garret lay dead;
The crow looked down from his lofty tree,
“ Tis the way of the world,” he said.
There sate a Queen by a cottage bed,
Spoke to the widow there;
Did she not know the same hard blow
ITie peasant had to bear?
And she kissed that humble peasant's brow,
And then she bent her knee ;
“ Qod of tlic widow, help her now,
As Thon hant helped me."
“ Now God be thanked,” aaid Urn old, old crow,
As he sped from his lofty hough;
" Ihe times are ill, hut thers’s much good stil
/ In the way of the world, I trow.”
xtaiiway Heroes
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[From the Youth's Companion.]
Coal-dnst, cinders, oil and smoke nsn-
ally make firemen on dnty rather grimy-
looking personages. Perhaps few among
the thonsands who ride in the railroad
cars behind us woald care for onr ac
quaintance. But we are useful—as use-
tul, perhaps, as any other class of men;
and certainly we have our foil share of
the hard, disagreeable things in life, in
cluding frequent peril and much expos
ure to weather.
Working up from fireman to engine-
driver—or “engineer” as we are usually
called in this country—is often a slow
process. There arc men on our line—
the Hudson River railroad—who have
been tiring eleven years, with no promo
tion yet; though they are no doubt fully
competent to run an ei%ine. For pro
motion depends s.most wholly upon va
cancies occurring, or toms apesial mftn-
— ence at headquarters.
A man ought to become familiar with a
locomotive in elevei^years. I thought I
knew every screw in mine after firing
two years. Yet it takes a good deal ot
time to learn to fire well, so as to get the
meet steam out of the least fuel, and
have the highest pressure at the grades
where it is most needed. To do this a
man should know the road, every rod 01
it, as well as the engine.
Then comes the oiling. An engine re
quires a great deal of oil, as well as coal
and water. The fireman has to keep in
mind ali those scores of bearings where
oil has to be applied. Between oiling,
shoveling in coal, shalftng. and stirring
up his fire— to keep it steady and hot—
ami looking to his stock of coal and wa
ter, he is kept busy, and must needr
watch sharply. But a man gets those
duties well filed in his head in time.
It is while “firing” that the practical
knowledge of running an engine is
gained. A fireman is the groom, so to
speak, of the “iron horse.’’ He must,
morning and evening, have the engine
polished, “fired up,” and ready for his
superior, the engineer, to step into the
cab and start off. Usually the engineer
does not make his appearance till the
moment of connecting with the train.
Between the engineer and hie fireman
there generally exists an easy-going and
manly sort of friendship, though I have
known oases where the two men deteet-
ed each other.
When I began to fire under “Doc”
Simmons, I scarcely knew enough to
build a good Are in a ©ook-stove, and
cauld not have found a quarter of the
oil-caps. I must have been e trial to
him the Ant week or two. But he never
gave a sharp ward, though hs often had
to tell me things over and over again.
“Doc”—as the railway men all called
him—was a superior engineer. He knew
every pound of metal in a locomotive;
just where it lay, and how much it was
good for. He was one of those men
who seem to feel just what there ia in a
locomotive the moment he takes hold of
the levers and starts up. He wits a
good-hearted fellow, and always had a
pleasant wend or a joke all along the
line, and it is generally the ease that
snch men do not fail the company or the
public at a critical moment
I went home and cried like a baby the
day “Doc” was killed. If it had been
my own father I oould not have felt half
as badly. I actually wished that I had
gone to the bottom of the river with
him. .
It was the night of the 6th of February,
and fearfully cold. We had "No, 117”
then, amjUaf»k opt the Pacific Express,
as it was oaUed; from N4w lock city,
up the Han to Albany. It wks a bitter
night, and the line was frosty and alip-
pscy.
The express was always a heavy train.
That night we had three baggage sad
express osm aad sight passenger
coaches, and wa were let# out of New
York, to begta with— about
utee, I think.
Saab fold weather fc always denoral-
It fc mnah herder
WORLD. -| to,make time; all ] metal works bad, and
though the lire appears to burn brighter,
it takes more coal to make steam. The
train seems to hang to the line. Then,
toe, the cutting wind is enough to freeze
the marrow in a man's bones.
It might have been mostly fancy on
my part, bat I thought “Doc” had an
odd look in his face that night, as he got
into the cab. He was more serious than
usnal, for we both knew we had a hard
run before ns, and a oold one. Both of
ns were muffled up in fur caps and old
overcoats.
f ‘Shove in the coal, Nick, and ahake
her down smart. We want every ounce
of steam to-night,” says Doc. “Fifteen
minutes behind and eleven oars on!
Those sleeping-coaches are as heavy as
a whole block, too. I’m glad thia
ia a double-track line, and all clear
ahead. ”
We pulled out, and from the way Doc
handled her, I knew that he meant to
pick np that fifteen minutes, if it was in
the old machine to do it. I suppose we
made thirty miles an hour—perhaps
forty—on the level stretches.
On we went, reeling off the dark,
bleak miles, with the sharp wind cutting
into the cab, till near New Hamburg
station, where the liue then crossed
Wappinger creek on a trestle bridge
which had a “draw” in it It was a
comfort to think that the draw would
certainly be open on such a night, for
the creek was frozen np. -r
Ah, if it were only permitted to train
men to know juAt what is ahead on the
tracks on these blac' >r bitter nights !
But we can only see «..ai the head light
shows ns; and often tha signals seem
strangely oltscnre iu fog, or in the driv
ing rain and snow.
One of those always pos8il)le“breaks,'’
which may not occur for years, but are
yet constantly liable to happen, bad
occurred that night. One of the South
bound night freight-trains, running
down to New York, broke an axle and
got one of its middle cars off the rails, bP
fore reaching the bridge.
How far they dragged the car in that
condition, no one knows ; for it was so
oold that the coudn< tor and nil the
hrakemeu were huddled in the calKxise
behind. But they found it out after u
time, and slowed down as the tram got
on to the bridge.
As they came to a stand-still, two or
three other cars jumped the track; and
one of these, an oil-eur, with a long tank
on it, broke its couplings and was shoved
over on to the up-liue of track—our line
—where it stood sidewise acroas the
rails.
The accident made great confusion
with the men on the freight; but they
claimed that they got out their signal-
lanterns as soon as thex_QQuh]. and that
it was not a minute before we came up.
As washot along past the dark station
and out toward the bridge, 1 saw the
white steam of the freight-train.
“We shall pass No. 19 right by the
bridge,” Due said.
Both of us were looking, Doc on his
side and I on mine.
Suddenly, right ahead, we saw a red
lantern swinging on our .track, at the
head of the bridge.
“God save us, Doc 1” I shoutod, “the
draw’s open!”
“Springthe patent broke !’’ he raid to
me—that was what we c&tled the air
brake, then—and in a moment WA. bad
shut off, reversed and whistled for the
hand-brakes.
But we were going at a great speed.
In a moment more wc had come along
side the freight engine, and out on the
bridge we saw the oil car right across
our rails! It hod a look of death in it
I awnng out on the step.
“Shan’t yon jump, Doc ?” I cried. '
He stood with his back to me, looking
ahead, but turned when I called ont. I
shall never forget that last look he gave
me. He did not speak, but his look
seemed to say, “Yes, you may as well
jump, but 1 must stick to my post.”
Ho barely looked round to me, bnt
made no answer, then looked ahead
»g»in.
Then I jumped—went heels over head
along the side of the' embankment lead
ing to the bridge, rolled over and over,
and landed down on the ice of the creek,
near the abutment, which I had scarce
touched when I heard the crash, as onr
engine atruck the oil-car.
With the collision came a sudden,
brilliant flash of light! Everything
above me, the whole bridge and the
nan cm it, seemed wrapped in a blaze of
fire I
At the same instant, too, there was a
dull, long, tearing crash I The trestle
had given way beneath the strain.
Down came our engine, the three
baggage can, a passenger oar, and I
don’t know how many freight cars of
the other train, on to the ice. The
whole wreck, as it fell down, seemed en
veloped in flames; for the oil had
splaahed over everything, and the blaz
ing coals from the fire-box exploded it
on the instant
When the engine struck the ioe, it
broke through, and with a Idas went to
the bettan of the deep water them; and
on top of it came tumbling down all the
For a moment following the crash
there was an almost complete silence;
then agonizing screams, and prayerful
cries for help from the imprisoned pae-
~ We who were not disabled did what
vtwUd. TbeKTiBflJV pnflkl got
ran into the chasm, but two of them
burned on the track, along with a sum*
berotf fretgbfcoan. Twenty-one of the
p—sengw ware killed outright, and a
still greeter number warn injured.
As we woraed there to the noise, heat
and awful confusion of that night. I cast
many an anxious glance round for
Doc, hoping and half expecting that he
had got clear and would be at work with
us trying to get out the passengers.
But I saw nothing of him, and by day
break I felt sore that he had gone down
with his engine.
The locomotive was not hauled up ont
of the water till the next week. Then
we found his body jammed down under
the engine on the bed of the creek. His
hands, face and clothes had been
scorched; but whether he was drowned,
or burned to death, wc oould not tell
He bud met his death at his post of
3uty; gone ont of the world with his
hand on the lever; giving his own life
that the lives of others might be saved
—a man of whom any people may be
proud.
The tireely Expedition.
Besides the Alert, the steamers Thetis,
Bear and Hope will take part in the
Greely search. Former expeditions
have shown the propriety of sending so
many vessels and furnishing the expedi-
tioj^for.*
posed to send an advance ship to the
Danish settlements previous to the time
fixed for the assembling of the expedition
at Uppernank. Should a favorable op
portunity present itself, the vessel will
push northward and rrecne the Greely
]>artv. The relief ships will arrive at
Uppernavik not later than May 15, and
will push northward as soon as the ice
permits toward Littleton Island. The
natives will be cummnioated with and
all possible information obtained as to
Che whereabouts of the expedition.
When the ice is reached, one of the ves
sels will push its way through it while
the other will maintain snch a position
in the rear as to rescue the party on No.
1, should that ship come to grief.
Should neither vessel be crushed, and
should neither succeed in communicat
ing with Lady Franklin Sound, one, it
is reoommeuded, should winter in
Franklyn Pierce Bay and the other in
the vicinity of LittLafon IsluuL _ On the
route northward various points are to be
examined and depots of provisions left
at certain specified quarters. The full
est equipment as to l>oat8, sleds, cloth
ing, tents, wooden houses and provisions
has been recommended, and every pre
caution is to l)e taken to secure success.
The addition of the Alert to the rescue
fleet will undoubtedly greatly enhance
the chances of accomplishing the ob
jects of the expedition. It is reoom
meuded that the personnel of each ves
sel to be kept down to aYothimnm, so as
to give ample space should the expedi.
tiou l>e absent two years and diminish
the risk of shortness of provisions. It
is calculated that tbe total expense will
l>e about 6420,000
■ V
High Life in England.
The Ear] of Euston, the future Duke
of Grafton, is about to begin tha much
talked of suit for divorce from his wife,
on the plea that tbe lady’s first hnsliand
was living at the time of her second mar
riage. The Countess will submit in de
fence that when she married her first
husband she supposed him a wicjpwcr,
but hu proved to have another wife, aad
when she learned thia she abandoned
him. The ease promises to be exceed
ingly interesting.
Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy,
eldest son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy,
fell in love with a woman known as
"Kate Cook.” She was handsome and
stylish in person, and her matured
charms were quite sufficient to captivate
the youth of twenty-three. Unknown
to his father, who waa Equerry to the
Queen, he married her. Moat chronicles
of the peerage ignored tbe marriage.
Others described the bride as tbe daugh
ter of John Walsh and the widow of
‘ ‘Mr. Smith. ” In 1882 the bridegroom’s
social position changed. Lord Angnstus
Fitzroy succeeded his brother as seventh
Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy be
came Earl of Euston. The widow of
“Mr. Smith” became Countess Euston
and the fntnre Duchess of Grafton But
troubles hod already oome between her
and her husband. They separated by
mutual agreement No fault being
proved against the Countess since her
marriage, the Earl in vain sought an ex
cuse for divorce. The mysterious "Mr.
Smith” has now appeared and the ex
cuse is found.
Tex Canal.—There is, says an ex
change, a likelihood that the Cape Cod
Canal really will be built The distance
to be dug ill sight miles and the present
estimate of Che cost is a million dollars
a mile. The company already has ex
pended $150,000. Tbe charter compels
the building of a railroad bridge and
there will be some expenrive looks. The
ibortest mate train Boston to New York
through Vineyard Sound ie 886 miles
and by the -outside course 386 miles.
Through the canal it will be 240 mates,
saving 96 miles in one esse and 140 in
tbe other. But there is another saving
to be considered, and that is an occa
sional shipwreck which tha shorter and
Mfor fMMffi b; Utf ffifinMtoMfl#,
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A Hlecalar Arromml •( tire Bad la mf BLaafc.
ell Iram Freer* Maaraaa.
The fallowing acasnnt of the defeat of
Hicks, Pacha is ptifeshed in the Paris
Journal dr* Debttf*) The latest inform*
tion which has reached Cairo regarding
the disaster of Hicks Pacha’s army is so
singular and so very tragic that it oould
at first bo hard’yMieliered as possible.
But it is now confirmed by so large a
number of trustworthy witnessee that it
is no longer possible4o doubt the foot.
It was not the Mahdi who conquered
Hicks Pacha; tho tetter and his men
perished in an intestine struggle, victims
of an error which threw Egyptians
against Egyptians.' the Mahdi and bh
bands only took a secondary part in the
battle. They only arrived in time to in
crease the butchery and reap the fruits
of victory. This is what happened. You
know what a conflict bod arisen between
General Hicks and his Egyptian col
league, Alaidin Pacha. The first wanted
to march directly on El Obeid, the
second proposed to follow the hilly route,
a more difficult road, but a safer one,
and which offered the l>est advantage of
allowing tbe troops to rest during the
d«y near the Melbass wells before at
tacking El Obeid. The rumor was
spread that in consequence of this rup
ture Ateidin Pacha had abandoned Gen.
Hicks with part of tne army, and hopes
“vrerdTong entertained that he had been
saved. Alas 1 this separation was des
tined, on the contrary, to become the
cause of the ruin the Egyptians and
of the loss of the Bondan. The two
generals having found it impossible to
come to an nnderatending, it was re
solve. ."'at each stemkl take the road be
considered bes-*^ that in the event of
one of the corps l«ing attacxou the
enemy the other rould hasten to i_
rescue. This plan was carried out.
Alaidin Pacha reached the mountain,
while Hicks Pacha marched straight to
ward El Obeid. Both corps were passed
by soldiers of the Mahdi, who, without
giving battle harassed them incessantly
on the flanks. The troops had left to
ward midday. At midnight sharp firing
was beard in the direction of the moun
tains. Hicks Pacha at once ordered hia
men to advance and support Alaidin
Pacha. It was pitch dark. The sharp
shooters fired wi^ioat knowing wbat
they were sl*>at. fkfter on hour's hur
ried march the troops reached the middl
*>f the mountain. The vanguard an
nounced that all the heights were occu
pied by the enemy. Suddenly a shower
of bullets fell on the army. A part took
to flight, while the other stood firm.
The fighting continued desperately until
daylight appeared, when a horrible
spectacle presented itself. Hicks Pacha’s
troops were almost annihilated, and at
the top of the hill the Egyptian uni
forms were in sight. Alaidin Pacha and
Hicks Pacha’s troops had been butcher
ing each other ever since midnight
The central column, commanded by
General Hicks, had suffered the most
A small plateau where it had halted
was strewn with dead and dying. The
bodies of three Europeans lay where Uie
staff had taken ppwition.
Sturgeoa Don’t Bite.
There were four or five of ns on the
long wharf runnizg out into the Gulf at
Mississippi City, and we had been fish
ing away for half an hoar without any
Inck when a big fat man named Blake,
from Ohio, suddenly called out:
“Say, Ihijs, let’s have a swim.”
It was too hoi, and we were too lazy,
but Blake declared that he’d have a
swim by himself. He off with his clothes,
backed down into the water, and for a
quarter of an hour hung to a spile and
splashed the water, not being able to
swim a stroke. By and by he climbed
cat, but scarcely had his feet touched
the plank when one of the men sang out:
“By I he great horn spoon [ but see
there 1”
Ten feet away Trom the end of the
wharf were two sharks at least seven
feet long, and the water was so clear
that every wink ef their eye oould be
seen.
“Yes, a couple of sturgeon !” observed
Blake as he waddled forward. ‘‘I saw
’em hanging around when I went down,
bnt sturgeon don’t bite!”
When he came to fully realize what an
escape he had had he sat down on ths
head of a spile aad blubl>ered like a boy
who had stubbed his toe.—M. Quad.
Gas from Sawdust
The village ot Deaeronto, Ontario, is
said to be lighted with gas made from
sawdust. Tbe lumber company, to
which tbe settlement owes Hs life, cuts
fifty million feet of lumber annually,
and what to do with the huge hens ol
sawdust has Been a vexatious problem.
Before introduction into the retorts, the
sawdust is thoroughly dried, after which
from twenty to thirty thousand feet of
gas era obtained from a ton. In illumi
nating power it is said to be equal to
that made of cool, end is entirely tree
from sulphur.
Dr. Otto KnumaL, or Gorrown,
who has been investigating the area of
oceans, estimates the superficies of the
Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans at
194,787,425 square miles, and tbe total
wperticiea ot all tbe seas on tbe globe
at 231,915,905, white the totel snper-
fioies of the oonttoeute and teteiKk bo
«*••« Arww With the Ursm
Bar Breach.
sreaaBareaaaa F
"It am my solemn dooty to inform dte
club,” mid Brother Gardner, "del de
branch club at Green Bay, known as de
‘White 8 wan Branch, No. 82,’ has been
disbanded. I returned from dot piece
tee’ nite erter an ofltehul visit of inspeek-
•bun axed fur by de Mayor, Common
Council an’ various odder puasona. De
results of dot inspeokahun am ea 18x24
warnin’ fur us to go slow in de matter of
grantin' charter to branch lodges.
"In makin’ applicesbun fur a charter
it waa understood dot de White Swans
would start off wid three jedges, two
elders, six colonels, two trustees, fo’ pur-
feasors an' two oo’n doctors. I diskib-
ered dst outer de sixteen charter mem
bers dar’ was only one single ptupon
wid e title. He claimed to be s pur-
fessor, an’ he am now in jail on charge
of steal in’. Our oonstituahun says dat
no fee shall be charged for initiatin’
members. Du branch lodge took in
sixty-four members at a fee of two dol
lars per head, an’ de money was used to
play policy an’ buy lottery tickets.
Under pretense ob bein’ a chartered so-
tiety, organized fnr de good ob mankind
in gineral, it heaped np a debt of ninety
dollars in three months; it stole twenty-
two hams; it got away wid six bundled
ohiekew; it-giucaiyti aoetety>«h
dat de wife of a man aimin’ seventy-five
cents a day wanted a twenty-two-dollsr
bonnet or death.
"When I arrove at Green Bey an’
called upon de President of de White
Swans he almos’ convinced me dat all
derogatory reports had bin started by
jealous-minded white pnsaons. I hap
pened, however, to fall in wid a butcher
rbo had lost six hams an’ had sot s trap
in hia smoko-house to ootch stragglers.
1 Ml up wid him till inidnight, at which
hour »% went ont an’ found de Presi-
3ent of de Lnanch lodge to de trap, wid
de Secretary ana Treasurer disappearin’
in de distance.
"Gemlen, we hu rushed u- j n
de funhnr. when a branch axes dis
fnr a charter, cuffin’ of de sort mue’ be
granted until arter a moos’ rigid inwesti-
gsshun has bin made. We mas’ not be
satisfied wid weekly reports, bnt some
member of dis club inns’ be sent out on
s scout. Our cause has received a blow
to'Green Bay from which it may be
y’an in recoverin’, an’ it am all our own
fault Let us bow pnroeed to routine
business.”—Detroit Free Fret*.
The Texas Terror.
■marnmtwmm, ■sIbshs «• <
Uqisr la teatas.
Hon. Thomas W. Pittman, of New
York, has created a greet interest to
Maine by hia series e^teoturas on intem
perance and crime, aad baa given some
startling statistics. Ho shows that then
are 48,000 ertoitaAk to tho prisona at the
United States; to eonnty jails, 184.000;
in the houses of refuge, 10,000; floating
criminal population, exclusive of drunk
enness and disorderly conduct, 400,000;
totel, 592,000 criminals. From latest s*
turns of the Police Department of Now
York and Brooklyn there is one sweet,
including drunkenness end disorderly
conduct, to every 18 of the population;
in New fork 10,000 liquor eeloona,
which, allowing 28 feet front to each,
would make an avenue 25 mites long;
eighteen hundred inmates of the lunatic
asylum on Ward’s Intend, two-think of
whom are insane drunkards; and fifteen
hundred convicts in Bing Sing State
Prison, 1,800 of whom became criminals
through intemperance. Thirty per cent
of Hie prison papulation of Msmeehu-
•etts is between twenty and twenty-five
yean of agu. In Pennsylvania the con
victs in the penitentiaries under sixteen
jrtors of age are 17per cent.; 85 per
cent, under twenty-one, and 20 par cant,
between twenty-one and twenty-flve
80 par cent, never learnhd any
ttotetqaktfon; 82 per mint wars
against property and 82 per cent were
habitual drunkards. One-fifth of the
criminal population lives to cities, as
foUowsi-Onc-eighth in cities over 100,000
inhabitants; one-twelfth in oittas of over
75,000 and nearly one million to cities
of over 40,000, mostly manufacturing
towns. Crime and drunkenness are on
the increase in manufacturing towns.
Maine has a bed showing, them being in
Portland last year 2,260 smote, 1,426 of
which were far dranksnneee and drunk
en brawls. Tbe lecturer exposed the
private dabs of Portland, Bangor and
other large towns to the State, and the
easy manner in whieh htjW can be pro
cured in Maine, both privately antf pub
licly, and emphatically proclaimed that
^‘““•httion does not prohibit anises in
dorsed Af* ^utained by public senti
ment of the who mTut
the trablic authorities -^ foKe ^ Uw
QUAKER CITY HUMOR.
A WWW JOK.Be
CALL.**
•‘That man taka did me a
mean trick, but I haw hod my mraapK”
Smith—"IB wbat way r 1
Jonas "By fixing thing* m that ha
will ba driven orsay to tiuws months."
Smith—“Graojoaa I Howdidyjmdo
NT r
Jones—"I got a family with twin
babies to move into
door,’’
HUB IDENTITT
little Nell—"We’ve gets new scholar
to ouraebool”
Papa.—"Wbat is her namef’
Little NeU—"Her name's Mtonte.”
Papa—“But her other name?”
Little NeU—"I don’t know. T forget
to ask her."*
Papa-“la abe a good scholar ?”
little Nell—' No; abe missed the first
question. The teacher asked her how
many pounds maze a ton, and the said
1,600.” . - - r -
Papa—"Ab ! I see. She is tbe daugh
ter of Mr. Blank, the cool dealer.”
a orxat ooKFLimarr
Little Jaek—"You never waa in the
country much, I guess, Mr. Popinjay f’
Popinjay (dailghted)—“Do you think
so, my UUle fetypw ? Well, I have not
bean to fthemnitry form any yean, bnt
I used to hvs there wham I waa a Utile
boy. You would not believe it, I zap-
poee
Little Jack—“Damno about that, bnt
1 guess sis tar would not. I know she
thinks you never wto in the country at
all”
Popinjay (still more delighted)—"Ah!
Indeedr
Little Jack—"Ym, she said you did
not even know beans.*
"The Texas Terror” is found in al
most every town—the bod, bold man
who spills blood, hot blood, and eats
tenderfeet for breakfast every morning,
but he stays around the bar-room fire
generally, and awaits invitations to
drink from strangers for whose benefit he
“shoots off his mouth.” He is usually
from Bitter Creek or Rattlesnake Run,
where they raise bad men; the “farther
up yon git the wns they be, and I’m
from tho headwaters,” is his autobiog
raphy. Sometimes he is the “Red
headed - Terror- of-Tom-Green-County,”
and sometimes "Apache Bill.” He slips
np to the bar when asked to ‘‘irrigate,”
and says to the barkeeper: "Give me
Bathin' powerful, pard; suthin' os will
warm up the cockles of me heart; I'm
the toughest man in Tom Green County,
but I’m sort o’ low down this mornin’,
an’ ain’t smelt blood; I’m a reckless
devil when I get started, and I feed on
devastation and tormoil, but I’m kinder
quiet now and mean no mischief. Times
ia changed senoo I came to Texas fust,
and the people is as quiet as kittens —
gimme suthin' that’ll make me feel as if
the tornado of the prairies brought the
smell o’ blood. They used to call me tbe
king of the cow-boys down on the
Pecos, but thej’ve no use for fightin’
men thar now.” And he will go on in
this strain as long as anyone will listen
to him, but while his words are fierce,
his acts are mild, and he takes the place
of* the yam-spinner who is generally
found in the village saloon of the North.
The Arabs at El Teb
It ia stated in English reports of the
battle of El Teb that "the Arab#
charged repeatedly, under cover of a fire
from their works, which killed and
wounded a few of the British; bnt they
never could get through tbe formation,
the bullets mowing them down as they
advanced. Tbe British at teat reached
the works and carried them with the
bayonet, the Arabs resisting fiercely,
and leaving 900 men dead on the
ground. ▲ brick building used as a
mill waa next carried, and then the cav
alry swept down on the enemy, yrhomet
tbe charge without flinching, ami struck
at the bones as they jnssnfl through
them. At length, after lhree hours'
fighting, the Soudanese who had, aa it
was afterword ascertained, lost 2,800
men, certainly a fifth of their whole
number, and probably a fourth, fled,
most of them going to Dobbs, their
storehouse, which wee occupied on tbe
following dey. The British loos woe only
82 killed and 143 wounded; but the ac
tion was, nevertheless, severe. Afl wit
nesses, including the general in com
mand, testify to tha splendid valor of
the Arabs, who met death with a ^ind
of pleasure, and to the steadiness pg the
British aoldteiu, who never Soon broke
j Uteir ordaa, or flinched n^fer the n*b
He advocated moral methm*.
for the
drunkfid atgl kindness sod kuma*.-
for the reformation oferiminab and tne
abolitioq of prison contract labor and
crnel punishments. His statements rel
ative to tbe open violation of the Maine
liquor law and increased drunkenness in
the State have created a profound sen
sation among all classes, especially
among Prohibitionists
f, l-.lf ^
1.6populated Ireland
a* Ainmoua nor.
"No BM talking,” said young Tommy,
"I am lurand to do something to got rich
Shin I glow up.”
“Tiaibfit you are learning to love
money too well," iWE?**d tea father,
aadty.
“No,” said Tommy, "I don't enru fo*
monoy for its own sake, but for tho
good it can da
bri|^i!?^ t . ..yoa,
oommsndatN...
“And will you to get me a
place where I can ^ h ,
awfully rich I”
"I will,” responded (he father.
One week afterward the old man, true
to hia promise, took the boy and got
him a situation in a newspaper office.
The Irish papers are discussing the
'coent census returns in a bitter rpirit.
Die Dublin Nation has an article en
titled “Bleeding to Death,” lu which it
wys: “The life blood of Ireland is being
j rained by vampires. Every one who
has an interest in the country must gird
his loins against this murderous union, ;
The extermination of the Irish people
has long lieen ths traditional aim of tbe
English rulers. The present Executive’s
still is set on actively promoting the
murderous system which baa already
robbed the country of five or six millions
of people.”
The United Ireland ^devotee an
article to the same subject, which i'
entitles “Killing a Nation by Inches."
It says: “For all practical purposes
Ireland ia suffering a more awful drain
of manhood than if engaged in a deadly
oot fliet with a first class European
power. She has lost since the Union
more men than Franca lost in all Abe
sanguinary wars of Napoleon. At least
eight millions of people have been im
molated in eighty years to the demon ot
English supremacy. Three millions of
people whose brawny frames supplied
the physical force of the repeal meetings
were missing in 1852 when the census
enumerators came to count them. Two
million nine hundred and thirteen thou
sand of the population who were spared
by famine hove been starved or
ported since. The waste goes on
and more furiously. Within tbe last
year alone Ireland lost 108,000 em
igrants, 71,000 of whom were tingle
adults. Hhe lost in mere thews and
muscles more valued sons than were
stein in any of the greatest battles of the
world.”
An Arkansas Jail.
The county jail of Hot Spring*, Arkan-
ia a miserable two stray .fog bnt,
about fourteen feet square. The upper
story is occupied by the jailer, who toll,
for a consideration, yield it to a
of meant. A small, rickety balcony,
with a sofa oh it, and a creaking flight
of wooden steps give eoeeae to the room.
Tbe pen below, or jefl proper, la a
tet "Week hole,*” the, floor fo
with filth, straw and vermin; light filter*
through two glare cubby botea a
inches square and admittance fo only
gained by means of an
the floor above, through
happy captives are towered down tha
ladder. As mahy re adooen, ajf all agas,
sexre and color*, are
her* at once.
to the room above and fo
to brand a ferer. In caw ef
the father,
fo
8a the opposite cor
looking fob a fbocnd.
"Do you know a Colonel Smith of
this city?” asked a stranger of a Louis
ville man.
"Oh, yes,” was the reply, "there be
te now,
ner.” ,
'No, that fo not the genflsman I re
fer to. My friend ia n toller i
"Well, there fo Qqtoqai
coming out of the poet otBoe, the geatfo
man with the slouch hat.”
"No, neither of them fo toe man that
I am in search of. The man I wool fo t
smooth-faced, thick-set
achieved coma distinction
war." - —
"The late war?” said the Louisville
citizen. "I guess I am not acquainted
with him. There is no Ootonel Smith in
this city that 1 know of who aver had
anything to do with'
nxormro wane.
Edith—"6hf how glad I am 1
summer fo coming again. Soon wa
go to Newport and so joy am
grand old fox hunts Joel wNfoa
Eaglfoh prfooressa.”
Mabel—‘MM you go fox hunting a4
Newport?"
Edith—"Yw, indeed, I waa to every
bunt Oh! it’* gforioua—the prancing
steeds, the baying hounde, the exhilar
ating sir, tha delightful chare onr the
fields and fanese, and the rash to ba in
si the death and get the brush. (Mi!
how 1 tosh you could hare been along.”
Mabel-" Well, I don’t The idea of
a great crowd of hones and hounds and
hunten 4k dashing after one poor Mttia
fox and keeping upthe tambto chase
until tbe poor thing sinks sway from
veryweaknes*.”
Edith—"Fox! Tost Why, I
saw A fox!”
Mabel—"Bat you spoke of
“the brush.’" *
Eudorn—“Oh ! tool fo a lovely pea
cock brush gtreu to the beat lady rite."
Mabel—“Bat wtott fo bring fin at tbe
death?*" >
Eodorn—"ObieWng up with (be auk*
seed beg.”—/’Ait*. Eva. CML
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