Little Hatchet from Clay Center, Kansas • 4

HE KNEW LATIN. BEHGIOUS READING. MOUSE PLAGUES. THE WKEKLY.ARGUS below that, especially in Wyoming and Montana. His rations corn meal and bacon are found by the ranchers.

The cowboy's principal personal expense is tobacco. That he feels unable to get along without, and it will cost him all of live dollars a month. So, admitting that he has six months' work, he. takes one hundred and twenty dollars home with him to keep himself, and probably that Mr. Jones has over the massed ct men.

He is humble, honest, fearless, sympathetic and courageous to proclaim repeatedly: "I stand upon the. commandments of God. By his Spirit's power in me I keep them. By keeping them I have the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost in me according to the Saviour's promise." GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE. HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

A good lesson to fix in the minds of children is that all flowers, even tha most common ones, arc beautiful. Popular Gardening. Whole cloves are now used, in preference to tobacco, camphor or cedar shavings as a protection against moths. Boston Bulletin. Eggs: Spread crumbs thickly on a plate or platter, butter, pepper and salt; break eggs on in a circle, cover with crumbs and seasoning, set in the oven a few minutes.

Cincinnati Times. To make a pudding quick split a few crackers, lay the surface over with raisins and place the halves together again, tie them closely in a cloth and boil fifteen minutes in milk and water. With a rich sauce it is elegant Indianapolis Sentinel. Cuttings of roses, heliotropes, will grow better if taken off at tho junction of the old and new wood, and should be cut oft" just below a joint or bud, as the roots start from that point, and if a bud is not left near or close to the base the cutting is liable to decay in the soil. Chicago Tribune.

Corn Starch Cake: One cup butter, two cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, one cup corn starch, two cups flour, the yolks of four egprs, the whites of five, one tablespoon baking powder; beat sugar and butter together; add milk, yolks of eggs; beat whites of eggs separate and add "last; mix the baking powder with the flour before mixing. The Household. It is idle to think of growing agood crop of onions unless previous preparation has been made by thorough cultivation the preceding year. The crop will never succeed on a sod, and a two years' crop of potatoes where sod has been turned under is better than one. Onions require very rich soil, and it is not always easy to secure this without makfng it also foul with weeds.

X. Y. Times. Mr. L.

D. Roberts, of Koyalton, N. writes to the Planter and Stock- ket price for the strays, and branded them as bis property. The money was divided pro rata among the party. Nowadays this is all changed.

All unbranded cattle taken up are sold, and the money received for them is placed in the treasury of the Ranchers' Society. The amount raised in that way pays the entire expense of running the society. "It is surprising what a trifling thing will start a stampede that may cost many lives and- the loss of hundreds of cattle before it can be controlled. I was'coming up the Texas trail once with a party of cowboys. We had four thousand cattle in the bunch.

One of the boys opened his tobacco pouch to get a chew. The wind blew a shred or two of the fine-cut out of his fingers. The tobacco floated away and lodged in a steer'3 eye. In a moment the eye began to smart, and the steer got wild. Its antics started others, and in ten seconds the whole herd was surging and dashing about, out of all control.

It was two days before we got the herd working quietly again. Two of our best boys were trampled to death and four hundred cattle were lost. 'Hail-storms are greatly dreaded by cowboys on the trail, especially if they come at night when the cattle are sleeping. If a hail-stone happens to strike a steer in the eye a stampede is sure to follow. He springs to his feet, and in thrashing around tramps on the tails of others.

They jump up in pain. The herd is alarmed, and before anv thing can be done the whole lot are off like a Hash. The bark of a coyote, when every thing is still at night, is sufficient to stampede a herd. A blade of grass, blown along by the wind, frequently strikes a steer in the eye. The pain that follows will set him wild, and he can soon have the herd on the run across the country at a twenty-mile-an-hour gait.

"It is during stampedes that the cowboy has work to do. His one great object is to keep the flying herd together. He urges his mustang- dead against the advancing column of frantic cattle at the constant risk of. his life, and works the cattle gradually in a circle. The cowboys all ride to the right around a stampeding herd.

If they can get the cattle to running in a circle, the first important step in controlling them is accomplished. I have been with a parly in a stampede when we were obliged to ride around a herd for a distance of over two hundred miles before we got it under control, and then it was only twenty-five miles from where the stampede started. In all that time not one of us took a moment's rest or a bite to eat. Such things can't be thought of during a stampede. "Next to a stampede, the cowboy dreads the taking of a herd of cattle across a stream.

The cattle are taken across in bunches of twenty-five or thirty. The cowboy strips all his clothing off, and swims his horse along with the cattle. Sometimes the bunch may be taken across and landed on the other side without any trouble, but the cowboy is always expecting to have a case of 'milling1 on his hands before he gets the bunch across. I have before now brought a bunch of cattle safely to almost within reach of the opposite shore, when the sudden appearance of a jack rabbit on the bank would scare a steer, and back he would turn. In a moment the whole bunch would be swimming wildby, round and round, in the middle of the stream.

This is called milling, and it is the work of hours to break up the mill and get the cattle started for the shore again. In doing this it is often necessary for the cowboy to plunge from his horse and swim about among tho cattle, often getting on their horns or astride of them. The water is generally tilled with running ice. but the sun is scorch-ins hot. The bunch drifts down stream sometimes for miles before the milling is broken.

The Cottonwood trees along these stream are usually loaded with hornets' nests. The moment a hornet sees the cattle floating down the stream under the trees he drops down on them, followed by numbers of his fellow colonists, and they plant their stingers wherever they drop. have been so badly stung while fighting a mill that my head would swell so that I could not wear my hat. A raid of hornets generally breaks up the milling of the cattle attacked, for the animals can't stand the stings and they make for shore. Many a good cowboy has been drowned in trying to break up a mill in mid-stream.

It is not uncommon for a party to spend three weeks or a month in getting a herd of. four thousand cattle across a stream. "These are only a few of the hardships a cowboy has to undergo in doing his work. Besides these, he has to fight hostile Indians and bands of white marauders, who frequently seek to stampede a herd and run off abunch of cattle before the cowboys can prevent it. He finds another dreaded enemy in terrible prairie fires.

The days and nights that he is sometimes compelled to spend in battling with these are filled with untold dangers. A rancher expects his cowboys to defend his herds with their lives, if necessary, and a cowboy would as soon think of killing his mother as to desert his herd, even in the face of certain death. The delivering of a herd safely at the dead line is not sufficient to satisfy its owner. Every animal must be heavier by a large percentage than it wras when it left the ranch. If the herd has not been handled with good judgment on tho trail, such a result will not follow.

The rule is that the cowboy must fatten his cattle on the trail, no matter how thin he may grow himself." N. Y. Sun. Tillable Lakes. They Kxeel the Locust Afflictions of Egypt of Old.

It is well known that the fauna of merica, especially that of the higher animals, presents a large number of peculiar types. Under ordinary circumstances field-mice are not at all abundant, so that at times naturalists can secure speci- mens of eiany species only with difli-j culty. The most inconceivable increase i and abundance during certain" years, to Klloh fir pvtpnt r.rinr. r.hrv Vrorma national calamity, is thus the more remarkable. In the colony of Lourence one of these remarkable visitations has thus been described In the months of May and June, 1873, they suddenly appeared in enormous numbers.

They invaded the maize fields in such great numbers that the corn seemed literally alive wit a them, destroying in a few days every thing that was edible; and where bi-t a short time before bushels of grain might have been harvested not an ear remained, and the noise produced by their nibbing and climbing was audible for a considerable distance. After the corn-lields were devastated the potatoes next received their attention. Only the largest were eaten in the ground; such as were transportable were carried away and hidden in hollow trees, or other retreats, for future use. Gourds and pumpkins, even the hardest, were gnawed through and eaten. Of green food, such as clover, oats, barley, not a leaf was left standing; even weeds were cut down and the inner parts eaten out.

In the house the struggle for existence of these long-tailed invaders was truly amazing, lu many of the dwellings hundreds were killed in a single daj The cats could contribute but little aid lighting such a plague, for not only were many of the rats so largo that it would have been an unequal contest, but by their number they drove the cats actually from the houses, not to return until the plague was passed. Nothing except what was composed of iron, stone or glass was spared from their destructiveness; furniture, clothes, hats, books every thing bore the traces of their teeth. They gnawed the hoofs of cows and horses in the stable, literally ate up fatted hogs, and often bit away the hair of persons during sleep. They penetrated all apartments and gnawed their way through boards and walls of houses. Ditches that were dug about granaries did not suffice; the mice would climb over each other in some corner or other, and thus reach the top.

The foregoing account of one occurrence in Lourence will suffice to show to what an extent the plague reaches. The same province had suffered sirni-ilarly in 1813 and 1863, and in all probability will again iu 1889. Our astonishment at the strange appearance and disappearance of such swarms of animal life is greatly increased when we perceive in what a close relation of and effect it stands with the presence or absence of food supply; and probably nowhere among the vertebrate animals is the relation more apparent than here. This food supply is derived from the seeds of large bamboo grass (Ta-quary or Cresciuma) growing throughout Brazil. This grass grows in dense thickets to the height of thirty or forty feet, and bears a very large quantity of seed.

Its natural history is remarkable. At regular intervals, varying in the different species from six to thirty years, it matures and blooms and then disappears. Yet more remarkable is the uniformity with which it attains maturity throughout an entire province, if not the whole southern part of Brazil. Similar plagues, though far less in extent, have occurred in Europe, in which the licld-mice unaccountably appeared in greatly increased numbers. One may well think what would be the result were these little, almost insignificant creatures everywhere in such wise to take the ascendency.

When one considers that on an average of every one or two months from live to eight young are born, and that these young become mature in a few months themselves, he will not be surprised to know that a single pair of common field-mice, in the course of a single summer, would increase to twenty-three thousand individuals. Could all the conditions which now keep them in check be removed, every living thing upon the earth would be consumed in a half dozen years. Science. A YOUTHFUL FRAUD. He Issues a Divorce Decree and Pockets ai Twenty-Five Dollar Fee.

A New York lawyer tells a story of a recent occurrence in his office by which his boy made twenty-five dollars, but came near getting two people into a very unpleasant predicament. A plain-looking man and woman walked into the office one day in the absence of the attorn ey. His boy greeted the callers cordially and asked what they desired, adding that Mr. was out, but that he attended to matters in his absence. The man explained that he and his wife did not get along very well and both wanted to be released from their married relations.

"Oh, that can easily be arranged," remarked the whilom attorney, and looking wise he ostentatiously examined a lot of law-books, and after a few minutes proceeded to draw up an agreement between the man and his wife to disagree. He framed it in the language of the law, putting in the "saids," "greetings" and "aforesaids," as well as an alarming array of references to "parties of the first part" and "parties of the second part," and even to "a vinculo matrimonio," the latter being intended to properly impress his clients. Large seals were added to tho documents, which the boy indorsed with a flouiish and gills of red ink; then the agreement was dnly signed, i the boy adding his name as a witness. The man was veiy grateful, and asked what the fee was." The small boy said fifty dollars, and to the plea that this was a good deal to pay for so little work, answered: "But see what I have done for you, and, anyhow, we never scratch a pen here for less than nity dollars." The man had only twenty-five dollars, but he paid that, and promised that he would return in a few days and pay the remainder. The following week he put in an appearance, and the boy being out, saw the attorney himself, and remarked cheerfully that he had come to pay fifteen dollars on account.

"On account of what?" asked the attorney. "Why, the agreement I bad drawn up here last week," replied the client "What asked the attorney. The man produced the paper and handed it to the lawyer, and, as the latter read it, his eyes grew like an owl's at night. When he at last reached the clause: "Know all men by these presents, that John and Mary having agreed before me as a wit ness, they are free to marry again in this State," the cold perspiration started the lawyer's brow as he blurted out: For Heaven's sake don't tell me you are married!" "No," answered the man. "I'm oing to be married next week and lary will be married to-morrow." The lawyer quickly explained the case to the man, and two trials for bigamy were saved from our already overcrowded courts.

Jf. Tint the Court Knew tha Law and Gayo Him the BeneBt of It. "I am iu lex talionis the talons of the. law because of an affaire d'hon-neur," loudly proclaimed a red-nosed man with a badly torn suit of clothes and a suspicious length of hair and. heard.

As he said this he laid down his greasy hat and struck an attitude. "Lex talionis, my friend, don't mean the law's talons, but the law of retaliation," replied the judge. "What you are called upon to answer is not the result of an affaire d'honneur, but of dolce far niente sweet idleness." "Before I answer that plea, may I inquire whether I am an amicus curisa a friend of the court?" asked the red-nosed man. "Justice is blind, my restful friend; may be you are and may be you are not," was the cold answer. "Can you explain to this court why you do not work, and why you swindled this Bavarian baker on the right out of ten cents worth of rolls?" "Labor omnia vincit labor conquers all things" replied the prisoner.

"It has conquered me, and preferring not to starve to death, I obtained my food by my wits from the custus rotolorum." "The custus rotolorum?" demanded the judge. "What custus rotolorum?" "The keeper of the rolls, you know custus, the keeper, and rotolorum, of the rolls," was the intelligent answer. "But it don't mean rolls made up of flour, but of paper. It means records, a legal term, in fact," corrected his Honor. "Errare humanum est to err is human," rejoined the prisoner.

"I afraid I made a faux pas." "What's that?" asked the court. "A faux pas a false step, you know." "In making the rotolorum, as -you insist on calling them, yes," replied his Honor. "No, in language, a lapsus lingiue a slip of the tongue as it were," returned the accused. "It was a regular coup de etat in securing those rotolor-ums if that one-eyed unguis in hcrba had not squealed on me." "Who do jrou mean by anguis in herba?" demanded the judge. "That one-eyed man over there in the chair with the broken leg.

Anguis in herba menus snake in the grass." That gentleman is a respectable load-pencil peddler, and no auguis," severely said the court. 1 guess you want about three mouths." But if I make the amende honorable reparation or apology what then?" inquired the prisoner. In that case it will be ninety days." "Am I to understand that I have received my coup de grace the finishing stroke?" "If ninety days is coup de gi-ace, you have," returned thecburt. "Mittimus we hereby send you you up for ninety aaj's. There' it is in Latin." "Quantum sullicit it is enough" sadly replied the tramp.

I go, but it is nolens volcns unwillingly. Igo, but you shall rue it sic semper tyrannis thus with all tyrants will be spoken of you some day. Do I go up ante-meridiem?" Yon go up in the Black Maria" replied the Judge. Ante-meridiem means before noon, Mister judge." "Yes, you go before meridiem." "Then 1 dine, I suppose?" On. being told that he would, he walked down stairs.

Through the Open door came: "Jvoli ec tangcre, you blue coated myrmidon do not touch me you tyrant or a melee a fight will ensue. I am down but resur-gani I shall rise. Sic transit gloria mundi thus passes the glory of tha word. Cincinnati Times. SOLDIERS' FUN.

Practical Jokes That Relieved th Monotony of Harrack Life. At the back of our barracks two or three companies were encamped in shelter tents, as the barracks were a little crowded. Among the high privates of Company was a tall Englishman, with a broken or bent nose, that prominent feature of his face having a twist to "starboard." Ha was somewhat eccentric in his habits, was an unmarried man, and had been for many years of his life in the English service. Tie styled himself "The American Protector." An in Vetera ts "bluff" player, and a knack of holding the winning cards most of the time, and always playing for cash kept him pretty flush of greenbacks. He said he had no relation of any kind living.

He always kept his money with him, and was willing to lend on security at a good rate of interest to any impecunious soldier who came to him, settlement at pav-day. One day there was an "inspection" of some kind by one or more oliicers, who, while inspecting the quarters and cook-houses in the barracks, were to be looked for at any moment in the camp. The "American Protector" was asleep in his tent. The little pole supporting the roof of this tent projected out beyond the door some six inches. Some fellow happened to pick up a peculiar shaped branch from an orange tree that had fallen, having a central stem and three long prongs or branches growing from it, and conceived the idea of sticking a large sour orange on each prong, and suspending the emblem from the aforesaid projecting ridge pole.

That old, old sign, indicating loans negotiated, svrung gently over the tent entrance; and when the inspecting officers passed through camp they bit their lips or smiled blandly. The decoration seemed quite appropriate to our men, but the money-lender on discovering the sigh was perfectly furious. Apropos of odd things on inspection, at one time in Iworth Carolina General Burnside was coming to inspect us. Two of our men had enormously long mustaches. The Captain of their company or some other told them if they would each wax their mustache and curl up the ends to a rat-tail-file shape, and keep a perfectly sober countenance while the General passed along the line of the company, he (the Captain) would give them a good drink apiece.

It was a bargain. The two men, being tall and on the right flank of the company, stood stiff as ramrods, and with faces of great solemnity. The General and officers passed along the line, carefully examining each man. Reaching our two heroes, Burnside seemed a little startled. He looked earnestly in their faces, bit his lip, moved on a little way, then looked back at them.

Not a muscle of their faces moved, the long hairy appendages under their noses stood out boldly on each side, with a light upward curl at the ends. Their eyes to the front. The staff moved on, many of them laughing. "You did that well," said the Captain, who enjoyed the joke hugely, after inspection. "Now come up to my tent and get your bitters." And he settled his part of the bargain satisfactorily.

Boston Bulletin. -A child at Pueblo, died ol scarlet fever, and her clothes were thrown in a shed. Soon afterward a dog and a cat who had been playing with the elothes were taken with the same disease and died. A Brooklyn woman is keeping in a book a list of things she ought to purchase but can not afford to wear. Sh calls the book her ought-to-buy-ography.

Burdete. BY DEGREES. dreamed a dream; within that city where The many mansions are, 1 stood, and there I saw a place Of peace and stillness where some, entering in Travel-worn pilgrims from this world sin-Could rest a space Apart from all the happy. Heavenly throngr. And listen, weeping, to the glad new song; Remembering still the mortal grief and pain, And wondering' at the mystery growiug plain.

Not as a flood did Heaven's rapture pour Upon tbese weary souls, but more and more The light did grow Upon their heavy, unaccustomed eyes. As sunlight gladdens all the eastern skies With deepening glow. Not all at once. Some dear, familiar faee Smiled a glad welcome first, to make the place Jyess strange, and then a loving voice Bade every trembling soul rejoice. Not all at once! "the Master could not let A yearning heart grow colder, or forget These left behind.

But, leading tenderly. He gave to each A ministry of love, dear ones to reach, And thus to find Heaven's joy complete. So, walking by His will In paths that led beside the waters still And pastures green, where His dear lambs were led. These souls were blest who died unoomforted. Harriet Trowbridge, in N.

Y. Indcpcnlent. International. Sunday-School Lessons. FIRST QUARTER 1881.

Mar. 21 Messiah's Messcnger.Mal.3: 1-6; 4: 1-6 Mar. 28 Review. Service ot Song, Mission-, ary. Temperance or other Lesson selected by the school.

SECOND QUARTER. April 4 The Word made John April 11 The First Disciples John 1: 35-51 April 18 The First Miracle John 2: 1-11 April 25 Jesus and John May 2 Jesus at the Well John May 9 Sowing and John 4: 27-43 May J6 The Nobleman's May 3 Jesus at Bethesda John 6: 5-18 May 30 Jesus Feeding Five Thousand John June 6 Jesus the Bread of Life, John 23-40 June 13 Jesus the Christ John June 20 Jesus and Abraham John 8: 31-3S, and 44-59 June 27 Review. Service of Song; Missionary, Temperance or other Lesson selected by the school. SAM JONES. Description of an Effective Preacher and Ills Methods The Bible and the Sewing-Machine.

In a communication to the Christian at Work Rev. David Street writes from Cincinnati as follows concerning Rev. Sam Jones: At the morning service held in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church to-day, Sam Small had given one of his eloquent expositions of Christian duty to which the congregation listened with the deepest interest; and as he uttered the last word his friend and rescuer, Rev. Sam ones, stepped upon the slightly elevated platform. There was the inevitable hush of perfect silence which is noticeable when he appears, for he has unsurpassed powers of eloquence.

Let me describe him. Of medium height, spare form, sallow complexion, keen, sparkling black eyes, which rarely gleam with power in his speaking; large perceptive faculties, a blaek mustache, and the demeanor of one who has something to tell you if you want to hear it. With a low voice of attractive resonance and of the most sympathetic type, with slow, measured utterance and faultless enunciation, he begins to talk. lie is every way as unique as John B. Gough.

You probably never heard a public speaker of such very slow, deliberate speech, often pausing between sentences. In substance he said: "I received a notice from the Adams Express Company that a package was at their office for me, awaiting my order. I said, 'do you know any thin" about a package coming by express? she answers. 'Daughter do you know any thing about an express package She replies she knows nothing about any express package. 1 have it brought, and it is taken to the lumber-room, where we unpack the box, and find nothing in it but some irons nothing but a variety of pieces of iron and steel, some black, some polished, but we caii not make any thing of them.

They are put away again in the box, and are almost forr gotten, when one day we receive a pamphlet from the post-office giving an account of a sewing machine. We had never heard of such a thing, but this pamphlet describes one, telling how to put the irons together, and telling what it will do if all parts are adjusted precisely as directed. We open our box, take out the irons, go to work slowly, successfully, uutil every part is adjusted precisely as the book commands, and oh! how smoothly and nicely it runs, performing the wonderful work of a perfect sewing machine. Don't we know that the man that made that machine made that book? Of course we know it. You could not make us believe any thing else.

It told us how to put every part in its right place, and what it would do, how it would hem and fell and embroider if we would adjust all the parts according to directions. "You are. the machine and here's the Book (pointing to the Bible on the table). Do you believe the same person that made you made that Book? You can know it if you want to. Go take that Book and carefully adjust every element and emotion of your nature by the directions of that Book, and when you have quit all your meanness, and all your lying, and all your hypocrisy, and have given yourself wholly to serve and obey the Lord, you will run so smoothly and live such a noble and useful Christian life that you will know, what every obedient Christian knows, that the person who made me made that Book.

He knows how to adjust all parts of my nature to work together, to glorify God and live a righteous life. "Don't you see it? Brother! don't you Bee it? Of course you see it. Of course you know it. What are you good for? Only a of irons" out of harmony with your own soul, and your wife, and your children, and your neighbors, and your God? Why don't you come and quit your foolishness, quit your meanness, and take God's Book and'adjust your life by it? "Some of you say you have not faith enough, or you are not good enough, or you're afraid to begin lest you can't hold out. Why don't you say you don't want to be adjusted by the direction of the Lord? Why don't you say you want to adjust yourself and do as you please? For that's the truth.

If you wanted the Lord to adjust your life you would come to Him, and I want you to come now. I want those who are tired of trying to get along by having taeir own way, to come forward now and begin with God, and let Him have His way." After a few more exhortations and severe rebukes about the danger and the wickedness of trying to live apart from God, he said: "We need to know what our Heavenly Father wants us to live for and how to live. This is what I call ruanology, and I have a great deal more interest in manology than in theology, because manology tells us what God wants us to do, and every day. Theology tries to tell us about God, but I always find it so muddy that I can't see through it; and I have noticed that when a man goes through theology he never can see clearly afterward'. "What do we want to know any thing more about theology than the Bible gives us? God is all right.

I know H3 is all right. What business have we to meddle about His side of salvation? But we do need a great deal more of manology. We need more of God's adjustments. The old-fashioned knowledge of our obedience wjiich had a great deal of the Bible and a eacred Sunday and a cold Sunday dinner." It ia easy to recognize, tlje power A3CU3 PUBLISHINC OO. WAY CENTER.

KANSAS JOE SIEG. Who urn the hcroM wo hn'l to day. And cinrlii Ihi'lr brows Willi wreulhs of bayT It I ho nriinr buck fttritin. 'Jo lie jrirt by tlironirsof lii-t fellow-men? 'Die 'uwiiikii niditing in keen (letjulo t'l'T llio Ihw 1 taut will iiiuko hM country great? llio ml, whose K()int In hi goiiy Vv Itiu like tiro the from of Vim. tlnvxi! nr ln rM it mi we may call.

Hut a Kri'UK-r "OH Ix-'hlnd llu-in all. lnt Ami we Mhctiit with a rliiKiiiK We the railway niiiriner, IVIm Ii1 lux duly nml never tlMiuxht lie iliij any iiir than a driver outfiiu" Jmk nt Plrir, Imv, lis hnstnnd With the Irver clutch il In Inn ollv band. Awl lie irinjr nmiKht but thcurlnil ol the wheel On tin) clunk, nx rail timleriienlh hi heel; r. I Kill in lim po lor a It 1 IT or two, Vet looking hIii al ui drivers do. Now nny one seeing him thus would hn vo mild, VV llh a very doiilittill slinkc of hi heart: I'ocir BtufT alter ull out of which to ilnn Your hero when notion culls for Hie tuun." ho you would think, hut IHteu und hear The story of Ulejr, tho onjrinoi'r I'owu the rinmsylvaiilit linn, Jn the 1 1 1 1 1 or nil Hf leinoon sunshine, Hiui) 8 ey with in i ii of curs heiiind.

And 4 of liven that were his to mind. J. It Mo thought he of danger neur As hn watched for siiniuls net at clear. It lie thought ut all, and that thought could be It'll, As liestoo-l on tho foot pinto looklnir ahead, Jt wus thl: to hut a driver could do llun sharp to Inn timo, nor bo overdue. No nlonif the metals In smoke and irlnre, With Nicir at his post by the levers there, Knuliiii Mini curs like whirlwind torn Mill, Just Hi the etoker throw open tho door Ol ttui furiiuee, nt onio through ouch black Hue came Thcouick buck draught, uriairlnir with it the tbinie That, xc-orelilnir with lifrhtnlng nnjrcrs of palu, lli uve Sli'B and his stoker back in tliu Hack they wont, hearing all the brunt the lierv touiruex thut were h.t-siiiK In front.

'I hey caiitrlitut Ihiic.trs in their wild demre, Thut In Uv-is lliitu tiioiiioiit worn in allied in lire. The engine, ikn fomo wild steed that froo, Hot ahead with xhr.ek of dellnnl lee. Jeh lid were htindri-dsof liven in loml) 'l'liat wan hot with tuo breath of their awful doom. To leiip Irom the train would be certain denth. To stav ouM bo loud for tho Hume's wl.d breath.

Now wit a the t'me for your hero to plan; The hour hud eoino, and Sic was tho hviii. Not a moment he nLood, for ut once ho saw II duty Im him. and that wnn law. Not ii sliiyl" thought or himself came near To Hhake his (trniid bravo spirit with four, tinli there rone, like Mash, in his eye, An In those when the lust stein moment is nUli. A look that would do all thut duty could claim, And with one wild rush fliofr was Into the limno.

The reil tonwucn iulver'd and elutch'd atliim; They tore the llesh from his arm ami l.mli; They wove, like ncurlet demons, between The euirlnii und liiuia llery screen. Hut he fought ri wnv to his terrible fule Till he ft-1 1 his leet touch the tender plilio. Then, blind with the lliiuie and its scorching breaih. And wciik from bin torriblo Htrutffc'lo with ilentli. He for tho levers, clutch them nt leiuth.

And. with one wild effort of fn llntf st renjrth, ii the hissing of lire and the enif nc roar, Threw oil thu aIcjiii, and could do no more. When the etiulno ut lust was lirouRht to a ntand. Not lile wan lost out of all that bund. No I fe.

diil I Kiiv Alas! there was one, I'ut not till his duty was nobly done. I or. buna in the lender, silent and Krlm, lliuckcucd and scalded in body and limh, I uv who hud without a d. and iiloun, Suvcd liuiKlredsof lives and lost his own. That Is tho plain und clear, Sler, Hie railway engineer.

Honor to him, und no stint of praise I-io the best of hearts in these modern day. Honor to Siejjl I nny, and hail Thin la-t llludso of the rail. hod.d his duty and never Ihouirht. lie did liny more than driver ouuht. Alernmlnr AihIciwih, in H'onJs.

THE BRAVE COWBOY. A Trun Picture of His Hard and Thankless Life. Tho cowboy as a Knight of is a tirohleni tf the labor (jtictiou that is to conic up for eonsiilcnttioii in the councils of tint wage-work or in the m-ar future. John II. Sullivan, known on the plains and cattle ranges as John, is now studying the workings of labor organizations in different Ivistern cities and their relations to working-inen as a class, for the purpose of enlightening his isolated fellow workers of the trails and ranches on the subject.

Sullivan is a cowboy, lie is an intelligent, handsome vunn" fellow, with a peculiarly mild cut yet keen blue eye. Slight in frame and modest in demeanor, he appears any tiling but a cowboy as the cowboy is uniformly pictured. He donned the Kombrero and spurs when he was twelve years old, and has followed every cattle trail from the (Julf of Mexico to the mountains of Washington Territory in tho fifteen years that have passed since then. "As near as can say, nt a rough said "ullivan to a Sun reporter, "there are between eight and len thousand cowboys in the ranges of the cattle-raising region. No class of men work harder.

None are so poorly paid for their services. The tyranny and injustice that, they are compelled to submit to at the bands of their employers is as great, if not greater, than that to which any other class of laborers are subjected. No people have ever been so grossly misrepresented mid maligned. Then; is as much diller-cnee between the genuine cowboy and the disreputable blusterer and bulldozer, that writers for the press have made the cowboy out to be, as there is between the honest, hard-working mechanic of this or any other city and the waggring rowdy, loafer or bully that jostles hint in the street. "Men generally choose a life of crime because they can make more money and make it easier than they can by honest labor.

Imagine a road agent, who, by a bold stroke, may secure a fortune in half an hour, trailing a herd of cattle across country for twenty-live dollars a month! "As to the condition of the cowboys as working-men, I say, after what I have observed in the East, that thoy have no organization back of them to demand fair treatment at the hands of employers. But, while thej' are not organized for mutual protection, their employers have one of the strongest ana most systematic, and at the same time despotic, unions that was ever formed to awe and dictate to labor. This is the Ranchers' Society, to which very cattle baron of the country-belongs. On the books of this society are the names, in alphabetical order, of every cowboy on the ranges, from Texas to Washington Territory. Tho average pay of the cowboy is twenty-five dollars a month, and that is putting it well up.

He is obliged to find his entire outfit, except his horses. These belong to the ranchers. But then there is another way the cowboy is fitted out. If he hasn't money enough to bay his own, the rancher will rig him np. The cowboy is furnished with the necessary articles, and the rancher charges him a good round jtrice.

for them, and keeps bfteen dollars a rnontit out oi Ins wages to pay on them. If he has good luck he will have his outfit paid for at the end of the season, but he will discover that a large part of it will have to be renewed before he goes on the range the next year. "The average pay of a cowboy, tak- 411 uiu trui US iti lllll-, Ull 1.11V iiwi DH and south ranges, will not exceed twenty-live dollars a month. A great many of the cowboys have families of their own, or perhaps parents or other relatives, to support. I5y no possible utroko of fortune can a cowboy have more than feix months' work in tho year cn the ranges.

The average- is others, through the long and rigorous winters of the great West. As a rule, the eowbovs live in the back towns. far away from the railroads. This is especially the case with those native born, as a great majority of them arc. The cowboys seen lounging around tho railroad towns are mostly young men who have gone from the East.

There is nothing to which the great body of tne cowboys can turn their hands in these isolated regions during the win ter. A few arc hifed by hunters and trappers to accompany them to their hunting grounds, home, from choice, remain on the ranches, and help take care of the home stock, but for this they receivo no pay, as the ranchers have their hired men lor that work. "It-may easily bo seen, then, that tho cowboys have a serious struggle against actual want, and; such is the system of the Ranchers' Society, they dare not protest. Experience has taught them that to ask for an increase in wages means immediate discharge from the service. But that is not the worst of it.

The moment a man is discharged by any member of the Ranch ers society his name is sent to every other member. The name is turned to in the books of each ranch, and a black mark placed opposite it. That is called 'black listing' the cowboy. He might as well leave the country at once. These facts about the Ranchers' So ciety have only recently been found out, and then only by the bitter experi ences of men who had protested, in the name of their families, against the starvation wages the ranchers paid them.

More than that, members of the ranchers clique have issued orders to their men that they must not spend any time in reading books or newspapers. I don't know what this means. unless it is desired by the ranchers that the cowboys shall not keep themselves informed as to the labor movements of the day. Such of the cowboys as are able to read and even to them the op portunity to do so rarely comes re gard this order as tyrannical in the ex treme. The despot ic system of the Ranchers' Society has slowly awakened tho iso lated cowboys to the necessity of hav ing a league of their own, or of becom ing members of some labor organiza tion, by which they may be enabled to act in unison and compel compliance wiyi ineir just demands, ihey are talking the matter up all they dare: but, scattered as they arc over hundreds of miles of almost uninhabited country, the -possibility of their organ izing in a special league by themselves is remote.

They have heard in a general way of the Knights of Labor. It is part of my mission here, unofficially, to see whether the ten thousand cow boys of the West can not be admitted to that organization and have the ben efit of its strong arm in lighting theen- croaohments of the millionaire cattle owners' monopoly. "The great blizzards and snow storms of the West are among the best agents the big land grabbers have in Montana, Wyoming and other Territories. In Montana especially the cattle of all brands are turned loose in the fall after the beef gathering has taken place and the fat cattle sent oil' to market. When winter conies on the herds drift together until there will be may be twenty-live or thirty thousand cattle bunched.

By and by there comes a snow storm, and the bunc. grass is coveted up beneath two feet of snow. The storm is sure to bo followed by a big fall in temperature. The mercury will go to may be thirty degrees below zero. Then all nutriment leaves the tall prairie grass on which the cattle have fed since the bunch grass was snowed under.

The herd becomes crazed with hunger, and a stampede follows. The great body of the starving cattle start south like an avalanche, heading straight for localities where homesteads have been taken up in the greatest number. They bear down on the settlements and besiege the homesteaders, who vainly try to keep them oft with their rules. Ihey shoot the hungry animals down by the hundred, and sometimes manage to hold them in check" until their ammunition is exhausted. Then the light must end.

The cattle sweep down on the homesteads, and not only-cat up every vestige of hay the homesteaders have stored up for their own small herds, but tear down the houses and outbuildings which the settler builds out of the prairie sod, and devour the roots of the grass that remain succulent in the sod. Homesteads, hundreds at a time, are cleaned up by a herd of hungry cattle, quickly and thoroughly, on a single stampede. Then the herd continues on its way, taking the homesteader's herd of two or three hundred with it, and leaves him a homeless, ruined man. He may have his homestead all olear of the Government claim, but be in debt for cattle or supplies. Ho can't pay, and the creditor comes on him, takes his saddle and whatever he may have left.

'The homesteader is discouraged. The wake of the stampeding herd is quickly followed by the agent of a big land owner. He makes the discouraged settler an offer for his claim, and the settler nine time out of ten, is glad to accept the. offer. The chances are that he will turn cowboy or hire out as a herder for some small cattle grower on a range.

The agent of the land grabber may secure in this way immense areas of much-coveted land for his employer which he could get in no other way unless he paid a fair price, which he never will do. It is no infrequent thing for one of these agents to say: I wish there would come a good freeze-out. We want more That is one way in which the rich cattle-raisers obtain such extensive tracts of the most available land. "In the old times, before the ranges and the system of managing them passed into the hands of the monopolists, tho cowboy had privileges which enabled him to make a few honest dollars besides bife wages. One of these was the title to unbranded cattle.

Therff are thousands of head of unbranded cattle wandering on the range, if there was any way to trace the ownership of these strays It would be found that nearly all of them belonged to poor people. There are hundreds of people going from the Eastern States to the far est every year. Many travel in wagons, and others have money enough to charter cars for their household effects and their stock. Every family takes with it from five to ten cows. The emigrants find a locality that suits him, and stakes out his homestead.

He doesn't brand his cattle, for the reason that unbranded they are worth two dollars more per head on account of the hide. They increase, and in a year or so the settler, has quite a herd of unbranded cattle. There are hundreds more just like him. The first thing be knows they have wandered He can't trace them, and he couldn't claim them if he found them in any one's possession, because they bear no brand, consequently his little herd become wanderers, and arc finally taken up by the cowboys. Formerly all unbranded strays belonged to the party of cowboys who found them.

They were joined with the herd on the trail, and driven in with the rancher's cattle. The rancher paid the cowboys the mar-1 The Practical Truth of This Attribute of the Almighty In Respect to All Created lteingg. A correspondent, who says that he understands the omnipotence and omniscience" of God, wishes us to explain to him the Divine attribute of omnipresence," which he can not understand. Let us, then, say to him, in the first place, that he can not be or go where the knowledge and power of God will not act upon him, and that, for all practical purposes, this is to him God's omnipresence; and, further, that what is true of him is equally true in respect to every other created being in the universe. Let us do a still better thing for this correspondent by quoting, as follows, the iirst twelve verses of the one hundred and thirty-ninth Fsalm: Lord, Thou bast searched me and knou me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising. Thou understandost my thoughts afar oil. Thou compassost my path and my lying: down, and art acquainted with all ray ways. For there is not word in my tongue, but, lo, Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful lor me: it is high; lean not attain unto it. Whither shall 1 go from Thy spirit? or whither shall lleo from Thy presence?" Jfl ascend up into Heaven, Thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold. Thou art there. If 1 take the winj8 of the morning-, and dwell in the uttermost parts or the sea. even there shall Thv hand lad me.

and Thy rijrtat hand shall hold me. If 1 say: the darkness shall cover me, even the trlit shall be light about mc. Yea, the darkness hidetli not from Thee; but the nipht shir.eth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thoe." We commend to our correspondent, and also to all our readers, this statement of God's omniscience and omnipresence. We know not where else they will find so good a statement. The important thing for us to do is not to speculate about the attributes of God, but to realize them to our own minds and hearts, so that we shall feel their force, and seek those things that are well-pleasing in His sight, always remembering that no man, by searching, can find out God, and that no man can know the Almighty to perfection.

N. Y. Independent. Hints as to Behayior in Church. A hint as to behavior in the pew may be pardoned, seeing that the most casual glance around the church you attend on next Sunday morning will prove "that the hint is needed.

The customary practice of giving the hymn-book a careless iling into the rack at the moment of concluding the hymn is distressing to Sensitive nerves which dread a fusillade as of musketry as the organ's diminuendo dies away. If all would cultivate a gentle and pacific manner of disposing of the books, the proprieties would be better conserved. Another point of deprecation, gentle reader, is the prevalent habit of assuming outer wraps and overshoes during the final hymn and under the benediction. That custom merits reproof with the equally astonishing forgetful-ness which induces people to fumble frantically in their pockets for change, or to search their purses for the same, during the prayer after the sermon. A littie forethought would provide the change for the collection and place it in some convenient and acce-sible pocket, so that the owner might undisturbed join in the petition for a blessing to follow the word.

As for dressing for the street' during the closing exercises of the sanctuary preparatory to a hasty rush from the building, it is in excessively bad taste, all of it, including the undignified and unsocial exit. Christian Intellujencer. GEMS OF THOUGHT. It is a great deal better to live holy than to talk about it. Moody.

If a man wishes to know whether he has Christian faith or not, let him ask whether his life is distinctly marked by Christian works. N. Y. Independent. To be always thinking evil, even with the intention of guarding against it, is to invite it.

The only safeguard against evil is in being occupied fully and forever in the service of God. N. Y. Observer. The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.

Lord Bacon. strong man's heaven consists of mind, soul, character; it means virtue which has taken root and flourished under the strong blasts of temptation, and holiness which has grown up through sacrifice and pain. liev. Charles iJaive. Jonathan Reynolds of Pembroke, is an aged man who has always gloried in being called an infidel.

On a recent Sunday he caused to be read in the Methodist pulpit in Fenibroke a declaration signed by him, in which he said: "I desire now to counteract the evil that I may have caused. I believe for a person to live and die happy he must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in the Scriptures." A WOMAN'S SPEECH. How jVfnie. Salomon Strengthened Her Husband's olitical Position. Mme.

Salomon, the French wife of the black President of the black republic of Hayti, has exerted great influence on his career. Prof. John M. Langstone, late United States Minister to Hayti, related to me in her presence the other day, while she was here on her way home from Paris, the story of a speech made by her at a banquet in Port an Prince, which illustrates her force of character and power. The banquet was given to President Salo-.

mon by tho business and commercial men of the Hayticn metropolis, to refute the reports spread by his enemies that the moneyed interests of his country were opposed to his administration. There was also talk that his rule meant French, rule. Mme. Salomon was toasted and the President briefly I'e-turned thanks for her. As he closed, to every body's surprise, Mme.

Salomon herscif rose up, as she said to the banqueters, wholly against custom, to say for herscif how much she thanked them for their courtesy. She went on speaking for ten minutes, while she said in subbtance that, though Frenchwoman by birth, she Haytien by marriage, and that in her marriage to a black man she considered herself married to the whole race, identified with it in every respect, and bound by every tie to devote her life to Hayti and the black people. Her speech raised a round of applause and brought a support to the President that strengthed him immensely and at once. Indeed, Prof. Langstone says, it put an end to all the cabals existing ie opposition to Salomon.

Madame Salo. mon said to me in imperfect but with great feeling: "Something within me prompted me to speak. I could not have resisted-if I would. Bni I trembled as I stood up, so that I thought I should fall, and when I tit down and lifted my glass, my hajd shook like ft Jeaf in a A'- Tribune man that he planted the Russian sun-j flower seed in his garden. His crop i was one hundred and twenty-five bushels of seed with two tons of fodder.

He does not state how much land was devoted to the crop, but says he can grow five times as much chicken and cow feed with sunflowers as with any thing else. The seed is also good, in moderate quantities, for horses and hogs. Chicken Pie: Take boiled chicken, either freshly cooked or cold, and lay it in pieces in a deep baking dish, which has been previously lined at the sides with nice pie crust. Dredge flour over the meat and add salt and pepper, then another laj-er of chicken, and proceed as before till the dish is filled. Pour in some of the gravy or broth tho chicken was boiled in, put bits of but- ter on top, and cover with a rich paste, which may be ornamented wilh fanci-j ful devices in leaves or scrolls, aecord-i inr to taste.

Hn sure an open in sr is left in the top for the steam to eser.pe from while b.ikinj;. The Caterer. Every scrap Jinen that has served its purpose should be carefully washed and ironed and laid away in a proper receptacle for home or "hospital use. Old handkerchiefs, table-nipkins, table-cloths, sheets, towels and pillowcases should be placed in their respective places so that when wanted they may be easily found. Despise no piece of linen, however small.

The linen part of frayed cutis or collars may be detached and put away for future need. The hems of table-cloths, sheets and pillow-cases should be taken off before they are ironed. Old towels that are so often thrown away, as of no value, arc al.so of use in cases of illness. Chicago limes. COTTON -SEED MEAL.

The Best and Most Economical Fertilizer for Southern Farmers. Cotton-seed meal is coming into general use among the farmers of the South, for fertilizing purposes, as they learn it is a more effective manure than the whole seed. It used to be the custom to apply it alone to such crops as corn and cotton; but of late years it has become generally known that its effects are obtained most advantageously when it is mixed with kainit and acid phosphate. The meal contains nearly 9 per cent, of ammonia, but only 2 of phosphoric acid and 2 of potash, and therefore when acid phosphate, which contains 13 per cent, of phosphoric acid, and kainit with 13 per cent, of potash arc added, it will be seen that a very powerful compound is formed. The usual proportions are 1,000 pounds of the meal, 500 pounds of the acid phosphate and 500 pounds of kainit; and when mixed together the total cost of the mixture will be about $22 per ton.

It must be borne in mind that the three chemical ingredients named are those that are especially valuable to crops, and must be contained in all manures that pretend to contain the requirements of plants. And the experience of cotton farmers has demonstrated that none of the guanos that are sold for even much higher prices can approach this compound in effective value. The addition of a ton of stable manure forms, with the other three ingredients, the very best compost known in the South. This compost, which is practically what is known elsewhere as "Fur-man's formula," has been in use in South Carolina since 1877, but has been known in Georgia and the other States during the past five years only. It is simply in accordance with common sense to mix together, in due proportions, the materials that contain the elements needed by crops and it is what any farmer can do for himself.

The meal is more valuable for manure than the whole seed, because it is more immediately available to the plants, and contains a larger percentage of fertilizing matter in proportion to the bulk. When the whole seed is used, a considerable portion of it does not rot, but dries and shrivels, or rots so slowly that the growing crop fails to benefit by it- And in all cases the oil in the seed retards the rotting greatly; while this oil has itself no manurial value whatever, but only represents so much value wasted when the whole seed is used. In a ton of seed about 6-1 bushels there are about 35 gallons of oil, worth 35 cents per gallon; and therefore where whole seed is used about $12.25 actual value is thrown away; besides which, one ton of the whole seed is really not as effective as the 800 pounds of meal that could be obtained from it. Accurately one ton of whole seed has an effective manurial value to the soil of $18.50. while the 800 pounds of meal that it contains has an effective value of $23.

Many of the oil mills, and there are 136 of them in the South, offer to exchange with farmers one ton of meal for two tons of whole cotton seed, and to pay the transportation both ways. Wherever this can be done it is a very advantageous arrangement for the farmers. But it is a suicidal policy for them to sell their seed outright to the mills; for very few of them will ever buy Lack the meal, and their lands will be permanently impoverished- If they will persist in selling their seed, they should at least realize that even in its whole state it has an effective value to the soil of fully thirty cents per bushel, and when they are indnt ad to part with it for -a less price, they are imposed upon. -Farm ami SomesietuL Trof. Schwable has drawn the attention of the Berlin Physical Society to two interesting phenomena observed in the gypsum of.

the Southern Hartz, the sinking of rivers, often accompanied by loud uproar, and the occurrence of intermittent lakes. The so-called "peasants' ditch," near Ross-lau, was, in the last century, as the contracts between the two neighboring villages prove, sometimes a lake serving one village for fishing purposes, and sometimes dry land, which was then tilled by the other village. Several channels at the bottom of the lake lead to the interior of the gypsum rock, yet the water, when it gathered here, stood for several years at a depth of from thirty to fifty feet, when it suddenly disappeared again. In the years 1876, 1877 and 1878 this lake-was filled with water, and since the last date has been dry land. Arkansaw Traveler.

Excitement in the Nursery. Tom We've got a bay window in our house. Bessie So have we. And a balcony. Tom Pooh! That's nothing.

We have two bath rooms. Bessie So have we. 'TYim Wu'vo nr i cnmptliin or vnl. folks haven't. I heard papa tell mamma about it last night.

Bessie 1 11 bet we ve got some ol 'em, too. What is it? Tom--A defective flue. Philadelphia Call. "There are people so says the Uorninu, "tnat instead oi talking about Alfred the Great, like the rest of us, they must needs talk about Alfred, and then pronounce the word as though the first half of it had something to do with eels, whereas the true Anglo-Saxon sound thus clumsily ex pressed is simply and solely the common Alfred.".