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X-'X.-. - I '.)Sl.. .-t,.:.r-vAf.. 'A -i : ; ----- 1 : " ""i'.u- . ' ' i r iW ;r - ,. INGiMksSEkCEP Orer th stuoble grass, , , Oy.crr the hurrymg plain, w s , j rtFleeff as & clopd.1 pas, j . .j Hand on the tulsing rein. 'OIo ther and sire withstood - -' "'The bride in her bowet alone, ' -"The embers warm from the! wood J And I, like the night,' have flown. K Ji. crust and a backwood look, lA breath for the heaving steeds : : . . A drink from "the; ice-bound brook. And then bat -speed and speed. For .them I leave, is the sound' . And brilliance of sound and light; .. C':-J?:0? me. the echo from 1 frozen ground; iv iAnd the frozen stars at night. I know not the wav I co. I- ,rl read but the news I bring. .-,"..1: oalfc not -at hail of foe, r-de-y: tfild for't&e"A.ins. ' - j ""Alice Brown, in Harper's. BY A-N OLD MINER. 0 HERE -were ten of .us in the St )j prospecting party which, in C I O the winter of '69-70 left ( A p Hardyriire, on the Great SfOl Colorado, for Central Ari zona lind the mountains south of Zuni. Over" 300 miles of desert, mountain and canyon re passed, and at last the Sierra Blanca, south of Zuni, was eighted and we were, in the land of gold and the Indian.- -i r - I had command of the party, having ibeen through that region before with CTensJ'al Beale, and I gave strict orders fttgainst separating when we reached gtheTi?ad waters bf the Chiquito, where 0)ur prospecting was to begin. K From the very first hour we were in '.1nqk -Neyer had any1 of tjs seen such indications, and "we were all sanguine that in a few months we could turn . .back, with our pack mules and horses . ..taden down with gold dust and gold .nuggets. ' . u . "We Avere at work for.a few weeks before" we saw. any sigus of Indians, and then but the track of one, who must have passed through, or rather 2lose to,'our camp the previous night. Xdid not like this; but. the fact gave j. cs no trouble, and that day, in com ' pany with Sam, Hbward, I ascended -ikn arroyo, along ;which the indications of "gold grew better and better ! as we Advanced. . We were j on, foot, with our j trusty rifles on our shoulders, and felt safe "from the attack bf Indians; particular iy on the mesa, for the sides of the :tabl e:like hill were nearly precipitous, tnd the only visible means of i ascent vas by the. arroyo up which we had ?ome. v . - - "One week at this is all I want," xciaimed Sam, looking around, like 5ne pi a deUghtful dream, at the prodi aljprofusion of golden particles. Jmell, Sam, what will you do with . . ill. your wealth when you have got back"?" I asked, as we proceeded 1 farther and farther across the mesa, ' seeing no . diminution in the visible ivealth it contained. 1 K I wili make a bee-line for home, ind-just as soon as Julia can get ready i ftvill marry," he answered, gleefully, ; Js he saw. in imagination the .bliss . if sneh an evfenL ;Then he turned and isked, "What will you do, old fellow?" Ijfl 1 eft home Sanj, to" win wealth I05 the wife and two little ones Fief t toehind yiears ago. That wealth se- cured, I will go back, get a farm, and e happy. with the dear wife who has 3een so true, and in seeinginy children ' Towup with more of the blessings of welth' and education than I ever en- joyed,' was tne reply. . My first ' impulse after making this fliscovery was to send -down for my companions, but the fascination of the place wastoo - great to .leave it for a moment; 'so I determined to make a . thorough exploration of this El Dorado, and .vjhen this was done, to go down and report to our companions, whose ::;-.flelightfat:4he-'discovery.it gave me a reat. deal of pleasure, to imagine. ... -We walked so slowly, and in so many. v clrcuIts-T-stopping at times to examine . - the gr&und, and to put nuggets' into fair bags thaf ; the sui", was . nearly flown when-, we halted under the shel . ter of a rdeklal the further side of the .mesa, and ate Jwith a keen relish the bread and m eat we had brought with xis.-; ' We had walked a -long distance, but I knew we were not over two miles . in a straight line from the head of the Arroyo; so when the meal was over, -?nsd washed down by a draught of -water from Sam's canteen, we started ;ptsack, 1U IxitocatMiiv while Sam's boyish shouts caine back in laughing echoes from the Tpcksand iprecipitous. walls bf the mesa. f . "Hold, Sam!" ! !'' I laid my hand restralningly on his v-arm, for Theard a shrill yell following Iris last shout, and : my trained-ears told me at once it was not an echo. We both listened breathlessly," and in a few seconds again came the yell, from a rock about 300 yards in front, and this was answered, not by echoes, , but by a chorus) of fierce yells that seemed to come from the walls of the anesa around us.' : . ' , ' "Indians I" ejaculated ' Sam, with ' a pale faqe." , "Yes, Indians; and all arouubl us!" I replied, for the yells 'increased in fury, and I. heard the zip zip of arrows on the rocks aboutgus, though the archer's Opvere not visible. , "Get'your rifle ready, Sam, and fol low me I" ' -I knew that our only (hope of safety depended : on getting into the 1 arroyo 1 before dark indeed,- it was the only means of descent I knew of and once .' Ja there, I thought our friends below might hear us, and, come Jo oroa; sistance. ' ' : We both! had our -rifles and pistols ready, and dashed ahead. ' . -1 ' The gold-specimens were iiow a bur-, den, but we clung to them as if .they were - dear. as life. " -. ; 'WeJ Jiad i not gone over 400 . yards' Vhent in the indistinct light, we' isaw the 4iead of the arroyo; but, to, our horror, it was guarded by a band of ex ultant Indians. : To .add to the danger of the situation, the savages seemed rising boldly from the rocks about us. S Together we raised our. .rifles ahd fired at the Indians before us;: then drawing our pistols, "we dashed" for ward, v ' ; . - i . . I was straining every rerve, - when I heard a. groan behind me, and, .turn ing" qu'icklyj I saw Sain stagger ahd fall, while not ten yards . behind" him wasva pack of exultant demons.. I knew, my young- conpanion,. was wounded, if not dead, and that in a few seconds the Yavapais would be. on him with their glistening knives. ; I .sprang back and reached his side in J-pme to bring my clubbed rifle down on I pie head of an Indian in the advance. j The suddenness of my action cnecked the rest. Without a moment's hesita tion I blazed away with both my pis tols, and when these were'-haiuita I picked-jup Sam's and answered every arrow . with ;an unerring bullet. Two ! shots more, and all the cham bers would be exhausted, then there would be nothing left but to die fight ing over the prostrate form of my com panion, . I I "Leave me! le"ave me! Remember your wifeand children!" groaned Sam. I did remember them, land with a ter rible anxiety at that moment; but the thought only intensified my resolve to save my friend. I took deliberate aim at one I sup posed to be a chief from his actions, ahd I saw him leap into the air and fall on his face. ! One shot more was I left, though I raised botil.pistols as boldly as if every, chamber was loaded. I had my finger on the trigger, and would ha V fired, but I saw them running back in the darkness, as if panic-striokeu. In a moment 1 slung both the-. rifles, and securing the pistols, I picked up Sam and ran back for the protection of the rock for which I had first aimed. My first ' work was to reload all the arms; then, watching to see that I was not surprised, I examined Sam's wound as well as the darkness would admit. He had fainted ad lay like one" dead. I fourd an arrow had struck him in the back, and 'now pro truded through his right breast. I "cut off the flint head bf the weapon and ilrew it out, and then forced some water between his lips from his own canteen. . A groan fold me that he was reviv ing, and at the same instant I heard a rumbling sound that . seemed to be approaching. I was at a loss to dis cover what it meant at first; but fbe mystery . was soon solved. The In dians were rolling Tocks toward us in a circle, determined to crush us under their weight, or to hurl us over the cliff. 1 The rocks came nearer. I could see the black outlines rolling in, and hear the grunts of the Indians, Who were taxing" their strength to move thern. I had uot many minutes to think. I felt along the edge of the cliff for some distance, and found that, while not perpendicular; near the top, the angle was very sharp, and to the val ley below it was fully 200 feet. It was my only hope and' I determined to risk it. Hastily strapping Sam to my belt, I dropped first one rifle and then the other, and I heard them rolling down, down, as if they would never stop. Fastening the pistol, I took a last look at the stars, and clasping Sam in my arms, I lay on my back, and feet foremost I slid over the side, of the mesa. . . ' ' 1 I kept my perpendicular position, though I felt my clothes being torn as I was dashed over the rocks with a quickness that took, my breath away. Down! down! down! It s-eenied as if it would : never, stop. My breath jwas leaving me, and consciousness, too when' Suddenly we were stoppad with a-jerk, arid I must have fainted. When I revived, I found we were balanced one on each side of a stunted cedar tree, while away below us I imagined I could .see a black yawning abyss. ' " I can never forget the horror of that long night a horror increased by the thought of the abyss below, and the fact that Indians for" hours hurled rocks down that swept by us -with a thundering sound and a mighty force. I had no recollection of how our friends, who bad been searching, found us at daylight,' and carried us to campj nor could I believe till I saw it, what! they told me that the cedar to which we tlung was only six feet from the solid earth, .instead of being over a frightful abyss. : Sam got' well and lived to go sback wealthy to his Julia, as I did to my wife. New York News. ; How Balzac 'Worked. In twelve years Balzac vvrote seventy-nine novels besides ,an abun dance of tales and newspaper articles. When in full swing he led the life of a recluse, refusing to see even his most intimate friends. He usually went to. bed at 8 o'clock, after a light dinner, and5 got up at 2 in the morning to' resume writing. At 6 he took his tup, lying in the water one hour, after which be drank a cup of coffee. Wer det, his editor,' was then admitted to bring proofs, take away corrected 6nes and wrest, if possible, fresh man uscript from him.. From 0 he wrote till noon, when he breakfasted on two boiledeggs ahd some bread. Froih" 1 -to G he continued his writing. For six weeks or s he would keep this up; then he would mysteriously disappear -for months. gOOQS0000D0030COCJO0q05O0g O ' ' -'--tii iif? Bifien Why the One-Story Bank Bnildlnic q O Is Freierred. ' -r it occoccosooocooooocooocooo V LTHOUGH by no means - sufficient to.be' described as an eDldemic." said an old bank , ' . official ? the other day, "the number of safes, that have lately, been broken open In stores and offices are enough : ' V THE BANK VAULT DEFIES THE CRACKSMEN. to make the'old fellows in the banking business recall a type of criminal who used to occasion us a good many un comfortable forebodings; for our own strong boxes. Nowadays, however, the bank burglar is practically ancient his tory so far as. the cities and larger towns are concerned." The fact that banks were always more or less in danger from their own tenants still survives as one of the reasons why modei'n banking build ings, such, for exampleas the beauti ful new Riggs National Bank atW'ash- fndtoii, or the fine modern home of the famous old Bowery Bank in. New York, are one-story structures with no other tenants than the banks themselves. "The bank buildings " erected in the past few years," to quote a recent re mark of Mr'; Philip Sawyer, of the New York firpu of architects who Orig inated the single-story banking struc ture, "are practically impregnable; that is, their construction is such that nothing short of a wrecking outfit with unlimited time and all the tools 000,000 School Chfldresa WHERE RUSSIA A New Torpedo. The British Gpvernment is experi menting with a new torpedo fork de stroying submarine mines. Its mechr anism is such that,-if it misses the mine It has been fired at, it sinks when it reaches ii Umit range. ' " 1 - - .'.' ' . -f , Artificial Indian Caves. Amongi the interesting. sights of Hin doostan are the Karle caves of I India, artificial temples of worship, which were cut out of solid rock a century before the Christian era, it is claimed. and explosives in existence could break into the strony boxes. That auy , crack s- i f man should successfully attempt such a feat is nowadays an utter Impossibil- dty To begin with, be would have to escape the outside and inside watch mep,;.the -patrol and the electrical ap pliances;' Ahd if this could be done, i there ; would still ijemain the vaults, ! which Open only- by "time locks and would be a nut that no living man or band of men could !crack in a month much less a few hours. "Architects do not : design the safes and vaults, of course. And the chief safety idea in these new buildings, aside from their distinctive architect ural character, is the one-story struc ture occupied by the bank or trust com pany alone, thus absolutely doing away with the time-honored scheme of cracksmen who rent rooms for legiti mate business in a bank building, and then 'put in shifts at night burrowing into the vaults. It is one more safe guard added to a number of others." ' In addition to this isolation, the .mod ern:.-vault depends not only on its own j strength, which the skill of the old- time expert crimmaJ often proved a very weak straw indeed, to lean on,, but also on various electrical contrivances that make it impossible to, approach within striking distance of the vault without giving an alarm in several quarters, among them, of course, the nearest police station. Newark Sun day Call; The preseiyt London price of an ounce of wadium" would be $400,000. ac cording to Dr. Hampson in a recent lecture at Leeds. . School Attendance of Russia, Japan and the United States Con trasted With Popula tion. ' ! This illustration indicates the aver-, age school attendance j in the United States, Russia and Japan, proportion . to the population of each country J8.000.000 5,265,000 School ChildreD Scriool Chadren IS ! FAR BEHIND. ' Philadelphia Record. A Uueer Kotitm. The Rev. George Martin, . an Eng lish clergyman,, is against all (labor- saving devices and goes around the London markets upsetting barrows and pushcarts because without their Wse more men would have employment, Between times various magistrates ad- monisn, tnreaten or nne him. 7 u! uie mmes. of the Cripple Creek district, Colora do's famous gold camp reached nearly ?400,000v New York City. Whatever styUs may come, and go, the coat that com- nines a fitted back, with double breast ed box f rjmt fs always in styfe. ai- DOTJBIiK BBEASTEI COAT. ways in demand. This one; is. finished at the nepk in regulation ; "OP very As style, latest and includes sleeves of the cut with ; roll over cuffs. illus- tir.tecl tire material is black ehevi'ot T A toteesign stitched with corticelli silk and finished with a collar of black velvet but any cloaking material is appropriate and. when liked, the coat can be made long er, as shown in 'the small cut. 4 - The coat is made with fronts, backs, siie backs and. under arm gores, the fronts being faced to form the lapels. The sleeves are full at the shoulders, narrower at the wrists, where they are finished with cuffs., The quantity of material required for the medium size is five yards twenty-seven, two and three-quarter yards forty -four or two and nve- Leight yai-ds fifty-two inches wide", with three-eighth yards of velvet. A 'Mum Waist. If they were not actually embroid ered in Japlandr these 'mum waists look to have been. The characteristic rich, flat, heavy style of embroidery distinguishes them. - One may have them made up or in a box ready to make up. I A mammoth 'mum Ms em broidered on the one-piece waist front. Done all in white on white it is rich est. Some, however, will prefer it In all white on a light blue, apricot or pastel rose ground. In some few in stances the embroidery: is in shaded colors, mostly delicate ones shading to white. The giant chrysanthemum grows on a long, fcliage-decfcedstem, which starts at the waist line, curves YMMlnff of Billoiry Skirts. The billowy evening gown-is an ex travagant garment and arwfays more or less of an anxiety, entailing repair of nmp kind if not the actual reolacinie of frills, after each tim,of wear. This fact, together with a desire for change, is beginning to tell upon the popularity of the billowy variety of frock, ad fnchinn a BPrifnav J cnn?!derine -ihp adoptiitt bf more solid and lasting ma- teria'.s for evening wear. Tr.ese are not difflcult to fiud, and in the soft I to the, right and ends. In a great flowet of .a, rather loose type up under , the chin. Each petal is a .work, of art The wristband and the neckband ire embroidered in something the same fashion, V ' ' New ffapoIeonfXatB. A fashionable milliner in the Rue de ' la Paix has introduced a new Napoleon hat. This, worn with a single lock rof hair ori" the forehead, accompanying - a long redlngote, fs now fashionable and most becoming for women 'with Wgb foreheads; '"An eXqnisitefy; pretty coU- fure, replacing the '-theatre hat f formed of three classic bands eneir-. eiing the hair, with ue erect ostrich plume. : . Blouse Waist. "',. - . - -i ... . Waists vthat-re shirred oep.th?' shoulders : ar among- the ; latest -'apd I' most ruoy el shown ami lare stngiaiarl attractive .in suennllstathlf: fon veiflng, chiffon taffeta and the Hke. This one lsude with; a.' bo :. ;peat at theiieefjrf ront. ' the material of the' ne;' rBie3grps are shirred J bj'oriorffsT.-fi harmony' . with the : yoke . of the vaist.-dnd' areJ finished wffh ? pointed turn) oyerslthat " - match the stocky li u f y - . : ' The waisfsjf fng, fronts : arrd t, back.'The ; shirring over the shonldeftarern .ck srfyle scr prbvidfoff bewmmgito :- and the closing is made at the centre " front throngfcVthe Box pleat.. The sleeves . are made in ' on piece each. ' with the shirred cuffs.. .' , " a The quantity " of material recEViredl quarter yards t wenty-ocwv - three "and SHIBKED WAIST! three-quarter yards twenty-seven, r two and one-quarter yards forty-four' inches wide. " ' ; Oriental satins and taffetas, in the new - -brocades and " chiffon velvets , jarhicii ; :' are light In actual weight though r'tfch :j aad dignified in appearajace, the foajny ajd flimsy fabrics of the last few sea- " J "sons will 'find formidable rivals. New York Tribune. -. v .Fw Band on Skirts. , A band of fur Is around the foot bt some of the handsomest skirts These skirts trail aid ara cot for the grafr'-1 euade. - 5 . 1,1 1. I i ' :' :'( X I . I 1 . -
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