gammaformer."The niessings of Covemmnt, Like the Dew from Heeven, Should Descend AHlike Upon the ich and the Poor."

W. . KENTZEL, Editor. COVINGTON, ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1890. VOL• XV.-NO.3.

"The creek we followed was aimostdry, and we stopped frequently lookingfor placers. We found no very rich eaes,but everywhere there was gold. Some-times there would be lots of it in thebottom of the tin cup after we had takena drink, and sometimes-here is a cu-rious thing-it would be floating on thesarface. 1 will let some one who is bet-ter posted in science than I tell whygold now and then floats, but I only knowthat little flakes of it do, and a lot itis lost in sluice-mining that way. Aslong as we found placers we knew thatthe main deposit was ahead, so wepushed along.tiredenough, butconfdenteAt last we came to a spot where thesand was barren for several days' jour-ney, and then we began to prospectall around. To make a long story short,we struck a ledge one morning withoutcroppings that crumbled under mypick and showed quarts all streaked withyellow threads. Charlie,' I yelled out,all afire at once, 'we have struck it!'

"HBut before we sunk a shaft we foundsomething else that sent our hearts to Iour mouths. It was an old shaft, backa little ways, and in a claim, properlystaked out, that covered that very ledge.There was a notification, according to Ilaw, on one of the posts, that PeterSumner and Joseph Klautsy had takenpossession of the 'Big Six' and done thelegal assessment work.

"I sat right down and collapsed, butCharlie went over to the abshaft andcame bhack to tell me that it did notcover half the amount necessary, underthe law. to hold the property for a year. I

We measured it. and sure enough, it Iwas only down about half the requireddistance. so we took possession of the aproperty. changed its name the 'TheTreasure.' and went to work.

"We built ourselves a rough shanty,rigged up a windlass and began to siLk.In a few days we were into a formationrich enough to make a man's head swim,and getting better as we went down.We were both so excited that we be- Igrudged the time to sleep and eat. andwe neither of us meditated for aa in-stant giving the claim up to any body,assessment work or no assessment work.What had become of the two men was amystery. They had left no trace exceptthe notification board and shaft, and itgave me the creeps now and then tothink that they might he dead. But we Iwere not in a frame of mind to let senti-meat interfere with business.

"I suppose we had been there for acouple of weeks when provisions beganto run short. We didn't want to bothleave the claim at once, so it was finallyarranged that Charley should go downthe creek to a camp about fifty milesaway and bring a supply. He took both aburros and started off. I calculated itwould take him a week to make thetrip, and time hung heavy on my hands.I tried to work a little on the shaft. Theformation was very hard, and we hadrigged up a ort of crossbar ladder. Iwould go down this, fill the becket,climb to the surface and pull it up.

"At about noom of the second dayafter he left I was startled at what Ithe•ght was a man erossing a littlegnlch a half-mile away. I aonly had a

la t it betw• tw•eo ks and, i

whatever t was, it passed so quicklythat I was not sure. However, I waiteda coumple of hours, and then, seeingnothing further, concluded I was mistaken, and went down into the shaft. Ifilled the bucket with very heavy ore.climbed up, and had It about half raimedwhen a man came walking up the creekbed toward me. Then I knew I warright before.

"'le was an ugly-looking customer.I big and brawny, with a at. Scandi-

navian face, and carried a Winchesteion his arm. I had a little stick that Islipped into the windlass handle nestthe axle to keep it from turning back-ward, and, leaving the bucket justwhere it was, suspended half way up. Istarted toward the cabin to get myarms. lie covered me with his releat-ing rifle, and ordered me to halt.

"'"What are you doing on my claim?'he said.

"'I reckon you can see,' I replied, put.ting as good a face on it as I possiblycould.

" 'You mean you've jumped it, yotcursed thief?~

"'No, I don't. There wasn't enouglwork on it to hold it, and it was asmuctmine as any body's.'

"'*You lie""He looked at a•e over the sights with

r his wicked. greenib eyes for a full min-

Sate. Then he said:"'Md you ever pr yt?r" 'Yes, I faltered."'Then pray now. I' give you two

minutes to do it.'"By that time my mind was clear

enough to take in the whole situation,and [ had no doubt that he intended tomurder me then and there. With meout of the way there would be no one totestify to the insufficient work, and Ir would simply be regarded, if the storyof my death was ever told, as a claim-jumper who had been justly dealt with.I felt my knees begin to tremble andtried another tack.

" 'If you kill me,' I said, 'my partnerwill be back and see that you hang for

"'I11 fix your partner the same way.you claim-jumping cur.'

"True enough. Nothing would beeasier than to assassinate Burke on hisreturn, and we had so jealously guardedthe secret of o r trip that no one wouldknow where to search for as. We wouldsimply disappear, as hundreds of pros-pectors do, never to be seen by menagain and speedily to be forgotten. Ihad no hope of mercy from the instant Ilooked inato that man's cruel face. I feltwith a sickening qualm and a wilddrumming in my ears that my time hadaome.

" Oh, for Heaven's sake, don't murderme! I cried. 'I will g.'

"The man made no reply. For a maomeat my head swam, and then, with asudden return of vision that was excru-ciating in its clearness, I saw him stoopslightly, rest the gun-barrel over thewindlass handle, and marked even thatslight contraction of theeyelid that justprecedes a shot. The next moment therewas a crash, an explosion and a cry allmingled into one. I saw the man turn-lag heels over head down the embank-meat, the Winchester flying through acloud of smoke up into the air, and allthe while heard a loud, monotonous,whirring noise that was like some gigan-tic clock running down.

"I did not realize it at the time, butthis is what happened: When he restedhis gun acroes the windlass he droppedthe barrel right across the little stick Ihad thrust in to prevent it from turning,and knocked it out. I suppose thebucket of ore weighed one hundred andfifty pounds, and the great iron handle,swinging clear around, gained such ter-rifie momentum that when it struck himfair in the face, which it did, it liftedhim of his feet like a cannon-bali Thegun was discharged by the shock, butthe bullet went nowhere near me. Be-fore I regained my senses I heard thebucket strike the bottom with a smash.

"When I picled up the man he wasunconsclous, but moaning a little, andthe blood trickled out of his ears. Helay st the cabin for a week or two, andafter Charley got back we managed toget him to Silver City. There the doo-tors put his'hace in a sort of plaster ofparis east, but although the wounabealed he was out of his head and event-ually died. The night before he passedaway be motioned for a little slate heused to write on, for be couldn't speak.HIIe was very ureak, and it took him sometime, but at last he scrawled:

"'Who hit me?"Bat before we could tell him be

fainted away. The mine? Oh, themine pinched out nafter awhile, and dis-appointed ans. I sold my interest toBurke, and I think after working it ayear he gave up in disgust and movetaway."-El Paso Inter-Republics.

cahiea's rest a sewape .

A recent Pekin (Gaettee contains aa memorial from the Chancelor of theHaulin or Imperial College on the ne-cessity for re-editing the great encyclo-podia compiled ore hundred years agoin the reign of Kienlung. and do whichonly four copies in manuscript are nowsupposed to exist. This work, the indexalone to which consists of fourteen largevolumes, contains a complete compen-dium of the classics, and includes also acollection of every thing written andrevised bf the Emperors themselves orpublished under imperial authority. Itembraces, says the Chaneelor, all knowl-edge under Heaven, and reflects as Ja mirror, the past sad present

a.ssness 3 r-e Pasm .

Horse Thief-Mr. Chairmana! Afterthis little ceremony is concluded willyes oblige me by collecting this insur-sane policy and handing the cash to mywidow?

Chairman of Lynching Party--Certaintly! What concern are you insured with?

Horse Thief-The AriMsoa MutualLife.

Chairmaa (hurriedly) - Gentlemen!We had better not act hastily is thasmatter. Taking a man's life is a seriousthing, and as 1 am the:y esident andtreasurer of the Arisona M•ual Life, Idon't care to take any risks of this kindI more that this business bhe adonaitel

psstposed.-Lowel Citiae.

FULL OF FUN.

-lies are fend of s Weet things, lastpaung men as a rule are agreed thatthere are o flies on a sweet girL-B•osten Courier.

-Indian (listening to phonograph)-"Chin-box heap better than Injun agent.Talk-talk, all same don't steaL.Wough?'-Puck.

-"How shall we move the masses?"asked the temperance orator. Just thensomebody in the outskirts of the crowdremarked: "Come take a drink, fel-lows," and the masses moved.-Munsey'sWeekly.

-"John, bring me a glass of hotpunch." Servant (bringingit)-"I thinkthis is notquitehot enough, sir." "Howdo you know that? You must have tast.ed it." "'Indeed, no, sir, I would not dosuch a thing; I tried it with my flnger."-Fliegeade Blatter.

-Indistinct but Reliable.-Borrowit(in Chinese laundry)-"Why do you sayFli-day, John, when you mean Friday?"Chilnaman-"I say Fli-day 'cause I meanFli-day; not like Melican man, who slayFli-day and come to pay me week afternextr'!"-Texas Sittings.

-Ethel-"Did you go to Italy?" Har-riet-"O, my, yes! We staid there twomonths." Ethel-"What do you thinkof the lazraroni?" Harriet-"O, it'sawful. I tried some the first night Iwas there, but it doesn't suit my tasteat all."-Life.

-"Ferment means to work," said theteacher to the language clams. "Noweach of you write a sentence containingthe word." This is what Tommy Cumswwho reads the papers, wrote: "Trampsdo not like to ferment"-Time.

-Farmer Hayseed (to greatest livingskeleton at dime museum)--"Hello!Who be you? You ain't workin' here,aryou?" Living Skeleton (with dignity)-"I am engaged here." "Wall, do tell iSay, my friend, you ain't lookln' well,sad ef I was you I'd change my boardin'place."-N. Y. Weekly.

-Indignant Physician-"Man, whathave you done? You sent my patient thewrong prescription, and it killed him."Druggist--"Vell, vbat vas der mattermit you? Last week I send your odderpatient der right berscribtion, sad dotkilled him. How can somebody bleasesooch a man?"-Springfleld Republican.

-"Beg peadon, mum, bet you droppedyour vail in the-the lift," said thebell-boy to th6 departing guest, narrow-ly watching the effect of his words."James," said the pleased New Yorklady to her husband, "give the boy twoshillings. He takes us for English pee-ple."-Chicago Tribune.

-"Well, Dennis," said a gentlemanto his gardner, "I'm told you have falleninto bad habits." "How is that, ser?""I hear that you have gotten to be ahard drinker." "Harrud dhrinker,ls It?""Yes." "Begorra, its few people asdbrinks aisier than meselL"-MerchantTraveler.

PROVERBS ABOUT RAIN.

A Number of These Current In All Partof the United States.

When there is unusual learness la theatmosphere, and objects are seen verydistinctly, there will probably be rain.When clouds are gathering toward thesun at setting, with a rosy hue, theyforetell rain.

Evening gray and morning redPat on your hat, or you'll wet your he ad.Itf rain commences before day, it will

stop before eight a. m.; if it beginsabout noon, it will continue through theafternoon; itf not till five p. m., it willrain through the night; if it clears offin the night, it will rain the next day.

If it rains before seven,* It will elear before eleven.

If it rains before sunrise, expect a fairafternoon. If it rains when the sunshines, it will rain the next day. Ifclouds appear suddenly in the south, ex-pect rain.

Rain from tbs south prevents the drought.But rain howm the west is always best.When rain comes from the west, it will

not continue long. If rain falls duringan east wind, it will continue a full day.i an asseemblage of small clouds spreadcat or become thicker and darker, ex-pect rail. Small inky clouds foretellrain. Dark clouds in the west at sun-rise indicate rain on that day. If thesky after fine weather beeomes heavsywrith small clouds expect rain.

Eveninalg red and morning grayWill set the traveler on his way;Evening gray and morning redWill bring down rain upon bhis bad.

If there bea fleecy sky, unless drivingnorthwest, expect rain. Clouds floatinglow enough to cast shadows on theground are usually followed by rain.

A curdly shyWill not leave the earth loeag dry.

It clouds open and close rain willcontinue.

Two currents of clouds indicate ap-preaching rsin. A pale yellow sky atsunset presages rain. It cloads float at

ifferent heights and rates, but gener-ally in opposite directions, expect heavryrains. A mirage in New England is ftol-lowed by rai.

mamekerel sky,Not twenty-four hours dry.

When a general cloudiness covers thesky, and swall black fragments fly un-derneath, they Indicate rain, and probably It will be lasting. Rain is indisated when

Low o'er the grass the swallows wing,And crkkets, too, bow suharp they sing.

It water-fowl scream more than usualiad plaunge into water, it is a sure signthat ain may be expeeted-BoataJoured

Three and a halt barrels o lime wildo i square yals of plastering, usingtwo costs. Two barrels of lime will dothe same amount of plastering with onecoat. Os ad a half bushels of haiwill do IM square yards o plastering.One ad a quarter yards o good sandwill do 1a square yards of plastering.( barrel ecI re will lay 1.W bricks.Two barrels ot lime will lay one perchof rubble stone. One thousad shingleslaid four inches to the weather willcover 1l square i et surface. and t

poaunds of shingle sails will astsa themon. Oe4-tth more siing d Mooriais eede•d than the number of mqurfeet of surface to be oesred.--St. Lo"

Repblis.

DRUNKEN MEN'S LUCK.

wy sher susp. eom swhat Woml Appper to Es Certan lEajur.

A few days ago a man was knockedfrom a trestle work on the Cleveland,Canton & Southern railway, near Crosestreet, by a locomotive. The train wasstopped and the victim was tenderlypicked up sad taken to the depot. Hewas intoxicated and paid little attentionto the efforts being made in his behalf.At the depot he denied that he had beenon the trestle, and demanded to knowwho had taken his hat. Shortly after-ward he was arrested on Ontario streetfor being drunk. He gave no evidenoeof pain until several hours later, andthen Dr. Cole was called to attend him.The man seemed to have escaped with afew bruises, and at the Central policestation it was regarded as another in-stance of a "drunken man's luck."While the subject was up for discussiona patrolman related the circumstancesof an affair that occurred on Canalstreet. A drunken man had stumbledalong a dark passage way between twobuildings and finally fell about twenty-five feet down a steep flight of stairs tothe Valley railway tracks. He was fin.ally discovered and carried back toCanal street to await transportation inthe patrol wagon. llis pulse couldscarcely be detected, and the only ques-tion with those gathered about him waswhether the man was already dead orwould die within the next ten minutes.When landed at the station he demand-ed to be released, and asked whose busi-aees it was if he chose to drink a littlebeer. He had apparently sustained noinjury by the fall. Dr. Cole related aRiver street case where a man fell froma three-story window upon a womanseated in front of a saloon. The doctorhad been summoned in hot haste by theman's friends, but upon his arrival thevictim of the fall said very indignantlythat he had not sent for a physician,and had no need for his servicos.

When asked whether there was anyexplanation for the uniform good fortuneof drunken men by escaping injury byaccident, Dr. Cole said that it was due toa lack of interest in their fate. In fall-ing the body is limp and lifeless, whilethat of a sober man would probably bevery nearly rigid. In the case of thelatter a blow upon any part of the bodywould be followed by an instantaneouscontraction of the muscles, having, per-haps, nearly as much force as the blowitself. It was stated by the physicianthat often the sudden and violent con-traction of the muscles caused by a blow,furnished nearly half the force exertedto produce the fracture of a bone. Adrunken man's muscle, it was ex-plained, would not respond in a similarway to the shock of a blow, and he wou!dnaturally escape that element o danger-- Cleveland Plain De r.

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RELICS OF WITCHCRAFT.

A Few eme ,ter still Preserwed o. tisePro.eeutboes or iees.

In the busy little city of Salem arepreserved a few relics of the horribleyear of 160•. when a number of the bestcitizens of the town were hanged on theaccusation of some poor, deluded per-seaons, mostly girls in their teens, whoasserted that they had been bewitchedand tortured by the prisoners. The rel-ics are displayed on a large stand in thecenter of the main office of the registerof deeds. The first thing that attractsattention is a bottle containing a half-dosen witch pins. These implementsare nothing more than the ordinary pinsused two centuries ago, when pins werestill manufactured by hand. The inter-est attaching to these specimens comesfrom the fact that they are the very pinsthat were used at Salem to stick intothe accused persons to see whether theywere witches. If the unfortunates werehart by this treatment it was a suresign that they were witches unfit to live.

Beside the bottle of witch pins is theofficial seal of the Court of Oyer andTerminer, before which the prisonerswere tried. It is a little iron stamp fit-ted with a black wooden handle, and itsimpress is seen upon the only warrantfor the hanging of one of the prisonersthat has been preserved. This warrant,as it was written out by the clerk of thecourt, fills the greater part of a sheet ofpaper about foolscap size. It is writtenin a crabbed hand, but is quite legible.It is addressed to the sheriff, recites thecrime for which one of the female pris-oners had been tried and convicted, andorders the sheriff to hang her on a cer-tain lay. On the lower part of the pageappears thesheriffs return, written in around. bold band, certifying that he hascarried out the mandate of the court.Photographs of this interesting docu-ment are on sale.

But the most interesting relic is theeourt record of the trials of these un-fortunate prisoners. These papers arekept in a large volume so arranged thatevery document may be read withoutbeing touched. Here are the affdavitsof the ignorant girls and boys who tellof the tortures the alleged witches madethem suffer. Here is the detailed ex-amination of the prisoners, giving ques-tiaon and answer. The record was neatlywritten, and is still as legible as thoughit were recently committed to paper. Itwas doubtless written out each day bythe elerk from his notes after the ad-journment of thecourt. It tells the storyof a great deluason, and probably nooriginal documents that have come downfrom or forefathers are so replete withtra gieinterest.-N. Y. Sun.

-A monkey recently brought a crin-anal to justice at Singapore. A native,with a little boy, a bear: and a monkeytraveled through the Straits settle-ments anad made a goodly sum of moneyby his aniamals' tricks. One day he wasfound with his throat cut, the boy andthe bear lyinag dead close by, while themonkey had escaped up a tree. Thebodies, wi•h the monkey, were taken tothe poliee station, when the monkeysuddenly rushed at a man in the crowd,seised his leg and would not let go.The man proved to be one of the aurderers

-A Newark (N. J.) caterer advertisesto supply "lowers, waiters, musiciansehina and glassware, silverware, drugists, awning, eta"

THE MIKADOS' WIFE.

meesndls to oper~ e t We1tssitl aC(leve. Kind Ufttae Wmsaa.

Her Imperial Majesty is not quite onthe crest of the wave that is bearingher humbler sisters onward in Japan.She was not educated abroad, or according to foreign ideals, and she knows onlya few words of English. Her culture ishighly and perfectly Japanese. The:ulture of a Japanese lady is very Uke aminute and wonderful growth of flowerswithin the compass of a finger-ring. Shecan play a tender strain on bher favoritemusical instrument. he can paint withgrace and elegance. She can read theChinese-wriitea character, and she is aperfect repository of social and cere-monial tradition. She can write thatwonderful Japanese poetry which ittakes no many years to learn. One ofher ladies-in-waiting is styled the chiefpoetess. The dutiesof the chief poetessare not strictly defined, but it is under-stood that she is a sort of lightning con-ductor for introducing inspired ideas toher imperial mistress, and she enjoysthe privilege of correcting the proofs oflier Majesty's poetical effusions.

Whatever may be thought of the realpersonal quality of the Empress' sym-pathy with Western civilization there isno doubt of her desire to help its prog-ress in Japan, especially those move-ments which affect the softer sex. Sheencourages the education of the "comr-ing women" who are beginning towrinkle their small foreheads overhigher mathematics and materia medica,and she listens with exemplary incom-prehending patience to essays upon thegenius of Browning in academies withimported instructresses. She takes aninterest in the new arts and the newmusic which the West is so kindly try-ing to teach Japan. She is a devout be-liever in her Shinto faith, but she lookswith a pleased tolerance on the effortsof Christian missionaries. She oftengoes to the hospitals and watches withkeen attention even the surgical opera-tions, while many stories are told of herkindness to the sufferers there.

Ten years ago, under the customs thenprevailing, the Empress stared impas-sively into the smae immediately sur-rounding the prostrate fgareof the per-son enjoying the honor of presentationto her, like a Japanese doll on exhibi-tion for its ability to wink. Now shesmiles and bows, and to eertain priv-ileged people she gives her hand. Twochamberlains and the court physicianstill sit at the door of the state dining.room to taste the dishes and to expirefirst in polite indication to their impe-rial majesties that the cook has patstrychine in them; but the ofcial ban-quets now begin with soup and end withsweets, in total subversion of the oldJapanese system, which began withsweets and ended with soup. Their im-perial highnesses occasionally go out todine with some of their subjects of suf-ficiently exalted rank, but even on theseoccasions the chamberlains and thecourt physician accompany their majes-ties to act as tasters of the dishes pre-pared in the entertainer's kitLhen.-London Queen.

FRENCH COLONIZATION.

s Farn a It Relates to self-De.elm eIt Has a Hsltory e Failsre.

The history of French colonization, asfar as it relates to self-dbvelopment,self4lependence and self-government, isa history of failure-of that failurewhich results inevitably from runningcounter to race characteristics. In thedays of the French occupation, Francewas under Bourbon rule, and she hadnothing wherewith to it out her depart-ing children but the husksand shriveledkernels and tares of old despotims. Oflife-giving seed she had none to bestow,and her sons might well reproach herwith the bitter taunt of Antonio:Gonalo--Had I plantation to this isle, my

lord-Antonio-He'd sow it with settle seed.

If, after all the philosophisngs,revolutions and Anglo-manias of thepast century, Algiers and Guiana havenothing further to show today than theinevitable garrison accompanied by abureaucracy or a penal colony, or both,then the French-in-Canada were, afterall, not so very far behind the times.The only difference discernible betweenthe Richelieu and the Louis Napoleonnotions of a colony is, that the former'sconception was a garrison beyond eas,with a church, but no people; and thelatter s, a garrison beyond seas, with abureau or a penal settlement, but nopeople.

One can hardly be accused of unbecom-Ing haste in at once expressing the con-viction that, of the two "systems," theone with the church is preferable to theone that offers nothing but a bureau ora penitentiary. Nevertheless, it mustnot be overlooked that in neither isthere to be seen what the political ob.server would call a people; the seatstered, unorganised, and institutionlemshabitans and voyageurs being no more apeople in the eyes of social science thanare the clerks of the bureau or the mem-bers of the penal settlement. Each conastitutes population. but neither a people.-Eben Greenough Scott, in Atlantic.

Mrs. Clevead's New NMme.

Mrs. Cleveland's new abiding place,which Mr. Francis Lathrop is decorat-ing, is to contain a great deal of antiquemahogany furniture, which is with itsyoung mistress quite a hobby. As op-portunity offered she has purchased oldchairs, tables sad chests of drawerswhich might have formed the furnish-ings of stately colonial mansions withtheir yellow and brown walls, their im-mense mirrors, reachiang from foor toceiling, their sconces with twinklingcandle lights, their white marble man-telpieees with frieze of acanthus anddecorated with bheads crowned withamaranrth, and their heavy mahoganystaircases, which responded tothe light-ly fying feet of the fair dame of oehundred years ago. To buy mahoganyis an expemive fancy, for all that iLreally old and good is being snapped upat fancy prices by the Vanderbilts andpeople who aim at solidity as well asshow. Mrs. Ceveland has purhasedwith a great deal of disaretien, and thehouse of the ex-Presidet will be veryattractiv.-- Y. .Lette

MEPHISTOPHELEIoh lser l sas" W D arsetus eo ahHe is the expres.lonof aertain spirit

s the modern world, cynical, countingmere sellshmess the basis of all :boughtand action; a Nihilist, but a passive onenot having belief enough na humanityto be an active one, conteting himelfwitha eofg at the weaknessessand vicesof man, too indifferent and too negativein his natare to rail at them. lie finds"nothing good on earth eternally," andhas no hope of ever finding any thinggood. "I am the spirit that denies," heGeclares; he is the genius of negation;his proper element is destruction;bet even the destruction is pas-sie. Mephistopheles simply standsby, denying with a scoff law and ordersad ultimate good, expecting the worldto tumble to pieces just from its ownrottenness. Nothing is worth a mcoment's earnest thought; in fact, everything is nothing; the world is made upof appearances which are mere lies; allis sham; sham is the one reality. Hehardly believes in himself-he certainlydoes not take himself seriously. Asdevil he never actively tempts or attacksman, he simply plays upon man's foiblesand weaknesses, and even that more forhis own amusement than for any otherpurpose; he is satisfied to let man drift,just as he is satisfied to let things hap-pen. Happily, however, there is anothersad deeper spirit ia the world than thatof Mephistopheles, as Goethe acknowl-edges by the failure of the fiend withFamt. Of the existence of this spiritMephistopheles himself appears dimlyconscious; at times the 'romething ofthis clumsy world' puzzles and irrd•tates him; bhe perceives that thisSomething is set in opposition to hisNaught and, breaking forth in a thou-sand germs, continually denies his de-nial. But this uneasy consciousness ismomentary; the fend may be irritatedor puzzled into a passing fit of earnest-ness, yet he almost immediately remwsames his mocking, indifferentattitude.His is indeed a singularly different agefrom that of Lucifer or Satan; theirperiods are characterized by belieft,which, though it took vtrious forms,some of them very repulsive, was never-theless In essentials arthodox. Theysaw God and the devil ander many as-pects, through many mediums, but theynever doubted that they did see, andthey never dreamed of dethroning ao-thority;, they erected It into a fetichwhich they sometimes disliked, some-times modified or amended, but alwaysworshipped.-Cor•hill Mgazine.

FOND OF ORIGINALIUTY.

ALefd Who sots a eashies ot oer OwnWhen msig or Ddvian.

Mrs. Westinghouse Is a clever borse-woman ad rides frequently a beautifulblooded mare whose pedigree rivals thePlantagenets. Whenever she took herrides abrad last summer she got her-self up in the most perfect of Loadon-cut Quornecloth habits with a silk hatand dogskin gloves of the approvedtype, bet she invariably hooked intothebelt of her habit skirt a large silverehatelaine with twenty or more belong-lags, so that she tintinnsbulated uponher way much after the fashion of theeslebrated lady who wore rings on herfigers and bells on her toes. To com-plete the picture she carried over hethead an expensive and expansive whitelace parasol, whose carved ivory handleluttered with white satin ribbons.When she appeared with theselittle additions to her toilet upon the fa-verite drives the Lennox cottagers didnot hesitate to openly stare and com-meat, sand girls in correct driving cos-tume who were going about in theirown chapel carts would even go so faras to draw rein and stand still in theroed as this queer igure went by.

Her toilet aon the drive, when she ap-peared in her own handeome London-built equipage for an afternoon airing,was equally peculiar. Her dress mightbe the most perfect creation of Parisianeouturieres, and yet with it she wouldwear a large white knitted hood tied un-der her chin, with a long pink ostrichfeather thrust into its meshes with theend waiving in the wind. Some astonishing eccentricity of the sort madeevery costume noticeable and her sp-pearance was always anticipated withinterest, for itwas known that she wouldnot disappoint the public of some nov-elt impossible to forecast.-ChicageNews.

AN IMMENSE BRIDGE.

t tay st asome Future Te e ameetmaeld amd Frames.

A most remarkable engineering pro-ject was suggested at the recent meet-ing of the Iron and Steel Institute inParis. This is nothing less than theersetion of a great bridge betweenFrance and England from Cape Grisnesto Folkestone. An nidea of what is in-volved in this undertaking may begathered from some estimates preparedby the proposers of the project.Teo length of the bridge would be

sairty-two miles. The number of piersIS0, tl'e headway for ships 180 feet, andthe beight from the foundation to thetop of the structure 00 feet. It is pro-posed to build the bridge entirely ofsteeL To do this 1,000,00 tons of steelwould be required, and the cost of thebridge, it is estimated, would amount toabout $115,000,000S

The project would have attracted lesattention than it has but for the factthat it was suggested by ]. Schneider,a leading Prench irmumaster, and U.Herseat, a very eminent engineer adthat country, and indorsed by Sir JohsFowier and Mr. Baker, chief eagineersof the Forth bridge. The examinationof the project by these authorities hasecavineed them that it involves no difE-eulties whlih can not be overcome byengineering skill

The sheme is regarded in a rathereritical spirit by Ernglish professionaland trade journals The fact that sucha proposition should be made at thistime bears witnese to the very consider-able development of the modern tea-densy to increase nater ommuastction.The balldingof a permanent means ofcommunimation between the two nsationswhich were so log a period rivals anadeemise would be a notable thingdeed-LeadesI ltie

SHETLAND PONIES

hadr Psteeeme wapeiAesse - MWme.esate rowerm of ameme5me

Away for beynd the mrth of Iel-lad, in the bleek, wim-wepti hllee, is the home of the Shetla P y

or 'heltlle. It is the product o ls-viromment, which a•oesauily make itsmall sad hardy. Of the IN Sbetlaad,comprising about 45 square miles andscantily supporting a populatlo dtabout

0,000, not more than eme-outh a tin-habited. Their beld and preipitecoasts vary in height hfrm Me t 1,feet. The rugged, rocky itterds i meehigher, and Is generally e.l withscanty herbage, or mre commeslywith a thick costing of mss, the mmlytolerably fertile soil beingl in a few valleys opening an the bays in the largerislands A morthera tred ot e diHstream tempers somewhat tib antosecold of the Islands due to their farnorthern latitude, but for a large partof the year the weather is wet and wild-ly tempestuoas and fogs are heavy andfrequent. Like the usual products to aninclement climate and spans means fdsabsistence, all the livestodk of thegroup are very diminutive, and of themthe Shelties are much the most imper-tat. Great numbers of these are beedon the heath am niggardly pastures ofthe interior,their rough, shaggy astsand vigorous coastituates enablingthem to withtand all the severi-ties of the lbug, blek, dark,cheerless winters on the scanti et fareWhen the depth of snow on the uplasprevents them from picking upamesarsubsistence from the withered pastures,they make their way down to the sea-shore and manage to make as geed alivelihood on the kelp and sea weedtossed upon the tempest-eaten beach.So large has been the demand for theediminutive posies of late that muchmore attention than was formerly givesto the matter has been recetly betowedon breeding and rearing them; but theconditions of the climate and vegetatiteof their birthplace still keep themstunted and hardy. When eapture andtamed, they require little feed or ars.They are the mallest variety of theborese, their height varying b tV-four to forty-four inches, few mreM aUthe latter siae.

The endurancea of Sheltie s Iguet,and their strength is vastly disprpor-tiosed to their tsie. Indeed, they eaneasily carry a moa upward iof 1 paieain weight if he can olarslgmp hislosso as to keep them of the ground. Theycan be easily trained, and sm aeioate and very go•d-tmpsee Theiramiability and sie well adapt them forthe use of children, with whom they arprime favorites. 1pe years large a~mebers have been imported into Sgladfor the use of her aristoerate litte osem,and of late years cea erable i•sporttions have been ade inato thlaeSminterwhere they have brought remuamsativeprices. The exported a hewevmr,nicely clipped, eaetly trimmed and wellfed, presents a vastly more handsome;though less paictregue, appearancethan di, erstwhile, the ame spare-hsedanimal with coarse, shaggy Seat, leeg,toeing mane, and sweeping, bush tlin its inelement northern Lee.-IaralNew Yorker.

COLOUMWBA'S REWUUNU ..

The c•anl Amsreem epuse as rn

The country for the most part, eingto the inequalities ed its srfasa, presaets to the eye maglSt est sad beat*ful panoramas. Here are steep ment-alas, there deep and extensive valleys'and further on broad plateas, the ta-habitants of ColembMa thus eaeying Inthe tropic every variety aperartae;for, as the msvant Cads saeys in speaklag of the diffeent elimates d this re-gio: "It is only neeemary todesend adistanee of from ten to asrtem leaeusein order to pass from pelar mes to theheat of SeaegaL"

The forests et ColemMbia abol intrees which are used for building per.poese, for dyeing and for e binetM wk;and balsamc plants and gum, medio-sal and otherwise uaeful to um , e asless abundant. Is the exhibitsle ofnatural products which toosk place ithe capital of the republic in 18u teewere more than seve hundred akind afthe above-mentioed woods.

The country also abeunds in richmines of gold and silver, in itre, eopper,lead, emeralds, amethyst, res, reek-crystal, marbe, perphyry, Jasper, Jet,salt,coal, sulphur, lme, gypas F s aother mineral products. On the eorst,especially on the coasts of the Isthmusof Panama and of the Day of Rio Haeba,are fouad pearls and coraL l etwith-standing the abundance oe these natur-a1 riches, however, the developmentof the material resources of the countryhas been hitherto almost oempletelyneglected, and it may be Srmied that,with the exception of euadeor snd -li, Colombia, of all the poiteal di-risilss of Spanish America, suppliesthesmallest contingent to the trait of theworld. Various eauses have emst•lrtto produce so deplorable state e beak-wardnees cottinual politieal disen-aloes, and the mevoelurto that havebeen their result, without either ptityhaving found it poseibe thfatn to sovesatisfactorily the problem combiningorder and liberty, and thaus bestowingmn the coutry the blessing of a ps

perous and lasting peace; the midi-rected system of education adopted by thestate, which tends to orertimulate theimaginative faculties of the race, ad tomaiatain the system of burea•cray.which is one of the greatest scourges dthose eountries; the little attention giv-ena to scientii agriculture and to en-gineerang in its diverse appitisesand Inally the diverasied character eothe surface of the country, enssed as its bythme of the chief ranges the

Andes, presenting usual diletiestltrmansportation. This sote of thingsmust comtinue unetil oreignespitl shallfacilitate communieatelm by ce catlg meroes linea eo railway.--es.kRicardo eaesrs is Himpeus magaon

-PFortress Monroe Is the largestalugilortiMcation i the word. It has l-ready oest the Amerena Gevesmsuover SBSSaa The wantrbatuy iremidered sa o the est aidteryrores la the world.

SONG OF THE CAN'T-GET THEREFor the few-and-far-betweeu,For the very-seldom-peen,

For the ua-catch-posable I sightThe unelutchabse r4 clutch.The untouchable I'd touch,eor the ungrabbed and ungrabble I die401 burn and sigh and claspFor the just-beyond-the-grasp,

For the an-overtakable I year ;And the vulgar here-and-nowI ignore and disavow,

And the good-enough-for-others, how I spunO I moan and cry and screeeFor the Just-beyond-the-reach.

The too-far-away-to-grab. I would enscareThe angalnable I'd gain,The unattainable attain,

And chbase the un-eatch-onto to his lair!-4. W. Foas. in Yankee Blade.

HIT BY A WINDIA88.

A Queer Uncounter at thse Moutof an Ol Mine.

ler.ee the ietim Dies He Asks Who IWas That Struck Elm-The Ledge

DIdn't Glwe Out a rIet-me After Al.

"A man gets some queer ideas in hisbead when he's out all alone in themountains," said John Sanderson, asold prospector who has his heaaquarteriat El Paso, but who makes several in-carsions to the mining districts everyyear. "'Half of them believe inghosts,aise out of ten in signs, and about all othem in luck. My own experience haschanged my views in a good many particulars. and, for one thing, it has mademe a firm believer in special provi.dences. It didn't come about gradually,but through as marvelous an escapefrom an awful death as I believe everfalls to men."It happened up in the Mimbres

mountains four years ago this summer.The Mimbres lie in New Mexico, downbelow old Fort Tale Rosa, and theymust be full of gold somewhere, because the beds of the creeks that findtheir way down the sides are so rich inplacer diggings that you can't pull up asage brush around there without seeingbright specks among the roots. I had apet theory then that if you followed thecreeks up high enough and looked closeenough you would find a tremendous de-posit of gold in decomposed quarts. Ithought, you sme, that a little of it hadwashed of the surface in the course oftime and formed those places. What Iwanted to find was the mother mine."I talked the thing up to Charley

Burke, another prospector and friend ofmine, until he agreed to put up half theoutfit and join in the search. We got acouple of burros, the necessary tools,and started early in the spring. Thecountry about the Mimbres is about aswild and desolate as any on earth, andit was a trip that nothing but faith sandenthusiasm would prompt a man to t-tempt. It was one succession of gorges,gulches and acclivities, all stre•w withgranite bowlders from the dis of aman's hand to a four-story block, andoften we were obliged to leave the water-course we were following and make de-tours that took days at a time.