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ASTRAY.
Afar in the west the sun went down
In a shimmering mist of golden rain,
As the grumbling herd swept o'er the
crown "
Of a grassy mound on the rolling plain.
A thousand wild-eyed savage head,
Spurred by the yells of a savage train,
That swung the lash they had learned to
dread
With crack-like shots and maddening
pain.
"Round 'em up, Dick !" and a low-browed
man
On a horse foaun-flecked, and with rapid
pant,
Flew liik~ea hawk with wings aslant
At the mutinous break in the foremost
van-
Then stopped aghast by a prairie spring.
From ribbon-grass and pitcher plant
Plaiting a girlish crown and ring.
Sat the child of a wandering emigrant.
Right in the track of a thundering herd!
With round eyes staring at the sight,
Beyond the reach of warning word,
1Her lip aquiver with affright,
Right in the track of flinty feet,
HIard as the owner of the ranch,
HIer hair entwined with flowers to meet
Death's face beneath that avalanch.
Men did not speak in jest of Dick
"Red Dick," though hair and beard
were gray
A son of the West with trigger quick,
And at cards an oddly winning way.
Black were the tales they might have told,
Those devil's-aids in his buckskin belt,
Of what one moan in his thirst for gold,
iHad (done since lie as a child had knelt.
Had he a heart? But yesterday
A laugh of scorn would hale answered
that,
To-day-God found it, so they say,
In that race with Death by the Rio
Platte.
Over the mound the horseman sped,
Quicker than flash of a mountain cat,
Till he reached the bellowing torrent's
head,
And the air sung shrill with his lariat.
Heavens! 'Twas close. The shaky noose
Circled her waist as the mad horse
passed,
'Mid a roar like a cyclone broken loose,
As the herd crashed down at the lasso's
east.
The crown she had made was deep in earth
Ere she was a rod from the rivulet's
flow ;
HIer scarf on a bull's horn reached Fort
Worth,
But the girl swung safe from the saddle i
bow.
And Dick? From the noose to his own I
arm I]
lie shifted the child with a cheering
nod,
As he found that the mite had met no
harm
In her sudden flight from the prairie sod.
And a thrill shot through his own wild
heart
That filled with a feeling so sweet and '
odd, I
,That it seemed from his old life miles t
apart, t
When the child, looking up, asked: "Is I
you God ?"
-Jo xN Patssrox;, in Congregationalist.
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CLIMIATIC CHANGES.
Characteristics of the Range and
Ranch Cattle Area with Respect
to Temperature.
The following is from the report of
Joseph Nimmo, jr., chief of the bu
reau of statistics:
The characteristics of the range and
ranch cattle area, with respect to tem
perature during the different seasons
of the year, are very clearly exhibited
in the census temperature charts, and
also in the annual reports of the chief
signal officer of the war deaartment.
On map No. 1, at the end of this re
port, are delineated the January
isothermal lines. These indicate ap
proximately the relative severity of
the winter season in various parts of
the range and cattle area. It will be
observed that these isotherms pay lit
tle heed to parallels of latitude. For
example: The January isotherms of
30 degrees sweeps in an apparently
fantastic course through 14 degrees
of latitude, equal to 967 statute miles,
between Washington Territory and
New Mexico. Such wide departures
of the isothermal lines from the par
allels of latitude are due mainly to
the hypsbmetric characteristics of the
continent, and especially to its orolog
ical features.
It will be observed that the point of
lowest January temperature along the
northern boundary line of the United
States is about where that line is
crossed by the Red river of the north,
the boundary between the State of
Minnesota and the Territory of Da
kota. It will also be observed that
the mean January temperature rises
from a little below zero at that point
to 20 degrees above zero in the nor
thern part of the Territory of Idaho,
and to 30 degrees above zero where
the boundary line between Washing
ton Territory and British Columbia
touches Puget Sound.
The northwest winds which during
the winter months blow over Montana,
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WSyoming, and which also sometimes
reach western Dakota and Nebraska
and northern Colorado, are compara
tively warm winds, and evidently
come from the Pacific Ocean. They
are commonly known as Chinook
winds. During certain seasons these
winds have been so warm and so long
continued as to melt the snows and
to break up the ice in the upper Mis
souri river and its principal tributa
ries. As the swelling waters, filled
with broken masses of ice, flow on
ward, they at length reach a point in
Dakota or Nebraska where the effect
of the Chinook winds has not been
felt, and where the Missouri river is
solidly frozen. This, in certain in
stances has caused wide-spread and
damaging overflows.
It has been found that cattle do not
suffer much from the severity of the
temperature of the northern ranges
so long as they are able to obtain an
abumdance of nutritious food. This
is always the case when the winter
snows are light, or when they are
blown off the high lands.
The storms most disastrous to cattle
are usually those which occur in the
latter part of the winter or early
spring, and when, after a rain-fall, the
grasses and shrubbery become cover
ed with ice, and for several days the
cattle are almost entirely cut off from
their feed supply. Losses from the
severity of the weather occur in every
State and Territory from Texas to
Montana. Sometimes it happens as
has been the case during the past
winter, that the losses from the se
verity of the weather have been even
greater in Texas than in Montana.
Range cattle usually have heavy coats
of hair which, when saturated with
rain and frozen, cause their sufferings
to be much greater than when expos
ed to extremely cold but dry weather.
The regions where losses on account
of the weather are least are generally
those where the cattle are best able to
obtain sufficient food, and where they
can readily find natural sheltering
places from the violence of the winds.
TIHE WICIKEID DIAMOND DUKE."
Duke Charles, of Brunswick, whi
died in 1874, "the most despicable
figure in the most scandalous chron
icles of our times,' is the subject of a
most readable paper in the last num
ber of Temple Bar. A visit to the
Diamond Duke's famous hotel in the
Champs Elysees must have been, to
say the least of it, exciting. Aspring
was touched, an arm-chair presented
itself, and the caller was whirled
round and up into the ducal ante
chamber. This and the bed chamber
were in solid iron; the very bed was
iron. A minute violet shaped aper
ture in the wall was the keyhole of
the recess where the duke's strong
hold, containing precious deeds and
documents, hung over a well many
yards deeper than the first foundations
of the hotel.
The cellars were strongholds like
those of the Bank of France. There
were iron cases crammed with guin
eas, coffers untouched since Waterloo,
containing gold pieces of eight gen
erations of dukes, and there were
thousands of 10 thaler pieces which
had never been put into circulation.
He kept no kitchen, for a cook was
necessarily a poisoner in his eyes. He
mixed his morning chocolate himself;
his milk was brought from suburban
farms in a sealed can. He left his
millions to Geneva.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
GEN. GRANT IN BERLIN..
The Crown Prince of Germany has
given a correspondent some incidents
of Gen. Grant's visit to Berlin. Said
the Prince: "I remember quite a
military scandal that occurred while
he was here. The officers and men
on duty had orders to treat him with
all possible honor in the way of sa
lutes, turning out the guards, etc.
But the sentries got it into their heads
that the ex-President of the United
States would go about in great style,
in an open coach, like a sovereign,
whereas he was almost always on foot
and seldom accompanied by more
than one or two persons. Well, the
day he first came to see me he saun
tered along Unter den Linden in an
nonchalant way, and was past the
sentries at the palace door before
they saw him. Even then they did
not know him, and perhaps would not
have saluted him at all had it not
been for the sudden opening of the
doors by the valets who had been
watching for his coming. Then the
two soldiers came to a present. Gen.
Grant threw away his cigar, lifted his
hat to them, and passed indoors. The
poor captain of the guard, when he
heard of the incident, was wild with
rage and chagrin."
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CURIOUS FACTS.
Under Sheriff Tom McTague has
returned from a long and fruitless
trip. He left July 10th, went by N.
P. 300 miles to Sand Point, thence
north on horseback 45 miles to Bon
i ner's Ferry on the Kootenai; thence
by steam launch down the river and
lake 160 miles to Beaconsfield; thence
40 miles on foot to a mining camp in
British Columbia. He returned July
20th by the same methods. He never
slept in a house while gone, had only
a pair of blankets and it rained every
night he was out. Still he had a good
trip and says the British officers treat
ed him splendidly. At the line on the
river lives J. C. Rycart, the English
custom officer. His wife, a niece of
Mr. Wells, of Wells, Fargo & Co., is
and Las for three years the only white
woman in the country, and she ex
pects to return to Buffalo, N. Y., this
fall. When the steamers arrive at the
line port, Mr. Rycart runs up the
English flag. Dave McLaughlin,
who lives half a mile this side, and is
a thorough going American, as regu
larly runs up a little American flag
which has bleached till it is all one
color. Yesterday Mr. McTague bought
him a handsome bunting flag and
sent is to him for a present. Mc
Laughlin will be the happiest man
in America when he gets it.-New
Northwest.
A party of gentlemen, whose names
we shall withold for prudential rea
sons, went on a little fishing excur
sion recently. All went smoothly un
til a large catfish was caught, which
two members of the party wanted. It
was agreed that straws should be
pulled and ownership decided that
way. The party who lost was not
satisfied and demanded another draw,
which was given him, when he lost
again, and not only lost the fish, but
his temper and threw the catfish back
into the raging Missouri. This in
censed the winner and he applied some
choice epithets to his opponent which
were returned with interest and a
bloody battle seemed imminent, when
the loosing party suggested a duel
with shot guns at short range. We
did not learn that the challenge was
accepted, but we have been told that
seconds were appointed and all the
preliminaries settled, when the ire of
the contestants was cooled and the
matter somehow adjusted. We are
glad that the conflict did not come off
to carry grief into happy homes which
would have been rendered desolate in
case by accident the shots had hit
either contestants. At all events both
parties are now in good health and
spirits and are no doubt a little a
shamed that a catfish should breed
serious trouble.-River Press.
Two well-known people from Butte
recently arrived in Anaconda, and last
Sunday concluded to tie the nuptial
knot. Accordingly the female party
to the affair, Miss Lydia Spencer,
who still remained in Butte, was sent
for and was met at the train by her
intended, "Kid" Whitney. After pur
chasing a wedding ring and indulg
ing in other luxuries, itis alleged that
the swain sought the parson and as
certained that his marriage fee was
88. This was rather embarassing, as
the total amount of the "root of all
evil" in their possession netted $3.10,
and with heavy hearts they concluded
temporary postpone the cermony, and
after a ramble on the hills Miss Sybil
returned to Butte. Yesterday, how
ever, she returned to Anaconda, and
it is presumed that both are now hap
py in the enjoyment of their martial
vows.-Anaconda Cor. Town Talk
MEXICO'S NATIONAL DRINK.
What the Napa valley is to San
Francisco, the western reservoir to
Ohio, or the Orange county dairy re
gion to New York city, are Los Llanos
de Apam to the city of Mexico-the
principal difference being that magilev
is milked in lieu of cows and pulque
is the product. Some idea of the
magnitude of this kind of agriculture
may be derived from the fact that
two special pulque trains run daily
into the capital city with the same
regularity that milk trains come into
our metropolitan cities, yielding the
railroad a revenue of $1,000 a day
freightage. The legend runs that
somewhere about the year 990 a Tol
tec Indian, whose name was Papant
zin, was firet to discover that the juice
of the agave Americana might be dis
tilled into a beverage fit for the gods.
Desiring to bring the new blessing
into royal favor, he commissioned his
only daughter, Xoahiti (signifying the
"Flower of Anahua"), as cup bearer
to the king. This ancient Hebe, we
are told, was young and beautiful, and
the monarch not only drank and
praised the pulque, but manied the
maiden. And .to this day the bever
age of old "Pap"-as no doubt his
dutiful descendants Ulled him for
short-is the universal drink of the
lower classes of Mexico, and no doubt
it is one of the most healthful bever
ages in the world. When just right
it is milk white, thick and ropy, much
resembling buttermilk in color, taste
and consistency. The Indians are
passionately fond of it-the one solace
and comfort in their lives of toil and
penury, as nature has placed exhaust
less fountains of it by the waysides
and in the deserts. Traveling Ameri
cans turn up their noses at the first
taste of it, but generally end by be
coming as dihigent julque drinkers
as was old Papantzin himself.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
ARMY SHARP SHOOTERS.
Competitive Marksmanship at Fort
Snelling.
An event of much interest to the
army and all interested in rifle prac
tice will be the annual competition of
selected marksmen at Fort Snelling,
Minnesota, this month.
There are seven regiments serving
within the limits of the Departmen
of Dakota, Gen. Terry commanding
There are ten companies in each regi
ment of infantry and twelve in every
regiment of cavalry. Each company
annually sends to Fort Snelling one
enlisted man-selected by reason of
his skill in marksmanship. In addi
tion two commissioned officers from
each regiment are sent there. Includ
ing the representatives from regiment
al bands and expert shots belonging
to the general staff of the army, there
is thus concentrated at Fort Snelling
a battalion of sharp shooters-the
picked men of their respective organ
izations.
Under .the supervision of proper
range officers, practice begins about
August 3d at distances varying from
200 to 600 yards, and the competition
continues for about two weeks, at the
end of which time the twelve best
shots are selected and constitute what
is known as the Department Team for
the Department of Dakota.
The Department of Dakota is a sub
division of the Military Division of
the Missouri-Major General Scho
field commanding. Gen. Schofield's
command includes also the Depart
ment of the Platte, the Department
of Texas, and the Department of the
Missouri. From each of those four
departments a team of twelve selected
experts in rifle practice is made up.
These forty-eight men begin a contest
at Fort Snelling in September and
the twelve best shots so determined,
make up the Division team. Later
on the team for the Division of the
Pacific, Gen. Pope's command, and
the team from the Division of the At
lantic, General Hancock's command,
meet, and from these thirty-six men
is made up the army team for the
year.
Great interest is taken in these com
petitions by the entire army, and the
War Department has adopted a very
liberal policy in the matter of prizes
for superior marksmanship. These
tangible proofs of skill comprise med
als, both gold and silver, sharpshoot
er's crosses, marksman's pins and
buttons.
The buttons are neat devices repre
senting a target. They are about
seven-eighths of an inch square, nick
el plated, and are worn in pins on the
coat collar.
It takes three years to earn a marks
man's pin. The pin is about two
inches long and a third of an inch
wide, made of silver, and is worn on
the left breast of the uniform coat or
blouse.
To such as are fortunate enough to
attain the score of a sharpshooter
90 per cent. at all ranges up to 1,000
yards-a handsome Maltese silver
cross is given. " This is also worn on
the left breast, and taken in connec
tion with the pin, make a nice appear
ance.
Fifteen years ago the officers and
men of the army paid little or no at
tention to rifle practice, but within
the last four years daily practice,
April to October, with the rifle has
been made mandatory, and we now
have the finest army of marksmen in
the world.
Officers and men are trained in
shooting off-hand up to 200 yards,
kneeling or sitting up to 300 yards,
and lying down at ranges up to and
including 1,000 yards. They are also
practiced in what is known as skir
mish drill. This necessitates firingat
unknown distances over unfamiliar
ground, the marksman being required
to run, halt, and about, run again, for
ward ofi back as the order may be;
halt again, about again, and so on un
til in all not less than ten halts have
been made. At no timedoes the skir
misher approach to nearer than 200
yards to the target. Generally about
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forty shots are fired within five min
utes, and the marksman moves over
at least 800 yards during that period
of time.
This practice is of the greatest
practical value and involves accurate
judgment and instantly guessing dis
tances, combined with bottom and
steadiness.
Practice is also required to be had
upon moving targets, and the coming
competition at Fort Snelling promises
to be highly interesting and valuable.
-Herald.
BILL NYE'S VISION.
Night before last, after I had regis
tered at the hotel and been assigned
"the last room in the hotel"-I use
the language of the hotel clerk-I
went into the dining room to tea. It
is not my custom when traveling to
smile on one in whose heart a hope
might spring up to be dashed to the
earth by my departure. If I have
caused pain in that way I did not in
tend to do so. I can joke and carry
on and have a real good time, but I do
not wish to inspire in any breast hope
which may be blasted, ah, alas! too
soon.
It was not long before I discovered
a beautiful blonde of the female sex
at the farther end of the room beneath
the chandelier. Her skin seemed to
be of a delicate sea-shell color, and
her hair was corn-colored. Her clothes
also were entirely new, I should judge,
and made especially for her. On her
finger she wore a diamond ring with
perfect ease. She knew just how to
work that finger in order to get the
most possible glitter out of her dia
mond. Every little while I would
look over there and revel m her beauty
and I thought she was not entirely
insensible to my charms.
All that evening she was in my
mind. I dreamed that night that I
swooped down upon her and carried
her away to the remotest boundaries
of the world in a special car. The
next morning I awoke hungry, for I
didn't eat much supper the night be
fore. I went down to breakfast, wait
ing and fooling away my time, hoping
that she would come while I was in
the breakfast room, and I would fill
myself up with the beautiful vision
and a cup of coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the
room with calm disdain and an air of
hauteur, and such things as that. The
head-waiter waved his hand like a
self-acting duke in a theatre and gave
her a seat at my table. A thrill passed
up through me and I laid down the
vulgar sausage which I was about to
feed myself when she dawned upon
me.
I ventured then to look across the
table at her in the full glare of the
new-born day. The first thing that I
discovered was that she hadn't put
her yellow wig on straight. It was a
little higher on one ear than the other,
which gave her the air of a young
man who has over-monkeyed with the
flowing bowl. This showed to the
casual spectator a glimpse of her own
moth-eaten, sage-brush hair peeping
out like the faded tail on an old buf
falo robe.
Then I knew that we could never
be more to each other than friends.
Her nose was red also, and she had
not been properly calcimined. In the
hurry of dressing she had missed her
nose with the powder-rag and that
organ-meaning, of course, the nose,
not the powder-rag--loomed up robust
and purple in the ghastly waste of
cheek bones and other osseous forma
tions.
Ah, what a pain it gave me to see
my beautiful vision fade thus before
my eyes! Then I thought how I had
smiled o'n her the evening before, and
how, perhaps, a new hope had sprung
up in her heart, and I feared that
when she knew it was all over between
us the shock at her time of life might
kill her.
I left my hot pancakes, with the
maple syrup all over them, and fled
out into the din, the hurry, and the
tireless rush of the mad, mad world,
trying to stifle the memory of that
broken heart. Should she see these
lines I hope she will not think bitter
ly of me. I still admire her as a well
preserved ruin, but love in such acase
would be a hollow mockery.-Milwau
kee Sun.
THE SOAP CAPER.
A very successful swindle, operated
by street peddlers, is what is technic
ally known as the "soap caper." Any
common soap will wash the dust out
of a grease spot, and a person is apt
to come to the conclusion that the
stain itself has been taken out, until
more dust accumulates on the grease
and he finds himself mistaken. For
the purposes of the swindle two fel
lows will buy a lot of cheap soap and
cut it up into small pieces, which are
daintily perfumed and nicely wrapped
in fancy colored paper. This is all
the stock in trade needed, except a
generous allowance of cheek One of
the fellows dresses himself up like a
dude and generally conducs himself
so that everybody to whom he appeals
makes fun of him. Perhaps he does
sell a few pieces of the soap, for it
appears to do what is claimed for it,
but he purposely makes such an ass
of himself that nobody wants to trade
with him. Soon, when he is boasting
of how much soap he can sell in a
day, a common looking fellow in the
crowd calls out: "Well, why don't
you sell it then?" and at once they
get into a wrangle, which is ended by
the plain fellow betting that he can
sell more soap in ten minutes than the
proprietor of the stand can sell in
half an hour. The bet is generally
quite a large one, and as sympathy is
entirely with the commonly-looking
fellow the crowd comes to his support
and he rapidly sells out his share of
the soap, and finally also disposes of
the greater part of the other's pack
ages. It if needless to say that the
fellows are confederates, and are play
ing into each other's hands. Two
good operators can make tremendous
profits by working this game, and
they run no risk of being arrested.
" Do you ever have a dreadful tir
ed feeling come over you?" asked a
patent medicine manufacturer of a
friend,. who complained of not feeling
well.
"Oh yes, often, " replied the friend.
' You should try a bottle of my
cure all flow often you experience
this tired feeling?"
"Every time I see your advertiut
menton the fences."
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