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■WHEN comes the ni«wt, When comes the night. Shall we accuse the sun, Because the gloom oppresses most The soul that glows with lustre lost? And shall we shun The memory of light? When comes the ice, Shall we condemn the rose, That filled the field with royal bloom. And scented hall and church and tomb, When winter throws Bis ermine round us thrice? When sorrows come Upon us unaware. Shall we reproach the joy that shed A glory where the feast was spread. And in despair Sit silent, sad and dumb? W hen comes the grave, Shall we the cradle curse, The fatal day when daylight came. Because the night of dreaded name, A second nurse, Comes stealing down the nave? When comes the word That blast in pain or wrath Our early love or virgin hope, Our hearts may listen, though we gropj In unlit path, To songs our ears have heard 1 Then brave the night, Which cannot kill the sun, And with undaunted courage greet The angel’s cup, though life be sweet. ’Tis quickly done; Come, drain the goblet quitel And if a breath Shall cut your love in twain, With robe of tears enshroud the past, And hurl defiance to the blast: Beat down the pain, Till beaten, thou, by Death! —W. P. Preble, Jr., in Harper. A WOMAN OF PLUCK. HEN early in the mt & spring fame Holy of of Creede, 1891, Moses the ol the * mine, and of the riches to be found /A in the mountains round about was AW spreading over the State of Colorado c* and attracting some attention from pros¬ pectors and speculators, the story came to a quiet little widow, Mrs. Reid Miller, living in the town of Bedell. She was a native of Vienna, but had been in Ameri¬ ca for thirteen years, of which time five months had been passed in New York City, and the rest in Pueblo, Alamosa, and other towns of the Silver State. Mrs. Miller had during much of this time sup¬ ported herself and her child, now a boy of six, chiefly by cooking and house¬ work. She had heard over and over again the marvellous stories of quickly acquired wealth in the mining camps of the mountain region, and had been wait¬ ing for some time to hear of another strike that she might herself try her luck along with the rest who always rush to every new town where opportunities for speculation offer. The story of the Holy Moses eaine to her as did the signal to the Oklahoma boomers. She was ready to start instantly, regardless of her own poverty os the future of the camp. With sufficient bedding and camp kit for her¬ self and boy, and no more, she got on the sled of a freighter with whom she was acquainted who was bound up the valley with goods to the new Eldorado. She was obliged to run in debt for her transportation, but no prospector ever took a grub stake with a lighter heart or more confidence of success than Mrs. Miller in accepting this loan. The outfit with Mrs. Miller reached Creede on April 1st, 1891. Creede at that time consisted of a few houses crowded into the deep and narrow gulch between Campbell and Mammoth Moun tains. There was no street in the town —simply a trail between the houses, wide enough for a freight team to pass through. The gulch was full of suow and ice; one could tell that a stream was there only by bearing the roar of the water beneath a deep covering of mixed snow and ice. Mrs. Miller looked over the camp just once—it took her about half an hour only to decide that she did not want to remain there. It was too crowded. If the camp was to grow it could grew iu but one direction—down stream. A few hundred yards below the ruck of shanties, the gulch suddenly expanded into a widening valley that would afford ample building space for a town. There were indeed, two houses down there already. Charles Born, a prospector, had built a little log cabin there for headquarters, and Loftus & Ilastiugs had opened a saloou. Mrs. Miller determined to go down there and see what she could do. Luckily for her she met about this time a carpenter named Mahouey, whom she had known whea living in Bedell. Mahoney asked her what she was going to do, and she said she was goiug to open a restaurant down below iu some way. Straightway Mahouey offered to build her a house for the busiucss. “But I have no money,” she said. “That’s ail right. Pay me whea you get it.” Thereupon it was agreed that a log house, 2(5x40 feet, should be erected among the willows, not far from Pros¬ pector-Born's cabin,for the sum of $110, to be paid whenever Mrs. Miller &et it. Mahoney began work the next (April 2), and built the house as and substantially as he would have a Mifler flood mining camp house, and was greatly pleased with it. It taken three weeks to complete it. hardly Ildr Y knows whether to laugh or shed tears when hearing Mrs. Miller how she began to run a restaurant that cabin. “My stove was very old and For a table I had an old door, up town. It was nailed on a short of wood set on end in the middle of room. For chairs I had empty boxes and two or three blocks cut a log. I had three plates, a tin cap coffee, and enough knives and forks go with the plates. I had one kettle a frving pan, and that’s all. But miners did not care. They said: give us what you have and it is all right.’ They were very kind to me.” Her provisions, including bread, chased on credit, had to be brought Del Norte, forty miles away, down valley, at a cost of two cents a pound freight. But she sold from seventy one hundred meals a day fora good weeks at fifty cents a meal, and she gan to get ahead a little. The bills were met promptly, and Mr. Ma¬ honey got the $110 for his work sooner than he had anticipated. Then a turn came in the tide. prospectors who had floated in on story of the Holy Moses floated again. The much-talked-of railroed not appear. It was told that the would not be built at all. Times hard at Creede iu midsummer, 1891, but cheery Mrs. Miller never shed tear. “It was berry time, those days,” she said: “raspberries, blackberries. I not know how many. I took my and went every day after berries and made jam of them. I knew I could that any time, but I didn’t sell it the way I expected to. Before the were all gone they began to buiid railroad, and then came a rush such you never saw'.” Meantime, however, Mrs. Miller had an eye for real estate She had had four logs placed on of four lots, on what is now avenue, including the corner of street. There was no town ing but willows and creek bottom; land had not then been surveyed out a town, but Mrs. Miller guessed from lay of the land that that would be good parcel of land to tie to. The logs on each lot were laid together as foundations for log houses, and in miniug camps such foundations are spected as “improvements” sufficient give title. Like improvements made in the two lots adjoining restaurant. Later in (July), having little money to spare, she had each the Creede avenue foundations raised logs higher at a cost of $(52.50. “They laughed at that little woman,” as they called me, for that, but I knew what 1 was about,” says now. Then came the fall rush, and Mrs. Miller, having no money, promised to pay $400 and get her four little log ins finished. Then she rented her taurant building to D. R. Smith, who brought in a stock of general dise about that time, and she moved the little corner building, where began taking boarders as well as selling meals at all hours. She had a outfit for the business by this time, but the habitues of the restaurants Madison square would have considered the place rather crude, nevertheless. place was neat, however, for a camp, and Mrs. Miller kept herself and boy looking well. But although a prosperous business was now opeuing for her, her real troubles were at hand. Hitherto she had to do the drudgery of a kitchen from early morning until late at night, but now she had to do that and fight the rights she had acquired as well. The novelists and some other mining writers tell of the chivalry of camp men, but in an examination Creede history one finds that it took mighty long time to develop the alry. Mrs. Miller’s four cabins built on a plot 125x125, which was ularly surveyed out in November, 1S91, uuder orders of the County Judge Saguache County. There was a house each lot, but between the corner house and the corner was a plot about tweuty-five feet square that was vacant. While Mrs. Miller was still at work com¬ pleting her cabins, there came a who hired a carpenter at $5 a day build a foundatiom on Mrs. Miller’s cant plot. Mrs. Miller ordered him away, but be would uot go. Creede tions in those days consisted of timbers nailed together so as to the space to be built ou, and in some cases by blocks of wood. of such foundations are still to be Mrs. Miller watched with many hensions the carpenter finish the tion, but, though worried, she was disheartened. In fact, she stood pat, the vernacular of the town, waiting turn to go a stack of chips better would make him draw out in a hurry. 1 While the carpeuter sawed and Mrs. Miller went to the Brothers, builders, aud contracted them to erect a shanty on this foundation. The man had jumped claim to the land, but she jumped foundation. “They only charged me $25 for ing that shanty,” said Mrs. Miller, ‘ but L™ my’oM Silding for pay. by ™ e * her troubles , not . Still were over, ev n though cash became more plentiful, bne accepted an offer of bio00 cash for o of her lots—the one where D. R. Smith s store is—and at once began work on a foundation for a building that was planned to be the best in town. The railroad hai come in November, and the right of way had taken part of her claim. Then a street was laid out next to the right of way, and thus Mrs. Mil¬ ler's plot was reduced to fifty feet in depth. This had been a benefit, how¬ ever, for it made possible the building of a structure facing three streets on what were now plainly seen to be the most im¬ portant corners of the new city. The growth of Creede at that time can be ap¬ preciated only by those who saw oil-well towns spring up iu Pennsylvania, the rush in Oklahoma, or some such enter¬ prise. People were coming into camp by the hundred every day, aqd the rush for lots to build on was indescribable. No sooner did Mrs. Miller tear away her cabins and set men to work building a foundation for the new business block than, a jumper, with a lawyer, came to bluff her out of her property. To give an idea of this woman’s character let it be said that she asked the reporter not to mention the jumper’s name. “I beat him; that’s enough,”she said. This is how she beat him: The man with his shyster told her he had purchased the lots of the town com¬ pany, and that she was only a squatter and must vacate. She said she would do nothing of the kind. She knew her rights, and would stand by them. The man said he would bring workmen, and begin building. Mrs. Miller defied him. He came, however, as he had said he would, and the supreme moment of Mrs. Miller's career in Creede was at hand. As the man and his shyster and men with picks and axes appeared, Mrs. Miller walked out with her boy by her side,and a revolver in her hand. “I will blow the brains out of the first man that puts a pick in that founda¬ tion,” she said in a voice heard a block away. The shyster began to parley,and the man ordered his workmen to begin work. A great crowd, hundreds, gath¬ ered instantly, for it was a wild time in Creede then, and a call tor trouble brought the throng as if by magic. As Mrs. Miller showed the revolver the workmen hesitated, and for a brief moment there was a pause, while men of all social grades looked on in silence. The workmen were again ordered to pro¬ ceed, and again they hesitated under the muzzle of the revolver. Then came the end. Some one in the crowd shouted “Mrs. Miller has fed many a man when he was broke.and never asked him a cent. Let's duck the jumpers in the creek.” A howl of approval arose in answer, and the jumpers made haste to slip threugh ttie crowd and sneak away. Mrs. Miller had an offer of $5000 cash in February for two of the lots which she had held to with the aid of her re¬ volver—there is no doubt about the aid of the revolver; any man wao Looks into her laughing gray eyes sees the will be¬ hind them when it is aroused—and she sold them at once. She had now money enough to go on with her building. The work began the first week in March, and on April 1st she began to draw $500 a month in advance from the rentals. The building is fifty feet square, and, as said, fronts on three streets. It is a neat frame structure, two stories high, with lofty ceilings, large windows, two large rooms on the first floor, and a broad, easy stairway leading to the second floor, where there is a wide hall and nine large well-lighted offices. It is much the best building in town at this writing. The total cost was $4(KX). Mrs. Reid Miller, on April 1, 1891, reached Creede too poor to pay the freighter who brought her here. In exactly one year to a day she was in re¬ ceipt of an income of $500 a month aud had a snug sum in bank. But the story is not all told. She might have had a greater income, but deliberately refused it. As her building approached comple¬ tion, President McDonough of the First National Bank offered her $150 a month for the corner room on the first floor for the use of the bank. While she con¬ sidered the offer a man came and offered her $350 a month for the same room, that he might open a gambling resort there. Mrs. Miller refused the gambler’s offer because she thought that a respect¬ able business would in the end prove the most satisfactory. This is not all of Mrs. Miller’s prop¬ erty. Along in February the State Land Commissioners sold a half section of land adjoining Creede Colorado on the south for the benefit of the State School Fund. The scenes at that sale were wonderful to behold. More than 7000 men and some women attended and went wild with excitement. Hundreds were ruined by the prices they paid for unim¬ proved willow swamp land. Corner lots brought from $2000 to $7000, according to location, while the rest sold down in the hundreds. Mrs. Miller attended the , sale and bought a dry lot at the foot of Mammoth Mountain for $145. One has only to walk over the school sections, as it is called, to see that the lot is well chosen, and, considering the prices the rest paid, very cheap. It should be said, however, that there was no great dis¬ position shown at the sale to bid against the women; but, on the other hand, Mrs. Miller would have paid an extrava¬ gant price. Miller has built On this lot Mrs. two cottafles, front and rear, at an expence of over $700. The front house is one story high, has a bay window and two verandas and tnree lar^e rooms, besides smaller ones. There is no neater-looking cottage in town. It is to be rented. She will probably get fifty dollars a month for it while the boom lasts, and thereafter a good return on the money. The rear cottage is made of rough lum¬ ber and contains two rooms, Mrs. Mil ler rents the front room and lives in the rear room with her boy. She will start for Vienna in a short time to visit her father, who is still living there, but she intends to return to Creede very soon.— New York Suu. SELECT SIFTINGS. There are said to be 20,000 kinds of butterflies. A gorilla is so rare in captivity that one brings $20,000. A North Carolina woman only learned to write after she had passed the age of eighty-two. No chemical black ink has yet beer made which will write black immediately on exposure. Patsy Sears, of Howard County, Ind., aged 108 years,; has been a chureh mem¬ ber a hundred years. Except in cooking their scanty meals the poor Italians seldom have a fire ever in the severest winter weather. A gentleman in Fort Smith, Ark., ha; hanged eighty persons sentenced tc death by the United States court. Cornell University has opened a diary school, where cheese and butter making breeds and feeding are the subject for study. The agricultural society of Paris is ex¬ perimenting in the making of artificial clouds (o preserve plants from the effects of frost. Wax came into use for caudles in the twelfth century, and wax candles were esteemed a luxury in 1300, being but little used. It would take forty yenrs for all the water in the great lakes to pour over Ni¬ agara at the rate of one million cubic feet a second. A West Philadelphia clergyman re¬ cently received an envelope containing an old fashioned copper penny as his fee for performing a wedding ceremony. Some of the African tribes pull their fingers till the joints “crack” as a form of salutation, and one tribe has the curi ous fashion of showing friendship by standing back to back. Tne bones of Jumbo, Barnura's big elephant, that was killed a few years ago at St. Thomas, Canada, weighed even 2400 pounds. The total weight of the body, bones and all, was six tons. The lav of evolution works in lan guages as well as in other things. Twen¬ ty thousand words have been added to the Eugiish language in the department of biology alone since Dai win's discover ies. A double-bodied lamb has made its appearance in Pilot Knob, Ind., and is owned by Alexander Riclitie. Its head and neck are perfect; but attached to the head are two perfect bodies, which have two sets of legs. The chemical inks of the present are of too recent invention to determine whether they wiil last, but it is quite probable that most of them will be as legible at the end of fifiy or seventy-five as they are to-day. G. Bonnier, Professor of Botany at the Paris Sorbonne, disputes the preva lent notion that the mistletoe is injurious to the apple or other tree on which it grows. lie maintains not only that this is not the case, but that it is actually beneficial to its host. Not until the tenth day is the Zuni child put into the cradle. The baby’s arms are placed by its sides, and it is "so strapped in its cradle that it cannot move a hand. These cradles have hood shaped tops, and over the whole thick coverings are placed, and it ' a wonder « ««*«• iv I\., In ^Ii 1481, md riders ; n the on rei post-horses " a , of Edward went stages of the distance of twenty miles from eacn otner, in order to procure the king the earliest intelligence of the events that passed in the course of the war that had arisen with the Scots, and Richard III. improved the system of couriers in 1483. A cat bern in Germany with only two legs (the hinder pair) is healthy, and goes about easily, the body in the nor mal condition. When startled or watch ing anything, it raises itself to the attt tude of a kangaroo, using its tail as a support. It has twice borne kittens, in bom cases two, one of which had four aud the other only two feet. A Pear. Mr. Chap pel is said to be the most successful pearl hunter in Connecticut. He searches for these gems in the mouu tam streams and meadow brooks of that State, and yearly makes a haudsome profit on his industry, working only two months, April and May, if the winter has been a mild one. The pearls are found m fresh water clams, and are gen. erally the size of a pea or larger.—Chi. cago er a • _ A man obtains his maximum height at forty years of age, a woman at fifty years. SCIENTIFIC AND A child three Tears old height it will ever reach. 15 ^ th Tb , “ a “ a1 wheQ wa , h so disappears be aca it ^ 11 ‘ ' " A tropical moth, oufij has a wing spread m color and flies by night Itis ^J An electrical brush has w to It kill destroys grass and every weeds alontV^ V* trac touches. blade 01 grass ‘. ft Carbon is so good a tricity that, in the form ? ctor °f elec, used to make an earth ‘ cois e > il it lightning * „ QE >ection . rods. seventy-fou^ per ceau*“cT° E matter and woody fiber. Every portion of soapstone .vavst^ Win ting is utilized mother 4od= in the dull color to rubber i* gi 1 paper to gain weight, celleutartmie to use in making e i fire . pr A remarkable case is that of a who was stabbed in the heart, That gan was punctured, but he or would have yet lived aad recovered had he not u come intoxicated before the wound tirely healed. * Experiments in ^ peat is a good material i Q wh ioh tl) potatoes, turnips, onions and ofa-rsim lar vegetables. Potatoes, after months, were found in perfect coaiW without ever having germinated. Several of the higher apes share W man the involutionary habit of blushin<r Indeed, they seem to uossess it to 3 j higher degree then we do, for the blush of an ape extends over a larger portio of the body than that of huuiaa a a being. It is claimed by scientists that all tbs lime in the world has, at some time been a portioa of some animal. T&e same atom of lime has some time, no doubt, been a portion of many different animals, and possiljly of human btinn also. Heligoland is to be made a harbor ot refuge for fishing vessels, and is being, fortified heavily. The island is to be a scientific station, the German Govern¬ ment the having study erected of marine laboratories tnenj nA for zoology, especially of the economic history J food fishes. The perpendicularity of a mourn* is, although few may be aware of it,! visibly affected by the rays of the sat On every sunny day a tall monument has a regular swing, leaning away fro* the suu. This phenomenon is due to the greater expansion of the side oi which the rays of the sun fall. In Germany, barrels and tubs are now being made in a single piece by a new system of cuttiug logs into boards and veneers. The log is steamed and softened, then placed in a machine and rotated against a knife which shaves off _ the a continuous veneer, or board, till log is consumed. Iu making barrels,a strip is notched in each edge, and then it can be rolled into cylindrical form, ready for hoops and heads. Speed of the Pulse. The rate of pulsation depends entire! on the movements of the heart, eac representing a contraction of the lei ventricle. The normal pulse of ti adult male varies from sixty to eight] beats in the minute; the range of ini vidual variation is, however, very great The range in females is even gwfl some having a pulse rate of over eig < others less than sixty, the majornys j ing a higher rate than males. J At In birth, children 123 to the 144; rate first is more year, iet Pj -'J 130; at sixteen years, ninety, »■! a t ! § p e °* tbe bl Jp,° P uIse fte ? 1S . ^ill tween fifty in'’skd #» s * xty rhe pU Ser ... • w je r ‘ varies so® 1 tbau ta ,, 1 persoa ?’ a ,q „i- ^ 0 w hat ™ th tbe iadeoendea f meab aac * mov \ " f temo oD tne , a the forenoon, rising in . £%££? fifty-six”and foity-sj x low as low as w b obse rved in healthy adults, exceptions. We know o they ' are rare d of healthy no V^thLy-Brooklyn on recor a lo Eagle. Sail Ships Not Oat of i )ate ' comp iied by Lloyd; : that .9 — o - - - , the year 1891 tne £ ^ ere f 878, United Kingdom till * 0 - ’• B 53 tons,and 181 sailing ot 463 tons, or a total 0 " do t 1,130,816 tons. Tbese = ' the include warships. Contrary or less general opinion _ destmea m * ^ that steamships are sailing vessels. pletely supersede ^ pr0 peUed by steam, is relatively . f n o. year by year, and during tbe in tne " 6 p ’a,ber, ^ ve a r 'it is thoiight pronounced- that In T be sti u mor per"cent, e of 1SS9, ten only ^ und er construction in dom were “sailing;” in lb9 ’“ twenq - cent and in 1891, no less build ^ 'This shows thd five pe r cent . f . t set ■ steamships for the / a :i» been over n an vice has simply jj; saih^ Boston A drer cheaper P b vessels.— riser.