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VOL. II.
WHAT THE BULLET SANC.
0, joy of creation, be!
To
0, rapture to fiy
Aud be free!
Be the battle lost or won,
Though its .smoke shall hide the sun,
I shall ' Hud my love—the one
Born for me!
I shall know him w'hore he stands,
All alone,
With the power In his hands
Not o’orthrowm
[ shall know him by his face,
Byhis godlike front and grace,
I shall hold him for a space
All my own!
It is he—O. mv love! Ajjx.'
So bold!
It is I—all thy love
Foretold!
It is I. O, love what bliss!
Dost thou answer torny kiss?
Ah, sweetheart, what is this?
Lieth there
8o cold!
—Bret Harte, In Harper’s Weekly, 1801.
THE SMITH ISM
EV HELEN BEEKMAN.
The north-bound train on the Phil¬
adelphia «fc Erie was in the midst of
the wilderness of hills and forests
that is so picturesque and even grand
in the summer season.
It was Saturday afternoon, and the
fifty emigrants and travelers—men,
women and children—expected to
get into Erie and make a connection
with the Shore road early on the
morrow.
It had been shedding snow feathers
all day from a sky of leaden gray,that
grew more sombre as night ap¬
proached.
At midnight the train came to a
stop. The dozing people started up,
rubbed the glass and looked out. The
faint light from the windows revealed
snow, and only snow, rising up to the
black sky.
“Are we at the station?”
This que-tion was asked of the con¬
ductor by a low, sweet voice, and stop¬
ping he saw a beautiful girl. He had
noticed her frequently during the day,
and resting against her shoulder was
an elderly lady, evidently an invalid.
The conductor stroked his brown
beard nervously, and bending over, as
if he did not wish the passengers to
hear, he said: .
“There’s something of a drift
ahead, miss, but we hope to get
through.”
As lie went off with liis wire-bound
lantern swinging from his arm, the
train began to back and kept backing
till it had gone some distance. Then
came another stop, then another for¬
ward movement. The puffing grew
louder, the speed greater, aud the
engine, like a desperate charger under
the spurs of a daring rider, pluuged
into the drift that filled the long cut.
Again the train was brought to a
stand, and still in ceaseless descent the
snow came down on all sides.
A tall, muffled man, with a dark
mustache and large, bright eyes, rose
from the seat behind Mrs. Paulding
and her daughter, Julia, ,.ai)d as he
passed them Julia asked:
“Would you please, sir, to let us
know if there is any danger?”
“Certainly, miss,” replied the
stranger, and as he spoke lifted his
hat and went to the front of the car
and out oi» the'platform.
Here he met the conductor and the
engineer talking in anxious tones.
“Try it again, Jim,” urged the con¬
ductor.
“But where’s the use? We have
no fuel, and the steam is down to 20
pounds and still a-sinking.”
“Can’t you back out of the cut?”
asked Martin Reynolds, the young
stranger.
“Back out of the cut, sir?” re¬
peated the engineer as he drew' his
blue sleeve acrohs his swarthy brow.
“Why, bless you, the cut runs back
for six miles, and the snow in parts of
it is high as the smokestack by this
time.”
“How far does the cut extend
ahead?” asked Martin Reynolds, who
was the coolest of the three.
“About two miles, and after that
the road gets worse and worse.”
“Are there any farmhouses near
here?”
“No,sir; I doubt if there’s a human
being outside of the train within ten
miles of us,” replied the conductor.
“It is now midnight,’’ said Martin
Reynolds, “and I presume nothing
he done till morning. ”
can
“I doubt if we’ll bo able to do any¬
thing in the morning. We must wait
till they find us, aud heaven only
knows when that will be.”
m
THE TRIBUNE.
“Don’t Give Up the Slxlp.”
BUCHANAN, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1898.
Martin Reynolds went back to
wkero Julia Paulding was sitting,
supporting her mother, and not wish¬
ing to tell thorn the worst, he said:
“We can’t get on till morning,so we
might as well make the best of a bad
bargain by being as comfortable as
possible.”
As the car was by no means full, he
arranged two seats, and some wraps
of his own, which with those of Mrs.
Paulding made a comfortable bed,and
then he insisted that they should both
lie down and sleep.
He was one of those men whose
presence begets confidence, and whose
voice carries, with it an authority that
melts resistance and makes obedience
a pffeasure.
Having made the invalid and her
daughter as comfortable as possible
under the circumstances. Martin Rey¬
nolds went off’ and did the same for
emigrant women and children in the
other car. And so it was that by
morning even the conductor and
engineer—having exhausted their own
native resources—obeyed him as if he
had a commission to direct.
All the remaining fuel—it was not
much—was taken back to the two
passenger cars and orders were
given to use it economically.
When daylight came a number of
men, Martin Reynolds in the advance.
succeeded in cutting a track to the
top of the embankment. From this
point the train was nearly hidden,and
before and behind,far as the eye could
reach, was one vast snow-level.
Martin Reynolds had learned that
there was food enough on the train to
last the people for that day; now he
saw that many days must elapse before
they could be reached, if indeed their
whereabouts be learned by those anx-
ions for their safety.
“I wish we only had a telegraph
operator and instruments on board,
we might send word where we are and
how we’re fixed,” said the conductor.
“While you’re wishing,” said the
engineer, “it costs no more to wish us
out of this scrape. Can’t you see
that the telegraph lines are all down?”
“Come men, help me to dig up one
of the wires —all of the wires,” said
Martin Reynolds, himself setting the
example.
“What good will that do?” asked
the conductor, working like a beaver,
nevertheless.
“I am a telegraph engineer, and
understand operating, ” replied Martin
Reynolds.
“But yon have no instrument to
send or receive a message?”
“Trust me,” was the reply.
After much shoveling the wires were
found where they had fallen with the
poles.
Quick as a flash Martin Reynolds
cut one wire, and kneeling down
placed an end in each corner of his
mouth and fe^v against his teeth. He
waited for a seconds; no current
passed through, so he cast it away.
Another and another wire was tried
with the same result, till only one re¬
mained.
So far Martin Reynolds had been
very calm, but as he raised the broken
ends of the last wire to his lips—the
wire on which the fate of so many
people depended—his strong hands
trembled.
Tho others watched eagerly. The
wires had been in his mouth but a few
seconds when they saw his face flush
and a glad light come into his hand¬
some eyes.
Holding the wires against his teeth,
he read:
“Who calls?”
“Lock Haven; who are you?” was
the answer.
“Cleveland; all the wires to the
southeast are down but this.”
“Have you any news of the P. & E.
train that left here Saturday morn¬
ing?”
“No, and don’t expect to have for a
week. Good-bye.”
Quick as thought Martin Reynolds
brought both wires together. If the
batteries were not shut off he might
win.
Rapidly the edges clicked the alarm.
“Who calls?” asked Cleveland.
“The P. & E. train."
“Where are you?”
“In deep cut north o'f Kane.
Women and children in danger. For
God’s sake send hel”—
At this instant the circuit was
broken, but the news was flashed of
their whereabouts.
Cleveland was two hundred and
fifty miles away, but the people there
were told that human beings were in
danger of perishing, and soon a mil¬
lion brave men would know it.”
Martin Reynolds went down and
made the people give him all their
food. This he divided into rations,
and locked up what be did not serve
at once.
He took care of tho poor invalid,
cheering her with the hope of a speedy
rescue, and promising Julia to stand
by her till he saw her safely landed in
Cleveland.
With the two dull train axes lio
made the men cut fuel and carry it
down to the cars, so that when another
night came there was no danger of
freezing.
Sunday passed; Monday came aud
passed, and the last setup of food had
been dealt out to thehungry children.
Tuesday eame, and the men who
were famishing proposed to make their
way through the snow mountains to
some settlement, but Martin Reynolds
prevailed on them to wait.
It was late iu the afternoon when a
shrill whistle was heard far up the
road, but it sounded like music aud
gave the people heart.
It was uear dark wheu men reached
the train laden with supplies. And it
was another day before the train got
through to Erie.
The people blessed their deliverer,
but he replied that he had done noth¬
ing that any other man with his
knowledge would uot have done.
Julia Paulding refused to believe
this. The man had come a hero to
her, all the more of a hero for his
gentleness aud modesty.
Martin often blesses the storm that
promised such disaster and brought
him such a blessing. He thinks the
invalid, now restored to health, a
model mother-in-law, and he has won
the legal right to protect Julia under
all circumstances.—New York Led¬
ger.
JUST AS GOOD AS MOTHER’S JELLY.
In Fact It Was His Mother’s the Soldier
Bought in Honolulu.
The friends of a certain Albany boy,
who is a private in the First New
York iu Honolulu, are much amused
and at the same time incensed over
an experience of his which he relates
in a recent letter.
After telling how poor the food was,
he went on to say he had just recov¬
ered from a slight illness and felt an
irresistible longing for dainties of
some kind. After some thought he
concluded that he wanted a jar of
jelly more than anything else that he
could think of. He remembered the
currant jelly which his mother used
to make aud his mouth watered at the
recollection. Bo he took some money
out of his small store and went into
the city to buy. He picked out a con-
fectioner’s shop, and, going in, asked
for a glass of jelly—currant jelly pre¬
ferred if they had such a thing. To
his surprise and delight the man be¬
hind the counter produced a glass of
the very kind that he wanted. It
looked almost exactly like some that
he had eaten at home, and he paid the
high price charged without hesita¬
tion. When he came out into the
street he was still more struck with
its similarity to that which he had
seen at home. He examined the jar,
turning it upside down. On the bot¬
tom was pasted a piece of white paper
with some writing on it. What was
his surprise when he saw that the
writing, which was somewhat blurred,
was the name of his own mother. The
mystery of the strange resemblance
was explained. received letter
A few days later he a
from home in which his mother spoke
of a box of dainties which she had
sent him some time before, “I know
you will enjoy the jelly particularly,”
she said. The only explanation of
the presence of the jelly iu the shop
is that it had been appropriated on and its
arrival by some one in authority
sold. The young man has complained
through his captain, but it is not
probable that he will gain any satis¬
faction.
A Superstition Sustained.
Science sometimes develops facts
in rather unexpected ways and places.
■The old idea that people should sleep
with their heads to the north seems to
have a verification. It is contended
that each human system is an electric
battery, the head being one electrode,
while the feet are the other. The
French Academy of Science experi¬
mented on the body of a gullotined
man. The instant it fell the body was
placed on a pivot, with free action in
every direction. After slight vacilla¬
tion the head turned to the north and
the body remained stationary. It was
turned half-way round, and again it
resumed its original position, the head
pointing to thq porth as 1truly as the
magnetic needle, and the same results
continued until tli<a final Arrest of all
organic movement..
CRAPHIC ENGLISH,
How a Bndding Arkansan Corresjrondent
Described a Quiet Wedding.
“Hnh-ah!” grunted the editor of
the Polkville (Ark.) Jimplecute,in the
midst of conning a bunch of Country
correspondence, “This fellow who
has just begun to send us items from
out at Cracker Neck is a genius in his
way. ”
“What particular kind of a blamed
fool does he make of himself?” in¬
quired the foreman, who was cynical
after the manner of his kind.
“Why,” leplied the scribe, “in
writing up a recent wedding out there
he says that during the ceremony the
best man had considerable of a tit,one
of the gentleman guests was inoppor¬
tunely arrested by a deputy sheriti' for
horse stealing, the minister stuttered,
there was a spirited dog fight under
the house, and the bride’s mother
made such violent objection to the
groom that the affair had to be post¬
poned till the good lady had to be
bound fast to a rocking chair and
packed so far out into the woods that
her remonstrances floated but faintly
to the house, which gave the groom
time to so acutely realize what lie was
bringing on himself that he could only
be restrained from escaping to parts
unknown by being grabbed and firmly
hog-tied and kept in that predicament
till the clergyman had got in his work.
A little later the friends of the happy
couple surrounded the house and rent
the night with congratulatory howls
aud yells and much tiu-pan-nabula-
tion, which was repaid by the flinging
on them of a kettle of hot water by
the blushing bride and a few dis¬
charges of the shotgun of the sturdy
groom. During the melee, the cor¬
respondent goes on to say, the kitchen
roof caught fire and half of it was
burned off. The whole affair he en-
titles ‘A Quiet Wedding,’ and gravely
says that all present felt that it was
good to be there. That fellow is either
t budding humorist of great promise
or else he has been leading a mighty
exciting life.”
A Hiller’s Desk.
The desk used at the White House
bv the president of the United States
is interesting iu itself, apart from its
connection with the ruler of a nation,
for it is a token of the good will exist¬
ing between two peoples. Although
occupying so prominent a place iu the
official residence of America’s chosen
governor, it is not of American manu¬
facture.
It was fashionable in England, says
Youth’s Companion,and was the pres¬
ent from the queen to a former presi¬
dent. It was made from the timbers
of H. M.S. Resolute, which was sent
iu search of Sir John Franklin in
1852. The ship was caught in the ice
and had to be abandoned. It was not
destined to go to peices in frozen
waters, however, An American
whaler discovered and extricated it in
1855, and it was subsequently pur¬
chased and sent to her majesty by the
president aud people of the United
States as a token of good-will and
friendship. Re¬
In an English dockyard the
solute was at last broken up, aud from
lie* timbers a desk was made, which
was sent by her majesty “as a
memorial of tho courtesy and loving
kindness which dictated the offer of
the gift of the Resolute.”
Tlio Emperor's Second Heli>.
The Emperor Maximilian was an
abstemious man as regarded the pleas¬
ures of the table—a laudable habit—
which was encouraged by all about
him, who loved to feast royally at his
expense while ho dined upon some
simple dish. But the emperor had a
taste for fish, and especially sturgeon;
and one day he relished so much a
dish of this last that, like Oliver, and
to the equal surprise of his assistant,
he asked for more. “Extremely sor-
iy,” said the maitre d’hotel, “hut
there is no more sturgeon. ’ Tho em-
peror, perhaps, swore scftly to him¬
self, perhaps he merely whistled or
hummed. Anyhow, after a pause, he
sent for the steward of the palace,
who inquired, in some surprise, what
his majesty was pleased to want. “I
want to know,” said the emperor,
“how much sturgeon you bought for
my dinner today?” “One thousand
pounds, your majesty,” replied the
steward. “Then next time buy a
thousand pounds and a half,” said
the emperor, “so that I may have a
second help. ”—Household Words.
Photograph* Taken In the Dark.
One of our most eminent scientists
has lately succeeded iu taking no
fewer than 2000 photographs ‘entirely
in darkness.
NO. 1.
CIANT PHILIPPINE BEES.
flonoymakprs Whicli It In I’rofPnsed to
Introduce Into the United State*.
There is one racer inhabiting tho
Philippines which will he a welcome
addition to American citizenship aud
receive every facility and inducement
to emigrate to the United States and
engage in the skilled labor in which it
has no peer. This is the giant East
Indian honey bee, whose immense
capacity for making honey and wax
hns interested the department of agri¬
culture iu the consideration of an
early effort to introduce it into the
United States. It is nearly one-lialf
larger than the American native honey
bee, aud builds a comb, heavy with?
wax aud honey, five or six times as
large as those found in American
orchards and forests.
Iu the Philippine Islands their
colonies are most numerous in the
mountains, as the increasing quest of
the natives for their honeycombs has
driven them from the unprotected hat¬
bands of the coast to the less thickly
inhabited and more heavily wooded
mountain regions. The Filipinos find
their daily bread a rather easy prop¬
osition, but they are very fond of
honey on the staff’ of life. There is
also a large demand for wax for uso iu
dyeing.
The big bees build their hives on
tall forest trees or ou the overhanging
ledges of cliff's, When undisturbed
branch swarms build near the parent
colony, so that in a few years an im¬
mense bee settlement often grows up
in the forest. The bees build a comb
five or six feet long, four feet wide nml
from seven-eighths to one and one-half
inches in thickness, The largest
combs of American honey bees are
not of more than one-fifth these di¬
mensions. In appearance tho giant
bee is a smoky, glittering, iridescent
black wasp-like figure, with orange
hands encircling its body, There
have been reports that this bee is
most ferocious and on account of its
great size extremely dangerous, but
Prof. Frank Eeuton of the department
of agriculture, Washington, has seen
and handled them in their jungle
haunts, and he tells a different story.
They are such busy and persevering
workers, according to Professor Ben¬
ton’s account, that they have lost
dexterity with their stinging appara¬
tus, and though they may alight, full
of wrath and with evil intent, upou
human hand or neck, they do not
handle their offensive weapon with
skill, and it takes them twenty or
thirty seconds to get their sting in
working order. They are quiet as
compared with American bees.
Petitions have been coming into
the department of agriculture for
years asking that the government in-
troduce these giant bees into the
United States. No attempt at bring¬
ing them here has ever been success¬
ful. Professor Benton tried to bring
to the United States a swarm of these
houeymakers which he captured in
the jungle. While he was sick in bed,
ou his way home, no one else on the
vessel would attend to them aud they
all died.—New York Sun.
“Obey Tour Orders,"
In Franklin’s “Memories of a Rear
Admiral,” a good story is told of a
naval officer whose tact enabled him
to obey orders and to do as he
pleased.
Commodore Truxton distinguished
himself during tho war of the Revolu¬
tion and subsequently commanded tho
naval station at Baltimore. Commo¬
dore Stewart commanded a brig which
was fitted out there and had been or¬
dered by Truxton to proceed to sea on
a certain day.
Stewart reported on that day that it
was impossible for him to sail, as he
had not yet hoisted in his mainmast.
“Obey your orders,” replied Trux¬
ton. Stewart sailed forthwith, towing
his mainmast astern. Fortunately
the wind was fair, and when he reached
a point beyond the limits of Truxton’s
command he anchored, hoisted in hia
mainmast completed his preparations
for sea, and then sailed.
Itubber Being: Made from Corn.
Rubber is now being made from
corn by glucose refiners, and the fact
has given birth to a new turn in the
trade. Cheap tires which canuot he
repaired are now beginning to he des¬
ignated as “glucose tires. ” Itis con¬
tended though that the rubber made
from corn has many virtues aud will
yet be generally employed by tire
makers. If this should come to pass
it will lower the prices of tires, as the
new substitute in its crude form cau
be sold for muck less than the real
gum. .