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The -veomx is spotted and covered with dust, And the mandibles move with some force Can it be the Doryphora? Surely it mustâ€" The decem-lineate, of course. The old farmer was standing a moment to rest, \Vith his arm round the horn of an ox, \Vith the large sounding words he was greatly impressed, And he looked in the scientist’s box. Then he laughed a haw! haw! and a happy ha? ha! And he bent and he shock with his laughter, And the echo that dwelt in the hillside afar Caught the sound and repeated it after. And he said, as the student looked on in surprise, ‘Now stranger, I mean ye no evil, But to think of your holding, while talk- ing so wje, A potato-hug, there, and a weevil !’ And he laughed and he shouted, with tears in his eyes, A potato-bug, oh I and a weevil I” THE MYSTERIOUS BELL. BY ALFRED BALCH Every one who new all the circum- stances said tlial; Michael Norton and his wife had made a hard fight of it. He had money, won by snacessful min- ing, when he married his pretty sweet- heart and brought her out to California. Although he had been successful in his “diggings” his heart had never been in the work, and when sweet Lucy Heath came W'est with him it needed but little argument on her part for him to .nvést in a small farm near Sacramento and glad enough he was to get back to the plough once more. You see, he had been brought up to it, and he real ly cared for the life. ' They did well at first, and during the five years two children were born to them, which made their home all the happier. Then came hard times; there were three winters in succession â€"still rembercd on the coast; and those ranches in the Sacramento valley de- pended wholly upon t-lie rainfall (luring the winter for their wheat. \Vith the worry and hard work Michael Norton fell sick, and that etc up ‘a part of their money. ‘Thc first loan was for seed during the second year, and that went into the ground and stayed there. Debt grows fast in soil that will not grow anything else, and at the end of the third year, when the crop failed, there was nothing for Michael to do but go to work for some one else. 4; He made arrangements to have his ranch run by the men who had. lent him money, with the agreements; that any share coming to him should go to wiping out his dept, and having done this, he prepared, against the wishes of his wife Lucy, to start out to earn enough to support his family till the evil days should be over. . . One‘morning, when Lucy woke up, she told her husband of an extraordin- ary dream she had had, one which. was so vivid that she could not forget it. She dreamt, she said, that. she was in some narrow canon alone. The place was strange to her, and it was very wild and desolate, but she did not feel afraid. Suddenly she heard distinctly the sound of a bell, although there was no person Within miles of bar, as. she knew. It was soft toned. sweet, and not very loud, and as she walked to- wards it, it kept going on before. , At last it stopped, and turninga corner she had. seen Michael digging with: his pick. As she watched, he picked up a lump of gold, and she new he had been successful in his search. Then she woke up. , Her husband listened, and said, laughingly, that there were no bells rung in lonely canons, so far as he ‘ knew, but if he heard of one he would go and look for her sake. This ended the conversation. But the next night Lucy dreamed the same thing, and woke him up to listen to her story. When the dream came the third time it impressed him somewhat, especially as she withdrew her objections to his going to the mines. It was not long before he reached the diggins near the American River and he got work at once. doing well. His letters were full of hope, especially as he heard from her of the splendid crop which had been taken from their ranch that year, and knew that another such season would set then; right with the world. Things were looking bright t. freshet of Feb- ruary. 365, came down (#:030ch Fork, and swept out dame, sluicevbp‘xes, Long Toms, pipes and ditched as though they had never bben. :The company for which Michael 'had been working was forced to stop, gnd discharge all their *This story is "founded upon fact. The ‘fliell’l. sound can yet, be heard in “echo” cannonjin'the Sierras ‘just this side of Cape Harmon theCentral Pac- zficBaflroad. :Itis Sta ‘ to be the fi‘ectofthewamth o the sun in' the mommg’» u’pptrngthe flimésbone stratum which ovétfiestheporphyry. Thesame mentioned' in' “I; decoy ,curionsgoundig~heard,,_, Mombasa-Olin built W ‘ inf-the Mythic}: '~over1;yl.s‘the ',.1§' men, and so it came that he found himself with nothing to do. He had some money, and before returning to the valley to look for a place he made up his mind he would put at least one month into prospecting. He loaded up his tools and his supply of provisions on his burro, or donkey, and taking his course towards the north-west, struck into the hills. ‘ It was hard work and no pay. Day after day he spent examining the rocks and “float,” as the loose stones are call- ed without seeing one sign of metal. This went on for some few weeks, when he had about made up his mind to go back. He was camping on a small shelf, some twenty-five feet, wide on the edge of a. deep gulch or shallow canon. He had had his supper, and was lying in his blankets, smoking be- fore going to sleep. His thoughts na- turally reverted to Lucy and the little ones, and the idea of seeing them soon again served to all most dispel the dis- appointment he might have felt at his want of success. Suddenly he heard a snort from the donkey, and turning his head, saw the vast body of an enorâ€" mous grizzly bear coming towards him. It is unneccessary to say that he sprang to his feet, drawing his revolver as he did so, and glancing around for a. chance to escape. No man who knows “Caleb,” as the grizzly is called by the mountain men, cares to have a single- handed tightI with him, for it is a. quest ion if any more terrible animal exisns. A look showed Michael Norton that there was no way out, and that he must stand his ground. The giant beast came slowly on, camly confident that no creature living dare dispute his way, and the man waited until he was within six feet. Then, raising his re- volver, he fired once, twice, thrice, and thenâ€"tho bear closed with him. He had hastily caught up his blanket.c with his left hand, and, by a rapid motion, had got them around his left arm. Using this as a shield for his head, he fired once more, but “old gray man out heap lead,” as the Indians say. Then out with his knife, and stab? stab? stab? trying to let. the life out of the animal. It seemed to him that he could not find the heart, although the long, keen knife went up to the hill; at every blow. The pain from his crush- ed arm which the boar was biting so savagely, and from one of his legs, which had been ripped badly, made him feel sick. The place seemed to swim around him. He thought of Lucy and the children, and bid them good-by, as, with a desperate energy, he sent his knife home for the last time Then he knew no more. When he woke up from his swoon he found himself lying at the , pottom of the cliff, with his I back on the dead bear. They had i fallen over the edge, and as it was i nearly thirty-five feet, the animal had{ saved the man's life. Crawling to a ! little stream which fell in :1 tiny cascade E into a small pool, he tore his shirt in‘ strips and bound up his arm and leg. He was glad euough to find that the arm, although very sore was not as badly hurt as he believed, the blanket having protected it, and in the leg nol artery was cut. Taking a long drink of I water he lay down again and before l long dozcd off to sleep. How long he slept he knew not, but it was sunrise when he woke. As he did so, he seem- ed to hear the long, low sound of a bell that. had just been struck. This woke him at once, and he lay there listening. Sure enough, there it was again: as full and as clear as the church bell’s sound in the quiet evening air in some country village during the rose month of June. In such a place the sound was startling to the last degree, and Michael Norton was half frightened. Still he lay there waiting, and heard it again. Suddenly Lucy’s dream came back to him and he started up. The pain in his arm brought him to himself quickly. Bell or no bell, Michael was hungry and there lay the bear. Fortunately, his knife was sticking in the side which was uppermost, for he never could have turned the animal over; anp before long he had a fire and a steak toasting over it. Very much refreshed by his breakfast, be renewed the dressings on his ami and leg, and he started to find a path to where he had left his things. This was not difficult, and before noon he had everything down in the canon, donkey included, for that faithful animal had come back. During the next Week Mich- ael did little else than look after his in- juries; and by the end of it he found that he was nearly well. "Determined to explore the canon and find out, if he could, what the bell-like sounds he heard every morning really were, he examined the place thoroughly, but beyond. veryifying that he did hear them always at sunrise and for about an hour afterwards, he was none the wiser. At last the time came to go and he took down the bear- skin from a rock he had hung it on, meaning to pack it on his donkey as a present to Lucy. Ashe did so, he pulled ofi' a weathered point of ., stone, and there .before his astoniehes ,eyes, was a mass of little nuggets. It did not takelong'to put in a. “shot” as the miners call a. charge of powder, and when it tore away the rack, he saw the ledge of “rotten” quartz speckled with thegleamingyellow- metal. ,When Miohaeleon'reached his home and told Lucy the Story, I ques- tic if-any-youngman ever felt happier at known ‘ng he was rich enough to many the girl of his choice'than did this man whenhethought that hisloving wife would henceforth not know ”again whet poverty meant; Withgueh spechn as qse"he'lja_“d,it ‘t‘opk but. little time to ormthe Bell Mining Company, and before many, yearsMichael Norton was a.@.M' He boughtmore land, ranches, Stud, when he I 'l‘lll'l' bf‘dry‘ Butit ~would be difficult indeedfoito descdbe em ~ hm“! vi’m‘imiilll Millions . l , the tone in which, when Mrs. Norton .1 told me this story, she said: I So, you see, there isa good deal in a, dream, sometimes. A NOCTURNE. __ l l m the sweet rose gardenâ€"quaint laid out In ages . oldenâ€" 1 When gleaming sinks to gloomâ€" l When the deep‘ning depths of night succeed the ; sunset goldcuâ€" I The day‘s dark night built tomb: ' There, amid the roses, whom sweet peace alone i can enter, We roamed, my love and I; I We spoke not, for toe time thrilled into our hear :‘5 5 deep cantorâ€" Our hearts spoke silently. , The air was full of sweetness, like incense of the roses Burnt at the shrine of love; . But all was dark, as when o‘er mortal love death closes And love breathes faint above. But then the moon shone bright forth, the land : scape gleamcd all whitely, We sudden held our breath: Ahl love doth conquer all thing, and flames and mounts more brightly Beyond thy realms. 0 Death! --H. Sutton Frizelle in Detroit 1" rec Press. 1 TRAVELING ON A PASS. I It was one day last week and a group of ; men were attending to “business" in Deacon ‘. Evers’ office. J udge‘Gould had just. remarked I that. he was opposed to railroad passes on principle. “I haven’t got any scruplcs against travclâ€" ! ing on a pass,” said Mr. Blossom, “only if it's somebody clse‘s pass I’ve got scruples against 9 getting caught at it.” “I shouldn’t. like to get caught at it." as- l sean Mr. Hawkins cautiously. “I think such a thing might hurt; a body’s standing in l the church." “It; would be liable to hurt his standing with the conductor,” said Mr. Gilkey, face- ‘ tiously. “I had a. rather curious experience once riding on a page," begar Mr. Blossom, as if there were more to follow. Everybody looked interested and Mr. Bios. som saw that he land tho floor. tinned: It was in '81, when Hayward was president of the Lake Shore road. John Parks and I were going to take a. trip down South and Hayward said to us: “Now sec here, gentlemen, if you two are . thinking of going South this winter I‘ll tel: you what I’ll. do for you. Here‘s my valise just full of passes and papers showing that I’m president; of the Lake Shore, and they‘v. all got Wells’ name on as secretary of the road. Now you two gentlemen can take this valise right along with you, and by just showing these papers you can go all over the South and it. shan’t cost you a. cent for rail road fare. " Well, you can imagine that Parks and I clapped on to that valiso pretty lively. Hay- ward said of course he wouldn‘t; like to hart It get out that he was doing any such thing. but we could just hold our tongues and no body’d be the wiser. When we boarded the train hero whc should happen to be conductor but Hay nard’s sou-iuâ€"law, George Manville. Vic rs}. it. wasn’t going to do to let him into the any, i. so when he came along and said, “Good morning, Mr. Blossom; good morning, Mr Parks. I suppose you are bound for fix I l I So be con- South l" we said yes, we were headed that way. but we’d only take tickets to Chicago. We wern‘: quite sure what road we’d Lake when we got there. When we pulled out of Chicago them was ' a conductor we never had seen before, and when he asked for our ticket Parks handed ' out. 0. pass and said, as big as life: I “You’ll find my name on that pass as presi- l dent of a road up in Michigan, and my friend Mr. I‘Vells is secretary. We are taking a trip through your part of the country, and if you ever come out our way we‘d like to have you travel on our road." The conductor was too gracious and smil in; for anything. He said: “That‘s all right. ’ gentlemen," and, after passing the time o; i day with us went on. i We worked that racket or. some three or ' four conductors and it took like a charm. I You know Parks is a sort of an imposing look f ing man; you could easily take him for prcsi l dent of a road, and he wore his silk hat and . swelled around considerable. Well, we got down into Kentucky. The conductor said “Tickets, gentlemen," and Parks handed out the pass with the usual lingo. He looked at the pass pretty sharply, then he looked at Parks. “Your name’s Hayward, is it?” he said. “That’s what I’m called,” says Parks. “Well, by George! Hayward,” says he, “you’ve changed since I saw you last." “I don’t recall you,” says Parks, “but I suppose I’ve changed some. We all do as we grow older.” “You’ve changed more than most folks,” says the conductor, sarcastically. "Your hair and eyes ain‘t the same color that the} were when I was conductor on the Lulu Shore road ten years ago. You aren‘t Gilt»: Hayward any more than I am.” “I’m sorry to dispute you,” says Parks. politely, “but I have the means right here to prove it.” And be dragged out Hayward’s valise, with “Giles Hayward” stamped on it in big letters. My valise had my own name on it, so I gave 1'; a push with my foot and sent it under the g l next seat. “I don’t know how you may have got onto that. sachel,” says the conductor, kinder p112. zled, after he’d looked at the papers and things. “We may have stolen it,” says Parks, sar- oastically. “Stranger things have happened," says the conductor, coolly, “but as long as 1 can't l prove it I suppose you’ll ride for nothing fox all of me.” And he went on. When he was gone Parks said: “ We‘ll be wanting some more proofs of our identity, I’m m5 aid. Can’t we make some!" He hunted through his pockets and found a I letter from his wife, written with a. lead l pencil. She‘d signed her name at the end, i “Your aflectionatc wife, Lizzie Par " ” He i rubbed out the “Parks" and. wrote “Hay- I ward” instead. He hadn‘t more than go: it done when back came the-conductor. “Have you any other papers beside what ‘ are in that sachel that would, prove who you were?” “ “I may have,“ said Parks. . He fumbled in his pockets awhile and finally brought out his wife’s letter. The conductor took that letter and he read it through twice and he didn’t know what to . make of it. He saw we had him, and he just} dropped the letter and 111: out without an- « other word. But he was about the maddest l man. Of course he knew Parks wasn‘t Ha)'- I ward, however much he might prove that he ' was: After the conductor had gone and we‘d just begun to breathe fteely, a. man in front, who‘d beenllstenlng to what was going on, turns. around and guys to me: i “Excuse me, sir: but did I understand that ? your name was Wells, Hezekiah Wells, of E Brim. WW, web-r “fifties: that’s about what you understood,” “1 want to know,” says be. "Well, I’m l mightyglndtomeet you. I used to knowl the Wm in Syracuse, York statue. : youtolhaswellasldid myown. I don‘t! mppooeyonre‘call me. My name‘s Bangn,‘ WhoaoneoquuimBnngs’sons.” Z I Mean» mum, though of come I am;- hear‘d'ot the He . Bangsee. '- ow..tel1°'- 88.1%”?- 80.10114 1. was it mighty line looking girl in thuSu (1.4:; , inglxurd :L’. in“. , laugh out“ it. ' new mud )‘Lu 5; ’ paper. . and Sili'l: ' Sheri: l‘O-‘l lward, and the next was I COAL and WOOD. Fresh Mined Coal of all kinds Wholc:ale and Retail, and Dry Wood -ong and Short. Dell- to any part ofthetown, Cheap, and also Fresh Lime always kept in Stock. Telephone in both Offices. 13. BRYANS. m-mwmâ€"I $1 a Year in Advance. ‘ everyoocxy 111 the 081' DCQIQ 111111 and “:13 listening. “N0,I couldn‘t expect you to remember much about me." he went on. "You went; 5 outto Michigan about the time our folks , moved to l.’it'~iiigun. But I know 11;" rest bf your family like u book. I used to be mixer on your sister Maria. used to take her to sit: -. ing school. Lutiil! ll’IV.’ sll‘.‘ could sing'. She married. didn't ski “Y<f-<~,.":~:;1_\'-" l. "she‘s married and tint-'5 ‘v-‘cll . and happy 110w." “\Vcll and but 1:113!" oxeluimx 1:". man alive: ' ' . ”If. she ditdf I kuux‘r .. did, for they sent, me a paper containing uu account of the funeral." "Why. fit-x. 31:21?! dicd," says l';LZ‘i§:-. luv;- Ycu know 51;!) did, W. I. -." “Ob, ICU“. of ("-nursn she did," says I. “Yes, Maria's dead. She's gone. IDOUI‘ thing?" And I tried to 1001: sad over it. “I'i'ha‘. in thunder do you mar-.21 l-}‘ saying ; she “us wall and happy? demand-l Eun' ~, SllSplL‘lOlbi y. 1 “She‘s l-ciiz'r til than if hili.‘ “12> ln'z‘v.“ 53‘: I, solemnly. “\‘Ce'ii all be ll'x‘tltd‘ 017‘." i "I am no: so surc- of that,“ en ' " ing. at it." About that time Park»? seat on account of lizc ( go! away from that ft For dd: s would haw spells of tel-Lin: mu- '. ., '3 was. ll “We didn‘t 21:01 :ui‘.‘ more clvi IX‘LL'lidx \‘Co Went to 3" 0." and L.~ 1 around awhile. lllt‘ll u'tzi‘ , ‘ ' . " ?- Tiic Georg}: 3n: . 1 folks. ‘ The conductor locnzci gu' c ' "Li \x‘lys’; we let on who m: were 2-. 1' ;. “JI' Lo came buck and xxid: ifi'fiatriutruligu. \‘.'u'\ c- g road and u couple of r" . . 4 ' train going up IllC mui in I‘u- snub-1;: can I ii 11.x.“ - was a president and sun :2 »“:li 1'1: road in a car but. llt‘l'lf. cu ' LL". iitjc'd belughs glad In mi“ 1 you. come oul‘ 11ml .‘HliOlu- - mYell, I don‘t Huck . 1 :11‘3; '. Then; was a cigar st. gnu‘. of lii~pdckct at that very minute. But if ynn ,9 1 ahead of Parks you’ve got to get. up early in the morning. :éfl‘haps Mr. “'0‘” it. 3 " 1 du r. Now I 11'? " “But they‘d lik' ' any way. Our 3 _ Hayward (“ICU 11;) north. That settled I’L‘J'ii“. “I‘m mu” ,' .-; «l ‘ v to .:3\’L‘ you intrmlut-Crl mu;- lo I inlendczit ~. T2 Atlanta. ' p to mm: tilc l. L... l Ulllll . TILL-3' WC. ‘ and they about ‘tli I had to 12:11.‘ along: bu; I v.- . . 1.- the north um: running bc..;ud. ;u I LLJCTQLY put them high. The president cal-zed if we‘d built any new road this year. "Ah. yes " “How 1.: 1 Illkdif .t. “About 3.1.71.1) 1 “I “1.1;; to It! looked pretty well it: Alter a will "ISvatwwu Ivl t \.." “Element lino-aura ; SQ}'?3 I. I i‘ctizezttlirun-d. n: 50' :1 ~' L :in I ‘1. 1:: film" pluc- < \s‘crczi“. 1. apart. 131:: 11.5.4 I .> :1 the first :19 ' 'W‘t v". They were 3' ' up the l‘Cu‘tc. When L11 come.) 1.9: poems. and .35; (-1»: ,. k :: 1‘. ‘l'i'clls in lir-ro' 'C;~.':~‘~.'- :L' I.'..‘ is tlicrc'sn man ill Ill" other C'tl‘ 2 Luis ;. him right away." Iwcut buck and 14:11:1' " Le shoved 13.2 1111:".1‘ i:.: . 11:3: “llnad that." I TC‘IlflI SPECIAL Dunm-uâ€"A wart-"rt '» ' arrest of ' ' ’ ' yw'tv-‘v i. 532210. the mum of mu . . , . ward of 5.1-: :~ (2...: 2'. ..r ,, i: ink" wherealmu! '. I looked at Park nud Burks IGHEde a: me. "What does it RICLJZI" g1. 3w: .‘ “It means that we‘ve gm. 1 n;jv~t . 'L‘. 0; ins mighty quick," >133 ll". “'0 got out of that. “’0 shot off the train :1. 1:) v ""‘Ivgl' just us llll' rm! 1 l'l' 1'11: I y ‘ (.‘J coming tlu'uuzl. 1:; i-ur (1. . >- "Iwus :1 ”.11: {"414 z; _. y‘. 3-... Corneh. “3 In t” " 1F 2 , - hf hours Illl Ill" I ‘ n v {'3 for suspicium s . .. 33 that ‘h‘i'tf “$01 I "" :1 .16 boom. and 13; l. Kohl; as it: c 1') and drove 11:. all on: 1;,,. . ‘\. .3 well as bar-gained for half 12.“.- cuz‘: 1“. ' 31 the place. At last a fro lit train ('illllC‘ film“; :1: 1 v.1 go: on and v luv}; 1:: “'0 were (1.. .ounilcii M, Wells should (1.1; such a CLj- .. L they might at linst have “um-[l :i.; ~. back. But 11:: said: “It shows that you can't nu»: anybody nowadays." Vie struck out for home nth 2- tlx.‘ .. " v can bet We paid our f:.l’c 1“ . I We bought. a couple of ru. w so that we should not be Z'\_‘(‘(!‘ ,. body that me: us guing (1' packed Ildywnt‘d’s \‘(Lle in a. igox :2; . it home by express. fer fwd: it .;; found in our ])0S>.c:.‘:<i');l. But, would you behave it. the we met “but we gut 2:0:an turned out that that whole stat: . skipping the tovn was u put up j i body‘d done it to funk-3 11:3 trouble. ‘twas that Kentucky conductcr 1; Hayward, but never found out {'2‘ m; . . “Did Hayward ever hear nbnut 12 .Lse in the paper!“ asked some 0211: \‘(ilt‘ll Sir. Blossom had finished. “No," said Mr. Blossom, “we never told him. “'0 were afraid he might no; 9th the joke. Of coutse, as it turned out. nag-u: y was hurt, but afterthis when I tztivtl (,2: a pass it. has my own name on it.”â€"21«r::ii;.iun Cobb in New York Mummy. An English traveler told a Bally: illnno auras) newspaper man that he had eaten “scorpion pie" while in Mexico, and that he liked it. The natives told him 1.11:1 young scorpions were frequently utilized is: loud for the lower Classes, who dig them up from their nests in liuududs, mum-collie sling and make omelet: of them. - , - A Steamer Blown lp. SOUTH Vanna. 011.. Feb. 27.4mm ferry steamer Julia was blown up this morning and burned. Over IlfLy persons were on board. and. It is known that seven were killed and many wounded. It is believed that between thirty and forty lives were lost. Up to n lute hour this after- noon twelve bodies bud been recovered. two of which wot-c burned beyond recognition. 1 Burke-tune. Sunk. RALEIGH. N.C., F ch. 272â€"1110 barkcntino Samuel \Vclsh. from Philadelphia for Bruns~ wick, G.A.. With mllroud iron. sun‘lnst. night twenty miles scuthennt of Cnrrimck 11;th- house. rhocrowwero saved. normalise ww¢*.=.,-.-~ «‘W “111-15