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\ * I JOB PRINTING THEY COME NO MORE. r They come no morti . The little vole© that lisped Its niorning sonii The'little feet Uiat pattered all day long, The little hands that mine to loved to preee[ The little lips whose touch was a caress, They come nor more, alas! thoy/come s^o morel • . '', • t They come no more! . The laughing eyes taat fondly looked inmiij 9, Thehaby ways that 'round the heart-stria ;* , twine, ^ T The'curly head that nestled on (ny breast; All, all havo loft me for a sweater rest, T|ey come no more, alas I they come no mofo! | They como no more! | ^ And yet, to soothe my sorrow and regret, The feeling comes my boy is with me yet, I know that some slay, whon this life is pas Lovlhg me still thd same, with joy at last Hell como onco more, ah!, yes, he'll con}e once morel 1 —Qsorgs Birdseye, in Dttroit Free Press. BEYOND THE BAR. Two American, boys stood in the door Of a hotel in Brittany, watching with dis- contented faces the low-hanging clouds, and the- trees on the opposite hills bowiqg before a still northwest wiud—the stornV wind of Brittany. I \Tho sea is too rough,\ said Bob, dk- consolatelv. j I \Not at all,\ replied Frank. \I thiijk we can go.\ ^ ! 4 'Surely, Frank, you will not attempV&. You mustHco that wo are in for a north- western storm. It will bo blowing greAt guns out at sea.\ Robert and Prank Ilowlin were meni- bcrs of an American family who had bedn spending a year in rapid travel over the face of Luroj>e. ' Having been in all tho celebrated ttties, they were now settled for tne summer in this quietest add tiniest of 13 cton villages, Bont Arot. , To the Toys, the change from sight- seeing and life on trains was delightful. Once more they could be boys, and, as Rob said, thero were a few things, such as trees and trout, which were not of the \thirteenth century.\ But of all the pleasures of lhc change, none equaled that afforded by boating. * They had not handled a sail or a row- boat since they left their New Bedford home, land therefore the Arot, filled with craft of all sizes aud varieties, was to them an irresistible attraotion. Their father \had given them a boat,* a little beauty^Tfcsh from the docks of St. Malo; but in giving it, ho had made it a condi- tion' of his gift that they should never cross the bar at the mouth of the river, unless ''Joseph,\ an experienced sailor, was With thciu. \'\*•' The\ boys had been especially anxious to tty their boat, the Star, on the open tea, but Joseph had been busy with a \land job,\ which seemed cndlcsa to tho boys. They had grown tired of waiting for him, and so wearied Mr. Hcwlin with their entreaties to bo allowed to go out alone, that finally ho yielded a reluctant consent, with thd provision that if, on reaching tho harbor, they found tho surf high, they would not attempt to cross the bar. 4 As they sailed, the grassy hills grow more and more bare, and gradually there was a chango to rugged masses of g rani to, which at Uie river s mouth towered cliff on cliff higtpabOvb the bluo beauty of tho Bay of Biscay. Drawing near tho mouth, they c<ould tee tho open waters, and right before thorn tho bar, marked by a doublo Hue of wluto breakers. A glanco sufficed < to show them that the passago was im- possible. \Let's land on that little beach to the right,\ said Rob. Thoy wdre obliged to take Jo their oars In order to land, and this was effected with much difficulty. Cold, • wet and hungry, they rowed against wind and tide, until at last, when their arms seemed read to drop out, they camo to tho sandy beach. Abovo the beach wore cliffs. Their first care was to make a fire of the driftwood which they hastily collected, but their second thought was for the lunch-basket. They had eggs to boil, and they went vigorously to work, first haying ? >read their wot .jackets before the blaze, he edgo of their appetites was keen. Seldom had a lunch tasted so good. Rob was just beginning on his fifth doughnut—think of doughnuts in Franco —when they were startled by a shrill call from above them. Turning, they saw a wontan standing at tho top of tho ueurpet cliff, screaming to them with all her strength, waving her arms wildly, and pointing out tq sea with gestures of despair. Thcv followed the direction o hand, \>ut saw only tho waves risin jfalliugj only the surf beating on th Again and aguiu the woman callc beckoned to tjiem; again and again) they looked blankly towards the horizon; :hcn, seeing that she was not understooc, she. begun to climb down tho side of the cliff. 'Che* boys watched her in brcahlcss fear. Neither of them would have lared to make the perilous descent; yet on she came, sometimes ou her hands and knees, sometimes swinging iierself over a boulder till her feet found a resting place beneath, then on again, in what seemed reckless ! leaps, from rock to rock! T They ran to meet liter, and reached tho Cliff iust as tho woman, torn, breathless > bleeding, staggered to its foot. [ Before she couid speak, they naa time to see that she was a peasant womdn. her dress and cap denoting her to be of the class which lives far from, tawns and cit iesi She bid lost both her sabots in her journey down the cliff, but \t her back still hung the codrso wicker [basket used by tho fish wives ou that coast. She was young and strong, and on hjir face was a look of terror and despair duch as the boys had never seen before. 1 In a moment she began to speak rapidly in a language which neither of the boys understood, but which they knew to be Breton, tho ancient language of thoae curious peasant folks. * f Rob shook hit head,and said In French: \ Wo da aot Uuderstand Breton, but wd both speak French.\ The woman's face' grew pale as. she beard; she began oven moraah iirriediy and excitedly to pour out somjti loin the unknown tongue, asking nuesUoiis,paus- ing for the repljgwliieh tiicy could not make; pointing with vehemence out-to ica ami the storm-swept horizon.] Some times she seemed almost fren her voice roso to a positivo sh thin sunk again to a low wail. - Thoy conld not understand 0 •ho said, attd her wild gestares without -meaning for them, however, 'docs not need an ID tad young as the boys wore, plainly sea that soma great, u sorrow was driving this woman 6bs covered htr fact with h moaning piteouilv, or throw high in tha air; then, seeing ;j led, and' tck, and le word rore all distress, jrpreter. jy couid icommon IQd. hands, tor arms igiiui tnaair; men, seeing ina fright and pity on thai* boyish face*, the seised 7rtut'i hand, aiid holding It tightly, be- gan to pour out a long story. |The utter blankness of his. face made her dash him aside, and thus, catching sight of their boat drawn up pn tho beach, she ran Swiftly to it, followed' moro slowly by tho boys. 9 She tried with all her| might to drjg or push the boat down to, the water, but, strong as sho was, sho I could move the Star only a few inches, nnd after several moments of greatest cifort, sho turned once moro to the boys, :o go throiu. ;h a pautomine which clcuily said that sho DOgged them to help he • get tho boa; off ana out to sea. \Well said Frank,a»,the idcadavned upon him, k \did you ercr hear of luch a thing f^ Sho actually wants us to go outside in weather hko this, and (very mjntkto growing wors< ? No, I thank \Why does she Want us to go, I von- d#rt»» • \That we shall uevfcr know; and it dOes not make much lpattcr, sincn wo wlould not go on any ncpount.\ \Ibojievo I have it. . Sho has lout her boat! 1 ' . \How could that Itroublo her so much?\ A boat's a boat, but she go is on 1 as if her boat were a >nntter of life and death?\ . \It often is to theso Jlsherfolk. They can't fisrTwithout a boat, and thoy can't livo without fishing. I'll try tc ask her.\ Ho laid his hand on tho woman shoulder, and pointing to the boa:, h saic\,—with some idea that she could un- derstand Frcncli better than Englinh,— \Bateau?\ v And then < ut to tho horizon, gateau?\ I Tho woman 1 noddei ; Ahe understood him, and her hopo rovi ecs in a frcr zy of orcitemont. Sho.puled away a< tliO 8 ar, laughing and not ding, and taring, \iateaul bateau*\ vith every >thor breath. t j ' Rob was keenly sorrjr for her, an I hi$ fii st impulse wAs to go with her, bi t yc j, ho was not ready tO ryn such a trcrpen* d [us risk; and then, t )o, his prom so to has father came to nU mind with such farce as to be almost a warning. At the same time, pe wondered Miat his f nther wt/uld say I were ho the|re? Would he not wish hbn to help d Woman in such deep distress, even at serious risk; to him- **fl [ , > ,, As ho stood reflect in ?upon this, ho was gazing out over the wutcr. Suddonly he made a discovery. , ^ \I sco it, FrankI , I see'it! Thcrol there!\ and ho too pointed eagerly' o the spot whero tho woman had so often pointed. • Frank looked, and\jist then a wavo in the fur (listanco rose higher than i|s fel- lows, und ho plainly saw a tiny shock, in| shape like a boaUrise on its crest, And sink into the trouglibehind it. Iluving once found it, the two boys, nq\v much excited, saw it rise anc i fall, while thq woman laughed and cried with delight, tugged at their boat, ran to them with imploring gesturos, trying by jvery means in her power to express her w jsh to go after her owa boat. \No no,\ said Itob, \it's too dnngcr- ous.\ She turned to Frank; he, too, shook his head. \Wo coul^ ncVcr get over tho bar.\ • ' • 1. j The woman understood their fuccs if 'not their words, and, all unconscious of thf struggle going on in Hob's heart once morojabanioned herself to despair. < jloing some littler distanco from them, sho Hung herself fape-down upon the sand, fairly writhing in her sorrow. It was too much for Itob, for hi 1 was tender-hearted. \Come Frank, let's go for that lwat^' ^rank turned pale. \Itob yon uro crqzy! Why should WC? Do you wtfht us to drown?\ \I don't want to di own, aud I thi wo stand a gvod chan< 0 of gettiug ovdr tho bar, and this poor soul\— \Yes I see her. but wo can't hel * he Besklcs, what diu yoi promise fa;herl\ \I know J I know. But father ilways wants us to]use our judgment. Ho would not want us to refuse 1 ,ny ono a gocd ser- vice, even if thero is d ingcr in doing it. There is something niystoiious in .this woman's distress. I canno; rcfuso her.*\ *M) Hob, don't be foDlish I 1 Won't go one; rtcp with you, tint's flat! You ncvir can tct over tho bar and I hopo you wonjt bo fOol enough to try.' \I am going. Qivc us a hand with the boat.\ , Housing the womai, he showed her thatihty wanted her help, too. Sho'went eagerly to work. Frmk could rot re- fuse his unwilling aiq, and so wih the efforts of all three tho boat moved over the sands, touched the water, loated free. I * Tho woman jumped in immediately, took her scat 111 tho stern, and sit im- movable, regardless of Hob's efftrta to dissuade hcrj Seeing that it was of no use, ho finally yielded, and palo but de- tqrmincd, he, too, stepped in, after a last, good-by to Frank, and shoved off. Ho had always llatftercd himself that he knew how to row, but in two minutes this Breton woman showed htm that there were secrets 0^ th* art of which ho knew' nothing. ; J, Her quick,! VigOroi s strokes sent the Star spinning on Tier (oursc. She 1 lecmed to know, by isome inst net, just how much force to spenfl on ever j stroke, so as never to pull Hob around, 1 ind thus she never lost any way. Fast aud evenly j ell her oars, until right aheat of them thu adered tho breakers. ' , The woman rose to her feet, and. with a gesture that bade H >b draw in h s oars, began to scull. Hob CDUUI never t< 11 how it nappencH; in a m jment they \ r cre in the first line of breakers* and before he could collect his senses, they were past it, sweeping on'to tho next. 1 Another breathless moment, in which the world seethed to rcer^and dan :©, the air to be filled with the noiso of nisH'mg waters, and tho Star, had passed tri- umphantly over tho bar and floatdd free in Ciirep watcrk! j Pausing anflnstam to strain hur eyes after her own boat he womun 1 cized a halyard and with ) cb's quick asiistance hoisted a sail and i ung out the sheet. Away thoy flew—tie woman, with the tiller in one hand, ho sheet in tin other, and Hob sat in sil< n ; admiration of the skill which kept tie boat so wel before tho wind, yet always avoiding the break -of any wave. Frank had seen al this from tin shore, and now ho climbed in the cliff tho better to watch the Star us sue rose and fell on • the waves.'throwing off the watdr from, *bcr bows in columns! of foam. . js'Slie is an out-and-out rocer Ism glAd I am not in het,\ was what lie said; But deep in his hear • Wero feelings which no ono would have envied; ho wcjuld, in- decdjhavo been a m sorablo boy tithe sat watcliing the lone ilng sail, hart *lt not been that in admirailou for Hob's pluck all thought of himiolf wus drowned. \Who would have thought it of Robf Why, tho fellowi always treat lim as if he wart part girl! I don't understand it —to go willingly over that frigi tful bar £ —when only this morning ho was so afraid of it 1 Hob is really timid, and yel he will do a very dangerous thing if any good can como out of it; but I do risky things iust for fun and becauso I get go- ing and don't know they arc riskv till they are doue, and half thd timo harm comes of them to some one, if not to my- self.\ . Puzaling over these differences in poo- )le, he tired his eyes in tho strain of atching tho swift littlo Star, and the dancing speck toward which she was be- ing steered. Timo went on nnd on, still the distance between them hardly seemed to lessen; it was not till the hull of tho Star was lost to his sight that Frank realized how far out tho woman Vboat had gone. He could dis- tinctly seo when they reached it, and then he remembered, witli a sudden pang, that they must cross the bar once more to get in. \It won't bo for some timo yet, how- ever. They must tack so much with this Wind, I thjnk it will 'bo near high tido boforo they reach tho bar.\ Another hour—endless it seemed to Frank—passed before ho could intelli- gently follow their movements,and when he could,4ho Star was coming shoreward with tho other boat in tow. Alone though he was, frank sprang to his feet, and gavo cheer tuter cliccr for Hob, for tho Sta^, for tho woman even, and, tired of inactivity, busied himself in collecting driftwood to make a fire, in order to welcome *tho travelers with proper warmth, * \I may a*vWoll make coffee and cook. Yes, they will bo hungry as well as cold,\ thought Frank..' Ho leaving tho shore ho went some distance inland to get water from a spring, .nnd when he returned with n pot fulL what was fiis poy to see the Star very npar at hand.^ His prepar- ations wero barely ended, whcrMio saw Hob riso to lower the sail,and the woman make readyto scull. Frank saw tho boat rise I oldly on the top of a breaking wavo; her bow disap- peared under a cataract ef foam, ^then rOsc again. It was evidently easier to como in than po out; but it was danger- ous enough stiU, all tho metre as behind them was tho'clumsy hulk for which they seemed to. havo ventured so much. The Star shook and trcmblod under the woman's powerful strokes, but she passed in safety tlirough the second line of breakers,' and once more rode in-pcacq. Slowly now and quietly tho rowers camo toward tho shore, when the Star, was near enough, ifyvrnk rushed into the water, and, with,. Hob's nid, soon had bcachpd her abovd the flow of the waves. Hob leaned out, and tho woman, who had been for. a moment or so. stooping over tho bottom of tho boat, roso to her feet with a largo bundle in tier arms. As sho stopped ashore Frank's aston- ished eyes beheld th^ bimcBlo—what? a sleeping baby! .» I ] Hob screamed with laughter at tho sijght of Frank's bewildered faco. \That is what sho was so crazy about —not her boat!\ \Yes said Rob,' \tho child was in it. Sho must havo left it loosely fas- tened while sho went shrimping, hnd child and boat wero carriec out by this wiud and I couldn't make 1 cr out at all, for I did not dream of thi', you know, and when wo got quite up to it, there in the,-bottom was, the baby, broad awake, and it looked u^Unci)laugln id when it saw its mother.\ ^r^ \0 HoU-Hpb, ktfw glad. : am that you went! You ntoro saved its[lifo, I know you have rS-~^ Impetuous Frank gavo his brother a hearty hug, while the smiling mother looked as if she would like tq give him another. -r-Youth'$ Companion. WAR WIRIS. THE TELEGRAPH DUlftXG \THE LATE UNPLEASANlfcESS.\ ' tho which Incident* of tho Usee to Telegraph watt Pur. on Bbth Sides —Inventus Makeshit js and Contrivances? A wriior in the Ban Francis jo, Call says: It was reserved for tho Amc leans in tho course of their tremendous conflict, to evolve tho iron-clad and tin signal ser- vice, to'revolutionize the sugical treat- ment of gunshot wountls, nn jTto elabor- ate and bring to perfection a system of military telegraphs. During pe advance of McClellan into West Vir jinia, in the spring au£ early summer of pfil, the tel- egraph wire kept pace wit I the troops. In this way he learned fi om (jSonerjal Scott of tho rout of the Fed< ful troop* ut Bull Run, and received ordc is to report, at Washington at 'once. Ah ut that time an engineer named Rogers < une to the front with a portable inst pled cable wound on reels. The met IK 1 of laying it was borrowed from the fin mum's hosx;- cart. Professor I/nve, the tho fall of 18(11 appeared a with his captive military ba eronatit, $11 the capital 0011. A tel- How long Starvation Can Bo Resisted. 1 In an articljo on \Fasters and Fasting\ in tho Cosmopolitan, Honry Howard says: As to animals, Chossnt reckons from fif- teen to eighteen days]as the averago period during which they aro ablo to re- sist inanition. The extreme limits of endurance, however, aro very varatylo, fat animals and cold-blooded animals resist- ing a much longer time than the Others. Tintc as examples of tl\o former, creatures that hibernate, such as the bear, marmot, etc., and of the latter, tortoises and frogs. As every body knows, a bear or a jfrainc- dog will remain sovcral months without food; a tortoise encased in plaster of \Pfats will retire from its enforced domicile* after thrco months in fairly good con- dition, v Thus the hibernating animal, the re- flex sense of hunger being latent/ feeds Upon itself; and, as it has sufficient fat stowed up to nourish it until tlw conclusion of its winter's! sleep, it docs not succumb. Man, in cer- tain diseased 'Conditions of tho ner- vous system,: is enabled to suppress the sensation of hunger, and to live by auto- nutrition, or (ceding on one's self, and also by a sort >of hibernation with or without tho element of dormancy. All specialists on diseases of the nervous sys- tem have under observation hysterical or insajie patients that remain weeks and months without food, and yet maintain' a tolerably, good physical conditiou. > , Again, influences purely physical, such as powerful moral emotions, without any diseased condition existing in tho indi- vidual subjected to them, maiy also lei- sen the denutntion that results from de- privntion of food. In this condition, Henri do Parville cites the experiment of an alchemist named Duchanteau, who im- agined that by depriving himself of nour- ishment for fortyHhiys, and drinkjng his own urine, he could produce the philoso- pher's stone. Duchanteau supported this regimen during twenty-six days, and didn't die! A Revolutionary Relic. . \Rev. J. t?. Fcrlandt, of Kaskaskia, 111., has in his pos<«j<<sion ono of the quaintest relics of revolutionary times that has been brought to light for a long time. Only a few days ago a resident of old Kaskasiu, while engaged in some pursuit near the caving banks of the rivor, dis- covered an old, black looking strip of metal which, upon being cleaned and polished, proved to bo a picco of pure silver about thrco and throe-fourths wide and ten or eleven inches At each corner arc holes one- ;ig.ii,.. of an inch in diameter, accom- uiiiied by small buttons, and the metal Is curved like a cult. Upon the other side, running along tho edge, is somo light ornamental wo k done by tho carver in serpentlno lino 1. In tho center of tho \cufl\ is engraved tho British crown, at one end tho initials \R. C,\ and at the other the word \Montreal\ (s stamped. There is no date. Rev. Fcrlandt thlnki it Is part of the drri* of somo Dritlih oftVcr who proudly trod the streets ii Kaskaskia in 1770.' inches long. eighth GUfcltlllLLAS! A CLOSl '. CALli. egraph instrument wns to b s placed in it and tho wires paid out durii fc the ascent. Tho experiment was not c itirely a suc- cess, but tho operator was jblo to send the following message to P pident Lin- coln: \Seen from an clcva Jon of 1,000 feet, the city, with its gird j; of encarnp- racn :s, presents a superb set i»e.\ At tne batt e of tair Oaks, somo iionths later, observations were made in lis way, and the irogress of the figliFTty rtei by wire to h ;adquarters every few ir I nntos. T IC Confederates didn't kc tho looks of Irofessor Low's balloon, 1 villi its long, tell-tale tail of telegraph w re, aud sent a Whitworth shell in that d *cction every now aud then. At last the f resolved to havo a balloon of their; own , but silk in tho Confederacy was se&rcc u nd»dcar. The entr usiastic ladies of Hie unond (there- upon contributed all their e {-party dress- es; lie balloon was made ai id inflated— a sort of cra/.y-quilf affair. Just as tho aeronaut and telegrapli < perator wero about to fr,ct aboard lor a rial trip, tho swa dug monster broke it j fastenings, and to the consternation <i the ladies, tho winds of heaven wafted |t toward tho Federal lines, whero it was japturcd. Recurring to tho telcgri i)h, the War Dor nrtment, perceiving t to important par it was to pl|iy. in the Jrcat Conflict, cast about for the man to >ut in charge of this department.' Anson Stager, super*- int< udentof the Western Uanon Company, was selected. The choice \\\\* a most for- tun ito one. Stager abl) steam engine. exo ;utivo ability was largely duo the fact tha; Grant could sit in ids ' fooden hut at Cit jr Point and talk with S icrman at At- lan a, with Thomas at Nasi ville, with tho Wu t Office at Washington, pith Sheridan in hjB Shenandoah Valley, ind with Can- by ut New Orleans. As tl q armies ad : var ccd southward, tho line 1 of communi- cat on became moro aud ir pre extended. To supply the troops hundi eds of miles of captured railroads had t > be put in op- eration. The trains were t jspntched and halted by wire. This fact, of course, de- voved-upon'tho military t ;legruph serv- ice great labor and respons bility. '. ^or was this all. The I pion armies in th( West, in advancing, left behind them a \ast stratch of country ov eirun by guer- ril as and exposed to formi |}»ble raids by th( cavalry of Wheeler.am. Forrest. The operators in Tennessee and Kentucky we re always in danger of ' surprise and ca >turo. Although they > tae non-com- baants, the Confederates would not con- sent to treat them as civill uis. Hence it ha >pcned that over seven 1 er cent, of the operators in the service w< re carried ou\ at one time or another to I jbby Prison or Andcrsonvillo. Sometin es, however, th.! warning would come rom the next st lion just in the nick of ;imc.. \Guer- rillas are coining.\ Home imes the cut- ting of the wires would alvise the man at the key that somethin ' was, wrong, sucli cases the only filling, for the operator to do was to smas i the battery, sciigage the instrument, take it under s arm, jump out the Win low and start t v at all, but for Murlroeabord, Tenn. up the operator at once.\ ! 4 'Click 1 Click I\ No antwer. \Those fellows must have cut the line on the other side of Wint urs' Gap. Try the Louisville circuit.\ 'I hb proved to be all right, and Wheeler found General Kousseau waiting anxioui ny tor mm on his arrival, and his forces- -thanks to tho ibov8 at Jacksboro—were dispersed and driven into Alabama. 1 There was an instance 011 the other side of the same kind. About one hundred miles above Yichsburg 1 ved a planter who was a noted poker player. He had tor bis convenience a privt tc telegraphic line running down the bai k of the river to the city below. One ni*ght while he was having a little quioi game with a friend he thought he hearc a steamboat. Hushing to the door he wafs astounded to seo the river for miles imd miles alive with gunboats and transDoirts. He rushed to the instrument at once: \Vicksburgt Vick8burg! for God's srke get ready l Millions of 'Yanks' aro i oating by my plantation.\ This was Sh jrmatrs expe- dition from Memphis on t le wa* to th^ fruitless assault upon the Chickasaw Bluffs, near the Yazoo Rivir. The Union forces had hoped to surprike the garrison ljR.it the planter's private wjire haa let the ciit out of the bag. Whop the news ar- rived at Vicksburg most of the officers were at a party. In the mjidst of a quad- rille came the growling undertone of the, long roll from tho batteries on the heights. j ' The tapping of the wires was resorted to by both sides during the war. This was an extremely hazardous proceeding* Any ono caught -in tho act would, of course, be executed ut fence as a spy. Kllsworth, Q. noted operator attached tc the command of John Mprgan, was very expert at this business. He always carried a pocket instrument whidh he could at* tach to the main line. BV the aid of this he could be put in circuit without openina or breaking the current. During one 01 Morgan's raids the operator at Gallatin, Tenn., \vas captured before he could give a danger signal by wire. Ellsworth took his place, ami for several hours deceived the other officer*. He reported tho track clear from guerillas,.in order that trains might bo --sent along, wiich would, of oourstOinve been capture 1. An old ope- rator, who knew Ellsworth's touch well, happened to take his seat at the keyboard und instantly recognized him. Ellsworth provcdljto boa verit- To tyij tmergy and ^'\%f&^. f A MULE BATTERT. 6> was so accoplished (*n operator that he was able to cut a wire ends against his tongue,] brations read all niessajj es coining over the lines. General Gilmorc oncjj- learned of a threatened attack on hi* works at Folly^ Island', near Charleston, by tapping the\ wires between that city and Savannah. After Bhiioh, Beauregard's dispatches to Jefferson Davis were regularly taken from the wires and translated. It is said that when Hooker was preparing to cross the Happahannock on the eve of Chan- cellorsville, there was reason to subpect that General Lee w&s gettiug too much nows. Investigation discovered a :ablo resting upon the bed of the rivet, cross- ing it, and connected with an under- ground insulated wire on shore* This was traced to a small house opposite Freder- icksburg. The operator, at the Federal end of the line was discovered and ar- rested, and has not been seen since. Tho makeshifts and contrivances of the piilitary operators wero ingenious. After the battle of Bhiioh it was thought best to lay a cable across the Tennessee River. One was at hand, but, the water beifig high, it was not long enough by several feet to stretch from shore to shore. At ono point on the bank a tree had fallen, and the trunk projected over the water. To tho extreme, entt of this the cable was attached, and there the opperator took up his station, astride the log, with his feet dipped iuto the waters of the Tennessee. With one hand on the key-board and holding a fish pole in .the other he man- aged to combine business with pleasure. He certainly could not complain of a scarcity of bites, for the gnats were thicker than the locusts of Egypt. The telegraph stations, too, were often primi- tive enough. An operator who evident- ly \longed for the flesh pots of Egypt\ thus describes his office: \I am located in an old shed that th© rain just pours through, drenching m^ bed - ana my clothes.\ . .*. In repairing the wires they were often short a link or »two. For example, after Gettysburg it was important to connect with the North at once. ( After using all _the wire at hand, and stretching it to the utmost, an interval o£ twenty feet re- mained. An iron rail with soda bottles at each end for insulators was employed, and worked quite well. ' -When Stone- man, Sheridan, Wilson, ttousseau and other cavalry leaders were raiding in the 1 The avsrage age of those who enter 001 logo in this country is seventeen. Aoen tury ago t was fourteen. BUSINESS AND I'l. ; XKl'RK. for thenvoods. However, they managed to kccri even with tho 'aiders, for en hundreds of occasions thejr wired threat- ened points before escaping, and thus in* surcd a lively reception fo • thq guerrillas at some point up or down the road. « In 1804, just about the time of the fall of Atlanta, General Hoc i sent Whcelet with a large -body ol • cavalry into Tennessee to destroy the depots of sup- plies along the railroad fn m Louisville to Nashville and Chattanoofj \. To mislead the Union forces it was gi rcn out that tho expedition was bound 1 for Eastern Kentucky. This was, Jn facs^ 4ho course for a time; but Jiico across tho border of Tennessee, \ t iec!er turned sharply to the left and 1 fcidod for.Mur- freesboro, whero there was 0 Uuion garrison. Two telegra ih Operators— James Jones and James Pn mer—stationed at Jacksboro, took turns al the instrument, and in the interval scoutc I tho oountry in, search of Wheeler. Pair icr fell in with him, and, being in civilla Ts dress, passed himself off foi a farmer. IIo was com- J ielled to ride with the < nvulry for soma^ lours, Und then allowed to go. Canter- ing slowly trntil out of si rht of the mov- ing column, Palmer head id for the ofllco at a breakneck uocf. ''* |in,\ toid he, asi toon as he could dlsmoun , \I fell in witld Wheeler's cavalry and on inuged to get a] elew. They are not bout d for Kcntuokyj L ' A NOVEL TKLEORAOl! OFFICE. em my'e country It was the custom to cut down telegraph poles, chop them into stove lengths, and twiat the wires into (ionium v knots. An ! Operator named O'Reilly, attached to General Grierson's command during the Mississipi raid, hit upon a very simple plan' which rendered the telegraph lines useless, and at the same time left them standing. Thii puz- zled the Confederate* for a lonff time. O'Reilly noWand then cut the wires, in- serted 1>otwccn the ends a non-conduct- ing Kiibstnnc/, and then welded the ends together. Apparently the wires wore as good as new, but thegs* couldn't bo mado to work. ' • • As the *ar progressed improvements In tho military telegraphic icrvlce were instituted! I After a time every brlgado had its \construction corps\ and \opera- tors' wagori.\ In following tho urrav, wire couhl be plaoed In position at tne. rate of ten uiles a da?, mf erring to thi* .•*. department, General Grant in his memoirs says: \No hing could be more com- plete than the dbcipline and organiza- tion of this x>dy of brave and intelligent men.\ Wh;n the brigades nid divisions halted for t le night, each command at once started a mule along the length of the rear lint. A wire trailed the whole distance from a revolving reel placed upon a pack saddlo on the back of the animal.» Tl te ends of the sections were connected at all points, and thus \pafqw minutes tel 'graphic communication was established throughout the army, with the,focus, of course, at headquarters. A tfroin The New and sketch Wilcox, th< Connecticut E ffusions ewsjiftper nook and nent American Poetess. York World prints a portrait of the life ©f Ella Wheeler Wisconsin poetess, now of . whose numerous poeticnl made her name familiar to irid magazine readers in, every corner of the country. * Mts. have TEMPERANCE. Wilcox resides with her husband in Mcriden, Conn.' - Speaking of her early poetical efforts Mrs. Wilcox said to tho World- iutervicwer, in response to his question when she first began to write: u Oh, when a child; look at this,\An4 I beheld a tiny book made* of piece* of wall paper, while one side of each leaf was covered with childish printed letters. \I printed that before I was old enough to learn to write. I was a very small child. loused to sit on my mother's lar/ while she read to. me the poems and stories that gave mo my first love of writing.\ .How Mrs. Wilcox sent her poems both East and West, anywhere, to nave the n published, without remunera- tion; bow sho gradually heard them *ookcn |of, quoted, and felt they had made for her a reputation; how she finally received a check for her work; how her income began to increase from these writings, are now well known by sfll tho lovers of her poems. Tho Teachings of Buffalo Bill. / ~Lif± Enforcing th? Canadian Fishery Laws. /*^\N • CANADIAN OFFICER—\Back back, 1 say, in the Queen's name I You aro not allowed to cross into the American waters.\— Judge, Is Holland an unmarried lady al- ways takes tho right arm of her escort, while the married one selects the left •ide of her husband. So deeply haa; the custom entered into the life ol Hollanders that, at a ohurch wedding the brido enters the edifice on the right •ide of the groom, tho wife returning on* the left aide of her husband when the ceremony haa been performed. No unmarried lady in that oonntry can dream of going to church, concert, or any other place of publio assemblage without the esoort of her parent* or male members of the family, fcihe can* not take % walk, pay % vUii^ or go •hopping unaccompanied by bos mother it tome married lady friend. , Wine's Work. Lonce was so happy, light-hsartBd and free, No sorrow encompassed^ 10 clouds could I sec; But ah, yo deceiver, the row 1 tinted wine, * Ye cruel heart breaker, why did you break nunc SLcn AS Card*, Letter-Heads, Vote-Heads, Bill-Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Handbills^ rosters, «*«., KKATLY AND PROMFTLY EXECUTED AT T«E LOWEST LIVING PRICES FOU CASH. We solicit the patronage of the public and strive to mora ihc tame. 1 onte bad a mother, so gentle and true, With love never failing, and meek eye* of f blue; But*ah, since the wine cup 1 lath made me its slave, In sorrow and weeping, ahe>|hath gone to her grave. I once bad & dear wife's cartftses and love, But she, too, hath gone to tboi fair world above; Deep sorrow was stamped brow: Too late, I'm repenting, she'll never come now. I once had a daughter, the I thought there was nothing apart; But ah, 'tis the ruddy, the That robs men ol pleasure; mine. ifride of my heart, could tearfus sweetnowing wine. it robbed me or I once had a sister, with bfc mty and grace, The roses have laded, and p ale is her lace; But an, ye deceiver, the som tinted wine, Have taken my darlings, ar d now I repine. » — AUc* B. Butltr. Fromja BtroLn^is View* + While principles of total abstinence readily recommend themselves to that portion of the rising majnhood and wo- manhood whose consciences arc the trained regulators of their habitaj and acts, there remains an all too numerous class whose moral perceptions are (not su^cicn^tiy acute to warn them of thp dangers of^he alcohol habit, simply bedausc it' is a sin against God and hunWiity. Even the considerations of personal health, backed up by the laws of physiology and en- dorsed by the honest scientists of every age, -are forgotten or ignored in the fate- ful rush for a draught of the Lethean waters that deaden soul and sense, and obliterate every vestige of the God-like physical image. \ As a last plain, practical argument, there onn be advanced tho inducenient, that entire freedom from the use of stim- ulants is, in American' parlance, \good business)\ The life-iisurance system, which has of late grow] 1 to be a leading commercial enterprise, has been obliged* to consider from a purely business stand- point the effect of intoxizants on the du- ration of human Hfc. A representative of an old and well-cstal tlished company in Hartford, Conn., hai reoently stated that from a careful exa nination of their records, aud by the calculation of an ex- pert actuary, it has been] found that even the modcrato-drinker re of life to a suicidal 0 assumed habits of tip abstainer at twenty yea a probability of icaching the age of sixty-' four by continuing in the walks of a so- ber life, whilo the moderate-drinker at twenty can only look forward to a fifteen and a half ycarsf lease j>f life under the rule of the despot Alcohol* Facts like the abovct obtained from people with whom mort ulity is a matter of dollars and cants, cai ry their own les- son. When life-insuiance companies came into our commerce, the drink-habit was hardly considered ; >y them. , As its effects touched their packets, they were aroused to inquiry, and soon no appli- cant was received wlu/ confessed to bciug intemperate. The line 1 was soon after drawn at \habitual usej\ and it is only companies of questionable stability that do not insist upon accurate information as to the drinking habits of its would-be members. . v The authority above cited warrants the inference that if It were; practicable these companies would even , insist on total ab- stinence. It would ceitainly be greatly to their benefit if every, man they insured neither touched nor tasted of the invisi- ble spirit concealed in the seductive bev- erages that slay their cousuincrs with a Philistine, hand. Rec pays, in a purely busin and abstain from icon aggressive and whose a simple questioner uence is of a verity ' Witness. ices his chances ;nt by tho self- ung. The total has, it is found, lcet, then, that it way, to refrain :t with a foe so iuuiph is merely imc. Total ubsti- business !*'— Does Alcohol \* Varm Us ? A patient was arguing with his doctor the necessity of his tal ring a stimulant, lie said that he was w< ak and needed it. Said he: . j y \But Doctor, t mutt have some kind of a stimulant. I am cold, and it warms mc.\ . j \Precisely!\ came ihe doctor's crusty answer. • \See here, tiiis stick is cold,\ taking up a stick of vood from the box beside the hearth, and fire; \now it is worm benefited?\ The sick wood first send out a then burst into flame, course not; it is burniig itself 1\ \So arc you, when you warm yourself with alcohol; jou arj literally burning up the delicate tissue \ of your stomach and brain.\ ! Oh, yes! alcohol will warm you up, but who finds the fuel? food, that is the fuel, you keep warm. But 4vhen you take alco- hol to warm you, you a re like the man who sets his house on firni fingers by Hsrald. tossing it into the but is the stick man watched the little smoke, and and replied: \Ol When you take in nnd as it burns out and warms his it as it burns.— Kansas City Qretvt Question! of the A*e. We havo to look up and beyond to eee the full measure of our responsibility on this great question of liquor-selling. It is only n low, grcveling nature that wiUconjwntto apolojfize for the traffic, uud belittle the Prohibition movement of lo-dav.— -Demorstt. J Tho Iowa HtqbU^ says: \There's a wholo temperance sertnon in. the reply of a butcher who was asked for a dollar toward paying a tejmperance lecturer: There's your dollar,'| said ho. 'I've sold more meat in one day nnoe this town went no license than I use4 to in a week when we bed saloon*.'\ ICE-GORGE AND FLOOD. Most Destructive Floods in the History of the Northwest. Farms and Meadowland Trans- formed Into Raging Rivers. . —. ^ ' A Bismarck (Dakota) special gives the fol- lowing particulars of tho terrible floods and ica gorges which have boon widespread in that vicinity: The greatest flood in the history of tha Northwest, and the moat tri !<«prcad since the settlement of tho Missouri \ alloy, has been raging lor several days with 110 sign of abate- ment. When the ice broke nlove and flowed to Washburn a gor^o was formed which raised tho river at th:it point ovor twenty feet. This gor^o lasted one dVy, when it broke, and the pent-up Jloo 1 swept down upon the lowlands like thu breaking of a -mighty waterspout, and in lep than tivo hours from the timo the gorpc broke the river for many miles below was inri'oased in width tsotu om mile to over six miles. Farms and meadow- land we>e transformed into vast raging rivers, aud settlers were driven from tnefj homeu,' some to escape the floating ioeand*\ many to perish. But the breaking of t&e Washburn gorge was but a worniitp, as at >ther gorge formed the next night at tho he, J of Sibley Island. This gorge still exists ov nu and immovable as the rocks. It cons<n < of six miles of ioe wedged into the x\l or the river and piled above the mi it n* - from twenty to fifty I'eet in height. Nos> >| T did this gorge form than the vast sea of water in the Mis- souri v which had been swoll^u t\' 'he melting of the snowy in the Rockf Mountains ana along tho b-uUa for huivireds of miles, was nent tack upon tho land ana the oountry along the lowlands presented a f )icturc o( desolation and ruin. The waters eaped the l>oiiks of the river, and as in many ?(laces the banks of the Missouri are higher nan the outlying country the water poured upon tne *-ltiu s like the falling of a cloud. At PdUitoJ Wood, a settlement eighteen miles north of here, the settlers were not , given time to lock their dooTs or don their clothing. The gorge linving broken, the flood mov d upon them in an instant and one family namM Jn<.'k.son,^ousi^tiug of father, mo her and thrre children, were swept away before they could ea.*ape to a small hdl forty ro.!8 away. One of tho mort appalling and terrible ex- periences of the flood was that of twelve men' who attempted to cross the river in a yawL They liad come from Hock llaven on the Man dan side and were about three-quarters of the way over when a wind-storm struck them and took the Loat out of their O >ntrol. The boat was nent spinning among tho tops t»f a thicket of willows, and \to these the men clung, ftwt knowing what mo- ment they would t»e carried away in the tide or dashed to atoms by the grinding ice. When they struck the willows it was dusk and they were oomijelled to remain in their perilous position uuiil 7 o'clock the next morning, when the wind ceased and they drifted to shore. I For \days and nights settlors along the stream have lxttn hcM in U>i»s of trees and on haystacks, and the loss of life and property cannot be estimated until the waters reoftde. Photographers and artists are on .the ? *ound lor the illustrated papers of pew prk and other cities; but no Wash orVpen can do justice to the s;«ne. A picture of the flood on the day of tho blizzard is impossible. Imagine a vast new-born ocean,- with here and there a chimney top to toll of previous habita- tion; miles of ice floating at the rate of nine miles an hour on the terrific current formed by tha bant- ing gogo; rescuers' launches in search of death-eonfrontcd settlers, and a blizrard so blinding that tho very air was impenetrable; and add to this horror the gric£ and the pain- ful suspense donicted ujxojPTiro countenances of the thousands who gnJrnei ei upon the shore to await the return of/{heir friends, and you will have a vague comprehension of the scene. When the porge was formed, blocks of iee measuring KM to 2ty feet in length and breadth and Tour feci in depth, were hurle 1 iuto mid- air as though the wero marbles and fell back to wedge the lower stratum into tho river bod. The officers at Fort Lincoln report that „>with tha aid of field-glasses they have seen numerous settlers hi liay stacks aud on the tree tops, and they must liave perished ere this. At one place two men and a woman were seen on the top of a building waving for help, but no help could l>e * nt. At the home of a man named O Connor three persons weae seen in trees and sfx persons were visible on hay- stacks which were floating by the fort. During the entire week the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has endeavored to break the gorge with dynamite, but the explosions were of no more effect than the bursting of a bubble. Th% sh<xk of the explosion shook buildings and broke gloss in this city, a dis- tance ot ten miles, but failed to move the gorge. The high trestle of the Northern Pacific road has been seriously damaged, and noi trains have cros^ th) river for seven days, thus blocking all transcontinental freight. Tho ateainer; Helens has been chartered by the railroad and all pas- sengers are being transferred by boat, The citizens of Maudan have had a centrifu- gal pump shipped from St. Paul, a distance of 500 miles, to pump tho water from their buildings and cellars, and it will be mai:y weeks before business can be rx^umei income of the buildings in that place. Many are the dramatic and novel features of the flood, but none more so than the numerous groups of animals sson fitting - do^n O'I t'»o i<v». W'fli tV' UOTXM' gorge broke the waters shot into the tiflJber and meadpw lands with such fury that they swept everything before them, and deer, antelope and Wars have been seen on floating icet The latest report from the upper country is that at a point about sixty miles eoi-th more than fifty people ore in trees withtu a nydius of twelve miles and that numbers have perished. Unless assis- tance can be sent at once all must perish from exposure and hunger. Many of the unfortunates are women and children, and through the field-glass- mothers can bo seen holding their shivering babes to their breasts to protect them from the raw and pene- trating wmd. The true story of the flood will never be told. Many of the isolated settlers who have been swept away leave nothing te tell the sad story, and even the houses and barns which might attract attention to their former abode have been carried down with the flood. It is impossible at this time to ostimafce the damage to proi*Tty or the loss of human life, but it is known that the flood is the most terrible in the history of the country and likely to remain at ita prefent height for over • A Bowdel, (Dakota) dispatch says Jacob McCarty, Mr 4 Kirkland and three others have been drowned on- the bottoms south o! Legraco. * \NEWSY GLEANINGS. THE Cardiat Giant has been sold for $32. , IOWA is rapidly changing from a wheat State to a dairy btate. THE balloon for the Paris exhibition of 1880 will carry loo persons. . Ix some places iu the Maine woods theanow is yet five aud six feet deep. GINGER has been raised in Florida thai is said to compare favorably with any from Jamaica. AHMED BKX AHMAR, an Algerian who has just died, killed eighty lion* and as many pan- thers during hu tituo. THKUK are i wo solid gold bricks, to tile Hal- ted Stales Mint at Denver, each one of which weighs nearly 110 pound*. AN Englishman of fifty-five recently toed a lady ol lorty-nix for hreach,of promise, and the jury awarded luui £•'«. A WOMAN named Corrigan, reafding near Dowra, County Leithm, waa delivered of four, children last month, Thi.y atu all douu well. MIM HnmrxR and MUw Boyd, two bright young la*lie* from lndiAnapoiis. have formed a paitiiAjuhip for the practice of medicine in that my. Man. NBBLITT and Mr*. Walter* two lead- ing ledioft of GtffnviUft. H. Cm* meariug a ettuiatiou by their enUiuMa*iu iu bdtulx of woman suffrage. TMK Chinese Government i* taking artlrt Step* tor the impi oveajt«nt of lu -navy, rvumftm have beau orUtied Crvin Kugl#b Oermaa firm*. ^ v
