men enter her. She came pulling at a smart pace and stopped a few yards away off our starboard quai'ter. "Hello! the ship!" called the man in the stern sheets as he stood up. '. "Hello! the boat!" replied Captain Hob sou. "We are short of water in the schooner anil hope you can spare us a few casks." "What's your cargo?" "Gold dust, palm oil, ivory and furs. We have been up the Niger for several months on a trading voyage. We are bound for the United States." The speaker was certainly an American, but the three men with him were Span iards, and as villainous a trio as you ever set eyes on. They brought the odor with them so strong that every nose could now detect it. Captain Hobson was a blunt spoken man. After a bit of thinking he replied: "I am satisfied that your schooner is a Cuban slaver and that she has a cargo aboard of her now. It's a villainous trade you are engaged in, and I'd like to see ev ery mother's son of you swinging at the yardarml However, out of pity for the poor blacks I'll spare you three casks. I can't do more. Go back to your craft and I'll hoist them out and tow them half way." "And about the pay?" "Your money is accursed and I wont handle it!" The man forced a laugh, waved bis hat as a salute and his boat returned to the schooner. We got over the casks, lowered a boat and* towed them half a mile away, and before noon they had been hoisted in on the schooner's deck. "It isn't a quart apiece for the thirsty peopleaboard of her," I heard the captain say to Mayor Shaw, "and if this calm holds we are bound to have a row with that fel low." The fourth day of the calm passed quietly away. When night came it was figured that we hnd decreased our distance by a quarter of a mila. That night, to keep up appearances of a bold front, there was music and dancing on the deck, but while some danced others peered into the darkness and guarded against a surprise. The fifth morning dawned without a cloud or a breath of air, and we were now within less than a mile of the schooner. The current was setting us both to the northeast, or upon the coast. As I said before, being the larger body we were drifting the fastest, and in a couple of days more must overtake the schooner. On this day, just before noon, the slaver began drawing water and sluicing down his cargo, and we could plainly hear the shouts and yells of the negroes. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he allowed them to come on deck in gangs, and we knew that we should shortly hear from him again. His situation had become so desper ate as to oblige him to throw off all reserve. It was about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when the same boat and the same officer approached-us as before. "You see what our cargo is, captain," said the man as he stood up and pointed to his craft. "The schooner is a 'black bird' and has 320 niggers aboard. Not one has died yet, but there isn't a drop of water left for them. You must spare us more *vater, or not one of them will ever see Cuba." Our captain was about to reply that not another pint could be spared, but the pas sengers appealed to his sympathies and a sort of public meeting was held. We had wines, rum, brandy, beer, and could cer tainly spare more water without stinting ourselves. Sooner than see the blacks sac rificed everybody was willing to go on half allowance. The result was that we made up about 350 gallons of a mixture of rum and water, and the slaver towed the casks away. As soon as darkness came the deep sea lead was cast and bottom was found at 180 feet.' Hawsers were bent to a coupl3 of small anchors, and we soon had the satis faction of knowing that our drift was checked. The dawn of the sixth day showed the schooner not more than a mile away. The fellows had got on to our trick and adopted it very promptly. The day passed quietly away, the slaver sluicing his between decks and parading his gangs as before. At daybreak on the morning of the 7th the barometer indicated a change, but sky and sea gave no evidence of it. About sun rise the blacks could be heard raising a row, probably demanding water, and an hour later the pivot gun, whose presence We had suspected, was uncovered and loaded and pointed at us. At the same time three ports were opened and the muz- Eles of three smaller cannon run out and trained on our ship. The slaver's crew also increased from ten to twenty-five men, and we realized that a climax was at hand. They proposed to save their own cargo at any risk. The officer who had visited us twice before now appeared for the third time, having the same three villains at the oars. He said they were again out of wa ter and must have a supply. He did not ask if any more could be spared, but com manded Captain llobson to hoist out ten casks on penalty of being fired into. To the surprise of everybody, the captain hum bly agreed and called out to the fellow: "Send all the men you can spare and make a short job of it, but I want none of you aboard!" The boat returned to the schooner, and half an hour later three boats, each con taining five men, were lying off our quar ter. We had meanwhile been pretending to be very busy. The pretense was main tained after their arrival. One cask was hoisted out and drifted clear, and they were looking for a second when the sun was suddenly blotted out of sight. Night seemed to come again, and a white squall broke with the scream of a thousand loco motives.- It was the forerunner of a hur ricane, which swept us up to Cape Vera find 500 miles beyond. Not one of the boats reached the schooner. The craft herself flew away before us into the thickness, but half an hour later, when the sky cleared before the hurricane, not an eye could dis cover her. She had gone down with all on board.

WITH THE WAGON TRAIN.

An Incident of Indian Life as Told by a Corporal.

Twenty army wagons and their drivers —fifty.cavalrymen from Troop E—a pull Of ninety miles across the Indian country. "iTes, we shall be attacked by the hostiles. They would not let such an opportunity pass. They c;m muster fonr to one, even if we counted in the teamsters. Colonel Blank, at the new post to which we were botAd, had written to Captain White, who was to command the train: "My wife is to come out with yoxi. See that tny previous instructions are carried out. She knows what they are." And we had not inarched au hour when Captain White sent for me and said: "Corporal, you will act as a special guard over the third wagon." "Very well, sir." "The colonel's wife is in that wagon, as fou probably know." "Yea, sir." "In case the Indians are too strong for

us they mast not find her alive, That'i alll" I rode back to the third wagon and placed ray horse at the nigh foro wheel, nnd lifted the cap to tho lady, who had been provided with a comfortable Beat by herselfct She was a little bit of a woman, not over twenty-five years old, and married to the colonel only two years before. She looked at me out of her big blue eyes and smiled, but she could not steady her voice as she leaned forward and inquired: "Corporal, do you—you think we shall be attacked?" "Quite likely, ma'am, but we may squeeze through." "And if attacked, and you can't beat the Indiana off, you" "I have the captain's orders, ina'aml" "Yes; very well." We both understood. I had been spe cially detailed to kill her if I saw that we were to be wiped outl The thought of It made me dizzy as I rode along. Now and then I glanced up at her to find her face white and her eyes anxiously searching the horizon. I had my orders and was there to obey them, but could Idolt ? If I was the last living man of that train, could I raise my carbine and become her murderer? At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the seo* ond day out we saw a dozen mounted In dians on a ridge to the right and closed up the train. To the left were a succession of ridges, and if there was any force of hostlles about they were hidden behind them. The colonel's wife was one of the first to dis cover the Indians at the right. She was looking at me as I glanced up. "We shall be attacked?" she queried. "Within ten minutes, ma'am." "Well, you—you" "Yes'm, but I hope we shall beat them off." The redskins on the right now began to ride to and fro and whoop and yell and seek to draw our attention and force the train to halt. Orders had been given the day be fore to keep moving in case of attack. In closing up the wagons had doubled the line, moving two abreast. The horsemen fell into their places at onee —twenty on a side, five in front and five in rear. Some of the teamsters had carbines, while all had revolvers. Half a mile beyond where we had seen the first Indian the attack was made, and it was a bold one. As we came opposite a valley running back into the ridges a hundred or more mounted Indians came charging down on us. The valley was just about as wide as the train was long, and therefore the twenty of us on that side had a chance at the reds as they came on in a mob shooting, shouting and seemingly determined to ride over us. -.. "Corporall" It was the voice of the colonel's wife, just as Aye were preparing to fire. "Yes'm, I remember," I replied as I lowered my carbine to look up at her. | We poured the fire of our carbines into the charging mass and checked its rush. The Indians then passed to our front and rear, so as to assail us on all sides. There were fully 300 of them, and had the train halted but for a minute tfiey would have had us wiped out. A part of them had been ordered to fire only at the mules at tached to the wagons. As they were kept moving only three or four were struck and none disabled. "Corporal!" There was fighting on front and rear and both sides, and the bullets were flying about us in a spiteful way. No less than five had passed through the cover of the wagon beside me. It was the colonel's wife calling to me. I looked up into her white face and she gasped: "Corporal, are you going to—to" "Not yet—we are holding our own!" I re plied as I turned to open fire again. We were gradually getting out of the trap. Farther on the ground was open and to our advantage. The Indian always docs liis best fighting at the start. Here and there we had a man wounded, but there was no confusion—no halting. Whenever they gathered as if to charge we opened fire on the spot and scattered them. Our fire was rapid and well sustained, aDd at the end of a quarter of an hour we had them beaten. We were just drawing clear of the ridge when a bullet struck the third wagon teamster in the shoulder and he fell for ward on his saddle. It happened right un der the eyes of the colonel's wife and she called to me: "Corporal, obey your orders!" She had her hands over her face so that she might not see me as I raised my gun. The next few seconds must have been ter rible to her. * "Beg pardon, ma'am, but the reda are drawing off and the victory is ours." She dropped her hands and stared at me for a minute as if she could not compre hend. Then she fell back in a dead faint, and it was a long half hour before her blue eyc3 opened to the sunshine again. A week later, at the new post, Colonel Blank called me in one day and asked: "Corporal, weren't you ordered to shoot Mrs. Blank?" - "Yes, sir." "Then why didn't you do it?" he sternly demanded. ''■ "I—l was going to, but'| —■ "But what, sir? It was gross disobedi ence of orders, and you are no longer a corporal." But that was the old martinet's way of promoting me to a sergeantcy. i M. Quad.

Water as a Solid.

We usually think of minerals as solid things, such as metals and rocks and jewels and various chemical salts. But when we consider the matter a little we see that all these things if melted by strong heat are minerals still, only they are now in a fluid instead of a solid state. The difference between these minerals and water is that water gets fluid at a lower temperature than they do, and, like quick silver, stays melted at ordinary living heat. But in those old ice ages, which, one after another, have swept now over the northern and now over the southern hemisphere, bringing ruin and desolation, the natural and common condition of water was that of a solid—ice—aa it largely is today out of doors in winter when not kept fused by the stored up heat of the soil and rocks, or melted by the sun.—T. Mitchell Prudden in Harper's.

Don't Jabber, Talk Sense.

Girls, be sure you are well informed on any topic before you attempt to discuss it. Words without knowledge only lead to defeat, but when you are certain of your self and your topic, express it in a brief, concise manner, right to the point, which will leave no room to doubt that you know what you are talking about. Avoid slang, do not exaggerate, and show that you can discuss topics other than dress, flirtations and gossip.. It is an great an accomplishment to be a good talker as any other art you may try studi ously to Wit you may never possess, but any woman who tries can be come a sensible, pleasing talker, to whom any one would be glad to listen.—New York World.

ttHfi ASH6ORTON (ttJABDIAif, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 189$.

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I am glad to tell more deaths frcm the Bnt F!}. | you that the one 1 drenched according to David Buowx. ; your instructions got quite better, and is * now at his work again. I would highly Brookside, December 12, 1892. recommend farmers to use the same in Mr Walker,—Sir, —1 wish to add my time, as lam satisfied that they will save testimony to the wonderful effects of your and greacly improve the condition of the Bot-fly Remedies. 1 had a valuable horse. Send mn some of your Bot Fly horse which got very bad and gradually Preventive for the summer, and oblige, got worse, I quite believed he would —Yours vety respectfuliy, have died. He kept losing flesh, got* a Edward Watson. dry coat, tight skin, careworn expression of the eye, a cough, running at the nos- Rillinchy, September; 14, 1892. trite, and could scarce walk, I got your Mr Robert Walker, Christchurch, remedies and gave them as directed, with Dear Sir—Your Bot Fly Remedies have the most beneficial results.. 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