The Two Age. Folks wen harr a days wcru km tlif)l(l Ap.ui.'itiri timi-A. w hon lift; sci-ii!.-i.nly a lmire and a snnjr Our worlil irmwH l,lWi r, and, suure by staff. mr 1'iinn ycarH mii-' roiit cj. W v'-iuit fnruott-ii the ;lli-n Aiftj And come to Ui Aw of Gold. Time wont by In a nlifclHli way 1'iwmi Thi-Knlv l.iiim tit yon. In the Miu-t cntli -ntiirv. lmnl at plajr M.m iiiiitton. iind notlifni; mora. Our HwaliiN at r-M-nt nnr far too siitfu To II v bh oni" liv 1 of old; no tliry -ouli tl tin-. Txk of The Goldon n nil a iiihjK 111 IhC Agv I Colli. From rorydon'H r.--l tli mountain round Iff-anl tliv iii-M H of Iiih latit ttuTui-, And Tit) run mitoV ti wimmIk n-Houml With ii.M !t of 1 lapliiK-'n iinni. Thy kindly left u a lurtinp Kaiiip Of their iiiiiHi-al art we're told. And the I'undt-Hii in of tin- .o!i-n A Re. liriiiKM mirth to tho Ak" of Gold. Dweller In hut and marble l.nlU. From Nln-plierde up to (Jueen. ( arl little for Itoniietn and leiui for shawl. And nothing for crinoline. Hut now Himpliclty'ft not tho rw: And it'n funny to think how c.ld Tin- ilrehM they won; In tho Golden Ajre Would seeij In the Ag of Gold. KJectric teleirraphft, printing, km, Toliaero. Imllooim, and sti-um Are little event that hav rome to naaa "iih-o me uayn in i no oi.i n-Rime; AihI, spite of L'iiiirierc'K riazzliiur page, I'd (rive, thoiiirli It miKht mteiu Ixild. A humlretl yearn of the Golden Age For a year of t he; A ire of Gold. Henry S. Lc-lph. LOST ON THE DESERT. I now hail evt'ry reason to believe t hat I was lost, yet a half hope that I might find some trail lcadin;; to the oiner sme loueu me on. ine sun was low in the west, and long shadows stretched from the rocky peaks over the bleak brown hills. A lonely feel ing of fear and baQled plans came over me. JNight was approaching; I was lost in the desert hills, without water and without grass that which would enable ine to escape . The scenery grew more wild and broken. aim the pat It a mere wind-swept alley in-twcen towMcrs. traveled only iy the coyote ami the mountain sheep. Stories alotit mountain lions, bears, travelers dving of thirst, crowded to my mind. The trail passed out from trie rocks to the side of a deep narrow canon, where, from a few hundred feet helow, came the cheering sound of trickling water. This gave me a moment's hope, but at the same instant I heard the croak of a raven as it sailed away from a jut ting ledge below. I was an intruder upon a solitude which perhaps no man had ever entered before. The bird im mediately Hew back towards me, com ing directly overhead, crving in the mu filed voice; common to its tribe This black omen witli it. glossy plumes una rasping voice was a depressing accompaniment to the already ui? conraging train of ev.M-.ts. Again and again it new so rear tr.at 1 could hear the whir of its wings. V as it the iMrtent of mv fate? Was this black spirit, ravenboiiii-d. croaking my re- uiin'iii. veinv. the thought was natural even to an tiiisuperstitious mind. If it should Hy at my horse head m one of those tierce plunges its aim would be accomplished, for a few Tcps out id the wav would inirl us, a crushed mass, on the rocks below. It had followed me several hundred Teet along the cutis: j couiii not bear fiie strain upon mv already harassed iec!ini; longer, aim in one oi us wheeling tlights I seized mj- gun from tin saddle, and with a snap-shot sent it tumbling ?n! the gorge. I heard a prolonged croak as of outwitted fiendish intention. and my sable enemv fell to the ground below my horse, even, seemed to show relief in; a sigh. and "forged along in better mood." 1 ne canon now spread out into a scienaga niieu witn pium-tmckets. oc casional Tuesiiuite. and willows. With. come difficulty, by sliding and jump ing, 1 soon reached the bottom of an old water-course; out of a clump of bushes sprang with a startled snort, a pair of line deer.stately with branching horns. 1 hey stopper! long enough for easy rifle-shot, then lounded up the canon, and were hidden by a point of rocks. Here in the canon another trail led me wrong. It lav in the direction of the supposed ranch, but frowning bluffs of limestone and jagged peaks rose before nie. I followed the canon round bend after bend; sometimes the want stream of water would sink; again it would WK'tle.a slender thread. over slate and lime rocks, l was several thousand feet above the desert, close under the snowy back of old San .Jacinto, and the night was growing cold. The last sunlight had disappeared from the eastern hills, the twilight would soon fade from the defile. The nioturesqueness of the place forced it self upon me in spite of the trembled gloom of my outlook. The. end had come. It now appeared, indeed, that 1 hat! been , wrongly in formed. Directly before me was a wall of rock, barring further progress. A few crevices and open seams made cant footing for mountain sheep, and it was by their trail I. had, been ..led astray. I he noon, now .nearly nut was ris ing over the hills, reflecting from the white ridges, .and, throwing black shadows into tho ravine. I kindled a fire, tied my horse wear a few . tnft of luiw-h-grass.and dug a bole at the bae of a rock to catch the slowly flowing water, . After gathering all the . wood and bru-h near by and making my horse a comfortable as possible. ! spread my blankets on a few juniper twig and tried to sleep. The dry southern air was rapidly growingcolder.for beat radiates almost immediately from I he barren soil, and gusts of wind drove down showers of and and pebbles '.'from the heights .nbove. The fire gave'out about mid night: the moonlighted air was iateuse- lv told; frost was torming on my blankets, and I could hear it crackling in the sap of the willows. Sleep was impossible. When one ide was likelv to freeze I turned over on the other. " Oner a huje owl flew softly over, cricking his barp bill. One or twice I fell into a , Tnberahle dose, and wa awakened by'mj, snorting in some sudden fear, or by iists of wind rattliodown a.ra!ae,hes loaned rocks from the tliffi.'' Again the terrified worti of mjombcoiii- p.aiou in misery my poor faithful m m 4 J -l . T .KMam iniuii at inicrTBiB, nuca nir inuuieu1 tary doze was broken by the sound of stealthy footsteps near bj.firing a shot hi ine uirecuon oi ine noise, silence again, for a" time, but my unhappy horse was evidently apprehensive every moment. Miserable even to homesick- ness.I watched the slowly passing stars in whose glorious march 1 had now no joy, and no interest except that which related to my escape from this sad plight. The long night, doubly long with pain of body aud mind, at last gave way to dawn. . i climbed a tall elm, but could see only the lonely desert rocks and scanty cactus; no sign of a ranch anywhere. I hastily planned to retrace my tracks to ralm Springs, giving up without one pang of regret tho eagerly projected journey along the coast southward. liut it was no easy matter to follow the circuitous trail by which I had come, and to take a direct route across hills and canons. I .wrj"-Jtactus ana brush, was lm- - a. tarting, I shared a half, loaf ith my hungry horse, who c say wnicn alter sucu a nerience and companionship) I even worsiban I, with not le tough, ju ss bunch-grass, ing to s in his ternheu le seeme anxious to get into a lope over andri Tel stt-etch. The two deer we had scared from their resting place the night before were evidently old settlers, for on rounding an angle I saw them fct-ding in a Hat below. Near by the sharp tracks of wild sheep were common 1 was anxious to get a near view of these shaggy big-horns. the most strik ing of rorth American mammals This was a good opportunity, as their tracks were fresh and they could not leave the canon without being seen. I had scarceiv come to the gulch where I had descended from the bluff, when a noise on the canon side caught my ear. There they were, six splendid fellows, standing facing me with their big h(,Tns heavily poised on short. heavy-set necks and shoulders. If I had had a rille of good range I could easily have shot some of them, but it would have seemed a crime to harm the desert-dwellers. As it was. I hedged them in somewhat, for they could neither go up nor down the canon without passing nearer to me; so up the rugged cIilTs they sprang, zigzag and by straight leaps, never once missing a toolholu. I worked my way up on the bluff; there had been but little wind on this side, and I followed mv tracks better than I had dared to expect. (Jlancin back I saw the big-horns on a knoll. sniiling and tossing their heads. It was past noon w hen I came out on the hills overlooking the desert. Never before had that forbidding basin appeared so lovely. A few clouds floated over the mountains, shading it here and there; while sunshine Hooded the rest. Away oil to the northwest were the vellow cottonwoods and the white ranch-houses about the springs Mv gaunt horse also felt the inspira tion of the scene in his wav, pricked up nic ears, and increased his pace Hours later I sat under the bright cot tonwoods in the delicious air of even ing. II'. W. 1'ricc, in Occrlund Month ly. "STRUCK WITH THE SABER." A Familiar Kxpression, bat Cavalrymen Find Little Use for the Sword in Itattle. From the time we reached the state rendezvous until we went into camp on the peninsula it was drill! drill! drill! with the saber, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. A corporal would take half a dozen the captain the whole company, and for an hour and a half we would go through the cuts and thrusts and parries. There was the front cut, the down cut, the savage thrust, the back-hand cut, and dozen others, and we were told that pur lives depended on knowing how to give and receive each particular one, It was good exercise, perhaps, but on the very first day we went into a Ughf as cavalry all oi us came to see the ab surdity of it. I was in thirty cavalry hghts dunng the war, and in none of them did I witness or have use for anything like the saber exercise. Not that I did not see men struck with the saber, but they were struck during the confusion and melee, when the other party could claim no credit. For instance, our regiment drove full tilt into about 600 Confederate cavalry at . Brandy Sta tion. I used my revolver until it was empty, and then gripped my saber. The smoke was very thick and men and horses were greatly excited In the mad whirl a Confederate rode up on me, and , made a savage slash, with his saDer, .it missed my. head and eat the pommel of my saddle.' Before he could get away I "swiped:. at, him and 1 tnow the -edge of the saber struck his face. . I " may have knocked sut some of his tseth, but the edge "was as blunt as a hoe and could not have cut the skin. ' ' At Shepardstowo we were charged about the .same way. ? There, were a great many sabers flashing as they came on, but bv the time the shock came the revolvers and carbines were doing the heft of ths'work. ' I bad a fair show in that fight to give a thrust. and it was a lamentable failure. I got the point of the saber in under the euemy s upraised right arm, but I doubt if I drew blood; I simply pushed him half out of his saddle, and he re taliated with a id cut which uncov ered my headan.d.dld no .further dam- re- i . , ,. - - Ihere were probably more men hit with, the abr at fiettysboro; than any where else during the war.", The main reason; for- this .wa . the equality., of numbers, together with the... fact "that very f?w of the Union cavalry bad rs volveri'.'.'" W-!-barje.A. with our car bines fJnn t.rur backs,' and it wa aber or nothing, bad..-. heavy silk baadkerchjet, .inside ray new. hat. that day 'as a, pireveative of sunstroke. -. It piwvenjLed J onfede.rst -car air v man from splitting rajr.Jiead open. : I. had a young, green horse.-and he gave me nv edof tratrble. - While ! warf trying to present i kin from going autf of the tiht-. backwards a Confederate " ap- J l K m I U . .1 I bSbt-.. back f" w me iron te rear sad anmia- ths dswa em. it- darKT m handkerchief, tacked up by a ttncic growth of hair; saved my head. Ho drew blood, and I had a sore head 'for a week after, but he had wasted his blow. After the first ten minutes of that cavalry encounter nothing but snhers were used. We thrust, hacked and cut, hitting both horse and man, but I doubt if any one was killed ontright on either side with the steel. To make a saber effective it must carry a keen edge. During my three years in tho army I did not see above a dozen shariened sabers. We had no orders to grind them and so we carried them with a hoe edge. menu takes a strong-armed man to wield a common cavalry saber so as to strike an effective blow. His horse must be reasonably steady, so he can control him with the bridle arm, aud there must be plenty of muscle in the arm to give weight to the blow. With a sharp saber a man weighing ICO pounds might split a man's skull, but a man weighing thirty pounds less, with a dull weapon, would only make play toward it. In fact, realizing his incapacity in that direction he wouldn't try it. In a cavalry encounter at Kelley's rord I struck a Confederate fair on the neck with mv saber, and struck as hard as I could. He tumbled from hid saddle and was captured. I did not even draw blood, l .gave him such a blow as to stun him for a few minutes, the same as if I had struck him with a club, but aside from a stiff neck he was all right. Big, strong men, with keen-edged sabers, would do some awful cutting, aud they would inspire fear wherever they charged, but aver age men and average weapons accom plish very little outside of the moral effect. ljuantreil proved that there was something far more effective than the saber, bach of his men was armed with at least two revolvers. Each one could shoot right and left-handed. A squad of thirty of them thus armed uever hesitated to charge, a hundred regular cavalry, and they never charged without inflicting terrible de struction. UTILIZED A COUCH. French Marshal Conveyed an Under It Cover In 1X5 1. Order The prevalence of coughs and -colds at the present moment reminds me of the fact that it was a cough which was mainl" responsible for the im mense amount of bloodshed that at tended the coup d'etat whereby Na poleon III. obtained his throne, writes a correspondent of the N. Y. Hcforder. That unscrupulous but brilliant ad venturer general and aiterward l-ield Marshal de St. Arnaud had charge of the military operations. l';ut lie was unwillin" to assume the direct resoon- sibilitv of ordering the troops to lire upon t he people, being n.;t altogether certain as to the result oi jNapoleons memorable ent erprise. hen the moment for ac tion arrived and the mob began to show signs of sweeping aside the troops, the briga dier generals under his orders sent an officer to him at headquarters to ask him what they were to do, whether the- were to "tire on the populace or give way. .strangely enough, M. Aruaud was seized at that moment with a violent lit of coughing which lasted for several minutes. Finally when it ceased the general just managed to gasp the words, "Ma sacre toux!" (mv cursed cough.) The officer, having waited until the general had recovered his breath, re peated the question. Again St. Ar naud was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which terminated, as on the previous occasion, with the parting exclamation of "Ma sacre toux!" The officer was no fool; he could take a hint as well as any one else, and saluting, he left St. Arnaud's pres ence. On returning to the brigadiers and colonels who had sent him 'or in structions he was asked what reply St. Arnaud had made. "The general's only words and com mands were masacrez tous! (massacre everybody.)" lhese commands were obeyed to the letter, and many thousand ieople were shot down and bayoneted in con sequence. A. Question of Dinner Time. A cardinal who . commanded the troops of Pope Boniface IXJ in the march of Ancona, finding himself on one occasion in a position .where he must conquer or die, promised his soldiers that if they, secured the vict ory those who fell should dine that very day with the angels. . They marcnea to the com oat with alacrity. but finding that .the cardinal was care ful not to expose himself, "How is it. said. one of them, "that, you show no anxiety for the celestial, banquet to wnicn, you have invited us so- warm ly?", "Because u is not yet my din ner time and I am not .hungry.' All the Tear Round. ' There the Major Ijattghed. The. Washington correspondent of the N. Y. -Advertiser has nnearthed one shining exception in Congressional life to the rule .that $5,000 .. a year doesn't make both nd meet. . This example is Mai Martin of Texas, who blew ont the gas the first night of his arrival in Washington.. The.. Major's living ex penses in Texas had ranged from $700 to $800 per. annum. He resolved. When thrust into Congress by his neighbors, that he. would not permit the..' extrava gances of fashionable life to dallv with him to the extent of more than $200 in excess of that sum. '" In short, society or no society, $1,000 per autam was his limit. He stuck to this resolution through four years of his service. Up on the expiration of. bis term be walked right into the office ef the Serge'ant-at-Armt threw down a hugs, rail of bill, and asked loir exehanfcf m;Xw! York. He: stroked hi ---goatee ' wmplaeently aad remarked to iae cashier: "They ar the-old man Mew eut the but I gue none of them fellers that wear patent-leather shoe ; and drink that nzziu' kind of wine will tote home bt wad like thaU"? Thf -wadlreontained $tf500,-avd in foAr rears eut. of an . rewt salary C $20,009 mn4 wile-' fte. TFnJr is wW- th Mainr has his Takon Up. t Taken up at my farm 2 mile south of PlattBtnouth, Wednesday Februry 3rd, one yearling heifer calf and one yearlinjr steer calf, both red marked with tip of left ear cut off aud "V" cut on under side. Party may have same by paying- for ad rertisement and proving owner ship. Bex F. Hoknixg. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Thk Bkst Salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. 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