‘ larger than most of the cabins, and’had
that exhausts men, and Shorty’s brain
’ the finish. The date and hour were
WINGS.
Wings that flutter in sunny air:
“flags that dive and dip and dare:
Wings of the humming bird flashing by
Wings of the lark in the purple sky: '
Wings of the eagle aloft, aloof:
Wings of the pigeon upon the roof;
Wing of the storm bird swift and free
With wild winds Qv'eeping across the sea—-
Often and often a voice in me sings—
O. for the freedom, the freedom of wings!
O. to winnow the air with wings!
O. to float far above hurtful thingsl
Things that weary and wear and fret—-
Deep in the azure to fly and forget.
To touch in a moment the mountain’s crest.
Or haste to the valley for home and rest:
To rock With the pine tree as wild birds may,
To follow the sailor a summer's day,
Over and over avoice in me sings—-
O, for the freedom, the freedom of wings!
Softly responsive a voice in me sings—
Thou hast the freedom, the freedom of wings.
Soon as the glass a second can count
Into the heavens thy heart may mount.
Hope may fly to‘the topmost peak,
Lone its nest in the vale may seek:
Outspeeding the sailor Faith‘s pinions may
Touch the ends of the earth in a summer‘s day.
Softy responsive a voice in me sings—
Thoii hast the freedom. the freedom of wingsl
——Mary F. Butts, in Youth‘s Companion.
.‘ __IN' GOLD TIME.
BY ROBERTA LITTLEHALE.
He was straight, and grizzled, and
keen of eye. He had worked, and
fought, and gambled his way through
the lawlessness and passion of the
state’s early life into the decency and up
rightness of a successful contractor.
His name was Bill Bowen. .
As a civil engineer, I came more or
less in contact with him, and rejoiced
in the largeness of his mental mold, as
well as in the business sense of security
he let me enjoy.
One summer’s night we took a drive
to a distant town on'the San Joaquin
river. We were to look at stone fora.
bridge building, and the blistering heat
of the day made us willing to lose our
sleep for the more comfortable travel-
ing by starlight. '
The horses jogged lazily through the
coarse, thick dust. on the river’s levee,
and the insects from the grain fields
and the frogs from the sloughs had
things wholly to themselves until Bill
suddenly interrupted:
“Mrs. Chase is pretty enough yet to
understand why she sent two'fellows to
the devil, isn’t she ?” ‘
“What are you talking about?" I an-
swered. _
“0h,” said Bill, pulling himself up, “I
forgot you didn’t struggle with the rest
of us through those groggy days.”
I knew Bill well enough to let him re-
lapse just so many minutes;-thenI said:
“Judge Chase’s wife is lovelier at sixty
than most girls at sixteen, but I hadn't
any idea she figured so romantiCally in
the early days as to send anybody over-
board.”
“II'm,” replied Bill, reflectively.
The horses traveled on without at.
tention, and I waited in patience.
“You know what it was like,” he be-
gan at last. “Men with guns from all
over the union and gold the heaven we
sweat-ed for. Prayers, and Court, and
the gambling tables all running under
one roof, and nary awoman’s face show-
ing up inthe mass to give us courage. To
be sure, there were vixenish ribs 0’
Satan who robbed, and killed, and
drank with the worst of us; but until
’51 we‘d never the woman for reverence.
Then, by degrees, the lawyers and a
stray merchant or two aired their
families, but things wasn’t dizzy till
pretty Grace Blanchard got out with
her father. l . .
“Understand, she carried herself as
she’d ought to: but, understand, there
was men among us as was born and
bred to live with blood. The mass of
us had to take out our satisfaction in
looking at her; but for two the favor
in old Blanchard’s eyes was easy read-
ing, and it wasn’t long seeing the.
course the straw took.
“Ned Emory was a long, lean, blond?
fellow, with a blamed fine face and
a way that made friends of the
toughest. They said he looked
a swell when he called at the
Blanchard's, but I .never saw him
but like the rest of us—red-shirted and
overalled, and an angle to his pistol
that made him a joy.
“George Stokes—‘Shorty,’ we called
him—was a man with an answer that
ripped like a knife and a head that
made success of everything, because it
could work crooked as well as straight.
He'd been on the bench, but he’d located
a vein at Mariposa, and was overseeing
up there in ’52. Naturally, he lost op-
portunitics, not being right on the spot,
and the danger began.
“The Blanchard house was swelled
two long windows that opened onto a
porch. Things might never have been
so bad but for those two lidless eyes'
in front.
“One fatal night Shorty Stokes rodeI
into the settlement—but I am getting
ahead of affairs.”
Bill tossed his cigar into the tules,
and hurried the horses into effort as
the interest of his reminiscence swept
him on.
“The girl carried herself after the
fashion of high steppers, and neither
fellow could swear where he stood. It
was laughter and spirit for both of
them. they said, and nip and tuck for,
the yielding. The pace was the sort
for lawyering cooked up a scheme for
his rescue. ‘He was for their going tb-
gether some night before her, and, after
a formal marriage proposal, each argue
his claim and fitness for ten minutes
by the clock, their honor at stake to
stand by her decision. ,
~ “It got about afterwards that Emory
wouldn’t consent until he saw the
devil to pay in Shorty’s earnestness,
and they swore with their fists in each
other’s to carry the thing through to
arranged for the following Sunday
night at eight, and they drank to'it
with gall in the cup. '
“When the evening came the clock
had already struck eight when Stokes
reached the Blanchard house.
...M
“The lights from the room fell over
the porch, and from the shadow of the
_steps he saw the something that in all
the world he couldn’t bear” to see—Em-
ory crossing the room to take Grace
Blanchard in his arms; Emory with
passion paling his face and Grace
Blanchard in the beauty of a disturb~
ing humility.
“He cursed as he watched them cling
to each other, and he cursed his way
back to the saloons and his Mariposa
mining. - '
“Thenext day he turned up again in
the' settlement, with liquor enough
aboard to put a wheel in his head, and,
after a losing fling at the tables, he
started to find Emory.
“After a little ineffectual riding, he
leaped from the back of his Vlcious—cyed
piebald at the corner that bulged thick-
est with saloons. and stood close to the.
stirrup with his hand on his hip. Some
one who noticed him said his face had
the steely intensity of a razor edge.
“Then out of the crowd, unconscious,
with the music of love in his heart,
swung Ned Emory. His hat \gfiS pushed
back on his fair hair, and he was whist-
ling the overflow out of.his veins.
“in one instant a bullet rang through
the air. followed by another. Emory
fell in his own blood, and a horseman
was riding oi'f wildly and safe through
the shower of bullets thatrained around
him. Every man with a cayusc tore in
pursuit, but they only brought back
eight half-dead horses. Stokes had
staked relay beasts at different points
along the road, and was then safe in the
Chaparral canyons toward the north.
“The gambling dens choked up with
the crowds; gold dust was heaped on
gold (lust for the reward of the coward-
ly hound’s capt‘ure. Murders weren’t
rare then, but there was only one Ned
Emory, remember.
"Four of us wouldn‘t drop the search.
“'0 let the blood—money men get out of '
the way, and then we worked as we‘d
toil for only our own.
“There was scarcely no scent to fol-
low, for Stokes had bribed the greasers
who furnished his horses; but we
forced our way along on nothing. Day
and night we rode with our eyes open,
sometimes bullying and sometimes beg-
ging. It began to seem hopeless. The
days were running into summer again.
“One afternoon, toward twilight, we
rested 011 the crest of a mountain where
the path took a sudden turn away from
a two—hundred-foot precipice.
“We were torn with the snapping
branches of the greasewood, and full
cf extremest dirt and disgust. Sudden-
ly we heard the rustle of a step on the
fallen leaves. Under a live oak, not
thirty yards away, on the very edge of
the cliff, stood Shorty Stokes. He had
not heard us, and he stood looking at
the moon which hung a sickle in the hot
sky. The evening star was showing.
“The four of us were like stones. He
could have got to Guinea before mo-
tion’d have come to us. Then, simul-
taneously with our steps forward, he
turned 'and looked into our faces.
“It was a moment to test the nerve
of any man. He stood it as we were
used to seeing him face all things.
“ ‘I suppose I’m the man you're after,’
he said. ‘-
“He said
parson.
“In a sezcond'he had thrown downhis
pistols. He unsheathed his knives and
dropped them to the ground. ‘
“ ‘Take me,’ he said. .
“Four of us looked into the unflinch-
ing clearness of his eyes. As we hesi-
tated, he spoke again. E
“ ‘Listen. It is not in excuse that I
speak, nor in weakening. t is to tell
you that those among you who are
men will follow my steps under like
circumstances. .
“ ‘Emory gave me his hand and his.
oath, in the manner of his frankness,
to stand by an arranged agreement. l
“‘We were to meet at eight o’clock
on that Sunday night. A—a beautifully
good woman was to decide on our ar-'
gument which man she would marry. '
In riding to meet my engagement I
happened on an accident. W'ithin half
a. mile of the settlement, close onto
time, my piebald went back on his
launches and the groan of a man came
up from the roadside. ~I found an over-
it with the dignity of a.
-‘ loaded miner, hurt in the leg, and the
hope in my own heart aroused my sym-
pathy. I mounted the man on my beast
and headed him back toward camp.
“ ‘Walk as I never walk, I reached
the meeting place three minutes late.
Ali—G od—out in the darkness I saw
Emory taking advantage of the delay. ,
“ ‘None of you is so much a cur as to
let the life run in a man who, under his
honor, couldn‘t- yield a rival three min- 5
utes’ grace.
“ ‘But, with the camp against me and
Emory the friend of the sorriest, I
couldn’t face the music when the jus-'
tlce was done.
“ ‘It is not mercy I ask.
hereafter. Come.‘
“ ‘With a common impulse we started
forward, only to halt in a frozen 1181‘r0r
as Stokes’ broncho threw up his head
in alarm to watch with us the back-
ward somersaulting of his master‘s
body over the precipice. _
“Though there was but one verdict,
even Chase said as 'we rode down over
the mountain that night: ‘Emory
might have given Shorty a few minutes’ '
gracc.’ ”—The Black Cat.
It is life
A Talking Machine.
The gramophone, a talking machine,
much simpler and cheaper than the
phonograph, invented by Dr. Berliner,
the famous electrician, will soon be
put upon the -market. Its records of
human speech and of music, it is said,
are indestructible, and can be cheaply
multiplied to an indefinite extent by
simple mechanical means. What it has
to say or sing can be heard all over an
ordinary sized house. So devoid of
complexity is its construction that the
complete apparatus will cost- only
eighteen dollars, and a smaller edi-
tion, intended for the use of children,
will be sold for five dollars—Chicago
. Chronicle.
,. 9 THE EVENINGIGAZETTEi
SPEED OF TRAINS.
How It Is Affected by the Diurnal
Rotation of the Earth.
An Intricate Biathematical Calculation
Upon the Movements of Railway Trains
in Dlflerent Directions - A
Puzzling Problem.
It is as far from Buffalo to New York
as it is from New York to Buffalo, yet if
we are to believe the reasoning of Mr.
A lexandcr Hogg, a. correspondent. of
the Railway Gazette, the railway run
can be made more easily in the former
direction because the speed of the east-
ward moving train being added to that
of the rotating earth, the reduction of
weight due to centrifugal force is great-
er. We quote such portions of Mr:
Hogg's letter as do not involve difficult
mathematics:
“In 1891 the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad ran a. train 4361/:
miles in 425 minutes and 42 seconds, or
an average of 611/2 miles per hour. The
weight of this train was 460,000 pounds.
The same company, on September 11,
this year, made the remarkable run of
the same 4361/2 miles in 407 2-5 minutes;
this was an average of 64.26 miles per
hour. ’
“The New York Central, in starting
bot-h times from New York city, un-
necessarily retarded its own speed.
From Albany to Buffalo, due west, the
train en countered not only the prevail-
ing west wind, but the force of the
earth’s revolution east-ward. 0
“Owing to the diurnal rotation of the
earth, bodies at the equator press
toivard the earth with 238-289ths of the
pressure they would were the earth
deprived of its rotation. If, therefore,
the rotation of the earth could be ac—
celerated until it took only 1—17th of the
present sidereal day to make a complete
turn or revolution, the centrifugal ten—
i’dency would be increased (17) 2 fold:
: that is it would be ‘3'“0 times as greatas;
now. and bodies at the equator would
have no pressure downward, or, as we
say, would weigh nothing. This rate of
revolution would not be sufficient to de—
prive bodies anywhereelse of their en-
tire weight. '
“Now. let us apply this to railroad
trains. A train running east. at the
equator would be lightened as compared
with the weight on a still earth. If
running due. west. the result would be
(less). And the difference of weight
between the some train, running east
and west. with the same velocity. would
be (a. certain) fraction of its total abv
solute pressure. Example: Taking a
a train running say 70 feet- pcr second,
or nearly 48 miles per hour, this frac-
tion would not be far from 1-1,600tl.
tart: in running 60 miles per hour, it
would be. 1-l.280th part, and if running
100 miles per hour, or 147 feet per sec-
ond, it would be the 1,7651‘h part. ncai'lv.
and it would be greater as both speed
and weight of the train are increased.
The train of the New York Central was
3537 feet. long and weighed 505,000
pounds.
“This calculation, it. will be observed.
as said, will be true for the equator.
The New York Central train ran from
Albany to Euil'alo upon about the 42d
parallel of latitude, and * *5‘ * therefore,
. this calculation shbuld becorrcct-ed for
this latitude, and would be about 7—10tl1
as great.”
Other correspondents agree with Mr.
Iogg in principle, though not accept—
ing all his mathematics. One of them
ends his letter with the following rather
jocose suggestion:
“It is well know u that when the moon
is above us it draws movable objects
away from the earth, and when it is on
the opposde side of the earth. it draws
the earth away from movable objects
here, thereby causing the tides. It
might be well to suggest to the New
York Central officers, that, as the tides
travel from east to west, they may
perhaps offset the disadvantages under
Mr. Ilogg‘s theory by starting when the
position of the. moon is propitious, and.
as they would ‘keep in the tide,’ while
going west, they may still be able to
make fast time going west, even if
the engineers, or indeed the engines
themselves, learn of the disadvantages
of centrifugal force. when they are try—
ing to make Buffalo.”—~Literary Digest.
Number of Gallons in the Ocean.
The mathematicians figure on every—
thing nowadays, from the number of
leaves in a given ex tent of forest- to the
probable number of molecules of mat-
ter that it takes to make up the uni—
verse. One of the most curious calcu—
lations which we. have met. with re-
cently is one in which a German profus-
sor gives figures to show the number
of gallons of water in the Pacific ocean.
He first considers the average depth
and then the average length and
breadth, and then throws the whole
into a. square and the square into a
globe. He finds that this aqueous
globe would be. exactly 726 miles in di-
ameter. Next he considers ocean water
as weighing 10 pounds to the: gallon,
and finds that this immense sphere,
were it. a hollow metal globe, would
{hold 200,000,000,000,000 of gallons!
Those figures represent the number of
gallons of water now in the largest
diVIsion of the earth’s seas. It would
take that amount of water more than
1,000,000 years to pour over the preci-
pice at Niagaral—St. Louis Republic.
Banking in Russia.
In Russia the state bank advances
money at 41/2 per cent. a year on all
kinds of goods in amounts as high
as two-thirds of their value. It takes
money on deposit at 11/2 per cent. A
little while ago, to assist the grain
trade, the government bought largely
direct from the producers and will soon
be the largest holder of grain in the
country. It has nearly completed the
absorption of private railroad lines,
has acquired the monopoly of the man'-
ufacture of spirits and the control of
the retail trade, is about to take the
wine and sugar trade into its hands
and very likely the coal trade as well. .
m-Chicago News. _ u
* HE '. MUTU L LI
“yams... .... A
# INSURANCE CO.
0:: NEW YORK. - I 9
r7
RICHARD A. MOCURDY President.
amen eYea‘ inglleulldfll
)
Assets. , ' I . .
Lia bilities . y. .
Surplus . . .
$221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75
$48,597,430 51'
$23,126,728 45
Total Income .
Total PaidPolicyvholders in 1895. .
.tsurance and Annuities in force, $899,074,453 78
Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645, 36
Q2 NOTE—Insurance merely "‘r‘tfipn. ls dlscarded from this Statement as wholl mlsleadln and hi '
5E? actuallyjssued and paid for in cash Is Included. y ' g, o y Insurance
I have carefully examined the foregoinglitatement and find the same to be correct.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examiningflommittee.
tilltetl the Mulual Lila Insurance Company of New You,
' February 11, 1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of
December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895,'and to verify the same by, com-
parison with the assets of the Company. 1"
The Committee have caicfully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
m rtify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that 'the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company. '
In making this? certificate the; Committee bear testimony to the high character of
the investments (f the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted. ,
H. 0. Von Post, Robert C'lyphant,
Charles R. Henderson, Wm. P. Dixon,
James C. Holden, J. H. Herrick.
Committee ‘
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001'. Secy.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, 4
ALBERT KLAMRO'I‘H, Asst. Secy.
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
a.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, ~2d Asst. Treas
IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier:
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
_ EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., r. I. A.,Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, JR, Asst. Actuary. ' WM. w. RICHARDS. Comptroller.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. 0
-. JOHN C. ELLIOI‘I‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D.
WINSTON, M. D.
JOIN w. Nicnons.
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Ctnnecticut.
A. a. camel.
Local Age at.
Norwalk Chronicler