The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 28, 1887, Page 3

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Owoe is me, and woe is me! to teli the tale Tm telling now! And to relate the bitter grief that’s come to me in spelling, now! | | Pm neither idle, nora dunce, I take to stady | readily; Isee through Algebra at once; Geometry goes -_ Steadily; Geography, and History, and Botany are dear to me; But Spelling is @ mystery that never will be clear to me! I know the rules all off by heart—a work be yond conception, sir— But what's the use, when from the start each | thing is an exception, sir! Word after word exactly glides, until I have them pat, you know, And then some dreadfu! letter slides, and there I am in statu quo! I find @ score that terminate precisely in ti-o-n, When suddenly, as sure as fate, one changes to ction: Or something sounding just the same as some ting else rot strange to you— Indeed it’s an outrageous shame—will floor you with a change or two. Td think o-u-g-h, of course, would be the same wherever found But though I tried till I was hoarse I think the same ‘tis never found; “Twas “plough,” and “through,” and “cough,” and “dough”—there’s something strange and dense in it! Can any mortal lean to know this sound that has no sense in it? Some consonants must doubled be; some con- sonants stay single, ma'am; The rules that twist the “finale” would make your senses tingle, ma’am! And as for “l,”" and “ft,” and “s,” and “y,"— which one to choose— Acat might lose nine lives for less, and boys have only one to lose. The words that end in “ing” and ‘ness; the compounds, and the primitives; ‘The diphthongs all in such a mese; the mixt- ures called “derivatives;” The horrid twists from ‘“‘oe’’ to “ge; the y's which aren't wise at all— Conspire to tease and addie me, as ifIhad no eyes at all! Ifthere were any single thing that followed where it ought to be, Without some hidden catch or spring not in the place you thought 'twould be! If there were any single rule that wouldn't break from under you— But here the wise man and the fool must both fall in and blunder through! OcouldI but the rascal reach, I'd surely find him killable! The man who first invented speech and blun- dered on each syllable! Tm not a dunce, I said before, tn Logic or Geography,? But, Oh! my heart is sick and sore, with study ing Orthography! —Chautauqua Younz Folks’ Journal. + DOWN A FLUME. A Thrilling Experience and a Nar row Escape. A large part of the gold-mining in California is done by hydraulic power. Water is brought over, across and through the hills and valleys in fumes or pipes; and the many lakes in Califor- nia make this mode of mining the most advantageous. Sometimes the flumes are twenty or even forty miles long, and are very costly works, but generally they range from three to ten miles in length. When it is convenient, a lake is tap- ped at its lowest point, and the water is carried from it, in a flume, to a dis- tributing reservoir. From the bottom of this reservoir a large and very strong iron pipe carries the water to the nozzles, or ‘‘monitors’’ as they are termed. The ‘‘head’’ or height of the water is sometimes very great, and the jet is shot out from the nozzles with enormous force against the side of the banks where the gold is imbedded, and thus tears down bowlders and earth, and washes the gold-bearing clays into the “sluices’’ where the precious metal is eliminated by the use of quicksilver. In many places where there are no lakes, large dams are built on the streams between two hills to hold the water, and store it for use. From there it is drawn direct to the ‘moni- tors.” Sone of these dams are im- mense structures, their contents being often sufficient to afford a continu- al supply during the dry, summer months. Atthe Desert mines, where the in- cidents of my story occurred, the first- mentioned mode of obtaining hydraulic power was resorted to. From a small lake, high up in the mountains, the water was carried seven miles in a “*flume.”” A flume, as we may explain, is much like a long mill-race, framed from heavy timbers, and lined with boards. ‘The D sert flume was a very strong one. From the lake it followed down a natural channel, at a uniform grade between two high bivffs for a long listance, then suddenly turning to the right, it continued two m les along the face of a precipice, where it was | that I stopped short to listen. suspended by means of iron and The precipiee was a high one, ind almost perpend The flume | vccupied a position a quarter of the way down from the top. Any one ventnuresome « and on the bluff and te | ds see the waier surging tamultucusis ried the w. and =p iles ower down. Mr. Dayton Baird had had charge of building th» fume, and as the re- sult of his skill proved satisfactory, the company made him an offer to re ‘main in their employ, which he ae | wooden brackets, and strong stay rods | This part of it was very picturesque. | Ceptea. rie nad a large force of men ander his direction; some to manage the monitors, others to keep the sluices clear, and a full score of men at the works where the gold was separated from the dirt, rcxs and gravel, by a proces; on the principle of the miner's cradle, but on a far larger scale. Several ‘others assisted about the works in different capacities. One of these latter, George Carling, had charge of the flume, reservoir and pipes, and it was his duty to walk along them to the lake and back again every other day, for the short- ness of the line made a daily journey unnecessary. When any thing was out of repiir, he took a few of the men with him, and mended it. Not very long ago, while visiting the mining districts of Calitornia and Nevada, the writer met both Mr. Baird and Mr. Carling, and in the course of conversation, the latter re- lated an adventure with which he had Met a few weeks before. “It has always been my care,” said | he, “io examine, purticularly, that | part of the flume which runs = the side of the precipice, a rather venturesome duty, I assure you. In some places I can not see over ten feet of it at a time, where it winds in and | out around the projecting rocks. At one place it goes around a crag, and | seems to be glued, rather than bolted | and stayed, to the rock At another place it winds along a shelf of rock. but it always goes down a grade steep enough tg make the water rush and roar in the open, box-like channel “On this part of the flume I spend about four hours. Any slight damage might soon become serious here. “If, for example, an iron brace loosened ita hold onthe hook, a hun- dred feet or more of the flume might come down, and that would be quite a disastrous accident, as we should lose much water, and probably he obliged to suspend work until it could be re- paired. And, as the iron hooks do loosen, cceasionally, it is necessary for me to examine them all They are fastened to the rock, eac’ in a drilled hole, and sulphur is run around them. “Then Lalso keep the gate in renair, as drifi-wood and dirt wash in from the lake, blocking the passage of the water, and rendering it impossible to close the gate. My return journey I used to accomplish quickly enough, for I turned the water partially off, leav- ing a running current half-way up the sides of the flume, and on this I em- barked in a small canoe which one of the workmen had made for me. “Once launched in the flume my canoe would make a rapid passage. darting around the curves and along the precipice. It only took about twenty minutes to make the five miles. Of course it was much easier than walking, but. perhaps, it was also a little more dangerous. “As the flume, when only half fall, would not keep the reserveir supplied, Iwas compeled, the next time I went up, toturn on the full head. Con- sequently Icould float down only every other trip. “The lake seems fed by springs, and asits natural outlet is dammed, no water was wasted by my operation. It was also necessary to keep the reser- voir from overflowing in the night, and I have to tarn the water partly off at times. “If a pony were ot any use, of course I should not have made my pas- sage in that way, but it is very rough and rocky in some places, and takes an expert mountaineer to climb around. I became so accustomed to the ride, that I scarcely thought of the danger. “It was necessary to lie flat on my back in the canoe, on account of the cross-pieces across the flume, and look- ing up I could see the sky and rocks above me, and feel my little craft make the sharp corners. The side of the flume served to check and correct its lateral motion. Then, in a very short time, I would shoot out on the broad waters of the reservoir, which re- sembled a lake nestling between the hills. And I made a bargain with an Indian, who used to fetch down fish and game to our camp, to ‘tote’ my canoe back to the lake for me on his return trips. “I was warned, however, in a very practical way, that these rides were dangerous. “One morning, as I was making my usual trip along the precipice, and over the craigs, a noise I had never heard before came to my ears. It sounded like a small Niagara, and came with such startling distinctness Then it ceased, and was succeeded by a dull roar. Apprehensive of some disaster, I hurried along, and before I had gone far, I noti that flume empty. “Tknew in ¢ matter. It did no reach the scene of the sight ther large bo the cliff ab the flu was from the ough bout ra'er was the rocks, ui], and spot where was nearly here, and the ed feet from I st four h fluine 1 the top. aid not stay t the sight, bea for the water nd dwarfed hem into the | until we reached the dam and gate. | affair of Mr. Baird’s invention, and I | something wedged under it allowed it | to grasp a cross-piece above me, and valley below. Hurriedly returning to the monitors, I vave information of the accident. “Mr. Baird at once detailed five men to go back wiih me, and accompanied me himself. A berse hitched to a small truek was to bring as boards and timber, whi en carried what rope they could fer lowering them- selves from the top of the cliff to the flume. As ihe supply of water in the reservoir would not last many days it wv Was necessary to speedily repair the damage. “When we arrived at the break Mr. Baird and one man set off with me to the lake, to close the gate, leaving the other four to sling the ropes and make a small platform to work on im mid- air. A great quantity of water had already escaped, and we hurried on “The gate was a rather complicated found, on the handle, turning that to close only half way. We werein a hurry, but none of us wished to jump down into the enrrent, at the risk of being washed away. “As my canoe was near by, in the bushes, I resolved to try again a plan which I had more than once already resorted to when alone. Getting it from its hiding-place, I took tne stout, half-inch, hemp rope that was tied to it, and hitched the other end toa tree near by, thus making fas: the canoe in the current directly below the gate. Taking an axe I then lowered myself between the cross-pieces into it, and from this position at once discovered what was the matter; adrift-stick had got wedged in the grooves. Two or three blows sufficed to break it. What a careless move my next one was! «Instead of handing the axe to Mr. Baird, or to the workman, I gave it a toss, intending it to land on the ground beyond the flume; but it hit something that changed its course, and fell back; the blade struck square on the rope that held the canoe, and cut it in two. “Before I could speak, the current. had possession of the craft, and as I was standing up the cross-piece below struck me on the back—or rather I struck the cross-piece—and knocked me down in the bottom of the skiff. 1 was not quite deprived of my senses by the blow. Stunned though I was, the terrible truth of what might await me flushed across me. Not over three iuiles below me was the broken place in the flume, and, hurried on by the rapid current, what was to hinder me from being dashed in pieces on the rocks three- hundred feet below? “I think my feelings were somewhat like those of adrowning man. I was conscious of every thing, could feel my canoe rubbing against the sides of the flume and see the cross-pieces speeding backward above me, as I rushed along under them. The sky was blue, and here and there I caught glimpses of trees which leaned over the flame. “The water swished and foamed as it hurried me on. Thoughts of my past life, too vivid to be spoken, flashed on my brain like a panorama. Iconld not sit up, and the smallness of the canoe made it impossible for me to move sideways, forward, or backward. I did not see how deliver- ance possibly could come; I was help- less! “From the gate to the npper end of the precipice, where the flume makes a sudden turn, and is built extra strong to resist the force of the water, the distance is nearly twg miles, but it seemed to me scarcely two seconds before the side thrust of the canve told me that I was hanging over the edge of the rocks. Of course it was a longer time than that, but minutes and hours are seconds, when one is bordering on eternity. “The downward pitch there is not so great, but the volume of water in the flume increases. The canoe rose almost to the cross-pieces as it rushed along beneath them. Tae speed wis -light- ly diminished, but 1 knew I was still going rapidly, too rapidly, Lfeared, to hope for deliverance. Yet I now en- deavored to check the momentum by pressing against the slimy sides of the flume with my hands. “Proj-cting’ naiis tore my palms dreadfully. 1 was deperate, however, and persisted, not thinking it possible retain my hold. “A few moments spent in these fruitless, painful efforts passed, then a dull roar broke on my e: causing the sweat to start from ¢ pore in my body! It seemed, too, that my speed increased. With my hands bleeding, I made a desperate effort to grasp a cross-piece, but instantly re- | ceived so violent at head, that I fell quite 8. “Mr. Baird was nearly frantic with error when he saw the canoe down the flume. after me, to come the fore- man ansv for life we can gi ‘Mr. Baird, us cool, obeyed me ina moment more the closed and the current checked. | *Then without waiting a moment longer he ran toward the broken part of the flume, across the country, @ shorter way than he had ¢ Ex- { citement ¢ and fear | strength; he soon reached the place! where the men were working. Thevi e and chance | ° | however dirty noticed nothing, except that the water had stopped runnin. “Have you seen him? he asked, excitedly. “They were astonishel at the ques- tion. ‘Seen Aim? they said. Seen whem? *“G corge.” “They bad not; they had seen no ene since we had left them “This gave me hope.’ Mr Bairg said to me afterwards, ‘for any thing floating apon the current does not travel as rapidly ss the water itself, and that fact came to me in an instam, and gave me courage.’ “He saw that I had not fallen on the rocks, aud knew that I must be some- where up the flume bed. Leaving the men staring a! him in amazement. he retraced his steps, and found me walke ; ing down the flume, a sorry-looking object indeed! I was drenched to the skin, cut and bleeding. They soom drew me up out of the flame, however, and my injuries did not prove very serious, “The water, going faster than | had at length run out from under my canoe, and left me stranded on the bot- tom of the flame, a few rods above the break! “Several days afterward, when the flume was repaired, I saw Mr. Baird take an axe out with him on€ morning, and wondered what he was going to do. He came back in an houe or two, with a satisfied expression o@ his face. ***There, he said, ‘I’ve saiashed that canoe, and feel better. You will never be tempted into taking another ride ia it.! ’— Youth's Companion. Remarkably Large Trees. The banyan tree is one of the re- markable products of the East Indica. Its life is usually begun from a mie nute seed dropped by some bird upom some other plant, such as the wild date, which it crushes as it growa Every branch from the main body throws out its own roots, which, con- stantly thickening, descend to the ground several yards below, where they strike in, increase to large trunks, and send oat new branches from their tops, which in turn repeat the process. The botanic garden at Caleutta contains a great banyan, now about a century old, which has a parent trunk 42 feet in circumference, 232 root trunks ranging from a few inches toa foot around, with vast lealy crown 857 feet in circumference. Near the hill fort Wysatgarh, in the Bombay Presi- dency, isa banyan whose topin 1862 measured 1,587 feet in circumference. Ocher specimens greatly exceed even this prodigious size, single trees being said to cover thirteen aseres. The famous banyan under which Alex ander the Great stopped, on the banks of the Nerbudda, onee sheltered 7.000 men, and when seen by Forbes a genera- tion ago, though much reduced in size by floods, was still nearly 2,000 feet ie circumference, and had more than 3.000 trunks. —Arkansaw Traveler. on Crushed by a Cook Lady. A lady who lives in one of the sub- urbs went last week to procure a cook, and at the intelligence office where she applied was presented to a young woman in gorgeous array, who it was supposed would meet her require ments.. The splendidly-dressed cook- lady said she had lived in the suburb in question, liked it much, and was willing to deprive the town of her presence to return to it. The refer- ences of the would-be employer seemed not unsatisfactory, and ell was ap- parently going smoothly when the lady asked: ‘Where do you live?” “We have taken Mr. Blank’s house o® Blank street,’ was the reply. An in- stant change came over the face of the questioner, a world of lofty conde- scension filling her look and her speeo® asshe returned: ‘O, that isa very nice little establishment, but I think you had better look for another girl; 1 am accusiomed to more style than i could keep upin so smalla place. And she moved away with stately mien and a dignified frou-frou of silkef robes and jet fringes, leaving the um fortunate mistress of the “nice htile establishment’ crushed and speech- less. —Boston Letter. —___-9 —The military marches accomplish ed by the ancients were fullycqual to those of the modern soldiers. In the second Punic war Clandias Nero per- formed ihe most wonderfal feat of the kind 01 record by marching a picked body of 1.000 horse and 6,000 tuor 225 miles in six days. —_—__~e = —___ Soldering Telegraph Wires. A new and quick method of soldem ing telegraph wires has been invented {in Rossia. The principal antage | of it lies in the saving of time required | for the work, and also in t youl | ance of any ‘‘scraping.’? whieh work h | to some extent, reduee th ngth of the wire. + of dine laver« of the wir are quickly may —It is stated thata being organiz~i in Boston to tr the mails between the post- the railroad stations by mm *Telpherage,”’ orears running on elg vated cabies by cleericity. Exch cae will carry 2 ton weight of mail water into vessel th trictan. ee