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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Tjje Wbstbrk Curf-DwEi.LKns.— Of late, 

 blown over the plains, come stories of strange, 

 newly discovered cities of the far south-west ; 

 picturesque piles of masonry, of an age un- 

 known to tradition. These ruins mark an era 

 among antiquarians. The mysterious mound 

 builders fade into comparative insignificance 

 before the grander and more ancient cliff- 

 dwellers, whose castles lift their towers amid 

 the sands of Arizoi a and crown the terraced 

 slopes of the Rio Mancos and the Hoven- 

 wei'p. 



A ruin accidently discovered by A. D. "Wil- 

 ,siu, of the Ilayden Survey, several years ago, 

 •while he was pursuing his labors as chief of 

 the topographical corps in Southern Colorado, 

 is described to me by Mr. Wilson as a stone 

 building, about the size of the Patent Office. 

 It stood upon the bank of the Animas, in the 

 Ban Juan country, and contained perhaps five 

 hundred rooms. The roof and portion of the 

 walls had fallen, but the part standing indi- 

 cated a height of four stories. A number of 

 the rooms were fairly preserved, had small 

 loop-hole windows, but no outer doors. The 

 building had doubtless been entered origin- 

 ally by means of ladders resting on niches, 

 and drawn in after the occupants. The floors 

 were of cedar, each log as large around as a 

 man's head, the spaces filled neatly by smaller 

 piles and twigs, covered by a carpet of cedar 

 bark. The ends of timber were bruised and 

 frayed, as it severed by a dull instrument ; in 

 the vicinity were some stone hatchets, and 

 saws made'of sandstone Blivers about two feet 

 long, worn to a smooth edge. A few hun- 

 dred yards from the mammoth building was 

 a second large house in ruins, and between 

 the two strongholds rows of small dwellings, 

 built of cobble-stones laid in adobe, and ar- 

 ranged along streets, after the style of the vil- 

 lage of to-day. The smaller houses were in a 

 more advanced state of ruin, on account o( 

 the round stones being more readily disinte- 

 grated by the elements than the heavy mason- 

 ry. The streets and houses of this deserted 

 town are overgrown by juniper and pinon — 

 the latter a dwarf wide-spreading pine which 

 bears beneath the scales of its cones delicious 

 and nutritious nuts. From the size of the 

 dead, as well as the living trees, and from 

 their position on the heap of crumbling stone, 

 Mr. Wilson concludes that a great rjeriod of 

 time has elapsed since the buildings fell. 

 How many hundred years they stood after de- 

 sertion before yielding to the inroads of time 

 cannot be certainly known. 



The presence of sound wood in the houses 

 docs net set aside their antiquity. In the dry, 

 pure air of Southern Colorado, wood fairly 

 protected will last for centuries. In Asia 

 cedar- wood has been kept a thousand years, 

 and in Egypt cedar is known to have been in 

 peitect preservation two thousand years after 

 it left the forest. The cedars throughout the 

 territories of the southwest do not rot, even 

 in the grove?. They die and stand erect, 

 solid and sapless. The winds and whirling 

 sands carve the dead trees into forms of fan- 

 tastic beauty, drill holes through the trunks, 

 and play at hide-and-go-seek in the perforated 

 limbs until, after ages of resistance, they lit- 

 erally blow away in atoms of flue, clean dust. 



On the Rio San Juan, about twenty-five 

 miles distant from the city of Animas, Mr. 

 Wilson discovered the followiog evening a 

 similar pile, looming solemnly in the twilight 

 near their camping place. The scene as de- 

 scribed was weird in the extreme. As the 

 moon arose, the shadows of the phantom 

 buildings were thrown darkly across the sil- 

 very plain. The blaze of camp-fires, the tiny 

 tents, the negro cook, the meu in buckskin 

 hunting garb, and the picketed mules, made 

 a strange picture of the summer's night, with 

 background of moonlit desert and crumbling 

 ruins, on whose ramparts towered dead, 

 «aunt cedars, lifting their bleached skeletons 

 Tike sheeted ghosts within the silent watch- 

 towers of the murky past.— Hcribner's. 



" Our Bbccb."— The horses of a great 

 city are an interesting study. Among them 

 no class display more intelligence, understand 

 their business better, or attract more untiling 

 nlcresi; than those attached to the Fire De- 

 partment. Many stories of sagacity and al- 

 most human-like action might be related of 

 those animals. Here is the outlined career of 

 an English fire-horse, as told in the Fireman . 



At the latter part of the spring of 1804 

 " ( >ur Bruce " was born. He soon began to 

 show signs of a very promising hunter, 

 sixteen hands, and in due course commenced 

 his training for the chase. At five years old 

 he had grown to a beautiful animal, very do- 

 cile, and tractable-his mottled gray coat the 

 pride of the groom and the admiration ol his 

 master. "Our Bruce" in the hunting field 

 once stumbled, and in consequence lost the 

 confidence of bis master, who disposed of 

 him to the Manchester Carnage Company 

 In the early part of the year 1870 he was sold 

 by the Carriage Company to the Manchester 

 Corporation for the fire-engine department, 

 and commenced his duties on the 24th of 

 March. Hib general appearance and kind, 

 tractable, willing ways were soon noticed by 

 the firemen, and in less than a month after he 

 ioined the brigade he was the favorite of the 

 whole establishment, having pretty well the 

 free nm of the yard, in which he caused 

 much diversion by his singular and funny 

 ways He was always full of innocent mis- 



chief, and one of his greatest delights was to 

 chase the men about the yard. It sometimes 

 happened that he was let out for a gambol 

 when the children were playing; on such oc- 

 casions it was most interesting to notice how 

 careful he was in not going too near them : at 

 other times, when the engines were in the 

 yard, he seemed not to forget his early train- 

 ing as a hunter, and amused himself by jump- 

 ing over the poles. When fired, he would 

 lift the latch of the door and go into his 

 stable, and just as easily after a rest) •' b in 

 the stable door was closed, he w T ould let him- 

 self out again, or knock loudly at the door to 

 attract attention. Near the stable d 

 is a waitr-tap with a revolving handle. 

 "Our Bruce "would turn the handle with 

 ease, and help himself to a drink. It some- 

 times happened that a hose-pipe would be at- 

 tached to the tap ; this would not cause him 

 the least inconvenience ; in such a case after 

 turning on the tap, he would lift up the end 

 of the hose-pipe with his teeth, and hold the 

 end in his mouth until he had satisfied his 

 thirst. Many curious anecdotes could be 

 told about our pet ; how, on One occasion, he 

 picked up the end of the hose and welted one 

 of the firemen who had offended him ; how, 

 at a fire, he would stand admidst the greatest 

 noise and excitement, with showers of sparks 

 falling around him and on his beantiful coat 

 only to be shaken off, and at other times com- 

 pletely enveloped in smoke ; but there was no 

 shying or fretting under fire or smoke with 

 "Our Bruce; " he seemed to know ihat he 

 had brought those who would fight that ruth- 

 less tyrant, fire, and he stood proud and con- 

 fident that before long he would return home 

 with the victors, when, after being refreshed 

 and groomed, he would again be ready (al- 

 ways first) for the next, "turn out. ". For 

 nearlv six years "Our Bruce" never missed 

 going with the first machine, at the end of 

 which time he was, in consequence of his 

 fine appearance and our desire to give him a 

 less active duty in his old age, transferred 

 from the fire-engine to police patrol duty. 

 We did not altogether lose our faithful ani- 

 mal's services, for one of his duties was to at- 

 tend fires with the mounted police sergeant 

 (whose name is also Bruce) to keep back the 

 onlookers, which he most effectually did for 

 nearly two years, during which time he was 

 as great a favorite with the policemen, rarely 

 leaving a police station without an apple, 

 piece of bread, or some marks of effection. 

 On the 7th ult. " Our Bruce " fell sick; the 

 veterinary surgeon was sent for, who pro- 

 nounced him suffering from inflammation of 

 the bowels. The usual remedies were ap- 

 plied, and everything was done to relieve his 

 pain and make him comfortable, but to no 

 avail. For three weeks afterwards he was 

 □ever left for a moment night nor day, and 

 at the end of tho third day he drew his last 

 breath surrounded by those who loved him 

 well, and who had been taken by him to the 

 scene of many a hard fight. A postmortem 

 examination was held the following morning 

 to ascertain the cause of death. A stone Sin. 

 in diameter, weighing 51b. lloz, was taken 

 from his bowels ;"this"was no doubt the prin- 

 cipal cause of the disease which led to the 

 death of the fire-horse, " Our Bruce." 



A nv antagrs of Crying. — A French physi- 

 cian is out in a long dissertation on the ad- 

 vantages of groaning and crying in general, 

 and especially during surgical operations. 

 He contends that groaning and crying are two 

 grand operations by which nature allays 

 anguish ; that these patients w ho give way to 

 their natural feelings more speedily recover 

 from accidents and operations than those who 

 suppose it unworthy a man to betray such 

 symptoms of cowardice as either to groan or 

 cry. 



lie tells of a man who reduced his pulse 

 from 126 to GO in the course of a few hours by 

 giving full vent to his emotions. If people 

 are at all unhappy about anything, let them 

 go into their icons and comfort themselves 

 with a loud boo-hoo, and they will feel 100 

 per cent, better afterward. 



In accordance with the above, the crying 

 of children should not be too greatly dis- 

 couraged. If it is systematically repressed 

 the result may be St. VituB' dance, epileptic 

 fits, or some other disease of the system. 

 What is natural is nearly always useful, and 

 nothing can be more natural than crying of 

 children when anything occurs to give either 

 physical or mental pain. 



Best Pjroteotion Against Rusting.— For 

 farm implements of all kinds, having metal 

 surfaces exposed, for knives and forks, and 

 other household apparatus, indeed for all 

 metals likely to be injured by oxidation or 

 rusting, we know of no simpler, more effect- 

 ive application than that furnished to the 

 American Agriculturist by the late Professor 

 Olmsted, author of " Olmsteari's Natural 

 Philosophy," etc. He used it on air-pumps, 

 telescopes, and various other apparatus. 

 Take any quantity of good lard, ami to every 

 half-pound or so acid of common resin (rosin) 

 an amount about equal to half the size of an 

 egg or less— a little more or less is of no con- 

 sequence. Melt them slowly together, stir- 

 ring as they cool. Apply this with a cloth or 

 otherwise, 'just enough to give a thin coating 

 to the metal surface to be protected. It can 

 be wiped off nearly clean from surfaces 

 where it will be undesirable, as in the case 

 of knives and forks, etc. The resin pre- 



vents rancidity, and the mixture excludes the 

 ready access of air and moisture. A fresh 

 application may be needed when the coating 

 is washed off by the friction of beating storms 

 or otherwise. — American Agriculturist for 

 December. 



Cashmbbb Goats in Nevada.— Pure Cash- 

 mere goats find among the wild sage brush 

 (aitemesia) barrens of Nevada an acceptable 

 climate, where their health is excellent and 

 their fleeces unusually fine and silky. A 

 herder near carson has a flock of 3,000. 

 Eastern farmers (and especially that great 

 multitude who, to admiration of rustic life, 

 do not unite much affection for farm labor) 

 are solicited to give reflection to this intelli- 

 gence. 



Here is a whole. State — 120,000 square 

 miles— open to superficial pre-emption, its 

 mountains exactly adapted to climbing goats, 

 and its sweet grass sheltered by every bush 

 of artemesia. Add to this the miraculous 

 winter pasturage, more wondrous than the 

 mythic manna of antiquity. Everywhere the 

 flashing-leaved white sage abounds. In the 

 growing time of summer no animal can 

 stomach its bitterness. But the first frost 

 that kills the summer food turns this bitter- 

 ness to sweetest pasture. It is savory and 

 fattening to all animals that herd. It tenders 

 their meat and gives to their coats a glossy 

 fur that defies the frosts and the tempests of 

 winter. 



Censure. — This world is full of harshness. 

 It is easier to censure than to praise; the 

 former is a gratification of our self-esteem, 

 while to praise seems, with minds too ambi- 

 tious and ungenerous, a tacit admission of 

 others' superiority. It is a bane of society 

 wherever I have known it, a perpetual seek- 

 ing for something which will disparage or 

 make ridiculous our neighbor. 



Their conduct is canvassed, and mean and 

 selfish motives are attributed to them. Their 

 foibles are dragged into day. I do not boast 

 myself to be free from blame on this account, 

 and yet I try to find what is good and beauti- 

 ful in all that I see, and to judge my fellow 

 creatures as I would have them judge me.— 

 Charles Sumner. 



Consult Toub Wife. — Your wife ought to 

 be your best adviser. She ought to be your 

 most confident counselor. The self-conceit 

 of a man amounts to genius. There are many 

 husbands who would as soon think of taking 

 advice of their children as of their wives. 

 But it is only the fool who is too wise to seek 

 counsel A woman, you say, knows very 

 little about business; nevertheless her intui- 

 tion is often better than a man's judgment. 

 Your wife is your partner. You have earned 

 the money, but she has saved and sacrificed 

 and pinched and worried and worked to help 

 accumulate it. She has done her fair share 

 toward making your property what, it is ; she 

 has a right to ho consulted how it shall be 

 used. 



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