e upon us. They were not so heavily loaded, and they had
the full sweep of the water, while we had it rather at second-hand.
Their boat finally struck ours with a terrible crash. Mr. Flood was
thrown upon his face, and the waters flowed over him. What became of
Hereford I do not know, except that when we reached the terminus of the
flume he was as wet as any of us. This only remains to be said: We made
the entire distance in less time than a railway train would ordinarily
make, and a portion of the distance we went faster than a railway train
ever went. Fair said we went at least a mile a minute. Flood said that
we went at the rate of a hundred miles an hour, and my deliberate belief
is that we went at a rate that annihilated time and space. We were a wet
lot when we reached the terminus of the flume.

Flood said that he would not make the trip again for the whole
Consolidated Virginia mine. Fair said that he should never again place
himself upon an equality with timber and wood, and Hereford said he was
sorry that he ever built the flume. As for myself, I told the
millionaires that I had accepted my last challenge. When we left our
boats we were more dead than alive. The next day neither Flood nor Fair
were able to leave their beds. For myself, I have only the strength to
say that I have had enough of flumes.

HORACE GREELEY.

In the history of journalism, Horace Greeley must, for all time, hold a
position in the front rank. As it is well-known he is a self-made man,
being born of poor parents at Amherst, New Hampshire, on the 3rd day of
February, 1811. His father was a farmer. The Greeley ancestors enjoyed a
reputation for 'tenacity,' which was clearly shown in the pale-faced,
flaxen-haired but precocious lad of fifteen, who presented himself and
was employed at the office of the _Northern Spectator_, at Poultney,
Vermont, in 1826; having walked from West Haven, his home, eleven miles
distant. He was to remain an apprentice until twenty, and received in
money the princely sum of forty dollars a year 'with which to buy
clothes and what was left he might use for spending money.' Why he lived
to found a great paper the reader can easily guess, when it is learned
that Greeley used the greater part of said forty dollars each year for
buying books.

He joined a local debating club where he became the 'giant' member, a
tribute paid to his intellect. Most of the members were older than
Greeley, but knowledge prove