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ML HUNGER RALPH}: Htfaif of to Westa tails BY WELDON J. COBB. CHAPTER XIY. BANGEB RALPH'S AD VENTURIS. . "We left Ranger Ralph in a very pecu? liar position of peril and excitement, an occupant of one of the wagons the outlaws had secured from the attacked migrant train. < As has been stated, the scout believed that his presence In the vehicle was not known or even suspected. He had crept thither, desperately wounded as be supposed, and while unconscious the wagon had started on its journey. ; From what he saw and heard, the cout reasoned that Danton bad met a sew section of Despard's outlaw band Xtear the emigrant train, and they were U now returning to tbe bandit's headquarters at Lone Canyon. ! The plight was not a pleasant one to the ranger, fie discerned great peril ?nd trouble should Despard carry Inez to his mountain home. More than once ithe old scout had led the vigilantes to the place, only to suffer defeat. The canyon was nearly impassable wnen guarded by the outlaws. Even were the girl rescuedv It would "be difficult to pass through the eountry Infested by hostile Indians. Still, the acout was glad the plot now centered at Lone Canyon. Here he knew the her- j mit Walford lived. The scout found that his wound, received at the onslaught on the emigrant train, while painful, was by no means , serious. He lay securely hidden by the bay and straw in 'the bottom of the wagon, yet he could see his enemies on the seat and behind the wagon. The course of the outlawo during the morning was over a prairie interspersed with trees Toward evening they diverged to the mountains, entered Lone Canyon, and then .followed the Pueblo Biver through the hills. It was just about dusk when the cavalcade halted at a place well known to the scout As he peered from his covert he knew that he was in the vicinity of one of the hardest taverns in the territory. It was known as "Lone Canyon Tavern," and was kept by a man named Dltmar, who, surrounded by. fugitives from justice and criminals, safely defied the law in this isolated place. The entire party had stopped here, ?nd their noisy tones and clinking glasses could be heard from the bar-room a Jew minutes later. The scout was about to shift his pained, cramped position, and even meditated taking advantage of the gathering dusk to escape from the wagon, when lie paused and listened. Two men were passing the wagon and going toward the saloon. They were conversing, and he heard one of them cay:' "I understand Despard is going to divide and leave the business " "Yes, when we get up to tne den," re iponded the other. I "There'9 considerable plunder to divide. " aI should say so. He got a lot from the emigrant wagons." "In gold?" "Clearmoney; yes." "Where is it?" "Maybe it's in this wagon." "Not likely." "Why not?" "They don't leave gold lying around - M 1UUSU. One of the men. as if impelled by some whimsical curiosity, had placed his hand over the backboard of the wagon. Groping among the hay, he uttered a j Jtartled ejaculation. "Hello!* "What is it?" asked his companion. "There's some one in here." "In the wagon?" "Yea " "Who Is it?" "Dunno, but it's some one." . "Let's have him out" "No. That's Danton's business. I wonder if he knows who it is?" "May be a friend of his. We'll tell him about it, anyway." The man pulled vigorously at the scout's arm. Ranger Ralph gave utterance to a series of incoherent mutterlegs. "Drunk!* commented one of the men. Thev walked away toward the tavern. The scout foresaw that his discovery 'was only ? question of time. He glanced toward thb tavern, and observed that several of the outlaws were banging outside the piace in full sight of the wagon. "If I could only start up the horses around the ledge of rocks there, I would be out of range and could escape," he thought. Banger Ralph chirruped to the horses, snd they Instantly started. He had miscalculated what would occur, how ver. The moment they turned the ledge of xocks the road led by a steep descent to the river. Unguided, and borne forward by the Impetus of the wagon, the Worses dashed down this declivitous pathwcy. The scout sprang to his feet and start1 * -v A A 1 ^ ea ior me seat a swiug ui me vouimo dashed him against its sides, and then he gave np all for lost: for the wagon pitched from side to side, lurched forward, fell over the side of the cliff, and went tumbling to the rocky oed of tne river, sheer forty feet below. The startled outlaws hurried after the wagon as they it start forward. They saw the catastrophe, and heard the horses neigh wildly in terror as they struggled in midair. Then the traces gave viy, The steeds disappeared nnder the waters of the river. The wagon struck the water, was submerged, and.then with Its living freight was borne from sight into tne shadows of the canyon, down the swift current of the Pueblo River. CHAPTER XV. WHITE FAW*. The smoldering camp-fire of the Modocs burned low, and the spot where the triumphant savages had fired the funereal pile a few minutes previous was silent and deserted. At the place where Darrel Grey had been tied to the tree its charred trunk and a heap of ashes alone showed. The least sanguine of the Indians , would have sworn that their intended victim had certainly paid the full penIit7 ox mi temerity in visiting their jump. ; Yet the young scout had escaped. . It was a marvelous combination of circumstances which led to his timely rescue. He had abandoned himself to his fate, and adjudged a struggle utterly useless when the lire was lighted. I He saw the Indians disappear. 1 He saw the Are creep upward?a hideous, menacing eerj:ent of flame? and gave himself up for lost Suddenly hope revived In his breast. His hands were loosed; he was forcibly dragged back from the tree, and he turnod to greet his unexpected rescuer. _ A dark, expreiilyg. {a.g neejeji .lnt$ .. ~; - - . . v > ' - - ms own, a pair of mournful eyes met his glance. "White Fawn!" ejaculated Darrel, In bewilderment It was Indeed the Indian maiden. "Yea, It Is White Fawn." "And here? You rescued me. Ah, how can I thank you?" "Eagle Eye forgeta " -r orgets what? "That he Baved the life of White Fawn." "But how came you here?" "Because here wa9 thn Black Crow.* "Despard!" exclaimed Darrel. "Yes, so the paleface calls him." "He is your enemy?" Tho eye9 of the Indian prlnces3 flashed fiercely. "Tiers', my most cruel enemy." "Speak! What wrong has he done you?" "Whv would Eagle Eye know?" "To avenge White Fawn's wrongs." "You would do that?" "Yes, for he has persecuted the friends of Ea?le Eye." "Come!" The Indian maidea Jed Darrel to a spot near the river where they would not be discovered should the savages return. Then she told her simple, fateful story. It seemed that a month previous she had been wedded at the camp of her father to the J aguar, a chief of the peaceful Nez Perces. The latter wa9 to convey her to the reservation of his tribe, and left the wigwam of Shadow Snake loaded down with gold and jewels. Dyke Despard and his men were to convoy them to their destination. Instead, ho robbed then killed the Jaguar, as White Fawn believed, and Imprisoned her in the cave whence Darrel had rescued her. Here she had been guarded by one of Despard's men until the return of the latter from Ten Spot Then he had attempted to kill her, as has been seen. Darrel asked the Indian girl why she did not ro to her father with her story. "Not till White Fawn is certain the Jaguar is dead, and until she.has killed Black Crow," she replied, ominously. She listened intently as Darrel related his own adventures with the bandit. Then she said: "White Fawn knows where Black Crow has gone." "You do?" "Yes." "Where?" "To Lone Canyon." "Is it far from here?" "A night's journey." "And you will guide mo thither?*lYes." Before an hour had passed Dwrel knew that the intrepid White Fawn was a valuable and dauntless ally to his cause. She seezned inspired with but one idea, and that was to confront the man who had wronged her so terribly. White Fawn understood the country thoroughly, but they may slow progress. Many times they concealed themselves to avoid passing savages, and it was night when they came to the canyon where the stronghold of the bandits was located. They skirted the gulch where the Lone Canyon tavern was situated, and descended Into the wild gully beyond, that was desolate and isolated in the extreme. v The moonlight showed the river with the towering hills on either side. "Look!" said White Fawn. "Yonder is one of the hiding places of the palefaced renegades." Barrel saw a dilapidated log structure which seemed to be built out from an immense cave in the mountain side. "You think Despard is there?" he asked. "Yes." "And the girl?" "Is his prisoner there, or near by. Re main nere. v> nue rawu wui soon return." "Where are you going?" asked Darrel. "To find out how many there are?to iearn how we may reach them." She was gone ifke a flash. The moments spei by and Darrel anxiously awaked her return. He was standing on a ledge of rocks which jutted out over the river, and vainly scanned the scene for some indication of the presence of his foes. Suddenly, to his right and inland, he saw a light flash. He began walking toward It, clambered over a jiuge boulder, and was amazed to view a natural basin in the landscape which resembled an immense pit. Itssicies were almost perpendicular, and were overspread with vines and bushes. Tho light moved across the open space at the bottom of this indentation. Apparently, it was a lantern carried "Ktt cawq norcnn WJ OVtUV Jk/V* WW u> Darrel observed that the place was directly ba^k of the elevation In which the log cabin was located. It was evidently a part of the abode of the bandits. As he stood regarding the lantern curiously it suddenly disappeared. At the same moment, in leaning too far over the edge of the pit, ho lost his balance and fell forward. Down, down he went, slightly breaking a very heavy fall by clutching at the vines and shrubs. He landed at the bottom of the pit, badly bruised and half stunned. There was no way of climbing out of the place, and as he recovered his senses he endeavored to find some other outlet from his strange place of imprisonment. He finally groped his way to an opening that seemed to lead into the mountain side. Undoubtedly, he reasoned, the man with the lantern had disappeared by this egress. ? He crept along a narrow passage-way, and saw, some distance ahead, a glimmer of Tight Darrel paused, as agiinst its radiance he made out a large, cavelike apartment Two men were standing within it One was Dyke Despard. The other woo n Tnnn hoftrirnr n. Ian lorn In hia hand. "Well," the former asked, "Is everything all right?" "Yes, Captain." "No spies or visitors since we left?* "None.* "And the way of escape by the pit?* "Ia closed up until we need to use It. * "Very well. Now, then, as to your expedition down the canyon?" "In search of the old hermit? Wal ford?yes." Darrel started. He remembered that this was the name of the man to whom Tracey had left the fortune for Inez. "I have located him." "Good." "It is about ten miles from here.". "Could you guide me there?" "Beadily." "Is he alone?" "Always." "And not prepared for visitors?" "He imagines no one knows the way to his abode." Then we will make a visit" "When?" "To-morrow." The two men left the place. Darrel followed them at a distance. Suddenly the light was shut out from his vision. A large stone seemed rolled Into aD aperture leading from the cave. He approached it and peered beyond the edges. A cry of delight escaped hi3 lips. In an underground apartment stood the object of his que9t. It was Inez Tracey, the girl ho so devotedly loved. [to be cowtxkubo.] ! MIGHTY PEKIN. ALL ABOUT ITS QUEER SIGHTS AND STRANGE PEOPLE. Capital of One-third of the WorldWalls of Pekln and Three Different Cities Enclosed? Its Great Markets. PEKIN, writes Frank Q. Carpenter in the Washington Star, is perhaps one of the ~ least known cities 01 tne world. I have paid two visits to it, and I spent a month in it six years ago. During the present spring I prowled about it3 streets for days and devoted myself to making a study of the town and its people. It is an im< mense city. It contains about fifteen hundred thousand, but these are scattered over an area of twenty-five square miles, and the people as a rule live m one-story houses. The city is surrounded by walls which were built hundreds of years ago, and which must have cost many millions of dollars. These walls are in good condition with the exception of one or two places whare the floods of last winter undermiuded them and carried part of their facings away. It is hard to give an American an idea of one of these walled cities of China. The walls of Fekin are sixty feet thiok at the bottom. They would fill the av> erage country road or city street, and they are as tall as a four-story house. They are so wide at the top that you could run three railroad trains side by aide around them, and they are so solid that the cars would move more smoothly over these tracks than they do on the trunk lines between New York and Chicago. These walls are faced inside and out with bricks, each as big as a four-dollar Bible, and the space between is filled with earth and stones so rammed down that the ages have made the whole one solid mass. They are built, in fact, much like the great wall of China, and the bricks of the two are almost exactly the tame. I have before me a brick which I brought from the great wall. It weighs about twenty pounds, or as much as a two-year-old baby. It is blue gray in color, and it is covered with patches of white lime mortar just lit? xl XT L T ? J1KU tiiUbU tiittU X O?>v xxx vlxv ux uacii placeB of the -walls of Pekin. In approaching Pekin, long before you get to the city, yon see the immense towers which stand on the top of this wall over the gates which enter' the city. These towers are as tall as a big New York flat. They rise nine stories above the wall, and they have roofs of blue tiles. They were used in the past as watch-towers, and they have many port holes for cannon. There are thirteen gates which lead into the city, and the towers and the walls near these are plastered over with proclamations and bills much like a theatre billboard. The gates of Pekin are merely holes through this wall, and they are about as wide as the ordinary street and perhaps twenty feet high. They are lined with stone and are beautifully arched. They are closed at night with great doors sheathed with iron, and they are paved with heavy slabs of atone. The walls of Pekin are twenty-seven miles long, and the area which they enclose is irregular in shape, and it consists of two big parallelograms. The one at the north is the real capital of China, for it contains the Tartar city, the great Government departments, the foreign legations and the Imperial city, in which, surrounded by from five to ten thousand eunuchs, the Emperor lives. The lower parallelogram joins the Tartar city. It has half a dozen temples, including the Temple of Heaven, which was burned down not long ago, and which now is being rebuilt of Oregon pine. The Chinese city is where all the mercantile business of this great capital is done. It is cut up into narrow streets, and it is filled with all sorts of stores. It has markets of all THEY LIKE FORE. kinds, and its fur market covers several acres. It has its wholesale as well as its retail fur market, and I have gone out at 6 o'clock in the morning and found perhaps a thousand almond-eyed merchants dressed in gorgeous silks moving about through great beds of furs of all kinds. The furs are piled upon the ground, and you can buy sables for about 83 a skin, and tiger skins for $75, which will be worth twice that amount anywhere else in the world. You can buy the finest of ermine, and for $10 you can get a coat of lamb's wool, of the kind that our ladies use for long opera cloaks. This Chinese city is a city of banks and of stock exchanges. I visited one morning the silver exchange. It was a room like a barn, and the people were buying and selling stocks just as they do on Wall street, yelling and howling and pushing each other like mad as they did so. It is a city of book stores, and there are some streets which contain no other shops. We have the idea that the Chinese merely live upon rice and on rats, and that their chief industries are the making of matting, of fans and of silks. The truth is that China does a vast business, and she produces all sorts of commodities. Nearly every one of these Chinese streets contains shops of all kinds, and the main business of China is not the supplying goods for the foieign markets, but the making of those required for her own jjeople. They - x_ 1 nave as many wants as we nuve, uuu they require as good goods. The nobles dress in the finest of silk, and there are hundreds of stores which sell nothing but pictures. The art displayed in most of the paintings is abominable, but they are pictures | nevertheless, and the Chinese pay good money for them. I wish I could show you the markets of Pekin. You can get as good meat there as you can in New York, and there is no finer mutton in the world than that of North China. The sheep are of the fat-tailed variety, and I saw many which had tails weighing over a pound. It is queer how they kill the animals which they sell. They have no slaughter houses, and a sheep is often butchered in front of the shop and the blood lies on the ground while you buy. There are all sorts of fish, and they are always sold alive. No Chinaman would buy a dead fish, and in case you want to buy less than a whole fish at a time, the Chinese peddler will pull the fish out of the water, lay him squirming on the block, j and cut a piece of quivering flesh out of his side for you while you wait. He does not kill the fish, and after yon ] are through he throws it back into a separate pail of water and waits for i another customer to take off the rest. One of the chief meats sold is pork, and you see hogs trotting about through the streets of Pekin. They wallow in the puddles right under the shadow of the Emperor's palaces, and they are the dirtiest hogs in the world. There are all kinds of game for sale in the markets, and yon can get snipe and quail and squirrels of all kinds. The Chinese are the bast raisers of poultry in the world. They have duck farms and goose farms, and they know all about artificial incubation. They ..~11 nnnn+ifioD nf CfPP. Sfl OC1X ? X unv \^UHUV*VA%W v? ov ? | and dried ducks, and they carry bushel-baskets full of dried ducks about the city for sale. They sell all kinds of fruit and they are adepts in the raising of the choicest of vegetables. They bury their grape vines in the north in the winter, and you can buy your nuts by the bushel. As to cats, dogs and rats, I did not see any sold in Pekin, and I don't believe that the better class are accustomed to use them. I am told, however, that such cats as are sold in the ?outh are raised and fattened especially for the market, and that their diet is usually rice. Dogs' flesh is supposed, by the people, to give heroic propel ties to those who feed on it, and the'same ~ "l^jr ?(j W i THE STATE DEPAI effect is produced by bears' meat and the ground-up bones of wild tigers. These things ought to bring a high price just now in Pekin, for the people certainly have reason to increase their courage. Another queer article that you see in th^e Pekin market is false hair. I passed several places where long-queued Chinanamen stood beside a board upon which were hung long bunches of black Chinese locks. Each of these was a false pigtail, and it is said that one of the chief articles of export from Korea to China is hu mi AL 1 J < L man flair. xne umnese oruiu e&ir& locks into their queues and they often patch out their queues with silk thread. I might write a full letter about the queer things shown in the Chinese part of the city of Pekin. I could tell you of a vast business done in gold and silver paper which the Chinese burn at the graves to furnish their dead with money to pay their passage to heaven. I could show you shops selling nothing but coffins, in which single articles of this kind cost as high as four thousand dollars, and where the dutiful son often buys his father a nnfifin an A mnto it (J. nTPKpnf, tft fhfi nlfl W1A4X* ? man years before his death. I could tell you of stories where thousands of dollars' worth of incense or joss sticks are sold every month, and I could take you into establishments which sell nothing but birds and gold fishes. There are big stores fall of furniture and shops which make nothing but porcelain stoves. There are places where wood is sold in bundles by weight and establishments where coal dust is mixed up with mud and sold in lumps the size and shape of a baseball at so much apiece. There are great markets for the selling of chickens and flowers, and all sorts of toy stores and stores for the selliDg of pa?er and cloth. There are lock peddlers by hundreds and hardware establishments, and if you are very hard up and in want of a meal 1 can show you a little hole round the corner where I you can get camel's meat soap and I mule roast at Ipw prices. There are places for gambling and dime museum shows. There are restaurants of every description and opium joints without number. There are, in fact, stores of every sort and description, and the best things in China come to Pekin. The most interesting part of Pekin, however, is the big Tartar city. It is the capital of one-third of the population on the globe, and in it lives the son of heaven, the Emperor of China, to,whom all his subjects mil of. rl thpir knens. It contains the thousands of Manchu officials, the foreign legations, the Government departments and all the paraphernalia of this queer Chinese court. It is the most interesting city on the face of the globe, and its sights really beggar description. From the walls the whole city looks like an immense orchard, with here and there onestory buildings shining out through tho trees. In its centre there is a walled off inclosure filled with massive buildings roofed with yellow tiles. This is the Imperial city, in the innermost parts of which is a brick pen in closing several square miles, where the Emperor lives, surrounded by eunuchs. He is perhaps the rarest bird in the whole Chinese aviary, and I will follow this with a sjjecial letter describing some of his antics. He is kept apart from Chinese and foreigners, and you might live in Pekin fifty years and not see him. He really knows nothing abont his people or his surroundings, and he is a sort of a pappet "who stands still or dances A NOTED PEBCN BEGGAR. when his highest officials or the old Empress Dowager pulls at the string. No better idea of the condition of the Government of China could be gotten than by a trip throngh this Tartar city. It is one of the oldest towns in the world. It was founded more than a thousand years before Christ, and it has been the capital of millions for ages. It ought to be the greatest city on the face of the globe, but there is no spot more filthy and slimy and foul. The city knows nothing of modern improvements. It is cut up into wide streets, but the roads have no sidewalks, and the rude Chinese carts sink up to their hubs as they move through the oity. There are no water closets. The streets are the sewers, and the most degraded savage of our Western plains has a greater regard for the exposure of bis person than have these pig-tailed, silk dressed, gaudy, fat Pekinese. The city has absolutely no sanitary improvements, and the street lamps are framework boxes tacked with white I paper, and they are seldom lighted ex ~~l fa ?J ITMEJJT AT PEKIN. cept during full moon. It is absolutely unsafe to move about in the night time without a lantern, if you wish to keep your feet clean, and you have to balance yourself in the day to keep out of the mud. .All of the houses are of one story, and the Government departments look more like broken down barns than the offices of a great empire. I went one morning to visit the ? J __ T 1 T 1 .i atate uepartmenij aau ?b x juywu av it 1 thought of our great building of the State, War and Navy, which cost, you know, more than ten million dollars, and which is the biggest granite building in the world. The street was a mud puddle, and I hugged low, shackly buildings till I finally came to a gate at which a dirty official was standing. He shook his head as I entered. but I pretended not to see him, and pushed my way in. I entered a court, which looked for all the world like a barn yard surrounded by low wooden stables, with heavy tiled roofs. This court was filled with donkeye, horses and dogs, and half-naked children sprawled in front of the doors to these buildings, which were, in fact, the offices of the department. The buildings were filled with clerks, who wrote away at bare tables, the light coming in through latticework walls backed with white paper. . They scowled at me as I looked, and one of them gave me to understand that I had better move on. I next visited the famous Hanlin College. It was worse than the State Department, and everything about it was shabby and going to seed. I tried to get into the board of punishments, where the horrible cruelties which the Chinese Government metes out to its rebels and criminals are passed upon, and where * ? _i .J torture 18 common, dul i was sioppea at the door and was positively told that I could not go in. It was the same with all the Government departments. They could not have been shabbier had they been knocked up out of odd pieces of old Noah's ark, and everything was filthy and the picture of ruin. The only really new things in the city seemed to be the clothes of the officials, and I laughed again and again as I saw these manderins bow down in the mud and go through the forms of the Chinese court amid their filthy surroundings. 1 They are among themselves, as far as words go, the most polite of all nations, and they look upon us as boors and barbarians. The most of the people believe that they will conquer the world, and I doubt whether a thousand out of the million and a half people in Pekin know anything of the Japanese victories. The court officials distribute all sorts of lies, and they have probably told the people that they have whipjjed the Japanese on both land and on sea, and that the Mikado will be brought to Pekin. The majority of the citizens of the Chinese capital reaiiy Deneve mai America is subject to China. They think that Colonel Denby is sent to the capital to pay Uncle Sam's tribute to their Emperor, and this, I am told, is their opinion as to every foreign legation. They have nicknamed the street upon which the foreign ministers live "the street of the subject nations," and they would consider it a disgrace to ask our ministers to dinner, and I venture that Colonel Denby has never been on intimate terms with a dozen highclass Chinese officials. This, I know, will seem straDge to Americans, but it is actually th? truth. Pekin is a most cosmopolitan city. We have in America only the Chinese of South China. These come from the hot countries at the southern part oi the empire, and they are small and lean in comparison with the people oi the north. They dress differently, and they have a different dialect and different habits and customs. Pekin is frozen up for six months of the year, and you can have ice-sledging on the Peiho at Christmas. I found the people of every Chinese State different, and the dialects are as various nn Ion rmo era a "P.TITATlfl. HftTA ?jttugvB w ~ in Pekin you find representatives of every Chinese State, and there are celestials from all the big cities. Thibet, Mongolia, Manchuria and parts of Afghanistan are all tributary to China, and people of a half dozen religions jostle each other as they wade through the streets. The strangest sights to me at first entrance were the nomadic Mongolians, who rode into the city on great camels or dromedaries, which were covered with wool from six to twelve inches long. These come from the cold regions of Mongolia or Siberia, and during my visit to the Chinese wall I MAJJDAEDIS saluting. passed caravans of these camels marching in single file and fastened together by sticks thrust through the thick flesh of their noses. They were loaded with great bundles of furs whioh they had brought down from the North for the dilettante mandarins of Pekin, and were carrying back briok tea and coal to the Tartars and Bus- . sians. Many of these were ridden by Mongol women, who, in coats, pantalnnnn and fnr csdh rode astride, and in other cases by men, who were elad in sheepskins with far caps palled well down Over #their fierce Tartar eyes. I saw hundreds of Thibetan lamas in their gorgeoas robes, *nd I met many Mohammedans from the west part of China. A Fanny Fish. A peculiar fish was captured recently in the East River at the foot of Adams street, Brooklyn. The fish is peculiarly shaped, weighs about seventy-five pounds, and measures three feet in length and two feet in diameter. It has two wings, each of which measures fifteen inches in length. Its head resembles that ot a moon fish and has a small oval-shaped " ' x x? -i rm,? moum aDOUl two iliuuca ?iuc, -Luu fish has one upper and one lower tooth. The upper part of its body ij a bright silver color, while the lower part, including the wings, is the color of bronze. The story of the capture is about as peculiar as the fish itself. Morris FISH AND COIN FOUND UNDER ITS FIN. Doyle took a stroll down to the river front about 10.30 Wednesday evening - - - - ? ? . * a. "nii_x and boarded tne tug-Doat runt, wwuu was lying at the foot of Adams street, to have a quiet chat with Michael Robinson, the steward. During the conversation Doyle saw an object in the water which he thought was a drowned person. He hastily discarded his coat and vest and jumped in the river. As he neared the object and discovered it was a large fish he grabbed its wing und held it, despite its efforts to escape. Kobinson came to Doyle's assistance, stuck a pike pole in the fish's body, and with a rope hauled it aboard. Doyle said: "I have had experience with all kinds ot Hsu in my career as u swimmer, tut never have I had such a struggle as in trying to hold that fish." A peculiar incident occurred while Mr. Doyle was showing the fish to a New York World reporter. A Chinese coin was found imbedded under the fish's fin. How it got there is a puzzle to fishermen. Beneath its ponderous tail were hundreds of barnecles, evidently swept from some old hulk. An Anarchist Toy. France is anarchy mad. The craze has even spread to the toy shops, in which baby bombs are everywhere ior sale. Two small springs project energetically against the capsule, which is tilled with fulminate of mercury and rests on an anvil, over it a cylindrical hammer; as long as the cover remains on the box the small hammer is stopped in its course by a prop. As soon as one opens the machine the prop is loosened, the spring works, the hammer explodes the capsule, and the toy I becomes a dangerous thing. It has in itself the ingenious simplicity which | ~ ~ THE BABT BOMB. characterizes all the products of Parisian industry, and at the same time it is called forth by a sorrowful reality. To prevent lamp chimneys from cracking put them into a kettle of cold water, gradually heat it till it boils and then let it as gradually cool. A goose in Harrison County, New York, adopted a brood of motherless pige. TEMPERANCE. ~3 WHAT TOTAI< ABSTIHEJfCE DOES, Total abstinence kindles the home flrGf Alls the larder, replenishes the wardrobes peoples the school houses, crowds the oh arches, empties the prisons, discharge? the police, throngs the markets, emplojw labor, prospers everybody on earth. ?nJ blesses everybody In heaven. ' A miODTFUIi WASTE. "At the very threshhold of this lauoi question comes the temperance question. I Is fearful to think of It, but In this Nation o: the United 8tates over $1,000,000,000 anntt4 ally Is spent In the direct traSo of intoxicating liquors, besides Its being the direct causa of the waste of much more monev. Men are unable to work because of Injury done to their appetites by drink. Time Is absorbed In drinking, the country's resources are scattered to the wind. It wo^ld be much betta if the money given to drink were taken am cast Into the late. At least It would thai leave behind it no harm." HOW TO MAKE TOTAL ABSTAIJTZBS. , Bev. A. C. Dixon, D. D., of Brooklyi speaking on "Total Abstinence for You? Men; How to Make It General," say*: "T mnku our young men total abstainers, 9 must convince thorn of four things: I Nature is against alcohol; it Is not the natu ral fruit of the vine, but the product 0 decomposition. 2. The Bible Is against a] sohol. 3. The Church is against it, aqi must be; a tippling pastor Is worse than an; ten grogshops. 4. The State Is, or ought t be, against alcohol, as aloohol Is against tit State ; it is against law." I. ldXD WORSE THAX WASTXB. " An abstract from the German Impart statistics shows that one-fifteenth of all tl cultivated land in the country Is devoted 1 the production of materials for the makln of alcoholic drink. The liquor trafflo en ploys directly 1.500,000 men out of the 2Q 600,000 engaged in German Industries < every kind. The loss to the country 1 I I mmiOT t>i rono-Vi thin dlnrttfln of Unit. jmiwI ital and labor Into the servioe of an lndsstr which leavA the country no richer than b< fore Is estimated at 468,000,000 marks?a , average loss to every family of eight person of a sum large enough to keep a laborer' family of that size for eight weeks. AND WOMBS TOO. Doctor Brennan, one of the leading pbys alans of Montreal, read a paper a few da; ago before the American Health Assoc latio and stated that from his medical experienc he was in a position to say that in wome: the habit of tippling is far more prev&len and disastrous than is imagined. Withi the Inst four months he had seen four w< men, each the mother of several ohildre nnd moving in good society, die from th effects of chronlo alcoholism. The drln habit takes hoid of a woman sooner, grii her more firmly, and lets go more rare, than it does in tne case of a man, for she of a more nervous organization, more easi] q Kv o*irr?nlorifa hna mftPfl rthAnflfifl < concealment and has fewer aids to recover^? when once enslaved. The beat plan lor a^H women is to avoid Intoxicating drinks. (M BOY DBUTfKABDS. [H John Flynn, aged six. of Amtty stree^B (Brooklyn, was arraigned in tha Myrtle At^H iiuo Court, Brooklyn, for being drank; and some other children stole half a dczMK I bottles of whisky and drank it The chlHR was accompanied by Michael MacNamat^Hj fourteen years old, of Congress street Wh^H they were placed in front of the desk in (M clerk's room, Flynn said : "Say, Mickey, don't say nut'n,' will Then he told the wholostory. MacNama^H was sent to the Truant Home, and FiyiMn was taken in charge by his father. Ten-yezM| old Jlmmte Brown, eleven-year-old Mlch^H O'Connolly, and seven-year-old ThomHH Ahearn have not yet recovered from t^H effects of Imbibing the stimulants.?XflHj I York Witness. H OXLT FOB DEVIL'S 7009, An address was delivered recently Washington, before the Temperance Soci^HB of the North Presbyterian Churoh, by ?v. W. Godding, Superintendent c! G^Qj | eminent Hospital lor me insane, ue oh B strcns pl?- for the establishment intl^M 1 city o! an inebriate asylum, and spoke of t^M efforts he had made to Induce Congress take some action. He said that one of tH burning questions of the day was the p^onH treatment of the inebriate. He referred|M| the mistake made by so many young men^H supposing that alcohol is a food. When t^H evil that alcohol has wrought in the woa^H is consldared, said the lecturer, the cono^M lion is that if it is a nutriment then It IsHH only for devil's food. Ref irring to drunk^H ness as a disease, he said ;hat it is a dise^HH of which sin ma> have la.i the foondati^^M but the pathological changes In the bra^^B the lecturer said, lies outside of the plan^^H moral accountability, and are in the natiHH <>! the wages of sin, rather than the sin ItsflH rOUE QUALITIES OF DEUXXE5XES8. When Adam first planted the vine Sa^Bj came and killed a peacock over it, and vine drank its blood. When the vino gi^^H and put forth its leaves Satan came ag^|0 and killed ail ape over it, and the vinedr^^H the blood of the ape also. When grapes formed on the vine be killed a lion over and the vino drank up the blood of the When the fruit was folly ripe Satan csMgfl once more and killed a pig over It, and HQ yine drank up that blood also. MB Hence, he who drinks of the frait of HH vine imbibes these four qualities. When^Ha first tastes the wine, and it begins to cr^^H in his limbs, the color blooms in his and he becomes gay as a peacock. WhenH3| first signs of drunkenness come upon hin^HB plays, claps hands, and dances ilka an when the wine grow3 stronger within he grows violent Ilka the lion, and lenges every one else. At last he wallSgH like a pig in the mire, desiring only to sl^^H and his strength is gone.?Translated fj^^B the Arabic. - - DM TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. ^Ngj Cleveland, Ohio, has one saloon to cnflBfl 175 inhabitants. |H Sixteen towns of California have secu^Nfl a prohibitory ordinance. ^K& The daily receipts of Chicago saloons +s\ hA.4iiQ9 soo. mm WUHUMOU iV WW ? tr mm j ~ "A drinking woman is a social crimlna^^H the worst type."?National Baptist. BSH A recent dreadful murder in Connect^BM was committed by a man who was bard cider. HH The annual liquor bill of the United is over one-fifth of all our expenses and^^^H tween a fifth and a sixth of all we prod^HH The W. C. T. U. of the District of Col^BBI bia have passed resolutions highly comm^^Ql ing Mrs. Cleveland for her Arm stand aga^^H drinking. The New York Tribune says: "The lic^HH traffic is to-day the heaviest clog upon^^^H progress, and the deepest disgrace, ofH^H nineteenth century. |^H| Indiana's liquor bill is $40,000,000 a In silver dollars placed flat edge to edf^DHa WOUiQ COTer iue euuio uuuuuuj uu? State, including its tortuous river lines. Mn The California Voice says: "That of the $24,000 recently paid as pension^RM the soldiers lound its way Into thetilHRBH the fifteen saloons that curse the ton^^Bfl San Monica. The State Conventions of the W. C. T.^HBH year have been unusually larze, and it lleved that the National Conventiofl^^H Cleveland will be the largest in the hi^^sH of the organization. The Melbourne Sportsman is respon^^HH for the statement thut "drunk and ble" was the charge brought against^HB children under ten years of age in Chrl^^^H London for one year. 9HH The Lancet says: "In 1000 grains of^H^fl there aro 107}f grains of nourishment^BBH 1000 graina of wine only 1}?." Invalids iW|B a great mistake in talcing wine instes^J^Bj nourishing foods to regain strength. .jHBj Professor August Forel, who is oonn^HBK with the University at Zurich and is oeH^^H rue iorercosr scientists ui juuiujjc, .^w made Chief Templar of the Grand Lodf^HH| Good Templars recently, instituted in erland. BsflBfl As the saloon prospers i? any comm^^^^H the Church declines, and as the Ct^^HHj prospers, the saloon declines. The dea^HBH the saloon may not always be the life o^H0H| Church ; but the life of the saloon is, as it controls men, the death of the Ch^^^BH ?Presbyterian Messenger. jnH^H The National Soldiers' Home at Da^^Sa Ohio, is surrounded by saloons and div^M^H Tested with robbers who, by meaus suiting in murder, rob the veterans of pension money. The Supreme Cour^^^^f just rendered a decision that the mile ^Hj^H half limit law, providing against the liquors witbin that distance from the is constitutional, and many proseci^^HH Will toilow. K|Mg