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? MA?f V?T(fl ! A WUHAN 5 INFLUENCE. CHAPTER \X. BRIAN'S PRESCRIPTION. "I believe I am thoroughly tired out, Margaret. I have had a very hard day's work." Margaret turned from her book as Brian entered the room with these words. "Have you?" 6he asked. "IIow nice T?.iir flnH vrinr well-earned rest. Juu ? ? See, your chair is waiting for you. "It shall not be empty a minute longer. It is wondertully comfortable. Sit there, won't you? I like to see your face: it rests me." "Then I may consider myself useful, as well as ornamental," she laughed, wondering why the rebellious color should fly to her face in such a disagreeable way. "When did you get my message, Margaret?" he asked. "About 4 o'clock, I think. I was orrv you could not come home to dinner. You have had some, of course?" "I had an apology for one," ho returned. "I hadn't time for any other; eo many important cases brought in today. This hospital practice i6 worth a great deal to me, I tell you. I was getting rusty, and it has polished me up considerably. I suppose Miss Hilton left, as she intended?" "She went early this afternoon." This answer was given with a faltering voice. "Dear Margaret," he said with feeling, "I know how you will miss her. I "wish you would let me comfort you. Don't go away.. ?i ? ? fftw minn+ofi n chP fin VUIJ 1U1 a. XV" m.^uvvw, ewered hastily. "I am coming back." True to her promise she returned quickly, with a small tray in her hand. "Only some cake and coffee," she said, "to make up for that apology for a dinner. I made the coffee. I>o you think you will like it?" "Will I? Its fragrance is sufficiently tempting." Brian jumped from his Chair, and took the tray from Margaret's hands. "I'm just beginning to realize that I am hungry. You will help me to drink it?" "Of course," laughed Margaret "I want to show my appreciation of culinary ability. Norah thinks I will be quite a finished cook in time. This is pice, and if we had some Elmwood cream it would be all to be desired. You like it? I am glad. I want you to tell me now the cause of your serious face. It looked ever so long when I came in." "I am the least bit anxious about you. I fear you are losing the old strength you used to boast of. Don't 6hake your head so decidedly, I see with an experienced eye. I saw how that ring slipped about when you were pouring this coffee, and seven months ago, when I put it there, Margaret, it was very tight and snuc. I want to see it bo again. You need the country breezes. I know that Elmwood is the magical medicine which your case demands, and If I prescribe it, I don't believe you will find it so bitter to take." "And you?" she asked, after a moment's silence. "That is to be just as you say, Margaret. u "Then," she returned with a radiant lace, "w?? will both go home." When Wilson learned of this decision, "The fascinations of New York have been; n V?o r\ on 1 Q roH M T CAC1AJ19CU lit tatu, uw uvvtu*v<4i think you will find something to regret when you have gone from us. Still I am sure you will realize a much needed benefit, and in view of that I must be glad that you will so soon enjoy the pleasure of the country. I hope you will not quite forget us." "I will never forget you," was the impulsive answer. "The service you have rendered Brian I cannot even realize, much less thank you for. The most I can do is to give you a place among the friends I cherish most highly. Brian and I will hope to see you quite often. I know you will like Elm wood. It is so beautiful. I never knew how much I longed to see it until this moment. I believe I haven't dared to think. The rliir T tnr>k n lontr ride on the Madison avenue cars, just for something to do, and when we got out in the nineties there was a real little bit of country before us. I could not stay in the car. The sun really seemed so much brighter; and when I heard the hens and saw the ducks and geese walking along the narrow pavements I wanted to sit down and cry." "Wilson smiled. "Did you think better of the impulse?" ho questioned. "Oh, yes. Fortunately, I came upon a woman sitting on the grass with the whitest, fattest baby I almost ever saw. I adore babies, and I began to admire that one extravagantly. The mother was delighted, and by way of recom peiise, I presume, gave me a detailed history of the seven latter and whiter ones which had preceded this one. By the time she finished I had forgotten that I ever wanted to cry." "So the baby proved an effective antidote. You were very fortunate in your meeting. Now. I believe I must hurry awav. I could only steal a moment jusi to run in to say good-by." "I don't believe you have stayed that moment," complained Margaret, "and I am sure if you were very anxious you couid stretch it just tnt> Jeast bit. Brian will be so sorry not to nave seen you. Are you so very busy. Doctor?" "Well, rather," was the half hesitating reply. "Summer is near at hand, and that is a time of wretchedness for the unfortunate poor. I wish we had a larger corps of fr^e doctors. We certainly need them in those crowded, mis erabie districts, where tl:?- white crapo and tiny hearses tell their own story of Buffering and death. 1 have brought a shadow to your face; 1 w.ll say no more." " l ou are merely givms iuu a umup: of the other side of life, ' she sn:d thoughtfully. "1 find the contract, a? usual, sail and strong. I wish the world Was different. I wreH we lived under 'Bellamy's order of things." "Wilson smiled. "I fear such order is too Utopian ever to be realized," he answered. "Perhaps, though I dare say Are you really goiug? Well, then I must say good-by. I hope it is not necessary for ine to repeat the assurance that Llrr.ivuoci always noius u ntiwmti j>>i you. I thank you lor your good wishes, and I wish you to remember that I appreciate more than I liavo power to express the?happiness you have helped to give me." "So more," Paid Wilson, with painful abruptness. "My service is not worth ?U?& yiefttipp,". . "Without another word he pressed her hand and was goDe, leaving her rather a surprised at his unusual manner. 8 s CHAPTEK XXI. r elmwood again. Ij Margaret had finished her breakfast, * and even after Brian had left she still v sat over the table, her heart filled with a sweet content, and her eyes dim with tJ the happy tears that shut from her vision P the familiar objects about her. For she was home. Home in dear old a Elmwood. And now, after eating what she de- i p clared to Brian to be her biggest break- I fast in three months, she wanted to sit f( still and feast her eyes upon the smooth F fireen lawns where the bright sun sifted itself througn a luxuriant network of p! green tranches, and the lilac and the hawthorn were bursting into a breath t-J of fragrant flowers, ana say to herself it is good to be here. . [j She repeated the same words to Brian when he came in at luncheon, and he, ?r looking at her face, almost marveled at A the change that had come over it. " "I dare say, you are rient, Margaret; it i6 good for you to be here. I don't- * believe I exaggerate when I declare w that there is already some color in your o cheeks. What have you been doing a: with yourself this morning?" c< "I "don't believe I can begin to tell, tl you. First, there was so much to talk about with Mrs. Davjs. We have been 61 laying our heads together and evolving' bj some delightful plans. You will see the results after awhile; an J then, this ii afternoon I must go to The Cedars. I p am pining for a sight of the Colonel." * "And he, no doubt, is pining for a sight of you. I suppose that will com- E plete your happiness." e "As nearly as it can be completed. Do you remember how we left Elmwood, r Brian, under the chill and cold of win- ti ter, and we return to it in the joy of a glad resurrection.' I accept it as an u omen, and I am?very happy." w She left the table with these words and walked to the open window. Brian fi followed her. S "Let me share your happiness." he b 6aid, in a low voice. "Darling, the pro- li baticm lias been very long." He slipped his hand about her waist, and drew her to the veranda outside. "You remember our compact? I shall keep it?be sure of that?until the day comes that you shall bid me break it. And it will come, Margaret, as certainly as we both stand here. You will find me very patient until I have won my victory, for I feel that even the price which Jacob paid lor Rachel is not too dear to pay for you. Now, may I tell | you what I have been doing to-day?" "Yes; I shall like very much to hear." "Wf.ll, I have been taking with Dr. Philips. I wish you would let me see four face, Margaret. It will be more encouraging than your back. There, that is better; thank you. I saw Dr. Philips, as I said, and l told him of my wish to build up a practice here. Just as I expected, he feels his advancing years, and will be very glad ef a young assistant. He is delighted to help the 6on of his old partner, he tells me. So you see I am particularly fortunate. I ^ e+rtw * ? f irtt/k Vn I c cKAfifl fttiH t.h/illfrh IUU 1 iUjIU 4141V U4W >J11 Vv ?"?, VMV-QI may lind them very large " "You will grow,'' put in Margaret, glad of this new turn to the conversation. "And I am very much pleased," she added, more gravely. "So am I. It is the first step toward winning my wife." A half hour later Margaret was sitting in the chair of honor in Alice's rooms, half-lau?hing, half-crying, and trying to ask and answer questions in the same breath. "I'm going to keep you a few minutes all to myself," declared Alice, "because I have so much to tell you, Margaret. So much I could only hiut at it in my letters. I could not express one-half ' L - 1 ! T 1 1 f? a trie nappiuebB 1 iuu^:ru mi >uu iu maic. q "I am 60 glad, dear," Margaret an- p ewered. "So very glad for you and for ti Bertie, rell me all about it now." d It was fully fifteen minutes before Alice sent the message telling her uncle that Margaret was there. It brought the Colonel In very quick time. "Oh, Colonel," she cried, and the next ? Second she was folded in his arms. n: "Hack again, Margaret. I am so u glad, child. This time we mean to keep ci you. Bless your dear heart; it does my tl i?yes good to 6ee you. Even though you k have grown so thin and your face is as a white as our own snow-bulls." n "Colonel, you hurt my vanity. I e' shall grow wonderfully fat and well in a few weeks. You won't know me. Brian thinks I have some color already." . "Brian! Let Brian go to the devil! I beg .your pardon, my dear. I see I v hnv.-> horrified you. I am not over- 1 c pleased with Brian, as you may guess. si [i dare say. you llnd excuses for the scamp, however. I a:n glad he has 3 some grace lel't. You worr:en can 0 usually manage men. I w.is getting J read.v to come i:nd shoot hin:, but 1 0 must acknowledge ihat your method tl | has been more effectual." b "He is growing tired of doing noth- c ing," she answered, without meeting the Colonel's glance, "and he has de- ? cided to practice his profession here. t] I dare say he will become as highly re- 0 spected as dear uncle Stephen was." tl "Highly respected! Fiddlesticks! t( There it is again. Margaret. The outcome of prejudice, most probably. I beg your pa:don a second time, and predict that Brian will become all that it you want to make him. If he doesn't ti :T.?- ti "Shoot him, I suppose," put in Mar- ? garet, with laughing eyes. "That would a be a fatal blow to my hopes. I beg you e you will spare me the humiliation o! p faiiure. And please give Brian credit 1 on his own account." d "Certainly, my dear, all he deserves; d though I must add that I don't consider ? Ihe demand excessive. Alice, isn't that ? ihat your rascally husband bawling Jown-stairs? I hope you have no in- p tentlon of Roing to him. Let him use J his Ion*? legs and come up to you." ^ "He is using them," observed Mar- ? garet, smiling at the long, heavy strides 9 amending the steps. "Alice, don't be a i _1 _i r So jcaiuuD, pieaac, 11 x cti v tiaat r-i nc ia one of the nicest .men in this -world." "Thanhs for the compliment, which < wasn't intended for my ears. I just beard from jfour groom that you had j, condescended to honor us with a visit." j And Bertie burst into the room. "It is so Datura! to find you here," he ? added. "Father feels ten years younger a from your very presence. And you are lookinn better ? much better ? thaD t when I saw you last, though you might t still be the original of Tennyson's '0 rare, pale Margaret.' " ci "Nonsense," interrupted the Colonel, c rather testily. "Don't be a fool, Bertie. \\ hat^ long tongue you have." j "You see, Margaret," observed Bertie, j with laughing eyes, "my appreciative father still allows hie admiration of my t talents to surprise him into little affec- ( tionate speeches. You must not thinh anything of it. He is very proud of me.' 1 "Humph!" was 1 ho contewpuous re- r ply, at which Margaret and Alio* c laughed. Tkr?n?hniit tVir> vicif thf> oh(?orfll' * badinage continued, and when she was J ready to yo iiome. after nut a little ] pressure to stay longer, Hcriie declared t his intention o!' rid ng \rfih her. i "it was so g iod of you to come," sh< said, after they had left The Cedars i J'.nd i:e nad expres.-ed hi- pleasure it i Brian's changed conduct. "You knew J i had something to sav to you." "Your eyes tell all your secrets, Mar- ' garet. \\ hat is that 6omgthingV" _ j "Can you not guess? It affects Briar nd you. You have always been suck ood friendB until very lately, and I aa o anxious for those old feelings to b( enewed. The circumstances of you) ist meeting were not?very pleasant le will remember this, and perhaps you rill remember it too. I am going to sk you to forget it. When I rejall all fciat you have done for me before, I feel erfectly confident that you wiLI not reuse this favor. You understand me, I m sure?" "Understand! "Who can fail to undertand such goodness as yours? When think of that, it is all the harder to Drget the suffering he has caused you. 'erhaps I cannot promise, Margaret." "Oh. yes, you can. The suffering you peak of may have been of great adantage. I may become the better and le stronger for it Besides, Brian has truggled and suffered too. You C.^n ever know how much. Even I can ever know how much. And he is trylg now. For that he deserves credit, think you will have to do as I wish, -ertie. Indeed, 1 am sure you will." "There, I have nothing more to say. ou always have your way. I dare say e don't realize what Brian had to vercome before he won his victory, ad as far afc ray words or actions are jncemed, he shall have no reminder ol le past." "Thank you," was the grateful antver. "I never liked you better or adlired you more than 1 do now." He smiled his response as they turned a at the gates of Elmwood. As they aproaehod the door Margaret saw Brian .-jiitint? to meet her. He bad evidently not expected to sea tertie, and Margaret noticed a slight mbarrassment upon his face. "I have Bertie with me," she -said, iding close to him. "He has come all tie way from The Cedars to see you." "Little hypocrite." murmured Bertie nder hio breath. "Don't you think it rong to tell libs?" The next second he had assisted her rom her horse and turned to Brian. iO word passed between them, buttheii and-cla-p held a language and a meanlg of its own. [TO BE CONTINUED. 1 TEMPERANCE A MOTHEB'8 MOAN. It was not on the field of battle, It was not with a ship at sea, 13ut a fate far worse than either That stole him away from me. 'Twas death in the ruby wine-cup, That the reason and senses drown, Ho drank the alluring poison, And thus my boy went down? Down from the height of manhood To the depths of disgrace and sin; Down to a worthless being, From the hope of wbat might have been. For the brund of * beast besotted He barteied his manhood's crown; rhrough the gate of sinful pleasure My poor weak boy went down. 'Tis onlv the same old story That mothers so otten tell, "Witb accents of infinite sadness, Like the tones of a funeral bell, But I never once thought when I heard It 1 sh ould learn all its meaning myselij I thought he'd te true to his mother. I thou gut he'd bo true to himself. But alas for my "hopes all delusion! Alas for his youth and pride! Who are safe when this yawning danger 1? open on every side? Oh! Can nothing destroy this evil? No bar in their path be thrown. To save from the terrible maelstrom The thousands of boys going down? THE " SHALL DOSES." The small doses frequently repeated, small lasses of liquor regularly taken every day, re what make an honest citizen a victim of lcohol without his having ever, perhaps, assed through a state of complete intoxicaori, and without his having suspected the anger to which he was exposed. FRENCH CHASIFJONS OF TE3IPEBANCE. The temperance movement in France is Dnstantly finding new champions. In the rovinces as well as in Paris new societies Houn fnnnHAfl hnth for total abstainers ad for those who, while not going quite aa 11. attack in the most earnest way the exessive use of wine. Among the friends of lis movement are a largo number of wellnown physicians, some of whom, while vowedly non-Christian, acknowledge the eed of moral and religious help for those uslaved by iiquor. "n.VRMLESS CIDEB." ' A few months ago two boys rode to a connry store. One of them bought and drank )ur glasces of "harmless cider." They then rent to a country church, disturbed the conregation, who were holding a social, and tarting home, overtook others. The boy. only nineteen years old, who had rank the cider, began to quarrel with another young man. and before the others calized what was taking place, had killed im; and he was a son of a widow. The boy, nly nineteen years old, was sentenced to tie penitentiary for twenty years. So two omus arc made desolate by lour glasses of ider. Not until the anguish of that widowed lother's heart as she sat listening for the ountiing step of her boy and heard instead tie trend of those who bore the liie ess form I DUr UUV, Ciiu UC u^liluuiou, uau wo ituuw tie ccst of four glasses of cider.?Watch3 WW. BEER AND ATHLETICS. Boor drinking in Germany is being disercded by competitive athletes, says tho Naonal Temperance Advocate. It is stated lat tnree clubs of Leipsic students hivo bandoned the "morning drinking bout," nd that several additional university clubs re about to take the same step. A desire to xcel in athletic sports is said to be the imelling cause of this action on their part, 'his practical acknowledgement that beer ^ni-inir is inimical to the bestDhvsical cou ition and to the highest degree of athletic uccess would be significant in any country, ut it is especially so in Germany, the great eer country of the world! We have someimes feared that many students we.-e dis>osed to give relatively too much attention o athletics, but if these athletic sporfsshould sad them to abandon the use of intoxicants re should rejoice and account it a great ,'ain, even if they were less brilliant in cholarship. May their athletics prosper jid beer be overthrown! TEMPEKANCE NEWS AND NOTES. TVho can tell what mar and angels lose on he day a young man takes his 11 rst drink? The influence of alcohol is never to stimuate life-growth, but always to hinder anl lepress it. All the gold and iron and coal which kuftralia produces in fifty years it drinks iway in ten. Heathen parents throw th^ir children to he crocodiles; license voters throw thei:s to he saloons. The Boston and Maine Railroad is having in "annum clearance 01 employes wuv wm Irinkinp shops. Maine has no breweries or distilleries, but t has thirty loan and building associations n active operation. The liquor traffic is to-day the heavest \oc: iT'on the progress and the deepest disgrace >1 the nineteenth century. Even a brewer one hundred years ago rrote: "Through drink thero are half a nillion homes to which happiness never :omes." M. Andre, who taught tho French Trinco Imperial how to swim, and acquired wealth is a fashionable teacher under the Empire, ins just died in great poverty, due to drink, lis last means of earning a live.iliood was o shave poodles, and his own black poodle ollowed him to the grave. Railroads and other great corporations lave it in their power, if they will, to servo is efficient helpers on of the tejnperaneo nterest. Five saloons in Chicago near tho Nickel Plate shops are reportol to have gone >ut of business since tae order went into fleet forbidding employes to visit such places. ? A NATION'S WARDS. 2 UNCLE SAM'S SUCCESSFUL GUAR- r< DIANSHIP OF TIIK INDIANS. Il P The Once Hostile Tribes Have Aban- ^ doned the War Path and Taken e to the Arts of Peace? ^he Custer Massacre. IT is a fact 'worthy of note that since June 25, 1876, the date upon which General George A. Custer art] his entire command were massacred by the Cheyennes, no serious outbreak upon the part of the Kition's ward, the American Indians, haa occurred in the United States. Yet, despite the fact that the Custer massacre practically dates an entirely new epoch in the history of the Indian races of this great country, its twentieth anniversary, which occurred recently, passed unnoticed and unhonored, save by a few individuals with whom the memory of the little band of heroes who perished on the plains is yet green. Prior to that time Indian uprisings were of frequent occurrence, for of the 200 or more tribes now in the United States there are not ten bnt what have been in revolt at some time or another. There are many residents of San Francisco, says the Chronicle of that city, to-day who can recall the Modoc troubles'of 1873 and the Bannock war, in which King Joseph asserted himself so persistently, while the Apache outrages nnder the leadership of Geronimo are etill fresh in the memory of } many who can by no means be called ^ old timers. ? During the past twenty years, how- \ ever, the Government has been en- a gaged in trying to civilize and control the remnants of these once powerful n tribes on reservations, and with re- 11 markable success. In fact, the Indian of to-day can only cast a longing eye over the old hunting grounds of his forefathers, for. although centuries of living by roaming, war and the consumption of the wild products of nature have not especially fitted him for I readily accepting civilization, he has t been compelled to acsept restraint. P The Atlantic coast Indians, the 1 Cherokees in North Carolina, most of ' the tribes on the northern lakes, and ^ the remnant of the Six Nations in New York and Pennsylvania have long Bince ceased to be troublesome, while disease and other causes have helped to destroy the great magB of the Indiane from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. ine ureess, uneroKeee, unoctaws, i ? a tniittUAiiXS UAJUC' Hitl'.LL>| U1AJJ* ^ " ii Chickasaws and Seminoles, in the In- fi dun Territory, once so warlike and ij fierce, having intermarried with whites and the colored people and n adopted others into their tribes, have j8 almost entirely lost their identity, and b> are now a progressive people. _ The Sionx, Comanches, Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, Bannocks and others are on reservations, and, even if disposed to belligerency, are so surrounded by white settlements that a war would be of short duration. The Pacific coast fish eaters and root diggers are peaceable, progressive and almost entirely self-supporting. The reservation Indians, 133,417 in number, according to the census of 1890, are located in twenty States and Territories and form about 147 tribes or parts of tribes, occupying about 78,500,000 acres of allotted land, but much of the area of these reservations is desert. fi The present policy of the Govern- e: mexit, the eighth which has been tried S; upon the Indian since 1789, is known oJ as an educational and allotment one; and to the education of all Indian q children at the expense of the Nation p< is chiefly due the existing condition g< ot affairs. C The best tests of Indian advance w toward civilization are the adoption of K the white man's dress and habits^ their C engaging in agriculture or tie me-, 11 chanical arts and in consenting to the tl education of their children. Judged z< \ 1 . >>* SIOUX V.'OMEN by tliesc three standards the Indians I* are slowly but surely progressing I' toward Anglo-Saxon civilization, j r Whereas in former days the Indian v children vrerc allowed to grow up in ; h indolcnco and hatred of the white j \ man and his methods, they nre now a educated at. National institutions, i c and, bfeins essentially <iuick and im- | ? ative, soon learn the white man's aye. In addition to those on the various 36ervations there are at least 110,000 adians who are self-reliant and indeen^ent. These having already jarned that it is to their interest to e like other men are already on an quality with other raceB in the d&M mm/Mi j -^roy? CHIPPEWA IN] Jnited States, and fnrnish a striking [lustration of the result which may be ttamed when the ignorance, inabilty and fears of the Indians are sublued. The Indian wars under the Govern A ? C 1L - TT_ 11 _ J Ql.J lent/ UL LiiU UlillCU Qtttico jjovo uccu lore than forty in number. They :ANDAN, NORTH DAKOTA. TO NT A APACHE. ave cost the lives of about 19,000 'hite men, women and children, and ome 30,000 Indians. From 1789, the date of the adoption f the Federal Constitution, to 1846 here were seven serious wars, as fol ?ws: War with the Northwest Indins, 1790-1795; William Henry Haris?n'B expedition to the Northwest, 811; Seminole War, 1818; Black lawk War, 1832 ; Creek War in 1813, 814 and 1837, and the Florida War of 839. Between 1846 and 1866, a period of wenty years, the United States was ngaged in two wars, tlat with Mexico nd the Civil War, in both of which he Indians figured extensively. Durag this period also there were some fteen to twenty Indian affairs in Calornia. Thp Tndian wats of 1857. 1862. 1864. S65 and 1866 in Minnesota and adicent States were bloody and costly, eing conducted by the Indians with NAVAJO CHIEF. A UTE CHIEF. ightful barbarity. Thrre military speditions were req aired to 6top the ionx massacres of 1863-6G, at a cost E S10,000,000. From 1865 to 1879 there were freuent engagements. The most imAt. _ O ortant were ine war iu auuw?u v/?con and Idaho and northern parts of alifornia and Nevada, 1865-68; the ar against the CheyenneB,Arapahoes, iiowas and Comanclies in Kansas, olorado and the Indian Territory, 368-69; the Modoc War| in 1872-73 ; le war against the Apaches of AriDna, 1873; the war against the I ? I IN CAMP. uotras, Comanches ami Cheyennes in [ans:6, Colorado, Texas, Indian Teritorv and >"e\v Mexico, 1874-75; the ar against the Northern Cheyennes nd Sioux in 1S7G-77 ; the Nez I'ercez VTar, 1877; the Bannock War, 1878, oil tbat against the .Northern uneynnes in 1878-79. Tlieso include the etterman massacre of December 21, 1866, and the Caster maaeaore of Jon* 25,1876.? The Ute* in Colorado and invading Indians from outside that State caused three ware prior to io?u, ana tne I Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico I were frequently murderous and deI structive. The removal of Geronimo's | band of 384 Apaches as prisoners of 3IANS IN CAMP. war from their former homes to Mount Vernon barracks, near Mobile, Ala., effectually stopped their depredations, however. The number of actions between regular troops and Indians from 1866 to 1891 was 1065, keeping an average of 16,000 officers and men actively employed. The total cost to the United States for pensions to thesurvivois or widows of these Indian wars to June 1, 1890, was estimated at $28,201,632. The following table shows the number of [Indians in every State of the Union, both on and off reservations, from which it will be eeen that more than half of the Indian population of the United States is dependent upon the Nation. The firet.column of fig tires comprises the reservation Indians not taxed; the second column includes all the Indians off reservations, /selfsupporting and taxed: Alabama 384 759 Arizona. 28,469 1,512 Arkansas 250 California 5,101 11,517 Colorado 985 107 Connecticut 228 Delaware ) 4 District of Columbia. 25 Florida . 171 Georgia /, 68 LlahOt 4,064 159 Illinois 98 Indiana S43 Indian Territory 1,224 50,055 Iowa 398 . 60 Kansas 946 736 Kentucky 71 Louisiana ' 628 Maine 552 Maryland 44 Massachusetts 42? Michigan 6,625 Minnesota 8,208 1.88S Mississippi 2,036 Missouri 128 Montana 10.249 860 Nebraska 3,588 2,898 Neva^ 1,557 8,599 New Hampshire 16 New Jersey 84 New Mexico 6,490 8,554 New York 5,818 726 North Carolina 1.516 North Dakota 7,9S0 194 Ohio 206 Oklahoma 18,167 10 Oregon 3,713 1,258 Pennsylvania 98 983 Rhode Island.*. 18C South Carolina 178 South Dakota 19,072 782 Tennessee * 146 Texus .. 708 Utah 2,848 608 | Vermont ?? 34 i Virginia , 349 Washington 7,526 8,655 West Virginia 9 Wisconsin 6,095 3,835 Wyoming 1.801 43 Totals 139.333 107,920 Since the Indians have taken to the arts of peace and abandoned the war path, life on the frontier for the American soiaier nas uuuuuie uiuiusu burdensome. It is now a question as to whether the garrison posts which were necessary along the frontier when the Indian tribes roamed at large at will, and at which trained troops were held in readiness to take to the field at a moment's notice in response to the 6moke of the signal fires of hostile Indians, are now needed, and some of them have already been abandoned. Others are being converted into military schools, where the army, such as it is, may be drilled in the art of war. Life at the army posts has thus become monotonous and desultory.?San Francisco Examiner. Li Hung Chang. No living public man of Asia has been so much the subject of discussion and criticism as Li Hung Chang. Much of the criticism has been unfavorable, and his critics arc often unfair. It is hardly just to him to estimate hie character and attainments according to the standard of Western Nations. His education is exclusively Oriental, and his entire life has been spent in China. His knowledge of our civilization is such as could be acquired ir the motley society of a treaty port. Ae a statesman he has had to deal with a very conservative and bigoted cou6tit uency, and with associates prejudiced a^aiust and ignorant of foreign Na ! tioas. Judged in the light of his edu cation, hie experience and his sur roundiugs, he must be regarded as the first of living statesmen of Asia, anc ona of the most distinguished of the public men of the world. ?Century. The Cow ;ui<! the Bicycler. , <\ J \ V ft ir *. vSas&i&iY ./ '-J - ^ ' 0 " ^ V V * rr+. ' ,? X DOG WITH A WOODEN LEG. VH "Boze" Limps Like a Veteran, Bt^H Manages to Cover the Ground. < A living dog, even with a woodcBH leg, is infinitely better than a de&HH lion. |M That is what Mr. Garrett, of PnlasaHH County, Kentnoky, thought when h^^B watchdog, "Boze," limped into th^H hnnoo nno rfav with his left forele^HI barely hanging by the skin. BB "Boze" had a foolish antipathy t^B railroad traine, and the inferenoe wa^H that he had scraped np an argumenfiH with an ezpresd which had gonHfl through abont half an hour before. HH Mr. Garrett, who is something of surgeon?like most good KentuokianMj ?decided that he might better kee^H three-quarters of "Boze" than to los^H him altogether. So he completed th^H work of amputation, bound np th^| stump of the leg and gave the dog first^M class care. W - * ? ? i. "iJoze" nimseii seemoa 10 uiiu was worth living, and in three or ion^H weeks be was np and abont. Bat hiHj gait was wobbly, and Garrett set t^H work and made a wooden leg t^H straighten him np. He whittled an^H ecraped and polished it, and fastonedH it to "Boze" with a olever arrangoM ment of straps. At first trial the dog didn't takJH kindly to the addition that had bee^H bnilt for him, bnt he couldn't shake off and finally concluded to make th^| best of it. Within a week he THE DOG WITH THE WOODEN LEO. ' walking about with all the four cor nered dignity imaginable. When he wants to jump a fence 01 chase an invading cat oat of the doo: yard he folds the wooden leg np unde him. And a railroad train is some thing he has no longer any possibl nee for. Mice and Bats in Japan. There are^mall "deer" on the islan< that arouse no poetry or gracious sent! mente. The mice, those pests of Jap anese tea-honses. raced through the doll houses at will by dark, the orn* mental traceries and designs pieroed in the pretty wood panels above the screens giving them free range of every room. They ran over my face, scratched mv pillow, nibbled my fingers, and kept me awake night after night -with their rnstling and gnawing. On the third night of moase carnival I called the servants and had lights brought. The landlord heard the soands and! bustled across the court to see what the matter was. "I think there is a mouso in this honse," I said. *'OhJ certainly, certainly, honorable lady,"j he said, bowing low and proudly; "yes, indeed; I have many, plenty oi rats at the Momiji." And he could not at all understand why we should make such a trouble about so natural a thing, and object to these sure evi-! dences of abundant prosperity, thes&j companions of Daikoku, the god of! plenty.?Century. The German War Dogs. XI BJJCU40& iCALUiO m viao j vu? ? v* . man grand manoeuvres will be supplied by war dogs, which have been most admirably trained for seeking the wounded and carrying despatches. At the command "seek," accompanied by a gesture indicating the direction in which the dogs are to search, they will start off without allowing themselves to be disturbed by any surrounding circumstances. They will; find the men wbo figure as wounded with unfailing certainty, take a piece of their clothing?cap, helmet, or a piece of cloth torn off?and bring this back to the ambulance mer, 4V?/\-rr fnan nnmlnnf f.r* fit a cnnf,. In the despatch service the dogs fnl-M fil their duty with admirable speedH and certainty. They carry the des-B patohes in a small box affixed to theiiH collar.?La France Militaire. fl Mayflower's Tiller Still Prcserred. H It is not generally known that th^H tiller of the Mayflower is now atfl^ Plymonth, England, and is owned byHj a Mr. Mortimer, of Devon. The de-fl THE 1TLLEB OF THE MAYFLOWEB. H 6cendants of those who left Englanflfl recently visited the historic town aa^H made a special pilgrimage to ti^H shrine of the tiller. It is said to in an excellent state of preservatio^^B All Paper. Enthusiastic paper makers say th^^H the new woman and the new man w^^| soon dine off paper dishes. Pap^H dress material masquerading as si^^R seriously threatens the silkwori^H ? ? ? -1X. s* 4 4-./n A? f d nraol^^l OprUC^ bUWUllSbj CUUUU Ui JUvC uowhh and alcohol are put into the machi^^M and come out at the other end chinin^H delicately colored, rustling silk, sui^^fl able for a dainty lady's gown. To sure, this paper silk does not wear well as the product of the silkworc^H out think of the cost, how ruuH cheaper it v.ill be! In Paris near^^H any milliner will be able to show y(^JH cffliol) hnnrmta nrul hats made cntire^lH ^VA4kiU WW?WW of paper?frame, trimmings, ornamen^Hf and ail. The paper trunk is comii^H into use, It is said that it is unbreafln able. A Congregational church ie to l^Hj erected in Gainsborough, England, H9 a cost of 630,000, as a memorial ^Bj John F.obinson, who gathered thc^^B ?i .-i_ _c tj:I. : SHE 111S UOCii ui x iiyriLU iamwo. Progress in the settlement of Mi^H nesota was never so marked as ut pre^K ent, the sales of State, Governmt^^H 1