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I - - ! ' ' r;sp ?. ?- ? ? ~ ? . ? ~ * VOLSklAX. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1890. NO. 18. NOBODY KNOWS Only a kiss on the baby's fa??. Only a kiss with a mother's grace, So simple a thing that tho sunbeams lauehc i And the bees ha lm-e:l from where they quaffed. Onlj- a kiss, but tin fa?e was fair. And nobody knew what love was there. Nobody knew?but mother. Only a word to a mother's joy, Only a word to her parting boy. And the changing lights on the window shono As her boy went out in the world alone; Only a word from a mother brave, Eut nobody knew the love it gave. Nobody knew?but mother. Only a sigh for a wayward son, Only a sigh, but a hopeless one. And the lights burned dimly and shone with a blur. Could a mother condemn? 'tis human to err. Only a sigh as she took his part; But nobody know what it cost hor heart; Nobody knew?but mother. Only a sob as the tomb doors close, Only a sob, but it upward rose. And tbo lights in tha window dickered and died, And with them, her hope, her joy, her pride, Only a sob as sho turned away, But uoboay knew as sho knelt to pray. Nobody knew?but mother. ?New York Weekly. a bmyfdefence. Our family, which consisted of father, mother, myself and sister, had been living in Minnesota nearly two years when the Iudiaus initiated that murderous and historic uprising. I was sixteen ycari old, and ray sister Mamie was twelve. We were living on a 100-acrc farm, six miles from the nearest village and a mile from any neighbor. We had a snug log house, hams, sheds, etc., and had nboul fifty acres in cultivation. Three days before the outbreak my father had marched with a company of recruits foi the army, and this same corapauy had taken almost every able-bodied man out of our neighborhood. The crops were to be left for the wives and children to harvest, and the idea of trouble never entered any one's mind. While Iudiaus were more numerous than white people, uobody had reason to fear them. They were uuder care of the Government, and, so far as anybody knew, were perfectly satisfied, and entertained friendly feelings toward the settlers. My father left home the day before the outbreak, and mother went along tc see mm on. Tins was tno case witr several other women in our settlement. They left early in the morning, intending to return next day. Sister and ] were left entirely alone, but at about S o'clock in the forenoon an Indian named Lod? Walk made his appcarauce. He had often called at our house, sometime; staying all night. He had a bad sore oc his leg, caused by the bite of a dog, and mother bad made and given him an oint mcnt which was fast healing it up Father had mended bis gun for him mother had mended his clothe, and LoDg Walk was indebted to the farnil] lor many other kinducsscs. He was : man of about forty, very intelligent and, as near as wc could learn, hadncvei been married. I was cutting hay about a quarter of : mile back of the house, and Mamie w?? spreading it to cure, when the Iudiar appeared. lie had been to the house an? fouud father and mother gone. Wher hc^camc down to us lie queried: /""Where father?" "Gone with the soldiers," I replied. "Where mother?" "She has gone to see father off." He looked anxious and troubled, and wncn iasKca it nc would have somcthinc to eat he replied in the negative. Hi eat down in the shale of a tree and liat nothing to say for a while. "When I re pcated my inquiry, and Mamie offered t< cook him some breakfast, he rose up one replied: "Come along to cabin." "When we reached the house he took : long look up and down the road. I was sixteen miles to the railroad stntior from which the soldiers would depart and Long Walk seemed to be wonderinj if he should advise us to set out for tha point. After a time he seemed to thiul it wouldn't do, and turned and entered the house. Our cabin was a two-roomec affair, with a garret above. There wer< two wiudows in each room below, bul none above. Long Walk examined tin windows, and then went out to a pile o lumber in the yard and said: 4'Get saw?get hammer?get nailsget boards, and fix windows. Mak< everything good to-day." "But why?" I naturally asked. 4'Suppose bad Indian come to-mor row?" he queried in reply. 'But the Indians won't hurt us." "Don't know. Indian heap mad. In dian drink heap whisky. Indian nift} kill white folks." His manner, more than his words, madi me feel that danger menaced us aud 1 got the tools he asked for and began worl at once. He measured for the windows and I sawed oil some pieces of plank He then asked for an auger, and befori the pieces were nailed up we cut loop boles in them, two to each window. W then removed the sashes from the win dows and nailed the planks 021 the iuside Long Walk examined the front door which was the only one, and by his di rection I re-cnforccd it and added 1 second bar. When this bad leeu don he asked: "IIow much guu iu the house?" "We had u rific and a shotgun, to gether with a revolver, which belonge* to a young inau who had worked for u in the spring and was then on a furii about ten miles away. I got these arm together, and Long \Ynlk examined then with great carc. Wc had two pounds 0 powder, a lot of shut and caps, and tlirc or four bars of lead. He seemed to b satisfied, and theu took me out of door and said: "Bad Indian no conic to-day, but com to-morrow; Get plenty of water in th house. Make rain on the roof. If bd Indian coni?e ?koot ium." "But I can't understand," I said. "Why should \vc be afraid of the In! diuns?" "ludian heap mad?look out I" lie replied, and with that he stalked away, and would not even turn his head when I called to him. I don't believe I should have realized the full significance of his warning had not nu older head come to my assistance. Mrs. Webster, our nearest neighbor, whoso husband ltad also gone to bo a soldier, but who had not gone with him to the station, came over at noon to borrow some Hour. When I told her what had happened she was very much alarmed. t?hc had heard whispered fears of an Indian outbreak, and she argued that Long Walk would not have done as he had if there was not imminent clanger. She had 110 children, and was only a few minutes in deciding to remain with us until mother returned. I went to her house and got her double-barrelled shotgun and ammunition, as well as a bundle of clothes, and when I returned we began carrying out the instructions of the ludian. The sDnncr was only a hundred feet from the house. I got on the roof 1 and water was passed up to me, and I flung it about until the slabs would soak in no more. A bonfire on the roof would scarcely have ignited them. Wc had two tubs and several jars. These we filled and carried into the house. It was four o'clock in the afternoon when we were through. I had then moulded over a hundred bullets for rifle and revolver, and we could thiuk of nothing else to add to our security. What " was a very uuusual thing, we had seen no Indians that day, except Long Walk. ' This, as much as anything else, satisfied ' Mrs. Webster that something unusual was on foot. About five o'clock she determined to go to her cabin to pack up ' and bring away some small articles, and ' she returned two hour's later in a state * of great agitation. Sue had caught sight ' of several Indians skulking about,and on ^ the road had met a squaw, who had spoken to her in an insulting manner, aud 1 tried to take the bundle from her hand. ' It was yet dark when we shut the house up and made ready for the awful trag' cdy which was to be played on flic morrow. I don't think Mr3. Wester closed her eves that night, although nothing occurred to disturb us, and sister and I slept for mauy hours. It had been daylight | for an hour when we awoke, and we were then aroused by the voice of Mrs. Webster saying: "Children! children! The Indians are coming!" 1 While I was dressing I heard the yells and whoops of Iocliaus about the house. I There was a gang of about forty of them, I and as soon as I looked out through a loophole I saw a great smoke from the t residence of Mrs. Webster's house. Just ' as I was dressed there came a pounding i on the door, and the voice of an Indian I called out: "Huh! Somebody in here! Open door, quick!" "What do you want?" asked Mrs. | Webster. "Indian hungry?want food. Indian good friends with Mrs. Bliss." I was watching the crowd at the door, and I saw that all were armed. Two or three were crouched ready to spring at the door the instant it was unbarred. "Go away?you can't couic in," replied Mrs. Webster. "Indian want food." "We have none for you." nTnrlifiri wn?f. whielrv " "There is no whisky in the houso." "Then Indian want to talk." "Well, what do you want?" They had expected to take us by sur, prise, and the fact that they had not upset their calculations for a time. They ' retired a short distance to talk it over, | and during this interval we made ready for what was coming. Making as little noise as possible, six Indians laid down | their guns and picked up a piece of iourby-four scantling, which father intended to use as one of the sills for a dairy house over the spring. They were np* proaching the door with this battering ram when I fired from the left-hand win1 dow and Mrs. Webster from the right, ' both of us using shotguns. I fired at the * men's legs and she at their beads. I had but one barrel, while she had two. [" As all six went down I thought at first , we had killed them all. Not so, however, though it was plain that all were ' hit. Two lay on the ground under the scantling, while the others got up to \ limp away. We had opened the battle, aud got in the first knock-down blow. For a moment the Icdians were stupefied. Then they uttered their war 2 whoop, and the fight was on. t it.:..!, r l/l .nn/i? ? ,.?~/l X 1111liiv x suuuiu uuvu mauo a yuuu fight of it without Mrs. Webster, as I had becu brought up on the frontier, and had the nerve of a man, but it was well that si c was there. While she was pale-faced " and anxious her voice was steady, and ' she took things coolly. Sister Mamie was greatly frightened at first, but after ^ a few minutes she overcame it and asked for the rifle, with which she was a tolerv ably fair shot. ' The first move of the Iudiaus was to * take possession of the log barn, which stood about 200 feet away. There was ,, little or nothing in it, and if they fired it the distance was too great to endanger the house. They opeued fire on the two rear windows, aud we kept away from ' them. Now and then one of their bullets came through u loophole, but wc ? were out of range. The Iudiaus must have kuowu that father was gone, and lliey pruuauiy UUpvU iu ?nni u great noise. They continued shootiug j for half an hour, and then one of them s stepped out from the barn and waved a a white rag and asked for a "talk." In s ; reply Mrs. Webster tired a charge of a buckshot which knocked him over, and f we saw his body dragged around the c i corner of the barn. ? The Indians now scattered and cncirs cled the house, and dropping down wlicnj ever they could lind cover they opened a c 1 steady fire. By sitting down on the floor o we were safe Iron any bullets which ii might enter the loopholes. Tlicy simply J wasted their powder, and after au hour all but four of thorn started off down ! the road. Their impatience was too ' great to permit them to t:? rry longer. 1 There were hundreds of other settlers who had received no warning and made i no preparation, uud were waiting, as it were, to be plundered and murdered. The four who remained stood just out of rifleshot to watch the door, and we did net sec another Indian until nearly sundown. Then a band of about seventyfive came along. Some were on stolen horses, sonic on foot, and about thirty of them were packed into two wagons which they had taken from white men. From the yelling, shouting and shooting indulged in one would have thought cur chances very slim. A part of the force occupied the barn, so as to command the rear windows, while the rest made a sort of rifle pit. to command the front. The two who had been killed in the morning still lay where they had : fallen, and as darkness came on we made ready to receive anyone coming after the j bodies. It was a starlight night, ana about 9 o'clock I caught sight of two warriors creeping up to the spot. I called Mrs. Webster's attention, and by the time they were up we were ready for them. As they were moving the scantling off the body we fired upon them, and neither one moved a yard after being hit. Now came a full hour during which not a shot was fired or a shout uttered, i Then the Indians began firing blazing arrows at the roof, and I have no doubt that twenty or more alighted thereon, i That danger had been provided for, however, and when they found they could j not burn us out they fell back on another plan. From one of the back windows I | saw them carrying a long pole to the 1 front of the house. There were several of these lying near the barn, acd it was ! now plain that they were going to try j the power of battering rams. I saw one make ready at the back of the house as j well, and when I told Mrs. Wnbster, she posted Mamie and me at the back windows, while she stood at the front. The Indians had planned a real attack from the rear, with only a feint at the front. With live raeu at each pole, they macie a rush for both windows at once, while the front of the house was only menaced. Mrs. Webster saw through the plan in time, and came running back just in time to sccuie a loophole. She and Mamie had the shotguns, while I had the revolver, and the Indians did not get within five feet of the house. Our volley was followed by screams and yells on their part, and those who had not been disabled beat a hasty retreat. From that time until morning we were left undisturbed, bnt they succeeded in carrying off their dead. We could not tell then what damage we had done, but several weeks later, at the trial of the chief conspirators and leaders, it was stated by an Indian that ve killed seven and wounded six redskin in our defence. When morning came not an Indian was in sight, but before noon we had half a dozen men and women with us who were fleeing for their lives, and be- j fore night we numbered twenty. It was a week before we were relieved, and during that time bands of Iudians turned > aside at intervals to attack us and bo beaten off, with loss only to themselves. I It was one of the two farmhouse forts in i that- great area of country which made a 1 successful resistance, and but for our sue cess the number of murders wouiu nave been added to by at least two dozen.? New York Sun. . , Forests Devastated by Bcctlc3. For several months past tho huge | forests of spruce in the Cheat Mountains of West Virginia have been dying off by thousands of acres, causiug a less of millions of dollars, and no cause for tho devastation could be given. A few i weeks since Mr. A. D. Hopkins, entomol- j ogist of tho Agricultural Experiment Station of West Virginia, was sent to the . devastated district to investigate and re- i port the cause of the destruction of all this valuable timber and to secure a remedy, if possible. He has just returned, ' and reports that the timber has been killed by beetles about the size of a flea. The beetles eat their way under tho bark of the spruce pine trees i:a all directions, cutting off the flow of sap and consequently killing the trees. no reports rauuy thousand of acres literally devastated by the betles, but says their inroads seem to be on the decrease. The investigations of tho entomologist brought about tho discovery of a parasite which is preying on the beetles and destroying many of thera. Several species of the parasite were found in the trees devastated by the beetles. The parasites will be introduced into districts where i the timber is beginning to show tho ' effects of the ravages of the beetles, with ! the belief that their presenco will end in ! the destruction of tho insects. If this ! proves successful the vast forests still ex- | lant win oe suveu, otncrwi.se tne total j destruction of the spruce forest will be j but a question of a short time.?Cincin- j nati Enquirer. A Cure for Warts. I have always had warts on my hands ever since I was a boy, writes a correspondent, and have tried a thousand rem- ! edie3 for them, including all the charms known to the oldest darkey in the country. The only thing that would suppress them even temporarily was a red-hot needle. Somebody told me about it ten or fifteen years ago, but I never tried it for a long time, dreading the pain. At last I hud a big wart on the knuckle of my left foreliugcr, where 1 was always knocking it against something aud keeping it raw nnd sore. Ideterniiued to try the hot needle. 80 I bad a large needle fixed in an awl-handle, heated it red-hot in the flame of a lamp and thrust it through the big wart at one punch. Tiic pain was no greater than I had been enduring from striking the wart against (iverytuiug 1 touched, and after the needle had cooled I took it out. The wart began to dry up, and in three or four days I picked it off with my thumb-nail. Since then, whenever one makes its appearance I tak \ a needle to it, nnd the remedy never fails.?St. Louis Glfa-Democrat, - ODD VAGRANTS. UTILIZING ANIMALS TO EARN .1 LIVING IN NEW YORK. An Otltl Scene in a Court-Room?Hoiv Bears are Trained?A HurdyGnrdy Monkey and For. tune Telliiis Birds. OMMENTING on the f. , curious ways in which some foreigners atf &% tempt to earn their L\ OSj)/f bread in the streets of (?^L JJ// New York, a writer in the Commercial Adver/) tiser says: The r.Titer well remembers a scene in the Jeflerson Market Po]ice Court, New York city, one Sunday morning. ! The benches \ were (filled, as usual, 'VT4Wa\_ with the friends of the slatternly and un- , kempt prisoners who , iiled out from tho stone cells to answer the'samc old charges of intoxication, disorderly conduct, as- j sault and battery, etc. Fines were 6et- ] tied and outcast offenders were sent back. ; to serve a day in durance vile for every ] dollar unpaid. Still the court room did ( not thin out. Everybody was waiting to j see what disposition was to be made of a i case foreign to his experience. The pris- i oners?there was a whole tribe of them | ?made a picturesque group. There i were three well built, sturdy men,dressed i i in rough corduroy and wearing long ] boots. Each had a shock of black hair, i blunt, vacuous features aud a woolen i comforter tied around his neck. Then ] there was as many olive-cheeked, sloe- < eyed women, with squat figures and i large feet, shod with coarse boots. They i A I-OVING PAIR. wore bright-hucd shawls over their head9 I : and massive gold ornaments on their | ears. Four of the five open-eyed chil- ; dreu, who were small editions of their | fathers in features and dress, completed this motley party. The magistrate sur- | vcyed them with an amused' smile, and, , turning to an officer, asked him what ( was the charge against these people. "Leading bears through the streets , without a permit, your honor," was the , reply, and everybody tittered at the enor- | mity of the offence. ( "Don't you know," asked the justice, with an affectation of sternness of the ( oldest of the men, "that you have no j business to turn the streets of this town into a circus?" I The prisoner addressed?he was a Sa- , voyard?shook his head and then poured forth a torrent of patois, gesticulating ( wildly as he told the story of his wrongs in free America. Then there was a loud demand for an interpreter, and while one was being found the seedy lawyer, who had invited himself to defend the prisoners, told the magistrate that the Savoy- ( ards, who had dropped into the city no know V>n?r Tvnvo nffpmntinrr to five w'uu JWIL-,T uvmtj "v,v ???w?r'?o o a performance with their bears on a "West street flock when arrested. Not one of them could speak English. The lawyer said their ignorance of the customs of the country was a sufficient defense, and he asked that they be allowed to go their way without tine. By the time an interpreter had been found in the person of u ragpicker, whose features still showed traces of a night's debauch, for which he had paid into the city treasury the sum of 85 dollars as the price of his entertainment on the flagstones of a cell. With many a vernacular struggle he drew from the oldest Savoyard the story of the band. They had come over in the steerage of an Italian FOREIGN PAUPER LABORERS, steamer from Genoa, bringing the bears with them. Previously they had heard dazzling tales of the fortuues to be made in America by exhibitions of performing bears, md how the natives, having more ptoney than they knew what to do with, showered gold upon those who amused them. The Savoyards had no srr rr landed than they, prepared to gather the first fr.iits of their harvest The three bears, after standing on their heads in a row, had just begun to dance a clumsy jig to the wild shouts of the natives, when n man in a blue coat and waving a heavy stick gave the party to understand, bears and all, tliae they must come "ith him. The tin cups had not even been passed around for the money, "Are the bears in court?" asked the magistrate, with mock solemuity. At this there was a general roar of laughter, and when it subsided the officer said the bears had beeu put into n stable on Barrow street, pending disposition of the case. The old Savoyard, in his grating patois, began to exclaim against the outrage of taking away his bears and locking the party up in cold cells all night, lie thought it was a free country, where the forcigucr inet with kindness. As it wasn't, they would all go elsewhere if the judge would give them the bears. His honor said that unless the Savoyards had money sufficient for their present wants he would he obliged to ship them back to Italy, together with their animals. One of the prisoners produced a bundle. It was a knotted bandanna, and when he untied it a store of silver coins was disclosed. The magistrate thereupon decided that they must pay for the first experience in a free country the sum of ?5, and he directed the policeman to see the men, women, children and bears over the Harlem River, at which the officer made a very wry face. Five dollars to these old world vagrants sounded lute a nue ot cruel proportions, and there were tearful and excruciating lamentations before they paid it. The bear which these people exhibit for bread is usually of the cinnamon variety, found in tho Pyrenees or Vosgcs Mountains. Not being essentially a carnivorous animal?that is to say, feeding Dn fruit, honey, vegetables nnd smaller animals?ho iB easily managed, and if taken young learns a few simple tricks, such as climbing a pole at the word, footing a measure to the strains of an accordeon, counting up to ten with amovement of his paw, marching with a stick for a gun, caching a pole and making a salaam. Ho is by no means an intellectual animal, and it is only by a great expenditure of patience and constant prod3ing with an iron shod staff that he acquires the tricks which so amuse the children. Old bears are not in demand for ihow purposes. In their natural state they serve to guide the mountaineer to the cave where their cubs are housed. It oecomes an easy affair to capture the little fellows after the big ones arc trapped, rhc cost of a cub is trifliug to the French >r Haitian stroller. A iew uouare win ouy one in almost any town in the Medi-. terrancnn districts. In America the dealers make you pay dearly for the privilego )f possessing a cinnamon bear. Out of juriosity the writer asked a well known Park Row dealer in wild animals what she market price of a young cinnamon sear was. "It will cost you $300," ho said, "and you can't get one cheaper in Shis country." Tho common black bear of America s sometimes earned around tho country >y the French Canadians. They cross ho lino in the spring and exhibit ihrough tho New England and New Fork country places, working their way ;o tho factory towns, where they have :ompatriots. In the wilderness tho black jcar is almost as timid as a wild duck. Fou may hear him breaking through ;he brush in a lumbering run as you approach, and ho will never face you uncss ho is come upon suddenly, or is endered desperato by hunger. The lam, if her young aro in the vicinity, is ipt to show her teeth to the intruder? ihe has forty-two of them. In confinencnt the American bear?like a truo lover of liberty?often grows morose and vicious. It does not prove so tractable is the brown bear of Europe. Not long igo ft sinewy French (Janadiau was earning a pretty penny by giving wrestling 3xhibitions with his bear, an unusually big black one. Of course the bouts were a farce. The animal had been trained to stamp around on his hind legs, take hold of his master gingerly and do a backward fall at the right moment. Occasionally the man would go down and bruin would paw the earth around him, the while emitting a grumbling growl. One day Jean had beaten the bear savagely, or it had not had its fill of cabbage and roots, and tho pupil got his instructor down and clawed and rended him until he bled to death on the spot, and tho bumpkins gathered around were too scared to interfere. No one, of course, has ever attempted to train and exhibit tho grizzly, "coward of heroic size," though Bret IlaTte has called him. One of them has been known to carry the carcass of a steer weighiug 1000 pounds ssveral miles to his lair in the boulders. Wrestling would be a sorry business with this monster, aud to teach him tricks even when an infant would be Iraugnt wirn too much excitement for a daily pursuit. Next to the bear the monkey is the animal which mau finds most useful as a bread winner in a nomadic life. The little ape, in greatest demand, comes from Brazil. He has a most whimsica cast of countcnauce, and is as harmless as he is ugly. Ho can soon be taught tc wear a scarlet uniform?in fact, he is a: vain of personal adornracut as a dude? and struts around in a feathered cap with out the irresistible desire of most pet ani anals to tear it from his head. Monkey! are comparatively cheap. For from $3( to 55U you can buy at the regular depot a diminutive ape whose hideousncss is perpetual study. At the wntcrsid in New York aloDg South am \ J"VjT \fL_- l?L(T~ THE POLICEMAN'S CAPTCIIE. "West street, thcjr can be purchased at r ranch lower figure from vessels trading in South American products. The skipper of an Italian bark that ran between the tropics, New York and Castcllamarc, used to do n lively business in hurdygurdy monkeys with the New York manipulators of the barrel organ. As soon as they received notice that the Cavalieri Cavour or the Sauta Teresa was j in, they were down at the quay to striko bargains with the captain. He sold the monkeys right off the reel at cut prices, and it was a common thing for the ape to pay its way the first month after it landed here. Togged out in a tunic and forage cap. it was soon taught to climb into the second-story windows, proffer the tin cup and take off his cap to acknowledge a gratuity. But it never gets used to pickiug up a red hot copper thrown out by an agonizod listener t) "Little Annie Roouey" or "Grandfather's Clock." That is a device of malignity .which should be uusparingly condemned. Birds that can tell one's fortune havo inade their appearance in recent years, and the gentle creatures bid fair to eclipse the popularity of the monkeys. They arc usually the property of a calmeyed philosopher who has long ago awakened to the folly of shouldering his way through the hurly-burly to snatch an existence. With his infinite patience he teaches his little pets?they are canaries nr small preen narrooucts?to hon off a perch ou which tbey sit unconflned together, and, flying to a little cabinet, to select an envelone. Returning to their perch they allow the fortune-seeker to take the fateful degrco from their bills According as you are a gentleman or lady?that is what the bird proprietor calls you?these cunning creatures pick out a missive relating to good luck in worldly affairs or to matrimony. Henry Ward Beeclier's Widow. Mrs. Eunice Beecher, widow of the great pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, is living diagonally across the way from the church her husband's eloquence made famous. Her residence is a neat, tasteful, well-kept house, whero in every nook and corner is some reminder of the great dead. Over her desk in the front parlor where she writes is a life-size picture of Mr. Beecher taken over thirty years ago, and in whatever direction the syc turns, cast, west, north or sonth, from the walls of these rooms look down life-size pictures of him in familiar attitudes in which he is remembered. Flowers and birds are features also. Tho windows are bright with blossoms, and the small yard is a bower of bloom. Boxes supported by brackets around the SIRS. IIENEY WARD BEECHER. fence are filled with plants in blossom, nnd these brighten up the whole place. Mrs. Beecher is by no means a gloomy woman; there is no black or mourning visible. Women many years younger might covet the delicate bloom still on her cheeks and the cheery light in her eyes and the pleasant words with which she greets her friends. Only in moments of depression from physical suffering, with moist eyes, she has been heard to say: "I do so miss Mr. Beecher." One of his views on death had been as be expressed it: "If you have lost companions, children, friends, you have not lost them. They followed, the Pilot. They went through the airy channels ' 1...une.iaroli flnfl tHflV flTfi UUtVUUWLl UllVA uujvmvuMM.v, with the Lord; and you are going to Him, too." Perhaps it is this and kindred thoughts that enable her to hold her way sorenely as she docs, that leave with her a spirit so bright, so sweetly sympathetic, that ! the people of Plymouth Church regard her with reverential affection as "all that is left them of Mr. Bcecher."?Chicago Post. A Rising Yonug Artist. a j r~" o , -*** d How to Take Care or the Braiu. The brain stands most abuse of any orgau in the body. Its best tonic anil stimulant is success. The worst and most depressing thing to it is failure. I The most injurious ellects come by using stimulants in early life. Young people should never use liquors, tea or coflec. The latter two may not exactly do harm, but they arc conducive of no good. They act mostly on the brain and injure I its grown very materially. Abundance of sleep is necessary. Eight hours is not more than enough. Sleep is the time of relatively lowered expenditure and int creased repair.?T/idiei? Home Journal. Cbcrrapoonji, India, has the well-del served reputation of being the wettest place in the world. Last year the aggregate rain-fall there was 450 inches, and it was a comparatively dry season. Id wet ones it averages between 500 and | 000 inches. In one day thirty-seven i inches fell. CONTRAST. Far away where sunny fields slope southward, Quick'ning winds 6weep inland from the sea Fern-fringed islands dream away the hours, Soft clouds floating low o'er hill and lea. -Hero the lake sleeps whito and still. Earth's great heart is growing chill. Far away the winds in pine woods dusky, Murmur songs of lands across the foam, Ere they wander, bearing odors musky, To the climes whero they delight to roam. Here the blast shrieks loud and shrill, While its cold caresses kill. Far away whero lifo and love are springing; Warm hearts call to heart that "quick respond; Youth lasts ever, making love eternal. Youth and summer linked in love's sweet bond. Hero the pulse beats thick and slow, Life's brief taper burneth low. ?Louise Phillips, in New Orleans Picayune. PITH AND_POINT. Catch words?Stop thief. A "light-blow"?Moon-strucI:. Even a dead duck can claim that lie died game. Never cast pearls before 9wine. Pearls are not very fattening.?Boston Ttanscript. A Colorado rattlesnake bit a ti amp the other day. At last accounts the snake is still living.?Chicago Herald. ' - , Mabel?"I hear your engagement is off, dear." Maud (calmly)?"Yes, it was a case of heart failure."?Boston Post. "How is that for a howling swell I" asked Duddereon, pointing to a dude who had just stepped on a tack.? Bazar. "Did she give you anything, Bill?" asked Bill's fellow tramp. "Yes. She J gave mo the cold shoulder with plenty of 6auce."?Bazar. "Oh, dear," exclaimed a young school girl when she first beheld a cucumber, | "I always thought such things grew in slices."?London Tid-Bits. If she meets but two hours delay. "I 've waited for an ago!" she'll say, But five years of her age she'll stifle, As if that time were but a trifle 1 ?Puck. Landlady (delightedly)?"And Dr. Curenone advised you to come here?" "Yes; I'm under treatment and he said I * ? ? xr... v??7. I must avoia over-eating.?new * | Herald. A masher gazed iutently at a giraffe for a few moments, and turning sadly' 1 away, sighed forth: "Oh, if I had u ; neck like that, what a collar I could , wear!"?Chatter. | Judge?"Prisoner, have you any visible means of support?" Prisoner? j "Yis, sor, your honor; (to his wife) Bridget, stand up, so that the court kin see ycr."?Munsey't Weekly. ! Photographer?"Ah, beg pardon, did I understand you that you did not want n very large picture?" Patron?"Yes." Photographer?"Then please don't smile?ah, that's it."?Chatter. I Sweet Girl?"If it's just the same, Mr. j Mashuer, you needn't trouble yourself to i call any more." Mashuer (earnestly)? i "Oh, thanks; it's no trouble at all?I like to call."?London Tul-Bits. Parent?"Can I get this boy into the circus at half price?" Ticket-seller?"Of course you can't. The boy is over fif ; teen, ain't he?" Parent?"xes; nut , he's blind in one eye."?America. | Tho leopard covered o'er with spots Can't change thorn; hence how strange That dudes can really change their minds Who have no minds to change! ?Bazar. I Lummix?"I haven't seen anything of j Higgins for some time. He must be lcadJ ing a very retired life." Skingullct? | "He is. He was sent to the Penitentiary i about six months ago for forgery."? j Chicago Inter- Ocean. Clubman?"I'd hate to be a driver of one of Shepard's stage's with that strap attached to my foot." Second Clubman ?"It doesn't hurt the man any." Club| man?"No, but how awful it must be to I havo your leg pulled all the time."? j New York Herald. I "Mamma, you haven't given me any I dimes and nickels," complained Jimmy i Shattuck, after the physician had gone. "What do you mean, Jimmy?" asked Mrs. Shattuck in surprise. "Why tho j doctor said I needed a little change."? i Chicago Inter- Ocean. "You know," said the pastor to tho newly wedded pair, "it's the wife's duty j to obey her husband and follow him ! loVxirpv^r mnv fro." "I won't do it," i pouted the bride. "You won't?" "How ' can you expect me? He's a letter carrier." ' ?Philadelphia Times. j The youthful King ot Spain is as fly na any American kid.' When lie eschewed ; knife and foik at a recent luncheon his i attendant observed gravely, "Sire, kings | never cat with their fingers." "This j king does," responded his majesty, couj tinuing his meal.? Walerbury American. j Professor?"To prove that the cars of : grasshoppers arc in their legs a very sim; pie experiment will sulfice. Place one . on the table and knock on the table; he will jump off. Now cut off his legs and | repeat the experiment, and you will find that he will not jump. Q. E. D."? i Fligende Bit letter. A Stone Elephant. I Inyo County, California, has a won: derful natural formation in the shape of ' a monster atone elephant. The rock that has taken this remarkable form is of. a dark gray grauitc, almost the exact color 1 of the Asiatic elephant's skin. The rescmblaucc is so close that the first goldseekers thought they had discovered a real petrified pachyderm.?Detroit Free Brest. Workers in the oil fields declare that wherever you find petroleum you may be sure that there will be no mosquitoes.