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) c COURAGE. nij(fa hopos that burned like xtar* (ufcuuao Oo down T the heavens of freedom, lud true hearts perish in the time We bitterliest need ’em. But never sit we down and say There’s nothing left but sorro—. We walk the wilderness to-day, ^ The promls'jd land tomorrow. The birds of rong are silent now, There are no tiowois blooming. Jet life is in the frozen bough, And freedom’s spring is coming! And freedom's tides comes up slowly, Though we may strand In sorrow, And our good bark, aground to-day, Shall float again to-morrow. —flerald Massey. occaemnally rii.l business, in checking their hank book, found themselves debited with on amount paid by check to Peel & Co. for which they conld find no corresponding item in Peel’s account, and, on making inquiry from them, found that there was no account of its receipt iu their cash HARD WATER, HA’LL live to rue it." s a ’ “Well, aw can- not go again’ my ,yV_l feeliu’s. Ah can- l^-ww! karr* not help not lovin’ theo." “Nuw, an’ tha’ cannot help lovin’ someb’dy else, con ta? Tha’lt live to rue it. aw tell thee, an’ so will that hupsturt thn’s sect thy heart on—mind that.” The girl thus addressed blushed faintly, but did not hang her head. Rather, she lifted it with a proud look which, despite her working shawl, plain black hat, and somewhat pasty-white complexion—the common heritage of mill girls—lent something queenly to her whole appearance. Had you seen Rachel Kwuun on Monday, as she walked with her Hiblo and hymn book to the Methodist Sun day-school to teach her class, you would scarcely have known her. Ibressod in the latest style—or the latest that had percolated to the pro vinces—from the “tips" iu her hat, I the “fall” which expressed rather n hid her delicate features, to her little shoes, she looked—what ii—a lady. And bad you seen the chapel door, after evening wrvi^^ without ado or even greeting, k. * * » * • - - “Boy, tell us ‘again what you told th^s morning.” Whereupon the peni tent lad, with fearful looAs at Jabcz, told how the overlooker h^d terrorized him about small betting debts, bow, at his instigation, he had obtained a blank check from the office lad at Bromley’s, how Jabez had filled it in, book, nor did eu'ch an account appear copying the writing from another of to have been paid in the usual way to Bromley s checks.how he had presented their credit at the bank. Evidently a it with the rest at tbe bank and got check had been drawn and paid of the cash. Tbe sequel was known, and which the books of neither firm had did not need recounting. Jabez swore .,nv record. It was a sum under £10, it was a parcel of lies but the boy s but as *he youth who run between the evidentsmcerity.rovelationsof Jabcz s mill and the bank in the adjoining bookmaking transactions, and later, town of BUckbrook appeared too un- Rachel’s account of her rejection of sophisticated to transact such a fraud, his su.t.aud his subsequent threats and and as Jim Sumner was immediately persecution, convinced the masters of INfcAS WOES. PBAOUI VASTj Millions the Rl famine are oe- i the country. fvictlms—disposition A French Doctor’s By—Precautions in hhls Country. of bey meet n walk a have bi — no sccr assistant mill, and mg compn Jim Hn half-timer urally an i unte with spite of th uing to *ueh good ul Bo was carl and was n thinking • * r>» mutual look of satisfaction, lasnut faced young man, and by bis side, you would in possession of the secret now—that James Humner, ishier at Messrs. Peel’s ,chel Swann were “keep- ter had started life as n id little-pieoer, but, nnt- lelligent lad, a great fav- ie schoolmaster, he had,*n great disability of begin- i his living at ten, made leofhis opportunities, that takaaintp the ''office,” 'looked up to” by right- as a man who “could addle (earnj his brass ’hout takkin his eoost off.” Moreover be was junior “chapel steward” at the Methodist Chapel, aud, altogether, a man any girl in that place might be proud to “keep company” with. That Rachael was proud of her lover everybody kuew. They had only “made it up” a short tunc ago, and had walked in public less than a fort night when the above conversation took place. The man, for snob ho considered nimaolf, who threatened to “make her rue” wan consiuerably older than herself, and »u “overlooker" at the mill in which they all worked. He had long forced his attentions upon Rschcl, who, while giving him no on- courgemont, had not absolutely re pulsed him, nutil she heard that he out a little private bookmakiugamong the youths and young men iu the great mill. Until then she had re garded him as a decent fellow, and shrank from hurting his feelings, hop ing ho would desist in time and give it up as a bad job. She did not know Jabez Smethurst. He was the sort of man whose love cun turn to bitter hate, and now, both against the girl and the man he deemed his supplsnter, his rage burnt fiercely. “Aw’ m fair miserable at my work, Jim, now,” said Rachel, as she walked with her lover from his mother’s cot tage along the embankment of tbe great reservoir. “Why, how’s that, my lass? Aw thought tha’ wur all reet now. an’ gradely set up wi’ four looms, an’ av eragin’ nineteen an’ six a wik”—for, though Jim was an assistant cashier, he dropped, like his lady love, into his native IXunc on all familiar occasions — “an’ tha’ towd mo that even thy cross-grained owd aunt conld spuyk civil now.” “Ay aw was fain enuf, Jim, but Eh, lad, aw can hardly tell yo', aw'vo kept it to mysel’ for days, but aw can not bear it no longer—th’ overlooker’s ta’on one o’ my looms off me, an’ says he’ll tak’another if aw don't mend my work." “Dost mean Jabo Smethurst ? Aw'll wee that reet—ne’er heed. Rachel,’ and, as they had passed the railway’ station which stood at the upper end •f the reservoir and were in a some what secluded place, bo put his arm around her waist, drew her to him, and kissed her fondly. “Say nowt, Jim. It’ll do no good, staffer thinks weel o’ Jabe. He hark ens to him as if Jabe knew everythin’ an’ him nowt. An’ it does look as if wit work was bad, for be gives me such bad ’soarts' at aw con ou’y do half what t’others con, an’ my aunt says who’ll gie me th’ key o’ th’ street if war cannot addle more nor a little lass. Its piece work, tha' knows.” **Ay—well, ne’er heed, mv lass. ILiaaas’ll soon be here, an’ we’ll get w«d as soon ns th’ New Yer comes in. Aw’m gettin’ £2 a week now, an’ aw’m promised a rise wi’ th’ New Yer.” ***** * A month had passed. Poor Jim! All his fair hopes seemed blighted. Bkomley Bros., a firm in the neigh- herhood with whom Messrs. Peel responsible for the current cash of the firm, ho was held to bo morally re sponsible, if not actually criminal, and, according to the immemorial custom of the firm, “had to go. j Poor Jim! He did not wait to wset i his chapel folks and intimates. He just kissed his widowed mother, who would not have believed “owt again Jim” on tbe testimony of an arch angel, and went out into the frosty air, straight to the station, and away to a town thirty miles distant, to make a fresh start. His sweetheart was still in the mill. He ought, of course, to have waited for her and told her. But he didn’t. He would write. She would learn soon enough. The village would buzz with the nows, as though the new “hooter” hsd proclaimed it, by nightfall. And it did. There were girls who seemed glad to tell Rachel, and when she Hared up and said: “Yo’ know as well as aw do ’at Jim ne’er did it,” they only replied: “Well, he’s ta’on his hook at any rate. Yo’r aunt Bet seed him goo, j and says ‘good riddance to bad rub- ! bulge.’ She doesn’t seem to think as | weel o’ Jimmie as her niece does.” What coukl Rachel say? She went 1 home with rage in her heart against her aunt, and something like resent ment against her lover for hasting away without a word to the girl who could have died for him. Ah, little did she think—vet even now a dead misery hud taken possession of her. “Well, Miss Proudie, an’ how’s thy tine gentleman naa?” (Aunt Bet’s own lad had had hopes of the “office” once, but had turned out a wastrel— bonce her bitterness.) “kw thout wot it 'ud bo. Homo fowk can’t stand gettin’ up i’ th’ world. Pride’ll hev a fal’ an’ thy whipper-snapper’s come a cropper at ony rate.” In tongue warfare Rachel was no where; besides. Aunt Bet wasn’t worth answering. Then, that very day, the overlooker had threatened to reduce her to two looms, and had humbled her so terribly before the other weav ers, that all the spirit seemed clean « one out ot hor. She went to bed, nt not to steep. TOa “knookur ih»!’4 hud an easy task next morning. That day was tbo blackest of many black ones daring tho past few weeks, and now no lover’s comfort awaited her. Everything went wrong. The stufi wouldn't weave. Her looms seemed | bewitched. The overlooker overlooked with a vengeance. “Yo’ll start ou two looms to-morn,” he said ; “think on that! Aw’ve lots a’ lasses o’ fourteen ’at weave better nor thee, an’ do moor wark on two looms t’au tha’ con o’ three.” It was the last straw. Hhe daro not face Aunt Bet and her sneers. “Oh, Jim, Jim,” was tho cry of her heart, “why couldn’t you say a word to mo?” For when her heart spoke, it cried for Jim and not for looms. Coming out of tbo hot mill it was bitter cold. Hhe drew her shawl over her head and hurried away. Not to tho place she called “home.” Hhe scarcely knew where she went. A hopeless despair weighed on her sensitive Spirit. Tears unchecked and unheeded dropped as she walked. “Anywhere, anywhere, out of the world!” would have been her exclama tion could she have expressed her deepest wish. Suddenly she fcand herself on tho top of tho reservoir em bankment. Tho moon was shining upon the water, which sparkled and shone with a crystalline brilliance. “There’s nowt loft to live for, an’ 1 won’t live!" and, casting her shawl from her, she threw herself from the embankment. There was a sharp ringing sound. The moon shone on, and all was still. Smothurst’s guilt. They simply dis charge I him, and cased their con sciousness of Jim’soverhusty dismissal by raising his salary to £150 a year. The folks who cheered a happy pair on Now Year’s Day, and pelted them with rice, did not see a scar on the brow of the bride, for it was covered by her bridal veil.—Tit-Bits. Mountain Sheep in Colorado. Mountain sheep appear to be in creasing in Colorado, and, stranger still, the rare and timid animals are leaving their dizzy haunts among the high mountain peaks and drawing nearer to tho habitations of men thnu ever before. In the comparatively low lands, near the town of Jefferson, there is now a flock of fifty or more mountain sheep. Jefferson is on the South Park Railroad, about eighty- ono miles southwest of Denver, iu Pirk County. It isan old established community, and has near it the well- known summer resort, Jefferson Lake. The vicinity, disturbed by the rumble of trains as well as the sounds of hu man lifo and industry, is not at all a quiet one. It has none of the character istics which usually mark the natural home of tho almost extinct mountain sheep. And yet, for sever il days past a band of at least fifty of the soft eyed, large horned native sheep of the Rocky Mountains has been calmly grazing around the town of Jefferson and close to the railroads. It is said that the sheep do not display any sign of fear of the Jefferson people. Many of them come in open daylight within easy pistol-shot of the residences. They do not ran away unless some body purposely tries to frighten them. For many years past tha sight of a mountain sheep has been a rarity in Colorado, and usually but oue at a time has been seen. A hunter far off from civilization might descry a solitary sheep, perched on a crag over looking some wild and steep canon but bardly over within gunshot range No such thing as fifty sheep togethei has been reported, even by the veries Munchausen of hunters. When a Ion ««en 4 usually disappear© from view at the sJigbtasi «l«»nn. - •< Considering these things, the de scent of fifty sheep upon the town of Jefferson, as though they had formed themselves into an excursion party somewhere among the mountains, does not look reasonably explainable. The general theory is that bitter cold and deep snows in tho higher altitudes drove them downward, and that they joined together for mutual protection as they traveled from peak to peak. Killing mountain sheep is absolutely prohibited by law in Colorado. It is a closed season all the year round with tho animals, just as it ii with buffalo. —Denver Republican. Tho pioneer in the treatment of the bubonic plague appears to be Dr. Yersin, a physician in the French co lonial service. He is not thirty years ol age, and has perhaps performed a iE is carrying off its mill- . of victims in India, and plague is not only ravag- thst land, but is begin ning tof, its shadow over tho world, says thJ w York Journal. In wjud America we can hear of the huv millions with a pity not unmixJmb satisfaction that we are other J But no nation or class is above! fear of the plagne germ. It can tip round tho earth in a thou sand (Kent receptacles, is insensi ble to elite, and, attacking invisibly, brinjAiolesale death. Plif and famine are co-operating in a t that mast make the best ef- fortsfyfficials and scientists seem hopJ. The irrigation tanks, very nncolta in Northern India, have bent feed by drought to stagnant puddlpand these have been con- vertof diseased men and animals into puanstible sources of conta- gion.Fie prevalence of famine has forca e people to eat the most pu trid 7>od, which is in many cases infe* by diseased rats and insects, ative quarter of Bombay is jiHy deserted. It is strewn ,3serted bodies, and its condi- cnaces an epidemic in the Enro- . ,uarler. The death rate among th^ti™ 8 has grown so high that it tossible to keep a reliable record, country for hundreds of miles d Bombay is ravaged by plagne amine. The large port of Kara- i very badly infected, e most horrible spectacle in Bom- is presented by the Towers of Hi- 0, the Parseo burial places on tho ■ abar Hill. The Parsecs are firo ! ^-shippers, and tho most industrious J FAEIR SACRIFICING GODS TO WARD HIMSELF TO OFF FAMINE. TBE service which will rank him among the greatest scientific benefactors of hu manity. The Bombay authorities have requested him to visit that city, audit is propable that he will do so. A correspondent who has just re turned from Cochin China describes Dr. Yersin and his work. He is a man of interesting appearance, thin and of middle height. He has a long face, wrinkled by the East ern climate and hard work in the laboratory. His hair and beard are cut short, and Ue is full of life, intel ligence and enterprise. Hero is Dr. Yersin’s description of the plague from personal observation: “The disease presents the chemical Minister Willis as an Attorney. “Now, aw wonder what’s come out about this money,” thought Jim Sum ner, ns he struck the reservoir bank on his way, from tbe station home. “Folks are fam to stay iu to-neet, aw reckon. Aw’m glad nob’y’lly see me till uw'vc cloered myaeT--if clearin’ it is—and what can th’ masters ha' taken th’ trouble to get my address fro’ mother—for no’dby else knew it —an’ telegraph for me to come in stantly, if it’s not? My! bnt th’ frost has been keeu this two days. Aw’ll bet th’ lodge’ll bear.” So saying, he ran down and tried it with his foot, and, finding it safe, walked a distance on the margin. “What’a that? Good heavens!” He had stumbled over the prostrate form of a woman lying a few feet from the embaukment. The ice was starred in every direction where the head had struck it, “Poor lassie I" He turned her over, aud the moon’s light fell upon a face he had often kissed. He reeled as thon?h he had received a blow that made Die blood flow from that marble brow. How eolrt she was? Bnt she breathed. He picked her up aud car- j riod her.he knew no: how,up the bank and away till he staggered into his mother’s cottage. Could sho bo in better hands? Still nnconecious, bnt with signs of return ing animation.be left her and Hastened to tho mill. The lights still burned in the oifice. The masters were seated by the lire, and in the background sat the messenger and Jabez Smethurst. “How d’ye do James—you got our wire?” “I did, sir, thank you.” The death of Minister Willis, in Hawaii, has set Kentuckians here to story telling about him says a Wash ington correspondent of the New York Post. Ono of them describes an inci dent illustrative of his methods of try ing a lawsuit before a jury. Ho was once attorney for a young woman in a ease against a prominent and wealthy contractor of Louisville. The case at tracted much attention and tho court room was crowded when the trial was ou. The contractor took tho stand, aud being of au easy conscience, tried to swear the case out of court. Then Willis rose in behalf o! the young woman. He did not seek to cross-ex amine the witness. He turned to the great crowd of spectators and at ran dom singled out a man in the front row. “Stand up aud get sworn where yon stand,” said Willis to the astonished spectator. “Do you know the de fendant ?" “Yes,” answered tbe spectator. “Do you know his reputation for truth and veracity?” “Yes.” “Is it good or bad?” “Bad.” “Would vou believe him under oath?" “No.” Then Willis called on another spec tator to stand np aud be sworn, with similar resnlts. Thus he called on spectators at random, until he had sworn fifteen or twenty of them. They all agreed that the contractor could uot bo believed under oath. It was proof positive to the jury in impeach ing the contractor, for it was clear to every one that the witnesses had not been summoned for the purpose of impeachment. Willis won the ease aud secured a verdict of $20,000 against the defendant. Rees Oulfly Pigeons. TOWER OF SILENCE, RESTING PLACE CF THE DEAD. and prosperous native commnnity in Bombay. When a Parseo dies his friends con vey his body to ono of the Towers ot Silence, which are clustered together in a garden. After tha mourners comes a man leading a white dog, the emblemof faithfulness, followed by the priests. Tbe procession ascends the tower, in which a sacred fire is always kept burning. At the top is a plat form, on which the body is left. No sooner have the people withdrawn than a flock of vnltures, which have been hovering about descends. In ten minntes they pick off every particle of flesh, and at tbo end of three weeks the friends return and deposit the bleached skeleton in a central well. The scenes on the banks of the Ganges, tho sacred river of India, are awful. In the neighborhood of Ben ares, the metropolis of Brahmanism, they reach their cnlmination. To die hero in the waters of the sacred river is to make sure of future blessedness. Of the millions who are starving, as many as possible crowd here to perish in the shrinking aud polluted stream. Benares is famous for its burning ghat by tbe river where where the Hindoos cremate their dead, bat this has long been ohoked up. An ftpionltnrist of Westphalia made a bet that twelve bees, released at a distance of three miles from tho hives at tho same time as twelve pigeons, would travel over the ground as quickly as the birds. The first bee entered the hive one-quarter of a min-1 1D g IC j uto before the first p geon reached its i but it i B hardly necessary to 1 columbary. Three other bees arrived 1 * before the second pigeon, and the re mainder of the competitors reached home almost simultaneously.-PhiU- dclphia Inquirer. A HINDOO DOCTOR TREATING A PLAGUE PATIENT. Among the photographs of Indian scenes reproduced here may be noted the Hindoo doctor treating a patient. His entire medical ontfit is a small box which he carries in his hand, and Eu ropeans say that he is worse than use less. It is announced that a remedy for Ihe plagne has been discovered by a French physician. An antitoxic serum prepared on similar principles to that need in diphtheria has been employed with success. The Health Departments of New York and Brooklyn are nev, in posses sion of millions of germs of the plagne. These are capable jf spread ing the disease throughout the land, but it is hardly necessary to say that they are properly secured. The bac- teriolcTists of these cities have the bacilli ji^d the knowledge necensary to enable ti. m to prepare the anti-toxic serum, characteristics of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages. The outbreak is sudden, after an incubation of four and one-half to six days. It is accom panied by complete prostration. The sufierer is attacked by a high fever, often accompanied by delirium. The first day a bubo—generally one only —appears. In seventy-five cases out of ono hundred it is in the groin, in ten cases ont of one hundred in the armpit. “In the case of the plagne ream a sterilized broth containing tho dead bodies of the bacilli is ased. This is injected daily into a horse, which in the space of two weeks be comes immunized against the plague. The serum of tho horse’s blood is then drawn oft and serves as a preventative of or remedy for tho plague in man.” The plagne appeared in China in 1896, aud Dr. Yersin immediately went there. He started at Canton, bnt the Chinese population did not wish to be treated by a European physician. But an accident won him the day. Three seminaries of the Catholic mis- sioc at Canton fell sick of the plague. Dr. Yersin treated them and saved ail of them. He then went to Amdy, where he treated twenty-three persons aud saved twenty-one. He bad then no more serum, but he converted a large part of the population. When he left Amoy they gave him an ovation. The] Hou Fao, a Chinese newspaper, devoted an article to the praise of Dr. Yersin and concluded by saying: “Is not this a divine art? Who will dare to say that Hoa-to has not re turned to earth again?” Hoa-to, it, should be explained, is a celebrated Chinese doctor who lived 2000 years ago, and has been turned 'into a god. The first man in this country to re ceive a supply of the bacilli was Pro fessor J. T. Wilson, bacteriologist of the Brooklyn Health Department. They wore obtained from Dr. Yersin by a surgeon in tbe navy, who brought them to this country. What will be done to protect New York in case of the arrival of an in fected ship is an important question. Dr. Alvah H. Doty, tbe Health Officer of the Port, says that he is fully pre pared for such an emergency. He has representatives at Suez, Naples and other ports, who will warn him by cable of infected ships. It will be hard for the bubonic plague to come into New York on the body or clothing of any human being. This port has now the most perfect and modern disinfecting apparatus in existence. It would be impossible for the germs of any disease to pass through it and remain alive. This apparatus has been constructed under the supervision of Dr. Doty. It is installed on the steamboat James W. Wadsworth, which is stationed at Quarantine ready at any moment to get up steam and proceed to the dis infection of suspected persons or ships. Dr. Doty’s principal assistants are Dr. I Hommedieu and Mr. Skinner. Disinfection is enforced on persons from abroad at the discretion of tha Health officer. It will certainly be enforced on all coming from India or other ports from which the germs of the dreaded plague are liable to be carried. The Wadsworth is a marvel of sci entific ingennity in its fittings. The upper deck is given up to the disin fecting plant. A series of compart ments begins forward and ends aft. They are entirely lined with galvan ized iron, coated with white enamelled paint, and incapable of allowing any liquid cr other substance to escape. The man suspected of harboring germs en ters these chambers with all his porta ble belongings, and both of them emerge free from any germs which they may have carried on them. There remains the possibility, of course, that the man may have them in him. The crew of the Wadsworth undergo the same process of disinfection as tbe crew and passengers of an infected ship. After the work of disinfection is over the compartments are washed ont with copious water and a solution ot bichloride of mercury. All the drainings mast ran out through the hole. A LITE CANNIBAL KING. Ills Residence a Structure Composed of Human Hones. Okirika is situated about twenty- five miles from Bonny and in the routi to New Calabar, Africa. When tht THE CANNIBAL KING OF OKIRIKA. protectorate treaties were being signed, making the deltas of tbe Niger a British protectorate, Ibanitsuku, the King, and his chiefs refused to countenance tho terms set forth there in, and for several years gave Sir Claude Macdonald a vast amount of trouble from time to time, as the tribe held some of tho principal oil markets in the district. When the Bonny men or New Calabar men went to trade with the Okirikas their prop erty was frequently seized, and mur der invariably followed, the heads of the victims being carried off to adorn the “Jn Jn” house. Early last Jane Mr. Moor, the British Consul-General, sent them an ultimatum, says the Illustrated London News, demanding the King should be handed over to him, and also that the “Ju Jn” honse be destroyed, or he would bombard their town. Up till the last day of the time allowed in tho ultimatum they refused to come to terms, so Mr. Moor proceeded in tho Government yacht Ivy. with 150 troops and three launches, to Okirika. After about twenty minutes’ bombardment the chiefs came out in their canoes flying white flags. Some troops were then landed, who, without opposition, de stroyed the “Ju Ju” house, a struc ture built of human skulls. Tho King was then handed over, and the Ivy re turned to Bonny within twenty-four hours of the time of departure. Iban- t itsuku was made a state prisoner and conveyed to Degama (the Protector ate’s convict settlement), but later succeeded in making his escape. The Okirikas at present are assuming a more peaceful attitude and trade be tween them flourishes accordingly. The Oldest Postmaster. Joseph Strode of Mifflin County, Penn., is the oldest postmaster in the United States. That is to say, the oldest in oontinnons service, for Mr. Strode has held his position of master of mails at Strode’s Mills since 1846, JOSEPH STRODE. (Oldest Postmaster in the United States.) despite the changes of administra tions, political upheavals, war and the silver agitation. Joseph Strode is in his eighty- second year and is the pride and the joy of the Postoflice Department in Washington, which placed his picture in the government display at the World’s Fair.