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TIRI-WEIKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JANURY .3, 1895. AIISHE D 1849 Even Napoleon said: "War Is the business of barbarians." ;.' Pullman wants a fair count So does his daughter-a blonde count preferred. Anaconda has lost the Montana cap tal strugle. Her rival fights like Hel. ena contest of this sort The Government hasdscive'ed that .t has issued 200,000,000 worthless post age stamps. Such business should be stamped out It Is an effective commentary On Brooklyn whisky that the police carried a stark dead man to the station as be ing drunk. If the woman just arrested in New York for swindling milliners Is sharp she will arrange to bt tried before a jury consisting wholly of married men. If Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt looks ike some of the pictures of her recently printed in the papers we believe a di - r Is w cheap at $3,000. A 16-year-old girl has been sentenceid lo the Ohio penitentiary for horse-steal lng, it being her seventh offense. That sort of a record Is rapid enough for chicago. Judging fromi the pictures that somb ,f the papers are printing of Johann Straussthe "Waltz King," he looks as if he mightdhave just waltzed out of r lnnaticasylum. "Gen." Sander . the -m-onwet, Leader, is in jail in Colo-ado for steal Ing a locomotive last June. He should have stolen the rest of the railroad; then they would have sent him to Con gress. A jury in Judge Brentano's court, a, Chicago, engaged in the trial of a bur glary case found the defendant not guilty, although, it is said, the evidenc.e of guilt was conclusive. The Judge was greatly incensed at the verdict, but under the law he could do nothing else than accept it and order It to be record ed.- Howcver, he punished the jurors who were responsible for what he re garded as a plain miscarriage of justice by fining each of them the amount of his pay and discharging the entire pan el from further service In his court. While Judge Brentano, may have stretched. his authority a little; if he follows the precedent he has estab lished there will be few verdicts of ac quittal in criminal cases tried before him. Let the jurors once understand that they get no pay unless they return a verdict of conviction and the prison er, whether guilty or innocent, will hs'-dly be permitted to escape.. Young Lochinvar may have been ah :ight in his day, but he would not amount to much now. He was too the atrical in his love affair. They do.such things idre quietly and In better taste In these days. A Ithode Island man ran away with another man's bride a fewv days ago, but he did not make any such fuss about It as Lochinvar did. He did not ask the bride to kiss any goblets and he did not yank her onto a horse, well knowing that at best that would be an ungra eful proceed ing. That Is not the way with modern Lochinvars, such as Willie Wilcox, of Rhode Island, proved himself to be. Willie simply put on evening dress and went to the \vedding of Miss Mollie Baker to Addison R. Smith. When he got an opportunity he whispered to the yride to nieet him back of the old tan /nery or some other equally convenient "place, and then strolled away. There was no fuss, nothing theatrical about it. Everything was done quietly and * in order. She slipped out of the back door, met Willie and they went away together. . Later they sent a note to the groom wishing him health and pros perity and tella~g him not to worry about his bride. Siuch is young Lochin var up to date. * There Is a shocking suiggestion of oarbarism in the infercuces to be drawn from Gov. Flower's assent to the proposition that at the next elec trical execution in New York an effort - shall be made to resus'ltate the victim. When the State. of New YorL, agaInst the best ,counsel of conservative ob servers and of ma.ny electricians,. de cided to adopt electricity in the falfill ment of the deati penalty. It was cfu tended that until the eicacy of the - means for putting It into practice was known beyond perariventure the exper Iment should be postponed. The bung ling manner in which the first execu tions under the new law were accom plished showed at the time to what ex tent the advice deserved credence. Now, GJeorge Westinghouse, Nicola Tesla and other emInent electricians having come forward with strong assertions that * the condition produced by the shocks of the electric chair is not death, an at tempt Is to be made to bring the next criminal "executed" back to life. It is not probable that any life wIll be found in a man who has been subjected to such a shock, although there is some reason to doubt whether the operation is painless, as It has been alleged to be. But In the Idea that the culprit may be revived there is a ghastly suggestion as to the fate of the criminals already executed. No doubt the test should be maade. But the mere fact that there is reason for making It ieflects upon the State of New York as having ventured pon a peculiarly dangerous experi \pent without th solute assurance .hat the ent would succeed. e consists in the wasting of "HOW DID YOU REST. LAS" NIGHT?" 'Row d'd yoa rest, last night?" I've beaid my gran'pa,' say Them worda a thiousand tinies-that's right Jes them wi r.:s thataway: As punctchul-like as morning dast To ever heave in sight Gran'pap 'ud allus hat to aet *How did you rest, last night?" Us young-uns used to grin, At b.eakfa t, on th- '-ly. And mock the wobble of :- i chin And eyebrows belt so hi;;h And kind: -How t1d yOn ie.t. last night i A e'd mumble and lt onI Our voioes trembled. and our sight Was dim and hearin' gone. * w * * S Bad as I used tot e, A1 I'm a-wantin' is As puore and oa'm a sleep for me And sweet a sleep as his ! And so I pray, on .jedgnuent Day To wak e, and with 1: a light See his face dawn, and hoar him say -How did you rest, last right?" -James Vhitcomb ?dley. in "Armaziudy. T"E WOOD DOVE. General court-marshal had beei ordered convened at Fort Marcy. I had convened. Private Tboma Wilkinsof company D, -th infantry had been tried for being off dut without leave, the papers had bee1 signed and sent to Wl L.be. afltetrD u(ii5f and Col. Johi Brierly, who had acted as judge ad vocate. and'Maj. Thompson, the sur neon who bad appeared as witoes against Wilkins, were striding alons he board wait toward the Colonel' uarters when I met them and wa invited in to have a glass of some thing hot. After the something hot had beet eclared excellent by all the person interested, the talk naturally was o the court-martial. "By the way, Colonel," said Ma; Thompson, "If you will pardon ml saying so, I thought you were ver, lenient toward Wilkins in your ex amination. "'Yes," said the Colonel, "I gener ally am in such cases. You know,' he said, turning to me, "Wilkins lef his quarters to go and see his sweet eart. He is engaged to the girl.' '-But it was a clear case of neglec of duty," remarked Th surgeon. "1 know It," replied the Colonel "but-well, I symi athized witi him." The Major said nothing more. Th Colonel rezarded hi glass tor a fe, moments, tested the punch, an( then, looking up suddenly, he said -I'll tell you what 1 will do. I you men will give me your word o honor never to reveal to a soul weha I have to tell unt I I am dead anc gone I wi.1 give you my reasons fo: sympath'zing with this man." We gave him our word of honoi and we kept our word. The Colone baa now been dead for many years the major, I bel eve, is on the re tired list and living somewhere .ul In Maine, and so I do not feel that am wronging any man in writini down the story told us that wintei afternoon some ten or lifteen year %go. "In the little old churchyard Jus1 outside of the Mexican village of Sat Felipe in Arizona," the Colonel said "is a grave off by itself in one cor ner. On the modest headstone is thL insript on: 'Sacred to the memor2 of the Wood Dove, received into thi church as Mercedes Brierly. wife o: ol John Brierly, U._ S. A., dI& March 10, 187-, aged 26 years'" The Colonel was silent for somn moments, and then, in a grave voice be continued: "Mercedes Brierly was my wife.i km the John Brierly referred to. Sh< was att A pache Indian, and when yoi have beard what I did to win hel band, knowing her heart was mine, you will understand why I did .nol put many severe questions to tha1 poor young man to-day "I first met- the girl who was des ined to he my wife in the year 1186 when I was stationed on the frontier The civil war, in which I had woi my Colonel's commission, was jus1 over, and the A pache and other In dians were constantly. on the wiar path. .1 was at that time in comn mand of the -th cavalry and I had bout 400 men with me. "We were encamnped near a little Iexican village, San something o3 other, in. the northwestern part o New Mexico. We had had no worn to do for about a~ month, but th< air of iby tent was heavy with the reports brought to me of a large bod; of Apaches said to be on the war path and rapidly approaching oul Reihborhoodi. "One atternoon-I remember thi day well-the reports were verified by the capture of an Apache girl b, someI of my mecn. The girl was brol.ght to my tent by her i aptors They had found her rid ng by her self n the hills and had only succeed ed in making her a prisoner after shi had1 severely wounded one of them. "I will not attempt to describ< the beauty of this girl. She was ther about 19 years of age, of sublimn igure, with the most wonderfull, beautiful eyes. 1 will only say tha I fell in love with her the very mo lunt I saw her. "We held the girl a prisoner. Sh refused to tell us anything about her self or to betray the whereabouts u her people. That they were near wi k-new, however, and daily and night ly we expected an attack. But fo one mouth they remained unde cover. We did Dot go out and 1o01 for them, as it was 'my policy alway: 'o let them fire the first shot. "That month was in many re spects the happiest month in my lIfe Love was new to me. 1 a~dn'1 know it since my days at West Point . loved the girl withl all my heart and. what was sweeter, she soor grew to love me in return. "One afternoon I told her of m) love and I asked her to marry me She toldt me then that she loved me r me. I left ner and that night the Apaches atacked us. Their victory was complete. They found us un prepared. Our loss was something . eiul, aid ra lo. vd gne su . ;ur when the morning cLue the girl was missing. Her people had reca;> Lured her. "The morning fourd us in a des perate mood. The men were mad, and I was mad. We were all !n thq humor for a tirst-class massacre, and I aid my plans accoraingiy. Our scouts located the enemy, and that afternoou we penned them in and had them at our mercy. Our num bers were about even, but our men were all old.! old iers, thoroughly dis ciplined, and so they fell easy vic 'ims to our superiority. "It was about 5 o'clock, when the flghting was at its worst. I showed a ag of truce, and a few moments ater an Indian of commanding stoat. ure rode out from the little fort they had built on the top of the bill and a advanced to the center of the di t minutive plain which stretched be s t.ween where the two armies were osted. I rude out alone to meet him, for I could guess that he was the chief of the tribe. "We sa 1 offer you peace.' I said to him en two couditions; first, that you lay down your arms and surrender; second, that the girl you stole from us last night be ieturned to me.' "'She is my daughter,' said the Indian haughtily. &Then there is so much more rea son why you should surrsnder. for I Jove her; I would marry her, and I du Pot wish to be at war with her peo "'You are good,' replied the In tian with a sneer, the first and onli time I have ever seen a sneer on the face of an Indian. 'You offer me peace for honor. Go back to your tents' "1 felt as though he had kicked me, and, burning up with wrath, I returned to my men and the Indian to his. But there was very little more work done that day. I deter inined to wait until the.morning, and then to charige determinedly upon the enemy and k.11 every man of them, to capture my sweetheart, and mariy her, whether her father liked it or not. By that time, I considered, it wouldn'lt make much difference whether he liked it or not, for dearl men rarely interfere in matters of love. I had no fear of their- esca:; ing us during the night, for we bad tliem pretty well penned in, and 1 had no fear of. their attacking us during the night. After sunset I cal ed my oficers together and gave them their orders. " -At 8 o'clock,' I told them, 'wc will charge u.on them and. finish them up.' "The officers left me in my tent tc my own re. e tions, and a few min utes later [ heard a slight (heer from the men. I knew then that they had heard the order, for all the afternoon they had been itching for a good charge. The command had not been given, for the simple ieason that I feared in the charge upon the Indians the girl I loved might be routed out anid probablyeither killed or wounded "I sat for a long while thinking how I mighL capture her, and, seeing no way clear. I was abouat to turn ar :lespair when 1 heard a cry for the -:orporaI cf the guard from one of our autposts. There was a hurrying of men and then in a few moments the corporal came into my tent, saluted. Iand salI that an Indian girl wished to speak with me. Mly heart beat violently and I ordered the man to show her in. "But it was not my love-not m3 Wood Dove, as she had told mae her name was among her people. The girl who stood before me was small and wizened, with weak eyes, and in 'ags.. 'What do you want?'I asked her. "'-The Wood Dove could not fly t. you,' she replied, 'so she sent me. They are guarding her, but she will escape from them. She tells me to say to you that my people will charge upon you to-morrow- morning, and that to deceive you all of our wom~en Iwill be mounted and held in the rear, as if they were men waiting for their turn to tight. She tells me to say to you that she will be mounted on a black horse, with a star in its fore. b1 ead. and with two white rorelegs. She will be in the front ranks when the charge is made, and at your first ire will fail from her horse as though he were wounded. You must then manage to pick her body up beforeI our people do so. Her father is the chief of our people, he was the chief with whom you spoke to-day, and he was very angry with her when he camne back to us. She has pursuied him that she does not love you, but hates you, and though she is well yuarded to-night, it Is because of the fear of an attack from you. In the morning she will ride forth' and take her niace at the head of all the wo men In the excitement of the moment she will mix with the men, and you know what to do then.' I"The wom;.n left me and returned, as she had come, to the tents of her people. "I was excited naturally over thh Istory I could not help reali ng. the I real d anger she would run of hein. kiled, and 1 was puz led for somue while as to ,hat I should do. Then an idea occurredi to me, and, smiling to nmyself. I went to sleep and rested peacefully until the morning. "in the morning 1 cal ed my ofin eers about me again. -'1 have learned.' I said, 'that the enemy intended to charge upon us. I have decided that it will be best to wait until they are half way across the plain and then to sally forth. The chIef irn command of them is the famous Deer Head, and my orders are - tocapurehim alive If possible. I i sama hinir i, wenia ha advisable to supply the men with one round of blank cartridges. When the enemy is half w,:y a -ross the plain I will give the order, and at the sound of the bugle we will sally forth. PF When within 100 yards of the enemy the blank cartridges are to be 11 ed. Taen charge into them ancl take as many prisoners as posible. Only on se' round of blan k cartridges is to be sup plied, and no man is to lire his arm after that until the bugler repeai the charge. I inyelf will take thE center. Capt. Howard will take thc left and Capt. Watkins the right Now, gantlemen, to your posts.' "I chuckled to myself as with as. Lonishment depected upon their faces the young gentlemen left me, and then to complete my plans I sum moned my bodyguard. In those day. a Colonel on the frontier had as many men in bis bodyguard as he wanted. My men were all go-d. loyal, Lrave fellows, and I knew that I could de. a pend upon them. " 'My men,' I sai V)t them, 'I an going to lead the center this morn ing. an; I'm going to put you all im mediately behind me, in the froii 3i rani. ? Wai you a1 to iaca a an closexy, and 1 want you aiso to waie th, out for a black horse.with white fore Uo If the rider of that horse falls at the :f first tire, or the second tire, or at ail, vot 1 want you to be careful and follo Yot me and get to the Lody before it it hai picked up by any of the Indians.' haE "M plans now cruplete. I had f ' but to wait. I bad rot long to wait Dr, either, for within an hour the war riors came forth from unler cover, and behind them came w-hat looked like a second regiment, bu. what J al knew to be the w, men. It is not tra often that the In iians, I should .a3 pat here, take their women with the: livi when they go on the warpath. butmu the Araches, being a wandering tri be, 1hA generally had no safe place to- leave them, and so were obliged to ba ham pered with their presaince. ces "The Indians advanced and the un bugle sounded the order to mount. I ne: rode out to my place and stationed bre e my six bodyguardsmen immbediateiy h behind me in the rank. For some th while I could not make out the horse lea I looked for, tut at last I saw it in the rear guard, and then, as the in. l lians galloped their horses, I saw it &0 come out from among the women the tnd .taie a place in the ranks of the Hi men. "The enemy came on now toward" tr as at a brisk gallop, its lines as I itraightas an arrow, and as I tight- is ned my waistband I caught sight re again of the horse with the white in forelegs. It was in the very middle s rf the line. My joy 'was almost com- fe plete. tea "The enemy was now in the mid. " Ile of the plain, and !the time had ome for action. The bugal sounded nd we were off, slowly and quiLtly oping over the ground at first. Then ec is the enemy came nearer, thunder. ten .ng over the parched earth. Within Wa; unshot we came and the India's hat ,penea on us. A lew of our men tial li-opped, but we did not reply. On, th n we thundered, and then a line of ver naipid, useless fire burst from our a ines. ua "I heard a cry. I saw a figure-. be] he tigu e of the girl I loved. There a'Y was a rushing and a growling and a by r, .undering of hoofs. We were the ximongr them, cutting to the right foi ad left. We cut our way through Wh them. 1 dashed forward to where mu Lily love lay waiting for me. "I leaned forward over my horse. rea mei ed her in one hand and lifted "E ser, with a strength I knew not I wh possessed, and placed her on the sad- be Ie Lehind me. Aly body-guardcsmen ~l ~laed themselves in a circle about uie, the bugle sounded the charge C ~gain, the signal to comnmence firing, -,u' ndl then, wheeling, we opened on 3 hem with saber and carbine. - l'brough theIr lines we went again, ny guardsmen about me, mowing a ole for me through the red mnen. 'b ind the safe in our own territoryti nce more, I gave my love into the 'fro iafekeeping of my six faithful fel ows, and they returned to our, camp pe with her. e "Is there anything else that I car ~eil youv You know the result o I ve, hat battle, and the M1ajor here is >d enough in the service to remem- ter .er the commendation of Congress res jth which I was honored. The the ght lasted for but a few momentssh ad then, beaten, half of their num yer dead. their chief, the great Deer u dead, kIlled, thre enemy retreated in ,us lisorder. "Without much ado my Indian lv (irn and 1 were married at the little . ezican church in the villa.e. For ome short, few years we were veryii appy, anid then the All tesitroyer ~ook her from me. "Now that you know how great isks I took with the lives of my men or the sake of the woman I loved, do i ro)U blame me for sympathizing with nai joor Wilkins? I was fortunate; he mil was unfortunate-that's the only dif- oni erence. Aud, poor man, he really ble id nothing. He did not leave us at as he ni:ercy of a cruel roe. More than she ikeiy at the tiume we were comiforta- ma :ly drinking hot punch and tellinv t-ht tories. And I'll tell you what I am liia roing to do,' gentlemen. I am going cat 0 write to Washington to-night and Wi ive the man a first-rate character cot nd take the liberty of advising the int lepartment merely to reprimand him. 1:ik What do you thin ks" me The Major and I filled our glasses s ea nd raising them to our lips exclaim- sal d. in a voice, as we quaffed thegr heerful beverage: "Colonel, here'sth 'our very good health'"-Chicago n ar Cimes. _g It's the sober and well balanced per on that is affected more easily by. iyntism than the avysterical person. a 1IRMONS FOR SUNDAY EACHED THROUGH VARIOUS CLEVER PENS. th I Not a Penalty-Christ Faith ha e Human Soul-God's Love Changes C-Lack of Deep, Continuous DevotioU The Mightiest of all Forces. HAT is the might,. , liest of all forces? l answer that it is the Christ faith In a human soul. It is invin cibie simply be cause its put the Lord Jesus Christ Into your soul as an abiding pres ence and an al mighty power. I do not mean "faith"- as mere belief in the Bi or in Christianity. That is only opinion that may not be more L.n skin deep. By faith I mean v that personal loyalty to Jesus Saviour and L ord which grows out etered into ;l fart Mt he_ has enteredit rsoul and abiese r - can truly say: "I know whom I e believed;" for the Son of God actually entered into that man 'arsus as a supernatural force.-n Cuyler. God Writes the Music of Our Lives. od sends a time of forced leisure, cness, disappointed plans, fruz ted efforts, and malkes a sudden se in the choral hymn of our s, and we lament thatour voices st be silent, and our part missing .he music which eier goes up U ear of the creator. low does the musician read the L? See him beat the time with arying count, and catch up the t note true and steady, as if no aking place had cow:; between. iot without aesign does God write music of our lives. Be It ours to rn the tune, and not be dismayed ihe "rests " They are not to b red over, not to be omitted, not lestroy the melody, not to change keynote. If we look up, God nself will beat the time for us. Vith the eye on Him, we shall ke the next note full and clear. we say sadly to ourselves: "There o music in a rest," let us not tor there is the "making of music" ,t. The making of music is often ow and painful process In this . How patiently God works to ch us! How lang be waited for ut .earn the lesson!-Ruskin. On aCading. lo sit down in a chair with an ob. is to jump into a thicket of iptations. A. vacant hour is al Fs the devil's hour. When time igs heivy, the winigs of the spirit > heavily and slow. Then it Is .t a book is a strong tower, nay a y church, with angels lurking [ng the leaves as if they were so ny niches. * * *Reading ps to make convesation harmlesa, making it less petty and censorious, furnishing us with other topics, .n our neighbors' faults and' >es. It Is very hard for a person D does not like reading to talk ch in company without sinning. ** Furthermore, a,tat for ding often hinders our taking the nig side in practical questions eh are mooted in the world, but r upon the church. It does this, er by the information it has en. ed us to obtain on the sub ect it. , or by making our instincts ac ate and sensitive through our fa arity with right principles. cr. Grow'th in Christian Life. )ne of the hindrances to growth in istian lire is lack of deep and car. uous cdevotlon. This Is either n the want of a sense of the great rit world on whose border we live getually, or it is the result of ex ive occupation, over-occupation, ich crowds, all the time, and pre frai one from ripening In a true dtiani devotion. There Is an ut Mlberty granted to everybody in gect to his mode of devotion, bi't e is no liberty as to whether he I or shall not be devout and wor p from day to day. A lower might as well attempt to get along in amer without the dew that faLs m it as a Christian to attempt to Swithout daily communion witb I. An eamg e tha.t cannot fly: a htngale that cannot slag. a vine .t cannot b:osom-that is a heart .t des not pray, and does not love ray. ____ The Meaning of Death. Ve are, perhaps, too much in the ;L of thinking of death as the cul iation of diseases, which regarded y in itself is an evil, and a terri evil. But I think rather of death he first pulse of the new strength ,kina~ itself free from the old uldy remnants of earth-garmenlts t it may begin in freedom the new that grows out of the old. Tile erpillar~ dies into the buttrmiy. m knows but disease may be the 2ing of the keener life breakirm o this, and beginn'nef to destroy, a ire, the inferior modes of gar fits of the present? And thus dis se would be but the slzn of the aton of fire; of the agony of the ater life to lift us to itself, out of .t where n we are failing and sin g. And so we praise the consum ire of life,-George Macd..nald Sweet to Enow. n time of sorrow it is very sweet knouw that Goa's love changes not, la the game in the bfightness and when the brightness fadesinto gloom. It Is the same IQ joy and when the joy turns to grief. It is the same when blessings are given and when they are recalled. "The Lord gave and the Lord bath taken away" -the same Lord and the same love. it does not seem so to us; we believe that while He sh- wers gifts and fa vors upon us he loves us; but some times, when the skies grow dark and he gives sorrow and pain, we feel.that He does nut love us as before. Yet It may be that there are even richer blessings in the things which make us grieve than in those which give us gladness. We know at least tut the same wise, gentle, infinite love se-id as bot.-Westminister Teacher. 'A Well-Buit Christian. A well-built Christian is barmomn jus in his qualities; he does nout kee the fourth commandment, and yet sit loosely to some of the other com I mandments during the week. He is like those two massive pillars that were set up in the porch of Solomon' Temple, called -Fachlm" and "hoaz." One of these words signirles "lie w .1 establish," and the other word sizni fies '-in strength." These two to gether typify the firmness, stablity, and strength of the man who is buiI like the tono h ,.. noavr were nut only solid; they were beautiful: for all around the capitals of the pillars was "lily-work." in like manner strength and beauty are combined in every weli-developed Christian char acter.-Thomas L. Cuyler, D. 1. Think Wel of Others. ,There is a clas; of generous sowu who make up no verdict upon others until first they have searched out good qualities and redeeming traits, Whose experience is a practil an: perpetual refutation of the belief that any one can be totally cievoid of good. And when once they have found the least si ark of pure imp*.use. they look upon It with delight: they :lothe it with the precious radiance of their own virtue. They do not lose sight of it, first or la-t or ever. It is to them the priceless gem where .rom the whole soul takes value." John Learned. The Thought of God. For one soul saved by ecolding ano ault-tinding, ten are saved by sweet d6-es; for one soul saved by fear of bell, ten are saved by the tbougnt or God. A gentie voice and a smiling face make religion beautiful to the miserable and sintul, whereas gloomy looks and a harsh or condescending manner make religion seem a thing to be avoided. Do you wish to draw souls to God? Then let your sou!s reflect his love. Be gentle, be' pa tient, Pfactical peop'e may condemdu you, but only this way you imitate Jesus. Notes and Comments. THE total missionary gifts ot Christendom for 1896 is estimated at S14,713,627. Tae Lutheran Church owns edu cational-institutions in the United tates to the value of $4,689,550. TnE Young Wonmen's Christian ssocation of Michigan includes ineteen assoc:iations with a member ship of 2,000. THERE are Dow 16.023 chapters of the Epworth League in the M4etho. d ist Episcopatl Church. Of this numu er 2,800 are junior leagues.. THE London iReligious Tract So. lety, the British Foreign Bih e So cety, and the American Tract s-o. ciety have received in the nineteenth century $140,000,000. IN Corea the P'rotestant mission force of foreign wor-kers consists or twenty-six married men, fourteen single men, and eighteen sin~rne ladies, representing the Nethodist En:scopal, Presbyterian and Anigli can churches. R~Ev. B. P. Dtrrm, who has been assisting Rev. A. T. Lynn in iiok'ing a series of meetings in Stafford, Va., Is 84 3 ears old, and on the day he was 8 he rode 14 miles and preached at three different places. L e was coa. veted 59 years ago, and has IJCCa preaching 54 years. THE Brittish Go vernment has jusi. mtenfered with the free exercise of reigion in India by prohibiting the practice of book swinging at religious estivais. By inserting a hook at.! tached to a -rope in his flesh, and, then swinging in the air for a 1en rinutes, the devotee believed thal be promoted the cause of religion. THE fol owing notice reu-ently ap peared in a Western newspaper: "A n entertainment entitled living pictu: et copi-d from famous paintings of the world and a very amusing Frnenca fac~e will be griven In an enclosed tent for the benefit of the building fund of the Fourth .Presbyterlar Church."I His Own Fault. A Chicago gentleman, with a roublesome memory, had lately been taking a $25 course of mnemonics from a professor who has a new and, according to his own account of the attcr, a thoroughly eiective sys temn. Shortly afterward, says the T.-ib une, a..eizh bur entruisted a -package to this genteman's care, which pack age the gentleman forgot to deliver. He made a handsome apology. His ieighaor accepted it in osd part,1 but could not forcear to ask, ir. a bantering tone. "Br-t how about that $25 system oi1 mnemonics?" 'Oh, that's all right." was the re ply. "Tne system isn't to blame. I only forgot to apply it, that's all." SOME ROYAL CHILDREN. they Are the Idols of Their Grana father, the Emperor of Austria. Emperor Franz Joseph; of Austria, I Jevoted to all his grandchildren, bu especially to the three little ones of ht youngest daughter, 'the Archduchesi Marie Valerie, with whom the accom panying picture was taken last sum mer at Ischl. On this account It Is nat E IPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH. aay a gre? t i _ the son of an Austrian Archduke, can -ot succeed him. The Archduchess Marie Valerie, whi is the youngest child of the Empero4 and Empress of Austria, was born ov April 22, 18G8, and was married to thi Archduke Franz Salvator on July SX ISUO, at Ischl. They have three chai dren-the Princess Elizabeth, born os Jan. 27, 18972, at Vienna; Prince Fram Carl Salvator, on Feb. 17, 1893, and th baby, who is only a few months old The Archduchess Marie Valerie leads an ideally happy life with her husband and children,.ana Is the greatest corn ort and help to her father and mothea I remember, says a writer In the Gen tiewoman, seeing her the year before I -Imt ARCHDUCHESS YARIE VALERIE. her marriage, when she was staying with the Empress of Austria at Wies baden at the Villa Langenbeek, and thinking what a sweet, gocd expression she had. In the upper- part of her face she resembles her mother very much and she also possesses magnificent hair, but her mouth prevents her being aW beautiful as the Empress. The Beggar Rode. A Kansas City business man who has is office in the Amearican Bank Build ng, walks from his - residence to his~ pace of business every morning as a onstitutional. Soon after leaving ome the other morning a beggar ask ed him for five cents that he might get~ ome breakfast The request was ranted and he 'quIckly disappeared round a corner.- The business man ontinued on his way, rejoicing that e had--temporarily, at least-relieved one case of want. Reaching his office uilding, he was just entering when ome one touched his sleeve, and, turn ng, he beheld the beggar whom he id assisted. The man had evidently orgotten his late benefactor a.nd vol ibly repeated his tale. "But, look here, my man," said the >usiness man, "I gave you a nickel on )ak street not half an hour ago." "Is that s'o?" replied the beggar, ith an air of surprise. "Yes, that's so. Why didn't you get ome breahfast with that?" "Well, you see, boss, it's this wayi had to use dat nick fer car fare to - et down town to th' cafe where I akes me meals." To Clinch the Endowment. There is a weekly auction of line, oods in,Belfast 'at which nothing is eer sold. About two hundred years r, there were two hails for selling inen in Belfast, the White Linen Hall :td the Brown Linen Hall. In the for uer alil bleached linen was sold, while he latter was exclusively reserved for he sale of brown or unbleached goods. early a century ago a linen manufact .rer in Belfast endowed the latter In stitution. and the deed of endowment ontained a clause to the eft'ect that a arket should be held in the hall every Friday. Linen, however, began to be isposed of In other ways and the halls were no longer useful. The White inen Hall was made into public of fices, but thie Brown Linen Hall still re :ains to fulfill its original functions. Every Friday rmorning Mr. McNicholl, an old man, opens the doors, takes his tand in the middle of the hail and puts single boe of ubleached linen up o auction. It is always the' same old :an and the same old bale. Nobody ver comes to buy It because few pee- - 1e are aware of this remarkable cus om. 3fay Grow 1t Here.. Americans import from Japan aboul 0.00.000~ .pounds of tea a-year and 5,000000 pounds from China. If the tea market eventually becomes mtici f disturbed, there will be an increage.o interest in the tea-growingexpeiments i n ratiC~ln n Florida ~ -