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TRI-WEBRKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MARCH 23, 1895. tEY.DR_ TALMKIAR t TME BEOOKRTW DIVIMN'S SUN DAY BERMGl. SUBJECT: "A Snowy Day." U Tzrr: "He went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day."-I Chronicles 3i., 22. Have you ever heard of him? His name n was Benalab. He was a man of stout muscle and of great avoirdupois. His father was a t hero, and he inherited prowess. He was t athletio, and there was iron in his blood, t and the strongest bone in his body was back- s bone. He is known for other wonders be sides that of the text. An Egyptian five oubits in stature, or about seven feet nine Inches high was moving around in bragga- t doclo and Aourishing a great spear, careless t as to whom he killed, and Banaiah of my text. 5s with nothing but a walking stick, came upon C him, snatohed the spear from the Egyptian, it and with one thrust of Its sharp edge put an T end to the blatant bully, which makes us I think of the story in our Greek lesson, too t< hard for us if the smarter boy on the same bench had not helped us out with it, in which f Eoraetus the Macedonian and Dioxippus the Athenian fought in the presence of Alexan. 31 der, the Maiedonlan armed with shield and 31 -sword and javelin and the Athenian with ; nothing but a club. The Manodonian hurled ai the javelin, but the Athenian successfully dodged % and the Macedonian lifted the t but the Athenian with the club broke lU - the Macedonian drew the sword, but p eAthenian tripped him up before he could a stike with it and then the Athenian with his 51 elub would have beaten the life out of the D Xacedonian, fallen among his useless o weapons, If Alexander had not commanded, B s Bn of the text is about to do go nothing that will eclipse even that. There n Is trouble In all the neighborhood. Lambs 1i a.e carried off in the night, and children ven- I Caring only a little way from their father's I house are found mangled and dead. The a fact is the land was infested with lions, and t f3W pople dared meet one of these grizzly a beass. much less corner or attack It. As a V good Providence would have it, one morning a a footstep of a lion was tracked in the snow. : It hal been out on its devouring errand E tiraugh the darkness, but at last it is found a b7 the Impression of the four paws on the t white surface of the ground which way the w Idb -ast came and which way It had gone. 9 Perzlnus undertaking, but Benalah, the heroe o: the text, armshimself with such'weapons ; a% those early days afforded, gunpowde! o having been inzented in a far subsequent o century by the German monk Bertholdus t Schwarz. Therefore without gun or any s kind of firearms, Benatah of the text no b doubt depended on the sharp steel edge for d h's own defense and the slaughter of the s lion as he followed the tract through the a snow. A may have been a javelin; it may a have been only a knife. But what Benala't v lacks in weapons he will make npinstrength a of arm anri skill of stroke. But where is t the lion. We must not get off his track in " the snow. The - land has many e>-terne, or pits. -for catchinit rain, the ' rainfall be'ni very scarce at certain seasons, ( and hence these cisterns, or reservoirs are v digced here and there and yonder. Lions Nave an instinct which seems to tell them t wh-n they are pursued. and this dread mon- a s:er of which I speak retreats into one of t these o!sterns which harp-ned to be free of f water and Is there panting from tie long run f sn-1 licking its jaw3 after a repast of human p les'h and after quaffing the red vintage o1 c hu-nan blood. P Benaiah is all alert and comes cautiously a S -i toward the hiding place of this terror of n tie fl,!ds. Coming to the verge of the pit, he ti looks down at the lion, and the.lion looks s up at him., What a moment it was when r their eyes clashed! But while a modern Du C Ch-llu, Gordon Cumming or Sir Samuel o Ba:er or David Livingstone wuld have b just brought the gun to the shoulder, ard v he'd the eya against the barrel, ani blazed- away Into the depths, and finished s the beast, Benaiah, with only. the old I t'-no weapon, can do nothing until hf gets on a level with the 'beast, I and so he jumps into the pit and the lion. 1 with shining teeth ef rage and claws lifted to t tear to shreds the last vestige of human life, t springs for the man, while Benaiah spz-rings e for the beast. Thut the quick stroke of the e ateel edge flashed again and again and again I until the snow was no longer white and the It light foot *of triump tBenaiah Is halt \ -. evered with the twfmane of the slain k horror of Palestine. . I Now you see how emphaticeand tragi.u and tremendous are the words of my text,. I "He went down and slew a lion In a pit in a a snowy day." Why put that in the Bible? t . Why put It twice in the Bible, once in thev book of Samuel and here in the book of !I Chronioles? Oh, the practical lessons are so i mayfor you and for me! What a cheer in I thssbeot for all those of you who are in t eojnton of hostile~crcumstances.,Three r things were against 'Benaiah of my text I In the moment of combat, the snow that in- c - d his movement, the pit that environed 1: ia small space, and the lion, with open c jaws and uplifted naw. And yet I hear. the c shout pf Benatah's victory. Oh, mien and s women of three troubles, you say, "I could stand one, and I think I could stand two, I but three are are least one too many." I, There is a man In business perplexity and i9 who has sickness in his family, and old age t Is coming on. Three troubles-a lion, a pit e and snowy day. There Is a good woman s with failing health and a dissipated husband b and a wayward boy-three troubles. *There i Is a young man, salary out ddwn, badA cough, frowning future-three troubles.t There Is a maiden with difficult school I lessons she cannot get, a face that Is not -as attractive as some of her schoolmiates', a I prsetthat through hard times she must a qutsho before se gautes-three trou-f io.There is an author, his manuscript re- 1: gected, his power of originationin decadence,. a.numibness in forefinger and thumb, which a threatens paaysis-three troubles. There b isae-rerof fine taste sent to report a I Cl isInstead of an oratorio, the copy a In rejected because the paper I Is a mother to support on small I: lno0 -hretroubles. I could marchC x~~toff these seats and across this platform, If th~would come at my call, 500 people I with tretobs.This is the opportunmty I to play the hero or the heroine, not on ao small stage, with a few hundred people tot clap their approval, but with allthe galleries a of heaven filled with sympathetic and ap- s uding spcaors, for we are "surrounded g Ca retcoud of witnesses." My brother, y my ssemy father, my mother, what a q cbance you have! Wie you are In theJ strgge, f ouonly have the grace 01 t< Chrst o isten, a voice parts the a heavens, saying, "MXy grace fis sufficient lj for thee," "Whom the Lord loveth He chast- g .beth,""You shall be more than conquerors." o a.nd thaat reminds me of a letter on my table a lIten by some one whom I supzpose to be at 1i thnmoment present, saying, "Mly dear, dear ti doctoryou will please pardon the writer for uhitha~teaome time when you feel like a u.kl ypreach from the thirtieth t mtersie,W eeigmyendure for 5 an ht~but jycometh In te morning,' and a So to aldowntown business men and to i Al uptown business men I say: If you have I on hand goods that you cannot sell and r debtors who will not or cannot py, and y'ou ( are also suffering from uncertainty as to y what the Imbecile American Congrefs will do a abg~t the tariff, you have three troubles, and I enough tobring you within the range of the consolation of my text, where you find the I triumph of Benalah over a lion, and a pit and a snowy day. If you have only one , trounble I cantot spord any time with you to-cay. You must nave at least three., ad then rememnber how many have tri namphed over such a triad of misfortune. I p'aul had three troules: Sanhedrin de pounin hitm-that was one gre' trouble: hialifrmity, which he ' e "a thofn I 1e thjorn was, we ao know from the ngure e used that it must have been something int stuck him-that was the second trounole: Py.j rtyrdv -tm mavde the three oubles. Yet hear what he says, If I had nly one misfortulfno, I could stand that. but tre I.re two too manV?' No. I misinterpret. Es sav2: "Sorrow'.v. yet alwara rejoin'r. 'eor, "yct miaking miny rioi. Iingno'i g. yet possessing all tlhings." "Tihnks be nto God, who givcth us the victory througi ur Lord Jesus Christ." David had three troubles, a bad boy, a )mptation to dissoluteness and dethrone ient. What does he say? "God is our re ige and strength. a very present help in me of trouble. Therefore will not wA fear, iough the earth be romoved, and though ie mountains be cast into the midst of the ma." John Weslev had three troubles-defa, iation by mobs. domestic infelicity, fatigue om more sermons preached and more miles aveled than almost any man of his time. rhat does he say? "The best of all is. God with us." Knd when his poet brother, harjes Wesley, said to him, "Brother John the Lord were to give me wings, I'd fly.' yhn's reply was. "Brother Charles, If the ord told me to fiV, I'd do it and leave Him Sfind the wings.' George Whitelleld had three troubles-re' etion from the pulpits of England because 3 was too dramatic-that was one trouble; rabismus or the crossing of his eyes that tbiected him to the caricature of a3l the nall wits of the dav: vermin and dead ani. .ls thrown at him'while he preached on the )mmons-that made three troubles. Never Leless. his sermons were so b'uoyant that a ttle chil. dying soon after hearing him reach, sail in the intervals of pain, "Let Le go to Mr. Whitefield's God." Oh, I am >glad that Benaiah of my text was not the ly one who triumphed over a lion in a pit aa snowy day. Notice In my text a victory over ba4 'eather. It was a snowy day, when one's itality is at a low ebb and the spirits are aturally depressed and 'one does not feel ke undertaking a great enterprise, when ensiah rabs his hands together to warm iem by extra friction, or trashes his arms ound him to revive circulation of the lood, and then goes at the lion, which was 11 the more fierce and ravenous because of e sharp weather. Inspiration here admits mosphexio hindrance. The snowy day at alley Forge well nigh put an end to the 'ruggle for American independence. The owy day demolished Napoleon's army on le way from Moscow. The inclemency of January and Februar) reatier has some years bankrupted thou. ,Mds of merchants. Long succesgion of 'ormy Sabbaths has crippled innumerable Lurches. Lighthouses veiled by the snow n many a coast have failed to warn off from ie rocks the doomed frigate. Tens of thou. inds of Christians of nervous temperament y the depression of a snowy day almost espair of reaching heaven. Yet in that ye of weather Benaiah of the text hieved his most celebrated victory, nd let .us by the graca :of God become ictor over influences atmospheric. If we re happy only when the wind blows from he clear northwest, and the thermometer-is bove freezing point, and the sky Is an In erted blue cup of sunshine poured all over s, it Is a religion 95 per cent. off. Thank od there are Christians who, though their rhole life through sickness has been a snowy .ay, havo killed every lion of despondency iat dared to put Its cruel paw against iheir affering pillow-. It was a snowy day when i1 Pilgrim Fathers set foot not on abank ol owers,but onthe cold New England rock,and -om a ship that might have been more ap. ropriately called after a December hurri. &ne than after a "Mayflower" they took ossession of this great continent. .' -And mid more chilly worldly circumstances Lany a good man or a good woman has tken possession of a whole continent ol piritual satisfaction, valleys of peace and ivers of gladness and mountains of joy. hrist landed in our world not in the month i May, but in the stormy month of Decem er. to show that we might have Christ ir rinter weather and on a snowy day. Notice everything down in the pit that nawy day depended upon Benalah's weapon. 'here was as much strenth in one muscle of iat lion as in all the muscles of Wth arms of 'waiah. It is the strongest of beasts, and as been known to carry off an ox.- Its >ngue Is so rongh that it acts as a rasp aaring ofT the flesh in lIcks. The two great anines at each side of the mouth make es-. ape impossiblo for anything It hias once ized. Yet Benaiah puts his heel on ae neck of this "king of beasts," as It a dagger? Wasit a javelin? Was Itsa nie? I cannot tell, but everything de-' ended on it. But for that Benalah's body der onte crunch of the monster would have een left limp and tumbled in the snow. .d when you and I go into the fight with imptation, if we have not the right kind of reapon. Instead of our elaying the lion the on will slay us. -The sword of the Spirit! rting in earth orhedll can stand before that. ictory with that, or no victory at all. By at I meanprayer to God, confidence in His resuing power, saving grace, almighty de. veranc-e. I do not care what you call It. 1 all it "sword of the Spirit." And if the ons of all the jungles of perdition should at ae spring upon your soul by that weapon f heavenly metal you can thrust them backe nd cut them down, and stab them through ad leave them powerless at your feet. Your 'ood resolution wielded against the powers rhicheasault you Is a toy pistol against an .mstrng gun; is a penknife held out against de brandished sabers of a Heinelman's avary charge. Go into the fight against in on yur own strength, and the result will e the hot breath of the lion in your blanched ie, and his front paws one on each lung. last. for the man not fully armed down in ae pit on a snowy day, and before him a ton! Al my heares and readers have a bli. ght of some sort on hand, but the bigges nd the wrathiest lion which you have to ght Is what the Bible calls "the roarilng on who walketh about, seeking whom he iay devour." Now, you have never seen reaE. lion unless you have seen .m in India or Africa, just after capture. ,ong caging breaks his spirit, and the con ant presence of human beings tames him. st you ought to see him spring against the :o bars in the zoological gardens of alcutta and hear him roar for the prey. It takes one's blood curdle, and you shrink ak, although you know there is no peril. tenty of lions In olden time. ix hundred I them were stimghtered on one occasion in se presence of Pompey in . the Roman mphtheater. Lions came out and de royed the camels which carried the bag age of Xerxes' army. In Bible tliie there nrr so many lions -that they~ are fre-. ently alluded to in the .citre ool, the prophet, describes the cheek eth" of a great lion, and Isaiah mentions mong the attractions of heaven that "no on shall be there," and Amos speaks of a hepherd takng a lamb's ear out of the mouth a lion, ad oomon describes therighteous5 "bold as a lion." and Daniel was a great on tamer, and David and Jeremiah and St. ohn often speak of this creature. But most am I impressed by what I have oted from ~ Apostle Peter when he calls te devil a '!on. That means strength. 'hat means bloodthirstiness. That meAns ruelty. That means destruction. Some of ou have felt the strength of his paw, and a shar~pnes ofhis tooth~nd~the hororaf is rage. yes, he is a savage devil. He oared at -everything good when Lord laverhouse assailed the Covenanters, nd Bartholomew against the Huge tots one August night when the bell tole or the butchery to beln and the ghasl ,ke in the street was, ' Blood letting Is goo a August" and 50,000 assassin knives were ilunged into the victims, and this monster as had inder his paw many of the radest ouls of all time, and fattened with te spoils .f enturies he comes for you. But I am glad to say to all of you who have ot the worst in such a strdggle that there Is lion on our side if you want him, aevela Ion v., 8, "The lion of Judah's tribe.". A iamb to us, but alion to meet that other lion; mA nn .an easdr maan -who. wii.Eatn that fight, and Who WHI U15 Deaten. Wnen2 I two opposing lions meet in a jungle in India, you cannot tell which will overcome and which will be overcome. rThey glare at each other for a moment, and then with full streneth of muscle they lasqh against each other like two thunder 5olts of colliding etnrmelouds, and with jaws ike the crush of avalanches, and with a re sounding voice that makes the Himalayas :remble, and with a pull and tear and elutch mnd trample and sbakng of the head from side to side until it Is too much for human endurance to witness, and, though one lion may be left dead, the one which has con quered crawls away )acerated and gashed and lamo and eyelees to bleed to death in an adjoining jungle. But if you and I feel enough our weakness in this bat Hte of temptation and ask for the divine help against that old lion of hell, described in St. Peter,willgo to the stronger lion described in Revelation, and it will be no uncertain grap ple, but under one omnipotent stroke the de vouring monster that would slay our soul shall go reeling back into a pit 10,000 times leeper than-that in which Benaiah slew the ion on a snowy day. A word to all who are in a snowy day. Oh, Athers and mothers who have lost children, ,hat is the weather that cuts through body and soul. But drive back the lion of bereavement with the thought which David Rae, of Edinburgh, got from the Scotch gravedigger, who was always planting white clover and the sweetest flowers on the children's graves in the cemetr, and when asked why he did so replied: 'Surely, sir, I canna make ower fine the bed coverin o' a little innocent sleeper that's waitin there till it's God's -time to waken it. and cover it with the white robe, and waft It away to glory. When sic grandeur is waitin It yonder, it's fit it should be decked oot here. I think the Saviour that counts its dust sac precious will like to see the white elover sheet spread ower it. Do ye noo think s, too, sir?" Cheer up all. disconsolates. The best work for God and humanity has oeen done on the snowy day. At gloomy Hlarine Terrace, Island of Jersey, the ezile Victor Hugo, wrought the mightiest achievements of his pen. Ezekiel, banished and bereft and an invalid at Corn lull, on the banks of Ohebar, had his momentous vision of the cherubim and wheels within wgeels. By the dim light of a dungeon window at Bedford, John- BunyaA iketches, the "Delectable Mountains." Mil ton writti the grehtest poem of all time without eyes Mchael Angelo carved a statue out of snow, and all Florence gazed in raptures 't its exquisiteness, and many of God's adrvants have out-of the cold out t.heir Immortality. Persecutions were the dark background that made more impressive the aourage and consecration of Bavonarola, who, when threatened with denial of* burial, said, "Throw meinto. the Arno If you choose; the resurregion day-will fad -me, and that is enough.- Benaoahn.a cold amp cutting, snowy day gained leonine tmpL Hard ship and trouble have again a'd again ex ltoi and inspired and glorified their sub. The bush itself has mounted higher And flourished unconsumed In fire. Well, we have bad many snowy days within the past month, and added to the chill of the weather was the chilling dismay at the nonarrival of the ocean steamer Gascogne. Overdue for eight days, many had given her up as lost, and the most hopeful were very anxious. The cyclones, whose play Is shipwrecks. had been reported being in wildest romp all up and down the At lantic. The ocean a few days before had swallowed the Elbe, and with unap peased appetite seemed saying "Give us more of the best shipping." The Norman die came in on the same track the Gasco e was to travel, and It had not seen her. e Teutonic, saved almost by the superhuman efforts of captain and crew, came in and had heard no gun of distress from that missing steamer. There were pale faces and wring ing hands on both continents, and tears rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy days. We all feared that the worst had happened and talked of the City of Boston as never heard of after sailing and the steamship President, on which the brill I ant Cookman sailed, never reported and never to be heard of again until the time I when the sea gives up its dead. But at last, under most powerful glass at Fire Island, a ship was seen limping this way over the waters. Then we all began to hope that It might be the missing French liner. Three hours of tedious and agonizing waiting and two continents in suspense. ..When will the eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation of this awful mystery of the sea? There It ,is! Ha, ha! The Gascogral Quick! Wire the news to the city- Swmng the flags out on the towers! Ring te bell Sound the whistles of the shippinig all the way up from Sandy Hook to New York Battery? "She's safe? Bhe's safe!" are the woards caught up and passed on from street to street. ~'It Is the Gascogne!" Is the-- cry sounding through all our delighted homes and thrill ing all the tdlegraphic wires of the continent and all the cables under the sea, and the huzza on the wharf as the gangplanks were swung out for disembarkation was a small part of the- husa that lifted both hemi spheres into exultation. The flakes of snow fell on te"extra". as we opened It on the street to get the latest particulars. Well, It will be better than that when some of you are seen entering the .harbor ol heaven. You have had a rough voyage. No mistake about that. Sbowy day after snowy day. Again and again the machinery of health and courage broke down, and the waves of temptation have swept olear over the hurricane deck, so that you were often com pelled to say, "All Thy waves and Thy billows have gove over me," and you were down In the trough of thiat sea and down inthe trough of the other seas and many despardof your safe arrival. But the great Piot, not one who must come off from some other craft, but the one #'ho walked storm -t Galilee and now walksthie wintry A~a -o, comes on board and heads' you for the 'have, when no sooner 'have you p -ed-the narrows of death than you find athe banks linedwith immortals celebratingyour arrlval, and "while some break off palm branches from the banks and wave them those stand ing on one side will chant, "There shall be no more sea," and those standing on the other side will chant, "These are they which came out of get tribulation and had their robes washe and made white in the blood of the Lamib." Off of the stormy sea into the smooth harbor. Out of leonine sggl Intent to -guidane by the Lam water. Out of the snowy day of earthly seveities info the gardens of everlasting ora and into orchards of eternal fruritage, the fall of their white blossoms the only mow in heaven. . l~Mosive. *"I am surpr-lsed that a man of you? Intelligence and old family could find no better name than Andrew Jack son." "You don't understand my motive, He will never succeed In being a dude wit~h such a name ar that. "-Indianapolis Journal. . Willie Was Glad. William (at his history lesson) I'm glad I was't born 100 or 200 years from now. William's Father Why, William? William-Just thnk how much more history those fellow will have to study. -Puck. The Mmlstone. One of the Twins (decldedly)-One f us must accept him. The Other Why? The One-Why, you know mamma Is under obligations to his mother for that marmalade recipe. -- A Submarine Nonsten The Seattle (Washington) re times contains the. following: A singular marine monster that y now attracting unusual attention as b "What is it?" is to be seen at the Den ver Market. It was caught in the northern waters of Queen Charlotte $ound, and the scientists and others versed in such matters who have seen it are unable to classify it among aquatic specimens. though a a conchy liologist would probably find it to be ui generis; but whatever its scien tific place may be, it is deeply interest ing to examine this rare and myster ous monster of an unknown species nd age that so seldom leaves its sub arine regions as to come within the each of man. Its length is fully six Feet and at a distance presents more the appearance olh a gigantic eel or snake than a fish. It is dark brown in color and wedge shape in form, taper -ing gradually from the head to the tail which is flat and evidently very muscular. The head is short and nar row, with widening jaws on the bull dog order. It has long, sharp teeth, or tus-cs, in the upper and lower front jaw, evidently used to tear with, and behind these, triple rows of molars, or grinders, fixed, not on the sides of the jaws, but in the middle of the upper and lower jaws, indicating that the thing evidently lived on shell fish and crunched shell and all between these powerful looking molars. It was caught by an Indian on a hal ibut hook and made such' a vicious fight that it broke the sides of the canoe before the frightened Indian succeeded in hammering it to death. The oldest of the Indian fishermez. ould give no idea of the nature of the fish, and none like it had ever been seen or heard of by any of them and its capture aroused their superstitious nature, and many were firm in the be lief that a submarine g6d had been sacrificed which would-forever set as a hoodoo on their future fishing opera. tious. The present specimen will be sent to some Eastern museum. Deserts That Were Forests. The English Kew Bulletin says that there is good reason to believe that th< parched deserts that now lies between the Nile and the Bed Sea was once a pleasant forest country. The names given the various places in that now arid region by' the original Arab in vaders go toshow as much. Most of these names signify trees or groves, or embody refetence. of some kind to a green and vegetous region. Subse quent generationsio4Aibs .and -their camels--the latter Vor'acious as the os trich in appetite and indiscriminate as the goat in satisfying it-have entirely destroyed all traces of this vegetation. The result is that rain is no longer at tracted to the region. The only storm is the surface blast of the simoon, and the country is a parched desert waste. The same desolating process is taking place in Russia to-day. "The ruthless forest destruction which has been go ing on for a long time has had a seri ous effect in reducing the average rainfall. In vast regions, as, for in stance, on the black soil, there is hardly a tree to be seen, and the con sequence is that the underground rivu lets have disappeared. The foreste also broke the force of the fierce east desert winds. Now these winds, piercing cold in winter and scorch ingly hot in summer, burst with fufl fury on the plains. Their blasts are capable of withering the corn in a few days, and with them come sand storms which turn fertile lands into perma nent deserts." Fortunes in Songs. "Harris, the composer of 'After the Ball,' will make over $100,000 out of his song 'oefore it gets through its run," said a music dealer to a Pitts burg Dispatch reporte- "'I know this for a certainty, for I have figured with him oin the matter. Harris, unlike many other composers, realizes that the only way to make money-is for the composer to publish it himself. He learned from the experience of others. The composers of 'Listen to My Tale of Woe' and 'The Song That eached My Heart' would have been wealthy men on these two productions alone, if they had had the foresight to take our copyrights in their own names. Take an instance in Pittsburg. In 1868 Henry Kieber composed a piano piece, 'The Rainbow Schottisch,' and gave it to a publisher who agreed to pay a royalty. The piece had a great run-over a milliori copies being sold-and it is running well yet. In stead of receiving $300 a year royalty as he has every year since the publica tion, Mr. Kieber might have made his fortune on this little piece. Harris produced a copy of 'After the Ball' for four cents. He makes fifteen cents elear on each copy sold to music deal-1 er. He makes no reduction in the piece, not if you took 100,000. He realizes the people will buy and knows that once a song is popular afew cents means nothing to the public. He therefore raised the retail price ten cents above that of any other similar 'ng." _ _ _ __ _ _ _ 4, Ceronkee strip llomanee. A nove) "Cherokee Btrlp" romance was ended by the marriage the other day of Al bert bane and Miss Clara L. George, at Ark ansasO Kan. Both Mrn. Jones and bliss Geoge the same piece of land and were prepared $0fight for it until doomsday, whnJones fell Ii. Miss George. woman like, went over to his cabin to look him up and stayed to nurse him back to health. By this time they had decided to divide the olaim between them, but it was not long be fore they gOlved the problem in a better way and resorted to matrimony instead of the TZhe Onl output. Pennsylvania produced 80,000,000 barrels ufol latY~ and the prie was twenty j'e. abarm1b~ ~than it wean in 189a Two cowboys engaged in a duel In the Chicago stock yards district and emp tied their tevolvers at each other inef fectively. The authorlities should do something to stop such a shamefuJ waste of ammunition. The Chicago Inter Ocean and The Chicago Herald are working cheerily together in the sewers of Paris. Both describe simultaneously the expert ences of their correspondent with the municipal rat catcher of the French metropolis. Both have the same illus trations. Each asserts that Its own correspondent provides the matter, which is identa,. An observer is moved-rtheir proceedngs to the old' Cime exclamation: "Rats!" It Is reported that Czar Nicholas II. itends to remove the press censorship that has made it impossible for Russian newspapers to exist, or for foreign cor respondents to make the truth concern Ing-Russian affairs known to the world. We shall believe this when It is done, not before. That the result of freedom of the press in Rusia would mean con stitutional government is certain. That the Czar has made up his mind against such a concession is proved by his dec laration that he will maintain the au tocracy. So far the persecution of the Jews and Stundists continues, and ex pectations of radieal changes still re. main expectations. Guy Fawkes seems destined to Im mortality through the profound conser vatism of the English people. Dts patches from London say that when the fourth session of the thirteenth parlia ment of Queen Victoria opened at 2: o'clock the Lord Chamberlain, Lord E Carrington, accompanied by ten yeo- 1 men and a number of policemen, made 1 the customary Guy Fawkes search of the vaults of the houses of parliament# in order to see that no preparations had been made to blow up the buildings, James I. has slept with his ancestors these many seasons. It was early in his reign the Guy Fawkes plot was engag ed in. For 'more than 200 years upon the assembling of any parliament the I first business has been that which Is gone through to-day as carefully as it was when Guy Fawkes' performance was fresh in the public mind. Conser vatism is a great potency In the English mind, leading at times to absurdities. It remained for a curiovp Yankee to abolish a custom for whh nobody could give an account. Visiting Lon don, he saw some of the Horse guards at a particular place every day regular ly relieved, and observing no partien lar reason for their'presence he pushed his inquiries for Information to the headquarters of the army. The Horse guards were unable to say why this guard was kept, but concluded to ascer tain wherein the origin was, and found that some treasure was ordered to be guarded at this particular point In the reign of Charles II. and the Horse guards had been sending soldiers to the same spot ever since. Even when the New Zealander will have taken his place upon a broken arch of London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's he will observe a few dingy officials looking through the ruins of Westmins ter for a repetition of Guy Fawkes' plot. Hfow Fish Come to the Surface. A eprious physiological discovery has been made in the last year by Profes sor Bohr, of Copenhagen, in regard to the mode of storage by which a fish accumulates so much oxygen in the air that distends the swimming or- air bladder. The air contained therein has a per centage of oxygen that may rise to as1 much as 85, an amount in excess of the percentage in atmospheric air. Prof. Bohr tapped the air bladders of cod fish and drew off the gas by means ofi a troca~r and air-tight syringe. The gas had 52 per cent of oxygen.- In a few hours the air bladder was refilled, ap-1 parently by a process of secretion of I gas from the blood in the capillaries on the wall of the bladder. In one ex periment the gas thus secreted had 80 per cent of oxygen. Wheri the nerves connected with the organ were severed, the secretion ceased and the organ was not refilled. It thus appears that when a fish de scends to a great depth, and his body is reduced in size by Increased pressure of the water about him, he is able to attain his former size and rise by se reting the gas he needs and not by absorbing the water. Support Is thus given to the theory that the gaseous exchanges that occur in the lungs of animals are not merely physical Cent Pieces in the South . A year or so ago when the average Savannahian found himself in posses sion of a copper cent he felt tempted to flip the little coin into the gutter as a nuisance. Cents were unpopular; no body wanted them; even a newsboy or a bootblack disdained to waste time In waiting for a cent in change. But things are different now. The little copper coin cuts quite a fig'ure in the city's circulation, and it is as much re spected as the more pretentious nickeL Hardly a person fishes up a handful of change in which there Is not a plentiful1 sprinkling of bronze color. The re duced street car fares and the odd cent prices In some of the leading stores have brought about the change. And it is probably a good thing. People have come to understand the value of a cent better than they ever did before. -Savannah News. Strange Beautifiers. In Persia the women of fashion paint black circles around each eye and orna ment the cheeks with figures of va, rions small animals, bugs, etc. RICH REDSKINS. THE WEALTHY C(EUR DALENy TRIBE IN THE NORTHWEST. They Have Good Farms and Build. Ings and Money on Deposit-A Thrifty, Industrious and Sober Community. Indians in the Ca~ur d'Alene COMPLETE census of the reservation has recently been made by the sub-agent, J. J. Walsh. The returns show that there are 457 Cceur d'Alenes and forty-four Spokanes-501 Indians in all. There are- 138 families, and these own 155 houses. There are eighty-eight school children, ranging in age from nine to eighteen years. Last year this tribe received nearly half a million dollars from the United States Government for the purchase of a portion of the reservation. A large amount of this money was invested in permanent improvements, such as houses, fences, barns and implements, harness, vehicles and good horses. It is expected that the new sawmill which they have been building will be ready to turn out lumber in a few days, and then many more houses, barns and granaries will be erected by the Indians. The money to build and operate this mill, amounting to $30, 000, is furnished by the Government as a part of the purchase price of the lands mentioned above The Oceur d'Alenes are the wealthi est tribe of Indians in the Northwest. many of them having, besides good farms, buildings, stock and all modern improvements of a good farm, from $1000 to $5000 on deposit in the local banks, with the local merchants or in Spokane. They are very careful of their money, spending but little of it foolishly, and are shrewd in making change. They know the price of all commodities, and are not easily cheated. - Last year these Indians had 480 acres under m" tivation and sold $48, 000 worth o luce and stock. This season they .L...e 13,000 acres in crop, or nearly 100 acres for every family on the reservation. They have about 192,000 acres under fence. Last year they built sixty houses, worth $30,000, and built 900 miles of barb-wire fence. Agent Walkly says the Cceur d'Alene Indians are good farmers, and take good care of their crops, stock and maninery. They have comfortable houses, good barns and sheds, wherein they store their machinery when not in uav thus setting a good example for their white brothers, a majority of whuom leave their machinery in the fields and without shelter from one season to another. They cultivate the ground well, and their crops look thrifty and give promise of a good yield this season. They are thrifty, industrious and generally sober. Drunkenness is punished by a fines, imprisonment in the "shookum house" (jail), or by lashes upon the bareback. Chief Saltese is the judge and supreme ruler in all such cases, and his word is law. He imposes the fine or other punishment, and there is no appeal from his decision. He lives at the mission, where he has a fine residence and a courthouse. A complete police patrol is kept up, all the policemen being Indians, who ride over the reser ation on horseback. There are two stores operated by full-blooded Indians at the mission. They handle mostly light groceries and lunoh goods, which are sold to the Indians who attend church on Sunday. These storekeepers and nearly all In dians buy the bulk of their goods in Tekoa, where they also sell their grain. They pay cash for nearly all their purchases, and pay for each ar tiele as it is bought instead of buying a large bill and paying for it all at once. This avoids the necessity of "figuring," which few of them are capable of doing. These Indians prefer to raise stock instead of farming, but theyare taking kindly to the latter occupation, and some of them are quite proficient farmers. They have about 9000 head of horse and 1500 head of cattle. A large amount of new sod is being broken this year and the acreage of grain next season will be about double that of this year. A bright future seems to be before this tribe, which is fast assuming the occupations, habits and dress of the whites. - Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. A Lo04ical Concusi':n. Terry--An' ph-wat med yez quit drink m', Planxty? Planxty-It wor this way, Terance. Me woif sez to me, sez she: "Planxty, yez can't give oop the licker," sez she. I t'ought I could. but whin I thried an' found I couldn't begorra, I knew it wor toime for me to shtop, an' so I did. -Life. Couldn't Stand That. "What made you get away from that house in such a hurry?" asked one tramp of a fellow traveler. "Dog?" "Worse'n that. The woman wore a waterfall."-Judge. A Country of Boat. China has more boats on the waters than there are in all the rest of the world combined. She is the best wa tered country on earth, and has more wonderful waterways. Suppose you could stretch a river wider than the Amazon in an almost straight line from London to Vienna. -Light narrow gauge railroads are again being tried mn England and France. -A man in Somerset, Mass., pays seven cents tix on a pet monkey and nthing else. SUPPOSE WE SMIIE 4UMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. r'inaisat Tneidmnts Ocaning the Wadd4 over-Saytags That Are CheekA1 to the old e Toung-3nn na~-tan= That rbody win Enjoy **mba An Evidence of Genius. "What makes you think that Baglet Will some day be a succesful author?" "Why, man, he's had his manuscript rejected by all the best pubMshers In he country."T-udge. A New Club. He-How Is your Club for the Read ing of Forgotten Authors coming on? She-Oh, finely! We've given two teas and are pianudng a dance.-New rork Worl4. The Preacheres Joke. Little Dot-The preacher said: "In the midst of life we are In 'death." What does that mean? Little Dick-I guess hewas sort o' oking about trolley cars and folding beds.-Good News. Temptation. Frlend-When are you going to paint .hat gastronomic genre picture you ipoke of? Artist-Heaven knows! Every time get ready the model tempts me and I at it up!-Fliegende Blaetter. Break It Gently. "Have you read that article on how o tell a bad egg?" ."No,- I haven't, )ut my advice would be, If you -have nything important to tell a bad egg, vhy, break it gently."-American Re. riew, New York. fjust Like a Man. A man will trust his wife t take care d his children, but he won't trust her n the care of his prize chlkens.-Atch son Globe. One More Unifortunate. Jackson (meeting Dobson, with whom te was out all ilght)-Hello, old boy; et home all right? Dobson-Yes. But my wife wouldn't peak to me. Jacksgh-Lucky fellow. Mine did! larlem Life. A Consultation. Patient-Doctor, my memory has re; ently begome shockingly bad. Doctor-Indeed? In these casek ai, t is my invailiable rule to ask:for my ee in advance.-London Punch. A Distinction. - Mrs. MeBrlde-4ohn, dear, why are ome grocers called green-grocers?. Mr. McBride-To distinguish the* rom eash groe'rs; darllng-Vogud. The Real Objection. "Don't you think that Snobkins' mLn. ers are very affected?" "No. What makes them.really objec Lonable is that they're naturaL" Vashington Star. Lost Her Reckoning. Staylate-Well, I must be going; It it .o'clock. Ethel Knox (sleepily)-A. in, or'p, mn. -New York. Wdrid. A Chaperon Photograph Niee-sAuntie, dearl Mr.'Malei,- the rshas asked me for my photo; he wants tomake use ofit forbhlas8t pie nre.' Oughtlto sendit-to him?.- . - Aunt-Yes,- you can :do. so,, but..be urreto inlose wth it aphoto ofyour nther or some elderly lady. It whuld se highly improper to send your photQ > itself!-Deutsche Warte - Could Be Trusted. Gallup-Do you think I can safely usta business secret to Banks? Highbee-I should 'say 's'o.' ~I leit' am -a-sovereign last year and he has iever breathed a word about lt'snce..-r Ipare. Moments. ...: - Mutually Appreciated "I like your cheek," said the indig - iant-maiden to the youth- who kissed ier. "And I like yours," said le, a i dssed her again.-Truth. A Steady Job. - - - Almost any man can have a stead. ob if he is willing to play pugilhst all he time.-Galveston News. His Natural Error. "What do you-think of the:New Wo nan, Mr. Marley?" "1 detest the bold, shriekin~g creaturi, iss Stubb.l How much swredter ad nore lovable is the gentle and retiring ld woman like you, whos " "Sir?" "Whose-eh? Oh Lordt"-New York Recorder. A Good Reason. "What makes. you think that Ethel will never look favorably on George's mit?" "Because her parents speak so highly f him."-Washington Star. The Average Banquet. There 1Isa -rich sonind to the word 'banquet," suggesting terrapin, quail, renison, champaign, sparkling wit and that sort of thing. But it usually means. old chicken, Ice water and dull speech es.-Atchison Globe, ncieadiole. Mr. Homaeinan-Did you read that ar tile about a 'football'player getting shot the othier day ' Mrs. Hoineman+~'Neg John;-butigood. ess me,:you Alon't-mean tousey that the game- has come tp that1-Boetond News.. - .* People never fal-to appree'ite g ness. But you can't fool- t bogus goodness.