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MALAGAS SOLDIERS' WAR 80N0. Mof lh Third rolar.te.re ' X 5 with eonfldeno and eoarej 'qZ BanavalotnanJ .ka, i.i,. who la wlea ud food, ;Snd7.tb..rUd. wbtch la weet end 'lwM Idir our " "" wbloh "3rl"' 2Jj! ir-tber dl.Uuu.no eon,uer. t, . i, itT with mlllhl and with Ufa, vlB'. ,ir bll a. a wall f defenee, ;ouV.triitfth aa . shield for proteo- t nd the difficult nr .lory (hall be. n 1 .0 war our medals to wear. nlf,,,l gng our memorial for ajro. p Z . b.i5 ,or ' I mnt r 4.llitr have Hied time, ii'd ufflolmt for what U duriened. f try forwhnt la wrong-end unwUe, v1i gl.r,.r true soldiers become. fpliJlP hi honor to the agreement that'l SSu Iho "I would far rather die." mrn nJ truit what ! Butalied and done 7lllr preatnt our allegiance true. rm M atogaiqr born. . , I, irr n u not fi-ared. What U to eome J gin no tremor. L uid lif- "Pilt are our chann r ... Mt.uu one aiurnM aa flm. J I tbo ni"i , ditBrolt and blttur moke on nioro manly, in'iow can never while breath In 0 l dVrUilon here we yield onraelvoa, nyln&: rguijicn ouraelvea, aud our tvneraU i - tinnnred." out ao, O y army t -New York Bun. SWANLEE'S GIRL. two nicnwore riding tirod horses in an ill defined trail througn ;orin Lliua woods. The oue was a New Lor keen, alert, durk haired and t.uicallV ono tiny ucniuu wuo uia :.. i tvillg. IllSCOnipuuiuu, wuu lutio miu rVnltv hi rough gaitcd Kentucky L, was obtrusively British. Every kg, from hia deer stalker cup to his tt,,w pip-kin gaiters, wnn moir dui k down (ho shin, betrayed him for a (ut importation from the islands bo ld llio sea. Thry wore not friend toly acquaintances. They had fore Sirrvd sonio fuw iniles back at cross- In, and finding that tbey were hoad iu the Baino direction Lad jogged ig in company. Iur the past hour the ninllilndo of Is hud bothered them much, and o had been a good deal of (oka up in r choice, aud at last neither hud uny her ideas (o offer about I ho routo, aud owas uo question bnt that they a moit satisfactorily lost. Tho hurt i of the sky waa turning to a cooler ;.le, and a conplo of tree toads were any comiiieneiug tho overture to Hr nightly opera. fHay," remarked tho American, ve you ever ridden down a strange il of thin sort after nightfall?" jCati't Buy that I have." jTbcu, sir, you've nu experience in ro wh idi won't bb all niola.sses. You )t till I ho trees begin to sneak up aud fyou on llio kneecap. Thou you'll MCo-liuubusl See that?" iwhat theso groen shrubs?" JCorn, sireo. Indian corn, yon call it ly back in tho old country. And here ire. A nigger cabin, I guesa 'Taiu't 0 cnongh for a Tar Heolor'a slianty. " hey wiieeled round the edge of the i patch, their horsea picking a way lioonly over tlie outshootiug roots of limlxT, and pulled np before a l frame house. As though their nr- Ijl had been expect od, tho rough door t"i open aud a man slopped out and ki them. Ho was an old man and fcily bearded. Ho stood quite four I above tho fathom in his boots, ( in tho hollow of his left arm he ear $ a wenpou, single barreled aud ham rltwa, 3 pointed to tbia and introduced it. "Ucutlemeu," besaid, "this is about i. latest Ruwnsley's ten ilro repeat ; shotgun Tho first of you that lifts hand toward the sly pocket of his ..its will get a hole let into him that a yuke of steers could drive through. If ya want to stay, you'vo got to fight it V" 3o of thn yollow gaiters laughed. iWhat qnaint pooplo you Americans " ho said. "Why (he devil you Ibid thrcatou war in this unexpected fcion I cau't imagine." f Ho! You're a Britisher?" English quite English. " ?A)id your companion, isn't lie an Iemau either?" flio Englishniou shrugged his shoul , and the Now Yorker answered for self. ?S. T. Vunrennan, real estate agent, ng place, Noo York city. Stick to I own trado, colouol, and shouldn't rvwlint a blockade still was if I was h n oua " ?-ir a moment tho old man seemed ined to rcsout this last remark, but for a moment Then southern kos Slity asserted Itself. Well, goutleiucu," ho said, "how I servo you?" By putting us on the road for Ashe o." could not do it Asliovillo's good uiles beyond this, and the trail's far tbad for strangers to follow In the fk- You must bunk w ith mo, gentle h, this night" iliere was a little more talk, and then horses were led round to a barn at back, unsaddled, rubbed down tlily aud presented with six corncobs ece, after which the two adjourned ithe cabin, supped off heavy corn M, strong flavored bacon and raw, f g. smoky corn whisky. After the 1 the Yankee, pleading tiredness, jM to Uie far room and slept The Jton, who was traveling in the inoun f to pick up character, was glad t"eh to sit up with bia host and talk ftie the smelly kerosene lamp over "Juiated tobacco and corncob pipea. ueir conversation was, on the whole, 'wry. Ouly twice was it iuterrnpt- -u these occasions footsteps made '"elves heard on the bard, red irround i(le. Anil titan mttnm - vinua utl. half dollar rolled in nndor the door. (( ui.au iim uuiu, ultra latch, and, reaching a hand out into darkness, brought in a quart bottle, ' he proceeded to fill from a keg it i ..... inrougn tne but a stroug r'l Of Smnk CT,iri lfwn...J Via i aiiuirwii uu out the bottle into the night, and I neary footsteps recomnieucod aud - u tn aiminoonda 4 " tne Drat opeasion the old man com- M In h. . ,tv, ... v . , - Bu'ti enj, air, you i rfnnl 7 CaU ,n ,ho """intains a ten V w j but. fmm the face of you, yon !ra-ght. Please remember you've "nothing." V'ILntotbetieof bread and salt." ;nehngliKhnian "You needn't fear 1. 1 . he f( U ,0 Mug about the f '-he Euglidhman awoke next morning, he fouad that hit traveling companion had already departed. "I didn't press him to itay," said the )ld ui:iu, "but I hope yon will honor tne with a longer visit. My name is Colonel Swauleo, which yon may have wen mentioned lit accounts of the war, and ouce 1 had a 40 room honso here and olose on 00 niggers working on a fine ostuto. Tho house and the niggers are g ;ne, and tho cutatehas run tack for the most part into forest. You know the war ruined most of us soul hern gentle men, and our lands were bought up by pork packers and snccewful drummers and Yankee trash generally. I've boen luckier than some, I haven't sold a rod of ground. I've been spared seeing filthy railroads plow through my land, aud I've some other mercies to be thankful for. That northerner was right when he hinted at my having a blockade still round here. I do run ona I know it's against the law, but the law as laid down by Yankees ruined me. Conse quently I'vo but small respect for it, spe cially as now it's sized to suit all shades of color. Come, sir. You said last uight yon wore in uo hurry to got on. Will yon stay awhile and rough it with me?" Tho invitation was geuuiue, and the Englishman remained, and because the life was fresh and interesting to him, aud because old man Swuulee was loath to let him go, he staid on till the weeks grew to over a mouth. There was much to occupy his time Any ono with a trwte fur scenery may gratify it to tho full in tho wooded mountains and val leys of the Alleghany country. Some times he took his horse and rodo along tho rough trails far afield over tho great Smokies aud looked down on Ten nessee. Sometimes he roamed through the second growth forest which bad sprung up in tropical luxuriance over the ouce cleared laud, occasionally shoot lug a wild turkey, or a hawk, or a flying squirrel, or whipping in two a small rattlesnake, bnt for the most part find ing full eujoyment in admiring this gal lery of picturea which nature by horself had painted. Ouce indued be visited the distillery in ita weird hiding place under tho wa terfall aud glanced curiously over the crude appliances with which the fiory corn whisky was produced. But that was ouly once, aud iudoed the still was seldom referred to. In the evening, when they sat togothor under the wooden piazza, the Englishman and hia host either ra ked or smoked in silence, look ing into the warm southern night and listening to ita myriad insect noises, or elso the old man would talk aud uufold pictures of post southern splendor in the halcyon days "befo' the wa" Tbey seemed to be living then in an atmos phere of nearly half a century before, and at times the Englishman had hard work to bring himself back to the true realities. But at last there camo a breaking up of tho pastoral, and it arrived in bar barous shape. Tho place was raided by thn revenue men. The visitor was away beo hunting in tho woods when they arrived, but has tened buck when the sound of heavy fir ing came down to him over the timber. Ho gained the hnt, perhaps luckily, too late for interference, but the history of what had occurred was written ont be fore him in ruddy lettering. Three offi cers of tho excise lay twisted and dead on the rod soil, shot down by that ter rible ten fire repeater, which curried ita charge liko a heavy ball for the short distance. Farther out was Vaureuuan, doubled up over a stump like a half filled meal sock. Flittiug in and about the trees, still farther down the trail, were four saddled horsea leisurely grat ing. There was no sign of old man Swau leo, Had ho run for the woods, or The uowcomer rushed across the clear ing and into tho cabin. The Carolina planter, tho Confederate colonel, the blockade distiller, the murderer, was stretched out on the floor.'with blood oozing into pools around him. The Eng lishman shuddered and bent down for examination. An ear shredded through by one bullet, temple grazed by another; left elbow shattered by a third. None of those were mortal; nouo could cause this prostration. Ah, there was a worse wound, in tho groin, that meant doatb! Under the impromptu aurgory tho old man woke up "That blasted Yankee Vanrennanl Says I shot his father at Seven Pines whou I was skirmishing for Lee outside Richmond. Very likely. I know the ordora were to take no prisoners. It was all in the way of business. And then, by way of dirty vengeance, he briugs the excise about my ears. No southorn goutlomau would have done that nouo but a mougrol Dutch Yankee. How ever, he's got his gruel, aud so have the revenue men, and I'm dying. Hollo, who are you?" Old man Swanloe gripped bis guu again aud started up full of fight "Oh, it's yon, sir, ia it? I ask youi pardon, I'm sure," he said, bowing with old fashioned courtesy, "but this littlo domestio trouble must be my ex iro. Those fellows have pumped lead i mo till I've been a trifle thrust off huhuicc. Thanks I If you would assist .a ou to tho floor again and bring tlx .orncr of that box under my head. " Ho rested a minute to collect hia thoughts, and then went on afresh. "Now, Mr I've forgotten your name circumstances compel mo to ask yon an iuteuse favor. I've had good com rades, aud I've had stanch friends, but some were shot in the war, and some have died since, and the rest are scat tered I know not where. There isn't a wnl within riding distance, except Tar Heelers, aud I'd almost as soon trust my little girl to a nigger as oue of them. " "Your daughter is it that you're rpeaVrjf! about?" "That's so. I haven't mentioned her before, I don't lot her have any truck with the lot down bore, and didn't in tend to until the place was ready to re eive her as she should be received as my mother was received when she came npou the estate. Yes. sir, that's what I've been toiling and slaving for all these yeurr barely spending (I in cash except a fuw ceuts an acre for taxes ; holding on to the laud with a miser's grip, while the forest stamped the snake fences out of sight brewing a vile spirit for the mountaineers around. No, sir, I've not sold moonlight whisky because I liked it, or hugged my balance at the banks merely to put uiywlf back on the ancestral dunghilL I've done my crow ing. But, sir, when my littlo girl was born in Richmond, duiing the siege, my wife made me promise before she died that, come what might, I'd see the child mistress of the boose we'd been driven from here. Mr Wife a ver proud woman, sir. Her family claimed descent from Pocatontas." "But. "objected the llsteuer. "Idon't ce how this could be. Since slavery has been abolished" "Ouo cau't get the lazy brutes of ne groes to work? Quite no. But I'd a scheme, sir, to remedy that. It would have been frightful gall to the Yankees, but it would have paid here all the same. I should have imported Chinese labor, and with that aud a strong hand thlugs would havo been much tho same as they were in tho old days. But that scheme must be abandoned now. A man with out previous exH'rience, such as your self, would never kuow how to handle such cattla Would you kindly reach me that bottle ont of tho locker? I'm get ting very faint. Thanks. I seldom pat ronize my own brew ; but, whatever its demerits, it has strength. However, I haven't got much time left, aud I must come to the point America was no place for a southern girl after the war. With the Diggers stirred up as they were, there was no telling what might happen to her. So I sent the child to a convent in Paris, and there she's re mained ever since. But sho'a finished her education, and slie'a coming home right now comiug home to her inherit ance. Yes, sir, the estato will be hers in an boar or no's time, and with it a matter of I.jO.OOO thut has come out of moonlight whisky. Now, sir, will you give a dying man a hand?" "I will do anything thut liea within my power. " "Then find out my daughter, " came the astonishing reply, "aud marry ber." Horror struck, the Euglislimau start ed to his feet. Did not this man realize that he was a murderer, still red hand ed? "My God," said old man Swanleo, "you are not golug to refuse me?" Ho stretched out a bony baud and caught at the other's gaiter. "Heavens, man, think what you are saying I Think what this means to mot" The othor turned away hia head in despair. "It is not much I am asking. She's bountiful. I bad her photograph sent me ouly the other day. She's highly educated ; sho'a well born ; she's rich. What moro can a young man want in a wife?" "But," broke in the Englishman dea perately, "I am not free. I met a girl in Paris awhile back and crossed with hor here in tho boat from Havre, Bo fore we lauded in New York sho had promised to become my wife. I never could marry any one else. I or in short, I love hor." The old man 'a knotted hands wrestled with one another tremulously. "I see," he said at lust, with a heavy sigh. "I should have liked it to havo been, but what you say is final. Still, sir, you must do somothiug else for me, if you wilL" "Anything that liea within my pow er," exclaimed tho other eagerly. " Bo liove me, anything." "Then find out my daughter and act aa her guardian. Give hor my dying oommand to obey yon in everything, aud she will do it. See thut sho has her rights, guard her from adveutnrers, watch that she marries a good husband, man that is worthy of her, one who will treat her well." Tho old man's voice had died down almost to a whisper. His companion stooped ovor him. "I will do all yon ask," he said earnestly. "But you hud hotter tell me now whore I shall find Miss Swanloe. "Thanks. You ore very good. But I ought to have told you she is not bear ing that nauio now. To avoid complica tions which arose after the war I mado her take another, which sho will carry till she conies back hero. She was chris tened Miriam, after her mother, and" The old mun's voice drooied. "Yes, yes," Buid the Englishman im patiently, "but w hat was the surname?" "Lee." "What, Miriam Lee?" " Yes, sir. Miriam Frances Loe. " "Just God that ia the girl to whom I am engaged!" The Englishman reeled against the ta ble, staring wildly at his host. Old Man Swanloe had ceased to live, but the on glo of the hut propped him against fall ing. On his grim old face there was a curious look of satisfaction. C. J. Cut liffe Hyue in Pull Mall Gazette. Mountaineering Memorlea. I had not long left a publio school and was unconscious of the possession of nerves. Given sufficient hold for hand and foot, I never felt any more inclina tion to fall in a place where a fall would carry me a couple of thousand feet to the bottom of a precipice than where it would only involve a tumble of a yard into soft snow. But to poise oneself in going down a series of steps that are merely tiny chips in hard ice, tilted up at an angle greater than of an average roof this sort of work demands some skill, which does not come by nature, but has to be acquired by experience. The only safo way, when a novice ia of the party, ia not to allow him to move, nnlesa the man to whom ho ia roped ia firmly anchored, and tbia course was re peatedly adopted on our descent It was, however, when we had reached the ice fall of the glacier that tho inci dont occurred of which I have the most vivid recolloction. The snow bridges over the crevasses had easily borne our weight in the early morning, when the frost still held thorn in Ita grip, but by the time we returned the sun hud pro duced ita effect, aud I was not the only one of our party who w ent through in the fashion already described. Of courso, the rope furnishes an absolute security, provided that the rest of the party are on what Mrs. Mulaprop would call terra cotta, but I repeat that it is at first startling to find oneself twinging in vacancy over an apparently bottomless abyss. In a good many years of mountain eering I have encountered certain real dangers, but nono, I thiuk, which has impressed me so strongly as the imag inary peril of that sudden descent below the surface of tho Aletsch glacier some 30 years ago. Blackwood's Magazine Ilat Money to Barn. Customer So yon sell theso watches at t'-J-GO each. It mast cost thut to make them. Taifnlur Tt ll I KML W V T - - Customer Then how do yon make any money? jeweler Repairing them. Boston Traveller. . Oat of Plnee. Some business men are hard to please. A Vermont undertaker berates his town beouuM it's iU ad. Adams Freeman. TO " MAKE MEN." lalvatlon Army Will Mart a "Farm lolony" In New Jereey. The "farm colony" which the Salva tion Army has long contemplated tturtlug In America will probably soon be establlsbed In Mahwali, N. J. The plan la based on the coloules suggested by Ou. Booth In bis "Itorkcst England,'' oue of which was established In Had lelgh, Essex, Eug., several years ago. fhe object of the farm Is not to support Iged members of the Salvation Army, but to carry out lieu. Booth's "man making" plan, at his scheme for giving unfortunate mortals a new start In Ufa bat been called. The plan In brief Is to take men out of the gutters, give them a cbame to work If they are will ing to do ao, and Uually reuder them lelf-supportlng aud doceut members f the community. It la calculated by offleeni of the Sal vation Army that there are In New York City, for Instance, 100,000 men aud women In the streets out of work, out of money, down at the heel, ragged, wretched, bankrupt In pocket and cour age. 1 be farm Is intended to give these persons a new start In life. It Is not Intended that tbey shall be given mouey until they have earned It, because, say the Salvation soldiers, to give money to a man wbo baa not earned It Is to lessen bia self-respect and make It eas ier for him to accept charity again, per haps to seek It, when be might earn money by honest toil. Euglaud, when Gen. Booth touched Ita big heart with his stvrlea of "Dark est Englaud," contributed 5O0,0O0 for the work which he outlined, and It It not thought that this country will be less generous If an appeal Is made for funds with which to attempt the ban Ishtuout of Idleuess and poverty. MRS. U. S GRANT. The Wife of the Great General I Young Old Lady. Mrs. Ulysses S. Grout la leading a re tired life at Washington. Her borne la the mauslou of ex-Senator Edmunds, for which she paid $:0,000 some mouths ago. It Is a comfortable brick bouse of fifteen rooms, located In oue of the most fashionable part of the city. Mrs. Grout In ber 70t b year la one of the youngest old ladlee In Washington, aald Frauk G. Carpeater afterai recent visit with ber. You would not take her to be more than UO. Her face la full aud almost free from wrinkles. Her hair Is Iron gray, and she baa quite a lot of It. Her eyesight has never been very good, and It has failed now so that she canuot read a great deal. She does not wear glasses, however, aud to outward apiearauce her eyea are not weak. She walks easily and firmly, and she tells me she la In good health. She la a good talker. Her voice la low and pleasant, aud she grows vivacious aa she reviews some of the wouderful events of her career. She Is thoroughly wrapped up In ber family, her children and her grandchildren, aud In her love for Gen. Grant. In speaking of him she refers to hltn aa "The General." She haa a good memory, aud tells many luterestlng stories concerning hlin. No married couple ever lived closer to each other thau did the general and Mrs. Grant. She was perhaps his only real confidante. Tho two were one In almost everything, and their life was a most beautiful one. For several years Mra. Grant baa been engaged In writ ing a book of her reminiscences. This will cover more than fifty years, aud It will be full of unwritten history. Gen. Grant left a large nuinlier of pa pers and valuable letters. He also left a diary which contains a great many In teresting entries. Mrs. Grant has about 800 of hia love letters, and there are other valuable manuscripts. Ilia state papers, however, will probably be Is aued In a separate volume by Col. Fred Grant. Mra. Grant's book will be made up chiefly of her own reminiscences, and they will be Interesting In the ex treme. A Caique Occupation. A unique oocuputiou taken up by cer tain enterprising young women in need nf a little extra inouey is that of "gray hair pullers. " The day the first gray hair makes Ita apiieorance is one oi Bor row to many fashionable women, and the hair is generally pulled out, regard less of the old Buying thut a dozen will come to ita funeral. Soon afterward the m hnlr nnllnr la summoned and en gaged to ooino at regular intervals. She takes down ber patron a nuir, oomos n gently and carefully removes every hair which has departed from its original hue and plus up the locks again. New York Letter. The Ararace Woman. Some one haa suggested that a copy of thestutueof tho "average woman" recently exhibited in Boston should be placed in every girl's school in tbia country in the hope that it will serve aa a much needed object lesson. The statuo is the result of 6,000 measure ments taken by Dr. Sargent of Harvard from young girls. Tho result Is a figure at least "60 per cent removed from a perfect type," showing conclusively the crying need of physical culture for American women. The statue of the "average man" obtained in the same way ia a much more nearly perfect figure. Brave Alice Meade. Alice Moade ia the heroine of New ton, Mass. She spends much of her time boating on the Charles river and ia a cool headed, skillful oarswomau. When a poor, weak man ventured out ou to the water,' overturned his boat and was tnrely drowning, Alice went to the res ria rmi M not draw him into ber boat, but she canght him by the hair of the bead, and sculling wim ouo our towed him to the bank. MBS. U. 8. GRANT. DEATH OF TECUMSEII. POINTS ON A QUESTION THAT HAS LONG BEEN IN DISPUTE. The Claim That aa Old Indlaa Warrior, a Bitter Indlaa Hater, Killed the Cele brated Chief A Document Feand Among the Lata Richard Conner's Papen. The following aocoutit of the death ef the great Indian chieftain Tecumseh, or Tecnmthe, wat found among the pa pers of Richard J. Conner, editor of the Peru Sentinel, who died in this city July 23, 1803. It contains information touching tho qnestiou that bos hereto fore beeu widely disputed. The death of Mr. Conner prevented the fulfillment of the task, says the Indianapolis News: "My father's family was captured by the Indians about the year 1788. It may have been earlier or a year or two later. They were carried to Michigan, and were afterward ransomed by some Mo ravians, anil the family settled about four or five miles below the present site of Mount Clemens, on the Clinton river, 28 miles north of the city of Detroit "When cuptured, the family lived at a place called Conner's Town, or Con nor's Station, near what is now the east line of Coshocton county, O., adjoin ing Pennsylvania. Tho long journey through tho wilderness then covering the distance from eastern Ohio to the Clinton rivei in Michigan was most painful and fatiguing. "My father settled on White river in central Iudiana in lt02, bnt he had mado a trip to tho Watutsh iu 1800. Ho remained at his trading post until the breaking out of tho war with Great Britain in 1812, when he Joined the forcea nuder General Harrisou at Fort Meigs, on the Munmeo river, and with his brother John acted as guide and in terpreter for General Harrisou. He was tent by the general down the Wabash to the Mlamis, Rattiiwatomies and Shawnoes, to learn if possiblo their in tentions and attitude iu the approach ing trouble with British forces. He kuew Torumtho and his brother, the Prophet, intimutely. The Prophet often befriended him, and was a trustworthy friend. My fattier always spuko well of those Indians. He had nnuiy conversa tions with Tecnmthe in regard to the attitude of the Indian tribca under his direction aud his reasons for his adher ence to the British cause, and his co operation with thut country in the war that followod. Toonmthe compluined bitterly of the luck of faith ou the part of the United Stated in regard to per formance of treaty atipnlatioua and contrasted it with the policy as carried out by Great Britain in ita management of Indian affaira in Canada. He felt that there was no security for the In dian and clearly foresaw that the time was not distant when the Indian would possess little or no part of the domain he had inherited from his fathers. "Tecnmthe seemed to be fully aware thut step by step the tribes would be pushed farther west or exterminated by the bitterness and hate of tho white man. With a power warlike aud ag gressive as Great Britain to back and ally the Iudian, he hoped to put off the final day and possibly save a remnant of his i loop la "These, in part at least, were the reasoua that actuated him in thut won dorful crusude he waa making, visiting tho tribes covering the country from the lakes to Arkansas. My father said he bad a persuasive tongue and a power to move his fellow savages rare indeed, and he uovor failed to rally the rod man on to the war path. His nature was not uutnrally a savage one, aud he often ex pressed abhorrence of unnecessary blood shed. "Ho declared that he would not tolor ato enmities or predatory warfare on peaceful, nnncombataut settlements of white people, but he folt It his duty to rally the tribca and inflame thorn to a point of resistance and fair warfare nguiust the government of the United States, which had for a hundred years persistently pushed the Indium from their homes aud the places which that govoruuiout hud assigned to them with toloiuu pledges that they should alwaya retain such as thoir future homes, and that it would protect them from the mutlfuia (rrned of white rjiotioera "My father waa in command or BOO - , friendly Indiana at the battle of tho Thames, in Canada. His command was attuchod to Colonel Paul's regiment in thut buttle, Hia Iudiana did aomo good service and contributed to the defeat of the British and Indiana "After the battlo, late in the after noon, he was summon od to the boudquar ters of Colonel R. M. Johnston, who stated to him that It waa the rumor that the great chief Tecumtbe waa among the sluln in battlo and requested my futher to take tome of bis friendly In diana and search the field and ascertain if it were indeed true. My father im mediately took with him four or five Delaware and began the search, which was successful Whon they found the body, tome of the Indians were not sure that it waa that of Tecnmthe. There waa a striking resemblance betwoen the two brothers, Tecnmthe and the Prophet, tnt one of them bad a spot or defect on oue of his eyea. Oue of the Delaware stooped down and pushed open the eye' lid, and it waa at once known tnat tne dead man waa indeed Tecnmthe. "During the political campaign of 1840 it waa universally assorted by the Democrats that 'Colonel Johnson killed Tecumthe.' My f uthor often declared that It could not be ; that an old Indlaa warrior and a camp follower of the ex pedition in Canada, named Wheatley, waa probably Tecumthe'a slayer. He waa a bitter Indian hater and a crank on that snbjoct He was not enrolled as a soldier, but went to the battle on bia own account He, too, was killed in the fight Tecumtbe waa shot through the breast, and the wouud plainly ahowed that be came to bis doath from the effects of a shot from a small bore rifle, such aa the frontiersman usually car ried. Jon A. Dkibert. " In the Sick Patient (gaeping for breath) Oh, doctor, I fee) ao weak and 1111 If the house were on fire, I don't think I should have the strength to get ont of bed. Servant (looking in at the door) Please, sir, there's a gentleman wants to speak to you. He says he's got to pay vou a bill. Patient (jumping np) Quick, hand me dit clothe. (Urease himself In a trice and bolt out of the room, to the intense amazement of the doctor.) Pari Matin. A GOVERNOR'S FIRST OFFICE. Elected Attornry General Becanee H Waen't a Lawjer. Gov. Culberson, of Texaa, tella the following story of bow be entered poll- tic and obtained hi first office, attor ney general of the Ixme Star State: "I had been practicing law," he say, and thought I bad made about enough reputation o Justify branching out f did not expect to lie nominated, but I thought It would be a good Introduc tion to start with a race for the attor ney generalship. George Clark, one of the ablest lawyer In tho country, waa my opponent lie was placed In nomi nation by a brilliant speech, whHe my friend who promised my name ueglect- ed to mention my legal attainments. It looked dark for me when a niau from '.he panhandle arose a 'id said: 'Mr. Speaker, they say Clark's a great law yer. I come with proxies from my end of tho State all In my pocket, an' whs notified to vote for Chirk. But I know no one had any Idee he wus a lawyer. This State has been hogawagglcd by the lawyer till she' so pore you can't sell enough cotton to pHy for the cuttlo the cactus kills, all ou account of the lawyers, and the railroads that keep them up. I hope we won't put In any lawyer, and I'm for Cullierson. No body' ever accused him of being a law yer.' That spcctH-u resulted In my uoinlnntlon." RUSSIAN GOLD. The War Cheat from Which Bhe Offered Mllllona to the United Hlatea. Some surprise aud a good deal of In credulity ha been expressed over the alleged offer of Itussla to loau this country a large sum In gold. The amount has been variously given a $1)0,000,000 and 1400,000,000, aud it ha also been stated that the loan was not tendered reeeutly, but In The his toric friendship of Uussia for this coun try Is cited a proof of tho truth of tho tory. Itussla I usually looked upon as a poor country and of limited revenue, notwithstanding Ita great extent of ter ritory ami million of Inhabitant. This I a long way from the truth, however. It I true that Ita natural resource! are largely undeveloped aud that It re main still almost wholly an agricul tural country. But the people are to frugal and the resource ao well hus banded that the country I capable of yielding a large revenue. Tho public Income for 1M5 I estimated at 1,- 2H.37S.uUO rouble, having almost dou bled since ISM, whou the Income was faw.WS0.08S rouble. The Internal taxee are collet-ted Iu imper, but much of the customs dues are paid In gold. The value of the paper roublo la about DO renta In our money, while the gold rou ble la valued at about 77 cent. But aa only about one-tenth of the revenue la from customs, tt la aafe to put the year ly Income of the government at a little over 1000,000,000. It la true that Russia ha an enor mous public debt, but It I difficult to estimate the exact amount. In 1K03 It wa computed at 1 1750,000,(X, or aNiut the debt this country owed at the cliwo of the war of the relielllon. It has Increased since, a the Iluuslan Ifeso.ooo.ooo. PURE COLO. HI'SSIA' fU,0Un,OU0 WOI.'I.I) MAKE A Ct'llK OF 0OI.lt Thit BY TKM BV SV! TKKlf FBKT, treasury I constantly meeting any de ficit In tho reveuuo by making a new loan. Hut It la In the accumulation of Ita war cheat that the moat Interent la felt just now. When Itussla emerged from tho war with Turkey In 1878, It waa with the determination never again to begin a conflict with a foreign power without being amply prepared for It Iu a financial sense. The lack of money was her embarrassment In the Crimean war of 1854, but she failed to profit by the lettson. The second lesson taught her twenty-four years later seemed to have made an Impression on the mind of Russian statesmen, for they at ouce adopted a policy of accumulation, which has been persisted In ever since. l"aper money might aerve the govern ment at home, but It would be of no use abroad, especially In cuao of war. So the contents of this war cheat are known to consist ouly of gold and Ita size I something startling. The amount held at home la believed to be equal to 47.OOO,OO0, while abroad nearly aa much more Is safely Invested and ready to lie railed almost at a moment'a no tice. It I from thla war cheat con taining altogether IMOO.OOO.OOO that Russia prolmbly offered to let tbia gov ernment have a large sum. Turpentine for Worm. If turpentine Is given to lamb for worms, let It be done after a twenty four hours' fast, and when the first stomach I empty. It I not unlikely that the whole flock la affected If we find worm In one. The turpeutlne and linseed oil can bo administered with milk, or the tnijientlne poured upon the salt allowed there; they will eat It readily. Una Had Him. Husband Don't you know that every time a woman get angry the add a wrinkle to ber face? Wife-Yes; It' a wise provision of nv ture to let Uie world know the kind of husband ahe'a got-I'botoa and Sketch I A man likes to think that when he makes up his mlcd, nothing on earth can move hi in. Women do not take seriously to liter atur until they have passed the "trade but" age. i HOW TO TRAVEL FREE 'T 13 EASY, SAYS A GLOBE TROTTER WHO HAS BEEN THERE. Ilia Aeeonnt of a 80,000 Mile Jonrnew Without Money, Pawl or lafloeaee tiding on Brake Beam and the Tope of foarhea-llow Ila Worked IU The "night shift" waa waiting to re lievo the "day gang," and aa these vet eran railroadcM loitered about the Lake Shore yard office at Forty-third atreet they fell a telling stories. They drifted aronnd to the subjoot of "dead heading" aud some one spoke of the habit foreign noblemen have of starting penniless to euclrclo the globe. One after another gave his opinion of the practice. At lust an old "switchle" took bis turn. He said: "If I had some ono to back me and there wa anything In it, I believe I could make a trip of 100,000 mile, never mis a meal or handle a cent of money, complete tho distance inside of a your and get buck with clothe aa good as, if not better, than I have now, and I wouldn't work a day. " This brought up a lot oi argument, but tho man continued : "How much worse would that be thau the trip my partner and myself have Just niudor A year ago last May tho coal strike down iu West Virginia put us on 'the hog train,' aud since then I con prove that we have traveled a dis tance that altogether would make over two trips around the world Of course most of the trip has been on laud and over railroads, but we have found water just aa easy when we wanted to travel thut way. "We started for China to go railroad-. ing out there, and got aa far aa Liver pool on the trip when Jack backed out aud we 'stowed away' and came back. On the trip over a captain ou one of the oattloboat carried as on a card, but the man coining back didn't recognise let ters aud we had to 'make a sneak.' When we landed, we hadn't a cent, but that cut little figure. We had to have work, and wo had to go to tome place whore business was good, so we made a start We got out of New York over the New York Contra) to Buffulo and the Lake Shore from there to Chicago. The big strike had just started when we got here, and as we didn't want any 'scab' job wo didn't stay here long. We went south to New Orleans, and from thore to the Puciflo coast over the Bout hor u Pacific and came back east over the Santa Fa "Tho Santa Fe waa the ouly tough streak we struck. Why, the men out thore havo got the 'marble heart' in Ita worst form. They won't carry you iu a caboose or on a pamengor train with out a pass, aud that the official won't give you, so yon have to watch your chauoe and 'ride the rods. ' I am not much stuck on riding underneath a train. It'a liable to induce nervous prostration, but if it has to be doue to get ovor a road I can do it "On the new big box cart the truss rods hang a foot and a half below the body of the car aud it'a an easy matter to grab the slide iron of the door and swing yourself uuder. If yon can't fix yourself comfortably on the rods, why, you can work along toward the end of the car and lower yourself down to the brake beam. " "How do you got on top of a passen ger train?" lie was asked. "That's easy enough. Just watch your chance and whou tiSe train Is about ready to leave pick two cars the bag gage can are the best, because no oue ia watching them generally stand np on the brake wheel and you can reach the top of the car. If yon have strength enough it is an easy matter to swing yourself up, and, onoe np there, you can, if you keep quiet, ride till daylight You have to lie down flut to hang on, but that is not bad, because if yon sat up or stood up tho cinders from the en gine would cut your face and bands to piece. They oome back across the top of the cars like birdshot out of a gnn, and with almost as much force. "If you have norve enough yon can ttow yourself away on the truck of a passenger car so uo one can aee yon. I have doue it, and rode over 00 mile before I waa caught For that job you want a little board about alx Inches wldo and a foot long, with two cleat in the middle on oue alda Then find your four whool truck a six wheelur won't do because you can't got inside get on the side of the track opposite the depot, and as she starts to poll out grab a truss rod with oue hand and a corner of the truck with the othor and slide in on the brake beam feet first "Bolted to the middle of the brake beam aud reaching from front to rear ia the brake rod. Put your 'ticket' (the lit tle board) on the brake rod, the cloate will hold It in place, put your foot on the back brake beam and your back against the center beam of the track, and you con rido almovt aa comfortably aa you oould 'up stairs' in a seat You are in behind the wheel, and it will tuko a pretty sharp eye to find you if you keep quiet Oh, I tell you a man con do a heap of traveling on nothing if he is a hostler. "Since wo started my partner and I have boen In overy state and territory of the United State, and I figured it np lust uight, and we have traveled over 60,000 miles, and If there ha boen any one time that we have had over a dol lar I don't recollect it" "How did you get food on that kind of a trip?" asked a listener. "Sometime the boys wore good and would 'throw a meal into yon,' but if they didn't, why there waa nothing else to do only to 'hit a back door' and try to 'batter ont' a 'lump.' It tounda tough, but I've had it to do several time Iu the lust your. I toll you when , I got to work steady I'm going to iuk my dough, and when I get enough I'll go to tome new country and got me a piece of land Railroading is getting to be too mnch of a 'hot foot job for ma " Chionr) Bocord J MUa Marlon Talbot. Mis Marion Talbot went into the practical tide of sanitation with an en ergy that proved her sincerity, and which also soon converted ber into an authority. She ttndied the plumber' j UUUO, lUlUaillH; o wu vmv;iu at tbia brunch of labor, but found it too hard uu ocenuation for a woman. Her praotical kuow lego of plumbing ia, aa may be guessed, of groat value to hor in her work, first, aa profeasor of sanita tion, and now a dean of Chicago university