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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1891)
A LOVE LETTER. A letter, lore, a letter, love, I send to you a letter, Anil every line's n link, my love. And every word's a fetter To bind your heart, by love's own art, To one who loves you better Than all the world. Although bet eon Your city and his prairie A thousand miles do Intervene, Fair fancy proves a fairy, To brine your fac your tender Brace, Your truth that cannot vary. A letter, love, a letter, love, I meant to write n letter, And every line a link should be. And every word a fetter, To bind your heart, by love's own art. To one who loves you better Than all tho world. But still I pause. With precious moments palter. And fear to tell you all because I fear to fall and falter. Like ono who lays, with humble caio. His tribute on an altar. Bo take the few poor words I send, And read the lines between, dear. And like a lenient lady lend Your love to make them mean, dear, All lips would sieak to brow and cheek Could heart behold its queen, dearl Kate M. Cleary iu New York Ledger. THE CAPTAIN'S GRIP. An old California friend John Wil son, let us call him for convenience had been fctrolling about New York, refresh ing his memory, visiting new points of interest ami generally "taking in" tho sights. Iu piloting him round tho city 1 naturally stumbled upon tho Eden Mu see, and took him in to seo tho grisly groups and tableaux in the crypt. lie was very much interested in them and repeatedly expressed surprise and admi ration at tho skill of the workmanship and the artistic ipid realistic ellects of the grouping and attitudes. , Having wont the blue during tho civil war ho was especially attracted by tho repre sentation of ( nster's last fight; but I ob served that ho could hardly tako his eyes off a group of figures in oriental cos tumes, and that for somo minutes after examining that group he continued grave and absent minded. Presently, at luncheon, I asked Jack what particular memory that oriental tableau had stim ulated. I put the question advisedly, because I knew that my friend had seen men and cities and experienced many and strange adventures, and all his sto ries were good, while most of them wero apt to be new. So I deliberately angled for a yarn, feeling that it would har monize better with a cigar than a fresh descent into the streets. Jack, on being questioned, fell once more into kis ab stracted mood, and. after a minute of silence, said slowly: "1 was thinking of a group 1 onco saw, not composed of wax figures, yet as rigid nnd motionless, in which an Oriental boro a conspicuous part." After this beginning, of course, I did not let Jack go until he had told his story, and what ho said is now repro duced here: "After tho close of tho war I found it impossible to bettlo down again to humdrum work, but I soon found that if I was in search of adventure it would bo necessary to try somo other country than my own. Tho United States was at that time bound to make up for lost time. All the business and money mak ing tendencies of the nation seemed stimulated to the uttermost. Specula tion was booming: the war spirit had put unheard of audacity into all kinds of commercial enterprises, and, gener ally, tho hour of the capable had come. I did not happen to be of these. I had a little money, enough to live upon comfortably, and 1 felt no inclination to go a-grubbing for more. Action, excite ment, picturesqueness, tho unexpected were what 1 desired, and I began look ing over the world for soma situation containing a promise. "At last 1 got tired of waitiug and tried to compromise with myself by a course of drifting. 1 drifted to tho Pa cific coast: thou to the Sandwich Islands; from there to Japan, and after a stay of several months in ono of tho most in teresting countries and among tho most delightful people 1 know I found my way to Cantou. This was some time after Horatio E. Lay's fiasco. You re member about that? No? Well, this Lay was a blue blooded English diplo matic fellow, who thought ho could do a stroke of business for himself by under taking to organize a fleet for tho Chinese government wherewith to put down piracy, at that time very troublesome, especially in and about Kwangtung. Lay obtained some sort of authority, went to England, bought or built a lot of gunboats, fitted them out for service and eugaged Capt. Sherard Osborne, a gallant naval officer, to command tho squadron. "But this was not what the Chinese wanted. Their idea was to man the vessels with their own ieople, and give them native officers, too. Of course, this would have resulted in one of two ways; either tho pirates would havo cap tured the gunboats promptly, or the commanders of the gunboats would have gone into partnership with the pirates. That, however, was nobody's business but that of the government, whoso sub jects were cutting ono another's throats. Lay was repudiated; the contracts made by him were rejected, and, finally, SirF. Bruce solved tho difficulty by taking Osborne's flotilla off the hauda of tho Chinese government. Most of the gun boats were sent back to England, but ono at least remained, and tho under standing was that tho government would buy her if sho proved up to her guarantees. "Now, to test such u boat, it was clearly useless to send her to Bea with Chinese officers; and uveu a Chinese crew could hardly do her juatlco in tho engine room ud atuko hole. So it was determined to make u trial trip with a scratch crew of white inoni urnl when I heard that they were looking about for somebody toruiumiiud her I jumped t the opiwrtumty. ami listened to oiler ,y bt-rvtw.-. ' biuw I was In the imvy bofuru tho war. mul I had jul it good tfiNiiuiMlMi ' !' w M "V" fcelf (Wllliwteiit l" ltHtfu ! MJX mil Liafl. i.uluuIuM jur ThuHviv www. wl carrying cf ono hundred men. Well, I had friends, and got tho command; nnd after tho usual trouble in scraping a ship's company together, nnd then drill ing them into something like working order, I was ready for sea. "Tho Chinese authorities had consid ered that it would be as well to make tho trial trip pay expenses, if possible, by ex tending the tests so as to "ascertain what the gunbaat was good for in action. At that time the mouth of Pearl river was infested by piratical junks, which found shelte? and e;tsy means of escape in tho numerous small islands and estuaries into which the delta of that stream is divided. Tho pirates usually confined their atten tions to tho craft of their own country men, but occasionally, when the grist was very short or the opportunity very tempt ing, they would attack some small foreign merchantman; and. m these cases, they made it a rule to kill everv soul on board, ' as tho simplest way of preventing those awkward foreign protests which were euro to stir the mandarins up to a serious crusade against them. "You, of course, understand that pi racy in China is not regarded ad a hein ous crime. The Mongolian view of tho business is pretty much that which ajl the western nations held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries; only there is less romance and more practicability about the pigtails. Very respectable Chinese business ni-?n interest themselves in piracy along the Kwangtung coast, just as staid old English merchants used to interest themselves in smuggling a hundred years ago, and nobody thinks the worse of a man for having been a pirate, provided ho has been lucky at it. As to the taking of life, there is Kn miirli Kiiii'vfliiims htiinnnitv in China. lif,. n.or i k.t littl. wm-Hi livini for' rlio m.'ii'nritv. that. : ntiblin. nninion isnuito intlifferent on the subject. "While I had been drumming up my crew in Canton I had fallen in with an American skipper who had for some time been sailing n good sized coaster for a wealthy Chinese house. Ho had his wife with him, and they were both very pleas ant people. He was a Cape Cod man, not pretty to look at. fur he had tho leanest frame and the bi,;ge"t bauds and feet I ever saw. His hands, especially, would have attracted attention anywhere, not only for their size, but for tho look of the latent muscular power in them. Ho was not one of those disagreeablo big fisted men who think it a good joke to crush your fingers in shaking hands with you, but when ho did shako hands with a restrained, friendly grip you felt the possibilities of his squeozo ilainly enough. You will seo later on why 1 dwell upon thij physical peculiarity of Capt. Wiusar, for that was his name. His wife, I fancy, must havo como from the south. At all events sho had a southern complexion a clear pallor with black eyes and hair and a southern suppleness and grace of bearing. Sho was not exactly a pretty woman, but decidedly pleasing, and her composnro and quiet, gentle manners won upon you steadily. Bqth of them spoko Chi nese fluently, and they gave a favorablo iinnnmit; nf til. lvrmll I "They had a special pet in a Chinese ' I i i i m:.. t j i i.. i steward named Tin-Ling, a burly, round faced fellow, who would havo passed muster anywhere for an honest man but for his eyes. They struck mo as treach erous from tho first. Ho never looked anybody squarely in tho face, or en countered n steady glanco without squirming. 1 concluded, however, that his employers understood him, and, any how, it was no affair of mine. My ac quaintance with tho Winsars lasted until tho captain's vessel, a small bark named tho So Kiang, was "ready to sail on ono of her regular coasting cruises. She would be away somo threo months, and would visit a number of little ports. I expected to get away about forty-eight hours after her, and tho evening beforo sho left I took supper aboard her with the skipper and we drank a farewell glass. As I was going away I happened to seo Tin-Ling leaning over the sido talking in a low tone to somo rough looking men in a sampan alongside, and in a half joking way 1 said: " 'Winsar, don't you think you trust that fellow too ranch? If I were in your place, with nobody about mo but Chi nese, I should keep a pretty sharp eye upon a fellow with eyes as shifty as his.' "The captain laughed carelessly, and merely said something about Tin-Ling being all right, and so we parted. "In duo time I got away on my gun boat, and down the river we went, the machinery working smoothly and the boat answering her helm smartly. We I were armed with two Armstrong guns 'of small caliber and a couple of Gatlings ..... . n . -A -ii for close quarters, besides tho usual small arms, rockets, etc. quite enough to keep off any number of Chinese pirates, or to give a good account of them in a square set-to. It was my intention to begin by exploring the nooks and crannies of tho Pearl river delta, and I had taken a pilot (an old pirate) who knew thoso in tricate waters thoroughly. "We reached tho mouth of the river, anchored for tho night, and next morn ing at daybreak hove up and began to thread the creeks and estuaries of that region, of course with due caution and tho lead always going. Tho first day brought no grist to my mill, and that evening I brought up between two islets, and, being doubtful of the neighborhood, I kept a boat's crew rowing guard all night, for it was so dark in thero that tho pirates might havo surrounded us without leing fceen, provided they were quiot enough. However, wo wore not disturbed, and tho second day opened without much prosrwet of excitement. Probably tho pirates hud got wind of our expedition and hud made themselves scarce. In any cane there was nothing to do but to go on, and on wo went, Tho scenery wits tntertMtiug enough if I had cured for thut, hut I wiw fidgeting U) try the gnus on n mult of jiiruto junk, mid tho I'lwa of iHiing fooled was not bOOthllltf. "Wo were summing lowly along, dodging end tuniliitf tp uvuM tho nil inoroiu shuiiU, whvn uMtiily w pooullur rlpj'Wifif rwtUjntf muih1 bfoku thu iluiic. 1 u! urn rmiiUxl Ihu liuiw U wua iho mm of h wM vuly,iwl ll of courso indicated a fight somewhere and in all probability an attack by tho pirates on soni" vessel.' I waited for tho smoke to rise, and thus ascertained tho scene of the di. lenity, whatever it was. The white sun. o showed abovo the trees about four miles off in a straight line as nearly as 1 could judge, but how far tnat meant by water it was qui to impossible to tell. My delta pilot, who had pricked t tin his ears like an old charger on hear-i ing the firing, told mo ho knew where the lighting was going on and could tako me to it, but it would require a full hour to get there. Thcro was no help for it, 1 of course. Wo could not straighten or ' shorten the winding channel, nor could 1 wo clap on full speed. The firing mean timo continued in a queer spasmodic I way, and at intervals tho rattlo of the ' matchlocks was punctuated by a much clearer, sharper sound, which I felt Mire was that of a rifle or a revolver. This made tho case more serious, for it looked as though the pirates were attacking a foreign (that is, European) vessel. "It was tiresome work crawling through these passages, and I was afraid wo should bo too lato for help in rescue after all. But at last we rounded a bluff point and camo suddenly into a sort, of lagoon, threo times as wide as tho average passages, and then we saw what all the fuss meant. There lay my friend Winsar's bark the So Kiang, fairly surrounded, at a distance of a hundred yards, by vicious looking junks, which were popicring her at leisure, but not yet venturing to board her. Probably they had suffered from Winsar's fire and concluded to keep on shooting from a distance until they had killed or wounded him and the boat swain, thev being the only white men on tho trader. Winsar's Chinese crew seemed to have taken no part, in tho fight ; at all events they were not visi ble. The attacking junks were so occu pied in baiting poor Winsnr that they did not see tho gunboat for a few mo ments, and I had tiino to give them ono smashing discharge from both tho Arm strongs and both tho gatlings before they recovered their scattered wits and sprang to sweep and sail in desperate hurry. "I suppose I ought to havo armed my boats a:id chased the ruffians, but I was feeling uneasy about Winsar, whoso rifle 1 hail not heard for several minutes, and I remembered, too, with fresh misgiv ing, tho sinister looks of the pet steward, Tin-Ling. So after driving half a dozen junks ashore I drew alongside of tho So Kiaug, piped away the cutter and went nboard her. The first thing I noticed was that tho deck was deserted. Tho next sign I looked for was marks of blood, but thero were none. This seemed to indicate that tho crow had not risen upon tho captain, mid perhaps also that he had not been wounded. But, if nlivo, where was he? Silenco reigned through out tho vessel. I went down tho com pauionway into tho cabin. Thero was no sign of life there. I of courso knew tho position of tho captain's cabin and hastened toward it. Coming out of tho glaro of tho sun my eyes could not in stantly adjust themselves to tho senii- darkness of tho cabin, but by tho time I rrmrdiptl tltiwlnor I rnnld sen well eiioinrll. reached tho door I could seo well enough, nnd tho scene that met moon tho thresh old brought mo to a dead halt. "This is tho tableau I thero saw: On tho standing bed placo lay tho body of Mrs. Winsar, tho face white, still, fixed, with horror in tho wide open eyes. A thin stream of blood had trickled down her breast. Over her. in tho act of striking, leaned Tin-Ling, his right arm extended, with a long knife in tho hand, and tho point of tho blade suspended not two inches above Mrs. Winsar's heart. Holding tho assassin in an iron grip, ono tremendous hand enveloping his throat, tho other clasped about tho wrist of his knife arm, stood Capt. Winsar. His form was drawn to its full height; his eyes literally blazed from a face white as death, and ho stood as if turned to stone. His steward was as motion less. Thero were the threo actors in this frightful sceno, apparently all paralyzed or petrified; and I seemed myself to bo stiffening into tho samo ghastly rigidity as I stood thero looking on. "At last I roused myself nnd stepped into the cabin. My movement broke tho captain's tranco of horror. Ho gavo a deep sigh, recognized mo and 6aid wearily: 'Tako this devil, Mr. Wilsou; ho has killed my wife.' With that ho relaxed his hold upon Tin-Ling's throat. I looked at tho Chinnman, whose head fell limply on his shoulder, and saw at onco that ho was dead. His neck was broken, and, in all probability, in the very moment Winsar set his grip upon How long tho captain had stood thero. holdintr the corwso. wo never there, holding the corpse, wo never know, but it was at least ten minutes. As wo raised our eyes from the black ened features of tho traitor a faint sigh caught my ear, and, turning to tho bed, I saw that Mrs. Winsar'B eyelids were quivering. 'Captain!' I cried excitedly, 'I don't think your wife is dead, after allt' "And, to cut a long story short, she was not dead; sho was not oven danger ously hurt. Sho had caught Tin-Ling rushing in upon her with his knife, per haps bent only upon plunder at the mo ment; but sho shrieked, and tho steward sprang upon her. Her husband had heard her scream, nnd rushed below at tho very instant Tin-Ling's knife was descending. Its point had cut just deep enough iuto tho flesh to draw blood, when thoso iron hands gripped him; and I am inclined to think that tho death of Tin-Ling could not havo been more midden aud painless had tho agent been electricity, Instead of bono aud musclo. "This was tho tableau tho figures in tho crypt of tho Eden Museo recalled to my mind," wild Jack Wilson, as wo passed out into Broadway aguiu. U, F. Parsons in New York Ledger. Tim Widow Would llu Ahlo Id J'y, Youiitf Doctor to Old Doctor Doctor." I )mvo told you how I am treating tliat Patient. Dj you think I should tiliaiiuo the outline of tiuutiiiunt any "Ihu liu ipd imy iinmuyt" "N i. hut Ids life U IlimiM " WmII, Jiiit ntluuo ygur wmt TAKING GRAVIS CHANCES. CARELESS RAILWAY EMPLOYES WHO ENDANGERED HUMAN LIFE. itiuuilni; on Antithrr Train's Time How iUf Mrrpy llcudiil Operator (lot Into Trouble mid Out "f It Tlio ConlrulotM of a lYleBrnplirr. I wns formerly ngent for tho West Shoro road nt a little station a few miles oust of Ainoteriluni, N. Y. A work traiu, consisting of mi engine mid n mimlier of lint cars, n us employed on tho sst'tiou nenr my station. Knch "night they were exj voted to drop the Hat curs on somu of the sidings in that vicinity mill In y the engine up for the night nt Am sterdam. On tho day iu question tho truiii hml been worUing later limn usual, nnd when the tinit cnine to quit they found tlmt they were tropo-sing on the time of n ;ms.-eiiger train. lnteml of Hugging themselves to my station neeonllng to rules, they took chimees uiul oaiiio Hying down at tho nito of forty miles an hour, shoved two ears on tho siding, nnd rushed olT for Amsterdam In front of tho passenger train, only seven minutes ahead of her time, when their limit w-ns ten. KtlHNO TO DEATH. The engine wns going backward nnd in order to get to Amsterdam ten minutes ahead or the jKissengef they would have to ninko the run three minutes quicker than sho did. Hv the time they got out of sight they worn Imrly ih iug. Hye witnesses of tho occurrence told ine it tool; them julsix minutes to coma from tho place where they were working, throw iu the two tints, mid get buck u dis tance for the round trip of seven miles. When the engine reached a curve about half wa between my station ami Amsterdam tho tender left tho track, nnd both wero thrown into a ditch bottom upward. Tho engineer wns killed nnd tire conductor so badly scalded that for a long tiino his life was in danger; but, thero belli,; a strain of hero ism mixed with his recklessness, ho crawled on his hands and knees back to a curve mul with n red light signalled the oncoming pas senger train to stoji. He was found insen sible from his Injuries when the train pulled up. Tho track was torn up for a distance of twenty yards, nnd but for tho fact that I had notilled tho passenger engineer to Ihi on tho lookout, null tho conductor's heroism, an np palling catastrophe would havo resulted, 1 don't suppose thu passengers ever realized how near they enmo to meeting their God that day, mid I was informed that tho com pany did not even compliment tho conductor for his bravery, to say nothing of paying his doctor bilU TIi: Ol'ElJATOIl SLEPT. Ono of my telegraph friends worked on a Missouri railroad a few years ago. Ho was 10 years old at that time. Thero wero only threo stations on his division whero tho pas senger trains stopped, mid nt Hoonovillo, where ho was operator, tho conductors regis tered their trains as they passed. Ho hud re ceived mi order to flag mid hold tho east bound passenger for orders, but after repent ing tho order he forgot to put out Mi flag nnd aftcrwurd fell asleep. Tho train arrived, was registered liy tho conductor, and do parted, Tho westbound train had orders to run from Knyotto, tho next station enst, to Hoonovillo, regardless of No. 4 (tho eastbouud train). Their orders wero already signed, and so far as tho dispatcher knew, they wero then on their way to Uoonoville. Ho called Hoonoville, but got no response. Ho called ngniii mid again, and Anally my friend, the operator, awoke and answered. "Is No. In sight!" ho inquired. "No." "Well, you go out on tho plntform nnd seo if you cun hear anything 5f them." My friend went out, looked up nnd down tlio track, but could see nothing. On his way buck to tho instrument ho glanced ut tho register, saw that they had left whllo ho was uslcep, and hurried to tho wire. "They're gone," wns nil ho had strength to suy. "You better tako to tho woods," snld th dispatcher, "If I can't catch them at Kuy etto you'll seo trouble." Then ho culled Fuyctte hurd and fast. "I, I," cuino tho answer. "Can you cutch No. UJ" "I guess so; I'll try." Then tho wiro opened nnd tho dispatcher nnd tlio miserable youngster Ht IJoonevlllo waited with bated breath to know tlio fate of a hundred unsuspecting human beings whoso lives they hud put iu jeopardy. At lust it came: "Yes, I caught them just na thoy wero pulling out." Tho dispatcher's uuud dropped from his key and his who'.o body shook with tho reac tion, whllo inspiration streamed from every pore. Tho operator ut Hoonovillo nearly fainted away, but quickly recovered, and opening his koy, suld: "Hero's my resigna tion; I'm goli'K to skip out." "No: don't say a word uliout it, and I'll do likewise," was tho dispatcher's reply, and no ono but the operators ever know of it. For ten years I was working us night oper ator at a small station near the Pennsylvania border. Night after night I would fall asleep and fall to report trains, receiving only slight reprimand from tho dispatcher, which I know would bo repeated ud infinitum with out anything more serious coming of it. All torts of excuses wero invented by tho oper ators to account for their attacks of sleepi ness, and some (myself among them) didn't oven take the trouble to excuse themselves. I know of one operator who made a regular practice of pulling his old mattress up before a hot fire after ho ate his lunch, stretching himself out, aud going to sleep. When h woke up he would ground tho wires, find out from the other operators about what time the train had passod his station, nnd then re port to tho dispatcher. This was douo night after night anil month after month. F. M. Jones in Buffalo Express. The Veuerublo MMslier. Two ladles were stnudlug at tho corner of Bush nnd Kwiruy street about 0 o'clock waiting for a cur. Iloth were young and pretty. An elderly man, whowj mustache was wliito but curled up nt the ends by the bur!er, and wbowi tlio und clothing were a credit to his hatter und tailor, edged up to the ladies and stared ut them. Ho shifted arouud, and besides sturlng mule his best effort at a fascinating smile. Thou b coughed gently, wiped his bpi with a dainty silk hand kerchief and smiled again. At last ho llf led kU hat and bowed. "IniUo," sold one of the young ladle to the other, calmly, "glvo the poor old mnu a nickel. Ho U evidently too thulU to ask (or iu" Ban 1'raucUco lixoui- luur, , Wlmt lutnlliU IJ On. Bonn fraturws of the tralllo 111 meat ara niii rimrUbu, as the following Incident howsi A Imw d) o an omnibus coa Uuuuir was Imprisoned for ovwdrlvlnif two aijjsi ninl tliuiiUHl Jwrws wiul i bad pur. i-Um1 fur uit t nothing. In Iho ilsfviiw H earn ut inul Him worn out milmslt wru uuisoid miiUnvw Ut furihor work, but, ao.njfd.iii5 Ut f uruwr uwur, (or uothr ,,..,.w. Thav wi.ru lllUuilwl Ul fUlllUll U far Um nuuufauturwr g( Uf m,-Iw lltiuintien Urdurnl to l'lcurn. jfThflru is nu English literary man who at the "nd of each jenr eiietrntes Into tho pub lish d fiction mid extracts therefrom very o'teu somo exceedingly Interesting figures. Tho results of his researches Into fiction of lSti are entertaining. Of tho heroines por trayed in novels he finds 3T!i wero descrlUxl ns blonde-!, while lit) were brunettes. Of tho Kt.' heroines 4U7 wero beautiful, -71 wero mnrried to the men of their choice, whllo 150 wore unfortunate enough to lx Itouud in wed lock to the wrong man. The heroines of fic tion, this literary statistician claims, aro greatly improving In health nnd do not dio ns early ns in previous curs, although con sumption is still iu the lend among fatal mal adies to which they succumb. Early marriages, however, nro on tho In creuso. The iieisoual charms of thohoroiues included IHI "expressive eyes" aud 71U "shell like ears." Of the eyes Mil had n dreamy look, if.V flashed lire, whilo the re mainder had no secial attribute. Eyes of brow n mid blue nru in the uscciiduut. Thero was found to lo u large increase in tho iium Ikt of heroines who possessed dimples, IMi wero blessed with sisters and iil'J had broth ers. In 47 cases, mothers figured ns heroines, with U'2 children between them. Of these 71 children were rescued from watery graves. Ladies' Home Journal. A Wenllier lllnl. Probably not ono out of ten of the vast number of peoplo who frequent State street ever have noticed tho weather dial that i cozlly iHTched within a pediment on tho At lantic bank building. Those who do notice the dial naturally in quire how it is that the arrow moves as tho wind blows and indicates the direction of tho breeze on the cloekliko fnco marked with tho letters N. E. S. W. A careful examination front the street will reveal a big vane stationed several feet be hind tlio pediment. As the wind blows the vane, tho vane moves tho arrow by means of cogs, ono at the bottom of the pole to which tho vuuo Is attached, working on another connected with the arrow on the dial. This simple machinery is located In tho attic. This dial has been on the Atlantic bank building about thirteen years, and tho occu pants of tho building say it has given general satisfaction, although tho arrow, when tho wind is frolicsome, sometimes' revolves with such velocity as to indicate a cyclone. There are said to bo about threo of theso dials ia Uso iu this city. ileston Olobo. A .llullier's Line, Some vcirs ago tho visitor who wont on Saturdays to the penitentiary at Fort Madi son would seo at certain times a lady in tho I olllce of tho warden. Sho was always veiled and dressed in deep black, lly her sido thero would bo a comict, n boy hardly 17 years old, a slight, handsome lad, whoso frank fuco seemed in striking disharmony with tho deg I nidation of tho stripes ho wore. ) It was mother mid win, nnd ho was, indeed, i hnrd hearted who could witness their meeting anil their parting when tho allotted tlmoal i lowed by the prison rules for such interviews ' had expired. Tho mother lived ata distance, but eveiy week, rain or shine, brought her to tho placo again to see, to cheer, and to help her boy, to wring her heart with a fresh agony, for sho was a proud woman of high station hi society, but to show that thero was ono friend in all the world to remember and to sympathize. It" has boon years since that boy wns re leased from tho prison walls, and ho Is today a prosperous aud honest man. Tho mother's lovo helped tho boy back to butter ways. London Church News. Vtir Cold In tlio lleml. Thero aro a number of ways of aborting a cold in tho head, but most of them aro by th means of quite powerful drugs, which a por son unfamiliar with their uso Is nover justi fied iu taking on his own responsibility. Tho Swiss hothol of treatment Is ono of tho simplest anil most elllcuciotis. It is applied In this way: Half fill a jug with boiling wnter, nnd Into that put a teaspoonful of well powdered camphor. Eushlou out of writing paper a funnel, with which cap tho top of tho jug. The camphorated steam should bo Inhaled through tho uoso for ten or fifteen minutes, tho inhalation being re pented, if required, ovory four or flvo hours. If, In spite of its unpleasantness, tho Inhala tion Is insisted in, It.lssald that threo ropo tltlous will usually effect a cure, howovor so voro. St. Paul Globe. The National l''lowr! A wonderful thing Is clover. It means bonoy and qruani; that U to say, Industry nnd contentment; thut Is to say, tho hnppy bees in perfumed fields, and ut the cottage gnto old boss, tho bountiful, chuwiug satis faction's cud, In that blessed twilight pauso thut liko a beuedlctlou fulls between all toil and sleep. This clover mukus mo dream of huppy hours, of childhood's rosy cheeks, of dimpled bubes, of wholesouio, loving wives, of springs and brooks mid violets, and all there is of painless juy and pcueof ul human life. A wonderful word is clover. Drop tho 'c' ami you havo tho happiest of mankind. Take away tho 'o' nud 'r' and you havo the only thing that makes a heaven of this dull and burrea earth." Col. Itobert O. Ingersoll. The llntnlan Fly. Undo Dnbney Jones informed The Edge field (H. C.) Advertiser that Its account of the Hesslau fly did not correspond with the gen erally accepted tradition concerning that lit tle test. Ho says thut his father, who fought iu tho revolutionary war, told him that when tho army was disbanded by Washington a number of Hessians remained In this coun try, and, being of a restless, nomadlo tein jwrament, distributed themselves pretty gen erally, somo of them drifting down to Caro lina. The next year thoy sent to tho Fuder Iand for wheat to plant, and when tho wheut camo up tho fly upeared, so that the larvm of tho fly must huvo been brought over In the wheut. We suppose Uncle Dubuey' account is the correct one. Ilewure of These Coins. The IlrltUh ontml at this jxirt ii good enough to warp all thoso Intending to visit Europe that tho Iiritlsh government will not redeem English gold coins of uduto preceding Queen Victoria, except nt their bullion vnlue, Tradosjwople und tho hotels ia London urn r 'lUingto receive them, except with adlv count of seven Mjnce or fourteen cents on the iwund. It will Ihi iivcoswry to avoid rocelv hiK uny old lirltUh sovereigns or hulf sov ereigns when buyliiK money to tako nbourd ship, utiles you aro willing to stand the do ductlon of two or threo conU on tho dollar, Ilostou Transcript. Mr. rniU' JlW'iii'iUllun. Once, mikI mico only, has Mr. I'urnell lxn known to qmitu etry In a shiouIi. Work Ing up lottiird his jwrorulUMi, be doolsrtsl thut they would never rt until they hml nmdii lhir oouuiry i wdl iho M dream I'llst ttawsr U tho imiUi, first jswsl of (he M. "(Jem. Kmr said tt frtvhd HiUlbow, "Uii, yi.' rpHil Mr I'mi null, "but wr4 t a mUvr wurd " J taVtf I ha fl Wild Mho wul MihWUJ a Id Wad!" nmdm-intf of thofsmllnir )lu wu Mr Jmmi. lUvww vf UmJ. CONGRESSMAN CRAIN'S POKER STORY YTUy llr Wrmi'I Shot on tlm First Nlchft Hint 1 1 cut It Ksritpril on the Second. Congressman Crain, who represents tho Galveston district of Texas, tolls some remarkable stories of poker play ing in that state during war tiino. It was an epocli there of lawlessness and mob rule, and personal bravery wns tho quality of leadership. Ono night ho was playing in a game with threo or four others, ono of them a desperado named lloyd. Tho latter took ad vantage of the conviviality of tho pro ceedings to hold out a card, and Crain saw him do it. On tho spur of tho mo ment Crain said. "Hoyd. you aro cheat ing I" It wns a foolish thing to do, unless with pistol in hand, because it meant; immediate murder. Hut, to tho sur prise of every one, Hoyd simply turned very ptilo laughed and replied, "Crnlr boards at my house, yon know, and so I can't aflorti to shoot him." The next evening Hoyd camo unin vited Into Crain's room, whero some other men were, and offered to play Crain a game of two handed "freeze out." Tho latter assented and they twit down at tho table, while tho rest drow their chairs back and waiteti for tho tragedy they supposed was coming, A few minutes later Hoyd again cheated, so openly that he doubtless intended to bo caught, and Crain at onco charged him with the offense. Immediately Hoyd leaped to his feet, seized two chairs and threw tlusn into tho air. Ono of them struck Hoyd as it fell, nnd ho drew tho pistol ho had ready, crying, "Crain, yon hit mo with a chaiti" "Liko a Hush," says Crain, in telling: tho story, "my instinct as a eriminaS lawyer camo to my aid. I saw that his purpose was to claim self defense m shooting me. So, without stirring froiu my seat, I pointed my linger at Boyd, who had mo covered with his gun, and said: 'llovd, yon know that isn't true. I haven't touched you. If you want to light I'll accommodate you any whero you liko and with any weapons witliht nu Iimir of this time. Let's fltrht. if need oe, nut more s no uccusiuu iur , . . i , .. : r murder!' " Crain's coolness of notion saved lihu and tho duel nover camo off, bocauso ru! i.. 1 II,. U.....1 n L.rw...OT. Boyd's acquittal of murder subso- nuontlv. Later on, however, Uoyu was killed with his boots on hi n row. -Washington Star. A Moron's Intelligence. IV 111:11 01111101 tl'im.' HIT liuiou rtiiuiia XTt i lw.-,. that 1 am not proceeding on my pro- . . 1 , t Ml J 1 best stylo and proceed to tlio nccus lUMIUll t;iiutuil( i"JH, imhiuhk mi; bu It ll-11f t I-.. rt a tho church door, and woo to tho teuio that mav ehauco to tret hi ahead 1 ... - .l lw, t r tl.n ....rw. Will HO IMUKU L11U ULlUlillll IU Hi ill 11 Iiil' to tho church. I'U'M Wfl)l4 IIIMI fill fl I I Ml I Jl V. I I.IM1IV niv wifoout for a rido on Holton inotu tain, and In going had to pass a church, VVI S SS V va v-v r jjift w v "T I. - nfiu iw-iiififi ti urrtii ir wim fimv wi ,. I. it a i f i. At. on no camo 10 anoiuer ciiurcu, 0110 u iirinnii Ufa iiriu iiiavriir 1111111 iif in i iiiiih 1 Ktnn. id iiv Hiirnr so J01111 iimuo a niiH'r MriHiLr iiiiiiri m muii. uu WH K fllLV I1U Will DJIXS HULL CUUICll UlUI . ..!il - I !i II... 1 ..In A Physician in llartrord Times, Ciiltlvutlnt; the Kuliliur Tree. ml... . I. ..,.,.,.. I ,l.i,tlt It, tlm wrtrM' j - - Inn nf 11 HVlldlcjltH to CllltiVlltO tllO TU steps havo already oeen taicon to nut tho KiLino idea bv sowing tho ... . 1 . 1 . i tiii fjiittmv 111 rniiiifr irtiiii liijll imiiui ""- 11 t 4 . I., t.. n r.tt I'nnM IaiiIiI III Will irn o vt w j - mwmv ..... wmir ir ih ill urusuiiu riiicuuiuuuu u tiwi it rii rt 11 r unrrfKH fii 1 1 1 in iix iitirii nttii tho syndicate proposes to carry on til f.l I. I. ........ ....,il I r. .,r , not far from the gulf, where thot ia win 1 iti iiuiaL nil uiiiuiu &ua operations. The rubber tree crows witn ureal nifiitif urwi it rraa rif 11 vnniirii nih w ittJ,l fliiit fwnnfv f'ftimriH nf mil , w j -- - - tJ ... .... .. ..a . . i 1.. f. ia.,i r 1 1 u ir ini s iu iritsit fi mmmmim mriiru uu luu uuin to bo Invested. Now York Telegram. MUtook u fiiiuke fur u Fence UaU fed Ills hoga tho other morning an vls onnlni on tho foncu looRiiiff thoui eat when ho felt Hoinethlng chilJ t,.x. II ....... t.l 4n Micuitw III 111 In ft naflllll .....i . . 1, tit itr tit (tit, ritiir nit 11 nlauoil his olbow about midway on . : . . . . . si is iv ii niiiiiiii. ou 111111 iuu h a vaa 11ml tirnu iiiiiftfr mill msi iinun nil 1. 1 itt i j 11 Mi 1 1 fttwl II U VCill lYflllifl MIlDIKrHU. UU up vigorous and rapid caiwrs about M rl I I .t......t.,it.rta MP MPUIt savs ho took hU elbow off us wxm vj 1 i ia i o vwhii i'"""" r - found that tho aiinku did not want It stay on. liu t man TliueS'JoiirimL mi... ..mi.i.tiu rtKi 1 iiii 1 tit wuiur i..s iiKiUkiMun itfiiitrti u'iju imuiriMiru. hi 1807. with a onpltal of ,000,000, ..1. 1,. 1. i'i ruwi 11 1 11 11iy in 1 ia iMintriiiu hy thu pity of llnmUlyu, I.WX,000 tlm lty ut Now York wnl 5W,Wja trlvutu inillvhiuiiia, id w tw ih vii iirliLw wmt in4'W h mi wurni . .. t. ilur illrimtlim l tlw vU ut NkW V upl MfH(l)rHr-Xvw York fim ' I,
