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* THE COMINO OF MISS MARY. I* never see de sunshine In all de wort* so bright; But ’long come sweet Miss Mary, En I kuow what make de light! De gyarden—be des primpiu’ In all he Sunday cloze: But ’long come sweet Miss Mary, En I know how come de rose! De night come up de hillside-* Let down de evenin’ bars; But ’long comes sweet Miss Mary, En 1 know what make de stand Bekaze she des so purty, De worl*, f’uin eas* ter won’, Tell sky, en star, en sunshine— “You better look yo’ be#’!” —Atlanta Constitution. SILENT SAM. • T was a strange conglomeration of bnma 111ty that occupied the mining camp In Rocky Gulch. Prospectors and adventurers from all parts of the globe were there assembled. There was Red Mike; there was Baldy Slick, who had made and lost fortunea at the card tables; there was Coyote Pete, who had prospected In every gold Held upon the face of the globe; there was Silent Sam, so called because of his disinclination to Join in conversation; and Talkative Bob, who received his appelatlon for a dissimilar reason; there was St. Louis Joe, w ho dispensed liquor to the mln era; and Tipsy Tim. whose sole ambi tion was to pan enough dust to keep himself in a chronic state of Intoxica tion. There were others, but among them all no representative of the gen tler sex until Joe Hardy—Honest Joe. theydubbed him drifted into the camp, accompanied by his brave young wife. Some way the camp scented different after “Mrs. Joe" came. There may have been no less drinking, but there was less brawling; there was perhaps Just as milch gambling, but there was less shooting; and when Joe's baby came a wave of reformation actually swept through the eamp. It became the custom to gather around Joe’s cabin every Sunday, and the baby was gazed at with mingled awe and admiration. As months went H ••vol' Aid: A. llANtn AS A M’TIIKK.’ by Babe, as every one called her, de veloptsl elite and affectionate ways, and she was almost worshiped by those lough miners. Tlieie came a sad day for Rocky Gulch, however. Babe was III. She lay upon her little bed. tossing her tiny arms mid moaning plnllitively. The miners knocked off work and gathered In anxious groups a little distance from Hie cottage. St. lamis Joe (dosed Ills sill(HU1 tight, and declared not one drop would the boys get till Babe got well. “Ain't a goin' ter hev some galoot git full and git a-shootlu' off Ills gnu an' disturbing Bn tie,” he said. Half a dozen of the men remained up all night near the cottage, “to be on band.” they said, "ef Joe wauted any thing.'' The second night Silent Sam offered ■ o sit by Babe to "spell" Joe and Ills wife. His services were accepted, though Joe and ilis wife took turns sit ting up with him. “You are as handy as a mother,” re marked Mrs. Joe, after Sam had beeu ministering to the little sufferer. Sam swallowed a big lump In his throat two or three times before lie re plied: “I had a little feller about Babe's age w hen I left home two year ngoue.” “I should think you would want to go home to your family, Sam,” said Mrs. .I,.«.; “they must miss you sadly.” “Me an' the old woman had some words; that's why I left." said Sam. “Guess I was mostly to blame, though,“ he added, “an' purty hasty.” “I'd go back," «aid Mrs. Joe. softly. Babe didn't Improve, and the anxiety of the community deepened day by day. At last one night, shortly after mid night. Joe came to the half dozen men who still kept their nightly vigil near his cabin. They gathered around him “Any change. Joe?" they eagerly In quired. Joe struggled some minutes to reply, and then with a great aob said: "Balie's gone.” ami rushed past the group into darkness. Every inhabitant of Rocky Gulch i knew of Balie's death long before morning, and the most of them weir ' gathered at a respectful distance from • the cabin w lien Joe stepped to the door , after sunrise. “t'ome In. boys, an’ see her,” he said, and one l>y one they Hied past the ' iieaceful figure which lay with a smile en the sweet, upturned face. "H’s a cryIn' shame." said Coyote I'eUk "that the Ba lie isn't bev a veuu 1 Ine, first-class funeral, but there ain't no show for a spread in this hole.” “Ef there was time I'd go ter 'Frisco an' tote a casket lu on my back,” said Red Mike, “but there ain’t, so's no use talkin'.” “Now, don't ye fret,” said Baldy Slick, "Babe's goin' ter hev a funeral, the like of which ain't been seen In Noo York Itself," aud he unfolded his plan to the boys. Two of Baldy Slick’s tallies were torn apart and a rude casket was construct ed of the boards. The Inside was lined with a beautiful dry moss, gathered from the mountain side, the outside coated with fresh pitch, upon which was sprlukled gold dust, contributed by the willing miners. A grave was hollowed out In a pleas ant place near Joe’s cabin, and that, too, was lined with moss, upon which was sprinkled some of the dust. When the casket was taken to the house Joe and bis wife broke down completely. “O, It is so sweet!” said Mrs. Joe, “and It Is so kind of you. We were trou bled to think that Babe could not have a nice burial, and now this—this-2—” And she could say no more. The services at the grave were sim ple. Mrs. Joe had a Bible, and Silent Sam wus asked to read a chapter. He did so, and then the little form was lowered Into the mossy bed prepared for It. One by one the men passed tlie open grave, tossing in their last offer ing to Babe, fresh blooming flowers gathered from tlie mountain side, and as they turned from the grave they each took Joe and Ills wife by the hand in silent sympathy. Silent Sam was the last to clasp their bands, and as he did so be said; “Good-by, Joe; good-by, Mrs. Joe. I'm going home to my little feller an' the woman.”—Buffalo News. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Note* Calling the Wicked to Kepentance. wife has no legal-status, and her cliil dren. In the eyes of the law, are not le gitimate. After the first marriage the law- has nothing to do witli the matter of a Mormon's inereaslug the number of his wives, except that a second and third wife may not be takeu unless the first wife gives her consent. But the Mormons are guided by their religion, not by the law. iu the institution of marriage. A Mormon in Mexico never or seldom takes a second or third wife until he is able to support more than one family. Active rrovelytlnsr. The Mormons In great numbers are settling in Northern Mexico aud are growing prosperous in the colonies which they have planted. There are now nearly 5,000 of them in Northern Sonora and Northwestern Chihuahua. There Is a steady stream of immigra tion from Utah and the colonies are rapidly increasing iu population. The Mormons are going into tlie Mexican republic as rapidly as farm lands can be secured for them. They are an ag ricultural people and occupy ouly tlie valleys where Irrigation Is possible. The enactment of laws In the United HORSES NOTAS HARDY AS MEN. Sieges and Battles Show the Animals Succumb to Hunger and Fatigue. There have been many Instances In which tights have been lost or won ac cording to the number and condition of the horse engaged. When the siege of Plevna commenced the Russians were bringing all their stores and food from Kislova by the aid of tiGJMMI draft horses, and at the end of the siege it was found that no less than 22,000 of TtITCAL Allome IIOl'SK. them had died from lull'd work and ex haustion. The want of rest and food States against polygamy brought the tells on a horse far more than on a first Mormon immigration to Mexico. man, for in the case of the latter there When plural marriage was pronounced are the stimulating influences of patri Illegal there were many Mormons who otism, tlie glory of victory, and other preferred to leave Utah rather than feelings which are non-existent In the surrender any of their religious princi nature of a horse. Quite half the ples or relinquish any of their wives. horses In England sent to the Crimea Mexico appeared to them an Inviting never returned, most of them having country in which to settle, provided died from hard work and starvation. they, could procure tlie assurances»they Indeed only about 500 were killed in needed from tlie Mexican government. action. So reduced aud starved have The climate of Chihuahua and Sonora the poor beasts become on occasions being similar to that of Utah, only of tills kind that they have been known milder, and the topography being the to eat one another's tails and to gnaw same, it only remained for those who the wheels of the gun carriages. Na proposed to emigrate to secure in ad poleon took with him across tlie N'le- vance the necessary concessions from men 00,000 cavalry horses, and on Ills the authorities of the country into return in six mouths he could only mils- , which they were about to move. Tlie proposal of the Mormons to set ter 10,000. More than half the horses which were engaged iu our Egyptian tle in Mexico met with Instant approval war of 1882 were disabled; fioo of these and encouragement from the officials were killed, and only fifty-three slain of that government, siuce they were known to be thrifty and adapted to the in action. In the Afghan war of 1838 work of developing a new country. It is said that 3,000 camels and half Mining companies and ranchmen es the horses engaged were lost In three pecially welcomed them because they months. It will thus be seen tlmt ac would readily supply the camps and tual fighting does not claim so many cattle haciendas with provisions and horses as starvation and overwork. De farm products, formerly imported at fective shoeing, sore backs, want of considerable cost. Mexico encouraged food and rest, and other similar causes their Immigration by admitting all go fur toward rendering horses useless their household effects, building ma for practical warfare, tine more and terial and oilier articles of use In the ini|H>itant cause needs careful atten erection of their homes free of cost. tion, and It is the danger of Injury They also received many other conces horses run when being shipped across sions and privileges. tlie sea. They are In constant motion, I The Wlldernes« Transformed. they continually fall many of them to ' The country into which they re lie trampled to deatli and the rest be moved was practically a wilderness. come frlgliteiiisl, kick ami blitter one Here aud there were large ranches, another about, and are rendered use with now and then a mining camp. less. As an instance of this. It was There were a few Mexican villages, found that one regiment on the way to at Intervals of fifty or one hundred the Peninsular war was deprived of tulles. Tlie country was arid, treeless Just half Its horses on the voyage.-» and uninviting, except in the valleys, where a rich soil only needed irriga Golden Penny. tion and cultivation to returu ample crops of fruits aud cereals. WHERE LIGHTNING KILLS. The first colony was planted In 1889, Five Person* In Every Million Liable I and called Colonia Juarez. It was es Be s truck Dead- Ohio'* Hurd Luck. tablished In the valley of the Casas Tlie weather bureau has Issued a Grandes River, sixteen miles from tlie statement of damage to property and old Mexican town of Casas Grandes, loss of life through lightning In the the present terminus of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific Rail Pul ted States during nine years. It appears that 312 persons are an road, constructed in 1897. The settlers nually killed by lighttilug In this count- arrived from Utah In covered wagons. rry, taking a fair average. The worst They lived In tents until they dug Irrl- year was 18!k>. when 420 Americans were destroyed In this way. In 1898 the mortality was 307. In nine years from 188# to 1898, Inclusive, five in ev ery million of the population were kill ed by lightning. The danger seems to la» least in large cities. Farm hands furnished the most vic tims. Ohio Is the greatest sufferer, the death rate by lightning In that State being twenty four In every hundred thousand persona of the farming class. The greatest proportion of fatal strokes Is found In the Missouri Val ley. on the Great Plains and In the Rocky Mountain region. In 1898, 1.86»! MOHXIOX TITHI8O «TOUR. buildings were damaged or destroyed I by lightning. Involving a loss of $1,- gallon ditches aud made their first 440.880, During the same year light crop. Thru they began to erect their ning killed live stock of a value of $48,- homes. Resi les their teams aud camp 257. ing utensils and a few agricultural im Much damage might be avoided by plements. they had nothlug but muscle grounding wires at Intervale along and religious euthusiasm. At that barlied wire fences. time the nearest railroad was El raso. s<> f.ir a« human being« are concern Texas, while a sandy desert, almost ed practically all the death« occur from Impassable. Intervened. The moun April to September, tlie highest record tains, loo. .held roving bands of rene gade Apaches that occasionally raided l»‘lng In June and July. tlie new settlement and drove away I ait Is>ng Lived. cattle and horses. The life of an Australian native rare- | As to the practice of polygamy In the republic of Mexico. It may be said ly exieeds 50 years. that the law of the land recognizes but One must have unllmitel confident« •n» lav' wife. The second or third in order to mloy 'ove aud »auaagea ( HAT you look at you will look like. Purse riches do not bestow heart wealth. Little cotupro- m i s e s are the most dangerous. Great men are the natural and norma 1 ones. Nothing ph ases the devil better than a prayer meeting Joy worked up with a background of every-day growl. He who molds tin* child makes tlie future. Christianity is an experience—not an opinion. Cheating clients no man more than the cheater. It is never gain to die unless it is Christ to live. A toad is not transformed by being in a gold mine. Where there is God's will there is al ways man’s way. The grumbler would complain of the weight of Ids wings. Tlie foulest carrion birds are those who fly to moral filth. Tlie most permanent safety vaults are In the skies, but the depositaries ar* In human hearts and hands. Owen ». Watkins, wuo was wun Kitchener in his Sudan campaign, af forded not a little amusement to tlie railway battalion under Lieut. Midwin ter. The quantity of water consumed by the locomotive was a constant source of wonder. The Arabs had never dreamed of such a thirst as that mon ster seemed to possess. One day. when the working party climbed abroad after loading all the trucks, the Egyptians cried, “For shame!” charged them with overloading the poor engine, and asked If they thought themselves men. BONNER'S FIRST HORSE. Once the driver of an engine was ask ed by an Arab to permit bis young wife It Wa* Bought by the Publisher'* Doc to crawl under the engine, as she was tor to Force Him to Exercise. sure if she could do that, her married “I well remember the first driving life would be blessed. horse that Robert Bonner purchased,” said Dr. .Samuel Hall, of New York Sales DropOff When Authors Marry. Some oue asked quite seriously tlie City. “To be more accurate, it was I other day if I thought that tlie an- who purchased the animal for Mr. uouueed engagement of Mr. Pa til Lei- Bonner. 1 was his family physician center Ford would Interfere with t lie during tlie fifties, and one hot summer sale of his novels. 1 smiled the smile day met him on Broadway. He had beeu so busily engaged with the New of incredulity. "You need not smile,” said the lady, York Ledger, which lie purchased In “I know that Richard Harding Davis' 1851. tliat I had not seen lilm for some marriage has greatly Interfered with time. When 1 met him I was actually the sale of ills novels. His readers, startled by the man’s appearance. Ha who are largely young girls, like to was well-nigh unrecognizable. Dark think of him as an unmarried man. Hues showed under his eyes and his They find his books more Interesting skin was pale and drawn like the skin of a consumptive. when they so regard him.” “ 'Bonner,' I cried, ‘what have yon “What about Kipling?" I gasped, “Has ills stock depreciated because of been doing to yourself? Here, coma into the shadow. You’re in an excel his wife aud babies?” “Oh. no!” was are reply. “It is dif- lent condition to snff jr a sunstroke.’ " 'Oh, there’s nothing much the mat feront with Kipling. lie writes more for men. aud then ills stories are not ter.’ he answered, ‘I'm simply worked out. trying to make this paper of mica love stories.”—Harper's Bazar. a go. -That's all.' Where Land Is Most V aluable. "'That's all!' said I. ‘Well, that's The growth of the land values is one nearly enough to put you in your of the most wonderful phenomena of grave. Here, jump into this omnibus the age. Every inch of laud between and get a breath of air.’ King William's statue and Trinity “ ‘Can’t do It, doctor!’ he replied. ‘I Education Not Neglected. square, London, cost £30 10s. or at the have an important engagement which The Mormons build schools in their rate of £191,000,000 per acre—beyond must be kept.’ communities even before they erect a all doubt the highest price ever paid in “ 'Bonner,' I persisted, gripping him church. All of the colonies have schools England for laud. The Southeastern by tlie arm and detaining him, 'it's my and an academy Is maintained at Colo- Railway Company was asked at the duty to tell you that you are killing yourself. You must take a rest.’ But in spite of the most direful warnings tlid strongest picas, tlie Scotch-Irish in him insisted on having its own way, and lie left me—not. however, until I had made him promise to drive regu larly in tlie country at least once a i week. “To make sure that he would keep Ills promise. 1 bought an excellent roadster, which cost, I remember, $350, and sent tlie animal to Mr. Bonner. Shortly afterward 1 met him out driv ing. His cheeks were aglow, and on recognizing me he pulled up alongside, and reaching ills hand to me, said Io great enthusiasm: 'Doctor, I want to thank you. I never would have known tlie Joy of sitting behind a good horse had It not been for you.’ "Two or three months later he bought a span of iron-gray horses, for which JUST ARRIVED FROM UTAH. he paid $1,500. “From the time of this purchase un ula Juarez. In this colony there Is a rate of $05,000.000 per acre for a piece great mill, a canning factory and other of ground in Bermondsey, which bad a til ills death Mr. Bonner was tlie best- Industries. There is a tithing store, depth of sixteen feet only. The de knowu strictly amateur horseman in the ouly oue in the colony, but there is mand was so exorbitant that even a I this country. To gratify his taste for not a saloon, nor a tobacco shop, nor a railway company had to pause, finally fast horses he p lrcliased some of the policeman in this or any other of the declining to purchase. In the year 1880 most celebrated trotters in the world Mormou colonies. land In Cannon street was sold for $30 but withdrew them from the race l.ublau is the largest colony. It Is a square foot, and six years later the course. Probably his greatest horses also the most important commercially. price of land in this Identical street were Peerless. Dexter and Maud 8., It Is four miles from the terminus of went up to $75 a square foot.—The marking as they did three distinct epochs iu the history of trotting horses the railroad, aud Is situated lu a broad Forum. in this country. valley. The village, which lias about Hit It by Accident. “To my mind.” continued the doctor. 1,000 inhabitants, is scattered over sev At a time when every man. woman • “although Robert Bonner's purchases eral square miles of territory. The Mormons of Dublnn have thousands of aud child in Colorado Springs was In- i were prompted for the most part by acres of rich land, which produces vesting in mining stock aud a I most an honest, real love for thoroughbred abundant crops. They have beautiful every man. woman and child had been trotters, there is no doubt that he was orchards and gardens. They have laid badly bitten. It happened that a certain the shrewdest advertiser of his day. the foundation of a splendid temple mine owner and stock mampulator died Whenever he bought a horse at a seem aud a large school building. They have suddenly. The local paper held tlie ingly exorbitant figure, the issue of a tithing store as in Colonia Juarez, press to put in an account of his death every prominent paper in tlie country and each Mormon contributes 10 per headed, “Deatli I.oveg a Shining Mark.” on tlie day following would contain a cent, of his income to the support of but when it came out the people with description of the animal purchased, the church, He gives labor, lumber, whom he had bad his business dealings and. parenthetically, a very complete fruit, meat, milk or honey, depositing were surprised and pleased to read. description of the New York ‘Ledger.’ 10 per cent, of whatever he may have "Death I.oves a Mining Shark.”—San The result was that for every dollar at the tithing store. In addition to Francisco Wave. Mr. Bonner gave to horsemen he re this taxation the Mormons of Dublan ceived the amount a dozen times ovet have a self-imposed Income tax of 8 Gabriel's Trick. in return from the public, which was per cent., which Is to be used to build “It Is time,” said Gabriel, “to blow attracted to a man who had the un and equip their academy. my last trump!” selfish spirit and generosity to practi The Mormon colonies are socialistic Saying which, he put It on the ace oi cally pension the idols of the turf by communities. Everything is done on spades, thereby saving the trick fo buying the best of them for use in his a system of co-o|»eratlon. They use himself and St. Peter. own buggy. I have no doubt that this little money in their dealings with one .^e angels, be it known, sometime clever advertising had much to do with another. Obligations are paid tn labor engage in little games of whist. New bringiug the 'Ledger’ l»efore the people or the products of lalmr. If one Mor York World. and its ultimate success.”—New York mon builds a house his neighbors assist Mail and Express. and charge their labor against him. Had Read It. Traveling in Pant and Present. The debt is settled in kind. They have "Did you read my latest novel, en Oue hundred years ago. to go from differences of opinion sometimes and titled 'A Terrible Experience?'" asked occasionally there occurs a dispute, but the novelist. New York to Philadelphia meant two the elders and bishops settle the trou "Yea.” answered the bluntly candid days by the swiftest stage; to-day it is ble or if they do not, then the presi friend, "aud that's what it was."— done In two hours. To go from New dent does. Washington Star. England to Oregon It took Doctor At kinson eight months, even in 1847. To Surprised by the Engine. Hewitt—What did you wife say when day one can go from New York to San The natives of a wild country never she caught you kissing the cook? Jew Francisco in one hundred and two fail to wonder over the coming of a ett—Ob. she said it was all right; that railroad, with Its snorting locomotive we must do all we could to keep her, hour*. In Brazil a scarlet coffin and hearse and rattling car«. The antics of the and that she knew I was acting from z are used when the deceased person is a native Egyptians and Arabs, says purely unselfish standpoint. Bazar. spinster Mormon converts are gained Invaria bly from among the most humble classes, Two thousand missionaries ail the time i in the a re a t work all and Canada aud lu United States i Mormon Europe, adding to tlie fold. lu Justice to the Mormons It must be said that tlie converts they make are usually bettered In e ery respect. Thrift is a cardinal principle In the Mormou creed and It Is exem plified nowhere better than In the col onies of Northern Mexico. Comfortable homes, cultivated fields and abundant crops show that the Mormons on the whole are Industrious, frugal and eco nomical. They are obliged to main tain a community of Interest. They labor together aud assist one another in everything that Is to be done. At present there are eight colonies of Mormons iu Mexico, with a combined population of nearly 5,000. They are Colonia Juarez, the capital colony; Col onia Diaz. Dublan, Oaxaca. I’acheo, Garcia. Cliuichupa and the recently es tablished colony of Morelos. Colonia Juarez is situated in a narrow valley, and the land Is Irrigated with water from tlie Casas Grandes River. The neat brick residences of the settlers are hidden gravevines and thick clusters of pear, plum, peach and apricot trees. The water runs iu a clear stream through all the cross streets, and is turned into yard or garden at will. Here the president of the “stake,” which embraces all the colonies, re sides. He lives in a handsome brick residence that cost $10.000. He guides tlie destinies of the Mormons in Mex ico witli the head and band of a capa ble captain. He is a man of education and of unusual Intelligence, aud was at one time a candidate for Governor of Utah. He is the first and last court of resort for all Internal troubles aud disputes.