BE TRUE. Thou must he (rie thyself, , If thou the truth wouldst teach; ‘I'he soul must overflow, if thon Another's soul wouldst reach; ti needs the overflow of near Fo give the Hps full speeca. i Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's fan.ne fead: Live truly, and each word Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. H. Bonar, WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK. By Morgan 3 of thine Robertson. Captain Wiliam Belchior was more ftuan a martinet. He was known as “Bucko” Belchior in every port where tae English language is spoken, having | sarned this prefix by the mss with which, in iris days as and chief mate, he would whirl ing pins, beavers awl whout the decks, and by his success knocking down, rlelng up and ing up sallors who dispeased With a blow of his tise had iae jaw of a man helpless, the "tween deck, and ou the same voy age, armed with a simp’e belaying pin, | nad sprung alone into a brandishing sheath knives and quelled wmutiny. He wax short, hroad, beetle rowed and courage, but with the (quali pathy left out of ls aatore. During the ten yeaa on winch lie bacon in command Loe wos uch of the exconiive made him famous when watch, but was Always ready 18 reputation “Bucke™ fiction with ur power of his officers to diip, the Wilmington varaest read het ! : nelay- band spikes | in work him. broken | in| 0a roned of circle itndonhrod mn gray-eyal of 0 ~Y ial | relisved of work that had! Lie stood | { =atify | shy 3 i ould To is ' the fie His | a skyv-sail-yar OPW OW past cope with, oe Bottest” crafl nuder the American lag, and Captain Balehior himself was spoken of by consuls and commission ars, far and near, unfortunate in his sele B20 I0Aan particnaarty on of wen, for ver a passage sdded bu pininant against or ironed and badly nse HIS CI'ew, His officers wie of these defendants Dread dorg.” No others would sign with him. His favariably put on Hoard tn or at anchorage; ! Drank when coerced fmnvters nto signing kept drunk until delivery, men able to run 1¢* Were, (0 the languag “o the same o' mild oO) PEWS Wel Dever hy boardiag 1e shi ticles, would join her, were driven or hoisted up the side like wnimals or drugs, some tied struggling and cur Rson. some in a stupor from drink - aand and foo, Sug Ww Equipped 1s hound for -Mellwpirae, tug and pilot off stiipmer morniag quartering wind headed for thie day was spent and io the “lickiog men as fast as Oaths and m he deck, knack <lowns and by eight hells in t ie two mates much as boys chose sides in a ball game “he sallors were well ineed that thelr masters ved af Three men, long-haired sprawled on mainhateh, from seasickness, were loft to the las! in the choosing, and then hustled int Sandy Barges Hook ind with a ind ralsiog southeast ua getting her sail nto shape” of recovered t he they ARNIes, «silos few abou were (reqtiont, ie evening, w AONE Lae Walehes nv follow 5, thie helpless | UR to be examined. They had been drag Zed from the forecastie at ihe call for “All hands.” mate's | * “Call yourselves able seamen. 1, san pose,” be said with ao oath, as he glared into thelr woe -begone faces “No, pard,” sald the and eid at of the three in a weak voice, "We're | not seamen; we don't neve, neither.” The mate's ander the ear that sent ong into the scuppers, gulet, “Say ‘sir’ when you speak Handy legged farmers” glowering hard a: t they leaped agwinst the “Um pard to none of ve. They made Him ANIWor turned away in conremps. “yr. Tomim,” he called, “want these chaps | In your watch?” ; “No, sir,” said the second mate: “1 | don't wapt ‘em, They're no more gee | than a spare pump.” “I'll make "em usefn!, ‘fore I'm done with ‘em. Go forrard you three. (et the bile out 0 yer gizzards "fore morn- | tn’ 'f ye value yor good looks.” Hel delivered a vicious Kick at each of the | two standing men, bawled out: “Ro. | Heve the wheel an’ lookout—that'll do the watch,” and went aft, while the | crew assisted the seasick men to the | forecastie and into three bedless bunks | ~ynlless, because sailors mast furnish their own, and these men had been “shanghaled.” The wind died away during the night and they awoke in the morning with fheir seasickness gone, and appetites ravenous. SomEr* and ominous was thelr bearing as they silently ate of the breakfast in {be forecastle and stepped out on deck with the rest in answer to the mate's roar: “All hands spread dunrage.” Having no dunnage but What they wore, they drew on toward the windlass and conferred togethe; while chests and bags were dragged otit on deck and overhauled by the offi tallest snow how we cot Answer wax a fist blow where he fo me, you sparied, EW, as tank. | he ae other watery and he A . What they found of the farmer they pocketed, and of the latter tossed ov- erboavd, “Where are the canal drivers?’ de. manded the chief mate, as he radsed his head from the last chest: “where are our seasick gentlemen, who sleep all night what-—-what,! he added, in a stutter of surprise, He was looking down barrels of three heavy Oolt revolvers, cocked and held by three scowling, sun three 8 inen Ing with disengaged left hand the cor ner of a shirt into a waistband, arotind which was strapped a belt full of cart ridges, “Hands up! “hands up, every one of ye. ‘'em—over yer heads, That's The pistols wandered around the heads of the crowd and every hand was ele tall man; Up with right!” snapped the vated, “What's What "ut those pistols down, this? d've mean? Lay aft, there, some o' ve, and call the ands held high. Not a man stirred to The scowling faces looked dead ly In earnest, ‘Right about, face tall mean, “March, to the other end o' the boat, Lf the every 1 ye Be Now, gentlemen, hurry.’ Away want the protesting procession, “rounded the man iit and cook, sanctus by er. donkey man from t¢ Laramie, # np’ lei had reacued La, pmoing aware of the d's was With Captain act he shonted: Springing “Sten Wak 10 cabin skylight, vind Hear a YOU wenpops, yon scoundrais; rank muting A pistol his head, spoke, and the Captain's lit “There goers yon: a youwe, "now for a bullet sped, which wd the bu nearest Con Come down from there “Now ioe dle hands ‘ache, stay ¥ Mon He monoted the deck, and as he replaced empt lown on * 1 look wasn raise with car wok aed vith a ser smile on hix pot ng face, | il fis voles, ax opt otal, had in it the musical, drawliog, nliar to the ceplive, i rougher men, in IINtiYe lone 80 pe Texan-—and so de imo Muve . eo he Younger ana looked as they g sights their viet! tm fhrou fe pistols as though they longed word of permission to riddle the ship's th bullies, my sin w “You'll for this, von infernal cut tered the Captaln i piracy.” “Don’t tall nr want io call any pames gow.” said the We tell ve worions iY, healthy et ye, but | death thing geatiemen, Were It's thing, American oid der their shirts and take from land as this, punishment than and a weal ¥¢ Dever nearer are now BR risky foolish %y, to three zens with guns un iu Hangin's the fit and for , ‘em so proper hoses steal I'm not right sure what the punisbimen: i%, Now, much aban boats and we don't Know thongh necessary stimthin® "bout guns and human natu you, come ‘way from that fence.” The Captain edging toward a belaying pin, but the speaker's voice had lost its plaintive ness, amd three tibea w him. He drew ohoard ropes we do know here, ind the leads fast thing, who's foreman Who's boss” “Now. “I'm captaio, herve, “Youare? Younare noi. I'm capia’n, Get up on that shawty.” The small house over the mizzen hatch was in dicated, and Captain Beichior climbed it. The tnbes were still looking at him, “Now, you, there vou man who hit me last night when | wax sick, who are you and what?” “Mate, confound von” “Up with yon and don't cuss, You did a cowardly thing, pardner, an nun. manly thing. You don't deserve to live any longer, but my darter back here at school thinks I've killed enough men for one lifetime, and mebbe she's right mebbe she's right. Any how, she don’t like it and that Jets yon out though 1 won't answer for 'Pache ann Laramis when my back's turned. "You Kicked ‘em both, Bat I'l just return the blow. The mate had but stralght- | ened up on top of the hateh house when the terrible pistol spat out another rod tongue, and his yell followed the report, as he clapped his hand 10 the var fhoough which (he bnllet had torn, “Hams up, there,” thandered shooter, and the mate obeyed, while a stream of blood ran down inside shirt collar, “Any more ond mate did not respond, but "Pache's pistol sought Lim out, and under tufluence, and his gattoral “1 know you, get up,” he followed his superiors, “Any more? the Lis bosses here?’ The see is A manly looking fellow stepped ont of the group and sald: © captain and mates, I'm here, and yonder's my mate, next, but we're not bosses in the way 6' bein’ responsible for anything that has happened, or might happen to you, We blong forrard. You've got he 1wWao or “Silence, bosun,” bawled the Captain. itally Indicrous and incongruous, avtitude, and deck wore nn grin, lent merriment, and sai: “laramie, 1 reckon stand. You can come every face the The leader noticed the sl on men'll I'm these up here, in’ down, net 1 &'pose you and 'Pache want soe fun, Start yer whistle and urn loose.” I'p the px Doundesd Larnmie, with a ringing whistliug a 'Pache, whoop as a prelude, began clear, musical teil while growling out, “Dance, coyotes” seit 1 ballet through the onter edge of the } } Tae] cine mate's t “Dance,” baus of ward repped ted “Crack, bullets the music he pistols, while 1nhund the feet of the men on the hateh whistle roe and f The sun, who as oud, : using 10 wad Compania unrmoniously disposed wine be i 1 tune, wi vittat les vir fort, and in nnkemp! od and sore headed crew looked chuckled, When th ae fell oped be ¢n rom loss of blood, sud rol leader st southward up ck # to the three hemi whew! close to his Band ¢ and ovo wi munzies “Oe 0 the square i jack sande” hu ndicated With sincerity whicl pe a hurrah of i orders, the ow 4 starbossd and hoard fat, the «hip Ww around, an the por which the Hook, Captain, with hands released, but « under the reckoning Then he gan, mit allowed k and watch his ship, while the two dead Was pin ones to pace the times <tepped upon or kicked, and often Early passengers on the Kast River were treated to a novel nautical with their ship, to lofty ciated according sky lines apd jibe tailing ahead like flazs, was charging np the barbor before a humining southerly breeze, followed an elbowing crowd of pufling, whistling, snule-nosed ings, 1f was no rived alongside little white clouds left her quarter deck, and that tug sudden: parade astern. Abreast of Governor's ing up or hauling down was done, nor Were any wen seent on her forecastle deck getting ready lines or ground tackle, Khe passed the Battery and up the East River, craft of all kinds ger- ting out of her way for it was obvions that something was wrong with her until, rounding slowly to a starboard wheel, with canvas rattling and ran. plug gear in bights, she heded straight fora slip parity filled with canal boats. Then her topsail halyards were let go, and three heavy yards came down by the run, breaking across the caps, and, amid a grinding, creaking and crash. ing of riven timbers, and a deafening din of applauding tug whistles, she ploughed her way into the nest of canal boats and came to a stop, Then was a hegira. Down ber black sides by ropes and chaln plates, to the wrecked and sinking canal boats, some with bags or chests, some without, come sallor men, who climbed to the the gathering crowd of lock loungers, sttiersd lito the side strepis, while { three men appearsd on the rail, who shook their fists and swore and shout od for the police, calling particularly three dark with for the apprehension of faced, long-haired fellows hats, In light of iat developments it wax known that the police respond hie nig flyer { ed, and with the assistance of boarding runners, (gathered in that nearly all derelict crew {to a cautious boatswaln—who were promptly and punished for mutiny and But the later developments failed to show tha the three dark-faced men Seew again.--New York Sun i hose ny of this even severe] ¥ desartion, Were ever OUR INDIAN REPUBLIC, A Remarkabie Little Independent Covern- ment in North Carolina. many know right Unilin Rtates there exists a separate little | { How American ¢itizens i | that in the heart of the | public, having a Constitution and code {of laws of wad actually elect a present to govern the people? republic exists in { *ra part of North Carolina, and is in dependent of both State and patiouad governments, This gemarkable little | repifbic owes its origin and existence fore 1 a its Own ting Such a the west. » the pegligence of the Unit Government than anythiqg When the War of Independence out the trfhe of Inddans known as the Cherokese, fn the northwestern | part of North Carolina, took up wide fhe royalists, This, of course, exe tel t vengeance of United States, and 2.000 were sent against the Oherok ese, of Colonel th i Niates to Ne, broke the ff i ie the soldiers inder command Therokese at Nowtt lies % nie 0 tnberssl pearly 25,000 souls, occiipriedd a good ternary, but Scoott hroke up mn onfiscated most of ir £1 nt territory, ries ww abot and ide 1.0K Valiiey of abou wots, and esting and be (31711 Ligue, ng nulike any tradition be Pornantie ants of this tile Hierokese of » Py Cnt and of wople ave a most phair INOW I) ‘ ' Nn ranch it in reality i KBE die THOPOK ine a Hoos) 3 few dars the Qualins SDOrigines Raleigh Walter } Known as ee » of the members of wil Koown *o hmve paea]ws Ind ve amon the hands of the an wens atiowad io li MSoners (he ema nde; The Manners and, Ar language, degoe of their ir language t lier sironge proof of alk t bear 3 wily : pat iy unmistakable 8 Faglish origin ihe Chero ge mingling of native th t quaint old Eaglish Elizabeth's days. As they ¥ A sifAl Ww he of koe Queen wr “ar 1! > in oan or nes or fms other Tren Die TIarry either wish whites or 3 language original though has purity. Their crude in ma. terial and design, still bears traces of i dans, their P i served in iis | dress, toms, most | the fashion of Sir Walter's day Every four years these queer people a President of their litde repub He, He salary of £500 » year, but when at Washington on busi | pes {or the republic he receives 84 a extra He (x called “chief,” and { pone but a Cherokee over 35 years old When | he is absent his duties are performed president, or “assistaont culary is 8250 a year The President has a of three Neoretaries, and the Congress prises two delegates from every 1600 members of the tNbe. To this Con gress only Qualls males over 16 are eligible for election —~New York Jour nal elect Pes VER a day i, . if #igibie for tHe presidency hy a chief,” whose View Cabinet oon Indian Custoy Revised. Atl their celovbwation on July 4 of las! year, the Nez Perce Indians revived a1 old custom for the sdification of their visitors, The young bucks of the tribe are very wealthy and hire regarded as desirable partis by the designing moth ers of marriageables daughters, The maldens from all the neghboring tribes were brought to Lapwal, the centre of the Nez Perce reservation, to find hus bands and were placed in the tents of their hosts, while the young men wh. were candidates for matrimons marched forth in their brightest colors Approaching the tents they sang » weird song to the music of beating drome, At last, when it was ‘quit dark, the maidens came forth from the tents and countermoarched on the line of the same circle as the men wen making. As they passed, each maiden, in the dark, selected a husband fron the line, who immediately followed his bride. As there were more men that maidens, several ugfortunate suitors were left in despair. According to the recent census the population of Greece is 2,418,000 souls or an increase of 230,000 over the fig ures of 1880, NOTES AND COMMENTS, The Post Offive Department has just made a decision that ia future po re wards will be given for the “apprehen sion” of dead men. You must briog a office robber alive order to get the rewdrd. Post now iu President George Falloon, of the Ohio Fish and Game Commission, the supply of fish in Lake Erie will he exhausted in three int Wo or are quickly revised and thoroughl forces) Taking the suggestion from a Ger recently pointed out the advant Lge of elephants ran scientific journal, which as beasts of burden even de VElephant just been formed Par pose of preveating the kill phamts for sport. Next ber of elephants will Marseiiles, milder than a Furopean cities, the Comite has 1 } ag of all finer ber employe beasts of burden the winters in Paris i are Benton Wilson has from a Washington State on a pardon, after having servi years of a long sentence tha ire Pein confession o wade 10 shield were chargsd received Ol i which he had er. The two ago tt g Lies Bent son's with murder of brother-in-law, and ng tried first and the dark for Tu aim, his did ty the increase in many employment, on fess] that he t% Kk men are w with mide vacan« thus ! 'y LA ars women, and the pred ¢ ’ the folly tured that Teasing | Roos on come, popula tion, a nation of women supported men However, as living SMOOINeR Ore ox pensive near y neeneT, whole Jescent can The Women Union intends to er perance Hospital t8 Dromoters “av Hao cases the adiministe flaws 1 ahwciute life that they are nut bosnf caer _ Det ore ou Vg # He Dew 4 Rhode others are sachusetts, Oho, present ng in Aa tions of the Union. #11 State offices York Appeals and m bi y York will choose {ts first gos elhvts a Jadge CI Deer On the game day the Greater Neu ernment under the new charter Thirty thousand elk are win: the Jackson's Hole country of ing, arvording the game warden, who says herd which he saw the other 15.000 of over g distance of xix mi hie said, surpmssed anything be had ever amazed The ~rinE nN Wyom. to gstituate of the that fi normag there strate hing were then, {he Lon vist A578 Mul, geen and utterly lm ni elk’ trail over the snow was like ive, he said, so ard bad the snow packed down, The animals are by thousands any morning, moving along the Spake River from the Great Swamp to the Gros -Veutre hills, and a wel at night the walls of the malves strav. ing from their mothers may be heard The Charleston News and Courier gays: “Professor J. W. Homan, of State Colored College of South lina, dyce among his people of (bh Lae i% the first colored man @ biology. He is introducing a lipe of the olored people but by boi races Professor Hoffman sail to very competent man, and has a field of usefulness Iwfore hia in college work. The Booker Washing is self supporting and self-respecting is worth all the empty political privileges and positions that could be upon them. What they peed trained so that they can work hands and beads together.” During the last two years toc ide has become general that the bicyele has nearly driven the hors: out of existence. A horse.shoeing association, in its annual report, maintains thal this is all a mistake, and thee are more horses in the country naw than ever before since the landing of ihe pilgrim fathers. The organization dnmonstrates that there are a Oo 10.000 more horses than there were a year ago, 17.000 more in Mich.gan, 1nd 12,500 more in New York. Other States are adduced as showing a correspond. ing increase in the namber of aorses over twelve months ago. The eaplaaa. tion offered for this fact is that bieyeles are usd chisfly by poopie who never akl and never wold own a arse, Its also asserted that willie oceasionnily i [a man may sell his horse and adop! the “bike” the change is only temporary, and that as soon as the exMiaratiog novelty of the wheel wears off, the four | foot nag is reinstated Vremya, of Petershurg, Vraoce will be menaced an in bubonic Aecording to the Novoe st [ Auring the coming spring with vasion o« the “thouma,” or plague, w 1m region Hick is now prevalent in n Avia abou: Bombay, |i the round Dr, Roux, of the Institute, in {um Par te, Dw, Yersia, wwnnounces that his co! ix just left Paris which stiecesnfully Dr YOung Tonquin armed with serum tiiow Lim fo combat he dread olsen se Concern ng 1» “AVS “hia physician went to Hong Kong in 1% } amd during ats Roux Yersin, fi order to study the Trent i ' he oontipned tid lieu As *oon i ue he following bon ; r Yeoh ' eriologival » at the instity Dae wax able to 1 elements of 4 serum antago the tehouma be departed fou of ! t of twe LW, OF restit 3:4 Vinoy The at bi ny + loxt omy Wie TeH = ae is He Persons siriegen ' eapecialls ombars, ed.” da: wnal * DOL envpioy MH “haat a nat of progress, It is of globe that some the nations on the oh Pall an world at £20,000 (0%, dened onal Ous In with nat Deavy round numbers the Mall Gazette estimates the present agai debit of the n federal money as opposed 0 In land, ng: IME (NN) n 183: the ring (xerman? tes consider have and ndebied ness the same period of time the regate debt has increased world's agg » £4.210.0061 1 # is at present in 1870 the £1 Lon | France was ouly KX INES Wikiie 1 1805 y SAL 0MR) INN iva Eras ! chance taVibay sinip Wf wea, fron 1 Re ng has adopted the nN. iH. stxide the ws ‘ Fitvhburg is angothe Which “ysiean, has Manchester where a bit &irife hit eon o velaen ar f 10! uncheos promoters o in victory for the latler Until resent the ER Alaska from 1} was regarded VOATS Hur w Russian Governiu many in onal mistake for this impression is found in ' this it + ¥ 4% A grave na One try reason waicn of tae porthern latitude the peninsula oe Recanse severe climate peculiar to that remoie tion of Com the extreme Hie wh the man, was monly Alaska foehergs, could prodn thing While the irchase coversd 58000 square miles the supposed that shor: of handsome addition to | geographical extent the nation, | was thought for quite a while Congress had virtoally squandered $7. | 200.000, which was the price of the tor ritory purchased from Russia, Since | Alaska has been recognized as a pars of this country the serious appreben gions which formerly existed in re gard to the purchase have gradually i disappeared. From the seal industry alone quite a handsome sum has been { realized within the past few years With respect the fisheries which have been a source of international dis pute between England aod this co» try for some time ii may be said huat nd made a of tana to | large profits have accrued to the own | ors of these fisheries, and that chiefly { to this acconnt i= due our presen: mis | understanding with Enogland, Bw | there ix still another source of wealth which has recently beea discoversd in Alaska. Some four or five years ago it was found that the soil was threaded with rich seams of gold, and that a pew field was operas to mining enter prise. As a result of this disclosure a large nnmber of enterprising iadivi duals flocked to Alaska and began at once to search for the precious metal, in ISOS the total output of goid reached $3.000000, while for 1896 it will hardly Call short of S8N0000, A corps of men recently sent out by the geological survey made fresh discov. ories in the neighborhoad of the Yukon River. : a Ch
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