———————————————— . q YHE LITTLE ARMCHAIR, Wp ——————— Nobody sits in the little armchafr, It stands in a corner dim, But « white-halred mother. gazing there, | And yearniagly thinking of him, Sees through the dusk of long ago The bloom of her hoy's swept face As he rocks so merri'y to and fro. With a laugh that cheers the place. Bometimes he holds a book in his hand, Sometimes a pencil and sate; And the lesson is hard to understand, And the figures hard to mate ut she sees the nod of the father's head, So proud of his little son, And she hears the word so often sald, “No fear for our little one. They were wonderful sweet days, When a child with sunny hair ‘Was hers to scold, to kiss and to praise, At her knee in the little chair, 8he lost him back in her busy years, When the great world caught the man, And he strode away past hopes and fears To bis place in the battle's van, days, the dear But now and then in a wistfal dream, Like a picture out of date She sees a head with a golden gleam feut over a pencil and slate, And she lives ngain the happy d The day « f her younw (1fe's 5 When the small arm chair stood the way, The center of everything MARGARET E vlege of (Me Wallow. a £5 Brave ¥r Deed, ntie Ty, i dt western reminiscent that he heroism of fight he continued, them in there neck off “I knew had He was fre buffai ¥, Knew ‘40 been years terpreter, as man “It was in Sep a 3° comman iver, In the Te it had followed th < rather the irie Dog Dax » in one spot ad It sergeant and rr greater +t} Lie miles or more away the ne considered best five soldiers wi security, and, took an u ation. “Now, band of re riors, had been laying a to Jack Callahan's mule Government supply sand hills Wachit train was bringing suppl Supply down to Gen surprised at this bad pl and was forced to go is done by putting gether in A shape, down the sides, and at the other end V way and horses are kept comparatively in the inclosure made wagons, while the teamsters and soldier what protection they can the wheels or by digging ri neath the wagons. They can shoot with little danger of being hit. Such a corral can stand off an army of Indians until the water gives out. The Indi: attacked the train for five days, kil one Lieutenant, two soldiers, and some of the animals. Their loss was heavy, Boldiers of Company K. Sixth Cav: Capt. Kingsbury, frcm Camp had appeared upon the scene driven off the Cheyennes, and relieved the be- sieged, “Chapman and Dison, with their little escort, had crossed the Wachita, some three or four miles below where the pack train had been held up, but, of course, knew nothing of its presence or that of the Indians. On a rolling prairie country such as they were in it is a difficult matter to see any great distance on account of the knolls and hollows. They were coming out of a gmail draw or canon, when suddenly they espied the savages, who were al- | most directly upon them. There was but one thing to do, and that was to | get out upon the open prairie, where | there would be a chance to fight. Tem. | porary protection would be afforded by getting behind things in the canon, but | it would only be a matter of a short time when they would be surrounded | y tw of the safe by the from fa fle pits be- Supply, ! dash was made for the prairie, and they reached it in a shower of shot, It is impossible to shoot well fr ti back of a rapidly moving horse “It was the plan to find a buffalo vallow, lie fis: ag possible in ft, until dead Before found the mounted, 80 as Indians from close they could get A couple of dead India yp one hundred live from near. One soldier held the of the horses while tl] men retreated behind them he advancing host, The dismounted, that better and not It may such la large body of 4 as shoot place was diers di ter and keep t before to shoot bet- getting " into will he LOO cover, ns ones com- | to0 rein 16 of the shot at t rest and Indians | they could iso uch good that kewise 80 shoot be & targets seem In one there Dixon me TY yn what told eq whole skin was Dixon. “Just to Il are, ar they just buffalo ape a lusgtrate what curs Indi that ans camped around hiding shooting, while some of them yelled in English to Chapman to come and fight. Just think. they want. ed him to stand up and be shot at by the 300 They were anxious to kill parti for he had married one of their squaws and was behind their Li wallow out against them. “That night there wag a terrific rain. storm, which filled the wallow brim with water, The wounded men had to Keep their heads above water 80 as not to drown, while they had to keep thelr guns and ammunition dry and be constantly on the watch for an attack. I need not dwell upon the horrors of that night and of the suf. ferings of these men, who rested their bodies upon those of the dead ones be- low, and sat through the long hours in the water, thick with the blood that oozed from their wounds and from the remains of their companions. It must have been a fearful experience. “As Dixon was the only one unin. fured, he crawled out of the wallow during the worst of the storm and « to the command for help. He had no trouble in passing the Indians for they were intent upon protecting themselves from the downpour. Indians do not Dixon traveled foot that and a fully thire night in ths day broke he HHke water ty miles on drenching rain, refuge in Durinz took bu h body f being the way, nown to MONKEY MEAT. an American of Six Months ia Oaxaca threes of the poster spread abroad; then they of the visitors, Wan-<fo-Li. 4 the Chinese theater it for £100 and charging a small entrance fee for see. ing the poster. Finally, a rich China- man of San Francisco bought it for £500 and to-day it decorates the palace of this millionaire, and before it burns day and night, a lamp, as before some domestic divinity.—Chicago News. A silver coin Is usually in currency for twenty-seven years. came in crowde, One rector of smi Barcetona is commonly known as the NOTES AND COMMENTS. Tt it Is daring the world wants fea can it. Daring rarels ts life. Americans know It upply ‘he showing of our foreign com merce, both in and mi iftyving product grat inufa followed him lo 1 i nge power in my handa™ has manifestly not yet reaches f i regarding the than fortaight limited sermons to fifieen minutes a the thing wherein During the decade from 1580 to speeds of 15 to 16 knot accepted as sis 1 8p Over, 8B Ware eis for batt ymments the News At the 17 to 190 knots 3 epted as the standard battleships by the principal naval pow- Not one of theses powers would think at the present time of building first-class battleships for any lower speed. To do so would not only result in a vessel of obsolete type but wounuid soriously injure the naval prestige of any power, AnGar hips the wo Engineering ime speeds of are ac France, in the persons of the ™aorid's Fair authorities, has paid American scieniists a marked compliment in ask- ing them for proposals to light the ex- position. We do not regard this as a feature of a general appeal for bids, but as a tribute to the superior excel- lence of American devices for electric iilumsantion. This country has always been ahead of all others in electrical work, It was an American, Frankita, who first brought lightning to harnes another American, Morse, who ed the and | | i made the invents telegraph, another who teleph vhat 1 4 High one it § Bo far Europe vields facility in rovie 1 h wavs electric ng go to and Oil pean ‘¢ { ah i needed chi ugh iy and most between he France vided * strong, probably {| not mean to among iormer, pacity AN ISOLATED RACE. Algos of Mipan, Whe Had Never Seen a a ad quic iliag bushy Alnos riers v 0% sadqua Humbl womer followed, men Somewhat range lords the and apparently the Japanese, although not taille men are actually patriar h long beards, and masses of hair parted in the middie. Mauy and loftly express gradually through ages bh to Hokkaido, the Aint among the few races yet retaining this world of utterly unspoiled simplicity has never been but they were certainly in Ja- pan long before the present of Japanese had arrived, and names clear i Iy originating in the Aino tongue are still retained &ll over the empire. Gen. tle and subservient to the conquering race, it is evident that they formerly held more egotistic views than now, even fancying themselves the center of the universe, as is shown perhaps by an old national song: “Gods of the sea, open your eyes divine, Wherever your eyes turn, there echoes the sound of the Aino speech. older t wi have a benign Driven ie B0U fyiay over-civilized Their origin satisfactorily traced Tracy An Expensive Poem. The highest price ever paid for a poem was 6,000 golden crowns paid to R[annazaro by the citizens of Venice for his eulogy oa thelr city—a poem of six tinea ouly, MACHETE, rg THE A Weapon of Peace as Well as of War, but a great many is a cross and a butcher's about 24 inches derably f CXAERera machete : edge Screw of Archimedes Navy Charts What Gems Will Do always phires wili expel dow the wear the Lal agate give procures favor makes the wearer of force against the 1 topaz coral princes; lucky in law @ arising ony pecially of ght in cradles ta da al, Jags who deli babies in their why, even 10 pins boug York Journal are Uncle Sam's War Month, April is the month made notable by great events in American history, The firet great struggie for American lib- erty broke inte hostilities at Lexing- ton and Concord in April ‘1775; the war between the Confederate States and the United States began in April, 1861; in April of 18G2 Farragut captured New Orleans, and If April, 1865, came the surrender of the Army of Northern Vir. ginia at Appong attox Court House, Accordirzy 2 fhe reports of a Cana- dian traveller who has lived two years in the far Northwest, there ure still in that country. near Peace River, at least four herds of buffalo, numbering two thousand i= all
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