Address (o Winter. Hal lint® yon oonw to make na wheeze; I hhi our lingers on the troea, A..il . mr you shouting on the breeze The storm clan's slogan. Youii noon las here to nip my tons, And paint tny cheeks with sunset glows, And Iresco this old ohin anil raw With blue and purple. I hear you've been, you roving lellow, Among the Australasians yellow. And soaring with your blatant bellow The Polynesians. Touoh them kindly. Kindly deal With those who most thy rigors leel; In trembling supplianoe they kneel And crave thy tneroy. Bluster around the rich man's door; Make him unlock his golden store, Kaoh year i ncretuting more and more His deeils ol kindness. You're getting rough; I tear you pass Your time too much with Boreas, And that atar-mantled gypsy lass, The summer Solstice. Old triond, together many a year We've journeyed on through foul and dear, And now, old comrade, lend an oar To my petition. This year, I pray thee, leave thy snows In cold Arc turns with thy blows; Oh! Winter, gently come to those Who havo no shelter. Hoar 'round the miser till he quakes; Nip him and strip him till he shaken; Freeze him and squeeze him till ho makes A big donation. And in the oause of science, pray Keep out the ioe trom Baffin's hey, So that Polar " savants " win their way To frozen glory. Let those we love, though they abide Far from us now, oome to our side Happy and well at Christmastide, And we will bless thee. Guy H. Avtry. MARKHEAD'S EXPLOIT At Bismarck (Dakota) the mountain men often tell the story of Mark head's exploit with the Blackfeet. It is the same Mai khcad who, five or six years later, was treacherously mur dered hy the Mexicans, near Taos. At the time of his death he was not more than twenty-sevc;. years old, and he could hardly have been more than twenty-two when he had this Blackfoot adventure. The old pioneers of the upper Missouri speak of Markhead as a moat remark able hoy, so muscular and of such powers of endurance, that he would run fifteen or twenty miles without appar ent fatigue. Indians ho held in trifling ri gard, and delighted in a skirmish with them; though he bore the scars of not less than a dozen of their bullets and arrows. At tiie time alluded to. he iiad gone on a trapping excursion for beaver, up one of the head creeks of the Yellow stone; a locality not ran ii resorted t > hy other trappers, on account of the deadly hostility of 'he Blackfeet, who were very jealous of ;he white hunters, and killed every hunter they could sur prise. As was his custom, he had his horse with him, for carrying traps and pro visions, and at this time had made his camp in a clamp of cottonwoods, on the bank of the creek, near the foot of a range of bluffs which fronted the stream on the east side. i hat morning—it was in the month of October—he bad set off early to look to his heaver traps, of which he bad a line lioth up and down the creek. He had proceeded but a short distance, when he found one of his steel traps missing from under the hank where fie had Bel Ik There were bear tracks in the mud about the bank; very large ones, lead ing back into the cedar bushes, toward the bluff. The trail was fresh, and Markhead followed it cautiously? through the oedar. Coming at! length to the foot of the bluff, be found thnt the animal had turned aside, and gone further up the bottom. But just at that moment he thought he heard it thrashing about in the cedar a little way ahead. So he carefully mounted the side of the bluff, twenty or thirty feet, hoping to catch',sight of the animal over the tops of the hushes. From this point he saw a large grizsly, sitting on a broad flatVock not more than forty or fifty yards distant. Watching the creature a moment, he found that it limped painfully, and that it walked a short distance on three legs. Finally, it turned about and limped back to the stone again; and Markhead now perceived that the grizsly had his beaver trap hard and test on one et his f. "caws. The bear eras much annoyed by the trap. It sat down on the stone again, and from where he lay, Markhead could sec him examining it attentively, hold ing it close up to bis nose and grjtvcly turning his paw over'and over. Then it would tip its head to one side and look at the trap from out the corners of its ryes, in a most comical manner, st ii at an entire loss to mnke out what the novel and painful appendage could be that had got such fast bold of his toes. Anor, the puzzled animal would Iry to step on its foot; but instantly took it up from the atone again, with a low whimper, and would then commence licking the trap. as if wishing to appease its anger and coax it into letting go its grip. This pantomime so interested the trapper that he could scarcely take aim with his ritle. But'not wishing to lose his good steel trap, he was on the point of shooting the hear, when he was startled from it by the neigh of a horse. Glancing out over the tops of the hushes, he saw, some four or five hun dred yards down the opposite bank of the creek,[a party of six Indians, sitting on their ponies. They [had reined up, and stood among some little sand-hil ocks, looking across, directly toward where his camp was, in the cotton woods. It then flashed to his mind that it was his horse which had neighed. That was why the Indians had pulled up so suddenly and were staring across the creek. Markhecd saw that, even could he himself escape them.ltlie Indians would inevitably discover his camp and cap ture his horse and provisions, together with all the peltries he had trappd. That was bad. But was was worse, there was a heavy dew that morning, and his own trail through the grass along the bank of the creek must, he knew, be as plain as a pike-staff. He knew that the Indians would not fail to discover his trail, and that they would follow him like bloodhounds to his death. It is not strange that our hunter thought no more of the bear, and that his merriment was cut short bythisjby no means laughable aspect of affairs. But Markhead was a quick-witted fellow, not easilyHalarmed, and while he lay there watching the Blackfeet as they stealthily approached the place where his horse was picketed, he hit on a ruse for outwitting them at their own tac tics. Feeling sure that in a few minutes they would be on his track, he slid down from his perch on the bluff and ran back to the creek, to the point where he had left it in pursuit of the bear. Here he resumed his way up the creek, taking care to leave a plainly marked trail through the wet grass, with here and there a footprint in the mud or sand, just as if he was leisurely proceeding along the bank, looking to his traps. But he ran on fast, and never slack ened his pace till he had covered a dis tance of at least ten miles Born the place where he had seen the Blackfeet cross the creek. His surmise was that the savages, on discovering his trail, would pursue him, but would expect to cc me upon him at every trap, and hence would follow on stealthily, and at no gjcat speed. Having thus planned out a ten-mile chase for them, Markhead ran bacic across the narrow meadow, and climb ing the bluffs, made a detour for his camp again, keeping "a mile or ovrr from the creek, back among the sand hills and cliffs. Being a fleet and praticed runner, he was not more than an hour and a half making the trip back to the vicinity of his camp, among the cottonwoods, the tall tops of which he could see at a great distance. After taking breath a few minutes, and looking to his rifle, Markhead crept out among the boulders on the crag overlooking the camping-place; for he expected the Indians would leave one of their number to watch the horses. That one he was prepared to deal with. From the crag, he soon saw the six ponies down among the timber. They were hitched up near his own horse. Nor was he wrong in his conjecture about the savages leaving one of their number with the horses. The packs had been taken off the ponies' hacks; and after looking a few moments, he espied an Indian sitting in the shade of a hush, on a heap'of buffalo skins and peltries. Watching the Indian a little, Mark head crept down, noiseless as a fox, to a large oottonwood, rather nearer the horses, and then, steadying his piece against the tree-trunk, was just about to shoot the unwary sentinel, when the Indian turned partially, and to his great surprise, he saw that it was not a Black foot warrior, but a plump and very comely squaw. Markhead often admitted that, for the instant, he was quite nonplussed. He did not know what to do, for he would not shoot the squaw. At length, ha gave a shout, and rushed toward her. The squaw bounded from her seat, and seeing the trapper close upon her, "yelled like a pig," as Markhead said, and started to run away. But she had not got many yards before Markhead seized her by her long hair; at which the poor woman, thinking, no doubt, that her last hour had come, crouched on the ground, and begged piteously, in choicest Blackfoot, for the white to spare her. Markhead led her hack to the ponies, and drawing his knife, intimated to her by most emphatic dumb show that her top-knot would assuredly come off if she made the least attempt to escape. With that, the squaw protested, with every gesture she could devise, that she would never try to get away; she would be like a little dog, and run at bis heels; she would be like the pony's tail, always at bis back, and inseparable from him. Finding that her life was in no im mediate danger, the squaw rapidly re covered from her fright, and in answer to signs, gave her captor to understand that tho five s.-.vnirrs had gone on Ida trail up tho crook, just as ho had sur mised they would, and hud boon so con fident that they would find him, that thoy had loft only this squaw to Bit by the ponies. Mark head thought over tho distance, nnd concluding ho had a full two-hours start of them, resolved to take it easy He made the squaw unpack spmo cold venison which they had in one of their sacks; nnd tho two strange com panions lunched very convivially to gether, for tho long run Markhead had taken had given him a good aopctite. Assisted by the squaw, he next packed up all the Indians 1 peltries, and lashed them on the backs of tne ponies, mak ing up a sort of pony train, at the head of which he placed the squaw. Then collecting his own property, he mounted his horse and set off, driving the whole train in front of him—master of the situation—leaving, in fact, nothing of any value behind. Once out cn tho plains, clear of the crags and timber, Markhead drove his sir gular cavalcade on at a great pace, and traveling all the rest of the day and all that night with but brief halts, reached a trading-post—Laramie fort, probably—toward tho end of the next day. The feelings of the outwitted Hlaekfcet on their return to the place where they had left their ponies, after their unsuccessful chase after Markhead, may perhaps better be left to the fancy of the reader. The young trapper realized about six hundred dollars from the sale of the captured ponies, peltries, buffalo robes, and other property. The squaw was some time afterward reclaimed at the fort by a Blaekfoot chief, whoso wife she had been when captured. On Markhead being pointed out to him at the post, he said: "lie big warrior. He play beaver on Indian. 11 Curious Facts. Thirty-two thousand seed were on? counted in the head of a poppy. The Chinese make glue out of a com mon kind of seaweed on their shores. The American Bible society has pro cured a new stop-cylinder press, upon which a.one a whole Bible can be printed every minute. There is a cave in Monroe, Conn., in which, at a depth of fifty feet, has been found a spring of water, and an antique trap for catching wolves. A woman in Kansas, while at work clearing away some bushes near her house, was stung by a wasp, and the effect is such that she has been entirely paralyzed. The object of the greatest intc.-cst in the Orkney islands is the cathedral ol St. Magnus, at Kirkwall, which dates from the twdftfl century, and is still entire and in nn excellent state ol preservation. A field-glass, lost in I'rickly Pear val ley, Col., last winter, was found a few weeks ago, and the trees, vegetation and small stream, near which the glass lay, are indelibly photographed on the glasses. At Macedonian weddings the groom leads the bride into her new home by a halter, and when she enters he knocks her head against the wall, as a warning of what she may expect if she does not behave well. Hair often falls out after sickness, and bleaches suddenly after severe nervous shocks, hut a white-haired elderly lady was lately surprised to observe that the hair which had fallen out during an attack'pneumo.iin was being not by locks of raven; hue, at least by those of a dark color, such as had[not adorned her brow for many years. The monks of the Greek church, who live in solitude, subsist upon fresh or dried vegetables, and are allowed fish only on Saturday and Sunday. Once in a great while they indulge in the luxuries of eggs and cheese. Each monk is required to support himself by some sort of [manual .labor; their prin cipal occupations are the manufacture of clothing and wood carving In Royal Lire. The Emperor and Empress of Ger many see each other as little as possible. It is somewhat curious how few mon archs do get on with their wives and the wives with the husbands, for they sel dom adore each other. The Empress of Austria is seldom seen in society, and when out riding or driving carries n fan before her face, even when returning the gieclings of her royal admirers. She seidom attends the theater or opera, but when the circus 'comes to town is then seen in her box every night. She knows only one passion, and that is her love of horses and equeatrianship. She has her own especial riding establish ment, and here she reigns supreme. She will drive a tandem team before her at a relentless pace around the ring, hav ! ng fresh relays of horses every few min utes. She has a place fittqd up in the stable of her favorite charger where she can sleep if she feels so disposed, and where she frequently dictates her letters to her private secretary, while her fa vorite horse looks over from his stall and is patted fondly by his imperial mistress. In Breslau, Germany, there are three thousand people who do not receive their conespondence until it has been examined by the police. If any of our readers are on writing terms with any of these three thousand Breri era we advise them to writeaHor .ee meley sort of a hand, in order to ooinpel the police to earn their salaries— and per haps to commit suicide.—AWrMjown Herald. DROPPING INTO POETRY. The Kirhnngc Kclltor I>oe It !W*taralljr. " If you plsase sir," said the young lndy, timidly, us the exchange editor handed her a chair, *' I have composed a few verses, or partially composed them and I thought you might help me finish them and then print thom. Ma says they are real nice as far ns thoy go, and pa takes the every day. She was a handsome creature, with beautiful blue eyes, and a browning glory as yellow as golden rods. There was an expectant look on her face, a hopefulness that appealed to the holiest emotions, and tho exchange editor made up his mind not to crush the longing of that pure heart if he novpr struck another lick. " May I show you the poetry?" con tinued the ripe, red mouth. " You will see that I couldn't get the last lines of the verses, and if you would please he so kind as to help me— 11 Help her! Though he had never even read a line of poetry, the exchange editor felt the spirit of the divine art flood his soul as he yielded to the bewildering music. Help her! Well, lie should smile. "The first verse runs like this," she went on, taking courage from his eyes: "'How sollly sweet tho autumn air The dying woodland fills. And nature turns lrom restlul care- ' "To anti-bilious pills," added the ex change editor, with a jerk. "Just the thing. It rhymes and it's so. YoU-nko anybody now. Half the people you meet are— 1 ' " I s ttppose you know best," inter rupted the young girl. " I hadn't thought of it in that wav, out you have a better idea of such tilings. Now the second verse is more like this: ' Tho dove-eyed kin© upon tho rnoor I.l and lh fropla How In Sialntl Ureal Hrltalri. Baeutoland m*y be described ns Wales of Kouth America. It ha ii" province fitted in at the northeast r/, r . Ncr of Cape Colony, between thcOrar < free state, the Cape Colony and .V . It is about 15" miles long fry fif* y broad, its length running parallel to theOrar.y. free state, or, roughly speaking, nfar.7 parallel at some distance inland with the coast line. Some of the table lands nre nearly 5,000 feet above the sea, wl,i < its loftiest mountain is credited with h height of 10,000 feet. The cold through out the whole of Bnsutolnnd is very severe in the months of June, July, Au gust, and even September. Though i Basutoiand may be said to be IV) mi. by fifty mik*B in size, the eastern sid<* •,< Its breadth is scarcely inhabited on a/ fount of the extreme cold and of the in accessible character of the mounts, n*. The most thickly populated di*tri' t>- of the little country extend nearly along its whole length, but are of a breadth 'J about twenty miles only—the thirty miles to the norttiwi-st —an 1 lying • < x t to the Orange free state. It is from t! free state, then, that Ba-utoiand ran ).< most easily intend,and its chief so, tions. which lie within a>w hour- of the free state border, most safe.y nr.d easily reached. There are other route, from the south, hut they present gr'-.v. difficulties to the march of troops, and are open to grave objections from a mi .- tary point of view. The Basutos are mostiy remnants of tribes who were driven before the K*f firs. Early in the century they took refuge in the mountain fastnesses of Basutoiand to escape: the pitiless: oldi' ry of the Zulu conqueror, Cheka. It on the steep and rocky hill of Thabs Bosigo that Mosbesh, the first para mount chief of the Basutos, ra.lied th' starved and desperate men of the diffi •- cnt elans of his race, made a success!u. stand against the Zulus, and laid the foundation of the Basuto nation. To speak of the Basutos as equal or near.y equal to the Zulus in fighting qualities (as is sometimes done) is a mistake. The Basutos lack the discipline, th' reckless bravery and the taste for fight ing possessed by the Zjiu soldiers. Th' Ba-utos have no military organization, merely turning out or being turned out by their chiefs for fighting by tribes o. clans. They are not soldiers like tin Zulus were before the Zuiu army w.- broken up, but are merely mountaineers. L'n.ike the Zulus, the Basutos fight, as a rule, mounted, possessing hardy and active ponies, which make light the dif ficulties of the mountain tracks of their countiy. Almost ail the Basutos have taken to clothing, partly from their pro gress in civilization, and partly from the severe climate of their land. Tiie mili tary trait to lie remarked in the Basutos is their aptitude lor fortifying or en schoncing themselves, and the intelli gence with whiclAfiey strengthen any position they may desire to hold. In deed, the colonists' chief difficulty will probably commence when tlie Basutos, worsted in the open, betake t cmselves to their mountain strongholds. Thaba Bosigo, the stronghold now held by the chief Masupha, is a good example of a Basuto position. It is an isolated hil about forty feet high, with a fiat or table top, and with sides scraped away by natural causes. Tiie table Is only ac cessible by three or four paths. Some of these paths are said to have been rendered inaccessible; others to be barred by lines of schanzcs, or stone barricades, loop-holed and possessing flanking defense. On the mountain arc good pasture to graz; the cattle, plenty of water, and stores of grain and arnmu nilion.— l/ondon Telegraph. The Blue Doctor. Sarah Bernhardt has been succeeded in the gossip of Paris by Dr. Chirou, called the "blue doctor." This name he obtained through being called in to see a lady who was on the point of death, as was supposed, from some mys terious weakness. He sent at once, not for medicaments, but for an upholsterer. and ordered this tradesman at one* to refurnish the whole of the lady's rooms with stuffs and carpet* dyed with in digo. He clothed her with stuffs simi larly dyed, and ordered that none should approach her unless clad in indigo-dyed garments. The result was. so the story goes, that the lady recovered, and that M. Chirou received the name of " le dootcur bleu." He is not liked by the regular practitioners, who do not scru ple to call him a quack; but he has made some wonderful cures by wonder ful methods. One of these cures has just occurred with the wife of an emi nent English slate imnn. This lady iiad long suffered from an apparently incura ble cough of a very distressing nature. She went to the blue doctor, who for three months made her inhale daily a mixture of chloroform and the fumes of seme strong acid. Every day she was chloroformed to insensibility, and at the same time vu acidulated, with the re sult that she is now quit well. It was so cold in the vicinity of the North Pole when Lieutenant Schwatka there that the breath of the party in the Esquimau huts condensed and fell in a small snow-storm around them. This comes very near to the story of the man's words which were frosea so hard that nobody knew what be said until they mcltMl the next summer. tkiroii Prt* /Vest. Isn't it slightly sarcastic to tell a blind man that he is looking wellP—Fhl Ctw tribuior.