A HERO OF THE PLAINS, William Matthewson, of Fort Sill, Indian Terri ry, stands six feet two inches, with head on bim that weuld have dove for a senator when men were senators; chin square cut; square shouldered——you would say a man on the square as you looked at him, Modest as the brave ever are, not dis- posed to talk until he is sure of his man. But when he does talk, the days ot Daniel Boone, says a Boston letter to the New Orleans States, do not seem so far away. See him as he sits in front of his ranch, grave as a Roman senator. Yonder galloping across the plains, comes an Indian, As he comes nearer we see he haa the physique of a giant. Matthewson's face kindle's, : “It is big Bow,” he says. The Indian rides within forty paces of us, but veers off toward the Quaker agency. As he does so be shouts and points that way, “Simpah Zilbab | Come agent.” There has been trouble; he wants Siopab Zilbab—“the dangerous one with long hair on his chin"—as the Kiowas have named Matthewson, to help him get at this Quaker agent, who seems to him » balf squaw wan. How bas this man made himself a power with the fiercest chief among the Kiowas ? Years ago in the state of New Yoik was a lad with a hot, restless heart. That heart had not been made restless by the cheap novels for the cheap novel was not yet. His heart was restless because it was a big heart, full of courage and bigh daring. That heart bad been fired by a book, but it is a very noble book, the life of one of our very bravest Americans, Jobo U. Fremont. Wel; the boy did what my boy readers had better not do unless they are absolute- ly sure they have as lofty 8 heart as William Mauthewson had—he ran away, and he struck for the path the great pathfinder had found, the over- land route to California. Out and out he went iuto the heart of what was called ouce the great American desert, but which never was a desert, only a great plain, stretching as the great Lake Michigan stretches, avd which perhaps, was the bottom of a great lake once. The ranch where the youth stopped was also in the heart of the The Kiowas were there, and fierce, fearless Iodian country. fellows they were, who could look you square in the face without flinching. The swept up there, short and squatty, io- Comanches, too, occasionally ferior looking save on horseback, and they did not look—well, square in furtive, sidewise The Kiowas took loviogly A nd lore the eye—they cast glances. to him when they came io. while he was learning froutier from the ranchmen he was learning fast Kiowas language. At 22 he pushed out farther alone in the Kiowa country and established a rancu., as as he could the It is enough of a trading ranch to give him an excuse to stay His ranch, beiog the furthest out this side of the Rocky Mountains, is a haven to weary over- lauders to California. among them, the Kiowa language, bad learned the sign lang- unge, which is the common lauguage between all of the tribes. If you ask an lodian how far any place is, if he dows not speak your language he will tell you bow many sleeps off it js. A Sleep ww about 20 miles, If it is about 200 miles off he will lay his head in his baad, close Lis eyes and then hold up hoth hands—it is ten sleeps off. It we wished bo tell you you lied, he would tarast oat two index fingers fron: hie mouth, makiog an obtuse nogel =*y ou talk forked,” Matthew- so. understood this sgn languag: but the Indians did not Some Indians of another They were talk- ins mes sign language to a group of K wm»: LT pidsoner got away. Prisoner d a young girl. Stole one wie povies. Got away in a Will give ome, two, three, cattle Kiowa eateh her, 4 once it flashed over me,” he A young girl alone on the wu tribes banding to oatch I vy brave one, I'm on your side 1 TT half gave them the g ‘get them away, I saddled Matthewson, besides prileetiy, Koow the, ttn bad come in, Nh ne two ores—~my mare Bes and a splendid horse I had. I took my car- bine and two Colt revolvers, I told some straggling Kiowuss that were still there: ‘My catule gone; I must go bunt them,’ I pushed of on the course I kvew she would be tikely to take. I examine it close; yes, it is Bers. Before this I strike u small band of Kiowa Indiane, who were scouring the plains for ber trail, “Where you going?’ ‘Huut my cat- tle; four got sway; two red, two spotted.” 1 push on. I follow the trail as long as I can see; camp, partner, I was young then; I didn’t sleep much. As suoa as I can see the bent and crushed grass of the trail I push on, east, ever eastward. The girl has got sense ms well ns pluck. She kouws the settlement lies there. Bess tos-es her head and feads out in a long stride. Suppose these red imps strike across and get ahead of me! Well, if it comes to the worst I conldn’t go down in a betier csuse. Hour after hour nothing but the sweep and the hateful sameness of thestretch of the prairie. It is the middle of the second evening. There's a speck | Come, Bess, we'll make that speck grow bigger. It's a horse and there's some one on it, Partner, I'm not the praying kind, but [ did thank the Almighty. When she lovked sround snd saw me she was nigh frightened to death. Her eyes looked just like a frightened fawn’s, but the next time she turned they looked like a fawn's when she finds its mother has scared it. Her Indian pony was shaky. I bad her on my led horse in a jiffy. We posh- ed for the first station or ranch on the route. We changed horses there, and still pushed on. We are not safe yet. I carried her tothe settlement in Ksn- [TER Her folks bad all been murdered io Texas. She made her home there af. terward. Partoer, it would make a prettier ending for me to say that I married that girl ; but I didn’t; my time hadn't cowe yet. Later onl lariated a splendid girl up off 8 Kan- sas prairie, LITERARY NEW YORK. The literary product of New York naturally falls into two general Classes one comprising the new books and the other the press, taking that word Far press in its comprehensive mesuing. be it from me to coafound the with literature, but the two overlap each other, there being a linrary side to the press and a periodical aspect of literature, In analyzing the literary hie ol New York it will be observed the above classification a d found useiul to to consider the two parts separstelys taking first the perodical literature of the city. aud periodicals in New York, There are 642 newspapers Aud taking these first in the was., w.tbout rezard to their literary character, this great body of printed produ.tincludes 33 daily newspapers, 259 weeklies and 234 monthlies. There arealto no les than 22 quarterlies, a name that cei - tainly has a literary sound. The re mainder of the 642 appears at various intervals, The New York press is remarkably comprehensive in its scope sud char- acter. Nine foreign languages are represented, the German having a long lead, with a total of 62 periodicals. The Spanish are next with 9, then come the French with 7, the Scandi navian and Bohemian with 4 each, the Italian with 3, the Hebrew with 2, and the Polish and Hungarian with one eacn. There are 80 periodical designated under the head of the re ligious press, representing the follow- log list of denominations: Hebrew, baptist, Spiritualist, Catholic Metho- dist Episcopal, Evavgelieal, Reform- ed, Unsectarian, Episcopal, Presbyter- ian, Bwedenborgian, Free Thought, Congregational, Undenominational, Reformed Catholic, Methodist, Re ligio-Scientific, Christian, Free Moths dist, Wesleyan, THE EDUCATIONAL PRESS. The educational press, so called in- devoted to penmanship, phonogra. aod deaf mutes. There are our 8 ven, art four, military life four, and the fashions sixteen, Various social organizations publish thirteen more, There are four temperance organs and one voice for women suffrage. Finally may be mentioned the trade journals, though few of these have any relation to literature, There are waitogether 160 of them, of which forty-tive dea! with commercial interests, nine with railroads, fifteen with dry goods and clothing, aud six each with the book trade and with scientific inventions, Now, perhaps a third of these peri. odicals have a literary standard sod make their editors, contributors and correspondents live up to it. And in many cases this standard is high. Nor is this #0 ooly with respect to the press that is deliberate in its periodici® ty. When all is admitted that peed be us to the slovenly characteristics of daily jouruslism, iv may safely be contended that the thirty-three daily newspapers priot a vast amount of good literary work. Indeed, if I may be permitted 10 free myself in the matter, I believe there is a higher literary standard in the newspapers than in the magazines. The pecemi ty of hasty publication in the case of the daily press results io much slop work, MATTER OF MERIT. But where “copy” can be prepared with soy leisure, as for example, for the Sunday papers isues, an aimost dibeartening amount of real literatar® is produced, The daily papers, too as everybody knows, bave the help of the ablest writers of the age in their critical functions aud special literary features. Urged by rivalry, the Jead- | ing newspapers are eager to buy matter | that has graphic merit, sna many of the brightest minds are exchanging | a solid fame for an immediate mess of | pottage in the seductive guise of | “space rates.” The weekly and monthly press sre more apt tu sssume a virtue of “five writing "if they have it not. But many of them are warranted io calling them- selves literary, Out of the entire 450 there may be 100, or certainly fifty, that havea right to be included in the literary life of New York. These periodicals atiract to the city and en- courage to effort a very large and in- teresting body of keen minds and trained pens. The modern “Grub street” is as crowded as ever, but it is the back writer's own fault, generaily | io these days if he or she canoot | make a decent living. We have seen that the field of work | is as wide as human thought itsells aod in each path eager rivals seek the | best that is offered. Here in this city | bevond dispute, is the great literary market of the country, and if one has | literuty wares of merit they are pretty | 8ire to But because | it the best market it is a cruel find 8 customer. one, I is the place for the good, not the poor; for the strong, not the weak. So lot youug Davul be sare of his sling bel ire he pushes forth to defy the Philistines — Cor. Boston Advertiser. - C— A — A Western Hanging Forr Ssirm, Ark, April 8.~Pat- rick McCarthy, convicted of partici pation in the murder of Thomas and John Mahoney, in the Cherokee nation, February 16. 1886, was hang~ ed bere at noou today. The execu. tion was originally fixed for January 14, but President Cleveland was io- duced to grant a respite for ninety days on the ground that the evidence upon which the conviction was ob- tained wan largely of a circumstantial character, Since that time consider. able attention was given to the case both by the president and Attorney General Garland, sod fioally, on Mon- day, the decision was arrived at that further interference would not be warranted, In Jannary aud February of last year Pat McCarty and Joe Stutser working on railroad cosstruction work between Red Fork sod Tulea, I. T. Two brothers, named Tom and John Mahoney, whose home was at Neodesha, Kan., were also there with two fine teams, one wagon and two sets of harness, besides being comfort ably provided with bed-clothing and | back to Vioita, where be | being readily identified by his mother. { Carty continued to assert kindly furnished them transportation aud divided thelr provisions and bed- ding with them, They were traced from Red Fork t) Coffeyville, and at \ that place the Muhoney brothers were seen for the last time alive, on the 16¢h of February. Ou the morving of the 19th McCarty and Biutzer ap- peared vt Vinita with a pair or fins mules, wagon and haroess aod a pair of fine mares with harness to suit them. They claimed to be railroad- ers aud represented thas they had been at work with their teams at Tales, They sold the mules and one set of harness wo a livery man for $125, not half their value, after which Pac took the train for Pierce City, while his companion drove out of Vinita with the remainder of the property, going in the direction of Bouthwest City, Mo., sioce which tims he has never been heard from. In March following parties by ac- cident discovered the bodies of two men ina coal pit drain, eighteen miles from Vioita, with every indica- tion that they had been murdered. The news of the find was sent out by wire from Vinita, with a discription of the bodies, snd the mother of the Mahoney boys, not havieg heard from her sons for an uousal time, made inquiries. This led to the discovery that they bad left Red Fork in company with McCarty and Swutzer, and a discrip- tion of their outfit was procured. Mrs. Maboney came down from ber home snd, going to where the bodies were buried, identified them beyond a doubt. The mules sold by McCarty sod Joe at Vinita proved to be the property of the Mahoney boys, up to that tie no trace of the mur- derers ind been found. About this time McC.rty’'s name and description got into the papers as one of the murderers, and an officer at Dixon, Mo., where the murderer happened to be seeing it and knowing Pat, telegraphed 10 Vinita that be was there. He forthwith received instructions to arrest and hold him, which he did, about the 1st of April, sod Deputy Marshal Isbell went up aod took charge of him, taking bim fully but | identified as one of the men who sold the Mahoney mules and received the | mouey for them, giving a bill of sale | over the signature of Pat Ryan, repre- senting that he and Stutzer were brothers. When arrested a watch | was found io his valise whien proved | to have belonged to John Mahoney, | After conviction and sentence Mc _—_ his iono- cence, and endeavored to obtain a stay of execution until Stutzer was ar. rested, there being a reward of $500 for him, made a confession last night to altorocy. CY — Viessa, April 8.—It is koown here that an expedition to the Aotarc. tic region is in contemplation under auspices of King Oscar of Sweden, | the explorer, wi | have command of | the enterprise. The baron is here for a few days eo route to Vesice, and | says that if sufficient coal can be pro- cared he is confident of getting furth, or south than any previous explorer, | The date of bis departure on the ex- peditlon has not yet been decided. Baron Nordeoskjold thivks that the expedition will extend over a period of eighteen months, | this! | and | New York you will soon ask yours Cs Y : very worst thing that can badd Arn It is rumored that McCarty cot his | - grave | of years and honor and coon | Reynolds by name, 7% | IT WAS MORNING. "wey and mist o'er the ee ay The night was dark, and mist hung o'er the hills, And long and weary seemed the hours to wail} When, suddenly, a light was seen beyond, Transcending moon snd stars and brillant sung And then earth faded out from mortal sight; Deaihi's loy river had been safely crossed, And it was morning! ~Barah K. Bolton in Frank Leslie's, CURIOUSLY MIMETIC INSECTS. Hew Maylayan Butterflies Hide Them. selvesFilos Which Hesemble Wasps. There is a certain butterfly in the islands of the Malay archipelago (its learned name, if anybody wishes to be formally introduced, is Kalima paralekia) which always rosts among dead or dry leaves, and bas itself leaf like wings, all spotted over a intervals with wee speckles to imitate the tiny spots of fungi on the Boling #t resembles. The well known stick joa! insects from the same rich peighborhood in like manner exactly mimic the twigs and leaves of the forest among which they lurk; some of them look for all the world like little bits of walking bamboo, while others appesr in all varieties of Loe, as if opening buds and full blown leaves and pieces of yellow foliage sprinkled with the tints and molds of decay had of & sudden raised themes vos erect upon six legs and be gun incontinently to perayibulate the Mulayns woodlands like vegetable Frankenstelns lu ol) their glory. The larva of one such deceptive lust, ob- served im Nicaragua by sharp eyed My, Daly, appeared at first wight like a mere fragment of the moss on which is rested, its body being all prolonged into little thread like green fila ments, precisely imitating the foliage around it. Onos more, there are common flies which secure protection for themselves by growing into the counterfeit presentment of wasps or hornets, snd so obtain immunity from Whe at tacks of birds or animals Many of these curious mimetic insects are banded with yel low and black im the very image of their stinging originale, and have their tails sharp give point and verisimilitude to the deceptive resemblance, More carious still, certain Bouth American butterflies of a perfectly inoffensive and edible family mimic in every spot and line of cdor sundry other butterflies of an utierly unrelated and fundamentally dissimilar type, but of so disagresable a taste as never 10 be eaten by birds or lizards —Cornbill Magazine, Only An English Actor, “Great Boott!” suddenly said an old fash foned American, “what is that? A simper- ing gentleman, painted, pear! white, 1ouge and black cosmetic having been freely employed to touch up a face that suggested a juvenile edition of that aged London butterfly, Larisa, Marchioness of Allssbury, suddenly preseuted himsell. Flow young obviously 1859-1887. Great Reduction PRICEN!! I am now Prepared lo Give ‘BIG BARGAINS. ened, in terrorem, into a pretended sting, to | DRY GOODS. | Dress Goods from 5c to $2 per yard. | ng locks, unmistakably gulity of the “surif- | erous golden hair wash.” framed this care | fully prepared countenance A sky bive | moncholr was thrust into a white waistonat, | “What fs it. I say? reared the old fashioned American. People began to titter planation was easy—only an English actor, who plays and recites and mocks the garish | light of day with a “make up” unlike most | NCTIONS, other actors and actresses. who have quite i | enough of “painting their noses™ when they © obliged to dose. “English! 1 knew it | English! Thank God!™ ejaculated the old fashioned American. “Come; Jet's get out of The bausoms, the 8 o'clock tea an that—are too much for me. Let's go and have some gerapin and duck.” If you use your eves and oars very much in if seri if (he American people have the mental slatuine to profit bn herited ma will wonder if Jelsury 4 thw { ni weald bY i DOT: ricans ought to have good, str tousrh fibers enough to and such things wit out going down under them ut In mest it is the Wok i Wdioness (hat iteratare, upholds art and encourage But if eithér one of iv, spon that same clas it would find itself leaning on Delle in Cincinnati Enquirer countries lass of % sta the = the ro Five Minutes Enough. “You were speaking of Sts {Hen Field as a and sedate justice, now that he is full uprios a vit in one of the greatest judicial bodies in the world, | said another of the party, “but 1 remember { him when be was as gay and rollicking a lad as the best of us. When the mining camp at : . N . !' what is now Nevada City was first organised | It is certain that Baron Nordenskjold, | . young Lawyer Field was elected a justice of the peace Probably the toughest member of | the new camp was a noted desperado, Jack One day Reynolds was arrested on a charge of horse stealing. It was a trial by jury, with Justice Field pre siding. The evidence was not strong enough a convict, but as everybody was anxious to get rid of Reynolds the verdict was: ‘We find the prisoner at the bar not guilty, but if he is wise he will leave the camp in thirty minutes’ The verdict amused the young justice inmensely, but be repeated it to Rey- nolds with due solemnity. Reynolds, whose sense of the ridiculous was quite as keen as that of the jury, calmly peplied, as be gave bis trousers an extra bitch: ‘Gents, if the roule don't buck I'll be out In five.” ~Cincin- nati Enquirer, Beating the Company. Bald a gentleman connected with one of the strect railway lines: *You world be sur prised to know how many people attempt to best the companies out of a tare. Two labor. ers hear the terminus of the road will board a our fis the early morning, put & fare in the box, tenider the olber to the driver and jointly advise him to get all out of the road be can, If hie accepts neither of them ever pays that driver again, and they generally wait for his ear. * Dut such a practice is not confined to that ass, Young men ride on the front platform to smoke, afd by adroitly abusing the company manage oll ind the driver, who takes the chances of di ge. “A certain business mon has raised the dis charge of several drivers. He hands Lie money for change, leaves a nickle with the driver, fumbles at the box while the lever is jerked down and fancies that no one will dis cover that the company has been robbed, The ex- | Hose from 3c lo $1 per pw tall Wwihe lof » | | GROCERIES Lower Tan the Low, est. 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