And now I? ngland is importing OTU
golf sticks—one more in the many
link* that bind the Anglo-Saxon race.
In Cleveland, Ohio,the day nurser
ies of the city ave supported by the
Cleveland day nursery and free kin
dergarten association, whose members
are so deeply impressed with the need
of combining kindergarten and nurse
ry that they are conducting, in addi
tion, a training school for kindergart
ners.
Those Cubans who thought that
with the expulsion of the Spaniards
the skies would fall and larks on toast
would be their daily diet have been
somewhat disappointed, but they are
now learning better, and are realizing
that if all their expectations have not
been fulfilled a vast deal has been
gained, and illimitable opportunities
for Cuba have been opened.
A steady progress toward safety in
railroad operation has been noted
within receut years, notwithstanding
the prevalent impression to the con
trary. An occasional accident, with
distressing incidents and a heavy loss
of life, makes a deep impression upon
the public mind, while hundreds of
trains, bearing thousands of passen
gers into depots s/ifely each day,
causes no comment. It is only neces
sary to consider the vast railroad mile
age of the country and the millions of
passengers carried in safety to their
destinations, to see tliat the loss of
life in moving them is relatively very
small. Fewer travelers, indeed, lose
their lives by railroad accident in pro
portion to the number traveling, than
came to their death from like cause in
the old days of the stage coach.
It is possible that the immigra
tion into the United States during
the coming season will include many
of the inhabitants of unhappy Fin
land, which has been deprived of such
nominal independence as it has pos
sessed since it became a part of Rus
eia in 1721 by treaty and in 1805 by
conquest. The czar has authorized
the exile of all inhabitants who are
even suspected of opposition to his
sovereignty, and as the Fiuns have so
long been accustomed to their ancient
constitution and laws, the edict will
affect unknown numbers of the peo
ple. The race is hardy, intelligent,
of Altai-Uralian stock, accustomed to
agricultural pursuits and almost
wholly of the Lutheran faith. Be
cause of these qualities and of their
climate they should form a desirable
addition to the farming population of
our cold Northwest, thinks the New
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lork Mail and Express.
* A unique banking institution is the
Retailers' National bauk of Pittsburgh,
Pa., recently authorized to do busi
ness with a capital of $200,000. Th< j
principal feature of the bank will be \
collecting outstanding accounts of re- i
tail merchants and the discounting of j
their notes on such outstanding ac- ;
couuts. Retail accounts have always \
proved an annoyance to merchants, !
and many of the bills have proved un- ,
collectible. The new bank is to col- i
lect the money, and in some cases api
praise the value of the accounts and j
assume the risk . The bank will also i
give the merchants accommodation on ;
accounts left with it for collection, ;
having the accounts assigned to it,
and being given a note. This will bo
discounted, and the commission for
collecting also deducted. The bank
will endeavor to have the accounts of J
m patron collected before a note reaches
maturity.
The Philadelphia Leger is led by
taste for historical sequence into dis
covery of a special fitness in the fact
that the first shot in the war that de
stroyed the colonial empire of Spain
should have been fired from a ship
named Raleigh. The idea is pictur
esque. It is not that the name of
Raleigh recalls the birth of England's
sea power and world empire, but that
his tragic death binds it eternally with
the idea of English nationality. Tlji.s
idea was in eclipse from Elizabeth to
CromwoM, aud the Stuarts brought
back the old idea of dynastic loyalty
cud made the national iutcrest sec
ondary to the domestic interests of
iheir family. Raleigh was the last of
».be Elizabethans, and made private
war an :hfi king of Spain, oven as
Drake li»d done, when Jamos was
trying to keep up diplomatic and mat
rimonial alliance with him. His exe
cution was a sacrifice to Spanish
friendship, may well have sharp
ened English hatrod for Spain and
royalty tojelher and helped rouso the
national tpiiil to that slow, enduring
fury which made Cromwell possible
and set nationality finally above dy
nasties in the seoond revolution the
curtain-raiser for a century of war foi
vrorld empire. After Elizabeth,
'Raleigh began the race struggle which
the Raleich helped to end. ,
The world Is queer In lt« awful way;
'Twos BO since the world began;
For man may fight for wrong or the right
And still he Is <Jnly man.
A man may struggle to reach the top,
Ami b« to his work a slave;
But, 'hough the best, he follows the rest
TO Ueath and a six-foot grave.
A man may sink to the lowest depths
Aud drink of the dregs of life;
Though steeped in sin when death steps 1b
He leaves the world and strife.
| THE TRAGEDY OF AFRAID EYES, j
4 A BRAVE MAN WHO WAS A DERELICT OF jj»
THE FRONTIER. Jfr
None of us out in Montana ever
knew where he came from or anything
of his past; he j'lat drifted in among
as as a log is left by the receding cur
rent on a sandy bar. There he was,
and no questions were asked, for in
those days it wasn't considered good
form to be inquisitive. Some men
didn't care to have their antecedents
particularly inquired into, aud one
who persisted in looking up the record
of people he met sooner or later found
himself lookiug into something differ
ent—the muzzle of a six-shooter.
He had evidently come from some
mining country out onto the plains,for
we noticed that one of his pack horses
carried a pick,shovel and goldpau and
other implements of the prospector.
But he wasn't broke like the majority
of those wanderers of the earth,for he
carried a little sack of gold coin, and
after sittiug around a few days,listen
ing to the boys and getting the lay of
the land, he purchased a wagon and
trading outfit of the company and be
came an ludiau trader on a small
scale. On the company's books his
name appeared as Obrien Osborne.
Perhaps it was his right name, and
perhaps it wasn't. The boys called
him Briny. He was a thin, round
shouldered man of medium height,
black-haired and black-bearded. He
tad very peculiar eyes; they were
deep set, behind great bushy eyebrows
and had an appealing, supplicating
expression in their gray depths like
that seen in certain timid animals at
bay. The Indians, quick to note any
little peculiarity of a man, named him
Ko-pop-iu-e (Afraid Eyes).
When Briny came into the fort with
a load of furs he would at once buy a
new outfit of trade goods aud then
spend his surplus capital among the
boys. The last dollar expended, he
would hitch up his team and drive
out over the great plains to the Indian
camp, wherever it might be located at j
the time, to trade for another load of
robes and fnrs.
Briny was always so quiet and ap
parently of so timid a nature that the
boys used to make fun of him and
speak to him in that half-conteinptu
ous, half-patroniziug way iu which
rough men will address one whom
they consider their inferior mentally
and physically. But if ever these
men made a mistake they made it
when they sized Briny up the way
they did. When they found out
their error, however, they acknowl
edged their fault and from that time
on triated him like the man he was
up to the hour of his untimely death.
One winter Briny made a successful
trade with the Pieg.iu Indians, who
were hunting aud camping along the
Missouri river in the vicinity of Cow
island. The ice beiug very thick aud
Btrong, he concluded to drive up the
river with his load of lurs to the fort,
instead of traveling over the cold,bar
ren prairie where neither wood uor
shelter was to be found. In those
times inen not inaptly called wood
hawks were struug along the river at
convenient points—generally the foot
of a long rapid—and made a livelihood
by selling fuel to the steamers which
plied up and down the stream during
the high water of spring and early
summer. The woodhawks were a
rough set of men and their occupation
hazardous in the extreme, for they
were constantly exposed to the at
tacks of war parties from the surround
ing tribes,especially the Sioux,Assini
boins, Cheyennes and Crees. Wood
cost S2O a cord aud more, and where
money is to be made men (ire always
to be found to make it, regardless of
the risks involved. It was a very
common occurrence for a steamer to
land at a woodvard and find the own
ers scalped and dead by the smoulder
ing ruins of their cabin. Traveling
along on the ice, then, Briny reached
the yard of a couple of acquaintances
one afternoon and camped with them
for the night. The woodhawks were
gl id to see him, for not a living soul
had they met since the preceding
summer. Moreover, Briuy had been
at the fort two months before aud
could give theui many a bit of news.
It was late when they retired, after
eating a second supper of buffalo rib*
roasted in front of the wide fireplace.
The woodhawks arose at an early
hour the next morning, Briny re
maining in his bed until breakfast
should be ready. One of the men
went to the river for a pail of water
while the other began to chop some
splinters from a dry log some fifty
yards from the cabin with which to
start the morning fire. In the early
light of dawn, or perhaps some time
during the night, a war party of six
or seven Assiuiboins had discovered
the lonely little cabin and laid plans
to kill its occupants without any risk
to themselves. Choosing places ir>.
the dense brush within short range,
they lay concealed and patiently wait
ing for the men to appear. Every
thing happened as they wished. When
one of the men reached the river and
the other the log, they opened fire, and
poor Joe Hines fell dead on the ice.
Briny waa around by the shooting
ONLY MAN.
A man may have at his beck and call
Oreat stores of wealth and of gold;
But strive as he may, no band can stay
The death, and his story is told.
A man may fight the wolf from the door
And breathe of poverty's breath;
Yet long may wait for the baud of fate,
The sweep of the scythe of death.
The world Is queer in its awflil
'Twas so since the world began;
For man may fight,for wrong or the right,
And still he is only man.
—Storrs Nelson, in Denver News.
and rushed out of the door, Winchester
in baud, just in time to see three As
siniboins rushing toward the other
woodhawk, Arnold, whose leg had been
broken by the volley. In a second
or two more they would have been
upon the unfortunate man, but before
they realized what was up Briny
dropped two of them, and the third
ran off iuto the brush east of the cabin.
Briny then ran down the path toward
the river and saw the other Indians
gathered about poor Hines, whom they
were proceeding to scalp and dismem
ber. Two of them lell at his first
shot, and the rest ran across the ice
toward the other shore, but only one
of them reached it, for at the fourth
shot Briny managed to hit the other,
and he tumbled over with a wailing
yell. Not knowing how many more
Indians might be concealed in the
brush or in the vicinity, Briny 'went
quickly back to where Arnold was ly
ing and packed him into the cabin.
He knew Hines was dead aud that
there was no use iu risking a shot
from the Indians by going after his
body theu. Closing the door and fas
tening it securely, he got Arnold into
a bunk, stanched the flow of blood
from his wound aud temporarily ban
daged the broken limb. He next pro
ceeded to knock the mud chinking
out on the three sides of the <abi:i
where there was no door or window
and from the small openings there
made watched carefully for auv signs
of the enemy. Hours post, and no
cue was to be seen, not a sound was
to be heard. Arnold, in great pain
aud grieving over the death of his
partner, spoke not a word and merely
shook his head when Briny asked
him every few minutes if he could d >
anything for him.
It was about noon when they heard
in the direction of the river a faint
wailing, qnaveting chant Vhicli grad
ually increased in volume aud then
died away.
"What's that, do you s'pose?"
Briny asked.
"It's one o' them fellers you shot
out on the ice singin' his death song,"
replied Arnold, who was better versed
in Indian ways.
"Theu his pardners must a' lit out
aud left him, "said Briny. "Anyhow,
I can't stand this any longer. I've
got togo out and see if the rest really
are gone."
"i'es, go," Arnold urged, "and put
a ball through that critter so't he won't
jo vl any more. But first give me my
gun, so I can feel a little sate while
you're gone."
Briuy slid out of the door and made
a short detour to where hecould plain
ly see the first two Indians he
dropped. Both were lying 011 their
backs, arms outstretched, having died
without a struggle. He went down
the path to the river. The two he
shot at the water hole were lying just
where they fell, oue of them partly
resting ou Hines' body. The one
wounded when part way across the
river had managed to drag himself,gun
and all, to the other shore, but hadn't
sufficient strength to climb the steep
bank into the brush. There he was
on his hands and knees, his body
swaying and head drooping, again
chanting that weird death song.but in
fainting, weaker tones. At the crack
of Briny's rifle lie pitched forward
with a lurch, and all was over.
Having made a tour of the big tim
bered bottom and found the trails of
the two survivors who had left it at
different poiuts and at good speed,
judging by the long distance between
their footprints, Briny returned to
the house and reported to Arnold, who
had become very uneasy after hearing
the shot fired. The horses were safe,
he found, and that was somtthing to
be thankful for.
"Briny," said Arnold, after they
had made a pretence of eating some
dinner, "we've got to light out o'
here. In a few days the whole As
siniboin catnp will be here for re
venge."
"I know it. I'll dig a nice, deep
grave soinewhar this afternoon aud
bury Jim as good as I kin, and to
morrer we'll strike for the fort."
A few days later they drove into the
little trading post, Arnold haviug had
a soft and easy bed 011 top of the load
of furs. Briny hadn't much to say,
but Arnold lost no time in telling all
that had happened, and then the boys
learned their mistake aud couldn't do
enough for the man they had before
treated rudely.
The buffaloes, hemmed in on all
sides, were practically exterminated in
18S3-4, and with them went the days
of prosperity for most of the white in
habitants of the country and for all
the Indians, who were brought sud
deuly face to face with starvation and
want. Merchants failed, and most of
the small traders and the hunters left
the country. Steamers no longer
brought goods up the 3000 miles of
swift river from St.. Louis to return
loaded to the guards with bales of
furs and robes. Railways were enter
ing the country, and civilization was
close at hand. The few white# who
remained in the country turned their
attention to stock raising or farming,
and lucky were those who stayed with
the few head of cattle they managed to
get together. In a few years they
found themselves rich beyond their
wildest dreams.
Briny located o ranch on the Marias
river and put into practice some cher
ished theories he had about raising
crops on the benchlands without irri
gation. Like many another old-timer
he had married an Indian woman, and
with their child of six or seven years
they lived frugally and for a time in
peace. Two or three miles up the
river another former trader had lo
cated, who was also married to an
Indian woman, and Briny's wife often
went up there to stay a day or two
with her friend, who was of the same
tribe as herself. Late in the fall a
big bull outfit, or freight train of
wagons drawn by oxen, came to the
river to winter, and the owner of it, a
man named Tricket, made arrange
ments with Briny's neighbor to board
himself and his men. Tricket was a
fine looking man and evidently well
off, and seeing Briny's wife at the
ranch often, he finally persuaded her
to quit her husband. When Briny
heard that his wife had deserted him,
which he did iu the course of n few
days, he qu etly saddled his horse and
■' went up to where she was stopping.
His little son was playing out in the
yard with soino other children, and
calling the child to him he lifted him
up onto the saddle and returned to
his home.
While the boy's mother didn't care
for her husband she did for her son
and fretted continually about hiin.
One day she told Tricket that if he
did not go and bring the child back to
her she would leave him. Tricket de
murred; he had no use for the boy and
didn't want him around, so he kept
putting the woman off with all kinds
of excuses. Finally Tricket's herder,
a wild young fellow who had come
west with his head filled with dime
novel yarns, told the woman he would
get the boy for her and saddling his
horse rode away down the river. Ar
riving iu front of Briny's cabin he
shouted to him to come out,aud when
Briuy came t» the door he levelled his
rifle at him and said:
"Now, then, you old potato eater,
I've come after that kid; his mother
wants him. (Jive him out here quick
or I'll fill yon full of holes."
Briny looked him quietly in the eye
and replied: "The boy is mine, I
will not " But he never finished
his sentence; the herder shot liini
squarely in the forehead, and down he
went in a heap. The murderer got oft
his horse and stepping over Briny's
body iuto the cabin grasped the ter
rified child, threw him up into the
saddle and returned home.
By the time news of the murder
reached the settlers the murderer had
become alarmed and had disappeared
without leuving a trace of his course.
The little band of determine 1 men
who hunted for him were finally ob
liged to give up the search aud return
to their homes. A month later they
• heard some news which caused them
to rejoice that they hud not found and
hanged him. The mail carrier from
Fort Macleod, away across the border
iu Canada, brought word that 011 his
way north ou the previous trip he
found the fellow wandering about on
the prairie bally frozen. He carried
hiin in his wagon to the fort,aud there
the surgeon was oblige 1 to cut off both
hands and both feet. Thus his punish
ment was vastly greater than if he
ha 1 been hanged or shot. No warraut
was ever asked for his extra lition; the
frieuds of Briny wished him to live
and suffer.
The following spriug Briny's son
died, and late in the summer the
woman followe I him. The writer was
at the lauch of a friend where she was
stopping the night she died. She had
been sinking rapi lly all the evening,
aud about 11 o'clock, after repeated
supplications to the gods of her people
to spare her, she said to the ranch
man:
"Pray to your white man's God for
me. Ask Him to let me live."
"Woman," said he,"l cannot pray
for you. I cannot forget that you
were the cause of Briny's death."
A few moments later she died.—
New York Suu.
Siamese Football.
The Siamese youth have only one
game worth considering, aud that one
is indigenous—or native to Burmah
the question of parentage being n
much-mooted one. At all events,the
game requires a certain amount of
activity, and is very interesting to the
on-looker. It is a kind of football
in fact, I have heard it called Burmese
football —played with a ball about
four inches in diameter, made of
braided rotan, verv hollow,very strong
and resilient. The number of con
testants is not arbitrarily fixed, but
play is sharpest when there are enough
to form a circle about ten feet in
diameter. The larger the circle aftei
it has passed the desirable diameter
the slower the play. The game is tc
keep the ball tossing into the air
without breakiug the circle. As a
man fails at his opportunity he drops
out, aud when their remain but four
or six the work is sharp and very
pretty. The ball is struck most gen
erally with the knee, but also with the
foot, from iu front, behind, and at the
side. Some become remarkably clever.
I have seeu a player perifiit the ball to
drop directly behind his back,aud yet,
without turning, return it clear over
his head aud straight into the middle
of the circle by a well-placed backward
kick of his heel.—Harper's Weekly,
When He Rem mbers.
"We hardly ever see any congress
gaiters now," said the elderly boarder.
"That'a a fact," said the Cheer
ful Idiot, "though I can remember
when they might have been seen on
every hand."—lndianapolis Journal.
i THE REALM OF FASHION, i
NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Nickel
gray taffeta, showing corded stripes of
wedgewood blue, is here delightfully
combined with blue satin in that pop
ular shade. The waist and sleeves
A POPULAR ISLOCSE WAIST.
nre made on the bias. Tbe backs fit
smoothly and may be made with or
without the centre seam. The fronts
are arranged over fitted linings that
close iu centre. Their front edges
are deeply underfaced with the plain
satin and rolled back to form pretty
pointed lapels, the back edges extend
ing over the under-arm gores of the
lining. Single side pleats are laid at
the shoulder seam, which give grace
ful fulness over the bust. A double
box-pleat is formed in centre of the
plastron vest, which is sewed to the
right front liniug. and closes over on
the left. A standing collar of the plain
satin, to the top of which a scalloped
flare portion is joined, completes the
neck, and the wrinkled stock of rib
bon may be worn or not, as preferred.
The two-seam sleeves have a becom
ing fulness gathered at the top, the
wrists being finished by scalloped
flare cufl' portions of the plain satin.
Some handsome combinations can be
developed by the mode, as the vest,
collar and cuffs may be of lace, tuck
ing, corded taffeta or other contrast
ing material. When made of pique
or other cotton wash fabrics, the lin
WOMAN'S VTAIST AND SKIRT.
ing may be omitted and the vest por
tion closed under rever.
Waists ia this style made of blaek
or colored satin, taffeta, peau de soie
or poplin, may have the collar with
plastron finished separately and made
adjustable with hooks and eyes on
both sides of front. This allows the
introduction of other separate fronts
with stock collars, which imparts
charming variety to dressy waists.
To make this waist for a woman of
medium size will require thr?a yards
of material thirty inches wide.
Kaiilr Made at Home.
Gray crepeline de «oie and white
tuck-shirred chiffon are charmingly
combined in the large illustration, the
trimming of ruched satin ribbon be
ing in a darker shade of gray. Dame
Fashion revels in dainty fabrics this
season, and the fact that chiffon yok
ing in this and many other styles can
be bought all ready for use makes
home dressmaking an easy accom
plishment. Fitted linings support
the over-fronts and back, that show
prettily scalloped edges in the latest
design. The fronts may be arrauged
over the yoke portion of plastron, and
together closed invisibly at the left
shoulder, arm's-eye and under-arm
seams, or they may open in the centre
and the full plastron only close at the
shoulder and arm's-eye, as shown in
the small sketch. The sleeves are
faced at the top with the truck-sliirred
chiffon, the material being shaped and
trimmed in scalloped outline, to har
monize with the waist. The lining
backs are faced in deep-yoke effect,
the over-backs shaped and trimmed to
match the fronts, having a slight ful
ness, which is drawn snugly to the
waist line. The skirt comprises five
gores, which are shaped in pointed
outline at the lower edge, and to
which is joined a full circular flounce
that reaches over half-way to the belt
in the hack. A smooth-fitting adjust
ment is rendered by the shaping of
the gores oyer the hips, and the ful
ness in the back is arranged in flat
underlying pleats that meet in the
centre over the placket, where they
are closed with silk buttons and loops.
The flounce flares in graceful ripples
ail around, the fashionable dip being"
given in the back with perforations
that shape to round length.
Stylish combinations by the mode
may be carried out in plain and dotted
or figured silk or satin foulard, the
flounce of skirt matching the yoke
and caps of sleeves. An exceedingly
dressy black gown had the waist,
sleeves and upper portion r i skirt of
jet spangled net, the shirred yoke,
tops of sleeves and flounce being ot"
plain Brussels net, trimmed with ruch
ings of the net and satin ribbon. Folds
of turquoise-blue velvet showed at the
top of the pointed collar and under
faced the flaring wrists. The mode
suggests possibilities for remodelling,
which are always acceptable to home
dressmakers.
To make this waist for a woman of
medium size will require one and a
half yards of material forty-four inches
wide. To make the skirt will require
five and a half yards of same-width
material.
Waist Willi Unique Sliapinjr.
Polka dotted foulard in dove-gray
and black made this liaudsome waist,
the collar, yoke anil cuffs being edged
with stitched bias folds of black satin.
A stylish feature of the waist is the
unique shaping of the yoke and collar.
Two box pleats are formed in each
frout, a third being taken up on the
right front edge, which laps over the
deep hem on left, closing with studs
or buttons in centre. Three backward
turning pleats are laid on each siue of
centre back, which are joined to the
top to a straight yoke lining, the plaits
being overlapped closely at the waist
line with pleasing effect. The box
plaits at shoulder edges of front are
brought together and joined t'> the
front edges of lining yoke, the yoke of
mateiial with its rounded edges being
arrauged to overlap the jjieuts in front
and bick.
The neck is completed with .1 baud
in regular shirt waist stylo, and the
stock collar is made separately to close
in centre back. The shirt waist
sleeves are correctly shaped, being
both stylish aud comfortable. Gathers
adjust the fulness at top aud bottom,
slashes at the back being linishecl
with laps in the usual way.
• The cuffs have rounded corner? anil
close with link cuff buttons.
Attractive waista may be made by
this pattern of silk, tine wool or cot
ton wash fabrics, aud the regulation
BOX-PLEATED SHIRT WAIST.
linen collar may be substituted for
the stouk, if so preferred.
To make thiß waist for a lady of'
medium size -will require three and
yards of material thirty inches
wide.