Mrrzr?o fuaci - , rtTiri ahott falter down cJrnw Tfill-y . il battle tarrlsd Into long: 'fin Ihnlr headlong obarR th ,tT'r(l horsnmeo rail, 'log rooks repeat thnt fading , l?Ms wlinra eaiiles hover, day- j,j,.lriS IHO Ull'l lBnF itpi, Sling ononis speed tbe musical 1 1! t,ta " ainons of the Trumpet to th , i.mkel your splendid robe out- ,' JW, lovely Bluter, for your " y Brother' sakel 1 iwerd Runs have spoken; we ionquere.1; they are broken, ii 1 1 of morn before ttie morning ln iM ,ar mntntn-nsli for neighbor In a 1 " , thmider-rlRnd, aodilun turf beneath a stormy ',!', Ing, round whose enimmbered bo uuoounled dond were drifted 1 to set Its haughty folds so t"f jod hor drooping vesture wltU . i. rnor's lieedlasa gesture, , ii t: "Yn, and should my 'brold n, ifr. bs spread, ."tlidrsa ol my glory lie about it nnd Bry: "I thtul oues who followed where Tbelr fans In the grass: lift tbHlr draggled plumes to ,, bem as they pans. , mal mighty Brotbor.tbou dld'st r' mm nn esiltt other """ireotri that fills thy throat o( ) . ng brnasl" . UDon those tender tones of nly compassion, d from shaath the ringing an- neri- rtn lbs kiss of stool shall find his rri. k wor-inr fnsh on Wieath, Jtrunglod slowly on his '"" re, the sot, the coward, by Ig "foars dovoured, iK't jii mHiisurad heart-beat, spare jw; Kinr.iml Lreatb, fbrs shall he hunted by the fate - .ever frootod: lint ulilliirno rauy not taste thnt .-.I dontli. ,l, to senk some noble fray, ,., ,inl crimes ol genial peaoe, that ' id body slay: l"'r sin that still deceives you, till ' i ted ditnioo. loaves you. f 1,. y-bogotteu brute goes back to lull,. "" I straight his loud last word a ""Of Dines set pluylug 1 1'be victor close their ranks tin? i.,ng as old soldiers growl, but . i !; ebeylng, irlug drums took up the deep oni. j " saner. In the vayward, spread Mni to waft them forward. vi. stubborn combat stained nnd " " sky of even, ore she vauishod " . it Heaven r fights by younger wnrrlors 1H Ifn' twl! Id chill the night wind swept to -Hi -' , the yet nnbnrled slain that ., "e nlsnute crew still ,hlad our kind Inherit of the wur- ,vul and spirit; a , and man's Indomitable will. mo- yJnoy Xylue, in the Hpectutor, in- irn. l! 10V lis 300003D03030000COp m OF THE REGIMENT. aoooocooooooooooooo OW orea't you real ly awfully bard on him, poor fellow, Stella? I must say I lice him." "Its all very fine for you. Con 'siu Jane, to Jtalk like that, seeing tbat you baven't .been proposed to , by liitn on an aver fortnight ever since the ltmtre quartered here." .,,, is generally voted the pret twine nioeat girl in Exminster lied fenth, who paid her court uses rubers, but none with such ills s little Tommy. Lascolles, i lfr," as ha was called by his 10 '-leers who, notwithstanding, 'on'1ly kind to him kindness outl they hardly guessed "the 80t' supremely grateful; he ..lest heart hidden away in "1aiut little body, and other . uioo nonoay suspectea mm. hoAl this story never would .written.-., lioiiturn to Stella, laid she, "if it was Major I, i oo in a understand your in uJiip, whoreas the Lasuelles t iealJy, Cousin Jane, where y es be?" : tb'k the spoke the door opened eocor Lausdowne" was au-hini-(iea "Captain Freke," and I 'ints later "Mr. Lasoelles." " corner ,wus relegated to I I ' tender meroies. Ap a vlla was too liinoh oconpied villi hevgueua to have a word Kin. little man sat beside coi He, sipped his tea, aud ., n xpony ho roue to go. Iui) lonct good-bye," ho said, !yi "yon know we are or lenfOB f cut to-morrow I go rqy j.uople, and on Xhuis at"'." y ofi-lvie Ha, Stella's Uoo grow 0 i; sua w, too, that young ' uj'hd l"lt,d U' aDl1 tUllt h ' frd Major Lousdowne. love mo," he said in his U,M way, "that if I can shield CnU. j eKo in any way it shall )3 r' , ." "T ?rlotis:on of complete bewilder-llloiw-ifllla'a fuoo, noted by Mrs ils quiSa lost upon youug hD"1 whoso eyes seemed sud- grown curiously dim. nl" - 'he bare, brown veldt a sol (tdfnan made his way. "Hath borse," he had said, which re if, doing the animal justioe. 'fleetest iu the regiment and k'naiiy a, raoe before young lllJr id bought it. ,,. is cout lay the despatches, ,1 S 'hey ever reaoU their des- in.i nave the lives of huu f( l!ow soldiers, mi u.wuizing pain iu his imw his head, where a '! In ear and senfc th ins lalnf id I1 r. jut. iv si" i rl'T . ii t : v ie o '''tt of jilf ' ' .,.1 .. aV"So I ! d, ol SOD. i nil ,roM! 1- i face, turned him ' seemed more and ol over his limbs, horse's mane with id it with the other, (other with a su I. and at last rode iuted as somebody dorse, but his work wing-room at Ex ;ilvie aud Htella. Tha morning papers had ianl ar-" rived, aud they had rushed to open them. Stella suddenly laid down tbe paper and burst into tears. Mrs. Oailvie crossed the room anil put a pair of very kindly, motherly arms round the sobbing girl. "What. is it, child?" she whispered. I 'Stella pointed to a name in the list of the "seriously wounded." It was tbat of Lieutenant Lasoelles, of the Seventh Kegimeut. rMrs. Ogilvie's eyes held a question whioh Stella answered. "I love him," she said, "and have loved him for ages and now he will never know." "Never know!" That was not Mrs, Ogilvie's idea at all and the next pas senger ship to "the front" carried the two ladies on board, bound for a cer tain town in South Afrioa, where a hero lay woundod, but mercifully not "unto death." What passed at that first meeting who can tell? How Stella went into tbat hospital ward, and be, seeing her coming, could hardly believe the evi dence of his own eyes. "I b'ave come," she said simply, "jnst to tell you that I love you, that I have loved you nit along, and that I can't live without yon." The nursing sister is wont to de clare that it wan a mysterious thing the rapidity of Mr. LaScelles's recov ery dating from that visit, and soon after he was invalided home on sick leave. During the time ho was in England there came a day wheu Eugland's Queen distributed to her bravest sol diers some littlo irou crosses with tbe words "For valor" thereon, and the one whom she specially singled out to speak to him word no into would care to forget so long as bo lived was no other than little Lascelles, "tho Duf fer of the Rsgiineut." London Morn ing Leader. CRASSHOPPER CLACIER. ALBANY INDIAN 11ELICS. RARE PIECES OF WAMPUM FOR THE NEW.YORK STATE MUSEUM. Icy Tomb or TIiiiiiiiIs of tin Lung. lejtced Insects. There are many remarkable glaciers in that part of tbe Hooky Mountain uplift tbat orosses the southern bor der of Montana. A part of this region has hitherto been unmapped and its more elevated portions were unvisited and unnamed until last summer when a geographical party piloted the way up the mouutainsand discovered some of the largest glaoiers in tbe temper ate regions of the western world. Here rises Oranito Foak, which, ac cording to Mr, Gannett, is the cul minating point of Montana, 12,821 feet high. Among tbe glaoiers fonnd in these mountains and reoently described by James P. Kimball is Grasshopper Glacier, which derives its name from the enormous quantity of grasshop per remains that are fouud on and in tbe glaoier. Periodically the grass hoppers tbat thrive in the prairie to tbe north take their flight southward, and must needs cross tbe mountains. Their favorite route seems to be aorosi this wide glaoier, and in the passage scores of them succumb to the rigor of cold and wind, fall helpless upon the snow, and are finally ontombed in the ice. In tbe eourse of time bil lions of them have been tbe viotims of tbi9 glaoier. They are, of course, oarried by the ice river down into the valley and deposited at the melting edge of the ioe, and Mr. Kimball says that thousands of tons of grasshopper remains are tbe principal material at the lower edge of tbe glacier. We hear very often of rooks and sand as forming tho terminal moraiue of gla ciers, but here is o glacier whose principal morainal material is grass hoppers. These iusoot remains are wushod out of the ioe iu furrow wherever the suu's heat has grooved the surface into mulcts of descending wator. The grasshoppers permeate tho glaoier from top to bottom. No fragment ol ioo can be broken so small as not to oontain remains. Most of the iusocts havo been roduced to a coarso powder, and tbe furrows of them washed out by tbe rualets and naturally deposited in parallel lines are very dark iu color. The Sirdar. Kitchener's wonderful industry, bis undisturbed patienco, his uoble per severance, are qualities too valuable for a man to enjoy in this imperfect world without complementary detects. Tbe general, who never spared him self, oared little for others. He treat ed all men like maohines from the private soldiers, whose salutes he dis dained, to the superior offloers he rig idly controlled. The comrade who had served with him and uuder him for many years iu peaoe aud peril was flung aside incontinently as soon as ho ceased to be of nse. The sirdar ouly looked to tbe soldiers who oould march and tight. Tho wounded F.gyptian, and latterly tbe wounded British soldier, did not exuito his in terest, und of all the departments of bis army the one neglected was that concerned with the uare of tbe sick and injured. Tho stern and uupitying spirit of tbe commander was communicated to his troops, aud the victories which marked the progress of the Kiver war were aoooufpanied by acts of barbar ity, not always justified by tho harsh customs of savage conflicts or the lleroe and treacherous nature of the dervish. From tbe River War, by Winston Churohill. Not at Iloma to the Minister. The minister of a rather out-of-the-way parish on the borders of Wales is no great stickler for any form of eti quette, aud particularly wishes that his visit to tbe members M bis flock shall bo as homely aud informal as possible. Quite recently he called unexpect edly on a widow, who lives iu a oot tago ou the outskirts of the village and surprised ber in the midst of washing a lot of olothes. She hurriedly hid behind a clothes-hoi-Bo and iustructed her little boy to say that she was out. ' The youugstei opened the door to the visitor's knock. "Well, Johnny," said the parson, "aud where's your mother?" "Mother's not iu, sir; please, she's gone down the streot on au erraud," replied the lad, with questionable promptness. "Iudeedl" replied the clergyman, with, a glauoe at the bottom of the screen. "Well, tell her I called; aud say that tbe next time she goes down the street it will be tnuoh better that she should take her feet with her." Tit-Bits. a Beeent Aqnlsltlon Is the FIve-FIre Helt " of tbe Jroqaols l.n The Original OornplanUir Treatv Kallrs Obtained by Harriet Maxwell Converse. Within the last six months tbe New fork State Museum at Albany has bean enriched by a collection of Indian relics of great historical value. Theso have been sought out and pnrohased by Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse, assistant curator of the mnaeuni, who is learned in the lore of tbe Iroquois League and herself aohief by adoption and heritage in the Snipe tribe of the 3eneoas. As the Indians have come to know something of the value of their heirlooms it is by no means so asy now as it was a few years ago to toquire these relics, aud after the work of tracing them out, whioh is often a matter of no little difficulty, a ronnd prioe must be paid for them. The most notable acquisition of tbe collection is the Five-tiro wampum belt of the Iroquois League. This helt is, like most other wampum bolts, a document. It is of pnrplo wampnm, Ihe five council fires tif tho Soneras, Onondagas, Oneidas, Ciyugas and Mohawks, being represented by five diamond-shaped bits of white wam pum. The belt was always hold by the Keeper of. the Western Door of the League, whioh was at Lake Erie, the Kasteru Door being at Albauy. Chief Kly Parker of tbe Senecas, who wai President Grant's CommiiHioner of Indian Affairs, was the latit Keeper of the Western JJoor and held the belt in bis possession to the time of his death. Then, as the office was no longer existent, the belt weut to bis relatives, from whom Mrs. Converse bought it. By the use of a microscope traces of rod paint may still bo dis oerned ou the wampum, tbe paint hav ing been smeared there iu tokeu of war when the Leaguo split at tho out sot of the Revolutionary War, the Mo hawks espousing the cause of tbe British, while the other four nations remained loyal to their friends, the colonists. The wampum, whioh is in One condition, is strung on strips of buckskin and on sinews. Another relic of great historical value is the original of the Cornplau ter Treaty, probably the most impor tant Indian treaty ever inado in this jouutry. This treaty was ouaoted be tween the whites ou one side and the Indians on the other ropresonted by Oornplanter, tbe great peacemaking shief of thoSenecas, aud it put au end co tbe frontier war iu 17811 and out lined onoe for all tho boundaries of New York State, so that there was never more dispute between red men and white men on that point. It is signed by Cornplanter himself and the shief represontiug the other nations of the league. With it is a section of the Cornplauter wampum belt, about a foot long, which must always accom pany the treaty, to make it valid, and ib, iu fact, a sort of enacting flause. After the great peace chief's death bis daughter oame into possession of the treaty and for forty years she carried it, together with tho precious wampum belt, in a pouch made of elm bark, which she always strapped to ber back as squaw carries her pappoose. ' Mrs. Converse has been tryiug to obtaiu the documents fortwenty years, and she finally located 'thorn iu tho possession of Cornplanter's heirs in the vicinity of Warren Penn. Last Juno she weut to their borne, travel ing forty miles iu a springless lumber wagou over the mountains to got there, and found a large number of heirs who claimed part ownership in the treaty and belt. After a long pow wow terms were agreed upon and tbe money was paid over to the principal heirs, the others receiving presents to their satisfaction and Mrs. Converse considered her work all done when there appeared upon tho scene a youug Indian woman who heard of the pro jected sale and bad walked across a nearby mountaiu to put in her claim. There was no disputing that she had some rights in the matter, as ber grandmother bad already been paid, and she, as a descendant of that branob of the family, had equal rights. More over, she looked as if she intended to insist on them to tho utmost, so Mrs, Converse explained to her that tho Government's money had all been paid out and asked if she wouldn't ba satisflod with a small present. Tho squaw grunted solemnly and disdaiu fnlly. Mrs. Converse asked her if she had a house. She grunted assent. "Wouldn't you like some knives and forks for your house?" asked tho whito woman. "Ump," said tbe squaw. "Well, some pretty flowered calico; enough for two dresses." "Ump," replied the squaw. "Well, an axe, then," suggested Mrs, Converse, racking her brains for something to touoh tbe cupidity of ber adversary, "or some bright-colored blankets; colored like the setting sun," she concluded insinuatingly. "Uinph," said tbe squaw, "Xo good." "What do you want, then?" cried tbo white woman deapairiugly, foresee ing a demand for a rcuud sum of money. Tho Indian woman moved close up to her, looked her full iu the oyes aud said with dignitiod emphasis: "Four bushel seed potatoes." She got them aud the transaction was conolnded. The Jamison belt is a flue bit of wampnm commemorating Mary Jami scui, known to the Iroquois as the White Captive. She was captured while a very young girl iu the early part of the Revolutionary War, aud instead of beiug treated as a slave was adopted into tbe Wolf tribe of tbe Seneoas aud beoaine the interpre ter of the natiou. She was married to Jamison, an Indiau high in the oouncils of the tribe, aud after his death married bis brotuer. She was tbe mother of the Jamison meu who afterward booamo distinguished as in telligent aud influential Indians. Sho died in Buffalo in 1832 nnd the belt has remained with tho tribe sinoe her death. Part of it is missing, having probably beou out off aud sent away to. some hostile tribo as ransom for prisoners. Another pieoo of wampum from the Seneoas is tho Red Jacket belt, commemorating tho famous chief of that name. It is a condoleuoe belt of purple wampum, purple being the xplp.r.of mourning, with the Houocas. and was ascd on ceremonial funeral oocasions. Some of tho beads arc missing, having been bnrled with tin bodies of distinguished dead of th tribe. Very different from the other wam pum is a fino specimen of the ex tremely rare Dead Man's wampum whioh formerly belongod to the Al gonqnins, that fierce nation which for years was the bittor foe of the Iro quois League, nnd was finally over whelmed by the combined forces of the League. Thu relio is six foot long and is strung on colored ribbons of old tiake. The wampum beads are whito, and tho peculiarity of them is that instead of being tubnlar lik other wampum, they are circular They probably represent some impor. tant peace treaty. Mrs. Converse got them from the Mohawks who now live in Canada, who got the wampum many, years ago from some survivor of the Algouqnins. The history ol this relio is somewhat obsouro beyond these few facts. There are many other valuable relics of the American Indians in Canada whioh Mrs. Con verso heartily covets for tbe State Museum, but she cannot get appro priations to pnrohase them. She has found old troaty belts there for which the Indians want $1000. There is a formidable competitor in the field, the British Museum, which has been buying Indian relics and has already a very fine collection of wampum rep resenting Indiau history in New York Slate and adjacent parts of tho coun try. New York Sun." now to Sit anil llnw to Htunil. To nit gracofully is an art to bo iitrongly desired. To drop into a seat und bold it without awkwardness re quires practice, also strong, clnstio muscles iu the legs and wnist-lino. To n few people is given this control of (ho muBcles, but the majority of us have to learu it. Wo ull have to re member that unless tbe body is elas ticully supported at tho centre no po sition can be graceful. The art of rising gracefully is quite on important as that of sitting easily. The action should be confined to tho lower limbs and the flexible) muscular uplifting of tho body at the ribs. This is done by drawing tbe feet back to ward tbe seat, beuding the body for ward, with the head thrown back, un til the weight is over the centre of tho body, with loroible pressure on the ground with the muscles of tbe feet, accompanied by an uplifting of the body and straightening of tbe knee. The proper way to stand and offer the hand in greeting is to bold the body erect and easy, carry the right hand forward in a cirole toward tho left side, with the palm upward and parallel with the upper chest. Stand upon the left foot, bearing the weight upon it. Have the right foot free nnd slightly backward. Don't stand with the feet far apart or the elbows akimbo. Lawton's Midnight Episode. An officer who formerly served with Major-General Lawton iu the Fourth Cavalry recalled wheu the death of that bravo soldier was annouuoed iu Washington, au iucidentof his service in tbe West that was interesting. He was under the famons Mackenzie, one of the men who aohieved a high repu tation and command at an early age, nnd died miserably iu Washington in nn otiylnm. Lawton bad been out ou some scouting trip, aud returied to his quarters at Rosebud Agency be tween midnight and morning. On reaching his bed in the dark h'e found that it was oooupied. He shook the oocupant, but received uo response. Then seizing the intruder by tho leg, he pulled him out of bed and left him on tho floor, getting into bed without further formality. Next morning he was placed under arrest for disrespect to his commanding oflioer, and then learned that it was Colonel Mackenzie whom he had flung upon the floor with so little ceremony. This inoident did not hurt the brave fighter, but it kept np a coolness betweeu the commander and bis subordinate for a time. Law ton was not without a seuse of humor, and he came to enjoy references to tbe cause of his temporary humiliation. Mackenzie did not cherish any grudge agaiust Lawton on this score. The First Break For Modern Liberty. The whole history of tbe movement which resulted in the establishment of the Commonwealth of Eugland will be misread aud misunderstood if we fail to appreciate that it was the first modern, and not the last modiio val, movement; if wo fail to under stand that the men who figurod in it, and tho principles for which they oontended are strictly akin to those men and those principles whioh have appoared in all similar great move ments since the English Revolution of 1083; in tbe Amerioan Revolution of 1770, and tho American Civil War of 1801. We must keep ever in mind the essentially modern character of the movement if we are to appreciate it j true inwardness, its t-ue significance. Fundamentally, it was the first strug gle for religious, political and social freedom, as we now understand the terms. As was inevitable In such a first strnggle, there remained eveu among the forces of reform much of what .properly belonged to previous generations. In addition to tho mod ern side thero was a raeditcv.il side, too. Just so far as this mediioval cle ment obtained, the movemont failed. All that thore was of good and of permanent in it was "Uie to tho nor elements. Theodoro Roosevelt, in Scribner's. LIFE OFEOJillTREKKERS. REGARDED AS OUTCASTS BY THE TRANSVAAL BURCHERS. The Popularity of Fonoliiif. As it is scientifically understood, fencing dates from the early part of the sixteenth century. Henry III. of France was one of tho most notod fencers of his day, aud many cf bin successors wore export swordemcn. It is claimed that it reached tho highest point early iu the present century, during the years which followod the restoration of the famous houio of Bourbon to the French throno. The favorite system now is that of tho French school, and was founded on tho historical sword-play of Spaiu. In Italy, whore the fenoing-masters still retain the loug foil with its bell shaped guard, fencing is aliuoBt as popular with women ns iu Paris. The Italian school is also founded on tho Spanish system, aud its foil is a direct descendant of and clossly resembles the did rapier of Spain. Iu fact, the modern foil is modelled with sonio changes ou this same weapon. Har per's Bazar. Something About Their Mode of l,lf Thnlr I.aslnes and Dense Inornnce , A Trnliker Trilby Who 1'resenled an Unnsnnl Night. , "Tho Trek Boer is a living ex ample of the truth of the colonial saying that 'mouotouy does not barm a man with no braius,' " says Or ruond Lodge, in the Field. "Tbe life led by these people is hideous in its never-ending sameness. The families do not mingle together, aud there is none of that offhand sociability which is such a feature of the Trans vaal and Free State Boers. During my stay in Damaraland I came across scores of trokker families. Ou one occasion one of these family groups, consisting of a father, mother, two sons and a daughter, camped near the wayride store where I was staying. .Their mode of life was as follows: At daybreak tbe family would disengage themselves from tbe wagon, aud the Kaffir boy would come from his roost undor this conveyance and drive the stock away to feed. The 'old man' would then take up his position on a stool in tho lee of the wngou, and would rest there hour after hour, looking straight abend of him. The two sons would lie on the grass, pipe in, mouth, gazing up at the sky, but never exchanging a word; and the old vrouw would sit near by ou another stool, also busily engaged in doing nothing, the only one of tho family who ever worked being the daughter, who attended to the washiug aud cooking arrangements. Suoh a life as this would very soon turn an or dinary man into a hopeless lunatic; but these people thrivod on it. ! "The Trek Boers, though they be long to the same race as the Transvaal and Free State Boers, have held themselves apart from these others for a considerable period; but there is no doubt that the present 'diffi culty' will be the means of their unit ing together again, and, for a time, at any rate, burying old grievances in their mutual hatred of the common enemy. The Trek Boers are not con spicuous by their numbers, and merit interest moro from their personal habits and peculiarities than anything else. My first experience of a Trek Boer was during a trip I made into Damaraland. I had off-saddled one day by a stream to rest the horse when a troop of about a dozen cattle and a .couple of hundred sheep ap peared coming toward me over the brow of the hill. 'These were shortly followed by a wagtfn driven by a tall, white-bearded, old man, who walked alongside tbe oxen and urged them on. Tbe outfit arrived at the drift, the wagon was outspanned, and the inmates, consisting of an old woman, four or five young women and soveral children, alighted. "I have at times seen patrol tents made to bold two men provide shelter' for seven or eight, but I nover saw suoh a clear oase of overcrowding as this before, and I was watching thorn dismount, one after another, wonder ing whether thore were any more to follow, when the old man camo ovor and shook hands with me, I drew out a handful of tobaooo and we sat down together. He was traveling for the aake of his cattle and sheep, he told me; be lived wherever he might be when tbe sun went down. 'Oh,' I said, 'then you are one of the trekkers? 'Yob,' he said, '1 have al ways been a trekker.' His 'father came up from Cape Colony during the 'Great Trek,' aud bad not settled down as most of the others had done. Ho thought it was no use, ho addod, because as soon as be became com fortably settled he knew that the English Government would come along and drive them further inland, and be himself bad followed in his lather's footsteps. I looked at him as he said this, but there was no uspioion of saroasm in his face. "Presently the old vrouw, who had been seated on a footstool watching the girls make the fire, called out that the coffee was ready, aud I went over with tbe old mau and shook hands with the ladies. They were dressed in tbe most outrageous attempts at female apparel that I had ever seen, and their feet and heads were bare. One of the girls, about nineteen years old, was dresJie'd in a man's oorduroy coat and short skirt of what had origi nally been some white material; she bad out off tbe arms of the coat, pre sumably to give freer movemeut, and, taken altogether, presented an un usual sight. This young lady, after looking at me searohingly for a few moments, asked me where my wife was. I told her I had none. 'Oh, youliarl'sho replied, quite genially; but the old vrouw now tnrned her bead and said: 'Be quiet!' tnuoh iu tbe same tone with which one ad dresses a disobedient dog, aud the girl, to my great relief, subsided. "I sat down, and the old vrouw poured mo out a basin of coffee, and we got into conversation. My host in formed mo that he had left Bechuaua land when Sir Charles Warren's ex pedition went into the country, and bad to come to Damaraland with many others. Beohuaualand was a fino couutry for the trekkers, be said; the grass was good, and tho pans (pools of water) were at nico distances apart; but here in Damaraland there were too many trekkors, every rive and drift was crowded with them. 'Crowded?' I asked. 'Yes,' he said. 'I've seen three to-day,' and I won dered what would happen to tbe old man if be really did meet a crowd of poople. '"How long do you stay here?' I asked tbe old mau. He looked round at the veldt. 'The graBS is fairly good,' be said; 'I shall stay uutil the raina come.' 'And then?' I askod him. 'Ob, then I shall have to go from plaoe to place every other day to get the young grass as it springs up.' 'And wheu you settle down for any Eeriod, do you never build a rough ouse?' I asked him. 'I have never lived in a house in my life,' he said; 'I oould not sleep in one. No, we live in the wagou,' Tbe old woman was busily oooupied in baking bread in an oven formed by scooping out the inside of au ant-hill and making a fire in the cavity uutil the inside has arrived at a proper temperature, when the auhes are swept out, the bread put inside, and the opening covered up with sods of earth. She bewailed ber inability to giro me any bread, aa it was not yet baked, bnt offered to make me some crackers; this, how ever, I would not allow ber to do, thongb she pressed me again and again. Tbe old habits of hospitality, which are so marked all through the Boer nation, no matter what tbeir critios may say to the contrary, still bold good in these irresponsible wan derers. None of these people asked me for news of the outside world. Their world consisted of the piece of land their stock fed on. "I found out during my stay in the country that there were about 150 familie of Trek Boers in Damaraland, while thero are several hundreds of theru scattered over tbo New Repub lic in Zulnlaud and ne neighboring country; but their own people do not favor them, they look on them as pariahs and outcasts, who have uo stake in .the country, aud the trokkers have been' 'invited' on severs" occa sions to seek fresh fields.' The pres ent war in South Africa will spell ruin for mauy, atd the Trek Boer is per haps tho only inhabitant of tho coun try who could be in uo way affeoled by it were he to stand aloof; but blood is thickor tbau wator, and tboro is no doubt that he will niok alt former differences and rally to the aid of bis countrymen." CURIOUS FACTS. The first watchos were made at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1477. Tho chance of two finger-prints be ing alike is not one iu sixty-four bill ions. Mrs. William Swartwood, of Moun tain Top, Penn., recoutly gavo birth to ber twenty-fifth child. It is said that the peasant of the south of France spends on food for o family of five an average of twopence a day. The most extensive cemotery in the world is that at Rome, iu which ovor 6,000,000 humau beings have been in terred. Raleigb, N. C, has tbe largest pair of oak trees in tbe United States, when perfect symmetry of trunk and top is taken into consideration. Kites always carry odds and ends of what they oonsider ornaments to their nests. Among other things, pages of books have been fouud in them. On the big steamer Oceanio there is uo seat at the table marked No. 13, aud no cabin bearing tbat number. This is a concession to superstition. Originally clocks had only the hour hand, but tho minute band was added later, as it became fashionable to make the dials as decorative as possi ble. In the mails recently received in Milwaukee, Wis., were tbe ashes of a woman of that city who died while visiting Germany and was cremated there. A child was lost in tbo Blue Ridge Mountains and tbreo months later its dead body and that of the dog who was with, it were found. Both bad starved to death. Gems are said to be subject to dis ease. Sometimes these prove fatal, and the jewel dies. Some goms lose color gradually, others crack without any apparent cause. India's area of wheat farms is now about two-thirds as large as that of the United States. The wheat is still threshed by being trodden out by bullocks and buffaloes. Iu an old church in Herefordshire, England, there-are two thriving elm trees, which naturally sprouted from tbo pavement of tbe edifice, and stand one at eaoh end of a pew. At Munich there is a hospital which is entirely supported by tbe sale of old steel pens and nibs oollcoted from all parts of Germany. They are made into watcb springs, knives aud razors. The oldest resident of the town of Emporia, Kan., is J. P. Mather, who is said to be a direct descendant of Cottou Mather. Though eighty-five years of age, he goes daily to a gym nasium and exeruises on the bars. Whan Not to Keen Books. Sho deoided that tbe only way to ruu a bouse economically was to keep a set of books, so she made all neces sary purchases, inoluding a bottle of red iuk, and started in. It was a month later when her hus band asked ber bow she was getting along. ' "Splendidly," she repliod. "The system is a success, then?" "Yes, indeed. Why, I'm sixty-six dollars ahead already.'' "Sixty-six dollars!" he exolaimed. "Heavens! You'll be rich before loug. Havo you started a bank account?" "No-o; not yet." "What have you dono with tho money?" "Oh, I baven't got the money, you know. That's ruy what the books show. But jut mink of being sixty six dollars ahead!" "Urn, yes. But I dou't exactly soe " "And all in oue month, too!" "Of course; but the mouey? What has bocome of that?"; "I don't exactly know," she said, doubtfully. "I've beeu thinking of that, and I think we must havo been robbed. What do you thiuk we had better do about it?" He thought in solemn silence for a moment, aud then suggested: "We might stop kaeping books. That's easier thau compluiuiug to the police." Woaan's Home Companion. Her Mistake, The conductor taid there was room for a few more inside. At the Elephant and Castle, when the tram turned west, the oustomary coutingent of shoppers got iu, ouil there was an uncomfortable jam. But tho little rati kopt bis eyes on bis paper. Ho also kept his seat. "Pardon me, madam,'1 said a politt mau hanging ou to a strap to a ladj otuudiug beside him with au arnfful of paper paroels, "you are standing ou uiy foot." "I'm so sorry," said she. '" thought it belonged to tbe man sitting down." And then the little man's eyes wer lifted from bis paper, and she got tb seat. Pearson's. CilSli ENDEAVOR TOPiGS. JANUARY 21. Trained Nurses In Uerinany, Trained nurses iu Germau hos pitals get from f 75 to S200 a year, with board, lodging and all thoii clothea. Ccnd Ms. Ita. vl M0. Quarterly Missionary Meeting. Scripture Verses. Tbe rail of the dis ciples. John i. 38-45; Matt. iv. 19; ix. 9; x. 1 ; Mark iii. 14. The laborers call ed. Matt, xx. 1-15. Vs. 9 and 10 ftto tcd. Matt. xiii. 14. '5; John Acts xxviii. 25-28; Rom. xi. 8; 2 Cor. iii. 1 J. 15- I.cssnn Thoughts. With the consciousness ol God's pres ence romes also a conviction of person al Ktiilt. When a mnn sees the infinite holiness of God he sees at once lite in finite ini(tiily of his ojwn nature. livery man is a sinner when contrasted with the divine purity. Isaiah's conscious ness is the feeling of every man when lie looks into his own heart. The first impulse of the saved soul i to save others. Cleansed himself, he sees the need of the worM for cleansing, iind he feels within the call to proclaim -ahation to his fellowmcii. "Here am 1 ; tu1 lite." Selections. Let ts keep saying over and over lKai" 'his reply of the evangelic proph et: "l,lerc am I; semi me.'' Are tearlr (r in' demand? "Here am I; send me." Arc tract distributors wanted? "Here am I : send me." Do sirk -Terlc need watchers? "He;-.o am 1. send inc." Are the poor out in the slums famishing? "Here am I: semi me." A missionary is like a tree that ven tures far in the clear, ttnsiipportinK -n'r. but always lias a wider expanse of roots than of branches. He is "rooted and grounded in love." Wc arc but the chisel lo carve Hod's statues in this world. Umtiestionahly. wc must do the work. Our hands mtist touch men's lives and save llieni. Our lips must speak the words that shall convict sinners of their sins. , Not unto all the tuneful lips arc given. The ready tonue, the words so strong and sweet; Yet all may turn, with humble, willing feet. And bear to darkened souls the linht from heaven. ' C. K. Gospel Hymns. 8, -8, 31, u.t, tl:, 125. Gospel Hymn?, 1-4. 14!, l.ij, 150, 403, K)8, 15.V ( fronted Them. A new variety of the "everyday phi losopher" Is pictured by the Chicago News In the person oil a man who, It says, came racing down the Iron steps which led to the train-shed at the Northwestern depot, Just as a train was pulling out. He was stout and per spiring, and his arms were filled wltrt bundles. Everybody got out of bl way as he chr.Bed tho rear car down the long platform, some shouting ad vice and pleasant comment after him. Borne sportively inclined people offered bets in a loud voice on his chances of catching the train, and other laughed at bis grim determination. But he caught it and was hoisted up on tbe platform by a trainman without the loss of a bundle. He shook his fist at tbe cheering crowd behind him, and went Inside the car with the blessct sense of having won. It was only when the conductor came around for his ticket that be learned, that he was on the Milwaukee division train bound for Evanston without a stop, when he should have been moving to ward Park Ridge, which lies in a dif ferent direction. Most men would havo said something ugly. This man only smiled. "There's one comfort about it," said he. "Those Idlota In the depot will never know how I fooled them. They tninK 1 caugni me rigni train. MARKETS. rii.Tiuon. 7.1 30 2H 61 if 14 50 1350 no ll BTIt FLOnt-Bnlto. Hetrat. 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