SYMPATHY. 1. Over the glad, the green land, you have right h B t head bent low, none traveling too bit Sorrow; ile I, as if it were all another’s pain, et my poor words and few against your bitter morrow. IL O friend and loved, O living golden heart, No friend, nor loved am I, unless I wear Myself, this woe—dim out my sun—and leave. For you, who now bear all, some less and happier share. —Mildred McNeal-Sweeney, in The Century. ERE bbb bbbidb bbb dbb ddd ddd bb ib bib bbb bb bbb bb Ebb bb A Midnight Raid. By of W. THOMSON. Gleddebedodedod While residing in’ the Canadian Vil- lage of Chippewa, I happened one day, in July, 1864, to be detained very late at my office, on the south side of Chip- jewa creek, which discharges into Ni- agara river about two miles above the falls. The creek has two mouths sep- arated by Hog Island, which is some three hundred yards below the bridge by which I must cross to reach my |. house. Thirty feet from the south end of this bridge stood a large storehouse for bonded whiskey. The building rested upon piles driven into the bed of the stream, and its plank floor was about four and one-half feet above the water. Walking quietly, I had barely come upon the bridge when I heard above the drowsy murmur of the Falls a pe- culiar grating sound, coming appar- ently from beneath the warehouse. ‘What could it be? Leaning over the railing, I listened intently. The grinding noise seemed like that produced by a hand-turned auger bor- ing through soft wood. I surmised at once that scme one was about to tap the lower tier of whiskey consisting of the casks con- taining one hundred and tweniy gal- lons each. Who could it be? Probably smugglers from the American side ot the Niagara were at work, not buying their stuff, as usual, but stealing it. At this time the United States im- port duty on spirits was two dollars a gallon. Common whiskey could be bought at the Chippewa distillery for scventy cents per gallon in geld, and readily sold across the line for five dol- lars in greenbacks; so there was large profit in the contraband trade, even when the smugglers paid for the liquor. Men engaged in this nefarious traffic used to row down from the distillery to the mouth of the creek at night; then tow their boat up the Canadian side of the Niagara to a point opposite the head of Navy Island, push across to Buckhorn Island, and thence drop down to some previously selected spot on the New York Skate shore anywhere between Schlosser and Port Day. The smugglers always knew, by a prear- ranged shore signal, that no officers were in the way, and that a cash cus- tomer was waiting for the cargo. I had listened scarce a minute to the mysterious noise, when a chug was heard, then a renewed and sharper grating. So I know that the auger had gone through the three inch pine plank north er down river side of Hog Isl- and, was too near the rapids for any- thing except very light craft to try. Softly regaining the shore, I got a loaded revolver from my office, and then hurried away to the shanty of the duck hunters, and soon woke both. They readily agreed to help me, and brought their guns. “It’s sure to be the Schram boys,” said Bullamore. ‘No one else around here has grit enough’ for such:a job. Them fellers has got rich since ‘the. be- ginning of the war; but I'll be hanged if I thought they’d steal whiskey! Square, honest smugglin’ isn’t no great ‘sin, I s’pose; but out an’ out robbin’ —I didn’t b’lieve the boys would de- mean theirselves to that.” Ignoring Bullamore’s fashionable dis- tinction: between robbing a government and a private individual, I led to the cut, which was about one hundred yards long and fifty feet wide, separat- ing Hog Island from the mainland. We sat down under the clay-bank midway of its length. The night was not so very dark, but at a distance of ten feet the sharpest eye could hardly have dis- tinguished our gray-clad forms from the background against which they rested. We knew what the thieves must in- tend to do. Their scow was so heavily laden that they would, of course, not attempt to row it out on the Niagara here. They would tow it up the Can- adian shore a couple of miles, conceal part of their cargo and use their long sweeps to row the scow diagonally across to Navy Island, where they would probably send small boats for the hidden whiskey. So somewhere in the cut they must put a rope and two men ashore. The third would stay on the scow to steer it while ithe others towed. We patiently waited for more than half an hour. Then we dimly saw a shadowy black object floating slowly toward wus. Presently, on striking the current of the cut, it began to move faster, and we then saw a single row of kegs ranged on its deck. Two men were sitting on kegs; the third, nearest the stern, noiselessly worked a steering oar. In a minute or two as the craft was abreast of us and the steersman try- ing to put it in touch with our shore, we rose to our feet, and I said, “Land right here with that whiskey, men! I’m an excise officer.” ""o to thunder!” yelled one of the ¥s in reply. “Keep quiet, if you're ’s the Schrams, sure enough! That e's voice,” whispered Johnson. i he called out, “The game’s up, ! Run right in, or we'll fire on ullo, Bullamore! That’s nice work ou, isn’t it?” retorted lke. “Fire * and be hanged!” : :antime the steersman threw the ’s head toward Hog Island. our design was to capture the men out bloodshed, I now fired a pistol- over their heads. uess both sides can play that 3!” exclaimed one of the thieves, three revolvers cracked, while owner instantly crouched behind 1egs. mere chance, I presume, one of blindly aimed bullets grazed one allamore’s ears, which so incensed that he threw up his huge smooth- and pulled the trigger. Most of shot rattled against the kegs, but nothered and somewhat forcible ulation showed that a stray pellet hit one of the thieves. >t the boat did not sheer in to sur- ler. She was fast nearing the aty Niagara. We became frighten- fen, don’t throw your lives away!” plored, as we kept pace with the '. “Come in and surrender. If run into the river, mothing can you from going over the falls. ‘ou tend to your business and we’ll 1 ours!” was the defiant answer. 1 ose they did not know they were sar the river. But in another mo- . the clumsy hulk had cleared the nd entered upon the current of Ni- 1, which strikes against Hog Isl- and takes a sfrong outward trend. ubtless they thought they could, ightening their boat, work their diagonally up and across the m to a safe position; for now, as island hid them from view, we hear them pitching the whiskey oard and shipping their sweeps. ly one way, however, could they bly save themselves, iting his hands, funnelshape, ot aouth, Van Wyck, hailed— urn your bow down stream, you , and scoot ashore just below the ‘hannel! That‘s your last chance!” reply was made to this friendly :e end we heard the men begin to desperately. But not for one min- ould they hold their own against tremendous rush of water. A light needs strong arms there. Every nt they were swept farther down out, while the sound of their rap- r-strokes grew fainter and faint- was impossible for us to aid them. They would be at the head of the cata- tracts before we could bring a boat from the village and start to rescue them, which at best would be a desperate venturing of our own lives. The plash- ing of their heavy sweeps was still audible—but not long. Suddenly a sharp snap was heard, and we knew that one of the overstrained sweeps had broken short off. At this, break- ing their silence, they shouted again and again for help. Too late! No hu- man power could save them. We could not even follow them along the shore, because the broad creek intervened. Shuddering, we lis- tened to their ever receding shrieks. Presently these ceased, and all was still save for the steady roar of the Falls. “Poor critters! They're gone,” said Johnson, as we turned sadly away. “There was lots of good in them fellers, and two of them was married men. They must have swallowed too much of the whiskey, or they'd a’ known bet- ter than to go out in that tub. Drat ‘the whiskey trade, anyhow! I'm blamed if I'll ever touch another drop of the stuff; not duck huntin’, nor fishin’, nor no time.” “Bullamore, I'm there, too,” exclaim- ed Van Wyck, and they shook hands on it: On the afternoon of the next day, two men came over from Grand Island, in- quiring for the hapless smugglers. On learning the melancholy facts, the men went at once to the Whirl- pool below the Falls, whose circling eddies scmetimes carry to shore the remains of objects that have taken the great plunge. Here they found part of the broken oar, a fragment of the scow, one keg of whiskey intact, but no trace of human bodies. Indeed, the fearful rock-strewn depths above the whirl- pool do not always give up their dead. Having their worst fears thus con- firmed, the messengers returned home with the mournful tidings, leaving me to feel almost like a murderer, though I had acted from a strict sense of duty. For months I brooded over the events of that terrible night. Whether wak- ing or sleeping, the dying shrieks of the unfortunate men seemed ever ring: ing in my ears, and I now thought of a dozen different ways in which I might have averted their fate. Vain regrets! The mischief was already done. Late in November of that year, I heard that the wives of Isaac and Moses Schram, whose mourning for their departed husbands had been, my informant said, extremely violent, but brief, had sold off their household ef- fects and mysteriously disappeared. For unknown reasons the widows had so artfully covered their tracks that no one was able or cared to trace them beyond Buffalo. I could not have told why this news comforted me, but it did, and I gradually recovered from my depression. One October afternoon, six and a quarter years afterward, I was sitting in the office of a Minneapolis hotel, when I noticed a respectably dressed farmer-like man glancing alternately at the register and at me. After a few words with the clerk, he seated himself by my side, making some commonplace remark about the weather. He seemed a well-informed, agreeable fellow, and we were soon en- gaged in conversation. By-and-by, apropos of field sports, he said,— s “Stranger, the clerk tells me you're out on a shooting trip. Now, I live about twelve miles out of town, and we're just overrun with prairie-chick- ens. If you like to come out and put up with us, it won’t cost you a cent and you’ll have loads of fun.” “Thank you—glad of the chance,” said I. “And what is your name, my friend!” for he had repeatedly used mine. “Well,” he laughingly replied, “if you call me Peters you won’t be far out of the way.” Soon I jumped into Mr. Peters’ spring wagon and away we went, behind a pair of lively trotiers. After an hour and a quarter’s delightful spin my driver stopped beside a handsome farmhouse, and ushered me into the great, cheery kitchen, where a bright- faced woman was busied in preparing supper, while two sturdy-looking men each dandling a child on his knee, sat waiting. “Do you know who this is, boys?” asked my conductor, as both rose. The men had no more than glanced at me thon they placed the babies on the floor, rushed across the room and warmly grasped my hands, while one of them fairly shouted,— “Guess we do, Pete! It’s the man that did us the best turn of our whole lives!” Then the woman, who had been cook- ing, and ancther one, who had mean- time come in, heartily joined in the hospitable greeting. i” “Friends,” I said, “you must mistake me for some one else. I never before saw one of you. What good could I have ever done you?” The women laughed merrily. “Tell him, Pete,” said one. Then, Mr. Peters, s'raightening his face said,— “We three men are Ike, Mose and Pete Schram!” At this astounding: announcement, such a feeling of joy thrilled me that, for a time, I could not spzak. At last I managed to exclaim,— “Why, men, what miracle is this? It is more than six years since the Schram brothers went over Niagara Falls.” “No they didn’t,” said he. “Pete got a couple of duckshot in his shoulder from Bullamore’'s gun, that’s all. We managed more by good luck than any- thing to land on the middle edge of Sireet’s Island, which is actually in the rapids! “Then,” he went on, “we shoved the boat off and let her go over the Falls, on purpose to make you folks think we’d gone too, for we knew our profit- able trade was knocked in the head, as we could. never go back to Chippe- wa: to buy whiskey, after being such fools; as to steal a cargo. "“So we made up our minds to clear out’ secretly to Minnedcta. We wrote to our wives by a roundabout way and bought this six hundred and forty acre section of land, and finished paying for it as soon as the women came with the bulk of our mcney. But that time we had the house ready for them. “The land was wild prairie when we bought il; dur you see, we've made a splendid farm of it. We're well fixed for everything; we're leading straight, honest lives and are as happy as any folks can be. All of this has come about because you scared us away that night.” “But, Mr. Schram,’ I asked, “how did you know that ‘twas I who tried to ar- rest you? You couldn’t see me.” “Why, man alive, don’t you remem- ber saying, ‘I'm an excise officer? We'd seen you around the distillery scores of times, toe. Do you live in the old vil lage yet? ” : “No, I removed to the country town some time ago. But Bullamore and nol, seen them for a couple of years, though. They're prospering since they turned teetotallers.” : . “Teetotallers! Well, that is news,” exclaimed Ike. “We sent old Bulla- more and Vert each a good breech- loading duck-gun last year. More than that; we've paid the Chippewa distil lers full price and the Canadian excise duty on all the whiskey we stole that night.” “Good for you,” said I. “Better still; we're sending ‘con- science money’ to Uncle Sam’s treasury every month now, and we’ll keep it up till all our smuggling’s paid for. We know to a cent what the debt was to begin with, When we're square with all the world, then we’ll come to life again. Now, mohter, let’s have sup- per.” Nowhere could be found a happier paily than that now gathered about the table. The two handsome matrons —sisters, it seemed—had consigned Ike and Mose junior to their respective cribs and did the honors with charm- ing heartiness. I stayed two weeks with my hospita- ble friends, and had “a good time” in- deed, as well as the best of chicken- shocting. So the whiskey stealing mid- night raid had not turned out very badly after all. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. As a rule, the modern battleship is out of date after fifteen years. Growers of the cocoa bean in South and Central America are planning a trust to control the price of cocoa. The following is the shortest sen- tence containing all the letters of the alphabet: Pack my box with five dozen liquor juz. Vladivostok, the principal Russian port in the Far East, possesses a well-protected, landlocked harbor, with from thirty to ninety feet of wa- ter over an immense area. South Africans are distinctly. an oatmeal-eating people, over $300,000 worth of this American breakfast food being imported annually intql South Africa. At the woman suffrage bazar, re- cently held at the Hotel Martha Washington, in New York city, the receipts for the two days and even- ings were over $900. The government of South Australia has recently purchased 1,600 acres of land for the purpose of encouraging and demonstrating the best modern methods in dairy farming. Cuba imports annually about 150,- 000,000 feet of yellow and white pine, 80 percent of which comes from the United States. No suitable building lumber grows on the island. French walnut growers in the neighborhood of Grenoble have form- ed an association to maintain the rep- utation and guarantee the quality of the walnuts commonly known as “Grenobles.” In England, in 1907, there were enacted by Parliament 256 laws con- tained in 700 pages of printed matter. In the same year in a single American state, New York, there were enacted 754 separate laws, occupying 2,500 pages. : México has now in operation a me- tallic cartridge factory with a daily capacity of 50,000 cartridges. The factory, which was constructed on the historic plains of the Molina del Rey, contains machinery of the best model in the world.. It is difficult to estimate the total loss on the Scottish grain crop of this season, but if we put the deterioration at the quite moderate figure of £2 an acre for 90 percent of the lands under crop, the total is a sum considerably over £2,000,000. Old-time barristers in England did not openly receive fees for their ser- vices. An early method of collecting fees was the pocket which in mediea- val times a barrister used to have placed in the back of his gown, into which the solicitor would surrepti- tiously slip the fee. A Real Genius. Knicker—So Cutlate has a good scheme? Bocker—Yes, he starts a phono- graph striking ten when he gets home. —New York Sun. Vert Van Wyck are theré yet. I have’ PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Take time by the forelock—Swift. A light heart lives long.—Shakes- peare. Be wise today; ’tis madness to de- fer.— Young. " Arms and laws do not flourish to- gether.—Caesar. The cock often crows without a victory.—Danish. Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back.—Ben Jonson. How use doth breed a habit in a man.—Shakespeare. He bears misery best who hides it most.—Shakespeare. A patient mind is the best remedy for affliction.—Piatus. In the place where the tree falleth there shall it lie.—Bible. Silver is of less value than gold; gold, than virtue.—Horace. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.—Pythagoras. Among the virtueus disgrace is con. sidered before life.—Euripides. "Press on! If fortune play thee false today, tomorrow she’ll be true.—Park Benjamin. First relieve the needy; then, if need be, question them.—Rule of the Benedictines. TR, The best way to get a. girl tolike you ‘is to get her brothers not to.— New York Press. : . : Sometimes a widow’s heart is tend- er when warmed by an old flame.— Milwaukee Journal. Man, let the evolutionists remem- ber, advances and rises. The beast does not.—Goldwin Smith. Precepts often heard and little re- garded lose by repetition the small influence they had.—Herbert Spencer. A girl wants to stay in bed when she has a cold so that men can’t see the red nose that goes with it.—New York Press. The best way for a woman to find out how good a temper her husband hasn’t is for her to let him hunt his own shirts in the morning—New York Press. A PAIR OF MYSTERIES SOLVED. Mr. MacSwilliger Now Knows the Fate of Old Trunks and Suit Cases. “I used to wonder,” said Mr. Mac- Swilliger, “what become of all the old leather trunks and suit cases and handbags and that sort of thing. Of course they must wear out and be thrown away, but you never saw an old leather trunk on the rubbish carts of the Street Cleaning Department, did you? “I never did, never; and still they must go somewhere; and I wondered where. Now I know, or I think I know. They go into meat pies and the stews and things that you get in boarding houses. I used to wonder where they got the beef that they put into these pies, it was so tough; but now I know. They buy these old leather trunks and cut em up into suitable sized chunks and make this leather beef up into meat pies. “It is true that I never yet found in a boarding house meat pie or beef stew a trunk lock or a piece of a hinge or any rivets or corner clamps or other trunk hardware, but it isn’t necessary for me to find these things in the pie to know; there’s a whole lot of things that we may not be able to get any actual proof of that we know just the same are true, and this is one of them. “I may not find any buckles or keys or casters in my meat pie, but I don’t have to; I know what the meat in the pie is made of well enough to satisfy me, and this is to me a great, in fact a double satisfaction. I know now where the boarding house keepers get the meat for these pies, and T know also what becomes of the old hand- bags, suit cases and leather trunks.— New York Sun, The Halcyon. The kingfisher is the halcyon of the ancients, who attributed to its spirit after death the power of directing the course of the winds. The week pre- ceding and the week succeeding the winter solstice comprise the fourteen days that were known as the halcyon days, and it was during this time that the sea always remained extraordi- narily calm in order that the king- fishers might more easily build their strange nests. To their dead bodies was attributed the power of giving peace and plenty as well as strength and beauty and all the necessaries of a happy existence. They were also supposed to be able to turn aside the thunderbolts and therefore any house in which one was kept was perfectly safe from light- ning. In some parts of France even to this day they are often called “moth birds,” on account of the supposed power which their dead bodies have to drive away and keep away moths from woollen cloths.—Suburban Life, Nearly a Hero, “Hands up!” The passengers on the Pullman car took in the situation at a glance, and did exactly what the train robber told them to. 2 At the point of his gun, he relieved them of their valuables. But at the sight of one woman, he paused with a start. ‘Who are you, woman?” he demand- ed. “I,” she quavered, “am Miss Fay de Fluffle, the well-known actress. Here are my jewels—take them all!” “No,” he replied, “I may be a rob- ber, but I am no press agent. Keep your wealth!” LUNG HEMORRHAGES (I TOOK PE-RU-NA.) 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One-half a bottle took the pain and swelling out.” Turkish Mines. The mineral wealth of Asia Minor is proverbial. In the Vilayet of Sy- mrna there are about 60 mines being worked under firmans and 75 under licenses. On the shores of the Black Sea the coal fields of Heraclea form an actual source of vast potential wealth to the Turkish empire. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis- ease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and thatis Catarrh. Hall’sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cureis taken inter- nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the s stem, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con- stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. 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