RAR ar 20 is NE 06 AL INA LA E PN F04 Sv n the bi . hy be found: pie hig near the mill. : lekerel sy that ‘weighed "he wodthe very tree WEXE jive £ wy row the nord ate ron Ey oY i yr the Jove of youth, old Famili iar spot, solemn truth; a appeared at thie door. A nod was pn MN jehanged between the girl and the! chigltain, whose entrante was followed | dians stood in the room, each with painted face ond decked In the trap gipings of war. The sence was an | ‘broken for several minutdes, save for the spendy movements of the Iron > | upoom, which was grasped fn Abigail's quivering fingers. At Wmgth Nakomis, who had hitherto held Masel? friendly and ssid in a beavy, guttural tone “White man home? Makomis would have speech with him.” Nakomis spoke 8 litle English, and bad taught Abigail the few Indian | words she knew. “My father,” replied the young girl, looking the brave straight in the face, “in not far off He will be bore In a moment. What do you want with hte 7 “No toll ttle white face” returned the man, leering at Ler. “she ‘frald, fhe big coward. Whitty man coward | White man go” and he nidded wicks ediy, "1 kill Bim. Infuse t afl white nas scalp” and going toward the { irl, with his cruel eyes upon her face he laid one bund on his tomahawk and stretohed the other toward her. With a wild ery, born of the despera- tion of the moment Abtgall Stover mised the spoon filled with boiling tush, and as the Indian olmost had {her In his grasp, she dashed it full into | hip face. As he turned with a howl of & (tage and pain, she grabbed an from & | dipper from ita nall at the side of the {| hearth, filled it with the porridge and | flung It at the red man's neck and head or his a Farmer wn his fide from the {89 he fled through the door. The other Indians attempted to #4 the pow in. fariated girl, who knew she was Oght {ronsh foll fo bis eves and In a few door of the cabin, smarting with pala and rags, the contents of the kettle hoe Later on one was known to have disd from the results of his borne When Jonathan Sfover returnsd to kis home, secompanied by bis nelehs bors, in response to the four shots from the rife, Ablgall was lifting bes 1tla { brothers out of thelr places of sslfety. Roland as she sank limply nto her fath. ant ben you 3 nee when Are to finish putting up the house fot rms You know I'm | " she sdded, leugh-| even talk 8 little In : y. Jnghed Abigatl “stop | ou 1 have #0 much : King at we are folng to er ent T r 3 3 pire you, mi he and 7 Sesing fs we | ting an H kinds of geod 50 ; atid and lage admon. father, his heart fMled with ig , As be left his log cabin ward the unfinished bome Sover in company with party of Easterners, their wives -ehlidren, bad come into the wil is of Michigan seven mouths be- this, In the hope of founding was then the furthest he known West. After months ip and tol, the last house was ished on this day. and on the | W corn was to be planted in the ywhich these brave men ehildren.” said the older sister, tehing the father well out of i I see an Indian coming to. unt you both to hide as fast * feet will take you. If I see it.” she went on, with her about the mall brother, “I'll rap ¢ fireplace three times, and then to get out of sight as soon i Don’t go out of doors * we must stay close together ! day” And with a few more in ns, she Was soon about her to forget the dangers of Indians. iy wore an, and when the sun mted that the time was drawing for the father to return, Abigall kettles, hung them on the on the Water to heat for ) ‘ne forms to the hole under the floor, Fred for times of such er's arms, ashe sald with jin attempt at her ald "gnlety, “Daddy, we can’t have any mush for sapper.” This tncident happened twenty miles from where Detroit now is: sod by the stood, sn electric car swenps throogh the SURETY. —Dietroit Prea ress, Cott otion. finished in ae "asa botse-made ves sil, and therelh a typical product. Mr. FL. A. HII has pointed out In his mon. fograph on Boston commerce: “Paul Revere furnished the copper. boits and spikes, drawn from malleable Cop. por by a process then new, and . | Ephraim Thayer, who bud a shop at | the Bouth End. made the gun carriages | for the frigate. Her sails were made in the Granary buliding at the corner of and Tremont streets. No building in Boston was large nough for the purpose. There were then fourteen rope-walks in Boston, 0 taining cordage, and there was an (n- { corporated company for the manufac ture of safl cloth, whose factory was oft the corner of Tremont and Boyls by a bounty on its product from the General Court. This product had in. creased to 80.000 or 00.000 yards per annum, and is sald to Love competed | successfully with the duck brought from abroad. The anchors came from Hanover In Plymouth County. and a portion of the timber used in what was then looked npon as a mammoth ves. Er] was taken from the woods of Al lenstown, on the birders of the Merri. mac, fifty miles away. -— Atlantie Mouthly, ————————— A Ship on Shore. Mensa, a native African who accom. panied Mr. A. BR. Freaman on bis jour ney throug h Ashanti apd Jaman, seemed to regard all the hardships and Siscamrrts the party encountered as a Joke. He had once been a laborer of the other carriers. Mr. Freeman describes this joyous African as fol Iowa; As he ast on the ground devouring » plantain be would inform the as seimbled company that bo was taking incargo; then he would sit for a while and get up steam, and when the bugle sounded the advance be would rise and take up his load and start himself with a great ringing of fmagionry bells and loadly spoken orders to go full speed alead, and finally trudge off with bis machinery clanking and bis propeller thumping an imagivary ses. When we waded across the streams he usually took soundings with his feet, and announced the depth hy shiouting In genuine nautieal style: “And a half-five,” or whatever he con sidered the depth to be; and once, when he slipped over head and ears Into a swamp, he emerged dripping and grinning. lawling. “No sound: ings!" —Youth's Companion, "mri wii nesssiontiin er — Noted Shakespeare Folly Defaced. A Shakespearian student In the Ber Hin Royal Library has discovered thai the unique copy of the famous 1628 First Folie, which the Emperor Wil Ham I. presented to the library, has been completely mutilated by a care lens or malicious reader. The whale of out. It is believed that the loss is irre ¥ the Fist Folio are in Private hands, by another and another, noth six In- | toward the whites, sdvanced a step i hausted. While the patrolman 1s In a Lesught Carne around the neck with a ing for ber Hfe. but ss each turped toward ber he received the sending | seconds the jast ane of the sly jeft the | Cob Dock to the Broukisn Navy Yard, Coyne up to that thee had thought that | hg about evenly distritinted over the bodies of the half dozen Chippewas. § hunself, His cries were heard by two woos ‘Where the Stiover eabln then boat sway from him, and before Corker Then they returned rod aftir what eonld haog up bis hat He bud been drinking, be said, and fell of she | that there could be no difficulty in ob have a bad case of pneamsonia When | tan streets, and which was encouraged come” After that he remarked that had only hesded his cries be world | the breaking end of the page” Men oll a steamer, and was very found of | personnting a ship, to the amusement The Comedy of Errors” has been cul) a placeable, as the remaining coples of : 5 MADE BRAVE RESC UE YY HE clerks at Police Headqune. ters put anather mark against the name of Patrolman Mich. | yr nel J. Seyne, of the Delancey | Street Biation, and this added to one of the oddest records on their Looks Coyne in at Goyveneur Fospital, and the phiysictans say thet he will proba. | bly dereiop pneumonte. Flis condition | is the result of a hard fight he bad fa the East River to save a rian who had tembied off the pler. The rirnggie lasted Lal an hour and the pair were | picked up when they were nearly ex- | serious condition. the man Be saved is hore the worse for his ducking. Coyne was gt the foor of Corleses street at 11 o'clock thinking linrd over the fines that had been Imposed UG | him for all sorts of benches of &lach iy 3 4 G0 cloth, Trude on wove tgetier 8 roveh adetall for the animal, with sinidiar : reins, and springing inte her fathers! empty saddle she fearlessly urged the Horse into the double darkness and dan. ger of the Llizzard and the night. She knew that a ranch lay six miles distant aod In the direct outward track of the storm. Keeping the wind, thers fore, full at her back. she, desperate, but not despairing. pressed forwand upon her terrible ride. Now plunging and reeling, pow stumbling. staggering and falling. now down and Bow up. snow-submergel and bllezard-beaten, the gallant giv and the brave brute stragsled onward until, db through the densely driven snow, shone the lights of the saving ranch, the ranch to reach which wo | many daugers had been dared. so much sulferifny susisined Kindly hands and commiserating { Hearte eared for Trodehen the rest of hat plight and In the early dawn of next morning the herele ohlld rode amid the forswost of those Whe volun teorad to search for hor father. The pline. Bad deny thera CRIGe ik ory far bifzzard, however, &tili raged and the belp from the end of the pier. and the | policeman rashid over. The was in full uniform, asd an it was wet be! ware Lis Lig rubber bools and overcoat. Through the darkness Coyne sould ses & mean straggling in the swif] of the current, which at that point ruos like a mid race. WHMthout stopping for al monient, lie threw sway his ‘hat Ad | his club and Jumped in. A few strokes and the policeman was Bp Wo the drowning man and bad him by the collar. The man turned and death grip. Cove struck bis on the | Jaw and the hold was broken. Then be twisted his arms behind bis back and heb! Lin thos By this time the swing of the fide Lind exrried Loth men 8 hundred yards from the pler aud over toward the be was safe with Lis man Hut as the current bore bin out he saw that be wan ln grave danger and began to veil policemen from his awn stat] fom, Wil lam H. Corker and Joba T. MeQueeney, | The two ran to the fortgnt Jackson treet, where old Andy Coskley bas bis | tite saving station, The two policemen rut the painter of 8 boat and jumped io They had | nothing to pulde them but the cries of the men that eae through the dark. | Bes, Coyne was buiking against the tide, and by this tine was rear the Brooklyn side, The enrrent swept the 894 MeQueeney Loew It they were not | far away from the Brooklyn shore seemed an sire, picked pp Coyne and | bis man, boih of whom were almost senseless, The two were dmgped into (he baat and before the craft was started for the Manbarian sie first sid to the in. Jured was administered to Corne and the man he savml. When they got asbore an ambulance was sumisoned | from Gouverneur Hospital There the man sald he wan John Harkins a ia- borer, and that be lived wherever he stricgpicce of she pler while be slept. A few minutes after he was put to bed in the hospital he was sleeping sound- | 1y. as though nothing had happened. It was not so with Coyue. The po Herman had taken some water tno his fungx and seemed sure that be would told of the probable outcome of bia brave act be only sald “Well Jer 4 if the men on a Roosevelt street ferry. | baat and Pennevivania Raflread mg bave been pleked uy sooner. Coyne has a uoljue record. Me has been fined time and agnin for violations of the rales. and bas to Lis credlt a Hast of reseucs that has few equals. Devery fined him fifteen days ance And cuiled bim a “hum” anid a “ioafer”™ A few days Inter Coyne, st the risk of his Bife, saved a woman and foor ehildren from a burning house on Hester AiTeet He was up on charges sgain after that, 8nd Devery after looking hin over eritiomtly, sald that he would erg who koow Lim said that after his fear of last night Coyne was abut doe to £2t into trouble again --Now York Sun. HEROINE OF THE PLAINS The Lodge Pole Creek Valley, in the vicinity where the creck crosses the | Wyoming-Nelrasks State Une has al heroine amd she is Gertrude, the thir | teen-year-old daughter of the late John Groette and his wife, Gretchen On the 18th came the first wind and | snow of the approaching blizzard and Mr. Groette, foreseeing a biz storm started for sn outlyleg portion of his range to bring in a small bunch of his cattle, Trudohen with a prophetic pre sentiment of {moending danger, slmost | frantically entreated him not to gn | but the father laughed at ber “foolish | 3 gnow heaps SUH grow, the guest prov. ing froltiess for that day. All hope of Mr. Groetie's surviving the storm was now shandoned, and the | next search was pade for his body, which was fually found, lce-shrouded and snow-calfined Denver Times. sis CHARGED BY AN ELEPHANT. An elephant Sght, if the combatants be weil malched, frequently laste for #& day or more. The benten elephant riftretts temporarily, and is followed leisurely by the other. until by maton} consent they meet again. Tha mote powerful elephant cecnsionally Eseps His foe tn view £901 he kills Bim In “Wik Beasts of Indias” G. P. Randen son describes sn encounter with a de fiated ture: A shrill trumpeting and crashing ot Brmboos broke the stillness. and from the noise we Knew it was a tusker Sahl. Before we cold reach the srone of combat, one elephant uttered a deep | rinr of pals, sed crossed the muilah sume forty yards in adeanes of ui | Here he began to destroy a clump of bamboo in sheer fury, grumbling iy the while In rage aod pain, | wax stresining from a deep wound in i his Jeft side bigh up. He was as fairly iarge elephant with long and Mirly thick tuxkn His opponent most have ben a Gollath to have worsted Bim This tosker priwented a pletore af rage and power ax he mowad the ham boos down with truck snd tosks, and | trampled them with his forefeet Suddenly his whales demeanor clisnged. He hacked from the clump aid ston] like 3 statue. He hat went. ol us. The next moment forward | went Lis pars end up went hie tal 2nd in the same instant be whenled and hure straight dows upon us with as tonishing speed. The tamboos behind which we stond were useless aa cover. snd I stepped out into the open to got a clear shot. 1 Inve 3 shoul, Sapiag to step we manity so Jong as the religion of love, turn Bim, But in vain 1 fred when Le was nize paces distant, feeling oon. fident of the shot, hot | made & mistake in pot giving Bim both barrels The rnieke momentarily obscured the ele phast aad | dent down to ee where he lay. Good gracious’! He bad not even been checkad and was upan me! Thers Wits Bo UUme to step oF the right of the left. Fis tusks came through the | smoke Hike the rowenteher of a loco motUve snd 1 had just time to fall Bat to avold being hurled along In| front of Bim. I fell a lets to the right; the next lnatant down ecsme bis pon. | derous forefoot within & few inches of | ¢ up left thizh aod 1 should have heen | go trodden on had 1 not Bastily drawn my leg back fron the sprawliog posi tom fo which 1 fell As be reshed aver me he shricked sbrilly. hat fore tunately he wont on, for Bad hel stopped there was Do way of escape for me. 1 was coversd with Blood from the wound fotiicted br hia late an. agonist. This was one of the closest online 1 ever had In the wild life of the longle, HAD FIGHT WITH BALD BEAGLE, | The carcass of a huge eagle, which mimsures Dior than seven feet from tp to tip, Hes at Jobstown, N. J. a trophy of a terrible fight which Lloyd | Stewart and Frederick Obl young men, bad with the bird of freedom. The bind was seen by the young men on the outskirts of the village and they man. aged 0 wound it. Unable to fy, tha ; eagle showed fight, and savagely at- tacked its turmentors. The young men I Wire put ou the defetisive from the | start, and it le almost certain if efther {had been alone be would have been Kila Ax It was esol 18 coversd with i seratches end ets from the talons and [ beak of she bird. It pounded them with its pood wing and fought so sav. agely that several times they deoklad (tn give up the battle but the eagle { pounced upon them with resewed en cergy and compelled them to fight on feminine fears” and left the ranch oni for thelr ves. With clubs and stones his fatal Journer ter.” he cheerily called. “We will soon | “Good-by, daungh- | they fought for an hour and faally managed fo disable the huge bird and be together again.” “Good-by, dear shen its death was easy. father.” replied the weeping girl. “We | will upever meet again exvent tn heaven ™ The day of the 1Xth closed amid | sweeping wind and driven snow, Night! fame on tempest wings and with the | morning of the 19th 1he terrific blix. gard was at ite belgho Drearily, wearily, the day drew to a close and then, as the shales of falling | i pight thickened the sombre shadows | of the swirling storn, there came rider. less to the ranch door ber father's horse. Her prophetic fears were real | ized her father was perishing In the snow amd Belp and rescue must be ponzhit The horse bad lost his bridle and, YWhen the latile was over Stewart fam Obl presented a pleture of disas | iter. They were coversd with blood from head te foot and their clothes | were In tatters. They could bandly Lerawl to thelr homes. and had to ook {Tp a doctor t to care Tor thelr wounds. An: oma nat: Haw Tras This Is. Lead a perfectly worthless life. do pothing Dar amuse yourself apd if you ; | cotuplain bitterly of it, everyone will] think you respectably serious hur iff you onve allow it to be seen that you are content, why, thea your oldest friend cowes to see you, and will A | pothing but sold you for your frivel ity. —Lippincott’ » Magasine, The completion. of ¢ ihe extunsive port works at Coatraconieos, on the Gull, and Saline Crix en the Pheifie side. | connected by 8 well eanippnd ralirosd Across the narrow Isthmos of Tebnen. teper, promises to provide 8 shart routs for shipments to Pacific roast ports and the Par Bast that will be an ime portant factor long before thi question of an Isthmus eanal Is settid. The soe operation of the Mexican Chivernment | in the buliding of this transcontinental Hae ix a satisfactory guarantee that the extensive nndertaking will te ear | tied to a sucoesslnl end The loeatiog of a connection between the great ovens 18 8 question that does not af fect fo any great degree shipping be tween North Atlantic and Sogithern Pa. “ifie ports, bot when the gay ig in fae between Atiantle and Ouif pointe and Central and North American roast citles nod In shipments 6 Axa sre considered the advantages of hs north. £70 Touts are striking. From Pansma to Salina Creoz the div | tagce is 1308 wiles, which {8 nn ¢lear saving for fraight to sorilirs ports shipped via Tehuantenee. The saving | | will be made upon all shipments to} Central Amerfeun ports, varying in me | portance from 404 miles fo Janta Ares | ‘nas, Costa Rica, to 1002 milim to San Jose de Guatemala. From Ruilne Crux to Ban Fraoclsso the distance ix only | 2170 miles, and shipments to the Orient will save over 1000 miles by the nee | of the Mexiean rail transfer to the Pa. eifie In preferences to going through a Panama canal. It Is a fact pet gener Ally known that from New Orleans to} San Francisco by the Mexican fithmog Tr It 1s 100 milex shorier than Bar the line of the Southern Pacific Railway Whik | such shipping fneiiltion au it le Intind | ed to establish the Mexican shart ent | gerosx the Backbone of the sontinent will doulkiess divert mock curimeres | from aiirail Hoes. It will freon the! stare farnish an attractive ponte far the growing erport cotton fouls of fhe | Bouthern American Rintes tp the Orient. and it will a2 «ea hecnme a powerful factor in the develipment of Mexico's rich west coast .- Modern A wis WORDS, Tite's resis depend on rellgion’s $8vsla Ram's Hom, Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year Emerson. The road to roln is a down grade, not & leap over a preciples United Pres | Eyterian, The sweetest minsie Is not In ovations, bat in the human volee when it speaks from Ita instant fe fonew of tender puss, Ud and courage—~Elmm Car To be everywhere and everyting In sympathy and yet content 1 remain where sud what you sre—is not this te know bath wisdom and virtise and to} dwell wih happiness *-R I. Steven SOD. SG Nothing can lessen the dignity of ho. of unselfishness and of devotion en dures, snd pone can destroy the altars | of this faith for us so long aa we feel ourmives # capable of love -- Amiel's| Journal The greatest man is be who chooses | the right with fovineible resolution. who resists the sorest temptations! from wihin and without. who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is salmest In storras and momt fearless under menace and frowns, whose re Hance on truth, en virtue on flod Is mint eufaltering ~-W. E. Chunaing. It i» easier to see a fault tn another inns entrse than to perceive his good | uailties. Hence a man measures him. sei? by Bis measore of othe. The fault finder and the sneerer i dommon. fy a small man. As a reap approaches) ~Teatness hie grows generoun amd ora close. Not what he thinks of himself bat what ie sees Inn others, alnoys what he really fs. It is well to luvs this truth fn mind as we pass twdpient oo sur fellows Sunday -Sehoa! Times Ths Weeping Willow, “Dil your Know that all the weeping | willows in this conntry are descended from a twin planted by the stwpson of George Washington at his place at Abipgdon, a few miles fons Mount Vernoo® asked a treedover who has Just returned from: thede Interwsting estates. “It was this way: Yoong Custis, as a member of Washington's military family, sometimes curried measapes, under a fag between the belligirent commanders. In this ser | vice le became acquainted with a! young British ofesr. who Hike Sthers. bad come over with the impressio that the ‘rebellion’ wonld spasiily we | crushed aut, aod that he wend then settle on the confiscated lands of the! rebels. He had even heuaght a twig frots the weeping willow near Pope's villa, at Twickenhan, of a castle In Amwerion faded away he gave the twig tv John Parks Custis who, on bis return to AMozden tn the spring, planted [It pear Bly hopes It grew and flourished. Just bow it mul tiplied may be noted from one end of the country to the other.” --Pbiladel phia Becord. Gratelnl Party, A number of Parisians who were Mo the siege have decided to erect 8 monn ment to the meraory of the pigeon that carried the dispatehes that kept up communication with the oatside world, It will consist of 8 pedestal surmount ed by a bropme vase, on which will be cast a group of the birds that proved of such utility to the French The committees includes the pames of many well-known Hterary and scien. tide people. The gratitude cones soma what late, for after the war the pigeons in question were sold by suction aud | commemorated in pigeon ples, wareially | wrapped In olled sik As hin visions BOTH PLEASED. "Bo they are really in love? : “Yeu, indeed. Each of them regards the other as having been captored se der difflenities "New York Sun PROFESSIONAL COURTESIES. many guilty men do : you suppose you Barve saved ¥ Old Lawyer—"How many innocent men do you suppose you have killed? New York Sun. NOT FOR TRANSPORTATION. “He says he keeps horses snd a ean “Perbape be does, hut the horses are ey Coa —————pt wtataly carriage’ —New York Sun HOW SAD! Mr. Wiggine—"It tells bere how a ey- done out In America swept away an sutire town in one minute.” Mrs. Wiggins igloomily)-"And ft takes Mary Asn deif an bour to sweep the front stepa”-Tit-Bits. CLEARLY A NOVICE “This author doesn't seem to have wade his siark as yer? “What makes you think that™ “The pictare doesn't abow him with An elbow on his desk and resting his brow upon Bis hand, with a faraway. thoughtful look 1 his eyes.” —Clicagn UNREASONABLE estved anybody in his life” setd "Jou want me to give him J Guu} ssyseiel ate tie 8 Wiel him the rudiments of the business, your -Wastingtan Star. x COMFORTING A “Do yeu think that I am competent to 1 this Government position?” mid the “Don’t have a moment's doubt,” swered the Mend wha is rich in 1y experience. “Anybody Who is smart enough to get a political place nows- days is smart enough to 231 "Wash ington Star. “AT THE BOOKSELLER'S *1 don’t doubt that the readin’ of i's all right” sald the customer. “but 2 ain't the Book I'm looking for-the cover don't suit oe“ “My desr sir.” mil the bookseller, | “will you kindly describe just the book youre after™ “Well, to be plain with you, I wass a book that'll do'to put in a handsome sew bouse."—Atlants Constitution. We were goin’ to pisen that old anyhow.” New York Journal THE CHEERFUL IDIOT. “What " asked the Cheertul Idioe, ™g the difference bDetween a man ie Irregular at his work and the mil wealthy man's carriage horse?” “I don’t kouw.” weurily responded bis victim, “Because.” replied the ldiog, without the slightest ment, “one is docked because it's sent and the other is absent because 1g is docked-Ha, ha!"—Baltimove Azer oan,
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