FOE , BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STOR'ES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
A Letter from a Cot Saw Il'wrsclf in
the Mirror A Queer Indian iLegcnd
Itcnnlni ; from Death , n Strange Story
from Ono of Our Seaport Towns ,
Letter from n Cat.
Dear Editor : I hereby take
My pen In paw to say ,
Can you explain a curious thing
I found the other day ? .
There Is another little cat
Who sits behind a frame ,
And looks so very much like me
You'd think we were the same.
I try to make her play with me.
Yet when I inew and call ,
Though I see her mew In answer ,
She makes no sound at all.
And to the dullest kitten
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It's plain enough to see ,
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That either I am mocking her ,
Or she is mocking me.
It makes no difference what I play ,
She seems to know the game ;
For every time I look around
I see her do the same.
And yet no matter though I creep
On tiptoe lest she hear ,
Or quickly dash behind the frame ,
She's sure to disappear !
St. Nicholas.
An Indian Legend.
A curious legend , which we are told
5 that the Indians believe and relate to
, this day , is about a huge natural spire
of weather beaten sandstone , which
rises sheer and stark eight , hundred
feet from base to top. This natural
obelisk is In Arizona , in Dead 'Man's
Canyon , and is called "The Spider's
Tower. "
It happened , manr centuries ago.that
one of the peaceful cave dwellers was
surprised azd pursued by a , hostile
tribe , and driven into this canyon. On
and on he fled , vainly seeking a hid
ing place in which to take refuge.
The enemy was steadily gaining up
on him , and his strength was nearly
exhausted , when , coming near to this
huge pillar of stone , he descried a sil
ken cord hanging from the top of it.
With trembling hasie he fastened
one end of the rope to his belt , that
his enemies could not reach it , and
taking fast hold of it as high as he
could reach , he began to climb , hand
over hand , resting his feet in the jag
ged rock.
Nearer and nearer the hostile band
came , but when he had gained tb.3
summit of the rock , their arrows could
not reach him , for the protruding
edges protected him. Many days they
waited for him at the base , but he fed
upon dew and eagles' eggs and defied
their siege.
And when at last they departed , and
he returned to earth by means of the
silken cord , he had learned that a
spider , seeing his distress , had spun
this cord of extra strength , and fasten
ing one end to the rock , had dropped
the other that he might be saved.
For , like all the brute creation , the
spider loved the quiet cave-dweller
better than the unmerciful hunters ;
and it was In gratitude to his preserver
that the Indian told his story to his
tribe ; and you , to this day , may visit
the spot and see the "Spider's Tower. "
Sly Mr. Coon.
Mr. Goodrich , of Potter County , Pa. ,
missed a great many of his chickens ,
and one night not long ago he hid
near his henhouse' to catch the thief.
He had not waited long when he saw
a four-footed coon come stealing along
the fence and squeeze In at a small
hole near one corner , which he had
not noticed before. As soon as the
coon was safe inside Mr. Goodrich
clapped a big stone over the hole and
went inside to capture the coon , and
closed the door after him. Through a
window in the henhouse the moon
light came in so that he could see
plainly all over the floor , but he could
not find the coon any place , and had
almost made up his mind that it had
found some other way out when he
chanced to look up at the roosts , where
the chickens were sleeping , and saw
two great eyes staring at LIm out of
the dimmest corner. The coon had
slipped up on the roost among the
chickens , thinking that perhaps Mr.
Si. Goodrich would not see him. At first
he had his back turned , but he was
curious and had to see what was go
ing on. And tLat is why he get caught.
Running from Death.
In one of our seaport towns lives
a mother who determined that , what
ever happened , her son should never
be drowned. Her father was a sailor ,
and was drowned at sea. She lost
her husband and her brother in the
same way. The horror of the great
deep was upon her. Only those that
have lived by the sea know what this
terror is. To guard her only son from
a watery death became a real passion
with her. The thought qualified all her
plans for his future and kept her in
ceaseless watch of his movements.
As the boy grew he was not allowed
to paddle in boats or to leara to swim ,
and when he was old enough to earn
his own living his mother sent him to
an inland town in the neighborhood of
Boston.
"When you get started , " she said , to
"I will come and live with you. I
don't ever want to see the water
again. "
It was not long before the young
man found work as a teamster. His
work was satisfactory to him and to
his employers , but one day the horses
took fright and ran away. The heavy
wagon swerved and upset upon a plank of
bridge , under which a little stream
flowed. The driver was struck , and
becoming unconscious was hurled intc
the brook. The water barely covered
him. He was drowned.
There Is an ancient Jewish proverb ,
"Wheresoever a man is destined to die ,
thither will his feet carry him. " A
curious corroboratlon of this saying la
related In the Talmud. On one occa
sion King Solomon , attended by his
two scribes , met Azrael , the angel of
death. Seeing that the angel's coun
tenance was sad , Solomon inquired the
reason , and was told that the king's
scribes had been demanded at his
hands. On this , Solomon transported
his two favorites to the land of Luz ,
where , according to a current legend ,
no man ever died. The next morning
Solomon beheld Azrael again , but this
time the angel was laughing.
"Why do you laugh ? " demanded theP
king , surprised.
'Because ' , " he answered , " 0 King !
You have sent these men to the very
place whence I had been ordered to
fetch them. "
To live one's life naturally and
righteously , without faithless worry
and fret , is both good sense and good
religion. Over-anxiety not unfrequent-
ly Invites the very disasters that imagination -
agination dreads. Youth's Companion.
Till * Cat Works.
Near Stockton , Cal. , is a cat by the
name of Bildad , whose mistress , Miss
Angle Eddes , also owns some almond
trees. When these nuts are ripe , and
start to fall , Bildad begins work. His
mistress sets a large basket out in the
almond grove , and goes back to the
house. Then Bildad picks up all the
plump brown nuts , and carries them
to the basket , never stopping till it is
full , when the useful cat goes in and
pulls at the apron of its mistress to let
her know that it should be emptied ,
so Bildad can fill it again. Bildad also
churns. Mr. Eddes has' made a treadle
to work the churn , and upon this Bil
dad stands and churns away. The cat
can tell by the sound of the milk when
the butter has come , and strikes with
his paw on a little bell to let his mis
tress know that he Is through. Besides
all this Bildad plays and enjoys a
romp as much as any other cat.
Horses That Count.
A Russian doctor has spent a great
deal of time finding out how much ani
mals can count , and has found that
horses can count more numbers than
any other animals. He has found that
a parrot can count four , a cat six ,
crows ten and some few dogs twenty.
But he found horses that could count
more than this. One would plow across
a field 20 times , and would then stop
and rest , but it never stopped at 19 or
21. Always just 20. Another horse al
ways counted the miles along the road
by the white mile posts that were set
up , and stopped every 25 miles , as it
had been taught to do , to be fed. An
other one was always fed when the
town clock struck 12. When the clock
struck 11 it would lift up its head and
listen , but when the bell had stopped
would again droop its ears. But when
the clock struck 12 it always neighed
loudly for its dinner.
Hear Liked Sugar.
In a Vermont maple sugar camp ,
owned by a Mr. Forsythe , the owner
this spring often missed cakes of the
maple sugar which had been set out
in the snow to harden. For a long
time the men at the camp watched for
the thief , but never caught him , until
at last one day they found bear tracks
leading away from the camp , and fol
lowed them until they came to a cave
in the hillside. Mr. Bear was not at
home , but in one corner of the cave
they found their cakes of maple sugar
neatly piled up. Mr. Bear had hidden
away nearly 200 pounds of the sweet
stuff , and when they went to carry it
away they met him coming through
the woods , walking straight up on his
hind feet like a man and carrying more
sugar in his arms. When he saw the
men he did not wait to be shot , but
dropped his sugar and ran away like
any other thief.
AViso Squirrels.
In Kansas City there is park which
is near a school , and in the trees of
this park are many squirrels. All day
long they frisk and scamper about ,
with their bushy tails up over their
backs , peering around the limbs of the
trees with their little , beady eyes , at
the grown-up people without a bit of
fear. But as soon as they hear the bell
for school to let out they scamper for
their nests , and by the time the first
boy is out of the door there is not a
squirrel to be seen. The wise little an
imals know that when the bell rings
the boys will come out and stone them.
More than this , the squirrels have
learned never to show themselves on
Saturday. This speaks will for the
smartness cf the squirrels , but it
speaks badly for the Kansas City boys
Long-Lived Prime Ministers
Speaking of Lord Salisbury , who en
tered on his 70th year February 3 , the
London News says for a British states
man he can hardly yet be considered
an old man. He is younger than Sir
William Harcourt by some three years ,
and he has colleagues in his cabinet
who are his seniors. Moreover , meas
ured by the duration of the life of the
queen's prime ministers , his career
should have still many years to run.
The cares of office seem to be favorable
longevity. Peel's career was short
by a tragedy , and Melbourne did not
live to a great age. Other of her
majesty's premiers , however Lord
Aberdeen , Lord John Russell. Lord
Palmerston , Lord Derby , Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Disraeli , all exceeded the al
lotted three-score years and ten. Lord to
Salisbury is one of the oldest members
parliament , having entered the
Commons so far back as 1S53 as Con
servative member for Stamford.
TALMAGE'S SERMON ,
THE BRIDE OF NATIONS , LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
From Chapter LXII of Isnlau , Verse Iv ,
as Follows : "Thy Land Shall Be
Married" The Republic Is Cursed by
Greedy Monopolists.
( Copyright ISM by Louis Klopsch. )
As the greater includes the less , so
does the circle of future joy around
our entire world Include the epicycle
of our own republic. Bold , exhllar-
ant , unique , divine imagery of the text.
At the close of a week in which for
three days our National Capitol was a
pageant and all that grand review and
bannered procession and National An
thems could do , celebrated peace , it
may not be inapt to anticipate the time
when the Prince of Peace and the Heir
of Universal Dominion shall take pos
session of this nation , and "thy land
shall be married. "
In discussing the final destiny of
this nation , it makes all the difference
.
in the world whether we are on the
way to a funeral or a wedding. The
Bible leaves no doubt on this subject.
In pulpits and on platforms and in
places of public concourse , I hear so
many of the muffled drums of evil
prophecy sounded , as though we were
on the way to national interment , and
beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre
in the cemetery of dead nations our re
public was to be entombed , that I wish
you to understand it is not to be obse
quies ] , but nuptials ; not mausoleum ,
but carpeted altar ; not cypress , but
orange blossoms ; not requiem , but
wedding march ; for "thy land shall be
married. " I propose to name some of
the suitors who are claiming the hand
of this republic. This land is so fair ,
so beautiful , so affluent , that it has
many suitors , and it will depend much
upon your advice whether this or that
shall be accepted or rejected. In the
first place , I remark : There is a
greedy , all-grasping monster who
comes in as suitor seeking the hand of
this republic , and that monster la
known by the name of Monopoly. His
sceptre is made out of the iron of the
rail track and the wire of telegraphy.
He does everything for his own ad
vantage and for the robbery of the pee
ple. Things went on from bad to
worse until the three legislatures of
New York , New Jersey , and Pennsyl
vania , for a long time Monopoly de
cided everything. If Monopoly favor
a law , it passes ; if Monopoly oppose a
law , it is rejected. Monopoly stands in
the railroad depot putting into his
pockets in one year two hundred mil
lions of dollars in excess of alt reason
able charges for services. Monopoly
holds in his one hand the steam pow
er of locomotion , and in the other , the
electricity of swift communication.
Monopoly has the Republican party in
one pocket and the Democratic party
in the other pocket. Monopoly de
cides nominations and elections city
elections , state elections , national elec
tions. With bribe he secures the votes
of legislators , giving them free passes ,
giving appointments to needy relatives
to lucrative position , employing them
as attorneys if they are lawyers , carry
ing their goods 15 per cent less if they
are merchants , and if he find a case
very stubborn as well as very impor
tant , puts down before him the hard
cash of bribery.
But Monopoly is not so easly caught
now as when during the term of Mr.
Buchanan the legislative committee in
one of our states explored and exposed
the manner in which a certain railway
company had obtained a donation of
public land. It was found out that thir
teen of the senators of that state re
ceived $175,000 among them , sixty
members of the lower house of that
state received between $5,000 and
§ 10,000 each , the governor of that state
received ? 50,000 , his clerk received
| 5,000 , the lieutenant governor received
§ 10,000 , all the clerks of the legislature
received $5,000 each , while $50,000 were
divided among the lobby agents. That
thing on a larger or smaller scale is
all the time going on in some of the
states of the Union , but it is not so
blundering as it used to be , and there
fore not so easily exposed or arrested.
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I tell you that the overshadowing
curse of the United States today is
Monopoly. He puts his hand upon
every bushel of wheat , upon every sack
of salt , upon every ton of coal , and
every man , woman and child in the
United States feels the touch of that
moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in
twenty-four states of the union already
anti-monopoly leagues have been es
tablished. God speed them in ti3
work of liberation.
I have nothing to say against capital
ists ; a man has a right to make all the
money he can make honestly I 'nave
nothing to say against corporations as
such ; without them no great enterprise
would be possible , but what I do say is
that the same principles are to be ap
plied to capitalists and to corporations
that are applied to the poorest man
and the plainest laborer. What is
wrong for me is wrong for great cor
porations. If I take from you your is
property without any adequate com
pensation. I am a thief , and if a rail
way damages the property of the people
ple without making any adequate com
pensation , that is a gigantic theft.
What is wrong on a small scale is
wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in
England has ground hundreds of thou
sands of her best people into semi-
starvation , and in Ireland has driven
multitudinous tenants almost to mad
ness , and in the United States proposes to
take the wealth of sixty or seventy
millions of people and put it in a few
silken wallets.
Monopoly.brazen-faced , iron-fingered ,
vulture-hearted Monopoly offers his
hand to this republic. He stretches it
out over the lakes and up the great
railroads and over the telegraph poles
of the continent , and says : "Here is
ray heart and hand ; be mine forever. "
Let the millions of the people North ,
South , East and West forbid the bans
of that marriage , forbid them at the
ballot-box , forbid them on the plat
form , forbid them by great organiza
tions , forbid them by the overwhelm
ing sentiment of an outraged nation ,
forbid them by the protest of the
Church of God , forbid them by prayer
to high heaven. That Herod shall not
baVe this Abigail. It shall not be to
all-devouring Monopoly that his land
is j to be married.
Another suitor for the hand of this
nation is Infidelity. When the mid-
night ruffians despoiled the grave o *
,
A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's church
yard , everybody was shocked ; but In
fidelity proposes something worse than
that the robbing of all the graves of
Christendom of the hope of a resurrec
tion. ! It proposes to chisel out from
the tombstones of your Christian dead
the words , "Asleep in Jesus , " and sub-
stitute the words , "Obliteration an
nihilation. " Infidelity proposes to take
the letter from the world's Father , in
viting the nations to virtue and hap
piness , and tear it up into fragments
so small that you cannot read a word
of it. It proposes to take the consola
tion from the broken-hearted , and the
soothing pillow from the dying. In
fidelity proposes to swear in the Presi
dent of the United States , and the Su
preme court , and the governors of
states , and the witnesses in the court
room with their right hand on Paine's
"Age of Reason , " or Voltaire's "Phil
osophy of History. " It proposes to
take away from this country the Book
that makes the difference between the
United States and the Kingdom of Da
homey , between American civilization
and Borneslan cannibalism. If Infidel
ity could destroy the Scriptures , it
would in two hundred years turn the.
civilized nations back to semi-barbar
ism , and then from semi-barbarism
into midnight savagery , until the
morals of a menagerie of tigers , rat
tlesnakes and chimpanzees would be
better than the morals of the ship
wrecked human race.
The only impulse in the right direc
tion that this world has ever had has
come from the Bible. It was the
mother of Roman law and of healthful
jurisprudence. That book has been
the mother of all reforms and all char
ities mother of English magna charta
and American Declaration of Independ
ence. Benjamin Franklin , holding that
Holy Book in his hand , stood before
an Infidel club in Paris and read to
them out of the prophecies of Habak-
kuk , and the infidels , not knowing
what book It was , declared it was the
best poetry they had ever heard. That
book brought George Washington down
on his knees in the snow at Valley
Forge , and led the dying Prince Albert
to ask some one to sing "Rock of
Ages. "
= * *
We have been turning an important
Ifet in the mighty tome of our national
history. One year at the gates of this
continent over 500,000 emigrants ar
rived. I was told by the commission
ers of emigration that the probability
was that in that one year 600,000 emi
grants would arrive at the different
gates of commerce. Who were they ?
the paupers of Europe ? No. At Kan
sas City , I was told by a gentleman ,
who had opportunity for large investi
gation , that a great multitude had gone
through there , averaging in worldly
estate § 800. I was told by an officer
of the government , who had opportun
ity for authentic investigation , that
ittl
thousands and thousands had gone ,
tla
averaging § 1,000 in possession each. I
was told by the commission of emigra
tion that twenty families that had recently
tic
cently arrived brought § 85,000 with
them. ] Mark you , families , not tramps.
Additions to the national wealth , not
subtractions therefrom. I saw some
of them reading their Bibles and their
hymn books , thanking God for his
kindness in helping them cross the sea.
Some of them had Christ in the steer
age all across the waves , and they will
have Christ in the rail trains which at
five o'clock every afternoon start for
the , great West. They are being taken
by the commission of emigration in
New York , taken from the vessels , pro I
tected from the Shylocks and the
sharpers , and in the name of God and
humanity passed en to their destina
tion ; and there they will turn your
wildernesses into gardens , if you will
build for tlvm churches , and establish
for them schools , and sent ! to them
Christian missionaries. - ' &
Are you afraid this continent is go
ing to be overcrowded with this popu
lation ? Ah , that shows you have not
been to California , that shows you
have not been to Oregon , that shows
that you have not been to Texas. A
fishing smack today on Lake Ontario
might as well be afraid of being crowd
ed by other shipping before night as
for any one of the next ten generations
of Americans to be afraid of being
over crowded by foreign populations in
this country. The one state of Texas
far larger than all the Austrian em
pire , yet the Austrian empire supports
35,000,000 people. The one state of
Texas is larger than all France , and
France supports 36.000,000 people. The
one state of Texas far surpasses in
size the Germanic empire , yet the Ger
manic empire supports 41,000,000 pee
ple. I toll you the great want cf the
Western states is more population.
While some people may stand at the
gates of the city saying : "Stay back ! " Is
foreign populations , I press out as
far beyond those gates as I can press
out beyond them and beckon to foreign
nations , saying : "Ccme , come ! all ye
people who are honest and industrious
and : God-loving ! " But say you : "I am
so afraid that they will bring their
siP
prejudices for foreign governments
and : plant them here. " Absurd. They
are : sick of the governments that have
oppressed them , and they want free
oA
America ! Give them the great Gospel
of welcome. Throw around them all
Christian hospitalities. They will add
their industry and hard-earned wages
to this country , and then we will dedi
cate all to Christ , and "thy land shall
be married. " But where shall the
marriage altar be ? Let it be the Rocky
Mountains , when , through artificial and
mighty Irrigation , all their tops shall
be covered , as they will be , with vine
yards and orchards and grain fields.
Then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pa
cific coast come to the marriage altar
.
on one side , and then let the Bostons
Q.a
and : the New Yorks and the Charlestons
of ] the Atlantic coast come to the mar
riage altar on the other side , and there
rib
between < them let this bride of nations
kneel ; and then If the organ of the
loudest 1 thunders that ever shook tne
Sierra Nevadas on the one side , or
moved the foundations of the Alle-
ghanies on the other side , should open
fie diapason of wedding march , that
organ of thunders could not drown
the voice of him who would take the
hand of this bride of nations , saying.
"as a bridegroom rejoiceth over a
bride , so thy God rejciceth over thee. "
At that marriage banquet the platters
shall be of Nevada silver , and the chal
ices of California gold , and the fruits
of Northern orchards , and the spices
of Southern groves , and the tapestry of
American manufacture , and the con
gratulations from all the free nations
of earth and from all the triumphant
armies of heaven. "And so thy land
shall be married. '
THE PALACE BELL.
How the Ucllmakcr'a Daughter Helped
to Make It.
There hangs in the palace tower in
Japan a wonderful bell whose sweet
tones can be heard for over a hun
dred miles , and in the evening when
the clear music is heard across the sun
lit fields the stranger is told this leg
end : Long , long ago the emperor
wrote to the maker of bells , bidding
him cast a bell larger and more beau
tiful than any ever made before. He
bade him put into it gold and silver
and brass , that the tones might be
sweet and clear , and that when hung
in the palace tower its sound might be
heard for a hundred miles. The maker
of bells did as he was told ; he put
gold and silver and brass into his great
melting pot , but the metals would not
mingle , and the bell was a failure.
Again and again he tried , but in vain.
Then the emperor was angry and sent
saying that if the bell was net made
at the next trial the bell maker must
die. The bell maker had a lovely
daughter , who was greatly distressed
for her father. Wrapping her mantle
about her , she went by night' to the
oracle to ask how she could save him ,
and the oracle answered that gold and
brass would not mingle until the blood
of a maiden was mixed with them in
their melting. Again the old man
made ready to cast the bell ; again all
his efforts seemed useless , until his
daughter , standing by his side , threw
herself into the midst of the molten
metal. When the bell was finished it
was found to be more wonderful and
perfect than any other ever made. But
there is a sound in its thrilling tones
that brings tears to the eyes of all and
a pang to the heart , and the sound is
the voice of the maiden whose blood
cf sacrifice gave to the bell its match
less sweetness.
PLACED DEAD COWS ON TRACK
After That They Collected Damages
from the Railroad.
"It was a great scheme , " laughed
the claim agent , "and if I hadn't by the
merest chance tumbled to the old
man's game it might have been going
on yet. Some time ago I was notified
that a man down the road had put in
a claim for damages. I looked the mat
ter up , and as it was perfectly straighten
on the face of it there was nothing to
do but to settle with the old man on
the best terms I could get , and I did
so , and was hardly back when I was
again notified that the old man had
had another cow killed by the cars.
looked into that claim a little more
carefully , but it was all right as far
as I could see , and I settled with him. _
Before I had time to catch a t ain
back to the city the old man sent me
word that he had had another cow
killed by the cars. This struck me as
being very strange , particularly so as
none oT the * train crews liad reported j i
killing any co > ws. Moreover , they ail !
denied it when questioned about it. I
went out where the cow was still lying
by the side of the track and found it
almost cut to pieces. I was about to
settle with the old man , as there was
no other way out of it , when his 10-
year-old boy came running up. 'Pop ! '
he gasped , 'there's another cow dead !
Hurry up , and we'll drag her down
here and make the old railroad think
that they have killed two this time. '
Well , the truth of the matter was that
the old man's stock had been dying
from some cause , and he , with great
forethought , had dragged the victims
down by the railroad grade , pounded a
few holes in them with a pickax , and
then calmly notified the railroad to
settle. " New York Sun.
Ilar.l on Tom.
Cousin George "They tell me you
spent the afternoon with Tom Callow.
it a fact that he has raised a mus
tache ? I supposed you had heard the
report ? "
Cousin Jane "Really , I didn't no
tice. Am sorry I didn't ask him. "
Boston Transcript.
"Buffalo , " said a man from that city
recently , "Is goingto have the finest
railway station In the United States ,
and probably the most magnificent in
the world. Architecturally , it will bo
a delight and an ornament to the town.
Its great tower of ttie cathedral style
rising to the altltudeof 300 feet. It is
to cost $6,000,000 , but It will exceed In
size and beauty the Union depot at St.
Louis , on which was expended § 6,500-
000 , and It will make Chicago's § 2- ,
000,000 station look cheap. "
Tbo mosquito isn't the only bore
that sings at his work.
"In Union
There is Strength/ '
True strength consists in ihe union , the
harmonious working together , of every
part of the human organism. This strength
can never be obtained if the blood is im
pure. Hood's Sars3.pa.riUa. is ihe standard
prescription for purifying the blood.
The man wli-j makes proverbs the
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anti-fat.
FREE.
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