Life's opening voyage, Lord, Tliou didst safely keep
O'er childhood s sheltered bays ;
As now (he tides of age around inc creep,
Protect my shortening days.
Thott didst defend my youth when sped my bark
Out toward the open sea ;
As I approach the shore, unknown and dark,
Still guard and care for me.
Becalmed by idle winds wi placid seas,
Thy vigil did not cease :
Now tempests beat, and when I shrink from these.
Impart uplifting peace.
When Joy, bright-winged, poised lightly on the prow
Thou gently didst restrain ;
Though Sorrow often voyages with me now,
My troubled soul sustain.
When many ships were nigh and skies were bright,
I knew 1 hy presence sweet ;
As one by one they vanished in the night,
Draw near me, 1 entreat.
Lord, Thou hast been companion, friend and guide
O'er life's unresting sea ;
When Death, the gentle Pilot, stands beside,
Oh, make the port with me I
Francis E. Pope.
A Dangerous Discovery.
BY JOHN GASTON.
(Copyright, 1P01, by Dnlly Story Pub. Co.)
It nil enmo about becnuao I was too
inquisitive and too honest. I was em
ployed In the counting room of Lemuel
Ripley, the wealthy broker. A very
successful man was Lemuel Ripley.
His. signature was good for fabulous
cums and the "street" shook when ho
went In to Influence the market. Ho
used his wealth well and was n shin
ing pillar of the church whllo every
appeal for purposes of charity or civic
reform found his ears open and his
check-book at hand. 1
I had been in his employ for some
flvo years and had acquired a very re
sponsible position when one day I ran
against a most peculiar thing In tho
books. Of Itself It was not of great
significance but It suggested that tho
books had been tampered with. The
discovery frightened mo as I had hnd
ehargo of the books and I resolved to
Investigate. Tho further I delved the
more puzzling tho matter became
and tho amount involved rose to fls
uros which mado mo gasp.
I found that customers of the houso
had been cheated out of hundreds of
thousands of dollars but try as I would
I could not see how anybody had
profited by it. I decided to take It to
Mr. Ripley.
"Ah yes, you have discovered that
scries of errors, havo you?" ho re
sponded blandly. "They gavo mo tho
::i03t serious nnnoyanco and I spent
many nights over tho books straight
ening the affair out. You arc vigilant,
Charles. I am moro than pleased that
you found this matter becauso it gives
mo conlldenco that I can depend on
you. Hnvo you discussed the matter
with nny of tho other clerks?"
I hastened to tell him that I had
spoken of tho matter to no living be
ing. "Quito right, quite right," ho re
plied. "It has all been straightened
out but It would be unwise to havo
it bo talked about. By tho way,
Chares, I havo been watching your
work with a great deal of intorest and
I havo come to tho conclusion that
you are worth moro to tho house than
I am paying you. Hereafter you will
draw a hundred dollars a month more
than you havo been getting."
Oh, fool that I was not to sco tho
wholo thing then when ho nearly
doubled my salary. If I had known
anything about tho world I should
havo seen through tho scheme. In-
i
0Ff
"You are vigilant, Charles."
ftead I leaped to my feet with oxtrav
afjant exclamations of gratitude.
I thought of ono entry In the books
that might give a clew to tho errors
which hnd so puzzled mo and I went
to tho olllco after dinner that night
to make ono moro trial to clear up tho
mystery. Sure enough the entry did
clvo mo a clew and following it up I
received a shock that nearly took away
mv Rnnsns. Thoro was tho evidence
in black and white that Ripley him
Kclf had tampered with tho books and
had literally robbed his customers of
great fortunes. WMto silting stupe
fied at tho discovery a key turned In
tho door and in walked Air. uipioy.
Glancing at tho open books ho saw
what I had found.
"Still at work Charles? I desiro to
use tho books tonight. You need not
wait. I will sec that they aro put
away."
All tho next day I thought It over
as I fumbled through my work. Rip
ley called me Into his olllco and asked
mo a lot of questions about the errors
In the presence of other employes.
There wcro discussions going on in his
privato room. In tho afternoon a
deputy sheriff appeared and to my sur
priso said that I was wanted at tho
court house.
What was my horror when I found
I was called before tho court to have
my sanity Inquired Into? Ripley was
thero as was his manager and several
employes of the house. Ripley went
"Oh, unclo. don't!"
on tho stand and testified that I was
unquestionably Insane.
I sa through tho wholo affair In a
minute. I was to bo burled allvo In n,
mad house. All tho clerks followed
Ripley's lead and each spoko of my
particular delusion to tho effoct that
Mr. Rlploy's books had been tam
pered with. In despair and anger I
told tho story of Ripley's guilt. In a
moment I saw my fatal mistake. Tho
face of tho Judge showed that ho was
convinced that I was mad. How could
he think otherwise when It is consid
ered what Mr. Ripley's reputation was?
Tho result of it all was that I was de
clared lnsano and ordered confined In
an aslyum. Ripley wiping his eyes ns
In tho deepest grief offered to pay my
expenses in a private Institution whero
might bo "better cared for." I cried
out against it raved and begged not
to bo put in Rlploy's powor but this
was thought to bo a part of my delu
sion.
Words cannot portray tho horrors of
that asylum. It was ono of thoso dens
run by tho most brutal and unscrupu
lous of men. On tho way I was drug
ged and when I came to my senses I
was In irons. My head ached and I
was nearly maddened at tho hopeless
ness of my position. I cried out and
beat the bars hopelessly In my Im
potent rngo. A keeper came in pres
ently and I demanded fiercely to bo
freed. Ho knocked mo down and
kicked mo with his heavy boots. I
will not describe tho days that fol
lowed. Tho talo would bo too gruo
eome. Ono day I was taken to tho olllco and
Informed that I was to help carry coal
to tho cellar. I had given up all hopo
nnd sincerely courted denth.
"Not n etroko of work will I do for
you," I repllod. "Not n stroke."
"Oh you won't," replied tho super
intendent with mennco In his voice,
"I guess wo'll find a way to mako yo
bettcr-nntured."
"Do your worst," I cried throwing
my head back, my eyes blazing with
anger. "You know that I am no morn
insano than you are. You know why
I am here. You know what my fate
Is to bo and it can't como too quick.'
As I began this speech tho door
opened and thoro camo into tho room
tho fairest vision of loveliness I had
over seen. A young girl In tho llower
of womanhood, with eyes llko stars
and a perfection of foaturo, form and
carriage that was only marred by an
cxprcBHlou of unutterable sadness. Sho
paused and glanced at rao and when
I had finished, said:
"Oh, uncle, don't. Haven't wo had
suffering and misery cnouuh hero?"
"Got out and stay out," replied thn
superintendent. "I can run this placo
without nny ndvlco from n beggar."
Flushing deeply tho girl turned to
mo with a pleading look:
"Please, plcaso do as ho says; for
my sake. I can't stand nny moro of
these horrors."
"I will," I responded, "for your
sake."
With a look of gratitude Bho turned
nnd left tho room. I carried coal nil
day under tho oaths nnd blows of two
brutnl keepers.
That night ns I lay exhausted nnd
suffering, but thinking nil tho tlmo of
tho fnir young girl with tho snd fnco
nnd wondering how It would look If
tho owner woro happy, tho door of my
cell opened, thero was n swish of gar
ment and I struggled to my feet to
see tho angel of my vision.
"Not n word," sho whispered. "It
Is worth your llfo nnd mine."
"When tho clock strikes one," sho
whispered, "open your door, turn to
tho right nnd you will find tho window
at the end of tho corridor open. You
must drop twenty feet nnd climb tho
wall. Tho keeper is drunk. Unclo Is
going nwny at half past eleven. I will
unlock tho door." Sho unfastened thn
irons on my hands nnd feet nnd in an
Instant sho was gone.
Tho next morning at 0 o'clock I
stood before tho man most wronged by
Ripley In tho affair of tho doctored
books. My terrlblo earnestness per
suaded him to investigate. Within two
weeks tho newspapers wcro filled with
details of tho terrlblo scandal nnd of
tho downfall of Lemuel Ripley, who
now occupied n cell in tho county jail
awaiting trial on a criminal charge.
This is tho end of my story. I might
go on and tell of how tho people
who received their money mado
ma most handsomo payment for my
services and how I Bccurcd n lino
position; nnd, I might even tell how
1 braved tho Hon In his den nnd In
sisted on cnrry'ng away the girl who
had saved me, from that horrlblo asy
lum, but my wlfo says that Is a matter
which concerns only two.
COREAN GIRLS.
Hut
Mttlo I'lennuro Knters Into Their
Monotonous I.lvc.
Marriage does not bring happiness
to girls In Corca any moro thnn to
thoso In other parts of tho far east.
When young n girl Is allowed n free
dom which is denied her later, and It is
not till she attains tho dignity of being
a meMier-ln-law that she begins to en
joy life again.
The daughter of a Corean house U
of littlo consequence, while a son Is of
great Importance, and his advent Into
the family circle Is nhvays welcomed
with Joy. When very young tho boy3
and girls play together, but when they
reach tho age of eight or ten a great
distinction Is made. In tho families of
wealth, where none of tho women of
tho family aro obliged to do nny of tho
housework or toll In tho Holds, the
daughters aro secluded In tho part of
the house reserved for tho women, into
which no men are nllowcd to enter.
Their brothers dwell in tho men's
apartments, whero they aro free to do
what they plcaso.
Education In Corea is provided to a
certain extent for tho boys and young
men, but It is almost nn unheard-of
thing for a girl to bo allowed to learn
anything outsldo of tho purely domes
tic accomplishments. Tho girl Is n
mere chattel; sho Is not oven consider
ed a unit of society. As an Illustration
of how far this Idea Is carriod It is In
teresting to note that the girl has lit
erally no name. When sho is a mcro
child a surname is given to her for
convenlonco, but when she marries sho
gives It up and merges her Identity in
that of her husband. Her parents call
her by tho ward or district In which
sho contracted her marriage; her par-cnts-In-law
call her by tho namo of the
village from which she has come. Later
on, when she hii3 children, sho Is nam
ed tho "Mother of So nnd So."
Temperiuipn In Gtnacoir.
Devotion to teempcranco Impresses
tho visitor moro forcibly than any
othor fcaturo of Glasgow llfo except,
perhaps, Its capacity for whisky. Tho
strictest regard for tho great cause
animates tho authorities In all their
dealings with public affairs. Every
bailie, every magistrate is a temper
ance advocate, and needs to bo to pre
serve tho esteem of his follow citizens.
For every citizen Is a convinced and
sincere upholder of tho temperance
cause. No matter how many whiskies
ho may tako in tho courso of a day, ho
never loses faith in his principles. In
deed, ho seems to find that IiIb tem
perance prlnclplesnrestrengthcncd anil
his exposition of them facilitated by
the consistent use of whisky. Tho fact
seems to b that in Glasgow to drink
whisky is not to indulge in strong
drink. Tho Scotch aro n hardy,
healthy nnd vigorous rnco, nnd to them
the national drink is not a liquor; It is
merely a liquid. They tako It Just as
they breathe the bracing air, ns ono of
the ordinary conditions of existence.
Dtljr KiercUti of fltrrneth.
Baron Pierre do Coubertln, ehalrmnn
of the International Olympian commit
tee, without previous training, succes
fully spent six hours out of eight in
snort. This ho did by going throuch
ono hour'B riding, ono hour's rowing,
spending an Hour in cycling, another
in playing lawn tonniB, an Hour in rid
lug a motor-cycle nd four bouts of fif
teen minutes each with tho sword, the
foil, tho saber nnd tho boxing gloves,
Tho baron maintains that any man
who keeps up daily exercise u,.i In
llko manner bo ready at any time to
obey tho most exacting call for phys
ical endurance. Paris Letter.
Good humor Is tho bluo sky in which
tho stars of talent brightly shine.
films m mmr Wm;
Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Is, as
ft genernl rulo, rnther economical In
tho mnttcr of giving Interviews to tho
public press, but while In Boston with
his great educational exhibition tho
other day ho was Induced to Bay n
few Tord8 about himself nnd tho de
velopment of tho great West which
will ho of Interest to readers goner
ally. Speaking of his early llfo ho said:
"Thoro wero a heap of occupations
for boys In thoso days, and I guess I
tackled 'cm nil; driving looso cattlo
behind n bull train, carrying dispatch
es for freighting outfits, following nnd
going with trappers for furs on differ
ent ntrenms. That's how I' learned to
know tho Indian by going with trad
ers who trado with 'cm for furs. When
I was nlong in ray teens I was per
fectly familiar with nil tho country
from tho Canadian river In tho south
to tho Ycllowstono of tho north, nnd
tho lands between tho Rocky moun
tains nnd tho Missouri river. I became
thoroughly ncqunlntcd with tho In
dians, know their favorlto haunts, their
camps nnd their bad lands."
"What was tho real causo ot tho first
Indian uprising?"
"It was tho effect of tho bad cxam
plo set them by tho whlto men. Dur
ing tho wnr of tho rebellion tho In
dian heard that tho whlto men woro
killing each other ofT. Thoy kept
hearing about it for two years, until
all tho tribes wero talking nbout tho
gradual extinction of tho whlto man,
who had wonderful guns and ammu
nition. At last thoy held n grand
meeting which led to n general up
rising. They obtained modem guns
and armed themselves llko tho whlto
men, nnd It was their Impression that
they could sweep ncross tho continent
clear through to tho 'great river,' tho
Atlantic, and recapture their country
Xro"i the white?."
Tho material for western romanco
began nt this tlmo with a vengeance,
and followed tho dramatic flavor that
literature had gained from tho bor
rows of tho civil war. Tho United
States government Is not a romantic
organization, however, and as soon ns
peaco was declared In Washington be
tween tho North nnd tho South, tho
ontlro forces of tho regular nrmy wcro
hurried out to tho frontier, command
ed In turn by such men as Sherman,
Sheridan, Hancock, Custer, Carr, Miles,
Crook, Augur, Ord, Hazcn, Emery,
Duncan, Forsytho, King. Roynolds,
Terry, Penrose, Palmer, Gibbon, Can
by, Henry. Whistler, Crosby, Greoly,
Sudloy, Mills, Hayes, Schwltsor and
many others. Most of these olllcers
wcro totally unfamiliar with tho
plains, nnd then camo Into oxlstonco
tho man of whom "BUI Cody Is nn
Idcnl representative tho scout.
You see, when theso nrmy follows
enmo out our way,' continued uoi.
Cody, "tho question was. Who could
thoy find to act as guides and scouts?
Tho miners wero lnclllclent; thoy
didn't tell much nbout tho hiding
places of tho Indians, so thoy began to
look around for fellows llko me, who
had boon raised out thero. When
Gon. Sherman camo West In 'CI nnd
'CO to mako his groat treaty with tho
Kiowa nnd tho Comnncho Indlnns, I
was first employed ns n scout nnd dls
patch carrier. Well, ho soon found
that I know tho country bettor than
any man In his command, nnd ho
mndo mo his guide. I felt considerable
prldo In my responslbllty. too, for I
was pretty young to havo an old army
veteran llko Sherman leaning on
me." Ho paused.
"How young?" I asked.
"Nineteen!" he anhl, emphatically,
and In two years that Is, In 'C8 whon
Shormnn took command of the field
ho mado mo chief of scouts nnd guldo
of tho United States army."
"Scouting wns a trado?" I asked.
"U'b a gift. Tho Indian Is the tint
ural scout, and he'll keep a whlto man
hustling, with nil his clothes on, and
no sleep olthor to beat him."
"Tho scout knew his game?"
"Yes, sir, as woll a3 tho Indian could
hunt his. A scout had to huvo oyos
cars and bruin working overtime when
ho was on tho trail, I can tell you."
"You followed the tracks of tho In
dlan ponies?"
"Tracks, nothing!" Bald "Bill" con
tcmptuously. "That's no sawdust
country out thero; It's all grasB. You
couldn't see n hoof print. Pvo fol
lowed a slnglo horso file hy watching
tho grass nnd noticing how It wan
broken. I could toll the way the grass
broke If the Indlnns woro traveling
fast or slow, hows packed heavy or
light, ridden by Indians or running
loose. Tho manner in which n moc
casln shaped its trend on the prairie
would tell mo what trlbo our enemy
belonged to, and by their camp cm
hers whether It was a party on th
warpath or peaceful Indians. Nothing
mado nn nrmy mnn so noro as to hnvo
n guldo muko a dry camp at night, bo
that a Bcout had to bo conversant with
tho country nnd roach water whon
nightfall camo.
Thn subjection of tho Indians was
ono of tho toughest propositions to
fnco. In 1877 tho Pine Ridge trouble
broke out. Tho Indiana expected their
Messiah, who wns to liberate them
from captivity. Tho suppression of
this uprising fell to tho lot of Gen.
Miles, nnd ho fought, ns ho always
docs whon In command, with his head.
le put down tho Khost danco without
tho loss of hardly a llfo on cltho'iydde,
nnd In nil my service ns n scout I
never Bnw finer generalship thnn his
nt Pino Ridge.
Even In tho thick of the Indian
fighting It was lmposslblo for a man
to escapo Rcolng tho great possibilities
f thoso nrld states, but It fook a pro
fessor to convjneo mo of tho chances
of clvlllzlnjgtnat country. I wns stn
tloneLFort McPhcrson. Neb.. Gon.
In command of tho Missouri
Tho general camo to mo ono
instructed me to net ns guide
for Prof. O. C. Mnrsh nnd 2G Yalo
students who wanted to go through tho
Bad lands' on n fossil expedition.
Weill I got kinder Jealous of that pro
fessor. Ho was always talkln' n wholo
lot of stuff nbout that country that I'd
never heard before. Ho snld thnt tho
Great Big Horn basin was formed by
tho pnssago of n big snnko that hnd
Anally cut its wny through tho Big
Horn canyon. Ho went In to toll why
thero should bo In this basin tho finest
soil In tho world; that thoro must bo
great mineral deposits there, probnbly
sen gold. I said to htm then that I
guess ho thought ho know moro nbout
that country thnn I did, nnd told him
ho'd better go It nlono. Woll, sir, tho
old fossil hunter was right. Twenty
ShagRn;
jHHvnnd
COL. CODY AS HE APPEARS TODAY, From n Sketch by Goodman.
years later a party of prospectors dis
covered gold, campers had seen tho
color of It ond hurried out thero to
locate claims."
"And what did they find?"
"Millions of acres of grazing land,
tho Bides of tho canyonB covered with
timber, all kinds of building stone,
marble, granlto, sandstone gypsum.
They found thoy could rulBO cereals
as good as any In Indiana or clsowhoro.
Thoy had discovered a national park.
Why, In my town of Cody, within a
few miles nro Boven different kinds of
natural wator geysers, hot, cold, boil
ing, freezing, any old Btylo you want.
Starting llfo In tho West at U'b most
thrilling period, Col. Cody has aeon
tho buffaloes pass away, tho Indian
subdued, tho cowboy farmed out, tho
Bottlers crowding In. He has been of
nctlvo nervico to tho United States
government In all theso years; but tho
most American thing that this typical
American has. dono Is to build u town
In tho shadow of tho canyons and bap
tize It with his own name. Boston
Dally Herald.
Itll4 I.nnil Agiilti,
Tho familiar controversy novcr lan-
gulshefl.. Whnt Is tho origin of Dix
ie's Land or Dlxlo Land, or Dixie? On,
on, It goes. I believe it wna right
hero on Manhattan Islnnd, and thnt
tho fellow who wroto nbout It being
n "land of cotton, 'slmmon seed, nnd
sandy bottom" was a chump. Old Mnn
Dlxlo wns n Rlnvoholder on Mnnhnttan
Island, who removed his Blnves to tho
6utliorn stntes, whero thoy hnd to
wojrjf harder nnd fnro worse: w thoy
wcrtrnlwnys sighing for their old
homo, which they cnllcd "Dlxlo Land."
Tho "nigger" imagination soon ad
vanced this Island Into n sort of De
lcctnblo Country, or Lnnd ot Bculnh.
Now York Press.
Odd Ohlntmma .Jintlcr.
If ono wnnts to find nn cxtrnordihnry
brand of Justice ho must 0 to Okln
honia or somo other region known In
general parlanco ns tho bounding
west. At Alva n mnn wns arrested
for stcnllng two hogB, which ho hauled
to Wnukomls nnd sold for $20.50. Tho
law defines grand larceny ns the steal
ing of something of moro value than
$20, nnd petit larceny ns the stealing
of something ot less value thnn thin
sum. Tho question In tho hog caso
wns whether It wns grand or petty
larceny. The lawyer for tho prisoner
argued thnt whllo tho hogs hnd boon
sold for moro than $20, tho prisoner
was entitled to n credit of $1 for hnul
lng them to mnrkct, which would re
duco their vnluo to less thnn $20 and
tho crlrno of his client to petty larceny.
And tho court ho found,
Hiding the He lloran.
A few ocean travelers aro nc)w en
joying tho novel oport of riding tho
"sea horBe." This "Bca horBo" is not
tho marine animal which zoologlstH
know by that namo. It Is an electric
al contrlvanco In tho gymnasium out
fit aboard tho now cruising yacht Prln
zcbsIii Victoria Lulso of tho Hamburg
American line. A gymnasium Itself
Is an unusual enough Institution
aboard ship. Ono of tho nppllonccs
affords all tho varieties of horseback
oxorclHo, a conventional saddle, stir
rups and other accessories bolng pro
vided, and with them sultablo adjust
ing mechanism, so thnt tho wholo out
fit can bo given moro or less violent
vortical and slightly horizontal recip
rocating movemont through a system
of cams and connecting rods, simulat
ing very closely tho motion of tho
animal In life,
Happiness Is Increased, not by tho
onlargchent of tho possessions, but of
tho heart. Huskln.