Life's opening voyage. Lord. Thou didst safely keep
O'er chiMliood's sheltered bays;
As now the tides of age around me creep,
Protect my shortening days.
Thou didt 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 n placid seas,
Thy vigil did not cease :
Now tempests beat, and whea 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 Thy presence sweet ;
As one by one they vanished in the night,
Draw near me, I 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!
Francis E. Pope.
A Dangerous Discovery-
BY JOHN GASTON.
(Copyright. 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
It all came about because I was too
Inquisitive and too honest. I was em
ployed la the counting room of Lemuel
Ripley, the wealthy broker. A very
successful man was Lemuel Ripley.
His signature was good for fabulous
sums and the "street" shook when he
went in to Influence the market. He
used his wealth well and was a shin-
lng pillar of the church while every
appeal for purposes of charity or civic
reform found bis ears open and his
che.'k-book at hand.
I had been in hi3 employ for some
five years and had acquired a very re
sponsible position when one day I ran
against a most peculiar thing in the
books. Of itself it was not of great
s:?nl3oance but it suggested that the
bxiks had been tampered with. The
discovery frightened me as I had had
charge of the books and I resolved to
Investigate. The further I delved the
more puzzling the matter became
and the amount Involved rose to fig
ures which made me gasp.
I found that customers of the house
had been cheated out of hundreds of
thousands of dollars but try as I would
I could not see how anybody had
routed by it. I decided to take it to
Mr. Ripley.
"Ah yes, you hare discovered that
series of errors, have you?" he re
sponded blandly. "They gave me th
mout serious annoyance and I sped
many nights over the books straight
ening the affair out You are vigilant.
Charles. I am more than pleased that
you found this matter because it gives
me confidence that I can depend on
you. Have you discussed the matter
with any of the other clerks?"
I hastened to tell him that I had
spoken of the matter to no living be
ing. "Quite right, quite right," he re
plied. "It has all been straightened
out tyit it would be unwise to have
It he talker! about. Bv the way.
Chares, I have been watching your
work with a great deal of interest and
' I have come to the conclusion that
you are worth more to the house than
I am paying you. Hereafter you will
draw a hundred dollars a month mure
than you have been getting.
Oh, fool that I was not to see the
whole thine then when he nearly
doubled my salary. If I had known
anything about the world I should
have seen through the scheEfc. In
"Too are vigilant, Charles."
atead I leaped to my feet with extrav
agant exclamations of gratitude.
I thought of one entry in the hooka
that might give a clew to the errors
which had to puxsled m tad I went
to the oflteo after dinner that night
to nuke ooe more trial to clear np the
mystery, fare enough the entry did
Give sm a clew tad following It np 1
received a shock that Marty took away
ty eeaeee. There was the evidence
U black and white that Ripley htm
rf tad nutperaf with the books and
tai ttarafly twhwd Ma eaatoaMra of
rrtat ssttaaaa While sitting atape
jUJ tt t Cjsawary a key taraed la
r i tzi waded Mr. Ripley.
LszZzi ct Oe oaaa books he aaw
Ctl I ttl
ct s3i Carlos? I desire to
Mv
use the books tonight. You need not
wait I will see that they are put
away."
All the next day I thought it over
as I fumbled through my work. Rip
ley called me into his office and asked
me a lot of questions about the errors
in the presence of other employes.
There were discussions going on In his
private room. In the afternoon a
deputy sheriff appeared and to my sur
prise said that I was wanted at the
court bouse.
What was my horror when I found
I was called before the court to have
my sanity inquired into? Ripley was
there as was bis manager and several
employes of the house. Ripley went
"Oh, uncle, don't!"
on the stand and testified that I was
unquestionably insane.
I sar through the whole affair in a
minute. I was to be buried alive in a
mad bouse. All the clerks followed
Ripley's lead and each spoke of my
particular delusion to the effect that
Mr. Ripley's books had been tam
pered with. In despair and anger 1
told the story of Ripley's guiit. In a
moment I saw my fatal mistake. The
face of the judge showed that he was
convinced that 1 was mad. How could
he think otherwise when it is consid
ered what Mr. Ripley's reputation was?
The result of it all was that I wa3 de
clared Insane and ordered confined in
an aslyum. Riploy wiping bis eyes as
in the deepest grief offered to pay my
expenses in a private institution wherij
I might be "better cared for." I cried
out against it raved and begged not
to be put in Ripley's power but this
was thought to be a part of my delu
bion. Words cannot portray the horrors of
that asylum. It was one of those dens
run by the most brutal and unscrupu
lous of men. On the way I was drug
ged and when I came to my senses I
was in Irons. My bead ached and I
was nearly maddened at the hopeless
ness of my position. I cried out and
beat the bars hopelessly In my im
potent rage. A keeper came In pres
ently and I demanded fiercely to be
freed. He knocked me down and
kicked me with bis heavy boots. I
will not describe the days that fol
lowed. The tale would be too grue
some. One day I was taken to the office and
informed that I was to help carry coal
to the cellar. I bad given up all bopo
and sincerely courted death.
"Not a Stroke of work will I do for
you," I replied. "Not a stroke."
"Oh you won't," replied the super
intendent with menace in his voice.
"I guess we'll And a way to make ye
better-natured."
"Do your worst," I cried throwing
my bead back, my eyes biasing with
anger. "You know that I am no more
Insane tlian you are. You know why
I am here. You know what my fate
Is to be and It can't come too quick."
As I began this speech the door
opened and ther came Into the room
the fairest vision of loveliness I had
ever seen. A young girl la the flower
of womanhood, with eyes Ilka stars,
aad a perfection of faatart, form and
carriage that was only starred by aa
osnrsssloa of aaattsraMs aadaass, the
paaeed aad glanced at bm aad whea
I had flaishtd said: .
"0. asM, don't Haroa't we had
aaSariag aad misery aaoaga barer
"Get out and stay out," replle! the
superintendent. "I can run this plica
wLhout any advice from a begg3r.-
Flushing deep' the girl turmd to
me with a piecing look:
"Please, please do as he Bays: for
my sake. I can't stand any moi'e of
these horrors."
"I will," I responded, "for your
sake."
With a look of gratitude she turned
and left the room. I carried coal all
day under the oaths and blows of two
brutal keepers.
That night as I lay exhausted and
suffering, but thinking all the time of
the fair young girl with the sad face
and wondering how it would look if
the owner were happy, the door of my
cell opened, there was a swish of gar
ments and I struggled to my feet to
see the angel of my vision.
"Not a word." she whispered. "It
is worth your life and mine."
"When the clock strikes one," she
whispered, "open your door, turn to
the right and you will find the window
at the end of the corridor open. You
must drop twenty feet and climb the
wall. The keeper is drunk. Uncle is
going away at half past eleven. I will
unlock the door." She unfastened the
Irons on my hands and feet and in an
Instant she was gone.
The next morning at 9 o'clock I
stood before the man most wronged by
Ripley in the affair of the doctored
books. My terrible earnestness per
suaded him to investigate. Within two
weeks the newspapers were filled with
details of the terrible scandal and of
the downfall of Lemuel Ripley, who
now occupied a cell in the county Jail
awaiting trial on a criminal charge.
This is the end of my story. I might
go on and tell of how the people
who received their money made
me most handsome payment for my
services and how 1 secured a fine
position; and, I might even tell how
1 braved the lion In his den and in
sisted on carry'ng away the girl who
had saved me, from that horrible asy
lum, but my wife says that Is a matter
wbieh concerns only two.
COREAN GIRLS.
Cut Mill Plear Enter Ipto Their
Monotonous I.lrrs,
Marriage does not bring happiness
to girls in Corea any more than to
those in other parts of the far tast.
When young a girl is allowed a free
dom which is denied her later, and it is
not till she attains the dignity of being
a mother-in-law that she begins to en
joy life again.
The daughter of a Corean ho;:s is
of little consequence, while a son is of
great importance, and hla advent Into
the family circle S3 always welcomed
with joy. When very young the boys
and girls play together, but when they
reach the age of eight or ten a great
distinction is made. In the families of
wealth, where none of the women of
the family are obliged to do any of the
housework or toil in the fields, the
daughters are secluded in the part of
the house reserved for tbe women. Into
which no men are allowed to enter.
Their brothers dwell in the men's
apartments, where they are free to do
what they please.
Education in Corea Is provided to a
certain extent for the boys and young
men, but it is almost an unheard-of
thing for a girl to be allowed to learn
anything outside of the purely domes
tic accomplishments. The girl is a
mere chattel; she la not even consider
ed a unit of society. As an illustration
of how far this Idea is carried it is In
teresting to note that the girl lias lit
erally no name. When she is a mere
child a surname Is given to her for
convenience, but when she marries she
gives it up and merges her identity in
that of her husband. Her parents call
her by the ward or district in which
she contracted her marriage; her parents-in-law
call her by tbe came of ths
village from which she has come. Later
on. when sbe has children, she Is nam
ed the "Mother of So and So."
Ttmpertirt In QImcow.
Devotion to teeraperance impresses
the visitor more forcibly than any
other feature of Glasgow life except,
perhaps, Its capacity for whisky. The
strictest regard for the great cau.se
animates tbe authorities In all their
dealings with public affairs. Ever'
bailie, every magistrate Is a temper
ance advocate, and needs to be to pre
serve the esteem of his fellow citizens.
For every citizen is a convinced and
sincere upholder of tbe temperance
cause. No matter bow many whiskies
he may take In the course of a day, be
never loses faith in his principles. In
deed, be seems to And that bis tem
perance prlnclplesarestrengtbened and
his exposition of them facilitated by
the consistent use of whisky. Tbe fart
seems to be that In Glasgow to drink
whisky Is not o Indulge In strong
drink. Tbe Scotch are a hardy,
healthy aad vigorous race, and to them
the national drink is not a liquor; It I
merely a liquid. Tbey take it Just as
they breathe tbe bracing air, as one of
tbe ordinary conditions of existence.
Daily rserrlae Strength,
Bsron Pierre de Coubertln, chairman
of tbe International Olympian commit
tee, without previous training, succes
fally spent six boars out of eight in
sport. This he did by going through
os hour's riding, one hour's rowing,
pending sn hour In cycling, another
In plsying lawn tennis, sn hour In rid
ing a motor-cycle ad four bouts of fif
teen minutes esch with the sword, the
foil, the ssbat aad the boxing gloves.
The baroa maintains that aay man
who heaps ap dally exercise u la
Ilka manner bo ready at aay t!a to
obey tbe most exartlag call for phys
ical endurance Paris Letter,
Oood haator la the blue sky In which
tha stats of talent brightly thine.
Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Is. as
a general rule, rather economical in
the matter of giving interviews to the
public press, but while in Boston with
his great educational exhibition the
other day he was Induced to say a
few Tfords about himself and the de
velopment of the great West which
will be of Interest to readers gener
ally. Speaking of his early life be said:
"There were a heap of occupations
for boys in those days, and I guess I
tackled 'em all; driving loose cattle
behind a bull train, carrying dispatch
es for freighting outfits, following and
going with trappers for furs on differ
ent etreams. That's how I learned to
know the Indian by going with trad
ers who trade with 'cm for furs. When
I was along in my teens I was per
fectly familiar with oil the country
from tbe Canadian river in the south
to tbe Yellowstone of the north, and
the lands between the Rocky moun
tains and tbe Missouri river. I became
thoroughly acquainted with the In
dians, knew their favorite haunts, their
camps and their bad lands."
"What was the real cause of the first
Indian uprising?"
"It was the effect of the bad exam
ple set them by the white men. Dur
ing the war of the rebellion the In
dian heard that the white men wen
killing each other off. They kept
hearing about It for two years, until
all the tribes were talking about tbo
gradual extinction of the white man,
who bad wonderful guns and ammu
nition. At lat they held a grand
meeting which led to a general up
rising. They obtained modern guns
and armed themselves like the white
men, and it was their impression that
they could sweep across the continent
clear through to tbe 'great river," the
Atlantic, and recapture their country
from the whites."
The material for western romance
began at this time with a vengeance,
and followed the dramatic flavor that
literature had gained from the sor
rows of the civil war. The United
States government is not a romantic
organization, however, and as soon as
peace was declared in Washington be
tween the North and the South, the
entire forces of the regular army were
hurried out to the frontier, command
ed In turn by such men as Sherman,
Sheridan. Hancock, Custer. Carr. Miles.
Crook. Augur, Ord, Hazen, Emery,
Duncan. Forsythe. King. Reynolds,
Terry, Penrose. Palmer, Gibbon, Can
by, Henry, Whistler. Crosby. Greely,
Sudley. Mills. Hayes, Sthwitzer and
many others. Most of these officers
were totally unfamiliar with tho
plains, and then came into existence
the man of whom "Bill" Cody is an
Ideal representative the scout.
"You fee. when these army fellows
eame out our way," continued Col.
Cody, "the question was. Who could
they find to act as guides and scouts?
The miners were IivfTlclent; tbey
didn't tell much about the hiding
places of the Indians, so they began to
look around for fellows like me. who
had been raised out there. When
Gen. Sherman came West in 'C5 and
'G6 to make his great treaty with the
Kiowa and the Comanche Indians, I
was first employed as a scout and dis
patch carrier. Well, he soon found
that I knew the country better than
any man In his command, and he
made rae his guide. I felt considerable
pride In my responslbllty, too, for I
was pretty young to have an old army
veteran like Sherman leaning on
me." He paused.
"How young?" I asked.
"Nineteen!" he aald, emphatically,
and In two years that Is, in '68 when
Sherman took, command of the field,
he made hie chief of scouts and guido
of tbe United States army."
"Scouting was a trade?" I asked.
"It's a gift. The Indian is the nat
ural scout, and he'll keep a white man
bustling, with all bis clothe on, and
no sleep either to beat him."
"The scout knew his game?"
"Yes, sir, as well as the Indian could
bunt his. A scout had to have eyes,
ears and brain working overtime when
be was on the trail, I can tell you."
"You followed the tracks of the In
dian ponies?"
"Tracks, nothing!" said "Dill" con
temptuously, "That's no sawdust
country out there; It's all grass. You
couldn't see a hoof print. I've fol
lowed a single horse file by watching
the grass and noticing how It was
broken, I could tell the way the grass
broke If tbe Indians were traveling
fast or slow, horses packed heavy or
light, ridden by Indian or running
loose. Tbe manner in which a moc
casin shsped It tread on the prairie
would tell me what tribe our enemy
belonged to, and by their camp em
bers whether It was a party on the
warpath or peaceful Indians. Nothing
made aa array man so sore ss to have
i guide make a dry camp at night, so
that a scout hsd to be conversant with
tbe country and reach water whea
nightfall came.
The subjection of the Indians was
one of tbe toughest proposition to
face. la 1ITT tho lias Bidge trouble
broke out Tat Indians expected thsii
Messiah, who was to liberate them
from captivity. Tbe suppression of
this uprising fell to the lot of Gen.
Miles, and be fought, as he always
does when In command, with bl head.
He put down the ghost dance without
tbe loss of hardly a life on either aide,
and in all my service as a scout I
never saw finer generalship than his
at Pine Ridge.
"Even In tbe thick of tbe Indian
fighting it was impossible for a man
to escape seeing tbe great possibilities
of those arid states, but it took a pro
fessor to convince me of tbe chances
of civilizing that country. I was sta
tioned at Fort McPherson, Neb., Gen.
Sheridan, In command of the Missouri
division. The general came to me one
day and Instructed me to act as guide
for Prof. O. C. Marsh and 23 Yale
students who wanted to go through the
'Bad Lands' on a fossil expedition.
Well! I got kinder Jealous of that pro
fessor. He was always talkln' a whole
lot of stuff about that country that I'd
never heard before. He said that the
Great Big Horn basin was formed by
tbe passage of a big snake that bad
finally cut Its waj through the Big
Horn canyon. He went In to tell why
there should be In this basin the finest
soil in the world; that there muBt ba
great mineral deposits there, probably
sea gold. I said to him then that I
guess he thought be knew more about
that country than I did, and told him
he'd better go it alone. Well, sir, the
old fossil hunter was right. Twenty
V Buffalo
llt'lfl mM Illllis
COL. CODY AS HE APPEARS TODAY. From a Sketch by Coodman.
years later a party of prospectors dis
covered gold, campers had seen the
color of It and hurried out thera to
locate claims."
"And what did they find?"
"Million of acres of grazing land,
the sides of the canyon covered with
timber, all kind of building stone,
marble, granite, sandstone, gypsum.
Tbey found they could raise cereal
as good as any In Indiana or elsewhere.
They bad discovered a national park.
Why, In my town of Cody, within a
few miles are seven different kinds of
naAral water geysers, hot, cold, boil
ing, freezing, any old style you want.
Starting lire in tbe West at its most
thrilling period, Col. Cody ha seen
tbe buffaloes pass away, the Indian
subdued, tbe cowboy farmed out, the
settlers crowding In. He has been of
active service to tbe United States
government In sll these year; but the
most American thing that this typical
American has dona Is to build a town
In the shadow of ths canyons and bap
tise It with his owa name. Boston
Bally Herald.
Mais' tmm Afsta.
Tat familiar controversy never la
gulshaa.. What Is the origin of Dix
ie's Land or Dixie Land, or Dixie? On,
on. It goes. I believe It was right
here on Manhattan Island, and that
tbe fellow who wrote about it being
a "land of cotton, 'slmmon seed, and
sandy bottom" was a chump. Old Man
Dixie was a slaveholder on Manhattan
Island, who removed his slaves to the
Southern states, where they had to
work harder and fare worse; so they
were always sighing for their old
home, which they called "Dixie Land."
The "nigger" Imagination eoon ad
vanced thl Island Into a sort of De
lectable Country, or Land of Beulah.
New York Press. .
Odd Oklahoma Joatlro.
If one want to find an extraordinary
brand of Justice he must go to Okla
homa or some other region known In
general parlance as the bounding
west. At Alva a man was arrested
for stealing two hogs, which he hauled
to Waukorals and sold for $20.50. The
law defines grand larceny as the steal-"
ing of something of more value than
$20, and petit larceny as the stealing
of something of less value than this
sum. Tbe question in the hog case
was whether It was grand or petty
larceny. The lawyer for the prisoner
argued that while the hogs had been
sold for more than $20, the prisoner
was entitled to a credit of $1 for haul
ing them to market, which would re
duce their valne to less than $20 and,
the crime of hi client to petty larceny.
And the court o found.
' ;
Kldlo the n lion.
A few ocean travelers are now en
Joying the novel sport of riding the
"sea horse." Thl "sea horse" Is not
tbe marine animal which zoologists
know by that name. It I an electric
al contrivance In the gymnasium out
fit aboard the new cruising yacht Prln
zesaln Victoria Lulse of the Hamburg
American line. A gymnasium itself
is an unusual enough Institution
aboard ship. One of the appliances
affords all the varieties of horsebsck
exercise, a conventional saddle, stir
rups and other accessories being pro
vided, and with them suitable adjust
ing mechanism, so that the whole out
fit can be given more or less violent
vertical and slightly horizontal recip
rocating movement through a system
of cams and connecting rods, slmulst
ing very closely tho motion of tho
animal la life.
Happiness Is lacreased, not by ths
ealargebent of the possessions, but of
tha heart Kuskla.
