LOVE’S ERRAND.
Swift through the ocean ol Silence go.
Sprite unseen'
Dive to the echoic** realm* below;
Kindle the depths with a radiance keen;
Rn, like an arrowy pule* of fire,
oh to the quivering stare and higher
Into the vault eereue!
RBdo through the myitical orb of Sleep;
Pause to eee,
Bora of the amorous twilight deep,
Dreams, from their ebryealie clumber free,
Throning the shadowy does of day,
Wad with the loveHeet, steal away,
Speeding again to me!
—John B. Tabb in the Independent*
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Expltrtrt And Thtlr Ways.
Mow tha Whit* Man Oalna Victo
ria* Over tha Untutorad lavage.
A cable dispatch from 8ierra I.eone
tha other day said that dir Francis
4a Winton had won a decisive victory
over tha Youine tribe in the interior,
and that the natives had been terri
Red as much by the electric lights as
by the guns of the expedition. For
a^naling purposes at night and to il
lumine his camp Hir Francis had pro
vided a number of electric lights raised
on lofty poles. The native saw night
turned into day, and the inexplicable
aight took all the fight out of them.
It is nearly always the case that when
the white man, by some harmless ex
pedieot, impresses savages with his
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than ball conquered them before lie
■trike* a blow.
For many years the fierct Pahouin
tribe 9n the middle Ogowe River turn
ad back every explorer who tried to
an ter their country. Pierre de Braz
ea was the first traveler they permit
ted to ascend the great river, and he
Won their favor without a single hos
tile act. lie sent word to the chief
that he had some presents for
him, and in this way got per
mission to enter one of the
frontier towns. The tattooed
savages could hardly believe their
gyc* that night as a great crowd
grouped themselves around the ex
plorer and witnessed the wonderful
■how be had provided. Rocket*, Ro
man candles, whirligigs and many
other wonders of the pyrotechnic art
bewildered, delighted and astounded
them. The feats lie performed with
tVie exploding bullet filled them with
awe, and in his repeating rifle they
uw a wonderful weapon, which they
were sure he could fire of! forever
without recharging. It was this
Bight’s work that opened the great
region of the French Congo to De
Bruz/a and made him famous as an
explorer. It has been lus pride that
in all his travels he never shot a na
tive; but for all that gunpowder and
fireworks were (he foundation of his !
brilliant success.
A good story is told of a white man I
who was taken prisoner by an inland j
tribe in the early days o! the Fiji set
tlements. llis captors were canni
bals, and it made him very nervous
when lie saw them start a tire under a
big native oven. He made up his
mind that it was ull up witli him un
less he convinced the savages that he
was a very superior being. A happy
thought struck him. He called for
something to eat, and when food was
placed before him he used his jack
knife to cut it up. Every mouthful
or two he stuck the point of the jack
knife into one of his legs with such
force that it stood erect. It was a
cork leg, and the natives looked on in
astonishment and alarm as he buried
the blade in it. After the meal he be
gan to take his leg off. This was too
mucli for the savages, and they
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him turning bis leg round and round.
As he mounted his horse the natives
begAri to gather again, but he made a
motion as if to unscrew his bead, and
the spectators fled in dismay, leaving
him to find his way back to the coast.
When Joseph Thomson made a
great journey through Masailand a
few years ago he had a few tricks that
gave him a great reputation as a
wizzard and Helped him wonder'ully
on his’way. One trick he always re
served as a last resort and many
times it procured food for his party
from natives who had refused to sell
him a single fowl or a particle ot mani
oc. He had two teeth on a plate
and his great trick was to show the
natives that the white man could re
move his teeth. This wonderful feat
usually accomplished the desired re
sult, but the Mount Kenia natives
wanted a bigger show than he gave
them. 'They insisted that if he could
remove two teethbe could extract the
Others also, and they demanded to
me the eutire circus. Expostulation
was of no avail. They told him to
take all hie teeth out or starve, and
lie was glad to escape in t.is night from
this inhospitable tribe. On the way
back to the coast Thomson was al
most wholly destitute of goods to
barter for food, but his reputation a*
a wizzard and a physician spread (ur
aud wide and by means of fits trick*
and medicines he managed to gel
along.
Must savages at that regard sleight
If hand feats as evidence of super
Natural powers, but noa and then
they are sharp enough to think thsy
are being duped. One day after Mr.
Martin had been performing some
Irkki lor the amusement of a crowd
of Wall wall girls he told them hi
could do uiuvn more wonderful thing*
Molding up a Unger he assured them
that if lie cut it uf! a new finger would
at once grow on again. The girl*
laughed at hint and told bun lie lied
Suddenly one of them sprang *o> ward
•admiring one uf Martin s linger*
cut It to the bone with a nttlu
Hhe told hint *he meant t«
tat* hiut at hi* word, and that naw
whe knew what he said was uot true,
tar if ha could tot Imal the wound
aha had made the was very • ire Im
«Wwld not cause a new Angir to grow
Thu magic lantern na* of late years
been an endless source of amusement
to many a savage audience. We car
hardly imagine the surprise and delight
which the simple minded natives have
seen spread before them on a screen
the streets of London and Paris and
many other wonders of civilisation.
Pictures of Niagara Falls, Alps and
other wonders of nature do not make
the slightest impression upon the un
tutored minds; but give them glimpses
of thoroughfares crowded with people
and vehicles, show them Oio lolty
structures in which the white men live,
and find soldiers and gay women clad
in all the colors of the rainbow, and
they rend the air with their exclama
tions of astonishment and pleasure.
In hia last journeys Livingstone had
a magic lantern; and several later
travelers have found this toy verv
useful in helping them win the friend
ship of their new acquaintances.
Dr. Junker found, during his many
years in Centra) Africa, that he could
not introduce himself more favorably
to tribes who had never before seen a
white man than by playing on bis
accordeon. He never entered a new
village without firstobtaining permis
sion, and he never failed to make an
impression, as he marched in at the
head of his little caravan, making the
woods ring with the liveliest melodies
of his native land. He found many of
these people quick to catch an air,
nuu in J
depths of Central Africa whom he met
are st ill humming some of the iolliest
melodies of Kurope. One of the most
highly prized presents the great King
Mtesa ever received was a hand-organ;
and a while ago a Mr. Coillard found
on the banks of the Zambesi a native
queen who bad a wheezy accordeon,
over which she ran her lingers with
surprising Agility, playing a curious
mealey of savage airs.
A compass is one of the essential
articles in an explorer's equipment
and is an endless source of wonder
and pleasure to many savages. In
Africa the compass is often regarded
as a fetich which knows ail things and
unerringly shows the white man the
right road even amid interminable
forests. During the recent travels of
Jacques de Brazza, a younger brother
of the more celebrated explorer
by that name, the fame ot hie com
pass spread far and wide,and the con
stant demands to see it became so an
noying that for a time the explorer
told the natives that the ietich woe
sick and had been put away in the
bottom of a box to get well. Mr. Mc
Donald, a missionary South of Lake
Nvaesa, says he has made many
friends by explaining the mysteries of
his watch. Its works excite no great
er surpriso titan the watch crystal
among those who have never seen
glass, and the missionary describes
the amusing perplexity of one chief
who could not understand why ho
was unable to touch the watch hands
which he saw before him.
There is a wonderful potency in the
mere crack of a ride or revolver
among savages who have never seen
firearms. When Dr. Ludwig Wolf dis
covered a new water route to Central
Africa along the Sankuru River a
white ago his little party would iri all
probability have been massacred by
the Bassongo Mino cannibals had not
the vyliit? tnan giy^ them a very ex
alted opinion 6f his power by a single
discarge of his revolver. One day M olf
learned that the savages had decided
to kill him and his comrades as the
easiest way to gain possession of the
white man's trade goods. Their chief
refused to let the party go on their
way and told Wolf he liad him in his
power. The poor wretch had never
heard of the magical powers of
the shooting-iron, and seeing no
lances or bows and arrows he
imagined the visitors were defence
less. While he was insulting the stran
ger. Wolf suddenly held his revolver
close to the chief’s ear and discharged
it. The insolent crowd was struck
dumb with horror and the chief shiv
ered from head to foot with fear. Aft
er giving the chief a few specimens of
his ability as a marksman. Wolf told
the astounded potentate that he was
going to leave and the whole tribe was
apparently glad to eet rid of so dan
gerous a person. It is thus that trav
elers have a great advantage o.ver the
most implacable tribes they meet, so
long as they can give some novel exhi
bition of power that is utterly inex
I plicable to the savage mind. The
Aird ltiver, in New Guinea, long re
mained unexplored on account of the
hostility of the natives at its mouth,
but when Mr. Bevan entered this riv
er last Spring these same savages, who
sallied out in their canoes to attack
him,were so badly frightened by asin
gle blast from his steam whistle that
they jumped overboard and swam for
dear life to the shore. Captain Ever
ill ran the gauntlet of hostile savages
for scores of miles on the Fly River,
New (iuinea, keeping them out of ar
row range by tooting bis whistle, and
Stanley by the same means last Sum
mer sent hundreds of the Yam bugs
natives scampering into the woods,
leaving his party in (space to prepare
and fortify the iiermanem camp,
where his reserve force has since re
mained awaiting the explorer'* re
turn from the Nile.
It often haii|>cn*, too, that *»vag«
are disarmed of hostile intentions i
they become convinced that thru
visitors are friends ol caller travelen
who won their good will, Ur. Ilolut
■ays that any well-disposed whit*
man can travel wherever l.iviugstcn.
went if tin- natives think lie knew mu
loved that grand old hero, 'nit faun
of the powerful Buis Matarl, os Stan
ley Is Hnown in the Congo basin, hoi
spread far and wale, and in a regioi
be nev*r visited 1 *i Hu- l-nci a trail,
ago completely turned the tale ol feel
in* in Ins favor by shouting to i
crowd of savages who wore hurlitn
lances at his earners that he wa* i
friend of Hula Matarl. When Mr
Roniilly landed in Astrolabe1 Bay
New Guinea. the native advanced t
attack htiu until he uttered "the mag
hi name of Miklu- ho 'Is- lay," am
then tlie word pa seed from one to an
Other that the elraitger was that
good friend's brother and they gh
him a Ir-endty tevealion
Two year* ago the missionaries h
Met el-elsland. in Hou'li \ uterus
adopted an unusual plan for attract
tog l (id.rinse to their services- The
--
had ceased to be a novelty, and their
talks were poorly attended. As they
went to the place of meeting they
would shoot game on the way, and
while one of them expounded the
Bible the others built tires under trees
and cooked the meat for distribution
among the congregation. As long as
the provender held out they were
sure of a good audience.
C. C. Adams.
Animals Hava Language.
Gentleman's Magaxioe.
The intellectual superiority of civil
ized man over his savage brethren is
due to the greater multiplicity of bis
objects cf tbouaht. and precisely so is
it with the intellectual superiority of
the savage man over flimian ances
tors. The actions of all have the
same aim, viz., the supplying of the
wants of physical nature and the
gratifying of the desires aroused in the
mind. The old theory that speech
was altogether limited to the human
race has now to be given up once and
for all, for such a statement cannot
stand against the scientific evidence
brought forward to oppose it from all
quarters.
Language is but a product of reflec
tion and experience, and originated,
in all probability, in interjection or
the instinctive expression of the sub
jective impressions derived from
external nature; and just as the re
flective powers of the race were de
arm vnuwn mure urim/uiujr
as each stag* In the evolutionary
march of intellect won panned, so did
syllabic cries of the lower animals and
savage men to the complex dialects of
modern civilization; and it is worthy
of note that at the present day, or ar
least very recently, there were races of
savage men inhabiting the earth who
possessed no proper language at all,
and could not, on account of their
manner of living,he placed on a higher
intellectual level than the higher apes;
while we have the authority of the
leading philologists of the day in sup
port of the fact that the monosyllabic
cries of some of tbs lower human
tribes are well within the grasp of the
ape’s voice.
Travelers whose veracity and abili
ty cannot be impugned have described
long conferences held by monkeys,
where one individual addressed the
assembly at great length, fixing the
attention of all upon himself and
quelling every disturbance by a loud
and harsh cry, which wn at
once recognized and obeyed by
tiie multitude; and we need no
traveler to point out to us the many
notes of call and recognition possess
ed by birds of all kinds, who thor
oughly well understand each other’s
expressions, and, moreover, are able
to produce quite a string or different
notes consecutively, and without any
hesitation. In fact the organ of voice
in some of the lower animals far ex
ceeds in power that of some tribes of
the human family.
Tiie Euphonia inuiiea of the East
Indies can perform the seven notes
in the scale; the chaffinch not only
sings re;U song*, but invents them,
5ne of his songs containing as many
as five long strophes, while tiie songs
of many savage races of men never
run to half that length, and when,
Cook visited the Fiji arcnipelago the
native women could only sing from
la to mi. Asia appears to have been
tiie birthplace of Stringed instruments,
no Houthern tribes ever having been
discovered using such musical appli
ances. We see, therefore, a gradual
improvement taking place in vocal
apparatus as we rise in the animal
scale, which results in speech and
song, and, indirectly, in instrumental
music of vnrious degrees; and we find
fresh proof that there is as wide a dif
ference between the developement of
civilized European and the savage
man as between that of the savage
man and his bruts ancestry.
A Western Courtship.
•‘When I was a young man,” said
the politician, ‘‘I traveled in the
southwest considerably, selling sad
dles, etc, On one of my trips I stop
ped over night in a settlers cabin in
tt/viif kaaof Tlia uottloi* anil
his wife were mighty cordial, gave me
the best they had and made me wel.
come to a bunk on the floor witli
them. The oldest daughter was 10 or
17 years old and a perfect beauty for
her situation. She was the kind o: a
girl a novelist would break his neck
to get hold of for a heroine. She’d be
very picturesque and pleasing in a
book, but I shudder when 1 think of
her in real life. She took quite a shine
to mu and before we laid down she
bad told me nearly every thing she
ever heard. A heavy rain fell during
the night, and as i he roads
had been heavy before, they were
not passable the next morning. Ho I
had to stay at the cabin. The girl
■was very attentive for the three days
I was there, and on the evening of the
last day she said ‘hay. is you una
martieu1" I told her lit,' amt want
ed to kuow why she asked. 'Well, if
, you una ain't,' she said,'we uns might
, get spin-tab'
The sjsraker paused to allow hla
i hearers time to break all their but
i Ions, and then proceeded
* liar lather approved heartily of
i the plan. 'Iv'e been wishing you uns
( would hitch ever since I seen you uns,’
. he said, and the whole family was eo
I congratulatory that I was afraid to
! decline. I pretended to accept, and
l offered to ride to th« meat mg-house
j about *JU miles away and gel the
preacher. They laughed at tlie Idea.
'We tin» van marry oureelvea by kiss
, ing over a « smile,' tbegtrl sank 1 in
sisted on I ha pfvaclter, and altar a
I long argument got my horse out to
tide lor him lust ae I was about to
i mount tits girl came out of the cabin
• arrayed to go with me. That was
too much I mounted in a hurry,laid
i a switch to tba horse's Hangs and
, rode oH at the top of the horse's
spsed. I have never men the charmer
f since. — Hi. I.ouis Post b->|wt«k,
THE MAIL CARRIER'S STORY.
Alban/ Kvening Journal*
We were gathered rou d the stove
in the little station of the frontier
town of 8-, waiting for the mid
night ex pi ess. The wind howled dis
mally among the branches of the old
elm behind the station and the
hard flakes of snow rattled against
the panes in a way suggestive o
cold weather.
Buddenly we heard a tremendous
stamping on the platform outside, the
door opened and a nturdy-looking
fellow entered with a lantern and a
couple of mail bags. He wore a heavy
army overcoat and long riding boots,
at the heels of which jingled an ugly
lookit.g pair of Mexican spurs. On
tlieiront of his bluo cap, which was
held down by a heavy mufller, was a
metal band, on which were stamp
ed the words "U. 8. Mail" in large
letters.
''Well," he said, throwing the snow
covered mail bags down in a corner,
blowing out his lantern and coming
over to the stove, "I guess you gents
’ll have a long wait; they jest tele
graphed up from Julesburg that the
train is an hour late and on account
of the snow driftin’ so I don’t imagine
we’ll see her short of two hours."
Here was a pretty fix. Finally one
of our number, a short man dressed
in buckskin, who sat behind the stove
umi wo i/Oii yarns. j o
this ail agreed, and he began with a
mining adventure. When each had
spun tile yarn and there was still no
sign of tiie train, the man in buckskin
turned half around and said to the
mail carrier, wiio sat quietly smoking
behind him, and wiio had taken no
part in the proceedings, “I say, Jim,
tell tiie gentlemen about your little
discussion with French Pete.”
After much persuasion the mail car
rier, who must have been six /eet-two
in iiis stockings, recharged his pipe
and began:
"I’ve carried mails between the
towns around here for something like
ten years. My story#Inys in t he win
ter of '70 in January, about the 16th
I think. One night, an awful cold
night, the postmaster of Laramie— 1
was runnin’ between Fort Laramie
and Lead wood—says to me, ‘Now,
Jim, I got some important mail to
night, arid ye want to be mighty keer
ful of it,'
" ‘All right,’ says I, and fakin' the
mail bags, J slung ’em in their usual
place across the saddle and started on
my journey,a matter of 60 mile or so.
“j was jest gettin’ into the
open country when 1 heard some
body call ‘Jim, Jim Fenton!’ I
reined in and a feller I knew came
up and said kinder low, ‘Jim, ye
want to w itch yerself mighty close.’
French Pete got away agin last
night, and I’m pretty sure he knows
ye’ve got vallyble mail- I heard my
self thet ye had $40,000 in bonds for
Pol. F.-at Lead wood. 8o be
kinder keerful to have them seven
shooters of yourn ready for 'rnergin
cy.’
“ ‘Ail right, Fred,' says f, 'much
obliged to ye.’ i must own as this bit
of news made me feei very squeamish,
and 1 took partic’lar care to see t hat
my pistols was in trim for 'mmediate
use— I had a pair of navies, seven
shooters, as long as yer forearm, reg’
lar beauties, and i was a pretty fair
shot, five put nine out of ten shots
into a playin’ card (only way I ever
use’em) at 100 yards: French Pete
was a what we call a road agent, and
he’d done some pretty ticklish stealin'
on that very road. Ile’d been cap
tured two or three days previous,
and accordin’ to what Fred Jones
had told me was loose agin—he
never could be held on to when he
was catched—so, as I said, I telt kind
er turns, to say the least. He’d been
described to me as tall, with piercin’
black eyes and a long (lowin’ beard,
as quick as a cat, and witii a deep,
gruff voice. I’d never seed him but
I’d seed lus boss, a little black mare
with white feet and nose and a white
star oh her forehead. I felt a little
more oneasy at tiie idea of his havin’
his eye on me and my vallyble mail.
So I jest made up my mind to keep
away from any horsemen that 1 might
see layin’ around loose.
“Well, after I got out or. the open
livid back by the buildings, at Lara
mie, struck mu full force. You call
this a hard wind, do yer? Well, ye’d
onghter ha’ sued that wind—my land!
this is only a zetTur. Anyhow, it did
blow Jarful hard, drivin' the small
frozen bite of snow into my face like
so many needles.
"By midnight the wind all went
down till there was scarcely a breath,
and thu mooncameout white and full,
till it was 'most like daylight.
"Suddenly, I heard a horse's foot*
steps, clickin’ on the frozen ground.
My heart jumped into my mouth ami
I turned around pretty lively 1 tell
ye, and I see quite a piece back up the
road a feller on hossback, cornin' alt*
er me at a pretty stitT rate.
"1 put the spurs into my little eor
rel and took out one ol my pistole
iiiuj rucked it. The Idler didn’t seem
to tss in any very great hurry to catch
up with me, for I soon had him a mile
or two behind. Then I slowed up
again and went on at a jog-trot. I
lia>l ridden about IA miles or so when
I beard the hoe* agin. Benin' how
easy 1 got away from him befoie I
waited till he was pretty clou#, turret
tin' how Miy a bullet n my back
would make up the datum Then I
was test gum' to spur up again, when
he ratted out, 'Htup, wlial'e yer bur
ry*' but instead of tbe gruff, coarse
voice I e* pec ted from French l*et# I
•opposed it was him it was as soft as
a woman'*. A good deal easier tn my
mind, I reigned iu, and as the stranger
I cam* up I looked huu over mighty
keeftul. II* was a toang man uot
over tWsmtyHv* Or Cta. inclined to he
short and ihuk aet, with yellow hair
bangin’ rooml hi* shoulder* and a
light mu *tache. Tne only part of his
face I didn’t like waa his eyes. I
couldn't see them very well, for his
soft,broad-brimmed felt hat was pull
ed over ’em, but they teemed to look
right through me and it made me feel
nervous. He was dressed in a Mexi
can rig. a bluish broadcloth jacket,
edged and decyrated with gold braid
and buttons, a pair of loose buckskin
pants and high boots. The butt of a
revolver peeked out of his sash, and
another I couljl see in a holster at his
hip. I noticed him very close, and he
looked wonderful trim and neat. We
rid on a good piece, laughin’ and talk
in’ and I was feelin’ pretty cheerful,
’cause there was two of us in case
Fiench Fete did turn up.
"Well, we got almost to Deadwood,
and near the woods about threemiles
from there, when suddenly somethin’
took me to look at his hoss. I hadn’t
done this afore—don’t know why,
but f Jiad't— and Jiminy Corn! there
was the famous little mare, with her
white trimmings and long mane and
tail—oh, yes, it was French Fete’s
hoss, sure enough. Hut I didn’t let
on that 1 knew, and I was ’most be
ginning to think 1 must he mistaken
when we came out of the woods. The
sun was just rising, and we got to
that big pine—remember it, Joe?—
just ns the full circle came up over
the prairie. Just under this tree mv
my companion says, witii a little
chuckle, ‘Jim, look at tills.’ Kinder
startled, I turned, and 1 tell you the
hair ri/. right straight up on my head.
I was lookin’ plumb into the muzzle
of a big six-shooter, ugh!
" ‘Wlia—what’s this’” says f, skeer
ed ‘most out of my wits f never was
rnui'li on studyin’ the internals of
loaded weapons through the barrel.
a ID cv I I' 1 nuill. I'UJM V
you had French Pete lor a travelin’
companion, did yet Well, it means
tliet I’d like to look over yer mail abit,’
and then he roared right out as lie see
tiie long face 1 put on, for 1 couldn*;
help thinking’ of what Fred .Jonesha 1
ton! me, ami kinder wonderin’ if there
really was secii a pile of money in them
bags.
“ ‘Well,’ says I, 'I, don’t see as 1
can help it, here they be.’
“ ‘You unbuckle them yerself,’ says
he. ‘I’ll keep an eye on tins pistol
an 1 see that it don’t go off, but I'm
afeared I couldn’t manage it if you
should rut up any shines; it goes oil
mighty easy, and lie chuckled again,
for I could see thet if it should go off
a ‘>’12’ would cut a tunnel right
through my head.
“All of a sudden I thought of some
thin’ and jest as suddenly I lotmd
that I couldn’t onhuckle the trap that
held the hags to the saddle. I fussed
at it for several minutes and French
Pete was gettin’ impat ient, ‘Hurry
up,’ says he, ‘I can’t control this wep
pin much longer.’
“ ‘I can’t onhuckle this,’ says I.
" ‘Take your knife,’ says tie, with
an oath. I got it out of my belt, got j
the point under the strap and then it
slipped out of my lingers and dropped
to the ground.
Then, without thinking, and J’veal
ways thought lie was a fool not to
shoot me oil the spot, lie lowered ins 5
pistol, put it hack in his sash, and !
whipping out a big bowie rode lip !
along side. This little proceedin’ of
ins cost him just five years
of liberty. Maybe ho thought |
I was dreadful skeered, but
bo made a big mistake. Jest
tlie minute lie put away his pis
tol I pulled out both of mine and
poked them, cocked and ready for
business, right into his face, and says,
as calm as I could: ‘French Pete,’
says i, 'hands up! Your road-agent
business is jest about wound up—
iiands up, lively!’ He see that I’d jest
as soon shoot him as not, and held
up-both arms.
“I kept one of my pistols lookin’ at
him while I searched him and cleaned
him of weppins. Then i tied his hands
to the back of his saddle and his feet
under the hose, and onbucklin' one
side of his curb-rein, druv him in front
of me, with a cocked revolver in the
other hand. 1 got into Laramie all
right with my pris’ner about nine
o’clock, and he was tried, sentenced
and did his five years in state prison.
A government court tried him—a Lar
amie judge would ha’ hanged him on
the nearest tree.
“He come out of pi ison a different
chap. He started in the mines and
made his pile; then he went to New
York anil married. In about, two
years lie come back, and now he's the
biggest toad in the government assay
office here at 8——. His real name is
Joseph Kennedy, and.” the mail car
rier suddenly added, nodding towards
the short man in buckskin; “there he
is, and here comes your train.” And
the mail carrier rose, stretched him
self, took np his lantern and mail bags
and went out into the storm.
“All aboard!” and with a parting
shriek, a jerk and a spasmodic snort,
the train roiled on its way. and the
little station was left deserted, alone
in the darkness and the wind.
The Cowboy of Russia.
The t'oeeacka furnished the cavalry
and the Kueeians think it ie the finest
in til* world, although there is a de
cided difference of opinion on till* sub
ject among military authorities. Out
side of Itussia tiis Cossack is regarded
as a good scout uud au active guer
rilla, but worthless for regular war*
fare. He is a cowboy, tlie rancho of
Itussia, was borne iu a saddle, baa a
contempt for agriculture (all tlie food
product* among tlie Cuesacka are
raised by the women I, a contempt lor
schools, would not Warn to read or
writ* U h* had the op|M>rtm»ity, ami
is pi.t about hail civ lined
(lot the Cossack* are a J»ace of free
n>«u. They have never been seifs, ami
have never paid lav»« to any author*
ity. They own vaet tracts ol laitd In
•astern Ituseia, where they rwise herds
of cattle, sheep and horsva. All their
land h held in common and Urn peo
pie live in commune* Thetr system
ui local government I* the same a*
that ol the I led tin i tie, the same as that
of the children of Urval in tlie time of
1 Move* and Ahrahaiu »W, i Curtts.
i
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XI. MARCH 15—TEACH
ING PRAYER—LUKE 11:1-13.
Goldan Tost: “Ask nod It bball B*
Given Tnto Yn: keek nnd Yn ftbnll
Find: Knock nod It Shall Bn Open
I nto Yon,**
FVIKW and keep tn
view clearly tho
place In the life of
Christ w here this be
longs Use the blblo
freely In comparison
of parallel accounts,
examples of prayer,
promises of answer*
to prayer; and let
these facta and
promises come with
cumulative force, so
as to make a deep
and lasting Impres
sion I,earn by
should learn some of
these verses by heart. Christ’s Prayers —
II will he Interesting to many to make ft
sludy of Christ'* prayers, as to kind, form,
spirit, piiblle, private, as a means by
which he may leach us to pray. Hee refer
ence* below. Time.—November. A. D. 29.
Place,—Somewhere In Perea, the country
on the other side of Jordan. Jesus, almost
33 years old.
The full lesson for to-day Is as follows:
3. Olve us day by day our dally bread.
• 4. And forgive us our sins for we also
forgive every one that Is Indebted to us.
And lead us not Into temptation; But de
liver us from evil,
■V And he said unto them. Which of you
shall have a friend, and shall go unto him
at midnight, and suy unto him, Friend,
lend me three loaves;
t>. For a friend of mine In his Journey
Is come to me, und I have nothing to set
before him7
7. And he from within shall answer and
s«.v, i rouble mo not: the door I* now shut,
anil my children are with me In bed; I
cannot rise and give thee.
#. 1 say unto you, Though he will not
rlxe and give him, because he Is hi* friend,
yet because of hla Importunity he will rise
and give him as many as ne neeileth.
H. And I say unto you. Ask, and It shall
la* given you; seek, and ye shall ttnd; j
knock, and It shall tic opened unto you. 4
10, For every one that uskelh recelveth;
anil he that seeketh tlndeth; and to him
that knockcth It shall he opened,
11. If a son shall ask bread of uny of you
that Is a father, will he give him a stone?
or If he ask a fish, will he for a llsh give
him a serpent ?
It’. Or If he shall ask an egg, will ho
offer him a scorpion?
13, If ye then, being evil, know how lo
give good gifts unto your children; how
much more shall your heavenlyi Father
give the Holy Hplrlt to them that ask him?
Some explanation* to to-day’s lesson
are as follows:
"Our Father which art In heaven.''
"Our," not "my.” "Fa.her," to whom wo
owe all we have and are, In whose Imagj
wi are made; whom w> love, and tr .st,
and obey; to whom we can pour O'.i our
Inmo-t souls. "In heaven." and therefore
Inllnllc, omnipresent, whose very nature
makes heaven what II Is and ah e to reach
every person, and help In ever.' need. Ills
greatness will not pul a gulf let ween him
and us, If we realize that It's love is as
Infinite as Ids power, arid hi* tender mer
cies as great as his being. 1 •
A Duly. Thl* Invocation Is In accord
ance with the First und rheond Com
mandments.
A Doctrine. The true nature of God
(Father In heaven).
A Lesson. The biotherhce d of man.
Our Father,
A Warning. Against selfishness.
A Spirit of worship, love, trust, obe
dience, communion.
“Hallowed be thy name "Thy name"
stands for his character, for whatever he
I*. as when a man signs his name to a
promissory note, it expresses his char
acter. hi.- ability, his possession*, all he
hus und Is. May the name of our Father
lie hallowed, held In reverence, treated us
holy und sacred, by ourselves and by all,
In heart. In thought, In word, In deed.
A Duty, corresponding to the Third and
Fourth Commandments, one the guard
against Irreverence, the other u ineuns of
hallowing our Father'* name.
A Truth. The uplifting power of rever
ence for that which Is high above ns. (Hee
Carlyle's Heroes und Hero Worship.)
A Warning against Irreverence, of every
form, as degrading Ihe sou?
An Inspiration lo seek that all the world
may hallow our Father's name.
An Order. Note that our first petition Is
toward God, the second for his kingdom,
and the third for our fellow men; before
we ask a single thing for ourselves. True
prayer Is large-hearted, ennobling, not
seltlsh.
"Thy kingdom come.” The kingdom or
reign of God In Christ over the whole
world, when the rule of Hataii and his
principles shall be overthrown, and God
and the principle* of Ills heavenly right
eousness shall prevail among all men.
This Is the most magnificent blessing the
world can receive. "Thy will be dene, as
In heaven so In ton) earth.” The petition
Implies (1) that we ourselves desire so to
do God's will. (2) That we wish God's will
to be done In us und for us by his provi
dence and by Ills Spirit. This Is much
more than mere submission to God’s will.
t3) That all the world may obey God as
perfectly a* the ungels ooey hro. What
u prayer thl* Is! What changes, what
overturning* It Implies. What changes In
business. In dully life. In nohtlcs. What
new home* there would ne What m lid
tie* In church, what renovations of so
ciety, wliat changes of fortune.
C. For a friend of mine." (living the X
rea*on for his Inopportune hut urgent ie- '
gutsl. The friend, arriving ut that late
hour, a ax doubtless suffering from hunger.
There were utmost no hotels In the east
to which he could go The huxl was en
tirely out of food, but ho|>o<i that Ids frleml
might have eume left over, though usually
they prepared bread enough only for a
single day. I'erhaps he did not even have
meal to make bread of.
t. "Trouble me not “ The phraee I in
put* Irritation." My children are with
me In bed.” In lire earn* apartment, but
not In the >ame bed Knelt bad a tied, or
malireee. Ie le usual for a whole family
tof the priori to sleep In the same room ’
"| «a»not rise and give thee." It Is alto
gether too much trouble
*■ "Not . . . because be Is hls
friend ' Though the higher luullvee will
net avail, lor the friendship is so weak
"Vet I'scuuss of hls importunity, he wilt
rtee and give him ' It wae less Double to
grant bis wishes than to lialui* the aw
wvartsd itapoitUHlty.
kttbh THAT WILL ONOW.
Nobody bas suer found Into happt
Hm • bo did oat Btst Bud i hilsl.
Tb* Mtho who would b« strong ig
uulnd until toed oh fuels.
No teed* are abed when the mag a tea *
wbo baa lived only lor himself
Tbs only way to beep (too tu,m ng,
U to beep . lose to I'hrtot,
No town van bo truly bt*iv who to nut
trying to bo truly good
Bvoey •* i won ought tn have some
thing tb It that the devil would uy tg
i answer.
