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A. C. HOSMER, Proprietor.
RED CLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA
DON'T FORGET THE DRAKE.
The engineer on level plain
Will jive his engine steam,
And turn the wheels at rapid rate
To the whistle's piercing scream.
But ahca.l his eyes are iiecrinj;
For every cut and till.
And ne'er forjjeis to set the iirake
When going dawn the hill.
This world or ours is free to t.l.
Its pleasures and its pain;
It has its up and downward sralcs.
Its sunshine and its rain.
He caretul of the speed you ma'.ce,
And deep these words instill:
Don't e'er forget to set the brake
When going down the hill.
Yeu, who In word and act proclaim
The .orld for you was mode.
Are rushing on at sickcnin,: speed.
Approaching dangerous grade.
For fc;f yoar death the world might shroud.
An 1 ail industries chill (it,
Ee wise for once and set the brake,
You're j,"o:ig down the hill.
Temptations all around us lie
To snare our willing feet;
Oft that tor which we paid the pnc3
Is but a shameful cheat.
In life's darl: hours be not rash.
He manly. how your skill.
And don't torget to set the brake
When going down the hill.
With wrecks the rail of life is strewn.
We pass t.'ieni every day.
With broken hearts and deaden'd brains.
And joys they Hung away.
They swiftly passed, ne'er looked ahead.
Knew naught but pleasure's thrill;
Al.i: they'd failed to set the brake
When going down the hill.
ilarthall Kenzie Siitruooi.
TREAN;
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THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER.
3y AliVA MILTON KERR.
Written While Living in Utah.
Copyright"!, jssT, by th A. X KAXojj Xeici
pipr Co. All UVjhS lUserciiL
CHAPTER IV. Continued.
A pore ole woman was clmg::i at the same
cart, but she let o to'anls uight an' fell
out o sight, ro body could go back fer 'er
w"cn dark conic, an' in the mornm' not fur
from us some tore clothes an' hair was
found, an" a human skull with the wet
prints of wolf-teeth all over it. That
taornin' we buried live froze folks in one
grave, I mhid, an' then went draggiu'
oa'ard agin, but 'bout noon we could go no
furder. the snow was so deep, an' we
stopped ready to lay down an' die. Hut
some of the stoutest of us managed to got
the tents up. an' fires started. an' went
back in the snow an' got the sick an' the
froze, an' some what was out of their minds,
an' got "em "round the lires. It was a tur
riblc sight! My Catharine never said nary
word that day. Her eyes looked big an'
glassy, an' she went weavm from one side
to totiier. but she kep her eyes on the chil
dren an' at ryin' to push. I could see the
end was coaiin, but I couldn't feel some
how. 1 seemed to be jest movin' in a numb
"kiwi of awful nightmare. Sometimes I
didn't seem to know whar I was; then agin
things'd look clear, but wild an' strange,
an' 1 seemed to be workm' with all my
might, but I'm feerd it didn't 'mount to
much.
Well, that afternoon hep come. One of
the elders that passed us was shore we'd
never get through an' urged President
Young to send us some jcrvisions. So
that day two of a party reached us an' tole
us teams with supplies would be there the
:.est day, an" fer us to kill one oxen an' save
ourselves. So wc did, they a hepin us, an'
that evenin we had big fires and all the
meat we keered fer an' used what was left
of the pervisioiis. an some on us got a little
life agin. Hut many was past all mortal
hen. an' that night my Catherine died, an'
j jst afore she passed away my darter Trean
was born!'
There he stopped and sat looking heavily
at the lloor. A sweat broke out upan his
furrowed forehead, and for a few moments
he seemed stupified by the shocking retro-sp-t.
I hain't no words to show ye it furder
with." he said, hoarsely, without looking up.
I've talked too much alxntt it; it comes too
nigh to me!"' and he swallowed painfully as
if the vision his memory brought suffocated
li.ai. 1 kent say nothin fiirdur. on'y that
the child was saved an" has always been sad
l:l:e. an' I've been a broken-down man ever
taiec. " and he got up and went tremblingly
out with something like a sob shaking his
form.
Elehard had said nothing as the story
progressed, and the alternate surges of
angr and pity in his Itosom had followed
each other with no sign upon the surfa2
save a tightening and trembling of the
fingers, clouds Hying across the face, anil :i
djrkcning and melting of the eve.
And when it ended he still remained
silent, but with tears slipping from under
the lashes of his closed eyes. Wliat could
be said '. What else given such folly and
.--lTeriug but tears i It was of a pjeco with
other large examples of abuse in the
world's life. One with the hurling to
gether of countries in slaughter by design
ing tyrants: one with the ensl:ving of
racs by sleek opulenre and grfed: one
w;th combinations on the food for nations
that a few might live fatly at the cxnousa of
general hardship: one with the slake, the
chain, almost wit'.i the assassin's knife, this
black abuse of confidence, and yet, alas!
what else was there for it but tears I The
deceived, the foully injured, stul clung to
the deceiver, still revered the destroyer,
still knelt to the idols that drowned them.
Aye. what could le said;
And what for the e.Teet! Ah. it was one
with the trust of ignorance in all ages: one
-with blind faith, one with reliance on a sys
tem in the stead of reason and simple
righteousness. Hut what for the cause!
Alas, there was no jK'nalty. no law with
-which to blast it ! Nothing but. to leave it to
the One in whose name it was perpetrated
and to the long verdict of Tkne, and Paul
Elehard, lying there, ground his teeth in
silence
Then nearly two weeks fell away slug
gishly. Trean kept about her work and
well under the shadow of her heavy sad
ness, coming not often into the room where
Elehard lay. and saying little upon such en
trances. The injured man, not knowing of
the swinging over her of this later cloud,
laid, and naturally, her enduring somber
ness to the grief and horrors that hung
about her birth. His heart moved toward
her with the thought. Day by day
she was melting into him, and
he could not put her back. 8he
seemed like a twilight to bis nature, aad,
soft ar-d beautifully sweet, spreading slowly
throughout his being. It did not give him
jer, thrilling his soul upward into ecstasy
like the coning of lor to many, but per
vaded him all the day long like a tender
music, sorrowful, haunting, but bringing a
holy pleasure. When ho lifted his eyes to
here the spirit of this was in them, and hers
would flicker down and seem to swim in
light as she turned away. Once he heard
her break into a song when out among tho
flowers that was so mellow and sweet it
thrilled him to the heart; then it fell away
so plaintively his eyes were bedewed anil
H'ja with pity. Hut she did not sing again,
as day after day he lay watching the sail
shine sleeping in soft flakes about the
threshold, or trembling into little heaps of
untinkling coin as the vine-leaves stirred.
She kept herself apart, yet were they none
the less together.
Her father remained much among his tiny
fields, turning on the clear irrigating water
and feebly hoeing the sandy loam about his
vegetables. He still brought the sick man
his dainty meals religiously, but seemed de
pressed and talked but little. Dr. Dubetto
came frequently, talked much and turned
his small hard eyes about, but Trean re
mained to them invisible. Once Orson Beam
came too. inquired of the sick man his
health, delivered a message from the mines,
and went his way. Then news came in by
a neighbor that on the morrow, a Saturday,
President Youngwould visit tiiescttlemeut,
and expectation re-se on tiptoe.
Ci3TKRV.
THE COMING .! THE PltOPnET.
The Mormon Prophet was malring his
annual tour through the settlements of the
Territory, and was looked for to-day in
Mooseneck. It was a visit of moment, and
the inhabitants stirred themselves with tho
dawn in its anticipation. Paul Elehard. too,
was out for the first time since his injury,
and, very carefully picking his way to a scat
among the pines on the slope above the
house, sat through the long, delicious morn
ing looking down into the village. A fever
seemed to pervade the thoroughfare that
laid it open in two rather straggling halvc3,
a bustle of men. women and children that
was very enlivening to the numb and sleepy
town.
By midmorning two triumphal arches
were sprung across the street, made green
with twining vines and blooming sprays,
and bearing legends of welcome wrought in
flowers: on the one "Hail to the Lord's
Anointed !" and on the other 'The Lord's
Prophet "i3 Our King!' Many of the house
fronts, too, were made fine with floral green
ery and welcoming devices. Hut all this was
not quite so spontaneous as would seem;
Bishop Parley had received notice of the
coming of this man who ruled them in every
sense, and knew full well the seeming
honors lie was expected to provide, and how
closely his own and the interests of his fel
low frauds hinged upon it.
Now and then a bitter smile flitted across
the face of the pale watcher among the pines.
This truckling was wearisome, and yet it
had a certain interest, a depth that was in
scrutable, and he watched it. The spirit of
it like a suffocating mist hung through all
these mountain valleys; there below him
passed the willowy figure of Trean across
the yard, seemingly pressed down by it: it
lay even upon his own wounded chest like
an invisible weight, and he drew a long
breath and made an involuntary movement
of expulsion.
A smooth wind was moving the balsamic
spires of the pines to a sea-shell sigh, great
masses of snow-pure clouds were breaking
open at the zenith, leaving vast blue holes,
and farther westward were raking their
fleece along the craggy heights, while below
them patches of light slept ujwu the mount
ain sides like the white sheep of Heaven;
surely it was a leautiful world, why should
men fill it with hatefulness!
He fell to studying for a time with his
eyes upon tho ground, turning man round
and round before him with an eye to those
angles that fit no geometric rule, and the
strange attributes that seem to have no
cause, but pat the tnystcry. the enigma, with
its baftling malady away from kirn at last
yith a sigh, as we all do.
When he lifted his eyc3 a detached mass
of white cloud seemed to have lodged among
the four huge prongs that made the Eagle
Peaks and lay there motionless. To the
right and below it in fancy he could see tho
mines and Itelow them the yawning canyon
with a roaring stream at the bottom and a
gray road following it. Then suddenly the
cloud-mass stirred as from an under
wiud and rolled out of its mighty nest and
down the mountain like a torrent of
froth. The air seemed stronger in tho
gorge, and it spread out upon that and fell
down half way over the canyon's mouth.r.ot
unlike a softly-unroiiing fleece. Out from
under that suddenly rule a tram of car
riages and behind them a cavalcade, all
glistening and whitening in the morning
light as they came up.m the plateau at, the
canyon's mouth like, somj gigantic stage
picture.
It was a propitious moment for the
Prophet's entrance, however unworthy
he and his mission, for the jteopleat the
sight set up a great acclaim. Elehard,
too, grew interested, and looking downward
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HE FELL TO STfmiVG.
saw the people from all quarters swarm
iiiir into the main street of the town;
then a smart eavale&Je. with Bishop Parley
and Dr. Dubette in a carriage at its front,
set out across the valley, and meeting the
incoming party escorted them in. Enoch
Arseti, the bishop's clerk, when his master
and party had departed, formed by in
struction a human lane of maidens reaching
from one triumphal arch to the other, all
standing with bared heads and with flowers
in their hands and hair.
Presently the Prophet's train rolled
slowly up the street. The whole populace
of the valley seemed swarming there, and
down the lane from the house Elehard saw
Trean's father hastening, his bent form
seeming more erect than its wont, and his
face lit up with joyful anticipation; yes,
gladly hastening to meet the man whoso
greed and falsehood had broken him, had
lain his wife in a lonely grave among
the mountain?, and left in his child's blood
a living bitterness.
As the Prophet's carriage, the finest in
the Territory and drawn by four white
horses, entered the throng the pcoplo
parted and stood with uncovered heads.
The concourse was a weather-beaten, sun
burnt one, familiar with the soil, servility,
and paying tithes. Here was the man
among them into whoso ear God whispered
the secrets of the heavsns and tho earth,
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they thought: who saw visions and had ce
lestial revelations, they were taught; and
who, they knew, was the spiritual and tem
poral dictator of tha land in which they
lived. The ground fairly swayed beneath
them, so much of holiness was crossing it.
The Prophet, a phenomenal deceiver, wa3
a rather large man. cf strong presence,
silvery, sandy hair, white beard, and cold,
hard, urbane, austere, or passionate, acr
cording to the demands of the moment.
About the mouth a look of firmness and de
cision, that deepened upon occasion into
fiery cruelty and bull-dog savagery. But
now his largo face looked very placid as he
held it up toward the sun and rode forward
with his hands outspread as if to draw a
blessing down upon the people. Whea lie
reached the first triumphal srch the lines of
maidens bowed their heads, and as the
train passed through the human lane they
wist their flowers before the Prophet, aad
children walking before his carriago
strewed blossoms along the ground to jwr
fume the air and ease the turning wheels.
Upon the surface the thing was pretty
enough, but at heart it was heinous. In
the train were men whose hands had again
and again been wet with human blood,
Bishops Lee and Rockwell and others.
Men whose souls were black with the be
lief that murder, and thelt. and crimes that
shall be nameless here, were righteous and
commendable when perpetrated upon those
outside of the pale of their 'religion." Tho
assumed Prrjihct himself, this man
Young who nxto te stolid dignity at
the head, was low;boni and un
educated, with a history clotted by crime
and uneven dealing. His stealings from
this poor jwople alone, upon whose col
lective neck his brutal foot rested. aggV
gated millions. He took from the enor
mous fund pressed out of the people by
tithing whatever amount he cared to year
by year, for the fund was entirely in his
hands, and during his life a settlement wa3
never made, and erected a residence in
every considerable town in the Territory
and put a "wife'' in it: had farms and mills
and Government bonds, secretly bought
with church money, to blind the blind as to
his means of living: had a collection of resi
dences, palatial for the time, at Salt Lake
City, with more than a dozen wives to
grace, or rather disgrace, them, and in tho
largest of which he held court and dictated
the affairs of Utah to his own gain and
glory; had an oath-bound band of red
handed tools who in the name of the Lord
darkly did away with his rivals and his
enemies, while year after year he rode
among this people, a sort of imperious
Saint-king, bringing tho Almighty's will
concerning them direct from His mouth,
and ever secure in the fervor of their faith
and ignorance.
At length his carriage came to a stand
still before Bishop Parley's house, and tak
ing the Bishop's proffered hand he stepped
down on the ground, and. with a sudden
glow of seeming sunshine in his face, began
squeezing the hard soiled flst3 of his fol
lowers to right and left. How it thrilled
them, poor dupes, to feel the grasp of his fat
white hand, the live touch of this well-fed
animal, this siuless being who, they thougnt,
walked and talked with God.
He affected to know every man in the Ter
ritory, and, alas, every sister, too! He
patted the little ones upon their heads and
flashed his sunshine into the eyes of their
flattered mothers. He was very gracious,
indeed, this man who held the keys to God's
spiritual kingdom here, and looked at will in
upon the splendors and mysteries of the un
seen worlds. But when he stood inside of
Bishop Parley's office his brow darkened,
his eyes grew hard and cold, and his first
utterance: "Bishop what's the matter with
the tithing from your Stake!"' fell harshly
from his lips. The God-like smile had gone;
ho had returned to himself a brusque and
greedy collector of tithes.
Parley closed the door with increasing
color in his heavy countenance and a er
ceptible swelling of the dark sacks under
his eyes.
You're cither using too much of the in
come yourself," the Prophet went on, "or
Arson an' vou are not 'tending to vour knit
tin' !"'
'Neither, Brother Young, neither," said
Parley, obsequiously, as he waddled forward
ami seated himself, we've collected n
tenth part of every thing they've produced
this far in the season; every cent and
Iound, and in some cases more where we
thought they coulJ stand it. The trouble is
they lost most of their stock in the snow
storms last winter, and tiiat has played the
d 1 with tilings for us."'
'Well, you don't want to let any of it get
away from you." said Young, somewhat
mollified. "Let me see your books."
The Bishop drew them out of a drawer
and laid them on a desk lieforc his suierior.
Ashe did so he said: "I would like to ask
your opinion about a question that has been
sprung on Arsen when out collcctin' several
times."'
"What is it J' grunted the Prophet in his
thick neck, as he leaned forward over the
books.
"Why. you lniow, for instance, we collect
one-tenth of the grain when it's harvested,
and when what's" left is fed into their stock
we take a tenth part of the stock. Some
sharper has asked Arsen if that ain't tak
ing more than a tenth part of the grain."
"Of course it is,' ' blurted out the revelator,
"that's why 1 set the tithing dates the way
they are: we" want to catch all cr it we can.
You tell em it's the Lord's will that the
precise order of Hi3 Kingdom as revealed to
me should be carried out; and do you sec
that none of it gets away, too." A mean
smile came into the Prophet's face as he
said this, but it died away and the sentence
ended with a menacing nod.
"Yes, I understand," said Parley.
After a time the Prophet pushed tho
books from him with a satisfied look. '-Well,
how are things going in the Stake, anyway,
Parley.'" he queried, patting himself on the
chest over his side ecat-ocket, with a per
ceptible deepening of the satisfied look as
his fat hand touched something there. '-By
the by. have you a glass and some sugar
handy, Parley."' he queried again, as his
hand went under his coat lapel and brought
forth a little flask. He shook it up against
the light. 'Christopher:" he exclaimed,
"but that's as clear and Teller as honey!"
The Bishop's expression changed instar.U
ly from uneasy expectancy to mouth-watering
delight. "Uhuh, yes; I'll git you
some sugar!" and he rose so quickly he
turned over his chair. He did not wait to
right it, but waddling quickly around the
desk to a cupboard he began fumbling in
it. "I've got sutliin' here," he said, pant
ingly. "that's fair, but notliiu' like as line
lookin' a article as that in vour hand, Pres
ident!" "The editor of our paper in Liverpool sent
mo a case of this last week," said the Mor
mon President, still shaking the flask
against the light. "I've got a cellar full of
stuff that's been sent to mo here, but I don't
use much, and I like it to be the best, you
know."
"Certainly; yes, certainly," panted Par
ley, as he placed glasses and sugar and
spoons on the table; "the best's allers tho
best, I think!" He seemed to lose his grip,
in great part, upon both grammar and pro
nunciation in tho presence of this golden
poison; but after a bumper or two the cob
webbed condition of bis intellect, as with
most habitual arinkers, seemed improved.
Young looked at him keenly, as he finished
bis own second tumbler.
"For a man of God you take to it pretty
smartly, don't you, Parley!" he laughed,
"Like a suckia' calf, b'gosh!" said the
Bishop, bringing his big freckled fist down
on the table with a crash, "how is it with
the head of the Church J whoop-c-c!" and he
bored his fingers into the Prophet's ribs and
braved with laughter.
"Have you got them window curtains
fixed so no one am see in here;" asked
the Prophet, looking round.
"Yes; oh, yes. I 'tended to them when wo
come in," said Parley. "Don't get skecrt.
Brother Young; just wade in if vou feel
dry!"
"Well, one glass more will do," said tho
Prophet. !'I don't never Jet the stuff get
the best of me. Parley: I aim to keep on lop.
I'm 'fraid you are getting a little too free
with it. ain't you i Must look out and not get
us into trouble, my man."
"Don't you fret, don't you fret. Brother
Young! I never let it get me down. Acorsc
I like it well enough.but I'm keerful, Broth
er Young, I'm keerful,"
"What's that P asked Young, in a listen
ing attitude." Parley hiccoughed and bark
ened. "Oh, yes; Lee's preachin' to the ieople
over m the meeting-house park! I had
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SMAX.T."
Arsen put up a plai&rm there, thinkin'
they'd expect some ekin' this after
noon." "Yes, that's right."
'Yes, and I've 'ranged c ave a ball in
the school-house to-night for the brethren !
Took all the seats out and had 'or garlanded
up in style. The angels'll all be there ! turn
me loose! whoop-e-e!" and the Bishop
brayed again.
The Prophet laughed in a restraining
way. "Be careful, Parley," he said, "re
member your calling."
"Well, that liquor o' your'n, President, is
the slambangdest, mos' satisfyiuist goods
I've tasted lately. Shake! Say," he went
on, in a husky whisper, laying his finger ou
the Prophet's knee, "there's the finest girl
up the road a piece here ye ever saw; a
handsome, tall sort of young 'ooman, but
sober aad stately like, that I've been aimiu'
to have sealed to m for some time, but
she ruthcr turns me the cold shoulder. I'd
like to get you to help mo a bit with her,
Brother Young."
"Is she strong in tbfl faith!"
"Ruthcr weak-lmed, tin 'fraid."
"Well, I'm going to preach to-morrow,
and I'll lay down the doctrine for 'em oft
several points. You can tell her I've sees
in a special revelation that she's an unusual
bright star inZion, atd that it's her duty
to be scaled to you, as oac having authority
to exalt her to a high place in the world
come."
fro ei: corm-unx
A SHINTO FESTIVAL-
Scenc in a .JapanrMi City on a Holiday o
Souiu Importance,
rrcscntlywc arrived at a small Shintc
temple. Passiii"; under the sacred arch, a
long flight ai steps led up to the building.
On each side of this nht large bamboc
stands had been erected, which, as well s
the steps, were densely crowded. At the
foot of the steps was a cleared spaec, anJ
here, on our arrival. : company of youthful
wrestlers were performing. A space was
marked out by four Iwmboo poles, one at
each corner, with a broad strip of clott
runuin - from one to another; round it sat
some twenty nearly nalced lads from ten t: I
twelve years old, forming a circle rouud ,
large mat strewn with earth, itieccuier
wis for the moment occupied by a lad r.ca- j
ly attired in the. ctuir of an aneicut (
samurai, with two swords projecting from
hi.i girdle and in hi3 hands the somewhat i
heart-shaped emblem of the wrestling frv '
ternity. After making some remarks in a (
clear, shrill voice he retired, and then about (
a dozen lads occupied the arena and went
throuirh a sort of uosture-dance. This over.
two wrestlers stepped into the ring and
prepared for the encounter. They crouched
down, facing each other and slapping their
thighs. Presently one tried to push the
other over, but. failing, each rose and
walked round the ring, making gestures
and stopping occasionally to take a drink of
water. Then they again crouched down
and then suddenly sprang at each other.
One was dexterously thrown; and the pair
retired, to Ihj followed by another. Each
endeavored to throw Ids antagonist or to
push him out of the ring, the audience look
ing on with great iutcrest. Presently the
wrestlers took up their gear, shouldered
their poles, and started oiT to perambulate
tho town. Tiieir place was taken by a large
party of men, each of whom had a huge
carp deputed on his gown, dragging or
pushing along a full-sized model of a fishing-beat
running on wheels. The boat was
occupied by about ten youngsters, some of
whom were belalioriug a huge drum, others
smaller ones. The men pushed the boat
backward and forward, and then twirled it
around on a vertical axis, till it seemed that
its occupants must suffer worse agonies
than those ol sea-sickness, but they did not
appear to be distressed. The boat was then
wheeled away and its place occupied by a
rapidly pat-together stage, with three very
simple and yet well-designed and well
painted drop-secnes. Half a dozen juvenile
actors arrayed in huge wigs and gorgeous
ureases of silk and embroidery disembarked
from the boat and took their places on the
stage. Several comic scenes were repre
sented, giving great amusement to the au
dience. AsI could not understand them I
began to study tho spectators. Overhead
was a cloudless blue sky, and the whole lively
sceuo was Hooded with brilliant sunshine,
the predominant color of the crowd was
blue, reliaved by the white uniforms of soma
police ofliccrs and by the brilliant dresses
of a few Chinamen. St. Jixtutt' Gauttc
Gono to Meet tan Angela.
He is gono who" loved me only, gone to
wear a robe of white and I'm. sitting, sad
and lonely, by my cottage door to-night, la
the wind his voice is calling, in the stars
his eyes I see, and the dewdrops softly fall,
ing, bring a word from him to mo. O, that
fatal night of anguish, when I saw hhn
cold and dead; like a flower I droop aad lan
guish, sighing for tho dying tread. O, that
night, so blaak and cheerless, can it sassj
ory never pass whan aiy lover, bold aad
earless, in his rooat blew oat the gee.
Food and Morality.
Prof. F. !". Miles, of tho favtilty ef
the University of Maryland, delivered
a lecture to a large audience of young
men recently, on "Food and Diges
tion.' In tho course of his lecture
Prof. Miles, in speaking of tho effects
of an insufficient quantity of food,
said: "The fat disappears first, then
the muscles waste away, and finally
the bones come through the skin. Tho
brain, the spinal cord and the nerves
are nourished to the last. Like a king
in a beleaguered city to whom his loyal
subjects give up their food, the nobler
organs are longest nourished. In
starvation there is not simple hunger
of the stomach, but hunger of the
whole bod-. It is not strange that
when hunger presses on people they
will do strange things. It produces
insanity, and they have been driven to
eating what has been called 'strange
flesh;' that is to cannibalism. There
are millions of people who have not
enough to cat. It is at the bottom of
anarchy. The police may give them a
loaf of bread, but the whole body is ill
nourished, and a restless feeling re
sults. Not much can be done with the
grown-up pcoplo of the criminal
classes, but the child criminal comes
first The criminal classes aro called
dirty, lazy and ugly. Of course they
are. They are dirty because they have
no spare heat to let go; lntiy, becauso
the muscles are weak and nature tells
them to keep still whea hungry.
You would be astonished to know how
much of the beauty of the fairest
women is made up of fat. The crim
inal classes arc ugly brcatige they have
no fat. How could a child whose mus
cles and nervous system have been
partly starved be expected to have all
the sympathies and instincts of a high
er class of society? An every-day Sabbath-school
with a breakfast before the
lesson would be a capital thing for
poor children. Some say tho poor
themselves are to blame for their con
dition by living too luxuriously. One
of the most intense cravings of jtho
Grcely Arctic party was for sweet
meats. Tea and coffee do more-good
than harm. They stimulate not only tlie
brain, but the activities of the whole
body. There will be a great mission
to the poor some day to see that they
get enough good food. Baltimore Sun.
A Famous Indian, and a Still More
! Famous Indian Fichtpr.
We cive below a picture of Kit Cab-
SON, the famous scout and Indian
tighter, whose thrilling exploits sur
passed in interest and adventure those
of all other frontier heroes. Kit's
portrait shows that he was a very lion ,
in courage and stern determination, '
and also a man of fine intellect. He
was, in truth, the ideal American hero
of the wild Western border. ,
COLONEL KIT CARSON.
Kit's last great contest with tho
Indians occurred in 1867, the year be
fore his dentil, when Red Knife, a
perfect Indian fiend, suddenly attacked
the defenseless settlers of the remote
frontiers. A most graphic, spirited
and thrilling account of that most des
perate struggle is now being published
ia the New York Ledger, under tho
title of "Red Knife: ok Kit Cxirsos's
Last Trail." Red Knife, as will be
seen by the picture of him which wa
give below,
RED KNIFE
was a typical Indian warror and cut
throat The history of his raid, and
of Kit Carson's skill and heroism in
meeting the perils of the occasion, is
begun in No. 7 of the New York
Ledger. Robert Boxner's Sons have
issued millions of sample copies of
this number of the Ledger, but there
are, probably, persons who have not
yet had a copy, and wc are informed
that any one who has not had one of
these sample copies can get one free
of expense by simply sending his
name and address to the Lcdqer office,
at the corner of William and Spruco
streets. New York. This is certainly
an easy and cheap way to get a speci
men number of the greatest Indian
story ever published.
Can I sell you six bushels of peach
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house. "No, sir" was the prompt
reply from the senior partner. The
man went out, but he had not gone
one hundred feet when he was over
taken by a gentleman who said: " I'm
Junior partner of the house. I do the
peachstone business, while the senior
attends to straight almonds and the
church, ril take your lot. and the
next time you come inquire for mo."
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