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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-6-24, Page 2BBIEF 00-Unm3 P. " Do I look nice, Auntie 7 The speaker was amending before a full- length miner, her ;pretty head twlated to one aide to survey the multitudinous ilounces of white tulle over pale blue silk constituting the elaborate evening dreaa covering her slender, graceful figure. "You look very Moe, my dear." Mins Delia Merriman had taken a long survey of the exquisite face before she e okeand wan satisfied ad wih h the appear - anew of her protege. " Very nice 1' eke repeated, " Hor- tense has fitted you perfectly, and the dress is most becoming. Now, if you will get my jewel ease, you shall wear my pearls:" "Thanks r cried Elsie, carefully lift- ing the heavy gasket and putting it on a Mable beside Mies Merriman. "Oh, Aunt - le," she continued, opening a small box rale jewel case, "I never saw this before 1" She held up, as she spoke, a steiider!' chain., from which depended a gold locket upon whc,se surface gleamed one pearl of great beauty, pure and large, " Oh, how lovely l' Elsie cried, olasp• big the chain around her slender throat, " May I wear it 7" Mies Merriman had grown very pale se the locket was hold up before her. Some strong memory stirred her usually placid face, for the ace ft, brown eyes grew trou- bled, and her lips quivered. " Had you rather I took it off ?" Elsie asked, gently. " No, dear, you may wear it. Put in the solitaire pearl earings-" Elate kissed her so-called aunt, and flitted away. Mies Delia Merriman, who had inherit- ed a hundred thousand dollars from a second cousin, greatly to her own amaze - meat, was not Elsie Garman's aunt. Nineteen years before, ahe had closed the eye of the girl's dead mother, lifted a week old babe to her own bosom, and took her home. Though but forty, her hair was thickly streaked with gray and premature awe, the fruit of toilful life and a sorrowful heart, Yet ahe was lovely still, goodness ever looking from her sad, pitying eyes, and sweetness lurking around her perfectly - shaped mouth. Memory was very busy in Delia Merri. man's heart, as she sat over the fire during Elate's absence—so busy that she started as if from a dream, when the carriage rolled up to the door as the man- tle clook struck the hour of two. There were words of parting, then light steps on the stairs and Elsie came in, not as nsnal, full of bright animation, but with an earnestness of purpose in her large, blue eyes, quite unusual there. t1 Did you have a pleasant evening, dear 7" Miss Delia asked, "Yea—no—I don't know. I have a strange message for you Auntie." "For me 7'' " Yes, from a stranger who was at Mrs. Walton's—Mr Carrington—Ralph Car- rington-" Miss Delia Merriman rose to her feet her face ghastly, her eyes staring, and her breath coming in short, quick grasps. She tried to speak, but the words would not come. `' Auntie ?" the girl cried, terrified, "don't look ac—don't 1" " The message l" Miss Merriman whis- pered. " He told me to tell you that the murderer of Henry Garman was Charles Ralston, the cashier of the Hope Bank, who had confeaeed his guilt. He said, `Tell Miss Merriman to -morrow I will Bee her,. ° herAuntie," continued Elsie, her eyes fall of piteous entreaty, "what does it mean 7 Was not Henry Garman my father 7" "Yea, child. It means," Mies Merri- man acid solemnly, " that the cross that for twenty years has lain upon my life, is lifted to. night. I will not send you to a sleepless bed, child, with your heart so troubled. But give me a few moments to think of your tidings, and tell me how this message came to be entrusted to yon.,, -• Mrs. Walton came to me -late in the evening, and asked permission to intro- duce Mr. Carrington. I had noticed a stranger, Auntie, who had been looking ~at me very earnestly." " A tail, handsome man, with curling brown hair, and large, merry bine eeea wearing a full beard of waving golden brown?" "No—a tall man, with a grave, stern face, smoothly shaven, and hair almost white ; quite an old man." " True, tree 1 I had forgotten. He meet be fifty-five."' " When he was introduced to me Aunt- ie, he touched the locket upon my neck. Pardon me,' he said,' If 1 am too curl. rims ; but your name and that trinket are connected witN so much of my life, that I venture to ask you something of them. Did not some one give it to you —a lady?' "His face was so eager,. Auntie, that I told him the locket was yours. Then he led on, little by little, till I told him the whole of my life. He said he had been here two months seeking you, but did not look for a wealthy woman, but one poor and solitary. He whispered half to bimeelf, that I had no claim on yon. What did hemean7 Are you not my aunt7" " No dear, there is no tie of blood be- tween you and me. Your 'claim is the claim of love, for you have been the one comfort, the one Buntline of my lonely life. Twenty years ago, Elsie, Ralph Carrington gave me the locket you have upon your neck, a gift of betrothal, for we were engaged to be married. I was a poor girl, making artificial flowers for. bread—an orphan, too. He was assist- ant cashier of the Hope bank, where your father was night watchman, and Charles Ralston was the cashier. Balston was In love with me and pursued me with un- welcome attentions. "Ore day; to rid myself of his impar•• tnnitled, I told hind' 1 bad promised to marry .Ralph. He left me white with rage. Only a Week later the bank was entered at night. yonr,fathershot through the heart, and Ralph Carrington discov- ered In' the iscovered'in'the vault (3 try in to revive him, Re was arrested and tried. Ho told a story no one 'credited ;• ,'that Charles Balaton had sent him from iiia tonne to the bank for papers, after keeping him. busy there over books all the evening. "But Ralston swore that he had not been at home thabeventng, and proved it; that the keys of the vault safe, found hanging in'the keyhole, were stolen from his desk, and he had not sent his clerk to the bank. So Ralph was convicted. and sentenced, He escaped 1 " Elsie, I had saved five hundred dollare for niy wedding garments. I wont to ace him in his pribon, and kno wing that he was innocent, I gave him the money to bribe the keeper of his cell. Ralph man took the money, nd R a pt escaped, 1 have never known if he lived or died until to -night. "After he was gone, your mother was taken ill. The shook of her husband's death was too severe 'for her, and ahe never rose again from her bed, though she lived three months. When she died I promised you should be my charge, and never know the shadow upon your life until you wee;a woman.'' Elsie was sobbing quietly, often lift- ing to her lips the gentle nand that had given et' all that she had ever experienc- ed cf life's bletsinge. There was a long silcnee after Miss Merri- mac had ceased speaking, and the gray. dawn was creeping in at the windows, when, softly kissing the young face, Aunt Della told Elsie to go to rest. But for herself there was no rest. Fev- erishly, with an agitation altogether nn. like her usual quiet, she waited the coming of the lover who had fled from his unjust sentence twenty years before, bub woo was free now, and his innocence known. The day was young, and Elsie was sleeping when he came. Delia was waiting for him in the wide drawing -room. There fell upon the knot of ribbon round her throat the looket Ralph had given his betrothed. She stood up to meet the stern-faced, elderly man who advanced to meet her, trying to find traces of her lover's fade. Not until he smiled a tender, loving smile, soften- ing the whole face, did she recognize him. Then, her own eyes dim with tears, she said, softly : " You are more than welcome 1 Thank God, the cloud is lifted from your life, Ralph." And he, holding the little, trembling hand feet in his strong ones, answered : " I have found you at last 1 I began to fear you were dead, Delia 1 My little love 1 my darling." "Ralph," she, said the bright flush ria• ing to her faded cheeks, " you forget we are gray-haired, elderly people." "I forgot everything but that you are here; that the hope that has seemed a dream of madness for twenty years is realized, and 1 look once more into your face. I have lc can in California, Delia, all these yeara, amassing wealth under a false name, working for gold to drown thought. "I have led a busy life, but there has not been one hour when I have not pic- tured such happiness as this. Yon are mine, Delia. You will not send me from you 7 You will be my wife ?'' " If you wish it," she said, softly, her own faithful heart thrilling under the sincerity of his tone. "I have never ceased to love you, or to pray for yea. RaIph." The Grocery of the Future. Of all the groceries in Canada, there is not one that makes an effort to make it pleasant for ladies who trade in them. A drygoods or boot and shoe store, or beck store, will have chairs for ladles to be comfortable while trading, but groceries are all the same the world over. Two counters along the walls, with space between filled with everything, from potatoes bo smoked halibut. Half the customers are ladies, yet - a lady has to stand up, lean against a sugar barrel, catch her dress in a basket cf turnips, and against a greasy pickle barrel, or a sticky molasaes jag. Grcceries that do half a million dollars worth of business have no place for a lady to sit down, unless ahe alta on a half bushel measure or a box of soda biscuits. What is the use of having everything spread out all over the(floor in a grocery store, 'any more than in a drygoods store? We have in our mind's eye a model grocery that will some day take like wildfire, and when the first man opens such a grocery or reconstructs one on that plan, all will follow that expert to get any trade. The plan would be to have the counter run across the room, with nothing in front of it that is for sale. A room big enough for customers, carpeted, and with easy chairs. Then ladies could enter and order what they wanted, have articles set upon the counter for inspection, but nothing to run over or fall into, nothing to dirty the clothes of those who trade, no delivery wagons at the front door, or boxes and barrels on the sidewalk, every thing as niee as any store for the sale of drygoods. Crop -Headed Women. Speaking of cropped hair, what earthly or eternal punishment can be deemed severe enough for the colossal idiot who inaugurated the fashion among women ? 1b breaks k out in spasms of more or less vfnlence every spring and summer. It is difficult to analyze the motives that in- duce a woman to perpetrate :mole an arrant folly. Some do it, I am told to spite admirers, others to gain a reputa- tion for eccentricity and an indifference as to appearence, while it is only charit- able to surmise that just a few shear themselves for the reasons all stoutly maintain are their only ones for doing so —namely : To rid themselves of the trouble of caring for the headgear God provided them with and to keep cool during the hot weather. Bub the fact that every young woman, without known exception, who bas discarded her treases Is engaged in a perpetual endeavor to in- duce her comrades to imitate her idiocy ought to be proof enough of the bitterness of her repentence when it is too late. s -sr s. " Love, think of me when the lilaoe bloom," adage Alice Stone Blackwell. Aline seems to be easily satisfied. Lilaos bloom but once a year, and then only for a few days. Mrs, Parnell is as enthdlaatl, a politi. dime as her son It is said that she has all bhe morningpapers Pprocured for her in order that she may acgttafnt heraoif with Parliamentary' proceedings as moon as she awake. THE FARM. .or... Manitoba as a Wheat field, Of the 66,000,000 aores which comprise the Canadian Provinoe of Manitoba, there have been surveyed about sixteen and a half millions of acres. There are 4,000,- 000 acres of swamp lands within the Pro einoe, and the remainder oonelsts of the timbered and rooky region lying around Lakes Winnipeg, - Manitoba and, the Lake of the Woods. The portion under cultivation is a little over one million of aores, hitherto chiefly e ofed tocultivationthe o f wheat, and up to the 31st of last October, the De• pertinent ef the Interior reported about 10,• 930,045 aorea as having been taken up with- in the Provinoe for homesteads and preemp- tions By a repent arrangement made with the Provinoe, the Dominion Government have 4oded to the Province the swamp lands, and 150,000, acres of good Wide for University purposes. The remarkable fertility of the soil on the prairie section, especially that in the Valley of the Red River, la so well known that it is unnecessary that I should refer to it here. The incomparably herd a heat for which Manitoba is tamons, mould not lei raised were the winter climate more veal - elate and less Severe than it is. 'TI.o same remark applies to Northern Minnesota and Dakota, where the winter climate poeaesses the same chars cteristios as those of Manito- ba, and which districts produce a quality of wheat similar to that raised in the Cana- dian prairie provinces, As late as 1876, the year whioh Earl Def - feria, then Governor-General of Canada, vlaited Manitoba and the Canadian North• west, the quantity of wheat raised in Mani• toba was not sufficient for home oonsump tion. The poptilation was then less than 30,000; now it is five times that number, and the total quantity of wheat shipped from the different railway stations through- out the Province last year, amounted to 2 429 832 bushels. Of oats there were shipped 201,,596 bushels. The quantity of barley was small— 22 997—making a total grain shipment of 2 659 425 bushels. The quantity of grain remaining in the country, was about the same—wheat of course large• ly preponderating. The inorease of land prepared ever the preceding year, was thirty per cont. and this year the increase is about the same. The quantity of wheat reported from the North -wean Territory last year was 95.000 bushels, and about 6,000 bushels of oats. The population of that Territory is about 25,00Q As some interest is attached to the coat of raising a bushel of wheat in Manitoba, the moat authentic information on thio point is, that it poste just twenty-five cents, but this does not include interest on amount Inveated in farm machinery. In California, the meat nas been placed at sixty oents per bushel, but this includes interest on farm machinery. If this is included in Manitoba the poet might be justly placed at forty-five cents at the utmost figure, making the cost per acre nine dollars. At no time, within the Provinoe- of Manitoba, has wheat been fewer than fifty five cents per bushel, so that there bas, so far, always been a profit t3 the farmer on this cereal. So many oonntries raise soft wheats, that particular value is attached to the hard variety rained in this northern latitude. The kind which has met with popular favor in Manitoba, la the Red Fyfe, though of late an agitation has been raised in some quarters, in favor ef the White Fyfe, White Rnasian and Gold Drop; but the Provincial Board of Agriculture reoently refused to abandon the Red Fyfe, considering it as yet the safest and best variety in use. It is from Red Fyfe that the beet samples of No. 1 Manitoba Hard have been proanoed, though these have been pressed closely by White Fyfe and Gold Drop. The "hard- ness" which is such a valuable quality in Manitoba wheat, in inseparable from the ex• hilarating summer air, which, like the cold bracing winters, is a prevailing climate oharaoterlstic. Such wheat can not be raised in other latitudesso that distinct value is attached to this hardness by the world's millers, and in the world's markets Manitoba (No. 1) hard commands a higher price than any other variety. It Is not a little eingnlar that prior to 1883, summer frosts were almost unknown in the Red River Valley. In that year a destructive froet occurred on the 7th of Sep- tember, and in consequence a considerable quantity of wheat became unmarketable in the following year, a premature frost oc- curring early in the same month did con- siderable damage to the wheat crop, and last year frosts again appeared and did much damage to the standing crops. The recur• ranee of these frosts is a matter for scientific investigaticn. The record of temperature within the Province, kept for a number of years, shows that white frosts are sure to oocur in the aeoond week in September, and their ocoarrence, even in the first week, is a contingency against Which the farmer oan provide. The summer season is very short, and the wheat grewer must address himself to the problem of early sowing and harvest- ing. On an average, the wheat harvesting begins in Manitoba about the 20th ofAugust, and the grain raiser has begun to address himself to the problem of eoonomiring time. It will be necessary for him to sow'. earlier, and be more expedient in harvest. Ing than he has heretofore been. This may be supplemented by obtaining an earlier variety of wheat than even Red Fyfe la, but it is probable that tho quality of hard. neer will bo sacrificed far the sake of earl!. nem In the experiment, for It has been ate oertained in some oases that these vrrieties which mature the earliest are not the hard- est, However this may be, it is indisput- able that the soil In Manitoba is admirablyi ab e adapted to the growing of wheat, but tha there are pertain problems the solution of which are • all important before the fullest success oan be realized. The frees to which I have referred, oc- curred eomewhat earlier during the last three years than was their occurrenoe in previous yearn. Though it 1s not in the power of human ingennity to prevent these frosts, yet is within the reach of the grain raiser to evade them, so long as they occur in the early part of September. Two of the solutions I have already alluded to ; ethers no doubt, will be suggested from time to time, as the exper.ments proceed. In spite of these drawbacks, wheat raising in the Province of Manitoba and the Canadian North-west promises to assume vaet.pro portions, The progress that it has made in a few years, as 1 have shown by the figures furnished in this article; is a mere step compared with the rapid atrides which grain raising must make during the next few years In the Canadian North -went. -An ,1 gricul- twig. At the recent Presiding Elders' Conven- tion In New York, a member related a tale of two boys in hie district : A donkey was passing by. Said ono boy to another, `6 Do tou know What that is 7" "' Why, gee," he other answered ; " that it a dohkoy. 'I have ween lots of them In the theological gardens." 100 GOOD TO BE TRWWE.. A Stony ilrat Proves that %acre is such a whim; as True Friendship., A double house was recently moved from Powell street, San Francisco, concerning which ap old settler toile an intereating story, He says that two young men from o Canadian town wire had been to school together, arrived in San Francisco early in the "fifties." Mack wont to the mines, and Gray remained in the pity, aud, with a small eum, fitted out a little store, He prospered, married, had chit- dren. Then came a bigreverse,He found bimeelf in a tight place, ne, from which nothing but $15,000 would extricate him, Ho went among his friends to raise the money, but they had none to give him. And then, as he turned a street corner sharply, he ran into Black's arms, He told him his tr.ub:e, and gave him all his his- tory during the ten years that they had been eeparated, " I have the money," said Black : "but $15y000 just sizes my pile. I am tired of mining, and, hoped to Bettie down here and get into some business, but you oan have it, my dear fellow, and I'll take a whack at pick and maker again," Gray took the money, and Black return• ed to the mountain, In the oourse of that year the merchant made a lanky turn and sent the miner hie money with ample Inter- est, Then they ceased to correspond, and the last the merchant heard of his friend was that he was about to marry and move Into a naw mining district. Five years, afterward the miner and his family returned to San Fiancisoo, Black was dead broke, Everything had gone wrong with him. His mining speculations had tailed, the mines he had discovered pe- tered out, the men he had trusted de- ceived him, and he had about $50 remaining of a once ample fortune, He bunted up his friend Gray, who was, of course, delighted to see him. " And I don't see anything for me to do, old man," Laid the despond- ent miner, "except to get a job shovelling sand, if yeu c aa help me to one." " I have just moved into a handsome house on Powell street," said Gray, " and I want you to come and dine with me to- morrow evening. It is a deuble house, fin- ished about a week ago." The miner, was on timeewith his shabbily dressed wife and little °nes. " You did well stinking to the town," he remarked to his old schoolfellow. "Here you are way up as a merchant, living in a fine house, all your own, and having a bank account as long as my arm, I anp- pose." Before dinner they visited the adjoining house, which was furnished in precisely the same style as the merchant's dwelling Then they sat down, chatted ever old times until the lateness of the hour, warned the miner and bis wife that it was time to return to their lodging house. "All right, my boy," Bald Gray, "but just step next door ; there is something I wish to show you which I neglected on our first visit." When they entered the hall Black halted. "Here," he said, "that looks like my trunk," "Nonsense," said Gray, " Dome up stairs to this bedroom." "Why," Bald the miner, looking about him, "confound you, you have moved all my traps up here from that lodging house." '4 Aye, have I, my friend 2'' shouted the other, slapping him on the shoulder. " Where should a man keephis things butin his own house, and what part of,the house bet ter than his own bedroom ?" Black was be- wildered,and began to have doubts of his friend's sanity, but when his friend thrust a deed of this very house into his hand, and followed with a deed of copartnership In his business, he brake down and oiled like a child. " And now we are moving away this old house, sir, to another quarter," said the nar- rator of this remarkable tale of gratitude and friendship, " but I would not take a hundred thousand dollars for it." It was Black himself who told the story, now a most successful merchant, Six Miles in rive Minutes. A few years since the writer was a con- ductor on one of the principal trunk lines through Iowa, He was going east with a special, oompoeed of an engine and one oar, and had the dtvlelen superintendent and the superintendent of bridges and buildings on board. The engineer had jest been " set'. up, ' and he had never been over this division in hie life, his engine was a 16 24 Inch' cylinder, with a 5 foot•8-snoh wheel One of his branch pipes was bursted so he could not use his pump, and he was running her with his itj actor, We had nine minutes to make a Tun of seven mites en a time order egalnst the Pacific express, and were paseiog a station very fast, when the engineer re- marked : " My injector has stopped work- ing, we cannot make it I" I was on the en- gine. We ran jaet over the east switch be- fore we could atop. We had just barely stopped when he said : " It is working again ; can we make it 2" I looked at my watch ; we had just seven minutes to go seven miles down hill all the way, and only one curve. " Yes," I replied, " if you let her go," He opened hie throttle slowly, I knew that would not de. I•drd not want to stop and back up with the cu erintendent on board after starting. I grabbed the re- verse lever• and hooked her at six inches, and pulled her " wide open." I then took hold of the engineer's arm and told him not to shut her off till I told him to. Only rail- road men can imagine how we went down that hill, We were both soared, and the engineer wanted to "ease" her off, but I knew that would not, do. When we turned the the naive, three miles from station, we mould see the express headlight, and; hesup- posing we were close to them, was going to shut her off, I would not allow him to touch the throttle until we reached the mile board, when I told him to shut her cff and blo';v hie whistle, There was a man at the switch, and we pained in just as our seven minutes were up. The superintendent said to me when I got off the ergine : " How much time did you have to make here from the last station 2' "Nine minutes," I an- swered. (The time we bad when we passed the depot before the stop ) " How far is it 2" " Seven miles," I replied. " You were just five minutes sunning that seven miles; I timed you, and 1f you ever run that way with me again I will discharge you," Ho had timed us from the dead stand till we whistled, which was a mile from the station and we had made the six miles in five min- ates, It was my first and last experience on "chert time" with a superintendent on board, Why She Was Bad. " What areou so put out about, Ulla Hoffman 2" asked her feale neighbor. "Oh because I was so disappointed.g I ► n tand was all d justgot m new bone iia a j y ready to go to the funeral, when my name wasn't callede I do so love to ride out to the oeesetery and back," cs A Lost Love. nY LI =Y STA;'LICT°N. I2ow 1rng my soul had loved her, In years, 1 eau t of tell ; When first her eyes of sunshine (lame in my heart to dwelt. Through da) s of bane and blessing Her soul my footsteps led •, We loved, and then we parted— We niet, bat she was d©ad. Tits west was red with sunset, Curt, ed gray the eastern seas ;. Wo walked alone together,. Where bioseoms gemmed the trees ; wo heard the song or waters I i.sed by the summer wind. But pewits, the hitawi winged, spirit, , We nevermore could find. The snow-wh,to lilies sleeping. 1 he orim.on rose leaves dead, The wind that stirred the blossoms, But heard the words 1 said,. I prayed of heaven to bless her, While we two stood along ;- Then the white daylight vanished— 'Twas niLht, and she was gone. To -day I stood health. her, Where cold ea d still Elko lies The earth is green around her - Above, iheaummerOdes. And there I read a greeting— From out her heart of dust Waite ro bloomed and bless: me d, To prove her love and trust. Each to His Taste. " I am going to the seaside," said the milkman blithe ' and gay ; "For I love the ocean bre, zee, and love the dashing spny. Yea, I love the glorious eunset, love the calm and Love the equell— But I think I love the water, in my business, best of 011." " Thata't his the dlfierence between us," eafd the grocer s Ilse, "Thourolghlithe ngtide ; ocean breeze is bracing, and 1 love the Though dearly love the b111owe, yet _I can't forget the lead, And I think my young affection moat 15 centered In the Gaud." A Hunters Fate. The rad fate of young G.►y, of Nova Scotia, makes the eyes moisten and the pulses thrill at the eame time. He was a boy of eeveateen, breve and level head- ed, and was one of a hunting party on the Cimarron River during an outbreak. One day, in riding after buffalo, he be- came eoparabedi from his companions, and his horse fell into a hole and broke a leg. Goy had a Winchester and royolver, and he could esaiiy have found his way bo oanip if he had not been interferred with. As was afterward related byy an andira to an arm office a band o f thirty 1 x b y REDSKINS, WERE I.VRRINq INA RAYIN1Ni, in hopes of pouncing on some of the hunters. Their first move was to get between Gay, and the Damp, and moats were then posted to prevent a surprise by a rescuing party. The preoautb n was unnecessary, as during the excitement of the afternoon he was no missed, and no search was made for in until the morrow. It was known at the boy was well armed, and the ndiana did not dare bo charge him, great as were the odds in their favor. They resorbed, to - the circling dodge to waste his ammuni- tion. And at the same time kept up a hot fire on him. At the first appearance of the savages Gay shot his horse dead that he might use the body for a bread - work. While he was only partly protect- ed, the BULLETS OF THE 0DIANS failed to hit him. On the other hand' he fired coolly and deliberately, killing one redskin and dropping two ponies before they abandoned that dodge for another. He was then invited to parley, but he fired on the savages who advanced, realizing that nothing but his death would satisfy the wretches. How the boy prayed and looked for a rescue by his companions, how his heart sank as time went by and the human wolves began to close in on him, how at last ho made up his mind that death must come, and that he would face it bravely, are ;hinge which make the heart throb with pity, . The Indians dis- mounted out of range, formed a three- quarter circle about him, and then ad- vanced on foot, or rather wound them- selves along the ground. UNFORTUNATELY FOR TH'E Poon BOY, the ground was broken, and a part of. the Indians had cover bo within easy rifle range. Gay kept up a steady fire with his Wincheeter, seriously wounding two of them, but his fate was soon sealed. He was hit in three planes almost at once and there were no further reports from his rifle. A single report was heard in an interval of firing, but it came from his revolver, and when a ruehewas made he was found dead, with the weapon tightly clutched in hie hand. The red demons had shot him in the right foot, in the left shoulder, and In the left side, the latter wound bendy--- mortal one. The boy realized this, but knowing'that torture would be added to the wounds to increase his dying agonies, he had put a bullet into his brains. These facts came from the Iips of one who helped encircle the boy, and he added, with great relish, others atllhmore horrible. The infuriated Indiana pulled off the scalp look, cut cff hands and feet, and so mutilated the face that it mould not be recognized. The wolves and the buzzards were more merciful than the savages- They sparedtho remains, which were found and ried the next day. Wasn't Particular About Wages. Year before last a bright -looking young man entered our counting -room in re- sponse to an advertisement for an asaisb- ant shipping clerk. He told the usual tale of how he desired a position more than wages for the time being, and was willing to accept a nominal salary bo start in on. The old man was feeling in par- ticularly good humor that afternoon, and said pleasantly to the newcomer :— f ° Well, sir, what would you consider a nominal salary 7 What would you be willing to accept in beginning 7'' The young man picked at the tieing of his hat with his fingers, and deferentially replied :— ' I want to show you, air, that I mean business, and I will work for one cent the remainder of this month, providing you think it would not be too much to doable my salary each month thereafter." " That's a novel proposition, surely," said the old man with a smile. Do you know what you're talking about, my dear boy ?" •' Well, sir, my principal aim is to learn the business," responded the young fel- low, "and I would be almost willing to work for nothing, but I'd like to feel and be able to say that I was earning some- thing, you know." " I'll take you," remarked the old man " One cent, two cents, four cents, eight, sixteen," he enumerated. " You won't get much for a while," he added. He took him up to the cashier. "This is John Smith," he said. " He will go to work as assistant shipping clerk to- morrow. His salary will be one cent this month. Double it every month from now on." "In consideration of my working for thie small salary 1 might ask you to assure me a position tor a definite period?" in- quired John Smith. " We don't usually do that," replied the governor ; "bat we can't loose mach on you, anyhow, I guess, and you look like an honest fellow. How long do you want the employment?' " Three years, air, if agreeable to yon." Well, by Jove, the; old man agreed, and Mr. Smith, on pretence of wanting some evidence of stability of his place, got the governor to write out and sign a paper, that he had been guaranteed a position in the house for three years on the terms I have stated. He worked along for six months with- out drawing a cent. He said he would draw all his earnings at Christmas. The cashier one day thought he'd figure up hew much would be Doming to the young man. He' grew so interested In the pro- ject that he kept multiplying for the three years. The result almost staggered him. This is the column cf figures he took to the old man : First month, .01 ; second, .02 ; third, .04 ; fourth, .08 ; fifth, ,16 ; sixth, .32 ; seventh, .64 ; eighth, $1.28; ninth, $2 56; tenth, $5 12; eleventh, $10. 24:; twelfth, $20.18 ; thir- teenth, $40,96 : fourteenth, $81 92 ; fifteenth, $163 84 ; sixteenth, $327.68 ; seventeenth, $655 36 ; eighteenth, $1,- 311.72; nineteenth, $,2623.54; twentieth, $5,247.08; twenty-first, $10,494. 16; twen- ty-second, $20,988 32; twenty-third, $41,- 976.64; twenty-fourth, $82 953.€8; twen- ty-fifth, $165, 906 56; twenty. sixth, $331,- 813.12 ; twenty-seventh. $663,626,24 ; twenty- eighth, $1,327,252,48 ; twenty- ninth, 0,654,504 96 ; thirtieth, $4 609,- 9 92 hirt -firs 8 618 C19 84 ; t 00 b b thirty second, $17,236 039.68 ; 'thirty-third, $34,472,078 38; thirtyf.urth, $68,944,- 156.72 ; thirty fifth, $137,888,313 44 ; thirty-sixth, $275,779,626 88 ; total sale- ry for three years, $552,554 253.65. The governor nearly fainted when he undoubted how, even if he was twice'aa rich as Vanderbilt, he would be ruined in paying John Smith's salary, lie con - eluded to discharge the modest young man at once. Smith had figured up how much would be dale him, and reminded the old manof his written agreement. Rather than take chances in courts and let everybody know how he had been duped, the governor paid Smith $5,000 and bade him good -by. I've beard he tried the same dodge In several other plaeea. Taking Care of One of Them. A Sootch farmer's on was one evening visiting his sweetheart, when a violent storm name on, He rose at once to take his leave, as he said he would require to Bee to the safety of his fathers sheep, At this his lady -love, otting between him and ,gig maid • I manna to the door, t you mot ,y in sic a nloht,They oan look after the rest ,o' qer faithor's *hoop wha likes, but Ill tek' time o' ane o' them, His Poor Relations. Crowfoot, the chief of the Blackfeet Indians, is a man nursed with poor rela- tions, compared with whom, so far as numbers go, Admiral Sir Joseph Porter's relatives were but a mite. They are num- bered by hundreds and they all live on the old man, who has a deuce of a time amongst them all. The latest to get on his trail is his sons-in-law Ponndmaker, lately released from the Stony. Mountain penitentiary, where he was confined for participating in the rebellion last spring. He sent a messenger to Crowfoot, who was then at Gleichen, that he would visit him with the intention of obtaining some tangible assistance from his pa in-law to enable him to start life anew. Ho also stated that he had been baptized a Chris- tian and intended to limit his harem to one wife, and of course if Papa Crowfoot would come down handsomely Mrs. Ponndmaker nee Crowfoot would be the happy lady he `would retain. Whether old man Crowfoot has had , t enough of his son-in-law or whether hesj, wants his daughter back home, is nob known, but when Ponndmaker arrived at Gleichen with his train of hunery braves and bravesses, the who old chief had utilized tne free pass granted him by the C. P. R., and fled to Calgary, where he proposes to remain for the present. Lady Rothschild on Charity. I have long felt that charity in the wid- er, truer sense of the word is not synony- mous with pecuniary aid only. Indeed, almsgiving, though often necesaary and helpful, is bat an imperfect means of doing lasting good. Mone t may re- lieve momentary distress, b In the bean - ilial words of Mw r. Lo el t e gift with- 1}/ out the giver is bare." It to the warm sympathy of the visitor, her gentle words of hope, her tender inquiry into the suf- ferings of the poor persons visited which are so mach appreciated by those in dis- tress. The visitor who enters a wretched house or a bare attic brings with her a moral ray of sunshine which no pecuniary gift could replace. Only those who have'. visited the needy in their rgnalid, cpm- fortlees homes can realize how warmly a visitor is welcomed by those poor inmsltea who have so little to cheer them or to in- terrupt the sad monotony of a'long day of suffering and privation 1 This "meet- ing together of the rich and poor" is, I think, the best form of charity, the trues way of fulfilling that sacred duty whio .' the Pentateuch enjoins, and which seemi to me the outcome of all true religion'' " Love thy neighbor as tbyaelf" She : " And that soar,' Major. Did yo getit during an, ngsgement 2' fie (absent'.;. oly)ur : "Ehoneyngamgeme oon,"nt ? No ; the first week 61a 1Y Tbe stains of oil ma beremoved from pa- per - Per byaPPlYtng pipe clay powdered an inIxed r to cream, with on for four on bnaistenoy of 11. ,f,