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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-9, Page 7TRANCInen, From Out eif the tends of it at ettu-parched deeert which stretchier smote our eau thweet ern country the ZUi Le Jinn Wien namea, risco abreptly, For rawly mint the moan thin lifte a barrier Dame the plain. Ito pre, cipitcns tides, mimed and broken by am/l- een or rugged with lance boulders, render paseo.ge impoinible to all but the naked saw ape who him; found there a laonier, In teem aptitudes a fragment of the Neve jo Indian tribe, under ihe leadership o moreee old Francine, have for a long while indulged their mwage iuttbsots. And while the arm ef the hive ts too strong for them to mane open werfare, little provocation is needed to incite them to mischief unitise de- tention and nuniehment bang imminent. Sere aid there in the tortuous feetnessee a spring bubbles from tee rocks, and along tne water, before it sinks into the gaud, ice found luxuriant pasturage for the herds ef 'adieu ponies. Midway in ita extent the mountain is broken by a nerrow pass through which zneandera an Indian trail. It was juat here that several menthe ago an afternoon mint was soorehivg a party of young surveyors. • They had been tiding all day actress the dusty plain and were eagerly looking now for the water at the foot of the mountain. A metre of weary paok animate, with droop ing head and long ears flapping, were pick lug their way carefully over tbe atony trail while neer them rode old Hamlin, the Mor- mon pecker, with hie two Mexiaan assista ate. Behind these followed in single fite the young men of the oorps. The rbaging crack of a driver's whip now and then came ecihoieg back from the cliffs along with the unIntelligible jargon of a Mexican urging on the tired mules. The tinkle tinkle of the leading mare'a bell moved slowly on; the dust rose in clouds from fourscore feet; tho sun poured down between the narrow wails; and as yet no sign of water had been seen. youth, named Jim impatiently pulled ahead in his eager search. He had not gone far whenhe sighted an Indian boy rid- ing leisurely through the pees. .Ah, there was one who could tell of the coveted spring ! Pricking his horse be hurried to overtake the little savage. The boy roused up at the sound of galloping hoofs and see mg a white man fawning so fast, without pausing to question his intent, netted the shaggy pony to the top of its speed, "Hold on there! Hold on I" Jim call- ed to hint, but if his voice reached the fright- ened youngster he gave it no heed, unless to urge his pony the taster. Then a freakish thought crossed the young mann mind, and spwring his horse wildly along the trail he began to utter wanwhoops and ahrieks that irught have startled old Francisco himeelf, had he been near. The nimble pony was making good speed, buethe little savage, fearing to be caught awl, scalped, thought the mountain safer than the saddle. Without stopping his pony, he sprang lightly to the ground, ran up elm hill side and disappeared in the boulders at the feint of the cliff. Jim could soareely keep his saddle with laughter for a few moments; then he rode along the trail to where the little fellow had dieappeared and called to hire to come clown, that he was a good white man and Wanted water. Bat he might as well have hailed a wild jaek-rabbit, The pony checked his speed when the rider left him, but still eluded the young man's efforts to turn him back in the narrow pass. The pack train came up, and the wild animal scurried ahead of it aunt the pass had widened into the valley. There he was burned and sentprenoing back toward the mountain. But the perverse little animal, instead of returning insisted now upon following the train. Again and again the boys dashed et him and away he would go for a moment; but presently his heels would fly into the air and ba,okhe would come frisking iinpish ly, and through the rein of the afternoon followed at a distance. to ;meek to Ins wareiore irPhite. It so happened that Hamlin had been tonna etreong the Plates and underetnod the Ian" guage even better than the Nearajos, He heard Fromoisco recouatiennhe witonno of his neolne ; how often their peewees had been wremed from them, their home and oetile stolen. And tow they wire being followed into t ,0 teen. Only (me moon bef sre two com- rades had been murdered on the plain, and • by whom but these nen? To -day a pony f had beeu driven from the mountains; to- morrow what outrage might be expected? What ahould be done? Thee were thirty bravo, the with° men renamed tieven, Horses were here, food, rifles and powder ; one bold stroke and all would be theirs. A spring was found before sunset, and camp was pitched for the night by the aide of the water. The animals were turned loose to graze. The weary men dropped upon the ground, while the cook busied himself preparing eupper. Presently a shadow fell across the ground where we lay, and looking up we observed a solitary Indian approaching, a blankeb thrown over his shoulders, and a rifle on his ann. It was so usual an occurrence that little hoed was given kin; for everywhere they frequent our carer begging incessantly for whiskey, tobacco and food. But when he drew near and made no request, nor even acknowledg. ed our salutation of "How," wo know that his was another object, and that he was ill• disposed. Drawing his blanket round him, he paused a little way off and stood as silent as a !spectre. He was very tall and straight, with finely cbiselled features instead of the brutal face so common to the Indian. As he posed there in the twilight, hia picturesque garment draping about him, with rifle in hand and the long shadows around, I could ahnosb fancy the spirit of Hiawatha had risen. By thie time supper was ready, and a cup of coffee was poured out and offered to the Indian. He neither aocepted nor refused, but remained as motionleas as if be had been oast in bronze. Turning presently and walking a few ;Mope away, he uttered the long, tremulous call of the coyote. An answering note came from the hills near by and soon other Indians appeared by ones and twos and joined hina about the fire. They ciontitteed to straggle in until thirty had gathered around us, and all were armed. Food was offered them, but not one accept, ed ; they were not disposed to be friendly. Night had come and with it the oold braze from the =anteaters. The campfire blazed cheerily, and around it the Nava) os gathered, squatting upon their haunches. Our ineu were wee,* with the dant; ride, and after the animals had been enoketed, drew out their blankets and lay down about them, their baggage under their heads. No other trout* was expected if tiao stock were guarded from stampede; for a body of troops lay at the fent, three dame' journey from the mountain. After the men had lain down the Indians drew closer around the fire now' and then gathering fuel, or speaking one to another in their oWte. language. We lay on the ground in tne shadow, but againeb the dark. nets the swarthy figurtat of the Navajos were thrown in bold relief by the firelight, and they were not so far away but that their voices came to us. What a dreamy plater° it Oeerned as we fell asleep. The coppery figures drawn about the fire, baliceneealed by their gaudy blankets, the gleam of rifies, the sleeping men, the dusky Ruling forme outlined in shadow, while off on the hills a coyote batked at the moon, Which wee tinting the tad and the waste of the desert. The pletute was wen forgotten by the been but the lli.onzion, as was bid duty, lay watching, Presently the Indians formed in a half - circle alio& him that had final mese to es, and made ready for a po*wow. Hem& knevti then that on vieiter was the noted end dangerous Francieco. The (thief began The boys had been sleeping some laours, when, Rennin wakened the nearest one with a touch. "Sna-h•hr he whispered. 'Dam get?' In an natant every nerve was strung, ani he would have risen but the Mormon pressed him down. The Mexicans were al- ready whist eriug together, and goon the entire party was on the aierte We were still in the ehadow, though the moon was shining now. My first glum was toward the tire. All the Indiana had van- lahed bu, two, who wee ccptattint; before the smouldering embers as they had been earlier in the inght. " The Navajos have gone bebind the ridge," we were presenity Wad, "and these two remain lest we should suspeolt some- thing wrong, and be on our guard or get away." Then the Mermen told tut what he overheard. Francisco had planned to at. tack us jugs nefere day, when znosb likely at; entire party would be sleeping, They nad withdrawn the more surely to take us unawares, and had armed the ridgein order to conceal their fire. He had hoard more; news had most pro. bably reached the fort of the murder of the two Indians, and a attend of soldiers beea deapatohed te investigate the matter, for a detechment was in camp at the CIIICZ anent spring only ten miles away. It was then eleven o'clock; a erten muse start off at once to notify tbe lieutenant. Even if the troops did nob arrive before the Indians returned, we might be able to defend ourselves for a while till succor should come. One of the boys was selected as messenger. None of us had yet risen from the ground; the Navajos thought u� sleeping. The lad began to slideoff in the gra,sa, and presently reached the edge of a little gala uncliscovi ered ; there he dropped over, and under shelter of the rooks tmade good his escape. It is needless to say we din not sleep again. Every eye and win was on the alert, and every rifle in hand. Now and then a coyote gunk near, and the uncertain shadow gave our nerves a thrill; or if his mate called, we fancied the Naos were signalling. The suspense so wroughb upon the nerves of the party that they would gladly have followed Hamlin to surprise she Indians in their camp; but the watchers were near; a auspicious movement on our part, and they would have vanished like phantoms, or the crack of a, rifle, the whole band would be upon us. Hamlin, too, grew restless as we lay there, tind presently crept near to us. He had eon considering the chances of the troops rriv ing in time to be of service. The Chez a- kle, was ten miles away, and even were the detaohtnent still there, they could not reach us before three o'clock. It was the day before when the Indians had seen them,but had they remained? It was doubt- ful the lad could follow the trail aright, and besides, the Navajos might attack us at if any moment, Hamlin had nerves like the rest of us ; perhaps he had more. He was a gaunt, muscular ram, who had been reared among the Plates, where his father had been sent, a NIOTMOU missionary. Having enjoined us strictly to lie quiet, he raised up and yawn. ed, as though but just wakened from sleep. "Hello, there! If you are going to' sit by my flee, why don't you keep it burning ?" he celled out to the pair who were yet squatting about tha embers. "You trifling, lazy buck, now you keep that fire up till day, or I'll take my cowhide and drive you off 1" • The Were crackled and the sparks flew up as he piled the fuel on, while the two moved back aoinewhat. Drawing his blanket about his shoulders, Hamlin squatted near them, shivering and pretending to be cold. Pre- sently he spoke, inquiring after some Mor- mon friends who had been among the Nava- jos. "Are you Mormon man ?" one of them asked. It was just the question he wanted. Certainly he was a Mormon, and knew so and so, and his father was old Hamlin, whom all the Navajos knew, 'Then you ought to be aahamed, a Mor- mon man, to work for Pellicaneeel" said one. "Pellioanoes are thieves ? they steal Indians' ponies." With this, conversation began in Navajo fashion, and as they talked, Hamlin moved slowly nearer, until they were face to face. The bright fire threw them in high light. and beyond were the uncertain shadows. From the darkness came the long, wavering call of the coyote, and ever and anon we were startled as aome browsing pony clinked thepebbles in his way. The suspense grew intolerable as the moments slipped past and the time drew near when the Navajos would return, And what could Haralin mean? Was he seeking favor on his own account ? Area he about to desert US A comrade touched me, and pointed to the piece of the two drivers a little way off in the shadow. Their blankets were on tlae ground, but peering intently, I saw them to be empty. The Mexicans had slipped off in the darkness undiscovered. Hamlin must be informed ait once and I raised on my elbow to call, Perhaps he heard me move, for the next moment he sprang at a Navajo's throat like A wild -oat. His companion uttered a single "Yip 1" and leaped to his feet, but before his weapons could be used, was pinioned by the two Mexicana. Hamlin had seized the larger, and Da we ran up, they were clenched and struggling. The two were quickly gagged and bound. The Mexicans wished to dispatch them at once, but milder counsels prevailed. We were unoertain if the camp beyond the ridge had heard the warning note, and With all haste threw the saddles and more valuable packs upon the animals, sprang to our places and hurried along the obs entre and difficult trail. We rode with whip tied spin through sand and sagebrush, over stones and gulohee across fallen timber ; a triad, wild race, as' faet as beasts emald sttuggle. After the intehee night of watching, action was relief ; we could hone jumped from a precipice, oharged a battery, or fought a band of grizzly bears, On and on we urged the train; one mile pawed, two, then threes ; by that time we WOO liaken with the perilbue ride, the antrinlie Were panting, and our speed slacken- ed, another mile and i eon was heard. We palmed to liaten. Were the Navajos fol. lowing, or wee it a Mead 1 A moment and another whoop came tinging, and there wad a sound of galloPing hoofs. The Yam WAS familiar, and WO sent an answer echoing aorots the plain. In a few minotes we were withfrierada. The lid heel reached the Chez a,k1a, and roused the camp; then mounted a benne, an d was guiding the loluceoate beck to our aid. The next day Brimeiseo WOO followed into the Mountairta ant ehortly afterward cap tured ; lout inidean a taking him te the fort for trial, we colied hie people together and, held a grand powwow. Hamlin planned how the pony had followed es, and the lieutenant deolaren that he had been sent to beck and punish the murderers of the two Navajos, Then a preeent of tobacco was givens, we each whiffed from Francisco's dirty edpe, and, as the story -nooks say, all lived happily together ever ;Ater, foe as long as we worked in their region they were our frienda,— f john Willie Heys, NEWS OF THE WORLD. Henry Jupp, whom all old cricketers in Ragland have known in professional teams, has died, aged 48, In tIte House of Commons steepleobase, P0 memner to ride less than thirteen atone, Mr, Cyril Flower won riding without a saddle. The Cuing of Meyerling, where Crown Prince Rudolph shot himself, will become a convent of Carmelite nuns, the deeth cham- ber beeeming a chapel. Tlie report input forward pretty boldly that the Czarovitela will be betrothal to the Princess Anastasie, the third daughter of Prince of Montenegro. The sister of Lord Randolph Churchill, Indy Wimborne'le about to attempt a po- litical salon, for the benedt of her brother as much as anything else. A oiroular has just been issued by the French Botanical Society inviting foreign botanists to take part in. the Botanioal Con - grate to be held as Paris August next. rn spite of the attacks of Callon Taylor and Mr. Caine, the income of the Church. Missionary nociety for the year just closed will be larger than HI any previous year. The report steadily gains credence that Mr. William K. Vanderbilt will lease Staf- ford House, and that he will buy the at treasures and pictures not held aa heirlooms. Out of thirty Justices of the Peace whom the Earl of Rosanne as Lord Lieutenant ef the county of West Lothian, has appointen to the magistrahy, three are workiagmen. John Bright's fortune, instead of being 4750,0000 wee bub E150,900. He left no pubele legaoies, it being hie opinion that tee support of p.ublic institutions should ogres from the living. The British Conant at Havre says that the complaints of Britieh shipmasters against the Bantle tars are constant. He has heard Captains say frequently, "Give me Norwegians, Swedes, Or German, but no English sailors for me." They have their old-time ability as seamen, but are drunken and insubordinate. The London pavements whioh strike every visitor as so perfect are receiving a tremend- ous amount of local abuse now. Wood and asphalb are too slippery; manadam can't stand the heavy wear. The opinion is freely heard that London "has not yet solved the problem of street pavements and seems as far off from it as ever." The House of Lords have decided a very interestbag case concerning the privileges of publications. The defendant in a chancery era published a pardon only of the nudge's charge as a vindication of hireselt, and the plaintiff sued for libel. The final decision held that a portion of a Judge's charge pub- lished alone is not era ivileged, and the plain- tiff recovered. The &moue English yeasht Sleuthhound la trade responsible for a fearful amount of extzavagance in the bankruptcy prooeeding in the case of Lord Francis Cecil, son of the Marquis of Exeter. iLord Francis's wife brought him £200,000, and his father allow- ed him an income of £30,000, but it had all gone, through entertaining on the Sleuth- hound, his only extravagance. A bill brought into Parliament by Mr. SidneyBuxton, called the "Housing of the Working Classes bill," proposes to confer upon the London Common Connell the power to buy land and build dwellings for the use of "workmen engaged in the industry of the area it represents." In order to provide money for this purpose, there will be a re- arrangement of land taxes, private gardens being increased in saluation. GIVING TEE BLACKS A Dit13BBENG west African Town Destroyed and 3,000 amines Released. Despatohes from West Africa say that a British expedition has destroyed the chief tewn of the Wandab tribe in Sulims, and released 3,000 slaves. This is one of several expeditions that the British authorities in West Afrioa have und ertaken ageing; natives who hieveattnek• ed British oommeroial posts or tried to prevent trade with the Eurepeans. Salim& is about 175 miles inland, northeasb of Sierra Leone. The hitindigos, the most en- terprising and extensive people of West Africa, live west of &limaiand the tribe that has just been punishedbas, id common with other peoples, been trying to prevent the trading Mandinges none havitagrelations with the whites. The policy that is begin- ning to be followed byallthenationetradingon the weet aoast is to follow natives who in terfere with trade into their own country and inflict severe and summary chastisement. The Europeans also are endeavoring to stamp out some of the inhuman practices to whioh the natives are addicted. the Royal Niger Company has recently given the natives of desa,ba, on the Niger, a severe drubbing, because they violated the nem- panyn rtile forbidding human saorificee. The people of Asaba have promited not to be so reckless about killing folka in future. • Women of Note, Miss Laura White is a Kenteaky archi. teat who took honors at the Mtchigan Unt- versity and afterwards studied in Paris. • Mrs, Margaret Sullivan of Chicago will do more work for A.merioart newspapers at the Parie Exposition than any other three women. She is ealled the brainiest woman in that city. Mrs. Wanamaker, the daughterin-law of the in 8. Postanaater•General and now pre- siding over his house, is a daughter of ex. Minister Welsh, who represented the U. S. at the Court of St. names in Grant's day, She ta young end pretty. Miss AmyLevy, who has a position of hear own winning among London littetat- ours', ie a daughter of the proprietor of the daily "Telegraph." Her latest work is 4 novel, "The Rodiance of a Shop," Whiola le just rope:bile/led here by (Dapples & Hurd of Bogota, The Britannia bridge cronies the linenal Sntrait Waleer, at an elevation of 103 feet above high water. It is of weought iron, 1,511 feet 1,946 Mad wee finished iii 1850. Cott 000. Shall We A Wish the Death Penalty for Murder.? Otto great reason for retaining capital punishment for the vvorst crim (and soarce, ly anyone in England would advocate any other for inch men, Bata as the Chicano Anarchiets, or the Whiteolumel murdeter, lf he in ever caught and not found to be in sane) end, indeed, we think for all melee en deliberate murder, Is the mist insuperable diffieulty of finding an atlegitete eubstitute. Life ;servitude is never parried out in Bag load, *mammas being revieed at the end of twenty years, Colonel Hendemon before the oommission :mid it would take anenost a °ennui), to get oriminals to believe in ite being carried oun and if it were carried into effect, prisoners with no hope would have to be treated either as lunatioe and made comfortable, or as wild beasts at the Zoo. logiaal Gerdens. it We have men now," he continued, "who are very little retnoved from wild }matte. I do not say they are mad, but they can never be approached by one man at a time; they ere none the less obliged to be treated like wtld beasts, and the warden always goes with, as you may Bay, his life in hie hand." The Period, of the Czar's Death Foretold, A strtinge otory is going tne retutd of the Continental papfevi to the following effect:— Twenteryeers ago the preeent Cz sr, at tint time Heir Apparent te the Reagan throne, had hia fortene told by a elPeY Warm, whom he met by acoldent while out shooting. The gime, totally unaware of her casual olient's exalted reek, examined the pare ef bis band seovezdirm areem, mad propheeied many thinga to hire—amongst ethers, teat he should not outlive hie 46th birehday. It is stated that all other forecatts have been realised, one after another, greatly to the diequitetude of Alexander Alexamirovich, who le notoriously superstitious, The Czer entered upon his 45th year on the 10th ult, and baaappeared to suffer from a more than usually eevere depression of epiritee since his birthday anniversary. leis ocneorb, whose health hes beep delicate for Immo time past, is said to be deeply distressed by the gloomy state of the Eraperorie mind, brought about by breeding over the giney's disraal prophecy. The Gear should take comfort trom the complete f ilure of a similar vaticination made to Prince Bis- marck, when the Germsn Chereellor tvaa PrilaBilid Minister et Prankfoet. A pro. phetees of renown then foretold that his 6M year would prove fatal to him, and her prophecy oaueed him no inoonsiderable iety until it was confuted by time. This point has very recently been treated by Mn Willsaen Talleek, the Secretary of the Howard Apseciatien. He is a man of the greatest experience in the menet', having devoted over a quarter of a century to the investigation ot all the branohes of the goat subjects of crime prevention and punish- ment. He gives it as his opinion that life servitude is impracticable, and Saggede as a eubstitute a term of twenty yeare' penal servitude with a subsequent period of ante ervision, in all but the most outrageous aud al:mating eases, Inc which he advocates the death. penalty. We do not think*that suoh puniehment for intentioned murder is suf. finent on any ground. In tire &sir plaoe, we should have to lower the whole smile of penalties in proportion, whioh wouli hardly te advint! le, Then it must not be fcrgotten that it is a rule without exception, that the moment the penalty (either inflicted by tne law or by publto ophition) is lowered, the popular deteetation of the offence is pro- portionately lessened. Luny, it appears to us that the moral aspect of the matter re- quires great severity. In order to ahow this, we must inquire what are the objects of punishment? and in answer we will accept perhaps the latest bnportanta"dicta" on the subject those of Sir Edward Fry, L. J. He conaiders the ends of punishment to be reformation, repression, and example, bab looks upon theme 'as secondary only to the great end which he calls the moral root of the whole doctrine,namely, association in some degree of suffering with sin, in order to whioh there is a duty laid upon us of melting thia relationsbip as real, actual, and exact in proportion as posiible. con. elusions are that the deepest ground of •pueishinent is this purely moral one; that there are other and independent regions why society ought to inflict punielament ; that the measure of punishment may vary with the different reasons for its infliction ; and that the highest of the measures of punish- ment for any given offence is that with whioh society on ht to visit in Now, we think that the death penalty when inflicted for murder pre-eminently anawers these four ends of punishment. The immediate prospect of death certainly ought to work reform in the condemned mat's spiritual condition. The penalty itself ob- vinusly prevents further crime on his part. And we feel certain that the example would have great effeot upon others, it the legal definition of murder were so conformed to the popular idea of the crime, as to make a verdict and execution certain in clear caws of deliberate murder. We submit that when death was directly or indirectly intended or looked upon as probable by the perpetrator of thedeed which caused the death, although of a different person from the one aimed at, morally the crime would be murder; but we doubt whether this would not be too wide for the British jury, and probably it would have to he confined nowadays to cases of direct intention to cause death, coupled with an act which did cause death to some- one, whether the person aimed at or net. We think even with some such definition as this, some provision wonld have to be made to enable a jury to find as a fact that the act was done through aotne vio- lent and sudden temptation, and to give a judge, under such ciratimstanees, a disare- don to lower the penalty. Perhaps, also, the question of provocation might be treated in tbis way, instead of as It is now, and the linaits of provocation as it affects the crime might be enlarged. These suggestions, how- ever, are thrown out with the greatest dim - denim, having regard to the diffiagties with whioh the subject is beset; but our meaning La that murder in law should be made as much as possible like murder in common parlance, and that a discretion should be given to the judge in panting teams, where, though the crime may clearly be murder, yet there exist real, and not merely extenu- ating aircumstannes in the French meaning. Finally, the punishment of death, more than any other which could be inflicted for murder, associates the greatest offence with the greatest, or at any rate the highest, form of suffering, and thus realises the exalted standard at which the learned Lord Justice was aiming when he said, „" In a word, you can never separate the idea ofright and wrong from the idea of punishment without an infinite degradation of the letter ooneepi don. Punishment is a part of justice if it is anything of raoral worth; and I cannot bring myself to think of justice without re- gard to right and wrong, without regard to the Utteranceof the human come:lien:3e, without a thought behind all of an iufinite and perfect Judge. To make justice a mere term for the enforcement of laws which have no moral colour, and rest only on the balance of the Begin of pain and pleasure, is to nob it, to my mind, not only of all its dignity, but of all its meaning."-- LW. C. Maude, in The Month. A "Painter" Let Go. Every sailor has his story of the mistakes whic/a 'landlubbers" make over the names of thinga at sea, wialoh always seem to be exactly the opposite of what they are �n land. A sheet, for Instance, instead of being muno. thing broad, like a sheet of cloth or a sheet of water, is nothing but a tope. A new boy had come ea board a Wart India ship, upon wbicria a painter had also been employed to paint the 13hip'S sine. The pebitor was at work upon a staging suspended under the ship's stern. The captain, who had just got into e boat along. side, ealled out to the new boy, whb stood leaning over I/ tail; Let go the paitter ?" Everybody should knOW that a beet's peinter is the rope which makee it fast, but this boy did bob luloW it. ne ran aft and let go the repro by which painter's stage was hold, Meantime the captain Wearied WW1 wait ing to be, treat off, " Yon teeing 1" he ogled, " Wlay den% yeu let go the painter ' • " He's gone, sir," timid thebay, briskly; "he's gonei pots; bktothes and all 1" The Donkey Killed tile Bulldog. A burro end a bulldog had e fight recent. ly in Fresno, Cal. Barre is Californian for donkey. The burro was browsing on cockle burrsby the roadside, when the bulldog trot- ted long, stopped, and,without a grown, wiz - ed the donkey by the :shank bone of the off hind leg. The donkey hninediatety brought Ito hind quarters into action and its legs and the dog flow through t/ae air lei the most active way, Inc the letter refused to let go. The burro kicked and kicked, and then he tried to reach the dog with his mouth, but unavailingly. Then the burro lay down on its back, and brought its hind lege forward •toward Ma head. • He shut hia jaws on the dog's back, auctalowly straightened out. The dog without flinching kept its grip OZ1 Oho shank bone. Bat the donkey lead jest as much grit, and kept on straightening itself oun though the strein was (musing the flesh and musoles to be terribly lacerated. The dog let go first. The burro kept its hold on the dog's back, and in a. amend was standing on its feet, with the dog dangling from its mouth. The .burron leg was terribly lacerated, but he did not seem to mind. He limped across the road, and de- liberately pinning several times to rest, rubbed the dog back and forth over a barb- ed ivire fetes until it was killed. The dog did not howl from the beginning to the end The burro returned to his cookie burrs. Poor Guessing. There is nothing, in an examination, like thinking before one guesses, if one isgoing to guess. In a school exami examination, for netanee, the following question was pub: "In which of his battles was King Gustavus Adolphus killed ?" A student very prudently set down this safe reply "I think it was in his lest." This student at least had his with about hint more oompletely than did the stupid person vrho is said to have asked Sidney Smith this question, at a dinner -table : "Aw, Mr. Smith I Do you know in which of his journeys around the world Captain POI* WM killed—hie first, or his last ?" Sidney Smith looked up quickly. "I believe it was on his first voyage," said he ; "but; he doesn't seem to have minded 1* much, for he immediately seb out on kis second V' A Back Actine; Annoyance, "Say, Hannah," remarked Mr. Hughit to his wife, as they came out of the opera house. tell you something if you% promise not to be provoked." "Well, what is it?" asked Mrs, Hughit with a tone of reeignation. "You won't be angry ?" awn. "Well, your bonnet was on awfully one- sided all the evening.' "Ob, I'm so glad you noticed it, dear, you are generally so unobserving. The fact is, Charley, that miserable bonnet won't rto on any other way, and I'm wanting a USW one so much 1 I hated to say anything to you about it, dear; but now you have discovered how horribly the bonnet looks, you'll give me $15 to get a new one, won't you ?" "Ob, I suppose so," and Mr. Hughit almost wished he hadn't been so observing. —[Omaha World. Further Discoveries at Pompeii. Some discoveries of great haportance to arobaeologists have just' been made ab Penn pen, on the site of the supposen Greek tem- ple in the triangular fern= Excavations were being carried out there in the presence of Herr von Dihn, Professor of Archaeology at Heidelburg, anti a party of students. The vases and other objects foundprove that the so called Temple of Hercules, hitherto supi posed to belong to the Greek period 600 B. OS, is of much later origin, dating from about 400 B. C. The full results of the discoveries will Bret be published in the Italian archan. logioal journala. She was Awaitine. "Husband in ?" asked the gas rata col- lector, cheerfully. "No," answered the we. man, "he isn't at home." "Exp- oting him seen ?" asked the colleetor. "Well," the WO man replied, thoughtfully. "I don't k now exactly; I've been lookih' for him seventeen years, and he hasti't turned up yen You tra- vel about a good deal, and if you see a man who Rieke as though he'd make me a pretty good husband; tell him I'tn still awaitin „and send him along." London's police foroe numbers 14,257 Mem All -black bets are always in vogue ; but many more colored 01100 are worn. Minneapolis flour output jest , week wao the heaviest since November. The Grand Trunk intend putting vestibule cars on their through trains. An Eng]iehman has invehted a bonnet which oan be taken off in the theater, folded up and used air a fan, Sir Charles Russell drank nothing but co- coa during the delivery of hie; great speech at the openitig 'of Mr. Parnell'e ease before the oearintission. ' Brovetileent Indexed Ictailevay and Guide Map of 1Vlairieolm is published by T. H. BeoWnlee of Ikandon. It is thoroughly re- liable, being • atithoeZed by the Provincial Gevernmeht oi Manitoba, "Hew ,l� yon aocount for George's not corning tett tine 'past three days ?" Belted 4 fond Manitlitit wen had aspirations toe a milhlonalto ketteititnaiin "Oh, he itan't atm. Ing any triorelit -"WlAY;PY daughter', yeti didn't tlirovi eireh a °kande onerbotitd, 1" 'Nentintintria; ho ;but 'Georgen father lot bankritpt;" ort are a' dist, good glrl." • N.IMAY.MaLaNtriikiNYNYNNYN.Ww.. ribute to TOO Bright, Seldom, if ever, hair a greaten tribute been paid to that nrand pld 'Ortega sine,erity, then the el:tenni people paid to it le eaten faeewall to John Bright. The current of polibioal .partisanship does not run leas strongly ta diet country then in thin nor be it iees bitter or uuformving there than here and towhere 10 it rnore coneplouougy ex- hibited than in the newspaper press. But pertisaeship had, apparently, no other feel- ing than that of inspect, admiration and affection for the greet 9naker` statesman when, the other day in England, it stood by his bier, In the Howe of Comments those, who tought to do him honor by their Epee* were the reepeotive Coneervative, Liberal,, Libered-Unioniab and Irish Nanionalist lead - era of greateet power awl renown. Tey represented ell.parties, all factions of British politics—thee with whom the subject of their eulogy had fought shoulder to shoulder and those against WhOM he had alwaye stood opposed. They had nothing but praises for him, nor wore their praises measured save by the just limitations of his great worth. The partisan press, venting all shades of politioal thought, rennet/eating all fon, tional prejudices, united in the pains chant- ed to the memory of John Bright. The Lon— don Sp.eciator has very happily expreseed the unwereal feeling regarding him when itt says : "Loved to the last 1 'The 'greet Tribune'. the fighter, The name Onee in England chief diaeorda chief fear I Now a emelt breathing peace, now a link tot mite her, From the Crows to the cottage, Prince, people and peer." • A member of the Society of those peace- ful, friendly folk, the Quakers, John Bright for long years together tilled tixe land Yin* the clamor of his contentions. He was not it man of peace, but of war. He fought all his life long agairmb falsehood and wrong ; he smote mighty blows right and left; he lefb his enemies wounded, beaten on the field; but he VMS loved, honored to the last. The Spectator says: "Hard -hitter, strong -fighter, but stooping to faction— Oh, never I Oft lonely the path that he trod ; But he oared not for praise, and he feared not detraction', Brave soldier, good worker, inns servant of God," John Bright had many of the quinineswhialt go to tne making of a great mane but that one quality of greatneas which best and most clearly denoted bite was his integrity. From this he was never swerved by either ambition, sophistry or force. He may not always have seen the truth aright, but as hadid see it he contended, for it man- fully. A plain, simple heroic figure in, British politics, "one Of Plutarna'a men," fighting wrong and untruth wherever he saw teem. He was so sincere of purpose, so honest a statesman, as to compel all the world to recognize him for what he was, to pay tribute to the nobility of Ins character as it stood beside his grave. -That sincerity, that unconquerable honesty which was hie greatest attribute, was whse made all men honor him. It is that quality which is of alt. others the most estimable and the most es- teemed, Ry virtue of it John Bright nee only won political victories, but he won the, imperishable regard of raankind, is the one thing best of all, for it is the one thing most respected and honored by all men, and, it may be as easily possessed by the poorest as the richest. It is that quality the pea - Beni= of which is the mired guarantee of summits. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The coal dock laborers of Duluth are on strike for more pay. Sharp shocks of earthquake were felt ixt Swi'zerlano on Tuesday. St. Thomas has a population of 10.408; assessed value of property, $3,748,312. Kingston medical students have formed. an ambulance oorps for the P. W. 0, Rifles. James Legg was carried over the Passaic Falls on Monday evening and drowned. Ha had tried to row a boat up the swollen river. A Chicago anarchist hang out his red flag on Tuesday and narrowly escaped death air the hands of the crowd, The Crenate& police have discovered. stores of explosives which were to be used. in an attempt upon the life of tlae Cur. The Wituitor theatre fire in Chicago re. suited in the total loss of the building. Loss, $40,000; fully insured. Three fire- men were injured. The new charcoal blast hue:Ince of tha Mont Alto Iron Company, at Chambersburg, Pa., has been burned. Ova 200 men axe thrown out of employment. The " Manufaettirers' Record" reports that in the last three weees about fifteen, companies have been organized to build cotton mills in the Southern States. Mr. Thomas O'Callaghan, of London, ham signified his intevtion of appealiag against the verdict, of the Hamilton jury giving $4,000 no MiO4 Harrell for breaoh of promise. The etearnithip Gaelio made her latest trip front Hong Kong to San Francisco in. 21n clitys, and from Yokohama in 13 days 18 hours ancl, 25 minutes—the tastest on record. Canadians in California. In a letter written from Los Angeles Mr, Andrew Patti:111o, editor of the Woodstock "Sentinel -Review," who is at present travell- ing through California, says of the Catiadiana in that State:—" The reason for their ;m- oss is not far te seek. la is no national, vanity that pronounces them superior to the. average American. Their attacese is a tn. bute to the school system of Gatelike and to the home training of CladOClidd IdOthati. They aro more thoroughly trained, better informed, more willing to work, more frugal,. and steady in their habits than young Americans. ninth clear heade, sound bodies, a willingnees to work, and a detennination to succeed they distance their conapetitore in the race. Toe many natives of these States reilee to work.. They go in for big spoon. lation, and are usuelly waiting for some chance to make money gait:Orly and easily; they Iive high—much higher than Canadians. In the meaattitne tencleefeen Irma Other aountrie$3 do the work, make the money, and fill the places open te them. Ainetioan businese Med and oapitalists thoroughly understand this. Canadians generally deserve the respect and confidence shown them in this country. They seldom rob theit emi players or disgrace their country. In the expteetive langnage di the Wean in the race of life they get there ' as often as any enatte en this Ogee " Thia is a very dif- ferent story from that told by Col. George t Denison but it requires no corroboration. tt is a welhnoWn. feat that the 'majority Of the, Canadians' in California Ini've been intootendul.