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INDIAN MARIA'S FIDELITY.
A TALE OF COINIA.
Hie Britauio M•+jesty'a cutter.
Vixen rode at anchor one day iu
the broad estuary of Essequibu
River neat' the mouth of the Cayuni
Maroons and nc'gl•oes were burn
ing villages, desLruyiug plantations,
and killing white settlers up eouu-
try, making their way down toward
the, coast, intending to drive all the
white people from their shores.
So the -Vixen had been ordered
up from Georgetowu to watch the
mouth of the rivers. A guard of
ten meu bad bsen seut to a high,
rocky poiutoverlooking a long reach
of the river above ; there they had
put up a fl testnfi' to communicate
with the vessel by s'g nal.
Captain Archer, ut• the Vixen,
was a good officer, though inclined
to be severe for any neglect of duty
or disqbedience of orders. To his
son, the midshipman, who was to be
in command of the picket post, he
gave a word of caution as he parted
from him.
'We have to deal with a crafty,
merciless enemy. You have yuur
written instructions. Follow thein
strictly. Be vig'lant • Signal us
atonce when a boat or canoe ap•
pears coining down the river."
Tofu made a bow and took leave
of his father, very proud of his first
command on detached dty.
'When he got into his 'boat with
four marline in the bow and six sea-
nieu aboard with pistols aud cut -
lassos at the oars, ho felt as if he
could subdue a whole array of black
follows.. He opened his orders and
read :
'Permit no canoe or haat of any
sort to pass your post downward
without reporting to the ship by
signal. If they will not stop when
hailed, fire upon them. You will
remain on duty there until relieved
unless recalled by two gnus from
the ship,'- ...._ _
It was early morning, with a light
tnist upon the river 'etwo hours had
passed in killing Congo flies and
mosquitoes in theshado when they
heard the report of guns on river
above theta,
• 'There is firing close at hand, sir,'
shouted the lookout.
'An' here's a canoe going buy us
in the swift water. She came steal.
ing along close into the rocks.'
'Whites or blacks in her ?' ca]frd
Archer from above.
'Indians, sir.'
'Fire upon them ! Why, you
wo ,den -head, why didn't you hail
and stop her Y'
`They—at least, she wouldn't—
paddled like the deuce !'
'Oh, it was a woman, eh 1 Signal
the ship, quick ! Five—six—four
—nine—five. Up with thorn live-
. ly 1'
The officer of the deck on board
the Vixen was reading to Captain
Archer the numbers of. the little
flags the moment they unrolled on
the brains._' Captain Archer gave
orders :
'Man the first cutter ! Catoh the
canoe that is coming !'
'More signals, sir ! They have
fired on the canoe, Ten blacks—
throe wounded,'
Now, boys, I have commenced
this story at the wrong end. I will
go back now and make a proper
start.
Near the upper cataract on the
Corentyn River Waku lived. He
was the most troublesome of the
black chiefs along the river—the
boundary betwesu British and
Doteh Guina. After one of his
excursions in search of plunder he
brought to his hut in the forest
above the crtaraet an Indian Qirl, a
404 :1 or g year
eatd it was We: swear daughter,.
glut last ciao beliaVes tit, 'ltt►e. poet
ohitd iv 'erne4y neared ' y 1.'1!tcp
and hhtaWvittatS a OM (Ad iweinan,
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,After throe year'akt1f pattentalxfi'er'
ing the young .Indian. dfs ppeared,
Very angry, Walto W33 when loo
fouled We slave mdeere,g,
She bad been'takea in by a white
fatuity at Waraputa Mission. She
had euffered tenthly in her tong
long journey' through• 'the forest.
She 'had been more than a week on
the way. She was ill and delirioue
with fever. when found by one ot.
the mission people and had been
carried to the house of W. Morgan,
the ffliesioilary.
In that, peaceful home the young
girl puttered three happy years. She
became very much attached to May
and Walter, Mr. Morgan's young
daughter and son. They gave her
an English name, Maria, and she
soon remembered • Waku as the
principal figure its some unhappy
dream.
Qne afternoon, when the shadows
of the palms were growing long, and
orchids were opening their per.
fumed cells to the bees, and the
great scarlet winged dragon flies
were on a homeward flight, and the
children, tired with play, were a•
eleep in their .hammocks on the
shady veranda, Maria strolled away
to a grove of orange trees by the.
river.
Suddenly, cut of a thick hedge
of shrubbery, between her aud the
house, arose the bushy head and the
fierce eyes of Waku.
In another moment he held her
firmly by the arta, as he made her
walk faster. At a greater distance
frt,m the house he began to speak
to her.
'I have lopked for you to kill you
when I found you, aud to kill thoee
,vho have kept you from me. 1
will do so yet if you du not .go with
me—I, your father, am the one to
take care of you.'
No need, to repeat Maria's entrea-
ties; she was soon convinced that
her own safety and that of her
white friends of the mission de-
pended on going with this savage.
She could not even returu to give a
last kiss to the sleeping children.
It was not to the old but on the
Coret:tyn, but to one much nearer
on the Maccari Mountain side,
overlooking the valley of the
Essequibo that Waku took her—a
three days' journey from the mis-
sion.
Tho feelings of Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan may be imagined when
night came and passed. May and
Walter cried for the lose of Maria.
Walter said a lion or tiger had at•'
tacked her in the forest—by which
he meant. a puma or jaguar—but
the children's parents knew site had
been kidnaped again, as they learn-
ed presently that . Waku had been
seen iu the neighborhood.
To Maria the contrast between
her past life at the mission and that
to Wake's hut was terrible at first,
hut she soon found a good reason
for enduring bravely.
Savage nogrons, with feathers
braided into their spiral twists of
wool, Maroons with hideous tattoo
marks on their faces and armed with
clubs set with teeth of cayman or
shark, carne daily and nightly to
consult with Waku.
Maria s;on gathered that We' u
was planning destruction to the
white people of the valley. She
kept out of sight as much as pos-
sible; for •the first few months sher
had been closely watched by an old
negro woman employed for •that
purpose by Waku, but now she -had
more froedoin.
Every night now she hid in a
place where the negroes hold their
meetings. For two years there had
been only dire threatenings, but
now the time had come for action.
At the rising Of the moon of a
certain evening a thousand blacks
would hegin their march on separate
,points. Wako as leader would at,
tack the Waraputa mission ; all
were to kill, burn, and destroy.
Three nights after that Maria
reached her old home not an hour in
advance of the blacks. All the
southern sky was red with the light
of burning houses and cane fields.
When she reached the house the
children were asleep upon their cots ;
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan were at the
mission church, where arms were
being given out ; already there was
firing ; shrill cries rung on the night
air, and the Indian girl thought elle
heard the shouts of Waku.
She woke Walter, who was de.
lighted to hear her voice again ;
without waking little May she took
her in her arms, with a blanket
closely wrapped about her. They
escaped from the rear of the house,
,just as the mob of blacks commenced
hurling burning brands on the
palm deaf roof.
The Morgan fancily, overpowered
with grief at the loss of the chil.
dren, who they believed had perish,
ed in the burning house --like many
others on that horrible night—made
their escape. They embarked the
next day in canoes, making their
way down the river toward the
coast, knowing all too well they
were pursued by the blacks.
Maria, the heroic girl felt that all
fe
r
Ote neighborhood of the tivel,of bl .
be 04flia(•e' silo #rapt, vvoti awry itt
Aha forti5ttttii tiidy NON. ee,xtiral
da e.'' 'Quelle' ~toward the coast.
When tltoy approached the rivtir
again, the a *ndottta plantittiolls,
tit.t01,1;41Ui 11o01e0 ,twerp proof ,that
the Weeks were ahead of .them, and
th+fy had to be:ver'y cautious, There
was no dilliuuity about furl,), as 'that
could he diad at every clearing.
,Out May t±?ae only viii and Walter
night, so their progress was slow.
On the eighth day of their journey
they Game upon a email canoe,
hidden on a tributary stream e
short diestanoe = from► the river.
Maria soon found the paddle, and
that night the weary children lay at
test on the bed of leaved iu the
canoe, covered with their blankets
Alaria, too, slept, and the boat
glided down the river borne by the
current.
At the first dawn of day Maria
kept close to the shore, and soon
forced the canoe under a heavy
Noreen .of foliage, overhanging from
the bank. There the three had
another long delicious rest. The
carpenter bee know .they were there
and told the humming "bird ; a
squirrel saw them but kept still
about it; even the etrisv kingfisher,
who liked the cool shado of the spot,
saw' they were only three tired
uhildree fast asleep.
Far into the night they must have
slept, when 1llaria woke and got the
canoe out into the current ngein.
She began to hope all danger was
past ; the fiery sun came up and
faced then), on their watery path.
Maria saw nothing to alarm . her,
but she kept. close under the shadow
of great trees' and cliff,' whenever
she could. The children were calks
ing of ho ne as they lay in the bot-
tom of the canoe and watching the
flight of macaws and swift -winged
parrakeets above them, when the
were startled by Maria's voice, say
ing, inn low, frightened tone ! "Li'
down i Cover 'your heads? Sit
,,nee!"
The ),oat was in a strong current
and ailed now by gwift strokes n
the paddle, it had. turned aroun
the hose of a cliff and shot out ii
full view of a group of blacks squat
ting or lying about a tire on th
shelving bank. With all he
strength and skid Maria used• her
paddle, far asshe faced partly to-
wards the group she had looked
into the fierce eyes of Waku.
Waku, frantic with passion,
shouted, "Stop ! Step, or I shoot
you dead 1"
He had to reach hit gun first,
anti the brave girl was by that time
sixty yards away. Three gone were
fired and two bullets 'lodged in the
canoe. Maria changed ileF paddle
and crossed the current toward the
other shore. The negroes had,
launched their canoe, and now sik
paddles flashed in the yellow glare of
the sunlight, corning in swift pur-
suit, Wake standing in the bow re-
loading iris gun.
Around another rocky point an-
other voice shouted. But Maria
would not stop then for the King of
England ; still it w•Hs an English
voice, She glanced hurriedly over
her shoulder. She saw the scarlet
harmer, tete cross of St. George, on a
flagstaff on the rocky point elle had
passed a few moments; before, but
suddenly sight and strength failed
het• ; she drew in the paddle, falling
forward at the feet of the frighten,
ed'childretri _ _.
"She had fainted from - loss of
blood ; only .a flesh wound it the
Hi -slit arra," said the surgeon of the
"Vixen," shortly after.
WHkn was a very foolish negro
when he turned his gun upon the
marine who hailed hint; before he
could use it he and two of his cor-
panions were badly wouuded, and
they were soon prisoners on board
the "Vixen."
When his Britannic Majesty's
cutter reached Georgetown agHln
there was a joyful meeting between
parents and children within the wall
of Fort Will'fam Frederick, and
here little Maria was safe forever
from Walcu. She had surely prov-
ed her gratitude to the Morgans.
MISSING 1,•141%
A. Tearlety of Znfatratatton rreeented in
fii►ritetensed 1Norr1%,
The Golf of Mortice has ridcu Aver elle
ftwo•oot a Gs19et1 1,$ha51,t of a fanner.
'I`he Leverage lite of a t at1esma►!. is abtzut
thi4
The trot is said to have the biggest brain,
according to situ of ite body, of any crea-
ture.
The yeuugest New York burglar is saki
to be a ()-year-old lad oalitured a few days
ago,
A Tiffin, Ohio, marl carries a gold coffin
sorew 100 years old for luck. He found it
iu a graveyard.
There were at the beginning of last year
8,097 artesian wells in the western states
and 'territories,
It is proposed to police Pennsylvania ave.
nue, Washington, with patrolmen who aro
over six feet high.
The sole personal effects of a man who
died in Auburn, Mo., recently were a Bible
and a pack of cards.
Red 'River farmers are complaining that
the sparrows eat the oats faster than the
said farmers can sow them.
Five hundred thousand Londoners save
five days per aunum.each by riding on rail-
ways, a total saving of 2,50,000 days, worth
£830,000.
Italian titles are not very expensive.
That of prince costs only ;113,000; that of
duke, $10,000 ; marquis, $8,000 ; count,
$5,000 ;..viscount or baron, $4,000, •
The peoplo upon the two continents of
North and South America, without the
arctic regions, are less than 122,000,000 in
numbers, or only eight to the square
mile.
The world consumes more than 50,000
tons of cotton seed oil annually. It is
largely used in hotels and restaurants as a
substitute for.salid dressing and for frying
fish.
When America is as densely peopled as
Europe this half of the world will have
neatly 1,400,000,000 -practically the sante
'as that of the whole world at the present
time.
Some• of the African tribes pull their
fingers till the joints "crack" as a form of
salutation- and one tribe has a curious
fashion of showing friendship by standing
back to buck.
Tho most populous ,continent is Asia,
which contains two countries—.China and
ber
the
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN
BRIEF.
—Senator Jones, of Nevada, has
purchased' the Lingham gold mine
in Hastings county, Ontario.
—George Gamble, a • shoemaker
of ITonthill, Ont., better known as
the wild Irishman, attempted to
commit suicide by cutting his throat
last night while in the lockup thorn.
He -Inflicted a serious but not fatal
gash. The unfortunate man has
brought himself to his present con•
dition by drink. •
—A. terrific t•bunderetorm passed
over St. Marys between 5 and 6
o'clock the evening of 25th. Mr.
Roger Hedley, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens in St.
Mary's was struck by lightning and
instantly killed on his own farm,
Ho leaves a wife and large family.
Mr. Samuel Dinsmore had a fine
bore() killed by the lightning in his
stable and Mr. W. Richards lost a
cow which was gr.zing on Trout
creek flats.
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Notwithstanding his age lie is quite tt mule,
and his owner is careful never to leave hint
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Worth Ii nowto; "- Sprinstttilne ,--111aby's
,1'laytfatngs--41.1t iaterosttng and I;dtfy-
tng (lolatnit for Lathes.
We women, who belong to the great broom
brigade, are badly drilled es a rule. Put
tory telt of us in a long, carpeted apartment
and give the word " (101 ' and then—
watch us 1 Some of us will start with slow,
well -directed sweeps of the humble weapon;
some will begin with a great flurry and
raise es much dust as an ash cart come to
grief ; seine will appear to have mistaken
the beflowored floor covering for it veritable
garden, and go to digging with the feminine
utensil as though it were a spade and the
dirt had got townie from the very roots of
the tapestried posies ; some go down the
line with quick, nervous, little jerks that
leave broom -straws in their wake, and
others simply smooth over the insidious
dust that lurks in the hearts of woven
lily and rose. Some drag the
broom behind them ; some thrust it
well ahead, and handles are grasped at
as many different angles of inclination as
aro the moods of the graspers, while all ex-
pend about twice the strength that should
be expended in the sweeping of a room,
There's no need of digging -the average
broom refuses to be a spade, and snaps its
poor abused straws to prove this fact. The
woven lilies and roses cannot withstand the
repeated "scrubbings' and gradually begin
to vanish from the face of the grayish body
underneath, and disappear in little bunches
of parti-colored dust. I11 England, to my
own knowledge, the broom is seldom used.
A soft brush and it dusting pan is all the
thrifty English housewife thinks proper for
the cleausiug of her carpeted floors. I think
a little more broom, judiciously handled,
would`beinfinitely preferable to the pains
and aches of a back bent to make use of the
saving brush. But the "judicious hand-
ling" is the difficult matter, it would seem
with the many, to reach. -A Woman, h
the Household,
Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster.
Vegetable oysters are a very good substi-
tute for the real oyster ; all housekeepers
are delighted with them, when brought itt
fresh from the garden. Country house-
keepers have them iu perfection, but those
who buy from the markets have to take
then more or less wilted, and much of their
fine flavor is wantiug. Unfortunately ther@
are few ways to cook them. Ono way that
is liked by nearly every one is to stew them
like oysters.,.
Oyster Stew. -Wash and serape the sal-
sify, slice crosswise and put int6 a stewpan;
pour over hot water, and drain immediate-
ly. Add more water and cook till tender.
Now treat as you would oysters, add butter,
pepper and salt, and let tonne to a boil ;
then add rich milk or cream, thickened a
very little with flour..
Salsify Fritters. -Wash and scrape some
vegetable oyster roots, grate them and sea-
son with pepper told salt. Toa pint of the milkandget spoiled. gritted root, use half a pint of sweet ,
away p two well -beaten eggs, and flour ennugh•to
North Dakota has a full community of ,make a batter, not very still. Drop a
Indian sisters, established ender un Indian spoonful at a time into boiling lar,) ; fry a
mother superior, the first community of the ,lice brown.
kind ever established, though there have A way that is liked by many is to wash
been before this futlian sisters in other con- and serape the root's carefully, and boil
vents. until tender, drain off the water and opts11
The various colors of flame in a wood fire, fine, picking out all the stringy pieces,
is caused by the combustion of the elements moisten with a little milk, add a teaspoon -
of the fuel. The light blue is from the hy- fol of butter, and an egg and a half for
.drogcn, the white from the carbon, the vio- every cup of salsify. • Beat the •eggs light,
let from manganese, the red from magnesia make into cakes, dredge with flour and fry
aud the yellow from soda. a 1I1) ;, 3... ^_;So0sattitl5yreppar and salt.
According to the "Secret Doctrine," we Another way is to boil Whole until ,tender,
are 1100/ living in the Kali Yuga, the last adding a little salt. Then remove from
' of the four ages, and it becan nearly Te000 vessel, slice lengthwise, and fry immediate -
years ago, with the death of Krishna, B. C..ly in hot butter until they are a nice
3102. The first minor cycle of tete Kali
Yugo will end in the years 1897.98.
' A notary's clerk in France, named Hat•-
rott, has recently distinguished himself by
&telexing that his read name was the Count
Harold de .1ttilly, Baton d'Aubr.sson and
d'Auriac, Marquis de la Tour Popeliniere
and a descendant of the Dukes of Ilucking-
hant and of Hamlet, Prince of Icnnatk.
The court gave him tight days,
A while ago u hotel was built in the de•
sert near the pyramids. Several hundred
acres of the desert lard was bought do 18S4
by it wealthy Englishman, who was a suf-
ferer from consumption. He believed that
the desert air would bo a specific. For
two years he lived with his wife in a little
house erected on the sand waste he had
bought and regained much of the strength
he had lost.
1)r. Adametz, the great Swiss 4eliular,
say's an exchange, foiled that a sitegle grain
of fresh Emmenthaler cheese contains not
less than 00,000 Microbes. In a gr.tm of
the rind of the steno cheese he found .2,000,-
000 inhabitants, 'thus it may be seen that
a piece of cheese of less than 11 pound weight
may contain more living„ moving, beeath-
ine individuals than there are human in-
habitants on the entire globe.
A curious else of bihliokle;nti+nt is re-
ported by the Journal, of I'rovidonce,. RI.
The oflender is a w•imltn named Ellis at
West Attleboro' and her victim the Paw-
tucket free public librttty. The thief stole
over 500 books, all of a high class liters•
Lure, and w•.is accutr elating a large private
library when site was detected. She is a
w'ortlatn of means and culture, and scents to
have stolen simply because she could not
help doing so.
Henry A. Bower, of Adams Township,
Hamilton County, in 1831 slipped a small
cucumber in a glass bottle, and he permit-
ted the vine to furnish nourishment until
the encumber had filled thea 'adahle space
inside the bottle. The vine was then clip-
perl orf, the bottle was filled with alcohol
and carefully sealed. fl'he cucumber still
retains its original appearance, •end it looks
as perfect as it did when bottled up thirty-
eight years ago. -
A simple mode of purifying water is to
sprinkle a tables000nful of powdered alum
into a hogshead of water, stirring the water
at the sante time. This will precipitate all
the impurities to the bottom, after being
allowed a few hours to settle, and will so
purify it that it will be found to possess
nearly all the freshness and clearness of the
finest spring water. -1 pailful containing
four gallons may be purified in this manner
by using no more than a teaspoonful of the
alu rn.
According to the Boston Advertiser, Har-
vard College is und.:rtaking the task of
getting a complete collection of floors in
glass models. The secret, of making these
models is known only to two brothers
named Blaschka, in Dresden, and they are
under contract to work only for Harvard
during the next nine years. The younger
brother is now in Jamaica studying the
plants of the island, and in a few weeks he
will come to Cambridge as the guest of Pro-
fessor Goodale. Afterward he will travel
west, making a collection of the typical
Arnet•ican flowers, and will then return to
Germany to begin the work of reprodacglg
them in, glass. The specimens already re-
ceived at the Agessiz museum are marvels
of ingenuity.
brown.
Things Worth Knowing.
. Common kerosene is excellent for quinsy.
It also cures" croup in young children. A
small teaspoonful sliould be swallowed.
To check erysipelas, paint the inflamed
part with white learn frequently ; painting
with iodine (the stainless cnu be procured)
has about the sante effect.
Never iron lace window curtains, and be
careful to not make them too bine with in-
digo or too stiff with starch. Stretch them
upon a mattress to dry, pinning down care-
fully the extreme edge of every point or
scallop.
The best furniture polish (used also for
pianos) is anode as follows: One pint of
hard oil finish, one-half pint coal oil, half
Mitt of turpentine, the juice of one lemon
and the white of one egg well beacon Ap-
ply with a Ilat, two-inch brush. It will be
thoroughly dry in one' hour.
• To relieve chapped hands, rub thoroughly
with glycerine before retiring, holding the
hands near the stove to dry then].. Then
next incn•niug wash in good; soft water,
using corn meal to rub with. Scrub tha
hands thoroughly with the meal, end while
using this cure, be es ctu•eful as possible
to keep the ]lands from exposure to cold
winds.
springtime.
Spring. beautiful Spring, is here !
In the meadows, far and near,
I can see her, dressed in white aux) gleaming
yellow•
i11°:
I can hear rho gentle voice,
13i.Jdim; all the world rejoice -
Likewise 1 hear the scissors -grinder fellow.
All orcharrds ,'e a -bloom,
Ami are hertvy with perfuune,
And the blossoms are suggestive to a wed -
the
ding :
' Round the earth Sal's ardent rays
rust hurr
'Vrttp a soft naland gcholangd gni e htaze=
I y up he ivuster bed-
ding.
As about I see the flush
1)f the early roses;' blu.h-
Alvrry with somber caro and sordid sorrow
To the blue, unclouded skies
The lark doth upward rise -
I must air those woolen comforters to-
morrow. P
01, the sweet, sunshiny day -
011, the buttercups of May -
1 used to love them both like anything l
But now that I'm so old, ,
All I think of's catching cold,
And wearing lots of flannels in the spring 1
Baby's PlStytlikigs.
\Vhen baby is able to sit tip he will n„ed
something to keep him amused, and he can
get more enjoyment out of a string of spools
than out of anything else.
Save your spools, fond mothers, and
when you have a lot, wash then, in suds
mid set them up to dry ; then string them
on a strong cord. When they get soiled
they may be taken off and washed again.
Don't give baby the big silver dollar nor
any coins to play with. You do not know
through whose hands they have passed be-
fore they carne into yours, and learned matt
tell us they are full of bacteria, the minute
germs of many diseases. Don't give baby
anything newly painted, or anything hav-
ing sharp corners, tor the prevailing habit
of the infant is to pot everything into its
monde
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The Northern Methodist General
Oopferenoet it4 aeo.tdOa at Olalahn.,,'
recnutly took ac tion by a, r Ging veto
delli.Qunoing the peoplesof the Softth(
and calling for iptel'feleuce in re<'
gard to their treatment of the flegl,Q,y ?,
Biehop Fitzgerald, the Souttbefift• `.
Methodist ohadrman, who hoe ro•`
coolly made Atlagta. his l gadquarsi
tors; was asked his views' iu regard,;;
to the action of the Omaha confor4
encs. "There is practically no din;:
•
Terence," said.the Bishop in an
to the question that opened,the sub-
jest, "between the Northern apd.•,
Southern peoplo in -regard to the
color line• It is drawn as unfnis-'
takably in one section art it is in the.
other. The people of the North
declaim against caste -and race die-
tiuctions but they draw the line
just as closely as we dein the South..
They will listen it is true, to is
black orator on the platform and
applaud him to the echo, especially
:f he is a little caustic in, hie allu-
sions to the Southern people, but,
they do not invite him to their
parties, however charming he may'
be°in conversation, nor do they, ask
him to their houses however con-
genial ho may be socially. They
never think of intermarriage with
him, and there is not a white con•
gregation in the North that is served
by a colored minister.
DON'T PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH,
"They have done a great deal for
the negro for which they deserve'
credit, but they talk •about the arbi-
tration of caste is flatly contradict-
ed by their practice. The negro.
delegates in their general conference
now in session demand the election
of a negro bishop, but there is not
the slighest probability that any
child now living will ever see a
negro bishop presiding over a white
conference of the Mi thodistchurch.
The situation is extremely embar-
rassing, and I wish them a happy
deliverance from the dilemma in
which they have placed themselves.
"Regarding the recent lynching
of•nogrees by Southern mobs," re-
sumed the Bishop, after a medita-
ttttive pause, -,two ar three things
may be properly said: First that
the unspeakable crime fur which
they were lynched outlaws the per-
petrator, whether White or black, in
every part of the United States."
"Frequent lynchings," continued
the Bishop, warming as Ile proceed-
ed into the marrow of the inter-
view, "hate oceured from time to
tirue in the North butthey appear
to le forgotten entirely. The white
man in the South who is guilty of
of the same crime nieete an awful
doom as swiftly as does the black
man. It i9 notable that in all the
spasms of indignation against the
Southern people because of these
lynchings no word of sympathy has
been spoken for the white women
who were their victims."
AMALGAMATION DEMORALIZED'.
"The fact is," went on the Bishop
"that the ethnological distinction
between the races is God's own
tv.ork,uud the -best' people' of -both
raees have• no desire to obliterate
the distinction, The amalgamation._
of the races would demoralize both
and lead to the extirpation of the
weaker, The best element of the
negro race have no sympathy with
with the crimes that result in these
outboeaks and they aro ,beginning
to realize that the Southern people
among whom they live are their
truest friends. They have no de-
sire to go to where their confessed
friends are most numerous and noisy
but prefer to live among the white
people of the South. The'Southern
people should have the sympathy,
patience, forbearance and help of
the North. No people could have
.done bettor by the negroes while
they were in boudage than was done
by the people of the South. No
people will do better by them now
under the changed condition. • The
application of the golden rule will
preserve and subserve the welfare of
both races in the Snuth."
--W. A. Thompson, a Canadian
farmer of Chepstowe, Ont., arrived'
in Buffalo on the morning of the
2511. from New York. Ho was a
victim of the gang of swindlers
known as green goods men. It was
the acme old story. He went down
to New York on the understanding
that• be could buy $7,000 counter -
fait money for •$500. He was met
by one of the swindlers at Pough-
keepsie, taken to New York, plank-
ed do wn his n00, saw the bods
$7,000 counted out and apparently
put in a box, which he was caution- 1
od not to open till he reschedBttffa-
lo. On arriving in Buffalo he
opened the box and found it to con -
Iain soma paper and a piece of
brick. He departed for home a
sadder but wiser man, out his $500
and his expenses to New York and
back, as he deceived to be.