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YOEKVILLE, S. WEDNESDAY, OCTQ33LL 11, 1893. 41. JUST AS 5 BY WILLIAM lKtri, by American Press Assoc I CHAPTER VIIL' arizony intercedes. Burl Yates ami Chickasaw John, still prowling over their staked and restaked claim with a secret greed that thrived apparently upon the "official tyranny" which baffled it, remained so long in the "promised land" that one of Lieutenant dHr-linrrV omntinf narHps disc.OV ered them.

Being old offenders they were taken to the post to undergo a little guardhouse discipline under a new order from the much worried command- ant of the district. Both of them were fuming with rage when brought before Stirling, upon whom, as officer of the day, devolved the duty of having the two boomers codfined. "I've just got this to say leftenant," said Burl, grinding out his words from between his teeth. 'If you put me in that guardhouse, it will be the wuss for you. if 1 have to wait months toget even Remember 'If you pur rue in that guardhouse, it will be the wus8 tor you." I'd rather be a cotton hoein nigger," said Chickasaw John, "thut's what I'd rather be, than a blue backed slave of such a government as oura.

My wife and mules is a-starvin over at Cottontail, and I'm here, and all for what. 1 say? Just for wantin a little land. And we'll have that land yet? spite of these skulkin soldiers. We hain't stole nothin. we hain't killed no one, we 1 hain't even lied, lessen it was in callin you officers gentlemen.

Therefore, I say with Votpo hare turn lis loose or it mav be wuss for yon yet." "1 am sorry, men," returned Stirling mildly 'But you knew what the orders were before yon went out. I wish you had these lands We are all tired of keeping you out. but we don't make the i laws. We have to execute them, how- ever, or take the consequences ourselves. You have repeatedly and willfully violated them, and the colonel insists on making an example of some one.

It is three days in the guardhouse for you both. Take them away, sergeant." At this moment a tall, blond young lady in a gray riding dress appeared upon the paruile ground from round the corner of the commandant's office. Yates was again raising his voice in an angry reply when his eye fell her face. He came as near changing color as a sunburned plainsman can. His loud words seemed to lose themselves in his throat With a muttered after curse or two he turned and followed Chickasaw John to the guardhouse, both of them preceded by the sergeant, while two trooDers with drawn sabers broucht up the rear Meanwhile Philip, dismissing disagree- able thoughts, joined the young lady, who seemed to have something urgent upon her mind "Why, Stella," said he gayly, "you really look animated.

Has the giant of boredom released you at last? And am I the happy cause? 1 couldn't interest you, even in the moon last night, i though it rose out of the prairie like Venus from the sea. Stay, was it Venus or Diana now?" "You ridiculous man!" said the admiral's daughter "How could 1 dote over the moon when my feet were so cold? But I've made the most charming perfect Maid Marian, with a soupcon of western slang thrown in. for local coloring. 1 supjxjse. She has made me jealous already, my Philip.

There is your remedy against your rival of to make mo jeal- I ous. A jealous person is never bored." "Maid is all this?" He looked playfully puzzled, i "You will have to explain further before 1 put on airs." "There is the sweetest, sauciest, sud- i dest chit of a girl here, if you will know Yes. sweet and saucy, yet she impresses me somehow as being sad. She wants to do scouring, washing, of any kind. Had heard of my arrival and thought the chance to secure some i would be better, I suppose.

But this is not the worst, sir. She wants to see you I Modest little jewel that she is, however, rather shrinks from appearing before all these men of This looked rather fictitious, seeing that these two now had the parade tb them- i selves. But gray eyes half closed, a tiny smile barely emphasizing 1 the dimples at the corners of her mouth, her manner at once droll, affectionate and inquisitive surveyed her lover archly. "It must be Arizony," he said, putting her arm within his own and slowly walking her off. "She's a good girl, Stella, yet with a lot of combustible friends about her who cause us no end of trouble.

Where is she?" said Stella semitragically as Arizony herself came in sight from round the officers' quurters. Seeing Philip, the latter hurried forward. "Have you locked 'em up, leftenant?" she began earnestly. "If you have, I want you to let 'era out. I just heard they was here and how it was.

You onco said you'd do me a good turn if you ever had tho chance. Now you've got the chance. I came over to see Miss Oberly here, and I saw 'em, and I heard you was going to lock 'em up, but you won't keep 'em there? I'll make 'em stay straight I will." Stella's eyes were full of an amused surprise. In her earnestness Arizony had grasped Fhilip's hand as an aid in softening the official heart. Stirling hardly knew what to say.

"You see they're such old trespassers," he urged in defense of his action. "Yes of 1 I hardly see my way to releasing either one. Why don't you give them up, Arizony? You could get on much better with different associates." "I told you once before that 1 could not give up my friends." she returned somewhat sullenly. He had not intended at first to remonstrate upon this head, nor had eho thought of being otherwise than humbly solicitous But Miss Oberly was kind hearted, nor had a fashionable life dulled a natural quickness of comprehension so I A i I uroau ua iu uv, in uer, quue uuconveutional. She had already divined a touching incongruity between Arizony and her local surroundings.

"Stay here with mo for a few days," 6ho now said to the girl. "1 know ul- most nothing of you, but you appear to be both good and sensible. If Lieutenant Stirling concurs, I will givo you employment here. Meanwiiile you will have time to look about. From what I i have heard of these boomers 1 should think would do well to keep away from thqm in future." "She hk so energetic," said Philip warmly.

to be independent and all thatVdon't you, Arizony? Why, when I first' met her 6h? was playing Crusoe upon' a claim of her own. It real- i iy distressed to havo to take hojf SHE WAS. 'ERRY BROWN. away. If sho will stay, of courso I shall bo pleased.

You ladies can do so much for your sex when you wilL What say you, Arizony? Let these men go. A litj tie discipline will do them good." While the girl seemed to consider, i Philip whispered in Miss Oberly's ear: "Ono of these men is her lover, I fear. A burly blackguard, of whom I half think she is afraid, and yet sho seems to care for him too." Hero the lieutenant sighed and 1 I buruggt'u ma aiiuuiuci uo contrarieties of the feminine mind were too much for a mere soldier to entirely i fathom. "I feel sure you are a nice girl," said the admiral's daughter rather patroniz! ingly. "Stay with week at any i rate." 1 "Thank you, miss," replied Arizony, feeling quite grateful, yet not seeing her 1 way clear to comply.

"I'd as soon work for you as any one, and if you will let mo go home I'll be glad to come back. But I cannot leave them at the camp. I've been with 'em so long, you see. They are good to me in their way, and it wouldn't be right for me to turn my back on 'em now. I can do this sewing," tapping a bundle under her arm, "just as well there as here.

But, sir," turning again earnestly to Philip, "if you would only let Burl and John go, I'll make 'em behave. John is very poor. When he's away, we can hardly get enough to eat. As for for Burl?" interpolated Philip significantly as 6ho hesitated. Arizony flushed, looked at both her auditors in turn, then let her gaze wan- der toward the distant guardhouse.

"You know how it is, sir, 'twist Burl and me," Bhe resumed with an effort as if overcoming a maidenly reluctance to speak openly upon so personal a theme, "I cannot leave go to the dogs entirely if I was to turn against him, for he's fond of mo in his way. I'd much rather you'd let him bo doin a good deed to let them both off this time. I'll never forget it, sir, or you either, or this lady who has been so Sterling, more and more perplexed, looked again at Miss Oberly who, in her turn, had been inspecting Arizony. "I believe," said the admiral's daugh- ter, gathering up her trail as if to go, "I would do as she desires, 1 time, at least. I don't know much about these land affairs, but 1 suppose no great harm can result.

A little clemency now and then sometimes popularizes a good deal of really necessary severity. But? 1 ah mel we poor women I What lambs we are amid your masculine tyrannies and fascinations. Let them go, Philip, us take our gallop. In an hour it will be time for luncheon." Stella was still looking at Arizony with 1 an expression at once satirical, quizzical and sympathetic, when the girl dropped her bundle and seized the young lady's 1 hand. "Thank you, miss, a hundred times," 1 she exclaimed.

"All I have told is are very, very poor, and the men are badly needed at home. You're 1 both awfully good to me, and I wish I could come and stay with you all-in- deed I do. But I cannot leave my wouldn't be right." 1 Miss Oberly gently disengaged her i hand and moved slowly away, while Arizony fixed her eyes upon Philip. "I suppose I'll have to do it," ho said at length, "but it's irregular and sub- 1 versive of good discipline. Besides, 1 1 don't think they'll appreciate the favor or thank me.

I'm only a kind of tyran- i nical ogre to them all I fear." 1 "Not to me you ain't!" exclaimed the i girL "You're the good prince in the story who always did just the right thing in the very nick of time." Philip looked puzzled. Arizony, with 1 her swift transitions from grave to gay. was something of a riddlo to him i yet. Despite her inexplicable infatuation for Yates he could not but feel some admiration for her fidelity to her friends. Yet how could any ono else fully under- stand her when she hardly understood i herself or the subtle strivings of her 1 own wayward heart? 1 Presently she trudged away, with her bundle under her arm, over the prairie toward the camp at Cottontail, but when 1 the fort was hidden behind the nearest swell she sat down to wait for the two 1 men whose release she had secured.

i When they finally came along, a third man was with boomer from the a Cherokee strip. As they saw Arizony waiting Chickasaw John winked at this I third companion. "You'll want to talk to her, Burl," he Baid. "Me and Tate here, we'll mosey on ahead, and leave you to carry her bun- 1 die. How are you, Arizony? Me and 1 Burl have been a-talkin about you, and we've fixed up a plan.

You got us outer that guardhouse, and wo thanks you. You do what Burl says, and when we've carried out our plan you'll bo all the richer. Come on, Tate. Two is the only i numoer courtin ioiks lines to count up to. Don't take much 'rithmetic for that, sure." Chickasaw John and the third man laughed and hurried ostentatiously forward, viewing the situation mainly in a humorous light.

Burl walked by the girl's side and eyed her suspiciously. The bundle he entirely ignored. To UK CONTINt KI) NK.XT WKIIK. Many Bi fkai.o in gentleman of Winnipeg, who has just been on a business trip into the northern wilderness of that country, says that there are great numbers of huHalo still alive there. They are 1 wood buffalo, but it is said that they are to all appearance the same as the animals once so numerous on our west- 3 ern plains.

It is said that more than two hundred of them were killed the Indians in the Slave Lake district this season. They are slaughtered for their hides. The question, where did these wood buffalo come from, now naturally sug- gests itself. The Indians and traders had long ago given up hope of ever 1 seeing any again. The a plausible one it is advanced I by the traders, is that the remnant of the large herds that once roamed i through the prairies and forests of the 1 far northwest found a feeding ground 1 secluded from the customary haunts of the Indians and safe from the Winches- ters of fhe hunters, and rapdidly repleted their decimated numbers.

Last 1 winter the weather was unusually se- 1 vere, and thus the animals were driven 1 southward in search of food, and wan- 1 dered into the track of the Indians, 1 who only too eagerly rushed among 1 them and slaughtered them right and 1 left. Kverv country has some sweet- 1 oner: honey, corn sugar, fruit sugar. Maple sugar is used to sweeten things with in Canada, and some of the "backwoods districts" of this country. Cane sugar, however, is very widely 1 known, and has been so for centuries. Dioscorides, who lived during the first century of our era.

is said to he tlie i first to speak of sujjar, which he said avas a sort of concrete honey, ami Seneca, about the same time, spoke of "concrete corn juice." Pliny called it "honey collected from canes. It is used for medicine only." The Jews had a sweeteners of some kinds, hut probably not what we call and, the ancients bad honey that sound delicious -simply because they didn't have COMING REVOLUTION. I A NEW SERIES OF SERMONS E3Y REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR. Be DIrcursch the Signs of the Times Tlmt Indicate Oreut Social, Kconomlc, Political and KccleHlaHtlcal MaHRCR.

I Nkw York, Oct. Thomas Dixon, begins a now series of morning sermons in Association hull. The subject of tho series he calls "The Coming Revolution." In it he will (lis- F1W1 IIIU VI I'AiVs UUJVO tnuv cate great social, economic, political and ecclesiastical changes. The sermon this morning was a general introduction to the study, which will run through several weeks. The subject of this introductory discourse' delivered today was "The Restless Masses." He declares that democracy in its broadest and truest sense is manifestly the destiny of the race, und that there is today developing a world movement of the masses that presages a new social rr formation.

Tho text chosen was from Mark xii, 37, "And the common people heard him gladly." THE COMMON TEOrLE. There is no more pregnant sentence within tho lids of the New Testament than this text. The common the great him gladly. Then wo may rest assured the high, ruling, conservative classes did not hear him gladly. We are not surprised that they crucified him between two thieves as a i lommon felon.

This profound sympathy with the great under massc's is in reality tho key to the mystery of the incarnation. He was the carpenter's son. Ho lived tho life of a common workTJ ol 1 AII'O lie 1110 LiKjui ciiv ranks of the lowly masses. The great md the rich were not his disciples. His ipostles were from the ranks of the common people.

There could have been no iccident about the birth of the Saviour of immunity. 'It was not by chance that 10 was born of humble parents in a man- It was the fulfillment of.prophecy, was the fulfillment of the divine plan )f the ages. Only thus could the world whole real world? do reached and saved. Only thus could ae truly say. I am the Son of Man! Beginning thus among the simple and iglorant and poor slave masses of a sin mrsed and sin burdened earth, he placed leaven that should at last leaven the whole lump of humanity.

And since Christ the trend of the ages las been slowly but surely toward the mplifting, ennobling and saving of the common life. Vital Christianity has been tho only power through tho centuries of the Christian era that 6tood between the weak and the strong and steadfastly dedared that might is not right, and that weakness shall rule strength at last. TOE SOURCE OF ALL POWER. The source of all power is the very last malysis; when all fictions have been ex- ploded, is found in tho under millions who bear the world's burden, intellect- rial, spiritual, moral, physical. In this mass will be found the true source of ill power, intellectual, spiritual, moral, physical.

As men and families scramble from among the masses and array with clique and class, they degenerate and their offspring perish? ome in the first generation, others in the i second. The seat of ultimate imperialism has ilways been 111 the masses. They have 1 amply never yet become conscious of 1 fact. They are tho Samsons, but are asleep. As they wake to tho of the power that inheres jy nature in them, they assumo that lower and never relax it.

We behold thus tho ever growing, lever halting expansion of a world denocracy. It is tho destiny of the race. There is 110 power 011 the earth, under earth or above tho earth that can de- 'eat its final triumph. Each day in irno's calendar wit losses some victory. lowever small, in this world novement.

An ir.ch of soil once gained never lost. A NEW CIIAPVER IN HISTORY. There is a pre lentiment, a feeling? it what you n.r pervades the civilized world, that ve are about enterng upon a new chapter in the history of ho world. So strong each day becomes feeling that to so ne it means fear md trembling, to otl ers hope and inipiration. In every period of tho world's listory immediately preceding great prophetic spirit has filled the learts of men and found utterance.

At 10 time has its utterance been so clear md so nearly universal among nations md peoples and classes of divers inter- ists. It is humanity's hour of exultant jrophecy. It is the race's hour of spiritmi uplifting when society is being into a higher and diviner life. To tho mind of the pessimist the air is leavy with the threat of coming revoution by violence. To the man of hope hero comes die vision of tears, but the ears are turned to dew to water the gardens ot new neaven ana a new larth.

Does this feeling prophetic of change mean anything real, oris a figment of the imagination? Ib there anything apparent in our life justify it, anil has it a basis in fact, is it merely the ever recurring vision the radical and pessimistic tempcranent in all mes? Certainly there is one fact in our cur ent history that lias immediately to do vith the great question of social destiny hat can be gainsaid. It is a portentous 'act in the future of the world's history, jecause it concerns tho life movement of iractically the whole human race. It a this: There is to "ay a world movement of common people which indicates the lew approach of a great social change. We observe this: the dawning consciousness imong all nations of common life. The solidarity of the race has been ipparently a dream too high fur the.effort of the common people.

It has regained through the ages but a dimly lefined article in our poetic creed. It is fact that is now being incarnated in tho daily life of the humbler folk )f tho world with amazing rapidity. 1NTKKX ATI UNA LIS M. It is 110 longer a poet's dream. It is a fact that the under masses of the world ire beginning to demonstrate practically to the philosophic critic.

When the miners of England recently struck account of a reduction of wages, tho soal miners of the continent, representing more than one nation traditionally liostilo, refused to handle coal to be sent to English markets. International societies of workingmen ire fast becoming a power in the world. Internationalism has, in fact, come to stay. It is time to spell it with a capital I. Tho serf of Russia, cold and Isolated amid his far northern snows, has tiis friends and sympathizers in the nations where flowers always boom and tho child is born and dies who never saw tho snow.

A strike in London echoes round the civilized world. The riots in Belgium are backed by tho moral sentiment of countless millions who could not locate Belgium on the map of tho world. Whether tho naked savago that in tho heart of darkest Africa crossed the track of Stanley was wronged becomes i matter of international inquiry and debate. There is growing in the world each lay a profounder regard for man as man. Class trappings and traditions moro and more fade before the one essential of inherent manhood.

Poetry, song and story no longer fawn at the feet of prido and power. They sing tho free songs and tell the inspiring dreams A the brotherhood of man. UrnwTiiiierm olio AlliaOUKl IIKU iVWl? it occasion was left liy liis son, the artist, to do the honors of the house at an exhibition of his paintings. A woman entered unannounced and unattended, i Browning greeted her with the saini cordiality he had exhibited all. In hei surprise the woman said, "Please, sir, am only the cook, l.nt Mr.

Barrett askci me to come ami see the pictures!" With out a moment's hesitation and with gen tiine courtesy he offered her his iirmum showed her the treasures of the roon with the same consideration lie had dis played to others. It is not an exceptiona illustration. It "is part of the growiiu incarnation of a new world spirit. Rinj out the old; ring in the new! How mucl such a fact means to the future of Jm man society the historian and student ol soeioloirv well knows. MILITARISM.

rebellion against mili tarism and war among tho masses mankind is one of tho most significant facts of tho closing years of this century Tho people have at last begun to that it is utter insanity that they slioulc butcher one another to further tho nin bitions of kings and princes and rulers We are beginning to see that tho onlj enemy they have is the common enemj of and cold, suffering. Tho great armies of Europe! are honey combed with these ideas. How fai machine discipline has crushed tin human in these armies themselves re mains to be seen. In case of a general European war, i is now extremely doubtful if the grca masses of the working world could bi induced to engage in it or support a gov ernmental army. Germany has but re contly rejected the pet army bill of hei government, and it required all tho ro sources of tho Imperialists to force i meager majority for the measure in tin new assembly.

At the recent international congress ol socialists one of the principal question! discussed officially by the congress win whether in the event of a war all work ingmen should go on a general strike and refuse to work until the ceased. Such a movement on the part of the masses would surely strike the death blow to military power. The masses are learning at last the truth about war When they know it fully, the era of uni versal peace is come. According to Edward Atkinson, tin Boston statistician, the total cost of war of the rebellion has been up to (1893) about $12,000,000,000. The entire assessed wealth of the United States ii 1SG0 was only $16,000,000,000, including the value of the slaves.

It costs $7,000 to kill a man. Fron the Crimean war down to that of 1870-: the civilized nations of Europe anc America spent in destroying one anothei $21,000,000,000. The wars of the las' 100 years have cost $140,000,000,000, with out counting the sorrow, the agony, the loss of men and other results. WHEN BUTCHERY SIIAI.L CEASE. When this butchery shall cease nut the vast standing armies of the world bt turned into armies of industry, who car estimate the speed at which the new civilization will go forward? Some time ago the Emperor Williau of Germany made a little speech on occasion of the administering the oath ol allegiance to the recruits of the guard In this speech he said: Recruits, you liavo before priest unci altai sworn fealty to inc.

You are too young to un derstand the true meaning of the words li which you have sworn, but be diligent in fol lowing the instructions given you. You have my children, sworn allegiance. That mean; you have given your services to me, body ant soul. You have only one enemy, and that is my enemy. In the present socialist agitatior I may order you, which God forbid, to shoo down your brothers, even youi you must obey without a murmur A generation ago the exhilarating prop osition to shoot down one's relatives brothers and parents at the behest ol ambitious fools was received and actec" 011 as a divine command.

But today this proposal was received with a suller growl, which made the ears of more than one crowned head tingle for manj months. In America worlringmen refuse to joir tho military organizations. For the firs' time in our history our national guard is not a representative body. The masse: are not in it. Look to it.

It; is a faci pregnant with tremendous consequences Deeper and deeper grows the convictior among them that tho military is the enemy of the people and the last bul wark of class, power and privilege. In the face of this growing hostility tc the military power among tiio massei who mu6t make up the ranks of all greal wars, wo observe the blind fatality with which the ruling powers of the world are preparing for war. A great war within 10 years seems now inevitable. And when it comes who can foretell the age sweeping results? All the great rvf flirt OVA ftnnll flflV ing and hastening their preparations foi the event. Each army maneuvering is planned on a vaster scale than its predecessor.

Eacli year adds a new squadron to the ironclad battleships that are tc contend for the mastery of the seas, These ships and guns and armies will surely be put in motion soon. Whc can tell the outcome? What will be the answer of the common people to th( scourge of war? Hitherto it has beer silenco and suffering. But today the masses are moving under a resistless impulse toward an international federation and a world peace. THK EUROPEAN CRISIS. James Gordon Bennett sent recently to the San Francisco Chronicle a review by cable of the'European situation, which reveals the condition of un rest; and uncertainty among the greal powers startling enough.

He says: While I would not have my readers considei me a pessimist or a bird of bad omen, 1 air again compelled to say that the situation European affairs is far from reassuring. Signi of coming storms may be seen on all sides oi tlio political horizon. There is not ft slngh country in Europe actually without interior 01 external turmoil. In Germany the situatior is particularly bad. The conllict between th, crown and the people is assuming an ag gravated form, and it can be brought to ui end enly by some unconstitutional act on tin part of the emperor, who wishes an increase ii the army, which lie people have refused sanction.

New deputies, hostile to the impcria plan, will he elected. Grave news comes from Austria. There 1: an internal crisis resulting from constantly in creasing 111 feeling between the Czechs, Mag yars and Germans. In England the homo run troubles are Increasing, not to mention eertali recent happenings in the royal family, 01 whifcli it were better not to dwell. France hardly out of the Panama crisis, is to next September general elections which wil upset public life.

Tho French statesmen alst have to deal with several trotiblesonto colonla matters, including the Siamese Incident, whlel may result seriously, not to mention nmnj complications with England. Italy is passing through a financial crisis and also has a ministerial crisis. yester day the internal situation is not auspicious and her foreign relations are weighted dowi by military expenses. Spain and Portugal have a financial erisi: which Is leading them surely and quickly tc bankruptcy. Belgium has not come to the cut of her constitutional crisis.

Sweden and Nor way are in open conflict that may result it forcible division. The Servian coup d'etat and the little king havo brought no quiet. Bulgaria Is in tho throes of a longstanding crisis, and there exists tacit hostility betweei tho people and General Stauihoulofl. Most of those predictions as to elections and their results have sinco been verified, and many new development; confirming them have more recently appeared. What the result will be when this powder magazine is exploded by some roval fool throwing the stub of hi; cigarette into it, who can tell? SOCIALISM.

observe this world movement among the masses in the tremendous development of socialism among the masses of the old world. Socialism is everywhere in Europe tin rising power. It is no longer a. voiceless mob to be suppressed by elub and bayonet. It is a resistless uprising of tin millions whoso representatives aro fast crowding the parliamentary assemblies of every nation.

In Germany, with hei broad and deep culture of the masses, they lead the way. In the last elections their increase was enormous. Other parties rise and fall with local events, but the Social Democrats have with each election steadily and swiftly advanced. Beginning 15 years ago with but a few 3 thousand votes, they jjolled at tho last 1 election about 2,000,000, In the faco of I tho combined opposition of the govern1 ment and all the traditional conservative forces of society. Already tho socialists have captured 1 tho great cities, almost without excepi tion.

Berlin is theirs by such a great majority that if it were an independent 1 community they could reconstruct so; ciety in it at once. Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, Leipzic, Glauchau, i i Gotha, Dantzig, Nuremberg and Magdeberg are all socialist, with others to hear from. As tho population of every coun try in the world is rapidly concentrating in the cities, the party that gains con- i trol of the cities is the party of the fu- ture. The emperor may well look to his guards. The hour of the common peo- 3 pie surely draws nigh.

1 TLATFORM OF GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Aro these socialists the enemies of man and society? This is the platform i of the German Social Democracy. Read i for yourself: i Universal suffrage, malt and female, direct election by secret ballot, one citizen, one Vote and biennial vrliaments The initiative and referendum.3 Annual revision of taxes. Local self government the election of all public officials by tho people. Universal military training for national dc" i fenso instead of a standing army, Parliamentary control of tho question of 3 pcaco and war.

The settlement of international disputes by arbitration. Free speech, frco press and frco association, Separation of church and state. Compulsory attendance at secular national free schools nnd free education, free books and free dinners for pupils, as well asTor deserving I 3 pupils at higher institutions. Free Justice, free legal advice and an elective Judiciary. The abolition of capital punishment, the establishment of criminal courts of appeal and compensation for persons unjustly accused, arrested or condemned.

Frco medical assistance for the sick and free disposal of the dead. Graduated Income, property and succession I taxes. I 5 I Tho abolition of Indirect taxes, duties and class privileges. National and International legislation for the 3 protection of tho working classes, and state In- surance for workmen, with workmen sharing in its management. An unbroken period of rest of at least 80 hours per week for workingman.

In England constructive socialism is i rapidly taking control of the gover i ment. A recent London dispatch to the Boston Herald says: Socialistic schemes are being warmly fos8 tered by the London county council. That I body is already committed to the purchaso and operation of street railways and the construe- tlon of publio works by direct employment of i labor and purchase of materials Instead of through contractors. It will probably soon unr i dertako to supply wall as water, gas and electricity to tho Inhabitants. When all that has been done, tho steps are comparative- ly easy to the assumption of all tho functions ascribed to government in Mr.

Bellamy's i 6chemo. In France at the recent election the 1 most'remarkable spectacle of the cen- 3 tury was enacted. All parties were 1 practically merged into two. On the 7 one hand tho conservative and tradiGnnol fnrofto nf cooiotv rflllipf! to thfl T6 -J 1 publican administration and monarchy 1 5 i disappeared. On the other, the socialists i I rallied in startling force.

From an in significant faction they de' eloped in one i election to the proportions of a national party, tho only one in oppoJtion to the i government. They elected GO members of tho assembly on the straight socialist platform and 127 "Radicals" o.e about tho type of the present "Popnhrts" of America, making in all a legislative force of 187, a unit on essential princi- pies. In Belgium we have recently seen tho I government surrender to the popular i voice of the masses and grant them versal suffrage. that voice had no i expression save in the howl of tho street I mob and the sullen defiance of tho in- i 3 dustrial strike. 1 i Australia is already a socialistic con5 tinent and is giving tho world each day I a new lesson in tho 6cienco of progressive i government.

1 I Tho crown presses each day with 6 greater weight upon every monarch of 3 tho old world from tho czar in tho north 3 to tho smallest duchy in Germany. THE REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. observe this movement 1 in the current revolution in political nnd 3 economic life in America. i Our traditional parties are certainly going to pieces with a rapidity that 3 must bring dismay to their most hopeful I leaders. i Tho now People's Party under most i adverso conditions polled in tho lust campaign 1,000,000 votes and have their representatives in the houseof representaj tives and senato and the governor's 1 chairs of many states.

Tho great finan- cial panic of this year has destroyed the unity of both the traditional parties, and each day it becomes more and more np1 parent that they must unite against tho party representing the new movement 1 among tho masses if it is to be held in check even temporarily. A call is now being circulated for a fed' eration of all tho labor organizations in i 3 ono great alliance for political purposes. 3 Tho bloodshed at Homestead was tho 3 prophecy of a new era in our political 1 social life. That much is acknowledged 3 i now by the defeated party to have been the power that overthrew tho last ad1 ministration and set up a new. A new generation of men have como upou the scene of action in America, and tho mero i assertion of tradition will not satisfy I them.

All things are being arraigned for trial by this new court. General Francis A. Walker, who is tho incarnation of the mathematics of tho old regime, recently gave utterance to this pathetic Trail: A revolution is upon us. Tho bonds of tradl- 3 tion and barriers of authority have been swept away. Everything onco deemed settled in economic theory is now audaciously chale lenged.

i Right you ure, general, and how aro you going to help yourself? It is tho i sweep of the ago progress 1 You can easier push back tho stars than stop it. CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM. This movement has in it thousands of the best men of the nation counted now 5 among the traditional bulwarks. The i Christian ministry is rapidly perceiving tho fact that this revolution is a religion I normal development of the doctrines i of Jesus Christ. Sorno of our greatest religious papers are tho avowed chain pions of constructive Christian social, ism.

I Dr. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Plym- outli church, said some tirno ago: Tho wealth of the nation is the wealth of tho is, it springs from tho people. It therefore of right belongs to the people. Industrial democracy does not demand a division I of tho wealth of tho nation among its population. Hut Industrial democracy does 5 demand, with Lnveleye, "To ench worker his produce, his entire produce, and nothing but 1 his produce." Organized injustico would then disappear from our industrial organization, i and with injustice would disappear dangerous (dangerous because reasonable) discontent aiAl rich and the very poor.

A holy discontent has seized the musses 1 of the world. Tho cry in many quarters is inarticulate. They are yet in infancy. They have no language but a cry. Yet 1 God has heard it.

And lie who can read the language of a tear and interpret tho message of an aching heart in all tongues 1 and beneath all skies has heard their prayer. And lie will answer it. A Illntorle Jury. An odd modern ideas indeed tho oddest of not joke, and was impaneled during tho most sober and serious period of English history, i Most newspaper readers liuvo doubtless heard somo of tho names, for they are often quoted as examples of puritan i nomenclature. Hero is tho completo list as recorded duly in tho annals of tho court of Rye: Accepted Trevor, Redeem- er Coinpton, Faint-Not Howet, Mako Peace Ileaton, God Reward Smart, Stand-Fast-on-High Stringer, Earth Adams, Calltxl Lower, Kill-Sin Pimple, Return Spolman, Bo Faithful Joiner, Fly Debate Roberts, Fight-the Good-FightI Fnith White.

More Fruit Fowler and Hope-For Bonding. Miscellaneous Reading. 1 FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO. IIOW WK WKXT TO WAK WITH MKXH'O AND HOW WK t'AMK OI'T. Tin- Ill-lory of Mcxiraii Wiir in a XuthIicII.

In 1835 the people of Texas, mostly colonists from the rniteel States, finding the despotism of Mexico, of which country Texas formed a part, intolerable, rose in rebellion, and after a year's fighting achieved their independence. 1 General Samuel Houston, the most conspicuous Texan soldier, became president of the new republic in Sep- tember, 183G. Six months later, the United States acknowledged the indc- pcndcncc of Texas. Mexico did not relinouish its claim to Texas, although making no further formal attempt to subjugate it. Then as now the Sabine river formed the eastern boundary of the Texan republic and the Kio Grande the western.

After solicitation on the part of Texas it was annexed to the i United States in the act of con- gross which brought it about being signed by President Tyler on March 1 of that year, three days before the ex- piration of his term of ofliee. This led to the war between the United States and Mexico. James K. Polk, who succeeded Tyler, as president, had been nominated and elected because of bis advocacy of annexation. One of his first ofiicial acts was to send (Jen.

Zachary Taylor, with a force of about 4,000 men, to occupy the territory between the Xcuces river and the Kio Grande, in Texas. The United States contended that the latter river formed Texas's westerly botinda- ry, while Mexico insisted that the for- mer, about one hundred miles to the eastward, constituted the westerly line, Taylor reached the Kio Grande, oppo- i site Matamoras, on March 2Sth, 184(3, i and erected Port Brown. The Mexicans also began fortifying their side of the river. General Ampudia, the Mex- ican commander, ordered Taylor to re- tire beyond the Xeuces, saying that non-compliance would be regarded by Mexico as a declaration of war. Taylor refused to fall back, and said that if Mexico insisted on a conflict the United States would not avoid it.

A i collision occurring, in which the Mexicans were the aggressors, President Polk asked congress for men and money to carry on the war forced upon the country by Mexico. Congress at once 1 appropriated $10,000,000, which was I deemed a large sum for any such pur- i i JIUSU III IIIUSU WIIJ K) 1UIU VI fti iiiv: I president to call for 50,000 volunteers, This force was quickly raised, but be- fore they were placed in the lield lios- tilities had actually began. General Arista, who succeeded Ampudia as commander of the Mexican i army on the Rio Grande, crossed that river into Texas on May 8, with (5,000 soldiers, and attacked Taylor, who had only 2,300 men. The Mexi- cans were defeated with great loss. This was the battle of l'alo Alto, the first regular engagement in the Mexi- can war.

Arista retired to Resaca dc la Raima, where he was attacked the i next day by Taylor and driven across the river into Mexico. Taylor, who was then promoted to the rank of major-general, invaded Mexico and occupied Matamoras. Receiving reinforcements, he began his march into the interior of Mexico in September, and on the 24th of that month, after desperate fighting, which continued several days, he captured Monterey. The American force in that battle was (5,625, nearly all volunteers, while the Mexicans consisted of 10,000 regu- lars. Part of his army was then sent to reinforce Gen.

Scott, who entered i Mexico from Vera Cruz. On February 22, 1847, Taylor, with 5,000 men, de- feated 21,000 Mexican veterans under i Santa Anna at Huena Vista. This was the last battle of Taylor's campaign, the Mexicans not attempting to inter- i fere with the Americans in that portion of Mexico during the remainder of the i war. In August, 184(5, General Stephen Kearney marched from Fort Leavenenworth and wrested New Mexico from the mother country. He went to California, which bad also been a por- I tion of Mexico up to this time, and found that Col.

John C. Fremont and Commodore Stockton bad conquered that province in the name of the Cni- ted States. The victorious career of the Americans was continued by 1,000 1 Missouri volunteers under Colonel Don- iphan, making a descent on the city of Chihuahua and capturing it. Fifteen days after the battle of Rue- na Vista, General Scott, with 15,000 men, invested Vera Cruz, the principal seaport of Mexico, defended by its strongest fortress, which was soon captured. Then began another series of American victories as brilliant and i conspicuous as those won by General Taylor, 500 miles to the northward a few months before.

That at Cerro Gordo took place on April 18th, fob lowed by tne capture 01 jaiapa on uiu 19th, Perote on the 22nd, and Puebla on May 15. Being re-enforced, he stormed and captured Contrcras and C'hurubusco on August 20. An arniis- ticc ending without result, Chapulte- i pec was taken by assault on Septem- i ber 13th, and the following day the American army entered the City of Mexico, the capital of the country, and Hung the stars and stripes to the breeze from the tower of the national palace. This ended the hostilities. The Americans, whether under Taylor or Scott, had been successful in every battle fought, although confronted i with superior numbers, in a country which interposed great natural obstacles to the march of an invading army.

I Considering the results attained and the difficulties surmounted with the means at command, those campaigns should rank the most conspicuous military exploits recorded in the annals of war, and deserve a place in history beside Alexander's subjugation of Asia, Cicsar's conquest of Caul, Bonaparte's overthrow of Prussia, and Nathaniel Creene's campaign against Cornwallis. On February 2, 1S4S, about live months after Scott entered the Mexican capital, the treaty of Gaudalupc Hidalgo was negotiated, and a few weeks i later Mexico was evacuated by the i American troops. Mexico, in this treaty, conceded the Rio Grande as the westerly boundary of Texas, and gave New Mexico and California to the Cnitcd States, our country paying Mexico and assuming Mexico's debts to American citizens, providing ii. i i -nn I110.se (ICI)IS SIlOlllll IIIH 000. Thus ended the third and last war waged by the I'nitcd States against a foreign power.

The principal of the public debt was $15,500,202 on July 1, which had grown to on July 1, 1S4S, an increase of nearly all of which growth was caused by the 1 war. Tkxas Cowboys on thk Two Texas cowboys recently had the novel cxperiinence of traveling over the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas road. When they got on the Wagner sleeper, one of them said to the other: "Kill, you'll have to take your spurs off your hoofs, if you expect to put your boots on the top of the seat." Kill did so, then rolled a cigarette and lit it, and when the conductor showed him where the smoking compartment of the vestibule train was, lie seemed annoyed. At supper-time, when all the passen- gers on the bullet gave their orders and the two cowboys gave theirs, tell- ing the waiter to bring them "all there was on the programme, and to lie sure and bring them plenty of sardines," they handed the waiter a live-dollar hill, and were surprised when he asked for fifteen cents more. Both of them said "That settles it.

Ff we stay in this here concern, that nigger will have our whole roll before we git to the next station." NO LONUKIt THE THREE From Now on It is lite Ohio ICIver unit Charleston Hallway Company. Mr. Charles E. Hcllier, who, on the 2d of May last, purchased the Charleston. Cincinnati and Chicago railroad for the bondholders of the company, was interviewed by a reporter in Charleston last Wednesday.

The report is as follows The reporter found Mr. Hellicr at the Charleston Hotel. Mr. lfcllier said "There is little yet which can be definitely stated regarding tne purposes of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company," said Mr. Hcllier.

"You will observe that the name of the organization has been changed. "The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railway is a thing of the past, and henceforward the road will be known as the Ohio River and Charleston. You doubtless know that the road has been turned over to its new owners. Mr. Samuel Hunt will be the temporary general manager of the company, and Mr.

A. Tripp will, for the time being at least, remain as superintendent. All minor officials will hold their positions, but further than this nothing can now be said for publication regarding the personnel of the official stair of the company. The road will establish sonic of its offices temporarily at Blacksburg, and officials of the eastern section of the line will have their headquarters at that place. "The only point upon which I would speak with any degree of certainty is the fact that the road is sooner or later to be completed across the mountains.

The gentlemen who have purchased the road have put one million dollars of new money into the concern, in order to secure control of the eastern and western sections of the line, and this is a sufficient guarantee of their intention to carry the matter to a completion. "The original intention was to build a through line from Charleston across the mountains, and there can be no question of the fact that this is to he done. Work in this direclion would already have been begun except for the financial stringency of the last few months, hut while the plans of the company have been retarded, they have not been abandoned, and the Ohio River and Charleston road will ultimately be a through line." The purchasers of the Three C's are now engaged in the incorporation of railroad companies in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. When incorporated these will constitute one solid company, to be known as the Ohio River and 1 1...... Kn owned, operated and completed from the Ohio river to Charleston.

AT THE STAKE. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Pawnee scouts, who were riding half a mile ahead of the column, gave the signal to halt, and pretty soon word came back that they had struck the fresh trail of a war party. Two of the three of them disappeared among the foothills and were absent for an hour. When they returned, it was to report that the war party had gone into camp four miles away and that tli'e Indians had a white man with them as captive. From his dress they believed him to be a government scout, and from certain preparations being made they felt certain that he was going to be put to torture.

There was 100 troopers of us, while the Indians numbered only forty, but they had gone into camp at the base of a mountain spur from which they could note the approach of anyone coming within a mile, except in the rear. If we moved in a body, they would mount and away before we were in rille shot. It was finally decided that one of the Pawnees should conduct ten dismounted troopers over the mountain to approach the camp in the rear, while the main command was to move up as near as possible without discovery and be ready to dash at the camp when the sigual was given. It was 0 o'clock before we reached the crest of the mountain. It was 7 before we found the ravine which the scout said would lead us right up to the Indian camp.

While we had only about a mile to go, it had to be traveled in darkness over a route which would have been perilous even in daylight, and it was close upon I) o'clock when we finally reached the fringe of bushes growing at the mouth of the ravine. Right before us and not 100 feet away, was the Indian camp. There was three small fires burning, with a smell of roasting meat in the air, and from the movements of the redskins we concluded they had just finished supper, late as was the hour. It was some little time before we made out the white man, as he was bound hand and foot and was lying at full length on the ground. Fresh fuel was thrown on the fires, and as the camp was i 1 up an inuian came iorwara ana hacked down a sapling with his tomahawk.

While he cut and trimmed it he was within twenty-live feet of us. Had we not crept hack when we saw him approaching he would have run right over tire line. The stake was sharpened and driven into the earth at about the center of the camp, and while two or three Indians were engaged at that, four of live were collecting fuel. Fortunately for us they gathered it to our left, where a big tree had been uprooted by the wind. A cart load of dry limbs was conveyed to the stake and piled up, and then the feet of the captive were loosened, and two Indians pulled him up.

He was hareheaded, and the instant the flames showed us his face we recognized him as Charley Keats, the government scout attached to Fort Wallace. He had been captured at daylight that morning about thirty miles away. "White man to build lire for him warm said the chief of the band as he pointed to the stake. "Waugh Vou arc a pack of skulking cowards!" answered the scout as lie drew himself up. "Burn and be hanged I've got the scalplocks of six of your best men, and you won't be very much ahead of Charley Keats A dozen warriors ran up to him with raised tomahawks, but the chief shouted for them to hold on and ordered the prisoner to be led to the slake.

A rawhide lariat, which had been soaking in the spring, was then brought along, and after the scout had been stripped of his clothing he was made fast to the stake by the lariat being passed around his waist. He thus had the freedom of his arms and legs, and the fuel was so arranged that it did not come within three feet of the stake. While they were thus preparing him for torture, we saw him glance around i as if he might have a faint hope of rescue, but presently despair came to his heart, and he turned to the chief and said "Vou are a squaw, and these people around you are children whom I could drive with a stick There isn't a real warrior in your tribe. I have made the whole gang of vou run like rabbits!" There was a rush for him again, but the chief drove the warriors back, and standing with folded arms before the scout, answered "We know you. Von are a brave man.

You speak truly when you say i you have the scalps of several of our warriors. But you shall see how it will he with you when we prick you with we shoot powder into your we thrust in these splinters and light we cut off your ears and nose and tongue After that we will sit down and listen to your cries!" "If you hear one yell from me, you may tell every white man in thiscoun- try that I was a baby shouted the scout. "Go ahead with your picnic! A fellow can't die but once, and I've been prepared for this sort of death for the last five years!" There was a yell from every Indian as he ceased speaking, but the crowd parted right and left, and the chief drew his knife and stood surveying the captive. We got the word at this moment to open fire, and our ten carj bines and the scout's rifle rang out as one. We rose up with a cheer and fired again and again, but after the third volley there was no longer anything in sight to fire at.

The Indian ponies, grazing a little distance away, dashed in a drove, and every war- rior who could dashed at the side of the mountain and disappeared among the rocks and thickets. I The command came galloping up, but there was no work for it. On the i ground lay seven dead and two wound( cd Indians, with ten or twelve rifles and all their blankets scattered about. Seven of the eleven men had aimed at the chief in the first fire, and seven bullets had struck him. We turned to the scout as the fight was over, and he held out his hand and said "Howdy, boys! Some of you cut this thing and let me get a drink of water at the spring! Sort of a close shave, and it has made me rather Quad.

DAVID GASTON. I Interesting Sketch of mi KsteeineU Citizen Recently Deceased. Jiy Dr. W. Anderson.

Mr. David Gaston, whose recent death at Blacksburg was noticed in Thk Enqiirbr of the 27th ultimo, was, in some respects, a remarkable man, and I have obtained some facts of his life that may be of interest. Born in 1812, only a few months before the I'. S. congress declared war against England, his infancy and child- 1 hood were passed during that important and momentous struggle for our rights upon the high seas; his early manhood witnessed the Indian wars in Georgia during the thirties, in one of which he volunteered, and was a partic- ipant, and for his services drew a pen- 1 sion for many years in the decline of his life he was an eye witness, and felt most keenly all the horrors of the I civil war between the States.

Related to the Gastons of North Carolina, and of Richland, Aiken, Fairfield andChes- i of tliic Sstnfn f'lllUP of il family distinguished and prominent in the various pursuits of life, and al1 though by the death of his mother at an early age, and the second marriage of his father, Mr. Gaston was deprived of an education, yet he exhibited that I sturdiness and uprightness of charj acter and refinement and delicacy of feeling, which always marks a true genI tleman. He was living in Georgia in 1835 or '3G when he offered his services to help drive the Indians further west, and I when his term of service had expired, I he returned to this county and married Miss Nancy Quinn. He then, with what money he had saved by industry and economy, purchased a tract of land in Cleveland county, N. which I he immediately began to clear and improve; but in 1843, having bought the "Old Quinn" place, he returned to South Carolina and has ever lived here.

By dint of hard work and good management, and the splendid help of a devoted and thrifty wife, he ac- quired a considerable amount of real estate, besides a good deal of personal property which he used and disposed of in a judicious manner. Mr. Gaston was held in high esteem by all his neighbors, being regarded as a man of I integrity and principle, and his death severs another link that connects us with the past. BIBLICAL CURIOS. The capital occurs times in the New Testament and 14,020 times in the Old Testament.

The capital letter will be found but twice in the Old Testament and three times in the New. There were no italics used in the i biblical translations until the time of the King James version, 1611. Langton, archbishop of Can- tcrbury, first divided the Bible into chapters and verses, this about the i close of the twelfth century. The word "its" is not to be found in the first edition of the King James ver- I siou, 1611, but has been substituted for "his" in the edition of 1653. The shortest names mentioned in the Bible are Ai, Ar, Ed, Og, No, On, So, i i Ur and l'z.

See Jer. Num. 28; Josh, 34; i's. 20: Jer. 25; Gen.

45; II Kings Gen. xi, 28, and Job 1. The quotation, "He shall be called a Nazarene," used by Matthew in the 1 last verse of his second chapter, is not i to be found in the Old Testament. ltebekalfs brother's name was Laban, 1 and the name of Abigail's husband was Nabal. which is simply Laban reversed.

The nineteenth chapter of II Kings, and the thirty-seventh chapter of Isai- ah are alike with the exception that verse 15 of the former comprises verses 15 and 16 of the latter. Neither the word "God" nor "Lord" is found in the book of Esther. The Kphraimites could not pro- nounce the word "Shibboleth," but i said "Sibboleth" instead. See proof of this in Judges 6. The quotation used by Matthew in the third verse of the third chapter is not, as is generally supposed, from the I Old Testament.

The following words are to be found but once in the Bible Ash, atonement, immortal, millions and reverend. A (1001) WORD FOR ADAM. And the Lord said "Host thou eat- i en of the tree whereof I commanded 1 thee thou shouldst not eat The man said "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did cat." This, it has I been held for centuries, was Adam's great sin, for which lie was driven out of the garden, and his descendants, even to the present generation, compelled to work for a living. In addition to bearing the consequences of his error, Adam has been denounced through all the succeeding centuries for his cowardice in trying to throw the blame upon the woman who had been given to be with first, best gift to man." We are glad, therefore. that even after six thousand years of unmerited condemnation which the memory of our great progenitor has had to bear, there has arisen one pcri son who dares to speak for him.

And it is all the more fortunate that that person Is a inemocr 01 ine sex whom Adam's word's, by a wrong interpretation, were held to have maligned. The person is Mrs. Caroline F. C'orbin, a distinguished authoress. In her latest hook she says of Adam's plea: ''This is not the expression of I cowardice, but of the innocent and naive belief that anything which this lovely being, fresh from Cod's hand, i proposed must be tight, and, right or wrong must be done.

It is a trait which has conic down in unbroken continuity of inheritance to the latest horn of Adam's sons." The thought is a new one, says the Troy Times, but there is not a man alive and capable of appreciating Mrs. Corliin's argument, who will not indorse it. Where is there a man today, barring a few crusty old bachelors, who would not have done the same thing under like circumstances? The woman was beautiful, the apple was good, and Adam was an unsophisticated, ingenious young man, unaccustomed to the little social arts and deceptions that the daughters of Mother Eve have learned from her example. We insist that Adam is vindicated, and that Mark Twain's tears over his grave were a deserved tribute. Now let the building of his monument proceed.

And let it be recorded thereon that "he was a kind, loving, and obedient A CENSUS OF ANIMALS. The most populous horse country in the world is Russia, in Europe. It has twenty millions of horses. The United States comes next, with a horse population of more than sixteen millions. In proportion to the number of inhabitants, the United States is far richer in horses than Russia.

But in that proportion the United States is in turn far surpassed by the Argentine Republic, where according to the latest accessible figures there are a few more horses than people. The countries of Western and Southern Europe are thinly populated with horses, compared with the American continent and Russia. Italy, with a human population of more than 30,000,000, has only 720,000 horses, but has almost twice as many mules and donkeys as horses. Spain has only a few more than 300,000 horses, or about one horse to every GO people. Most of the of Spain ride on donkeys.

The United Kingdom of (treat Britain and Ireland has only about 2,000,000 horses. The United States is the most populous mule country in the world. It is also, by many millions, the most populous pig country, possessing over of swine. There is also a larger proportion of pigs to the human population than in any other country? larger even than in Ireland, a country which is popularly, but mistakenly, supposed to be the Utopia of the pig. The country of the sheep, par excellence, is Australia.

On that continent there are a few more than 3,000,000 people, but there arc 02,000,000 is to say, twenty sheep to every man, woman and child. In the United States we have only about 47,000,000 sheep, which though a larger sheep population than that of any other country except Australia and the Argentine Republic, is not proportionately so great in number as several other countries possess. British India has more cattle than any other country, but the United States has almost as of 52,000,000. However, the Argentine Republic again leads in the number of cattle in proportion to buman beings. If the cattle in Argentine were divided equally among all the people, every man, woman and child would have five cattle to take care of, and there would be enough left to give one critter each to almost a million of the people.

Considered from the point of view of farm animals, the Argentine Republic is probably the most important country in the world. A PLEASANT PARABLE. A long time ago there lived a saint so holy that the angels maryeled at his sanctity, and came from heaven to see how any one on earth could so closely resemble them. They found nothing extraordinary in his life he kept simply on his way, unconsciously spreading the example of his virtues as naturally as the stars give light and the flowers give perfume. Two words summed up his gave and forgave; but these words were never.on his lips; you only read them in his smiles, in his amiability, in his kindness, in his untiring charity.

The angels said to God, "Lord, grant him the gift of miracles." "Willingly," replied our Lord "ask him what he wishes." And the angels said to the saint: "Wouldst thou have the gift of healing, so that when thy hands touch an infirm body it shall be healed?" "No," replied the saint. "I would rather God alone would do it." "Wouldst thou have thy words win back guilty souls and the erring hearts to God?" "No; that is a mission most unworthy of a poor creature like me; I am satisfied to do not preach." Finally the angels said, ''What K1UU "Well," said the saint, "let me do a great deal of good without knowing it." The angels consulted together for a while as to how this could he accomplished then they asked our Lord to grant that every time the saint's shadow fell at either side or behind him, so that he could not see it, it should have the power of curing the sick, consoling the alllicted and comforting the sorrowful. Our Lord assented, and wherever the saint's shadow fell, thus the pathway bloomed, the parched earth was refreshed, the turbid streams became pure and limpid, the dying flowers revived a fresh, healthy look came to the pale cheeks of the little children, and tears of joy to the eyes of sorrowing mothers. Hut the saint kept simply on his way, unconsciously spreading the example of his virtues as naturally as the stars shed light, as the flowers give perfume; and the people, respecting his modesty, silently following him, never speaking to him about bis miracles. They gradually forgot even his name, and spoke of him simply as "the holy shadow." (10(111 USE OF A FLAG.

In Havana there was one evening a great row in the streets, and a man was killed. Everyone ran away except an Englishman, who did not see why he should run off, but stopped to do what lie could for the wounded man. The city was then, as it often was, under martial law, and in a few minutes a party of soldiers came up and walked the Englishman off: he was tried then and there by a sort of drum-head courtmartial, and condemned to be shot the next morning at 8 o'clock. lie managed to get the news conveyed to the English consul, and at 7.4-j o'clock next morning the consul appeared in his coaoh-and-four, uniform, cocked hat and sword, all his orders 011, etc. The shooting party were drawn out, and the prisoner was there, too.

The consul walked up to the officer commanding the party, and demanded the life of his countryman. "Very sorry," said the officer, "hut I must carry out my orders; and he showed the warrant signed by the governor. "Well," said the consul, "at least you'll allow me to shake hands with him before he dies." "I can't refuse that," was the reply. On which the consul stepped up to Vnoliclimnn nnf liia hand into his breast-coat pocket, drew out a Union Jack, unfolded it, threw it over the man, and then said, "There, now, fire if you dare The lieutenant was staggered, the matter was referred to the governor, and the Englishman was saved..