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I A PRAYER WORTH REMEMBERING. Only a little lonScr let me stay, For much remains undone, ' Jl victories, planned at break of r ew lew are Trim VUid now life's ardent away. noon fades fast 1 Only a little longrer. Night draws near When none may labor more. teep in my soul the hush I hear Of evoning's uour, idnd weary, welcome the approaching ' hour. I do not fear to see the shadows grow, To feel the darkness spread; Co share their rest, who rest below V The sacred dead, Or to explore the mysteries they know. Beyond the night, the eternal soul awakes To other, brighter day, Peath Is but sleep, that gently takes Life's load away, lA.nd fits our powers renewed, new parts to play. X. think the force within can never cease. That He from wh cm it came, From earthly fetters can release The Imprisoned flame, SA-nd, after trial, give His perfect peace tt"hat like white bird, whose tireless wings descend From far up in the sky, Skim the dull earth, then backward bend Their flight on high, The sov1 to life, stoops from eternity. ITet -ouid I leave, ere comes the final Aiour, worthier work behind Irrtpress with print of keener power The human mind little longer labor for mankind. Robert Blake, in Irish Monthly. THE LAST CHANCE OF LIFE, It -was a bright, cloudless, burning Bay in Lower Egypt, in the year 1798. Beneath, the blistering glare of the noonday sun, the white, flat-roofed houses and tall tapering minarets of Suez stood gauntly out agianst a dreary (background of gray, sandy, lifeless dpsert. Not a breath of wind was stir ring in the'' hot, -close, heavy air, and the ,tlue, shining waters of the Gulf of Suez lay outspread like a vast mir ror at the foot of the rocky headland of Ras Attakah, on the summit of rhich sat erect in' their saddles a small group of horsemen in the rich uniform of French staff-officers. The leader of the party seemed to Te a email, thin, long-haired man, with a sallow, sickly face, who sat his horse ewkwardly, as if he were anything but a practised rider. His slight figure ap peared quite dwarfish among the stur dy frames and grim faces of the veter an -warriors around him; but in his keen gray eyes, which seemed to pierce rightTthrough any one to whom ha spoke, there was an expression so stern end commanding that few men could face it unmoved. And well might it be so. Young though he was, for he had only just passed his twenty-ninth birthday,--this man had already become famous as the greatest soldier of his time; and although he was as yet known only as General Bonaparte, the day was not far distant when he was to call him self the Emperor Napoleon. On the brow of the cliff the General reined up his horse, and spoke a few words to his guide, who was quiie as remarkable a figure as himself, though in a widely different way. Tall, strong ly made, sinewy and active as a deer hound, with his black beard flowing down over his long white robe, his enowy turban overarching his ' keen, dark eyes, his short curving oword sus pended in a sash of crimson silk, Sheikh Rustum looked the very picture of an Eastern warrior; and the scars that seamed his swarthy features showed that he had many a time look ed in the face of death. "You Gay, then." said Bonaparte, ad dressing the guide, "that yon sandy patch at the foot of these cliffs is sup posed to be the very place where Mosos ied the Israelites through the sea?" "So have our fathers told us, Sultan Kebir (King of Fire)," answered the. Egyptian,-- calling the General by the name under which he was already fam ous throughout all Egypt and Syria. "'Along these hills the Sultan of Egypt encamped with his army, and over those sands he went down into the sea to pursue after the Beni Izrail (chil dren of Israel). But the Prophet Mous 6a (Moses) prayed unto Allah (God) - end Allah brought the sea upon the Sultan and his host, and destroyed them every one. The sultan was a great conqueror," added the Sheikh with grim emphasis, as he shot a quick eldelong glance at Bonaparte, "but he could not conqueror the sea." "What should hinder us from cross ing it ourselves?" said the General, too eager to notice this ominous allusion. "The water Is shallow enough, and it Is no great distance! Gentlemen, have you a mind to follow in the track or Moses? How is the tide, Rustum?" "Full ebb," answered the guide, turn ing his face quickly away to conceal the gleam cf cruel joy that lighted up fcis great black eyes. "We'll try. it, then," said Napoleon, Jn his usual tone of decision. "We have plenty of time to cross, and if the tide comes up before we can get back, It is no long ride around by Suez. Rus tum, you can go back to the town. Follow me, gentlemen." And off rode the whole party In -high spirits, while Rustum's keen eyes 1 followed them with a glare of savage triumph which might have startled the boldest of them if they could have seen it. "He goes down in his pride to de struction," muttered the Sheikh, "even as Sultan Pharaoh did in the days of old. Water quenches fire, and the great King of Fire himself, who has Blain my brothers the Mamelukes, shall- be quenched by the waves of the Eea." Merrily rode the French officers over the smooth, firm sand and through the shallow water beyond it, laughing and joking at the idea of going across the sea on horseback. This ride, too, was -a much pleasanter one tha-n the last, for the wind had begun to rise, and was blowing steadily from the eouth over the Gulf, bringiag with it the freshness and coolness of the open eea. And so they rode onward, onward (Still, tmtil the bold rocky bluff of Ras Attakah and the tall figure of Rustum on its summit began to grow dim in iS-a distance. . Suddenly a young captain who rode I : a HUe to the right of the party no j ticed that the water seemed to b deepening rapidly all around them. For ,a few moments no one thought any 'thing of it; but ere long the General nimseii cnecked his horse, and look ing southward, every line of hie dark brow, sallow face seeming to harden suddenly as he did so. The tide was coming, in fast, and -they . were not yet half-way across. Their only chance was to turn back; but, the moment they did so, the full sweep of the tide, driven against them by the. strong south wind, caught them with a force that almost whirled the iiorses off their feet. Deeper and deeper grew the water, stronger and stronger pressed the cur- i rent. And all this Vhile the sun shone joyously overhead, and the leaping waves danced and sparkled in tho light, and the wind waved the feathery tops of the distant palm-trees, and all around was bright and beautiful. "We have one chance yet," cried Bonaparte, rising in his sterrups, and lifting his voice as to be heard by the whole party. "There is a long sand bar somewhere hereabouts, upon which the water is only a few feet deep. If we can find it, we are saved. Let us all ride in different directions, and he who strikes the bar must shout at once." The commander's cool, clear tones steadied at once the shaken nerves of his followers, and he was instantly obeyed. Presently a shout was heard from the young captain, who appeared :to have risen suddenly out of the wa ter, in which his horse now stood bare ly knee-deep. The bar was found! All the rest immediately headed to ward him, and began to pick their way along the unseen sand-ridge toward tne western snore. More than once the exhausted horses seemed about to fall, with safety actually in sight; but, after a long struggle, they all came safe to land. When Rustum (who had watched the whole scene with breathless in terest) saw them return unhaxrisa, he ran to meet them, and laying his tur ban on Bonaparte's knee in token of submission, said gloomily: "King of Fire, thou are mightier than the waves of the sea. Take my life, for I will ask no mercy." "Whs.; have you done, then, that I should take your life?" asked the young conqueror, on whose marble features even the peril which he had just escaped had left no trace what ever. "I am a Mameluke," answered Rus tum proudly, "and even as thy sword had devoured my brethren, I honed that the waves would devour thee. When I told thee it was full ebb, I spoke falsely. The tide had already turned, and I sent thee, as I thought, to certain death." It is wasting good material to kill a man while you can do anything else with him," said Napoleon, as coolly as ever. "If I spare your life, what will you do, then?" "I will be thy servant," cried the Mameluke, eying him with a glance of savage admiration. "Rustum, the son of Selim, can serve none but the great est chief on earth, and thou art he!" So be it," said Bonaparte. "Hence forth you are my servant, and I thinlc I rhall find you a good one." And so he did; for in the day of his downfall, years later, one of the few who remained faithful to him was Rus tum the Mameluke. St. Nicholas. DRAFT RIOT OF 1863. NEW YORK CITY STILL OWES SOME OF THE DEBT IT INCURRED. Japanese Self-Sacrifice. On board Che Matsushima, one man, who had been shot in the abdomen and whose intestines were protruding from the gaping wounds, refused to be carried to the surgeon's ward, because, he said, he did not want to take any of the fighters from their work in order to carry him below. Another, after having had his body burnt out of all recognition in attempting to extinguish a fire, stood by 'helping all he could till the flames were put out, when he died. A third, mortally wounded man, whose every gasp brought forth a gush of blood, would not close bis eyes until he had told a comrade where the key of an important locker was and what the locker contained. A chief gunner, whose under jaw had been shot away, a"d who could, of course, not utter a woru, signea to a suDorcunate with a ; nod to take his place, and fell dead af- j ter he had placed the handle of tho gun lever in his subordinate's hand. A Friendly Critic. John MUlais was nncp nf p.n rl i n f a celebrated case at Bow streti., and : was accommodated with a seat in the ; press box. In front of him sat a youth- j f ul new addition to the staff of a lead- iug London illustrated paper. "Don't you think that would be an improve- j c:ent?" suggested the great artist mild- ' ly, pointing out some technical defect j in the sketch the youngster was en- j gaged on. The young fellow was high- j ly indignant at first, but eventually ; adopted the alteration, which so im proved the sketch that he turned round and inquired somewhat patrnoizingly, "Who may you be, sir, who presume to correct my work'.'" For answer he re ceived a card, on which was inscribed, "John Millais, R. A.," accompanied by the kindly remark, "We are never too eld to learn. Perhaps you may be able to give me a' timely wrinkle one of llhese fine days." A Small I nlieri tance. 't was the habit of Lord Elfion, when attorney general, to close his speeches with some remarks justify ing his own character. At the trial o Home Tooke, speaking of his own rep utation, he said, "It is the little, inheri tance I have to leave my children, and Z HprT'nV",1 ZV 1L "7?.: 1 h&a beea more or less injured, includ " - - milieu icai o, auu lu -n Uora-ce Greeley and Henry J. Raymond Barely Escaped tlie Mob Colored Peo ple were Stoned, the Militia Defied, and General Disorder Maintained. In mid-July, 1S63, when the whole North was rejoicing over Gettysburg and a call had been made for a new army to be raised by a draft, a large number of New Yorkers undertook to resist conscription. Their opposition assumed the form early on the morn ing of July 13 of a riotous onslaught upon the headquarters of a district provost marshal at the corner of Third avenue and Forty-sixth street. The rioters put to flight Deputy Pro vost Marshal Jenkins and his subordi nates, destroyed wheel and ballots, and then set fire to the house. Ma rauding bands sprang up in various parts of the city.. Bull's Head Hotel was visited, arid a request for free drinks being refused, the place was fired, and two private houses on near by Lexington avenue were burned down. The feeling was that the war (had been waged in order to free the South ern negroes, and animosity toward the colored race irispired the rioters in the afternoon to make a raid on the Colored Orphan Asylum in Fifth ave nue. It was set on fire and destroyed. The original mob had now increased enormously. It started to go down town to set on fire another provost marshal headquarters on the east side of Broadway, opposite where is now Daly's theater. The mob thwarted the firemen, with the result that the fire destroyed all the fronts between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets, while many of the shops were pillaged. A fatal sense of security and reliance on popular patriotism, together with some political dislike of harsh meas ures, had seemingly possessed the po lice department, (the old Metropolitan state organization,) and due prelimi nary precautions for the prevention of disturbance had been neglected; but at this stage the Superintendent of police became energetic. It was now seen at the close of Monday that the riotous spirit had exceeded ordinary police re sources, and that the military arm was needed. Particularly so, because riot ous feints had been made upon the Sev enth avenue and the Center street ar senals and upon the armory at the cor ner of Second avenue and Twenty first street. The house of Mayor Op dyke on Fifth avenue, near Sixteenth street, had been invaded and some of his furniture destroyed; and a riotous feint had been also made against the residence on Ninth street, near Fifth avenue, of Henry J. Raymond, editor of the Times, which had strongly sup ported the draft. Monday closed with a proclamation from the Mayor, com manding order and with the calling out of police reserves, so that Superintend ent Kennedy now had 3,000 bluecoats at his command. Tuesday, July 14, came and before the day closed a poor negro had been chased - by a mob through Clarkson street, in old Greenwich village, cap tured, beaten, and then hanged. Gov. Seymour issued a proclamation de claring the city under insurrection, and inviting citizens to enroll them selves as special aids. Meantime a l&rgff section of the mob was threaten ingthe Tribune office and also the house of a citizen, 19 Lamart ine place, where Horace Greeley was a guest. Governor Seymour and May or Opdyke proceeded to the city hall, opposite the Tribune office, (where the compositors and staff were in a state of siege and armed with rifles and hand grenades), and addressed the rioters, urging them to refrain from violence. His habitual word in first addressing a meeting had always been "Friends,"' and he used that word in beginning his speech, which fact was immediately seized upon by some of the newspapers to his disadvantage. What rhetoric ; failed to do was accomplished by po- lice clubs and good discipline before i nightfall of Tuesday, and the Tribune i was relieved of a mob. I All day Tuesday disturbances con ! tinued. Colored people were atoned j and maltreated. At Fifth avenue and j Forty-sixth street, a collision occurred j between the military and a section of i the mob, where the bayonet dispersed the latter. Another collision came on 1 the east side, at Broome and Pitt streets, where the military were com pelled to fire and wound several riot ers. In another colision, at Second avenue and Thirty-fourth street, Col. O'Brien was unhorsed, stoned, and beaten to death, and his corpse dragged along the pavement and hanged to a lamppost. The house of Postmaster Yakeman, who had been active in promoting, the draft, as well as the po lice station, on Eighty-sixth street, were burned, and some clothing stores were sacked by the rioters. Up to Wednesday morning the third and last day of the rioting, 130 policemen CHIEF JUSTICE FIELDS. For Thirty-Four Years Upon the United States Supreme Bench. The proud distinction of the longest period of continuous service on the mpreme bench of the United States is J. record that now belongs to Associate Justice Stephen J. Field. Chief Jus tice John Marshall served from Janua ry 31, 1801, to July 6, 1835. Justice Field took his place on the bench on March 10, 1863, and on August 15 ha aad served for exactly the same num ber of years, months and days as Chief Justice Marshall. Justice Field haa astonishment of those present, Mitford, the solicitor general, began to weep. "Just look at Mitford," said a bystand er to Home Tooke. "What on earth is he crying for?" Tooke replied, "He is crying to think what a small inheri tai -e Kldon's children are likely to get." So She Would. "I am told your wife would rather cook than eat." The other mr.n glanced nervously over his shoulder. They were alone. "What she cooks, yes," he replied in r. hoarse whisper.- Detroit Journal. ing Superintendent Kennedy. Archbishop Hughes issued a temper- fite address, one of the judges decided the draft methods not in accordance with the Constitution, and Proves: Marshal-General Nugent issued orders suspending the draft, which proceed ings, conjoined to the return of the city regiments from the front and de tails of Federal and state soldiers and the popular experience with the police force, virtually quelled the riot. One result of the riot was a municipal debt for damages of several millions, and a few of the riot bonds then issued are still outstanding. - - j i CHIEF JUSTICE FIELDS. passed his eightieth year, and althotig-h his mind is clear and strong, he is in somewhat enfeebled health. Chief Jus tice Roger B. Taney died while still in active service in his eighty-eighth year. Justice Field is one of four dis tinguished brothers, two of whom are dead. Cyrus W. Field died in 1892 and David Dudley Field in 1894. The Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field, who is now seventy-five years of age, is the surviv ing brother of the eminent jurist. ODE TO THE BADGER HEN. bV Poetical Lav to the Prosaic X,ay of the Practical Hen. We have read of Maud on a summer day, who raked, barefooted, the new mown hay; we have read of the maid In the early morn, who milked the tow with the crumpled horn, and we've read the lays that the poets sing, of the rustling corn and the flowers of spring; but of all the lays of tongue or ren, there's naught like the lay of the Badger hen. Long, long before Maud rakes her hay, the Badger hen has be jun to lay, and ere the milkmaid stirs a peg, the hen is up and has dropped tier egg. The corn must rustle and flowers must spring if they hold their own with the barnyard ring. If Maud is needing a hat and gown, she doesn't hustle her hay to town; she goes to the store and obtains her suit with a basketfull of fresh hen fruit; if the milkmaid's beau makes a Sunday ckIJ, she doesn't feed him on milk at all, but works up eggs in custard pie and stuffs him full of chicken fry; and when the old man wants a horn, does he take the druggist a load of corn? Not much! He simply robs a nest and hies him townward you know the rest. His poor wife stays at home and scowls, but is saved from want by those self-same fowls; for while the husband lingers there, s'he watches the cackling hen with care, and gathers eggs, and the eggs she'll hide till she gets enough to stem the tide. Then hail, all hail to the Badger hen, who lays and cackles and lays again! Corn may be king, but it's plainly seen, that the Badger hen -is a rustic queen. Superior (Wis.) Citizen. ffk and a 2-cent stamp (to pay postage) to THE J. B. 'WILLIAMS COMPANY, Glastonbury, Gmw'-:" ' & without the UoTe, it will be sent for three 5 -cent stamps 6 cents. j Ivorineisthe purest and most perfect washing powder that skill and experience can nro. & haff k Ia,nuact,lred the Sme care that has made Williams' Shaving Soaps so famqn. (or s5 OIrri. t:Y. oT u M "T-e coniains a cajce ol wunanu' fine W vjurt,, wiiit.,, io gLc.tiy eujoyea oy ail tne lamuy. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS; Kain water is the best and purest water for bathing delicate complexions. A eurgeon who ia a specialist in di seases of the ear says more ear trou ble are brought about by dust in tha ear than by any other cause. It is well to soak underflannels that have become hard from much perspira tion in a weak solution of soda and water for half an hour before washing them in the regalar manner. A soft cloth wet with milk and rub bed over boots and sboes three or four times a month will improve the ap pearance of the leather and help to keep it 60ft, and thu3 make it last longer. Now is the time to pickle cucumbers. Put the little cucumbers in vinegar, adding some horseradish root in or der to retain the strength of the vine gar and to prevent its moulding. Horseradish, leaves are good to put on top. To remove paint from window glass, take some strong vinegar and heat it very hot. Wet a cloth in the hot liquid and wash the glass with it and the paint will come off quite readily. A strong solution of oxatic acid will al so remove dry paint. The white of a raw egg is the most satisfactory of pastes, and is better than! any prepared mucilage or paste one can buy. Papers intended to be put over tumblers of jelly and Jam will hold very securely and be air tight if dipped in the white of an egg. A wash that will move the oily ap pearance of the skin consists of a tea spoonful of tincture of benzoin added to fifteen teaspoonfuls of soft water, shaking thoroughly. Put tis on the face with a small sponge or bit of old linen rag, and let it dry on. It leaves a dainty fragrance much resem.hlins? mignonette or heliotrope. In making meringues for a pie, never use less than the whites of two eees. Take one tablespoonful of pulverized sugar to one egg. Allow the Die to cool, then spread the meringue, which nas neen beaten as light as possible, over it. Be careful to spread the meringue over the crust. Place in a cool oven until a delicate fawn color. Spectacles and eyeglasses should hn kept perfectly clean and clear, other wise the eyes will be strained and in jured. A famous optician says glasses ana spectacles should be placed in a wash bowl and soaked in warm water. Then they should be washed with soap and rubbed with a soft nail brush. Pol ish them with tooth powder, and give them a final rub with tissue paper. A few drops of ammonia may be added to the water in which the glasses are soaked. Remember, fair cycling enthusiast i wtllcraft- so I thought it the part ot that the ruddy, glowing face vou will I wladom 4 set away." Mail and Ex- bring home with you after a many mile spin under a heartless midsummer sun Can You Do It? . Te the Star out of the ring and put it back again 1 It looks easy enough. . Yon do it once think you have learned the trick and find you haven't. Affords fun by the hour. Amuses old and young. Enter tains your visitors and friends. Most pu rling puzzle, for a simple one, ever invented. T How to get the "Star Puzzle" FREE, -r It is offered for a "Limited Time Only" by mail (post-paid) to an ooe who will send a Dove cut from a package of 1VORBWE &AM; hite AN AFRICAN POISON STORY. Strange Phenomenon Witnessed in the Northeast or the Dark Continent. Charles M. Stern, of Chicago who has just returned to this city after a journey through northeast Africa, told of a curious meteorological phenome non which he observed in a district called Gwallah. "The vegetation ia that region ie very luxuriant," said he "and the plant life must give off an un usually large quantity of carbonic acid gas. At least, that was the conclusion I reached after seeing three natives dia and four or five dogs. "The moment the animals put their noses to the ground, they would fall over and gasp, and die in about fiva minutes. The natives who died slept on the ground instead of in hammocks wiuws uiu. i 6aw nundreds of dead birds. My theory is that a strata of tho deadly gas covered the ground for a depth of three or four inches, and any living thing breathing in that area waa asphxiated. "I could not understand, however how the gas was not distributed in a thinner layer, and what kept it in ona place for a whole day. Nothing like it .uau even Deen Known there before. The deaths of the men and dogs all oe curred within twenty-four hours Then the gas, if it were really gas, seemed to be dissipated. It was a very strange occurrence, and I might have been in duced to make a more exhaustive in vestigation if my presence had not ex cited distrust. I got away as quickly as possible, rather than be accused of being the cause of the sudden deaths The natives are superstitious, and at tribute most of their misfortunes to Admiral Beardalee. Admiral Beardslee, who haa Just been superseded by Admiral Millr at Honolulu, is expected to make an in teresting report to the Secretary of the Navy on Hawaiian affairs. Lester A. Beardslee is one of tha picturesque characters of the navy. He was born at Little Falls, N. Feb. 1, 1836.' Receiving a commor school education, he was appointed acting midshipman March 5, 1850.. After being promoted to passed mld shipman, June 20, 1856, he was de tailed for special service on the steam frigate Merrimac. His promotions tc be master and lieutenant followed soon : afterward. On July 16, 1863, he was made lieutenant commander and waa Happy-hearted People. It is said that every hearty laugh in which a man or woman indulges tends to prolong life, as it makes the blood move move rapidly and gives a new and different stimulus to all the organ of the body from what is in force at other times. Therefore, perhaps, the saying, "Laugh, and grow fat," is not an exaggerated one, but has a founda tion in fact. No truer words were ever uttered than those which state so clearly: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." The jolly, wholesome, happy hearted people are those who ' have most friends and see the best that life holds out to them. Churchman. A PARIS SUGGESTION. is not alone the result of good, health- iui exercise, it is an out-and-out sun burn, and is not by any means a beau tifier. Avoid it as much as possible by rubbing well into the skin beiore go ing awheeling a little cold cream op some lotion that will protect the skin from the sun's ravagee. Your face won't look greasy if you apply the stuff properly, and you will And it the great est aid in warding off an overdose of sunburn. A cold-water facial bath be fore hob-nobbing with sun and wind is fatal to complexion charms. )ij Popular Girls. "I would like to know why Katherine is so popular," said a bright, vivacious young woman as she stood at the win dow looking out at one of her young friends who was passing. "Just note the difference between her and Emily, who is a regular harmony destroyer, while the other makes peace and pleas antness wherever 6he goes." "I think," said one of her grown-up friends, and grown-up and middle aged irienaa are exceedingly desirable as sociates for young women; "I think the secret of Catherine's popularity lies In her absolute genuineness. She nev er makes pretenses, and being a Chris tian girl ehe always has the soft ans wer that turns away wrath. "Half a dozen times last winter we had more or less disagreement In our church guild. There were several per sons connected with it who seemed always ready to strike fire when they came together. She was oil on the troubled waters and smoothed all the irregularities in the most delightful fashion. And while such dispositions ' are greatly to be commended they are, for tne most part, possessed by persons who have sufficient spirit to defend themselves and their families against imposition and abuse. They are long sunering, slow to anger and often bear that which others would not, and for which they are more nr less severely criticised. But they win in the long run. 'Blessed are the peacemakers' are words the sweet significance of which did not end with the speaking. They have come to us down through the dim aisles of the past, with their divine flavor still clinging to them, and are as aplicable to the sons and daugh ters of men as when they first fell from the lips of the meek and lowly Mazarene." press. A Doc's Broken Heart. W. L. Murfree, brother of the well known novelist, "Charles Egbert Crad dock," recently related a remarkable instance of a dog's affection for his kind. It was during the war, when the Mur free family lived near Murfreesboro, Tenn. The children owned two dogs, a great St. Bernard named Hugo, and a tiny white poodle Fleece. The two were inseparable companions and wherever Hugo's dignified eelf appear ed, there gamboled beside him the ab surd bundle Tcurl3 and wool. It was LandBeer"s picture of Dignity and Im pudence ia life. Hugo looked with anxious 6oItcifcude after Fleece if the Uttle fellow ran away, which he fre quently did, and never gave It ujun til he brought Fleece home again in safe conduct. Battles were raging all around them and one night the firing was so near and incessant that no or e slept. The' next inorning'Hugo and Fleece were missing, and while the children searched for them, Hugo wearily walk ed through thp gate, carrying poor lit tle Fleece's dead body. He walked to his mistress and laid his burden gently down at her feet. then with a look of unutterable grief laid himself down beside it, nor could they coax, nor rtrive him away. Little Fleece's white coat was blood stained. A stray bullet had ended his happy lit tle life, and t'le children wept over the sorrows of var, realizing as never be fore what it meant. They haV; a most elaborate funeral and buried Fleece with military hon ors, with his body wrapped in a flag, and they marched to the grave to the beat of 'i toy drum, with Hugo, who followed close, as chief mourner. When the little mound, flower-covered and dxaped with a flag, was finished, Hugo aid himself down across the tiny grave, and refused to be comforted. He wou'id neither eat nor drink, and the ner.t morning they found the great fel- ioff stiff and cold in death, still falth- t Illy guarding the mound that covered as dear little friend. His great loving art was broken with grief. attached to the monitor Nantucke He participated in the attack of th ironclad fleet upon the defenses of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863, and I in the capture of the Confederate steamer Florida, at Bahia In November, 1S80, - Commander Beardslee got his captain's commission, and with it at leave of absence for tw years. He commanded the receiving ship Franklin during 1883 and 1884, when he was transferred to the steam frigate Powhatan. Later he was sta tioned at the torpedo station and on the receiving ship Vermont. From 1891 to 1894 he commanded the naval station at Port Royal, S. C. On August 24, 1894, Capt. Beardslee was trans ferred to the Pacific station. He was made commodore June 27, 1893, and rear admiral March 1, 1895. , Woman Deputy Sheriff. Suffrage for women is playing some queer pranks in Utah. The latest sur prise is the appointment of Miss Clair Ferguson to be deputy sheriff for Salt Lake county. The young lady entered the office of Sheriff Lewis last January as a stenographer, and has now receiv ed her promotion. The mother of the voung woman. Dr. Ellen B. Ferguson, was very prominent in State politics' during the last campaign, and she is very proud of her daughter, who, she says, "takes to politics like a duck to water." Miss Ferguson is slender and fair but seemingly young to hold such a re sponsible position. The deputy is far from the accepted idea of a hard-shooting western peace officer, but then her duties will not be onerous or danger ous, the principal ones being the serv ing of papers and notification of Jurors Miss Ferguson was born in Provo and has lived in Utah all her life, re ceiving her education in the public schools and the university of the State She has lived in Salt Lake'since the year after her birth, and is very pop ular among the young people in the City of the Saints. Belgium, with all her great mineral wealth and her busy, industrious pop ulation, is nevertheless, of all the coun tries of Western Europe, the one where the toiler suffers most from inadequate remuneration and the pressure of pov erty. This excessive struggle is iatea. Bifled by the frequency of Sunday la foor. A Sad Accusation. " Some Japanese seem to fear Chris tianity. The Yorodzu ... Ohoho, Tokt, Bays: "In the long history of Christen-, dom we know of not a single country -saved by it. "With Montezuma's Mexi co and the Inca's Peruvian empire, the course of Christendom was absorption, aestrucuon, annimiauon. It has kill ed India, politically, at least. It has killed Burmah and Annam, It" has killed Hawaii, after keeping it allvs some forty years. It has killed Mada gascar, and it will yet kill Abyssinia, Egypt and Morocco. What security have we that Christendom will not kill China, Corea, and even Japan, if the opportunity offers? 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