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a ASH ACRED BY RATAJOS. A Parly of Settlors In Southern Colors (to Kelengured ami Supposed to Have Been Messaered, After a Heroic Fight, by a Hand of Navajo Indians. I'aaviR, Col., April 25. A . Johnson,present at the recent tight be tween tbe Narajos and whites at Mitch ell's place, Lower San Juan River, South ern Colorado, arrived in Durango yester day. Johnson says: "Myself, Wm. Greene and Victor Neff arrived at Mitch ell's store the evening of the loth. A party ol a dozen Navajo Indians came to the store. One drew a Mitchell. While gun on Edward the quarrel progressed a Navajo named Rye Lily commenced removing the buck skin from his ride, and other Indians ran for their guns that were standing against tbe store. Both the Indians and whites began firing. After about twenty-five shots were exchanged the Indians retreat ed across the river, leaving one dead on the ground. None of the whites were hurt. The whites then proceeded to throw up a fortification, while the women showed great nene carrying tubs of water to supply them in case of a siege. Johnson then started for Fort Lewis. The com; mandiug officer immediately started a .squad of cavalry to the relief of Mitchell's. When they reached Bowen Ferry a Navajo came in and reported that the lites had killed ull the whites at Mitchell's place. So far no other word lias been received, and Johnson fears all the whites have been massacred. It is not probable that the Utes went to the scene to avenge the death of the Navajo Indian. It is com mon for one tribe to lay its crimes to another. The following is a list of whites there when Johnson left Mitchell's place: Old man Mitchell and wife. Edgar Mitchell, wife and three chil dren. Henry Mitchell and wife. Joseph Dougherty and wife. litter Christman, Wm. l'oland, Wm. Greene and Victor Neff. TUE GKELLY RELIEF EXPEDITION. Arrival of the Alert In New York After a Stormy Passage—" The Strongest Ship Afloat''—Carte Blanche Orders to Corn man der Schley—Departure of the lpiar for the Arctic Seas. New Yohk, April 2t. The Alert, presented to the United States by tbe British Government for the Greely relief expeditiou, arrived Tuesday. At the gaff of the Alert the American flag was flying, and a pennant streamed from the mainmast. Lieutenant Commander C. F. Goodrich was in command. The crew consisted of twenty-nine men who were engaged to make tho voyage, with the understanding that they were to shift for themselves. "Minister Lowell fortunately selected an excellent crew," said the commander, "for the ship had a terrible passage. Wo were tweuty-four days in coming across. The winds were pretty fair most of the time, but there were strong westerly gales on thp 8th and 9th lust. The barometer kept low, and the seas very high. I consider this the strongest ship afloat." Continued the commander: "If she was not so stanch she would hardly have stood the voyage. Originally the Alert was a corvette, built for the Eng lish naval service in 1856. She was prac tically rebuilt for Sir George Nares when he made his polar exploration. Her plankiug was thickened, extra frames added, heavy stringers inserted, aud ad ditional beams put in. On our trip over she showed her seaworthy qualities. No vessel ever encountered worse seas, and die BODE THEM MAGNIFICENTLY. Her pair of compressed engines give het 380 horse-power. In smooth water she can make from seven to eight knots per hour. In rough water no definite rate of speed can be counted upon. Her engines are not powerful enough. The ship is well provided with sal ing facilities. Her bark rig, with double topsail yards, spreads canvas enou h to give her good sea capacities. Her d! placement is 11, 000 tons, and draught fifteen feet. She can carry about COO ton", of freight, with <i full complement of ICO men. CARTE BLANCHE. Washington, D. C., April 24. The following communication was sem by Secretary Chandler to Commander Schley in New York, in regard to the Greely relief expedition: NavyDkpahtment, April21 .—Sib: The Thetis, Bear, and Alert, ships of the Greely relief expedition of 1884, being ready, you are ordered to take command of them and proceed to the coast of Green land, or further north It necessary, and If possible find and rescue or ascertain the fateof Lieutenant Greely and his comrades. All the officers and men under your com ■ mand are hereby enjoined to perform any duty at sea or on land to which you may order them. No detailed instructions will be given you. F'ull confidence is felt lhat you have both the capacity and cour ige guided by discretion, necessary to do ill that can be required by the Depart ment or the Nation for the rescue of our imperiled countrymen, With earnest wishes and high hopes for your success and safe return, W. E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy. THE DEPARTURE OF THE BEAR. Brooklyn, N. Y., April 24. The Steamer Bear will leave the Brook lyn Navy-Yard at four o'clock this after noon, and will be towed down to Sandy Hook by the tug Catalpa. The officers are all on board this morning, and some of them wore an anxious expression as they hurried about making their final prepara tions lor departure. Hundreds of visi tors are at the yards anxious to go on board, blit arc not admitted. Lieutenant Emory came down shortly before ten o'clock. To old friends who gathered and Wished him a pleasant voyage,he replied: -"I think I shall need all your good wishes ■and prayers." The Secretary of the Kf.vy will go down to the Hook iu her, rc.ut uing in the tug. The Cuhau Filibuster. Havana, April24. The troops have thus far been UDable to catch Aguero. The authorities continue to maintain a dead silence, thereby exasperating the public into the (belief that the worst is happening. Many disbelieve that Duran was killed. Gold premiums to-day rose as high as during the first Insurrection. According to re liable information the Aguero party is divided into three sections, thereby dls cdneertlng the troops. Aguero is sup poscil to he staying In the Zapata swamps. K Is rumored that he was again offered • *uiu to leave the island. A CHARGE TO KEEP, And Jsllsr Stephenson at Mt. Sterling, Tty,, Prtipoiee to Keep It A gainst All Comers. Mt. Stxklino, Kf, April W. Under pretext of bringing a prisonct from Breathitt County to jail here yester day morning between one and two o'clock an armed body of twenty-live men tried to force their way Into the jail and hang Wm Osborne. Jailer Stephens opened the door slightly, when the fore most man blew out bis light and tried to force the door open. Stephens was able, being a man of great strength, to shut the door ill their faces and bolt it. He then relit his lamp and got his shotgun. The mob fired through a window, the bullets barely missing Mrs. Stephens. They then broke down the outer door and tried to overcame Ste phens and take bis keys, but he planted bitnself behind levelled ids shotgun an to enter. They did not dare to face the certain death with which he menaced them, and overawed by his cool courage dispersed at last. It is thought there will soon be another outbreak by a larger and better disciplined mob. Os borne has killed some eight or ten men. lie is under sentence to lour years im prisonment for the last ntan be killed— Henry Thomas in Muncle County—and is here for safe keeping pending an appeal. projecting wall, dared them 2 A FATED CONCERN. Darning of the American Oak Leather Tan at Cincinnati—The Second Time 0400,000. Cincinnati, O., April 24. Twice within two years the Ameri can Oak Leather Tanning Company has suffered an immense loss from fire. About two o'clock this morning, while the watchman was building a tire under the boiler, he was startled by a cracking and blaze overhead in the drying room. He immediately gave the alarm, but the fire had gained considerable headway and in a few minutes an immense blaze lighted up the entire city. The firemen worked hard, but finding they could not save tho main building, they turned their atten tion to the eastern aud western wings. The fire was terribly hot and the firemen had several narrow escapes from being crushed to death under the falling walls, which commenced about three o'clock. The warehouse was stored with tan bark, and the drying-house contained 100 barrels of gasoline. " It is well this build ing was saved, otherwise the fire would have played dreadful havoc with the ad joining buildings. N'o accurate estimate of the actual loss is possible yet, but It is estimated at $300,000 to $400,000; in sured for $300,000 iu 100companies. Tbe tannery was destroyed in January, 1882, and rebuilt on a more elaborate scale, which gained for It the distinction of be ing the largest iu the world. The com pany have suffered heavy losses by the floods of the past two years. nrry Within Two Years—I, past years. A DEAD DYNAMITER. rite Mysterious Death of Nathan E. Flsh An Equally Mysterious Box Left Behind Him Cabled " Sure Death To the One Who Opens this Box." New Yohk, April 24. But little light is shed on the mystery surrounding Nathan E. Fish, who drowned himself at Bellevue Hospital Tuesday, and in whose room at the Carle ton House strange packages of dynamite were found. The box containing twenty one dynamite cartridges, a sealed package and two Remington pistols, with attach ments to the triggers by which they could be fired by clockwork, is still at Engine house No. 2, corner of Center and Cham bers streets. The strange package is about a foot long and six inches wide, and is wrapped with wire and tied up in brown paper, with the warning written upou it, "Sure death to the one who opens this box," staring one in the face. No person has yet discovered the secret contents. "We have all kinds of strange visitors," said Chief JIahedy. "One mun wanted to get the job of open ing the box. He said he would do it cheap. I have sent word to the Bureau of Combustibles and to morrow the package will be removed on the tire-boat Zophar Mitts to the magazine on Ellis Island. O. H. l'ayne, of No. 58 Division street, called at the Oak Street Station, aud said he had occupied the next case to Fish in a Nassau street printing-office. Shortly after Fish was taken to the hospital l'ayne said he called there and took possession of $300 at the request of the sick man. Tills money would be at the disposal of the police after the interment expenses were paid. He thought the mysterious box contained not dynamite, but money. At the various addresses which the mem orandum book contained nothing was known of Fish. The Bellevue Hospital authorities say the only visitors Fish had while ill were a man and a boy. One strange thing pointed out was that the only correspondent the suicide had, Prof. E. N. West, of Washington, died a few minutes after learning of Fish's death. The cause of his death was said to be pneumonia. O'Donovan Rossa de nied all kuowlcdge of the man, and said that lie certainly did not belong to any of the Irish societies. As for the myster ious box, Rossa was willing to open it. A Miraculous Escape. Joplin, Mo., April 24. There is an established tradition among miners that one accident in the mines is sure to be followed in short order by others. This belief has been strengthened among the miners recently by several ac cidents, the last of which occurred at Cartervllle on Tuesday, when three men entered the tub to be lowered into the mine. The shaft is 125 feet deep, ami when the men were about half-way down the machinery became unmanageable, letting the tub and its oc cupants fall the rest of the distance to tlie bottom. Much to the surprise of every one, instead of being instantly killed, neither of the men were seriously hurt, the worst Injury beluga broken and badly disfigured nose. His Trials Not Over Yet. VxnSAiLLKS, Mo., April 25. It is reported here on good authority that the Sheriff of Cooper County Is In Huntsville, Ala., with a requisition from Governor Crittenden for the return of Frank Janies to Boonvllle for trial for participating In the Ottorvllle train rob bery, In the event of his acquittal In tbe United States Court of the charges for which he Is now being tried. Tbe re port Is dpubtless correct, as Sheriff Rogers of Cooper County has been mys teriously absent, except to those who were In the secret, since about the time of the commencement of the present trial ol James. Temperance Reading. ' Yoons ladles, pray listen to me, And keepjustaa quiet us mlco. = Wlnle 1 sing you a ,-oug-it Is not very long Which contains a piece of advice: thinks; If 3 011 wish to bo huppy the rust of your DoiVt marry a man If he drinks; Dou't marry a lna.j It ho drmks. Ho mav be so hand ome and gay. And have such a beautiful voice: And may dance so divinely you'll feel in your heart 1 That he must be the man of your choico: ' 1 his secerns are tender ind low. I And sweeter than roses and pinks, And h's breath quite u different thing, you mav know Your exquisite gentleman drinks: i our exquisite gentleman drinks. - Jest think of the sorrows and cares, The heart-rending Bighs and fears: Of the words and the blows, and cruolest It has been said that the end and tho ! test of good government is the greatest happiness to tho greatest number. If this be true it must be owned that no i Government extant is satisfactorily con- i ducted. For observation shows that, as a i rule, political energy is expended upon secondary concerns, while politicians employ all their dexterity in avoiding action upon the great problems which most deeply involve the destinies of the I masses. There is to-day in the English-! speaking countries no such tremendous, ; far-reaching, vital question as that of j drunkenness. In its implications and effects it overshadows everything els', j It is impossible to examine any subject connected with the progress, the civi lization, the physical well-being, the re liwious condition of the masses, with out encountering the monstrous evil. it lies at the center of all social and political mischief, it paralyzes ener gies in every direction. It neutralizes educational agencies. It silences the voice of religion. It bailies penal re form. It obstructs political reform. It rears aloft a mass of evilly inspired power whielt at every salient point threatens social amt national advance; wltich gives to Ignorance and Vice a greater potency than Intelligence and Virtue can command; which deprives the poor of the advantages of modern progress; which debauches and de grades millions, brutalizing and sad denittg them below the plane of healthy savagerv, and filling the centers of pop ulation with creatures whose condition almost excuses the immorality which renders them dangerous to their gener ation. DOU'T MARRY A MAX IF RE DRIXKS. And then think of theocoan of tears; Think of Toodles the drunkest of men, HJg attitudes, his coughs, and winks. And then think what .a dignified pair you will make tv a man that drinks. If you Younj? ladies look well to your hearts. Don't throw them away on a sot, Or a man who is given to treating his friend*. Whatever his station or lot; Though his pride may uphold him uwhilo, Yet sooner or later he sinks; Then if you would be happy the rest of your days. Dou't marry a man If he drinks. —Fvtton (2V. l r .j Times. .1 An Overshadowing (Question. All these evils, all this mischief, all this destruction of human souls ami in tellects, go on among us daily and hourly. There arc none so ignorant and inattentive as not to have personal ; experience of some of them; some hearth darkened; some family scat- j tered; some ioving heart broken; some j promising career ruined; some deed of shame done. Yet how hard it is to get this gigantic evil attacked seriously*. Temperance organizations have indeed been fighting it for years: yet popular inertia has resisted their utmost efforts. But lias all bees done that might and should have been done by the organized agencies that represent the higher life? What are doctrinal points, for example, compared to this ever-present, evor activc, insidious inlluence? What are sectarian differences by the side of this National curse? Can the churches fold their hands and flatter themselves that their duties are all fulfilled, while the masses prefer the saloon to the pulpit, and while rum rules in politics and so ciety? Are the higher educational agencies doing all in their power to ad vance civilization while they ignore this obstacle to progress? Can any political organization be said to represent the best aspirations and the strongest needs of the people, while this abiding source of misery and orime and poverty is al lowed to spread and flourish? There is needed something of that sacred fire which kindles into inex tinguishable heat the zeal of the Aboli tionists, which compelled the abandon ment of human slavery, to rouse tho National indignation and abhorrence against this much greater evil. Nothing short of this, it is to be feared, will im pel time-serving politicians to approach in a spirit of earnestness a subject which is distasteful to them mainly be cause they think they can not afford to do without the help and support of tho class who derive from the degradation of the foolish and ignorant tho means whereby they continue to rule and plunder those whose sagacity is proof against their snares.— X. Y. Tribune. Temperance Items. Dr. Hermann Kerr, a celebrated statistician, says that the annual mor tality from intempcranco in Great Brit ain is 40,500. Statistics show that in Denmark, whose male population succeeds in drinking annually fourteen gallons of spirits per capita, drunkenness lias to do witli thirty-one percent of the seri ous and sixty-nine per cent, of tho petty crimes committed. An English gentlomac, with a faith in hard, unromantio statistics, lias care fully studied the causes of pauperism among 254 ensos sheltered by the work houses of Manchester. Old age, he found, had brought thither nearly one eighth; disease and accident one-sev enth; idleness, free from drink or crime, not a case; drunkenness In men, one-fourth; drunkenness in women, one tweutieth. The widows and children of drunkards numbered one fifth of all paupers. And-the cold proof from theso facts is that the liquor traffic breeds fifty-two por cent, of the pauperism of Manchester. Is it probable that similar investigation In this country would show any less activity in beer and whisky as i preducing agents? Who says that sa-; loons add nothing to the country P— Union Signal. ' National Drink Bills. Few people can have a realizing Idea ' of the enormous consumption of liq uors and of their cost to consumers un til the figures are placed before thorn. This th e Christian Union has been do = an d it finds the entire bill for drink , ai „ ... • in this country to be #900,000,U(X) 1C round numbers. The Union bases its cstirnates on the last census and other ollicial authoritirs, ana it airnesutiw estimates in the following manner: "The internal rovenue on distilled spirits in 18»was $;4.:tna,775: the rate isaOoonls a, gul Ion. and the quantity of liquor taxed Is therm fore 82,331,972 gallons. A certain part of this was used for mechanical and scientifle pur 1 poses, imt most of it was drank us a beverage. ' Sold by fie glass it would cost the consumer I about $3 a gallon, The whole amount at this ra'e would aggreya'e $41*1,7111,83-1. Ihotaxon fermented liquors In the samo year amounted to $Ill.!O0,<115, which, at *1 per barrel, repre souls an equal number of barrels containing at thirty-one gallons to the burrel k.3,9I9,w& gat- Ions. At live cents a glass and twelve glasses to the gallon this costs the consumer $314, DM,43V. The Imported liquors estimated on a similar basis cost the consumer at least $100, 000 MO. which brings the total cost up to more than $300,0110,000. No account is taken of na; tive wines, nor of liquor, -crooked whisky, and other which escapes taxation: and tho cost of these may be taken as ft fair offset to the distilled liquor employed for meobuuical and scientific purposes.'* A recent statement in tho London limes enables us to compare the drink bill of Great Britain with otir own. In 18815 there were 06,949,73d gallons of intoxicating liquors consumed, and 965,192,420 gallons of wine and beer, or total of 1,002,141,198 gallons, as com pared with 606,551,037 gallons in this country, representing an expenditure of #627,386,375, as against $900,000,000 in this country, which goes to show that ! liquors are considerable cheaper Great Britain titan here, and adultera tion much more frequent here titan i there. Estimating the amount coit i stinted per capita, as represented by i these totals, the results are quite as founding. While the sixty millions of people in the United States consume about nine gallons of beer and wine and one and a third gallons of liquor per I capita, the thirty-six millions in Great Britain consume at the rate of about ; one gallon of intoxicating liquors per j capita and about twenty-seven gallons of beer and wine. There is one feature j of the drink bill, however, upon which Great Britain can plume itself. While the expenditure in this country is in creasing year by year it is diminishing in Great Britain. In I860 the drink bill bill was $426,384,350. Year by year the expenditure rose, until 1876, when it reached #736,443,795. In those six teen years the population had grown 15 per cent, and the drink bill 72 per cent, Since 1876, however, it itas steadily de clined, and is now #627,386,375, a fall ing off'of $3,870,420 as compared with 1882. While a portion of this was ow ing to depression in trade, it was main iy due to the vigorous efforts of Tern perance reformers. The enormous amount of money spent .1 in perance reformers. The enormous amount of money spent for liquor in the United States may be more clearly realized when compared with other expenditures which are es timated by the Union, such as $505, 000,000 for bread, and #303,000,000 for meat, showing that ntoro is paid out for liquor than for bread and meat togeth er; $290,1X10,000 for iron and steel, $237,000,000 for woolen goods, $238, 000,000 for sawed lumber, $210,000,000 for cotton goods, $196,000,000 for boots and shoes, $155,000,000 for sugar and molasses, $85,000,000 for public educa ; tion, and $5,500,000 for missions. This expenditure is only the direct cost. It j does not represent the cost of pauper j ism, idiocy, insanity and crime which are entailed upon the country by liquor, —Chicago Tribune. _ q' C § ~ The following diagram is a compar ison of the annual expenditures in the United States for intoxicating liquors tig with various other of the largest ■ items of expenditure. It is based Hon the census of 188U and other ye H liable authorities. Scale: Each B three-fourths of an inch represents B an expenditure of $1:J0,000,000. Wc M are indebted to tho Christian Union B for the measurements and statistics. ■ The liquor bill represents the cash B paid for it by consumers, aud is, Kjin our opinion, not an exaggera Btiou of the facts. We cousidet Bit just about tho actual amount. BCommeuts upon a showing so ap ■ palling would only weaken the power of truth.—interior. j 8 <N O c 7.* . i S s w . 9t s « 8 *r -d » « 2' 8* fl W M -( 3 I a a o- a? u £ «> e o 5> §. 1-1 c | 5 j 2 - M " £ ||1 a j-ll " ^ | a i " 1 1 1 5 o CO 23 d _ 35 ,2 ■o « (/.' £ S' 3 I e Gratifying buoccss has attended the recent movement for Temperance re form in New Jersey. Through the ef forts of Messrs. Maybee and English, assisted by many ministers and others, great numbers have been induced lo abandon the use of intoxicating liquors, nnd public sentiment is daily growing stronger in opposition to tho traffic in ardent spirits. In some of the towns where the work has been undertaken the grog-shops are suffering for lack of i patronage. Moral suasion is the weap on employed against them, and it seems lo be proving more effective than ' legal measures* . For Young Readers. to to as in in of to a DEAR." A bright little maiden, oyer the wav. Ia up from her piilow at breaker o&y. she washes, and combs her brown braids sho ties up with Hands and fuoe balr: Twin pretty care. When breakfast Is dono, she washesthe dishes. Then hurries awuy to know mamma s wishes. She brushes the chambers, the stairs and hall. Puts them in order—and that Isn t all; She clears from the steps tho dead loaves that fall, , , ., And hastens again at mamma s low oalL sho Is doing, I'm sure I don't What moro If your mother kept boaroers, would you do sot Her name, if I knew. I would tell it here: f but I think they do ritflit to call her Dear. —(Jur Little Ones, FOOLING GKANIMA. How they shouted and laughed just with thinking of what fun it would be— Winny and Joe —sitting on the porch steps in the sunshine that was very bright and warm for the first day of April. "We'll be just as sober," said Win ny, "and not laugh nor anything." "And we ll ask for a cold bite," gur gled Joe. "We'll have to dress all up funny, Joe, so she won't know us." "Of course," said Joe. "And don't you laugh," said Winny. "You're always 'n i'rever laughing, Joe." "But I won't this time," declared Joe, very earnestly; "and don't you, either." "No, sir-ree!" said Winny. Now if some little bird- the same lit tle bird that is always telling stories to the big folks— had carried this chatter to Grandma Nelson's ears, then Grand ma Nelson needn't have taken a second look at tho two i'uuny little stragglers that walked up to her door that after noon, to know just who the)* were. But the little bird, for a wonder, kept it all to himself; so when Grandma Nelson, sitting by the window, heard the gate latch click aud saw those queer little figures, she was greatly surprised. She took off her glasses and rubbed them and put them on again, and stared out through them hard, and, really and truly, she frowned. "More tramps! I declare!" said she. "Dear me!" Grandma Nelson was talking to her self, of course, and she spoke a good deal louder than there was any need of, beea.ise sliewasn'tabithardof hearing. She spoke so loud that the two little tramps heard her, aud you can't think how queerly they acted about it. One of them caught up the corner of his waist coat, which hung nearly to his feet, and hung it over his mouth, tight; and the other one pulled his wide-rimmed straw lias over ills face, until not even so much as the tip of his chin could be seen. "Why, what ails 'em?" said Grand m a Nelson to herself, looking more and more astonished every minute. "Really, I'm almost afraid to go to the door!" But she did go, when pretty soon she heard a soft little knock; and she looked down quite seriously on the big hat and the long waiscoat. "What will you have to-day?" said The corner of the waistcoat came up again in a hurry, and there was a fun ny little explosive sound behind it. The straw hat was tipped lower, too. "We'd like to have a—a cold bite, ma'm!" Oh, such a deep, gruff voice it was that came from under that big hat, no wonder Grandma Nelson felt frightened a little. •'I don't make a practice of giving to tramps," said sho. "Are you very hungry?' "Yes, ma'am." "It's only three o'clock," said Grand ma Nelson. "Didn't you have any din ner?" "N—yes, ma'am." "1 suppose you've walked a long wavs this afternoon," said grandma. The two little tramps looked at each other, and there were signs of another explosion. The waistcoat was brought into use again. The little tramp iu the straw hat did all the talking. "N-o, ma'am,we haven't, very long," said he. "I suppose you're willing to work and pay for something to eat?" said Grandma Nelson. Then the two little tramps began to feel sure that she meant plum-cake; they answered very promptly: "Ohyes'm!" "Verv well," said grandma, "you may split and bring in two armfuls of kindling-wood, and fill my wood-box, besides. There's a hatchot in the shed. ' ' Of course they could do that; and they made very short work of it in deed. Grandma Nelson didn't believe she ever saw two little tramps work so willingly and well before, and she said 1 ) she. SO M. " Are you very hungryP" site asked And what could she mean but , in bi" thick slices?" "Oh yes, ma'am," they both an swered, eagerly. Grandnui began talk ing to herseif again as sho went toward the nantry door! " There's that cold beef, •gain. A: plum-cake said she, M we never can eat it; and I suppose they want something real hearty to travel on. And I'll give 'em some bread-ami butter with it!" Oh dear! how the faces of those two little tramps fell. They didn't want cold beef, aud they didn't want bread and-butter, and they did want pinm cake. They had fooled Grandma Nel nlraost too nicely. They wouldn't fool her another bit So off came the big hat and the long waistcoat; and out of the pantry came grandma, with a piece of plum-cake in each hand! "Why-ee!" said sho, lookin'* as astonished as she possibly could; "where are those trampsP" "April fool! April fool!" shouted Winnv and Joe, together. "We April fooled you. gra'maT" Grandma Nelson sat down in her rocking chair and laughed her glasses off. "Dear me, did you, dears?" said "Did you?" Did they fool Grandma Nelson? or did Grandma Nelson fool them? How was It?— Youth's Vomvanion. BOD it she. Remember Mother. Bovs, some of you who read this ars absent from home. You are attendin'' school, learning a trade, or engaged some kind of employment that lias called you away. There is a mother at home, who longs to hear from you often. Do you gW 8 her that privilege? Or are you willing to let her watch overy mail, day after day and week after week, until the thought comes forcing its way into her heart that you have forgotten her, care more for the new associates around you? Do you realize that her thoughts are with you ofteuer, and linger much longer'with you, than yours with her? You can think of her as a wise, thoughtful mother, in a quiet, Deaceful home, witli but little change in *her life, as the seasons come and go, and yuu feel sure that all is well with her. She can not think of you with the same feeling of security. You are young, and are out in a world which she knows is full of snares and temptations. And, while her contideneo in your strength of character may bo great, yet she can not keep back the anxious thoughts that come unbidden, especially when she has not heard from you for a! long time. She knows that this is an important period of your life. A great change is going on." You are developing into something. Can you suppose her have aught but the deepest solicitude in knowing what that something shall She has foregoue much pleasure for your sake, and lias centered many hopes in you. She can not help feeling adeep interest in watching the result of her years of labor in your behalf. A few days ago our postmaster re ceived a letter from a mother in a dis-i taut State, asking for information con cerning her boy. She had written to him twice without getting any reply. The mother's letter was handed to hej son—a genial, warm-hearted lad, who could never have been guilty of such neglect if he had realized what it was costing his mother. 1 know another boy who, during a year's absence, wrote but two letters to his mother. At'the close ol the year he was summoned hastily homo to look upon that mother's face for the last time. He found the two letters lie had written carefully laid away in a drawer where she kept a few things that were highly prized. When he learned how many times his mother had read these letters, even after every word they contained had been committed to memory, lie felt as though ho would give the world if he could only live that year over again, that he plight swell the number to a hundred instead of two. Ah, boys, we dften bring upon our selves, even in youth, the bitterness of some "might have been." Will you not guard against it on this one point, at least? Write to your mother, and wri'o often. Answer the many questions found in her letter to you. Do not miss a sing e one. They were not put in her letter just for the sake of filling up the page. Mothers do not have to do that. What may seem of the least imporlanca to you may be full of meaning to her. Tell her all about yourself. Tell her all about your studies, your work, or whatever you may bo engaged in. Tell her all a!,out your associates; and such as you cau not tell her about do not hesitate to drop at once. Boys, write to your mothers .—Golden Days. in to 1 ) 0 ? Tile Homesick Parrot. Poll Parrot belonged to a lady in De troit. She lived in a great house on Woodward Avenue. Polly was a favorite, little children on the avenue kuew and loved Polly. On their way to school they would stop to say: "Good morn ing, Mistress Polly," and to offer iter a bit of cake or cracker from their lutich baskets. For these friendly offices they were amply repaid by the quaint sayings whielt were sure to follow lrom the glib tongue of Polly. Sometimes in answer to a cheerful " Good morning, Mistress Polly!" the bird would drawl out, " G-o-o-d m-o-r-n i-n-g—Polly's—sleepy." For the next jt might be, "Good morning—don't bother a bird." Polly's mistress lost the bulk of her fortune, and went to live in another city. When site was ready to move, a change came over l'olfy. Site grew moody and silent. To her little friends' greetings she would scarce deign * reply. At her new home her mood changed, but, alas! not for the better. She now complained all the time; and the burden of her cry was ever the same: " Polly wants to go to Detroit—poor Polly wants to go to Detroit!" So sad was tho bird's moan, that a lady who lived across the street had to close the front doors aud windows of her house and retire to the rear, that she might not hear it. For fourteen days the poor creature sent fortl: her pitiful wail. Sho refused food, and died with the half-finished petition upon her tongue: "Poor Polly wants to go — "— Our Little Ones. All the nice A (Jflod ReeoTery. A lady in Brooklyn, N. Y., took out her diamond ear-rings, valued at each, tho other night, and wrapping them in a piece of paper left them on the dining-room mantel. A relative, a very neat housekeeper, finding the crumpled bit of paper on the mantel, threw it into the kitchen stove. The next day tho owner of the diamonds asked if any one had seen a bit of pa per on tho mantel, the oaroful house keeper stated what she bad dono with it, and then two anxious ladies got the ashes out of the stove and proceeded to pass them through a flour sieve. When about half tho stuff had been emptied on tho sieve a small black and yellow chunk rolled over the edge of the coal scuttle. It was a very warm piece ol gold, and was all that remained of th« setting. A little more raking and two diamonds rolled out of the ashes. Ahej were a little dusty, but when cool enough to handlo they were found to bo undiminished in beauty and value. * New York jeweler reset them the sain* afternoon.— N. Y. Times. —It took $11,201 worth of ink W cancel the postage stamps ol 1883. to a or