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'T : TRUE BEOIIlRAT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
B'' PRANnIgVILLE. LOUISIANA.
In the last fifteen years about $350,
000,000 has been invested in 2,753
electric light central stations in the
United States, aind during the same
period some $250, 000, 000 has been in
vested in about 8,000 isolated plants.
This shows the enormous develop
ment of the electric lighting business.
A most commendable undertaking
is on foot in Iowa, where the farmers,
who have been using *A€ for fuel,
are planning to send it ,q the starving
people of India. Golrnor Drake
has received many communications
from people who offer to present car
loads of provisions for the faohid'
sufferers, if the state will nanfet, com
mission to take care of them and in
duce the railroads to give free trans.
portation.
" In the past sixty years the forests
of America have produced the enor
* mousquantityof 824,000,000,000 feet,
and the value estimated at more than
$25,000,000,000. It is a curious re
flection that the forests, once regarded
as an impediment to the country's set
tlement and growth, to be felled and
burned as rapidly as possible, should
so soon become one of its Qhief sources
of wealth, to be considered and pro
tected by every means know to modern
science and law.
Agricultural exports last year'formed
a shade more than 66 percent of all
domestic merchandise shipped from
the United States. In '92 there were
nearly 79 percent, and in '79 83 1-4
percent. The smaller proportion in
recent years does not necessarily mean,
explains the American Agriculturist,
that foreigners are taking a less quan
tity of our farm produce, but rather
that manufacturers are getting a foot
hold abroad, shipping increased
quantities of finished goods.
A wave of prosperity has reached
hhe farmers of Wdthington, and they
are taking advantage ,of it to clear
their farms of indebtedness. It is
stated that there have been a larger
number of releases of mortgages filed
in the recorders' offices of this state
during the past three months than
ever before in a corresponding period.
The wheat crop last season was good,
and most of it was in the farmers'
hands when the rise came, and they
havo made good use of their oppor
tunities.
Japanese enterprise has developed
into an interesting and profitable form
of trickery in Intlia,where large quan
tities of paraffiuecandles,, pencils and
cheap watches branded as American
goods, but really made in Japan, have
been poured into the markets,greatly
to the disgust of the buyers, who do
not detect the fraudulent character of
the articles until they use them. These
imitations are greatly inferior to the
American goods, and it is not unlikely
that Japanese manufacturers will suf
fer for the deceptions they are prao
ticing upon the tradesmoen of India,
who are more anxious than ever for
merchandise made in this country.
The trick of the Japanese is siguiti
ant, however, in that it shows how
th4Auierican models and workman
ship are appreciated by the Orientals,
and it is valuable also as indicating
the cunning and somewhat dishonor
able competition which our manu'fac
turers will have to contend with in
their quest of larger markets inthoe far
East.
Saye' the New York Times: The
world is growing old and wiser as well
as better, but every now andtthen we
are brought suddlenly face to face with
conditious so anachronistic that for a
moment we can hardly believe we are
living in the dawn of the Twentieth
century of Christianity and science.
The Armenian massacres in the full
face of Europe are a revival of the
most horrible crutlties of medieval
.sm, and the spectacle of the depopu
lation of Uombay by the plague recalls
the stories of hundreds of yprs ago,
when the science of sanitation was
undreamed of. A city with nearly a
million inhabitants in the grip of the
king of terrors is a gruesome thing.
to contemplate in an age when a great
savant has proclaimed with a plausi
bility that won him learned followers
that he has discovered the ecrot germ
of consumption, and when'scientists
enable the eye to look through flesh
and boards. Is it not a reminder af
ter all that man is as finite now as
when the tower of Babel was pro
jected, and that, strive as we may,
there are still conditions of primitive
barbarism that can never be wholly
. Lvercome?
• -4
BITTER AND SWEET,
The apple that grows highest is the best
upon the tree;
The rose that is most fragrant always has
the sharpest thorn;
The pearl that is the purest lies within the
deepest sea,
And the deeds that live the longest are of
hardest efforts born!
The love that's won too lightly is not treas
ured as a gem;
The words that flow too freely never have
the greatest weight;
lMan appreciates his blessings if be has to
strive for them,
fBut he never knows their value if they're
passed up on a plate!
v> --Cleveland Leader.
DEAF SMITH, THE SCOUT,
N the main hall of
the magnificent
capitol of 'Austin,
Texas, there hangs
an immense
-picture, at least
/ twenty-five by
t. fifteen feet, en
cased in a massive
gilt frame. The
/ figures, of which
there are many,
., are all of life
size. The more
prominent are
General Sam
Houston, "'Deaf
Smith," and Santa
'  Anna. General
: Houston is reclin
ing on a sort of
mattress under a
r huge live-oak.
The scene represents a few hours
.after the battle of San Jacinto, which
was fought on the bank of that river,
near the mouth of Buffalo Bayou, on
the 21st.of April, 1836, and in which
struggle'the famous Mexican general
was taken prisoner. General Houston
had been severely wounded in the
ankle, and the surgeon is the act of
administering to the gallant leader's
need. Near him, seated on a log in
the attitude of listemng, is his bosom
friend, the celebrated Texas spy, Deaf
Smith.
The history of Deaf Smith is one of
the most extraordinary over known
in the West. His memory is revered
equally with the most prominent ac
tors in the war for independence of
the Lone Star State, one of whose
counties is named for him.
" Deaf Smith made his appearance in
Texas at a very early day in the his
tory of its struggle with Mexico. He
had a host of friends, and was a par
ticular favorite of General Houston,
yet none of these was ever. able to
learn the land of his nativity, or gath
er a single gleam of his previous bio
graphy. If questioned upon the sub
ject, as he often was in the primitive
days of his advent in the now great
State, he invariably placed his index
finger on his mouth, and if urged
further, his brow gathered in great
furrows, while his intensely dark eyes
seemed to shoot forth sparks of fire.
No one had the temerity to again re
fer to his formnr life after the exper
ience of a first attempt to learn some.
thing of the strange man.
He could write with astonishing fa
cility and correctness, and this, of
course, was the only means by which
he could communicate with his fellow
men. Denied completely the sense of
hearing, nature had amply compen
sated him with a vision that was of the
keenest character, and a power of
smell that was almost incredible, He
could discover objects moving miles
away on the apparently interminable
prairie, where others could discern
nothing but the earth and the horizon.
It was such remarkable attributes
that fitted him so well in the danger
ous vocation of spy, in which capacity
he rendered valuable service to Gen
eral Houston's army during the Texas
war of independence. He always went
where he was sent, alone, and almost
invariably succeeded in obtaining the
information desired.
Many stories of his .bravery in bat
tle and his many desperate duels are
current among the citizens in the re
gion where he once lived, but I can
only relate one here.
About two years after the termina
tion of the Texas revolution a difficulty
occurred between the new government
and a number of the citizens which
threatened most cerious consequences,
even bloodshed and all the horrors of
civil war.. The ease was this: The
constitutioh had fixed the ecty of Aus
tin as the permanent capitsl, where
the publio archives were to I)e kept,
with the reservation, however, of a
power in the president to order their
temporary removal in case of danger
from the inroads of a foreign enemy
or the force of sudden insurrection.
The Comanches, the most powerful
tribe of Indians in the Southwest, be.
gan to commit atrocities within the
very sight of the capital itself, when
the president, General Houston, who
resided at Washington, on the Brazos,
conceiving that an exceptional emer.
gency had been provoked by these
acts of the savages, sent an order com
matnding those under him to send the
State records to Washington, which
he declare'd to be, for the time being,
the teat ofgovernment.
It would be absurd to tryto describe
the stormy excitement whioh the re
ceipt of the order raised in Austin.
The ownersof hotels, boarding houses,
monte and faro banks, were nearly
distracted, for it meant a death-blow
to their business. Accordingly they
determined to take the necessary steps
to avert the dangfr, by ignoring the
mandate of the presuident. They called
a mass meeting of the citizens and
farmers of the adjacent country, who
were all more or less interested in the
question; - and after many fiery
speeches against the asserted tyranny
of the administration, it was unani
mously resolved to prevent the re
moval of the archives by open and
armed resistance. To that end they
formed a squad of 400 men, one-half
of whom, relieving the other at regular
times of duty, should constantly guard
the state house until the danger had
gone by.
The commander of this force was
one Colonel Morton, who had achieved
considerable renown in the war and
still more recently displayed desperate
bravery in two terrible duels, in both
of which he had cut his antagonist
nearly to pieces with a "bowio knife.
He was so notorious for his courage
and revengeful character, his friends
thought that President Houston would
rescind his order as soon as he learned
who was at the head of the resisting
force in Austin. The colonel was as
vain as he was courageous, and he en
couraged the general idea by his boast
ing. .He swore by the honor of a Texan
that if General Houston removed the
records of the state from Austin, he
would himself hunt him down like a
wolf, and shoot him down like a wolf,
and shoot him with little ceremony, or
stab him in bed, or even waylay him in
his walks of recreation. He had the
audacity to write to the hero of San
Jacinto to that eftect. The general,
whom nothing could intimidate, an
swered his insulting note in the fol
lowing characteristic brevity: -
"If the citizens of Austin do not
send the -archives, I shall certainly
come and take them; and if Colonel
Morton can kill me, he is welcome to
my ear-cap."
On the arrival of the president's note
the colonel doubled the guard around
the state house; chosen sentinels were
stationed along the avenues leading to
the building, and the military marched
through the streets of the disturbed
city from morning until night. A
continual session of the cc'mmittee of
safety was held in the city hall; in
short, everything betokened the burst
ing of a severe political storm over the
city.
One day, while matters were in this
boiling condition, the committee in
the city hall were surprised by the
sudden appearance of a stranger,
whose mode of entrance was as extra
ordinary as his looks and 4ress. He
did not knock at the closed door; he
did not seek admission there at all,
but climbing, unseen, a small, bushy
topped live oak which grew beside the
wall of the building, he leaped with
out the slightest warning through a
high window, and was immediately in
the presence of th'e committee. He
was dressed throughout in buckskin,
the seams of his trousers and coat
heavily fringed, and the front of the
latter beaded and porcupined, after
the fashion of a costly Indian garment,
He carried a long rifle in his right
hand, wore at a button on his coat a
large bowie knife and in his belt a
.brace of pistols. He was tall, straight
as an arrow, active and quick as a
panther in all his motions, a magnifi
cent specimen of the old-time fron
tiersman, a genus long since van
ished.
His strange advent into the secret
session caused a thrill of involuntary
fear among its members, and many
seized the handles of their knives or
pistols.
"Who are you that dares intrude
amorg gentlemen without being in
vited?" thundered out Colonel Morton,
at the same time trying to cow the
stranger by his eye.
The stranger thus insolently ad-l
dressed, returned the colonel's stare
with compound interest, at the same
time laying his long, bony finger on
his mouth, as a sign-but of what the
committee was at a loss to determine.
"Who are you? Speak, or I will
cut an answer out of your heartl"
yelled the colonel, almost distracted
with rage by the calm, sneering man
nor of the strange, who now removed
the finger from his mouth, andl laid it
on the hilt of an immense bowie.
The fiery colonel, on this move
ment, drew his dagger, and was in the
act of advancing towards the stranger,
when several of his friends interfered,
and holding him back, remonstrated:
"Let him alone, Morton. Don't you
seethe man is cra:zy?"
At this juncture, Judge Webb, a
man of fine intellect, and a courteous
gentleman in all his manners, walked
toward the stranger, and addressed
him in a most respectful style:
"My good friend, I presume you
have made a mistake in the house.
This is a private meeting, where none
but members are admitted."
The intruder did not, of course,
understand the words of the judge,
but he could not fail to understand
the mild and gentle manner in which
he addressed him. His stern features
relaxed immediately, and moving
toward a table in the middle of the
room on which were writing materials,
he took up a pen and traced one line:
"I am deaf." He then held'it before
his audience, as a sort of. excuse for
his seeming lack of politeness.
Judge Webb toolk the paper and
wroteo a question: "Will you be so
obliging as to inform us what is your
business with the meeting?"
The stranger acquiesced at once by
handing a letter inscribed, "To the
citizens of Austin." The judge broke
the. seal and read the oontents aloud.
It was from President Houston, and
showed the brevity of his style:
"Fellow Citizens-Though in error, and
deceived by the acts of traitors, 1 will give
you three more days to dec'ide whether you
wl!l surrender the public archiv' At the
enl ot that time you will please let ie know
your docision.
"SAI HIoustsoS."
After the document was read, the
deaf man waited a few seconds for an
answer, then turned and was about to
leave the hall, when Colonel Morton
interposed, and sternly beckoned him
back to the table where he was still
sitting.. The stranger obeyed, then
the colonel wrote:
"You were brade enonouh to insult
me by your threatening iooks ten min
ates ago; are you brave enough now
to give me satipfaction?"
The stranger instantly wrote in an
swer: "Iam at 'ou service."
Colo0ol Morton wrote again: "Who
will be your .econd?"
The stranger answered with pen:
"I am too generous to seek an advan
I take, and too brave to fear any on the
part of others; therefore, I never need
the aid of ia second."
The colonel wrote: "Namo your
I time."
Again the stranger traced, without a
L moment's hesitation: "Time, sunset
this evening; place, the left bank of the
Colorado, opposite Austin; weapons,
rifles, and distance a hundred yards.
Do not fail to be on time." Then tak
ing three steps across the floor, he
disappeared through the same window
he had entered.
After he had gone Judge Webb ex
claimed: "What! is it possible,
Colonel Morton, that you intend to
fight that man? He is a mute, if not
an absolute maniac. Such a meeting,
I fear, will sadly tarnish the luster of
your laurels."
"You are mistaken," answered the
colonel, with a smile. "That mute is
a hero, whose fame stands in the rec
ords of a dozen battles, and at least
half as many duels. Besides, he is the
favorite emissary and bosom friend of
General Houston. If I have the good
fortune to kill him, I think it will
cause the president to take back his
vow against venturing any more on
the field of honor."
"You know the man, then? Who
'is he?" inquired half a dozen voices
together.
"Deaf Smith," answered Colonel
Morton coolly.
"Why, no; that cannot be. Deal
Smith was killed at the battle of
San Jacinto." remarked Judge Webb.
"There again your honor. is mis
taken," said the colonel. "That story
of Smith's death was a mere fiction,
gotten up by General Houston to sate
the life of his favorite from the sworn
vengeance of certain Texans, on whose
conduct he had acted as spy. I found
that out a year ago."
"Well, if what you say be true, you
are a madman yourself, Colonel Mor
ton," exclaimed Judge Webb. "Deaf
Smith was never known to miss his
mark."
"Say no more," answered" the col
onel; "the thing is already decided;
I have agreed to meet him. There
can bo no disgrace in falling before
such a shot, and if I should succeed
my triumph will confer the greater
glory."
Toward evening a large crowd as.
sembled at the place designated to
witness the hostile meeting, news of
which had spread all over the city,
and so great was the general reckless
ness as to affairs of that sort, that
lirgo sums of money were wagered on
the result. Duels were an every day
occurrence, for such a settlement of
real or fancied wrongs was the custom
throughout all .Texas in that early
time.
At length the summer sun reached
the edge of the horizon, covering it
with a crimson glow. Then the two
antagonists, each armed with a long,
heavy riHle, took their stations,
back to back, and at a signal, the
waving of a white handkerchief,
walked slowly and steadily in opposite
directions, deliberately counting their
steps until each had measured fifty.
Both covered the given number at
about the same instant, and then
wheeled; each was to aim and fire
when he chose. As the distance was
rather great, both paused for some
seconds-long enough for the specla
tors to flash their eyes from one to the
other, and mark the striking contrast
between the two men. The face of
Colonel MIorton was calm and emiling,
but the smile it bore had a murderous
meaning. Deaf Smitb's counitenance
Was stern and passionless as ever. A
side view of his features might have'
been taken for a prorile done in cast
iron. The colonel was dressed in the
richest broadcloth, Deaf Smith in
smoke-tinted buckskin.
Presently two rlcles were discharged
with simultaneous voices. Colonel
Morton gave a tremendous bound in
the air and fell to the ground dead.
Deaf Smith stood erect and immedi
ately began to reload his rifle; and
having finished hi's \ief task he
turned away into the !brest that bor
dered the ssrcam.
Three days after General Houston,
with DI)eaf Smith, entered Austin, and
without any trouble carried off the
archivew.-Detroit Free Pres.,
For Health's Snake.
Olives, as a food, are considered
very strengthening for those with lung
troubles.
Hot pastry and iced drinks of this
country have much to do with the
thinness of its people.
Disordered digestion in adults is
often the outcome of being compelled
or allowed to eat rich food in child
hood.
A stooping position maintained for
any length of time tends more to un
dermine the health than is generally
supposed.
Physicians are advocating the use
of olive oil, which comes from Califor
nia, for weak lungs. It bids fair to
take the place of cod liver oil, and it
is thought by many pleasanter to take.
SThe toothache caused by a cold in
the fdcial nerves may often be re
lieved by wringing a soft cloth out of
cold water and sprinkling it with
strong vinegar. This should be laid
on the face like a poultice, and will
often be followed by refreshing sleep.
900th Anniversary of the Fork,.
Venice is about to ce!ebrate the
900th anniversary of the first intro
duction of the fork for table use. The
merit of its adoption belongs to the
Dogo Orsole, who, at'the wedding of
his son produced a silver fork and a
gold spoon. It was not until 300
years later that the fork reached
France, while it was only in the year
P608 that it was first adopted for table
servics in England.-Chicago Refecord.
GREEK AND TURK,
WHY TIHE FORMER BITTERLY
HATES TIE LAT'kER.
Awful Devastation of the Grecian
Island of Scio by the Turlcs
Hlow the Greeks Avenged
Their Comrades.
HERE are passages in modern
Greek history which explain
the unquenchable hatred of
the Greek for the Moslem.
Some injuries may be forgiven, others
leave behind them a running sore
which never heals. Such.a wrong is
the massacre of Scio.
Over against the seaboard of Asia
Minor, within seven miles of the beach
on which the surf breaks and in full
sight of the old Pagus range, with the
town of Smyrna nestling at its base,
the Island of Scio or Chios wooes the
Western breeze with her oils and
wines. Like most of the Aegean is
lands it was born of fire and sulphur
and lava, but aster a time generous
nature swathed the rugged rocks of
the southern extremity with a cover
ing of alluvium, on which the citron
blooms and the lentisk lends its frag
rant bark to the knife, so that the
gum mastic which the girls of the
Orient love shall flow.
From the remotest antiquity a race
of islanders were grown to fit so sweet
a landscape. The men were tall, sin
ewy, brave, trained to handle their
small craft in the stormy seas when
the hurricane blows; they led quiet
lives, at peace with all the world, and
kept out of wars when war was every
where else. Nowhere, oven in Lesbos,
were such beautiful girls raised. They
were taller than the Greeks generally,
with exquisitely rounded forms, flash
ing black eyes and rippling hair, which
hung loose over their shoulders.
For a thousand years Scio was the
happiest of the gems of the Eastern
sea. Its chief city, basking on the
eastern beach, with its face to the ris
ing sun, was rich and quiet when the
gutters of the other cities of that re
gion flowed periodically with blood.
When the time came that the 'lurk
swooped down upon it, the people ac
quiescdd, let the Moslem set up his
mosques and went on chanting "Avo
Maria" as devoutly as ever. Chance
favored it. It was made the demesne
of the Sultana dowager, and a wild
rage for chewing gum having broken
out in the seraglio at Constantinople
it was discovered that the precious ar
ticle could be best manufactured;from
the gum mastic of Chios. Thus the
owners of lentisk groves grew rich.
In the times of the later crusades
the Genoose wrested Chios out of the
hands of the Turks,held it for a couple
of centuries, and left their marks all
over the island in the shape of con
vents, churches, colleges, hospitals,
libraries and palaces. Then the Turks
reconquered it. But the softness of
the air mitigated the ferocity of the
temper of the Moslem; the cres
cent floated over the castle of Scio;
but the Christians cultivated their
fields without molestation, and at the
beginning of this century they num
bered 90,000 of the hundred and odd
thousand of inhabitants. When the
Greek war of independence broke otit,
the Chians did not at first see that
they were called upon to take part.
They read the papers in their quiet,
easy-going way and kept their passions
well under control. But when news
came that Greek blood was flowing on
the mainland they rose In arms and
locked up the Governor in the castle
without doing him any harm. He
dispatched a swift messenger to Con
stantinople to say that he had fallen
into the hands of the Philistines and
that he was prepared to endure what
ever Allah might send.
The missive reached the hand of
Kara All, the capondan pasha, or lord
high admiral, who was just then start
ing from the Golden torn with his
fleet to chastise the Greek rebels. It
occurred to the capondan pasha that·
it might be a good idea to drop in at
Soio on the way. He brought his
fleet to an anchor in the roads and
landed 15,000 troops, chiefly janissar
ics. These were joined by robbers
and adventurer3 from Smyrna, who
were ferried across the narrow strait.
The islanders were taken by sur
ptise. They had no military organ
ization and were unprepared to fight.
TCey offered submission at once and
protested that they did not propose
to dispute the Sultan's authority.
The 'apondon pasha pointed to the
castle where the Governor had been
imprisoned and quickly observed that
he proposed to give Scio a lesson. He
let loose his soldiers, bidding them
treat the island like a captured city
which had been given up to sack.
The Turks went about the work de
liberately. They took two months to
accomplish it. They began by hang
ing the archbishop, the heads of the
clergy and the principal citizens; their
bodieswere thrown into the sea and
floated round the Turkish ships until
they were eaten by fish. The capital
city, a score or more of flourishing
villages and the splendid churches and
convents built by the Genoese were
then burned to the ground. The peo
ple were penned up in corrals, the
males being separated from the fe
males. The former were killed to a
man; the latter after a judicious se
lection had been made by the Turkish
army and na.vy oflicers, were sent to
Constantinople to be disposed of in
the slave market.4j.Gordon (says that
the men who were slaughtered num
bered 25,000 and that 45,000 girls and
children were sold as slaves. Certain
it is that the price of comely young
women declined fifty per cent. in the
slave markets of the Levant during the
year 1822, wlach was the year of the
massacre.,
Several thousand Chians, men and
women, took refuge in the rlefts of
the hille, and eluded pursuit. Of these
many starved to death; others .wero
taken off at night in bcI
thlzers from other islaa
a-mber were bought or ý"
citizens of Smyrna. Ofti
patriated themselves, the
dered thro ii thCe edit'
in a state of destitution,n
years Chian beggars IIvs
streets of Genoa, Marseilles
celone. Among them were;
whose countenances showed
of marvelous beauty, det
hunger, cold and Privation,
Gordon says that ther e
at the'olose of 1822 when ot
Chrietian inhabitants of 84
only 2000 remained. This a
be an exaggeration, but t
question but so far as in the
work of depopulation which t
understood was thoroughly
At the appalling news, 11
Greece boiled. Even the
which jog-trotted through
European statesmen wa
stirred. Remonstrances -
decorous diplomatic phrase
dressed to Constantinople
while a secret council of (re
resolved to strike back. T~
fleet lay at its anchorage in
of Scio, the officers toasting
eyed captives in goblet5i{0
wine, and trying to divert t
with song and dance. Ulpde
a moonless night there cre'
the northern darknesstwoni
brigs, outfitted as fireships,
gunpowder, pitch, tow, tar.
fire,-and manuned., b Cont
narie of Psara and thirityh
who were ~ready to give'a
lives. They had taken thei
and had been blessed by t
Canaris had seen to it that.
powder stood handy to 'bI
craft with all on board,:.
failed. When the black n
sailed in noiselessly, eteeri
lights of the Turkish yses
aimed straight at the;'
Turkish flagship. When 'i
the chains, he grappledi,
made fast, driving his briga
counter of the flagsaip ias"
could; then he set firetio.
and sheered offl rapidly inli,
shouting "Victory to the Or
The fire crept swiftly up, th
sides of the man-of-war, lea
bulwarks, licked up the rigi
along the deck and probed
down the hatches. Ina fe* ii
it enveloped the magazine.
were over 2000 men on board
and soldiers. They were den
by the looting in which they.)
gaged. Discipline had beenr
the officers found it impossible
the fire with vigor and
Presently the flames gnawedt
of one of the masts, and it fell
crash. Foreseeing what ni
next, the Capondan Pasha, wh
and hands had been burned ii
attempt to check the confil
leaped overboard into his gig
dered the sailors to row to the
But just as they were shovingi'
other mast toppled and felli
the Admiral's boat, strikiing~
blow on the head which btr
skull. He lived to be landedl
beach of the island he had d
then he died, just as the c&.*.
Ramadan rose in the night ai
explosion of the magazine i
his vessel sent 2000 of his coup
to eternity.
Six months afterward the
fleet lay off the island of '
awaiting an attack, which ainch'
fatal, for the Turkish flaeet,:
whelming in numbers, encircl
every side. 'Again it was ii
moonless night, and the watohli
Turkish ships elumbered in
Through the glo3m, over ths
waves, as eight bells soand
same Constantine Canaris sailed'i
ly, every man in his little cra
ing his breath and awaiting the
ing Eound of the scraping of the
sloop against the sides of the
flag ship. It did not take long
the jar came, for Canaris and hi
men to fasten their grapnels,
Turk and set fire to the comb
with which their deck was loade
the flames darted up the side,.
rushed off in the dark and sho
"Turks you are burned as a.
God save the cross!"--an ri
Chronicle.
Ilow Ie Lost a friensl.,;
'"I had a friend once who
horror of lending monoy," said
known sporting man last night.'
knew me, and knew me to be per
good for any debt I might co
He and I were in Chicago once,
got broke, cold broke. I need
badly and had no one to ten
cept this friend. I went to hi
told him that I knew his pr,
against loaning money, but said
ed a hundred so badly that I w
ing to take the chance'. 'I kU
to be good for a $100,' saidl myl fr
'but I warn you right now that i
borrow that amount or a bu
cents from me I will never
you again as long as I live.
dition with yaour friendship,'
'what I want is a hundred.' O
out his wad and gave me fivetta
dollar bills. The next day.I'
talk to him and he would have 0.
to do with me. After several.
rebuffs I stopped trying to for.
company on him. I paid the'~
back when I said I would; ba,
alter the debt was canceled he
have nothing to do with me.
was ten years ago. I have ssef
every day or so in all that tiifl
he has never made the sligh
sponse to my overtures, I do.
lieve his own father could berW
from him and expect to re
friendship, He is certainly i
man."-New Orleans £ime3De
Nevada for many years has
one Baptist Church. Thiiss t
and now a second has been estab
at Wadsworth, thirty¢fe milda .
taut, with a membership of
four awaiting baptism.
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