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bub fob life woes i was a boy all my near relatives thought that i was cut oat for metho dist minister upon what reticular traits of my character they based tneir opinion i cannot cay for i am not an e to affirm with truth that my general deportment tas to be recommended as a model for other boys to follow perhaps it was because my face had a naturally solemn and wise expression be that aa it may at the suggestion and with the advice of my farseeing relatives i was brought up to regard the methodist min istry as the goal of my studies and with com mendable ardor my father who was not wealthy lent every effort to the attainment of this object in consequence of the two freat zeal with which i seconded their views found myself at twenty with my health much impaired and mind weakened to a degree that unfitted me for further study in the general alarm at my condition my relatives again came to the front and sug- fested a change a trip to the west traightway an aunt on my mothers side who had married a lumberman and lived in northern minnesota being duly made aware of the state of things invited me to visit her family and thither i went that wat in the spring of 1870- the min- nesotdlimf acted like magia pon my overstrained icrves and the beginning of autumn foniil me restored to strength and so far recovered as to rbe able to teach more than halt the people in tbo district were swedish and norwegian settlers and i experienced no end of trouble with not a few lndiorous incidents in understanding their broken english and their odd customs the term of school ended about the first i of december myynole wajsat that time carrying on lucobetiu i operations f ony miles from home on the cutlet of like winlbig- t oshiah one of the lakes whioh form the head waters of the mississippi river he invited me to join him at therend of the school term 1 had never been in a lumber- ing camp and determined tospend a month or two in the pine woods with him there b was fine hunting deer foxes muskrats i lynxes and other animals in the region j in the settlement where i had been teach ing there was a young norwegian lira bjnrk two or three years older than i who t lihad trapped and hunted about winibgosbish for several years he was a skilful woodsman and a thor- oughly goodhearted young man strong sturdy and intelligent he had been a chopper at the camp through the autumn but as he thought that he conld earn moro money at trapping and hunting my uncle 1 willingly let him off and acquiesced in my plan to accompany him for a trip of a few weeks around the foot of winibigoahisb twenty miles above the camp he also offered us a spare mule bingo by name to haul our outfit j- it was the middle of dacember when wo started ont from oamp we had ah odd assortment of provisions buffilo skins blank- ets oamp utensilb tools for constructing a log hut traps guns snowshoes a little rusty stove and two bundles of pressed hay to eke out bingos browse diet all loaded beourely on an old sled we fol lowed the smooth icebound river whpb as but little snow had fallen furnished a good roadway it was a long days tramp it was getting late when we arrived at the place settled upon for a camp nothing could be done that night beyond throwing up a tem porary shelter of saplings and evergreen boughs benesth which we orawled with our robes and blankets and with our feet toja big fire of dry pine logs slept till morning that is to say lira slept but thernusual and lonely situation drove sleep from my eyes for many hours bingo poor beast was hitched in a biroh thbkct a little way off where he browsed diligently we lost no time in seleotiog a site for our winter camp at the end of two days with bingos help in drawing the logs into place we had constructed a comfortable hut it chinks tightly calked with moss to keep out the sifting snow whiob in that cold region usually fallb in fine dry crystals againbt the back side of the hut we also threw up arough leantofor bingos accommodation after getting our oamp in order we turn- ed our attention to business lira set all the steel traps whioh we had brought about the lake shore and along the river he constructed dead falls for mink mar tin and otter a few otter had been captur ed by the norwegian the previous- winter but they were exceedingly shy andno abundant for three or four weeks but little snow fell thero was just enough to make the ground excellent for tracking game and we wer successful in seourlng quite a pack of fhr two of the coveted otter skins among others we had trapped several wolves too which proved that there were numbers of them about us yet as lira had exhibited no fears concerning them i felt none several times on our snowshoe tramps scrota tbo country we had oaught sight of thenr run ning with great swiftness but we could never come near enough for a shot at length the snow began to come down in earnest nearly every day the cold was intense we had been down to my nnoles camp onoe for supplies and for the mail whioh was brought in oooasbnally by one of the men on candlemas diy we awoke to find that a genuine blizzard bad struck us we were entirely out of meat for game had boon aoaroe on the lino of our traps for several days and we had decided to devote this day to supplying our larder now there was no thing tor it but to stay in shelter till the storm was over for three days and nights the galobluater- ed and bowled through the treetops above our hnt whirling the snow in suoh thick oloads aanearly to smother one out of doors we dared not venture two rods from the hut for fear of never finding onr way back through the blinding drift tho old was almost unbearable with all our efforts we could scarcely keep from freezing fortunately we had prepared a supply of wood only a few yards from the door and by turns we went through the drifts dug cut an armful and guided by tho others voloe crawled back to the hut with hair and clothes and eyes pelted full of snow i bven with all the fire we could keep i was obliged to wrap myself in one of the baffalo 1 robes and crouch in a corner nearest the j stove j lars a true son of the north and accua- j tomed to fieroo blizzirds kept busy mending j our clothes traps and ska or snow- i skates such as are used in bis snowbound native country and whistled merrily while the uiid wind cent little eddies of snow whirl ing through the chinks into his yellow hair tee fourth morning dawned bright and eear the weather had moderated bat tho snowlay four feet deep over the whole coun try our little hut was nearly buried and so hard were the drifts packed that i who was about forty pounds lighter in weight than lars could run over tbem anywhere the norwegian would cow and then slump through them bat the cold weather had given ns tremen dous appetites and onr alee bad been very tame we knew that animals could not have moved about much in the- deep snow during the long storm and that they must have become famished accordingly we thought that now game of all sorts would be astir after an early breakfast we started out on cur nixes which were made of ash five or six feet long very narrow thin aud smooth as glass there were bound to the foot by straps and with them one accus tomed to their use can skim over the bnow ith great swiftness although i was thoroughly at home on iceskates it was some time with lars teaching before i cculd keep poo with him after getting a little away back from the lake the country was open with the excep tion of strips of timber bordering the sti earns upon the banks of two of these wo decided to set some of the traps which had been taking nothing about the lake for seireral days in the afternoon i started a doe in a broad strip of timber near a creek as it bounded off over the snow i fired but misl ed scarcely had the report been heard when my companions rifle cracked and at tho same moment i heard him cry out sharp- lj as if in distress much alarmed i hastened in the direction of the sounds and found that a most distress ing accident had happened the doe had run towards lars who while skimming along to get a nearer and more effective shot had broken through the snow which hid drifted over some small shrubs his rifle was discharged as he tellforward and the bullet had entered his left ankle making a terrible wound lira bjork was a man of much courage and as stoical as an indian bat the pain was so great that he swooned dead away i on my part was so overcomo that for a moment 1 lost my head entirely and could do noth ing but lars soon recovered consciousness and instructed me now to bandage the limb and stop the flow of blood- how to get him to camp was the next ques- touin this matter too liras bruin was more fertile than jnino same sort of hand tie he declared must be improvised ind i must go to camp which was about three miles distant after tho axe auger and ropes i disliked to leavehim alone in his dia- tresj but there was no other way so after providing him with bed of boughs i start ed off and as i bad now become expert in the use of those wonderful skees in less than an hour i had made i the trip and was bick again 0 joying laras direction i no v cut two biroh aapliogs having natural crooks for runners an i smoothed them off with tho axe then i bored holes and put in croes bars upon these i laid boughs and one of the robes which i had brought from camp the slid was tow ready and my wounded companion managed to crawl upon it- the load was not very heavy after getting underway over the smooth hard snow we went oh at a good pace and had accomplish ed half a mile from the place where the ac cident occurred when chancing to look back i saw four or five animals about the spot cramblingand apparently fighting with eaoh other i mentioned it to lire with an effort he turned to look biok theyre wolves he said gat to camp as fast as you can 1 tho brutes had sneaked from some covert in the timber as soon as we had started and were licking the blood off the snow they might even have been in pursuit of the doe tne cause of our misfortune a wehad frequently seen them while out trapping i did not at first feel muoh alarmed bat soon a series of prolonged howls from behind warned us that madden- ed by oxtremo hunger and tho taste of bl od they were in pursuit and that others wero joining in the chase ooming oat from the timber as wo hurried along i glanced at lira his face was very white but he grasped his rifle firmly i now fully realized oar peril and put forth my utmost efforts the country was halfopen here i had heard that it is the habit of wolves when ia large numbers to try to surround their prey i was certain that was what they meant to do if they could oome up wita us more over i soon found that tbey were gaining in spite of my exertions we had covered hardly more than a mile and a half of the dibtanoe when in going over some oononaled shrub where tho snow was shallow the sled broke through and threw me down i thought it was all over with ns then bat i was not entangled nor was anything broken and scrambling to my feet i jtrked the sled out of the snow and was off again io a twinkling but the howls of the pack bad come fearfully nearer fly to oamp mine friend i fly to camp 1 dont mind me 1 the brave nor wegian now exblalmed as he dashed along theyll have us both but drop me and you can get to the oamp fire back into them i i panted for i felt ready to drop lars managed to turn around and dis charged his rifle and at this unexpected salute the onooming paok halted for a mo ment this gave ns a little time and i made the most of it yet wo had not gone fity yards farther before the troop were again in fall cry j and atinugh ho continued to fire as fast as ne oouln load the raven ous brutes now pud no at ntlon to the re ports but at last and as it chanced with his final cartridge he hit one of the foremost of the paok ihe creature fell and immedi ately the others set upon him after the manner of wolves this again gave ns a little start yet they quickly tore their wonnded fellow to pieces and were after us again more greedy than ever before we had got out of tbeir sight among the scattered timber then i thought of a fox which we bad trapped and i had tossed under the robe beside ltrs at starting that foxl i gasped pitch that out 1 overboard went the preolous gray fox then on on on for life again bat we were within twenty rod of camp now and with a fresh spurt i dashed for the door and reaching it ran inside sled and all at one final leap v vj the door was slammed to and barred and mad at our esop the hnrgry creatures duhed themselves against it like a foamicg sea wave but we were safe i dropped upon the camp floor exhausted till nearly midnight the famished animals raged about the but i then a little later we beard a sudden and most app tiling out cry but it was as quickly bushed the wolves bad broken into tbo leanto poor bingo there- was nothing left of him to tell of his fate in the morning all was quiet i took lars who had pissed a night of agony on the sled and again set off down the river toward mv unclba camp which we reached about neon the norwegian was taken home and ultimately recovered next day i went back to our camp with two of the men and brought out our furs and traps but i had no further desire to hunt that winter improvin mighty alow but expects a change of tedder will make him hustle we will now dispel de met tin an adjudicate home wards tee limekiln club i hev bin requested said brother gard ner aa the meeting opened to present to die club die evvenio do query is de white man improvin pickles smith will lead off de discubhun brother smith replied that he bad been taken unawares he bad never given the matter a thought he had seen more or leer white folks around him each day bat had given them no particular attention he had a core throat a bad headache chilblains en both feet and there were strong indications tiat a first class boil was about to hit him in the leg he would therefore ask to be ex cused from expressing anything like a decid ed opinion on the white mm question col anonymous smith next followed it was a question whioh hid bothered him not a little tnirty years ago ths white man got drunk he geta drunk today thirty years ago tho white man sold his vote ho saw several of them boucrht in at tho last election in the vears gone by the shite mau swore gambled stole robbedied cheated and committed murder he was doing those same things today if there had been any moral improvement the colonel couldnt see it he had always felt a sym pathy tor white folks and had always hoped they would do well and it grieved him that no better progress had been made elder toots said he wis glad tho queation had come up the white folks were always concerned for fear the oolored race was re- trogadlng but the boot belonged on the other foot within twenty years the white man had invented the telephone but alas 1 the states had to pass laws to keephim from send ing cuss words over the wires the white man had erected wonderful biidges improved the telegraph brongbt out new orders of archi tecture improved in paintirig and scalpturo and eleyuted the staadard of schoolavnd so ciety bit there was another side tio the pic ture the white man bad discovered other ways to beat the lane passed for the protec tion of life and property j lying swearing stealing and embezzling were hardly count ed as sins visitors had picked pockets and stolen overobats men who paid the highest pewrent in church were doing the heaviest stealing dessing had become an art but running in debt and beating creditors had become a greatei one the elder had noth ing against the white man on account of his color the lrd had made him white and he was not to bumeforit bat when the white man stood on a corner and claimed to own the earth it was well to investigate hi olaim waydown babeo said he had always felt kindly towards the white man and had al ways been willing to extend him a helping band he could remember back for a quart er of a century if there were any deoided improvements he could not name them if the white mau was batter educated so were all other men if inventions wero more numerous other races had helped to make them so take the vtbitomaa as a man aid he nad doubtless retrogarled he was losing his reverence for the bible and the iawa he was living fast and loose full of gossip suspicious aud having no osre how he made bis money so long aa be made it if the white man had got nearer to the moon by means of the largest telescope ia the world be had also discovered new liquids to fct drunk on and new ways to beat the law f tho soul has become more poetio law suits for debt had also become more numerous if the average mind was living nearer to milton and shakespeare jast as many bodies wero beirui committed to state priion sxlsaao said the query had often been presented to him and ho would take advant age of this otowion to say that he thought ho oould seo some slight improvement in the last twentyfive years who were mor- moni the white folkr who were big- arranta the white folks who were om- bezz ing fron banks ateiliogfrompistoffijea and filching tohool moneys f the white folks all the sedidon was uttered by white men all the demagogues wore white men all the trusts and monopolies on the one hand and all the strikes and violence on the other inoluded only white men it was his oonvlction that white folks were a bad lot bat not quite as bad as they used to be samuel shin arose to remark that he had seen a good deal of the white folks and had been brought into collision with them more or less every day lor years he oouldntsay as a beginning that he liked the color it wasnt fast it ran all the way from the color of an old roan horse turned out to die to fresh snow and be conld never bo made to believe that straight hair was of any good except in the oase of a wolf white folks had cheated him lied to him stolen his wood and poultry and ho had come to distrust the raoe he didnt doubt that there was some slight improvement but even savagaa are compelled to improve he be lieved the time was near at hand when black would be the popular oolor all around and when the man with the woolly head would step to the front gemlon said brother 3 if as he arose de queshun has nod nt decid ed in de negativo but we shouldnt bar down too heavy oo de white folks day hs had a heap of tribulaohun cspeshually in dis kentry i fur ono hev gnat an abidin f itsf in de iucher of de white man he is gradual- ly learniu to speak de troof an- to keep his hands off of odder folksos chiokens time will make him fear or respect do law brush up his manners an compel hiri to realize dat bulldin big skne houses doin mako manners nor bring bizaess lt ns gin him a far chance to show do stuff he are made of da answer to do query will darfo be he ar 8laves of mobphihfi incident that illurateibe vlcilnts com plete subjfcitou to lie drui in collecting information in regard to the use cf the drug- number of remarkable in stances of its abuse was ran across one of its most degrading effects is the complete obliteration of all moral responsibility dr james c wileon relates an ixcldont of a patient under bis cue a woman devout and refined and in all other matters save the one out jjet of morphine eminently trust worthy when about to undergo treatment shedenied having taken or then haviogin her possession any of the drug 1 call upon odd to witness she cried that i neither now have nor have had since i began to bo treated any preparation of morphine what ever 1 within ten minutes sixty quarter- grain morphine pills were found concealed under her pillow it was not long since that a man voluntari ly wont to klrkbrides to be treated for the habit and concealed in the sleeve of his coat a few days afterwards were found sixty grains of the drug that he had smuggled into the institution surveyor of fie port ounpbell- tells of a well known politician of his ward who died some time ago from the effects of liquor and opium whose body when ho was eximioed after death did not contain a space an inch rquarethatwabnotfilled withtheneedle punc tureo of the hypodermic syringe tnereiscne man atkiikbrideanow who is accustomed to jtb the needle atraight down into his leg at the risk of striking a vein artery cr nerve a pale nervous young man walked into an new york barber shop not long ago and sat down oh a chair to be shaved the bar- bar had hardly lathered rliis face before he was seized with a fitof terrible trembling so that the shaving could not be continued with great difficulty he managed to get a hypodermio syringo from his pocket and squirt some morphine into his arm and in a half minute he was calm and collected aud ordered the barber to continue he told the curious tonsorial artist that he was just re- covrin2 from a prolonged debauch a lady recently related to the wrltbr tho case of a young victim of the habit confined ia a convent to be cured it oould not be discovered how she continued to keep herself under the influence of the morphine until one day it w 4i found that the inkstand on the writing table was filled with the solution and what was supposed to be a pen was no other than a hypodermic syringe some months ago a gentleman connected with the press was going south on the virginii midlandrillroad at popes head ran prince william county va tho train was wrecked and the engineer was oruebed underbid engine he was frightfully mangl ed but remained conscious and while eff jrts wero being made to reloase him soreamed and prayed to be killed to be put out of his agony while strong men turned away in horror a pretty young woman ran back to a rear oar and presently returned with her handbag from it sheproduoed a hypoder mio syringe and injeoted a good dose of morphine into the suffering engineer exhi biting an amount of nerve that astounded the witnesses the first injeotion did not bring relief and she gave another exhausting her supply of the drug when the engineer wan released he was dead but his buffering had been greatly soothed the pretty young woman was a morphine fiend and she endur ed nntold agony until bhe got to a town where her supply could bo renewed ono of the drug clerks interviewed told this btory thore is a man who comes here who uses thirty grains of morphine a day o io day last fall he was about to start on a fishing trip and before doing so he came here got bis fifteen grains dose and boughb a quantity to take with him when he reached the fishing ground afrieud who knew of his failinc asked him if he had come well supplied he looked for his morphine and found to hia consternation that he had lost it although he had taken enough to last him for eight or ten hours he immediately became like a wild man his companions could not control him and he rode twelve miles over the oountry on horseback at a breakneck speed to the nearest drug store whero hie loss was made good to his great joy and relief the earls pipers for several years the late erl of alrlle so ted as lord high commissioner to tbo general assembly of tho church of scotland amongst his attendants at holyrood wero two pipers who at every dinner given to the olergy and other guests at the palaoe marched several times round the largo dining hall playing the wild and inspiriting musio of tho highlands one evening tho moderator of the assembly at some ones request asked his graoo whether he bad anvobj otions to instruct the pipers to play tne b innie house o airlie none whatever replied the krl but i doubt whether we shall got it for tho one piper is an oilvio and the other is a caupbell but we shall see calling the butler he gave orders that wren the pipers next oame in they should play tbe bonnie house o airlie the butler went at once with the message by andby tho pipes were heard approaching and in a little one piper the ojilvie marched in playing the desired tune with great dignity and vigour i expected this said the uirl in a jocular way to tho moderator summoning the butler again he asked whether his message had been delivered yes my lord then why has campbell not oome in with ogilviel i gave him your message my lord what did he say then the man hesitated what did campbell say i again demanded the e wl he said eh oh still hesitating he said he would see your lordship j the rest of tho sentence was los in a cough and tho skirl of ogilvies pipes it was hot all a dream- he about to ask for a kiss i have an important pueation to ask yon she plavf ally -i- know what it is charlie you want me to be your wlte i dreamed it well take me he rather taken aback yon dreamed it she yes i dreamed it last night and i answered you as i am answering you now and ou took me in your arms and kissed ma isnt it romantlol out his ibiefld ih pie0e8 haas knebn is charted with a atemartsv my brutal murder the murderer in charge of sheriff john m eiue of madison wis was for a few- hours tbo other day a prisoner at police headquarters new york awaiting trans portation to tbe scene of the crime hans kutbn is the murderers rame and his vic tim was bis employer william christen who had befriended him and given to him a borne and employment in his cbeese factory at primrose done county wis work was stopped in the factory dec 13 and christen and kuehn disappeared at firefrthe neighbors thought that the men were off on a spree two lads fishing in a small stream near primrose eight days later drew to the bmt a heavy bag which they opened eagerlyjax- peoting to find gold and silver instead they saw a human head mangled by blows with an axe lying amid fragments cf a mans viscera 1 hey fled in terror and told the authorities the head was recognized as william cbristers and kuehn was at once suspected investigation revealed the full details of ths horrible butchery the floor of the factory was covered with bloodstains which had been partially wiped away and in the fireplace was the partially consumed clothen of the victim secreted in the cellar was a bloodstained axe over which ashes hid been taked and everywhere was a sign of studied effort to hide all traoea of the crime a further investigation showed that kuehn had been planning the- mnrder of cbriaten for a long time he purchased a gallon of whiskey dae 12 took it to the room which he occupied with his employer and got him hopelessly crank while cbriaten was lying on his bed help less and uuconscious from drink kuerten robbed bim of 400 in money and then split his head o with an axe he dragged the body to the factory put it into a large cheese tub and hacked it into small pieces usin an axe and a bharp knife the head ani inteatinee he sank in the oreek and tbe rest of the body he forced into two large satchels which ho carried with him to mon roe wis and destroyed or buried he spent an entire day in an endeavor to wash out tho stains of blood and in burning the garments whioh christen had worn the day after the tragedy kuehn made his brother drive him to monroej telling him that christen was to meet him there and that they would go on to chioago and prob ably extend their travels to switzerland at monroe kuehn purchased a steerage tioket for queenetown on the steamship lord gough whioh was to sail deo 19 and em ployed a man to carry his two satjhels the porter discovered that the bottoms of the satchels were saturated with blood but ac cepted the exouse that kuehn had been out gunning and carried the rabbits he had kill ed in the satchels the authorities however obtained this due and followed kuehn to philadelphia whence he sailod on the lord gough a cable message was sent and the murderer was arrested at qieens town he was brought back on the britannic he is a small pale man twentysix years old death of a giant the new york hefald says oae of the greatest men of this earth- colon el jllooth goshen the famous arabian giant was laid to rest yesterday in the little ceme tery at miadlebuah n j and- only a f6w neighbours and hia adopted daughter were the mourners the death of this well known museum attraction ocourred on tuesday as published in the herald goshen had been suffering for several months past from a complication of diseases but an attack of dropsy finally proved fatal during his sickness hia nurses had recourse to a double taotle and block in order to raise the big man from bed nothing in life was mora pleasing to him than his immense size and he took great delight in all the arrangements made for lifting him about on the improvis ed derrick becaueo it was a constant remind er that he was very large the plain farm house looked very dreary yesterday morning theolothcovered casket whioh contained the remains was too lurge to pass through the door and the corpse was taken outside and plaoed in the ceffia resting on tho frnt ver- andd the great coffin was eight feet in length it was lifted into a waggon by eight stalwart armers and then borne to thegrave where a prayer was said by the preacher and the body lowered into the ground by means of four strong ropes as no gate would al low tho passage of the ceffia a eeotion of fanoe was removed in the yard the colonel was buried in the wig whioh ho had worn for years to oonceal his black kinky hair and whioh was supposed to hide the evidences of his alleged negro origin the giant was first discovered by showman p t barnum in 1857 and it is altogether likely that he did not himself know his exact age or birth place the colonel had once lived in mexi- oo where he gained his military title and was a genial gentlemin for thirty vears he told marvellous tales about his adven tures enough to fill a book but before his death he oonfessed to the parson that they were untrue fighting chanoes if unele sam really intends to draw bis sword and have a brush with the old world he will not bo compelled to hunt long for a pretext canadian cruisers have been warned to keep at a proper distance from our fishing smacks tho british minister has been ordered out of the country germany has been taken to task for not keeping her enfagementa with e gland in reference to the samoan islands france and in fact all oreation havo been told to keep their hands off the isthmus of panama and faroff china wakes up to find friendly treaties abrogated and the gates of the republic looked and bolted beoauso- she failed to ratify a new convention on terms dicttted by the united states senate uncle sam oan simply swep his eye over tho earth pick his victim and deposit nis gauntlet upon the sands springfield republican if the antipoverty sodlety is seeking no toriety it ia successful attendance at lb moetings is now to be regarded as a sin for whioh the priest cannot grant absolution this is arohbiahop corrigana mind ate it is stated that there are hopes that by the 1st of may next all the electric light posts and wires in upper broadway and sixth avenue new york will have disappeared underground it is devoutly to be hoped that all wires will soon in like manner go to their ung borne in time as well as space i t 4