Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 January 1894 — Page 3

C. DOANK, Publisher.

JASPER.

INDIAN

WEEKLY COURIER. ? na OQ one . to watch

i uiil 1 1 1 r 1.1 rr-i ll -r . . Ma

: oiuux Jtuiian, you know, beats tho world for sneaking on a wagon train. Hu don't follow up on a crawl Hko other Indians. He Jot Rhcofl to xi't et you, and then seems to r.fco right ,,p uut of the Kromi(1 an(, tack.e you before you know whith..-

j uii uro on um prairie or in tho queen's

urnwing-room. We didn't see m.i,i

nut nt 1 l, ..tt .... . . 1

...w.. ii, wiu

WllfU I WO Rinrn ni.r 9

buj'jku appeared a heml l

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UNCERTAINTY. s What trtfts Kfti Pnte in n!re for attf (Tie coming ;(r iUH soon)' Mi:ill I ut I n ilia ii summer's Uro Forget the flowers of June!

VtvxH grapes through days of purplo haze.

urram tnrouKu tue autumn moon? Etir lo the ccklcd quail's clear noto On chill December's noou!

Snail I Arxcrj t Ureas h bare Mack tree That shape I drsad and know, '. gaunt gray wolf with hungry eyen A-skulking through the snow?

jur tiown ureau a lanu l J earn sings a song

r-o sirunxciy sweet ann low." He bays: "Why hasten on tny path, I she theo peace for woe."

.Anil down Hope's lane Sleep binds a wreath

or poppies wrought wjih bay; He gives the pilgrim happy dreams To speed him on his way: For Hope, wltn tempting promises Through summer" golden day, l'ulfllls In autumn's fruited store The presage of the Slay. .A past tho lanes of Hope aad Dread Where Druid oak trees wait Fate spins the thread of destiny, Nor pa tue soon or late. 1 it a strand of rainbow hue Or black a night grown late? Sly heart is but a coward's heart. I oaro not question Fate. Nancy M. Waddle, la N. V. Independent.

JUMPED BY THE SIOUX

Hard Luck of an Exploring Party in tho Yellowstone.

My story begins back at Bozcman in 'CV mi id James Gourley at the Montana club to a New York Sun reporter. "Boze:nan was then a town where things went on a run a regular bird with the feathers on. It was a day all night in the night time, as the poet, Cy'.Varmnu, wrote about Creede. The streets were filled with bull teams, fighting' freighters, stampeders and strangers front every corner of the country. The gambling houses never. stopped to clean

the baric from the floor, and on every

corner you wouia see groups of men

listening to some orator who had dis

covered a new gulch. Everybody had

money and blew it, because he expected

to nave loads of It before spring.

" ell, one day in the gold exchange

I happened to

Earned Wiseman from a row. and

save a young

fellow

we

struck up an acquaintance. lie had

been sent out by the government to ex

plore an unknown region now known

as the Yellowstone park and had come

to Bozeman to start the expedition. He wanted me to make the outfit, agreeing to pay for everything and let me boss the train at a salary of five hundred dollars in gold a month. I put up the figure because I knew we were going to have trouble with the Sioux. Then I picked out three good men all devil-may-care fellows who would fight to the line. There was Henry Muloscy, a young fellow who had goaewild Ml' tB east aad wIiom people paid him a salary to keep away? from home; a freighter called 'Bight bide' Jack, because when drank he was alwaj-s claiming to be right side up, and a Unite who had come down the spring before from the Red river country and was a rattling good cook, j

"e fitted out two wagons, loaded with the best of. everything that Uncle Sam's money weald "bay, calculating to live well anyhow, even if nobedr rot

oacic alive, we weren't Husking- much about that, but I'fcncw it was risky business. The boys gave us a good

semi oir at the Uold Exchange corner,

ana on wc started, going down the val

ley toward the Yellowstone, which we expected to follow south until we

f reached the geyser country. ody

in me crowd knew much about tnese

geysers then. Two years before a trappep said he came from there after having a light with Indians, but so far as

we knew he was the only white man

that had ever beca there. 1 recollect his telling that these geysers were big

streams tuu com Iroin hell, and, ac

cording to what the Sioux Indians said, the water boiled only when the devil

was getting ready to cook the Chev

emits. Then he said, besides, that there

was a big hole where he looked down

and saw big bars of gold all stäupet), but we thought he was crazy or lying

any didn't pay mach attention to him

i remember W lseman we called him.

the professor saying that it wouldn't surprise him much to find gold, seeing

mat me country had been sort of torn

to pieces by cartliouakes. and of mann

that set us all on an edge and kept us

iiMHKing now we would go back home

ant cut a ligure with Vandcrbilt and the rest of them.

Nothing ocearrfd mach to dktara

as tor the first week out The weather was line, for it was in tho fall of the year and the traveling was good for a country where there were no trails, we foaad good game along the YellowMone, which we strack and followed down. There were plenty of fine aa telopes, which were mighty shy. And there was no end of black-tailed deer, mountain trout and birds. We didn't H'o any Indian signs for ten days, or in ijjct until wc got along about where Unnabarnow staaas for .the eitraace to the park. Thea one moraiag when . Kot UP early to catch a mess of trout breakfast I looked over across the "?e which laj to the west of as

vm twenty miles, and I see a long ne of blue smoke curling no into the alr in a funnel shape. The air was cool and clear, and 1 could see the J-woke lined oHt as clear cut as a knife, '"is settled the question aboat Iniian.s and after breakfast I told the oy wc must be on the dead open ateh. They all said they didn't care much and tried to get some fun out of J - Urule by telling Rim that when the J Hans there got hold ol a half breed Sri?,okcd h,m R,lTe the fiamc M thy JooM a fish. This joke turned out to .!.Cv'noru tn,th Poetry. at i travc,e lnff dHringtheday

khcad ol train Quarter of a aaUa

t one side of us, but each on an opposite side of the range, which was narrowed

"un dose and not far from tho

canyon. I sensed it that the In,!?

had gone ahead of us durintr tb..

aud were gatherinL' V m..i.t J

pass which 1 judged must be between the two ranges.

"That night We (aninr.il

uir neiffiit of rocks 5-n 11. ill rrnnnl

S.I.. i .... . v

uu aiier putting out the fires moved a half mile from the wairons to"

throw the Sioux off th

loney stood guard, but the mornino-

came without any trouble and wo started on.

"In the middle of tho

right into the irevser conntrv nnrf t

tell you it wan .1 cWrKt t

' w " -mKi ilk .1 b geyser we saw was what thev now fall

Ohl Faithful, but which the nrofessor

named the Abe Lincoln. It was run

ning then all the time instead of at in

tervals as now shootintr th

high in the air it seemed like a mile and scattering it all around the lava

basin. All around the irround was

torn and broken until it looked like the devil's own home. The noor ltrnl

fell on his knees and crossed himself, while the rest of us stood nronn.l n.l

listened to a lecture from the professor. We stood there maybe ten minutes when there came a "zim. zim.'

Drop to the srround.' I veiled. fnr

down.'

"Down they dropped and then

another 'zim' and no mor CnmliirutM

says I to the boys, 'we're in for it now.' How under the sun them Indians got rifles I don't krow. but 1 turned pale right there when I saw what shape the fight was going to take. There we were in an open plat of ground and nothint to prevent the swarm eotnintr

down on us, but for some reason they didn't come, and when we got to our feet and ready to fight not an Indian was in sight. Hut that didn't stop us from being scared. The Untie kept crossing himself until his buckskin shirt was white from the marks of his fingers, which had been buried in the

alkali dust. The professor. 1 recollect, said: " 'Gourley, why didn't you tell us these Indians had gunsV " 'When you get back to Washington

you ask the government where they

got 'cm,' says L " He will never get bacl?.' savs Ma-

loney.

That was about the talk, as near as

1 can recollect After waiting a half

hour, maybe, we got back on our hands

and knees to the wagon, which we foaad all right because the shots

to come from the other side of

the range. Then we held a cohbcü of

war, and decided for the night to move ph into the opening of the caavon.

where we could see aaother mound of

rocks which would protect us. We

were never considering how to get out

of the cursed place, only thinking about a safe place to live from one hoar to the other. Right alongside of

these rocks we found two springs, one bubbling hot water aad the other cold as Ice. lloth springs are bow dried out That was the' toughest oat of a good many tough nights I have spent We again put out the fires after picketing the horses a half mile away so that their noise wouldn't bring the Sioux

down on us. and there we lay close together cursing our luck for ever coming into such a hell mint as that was, and doubly cursing the government The Hrule moaned in broken French, while Maloney, who wanted some fun, kept asking whether he wanted to be parboiled with or without onions. The professor, who knew nothing about In

dians, tried to cheer us tip(jby sayiag

taai mayne we nau nearu only chance

shots. 'Small chance

tor yoa, I

thought, 'If you hear any more.'

"Finally the morning broke, but it

took a long while for davlight to get

down through the canyon after we could see the light on the hilltops. Nobody had slept a wink, but wc did not

seem tired: excitement, I guess, kept us awake, and some way or other we all felt more cheerful though knowing that the danger was all the greater

with daylight. I had the same feeling

once after that when in a three-wcekv running Indian fight in the Wolf mountains. It is a kind of don't-care feeling that grows on you in danger.

"When the morning was fairly on we

got of oar rites, oh which we had

beea .akeaiag, and, after takiar a

drink, began to think about breakfast

I went over to the wagons, which I

found safe enough, and packed up some

coffee and canned stuff and some eggs,

which we had brought packed in aalt

After a few more, drinks, the Brale

warmed up so that he could cook.

When he reached the eggs, 1 took 'em

and says what's the matter with boil

ing them in this spring of .hot water?

They all agreed, so I dropped a backet

in the spring, and then in a joking way

l turned and said:

" 'How will you have your eggs ' "Eggs? There came a Sioux war

whoop from the canyon mouth with a

hell's mint of bullets. Wow! It

makes my marrow bones shake now to

think of it I saw Ilight Side fall to his knees and heard (he Hrule yell as I sprang to my feet and ran down that canyon on jumps that would make an elk light for second place, and God only knows why I wasn't killed after the first jump, ltullets singing around me, with one In my shoulder, and the yells echoing from the high walls of the canyon until it seemed like the whole place was alive with spirits from another world. I have been in hard places, bat 1 never was in such a jackpot as that, though I had no time to think of danger then. I ran down thjt caayon without looking behind once, ad seemed to Ij, aerer s to lag ma

til J saw by the sua that it waa well along la the afternoon. "When I did stop, it was when a cave opened up so big that I ran rirht into

it, and there I fell, almost dead, on a rock damp with the lima water that w,a propping from above. It seemed like I was almost insaae from fright and exhaustion, but I still knew enough to look oat and see that there were no Indians in sight, and then fell asleep on the rock. That night I dreamed the fight all over, only thinking that it ended in our clearing out the Indians, instead of being whipped ourselves. Then I thought that we

nau lound the gold bars and had goaa overland to Omaha, and there struck a train of yellow cars which carried its to New Y.ork, where we had a time. You can imagine my feelings when I woke up on that rock, wet through with lime water, and so sore and tired and hungry that I almost wished tho Indians had got me. "Well. I got outof there finally to get something to eat, but there you see I, was in another fix. I had dropped my gun in order to run easier and had no matches or a way to start a fire even if I had anything to eat I found a few berries which I ate. think!

they were poisonous, but not caring much, and there was nothing else la sight Then I started boldly down the

canyon, having decided to take my chances with tho Indians instead of starving to death there. 1 knew it was no use to go back for the Indians had taken everything, and my only thought was to get out of the blamed canyon and strike for Hozeman by the direction of the sun, for my compass was gone with the rest of the outfit That night I camped again without having found anything to eat, and another miserable night it was, and in the morning I was about ready to dieHowever, I took a bath in the alkali water of a stream running through and made another start

"About noon that day I reached what looked like an outlet from the walled sides of the canyon, and followed this in the desperate hope that It might lead somewhere. All day long I climbed up the wedged rocks, so that the buckskin shirt was nearly torn off from me. When night came the moon arose, and by the faint light I could see enough to worry along. Along about daylight I saw the top, and after

no end of climbing, until my feet were bleeding and ray hands torn from holding on to the rocks, I reached the top. Almost the first thing I saw was a bush of l.ocky Mountain plums, and the way I went for it was a caution, r eat

enough of 'em to give a trainload of men the cholera morbus, but I was braced up considerable and able to start along again, having sighted the sun for the north. "Considerably to my surprise I had seen no Indians, and I judged that the ones that attacked us must have been a wandering band, or that a big council was being held somewhere. The next day, however, I came square Into an open plot protected by a small grove of mountain pines, and what do you think? Kight in the center, on a tree behind a pile of burned-oat ashes, was the body of that Brule cook, tied with deerskin throngs and cut aad

slashed In a thousand places. The heart had been cut out and "the ears

and nose slashed off, so that, altogether, it was a horrible sight It made me quiver to look at it and thank my lucky stars that they had never catched me alive. I tell you, I got out of there m!ghty quick after finding a few slices of dried deer meat on the ground, which tasted mighty good, and I guess saved me from starvation. Hut I had a tough enough time after that It was a good ten daV travel

on horseback from the nearest white man, and I had given up all hopes of meeting anyone on the way. I was pretty well satisfied after seeing the Hrule that nobody but myself had got away alive. y "To make a long story short, I got out of the country after such sufferings as 1 never want to have again. I lived

on berries and grass and fish which I caught by making a small dam on the Yellowstone and letting the water run out until the fish were stranded. I boiled them in one of the hot. springs scattered over the country, and worried along one way and another until I had begun to think that I was lost Then one morning I felt a kick in the ribs, and right there before me was a trapper called Long Henry, on account of his size. He fed me up and took me to

Hozcman, and there I found that not a sign had been seen of the rest of the party. The next spring a party of

trappers came bsxck reporting that they had found three skeletons and the pieces of the wagon and rest of the outfit around an old camp fire. Of course that settled it, though I was

satisfied before that they were all dead. Anyhow, I made a report to the

government and to Maloney 's father, who came out ia the summer aad seemed to feel pretty bad over the boy's death, saying that he hadn't used him right "Well, all this happened thirty years ago, so long that it had dropped oat of my mind until last year when I went down to California to see if the climate wouldn't help an old knife wound that I got in the Wolf mountain fight Of

course there ain't ao need to say that I was ready for a little fun whea I got to San Francisco, but I didn't know anybody and got pretty lonesome like, and was thinking of moviBg down to San Dlega One night I was leaning against the bar in the Haldwin house. I saw a big, wclbdre&sed fellow come in aad eye me pretty close and walk by me twice, looking sharp at me all the time. "Then he walks up when my back was turned and gotclose to my ear aad says quiet like: " 'Hard boiled.' "Yen, that was the man Henry Maloney and we had a great old time down at His ranch near Mariposa end a flue ranch It is. Now it don't often hap

pen that a man remembers to anawer a simple question after waiting twenty-eight years. As to how Msloay got away from the Sioux who eaptared him aloBg with the Urate well, that at aa-

tfctr story."

COCHRAN ON . THE TARIFF.

European

Vkm Xsw Tork HsIhdub Espe Eon KpubHM rIhM. In the debate on the tariff biÄ in the house on Friday, January 12, W. Hurka Cockran, of New Y'ork, presented his views on the proposed reform, the leading polst of which are here given. Mr. Cockran said he had consented

to speak partly because ho did not believe he would retard the passage of the bill by so doing and partly in the hope that some of his remarks might lead to some counter assertions from tho republicans. Objection had been made to the bill on the ground that H would not raise enourh reve

nue for tho use of the government The objection presupposes that the reduction of tariff rates means a redaction of tariff receipts. If he believed

that this bill would reduce the revenue ho would not support it He believed, on the contrary, that the revenue would be increased by decreasing the tariff, and his belief was based on the experience of all the civilized nations of tho world. Referring to that free trade nation, par excellence, Great Britain, he showed that the revenues of that country had been materially increased since the extension of the free list The dutiable list in England has been steadily decreasing aad now contains only about six articles, as it was found that a larger list was not needed for the sup

port of the government, and the income from those six articles was greater than when the list contained hundreds of thousands of articles. The breaking down of the old barriers to the free

exercise of the skill and industry of a nation was of equal value to the discovery of a new and better element of nature, the opening of a new continent, the birta of a new nation. It had been said that the reduction of tho tarjff would paralyze trade and destroy the industries of the country. He denied it; on the contrary, he asserted that it would increase trade, would increase consumption, enlarge our markets and would not only in

crease the revenues of the government, but would also increase the opportunities of the people to earn the money they need for existence. He showed that tho burdens of tariff taxation eat deeper into the roots of industry and bear more heavily on the people than appeared on the surface. For every dollar which went into the treasury from the collection of tariff taxes hundreds of dollars were collected by the processes of consumption and tr.vde throughout the country. The tariff granted, to a few protected individuals letters of marque to prey on the industry and commerce of their fellows.

"In custom Souse arithmetic two aad two do not alwayr make four, but sometimes only one. Thls reduction of the tariff laws, which was sbout to be accomplished, would operate to so leer case the revenues of the government that

ise treasury would soon again be In the soaditloa In which the democratic patty left it ia MM, sad the "chief trouble would lecome the .sestloa of how to dispose of the surplus which would accumulate "Now, we have heard a great deal of protectes: It Is a word we are thoroughly f aaitllar with. Bat what to protectioa ia the concrete! A gm tana ea the other sMe (Mr. Dslsell) Bed deelared that the Mate weuld eecae whea te cewatry would have protection. If we have aet cot protection bow, thea what Is protection! HaTe Bot ws got it bow! is not the McKinley bill protection In all its perfection! Thea what to the tariff! The republicans seen to think that ft is something sacred, emetBisg aaystte. something wonderful, somet&tag which shoald not bo touched, looked at er spoke of except with bated breath. It Is lute the ark of the coTenant of old. which it was a sacrilege to look upon and death to touch.

Aad the Biystle tarhT west triumphantly through the election of 18 and the democrats who were held enough to discuss It were seat lato the cold shades of -the ortxwlttor " yut

f he twlff lew of IBM the largest and final Jeweils the trown of protection! Are we to assume that sow at last we have "protection" Or to there to be another adrsace la the life of protection! Is the wall to be built still higher? I do not kaow whether we hate protection bow la its fallest esse or whether you jrcntlemtn on the repabllcan side arc only started ob year tarMf career aad will ultimately give as s taruT law which will give as a home atarket where oar wants will be supplied by tnsta and by the favored monopolist under the uriC "Are we to be told that the further we progress la wresting ike secrets of nature aad obtaining control, for our industrial pursuits, evea of the elements themselves: that whea we eta harness up the lWthtBlas to do the work

er commerce, aaa waea we ran use forces which (la operation to-day; transcend la power the very miracles with which Moses sought to convince Pharaoh ef the divine mlsslos with which he was charged: are we now to confess. I say, that oar possess km of those powers aad advantages of this starch along the line of civilisation makes us helpless as against a lower level of dvfllnatkmf "Str, barbarism has prevailed aastest civil!Batten, when barbarism used the weapeai of träte force; bat la economic contests, the higher the level of dvulaatkm the more sure the resalt of the contest. Aad because we. la tbto country, are the asost strutted people that the world Baa ever aeea, because we have reached the hlgaest level ef dvlllratloa of which the hums a salad ever dreamed, we are for tkat

with

ladaetrtol In wru-M

Qaotiag approvingly a sentence from

Dawid Hume, Mr. Cockran said: "Like hiss. I pray for thssatoascrclal success acd prosperity of the sobs ef mea wherever they are. I believe that Ike eattdres of Arft

wheat Christ dtod lo save, are all oar brethren. Bad that the attoslea of the r public to te elevate all of them." Mr. Cockran weat oa to argue that aa aa iadividnal should confine himself to the basinese that waa within his practical capacity, so also a people ahoald confine itself to those industries which it can cany on advantageously. The protectionists seemed to believe that the condition of the laborer was heat when he waa confined to one job. But,- he said, "the condition of the laborer k best when he has two jobs. And we believe that if the provisions of this bill go into effect the country would begin oa a grand march of progress, oa a wise era of prosperity and usefulness, auch as has never before been witnessed. It would reach a

positkm of eminence which It coald aever attain until it is realized that its children are entitled to enjoy its fraits at the cheapest rates. "We have heard It said." Mr. Cock-

ran eoa tinned, "that all through Europe there has been a reaction and that

revival of the nrotectioa iwntlmt

progresa. That sentiment ia to he aplalaeduu the theory that the imae standing armies maintained by

Weit

ia the

armies, Mr. Coekraa aMa! "Nowde'yoifsee why a pV " system is accessary la those eonstrtoaft Now do you understaadthe fr.Twth of the a rotectlve sentiment In Kuropef Now do rest ralize that it may te necessary ü the extotes ' a couatry from a military pctot of vie? So " B wr measure it to comptveat for a gö'.H foment to pro tcct Its Industrie. whjch Is si19 ulwutty to private tadlviduals lev the btseitk ot the

pople; but in ao case i H admlssttjlir y'oglvo them a bounty for the becsll of thetoselV, lf ihn proactive tariff wall were to he ti ,wn down la Germany er Franse, the Indus Ml . ' the) countries would grow with giant strides, and there would be a demand tor Ubcv wbtato

iu ""v u uppne wane the goverameata were maintaining ia military idleness coustleaa hundreds of thousands of mea la the very flower of their youth. And that Is one of the reasons why those military countries kteo their protecuve tariffs" Mr. Cockran then said libs republican' coUeagne from New York (Mr. Payne) had told the members of the committee that the Wilson bill was unpopular

wu me people throughout the country; that men eonld walk through any city in New York aad see the evideaee of its unpopularity at any corner. An untried policy, Mr. Cockran said, waa likely to be looked upon somewhat dubiously, but he had found no such evldenceof unpopularity. He believed that it was a question which would grow in popularity as its provisions becamo known and understood, while ho knew that tho McKinley policy would have but an ephemeral existence and was j

only a passing policy. Mr. Cockran continued: "As tho chairman of the committee on wt

and means, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Wilson) has stood here In the houso and launched the tariff bill on Its successful voyage; as he stood here aad withstood the angry protests of some men' la his own state, some of whom added threats to reasons trances, certainly we, who have Lies te lose, can do the same. The Wilson bill to a step la the direction of economic reform and the commercial freedom of the country. Let us pass this bill and I promise you that It will take more than six monthsof hard times to put soup kitchens la every city. Mr. Wilson told us. In words that will last long alter ho has disappeared from this scene of his activity, which ho has done so much to adorn: he has told as that the prosperity of this country depends not on tho tariff, but on Its In bor; not its mines, but oa Its men; not on the republican rertv. but on AlmieSt

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

God."

OLD JOE

Xatrrnatloaal Lesson for Jaaaary 3S,l&a -God's Covenant With Nouh-Gea. sta -17. i Specially Arranged from Pcloubcfa Notes.) Goluk do set wy bow la the cloud, sad it shall be for a token aad a covenant be. tion itM aad Um ear.tt-Gw. 8:ia .lu,0!; "BT includes chap tcrs 5 - to ; 5, . The ark as a typo (1 l-L 3?M -'. Christ tho doer (John 10-7). '"Tho t,l 3hVr (Mat,L 3S!,0- saved by ralth (Hob, ll:7). The dangers o which einjl.y aro cxtKl!ecl (Math. 5:ti, is; s Tbcss, .uT,.,:"Accori,'D,f t0 1110 common chronology the time of this lesson i in .n ,

, world A ll (annomundl) 1 060, orIVC23u, Just ax the. close of the Hood; over llftcoa ceatutU ' since our last le,oa It is wcll.to understaa,'1 that tlicim dates ore not settled, bat are Belph.'1'or all practical purposes. . PtJic'i Where Noah lived before tho asod 14 unkac wn. IVat probably somewhere in Ihff rc gloa of tL o Kunarate. perhaps near its mouth, as la the Chaldean acoount, when SurlppsaV near the n. outh sf tho Kuphrates, waa corv nucred ia th' slxtoenth century, lb G, orcarf lor;.it is call ?d Irrteo record tb? city 'of the ark. Tho ark rcste somewhere osi'tnc mountains of Ararat wbfen ortend, through Arme, nla to tho soutmtcst. It Is soff tbn hbh-peak now called Ararat, but tho mountain region known ns Ararat Tu a. two DociTjrxjas.-According to" tbe view of tho higher criticism niero aro ia tbeso chapters two siparato stories of tho flood, worked togothor Into ose acetaat by the editor of Genesis. Tbeso can tio mppii la

different' kinds of typo in Uacon's Gcnesto of Genesis, or BIsscII's Genesis prlntsd'ln 'oekmi. Or If ono wlU mark on the margin sf his Btble the following verses with a bUio Denen fr ta

Jcbovlstio or Prophetic storj, and the remaining verses with a red pencil for tho Etbhtatlcar Priestly story he ean read easily the supposed two accounts. Marti with blue fls 1-8: 7; Wr-I, 12, last parfof W, las part of 17, 8: last part of 2. and' first; J, M2, last'partoMaj.sa. -"-': 0:18-27. t , Hut note that these contradictions are not'la tho Ilible narrative, bntnre tho creatjon of the critics. As put together by the editor' thoy aro perfectly harmonious

KILLED BY A BEAR.

reason aad for that reason only charged tae Mgaeet purpose of effecting the ladm sad seoaoaUast eeaqaest of the whole wo

aiMsiir armies mainiaiaec the military aatloas of Europe mal toawef ae aaaar mea la

A Xoble Fate Compared with the One lie Once Ktcaped. A horse belonging to Samuel Pottibone, of Elk Kun, and known far and wide as Old Joe, was found dead In a field where he was pasturing one morning, and a ragged wound in his throat

lead to the belief that he was killed by a bear, says a Boulette (Pa.) correspondent It is customary for bear trappers in this part of Pennsylvania to purchase old and worthless horses for the purpose of using them as bait for their traps. When a horse is to be used in this way he is taken to the woods where a bear trap is to be set'Jtnd thero shot The carcas Is placed so that a bear attracted by it can approach it by only one path, and in that path the trap la. The bear in its anxiety to get at the dead horse .steps in the trap and ia caught A year ago Samuel Pettlbone, having had the Old Joe horse twenty years, and his age having told on him so that his usefulness was gone, made up his mind to reward that twentv veara of

faithful service by making bear-trau

bait of the old horse. A big she bear had been prowling around Elk Bun with two cubs, and Pettibone had reason to believe that she had stolen two of his sheep. So he put a halter on Old Joe, loaded him up with a bear trap, and started with him for a spring hole up the run, where there were signs that the bear family waa ia the habit

of visiting. Thero he intended to shoot Old Joe and set the trap. They had got to within half a mile of the spot where the superannuated horse was to bo sacrificed when Pettibone saw two young cubs cuddled up by the side of a fallen hemlock. He took his revolver and, going close to the sleeping cabs, shot them both. He was stooping down examining his trophies, so easily and quickly gained, when the old bear curst out of the brush, and was on top of Pettibone before he coald turn. He managed to scramble part way to his feet, but was forced down again by the bear, which began ripping aad tearing at him with bcr claws. Pettibone had placed his revolver on the ground while he was looking at

the cubs, and he had nothing to de

tenu hi rasel r with. His time would have been short if it had not been for Old Joe. The mere scent of a bear is usually enough to terrify a horse, but this old horse had either lost his sense of smell by age, or was too keenly alive to the danger his master was ia to think about himself, for, old aad atla aa he was, he jumped on the bear with his foro feet and, kicking Naad biting, forced tbe infuriated animal off Pettibone and turned her attention toward himself. The bear attacked the brave old horse, and would soon have dispatched him, bat Pettibone sprang for his revolver sad ahot three ballets in the bear's ear so quickly that aaa died before aha had la file ted any serious in jury on Old Joe. 'it te needless

to say that Pettibone abandoned all Idea of making bear bait of the hone. Oa the contrary, he took him back home and gave orders that there-could never be anything on the place too good for Old Joe as long as he lived. He was a pampered creature ever after.

Pettibone declares that he believe the horse was marked for vengeance by some bear that had seen his bold reaeuo of his master from the she hear that day, and that tho vengeful bear had found his opportunity the aar night aad killed Old Joe. "But ifa a good deal better that the old horse ended that way," says Pettibone, "than to have ended up as bait for a bear trap." X. Y. Ban.

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r.E8SOCf S0TE8. Tho Good Man in a Bad WorldNoah, the great-grandson of Enoch, also walked with God. He was a holy, virtuous, pious man, in a world ruining itself with wickedness. His was not tncrrly a passive goodness. He did not hide himself from thu world. Ho was a preacher of righteousness (3 Pet. 2: 5). Ile tisefl his utmost power to save his fellowmsn. It Is not probable that ho was popular with men, but ho was in favor with God. This man was tbe means by which God saved the race. Tho Arle God warned tho people ono hundred and twenty years beforehand that a flood would come and destroy tho people on account of their wickedness. And Noah Wils rnm-

manded to build a great ark for tho salvation cf himself, and family, and doubtless for any others wlio wonld believe and repent The ark was not a ship, but a hugo oblong box, four hundred and fifty feet long, scventy-flvo broad, and forty-live deep (if a cubit equals eighteen .inches), not larger than some of onr great KtcamBhips. Tho ark was bnilt of gopher wood, probably cypress, a tall, straight evergreen tree. This wood is almost incorruptible, and frequently employed in the construction of temples, bridges and even ships. It is said that the gates of St. Peter's church at Home (made of this wood) which lasted from tho time of ConRtantino to Eugene IV., i. c., eleven hundred years, had in that period suffered no decay. The ark was made watertight by a covering of asphalt

wnicn noountietl In Assyria. Arkbuilding, where tho vessel is pitched without and within with pitch, may still be seen upon tho Tigris,4n the old region of tho flood. The Animals .Preserved In the Ark. Tho method of speaking of tho animals that were taken into the ark, "clean and unclean," implies that chiefly those which were useful to man wer preserved, and that no wild animals (Carnivora) were taken into the ark; so that there is no difficulty from tho great number of different species of animal life existing in tho world. Tho Deluge, Its Extent Tliero is every reason to believe that this catastrophe was co-cxtensive with the human population of tho world. In every branch of the human family traditions of the event arc found. But this would not imply the covering of the whole round world. "All the earth" frequently means in tho Bible "all tho region,"' "all the land," tho home of tho race. Wo atlll use the words in the same sense. It is probable also that tho,criraes and violence of the previous

ago had greatly diminished tho population, and that they would have utterly exterminated the race, had not God In this way saved out some good seed from their destruction. Tho Covenant with Noah. At tho end of the year tho waters had so dried up that Noah aad his family could disembark from tho ark which rested oa the highlands ef Armenia far north of the original habitat of man, The Great Fear. When. Noah and his family first began again to make their homes en the land, there would be a fear at every rain that it might be the beginning of another flood. This would interfere not only with their comfort but with their progress. What was the use of building houses or cultivating fields that might at any time be destroyed? BKACOX LIÖHT8 FBOX THK DaXVOK. The Danger of Sin. 1. Tho tendency ef mankind without the gospel is ta grow worse and worse. When men aro so bad that all Influences to make them better are in vain, then God lets destruction come upon them. They can blame only themselves for their punishment Every lost soul Is a moral suicide. Itself turned tho key that shut it out from paradise. God punishes men not because ha hates them, but because he loves them. Tho flood that destroyed most of the people was tho real aalvation of tho human race. God warned and entreated the people to repent, by his Holy1 Spirit, by tho preaching of a good man, and by his living example.

The Paris exposition of 1000 will be held on both sides of 'tho Seine, tha 6ito Including the Chomp do .Mars, grounds of the Palais de Trocadtro, the Qual d'Orsay, EspUnade dos Invalide, the Qual do la Conference, the Cours 1 ScbjM and the Palate de Haw dustria.