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to enter the canyon. Years ago Ihere
was a great and wise chief who
mourned the death of his wife, and
would not be comforted until Ia
vwoats, one of the Indian gods, came
to him and told him she was in hap
pier land, and offered to take him there
if upon his return he would cease to
mourn. The great chief promised. Then
Ta-vwoats made trail through the
mountains that intervene between that
beautiful land, the balmy, fowery,
sweet-smelling region of the West
California;, and this, the desert home
of the poor Indian (Arizona).
This trail, of course, was the canyon
gorge of the Colorado. Through it he
led him, and when they returned the
deity exacted from the chief a promise
that he would tell no one of the joys Of
that land, lest, through discomfort with
the circumstances Of this world, they
should desire to go to heaven.
Then he rolled a river into the gorge
a mad, raging stream that should en-
gulf any who might attempt to enter
thereby.
This story is valuable to history as
containing the first mention of a pass
age of the Colorado canyons There
were other stories told among the
whites, of parties entering the gorge in
boats and being carried down with fear
full velocity into whirlpools, where all
were overwhelmed in this abyss Of
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ONCE INHABITED ALASKA.
Mounds That Prove tho Existeses OF
an Ancient Race There.

Point Barrow, Alaska, the northen-
most point OF land Of the North Amer
can continent, has some interesting
!, rayeyards Of its own. About eleven
yeai4, ago Lieutenant Ray, in his re-
port Of the polar expedition to Point
Barrow. recorded that in digging a
shaft tWenty-six feet below the earth's
surface to obtain earth temperatures he
found a pair Of wooden goggles, point
Ing to the great lapse of time since
these shores were first peopled. The
last number Of the. Alaska Mining Rec
ord says that this country was un-
doubtedly Inhabited long before Column
bus discovered America. OF the origin
or descent Of the inhabitants no def
mite trace has been found, and there
are no records of the past among the
people who now live there. Their Ian
guage abounds in legends, but none
gives any data by which to Judge how
long these desolate shores have been
inhabited. The ruins of ancient vii
lagos and winter huts, along the sea-
shore and in the interior show that the.
country has been Inhabited for CEN
turtles. There are mounds at Point
Barrow marking the site of three huts
dating back to the time when the ma
lives had no iron and the men talked
ike dog These mounds stand in the
middle of marsh, and the sinking of
the Land caused the site to be flooded
and abandoned. The inhabitants in
times past have followed the receding
line of ice which at one time capped
the northern part of this continent, and
have moved along the easiest line of
travel. This is shown in the general
distribution of similar people, speak 4
ing similar tongue, from Greenland
TO Behrirg straits. The distribution of
the race to-day marks the route trav-
eled. The seashore led them along the
coasts OF Labrador and Greenland, Hud-
sons Bay and its tributary waters
Ihey came down the Yukon, so rich
IN minerals, to people the shores of that
stream and the interior of Alaska, and
Travelled along the coast to Cape Prince
OF Wales. To this day they use dogs
instead of deer, the natives of North
America having never domesticated the
reindeer, and they speak a different
tongue from their neighbors across the
strait in Siberia. Some writer's on the
subject have advanced the theory that
the natives of Alaska are descendants
OF the race of people that Cortez drove
out of Mexico, others that they are
Japanese or Chinese in origin, and
others still that they came to this coun-
try across the strait from Siberia. So
far as definite information is con-
cerned one guess is as good as another
The lonely mounds at Point Barrow
mark the antiquity of the race. but
they do not tell it's story
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JAPAN PLAYING AT WAR.
Even Her Games and Toys Now Ex-
press Her ExultatiOn Over the De-
feats of Poor John Chinaman.


The very playthings Of Japan have
now warlike character, says a recent
newspaper from that country. Chess is
n favorite amusement Of the Mikado' S
subjects, and the shapes of the pieces
have been changed of late to meet
the popular taste, the pawns being
made to represent Japanese and Chin
csc soldiers, and the bishops, knights
and rocks the officers of higher rank
The market is also being flooded
with a great variety of mechanical
toys, Of tin and wood. which, by turn
ing a crank OF by simple clockwork
are made tC show Chinese soldiers in
various unenviable positions. Some
of them represent the Celestials pur-
sued by Japanese troopers. who make
terrific sweeps with sword or lance
in stately see-saw; others show pris-
oners caught by their queues and try
ing to avoid the rising and falling
blades. A favorite paper-weight or
desk ornament is a clay figure of 4
Chinaman pleading for mercy. The
most ambitious bit of mechanism re-
presents Japanese war vessel grad
ually closing with a Chinese ship.
The latter is struck, it's flag comes
down with a rush. and the doomed
vessel sinks beneath the turbulent tin
WayeS.-NeW York World.
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rents of the river moved, and they
lowed more swiftly as they retreated
from the shore. It was believed that
any one who should venture so far from
che land as to lose control of his boat
and be thrown on the mercy of one of
these currents would surely be carried
On, faster and faster, to the edge of the
precipice and meet a miserable death
by being dashed down through inter-
minable depths. It is perhaps need
less to say that the perfect credulity
with which this story was received by
he untutored ancients caused them to
be very cautious mariners. They sell
1om went out of sight of land, and then
only by accident.
The simple Indian tribes that dwelt
along the walls Zone cannot say
shores) of the Colorado River, had a
somewhat similar superstition regard
ing the vast gorges and canyons
through which the river winds it's way.
10 them this extraordinary work of ma
ture was entirely too marvellous to ad-
nit of a natural explanation. And So,
N accordance with line of reasoning
which is generally observed all the
world over by savage minds, they i'm
mediately set to work to account for
lhe canyons on supernatural grounds.
Among the different tribes different
traditions prevail, but they are all
agreed in one respect-that any one
who had any concern whatever for his
mortal welfare would be acting wisely
20 stay away from the Colorado River.
The poor Indian who should venture
down that awful precipice, 1000, 1000
and often 5000 feet in height, and en-
bark ON the fierce, gurgling torrent,
whose roar could be heard even at
those great depths, would better first
make his peace with the Great Father.
His friends would never see him again.
The river never ran backward, and
once down in that narrow crevice, be-
tween sheer, smooth walls half mile
high, there was no possibility of es-
cape. ~'
And it was disobedience to the gods
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BURIAL OF "A TRAPPIs1..
Solemn Ceremonies Over the Grave Of
One OF the Order.

solemn Ceremonies Over the Gravr Of
One OF the Order.
Rev. Father Medard of the Trapplst
order at Okla died on Wednesday last,
and was buried yesterday, says Mon
tana dispatch. Father Medard's fam
lily name was Placide Martin, and he
was native of the parish Of St. Alexis,
County of Montcalm. He studied in
the Toilette college, and after his clas-
steal course entered the novitiate Of the
Oblates at Lachine. Having left that
institution, he entered the Trappist
monastery in 1891 and pronounced his
VOWS in March, 1893.
. The burial of Trappist is peculiar
and solemn ceremony. Immediately
after a monk is dead the body dressed
in the monastic robe, Is stretched on a
simple board the head covered with
the cowl, and then taken to the monas-
terry chapel. There the body remains
until the day of interment, four yell
low wax candles burning all the time,
and all the monks in turn reciting the
prayers Of the liturgy, night and day.
On the day of burial the prayers for
the dead and a requiem mass are
chanted, after which all the monks
form in procession to follow their
brother to his last resting place. Dur
ing the funeral procession psalms are
chanted in the mournful tone peculiar
to the Trappist order. When the ceme-
terry is reached more prayers are re-
cited, and then the body is lowered in
to the grave, not in coffin, but sim
ply dressed in the monastic robe worn
during life. A monk then goes down
into the grave to cover his dead
brothers face with the cowl, after
which the officiating priest slowly
throws a shovelful of earth over the
body. Two other monks do the same,
and then the grave is filled up in the
ordinary way. After the burial the
procession returns to the chapel in the
same order.
The Trappist cemetery is always
placed in the interior yard of the mon
astery so that the dead may always
be in view of the living, and as soon as
one monk is buried another grave next
to the one just filled is partially dug
up, that each may see the place where
he may possibly be before long.
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Two Quick Reports Were Heard.
ton he discovered that the amphibian
was following him and gaining Oh
him. 1t was a trying moment. and
Cooper to this day asserts that his
umber-burnt head might have turned
white if he had not kept it under wa
ter. 1t was only a question of a few
minutes when the huge hippopotamus
would overtake him and consign him
to a Watery grave and mince meat OBJ
livion. With the instinct of strate-
gist he turned and swan directly to-
ward the behemoth. When he came
within five yards of it he lifted his
head and beard out of the water and
gave uttelance tel an ear-piercing,
Comanche yell that echoed far up and
down the banks of the stream. Quick
as a flash the monster sank out Of
sight, and the senior swan to the
shore. He waited on the banks of the
stream week, and finally killed the
hippopotamus, which a resident Afri-
can chief asserted was the disguise of
an old enemy Of his, who had been
killed a year before. This caused the
chief to sell a great deal of ivory to
the expedition and present the senior
with half-dozen wives which he de-
clined with thanks.-Rocky Mountain
News.
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RAMS HORNS.

Selfshness is hard snake to kill.
The cross of Christ is the key to
heaven
Everything God gives US to do needs
to be done
Christians get along faster when
they travel in pairs.
Gods fire in the heart soon melts all
the lead in the feet.
Whoever takes Christ for a topic will
soon have him for guest
The better we know the Bible, the
palmer God can talk to U.S.
If we talk about Christ we will never
run out of something to say.
1t takes the man who carries Gods
message long while to get tired.
Many hear the voice of Christ before
they know who it is that speaks.
Whatever Christ has given the church
to do, every Christian should gladly
try to do.
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HE HAD SEEN A THING OR TWO.
A Story of Adventure,

Few men have had more hair
breadth escapes than Senior William
Fenimore Cooper, who for many years
lived near the extinct volcano of Zem-
poatepettle, in the province of Orizaba,
| Mexico. He made his home with the
| Mexican Indians, the last of the once
proud race of Aztecs who fought under
| Montezuma. 1t was his custom daily
| to enter the crater of the volcano and
look for mosaic agate, a translucent,
prlsmatlc stone somewhat similar to
the onyx. One day he went to sleep
III the crater near a bed of sulphur,
| and the latter caught fire and came
within an ace of suffocating him. His
beard has been a burnt lumber color
ever since.
The accident caused him to quit
Mexico for the United States. and he
| has been here ever since Some of the
incidents in his career show that he
has nerve, a deadly aim and heart
for every fate. He is a native Of the
Tar Heel State, and when sixteen
years old he went to Texas to become
| a cowboy. One night near the Rio
Grande river he and ten other cow
boys We're surrounded by Mexican
bandits, and a general fight followed.
In the melee young Cooper was shot
in the head, and the bullet is still
there. He was dragged from the field
as dead, but after many weeks he TO
covered and began to punch COWS
again and practice pistol shooting. His
idea was revenge on the greaser who
had shot him in the fight, whom lie
knew by sight.
One hot night in July. four months
| after he was wounded, Cooper had his
| horse >staked out grazing while he
took his siesta under a chaparral tree
on the banks of little stream When
he awole he lit shuck cigarette and
casually looked down the stream To
his amazement he saw the greaser
who shot him just getting up from a
siesta. The greaser's horse was also
grazing some yards away. Both ran
for their horses, for they knew it was
| a Hfe-andz1eath race. The greaser
was Splinter and so was Cooper
Each reached his horse almost at the
| same moment. and each mounted SIM
| ultaneously.
Their pistols left their holsters to-
| gether, and they began to fire at each
| other. After two shots had been eX-
changed the greaser yelled out chal-
lenge of the true cowboy style-i. e.,
they would gallop around in circle.
shoot at each other five times apiece.
and if at the expiration of the ten
shots neit]/r was killed, they would
resort to the lariat. Cooper readily
agreed, because he had devoted much
practice to shooting from his horse at
full speed.
They rode short distance from the
creek and then began their circular
duel. AS they galloped around the
greaser shot first and put a bullet hole
through the rim of Cooper's sombrero.
1t was a close call and showed fine
craftsmanship on the greaser's part
AS Cooper afterward remarked, 81
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The Japanese Royal Family,

The Japanese Emperor has had
twelve children, four of whom are liv-
ing, three being girls and one boy. The
Prince Imperial is the object of the
greatest solicitude, for of course, much
is supposed to depend upon his pros
poets Of living and growing into a
strong man. He has been i'll all sum-
mer and is under the care Of three ply
sicians. His trouble is water on the
brain. His head is abnormally large.
and, although his intellect is briSht
and he is in full possession of his men,
tai powers, he is peculiarly sensitive
to diseases Of the brain and nervous
system. All Of the imperial family are
troubled in the same manner. The
Prince Is Is years old.-Buffalo Elk.
press,
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waters; of underground passages for
the great river, into which boats had
passed never to be seen again. 1t was
currently believed that the river was
lost under the rocks for several hun
dred miles. There were other accounts
of great falls whose roaring music could
be heard on the distant mountain sum-
mits, and of parties wandering on the
brink of the canyon, vainly endeavoring
to reach the water below, and perishing
with thirst at last in sight of the river
which was roaring it's mockery into dy-
ing ears.
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the Cooper Trading comp. my lie nae
regular expedition itte,S ont, with
elephants, Zanibari guards and por-
tiers and few missionaries, 70 help
him buy ivory. For six or seven
months he was absent from the coast,
but when he returned he had secured
enough ivory to clear $4,000 above all
expenses. Mrs. Cooper was with him
every moment, and carried a rifle,
which she used effectually on more
than one occasion. This was some
years before Mrs. French Sheldon pen
etrated to the interior of the Dark
Continent.
One of the petty African chiefs, who
had plenty Of ivory stored away, re-
fused to sell it to Mr.. Cooper. He
also complained of the loss to the cat
tie he had sustained by the inroads of
a big lion. '.a-.#
When the American made PROPOSE
ton to the cantankerous, pessimistic
chief to go out alone to kill the lion,
the Old savage smiled with delight, for
he thought the conditions would be re-
versed, and after the beast had en-
Joyed savory meal off the white man,
then the expedition could be looted
~
goat was tied in an open space in the
forest, and the cowboy, with his ele-
plant rifle, secreted himself near by.
All night long he waited; the goat
bleated, and yet the lion came not.
Just as the sun was rising Il large
male lion, with a terrific roar, sprang
into the open space and upon the goat.
Two quick reports from the rifle We're
heard, and the king Of beasts rolled
over dead, almost at the feet of the III
,trepid hunter.
One day while enjoying a swim in
tributary stream of the Congo river a
large hippopotamus bobbed up Sc
renely between him and the shore.
The situation gave him a goose-fesh
feeling. because he could not argue
with the monster. He began slowly
to swim toward the middle of the
stream. with the idea of reaching the
opposite shore, and to his consterna.
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LAD AND LASS.

y, lad and lass, the old earth sDins
away!
To-day is sweet, and sweet was YES
.'.. terday;
Io-morroW's dawn may rise up chill
and gray
All! lad and lass.
All, lad and lass, some dav Won will
awake,
stand hand to hand and feel the heart
strings break.
Drink sorrow from loves cup for old
times sake
All! lad and lass.
All, lad and lass. the world is hard
to read,
And none may tell what fruit shall
q crown the seed,
but hold forever to the old. old creed
All! lad and lass.
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6rst time that such a trip was ever
made. Few white men, in fact, have
aver dared to brave the rapids, shoals
and eddies of the treacherous Colorado
sven when provided with stanch boats
and all possible conveniences. Major
Powell, when making United States
survey Of the canyon in 1869, went down
through the canyons from Green River
10 Grand Wash. He was accompanied
by several other able-bodied men, and
furnished with boats built especially
fcr the purpose. Although the party
emerged from the canyon eventually
in safety, they several times narrowly
escaped destruction by being dashed to
pieces on the rocks or overwhelmed In
the rapids
The Rev. Mr.. Utter began his trip at
a point some distance below that at
which the Powell expedition abandoned
the canyons. He came out at a place
called the Needles, two hundred and
Fifty miles further south, on the border
between Arizona and California.
The Colorado River is formed by the
junction of the Grand and the Green
rivers, in the southwestern part OF
Utah. The Green River is larger than
the Grand, and is the upper continual
gion of the Colorado. Including this
civer the whole length of the stream is
about two thousand miles. The region
drained by the Colorado and it's tribu-
saries is about eight hundred miles in
length, and varies from three hundred
70 five hundred miles in width, making
an area of about three hundred thou
sand square miles, which is larger
than all the New England and Middle
States, with Maryland and Virginia
added. The river enters Arizona at a
point on it's northern border about
twenty miles east of the middle. Near
ly all of the remainder of the course
lies through the remarkable canyons
which have made the Colorado a very
wide and very swift river. It is ex-
tended outward until it suddenly came
TO an end. There was no opposite
shore, the river simply ended by fall
ing over the verge of a tremendous
abyss. Towards this abyss the cur
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GRINDING CREDITORS,

They Were Mean and Perverse Enough
to Spoil the Honest Mans Plans
1--WE can't go to Europe this year."
said the progressive business man, de-
cidedly.
'But, john
TITS no use to argue" he interrupted.
"You wanted to go and I did my best,
but my scoundrelly creditors won't let
me. They're the most unaccommo-
dating lot ever had dealings with"
''They-they won't have you arrested,
will they?" she asked, anxiously.
ARRESTED" he exclaimed. "Well, I
should say not. But they're mean and
petty. Why, Maria, when failed fig
ured that could pay them 20 cents on
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PERSONAL,

The late Richard NJ. Hunt, the great
architect, left an estate valued at $780,
900.
Charles w. Campbell, a Philadel-
phian, has mustache twenty-five
inches long from tip to tip.
Rev. FIR. Field, a young Oxford-bred
ritualistic clergyman, is devoting his
life to work in the negro slums of Bos-
ton
William Ludham White of Jamaica,
N. Y, who will be Is years of age in
October, is 6 feet inches tall and
weighs 262 pounds.
j. &. Brown, the American artist so
famed for his street arabs, says his sue
cess comes from the fact that he was
once street boy himself
William Penn Stedman, who was the
man to capture Jefferson Davis when
he was about to make his escape, is
employed in one of the departments at
Washington.
Joseph Dudley of Waterford, Me-,
seventy years ago built a big clock
over the entrance of his house. Neither
rain nor snow has affected it and it
still keeps excellent time.
Coquelin's LONELINESS of face and his
large, turned up nose weighed strongly
against him when he presented him.
self for admission to the French con-
servatory for stage training.
The due d'Aumale is credited with the
intention of buying the historic chateau
OF Amboise and using it as a soldiers
home for the benefit of such of his old
companions in. arms in Africa as may
need it.
Arthur Nikisch, who conducted the
Boston Symphony concerts in 1889, has
resigned his position of director of the
Buda-Pesth court opera. The resigna-
ton was due to a disagreement con-
corning the management of the opera
With the death of James Bum tho
noble race of Shinnecock Indians ends.
The old man died with his face to the
sun, which, as he died, rose, over the
Shinnecock hills on Long Island, the
encient home of his once-powerful race.
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DOWN THE CANYONS.
THROUGH THE GORGES OF THE
COLORADO.
Made by a Clergyman and His Son
Exciting Experiences In the Rapids
and Eddies-First White Person to
Perform the Feat

HE Rev. David
Utter, Of Salt Lake
City, accompanied
by his 13-year-
old son, last month
accomplished the
remarkable feat of
floating down one
of the most dam
gerous parts Of the
Colorado Canyon
IN q raft TT iS the
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I will utter what believe so-day, If
1t should contradict all said yester-
day.-Wendell Phillips.
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ROUNDED.

Gould she but guess the secret here
me secret would fain confess
What would she do, poor little dear,
Could she but guess?
! wonder! Would she fem distress
VI would she feel fishes sincere
VI might she slowly murmur s"Yes?"
me deuce-'tis out! My whole career
lL IN her hands to blast or bless.
s-lhat comes Of trifing with mere
Gould she but guess"