The canadian gleaner, 23 février 1893, jeudi 23 février 1893

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The hest Scotch, Fnglish nnd Cn- nadian Tweeds.We have a large and well-selected stock.We guarantee fits and no disappointments.Try one of our $10, $12,813 been rough on her when they found m.**Well, the first move in the game had been made, an\u2019 I stood winner.After pausin' a moment or two to pull myself together, 1 went over to the pony.It was & good lookin\u2019 animal, an\u2019 figured it 'u'd wake a clean run.While was lookin\u2019 the beast over, I heard shouts an\u2019 yellin\u2019 an\u2019 knowed I was missed.Now for a hoss-race for a big stake, says I, an'l jumped oun an\u2019 started down the valley away from the village.I knew soe of the Indians 'u'd be mounted, for they al'ays keep a few ponics up to get in the herd with.Just as I got well started, a bunch of \u2018em showed up over the hill, an\u2019 a yell that I can hear yet told me I was seen.I galloped ahead, savin\u2019 my pony, for I knew it 'u'd be a long race.I hadn't a saddle, but I hadn\u2019t ridden bareback in the States for nothin\u2019 when I was a kid, an\u2019 that didn\u2019t worry me.1 had hung on to my knife, for 1 knowed if they caught me this time the; wouldn't wait for no sun-dance, an\u2019 didn't figure to go alone to the happy huntin-ground.There was no use try.in\u2019 to hide, su I just pushed down the valley, calculatin\u2019 to try to make the big river I knew was somewheres near an\u2019 swim fur it.If Icould keep ahead until dark, I thought I could do this.So on I went, the pony now on \u2018most a dead run an\u2019 the Indians behind me, They quit yellin', an\u2019 I felt sure that they just expected to keep on my trail till I played out or fell off or somethin\u2019 like that.\u201cMy pony was a good one, and as he galioped mile after mile I began to fee] pretty sure o' gettin\u2019 out.After awhile the valley opened out, an\u2019 I could see the titnber belt that showed where the river was, O\u2019 course, my Indians was still hangin\u2019 to my trail, but my pony was as good as any o' theirs, an\u2019 I had no trouble in keepin\u2019 ahead.But, as luck would have it, the crick I had been ridin' down began to cut a canyon, an\u2019 I was afraid if [ followed the water close I'd get into a pocket an\u2019 be like a mink ina trap.So took up onto the mesa, an\u2019 the Indians, seein\u2019 this, closed up on while I was makin\u2019 my pony climb the side of the valley.They took up farther back, an\u2019, o\u2019 course, it didn\u2019t wind their animals like it did mine, \u201cBut I got up on the mesa all right, an\u2019 away we went again, nearin\u2019 the rivor, an\u2019 they nearin\u2019 me so I could hear \u2018em yell.We'd been running about two hours, an\u2019 the sun was goin\u2019 down.1 pretty quick noticed \u2018em spreadin\u2019_ out, an\u2019 I wondered what it meant.Directly I found out, for we was near the river by now, an\u2019 I sees it ust be a straight fall from the mesa to the water, for couldn't see the stream at all, though I knew it was wide an\u2019 way below.\u2018I made up my mind there was only one thing to do, an\u2019 that was to jump; for I couldn't get away, up or down, an\u2019 I couldn't etop to argue with twenty crazy red devils just then.If there was deep water below the bluff, 1 stood u show; if not, why then, it was as good a way to end the race as any; so, pickin\u2019 out a place where the ground sloped a little, prodded the pony with my knife au\u2019 he jumped like he hadn't run a wile, We got near an\u2019 nearer to the edge, and just as we was about twenty feet, I stuck the knife into the animal about an inch.He gave an awful bound, an\u2019 over we went\u2014down an\u2019 down, it was a year, an\u2019 then ke-splash we hit the water.1 dou't worry much about water, but I was mighty glad to find it then.We went down out o\u2019 sight an\u2019 I swallered about a gallon; but I came up again, an\u2019 so did the pony, though we dissolved partnership thout notice when westruck.I was dazed and logy, but I struck out for the middle of the river, It had got pretty dark by now, especially under the bluffs where I was, an\u2019 I swum quiet.The pony was a- swimmin\u2019, too, but I ed off away from him, thinkin\u2019 if the Indians that { could hear yellin\u2019 on the bank got him back they'd think I was drowned.\u201cIt wan a wide an\u2019 deep river, an\u2019 I come to the conclusion there wasn't no fordin\u2019 it near where we was, an\u2019 I'd just try an float down tothe settlement, hadn't no {dea how far it was, for the Cheyennes didn't tell me no geography while I was with \u2018em, but it was my only show.I was a good swimmer, but I felt awful weak, an\u2019 my shoulder, which I had clean forgot, began to get in its work again.\u2018The shouts on the bluff got faint an\u2019 seldom, but I didn't know, o' course, whether they had quit or was prowlin\u2019 down the streamn.Just then seen in the gliminer a big black thing, an\u2019 when I neared it I was mighty pleased to find a big log traveling in my direction.I joined that thing right there, an\u2019, climb- in\u2019 half on it, just floated all night.The current was awful slow, but I Badn't no way o' hurryin\u2019 Ît, so I let it be, \u2018After the longest night I ever sce, daylight began to break, an\u2019 I began to figure whether I had better keep on or tie up an\u2019 hide for the day.1 was powerful hungry, but didn't see no way o' fixin\u2019 that an\u2019 concluded to starve, at least that day.While I was floatin\u2019 along an\u2019 shiverin\u2019 an\u2019 thinkin\u2019.I looks up, an\u2019 what do I see but smoke, an\u2019 over the side o' the river away from where I'd come.It was white man's smoke, too.\u2018I knowed enough to know that.You know au Indian never gathers enough wood to make 8 bis fire.I felt prett safe when 1 see this smoke, an\u2019 when bears a buglo blow I just raised up on my log au\u2019 yelled.No one could Poa it, I knew, as scon as I done it; but I felt so good I done it again, I pushed for the bank, but it was all miry, an\u2019 1 had the devil's own time making hard groun: \u2018But I didn't care for that, an\u2019 as soon asl wason grass I just ran for the smoke.It was only up on the hish ground, an\u2019 when I topped the tness, there I saw the white tents, hosses an\u2019 blne-coats of some Tegulars.1 just sat down an\u2019 cried\u2014the first time I \u2018had let go all day an\u2019 all night.Woll, after I was braced by my fool cryin\u2019 1 got up an\u2019 walked into camp.1 was treated right, 0\u2019 course, an\u2019 the of- after givin\u2019 me some grab an\u2019 some Clothe, aaked mea heap o' questions about Dull Thunder an\u2019 his band.1 told \u2018em all about everythin\u2019 but Win- na, an then, Rs ayy vas t goin\u2019 to ove camp , went into au\u2019 went to sl s tent \u201cThe cut in my shoulder didn't amount to much, an\u2019, soon \u2018a it was well, I went to work for Uncle Sam, teamin\u2019.I drifted up north an\u2019 didn't hear nothin\u2019 0\u2019 the Cheyennes that I knew for a year or two.often thought o' Winna, but, o' course, it wasn't no use speculatin\u2019 on that.Une day, after I wanin the stage business.I took a prient down the line here an\u2019 he'd been the tribes on the piaine\u2014ne him about old .- >.; = .band, an\u2019 said he expected to see \u2018om be- | foee for they was peaceful them.80 I told hin how Winns had saved my life by doctorin' me.I didn't say no- thin\u2019 about the love business\u2014an\u2019 for hitn to tell her where | was, an\u2019 if she | ever wauted uny help to let me know.\u2018so, when that half-breed that ahowed up a month ago brought me that broken knife-blade, 1 knowed st wunst Winna was a-livin' an\u2019 in trouble.so I just lit out, us you fellers know, an\u2019 hunted her up at the agency, where I found out the Cheyeunes wus.Old Thunder had cashed in, un\u2019, after foolin\u2019 around awhile, I got Winna to take me for better an\u2019 worse, an\u2019 here we are.\u201d THE END, HINTS AS TO WINTER READING.The Proper Thing Is to Lay Out a Course and Follow it.The days are shortening rapidly and the evenings lengthening.Outdoor enjoyments favored by the long summer evenings are dropped for the season, and the delights of reading will in large measure tuke their place.What finer occupation for the long winter evenings that are at hand?asks the Boston Journal.The intellectual world is constantly expanding in numerous directions, and no one is so well fitted to take in the enjoyments which life affords as the man or woman who has a good stock of information on different subjects.Social intercourse is often \u201cflat, stale and unprofitable\u201d for the lack of this im- portaut requisite of intellectual enjoyment.Ideas must be scarce when knowledge is Hitnited.How best to utilize the opportunities that winter affords for promoting intellectual growth und culture is an import- Ant question.An excellent way is to lay out a course of reading and follow it systematically.For general utility there is no butter reading than history, biography and travel, with a little standard fiction thrown in.For special purposes scientific works should take the lead, and where literary culture is specially desired the best authors in leading lines of thought are to be preferred.But whatever style of reading is decided upon there should be steady adherence to the plan outlined.By following this course surprising progress will Le made in mastering uny subject, A half hour given every evening will carry one through the longest histories easily und with great protit.Read in this way all the leading histories in the world will become fumniliar in à few winters, History is an unfailing source of suggestive thought, and richly repays the reader for the time cxponded upon it, Biography reveals the secret springs of history and the lives of interesting characters.It is a sidelight oftentimes more interesting than history itself.Books of travel are essential to a correct knowledge of the discoveries of explorers as well as the condition and characteristics at the present day of well-known countries.Of course some good nowspapers should be inclnded in the winter's reading for information on current events.The Lunar Atniosphere, An article by Prof.W.H.Pickering in the current number of! Astronomy and Astro-Physics gives @nme extremely interesting observations upon the rare atmosphere of the moon during the recent occultation of Jupiter.In photographs taken at Arcquipa, Peru, on August 12 ult., when Jupiter was half concealed by the bright limb of the moot, there is quite decided evidence that our satellite's aerinl envelope contains some dust or moisture in the form of cloud.It had been computed that the density of the lunar atmosphere does nat differ much from between three and four hundredths of that of the earth.But Prof.Pickering found on August 12 that the density cannot exceed one four-thou- sandth, and probably not one eight- thousandth, of that of the earth.Measured by the thermometer it would thus take two hundred and fifty lunar atmospheres to raise the mercury in the glass oue inch Nevertheless, two hundred and ten miles above the moon its atmas- phere is dense enough to render shooting stars lmminous, while meteors penetrating our atmosphere do not become luminous until they are within eighty miles of the earth's surface.Hence at great heights the air is denser on the woon than on its primary.But Professor Pickering concludes from his researches that \u2018\u2018even now the uoon inust Le coustautly losing whatever atmosphere it possesses.\u201d\u2014N.Y.Herald.Most Costly Volume in the World.The most costly book in the world is ! VIII, of England, at the time when the title Defender of the Faith was conferred on that much-married monarch, For a number of years the book remain- had little use for missals, gave it to the ancestor of the Duke of Hamilton, in whose family it remained until a few years ago, when the library of the duke which paid for it in cash the enormous sum of $50,000.A much higher price than this, however, was once offered for à single volume.In 1512 Po IL.wus in need of money and endeavored to borrow.He was at that time the possessor of a Hebrew bible, which for some cause, the Jewish people of book, which was so heavy that the united strength of two men could barely lift it.The book was weighed, and the : estimate made of its weight in gold was $105,000.Julius deemed this sum in- ! adequate and declined to sell, so that the Vatican Hebrew bible is justly entitled to the distinction of being the most valuable book in the world.The Loftiest Laken.The most loftily situated lakes are found among the Himalaya mountaing in Thibet.Their altitudes do not, however seem to have been very accurately | guaged, for different authorities give wisely different figures regarding them.According to some, Lake Manasarovars, | one of the sacred lakes of Thibet, is between 19,000 and 20,000 feet above the level of the sea, and if this is so it is undoubtedly the Joftiest lake in the world.Two other Thibetan lakes, those of Chatamoc and Surakoi, are stated to be 17,000 and 15,400 feet in altitude respectively, For a long time it was supposed that Lake Titicaca, in Sout America, was the loftiest in the world, It covers about 4.500 square miles, is 924 feet in its greatest depth and is 12,- 000 feet above the seca, In spite of inexactitude with regard to the measurements of the elevation of the Thibetan lakes, they are, no doubt, considerably higher than this or any other.American Church Property.In 1850 the property of the Roman Catholics in the United States amounted to $9,256,758, which in 1890 had increased to $118,381,516.The Methodists hold the largest total, viz.: $130,018,070, while the Episcopalians are the richest in proportion to their membership.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A Large Sized Tuning York.The largest tuning-fork ever manu- ured was one recently made at Hunau for the Physiological Institute at Leipsic, and weighs twenty-seven kilogrammes, or a little over seventy-two unds, and gives fourteen double oscil: tions à second.AnE ish physician wie à mad n En physician who has study of bronchial diseases says that women teachers are subject to a pecu- Har peat affection.He commands that n traini how tc manage the voice.ns schools Sheltered Inncesnts, Toutig- The young have much to be thankfal à Bertram\u2014 hiefly because their ts i! - a Legis ink there mo we ' .CEE =» \u201c the missal sent by Pope Leo X, to Henry | ed crown property, but Charles IL, who .was sold at auction.The missal was : purchased by the German Government, | Julius | ,; .+ Gompers and pentes doutred rel hase, q hey & | subserve their ends in a contingency, | y the convention recently held in St.Louis, is Indications That When the pring Rush né Business Doveleps à Gigantie Laber Movement Will be Made \u2014 Kasters Switchmen to Begin the Rovelt.\u201cThere will be the biggest strike ever ! soon in this country next spring, begin.! ning in Chicago or somewhere else, Le- fore the World's Fair, covering dosens of scores of unions, and playing the mischief with sowe things,\u2019 according to the predictions of a unionist leader with whow a reporter of the New York Sun held communication.\u2018The pipe- laying for it has begun,\u201d he continued, \u2018\u2018and if there is no break in the lines it will be heard of when the time comes.The miners and the irouworkers and the building trades and the railroad switchers are not the only men who are dissat- fsfied with thinge nowadays, as the bosses will find out, and as they found out in New Orleans and other places.We expect that plans will be set up by which the trade and labor organizations will work together somchow, so that Gompers\u2019 American Federation of Labor will not be fightin, Powderly's Knights of Labor, an so that the outside bodies will either be brought in or made to stay still.There way be trouble with some of the socialist leaders, but then they are in favor of every strike anyhow.The pipes haven't Loon laid yet by anybody in Chicago or Pittsburg\u201d or Buffalo or New Orleans or New York, but the pipe-layers are around, though they don\u2019t show up in the newspapers and can't be got to tell anything and don\u2019t know very much.\u2018The workingmen have been beaten in a hundred strikes of the past two years, because thoy weren't united, but perhaps they can be got to join hands next year in honor of Christopher Columbus of Chicago.Look out for a squall when the wind blows 1\u201d | The individual who talked in this way to the reporter hud the style of a \"ul.fer,\u201d and he has been a sorehead ever since the strike of the Buffalo switch.men, in which he took part, by the failure of which he was left in the cold.As the reporter was unable to get any facts from him about the schemes of the pipe-layers he sought information else- ; where.Neither Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of La- ' bor, nor Peter J McGuire, its socre- tary, has anything to communicate about pipe-laying or about any big strike in prospect.Mr.Gompers is prepuring the business for the twelfth annual convention of the federation, which is to be held in Philadelphia in December, and he recently issued a circular to the unions urging them them to be fully represented by delegates, as important business would be presented to thew: but meanwhile the public is not to be inforimed of the nature of that business, though assurance is given that the convention will be far the largest ever held Ly the federation, that the unions of every state will send delegates to it, that peace will be maintained with Mr.Puwderly's order and that an effort will Le made to secure the adoption of policy under which organized Inbor can act as a unit in any emergency that may arise, If Mr.Powderly could be tothe convention, they would be welcomed and the long strife between the two bodies, which has been the cause of the failure of many strikes in past times, wonld be brought to an end.The pipe-layers and agitators who are looking forward to the big strike have not yet fixed upon any specific or direc object to be gained by it, so far as coul be ascertained; but it is probable that sone grievance of some union will first be taken up, such, for example, as that of the switchmen, and afterward other grievances of other unions will be brought to the front under the stimulus of the excitement that is to be raised.It is said that there is no malicious purpose to injure the Chicago exhibition of the Columbia year, but merely that the opportunity furnished by that exhibition will be seized to recover the losses that have recently been incurred.It is expected that if hundreds of thousands of workmen, including railroaders, should go out on atrike inthe spring, when Chicago is to the fore, it may be possible for them to guin advantages that could not be gained at any other time and to interfere with business in such a way that the bosses will be compelled to suc cumb.Even local strikes are often damaging to the great corporations that are now so powerful in the industrial world, Among the parties to the pipe-laying are some of those who have been defeated in the fierce strikes of this year, and it can easily be learned that amang the men ready to join them are those who are chronic kickers or malcontents, those who want less work with more pay.those who are constantly making all sorts of \u2018* demands,\u201d those who say that labor unionism would be strengthened by a successful demonstration of its power, and behind all others, those socialist or semi-socialist leaders, who are ready to do anything to promote the interests of their \u2018\u2018cause,\u201d and whose underground workings are often visible inthe Central Labor union and other \\ trade organizations.The strength of | these loose elements will be variously estimated by people who have observed its manifestations within recent years; but whatever opinion may be entertained of it, there is no doubt that Mesers, Powderly could make it In arecent issue of Mr.Powderly\u2019s organ there was a hint of the impending trouble, by which the members of his order were given to understand that the first movement in the \u201cmonstrous strike of 1803\" is to bo made by the Railroad Switchmen's union, with the object of crippling Chicago.It is there reported that tho secretary of that union, Joseph Heimerle, has declared that the switchmen's strikes of this year at Buffalo and elsewhere were but preludes to the great strike of next spring, which is to a gigantic u rising of labor ail over the country, \u2018\u2019The plans for this uprising,\u201d the secretar ded, \u201chave been made, and it will be the atest thing ever scen in the United States.\u201d Secretary Heimerle does not consider it necessary to indulge in any concealinent, and some more of his utterances on the subject have been received from his headquarters in Buffalo.Ho gave notice there that, \u201cif the railroad companies do not come to terms with their men there will be likely times for them when the strike is declared, and that their hneinrca panned be carried on at the very period when it would be most profitahle phrongh the transportation of passengers and freight to Chicago.They can keep out of , trouble.\u201d says the secretary, \u2018\u2018 hy giving ! us what we ask.\u201d It is \u2018evident from Heimerle's talk, which is rather loud, that he has a notion that he can frighten the corporations.The strike, it appears, is first to be declared on the Central, the Erie and the Reading lines, and is to include several branches of railroad em- loyees, but not President Arthur's rotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.The new grand master of switchmen, JE.Wilson, of La Crosse, Wis., who was elected as Sweeney's successor b: openly in favor of this programme, and indeed he got his office - te advocate.Mr.Wilson is also an advocate of the eration, of the various organizations of ra e'uployees so far as it can be brought abt, mong the important measures favored by the St.Louis convention was a rule that any railroad company refusin to settle the griovances of its men shoul not be forwarned of any action which the aggrieved parties might determine to take.Committees of the various bodies represented in the convention were appointed, with full power to act.But many of the provisions made by the new railroad federation ate not known to outsiders or to the companies, There was recently an illustration of the induced to make conciliatory overtures line of the street railway com ny fact that this ave bad besa resolv.yers expect your over the country.It was not only the freight hundlers who struck there under orders from the a ted council, but also the street railroaders and cal drivers, the bakers, the gas- mon, the engineers, printers, telegraphers, and, indeed, the workers in prea majority of all the industries the city.e amalgamated council took control of the unions, nearly all of which expressed their readiness to obey any order officially issued.If the strikers have not guined the ends they sought, they raised a prodigious excite- went in the city and para yzed its industries at the busiest season of the \u2018All the strikes of this fall,\u201d says tary Heimerle \u2018\u2019are but preludes to the uprising which is to take place before May of the coming vear.\u201d As for the socialist pipe layers, they are, of course, 8; in supporting the meral strike which is supposed be mpending, and it is their purpose to try to turn it in favor of the universal adoption of the eight-hour system of labor.They have determined to begin an agitation along this line at once, and they boast that they have representatives in all industrial organizations, including the assemblies of the knights of labor.Several of the union organizations declare thut they know nothing whatever about the projected stike to be engi- necred by the pipe layers.When asked about the prospect of violence in the event of the strike taking place they relied with one accord that Gumpers, owderly, Wilson and the others would certainly do all they could to prevent law breaking and preserva peace in the ranks, as Awerican workingmen do not believe in seeking their ends by turbulence and are ready to join the militia in suppressing disorder.DARWIN'S MISSING LINK.Recent Reasearch Sald to Mave Discovered 1t\u2014The Evidence Plentiful, One of the chief objections to the theory of evolution which was especially laid stress upvn some thirty years ago was the impossibility of producing at that time a series of \u2018\u2018intermediate Tks\u201d to connect the now-existing ant- mals and plants with their presumed ancestors from former geological epochs, To mect the objection Darwin had to devote a special chapter in his great work to the imperfection of the geological record and to insist both upon fie fragmentary character and oar imperfect knowledge of what it contains.\u2018Fhe recent progress of both geology and paleontology renders such explanations almost superfluous, according to the Popular Science Monthly.Geology, aided by the deep-sca explorations, has come to a better comprehension of the mechanism of sediments, and it knows what it may expect to find in the rocky archives of the earth and what it may not; and on the other side, the discovery of the missing links between past and present has been going on of late with such a rapidity as hus outstripped the most sanguine expectations, Our museums already contain whole series of fossil organisme which almost step by step illustrate the slow evolution of large divisions of both auimals and lants; our present inunimals already fave been connected Ly intermediary forms with many of their tertiary ancestors, and the paleontologist can already trace the pedigree of birds and even mammals, as far back as the lizards of the secondary period\u2014not merely deducting it from embryol®zical data, but showing the real beings which once breathed and moved about upon earth.OHI, Origin of a Polite Custom.The custom of lifting the hat had its arigin during the ago of chivalry, when it was customary for knights never to appear in public except in full armor.It became a custom, however, fora knight upon entering an assembly of friends ta remove his helmet, signitying *\u2018T am safe in the presence of friends.\u201d The age of chivalry passed away with the fifteenth century, but among man acts of courtesy which can be trace back to its influence none is more dirpet in its origin than that of lifting the hat to acknowledge the presence of a friend.\u2014Detroit Free Press, Moslem Abhorrence of Bells, The whole Moslem rice despises and abhors the sound of bells, which they say causes the evil spirits to assemble together.They do not use them on their mosques or churches, but have instead men called muezzing stationed in the minarets, who call out five timea each day for the people to assemble for prayer.Tho eryis: *Thereis no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet.\u201d \u2014 St.Louis Republic.Extraordinary Rainfalls, An extraordinary phenomenon was witnessed in the ancient island of the Knights, so exceptional, indeed, that for Bu yeurs it has not been duplicated in that particular month, says the Medit- teranean Naturalist.A shower of rain fell to the depth of three inches in the course of a thunderstorm lasting 12 hours.Australia seems also to have had an unusual rainfall this year,though it does not equal that of 18090, when, according to a report just issued by the Government astronomer of New South Wales, the average for the whole colony was 82,75 inches, or 32,6 per cent, greater than the average of the 16 preceding years, Forests do not seem to have aided in cloud precipitation.For while # densely timbered region the amount was 85.89 inches, the mean of nine of the nearest stations in an open country was 86.92 inches.Elevation has, however, a marked influence on rainfall.That, at Wallagong, half a mile from the sea, at an elevation of 57 feet, 88.84 inches fell, while at Cordeaux river, six miles trom the sea, it is 53.53 inches, HEROES OF EVERYDAY LIFE.Duty In a Sacred Trust With Many People About Whom We Hear Little.The same newspapers which bear record of the crimes of evil-doers, the malign passions of law-breakers and the ignab e and demoralizing deeds dono in the name of politics are illuminated with acts of heroism and self-sacrifice.Scarcely a day passes without gleams of what is best in human nature shining out among the shadows of what is worst.Sometimes it is the captain of a sinking ship steadying the rope by which his comrades are transferred in safety to the lifeboat and then leaping into the sea without a hand to guide or succor him; or it is tho railway engl- neer, with death and destruction confronting him, who refuses to leave his Rost when the lives of others are depen- ent upon his constancy and despairing courage; or it is the sturdy policeman dying in a grapple with & desperado, but without relaxing while his Peart continues to beat his hold upon the mur.dor'ers throat.The conditions are always changing, but the New York Tribune holds that the loyal habit of living aa though duty were a sacred trust remains, He must be a gloomy imist, ine deed, who cannot find in his morning newspaper something to convince him that there is good mingled with evil as the merry world spins round.Story there may be none.Faithful men ax emergency do thoir fall durs dan cy do r full duty ina methodical way as a matter of business, They make no systein of heroics of ft, They are surprised that what thoy do should cause any stir, or that an y should want to talk about it.© engines when they break down must be repsired.and the ship be carried into in the best wa; 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