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Lâ€"â€".â€" YOUNG FOLKS. wrssocssr. Mr. Todd in Manitoba has been telling readers of "Morning Btys" about the R‘d Indians of the North West ; about the poor, dusky-skinned, dusky-souied papooses who know nodal-:1 of that gospel of love, in when sunshine the white children of our taco are fostered. New, I should like to tell you about a little white child who dwells in the R-d-man‘a land, and who has for one of her names the pretty word which heads this narrative. " W innogene i" is not that a pretty name (or a girl? and I think its meaningds even unto pretty than its sound. “ A bright ray of light,"â€"tnat is the literal meaning of the Indian word ; and the girl who is so named (corny of brightest sunshine in a lone] prairie~home. She is a young child, and a "very sweet one; but she has imbibed the eettlers‘ prejudice against the “ Nichtss’ (a contemptuous term applied to Indians), and does not wish to be called by a Isichie's name. I am sure when she is older and understands things that are dark to her at resent, she will like that she was named 'innogene. Her parents were among the first settlers who fixed their habitation in that far aw.“ l ‘(‘. :iitv. They wandered and 'waudered wdst for hundreds of miles with a wageou and small store of household gear. 'W" hogene‘s mother was the only woman of the party. What a brave woman she was i E have heard from some who were with her of her energy and courage. She never mur- mured, was always cheerful and ready to help. Then, later, when her husband had decided upon where he would loci te himself, drew nobiy she here all the privatious and trials of the rough prairie-life l At that aims the whole country round there was in an unsettled state. Indians and half-breeds ‘Kvere roaming the land athirst for revenge on the conquering race, eager for plunder, ignorant, debated ; all the worst‘passtons of their savage nature roused by injustice and harsh treatment. Alas! when we do not practice Christianity in our dealings wtth savages, how can we expect them to meet us with any spirit more tolerant than their own heathen creed oi “ an eye for an eye " ? The martyrdom of missionaries, the patient :sclfoaacrifice of good men through long years, scarcely suffice to blot from a Red-mania mind the belief that the “ Paleface " is his mortal foe ; and we have no business to wonder that it is so ; for in the past our western pioneers neither gave nor took “quarter.” ' . It will be for the children growrng up in the Indian’s land to teach the poor conquer- ed “Nichies” a more Christlike creed than that which was practiced by their conquer- 011. Now you will see some of the reasons why Winnocene dislikes a Nichie’s name, and ‘why I called Winnogene’s mother a brave ‘weman. One night she was roused by a terrible noise outside, which for some min- utos she never doubted was caused by Indians come to murder them. The noise was caus- ed by wolvesâ€"not less terrible than Red- skins when met out of doors ; but fortunate sly for the defenceless household, not able, like the Indians, to plan an attack upon unarmed men within a dwelling. The Wives, like the Indians. have now become dew and afraid to face the intrepid settlers, sac that “'Ultluu .ud children can sleep with- out dread in these lonely prairie-homes. Although this lady, of whom I speak, never lost courage, yet the strain upon her :nerves must have been very hurtful. She “lost her babies one after another, and was snore than once nigh unto death herself. At last it happened that one dear little one lived, and in exceeding‘thankfulness for such a precious ray of eavop’s own light and life, the mother added “W innogenc to ithe other names bestowed upon the child. Childrenâ€"You are all more or less ao- voustomed to the companionship of small maple like yourselves. You have child. zfricnds who play with you and are in class "with you. You meet children at church, in ‘tho street, by the seashore. lou compete *wirh others of your age atglmes and in "school. You chat together over your lessons a. 1d toys; and you have huge enjoyment .in the exchange of confidencos and swoeties with some little body who is your special chum. Can you imagine how you should feel if you war.) like Winnogcne - almost the 'nly child within a circle of many miles, aeldom seeing another child, and never on- joying the daily companionship of children? i really cannot describe what a queer sensa- tion it gave me to are that bright little Enforcing Ray-â€"\Vinuogeneâ€"-sheddtng its {light and beauty upon the lives of the grave grown-up folks in her home. .She was dressed us any girl in Scotland might beâ€" ;in a whi frock and pretty sash. She look- ~ed like any Scottish lassie mightâ€"rosy checked, glad eyed, child like,_ and happy ; yet I felt how much more “'Innogene was than any girl at home. Here we have more little girls than we often know what to do with; there one little girl is a pearl of or- needing price, a token of love, a centre cf attraction, a something to evoke tenderness, to suggest purity, to soften stern men doing utsrn work. . When this Magtzine was being sent forth \to you, I remember hearing its title anxious- ‘ly discussed. The good men and women 'who wished to put a pleasing “monthly” in ‘your hands were very earnest in bestowing .upon it an appropriate name. in: never been brought so vividly before me as it was when 1 held the hand and lonked ppm the sunny up raised face of little Win- mogcnc. and heard her mother tell the mean- sirw of the word, Morning Rays l Children, you are all “Winnegeucs” in a certain sense. fire you trying to live up to such a beautiful me, trying to shed gladuess. purity, “with around you? Are you trying to come and go like the sunbeams, lighting up the dark places of the earth, rejoicing sad lives around you, kindling new life in dead- mod souls, being in your spheres what ‘3 inn one is in her prairie-borne, a bright tray of ghti Eve beam of light which comes to our earth a a golden arrow sent from the soul of the sun. Every little child in a ray of divine life sent from the heart of God. Oh, if every child were to perform its «thlv mission as faithfully as the sunbeam perform theirs, what a bright and happy world this would be i Jrssrs M. E. Saxsr. The most help we can render to an a iii'ct- ad man is, not to take away his burden from “him, but tooall out his best strength that he may be able to bear the burdenâ€" (F. M. 8mith. Its fitness 3 I THE HMS-KEN CLUB. “Ar' Brndder J. K, Canifl’ in de hall to- night !" blandly inquired the President as the meeting opened with the mercury in the thermometer touching the figures 99. . “Yes, sah," was the prompt reply of Bro- ther Cmifi' as he rose up. "S p dis way, please. I want to hev a few words of conversashun wid you. How long since you jined to dis club 2" “Tva y‘ars, ssh.” "Exactly. 'Bout three Weeks arter you jined I called at your house an‘ warned you to quit loafin’ around saloons." “Y yes, ash." “A leetle later I had to warn ye dat ye mus' pay yer debts." “Yes.” “S'iil furder on I was fo'ced to tell ya dat you didn’t own do airth, as you seemed to believe, an' dat if you didn't get down to work you'd h’ar snnthin drap." "Yes." “’Bout every two months I'ze had to talk wid you on dis matter or on dat, an' ['25 finally got tired of it. Two weeks ago you went home drunk an' broke de stove wid an ax. l tole ye nex‘ day dat de climax wasn't for (.5, an’ now she’s heah. You were drunk agin las’ nits." “lz a sorry, ssh.” “it ar’ too late. I reckon Cain was sorry arter he killed Acel, but bein’ sorry didn' help do case any. Brother Cauifl', your name has been erased from our books as a member. an' you kin take your bat an’ de- art. You ar’ no longer a member of dis club." Brother Canifi‘ stood like one stunned for a moment, and then sank down in a heap on the fl nor. The committee on cold storage were quietly ordered to remove the remains, and waen Canifi~ recovered his senses he was lying on a pile of tin-scraps in the alley, with a cold wave from Lake Huron stealing up his spinal column. AN 0\VNER “'ANTED. It has been a year and a half since the last attempt was made to destroy Paradise Hail, and the janitor had passed from a state of mental anxtety to serene repose, when he was rudely awakened Friday afternoon by the discovery that human hyenas were again on the trail. Sometime between Wednesday and Friday access was gained to the hell by means of the sky-light in the roof, and probably by two or more fiends in human form. Their great object was to destroy the records and the museum; but as the passed down the hallway and turned to the right they encountered beartrap No. 1. Its 'aws were wide open and hungry. The villain in the lead most hava fairly stepped into it, and he had the closest call of hislife. As the jaws started to close he made a spring, and so close was his escape that he left one of his boot-heels between the jagged teeth. The incident no doubt frightened the villians away at once, as nothing was disturbed. "Dis club will offer a reward of $5 for de arrest of de pusson who left dat heel behind,” said Brother Gardner, “an' if he at’ caught we will do our best to make him feel sorrowâ€" ful fur de nex’ ton y’ars of his life. Ihev ordered me' b’sr-trops, an’ by tomorrow noon dar will be fo’teen of ’em guardiu' dis hall. For de safety of sick members as de- siah to visit do library, a map will be issued, wid (l6 lecashnn of sbery trap indicated by a black and blue spot.” nswsus or HIM. Givendam Jones arose to a point of order. He had received a circular from Prof. Abra- ham C snterhroc k, colored, of Ohio, who claimei to have invented a preparation to turn any sort of hair a beautiful golden ecl- or with three applications. Givcadam didn’t want any golden locks in his, but his wife had got sort o‘tired of her head covering and thought she’d make a change. He there- fore sent for a bottle, and when it arrived he gave it a trial to please his wife. The re- salt was before the meetingâ€"one of the re- sults. - The meeting carefully scrutinized brother J ones and tsen gave vent to uproarious laughter. His wool was of four or five difizrent colors, among which there was no golden to speak of. He said his wife was sick in bed and almost bald-headed from two applications. He felt humiliated and embarrassed in giving himself away, but he would do it in a spirit of probono publico. On motion of Waydown Bsbce the sympathies of the club were extended and it was decided to warn all members by circular to beware of the base professor. ON CONDITIONS. The secretary then gave the following verbatim: ANDERSON S. 0. May 20, 1889, A. D. to Bro gardner: deer Sir we has R2. Org. uuized the Society of Joy 8:. stoico & our tex is united we stan l’ervided we donte Fall â€"-our Rwe is ccmin too the front mister lawrence Jones is now Mails agent 8'. We hopes to git more; We Wood like to no If we can git Rocket- sition from the lime Kill Club We aims to get the Han cuff ofien The Brains as mr jefi' Webb says. Yore crisfian Brother. JAMES GREENLEEF Section master of Joy R juice. "129 seen wuss," observed Bother Gard nor as he scanned the letter, “but do man who writ it died de nex’ day. D 3 first thing dat club wants to do, if it hopes for recogni- tion, ar‘ to purvide :itaelf wid a jogerfy n ’i'ern how to spell. De seckertary will answer to dat t fi'eck." HE BROUGHT 1T 1350K. B :othor Giveadam Jones was then request- ed to report on his late trip to Peru, 1nd,, win vs he went to dissolve a branch club and bring back its charter. He reported that he arrived in Peru to find that all charges made against the branch were true. It hadthirtyâ€" eight members, who met to smoke, drink, gamble and fight dogs, and their actions had cast great discredit on the parent club. When he went up to the hall to dissolve the club seven or eight of the members attem t- ed to dissolve him, and it was only by - s most liberal tse of a bench-leg that he put down the rebellion and got hold of the chart- er. it was his opinion that no branch should be allowed at Peru, as the colored element there was past reform. Reports were then received from the com- mittees on agriculture, geology, astronomy and lighthouses. and the meeting adjourn- ed. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is said to be in receipt of the largest income now made by any woman in America. She earns by her pen npwnrda of 840.000 a ear. One item of this motto: is $500 a from the Broadway Theatre. ' Delivering a. has at Fayal The arrival of the mail throws Fayal into a state of excitement.. .3.“ the lation then comes to town, and a hot and steaming crowd picks. itself into the one Post Ofice that the island as the Postmaster, plainly conscious of his importance on an occasion which happens "only once a fort- night, advances with the letters to the little- derk which separates the throng frtm the clam the stranger is struck by the ridieu. lone disproportion between the size of the crowd and that of the packet, a sitcom stance which is explained by the fact that every woman expecting tidings from bus band or son is accompanied apparently by the rest of the family. The jthber subsides into a buzz of suppressed excitement as the Postmaster adjusts his spectacles with the most exasperating composure. He calls out the name on the topmost letter; a shrill voice on the confines of the crowd intimates its destination, when half a dozen hands are stretched out to reCeive it and it is passed over the heads of the crowd to the fortunate recipient. The buzz is renewed after each announcement ; the Postmaster has con- stantly to repeat his demand for silence, in which he is of course joined by such of the crowd as have not yet receEVed a letter. As the delivery proceeds the crowd gets nat- urally noisier, and the Postmaster becones hot and angry with the exertion of shout- ing above the din. Although the number of letters is smallâ€"Christmastide brings quite as large a pocket to many a country house at home-â€" the work of distribution is long, from the circumstance that each recipient has on the average five or six names, which Portuguese etiquette seems to demand shall be duly set forth on such a formal occasion as the dispatch of a letter. An African Queen's Sad Tale. Here is a glimpse at woman’s lot in Africa from a chapter in a recent book on South Africa, which describes some of the customs of. the Sawzao tribe: “A beautiful young wife of the king had in some innocent way displeased him. The order was given to smell her out, and the witch doctors did their horrible work. Executioners were told off, and they were sent out to the young wife to tell her of her sentence. She dressed herself in her best ornaments, and determined to appear before the king to say ‘gocd-by.’ She had been the ruler’s playmate and favorite sweetheart as a child, and she ycntured to send a message to him y asking permission to say ‘good-by’ to him. The king refused the request. Calmly pre- paring for death, the young woman disre- garded the denial, and walked to where His Majesty was sitting drinking champagne. She said to him : ‘King, I have come to say "Good-by”; tell me why you are killing me.’ The King vouchsafed no answer and turned his face away. The poor woman proceeded to bid adieu to the other wives and girls of the monarch. They stood in a row, and as she walked down in front of them she said: I am the first, but there will be more of you to come after me. Without another word she quietly followed her executioners. They led her about three miles from the krasi, across the Tillan river, and there hanged her on a low thorn tree. The rein by which she was suspended being too long, her feet nearly touched the ground, and strangulation was completed by beating the rein with sticks, the person of royalty being sacred to the common touch. ” Influence of a Good Women- And still we respect and admire a gentle- man, and we take 0E our hats and worship a gentiewoman. Still we like to kiss the hand of a poor and innocent girl and listen to the low, soft voice and refined thoughts of an educated and delicate woman. Isn’t the moonlight brighter, the night air purer, the world better worth living in when we leave the presence of a good woman than when the swinging door of a saloon closes behind us and a burst of fetid atmosphere follows as into the street? No man ever yet reformed unless under some such in- fluence, and Idou't believe any man ever felt such influences without asense of his own unworthiness and a momentary resolu- tion to cut his low acquaintances and habits. I am not saying that he did it. There's nothing so weak in the world as a man’s resolution to reform. But you can always tell when a man has been spending an eveniutl with a charming, refined wo- man. Yon sometimes, you know, meeta man coming down the street about ll o‘clock. He is walking with a firm tread, his head up in the air. He may be humming some- thing; hc is proud of himself; he husa dignity about him that you can see in the dark. lie has been there and can't help showing it. .â€"~ M It Had Become an Old Story. Many and many a time the little boy had made an honest little dime of pocket money by getting himself in the way when George came to court his sister. He had got it down to a science. But one night he was put to bed after having been taken in to take a look at his sister in a bridal veil and orange blossoms. He had caught sight of the minister and a lot of prettily-dressed people gathered, and he was told that his sister was to be married. They went away on their wedding trip and then came back to live with the old folks while a new house was being built for them. The small boy missed his dime while they were away, and it was with great joy he hailed their return. They had hardly unpacked their traps before they noticed him prowlin around and ap pearing suddenly from be ind curtains and sofas at odd moments. They did not under- stand un'il her mother came and told them that Freddy had approached her confiden- tially and said :â€" “ Mamma, George don't put his arms around Emma and hug her as he used to do, at all." No Use Whistlinr for Him. A story is being told of a very close citizen of Washington that he wanted to go to Lynchburg recently. At the ticket cffice he was told that the fare was 51.80. s “One eighty,” he muttered. “Gif you 1.40." “Can't cut rates, sir. One eighty is the fare." “ I(3H youoone fifty." , “ ope. no of ty.’ “ Den I'll valk."g “ That is your rivilege," answered the ticket seller. So e started 08 down the track, and had made about half the distance when he heard an engine tooting and whistl- ing behind him. ‘ ' ~ ‘ “ You needn't viutle," said he, waving his band,“ I'll not gems been.” CIVILIZ ATIUN‘PATAL. Gradual Extinction ofthc Great Aborigi- nal Races orthe North. The following article, taken from the New York “ Sin," though not quite accurate in some of its references to curcountry, is yet intensely in teresting, and will furnish food for thought to the reflective reader :â€" Far two winters past there have now and then been rumors that the Indians in the vast region north of the Saskatchewan River were dying of st irvation, and that the utter failure of food supplies had resulted in can- nibalism. These reports have subsequently been COLfil'de by missionaries and traders. Srvaral well-authenticated stories of fright- ful sufi‘sring have been told, like that which Bishop Clut narrated last year of the fam- ine among the Cress on the Athabasca River during the winter of 1887 83. The snow came unusually early and lay deep on the ground before the hunters had secured much meat. Being without snowshoes, they could not hunt, and many perished of hunger, the survivors at last eating the bodies of those who had perished. In one camp of thirty persons only three were alive in the spring. Last winter‘s r1 p yrls indicate the same terrible privauona, but as yet we have no details. In the testimony given a year are before a committee of the Canadian Senate upon the resources of the great Mackenzie Basin, ample evidence was adduced to show that the Indians and Eskimos of that region ARE RA PIDLY PBRISHING. The opinion was frequently expressed that the evils which are decimating these four or five Indian and Eskimo tribes, who number about 20,000 people, are the direct result of the advent of the-whites. Since guns have taken the place of the bow and arrow and lance, the slaughter of reindeer, moose, and word buffalo has been far in excess of the native needs, and this game, on which they are chiefly dependent for food, is failing them. There are now believed to be only a few hundred buffalo in the Peace River country, where a few years ago these wild animals, somewhat larger than our prairie bison, roamed in thousands. Many of the natives near the mission stations now live in badly ventilated huts, and these sorry substitutes for the buffalo skin tents of earlier days have increased the death rate. We are told that no epidemics were ever known to prevail among those nativos until measles and small-pox were introduced by whites from Manitoba, and that other dia- eases resulting from their intercourse with white men are producing fearful ravages, equalling in extent the mortality which, from the same cause, according to Mr. Mc- Innes, is killing off the entire native popu- lation of British Columbia. Large game along the Mackerzie and its effluents is becoming so scarce that if the reindeer, for instance, happen to change their routes at the crossing of streams where the Indians are Waiting for them, starvation is likely to result. Scrofuia, one of the most potent AGENCIES or MORTALITY is believed to be largely induced by the diet, almost exclusively of fish. upon which many of the natives depend. “The Indians, " says Mr. CHRISTIE, a former member of the Northwest Council, “are not so well off as they were before the whites came among then. ” Liquor has also been introduced by white ls‘aders among the Indians of the Peace River country, and Bishop Clut has appealed for protection against it. While the rapidly dimiuiuhing numbers of the Indian tribes is attracting attention, almost equal fatality is observed among the Eskimos who live along the Arctic coast. Consumption is very prevalent among them, and they are not holding their own in the bitter struggle for existence. It is AN INTERESTING FACT that the Eskimos, extending as they do from Labrador along the northern coasts of Amer~ ice. to Behring Strait, 100 degrees of longi- tude, have a range over the continent, east and west, greater than that of any other race. But this thin line of Arctic nomads is becoming thinner, and the same mortality that has been observed among them at Point. Barrow, is evident wherever the whites have recently had a chance to observe them. The lnnnits in some parts of northern Alaska have been enabled by Whalers and trader: to acquire a taste for liquor, and they have in consequence become less provident than formerly. Hunting is entirely neglected so long as the natives have a drop of whiskey in their huts. It is said that the terrible disaster at St. Lawrence Island a few years ago, when 1,000 people DIED OI" STARVATION, would have been greatly mitigated, if not wholly averted, if the hunters had not been abundantly supplied with means to keep themselves intoxicated. and therefore idle in the fall, when they should have been seeur« ing the winter's provision of meat. Hardly anything is now done, and perhaps little can be done, to melicrate their condition. Canada has not yet attempted to exercise any control or confer any benefits upon her northern Indiana, and doubts were expressed before the Senate committee last year who- ther evan the self-sacrificing missionaries had been able in any way to improve the condi- tion of the natives. The same rapid decimation of the natives is seen on the opposite coasts of Asia. Capt. Hooper of the Corwin, who regards the Tehuktchies of Siberia as in every way an perior to the Alaskan Innuits, says that starvation and disease are causing them rapidly to disappear. Their settlements, which a few years use could be found every few miles along the coasts from Cape Serdzs to Cape North, are becoming fewer and fewer. In fact, the entire native population in the far northern part of this continent is ap- proaching extinction; and the same is true of portions of it in Asia. A Dangerous Topic to Discuss. “The question ‘is marriage a failure 2' has not been settled yet, I believe,” said the fair Rosalind, as the locked Algernon square in the eye. “No, indeed ; but so far as we are con- cerned, we had better undertake to solve it. Don't you think so 2" Invitations are out. A Desperate Alternative- He (poor and ldle)â€"Yon reject my hand. Cruel girl 1 Reverse your decision or I shall do something desperate l , She (an heiress knows he woos her to be maintained) Go to work, I suppose i Bound. That tireless investigator of R“ an life, G serge Keenan, visited. in the . of his wanderings. the Grand Luna of . * Trans- Baikal, in Eastern Siberia. and in his ac. count of that dignitary, given in the "Can- tury," says that it seemed very strange to find an educated man and high ecclesiasti- cal dignitary Who never even heard of America, and who did not feel at all sure that the world is round. The Grand Ltma was such :- man. “You have been in many countries, he said to Mr. Kmnan, and have talked with the wise men of the west. What is your opinion with regard to the shape of the earthf; I h "I thin ," re 'od “that it is aha like a great ball."p ’ M “I have heard so before," the Grand Lama replied, looking thoughtfully away into vacaney- “The Russian ofii :ers whomI have met told me that the World is round. Such a belief lscontrary to the teachings of our old Thibetan books, but I have observed that the Russian wise men predict eclipses accurately, and if they can tell beforehand when the sun and moon are to be darkened, trey probably know something about the shape of the earth. earth is round 2" “I have many reasons for thinking so," I answered, “but perhaps the best and strongest reason is that I have been round it." This statement seemed to give the Grand Lama a sort of mental shock. “How have you been round it?" be inquir- ed. “How do_ you know you have been round it 2” “I turned my back upon my home,"I replied, “and travelled many months in the course taken by the sun. I crossed wide continents and great oceans. Every night the sun set before my face, and every morn- ing it rose behind my back. The earth always seemed flat, but I could not find any- where an end or an edge ; and at last, when I had travelled more than thirty thousand versts, I found myself in my own country, and returned to my home from a direction exactly opposite to that which I had taken in leaving it. If the world was flat, do you you think I could have done this?" ‘It is very strange i" said the Grand ‘ ama after a thoughtful pause. “Where is your country? How far is it beyond St. P tersburgi" “My country is farther from St. Petersburg than St. Petersburg is from here. It lies almost eXactly under our feet, and if we could go directly through the earth, that would be the shortest way to reach it." “Are your countrymen walking around down there, heads downward, under our feet?" asked the Grand Lama, with evident interest and surprise. Afters. long talk, during which we dis- cussed the spherier‘y of earth from every possible point of view, the Grand Lama seemed to be partly or wholly convinced of the truth of the dr-ctrine, and said, with a sigh, “It it is not in accordance with ti o teachings of our book, but the Russians must be right." It is a remarkable fact that in1828 Doctor Erman, the only foreigner who has seen this lamasery, previous to our visit, had an almost identical conversation with the man who was then Grand Lama. It is not im- probable that, sixty years bence, some traveller from the Western world may be asked by somefuture Grand Lama to give his reisons for believing the world to be a sphere. Why do you think the Things 8. Boy Should Learn. To run. To swim. To carve. To be neat. To be honest. To make a fire. To be punctual. To do an errand. To cut kindlings. To sing if he can. To sew on a button. To hang up his hat. To hold his head erect. To respect his teacher. To help his mother or sister. To button his mother's boots. To wipe his boots on the mat. To read aloud when requested. To help the boy smaller than himself. To speak pleasantly to an old woman. To put every garment in its proper place. To remove his hat upon entering a house. ‘To keep his finger nails from wearing mourning. To lift the baby out of the cradle and hold it for half an hour. To treat the girls so well that they will wish he was their brother. To close the door quietly, especially when there is a sick person in the house. The Most Enterprising Crow on Record. Farmer Crowder had finished planting his corn, hit his heart was heavy. He knew the crews were whetting their bills to pull up the cornas soon as it appeared above the surface. “I can tell you how to get away with the crows," said Neighbor Stokes. "How 2" “G :t you a gallon of mean whisky aud soak some corn in it till it vote full of the stuff, and then scatter it broadcast in the field. The black rascals will eat it and get drunk, and then you can catch 'em and pull their heads off. That beats pizen or shoot- inf.“ In a few days Farmer Crowder met his friend Stokes. 4 “Well, how's craps?" queried Stokes. " My corn‘s bodacioust mint,"replicd Crowder, dolefully. “I tried that ’er scheme 0' yearn, and it's a humbu . I soaked the corn and scattered it one ay, and next mornln' I went to the new gronn' to see how it’d worked." “Found ’em drunk, ch 2" “Found nothin', I beam a devil of afuss down nigh the branch. and went to me what it was ; there wasa dad-blasted old crow what had gathered up all the whisky earn an’ had it on a stamp, an' be was re- tailln' it out to the others, aivin' 'ezn one grain 0' that sort for three grains 0’ my planted corn, and dinged ef they had'nt slowedlnp that field by seetlons."â€"â€"( Atlanta ourna . ~l “messiah