A Brave Thing

-Jesse Owens of Kentucky, íormeriy a memuor oí a iunious company of scouts, died lust week. He was witlï a. party who were tsearohing for somo ruriïcins who had outraged the wife of a respeotable eitizen, aud thcy were fouud secreted ia u cave. Being advised to como out thcy rcfuscd and dcclarcd they woiiUl ehoot dead tlio first man who dared enter tho cave, but Owens went in with o. coeked revolver aud, liko old " Old Put," brought out wliat ho went in for. There were threo of them, big burly fellows, but their couragu wasu't equal to Owens'. The Island of Tïavbadoes is moro thickly sottled than Cliinn, with her 300,000,000. With a superficial areu, of only about 106 square miles, without any large towns, without manufactures of any description, a purely agricultural colony, slie actually supports a populatiou of 180,000 souls, or over 1,084 to the hL[u;irfc niile. I