B. V. BUHWJSIEH, THE CONSTITUTION' T HK UN ION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and IropTtetor. 4 -in VOL. XLVI. - K iL BY C. B BUKCIN. CHAPTEll I. "Ami so, Melissa, you want to jiiiouarv to Tinibuctoo, or be a me other equally remote place? Throw it u;. Listen to me. M'bssa smiled. "Will nothing make you change your wilnil little mind?" Xo.hini?." Oh, well, if yon ninstsacrifina vnnr tc-lf, yon must 'J Lat fat Armenian n too many for no." ' I think so Jack. His arguments, e aurally carry uiore weight. I want a a object." 'A more Uispu ting one than t'uat i.ithsome Armenian i c-in't imagine." Jack picked up a gundy potato-bur, a'.1 burled it it.to space at an iru-.-iciiry Armeuiau. A crimson sunset ved the brown waters of the Ottawa ia i lood On the opposite thore, the .uireatian mountains, long, low, auit nakchke lifted their sinuous crests of .-reen to the tky. Frog, chirked nerrily in the Creek; a tellcw as of related bulls came from their larger uethren in the marsh; and the mot ipiitos buzed around in swarms. Melissa waved them away with a fan, s she languidly rucked in her chair. Iha young man returned to the .eranduh, and nervously ttood behind Melissa. "As old Sweetcrumb s&id in l.i. last Sunday's seriuon. Melius, 1 should like to make a few remarks.'" 'Very well. Jack; If I'm the snb ;oct of them, they're rather unneces sary." "l'ou might hear them first." von i quarrel, jack, JMeiissa im 1 lored, ceasing a moment ia her incon sequent rocking "1 should like to make a few re oiarks as I Paid before. You " hu bund shook slightly as it rested on the buck of her chair "Vun kiow I love yon you've known it all your life." "Jack, I thought it was something aew." Meliesa's pretty eyes flashed ominously. Jack did not See them, so tie persevered. 'Of course," taid Jack, "Well, it ii n't. Awful form, no doubt, to be in earnest. Hearts don't matter much not a shuck. Hut I'm in deadly ear post. 1 love you too much to talk about it. I've come to the con lu sion " " wish you had, Jack." "That you're the girl I care for; I .iftv. n't half-a-doztn sweetheart, like the fellows up at the Coi ners. and yon know it. You're the one girl I could ride all over the woild for like tho-e Tannysonian I cigars in the I J lis, you know and I'm not going to be tnubbeu out of it. or course vou re too Rood for me, Melissa. Still, if yon .hare your life with me, we 11 average up the eoodnes., and come out all right, Fact Is, we've both too much money it's spoiled us. If our dads hadn't struck phospl.ates' it won d have been ever so much bettor lor vou and me. They did make their pil worse luck, it's ruined vour life so far. It sha'n't go on doing so "Oh," she said, with a cnrl of her little red lip. "Keally, Jack, you re quite impossible. " Jack come round to the front of the chair. He was pule. "When a man's mode up his mind about the one thing he wants, he's bound to have it. be said, with a resolnte compression of the hps. "I've ioved vou ever siuce we were ohildren. Prosperity and the European tour have filled your prttty little heau wild nin sense: thev've been too much for you. Because dozen of people have failed to touch your hep? t yr hrk you ve a mission to go among those one horse Armenians. Go, if you like, only I'll go too. We shall be quite a cheerful little family party, and king Moody and Sunkey in Armenia. "Really, Jack, you're too absurd. Mr. Batronian will l.e here to-morrow to arrange details." "HacoDian." he ssid diseustcdly. I'd like to arrange soma details for him with tar and feathers in the pro. gramme." She laughed. "D'you know what that grant ana pood man ia doins at this moaiant he asked. "Praying, probably, 'The prayers of the righteous,' you know Ha'a Tdavin? coksr down at Labelle's.,r "Did vou aid you take & hand, Jack?" "No," savagely. " 'In thegamethat n.ned 1 did not take a band.' Your friend's fretting the worst of it. Very mnnh 4a wnrat nf it" I'Pnnr. aimt.W. uasoohisticate J child of nature. Was his language pictur uaaue: Jack?" lt had all the wild, untrammellod, ... i; ..i4o,.t;al fliinnnv of a child rJ natnre cortamly, especially when hi lost" "Oh, then, ho is losing?'" "Losing! Melissa, have you lost ah . .i .1. in vaiit Annntrvmen. von Vitus J " - , think they couldn't skin an Armenian He wanted to teach them simple little Turkish games, but they declined, and i,rht him a few Canadian on in stead. He's playing poker, or thinks "The saints must relax, Jack, just to giva the sinner a show." Ham-.nian'a show enouzh, snakot A 1. alive." "Jack, yonr conversation savors oi slang. The Grand Tour ha not im proved you; civilization) thrown away upon such a primeval savage. Xos now ruder every day." "It's that Armenian Pecksniff. Ho'. to oily this weather. It oozes out ol jjiim by the buckets." Melissa tapped her foot impatiently. I blush for you. Why diun't you take in this oppressed stranger whei ho came here to lecture." "Beoause he took rue in," Ah, you've no faith in goodness." I've no faith in converted Armen ians, M bo' "niple of them. Thcj coma over here with a Bmattering oi English, and wheedle money out of ui to build schools in tbe Oar Jen of Eden. The fellow's after you." "You're too absurd. How woul1 sound if ha made love to me in Armed jc? Lord Byron was very fond ot it," Of what? Armenian, or of being ioda love to?'' Melissa rose disgustedly. "You're aopls to-night. Let us join tbe fire- 0ifcSbe gathered her white skirts about ar, and stepped down from tbe raraadah, a tall, slim girl, -with browo tje which had never softened beneath i iovet' glance. Melissa h a seen a any young men in Europe. Sho was v&ta&t that they should reicain tier WEo io-jud yonng mcn very much alike' J.2Ter7 They all "told ber tH.' -amesiorT until she waa nt.nfw.vi I bored. And now she had come back L waa . . l.o.l il. -. i and Jack n L. " iub otrers. Jack Miller said. She had too much money. As a telegraph operator In the village store, she would have found ex istence far more endurable. Now with an Income which sounded fabull oua in dollars, she simply tolerated tT,,n ,n tbe heny ot the night touched I Melissa with a vague sense of r-n. Unrest and discontent were her portion. She knew not love and wonld not know it Tbe waters of the utt.wa plashed musically against tbe wooden piles knee-keep in the flood. btp-poor-will gave forth its weird, haunting wail. Myriadsof firefliesflitted between the trees or sans isto the long grass, as the moon played upon the tin roofs of the French cottages, and changed them into glorious seas of little shimmering waves and breakers, leople tat about npon doorsteps, or lounged lazily in their jiy little gar dens. But they did aot talk. The mystorinus sweetness and beanty of the night rilled them with h-Ail but Meliseaand Jack: they were un happy. Melisra had never been unhappy during the old halcyon days when Jack used to swim across the Creek in the early Summer dawn, and lure her out to Tbe Bush. Oh. the wild iov of ihosa iccense-breathlng morns, the fallan fern-covered trees, the frisking of squirrels from trunk to trunk, the glinting sinlight through the long branches of tbe pines whose stately stems were still moccasined amid the fallen needles of last year; the harsh cry of the jay as he mocked them from liign up on a majeatio cedar; the gauzy threads of scarlet, and crimson, and gold nf dragon-flies flitting over tbe forest pool; all these came back to her through the silence of forgotten years. The rapture, the delight, the cool. sweet, aromatic breath of The Bush ap pealed to her once more. Airain. she decked the scarred trunks, slain bv forest fires, with festoons of ground ivy, and long laces of Virginia creeper as it rambled in and out of the rocks. 2vo, she was not unhappy then as she lay on her back, era lied In masses of muidon-bair, and gazed up through the black, palm like stems into the hich o'er-srehing temple of intercostal boughs. Unhappiues had only ap peared with tbe humiliating restraint, enforced by civilization au-1 tho pos session of phosphates. "Me bein' bout to peter out MTissa," her father hud laboriously observed on his death bed "Me bein' about to peter out, you'll have to hoe your own line, but vou ve got a goldsn hoe to do it with. Tl'.en Melissa's progenitor had departed for the happy h'inting grounds in pur suit of phantom phosphates. "Run the whole show fur what it's worth," van his dying injunction; "an' if aDy darLed confidence man plays it low down on you, jest sorter set Jack at l'lin." So Melistui became an heiress. Sho learned to value her complexion, and a great miiuy other things. In conrso of time, she also became aa:e that long lushes are very effective when fringing eyes of deepest, softest brown, lint she bad not yet discovered tbe secret of happiness. Perhaps she bad left it behind her in the awful solitude of Tbe Bush. "It is refreshing to come back to this, Jack," she said, waking from her reverie, as they forsook the wharf and si rolled down the road beneath Old Tolleveat's spreading elms. "Yes," he said; "we've both been in the desert for so long. -There is no solitude like that of a crowd. See how rl ,aJ sweet, and oool it is I Every thing whispers of peace except our selves. Look at those great shadows in the moonlight as tbey fall across tbe road. There are our own shadows be yond them, keeping step for step. And yet you want to Inave here, to journey into tho wilds from some fan tastio idea of sacrifice, although hap piness is at your feet. Melissa, don t go" "Ah," she mourned, "that is all you think of. Love I Happiness! What are they. Jack? Shadows! A mirage! And yet and yet why didn't you speak before I went to Enrope?" "Why didn't I speak?" He stopped in the middle of the road. "lo you think I am a cur? You were young inexperienced rich. You knew noth ing of life when our pn rents Btrnck phosphates. JJozens oi times in rue dewy, summer morns we've danced along this yery road to school, bare- footed lad and lassie, but loving one r another. Now we walk apart. Walk ' slowly and aadly. That oursed money caused all tbe mischief. We gTew out of one another's hearts. We threw aside something money couldn't giva us. We lost all faith in love, and hope, and belief in eoodnoss, and now, Hi v Melissa, young as we are, we're old, and boredl Oood heavens! u too absurd. We can't at least you on t , i am aocustomed to being robbed," find anything worth living for ex- Melissa indifferently. "What does cept oily Armenians, whilst I murder u matter Aether Christians or heath trees. We've missed all the sweetness, ' ens do it?,. the true meaning of life." I ..Ah yea. Mr Hagopian, "it is She stopped also. "Yes, she said, . u tha wickedness ofTthose backshith- looking up at him with troubled Drown i . I tnitir. mm ' YV A full f a nnestionincr pain. "We have missed something. Perhaps I j hall find it in Armenia. ' "You will become Mrs. Hagopian?" he said, almost roughly. Ihen be took MelUsa in his arms, and softly kissed her lips. For a moment, she lay mouoniesa like a brown lilv on his breast. "At j least, I'm the first," he said, his eyes shining, as he bounded away into m night witVout daring to look behind. ( Melissa still stood m me miuuio ui the road thinking. Life was an enig ma. People had perpetually to ask themselves what it all meant. Had it any meaning? Wasn't the world an 6oUp? Crush! nd the Iron shod ,. ..f rirnmstance scattered tho She ants or drove mem tT. . ...ncti Tfhich ."!lf -.fTlVveUVhich cannot see u aw.j - n,.t rlovntinff 1 ,ick up a pm without devoting of the day to a subtle analysis jxtraordinary an action. But anyone tha rest ,.9 mt AT traordinary .1 - m hi.nlt in her life. Jack's I, v.j i.h hnr ot something. It BIBS AilMl , , walad her lipa to all other. Love .laverv. She would not resign her freedom at the bidding of any man Bits xi cw-a . . .t . and yet, wasn't falling in love the tak ing up of an empire even grander than that pictured by a girls wildest dreams? What instrument so subtle to t,lay upon, so full of harmonies and di oX a man's heart? Yet it was dangerous work-very. She would have no more of it Then "be walked lingeriagly home, went to bed, and dreamed of J aok. In the middle of the night she awoke. What right had Jack to kiss her? and why had she lain passive m his arms for that brief moment? He was a , n ran away. What bad in- duoad him to onaut tnab n outrage MIFFLINTOWN. Ho hao w lightly his soft s -ken moustiinha ' had swept her cbee'. Had it been j brrstly, she would nevr have forgiven him. I A ray of moonlight strei m - through the half-opened blind. Melissa put her finger to her lips timidly, curious ly. The man's touch seemed st 11 upon tbein. A spirit in the girl's feet led her to the w ndow. The garden gate swung to with a slight click, as she drew back the curtain. Jack! How handsome be looked in the moonlight! What right had he to smoke, si I thus pollute the lips which had tinea d her own? They belonged to her niw. If she ever she wonld make him give up smckinsr. What was he doing there in the middle of the night? Tue red t p ot his cigar glowed like a firefly, a, he threw himself down on a rustic seat beneath the elm by the sida of tbe ver andah. How long did he intend to re ma 'n there I The wretch had smoked his cigar, and was surely going? No; he was lighting another. Ah, why did he fling it away? She smiled. Jack al ways smoked good cigars. Perhaps ha appreciated her more than tobacco. She wa, glad that the insidious comforter had failed him in bis hour of need. His case must indeed be a serious one. But if he kept ramping about much longer he wonld alarm the house. Would he never go? Would why, the unabashed ruffian was shaking bis fist at her window! Then he returne I to the seat, and flung himself down de spondently, and groaned softly. She even fancied that a very wicked word Coat ad upward to the window, and craved for admittance. That was bet ter. Much better. Such presumption should not go unpunished. How de lightfully unhappy he was! She stayed at the window until he crawled away with sunken head and laggard Btep. "l'oor Jack," she said, "that kiss surprised us both." Then she went back to bed, and dreamed again. CHAPTER II. Melissa knew very little with refer ence to Sivas except that it wa, some where in Armenia. She wasn't even quite sure as to the whereabouts of Armenia. Hitherto, Armonia had been but a vague place on maps. She thought, when she permitted herself to think at all about geographical distino tions, that it was somewhere in Asia Minor. There iu nothing about its appearance to indicate that it had any special claims to attention. But Mr. Hagopian, as he went around the little village of L'Orignal, clad in glossy broadcloth, and a fez like a chimney pot, organized enthusiastic audiences for tbe Meobanics Institute. He made the inhabitants of L'Onginal see thit their ignorance on the subject of Turk ish oppression was a lasting disgraoe, an indelible Btigma. When Mr. Hago pian could not get an audience to listen to him, which was frequently tbe eise, he ti'lked to Millette's goat until that aggressive animal butted him out of the, yard. But the goat died soon after. It "took sick" in some myster ious way which none conld fathom. Meliasa sometimes envied the goat for its freedom from this wor d's cares. She watched it thrown into the Ottawa and float away over the Long Sault Falls with pensive interest. It had, at any rate, escaped from Mr. Hagopian; but Melissa had given him a half promise to go to Sivas to "labor in tbe vineyard." She was not aware, as a matter of fact, whether there were any vineyards in Sivas, but didn't like to ask Mr. Hagopian. He had represented to her that the American Mission Board wonld be only too glad to enrol so dis tinguished a recruit in the fields of missionary enterprise. "Oh, it is very easy," he said, his small brown eyes twinkling with satisfaction. "Oh, it is very easy. When you at Constanti nople are, you make to take yourself round the Black Sea to Samsoun. Then you on the horse get the didn't say whether one stopped there all the time) for five, s'x, seven days. Oh, a bagatelle. It is tbe loveliest forest in world. Then you make to come out of the forest, on the tops of the moun tains. iot of the mountains so smull as the Canadian mountains, but big, high, what you call 'bully' mountains. Down into the plain, through tbe w heatfields, and into Sivas where tbe Governor makes to keep himself peacocks of a beauty exceeding to look at." "Yes, Mr. Hagopian," interrupted Melissa, "but 1 don't want to go all tbe way to Sivas merely to look at pea I fowl. There are plenty here, ot both sexes." Mr. Hagopian coughed. He had come to talk about something else. He nervously twiBted his fez, buttoned nd unbuttoned his long frock coat, and blinked like cat in the sunlight. Yon will go there as the pilgrim who will shield the poor man from the Murk. Yon will make to yourself the beautiful Armenian tongue, and preach o the day of the Lord to the down- trodden, to the oppressed. Bat you t ii l. -nVK-H nnleas von have some- . enard you. nnnticj Turks. You must have some- ! . . . . one to take oi you mucn care, iou are so preoious. such a cosoum sucn a lamb." Melissa waxed J impatient. ".Don't vou know Canadian girls well enough, Mr. Hagopian, to be aware that, how ever sheepish, tbey can take care of tL Cnselves?" He bowed with Oriental graoe. "Ah n, but beautiful Mees," he said, "it's not for the flower to make to be in the wayside. Oh, no; it is for the nasty, evil-smelly weed that makes the aroma unpleasant, and no one minds. It is for the weeds to make smells. But, ch; it ia for tha nightingale to make song the flower in the garden to bloom tbe song to come to one, two three persons: You are the flower, bet you not make yourself one garden; asd all the weeds come round to smell and , ba flowers. Ah, so. Yen want to j make 'edge round you." ''Oriental metaphor is ; fusing. Mr Hsgopian. 1 a little cou- don't qnita follow y-." "ou nt to make 'edge round you cedar rails; and then the weeds only overlook and aay to himself: 'We can D f in tha garden get; we are smelly weeds; that is the rose.' " "Oh, I see. You think I want look ing after?" "Yes beautiful Mees. Someone to look after you to make to love you. To make comfort to your liver." Melissa turned tbe conversation. Her liver did not require comforting. In faot, it worked admirably. "By tbe way, Mr. Hagopian, I expect Mr. Mil er here presently. Let us get through our business before he comes." Mr. Hagopian frowned. He did love Jack. It was well for Jack that ha wasn't Millette's goat Oh, if he only livtd ia Armenia, even ia tha society of JUNIATA COUNTY, so bnmble a Christian a i Mr. Hagopian We lean from XenopUon that in Ar menia the honey has a strong poisoi conceale 1 a i ii its sweet?. This pois t is n'trihnted to a variety of rhododen dron which grows there in wild pro fusion. The coffee, too, ol that district rotnetimea occasions th most melancholy accidents especially if it be mule by an enemy. Mr. Hsgo. pitn thought regretfully of the inciden tal drawbacks to Christianity draw backs which involved the renunciation of such expeditions methods of removing a foe to another sphere of usefulness. But Jack di I'nt take coff and Hsgo pian was a Christian or said that be waa. "Have you the authorisation of the American Board of Missions for m i to proceed to Sivas?" asked Meliasa. "The authorization .'" lie felt in his pocket. "Oh, yes, 1 l.ave him at the hotel, but it in all ri.,'ht." "Ishonl i ikto see it," dryly re marked Meli sa. I will fetch hiiu presently," said Mr. Hagopian, ruefully fumbling again for tbe non-existent document. "And when do you start?" querieo Melissa. "When yoi make to get ready, said Mr. Hagopian. He seemed in a hurrv. "You actaxlly propose that we should travel together?" inquired Melissa with assumed indifference. "Yes. Wby not, teautiful Mees?" "Well, it isn't usual, yon know," and Melissa pliyed with her fan. "Do yon see Mr. Miller coming?" Mr. Hagopian looked through the blinds. "No," he said shortly. "He is awn t at the Claversons. He makes to walk t s'e. Mees Cecilia. The fat Meet Cecilia. Oh, so ploomp, so fat at never was!" "You estimate beauty by weight, Jien?" "Ob, yes. In Circassia it is on milk (he girls are made fat. But you will make fat to yourself. Oh, yes, when yon once get to Sivas you will make fat to yourself. You will sit on the tops of tbe house all day, and do noth ing but well, ob, so round make noth ing but fat." He spread out bis hands as if to signify how fat Melissa wonld get. "And yon will preach on Sun days. Here, it is not good at ail. It is not good. You make to rush about, to hurry, to what yon call 'fly round.' You cannot g t fat. You ices eat, yon cold water drink, you like not rice and milk. Ah h, Armenia people do not make tornn about, to dance. They sit on tbe ground, on tbe house-top; they smoke, tbey eat rahnt lakotim. And they are so beautiful so fat as never was." "Thank yon, but I don't want to bb 'so fat as never was' Mr. Hagopian." "Ah h. but Moes Ceoilia," said Hsgopian, regretfu ly. "She is sj ploomp. Mr. Jack can never to get bis arm round her, she is so ploomp." Ue watched Melissa narrowly. " ery possibly," aid Melissa, still 'anning herself. She bad always dis liked that horrid Claverson girl, "So ploompl" repeated Hago pian. "I don't very well see how we car. travel together," Melissa continued. "Ihn't there any way out of it?" "Yes," said Mr. Hagopian. "I have wait to toll you the one way out By yourself yon will be, oh! so helpless; you will not stand. With one big tree to lean against, to make you strength, you will be known a., the great ban oum, the hanoura who is rich, rich. rich! but who leaves all for the poor Armenian." "Are you the poor Armenian tc whom I am to leave everything?" "Yes, beautiful Mees, I am tbe pool Armenian. Without you, I am as he bull-bull, the bull-bull who pines for his mate. Marry me, and I will sing ob, all day long sing like tbe little frogs in the marh. And I will look after yonr money. Oh yes; I will look after your money. Oh, these damn wicked Armen 1 mean, these poor brethren will wheedle out of yon a'l r.'ur money, unless I am there to " "Help them?" asked Melissa. "Tbank you. I needn't go all tbe way to Ar menia to be swindled, it occurred to me that it might be well to make some inquiries about yon before I trusted myself to yonr bands. I did so through Pinkerton'a Detective Agency. It would seem that the American Mission people don't know you. They rather imagine yon to be the servant of one of their missionaries who declined to return to Armenia." The Armenian became livid. To use hie own picturesque phraseology, he turned ns green never was." "Don't deny it," ruthlessly contin ued Melissa. "Have you any mouey?" "Xo," said the Armenian ruefully, is he displayed his empty pocAets, "No," beautiful Mees, 1 have not any money; not one medjidieh. The land lord makes say to me wbit ha calls a friendly game'at thepoker -the card poker, not the stove poker. But he make the c-rds up his sleeve and down his boot all the time. When someone spiks to me I turn away, and the land lord makes to jump out tha cards. Oh h, they are wicked people, these Canadians. And the others say, 'Beautiful; bully for you, tbe brave man who play poker like Canadians as if born.' And I f lay, and play, and play. But tbe poker is too much. All my money all the money fey my poor brethren, for the schools at Kharpout, for tbe old, tbe starving make to itselt to go down tha landlord's boot his damn boot I cry, I rave, I swear- ob, I swear just a little I tear my hair; but he all tbe luok has and the cards. Never the accursed poker to me comas. Never. Oh b, I am played out" "Then it wasn't your own money?" "No, it was not my own money, oeautiful Mees. It was for the heathen, for the poor; and it kas make itself to tho landlord. All gone. Gone like t o nargbileh smoke; gone like tbe dream; gone like the pilaff. And when I beg for it back tbey laugh oh yes, they laugh, and say oh, I will not make to my lips what they say. It is not proper for you, beautiful Mees. It is what you call 'skin game.' They have skin me me, the poor, helpless stranirer. I have not of mv skin left; and the landlord he has take to himself my best trousers. The brigand! May be burn in jldiis. Melissa out short tha trembling. iringing wretob. "1 suppose yon want me to help yon away from here? Mr.Hagopian's expression was signif icant "Such wicked peoples I have seen never," he said with expression; "never. I would like to make them all roast in Eblis, and stuff them with red-hot stones in their insides. Such wioked peoples, to skin the poor stranger the missionary. I am played out, and tha landlord will make to turn me out" "Do yon aee Mr. Millar coming?" asked Melissa. "Xw dowa the ro4." PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1892. v ery well, i ll give you a thousand dollars to agree to everything I sty to htm. If you fail me, you will 8end the night in jail with good Mr. Cam eron, who will try to oouvert you." "No, I have c n verted enough leen," he said. "I am too good for this wicked peoi Ls." Then he put his band on bis head with humility, "for one thousand doll irs," no continued, "for one thousand dollars I would of my own grandmother make pilaff aud and eat her. My own grand mother." "Ion needn't do tb-.t," tr.id, Melissa, s Jaok entered t.io room. "Good day, Mr. Miller; Mr. Hagopian has prepared a little surprise for you." "Indeed," saiJ Jac grimly. "Per uaps I shall have one for him before he s much older. Cau 1 see you alone?" "I have no secrets from Mr. Hago pian." "The beautiful Mees has no secrete 'roin me," said Hagopian. "But you may have from her," re lortod Jack, declining to sit down. 'Melissa, I must speak to you." "Tell him that we hive agreed to cast in our lots together, Johannes," said Melissa to Hag ipian. "You will be the first to congratulate us, Mr Miller.' Jack gave one searc'iin glanoe av them bot'i. They certainly did not look happy, especially the Armenian. His voice was very stern, as be moved to wards Melissa. "Is your happiness bound up in this this man?" he said. "Y9s," faltered Melissa. Jack tore op a piece of paper which he held in bis hand. "Then he's safe as far as I'm concerned. I'd intend ed to enlighten you as to his ante cedents, but I know you well enough to be aware that if you once love vou will love to the end, and 1 spare Lim for yonr sake." Mr. nagopian thought Jack a bigger fool than ever. "Ah! you have compassion,'' he said. "You will not see the heathen starve. You have liras. You will find me back my moneys and my trousers the landlord has made to steal. All my moneys!" "That will do, Johannes," said Me lissa. "I'm rather tired of it. You will not pliy in future if I can help "Ah, no," he sail with greasy idol atry. i will liefore you kneel all the time." Melissa felt inclined to box his ears. Jack murder, us. Melissa tunst be mad to throw herself away on this oily ruf fian. It was monstrous, incredible! Vs fingers itched to clutch the Arme nian s throat ana strangle him. lhe slimy villain! "Kindly go down to the hotel for (hat paper, Mr. Hagopian, ' said Me lissa. "I will go," said Hagopian, " I will go, beautiful Mees; but oh! that land loid. He will make to kick me again kick liki) one damn wicked mule." And he faded away to his doom. "Now," said Melissa, timing to Jack "before we part for the last time, can you explr.in your outrnjeous insult of lost night?" Jack looked her steadi'y in the fac. Wis the girl a fieuu? "No," ho said shoitly. "I've no explanation to offer. 1 kissed you because I loved vou. I Oouldn't make you feel that I loved you until my soul spoke through my lips, and so I ki scd you. No power in heaven or earth can take that away from me. If I were starving, ship wrecked, tortured, crashed, maimed, dying, I'd remember that in my lost moments, I waa the first! first! first! first I " "Yes, J Ja-k, you were tbe first." "Melissa, d'you know what you're doing?" "Ob, yes. she said. "Would yoa- would you?" She hesitated. "Would I what?" SliJ went up to him, laid a slim, white hand on his ehouider, and sazed ten derly into bis manly, honest eyes. Like to do that again f she asked. "What you oh! you know. L last night" He started "Bet Hagopian? "Jack, dear, that's my wickedness. Dear, dear Jack, I'm dreadfully wicked. 1 wnir.ed to test yo i, to see bow big and brave aud strong you are. though yon did shake your fist at me. I saw you. Jack. I wa, at tbe window all the time, l'ou drew me there. I wanted to come ont to you. I love you, Jack, 1 leve you." Jack turned white. "Melissa " "Yes, I do. Jack. Most men would nave given wav to spie au-1 aujer, and have denounced that rascal. Yon thought that I loved him (she shnd dered) and so held your peace. Jack, you're a hero. I didn't dream yon were so noble. I ought to have knowa. ould yon have let me go away witb that man?" "I was going too," said Jack simplv. "If he had objected, we shoald have fought it out "I'd have killed him." Melissa nestled up to him with the air of one who is utterly content "My brave Jack. That that kiss told me the truth. Jack. My whole soul went out to yon. Have I made you so mis erable, my poor boy? My poor, poor boy I Have I, lack? Oh, I'm so sorry. So ashamed, Jack. The old days have come back. The old days. I love you, Jack, my dear, my knight, my king, my hero among men. Kiss me again, Jack. I shall feel worthier of you." For answer, be bent down and kissed her lips, 'ioar?st, you will not be a prospective pilgrim much longer You'll come to me soon?" Her upturned eyes fell beneath his gaze. "V es, Jack. Soon." They wandered away into tho primeval solitajj of The Bush, through the green glades, through the dense files of pines kres-decp in clus tering ferns. Presently, they came to a little clearing, and looked up at tbe far away blue sky. Melissa gave a sigh of content "It's nearer now. Jack. Nearer now. We will back to the old days." "They're gone for ever, Melissa." She shook Ler wilful Utile hood, "No, Jack. We're still children, onlr bigger, and our toys are hearts! If they break they " "Break together," he said. And they wandered on into the old days. Filling a long-felt want the dentist hammering gold into a cavity. Very much less than we think does our happiness depend npon what is external to ns. If there be no Leaven within, all the externalities of an outward heaven would be insufficient to produce happiness. A German paper says that Berlin has lately been suffering from a plague of rats. They come in droves into the several wholesale warehouses of the city, and were ot extraordicary size. A machine for preparing short fibres of wool for spinning, which consists in suspending th fibrles in a liquid, then j condensing them Into a slit it and sub- I sequently disintegrating and recoden- ' 'alag tha sliver for rolnnins. Haptd Tracx-f-aylns. When It was proposed to build the ( Central 1'aciHc Railroad a civil en- gineer of twenty-live years' expert- ence reported that the road could not be completed in twenty years, wun all the money of the Bauk of England 1 to back the enterprise. But it was built, and completed seven years be fore the expiration of the time fixed bv Congress. The act of Congress allowed the Central Pacific to build Its line eastward until it met that or the Union Pacific. Inasmuch as every mile of road brought with it a subsidy in bonds and land from the United States, there was a' race between the trwo roads. As the tracks neared each other, the pace became rapid. The Union Company laid a little over four miles in one day. Soon after ward the Central Company completed six miles In a day. The Union Com pany excelled that leal oy laying ight miles. Mr. Charles Crocker, who was push ing forward the Central, said: "We'll take oil our coats and beat them; but we won't try It until we are so close that they won't have a chance to get back at us." When the Central approached with 'u fourteen miles or the Union, the flDal struggle began. We are going to lay ten miles of track in one day; you can make up your miud to that," said Mr. Crocker to his foreman, who bad expressed doubts of the possibility of utilizing men enough to do tbe work. "I have been thinking the matter over for a fortnight, and I know what I am about. Each train-load will contiin materials enough for two miles. As soon as one train has dropped its load, forward the rails as fast as the men can carry them. Then bring up and unload another train. Have your turn in readiness foi spiking. Let the first man drive In only one particular spike, and pass on from one rail to another; let the man who follows him drive in the second sjiike on the same rail, and so on. ee that you have enough .pikes on band, so that no man stops for au instant or passes another man. Then let the straighteners follow, and s:- that they advance without stop or hitch. Close on their heels, but not so close as to interfere, bring forward the levellers and fillers." Mr. Bancroft, who describes the scene in "Chronicles of the Builders," quotes an eye-witness, a general 'jftlcer. "It was," said be, "as if an army marched over the ground and left be hind it a railroad finished. I rode beside the workmen, and at times tho track was laid as fast as my horse could walk." T-'n miles, and one hujdred and eighty-five feet additional, was laid in tiiat day of days in the history of track-l.iying. N...I..1 th. HarUett. A young dentist, who opened an jfli-.-e on Jefferson avenue last week, finds a good many discouragements. His first patient was a thin young man who wore no waistcoat, and triced up his person with a pink and yellow belt. There was a profitable hour or two in the chair, during which the young dentist told his funniest stories as he filed and chiseled and buzzed. At length, instead or filling up the big gest cavities with gold and channng $10 apiece, the conscientious begnfth said: "Shall 1 put In a soft filling, sir?" "I board," replied the exhausted occupant of the chair, briefly. "Beg pardon," said the dentist, doubtfully. "1 asked you about a soft tllMiig." "Thunder and lightning:" shoutea ;he patient, sitting up In the chair and pulling his mouth Into shape, tell ou 1 live in a boarding house, and If you've got any ground-glass amalgam or rolled-steel caps, use 'em Soft filling! You crazy coot, do '. look like a suicide?" Free Press. Fortune. In Bananas. There is great money In the banana ouslnesi The Honduras people would be the richest communities In the world from the profits of three banana crops a year if they were not such abject slaves to poker and cock fights. Fortunes have been made out of banauas. Seven years ago Oteri, the fruit man of New Orleans sold "t-inans" out of an arm basket To-dav he owns seven ships, which carry on bis fruit traffic. Headers of fiction are accustomea jo all sorts of expressions descriptive of the attractiveness of heroines' ejes, lips and other features, but when a writer in a Boston paper remarks of a certain fair creature that she "beautifully eared he adds a new terra to the lover's vocabulary. And this same Boston writer would doubt less scorn to speak of a fellow being as "well heeled." Chicago saloonkeepers want the World's Fair closed on Sunday, be cause they think that If strangers in the city, as well as residents, are kept out of the Exposition grounds on Sunday they will thr t considerable patronage into tbe liquor shops When people are denied admission to libraries, museums and moral ex hibitions on Sucuiiys the saloonkeep ers are pleased. It Is something over a century oince the declaration of independence was promulgated, but certain tyrauts still hold sway In this favored land Old King Coal, with the Reading combine for his prime minister, Im poses taxation without representation. This tyrant needs serious attention Utopia must be somewhere in South America. It ia jUted that they have a variety of cat down there that never yowls at night- Paterramllias What have you to show as ti e means of suprortlng my t'atighter if yo i wed her, Mr. Snippy." Mr. Snippy (with oivlous emba:ras menu - r.r au l coum uui unra u ent) "Er ah I could tell better if -er-I had seen your latest will.' A device for driving tall posts, con- sfs'ing of a small block and chain adapt- ea to smbrace the post at a point eon- vpnient fop tha neraon dolmr the dri- vlng. I A newspaper may be a sewer, or a stream nf pure water, according to its aouxoa. Founded on F-iperinra. BUhop," said a young Methoffist preacher to his spiritual superior, "won't you give nie some advice how t0 nain and keep the love of my con- grc:zail;n?' Y-s brother," replied the divine "when vou marry, select a woman from some other congregation than your own and be sure that she is not 1 ari'ls uue or stylish in her dresa " pu, k A Ictliu ui tVovei'Mal Philosophy. lie If yo'i didn't love me why did you marry me: She Well, when you proposed you said 1 was an anel and I'd heard that people should marry their oppo sites. Judge. Cat Tb.la lr Me mamma says we can't play with you 'cause you have the mumps." Ah, go on! 'Taint so, fer 1 give em to Sammy Gibbs. day afore yls- tedy." Life. So t'nloukl fur. Friend (who makes a visit of condo- ence Ah, poor womau. this is n ereat blow to you, the death of youi mother. Afflicted one Alas! who could lave anticipate it? And she was sc well and nearly. nv, only rout lavs ago she kicked her own son-ln- aw out of the house and fractured wo of bis ribs." Texas Siftlngs. Open-H .ul.d. Bella Do you know, Bessie, Mr Liberal gives one-half of his income every ear to the poor? 1 dou't think here could be a more generous man Bessie Oh. yes, dear. If our Un cle Harry hadn't a thing in the world he'd give away every cent of it. Harper's Young People. An Annual Jub Young Wife I wish you woulo take a day off and help me bring up all those jars of fruit I put up last summer and find some way to get rid of the stuff. It's all spoiled, as usual. Husband What's the hurry? Youne Wife I want the jars tc put up more fruit Exchange. A Mixlerii Mdrtj r. Maud She is a woman who ha? suffered a great deal for her teliefs. Ethel Dear me' What are hei beliefs? Maud she believes that she can wear a No. 3 shoe on a No. 6 foot and a 23-inch corset on a 30-inch waist Saturday Gazette. Vtbj No Puck. A S.u.lu!a lain. vir.uidlv Now that we are en gaged I i presume 1 may kiss you as much as I please, mayn't I? She (encouragingly) Yes, indeed Make the most of your time my dear. There's no telling how long au en- gageiunt will last nowadavs, you know -New York Weekly. Hounil to Lw It. First Man with tan Didn't you say the other day that the sun wa losing its heat? Second Man with Fan Yes, all the scientists agree on that. I "Well, I believe it nov. The sun can't keep this up very long and have urvVft." faelng up tit Pi lea. Stranger My dear sir, you seem to be suffering great mental distress. Gloomy Man You are right; I am. "What's the matter?" 'I am a Delaware fruit dealer ana I have every reason to fear that the peach crop this year is a great suc "ess." Cheap Enough. Certulblj. '-I felt so cheap during the cere fuo;iy," confessed the bride to her dearest friend. "Why, my dear?" 'Because papa gave me away." Det roit Free Press. Hot HI. Fault. Parent (trembling with, emotion) You are audacious! Youareheart- Suitor (wlshinir to naclfy) But, ry tope, the arrangement being coilap myrS r-ou' can't sib.e and sltuat at tbe rider's side a, blame tue for thatPuck. e f tha I A method of preventing fraud In tn At coney inland. gale of newspapers, whereby a seal prt- Mr T.r.nLThev ar talking ahniii. lv attached to the page covers the rea- ,ntrr11-ino. hallnnn traveling nit rvnv Island , . " . " , M( ShortGood gnicioU!,: i hob not Traveling is about khe only thtDg that Isn't high down here. Exchange, . Tiste ia woven into eternity by the aetwork ot death. Ooor clothes are to respectability what tha fiaaa is to tha picture. NO. 40. ,iV3 1 UKlJf r. There are no telegraph poles ia China. The Chinese eat tbe flesh of tha Jog. Letter postaga cjsts us i42,0 ;0,ikii a year. The largest pyramid ic Egyit ls iS-i feet hlfh. Iu Hiulopen Strait snow in.? fall eveu in the dog days. Arkansas has a wonderful onyx cave In tbe Oz-irk Mountains. It Is said tbat enelopes were first used in France in the time of Louis XIV. A vocabulary of the Eskimo lan guage has been compiled by M . Rjberg. There are 360 mountains In tt United States each exceeding 10,00 feet in height. A man In Georgia has butlt a nani jer of houses which are occupied by widows free of rent. A railway in the Argentine Repub lic has one stretch of 211 miles without a curve or bridge. In China they tie a red cord around baby's wrist, so that it may grow up quiet and obedient. W. C. ircupham, a Philadelphia drugnt, has two boys born on succeed ing Fourths of July. An ordinary day roich weighs about 50,000 pounds; Pullman sleeper weigh about 75,0X pounds. In Silesia the thermometer registers about tl irty degrees below zero for a considerable part of the year. TI Chinese, Japanese, Malaya. S.amese, New Zealauders aud tha North American Indians a,e all beard less. Terrapin frequently fetch $2 apiece within ten miles of the waters in which tbey are most abundant. A parrot is said to have lived In tbe Zoological Gardens. Heeut Park, London, for 52 years without a drop ot water. violent gesture made by an Atlantic lawyer, to emphasize a remark, during a speech, cau ed a dislocation ot bis arm. Many persona will not allow the rocking of an empty chair, because they say it Is tbe forerunner ot death in the family. A resident of Manchester, Eng land, has a Bihle 200 years old, which la two ftet long aud about the same In width. Tbe corn cob pipe wh'ch tbe mana factoiy at Washington, Missouri, sends all over tbe world ls called the "Mis souri meerschaum." Jewelers are coining money out of a recent fad of the fashionables by re ducing phonographs aad copyiug t lem iu watch crystals. It is now proposed to rear Insects or ornamental purposes, just as plants aud l'oerj aie acclimatized In hot houses aud garden j. The heart of the poet Shelley ls pre served in the house of his son, Sir Percy Shelley, at Bocooibe, Manor, Bournemouth, England. Miss nannah Fairchlld of West, port, uonn., h 's been a church member for fifty-five year. and had not mhtjed a single service during that period. A bald eagle fixed his talons In tha hair of a little girl In Johnson County, Mo., recently and waa trying to carry ber off when he was frightened away. Ou a small twig recently broken from an apple tree near Gainesville, Qa., there were twenty-six apples the size of a hickory nut. A Chinese father ls allowed tc kill a child for disjliedience, and he often does so, and no law ever convicts him, while custom honors htm. The tortoise is the longest lived of all animals. Many have attained tbe age of 2:,0 years, while one ls known to have reached the age of 4 J years. A dictionary ot Chinese-Japanea wcrds tins just been Issued in threg pa;ts. It is by J. H. Qubbins, and i a very valuable contribution to philo logical literature. There ls a tree in Jamaica know, as the life tree on account of its leaves growing even after being severed from the plant; only by fire cau it be entirely destroyed. There are many superstitions about funerals Few people like to cross them in the streets, and men and women apparently sensible stand and wait to let them pass. A cameilia tree near Dresden, Qr mauy, has an annual average of 40,0J0 blossoms. It Is about fifty feet tall and waa brought from Japan about 150 years ago. Tbe largest bell In the world, tbe famous "Giant ot Giants" at Moscow, Rusa'a. has a circumference of sixty eight feet, is twenty-one feet high and weighs 443,775 pouuds. The permanent gibbet erected in the San Quentln, Cab, Prison has a singular provision of three cords to be simultaneously cut by three prison guards. These corCs are so arranged ttiat none ot the guards will know whose knife sprung tbe trap and "launclwd luto eternity" the gentle man standing on It In Turkey, if a man fall asleep iu the neighboihood of a poppy field, and the wind blew from the flel 1 toward him, be becomes narcotized, and would i'te, if the country people, who are well a?nuainted with the circumstances, dlr not bring him to a well or stream and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. Africa is 234 times as large as tha State of New YorK. It is tbe most remarkable of all the countries as re spects its animal dis'rlbutloos. Out o a total of 523 known specie", 472 of them are to be found in no other 'fiuntry. A lever for raising anl lowering bug- ding matter until the seal Is broken or remc removtd. A Ore escape made up of a carrier at tached to a windlass by a rope that un winds at a regular rate, no inatur what tbe weight may be. A leg spreader for horses that inter- fere, journal boxes being fixd to tha shafts and spring actuated arms with straps attached to the hursc'a feat tar lag m tha Journal.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers