SULLIVAN JlSk REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XII. The favorite course of study among the Yale students this year in the Con btitutional history of the United States. From all over the country comes tc the San Francisco Examiner "an omi nous intimation that the tramp whc will not work shnll not eat." Appendicitis, which has become a fashionable disease during the past few years, has had more victims at Yak College this term than in all the rest of the State of Connecticut. Now the cry of suffering comes from India, where, it is reported, 50,000,- 000 are on the verge of starvation, not because there is unusual deficiency of food, but because excessive taxation and the monetary uncertainty have re duced the pittance left to the people to a lino bordering on pauperism. The four leading Danville (111.) newsdealers have entered into an agreement not to sell (lie dime trash of the "Jesse .Tames" type. Since the bo\ murderers, Pate and Stark, de clared that they owed their ruin to these novels there has been a decided crusade against their sale in Danville. Only thirty-five vessels have been built at Baltimore during 1893, while sixty-one were built there in 1892. The registered tonnage shows an even greater decline. In 1892 it was 17,277 tons, whilo in 1893 it was but 5589. "This," comments the New York Sun, "is a striking indication of the extent of the depression in the shipping in dustry during the year." Those who read juvenile literature of thirty yews ago will recall the queer pseudonym "A. L. O. E." weich ap peared on the books of iss Charlotte Tucker. A London cable records the death of this lady in India, where she was engaged in missionary work. She had the gift in an unusual degree of interesting young readers, and many of her stories are so good that, in the estimation of the San Francisco Chronicle, they are worth reprinting for a new generation. The healtlifulncss of New York is a reason for rejoicing in the midst of the prevailing gloom, maintains the Tribune. In spite of the increase of population, the number of deaths in 1893 was little greater than in 1892 only forty-one larger—while the num ber of births increased more than 2000. The death rate for last year was 28.40 per 1000, against 24.2(iin the previous year, while for the last ten years the average has been 24.72. The Board of Health's most recent es timate of the population of the city is 1,891,801>, the estimated increase from the previous year being nearly 50,- 000, so that a year from now the popu lation will approximate closely to 2,- 000,000. The Manufacturers' Record ha* pub lished two pages of letters front bankers m a!! parts of the South m regard to the general eoudition of business, but especially as regard-; the linauciut position of Southern farmer-*. Without ev ptioll th ' letters say that the enforced economy of the last two years has caused a complete change in Smith; ru farm methods: that the lurtuei'* are giviug more at tention to divi i-siHed agriculture, and that tin \ are now well supplied with corn and provision*, which will pre vent the h■ ■tv \ drain of former years to ps\ for Western food stuffs. Sum tiling up these report the Mainline turi rs' Record say* ' I'hey show that tin whole ivolioimc policy ot South* r ii farm interest. undergoing a change and the credit s>iiteiii im In lUg superceded by a c.t»h lut* is. The low prtce of cotton t'-r ihi hud taw years forci d upon tin' farmers the nereasity of raiding their own footl stlltU, and add*' I to tfci* was the de vttuce much It «i iHoU» > u tHitluH thiiil formerly. The r. suit haa been a imaaing from 11«. er In with it* hiatal buying to It ea.lt »l« ptiriu. 11l tin.l. with fanners, and loner « «4* lite Hi hi i n but ti. in, brought luj vu% * >4 »*. ** I In Holland the year 1893 was only marked by a first trial of an extension of the right of suffrage. The Chicago Times alleges that trol ley mortality statistics are tilling the daily space given to cholera reports. The Boston Commercial Bulletin estimates that the total yield of wool in 1893 was 364,156,6(56 pounds, tho largest American clip ever raised. The impression prevails in leading commercial circles in Germany that the seven lean years are ended and that better times are coming with the new year. Ouida describes the nineteenth cen tury clothing of an Englishman as "the most frightful, grotesque and disgrace ful male costume which the world has ever seen." Charity pawn shops, whero people may get more nearly the worth of their goods that they are compelled to part with than now. are suggested by some of the charitably disposed, states the Detroit Free Press. State Geologist Smock, of New Jer sey, who has been on a business trip to Holland, says lie thinks 300,000 acres of Jersey meadow land can be reclaimed by adopting the Holland system of embankments and dikes. The Cleveland Leader thinks that the proposed improvement of country roads, by laying steel railway tracks to be used by wagons and electric cars, will lmrdlv satisfy the wheelmen, to whom all the credit for the agita tion in favor of better roads is due. The New York Journal avrrs that the hard times have hail a curious ef fect in reducing the sales of condi ments, sauces and similar table lux uries. A man who has a family to provide for would rather buy corned beef than curry when the money runs short. A composite picture of the Ameri can of the future would be worth going a long way to see. According to Henry Watterson, of the Courier- Journal, he will be a union of Cava lier, Puritan, Celt, Teuton, Scandi navian and other elements too numer ous to mention. Reports received at the War Depart ment of recent small-arms competi tions among the troops in the Far West show conclusively, relates the Washington Star, that the noble red man as represented in Uncle Sam's military service does not compare very favorably with his pale-face brother in the matter of sharpshoot ing. There is a popular idea, gained from Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales and even more modern literature about the "dusky denizens of the for est," that all warriors are »u)ierior marksmen. Army statistics prove that this is a romantic delusion, so far as the Indian soldier is coucerned. Some time ago Mr. t'arnegn, the ex tensive irou-iuaster, was approached by the relief committee of Pittsburg aud asked what he was willing to do for the suffering unemployed ot that city. Mr. Carnegie replied that he would duplicate the sub scriptions of the whole city. The committee went to work with a will to make him <;ive as much as po siblc, and had up to a lew titty s muc.i secured subscriptions amounting to StiO.T'lo, when by some menu* Mr. Carnegie's offer became public. Tho committer any that th' publication has done an iiicaleiilalile lujitl'y to the good work, a>. the subscription', at once fell ot) lo abuoal nothing. lie people of the city algUe that 'f the millionaire lagoin : to give -o huge t •ll.u it is uitin •'••saarv * i iitak, au effort. The ' Kvcelaior," the largeat ilia ■Mind IK lite woil.l, is now lepo.it, t lit one of ihc wfin of the Hank ol l.u laud. Il was found IU Inn. lu-l .1, tin Itilltsa of .lagersfiiute IU, Cape Colon V , lit I upturn I daurd .lorginta,.u, tin in ■p> i tor of the iniin In his opinion corroborated by lhat uf lie director. Mr t.lttord, th. Kvelalol *I- a stoH* alaiut #.'i,lltai,otM It la fit lit three or about an a Kttncee tioy 'tin etdor ihmmfnn.llll dlatooud la wbilt •tt.lt. I. it..,l' lilt a*. \t 111 c. nil l« « •ultiug ii II i. V| \ M.4, tin Httlisb Ito., inntiMl hat• nUitf• I •Itattt ii I • III' |i |tfi> t«i» W »«- Ul-itit.. *it ... I IU iuh.ie.yt tut v*st a«| I«law4i LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1894. THE COMING OF NIGHT.. Tho loitering Day looked backward, smiling, And slipped out through the west, Where rosy, misty forms beguiling Besought her for their guest ■ "Oh, follow, follow through the west! "Our golden portals wide are swinging For theealone, for thee. And wistful voices clear arc ringing Across the darkling sen, In eager welcoming to thee." Aloft her silver censer holding. The star-eyed Night drew close, Her mantle round the hushed earth folding. More sweetly breathed the rose, As Night with tender tears drew close. Her dusky sandals softly gleaming With wandering threads of gold, Eroidered by vagrant fireflies, seeming Beneath each wing to bold A fairy spinning threads of gold. With silent footfall, weaving slowly A mystic, slumbrous spell, She came; and something sweet and holy Tho weary earth befell When woven in the slumb'rous spell. —Celia A. Hayward, in Lippencott. ON THFBRINK, BY FRANCOIS COPrEK. t fS FTT7I Lucien de I <a? \A/ Hern bifl last \l y piece of money A " raked in by the Ih/~ ' bunker, and got up \~y IVI «■ f rom the roulette IfeA! ' table where he had vjntiii V.7 just lost the re -1 =■. mainder of his lit r, I JpsfrV: I tie fortune which I'* Vi ' ie k*d brought I -f/f 112 ||l --1 there for his final |j| 1 i~*» effort, he was J fj JP seized with verti go and narrowly escaped falling to the floor. With a'weary brain and trembling legs, he threw himself upon a long leather safe which surrounded the gambling table. For several minutes he looked vaguely about these private gambling rooms where he had spoiled the most beautiful years of hie youth, recog nized the worn features of the differ ent gamblers, cruelly lighted by the great shaded lamps, heard the soft clinking of the gold upon the green table, felt that he was mined, lost, and remembered that he had at home, in the drawer of ths commode, a pair of pistols which had once been the prop erty of his father, General de Hern, when he was a captain; then, only, worn out with fatigue, lie fell into a profound sleep. When he awakened, his month dry and parched, lio ascertained' bv glanc ing at the clock that he had scarcely slept a quarter of an hour, and he felt an overwhelming desire to breathe the fresh, cool, night nir. The hands of the clock pointed to a quarter of an hour of midnight. As he arose and stretched himself, he remembered that it was Christmas eve, aud with an ironical play of the memory, he saw himself a little child and putting, be fore he went to bed, his shoes in front of the fireplace. At this moment, old Drouski, a pillar of the place, a typical Pole, wearing a rusty, long coat, trimmed with branl ami large ornaments, ap proached Lucien and muttered these words through his gray beard : "Lend me five francs, sir. It is now two days since I have not left the club, and during these two days I have not seen 'seventeen' win. You may laugh at me, if yon wish, but I will cut off my right hand if soon, at midnight, this number is not the one. Lucien de Hern shrugged his shoul ders. lb had not even enough in his pockets to give to that beggar, whom the frequenters of the place called "les cents sous ilu Polonai*." He paised into the anteroom, took highlit and coat and went down the staircase with a feverish agility. Sinei 1 o'clock when Lucien went into the club, the snow had been fall iug steadily and the street —a narrow one in the centre of Parts, with high hulls -a on eitli I side was white with snow. 11l thi calm, Idack-blue sky the ttlM -tars s.u,filiated The ruined gambler shivered ill hi* furs and liegau to walk rapidly, turn lug over always in lih inltid those liopi Ii w thought* iiud dreaming mor. than ever of tti<- lio\ of pistol* which stymied liiiu in the drawer of his com Mode ; liut alter having taken several ateps, 111 oloppi I KUlUlcnn before s heart I eliding apt I'tacle. I pon a .ton. bench, placed accord tug to an idd custom Hear tin larg< door i t a private house, a little girl acarcelt »i\ or seven veart old. dres~i d ill a ragged lilin -k frock, *»> sitting in I the auow . Hh» had (alien asleep liter. despltr the ertlul cold, 111 a pitiful St ! litud. ol fatigu. itnd dejeetiuu, and I lit'! pool little 111-ad attil tint .hnitldti ( had dropped Into comet of tit** wall Mini Were l< aliMg upolt the ley atoll. I Hill of th.' Itld wooden atinra with w Ittcli tha child »•> shod had fallen Iroiu the fixii, which w»» haugini loan and lav dustily before tot Mri haitlcitilv I.Ueltti ite Hutu put I his haltd to hi* treat puckel. hut be n i lusuiUred that a moment tailors h. I >Ud it ui tin 1 **•!• a Irani, an I in«l It* ! ■ >uhl not .. I Ist) Ui 111* • lull ai.it. I . ai uitlii ii M, pu*lttnl lij an luattneliy* I aeiiliiut til ot pity, lu* fepptiMtk hc-d tin tilth) ulll. and he tiaiUil, |wiU|> I t : pfa.l ol It. u. » tot 111. II la 111 ahe i »au oout' thlMa lilaMii In thi < tt> kill uti I i| II t.aa a Ittllt 4 eltviilal I. jatt n a a> tMat«, mm 4i . ■ , - a ■ '•ad lath« tn ffunt *»l th* >h pia( i • hlhf ant ' dint- Us toueh.tti, I * lit i»* I ■ * i'iwa y 4 ths#s a great gift, eo that the little aban doned child could believe yet in Santa Claus, and should retain, in spite of her unhappiness and misery, some confidence and some hope in the good ness of Providence. Twenty-five francs! There was in it several days' rest aud wealth for the boggar, and Lucien was upon the point of awakening lier to tell her of it, ' when he heard near his ear, like an hallucination, a voice--the voice of the Pole with his thick and drawing accent —that murmured low these words: "It is now two days that I have not loft the club, aud during these two days I have not seen 'seventeen' win. I will cut off my right hand if soon, at midnight, this number is not the one." Then this youug man, twenty-three years old, who was descended from a race of honorable people, who bore a superb military name, was possessed • ith a mad, hysterical, monstrous de sire ; with one look he assured himself that he was really alone in that deserted street, and bending his knee and push ing his hand tremblingly into the fallen shoo, he stole the twenty-five franc piece. Then, running with all his strength, he returned to the gambling house, climbed the staircases with a few strides, pushed open with his fist the padded door of the cursed room, and reached it just as the clock was strik ing twelve placed upon the green cloth the gold piece and cried : "I stake it all 011 'seventeen!' " Number seventeen was the winning number. With a turn of the hand Lucien placed his double funds on "red." Red was the winning color. He tried all of his money again on the same color. lied came the second time. He doubled his preceding stakes twice, three times, always with the same luck. He had before him now j a cup of gold and banknotes, and ho scattered them over the table franti j eallv. All the combinations brought him j success. It was a chance never heard lof before. Something supernatural. One would have said that the little ivory ball jumping into the pigeon holes of the roulette table was fasci nated and magnetized by the gambler and obeyed him. He had recovered iu a score of plays the few miserable notes of a thousand fraucs, his last re source, which he had lost at the begin ning of the evening. At present covering with several : hundred francs at a time, anil served | always by his fantastic luck, he was in a fair way to regain all. aud more than j his family fortune which he had in so 1 few years squandered. Iu his haste and <i '»ire to play he had not taken off his overcoat; already he had filled the great pockets with rolls of notes and gold pieces ; aud not knowing where to heap up his gains he thrußt paper and gold into the pockets of his inside coat, his vest aud trousers pockets, his ei«ar case, his handkerchief, every place that could serve as 11 receptacle. And he played always, and he gained always, like a madman, like a drunken man ! and he ! threw his handful* of gold upon the table at hazard, with a gesture of cer tainty ami disdain! Only there was something burning in his breast like a red-hot iron, and he thought constantly of the little beg gar from whom he had stoleu. She is still in the same place! She must be there! Immediately, yes, when the clock strikes one, I swear to myself that I will get away from this place. 1 will take her, asleep, in my arms. I will take her home with me; she shall sleep in my bod to-night; I will bring her up and I will settle a large amount on In r ; I will love hsr as my daughter, ami I will take care of her always, always' I tut the clock struck one, and a quar tcr past and half past, aud a quarter to two, ami Lucien was still seated at t hat luferual table. At last, one minute before two, the le ad of the house got up ahruhtlv aud said 111 a loud voices: "The bank is i>rokin, gentlemen; enough for to day With one bound Lucieu was on his feet and, pushiug aside recklessly the curious who surrounded aud regarded linn with an envious admiration, he Welit out qilicklv, rilnhlUK dowu the stairs and running to the stone bench there. From a distance, by the light of a gas let, lie could see the little girl. "fhank tlotl!" he cried, "she i» still I here. " lie approached her, aud seized her tiny hi ml. "llli, how cold she is. Poor little thing !" lie took Iter iu tin arius, mi I raised her to carry her. I'he head of the • 'III Id fell back without awakening "How uue sleeps at her age ' lie pri-xuteil her again*! Ills t>rea»l lo warm her; and, sei/ed with a vague inquietude, In Irud, in order to draw In i from this heavy steep, u> kiss her ell tliii eyelids, a* one iluvt to awaken ■ 1.11» >1 |etN I 'lie til I ibell III' pifeelVed Willi horror 1I• .I U I Il la of He etui I w «-re half . m »>< 1 ihai the >1 < bailla *er< Ills I.run Whirled with a buirihh *il»|.|eloti , he pill hie IlioUlit tduae to thai of the tilth girl, uol a bf< slli I I alttv I font II during lb< Lueli b had gaitii I 1 tmtiiuii with lb* lu 'iii t stolen (tutu tin little Iwggat, ih* IHUII ehild Willi out « home bad lud. Ik I t»m e»po* life to | he cold Fee I inn tu his tbr-iat a botttbh elm kilt* si Usalo-ti, lot* I* It lllvd tu o 1 out, end 111 Hi id it Ibat Itu to* le h wu£e up IfotM this utgliluie t* an I 1 01 him*, il lb l'i« < ui euf«, ik K be bad lain u **<>• p • hub he t I it.elu.gbl • I * !«< « the W«itM si the easMtdiee t*«s., •* **MMI SMI about 5 o'clock, liftil left him sleep ing, out of pity for the ruined man. A misty December sunriso lighted up the window panes. Lucieu went out, pawned his watch, took a bath, breakfasted, and went to a recruiting officer, where he signed a voluntary engagement in the First African Infantry. To-day Lucien de Hern is a lieuten ant, he has only his pay to live on, but he gets out of it very well, being a steady officer and never touching a card ; it would seem also that he finds it possible to save something out of it, for Who other day, at Algiers, one of iiis comrades walking a little behind in a hilly street of the Kaspa, saw hiia give something to a little sleeping Spanish girl in a doorway, and he had tlio indiscreet curiosity to see what Lucien had given to the child. The inquisitive one was much sur prised at the generosity of the poor lientenant. Lucien de Hern had putin the hand of this indigent child a twenty-five franc piece.—Translated for Boston Transcript. llis llair Turned White. Andrew Lindsey, who has lived near Pease Bottom, Montana, for many years, was strolling through the Cochran. He was topped out in a sombrero, and had a Western flavor to his speech. Said he: I want to tell you a yarn about how a man's hair was turned gray in one whack. It j was just after the Custer massacre that an old fellow named Pease—we called him Major Pease, because I believe he had been in the great and only Civil War—well, he pressed forward several miles beyond the hog-back where the famous fight took place, and built a stockade at what came to be called, after him, Pea*e Bottom. He and his men were carrying on a very thriving j trade with the redskins, but at that ! time this business had to be conducted I with great caution, because the savages were ugly and scalp hungry. Two miles from the stockade was a high point, from which a survey of the I country could be had for miles in all directions. A lookout was kept here for Indians, and suspicious circum stances or warlike demonstrations were at once reported to headquarters. Ono afternoon in the summer a man named Paul McCormick and his partner, named Edwards, were sent out to the observatory. They were riding along at a gallop through the tall grass, and were approaching the mouth of a little coulie. Edwards wasn't a tenderfoot, but he was a new comer in that region. As they careered along, McCormick said: "Edwards, what would you do if the Indians should bounce out of that coulie?" "W- 11, *' ; either fight or run." These words hadn't fallen from his lips before bang! went a rifle and war-whoops rent the air. Poor Ed wards dropped from his horse, and Mac, hard pressed by a band of Black feet Sioux, made for the stockade. The people there knew what was up, ami the pursuers wore picked off as they came within range of the lead. The gates were opened and McCormick rushed iti. His hair was white, and has continued so. The body of Ed wards was found lying in the bloody and disordered grass, and the scalp was missing. It was buried on the spot, and the legend of Edwards's Coulie is one of the best kuown in the far West. The folks at the stockade put up a rude headboard, but this has loug ago gone to decay. \ Mining Missed. "Speaking of gold excitements," said (ieorge W. Heal in the presence of a little social gathering in West I'ark street a few eveuings since, "re minds me of a chance I once had to purchase a placer claim in Confederate gulch. The men wo owned the bar offered It to me for S4OO cash and were anxious to sell at that figure, but I hesitated. Finally I told them I would have an expert examine and test the ground and if it was what they repre sented it to lie I would purchase it This was satisfactory, and my expert made till' test and reported unfavor ably upon it. That settled the deal, and I Kent on my way ill search of other fields. About two mouths later I returned to Confederate gulch and found a hiX IIIIIIe team and a wagon behind It Containing two tons of gold takeu from a portion of the bar those ineli wanted to sell me for st<Hl. The team was ready to start for Port Hen toll With the gidd Slid surrounded l>y thirty armed Wen. who Hire to guard the Uietal oil tti«- Wa\ After I refused to purchase the ground the l Uen concluded to work It themselves. Slid Irout • space of 100 fed sqllnr had tak< ut In l» |MM "I p|j I have not wen tin '«l|Ki(t' siucv then Hutu Miner I'tie trail at llama, I>r ,1 P. Petera wa» the iu»ua#*r of tin .vet ditiou »< :it out lit th< lui Ver*itv of PuMltaV IVWMia 111 I Sis to ex ph<tu the ruin* o) Haliyloii "iMriug tile two fats I Was there, Ml I 111-, "| lived Willi lit *ll* of lilt WI Id tfiltt* arottiid the <iiarsb« •o| Vtal*t*!aii I tiv I 'ndilions in which I found litem »<-re Hiagt deplorwbh They were « most h pf eved twee, lolihlllg, ebißtlUg. lying •ltd belli* lb" dally outline of lb> tr Mtlat* !«<.-*> Ihi pi no ipai do l oi lbt.se people la hall Couhed hurley I. Hit Slid with a U»H> pi ree lil*tf« Jf ttlv ttibee lilt* tonus 111- «>h> diet When I ufbiwl Iwtlw cowts a <U> fui dijM««» and gtialds I bad halt tbi pup it I*4 lull »ppl»iu« to Mis lu# woffc, «nd we* lot, i t tu i<.d'e< thi <im> * w m»a to l« u IMIII* tl in u itu, ii| ibittf ii4< n bess b«eda* n« his tn* L, I* \i 41 1, Inn witb n I hot tiotts attd iMHt| tour* I be«> aeb wouii.ts «~et« lull) llli 4 wllb ll'H nut lln it ||ottilb ... .11 ttllai Ud 1 e t-tasiiesi »*!»•',Siv« «| ej Terms---SI.OO in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. A WONDERFUL TIMEPi.CE. MARVELS OF THE CLOCK IN STRASBBURG CATHEDRAL. Wound Hp to Run From 184-0 t'ntil 9909 Crowds Daily Watt Its Noonday Hour. FOR the third time the munic ipality of Strassburg decided, in 1836, that a new astro- Q nomical clock should be placed in the framework of the old one. A Strassburg watchmaker named Schwil gue was entrusted with the undertak ing, and within four years lie finished the unique mechanism which stands to-day the wonder and amusement of natives and visitors. Not only does this clock keep the time from day to day, but it runs from year to year without the intervention of any clock maker. Besides this, its face con tains a disk indicating all the variable holidays of the year, Easter, and so on. It regulates itself in the leap years. It gives the phases of the moon, the eclipses, the equinoxes, and the revolutions of all the planets of the solar system. The fineness of the structure eau be understood when it is known that of the seven golden balls, of different size, representing the planets, the nearest to the sun, Mercury, takes eighty-eight days to make tho circuit of its orbit, while Saturn only can complete its course in 1747 days, or nearly three years, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. The entire mechanism, its maker calculated, would run until the year 9999, if the brass and other metal of which it is built do not wear out in the meantime. This wonderful contriv ance is unfortunately in a dark place, where those who constantly wish to view it well are scarcely able to do so. Its site is a wing, which can be en tered through the Cathedral proper or a portal, which directly leads thither from outdoors. The time of greatest interest is at noon each day, though there are little performances at every quarter hour. At noon is the time the cock crows, and that is what every one wants to hear. The interest never seems to wane. For an hour before 12 o'clock, day after day, a crowd gath ers in this corner, waiting for the ex hibition. This early arrival is partly in order to get a good place, and part ly because the clock keeps solar time, which now is a half hour behind ordi nary Strassbnrg time. Here aretour ists, soldiers, nuns, bridal couples, peasant women with baskets, boys with bundles, who have run in from the street to get another look at the thing. Now, it is ouly a half hour until the performance; will the room hold any more ? The l>«adles, like street-car con ductors, are sure there is plenty of room "up front," or rather, in this case, behind. They wave the wands of their majesty, and l>ack the people surge. Still more are coming. The natives, who never seem to tire of the sight, and who know better about the variance in the times, are now drop ping in mothers with babies, business men from around the corner, and everybody else. There i> not space to sneeze. Now there are only live min utes until the rooster crows. Maybe he will not crow to-day. Everybody s looking at the clock. Don't wink. Now comes the fateful minute. In the very centre of the big monument to the cloekuiaker's ingenuity is a gallery. Here stands Father Time, representing Death. He lias al>out him, on a revolving plane, four figures —Childhood, a boy; Youth, a young hunter; Manhood, a fully-armed knight; Old Age, a gray-haired man, clothed iu thi- skin 01 u beast. Child hood had struck the first quarter-hour. Youth the tu coud, Manhood the third and Old Age the other hours of the •lay; but now at nooli it is Death's own chance. The four figures come out iu view before him. while, with a grim hammer ol boue, he sounds with twelve strokes the death of another day. A little figure down near the face of thi' clock uou has ins turn, and. with a little shake reverses his hour glass. Abov< all this Is another gallery. It begins to squeak. I'lii' machinery is in motion. 11l the middle is a figure ol Christ, and aioiuid Him are to pass the twelve \postlcs. Out they come, out' l>> one. Kai'h stop* hii iii»lant l*ifore the Ntviour, turns his tacc. bows, and reet-ivea tin blci-»iiig from His outstretched hand Hut tin rooster; wher ia he? 'Diere lie still Is. high Up Oil a pedestal, besides a ••tallied glaaa window Now he cluck*. Now hisold metal plated throat swells. Hi Maps his wiUtfo and crow*. An • liter UllllUtc Asm lie llapn 111 - Willis and crow*. Aud a third tune Woa liter. • wr silell a ii.o-.li-r a- this ' It is«|| over Hie beadh's drlvi ill* p< .<pli out, shut up the cathedral, and Mu to ilimt*-1 I'll, tlllte ol greatest Utter- >1 collie* lillt otic* a > ear. 111 the night ll.tt. I>. ml.i. .1 i He* V«tl l». 11.. M ltd uiiliit liv t'ft'iftii hlum« « inl'i* - (•» tt li tin rt ul ilu in** Utu« ry 4* it rt'tfitUit'fr itw.lf i« **!> fur lUv in I m*uli*lit I 'Hiiiri Writ ullmi «*. 4i#« Ut'im? t»n« lit ii* % • %M*l y fin ul 11, }•«? l4» | | t illlUiu lilt mt«l< I llli l* Htt« lil-iills ' «•'» 1#» «|«4*l ill iH.litiii *itt* frfeifjifc l**ti< ri* » lii tt-|||< H §|, mi |m 1)4. ill |'4| |M% 111 * i* t I* feiUti uf Uf iM ».'<% Wl&k Hill tM* i< «'*** hltitt i Hi 1• It tig, I# , I ill - « * J 1 NO. 19. WHEHE MY HONEY Boft the Southern moon is shining; Sly the star of evening peeps Through the honeysuckles, twining 'Round the window where she sleeps - Where my honey, true-love sleeps. Sweetly now the wind is blowing ; 'Mong the leaves the dewdrop gleams While the scent of roses growing Fills the sweetness of her dreams. An' her face with love-light beams Now. my mocking-bird, sing true, Tho' the old owl hoots "To who?" An' the ring-dove says "Not you So the mock-bird's softly trilling. From his trembling heart and mout'u. That sweet song my heart is lllling, For my honey, way down Soutl' Down the winding river, drifting I am coming, love, to you : Through the trees the moonlight's sTTTIng, 'Cross my dugout, gum canoe — Coming, honey-love, to you. In the deep, dark woods a-hiding. Pipes the pining whip-poor-wilf All the other birds a-ehldfng, With his plaintive "Still, be still !* Like my heart, old whip-poor-will. -Will L. Vlsscher, in Chicago Figat«* HUMOR OF THE DAY. Stands to reason—Tho debater.— Philadelphia Record. The characteristic of our time is that we have no time.—Fliegende Blaetter. Long hair on a man covers a multi tude of crank notions.—New Orleans Picayune. It seems that the good points of some people have all been broken off. —Galveston News. It is curious how quiet people can be about a thing without the least ef fort.—lndianapolis News. '"You say he is a bad egg. How did you find it out?" "He showed it the moment he was broke."—New York Press. Stranger—"How long have people been settling here?" Collector—'They haven't commenced yet." Atlanta Constitution. Nofeonly can a woman laugh in her sleeve but so can her whole family, and there's room for the neighbors.—To peka Journal. The nearest thing to a vacuum is a letter written merely for the purpose of keeping up a correspondence. -Mil waukee Journal. Miss Yale—"Do you ever play foot ball. Mr. Kansas." Mr. Kansas.— "No; but I now and then daily with a cyclone."—Hallo. Gudders—' 'Why don't you act always as your conscience tells you you should?" Cvnicus "I make enough I enemies as it is."—Chicago Record. "What an ethereal, exquisite crca j ture Mis-J Sinilax is, isn't she? Just I look at the dainty pose of that left j «rm!" "Humph! That ain't pose; I it's vaccination."—Chicago Record. Brown—"How long have you known that man you lent a dollar to this morning?" .lones —"I never knew him long. He's been short ever since I first met him."—Detroit Free Press. "Is the man Grace is going to marry rich?" Jennie "lam sure he must ! be from the way he acts." "Gives hei ■ expensive presents, eh?" "No; lior I ribly stingy."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. "I'm eveu with Blimmiog at last," : said the society reporter. "How?" "You know how jealous his wife is? Well, I have alluded to liiin us a 'great favorite among the ladies.'" Indiana . polls .lonnull. First Passenger—"l wonder why we are making such a long stop it this station?" Second Passenger fit trav eler of experience) "112 presume it is because no one is trying to catch the train."—Tit-Bits. Chollie ~"Don't you think ll would be a noble thing for you to do with your wealth to establish a hor for the feeble-minded?" Miss Box Hi, 1 Mi Sappe. this if. so suddcL' In ! disiiapolis Journal. "What did you git. popper?" askol I the little tish, us It.- saw Ins parent make a dart at a nice fat worm. "Hooka," answered the parent. \ud then he soared to the worhl above. - Indianapolis Journal. •lacksou "I believe I have at last discovered a cure for the lll» which attlict our municipal polities. Met 'oinmick "I was unawar* that von ' were aliMou* to In a political healer. ' tiaviuoud u M.'iitulv Elephant "W*. I'd lik* to keep up j with the 11 uti's, but 1 can t aiTord it. ! It would bankrupt lilc to hate to t*u\ j t'vt 11 a spriu ; ov. rcoai tlilalb Hut think w hai it would cost me to weal •taudlllg iHtlllll. 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