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E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY. JULY 13, ISO 1.
NUMBER 27.
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A LOST rdXG.
The Old Story of "Woman's Love
and. Man's Jealousy.
"A diamond. Jack? A real diamond!
Oil. how bright it is, like a spark of
wli-to tire! Like a star, dropped down
.ut of the sky! I never saw a diamond
le fore; and to think that it is mine!
l'c.'ir .lack, 1 couldn't Hjssibl- love you
:my more than 1 did before, but I do
love yen. oil. so much!"'
'Hie little bit of love-making took
place under the frost-liound apple
trees of the liaek i livliard, where
IOslher Klmford was standing, with a
white wtHlen hood wrapped tio-htly
over her curls and a blaek-aud-searlet
plaid shawl enfoblin her, mumiuy
fashion. She was a tall, rosy-eheeketl
trirl, with a complexion Inirn of liioiin-tain-breczes
and e es that shone witlt
rudvly health no ideal sylph, but
rather a rosy, wholesome, dimpled
human jjirl like Wordsworth's her
oine "Vot too sweet nor kooI
For human nuture's daily food '
And as she looked at the tiny, plitter
inir stone, the sparkles under her eye
lashes were a dead match for it.
"Itut you must not wear it every ilav,
llssie, you know." said John Jefferson.
"Why not?" Her countenance fell.
"You wanted our euyafe'euieut kept
a secret, you know "
"So I did. Anything- but the possip
of the whole combined neighborhood!"'
cried Ksther, with a nutue of distaste.
"Well, anyhow, I can put a black
velvet ribbon through it and lianjr it
around my neck!"
"Utit you haven't paid me for it yet."
"Paid you. vou mercenary fellow!"
"Onj k ss. Ilssie! I don't often ffet a
chance to claim it. you know."
She oised herself on tiptoe to accord
the ilciiiitiuleil royalty, and then ran,
lantrhiiio-. away toward her home.
1 low jrenerous be is!" she kept re
peatii!",' to herself. "A real diamond!"
When she ffot back to the kitchen of
the roomy old farmhouse, where Mrs.
m ford was fryinjf crullers in an
atmosphere of fragrant llue smoke,
that lady cast a discontented ilance
at her.
"Seems to me you've been a long
time g-ettiuff that spotted calf into the
barnyard," said she.
"Was 1 long-, mother? 15ut he g-ot
clear down the lane, aud the orchard
fate was open," equivocated Miss
Ksther.
"The Striker gals stopjied here for
you. They was g-oin up to the Maple
Stto-ar camp with a lot o' fresh baked
bread and pies for Tom and Lconidas,
and they waited for you till they was
clear out o' patience," added Mrs. Elm
ford, fishing-another tin skimmer full
of crisp brown beauties out of the
bubbling touts' of fat and landing
them in the blue stone jar, afterward
to be liberally sprinkled with white
sugar.
"Oh, mother, can I g-o?" said Esther,
eaperly "I'm sure 1 could overtake
them in five minutes."
"I've no objection," said Mrs. Elm
ford. "And you might take a basket
of these 'ere crulls to your Uncle
Peter. He's dreadful partial to fried
cakes, and he thinks there ain't none
like them I make arter Mother Elm
ford's receipt."
Esther was right. In less than the
specified live minutes she had managed
to overtake Alice and Jessamine
Striker, with their basket of fresh pro
visions to the dwellers in Maple Sugar
camp, on Giant Hill, where the su
preme process of "sugaring- off" was
just then in full blast. Hut in the two
minutes during which she put on her
fur-bordered hood and lleeee-liued in it- '
tens upstairs, she had slyly slipped the
diamond riug on the first finger of her
left hand.
"I shall be wearing it," she said to
herself, "and no one will be any the
wiser."
The Striker girls welcomed her joy
ously. "It's so nice to have you," said
Alice. "Jessamine declared you would
not go, but "
"Why shouldn't I go?" said Esther.
"Don't I go up every year when they
are sugaring off?"
Jessamine Striker began to giggle.
Yes," said she, "but our Eeonitlas
has never been there until this season,
and Mr. Jefferson has never been so
particular in his attentions to you be
fore." Esther crimsoned to the roots of her
hair.
"What ridiculous nonsense!" said
she.
"Oh, is it, though?" retorted Jessa
mine. "When all the world knows
that Jack Jefferson is as jealous as
Othello."
Esther walked on, with silent dig
nity. In her secret heart she was l
ginning to regret that she had put her
self out to accompany these silly girls.
"iKm't mind Jess, dear," said good
humored Alice Striker, slipping her
hand through Esther's arm. "She will
giggle at everything it's hr nature.
Isn't this a charming morning? I
heard a bluebird in the swamp down
by the river, and there's a lot of yellow
jonquils in bloom in Anne Keleeca's
window box. The snow is thawing in
the sunshine, but the walking is good
yet. aud Leon says the maple trees
have never given a better yield."
Up at the sag-ar camp, all was life
and animation. Itlue threads of smoke
wound upward to the sky from the
chimneys of the two or three board
shanties, thatched with stript. of bark
and trusses of straw, where the
"hands" kept house in a gypsy fash
ion. The great kettles where the sirup
was boiling down to the requisite solid
ity, were watched by select deputa
tions, lest the fires should slacken or
the saccharine masses scorch, while
others were attending to the im
promptu stone chimney in the opeu
air, while the carcass of a wild turkey
was whirling around and around in
front of the blaze, impelled by a most
ingenious rotary spit, and a nest of
Mjtatoes was baking' in the hot ashes
below. The girls were joyfully wel
comed. Uncle Peter chuckled aloud
at the siiht of the crulleraijnade after
Ins mother's tiine-honorerTvoipe. The
two young Strikers extended a hospita
ble invitation to their meal, even now
in process of preparation.
"Leon shot the turkey yesterday hy
Lone Lake," said Tom. "And it's a
prime one, you bet. Rather nicer
than the salt codfish we had reckoned
on."
But Esther declined to stay.
'"I'll just take a look at the sug-ar
kettles," said she, "and then hurry
back to mother. We're goin1; to have
the parson's folks to tea, and there's a
deal to do."
Lconidas Striker escorted her to the
largest kettle of all. ordinarily called
"l!ig I Sen," and gave her the monster
stick to stir the bubbling waves of
sweetness,
"There." said he, "you can say
you've helped to sugar off this year.
Isn't it a splendid yield? And maple
sugar's going t be high this season!
Oh, you d In'tter stay, Esther, there's a
lot of young folks coming up this
afternoon, and Darky Jones is to be
here with his fiddle!"
"Oh, I couldn't. possibly!" said Esther.
In truth and in fact she had not leeii
quite at her ease since Jessamine's un
lucky allusion to Othello in conjunc
tion with Mr. Jefferson: and she did
not breathe freely again until she had
reached home, where her mother was
just clearing away the dinner dishes.
'"Has anyone been here?" said she.
"Who should be here?" counter
questioned Mrs. Klmford. "I don't ex
pect Elder Morris' folks until four
o'clock."
As Esther took off her things in the
little chamber upstairs, where the shin
gled roof sloped down to the eaves, she
glanced down at the engagement fin
ger. Terror of terrors, the sparkling
little ring was gone!
It was past four o'clock. Mrs. Mor
ris was droning away in the sitting
room about the last missionary box
which had Ik-cii sent out to the
Hoiigara Indian reservation; Miss
Adelgitha Morris was admiring her
hostess' most recent crazy patchwork:
the two little Morrises were playing
checker?;, and the good elder himself
was laying down tomes of theological
law to l-'armer Klmford; while Esther,
with tear-swollen eyes, was mixing a
batch of biscuits for tea in the kitchen.
All of a sudden she cauyht shfht of
John Jefferson riding past on his grav
pony, with averted face. In an in
stant she caught down the shawl that
hung on the peg back of the buttery
door, and unillliiig it around her head
and shoulders, darted across the snowy
back-yard where she could intercept
her lover at the curve of the road.
"Jack! Jack!" she cried piteouslv.
"I've lost it! Your ring! Oh, Jack, do
say something to comfort me! I am so
unhappy."
"Yes." said he. calmly; "I knew you
had lost it. I know heir you lost it. 1
know to whom you have given it."
Essie stood dumb before the cruel
emphasis of his words.
"I was at the sugar camp an hour
ago." said he. "Some one told me you
hal gone there, and 1 was going to
brintr vou home. And I saw your ring
on Leo i lid us Striker's watcli-guar;!.
Wasn't that rather soon to transfer
your last lover's gift to your old swain?
Would it not have been better taste of
him to display your pledge a little less
publicly
"Jack. Jack!" pleaded Essie, holding
up her hands, as if every word were a
blow.
"I need detain you no lonsrer." he
said, as he bowed frigidly and t niche i
the neck of his h rse with his whip
lash, and the next minute he was gone.
Tea was over at last, but Esther Elm
ford did not know whether she had
eaten hot biscuit or cold, hasty pud
ding. She had listened, with a vague,
unmeaning smile, to Mrs. Morris" pro
longed account of little Tommy's last
siege of diphtheria anil Miss Adel
githa's proposed visit to New York.
It was almost as if brain and nerve
were benumbed, when Jessamine
Striker's clear, sweet voice struck
across the current of her hopeless
apathy and she found herself iu a con
fidential corner of the best bedroom
upstairs, with Jessamine eagerly
haranguing her.
"The strangest thing!" cried Jessa
mine. "He found it in the maple
sugar kettle. Alice had made some
flannel cakes, and he dipped out a dip
perful of the hot sirup for us to eat
with it, and Leon came within one of
swallowing the ring. 'Whose is it?'
said he. 'Why, Essie Elmford's. of
course, paid I. 'Didn't I see the
sparkle of it when she took off her
mitten to unfasten the lid of the bas
ket that held Uncle Peter's crullers?
And it must have slipped off her
finger," said he, 'when she went to stir
the sugar in the kettle. So he hung
it on his watch-chain for safekeeping
until we came home, and here it is."
Esther murmured a word or two of
thanks.
"I was very careless." said she.
Kilt even after Jessam ine was pone,
she sat staring at the pretty trinket
which had so nearly lee boiled down
into maple sugar. What was the use
of it now? What was the use of any
thing? "Esther.' Esther!" her father called
up the narrow wooden stairway.
"Here's Mr. Jefferson wants to speak
How strangely all these things
seemed to succeed one another, like
the dim lapses of a dream. She knew
not how. but she was standing, with
Jack's arm around her. her troubled
eyes looking up into his.
"My own darling," he whisjiered.
"can you ever forgive me for lvcing
such a brute? I have just seen that
Striker fellow. He's not such a bail
lot, after all, and everything is ex
plained. Sweetheart, say that you
forgive me! I never shall forgive my
self." And all the horrid nightmare feeling
was over, and the engagement was a
sec re no longer, and poor little Esther
El in ford was happy again.
"IJut I don't think," said she. "that
I shall ever want to taste maple sugar
again. Not just yet. at all events!"
Amy Randolph, in N. Y. Ledger.
TOLD IN FIGURES.
Jacksoxvii.i.k, l-'la., has two hotels
w hich, together, cost over gr..OtMMmo.
Tub Western Union Telegraph com
pany consumes 1,INK,xiO envelopes a
year.
It is computed that there are in the
United. States 4S,'JtK) blind and 33,'JOU
deaf mutes.
Thk federal census for lS'.K) reports
that of the l'J.iUr.MT'i women of mar
riageable age. t..'J33.?U7. or one-third,
were unmarried. Over one-half (fifty -three
percent.) of the women ln'twecn
twenty and twenty-live were unmar
ried, and twenty-eight per cent, of
those between twenty-five and thirty,
while six per cent, will never marry.
HUMBERT AND FRANCIS JOSEPH
A Irac of Monarch Who Never Speak as
They I'ass I5y.
Indications of the peculiar relations
existing between the courts of Vienna
and Rome were manifested the other
day, when Emjieror l-'rancis Joseph w as
permitted to tniss over the Italian ter
ritory on his way to visit Emperor Wil
liam at Abbazia, without any of the
customary forms of courtesy and atten
tion liciiig paid to him by the Italian
authorities.
This neglect by the Italians was
made all the more pointed seeing that
King Humbert was at that moment at
Venice preparing to receive the visit of
Emperor illiam. which followed im
mediately after the departure of the
Austrian monarch, who for a second
time passed several hours traveling
through the northern portion of Italy
on the way back to his capital.
The strained relations which led to
this lack of courtesy on the part of King
Hiimlvcrt are due, says the Xew York
Recorder, to the persistent refusal of
the emperor and empress to return at
Rome the state visit which Kingllnm-ln-rt
and Oiiccn Marguerite were jht
suaded by their ministers to pay to the
court of Vienna just ten years ago. The
visit ought to have ln-en returned with
in at the latest twelve months, and the
etnpt ror's hesitation and delay in the
matter are attributable to the compli
cations which would arise in connec
tion with the Vatican, since the pontiff
absolutely refuses to receive at the
vaticiii any Catholic sovereign who has
not first paid his respects to the head
of the church In-fore bidding any inter
course with the quirinal.
King llumU rt of course insists that
the first visit should be to the quirinal.
and this renders the stay of Catholic
royalties iu the eternal city a source of
endless complications and awkward
contretemp.s. To make matters worse.
Empress Klizalieth has. even since the
death of her son. visited Rome incog
nito, and Wen received by the hic
without paying the slightest attention
to the quirinal. and that it was after
this that she was permitted to make a
stay at Venice without receiving any
attention from the Italian authorities.
Wing even forced to take her turn
w ilh the tourists when she vi:.ited the
royal palace in which she hail formerly
dwelt as its ini.-.tress prior to the forced
Mir render of Venice to Italy by Austria.
A FAKIR'S FAKE.
lie Miltle Money Selling Cucumbers as
ft'erfum I'laiits.
"Speaking of street fakirs." said the
tall man of the party, according to the
St. Louis Republic. "I used to know
a man in Lawrence, Kan., who was the
king of the crowd. lie could make
money out of anything. A block of com-i!un-L,o;ip
was wortli. many dollars to
him as a r.-a:k" eradicator or soiuct liing
f the kind, and Ipr am outlay of a few
cent .she colli. 1 turii pockets lull of cash.
""flue day this young fellow came to
me and asked me in a mysterious man
ner to go int.j a loft with him. I went
and there found one of the most ingen
ious out, its I ever saw or heard of for
'doing' a gullible community. This is
what the outfit was:
"There was one hundred small cloth
bags, each tilled with wet bran. Iu
each bag was planted a cueumWr seed.
Under the warmth and dampness the
seeds would soon sprout and then my
young friend would take each bag and
dip it into a tub filled with highly-perfumed
water. Then the small Hat
leaves which first sprout would W
carctully taken off, leaving the next
leaves, which are rough and wrinkled
and do not War such strong evidenc
of identity. Then the hun lred bags
with their sprouts would W put in
Ihixcs and carefully carried to some
jay' town, where my young friend
would actually get fifty cents apiece
for them as "perfume plants."
""The plan was worked by him suc
cessfully a iiumWr of times ami he al
ways manaired to get away without
Win;' injured. He was a Uncut talker
and always disposed of his "perfume
plants' in an easy manner. Then, as
,kt;.oiis w ho have Wen -aught at any
i.iu-h "uucker' yaine do not care to
"squeal. his chances of detection were
reduced to a minimum."
An fmperinl Silver Wedding.
The silver wedding of the emperor
and empress of Japan, according to
foreign papers, was celebrated with
frrcat pomp a few weeks ago. There
was a review of the soldiers in the after
noon, and in the evening then' was a
g-ala dinner, to w hich all the prominent
officials and their wives and foreigners
were invited. Afterward there was a
reception ami daneein the throne-room.
Male dancers produced the famous
ban-i;raku." a dance which was
composed by the Emperor Yomei
I.iki years ago; the "taiheiraku."
which was the fashion l.tUT years
ago. and the "Imiro," a dance brought
from liidi.i aWut the year lino
which, in its various evolutions, rep
resents the subjection of all enemies of
the state. All the guests received
s-lver mementos of the celebration.
KuKsian IM-tor'a free.
An interesting regulation is just an
nounced from autocratic Russia, by
which the government hojies to prevent
vv r-charges of physicians. liy the
sow rule cities are divided in three
classes according to size, and the pa
tients in three 'Trades, as follows: The
irst. capit-i..t:i, proprietors and mauu
factueer?.: the second. UlcinWrs of pro
fe:s.ioii: and the re.-.t of the imputation
is included in tho third, l'ees are then
i.amed ai-corilin-to the grades, l irst
class, live roubles; secon.l. three roubles
aud thirty kolcks for the third.
Antiquity of AsparaRUS-
Asparagus. deservedly a favorite
vegetable, was extensively cultivated
v . .v. . . I. un in vt.
icy lilt illicit n l iiiiuiLiu, -" - ;
introduced into England before 1 lt"AJ. .
In some parts of I-.uroie ine secus jh
used us a substitute for coffee, and a
:.pirituous liquor i.i made from the ripe
Wrries. Asjiaragus is both lithie and
diuretic, aud itu roots were once exten
sively usetl in medicine. The young
tender sprouts or stems, from six to ten
inches long, are the edible parts, and
thte.-e that are entirely green arc the
most tender and delicate. The white
asparaj-us hi. as a rule, very tou;rh, the
tips al ne Wing eatable. In some old
recipe 1 looks directions are given for
lto'il'iiiir iisiianicus one hour, but this is
i a great mistake. Twenty or thirty
j minutes is long enough to cook it suf
j ficiently.
THE HEART OF A BOY.
It Was a Brave One But Could
Not Stand the Strain.
"It does not really seem possible,"
sighed Mr. Simplex, as he folded his
napkin, adjusted it accurately under
the rim of his plate, and pushed back
his chair from the breakfast table.
""However earnestly one may try, it
does not seem possible really to reach
the heart of a boy."
His maiden sister. Miss Simplex,
sniffed, half scornfully, from Whind
the coffee urn.
"I am not certain," she said severe
ly, "that I am prepared to Wlieve in
the existence of such a thing as a boy's
heart. 1 dare say the little animals
have some sort of a muscular organ
that pumps bli-od through their bodies.
I know that they have stomachs, and
Jared certainly has brains, such as
they are, but I am pretty sure boys do
not iossess hearts in any spiritual
sense of that worth
Miss Simplex was collecting the
glass and china, which always received
her iH-rsoual attention, meditating
meantime in no hopeful frame of mind
on the probable future of her young
nephew, who had been her particular
charge and trial ever since the time,
eightsears Wfore. when his pretty,
delicate young mother had gathered '
the three-year-old toddler to her heart,
kissed him for the last time on earth,
ami charged him with her dying breath
to W a good boy and do as Aunt Sarah
bad.- him.
J ust now Jared was home from school
in hopeless disgrace. "It seems im
possible to make any impression upon
him." the principal wrote, "and perhaps
it will be as well to leave him to his
own desires for awhile."
His jiarticiilar offense this time had
Wen cutting up the leather covers of
his grammar ami making therefrom an
e la 1 -orate penwiper holder, soaking
and cmliossing the leather very clever
ly with the aid of his H-nkiiife and a
key. When punished he had taken the
chastisement sullenly, and wholly re
fused to admit that he was sorry for
his wanton destruction of the took.
"The inside's just as pood." he said,
"an" I don't want the old thing, any
way." This was but one of Jared's
many offenses. "He had no sense of
order or niceness of arrangements,"
M iss Simplex said. He would destroy
anything for the sake of making some
preposterous, ugly thing thereof.
Hut the most repulsive feature of
Jared's character, as Miss Simplex de
clared, as his anxious father noted,
ami the principal regretted, was that
he seemed incapable of loving anyone.
Silent, almost morose, he seemed en
tirely to lack the usual impulse of
childhood to please. "He seems to
care more for a common dog than for
his own kind," was one of his aunt's
worried indictments against him, and,
fearful lest so unnatural a tendency
should W fostered, his father had re
quired Jared to part with the broken
tailed mongrel cur that for nearly a
year had Wen his most constant com
panion, wandering with him in his
long, solitary wood tramps, and lying
Wside him for hours on the hillsides
in the sun, where he loved to spend his
time, dreaming the long, long thoughts
of youth.
Poor little Jared! He had an un
happy time at the morning meal, un
til at last, overcome with the sense of
disapproval with which the two
"grownups" regarded him, he had
How n from the r.niiii, seizing his
hat as he ran, ami rushed for refuge
to a favorite haunt of his Wside a little
stream up in the hills.
There is no more pitiful sight in this
whole pitiful universe than a loy in
trouble. Your little girl, thanks to
mamma's careful training, auntie's de
votion and grantttua's loving oversight,
rarely hasachaiice to get into trouble.
Her little life is carefully mapped out.
her little footsteps sedulou-.ly guided
into easv, correct and conventional
ways, and she grows up into a nice lit
tle parrot, or a clever, correctly
arranged, finished article, while her
brother is Wing kmveked alout in a
complexity of circumstances, getting
licked into slia-H- by the efficient and
ready tongue of "Life as He Finds It."
P.ut the licking process is hard, and
the boy suffers under it. Who can tell
the tormenting thoughts teeming un
der the fdiocky hair the doubts ami
wonderments of the W-w ildered Wy
soul. and the wild reWllion of the
tough little heart under the shahby
jacket? He fights his mental and spir
itual battles alone for the most lart,
for few understand the little animal
they're only boys, you know, and do
not need the fostering care the little
girls must have. nlv the mother usu
ally gets down to the little, warm, lov
ing, yearning, wondering heart, aud
she often, all too soon, lets it go out
alone to seek and slay- its giants or W
blaiii by them.
Down in the damp grass, under a
tangle of sw amp willow, Jared lay ami
thought. Was it really true that he
was a hardeneJ sinner, as Aunt Sarah
said? He was sure he loved the Ood
who had made the blue sky ami the
green earth; at all events he loved the
earth and the sky. What had he done
that he should repent of aud call him
self lost? He had knocked Tommy
Orav down last term for calling him a
liar, when he had only told him the
truth aWtit his having seen a rattle
snake change his skin, but he had told
Tommy he was sorry, and hail even
given to Lim, as a peace offering, the
skin that he had picked up and treas
ured. Surely Ood wasn't laying that
up against him.
A little red squirrel hopped across
the open anil sat on his hind legs a mo
ment, studying Jared. then suddenly
w hisked around and disappeared in a
hole. The little chap wondered
vaguely if his sins troubled him. Then
he put his head down on his arms and
groaned. "I suppose I'm bound to W
lost." he moaned. "I must he awful
wicked. I can't even repent." And
then the poor little sinner fell fast
asleep.
Lyiug there in the shade of the trees
he had not seen the ominous gray
clouds that c-cpt over the skj nor
noted the occasional vivid lightning
flash that tore its ragged way from out
the gray.
He was awakened by a piercing
scream, the voice of a man in bitter
agony, close Wside liim. Springing to
his fett he looked hastily about him.
The rain was coming down in great
sheets; it seemed to him- he had never
Wfore seeu it fall so heavily. He was
saturated, soaked and drippiug, and
chilled to the very Wiie. Again he
heard that awful cry. but could see no
one. Rushing hastily forward in the
direction from which it came be sud
denly found his way barred by a huge
tree that, struck by the lightning, had
fallen in the path, lk-neath it, its ter
rible weight lying square across his
l-ody. lay a man. After an instant
Jared recognized him as Sam Raker, a
tramping farmhand, who had U-en
al-out the village for a few weeks, ami
had finally gone to work for some one
of the neighWring farmers. He had
Wen plowing in the field Wlow when
the storm came up, and had stupidly
taken refuge iu the clump of trees on
the hillside, leaving his plow in the
furrow and his horse still inspa lined
to brave the storm alone.
The tree under which he stood had
been struck by lightning, ami had fall
en upon him. It was smoking a little
where the branches forked only the
dampness keeping it from burning.
"Oet it off! get it off!'" the ioor fellow
shrieked as he saw Jared. The loy
was ohl for his years ami uncommonl v
quiek of wit, but his strength was
wholly inadequate to move the tree.
He (Hindered an instant, amid the roars
of the storm ami the screams of the
tortured man. and then rushed down
the hill and across the half-plowed
field, with its muddy furrows, to w here
the patient. lumbering, old w hite plow
horse stood, head down and his low
set, mongrel tail turned to the storm.
To unspan him from the plow and lead
him up the hill was but the work of a
minute. The reins had W-cn length
ened with rope, and taking this Jared
twistetl it and .ooped it firmly about
the tree. Inn. king the singletree into
it. Sam saw the idea and its dangers.
"If you drag that tree across me." he
groaned, "i 'ou 11 kill me. Jt must Ik
lifted."
Jared saw that his words were only
tio true. Something, however, must
W done. Sam's shrieks had ceased,
but he was still groaning in agony,
only failing strength hushing his
cries. Dow n on his hands and knees
Jared got, putting his puny shoulder
against the trunk of t'le tree. Had his
boy's body Wen half as stout as his
heart lie would have lifted. When all
was ready he gave the old white- horse
the word to go forward. The chain
tightened and with strength Imru of
his extremity the l-oy raised his haU.
fairly forcing himself bem-ath the
tree, giving it an upward imiM-tus as
the horse dragged it forward. He was
nut able to lift, save for a single in
stant, but that served to carry it free
from Sam's chest and head, and when
it fell from the man's body, Jared. too,
fell forward with a strange. suiT.vcat
ing sense of oiion-ssion in his chest
After a minute he rallied and staggered
to his feet. Saiu was unconscious and
lay upon his back, the rain Wating
down umii his face, and mingling with
the blood that tlowed from a dreadful
wound in his breast. It was plain,
evcu to Jared. that he would die if
help was not quickly brought. It was
a mile to the village, and he felt sick
to death himself, but gathering his lit
tle strength he pulled the harness and
tugs from the horse's shoulders the
collar was Wyond his ability to move
tied up the reins and vlamWred upon
his back.
The awkward creature was unused
to W-ing ridden, and he started, swirl
ing and plunging. Jared tucked one
arm under the big collar, seized the
reins in the other hand and tlug his
heels furiously into the - horse's sides.
A sharp flash came just then, and the
quickly-following thunder clap added
to the animal's terror. The big. lum
bering brute sprang forward with a
lunging attempt at a run. which final
ly settletl into a blundering three
cornered gallop as he tore down the
hill, sending the damp earth tip W
hind him in great clods from his enor
mous hoofs. At every rise Jaretl had
ail he could do to keep from going over
the animal's great chuckle-head; at ev
ery impact of the shovel-like feet Uhii
the ground the breath seemed alout
to leave the 1-oy's body, but he clung
grimly, urging his ungainly steed on
as though death followed Whiml. One
by one the familiar landmarks were
passed on the road to the village.
Straight down the single street he
rode, and pulled rein in front of the
one store that was trading place, jutst
office, club room and general lounging
stand for the w hole neighlmriiood.
"There's that young imp. the Sim
plex Imy. on my old Rill." shouted
Farmer Rriggs as Jared fairly threw
himself to the ground, w hile the still
frightened brute rushed on again re
lieved of his rider. Drat that lxiy!
Iook at that. He'd orter have every
bone in his blamed body broke for let
ting that luss run off." and he wrath
fully started for the door just as Jared
entered .
""Something's wrong here." cried Dr
Rartou. w ho was one of the rain-Wmid
loiterers within the store, as he saw
the boy's pale, strained face. '"What's
up. Rub?"
The effort to speak was almost
yond Jared's remaining strength. He
made two or three inarticulate gasps
and finally managed toejaeulate: "Sam
Raker dying Mill Creek Falls. 1
ain't hurt. Rill. Mr. Rriggs 1 "
The doctor Wnt over h:m anxiously,
tenderly the words of blame died
from the palelqvsof Rriggs t he men
crowded round, breathless, watching
the physician as he made his examina
tion. At last, with a pityiug sigh, he
straighteaed up. "Nothing can W
done. Some one carry him home while
we go and lind Raker." and the tall,
burl v doc-tor Wnt over and kissed the
boy's blue, blood-stained lips.
"It was a stout heart." he said, ""anil
a brave one. but only the heart of a
Wy after all: it could not stand the
strain." Roston Rutlget-
A Heroic Meilaca.1 t.xpt-rlmeat.
A tierman pathol:gi,-al journal re
cords a rv-ecut i-.;-. riniciit of Drs.
Saw tsehenko ami SoWlotrry which
seems to I -order on the heroic They
vaccinated thcfmIves w it It a prepara
tion made from cultures of the cholera
bacillus, and afterward swall -wvd vir
ulent choh-ra germs wit h entire impu
nity. Then, with scrum from their
own blood, they iroculati-d tiiiiea
pigs, and found that thtiso animals
could thus Ik- protected a;'aiu--t t hol
crx U.-ually it is the guinea pig who
has first to face the chances of life or
death in experiments t. f thio kind, but
iii this ca.se-the d.ielors were so: ure
they were right that they shouldered
the risk them-lvcs.
SAVED BY PETROLEUM.
A North Carolina 1 laity Narrowly Kjtcapea
U-ilie; t -at en by a Wolf.
A recent dispatch from Johnson City,
Tetin.. says: Last Saturday a big wolf,
which has terrorized the people of the
Rumpas Cave region, over in North
Carolina, for the last two or three
years, entered the cabin of a moun
taineer named Rrown during the tem
porary ul-sciice f the housewife, and
seizing the only iH-cupant. au infant,
six voont lis old. by the clothing in the
region of the chest, lifted it from the
rude cradle and Ivore it away into the
mountains.
When the mother returned to the
house and missed the baby she rushed
to the door just in time to s,-e the wolf
and its precious burden disapjH-.ir into
the iieighl-oring woods. The distracted
woman Wgan to scream. This brought
the husband, who was chopping wt.i
not far away, to the scene in a state of
excitement. The story from the lip-, of
th- hysterical mother aknost drove the
brave fellow daft, but he seized hisax.
called his dog and started in hot pur
suit. There was al-out two inches of
snow on the ground, and it providen
tially enabled the desH-rate fe.th.-r of
the kidiiaix-d infant to stride the trail
of the wolf immediately after leaving
his tl.mrvard. Once iinui the track of
the Wast he rushed through the moun
tains with a speed Wrti of di -t ra. t ion.
AWut two miles from his .-a bin the
tracks of tin- wolf h-d the pursuer
under a long shelf nv-.k. protruding
from the side of a mountain. 'there
was tio snow here and the father lost
the trail, but he now urged his bg.
w hit h up to this time he had com-h-!lcd
to remain with him. The d.-g
took the !-!.! and the man followed,
fully exiecting to find t he ent ranee to
the wolf's ilen. from which he could
hardly hole to get the liahy alive. Rut
his fears were groundless; he soon
came upon his faithful dog wagging
his tail and looking down at a little
w hite bundle at his feet. It w as the
baby sound asl.i-p and almost frozen,
apparently unhurt otherwise. Rrown
took off his c.at and. wrapping the in
fant snugly in it. started hastily for
home. He soon met his w ife and two
or three of the Iiei ghlmrs to w horn she
had given the alarm.
It was a most remarkable reseue.
The mountaineer sat. that it was only
a freak of the - mad"" wolf, but the lit
tle one no doubt oi,-s its life to a
drenching .f pet r. .1. u m given it for
some cutaneous affection by its mother
just In-fore it was carried away. The
odor of the oil was f. much for his
wolfship. He probably sniffed al-.ut
the child after laying it dow n under
the rocks and preparing to make a
meal, and then left in disgust.
TELEPHONES ON RAILROADS.
Official tonsi. ferine the Advisability of
lilltteti---; Telecr-a-iby.
In France the lirmagetiu-'it of some
of the railroad e-.-nipaiiies think ..f re
placing the telegraph by the telephone,
even for the transmission of im;. rtant
orders. There are. ;;is the R::i!roa 1
Oazctte. some milronds wit h li"!it traf
fic w here the telephone is alrca.lv u--i,
but the entire substitution of t lie tele
phone would In- difficult. The s'o.gle
iron conductors, used f r telegraph
would not W suitable and it would W
necessary toestab!i.,h sjH-cial U K-phone
lines with double wires. in the Vin
cennes railroad, iu the st.iti i;!s W
tween Paris-Iiastillc and La Varenne.
which are at distances of about one
mile, at a signal by telegraph the tele
graph wires are connected with Dutch-phone
instruments and are thus
made available for an extended tele
phonic intercourse. The arran'-cm.-nt
gives excellent results. The Northern
railroad of France has established i ut
trial telephonic stations on the open
road along some of its main lines,
through which assistance can 1- sum
moned from the stations in case of aeci
dclit. The stations are equipped with
telephone receivers. Portable tele
phone instruments an- in use on some
small French roads. The large Aus
trian railroads us' field telephone in
struments of the (iattiiiger system,
which ina few minutes can In- con
nected with the telegraph w ires at any
p-iint, their use not interrupting the
telegraphic communication. Under fa
vorable eoinlit ions conversation is jv,
sible at a distance up to thirt c-uie
miles.
In England telephone connect ion K
tween bl.vck signal stations is s .miuon.
f n the seven large French railroads
then- were in use in January. l'.i:i,
al-out l.tMn telephones, against a.voo
te legraph stations.
ROYAL ATHLETES.
Kuroe'a Ntl- Are I'm ine; 4 uefn 1 1 en
I it mi to liiiel llevelupmeul.
Athletics meet with due and respi-t-f
til consideration from royalty. In
deed, it w;ts a priii.- or a duke or a
grand high functionary of some sort
who made bicycling the fashion in
Europe. Royalty led t he w a ;. . aa.l ::i 1
joined the procession. Almost every
crow lu-tl bead ow ns a cycle; si.m- of
them hale several. tu-vii ictoria m -y
possibly takcaduilytotirarour.il ii.,1
sor Palace ---round, on a -,if.-l-. :-l-t
hough no picture of her has yet ap
vearcd show ing her in kuiekv rl -c!;-i s
The khtslive of Egypt has a bicycle o-'
the most gorgtsiits tlest-ript ion. so cov
ered with silver pl.iling that one ear
hardly s-ce the black -n.;im 1 under
neath. A photograph displayed iu a
lxCi.loli shop in.l.n. is lu Wiled. "Some
Royal Cyclist-." and slums a group oi
five very g-d-looking. w ll-dev lop, ,1
young meu, each landing Wside hi
bicycle; they are Prince : l,!e:ii..r of
Ik-nmark. Prince t'eorge of rcecc. the
Czarcwitvh. lriuee Nicoljosof t. recce,
ami Prince Carl of Ik-nmark.
"' latest royal convert to bicycling
is tiie king of the Pel riatis. who n.,w
takes exercise f.-r an hour r t wo every
liiorniug on a bi. y. le i:i n.- f the
avenues adjoining Lu ker palace.
The king of Italy pie id. si at the
Rome cycle races on April 1. and wa
the donor of the principal prizes. w hieh
Were won by the son of one of his sec
retaries. I'very liiOmn Hmtor.
The Rriti: L . ar office is coii-iilcrin
a pmiHisition thut all soldiers should W
instructed in the dements of anatomy
ar.l phvsiol-" in .rdcr t!.ut they
might la-al le immediately to stop the
flow of bl.xvd fn-iu a leading artvry.
The proimscr of t he scheme al-oilTcrs
the unpleasant suggest ion that every
soldier should have the leadki r arteries
mapi-d out on his l-ody by dotted lines
tattooed in 111 lia ink.
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