The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, April 21, 1892, Image 3

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JUST
BE GLAD.
BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILUY.
O heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry so!
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have you know!
What wo've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow's driving rain,
We can better meet again,
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour,
Wo have known,
When the tears fell with the shower,
All alone
BOL
Wore
As tho gracious Master meant?
shine and shower blent
Let us tomper our ¢ mteut
With His own.
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away oar fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad.
The Diamond Scarf-Pin.
That scarf-pin? No: I don’t think
you have ever seen that before. [t's
not often that I show anybody the
things in this box. They're trinkets
that I picked up in different parts of
the world ;: and every one of them has
a story of some sort connected with
ic story, in most cases,
pity. So that there's a
sanctity about them, a kind of
that they shouldn't be handled
gloated over by every
ger who comes into my diggins.
Now, this string of sham pearls, for
instance, that used to belong to poor
little Flo Martin—Bob Martin's
child. You neversaw her; but you
remember the father, don’t you?
Well, he was murdered, as you know,
shot by Indians, traveling out West,
about eight,
casual
and the ehild—she
and the sweetest little angel you ever
saw-—-was Killed at the same time. 1
happened to be with the party, and
helped to bury the two of them: and
the poor wife gave me that little |
lace of the child's when 1 wie
them Then that rin ’
Penny's Denny of the
the poor chap who went,
to the bad, because none
knew what di
he came to m
abs lately br :
asked me to lend h fi
i It's worth 875 at least,
urse I let hi
ve never seen him since;
he ring is, waiting for him, whenever
1e cares to come back and ask for it.
As to that scarf-pin, th ,
story ab
it Was, r an \ ss F 8 « i these
years | ;
it Butl’
was
eo
d beco:
one «
m have the money,
nee but there
my eve
's rather yuaing, if ;
A Maltese cross of small dia
with the barat the end of each
made of coral. You don't much
the No: nor I when |
saw jut it struck me at once as a
freak the part any
jeweler to mix diamonds snd coral in
that way, so I went in and asked the
price of it. The shopman mentioned
a sum much smaller than I had ex-
pected, and I bought the pin there
and then, I asked him. ju out of
curiosity, when it had come into hia
Pe WmEossion. i
“Well, sir,” he said, “I don't
rightly Know myself, because I didn’t
buy it of the man that brought it in.
The boss did that himself. But I
know the man must have been badly
broke. He said he must get rid of it,
no matter how cheap.”
“Did he look as though he was |
very hard up ?” I asked, i
*No, sir; not always. He was
dressed quite respectable; no more |
seedy-looking nor hard-up than your-
self, sir, asking your pation
“There was nothing at all out of
the common about him, then 2°
“Now, that's just what it is, sir.
There was, He was a fine, well-to.do |
looking young fellow, tall, and with |
# brownish beard and mustache. |
But there was a sorter frightened |
look in his face, as it might be some |
one was after him. I believe he'd |
given the boss that pin, free gratis
directly
i at .
mons,
arm
like
YO ham
Noet 9
SAE :
*
a
1t
of
curious 7
4
!
rid of it. And he went out of that!
door kinder gasping and panting, as
though he had a weight took off his
mind with the pin that he was leav-
ing behind him.”
* And you conide’t say where the
pin was made, I suppose 2"
“No, sir. We couldn't, nohow.
Only I can tell yon this. No jeweler
made that pin, Just to put in his win-
dow and #ell it. That pin was male
to order, wherever it was made and
whoever ordered it.”
“Well,” I said, “it seems a queer
busiress altogether ; but I'll take the
pin, anyhow. It’s rather a curiosity;
and if it has been stolen and the
owner ever comes across we, he shall
have it and welcome, Good-morning,
and thanks for telling me about it.’
** Good-morning, sir, and thank
you, sir.”
And, an hour later, I was on board
the tender, steaming out to the
sageries Liner Circassienne, with
cartain
being
voyage
very satisfactory feeling
able to start off on a
quite alone. You get
OLE
on
Then
of luggage stowed away. you
on seat at table. And afterward you
| roturn on deck to watch your fellow-
passengers struggling, pushing, hur-
ryving hither and thither, hampored
by luggage, wives, children, nurses
{ and all the multitudinous aecessories
i of a family exodus, On this vecasion
II carried out my little programme
| quite satisfactorily I found my
| state-room excellently situated, my
{ berth in the most comfortable posi.
i tion, and my steward well, Gustav
| was 4 queer customer, certainly, as
| you will see later jut he was
{ the very best stewnrd I ever traveled
{ with, and I have known many. With
{ his help I secured a capital place at
the long dinner table, and
promise that he wonld get the two
seats on either of mine kept
vacant as long as possible, so that 1
could give them to any friends that 1
might pick up.
Having seen everything thus set
tled for a propitious voyage I went
on deck. We had dropped our mopr-
ings, and were just moving ahead;
so that the ship had been cleared of
all the shore-going people. Rut the
saloon deck on which I found myself,
was still erowded, especially about
the port gangway, where the usual
line of white hundkerchiefs stretched
itself along the rail, waving *' good.
by ' to the departing tender. I
| crossed to the other side of the deck,
{ and began to inspect the rather less
dense crowd of passengers I found
there. They were not an interesting
lot: and I was almost in despair of
finding any one upon whom to be.
stow my two spare seats at table,
when my fell upon a young
couple—evidently husband and wife
standing a little apart from the rest,
The man was tall and broadly built;
clean shaven, save for a little brown
mustache, and with that uniform
paleness of complexion that tells of »
life spent in office work or some sed-
entary occupation, His wife was
should have sald--n good deal
vounger than her husband; small,
rather delicate in appearance, and
distinetly pretty, There, I thought,
are my friends for the voyage
Evenas I watched them, the
came across and asked me some
al question as to the pe
getting at some of thei
guge in the hold, and, i
y
¢
io on!
side
©oNe
man
Lrivi
wmsibility of
r heavier bag
n half an hour.
of
the best
Hao
we found ourselves «
terms, and my two pt-
ed with alacrity
“ Mrs. Charteris and I were wonder-
my wife, Mr.
what
~CRL8 wore
let me introduce
Ntone were wonder
re we should
ghted
f neighbe
we shall be del
Charteris?”
glenne just be
‘Well, I he
cre
=i
ardiy HB i suv vel,
answered, “It's my first trip.
In fact with the least little blush
“we have only been y
weeks. and are going to settle i
don, where Herbert was working ¢
alist bef: |
sur husband is e
I said, “and
}
=e
married
re he ct
way with hi
1 at all
wa and to lose
wil of
frown,
other
Herbert
3
HihaGerain
intentions
alway
quite
SOIC
i
alterward
‘harterises most delight
on, we two me
smouking-room,
ir's chat
Next da
fresh
i
Li
Wis a
and
ali
out
The day following, h
just perfect; calm as a mill pond.and
just enough wind right in teeth
to keep us cool under the awning
I bethought me my f-pi
while dressing, and 1 pu’ it on, wi
a plain black scarf, which, I thoug
showed up the diamonds wel]
Taking & stroll on deck before
breakfast 1 came upon Charteris,
breeze, wit
«1% I8 1
| ship on t
frei 1d tis
w’’ on boar he first day
o owever, was
Oil
of “ent
out over the water, and I tapped him
on the shoulder, as I said “‘good-
morning.” He turned and faced me
for a moment, then gave a sudden
he
was going to faint,
Good God! man!” he gasped:
* that cross! Where, how, did you get
that cross? You're not, no you can’t
be one of of those' — He stopped,
checking himself as though he had said
too much, and stood, his eves fixed
on mine, his face full of terrified en
treaty,
“My dear Charteris,” I replied,
alluding to. 1 bought that
Adelaide two days ago, of a second
hand jeweler;” then as a sudden
thought struck me, “it isn’t yours, is
it?’
“N-—no, not mine. I-I never set
eyes on it before; b--buat don’t you
know it's— it's desperately unlucky to
wear coral and diamonds together ?
Don't-—for God's sake, don't wear it,
Stone, Take it off —-now-—-now
instant, before it brings you
harm.”
“ Really, Charteris, if you are su.
perstitious, I'm not. 1 despise all
those old fancies; and, after all, it's I
who um wearing the pin, not you."
A look of hopeless disappo ntment
came over his face as bhé replied :
“Well, please yourself, of course,
Only, if evil comes of this—and mark
me, it will, it must—you Hl remember
what [ said, and be sorty..
I couldn't help watching Charteris
that day at breakfast. And he, I no-
ticed, kept glancing round at me,
every now and then, witha queer
furtive expression that puzzled an
annoyed me, And, throughout the
whole of the voyage, it was just the
same with him. All his spirit seemed
any
Mes
the pis stored away among my othup
small treasures in my dressing bag
»
to have gone. He had become nerv.
i Jus ; quite silent, uo
| 1ees one spoke to him, and even then
| jointed. In a word, he was never
{the same man after that morning
{ when he first saw the searf-pin. Aud
I could see that the poor littie wife
understood it all as lute as 1 did,
But I had not vetheard the last of
{ my pin, even for that morning, Gus
tav, my puragon of a steward, ha
just 1aken away a plate from before
me, and was putting down another,
when as he bent close to my ear, |
thought I beard him whisper, not in
his usual obs quious tones, Lut us one
having authority: “Take off thut
cross now. We've all seen you,”
Then 1 looked at Charteris, who how.
ever, had evidently heard nothing.
So, the plot thickens, I thought; this
begins to be juteresting, 1 1s
soon as 1 could escape from the table,
I went to my cabin, and changed the
pin for another,
{
far too mild an expression, 1 was
utterly nonplused, Here were two
men, both complete strangers to euch
to me, who had not only
recognized my searf-pin but to whom,
addition, it bore some special
meaning, und for one, at least, a
meaning of fear and ill-omen, Then,
if I had heard Gustav rightly, there
were others on board who had
and recognized me by means of
pin, and who now ordered me to
| move it, further identification being
needless, Who could they be? And
when, if at all, would they make
themselves known to me?
For the answer to this question [
had to wait, and you can imagine
how miserable the waiting must have
been—for a whole week, And then
there came only half a revelation, |
was leaning over the rail of the sa-
loon deek, forward, gazing down up
on the thickly-crowded and confine.
ing space of the deck below, which
wag appt wpriated to the steerage
passengers. Suddenly I heard a low
** Hist!" beneath me, and a scrap of
paper, rolled into a ball, fell at my
feet. Picking it up and opening it, I
read
* Not down here, He must be |
the cabin. Keep your eyes o ,
And in the lower
the
re.
left-hand corner
with
a pin, the form of a Maltese cross,
the pin-holes «
ber with the
mysterious
Of corse
looking
attempt
that I sl
Commu
I was
The
WAS 8
ate"
regvian of 1}
of England, and was tall and
with a thin,
Was
{ ' vi
i i
vased as uel
ir
#
be anyhody,
tery was as far from so-
Vv ago Was un-
any period of
called uneventful
as passed in continual
pense, in waiting for some inpending
event, which seemed to
Damocles' aword
ant li delaying its fall.
We were Lut day out
Marseilles, dnd all had
far. when, in dressing for dinner, I
happened to notice that the diamond
scarf-pin was missing from my bag.
I at onee rang for Gustav. and asked
jddeed
#18
above my head,
i sti
one from
To my surprise he looked carefully
up and down the passage, without
speaking, then entered
‘and shut and bolted the door,
{ “Listen.” he said - and there was
‘an insolent familiarity in his voice.
“You don't want that pin no longer
and vou might inake mischief if you
had it. When I've done this day's
{ work, you'll find the pin: anyways,
you shall have it back before you
leave the ship, ”’
“But why not now?” I asked,
mystified beyond measure, beginning
to be a little frightened,
{| “Cos you might show with it
again, ns you did that first morning.
P'raps he might see it. Why, you
ain't safe to trust with a business of
this kind, Who gave you your
‘mark ? Gorkolft ?"
“My mark ?”’
“Yes; vour badge
admitted you 2’
“Good gracious, man!” I eried in
amazement, “© What on earth do you
mean? No one ‘admitted’ me, as
vou eall it. No one gave me that pin.
1 bought it myself in a shop."
“Whee-w!” He gave vent to a
long, low whistle of surprise, “Then
you haven’t—It--it must be his —"'
And with one bound he was out of
my cabin, and flying down the pas.
Well, this beat all that had gone
before! 1 was more mystitied than
eter: but, through all my whirling
thoughts, one fact began to make it.
self clear tome. I must do soime-
thing, and at once! I had waited too
long, far too long, already, Gustav's
allusions to * admission,” to “'badg-
es,’ his mention of * this day's work”
and a “business of this kind" they
could but point to some conspiracy,
the very
some crime, v
JiThope Some oven aad go
your pin. Who
i
| that a strange steward stood behind
my chair, also that Mrs, Charteris
was at table, but not her husband,
|
|
minutes:
“Mr.
trouble
i 1
would
cabin
Stone,’ she
youl to go to
said,
our
dinner ?
come in,
| because 1
rang.’
The small state-cabin
‘harterises occupied
vine end of a long
starboard side of the
# on the port Hence it
me a minute or two to find the ri
N: Then 1 knoel
“* Dinner's ating, Charteris,
your wife's sent ne to tell you.”
What with the creaking o
bulkheads and the clatter
knives and forks in the saloor
could not quite make out whether he
auswered ornot, So} ia mo
ment, steadying myeelf
red] running along
the ship was rolling a bit,
something dark showed on
just in front of No, 47 und, a
later, I was staring, horror stricken,
paralyzed, at a thin red stream of
olood trickling slowly beneath the
door The Circassienne rolled slight.
ly, ns I sald, and with a kiod of Tus-
cination I watched the erimson mark
the oil-cloth of the floor,
I can’t think why he hasn't
I know he heard the bell,
wis with him when
thie
wins Li €
pa the
ship, while mine
which
at the
S000. On
i
Wii
cabin
wilted
by thie
partition,
Suddenly
the floor
moment
the
fon
In anothes
but
have
on, on—to where I stood,
instant I should be standing in it
to save my life I, ¢ not
stirred then,
A stifled shriek behind me
to break the spell, and 1 turned w
see poor Mrs, Charteris at my
winting with one finger at ithe
rible thi : Then,
ually, the long passage began
a crowd pou
. Lh
babble
1
ould
ried
Boemed
as
and a
filed gu
And
fainted 1
did
BOS
Chart
a sof
drawn
white gi
Thank
not see wha Haw
delay, we the do
half ving, half
his
ana
§erbit
ight off,
t +
We
got
ers,
i
ire oO
@ FOL,
breast
pin
was
a paper
i t
obey «
ts were fruitle
sassienne there sailed w
r goodness knows how
UE =
more-—apies of the asaociation,
upon tracking "Wn
my diamond pin, they all tool
one of themselves: and thanks
int « (ruistay
him d
also, I was able to po
as the most likely perpetr
murder, to which he
as well as to the
ut
. the
afterward
Pataroff busi-
31)
fosmid,
i few weeks later, he pald the full
penalty of the law
As for the Rev, Erastus Leigh, and
ithe other conspirators among the
passengers, there was not
of them to go
upon the prosecution, and they both
scaped.
Oh! ves, Mrs. Chartel is is alive now,
I see her occasionally, Shes a wid.
wor little woman! And 1
think will always remain one.—P. X,
Brack in the Cincinnati Commercial.
Wealth in Walnut Trees.
a —-
Seventy-five years ago Thomas L
| Walker, then a mere boy, planted four
walnuts by the roadside opposite his
father's house in the Eleventh civil dis.
trict, near Cedar Bluff, and some ten
| miles west of Knoxville. He died en
| years ago, yet he lived to see four wal-
in diameter, worth, if out and properly
seasoned, at least #400 each. Had he
planted 300 walnuts on an adjoining acre
of ground, his heirs, when he died, would
have been $120,000 better off. To.day
they would be £200,000 better off. Had
he planted ten acres they would be worth
at least $2,000,000. Had he planted 100
acres, and all the trees had reached an
average size of three feet in diameter,
and there is no reason why they shouldn't,
as the land is fertile and impregated with
lime, his heirs, and there are only three
living, would be worth altogether $200,
000,000, If, like old Johnny Appleseed,
who planted thousands of apple trees in
the Northwest, he had planted all the
worn-out fields in Tonnesseo in walnuts
it would be the richest State in the Union
by far. [Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal.
A remedy for creaking hi 1s
mutton ow rubbed he er A
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
4 .
Is YIU.
i aiy
where
Lut one become infatuated wi
ing and there is no telling
¢
wf Mrs, Hotehikins, the widow of the in.
the machine gun, t= Yale
College include a building fund of $150,
000 snd an endowment of a half million
dollars for the establishment of a pre
pariatory school,
ventor of
Tur Austrian war minister has issued
to
my He finds that
do not attend divi
{0 the
encour
Austrian
le
inthe ma
go diors Bervice
cording regulations. Inasmuch
fis the rement of religion
ing is regarded us of groat service to the
forth go
Ones 0 nonin; ka.
military, the army must hene
iwurch t least
the voung officers in command ¢
hh must conduct
i
themselves In
more reverential spirit than has been ob
served lutely .
restori
Fug art of » pictures has been
brought to a perfection that would a
who not looked into t
Not fuces of
the
cleaned brightened,
ish those have
subject. Oily un
bul pic
iv
and
moderate
tures
¢ 1
tures of size are actual. y
mos ed
V need upon new,
from old and rotting canvases and
I'he method is to var.
the picture and then
: hy
3 3 .
nish the face of
paste it down upon ao plain surface
rotting canvas is then picked, thread by
threa!, from the )
affixed; the face of the
glued and restored and
¥
i
back, new
rammed,
Ox rue German seed. {;
erage wale
cheap. 1 hie ay
from wir fo
and for this he works §»
ring 14
inter one
mann is VO nine
werk
y seven in the ey
hour less,
five. lnsumme
seed
months
Hg and qressing
Much of the lighter field work
} HE and gathering
girs,
under charge
ery expert
ing
Women and
the
i OVeL
hey
A frie:
He was
and at an carly ni
{
3
n WW
SAatnory
ost
alt ver . ia
bu we chief kept
§ his
ven and a half years, aceq
great name as a warnor
of that time guve his services to a neioh.
boring chief. Here also he i
great influence, amd conceived the idea of
creating a vast empire for himself,
conquered ono country after another,
until in 1878 his influence extended over
the whole of the Upper Niger; and but
for the arrival of the Freneh in 1882. he
would have been master of all the country
down to the Senegal. His kingdom is
divided into ten great governments and
into
in hur place;
both.
carried
Samory served new ing
for si nnuz a
the end
aii at
[OQ
i
afirm hand. Although a treaty bas heen
ma le between him and the Frew h, he
denies that he is subject to any protect.
orate.
courses on the product and distribution
of diamonds;
finest judges of diamonds in the world,
and insist upon having the finest stones
and the most perfect cutting. 1t is esti.
mated that they will take £3,000.000
worth this year. India furnishes a market
for large numbers of white stones, as
well as for yellow or colored diamonds,
or stones with flaws or specks in thou.
The natives invest their savings in theta
and in other precious gems as wo do in
stocks and shares. Russia's fancy is for
large yellow diamonds. China is becom.
ing a buyer, for very recently tho Em.
press has broken throogh the old custom
which prohibited women from wearing
diamonds in her country. She could not
resist the beauty of a su diamond
nocklet presented to her. She wore it at
eourt, and set the fashion, Japan is aise
rapidly becoming a considerable cus.
tomer. With the opening up of the world
by railway and steamship communication
demand for
. The world now purchases
worth
marvel
about
T
willion
A Yaste of Time nnd Xoney, :
Miss Hardware (about to goabroad)
~But, papa, can't you permit us to
extend our trip to Italy?
Old Mr. Hardware—Humph! can't
you see enough organ-grinders right
here in New York? —Judge.
People Kaow a ised Thing,
THATS WHY LEMISGTON TYPEWRITERS ARS
IX DEMAND,
Bome ides of the present wonderful
growth of the typewriter business ray be
gained from the fact thet the sales of Hem.
ington typewriters for January and Febra-
ary, 1802, exceeded the of the correspond.
fog months of 1801 by $160,000
ihe great and tantly gaining popular.
ity of the Heminglon is cleariy shown by
the fact that the Lusiness b VO than
doubled wit ree years, The Remingtop
factory at liom, N. 7% mploys TU men t
fill the demand or ent by the sales agents,
Wyckoff, Mean aos & w
the
every tive minutes
Henediot, bi iiss
of uschines at onshitiyg rate
Eneangement © SRUCCrs are
stnnd.
fi new
bys.
Te
fad, but engagement jars sre old
i. KLIse's Guest
x after first day's
satiee and $2 triad
wt Pails, Pa
FITS stopped {ree Ly
Neuve Restonen,
tine, Marvelous cures,
bottle free, Jie. Kline, 531
iscking in hos
enlertain an
A man may be considered
nitality when be will not
iden,
even
Mavaria cured and eradicated from the
svystemn by Brown's iro: Biiters, whieh +p
riches the blood, 1ones the nerves, «ids diges-
tion, Acts like a charm on persons in peteral
til bealih, giving new energy and strength.
Of two women choose the one that will have
Fou.
wmiing of Bescham's Plies
aste wit houl jmp
box
Tue pleasant
OG pie ely Ainggu ines le
ing thelr eMeienc
ws CORLL B
The man who has no business of his own to
attend to always goes to bed tired,
The worst cases of female weakness readily
reid to Dr. swan's Pastiles. samples free.
r. Swan, Beaver Dam, Wis
The only way to get a hen out of the garden
is to go slow but shoo'er.
[TaMictedwilh soreeyesruse Dr issae Thomp.
son'sEye Water. Druggistass«ll a1 2%: por bottly
“It’s all up" with the landlubber when he
takes Lis first sea voyage
A REMARKABLE SUCCESS
What Ability and Rescarch
AC omplishes,
Fi eronmm
giliierence
study of
the
There is widest
world between
and
knowledge fr
in the
ti a prolessioe
Lav
its practice.
mw real cases, is the most es
material in D1
Experience, practica
sential
SEion Physicians fre
3 i
from patients their true condition, be-
cause of their inal
cessial remedy,
sility to provide a suc.
With twenty-one years’
a titioner, 1 can con-
scientiously say that I have never used a
ration with such uniform good re-
as that attained by Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root. It is u veritable discovery
and as such is an inestimable acquisition
medical science. 1 have prescribed
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snd bladder disorders, both in acute and
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flect. The have been
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fected kidneys and bladder and con.
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speedy and the cures permanent. I have
found it a most iavigorating tonic in
broken-down constitutions, La Grippe,
and in other cases where the vitality has
been greatly wasted and enfeebled.
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Penn Argyle, Pa.
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