SM tj -jifgp- -g;; mr V 18 era Siberia, with its almost infinite variety of flowers, trees and metals, possesses only two varieties or man colonists and savage's this huntsman bad some mystery about him. He could not be a-wealthy merchant, who might hare left his dwelling in the city to hunt with the natives, because his worn and patched clothes spoke ot poverty. His companion was evidently the chief of a tribe ot Tunguses. His costume, made of reindeer bkins, was after the fashion of the natives, richly adorned with class beads and bits of colored cloth. On his head he wore a handsome sable tolpak, and the bow, with which he killed game admirably, was ornamented with cold pieces. It was," in lact, the Prince of the Tnnguses himself, one of the most famous hunters far and near. He led the life of a nomad; in summer, when foxes and sable retired northward, he crossed to the opposite shore of the Baikal Lake and was said to carry on a profitable trade with some tribes on the Chinese frontier. lenar Kus owned innumerable herds of reindeer ana many tents; he had won the respect even of the Russian officials and inspired them with a certain fear, because he was closely allied with all the wandering tribes of Tnnguses and other natives. The Siberian Prince whistled piercingly, and at once from five different sides"five immense Siberian doss came rushing forth. These gigantic animals resemble wolves and are ol imposing sue; they are yellowish, have a black muzzle and strangely-shaped ears. These dogs sprang up on lenar-Kus, barking joyously; upon a sign of their mas ter's, these intelligent animals rnsbed bark to the sleigh, pulled it out and remained near, as if awaiting further orders. "These good creatures," said the Prince, "are so clever and bright! I learnt this way of traveling from the Samapedes of the Xorth. and daily rejoice at it. As to speed. nothing can compare with these racers. To he sure, they are not, as reindeer are, able to draw a whole family, but then they are so much faster. Besides, they are obedient, while reindeer " The Russian interrupted this eulogy on his dogs by saying: "Quick, to work! It must be late!" They took ropes from the sleigh and began putting the dogs into harness. "We need not come back here." he said, "the forest is empty. To-morrow I'll take my hunting gear to" the other bank of the Angara." "lam very much astonished," said lenar Kus, "that you should be one of those whom the Czar's finger has touched, and still enjoy such great freedom. I have now been hunting 30 years in this district. I have met a great number of exiles and have learnt to know intimately many of them, but no one was like you; you never remain at any one place; you are allowed to have firearms; you go where you list and com mand others! I cannot understand that!" "And yet I have often explained it to you. I am the head of the colonists of this district. Before me otherB were here, whom you perhaps did not know." The Tunguese shook his head. "I have known all the colonists who were sent here these 30 years." "Perhaps they were not as cunning and as active as I am. All the colonists of this district would let themselves be cut to pieces for me, because they know how zealously I work to restore them to liberty. For three days a man has been lying in my hut, wrapped up in furs, in my bed, and groan ing fearfully whenever an inspector enters. This makes them think I am sick. In Si beria there are no physicians; exiles have to do their work. Our district doctor is a Polish surgeon; he knows my secret. Ton see, then " "That may pass once." "I have other means to mislead the au thorities. Day and night I am at work. Tou know my project, and you have prom ised me vour assistance." "A Tungnse chief keeps his promise." "I know, Ienar, and I have initiated you into all our secrets because I know the honesty of your character. You see, my friend, in my native country, far, far away, there live many rascally people. There treachery and vulgarity prevail, such as you, simple children ot nature, cannot imagine. I must return there, in order to punish a traitor and to make amends fora crime. "I have often told you: ftely on Ienar!" "Did you speak with the chief of the Chnlchals, that he gives us leave to march through his land? Did you tell him we would pay him 4,000 fox skins and 10,000 sables? At my storehouse in the Shaman Valley I still have twice as many." "I have rot yet crossed the Holy Sea. "When I have carried .you to the Shaman Valley then I'll go to the Chalchals, and you may rely upon it that I will make them do what you wish. But. speaking of furs, do you know that quite near here there is a large storehouse?" "Oh, yes; that is the stock of our poor neighbors. The skins are the property ot my fellow-sufferers; we must not touch them, not even to further the good cause. I hope, however, soon to communicate with these poor exiles, and to win them over for our cause. I nave several times already sent emissaries to them." lenar-Kus smiled. I do not understand your scruples. We also hold the property'of a friend sacred, but here there are only strangers. However, others are ahead of us. In a village not far from here there is a band of Tunguses, who know this magazine and mean to plunder it. They have several times already gotten large spoil and hauled it away safely; and I have noticed during the day tracks of men's feet." "At all events I do not mean to have any thing to do with that!" In the meantime everything had been made ready. But just then the Siberian beckoned to his companion to be quiet; be threw himself down and put his ear on the enow. "A post sleigh! I hear bells! We must flee," he exclaimed, rising, "From which direction is the sleigh com ing?" "From the lakeide." "Then we cannot flee, because we would meet them. But I must be to-night in the Sbamaa Valley. Whip the dogs! Make them gallop! We can pass them like a shadow and their horses can never overtake us." lenar-Kus clacked with his tongue; the dogs flew. The traces of their small feet could barely be seen on the hard snow, and the sleigh was jerked to and lro. The narta looked like a supernatural creature flying like an arrow over the plain, like one ot the spirits of the Xorth which the Tnnguse wor ship. Wrapped up in their turn, their caps palled down over their ears, the two hunts men sat close by each other, never uttering a sound. The bells came nearer. Soon Ienar made out a sleigh with four horses; the animals sank half into the snow and the sleigh made little progress. "Go on!" said the Russian. "They have lost their way. We'll pass them like a ghost." lenar-Kus repeated the clack of the tongue and the dogs redoubled their efforts. The stars shed a pretty fair light over the snow covered plain, and every dark point con trasted vividly with the whiteness of the pall. About 100 yjrds off the postilion saw the nnrta and cried: "Stop and show us the wayl" The hunters paid no attention to the cry and went on. At the same time Jana's head appeared at tbewiudow of the coach and she said: "For God's sake, help us, friends! We have lost our way, don't you see." The Bussian trembled as he heard Jana's voice; he said In his companion: "It is only a uotnan. Let us stop a mo ment and show them the way by an arrow. I do not want to be recognized. My voice might betray me." In the meantime Palkin's fate had be come visible behind Jana. "Will you stop, instantly?" he shouted. "You scoundrels ! Obey the orders of a colonel of the gendarmes I" The narta had already passed the coach, ' and the postilion said to the colonel: "They are natives who do not understand Bussian." But at that moment the narta stopped. The Tunguse rose, put an arrow on his bow and shot it in the direction of the forest; then he whistled loud, and in aa instant the little sleigh was lost to sight, "These rancals J" cried Palkin. 2Tow they shoot at us !" "Excuse the man, your excellency," said the postilion; "that is the way for those people to show the way; we must meet a colony in the direction in which the arrow was sent off." "Wei!, then.whip your horses and go on." The horses now brought the heavy car riage around and started in a different direc tion. For an hour already, the Colonel had been driving about on the plain; for an hour ago the postilion had told the Colonel that he had lost his way. Jana was in despair because she was verv anxious to reach Irkutsk. When the Colonel, however, rep resented to her that ir would be better to await the morning in some colony, than to use up their own strength and that of the horses, she yielded. After a considerable time the postillion at last cried: "We are near the forest! I see the road againl" Deep silence reigned in the coach. Jana looked all around the vast plain, hoping to discover traces of a human dwelling. Thus they reached the forest. Of a sudden, the Colonel turned to his companion, and, look ing at her with passionate eyes, he said: "Countess, yon surely do not know the power ot your beauty." The eyes of the gendarme glowed like will-o'-the-wisps in the dark coach, and Jana drew back frightened. Thev had made so long a journey together, and Palkin had ever treated her with so ranch respect and esteem that Jana had become quite reassured, and now also sought to give his words a laughable turn. "I have beard that so often ! But let us drop idle compliments, and rather think how we shall escape out or this predica ment." "Compliment ! They are no complements, but the expression of a feeling that over whelms me!" Then you ought to suppress it. In our relative position you cannot speak of such Vfa fl w l All f "You think so? Do you imagine that a man because he is a gendarme, has no feel ings which a magically charming being must arouse in every hearty Do you think we can with impunity remain near you be cause we have authority " The coach was driving into the forest, the, birch trees and the larches stretched out their bare branches into the" air as if they were skeletons. Jana began now seriously to fear, as a glance showed her Palkin's eyes glowing with a strange fire and his face Durning red. Retiring into the farthest corner of the coach, she said: "Colonel, what is it?" "What it is? I must at last confess thatl love you! I know that you are an honest woman and will scorn me. Nevertheless " "What do you mean? Are you out of your senses? Stop, postillion!" cried Jana, in,perfect anguish. l'You call in vain! The postilion as well as all these people whom you see are sold to me! They will obey me only. You call, therefore, in vain. He has purposely lost his wav, because I ordered it." "Help! Save mel What shall I do, poor woman that I am?" "I told you you would call in vain. Don't you see how calm I am? I love you; Ire peat it once more. Iu a few hoars we shall be in Irkutsk and then I shall be forever cut off from you. If you were to die I might forget you, but to live and to see yon " At this moment the sleigh stopped. A shed was visible between the trees at which the postilion stopped. He jumped down from the box and opened the door. Jana breathed again and quickly got ont. "Here we are at last." said the man. "I must take the horses out, but in the mean time Countess will find so many skins in the house that you will be warm there." "Postilion!" said Jana to him, "do not leave me! Follow me and do not go away one moment!" Palkin laughed scornfully. Jana leant on the arm of the postilion, who looked at her amazed. The huge shed seemed to be quite empty. In the corners furs of reindeer, bears, wolves, foxes and sable were heaped up. Jana sank breathless on a pile of lurs "Keniain here, myfriend," she said to the postilion. "It your horses should rnn away, I'll pay lor them. "You yourself shall be richly rewarded it you will not leave me." Jana saw Palkin enter. "Leave me," she said, "to him. This good man will surely protect me." Palkin turned to the postillion. "Take yonr horses away at once, and do not return here till daybreak, unless you wish to make me angry." The postilion left immediately. Palkin cast a learlul look, lull of bitter ness and scorn, at the Countess. "Postilion!" she called alter the man when suddenly she stopped, lull of astonish ment. A strange commotion became perceptible under the pile of furs, and a sudden light illumined the shed. The Colonel crossed himself, terrified, as he saw wolves and bears come up against him. Soon the furs fell off. and lanterns, kept concealed until now, shed a better light, and 40 colonists surrounded Palkin and Jana. "My wife!" exclaimed one of them. "Col onel, how did you get here?" The officer, whose presence o mind never left him, whispered into Jana's ear: "Keep silence, for your husband's sake I" Palkin's voice sounded like a hidden threat and Jana was so fully convinced that for the present Vladimir's fate lay in Pal kin's hands that with her uuul "devotion she consented, and announced it by a haughty bend of the head. "Vladimir!" she exclaimed, "God sends you to help us. We have lost our way on the plain. What lucky accident brings you here?" "I told you, we prepared an expedition against the Tunguses who steal our furs. The inspector allowed ns to lie in ambush here." That was the hand of God!" she said. looking sternly at the Colonel. "But how could you miss your way?" asked one of the exiles. "Were you not on your way to Irkutsk?" "Yes, indeed." "Why, then, I do not see unless the pos tilion was drunk, or perhaps bribed; other wise he could nut possibly miss the road." Jana was determined to keep silent. She Baid: "I must go on at once. Could you perhaps show ns the way to the nearest station? The horses can very well make a few versts more. Colonel, you will kindly permit my husband and one of these men to accom pany us?" "But "Palkin tried to object "Ob, you certainly permit it," she said, looking him into the face; "my hasband can return to the colony in a post sleigh. So much you can surely permit, Colonel." Palkin saw that he could not refuse. He consented, with rage in his heart. Orders were given not to take the horses out, and in a quarter of an hour the four took their seats in the coach. Jana tried to keep up the same conduct as be ore with Palkin, but she was so utterlv exhausted that she reclined in a corner of the conch, saying: "I am very tired. I must rest." She leaned back upon the soft cushions and soon seemed to sleep quietly. Palkin was silent. At 3 o'clock they reached the station; they now bad the high road before them, which could easily be seen in the snow. All danger was over. Jana parted with her husband full of love; the horses were changed and the dark gensdarme once more took bis seat by Juna's side. Far off the white mi its allowed the towers ot Irkutsk with the tall walls to pierce the veil here and there. Jana's coach was already descending toward the Angara, and the eye was now able to discern cupolas and steeples rising high above the pines anil larches. This was the convent of St. George, which lies several versts from the city. The Angara winds around in the valley in grand dimensions, and then sends its waves straight upon the walls of Irkutsk. From this point the city presents a truly magnifi cent aspect. The town is surrounded bv lofty, fortified walls, and above the houses. rises quite a forest of cupolas and smaller towers. The whole scene is again surrounded by bills, covered with snow and pine forests, which seem to embrace and protect the capi tal of Fast Siberia. Now Palkin formed a sudden resolve. He turned to Jana, saying: "Countess, will you not forgive me if I 1 THE forgot myself for a moment, it was a passing attack ot madness; I did not know what I was saying or doing." , Jana trembled, jind in the look with which she answered the officer there was so much contempt that he instinctively cast down his eyes. "Countess," he continued, nevertheless, in a very submissive tone, "I, know how much I deserve your scorn and your con tempt I wish only to say how much I re pent what I did. It must have been the bad brandy. Do not treat me with contempt, and listen to me to the end." "You must know, Madam, that we are a sort of Free Masons, we officers of the Gov ernment The Inspector obeyed me, al though we spoke of a crime. I mast again shut mv eves with superiors of mine. Be cautious with the Governor. He will be ready at any time to sacrifice yon to Schelm, who is, in secret, his superior in the minis try of the interior. To convince you of mV sincerity and of mv repentance for what has happened, I will accompany you myself to the Governor and support your pe tition. But follow my advice. Do not speak of your husband's innocence, nor of the petition which L have promised to for ward tto Count Orloff himself. We shall probahly, both of us, take lodgings in Ir kutsk. In all probability I shall not be permitted to see yon, but you may count upon my devotion. The day mav yet come when you will be gracious enough to par don me for the sake of the services I. shall have rendered vou." The Colonel's voice became more and more submissive and convincing. Jana knew but too well how much she needed his help to prove Vladimir's indocence. She had, however, been too deeply wounded to yield at once. "Let it be so." she said sternly. '"We shall see. Now I am forced to accept your favors. But I beg you will not speak to me; you have insulted me too grossly; I cannot so easily forgive. "Still," she" continued, when he bowed and simply proffered to obey her in all she might order, "I shall never forget how much we owe you." The sleigh reached the walls of Irkutsk. "I wish to give you olp more piece of ad vice, Countess," said Palkin. "As soon as you have had your audience, lose not a minute, not a moment, but return instantly to your husband. I shall send a gendarme in advance to the colony; nevertheless, I re peat, do not lose an instant to meet your husband." "Such was my intention." Five minutes later the coach stopped be fore the palace of the Governor of Fast Siberia. CHAPTER XVLTX As soon as Vladimir reached the colony he showed Inspector Palkin's permit for his longer absence. The officer received him civilly but coolly, and ordered him to go home. There he found Dr. Haas fast asleep on a pile of skies. Vladimir also felt overburdened with fatigue, and was soon fast asleep. It was dark already when suddenly a great disturbance aroused him. He opened his eyes and saw the room full of Cossacks. Atlhe foot of the couch stood Dr. Haas with an ax in his hand. "As long as I am alive not a hair of his head shall be harmed," cried the doctor. "Seize him," cried the Inspector's wife; "bind him at once and give him COO blows. And as to that rebel there," pointing at Dr. Haas, "kill him instantly, because he openly resistaihe authority of the Czar." The Cossacks were pressing forward, when suddenly the door was opened violently and the Inspector rushed in, pale and out oi breath. "Stop!" he cried. "This moment an order has come for Colonist Vladimir to go at once to Irkutsk." The Cossacks were accustomed to obey Caroline rather than her husband, and hesi tated, therelore, lor 'h. moment She was now entirely beside herself. "No! no!" she cried, as if she were pos sessed. "Give him 500 blows!"" Her husband, however, seized her by the arm. "Are you mad?" he exclaimed angrily. "A gendarme has just brought the order to surrenderee colonist to his wife, who will arrive here directly, with the Governor's permit Do vou want to ruin us?" He then bowed low to Vladimir and the doctor, saying: "Pardoii her, gentlemen; pardon my wife; she is liable to attacks of dementia." "And so are yon!" cried Caroline. "For God's sake, keep quiet!" whispered the Inspector into his wile's ear. "I swear to you you shall have an opportunitv to avenge yourself later on; only be still now! Mr. Vladimir" he continued aloud, "gather up your things, and go where the Governor permits vou to reside hereafter." (To be continued next Sunday.) A NEW SERIAL. The Dispntch has secured it enpltnl Detec tive Story by Dr. Philip Wooll. author of "Who is Gullly?" entitled "IN THE DARK." This new novel deals with u mysterious mar der, and durirg lis course develops a phnse of Detective Life that hitherto has not re ceived the attention of novelists. The plot of the story is nnbackneyed find extremely ex citing, one episode possessing rare psycho loalcnl intercut. The story Is drawn close to nntare, is brllllnntly written, and for force and, style Is unsurpassed. The opening chapters of tills Powerful Serial will appear in THE DISPATCH or SUNDAY, Jsne 1, next. Lovers of brlcbt fictioa sboald aot miss the openlnir chnpters. - BAN AGAINST THE WRONG KAN. A Confidence Man Tries a Game oa the Chief Justice of New Jersey. Philadelphia Inqslrer.i Chief Justice Beasley, of New Jersey, who prides himself on the rural character of his dress and appearance, while on a recent visit to New York City, was one afternoon standing on the steps of a prominent hotel when he was accosted by a perfect stranger, whom hn at once sized up as a confidence operator. "It has been a long time since we met," said the newcomer in an affable manner. Yes," said the Chief Justice, musingly, "quite a long time." "Are you enjoying vonrself as' usual?" asked the man, evidently feeling for an op portunity to run ihis little game. "Yes, as usual," answered the Chief Jus tice, with a sunny smile. "Still in the same old business, eh?" "Yes; still in the same old business." "What business is it? It's been so long since I've seen you that I declare I've quite forgotten." The Chief Justice's eyes sparkled merrily, as he replied, with an assumption of inno cence which would have done no discredit to a first class actor: "Sending rogues to Jail!" The confidence man stared at him and then suddenly shot off down the street. HYFNOTIZINQ BY PHONOGRAPH. The Phenomenon Not Dae to Animal Magnet- Ism but to tho InOnenco of Words. St. Louis Republic By tbe way, did you ever hear or hypnot izing by means of the phonograph? Well, it is said it can be done, and that's another of the phenomena that have been discovered in relation to the mysterious art. At the American If edical College here it was dis cussed not long ago, and there will proba bly be some experiments very soon in this direction. The theory of those who maintain that such a thing can be done does not admit that hypnotism is the result of animal mag netism entirely, consequently it Is claimed that if the operator speak the words usually employed in the process into a phonograph in tbe same tone of voice ordinarily used in hypnotism, and then leave the subject in the room alone with the phonograph, instruct ing him to obey every order of ' the instru ment, he will sink into the hypnotic state before the phonograph his ceased speaking. PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,' MILORD IN AMERICA. How Blawstital Came to Get Im- pressions and Lett One. TEACHING THE LADS FOOTBALL. Ha Was Afraid Da Would Hurt Somebody and Was Promptly Upset. INVESTIGATING SOCIETI AND DEINKS lWIUTTEN- JOB TH DISPATCH. I "But I tell you, medeah boy, ye don't see this sort of thing on the other side, -don't-cher know." The speaker was Lord Traviss Blawstital. of Windy Cable, Bloodyshire, England, who was spending a fortnight at the Hoff man House for the purpose of gathering in formation for a volume of "Impressions of America," to be published on his return to London. His Lordship brought letters of introduction to several American gentlemen, who at first expressed surprise that he should consider two weeks sufficient time to devote to such a work. But, after they had spent two or three evenings in his company, they ware equally astonished that he should have taken the trouble to come at all, because he had received so many "Impressions of America" during his residence in England that nothing he saw in this conntry was likely to alter them. "What sort of a thing is sport in this country, I'd like to know?" continued Lord Blawstital, his nose and accent rising at the same time. "Now, me boy, I went to see what you call your great national game of baseball the other dav, and 'pon me honahl I couldn't make head ndr tail of it. It's nothing at all like cricket" "No, it's not," remarked, one of his American friends, dryly. "It isn't equal to cricket as a soporific, that's one sure thing." couldn't catch the joke. "Quite right, me boy," continued his lordship, with true British density, "it's America's Weak Beverages. not the equal of cricket in that or any other way. But there's a new sort of cove I met the other day at the race-course, I asked him what he "thought of that horse Clothes rack, and he told me I was 'perfectly safe to copper him.' I bet 5 guineas on the brute, ye know, and beggar me if he didn't come in last ot all. I was looking all over for the scoundrel who told me it was safe to put me coppers on the beast." "You ought to make a whole chapter out of that for your 'Impressions of America,' " observed one of the company after the laughter had subsided. "And so I have," exclaimed his Lord ship, "and I hope it will save some of my countrymen from being swindled when they come to this country." Then bis Lordship went upstairs to his room, and made the following entries in his journal: Told the story of the race-course swindle tq some Americans and they all laughed at me. The Yankees think it a fine joke to see an Englishman cheated. Have been to all the leading barrooms in New York to get points for my chapter on "The Fashionable Society ot the Metropolis." Several gentlemen have com plimented me on my extensive knowledge of America, speaking of me continually as "the man who knows it all." Americans can be po lite sometimes if they want to be. I am told there are other cities in tho interior, such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston, but shall not visit them, as I have already learned a great deal about them from my friends in New York. Savages abound, I am told, in the regions in which these cities are situated. (N. 13. The last sentence, prooerly italicized, will do for a joke. Must send it to JPunch.) INVESTIGATING AMERICAN BEVERAGES. Having finished this work, Lord Blaw stital put on the largest and most brilliant of his assortment of red cravats and went out for a stroll on Broadway. He wandered into an art gallery, with a Bar at one end of it, and there met one of his American friends. "Well, how do you like New York so ciety?" asked the American, as they seated themselves at a small table and called for refreshments. "There's no such thing here, me boy," responded his Lordship with exquisite tact "I've been in a lot of places like this, and it's not at all the sort of thing I'm accus tomed to. Very different irom a club in Lunnon. "But what you call sport here is nothing like what we have on the other side. Now, football, for example, is played here by the lads in the public schools, like Harvard and Princeton. You ought to see the way it's played at Cambridge. It's real sport there, and dangerous, too, I can tell you. Teaching the Lads the Game. I've ployed many a game there, and I'd like nothing better than a chance to show you Yankees how it ought to be played." "Why, you're just the man we're looking fori" exclaimed the American. "There's to be a big match to-morrow, and we need an other man on our side. How would vou like to play?" AFRAID OP HURTING TIIE LASS. "I'll play with pleasure, deah boy," re plied Lord Blawstital, "but I hope they won't find me too rough. You know I was never accustomed to playing with boys as you do here, and when I get excited you'll find me the deuce of a chap. But, suppose we try t another drink. Do you know the liquor in this country has no strength what ever. You should try the spirits they give you at the Bull and Warming Pan in Dun dee. Genuine Irish, me boy, with the taste of tho smoke and the heather. X used to hear a lot about tbe American drinks before I came here, but bless me if I find them equal topur own." "Take a whisky cocktail," said the American, "and see if that's strong enough to suit you." Lord Blawstital sipped the cocktail and remarked that it was well enough in its way, but too weak. Then his friend ordered a. couple of rum sours, which his Lordship de clared an improvement on the other. Then they had a variety of drinks, and, as Lord && fcfNPkY,' MAT ! SB, '"1890. ' " ' '''"'"-' ' '' ' '. Blawstital poured each one down his throat, he observed: "All very well, dean, boy, but you should taste a drop of true British spirits at the Junior Carleton. Two or three glasses would be enough for one evening." SUCCUMBED IN DUE SEASON. At last his speech began to grow thick and his vision hazy. He thought he would try a light one this time "to top off with." 'A stone fence is what you want," said his American friend, and forthwith one was placed before him. Lprd Blawstital tasted it and pronounced it a pleasant, mild decoc tion. He finished the 'drink and said that he thought the fresh air would do him good. "But," he added, as he tried to rise from his chair, "hang me if me legs haven't got .tied in a hardTinot! How does this happen? "Well," replied his friend, "these Amer ican drinks have a way of settling in your feet." . , With some difficulty Lord Blawstital was conveyed through a side door and placed in His Impression on American Soil. a cab, raving leebly about the watery quali ties of American beverages. A brisk drive through the park served to untangle his lees, and "lhen he was taken back to his hotel and tenderly deposited in bed. He awoke the next morning with a splitting headache, but he remembered his engage ment at the football grounds, and immedi ately after his "bawth" told his man to lay out bis flannels and other accoutrements ior athletic sports. Lord Blawstital made his appearance just before the game wai called, and was promptly enrolled as a "rusher." in deference tj his great experience and skill. HIS IMPRESSION ON AMERICAN SOIL. For a few moments the ball was kicked hither and thither, and then suddenly it was "passed" to the Englishman, and he started with it for the goal. He met the forces of the enemy before he had gone a dozen Dace. There was a crash, a chorus of yells in his ears, and a constellation whirh looked like the entire solar system before his eyes. Down he went to mother earth, and the ball was wrested from his grasp. Both sides stood on his prostrate form and struggled for the ball. His whiskers were trampled into the mud and his shoulder put out of joint. Then the charge swept on, and, relieved of the weight of 21 men, Lord Blawstital slowly picked himself up and gazed ruefully at his torn and soiled rai ment. Somebody helped him to scrape the, mud out of his eves and ears. "What's 'that, deah boy?" inquired the Briton, pointing to a cavity in the earth irom which he had just' been extricated. "That," replied the other, "is an English man's impression on American soil." J. L. Ford. A BATTLER ABOUND HIS LEG. Awtui Experience? of a Pair of Hunters Who Camped Out Over Night. MiddleDurg Post. Dr. Sauipsel and J. K. Snyder, both of Centerville, had an experience at Swift Bun on Friday night of last week that they will never forget. They scraped a lot of leaves together for a bed, provided a pile of wood to keep up a fire during the night and lay down to pleasant dreams. Along toward 1 o'clock Mr. Snyder was awakened by a cold object which seemed to be resting on his leg. Without moving he lay awake, waiting for developments. The next moment he felt an indescribable sensation come over him which seemed to paralyze every nerve in his body. Bealizing that there was something extraordinary the matter, he called to the doctor to hurry and get np, as something was crawling up the right leg of his panta loons, and he believed it was a snake. The words went through the doctor like an electric shock, and, raking a brand out of the fire, he approaehed Mr. Snyder, who was lying as if paralyzed, with the cold sweat standingln big beads on his forehead. Half blinded by the flickering flame of tbe brand, he noticed what at first looked like a broad black strap hanging out of Mr. Sny der's trouser leg. but the next moment ex claimed: "My God, Muckel, lie still; it's a rattlesnake." The reptile had been attracted to the fire and sought warmth on tbe person of Mr. Snyder. Every moment she disappeared further "Up the leg. Grasping the snake by the tail, the doctor pulled with all his might. His bold slipped, and the rattles, 14 in number, came off and remained in his hand. The reptile had wrapped itself around the bareskm on the man's leg, and violently shook its derattled tajl, indicating its anger at such harsh treatment. This performance almost threw Mr. Snyder into convulsions. Recovering himself, the doctor bethought himself of his knife, and, quickly opening a blade keen as a razor, he cut the pantaloons up to tbe body. This released the snake, and she quickly unwound and threw herself into a coil, ready for effective work, hut, be fore she could strike, tbe doctor struck her a blow with a club that cut her in two.- THE OBIGINAL ASTOR. Ills Forcible Expression on Real Estate and Ills Love of Literary Boelety. J.W. Watson in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 1 Well do I remember, when a boy, hear-' lng John Jacob Astor, the original of the name, say to my father by way of advice: "Buy dirt; It won't run away." On this principle, which he instilled into his chil dren, he bought real estate, but never sold. I heard him once ssy: "I will never give a lease, for, If it Is a good one, they will sell it; if bad, they will run away and leave.it." 1 think he hardly knew how rich he was, or, if he did, had a full appreciation of it. I once heard him to say to Philip Hone, who was Mayor of the city of New York, and supposably a very rich man: "Philip, how much are you worth?" The answer was: "Oh, about 5750,000, Astor. Tbe then 30 millionaire responded: "I don't know but that's as good as if you were rich man." Astor was a life-long friend friend of Irving, Paulding and Halleck, the latter being lor many years his secretary, and who often related to me that be told his employer that be did not want to be rich, but that if he had a steady income of (200 a year he would be satisfied. Tbe old man, as a grim joke, left the poet exactly that sum per annum in his will, which It is pretty well known that his son Will iam B. increased to a comfortable sum as long as Fitz-Greene lived. Astor bad a great liking lor old Billy Beynold's chop house. In Thames street, back of Trinitv Church, and would go there almost daily to enjoy his chop, or steak, and. his pewter of ale, in company with Fitz-Greene Halleck, Irving, or some Jiterarj man, sometimes Poe though he did not like Poe, and de nounced him as quarrelsome, which he was. WHAT DOWE ENOW ? Tho Argument of the Agnostic and Its Effect on Religion. FALLACY UPON WHICH IT BESTS. Tho lesson of This Philosophy is That We Only Apprehend God. TO C0MPEEHJ5ND HIM IS IMPOSSIBLE rWBlTTBX FOB THB DISFATCII.1 A second difficulty which arises along the line of the argument for God centers about the fact of the limitation of human thought. Its name in philosophy is agnosticism. Agnosticism is a refusal to affirm the supernatural. It is an assertion that that is true which can be demonstrated. Its teach ers are science and logic, and it listens to no others. There may be a great deal of truth outside the boundary of demonstratlon.hut we can have no knowledge of it. We can have no ninrp fnnimnnipntinn with it than W6 Can ('with the inhabitants of the planet Mars. We can know only the demonstrable. The natural inferences from tbe agnostic position are that miracles never happen, prayer is never answered, revelation is never made nor inspiration ever given, God is unknowable. Agnosticism pushes forward a single word as a battering-ram against the walls of religious faith. The word is "tes timony." The agnostic is ready to assent to anything which presents itself with the cre dentials of adeqnate testimony. The infer ences irom the agnostic position will each of them need separate consideration. We are concerned at present with only one of them, the last the assertion that God is un knowable. The agnostic position itself, however, it may be well to notice in passing, rests upon the uncertain foundation of fallacy. The fallacy lies in the ambiguous use of the verb "to know." It is as if one were to affirm that cold is driven away by heat, which is penectly true. And then to argue from that affirmation that therefore if any body has a cold it will be driven away by heat. The word "knowledge," like the word "cold," has more than one meaning. TWO KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE. And if the verb "to know" means the kind of knowledge which has its source in science and in logic, then the position of agnosticism is perfectly unassailable, but it is also perfectly unnecessary. It is a truism. It asserts that we can know bj demonstration only that which is capable ot demonstration, which is self-evident. If, nowever, tne vero "to Know means any knowledge of which we are possessed with' out the help of science or of logic; ifit means such a truth as personality or such a fact as duty, then the assertion is not true. Those truths we know, and yet demonstra tion does not touch them. We do know the undemonstrable. We are concerned, however, at present, with a single agnostic affirmation, the affirmation that God is unknowable. This affirmation is based npon the limitation of the hnman minds. We can know only that which is thinkable; but thought has its limits, beyond which all is unthinkable and therefore unknowable; and God is beyond the limit. God is unknowable. Let ns ex amine the foundations ot this argument. There are certain assertions which the mind makes about God. It affirms that there is a First Cause, to which it gives the name of God, and that this First Canse is infinite, absolute, intelligent, self-determining, personal and righteous. Most of these asseitions have already been examined and maintained. Two only among them, that God is infinite and that God is absolute, re mains to be considered. INFINITY OF THE FIEST CAUSE. We arrive at the truth of God's infinity, not along the path of creation, bnt along the path of thought. Tbe First Cause must be either finite or infinite. If it is finite then it must have limits to its powers. If it has but a limited power, then in regions beyond the limits must be existence which is uncaused. Bnt this contradicts the idea of cause, and is impossible. The First Cause must, therefore, be infinite. The First Cause is also absolute. To be absolute is to be perfectly independent. If the First Cause is not absolute it must be dependent for its existence upon something else. But in that case that upon which the First Cause depended for its existence would be the cause of the First Cause. But that is impossible. The First Cause,accordingly must be absolute. Here now is the asser tion which the mind, partly by intuition, partly by induction, necessarily makes about the First Cause: That the 'First Cause, which religion calls God, is Infinite and Absolute (this is the affirmation ot our in tuition), and is intelligent, self-determining, personal and righteous (this we have found to be the affirmation of reason.) RELATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTES. AH this seems easy enough. We are not yet aware of any particular limitations in our thinking. All this we know about God. Suppose now we take these facts about God, and think them out, especially in their re lations each to the other. We cannot take a single step into an understanding of what these assertions about God really mean with out getting our feet into a metaphysical snare and tangle from which there seems to be no extrication. The onlv wav to get out ,seemj to be to take a knife and cut the net. u.hat is, to give the whole matter up, and confess that after all we are hopelessly ig norant, and God is indeed unknowable. The First Cause, we say, is absolute. Can a cause be absolute? The absolute, we re member, cannot exist in dependence. Can there be a cause without an effect? Must not a cause be denendent lor its verv pt. 'istence as a cause upon the producing of an ettectr No other condition is possible But this contradicts the assertion that the First Cause is absolute. The First Cause, ac cordingly, is both absolute and not absolute. And if we try to escape from this dilemma by maintaining that the First Cause existed in absoluteness Irom eternity and then atsome moment in time passed into a state of relativeness by producing an effect, then at once? as Dean Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer together with one voice remind us, we run against the assertion that the First Cause is infinite. Now, to be infinite means the inclusion of all possible modes of ex istence. That excludes the possibility of change. But, if the infinite passed irom non-causal existence into causal existence, then the infinite changed, which is impos sible. Or take it from tbe side ot tbe effect. This effect which the First Cause produced must either have existence before, in which case it could not have been caused and could not have become an eflect, or else it must have come newly into being, in which case something ne was added to the infinite, which is impossible, for to the infinite noth ing can be added. The First Cause, there fore, is both infinite and not infinite. SO WITH EACH ATTRIBUTE. The same reasoning might be med in dis proof of the assertions that the First Cause possesses intelligence, will, personality and conscience. See where we are, then. If there is any dependence to be put upon in tuition, if the truth which we must affirm ns the conditions of our thinking are true, then there m ust be a First Ca us?, and the First Cause must be infinite and absblute. And it any dependence is to be put upon tbe ordinary testimony of our reason, upon in duction, then it follows, as tae have seen, that the First Cause must be mind rather than matter, personal, not in personal, and possessor of intelligence, will and righteous ness. We say that we know this much about God. But it seems that these truths cannot be made to go together. One contradicts the other. Even if we brush aside all these traps and tangles as nothing but metaphysi cal quibbles, and assert that nevertheless' we know, then comes tbe question, What is knowledge? And the answer is that knowl edge is the result of classification. What we Know we Know because it has eettaln likenesses or onlikeneHes to somethinrf else which we have previously known, and can be classified. Can tbe absolute, can tbe in finite be classified? Can the infinite or the absolute, then, be known if we use that word in its common meaning? Therefore we know, and yet we know not. But the negative destroys the affirmative. The agnostic is left in possession of the field of truth. Human thinking has limits; whatever is outside the limit is unknowable. God is beyond the boundary; God is un knowable. WHAT IS THE RESUM? Here is the agnostic assertion. What can we do with it? It is true. We will accept it. -What, however, does it really mean? But that God is unknowablewhat pre cisely does this word "unknowable" mean? The verb "to know," as we have already seen, has more meanings than one. And every word which offers a choice of mean ings tempts the reasoner into the fallacy of ambiguity. Sometimes the word "knowl edge" means apprehension. Sometimes it means comprehension. To apprehend is to know something about a fact; to compre hend is to know everything about it. The unknowable, then, may be that which is partially unknown, and which we cannot know fully or adequately; or it may mean that which is wholly unknown, of which we cannot catch the glimmer of an idea. The true meaning of the word knowledge maybe emphasized by illustration. Geome try is unknowable to a cow. A blade of grass is unknowable to a man. In the first case the word means apprehension; in the second case it means comprehension. A cow can not catch the faintest glimmer of the truth that the square described on the hypothe nuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. That statement is true, and capable' ot demonstration bnt not to the cow. The cow would be very much mistaken who should deny that any truth exists which is outside the boundaries of bovine consciousness. To a cow geometry is unknowable. THE OTHER SENSE. To a man, however, a blade of grass is unknowable in quite a different way. We can know something about the blade of grass; as that it is green, and long, and flat, and marked in this way and that, and has such and such conditions of growth. But we cannot know everything about it. We come back now to the agnostic assertion: God is unknowable. Does that mean in the sense of apprehension, or in tbo sense of com- prenensionr for u it means mat we cannot know everything about God, or even tbatwe can know nothing adeqnate about Him, then agnosticism is simply religion, using unfamiliar language. This agnostic assertion pervades the most religious book which our race has written the Bible. "Canst thou by searching find oat God?" asks Jobind takes for granted that nobody can answer yes. "Verily, thou art a God that hidest thyself." says Isaiah. "Clouds and darkness are round about Him." We have no need to go to the reviews to learn that; it is set down in the old psalms. God u indeed unknowable, and we are all agnostics, if that is what the word means. CAN WE KNOW ANYTHING? But If the agnostic assertion is taken by any body to imply that wo cannot know anything about God, we call to witness Mr. Herbert Spencer, the foremostteacher In this genera tion of the doctrine ot tbe nnknowableness of Go,!. Mr. Spencer will not say that we cannot know anything about God. Indeed, what be does say is something quite different from that. "Amid all the mysteries, which become the most mysterious the more they are thought abont, there will remain (even alter man has peached his highest growth, and knows all that science and reason can possibly teach him) the one absolute certainly that he is ever iu the presence ot an Infinite and Eternal Energy irom which all things proceed." Mr. spencer, then, who knows a hundred times better than we do what the difficulties are. at which we have hinted, which lie in the patn to the knowledge of God, is absolutely certain of some things abont God. He knows that God is.and that He is "Infinite" and "Eter nal," and that He is the ''Energy from which all things proceed." We may apply them to God. with the sanction of agnosticism, the name by which He is called in the Old Testa ment. We may call Him Jehovah, meamncas Matthew Arnold reminds ns, the Eternal. In deed, we may take Mr. John Fiske tor our guide.the disciple of Mr. Spencer, and the fore most teacher in this country of tho nnknow ableness of God, and we may assert with him that God may be described as Christ described Him, saying, "God Is spirit." TVHAT MATTERS IT, THEN? What, then, is it which agnosticism main tains against religion in its denial that God is knowable? Against true religion, nothing whatever. Against trne religion, no more than he maintains who denies that there will be actual golden pavements along the streets of the celestial country. Century by century man has been learning higher and worthier trnths about God. Not that God has changed, but that man has grown more able to appreciate the truth about God. The play of "Hamlet" does not change, which tbe small boy goes to sleep over, bnt by and by in manhood learns to understand. It is that the boy has grown to be a man that makes the difference. All truth is conditioned by tbe mind of the thinker. Age by age man has been growing, ana so getting more able to understand God. In the old days it used to be tbonght that God was bnt a great, supernatural man, with all man's passions, even with man's sins. Gradually, as tho race grew ont ot childhood, the childish ideas of God were put away, just as with onr own selves in onr own experience. Presently God was no longer thought of as physical, though physical language still continued of ne cessity to bo used. To-day we know that God is spirit. We think of Him in measures taken from tbe mind and sonl of the worthiest man. He Is the infinitely wise, infinitely righteous and just, tbe Supreme Being. MESSAGE OF AGNOSTICISM. Now comes agnosticism, tbe characteristic philosophy of onr generation to uplift the idea of God still higher. The message of agnosti cism Is that even our idea of God in terms of mind and soul is still inadequate, still only symbolical. A symbolical conception Is such as this: We never really think in any adequate way of the round earth; the earth is so great that we cannot really figure it to onr minds nobody can form an adequate idea of the earth; when we tnlnk of the earth, we think of it in symbol, we think of a map or a globe. Still less can we conceive of God as He really is. There is a difference, such as there is between a globe and the globe, between onr idea of God and God To say that God is. and that He is infinite and absolute, and that Ho is tbe one su premely wise, self-determining and righteous spintnal Being, is a true conception of God as far as it goes, just as a globe is a trne image of tho rth- There are. of course, tbe difficulties in the way of which we i.oke. Bat nobody need assert that the difficulties exist any where outside of onr own minds. If J try to read a page ten feet away, the page is only a great blur, bnt the blur is not upon tbe page. It Is in tbe eye. What tho blur means is that wo aro getting beyond tbe limit of seeing. What the intellectual confusion means is that we are getting bevond the limit of thinking. But tbe possibilities of tbonght are not identi cal or co-extensive with the possibilities of things. "The land," as Dante said, "does not stop where tbe water hides it from our sight." Into the jaitice sempiternal Tbe power of vision that yonr world receives As eye into tho ocean penetrates; Wblcb, though it see the bottom nearthe shore, Uponrfbe deep perceives it not. and yet 'Tis there, but it is hidden by tbe depth, CERTAINLY RUT NOT ADEQUATELY. We do know God with absolute certainty, bnt not adequately. We speak of Him in terms and figures which we take from human life, and must so speak and think because we have no better words in human language; ana all that we say of God touches, the truth abont Him which lies not between our affirmation and something lower, but between our affirmation and something higher. God Is indeed a Per sonal Being, bnt in a sense which includes all that we can conceive of personality and goes inconceivably beyond. Gid knows and wills God rules and loves, bat in a sense which In cludes all our. worthiest ideals of knowledge and will, of love and Justice, and multiplies them by infinity. This Is tbe summing up of the whole matter. So. far as agnosticism asserts simply the un knowableuess of God. wa n alnno iu .. i is a wise and and helpful teacher. The highest affirmations which we mako concerning God are true. Intuition and induction have not de ceived us. But they are only aporehensions of tbe truth, not comprehensions. The real truth is this which we know of God. with Infinitely more beyond, which passeth knowledge. George Hodges. The Brown Stone Must Go. Brooklyn Eagle. 1 Brqwn stone isn't having so much of a monopoly of the business of veneering the fronts of residences as formerly. That it is being supplanted by brick Is decidedly in the nature of a reform. The pleasing curves and ornamentation produced by the manu- lacture oi tne DncK and tbe Deautnoi lines in th nrrni4of mA & Aiah -svitT 41ia soit and unendurable brown stone. THE FIRESIDE SPHEfl' A Collection of Enigmatical Ms for - Home CracMng. Address communications for tfiis departmm to'E.'R. ChadbouRn. LewUton, Maine. 1054 A SOLDIER'S MONTJJtEIT. 7 n to 13 ff 6 9 it 12 6 II rs i -? 171 6 ff ill 6 (, 7 6 ..- . "! J3 2 9. 3 3 The figures in the above monument, real across, form a numerical enigma, with the fol lowing definitions: 1. A letter on tbe musical scale. 2. A vessel used chiefly for ornamental pur poses. 3. Tho "Uncle" for whom our hero fought. 4. A small number. 5. To drink. 6. Aninclosnre. 7. To put in position. & The schoolboy's companion. 9. One of the United States (Abbr.) 10. The hmdermost of our hero's forces. 1L A medley. 12. A part of speech. Tbe whole is tbe name of the soldier to whose memory the monument is erected. Tbe material of the obelisk is shown by the centrals. Tbe material of the plate below the obelisk reads across. Tbe base is a double acrosticand the'primaU and finals each name its material. E. W. Harris. 1055 ENIGMA. A pair that has been much abroad. Bat never their own travels write, Are aged now and doomed to plod. And of ten quite withdrawn from slEht. This poor old couple, well I know. Have made it their sole end and aim To smooth tbe paths in which they go. Though bright or blackened be their fame. For them my rhymes shall sing their best, And tell how much they bear abuse How mnch down-trodden and hard pressed By those who most their service use. What if they are a dark-sicined race? What boots the color of tbe skin? That sure can never bring disgrace If pare the life it holds within. Foot-sore in paths of duty led, I often seek this humble pair. And in tbeir rcstfnl quarters tread. Relieved a while from pains I bear In honor I wonld liken them To some that men with praise Invest, lake wine and friends most valued when Old ago insures their very best. CLAHoa, 1055 TRANSPOSITION. Tyrants ruled in times of old With despotic sway; They coald take their subjects' gold, Idle ana an away. Written 'tis on history's page. How their power fell; When the peasant and tbe sage Did their wrongmgs tell. Tyrants' days have passed away. Never to return; Liberty is hotding sway; How oar hearts now barn. Freedom says, in mighty first, "Right shall e'er make might;' When such Sentiment is nursed. Day must follow night. May we never from this last. May we onward march Till we, victory-crowned, have passed 'Neath tbe conqneror's arch; Loved America, to thee, Tis to thee we sing; Blessed land of liberty. Where each man's a kins. H. C. Buboxb. 1057 DIAMOND. L A letter. 2. A sharp pointed rod. 3. Purer (Rare), i. Of a mixed breed. 5. Pertaining to a genus. 6. Wives of Mareraves. 7. Derived (Obs). 8. Ropeats the words of another. 9. Narrow passages. 10. Conducted. 11. A letter. DZXPHINX. 1058 BEHEA DJIEST. A yonngman frequently is all; Some sweet and witching girlish face He meets, and deep in love will tall With her, who seems to him all grace. Mayhap his passion is returned. Then joyously the hours fly past; Bat if his tender love is spurned. How very bitter is the last. Chas. I. Housrax. 1059 ANAGRAM. Some scientists make It their aim To give to every plant a name Of learned length and thundering sonnd, (We wonder where such names they found) And show how smallest germs produce A growth luxuriant and profuse. Still others follow the parsmt Of finding insects so minute That nothing but a microscope Can bring them in the vision's scope. Some go to fishes, some to birds. And give them names in such long words As quite confuse us: thus they show How wise they are, how much they know. But other, like the one I name, "TO REPTILES GO" to find their game, And search ont all the strange abodes , Of frightful lizarus, snakes and toads. They tell us what they have discerned In language so mtersily learned That we're astounded and confounded. And with their reptiles so surrounded. And see so many crawling snakes As makes us think we have tbe shakes. And that we'd rather be in blizzards Than amongst ineir toaus anu uzzaraa. NrwoarAjr. 1060 HALT SQUARE. L The great Carthaginian General. 1 Artf. flcial ponds. 3. A small or imperfect ear of maize (colloq. U. S.). 4. Tyrant ot Sparta, d. B. C. 192. S. A beaming (Her.). 0. A box or inclosed place. 7. Dutch painter (173MS09). & In half square. H. C. Buboes. 1061 charade. TheJIrst Is to invest one's self: The whole to give away yonr pelf; And It is true That what you ttco Too cannot "lay upon the abelf." BittzbSwzxx, 1062 syncopation. "Whole, you are a greedy glutton. You last yourself witn beef and mutton, And then it seems so very droll You end jour meal by eating whole." These words a Southern planter said Unto the negro he had fed. Whole answered ihns: "O don't be crosij 1 tell yoa I was hungry, boss; The meat yoa guv me was good diet; But not enough my greed to quiet. That brown loaf just filled up the void. And now I'm feellnc overjoyed." Whole eat the whole bosides tho meat Ana thought he'd had a daintv treat. Neuosiah; ANSWERS. 1045 Tap. 10J5 Masqnerader. 1M7-A's hand, "Vanity Fair." -Pickwick Papers." B's hand. "Pendennls." "David Cop periield." Cs hand, "Henry Esmond," "Bleak House." D's hand, "The Virginians," -Old, Curiosity Shop." t MS Bother, other. IMS-Priest, sprite, ripest, tripes. 1050 M E 1 C A. M E T E R 1 H E L. E S a RANT A Y A N A X X v E D k 1 T C E R A M I E N N E T 1051 Rudiment. a " (cn-ud-t.eaDdldi&vJ candy dates.) 105S- a P A R A Jt A B K jJ z o o a t i. sBfa X B I -T TJ 8 "t, . ; Ttm 7 fWifi iii (Issfsfrsl'rfiiisl'ii if i "i ii'Vii iifii'ir'h4'--
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