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THE PZETSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 189L
return to New York that Kathleen became
engaged to Alonzo Lispenard. The be
trothal vraB still a relative novelty. Mrs.
Kennaird had been delighted by it. She
affirmed it lar better than having a cripple
for a husband, even though he might have
made his wife Lady Egbert I'oindeitcr.
Now at last to this fatigued straggler would
come the blessed release of repose. Not
the repose of rest, however. Margaretta
Kemiaird was of the kind whose most peace
ful hours are spent in the bustle of ball
rooms, and for whom there can .be no mora
distracting mental turmoil than simply
staying at home?
The remark which we have heard regard
ing the richness of Kathleen's costume
worn at her lover's little banquet in her
honor contained an undeserved sneer. Mrs.
Kemiaird had gone rather deeply into debt
since the encasement, but she had not bor
rowed a dollar of Alonzo. Her course, how
ever, had worried Kathleen not a little, and
it was with reference to that 6ame sable
trimmed garment that the girl had said:
"Mamma, what is the use cf such splen
dor? Everybody knows we can't afford iL"
"My dear," was the reply, "nobody knows
Tery much about us financially. I "read in
the 'society column' of Eome paper the
other day that my late husband had left me
only 57,000 a year. I couldn't help wishing
heVf left me one. Est I'd just as lief have
It thought that I T.ossessed 510,000. If
you can't be comfortably well off the next
best thing is to appear so."
"I don't agree with you; I think just the
opposite," protested Kathleen. "Besides,
mamma, there's but one way that these
bills can be paid "
"Certainly, there is but one way, dear.
Tou will pay them after you're Mrs. Lisp
enard." "But it isn't nice "
"To mention the matter now? "Very true,
It isn't. But von brought it up, my child.
I've always insisted that taste and silence
are twin sisters, and that our salvation
largely depends on the things we do not
say."
This evening, after they had reached
home, Mrs Kennaird's humor was notably
bland. The event of the afternoon had put,
as it were, a final filigree on the structure
of her attainments. Her future spread
dellciouslj halcyon. Still, during dinner,
and tlnoughout the remainder of the even
In, sho Had much to say concerning the
Chiceter suicide, and lior words were
hie nded v ith hint-; of worriment that came
and fled alons the current of hersneech
like lights and shades along a lapse of
meadow.
"We tnifht have pone to the Ogstons, after
all," bh said to Kathleen at desert. It's
only a small affair, and the Patriarch's ball
niay quite i-poil it; but then the Ogstons nre
soselec. Ih y have no real riplit to their
extremely lofty position, itV true, but"
"Dou't you recollect, mamma?" Kathleen
broke in. "We thought it best not to go
everrwhere nowadays on account of
rump inp good gowns for larger enteitain
ments. Kow, don't change your mind at tho
last moment: please don't. V e an interest
Inp book, and I d intonded passing a quiet
evening with it."
"Then Alonzo isn't coming at all to
night!" "I think he will not come," replied Kath
leen, who at the same time hoped ho would
come, yet did not jjresume to prophesy
Alonzo, as it turned out, lemained absent
Kathleen forgave him, knowing what an ex
cuse he had forstaying away. Yet she passed
an evening of suspense that was ended by
disappointment.
Sho slept ill that night, and rose so lato
that when she appeared at bicakfast her
mother had completed the meal and met her
witna naii-crunipieunionung paper in one
hand, while the other employed itself in lit
tle agitated waves. "There are dreadful
things printed about the suicide of Mr.
Chichester," Mrs. Kennaird announced.
Oh, perfectly dreadful things! It csin't be
true though that ho has ruined the firm bo
fore blowing his brains out!"
"So. no," laltered Kathleen, as sho seated
herself at the breakfast table. "aIoaso will
will be here this morning, I'm sure, and tell
us the real facts."
lie came, but not till lato that afternoon.
Tie had been with his uncle until quite lato
on the previous evening, and he had spent
all the earlier part of his day at the b.ink.
"Kuin, ruin, or something almost ns horri
ble," rang tnrough hisbntinus he stood at
Kathleen's doorstep. He w as silently quot
ing the words of his uncle, uttered just be
fore tjiev parted.
Kathleen received him alone. "I'm so
plad your mother in't here," he began, ns
they sank beside one anothor on a sofa.
"I've a great deal to tell you."
And he made clear what he had to tell. It
was terrible tidings. The Lispenard wealth
had been wildly squandered. "I'm a poor
man," Alonzo nt length finished As ho
thus spoke he caught Kathleen's hand, and
Instead of pressing it waited for her to do so.
The clasp came, but more faintly than ho
had expected.
"Kuttileen!" he exclaimed, and withdrew
his hand entirely from hers. "Lonz! Lonz!"
ehe said, and looked at him with wistlul
eyes that a threat of tearful storm, seemed
darkening ,
Just then Mrs. Kcnnaird entered. She had
been listening, but by no means had caught
all that Alonzo had spoken His voice had
been too low, in the fir-it place, and in tho
second she had need an overplus of caution.
A'onzo gae her a somewhat flurried
greeting and slipped from the apartment
within the next few minutes, promising
Kathleen that he would come back that
evening.
Bat it wns five good days before he came
back. During this time he wrote his sweet
heart set eral ager and soulful letters in
more than one of which he offered toielcaso
her from all bonds of betrothal. Repeatedly
Kathleen replied that she would not consent
to he released. During those days tho very
worst became patent to Alonzo. A mere
wreck was left to his sister and himself of
their former splendid patrimony. The
young man was surprised by his on n calm
ness. He arranged in the most quiet way
for a sale 01 all his possessions; ho held moro
than one very painful interview with his
sister at his own residence; he discharged
his servants and engaged a small suite of
rooms, placing a bill upon nis house in
Gramcrcv I'aik. nis many costly art treas
ure, he offered to an anctioneeron condition
of their immediate sale. He amazed every
bodv who observed him by his coolness and
teienitv. And all tho while his heait was
strained bvawretched suspicion ofiCathleen.
2"ot that "he thoroughly doubted her, hut
there had been a nameless dread born of
that last meeting a dread winch her letters
did not dissipate, for he seemed to read be
tween their lines, and as ho thus lead, a
voice vaguely cried to him "It is not she!
It is not the woman you so trusted! Some
thing that vou believed would leap from
her and breathe itself to you, burning, living,
unmistakably has not shown itselt."
And yet ho might bo wronging her so
sternly! What if his dear and faithtul friend,
Philip Lexington, would gotohcrand hold
a little talk w ith her. and tell him afterward
whether he was a madly self-conscious fool
or whether there had really been good cause
for his doubts?
Alonzo lelt his heart warm toward Philip
Lexington as he thongbt these thoughts.
Dear Philip!" ran his musings. "He will
come tome ontne instant and ieckto aid
me all he can."
Lexington obeyed the summons. He looked
as handsome as ever and listened with his
usual gracious calm to all that Alonzo 6aid.
When his turn canto to reply, bowe er,
Lexington shifted his legs uneasily and
posed a little sideways his dark, shapely
head.
"I don't a bit want to sound Miss Ktnnaird
on this question," he softly declared. "I'd
ever so much rather be excused. Frankly, I
would."
Alonzo stnred at Mm and then dropped his
eves. "Oh, you prefer not to serve me? All
right,"
"Why put it like that?" came the reply.
"I'd serve you. If I could, in some other
manner. I "
"Don't think of some other manner," Al
onzo broke in, with his voice keen and cold.
This little lavor tests your friendship, I
think."
"Oh! ' exclaimed Lexington, "you can't
mean that!" And as he spoke thero rang to
the hearer a chilling difference 01 intonation
from all others that he had ever heard leave
his friend's lips.
"I do menu it," averred Alonzo. "Tou
know just what trouble has come to mo."
"Yes. It's too bad. It's really horrid, you
know."
"I've lost my fortune, Philip, I'm a poor
man."
"Yes. I'm awfully sorry for you."
"Thanks for vour sympathy."
Lexington began to cuil his full, dark
moustache by slipping a thumb under one of
its ending curves and n forefinger precisely
above the thumb. Then, whilo completing a
little airy twist of tho grasped hail s, he ic
plied: -Look here, my boy; you're devilishly
sensitive, I should wiy."
"ll'sui, riiilip. I am sensitive. Haven't I
rcist n to be? Save is the ttmo that w hat
friends I've had shouldMand 113- me. I never
thought I had tniinv real Iriends; I hardly
believed. lor that matter, tuat I had any at
all. But I did count on you. And this thing
I have asked you to do is such a small
thing."
Philip Lexington rose now with a weary
sneer 1111 his iinelv-chlsclled face.
"A small thing,'" he bioko forth, mocking
ly. "What, prav? I go and ask a girl who
engaged herself to jon because you had lots
of money whether she will have you now
vou'vo lostnearlr everything? Can't yoa
see beforehand -what her answer will be?
If you've fancied th ere was anything Jn h er
deportment the last time you met her, can't
you?" - '
"Stop there," said Alonzo. He bad risen,
too, and though he preserved much com
posure, an abrnnt wave of the hand bespoke
excitement. "I I deny that Kathleen Ken
nairdever engaged herself to me because, as
yon put it, I had lots of monev."
Then you're wrong," said Lexington, gaz
ing down at his well" varnished boots.
"You're" with anotner twirl of the mous
taohe "dead wrong I assure yon."
Alonzo gnaw ed his lips. Phil," bo cried,
'what are you saving?"
"Only tho truth!"
"The truth!"
"Yes yes."
"But" you must be mad to state that Kath
leenOil, no, no, no, Phil."
Alonzo had caught his friend by either
shoulder and was plunging a penetrant look
Into his eyes. Tho latter, with a coldness
unexpected, yet distinct, answered, while
Alonzo withdrew froiu him:
"It's so: you ought to know life. You're
old enough."
"Philip; Philip;" broke from Alonzo. "I'm
so sorrv I asked vou to go to her. But you're
mv frie"nd still? 'It isn't mvlostmouey that
you're thinking 01? Xo, no, Phil, not you
not vou."
'Don't be tiresome!"
Lexington might have said volumes and
yet not have expressed a more pungent lit
tle series of words than those three.
"I'll try not to be tiresome," cams Alon
zo's answer, as if between shut teeth. "It's
quite clear to mo, Philip, that my request
bores vou."
Well," returned Philip, doggedly4 after a
sMMit silence, "it does."
n?t wouldn't have done so a short time
ago."
"I don't understand."
"Don't yon? I do."
"You seem angry at me," muttered Philip,
and tor no reason."
"For no reason."
"Xono that 1 can see. A short while ago?
You mean, tl.en?"
"Oh, I mean what I mean, Philip. There's
hardly any favor that vou'd have refused
me a short while ago. Sow, you find me of
no importance. I've lost my money, and
I'm not worth cultivating."
Lexington flushed hotlv, nnd then tossed
head. "Isn't that rather uncivil of you?" he
frowned.
"Yes, if you choose. But the Incivility of
raw truth has sometimes a certain refiesh
ing refinement."
"I don grasp your paradoxes. Tou
always excelled in them, however."
Alonzo had grown very pale "Let it all
rest there, then, Philip," he said. "You've
disappointed me, horribly. Good by." And
ho turned on his heel with a dismissal at
once quiet and imperious.
Lexington walked to a door and seized its
knob, "Oh, jut as you please," he said sul
lenly. "You keep up your pride, but I'm
afraid it won't serve you as well as yon
mini;. iin regara to me money j. owo
you. since we've both been mentioning
money so so broadly, I'll do my best."
But here Alonzo shot out these ringing
words:
'I don't want a dime from you, and I'll
only be too glad if you'll consider that debt
cancelled, so to speak, by the cessation of
our acquaintance.1'
Across another threshold Alonzo swiftly
quitted the room. So sooner was he alone,
however, than he reproached himself for
undue severity. And yet ho did not regret
having broken with this man. It was mer
cilessly patent to him that Lexing on had
been the most t me-serving of friends. A
kind of clairvoyance had told him this, by
flashes at once intuitive and acute. Hun
dreds ot other men placed like himself,
might have meant as much as he and said a
great deal less. But Alonzo had rarely dealt
m self restraints. Those who liked him best
liked him because of such candors; those
who liked him least did so because his free
speech, his wearing the heart 011 the sleeve,
repelled them from tho point of view of
taste, if fiom none other. And these latter
critics would have.been Ju-t the ones to de
nounce his openness with Lexington as vul
gar. ho ever much thoj disapproved the
conduct ot Lexington himself. They were
Rlreadv snnnlied with inanv instances of his
pi evious harum-scarum deportment. Thoy
would have told you that he lacked gentil
ity to almost the verge of grossness, and
that "his being such a good fellow at heart"
was merely the shallow excuse1 made for
him by a spirit of faithful indulgence.
But perhaps If ihey could have seen him
seated in solitudo long after Lexington had
left him lorevcr, and have marked the
twitching of his lips, the moisture that
glistened in his honest eyes, tho occasional
clinching of his hands or nervou3 tapping of
hi feet against tho floor, they might have
been touched by a form of human sorrow
which ranks witn the most piteous we are
ever called upon to undergo. For Alonzo
had meant generously, kindly, even nobly
toward his world, anil was now being con
fronted with its hollowness and hardness.
But yesterday people had smiled on him
who to day scarcelj chose to veil their in
difference. He. had referred with cynical
Bhrase to his own position as a favorite,
nt ho had never reallv believed his own
bitter allusions, for his nature was too re
plete with warm good-will toward his fel
lows. And now this fine nnd wholesome
loving kindness In him was being taught the
sternc-t of disillusioning lessons. "I may
have doubted manv of them-," ho told him
self, "but at least I firmly trusted Phil.
Well, well, what I asked him to do was per
haps better left undone. At least I can do it
raoi e capably than ho. I need no emissary.
I'll go to her mysclt and f.ico the worst."
He went that same evening. He did not
nsk for Mrs. Kcnnaird, but that lady chose
to receive him. He instantly Eaw that her
demeanor was formal, and even a trifle aus
tere. "I am so sorrv that poor Kathleen has
a horrid headache this evening," she
soon said, "and is lying down. Pray accept
me, will you not. as her substitute?" Alonzo
was quietly desperate. He looked the
speaker straight in the eyes as he answered,
leeling that the air bristled with coming dis
cord: "My dear Mrs. Kcnnaird. you are tho
most chai mine of persons, if you will permit
me to trauiesuch a common place. But !
must be frank and inform yon that for Kath
leen thero can be, to my thinking, no possi
ble substitute."
He watched her eyelids quiver a little, and
her large form slightly stiffen. "But you
will show mercy to "my poor child's head
ache'," "You will be good enough, on that
account, 1 nm sure, to make the best of mo
under the circumstances."
Alonzo gave his head a short negative
shake. "I can't. I want Kathleen, headache
and alL"
"Oh, but vou're presumptuous."
"That's just what yoa force me to be
come." "Xot at all."
"Then allow Kathleen to appear."
'She is too much indisposed at I told
you."
"I would like to learn that, If you please,
from her on n lip V
"Bless me," said Mrs. Kcnnaird lifting her
shoulders tora moment and putting up her
glasses. You're ruder than I thought you
knew how to be."
"Say more decided. And I'm compelled
to add this: If Kathleen is forbidden mo I
neither can nor shall accept you as her
proxy."
"Xo," replied his hostess, with hardening
face. "But suppose my daughter desires
just that arrangement?"
'She does not desire it."
"You speak with a delightful confidence,
really."
"Oh, madam, let us end this!" cried
Alonzo, feeling himself grow pale. "If you
attempt to keep Kathleen from seeing me
your effort can only produce transient re
sults." Mrs. Kennalrd threw Dack her head a lit
tle, as though on the vorgo of a scornful
laug' But cither she checked herself or
something in the visitor's look
checker her. Like a flash her whole vis
age changed, Not that it became softer,
but that It surely lost In expression both
subtlety and restrain-
"My dear young gentleman," ebo said,
"I'm very 6"rry for you, because I've al
ways liked you. But the truth may as well
be told w itliont another instant of delay.
Your engagement to my child must cease,
and you knaw wuy?"
"So, then, It's open war," murmured
Alonzo. "I prefer that."
"It isn't war at all. It's worldliness, any
bad name you're bent on calling it."
"I'll call it the same spirit, then, that
made you try to entrap into a marriage
w ith her that crippled young English lord."
He had hit, and with poignant thrust, the
heart of a wound that had never healed.
She frowned, and tho color left her tighten
ing lips. While she stared at him he went
on:
"Oh, Kathleen has told me! But she never
knew what love meant then, and that was
why she was such wax in your hands. It's
altered with her now; your rule isn't what
it once was. Ii it had been you'd have kept
her from wilting me those letters. I've
offered to reieaso her, but sho has refused.
The terms of her relusal have seemed to
carry with them-a certain tang of yourself.
Pel haps I've judged her wrongly."
Sow he rose and went toward a door
which led into the other apartments of this
limited flat. He caught with one hand the
curtain (.'.raped across this door and diew it
slighly aside. "It's not your opposition I
fear; it's the thought that sho may be influ
enced by it. I know you've done nil jou
could to dissnade her. But she must come
to me scorning (yes, that's the woid scorn
ing!) such odious arguments as you've
douutless addiesscd to her, or she shall not
come at all."
At this point he drew the little curtain
still fmther aside, "and, knowing that his
voice needed only to be raised a key or so
above the ordinary to make it reach tho
furthest, room ot the suite, he called with
clenraccCnts:
'Kathleen! Kathleen! I am here and wish
to speak with you. "Will j-ou not come to
me for at least a few moments?"
An exasperated cry broko from Mri, Kin
naird, who bad now gained her feet.
"You're insolent," she cried. "You're out
rageous! I told you my daughter was 111.
And now. sir, I command you to leave these
apartments."
But Alonzo scarcely heard this voice, for
another, faint, sob-broken, and somewhat
distant had fallen on his ears. He still held
the enrtaiu sideways when Mrs. Kennaird
sprang toward him and tried to wrest It
from his grasp.
"Do you call yourself a gentleman?" she
gasped, as he thwarted her attempt.
"Do yon call yourself a mother?" he re
plied. Artd then Kathleen glided quickly
through the open doorway, pale and trem
bling, though quite tearless.
Alonzo at once receded. From that In
stant his mien and voice became Judicial in
the calm. It was he who broke silence.after
the trio had thus met.
"Tell mel' were Ills first words to Kath
leen, "why, when I came here, did you per
mit your mother to meet meet me in your
place?"
Kathleen, with compressed lips, remained
sptechless.
"Tell mo," Alonza repeated.
The girl shot a look at her mother.
"This man lias hohavpd likea ruffian." now
.rang from Mrs. Kennaird. "Go back to
fyour room, my dear, and show him that you
will not see mo insulted."
But Kathleen had now turned her gaze
upon her lover.
"Mamma wished to meet you before I did,"
she said. "Iliad not expected you. Your
comirc unnerved me a little, and so I "
Sho drooped her eyes as that last sentence
faltered feebly into silence. Alonzo took
two or three swift steps toward her, and
then paused.
"What purpose could be served," he ques
tioned, "by your mother meeting me first?"
"Xone none,'.' she stammered.
"Are you not my promised wife? Is it not
settled that we shaltshortlv marry? Have I
not offered to break our betrothal, and have
not vou ?"
"I've insisted that It should be kept."
And she stretched out both hands to his.
lie advanced and caught them In botn ws
own.
"I will believe you!" he cried. "I will be
lieve that you never once swerved from me.
It's all that evil genius of yours that de
plorable mother."
"Ah!" said Mrs. Kennaird, In severe to
proach to her daughter, "can you be will
ing, Kathleen, to let me suffer such Indig
nity?" e
"Your mother has Just told me, Kathleen,"
hurried Alonzo, while he still clasped tho
gill's hands, "that our engagement must
cease."
"Yes, those were my words, dear," panted
Mrs. Kennaird, "I don't deny them. You've
heard me say them to yoursell quite often of
late."
"Too often, mamma," came the answer.
"And I've always begged you not to try and
move me, but you would keep on trying, and
it has done no good." She let her beautiful
crystal eves caress nis iaco now as sne
turned to'Alonzo.
"Yon"!! mako this sacrifice, Kathleen?"
hotlv demanded her mother. "You'll marry
a ruined man you, with your ideas, your
ambitions?"
"Yes, yes. mamma."
"I don't want you to look on It as a sacri
fice," protested Alonzo, with lips leaned
close to her cheek. "And have you such
grand ideas, ambitions? ir this be true, why,
perhaps then, as I wroto you, it's better to"
"So, no," she interrupted him, and
snntched her hands from his only that she
might throw both arms about his neck. And
now,-half whispering in his ear, sho said
what served for him as an ugly counter
stroke to the pang of happiness just dealt
him.
"When I see yon, Lonz, I'm so strong ! All
doubts of our future vanish. I can't help,
you know, being her daughter. There are
times I've told you of them when sho
seems to govern me against my will. And
then she's my mother, and I lovo her. If I'm
disappointed if I'm fearful of Just how I
shall be ablo to bear it all if moments come
to me when, ns yourlettershintcd, I feel that
our life together may havo lost something of
ot tho expected savor and ease and grace
fulness my fancy clothed it with; be lenient,
be forgiving Will you not, for mvsak?e"
He withdrewhimself from her, and at once
said, with tones that bore no trace of con
cealment :
"To me, Kathleen, our life together would
now be even happier than before. And if
those moments do come to vou at tbis early
period, what may not occur Vhen you're the
wife of a poor man? a man who means to
work Instead of idling, and can give you
simply his homespun dovotion instead of
that other luxurious existence you foresaw
and counted on ?" ,
"Everything horrid and forlorn may hap
pen in the case you've pointed out I" ex
claimed Mrs. Kcnnaird. "If Kathleen marries
you she will make you the worst of wives l"
Alonzo had for a brief while forgotten the
very presence of that lady who had Just de
clared it with such emphasis.
"Oh, it's you" again!" he said, and his coun
tenance grew one cloud of disgust. "For
God's sako cease your persecutions of this
poor girl, whose greatest misfortune Is the
fact ot her being your childl"
"Forshame!" broke from Kathleen. "What
you say is false!" And at once she moved
toward her mother, who swept an arm about
her waist with a glad cry.
"Oi.lv a few minutes ago, my darling,"
Mrs. Kennaird now eagerly said, "ho had
the insolenco to tell me that unless you
treated me with scorn scorn, mind you.
mv dear! he would give you up!"
Kathleen flnshed, and curled her lip. "If
he wants mo to hate you," she said, "he will
find himself woefully in error!"
"I don't ask anything so unnatural," here
struck in Alonzo," as that you should hate
your mother. But I demand of you
that you shall both hate and despite her
views of living. I know something of her
past life: I've taken pains to inquire. She is
ono of tlioso women who go about the world
making themselves Arm und sworn foes of
the sanctity of marriage.
"Hpar him I" said Mrs. Kennaild to her
daughter. "And you'll stand this? You'll
marry tho man who can so slander your
mother?"
"Truth nnd slander llvo miles apart," said
Alonzo. "Kathleen," he went on, with his
entire mein racked by agitation, "if you
come to me at all you must come with no
mere n 01 Idly regrets."
"You 'must come'l Listen listen I"
mocked"Mrs. Kennaird, while she drew tho
girl closer to her breast. "Was there ever
such an autocrat? He's repulsed you once,
mv dear; will you let him do so again?
"Where is your womanly spirit?"
"It's here," said Kathleen, drawing her
self up and touching her bosom with ono
hand and giving Alonzo the haughtiest look
ho had ever teen bred in those limpid eyes.
"There's an end of everything between you
nnd me," she w ent on. "I hope I may never
see you again; but if we should meet, be
sure I'll never speak to you. Come,
mamma."
The two women left the room together,
and each gave him a plan to ncross her
shoulder. Mrs. Kennaird's, which was ono
of disdainful triumph, he did not see; but
Kathleen's, which brimmed equally with
anger and mrlancholy,haunted him tnrough
many n future day.
To be Continued next Sunday. J
THE CLEABING HOUSE BETUEUS.
One Beacon "Why Pittsburg Doesn't Get-the
Bank It Really Has.
In some cities business firms have printed
in the left-hand top corner of their checks
the sentence: "This check must be passed
through the Clearing House," Baid a promi
nent business man to a reporter the other
day. That means that if it had been paid
top neighboring house, banking close to
the bank of issue, or even at the identical
bank, the Clearing Honss formality must
be gone through just as though it had been
made payable to a firm 1,000 miles away.
This really explains why come cities have
such enormous bank clearing returns in pro
portion to the volume of business trans
acted, and why Pittsburg is so severely
handicaped in the matter.
Here the Clearing House Is only nsed
when necessary ior legitimate transaction
of business, and checks representing tens of
thousands of dollars daily never pass
through it at all. If that little Clearing
House condition were placed on every
check printed for Pittsburg banks and its
terms enforced, our clearing returns would
increase 50, if not 100 per cent, as a matter
of course
WOEMS IN THE FI0UB.
They Come and A fterwards Go In an Alto
togetlier Inexplicable Way.
Every miller in the United States would
like to know where flour worms come from
and how they manage to disappear, says the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Vou take the best
flour that ever came from a roller mill, set
aside for a few weeks in an air tight barrel,
then open the barrel, and the probability is
that you will find in the flour a number of
small worms about an eighth of an inch
long. Head np the barrel and wait awhile
longer and the worms will disappear.
Nobody knows how they got in, uobodv
can see where they got out, nor does their
presence impair the quality of the flour. It
is one of the mysteries of the business.
t .
The popularity of .Salvation Oil is not
astonishing when we hear of its many cures.
HELMS II ORES.
The Untold Treasure in the Loins, of
the Porcupine Mountains
UPON WHICH PITTSBURG DRAWS.
The HatcMess Norrie MIno That Frodnces a
liillion Tons a Tear.
HW THE IEOH WAS DISCOVERED
prBrnrs ron the nisrATtaui
Article No. 2.
EOM the deok of
the steamer John
Harper, seven or
eight hours before
we arrived at
Ashland, "Wis., a
distant view of
the Porcupine
Mountains was
obtained. Locked
within their loins
is that great mag
netic iron ore bed
which has added
billions to the wealth of the nation. The
range slopes off from the shore of Lake Su
perior to the southwest, so that the docks
at Ashland lay from SO to 40 miles north of
the big ore mines of the Gogebic region.
THE ATTRORA
Leaving the steamship at the docks, a
train of empty ore cars carried me back to
the mines. The recrion is sparsely settled.
The Chippewa Indians have an extensive
reservation not far back of Ashland, but
they are poor and lazy, and make no at
tempt to advance in civilization. Tho
country for the most part is an unbroken
wilderness. There are no farms, and, save
for a lumbering camp here and there, you
seldom meet a white man. This is on the
edge of that vast fores' territory from which
Wisconsin is still supplying the wood mar
kets ot the country.
A FABADISE FOB SPORTSMEN.
The scenery is rugged and picturesque.
Deep ravines, bold mountain knobs, and
almost impenetrable glades make it hard to
believe that only an hour or two before you
left the pmooth, rolling beach oi the great
est inland ocean. Here the hunter for elk
may find a paradise in winter, and the fish
erman glory in summer. In beautiful Lake
Gogebic, in Tomahawk Lake, or in the
Eagles' "Waters, are abundance of the
mighty muskallonge, the gamy bass, or
brook trout.
In the midst of this untamed tract Pitts
burg capital has seamed the earth for its
treasure. Pittsburg iron manufacturers,
together with syndicates in Ohio and Michi
gan, and the Illinois Steel Company,
dumped their thousands into these woods
as the mightiest pioneer. And, after riding
through 35 miles of wilderness from Ash
land, you suddenly come upon the frnits of
that golden pioneering. The Montreal river
is the State line dividing "Wisconsin from
Michigan, and on both sides have been
opened up enormous iron mines. Thousands
of laborers people these pits, and, though
you do not see much of them above the sur
face, the huge piles of ore are the evidence
of their living presence balow.
TEEASUBE AT A TREE'S BOOT.
Just six years ago, when this Gogebic bed
of ore was discovered, there was much ex
citement about it in Pittsburg. The man
who claims to have made the discovery is
at present living in Ashland. His name is
OrEN PIT
Captain "N". D. "Wood. "With other explor
ers he was traversing the fastness of the
Porcupine Mountains, when he came upon
a tree that had been uprooted by a storm.
To its huge roots, lying upturned in the
woods, was found a soft, red metallic sub
stance. It was the valuable hematite ore.
On that spot tho famous Colby mine was
opened shortly afterward. One of the
photograph; accompanying this article is
of that mine.
In its first year, 1885, the shipments of ore
from the Gogebic region aggregated 109,061
tons. Two years later the output reached
1,000,000 tons, and in 1890 it had swollen to
the magnitude of 2,174,556 tons. Up to the
present moment this wild stretch of terri
tory, under the maic wand of King Iron,
has yielded a round 10,000,000 tons of ore.
Every ton is worth $7 at Pittsburg. The
magnificent total of 10,000,000 tons multi
plied by S7 conjures up the picture of a
gold field quicker than a dirty iron range I
A MILLION TONS A TEAR.
At the head of the big producers in the
Gogebicran 'e is the matchless Norrie mine.
She is discharging high grade Bessemer ore
at the rate of 1,000,000 tous a year. The
only other mine which can compare with
this in the United States is the Chapin pit,
in the Menominee range, Michigan, which
sent in 1890 the aggregate of G69.192 tons.
The other big producers are the Minnesota
Iron Company mines and the Chandler
mines, of the "Vermillion range, in Minne
sota; the Ashland, Pabst, Colby, Iron Belt,
Aurora and Germania, of the Gogebio
range; the Florence, Drummondj Iron
Itivcr mines, of the Menominee range, and
the Pittsburg and Lake Angelinc, Cham-
Sion, Superior and Cleveland mines of the
arquctte range.
The two photographs show open mines.
All the others in the Gogebic region now
are closed pits reached by a shaft, just like
the ordinary coal mines. Some of these
shafts are G00 feet deep. Explosives are
liberally used in loosening the ore, and
then it is shoveled into deep iron" buckets
in which it is hoisted to the. surface above.
Great stock piles have accumulated around
iHfejg--
k.lHiJ1f.'B. J T llT'il 'MiUltn I 111 ll'WflJl
many of the pits, though the ore of the
Norrie and other large producers being of
the Bessemer class is quickly gobbled up.
"WTIAT THE NEEDLES TOLD.
But the above relates to the Gogeblo
range only. A party of Government en
gineers were surveying in the neighborhood
of Negaunee, on the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, on September 19, 1844. They
noticed that the needles of their compasses
varied greatly. That set them to thinking,
and after they emerged from the wilderness
they reported that there must be iron ore
up there in great quantities, at least they
believed that was what disturbed the mag
netic needles. An exploration was made
in 1845 under the direction of P. 5L Everett,
who still lives at Marquette. The company
back of him had been organized at Jackson,
Mich., and the explorers were guided to
the spot by an Indian named Manjekijik,
who, it is alleged, was to have a thirty
second interestin the companv for giving
up his secret. A suit is still pending in
the Supreme Court, brought by the heirs of
this Indian, to secure this interest that was
denied him.
Thus the first iron ore in the entire Lake
Superior region was discovered. The Jack
son mine was the pioneer mine, and it was
afterward ascertained that it was located just
about on the spot Vhere the surveyors'
needles had been observed to fluctuate In
these days, however, the means of mining
were primitive, and tho Government canal
at Sault St. Marie had not yet been thought
of, and Lake Superior
HAD SO NAVIGABLE CONNECTION"
with the other lakes. But, even at that
'early date, iron was" destined to lead the
procession 01 commerce on iue unsaiieu
seas, and point the way for the opening of
its path. The Jackson company got down
to work in 1849, and in .180 the United
IRON MINE.
States Government and the government of
Michigan combined took the first steps
toward the construction of the canal which
was to give Superior a navigable outlet
southeast. In 1855 the first steamer was
successfully locked through from Lake Su
perior to Lake Huron.
In my previous paper I made the state
ment that the sister steamships John Har
per and Alex. Nimick would carry between
them at one trip 5,000 tons of iron ore.
Now, in 1855, the total iron ore shipments
of the lakes were 1,457 tons, or less than the
cargo of ono or these boats. In 1856, thoy
aggregated 11.597 tons: in 1857, 16,181 tons: in
1853. 30,327 tons; in 1853, 80,000 tons; in 1860,
150,000 tons. Why, the shipments of all those
six years combined will not eqnal what iron
oro the city of Pittsburg alone receives in
one year nowl But big ships onlv got at the
Lake Superior oro piles in 1872, when the
second and deeper canal at Sault Sto. Marie
was completed.
GROWTH OP THE INDUSTRY.
When the big ships came, then the iron
ore Industry commenced in earnest. It had
only been toyed with up to that date. Since
then it has "boomed." High-water mark
was reached in 1399, when the shipments out
of the entire region for tho single season
reached nearly 9,000 000 tons. They were
divided as follows: Marquette range, 2,6)6,
423 tons; Gogebic range, 2,531,570; Menominee
range, 2,153,010, and the Vermillion range,
870.818 tons.
This ore is loaded on steamers at Ashland,
Marquette, Kscanaba, Two Harbors, and
Gladstone. In 1SS5 the Gogeblo range was
last on the list. In 1890 it was second, and,
as Bessemer ores aro much In demand,
Gogebic bids fair to tako first place soon.
This year tho blast furnaces in Western
Pennsylvania blew in late, navigation did
not open on the lakes until nearly May, and
owing to the active movement ot wheat on
the lakes, the rates of freight on iron ore aro
expected to go up to such a figure that ship
ments may cease this fall unusually early.
So that, with the season lopped off at both
beginning and end, the totals for 1891 may
not be as high as heretofore.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN MININO.
To get 150,000 tons of ore out of a mino 20
years ago would have been considered a
miracle. Hon. Samuel J. Tllden got far less
than that from his pioneer New York mino
in the Marquette region. As the quickened
COLBY.
pulse of the Iron Industry in Pennsylvania
warned.the lake carriers that they must get
larger vessejs and faster engines, so it also
gave an impetus to mining genius and scientific-Invention.
Methods were too primitive
even In the day of Mr. Tilden's ventures in
the Lake Superior region. Not over ten
years ago It was thought.qu!te impossible to
put down a shaft throusrh quicksand. Now
that is done with comparative easeand the
other contrivances hauled into tharGoiroblo
forest mako it a pleasant task to Hit 1,000,000
tons a year ouf of the Norrie pit.
Here are a few examples of Lake Superior
mining inguenuity: The deepest mines, and
those that extend farthest away from the
foot of tho shaft, are lighted by electricity.
Thegeneraois, of course are outside. An
electric pumping plant was recently in
stalled at the Hamilton mine. The pnmp,
which is located 1.325 feet below the collar of
tho shaft, has a capacity or 100 gallons per
minute. Tho generator is located awav off
in the electrio light station of the Iron
Mountain mine. But perhaps the greatest
mecnanicai cnumpn among mo miners win
be the pumping out of the water of Lake
Angclinein order to secure the deposit of
ore known to exist beneath the betl of the
Lake. Tho feat will be commenced shortly.
LOTS OP MONEY IN IT.
D0C3 it pay? There can be no donbt about
that. This is regarded as a year of more de
pression than usual in the 010 business and
yet I beard of two instances of big divi
dends. One was the Chandler mine, which
showed earnings of $400,000 besides large
acquisitions of new property. The other
instance was the Minnesota lion Company's
6 per cent dividend, equivalent to a distri
bution ol $480,000.
But by this time the train of cars for Ash
land docks ha received its load, and I am
call'-d to jump aboard.
"Perhaps thl- does not look to you like
much of aload,"iemarked Mr. M. Schranlc,
Superintendent of the docks. "It may sur
prise you to hear that each one of these cars
contains 20 tons of ore.and there aie22ca;s
on tho train. Now, if you were to see ono
locomotive hauling 23 other locomotives,
nouo i-t which had any steam up, you would
be very apt to sav that was a remarkable
load for ono locomotive to pull. Well, tho
locomotive on this train is at this moment
hauliug a heavier load than 22 dead locomo
tives. That is what this long string of cars
amounts to, sir." L. . Stofiel.
1-pJf mrmi
FIRST OF THE LAWS.
The Savior's Anstver to the Lawyer
Who Headed the Pharisees.
MOBILITY ALONE IS NOT -ENOUGH.
A Eeclprodtj of the Divine Lore Is the
Great Commandment.
THEOLOGY DIFFERS FROM BELIGIOK
rwp.rrrijT fob the DtsrATcn.l
"We are all clients of the lawyer who came
to Christ with that deep question: "Which
is the great commandment in the law?" He
represents us when he asks that. "We all
want to know that.
It is true that the lawyer asked the ques
tion, according to his legal habit, not for his
own information, but, as we would say, lor
the information of the jury. The jury was
the crowd of citizens and countrymen who
were gathered about the Master in the
temple. Some were on His side, some were
against Him. There was a great discussion
going on about Him. The Saducees had
had their turn at questioning Him, think
ing to bring discredit upon His teachings,
and His wisdom had put them to silence.
And now came the Pharisees with the
lawyer at their head, "tempting" Him, the
record tells us, that is putting Him to test,
setting Him on trial, trying to catch Hip
in Mis answers. There was no religion in
the question of the lawyer. Here was no
eager disciple running to the Master, de
manding what he should do to inherit eter
nal life. There was no thought of disciple-
snip in the lawyer s heart.
THE RELIGION IN DOCTRINE.
There is always this possibility of wide
distance between theology and religion.
The discussion of doctrine, the determina
tion of duty, may be no more religious than
the transactions of the Stock Exchange. The
distinction between the sacred and the secu
lar does not depend on the subjects that
men talk about, Sr on the profession
and position of the debaters. An election
is not made sacred by the fact that the peo
ple are voting for a bishop, nor is it made
secular by the fact that the people are vot
ing for a Congressman. A good; many po
litical speeches have been really more re
ligious than many sermons. "We must not
think that people are religious either our
selves or others because they talk a great
deal about religion. They may be
just as much opposed to that which is best
in religion as this questioning lawyer.
The difference between the sacred andthe
secular is altogether a difference of spirit.
That is what God looks at and. cares for "We
read that one day at the Feast of Pentecost
the Holy Spirit passed by the splendid
temple altogether and overlooked the High
Priest in his gorgeous vestments, and chose
rather to visit a common house somewhere
in the city, just ah ordinary house, with a
flat roof and a courtyard, and a pair of stairs
on the outside like a thousand others, and
to grant His special benediction to a com
pany of common people there assembled in
their working clothes. It is the heart that
makes men worthy or unworthy in the
sight of God, and not the pious lips.
THE LAWYER'S INTEREST IN IT.
This is a significant figure, this lawyer
standing in Christ's presence, looking
straight into His face, questioning Him,
listening with respectful attention to His
answer and having within him not one
smallest trace of the faintest purpose to
follow what the Master said. At the best,
he had. an intellectual interest in Chris
tianity, nothing more.
There was a gambler in New Tork, who
got into the newspapers the other day, who,
it seems, had for years attended a Christian
service everv Sunday. He never knelt
down, he said, nor answered "Amen" to
any of the prayers. He had never joined
the church, nor had he ever made any
difference in his evil living. He said that
he went to that church because he liked the
preacher; he considered him the finest
preacher in the city of New YorkI There
are people not so bad as that in all the
churches. They show an interest in re
ligion by their constant presence, as this
lawyer showed his interest by his presence
and his question. And they listen, like the
lawyer, to all the praying and the preach
ing. And then they go away, a hundred
times a year, and one year after another,
and never make a change in their living,
never get any closer than they were at the
beginning to Christian discipleship. At
least, so far as we can sec. Nobody knows
what God sees.
ALL ARE HONESTLT DISCONTENTED.
And yet there times in every life when
the lawyer's question is asked in earnest,
not as the lawyer asked it. The "great
commandment." what is it but the Divine
ideal of that which is the first ami chief
essential in human character When we
learn it we.know what God cares the most
for in the temper and disposition of His
children. "We discover what our heavenly
Father most of all desires to see in us. And
we ail want to discover that That is the
discovery of discoveries. For we are all of
us honestly discontented. The better wo
are the less are we satisfied with ourselves.
Not one of us but has some sort of vision of
a higher life, and is aware of the distanoe
between that vision and the every day
reality. "We know what kind of men and
women wc would like to be
But our ideal changes. Sometimes it is
but a low achievement that we find our
selves striving alter. "We think that money
mav perhaps content us; we will be satis
fied if we can but gain some sort of worldly
prize. It is evident enough that some
people seem to have no higher ambition
than this. They bend all things this way.
They appear to "be willing any day to trade
a heavenly mansion for a good storehouse
on a salable corner. On the other hand,
in proportion as men and women keep the
will of God, so their ideal of right living is
more and more uplifted. Character is seen
to be the richest of all treasures.
KNOWLEDGE OP THE STANDARD.
Now what we want, with our ideals going
np and down like the mercury ih a ther
mometer according as our zeal is hot or
cold, is to know what the standard is. "We
want something to measure by. And we do
not need anybody to teach us that the one
accurate judge of human life is He who set
human life agoing in this world. That
alone is best which is accounted
best by God. And so we come in
good earnest to the lawyer's question.
"When we are honest with ourselves, when
we stand up and look out into the inter
minable sky, when we contemplate the cer
tain end oi this life and the inevitable be
ginning of another and realize that in spite
of all the noise and jostle 01 the busy day
we arc still alone with God, and must give
account of ourselves to God then we ask
in all soberness what God thinks about this
human life of ours. "What is the Divine stand
ard of man's behavior? hat is of value
and worth while in the sight of God? "What
is the great commandment in the law of
God?
And who can teach us that? Surely the
great spiritual Master. No man ever spoke
nor will speak like this man. Christ knows
more than we do about God, "Who will
deny that? Christ knows more than all the
preachers and all all the philosophers, and
all the magazines and the books about
the mind and the will of God. Christ the
manifestation, the speaking revelation, the
actual incarnation of pod. Even on the
lowest ground, the holiest man is always
the wisest in spiritual things. Anv man
ought to know most about that which he
studies most. And knowledge of spiritual
things, above all other knpwledge, depends
upon sympathy of spirit. The pure in
heart shall see God; that is one of the essen
tial axioms. To whom shall we go; who
else has the words of eternal life save the
spiritual Master, the one ideal, pure, per
fect saint and hero of all time.
MORALITY INSTEAD OF RELIGION.
I emphasize that because the answer
which Christ gave to tho lawyer's question
is not the commonly accepted answer.
"Thou shalt love the iord thy God with all
they heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind." That, He said, is the first
and great commandment But we are in
clined to doubt that Ask any dozen men
their real opinion nd we will find that ten
of them will hold that the best that men
can do is to do right, to live honestly, to
help his neighbor, and to'do his daily duty.
The best of life in the judgment of a large
proportion ot tho readers of this sermon, is
morality rather than religion. Is it better
that we should love our neighbors than that
we should love the Lord God Almighty.
One of the best men I know said to me
the other day in a letter: "iou know that I
belong to a family that is more noted for
their honesty than for their religion, and
personally, while not claiming much of the
former, I frankly admit to you having little
or none of the latter. "
And, evidently, the difference here in
tended between honesty and religion is that
honesty looks toward our fellow men, while
religion looks first of all to God. Now, the
most important fact anywhere in the whole
circumference of truth is the fact of the ex
istence of God. The most important being
incalculably the most important in the
whole universe, in the whole range of life is
God. God made us; God set us in our
places in the great brotherhood of men;
God gave us
ALL THAT WE HAVE.
Of heart, of soul, of mind, of strength,
God keeps us in being; to God we go at the
last. IS o man made himself. And no man
has lived long in this world without becom
ing aware that he is set in the midst of vast,
mysterious, uncontrollable forces. Nature
is but the garment of God. All motion is
but the movement of God. Back of every
fact in nature, in history and in human ex
perience, we come to God. And after
death is God. The first step in the argu
ment is the Human soul; and that means the
divine soul, God; and God must be supreme.
Over all and in all is God. .
Christ said that the most important
thought that anybody can think is a thought
about God; aud that the supreme human
du,ty is our duty toward God. "Whoever
leaves God ont of his reckoning goes adrift
inevitably. It is more important immeas
urably to reverence, to fear and to love God
than U is to tell the truth, to conduct an
honest business, to visit the fatherless and
widows in their affliction, or to keep one's
self nnspotted from the world. No amount
of obedience paid to the last six command
ments can make up for any man's neglect of
the first four. JSo amount of devotion to
the second of the two Commandments of the
Gospel can take the place of disregard of the
first No man is living a right life, no mat
ter how upright or how honorable, who lays
the emphasis of his endeavors upon honesty
and is contented to let religion go. You
may think of your neighbors all day long
and spend your whole time in the effort to
be a helper, an uplifter, a bringer of
good into the dark places of a bad
world; you may be the best of benefac
tors, the most public-spirited of citizens,
the most devoted of all men in your love
for your family, perfectly straightforward,
immaculately honorable, the soul of virtue,
the mirror of all human graces but if you
leave God out, do not think of God, do not
pray to Him nor worship Him, do not love
God, you have, after all, left out that
element of human life that gives it value.
Your life is like a clock without an hour
hand; all that busy ticking, swinging does
not count
THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH.
That is a hard saying. But you know the
emphasis that is laid in the Bible upon
faith. Again and again in various wayswe
are earnestly assured and warned that with
out faith it is impossible to please God.
And faith what is faith? Not an accept
ance of the statements of the theologians.
No; faith finds a good definition in the
"great commandment" That is what it is;
to do that to love God with all the heart,
and -soul, and mind. Faith, whatever mean
ing we attach to it is pre-eminently con
cerned with God. That is perfectly evi
dent Nobody will say that faith and
morality are the same thing. Faith is the
heart of religion.
It is, of conrse, as plain as day, that the
fruit of faith is all manner of good living.
Nobody can possibly believe in good and
love God without desiring in everything to
please God. And God has left us in no
doubt that there is no way in which we can
please Him better than by keeping His com
mandments, by doing His will. And the
supreme commandment which follows that
which sets our love toward God, prompts
us to love our neighbors as oursalves. It is
indeed impossible, in the nature of things,
to love God without loving our neighbor,
to have faith without works. The very
sign and proof of Divine love is human
love. No man is a godly man unless he is a
good man. So strong is the bond, indeed,
between faith and works, between goodness
and godliness, that we hope that the first is
a proof of the planting of the right seed,
that the good life indicates a good heart,
and that the man who Teally loves his
brother loves his heavenly Father also.
IT'S THE MOTIVE THAT COUNTS.
But the difference between the second of
the commandments of the Gospel and the
first lies just in this: That God looks at
the heart rather than the hands, accounts
the motive as the part of the deed that de
termines its value, and cares supremely for
man's love. The distinction between two
good deeds, which sets one immeasurably
above the other in the estimation of God, is
that one good deed is done for the pleasure
of the doer while the other good deed is
done for the pleasure of God. One man did
his good deed never thinking about God at
all, leaving God altogether out, as if there
were no God. The other did his good deed
desiring to please God, because it was the
will of God, out of love for God.
That is not hard to understand. Every
father and mother knows the difference be
tween an obedience whieh is meant to
please them, and an obedience which disre
gards them altogether. The parent desires
the love of the child, wants the heart of the
child, measures the value of obedience by
the love that lies behind it And so does
God.
That is why the love of God is the subject
of the great commandment Because God,
as Jesus Christ revealed Him to us, stands
in a personal relation to ns, a relation of
which that between a parent and a child is
but a faint symbol; God loves us every, one
unspeakably. And God wants us to love
Him. No wonder that without faith it is
impossible to please Him. God is foreyer
looking for our love. God forever finds a
lack in every deed which shows no love.
Ont of all that we can give Him, this He
sets highest, that we love Him.
WONDER OF THE DIVINE LOVE.
Do not think that God has no love tor the
unloving, that He turns in the least away
from any man who looks out and not up,
and loves his neighbors more than he loves
his Father. Do not think that God does
not take account of every good thing that
He can possibly find in the remotest corner
ot the most lorgettui neart uou Knows the
whole soul of every man that breathes. God
alone can tell better even than the man
himself can how much real love for Him is
hidden away in the deeds of a man's life.
But do not think that God will ever care
more for aman's money than He does for his
motive, that He will ever look at the out
side and not at the inside, that He will ever
exalt a man's love for His little circle of
temporary neighbors above the love which
He Himself asks of the heart, and soul, and
mind of every man, that He will ever re
verse the order of the two great command
ments, and set morality in the place of re
ligion Wonder of wonders, that God shonld so
love us! What is there in the world more
wonderful except the faintness of our love
to HimI George Hodges.
The Coarse or Empire.
Tho poet informs, is westward. Emigrants
in that, direction should be provided with
Hostotter's Stomach Bitters as an antidote
to malaria, the bane to newly settled clear
ings. Moreover, the peerless fortlrying
agent neutralizes the pernicious effect of
dump and exposure, "mental and bodily
latigne and nervous strain. Traveler, tour
ists, miners, navvies and mariners use it
with advantage.
Store and office furniture to order.
Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water street
sa
A KOVZL B0BT 07 7USL.'
GreatHeat From Air Directed Upon an tar
candescent Substance.
Htw Tork Son. J
The recent advocacy by some of the ntt
of atmospheric air as fuel is pronounced one
of the most remarkable results of modern
experiment with one of the essential ele
ments of the universe. As Is well under
stood, air is mixed with coal gas and with
hydrocarbon vapors, and the compound
when burned generates a much greater heat
than if the air was absent so, too, a power
ful air blast is a great economizer In smelt
ing and reducing ores.
The new fuel" however, is the air Itself,
which in a powerful blast is directed upon
an incandescent substance say, coal mads
white hot, pure carbon, or any other mate
rials that can be made to glow. Coal hydro
carbons, or what not, may be employed tc
'give the initial incandescence, but once the
blast strikes the luminous body, the utmost
intensity is secured of heat, apparently by
the combustion of the air, and maybe main
tained for an indefinite period; this is ac
complished by merely preserving the incan
descence of the surface a result brought
about by a slight manipulation of the sur
face thus in an incandescent state, and with
some slight renewal of carbonaceous mate
rial. AN OLD STYLE GE0G3APHT.
Curious Questions In a Text BooJcTVrtttea
In the Eighteenth Century.
IteUglo-Pollosophlc&l JonrnaLl
A curious relic of pedagogy In the mlddli
of the eighteenth century has been brought
to light in Germany. It is a geography
edited by Gottlieb Enderfelder, rector of
the Friedland High School, for the enlight
enment of the students under him. He begins
imparting geographical Information by
means of answers to supposititious ques
tions. Q. What did Satan sho-tr ths Lord on
the map? A. All the kingdoms ol tha
world and their glory.
A few pages further the learned rector
turns to the details ol the science in ques
tions and asks:
Q. Which wine receives its name from
leather sacks. A. Sec.
Q. Why? A. Because It Is carried in.
I put her wiiptc n
Q. What do the women of Bayonns pet
instead of lap dogs? A. Pigs.
Q. How are the streets of Genoa built?
A. So narrow that two women in their big
skirts can hardly pass each other.
HEiNO
ft Home Comfort.
The tea that has
gained such a
reputation at Ex-
!ML
UNDAR9
iHE-NO
i
' WW'
positions, receiv
; fA ing gold Medals
TEA
lor "quauiy ana
purity" at New
Orleans Cen-
tennial.and Cin
cinnati, Louis
ville, Atlanta,
and Charleston Expositions.
No otber Ta ever re
ceived a Diplorrja.
The proprietors of He-No
Tea are Martin Gillet & Co.
a house established at Balti
more in Jr8ll.
Sold by all leading grocers.
MARTIN GILLET & CO., (Esttblbhed ilvti
Exchange Place, Baltimore, Md.
DON'T MISS THE
HE-NO TEA
Exhibit, at the
Exposition.
ocM13-TT3n
If you have a
Iis(lrfc3 B& M tffsHIirSJI
vviuu ur wwwwii)
acute or leading to )
CONSUMPTION,
OF PBJKE C "LITER OIL
AND HYPOPHOSPHIT2S
OF IX2TB fJTO SODA
XE SUKS CUJrtE FOU XT-
Thls preparation contains the stimuln- I
ting properties of the HypophosphUts 1
ana nno jioneegian con loiter uu. used
tor physicians all the world over. It is a
I palatable as milk. Three times as eCIca- 1
clous as plain uoa uver uu. & penect
Emul3lon. better than all others made. For 1
1 all forms 01 Wasting Diseases, JJroncnuu,
CONSTJMPTIOir,
Scrofula, and as a Flesh Producer I
there 13 nothing lite SCOTT'S EMUISIOM. 1
1 It Is sold by all Druggists. Let no one by I
1 profuse explanation or Impudent entreaty
1 induce you to accept a budsuiuio.
esrssaiB
THIS
IS JOLLY I
T)u1 haaw ht
ACME BLAOKCTO
md rn bars it tur no.
Wolif'sJIGMEBiacking
IS A CREAT LABOR SAVERi
A SHINE LASTS A WEEK.
RAIN AND SNOW DON'T AFFECT n.
NO BRUSHINC REQUIRED.
MAKES A SHOE WATERPROOF.
TJ3ED BY MEN. tTOMEN ahd CHttDEEIf.
Cm pa wa;ad lite Ou Cloth.
ASK HT ALL STORES FOX
rmnm 1 wf ina
' &ciyzTf.s::,.-iLTk ntrtr.
WIU.STXIM OLD NEW rURNITUnC
WillStmn Class aniv CrflNAWAM
WILL STAIN TINWARC
WILL STAIN TOUR O-O BASKETS
and
Tarnish
at the
same
Will stain bast's Coach
time.
T70LP? RANDOLPH. Pmladelptla.
WOODS' I
ENETRATliuril
fQUIC
SI-PlasterJ
iS Oll'lCK. IlLI.-r ' In
AND THE
JE-comrjarison aro slow or
IkDEAD.
:dkao. If sufferlnetrr
WOOD'S PLASTER
.It Penetrates. Its.
f? 3
'nmm
ieves, Cnres.
jJrBun
j 1 -4 ijp
7 ft J
4 !t"V YvOl3
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