may be a strange enough statement; but of what consequence is that, it it is true?" ' "Ifitistrue? You are already retiring from it?" "Oh, net for a moment ! Ton should not sav that I have not deserved it. I have spoken the truth; why do you doubt it?" Her reply was prompt t "Simply "because you didn't speak it ear lier." "Oh !" It wasn't a groan exactly, but it was an intelligible enough an expression of the tact that he saw the point and recog nized that there was reason! in it. "You have seemed to conceal nothing from me that I ought to know concerning vourself, and yen were not privileged to keep back .such a thins as this from me a moment after after well,. after you had determined to pay your court to me." "It's true, it's true, I know it 1 But there were circumstances in in the way circum stances which " She waved the circumstances aside. "Well, you see," he said, pleadingly, 'Ton seemed so bent on our traveling the proud path of honest labor and honorable poverty that I was terrified that is, I was afraid of of well, you know how you talked." "Xes, I know how I talked. And I also know that before the talk was finished you inquired how I stood as regards aristocra cies, and my answer was calculated to re lieve your fears." He was silent awhile. Then he said in a discouraged way: "I don't see any way out of it. It was a mistake. 2Co harm was meant, no harm in the world. I didn't see how it might some- ' time look. It is my way. I don't seem to see far." The girl was almost disarmed for a mo ment. Then she llared up again. "An earl's sonl Do earls' sons go about working in lowly callings for their bread and butter?" "God knows thev don't! I have wished thev did." "I)o earls' sons sink their degree in a couutrv like this, andcome sober and decent to sue for the hand of a born child of poverty when they can go drunk, profane, and Are You an EarVs Son 1 steeped in dishonorable debt, and buy the pick and choice of the millionaires' daught ers of America? You an earl's sonl Snow me the signs." "I thank God I am not able if those are the signs. But yet I am an earl's sou and heir. It is all I can say. I wish you would believe me, but you will not. I know no way to persuade'you." She was about to soften again, but his closing remark made her' bring her foot dov. n with smart vexation, and she cried out: "Oh, you drive all patience out of me 1 "Would you have one believe "that you haven't your proofs at hand, and yet are what you say yon are? You do not put your hand in your pocket now, for you have nothing there. You make a claim like this, and then ventnre to travel without creden tials. These are simply incredibilities. Don't you see that yourself?" He cast about in his mind for a defense of some kind or other, hesitated a little, and then said, with difficulty and diffidence: "I will tell you just the truth, foolish as it will seem to you to anybody, I suppose but it is the truth. I had an ideal call It a dream, a folly, if you will but I wanted to renounce tne privileges and unfair ad vantages enjoyed by the nobility and wrung from the nation by force and fraud, and purge mysclt of my share of those crimes against "right and reason by thenceforth comrading with the poor and humble on equal terms, earning with my own hands the bread I ate, and rising by mv own merit, if I rose at all." The young girl scanned his face narrowly while he spoke, and there was something about his simplicity of manner and state ment which touched her touched her al most to the uaceer point; but she set her grip on the yielding spirit and choked it to quiescence; it could not be wise to surren der to compassion of any kind of sentiment, yet she must ask one or two more ques tions. Tracy was reading; her face, and what he read there lifted his drooping hopes a little. "An carl's son to do thatl Why, he were a man! A man to love oh, more, a man to worship!" "Why, I" "But"he never livedl He is not born, he will not be born. The self-abnegation that conld do that even in ntter folly, and hopeless of conveying benefit to any, be yond the mere example could be mistaken ior greatness. Why, it would be greatness in this cold age of sordid idealsl A moment wait let me finish. I have one question more. Your father is earl of what?" "Rossmore and I am "Viscount Berke ley." The fat was in the fire again. The girl felt so outraged that it was difficult for her to speak. "How can you venture such a brazen tliingl You know that he is dead, and you know that I tnow it. Oh, to rob the living of name and honors for a selfish and tempo rary advantage is crime enough, but to rob thedefcnseless dead why, it is more than crime. It degrades crime!" " Oh, listen to me-ju4 a word don't turn away like that. Don't go don't leave me so stay one moment. On my honor " "Oh, on your honor!" "On my honor I am what I sayl And I will prove it, and you will believe, I know yon will. I will bring you a message a cablegram " . "When?" "To-morrow next dav " "Signed 'Rossmore?' " "Yes signed 'Rossmore.' " "What will that prove? What should it prove?" "If you force me fo say it possibly the presence of a confederate somewhere." This was a hard blow, and staggered him. He said dejectedly: "It is true. I did not think of it. Oh, my God, I do not know any way to do; I do everything wrong. You are going? and vou won't say even 'good night' or'goodby?' Ah, we Lave not parted like this before." "Oh, I want to run, and no, go, now." A pause, then she said: "You may bring the message when it comes." "Oh, may I? God bless you." He as gone, and none too soon; her lips were already quivering, and now she broke down. Through her sobbings her words broke from time to time: "Oh, he is gone. I have lost him. I shall never tee him any more. And he didn't kiss me goodby; never even offered to force a kiss from me, and he knowing it was the very, very last, and I expecting he would, and never dreaming he would treat me so after all we have been to each other. Oh, ob, oh, oh, what shall I do, what shall I do? He is a dear, poor, miserable, good-hearted, transparent liar and humbug, but, oh, I do love him so!" After a little she broke out into speech again: "How dear he isl and I shall miss him so, I shall miss him sol Why won't he ever think to forge a mes sage and fetch it? But no, he never will; he never thinks of anything; he's so honest and simple it wouldn't ever occur to him. Oh, what did possess him to think he could succeed as a fraud and he hasn't the first requisite except duplicity that I can see. Oh, dear, I'll go to bed and give it all up. Oh, I wish I had told him to come and S&st tell me whenever he didn't get any tele gram, and now it's all mv own fault if I never 'eco him again. How ay eyes must look!" Xext day, sure enough, tbjs cablegram didn't come This was ru immense disas ter, for Trnoy couldn't go into the presence without that ticket, although it wasn't go ing to possess any value as evidence. But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? Of course, every day that the cablegram didn't come made Tracy all of 24 hours more ashamed of himself than he was the day before, and made Sally fully 24 hours more certain than ever that lie not only hadn't any father anywhere, but hadn't even a confederate and so it followed that he was a double-dyed humbug and coildn't be otherwise. These were hard days for Barrow and the art firm. All these had their handr full trying to comf ortTraey. Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegam. Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. Me naa triea, as an experiment, letting Tracy think he had a father. The result was so good that he went further with proper caution, and tried letting him think his father was an earl. This wrought so well that he grew bold and tried letting him think he had two fathers, if he wanted to; but he didn't want to, so Barrow withdrew one of them and substi tuted letting him think he was going to get a cablegram which Barrow judged he wouldn't, and -was right; but Barrow worked the cablegram daily lor all it was worth, and it was the one thing that kept Tracy alive; that was Barrow's opinion. And these were bitter hard davs for poor Sally, and mainly delivered up to private J crying, one Kepi ner lurmture preny damp and so caught cold, and the dampness and the cold and the sorrow together under mined her appetite, and she was a pitiful enough object, poor thing. Her state was bad enough, as per statement of it above quoted; but all the forces of nature and cir cumstances seemed conspiring to make it worse and succeeded. For instance, the morning after her dismissal of 'iracy, Hawkins and Sellers read in the Associate Press dispatches that a toy puzzle called Pigs in the Clover had come into sudden favor within the past few weeks, and that from the Atlantic to the Pacific all the populations of all the States had knocked off work to play with it, and that the busi ness of the country had now come to a standstill in conse"qnce; that judges, lawyers, burglars, parsons, thieves, mer chants, mechanics, murderers, women, children, babies everybody, indeed, could be seen from morning till midnight, ab sorbed in one deep project and purpose, and only one to pen those pigs, work out that puzzle successfully; that all gayety. all cheerfulness had departed from the nation, Y.ftubcdyttedi;! "1 &'li'c Savin iprvi 'Aedv and in its place care, preoccupation and anxiety sat upon every countenance, and all faces were drawn, distressed and furrowed with the signs of age and trouble, and marked with the still sadder signs of mental decay and incipient madness; that factories were at work night and day in eight cities, and yet to supply the demand for the puzzle was thus far impossible. Hawkins was wild with joy, but Sellers was calm. Small matters could not disturb his serenity. He said: "That's just the way things go. A man invents a thing which could revolutionize the arts, produce mountains of money and bless the ear' and who will bother with it or show any interest in it? and so you are jnst as poor as you were before. But you invent some worthless thing to amuse your self with, and would throw it away if left alone, and all of a sudden the whole world makes a snatch for it and out crops a for tune. Hunt ud that Yankee and collect, Hawkins half is yours, you know. Leave me to potter at my lecture." This was a temperance lecture. Sellers was. head chief in the temperance camp, and had lectured now and then in that interest, but had been dissatisfied with his efforts, wherefore he was now about to try a new plan. After much thought he had con cluded that a main reason why his lectures lacked fire or something was. that they were too transparently amateurish; that is to say, it was probably too plainly percepti ble that the" lecturer was trying to tell peo ple about the horrid effects of liquor when he didn't really know anything about those effects, except from hearsay, since he had hardly ever' tasted an intoxicant in his life. His scheme, now, was to prepare himself to speak from bitter experience. Hawkins was to stand by with the bottle, calculate the doses, watch the effects, make notes of results, and otherwise assist in the prep aration. Time was short, for the ladies would be along about noon that is to say, the temperance organizations called the Daughters of Siloam and Sellers must be ready to head the procession. The time kept slipping along; Hawkins did not return. Sellers could not venture to wait longer, so he attacked the bottle himself and proceeded to note the effects. Hawkins got back at last, took one compre hensive glance at the lecturer and went down and headed off the procession. The ladies were grieved to hear that the cham pion had been t4ken suddenly ill, and vio lently so, but glad to hear that it was hoped he would be out again in a few days. As it turned out, the old gentleman didn't turn over or show any signs of life worth speaking of ior 24 hours. Then he asked after the procession, and learned what had happened about it He was sorry; said he had been "fixed" for it He remained abed several days, and his wife and daughter toot turns in sitting with him and minister ing to his wants. Often he patted Sally's head and tried to comfort her. - "Don't cry, my child, don't cry so; you know your old father did it by mistake and didn't mean a bit of harm; you know he wouldn't intentionally do anything to make you ashamed for the world; you know he was trying to do good and only made the mistake through ignorance, not knowing the right doses and Washington not there to help. Don't cry so, dear, it breaks my old heart to see you and think I've brought this humiliation'on you and you so dear to me and so good. I won't ever do it again, indeed I won't Now be comforted, honey, that's a good child."- But when she wasn't on duty at the bed side the crying went on just the same; then the mother would try to comfort, her and say: " "Don't cry, dear, he never meant any harm; it was all one of those happens that you can't guard against when vou are try ing experiments that way. You see I don't cry. It's because I know him so well. I could never look anybody in the face again if he had got into such an amazing condi- ggfoflis l-' """fESrs & 5 . . AWYJaftpgivvtij i&tWJ r s. VW.We-JViJ'' 1 till aW'r X25refs JrJyf v'Sajwifvvwy -WM&gg&z&s- J THE lion as that a-purposo; but, bless you, hit Intention was pure and high, and that make the sot pure, though It was higher than what was nooetiary. We're not humil iated, dear; he did it under a noble impulse, and we don't neod to be ashamed. There, don't cry anjr wore, honey." Thus the old gentleman was useful to Bally during several days, as an explana tion of her tearfulness. She felt thankful to him for the shelter he was affording her, but often said to hersrlf: "It's a shame to let him see in my crying a reproaoh, as if he could ever do anything that could.make me reproach him. Bus I can't confess: I've got to go on using him for a pretext; he's the only one I've got in the world, and I do need one so much. As soon as Sellers was out again, and found that stacks of money had been placed in bank for him and Hawkins by the Yan kee, he said: "Now we'll soon see who's the claimant and who's the authentic I'll just go over there and warm up that House of r.ords." During the next few days he and his wife were so busy with prepara tions for the voyage that Sally had all the privacy she needed, and all the chance to cry that was -good for her. Then the old pair left for Xew York and England. To be Continued Next Sunday. OTTB MEDALS OF HOHOB. Designs of the Comparatively Tew the United States Has Awarded. Medals of the present day are conferred as marks of distinction for eminent worth or noble conduct They are oftenest be stowed for naval or military service. In the United States the medal of honor is the only official American decoration. To wear it is a proud distinction. Of the 74 special national medals conferred by act of Con gress at various times (between 1776 and 1876),'12 were bestowed upon officers of the Revolutionary War. The finest of the 12 are those presented to John PauLJones and Daniel Morgan, both struck by the famous artist Dupee. Twenty-seven medals were conferred upon officers of the War of 1812 and four during the Mexican War. Among the medals received by civilians specially worthy of remembrance are the Franklin medals the medal to Cyrus W. Field for laying the Atlantic cable, to George Peabody for promoting education, to Cornelius Yanderbilt for the gift of his steamer in our nation's need, and to mem bers of the Life-Saving Service. When the Civil War burst forth the navy was first to recognize "what a ribbon is worth to a soldier. " On December 21, 1861, Congress provided 200 medals tor marines who should distinguish themselves. This navv medal of honor is thus described in the Medallic History: "A five-pointed star, tipped with trefoils each point containing a crown of laurel and oak; in the middle, within a circle of 31 stars, America, per sonified as Minerva, stands with her left hand resting; on the fasces, while with her right, in which she holds a shield blasoned with the American arms, she repulses Dis- 3VivKrf,iilt TAvf 4-.FieldMedl. ' ohk Pul Jon Ac&) cord, represented with two snakes in each hand; the whole suspended by an anchor to two clasps united by a ribbon of 13 stripes, paleways, gules and argent, and a chief azure." After the first battle of Bull Bun it was proposed that a medal of distinction shonld be given to soldiers who particularly dis tinguished themselves for bravery, the medal to be cast from cannon captured in battle. From this proposition resulted the resolutions of. Congress of July 12, 1662, and March 3, 1863, authorizing the pie sentation of medals of honor to soldiers who distinguished themselves. This medal in design is like that cast for the marines UMTe&.ATA'rfi. jnouniuvsWM6DALJ HONOR except that it is made of bronze 'saved from j captured guns, its mountings diner, How ever; they are to be seen in the engraving. AH these new medals were cast at the United States Mint at Philadelphia. TJp to this time, Congress has conferred about 1.100 of the 61-'62 medals. ' Brave Richard Gosson won bis without wearing it; for" he fell dead while planting the colors of his regiment on the enemy's works, near Rich mond, Va. Aomo wn?E by ZLEciBicmr. Official Report of the Effect of the Current , Upon Iiiqoor. Mons. de Meritens, who is a scientist of no small repu'e in France, now declares that he has established beyond question that electricity may be used not only for the complete sterilization of wine and other fermented liquors, but that it will, under proper control, mature or age these bever ages. In a test at the Laboratoire Munici pal e de Chimie, at Paris, two samples of the same wine, one of which had been sub jected to the alternating current androne which had not, were submitted for analysis. The untreated wine was found to contain yeast cells in a more or less active phase of existence, besides a large quantity of bac teria, of which a great many were in mo tion. Ou the other hand, the "electrified" wine showed only dead yeast cells and bac teria devoid of motion. Other experiments in the same series were equally conclusive, and so satisfied the French Minister of Agriculture of the system that he instructed M. de "Meritens to procee to Algeria, and to make prac tical experiments in differents parts ot the colony. Commissioners were appointed to seal kegs of wine submitted in their pres ence to the electrical treatment, as well as kegs of the same wine untreated, the latter being kept for comparison with the former. The wines were subsequently shipped to Franc. Here they were examined by a committee appointed by the, Minister of Agriculture, and a favorable report made. - fc i l TW VA7 rf-iT n- . . t-th7j PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, W A PARLOR CAR. Bob Bnrdeite Keeps a Diary of a Trip' From Cairo. to Chicago. A MAff TWEAKS A BABTS EAE, Troubles of.a New Porter and Fun Oyer the Exit of a Shoe. PHILOSOPHY OP SOCIAL KELATIONS rwamrH roa the dispatch.! All the. way from Cairo to Chicago it rains. Leastwise, rained all day last time I went over; practically same thing as rain ing all time whole year round. Landscape in March has mottled, measly effect viewed through window panes washing itself in gentle rain from heaven. Some mistake of news company sends yesterday's papers on board our train. Good as new; had yester day's papers yesterday, but can't remember to-day what was in them. Paper not much more impressive than sermon. Man buries nose in paper hour and a half. Can't get word out of him. Beads like a book-worm all time. Lays paper down; ask him what is new? For soul' of him can't tell a line hehas read. -Not a line, .'ou start to read something aloud he re members that; says he read that before. So he did; but can't recall it nntil you suggest it Try it on any man you please. Man never remembers anything "he should re member. Ask next man you meet what weather was a week ago to-day. He flunks nine times in ten. Guesses wrong two or three times and gives it up. May some times remember what weather was last Sun day, because he has nothing else to do on Sunday but observe weather. But trv him on week day. Memory more treacherous than imagination. Can control imagination. Can also develop and streughten it Missing Train at SIIdni;ht. Alternate yesterday's paper with railway guide. Yesterday's railway guide, also. Missed two trains on it last week. Great saving of time and expense to print railway guide from last year's plate. Effect on pas senger varies, ranging from great eleva- Asli Bim What It Xeux tion of spirits, ot dynamite character, to in tense depression on arriving at junction 45 minutes late, 11:30 P. M.; station locked; platform dark; town mile and a half away; no train before-morning; two tramps trying to get in tool house; world grows very lone ly very rapidly. Gets much lonelier when larger tramp offers to carry valise uptown. Entire population of globe dies when smaller but wicked looking tramp asks: "What time is it?" Begin to say you have no watch; remember just in time that you looked at it four times, making audible re marks about hour, before train was out of sjght Decide to hand it over to him with out struggle. Wonder if you can't recover damages from guidebook man. Also won der how much damages you .will probably receive from two tramps who are inclined to be friendly. Joyl Footsteps on other end of platform; man to the rescue; haught ily tell the little tramp you are not a town clock; tell big one to ke'ep claws off valise; rescuer approaches; another" tramp I Ther mometer falls 25 degrees in 30 seconds. Hair arises and stands on end; remains standing. Can't keep hat on. Heart beats with hasty thumps like alarm bell; keeps it up with disagreeable loudness. The Dull, Sickening Thnd Comes. New tramp creates diversion is victim to. bowl; has been victimized quite recently; also quite thoroughly; your two tramps fraternize, suspecting unconsumed supplies still on premises. New tramp frugal and foresighted; resents Socialistic theories; nsel to be Communist before came into pos session of property; has now reformed; de nounces Henry George, refuses to divide. Your tramps demand equitable share of unearned increment; spirited argument; dull, sickening thud on neck; howl of an guish; gurgling sounds, accompanied by pungent odor as of corn in transit through distillery; you escape and wade through mud to 'hotel. Might have escaped long before if you had had any sense; nobody going to hurt you. Lady and "child get aboard; handsome lady; without mental reservation. Beauti ful child (remark intended not necessarily What Time U Ht as statement of cold fact, but for mother's ear.) Man in seat behind them has same opinion concerning beauty of lady as ex pressed above. Pulls himself together, lays aside book, and beams on child; all rest of men in car indignant Child attentive but evidently shy. Man gets along very fast; offers child box of candy with one hand; with other, playfully tweaks child's ear; child yells; "no other word for it; face fairly livid with fear and rage; howls in two keys; lady indignantly changes seat: refuses to listen to man's apologies; thinks he hurt child; rest of ns ready to swear we saw him stick pin in her. Fan In the Railroad Car. No sympathy for Fresh Passenger. Comes over to explain to me; tells me just what he did; shake my head sadly, sigh and look out of window; man gets mad; wants to know, if I 'wish to insult him? Rest of passengers laugh; delighted not only that fresh man got into trouble, but overjoyed at prospect of seeing me in scrap. Very em barrasiintr: wish man had stuck pin into - T J 11 kid; resolve will jab hat pin into her my J SUNDAY, MARCH 20, self if she gets me into scrap. Fresh Pas senger repeats question; brace up and tell him saw him with own eyes pinch child most savagely; can prove it by half dozen pas sengers; two men say loudly, "That's so;" diversion in my favor. jj'resn passenger little puzzled ana rainer rattled; I grow bolder as prospective scrap takes in additional elements and partici pants; think now, but am not sure, saw child's ear bleeding; man in front of me knows it was; he saw it plainly. Man across aisle thinks child is tainting now; cumulative evidence; fresh passenger weak ens; apologizes in general ways; gets off at next station. Conductorcomes in. "Where's man that was sitting here?" Chorus of male voices: "Got off atGroverton." Conductor looks puzzled. "Why, he had ticket for Hillville." Thus oftimes innocent actions assume tint and hue of wrong, and bring unjust punishment on own heads by over freshness. Great Trouble on the' Congo. Young man used to be young and thinks he is yet in lower nine seems to be crying. Sad thing befell him. Dressiest man in car. Opened barber shop, dental establish ment, Turkish bath, and perfumer's in lav atory; 50 minute toilet Fawn colored suit, Asked If I Wished to Insult Bim. with traveling cap English helmet to match; also patent leather shoes and fawn colored gaiters. Porter good.natured, will ing, attentive, but new to business; says he took this trip before was ready to oblige friend. Gathered up old-young man's Eatent leathers with rest of shoes last night; lacked 'em to beat anything in the realm of darkness; also blacked fawn-colored gait ers, supposing they were some unattached part of shoe. Old-young man refuses to be comforted. . Porter fears he is out one quarter. Mis take; man who said he saw child's ear bleed informs me privately he isgoing togiveporter halt a dollar extra for blacking fawn colored, gaiters. Cannot approve of malicious spirit' by which man is actuated, and tell him so. Had already determined, however, to give porter extra 25 cents, not for artistic work on gaiters, but to encourage evident desire to oft work thoroughly without slighting smallest thing. Spend half an hour in im proving reflection contrasting superior and generous motives which move me with the baser and ungenerous spirit which impels other man to reward porter. Am greatly pleased with myself, and resolve that here after I will associate more intimately with self, and derive great good from social con tact with that superior man. Too runny for Him Not to Ingh At. Later; great merriment in smoking room. Can guess at kind of story that has just been told. Malicious man comes in to tell me all about it Says it is too good to keep. Porter just now dropped fellow's shoe out of win dow; car lurched round curve, threw porter against open window; dropped shoe to catch himself, shoe flew out halt way across a 20 acre corn field. Although this man's enjoy ment of other people's troubles is extremely annoying, even irritating to me, can't help laughing; awfully fuany. Malicious man says thev are all watching to see what fellow will do when comes to put on his shoes; they're going to make it up to porter; I say I'm in on the pool; get up, chuckling all the way through, 'to join the watch party: go out of smoking room in slipper feet; great fun; we roar with laughter as porter tells about it; ask him to show us surviving shoe; he displays it (Treat Scott I One voice of mirth, fine, clear, piccolo tenor voice drops out of chorus of merri ment; comes to full rest "Volume of laughter not at all diminished, however; increased by additional power and compass on part of remaining voices. Didn't fully realize until now how extremely aggravating and irritat ing Malicious Man could be. Resents Sympathy of Other Victims. Finally, seeing fellow-passengers writh ing on floor and squirming on seats in paroxysms of mirth, join laughter myself; Very "feebly; can't be heard; just as "well; merriment in my laugh just now is of the bit, bitter. Like Job's warhorse, I say, "Ha, ha;" in precisely same temper, too. Like him, also, would like to "swallow the ground with fierceness and rage;" about ten acres of it Plat on which train is parsing preferred; train and alL Especially malic ious man. More I say, "Ha, ha" londer passengers shriek and hotter I feel myself getting. Old Young Man with the late fawn colored comes to me, asks me to join him in reporting, porter. Makes me madder than ever to be coupled with such a victim; makes me so hot it cools me off; at once tell porter it is all right; shoe was run ning down at heel and was going to throw it away anyhow; resent sympathy of Old Young' Mail so savagely that makes me feel positively kind toward porter. Good humor returns at once. Moral: sin gular how dislike of one man makes us for give and even befriend anotlier, whom we have no reason for loving, but rather the reverse! Humiliating fact in weak human nature; friendship of Pilate and Herod, htrango Disappearance of Good Man. Go back to my seat and try to appear calm and happy. Pretty tough job; could manage it very well, however, if Malicious Man wouldn't come in about every time get composed, look at me, cover mouth with both hands to smother roar of laughter, and rush back to smoking room. Seem to miss something from mv seat; ah, yes; remember now; Very Superior Man occupied seat with me half hour ago. Has disappeared. Think he must have gone off train to look for lost shoe. Do not miss him so much as would have thought Kind of prig, any how. Never did get along well with superior people. Common brand wears bet ter; doesn't show scratches so plainly, doesn't spot so easily; can be taken out in rain with perfect safety. Superior Man has to be kept under glass. Same as mummy; apt to crumble on exposure to air. About rnmnonionable as mnmmv. also. 'Fre quently knows more, however, than mummy does. ' Train slows up and begins running into Chicago shortly after passing Kankakee. Suburban trains only slow thing about Chi cago. Everything else about that city has wings; suburban trains have anchors. Old Young Man goes to my hotel; passengers smile in most friendly way as they say goodby to us. Porter tries hard to be form ally respectful; ho is to Old Young Man, but when he reaches me he says, "Goodby, boss;" and breaks down. Old Young Man sits opposite me in the 'bus; he in his blacked gaiters and I in slippers and over shoes. Hear familiar voice in 'bus standing next to ours; Malicious Man is telling story of our disaster to whole 'bus load of strangers; see strangers spread faces in broad, wrink ling grins; stand up and crane necks trying 4o look over and see our feet; Malicious Man points especially to me. Tell 'bus man am not feeling well, and will he please hurry on ? Looks at my feet, then at Old Young Man's, smiles and shouts to driver : "Go ahea.d, Billj let these two gentlemen out at first shoestore and wait for them. Palmer House I" Howl of laughter follow us; everybody knows about it 'Bus rattles away; Old Young Man and I do not look at each other; we do not speak; "the heart knoweth his own bitterness;" reckon one of these days I'll kill that man who laughed so much at nothing, Bobekt J. Bubdette, PJlblob furniture reuphlostered. Hatoh & Keenan, 33 "Water ft. 18921 cruel check: reins And Useless Blinds That Torture the Horses of Pittsburg. ' THE WOLF-HUNT AT GREENSBUBG And Barbarous Beating of Children and Animals Here at Borne. RET. GEOBGE HODGES ON HUMANE WORK wamjur tob thi dispatch. "And also much cattle." Jonah iv., 11. Everybody knows that the Book of Jonah contains an improbable story about a fish. It is likely that the information of a great many people in regard to this book is alto gether confined to the limits of this story. What is the Book of Jonah about? It is about a fish which swallowed a man. That would be the answer of a surprising number even of intelligent people. The truth is, however, that while there are four chapters in this book, the account of the adventure with the fish is contained in three short sentences. The Book of Jonah is one of the most interesting, sug gestive and instructive books in the whole Bible. It is one of the text books of toler ance. It teaches the universal love of God. It does not hesitate to compare the prophet of Israel to his disadvantage with the pagan crew of the Mediterranean sailing vessel. It records the quick answer that God gave to the prayers of pagan Ninevab. A Book Fall or Bich Thoughts. One of the lessons in it is that all prom ises of punishment are conditioned upon the penitence of the criminal. The most absolute menace 'of certain destruction is takeo. back and changed into benediction, when the sinner is sorry for his sin. The Book of Jonah teaches us how to read some hard sentences in tbe New Testament about the damnation of the wicked. It is a book of justice and of mercy, a revelation of the universal fatherhood of God. The least im portant part of the book is the story of the fish. To fasten upon that, to emphasize that, to bring that into the foreground and to put all tne great religious lessons ot tms won derful book into the dim and 'neglected background, is as if a congregation shonld seize upon some prettv figure of a great ser mon, some singular illustration of moment ary error of utterance, and think about that, and talk about that, and forget all the help ful words which had been spoken besides. That, indeed, is human nature. But we need to be on guard against the mistakes of human nature. Take a pencil and mark out those three verses and then read this won derful, wise and uplifting book. Too Mnch Mystery About the Fish. If we are to give attention to any animals in the Book of Jonah, we will do well to leave the fish and take the cattle. Let us turn our backs upon this mysterious fisb, which we see but uncertainly beneath the shifting waves, and which, it is likely, be longs rather to the world of poetry than to the world of real fishing smacks; and let us consider the cattle which we know, the everyday cows and hones of old Nineveh, which Jonah cared so little about, and which the critics and the commentators and indifferent readers have cared no more about, but which were of interest and Talue in the sight of God. For we read that Jonah was disappointed when his fierce sermon failed to come true. He stood out in the suburbs of the city on that fatal fortieth day and watched the sky. He prayed for thunder and lightning, tor red-hot shafts of destruction, for fiery hail and brimstone, for Sodom and Gommorah over again. And when the sun went on shining, and the day came to an end, and the town'still stood, and no torment from tbe hand of God touched it, Jonah was sore grieved. He felt himself abused. God had dealt unkindly with him. God had sent him to preach punishment, to prophecy hell, and then God had not punished. Bet ter that all Nineveh should perish, Jonah thonght, than that his sermons should be thus discredited. Merciful In Bis Wrath. Then God spoke to Jonah. God told "Jonah that he loved those children of his in Nineveh; yes, the most ignorant and the meanest of them; yes, even the very cows and the horses ot Nineveh. "Should I not have pity on Nineveh, that great city: wherein are more than six-score thousand people who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle." The lesson that; I want to emphasize is that God cares for cattle. God looks. down upon this city, and he thinks not only about the good people and the important people as we count importance and the rich and influential people, and the poor people crowded together in narrow and unclean dwellings, living in destitution physical and intellectual'and moral, scarcely know ing the difference between right and left, scarcely knowing the difference between right and wrong; but God thinks also of all the horses in this city, knows what sort of food they have, and what kind of stables they live in, and the work that is put upon them and all the treatment that is given them. God has regard for the cattle, ior the horses and the cows, for the cats and the dogs, for the birds, tor all the living creatures he has made. God is present not only in the house of prayer, but next door in the stockyards. Cruelty In Jonah's Make-Up. Jonah was willing yes, and desirous 'that the inhabitants ot" Nineveh, the men and the women and the little children, should all die horribly. He stood by with a certain pleased anticipation waiting to see the agonv begin. There is an unmistakable element bf cruelty in human nature. The story of the life of man has fearful chapters in it, chapters written in red, records of wars, of massacres, of murders, of martyr doms. Jonah has stood exulting a hundred thousand times and watched the vin dication of his doctrine in the torments of his brethren. The whole world over, m savagery and in civilization, in all lands, in the times that are told of in ancient history, and in the.day which is recorded in this morning's'paper, that old inhuman attitude of the prophet by the city is, to be seen. Think of the slaughter by the great armies of Assyria and -Egyptl Think of the horrors of the old religions, with their mutilations and their human sacrifices! Think of the slave life of Greece and "Borne,, where the lair ladies of society thrust the long pins which, held their hair into the flesh of their offending servantsl Think ot the vast multitudes ot pleasure, seekers who crowded the amphitheaters of the Empire, as gaily as people go now an evening to the play, "that they might Watch the Murder of Their Fellowmen and study the agonies of a violent death; where the vestal virgins, the women of re ligion, held down their thumbs to indicate to tbe victorious gladiator that he was to hack his victim's head off! Think of all the barbarous punishments, the crucifixions, the martyr fires, the racks and wheels, the black dungeons! Think ot the tortures of the Inquisition, of the woes of the Bussian prisons and the agonies of Siberian exilel Think of what is going on to-day in Cen tral Africa at the hands of Arab slave traders! Or, do but read- the daily papers; study there the fearful story of man's con tinued inhdmanity to man, learn of the in justice, of the oppression, ot the fearful wrong, of the blows and the beatings, of the murders that day by day take place just here at the meeting ot the rivers. Abel's cry has been echoed all along the centuries. The Awful Beeord In Pittsburg. It was here in Pittsburg that a man beat a little 5-year-old boy with a clothes-line, doubling up the rope and uMng it upon the baby, "all over his body and across his face'' until he was a "mass of bruises and lacerated flesh." It was here in Pittsburg- that a man, not once nor twilje, but many times, whipped his two motherless children, a girl of 7 and a boy of 9, with a whip that was meant for driving mules. It was here in Pittsburg that a father fas tened a dog-chain about the neck of his 10-year-old son, and beat him with a heavy strap upon his naked body, and that the mother in the same family tortured another of their children by "holding his hand, first the palm and then the back, upon a hot stove." And yet some people think that we have no need of a Humane Society, without which these fiendish crimes would never have been brought.to punishment Sttll Another Step to Take. Now we need to carry this tender mercy a little further on. We need to remember that the Christian ipirit of love reaches out and takes in not every hnman being, but every living creature under heaven. We need to remember that God our Father is the Father also of the cattle. God cares. He cares for all the little birds. Jesus has reminded us how the heavenly Father feedeth them, and how not even a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice. If a little bird falls to the ground because somebody has shot him, or thrown a stone at hira, just for the pleasure of shooting or stoning, God notices that If the little bird is stoned or shot in order that he may be torn to pieces and made into ornaments for women's bonnets God knows that And God cares. God cares for all the horses. Not a horse is overburdened, or overdriven, or illy treated, without God's notice. It is evident that a good many people think that they know more about horses than God does. God gave the horses an arched neck, but we have improved that with a checkrein. God gave the horses eyes to see with, but we have provided him with blinders. Instruments of Tort ore for Horses. I saw one day in London an .exhibition of the Instruments of the Arab slave traders. There were the yokes that were fastened to the necks of the captives, and the manacles that went about their necks and ankles, and the heavy chains with which they were loaded down, and the stout whips with which they were beaten. It would be pos sible to arrange a similar exhibition ot the implements of man's cruelty to his humble slaves, the horse. There would be the checkrein, by which the head is held up in a constrained and unnatural position, and the eyes are brought away froa the ground where they ought to watch the way of the feet, into the blind ing" face of the sun, one of the inventions of the devil, and the cause of constant and. in creasing and absolutely unnecessary pain. There would be the blinders, by which the horse, wbo sees out of tbe sides of his eyes, is rendered incapable of properly fating care of himself, made ready to take fright at sounds which he cannot understand, and has his sight impaired and learns a new kind of pain in consequence. There would be the sharp bit, which frets and cuts the mouth, and puts tbe sensitive creature into almost intolerable pain. There would be the whip, with its abundant possibilities of ministering suffering in the hands of hasty, or foolish, or ill-tempered, or ignorant drivers. When ths Mlltenlam Arrive. A Hebrew prophet promised long ago, that in tbe millenium "Holiness to the Lord" should be inscribed upon tbe bells of all the horses. Yes: and on all their harness "Holiness to the Lord" on every strap and buckle! And-nqthing left in all the harness upon which that phrase could not consistently be set; nothing left which would offend the sight of the righteous and merciful God, who cares even for the cattle. Christian people ought to be more thoughtful, more attentive to tbe comfort of these dumb creatures who can only look at us and cannot speak, and who depend so ut terly upon us. To be tender-hearted ought to be one of the characteristics of the Chris tian. To make this world a better and a happier world to live in for all men, and all the women, and all the little children, and all the living creatures that are in it, is the mission of religion, in which we all ought to be missionaries. As for the people who are not Christians at all, they have need to be converted, and in the meantime they have need of love. Cruelty In Enlichtened TVilklnsburf. It was here in Wilkinsburg that a man beat his two old horses with fence rails till they were covered with blood, and then left them to stand all night in a mud hole. It was in the same borough that a man chained up a horse, winding the chain three times about its body, and then beat it with a board until it died! It was only the other day that the driving of crippled steers was stopped in our own streets. It was still more recently that men had to 'be pre vented by outside interference from sawing off the Horns of their cattle, the pain oi which operation can only be understood by those who have had experience at the hands of the dentist It was but a week ago that 2,500 people gathered at Greensburg to see a caged wolf set free in the midst ot a wide field and torn to pieces by Bussian wolf hounds. The purpose of "this cruelty was to test the dogs. Wolves in some parts of this country are a mischief and a terror and must be hunted down and dogs must be had to help. But while the intentions of the owners were pos sibly good enough the exhibition was a failure and a disgrace, as they themselves will be the first to confess. The effect of it was to brutalize the people who saw it The English Idea of Sport; It is evident that our forefathers were savages. The strain of that old fierce savagery has not even yet got onti of our blood. 'Worse things than this go "on in England, and some people would like to have them imitated here. "A score of Chris tian gentlemen, who say their prayers to the Father of mercies and the God of com passion, and who profess to be disciples of the loving, tender-hearted Christ, setting a pack of wild dogs after a little frightened hare and chasing on behind with fierce yells to see tbe delicatr little creature torn to pieces what a spectacle for all good and evil angels! i institutions in this community is the Hu mane Society, which takes 'knowledge of such crimes against nature and against God, and brings tbe offenders to punishment One of the most Christian uses that any body can make of money in this city is to help the good work of these good friends of the cattle, these earnest missionaries of the Christian spirit of love and tender mercy, who are nbt content to stand like Jonah, consenting to the pain even of the dumb cattle, but who care, as God cares, for every animal that breathes? Geokge Hodges. The Genuine and the Sham. Every good thing has its host of imitations ; every genuine article its counterfeits. The imitators always choose the most valuable and popular article to counterfeit, so that when they, claim their sham to be equal, or as good, or the same as "So-and-So's," the public may depen&upon it that "So-and-Sq's' article is the best of the kind. The sham proves the genuine merit of the thing it copies, and never has this been better illustrated than by the imitations of Allcock's Porous Plasters. t Allcock's Porous Plasters are the standard 61 excellence the world over, and imitators in their cry that theirs is " as good as Allcock's," are only emphasizing this fact and admitting " Allcock's " to be the acme of perfection, which it is their highest ambition to imitate. The difference between the genuine and these imitations, which copy only general appearance, is as wide as that between gold and copper. The only safe way for purchasers is to always insist upon having ALLCOCKS SILVER TO BE CHEAP. A Free Coinage Dollar Will Be Worth less Than Seventy Cents IP THE 'BIS FIKDS CONTINUE. Bonanzas of Falnlons Treasure in tbi Argentiferous West IKSEJflOTS TYAYS OP SALTING HBZ3 IWKll'lJU. TOE THE DISM.TCH.1 Will silver ever become a cheap metalT The question is seriously suggested by ths recent discovery in Colorado of deposits which promise to vastonish the world wita their productiveness and perhaps to reduce the market value of .the precious substancs itself. The silver output of this country is groww ing steadily greater it was more than S70, 000,000 last year and it is realized that ths argentiferous regions of the West have but begun to be drawn upon. Bonanzas of fab ulous treasure remain yet to be discovered, of which a mere suggestion is afforded by . the recent 'finds of gigantic ore masses at Creede and Aspen. One of these, called ths "Holly Gibson Mine," has yielded rock worth 512,000 a ton. A single carload pro duced $75,000. The writer was shown a chunk of it the other day. Silver composed one-half of the mass, mixed with arsenic and antimony a rare combination. Work ing in this kind of stuff is almost like dig. ging for wealth in the vaults of the Treas ury at Washington. A pocket in ths "Park-Begent" at Aspen, as big as a good sized room, struck nine weeks ago, held 5100,000. How Sliver Pockets Are Formed. The process by which nature forms such accumulations of silver are very interesting. It must be remembered that the earth's crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rocks, making solutions of elements obtained from them. These chemical solutions take up small particles of the precious metal which they fisd scattered here and there. Sometimes the solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set aboil ing by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rush upward, picking up the bits of metal as they go. L Naturally, heat assists the performance of this operation. Now and then the streams thus formed, perpetually flowing hither and thither below ground, pass through cracks or cavities in the rocks, where they deposit their loads of silver. This is kept up tor a great length of time, perhaps thoneands of years, until the fissure or pocket is filled up. Crannies permeating the stony mats in. every direction may become filled with the metal, or occasionally a chamber may ba stored full of it, as if a myriad bands were fetching the treasure from all sides and hiding away a futnre bonanza for soma lucky prospector to discover. Always Fonnd the Combination. The silver is not deposited in a purs state, however, but in combination with sulphur, arsenic, or other minerals, de pending upon whether the original solu tion was sulphide of silver, arsenide of sil ver, or what not Brequently it is found together with lead and sulphur, because lead has the peculiar property of being abfo to dissolve silver. This is the cose with ths ores at Creede, which are in enormous masses of rock that were thrown by vol canic action out ot the interior of the earth perhaps millions of vears ago. So wonder fully rich are they that the stnff dug out is sent crude to the mills, without sorting. and yields often thousands of dollars a ton. Here and there chunks of the pure metal are found, where the other elements have been dissolved out of . it by the action of water, leaving what looks like silver moss. Etorles or Salted Mines. Silver, as it is ordinarily found in nature, is not pretty to look at, nor has it any glitter. The "rich ore from the "Molly Gib son" is of a bluish-gray color and lusterless. There is plenty of glitter to be seen in the silver caverns, but it is the iron or copper pyrites. jAu amusing story is told by the famous geologist, Clarence King, of an investiga tion which he made of an alleged silver mine in "Utah. On tbe way down the shaft the walls on every hand gleamed brightly with tbe shining ore in the light thrown by the lamps, and the sides of the drifts were equally beautiful However, while examining the rock more critically, he no ticed by chance a coarse thread hanging out of it "Ordinarily threads do not grow in rock, and the finding' of this one led to the discovery of the whole swindle; for the fact was developed that the owner of the mine had taken a great quantity of galena, re duced it to powder, made it with water into a plaster, and carefully stuccoed the entire walls of shaft and drifts with the material. The plaster was carried for this purpose in gnnny sacks, a thread from one of which got mixed up with it The Xuck of Ex-Senator Tabor. Perhaps even funnier was. the salting of a mine in Colorado which was bought by ex Senator Tabor by order from some friends of his in Denver. Chicken-Bill, a prospec tor of rather disreputable notoriety, did ths job, performing it so successfully that 540, 000 was paid over to him for the property without any question. He was so elated over the transaction 03 to be unable to keep the secret, communicating it to a number of intimate friends. In this manner the news reached Denver, and tbe people who had employed Tabor as their agent in tbe mat ter refused to receive the mine. So Tabor, finding it left upon his hands, determined to make the best of tbe situation, and pro ceeded to dig further in the hole. He pierced the rock ten feet further, and came upon a body ot ore which proved to be ons of the richest ever found in the State. Undoubtedly the most scientific method of accomplishing this sort of swindle is to apply tne silver in the shape of a nitrate solution. When it is ready for use some salt fs put into it, and it is squirted over ths the rock, the salt causing an immediate pre cipitation of the metal in a manner that is equally conspicuous and deceptive to ths eye. D. . Wextos. POROUS PLASIER5
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