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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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