I 10 THE SCBANTON TBIBUNIT-WfiDNESDAT MOENINO.1 AtTGtTST 6 1890. 1 AN AMERICAN BEAUTY. z BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Copyright, 18W, by the ; f. STN'OPSIS. Newport harbor is alive with beautiful pleasure craft, gathered there to witness or take part in the annual races. Honoria Hensler has come on board the Neckan, the yacht of her rich Vanderwater cousins. She la rich in beauty and an feminine charms, but not in worldly goods, and is en pa ed to marry Chauncey Parkes, a poor but brilliant college professor. Among other guests are C'narley U-lsborne, a com in on place young man, a distinguished for eign prince, and Mrs. Dennett Dennett, a octal leader. While at dinner that night a stranger yacht anchors very close to the Jleckain. it proves to be the "Pen cil aron," in whioh Sir Brooke Beltanley, a rich mine uAiivr and heir-presumptive to a dukedom, and his friend, Lord Uads den, are going around the world. . The races have brought them to Newport. Mrs. Jennrtt is delighted at this news, for Sir Jti-ooke's acquaintance Is an acquisi tion of her London social career. Mean while, from the Pendragon, Sir Brooke has noticed the beai:til'ul Honorla on the brll linntly llfchled deck of the Neckan. She is simply clad in white silk and has a long. Btemaicd American lteauty rose pinned to rier waist. Lord Gadsden explains who he is and calls her "the best equipped flirt In these or uny other waters." He had int her while In America the year before. Ho tells of her beauty and of her cold, heartless lmture. Sir Hrooke is Immense ly interested and resolves to meet her. He also recognizes Mrs. Dennett. The. next morning the two men go on iiourd the Neckan to pay their compli ments to Mrs. Dennett nnd meet Honorla. It is the llr.it day of the races. Jack IVu perltlge, the husband of one of the Van derwater girls, 1s to follow In his own boat nnd Honorla Is to go ulong as mascot. Sir Brooke s invited to accompany them. Ills devotion, to Honorla is marked, and be saves her from a situation that might have resulted in her being washed over board. She is pleased with his attention, and only once when her daring has been met with presumption from him does she think, of her lover and resent It. The in- MarnullAn fintii iiim "fftn i-.nu" atinn nnSana away, and when they part he begs for the rose she has worn. "Not this one," she replies. Shortly after this, at the De Ruysen9 ball. Sir Urooko la made furious at Honorla's conduct with the prince, whose attention she exclusively accepts. This is so marked that Jlrs. 1'epperldge reproves her, but to no avail. Kir Brooke has been Invited to sail to Uar Harbor In the Neck, an.ibut will not go on acocunt of the prince. lute in the evening he manages to dance with Honoria, and after a talk promises to go with them, and comes away with a withered American Ueauty In his band When returning to the Pendragon he discovers- that the prince has been left on shore by the Neckan party, nnd Is there fore compelled to offer him the hospitality of his own boat. On board Lord Gadsden, noticing Sir Hrooke's dejected condition, Houmlly berates him for allowing a penni less aristocrat like the prince to stand in his way; oil of which the subject of the conversation accidentally overhears. PAltT IV. ' ' ' "Billy, Billy!" exclaimed Sir Brooke. "Under our own roof! I mean, on our own di-ck." "How came lie to be on our own deck? By way of a confounded Infamy! A Idaeklesr after some heiress and her money." "You ore quite mistaken, my lord, began the object of wrath, with cool ness. "Don't you my-lord mef I have nothing- to hear from such cattle." "That is not the usual characteristic of British justice, Lord Gadsden," said the pretender, tossing Ills cigar over the rail. "If it strikes tt hears." "Quite so," said Sir Brooke. "I don't ee what you can have to say for your self. But if you wish to speak, why, we .Hill hear." "I don't know that we will," said Lord Gadsden. "Come, come, Billy! He may be on the trail of some mystery, who knows? BerhatpB one of Oorchavlne's people, or perhaps he hails from what answers for Scotland Yard over here." "You mean Plnkerton's men? Noth ing: of the sort, Sir Brooke. And there is no mystery about It, either." "Just a common, vulgar Imposter," said Billy. "The plain truth, gentleman, Is that 1 live toy my pen. I am a writer by pro fession, a story-writer, a literary hock, you may call It. I dure say you may have read some of my work " "Not I," said Billy. "Not much In our line, I fancy," said Blr Brooke. "Well, that's as It may lie. I have writteni up the detective story, nnd the bowl and dagger story, and the New Kngland dialect story, and the New York slums, and the southwestern rant-he, and the rest of them, and 1 TOU HAD BEST LEAVE FOB. YOUR ESTATES TOMORROW', found that in the curiosity to. know about the lives of the Four Hundred, so called, snobbish, but real. It could be made a. matter of great moment to me to be able to do the yachting season, Newport, Bar Harbor and life among the multl-milllonaries. And I made my plans accordingly. .1 had happened to live In Italy In my youth, and knew the language and localities. I chose a title I thought extlnnt, hired a valet that Sicilian scamp over there I believe he is a count himself, or something: of that sort and registered at a big- hotel, and the fish leaped at the bait, and- here I am." "Well, I'll be dashed!" said Billy. "That I had no other or more ulti mate Intention. I beg-you to believe me," "I don't know why we should believe you." said Billy. "In false colors, under a false name, obtaining; hospitality un der false pretenses." "Not altogether. The people who en tertained me wanted a, prince to dis play to their acquaintances. I furnish 4 on. . I have given them the Mtlifav Bacheller Syndicate tion of making: the desired display. I think that account may be called square." "Splitting- hairs!"' said Billy. "I have regretted the imposition when among- men " "And how about It when among women?" asked Sir Brooke. "Nothing whatever to regret there." "Noting," said Sir Brooke, sternly, "to regret In relation to Miss Hensler last night?" for the dawn was already creeping broadly over the sea. "By heaven! when you only owe it to my clemency that your theft has not al ready been denounced to her!" "Then is a hard word, Sir Brooke; What have 1 stolen? I borrowed for a short period what It Is Impossible to steal, a title of which it seems you thought too poorly to use It; and I have SHE J.OOSENED THE ROSE HER LIPS HAD TOUCHED. conducted myself while using It In a manner to do It no discredit, and I re turn it with no more injury than my brief wear" "You have stolen confidence, trust " "On the contrary, I have rather fos tered those qualities. And as for Miss Hensler " "Ah!" "I have already taken her into my confidence. I think she was more amus ed by the jest than concerned by the fraud." "By Jove!" said both the young men together. "And playing him on you for all he was worth," added Hilly. "I suppose," continued the cl-devant prince, "It was a fraud. But perhaps, I may say that It was undertaken in the interest of truth. And in the face of it, I can hardly ask you to believe that I am in the main indifferent honest.'" "Very Indifferent," enid Lord tlads dcn. Sir Brooke was silent a moment, fil liping; the ashes of his cigar with great care: "I don't know," said he then, "whet er I owe you an apology or you owe me one. But it seems to me altogether too much push for a small canoe. Since you have such a hankering after the things you threw away a couple of hundred years ago, you people, you might have the title and welcome. If it were trans ferable. I dare say it was worn by many a rascal and robber before. But as It Is, I fancy you had best make your compliments to the Neckan people, and leave for your estates tomorrow. Good night." "Sun's coming up," said Billy, as they walked away. "And now," said Sir Brooke, gloom ily, "sheil think I've sent him tiff to get him out of the way."- "I say," said Billy. "Let him keep along where he was. If we're going up the coast on the Neckan, he won't want more punishment than our good fellow ship, the poor devil! He wants high life let's give It to him!" cried Billy, with a chuckle. "Take him along aft erward on the cruise of the Pendrugon. He'll be what's this they say over here, what Oisborne yonder culls It more fun than a goat!" "No," sold Sir Brooke, "than a box of monkeys. But for my part I like honest company." The trial races were over, nnd the Neckan was at last moving up the blue Atlantic, that rippled In sunshine, placid as a pond. The little tan on Honorla's cheek only seemed to make her beauty burn the clearer; and In her white jacket she still wore her rose. As Mrs. Dennett Dennett saw her pacing the deck with Sir Brooke she had great hopes of her. But as Lady Christopher saw her that good woman thanked heaven that her own dear June and Maria were of an entirely different creation from this girl who queened it over every man and woman she met. excepting only Lady Christopher. Still, Lady Christopher was on the whole In a kindly mood, for she might have lived at home a hundivd years and not have known Sir Brooke and Lord Gadsden, and now it would go hard if she did not turn this new acquaintance to the advantage of her dear girls. . "So very different from our Knglish girls," she could not, how ever, help sighing to Mrs. Dennett Den nett, as she removed her goggles. "Yes. more's the pity," said her com panion. "If they were like her, the dukes and earls and things would be marrying nt home and not taking our money out of the country." . "Dear Mrs. Dennett Dennett, you say such extraordinary things! You really do not approve the way Miss Hensler " "I ' do, perfectly," puffed Mrs. Dennett- Dennett, unswathing herself of one of her several veils. "Such remarkable standards." sighed Lady. Christopher. "Does she. always wear an American Beauty ruse because she Is an American beauty?" "I shouldn't wonder," said Mrs. Den nett Dennett. "And when at sea? ."Oh, there Is plenty of cold storage I know of," said Charley Gisbourne, who was reposing not far away. "Quite so. She has every appearance of it- No, Indeed." murmured Lady Christopher directly, in response to her own thoughts, "If my dear girls never marry. they will never throw themselves at a man In that style." "My dear Lady -Christopher, don't you see that It is the man who is throw ing himself at her?" said Mrs. Dennett Dennett. . . "Not at all. I only see a very accom plished flirt." "Sir Brooke a flirt? Oh. no!" "I have never before associated where a man was spoken of as a flirt" "Dear Lady Christopher, you have so much to learn." "I have had," said Lady Christopher, gathering her cloak about her as she rose and steadying her rather uncertain sea-legs, "since I left home a great variety of lessons In undcrbreedlng." "The doctor of divinity has the worst of it," said Charley Gisbourne, relating the affair afterward,, "but the dear D. D. meant well." Lady Christopher met Sir Brooke presently on her way, as she sprang to assist her swaying progress, Honorla saying she must post her journal, and leaving him. He held in his fingers the rose she had happened to drop from her jacket. "You find the American Beauty very agreeable, Sir Brooke," she said, amia bly. "Fine," he said. "Very full blown." "A little too much so," she replied, opening her eyes. "I shall try to transplant It," he said. "Is that wise?" "Oh, I have arranged It." . "Is it possible do I understand you" "But there are many others I like better." "Then why In the world do you "Why must I limit myself to oneZ- If there were only one rose, I should say the lovely white English rose with its pure heart was the one. But I don't know why I may not have that and this too." Lady Crlstopher looked straight be fore her, as if she were turning to stone. Sir Brooke was Sir Brooke, and the pos sible heir to a dukedom besides, and muh must be condoned. But for the moment Lady Christopher felt she was In very strange company, and walked on alone. The Neckan made no husto, loitering up the coast. She put Into port once, and Honoria went ashore with Sir Brooke to show him, a certain scheme of frescoes where, on the Interior walls of a public building the pristine sim plicity of art on the first floor led to the graphic Interpretation of Tomance on the next.and, still, mounting, to the utmost complexity of decoration on a tllght higher. 'i must show you," she said, "that we do have some things over here as fine as the best you have at home." , "You showed me that long ago," he said. If she did not announe her neighbor hood to Chauncey Parkes It was because she wns not sure, she said to herself, that It was worth while for so short a time. And then one night they watched the great light house lay Its revolving beams upon the water as they lay at anchor off the shoals while the Van der waters went to see some friends there. And when they reached Bar Har bor there was a week's festivity there, and every hour of tt all that Sir Brooke passed with Honorla she was certainly lovlier than Bhe had been before. He was still young, and In spite of his own Ideas of his prowess in affairs of the heart, he was more familiar with big game In Africa than with women in drawing-rooms. And if, her beauty dazzling, her rather proud and arch spirit making her sweetness the more honeyed, she did not quite carry cap live the simplicity of his nature, it was perhaps because a certain sincerity there, underlying faults and follies fail ed to strike an answering note In hers, Possibly there was a certain fascination in the alternate attraction and repul slon thut he experienced; and he never felt It more than one morning when he left her leaning forward over a balus trade, a trellis above her waiving Its white York roses in the sunny wind everywhere against blue sky above her and around her, and her own red roses clasped on her breast, while her hair escaped from the white lace scarf blown off from her head like the scarf of Iris, her color rose and dimpled and deepened, her wide open eyes reflected the gleams of the sa, and her smile the Intensity of the sunshine. "I shall never see a rose," he said. "without thinking of you. Although I often wonder why it Is this particular rose you so aftect." "Because it Is particularly delicious," she said. 'No more so except because you wear It," he was holding her hand at the moment, "than others that I know." She bent and held her lips a moment at the topmost blossom of the bunch she wore. "If you were abroad." he went an "you might challenge the world with it. your type, and symbol and namesake. But here It seems to me today that white rose overhead Is far more like you." "Do you really think that flower like me? Look at It, It Is so open. Why, you can see Its heart!" "No one can see your heart!" he ex claimed. And he could not tell If that wide gaze of her lucid eyes were a limpid look of Innocence or a liquid depth of guile. With her disengaged hand she loos ened the rose her lips had touched, und held it towards him. "I never gave you one before. Show ine one more perfect," she said. "I would have promised without fall. when I come back where roses are. But your lips have rested on It, and you give it to me how can there be a rose more perfect!" he exclaimed. And then the Neckan people were upon them, and he was gone with them. "It's well enough for a fellow with money to burn like you." Billy said to him. "But an impecunious British no bleman, as the D. D. calls me, is well out of that." "Such an extraordinary relief," said Lady Christopher, as they steamed away and left Honoria and Mrs. Den nett behind. To be Concluded. , Truth's Fables I'p to Date. During a snow storm a couple of oxen In a comfortublo barn engaged in a conver sation. "What a kind man our master Is," said the brown one. "He feeds lis welt and lets us live In luxurious Idleness. Js he not a cuckoo?" "Nit," said the roan. "He is a cold blooded monster. You observe that I eat sparingly of the food he places before us. His Idea is to fatten us and then sell us for gain. We will then be turned Into steaks, roasts and other delicacies for the tables of the rich. You are playing into his hands, while I am a wise boy and will fool him a trip." "You may be right." replied the brown bovine, "but It does not spoil my appetite. I shall not overlook any bets for fear some one will get a tenderloin out of my flank. I can die but once, but I can eat several times. Better have another mor. sel of hay." The two oxen carried out the plans they had discussed. Sure enough the fat brown one was sold to a butcher, by whom he was killed in a humane manner. The roan one. he who had boasted of his wis dom, grew thinner and thinner. The farmer put him to a plow and made him work all summer, until the poor beast wished that he was dead. The next fall he was sold wthout being given another chance to become fat and he then spent several years hermetically sealed up in tin cans. Moral They are fools to be oxen any way. Truth. PWLPUD CYMREIG E1N TEIDIAU The Noncooforaiiati HoM Sunday Sep vkes ia Opea Air. MOREIEN ON OPEN-AIR PREACHING Onr Ancestors Did Strike tip the Old Ecel, bnt to New Tames, at Those Great CymanfaoeddIa the Face of the Fountain of Light. The only Morten writes that a novel experiment Is Just now being made at Pontypridd In the way of holding divine service. A short time ago "Egtwysbach." at the head of what is called the "forward movement," threw out the suggestion that, during- the sum mer months at least, the denominations in the town of Pontypridd should, on Sunday evenings, adjourn from the chapels and hold united services near the Rocking Stone, or Maen Llog, on Pontypridd common, and, therefore. In the face of the sun, the Eye of Light, and Idiomatic Welsh expression cloth ed in English meaning, the Fountain of Light. He himself acted upon the suggestion, and rendered .an object lesson by holding divine service in, or near, the old sanctuary of Druid Ism, to a large congregation. It Is well known that the palmy days of Cambrian Non conformity, during the last century and the beginning of this one, was when the gray-coated ministers, elected to minister because of their gifts of elo quence, held forth about divine things from rustic wagons in the greenwood's glade at the foot of mountains. Their sermons, "from Nature's presence, ten fold grandeur caught." The Welsh people will point out the spots in the open air where, as their fathers and mothers had informed them, the great "Cymanvas had been held, and where the vast throngs had been stirred up In their hearts to awaken the echoes of the mountain by their shouts of joy. Says Thomas Williams. Bethesda-y-Vron, in his elegy to the Rev. David Jones Llangan. "ITn o'r manau (bythfl gofla), ! i ' Gweliias i e gynta' gyd, i ;,! ! Yn cyhoeddl Gair y Cymmod ' i I golledlg anwlr fyd !'!. Iseu'n marw. Iseu'n elrlol, .'if j Diwedd byd a boreu'r farn, I 1 Oedd el araeth o fiaen canoedd, ' 1 Wrth hen gapel Tal-y-Garn," "Dyddlau hyfryd oedd y rhelny. Pan oedd Rowlands, uchel ddyKg, Peter ffyddlon, William Williams, Llwyd a Morys yn ein mysg; Jones fel angel o Langana Yn udganu'r udgorn mawr, Nes b'al'r dorf mewn twym serchladau Yn dyrchafu uwch y llawr." The echoes of Ihose joyous cries ling' er still among the sylvan glades of Wales. Our ancestors did. undoubted ly, strike up the old reels, but to new tunes, at those great Cymanvas. Small blame to them If It was the most fanv lllar way to them to express the joy which- was bounding In their true hearts. They had been long familiar with dancing on the green to the music of the harp, crooth and tabor. It is stated that the celebrated Rowland Hill came from London to Wales with a view to persuade the dear brethern and sisters, in Wales to abstain from leaping and reeling In the open air re ligious meetings, but at the very first meeting' of the kind he attended he joined In the "merry making of Zlon." Visitors to the Highlands of Scotland constantly see the natives In the clach- ans, or the old stone circles, of their ancestors. In the open air, partaking of the holy communion at the hands of the elders of the kirk. At Pontypridd the suggestion of "Eglysbach" has been acted upon by the Tabernacle church, of which the Rev. David Jones, (Baptist) Is the pop ular pastor. During the last few Sun days the doors of the Tabernacle, situ ate near the great one-arched bridge after which the town Is named, were closed, and the entire congregation have gone to the service on the open common, formerly called "Brydwen Ardd, or Garden of Britannia, where, last Sunday evening, Mr. Jones preah ed with great power to between two and three thousand people. The drulds re garded the open air the True Taber nacle, and In the epistle to the Hebrews the temple at Jerusalem is said to be but a pattern of the real or true taber nacle, or, In the Hebrew, Maes Gwyn. It is certain, and most interesting, that the great events of the earliest days of Christianity took place in the open air, and " beyond the gate." THE COMING BARITONE. It will be remembered that after practically sweeping the boards so far as baritone singing competitions went at all the great eisteddfodau. Mr, Ivor. Foster, a young man from Peny gralg, last year secured live-fold glory at the National Eisteddfod of Llanelly. His friends in the Rhondda then organ ized a series of concerts for the purpose of raising money sufficient to pay for the musical education of the young singer In one of the great metropolitan musical academies. It was estimated that two years' maintenance and tui tion in London would cost about 200, and considerably more than half this sum was raised by concerts in Tony pandy. Mr. Foster's friends were about to appeal to the public of Porth, where Mr. Foster was almost as popu lar, when an unexpected benefactor turned up In the person of Mr. Llew elyn Williams, the gold king of Cool gardie, Westrala. Mr. Williams hav ing heard Mr. Foster sing at a gathering of Welshmen at London, proved his de light by contributing 20 to the fund, and relieved the anxiety of the young singer by declaring that he would con tribute 1 a week to Mr. Foster's main tenance while he remained at college. On the strength of this promise the ar rangements for the concert at Porth were abandoned. Acting on Miss Mag gie Davis' advice, Mr. Foster went to the Royal College of Music. He pre viously Informed his friends that he had heard nothing farther of Mr. Williams' promised support, and a gentleman ac cordingly wrote him, pointing out that the case was a necessitous one, and asking him to state where Mr. Fos ter might call for the 1 a week. The following is the reply, dated from 23, Bennerly road, Wandsworth, Common, 8. W., April 4. 1896: "Dear 8lr:-Wlth regard to yours of the 24th ultimo, re Mr. Ivor Foster, Mr. Williams Is away, and I expect will not be back until after the holidays. On his return I will show him your letter. Yours faithfully, H. L. Burslll, Secre tary." Aptll went and May was almost passing when he was written to again, which called for the following reply:' "Dear glr:-Mr. Lewellyn Williams does not live here. He never hat lived here. I don't knew where he does live or where he is, but I believe he has returned to Australia." Then his friends communicated with other friends In London, all of whom declared they knew nothing of Mr. Wil liams, but believed he had gone to Coolgardle. But they learned that the Gold King had stayed at No. 1, Queen Victoria street, E. C, which is the address of another gold king, Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M. P. for Merthyr. They accordingly wrote to Mr. Morgan a letter of Inquiry at the beginning of last week, and they have not yet re ceived an answer. It Is obvious, how ever, that unless something is done within the present year Mr. Foster will have to return from London before com pleting his studies, and thus Wales will lose a singer and a musician whose talents give promise to outshine those of any of his countrymen who have gone before him." Meanwhile, it Is a pleasure to tell of another brilliant achievement by Mr. Foster, and'one which is of even great er importance than any of his elstedd- fodto victories. Recently, the contests promoted by the International Music Trades Exhibition were held In the Agricultural hall, Islington. In the baritone solo competition there were four prizes of the respective value of a handsome pianoforte, a gold medal and certificate, a silver medal and a bronze medal. There were 29 competitors drawn from all parts of the country, and the adjudicators were Signor L. Denza, the well-known song-writer, and Sig nor Garcia, the professor of singing at the Royal College of Music. Mr. Fos ter sang the recltative,"0 Santa Madag- lla" and caventina, "Dlo Pas sente Dlo d'Amor," from Gounod's "Faust." At the close of the competition the ad judicators Bald they could not decide between four of the competitors, who were, accordingly, ordered to sing again. Mr. Foster was one of the for tunate four, and this time he sang Handel's "Why Do the Nations." The adjudicators then said there was scarcely anything to choose between Mr. Foster and another competitor named Carles Tree. They had. how ever, decided to give the first prize, al though by no means representing the difference between them, to Mr. Tree, and the second to Mr. Foster. The third prize went to Mr. David Jones, son of Mr. Philip Jones, manager of the Clfyndd colliery. A sporting writr of one of the sporting papers says Messrs. Tree and Foster sang a neck and neck race home, and although the former just succeeded In winning, he had nothing In hand. He won 'all out." There were several top notes between second and third." NOTES. Welsh collerles will have to do more with the next great naval war than they think, A consular report on the trade of Nagasa ki, Japan, for the year 1S8S, says: "The Import of Cardiff coal for naval use Has increased to a considerable extent, a tew years ago the British navy was the only one to use Cardiff coal in any quantity, but now It is largely used by the Ameri can. French. Japanese and Russian navies. Considerable shipments arrived from Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, us well as from Cardiff direct; M,77 ions, val ued at 77,354. In 1894." The name of Mr. Beckerton A. Edwards, son of the late vicar of Llanwonno, and nephew of the Bishop of St." Asaph, ap pears in the Oxford class lists of the Final Honor School of Theology puDiisnea re, centlv. Mr. Edwards belongs to a remark. able clerical family, as, In addition to the Bishop of St. Asaph, he has other uncles In the church, namely the vicar of Rhu rabon nnd the rector of Llandow, Cow bridge, whilst the late Dean Edwards, of Bangor, was an uncle. Archdeacon Griffiths is credited with the remark that the key to the history of Wales lies in Its rich mine of place-names. What an instructive light is thrown upon the past by some of the local names of mountains, rivers, farms, fields, etc. A discussion is now going on In a Welsh contemporary respecting the meaning of name of "Ieuan Brydydd Hlr's" Home in Cardiganshire Cynhawdref. One author ity alleges that it means 'Vt helps' Homel and should be written "Cynawdref," point ing out that there Is in Cymrheidiol, near Professor Rhys' old home, a farm caned "Pwllcynawon," that is "Whelps' Hole." and that a farm adjacent to leuan Bry dydd Hir's old home is called "Ffosy. blelddiald," meaning the "Wolf's Re fuge." One of the most Interesting churches In Glamorganshire Is that of Llantwit Ma jor, so called to distinguish it from Llan twit Minor or Fadre. Jt was built In ten early English style of architecture with a western tower, to which had been, ap plied in the Decorator period, with later additions, a western church or galilee, making the tower central.' In the eastern body is a good stone reredos and a curi ous trefoil-headed niche, having a border carved as a tree of Jesse, in the church and churchyard are a number of in scribed and ornamented stones. A correspondent suggest that the in habitants of "gallant little Wales," who are anxious to furnish the Princess Maud on her approaching marriage with a wed ding ring fashioned of native gold, might in case their desire so to do were thwart, ed tender as a nuptial offering, a brooch In the shape of a thorn made in Welsh gold, set, to suit their fancy and funds, with precious stones. The most primitive of brooches was an ordinary thorn. This the Ancient Britons used to secure their cloaks of skin. The ancient Germans also utilized this fastening, and the Welsh of today still fall back on this natural mode of securing their dress doubtless, when stern mother necessity compels them. The Rev. D. llathlas, whose death at a good old age occurred recently, was ex ceedingly happy in his reminiscences of men and things and he had a dry wit r t his own In narrative. He used to tell of a celebrated discussion on Rhymney Com mon between the Baptists and Independ ents, A great crowd had come to listen, and as the miners came from work they joined, and pipes were brought into requi sition, as they sat 'like Indian braves on the outskirts. The ministers tolerated the smoking, but when "fetchlngs" (beer) be gan to indulged In there was a stern re pression (Muthias used to say) "by the Independents." Lord Llsburne has made considerable alterations and Improvements in Cross wood, his Cardiganshire house, and the first house party since the completion was there for the royal installation at Aberys twlth, The guests Included Lord and Lady TJangattock, Lord Xenyon, Sir John and Lady Llewelyn, Colonel and Airs. Cornwallls West, and Mr. lnglts Jones. CAPTI RED A SHARK. And Found in Its Cnpnrious Maw a Paper Addressed to Himself. From the London Answers. "One afternoon, when we were In the Indian ocean," said the captain, "I noticed a shark swimming round the ship, and I didn't like It a bit. You know the superstition to the effect that a following shark presages the death of one of the ship's company. He sailed round us all the next day and the next after that, and I determined to catch him and quell my uneasiness. We baited a hook, and after a short time captured and killed him. Then we cut him up. Do you know what we found In that shark's Inside? No? Well, a newspaper, unopened, and It will sur prise you, as It did me, when I tell you that It was addressed to me." A shout of great laughter went up from the captain's audience, who winked at each other unblushlngly. He, however, took all the linntorinr In mnml part, and when the jeers were ended he ii- "Now, gentlemen, I'll tell you how It happened. I found that mv hiiHr,n had been skylarking the .day before In the cabin. They found among the maw of reading that had been brought aboard some unopened newspapers ad dressed to me. They bad been throw ing these newspapers at each other, and one of them iwent oat nt h nnrt- hole. The shark saw It, of course, and goDDlea It down; and that was how It happened. Now, gentlemen, judge for yourselves the truth of my story." A FEW OLD-TIMERS. The following jokes are taken from a publication of 1830. and show that the jokes of today are Blmply rehashes of the humorous paragraphs of slxty-Blx years ago.l WIL YOU TAKE A SHEEP? A valuable friend, and an able farmer, about the time that the temperance re form was beginning to exert a health ful Influence In the country, said to his newly-hired man :"Jonathan, 1 did not mention to you when I hired you that I think of doing my work this year without rum. How much more must I give you to do without?" "O," said Jonathan, "I don't care much about It; you may give me what you please." "Well," said the farmer, "I will give you a sheea in the fall, If you will do without." "Agreed," said Jonathan. The oldest son then said, "Father, will you give me a sheep It I do without rum?" "Yes, Marshall, you shall have a sheep if you do-without." The youngest son, a stripling, then said: "Father, will you give ine a sheep ir you do without rum." Presently Chandler speaks again: "Father, hadn't you better take a sheep, too?" This was a poser; he hardly thought that he could give up the "good crea ture" yet; but the appeal was from a source not to be disregarded. The re suit was, the demon was henceforth banished from the premises, to the great joy and final happiness of all concerned, THE BUTT END. A farmer once hired a Vermonter to assist in drawing logs. When a log was to lift, the Yankee always contrived to receive the smallest end, for which the farmer chastised him, and told him al ways to take the butt end. Dinner came, and with It a sugar-loaf Indian pud ding. Jonathan sliced off a generous portion of the largest part, and giving the farmer a wink, exclaimed, "Always take the butt end. ' An auctioneer was spoken to about the presence of sundry Ill-favored w' men In his sales-room. He replied that of all his visitors they were most for bidding. CURE OF LOVE. Take off cable about 15 feet of the top of the tree about a sufficient quan tity to make one end fast of resolution barely enough to make running noose about your neck with the other of a leap about five feet down; and If found insufficient to effect a cure, double the dose every- two hours, and then take a Hygeian pill, COVERING THE WHOLE GROUND. "Gentlemen," said an eminent coun sel, "there are three points upon which we rely for the defense. In the first place, the kettle was cracked when we borrowed it; in the second Place, it was whole when we returned It; and in the tnira place we never had It." CLASSICAL. "CaesarJ go catch my big horse there." "Yes, sari What you call he name, sar?" "Olympus; don't you know what the poet says about 'high Olympus?' " "I don't know about Hio but he lira pus nuf dat's for sartin." GUESSING AT HARD WORDS. A missionary In 1822 stepped ashore from a flat-boat on the Mississippi, with some tracts to speak to an old woman who was knitting under a low tree by a snanty. it was the height of the cholera panic. "My good woman," said the evangel ist, as he offered her a tract, "have you got the gospel here?" "No, sir. we ha'n't," replied the old crone, "but they've got It awfully down to New Orleans!" SOMETHING OF AN IMPOSSIBILITY "Have you noticed," said a man to Dumas, "that it is Impossible to make an imbecile acknowledge that he is an Idiot?" "Of course." replied Dumas; "the mo ment he admitted he was an Idiot he would be no longer one." JUST AS ORDERED. From the Indianapolis Journal. "That last load of coal Vou sent," said Mr. Slopay. with a most Impres sive manner, "was more than half slate." "Perhaps you may remember," retort ed the coal man, with much spirit, "that you said, after you ordered it 'just slate this, will you?" THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. Terror Itself, when once grown trans cendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently Intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. Caiiyle. O. guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech Is but the dial plate of thoughts; and every fool reads plainly In thy words what is the hour of thy thought. Tennyson. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits betU countries, he may learn to Improve his own; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own. Johnson. It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary and no more. Whatsoever is beyond brings darkness and confusion. Shaftesbury. Flowing water Is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts. charming reveries, and nieluncholy re membrances. Alphonse Karr. A man's time, when well husbanded, Is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produces more of what Is useful to life than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hume. Absolute ugliness Is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty: but degrees of it. more or less distinct, are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and life. Ruskin. The world Is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often It does not knoW what to do with genius. Talent Is a docile creature. It bows Its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. Holmes. I consider It a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to re venge himself. Machlavelll. Like an Inundation of the Indus Is the course of time. We look for the homes of our childhood; they are gone. The loves and animosities of youth, where are they? Swept away like the camps that had been pitched In the sandy bed of the river. Longfellow. Ml PAIR CURED II AH 1HSTAKT. oralaarUy reach the bmu. M CURES THE WORST PAINS In from otoe to twenty minutes. Not one hour after reading this advertisement need any one BUFFER WITH PAIN. " ACHES AND PAINS. 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There Is not a remedial agent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarious, Bilious and other fe vers, aided by RAD WAY'S PILLS, so quick as RADW'AY S READY RELIEF Travelers should always carry u bottle of Radway's Ready Relief with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pulns from change of water. It Is better than French brandy or bitters as a utlmu lunt. Miners and lumbermen should always be provided with it. Price 50 cents a bottle. Sold by all drug-, gists. TEINWAY a SON1 . . ackaewledgtd the Leadlag PIANOS Of the Wrl4 DECKER BROS.. KRANICHB BACHB and ether. ORGANS Musical Instruments, ilusical Merchandise, Sheet Music and Music Books. Varchastrs will always Mad a complete stock sad at prices as low as the quak My el the Instrument w'.M permit at I A. HULBERT' S nusic STORE, H7 Wyoming Are. - Scranton E. 1 Lager Beer Brewery Manufacturers of the Celebrated KM 111 It CAPACITY! 100,000 Barrels per Annum Spring House HEART LAKE, SUSQ'A CO. U. L CROFUT, PROPRIETOR. THIS HOUSE Is strictly temperance, IP new and well furnished and OPENED TO THE PUBLIC THE YEAR ROUND, is located midway between Blnghamton and Scranton, on the Montrose and Lacka wanna Railroad, six miles from D.. L. & W. R. R. at Alford Station, and Ave miles from Montrose; capacity eighty-five, three minutes' walk from railroad station. House situated 100 feet from the lake, wide veranda extends the entire length of the house, which is 100 feet. Row Boats, Fishing Tackle, Etc. Free to (iuests. Altitude about 2,000 feet, equalling In this respect the Adirondack and Catskiil Mountains. ful scenery, making a Summer Resort un. excelled In beauty and cheapness. Dancing pavilion, swings, croquet grounds, etc. COLD SPRING WATER AND PLENTY OF MILK. Rates $7 to S10 Per Week. $1.30 Per Day. - Excursion tickets sold at all stations oa Dj. L. ft W. lines. Porter meets all trains. AYLESWORTITS MEAT MARKET The Finest In (he ( It). The latest improved furnish logs and apparatus for keeping meat, butter and eggs. 223 Wyoming Avenue. p wt vim V Houses for Sale and for Rent It you contemplate purchaslngor leas ing a house er want to Invest la a lot, sco the Hats of desirable property sa page s of The Tribune ROBINSON -J.
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