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jj. F. BOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLVII.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 24. 1S93
NO. 23.
liKV. DM TADIAGR
THE ElIOOiaYX OIVIXE'S SD.
DAY M-.UMOX.
Subject : "Mnytinie Tliou;af-,."
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firing rr Vl-.
fc.-l-!l:.-U s s,,,:...
S.er.s 'f til-' !'.
iT' to 1
the i";' "f t'n'
warn m r.n." w.
snd r-nr.-l .!
nnsjrom JslaHon."
IV., I.").
:-t L-.irl.-ns or olden tinny,
i at tii foot of Mount Lo.
a u V l.an.l winter whnVnod
niom.tii.u. Then when the
irlv r ,-.i:m the snows melted
v ll t'le si,l of the mount.!,.
sni t in- iii.Miri.-ini'e 10 tile ifaniens at
the (.. r. ii ! y .ii see now the allusion of my
tert w:,. n it sj.e-iks of the fountain of hhJ.
"leu- an 1 tr.'.::i. from Lebanon.
AkMin hi 1 n.-.-rn t!ie .hurih is represented
if n s.-.r ! n up. and .lown the word of Uod
and it is .1 Mi.ur.- sj.-.-i.-iliy sueuestive at this
i as. ii-f t:ie y-nr. when the porks and the
VI'
!mr !- are a'-.. it to put forth their blossoir
1 1 :!; .i.r is M'i-i mi tiird voices.
A II,
:.-r v
I to impress her child win
the 1.
111 i so in file nnnct;.,u
after the LT'.-'iTi M'-il h.v-n j. repaired in tiie
Kir l. ii. - :- t. ,i him i'-.il of Uower see.bj
ui-1 -att-re.1 tli.-s s.-sii in siinpeof letters
;U.-r-.-.t:.e!..'.,.ft,e.A,r.en. Weeks na.-l
Iv. iiu 1 ttie r,-i n- .-in. I the sunshine had don
their w-.-rK. an I ..:ie .!:iy the ehil.l eame in
-Mii-1. "Mutii -rvi.e .piicklv to the e-ir-il.-n
o:i..- n."v." The rr-oth-r fol'owe.i the
child to the wir :-n. and the l.ule child said
"Look here, mother. S -e ! It is spelled all
ov.r tne trround in tlo-v.-rs. 'God is love'"
oh. n v ir.-n-V. if we only had faith
eii.m.-h ' "ii i 1 1 s.-o (.nsj-ei lessons ail
tn.uul mi l :i' ..m i.s -lesM.ns in shell. nn
the ..-.. . !.s-i.:.. in sparkl.-s on the wave,
"' 1,1 ,lt;,r- "" th- skv. le-sous in flowers
ii ovHrtv.e .-..tni!.
Well ,y fri. ii-:--. you know v.rv well that
there have .,., n s im beautiful irnrdens
created. Th-re , :is the pnrd.-n of harle.
DHi-'iie bii I y.i re..:.n,!r that this kin?
ordered :-iir 1. ns l:,;,l out all tbrousth the
real.:, and de.-i.ied by de-ree of tovernru-nt
ati.-tt km I..: tl.ov.-rs should lie planted in
h...) tai i.-i,s. Henry IV. at Montpellir
tie,-re.. 1 that there -h,,Id be flowers planted
thr..ii-l ..ut his r- i!;ii and t-ardens laid out
" -! ''' -feed that there should be
Alpine , raii.i and French plants. Shen.
it..ne. the p. t. was more celebrated for his
ranl-in than f. r lus poetry. His poetry
has fad--1 tr.-rr. th- HL.-.-S for the most part,
tut In i-nr l-M h iiiiinortal. To all the
U-ailty of ,.- ,:,, -,- he added perfection of
rt. rahsai- and ar.-h and arhor and
fountain and r.wtio temple had their
nuKt wotid-rml s; Imetis. and the oak
n,l the li,fe. ti.c richest woods of the
forest w.-re piante I m that warden. H- had
pemus. an i he nil in iustry. and all his ren
ins ant a:i hn Milusirv he aj,p ie,! to the
beautirl -at:. n o( that ir.ir-!.-n. ile jrave for
It rl"K)0. and . it t lust for S6,uoO. or
what was ,., inal to that iiuinl.er of dollars.
It was an . M ;,-.y i-ard-n. laid out with
gr-t e,ah ir iliun. And yet I haveto tell vou
now of ii L-ard-u of va-ii. r expanse the iiar
d. u i..i..i of in my t .t a fountain of ifar-
A. L With the str.-mes frorp T.euo:u
w""- - " the preat fimliit.on of hS
D.e to t mi l A-. . ts'ord and lav out eitens.ve
gar i. n- r uin 1 -il.out it. It broke his heart
that he .-on:. I n.it complete the work ns he
iesirel it. At ,:s last paynent of X100.0UO,
ifter layin out these irardens and huildin
that ( l i e of Al.tiots.'or 1. at that time Ins
heart broke, li s health failed, and he died
UHinSt Ml I'll: lie.
A f. w y-irs a-o. wtira I walked throusth
Ih - -ar l.-tn and 1 thought at what vast ex
Oense they lia I i .-a laid out at the expense
f that -a an - hfe-.t s no 1 1 could see in
the or:-: m -r, t!l blood of the old
Dian s t r.'Ki n Ii.- ii ... Iii;t I have to toll you
now of a uar b-n ,.si. ,,ut at vaster expense.
Who, -an caictll.lte t'l.at vast eTO.nseV Teil
me, ye women who wat -hed Hun hmir ; tell
rue, ye ex, -. lit..,,,, rs woo lilted an I let Him
iuwu . tell thou sun that di.ist hide and
re rocks that did fali. what the laying out of
this garden est. This niornin--;, amid the
iroma and brn.-litr.ess of the sprimrtiuie, it is
ippropriateth.it 1 show you how the churoli
f rlirist is a u'aroen.
I reiuarn tlrst it is a garden becnusn of the
rare plants m it. That would be a strange
jur ien in which there were no tlowers. If
you cannot timi them anywhere else, vou will
find them aloiiir the path's, and you w"id llnd
Uiem at the Ktl.-w;iy.
If tliere be no .-special taste and no es
peoialmeaiis.yi.il will lind tliere tne holly
hock, and tii" .laModil. and thx dahiia. "if
there bo no c; ial t.i.j and no espeoial
means, you will tlnd tiie Mexican cactus, and
the biiii,e, n. the ar'it's, pr-d te 3i
rs of oleand-rs.
Flowers theremust be in every mrden, and
I have to teil you that in the garden of the
church are the rar-st plants. Sometimes
you will lind tiie violet, inconspicuous, but
weet as heaven Christian souis with no pre
tense, but of vast usefulness, comparatively
tinknown on earth, but to be elorious in
celestial spher,s. Violets and violets all the
time. You cannot t-11 where tnese Christians
have been save by the briirhteninv face of the
Invalid, or the steaming tureen of the stand
near the sn-k pillow, or the new curtain that
keeps out the tlare of the sun from the poor
man a cot. Such characters are perhaps iiet
ter typiiled by the ranunculus whii-n jrot-s
creeping Ujtween the tiiorna an ltue briers of
this lile, fivm? a kiss lor it stini;, and many
a man baa thought that life be lore him was a
black rock of trouble and found it covered
ail over with delightsome jasmine of Chris
tian, sympathy.
In this garden of the Lord I And the Mexl
ean oactiis, lovelin.-ns within, thorns with
out, men with irrent sharpness of behavVn
and manner, but within tnem the peace oi
God, tho love of (Jod, the ree of Ood.
They are hard men to handle, uirly men U
touch, very nit to strike back when yoo
strike them, yet within thein all lovelinesi
and attra.-tion, while outside so eompletelj
unfortunate. Mexican ca -tus all the tune.
riatd a pladil elder to a Christian minister,
"Doctor, you would do better to control yoot
temper.' "Ah," said the minister to the
p.eid pMc, i coi joi more U-uipor ,e
minuti-s than you do in five yenrs." These
people, pifted men. who have preat exaspera
tion of manner and seem to be very different
from what they should be, really have In
their souls that which commends thein to the
Lord. Mexican eai-tus all the time. So a
man said to tne years &so : "Do you thintc
I ouirht to become a memler of the church?
I have such a violent temper.
"Yesterdny I was crossing Jersey City
tarry. It was very early in the morninir. and
I saw a milkman pitttini; a lar?e quantity of
water Into his can. and I said : 'That la
enough, sir,' and he pot off the cart and in
sulted mo, and I knoeke.l hi n down. Well."
said he. "do yon think I couid ever beeo-ue
a Christian?" ThRt man find in his soul the
trace of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was
lull of thorns, and fu!l of brambles, and full
of exasperations, but he could not hear the
story of a Saviour s mercy told witho.jt hav
ing the tears roll down his cheek. There was
loveliness within, but rousrbness outside,
mlexican cactus all the time.
But I remember in boyhood that we had in
our father's tiardi-n what we called the Giant
of Battle, a peculiar rose, very red nnd very
fiery. Suirgeetive flower. It was called ths
Olant of KattlA. And so In the irarden of th.
Lord we find that kind of flower the Pauls
and Martin I.ut hers, the Wyelifs, the John
Kniijud jri.-ints of Kittle. What in other men
Is a spark, in thm is a conflagration. When
they pray, their prayers take Are ; when they
suffer, they sweat trreat drops of blood : when
they preach, it is a pcutc.-ost ; when they
flifht, it is Thermopylas ; when they die,
ft ts martyrdom (riants of battle. You say,
"Why have we not more of them in the church
Of Christ at this time?" I answer your ques
tion by askin? another. "Way have we not
ttoreCrora wells and Humboldts in the world?"
God wants only a few (riants of battle. They
4o their work, and thev do it well.
But I find also In the church of God a
plant that I shall call the snowdrop, very
beautiful, but cold. It is very pure pure us
the snowdrop, i-eautiful as the snowdrop
and as cold as the snowdrop. No special
sympathy. Tiiat kind of man never loses
his patience ; he never weeps, he never
Sashes with tauter ; he never otters a rash
Word. Always cold, always precise, always
passive beautiful snowdrop, bnt t don't llks
nim. I would rather have one Giant of Bat
tle than 5000 snowdrops.
Gtve me a man who may mnke some mis
takes in his ardor for the Lord's scrvioa
tat her than that kind of nature which spends
fcs whole life In doing bat on thing, and
that Is keeping equilibrium. There are snow
drops in all the churches men without any
sympathy. Very (rood ; they are in the
garden of the Lord ; therefore I know they
ought ts be there, Srif ahvuvs snowdrops.
You have seen In some places perhaps a
antury plant I do not suppose thero is
snea in this aouss who has srsr aoon doi
than one oentnn, ni.-t . .. . .
when you see th. wntu d
tions are sttrreZ You Sof t.ul ' -
lor a whole century, and tt will T 7
r 'another h "ej 7elr." W1?
have to tell you that lnthl. 5 1
church, spoken otto my Uxt UreV' It'
tury plant. ' Wan oen-
J ,(tRth.or6d "Pto bloom from n th.
Cnnst, a crimson flower blnnH . T.W
and blood on the leSSftb. Z&ion flow?f
0wi1; ithtCeUiSr7 plaut of eternity oml
.I?'1 f!om tbe nortn- ai wtods from thi
outh and winds from th. Lid
this flower throoh all KacKu. " "
' s!.W.Vr," ""Nioons knew.
S-ar. the wool, earth would lor. Bm toa
Thou, the Christ of all the a,res, hast rar
ments stnellm of myrrh and aloe,
sia out of the ivory paiaoes. eaa"
I KO further and say the ohureh of Christ
ta appropriately compared to a irarden be
ca.. of ,t thorouB-h irrigation. There cat
be no luxuriant garden IM,U plen.ruf
water. 1 saw a garden In th. midst of the
desert a:wd th. Kocky mountains. I said.
How is it possible you have so man?
flowers, so muoh rich fruit, in a desert for
miles around?" I suppose soma of you hav.
soen those gardens. Well, they told me they
had aqueducts and pipes reaching up to th.
hiils, and the snows melted on tha Sierra
Nevada na l the Kooky mountains and then
poured down in water to those aqueducts
"f " .kept the fields In Kreat luxuriance
d "ft or Chr-'-M1 i?,mJ''"-how the t.
, , , ?' ! AU "round it Mi. barrenneii
of sin and the barrenness of th. woTS Tout
our eyes are nnto the hilta. from whenS
oometh our help. There i.' a river ?h.
streams whereof shall make glad the cttr of
frnm ?'-ilh" fUn,,n-n of Pn,an,irreami
from Lebanon. Water to slake the thirst
ZTV?rlt''y thB ",lntin'f' ""ter ,o wUh
" lMn' w'" t toss up in fountain,
under the sun of rurht-.ansnes, ,lntil vou can
e. ...c re..i',ow around the throne "
. "''"j'r"11 in,a 'nr,1"n ' Brazilian cashew
nut. and 1 saw the luxuriance of those Kar
dens was helpel by the abundant supply of
water. I came to it on a day whn strangers
were not n ltnitted, but by a strani:. coinci
dence, at the moment I got in, the king's
chariot passed, nnd the gardener went up on
the hill and turned on the water, and it cam.
Hashing down the broad stairs of stone until
suuli-ht and wave in gleesome wrestle tum
bled at my f-ot. And so it is with this garden
of Christ Even-thing comes from above
pardon from above, peace from above, com
fort from above, sau.-tiilcnUon from above
Streams from Lebanon. Oh, the consolation
in this thought ! Would God that the garden
ers turned on the fountain of salvation until
the place where we sit and stand might
become F.lini with twelve wells of
water and threescore and ten palm trees. But
I hear His sound at the garden gate. I hear
the lifting or the latch of the gate, Who
comes there? It is the Gardener, who passes
in through the garden gate. He comes
through tlis path of the garden, and He
coni.-s to tiie aged tnau, and He savs "Old
man, I come f) help thee ; I come to
strengthen thee. Down to hoary hairs I will
, shelter thee ; I will give thee strength at the
time of old a-.'e. I will not leave; I will
never fors il-e thee, peace, broken hearted
old man ; I will be thy consolation forever."
And then Christ, tiie Gardener, comes up
another path of the garden, and He sees a
soul in great trouble, and He says, "Hush,
troubled spirit ; the sun shall not smite thee
1 by .lay. nor tne moon by night ; tha Lord
! snail preserve thee from all evil ; the Lord
j shall preserve thy soul." And then the Gar
I den"r cornea up another path of the garden,
i nnd He comes where there are some beautiful
I buds, and I say, "Stop, () Gardener ; do not
I break tl.em o f." But He breaks them off,
; the be.nitilul bu Is, and I see a great flutter
; among the leaves, and I wonder what lie is
doing, and He says "I do not c.me to
destroy thi-sc flowers. I am only going to
. plant them in a h'gher terrace and
, in the garden around My pal
j ace. I have come into My garden to gather
lilies. I must take back a whole cluster of
1 rosebuds. Peace, troubled soul ; all shall be
j well. Suffer the little children to come unto
Me and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven." Oh, glorious Gardener
: of the church ! Christ comes to it now, and
, He has a right to come. We look into tbe
face of the Gardener as He breaks off the bud,
and we say : "Thou art worthy to have them.
: Thy will lie done." The hardest prayer a
; bereaved father or mother ever uttered
"Thy will be done."
Put you have noticed that around ever
I king s garden there is a high wall. You may
, have stood nt tho wall of a king's court anl
! thought. "How I would like to see that gar
i den !" and while you were watching the
gardener opened the gate, and the royal
I equipage swept through It, and you caught
.' a glimpse of the garden, but only a glimpse,
; tor then the gates closed.
I bless God that this garden of Christ hai
pates on all sides ; that they are opened by
1 day. opened by night, and whosoever will
j may come in. Oh, how many there are who
die in the desert when they might revel
In the garden ! How many there are who
i are seeking in the garden of this world that
satisfaction which they can never tlnd !
i It was so with Theodore Hook, who made
' all nations laugh while he was living. And
yet Theodore on a certain day, when in the
i midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse of
his own face and his own apparel in the
mirror, said : "That is true. I look just as
1 a:n lost, no'iy, minii, soui ami estate, iosi :
Ami so it was with Shenstone a! -out his gar
den, of which I spoke in the beginning of my
sermon. He sat down amid all its beauty
and wrung his hands and said, "I have lost
my way to happiness ; 1 am irantic ; I hat.
everything ; I hate myself as a mad man
ought to. Alns. so many in the gardens of
this world are loosing ior that tlow6r they
never can find except in the garden of Christ i
babvlAutial comlort will not grow
in nature', barren .oil.
All we r.n boaai till Canst we know
Is vanity and ton.
How many have tried all the fountains ef
this world s pleasure, but never tasted of th.
stream from Lebanon ! How many hav. re
veled in other gardn toheirsoul apiin, hut
never p-'icl i-' -ie flower trom the garden of
our God ! I swing open all the gates of th.
garden and invite you in, whatever your his
tory, whatever your sins, whatever your temp
tations, whateer your trouole. lhe invita
tion comes no more to one than to all,"
'Whosoever will, lot hnn come."
Tne flowers of earthly gardens soon taoe
hnr blessed be God. there nre garlands that
I ne-ver wither, and through tne grace of Christ
' Jesus we may enter into the joy9 which are
proviuea ior us at uiw nui ---.,
come into the garden. And remember, as
tne closing thought, that God not only
brings us into a garden here, but it is a gar
den all the wav with those who trust and
love and serve Him, a garden all through th.
struggle of this Uie. a garden all up the
slope of heaven.
1nireeverlas-.ini sprlni asi-tsa
And never witherinz nowars.
Diath, like s narrow stream. oiv'OS
'mat heaveniy Imil fro" utt'-
I have no f ar of what is called
for
h tin- insviict of mankind.
I Tlere is no better excels in the world
than xc-f s of gratitude.
. ....
Growling at the times will not nil
the nuTtre on your tarm.
tSticct-s." Is on the hilltop, you cannot
eet thfie without cl-nibiujf.
Tim 1 rettiest blossoms do not always
iitil 1 tbe swe -test honey.
A furce"9f ul hypocrite is never a suc
cess at enyttiing el.-e.
If it rained porridge the tl rirtless
wnulil have no spoon.
IS very thin jr ese of um melts Into
eternity without nsisance or com-
i plaint. Why does not munr ytuiy
because he Is sinful and ducorJact.
Archiinedfs sits iu histoiy crowned
! f. rever with that (f ilden crown oT
'. Hiero by means of which he discovered
! t.b law of tiuecific gravities.
Ill fares the party to hastening ins a
prey, when tinsses grow lnsoleut and
principles decay.
imh. hand of an incxoerlenced per-
' son a pen w more dangerous than a gun.
j There's crape on the door of the
' whole world.
i Do Ihey call a white He because the
! dirt shows on it so easily.
i ne who deserves nothing baa so
right to complain of anything.
Mat OK GOOD CHEEK.
Thcmgt itorm, may come to gloom the xl
" we song bird's happy lay.
rudely bow th, lovely flower,
"t were erstwhile so fair and gay.
Be of good cheer,
' The sun is near
And soon shall shin, again, my dear.
Tben shall the ,ky once more be blu-.
And gemmed with
- .us,, .weeny sing one more.
sparlin drops of rain.
""we" look lovelier than bjfura.
Be of goo J caeer,
The sun is near,
en in the darkest hours, my dear.
Though many sorrows crowd your path
As through this che useful world you go.
Though hope seems dead within your bread
And love and friendship cor less grow.
Be of good cneer.
The sun is near,
Gld just behind the clou is. my deaf. x
And sometime, when your eyes are fuU
Of tears, behold! a rainbow bright,
In all the rarest hues e'er worn
By gem or flower, shall meet your tight,
Be of good cheer,
The sun is near,
Kich in the gold of heaven, my dear.
mu iaoettbritr, ,i Detroit Fret Press.
AVERT PECULIAR CASE.
At the time it happeuoJ thirty Tears
ago I was a bachelor, living in a draw
ing room communication by foldiu
doors with tho bediootn behind it, not a
i undreJ miles from the Regent Circus
ione ol the furniture was my own save
one or two easy chairs, a writing table
and a rather shabby, dilapidated old bu-
eau or escritoire a relic of my grand
fathers, I believe, and preserved by me
as representing pretty nearly all the
property I ever inherited. It stood in
the darkest corner of the sitting room,
though near one of the two long Freur-.i
windows, I seldom went to it, using- its
numerous drawers, pigeon-holes, eto.,
only as receptacles for old receipt--, bills,
papers end a few odd accumulations ol
no value, which, for some reas-ins, 1 did
not wish to destroy. The key to its
circular top I had, with reprehensible
carelessness in such matters, mislaid for
weeks. This gave me no concern.
could look for it when I wanted it
that was enough. Other lodgers were in
the house, which was kept by a retired
butler and his wife, who, with thre
crvante, attended on the inmates.
A young man's life in London, with
out his being the least ut.i.eady, fre
quently involves him in late hours when
ue has a large circle of acquaintauces.
It was so with me, especially during one
particular season. Operas, theaters,
uppers and dances crowded so thick and
fast upon each other that, for nights to
gether, I never had more than turej or
(our hours in bed always having to be
up early. Then, by degrees, w hen I
sould turn in in reasonable time, I could
not sleep, and on this account even the
thought of a long biclit in bed gradually
became a terror to uie. The fact is, my
nervous st stein was becoming thoroughly
uastrung, though at that time I did not
know what that meant. Certainly I
never thought of it ns an illness, and
equally certain wou'd have scouted -any
dea of seeking advice about it.
In addi'.ion, another thing was worry
ing rae greatly. For the past monta or
more I felt convinced X was being
robbed. I did not possess much jewelry,
but I whs constantly niissmg certain
little trinkets and small articles. Anion:;
others a silver match box, a lnrgc croco
dile leather, gold-mounted cigir case, a
pair of gold sleeve links, a small locket,
containing soma of my mother's and
father's hair, a set of studs, a pearl
breastpin, and the like. Also a pocket
letter or card case, which I well knew
contained two 1 Scotch bank notes
unusual money, not easily forgottou. I
felt sure that with every allowance for
careless habits these and many another
similar object had vanished in the most
uuaccountable way. Search high and
low as I would they were not to be found
wywhere in my rooms.
I had lived there nearly two years
when this vexation beban, and I knew
not whom to suspect. It was horribly
awkward and most unpleasant The
landlord and his wife bore unimpeach
able characters, and I could never have
looked either of them iu the face again
bad I breathed the faintest suspiciou of
their honesty. Three other men, two of
whom I knew slightly, were lodging iu
the house, as I have said, but as to sus
pecting them of this petty larceny the
Idea was out of the question. Xo, it
must be one of the servants. But which?
One of tho three was a ltd of sixteen.
Ht was a newcomer, truly. The two
women ere in tho house when I took
up my quarters there respectable,
"elderly parties."'
I did not know what to do for the
I T.. 1 i. .. - . .
' , r 1
sible, ana even to uo tne same witu all
' my drawers, writing ta'.ilc, war-Jrohe,
etc., now, after never having previously
turned a key on auythiug, would be at
once to cast a slur on the establishment.
Besides, I never could teil exactly when
I missed this or that article, because, ss
I repeat, my careless ways had often led
me to imagine that I had lost a thing
when I merely mislaid it.
Premitly the idea occurred tome that
I would set a trap. I left a small sov
ereign purse in a corner drawer of the
dressing-table, whence I could dec'are
many trinkets and valuables had been
purloined, but thero it remained. I
1 ab if led it. rartiallv covered it with other .
. t as if by accident, or as if it had j
bce forKotteD. yet it was always forth-
cooing whenever I looked. I put a solitary
I sovereign on a corner of the mantlcpiec;
I the housemaid twice drew my attention
to the fact that the coin was still lying
there. No, nothing that 1 ever placed as
a bait disappeared. The depredations
were confined to such objects as I hadn't
been thinking about until I wanted them.
The month was August, the nights hot
and sultry and less thnn ever conducive:
to sleep. I had nothing to do that even
ing, and, although I turae I in early, it
vj with tha usual result. The clock
Ml just struck one, and I had been It
bed sinoe elevon without closing in
ryes. It wss tho old ttory; I was ac
lustomed to it. Suddenly, amid the host
Df perplexing and even awe-inspirina
thoughts whirling through one's brain
under these conditions, I remembered
that pocket letter-case containing the
two 1 Scotch bank notes. Where wai
it I I had not seen it for weeks. Afre
restlessly striving to drive away the da
' lia t0 up ,ad it ma,tercd me,
,D4 0ut 0f fce4 i ,praag. For fully aa
hour I carriad oatho auast, tut . all la
r
.Tery conceivable corner, drawer
and pocket was ransacked. The key of
the escroitoire had been mislaid, so I
could not examine that; but I knew it
contained little else but papers.
At length, entirely exhausted, irritated
ad fevered, and with the chamber cau
dle expiring with a splutter, I flung my
self on a couch in the drawing-room.
Dawn had not yet broken, but in a few
minutes, as I lay there coiled up in waf
dressing-gown, I unnpectedly fell
asleep arestlea.', dreaming sleep, full of
fantastic, weirdlike indescribable shapes.
When I awoke it was daylight, though
the room was still shadowy and obscure,
save in one spot close to the Ion z win
dow, where tbe Venetian blind was par- '
:..it j . . , . . . . '
nauy raiseu tne wmaow nearest mat
dark corner occupied b-y the old escri
toite. The bead of the couch wai to
ward the mantelpiece, but almost facing
the d'ior from the lauding on the further
side of the wall.
At the moment I opened my eyes with
a feeling of relief at having just escaped
some visionary peril, to my amazement I
saw that door slowly open and the figure 1
of a man stealthily entering it. It did
not make tbe faintest sound on its !
hiuges, nor did he with his footstep j
not so much as the creaking; of a plank. I
The light in that part of the room was j
lar too dim to allow of my seems; what)
he was like. His face was slightly
averted, also, and except that the gen
' eral looks of the man seemed to be not
altogetlu-r unfamiliar, I could not in the
least tell who he was. The first impulse.
of cuur-e, was to sit up and call out, but
for some inexplicable reason I restrained
it peraaps because the thought instantly
crowed my mind that here was the thief,
anil upon that I suppose I rapidly con
cluded to watch him, and pretenned to
bu still sleeping.
However this may be, I did not move
as I observed him creep noiselessly across
the loom to the end of the mantelpiece
farthest from that where I was lying. He
appeared not to notice me, and after
feeling for a moment between the edge
of tho looking glass and the wall by the
mantel shelf, ho took something away,
and instantly crossed back to the win
dow by the escritoire. He passed the
little gap of light so quickly into the
da.k corner that I still tailed to recog
nize him. Then I could dimly make out
that he was apparently unlocking the
lumbcrin r piee-s of old furniture, though
Hill without making the slightest sound.
'Ho' hot'' thought I, '-my fine fel
low, noiv I've caught you, have If You
have found tho key, and are going to
exercise your calling in that direction,
eht Well, there's not much that is
worth your attention there; you won't
find that a profitable hunting ground I"
i I was not long, you may depend, in
coming to a determination. While he
was still fumbling at the escritoire I
rose, and, stealing softly up behind him,
suddenly seized him by the back of his
collar. He en leavorcd to writhe out of
my grasp, but I turned him round so
quickly that we both staggered and fell
ou the floor in a huddle 1 heap together
he undermost. In tiie fall I struck I
my forehead severely against something,
probably a projecting chair. For the
moment the blow seeir.el to blind me;
but as we had rolled over into the gap
of light from the window I caught sight
of his fs:e, turned up as it was toward
mine, and I saw whose facs think you?
Wny; no other than my own ye?, my
very onn, as I well knew it in the looking-glass.
i That oae instant of amazement and
consternation in which, as by a flash, I
: made this recognition, was follo.vel by
a total oblivion of all surroadingt. Tho
face and figure seetne 1 to fade away be
neath me and to vanish with my con
sciousness. ; How long I lay prostrate, face down
ward on the floor, I know not; but in
that position I found myself when my
bewildered senses slowly returned. For
a.vhile, f course, I could lemsm'icr
nothing how I camo there or what had
brought me to such a pass. Oaly very
' slowly did the circumstances recall
themselves. What on earth did they
; mesu? My forehead was unmis
takably cut and still bleeding; indeed,
thee was a patch of congealed blood oa
the carpet plainly visible in the broad
flood of early sunlight now streaming in
beneath the half-raised blind. Had I
been dreaming? More likely I had had
a tit; anyhow, I was so utterly bewildered
that it was some time before my thoughts
became coherent. Then alarmed and
fully conscious for the first time in my
: life that I must be seriously ill or labor
ing under some mysterious mental aber
ration, I rose from the floor and sat
down in an adjtceut chair.
j As my eyes wandered vacantly around
they fell upon tho circular top of tha old
' escritoire. It was practically open.
Some one had been at it, then; that was '
! clear. That was no dream, no fancy
scarcely due to a fit, oco would think
at least, not of the sort I had tremblingly
thought of. Yes, aad there was the
1 missing key in the lock. When these
I facts had been fully broken in upon my i
cob-webbed brain, they led to but one j
I ides. Acting upou it, I pushed the lid j
' full open, nnd with the rapidity ol
thought pullc 1 out one drawer after aa
, other, aud there, in most of the n, were
j deposited a lot of the artieles and o'j-
jects I had so long missed there, in
this neglected, usless piece of old fur
, niturc? I turned them all out in a con- ,
fusion worse confounde 1 than m)
thoughts. But there they were almost
every one; cigar case, silver match box,
trinkets, locket and pocketbook contain
ing the Scotch bank note. j
Then how on earth had they come U
bo in this place? A thief would hardly
have stolen thein to conceal them thus
in my ov.-u apartments, unless unless '
and then, very reluctantly, slowly, and .
at first but vaguely, did I arrive at the
conclusion unless tbe thief was myself!
Verily, this was an alar.uing suoposi- i
tion, and confirmed my worst dread. I
must be su.Tering under some frightful,
inexplicable brain disease, for that I had
j done this thing I was wholly and totally
UUUIUKIUU1.
j For days and days, however, I toak
no action. I hesitated to breathe a word
j of the extraordinary affair to a soul. Who
would believe it? Everybody would say
I had gone out of ray mind I thought
so myself. I doubted if any doctor
would accept as veracious this wild ac
count of my dread awakening to the
truth. Yet, as I knew it to be the truth,
I set this record of it down while it was
all fresh in my memory, and eventually,
being unable any longer to bear the hor
rible suspense and perplexity ia which
the strange experience had left me, I put
it before a medical friend.
..Jo say Baipaakahit Mtoauhmant. ha
believed every word of it. Then, after
answering his endless, searching ques
tion., and when he ba 1 listened to suc'a
verbal additions to the narrative as I
eould give him, he did not d.ubt oni
single point.
"Tea," ha said, "among other m
pUcstiama, tb praJiy have bsea walk
iny i ywnr sleep aad yourself secreting
the varioBS articles front ti.ne to tira;.
The key, to wit, of th. escritoire, waicii
yea imagine to hav. beea th. objeH
takea froa behind the loociag-gi&ss, by
the fig-are yoa fancy yoa saw, hsd bean
placed there by yoar own hand. Your
raia retained soma dim perception of
ywur having done so, and the disorderel
condition of your nervous system ac
counts for that perception assuming the
stupe of a figure resembling yourself,
and ia a state of partial unconsciousness
yoa dashed upon your imaginary bur
rlar your own ghost, in fact fell and
fully restored your senses to their equi
libnum by that rap on your head. How
ever, it is enough for you if I teil you
that your nervous system is wholly
broken down, and that if yon don't takn
a long holiday, go into the country, and
for the next three or four months lead a
perfectly regular, quiet life, I won't an
swer for the conse iuencas. Ko, I shall
give you very little medicine. Fresh air,
quiet, and regularity are the only drug!
vou stand in need of."
His advice was folio we 1 to the lettet,
for I was thoroughly frightened. Thirty
years hive passed ; I have long been mar
ried, and I havo never missed a single
piece of property, largo or small, since
that extraordinary August night. A.IU
Vu- Ytar-Rjund.
Kinjs la the Aies.
The first historical mention of rings is in
the book of Genesis, and then a ring was
not a mark of serf,! ui, nor a mare orna
ment, but badge of authority. Wa
read how when Paaraoh confided the
charge of all Egypt to Joseph ha too'
his ring from his linger and gave it to
the youth as a token of the authority ha
bestotved upon him.
From pre-historic times signet ring
of silver, gold and broaia wera part of
tho apparel of tha wealthier E gyptiau,
and even tha lower orders wore riugs of
ivory and blue porcelain. Kings are not
mentioned in Homer, aad do not appear
to have been introduced into Oreeca un
til a later age, says toe Illustrated Amer
icin. Herodotus tells us all the Baby
lonians used to wear rings, and the fash
ion soon spread from tha Ent into Ea
ropo. Ia tho time of Solon every free
man in Greece wore a signet ring, either
of gold, silver or bronze. To prevent
counterfeits, a law was passed forbidding
any seal engraver to keep the imprdssiou
of any seal ring that ha hai cut for a
customer.
Rings soon became fashionable, how
ever, as ornaments, precious stones wera
engrave! in them, aud daadios wore two
or three at the same timo. Their usa
gradually cxtendo I to women, who wora
them of a-noer an J ivory. The Spartaa
rings were of iron, as consorted with tha
stern simplicity they allude I.
Tbe use of talismtuic rings appears tt
have been general amjng the ancients,as
charms against disease, personal danger,
witchcraft, etc. Medicated rings wera
also believed to cure divers complaints
and to counteract the ejects of poisons,
-to.
One-Horse Power.
When men first bejin to baenim fa
miliar with the methods of measuring
mechanical power, they often speculate
oa where tha breei of horses is to ba
found that can keep at wor! raising 33,
0,)J pounds ona foot per minute, or tha
equivalent, which is mora familiar to
soma mechanics, of raising 333 pounds
100 feat per minute. Since 33,000
pounds raised ona foot per minute is
called one-horse power, it is natural that
people should think the engineers who
established that uuit of measurement
based it oa what horses could really do.
r t the horse that can do this work does
not exist. The horse-power unit was es
tablished by James Watt about a century
ago, and the figures were fixed in a curi
cus way. Watt found that the average
horse of his district could raiso 22,00
pounds one foot per minute. At that
time Watt was employed in the manu
facture of engines, and customers were
so hard to find that all kinds of artificial
inducements were necessary to induce
power users to buy steam engines. As a
method of encouraging them Watt offered
to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot
pounds to a horse-power. And thus he
was the means of giving a false unit to
one of the most important measurements
in the world. Rider and Drittr.
Tall lliiil lin,-s.
Tall building are not of moJern ori
gin. In Edinburgh, where houses stand
ing on a declivity were higher on one sida
than the other, one is said to have been
fifteen stories altogether in height. All,
however, wera burned down in a great
fire which happened in 1700, after which
building of twelve stories in height
were substituted. Sew York JWif.
A Iry-Land Fis'i.
C. F. IlolJer tells of how, some rears
ago. a detachment of troops doing duty
in Africa came upon a live! stretch of
country, perfectly dry and devoid of the
least suspicion of moisture, yet while
they were digging holes for the poats of
their tents one of the number unearthed
a fih, dry as a chip a long, eel-like
member of the finny tribe, coiled in a
ba!l,seeming!y encased in a mud cocoon.
The fish was supposed to be mummified
and was taken as a curiosity. Finally,
after the lapse of several weeks, it fell
into the hands of a naturalist, who placed
it in water. The mud of the cocoon
slowly dissolved; the fish gave a gasp
and was soon swimming about at a lively
rate. Here was a singular example of
a fish living out of water. It belonged
to a group known as "lung fishes," the
member) of which have the peculiar
faculty of migrating overland and of
being able to exist not merely for dt7S
but for months out of the water. At
certain seasons the small lakes and
ponds of the "Dark Continent" dry up,
and, were it not for some provision
which enables these fishes to live through
this dry season it is evident that they
would have long since become extinct.
Ia this case, as in ail others where nature
is interested, provisions have been mads
by which this curious fish either creeps
overland to other streams or lives in a
semi-desiccated state until the return of
the wet season. St. Louis Bspublie.
Cotton waa first exported In 1785.
"WAITING FOR THE ANGELS.
BT MABQARET E. 8tXOSTBn,
Waiting through days of fever
Waiting through aights of paia,
Fi,r tha waft of wingv at the portal.
For Me sonnd of songs immortal.
And tha breaking of life's long chain.
The tai-ks that so often taxed her,
The children she held so dear,
1 he strain of the coming and going-,
The stress of the niendiug and sew
ing. The burden cf many a year.
trouble her now no longer.
She is past the fret and care.
Ou her brow is the angel a token,
Tbe look of a peace unbroken.
She was never before so fair,
l'on set, she is waiting tbe angels.
and we we are standing apart.
For ns there are loss and sorrow;
For her is the endless morrow,
and the reaping time of tbe heart.
FOLLOW.
BT CT.ARA THWAITES.
Follow the pong-bird's flight
Into the far-off bine.
Caroling up the height
in its ecstasy, but who
May follow tbe spirit upon the road
Which leads to tha realms of joy and
God?
follow the river's flow
Unto tbe wide, wide sea;
There the white sails come and go.
And the winds blow fresh and free.
But who may follow the souls that
move
Into the ocean of God's dear love?
Whither tbe rivers come,
Thither the rivers turn.
And the spirit ior its home
In the heart of God doth yearn;
For tbe children of God can only rest.
In fulness of joy, upon His breast.
3GIXG TO THE GREAT FAIR.
Of conrpe every one who can visit
.he rreat Fair will do so. And in or
ler that all onr readers may have ex
traordinary lacilities we have made ex
raordlnnry arrangements which may
ie fouud apon an other patre. But
hot is Lot what we wish to talk about
nst now. Neither are we at present
x nrerni'd aliout the routes we shall
'she; rather are we interested in the
tmount and kind of Daggage which we
.ill carry.
There are, first of all, two points to
e settled: Wbat we can do without,
tnd wLat we mnst have.
Very obviously we can do without
Inery of every description. Jn all the
uuUitiides that will tbroiig the great
t hitr Citt, there will not be one jier
ton who will care, or, probably, know
inything that any visitor may choose to
rear. There will be so many "ont
at dish" costumes from all nations be
neath tbe sun that none of them will
ittrart a glauce save as they may he
sonsidered objects of curious interest,
ike the other exhibits. Therefore
ivtry thing that we carry should be
nurely for service. All jewelry save
that which is plainly useful should be
eft at home. A wutoh is now so in
lispeueable that it no longer ranks as
in article of luxury; neither dj sleeve
inttons, collar buttons, a plain, strong
aroocb, a wedding ring, or a single
watch guard. But ntckluces, rinrrs,
oractdets, or ear-rings, aro all o nioch
iniierfluons bother. The police ar
rangement at Chicago may be ever so
sxcelleut, bnt there will be theivea
nongh to outwit them if people are
nil v enough to provide the bait.
Chicago is said to be a very hot City
n summer time, therefore we shall
seed thin under-clo'.bing, though sl
it ays of wool. It is also liable to very
Hidden changes of weather and to high
winds, therefore we shall need some
sxtra clothing. To carry the things
really essential we shall need either a
rery large valise, or a small trunk.
The latter is best Ix-canf e that we shall
save to give to the btipgage express,
ud we might be tempted to carry the
ralise, notaithstanding that every un
necessary fatigue must be carefully
(voided.
A woman who spent a week at the
Centennial F.X csition in Philadelphia
in 1.H7G is ftoinr to Chicago in Jcne,
snd tells us her plans based on ex
perience. " I shall take," she says, " a steam
r trunk, such as passengers to Europe
ase in their staterooms. It is small
enough to be light and portable, and
to slip nnder the lied in case of my
being i'b e to get only a small room.
In this trunk I shall pnt a change of
night wear and of light woolen under
clothing, together with a chamois-skin
nnder-waist, and a knitted-wool divid-ed-skirt,
as extras for unseasonably
sold weather. I shall take as many
pairs of stockings as I intend to stay
jays, and each shall be of beat
make, without seams or darns
to vex the feet. 1 shall wear soft,
I'ght, flexible shoes, and take an extra
peir in the trunk, wearing one pair to
day, and the other to-morrow alter
nately. A pair of shoes that lias rested
over a day ia easier for the feet. These
shoes must not be old enough to be
shabby, of course, but woe to the poor
wretch who attempts to wear new
ones! A i air of the softest and th lu
cent rnbber shoes goes also into the
trunk. An uml rella that may answer
for either sun cr rain I mutt take in
my hand.
"I have bonglit a water-proof cloak
of fine English crevelette, and ehall
wear it as a duster or rain cloak as may
be necessary. A cloth water-proof has
many advantages over one of rnbber.
Besides this I shall bav a light-weight
dark-bine cloth jacket, or cape.
"I have two dresses, one of a light
weight cloth in a shepherd's plsid; the
other a black surah silk, made with
two waists: both thin, but one Hack
and tbe other white, or of some light
color. If the weather bo very hot
they will prove Tery useful. Of course
no neat woman will go without a good
supply of linen collars and cuffs. All
rnchings wilt into a dingy melancholy
in an honr or two on most Leeks in
warm weather, and no smonrit of vari
form trimmings will atone for the want
of something white about the neck and
wrisls.
"1 he hat or bonnet shall be as small,
ss light of weight, and as inconspicn
ons as possible, not only for my own
sake but for that of my neighbors, all
intent upon s elng something more in
teresting than my head-gear. For sim
ilar reasons my skirts shall be short
and take np as little spact as possible.
"As kid gloves are an affliction in bot
weather I shall w.-ar silk, taking half a
dozen pairs so that I may be always
freshly gloved: a little point of dainti
ness which I Always claim as my privi
lege. The supply of plain, large-sized
handkerchiefs should be abundant.
Their nses are manifold.
All these things are perhaps no more
than every one will think of and not
nearlv so manv aa the inexpertnoed
traveller wonld deem neeeaaarr bnt X
ball add to them several things that
only an 'old oampuigner" would re
nitmlxr. "Of course we must take tire usual
toilet articles and to their number
shall add a rubber hot-water-bag; an
alcohol lamp aith alcohol enough, to
fill it twice; a small saucepan; a bottle
of malted milk, a bottle of Bovonme.
or tome other favorite extract of beef;
a toaf-poon and a teacup. When ona
is "tired to death" there is nothing so
refreshing as a cup of bot beef-tea, or
milk, and to get such things at the
times when you most need them, even
in an ordinary hotel in an ordinary
time, Is not easy. In the midst of the
prefigure of such days as these Chicago
days will be sure to be, will he nearly
impossible. With these restoratives,
and the means to prepare and serve
them ready iu your trunk, much dis
comfort may be spared and perhaps an
illness prevented. A tiny French
coffee-pot ard a pound or so of finely
ground coffee, or a few ounces of tea,
iu an air-tight jar, would provide an
excellent restorative for coffee or tea
lovers.
A half a dozen towels may be founC
useful In illness, also a yard or two oi
flannel; while a heavy blanket shawl
may be serviceable in several ways. In
addition e shall also take a few simple
remedies, such as camphor, essence ol
peiiperniint, paregorio and quinine.
Others will doubtless prefer other
thiugs; bnt all will do well to carry a
small sa, ply of such remedies as they
are accustomed to rely upon for suoli
emergencies as a sodden chill, an at
tack of sick headache, or one of aonte
indigestion, or a sudden cold. Ihese
ailicouts being those to which over
fatigue, rapid changes of temperature,
or irregularities of food, render peo
ple most liable.
How to prevent illness we shall con
sider in another paper.
Helen Evertso Smith.
PERSONAL.
Mps. A. D. T. Whitney, the novelist
is a sifter of George Francis Train.aud
that one letter in her superfluity of ini
tials stands for her maiden name.
Lrcr Laroom, who has just died in
Boston, began her literary career while
a mill girl in Lowell, and this is said to
have 1-een the inspiration of tbe most
familiar of ail her poems, "Hannah
Binding Shoes." She was a warm per
sonal friend of Phillips Brooks and
Whit tier. It ia said B shop Brooks had
a letter from I er while on his death
bed, and said "he wished he could go
and comfort her."
Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, widow of th.
late I'resident of the Pennsylvania
liailroad, with two of her children and
a party of friends, will sail from Phila
delphia in a few days for a three years'
tonr around the world in a private
yacht.
Lady Henry Somfrset and Mtsa
Will a rd have accepted invitations to
speak at the World's Congress of Relig
ion at the Chicago Exposition, Sept.
11 snd Lady Henry's subject ia
"The Christian Oemo.Tacy," and Miss
Willard's, "Christianity snd Woman,'
also "Religion and Purity.''
Mrs. Olive Titornb Miller, the
well-known writer on birds, did not
know one bird from another till she
was past middle age. She receive 1 a
visit trom a friend who was on enthnsi
aslio ornithologist. To entertain this
lady, Mrs. Miller took her through
Central Park, New York, and Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, and made with her
various excursions to the suburbs. It
was while trying to prove a sympa
thetic companion to her bird-loving
friend that her own intere t was awak
ened. Her ardor and knowledge grew
constantly, aud tn-dav she is an ao
cep ed authority on all matter concern
ing tne feathered species. Mrs. Miller
starts this spring on a trip to Utah,
California and Yellowstone Park in
pursuit of her favorite study.
Pit, Frances C. Van Gaskkn has
been appointed Assistant Medical In
8ector to the Bureai of Health in
t'hiladelphia, after having passed the
two civil service examinations with dis
tinction. Mr. Hakrison is the only surviving
ex-President of the United states; Mr.
Morton is the only l.vmg person who
has occupied the ofCoe of Vice Presi
dent. Mrs. Maroaret Bottoms, president
of the International Order of Ring's
Daughters and Sons, is a descendant of
John Wesley. She is the Wife of a
Methodist minister aud has two sons
who are Episcopalians, which perhaps
aocounts in part for the breadth of her
views.
Mks. Bradley-Martin is the owner of
the crown once belonging to Marie
Antoinette. This is a velvet cap with
the insignia of royalty enblazoned upon
it in precious stones.
One of Charlotte Bronte's most inti
mate friends. Miss Marv Taylor the
Rose Yorkeof "Shirley " and the "M."
of Mrs. G.isk ill's "Life" has just died
at the age of seventy-six.
The first scientific medical journal
ever issued by women wiil be published
in Ohio. All the work will be done by
Women.
A mono the notable gatherings tha.
will assemble at Chicago this yesr will
be a meeting of the Wsman's Dental
Association oi the United Mates. This
association was organized a year ago by
tho women dentists of Puiladelpbia,
aud now iucluaes members in all the
larger cities of tbe country.
THE RED-HOT POKER PLAN'i.
One of tbe showiest flowers for mas
sing on bill-sides or other situations to
be teen from a long distsncs is the
Red-hot poker plant, or Tritoma, thus
detcriled by James Vick iu the Jour
nal of the Poruological Society.
"The J'rifoma vcaria is a stately,
vigorous plant, sending up its strong
flower stems four or five feet in height,
snrmounted by a spike of curious red
and orange flowers a foot in length,
very striking, and by its supposed re
semblance to that domestic implement
generally known as tbe red-hot poker.
Tbe tritcma flowers late in tbe sum
mer, nsrj illy commencing iu August in
this latitude, and continuing until win
ter, an 1 is admirably adapted for form
ing large beds or g.oups, the numer
ons flame-colored racemes fo ming
stately object. The tritoma was snpa
pesed to be tender, and for some years
we removed plants to tbe greenhouse
or pit in the antumn, but lately we
have allowed nearly our whole stock to
remain in tbe open ground during
the winter, and without the loss of a
plant."
Man must have more tnaa the world
before he caa get any real good out ol
BUDGET OF FUIL
TJ3IOROrS SHUT-CUES FROM
VAKIOL'at SOUKCk.
Knocked nim Oat Striking; fo
iiorter Honrs His Xot a Sajs
posable Cass Fatal
Valor, Ktc Etc
Ct hat slain th. furious hon In Abytsin.ajj
dsMrts,
Bad faced th. royal Ben jal in the junfUs
of tne aast.
II ad cut the tnrat of polar baarsla "Qraaq
land's icv mountains." .
And dmuroe.1 a nuizry grizxly ia tha
middle of his leim
C bad fought tus pica Jermatous rbiaoo
roa ui Africa,
Had toyed witn boa constrictors la tha
wilds of :4ene;ai.
Bail .ncount. e i ta. tarantula, tha rattla
tne,p. aD i cougar.
But ne said our blaruwi mosquitoes eoul4
giva pointer to them all.
-Vrw i or If BtraltL
KOT A SUFPOSABLK CASE.
"No. Gubbins, you will never be a
brain worker."
"Why not J"
'Haven't got the tools.
STRtCTNO FOR SHORTER BOTTRS.
Harry Stayer "Have you heard the
latest. Miss Flimsy?"
Miss Flimsy "Yes, I heard tha clock;
strike twelve." iiunsey't Weekly.
He "I am resolved to live no longer
If you reject me. You you are my
'ifei Speak 1"
She "Well, I don't cara if you take
"our life, then.
FATAL VALORS
"A tough tired at a policemSU vet tew
lay with a heavy calibre revolver."'
"And what did tha policeman do
Did he arrest the tought"
"No. Ha arrested tha bullet.'1.
fun. .
FEARFCX.
"Daw'iins looks very pale and anxious
o-day."
"He is worried. He is to have a ver
oaioful operation performed to-night.'"
"What's thati"'
"He is to have a porous plaster re
moved from his back." Epoch.
"STTFFICIKNT FOR THE DAT, ETC.
Cynical Old Bachelor" What makes
Vou grin like an idiot?"
Young Happicuss "Oh, I'm the hap
piet of mortals I To-morrow I get mar--ied."
Cynical "Yes, I suppose you are tha
happiest man in town to-day." Tutat
Siftinjs.
JtrvENtbE PRECAUTION.
Anxious Mother "What in the worha
did you do during that terrible thunder
storui?" Little Dick "I got under a tree." '
"Horrorsl Don't you know a tree ia
l most dangerous place in a thunder
storm ?"
"Oh, I jumped out every time ir
thundered." Good Xetci.
CITEKRINO HINT CP.
"I nevah get an invitation to any Oi
the Flashers' parties," said Chappie.
'Well, don't be discourage!, old fel
low," said Cyuicus, "you'll g-;t ona osia
he-e days."
'You aw think sol"
'Yes. They're going to give a don
key part next week and it is almost cer
tain that they will invite you.'V
a sccca-is.
'Yes,"' said Mr. Henpecked1, "woman
Is undoubtedly the masterpieca of crea
tion." 'H"m!" said Mrs. n., "then you do
think there i- s ue goo I in woman!"
"Yes; whf n :ntn was created he wa
lonely and niedii some one to talc to
him, and woman was created for that
purpose, and she's a success."
A LBVEr. HttADti) PARENT.
A Tale College stil l ant, being hanS
up, wrote to his father in New York:
"Send me a hundred dollars by retur
mail. Ha who gives quickly gives
double."
The old gentleman repliea by the next,
mail, inclosing -$3J, wita the rein irlc that
as he had responds! promptly, the $50
inclosed were equivalent to the deir4
$100. Texas Siftingt.
JOBNNt'a BBqCEST.
"Johnny," said the humorous gentle
roan, "give me your little brother. You
don't want him any longer, and I'll make
a man of him."
"Can you do that, mister!"
"Indeei I can."
"Well, let's see you make one out of
me, quicK, before ma comes; then I'll
fool her, for she's gone after a stout
switch, and '11 be back in a minute. "
St. Louis Republic.
SAVED I
"Well, but Maul" The ateent.
minded youth was interrupted by tha
horror-stricken girl.
"Maud? My name is not Maud 1"'
The situation was desperate, yet for.
tune did not desert him.
"But, my darling Louise, what am .
coming around here for it it is not U
eventually chaage your name!"
She thought, of course, he had pre
arranged tne joka and ha thus war
saved. riiiia-ielphia Times.
MNB TN OERMAN, KOT ONE IN BTNOLrSBI
Although she was German she - spoki
English, almost perfectly, but uadoi
emotion she naturally fell into tue usa of
her mother tongue.
"Will you give me a kits, "he pleaded
gently bending over her.
She raised a startled and indignant
face to his.
"Nine 1" she exclaimed in wrathy nega
tive.
"Xine I" repeated he, stepping back
and s-azing at her in mock surprise
"Xinet I'd think myself lucky tf
could get one I" Xeis Tork Press.
IIow to Wipe the Face.
Thousands of people, when drying
their faces after washing, wipe then
downward that is, from forehead to
chin. This is a mistake. Always aa.
upward from the chin to tha forehead
and outward toward tha ear
motions. Never wipe any part of the
face downward. PAUadelta Ssctri.
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