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THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNIONAND THE ENFORCEMENT OF
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Mil. HI!. TAUIACK,
The lSrooklyn Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject : "The Song of Illrils."
T- -I-y M i f-f tt. ov'n ofTK
i hare tf.r.r ;,.j'(-,,v,( ,fft, i
; I ,r ori.-.W." I'salnw, civ., la.
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an important nnd Improving snh-
J. t n which m.
it people have p-ivn no
irnin-,' which this in the
III Inline) V .'-Th Snn.l
Ih : ::it anil con
!T-'i U.plt 'ilS-'ll-lsi
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in
.iu inni n.i, m-i-u written oniiforn-
1 y lmm.iu voice ,,r ahout music
irs:ru-n.-nt by I'm r or breath
I t.. t'-.-r. v ti l.ytv, s'.le of
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h:i t -ul
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ii woum mi a nun
hi rirc-s.
-ovis ofthe
t. I remark that which will surprise
. tlmt t.iesonir of birds is a regulated
..-fnintto S.-.U.-. onpabl.-ot Muv written
:i n .:. .m l HtaiT i.u.I bur un l clef as
;i anv-tlim,' that Warner or Schumann
:;!! ever put on r:!ir. As w t,- w k
i r H
Mi:.
the II.
ar.i tioMiriir nvit.n or
apt to think that the
an-
-x'c
:rp'inz.-it, the r.s'ii',- or lallinu
i; ; a t:i. re a-cub-nt, it is linn- up an 1
by haphamrl. th hirli'.id not know
v. it w is ,!.-in-. it did nut earo whether it
w.i.- a n.'-t.-r psalm or a madrigal. What
a !. :T;il: !
'1 nni-de' n n"vcr put on the music r.vic
1 e:..re l.im Mi lidi'issohu'H "Elijah" or liee
tl.. e., s ( ..le erto" iu fi or Spohr's li flat
;-M.p.".'!i- with inor.) cieilnitH idea as to
wic.t It ii-ib doInsMImn every l.ird that can
.it tin- s himself to accurate and
1 .- : numed r.-udcriiii'. The oratorios, the
ci,:ii.!-.tiu ,-aro.s. the overtur.s. the intor-
iu i. 0. i a.-1 ana. i-Stnecaiiticles that this morn-I'r-'
W"r- heard or will this evening be
!:. ..r i in the forest have rolled ,:, through
t:.e a -r.-s without a vnriat.-'a. Even the
cm; :i. unkV sotu.- was or.la.n -a clear back In
the .teruiti'.s. At thelitis of paradtsa it
s.ui-r iu senil is like the syllables "Kulc !"
i.ii'. V "Kuk !" just as this inorniuir in a
I.. : l-ltivel orchard it sanir "Kuk !" "Kuk !"
"hi.., .'' 1 he thrush at the creation ultcrel
ui.:i i- like the word "i'cachcr"" "rea-her !"
i. i i ri' as cow it utters sounds iike
"'i '.'."r '." "Teacher 1" "Teacher1"
In tic- iitnmer of tho year 1 the yellow
h.iti. r tr.li.-d that which sounded like "If !"
"lii' "If i ' as in this sunimer it trills "1( !"
it '' 'if:" The Maryland yellowthroat in
h r.ts ,i, 1 l e.ji-eaths tan tuno Boundin--; like
t:i w r 1- "T.iy nie, pity me, pity me!" The
i-arr.iws "ls.)ep, tsccn ' wot.o our
T iii liathers as it will awaken our jrroat
hildr. n. The "Tee-ka-teo-ka-tec-ka''
nr.n.
t-f t;
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i ir is m tlio hrst eetitury wis the sitno
le,.-ka-tee-ka-teo-ka" of iho uiue
i c.-i.tury.
-"I. Hindi !:as tul' COOO years r.oen
' 'l'"-r'''--dee-e-ri " "l;ut tllcse
-. which we put in hnrh wor is,
I it in ca l..-n. .-s, rnythuue, 6.)u!fui
i.r.ipturiuir. Now if tnero is this
ti:-y
iud
ii cr nu. I sc. -:. triatiy..ui(.u huI rhythm
i.i. t!ir..i.h liujj ci-eatcm .iocs it not
Iti.piy tt.at we should havo the s-uue
cL.ir.i -ten-tics in the m i-l-i w,i u.a';., or
try to Uiiiiu? Is it not a wic.i.-.in.'-s that
i?.. ti.iiuy parents i;iv.) no opponun.ty lor tae
a. tare oi their childreu in tlie art "of siveet
suan i '! If God s-tcops to educate every blue
I ir.i, oriole und -.-ro-tbt-aic i" sons,', ho can
parents be so in lillerciit about tae musical
development of the ii-irnortais in lhi-:r tuibt-L..M.-
We want a hemispheric campai;-n of hos-in-luis.
t roiu hearing a bliu-1 bei;olir .., ji.lr.
tin Lut ti. r went hoiiu ut lorty years of a,'c
to write his Ilr-,t liymn. In the nuiuniu I
hope to have a coucrei;atioualsini.-iu school
here durini; the week which snail prepare
tne people for the sunits of tuo hoiv ,-uii-ba:h.
If the church ot Uod uuiversal'is o
lui; to take this world for rii;l;teou.-aess,
there must be added a hundredlold oi more
harmony as well as a hundredlold of more
volume to sacred music.
Further, I notice in tho son"; o bird
that It Is a divinely taught tone;. inu
rarest prima donna of at the eartn could
not teach the robin one musical note. A
Unlisher llyinif over the roof oi a tem
ple a.paake with harmonies w-juld not
catch up one melody. iron tne time
thu. the llrst bird s tnrout was fashioned
on the banks of tho tiihon and liiddeel
until to-day on tho lingua or limn the
winded creature has learac-i uothiin;
lrom the human race in the way of c.irol or
Huttieim The feath -red boii-sters learned
ml their music, direct from li.id. He uave
lie-in the art in a nest of stnw or u.o.-s or
tti -ks and taught them how to li.'t tiiat sou
into the higher heavens and sprinio tae
i-.irth w.th its dulcet enciiantmcnis. (iod
fushlone-l, God tuiiei, liod lauucnea, Goi
lifted music! Audtuer.Msa kin 1 of mu-i
taat ttie .Lord only can i:ii.ai-t to you, my
i-'iir.-r.
ti il-rs like that whl'-h r.i'il eo:irnended to
the t oi..-ssians when he said, "A liiion.sn one
an -trier in i-saims and iiymin an 1 sp.r.tuai
.-iii-in-r, witu -.'race in your Uearts. to
the i.- rl." boni-s like M-ises s.iu' aitcr ue
tr ir.'.!y of the lied S'-a, soncs like i'eoorah
uti I parak s-iai; at ttie overthrow Oi M.-B.ral
fc--iis like i.-aiah heard tlie ri-'.P eaicU s u as
La catiie to Zion. un. (io l, teacn us taut
km 1 of eon which Tliou ou.y can-i tcacu
un 1 he;p us to sin.: it on eartn nu 1 sin,- it in
heaven. It was tne highest read. I ot seel
t-iiitid when under tho playin,- oi l'a.-;..nini
ene auditor exelaiin.-'d reverently, "U:i,
liod 1" an-1 anotaer soid'ed out."U:i, Cnr.st !''
Fur. her, 1 remark in regard to tno soti- of
tir is tliat It is trustiul an 1 w.th jat auy iear
ol what may yet come. Will you, led me
how i; is t.os-iolo for tti.it W.---U. mat s-tiar-
row
III--V
I. an s
that chickad' '. . " sin-' - sweetiv waen
::.. niiv tune be pnun'el unonbva
an I t. .ra win"; fr-.)'u winr? T.e-re are
'.-ak.s in tiii.-k.-t and in sky rea Iv to
;:' s .it.-- l.ir.'.s. llero.U oil the v.-inc.
- tho sky. Assa.-sins armed with
av Murderer- of Sfiiii; lloatin-; up
' : nth" heavim. How can tho birds
in i I .-u h p ri'.s besides that, how 1
ir l -urc f t.-et fno-l? .Millions of birds
I --.-n starve 1. y.-t it sinirs in the dawn
:t any eert-iinty of l-rcakfast or dinDei
i . r. Woiiid it not be better to gat'iii
1 f- r the day before voealizin-.
!.! s that, the hunters nre l-ro-id.
1 t a sun in one direction. Dan-r!
a Loin in another direction. The song
1'T.i 't tlie shot and add to the peril.
- ..very bird a thousmd perils nnddisas-
v- rim.-and sweeping round and roumL
r- it .-in-s, and it Is a trustful soncr.
.r ltliat has it tlie har-l.-st litm tiie
-t. The lark from tho shape of hei
' iv not perch on a tr.'e. In the irrass
sT . . p.-scd to every hoof that passes.
'' t i r-'st shelters of all fie earth is
i"-. s i.er. If she s n"s at ail, you will
t '.--r to r"ti l.-rthe saddest of "threno.
N i.o. ilie simrs -xultini:iy cn hour
it a i nns- au-1 mounting 3uyj'ieet with-
- a hot...
" i . r. in ;iio pril!cr:c-i there nre
t'attc.l to all moo Is. The meadow
- i:.-.iirnful, and the irol.Ulnch joyous.
' er. -,i.eak prolonged of Rote. llat
" tto of nature is voluminous. Are
' ' V -u -au hear from tiie liower the
' o ir i:rief. Are you irlad? You can
mi .--li i of your happiness. Are
u -r! it f ul ? You can hear that
' will plunge you into deeper
1. Are you weary? You
'ii a restful air. So th son -- of
ar.- a liainistrative in all circumstances.
i i" ciid do wcil to have a IiTmno'o-ey
ii : ;. -es of condition. You may sine
v' - into pea -e and rouse your joys
- r -vt altitudes. I'pon every condition
an 1 - .ul .-t u trv tlie power of soair.
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itu luious utterances of crtrre and
r. I LMrdeti nnd forest suir-rest most
:.il p. --il.ilities.
of the n.ost deeply impressive ponies
r sm-r are familv sones. Thev have
i" 'I- '.vii fnen generation to peneration.
1 W- r ' ."lln" to bleen in v.mr itifMiieir nn.l
tlliil'lli , ! f'v soti'.q t'lat wi'lt ain In ercr rnl
fure
ii.-r.; was it, my brother my or sis
' "l lieard tlie familv Bomr on the
tan lll.-lo r.- A !..!...,....
t-r. ti ,
"c ArT-oT
Ur t!" Tw.-ed, or
or lii. Connecticut,
tho Thames, or the
i-aniali
That song at eventide, when vou
"r. tir 1 cut indeed too tired to sleep,
r e. :',J ' r' "' witil 1"? ache, und you were
'"'"-d and sung to sleep vou bear it now,
, ' j!t vi from sweet "lips, she as tired,
periiapj more tired than you, but she rocked,
Mel y.,u elumK-rc.l. ( ih, those family songs !
3 otaers, oarefui wi1;lt vou singvour
i i-.r.-n to sleep with. Lt It be nothing
t",V ''liS-L'r s'"-v' -letter have in it some
it h't r i rriat !lu l heaven. Better have in
year tf th,lt wiU hoJP t'"" bov t"irty
t-,Jji'"n uow ' ,"''lr "P "der the
t'2 nUi :1 '"'Idation. Better have in
tlunv v t ,m hnt will help that daughter
tile car 1 . m n"W WU,'U uPon uur com''
ter.-l ' motherhood and the agonies of
ho ewifrei "J1"1 Vh,e l,ru,al treatment of one
?wur?Ptt eavuu-tluit te woulJ
These famllr
were born wilui ,u!"o H, ho,u3a wUre yoS
The M,.r. ' h? 'uto '"ehanusof stranirer
(tl K(J m
ine Baraiems that
rlic will IK---,. . .u
carefully km.t as
Bible
lu-ihu caiwi
The family
, : ,', hHou ot only one
V and eutXViuerjtea'J
h lac toth
Year. S . .1 tarr"-a l t'X toe Indians,
lears a.ter. a mother who h-i.i t
dren in that T.r.,...' " iost ' chU-
hat an occasion that must have been n
asninstou December 17 lv , , " a
Liud s:.n? "Home, 1." he tulnol
of those words, Joan Howard Vavne se-Uej
oe.oreher. Sue had r.mderodhJr other la!
't.r.,.a J T nul wnea saestruei
ron?tT UomB'" J"'m vne
rose under the power.and l'resideut Fillmore
and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and th
hole audience rose with him. Auvthi"
onnecte I with home ransack! our VntS,
,wlth kcly power, and songs'thU
f i.W1U tartu'1 1" the nursery or byul
amily hearth roU on after tho Ups that Wnd
them are forever silent and tha cars that fl.-S
neara tnera forever cease to hear. ---"ti-tii2
lie careful how you treat tha birds. fo3
member they are God's favorites, and U voa
offend them you offend Him, He is so fond ot
I 1 j TO,ice9 that there f'"-ts whera for a
hundred miles no human foot has ever troj
and no human ear has ever listened. r -
Put off startling colors, which frhrhten the
winged Bonders into silence or flUrht. and
put on your more sober attire and mova
noiselessly Into tha woods farther and far-.
ther from the main road and have no conver
sation, for many a conoort in and out of doors
has been ruined by persistent talkers, and
then sit down a mossy bank ,
Where a wIM itream with hea.ttonit shocS I
Come brawuag aowo a bed ot rock. s.Z
And after perhapsa half an hour of Intense
sohru le there will be a tap of a beak on a
tree br.in ch far up, soundlio; like the tap of a
musical baton, und then llrst there will be
solo, followed by a duet r quartet, and after
ward by doxologies in all tha tree tops and
amid all the branches, and If you have a
Bible alone; with you and you can without
rustling the leaves, turn to the one hun
dred and forty-eljfhth l'salin of David and
read, "Praise the Lord, beasts and all cattle,
croeplnii things and flying fowl," nnd then
turu over quietly to my text and road, "By
thom shall the fowls of the heaven have
their habitation, which eimr omonir tha
branches," or if under tha power of the bird
voices yon are transported, as when Doctol
Voran played so powerfully on the organ at
St. John's that Uichard Cecil said he was in
such bless id bewilderment he could not And in
his Bible the first chapter of Isaiah, though
be leafed 1 he book over and over, and you
shall be so overcome with forest harmony
that yon cannot And the Psaims of David,
never mind, for God will cpeak to yon so
michtily it will make no difference whether
you hear His voico from the printed pasre or
the vibrating throat of ono of His plumed
creatures.
While this summer more than usual ont of
doors let ns have what my text suggests, an
out of doT.rs religion. What business had
David, with all the advantages of costly relig
ious service and smoking Incense on the al
tar, to be listening to the ohantrossos among
the tree branches? Ah I ho wanted to make
himself and all who should oome after him
more alert and por wori-Vriral amid tiie
sweet sounds and beautiful sights of
the natural world. Thero is an old church
that needs to te rededleated. It Is older than
St. Paul's or St. Peter's or St. SInrk's or St.
Sophia's or St. Isaac's. It is the cathedral ol
nature. That Is the church in which the ser
vices of the millennium will be held. The
buildings fashioned out of stone nnd trick
an I mortar will not hold tho people.
Araln the mount of Olives will bo the
pulpit. Again the Jordan will be the
baptistry. Again the mount tins will be
the galleries. Again the skies will be
the blue celling. A-raln the sunrisa will
be the trout door and the sunset the back
door of that temple. Again th
clouds will be the upholstery and th
morning mist the lnoonse. Again th
trees will be the organ loft when
"the fowls of heaven have their hai
itation, which sing among thf
branches." St. Francis d' Assist preached a
sermon to birds and p-onouneed a benedic
tion upon them, but ail birds prach to ua,
and their l-enedtetlou is almost supernal.
In the time of Edward IV no one was
allowed to own a swan except he were a
king'sson orhad considerable estate. Through
100 or '.iOO years of life that bird was said
never to utter anything like music until its
last moment came, and then lifting lu
crested beauty it would pour forth a
song of almost matchless thrill re
sounding through the groves. And
so, although the struggles of life may be
too much for us and we may find It hard to
sing at all, when the last hour comes to you
and me, may there be a ralinnoe from above
nnd a glory settling round that shnll enable
us to utter a song on the vngs of which we
shall mount to where the music never ceases
and the raptures never die. . -
'IVhat ts ttiat, moth'T?" "Tlie nrrun, mr !ore
He I- UoutloK tlowu ftom his uailvo srot&
No Invpil nue. no ue.tll(i ntirh
Hp U ti utluK down ty h!m-lf to die.
JVath darkens hit eve tnd unplamef bll wfcS,
Yet the iwwti-it sung Is the l&dt he slnl.
Liv. so, my cblhl. tl.sl when antb sh.i) cem
bvrnullke And ewoct. It m&y will theu luuioi"
NEWS IN BRIEF.
An uncut diamond
much like a lit of tlie J-est
lo.iks very
Kuid arab-
ic
Tlie firtt railroad, tline nii'ea
Ion?, was opened in at tumcy,
Mass.
In Kaifa? City, Mo., persons who
fall to vote at an tltcion are fined
$7.50.
A fine is Imposed m Carltrulip, Ger
many, on ieople w!.o play tl.o piano
too loud.
Minnesota gets 51,5 0,'CO a year
from tlie cross earnings of tlie mllroads
Id that Slate.
In the eleventh century both Ens-
lish and French dandies covered their
arms with bracelets.
There is a ntw automatic mall bag
rrfaisinn dplpfi that lets CO BS .' OOU as
the jioucb is touched.
In the matler of American patron
age, the West India Itlatds ate now
specia'ly favoted.
A four-year-old boy In Georgia Is
said to weigh ninety pounJs, wears a
Xo. 7 hat and a No. 0 shoe.
A bottle-corklnii machine with a
feed reservoir of corks like the maga
zine guns ii a new invention.
The emerald Improves in col r on
exposure to the light. Teails kept iu
the dark loosa thtlr lustre, but regain
it on exposure to the sun.
The Slmylon load, from Switzer
land to Italy, was built by Napoleon's
engineers in 1807; ovtr 40,000 workmen
were employe.! at one time.
The largest monolUh ever cut In
this country was quarried of grani'e in
Missouri and transported to the east on
a specially prepared train.
The delicate threads for hangin? the
ealvanomett r needles are usually made
of silk.
Many of tha meJ'rovel
were originally constructed
also, when occasion required,
churches
to serve
as fort-
arsses.
The note of hlgl.est value istied by
the Bank of tDglaiid iu the ordinary
couree of business is for $25,000.
ak2ali
will.
To do, and not to irea-n,
To be, and njt to seem.
Purpose to fulfill;
To strive in spite of pain.
Failure, disgrace, disdain
This, I think, is Will.
-JTWaVrt v. Ward, KoufA's Cooi.h,
A THEFT CONDONED.
t CEHlni'DK SMITH.
unt of the seven liouses in Pawnee
faced toward the south. Ic waa the
houso where Mrs. Dver lived. The
oiucr nouses laced tha west. Tho rail-
roau track was across the street from
these houses, with a broad plank walk
and a little unpointed box of a station.
The houses in Pawnee were all one
ttory wooden buildicgs, with the gable
ends toward tho street. Mrs. Dver'i
liouse was painted a dull red; tho Jthei
nouses were not painted.
It had been a warm day anil the sut
had shone fjlariugly on the uubrokcr
prairie, around Pawnee,.
The town was on a slight rise o.
ground. You could tee more than
twenty miles in three directions. A
narrow strip of woods broko the view
on tho north, half a milo away.
Mrs. Dyer stood in her front door anc
looked over the prairie. The railroad
track wounJaway toward the south anl
disappeared where the earth and sky
seemed to meet. The tun was goin
down and the thort thin prairie
grass looked white and gold. Tue rail
road tract shono Uko silver. There
were, no clouds. In places the blue of
the sky was so light that it was nlmosij
white. The air was cool and clear aftel
'.he warm day.
"The sun's goin down without an
fuss to-night," Mra. Dyer said, sitting
down on the doorstep. "Just droppiu'
32 the edge, like the string that held it
aad been cut."
She folded her arjas la her lap and
turned her face away from tha bright
light. She w as a small, old womau
with thin features. She wore her hair,
which was still very black, combed
smoothly behind her enra. il-.-r eyu
were black, with a keen look of resist
anco in them. This look was empha
sized in the hnc3 around her inoui-h.
Sirs. Dyer lived alone. Her son kep
i little store nud the postoflice in the
front room of one of the othet
houses. I xo years before when htr
nusoaucj naa u.rl .Hrs. uyer had come
West to bo near her son. Her son ha j
invited her to livo with them, but eho
had refused.
"You ain't got room for your own. 1
didn't come out here ti be beholden tu
anybody. I'll have my own place, and
you'll see enough of me, dodgin' in bdJ
out, as it is."
Bho had spent the greater part of tha
time watching the carpenters at work on
her bouse, during her forced stay at her
son't, urging them to work faster, and at
last in her impatieQco moved In before
they had . finished shlngUng - he wot.,
She had decided to postpone the plaster
ing until some time when she should ge
away on a visit.
The sun had gone do wn. The air was
i soft gray and very still.
"Well, I mustn't sit here gottin tht
cramps," she said, getting up from tho
stop. "I do say I ain't seen thom mover
wagons before. I wonder now if thoy'va
topped since I been sitting here. They
camped near enough I I supposo they'd
buy soino thing up to the store. Themor
ers bring in John quite a little, oil and nc.
There comes John up tiiis way. I wonder
now what's he cotuiu' up here for. What
you want, John? They ain't anything
the matter, is thoy . ' she called.
John came slowly toward her. lit
was a large man, but his clothes, which
hung loosely, gave him tho appearance
of being thin. Ho wore a loft felt bat
pulled well over his forehead. His
eyes were like his mother's la color, but
there was none of tho determination in
thom.
"Have you seen the movers campin'
over yonder' ho asked, pointing across
tho prairie.
"Yes, I just was lookin' at them when
I see you comin' up."
Well, thoy were just two of them op
to tho store, and they was evil-lookin', I
can tell you. Mwthy was in the store
and seo thom, and she would have it
you must como over and stay to our
houso to-night."
"Why, I ain't afraid of movers, as 1
tnow of."
'Sho don't want to think of you stay
In' here by yourself, and I'll own I don't
jeilhcr."
"Well, I ain't goin' to leave my bed
'caiuo some movers happen to bo camp
In' near. There's always movers comln'
and goiu'. I guess if thoy stole me
they'd drop mo when it come liht
enough to sco what they'd got."
"Well, 1 think you'd better come.
Marthy won't feel easy unless ycu do."
"I ain't goin' to be so silly,
13 please Marthy or no one. I
sin't got anythln' they want, with
out It's that money I've caved to have
tny carpet rags wove up, and they'd
aever think of looklu' In a can fur it.
It's cne of them cove oyster cans. I've
made a pin cushion that fits down Into
tho can, and sewed a cover around the
outside. You'd never know it was a can
to look at it. I seo one mido something
like It when I lived East."
"You ain't got much money in it,
iave youl'
"It's all in nickels. I've been savin
f it up for near two years. Oh, I guess
they must be four or five dollars. I ain't
counted It just lately."
"Well, I think you're foolish to staj
hero by yourself, when ynu can just as
well come over. I think you'd better
change your mind and oome along."
He turned and Went back along the
grassy road toward his own home. Ho
walked with his head bent down and
with a shambling gait. He was dreading
his wife's reproaches that he bad cot
been able to induce his mother to ccrae
baok with him. Ho did not believe there
was any real danger in IcttiDg his mother
itay alone.
4 'I guess I ain t goin to set tip lor t
toward, at my time of life," said Mrs.
Dyer. "I wonder now if Marthy really
thought I'd como!"
An express train was coming
,'rotn the south. The light from
tha engine could be seen for
iometltnd bofore there was any noise
from tine train. iTiglil had come quick
ly. Is was already quite dark.
Mrs. Dyer took off her gingham apron
tnd put "it over hor head, and stood
watching the light from the engine as it
drew nearer, and fioally when the train
had dashed by tho little station she
turned and went into tho housed' Tbxre
Mi fVrlPi?r i' -1.1 '.-li l '- --JiMiTl"" "i
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 12.
wero but two rooms in the house the
living-room and a small bedroom open
ing out of it. Sirs. Dyer went over to
the window and looked oat.
"It does bent mo how soon night
comes out here." she said; "back in
York Sate we hid a little between-time.
There's the scion shinin' away as if. the
sun hadn't only just left. You ci3 ' t3
the movers plain as if 't was day.
They're much as half a mile away. too.
They've got a bi Gre. T ain't likely
there's any more harm in them thsn
thero's in me. I'm going to get out that
money and count it. They must ba
most cno-igh ti have the carpet wove
by this time. Six dollars, they say, it'll
cost me. They never charge no sue
price e that back East." - k
The can in which she kept the mono',
vas on a shelf behind the stave. She
kcuI uer and took it down, and taut
sit doft iu an old rocking-chair, ni,'.
far frota the winl .v. The moonlight
shone in brightly. She took tho cushioi
out of tha top of tho cii and cmptieJ
the money into her lap. Thero was
uite a pil j of it.
"Ono would think there was con
sidurable more'n there is, to look at it,"
she said, fingeriu1; fio money. "If yott
:oulu call t'aes pieces dollars Vi 1 oi
nickels, 1 would be. Miht as well say
five-dollar pieces while I'm about it, J
suppose."
She bngan couutiu ; the money, drop
,)iug each piece into t in can as sue dui
so. Shu enjoyed the sound of the money
rattling. Two or three times
she forgot li t count, and emp
tied it back into her lap and !:
sgain. Suddenly sua started, ; ;..uriug
the money up in her 'lr- -i. She went
over and looke.l on; u. tho window.
The prairie was tin Icd with moonlight.
Tho light from the tire in tho mover's
camp lit up the whito canvas-covsre J
wagons. Everything was perfectly still,
Sho went over an l hic'ced the dour.
"It must hava been a cloud passing
ver the moon. They nrn't any chance
of a person's gettiu' out of sight as quiclt,
unless ho just went round the house."
tsho stood 1 steaing for some time
'It is all my imagination, I'm goiu
to put tho money right back and go to
bed. They ain't no such great rash
ibout its being ounteJ, anyhow."
She sat down and put the money care
ullyback iuto tho can. She did not let
it fall in this time, but put each pieca in
carefully, countio it us sho did so.
'There, they s hve dollars and hrty
ive cents, 'in ist enough," huldiug tue
cau betweeu her hands and looking to
ward the shelf nui then toward the win
dow. "Xow I'm goin' to bod. I ain't goin ,
x be so silly as to think any one's goin'
to get It. They'd never think of lookin'
in this can anyhow. They'd never know
it was a can."
She put It back on the shelf, thci
.urned and looked quickly to war! the
window, trem'o'.ia
"Well I didn't think I was so silly
'jut teems like I sco somcbod? goto' by
that window again. " I hadn't any busi
ness countm" the Ji-acy uuZ ijiaV.'i
about it. That's what's upset ma. If I'd
lit the lamp and put down the window
curtain and gone to bed in a natural way,
I'd been all right."
Sho lit the lamp and drew down tht
;urtain. It was a d.irk-green paper
shale. Then she went into the little
bedroom, undrctsc l quickly, blew out
the light, and got Into bed, leaving th-j
Joor into tho other roo.n open. S ie dii
not go to sloop, but lay there listcniug,
the fear growing every niiuuto stronger
iu.1 more beyond her control.
Once she sat up and looked out into
.he other room. Tacu sho got up an 1
pulled aside tha cjrtai.i iu hor little bed
room and looked out. The moon had
gono under a heavy cloud and the night
was growing dark. She could see the
other houses of tho town from this
window. Thero was a light burning in
tho back room of her sou's house. It
save her a wonderful seuso of security.
3ao went back to the bed and was soon
islcep. Some timo near one o'clock she
woke suddenly nnd sat up iu bed. The
wind was blowing arpaud the house and
it vras raining.
"Thare, that rain trough ain't put up,
io's I'll catch any water in that barrel!
The tubs ought to be put out, too. I
ain't had any soft water to wash with I
don't know when."
All tho fear that sho had in the even
ng was gone. She began to think 0.
nutting en her clothes and going out to
placs the tubs. As she sat therd ia bod
the window In the other room was opened
softly. A spool of thread that stood on
the upper casing fell to the floor. She
heard the greon paper shade give way
then she knew that some one was in tha
room.
'Well, I wonder if I'm going to set
lore stiff and let them take that money,"
sho thought. "Just as like as not
they'd kill mo if I'd interfere. They no
ioubt have their weapons ready."
Everything was perfectly still for soma
,ime. Then sho heard the movement of
toraa one crossing the room.
"Sounds as if they was makm straight
'or that shelf I They are! I cau feel
iheir hand nioviu' risht along the shelf
toward it!"
She Sprang oat of bed and shut tht
ioor between th j two rooms with such
force that the house trembled. At that
minute tho can containing tho money
fell with a crash t i the floor. The coins
dew in all directions. Mrs. Dyer partly
opened tho door and looked out. In
the dim light she could seo the form of
a man. Ho ha I one hand on the win
dow-sill ready to spring through th
pen window.
"If vou've got any of that money, you
drop it!" Mrs. Dyer screamed, forgetting
all fear and coming out into tho room.
"Don't you leave this house till you
drop every cent you stole '."
Tho man disappeared through tht
window. Mrs. Dyer went and looked
out. She could see mm for a suort
distance running across the prairie. He
was coing iu the direction of the war-
ons. cne put aown tue winao.v ana nc
the lamp and dressed. Then sho found
a nail and fastened the window securely.
After this was done she got down on her
hands and knees and began creeping
around the floor, pickikg up the scat
tered money. It was a long and diffi
cult task. The money had rolled and
hiuden itself in every conceivable nook
and crack in the room.
At last she gave up the scare's. She
sad found all but six of the pieces, and
these she decided the man must &otve
taken. Her loss could not have troubled
her more if it had been her entire hoard.
"To think of my staudin' in thcra and
iettin' him pick it up after I'd scared
him into knot-kin' it oZ the shelf I As
loon as it begins to get light I bolievt
- Wlf - i m. i -i'-' -y -
I'll go down to the wagon and make him
give it up. Like 's any way he'll hi'.ch
right up and get ol without waitin' for
it to be light.''
She decided that it would not do tu
.is k the safety of too money in the can
gain, and after c mating it tho seco-i I
ame, she ti-i 1 it into an old stocking-le
tad buried it in the depths of tho papcr
ag bn j that hung behind her bei-rauui
J-ior.
"There ain't any use goin' to bed aait
jow; it 'ill soon bo mornin. I bclievo
I'll 1oj'.c over those beans I'm goin' to
coo'.c, nnd then get tho carpet-rags
uo vn out of the loft an 1 look them over
and see if they're in a condition to scad
aw ly. I half believe I'll take them over
to tdo woman to-morrow or noxt day
ind not w"l to save up the rest of tho
money the way I begun. Or perhaps
ihe'Il wait for the ba'ance."
The morning was clear, an 1 the s n,
which came early at that timo tf tlie
rear, lit up the wet prairie-grass and
made it dance and siiarkle like jowe's.
Mrs. Dyer waited impatiently for tho
irst light to see ii t.ii movers had broken
camp. When it came she saw that they
were still there, though cvi lently makiug
lreparations to go.
It was broal daylight w'aeu Mrs
Dyer put on her sunbonnet nnd starve I
serosa tho prairio toward the wagons.
Her courage had nearly fors I'tcn her,
tad at ouo time she bad given up tho
idea of going at all, but when she saw
that they were getting ready to g the
scne of her loss was too strong to let
'.ut remain.
It was a longer walk to tho wagons
;han she had thought. The prairie
grass was still very wet and draggled
her dress. Sho wastirod after tho long
night, and before she had reachod tho
wagons sho wished she had not come.
Sho found tho men hitching the horses
There were two of them. The one
woman of the camp was sitting up in
one of tho wagons, ready to go. She
wus very thin and looked sick. Hor
bluo calico sunbonuct hung loosely
ibout her face. Sho looked so weak
nd childliko thit it went to Mrs. Dyer's
heart.
"Good mornin!" s'-.e s.ii I, lo ';in
irst at the men a : 1 t'l : i at tiie wo.ni i.
Xo one made any reply. Tue woman
.onked at her ubsently with palo blue
sye.
" Voa"re sicic, nia't you J'' Mrs. Dye.
aid, eoing to tho side of tiie wag u.
" 1'es, 1 be," she sud, in a whining
.one, h irJ'.y losing at her visitor.
What's the nutter with youi I should
aot taiuk you'd be travelia' over 1 10
country this way when you ciu't harily
s.t up."
"That's what we're travlin' for. Jefl'w
.aking me out to Arkansas Springs. Tuey
say it'll cure me I don't believe it will.
Wo've got out of money and I don't get
enough to eat. I feol like I'd die before
I get there. I wish I would, I get so tirel
ridin' all day."
The other wagon with ono of the met
lad started. The woman's husband
went around to the. other aido of the
rrg52 and spr-; in, sitting down be
side his wife.
"Stop your giabhiu' to everybody tha.
:omei alongs'de of tho wa.'on," he said
roughly, nnd taking u; the lines he
started off across the pruiuu aflcr the
other wagon.
Mis. Dyer etood watching then for i
ninute, and then walkel slo.vly back to
ward tho house.
"To think of that sick woman ridin
;lear out to Arkansas Springs to get
well, and they out of money and her
join' huagryf I dcclaro I feel as if I
ought to mado them wait and give her
ever cent of that carpet money. I'll
never look at that rag carpet but I'll seo
just how sick nnd hungry she looke I. I
half belicvo I wish he'd stole it all."'
The Ctntury.
SmuzglcrV Paradise.
Talk about smuggling! The Saadwico
Islands is the placo for big risks and big
profits. I have run opium in thero an l
told every speck of it at $ IS a pound.
A. few cargoes at t';at rate, and the Mug
gier has a fortuue. Tho trouble is,
though, that collusion with the Hawaiian
customs officials is almost impossible.
The native officers, as well as the whites
in the service, arc practically Incorrupti
ble It's uot so because the puuishment
for such an oftenso is severe, but because
the standard of honesty amoagtho island
revenue officers u ro narkably high, sayr
a San Francisco mau.
You see tho importation of opium intc
.he islands is not subject to a high duty,
as here, but is absolutely prohibited.
That's why tho proats are large.
Speaking of the risks, there is a San
Franclscoan who kno.vs all about that.
Now he is a prosperous businoss man and
a prominent Mason. He reached tht.
Islands penniless and got In with the
smugglers. He was a daring chap and
a cool hand, too; so before long he was
able to run in a cargo on his own ac
count. Ha made a big pile, bought
property, and was on the road to wealth
when he made his last venture. He and
another smuggler combined all tho money
they could raise, selling or mortgaging
ill the property they had. It was a big
deal and would havo mado them Inde
pendent for life, but somehow the cus
toms people found them out, and the end
cf It was that the smugglers flod to San
Francisco on a trading schooner, with
out a dollar in the world, leaving one ot
tho biggest cargoes of opium ever seized
in Hawaii to bs burned. 2feio Yori
Journal.
Those Velvet Collars.
The velvet collars on men's overcoats
was as inevitable a feature a few years
sgo of dress as the buttons on the back
of a cutaway coat. Bat in the last two
or three years that fashion has gone out
to a remarkable degree, says the St.
Louts GioU-Democrat. The comparatively
old-fashioned velvet collar of a decade
ago is quite extinct now. This was an
entirely velvet collar, aud when tho col
lar was turaei up nothing but the velvet
touched the skin. Now where the vel
vet has been used recently it has been in
the form of a half-collar, and the lorer
half of the turn was ornamented in
this.
It was very rare a few years ago to set
t melton overcoat without a velvet col
lar, but last year the coats were ma la
almost entirely of the one cloth, and the
exceptional cases was that of the use of
velvet. The reason of this change is as
much one of cleanliness as any other.
The turned-up collar came into contact
with the hair of the head. As every
body's hair has some natural oil, and
nearly everybody uses some tort of pre
pared hair lubricant, the velvet becario
gTcasVaQd lost its texture. And about
the dirtiest thing in the world is greasy
TslWtf
iiiiCji Vi. ii M S U Pn if
ON AN OCEAN STEAM EU.
TRAVELING
AND
FACILITIES
PRESENT.
PAST
How Much the Tauenger Eat In a IVerk
The Old-Tims Sailor Diet or Salt l'orlt
and Ilardtark Is No More.
Cost of Single Trip.
Comfort, like charity, 6lu.u'd be
gin at home, writes CUas. E. Nixon,
in the Chicago Inter Ocean, Lut in
this fln-de-sli'clo age cf accomplish
ment the average man begins to de
mand not only the conveniences but
tbe luxuries of life whin he travels.
The old-timer knows the value of get
ting tho best; the tourist demauds,
so to speak, "the gilt-edged," and the
common carriers havo spared no ex-
CO iMisiitii cmtiSTorrERS.
penso to cattr to this desire. Tfcv
railway follows the sun westward to
the sea, over tho trail of the now
extinct builalo, the early pathway ol
"the ship; of the desert," piloted by
the venturesome; modern Argonauts.
Even the iron 1: r.e now rushes cast-
ivurd In t Ik. Tii.il,'.: lit nf Ihrt TIaIh
Land fioiti Joppa t-t Jerusalem, or up'
through Afric's wild by the banks of
the Congo. Our traveler not only
demands rapid transit to places diffi
cult of access, but all the luxuries en
route. Ho will be royally wined and
dined rushing over tho dusty desert
at a pace of fifty miles an hour, and
he regards the convenience of bath
and baiber-shnp as much of a necessi
ty as the sleeping-car.
What does It iost to run a passn
gcr steamer acro;9 the Atlantic i
Not necessarily one of the palatial
twin-screw racing type, where every
sxtra rulle of speed means a heavy
proportional consumption of coal, the
steamer's llfe-blocd, but one of mod
est proportion where tbe e.ement of
substantiality and conservation Is as
sociated with good living.
Just think of the Investment li
the fleet of the- Norddeutsclier Lloyd,
comprising seventy-nine steamers,
whose individual cost Is from 8500,000
to li, 200,003, all being either Iron or
steel compartment steamers whoso
propelling forces may vary from mod
crate powers to triple-expansion en
gines of 13.000 horse-power. The
routes of this line almost girdle the
globe, sailing from New York to
Bremen; New lork to Genoa; Bre
men to the Brazils: Bremen to East
ern Asia (China and Japan); and Bre
men to Australlx
But to return to tho cost of a trit
from New York to Bremenhaven
(Bremen's port).
.Primarily the salaries of a ship'i
."ompany, mtidcst 9S some of them
might individually appear In the ag
gregate, amount to nearly S2,0o0 Tier
trip, without estimating perquisites.
On the Aller there aro nearly I'OO
persons employed in attending to the
worklug of tho ship and providing for
the comfort of the pavst'iiers. Be
sides Captain Christoili-rs there are
the first, second, third, and fourth
officers, any ono of whom could be de
pended upon to take charge of the
steamer In case of an emergency. All
of them are time-tried, experienced
sailors, who are advanced in strict
military rotation. Thero Is a chief
engineer, a first, second, and third
and twelve sslstant engineers and
machinists. Thero Is an electrical
engineer who lias two assistants,
three chief st ikers. and sixty-four
firemen. On deck there are a boat
swain, four quartermatcr.s, four
wheelmen, two ca-penters. and thirty
seven samen. In the cabin are the
purser, three cabin maids, a barber,
and forty stewards and waiters, In
cluding an orchestra of nine "musi
cians." Finally. In the culinary de
partment are fifteen cooks, bakers,
and assistants, and two butchers.
cown is mc rinEnoo
Last, but not least, Is the ship's sur
geon, who sits at the foot of the cap
tain's table.
All these men are under militarj
discipline, and many of them have
worn buttons of tho army of Ger
manla. When that minister of Etate,
the pilot, comes aboard, he becomes
absolute In authority, and he Is an
expensive, If short-llvrd, potentate
for the ship- His pay Is graduated
according to the tonnage of the ves
sel whose movements he Is directing.
The pilot charges from New York to
Bremen via Southampton aggregate
something In the neighborhood ol
$500, and then the important item
of harrxir charges are to be taken la
to consideration.
The -Norddeutsctaen Lloyd lino is
ustly famous for its table. A peru
sal of the purser's supplies for a trip
of the Aller shows consumption as
follow for 190 first cabin, 130 second
i cabin. 500 steerage passengers, and
200 crew: 5,500 pounds fresh b6ef,
2,000 pounds veal, po.rk and
mutton; 5,500 pounds salted beef,
4,000 pounds salted vportt 800
pounds rt prfssed b4gf, 60(5 poundi
1893.
BUieKCU JOf&, loo tlicvics BuniROU
hams, 300 pounds corned beef, 800
tiarrels siusages, 4 barrels herrings,
salted; 370 cans sardels, anchovies,
lobsters, etc; C50 barrels fresh fish,
100 barrels fresh lobsters, 800 pieces
fowl (game); l,4o0 cans preserved
vegetables and fruits, 2o0 pounds pre
served cixumlcrs, pickles, etc; 1,250
pounds dried and pickled vegetables,
1,400 pounds peas, etc.; 2,500 pounds
beans, etc.; 2,000 pounds rice, 90
barrels flour, 2,000 pounds fresh
bread, 1,000 pounds coffee, J50 pounds
tea, 800 cans milk, condensed and
fresh; 300 bottles cream, 30,000
pounds potatoes, l.OO rounds butter,
1.000 pounds dried apples, raisins,
plums; 20 J pjunds pecan, hazel, wal
nuts; S00 pounds cream, Edam, Swiss,
Boquefort, etc., cheese; COO bottles
sweet oil, 3o0 boxes Ice cream, all
spices, fresh fruit, salad, etc., etc.
Tho liquor list was as follows: 70C
bottles champagne, 1,000 bottles
Kliine wine, 1,400 littles claret, 150
bottles liquors, 400 bottles cognac
and brandy, 2,700 bottles mineral
water, 3,000 bottles beer, 3.S00 liters
beer In casks.
These supplies, which cost $10,00'
to $12,000, are mainly packed away
in the store-rooms and rcfrgerators
In the bow of the steamer, Lut the
apparently vast quantities of food
consumed do not Indicate the total
supply, for the purser estimates that
in case of necessity he could supply
pla;n food for his f.oating community
for two entire month. The length
of tho trip seldom exceeds ten days.
All ot which Indicates the modem
steamship Is an expensive as well as
a res iurceful affair.
Vhcn the Allers starts on her east
ward voyage sho carries 2,300 tons of
coal In her bunkers. Some of this Is
American and some foreign soft coal,
costing on an average 3.50 a tou.
The gangs of the sweating and sooty
6tokors, whoso Industrial recompense
Is $20 per month," away down In the
depths, on the Iron plates spanning
the spine of the ship, dally shovel
into her roaring furnaces 200 tons.
Gallons and gallons of oil are used tc
lubricate her ponderous engines,
pumps, and dynamos, so that the
supplies for tho vitality of her run-
OHI THE BHIDCt
nlng forces amount tsjiearix. 85,500.1
ine acnievements or "ocean racers
have started some very absurd para
graphs on the rounds, to the effecl
that one burns $13,000 worth cf coal
every trip. A little calculation, with
facts to back It, will show the ex
travagance ot this statement. The
American liner New York consumes
about 323 tons per day, the AVhite
Star liner Teutonic about 316 tons,
and the Cunarder Etruria 330 tons
per day at full speed. It has beer
stated that the Etruria at a speed ol
18 knots burns only 275 tons per day.
This consumption would send the
greyhound across with a total u?e ol
about 2,000 tons In round figures.
The price of coal in New York is
considerably less than $4 pel ton, and
in Liverpool It Is cheaper than here,
but even at outside figures the cost
of fuel rcr trip, It will be seen,
does not exceed $9,000. The
fuel bills of such ships are,
of course, f.ir In excess of those
of the average ocean steamer. Triple
expansion engines and Improved ma
chinery of the present day have made
It possible to s i economize coal that
the consumption per Indicated horse
power per hour has been reduced In
ratio to much less two pounds, ai
against nine pounds In 1836, and five
and one-half pounds In 1840. The
Teutonic's average Is quoted at l.i
pounds per hour. The majority ol
ocean 6teamers of ordinary size,
traveling at an easy gait, think a tot
of coal per hour Is quite extravagant
enough for their propulsion. Our big
new war ship Iowa will have a bunkei
capacity for only 2,000 tons of coal
speed her at sixteen knots, the Indi
ana's bunker capicity will be 1,60(
tons, and the 3, 000-ton cruiser Cin
cinnati's bunker capacity will be onlj
056 tons.
Thero Is any amount of expense
outside the coal-bunkers of a passen
ger ship. Twenty thousand dollars
is a tidy sum, lut that Is about the
aggregate expense of the Allcr's trij
across the Atlantic,
Wanted to Know.
Make the best of misfortunes, by ah
means; but that Is not the 6ame as
making the most of them. Mothei
"Your finger may pain you a little,
my dear, but It Isn't hurt badlj
enough to need doing up. " Harold
"Well, put a rag on It, anyway. 60 J
shall know which finger It Is." Puck.
In ra wins a log at Beaver Dam mills.
In Burke County, Georgia, a snake was
found in a kn't hole, which, when the
tree was standing, was fifty two feet
from the ground.
A SECRET.
BT DAKKIET IlERSUET.
I thouitlit to e if Siirlng were here.
Hut no, not vet 'twa- very clear.
In t.rown anil trray tbe earth still dressed.
Without a t.losHoiii on her breast.
Put mirth oulie evMent prevailed.
Half-smothered launliter which 1 failed
To unilcrstiind. anil everywhere
Suppressed amusement Oiled the sir;
Suspicions winiprs. "Such a juke:"
I wouder who it was that spoke.
Cutsonn I waike t that way aaain.
And In! a tr.in-torniatlou then.
The secret was made n.anifet,
lllddne o well I had not cue'sed.
Kach brown leaf served a Iodine-place
From which now peeped a siny y.iung face.
And 'neath my feet. Oh, glad surprise!
IVeped the But violet's sweet blue eyes.
Twenty pay yiung dandelions standing In a
row.
I heir yellow looks dancing as the breezes blow.
'Tls really very Jolly, 1 suupose we've come
to stay,"
Said these poor mistaken-dandelions blooming
by the way. w
Twenty pray dishevelled heads nodding all
forlorn,
"'Twould surely have been tetter If we never
had been born.
It's har.lly worth the trouble, with so short a
time to stay"
And along came a saner breeze who blew them
all away.
Budget.
.iii,:H-vi.lc.i;.i'.'i','.- t,i;,,L. i
NO. 30.
1 1IIEC1KLOH COM.MO.U'LAtil,
VTe listen for an hour or mors
To brilliant conversation
Of wodien competent to bore
The whole ot male creation,
An t find our heaJs in such a whirl
We're almost Bo-IIam cas-?s
Ti'l re--cuJ by soran simple iri
Who talks plain commonplaces,
V.'e hear the chat of Fashion's court
The chatter empty heaieJ,
That mikes existence but a snort!
Ani thin 'dug to bs drea.lft'-;
An i, oh, hov.' gia l'y wo forges
Tneir bahy tallt anl faces,
An.l iu thsir nteal a model set-
'lh-jgirl of commonplace?.
New Yol k Iloral j.
PITH ANDJOINT.
Tho bea'ity of the ivy is t'.iat while it
Viiuibs, it never loses its grip.
Tho man who givc3 himself away gets
tho best of tho bargain. Botau Trau
'cript. Architecture is adapted to women, for
they aro born designers. Bingliaintoa
'Republican.
Tho hardship of being conSue l in jail
is as nothing to the deep disgrace a
tramp feels at being caught in the tjils
-Buck.
Any man who ever owned a balk
florae will tell you that ho found t'u
animal exceedingly hard to get aloin
xith. Texas Sittings.
Wife "Shall I have my black silk
hxedovcr, dear, or would you get a new
onel-' Husband "By all means pet a
new one; it's cheaper." Cloak Keview.
"Those Parker girls aro very dull."
'They can't be. They cut Mawson at
the Old Guard entertainment and you
know how tough MiWJoa is." Nee
York Herald.
A street-car driver in Toledo recently
.-an over a young laJy and she wul
thrown to tho ground. Be was prompt
ly filed by tho company for knocking
lown the fare.
Littlo Tot "Mamma, let do oa.
and spend our money." Mamma "No,
dearj'its raining." Littlo Tot "Ba'
didn't you say we should save up for i
rainy day!" Cloak Journal.
AVigs (at rehearsal) "Mr. Ilacon
shale, wo want to put a little realism inti
tlii3 play. Can you suejt anything?'
Uaconshik "You might try paying
val salaries." Baltimore Herald.
I'olly (glancing upward) "Hot.
rapidly Jupiter has moved away Iro:u
7enus." Harry "Ha has probnblj
realized that this is leap year, and ir
keeping at a safe distance." Pittsour;
Bulletin.
Stranger "How much do you get foi
;he golden rulcl" Jeweler (wearily)
'Young man, stop right there. I rccog
nize you as the desperado who wants to
price a pair of ruby lips." New York
Herald.
..
" A word to tho wise is suTicicnt' is
very highly respected proverb," solilo
quized Mr. Kneebags "but I must oon
less that 1 haven't found people tumbling
over ono another to speak to me.'"
New York Herald.
Young Gentleman (drops ou his kneel
it tho feet of a laiy). "My dea- Miss
X , our respective fathers having
come to terms ou the money question, .'
now venture to inform you that I lotf
you to distraction 1 '
Servant "This room will be rentec
nly to an artist." Room Hunter "And
why not to another manl'' Servant
"Bccauso artists are less tr.iub'eionn
They never want their room put ii
order." Fliegende Blaetter.
Tattle "I see you everywhere with
Miss Meunibowe nowaday?. You ;iem
to be very friendly with hor, but you
don't say much nbout it." K it! ie "No.
Wherever 1 t;o I find you've saved mi
the trouble." Kite Field's Washing
on.
Customer "I giant that iu this re?
auraut tho service aro quicker than at
other places, but then tho portions nre
only half the usunl size." Waiter "It
comes to the same thing. Bo you forge'
the old proverb, 'He gives twice v.u
gives quicklyl' " Wasp.
The eleleily visitor smile! a rapaciom
mile anl disclosed a pair ot gold
crowned bicuspids. '-Mumm t," said
Tommy, "what makes Mrs. Fiya'iout '
"Hush Tommy!'' "curry her " "hTccr:
Still, Tommy!'' "tuiil ! ittocs in he
mouth?'' Chicago Tribune.
Madge "When that port called to
day ho happened to pick u the book
te'd given me and I was awfully embar
rassed when he began talking about the
poems." Cora "You were afraid your
criticism wouldn't sound learned"
Malge "Oh, dear, no. I w is afriid 1
adu"t cot the leaves." New York Sua
Martha Washington's Fan.
It is saiel that n fan owned and used
by Maltha Washington is still in ex
cellent preservation. It is roarde 1 as a
great curiosity aud $100J Ins been
ofiere 1 for it aud refused. Win n uu
fol led a scries of pictures may be necu
printed in oil. One, a portrait of George
AVashingtou, represents him at the aye
oT seventeen, wearing the military uni
form of a captain, and being the miij
portrait of him in his youth, as far a
known, greatly increases tho value o
the fan,
Hovering above is an angel c-owain-
him with n wreath, and kueciiie; ne.it
him is an Indian adorned with C i-.vcr;
and feathers, arrayed in the robes f l.e:
tribe, presenting him with a naiivtul
standard in token of tho aecc;U..f o
peace.
Oa Washington's left stands the f. guru
of Llbeitj". The f ice of tbe f.m beau
tho coat of arms of tho Wiishirgtons,
and tbe color is still iirijiit ami eliaUi-i-.
Detroit Frco Frees.
An Assyrian Library.
The British Museum, London. lm
published a catalogue of its collection ol
Babylonian and Assyrian tablets. Tlie
catalogue contain! upward of 50,UU1
numbers. Tho plates mostly come from
the mound of tho place where the city ol
Nineveh htood an l were collided bj
Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus) a iout Hi -I
years before Christ. They lous.st oi
historical reports, religious writing-,
hymns, essays on education, dictionaries
nnd books of prophecy ma le by the
soothsayers of the court, who had ti
aiake observations of the stars, the flight
of birds, the movements of scorpions, th
wriggliags of strponts, the course of tho
clouds, etc., in order to make vat their
DroDhecies. Chica0 Qeraldx
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