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VOL. XI. VII
tux: oonhtitdtion-the dnion-and the enforcement of the laws.
Editor tvmd ProprWtor.
M1FFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PKNNA.. WEDNESDAY. OGTOIIEU IS. 1SD3.
NO. 41.
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- . u . -t to ! e proffssoM
r. i'".r.ii hl-tory. PUy-i.-sl
t .;ir it t y sid with
' - i n (i' I who lnsplroi
nl w ir'A as the p:w ol
-. '. lint a fT''fhninj up
: -T'non to ro9 into
.t ' 5I''Jit-rru!ionu ;a
:' 1 Ii.ivj f.w.T gtrmons
1 r.nr b!eMd I orl.
Hint, w.f woul I
r a I'rojf fly, or n hfjj
-. r o 'rvtil of sV.t tlasf
; ri" it i -s of religion.
, i ii l'i r.saiiy of our thoo
ti wh i nr po lry them
i. I t f-'op'.e to co:n
r :'- ,li p.ro now trying to
. to f.rM'Th, and tho
'it '' . '''-'li two rat pn'ssea ol
tr.- na t ! i'i""iod until thre
! !:i iiVf the poor vlcti:n
: th i'.'t my of th Bil.li.
.:: : i:u; ;tr.;i"t thf roor-'.tut
' - ' --rrli.-n. liropp'l overtha
if: ' ! rr iii'-'iri raiiip, he ank
. -. : . .:. -.v. into ft tempestuous in,
r p.:. : -r tha rr.iin-;t r of ti3od'p
i M ' , ' 'v ent m,-l'.' 1 in seawee-1.
: f i; .'.-.-p thre .v thuir cordHCfe
.i. : ".r ! iiim. Eon.e oithU st-u-
' r l to th? bottom of the
v. it. ! ev. le of it w is afloat nn l
i i y ,it ffi mon-itfr.so thru,
f r. ; h-t was at tiie bottom of the
rhj tn horribly lxprisonp.-l he
:i!-r. pr. i ill 1 ex'"l;iim in the wrrjp
w Is were wr.ippeJ abou'
"r-t to ro?orl thnt thera
iregT'-Tt'-. ;;r--.n tu" boiton of the aa M
w?li m u; i i vi 1. Tii first pl-tt'iri I over
OTei w ! a h:m ifiil of g-a wends prosse 1 on
-fif- az i I "ilied thorn "the shorn locks
o!.'-!-:u:i " Those products of the tioep,
wbeth-r I r i vn or ren or yellow or pur
pieor r-1 r intershot of many colore, ftr-i
iiitinjr. i ccy aro QisiriDiito l nil
ptnsanJ Irom Arctic to Aatarctin.
thinl.s w"ll of them I eonclu-la
D03t fi
crur tli" u
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of tV-i.
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fajchii.-,-'
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if th v'
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intho t-foua-i-r.-'i
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n a.t-n
Th-v r,
fruS'ra r,
th Sierr'..
iEavr, 1
ia a .ahi-
iouallan'!.
t tli .t he has made 0000 spMies
li nes th"93 water plants
7 ij f. :t ion?, nn 1 they c.-iblf
'ti - ;r--i:iiea has a KfOrt'1 o
rt .v" -t s'lore of our country i? a
::: i ,vs thirty or forty feet ion-:,
r-,- s.-a otter makes hw ho.ne,
: 1.' "a te Ijuoyan-.y of tho le.if
T.; rhielfit Jungles of the trop-::.--:
fu'.l of vegetation than tue
' -. T iero are forests dotrn
i-t rr.i'ri s all ni-loo-n, nni Ood
aj :;e waited In the Gnflen c
.- ccoi o! th dar." Oh, what
nr. th: u' aqi'-'ous world! Oh,
."r. wiiers of the seaweed! Its
? a r of crystal. The cradle
t !s ; tor:n. Its .;rave Is asar
:: t-r.-l nu l Fipphire. There if
; -r T.fir of God on the l.otton.
'i -.rTr i"ted that, Ptrewn all
: ,'-e a rl: ramrit tte-pretit with
' 5 liti 1 ftalaxies of impos-
1;; ' f.-atuerl a lamplishter.
t "3 1- f-.a elc'ir.'jian, a". I he is
w!r. e', tr'.eiiy nad nial-es tho
.t with th" lik'htr.in? of thsa.
"i-'v.- liko jewels. There aro
i- a- ei7-.- with"!i;t. Tiiere are
if: t:.e ::.7rri'''.i, so called be
' i.r:':::y bug'.st stellar anJ
j--a.
.: A-
. 1 :
1 1 .
lantern, of the ocean
--:oa of flame over the
":? : th-is'J Illuminations
1 an ','T t'.i'i f m : tiiese
?rl e. !-;, ,q of t!io Al-iT'.v.-rM
! j'lse author oT
!: ' the hid'len retrotatiou
!t. wh ther or not he ftp
:v, in he eried out, "Tna
- 1 a'Hjv.t my head."
e'.e..r ;,;i taoe who ha 1
i'.-...n t urle 1 ftf sea or In
-.a lak-s. V.'hleh of us
.'.t.a-.tie v-st ha3 not ha 1
rei' therei We had
f t:i::'i':!:i tnat they were
!:u p'.avj. Wesnid : "Oh.
! t i eortie nliore and ha 1
an a!',-Tiation of our
'.!, 1 e. a to put them in
:: plot, where we coul I
rsanltr'es over then."
: r for the-a than we coul 1
"ra. They were let down
r lens. )efor they ha I
.: th v had ;'ariauds a'ou'
: i i
to ar. 1 adorn ! j.!a--o than,
. rde 1 t'ae-n thev were put
-. h-n-tT. H-tr 'it, mothers
- ili r boy ; whoj ship went
i t A;uu-t hurricane! Thero
v.- i-i or Laur d Hills or Mount
aarif-t! on the 1-ui 1 as thereare
rnt and yeoope 1 an 1 hune;
'j!lhi'bii. Tue bodies ot our
i sv.p.k.-n fri.-nds are girdied
. an 1 housed with sueh glorior
ill t .. -ro)o'.!.
v.t:r.p.j.I in lif-hoats, or they
1-iVtii sands or l'Mil beach or
an 1 wore never heard of, ordis
h tae City of lioston, or the Ville
the Tyai! ria or were run down
- a-i that put out from New-
":t r.liij v.i:r T.rvloit frloom
eoat the horrors of oeean entombment.
"pa .-.-stop'jl was b-;i-el in tho
fi?.o-r-r.-L'U war, Prineo Ment-:htkof, com
"aa lir.; th Ku-sinn navv. saw that the
Oa.y W'.vto - the rn.-H'i out of the har-
te !ait all t'm iias-iian ships of war
r-ad-tcal. and so 109 vessels sank,
't : the war was over, our American
'. wan. descended to the depths
it was an Impressive Bpeo
b-jr
in th
When
w?in.
Inai
tade.
Oai) haa 1 buried ships ! But it is that
H?7 Er,ir;.-.. a.l aeross the Atlnntio Ocean.
"p3 nink r . .t by coroxnnl ol admirals,
the command of cyclones.
I had 'ihlime. burial, and tne sur-
a-ii l which they eioep tne last
?in :re 1-r.posin? than the Tat Mahal,
US.-:-":-n u'irh vi:illa Incnurtftl with
Ptiot;5f:.ri-.s and built by the great mogul
"'iaa o.r his empress. Your departed
Uae i f,:r
lit 1 V
iiat tl.. ,
Kcn.iin
the
hii
ti.05..
Ie.-r, o
ttVlC.'
.eirie! latin pardens of the sea,
' 'e-V -s of coralline,
t iit obsequies ever known on tha
ti:--.fp of ioses, whore no one but
r- s -:it. The sublime report of that
it i- ia th book of Deuteronomy.
1 him, and of
1 iv, that th.. Lord burie
-e s .r.e rlown to slumber in the
tu lyb.-e-iid. "Tho i,ord buried
iiri-t v.-as buried in a irir.len.so
i--.-,-;,. i frien is and those who
tar ..r.D till they reached lort wure
A - (
r: lown amt.l tHden...-Q th. mUul a,
tne en r Ion tur -. epnlchrr."
It ro ilwir. t n ny.terr what was the
r-irti-ul.rm.e by waie Omriro t ook-
-ii. th" pM nt or tor of th-. M-thodM
h..r. h and the rbvlaln f the AmrWn
; i.i nrr .mlmriiinc lot
- " -'.nn. ntr.e.tean-,!.lp Tnesldent, Man h
llth. nH. The.hln nev-r .rrlvM In ix.rt
on rver .LrnalM h,.r. . i s
.i t ,.. .an It ha. for tlfty y b.. n our,
tione j w,mt be.-ine of her llut thi. I know
nU.ut I ookman that whether It wax l-itrc
... o'liuitniunu miiiw or collision he had
more c.arirdfi on hi ocrafi tomh than If,
piriurf on land. r,-h of hi million fri-n li.
Ha l put a bouiue on hi. casket. In thf
nt.lst of tho irarden was hi. n-pnieh -r.
I'ut that l.rliiir. me to notice the monomer
in this Jonahitie expreesion of the text. The
propht not only made a mi-take by tryin -to
ro t. Tarshteh when C.o.1 toi.i h. .1 ...1
to Mn.'v.ih. but he ma.le a miitsiu a ... ....
styled as weMst hcee irrowth. that oti-.vr.ipn.vl
h.m on tho day he . a w i9 omw.
thins that i ue.-es. It U eoinethinn v..u
throw out from the gard.in. It U wmothinir
that cnok". tne w'noar. It n ,mtZZ
bo :rui.h.vl out from amon the ootton It
is something unsiithtlv to the oyo. ltiaan
nvador of ttie ren table or floral worl.t.
Hut this (rr-wth that rpranir up from the
depth of tho Mediterranean or floated on its
urraeo was among the most beautiful thin.,
that (tod eerer makes. It tu a water plant
known a. the red colore.! aUa and no weed
at all. It cornea from the loom of iniinit
iwinty. It is planted by heavenly love. It
is the star of a s laen firmament. It is a
lamp which the Lord kindled. It Is a cord
by which to bind whole (heaves of practical
iiiirrctlon. It 1. a poem nil whoss cantos
are ruiiir by Divine goodness. Yet we all
ma'.o the mistake that Jonah mado in regard
it and call It a weed.
"The weeds were wrapped about mv head.
Ah. that is the trouble on the land a', on thi
ml Ve caUthow vteedstha are .flower.
Pitchea np on the beach of society are chil
dren without home, without opportunity for
mythtn? but sin. seemingly without Oo.L
They are washed up helpless. They arecalled
ra -vnufflns. They are spoken of as the
rakinirs of the worl.t. They are waifs. They
are street arabe. They are flotsam and jet
iam of the social sea. They are something
to be .eft alone, or something t J be tro I on,
or something to give up to decav. Xothimr
but weeds. They are up the nokety stairs oi
that garret. They are down In the cellar o:
tnat tenement house. They swelter In sum
mers when they see not one blade of green
-rr.ns, and shiver In winters that allow thotr
uot one warm coat or shawl or shoe.
Such the city missionary found In one ol
our city rookeries, and when the poor woman
w.is asked if she sent her children to school
i'.ie replied : "No, sir, I never did send 'err
lo school. I know it, they ouht to learn.
but I couldn't. I try to shame him some
times (it is my husband, sir), but he drinks
and then beats me look at that bruise on
my I.tce and I tell him to see what is comiu'
lo his children. There s Peggy goes sellln'
fruit every night In those cellars in Water
ilreet. ana they're hells, sir. Bhe's learnlu'
all sorts of bad words there an t don't pet
back till 12 o'clock at night. It it wasn't for
her earnin' a shillln' or two In them planus.
I should starve. Ob, I wish they was out o!
the city. Yes, it is the truth. I would rathei
have ail my children dead than on tho street,
mt I can't help it."
Another one of those poor women found
ly a reformatory association recite 1 her
story o' want and woe and looked up r.n I
s ii.i, "t feit so hard to Tose the children
when they died, but now I'm glad they're
gon"." Ask any one of a thousand suel
children on the streets, "Whoro do you liv?"
and they will answer, "I don't live no
when:." Tney will sleep to-night in ash bar
rels, or under outdoor stairs, or on the
wharr. kicked and bruised and huuirry. Who
cares for them? Onoe in a while a city mis
sionary, or a tract distributor, or a teacher
of ragged schools will rescue oue of them
hut for mo3t people they are only weeds.
Yet Jonah did uot more completely mis
represent the red alga about his head In th
Mediterranean than most peoplo misjudge
these poor and forlorn and iyin$ children ol
tho street. They are not woods. Thoy are
immortal Cowers. Down In the deep sea o
wo . but flowers. When society and t'u
ca-ir?h ot God come to appreciate their eter
nai value, there will be more C. L. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels o1
mercy spn ling their fortunes and their five
In the rescue.
Hear it. O ye philanthropic an 1 Christian
an I merciful souis not weeds, but flowers.
I riojuro you as the friends of all newsoy'
lod,.ag houst, of all Industrie! a thools. of
a'l homes for friendless pirls, an I for the
many, reformafories and humane associa
tions now on foot. How much they have al
ready accomplished ! Out of what wretch
einoss. Into what gool homes ! Oi 21.0U0 oT
these picked up out of the streets an 1 s-nt
into country homes only twelevo childrer
urael out badly.
In the last thirty years a number that no
man can number of the vagrants have been
lilted Into respectability and usefulness and
a Christian Hie. Many of them have homes
of their own. Though ragged boys once and
street girls, now at the head of prosperous
families, honored on earth and to be glorious
in heaven. Some of them have been Govern
ors of States. Some of them are ministers of
the gospel. In all departments of life those
who were thought to be weeds haveturnel
out to be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from the streets of our cities wrote to another,
saying : "I have heard you ore studying for
he ministry. Ho am I."
My hearers, I Implead you for tho news
boys of the streets, many of them the bright
est children of the city, but with na chance,
l-io not step on fheir bare feet. Do not.
waen they steal a ride, cut behind. When
tho paper is three cents, once In a while give
them a Ave cent piece and tell theaa to keep
the change. I like the ring of the letter tho
news' oy sent back from Indiana, where he
had been sent to a good home, to a Sew
York newsboy's lodging house: "Boys, we
should show ourselves that we are no fools,
that we can become as respectable as any of
tho countrymen, for Franklin and Webster
nnd Clay were poor boys once, and even
tieorge Law and Vanderbilt and Astor. And
now, boys, stand up and lot them see you
have got the real stuff in you. Come out
h're and make respectable and honorable
men, so they can sav. 'There, thnt boy was
once a newsboy." Jly hearers, join the
Christian philanthropists who are changing
organ grinders and bootblacks and news
boys and street arabs and cigar girls into
tho3e who shali be kings and queens unto
God forever. It Is high time that Jonah
finds out thnt that which is about him is not
Tyeeds, but flowers.
As I examine this red ala which was
about the recreant prophet down In the
Mediterranean depths, when, in the words
of my text, he cried out, "The we Is ware
wrapped about my heaL" and I am led
thereby to further examine this submarine
world, I am compelled to exciaim, v uni a
wonderful Ood we have ! I am glad that, by
diving bell, and "Brooks' deep sea sounding
apparatus, and ever improving machinery,
wo are permitted to walk the floor of tho
ocean and report the wonders wrought by
.he great God.
Study these gardens of the sea. Easier and
shall the orofounds of the ooean be
come to us, and more and more Its opulence
of color and plant unroll, especially as "Vil
i.......hmRHna boat" has been construct
ed making it possible to navigate under the
sei almost as well as on the surface of the
sea and unless God In His mercy banishes
war from the earth whole fleets of armed
shins for down under the water move on to
i.iU, nn the arcolea that float the surface.
May suoh submarine shlDS be used for lovinir
open the wonders or itou s worum- muo
ereat deep and never for human devastation 1
On, tne marvoi. oi iao ..
. imwM.l are the nasture fields ana
the forage of the Innumerable animals of the
deep. Not one species of them can tie spared
of nature. Valleys and
-.nro.ts.in. .ml nlants miles underneath the
r nil covered with flora and fauna.
Sunken Alps and Apennines and Himalayas
i n.i.ih nnd Paeiflo ocean. A continent
that once connected Europe and America, so
that In the ages past men oamo on foot
across from where England is to where we
now stand, all sunken and now covered with
the growths of the sea as it onoe was ii-
rrith prowtns or toe i.aou. , .
England and Ireland once all one piece of
land but now much of it so far sunken as to
make a channel, and Ireland has become an
Island. The islands, for the most part, are
only the foreheads of sunken continents.
The sea conquering the land all along the
coasts and orumbllug the hemispheres wider
and. wider fceoome Jhe subauua&us do-
SOG OT A BEAK t.
b.iM-k milli
fr tenlinv
thiiii'
IVnr h.-.rt, dear heart. 'er yo.i!
tcir heart I love you! when ple it." .re
rleiinitnir
iSh.I ur. to me. and lew'i
w.m.l.-r if i.od iuM'li.-r light, are .trvitin-
In-ar heart, dear heart, o'er you?
Hear heart If life had only one bright bio
men.
One nwe to m-el the dew
J. ki It. rliiuhinir to your restful boii
And Hear ii thorni. f.ir y.m!
AIIiihIii (Vnifi(uiuil.
niiniona. Thank Col is aii.i k.
rtroTrnphcr have made a. m.ns and charia
of tiio rivr. an I Ink, an I sea. and shown IfVar heart I love ron! all I lie
us something of the wore of the eternal .!... I If-ki rv rii-h nun blue.
'n the water world.
Than Ood that the groat Vlrplnl in, I.ln
l"iwuit Maury, lived lo give ns "1 ho riivslonl
Oeogranby of tho Sea." and that men of
genius have gone forth, to study tho so-called
o.l that wrapped a'out Jonah', head and
have f.vin I thoai to be corona's of beauty,
and when the tide recd.-.t t.iosa scieiitbus
have wadoa down and p.eko.1 up divinely
pictured leaves of the v,in, tho naturalists,
tike and Hooper and Walters, gathering
them from the bea-h of Long Island Hound,
and Dr. IHoi.'.et preserving them from the
chores of K.-y West, and Professors Emerson
and Gray finding tbem along Boston harbor,
and Professor Gib! gathering thorn from
Ciiar.eston harbor, and for all the other
ir.umptis ol algology, or the science of sea
veod. Why confine onr"Ivs to theold and hack
neyod Illustration ot the wonder workings
of God, wha there are at least five great
eas full oi illustrations as yot not marshaled,
every root and frond nnd cell and color and
movement and habit of oceanic vegetation
crying out- "God ! Ood ! He made us. He
-lothed us. lis adorned us. He was the
God of our ancestors clear back to tho first
sea growth, when God divided tho waters
which were above the firmament from the
waters which were nnder the firmament and
shall be the God of our descendants clear
town to the day when the sea shall irive no
its dead. We have heard His command, and
we have obeyed, TraUe the Lord, dragons
ind all deeps." "
1 aero is a great comfort that rolls ovei
upon us from this study of the so-called sea
weed, and that is the demonstrated doetrlns
of a particular providence. When I find
that tne Lord provides in the so-called sea
weea tne pasturage lor the thronged marine
world, so that not a fin or scale In all that
ocoanio nquarium suffers need, I conclude He
will feed us, and If He suits the alga to the
tnimal life of tho deep lie will provide the
food for our physical and spiritual needs.
And If Ho cloth.-s the flowers of the deep
with riehness of robe that looks bright as
lull en rainbows by day, and at night makes
me nn lerworl J look as though the sa were
day
tempest
I won .b r
and ith
on lire, surely He will clothe you, "O yo of
'ittle faith!"
A n.l what fills me with unspeakable de
light Is that this God of depths and heights,
of ocean and of continent, may, through
Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed means,
he yours and mine, to help, to cheer, to
pardon, to save, to Imparadiso. What
matters who in earth or hell is against us If
He s for us? Omnipotence to defend ns,
omnipresence to companion us anil luflnite
love to enfold and uplift and enrapture us.
An 1 when God does small things so well,
3eeniiDg!y taking as much care with the coil
of a seaweed as the outbrancbing of a
Lebanon cedar, and With the color of a veg
etable growth which Is hidden fathoms out
of sight as He does with the solferino and
purple of a summer sunset, we will be doii :
mined to do well a'l we are called to do.
though no one see or npprvriate us. Mtghty
Go 1 1 i.oll in upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more of tho wonders of this
suomanne worl.l. My joy is that alter we
are quit of all earLhiv hindrance we may
comeback to this w-jr. ! and exp.ore wnal
we cannot now fully Investigate.
If we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without fatigue 1 think we shall
havo power to dive into the aqueous without
peril, and that tha pictured and tessellated
sea floor will be as accessible as now is to the
traveler the Jor of tho Alhambra, and all
the gardens ot trie deep win men swing
open to us their gates as no to the tourist
Ch itsworth opens oa puhlio days Its cas-ades
an 1 statuarv and conicrvatories lor our en-
tran-e. "It doth not yet appear what we
snail be. lou cannot make me believe that
Jol hath spread out all that garniture of
the deep merely for the polyps and crustaeei
o look at.
And it tho unintelligent creatures of the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean He sur
rounds with such beautiful grasses of the
deep, what a heaven we may expect for our
uolifte 1 and ransomed souls wnen we are
unchained of the fl"9h and ris-i to realms
beatific! Of the flora of that "sea of glass
mingled with Ere," 1 have no powerto speak,
but I shall always be glad that, when the
prophet of tho text, flung over the gunwales
of the Mediterranean ship, descended Into
the boiling sea, that which he supposed to be
weeds wrapped a hout his head were no
Feeds, but flowers.
And am I not right In this glance at the
botany of the Bible in adding to Luke's mint
anise and cumin, and Matthew's tar -s, an.
John's vine, and Solomon's cluster of cam
phiro, and J-rem'ah's h.ti.n. and JoYs bul
rush, and Iae i's t- r e.imu. cad Hosea's
thistle, and Kzeltiel's e"dar, an 1 "the bvssop
that spriugeth out of the wall." and the
"rose of Sharon aad lily of tho valley," and
the frankincense and mvrrh and cassia
ivhleh the astrologers brought to tho man-
rer at least one Btalk of the alaga of th)
Mediterranean.
And now I make the marine doxology of
David my peroration, for it was written
about forty or flity miles from the place
where the scene ot the text was enacted
The sea Is His, and He made It, nn 1 His
hands formed the dry land. Oh, come, let
us worship and bow down ; let us kneel be
fore the Lord, our Makor. For He Is our
God, and we are tho peoplo of His pasture.'
Amen.
The Meekrat of South Africa.
The meekrat of South Africa bears a
resemblance to tho American pruirio
dog, but is more easily domesticated
It is a tiny little creature about as big
as a rat, very intelligent and nttection
ato as a dog when turned. It barks
and chatters and purrs, is an inveter
ate thief and spends much of ita time
standing upright. Its tur is gray,
marked somewhat like a tabby cat,
and it ia wholly without fear. The
dog ia its favorite animal, and when
tamed the meekrat invariably attaches
itself to the most good natured dog in
the house. When wild these little
animals live in colonies as the prairie
dogs, burrowing their homes -under
ground, living on roots. They ex
press supreme satisfaction by lying
flat down ana Btretciung memseives
out so that they seem like a flat skin
without any bones inside it. The lit
tle creatures have black circles around
their eyes, a stripe running under
neath their bodies for its entire length
and long, curving black clnws on their
little forepaws. Chicago Herald.
More than 31,000 petitioners hare
been presented to the British Parlia
ment at this session, a number only
onoe exceeded.
If von want people to respect yon you
must respect yourself.
A constant friend is a thing rare and
hard to find.
It is easy in solitude to live after
your own opinion.
Bad luck is the only thing that comes
to people that truht in luck.
The fairest action in onr human life
is scorning to revenge an injury.
Why should we think with painful
anxiety about that on which onr thoughts
can have no influence? f
Let your right hand know what your
left is doing and pull together.
The man who goes too fast or too
slow is about as reliable as the clock
hat has the same speoilic weakness.
Everything m tiie world may be en
dured except continual prosperity.
The diamond has the most sparkle,
but window glass does the most good.
Troperly thou hast no other knowl
edge but what thou hast got by work
ng. There is a foolish come r, says Aris
totlf , even in the brain of a sage.
THK DAUGHTER'S MISTAKE.
BY IIEI.llS i oi;uit CHAVES.
TIh-iv, put awuv the things, do; I'm
tirod to death!"
TlnHnlora Kvolyn tossed her failed
ball-lHHKiuet on one side, and her white
nsliniere om-ra-i-l'iiii'k on tne ome-.
while she herself sank with an air of
litter weariness iinn a sofn drawn in '
front of the lire.
Sue was a till, briUiant-coniplox-
ioned blonde, with big Muo eyes like
a doll's, if'ldVn hair, and a lovely re 1
mouth that put you in mind of a clus
ter of dead-ripe searlet cherries, and
her dress was of white niist-liko tulle,
lonjie.1 up by bouijuets of blue forget-
nie-nots. and Ilo.iting blue ribbons.
Mrs. Evelyn stood patiently by, pu-k-
mj; up the Mowers, louung tne ojiera-
cloak with showv silk lining on the
outside, anil stirring; the lire that it
might blaze up with a more cheery
luster.
Will you have a cup of toa, love.
liefore you go to bed? she asueil,
witfnllv.
"No, I won't!" answered the young
lady, undutifully. "Thank goxlnes
I'm not such a bundle of whims as you
are, mamma. Why don't you take out
my hair-pins, instead of standing star
ing there?"
I didn t know you were reiuiv.
dear," said the mother, advancing with
nervous haste
"Yes," nsscnted Mrs. Exelyn, who
had learned through the long tutelage
of dire cxerienee lo think very little
of Iter own wants mi l requirements;
"anything will do for nie."
It's such a bore, your going at
all," muttered Theodora, with nn mi
grations toss of her iH uutiful blond.;
head. "I'll teach St. Einil a thing or
two when I have bin) safe under my
win;--."
Miss Evelyn's costume as that of
Iinna, for the private mas.piera.le
bull, was a decided success, lier silver-green
tunic, triiiime.l with gold
fringe, the fillet that Ixiun.l her lovely
yellow hair nnd the (ireeian draperies
"that revealed even while they bid the
con'.ur of her perfect nrnis, made her
look even more beautiful than her or
dinary self, and Mrs. Evelyn gazed
ilh pride ti)ii the transformation
which had been for the most part
wrought over by skilful and industrious
fingers. For oor, harassed Mr. Eve
lyn had absolutely declined to "shell
out, as his il uigtitiT gracefully ex
press'al it.
"It's out of tin; iuestion, Mary
utterly and entirely out of the ques
tion," he had answered when she had
applied to him for "a little money."
"I have to steer carefully to avoid
sheer bankruptcy, nnd I cannot siire
a single cent from my business just
now!"
So Mrs. Evelyn, having sold a pair
of opal ear-rings, her husband's gift
in their courting days, to buy the costly
mat. -rial, had herself sat up night after
night, and day after day, to make the
dress which Theodora loudly declared
she must have to appear as the inq-er-sonation
of Diana the Huntress!
As she reaped a mother's sweet, un
selfish reward when she saw how sur
passingly lovely Theodora looked in the
exquisite Cireek dress.
Mr. St. Einil had selected "Hamlet"
as his character, and very handsome
he was in the plumed cap and velvet
doublet of the voiing l'rince of l)en-
' mark, but Mrs. St. Einil preferred no
I more attractive costume than a plain
Hr in.. tli.-r more ilis.aiuiu:iy than
ever.
"Tor," shes iys, with more acrimony
than logic, "it was nil timmma's fau't
that I lost ti.-.int St. Emil."
METEORS AND COMETS.
a soid cr TOIEKJ.
1'r.ir. I'ost.r A'lvaiif o. site w l.t.it. In
ICllil U, Thrill.
In the discussion of the evolutior
of worlds, I have assumed that ul
Indies in the universe arc of the
same nut lire, composed of tho same
materials, and in their growth, gov.
erni'd by the same laws their only
ili!Iercncc being in age, size and de
grees of maturity. The meteor cor
responds with the infancy of the hu
man kind, the comet Is the youthful
stage, the satellite or moon is com-j
parable with early manhood, thej
planet with maturity, and the sun'
with that age of the Individual that1
gives him most power among his fcl-'
low men. Evidences upon this sulv
ject aro here in order. Are tuns and
planets grownup meteors?
l'rof. Lockycr, an orthodox scien
tist, says: "The existing distinction
between stars, commets and nebula1
re ts on no physical basis. They arc
all mi-tcoric in origin."
A standard cyclopedia, Alden
Man-fold, says;
rbTo'. . yi1r:r- f .iind In tb fl-ovin.
l lb ailloM i. I hill lr-lc on tie- bar-.:
And . .el in lh- -k v Oi.tt l llnov. tig
A vail -m lue Ih.-c ol I In -tur.
1 b.-re's a n..lt' lltiit l mi .--I In the -intring
C'f -.inir- that w.-re ten.l.-r hii-I ... !,
Aiel ileiuh in the lm-i- ui'-i-rin-.-uii:
I roin the m.-i.-l-o.-i thai .Ir.-.iin ut -.ur feet.
And life -k-em-i n i .en i-...!ne torv.
Hut lt rii.-l. lilt.' 11 -.'lii'ln.-. ill re:i-e;
t.r it ilriiu m uti it- I..I.M.M1 t.tt.1 its k-lory
'lo a lim.-ii ol tuMnte (.-.-. !
Atttutt'l C-mxf ituti'ttt.
:hakity that cost nothing.
Opt Jaell'
Crawford. Adventure ntth a
C'onfl-tonro Mad.
C'apt "Jack" Crawford, the loot
of the plain", tells a story un himself
that will 1 ear reneatititr. The ( ap
i.iin, it may be stated for thi in
formation of tho?e who never saw
him, i-i a tall, muscular fel uvr, who
wears his roal-l.lack hair down over
his shoulders a la Joaquin Miller
and Tui'.-ilo IJ!1I and pro-cuts a strik
ing appearance. He is .is mil l a man
as ever drew breath, with a heart as
tender as a woman's, but to a porsnn
who docs not known him In; looks as
though he ini;ht eat a giant raw
j every day for brett'ilast. 11h tout
ensemble is that or the hero of a yellow-backed
romance. Well the tap-
tain was on his wav to lunch one
"No new substance' day when a seedy specimen accstcd
has come to us from without. Iron him with a re uc-t lor a nuarter to
i largely predominant in icrolitcs. 1 buy a meal.
"There!" ejaculated Theodora, tart- , black silk domino vrapier and mask,
ly; "you've torn my dress-trail with j ..j am jK,st ,ny acting days," she
your clumsy feet. I've a great mind -j wuu ft 8Weet, pleasant laugh
not to let you come near me. when Thco smilingly demanded why
I'm very sorry, darling, apolo- I gne too wu9 ll((t ;u character, "and 1
gized the meek matron, turning ml j .,iarj derive my greatest pleasure to
and pale as she began to take down night from watching others!"
the luxuriant masses of llieouor.i s -Darling mania, 'cried lheo. turn
golden hair. i jng with' ostentatious tenderness toward
"What good dots it do to lie sorry?'
snapped the girl. "It's what you al
ways say. IK) make haste; uiun l i
tell vou I was tired."
Did you have a pleasant evening,
Theo?" ventured her mother, after a
few minutes of silence, during which
the beauty yawned several times.
"Tleasant enough," was the un
gracious reonse.
"Was Mr. St. Emil there?"
"Yes, said Theo, roused into some
thing like animation at the mention of
that name; "and that piece of pink-and-white
wax, his lady-mamma. Oh,
how anxious he was that I should make
a favorable impression on the old
woman!"
"And you!"
"Oh. I tilnved sweet simplicity' to
perfection said 'Yes, ma'am' and !
'No, ma'am'.' " nnd Theodora laughed
boisterously at the recollection. "How
delighted St. Emil yvas!"
"Then he is really interested?"
"Interested? Of course he is. Mark
my words, mamma, I shall lo Mrs. St.
Emil yet."
Mrs. Evelyn's eyes sparkled at the
alluring prosiect.
"Oniy went on Theodora, languid
ly, surveying her pretty face in a
cheval glass, "the idea of such a
mother-in-law almost daunts me. He
thinks so much of due reverence being
paid her, and I, for one. can't fall
down and worship any old woman
alive. But its just as well, I suppose
to keep up the illusion until after
we're married.
"Oh. certainly, certainly." said the
discreet mother, eagerly.
"How St. Emil would stare if he
heard me hauling you over the coals
sometimes," cried Theodora, with a
laugh, "lie thinks one's mother is
next door to one's guardian angel, the
fool!"
"Theo, don't talk so," said Mrs.
Evelyn, a contraction as if of pain
passing over her pule, worn face.
"I'm sure I've heard you call papa
a fool!"
"No Theo, you haven't."
"Then the more goose you," said
Theo. yawning fearfully. "Do make
iiaste. Aren't you most through?"
'Just through now, darling."
And Theodora Evelyn, dismissing
her mother just as she might have dis
missed any hired and and pensioned
slave, lay down to her prayerless pillow
to dream of wedding rings and a bridal
Hilar wreathed with yvhite blossoms.
For she was quite sure of lirant St.
Emil now.
"Mama," called Theo. the next
morning, and Mrs. Evelyn meekly
obeye-d the summons, comming from
the back room, where she yvas busily
engaged in ripping apart the breadths
of a rose-colored dress lielonging to
Theo. wiii. h that voting lady had taken
a fancy to have altered. ".Mama, here
are two ti.-':ets to the private mas
querade at Mrs. Almy's, with Mr. St.
Kmil's compliments one for you and
one for me. How ridiculous! The
idea of you ut a masquerade!"
Mrs. Evelyn's face had lighted up.
"I should really like to go for once,
Tl.eo," she said hesitatingly. "I
have never had an opportunity of see
ing you in society, darling, and---"
"t)h, Ixither!" interrupted Theo,
"as if that made any difference. But
Grant thinks a young lady shouldn't
attend a masquerade, of all places in
the world, without her mother's chap
eronage. and I suppose I must humor
him. What shall I personate, mam
ma? I should like to go ns Diana
with her bow and arrows, if you can
squeeze enough money out of pajw
for a d-cent costume.
"I will see what papa can spare
you, love.
"He's awfully stingy of late,'
served Theo, with a shrug.
"You shouldn't sjieak so of
j-apa, Theo," remonstrated Mrs.
lyn. "Business is very dull just
and our expenses are heavy.
"That's the very reason you shouldn't
be tagging after me to all the masque
rades in town," grumbled Theo. "But
I suppose we can't very well slip aside
of it. Any old black dress and a satin
domino msuk will do for you."
heart
Seven other metals copper, tin,
nickel, cobalt, chrome, manganese and.
molybdcna, enter Into the composi
tion of terolites. Soda, potash, mag-!
!.. .-Hi..-. ..l..,,.ir... ......K,.n i
iiu.-i.l, lout;, mil. a, uiuiiiinii,
ou'phur, phosDhorus hydrogen, and
other substances are found In a-roli-tcs.
All the a-rolitic substances ex
in the earth."
The Ward's Science Bulletin says.
"Known facts and scientific thought
point to the conclusion that the dif
ference between comets and meteors
or shooting stars; is analogous to the
dilTcrence between rain and mist"
l'rof. l'rontor says: "In all prob
"Indeed, mister, I haven't had f.
bite to eat for twenty-four hours,"
he put in api calingly as he saw tiie
long haired Westerner hesitate.
"I am here on expense, and can't
right well spare a quarter, but I am
going to get something to eat myself
and if you will c due along with me
I will give you a squ-ire meal."
The nan followed sn'kily ai they
entered a cheap restaurant, where
the, Captain ordered two big toiled
dinners, lioln ' hungry he soon dis
patched h.s own dinner, when he
chanced to look over at the mendi
cant and was surprised to see the
bi'ity Jupiter is not constituted dif- latter nibbling his food daintily, not
f . a t .L .. .1 -1' it nil ll!-a n b.in.ri-n tonn
ob-
your
her mother. "You see vou are in tne
fashion after all! I tried my best, Mrs.
St. Emil, to induce this mother of mine
to don a character dress, but she would
not consent. Oh Mrs. St. Emil, is it
time for the waltr. already? Mamma, if
you're quite sure it wouldn't tire you
too much to hold my bouquet!"
And Theodora Hotited away on Grunt
St. Emil's arm.
Once, during an interval in the
dancing, Grant came to his mother's
side.
"Does she not look beautiful to
nigl.r'. "Who? Miss Evelyn?"
"Of course. Whom else could I
possibly mean?"
"Yes, she is beautiful; and you,
Grant," Mrs. St. Emil added, with u
half smile, "you are falling deeper and
deeper in love with her. All the arrows
in her nuiver are piercing your
through and through, my d; iir boy
"Mother, you don't like her."
"I shall trv to do so for 'your sake,
Grant," said the lady, sighing softly-
"You still iersist in thinking that
she is not unliable. I am sure she
is."
"I like her manner toward her
mother, Grant," said Mrs. St. Emil:
"it is very affectionate nnd devoted.
Now go they are waiting for you to
take your place in the second set of the
lancers."
And as he hastened away she thought
almost sadly to herself:
"I must learn to love her, for Grant's
heart is set upon her, and he is too
good a son to marry without my cordial
consent."
"Mamma," whispered Theo, toward
the close of the evening, "you'll have
to come upstairs and help me takeoff
my tunic. The St. Emils have gone,
and there's no fun in staying any long
er. Hurry up!"
Mrs. Evelyn nod. led obedience, but
she could not explain to Theodora
that she would probably be detained
a few minutes longer bv the talk of
. . . . , , . i i . i
gossiping menus wno s:u dcmuu iier.
"Theo will wait for me,
thought.
Theodora, however, was also detained
a minute or two, murmuring soft
adieus to 6ome:of her gentlemen friends,
and when at length she Hew into the
dressing-room she yvas breathless with
haste.
"I am tired to death," she said,
petulantly, as In -r eye caught the figure
in the black domino standing at the
window. "Mamma, why couldn't you
have come after me, instead of chat
ting ayvay among those old fools by
the door. You might as well have
staid at home and minded your own
business, if you couldn't bo a less
clumsy chaperon. I'm tired of your
stupidity."
No answer but Theo never turned
her head from the glass where she was
contemplating her curls with the golden
fillet banded through them.
"You're sulking now, I supiose,"
she said, shrugging one alabiister-yvhitc
shoulder. "Well, sulk away to your
heart's content. I don't care! I shall
get rid of these airs and graces when I
am Mrs. St. Emil, nnd "
She stopped short, for in the glass she
sayr another domino-draped figure en
tering the door back of her her
mother's figure.
"Mamma!" she shrieked.
The other domino advanced quietly
from the recess of the window, and, to
her inexpressible dismay, Theo recog
nized the slender figure and aristocratic
bearing of Mrs. St. Emil.
"There has lieen some mistake here,"
said that lady, composedly. "Miss
Evelyn has mistaken me for hermother.
I am not her mother, nnd" she spoke
with quiet emphasis "I hope I never
shall be."
She left the room, and never saw
Miss Theodora Evelyn again.
Grant St. Emil, thus unexpectedly
enlightened as to the character of his
lovely divinity, left town within
a week or twoami yvhen next Theo
heard of him, he yvas married to a fair
little damsel, more like a human snow
drop than aught else. And Theo is
etill husband hunting, aud treats her
slu
ferent from the earth aud sun, and
we know that meteors contain the j
same elements that exist in the sun
and planets. We have every r'ea-on .
u Geneve inai an me pianeis are
constituted ot the same elements.
The present state of the solar system
is regarded as the result of a process
of development, and not of special'
creative fiats."
I might give numerous other evi
dences, going t) prove that the
growth of worlds is very similar to
the evolutions of animal life. In both i
cases, the big fish devour a large'
proportion of the little ones, and our
earth, our sun our solar system, our.
cluster of stars, are all moving into
new space, feediug on the attenu
ated ether of space and the meteors '
a rolltes and comets that have grown I
up In that otherwise chaotic ether
and space, as a her4 of Buffalo would
move at out in droves, feeling on the
pastures of the plains.
Each planet is catching its share of i
these "lesser bodies, and we desire to
ascertain whether coal, lime, iron and
other minerals laid down in strata in
t he oceans mav not have come from
the great comets that have struck
our earth, instead of from vegetation
and the shells of sea animals.
Our standard cyclopedia says: "Re
cent in vest igaiions have proen that
new-fallen meteorites contain six
times their own bulk of gases, ot
which 32 per cent, is carbonic oxide."
This substance Is composed of one
half carbon, and one-half oxygen,
then-fore, 1(5 per cent, of the gases
mentioned as belonging to meteorites
is carbon, in bulk three times asgreat
as the bulk of the meteors
1 have shown that meteors, comet-,
and planets are composed of similar
materials, and the above quotation
shows that meteorites contain three
times their bulk in carbon in the
..n;wi:u form, nnd therefore we must
I'oiiciuoe mat. comets contain iut;
same proportion of carbon.
As I intend to bring proof going to
sliuvv that our own moon was once a
comet, struck the earth, leaving with
the latter the moon's water and at
mosphere, 1 will here state that the
same prop irtion of diffused carbon
accompanying the moon when a
comet, would, if condensed into fuel
carbon, and depsited on earth, make
many times more coal than is now
known to exist in the carboniferous
strata of the earth. Therefore if a
comet as large :ts the moon ever did
strike the earth, its carbonic oxide
would account for our coal beds, its
atmosphere added to ours would so
:.-!.. j o, r.. oorwl i I ione ns tn.lectr.iv nfinrlv
all animal life, its waters would cause
a Noah's Hood, and our oceans would
be increased in depth, all of which,
geology proves have occurred.
The astronomers say that the spec
trum reveals large quantities of car
bon in the comets. In fact, If it
were not for the carbon, we could not
see the comets, for carbon is the sub.
stance that furnishes the light.
at all IUe a hungry man.
"Look here," said the host, lean
ing over and speaking n a low voice
to his guest. "I brought you here
because I believed you ve:e starving.
You lied to inc. Now I want to say-
to you that if you dn't cat eveiy bite
of that boiled dinner ar.d polish the
platter I will give you the cussedest
lickin' a white man ever got Now
get to work.
"i'he man obey with tcrror-lnjpired
alacrity and swallowed his c rncj
beef and cabbage like a starving har
vest hand. The wait jr, who had
overheard the Captain's threat, to d
the proprietor of the restaurant, and
he shook his fat sides as he watched
the gastronomic performance of the
frightened tramp When the meal
was dispatched the Captain called lor
pudding and ice cream for two.
The fraud gave a great gasp, and
throwing up both hands turned be
seechinglyly to the poet with this
supplication: ".;'av, Cunnel. let me
off this time, won't yon? I just got
up from a squate meal when I met
you. It yvasn't something to eat I
wanted, but something to drink.
Tlease, Cunnel, have pity on a fellow,
won't you?"
The "Cunnel" told the fellow to go
and be quick about it or he would
kick him through cverv street iD
town No second invitation was
needed. The gorged bcsrirar ".skated."
When the charital le Captain tried
to pay his bill the lolly Teutonic pro
pr'et r refused to let him liouidate
for the tramp.
"Why not?" asked the astonished
gentleman from the far West,
j "1 pays half dollar for a good laugh
! any dime. You h;:f gif me a good
i laugh." Chicago Evening Post,
from th" centipede's attentions th!
was pn.babiy due t. some inflamma
tory condition cf the blood In the In
ii' i.lti ii, or possibly l-y the transler
lente of scft'caemlc matter over
v hi. h the insect might recently have
cr.iwiol. Most peop e touched by a
'e,,t i ede experience a tesuitant fever
an 1 nausea, which is g eatly mitl-
: -1 ly treatment. Interna! an I lo
cal, with ammonia, or even ly the
I r ie.;si employed by t'.ie uiu'cteer
cl.i-s, namely, rubbing the affected
I art yvith garlic The centipede Is
easily detected in the dark, as it
uakes a phosphorescent trail.
flow Animal. Amuse lliem-iol-ios.
Iii animals the faculty of amuse
ment awakes very early. Our four-
footed friends seem to be aware of
this, and make it a part of their par
ental duties to amuse their young. A
ferret will piay with her kittens, a
cat with hers, a dog with her puppies.
A mare will piay yvith her foal, though
the writer has never seen a cow try
to amuse her calf, nor any birds their
young. If their mothers do not
amuse them, the young ones invent
games of their own.
A I'.ock of ewes and lambs were
once observed in adjoining fields, sep
arated by a fence with several gaps in
it. "Follow my leader" was the game
most in favor yvith this flock, the big-ge-t
lamb leading around the Held
and then jumping tiie gap, with all
the others following In single tlle;any
lamb that took the leap unusually
well would give two or three more
e nthusiastic jumps cut of si eer exu
berant happiness yvhen it readied the
other side. Fawns played a sort of
cross touch from oneside to the other,
the "touch" in each case being by tho
cose.
Little pigs are also great at com
bined play, which generally takes the
form of races. Emulation seems to
form part of their amusement, for
their races seem always to have the
winning of the first place for their
object, and arc quite different fr-rin
those combined rushes for food, or
cause'.css stampedes in which little
pigs are wont to indulge. Racing is
an amusement natural to some ani
mals, and, being soon taught by others,
becomes one of their most exciting
passtimes.
Many horses, and all racing dogs
learn to be as keen at winning as
schoolboys. Birds delight in the free
and fanciful ue of their wings. Then;
is all the (Inference possible between
the flight of birds for '-business'' and
pleasure: pml many kinds on line
days, wilt soar to vast heights for
pleasure alone.
The O rls and the Men.
"Men arc peculiar creatures," said
fhe girl in white as she nestled closer
to the big pile of sofa cushions. "I
have noticed that the shy, bashful,
self-conscious man can be captured
twice as easy as the chatty man who
thinks girls are the dearest things on
earth and usually tells them so. I
have known men that coul Jn't but
ton a girl's glove or help her on with
a wrap without an embarrassed man
ner that was absolutely painful march
up to a girl and prop-.o-i without a bit
of hesitation. Yet the man who
is called 'a confirmed old maid' will
make love to every girl he meets, and
unless an exceptionally smart little
woman angles for him he spends his
days in bachelordoru. It is those
men of whom every one says: 'Oh,
he'll never marry; he hasn't enough
courage to ak a girl to be his w ife,'
that sends a whole community into
universal heart disease by calmly tell
ing them of his engagement. Now,
1 can't understand it at all unless it
is that the bashful m:in takes it for
granted that women are angels and
the otlicr man knows v. hat artful
creatures they are."
"I remember a man who always
took two or even three girls to parties
Has the earth been struck by great,1 and simply wouldn't become the pi op-
comets? It has been struck by great
meteors, and therefore why not by
great comets?
Dr. Dick, the astronomer and phil
osopher, gives the following: "The
fall of mete-oi ic-stones is much more
frequent than is generally believed.
They are. sometimes of great magni
tude, the volume of several having
exceeded that of a body of seventy
miles in diameter. One which passed
erty of any oae of them." said the
girl in pink. "If he gave one a box
of bonbons every other girl in the
set had a box, too. He certainly was
the most unimpressionable person I
ever sayv in my life. All the girls
were head if. love with him and he
yvas finally carried o:f by a domineer
ing little per on who kept him busy
obeying her orders. And how that
! girl did crow about it! The very day
within twenty-five miles of us, was ! after he proposed to h-r she visitel
estimated to weigh 600,000 tons, and
to move with a velocity of twenty
miles a second, a fragment of It alono
reaching the earth."
This was a monster meteor, and )o
will be difficult to draw the line di
viding meteors and comets. The
every one oT those other gins ana
asked them to be bridesmaids."
Uecord.
The Crawl of the Centipede.
I have not known of any person dy
ing from the crawl of a centipede,
says a writer in tne San 1 rancisco.
cyclopedia states that the tails of j thou ,h thcse creaU,res have a sad
these meteors have been known to
continue for an hour after the meteor
had disappeared. Copyrighted. W.'
T. Foster.
And Ho Mnllc.l a Sickly Smllo.
The young lather stood over the
cradle, critically inspecting his first
born. 'Of course it's a healthy, weli
formed baby, Lucy," he said to his
wife, "and will be a credit to the
ramily when It grows older, but it's
awful homely just now."
"Dear litt'c thing!" cooed a neigh
bor who happened in a few moments
later. "It's the very image of its
papa." Chicago Tribuue.
reputation in many parts of Mexico.
"The crawl," I say, for the centi
pede's venomous principles is con
tained In the" glands of the feet, and
Is distributed as he runs. The riahu
is that he manes a series of footholes
as he runs. Into which he injects his
venom; but 1 think this Is inaccurate-
I never succeeded in finding
any appearance of puncture in l'e-h
tracked by a centipede; and Isistead
of a double red line, such as his two
lines of feet might be expected to
produce, only one red trail. There
fore I think that he simply exudes or
leposits an acrid fluid, which Irri
tates and inflames the flesh. In
those cases where persons have died
-Question ot Legal Interpretation
Only.
It has not been so very long since
the old English court rules passed
out of observance, and. when they
were in vogue, nowhere were they ob
served more strictly than in South
Carolina. The rules provided that
a lawyer when he spoice In court must
wear a black eown and coat, and that
th? Sheriff must wear a cocked hat
and sword. On one occasion a law
yer named 1'etti.grue arose to speak
in a case on trial.
"Mr. rettlsrue," said tho Judge,
"vou have on a light coat. You can
not speak, sir."
', your Honor," Tettigrue re
plied, "may it please the court, I
conform to the law."
"No, Mr. I'ettigrue," declared the
Judge, "you have on a light coat
You cannot speak.,"
"But, your Honor," insisted the
lawyer, "you niisinterp ct Allow
me to interpret: The law says that
the barrister must weara black gown
and coat, does it not?"
"Yes," replied the Judge."
"And does your Honor hold thai
it means that both gown and coat
must be black?"
"Certainly, Mr. Teltigruc; certainli
sir," answered his Honor."
"An 1 the law further says," con
tinued Mr. I'ettigrue, "that the
Sheriif must wear a cockei hat and
sword, does it not?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Tettigrue," tht
court answered somewhat impati
ently. "Anrl do you mean to sav your
Honor," queried I'ettigrue, "that
the svord must be cocked as Well as
the hat?"
"Eh!' cr h'm," mused his Honor.
'You cr continue your speech,
Mr. retti-jrue,-' Louisville Courier
JournaL Man eM.jects.
In the name of all that is good,
why should girls, who are dowered by
nature yvith a hundred charms which
make them sweet and loveable, copy
rude man? Do you find anything in
life so detestable asa womanish man,
girls? Well, then, you know exactly
i onr feeling yvith regard! to the man
nish girl. And yet there are few
things we enjoy that you have not
gathered unto yourselves. You wear
! our clothes as nearly as the police reg
ulation will permit. Our coats, our
shirts, collars, cravats, and gloves
have been made yours; you cut your
hair short and surmount it by a boy's
hat. You adopt our slang, and,
ala. k-a-day! even points; many of
your pretty lips are familior yvith the
taste of the cigarette. You plav
cards for money, bet on horses, and
talk shop at the races. I don't know
but all this contains a certain moral
lesson for the man if he doesu't like
the copy he should improve the orig
inal. Nevertheless, he objects to tin;
method of instruction. Hold to the
old-fashioned charms which consti
tute your real power, girls, and let.
a!one the feminine imitation of a bad
masculine model.
A Strange Illuniler.
French law governing marriaget.
requires a straight record of each in
dividual s identity from birth to mar
riage, to make sure that it is marry
ing the rih i. persons. The other day
a man and a woman presented them
selves at the Mairie. Fjvcrything
was according to "rule, all tiie official
documents were in readiness. When
these cam to be examined, the bride's
record of baptism had set her down
as "one male child." There could be
ro going behind the returns. The
Mayor refu ed to perform the cere
many, and the despairing couple went
off to consult a lawyer as to how thi
bride could substantiate her sex lu
the eyes of the French law with this
ecord against her.
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