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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8.
BeUten- amd Propri
S. F. BGHWEIER,
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13.1895.
NO. 13.
YOL. XLIX
1 HAITEK XIV.
So now we know as much about thfl
matter, or very nearly as much, as
Oeraldine did herself. She had been
equipped for her morning1 ride, whf
and trloves in hand, ere she had
broached tho sub ect, ani thero hal
been no time for discussion, nor for
mentioning the idea to Cecil, who wai
in waiting outside: more than th:s an
opportunity for conveying the decision
to lSellendcn unheard had to be
watche.1 for. and altogether it seemed
as if slio were engaged in something
contraband.
ilellcnden was ia the row that morn
ing, and it seemed to young- Raymond
that the conliilence of the previous
night had not deserted Lira. He was
riding, moreover, which ho had not
once before done, to that he could now J
oin company with the cousins if ho i
chose and he did chooe. lie put hii
horse alongside of theirs as a matter
of course, and their was nothing to Lf
said.
1 'recently GeralJino murmured some
thing to him aside, lane beut over hei
sad ile to do so, atteeting to steady a
iiug.t on the part of her horse: but it
could scarcely have been anything to
do with "Sir Lancelot's" restlessness
which I rouglit the ins'antaneous look
of pleasure into her com anion sface as
be li.-tcncd. What ootid it have been.-
Uellendt-n loosed, indeed, as he felt,
greatly pleased. "V can take a
fourth", yo i know." he ob. erved.
'would one of your cousins like tc
come?"'
"They liavo lwen already, all ex
cept Cecil " here Geraldine stopped
Middenly. What was she saying? Sho
did not "want CYrcil asked, would have
l ecu sally put out had he been so. and
!;cie she wa-", as it were, hinting foi
iin invitation for him. fc'o it was taken.
L-visic ntlv.
.-hull 1 ask him?" said Bellenden
lifter a moment' 1 ause.
ai.!-wer. tie glanced at hep, saw
That he slm. ld have none, and was
more cor.tented than ever.
In truth, it had been the merest slip
of the tongiK on t eraldine'a part, the
bald .-tarenient of fact, s'nee 6he wai
alie:!y beginning to wish that the ring
tit tho do r-beil would not quite so fre
tiiicnliy mean yo ug i aymona's voice
in the hall, and step upon the stair. and
what it was not to be taken so oom
vletelv for -'ranted that he was to bo
of the party whenever anything was
arranged between her and Ethel and
AlL ia. Thev could not now go to a
concert, nor a llowershow, r or a pic
ture gallery they could scarcely walk,
(shop, or drive, but what the brother
t'ull be met somewhere, even if he
iiai not started with the rest at the
ouUset. To be sure, if he bad been
flow as bclore. the merely attentive
cousin and usful companion, his com
j::inv might still have been welcome:
but'a'a. kt a girl s unening instinct
had told her of late that the time for
tbis had past.
Those constant visits, those uneasy
looks, those close and frequent cross
examinations, those fitful days of moody
depre.-sioii succeeded bybursts.of light
liuurtcdncss and relief - all carried
their own tale.
To ask him now to make a fourth as
Ucllenden's gu-ts ' And for herself,
to have to sit bv L'ellenden'side, con-
scious of those ..ealous. watchful eyes
following every movement, those sharp
ears on the catch for every word? She
could not do it.
"Centlv-gently. Sir Lancelot. '-
Your 'horse is fidgeting for a cantor
Miss Campbell.''
And 01 they all went, and not an
other word was said about the opera:
b ;t thd affair came off nevertheless.
The strawberry tea brought no im
pro cment in matters, in so far as ite
givers were concerned.
' eruldine and her grandmother ar
rived lte. and stayed aownstairs eat-in-'
ice ;md erinking coffee, until af
ter the i-..cital had begun, Mrs. Camp
Ivli considering that she might pleas
liers. lf an I Uka any liberties she chose
in her daughter's housi: and. accord
ingly, when at length the two came
upstairs, tho largo room was full to
the brim, and not a chair to be had
upon seeing which granny protested
that she was glad it was so, for she
preferred remaining in the cooler at
mosphere of tho landing outside, tc
nny a i ount of line re itation in a pant
ing, breathless, overcrowded drawing
room. . .
f ;eraldine was of the same ODinion;
she had bem s'irfeited with amuse
ments of late and the sounds from
within excited no curiosity or desir
for more in her bosom.
1'resently she drew her chaperon
out ur.on the balcony, cool and texpt
in under its shady awning, and
banked in with flowers: and Cecil who,
as iil-l.M-k would have it, had got
wed-'edin at the very far end of the
la- .'est room, close by the platform
upon which he had had to introJuco
the reciter, and from whence subso
mietit escape had been impossible,
could ju.-t civeive the wreath of rose
buds for which he haa been looking,
flit past In the far distanse, hopclesslj
out of reach.
lie must now perforce wait for the
half hour's interval ere anything coujJ
be done. .
.Never had speaker been so wean
eome: never had performance Beemea
of such unending length!
fans were fluttering, lace ecarK
were being loosened, i ositiona were
bein" changed, yawns were beina
stilled, and it became evident that
everv one was hot, and tired, and
lon-in ' to move, and bored to death,
and"the 1 ckly author ot the mischiei
knew that ho had only himself to
thank for the general ennui. He had
selected a few long pieces, instead ol
abater number of short ones, hi
Idea being that on. e by Gera dine .
aide, he should not be required U
,nove so often, and do bis part as host
ilo had to d his cousin to be early, and
fancied she had promised to be bo -In
jvhichcase she too would have been
UP besulo the little platform, and close
to the urge window where be had
opt places vacant ao long as he could,
lie had known she would like the air.
ind sue might, lie thought, have
rusted him to see she had it.
Ho was now cauirht in his own trP'
The rosebuds a, whither be
could not follow; and then, when the
long-looked-for interval did at last
come, and starting from his set, be had
manag ed to struggle do wn the room a
little way being almost rude to one
and another in his determination not
to be detained, his mother his mother
again! caught him, and all unwitingly
frustrated every advance by present
ing a lady of consequence, for wti,m
bis arm to the tea-room was required.
"What a place of torment was that
warm, whUzing, buzzing tea-room to
Um.
Ceraldine was Bot there, as he bad
faintly hoped she might be; but in
numerable other ladies were, and as
all, or nearly all of them, were known
to him, and as men weie few, it fol
lowed that he had to wait on one and
anotuer, procure tea for this fair.co.lee
for that, and carry cakes, and butter
rolls, and sti aw berries about, till his
"ery soul sickened witnin him.
In the fullness of her satislactlon at
the time when the tea-party had been
in embryo, his mother had ordered
with so liberal a hana that no fewer
than three kinds of cool, budding,
delicious cream iced, clotted, and
plain were now offered with the
strawberries, to he accepted according
to taste: and this choice, necessitating
delay and compliment, was the last
straw on the camel's back to the un
fortunate lover.
ile thought he should never tave
done, never get upstairs again. As
fast as he had satisfied some, others
appeared: and his own dame was not
to bo persuaded into impatience to re
ascend. Is'o; she thanked him, but she
was quite comfortable, and quite will
ing to wait a little while where she
was. She had found some friends to
talk to. Would he come for her pres
ently Still no Geraldine. He had just made
np his mind to rush upstairs and bring
down nis lousin, regardless of obstruc
tions, when he was beckoned up by his
rightful charge, and the chance passed,
since, when he had deposited her
above upon a sofa, the room had near y
nlled again, and the second part ol the
programme was about to begin.
lie would not be caught again, he
.-owed: and told himself be knew bet
ter than to be found inside the door
way: so flew back to the landing,
and hovered there, peering this way
and that, hanging over the banister,
scanning the hall below, making short
dis ursive flights into the balcony, but
never once taking a real look among
the seated audience until the whole
thing was over, and they, too, had
isen.
And then, just as he was about to
ask his mother and his sister whether
the vision of the rosebud wreath had
been a delusion on his part, and Geral
dine had never reallv been near the
p'a -e at all. whom should he see but
her fair self coming down from the far,
far end of the room, from behind the
platform indeed, where young madam
had ensconced herself during all the
latter part ot the entertainment, hav
ing seen her cousin safely pas.i down
stairs in the iuterva', and feeling se
cure that he would not re-enter tho
great room on his return.
She had been disporting herself on
the balcony, Uellenden with her, dur
ing tho early portion of the afternoon,
and we may I e euro he had not left her
Hftorwards.
" They had both enjoyed the recital,
and nad listened to it with a politeness
born of contentment with their own
situation and the surroundings. Granny
had been with them, well enough
pleased, too: granny was beginning to
have her own ideas about Sir Fred
erick, and to think that his punish
ment bad perhaps lasted sufficiently
long and 30 no one had helped poor
Cecil, and his mother, who ought to
h iv e been his chief support, had done
him an act: al in ury.
"A great success, Charlotte," qouth
the old lady, blithly, to her daughter
as she now passed out; "a very pleas
ant pn-ty. If I had your rooms I should
have liked to try something of the kind
mji!o)f. Hut though our little house
:,u ts me admirably, it is not intended
tor entertaining. Another year, per
haps, we may bo accommodated a lit
Me more commodiously."
"I bad all three kinds of cream at
once, Cecil," wnisperec Geraldine as
if 1 e were sure to laugh and be de
lighted: I had, indeed; and they were
- or rather it was to good. And such
strawberries! It was the strawberries
that kept granny and me downstairs
we could not tear ourselves away from
the strawberries, could we, granny?'
"lhey were delicious, certainly,"
assented - granny. "Charlotte, you
must tell me your greengrocer, or did
these come from your own garden?'
for they rere now in a family group,
:nd could ask family questions.
o, the strawberries had not come
from their garden there were none so
tine in their garden; butthesohad
1 een s ipplied by Lady Raymond's owq
particular market-woman her market-woman,
wit 1 whom she had dealt
fo- years and years, ani who had never
disa- pointed ner, ana mignt De ae
I ended upon for anything else she un
dertook, hie fore she had finished a
cratitied eulogv. Cecil saw Geraldine
twitching bis grandmother's sleeves
to go.
'You aro in a great hurry," baid he,
moodily.
'i'e ause we are late. I am not in a
hm-rv to fro. but in a hurry to be gone.
Therein lies the difference. If we are
not gone within a few moments we
shall have to scamper through all the
evening afterwards, and my poor dear
does not like to seami er."
One of two things in the little speech
had a strange liavor of Inchmarew in
his cars as he listened. He had never,
for one thing, heard granny railed his
cousin's ' poor dear'' Lefore in London.
He bad not seen her coaxed, and hus
tled in that childish fashion of late.
C'eralaine herself, moreover, looked
sau ier, I risker, more mischievous
an I frolicsome than she bad presented
herself to tne world as a grown young
lady. He fancied she gave a little
siclp as she ran downsta'rs to the car
riage. Where were they going that
evening? he wondere. He had not
known or anything being -on."
Was it too late to asic?
He was still undecided when tho
carriage rolled away: and perhaps it
was well, for he might not nave been
invited to -'oin the rarty, and. whether
he had a not, ne would certainly have
disapprove! of it.
The ladies were going to pass an
out-of-door evening in the illuminated
gardens, then growing to be the nov
elty most talked about, and a night for
which had often been planned, but
some other amusement had as invari
ably intervened. Geraldine had actu
ally not been yet, in consequence; and
now, on Bellenden's suggesting wa
he could procure for her and Mrs.
CamnbeU admission to tho lighting-
tower if they would permit him to ac
company them, who could have re
fused bo good an offer.' trom tne eieo
trie-lighting tower, he assured them,
in omoarabiv the lest view of tho
scene was to b? obtained; and the mass
of people thj thousands of colored
lights, and iheilvery fountains, with
their ever-changing hues and tints fly
ing up into the dark sky overhead
the whole was a sight worth seeing.
For his part, he liked the place, there
was so much to be seen, and so many
curious things to t investigated. He
liked the a .uarium had they really
never seen a large aquarium, and Ger
aldine was so fond of sea creatures? He
m st't .ke her. at least, to look at the
anemones. The anemones wero bner
ban any he had seen anywhere.
And with the last topic had come a
certain hesitation, and both had known
of what t e other was thinking.
But it had all ended well. He had
been bidden to dine in Mount Street at
any early hour, and the carriage had
been ordered to be at the door for the
three to go to the gardens at soon after
H o'clock. It was the remembranse of
this early dinner which had set Ger
aldine to twitching her grandmother's
loeve at the Raymonds'.
TO BE CONTINUED.
A Care for Bores.
Of the Hungarian . statesman Fran
cis Deak it is related that he used to
rid himself of troublesome visitors by
telling them the following story:
"Once, when in Faris, ISajioleon I
paid a visit to a hospital for old sol
diers. Here he perceived among the
rest a man who had lost one of his
arms, and he entered into conversation
with him.
" 'Where did you lose your arm?"
asked the Emperor.
' 'At Waterloo, your Majesty.
" 'Then, no doubt, you curse the Em
peror and your country every time you
'00k at your mutilated limb':'
" Xo, indeed.' protested the veteran,
'for the Emporor and my native land I
would readily sacrilice my other arm,
if needs be.'
" 'I can hardly believe that,' the Em
peror quietly remarked, and passed on.
"But the soldier, anxious to prove
that he was in earnest, immediately
drew a saber from its sheath and lopped
off his other arm."
Here Deak would pause and hx &
penetrating look on his visitor.
"Well, what have you to say of suet
a man and such an action?"
A sublime act of self-sacrifice. A
truly noble character?" This was the
style of reply invariably given.
"Hut the story has one flaw," he
would gravely add.
"What is that, pravf
" It is simply impracticable. How
could a one-armed man contrive to cut
off his only remaining arm?"
it el ig to us Musical Boxes.
Swiss music boxes of an elaboration
almost unsuspected by the average
Xew Yorker are sold by German-speaking
Swiss in the German quarter. They
are of all shapes and sizes. Xotonly
may the German "drink his beer to the
tune of the -"Watch on the Rhine,"
played by a contrivance in the false
bottom o'f the mug, but there are also
musical flower pots, cigar temples,
work boxes, and artificial birds in
cages. Odder still are a musical cruci
fix playing a Te Deurn, pious statues
with like 11 usical attachments, and pic
tures fo- the stations of the cross that
phtv appropriate sacred music. These
thinrr-5 cost all the way from f2tof2o0.
and some made specially to order bring
much higher prices. I he musical
phonograph has somewhat injured the
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sale ox musical uoxes 01 me uic&ci-m-
the-slot variety, though they are still
made and sold. Xew York Sun.
Tbe Frost Fish.
A curious fish, the "frost fish" of
Xew Zealand, has been recently ex
hibited in Edinburgh. It was brought
over to England by one of the meat
c irrying steamers in the refrigerator,
and is described as nearly hve loot in
length, with flat sides about four inches
deep, and at the thickest part not mote
than one inch through. It has a long,
hard, sharp head, armed with several
sets of formidable teeth, a most cieii.
cately transparent back fin running
from head to tail, about as fine as a
film of gelatine; the taper at the tail
not more than a quarter of an inch
across, and - the tail is of very small
size for such a fish, measuring not more
than two and a half inches across the
outer edges. Judigng from its present
appearance the fish in its natural state
must be as silvery as a herring, though
without scales. The "frost fish" is said
be excellent eating.
Powers of tbe French President.
The President of the French Repub
lic has no veto power, certainly not in
the same form as that exercised by the
President of the United States, liut
he has powers not possessed by our
President. He can adjourn the Cham
ber of Deputies at any time, although
not more than twice in the same ses
sion, for any period not exceeding a
month; he can close a regular session
at any time after it has lasted five
months and, with the consent of the
Senate, he can dissolve the Chamber of
Deputies at his discretion, but in that
case he is compelled to order a new
election to be held within two months
after dissolution. Brooklyn Eagle.
Many men who stund on their h inor
have a hard time keeping on their
feet-
Nine troubles out of ten will run
when you look them squarely in the
face.
Wo loe more friends by our requests
than by our refusals.
Some men get duwn on their neigh -bors
when they find they can't came
np to them.
Oetticg into debt it like flying over
ice; getting out :s like climbing
greased pole.
A woman talks at her lest when she
doesn't know what she is talking about.
tU.la monster whiob. thev cm neva
terrible monster WUlOIl mej Cta nevs
Lawyers work in the cause of joMlCa;
doctors in the Cause Ol mercy.
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ToU can tell by the flavor Cf the
honey where the bees have been.
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Fully ninety per cent o ! the people
will impose npon yon If they can.
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u,UgUra.c...Uu.. """""'!
1 eXpresses the inmost,
J . seldom laugh.
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DU1CWU JJ1V-
REV. DJL TALMAGE.
tHI BBOOKXiTS DlviB'B
. OAT SKBMOX.
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Subject: "A Snowy Day."
tmt "Ho want down and slew a lion la a
it in a snowy day." I Chronicles xt., 23. .
Have you evfr heard of him? Ills nam
wan Benalah. lie waa a man of stout muscl
and of srreat avoirdupois. Ills father was a
hnro, and he inherited prowess. He was
mthlftic, and there was iron in his blood,
and the strongest bond in his body was baok
bine. lie is known for other wonders be
sides that of the text. Aa Egyptian flva
cubits In stature, or about seven feet nine
inches hieh, was moving around in bragga
docio rnd flourishing a great spear, earolesj
as t" whom he killed, and B -naiahoi my text,
with nothing but a walking stick, came upon
him, snatched the spear from the Egyptian,
and with one thrust ot ite sharp edg put an
end to the blatant bully, whloh makes us
think of the story in our Greek lesson, too
hard for in if the smarter boy on the same
benh ha l n t helped 113 out with it, In which
Hnr.itlus the Sfa.'eionlin and Dloxippu the
Athenian fousht in the presence of Alexan
d sr. ths Jla jwlonlan arme I with shield and
sword and javelin and the Athenian with
nothing but a club. Tbe Macedonian hurled
the javelin, but the Athenian successfully
d )dge J it, and the Macedonian lifted the
BDe.ir, hut the Athenian with the club broke
it. and the Macedonian drew the sword, bat
the Athenian tripped him np before he oontd
strike with it. and then the Athenian with hit
club would have beaten the life out of the
Macedonian, fallen among hi useles
weapon., if Alexander had not e juimandsd,
"Stop! Stop"."
Bat Benalah of th ti.-rt Is about to do
so netlung that will eclipse even that. There
Is trouble in all the neighborhood. Lamb!
a- e carried off in the night, and children ven
turing only a little way from their father'!
house are found mangled ana aeaa. lot
fact is tho land was infested with lions, and
f w people dared meet one ot these grizzly
beasts, much less corner or attaok It. As a
good Providence would have It, one morning
a footstep of a lion was tracked in the snow.
Tt hal been out on its devouring errand
through the darkness, but at last it Is fonnd
bv trie impression or tne iour paws on me
white surface of the ground which way the
Wild beast came and which way it had gone.
Perilous undertaking, but Benaiah, the hero
of the text, arms himself with such weapons
as those early days afforded, gunpowder
having been Invented in a far subsequent
century by the German monk Bertholdul
Bchwarz. unereTorn without gun or any
kind ot firearms, Benalah of the text no
doubt depended on the sharp steel edge for
his own defense and the slaughter of the
lion as hn followed the track through the
snow. It may have been a javelint It may
have been only a knife. But what BenoiaS
lacks in weapons he will make up in strength
of arm and skill of stroke. But where is
the lion. We must not get oft his track
in the snow. The land has many
isterns, or pits, for eatohing rain, the
rainfall being very scarce at certain seasons,
and hence these cisterns, or reservoirs, are
digged here and there and yonder, lions
have an instinct which seems to tell them
wh-n thev are pursued, and this dread mon
ster of whiah I speak retreats into one of
thesT cisterns which happened to be free of
water and is there panting from the long ran
and licking its Jaws after a repast ot human
flesh and after quaffing the red vintage 0
human blood.
Benalah U all alert and comes cautiously
en toward the hiding place of this terror ot
the field. Coining to the verge ot the pit, he
looks down at the lion, and the lion looks
np at him. What a moment it was when
their eyes olashed! But while a modern Da
Chamu, uoruon camming or oir namuei
Baker or David Livingstone would have
tust brought the gun to the shoulder, and
eld the eye a?aiat the barrel, and
blazed away Into the depths, and finished
the beast, Benaiah, with only the old
time weapon, can do nothing until h)
gets on a level with the beast,
and so he jumps into the pit, and the lion,
with shining teeth cf rage and claws lifted to
tear to shreds the last vestige of human life,
springs for the man, while Benaiah springs
for the beast But the quick stroke of the
steel edge flashed again and again and again
until the snow was no longer white and tbe
right foot of triumphant Benaiah Is halt
covered with the tawny mane of the slain
horror of Palestine.
Now you see how emphatle and tragiti
and tremendous are the words ot ray text,
"He went down and slew a lion In a pit in a
snowy dav." Why put that ia the Bible?
Whv put It twice in the Bible, once in the
booV of Samuel and here in the book of
Chronicles? Oh, the practical lessons are so
many for you and for me! What a cheer In
this subject for all those of you who are in
conjunction of hostilelreumstancs.Thrp
things were against ' Bonalnh of my text
In the moment of combat, the snow that Im
peded bis movement, the pit that environed
him in a small space, and the lion, with open
Jaws and unlifted paw. And yet I hear the
shout of Benaiah s victory. Oh, men and
women of three troubles, yon say, "I eould
stand one, and I think I eould stand two,
but three are are least one too many."
There is a man in business perplexity ani.
who has sickness In his family, and old age
is coming on. Three troubles a Hon, a pit
and snowy day. There Is a good woman
with failing health and a dissipated husband
and a wayward boy three troubles. There
Is a yonng man, salary out down, bad
oough, frowning future three troubles.
There Is a maiden with difficult school
lessons she cannot get, a face that Is not
as attractive as some or ner sonoounam , m
prospect that through hard times she must
quit school before she graduates three trow
blea. There is an author, his manuscript re
tctAd. his nower of nrifflnntlon In decadence.
a numbness In foreflnger and thumb, whloh,
threatens paralysis three troubles. There
Is a reporter of fine taste sent to report a
pugilism Instead of an oratorio, the oopy
he hands in rejected because the rP9'.
Is full, a mother to support en small,
Income three troubles. I could maron
right off these seats and across this platform,
if thev would eome at my eall, 600 people
with three troubles. This is the opportunity
to nlav the hero or the heroine, not on a
small stage, with a few hundred people to
clan their approval, but with all the galleries
of heaven filled with sympathetio and ap
plauding spectators, for we are ''surrounded
hv a irreat cloud of witnesses." Mv brother.
my sister, my father, my mother, what a
chanoe yon havel While you are in the
struRicle, If you only have the graoe of
Christ to listen, a voice parts the
heavens, saving, ''My graoe 'ia sufficient
for thee," "Whom the Lord loveth He chast
eneth " "Ton shall be more than conquerors. "
And that reminds me of a letter on my table1
written by some one whom I suppose to be at
this moment present, saying, "My dear, dear
doctor, yon will please pardon the writer for
asking that at some time when yon feel like
it yon kindly preach from the thirtieth
Psalm, firth verse, 'Weeping may endure for
a night, but joy eometh In the morning, and
much oblige a downtown business man."
80 to all downtown business men and to
all uptown business men I say: If you have
on band goods that you cannot sell and
debtors who will not or cannot pay, and yon
are also suffering from uncertainty as to
What the Imbecile American Congress will do
about the tariff, you have three troubles, and
enough to bring you within the range of the
consolation of my text, where you find the
triumph of Benaiah over a lion, and a pit
and a snowy day. If you have only one
trouble I cannot spend any time with you
to-day. Ton mast have at least three,
and then remember how many have tri
umphed over such a triad ot misfortune.
Paul had three troubles! Banhedrin de
nouncing him that was one great trouble)
phvsles.l inflrmitv. which he called "a thom
In the flesh," and although we know not whnt
the thorn was, we do know from the figure
Y,tx ncail r-ixr it miio have Kswkn anmntlllnC
be used that it must have been something
Um-thstsutli.MMn.ltoouwe:
approaching martyrdom'het made the three
that stack him that
1 irouutea. uo.r w ii.il uo b'vp,
only one misfortune, I could stand that, but
iibwkivowmiiji a uiuiki-,
I He says: "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing,
poor, yet .making many rich. Having noth-
I Ing, yet possessing ail things," "Thanks be
nnto God, who giveth ns the victory through
cnr Lord 'jus Christ."
I David had three troubles, a bad boy,
.! temptation to dissoluteness and dethrone,
ment. What does he say? "God is pur re.
. mr.,1 tranftll A TPtT Vjresant neiD in
time of trouble.. Therefore will not ws fear,
though the earth T removed; and though
the mountains be east into the midst ot the
see."
John Wesley had three troubles defa
mation by mobs, domestto Infelicity, fatigue,
from more sermons preached and more miles
traveled than almost any man of his time.
What does he say? "The best ot all is, God
Is with us." And when his poet brother,
Charles Wesley, said to him, "Brother John,
If the Lord were to give me wings, I'd fly."
John's reply was, "Brother Charles, if the
Lord told me to fly, I'd do it and leave Hinr
V find the wings.'1
Oeorge Whltefleld had three trouble) re,
lection from the pulpits of England be cans
he was too dramatio -that was one troublei
ItrabUmua, or the crossing of his eyes, that
mbjeoted him to the caricature of all thi
mall wits ot the day; vermin and dead ani.
tools thrown at him while he preached on thi
commons that made three troubles. Never
theless, his sermons were so buoyant that a
little child, dying soon after hearing him
preach, anld In the Intervals ot pain, -1M
sne sto-slrJVhiVaei4-s God." Oh, 1 mm
J K.B'i that nenatah ot my text was not th
only one who triumphed over a lion in a pit
on a snowy day.
Notice in my text a victory over ba
weather. It was a snowy day, when one'l
vitality is at a low ebb and the spirits are
naturally depressed and one does not feel
like undertaking a great enterprise, when
Benaiah rubs his hands together to warm
them by extra friction, or trashes his arms
around him to revive circulation of thq
blood, and then goes at the lion, which was
all the more fierce and ravenous, because ol
the sharp weather. Inspiration here admits
ntmospberlo hindrance. Tbe snowy day a
Valley Forge well nigh put an end to the,
struggle for American Independence. Thi
snowy day demolished Napoleon's army on
we way from Moscow.
The inclemency of January and February
weather. Utas sssayeaa bankrupted thou,
sands ot merchants. Long succession ol
stormy Sabbaths has crippled innumerablt
churches. Lighthouses veiled by the snow
on many a coast have failed to warn off from
the rooks the doomed frigate. Tens ol tho
sands of Christians of nervous temperament
by the depression of a snowy day almost
despair of reaohing heaven. Yet in that
style of weather Benalah of the text
achieved bis most celebrated victory,
and let us by the grace of God beoom
viator over Inluences atmospheric If we
are happy only when the wind blows from
the clear northwest, and the thermometer 11
above freezing point, and the sky is an in
verted blue cup of sunshine poured all over
us, It is a religion 95 per cent. off. Thank
God there are Christians who, though their
whole life through sickness has been a snowy
day, have killed every lion of despondency
that dared to put Its cruel paw against theit
suffering pillow. It was a snowv dav when
the Pilgrim Fathers set foot not on a bank ot
flowers, bnt on the cold New England rock,and
from a ship that might have been more ap
propriately called after a December hurrt.
cane than after a "Mayflower" they took
possession ot this great continent. And
amid more chilly worldly circumstances
many a good man or good woman has
taken possession ot a whole continent oi
spiritual satisfaction, valleys of peace and
rivers of gladness and mountains of joy.
Christ landed In our world not in the month
of May, but In the stormy month of Decem
ber, to show that we might have Christ is
Tinter weather and on a snowy day.
Notice everything down in the pit th.
tnowy day depended upon Benalah's weapon.
There was as mnch strength In one muscle ot
that lion as In all the muscles of both arms of
Benaiah. It is the strongest of beasts, and
has been known to carry oft an ox. Its
tongue is so rough that it acts as a rasp
tearing off the flesh In licks. The two great
canines at each side ot the mouth make es.
eape Impossible for anything It has 'once
seized. Yet Benalah puts his heel on
the neck ot this "king of beasts,"
Was ft a dagger? Was tt a javelin? Was it a
knife? I cannot tell, but everything de
pended on it. But for that Uonalah's body
under one crunch of the monster would have
been left Uinp and tumbled in the snow.
And when you and I go into the fight with
temptation, if we have not the rt;ht kind ol
weapon, instead of our slaying the lion the
lion will slay ns. The sword ot the Spirit I
Nothing in earth orhell can stand before that.
Victory with that, or ni victory at all. By
that I mean prayer to God, conliilence in His
rescuing power, saving grace, almighty de
liverance. I do not care what you call it. I
call it "sword of the Spirit." And if the
lions of all the jungles of perdition should at
once spring upon your soul by that weapon
of heavenly metal you can thrust them back
and cut them down, and stab them through
and leave them powerless at your feet. Tout
good resolution wielded against the powers
which assault you is a toy pistol against an
Armstrong gun; Is a penknife held out against
the brandished sabers ot a Hlntzolman't
cavalry charge Go into the fight against
sin on your own strength, and the result will
be the hot breath of the lion in your blanched
face, and his front paws one on each lung.
Alas! for the man not fully armed down in
the nit on a snowy day, and before him 1
Uon!
All my hearers and readers have a big
light ot some sort on hand, but the biggest
and tho wrathlest lion which you have to
fight is what the Bible calls "the roaring
lion who walketh about, seeking whom he
may devour." Now, you have never seen
a real Hon nnless yon have seen
him In India or Africa, fast after capture.
Long caging breaks his spirit, and the con
stant presence ot human beings tames him.
But yon ought to see him spring against tha
Iron bars in the zoological gardens ot
Calcutta an 1 hear him roar for the prey. It
makes onVs blood curdle, and you shrink
hae!t. although vou know there is no peril.
Plenty ot lions in olden time. Six hundred
of them were slaughtered on ono occasion In
fie presence of Pompey in the Roman
aropliitheator. Lions came out and de
stroyed the camels which carried the bag
gage of Xerxes' army. In Bible times there
were so many lions that they are fre
quently alluded to In the Scriptures.
Joel, the prophet, describes the "cheek
teeth" of a great lion, and Isaiah mentions
among the attractions of heaven that "no
lion shall be there." and Amos speaks of a
shepherd taking a lamb's ear out of the mouth
of a lion, and Solomon describes the righteous
as '-bold as a Hon." and Daniel was a great
lion tamer, and David and Jeremiah and St
John often speak ot this creature.
But most am I impressed by what I hav
quoted from the Apostle Peter when he calls
Mis devil a lion. That means strength.
That means bloodthtrstinesa. That means
cruelty. That means destruction. Some ol
you have felt the strength ot his paw, and
the sharpness of his tooth, and the horror oi
his rae. Yes, he is a savage devil. He
roared at everything good when Lord
Claverhouse assailed the ' Covenanters,
and Bartholomew against the Hugue
nots one August night when the bell tolled
for the butchery to begin, and the ghastly
oke In the street was. "Blood letting Is good
In August," and 50,000 assassin knives were
plunged into the victims, and this monster
has had under his paw many of tbe grandest
louls of all time, and fattened with the spoil
of centuries he comes for you.
But I am glad to say to all of you who have
jot the worst in such a struggle that there is
a lion on our side If you want him, Be vela
tionv., B, "The lion of Judah's tribe." A
Lamb to us, but a Uon to meet that other lion;
ind vou can easily guess who will beat in
(hat 'fight, and who will be beaten. When
two opposing lions meet in a jungle in India,
pou cannot tell whloh will overcome
ind which will be overcome. They
glare at each other for a moment, and
'hen with full strength ot muscle they
dash asalnst each other like two thunder
bolts of colliding stormclouds, and with jaws
like the crush of avalanches, and with a re-
sonnling voice that mates the Himalayas
tremble, and with a pull and tear and clutch
and tramnle and shaking ot the head from
side to side until it is too much for human
endurance to witness, and, though one lion
may be left dead, the one which has con
quered crawls away lacerated and
gashed and lame and eyeless to bleed to
. . th , adjoining jungle. Bat if you
I . . . . . . ... , r
nad 1 test enough our weakness in this bat-
la ol tputioduk (w the divine help
' against that old lion of hell, described In St.
; i-etewiugo to tnesironger uuu uncnuwi ia
Revelation, and tt will be no uncertain grap-
pie, dui unaer one omnipotent sxrone me ae-
vouring monster that would slay our soul
tbail go reeling tack Into a pit 10,000 times
deeper than that in which Benaiah slew the
yon on , snowy day. '
I A word to all who are In a snowy dav. Oh.
fathers and mothers who have lost children,
j.tha weather that outs through body
at drive back the lion of
1 !U .K..V.t T.1A
gu Jibjjrgh, gp$ .iT the Sogtfii.
gravemgger, wnffw always planting white
clover and tha sweetest flowers on the
children's graves in the cemetery, and when
asked why ne did so replied: "Purely, sir.
I oanna make ower fine the bed covcrin o
a little innocent sleeper that's waitln
there till it's God's time to waken it.
and cover it with the white robe, and waft it
away to glory. When sio grandeur is waitin
It yonder, it's fit it should be decked oot
here. I think the Saviour that counts its
oust sae precious will like to see the white
clover sheet spread ower it. Do ye noo think
so, too, sir?" Cheer np all, disconsolates.
The best work for God and humanity has
been done on the snowy day. At gloomy
Marine Terrace, Island of Jersey, the exile,
Victor Hugo, wrought the mightiest
achievements of his pen. Ezekiel, banished
and bereft and an Invalid at Corn
hill, Asfthe banks of Chebar, had his
momentous vision of the cherubim and
wheels within wheels. By the dim light of a
dungeon window at Bedford, John Banyan
Sketches the "Delectable Mountains." Mil
ton write tha greatest poem ot all time
without eyes. Michael Angelo carved a
Statue out of snow, and all Florence gazed In
raptures at its exquistteness, and many ot
God's servants have out of the cold cut their
Immortality. Persecutions were the dark
background that made more impressive tha
ooorage and consecration of Savonarola,
who, when threatened with denial ot burial,
said, "Throw me into the Arno if you choose;
the resurrection day will find me, and that Is
enough. Benalah on a cold damp, cutting,
Snowy day gainod leonine triumph. Hard
ship and trouble have again and again ex
alted and inspired and glorified their Sub
sots. The bush itself has mounted higher
And flourished unoonsamed in Ore.
Well, we have had many snowy days within
he past month, and added to the chill of the
weather was the ohilling dismay at tha
bonarrlval ot tbe ocean steamer Gaaoogne,
Overdue for eight days, many had given her
np as lost, and the most hopeful were
very anxious. The cyclones, whose play
is shlpwreoks, had been reported being In
v.ldest romp all np and down the At
lantic The ocean a few days before had
swallowed . the El" with unap-
peased appetite senies saying, "Give
us more of the best Bhipping." The Norman
die came In on the same traok the Gaaootrne
was to travel, and It had not seen her. The
Teutonic, saved almost by the superhuman
efforts of captain and crew, came in and had
heard no gun of distress from that missing
steamer. There were pale faces and wring
ing bands on both continents, and tears
rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy
days. We all feared that the worst had
happened and talked of the City of
Boston as never heard of alter sailing, and
the steamship President, on which the brill
iant Oookman sailed, never reported and
never to be heard of again until the time
when the sea gives up its dead. But at last,
under most powerful glass at Fire Island, s
ship was seen limping this way over the
waters. Then we all began to hope that it
might be the missing French liner. Three
hours of tedious and agonizing waiting and
two continents In suspense. When will the
eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation ol
this awful mystery ot the sea? There It is!
Ha, ha! The Gasoognel Quickl Wire thf
news to the eityl Swing the flags out on th
towers! Ring the bells! Sound the whistles
ot the shipping all the way up from Sandy
Hook to New York Battery! "She's safel
Bhe's safel" are the words caught up and
passed on from street to street. "It U
the Gasoognel" is the cry sounding
through all our delighted homes and thrill
ing all the telegraphio wires of the oontinent
and all the cables under the sea, and th
huzza on the wharf as the gangplanks wers
swung out tor disembarkation was a small
part of the huzza that lifted both hemt
inheres Into exultation. The flakes ot anon
fell on the J'extra" as we opeu..
street to get tho latest parttouWs.
Well, it will be better than that whan some
sf you are seen entering the harbir ol
heaven. You have had a rough voyage. No
mistake about that. Snowy day after snowy
day. Again and again, the maohinery ot
health and courage broke down, and tbe
waves of temptation have swept olearovertht
hurricane deck, so that you were often com
pelled to say, '-AH Thy waves and Thy blllo . i
have gove over me," and yon were down 1
the trough of that sea and down In the trov :o
of the other sea. and many despaired of your
safe arrival. But the greet Pilot, not ons
who must eome off from some other craft,
but the one who walked storm swept Gallies
and now walks the wintry Atlantic, comet
on board and heals yon for the haven,
when no sooner have yon passed thi
narrows of death than yon And all the banks
lined with Immortals oelebrating your arrival,
and while tome break off palm branches
from the banks and wave them those stand
big on one side will chant, " There shall be
Do more sea," and those standing on the
other side will ohant, "These are they whloh
came out of great tribulation and had theli
robes washed and made white in thi
blood of the Lamb." Off of the stormy
sea into the smooth harbor. Out ot leonint
struggle In the pit to guidance by the Lamb,
who shall lead you to living fountains ol
water. Out of the snojvy day of earthly
Severities into the gardens of everlasting
flora and into orohards of eternal fruitage,
the fall ot their white blossoms the onlj
inow in heaven.
Insanity la Connecticut,
The report of the Connecticut Hospital fot
the Insane just issued contains memoranda
Of the first quarter-century of the existence
of the institution, from which can be do.
duced striking Indications ot the Increase o
Insanity in the State. A report 01 a legisia
tire commission In the year 1S6S showed that
In that year there were 708 insane persons in
the State, of whom 20J were la a private re
treat at Hartford, 2Ui in the aimsnouses ana
100 outside of both. At that time the popu
latlon ot the State was approximately 'J9,
tOO. Now, with a population la the State ol
approximately 790,000, there art. 1580 pv
Hents In the State Hospital alone. Durinq
the lost fifteen years, while the population 01
the State has risen from 622,700 to about
790,000, the number ot patients In the hospl
tal has risen from 608 to 1580, and tt is now
greatly overorowded.
A Cherokee Strip Romance.
A novel "Cherokee Strip" romance wa
ended by the marriage the other day of Ab
bert Jones and Hiss Clara L. George, at Ark.
snsas City, Kan. Both Mr. Jones and Mlsi
Oeorge claimed the same piece of land and
wen prepared to fight 'or it until doomsday,
when Jones fell ill. Miss George, woman-
bite, went over to bts cabin to look him u
ind staved to nurse him back to health. B:
this time thov hal decided to divide thi
slaim between thum, but tt was not long bei
lore they solved the problem in a better way
tnd resorted to matrimony instead 01 tne
nd oiUce.
Tbe Oil Output.
Pennsylvania produced 30,000,000 barrels
jf oil last year, aa 1 the prioe was twenty
tests a barrol better than it was In 1393.
The different ways in which meat is
cooked would partially decide which
way the vegetables should be cooked.
For instance, with steak, potatoes
should be either French fried, Sara
toga chips or hashed brown. With
roasted beef, mashed, baked or seal
loped. With fillet, croquettes or
boulettea. With beef, serve potatoes,
corn, turnips, cabbage, stewed celery.
mushrooms, parsnips, carrots, spinach
or kale. With mutton, rice, peas, po at R jjreat depth for any considerable
tatoes, tomatoes, artichokes, stewed time. It Is a fact, however, that if an
turnips. With lamb, new potatoes, ' ordinary glass bottle, tightly corked
peas, stuffed tomatoes, lima beans, and sealed, be sank in, say. fifty fath
ering beans. With turkey, potatoes, ' oms or gait water and left there for
onions, cold slaw, peas, beans. With about ten minutes, It may, when
chicken, same as turkey. With game, brought to the surface, be found partly
browned turnips, maeearoni with ufl of. water. We say may, because
cheese, peas, tomatoes or lettuce. If u,9 pressure of the superincumbent
you are unfortunate enough to use mass of water will either force the
veal, potatoes, tomatoes, sorrel, spin- water through the porous glass, force
ach and macaroni with tomato. the cork Into the bottle, or break the
Household News. bottle.
" j By a Uw of hydrostatics the pressure
Every man pays too much attention at water Is in proportion to Its vertical
to his stubbornness. height and Its area at the base. It Is
The name of the talisman of success reckoned that the pressure of water on
is tactful courage. anr bodv jolunged lnto.lt is about one
Tnirty Teas Harriet A. Colfax Has
Tended tbe Ulcalsam City Usjtit.
For over thirty years the warning slg
sial In the shape or the Michigan City
light, which has thrown Its beams over
the lake from Mich
igan City, Ind-, has
been under the care
of a woman, who,
In fair or foul
weather, during all
this time has never
once neglected the
duty Imposed on
her In lS'.il, when,
through tlir influ
HARRIET A. COLFAX
ence of her cousin, Schuyler Colfax,
she was appointed llghtkeeper at this
port. At that time, says the Head
light, Miss Harriet A. Colfax was a
pleasant faced young woman of 25, and
her petite figure seemed peculiarly
unfitted for the position, bnt time has
disproved this supposition, and the ver
dict is now unanimous that a wiser
choice could not have been made.
Miss Colfax Is a native of Ogdens
burg, N. T., but as she migrated to
Michigan In 1S53 It Is fair to say that
she Is a Western woman. She learned
michiqaw crrr'a lighthouse.
to set type In her brother's printing of
fice. Subsequently she taught music
and met and formed a sort of life part
nership with her lifelong friend and
companion. Miss Ann HartwelL at that
time a cheery little schoolma'am of
Michigan City. For upwards of thirty
years these little women have dwelt
together in perfect harmony, their In
tercourse being un marred by a single
cross word. Faithfully and fearlessly
has Miss Colfax performed her duties,
never once In all these years neglecting
them for a Blngle night. Never has the
Michigan City light failed In Its mis
sion. She is known In Indiana as a
second Ida Lewis and as the sailor'
true friend.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Dr the Millionaire's Rejrreta for the
Farm He Let Go for a Song.
It was summertime. The office win-
lows were open. The old millionaire
Sad come up to confer with his lawyer.
tnd had been told he could now foro
;Jose his mortgage on a fine and covot
d corner for a song. He therefore felt
it pence with nil the world, and he
wished that everybody might banish
sncharitnble and sordid thoughts and
Se of good cheer, ne took off his hat
ind wiped his brow.
"I am thinking of going out Into thb
lountry he said, speaking In a kind
tone of that humble region. "I like the
.wintry. We don't really know what
life is here. I often wish I were back.
I had a farm before I enme to town
tbout 500 acres as pretty land as ever
aid outdoors high, rolling, sandy
loam; oh! fine pasture, plenty of woods
and running spring right on the place
never went dry the dryest season, and
magnificent orchard. I set out about
ton acres all to grafted fruit before I
sold, and looked to seeln' 'em bear I
Kuld have sold ev'ry bar'l of apples for
(2 right on the ground.
"But I sold I sold. Yes, sir; I sold
that 500 acres $80 an acre, and came
here .ind put every dollar Into corners.
Of course, hitting it Just the time I did,
the money has turned Itself a good
many times; but I don't know; I often
wish 1 hadn't sold the old farm. I
old it to my brother-in-law for $S0 nn
icre. That was twenty years ago, and
1 don't suppose he could get $40 an acre
uow."
Here the silent repiner engaged In si
lent thought of his brother-in-law
pounding clods on the depreciated farm.
and became suffused with such Joy
that, ns he rose and put on his hat, he
seemed like a statue of Ecstasy. "Xo,"
sir; I don't suppose he could get $40.
Fine farm, too." Puck.
Abolishing Animal Prisons.
Some of the extreme advocates of
kindness to animals are evidently pre
paring to enter upon a mission for the
total abolition of menageries, zoological
gardens, and other animal prisons.
Letters that seem like little kites flown
to see how the wind blows appear ever
and anon in the newspapers, but the
general public has not yet risen to them.
Still, tha materials of a "movement"
are still at hand If the leading fanatic
to guide them were only forthcoming.
Extremists are always ready to ride
an Idea to death. To obtain mature
wild creatures, whether two-legged or
four-legged. Is In general a piece of
cruelty that, besides much else, la per
fectly useless, but that 1st not to say
that the bird-catcher should be sup
pressed. A caged Hon gives yon a less
accurate lesson In zoology than a good
engraving would do, but there may be
objections to abolishing the zoological
gardens for all that Pall Mall Gazette,
Effect of Deep-Sea Pressure.
It Is not unusual for bottles of cham
pagne to bo dipped and trolled In salt
I water, when there Is ho Ice on shlp
j board. In order to get the wine to a pal
I stable temperature, but never long
enough to cause contact between the
' salt water and the wine. Wo can hard
' lv tell what the effect urion the wine
'. WOuld be If the bottle were immersed
pound to the sqtmre inch for every two
feet of the depth. Bottles filled with
fresh water, tightly corked and sealed,
have been sunk to great depths in tho
ocean, and where the enormous pres
sure has Bet burst the bottles It has
driven In the cork and displaced ttio
fresh with salt water, ricces of wood
have been weighted and sunk In the
sea, with the result that the tissues
have become so condensed that tho
wood lost its buoyancy and will never
float again. It could not even be
burned when apparently quite dry.
A BURGLAR'S CONFESSION.
Women and Doge Bother Him Mor
than Men Who Try to Shoot.
A man. e"cnlng his name "E. Kan
dolph '.fligginson, of Boston," who ad
mits that he has been committing bur
glaries In Atchison of late, sends the
following card of thanks to this office,
says the Atchison Globe:
"Although my receipts ia Atchison
have been comparatively small, I
would not have the citizens think me
ungrateful, ond hereby extend my
thanks for what little I take away from
the town. My stay In your city has
been pleasant, and I have been treated
with such courtesy by tha best peoplo
that I may return at another time, t
have enjoyed very much tho visits to
some of your homes, and my only regret
Is that I did not have my wife along to)
enjoy the fun. I regret to notice that
Jim Waggener values the watch I took
from his residence at $50. If he really
paid this amount for the watch he was
robbed and ought to crack down on
the dealer who sold It to him. I tried
to pawn the watch In St Joe, but was
only offered $2.73 for It
"It Is a shame for a good citizen to
be robbed In this manner. I was talk
ing to a policeman a few days ago who
Informed me that the ladies of Atchison
do not bring flowers and pie nnd cako
to prisoners In the county Jail. Ac
cordingly I gave the officers no oppor
tunity to arrest and keep me In tho
county Jail for a time on suspicion. I
don't know whether I ought to glvo
away professional secrets or not, but
will say that the gleaming dagger sonio
claim to have seen me brandishing was
really an Icicle. During the twenty
years I have been in the business I
have never Injured a human being. I
have too much respect for the teachings
of the Bible to do such a thing. I never
have any trouble from the men, not
withstanding their talk of shooting 1110
full of holes. The only trouble I ever
have Is from screaming women and
barking dogs. Before closing, I must
say that the people should not censure
me too severely. They must remember
that all the goods I take are second
handed." OLD LOUISIANA.
It
Interesting Capitol and Sturdy
Chief Executive.
One of the historic State eaiitols ot
the United States Is that at Baton
Rouge, La. It was originally built la
1S4T. In 1SG2 it
was captured by
Federal troops and
while occupied by
them as a prison
was destroyed by
fire. It was rebuilt
I 4. r
In 1SS0. Aside from
its historic assocla-
JrmimWlsF tions. it Is of :
mCkS to vlslto:
mWJl l Baton Kogue
lnter-
sltors nt
on ac
count of its unlipii!
style of architec
ture, which differs
from that of all
GOV.
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other American cnpitol buildings.
The Governor of Louisiana Is Mur
phy I. Foster. Foster Is 40 years of ago'
and Is one of the ablest lawyers in tho
South, lie was elected to the Statoi
Senate In 1&S0 nnd served continuously.
In that body until elected Governor lnj
1S02. Ho led the anti-lottery C.lu and
was elected on that Issue.
Pocket Billiards.
Tho pocket billiard Is made of r,
mall box of white or green glass. On.
the Inside, which Is hermetically clos-j
ed. Is found the spheric cue, composolj
of a drop of mercury, and the balls;
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POCKET BILLIARDS.
which In this case are four disks of
colored pasteboard.
The aim of the game Is to make the
four disks drop into the four pockets
at he ends by means of tho mercury
ball, without allowing a bit of the mer
cury to get Into the pockets. It requires
some adroitness to do this, and Its ac
complishment offers no little amuse
ment
Incredible.
Mr. Homeman Did you read that ar
tide about a football player getting
shot the other day?
Mrs. Homeman No, John; but good
ness me, you don't mean to say that
the game has conio to that I Boston
News.
People never fall to appreciate good
ness. But you can't fool them with
bogus goodness.
Age la a Great Teacher.
Jinks I understand you were pretty
Well off before you were married.
Blinks Yes; but I didn't know It
Illustrated Monthly.
What Prerented Him.
"I can tell you, baron, that when my
offer of marriage was rejected by the
prima donna I was so miserable that I
was on the point of throwing myself
out of the window."
"What prevented you?"
"The height" Karlsbaden Wochen
blatt Truthful Bridget.
Caller Is Miss Iveson at home?
GirP-Tls, sur, she Is; but Mlsther
Robinson's here, too, sur, an' he seems
right well at home, too, an' I don't
know at all whether she'll be seeln' ye,
New York World,
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