'' -- .'Kir.v'. v. ii.-
liiiii
a: or
iiiiai
B. F. BOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
&dltsr md yitapr
VOL. XL1X
MIFFUNTOWK. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APKIL 24. 1895.
Na 19.
CHAPTER I.
A slowing September morning n
pouring its gulden light through the opei
window of a morning room or study, ii
the eastern wing of a picturesque oil
house -standing half way up a hillside ii
one of the Midland shires. A backgrouiit
of beech trees framed in its mellow rvi
brick wiills, and before it lay a wide, uu
dulating plain, many colored, and bound
d by distant dim blue hills.
A plcasauter room could scarce l
found, though the furniture was old-fash
ioned, the curtains and carpet faded. Th
bay window opeued ou a terrace, below
which were pleasure grounds, and ill iO
recess stood a table, spread with daint
china and delicate silver the remains o:
the breakfast and a vase of hot-housi
flowers, from a conservatory into whii-r
a glass door admitted.
The side occupant was a gentleman,
slight, elegant looking man of thirty o)
upward, with silky, wavy dark hair and
small mustache, and an unmistakable ai'
of distinction.
A pile of letters lay beside him, whij
he had pushed away his plate to niaki
room for a book, which he was studyinj
apparently with deep interest.
1'reseutly he raised his eyes "eyes 01
most unholy blue" and looked upon thi
goodly landscape which lay before him
Hut his vision was evidently directed ti
some far distant object, and after a mo
merit's thought, ho took up a pencil an
began to scribble calculations on the bac)
of a letter.
"Yes," he murmured, "if it can be car
.-ied out, I shall be a free man." Thei
opening the letter on which he had beet
scrawling, he turned over a page or tv
covered with small, firm writing, and rea
slowly:
"I shall do nothing about a second tnik
tec until after your festivities," ran the
paragraph he had selected. '"Resides,
every one is away at this season. XeeJ
I say I have perfect confidence in you?"
He folded it up and put it under ai
elastic band, which held some other let
ters together, and tearing the envelop!
Into minute fragments, threw them iutii
the waste-paper basket beside him.
As he did so, a soft indistinct soun
from an adjoining room the door intc
which stwd open caught his ear. lit
paused and listened. The faint rustling
drew nearer, ami a pleasant voice began
to sing in n low tone, us if the singel
thought in song. The listener seemed t
recojinize the music or the voice. Hit
face brightened; he half rose from hii
seat, but resumed it, as if ho wished to
hear mure. The next moment a lady
walked through the doorway and stopped
opposite to him.
A young lady, tail and slipht, thougl
found and graceful; she was simply dress
ed in a maize-colored priut and a pretty
miisiiu and lace npron tied with brown
ribbons, a sash of the sume marked het
shapely waist, and tan gauntlets hid hit
hands, one of which held a large garden
hat adorned with a couple of pale-pink
chrysanthemums. The face it had shaded
was fair and fresh, and lighted by a cou
ple of large dark-gray eyes eyes, lashes,
eyebrows, all dark, compared to the light
brown hair that curled ia a small fringe
over her brow, and was gathered neatly
back into a large knot.
She gazed for an iusiant in frank amaze
ment at the gentleman, who rose to greet
her then n quick, bright smile curved
her red-lipped, Lind!y mouth, and made a
little Coquettish interrogative dimple ir
one cheek, ns she cried:
"Why, how when did you come, squire'
Wo all fancied you were in Scotland."
"Well, you see I am not," he returned,
advancing toward her with an outstretch
ed hand, in which she placed hers., "And
what are you doing, I should like to know,
Invading my premises iu this burglariou
fashion?"
"You know very well I always come to
the library for any books I may want, am!
'by your leave,' too. You're such an ab
sentee you ought not to be surprised if
thieves did break through and steal."
"No, I am not iu the least surprised,'
with emphasis.
"Well, I was, a little, when I found the
library window open," resumed the young
lady, "but I thought Mrs. Storer was
having a thorough cleaning, so walked
in, and, imagining she was in the room.
I "
"Unearthed the master! I shnll accept
four coming ns a good omen." His hand
some, though somewhat worn, face was
aglow with pleasure as he spoke, but her
eyes were attracted to the pile of letters
and the open book, and she did not notice
him.
"I arrived quite unexpectedly last night,
to the great disgust of my few faithful re
tainers," he went on. "Do you know, I
have been planning great things? things
that will rejoice you, nia belle Leonore."
"l'ray, don't give me my long name,"
(he exclaimed, with a pretty Impatient
nod. "It always reminds me of that hor
rid raven tapping at the chamber door
What are your great things?"
"Dorriugton and Isabel are coming to
tiey with me, and the Harveys, Algy Bal
four, Mrs. Kuthven and a Jot more, and
I am going to give a big ball to the no
bility, gentry, and even the cads, of thf
surrounding country."
"No, really?" with evident delight, "yon
ire quite charming for thinking of such
i thing."
"I am glad your estimate of me coin
cides with that of society in general."
"How awfully conceited you are, squire,
out I am glad Lady Dorrington is coming,
and I shall be delighted to dance at youi
ball. Now I must go. How late you
are! The breakfast things still on the
table?" and glancing at the book as she
walked to the window, "What are your
studies? Chemistry? Who are you go
ing to poison? I did not think you werr
scientific."
"Nor am I; I am only a student of hii
xnn nature. But don't you want a book!
I-et us find one, and I will carry it horn
for you."
"You are too obliging. I want a vol
Tim. or rope, i naa a dispute TEsnnyn.
with Mr. AVInton about a passage in th
Ilape of the Lock, aud I want to prove
myself right."
"Ah!" a long-drawn "ah." "Is he here.
Well, find your book, and I will escort
von back."
He gathered up his papers, thrust them
Into a bureau, which he locked, and rang
or his valet.
Ilia ricWK -t iirnal n tllO lift Ml 17. &
large somber apartment pervaded with a I
faint deliirhtful odor of ltnss A leatner, I
and from one" of the well-Blled shelves
selected a booi. Then putting on her hat,
she passed through the glass door by
which she had entered, and stood gazing
at the wide landscape visible from the
terrace.
"AH this seems tame enough after con
tinental scenery," said the squire,, joining
her.
"It has a great charm for me. There h
a sense of life, and freedom, and cheerful
ness in English landscape that you scarce
ly ever find elsewhere." She descended
the step, to the graveled path beneath as
she spoke, her companion following, and
coming up beside her.
"You have preserved a large amount ol
patriotism in spite of your long sojourn
broad."
"I hare; yet I love Germany, too. I wai
ery happy there."
"Were you ever unhappy?" he asked,
with a slightly contemptuous uplifting
of his brows.
"Well, no, I do not think I ever was. 1
have been Tery, very sorry for the tronbla
of my friends, but not on my own ac
count." So talking, they walked across thi
pleasure grounds, and through a gate
which aduiitted them to a wide, park-like
stretch of pasture, bordered at one side
by a strip of woodland into which the path
led. Soon the ground began to slope
steeply down to a shallow valley, at the
bottom of which ran a Bmall rapid river,
chafing and murmuring anion big. black,
wet stones, aud leaping gayly over an
abrupt rocky barrier, some few hundred
yards above, where they struck upon the
stream. A narrow, ivy-grown bridge
spanned the fall, turning toward which
they came In sight of a low, irregular
house, or rather cottage, on the opposite
xide.
"How thoroughly English this looks,
said the squire. "It is Arcadian; but yon
will be awfully bored after -awhile, and
the sight of your abode reminds me I
have not asked for Mrs. L'Estrange."
"She is quite well, and will be very
nleased to see you."
"And I shnll be only too glad to trouble
you with my presence; but not this morn
ing. I have a pile of letters to answer,
and an appalling amount of arrangements
to make. In short, I ought not to have
eonie so far afield with you."
"You are a voluntary truant," she re
timed, pausing on the bridge.
"That I acknowledge. Now I have
seen you to the edge of your own territory,
I will say good-by. If I come and beg a
cup of coffee about eight or nine this even
'ug, I suppose I shall not be barred out?"
"If the door is locked we will let you
in through the window."
He bowed, and raising his soft felt hat
with easy grace, stood looking after her as
she walked away with a smooth, light
step down the path which led toward the
cottage.
Clifford Marsden, the squire of Eves
leigh, was one of the fortunate individuals
sometimes described as having been "born
with a silver spoon in his mouth." Ho
hail succeeded his father while still a
schoolboy; the savings of his minority
enabled him to start clear of all incum
brances when he came of age, aud the
sixteen or seventeen years which had
since elapsed had been diligently occupied
-vy mm in creating tresli ones.
He had lived with boundless extrava
gancc and self-indulgence. He had dont
everything, seen everything, exhausted
everything possible for a gentleman whose
character was still fair, whose popularity
was undiminished. Bankers and city men
knew that his lands were heavily mort
gaged; but society, ns yet, only admired
his magnificence, without doubting bis
lolveucy.
Evesleigh had seen little of its niastei
of late years, but in his boyish days, and
for some time after attciniug his major
ity, Marsden hunted and shot in due sea
ion at Evesleigh.
His near neighbor and relative was
Colonel L'Estrange of Brookdule, the cot
tage just described.
The beauty of the site had probably
nduced tho builder of Evesleigh House
to place that edifice on the verge of tho
estate, for the stream above mentioned
was its boundary on this side. The farm
and residence of Brookdale had been pur
chased by the squire's great-grandfather,
who settled It on his only daughter. This
lady had married a penniless soldier of
good family. Colonel L'Estrange was her
grandson.
He had married in India, and soon after
his return home, his delicate wife died
somewhat suddenly, leaving him a baby
girl of about five years old. The colonel,
a grave, taciturn man, old for his years,
and unsociable in habits, lived on in his
humble home, finding consolation in sport,
and looked up to the' young Squire ot
Eveslelgh as a mighty hunter, an unerring
shot.
When Leonora, or Nora L'Estrange,
who was a pet and plaything with her
cousin, had reached her tenth yenr, het
father suddenly discovered she was too
old to be left entirely with her nnrse. Of
a boarding school he v. ould not hear, and,
in short, the only solution to the difficulty
which found favor In his eyes, was Imme
diate marriage with a pretty, pale, timid
girl, the orphan daughter of a former
friend, whom he found in a dependent po
sition, as companion to a rich old maiden
lady. In tho neighboring cathedral town
of Oldbridge.
The new Mrs.' L'Estrange was barely
twelve years older than her step-daughter,
and the Oldbridge gossips prophesied that
the young lady would be too much for he;
father's wife.
But, by some mysterious influence of
sympathy or mutual comprehension, they
drew to each other. Indeed, the old nurse
did not hesitate to say that her young lady
was regularly bewitched, and, for ht-r
part, was free to confess that it seemed
horrid unnatural for a child to be so tak
en up with her step-mother.
However. Colonel L'Estrange bavin
been ordered to some German bath for
cure of rheumatism, brought on by stand
ing knee-deep in the river, fishing, re
moved his family, now increased by an
other daughter, beyond the reach of Old
bridge gossip, and, for reasons best known
to himself, let Brookdale for several
was already half forgotten when
the local papers announced his death at
Dresden.
His widow continued to reside abroad
till the term for which Brookdale had been
let expired, and had only returned, with
her own and her step-daughter, in the
preceding spring.
The ladies of Brookdale had finished
their midday meal, which was luncheon to
their neighbors and dinner to themselves,
teaching a depressed looking Dachshund,
Little Beatrice, Nora', half-sister, was
uui-iurueu lura, iu -
wrier maidopened jjoqr and Hid :
"If you please, ma'am, Mr. Wintou ii
In the drawing room."
Mrs. L'Estrange rose from her seat at
if to join him, but Nora cried:
"We had better ask him in here. He
has been shooting, 1 suppose, aud you
may be sure he is hungry."
"I will go and fetch him!" excluimec
Boa. jumping up aud letting the biscuit
with which ttha liflfl luien hriliitii. thn
Tl.t.-lia full n f.A -- al.A ,-.t..,.l '
" " 1'"
uway. She was a delicate little creature j
ot seven or eignt, witu lug, dark eyes, north three gates; on the south three gatesi
and fair hair, an idle, clever, willful mon- I n the west three gates." Revelation xxL, 13,
key, w ith whom her mother strove in The Cashmere gate of D.dhi, where eon
vain to be strict, and who imposed a verged a heroism that makes one's nervei
good deal on her step-sister. tingle, the Lucknow gate, still dented an
"Ilea is quite excited," said Miss L'Es I fparred with sepoy bombardment, the Mado)
trangc, laughing, and before the mothei
could reply the child returned, leading by
the hand a tall, large-framed man of per
haps six and thirty or more, tauncd by ex
posure to the sun and wind a deeper red
brown than was becoming, with thick,
short sandy hair, and light, gray, stern
eyes. He wore a shooting jacket and
knickerbockers.
"I feel I am an Intruder," he said, sbuk
ing hands with Mrs. L'Estrange and tliet
with Nora. "I did not intend to be so
early. I heard yon were in town this
morning, and calculated on clearing your
luncheon hour, but the birds are very
wild, or I -was less keen than usual, and
ot over the ground quicker."
"We will forgive you," returned Mrs
L'Estrange, with a friendly smile, "and I
dare say, if you have not already lunched,
you begin to feel the need of something to
nt."
"Thanks, no, I had some sandwiches an
hour ago."
"Still, a biscuit and a glass of sherry,
suggested rora, insinuatingly.
"Are not to be despised," replied Win
ton, drawing a chair to the table, while
one fair hostess poured out his wiue and
another brought the biscuit tin.
"May I have some of the pretty brown
feathers from those birds you left in the
hnll, for my doll's hat?" asked Bea.
"I dare say your mamma will give then,
to you; I brought the birds for her. Were
you in Oldbridge, too. Miss L'Estrange?"
he continued, looking tip quickly, as she
offered him the biscuits.
"No, I have sjtent an idle, unprofitable
morning, dreaming over the letters I was
pretending to write."
"Dreaming! I thought you were far toi
practical to dream. What were you dream
ing about?"
"The coming ball; the glories of Mra
Iiuthven and her jewels."
"Who is going to give a ball?" in a sur
prised tone.
"Clifford Marsden."
"Why, he is, God knows where T"
"lie is at Evesleigh. Come into the
drawing room, and I will tell you all
about it."
Here Miss Bea was carried off by her
German governess, not without loud re
monstrances and reproaches addressed to
Winton, who was always on the side of
authority.
(To be continued.)
Soldiers Poor Cooks.
In those Crimean days our soldiers
had no knowledge of rooking, being in
this respect far behind the French and
Turks. But even had our men been
perfect cooks, they would have had but
Jttlo opportunity of exercising their
skill. Camp kettles were Issued at Kal
imita Bay when the troops landed. In
the proportion of one to five men. Now,
the kettle would cook fresh but not
salt moat for five men, as more water
is required to extract the brine from
ialt meat than the kettle could bold,
and, moreover, this number, five, repre
sented nothing then, nor does lc now.
in our regimental systems.
Must of the kettles hail been dropper,
at the Alma, or iu the subsequent
nim-cli, and the soldiers were reduced
for all cooking purposes to the mess tiu
which each man carried on his back.
These were inadequate. The lid, per
haps, was most prized, for when the
body is wet and cold there is a craving
for a hot drink, and it took less time
and fuel to roast the green coffee lur
ries In the lid than to boll the salt meat
in the body of the tin. It had not oc
curred to any one in tho department
then responsible for our commissariat
that to make a mug of coffee out of
green berries, ronsting and grinding
apparatus was essential, and till Jan
nary, when some roasted coffee was
landed, our men might be dally seen
pounding, with stones or round shot,
the berries in a fragment of exploded
shell. Sir Evelyn Wood, In the Fort
tilghtly Review.
Brains Versus Capital.
There still lives in Philadelphia, at
the age of 70 years, Frank O. Des
chnmps, the Inventor of artificial legs.
It was over fifty years ago when Mr.
Deschamps, then an apprentice, was
asked by his master to see what he
could do for a foppish Frenchman
who had lost a leg. At that time only
wooden pegs were known, and the
Frenchman was disatisfled with this
by no means elegant substitute. In
two days young Deschamps had finish
ed a complete model of an artificial leg,
with every movement of the natural
limb duplicated. His master had it
patented, and it yields him a fortune.
Deschamps was paid SO cents for his
nventlon.
Better one bite at forty of Truth's
bitter rind than the hot wine tliat
gushed from- the vintage at twenty.
Lowell.
There is not a wide a margin between
saving a mean thinj and doiag a mean
thing,
I ook out for retributive injus
tice. ModestyJ n proportioned lo the
occasions of life, and strongest io youth
when passions is s-j to.
Praise undeserved is satire in dis
guise. There are al ways some weak minded
people to applaud any man who knows
bow to boast.
The opinions of men who think are
always growing and changing, like
liviug cbildreo.
It is rarely necessary lo say about
othera anythiLg you could not say
to them.
"A word to tho wise is sufficient." A
word to the fool is more than he
wants.
Individuals may form committies.
bat it is institutions alone that can
create a nation.
Passion in its first violence, controls
interest, as the eddy for awhile runs
against the stream.
Something more than finite power
is needed to prepare mankind for an
infinite condition.
A man will follow a word with a
blow, while a woman will follow a
blow with a great many words.
A srreat man may stand oa the top
of the ladder and be in hole at the
same time.
tiKv. mi taJjMage.
ma OBOORLTN OIVfNB'
. DAY SKUMQX
hirs
Sablect: "The Uates of Heaven."
Tbxt: "On the east three gates; on the.
line gate with Its emblazonry in bronze, the
hundred gates of Thebes, tho wonder ol
centuries, all go out of sight before th
gates of my text.
Our subject sneaks of a preat motrooollv
the existence of which many have doubte.1.
I Mantling on the wharf and looking off upon
in; up the bay, the Hats of foreign nation"
Streaming from the topgallants, you immedl!
atuly make up your mind that those vessel!
eonie from foreign ports, and you say: "That
is from Hamburg, and that is from Nan
reilies, and that is from Southampton, and
that is from Havana," and your supposition
Is accurate. But from the city of which X aid
now speaking no weather-beaten merchant,
men or frigates with searred bulkhead hav
ever come. There has been a vast emicral
tion into that city, but no emigration from
it, so far as our natural vision ean descry.
"There is no such city," says the unde"vou
astronomer. "I have stood "in high towers
with a mighty telescope and have swc.pt the
heavens, and I have seen spots on the sua
and caverns in the moon, but no towers have
ever risen on ray vision, no pala"-"-, no tem
ples, no shining streets, no massive wall.
There is no such city." liven very good peo
ple tell me that henvoa i not a material or
ganism, but a grand spiritual fait, and that
the Biblo descriptions of it are in all cases to
betaken figuratively. I bring ia replv to
this what Christ said, and He ought to luiow,
"I go to prepare" not a theory, not a prin
ciple, not a sentiment, but "I go to prepares
place for yon." The resurrected body im
plies this. If my foot Is to be reformed from
the dust, it must have something totread on.
If my hand is to bo reconstructed, it
must havo something to handle.
If my eye, having gone out in
death, is to be rekindled, 1 must have
something to gaze on. Your adverse tliio.y
seems to imply that the resurrect I body is
to be hnng on nothing, or to walk in air, oi
to float amid the intangibles. You may say
If there be material organisms then a soul is
heavea will bra cramped and hindered in its
enjoyments, but I answer, Did not Adam
and Eve havo plenty of room In the Garden
of E len? Although only a few miles would
havo described the circumference of- thai
pla'ie, they hi 1 ample room. And do you
not suppose that God, in the immensities,
can build a d ice large enough to give th
whole race room, evea though thero be ma
Serial onfanisms?-
H ?rseh"l looked into the heavens. As h
Swiss guida puts his Alpino stock between
the glaciers and crosses over fro n crag to
crag, so Hersehel planted his telescope be
tween the worlds and glided from startostat
nntil he could announce to us that we liv
in a part ot tbo universe but sparsely strewo
with worlds, and he peers out Into immen
sity until he finds a region no larger than oui
Bolnr system in which there are 50,000 world!
moving. Ami Professor Lang says that by a
philosophic reasoning there must be some
where a.worl-1 where there i3 no darkness,
but everlasting annshlne, so that I do noi
know but that it is simply because we have
no telescope powerful enough that we can
not see Into the land where there is no
tlarkness at all and catch a glimpse ol
tho burnished pinnacle. As a conquer
ing army marching onto take a city comes
at nightfall to the erest of a mountain from
which, in the midst of the lnndscape, they
pee tho eastles they are to capture end rein
la their war chargers and halt to take a
good look before they pitch their tents fct
the night, so now, coming as we do on thi!
mountain top of prospect, I command this
regiment of God to rein in their thought!
and hait, and before they pitch their tent!
for the night take one good, long look at th
gates of the great city. "Oa the east thre
gates; ou the north three gatej; on th
south three gates, and on the west thre
gates."
In the first place, I want to examine tht
architecture of those pates. Proprietors ol
large estates are very a;..t to have an orna
mental gateway. Sometimes they spring as
arch of masonary, the posts of the gat
flanked with lions in statuary, the bronzt
gate a representation or Intertwining foliage,
bird haunted, nntil the band of architecture
genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen
into stone. Gates of wood aud Iron and
etono guarded nearly all the old cities.
Moslems have inscribed upon their gatetrayi
lnriptioiis from tho Korin of the Moham
medan. There havo beeu a great manv
fine gateways, but Christ sets His hanj
to tho work and for tho nppei
oity swung a gate siuii as nc
eye ever gaz- l on, untouched of inspiration.
With tho nail of Jlis own cross He cut into in
wonderful traceries stories of j.a-t suffering
and of gladness to come. There is no wood
or stone or bronze in that gate, but from tot
to base and from side to side it is all of penrk
Not one piece picked up fro-n Ceylon banks,
and another piece from the Persian gulf, and
another from the island of Margarette, but
one solid pearl picked up from the beatm o'
everlasting light by heavenly hands ami
hoisted end swung amid the shouting ol
angels. Tim glories of alabaster vase and
f orphyry pillar fade out before this gateway,
t puts out the spark of feldspar and dia
mond. You know how one little preeloui
stone on your linger will flash under the gas
light. ll.it, oh! the brightness when the
great gate of heaven swings, struck througt
and dripping witn the light of eternal noon
day. Julius Cassar paid 125,030 crowm for on
pearl. Too Government of Portugal boasted
of having a earl larger than a pear.
Cleopatra and Philip IL hz!e i the world's
vision with precious stones, ltut gather all
these together and lift them aud a id to then;
all the wealth of the pearl fisheries and set
them in the panel of one door, and it doe
not equal this magnificent gateway. An
almighty hand hewed this, swung this,
polished this. Against this gateway, on tht
one side, clash all the splendors of earthly
beauty. Against this gate on the othd
side beat the surges of eternal glory.
Oh, tli gate, the gate! It strikes an in
finite ciiarm through every one that pass"!
it. One step this side of the gate and we are
paupers. One step the other side of the gnt
and we are kins. The piltrrim of earth
going through sees in the one hu -re pearl all
his earthly tears In crystal. On, gate ot
light, gate of pearl, gate of heaven, for oui
weary souls at last swing open!
When shall these eyes thv heaven built walli
And iearly gates behold;
thy bulvarks with salvation strong
And streets of shining gold?
Oh, heaven is not a dull pl.To! HeavoL
Is not a coutracted place. 11 -aven is not a
stupid place, "I saw tii3 twelve gates, and
they were twelve pearls."
Ia the second place I want you to count
he number of those gates. I-nperial parks
and lordly manors are apt to have one expen
sive gateway, and the others are ordinary,
but look around at thesocntrumes to heaver,
and count them. Ono,two,three.fou-,five,i.T,
seven, eiicbt, nine, ten. eleveu. twelve. Heat
it, all the earth and all tue heavens! Twelvr
gates!
I admit this is ratherhard on sharp sectari
anisms'. If a Presbyterian is bigoted, 1
brings his Westminster assembly catechism,
and he makes a gateway out of that, and ht
says to the world, "You go through there oi
stay out." If a member of the itefonned
Church is bigoted, ho makes a gate out ol
tho Heidelberg catechism, and hesavs, "You
go through thero or stay out." If "a Metho
dist is bigoted, he plants two posts, and h
says. "Sow, you crowd in between those twt
posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episeopa
Man may gay: " Here Li a liturgy out of whict
I mean to make a gate Qo through it or
itay out," or a Baptist my MH-)re is
water gate. You ro through that, or yoa
mast stayont," and so in all our churcha
snd in all our denominations there are meg
who make one gate for themselves and then
demand that the whole world go through it
I abhor this contrariness in religioui
views. O, small soulod man, whea did God
give yon the contract for making gates? 1
tell you plainly I will not go iu that gate. 1
will go in at any one of the twelve gates 1
shoose. Here Is a man who says, "I ean
more easily and more closely approaoh God
throng!) iE&yar book." I say Hi brottw,
then use tne prayer book." Hera is a man
who says, "I believe there is only one mod
of baptism, and that is lmmerston." Then 1
ay, "Let me plunge you." Anyhow. I say,
sway with the gate of rough panel and rottes
posts and rusted latch, when there art
twelve gates and they are twelve pearls.
The fact Is that a great many of thi
shurches in this day are being doctrined to
to death. They have been trying to find out
all about Ood's deorees, and they want to
know who are elected to be saved and whe
are reprobated to fee damned, and they art
keeping on discussing that . subject when
there are millions of souls who need to hav
the truth put straight at them. They sil
counting the number of teeth in the Jawbon
with which Samson slew the Philistines,
fbey sit on the beach and see s
vessel going to pieces In the oiling,
and instead of getting into a boat and
f lulling away for the wreck, they sit discuss
ng the different styles of oarlocks. God in.
tended us to know some things anil lntcnde
ns not to know others. I have heard sooro
of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but
same away more perplexed than when I
went. The only result of such discussion It
a great fog. Here are two truths which arfl
to oompitr the world: Man, a sinner; Christ,
k Saviour. Any man who adopts those two
theories in his religious belief shall have nij
right hand in warm grip of Christian brother
tood.
A man comes down to a river in time o;
freshet. He wants to get across. He hns to
swim. What does he do? The first thing is
to put oST his heavy npparol and drop every,
thiug he has in his hands. He must go
empty handed if he Is going to the othel
bank. And I tell you when we have oomt
down to tho river of death and find it swift
and ragin-r we will hare to put off all our
sectarianism and lay down all our oumbroul
creed and empty handed put out for the othel
fthoni. "Wtm:" say you. "would you
resolve all the Christian church lntc
one kind of church? Would you mak
ill Christendom worship in the sa-n
way, by the same forms?" OU,
no. Tou mightas well decide that alt peo
pie shall eat the same kind of food without
reference to appotite, or wear tho same kind
of apparel without reference to the shape ol
their body. Your ancestry, your tempera
ment, your surroundings will decide whethei
you go to this or that church and adopt this
ai'tliat church polity. One church will best
get one man to heaven and another church
another man. I do not care which one oi
the gates yioi go through if you only go
through one of the twelve gates that J ejiu
lifted.
Well, now I see an the redeemed of eartt
coming up toward heaven. Do you thini
they will all got in? l'es. Gate the first, thi
Moravians come up: th-y believe ! in tht
Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate thi
second, the Quakers come up; they havi
received the inward light; they have trusted
ia the Lord; they pass through. Gate thi
third, the Lutherans come up; they had thi
same grace that made Luther what he wrv,
and they pass through. Gate the fourth, thi
Baptists pass through. Gate the fifth, tht
Free Will J aptists pass throuirh. Gate thi
sixth, the lieformed Church passes througa
Gate the seventh, the Cougregationalist;
pass tnrougn. Gate tne eigntn. the Uormat
Heformed Church passes through. Gatl
the ninth, the Methodists pass through.
Gate the tenth, the 8atibatarians past
through. Gate the eleventh, the Church ol
the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth,
the Presbyterians pass through. But ther
are a great part of other denominations whe
must come in, and great multitudes vsho con
nected taemsuivcs wita no visioie enures
but felt the power of godliness In. their heart
and showed it in their life. Where Is thoii
gate? Will you shut all the remainlna
host out of the citj? No. Tiioy maj
come in at our gate. Hosts of God, il
you cannot get admission through any othei
entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Nov
they mingle before the throne.
Looking up at the one hundred and forrj
and four thousand, you cannot tell which
gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, om
baptism, one glassy sea, one doxologv, on
triumph, one heaven! "Why, Luther, ho
did you gt in?" "I came through the thirt
gate." "Crammer, how did you get in?" "1
came through the eighth gate." Ad-miraa
ludson, how did you gnt through?" "I eam
through the seventh gate." "Huch McKail
the martyr, how did you get through?" "I
came through the twelfth gate." Glory tt
od, twelve "es, but one heaven!
In the thirl place, notice the points of thi
eompass toward which these gates look.
They are not on one side, or on two sides, oi
on three side, but on four sides. This is nc
fancy of mine, but a distinct announcement
On the north three gates, on the south three
gates, on the east three gates, on the wesl
three gates. What does that mean? Why.il
means all nationalities are in-'iuded, and il
does not make any difference from whal
quarter of the earth a man comes up; if hii
heart is right, there is a gate open befon
him. Oa the north three gates. Thatinsatu
mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norwa;
and a.veden. On the south three gates
That means pardon for Hindostan un
Algiere and Ethiopia. Oa the east throt
gates. That means salvation for Chim
and Japan and Borneo. Oa the west
three gates! That means redemption foi
America, It does not make any differ
ence bow dark skinned or how palt
faced mon may be, they will find a gati
right bofore them. Those plucked tonana!
nnder a tropical sun. These shot ncrosi
Hussion snows behind reindeer. From Mex
ican plateau, from Uoman campania, from
Chinese teafleld, from Holland dyke, from
Hootch Highlands they come, they come.
Heaven Is not a monopoly for a few iirocious
Bouls. It ii not a Windsor castle, built only
for royal families. It is not a small town
with small population, but John saw It, and
he noticed that in angel was measuring it, an-1
he measured it this way, and then ho meas
ured it that way, and whichever way he
measured it it was 1500 miles, so that Baby
lon, and Tyre and Nineveh and St. Peters
burg and Canton and Pekin and Paris and
Loudon and New York and all the dead cities
of the past and all tho living cities of tht
presunt a Ided together would not equal the
census of that great metropolis.
naming along a street, you can, ty thi
jontour of the dress or of the fa?.. iruess
where a man comes from. You say: "Tnat
Is a Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that if
an American." "But the gates that "gather in
the righteous will bring them ia irrespective
of nationality. Foreigners sometimes jret
homesick. Some of the tenderest and mosi
fiathetio stories have been told of those who
eft their native clime aad longed for It until
they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high
residence of heaven, will not long any more
tor the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills.
The Russian will not long any more for the
luxuriant harvest field he left now that he
hears the hum and the rustle of the harvest
of everlasting light. Tho royal ones from
earth will not long to go back again to the
earthly court now that they stand in the
palaors ot the sun. Those who once lived
among the groves of spies and oranges will
not long to return now that they stand nndei
the trees ol life that bear twelve manner ol
truit.
While I speak an everlasting throng It
pouring through the gates. They are going
up from Senegarabia, from Patagonia, from
Madras, from Hong Kong. "What," you say
"do you introduce all the heathen int
glory?" I tell you tho fact is that a major
ity of tho people of those climes die in in
fancy, and the infants all go straight intt
everlasting life, and so the vast majority o
those who die iu China p.nd In-iia, the v.-w
majority who die in A'rica, go straight tnti
the skies they die in infancy. Ono hundret
and sixty generations have been born Bind
ffie world was ereateil, ana so restlmatetnat
there mast be 15.000,000 children in glory. If
it a concert 2000 children sing, your soul is
raptured within yon. Oh, the transport
when 15,000,000 little ones stand up in white
before the throne of God, their chant drown
ing out all the stupendous harmonies of Dus
eldorf and Leipsic. Pour In through thr
twelve gates.
Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after
rank, saved battalion after saved battalion,
until all the city of God shall hear the
tramp, tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates.
Boom yet. Boom on the thrones. Boom in
the mansions. Room on the river bank.
Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded un
til all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast
and the glens echo it. Let missionaries tell
It in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across
the western prairies. Shout it to the Laplan
der on his swift sled. Hallo it to the Bedouin
careering across the desert. News, newsl
A glorious heaven and twelve gates to get
Into it! Hear it, O yon thin blooded nations
of eternal winter on the north three gatesl
Hear it, O you Dronzed inhabitants panting
nnder equatorial heats on the south thre
gatesl . .
-But I notice when John saw these gate
they were open wide open. They will not
always be so. After awhile heaven will have
gathered up all its intended population and
the children of God will have come hornet
F.very crown taken. Every harp struck,
Every throne mounted. All the glories ol
the universe harvested in the great garner.
And heaven being made np, of course the
gates will be shut. Itussia in, and the sec
ond gate shut. Italy in, and the third gatt
Shut. Egypt in, and the fourth gate shut.
Spain in, and the fifth gate shut. Franee in,
and the sixth gate shut. England
In, and the seventh gate shut. Nor
way in. end the eighth gatt
shut. Switzerland In, and the ninth gate
shut. Hindustan in. and thetonth gateshnt
Siberia in, and the eleventh gate shut. All
these gates are closed but one. Now, let
America go in with all the islan is of the sea
and all the other nations that have called on
God. The captives all freod. The harvestl
nil ffnthered. The nations all saved. Tht
Sashing splendor of this last pearl begins to
move on Its hi aires. Let two mighty angels
put their shoulders to the gate and heave it
to with silvery clang. It is done1 It thun
ders! The twelfth gate shut.
Once more I waut to show you the gate
keepers. There is one angel at each one ol
those gates. You say that is right 01
eourso it Is. Y'ou know that m earthly pal
ace or castle or fortress would be safe with
out a sentry pacing up and down by night
and by day, an-1 if there were no defenses be
fore heaven, and the doors set wide open with
no one to guard th-m, all the vicious ol
earth would go up after awhile, and all the
abandoned of hell would lie up after awhile,
and heaven, instead of being a world of light
and joy and pea?e and blessedness, would be
a world ot darkness and horror. So 1 am
glad lotell you that, whilotbnse twelve gate
stand open t let a great multitude in, thre
are twelve angels to keep some people out
Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Hii
debrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched
of earth who have not repented of theli
wickedness. It ons of those nefarious men
who despise I G) 1 should come to the gate,
one of thn keepers would put his hand on hie
shoulder and p-ish hirn into outer darkness.
Tiisro is no oluce in that land for thieves and
liars and whorcmonirers and dofrauders, anfl
all those who disgraced their race and
fought against their G U If a miser should
get in there, he would puli up the golden
pavement If a house burner should get In
there, he would set fire to the mansion, if a
Uhertine should get in th-re, he would
whisper his abominations standing on the
white coral of the seabeach. Only those
who are blood washed an-1 prayer lipped will
get through. O'.i, my brother, if you should
at last come up to one of the gates and try
to get throu'-h, and you had not a pass written
by the crushed hand of the Son of God, the
gatekeeper would, with one glance, withej
you forever.
There will be a password at the gate r.
heaven. Dj you know what that password
is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the
gate, and they say: "Let mo In; let me in. 1
Was very useful on earth. I endowed col
leges. I built churches and was famous foi
my charities, and having done so many won-
flertul things tor the world 1 come up to g-l
my reward." A voice from within says, "1
nover knew you." Another great crow
come3 np, and they try to get through. The;
say: "We were highly honorable oa eartli
aad the world bowed very lowly before us.
We were honored on earth, and now we come
to get our honors in heaven." And a voice
from within says, "I never knew you." An
other crowd advances and says, "We were
vory moral people on earth, vory moral in
deed, and we come up to get appropriate re
cognition." A voice answors, "I never knev
you.'-
After awhile 1 saa another throng approach
the cate, and one s9ms to tie spokesman foi
all the rest, although their voices ever and
aaoricry, "Amen, anon!" This one stands
at the Cite and says: "Lit me in, I was a
won hirer from G id. I diserv i to die. 1
have come up to this place, not because I do-J'-rve
it. but because I have heard that there
Is a saviug power in the blood of Jesus."
The gatelceepersays, "That is the password,
'Jesus! Jesus!' " And they go in and sur
round the throne, and the cry is, "Worthy it
the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing
and riches and honor and glory and pow r.
World without end!"
I stand hero this hour to invite you Pitc
any one- of the twelve gates. I toll you n v
that unless your heart is changed by the
grace of God you cannot get In. I do noi
care where you come from, or who youi
father was, or who your mother was, oi
what your brilliant surroundings unless
you repent of your sin and take Christ fot
your divine Saviour you cannot get in. Are
you willing, then, thisi moment, just whore
you are. to kneel down and cry to the Lord
Almighty for His deliverance?
You want to get In, do you not? Oh, yoi
have some good friends therj. This "last
year there was some one who went out from
your home into that bl-visad n Tney did
not have any trouble getting through the
gates, did they? No, they knew tho blessa 1
password, aid, ej uin- up, they said,
j'Josus!" and tho cry was, Lift up youi
hcwu ye everlasting gates, and let then)
come in." Oh, when heaven is all done and
the troop3 of G 1 shout the tastlo taken, how .
grand it will be if you aad fare among them.'l
Blessed are all they who entr in through tht
gates into the city.
FATAL PLAGUE.
ft Carries Oft 130 of 200 Stricken
n
Causes Sudden Death.
The following description of tho platrue in
Floyd aad Both Counties, Kentucky, which
has carried oft seventy-live per ceat. of its
victims, i3 furnished by physicians sent to
investigate the plague by the State Board of
Uealth.
The doctors say it is identical with th
plague which swept Ireland in 1366. It if
malignant, but not contagious, and Is due to
local conditions, though about the exacl
cause almost nothing is known. Its most
appalling feature Is the rapidity of its action.
It longest course does not exceed three days,
and scores died in from two to eight hours.
The symptoms are pain in the head, a high
fever and a tendency to draw back the head
and shoulders. Pains like tho stinging ol
bees attack the ends of the toes and lingers,
extending to the head. The eyes become
fixed, crossed as death draws near, and the
victim sinks into a stupor, which lasts Jonget
than the more painful features of tho horri
ble disease. OI 200 cases 150 died.
Big Timber Land Deal.
F. II. and C. TV. Goodyear, of Buffalo, S. T.,
Have purchased 4000 acres of Totter County
(Pennsylvania) timber land from William
Ieut, and the timber and hemlock bark on
another tract of 4000 acres. These tracts are
estimated to contain l.OOO.OOO.oo'J feet ol
standing timber. The price paid was $150,
000. The tim er lands of Potter County arc
now all practically in the bauds of the Good
years, whose sawmills are at Austin.
News in Brief.
A Columbia County (Pennsylvania)
farmer has succeeded ia grafting chest
nuts on scrub oak, anil expects to feed
the nuts to his pigs.
Air. and jurs. Hurst, ot Cleveland,
Oklahoma, have named a baby "Ot
It;" short for "Oklahoma Territory"
and "Indian Territory.
Between the year 1849, the date of
the discovery of gold in California,
and the year 1894, this countrv pro
duced $1,939,300,000 of gold.
The only knowledge we have o' the
air cnrrent?from 1C0 miles above the
earth's surface ia what has been gained
from watching luminous trains left by
metors.
New Zealand has set apart two isl
ands for the preservation of its re
markable wild birds and ether animals.
Thereon all bunting end trapping are
forbidden.
Of the 12,000 Canadian Indians on
the Pacific coast, 8000 have been bap
tized or attend Christian worship. The
Gospels have been printed for them in
C four languages.
1 The raspberry was introduced into
gland from Virgin in 1696. r .
THE BROOa,
looked In ths brook and saw a face
Heigh-ho, hut a child was 1 1
there were rushes and willows in that place,
and they clutched at the brook as the broo?
ran by;
And the brook it ran its own sweet way,
And as it ran I heard it say i
"Hasten with me
T? iie roistering sea
That is wroth with the flame of the morn
ing sky!"
1 look in the brook and see a face
Heigh-ho, but the years go by I
Tho rushes aro dead in the old-time place.
And the willows I knew when a child was I
And the brook it seemeth to me to say.
As ever it stealeth on Its way
Solemnly now and not in play
"Oh, come with me
To the slumbrous sea
That Is gray with the peace of the evening
sky r
Helgh-ho, but the years go by
I would to Go J that a child werel
Eugene Field, In Chicago News.
"ME AF MY DOG."
T.Y A, a. PLTMPTOS.
EfQ COLE was a
little black dog
that belonged to
Private Peck ol
Co. E.
There were twt
very different
opinions of King
Colo at Fort St.
Martin. One opin
ion was that held
by the genera
publio that he
was a mongrel pup
of no intelligence,
and the other was
that of the Peck
family, in particular, who maintained
as stoutly that he was of a fine breed
nd of remarkable sagacity.
Billy Peck and Polly Peck told many
an odd tale in proof of this belief.
Billy said that whenever he went
swimming King Cole sat upon the
bank of the creek (he was none too
fond of tho water himself) and at the
end of half an hour, which was the
length of time Billy was allowed to
stay in the water, King Cole notified
bim in sharp peremptory barks that
his time was up. If he paid no atten
tion to this notice the dog would con
qr2r his dislike of getting wet, and,
plunging into the creek, bring the de
linquent boy to land. Polly always
capped this story with a marvelou.;
tata of how once when she had been
trundling the baby carriage on thq
slope by the creek and stopped to
watch the geese there, King Cole had
pushed stones behind the wheels of
the perambnlator to prevent its rolling
down the hilL But the general pub
lic said that it had never with its own
eyes seen any of these wonderful
things, and that Billy and Polly Peck
were given to romancing, and reas
serted their belief that King Cole was
a mongrel pup of no intelligence. Pri
vate Peck said that no argument short
of a bullet would drive out an idea
after it had once got lodged in some
people's minds, and that is perfectly
true.
Peck was an honest soldier, but he
was guilty of telling long yarns, in
which he bragged too much of himseli
and King Cole that they had come to
be called, appropriating one on his
much-used phrases, "Me an' Me Dog."
According to him a thing that could
not bo done by this firm was not
worthy of accomplishment; and if
thero was a difficult job on hand some
body was sure to say, jestingly: "We
had better send for 'ile au' My Dog. "
"When, therefore, the robbery oc
curred at tho commissary department
upon the very night that Peck was on
guard there, jokes were passed freely
at his expense, everybody sarcastically
inqu ring where "Me an My Dog
could have been.
Peck felt very sore about it, for he
knew that the malicious intimated thai
the deed could not have been done
without his knowledge, and that he no
doubt shared tne booty with the thief.
The thief was presumably one of the
men called lig Brown to distinguish
him from another man in the same
company by tho name of Brown, who
was very small for he had deserted
that same night. So far he had eluded
all pursuers, of whom poor Peck had
been the hottest. Peck could not give
tip the hope of finally capturing him,
and said: "I ain't done with that
vilyun yet ; only give me an my dog
a chance at him an' you'll see." Whal
part the dog was to play was no'
specified.
It was the second morning after the
robbery, and Billy and Polly Peck
wandered for some distance outside
the fort, which was on our Mexican
frontier. It was a low-lying bushy
country, uninhabited except for a few
Mexicans, whose poor huts were
scattered at wide intervals over the
chaparral as this bushy land is called.
The children were now nearing one of
the jacals or huts, a dilapidated affair,
probably deserted.
"Don't lets go any further, I'm
tired," said Polly. "The soldiers hav
hunted all around here."
"I ain't going home till I've looked
around that old jacaL Tou don't
know but what that's the very place
Big Brown is hiding in. "
Billy pushed on. He was armed to
the teeth, as the saying is, with a
broken sword, a jackknife and a piece
of rope. Of course you see that his
purpose was the capture of the thief.
The children went on very stealthily.
Billy's eagerness gave a zest to the
play, so that notwithstanding her
fatigue Polly followed him, holding
back King Cole by the collar.
"See, see, here are his tracks," sud
denly whispered Billy, pointing to the
trampled grass.
Polly remained calm, for she baa
seen so many of Big Brown's tracks
that day, but King Cole pricked up hi
lars and Billy's eyes glistened.
"You stay here and King Cole with
you, 'cause you run if anything is
there, ho'll bark, and I'll go and take
look," said Billy.
They were approaching the house
from the rear. The building had no
windows, but one could easily look
into it through the spaces between the
togs cf which it had been constructed.
Then, after a second's inspection,
iillv tnmArl liis fa,. m9tnnA - it waa
several degrees Baler thjuxjwisj nd '
mm
mm
he covereS the 'distance between the
hut and the spot where he had left
Polly with unusual speed.
"I knew he was there," he said, but
his eyes were popping oat of his head
with astonishment. "He is there seai: J
asleep on the ground by the chimney.
I guess he climbed up when he heard
the soldiers coming, and so they
missed him. Anyhow he's there, and
we've found bim."
'Why didn't you go in and catct
him like you said?" asked Polly wick
edly. 'Well, I thought 'twould be kindei
mean when popper's so set on catching
him himself, and now I must go back
to the post for him, bo he'll have tho
chance. Tou must stay here, Polly,
and watch and 6ee that Big Brown
don't slip out."
"Me?" cried Tolly. "Stay yourselt
nd I'll go for popper; I'm afraid."
Billy despised his sister's sex, but at
that moment he thought after all it
might be rather comfortable sometimes
to be a girl and own to one's real feel
ing. "Tou ought to stay, for you're a
boy," Polly went on, "I'm only a girl,
little girL"
"That's the very reason, don't yoa
jee?" said Billy eagerly. "There's no
knowing what he might do to me, but
o wouldn't hurt a girl ; a little girl."
Polly was doubtfnl of such gal
lantry. She looked down at a big
black and blue bruise on her bare
brown leg, and reflected that being a
little girl had not saved her from
Billy's rage, and she would much
rather not risk it with Big Brown.
Still she always obeyed Billy, and he
insisted that she should stay.
He tucked her behind some bushei
irith the assurance that if Big Brown
came out he would never see her, and
calling the dog set out as fast as he
could; with his steady trot King Colo
kept a go4 1 way in advance. He mado
straight for the fort with an air of pur
pose, and looking back at Billy now
and then as if to say there was no time
to lose.
When they reached tho garrison,
although Billy searched in all his
usual haunts, his father was nowhere
to be found. There were plenty ot
other men about whom if he pleased
Billy could have started off in pursuit,
but he wished his father to havo the
jlory of capturing Big Brown.
He was in great excitement, for o".
course the longer the delay the greater
the chance that Bill Brown might es
jape. At length, leaving the barracks,
Billy walked down by the guardhouse.
There was no one about but the sentry
pacing up and down on the porch. At
one side of the guardhouse was a slight
elevation on which the cannon was
perched. Billy went up there and
looked in every direction for his
father. King Cole also looked, cock
ing his ears at every moving figure in
the distance, and then dropping them
disconsolately when it proved to bo
tome other than his master.
At a military post the cannon is fired
each morning and evening, and at no
other time except on some rare special
occasion. After gun fire each morn
ing the Ordnance Sergeant at Fort St.
Martin reloaded the gun for evening
use. King Cole, after a funny fashion
of his own, went up and with his head
on one Bide inspected it.
Suddenly the garrison was electrified,
by the firingof thegun. Much startled,
officers and men hurried to discover
the cause of so unusual an event, and
jwith the others came Trivato Peck.
He - was instantly seized upon by
pilly and put in possession of the
Tact8. Taking one other man withhini
and Billy as scout, he was soon scurry
ing away across the chaparral, and iu
an incredibly short time Big Browa
was locked up in tho guardhouse.
After this event Teck was proudex
than ever of King Cole.
"Oh, no, he hasn't any intelligence,
ho hasn't," he would say sarcastically.
"My boy had looked all over tho post,
an' had jest given np the job of find
ing me when that dog up au' fired oil
the gun. Oh, no, he hasn't any intel
ligence." But tho man who had been the sentry
at the guardhouse and who had wit
nessed the affair gave another version
of it.
"Yes, sir," he laughingly explained,
"the lanyard that was coiled np on the
beach had been blown down, an' that
pup seein' the hand piece bobbliu'
about in the wind, grabbed it in his
mouth an' started off with it ter play.
So o' course it exploded the caps an'
fired off the gun. 'Twould a been a
mortal smart dog that would have
knowed what it was a-going ter do.
But them kids o Feck's are cuta ones,
and it's them that ought to hava tho
credit of capturin Big Brovtu." St
Louis Bepublic.
Smallest Church in England.
The smallest church iu Englau-l is
said to be Lullington Chnrcli. abuut
fourteen miles from Eastbourne, lying
under the shadow of the South Down
hills. It i3 sixteen feet six inches from
east to west and sixteen feet from
north to south. The living is in the
gift of the Crown, its value is about
5300 per annum, the population is
under twenty, and a servico is held in
the church once a fortnight. The
vicar has other duties to perform in
addition to the cure of souls of tiny
Lullington. New York World.
wax TB3T FARTED.
"So the engagement between Miss
Chicago and her Detroit lover is oft "
"Yes. She was too sensitive. A
woman ran a baby cab over her foot,
and when she told George about it he
asked her if it upset the cab. " De
troit Free Press.
JUHPEfO BOARD.
Mrs. Waldorf "In our hotels the
guests are well cared for. In every
upper room there ia a rope for escape
in case of fire."
Count De Barber e "Ah, that u
most amusing. If he wish be can use
it also as a skipping rope." Life.
A GOOD BKASON.
Featherstone "Won't you play
something? Mr. Tutter says you play
beautifully."
Miss Pinkerly "If he likes to heai
me play so much, why doesn't he call
oftener?"
Featherstone "He says yon always
insist upon talking." Detroit Free
?teg. - - " ' '
f
!: -
i
1
i i.-i
..Si