X' : 1-J-', 1 1 . F. 8CHWEIBB, THE OONtfl'lT U TIOW-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1896. tjlL VOL. L NO. 9. Istite aTTnVS. - 9 m m m nf 1 VV -V II 1X r VI I ii in i sT 1!: 28 OHM CIIAPTEll XXX. Jane's resolution to avenge the murder of Jacob Lynn was by no means a fleet ing impulse. The difficulties that seemed to present themselves even at first sight In no wise daunted her. nor was she afraid of the discovery that might be the outcome of her researches, for nothing eould be more cruel than the suspense that was torturing her, no certainty more hateful than the suspicion which at pres ent she was obliged to feel. By an In tinct stronger than any evidence of ac tual fact she was persuaded that he had died because of her; and none other than Stephen Prinsep knowing the persecution she had endured at his hands. It seemed only too clear wherein lay the motive for the crime, and that he had been the mur derer she could not doubt. That he had sinned for her sake count ed nothing in his favor; It seemed instead to add to the blackness of the crime by making her iu a way a participator in It. Had it not been so she might have felt less bound to disinter the truth. From first to last it had been her own fault hers only; or so it seemed now. She had meant all for the best, but she thought with bitterness that had she been Well-iutentioned, things might have turn ed out better. Her father's words re curred to her that the consequence re mained when the actual fault was dead or forgotten, and the aphorism seemed the wiser that sho herself had proved it true. Having decided that it was her duty to bring the murderer to justice, however It might pain herself and she knew that it would be less painful to suffer in his tead than betray Stephen Prlnsep she lost no time in putting her resolve Into ex ecution. Her first move was to visit the spot where Jacob Lynn had been found dead; and having managed to evade her moth er's companionship, she set out alone. But on arrival she found a small group of people assembled there, curiously ex amining the ground; for the interest ex cited by the murder had been wide spread. Sh. MflMtl ou quickly, and a few min utes' walk brought her on to the parade ground. Hesitating for a moment whether to return later, or to relinquish her pur pose for that day, her glance happened to fall upon the end house of the married men's barracks, and she remembered that the woman who lived there had been ill, and she had meant for some time to go and see her. Crossing the parade ground, the thought struck her that if Jacob Lynn was accompanied on the afternoon be was murdered, the inmates of that end house would be the most likely to know of it. It was perhaps a fortunate coincidence that had brought her here. The woman was at home, and well enough to be pleased to see a visitor. She was lying back in a straw easy-chair on the veranda, and, seeing Jane approach ing, tried to move to meet her. "Don't get up, Mrs. Phillips, You are not able to do so, 1 am sure. I did not expect you would be out of bed." "I have been sitting out of doors for Jie last week. 1 was sitting here the very day Lynn went to his death. It gave me auch a shock that I was thrown back more than a bit. If it hadn't been for him I should have been well by this time not that it was his fault, poor fellow." Jane had flushed at the unexpected men tion of the very inline she was anxious to Introduce. lint she was too confused to take advantage of it. However, Mrs. Phillips required no encouragement to continue a conversation, and went on briskly: They would have had me up at the In quest, no doubt, but I was that upset X couldn't have answered a question they asked me. And, besides, what I knew there were others knew as well as I." "Yon mean." asked Jane, nervously, for fcer role of amateur detective was emi nently distasteful to her, "you mean yon only saw him pass alone?" "That's all. I saw the khidmatgtr pass the man who found him, you know. I aaw no one else go by that ffrtemoon, ex ceptI had forgotten that somebody passed in gray clothes. I couldn't see whe he was, but he must have atruak cms toward the hospital, for his nam didn't come out at the inquest. "Very likely. The two roads branch off at once. You did not happen to see who ft was?" "No; I never thought of It till now. I Just saw that he was tall and wore a (ray suit. And after all It didn't matter, M he had nothing to do with it?" "2'o, of course not," agreed Jane, ris ing. "I am very glad you are better, Mrs. Phillips. My mother will be glad, too. She has been talking about coming to see ron ever since she tirst heard yon were llL" Returning by the way she had come, this time there was no one passing along by the short cut. and she stood in the Besetted compound, wondering what good he had done by coming there. If there had been anything to lead to a discovery, K would have been found before this. Bat evidence seemed to crop tip without her Tolition. Moving her foot restlessly against the broken stump of a tree an outstanding twig broke, and, as It fell way, she saw something wedged in be tween the roots. She stooped and loosen ed it. It was a mother-of pearl button attached to n piece of smooth gray cloth, such as might have been torn from gentleman's short gaiter. rutinnoi PrinseD wore such short gaiters the knew; but then so many others in the regiment wore them, too, that nnlesa ahe toold actually fit the piece she held in her hand Into the part from which it had been torn, nothing could be proved. That, of course, was impossible, and be ing so. all her discoveries were useless. Bhe had distressed herself to no purpose, and the end was as far away as ever. With the button tightly clasped In he? band, she watted slowly home, thinking over what she already guessed, and what atill remained to be conjectured. Bhe re membered stories she had read of fathers who had sacrificed their own aona to a sense of justice, and wives who had given up their husbands, forgetting their lora for the sinner in their loathing for the atns that had been committed; but aha was no heroine, and aha felt rollers that WW .-'7 "mw. rrt-T- I'fiJIK' aw v. -J itTa A t- a I I I BnSnnl Ml mystery of JacobLynn'a death mfght re main a mystery to all time. For several days after this ahe re mained Inactive. Too troubled to dare to give herself leisure to think, ahe spent most of her time in reading; and by a curious coincidence, in one of the books with which ahe had chosen to distract her thoughts was an account of a woman tracing out the detaila of a crime and eventually discovering the murderer. By means of a disguise she had entered a house that was otherwise effectually closed against her, and so possessed her self of the necessary proofs. Armed wtrh these, the rest had been easy; no further obstacles prevented her from gratifying the revenge which had urged her on. Jane let the book fall Into her lap. It floated vaguely across her mind that. If so much had been already done by a wo man, surely ahe might have done more. It was from no ignoble motive she wished to bring the murderer to justice, but from a feeling of duty stronger than her In clination. It was while undecided, still doubtful of her own powers, and whether It would be right to use them so, that Major Larron called. He came ostensibly to bring her a num ber of the regimental paper. The th Hussars had always formerly had a pub lication of the sort, but latterly from various causes It had fallen Into disuse, and Its revival was only resolved upon a month before. This was the first num ber. "A boy was just coming out of the frintlng-room with a bundle of them as passed: I thought yon would like to see one," he explained, in excuse for his somewhat early visit. "You are alwaya very kind In thinking of me," she answered, soberly. "More because I cannot help myself man rrom any encouragement I receive. Jane's short upper lip, usually so mo bile and tremulously aweet. settled Itself into an expression of obstinate determi nation. His friendship, alwaya patent, yet never demonstratively so, she valued highly; but she had no intention of drift ing into any closer relations. To avoid meeting his gaze she began cutting th leaves of the paper he had given into hei hands. "Don't misunderstand me," he went on, with a grave inipresslveness In harmony with his dark, earnest eyes. "I don't re quire encouragement or thanks. I only want yon to rrn.t In me, and believe that In no other position could I be happier ot prouder than I am now as your slave." "I thought the days of slavery we if aver" trying to smile. "Compulsory slavery, no doubt; but It is of my own free will I would render the labor of my hands and brain; and I would not be emancipated if I could." She did not reply. Looking up cau tiously to see the effect of his words, he saw that she was frowning, more as though vexed than confused by what he had said. He had spoken deliberately, and not from impulse as it had appeared, thinking that it was time to press his suit upon her attention. Everything comes to him who waits: ; but it was possible to wait too long, too pauenny. ranence might be mistaken for weakness of purpose or want of spirit, faults not easily forgiven by a woman. So he had thouaht: but discovering hi. j mistake, he hastened to rectify it. No j woman wooed in such a humor as that . Jane'a restless frown portended was ever j won, even though so skill sd a diplomatist aa himself should be the wooer. "I am boring you; I can see it," he ' said, laughing pleasantly. "Men in love are alwaya prone to discuss their own feeling to the exclusion of other snb I jects of livelier Interest; but I won't j transgress again, I promise. Have you j heard that Miss Knollya has again re fused to be Mrs. UreyT" "Is that the last piece of station gos sip?" laughing, too. "The very last. He Is his own betrayer this time. I fancy even his persistence la becoming exhausted; he was almost ' rude in his abruptness to the Colonel at mesa last night." j "Why?" "He has taken It Into his head that it ' Is his rivalry he has to fear; and" slow ly "I sm not sure but that he is right, t No woman, unleaa she had some mors favored lover, could be Indifferent to such untiring devotion. What do you think, Iiss Knox?" I "I have not sufficiently considered the subject for my opinion to be of any value, I am afraid," she answered, coldly. I A minute later the Indifference she had I assumed vanished from her face, and an j expression of horror and contempt took its place as her eyes fell upon something I on the paper in her lap. "Oh, how could he how could be!" she cried, vehemently, and rising hastily, as though to put away a frightful thought. ahe went over to the window at th further end of the room. The paper had fluttered to the ground, and Barry Larron, picking it up imme diately, let his glance travel swiftly over the exposed page. Only one item of any possible interest was among the mass of regimental matter; and even that at first sight seemed incapable of having caused such evident agitation. "Colonel Prinsep, with his usual gener osity and thoughtful perception of a feel ing now general that some monument should be erected to the memory of Trooper Lynn, has expressed his inten tion of providing a cross bearing the date and circumstance of his death, and testi fying to the universal regret felt by the regiment at his mysterious and untimely end." Turning sharply, Jane saw that Maior Larron held the paper in his hand, saw i perceived that he had already read the 'paragraph which had excited her indig oarion." ; "Is It true?" she asked, clasping her sands impressively, forgetting that she was making clear her suspicions, in the uncontrollable repulsion she felt at the thought that the murderer should be the one to raise a memorial over his own vie tim. I Like a lightning flash, as she spoke, the ase revealed itself to Major Larron, and for an instant he waa horrified, having no room In his mind for anything save the one thought that Stephen Prinsep, his I Colonel, was considered capable of the dastardly crime of Having intentionally or otherwise killed a trooper In the regi ment. He was about to hotly refute the I imputation when a second thought struck ' him, that perhaps this might be turned to his advantage, and he restrained him self. h IWhr ihtnJ4Jtt.nflt .ba, r Wfcat could bi more natural than that the Col. onel should present a monument as there was no regimental subscription?" he added, guardedly. He folded up the paper and laid it quietly on one aide. In his own mind he decided that he had behaved generously In the matter In not having by word or glance done anything to strengthen her belief in the Colonel's guilt. That he ahould put himself out of the way to de fend him was not to be expected. Yet he hoped that she would not introduce the subject again, for he felt himself unable even to simulate credulity. Indeed, a feeling of camaraderie which he himself would have stigmatized as a weakness, and on this account hesitated to ac knowledge, made him absolutely angry with her for supposing such a thing. Not until he had left the house did the thought strike him that there might hav been some method In the madness. (To be continued.) OAK FORESTS OF AMERICA. Sapid Disappearance of Wood, that Were Once tne Nation'. Pride. The magnificent oak forests north or the Ohio river, In the central part of the Northern States, have largely dis appeared. Within the last five years there has been an Increasing demand for oak in spite of business depression, more especially for such timber as goes Into house finishing, including plain and quarter-sawed oak and white oak. The duration of the Wisconsin red oak supply Is now pretty plainly indicated, and in the meantime remnants of In diana, Oh'.o, Michigan and southern Illi nois oak will hare disappeared, except In small farm holdings, and the great bulk of the supply will thereafter come from south of the Ohio. Of course, there is oak in all the Southern States, but the alluvial bottom lands must fur nish the great bulk of the timber, and aa Kentucky and Tennessee and West Virginia are partly denuded, the main supply will soon be derived from the lower Mississippi and Its tributaries. If the finest area of oak timber In the world, namely, that north of the Ohio river, has been stripped while the country's population and Industries were comparatively small, how long will the remaining supply last when the needs are measured by our future pop ulation and Industrial development? Walnut Is gone; cherry, birch and ma ple will not last many years, and there fore the demand for oak will be much greater and will rapidly Increase. It must be remembered, too, that oak lands are good for agriculture after the timber Is cut, and for this reason the denudation will go on with greater rapidity than on the lands less valua ble for tillage. When the tide of emi gration sets strongly toward the allu vial areas of the lower Mississippi and Its tributaries the hardwood forests will melt rapidly away before the attacks of the farmer. It Is for this reason that large holdings of southern oak and oth er bard woods are now being secured In the South. After a few years oppor tunities for such investments on a large scale will be gone forever. Death of a Vagabond. Together they limped Into the little shelter for animals In East One Hun dred and Second street. It was a ques tion which was the more ragged and disreputable, the dog or the tramp. In one respect the tramp had the best of It. He limped with only two legs, and his companion was lame In three. They stood there In the little office llde by side, both looking at the man who sat behind the desk, making en tries in a book. "Say, mister," said the tramp, "what can you do for me frien' here?" "What is the matter with him?" "If you can discover anything that ain't the trouble with 'lm, you're aa artist. Me frien's suffering with pre mature baldness, one eye's gone, and he got locomotor stacks. He ain't no Beau BrnmmeL mister, but he's the squarest pard I ever traveled with, and if you can fix him up we'll pay ye some day. "If yer can't," and almost unconsci ously the tramp lowered his voice, "I wont yer to send Mm over the bay by the smoothest road yer got." The superintendent examined the dog gently, and then told the wanderer that there was no hope. The weary little waif had outlived his usefulness and was better dead. Without a word the tramp handed j the frayed rope to the superintendent, and when the official led the poor dog into the room from which no canine traveler ever returns, he followed. "Good-by, pard," he said, reaching out his hand. His friend solemnly raised his one sound paw, and they ! shook hands silently and reverently, ' as old friends do who are about to part for a long time. Then the tramp walked alone out Into the street New York Press. Wrong Kind of Boys In Nebraska. Young man, you are spending too much money foolishly. By and by you will wake up when the mercury Is hov ering in the region of 12 degrees below aero and wonder what turn can be made to get an overcoat without pay ; log spot cash. Save your money, and stop your foolishness. Nebraska State ' Journal. ' I Dr. Leslie Fhi'ips, a London spec ialist, says that baldness in men is most commonly caused by having the hair cut too frequently. Charles A. Tyler hs been a New York letter carrier for fifty years, and bas met many prominent men from Henry Clay down to the present day. Both political parties have selected their candidates for borough offices, and every good citizen hopes the best men will win. I The St. Lawrence River is only 775 miles long, but if the lake f ystem is counted in it reaches for 2000 miles. ) It is estimated that forty-six thou sand out of 346,000.000 of outstanding greenbacks have been destroyed, and will never be presented for redemp tion. j Nutmegs are the stone of fruit fonnd in a fleshy hall. They are pre pared by being hulled, dried and im mersed in a solution of lime and salt water. I Apples, grapes and bananas are rich in nutritious elements, and do not contain anything which causes the ossifying blockades in the system. 5HJP0F THE DESElitr: rroi.uTION OF THE CAMEL AND HIS USES. fecnliarltiee of the Bemarkable Bee. and the Eervlcee lie Bender, to Man in leeert Landa Ooee for Dajrs Without rood or Drink. Oacs Triad In America. One early morning In June, 1873, thi writer saw a kingly Arab entering an outlying street of biout, Egypt, at the head of a small caravan of camels. His attendants followed with a firm and self- reliant step and swing which told of the Wide free life of the desert. The humps Df the camels were shrunken snd covered by large and loose flaps of skin. Showing the terrible draft a journey of many hon ored miles had made upon their vitality, I'here is a peculiar interest even in seeing, in Arab chief with his begrimed at-. Umdant right from the sands and the wind storms of the desert. As a means if transportation the camel has been plac id in a region where man would have keen helpless without him. He waa no toubt the first animal domesticated. We read of him as a burden bearer in Abra lam's time, and as constituting the chief S-ealth of Job, and find him in use now b the Canary Islands, Morocco, Algiers, turns. Tripoli, the great Sahara. Egypt ind Nubia in Africa, and in Arabia, Per- lia, Cabool, Beloochistan, liindoostan. uurmafa, Thibet, Mongolia, Southern Si- lena and in Independent Tartary in Asia. shere he endures severe cold; also in the Lrimea and a limited district around Con Itantlnople. The animal has been in use tor centuries In Tuscany and its use la low rapidly increasing in Australia, in R-hich region he is extensively bred. No ininial can supply his place in the coun ties named. Kailroads alone will even niaily render his use as a common car rier unnecessary. The camel is to Asiatic ud the African what the dog is to the Esquimaux, the reindeer to the Laplander, the vessel to the seaman and the locomo tive to the American and European. The most recent extension of the use of .he camel is found in Australia. These iniinals were first taken there by the Burke and Wells party in 1862. Besides the importations from Asia, there are now leveral breeding stations In Australia. There are many Afghan and European :a rrying companies there using nothing tut camels, conveying passengers and ,'rcight from one part of the interior to mother. These camels carry from 400 o 1,000 pounds. In some cases Europesns lave learned to act as camel drivers, but jhe Afghans understand and manage the animals better. The distances made y some of the riding camels in Australia lave been remarkable. A very fast camel lelonging to Sir Thomas Elder, a heavy mporter of these animals, carried a doc tor and the Afghan rider over 300 miles n twenty-four hours. Camels are now j ised in place of horses by the South Aus- rauau and (Queensland police troopers, ws a burden bearer and roadster the tamel beats the horse in Anstralia aa mell la every wbr else in dewrt regions. The Camel's Orlsln. The story of a German philosopher who evolved a camel from his iuuer con iciousness" is not strictly iu harmony rith the requirements ot exsct science, two things have adapted themselves to the desert, the date palm and the camel, ind both are essential to any picture of t, and one who has seen and used "the ihip of the desert" in Africa ought to be ible to tell of it with some accuracy, for ts story is full of interest. Considered historically and geologically,1 lie camel of the Great Indian, African ind Bactrian deserts is not a product if the old world, but the earliest evidence if bis ancestors is to be found in Amer ca, and the new world still contains the reater number of species of the family, n such as the llama, the alpaca, the manaco and their relatives. The Asiatic ind African camels are merely the sur 'iving Oriental members of a family rholly American in origin, but stranded n a remote section of the old world, where hey have survived the competition of lewer and higher typea in virtue of some ipecial adaptations to their peculiar hab-' tat, their desert resisting qualities. Over lie Eocene snd Miocene plains of all the wntinents csniels and their allies once tanged In large numbers. They con ttitute an undeveloped ungulate form, rhich has become extinct through the lerce competition of higher ruminants' ixcept in remote psrts of the world, like t fries, Arabia, Southern Asia, portions if Australia and in the Andes. Camelsj is a group, antedate the development of lorned or antlered ruminants, and they till possess in full canine and Incisor eeth, which are partly obsolete or much lltered in shape in all the higher and ater ruminants. The giraffe, too, another remnant of an earlier age, shows in his ihorr. Want, skin-covered horns, the lowJ ist surviving stage of the frontal weapons low common to the rumiiants. The un tainly and shambling camel is simply a ipecialized and adapted desert variation Irom the common ancestor of the horse; ig snd hlpplpotamus. The horse is of lttle avail upon a sandy desert. His feet sink into the yielding sands and he luickly tires of travel, while the drome lary, with his pecultsrly padded sole, takes a loose, shambling trot and seems tasily to accomplish a hundred miles a lay for a week together, bearing a load iqual to the weight of two riders. On .ills snd rocks the camel is not so useful, tat on the open, sandy deserts he is a naster with which no other animal can tompete. Camels, then, are really surviving speci nens of the raw material from which, y natural and sexual selection, the higher ruminants in diverging lines have been dowly evolved during innumerable ages. The hnmp Is sn excrescence composed 4 gelatinous fat and is, in reality, a stock' if provisions which by reabsorption noar- shes the animal when deprived of a sup ly of food proportionate to its exertions. It is not uncommon for camels to corns Hut of this old type the csmel Is a modi- led member, and a peculiarly adapted lesert offshoot. It presents In external lonfiguratlon and functional peculiar! les e remarkable instance ef special Captation to a restricted environment. The Camel'. Hnmp. mck from an expedition with their backs' Umost straight, showing little if any! lamp, for the bony framework of the ani-f eai dees not curve or conform to a hump, i witter of jingle gives the following few of the origin ef the hump: Tbs rain looked near, the sky grew dark; Ind all the beasts made for the Arr Except the camel. He just stood In- smiled and said, Brtng on year flood r and he ambled on, aa yenH remark, at a careless Jog towards the Ark. tut when lightning flashed and thnndea crashed. And the downpour came amahr Clumpetyt elnmpl Oh, he get "a hnmp' On himself out of the rain. IHnVresU eially In Arabia, embraces almost asVreaf a variety as the domesticated horse. Thi word dromedary. In camel-land, Is applies Jg. designate aa animal used for tiding purposes only, and is from a Greek word meaning a runner or racer. Of the tws. varieties the Arabian is admirably adapt4 ed for carrying burdens. The Bactriaa camel la less common and Is found chiefiy Iu Tartary and Southern Siberia. The Arabian variety is sometimes seven feat bigh and ten feet long, and often weighs I ton. Oriental poets frequently allude to the camel and appear to And grace and beauty in the ungainly animal. A use snd study of the creature in Syria and Egypt never revealed to us any beauty in its form or features. When well fed snd groomed he exhibits a tawny silken coat, quite In contrast with the mangy hides of the stunted varieties carried about with American caravans. Because obliged to do so, he obeys his bosses, but with no more intelligence than a caravan of Ig norant New York voters do the bidding t Piatt snd Croker. In Persis a spe cies of camel is trained to fight and wres tle: these animals bite each other, . and trike quickly and viciously with their fore feet. In ancient times camels were nsed in armies ss by Semlramls, Xerxes snd Alexander the Great; and even hi re rent years they have been so employed in ETPt snd in Arabia and other parts of Asia. The flesh of the camel has the flavor of good beef, and, dried and salted, It serves to provision caravans. Tne animal Is of as much use to the poor Arab ss the reindeer is to the Laplander. Its milk Is as pleasant to drink as that of the cow and cannot be distinguished from it In coffee. The long hair on the hump. Jaws and neck Is mixed with wool and woven Into cloth, carpets, rugs and tent cloths. The skin, too, makes excellent lesther. The camel may be said to clothe, feed and shelter the Arab and his family. Personal Experience. At an earlier period In the writer's IT when he had more money than sense, he saw fit to spend aom. months in the desert regions of Egypt, Syria and Northern Arabia, and he will never cease to wonder why any sane man will voluntarily sub ject himself to the discomforts and annoy ances of caravan journeys, with their flies, fleas and filth, both animal and hu man. The dark blue skies of the long, cloudless days, and the marvelous moon light and starlight of the nights are almost everything he recalls with pleasure con cerning Syrian journeying. Over the hot and desolate sands, especially at any dis tance in the interior, the camel is the only means of transportation.. On the borders of the deserts the ass, the quadrupedal variety, not the Arab, is in common use. 'I'here can be little doubt that the pa tience with which Job is credited was wholly derived from imitating that quality in his six thousand camels. Many a time have we seen a camel patiently carry his ueary load till he was just ready to die with exhaustion, and then fall. Too often he fell to die, when a little delay was caused to transfer his load and to take off his skin. A halt of this kind under the cloudless azure of a Syrian desert is evidently seen at a very great distance hy vultures, for soon dark specks are vis ible everywhere on the sky and in a few hours the bones of the dead camel are arrested ly them of every trace of fleshy Longfellow thus describes such a feasf' by these birds of prey: Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, on the sick or dying camel. But another vulture watching From his high aerial lookout. Sees the downward plunge, and follows; And a third pursues the second. Coming from the invisible ether. First a speck, and then a vulture. Till the air is dark with pinions. We hsv. never seen a camel carry morn than half a ton, and that not for a great distance, but he will carry from 500 to 600 pounds fifty miles in a day, and for many successive days. A friend tells ut that he once saw a camel rise from tht ground with a load weighing 1,300 pounds. Good riding camels will go one hundred miles a day for ten or twelve days in succession and not seem to mind it. Cam els have made forced journeys of 8v miles In twenty-four hours. Cam els, like horses, will bring from $75 to f 1,000 apiece. Their food upon a jour ney Is very simple. They crop almost any dry herbage, and especially delight in a diet of thistles. On long journeys they are often fed a dough or coarse bread made of meal and beans, and seem to be satisfied with three or four pounds of it for a meal. The camel will go from three to five days without drinking, his stomach" storing up water and supplying it as hi digestion needs It. An American Experiment. In 1853 Congress appropriated $30,000; for the purchase of camels to be used iu carrying army freight in the arid regions of Teaas and the Southwest. Animals' were purchased in Asia Minor and Egypt and brought to Indianola, Texas. An in quiry at the War Department as to the result of this experiment brings the fol lowing answer: "It was demonstrated, after several years' trial by the quartermaster's depart ment, that the camels fe-Khased under authority of law went adapted for military transportation, and the entire herd was sold at anction on March 8 1868." DUANE DOTV. A $SO,6bo Apple Tree. An expensive apple tree stands on the Albert Smith farm In South Strabane Township, near Washington, Pa. It has cost Its owner over $45,000. In 18S7, when the Smith pool-gushers com menced to break the oil market and ruin speculators, the company which held the lease on the Smith farm de cided to locate a well near the boundary line of the Cameron and Smith prop erties. The owner of the land objected to the location, claiming that If made on the spot chosen a favorite apple tree would have to be cut down. The manager ot the drilling company, believing that the location was a promising one, decided to gain his end and get even with the troublesome landowner at the earns time. He had the timbers hauled a few feet, Changed the Intended positions of the derrick and boiler house, placed them I iust acrons the line on the Cameron! farm and drilled the hole within a few reet or tne original tocauon. xac weu produced 8,000 barrels of oil per day. A large percentage of this petroleum must have come from under the Smith farm, but the hole was on Cameron's And, and he, of course, received the royalty. The well Is still producing oil and the Camerons' share of the outpitf has reached over $45,000. The apple tree still lives, bnt has been ruined by the closeness of the welL A man likes to think that when he makes up his mind, nothing on earth can move him. Women do not take seriously to liter ature until they have passed the "trade UsT ag LITTLE GIRL KEPT THE SEAT. Cktldrea Xajswed r Standing Up In Jar7 street Care. "Let the little girt get np and give the hdy her seat.' said a bewhlskered. j neddleeome old man in a Clark street i tar yesterday, as he reached across the lisle and poked at the child's mother iirith his cane. The lady with her arms full of bandies stood expectant tnd beamed on the old man for his thoughtf nines s, but the mother looked nad enough to set bis whiskers on firs is she replied: "I have paid for the seat the chUd Is sccupying. If you want the lady to save a seat you had better give her four own." The old man was so greatly abashed sy the reception of his suggestion that be entirely forgot to give the lady his eat, and she stood np all the way to the end of the line. This Incident set the little fat conductor to talking about bogs and other animals that ride on street cars, and among other things h laid: "That woman Is all right. She ain't tot no call to make her little girl stand ip after she has paid for her seat and ierfc are a lot of duffers like that old nan settln' around. This Idea of mak ing children, especially young girls. Rand up In street cars is all wrong any low. They can't reach up to the straps, ind have to teeter around on their little legs and be jerked back and forth with ut anvthlnr to ateariv thAmaolvM hr ui anytnmg to steady themselves by. Its a shame, that's wot It Is, and I know many little girls who get strains and hurts that stay with them aU their Dves by being jerked around In these ears. "Besides," he continued, as he shot a stream of tobacco juice at a boy who was trying to steal a ride, "it ain't no easy thing for a fat woman, like that nn In thorn whuu nn to , . ' " , touch the floor, and Who bas no lap to speak of, to hold a child. So It's tOugll on the women as well as the kids. That o io ., ,,,, T. . , woman Is dead right, and I ni glad she give the old wart with the Whiskers the marble heart." There are many mothers In Chicago Who will heartily Indorse the fat con- nucior views on street car etiquette.- Chicago Tribune. .Railroads In Wartime. The tremendous decline which took Olace In the nrlce of railwav aeouriHM when the recent rumors of possible war " with Great Britain began to be circu- lated makes Interesting an Inquiry as to how the earnings of the railways were affected by the war of the rebel. Hon. Since that time the changes of names ind of oraganlzations have been so general as to make It difficult to get iceurate statistics. With respect, how ever, to the Illinois CentralL official fig ares taken from the report of the Rail road and Warehouse Commission for 1804 are Interesting and complete. That report "hows the gross receipts f the IlMnols Central to hare been as follows: 18S3.... $1,885,710 1862 $3,031,006 1850.... 1,887,2071863 4,291.8.11 I860.... 2.536,532 1864 5.793,063 IS61.... 2,532,2541805 7,092,711 $S,841,78d $20,208,183 That Is, In four years preceding any freat movement of troops and supplies In the Mississippi Valley, this railroad rarned $8,841,786, while In four years f active movement of troops and sup. lies It earned $20,208,186. That the business of the railway was rreatly stimulated by the war Is shown y the sudden drop In earnings during me next year. 1866. to $6,101,082. The table given in the Railroad anil Warehouse Commission report further shows that it woe not until 1891 that She Illinois Central ever again earned !n one year, on the 705 miles originally ivilt, as much as $7,000,000. Qlgantlo Feathered Cr;atnre. Ellas Midkoff of Hamilton, Lincoln County, waa In Charleston the other Say and proposed to the State Histor ical and Antiquarian Society that If It would asnd him a taxidermist to Ham lin the society could secure a monster bird, ot a kind never seen before by any one In West Virginia. The feath ered monster Is described by Mr. Mid koff. from measurements taken by him telf and W. W. Adklns of Hamlin, who killed the bird at the month of Cannatters creek, with five bullets from his rifle, while hunting deer on Mon Say. The bird is 7 feet 4 inches from tip to tip, 4 feet from tip of bill to tip of tall, flat bill 4 Inches long and 8 Inches wide, somewhat similar to that of a luck; web feet neck 19 Inches long, snd about W Inches through below the feathers; plnmage dark brown, relieved en the wings and breast by light-blue shading. The bird when first seen was circling high In the air, bnt cams down very quickly and alighted In the water, where Adklns got a good shot at It, crippling Its wing. Adklns attempted to capture the strange fowl alive, but It was so vicious that he could not get near It without killing It, which re quired five bullets. Baltimore Amei lean. Rabbis NnUanoe In Idaho. Jack rabbits have become so numer ous and troublesome this fall In Cassia county, Idaho, that the farmers are or ganizing round-up hunts to lessen the numbers of the pests. At a hunt of this kind held lost week by farmers liv ing near Oakley 6,128 rabbits were rounded up and killed, and two coyotes snd a lynx were also caught In the ring. The method followed in these hunts Is for the farmers and their help to spread over a large section of country, form a ring, and then all work toward the center, beating the Intermediate terri tory thoroughly, and driving the rab bits Into the center, where they art killed with dubs. Look After the Prisoners. The discharged prisoners from tlHi flttsfleld, Mass., jail are being looked Ifter by the Good ClOxenshlp Commit, Is of the Christian Endeavor Union. Prof; Hnxley on Smoking. Prof. Hnxley said: "Smoking Is a gtmfortable and laudable practice, hi productive of good, and there Is no more harm in a pipe of tobacco than la cup ef tea." Policy hi mora often to blame fos tkajs ffrinfllnlsn REUUMGE. rhe Eminent Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: "The King's Highway.' xt: "And an highway shall be then and a way. and It shall be called, the way d holiness : thn unclean sbsll not pass over It but it shall be for thnw. th. wi.rin. man tljoutrh fools, shall not err therein. No liol snail be there, nor any ravenous beast shal go up thereon, it shall not be found thors but the redeemed shall walk there, and thi ransomed of the Lord shall return and eotm to Zion with songs and evariasrlns; joy npot their heads. They shall obtain Joy and rUdj ness.and sorrcwani sf ghing shall flee away.' -Isaiah xnv., 8, . 10. There are hundreds of people la this bona, who wsnt to find the right road. Ton some times see a person halting at crossroads, an yen can tell by his looks that he wishes t ask a question as to what direction he hal better take. And I stand la your presenoi conscious of the foot that than are many ot yon here that realise that there are a thou, sand wrong roads, bnt only one right one and I take It for granted that yon have eoml la to ask whleh one It Is. Here Is on. road that opens widely, but I hav. not munh fait) In ft. I'here are a great many expensivs tolhrates soattered ail along that way. In deed at cverv rod von must rav In team, ot pay In genuflexions, or pay In flagellations. On that road. If yon get through It at all, yon will have to pay yonr own way, and 1 E V. ul"or mucn irom wnat 1 nave . heard In regard to the right way, I believe It s the wrong war. Here u another road. On either side of ' KS? I?.?? n ??i,!1,!l,L,ae,1i"i.1"' tatlons to some in and dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand os the plazsa. I am oenaln It Is the wrong house and the wiong way. Here Is anothei road. It is very beautiful and maaadamised. The horses' hoofs e'atter and ring, and they wuo nue over it snin aiong ine nignway un i M1 suddenly they find that the road breaks lover an embankment, and they try to halt. and they see the bit In the mouth of the fiery steed and ery: "Ho! Ho!" Bnt It Is too late, and. cnuhl they ko over the embankment. 1 thKU turn "J"1 see ,f we c"not And a dif- , ferent kind of road. You have heard of the : apptan way. It was 850 miles long. It was twenty-four feet wide, and cn either side ol the road was a path for foot passenger. It irm thtewUn5e"K2n?.lah"p! jhave been! Made of smooth, hard rook, 850 miles long! No wonder thnt in the con struction of it the treasures of a whole em pire were exhaustod. Because of Invaders and the elements and time the old con. aueror who tsars up a road as he goes oves It there is nothing left of that structure bnt a ruin Hut I hav to tell you of a road i DullI before the Appian way, and yet it Is as ' SmaiI aa whan flm ma at . as! Vfl 1 1 J S good as when first constructed. Millions of ouls have gone over It. Millions more will torn.. The prophets and apostles, too. Pursued this road while here below. We therefore will, without dlsmav, Btill walk in Christ, the good old way. First, this road of the text Is the King I ttghway. In the diligence you dash on ovei the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile aftei Bile, and there Is not so much as a pebble to ar tne wheels. You go over bridges which iross chasms that make you hod yout taeath, under projecting rock, along by tananrona preaiptc throush tannsls a-drla eith the meltings ot the glaoiers and per- saps lor ine nrsi time learn inn mHjesty or a road built and supported by Governmental luthority. Well, my Lord the King decided lo build a highway from earth to heaven. It mould span all the ehaams of human eretoheduess; it should tunnel all the nountaina of earthly dlffloultyi It should be side enough and strong enough to hold Ifty thousand millions of the human raoe, S so many of them should ever be born; It ihou'.d be blasted out of the "rock of ages" ud eemented with the blood of the iross snd be lifted amid ths shout ing of angels and the execration of devllaj he King sent His Son to build that road. Hs rat head and hand and heart to It, and after me roaa was completed waved His blistered land over the way, crying, "It Is finished!''. Hapoleon paid 15.000,000 francs for the builds kig of the Blmplon road that his eannoq night go over for the devastation of Italy, lut our King at a great expense has built sj toad for a different purpose, that the ban ters of heavenly dominion might comedown ver It. Being a King's highway, of eouraS t is well boilt. Bridge, splendidly arched ud buttressed have given way and crushed the passengers who attempted to eroas them. But Christ the King would but Id no suck thing as that. The work done. Re mount! she chariot of Bis love, and multitude nount with Him. and He drives on and ns lie steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gas) tng worlda. The work Is done wU done f lortously done magnificently dona. Still further, this road spoken of Is a cleat road. Many a fine road has become mlrj ud foul be aus. it bas not been properly lared for, but my text says ths unclean shall not walk on this one. Room on either aids :o throw away your sins. Indeed, if yoa. rant to carry them along yon are not on th right road. That bridge will break, thoss tverhanging rooks will fall, ths night will some down leaving yon at the mercy of th nountaln bandits, and at the very next turn f the road you will perish. But If yon art really on this clean road of which I havl seen speaking, then yoa will stop ever an4 soon to wash in the water that stands in thi Wsln of the eternal rook. Aye, at almost every step ef the Journey rou will be crying out: "Create within ml s clean heart.' It yon have no sueh asnlran ations as that, it proves that yon have mis taken your way, and It yoa will only lool op and see the nngerboard above vour bead yon may read upon it the words, "There 1st way that seemeth right onto a man, but thi and thereof Is death." Without holiness n man shall see the Lord, and It yoa have on Idea that you can carry along Tour sins your lusts, your worldllness, and vet get al I he end of the Christian race, you are so aw hilly mistaken, that, in the name of God, waiter me aeiosion. Still further, the road spoken of is a plalf road. "The wayfaring men. though fooli shall not err therein." That is. If a man j three-fourths an idiot, be ean find tht road just as well as If he were a philosophei The imbecile boy, the laughing stock ot thi street, and followed by a mob hooting at him has only Just to knock once at the gate o heaven, and it swings open, whtle,there hs been many a man who can lecture ebon pneumatics, and chemistry, and tell thi Story of Faraday's theory of electrioal poUf Isatlon and yet has been shot ont of heaven There bas been many a man who stood In al observatory and swept the heavens with h telescope and yet has not been able to set the morning star. Matty a man bas been fa miliar with all the higher branches ot math smatlcs and vet eould not do the atmph, sum. "What shall It profit a man If he gali the whole world and lose his own soul? Many a man has been a fins reader of tragei dies and poems and yet eould not "read hv Utie Clear io mansions is toe. sum, Many & uinn naa botanund across the eon tinent, and yet not known the "Boss ol Bharon, and tbs Lily of th. Valley." But II one shall come In the right spirit, asking thi way to heaven, h. will And it a plain way. The pardon Is plain. The peaee Is plain, Everything is plain. He who tries to get oi the road to heaven through the New Testa? aunt teaching will get on beautifully. Hi who goes through philosophical dlseusslot will not get on at all. Christ says "Come t Me, and I will take ail your sins away, and I will take all your troubles away." No what Is the use of my discussing It any mors Is not that pi-iin? If you wanted to got Sriu" detaining you by a geologloal dl evasion about the gravel yoa wil pass over or a physiologies dlseaanon about th. muscles yoa will aa to bring lm.-, vlay? No. After this Bible hat ootntnd you Ibe way to heaven. Is It wise fol me to detain you with any discussion about the nature of the human will, or whether thi atonement is limited or unlimited? There il the road tra on it. It is a nlain way. "Thil Is a faithful saving, and worthy of all a captation, that Christ Jesus came into thi world (o save sinners." And that Is yon sn that, it mv An HsMe ahjjd kan. sal j nnrinrstand this as 'well as I ean. "Unlea I fou become as a little child, you eannot sn the kingdom of God." If you are saved. II will not be as a philosopher, it will be as little child. "Of such Is the kingdom ol heaven." Unless you get the spirit of little children, yon will never come out at theii glorious destiny. Still further, this road to heaven Is a saN road. Sometimes th. traveler In those an stent highways would think himself per. ect'y secure, not knowing there was a llos by the way borving his head deep between his paws, and then when the right moment fame, under the fearful spring the man's life was gone and there was a mauled carcass by the roadside. But, says my text, "No lloq lhall be there." I wish I eould make yoq wel your entire security. I tell you plainly that one minute after a man has become a Ihild of God he Is as safe as though he had teen 10.000 years In heaven. He may sllpi te may slide; he mav stumble; but he ean. lot be destroyed. Kept by the powerofQod through faith nntooompletesalvatiou. Ever nstlngly safe. The flsvsragttrinLl0 which ton ean suu)eet a Christian man Is to kill Mm. and that Is glory. In other words, the rorst thing that oan happen a ohild ot God S heaven. The body Is only the old slipper hat he throws aside Jnt before putting on he sandals of Ugh. His soul, yon oonnot lurt it. No lm can consume it. No floods ma crown It. No devils oan capture it. firm and unmoved are they Who rest their souls on God; yixed as the ground where David stood, Or where the ark abode. His soul Is sare. His reputation Is safe. Everything is safe. "But' you sav. "sup. Kse his store burns up?'' Why, then, it rill be only a change of Investments from mrthly to heavenly securities. "But," you py. "suppose his name goes down under he hoof of scorn and contempt?" The name rill be so much brighter In glory. "Suppose lis physloal health falls?" God will pour Dto him the floods of everlasting health, and t will not make any difference. Earthly nbtraotlon la heavenly addition. The tears If earth are the crystals of heaven. As they ake rags and tatters and put thorn through he paper mill and they oome out beautiful rhite sheets of psper. so often the rags of suthly destitution, under the cylinders ot leath, come out a white scroll upon whleh hall be written eternal emancipation. There ras on. passage of Scripture, the force of rhich I never understood until one day at lhamounix, with Mont Blano on one sld aid Montanvert on the other, I opened my llble and read, "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round aijout them that fear Him." The urroundings were an omnipotent com. entary. Btill further, the road speken of is a pleas Jit road. God gives a bond of Indemnity srainst all evil to every man that treads It. 'Allthings work together for (rood to those rho love God." No weapon formed against hem ean prosper. That is the bond, signed, enled and delivered by the President of th thole universe. What is the use of vour! totting, ob. ohild of God, about food? ''U. lold the fowls ot the air, for they sow not, mither do they reap, nor gather into barnsJ et your Heavenly Father feedeth them.'l ind will He take care of the snarrow.wlll Hei sc. oar. oi tne raven, will lie take o:ire he bawk and let you die? What is the c I your fretting about clothes? "Count, le he lilies of the field. Shall He not mueht tor. olothe you, oh, ye of Utile faith?" That is the use of worrying for fear someJ hlng will happen to your home? "Hit ieseeth the habitation of the just." What H he use of your fretting lest you will be over- ome of temptations? "God Is faithful, wlni till not suffer you to be tempted alKve tliar e are able, but will with the temptittlnnj Jso make a way to escape, that ye may tv ble to bear it." Oh, this King's highway! trees ot life on either side bending over un it their branches Interlock aivt dros mid- ray theii truit and shade. Honses of enter ainment on either side theroad for poorpll jrtms. Tables spread with a feast Jof good kings and walls adorned with apples of gnld a pictures of sliver. I start out on this ting's highway, and I find a harper , and I ay, "What Is your name?"' Th harper Bakes no response, but leaves me to guess as fith his eyes toward heaven anil his band' Ipon ths trembling strings this tune comes Ippling on the aln "The Lord is m v llfht nd my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The lord Is the strength ot my life. Of whom hall I be afraid?" I go a little farther on the same road and. oeet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say, 'Haven't you got some music for a tired gigrim?" And wiping his lip and taking a Dng breath he puts his mouth tothe trumpet tnd pours forth this strain: "They shall lunger no more, neither shall they thirst my more, neither shnll the sun light oa hem, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is a the midst of the throne shall lead them to lying fountains of water, and God shall Mpe awav all tears from their eves." I iro lttle distance farther on the same roa.l. and meet a maiden of Israel. She bas no harp, mtshehss cymbals. They look as if they lad rusted from sea spray, and I sav to the Saiden of Israel, "Have you no song for a Ired pilgrim?" And like the clang of vie ors' shlelus the cymbals clap as Miriam be gins to discourse: "Sing ye to the l.or l, for le hath triumpheted gloriously. The horse ind the rider hath He thrown into the sea." Lad then I see a white robed group. They Kme bounding toward me, and I say, ''Who tre they? The happiest and the brightest, md the fairest in al! heaven who are hey?" And the answer comes, '-These are hey who came out of great tribulations and lad their robes washed and made white is fas blood of the Lamb." I pursue this subject onlyone step furthei sThat Is the terminus? I do not eare how Ine a road you put me on; I want to know here it comes out My text deeUtos, "The (adeemed of the Lord oome to Zum." You tnow what Zlon was. That was the King's lalace. It was a mountain fa.-tne.-- It wai inpregnable. And so heaven is the ..tstnena t the universe. Mo howimer ilua oua tnough range to shell those tow r.-t. Let all the batteries of earth and hell blaze away, they cannot break in those gates. Gibraltar ras taken; Sebastopol was taken; Biliylon fell, bnt these walls of heaven shall nevm o human or satatiiti h. a human or levwuem. " TtiW,ora God 'Almighty Is thi Befense of it. Great oapital of the universal rermtnus of the King's highway 1 Dr. Dick said that, among other tbing ae thought in heaven we would study chem istry and geometry and conic sections. Bouthey thought that in heaven he woult hav the pleasure of seeing Chaucer an Shakespeare. Now, Dr. Dick may have hit mathematics for all eternity and 8 juthoy nil Shakespeare. Give me Christ and my oU friends thst is all the heaven I want Christ and His people that I knew oue:irtti tnat Is heaven enough for me. O'i, gar.tei Of light, whose leaves never wither, am whose fruits never fall! Ob, banquet of (to. I Whose sweetness never palls the tikit.t am whose guests are kings forever! Oh, city o light, whose walla are salvation and who rates are praisel Oh, palace of rest, when Bod is the monarch an I everlasting ng" tht length of His reign! Oh. song louder th-u the surf beat of many waters, yet soft as ttu Vhlsper of oherubim! Ob, glorious heaven! When the lat woua, M healed, when the lost h' arthreak is en led when the la-.t tear of earthly sorreiv is tpi away, and when thn rej,;arnel of th I.on hall come to Zion, then let all the hn-p.-r take down their harps, and all the truin peter take down their trumpets, ami all aroa heaven let thre be chorus of morning st irs chorus of white robed vietorH, chorus of rmi tyrs from under thn throne, chorus of s-r-s chorus of worlds, and there is but one ton, sung, and but one name. gpoL-en, and tv one throne honor 'that ol .'-.us ouiy No man who has once heartily and woolly laughed can be altogether and rreclaimable depraved. There are some things which even the young people do not know. A man who stndieth revenge keep? his own wound green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Love labor, for. If tbon dot not want it for food, thou iaa 8t for pbysic. It is harder work hoi ling back when one starts going down the bill than it is to get up when one starts - going p. I don't like to talk much with people who always agree witb me. It is amus ing to coquette witb an echo for a little wuile, bnt one soon tires of it. ;i . -3"-S - ..' ' - V - - -u-i
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