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MIFFLINTOW1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 22. 18)6
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- PROLOGUE.
"And you are certain of the year he wu
married in?"
"Perfectly there is no possibility of my
being mistaken. He was married on New
lenr's Day, '58; I was born in May, '6.
Two men, both about the same age,
twenty-five, were seated in a private room,
at an inn, known as the Hotel Bellevue,
at Le Vocq, a dreary fishing town with a
good though small harbor, a dozen miles
west of Havre.
Down below the cliff on which the Inn
stood, the port was visible, and in the
port was to be seen an English cutter, the
Electra, in which the friends had run for
Le Vocq when the storm, that had now
been raging for twenty-four hours, broke
upon thein.
The first night in the inn. to which they
had come up after seeing the yacht made
snug and comfortable in the harbor below,;
and the sailors left in charge of her also'
provided for, passed easily enough.
They had stood all the morning looking
ut of the window disconsolately, hadi
snioked pipes and cigarettes innumerable,'
nd had yawned a good deal.
"What are we to do to prevent our-'
elves from dying of ennui, Philip?" the
one asked the other.
"Jerry," the other answered solemnly ,i
"I know no more than you do. There is'
nothing left to read, and soon very soon,;
las! there will be nothing left to
smoke."
The one called Philip began looking
about the salou that was at their dis
posal, whistling plaintively, and peering
Into the cupboards, of which there were
two.
"Hullo!" he suddenly exclaimed, "here.
Is a great mcntnl treat for us a lot of old
books; and precious big ones, too! I won
der what they are? Ah! old registers of
bygone years."
"Nevertheless, let us see them," the
other answered; "at any rate we shall'
learn what kind of company the house1
has kept."
So, obeying his behest, I'hilip brought
them out, and they sat down "to begin at
the beginning," us tliey said laughingly;
and each took a volume and commenced
to peruse it.
Every now and then they told one an
other of some name they had come across,
the owner of which was known to then
by hearsay, anil they agreed that the
"Hotel Bellevue" hud, in its day, had
some very good people for its guests.
They found several titles English in
scribed in the pages of the register, and.
also many prominent names belonging to
the same nationality.
"Probably half these people hnve occu
pied this very Kitting room at some time
or other, 1'bihp said to Gervase. I
only w ish some of them were here now,
and that
He stopiied at a sudden exclamation of-
his friend, who was gazing fixedly at the
page before him.
"What kind of a find is it now, Jerry?"
he asked. "Any one very wonderful?"-
"It must be a mistake," the other said
in a low voice. "And yet how could such
a mistake happen? Look at this!" and he
pointed with his finger to a line in the
book. .
"Why!" the other exclaimed, as he read,
"Aout 17, 1ST4, L'Hon. Gervase Occleve
and wife." Then he said, "Your father,
of course, before he inherited his title?"
"Of course! There never was any
other Gervase Occleve in existence, ex
cept Tnywlf, while lie was alive. Dut
what can it mean?"
"It means that your father knew this
place many years ago, and came here;
that is all, I should say. It is a coinci
dence, but after all it is no more strange
that be should know Le Vocq than that
you should."
"Hut you don't see the curious part of
it, Philip! My father had no wife in
1854! He never hud a wife until he mar
ried my mother, and then he was Lord
Penlyn and no longer known as Gervase
Occleve."
And then followed the conversation
with which this story opens.
"It is a strange thing," I'hilip said, "but
it must lie a mistake."
After a few moments sient in thought,
Gorvase turned to his friend and said,
"The landlord, the man who stared so
hard at me yesterday when we came in,
was an elderly in-rson. He may have had
the hotel in '54, might even remember this
mysterious namesake of mine. I think I
will ask him to come up."
In a few minutes the landlord tapped
t the door. When he hud received an
Invitation to enter, he came into the room
and bowed rcsiHt-tfully, but, as he did so.
Lord Penlyn again noticed that his eyes
were fixed uxn him with a wondering
stare; a stare exactly the same as he hud
received n the previous day when they
entered the hotel.
"We found these registers in your cup
board, and, for want of anything else to
read, we took them down and have been
amusing ourselves with them. I hope
we did not take a liberty," began Ger
vase. "In going through this book the
one of ISM I have come upon a name so
familiar to me, the name of Gervase Oc
cleve, that "
Kut before he could finish his sentence
the landlord jumtied up from his chair,
and was speaking rapidly while he ges
ticulated in a thorough French fashion.
"Occleve of course," he cried. "That
Is the face. Sir, Milor! I salute you!
When you entered my house yesterday, I
aid to myself, 'But where have I seen
him? Or is it but the spirit of some dead
one looking at me out of his eyes?' And
now that you mention to me the name of
Occleve, then in a moment he comes back
to me and I see him once again. Ah!
Milor! but when I regard you, then in
verity he returns to nie, nnd I recall him
as he used to sit in this very room in
that very chair in which you now sit."
The young men had both stared at Lira
with some amazement as be spoke hur
riedly and excitedly, repeating himself in
his earnestness, and now as he ceased,
Gervase said:
"Do I understand yon to say, then, that
I bear such a likeness to this man, whose
name is inscribed here, as to recall him
viiidly to you?"
"Yes, you are his son! It must be so.
There is only oue thing that I do not
comprehend. Yn bear a different name."
"lie b.i'autv Lord Penlyn later In life,
"And so he is dead! He can scarcely
have lived the full space of man's ysaxa
iAnd Madame your mother? She Is well?"
For moment the young man hesitated
'Then he said:
"She la dead, too."
' "Pauvre dame," the landlord said, and
he spoke It seemed as though he was
.talking to himself. "She was bright and
happy In those days so far off, bright an
Ihappy once: and she, too. Is gone. And
II who was older than either of thsm, as
ibixtl . ufc Lord Penlyn," ha aalaVcMiV fl
dresCjg nimself to bla guest, "yon look
younger than your years. -It is thirty
years since you used to run about those
sands outside and play; I have carried yor
to them often "
"You carried me to those sands thirty
years ago! Why, I was not "
"Stop!" Philip Smerdon said to him in
English, and speaking in a low tone. "Do
you not see it all? Say no more."
Later on, when the landlord had left
the room after Insisting upon shaking
the hand of "the child he had known
thirty years ago," Gervase said:
"So he who was so stern and self-contained,
who seemed to be above the or
dinary weaknesses of other men, was,
after all, worse than the majority of
'them. I suppose he left this poor woman
.when he married my mother, I suppose
he left the boy, for whom this man takes
me to starve or to become a thief prey
lug on his fellow men. It is not pleasant
to think that I have an elder brother who
may be an outcast, perhaps a felon 1"
"I should not take such a pessimist!,
view of things as that," Philip said. "Fori
aught you know, the lady be had with him)
here may have died between 1854 and
1858, and, for the matter of that, so may
the boy; or he may have made a good al
lowance to both when he parted with
them. For anything you know to the
contrary he might have seen the boy fre
quently until his death and have taken
care to place him comfortably in them
world."
, "In auch case I must have known it
I must have met him somewhere."
So well did the landlord remember Mr.
Occleve's face, even after all these years,
that ever since Lord Penlyn had been is
the house he had been puzzling bis braiui
to think where he had seen him before
He certainly should not, he said, havi
remembered the child he had played witt
so often, but that his likeness to his fathet
was more than striking. To Madame, bii
mother, he saw no resemblance at all.
"But I did not tell him," he said to him
self afterwards, as he sat in his parloi
below; "I did not tell him that on th
second summer a gloom had fallen over I
them, and that I often saw her in tears
and heard him speak harshly to her. Whj
should I disturb the poor young man'r
meditations on his dead father and moth
er'r"
On the next day the storm was over
and the Electra was skimming over thi
waves and leaving the dreary Frencl
coast far behind it.
"It hasn't been a pleasant visit," Lord
Penlyn said to Philip, as they leant over
the bows smoking their pipes and watch
ing Le Vocq fade gradually into a speck.
"1 would give something never to hav
hea ni that ntorv!"
"It is the story of thirty years ago.
hl Wew answered. "And it is not yot
who did the wrong. Why let it worry
you?"
"I cannot help it! And I dare say yos
will think me a fool! but I cannot alse
help wondering on which of my father's
children upon that other nameless and
unknown one, or upon me bis sins wiV
be visited!"
CHAPTER I.
Ida Raughton sat, on a bright June day
of that year. In her pretty boudoir, look
ing out on the well-kept gardens of a
West End square, and thinking of an im
portant event in her life that was now
not very far off her marriage. The wed
ding day was fixed for the 1st of Septem
berd. Her future husband was Gervase
Oecleve, Viscount Teulyn.
She was the only daughter of Sir Paul
Kanghton, a wealthy Surrey baronet, and
had been to him, ainee her mother's death,
as the apple of his eye the only thing
that to him seemed to make life worth
living.
That she should have made a sensation
during her first season was not a thing
to astonish Sir Paul, nor, indeed, any
one else. Ida Raughton was as thor
oughly beautiful a girl, when first she
made her appearance in London society,
as any who had ever taken their place
in its ranks.
, Tall and graceful, and possessed of an
exquisitely shaped head, round which her
auburn hair curled in thick locks; with
bright hazel eyes, whose expression varied
in accordance with their owner's thoughts
and feelings, sometimes sparkling with
brighter and mirth, and sometimes sad
dened with tears as she listened to any
tale of sorrow; with a nose the line of
which was perfect, and a month, the
smallness of which disguised, though it
could not hide, the even, white teeth
within, no one could look at Ida without
acknowledging how lovely she was. Even
other and rival debutantes granted her
loveliness, and the woman who can ob-
Itain such a concession aa this from her
leisters has fairly established her right tc
homage.
A a atiA mmt In t.a, kAnilAl, window An
'this June day, thinking of her now defi
nitely settled marriage, she was wonder
ing if the life before her would be ai
bright and happy as the one she was leav
ing behind forever.
That, with the exception of the deatk
of her mother, a sorrow that time had
mercifully tempered to her, had beei
without alloy. Would the future be so?
There was no reason to think otherwise,
she reflected; nj reason to doubt it, Lord
Penlyn was young, handsome and manly,
the owner of an honored name and well
endowed with the world's goods. Yet
jthat would not have weighed with hei
had she not loved him.
She had asked herself if she did lova
him several times before she consented,
to give him the answer he desired, and
then she acknowledged that he alone had
won her heart. ,
She recalled other men's attentions to
her. tswir suf words, their desire to
please; bow they had haunted her foot
steps at balls and at the opera, and how
no other man's homage had been so sweet
to her as the homage of Gervase Occleve.
It was supposed by some of their circle
though erroneously supposed, she told
herself that another man loved her. Per
fectly erroneously, because that other man
had never breathed one word of love to
her; and because, though he would some
times be in her society continually for
perhaps a week, and then be absent for a
month, he never, during all the time they
were thus constantly meeting, paid her
more marked attention than other men
were in the habit of doing.
Yet, notwithstanding this. It had com
to her knowledge that it had been whis
kered about that Walter Oundall loved
ler.
This man, Walter Cnndall, this report
id admirer of hers, was well known In so-,
ilety, waa in a way famous, though his
!ame was In the principal part due to the
ilmplest purchaser of that commodity to
jj, v dinsan thaAjom and
wealth.
Ic'.ii'-ted In getting invitations to; but
It was noticed that, though his chef waa
t marvel, he rarely nte anything but the
loup and joint himself, and'that, while
others were drinking the best wine that
Burgundy, or Ay, or Rheims could pro
duce, he scarcely ever quenched his thirst
with anything but a tumbler of claret.
But he would sit at the head of his
jnble with a smile of satisfaction upon
his handsome face, contented with the
knowledge that his guests were happy
ind enjoying themselves.
This man of whom Ida was now think
ing, and whose story may be told .here,
had commenced life- at Westminster
School, to which be had been put by his
nncle, a rich owner of mines and woodi
In Honduras, from which place he paid
flying visits to England once a year, oi
once in two years.
The boy was an orphan, left by hb
mother to her brother's care, and tha'
brother had not failed in his trust
The lad went to Westminster with th
full understanding that Honduras musi
be his home when school days were over:
but he knew that it would be a home ol
luxury and tropical splendor. There, af
ter his school days, he passed some years
of his life, attending to the mines, seeing
to the consignments of shiploads of ma
hogany and cedar, going for days in the
hills with no companions but the Mestizo
and the Indians, and helping his uncle to
garner up more wealth that was eventual
ly destined to-be his. -
Once or twice in the space of ten yean
he enme to Europe, generally with the ob
ject of increasing their connection with
London or Continental cities, and of look
ing up and keeping in touch with bis old
school-fellows and friends.
And then, nt last, two or three years,
before this story opens, and when his
nncle was dead, it came to be said nliout
London that Walter Cundall, the richest
man from the Pncinc to the Gulf of Hon
duras, had taken a bouse in Grosveuor
place, and meant to make London more or
less permanently his residence. Other
places had been purchased .one
by one, and he used all his pos
sessions sharing them with bis friends
lis, turn; but London was, as peo
ple sni.i, his home. Occasionally he would
go off to Honduras on business, or would
rush by the Orient express to St. Peters
burg or Vienna; but he loved England
lietter than any other spot on the globe,
and never left it unless he was obliged
to do so.
This was the man whom gossip had said
was the future husband of Ida Ranghton
this tall, dark, handsome man, who
was, when In England, a great deal by her
side.
But gossip had been rather staggered
when it heard that, during Mr. Cundall's
last absence of six months to the tropics,
she had become the affianced wife of Lord'
Penlyn.
It wondered what he would say when
he came back, as it heard be was about
to do very shortly, and It wondered why
on earth she had taken Penlyn when she
might have had Cundall. It talked it over
in the drawing rooms and the ball rooms,
at Epsom and on the lawn at Sundown,
but it did not seem to arrive at any con
clusion satisfactory to itself.
"I suppose the fact of it is that Cnndall
sever asked her," one said to another,
"and she got tired of waiting."
Did she think so herself, as she sat
there that bright afternoon? No, that
could not ie possible! Ida Raughton was
a girl with too pure and honorable a
heart to take one man when she loved
another.
(To lie continued.)
Vcntriloiul.iu In China.
A man who witnessed the perform-,
once gives the following description
of what a ventriloquist in China did:
The ventriloquist was seated behind
a screen, where there were only a
chair, a table, a fan and a ruler. With
the ruler be rapied on the table to en
force silence, and when everybody
bad ceased speaking there was sud
denly heard the barking of a dog.
Then we beard the movements of a
woman. She had been waked by th
dog, and was shaking her husband.
We were Just expecting to hear the
man and wife talking together, when
a child began to cry. To pacify it the
mother gave It food; we could hear II
drinking and crying at the same time.
The mother spoke to it soothingly and
then rose to change Its clothes.
Meanwhile another child bad been
wakened and was beginning to make
a noise. The father scolded it, while
the baby continued crying. By-and-hy
the whole family went back to bed
and fell asleep. The patter of a mouse
was heard. It climbed up some vase
and upset it. We heard the clatter oJ
the vane as it fell.
The woman coughed In her sleep.
Then cries of "Fire! fire!" were heard
The mouse had upset the lamp; the
husband and wife waked up, shouted
and screamed, the children cried, thou
sands of people came running and
shouting. -
Children cried, dogs barked, the walls
came crashing down, squibs and crack
ers exploded. The fire brigade came
raring up. Water was pumped up in
torrents, and hissed in the flames.
The representation was so true to
life that every one rose -to' his feet
and was starting away, when a second
Mow of the ruler on the table com
manded silence. We rushed behind
the screen, but there was nothing there
except the ventriloquist, his table, his
chair aud bis ruler.
Food for-Thought.
A lie that is bull a truth is ever the
blackest of lies.
To some men a bad refutation is
lietter than none.
The ture way to-miss t access is to
miss he opportunity.
Cowardice keeps a out as many peo
ple in line as courage.
Wine unlocks the door and then
throws away the key.
A good husband is sometimes
spoiled in the making.
Our failings serve tj brighten the
lives of our neigh liors.
Mo man is a success at everything or
failure in ever j tiling.
Woman's inhumanity to woman is the
worst trait in her character.
Most mothers secretly hope their
boy will grow npa better man than bis
father.
Reason is not infallible, lint it
comes the nearest to it of anything
human. -
, One way to keep yonr nose from
bleeding keep it out of other people's
business.
Don't ask any credit for your sympa
thies; only ask credit for what yoa act
ually do.
ntreBarthenlns; Iron.
It waa formerly believed that en,
(ton, when subjected to long-continued
hocks and Jarring, became "crystal
lized" and brittle: but Mr. A. E. Outer
bridge, Jr., of Philadelphia, has re
cently shown, by a series Xt expert'
menta, that instead of being weakened,
cast iron la really strengthened by re
peated blows and concussions.
A Ohoatly Cat.
An Invention calculated to terrify
mice and rata la described In Popular
Science News. It consists of a metallic
cat, which, being covered with lumin
ous paint, shines in dark room with a
mysterious radiance which, the Inven
tor thinks, will be more effectual than
traps, or even genuine cats, in ridding
houses of rodent pests.
Carnivorous Plants.
That such plants as "Venus' fly-trap4
actually catch and squeeze to death
flies and other Insects alighting on
their leaves has long been known, but
the discovery Is comparatively recent
that the plants digest the softer parts
of their prey by means of a peptic fer
ment secreted by the leaves. These,
then, are real Instances of plants feed,
lug uion animals.
Marvellon. Measurement.
At the recent "conversazione" of the
Royal Society In London a pendulum
Instrument was exhibited, Intended to
record the slightest tilts and pulsations'
of the crust of the earth. It was as
serted that this Instrument would ren
der observable a tilt of less than one
three-hundredth of a second of arc. In
other words. If a plane surface were
tipped up only so little that the rise
would amount to a single Inch in a
thousand miles, the Instrument wouW
reveal the tilting!
A Reach of Iron Band.
On the western coast of the northert.
falnnd of New Zealand Immense de
posits of magnetic Iron sand are fouud.
The sand Is brought down by many
streams from the elopes of Mount
Egmont The cliffs consist of a mix
ture of ordinary silica sand and Iron
land, but the waves sweeping tbo beach
carry the lighter silica sand away, lenv
Ing an almost pure deposit of Iron sand1
fourteen feet In depth. Furnaces have
been erected by which the snnd is
smelted and formed into pig iron.
Killed by L.lKht.
Dr. James Weir, Jr., who has studied
Itrange Inhabitants of the Mammoth
Cave In Kentucky, Bays that the cele
brated blind fish from that cavern,
when placed In Illuminated aquaria,
seek out the darkest places, and he be
lieves that light Is directly fatal to
them, for they soon die if kept In a
brightly lighted tank. The avoldnnce
of light seems to be a general charac
teristic of the sightless creatures dwel
ling In the great cave. Doctor Weir
has seen an eyeless spider trying to
avoid the light, and animalcules from
the waters of the cavern biding under a
grain of sand on the stage of bis mi
croscope. He thinks the light In these
cases Is in some manner perceived
through the sense of touch.
An Air Tester.
An Instrument for measuring the
amount of Impurity in the air of a room'
or shop was shown at the Zurich In
dustrial Exhibition recently. It con
sisted of a glass bulb containing a red
liquid which turns white on contact
with cnrboulc neid gas. The liquid in
the bulb was kept from the air, but;
nre in every 100 seconds a drop, drawn
automatically from the bulb through a
bent tube, fell upon the upper end of
a stretched cord and began slowly to
descend the cord. If the air was foul
with carbonic acid the drop turned
white at the upper end of the cord, and"
the purer the air the farther the drop
Ji-s-ended before changing color.
Alongside the cord ran a scale, like that
of a thermometer or barometer, indi
cating the degrees of impurity of the
atmosphere.
Qneer Facta About Color..
According to Information given by a
r.erman olllcer to the Horse Guards'
Ca.ette, an experiment was recently
liuide in Europe to determine what
color In a soldier's uniform is the least
conspicuous .to an enemy. Of ten men
two were dressed in light gray uni
form, two in dark gray, two in green,
two in dark blue and two in scarlet All
were then ordered to march off, while,
a group of otiiecrs remained watching
i hem. The tirst to disapjienr in the.
landscape was the light gray, and next,
surprising as it may seem, the scarlet!'
Thou followed the (lark gray, while the
dark blue and the green remained visi
ble long nfter all the others had dis
appeared. Experiments In firing nt
blup and red targets, according to the
8a me authority, proved that blue could
bo more easily seen at a distance thau
red.
Munwlenm In a Tree.
One of the 'most curious mausoleums
in the world was discovered the other
day in an orchard at the village of No
ebdenitz, in Snxe-Alteuburg. A gigan
tic oak tree, which a storm had roblied
;f its crown, was up for public auction.
Among the bidders happened to lie a
in ron Von Thtunniel, scion of a fani
ly of ancient lineage that has given
the world of literature one charming
jMiet.and the Fatherland many distiit
euitdicd statesmen. The Baron, who
lives on a iM-ighboring estate, hud rid
den to the auction place quite acciden
tally. Finally the tree was knocked
d.vn to him for 200 marks. Upon b!s
l nival at the castle he told nn old aer-.-nr.t
of bis purchase, describing the
iree nnd Its situation. The old servant
aid he remembered attending the fu
neral of a Bardon Thumuiel seventy ot
eighty years ago, and that the body
had been burled In a 1,000-year-old
oak, belonging to the parsonage. In
vestigation clearly proved that the or
chard had once been the property of
the village church, and that at one Bide
of the old oak was an Iron shutter,
rusty and time-worn, that the people
of the town had always supposed to
have been placed there by some Joker
or mischievous boys. ie iron shutter
proved to be the gate to the mausole
um of Baron Hans Wllhelm Von Thum
mel, at one time Minister of the State
of Saxe-Altenburg, who died in 1824,
and wished to be buried "in tha
1,000-year-old tree he loved so well."
In the hollow of the tree Baron Hans
caused to be built a sepulchre of solid
masonry, large enough to accommodate
his coffin. The coffin was placed there,
as the church records show, on March
8, 1824, and the opening was closed by
an Iron gate. In the course of time a
wall of wood grew over the opening,
which had been enlarged to admit the
workmen and the coffin, and for many
years it has been completely shut, thus
removing tho last vestige of the odd
use to which the old tree had been put.
Chinese Treatment ot Children,
However little liked the Chinaman
may be by his white neighbors, I have
at all times found that the Chinese had
at least one good and praiseworthy
quality the kindness shown by all of
them toward their children. . The poor
est parents always seem able to save
enough money to array their little ones
In gay garments on New Year's day or
other holidays. The children in turn
seem to be remarkably well-behaved
and- respectful toward their elders, and
rarely, if ever, receive corporal punish
ment They seem very happy, and
apparently enjoy their childhood more
than most American children. On al
most any innny day the fond and proud
father may be seen at every turn iu
Chinatown carrying his brightly attired
youngster In his arms. Other little
tots, hardly old enough to feci quite
steady on their legs, toddle about with
Infants strapped on their backs. They
do not appear to mind this, and it does
not seem to Interfere with their child
ish pastimes. About the time of the
Chinese New Year Chinese children
are particularly favored, and the fond
fathers deny them nothing. The little
ones always appear to be well pro
vided with pocket-money to buy toy
and candles. St Nicholas.
Victor Hugo's Youthful Work.
Victor Hugo, the great French poet
and novelist Is famous everywhere. Ho
began his literary caroor at the age of
13. At 18 he drew up his first novel in
two weeks! The Academy at Tou
louse crowned two of bis odes that he
wrote at 17. At 20 his first volume of
poems was so good that he received a
pension of $200 from the French Gov
ernment; and you are all aware how
he came to be one of the greatest an
well as one of the most popular, of the
French poets. II la patriotism was as
great as his literary gifts. His life is
one of the most interesting In the lit
erary annals of France. I saw his fun
eral in Paris, In May, 1SS5, when be wes
followed to the grave by a concourse
ef sorowful people. The procession was
miles In length. Few emperors or suc
cessful generals have had a more Im
posing burial, nor was ever man laid
to re3t who was more deeply, truly
mourned than this grand and gifted
Frenchman. St Nicholas.
"The Woods of Shorne."
Leaving the highway by a pretty lane,
we are presently In a most mngniflccnt
wood, a vast cathedral of nature. Its
columns are tall dark trunks of elm
trees, supporting leafy, intersecting
arches of golden green; its nave and
transepts are carpeted with the softest
moss, In which a footfall is silent; its
screens are of hawthorn and honey
suckle; its chancel Is strewn with the
growing violets; and its chapels are
adorned with rhododendrons and Ivy.
Through and upon it all floods the soft
ened sunlight; over our beads slugs a
vast choir of blrd.s; and around ns the
melodious hum of the bees sounds like
soft organ notes. Here and there in
tho woods we come upon handsomo,
russet-plumaged pheasants strutting
about rabbits hopping fearlessly across
the clearings, and squirrels senmpcriuy
from tree to tree. St. Nicholas.
Cnshing's Heroic need.
In 18C1, at the very beginning of our
civil war, a young lad named William
Barker dishing entered the navy as a
volunteer officer, ' though be had pre
viously been through the Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis. He was only li
years old, but a braver or more reckless
sailor never grasped a cutlass or stood
by a gun. Never a fight but he was in
the thick of L, never a battle but Cush
ing's name was nientioued in orders.
He dared do anything thnt man dared.
One dark night, at Plymouth. N. C, lie
fctok a boat's crew nnd, stealing quiet
ly away, lie crept up lieside the Con
federate ram "Albemarle" ajd. taking
the chances of almost certain death, he
sank her by a torpedo fired from his
steam launch. Then he fought at Fort
Fisher with great bravery, and, what i:i
ever rarer, be used sound judgmeut. se
curing for his command all the frultn of
the victory. St. Nicholas.
A XO-JEHS MATvd.
Prlscilia ".So old Winter has mat
ned May?"'
litidd "What a curiously assortii
couple!"
Prunella "Xot st all. It's a perfect
match. He has twenty millions aud she
has twenty years. n Ne York; Herald
HUSBAND AND WIPB IX ACCOKR.
"Women must consider it a drea Iful
fate to be aa old maid,' muiid Mr
Chugwater.
"They do, Josiah,' Slid Mrs. Chii!?
water. " V hat terrible stick they du
sometimes marry to ect,i3 it V
Aud Josiah rubisi bis e'aia aal said
nothing. (J.iica' Tribune.
a liter aar TAsra.
"Ah," he said delights Jiv, "I let
you have my latest boo of poem ttitti
you."
"Ves," she replieJ; "I keep it here."
iiideeJ?"
You ece," she went on, "the co'or o'
the cover harni i.i z -J so bciutifiillj witu
the furnishings oi the room!' Vaih
inston Star.
FACING A GRIZZLY.
A Boy
Kill, an Angry Bear with
lllo w of an A x:
It was In September and the Colo
ratio sun had done Its duty and mad
Phii as brown of face and stout of Unit
as any of us that the geology closi
con Ji sting of the professor and ten pu
pils, made an excursion ir.to the rang
v.ith the cbct of taking a practical
lesson among the limestone beds at tlv
Lack of Lincoln Peak.
Away we went feeling very hilari
ous at the Idea of making an indepetd
ent expedition, even with Blinkers foi
a general scnwnbling over rocks and
fallen trees, chnsing squirrels nnd chip
mnnks. throwing stones at birds and
rabbits, and behaving generally just
i:ke what we were a parcel of school
boys.
Presently we emerged from the tree
and came out upon another little open,
park-like stretch of ground. Half-way
across it our attention was suddenly at
tracted by a stir among some high
grass, and out jumped a little, dark-col
ored, short-legged animal, which looked
like a woolly pig If there be any such
thing in nature.
Away it scuttled, and away we all
went, with a shout. In pursuit.
Phil bnpiened to be some distance
lielilnd nt the moment, being busily en
gaged in digging a tarantula's nest out
of the- ground with bis knife; but as
soon as he saw what we were doing, he
came racing after us, shouting, "Look
out! Lookout! It's a "
We did not bear what, we were mak
ing so much noise ourselves.
But the little animal, whatever It was.
was too quick for us and disappeared
into some willows, while we were still
twenty yards behind. The next moment
the willows waved and bent and out
bounced a great she-bear a grizzly!
With a yell of dismay we all turned
nnd, scattering like a flock of sparrows
when a cat Jumps Into the midst of
them, fled for the nearest trees. Blink
ers, quite forgetting that he was the
general of the little expeditionary
force, mnde such use of his long legs
that he was safely up a tree before any
of the rest of us "uad reached one.
As for me, I never reached one at alL
In turning to run I tripped over the
ax, and though I -was up again in an In
stant, the check made me the last of
the fugitives.
The chase was soon ovr. In six
jumps. It seemed to me, the great beast
caught m. and, with one blow of her
paw on the middle of my back, sent
me, face downward, to the ground, with
every ctom of breath driven out of my
body.
This last clrcumstrnce was a good
thing for me; I could not have moved a
muscle if I had wished to. Consequent
ly the bear supKsed that I was dead,
and instead of tearing me up Into small
pieces, ns I expected, she began sniffing
me all over and turning me about with
ber claws.
Suddenly, however, she censed and
began to growl, nnd I heard Blinkers
up In his tree call out, "Go back! You
can't do any good. You'll only get
yourself killed, too." From which I
concluded that Blinkers and the bear
had one thought in common; they Iwitb
supposed me to be dead.
I was liejrinnlng to recover my breath
a little by this time, nnd In my anxiety
to see what was going forward I mnde
a slight movement with one arm, aud
In an Instant the bear had that arm be
tween her teeth. It hurt mo so horri
bly that I fainted, nnd all that hapiieu
ed afterwards I gathered from the ether
boys.
Phil, when he saw me knocked down.
Instead of climbing up a tree like the
rest, ran back to where I had dropped
the ax, and, picking it up. advanced
to my rescue.
It was a mad thing to do, there is no
doubt about that; but Phil did It and
without a thought of his own dnuger.
It v as In vain that Blinkers called to
him to 9o back; he did not seem to hear,
but kept coming on slowly, witn hli
eyes fixed on the bear, and the ax held
in readiness to strike.
The bear dropieti my aim and ad
vanced a stop, standing acrosr my body,
growling and turning up ber lips until
all her great white teeth were exposed;
but still Phil came on. At six feet dis
tance be stopped. The bear took a step
forward, aud then another, and then,
with all the strength of his body dou
bled by the intense excitement of the
moment Phil struck nt her with such
force- and precision that he split her
j.uill clean In two.
But, even in dying, the lienr succeed
ed in doing some mischief.
With a last convulsive effort she
struck out, and, with her great claws,
tore away the front of Flill's coat, vest
ind shirt, nnd made three deep cuts
ill across his chest from the left shoul
der diagonally downward. Another
inch and Phil must certainly have been
killed. As it was, he stood for a mo
ment swaying to and fro, and then fell
forward upon the dead body of the
hear. St Nicholas.
A Chinaman Sees a Piano.
A Chinaman, lately returned from a
trip to Europe, treated his countryman
'o the following description of the
piano: -.
"The Europeans keep a four-legged
beast which they can make sing at will.
A man, or more frequently a woman,
r even a feeble girl, sits down In front
f the animal and steps on Its tall, at
:he same time striking Its white teeth
with his or her fingers, when the crea
ture begins to sing. The singing, though
much louder than that of a bird, is
leasant to listen to. The beast does
lot bite, nor does it move, though If
s not tied np." ' '
English Postal Orders.
More than 40,000,000 postal orders
ire now Issued annually In England,
ind the amount thus s-nt through ths
post exceeds 16,000.000.
A SDKS TKST.
Jones "Yes, sir, it is mighty -hard
to collect money just now; I know it."
Smith "Indeed, have you tried to
tollset and failed I"
Jones--"Ob, no." .
Smith "How then do you know that
money is hard to collect I"
Jones "Because several people bar
Iried to collect of me." Tid-Bits.
jsrery thoroughbred la able to leaks
lis own salad dressing
EE?. OB. T
BL16L
he Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermoa. -
object:
"lilndness for
Sake."
Another's
Tirr: "Is f heie yet anv .halls left of tho
float or 8au'. Uiat I : v show him Kind
ness for Jonathan's sake? So Mep
hlb. nheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he rttd ent
continually at thn kind's labia and was laino
to both his feet." II Samuel lx.; 1 nod 13.
Was there ever anvthini; morn romantin
an.l chivalrous than the Invri of David and
Jonathan? At onn timn Jonathan was op
and David was down. Now David is up and
Jonathan's family is down. As you have
often beard of two solilen before koIdi; Into
battle making a covenant thnt If ono is shot
the survivor will take charee of the bod y,
the watch, the momentos and perhaps of the
bereft family ot the oue that dies, so David
and Jonathan had made a covenant, and
now that Jonathan isdead David is inquiring
about Ms family, th'it he may show kind
ness unto them for their father Jonathan's
silks.
Careful search is made, and a son of Jona
than by the excendlnirly homely name of
Hephlbosheth is founit. His nurse, in hisln
faucy, had let him fall, and th fall had put
both his ankles out of llnoe, and they had
never been set This decrepit, nonr man is
brouitht into the palaee of Kmir DaviiL
David gazes upon him with melting tender
ness, no douU soelng in his face a resom
blanoe to his old friend, tha deceased Jona
than. The whole beariuir of Klnr David
toward him seems to say: "How glad I am
to see you, Mephibosheth! How you remind
me of vour father, my old friend and bene
fao;or! I made a bargain with your fathers
good many years airo, and I am going to
keep it with you. What ean I do for vou,
Mephiboshetb? I am resolved what to do
I will make you a rich man. I will restore, to
you the confiscated nronortv of vour irram!.
faihor Saul, and you shall be ague of mine
as long as you live, and you shall lie seated
at mytahle among the prinoi-s." it was loo
much for Mephihnheth. an i he cried out
against It, calling himself a dead dog. "Un
sun, bays uavi.i; "i aon't do this on your
account; I do this for your father Jonathan's
sake. I can never forget his kind noes. I
remember when I was hounded from nlnce
to plaoe how he befriended me. Can I ever
forget how he stripped himself of his
courtier apparel and gave it to me instead
of my shepherd's coat, and how he took off
ms own sword and licit and gave t':em to
me Instead of my sling? Oh, I can never
forget him! I feel ns if cnuMn't do enough
for you, his son. I don't do it for vour
sake; I do it for vour father Jonathan's
sake." So Mephiboslieth dwelt in Jerusa
lem, for he did eat continually nt the kinir'a
talle and was lame on both bis feet."
Thi re is so mu.-h gospel in this quaint In
ldent that I am embarrassed to know where
to begin. Whom do Mephibosheth aud
David mid Jonathan mnke you think of?
Mephlhosheth, in the first place, stands for
ihe di.saliled human soul, iiord Bvron de
scribe sin as a charming recklessm-ss, us a
gnllairry, as a Don Juan; George Sand de
scribes siu as triumphant in many intriento
plots; Oaviirnl, with his engraver's knife,
always shows sin as a great jocularity; hut
the IJitile present it as a Mephibosheth, lume
on both feet Sin, like the nurse in tho con
text, attempted to carry u.s nnd let ns full,
and we have been disabled, and in our whole
moral nature we a e oecrepit. Sometimes
theologians haggle about a technicality.
1'hey use the wor.ls '-totul depravity," aiid
some people believe iu the doctrine, nnl
some reiec-t it. What do von menu i.v
tolnl depravity? I you mean that every
man is as low as he run be? Then. I do
uot believe it either. Put do you mean
that sin has let us fall; t mt it has sear.
flel and wounded nn l crippled our en
tire moral nature until vo cannot wnlk
straight and are lame in. both feet?
I'hen I admit your proposition. There
aot so much differein-e in an Africun jungle
with barking, howling, hissing, tlghin-
iiuadruiied anil r i.lile. .Hn l naradise. with
its animals coining before Adam, when lis
patted them aud stroke' I them and gavo '
them names, so that thn panther was as
tame aj the cow nnd the condor as tame af
Hie dove as there i bet en the hiiinaiksoul
disabled and that soul as (iod oriinnnllvcon.
truutel it. I do not care what the .sent i-
mentalis's or the poe.s say in regard to sin.
Iu the name of tlod I declare to you to-day
that sin is disorgaiiiK.ition, dh-iiitegriitiou
ghastly disflguraliou, hobbling deformity.
Your modern theologian tells you that
man is a little out of sorts; .-he sometimes
thiuks wrong; he sometime arts wrong; iu
iee.l, his nature needs a little moral surgery,
an nulatde splint, a s it-lit oomi ress, a little
rectification. Kdiglou la a good tiling to
have; it might some day come Into use. Man
Is partially wroug. not all wrong. He is
lame in one foot. Bring the salve of divine
grace and the ointment and the puin extrac
tor, and we will have his one foot cured.
Man is only lia'f wrong, nut altogether
wrong. Ia what is man's, nature right In
his will, bis affections, his judgment? No.
1'hore is an o(d book that says: "The whole
head is sick nnd the whole heart faint,"
Mephibosheth lame in both feet. Our belief
of the fact that sin hasscanflo.l and deformed
nur souls increases as we go on in years.
When you started life you thought that man
was a little m.'trred by sin an I he was about
jue tenth wrong. By the time you had gone
through the early experience of your
trade or occupation or profession you be
lieve I that man was about half wrong. By
the time you came to midlife you believed
that man was three-fourths wrong. Fut
vithla these past few years, since you have
been so lied about andswindled and chested,
you have come to the conclusion that mnn
is altogether wrong, and now you can say
with the prayer book and the Bible, "There
is no health in us." Now you believe with
the prophet, "The heart is deceitful, abovn
s'l things, and desperately wicked." What
ever you may have believed before, now you
believe that Uephlbosheth is lame on both
i'eet.
AialD. Mephibosheth in the text stands for
the disabled human sou: humbled aud re
stored. When this invalid of my text got a
command to come to King David's palace he
trembled. The fact was that the grandfa her
af Mephibosheth bad treated David must
shockingly, aad now Mephibosheth says to
himself: "What does the king want of me?
Isn't it enough that I am lame? Is he going
to destroy my life? Is he going to wreak ou
me the vengeance which he holds toward my
grandfather, Saul? It's too bad." But go
to the palace Mephibosheth must, since tne
king has commanded it. With staff and
snitches and helped by bis friends. I
we Mephibosheth going up the stairs of
die palace. I hear his staff and crutches
rattling on the tessellated floor of the
:broneroem. No sooner have these two
persons confronted -each other Mephib
osheth and David, the king than Mep
hibosheth throws himself flat on his face be
fore the king and styles himself a dead dog.
In the east when a man styles himself a dog
he utters the utmost term of self-abnegation.
It is not a term so strong In this country,
where, if a dog has fair chance, he some
times shows more nobility of character than
some human specimens that we wot of, but
the mangy curs of the oriental cities, as I
know by my own observation, are utterly
detestable. Mephibosheth gives the utmost
term of self-loathing when he compares him
self lo a dog. and dead at that.
Consider the analogy. When the com
mand is given from the palace ot heaven to
the human soul to come, ihe soul begins to
tremble. It says: "What is Ood going to
to with me now? Is He going to destroy me?
Is He going to wreck His vengeance upon
me?" There is more than one Mephibosheth
trembling now because Ood has summoned
him to thi pt lace of divine graoe. What are
you trembling about? Ood has no pleasure
In the death of a sinner. He does not send
for you to hurt yon. He sends for you to d
you good. A Scotch preaoher had the fol
lowing circumstances brought uuder his ob
lervatlon: There was poor woman In tha
pariah who was about to be turned oat be
cause she could not pay her rent. One night
she heard a load knocking at the door, and
she made no answer and hid herself. The
rapping continued louder, loader, loader,
bat she made no answer and continued to
hide hew1 "" frightened un-
to death. She said, "That's the officer of
the law come to throw me out of my home."
A few days after a Christian philanthropist
met hr In the street and said: "Mv poor
woman, where were you the other night? I
came round to your house to pay your rent.
Why didn't you let me in? Were you nt
home?" "Why," shereplied, "was that you?"
"Yes, thnt was me. I came to pay your
rent." "Why." she said, "if I had had anv
idea it was vou I would have let you in. I
thought it was an offic -r come t o cast m out
of my home." O soul, that loud knocking
at the gate to-dav is not the sheriff come to
put you In jail; it is the best friend you ever
had come to be your security. You shiver
with terror because you think it is wrath. It
is mercy. Why, then, tremble before the
King of heaven and earth calls you to His
palace? Stop trembling aud start right
away. "Oh," yon snv, "I can't Ktart. I
have been so lamed bv sin and so lamed by
evil habit I can't start. I am lame in both
feet." My friend, we come out with our
prayers and sympathies to help you up to
the palace. If you want to get to the
palace, you may get there. Start now. Tho
IIolv Spirit will help you. All you have to
do is just to throw yourself on your tnn at
the feet of tho King, as Mephiltoslinth did.
Mephibosheth's cantnial cnmiarison seems
extravagant to the world, but when a man
has seen himself as he reilly is aud seen
howTie has been treating the Lord, there
Is no term vehement enough to express his
self condemnation. The dead .log of
Mephibosheth's comparison fails to describe
the man's utter lotlhlng of himself.
MephilMisheth's posturing dons not seem too
C rostrate. When a soul is convicted, Mrst
e prays upright. Then the ir.usclos of his
neck rulax. and he Is uble to bow his head.
After awhile, by an almost superhuman ef
fort, he kneels down to pray. After awhile,
when He has seen Ood and seen hlms -lf, he
throws himself flat on his face at the feet ot
the King, just like Mephiboslieth. The fact
Is, if we could see ourselves as Ood sees us,
we would perish at the spectacle. You
would have no time to overhaul other peo
ple. Your cry would bo. "Ood bo merciful
to me, a sinner."
And again, Mephibosheth In my ten
Hands for the disabled hitmtn sonl saved
for the sake of another. Mephibosheth would
never have got into the palace on his own
eoount. Why did David ransack the realm
o find that poor man and then bestow noon
nim a great foitune and command a farmer
f the name of Ziba to culture the estate and
Jive to this invalid Menhibosheth half tha
proceeds every year? Why did King David
nake such a mighty stir about a poor fellow
arho would never be of any use to tho throne
if Israel? It was for Jonathan's sake. It
Kan whnt Robert Burns calls for "auld lung
yne." David could not forget what Jona
:hau had done for him in other days. Three
rimes this chnptor has it that all this
dullness on the part of David to Mnphib
wheth was for hs father Jonathan's sake.
The daughter of Peter Mnrtyr, through ttie
vice of her hushnrd, came down to pnnurv,
ind the sennte of Zurich took care of her for
lor father's sake. Sometimes a person has
ipplied to you for help and you have refused
litn, but when you found he was the son or
nrotherof some ono who ha 1 boon your bene
'aetor in former days, and by a glance you
law the resemblance of your old friend la
he face of the applicant, you relented, and
irou said. "Oh, I will do this for your father's
wke." You know by your experience what
ny text means. Now, my friends, It is on
hat principle that you and I are to get into
lie King s palace.
Before dining we must be introduced. If
,-ou are invited to a company of persons
Jfhore there are distinguished people, pros
mt, you are introduced: "This Is the Sena
or. "This is the Governor." "This is the
President." ISoforo wo sit down at the King's
:abbi in heaven I think we will want to bo
ntroduced. Oh, what a time that will be,
when you and I, by tho grnce of Ood. get into
leaven, and are introduced to the mighty
tpirits there, and Aomeono will say: "This is
IohIiuii." This is Paul." ThLs is Moses."
'This is John Knox." "This is John Mil
:on." "This is Martin Luther." "This is
George Whltetleld." Oh, shall wo hnvit any
ttrength lett after such a round of coles
is! introduction Yea. wn shall be
-jotentates ourselves. Then we shall sit down
it the King's table with the tons and daiigh
:ers of Oud, nnd one will whisper m-ross the
:u!le to us and sny, "Heboid what manner of
ore the Father hath bestowed noon us Hint
we should bo called the sons of Ood!" Aud
tome one at the table will say: "How long
ivlll it last? All other banquets at which I
tat ended. How long will this last?" and
Paul will answer, "Forever!" and Joshua
will say, "Forever:" and John Knux will say
Forever!" nud Oeorge Whitellcld will say.
"Forever!"
And the wine nt that bnnqu't will be old
sine. It will be very old wine. It will be
:he oldest wine of heaven. It will be the
vine that was trodden out from the red
dusters on the day when ,Ti-sus trodthewiue
press alone. Wine already more than eight
een centuries old. And no one will deride
us as to what we were in this world. No
one will bring up our iaiiierfections here,
our sins here. All our earthly imiierfec
tions completely covered up ami hid
den. Mephibosheth's feet under the
table. Kingly fare. Kingly vesture. King
ly oomfianionshlp. We shall reign for
ever nnd ever. 1 think that banquet will
mean more to those who hut it hard in
this world than to those who hail It
easy. That luinqunt in David's palace
meant more to Mephibosheth than to any
one else, because he had been poor and crip
pled and ii-Hpised nnd rejected. And that
man who In this world is blind will better
appreciate the light of heaven than we who
iu this world ha I good eyesight. And that
nan who lu this world was dent will lietter
appreciate the music of heaven thau we who
iu tbis world had good hearing. And those
will have a higher appreciation of the easy
locomotion of that land who iu this world
Wire Mephlbosheths.
O my soul, whnt a magnificent go-p.-l! It
takes a man so low down and raises hiul so
high! What a gospel! Coin now, who
wants to lie banqueted and implaced? As
when Wilberforce was trying to got the
"emancipation bill" through the British
par.iament and all the British isles were
anxious to hear ot the passage ot that
"emancipation bill," when a 7essei was com
ing Into port aud I lie enptuiu of the vessel
knew that the people were so anxious to
get the tidings, he jtepped out on the prow
of the ship and shouted to the people long
before he got up to the dock, "Free!" and
they cried it, aud they shouted it, aud they
saug it all through the land, "Free, free!
So to-day I would like to sound the news of
your present and your eternal emancipation
until the angels of Ood noveriug lu the air.
and watchmen on the battlements, and bell
men in the town cry It, shout it, slug It, ring
It, "Free, free!" 1 come out now as the
pjessennerof the palace to invite Mephibosh
eth to come up. I am here to-day to tell you
that Ood has a wealth of kiudneas to bestow
Upon you for His Son's sake. The doors of
tne palace are open to receive you. The
nupbearers have already put the ohalices on
the table, ana tne great, loving, tender, sym
pathetic heart of Ood bends over ou this
moment, saying, "Is there any that is yet
left of the house ot Saul, that I may show
him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
Abandoning Tobacco Culture.
The splendid farms in Pennsylvania, neat
near Marietta, belonging t ) the estate oi
the late Colonel James Duffy, and contain
ing over 600 acres, have been noted forth!
past twenty-five years for their great yieliU
of tobacco among the largest in I'euuxyl
vania. This year not a tobacco plant will t
raised, ihe profits from tobacco farming be
Ing too small to offset the risk of a failure u
the crop. Not three-fourths ot the usu
acreage will be put out in tobacco In Lan
caster County this season. A few years age
15.000 acres were devoted to tills crop alone
Three big bald eagles attacked a
grocer's clerk at Heabrook, N. H., one
day last week and were mauling him
badly when help arrived. The birds
were beaten off aud they es
caped. If the entire popnhition of the
world is considered to be 1, 400,000, U)0
the brains of this number of human be
ings would weigh 1,922,712 tons or as
much as ninety six ironclads of the
ordinary sizu.
The true way to be humble is not
to stoop till yon are smaller than your
self, bat to stand ut your real height
gainst some higher nature that shall
show yoa what the real smallness of
your greatest greatness is.
s
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