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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IAWM.
VOL. J.I.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 28. 1897
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If W91 half past nix o'l lnck nn n tdenV
evening in January. A Mack starless iiky
shove, frost Immi lid, snow-covered earth
liidorncnlh. nnd n film of ulrrt fnllinc
mmlo t hills nnd vnllcys of beautiful
Westmoreland dreary fln4 desolate. He-
lwii two riilccs of hare snd rocky hill a
market rnrt wns joircinir slowly along th
whitening roail, nnd the thud of the old
horse's hoofs an.l th rattle of the wheels
were the only Bounds that broke a utili
ties which was vault like in the narrow
j valley.
'Kmm under the rough canvas hood of
the little cart peered out two men's faces,
not rlenrly visible even to each other: as
the cart entered the valley its occupants
had dropped into silence, which was not
broken until a litflit began to twinkle in
the dimness on the road ahead of them.
At sight of the little thread of brichtnesa
across the path one of the men started,
and the other laughed pood-hunioredly.
''This is solitnry, there's no denying
that,' sHke the youncer of the two men
In a deep, mellow voice that conveyed a
volume of information, true or false, con
ccrning the owner's pedigree, disposition
and education; and all in his favor. "I'm
na nervous as a cat to-night, and for my
life I can't tell why, for I'm a Yorkshire
man, nnd a doctor."
Kh. not from Lon'on!" exclaimed the
old villager, glancing buck involuntarily
towards the place whore the atranger'a
Gladstone bag lay in the bottom of the
cart. " .
"I come from London just now, certain
ly, ns my luggage labels attest. But that
doesn't make me a Ixindoner any more
. than the fact of my lieing on my way to
" Scotland makes me a Scotchman. It ia
. an accident altogether, this going to
. JJranksomo. I made a stupid mistake at
Ilavcrholuie Junction, where I got into
the wrong train, uud found myself pres
ently nt Conismcre, and, as there was no
train back to Ilaverholine before to-inor-j
row. morning, I made up my mind to inflict
myself for the night iion an old acquaint
ance of mine. Ir. IVcle, of Itranksome."
. "!. I'celct h, ay, I know 'on. There's
been 't f (sdhcr about a young part
,,n.er Lr. 1'eele took, who got Into little
djlliciifrjos with some o" t' doctor's pa
. tients, and had to go away a bit sudden
like inconsequence."
"iniriculti. s! What sort of difficulties 7
"Well, two of t' patients under his care
poor men both, a laborer one was, and
t'other a man ns kept a small stationer's
shop were took ill wi t' same sort of
symptoms, and one died. It was so odd
r " that u gilt Hntitrt; mPJfeople talked."
"And what did they suyV"
"Why. that t' young fcllow'd pot a bit
cnrelcHS-like.-and was a little too fond of
the same drug in his prescriptions."
"Anil what ding was that?"
"Idiuil mi. I think 'twas."
"People said .something more than that,
I suppose?"
"The gossips say this young spark had
had his head turned by n lcddy. and a fine
teddy, loo. but who had a husband ul
. rendv, and that his head was runiiiii' on
-:hey.-
"A local beauty, then?"
"She lives Iwn alionts. sir, if that's what
you mean. lttit she's n Lon'on beauty,
too. -there isn't an eye, young or old. gentle
folk or vitiate folk, that can look nt her
Imniiy face once nnd not care to look
twice, f-'lie worth walking a good mile to
" see. is Lady Kil.loiian."
"IjuIv Kiii'onaii; oh. she is the wife of
the f t-i 1 1 i t . i T I. nnl owner about here?"
"Ay."
" They are popular In the district. Lord
' . nd Lady KiMoiiaiiY"
'"She makes bim popular, bless her. lie's
slwnys porin' over 'a books, is his lonl-
ship, but hhe's all over t' place like n sun
beam, on Iter horse, or In her carriage, or
" " her little sleiuh, leavln' n pound o" ten
here, n can o' jelly there, with a word for
every woman, and a smile for every man,
ml a ki-s for t' children. She's a sight
for sore eyes, she is."
"Is she young?"
'I.et me see; she wns horn t' year my
girl Janet wns married; that's twenty
four year ago."
"And Lord Kildonan, what sort of an
age is he?"
"Well, there's a matter of thirty years
or more between him and Ms wife."
"Surely she might have found a better
mnte than nn old Scotch bookworm!"
"Well, she was a bit of a mndenn, ns a
lass, and they say old Mr. Dighton, hex
fnther, was glnd to get her off his hands,
and married to an honest limn. And she
don't fret for him nnd his books; she has
too much life in her for that," the old man
added with evident admiration.
lie was still sK-aklng when the noise of
leighbells grew louder and louder liehind
them, nnd the dull sound of horses' quick
steps upon the snow; while the bright
notes of a woman's laughter rang out
clearly. In a moment more a sleigh had
dualled by, with its twinkling lights, its
jingling bells; and all that the doctor
could see through the darkness was that
It contniued two people, sitting side by
side. Hut as it passed with a whir r r and
: rush of cold air .something, light and
oft nnd scented, fluttered np like a curled
white leaf, and. fell on the young man's
knees like an unconscious challenge of
fascinating, warm-blooded coquetry; a
lady's handkerchief, filmy and lace-edged,
sweet with a perfume that whispered
through the senses to the imagination, and
brought up fancies of delicate white fin
- gers that had held the dainty toy. The
old villoger. however, waa not troubled
by superfluous poetry; on catching sight
of the handkerchief, he began to call out
lustily:
"Iley! Whoa! Stopl You've dropped
aummet Your ladyship, heyT
The sleigh was rapidly approaching a
dip in the road where a group of rough
tone cottages, one of which was an inn
of the humblest kind, broke the straight
line of the roadside, and threw little
streams of light across the snow through
their latticed windows. At the sound of
the old man's cries both occupants of the
sleigh turned their heads, and, at last,
as he still shouted, the jingling of the bells
subsided to a faint tinkle, the sleigh drew
up jnst out of the gleams of light from in
cottage windows, nnd a man's voice i-nlhil
out impatiently:
"What is it?"
The young doctor, holding the hnndker
chief, had already leapt down from th
cart, and was running over the snow na
fast as limbs stiffened by cold and a
cramped position could carry him. Even
as he ran, and the rapid movement dis
persed the fanciful reveries which novel
circumstances acd his new and rfofange
M-rvcrsity had induced, a snersritioiis
snd dreamy idea took possession of him
that this trifling accident bad some mean
ing for him, some bearing upon hla future
life; and at the same time 411 entirely
mundane and explicable curiosity arose 11.
his iiiin. I concerning the companion of the
lady. His voice was young, therefore he
was not her husband; it wns that of a
gentleman, therefore he could not lie the
coachman. The Yorkshireman was filled
with interest by the time he rench.il the
sleigh. It was the lady who held the
reins, sitting high on cushions at the
right.
"WeD what .do yojo want 7 she asked.
Hard times, i supi-osc. mid you ve been
out of work for weeks, aud have a hun
gry family, and wnnt a night's lodging.
Well, here you are, but you ought not to
stop people on the public road; it looks
like an attempt at highway robbery with
out the romance of it."
She ended with a ripple of most pleas
ant, low-voiced langhter, as if it was quite
impossible for her happy nature to keep
up even the faintest seinblnuce of annoy
ance with which her words had In-guii.
She was feeling iu her purse, with her
head bent over it, by the time the young
Yorkshireman had reached her side and
had recovered breath enough to speak.
Just as he was raising his bat, nnd holding
out the handkerchief, the ponies slarled
nff; and the few paces it traveled before
being pulled np by a quick hand on the
reins, brought the sleigh within the light
from the cottage windows, which Hashed
upon the face of the lady.
The Yorkshireman held his breath. Ry
some odd result of this sudden revelation
of her beauty to his dazed nnd dreamy
mood, it seemed to him that not a llesh-aud-blood
handsome woman of the nine
teenth century, but the incarnate ideal of
the Italian painters of the Renaissance,
looked straight into his cyea with the
frank and fearless gaze of a pictured god
dess, and flashed upon his dazzled sight
the rose and ivory tints of her skin, the
gleam of her blue eyes and of her pearl
teeth, the shining coils of her pale golden
knir. On her side the lady seemed to be
as much struck with the apiiearance of
the supposed trump ns he wns with hers;
the pink color in her cheeks grew a little
ileeier, nnd she held out her hand for the
handkerchief with head bent ns if in hum
ble apology, while her full blue yes looked
up in his face with a deprecatory exprcs
sion which would have washed away the
memory of a hundred insults.
"I Iwg your pardon. I'm so awfully
soirv. I made a dreadful mistake." she
said, in a low winning voice that had a
Strangely moving quality.
"Not at all, madam," answered the
stranger, recovering his voi-e, but not nl
his self-control. "You were quite right.
The times are very hard, and I am in
search of a night's lodging, though it is
true 1 had no intention of waylaying yon
for the meti.is co pay for it. You dropped
! your handkerchief, and I picked it up;
I that is all."
I "Oh, but it's not nil. I'm so much
ashamed of myself," broke out the lady,
who seemed to enjoy the adventure with
nil the zest of n young girl. "You are
a stranger here, I see for I know every
face in the neighboring)!. I,et me offer
von the hospitality of my home The
frags for the night. My husband, Iord
Kiiilonnn, will be delighted to welcome
yon; pimr man, he's used to making the
amende honorable for his wife s esca
pades!" she ended with nnother peal of the
bell toned laughter which seemed to be
n more natural expression of her happy,
sanguine tctuierameiit than the colder
medium of words.
The doctor noticed, even ns he exensed
himself from accepting this headstrong
offer of hospitality,- that her companion
appeared strangely sensible of the want of
dignity betrayed by this rash invitation to
a stranger; for he gathered np the reins,
which the lady hud let fall, as if to remind
her that the time was slipping by.
""ion must at least call upon us to-inorrow-
ah, but 1 insist 11(1011 that," she
said, after hearing his answer. "I can't
insult people and forget all about I; in
moment like that; I must be allowed to
make amends my own way. If you are a
visitor to Conismcre you have no idea
how much an old resident enn help you to
make the very most of your stay.
Itefore she could get any further with
her speech the ponies started off at
smart pace, and the young Yorkshireman
was left standing in the middle of the
road, feeling like the hero of a fairy tale
when the spell was broken nod the en
chanted palace melted away. The cart
in which the old villager had brought hiin
thus far on his journey now jogged up.
and stoped for him to mount into it again.
"Well, what dost think o' t leddy?"
asked the old man with interest.
"Why, she she is very handsome." the
doctor answered stupidly; aud be turned
to get up into the enrt again.
As he did so he caught sight of some
thing on the snow-covered ground nt a
little distance from his feet. With a
quickened pulse, and yet with a conscience
atlng, be made two steps forward, and dis
covered that It was indeed, as a sense
even keener than his bodily vision had told
him, the same little baudkerchicf that he
had restored to Its owner a few moments
before. An odd coincidence, surely, that
she had dropped it again so soon! Or was
it a little wile to secure that call at The
Crags on which her fancy seemed so ob
stinately bent? Whichever It might be.
It waa not in flesh and blood of seven-and-twenty
to resist any longer the chance of
another glimpse of this lake-side goddess.
CHAPTER II.
The cart, with its oddly assorted occu
pants. Jogged on withont further inct
(lent until, emerging from the monotonous
mad, with its inclosing walls of bare ami
sleep lulls, the old man announced that
I hey were now "nigh t' village."
"I should think this admiration of yours.
this Ladv Kil.loiian. must find it rather
dull in winter time to he shut up in a
country house with a bookworm for a hus
band.' spoke the voung doctor.
"Itill!" echoed the old man. and h
stormed to give nn admiring laugh. "Pull!
Yon don't know Lndy Kildonan. Did ye
not see her face? She'd enjoy herself in
the county juil, would her ladyship, bless
herf
"I suppose they keep the house full o
visitors?
"No, not so mnch that; his lordship's
too quiet like a man for that But she
gix-s ri.lin' an drivin about as you've
Ri-cn her. and she's sunshine in herself,
she is. She's settled down a bit since her
marriage, is a lady should, but: Ird, the
auks she nnd young Master Neu. the
eiilist's son. used to play! They kept
1 he conutryside alive, did those two. They
ay he went nigh distracted when her
fttlier married her to lrd. Kildonan."
"Wns she married against ber will,
then?"
"Well, some said one thing, some an
other. But I don't think myself she wni
t sort o laaa to be drove to marriage
:uore'n t aught eise she'd no mind to.
An": she was proud, nnd "ud never have
Harried t" son of n dentist, though young
Master Ned, as we called hiin then, had
1 college schooling like t best of 'era.
'And hnt became o. iiim"
th, he went to lyondon, and when he
rame back he brought a wife wi hiin.
A nd her ladyship didn't forget her old
playmate, for she got hiin t' post of agent
to his lordship."
"Oh! said the doctor quite simply.
A few minutes later, having by this
time reached the outskirts of the village,
the horse stopped of his own accord be
fore the third of a row of fair-sized cot
tages, with gardens In front of them.
'lie won t go no further to-night, won t
Smiler." said the old man. "but you're
only a few steps from f hotel now, sir,
where t coaches start for Branksome and
Conismere, and if you'll take t' advice of
a man as knows t' country hereabouts,
you'll stay there and not be goiu on to
Branksome till t day breaks."
'Thank you. But. by the by, I should
like to renew our acquaintance if I ever
chance to come thia way again. My name
is Armnthwaite, Frank Armathwnite "
"And mine's Itaynes, Luke Haynea,
As for renewing of acquaintance, doctor.
f it's as man and man, and not as doctor
and patient, I wish we may.
"How far is it to Dr. Feele'a7"
"Four miles, sir, I should say. It'a Just
through Branksome, and op to the left a
little way. It'a a pity yon have to go on
to-night, air. What with the wind and
the snow it will be a nasty walk. I sup
pose yon know the road well 7
Not very well, but it's fairly straight.
as far as I remember," answered Arnia
thwaite. He bad never in hie life before
been in this part of the world, but he
would not confess to this, being afraid lest
some obstacle should be put in the way of
his purpose.
"le-es, it la straight enough, but there
are one or two places where you'll have
to lie careful on a night like this. Keep
to the lower road the one to the right at
the fork at the bottom of the hill. Yon
might make straight through the trees for
the lake, and be into it before you knew
yon were off the road."
Thanks. I'll certainly follow your ad
vice.
5ood night, sir."
(To be continued.)
Coventry and It Itella.
Coventry Is famous for Its churches
nnd bells. It wns, It will be reincm
Iwrcd, while watching "the three tall
spires" that the Laureate "shaped the
city's nnclciit legend" Into verse in
which be tells us that:
All at once.
With twelve great shocks of sound, the
shameless noon
Was clashed and hammer'd from a hun
dred towers.
One after one.
The most Imposing; of the churches Is
that of St Michael's, the spire rising-to
n height of 300 feet This church,
which hits the reputation of being the
largest parish church in England, nnd
one of the noblest of the I'ghfest Gothic
structures, tins just hud replaced lu the
lielfry Its famous ponl of bolls.
All these bells, as Is customary, bent
mottoes, some of which are quaint aud
interesting. The treble licll has: "Al
though I am both light nnd small, I wiil
be beard nliove ye nil." The second
declares: "If you have a judicious ear.
You'll own my voice to lie sweet aud
clear." The third: "Such wondrous
power to music's given. It elevates the
soul to heaven." The fourth: "Whilst
thus we Join In cheerful sound. May
love and loyalty nbouud." The fifth:
"In honor both to God and king, Our
voices shall lu concert sing." The sixth:
"Music Is medicine to tho mind." The
seventh: "Ye ringers nil, who prizn
your health nnd happiness, De sober,
merry, wise nnd you'll the same ios
sess." The eighth: "Ye people nil that
hear me ring. Be fnlthful to your God
and king." The ninth: "In wedlock's
bonds all yc who join. With hands nnd
hearts unite; So shall our tuneful tongues
combine To laud the nuptial riti" The
tenth: "I am, nnd have been called tho
common boll. To ring when Are breaks
ut to tell." Westminster Gazette.
An Kxart-lns; Beggar.
Several beggars in Peru own a large
amount of property. One well-known
mau has houses worth 910,000 liras, and
yet Is to be seen begging In filthy rags.
A poor governess, who was very charit
able, used to give him a piastre twice a
week. One day she missed a lira
(pound), and thought she must have
given It to the beggar by mistake. He
had gone home for the day, so she fol-lowi-d
him to his bouse on the Taxltne.
He received her graciously, looking
like a pasha nt least In his magnificent
robes.
"I never like to lose a good client"'
he said, and sent for his bag of takings;
"If there's a lira here we shall find It"
Sure enough, the lira was there.
"Take it" he continued, and the poor
girl, full of thanks, waa harrying away
when the beggar stopped her. "Wait
a moment; you haven't given me the
piastre.
The French minister of war lately
offered a prize for the swiftest bird in
a flight from l'eriguoux to Paris 310
mile- There were 274i entries and the
winner did the distance in seven hours
and thirty louj minutes.
Our senses do not fall asleep simulta
neously." The eyelids are first affected,
and shut nut sight: next follows the sense
of taste, then smelling, bearing and touch,
the last-named being the lightest sleeper,
and most easily aroused.
A wine cask which holds 97,OoO gal
lons, and is the largest ever built, may
lie seen at Malterninra, Cnl. The steel
hMis around it weigh Iii.ihhi munds.
Russia has 41. Sim public schools, while
Herman v, with only naif the Mpulation
hns .MI.ihni schools, with nearly three
times as many pupils as the Russian.
The latest project in Switzerland is
that of a mountain railway to the summit
of the llreitborn, next to the .Matterhorn
The first public library in England
was founded ,y the corporation of Lon
don some .HHJ years before the Ilritish
Museum was established. Cromwell bor
rowed hooks from this institution ami
"forgot to return them."
There are two business men in an En
glish town named I. Came and IL E. Went
A captive bee, striving to escape, has
leen made to record as many as 15,540
wing strokes per minute in a recent test.
Foot ball was a crime in England
d.ring the reign of Henry VIII.
A New Foe to A meric.ni Trre.
f :ecln: us of a strange caterpillat
discovered this Fprlng on pear trees It
Cambridge. Mats., are pronounced bj
Prof. Samuel llenshaw to be the "go'.il
toil. or klipnictis clirysi-rrhea, hithertc
uuknown ns nn inhabitant of tliif
country, although It is found in En
gland, and is "abundant lu Centra,
and Southern Europe." When numer
ous, these caterpillars are very de
structive, feeding on such trees nnd
plants as the apple, pear, plum, haw
thorn, bramble, elm, willow, beech,
oak. hazelnut and hornbeam. At pres
ent the invaders in Massachusetts art
said to 1 e con lined to a liuiited area It
Soniervllle and Cambridge. The first
specimens seem to have made thcli
appearance a year ago, and thus fin
they have confined themselves to peat
and apple trees. How they got across
the ocean nobody apparently knows. It
la suggested that by vigorous measure
they may be stamped out.
Mysterious Olass Ralla.
The small island of Billiton, between
Sumatra and Borneo, has long beeE
famous for its rich tin mines, whicfc
are controlled by the Dutch Govern
ment In describing the geology ol
Billiton before the Royal Academy oi
Sciences in Amsterdam recently, Mr.
Verbeek gave an account of the mys
terious "glass balls of Billiton," which
are found among some of the tin on
deposits. They are round, with groov.
ed surfaces. Similar balls are occa
sionally found in Borneo and Java, as
well as in Australia. Mr. Verbcck
thinks they cannot tie artificial, and
there are no volcanoes nenr enough tc
support the theory that they are vol.
canic bombs. Besides, he says, the
glassy rocks produced by the nearest
volcanoes are quite different in theii
nature from the material of the halis.
He suspected that the mysterious ob
Jects were ejected, ages ago, from the
volcanoes of the moon, and aftorwan?
fell upon the earth.
Natural tlghtninir-Eods.
The tall Lorn hardy poplar has a rep
utation In some parts of Europe ns a
kind of natural Ughtiiing-ro-J. Invest!
gatlons recently made by Dr. Hess in
Switzerland appear to confirm this
reputation of the tree. Its wood is an
unusual'- good conductor of electric
ity ns compared with others, while Its
greet height and lack of spreading
branches enable It to conduct a light
ning stroke straight downward. In
order,' however, that a poplar-tree may
serve to protect a building, according
to Dr. Hess, Its foliage should be al
lowed to grow as near the ground as
possible; it should be removed not less
than six or seven feet from the near
est wall. No metallic objects on the
building should be nenr the tree, aud
its roots should penetrate a moist soil.
Desert Hattleanakpa.
In the sand wastes of Southern Cal
if ornia two varieties of rattlesnakes
are found. The larger ones, call.
"tiger rattlers, sometimes attain a
lcugth of four feet, but it is said that
they are sluggish, and far less danger
ous -han a smaller variety named the
"side-winder." This name comes from
the snake's habit of moving sidewise.
ns well as advancing In the ordinary
mn nner. It Is also called the "homed
rattlesnake." on account of the horn
like protuberances over Its eyes. Il
seldom exceeds a foot and a half in
length, but its motions are very quick.
and it hns the reputation of being
"vicious.
linst Ftormi that Cnrr Foreats.
Some Russian travelers in Tibet, de
Kcribc the wonderful storms of dust
that occur In Kashgaria near the foot
of the Kuen-Lun Mountains. The dust
in the air is sometimes so dense that
complete darkness prevails. Occasion
ally rain falls during such a storm
but the rain drops evaporate during
their descent, and the dust carried
with them falls in lumps. Entire for-
psts 'of poplar trees are burled in dust
hillocks forty feet high. These de
posits of dust are afterward moved on
by the. wind, hut the trees that have
been burled die, even after their dis
interment
Whales na Travelers.
Mr. William II. Dall, of the Smith
sonian institution says, in Science.
that "during the early days of the
whale fishery several well-attested In
stances occurred of whales struck in
one ocean, as the Atlantic, being after
ward killed in the North Pacific, and
vice versa." This would Indicate that
tome whales are great travelers, for to
get from the Atlantic to the North Pa
cific they would have to go many thou
wnds of miles, passing either around
Cape Horn, or around the northern
?nd of North America and through
Bering Strait
Bailt-np Wood.
There has come Into use a method of
"building up" boards by gluing or ce
menting together thin slabs of wood
Df different kinds, so placed that the
grain of the various pieces is crossed
It ia claimed that not only extra
itrength, but nlso extra flexibility and
durability are thus obtained. Doors
oiade of the prepared wood are said
co be stronger than much thicker doors
aiade of ordinary wood, and they do
aot warp. Tacking-boxes and trunks
ire also nrtdc of this material.
Powderedl Coal aa Foe!.
For some years past there have been
experiments wirti coal dust anj pulve;
zi-d coal of varliXas degrees of fine
ness, with a view to ascertaining how
much saving of fuel there Is In using
oe.1 In this fine state. It has been dem
onstrated that with suitable feeding
machinery the saving may amount to
1 ver forty-five per cent above the coal
I jj ordinary fire bars. This point
j cached In a cupola furnace the
most approved cont ruction. There are
-cal methods) of burning coal dust
One k the use of a feeding apparatus)
c- nsisrliig of rotary brushes that throw
the d;ist into the fire-box In a contin
uous shower. Thia, of course, renders
the fuel supply Independent of damp
ness or the possibility of clogging up.
Another plan Is to drive the dust Into
tho furnace by powerful currents of
air. It seems to matter but little how
the dust is fed. There is a manifest
economy In Its use, and as soon a the
proper dust-feeding machinery la per
fected the fuel problem will be much
less difficult to struggle with.
Couldn't Spank Her Boa.
Feople never get an encouragement
for doing the good Samaritan act In
the Interests of the public, as the MB
decided who offered to assist a dis
tracted woman and ameliorate the suf
ferings of a lot of respectable people
on a suburban car.
The boy who howls was In evidence.
the curled darling of his only own
mother and the terror of everybody
else, and he had kept the car in a state
of wild excitement and exhausted the
patience of everybody. Including hla
doting parent.
"Oh, if your father were only bereP
she had said for the fiftieth time, as
she tried vainly to restrain the bowling
terror.
At that he stopped howling long
enough to beat the air with bis small
shins, and the woman on the other
side of him remarked audibly that a
cage wag the proper place for savagos
like him. a
"Johnny dear," asked his mother,
won't you be a good boy?"
Roara and kicks from Master John
ny.
'Oh, I wish jour father were here to
give you a good trouncing this very
minuter ah wsiled aa she struggled
with him.
Then it was that the philanthropist
of the company asserted himself. He
had been trying In vain to read his
morning paper ever since be started
from home.
Allow me, madam," be said, bland
ly; "I am a father myself, and I will
be happy to chastise your cherub In
behalf of his absent parent."
"Oh, no, you won't, not if I know itr
said Johnny's mother, rising in her
wrath like a tigress. "There ain't that
man living dare lay a finger on that
boy his own father or any other uly
old catamount who thinks he knows It
all," and she effectually shut off de
bate by going into the next car aud
taking the sweet infant with ber.
A Tough Job.
It took three liours to kill a vlrtnaa
pjephar.t In the vicinity of Liverpool,
recently, and in assisting to bring
nhout this result a medical gentleman
almost succeeded In compassing his
own c extinction, "tjuarles II. wits
tlie name of the elephant Two Liver
pool physicians were appointed ex
ecutioners. They fed the besist on
aconite concealed In carrots and ar
senic pprlukled on buns, which it swal
lowed pleasantly and asked for more.
Then one medical gentleman conceived
the klea of loading a syringe with
prusic ncid. Indue Uj the elephant to
o(s-n its mouth, and squirting the pot
son down Us throat. Charles II. con
sidered this great sport, but the doc
tor who was operating the syringe, by
reason of his interest in the experi
ment, n.omemtarily forgot the deadly
properties of prussle acid, inhaled the
filing, and fell unconscious. The
other physician saved his colleague's
life with great difficulty, the elephant
look'ng on with deep sympathy. How
ever, after Charles II. hod taken
enough poison to kill two thousand
men, arcitrdlng to the doctors, and
threa hours had passed since the first
dose, ho suddenly toppled over and
expired quietly. Like the other
Charles IL, he had been am uncon
scionable time dying.
The Wire in Russia.
"This is a curious custom yon
Americans have of referring to your
wives by their husband's names," ob
served Glnnvock Kaplon, an Intelli
gent Russian traveler. "I suppose the
American holds his wife in as high es
teem as the Russian holds his, but if
at home I should speak of my better
half as Mrs. Kaplon my friends would
at once conclude that my domestic re
lations were not as pleasant as they
should be, and that I was thinking of a
legal separation. When I first heard
an American sponk of his wife as Mrs.
Jones, for example, I felt almost like
presuming on my acquaintance by in
truding into his private affairs and ask
ing hi in what the trouble was at borne.
Yet I soon Ion rued that the custom was
universal over here, but still I cannot
get used to it. My wife' is the plain,
blunt way I speak In Russia of the
lady who, I suppose, I would have to
call Mrs. Kaplon In polite society In
America. In some of the more fashion
able circles of St. Petersburg this
American social custom has been
adopted, though I was told by a prom
inent government official not long ago
that the Czar disapproved of it" St
Louis RepubUo.
Thirst In Sickness.
Thirst and great dryness of the month
in sickness is often relieved by a tea
spoonful of powdered gum arable, beat
en thoroughly with a couple of ten
spoonfuls of glycerine, to which Is add
ed a glass of cold water and enough
lemon juice to make the mixture pal
atable. The mixture may be taken
freely, with great relief to the dryness
of the mouth and thirst
IlercoloB Killed the Hawk.
Some passengers over one of the Bcr
liu canal bridges the other day noticed
the sudden appearance of two black
points In the sky at a considerable dis
tance awny, which developed Into two
ducks. Behind them, at a lower level,
flew another bird, which suddenly rose
Into the air above the ducks, and then
shot down npon him like an arrow.
One of the ducks flew sideways to
ward the Thlergarten; the other, closely
pursued by Its enemy, flew slanting In
to the canal, and, reaching the water
exactly behind the bridge, dived, while
the hawk. In 'hlsr'bllnd haste, struck
against the head of a statue of Her-'
CUles and fell, once more flapping its
Croat wings, dead on the Pavement of
the bridge. The bird was a splendid
specimen, the wings having an
oanston of mora Utan three fasti
" ... . -
REV. DR. TALMAGE
Taw Bali
DrvtSMVa
A Sermon Ttlrerted to th llmtt Army
or Mr! and Women F.lnployel na
Clerks in thf Varlais k--aMfctlon
Words or Aitvifl- Mil KncournswiMtnt.
Tkxt: "And a certain woman named
F.Vilin. a seller of purple, of tlm city of
Tliyatirn, which worshiped Ood, heard os.
whose heart the Lord oened." Acts xvi.,
14. "S4eet thou a umn diligent in his busi
ness? IIo shall stand beforo Kings.
I'mverlis xxii., 2.
The flrst passage, introduces to yoa
f.ydia. nt'hrlstinn merehnntess. Her busi
ness is to ileal in purple cloths or silks.
She is not a giggling nonentity, but a prac
tical woman, not ashamed to work for her
living. All the other women of Philippl
and Thynttra have been forgotten, but Ood
has mnde immortal in our text Lydia, the
Christ lau snh-swoinan. The other text
shows you a man with head and hand and
heart and foot all h'jsy tolling on up until
he gains a princely success. "Heest thou a
man diligent in his business? He shall
stand lieforn kings."
(Ireat encouragement in these two pas
sages for men and women who will be busy,
but no solace for those who are waiting for
good luck to show them, at the foot of the
rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is
folly for anybody in this world to wait for
something to turn up. It will tuan down.
Tho law of thrift is as Inexorable as tho
law of the tides. Fortune, the magician,
may wave her wand In that direction until
easth's and palaces come, but she will after
a while invert the same wand, and all the
splendors will vanish into thin air.
Thers in certain styles of behavior
which lead to usefulness, honor and per
manent success, and there aro certain
styles of ls?havior which lead to dust, dis
honor and moral default. I would like to
tire the ambition of young people. I have
no syrnpatliy with those who would prepare
young folks for life by whittling down
their ex lactations. That man or woman
will lie worth nothing to church or state
who begins life cowed down. The business
of Christianity is not to uench but to di
rect human ambition. Therefore it is that
I utter words of encouragemeut to those
who aro occupied as clerks in the stores and
shops and hanking houses of the country.
They are not an exceptional class. They
belong to a gr. ut company of tens of thou
sands who are in this country, amid cir
cumstances which will either make or brenk
them for time nnd for eternity. Many 01
these eoplo have alrendy achieved Q
Christian manliness ami a Christian wo
manliness which will be their passport to
any position. I have seen their trials. I
have watched their perplexities. There
are evils abroad which need to be hunted
down und dragged out into the noonday
'ight.
In the first place, I counsel clerks to
remember that for the most part their
clerkship is only a school from which they
are to be graduated. It takes about eight
years to get into one of tho learned profes
sions. It takes aliout eight years to get to
be a merchant. Home of you will tie clerks
all your lives, but tho vast majority of
you are only in a transient position. After
awhile, soinn December day, the head men
of tho II rm will call you into the back
ofllee, and they will say to you: "Now, you
have done well by us, wo are going to da
well by you. We invite you to have an in
terest in our concern." You will bow to
that edict very gracefully. Getting Into a
street ear to go home, an old comrade will
mi-et you and say. "What makes von look
so happy to-night?" "Oh," you will say,
notning. nothing. nut in a lew nays
your name will blossom on the sign. Either
in the store or tiank where you are now.
or in some other store or bank, you will
take a higher position than that which you
now occupy, so 1 feet 1 am now address
ing people who will yet have their hand
on the world's commerce and you will turn
It tnls way or that. Mow clerks, nut to be
hankers. Importers, Insurance company
directors, shippers, contractors, suerin
tendents of railroads your voice mighty
on Change standing Ion-most in the
grout flunncial and religious enterprises
of tho day. For, though wo who are in
tho profession may. on tho platform, plead
for tho philanthropies, after all, tho mer
chants must come forward with their mil
lions to sustain the movement.
lie therefore patient and diligent In this
transient position. You aro now where
you can learn things you van never learn
in any other place. What you consider
your disaiivantiigi's are your grand oppor
tunity. You see nn aflluont father some
day come down a prominent street with his
3on who lias just grmluiiteii irom the uni
versity nnd establishing 111 in in business,
putting tOO.000 of capital in tho store.
Well, yon are envious. You say: "Oh, If I
only had n chance like that young man! If
I only had a father to put irf0.0ii0 in a
business for m, then 1 would have some
chance in the world." lt not envious.
You have advantages over tr.at young man
which he has not over you. As well might
I come down to tho docks when a vi-ssel is
about to sail for Valparaiso aud say, "Let
mo pilot tills ship out to sen." Why, I
would sink crew mid cargo before I got out
of the harbor simply lieenuse I know noth
ing nhout pilotage. Wealthy sea captains
put their sons beforo tho mast for tho
reason that they know it Is the only
place where they can learn to be suc
cessful sailors. It is only under drill
that people get to understand pilotage and
navigation, ami I want you to iii.derand
that it takis 110 more skill to conduct a ves
sel out of harbor mid across the sea than to
steer a commercial establishment clear of
the rocks. You sio every duy the folly of
people going into a business they know
nothing alsiiit. A man makes a fortune in
one business, thinks there is another occu
pation more comfortable, goes into it and
sinks all. .Many of the uniinercinl estab
lishments of our cities are giving their
clerks a mercantile education as thorough
as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are giving
scientlllc attainments to the students ma
triculated. The reason there are so many
men foundering iu business from year to
year is tiecaus their early mercantile edu
cation was neglected. Ask themeu in high
commercial circles, and they wiil tell you
they thank Ood for this severe discipline of
their early clerkship. You can afford to
endure the wilderness march if it Is going
to end in the vineyards and orchards of thr
promised land.
l!ut you say, "Will the womanly clerks
in our stores have promotion?'' Yes. Timo
is coming when women will he as w 11 paid
for their toil ia mercantile circles ns men
are now paid for their toil. Time is coming
when a woman will bo allowed to do any
thing she can do well. It Is only a little
while ago when women knew nothing of
telegraphy, and they were kept out of a
great many commercial circles where they
are now welcome, aud the time will go on
until the woman who at one counter in a
store sells iMHJO worth of goods in a yeai
will get as high a salary as the man who
at the other counter of the same store sells
t!mn worth of goods. All honor to Lydia,
the Christian saleswoman.
The second counsel I have to give to
rlerks is that you seek out what are the
lawful regulations of your establishment,
and then submit to them. Every well
ordered house has its usages. In military
life, on ship's deck, in commercial life,
there must he order and discipline. Those
people who do not learn how to olsy will
never know how to command. I will tell
you what young man will make rule
financial nnd moral. It is the young mat:
who thrusts his thumb into his vest anc
wiys: "Nolwidy shall dictate to me. I an
my own master. I will not submit to th
regulations of this house." ISetween ai
establishment "in which all the employe)
are under thorough discipline and th
estublisr ment in which the employe!
do alNiit as they choose is the different!!
net ween success and failure between rapto'
.Veil initiation and utter bankruptcy. D
not come to the store ten minutes after the
time. Bo there within two seconds and let
it lie two seconds before Instead of two Sec
onds after. Do not think anything too In
sighincant to do well. Io not say, "It's
only just once." From tho most Important
1 transaction in enmmereedowatothe partto.
I nlar style in which you tie a string around
1 , 1 ! .. 1 . 1 ,
Do not get easily
' " ""
disgusted, w luie ntucrs in me store may
lounge or fret or complain you go with
ready hands and cheerful face nnd con
tented spirit to your work. When the bugle
sounds, the good sohlierasks no questions,
but shoulders his knapsack, hits his canteen
and listens for the command of "March!"
llo not get the idea that your interests
and thosn of your employer are antagonis
tic. His sueei'ss will be your honor. His
embarrassment will be your dismay. Ex
pose none of the frailties of the firm. Tell
no store secrets. Do not blab. HebnfT those
ersons who come to find out from clerks
what ought never to be known outside tho
store. Do not be among those young men
who take on a mysterious air when some
thing is said ngninst the llrm that employs
them, as much as to say, "I could tell you
something if I would, but I won't." Do not
lie among those who imagine they can build
themselves up by pulling somebody else
down, lie not ashamed to tie a subaltern.
Again, I counsel all clerks to compter the
trials of their particular position. One
grent trial for clerks is the Inconsideratlon
of customers. There are people who are
entirely olfto everywhere else, but gruff
and dictatorial and contemptible when they
come into a store to buy anything. There
ire thousands of men and women who go
from store to store to price things, without
any idea of purchase. They are not satis
fled until every roll of goods is brought
lown and they have pointed out all the real
r imaginary delects. They try on all kinds
Df kid gloves and stretch them out of shajie,
ind they put on all styles of
sloak and walk to the mirror to see
low they look, ami then they sail oat
if the store, sayiug, "I will not take it to
lay," which means, "I don't want it at all."
eaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons
ind Inces and cloths to smooth out a
thousand dollars' worth of goods not a
sent of which did that man or woman buy
Jrexiect to buy. Now, I call that a dis
honesty on the part of the customer. If a
hoy runs intoa store and takes a roll nl
Moth off the counter and sneaks out into
the street, you all join in the cry pell-mell,
"Stop thief!" When I see you go into a
store, not expecting to buy anything, but
to price things, stealing the time, of the
?lerk and stealing the time of his employer,
say, too, "Ktou thief I"
If I were asked which class of person?
aost needed the grace of Ood amid their
uinoynnees, I would say, "Dry goo. I?
jlerks." All the Indignation of customers
tboilt the high prices comes on the clerk.
For instance: A great war comes on. The
nanufactories are closed. The people go
Jff to battle. The price of goods runs up.
customer comes Intoa store. Ooods have
(oneup. "How much isthat worth?" "Adol
ar." "A dollar! Outrageous! Adollur!" Why
vhols to blame for the fact that it has got
:o lie n dollar? Does the indignation go
ut to the manufacturers on the banks of
;ho Merrimac lecaiisc they have closed up?
Vo. floes the Indignation go out toward
.lie employer, who is at his country seat
io. It comes on the clerk. He got up the
rnr. He levied the taxes. lb-puts up tin
vats. Of course, the eb-rk.
Then there are all the trials which come
o clerks from the treatment of ineoiisidec
ite employers. There are professed Chris
ian men who have no more regard for their
lerks than they have for the scales on
vhich the sugars are weighed. A clerk is
10 more than so much store furniture. No
lonsideration for their rights or interests.
4ot one word of encouragement from sun
ise to sunset, nor from January to Decem
icr. Hut when anything gm-s wrong a
treak of dust on the counter or a box with
he cover olf - thunder showers of scolding,
fen imperious, capricious, cranky toward
heir clerks their whole manner a much
to say, "All the interest I have in you is to
ee what I can get out of you." Then then
ire all the trials of incompetent wages, not
n such times as these, when if a man gets
inlf a salary for his services he ought
o be thankful, but I mean in prosper
ous times. Home of you nmemli-r, when
he war broke out ami all merchandise
vent up, and merchnnts were made niil
ionnires in six months by the simple rise
n the value of goods. Did the clerks get
idvantnge of that rise? Sometimes, not
dwuys. I saw estates gathered in those
lines over which the curse of Hod has hung
iver slnc. The cry of unpaid men ainl
jvomen In those stores reached the Lord of
tahaoth, and the Indigiii.tiou of Ood lias
leeii arou ml t luwe estal illshments ever si nee,
lashing In the chandeliers, glowing from
he crimson upholstery, rumbling in the
ong roll of tlie tenpln alley. Such men
nay build up palaces of merchandise
leuven high, but after awhile a disaster
vill come along nnd will put one hand 011
his pillar and another hand on that pillar
nd throw itself forwnrd until down will
Mime the whole structure, crushing the
vorshiH'rs as gres are mashed in the
vtnepri-ss.
Then there are boys mined by lack of
lompensation. In how many prosperous
itoros it has Is-en for the Inst twenty years
.hat Isiys were given just enough money
to teach tlieni how to steal! Some were
seized upon by the police. The vast
majority of instances were not known.
Ihe heal 01 mo nrm askcii, "Where is
fleorge now?" "Oh. ho isn't here any
more." A hid might better starve to dentil
an a blasted heath than take ono farthing
from hlsemployer. Woe be to that employer
who unnecessarily puts a temptation in a
lioy's way. There have been great establish
(.umts in these cities, building marble pa
laces, their owners dying worth millions nnd
ndllions nnd millions, who made a vast
amount of tle ir estate out of the blood and
muscle and nerve of half paid clerks. Such
men as well, I will not mention any name.
Hut I menu men who have gathered up vast
estates at the expense of the people who
were ground under their heel. "Oh," say
iui h merchants, "if you don't like It here.
tin n go and get a better place!" As much
:ls to say: "I ve got you in my grip, ami 1
mean to hold you. You can't get any other
place."
Oh, what a contrast between those met,
nnd Christian merchants who to-diiy are
-ymiatlietie with their clerks wheu they
pay the salary, acting in this way: "This
salary II at I give yon is not all my lliten-st
in you. You nre an immortal man; you are
an immortal woman. I am interested In
your pn-sent nnd your everlasting welfare.
I want you to understand that If I am a
little higher up in this store I am liede
you in Christian sympathy." Go back for
ty or filfty years to Arthur Tappen's
store in New Y'ork, a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty.
Kvery morning he brought all the
rlerks and the accountants and the
weighers into a room for devotion.
They sung, they prayed, they exhorted.
On Mondny morning the clerks were asked
where they had atteuded church 011 the
previous (lay and what the sermons were
aliout. It must have sounded strangely,
that voice of praise along the .streets where
the devotees of Mammon were counting
their golden lioads. You sny, Arthur Tap
pen failed. Yes, he was unfortunate, like a
great many good men, but I understand he
met all his ol. ligations before he left this
world, and know that he died iu the pence
of the gospel nnd that he is before the
throne of Ood to-day forever blessed. If
that be failing, I wish you might all fail.
There are a great many young men and
young women who want a word of encour
agementChristian encouragement. One
smile of good cheer would be worth more
to them to-morrow morning in their places
of business than a present of 15,0oi ten
years hence. Oh, I remember the appre
hension and the tremor of entering a pro
fesslon. I rememlier very well the man
who greeted me in the. ecclesiastical court
with the tip ends of the long lingers of tie
left hand, and I remember the other man
who took my hnnd in both of Ms and satflt
"Ood bli-es you, my brother, 'fou have en
tered a glorious profession. Be faithful t
Ood, and Ho will see you through."
Why. I feel this minute tho thriK
nf that handshaking, though tho mat
who . gave me tho Christian grit
has been in heaven twonty years. Then
are old men here to-day who can look back
to forty years ago, when some one snld a
kind word to them. Now, old men, pnj
back what yon got then. It Is a greot art
for old men to b able to encourage tha
young. There aro many young people In
our cities who have come from Inland
counties, from the granite, hills of the.
north, from the savannas nf the south, from
the prairies of the west. They are here to
get their fortune. They are in boarding
houss where everybody seems to be think
ing nf himself. Thoy wnnt companionship,
and they want Christian encouragement.
Give It to them.
My word Is to nff -lerks. He 'mightier
than your temptations. A Sandwich
Islander used to think when he slew an
tiiemvall the strength of that enemy came
into Ids own right arm. And I have to tell
you that every misfortune you conquer is
jo much nddeil to your own moral power.
With omnipotence for a lever and tho
throne of Ood for a fulcrum you can move
earth and heaven. While there are other
voung men putting the cup of sin to their
lips you stoop down and drink out of tho
fountains of Ood. and you will rise up
itrong to thrnsh the mouutains. The
incionts used to think that pearls were
Tallon raindrops, which, touching tho
otrface of the sea, hardened into gems,
then droped to the bottom. I have to
tell you to-day that storms of trial havo
ihowered Imperishable earls Into many a
young man's lap. .h, young man, while
fon have goods to sell, rememlier you have
t soul to save. In a hospital a Christian
iiptnin, wronged a few days before, get
lelirious. and in the midnight hour he
sprang out on the floor of the hospital,
thinking he was in the battle, crying:
"Come on. boys! Forward! Charge!" Ab,
he was only battling the siecters of his
wd brain! Hut it is no imaginary eoutlict
Into which I call you, young man. to-day.
There are 10.000 spiritual foes that would
apt ore you. In the nnine of Ood, up aud
tt them!
Afterthelast store has len closed, after
-he last hank has gone dowu. after tho
ill 1 1 me of the quick feet on the custom
louse steps has stopped, after the long
ine of merchantmen on the sea has taken
mil nf flame, after Washington uud New
fork ami Loudon and Vienna have gone
lown into the grave where Thelies and
Habylon and Tyre lie burled, afterthe great
ire 'liells of the jiidgmeut day have tolled
it the burning of a world -on that day all
;he affairs of hanking houses and stores will
lome up for inspection. Oh, whatanopen
ng of account books! Side by side the
derks and the men who employ them.
Every invoice made out, all the
.nliels of goods, all certificates
f stock all lists of prices- all private
marks of the Ann now explained so every
body can understand them. All the maps
)f cit ies that were never built, but In whlub
ots were sold all bargains, all gouging,
ill snap judgments, all false entries, all
idulterntion of liquors with coppers and
itryehnliio. All mixing of teas aud sugars
nd coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate
rial, all euilieKr.lements of trust funds,
all swindlers in coal and iron and oil and
silver and stocks. Ou that day when the
Hies of this world are smoking In the I aft
'ontlagration the trial will go on. and dowu
In an nvalanche of destruction will go those
irho wronged manor woman. Insulted Ood
mil dclle.l the judgment. Oh, that will be
1 great, dav for you, honest inrisiiau
lerk. No getting up early, or retiring
ate. no walking around with weary limbs,
ut a mansion in which to live and a realm
nf light and love and joy over which to
Hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up
from glory to glory aud from song to song
vid from throne to throne, for while others
jo down into the sea with ineir go ko n
millstone hanging to tlieir neck, this one
iliall come up tlie heights of nmetliyst und
ilabaster. holding iu his right hand the
pearl of great price in a sparkling, giuier-
1;:, naming casket.
1 ne ISicycle.
Tin pniml i i ryelt1 rat' :i( YiiirniiH!t
took lu' nl I'iii is. Ittiiirilloii liNi-,itl
first, I hi I was ilis4ii;tli(il mm a H.um ihut
Ik i-oiiiiiiith ii 11 I. .nl, nn. I Hi.- first pr it,
mhi italics, was awaitlt tl to .Mtn iii, who
a'ifftl t divitlt- tli' rif wifli Nosain,
who tini-li! ttiinl. Hi' l4M-iitu it a ted
prcut lissatist'a-tin uiihhii: tu sjMitators
und a I nni'H'loiis uproar . itsti'.
A Ii'atlinu li iMaitufittTtti r, - bte
w lit'fls :nv iio-.v will 111; at Uf $1H tiiiutt,
syn tli.it his tvut-MSijf lln past year
Imcii t-Mi iint'iit itii; with tht Im-wI trear
iiiK devii-, an. I on of his wheels lilted
wiih this; pi-jir has n ridden upward of
rJ.tHiit-tnileat over all kinds of roads. The
tesl , lii said, hiil Iteon itmre than gratify
ing in ev-ry i-esju-et. In addition to tho
ud vantages elaiined for the lewl geared
mai hiiie, at ii-m mm has Itccii called to thi
fai l that wilh the levd 'ur it will Ixj
possilde to jive. a narrow tread in -d tl
tni;, and at Hie same time preserve u wide
tipn-ad of sMkes in the real w heel und
wide hearings. Ill ehain driven bicycle
st reni;i in const met ion is often ttucri-tie.-d
in order to oldaiti a narrow tread,
hut the lMvel g.ar may le placed at such
an aiejle as to nive a sutlicient ly narrow
tread and wide hearing-, to produce the
best results.
The Stockton wheelmen contemplate
tut i I ling a cycle path from IVnsuuken
tow r, ship I ine to the Coo'ter'g creek
l.ridg...
Willie WVnzi'l an.l tin Turville broth
ers, 4 l 111 and i 'hat ley, ha ve formed a
triplet team. They are having a muchine
built and will train for pacing and mulch
i ;o iuu. They should form a popular com -binatioii.
lor each of the men has a host of
"'nd- in I lie e il in fraternity.
(' dinrj interests are in a dotnorul i.ing
conlifiou iu I'uland at the present time.
win to the heavy importation of Amer
ican wh els ami Ihe coiiM-ipient keen com
petition, tht l.nlih manufacturers have
i'ti'ii driven close to the wall and numer
ous failures are rcHtrtcd.
liiirl. s H . K il pat rick , the A merit hu
half in ilt champion und world's record
holder, who is in Kit; I and, apeurs to te
uetiini: acclimated. Che American won
the scratch quarter ut the Saltord Har
rier's sports, defeating a tit-Id ol eiut,
including the Northern champion, S. fr-l-liott,
ol the Saltord Harriers. Kilpat
rirk'ft time was M - a seconds, und he fin
ished three yards in front U KUjolt.
Arthur A. Zimmerman is not roiindiii"
into shao us rapidly as he had ce( t. d
to do, und it now seems doiibtlul whether
he will be wen in the races of the season
after all. Zimmerman is Itelieved to be
too old to compete aaint the youth of
the present day ruciuu- These, hard fin
ishes are something terrible to even an
old-timer, who in former seusons opened
up lengths on his field.
The great $,"hmm meet ut ( 'hicueo l.abol
Ihiy depends only upon Ihe securing of the
track . Tht sanct ion has Iwn issued to
1,. M. Itichurdsou.
Michael lowered the mile stunding start
paced American record in the tirt mile
of his len -mile ride wit's Titus as a com
IH'lilor ut Itullalo. The lormer record
wus 1.41 I 5, made by McCreu ut t'oronado
Heat h last seuon. .Michael did l.i'l. J.
Tlatt Hells hohU the wot Id s record
recently made, 145 15.
Oddities of Life.
A chain bridge over the Merrimac
Kiver at Aniesbury is said to Is the old-i-st
susMnsio!i bridge in the United .State
It was built in K'-U.
What was known ss Maine's oldest
school house, situated iu West Gardiner
was desl loved by lire recently. It was
built lot years ago. ....
A San Kram isco man recently insisted
Isffore the Lunacy t'ontiiitttcc that his
heart was slowly but surely turning to
stone and his blood to water.
Massachusetts ranks sixth in the distri
bution of the appropriation granted by
Congress for the militia of '.he several
states. Her share is $I2,imhi.
Oliver'. Kddy, of lirewcr. Me., is said
to li the only survivor if the ISIack Haw k
War, ami can remember distinctly when
his father started out for the war of I Mi
The Worcester man who ollered a tlo
prie to the school i-hihlien of that city
lor the licst essay on the common toad is
so pb usi 'I with the results that he lias re
pealed his oiler for next year.
Tarenls can now hold up to their run. ly
lo villi; children as an awful winning tho
sad fate of u 17 year-old boy iu Mi l i.b n.
Conn., who from over iiibiilgi'iici iu can
dy has Is-comc totally blind.
An Atlanta man named John Sin i I la will
con call upon all Ihe Smiths in the worl l
In cent rilmle Inward a manilircut build
ing 1o be creeled iu honor of the name.
The house is to cover ten acres.
There is an old philosopher propliftt ami
p.H-t in California w ho claims that lie has
solved the problem of living forever.
He lives a hermit's life, eats only three
times a week, and never eipccts to
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