ii if fpttid lil gegtMfciE
P. 80HWEIER,
TUB OONBTITOTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UW8.
VOL. LI.
MIFFLINTOWN. J UN I ATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER K 1897.
NO. 3S.
CHAPTER VTfT.fCotitlnued.)
Before ber mother could m; one word
ft opposition, the little person had alld
behind Armathwaite with the moat comi
cal nplook of mischief Into bis face, and
left him to bear the brunt of the eldei
lady's cool reception all by himself. Sha
dropped her work in her lap, examlneq
him from bead to foot slowly and with a
Mack scowl aa If be bad been a notorious i
rascal, and then said abruptly. In a deef
tone:
"Sit down. Too come from London 1
"Yes, I I come from London.
"A bad place, London."
. This waa a little too much.
There are some Tery nice people In It,
qnlte aa nice aa any in the country.
"I dare aay. This waa said very de
flantly, and then there waa a pause bo
fore she went on. 'Indonera are fond
of sneering at us country people, aa If we.
were not good enough to black their
shoos."
Armathwaite did not contradict hen
She might be a very estimable woman
.he had heard she was; but be did not see
-any adequate reason for her presuming to
ride rough-ehod over him. 80 he looked
.placidly at her.
"I hare no patience, she began, "wltfc
people who think, simply because they
Lave lived In a particular spot of the
earth, that they ought to be bowed down
to by the Inhabitants of every other spot."
"Neither have I, said Armathwaite
simply.
And each glared straightforwardly at
the. otht-r Hi ii they thought ttc-J bad
fought this round very satisfactorily. Be
fore they could begin again Millie cams
downstairs and brought a message of
peace.
Taps will be Tery pleased to see yon
at once. If yon won't mind coming up
stairs to his room," she said.
And, with a bow to Mrs. Feels, Arma
thwaite followed the girl ont of the room.
Millie stopped when she had mounted
atalrs enough for her face to be on a level
with her visitor's, and turning round, ahe
said In a low voice:
"You mustn't think anything of mam
ma's odd manner of receiving yon. She's
always like that to strangers, bnt she's
perfectly easy to manage when yon know
her. I think she must have read too much
about Napoleon the Great when ahe waa
a child."
This aly apology was rendered so fnnny
" ay the twinkle in her eyea that Arma
7. . '.sV,teJT?JMi difficulty stifled his laughter
aa he followed his conductreaa into the
doctor's room.
CHATTER IX.
' The weak daylight still showed faintly
' through the drawn blinds, and helped to
give a mournful look to a room which
dark mahogany furniture and a funereal
four-post bedstead rendered already suffi
ciently gloomy. By the 6re sat the doc
tor In a large armchair, sorting papers by
the light of a couple of candles on a small
table at his side. Armathwaite was star
tled by the look on his face as he raised
his head and held out a thin hand In wel
come. Having heard on all sides that the
ailment which kept the doctor at home
was nothing but a cold, the young man
had not been prepared for the sunken eyes
and ashy paleness which, to his observant
vision, seemed the unmistakable heralds
of death: he was so much changed that
but for the keen and kindly eyes, the weak
and vacillating mourh, Frank would
scarcely have known him.
1 have come here by the strangest ac
. rldent," answered Armathwaite. "Or
rather by an incident which has alrean
.led to so many extraordinary adventures,
tihat I hesitate to call It an accident at
.an.
Dr. Peele pushed back his gray hair
with a gesture peculiar to him when he
was Interested; and with a touch of af
1 fectionate dismissal to his daughter, who
. was standing lovingly beside his chair, he
, gravely bowed his head to intimate that
1 he was ready to listen. As soon as they
were alone,- Armathwaite, aa much tnv
pressed by the manner of the doctor's re
, eeptloa as by any of the previous events
to which his strangely interrupted journey
' had given rise, related very simply the cir-
eumstanees; that he had met Alma Cros
imont, passed the night, by her husband's
ilnvltation. In their house, and that Lady
Jtildonan had taken him to luncheon at
The Crags.
"It Is very strange," said Dr. Peele at
last. "And perhaps the strangest part of
It all Is that not many weeks ago I men
tioned you to Alma Crosmont as a man
who. In certain circumstances we were
then Imagining, would be likely to have
the skill and the courage to do her a diffi
cult and perhaps dangerous service."
"What was that service? May 1 not
know?" asked Armathwaite in a very low
voice.
"Hardly yet," answered the old doctor
slowly. "But If you will stay here a few
days, I will talk to you again on this sub
ject. Can you spare the time?"
"I will do so, if you have any strona
reason for wishing me to stay. But if I
may go up to Glasgow to-night and return
to you. I should prefer it, as I have a
chance of an appointment at the Infirmary
there, and the caudidates will be seen to
morrow." Let em be seen; I can give yon some
thing better. My wife ami daughter think
I shall !e about ngntn in a Tew days; but
you and I know otherwise. I believe with
Alma and with yon, thnt it was no chance
brought von to this place. Within a few-
hours of your arrivnl you have come face
to face with the two cns.s wlii.-h have
been gnawiug at my very life; for I warn
you, you will have no easy .st here;
there are secrets which I will confide to
you, if you cure to take my place here,
connected with certain of my patients,
the knowledge of which will make your
life an everlasting dance upon the edge of
a volcano which must break out some day.
You are young, energetic, honest, not
over-euiotional, .with a head very well
screwed on, though its only on young
zuoulders. You may perhaps find a nay
to grapple successfully with diflicnltiel
which to an old man. weiirbed down br
Id recollections and sentiments bound
op with the dead, have been like sleeping
flojj allowed to lie. Stay here a few
days; learn to know us; I wlH Introduce
yon to, my patients; If at the end of a
week or a fortnight yon decide to remain,
yon shall take np my practice, weighted
with thia one condition, that yon look after
my wife and daughter when I am gone.
Think over what I hare said and study
your new surroundings for the next few
days, and when yon have made np yonr
. mind, give m yea or no.". - .
n
"I can give it you now. Dr. rcele. It la
with my heartiest thanks yea."
"Well, 70a bar still, until I tell yon the
secrets I spoke of, the power to retract.
In the meantime will you go downstairs
and have tea with yonr new sister?"
He touched a bell by his side twice, and
In a few moments Mrs. Peele appeared,
her approach heralded by a tread like that
ef a man.
"Margaret, said her husband, "this Is
the young fellow of whom I once told yon
that If I had bad a son I would have had
bat son like him. He will stay with va
for the next few cays, and yon will make
him welcome."
Armathwaite felt rather uneasy, after
their encounter downstairs, as to bow this
exhortation would be taken. To his sur
prise and consternation she marched np to
him, and Just as he made an involuntary
step back, half expecting that her inten
tions were pugilistic, she drew him down
by the shoulder with a powerful hand, and
printed on bia coy cheek a martial kiss.
Recovering quickly from his astonish
ment, he respectfully returned the salute,
and having thus signed articles of peace,
he hastened to obey her deep-voiced com-
'mand to go down to tea. In the sitting
room he found Millie, now busy with the
tea things. Armathwaite soon found
himself telling her of his newly made ac
quaintances with the two lakeside beau
ties. "Then yon like Alma Crosmont best?"
said Miss Peele. "I'm so glad. It's a
good sign In a man to do that, I fed sure.
I know," she continued, hastily, "that
Lady Kildonau U Trj hriui and charm
ing, and Tery good-tempered, too, I think,
for snch a beauty. But there's more in
Alma than that, a great deal more; and I
often feel my hands tingling to box the
ears of that husband of hers, when I set
him "
She stopped In confusion and hasteneo
to put some coals on the fire; but in the
midst of this occupation she turned to
Armathwaite with a genial laugh.
"It's of no nse; I've done it, and n
artifice will cover it!" she cried. "I'm
always getting myself Into trouble by
blurting ont things that are better left
nnsaid. I haven't the least atom of tact
or discretion. So I may as well finish
what I was saying, and relieve my feel
ings." "Especially as I know what yon were
tofng to say."
"Do you V Then ber kind, plain face
grew grave. "Yea, it needs no conjurer
to see that the poor little woman Is thrown
away on that great, empty-headed fellow,
who doesn't know the difference between
gold and gilding. Papa made that match,
yoa know; I think he's sorry for It now."
Ind she looked Into the fire again."
"Yon know Mrs. Crosmont intimately?"
"I used to; but she never comes here
now. I believe It's her husband prevents
her; ho's afraid papa will see and be angry
nhont the alteration in her. I met her In
Mereslde about ten days ago, and I scarce
ly knew her; she seems to be growing
quite old and and ghost-like. Oh, it's s
shame, it's a shnme!"
Armathwaite wnrmed to this girl with
her open heart snd straightforward
seeeh.
"Yes, she Is losing her benlth and grow
ing old before her time. We must see
what can be done," he said earnestly,
Millie looked np at him sharply. He
was sitting in a chair before the fire, with
his arms resting on his knees; and she
was crouching, with a round back and
protruding face, npon the hearthrug.
"Ah. I thought so. You're going to stn,
here," she said, with a nod of intelligence.
"For a few days, yes," said Arma
fhwaltav taken aback.
"Oh, for more than that! I know
You're going to be papa's partner. It's
of no use to try and hide it from me, le
ane I'm personally Interested, you know;
and In anything which concerns oneself
one gets to be abnormally clever. Oh, I
knew what you'd come about the moment
' saw yon!"
"But nothing Is settled yet," said Ar
mathwaite. "It Is quite true that Dr.
I'eele has made some suggestion of th
sort to me."
CHAPTER X.
"In that case we should have to form a.
alliance, defensive and. If necessary, of
fensive, against my mother and ber evil
machinations."
Armathwaite looked puzzled and rathe,
ilarmed, and Millie burst out laughing.
"I will le plain with you," she said,
itill sfrugging with her merriment. "I
.'a n't be anything but plain with any
body, you know,' she added, putting her
hands up to her face to emphasize bet
Ittle Joke, with a comical grimace. "No
noner will my mother know that there if
I chance of your settling here, than shr
nil I begin the attack by informing you
Chat the first thing necessary to a country
3o-tor before talent, before experience,
iefore anything. In fact is a wife. Next
the will enlarge upon the fact that what
feu want in a wife is goodness, and a e:i
paeity for making the most excellent pas
try; great accomplishments are a dis.-id
vantage, and good looks a positive dis
qualification. Then she will go 011 1
ha! you guess what is coming! she will
go on to say that the very sum ami suit
atanee of all the needful perfections is at
hand In the person of me." anil Millie cm
braced herself jubilantly. "1'gly fa.-e,
complete ignorance of any art liit darn
Ing and cooking, and all."
"But really, .Miss IVele, you are d iins
yonrself the greatest injustice," bec-m
Armathwaite, rather embarrassed ly hoi
frankness, though her honesty and strong
tense of fun amused and interested him
"7m I thought that I'd better put yor
n your guard," she continued, brightly,
"and if you don't want to hare me tiling
it your head from morning till night, you
will. If yon haven't got one already. In
rent a fiancee to whom you are madly at
tached, with whom yon correspond regu
larly, and whom yon are only waiting for
1 favorable opportunity to install her as
your bride."
At this fiction they both laughed heart
ily: and with extravagant suggestions as
to the devices to which they would be driv
en if Mrs. Peele should Insist on Inviting
the fiancee to stay at Branksome, they
cemented their friendship and closed a
firm alliance.
Next morning, breakfast waa scarcely
over, and Mrs. Peele, having bullied ber
visitor unmercifully for not eating mar
in aj a d a. hail Afilv In at m.rctiMt fnun that
room, armed with . rtanklna- hnnch of !
keya, to attend to her household duties,
when a small groom drove np to the house !
in a dog cart and delivered a note for r.
I Peele. This note was sent down by the
doctor for Armathwaite to read. It waa
from Lady Kildonan. and contained only
a few lines to say that one of the house
maids had cut her hand badly, and If the
doctor could not come himself; be was to
send Dr. Armathwaite. The young man
read this, and his face flushed with a dos
en different emotions. Millie, who was
filling the seed trough of her canary, look
ed at him furtively as be glanced through
he note, which she herself had brought
iown to him.
"Have yon read It?" he asked.
"Yes. I'spa read tt to me."
"And what did he say?"
"He said be supposed you must go."
"And what did you say?"
"I didn't say anything, but I thought
"What?"
"That ahe was beginning pretty soon.
Armathwaite burst ont laughing.
"Oh, you Ul-natured little thing.
shouldn't hare thought It of yon."
"Dr. Armathwaite, It la not In nature
for a plain woman not to see the faults
In a handsome one. It relieves my feel
ings, and makes no difference to yours.
Lady Kildonan la a born coquette, fond of
excitement, dying of ennui because her
husband makes ber Hve In the country.
She looks upon every stranger that cornea
to the neighborhood aa her legitimate
prey; aha even condescended to torn the
head of papa's unfortunate assistant who
couldn't hear ber nam mentioned without
railing a-trembHng. From gentleman to
peasant, she won't be content till every
man worships her, and yon may be sure
she won't let you off."
Millie gave him a sagacious nod. while
Armathwaite buttoned np bla coat grave
ly. "I don't think I am one of the worship
ing sort," be said. "Lady Kildonan has
my heartiest admiration, but I flatter my
self it's not so easy to turn the bead of 4
rue-bora Yorkshireman."
"Well, I hope not," said Millie doubt
fully.
Armathwaite got Into the dog cart and
drove off with a slight feeling of Irrita
tion towards Millie for her obstinate per
sistence in an Injurious doubt.
It was another beautiful and bright
morning, but the 7oung man scarcely no-
ueea now tne snow sparkled In the sun
and Is.; a patches of fantastic shape np
on the hills. He was quite bristling with
duty by the time he arrived at The Crags,
dashed np the drive. Jumped down from
the dog cart, rang the bell, and asked to
be taken straight to the Injured maid,
as if each moment of his time had been
a golden guinea. The hurt turned out to
be a trilling one, as Indeed be had expect
ed. Uaving bound up the wounded hand
and given the simple directions necessary.
ne was nurrying out ol tne house when
a footman ran after him and requested
him to stop, aa her ladyship desired to
speak to him. Armathwaite hesitated.
when Lady Klldonaa's maid fluttered
down the hall and said she had been sent
to show him up to her mistress room.
"Is Lady Kildonan 1117" asked Arma
thwaite. "Not rery m, but aba thought aba would
like to see you, sir.'
There waa no choice for him. He
followed the woman np wide staircase,
along an oak-paneled gallery large enough
and handsome enough for a ball room, to a
door at which she knocked softly.
"Come in," cried Lady Klldonan'a voice,
which waa aa bright as ever.
The next moment be found himself In
a room the coloring and decoration of
which suggested to him the Inside of a sea
shell, adorned with hangings of pale sat
in, and carpeted with thick, soft velvet
which looked like sea moss. The lace
curtains, drawn close, were lined with
palo rose-colored silk, through which the
bright sunlight came pleasantly subdued;
In a tiny fireplace, tiled with paintings
of flowers, burnt a small fire. Close to It,
tying back in a large easy chair, her head
resting on a satin cushion, was Lady Kil
donan. The illness concerning which she
had to consult the doctor was luckily not
J serious enough to dim the brightness of
her eyes, or to render less dazzling the
luster of her brilliant complexion. On the
other hand. It was grave enough to permit
her to appear In a white cashmere wrap
per, with her hair loosely knotted to
gether and a black lace mantilla round
her head, a costume beautifully suited to
an invalid in perfect health, such as Ar
mathwaite at once decided her to be.
Standing at the threshold of the doo
as the lady languidly beckoned him In,
the young doctor, with a haze of mem
ories and resolutions before his eyes,
wished that he had not come. ,
(To be continned.) 1
jOf late years the production of cot
fee In British Central Africa h.i con
siderably increased. In 1891, the first
few sucks were sent to the London
market, and favorably reported on. In
1S1KS, nearly 170 tons were exported,
last year the total rooe to 300 tons, nnd
this year it Is expected that there will
be at least GOO tons. It la estimated
that at the end of the century the ex
port will amount to 2,000 tons and the
planters are agitating for the const ruc
tion of a railway from Chlromo to Blun
tyre, In order to obviate the prem-nt
difficulties of transport.
The Khedive recently laid the foun
dation stone of the Museum of Archae
ology at Cairo. Unfortunately, It will
soon be scon that the English protec
torate renders Impossible the establish
ment of a lusting museum. The de
plorable lintiit which British tourists
are n.lilictcd to, of rnrrying ofT little
fragments of valuable objifts. Is n li:ul
augury for the safety of the collec
tions exliiliih-d. In museums. Just tin
In politics, tin- i'li'llsh nlwnys carry off
Hie tlMits.-Le tJaiilols
JT Connecticut paM'rs say Uint the oldest
111:111 in the stale is Manuel i "liver Irvy.
of Sloiiin:l"ii, who was born in IVi-tual
lit years aro.
The loftiest inhabited place in the
world is 111 ltuddhist monastery of
Maine, in l liils l. Jt is about l7,lHt feet
alnive the sea.
Natural pas i fast poini?. J. 1. Weeks
lias just made a report 011 the supply and
ils leelii.e for the .National l.nlr ltiircs.ii
in which it np'iciirs that the supply has
fallen a half in seven years.
Liverpool has the large! fire engine in
the worlil eiii.il In thrnvin? 1SIMI gallons
a minute ami a stream l td f.i't liij-b.
France has set up nlsmt monuments
to more or less distinguished frenchmen
luring tlie last twenty-five years, nad
there a re now 127 coiniiiilt.'cs collecting
money for more.
True nobility is shown lv gentle con
siileration and courtesy to all, and brines
its own reward in the extra linene.-s. el
Dorceiition its nrncti.-o. bestows.
A Muneie (Ind.) arrot cried "Fire!
fire!" ami woko up her owner, who
found his house in flames.
The fJreco-Turkish disturbance has had
the cITect of making Friday afternoon in
the country school fairly redolent of
"Marco ISozzaris."
Vaccination has just been introduced
into Afghanistan lv the advice of Miss
Hamilton, an F.nglfsh physician.
who is
'" adci.dam uin.u the Ameer.
Russians make a pleasant dm k from
sap of tho walnut.
SMALL THLNG9.
It may )e glorious to write
Thoughts thnt shall glad the two or
three
High souls like those far starts that come
insight
On.-e in a century.
I til t l-etter fur it is to speak
nc simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the
weak
And friendless sons of men.
.lames Hussell Inwell.
Circumstantial Evidence.
It wr.s an old affair all around- Every
body -wondered, and the puzzle was not
merely why the sweetest and loveliest
girl in town had married this dark stran
ger, whom nol.xly liked, and whom sho
nud not known moie than six weeks in all
It was also how she c-atno to jilt lien Kl
roy, to whom she had been engaged al
most since she hud worn long di.-ss.-s, and
-ho had played with when they were both
-hildien.
Lorcna was not merely a lieautiful girl,
she w is as good as she was lovely. Not a
ifil-l, you would think, to marry one
man for his money, or to jilt another for
he lack of it.
Only the day but one before she mar
ried Sieiner, iten had held her in his
arms, and kissed from her lips the loud
est smiles that ever curved a sinilet
mouth.
lie would bare sworn by her truth, ami
strangled the lie in any man's throat .who
dared insinuate otherwise.
lie was going away for a few days' al-scn.-e
not luoro than a week of the far
thestand the two arted liiigeringly, as
though it hud l-rcn for a year.
lien .iertainly never dreamed that when
ihoy met again, his lif-ft would almost be
really to cui-se the loveliness he caressed
now so rapturously.
When he cam'- home she hnd licen mar
ried to Iluliert Steiner four days, and of
all her friends, not oi.e hail a v.oid to say
in her favor not one hud an excuse to
make for her falseness. Indeed, most
said nothing; Ihey v.-ere dunibwilhainuz.--
IH'llt.
A few insinuated that Steiner was a
rii her man than lien. II11I thev who hud
known 1.01-omi from childhood her nnsclt-ishtH-.is
and hih pi-inei le could not
ei-cdit that Steinei-'s money had Ui-n any
temptat ion.
It'll was like a man stricken with par--.!,:-
- Ui . iliev told him. He I"; t
ilropjH-d into a ( hair, ami noiiiier stiried
njr sNke for hoiii-s.
The ne vly married pair went to hou.-e-keeping
in l-awrem-e, in some style, and
there, se.-ni.-d 110 lack of money, whulcwr
else was wanting.
That sonv-thiiig was wanting that money
could not buy, p.-oplc Ix-gun to guess,
when I.01VHU Sleim-r's roses went; and
she grew the shadow of herself within
three months after her wedding day.
li.-r old lover wns terribly changi-d,
too; hut he made little outward ado. lie
an-1 Steiner should have a settlement sou e
day, he suid, und he watched the pi'.ii
with strange eyes, ami seemed to Mtnilcr
yet over his lost love's unfaithfulness as
some problem dillicult of solution.
. ne day, when Steiner was away but
he did nut know or care for that tho pain
and puzzle got the better of him, and lien
went to see I.orena.
The poor fellow was holf-cruzy gi-own
morbid with nursing his grief and did not
know himself what he went for. lie might
hare had some vague notion of asking his
false love why she jilted him, or he might
have hungered so for the sound of her
wcet voice that he could tear it no
longer.
He was shown by a very grand servant
into a very grand parlor, and stood theie,
staring gloomily at the fine things, till
(.orcna came.
"I wonder if this is what she married
Steiner for?" he was saying to himself, a
(he elided into the room, shrinkingly, her
fuc e as white as her dress.
At sight of him she burst into tears.
"Oh, Iten, what made you come?" she
cried, and was retreating.
Hut he said coldly:
- '"I nm going again instantly, Mrs. Stein
er," and the cold anger of his voice
brought her back again, but trembling
like a leaf, and looking so deathly
white that he thought she wns going to
faint.
She rillied, however, instantly, and
stood looking at him with piteous eyes.
"I hoti you are well, Mr. Klroy?" she
aid, I'atntly.
A spasm of pain contracted Pen's
handsome palo face, and ho turned to
leave her; but she followed him, speaking
huskily, and extending her hands.
"oh. Hen, don't go so! I can't bear
it!"
He stopped and stared at her, hi
breath coming quick.
"V011I" ho said, passionately, yet with
corn. "What have you to Ix-ar? Haven't
you got what you sold yourself for?"
"ifc-n, don't sieak so to me!" she almost
hrieked. "It was for your sake. Oh!
why didn t I die?"
lien trllroy turned suddenly and led
ber to a seat, remaining standing him
tolf. "Now, then, Mrs. Steiner, will you l e
good enough," ho said, "to tell nie what
you mean by saving that yon jilted in
tor my own sake"
She stole a wild look at his stern face.
"Will vou promise me to have no
wonts with him with Mr. Steiner
sboqt it?"
Hon hesitated an instant, and lien
said 1
"I promise,."
To bj nisei f he added:
"I will have no words with him; but if
he has taken her from me with a lie, I
will punish him so quick he shall not
know where his retribution comes from,"
and ho rtanchnd his teeth over the word
in a way that made Lorena regard him
doubtfully.
"I will toll you nothing," she said. "1
was mad with pain, or 1 should not have
thought of it."
"Then I will strangle the truth ont of
him!" Ben said, his face darkening, and
he turned again to go.
Lorena cried out sharply:
"How ernel you arel"
"Am I?" he said, softening at the woe
-f that still loved voice. "I forgot he was
dear to you."
"Io yon think I feared for him alone?"
flashed lorena, and hung her head N-fore
the words wore well soken."
Iten caught his breath again.
"Well, well, tell m. Vou may trust
nie, Lorena indeed you may. entreat
yon to tell me. Surely something is dun
mo for the pnst!"
Lorena did not lift her eyes, as she
said:
"Mr. Steiner told me how you were in
volved, and he showed mo some miers
which you had signed his name to. Ho
said lie could send yon to state prison."
"i'npers? signed his name? I am not
involved. I never signed anybody's
name to anything in my life!" cried Pen,
in a passion.
Never? Oh! Hen Hen IVin! I might
have known it What a blind fool I
was!"
"My poor girl! And you married him
to save me? My Cod! how can I keep my
hands oil him?
You must, lien! Oo, now, for both our
sakes. I can tear no more."
And lien went. Ho was seen by morn
than one of the townsiieopln as ho came,
late that afternoon, down the broad walk
that led from Hubert Steiner's handsnitm
house, and was blamed for going there in
his master's absence. It was noted, too,
that ho looked grim and forbidding, and
that he frowned, instead of nodding, at
such acquaintances as he met.
That night Iluliert Steiner was mur
dered within sight of his own doorstono,
ami the following morning Ben Elroy was
arrested for the murder.
It was a hard case. Everybody liked
Ben; very few the murdered man; but
there were not six people in 1 awrence
who did not believe Ben had done tho
deed even 1 .orcna.
"Ben has killed him," she whispered,
and dropped into a swoon, from which sb
d id not i-eeo ver for hours.
But she, never opened her lips again'
about the matter. She Just lay and faded,
like a broken flower, while the trial iraat
en. ' r
-the truth does not often float to the sut
face in such times of excitement. Ils ver)
weight seems to sink it iiclow view, whik
tho straws and driftwood almost chok
the channel.
When it became known that the mm
dereil nun's wife lay dying, public feel
ing sighed, "How she must have lover
him!" and took a-tnrn against Ben.
The evidence in the case was purely
circumstantial, but dark of its kino.
Ben was a dealer in tho finer kinds ol
cutlery, and upon his shelves was a case
of knives precisely like the bloody one
found beside the murdered man. There,
ton, was his known enmity, Snd its oc
casion; and it was remembered that he
bad been seen coming from Stoiner's
h.rtise the afternoon lefore the murdet
and had seemed under some excitement
at the time. His own language, concern
ing a settlement with Steiner some time,
was quoted against him.
The trial drew near its close, and it wat
likely to go hard with Ben, unless the
jury proved more conscientious and scrup
ulous aliout trusting to circumstantial evi
dence than the crowd which thronged the
court-room and had already condemned
the prisoner.
The truth came out by the merest scci
eident. Ben's clerk seeing a strange and
very handsome woman in the court room,
suddenly remembered that he had sold
that woman that very knife, or one like
it, three weeks before the murder, lie
whispered thefaet in the ear of Pen't
counsel.
The woman gave herself up, and owned
to her guilt at the first demonstration.
Steiner had wronged her, she said, to an
extent that only his death could atone
for. If it was necessary that any ,ne
should dio because a bad man had got hit
dues, she was ready.
Ben was at once liberated, and the wo
man took his place. In the end she plead
ed insanity, and the jury was glad enougk
to escae hanging her.
Ken Klroy quitted the country for s
while, but ho returned in time to marry
his old love, who had not died, and whose
roses bloomed lato as brightly as they had
curly. .
the legend a myth.
The Krrhanteil Meaa of New Mexico
I'ivrste I of Ita Romance.
The losoail of the enchanted mesa,
situated some distance south of Albu
querque, New Mexico, has been ex
ploded by a party of explorers, hended
by Prof. Libbey of rrinceton Univer
sity. The mesa Is a perpendicular rock
rising 710 feet aliove the surface of the
p'jtin and covering forty acres. Here,
accorilinu to tradition, Acoma Indians,
to tin? number of 1,0(10, dwelt In a vil
lage in the sixteenth century, their
means of access to the top of the mesa
licin;; by steps they bad cut In the rock.
Once while the able-bodied member
were at work In the fields below lislit
nins destroyed the steps and cut' off
from their kinsmen the n?cd Indians
and children left in the village on top
of the mesa. To reach the unfortu
nates, thus Isolated, was Impossible,
and all of them to the number of 300
perished. The surviving Acomas then
moved to a new borne and ever since
regarded the mesa as sacred. Thus
runs the legend.
Last week lrof. Libbey and party
visited the mesa prepared to explore
It. A line was shot across the rock.
suitable tackle waa made ready and
separately the members ascended In a
chair to the legendary borne of the
Acomas. The legend proved to have
been unfounded. Writing of the sub
ject Prof. Ubbey says: "No traces of
former Inhabitants were found. Fur
ther, no altars or traces of prayer
sticks were foifnd. This fact best 6f
all shows the Inaccessible character of
the place, because. If It had been ac
cessible, the meillelne men of the
Aeoinn tribe would have certainly used
It for such purposes.
"Not the slightest trace was found
which would enable me to believe that
a human foot had ever before passed
over the top of this famous rock. A
few agile lizard and ' several gray
rats were the only occupants of this
castle In the air. Sorao fine specimens
of stunted pines, n few species of flow
ering plants and the ubiquitous sage
brush lent a yarlety to the surface on
the line of color of tbe bright sand
stone." r
Thus dies a legend that bas been the
Inspiration of poet and romanlst.
DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN.
Felix Gabriel Mstrcband, the New
rreaater ef Qaebec Province.
Felix Gabriel Marchand, the new pre
mier of the provincial government of
Quebec, Is one of the most distinguish
ed sons of the province. Mr. Marchand
hns been honored by the republic of
France with the title of "officer of pub
lic Instruction." He was given this title
In 1881. He did valuable service for
the dominion during the Feninn raid.
At that time he was a lieutenant colonel
and won special mention for his brav
ery. He was In command of the brig
ade that moved to the front at tbe time
rai.ix OARRIEI. MARCH ART).
of the-engagement at Eccles Hill In
November, 1870, and his men made a
splendid recard for themselves. Mr.
Marc hand's father waa an old resident
and native of Quebec, bnt In 1832 ha
settled in St, John, N. R, and became
one of ihe most prominent citizens of
tbe town. Tbe premier-elect waa bora
in St. John in 1832 la a quaint old
house, which at' 11 stands. He after
ward came to Quebec, where bla public
cej-eerf or tne past twenty-lire or thirty
years has been of brUUanco aad ma
te-tbe mat - -
KtW MEXICO'S KNCU ANTED UKSA.
REV, DR, TUCE
Tk EalMnt Divine's Stnday
fol tfart ftoila, Fankrnptry and a Frnil
Wife, Rnt He Finally Ksraped. Body
anil fetiil. From His Troubles 1 how
sands of Others May Re Similarly Saved
Tbxt: "I am escaped with the skin ol
my teeth." Job xix., 20.
Job had it hard. What with boils ana
bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool
of a witn he wished ho was dead, and I do
not blame him. His flesh was conn, and
his bones were dry. His teeth wasted
away until nothing tint tho enamel seemed
left. Ho cries out, "I am escaped with the
ckln of my teeth."
There lias been some difference 01
opinion about this passage. Ht. Jerome and
Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and
Barnes have all tried tlietr fomeps on
Job's teeth. You deny nry Interpretation
and say, "What did Job know about the
enamel of the teeth?" He knew every
thing about it. Dental surgery is almt
aa old as tho earth. Tho mummies ol
Egypt thousands of years old are found to
day with gold filling In their teeth. Ovid
and liorane and Holoraon and Moses wrot
about these imortant factors of the body.
To other ' provoking complaints Job, I
think, bas added an exasperating tooth
ache, and. putting his hand against th
inflamed fa;o, ho says, 'I am escaped with
the skin of my teeth."
A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's
body and soul, but tliero an) thousands ol
men who makn just as narrow escape for
their soul. Tliiiro wns a time when tha
partition between tlu.-m and ruin was no
thicker than a tooth's enamel, hut as Jot)
finally escaped so havo they. Thank Oodl
Tlinnk Ood!
Paul expresses tlie. same Idea by a differ
ent figure when ho says that some people
are "saved ns l.y lire." A vessel nt sea Is
in flames. You go to the stern or the ves
sel. Tho bouts have shoved off. Thd
flames advance. You can endure till heat
no longer on your faeo. You slide down on
the aldo of the vessel nn-l hold on with your
lingers until the forked tongue of the flm
begins to liek the l.aek of yonr hand, and
you feel t tint yon must full, when one oj
the lifelionts comes Imi-k, and the passen
gers say they think they have room for one
more. The boat swings under you. You
drop into it you nrosaveil, n0 some men
are. pursued by temptation until ihej ar
partly consumed, but after all get off
"saved as by lln."
But I like the llgiiro of Job a littlo bettet
than that of Paul, leeaus tho pulpit bat
not worn It out, met I want to show you. It
Ood will help, thnt some men make narrow
escape for their souls and aro saved as
"with tho skin of their teeth."
It is as easy for some iteoplo to look to
the cross as for you to look to this pulpit.
Mild, gontle, tra-tahle, loving, you expect
them to beeoino Christians. You go ovei
to the storo and say, "Ornndon joined th
churoh yesterday." Your business com
rades say: "Thnt ts just what might hav
been expected. He always was of that
turn of mind." In youth this person whom
I deserltie was always good. Ho never
broke things. Ho never Inughed when it
was Improper to laugh. At seven he oould
sit au hour In eliurcli, perfectly quiet, look
ing neither to the right hand nor the left.
but straight into the eyes of the minister,
as though he understood the whole dis
cussion about the eternal decrees. H
never npset things nor lost them. H
floated into the kingdom of God so gradually
that It is uncertain just when the mnttei
was aeciueil.
Here is another one, who started in II fc
with an uncontrollable spirit. Ha kept the
nursery in an uproar. His mother found
him walking on theedguof the house root
to see if bo could balance himself. There
was no horse that ho dared not ride, no tree
he could not climb. His boyhood waa a
long series of predicaments, his manhood
was reckless, his midlife very wayward,
But uow ho is converted, and you go over
to the storo and say. "Ark wright joined thf
enurcn yester.lay. Your friends say: "It
is not possible. You must be joking." You
say: "No; I tell you the truth. Ho joined
the church." Then they reply, "There Is
hope for nny of us if old Ark wright has be
come a l lirtstlan. in other words, we
will mlmit that it is mora dillleult for some
men to accept the gospel than for others.
1 may be preaching to some who havo cut
loose from churches and liiMes and Hun
days, and who no intention of becoming
Christians themselves, nud yet you may
find yourself escaping before you leave this
house as "with tho skin of your teeth." I
do not expect to wasto this hour. I have
soon boats go off from Capo May or Long
Branch and drop theirnets amlafterawhile
come ashore, pulling In tho nets without
having caught a single tlsli. It was not a
good day, or they hud not tho right kind ol
a net. Hut w expect no such excursion
to-day. The water is hill of fish, tho wind
is In the right direction, tho gospel net U
strong. U thou who didst help Hiuion and
Andrew to fish, show us how to cast the net
on the right side of the ship!
Homo of you incoming to Ood will have
to run against skeptical notions. It Is use
less for people to say sharp nnd cutting
things to thoso who reject the Christian re
ligion. I ennnot say such things. By what
process of temptation or trial or betrayal
you havo come to yonr present state I know
not. There are two gates to your nature
the gate of the head and the gate of th
heart. Tbe gate of your head is looked
with bolts and bars that an archana!
oould not break, but the gate of your heart
swings easily on Its hinges. If I assaulted
your body with weapons, you would meet mi
with weapons, and it would be sword stroks
for sword stroke and wound for wonnd and
blood for blood, but If I come and knock at
the door of your house you open it and
give me the beet seat In your parlor. If 1
should oome at you now with an argument,
you would answer me with an argument;
If with sarcasm, you would answer me with
sarcasm blow for blow, stroke for stroke
but when I come and knock at the door,
of your heart you open It and say, "Come
In, my brother, ana tell me all you know
about Christ and heaven."
Listen to two or three questions. Are
you as happy as you used to be. when you be
lieved In the truth of the Christian religion T
Would you like to have your children travnl
on in tho road In which you are no w travel
ing? You had a relative who professed to
be a Christian and was thoroughly consist
ent, living and dying in the faith of the gos
pel. Would yon not like to live the same
?uiet life and die the same peaceful dentil?
hold In my hand a letter, sent me by one
who hns rejected the Christian religion. It
says: "I am old enough to know that tho
joys and pleasures of lite are evanescent
and to realize the fact that it must be com
fortable In old age to believe in something
relative to the future and to hnve a faith
In some system that proposes to save. I
am free to confess thnt I would be happier
If I could exercise tho simple and beautiful
faith that Is possessed by many whom I
know. I am not willingly out of the church
or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty
is one of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my
immortality ami look upon the deathbed as
the closing scene, after which there is noth
ing. What shall I do that I have not
done?" Ah, skepticism Is a dark and dole
ful Inndl Let nie say thnt this lllblnlselther
true or false. If It lie fnlse, we are as well
off as you; If It lie true, then which of us If
safer?
Let me also ask whether yonr trouble hat
not been that you confounded Christianity
with the inconsistent character of soma
who profees it? Y'oa are a lawyer. In your
profession there are mean and dishonest
men. Is thnt anything against the law?
You are a doctor. There are unskilled and
contemptible men in your profession. Is
that anything against medicine? Vou are
a merchant. There are thieves and de
frauders in your business. Is that anything
against merchandise? Behold, then, tha
unfairness of charging npon Christianity
the wickedness of ita disciples. We admit
some of the charges against those who pro
fess religion. Some of the most gigantic
swindles of the present day have been car
ried on by members of the church.
There are men standing In the front rank
In the churches who would not be trusted
for 5 without good collateral security.
Thev leavi their business dishonesties In
the vestibule, of the ehureh as they go In
and ajt At the aonusunlpa, gavijiff eon-
eluded tne a;ramiu, iuny go up, wlie
tho wine from their lips. go out andtakeup
their sins where they left off. To serve tho
devil Is their regular work, to serve Ood a
sort of piny spell. With a Hnnday sponge
they ex,- t to wipe off from their business
slato nil tho pnst week's inconsistencies.
Yon have no more right to take such a
man's llfo ns a speelmea of religion than
yon havo to take the twisted Irons and
split timliers that He on the beach at Coney
fsbind as a specimen of an American ship.
It is time t.iat wo draw a line between re
ligion and the frailties of thoso who pro
fess it.
Do yon not feel that the Bible, take it all
In all. Is about the best book that the world
has ever si ? !o you know nny book that
lias as much in It? Do you not think, upon
tho whole, that its influence has been bene
ficent? I come to you with both hands ex
tended toward you. In one hand I have
the BII1I0 and In the other hand I have noth
ing. This ItlMe In one hand I will surren
der forever just as soon as In my other hand
you can put a book that Is better.
I Invite you back into the good old fash
ioned religion of your fathers, to the Ood
whom they worshlied, to the Bible they
rend, to tho promises on which they leaned,
tothe cross on which they hung theireter
nal expectations. You have not been hannv
a uay since you swung on. lou will not Ivfi
. , .. ... rwj
nappy a minute until you swing back.
Again, there may be some who in the at
tempt after a Christian life will have to run
against powerful passions and appetites.
Perhaps it Is n disposition to anger that
you have to contend against, and perhaps,
while in a very serious mood, you hear of
something that makes you feel that vou
must swear or dio. I know a Christian
mnn who was once so exnsoernted thnt he
said to a menu customer, "I ennnot swear
at you myself, for I am a member of the
church, but if you will go downstairs my
partner In business will swear at vou." All
your good resolutions heretofore have been
torn to tatters by explosion of tnmper.
now, mere is no narm In getting mad If
you only get mad at sin. You neod to
brldlo and saddle those hot breathed pas
sions nnd with them rldo down injustice
nnd wrong. Thero are a thousand things
In tho world we ought to l mad nt. Then;
Is no harm in getting redhot If you only
bring to the forgo that which needs hnm
mering. A man who has no power ol
righteous indignation is an imbecile. Bui
bo sure it is a righteous indignation nnd
not a petulaney that blurs and unravels
and depletes the soul.
1 nere Is a largo clnss of persons in mlil-
dlo life who have still in them appetites
that were aroused in early mnnhood, nt a
time when they prided themselves on Vic
ing a "littlo fast," "high livers," "free and
easy," "hail fellows well met." They urn
now paving In compound Interest for
troubles they collected twenty years ago.
Home of you are trying to escape, and you
will, yet very nnrrowly. "ns wliil the skill
of your teeth." Ood and your own soul
only know what the struggle is. Omnipo
tent grace lias pulled out many a soul that
was deeper ill the mira than you are. They
line tlie beach of heaven the multitude
whom Ood hns rescued from the thrall ol
suicidal habits. If you this day turn back
on the wrong nnd start auew, Ood will
Help you. till! tho weakness of human
help! Men will sympathize for a while and
then turn you off. If you ask for their par
don, they will give tt and say they will try
yon again; but, falling away again under
tho power of temptation, they cast you
off forever. But Ood forgives seventy
times seven; yen, seven hundred times;
yea, though this be the ten thousandth
time. He is more earnest, more sympa
thetic, more helpful this Inst time thnn
when yon took your first mistep.
If with all the Influences favorable for a
right life men make so many mistakes,
how much harder Is it when, for instance,
some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into
tho roots of the tongue and pulls a man
down with hnndsof destruction? If, under
such circumstances, ho breaks away, there
will be no spurt In the undertaking, no
holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which
the wrestlers move from side to side and
bend nnd twist and watch for an oppor
tunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with
one final effort, in which tho muscles are
distended and the veins stand out nnd the
blood starts, tho swarthy habit falls under
the knee of the victor escaped at last as
"with the skin of his teeth."
Tho ship Kmnia, bound from Ootteuburg
to Harwich, was sailing on when tho man
on the lookout saw something thnt he pro
nounced a vessel bottom up. There was
something on it that looked like a sea gull,
but was afterward found to be a waving
handkerchief. In the small boat the crew
pushed out to the wreck nnd found that it
wns a capsized vessel, nnd that three men
had been digging their way out through
the bottom ef the ship. When tho vessel
capsized, they had no means of escape.
The cnpt:tin took bis penknife nnd dug
away through the planks until bis knife
hrnke. Then an old mill was found, with
which they attempted to scrape their wny
up out of tho darkness, each one working
until bis hand was well nigh paralyzed,
and ho sank back faint and sick. After
long and tedious work the light broke
through tho bottom of the ship. A hand
kerchief was hoisted. Help came. They
were taken on board tho vessel nnd
saved. Did overmen come so near a watery
grave without dropping Into it? How nar
rowly they escaped escaped only "with
the skin of their teeth." There are men
who have been capsized of evil passions
and capsized mldoeean, and they are a
thousand miles away from aay shore of
help. They havo loryoars been trying to
dig their wny out. They have lieen digging
away and digging away, but they can never
lie delivered unless now they will hoist
some signal of distress. However weak
and feel.le It may lw, Christ will see it nnd
tienr .town upon ttie helpless craft and take
them on hoard, and it will be known on
earth and In heaven how nnrrowly they
have escaped "eseaiied as with the skin of
their teeth."
There are others who in attempting to
oome to Ood must run between a great
many business perplexities. If a rnftD go
over to business at 10 o'clock In the morn
ing and come away at So'clook Intheafter
noon, he has some time for religion, but
how shall you find time for rellirious eon.
temptation when you are driven from sun
rise to sunset ami nnve lieen for Ova years
going behind in business and are frequent
ly ii-jiinnii ny rri-iiiuira wnom you cannot
pay, nnd when from Monday morning until
Saturday night you are dodging bills that
you ennnot meet? You wnlk day by day in
uiiceriniimeM mill nnve aepE your lirnlll on
tire for the past three years. Home with
less business troubles thnn ytu hnve gone
crazy. The clerk has heard a noise In the
back counting room and gone In and fun ml
the chief mnn of the llrm n raving maniac,
or the wife hns heard the bang of a pistol
In the bnok parlor and gone In, stumbling
over the dead body of her husband a
suicide. There are men pursued, haraased,
trodden down and scalped of business per
plexities, and which way to turn next they
do not know. Now Ood will not be hard on
you. He k nows what olistaclcs are in the
woy of your being a Christian and your
llrst effort in tho right direction He will
rown with success. Do not letsntan, with
otton bales, and kegs, and hoirsheads. and
counters, and stocks of unsalable goods,
block up your way to heaven. Gather up
nil yonr energies. Tighten the girdle about
your loins. Jake an agonizing look into
the face of Ood, nnd then say. "Hero iroci
one grand effort for life eternal," and then
bound awny for heaven, escanlne'-as with
the skin of your teeth."
"JIn the last day It will be found thnv
Hugh Lntimor.and John Knox, and Hnss
and Ridley were not the greatest martyr.1,
but Christian men who went up Incorrupt
from the contaminations and perplexities
of Pennsylvania avenue. Broad street, Ktnte
street and Third street. On earth they
were called brokers or stoek Jobbers, or re
tailers, or importors,-but In heaven Chris
tian heroes. No fagots were heaped about
their feet; no inquisition demanded from
them recantation; no soldier aimed a pike
at their heart, bnt they had mental tor
ture compared with which all physical
ftonsnmlng Is as the breath of a spring
nornlng.
I find In the eommunlty a large class of
men who have been so cheated, so lied
about, so outrageously wronged, that thoy
have lost their faith In everything. In a
world where everything seems so topsy
turvy they do not see how there nan be any
Ood. They aro confounded and frenzied
and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments
to prove to them the truth of Christianity
or tha truth ot anything else touqj) them
nowhere. Hear all such men. I preacn
to you no rounded periods, no ornamental
discourse, but put mv hand on y-tiir shoul
der nnd invite you Into the iwa--n of the
gospel. Hero is a rock on whi"h yon may
stand Arm, though the waves dash against
It harder than the Atlantic, pitching Its
surf clear above F.ildystmio lighthouse.
Do not charge upon Ood all thise trouhli-s
of the world. As long as the world stuck
to Ood Ood stuck to tho world, but the
earth seceded from His government, and
hence all these outrages and all these
woes. Ood Is good. For mauv hundreds
of years He has been coaxing the world to
come back to llhn. but the more He has
coaxed the more violent have men been In
their resistance, and they hnve stepped
back and stepped back until they hnve
iropped into ruin.
Try this Ood, ye who have hail the hlooil
honnds after you, and who have thought
that Ood had forgotten vou. Trv Him and
see f He will not help. Try lllm'and see if
He will not pardon. Try Him and see If
He will not save. The flowers of spring
have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of
Christ's affections. The sun hnth no
warmth compared with the glow of His
heart. The waters have no refn-shinent
like the fountain thnt will slake the thirst
of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer
stands with his Hp and nostril thrust In the
cool mountain torrent, the hunter may be
oomlng through the thicket. Without crack
lings stink under his foot. He com-s close
by the stag, alms his gun, draws the trig
ger, and the poor thing rears In Its death
agony and falls baekward.lts nntlers crash
ing on the rocks. But the panting hart that
drinks from the water brooks of God's
promise shall never !-e fatally wounded and
shall never die.
This world Is a poor portion of your soul,
O business manl An eastern king had
graven on bis tombtwo fingers, represented
as sounding on each other with a snap, and
undor them tho motto. "All Is not worth
that." Apb-liis Ci-llus linn ire. 1 hinun-lf bo
cause his steward informed hlru that he
had only Hll,0o0 sterling left. All of this
world's riches mnke but n small Inheritance
for a soul, ltohosplerrn attempted to win
the applause of the world, but when ho was
dying a woman came rushing through tho
crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my
kindred, descend to hell, covered with tho
curses of every mother in France!" Mativ
who have expected the phiuilitsof the world
have died under Its nn.ithemn maraiwit.ha.
Oh. And your pence in Ood! Make one
strong pull for heaven. No half-way work
will do it. There sometimes eonii-s a time
on shipboard when everything must bo
sacritlced to save the pa-senircrs. The
cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The
enptnin puts the trumpet to his lips and
Shouts, "Cut away the mast!" Some of you
have lieon tossed and driven, nnd vou have,
in your effort to keep the world, well nigh
lost your soul. Until you have decided
this motter let everything else go. Over
board with all those other anxleth-s and
burdens. You will hnve to drop the satis
of your prido and cut away the must. With
one earnest cry for help put your cause Into
the hand of HI11! who helpoil Paul out of
the breakers of Mcl'ta. nnd who, above tho
Shrill blast of tho wr.'ithlest tempest that
ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean,
can hear the faintest Irnplorut ion for mercy.
I shnll close this sermon feeling that
some of you who have considered yoiir
case as hopeless will take heart ngaln, and
that with a blood red earnestness, such as
you havo never experienced Is-fore, you
Will start for the good land of the gospel
at last to look back, saying: "What a
great risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved!
Just got through, and no more! Escaped
by the skin of my teeth."
Nerve.
There wns stern discipline nmonx
fhe Japanese In their late war' with
Clilnn, and nt every point a display of
iron nerve. The in. '(Ileal Inspector of
the conibiu.-d fleet was lr. Knwnintira
Ifosbu, who wns on board tbe flag
ship during one tremendous net Ion
When the vessel wns struck with ilis
astrous effect by n shell.
tine gun was sliatti-n-il, tbe floor of
the surgery wits crushed In, nnd the
IhK-tor was thrown with terrible force
igalnst the celling. Wlu-n be regain
ed bis senses be found himself unable
to rise upon bis feet, ami could only
crawl out of tbe wrecked surgery to
seek a place of comparative safely. A
marine met Mm. picked liiui up with
out a word, nm U-gaii to carry blir
nvny.
"Aren't yon a gunner?" asked the
wounded man.
"Yes, sir."
"Then why nre you not nt your post?
Iet aie down nt once, nnd go there,
tit hers are detailed to attend tin
wounded."
"Hut, sir," urged the man, "tho gun
which I serve was shattered by -In-tdi.ll."
"I thank you for your Intentions,"
paid the Thx-tor, firmly, "but, you need
uot attend to tbe wounded without spe
cial orders to that effect. I do uot
lieeil yolil help," .
The gunner placed the wounded man
upon the deck nud went bis way, and
the Ioclor tried to take off bis kIuk-i.
to find out how much his feet and les
were Injured. While he was doing this
be fainted again, and an attend. int
bore bint away to the room which bail
been hastily fitted up for a nurgciy.
There the doctor called for a bin ki t
of sea-water, placed his fee-' In it to
stop their bleeding, and despite bis
great pain and loss of blood, continued
to direct the other surgeons In lb- :r
care for the wounded.
At an ... uk . -riy.
To abridge the dreadful quarter 01
an hour when the company In bored,
but, smiling patience, waits to be "en
tort nJiieil," nnd to start tbe bum which
preludes "an enjoyable evening," try
this plan:
In n conspicuous place have a dec
orated Jar from which csich x-rson, on
entering. Is to draw a written slip. The
Jar may be placarded ns "Some Advice
from the ISrentest Common Adviser,"
"Oracles; Try One for That Hored Feel
ing," "(Jems from tbe Orviit Wise
Man," nnd so on.
Tlie slips may contain questions, the
authors' names to le supplied; but ns
ninny object to nny device for Improv
ing their minds by stealth, perhaps
sentences like the following will do:
AVIth a warm shade of hair wear a
cool neutral tint in temper.
If you bet, do ln-tter.
Preserve a high moral tone; never
tense the ont.
Your mustache Is a kooiI Idea; but
to succeed you must supplement it
with energy and business ability.
The lamented fclis domestica
will.
without doubt, return.
Wind yonr watch; but watch your
windings.
"Oh, treasure early lost nml ever
mourned," refers to a "pure silk um
brella owned by a lady with a steel
frame nnd gold handle."
Other sayings will (suggest them
selves, and ntld to the merriment of
the gathering.
There is no theouv that will work on
the jumping toothache like tin- dentist's
forceps.
Some people never find out Dial I here
U joy in giving, lccause they do not give
enough.
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