B. P. HGHWEIER,
THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWB.
Bdttor aua4
VOL.. LI.
MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1897.
NO. 3i
CHAPTER XI.
ff Ladv Kildonan HM 1vr.k HV. .
Invalid, she knew bow to aaaum. the aira eitement or a more definite hankering af
of one; and it wti with the moat affect-1 ' mm particular pleasure wu more
Ing languor that aha turned her pretty ifficult to decide; and Armathwaitc. who
bead on the cushion which aupported it ,
a the voung doctor entered.
"Oh, Dr. Armathwaite, how do yon do?
I'm so glad you bare come. What a
lucky thing you hadn't left Brankaomt
before my messenger reached youl"
And, apparently exhausted by tha effort
of shaking handa and Inviting him to a
chair beside her, she drew a long sigh,
and let her arms fall at her sides with the
abandonment of utter lassitude.
"I feel just like that," said aha, raising
her blue eyea and dropping tha white lids
orer them again immediately, to indicate
the completeness of the physical prostra
tion from which she was suffering.
lie felt her pulse aa a matter of form,
and could almost have laughed at tha
barefaced nature of the fraud ahe was
carrying on ao beautifully. Luckily, he
was sitting with bia back to the light,
which fell full on the lady, so that any
Indiscreet Ineredulit -nuU:li aris'it peep
out In his face could not be noticed by hi
Interesting patient.
"I see," he said, with becoming gravky,
"Your case ia Tery serious."
Neat little hypocrite aa ahe was, this
decision was too much for her equanimity.
She opened her eyes to their full extent,
and gazed at him with that child-like
expression which only blue eyes hare, and
. asked him in a soft tone of astonishment
what he thought waa tbe matter with her.
"That is what I want to know," he an
swered. "It must be mental trouble, and
of some Tery acute kind, aince it can pros
trate yon ao entirely while your phyaicaj
health is perfectly good."
She lowered her eyes and sighed. "I
have a great many worries, and troubles,
too," she said, "but, of course, I couldn't
think of troubling a doctor with them."
"At any rate, your gaiety became you
ao well that it is difficult to believe it
was not natural to you."
"I suppose,' she said, with a pretty
mournfulness, "that some people think I
have everything I can wish for; no doubt
I have everything that some people could j
wiah for. I have a great hideous house
that some people might like, and a hus
band whom I made no objection to when
they married me to bim, and whom I've
only one objection to now, but that one
objection is fatal." A pause, during which
Armathwaite still, while maintaining an
attitude of respectful attention, asked no
questions. She continued with a weary
aigh. "He treats me like a child! I never
have bis confidence; I never have hia
trust."
Armathwaite was astonished. Remem
bering the way in which Lord Kildonan
bad spoken of her, had treated her; tbe
friendly welcome he had extended to him
self, a stray acquaintance whom Ludy
Kildonan had picked up in a particularly
easy fashion; the kindness he had shown
to the playfellow of ber childhood; this
charge seemed not only without founda
tion, but preposterous.
"I think." he said gently, but with some
decision, "that here is an ailment I can
remove. If one of your trout s is the
belief that your husband does not trust
you in the fullest manner, I can relieve
your mind by assuring you of my own
knowledge that for this particular fear
there is not the slightest foundation.
Vju don't understand," she said, turn-.
Ing in her chair so that her great blue I "That'a very hard, certainly," he said,
eyes, which shone with a radiance that I "You see. I daren't ask my husband for
seemed to throw a liquid brightness round him, because if he thought hia own agent
them, like stars on a summer night, look- 1 was in money difficulties, be would get
ed full into his. "When I explain tbe pe- into a dreadful state, and thin poor Ned
rnliar circumstances of our marriage, you managed his affaire as badly as be haa
will see what I mean. I waa an only j lone Lis own."
child, and inherited all my father's prop- "Yes, I suppose he would," said Arma
erty, which was considerable. Papa was . thwaite.
naturally anxious to marry me to some -nd that'a not true at all," continued
one who could look after my interests, ,hPt taking up Crosmout'a cause warmly,
and see that the estates were managed j ie has speculated with his own money.
properly; that was comprehensible enough.
But when he decided on Lord Kildonan,
who bad no money, or scarcely any, of hia
own. for my husband, papa was so delight
ed to have found such a pearl among men 1
as be considered him to be, that be left the
estates to bim for life in trust for me and
mv children, if I should have any. So
that, you see, I was made dependent on j
my husband for every penny of my own
money."
"But surely Lord Kildonan lets you
have everything you want?"
"Yes, like a child for whom yon buy
a half-crown doll, though you wou't let
ber have half a crown to buy a doll with.
He bus too much conscience to refuse to
get me anything I want, but his Scotch
instincts of carefulness over tbe funds
will never allow bim to put the money
into my own hands and say. There, dear,
tuy what you have a fancy for.' Well,
I dare ay this sounds only like a trifling
grievance after all, but it's galling, in
expressibly galling, when it goes on duy
after day, and month after month, over
the smallest expense, and when you know
that after all it's your own money."
Armathwaite was obliged to admit th.it
it was an irritating thing, and be saw by
he puckers of annoyance and almost of
hame in the lady's beautiful face that
In her pampered life this restriction at
tained the importance of a grievous afflic
tion. "But there is one lucky thing," he said,
consolingly, "and that Is, that living up
here as you do, the hardship of not being
able to buy anything yourself cannot press
very h.irdly upon you, aa there ia nothing
to buy."
At last he had touched tbe mainspring
of all this woe. Sbe sprang up in her
chair, the lace falling on on to her shorn-
Hers ana tne goiuen nair loosened aDoui
her face, which had Instantly become con- J
vuisco wiin excitement ana inuiKoauou. i
"No," she cried passionately, her bosom
heaving and her eyes flashing. "Nothing
to buy. nothing to see, nothing to do.
And that is the life I am condemned to,
chained to a man who doesn't understand
that I am active, pleasure-loving, young.
I can't read. I can't comfort myself with
philology and all that stuff. I want life
and movement round me, not thia dreary
lake and these stifling hills. I shall bnek
away some day and become aa actress, or
a governess, or a telegraph clerk; any
thing la better than thia hateful stagnant
existence. It ia like being buried alive
with a corpse."
She aat np, trembling and panting from
the effects of her vehemence; no longer
looking at him, bnt staring before her
with such fierce yearning in her eyea that
it was evident ahe waa agitated by a very
I lenulne and consuming passion. Whet ti
r it wu merely a vaarue longing for ex-
sad reason to doubt her absolute sincerity
watched ber with wonder and cariosity,
Never had her brilliant beauty looked
more dazzling, more Irresistible. The cold
white winter sunshine could show no de
fect In ber exquisite fairness, no fault in
her graceful form.
Before Armathwaite could move, there
ram. a film over bia eyes, and he saw, not
the beautiful actress before him, with her
Berce lamentations and sensational
threats, but a f"r young face worn be
fore its time, tesuler eyea full of sweet
ness and sorrow, a mouth on the soft lips
at which still lingered the trembling
words: "Oh, Ned, I cannot bear thia; send
me away!" The vision faded at ones, bnt
It left him cold and calm, confronting
Lady Kildonan with the gravest of faces,
tbe coldest of manners.
"What is the matter with you? What
are you looking at 7' asked she. Impa
tiently, noting with surprise the great and
sudden alteration In hiin.
He had turned away to the window.
"1 am looking." he said, "at Mr. Croe
mont; he is coming np to the house at
this moment. And I was thinking how
strangely unpopular thia beautiful place
la with you ladies, or Mrs. Crosmont
seems quite aa anxious to go away from
It aa you are, and certainly, to Judge by
her looks, with much greater reason."
CHAPTER XII.
Lady Kildonan abut her pretty teeth
with a very ferocious snap. He could see
that she waa furiously angry, and, feel
ing that his presence waa by no means
soothing to her, he plcted op one of bis
gloves, which had fallen to the floor, and
prepared to take hia leave, satisfied that
she would not ask him to prescribe for
imaginary ailments again. But she was
too angry to be wise. Instead of letting
him go with a few curt words, according
to her first impulse, she stopped hiiu
when he was at tbe door by saying:
"1011 are a great admirer of Mrs. Croa-
mont's. I see.
"I was considering Mrs. Crosmont from
the poiut of view of a doctor, rather than
an acquaintance. She looks ill, nnhappy."
"And I do not. So my troubles get no
sympathy."
"From the doctor's point of view. no.
But as a man who has been received by
you and Lord Kildonan in the kindest
manner, I "
"Oh, yes, or, yes, of course. Ton are
overwhelmed with concern for Lord and
Lady Kildonan'a mutual happiness. But
yo'i would like to prescribe for Mrs. Cros
mont." "I should. Indeed."
"And pray, as a doctor or an acquaint
ance, would you see any fault in the
stolid unconcern with which she bears ber
husband's difficulties, difficulties which
drive me, who am merely hia old friend,
nearly mad with desperation to think
that, with all the money which is nomi
nally mine, I haven't ao much as a five
pound note really my own, to help the
poor boy out of hia troubles?"
She was passionately in earnest, most
sincerely and heartily distressed. Arma
thwaite was touched. She really did care
for this man, then. "Stolid unconcern"
j were furious words to use In connection
with Alma Crosmont; but he let that pasa.
I believe, but I know that he ia even fa
natically scrupulous about bia employer's.
Why, be won't even let me have a fire-
pound note if I beg for It, when he's got
the rents in his own handa ready to be
paid into the bank at Liverpool!
Armathwaite was rather puzzled. "One
would have thought a man might be aafc
from the speculation maula here," he
said.
"Ob, people send round prospectuses of
mines and companies and things, you
know; and then, 1 suppose, the poor boy
gets seized with tbe idea that be cat
make bis fortune in a week."
"But don't you use your influence to
persuade him that It is foolish?"
"Ob, my influence, what is it? I be
lieve his wife encourages bim In these
things, and that, of course, weighs down
the scale."
The young doctor began to look more In
credulous than ever. Lady Kildonan, who
hnd not sat down again, but waa wander
ing restlessly about tbe room, stopped and
thrust out her hands before her.
"ljouk" she cried. "If I really had any
influence over bm, ought not this to be
enough to restrain him the fact tbat I
have sold the very rings off my fingers to
help him? I tell my husband I don't care
to wear jewelry he thinks what trinkets
I once had are locked np In my dressing
case. But they are not. They were sold
long ago, to pay Ned's debts."
"But how did you manage to dispose of
them without your husband's knowl
edge?" "Oh, Ned goes to Liverpool once a
month, sometimes oftener, on my hus
band's business. He sold them."
"To pay bis own debts! It was an in
famous thing to do!
..jont tell him I told you." she Bald
fr;Khteied by his tone. "It Is all right
now i a,Bare TOu it Is all right now. 1
.oM TO tnj to show that 1 am
not the heartless creature you seemed to
think me. But now, now can't you under
stand bow it ia I want to get away, out
of this wicked deceit I am forced to prac
tice, thia life of little lies and excuses,
which makes me ashamed to look my hus
band in the face? In a few minutes he
will be here. He alwaya comes to me be
fore eleven to wish me good morning.
Can't you persuade him that if he would
only take me away somewhere, to Paris
or the south of France, he would get quite
well and strong himself, and I should eat
and aleep again as well aa ever, and we
could come together again, and end by be
ing a tegular Darby and Joan."
"If yon can't persuade him to do what
you wish. Lady Kildonan, I am afraid
nobody can. Aa for your husband's
health, I seriously think you have tbe care
of that lo vour own bands. If you wee
to take bim with you on yonr long drives,
it would sot. as you fear, try bim toe
much, but would, on the contrary, braes
him op and tire him just sufficiently to
make him too sleepy for that killing and
unnecessary night work he is so much at
tached to."
Lady, Kildonan could not conceal het
distaste to this proposal.
"Realty," she said, with Irritation, on
would think I was to blame for hia faacj
.to work at night I"
"Oh, no, I am merely showing yon how
to cure him of it. If yon care and I am
aure you do care. Lady Kildonan to be
gin the cure by taking your husband foi
m long drive every day three hours at
the least, I promise you I will do my best
to induce bim to finish his cure at souu
foreign springs."
She seemed to be balancing the future
gain with the present sacrifice.
"Springs!" she echoed at last with a
sigh. "You don't mean some place when
there is just a pump and an inn? Be
cause one might aa well be here."
"No, I don't," amid Armathwaite, smil
ing. "I mean a place with big hotels,
and bands, and balls, and a promenade
which ahowa off pretty dresses and theli
wearers."
"Agreed!" ahe said, hastily, and shr
gave him her hand to close tbe bargain
just as a. alow rat-tat waa heard on her
door. She ran to open It herself, and re
ceived ber hnsband with an effusiveness
which, to Judge by the flush it brought to
hia plain face, waa as unusual as it wa
evidently welcome. He took off hia spec
tacles aa she led bim forward, leaning on
his arm with a lithe, half-caressing incli
nation which bad tbe appearance of ren
dering him stiff and constrained, but
which caused hia gray eyea to glow with
tender light aa he glanced shyly down up
on her. To Armathwaite, aa they advanc
ed, they made a beautiful picture until
Lord Kildonan withdrew-his right band
from his wife to shake bands with the
doctor, snd lightly patted her shoulder
with bis left as be did so. At tbe affec
tionate touch. Lady Kildonan gave a
slight but malicious grimace and a shrng
of the insulted shoulder, both directed to
Armathwaite and unseen by her husband.
In an instant the young man's admiration
turned to disgust and repulsion as surely
as if he himself had been tbe victim of
the heartless trick; all tbe falsehood that
disloyal women can use to their masters
seemed to be embodied in that hypocriti
cal caress, and he felt on the instant in
arms for his sex, the more that he felt in
clined to doubt whether a few minutes
previously he himself had not had a nar
row escape. The rugged face of the el
derly Scotchman, beaming with honesty
and kindliness, seemed to him, in this new
frame of mind, to show not only more at
traction, but absolutely more beauty, than
the fair features of a wife who could be
indifferent to so much affection.
LoVd KildonVn's one thougnCon finding
the doctor so early with his wife, was
anxiety lest she should have been ill with
out letting him know. She told him, sink
ing again into her chair by the lire, that
it was nothing more serious than her old
enemy, sleeplessness; that she bad sent
for lr. Armathwaite as soon as-ohe was
up, for fear be should be leaving Brank
snme, and tbat he had given her a pre
scription which he said would do her good.
Armathwaite, who feared hia interest
ing patient would take advantage of hia
conditional promise to try to extort from
him a more thoroughgoing adhesion to
her pet plan, now for the second time
prepared to take leave, and succeeded in
getting half way to the corridor, when
Iord Kildonan overtook him. This was
just what the. doctor bad expected and
feared.
"She has sent me away," said Lord
Kildonan, rather ruefully; "I offered to
read to her, when she jumped up and said
she was going for a walk. She says my
accent spoils any literature; and it'a too
late to get over that now. Come Into my
study. Dr. Armathwaite; I should like to
apeak to you."
Uathcr reluctantly the yonng man fol
lowed him down a narrow private stair
case at tbe end of the corridor, and inte
bia darkened room.
(To be continued.)
Oo We Nre1 New Whit House?
"Much has been said and written
about the inconveniences and Inade
quacy of the Executive Mansion, and
many plans have been proposed to rem
edy its real or imaginary defects,"
writes ex-President Harrison in the
Ladies' Hume Journal. "Some have
proposed to abandon tbe bouse as a
place of residence, to give it wholly
over to official uses, and to build a new
home for tbe President;. others suggest
to make tbe home strictly' and solely a
place of residence, by removing the of
fices to a suitable new building. It
would be a great shame, I think, to di
vert this stately and historic bouse to
another and a meaner use than that to
which It was set apart when Washing
ton In Id Its corner-stone. With the of
fices out of It, some better provision for
tbe accommodation of tbe domestics,
and another large room, with a suit
able exit, to relieve the overcrowded
receptions, the house would be ade
quute and altogether creditable."
niX Prlnrs) for Stamps.
Some recent high prices paid for port
age stami In London were: Moldavia.
SI paras. $405; Tuscany, 8 lire yellow,
K); St. Vincent, C pence, yellow-green,
fW; Keuuiou, SO cents, first Issue, $250.
for both a used nutl nn unused sped
'. i n; Newfoundland, 2 pence, carmine.
?1'.;i: C pence, carmine. ?"; New Hnius
vi.-k. 1 Kl.illln i. violet. $1(:0; 05 rent Hril
1 pi ui'.y, blsn k. ?1t!; mid a strip o'
uivc. O'N'erwbisnl. "i penny, blue, ?.'iX .
Aliont 10,000,000 in gold is now eon
eealed in the teeth of people in the world
A loafer is a human being, and this is
the most mortifying thins about him.
A merchant in Copenhagen wa9 fined
10 crowns for having used the American
flag as an advertising medium.
The normal temperature of man is
about 9S 1-2 degrees, of the snail. To; oys
ter, 82; porpoise, too; rat, cat and ox, 11)2;
sheep, 101; hog, 105; chicken. 111.
Anthropologists have ascertained that
the Andaman Islanders, the smallest race
of people in the world, average less than
four feet in height, while few of them
weigh mure than seventy-five pounds.
Our senses do not fall asleep simul
taneously. The eyelids ar first affected,
und shut out sight; next follows the sense
of taste, then smelling, hearing ami touch
the last mentioned being the lightest
sleeper and most easily aroused.
Professor Forbes, the British engi
neer, concludes that electric transmission
of power may bo profitable up to a dis
tance of nearly 1000 miles, although he
formerly regarded such an idea as absurd
There are more Greeks in Turkey
than there are in Greece. Turkey sn Eu
rope contains 3,500.000 Creeks: Greece,
2,200,000, and Asia Minor, 2,000,000.
The newest thing in letter lioxes is a
box with an electrical attachment, which
will ring a bell in the kitchen wbea a
letter is dropped in.
CANOVAS,
T. Inspired th. Horrid Crneltle.
Practiced la Cnba.
The tragic taking off of Senor Cano
ns, the Premier of Spain, cannot blur
he historical fact that be was tbe mon
ter who inspired the barbarities in
3uba. He was the archfiend behind
Ue butcher Weyler, and supported hlui
n nil UU atrocities toward tbe Cuban
patriots. The undoubted fact that Can
va acted only in accordance with his
training and his conception of patriot
ism does not change the nature of his
conduct nor ameliorate its horrid sav
sery. He waj the Instigator of the most
iwful scheme of wholesale assassina
lou the civilized world has seen for
years lu a civilized land, and the great
strength of his character and his domi
nation of his official associates serve to
render his cruel nature more conspicu
ous. There has never been an attempt
to deny that Weyler In his present po
sition has been a creature and tool of
Canovas. It has even been hinted that
tbe two bad some sort of secret busi
ness alliance, possibly in connection
with a division of spoils. But the bus
iness considerations are not niaterial to
outside spectators of the Cuban trag
edy. The fact that Weyler was the
agent who executed the decrees of Can
ovas, bis chief, is the fact that stands
out with awful plainness from the rec
ord of this conflict
There have been the most serious
.omplnints against Weyler from his
troops, from bis officers, from tbe more
liumnrjo Spanish citizens in navnna,
from thousands of prominent citizens
in Madrid, and these complaints have
ueeu of such magnitude that any man
less strongly fortified in his position
must have been overwhelmed. But
Weyler has withstood them all and baa
nut aim tod by one jot his policy of in
humanity. There is nothing of Inher
ent strength in Weyler to justify such
successful resistance. He baa not been
the man of power who has disconcert
ed bis foes. Cauovas alone ha. been
bis bulwark and to Cauovas alone does
be owe immunity from the wrath of
bis outraged people.
Bue there is a worse phase yet of the
situation. Canovas has not only pro
tected Weyler but he has been his spon
sor In a way that shows that on Ca
uovas has rested the chief responsibil
ity for the cruelties In Cuba. Canovas
has been cognizant of the character of
Wcyler's campaigns. The wltole world
tins been told with infinite and horrible
ail f the butoberies perpetrated by
that man. Tbe burning of hospitals,
the killing of women and children, the
murder of eld men, the assassination
of non-combatants, the torture of sus
pects in prison, the assassination of
prisoners, the whole category of atroc
ities has been Inid bare to the world
faithfully and with horrible circum
stantial evidence.
These have been the apparent acts
af Weyler, but the nian who must ht
held responsible in history Is Canovas.
Weyler was Canovas' creature and sub
ject entirely to his will. If Canovas
hnd disapproved of Weyler"s course, II
he had objected to those butcheries. If
he had not desired a reign of barbarous
methods In tbe carrying on of the Cu
ban war, a word from him would have
changed it all. He could have com
pelled a cessation of the cruelties in a
day, or if Weyler had dared to disobey
he could have stripped the butcher ol
'tis command In an Instant
Canovas has escaped exposure before
j because the Cuban junta has feared tc
tell the truth about him. The Cuban
patriots In the United States have not
dared place the respoMdblUty where II
belonged lest Weyler should be ordered
to be more cruel and bloodthirsty. De
nunciations have been poured oul
gainst Weyler, but the.real villain wa
granted temporary immunity in tin
hope that some political exigency
would cause therecallof Weyler and the
substitution of a less savage command
er. The American press has followed
this same course, heaping execrations
on Canovas tool and hangman Instead
of on himself, on whom 99 per cent, of
.lie blame must rightfully rest
Cauovas selected Weyler to do till
cruel work because he knew Woylei
wa snaturally Inhuman and savage
ami Canovas was tbe villain on whom
American denunciation should hav
fallen, hot, vitriolic, and sulphuric
The Italian anarchist had rid the world
of one of tbe hardest-hearted creatures
that ever disgraced It One thing Is as
siired, no subsequent Spanish Prenilei
can escape responsibility for the net
was naturally Inhuman and savage,
of tbe general In command In Cuba. It
atrocities are kept up by Weyler or a
successor to Weyler the successor t
Canovas will be made to feel the wratt
f civilization.
Manitoba's Premier Incognito.
About one year ago a respected citi
ten of a small town In North Dakota
walked into the hotel with bis wife foi
tbe noonday meal. He saw at his tabhj
two strangers, one a young man, pret
ty well dressed, and the other, evident
ly a farmer, about GO years of age, will
gray, rough beard and well-worn am
ill-fitting clothing. Little attentiot
was paid to the pair, beyond a bastj
scrutiny. Tbe citizen and his wif
were thinking of taking a trip to I
lake In Manitoba, near Crystal City
for a few days, and were talking almut
the trip, inquiring how long the flshfn;
would be good, etc., questions whicl
those who were talking seemed nnabb
to answer. The old farmer spoke up
and. venturing to explain that he llvec
quite near the lake, told all about tin
situation there, where to s-o, at whos
bouse to stop and other needed Infor
matlon. Little else was said, but thi
Impression made on the citizen-ant
wife was not sufficient to cause then
to make very much Inquiry, and no om
about the hotel knew who tbe two met
were.
"Well, he seemed to be a nice old f el
low." said tbe wife, "though- T ""
te seemed quite Helpless tn regard to
llspoelng of his lettuce. Probably hi.
irst meal at a hotel."
"Very likely," replied the citizen.
The next day the citizen met his
Mend, the liveryman, who said:
"By the way, did yon see Premier
jreenway of Manitoba. when he was
jere yesterday? His driver brought
Um down here from Crystal City,
vjere he live., yen know, to catch the
iraln for Et ikul and ti.jn to Ottawa,
as be was in a hurry to go. He said he
thought Greenway was called there to
confer with Laurier and fix up the
school question. He took dinner at the
Columbia, and I didn't know but you
might have seen him." Boston Tran
script. Old-r'.sblonrd Journalism.
ne was a tenderfoot from Illinois,
fie was hungry, ragged and dead broke,
ind was making for Carson Flats with
tbe Idea of finding something to do as
in editor, reporter or compositor on tha
American Eagle. It was a scrub week
ly, but up to the average and work of
ome sort was hU last hope. He was
within a mile of the town, and had snt
lown on a stone for a rest when a
irowd or about thirty men turned in
rrom the Snake gulch trail. They were
mostly hard looking cases, and as they
?arue up the leader looked the tender
Toot over and queried:
"Why don't ye hang yerself V
"Because I've got no roue," was the
eply-
"Whas ye goin'7"
"Down to Carson Flat
"What furr
"To bit a job on the Eagle."
"At ye a newspaper man?"
"Yes."
"Then cum along."
He followed the crowd down the hill
and across the level to the town of tents
ind shanties, and the first stop was
nnde in front of the Eagle office. The
eader and two of his crowd entered,
ind pretty soon reappeared with the ed
tor and proprietor, who had a rope
iround his neck and was somewhat per
turbed. There were cries of "Hang
lmf" from various individuals, but tbe
Mas of the gang waved his hand for
Hence and said: -
"All In reg'lar order, boys. Now,
Ulster man, we don't like yer paper,
tnd we've cum orer to give ye a choice.
tUll ye git or hangT'
"What's the matter with my paper?"
lemanded the editor.
"Will ye git or hang? We hain't n
time fur foolln'."
"Why, 1 11 git"
Then go." ,
Tbey gave bim time to make up a
Hindle of clothes and started him off
ip the trail, and then the boss turned
the tenderfoot with:
"Now, young feller, step In and take
jossesslon. We may bang ye Inside of
:wo weeks, or ye may pull along fur
wo or three months."
Ten minutes later he was in full pos
lession of the oflice. The editor was
lis own compositor and pressman, and
ihere was enough white paper on hand
:o get out three Issues. The entire out
It press and all, could have been -vick-d
on the back of a mule, but in those
lays the newspaper reader neither
ooked for quantity nor quality, ne
rot out a fairly decent looking sheet,
ind as each copy sold for 50 cents, spot
.ash. It was better than mining. The
:hlrd number bad just been issued and
:he tenderfoot was sticking type for
:bc fourth, when a gang of about fifty
men camo marching down from Dog
III11 and halted In front of tbe office.
Dnly one man came In. He had a hang
man's rope over his left arm and a gun
n his right band, and after a look
iround he said:
"Well, young man, It's time fur ye to
move on!"
"What's the row?" was asked.
"Oh, nuthln' in pertlckler, but the
hoys don't like yer paper. Will ye bang
r gltr
"I'll git of course, now much time?"
"Five minitsr
Tbe man from Illinois didn't need
three. He had an extra shirt and pair
if boots, and picking them up he struck
ut and down the trail and was seeu no
more at Carson Flats. Denver News.
First Person Photographed.
It was In 1842 that John Draper, then
a professor In the University of New
York, made the first portrait photo
graph. The subject was Elizabeth
Draper, his sister. Prof. Draper had
the idea that in order to produce dis
tinct facial outlines In photography it
would be necessary to cover the coun
tenance of the person photographed
with flour. This seems a strange no
tion now, and It proved not to be a good
one then, for all of Trof. Draper's early
attempts were failures. Finally he left
out the flour and then was quite suc
cessful. This so dellgbted him that he
sent the picture to Sir William Herseh
el, tbe eminent English astronomer.
Sir William was in turn delighted, and
made known Prof. Draper's success to
the scientific men of Europe, ne also
sent Prof. Draper a letter of acknowl
edgment and congratulation, which
has been carefully preserved In th
archives of the Draper family.
Tbe Supreme Court. "
Two of the justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States are more
than 65 years of age. They are Justice
Cray, of Massachusetts, who Is C9, aud
Justice Field, of California, who Is til.
The present bench of the Supreme
OJourt, though representative of all sec
tions of tbe country, has a larger num
ber of justices born In New England
than In any other section. Chief Jus
tice Fuller Is a native of Maine, Justice
Field of Connecticut Justice Gray of
Massachusetts, Justice Brown of Mas
sachusetts, and Justice Brewer, though
born ont of tbe United States, is
New England ancestry.
A Bird that Acts aa a Shepherd.
In Venezuela there Is a species ot
crane, called by the natives tbe yak-a-mlk,
which Is easily tamed and trained
to look after a flock of sheep or take
care of the Inmates of a poultry yard.
When these are placed lu charge of this
'bird it may be implicitly trusted tc
takes them to their feeding places in
the morning and bring them safelj
home at night, not forgetting to bum
for and collect the stragglers. Tin
yak-a-mlk displays all tbe traits ol
character usually associated with tin
faithful shepherd dog. Itcanbeamns
lug, too, for, while Its usual gait Is slow
and sedate, It can execute the mos'
fantastic waltzes and strike all sort:
of absurd attitudes. A Germao agr!
culturlst, Herr von Seyffert, had on-,
cf these cranes which took charge of i
herd of heifers, driving them to nn.
frwi their pastures. It also kept ordci
'n the poultry yard, stopping all ngb
.as and disorder.
WILL MOVE THE MONUMENT,
Haymarket Memorial, Cnlcaadt t V
Placed ia m Park.
Chicago merchants whose places ot
business front on tbe open air market
in Uaymarket square esy that the
bronze policeman who for so long haa
been the tutelary genius of tbe place
must go. Tbe demands of business an
paramount tbey declare, to auy con
sideration of sentiment in regatd to UK
appropriateness of Its present location.
While mindful of the signlUcance of
the memorial of the Haymarket tro
RAYMAKKKT KOXVHEST.
gedy the business men pronounce it U
be a perennial nuisance on the site It
now occupies, because of Its couttnual
hindrance to traffic In an already
crowded thoroughfare.
Merchants at the east entrance of th
square, near to which stands the brouzt
guardian of the peace, complain that
on account of the congestion caused by
the monuu:c-nt a large volume of busi
ness is lost to them for the reason tbat
farmers are unable to gain access to
their places of business with their pro
duce laden wagons.
The monument causes a divergence
in the street car tracks so tbat the dis
tance from one outside rail to the othet
Is thirty-two feet. The removal of tbe
statue will add sixteen feet to the width
of the street and permit a free move
ment of traffic. The awkward turn
In tbe railway tracks makes it difficult
for passengers on the street cars to
maintain their footing and a nuuibet
of accidents due to tbe sharp veering
of tne cars have happened. With all
respect for the memory of the brave
officers who shed their blood lu defense
of tbe peace and welfare of the city,
the officials believe that the purpose for
which the statue was erected would be
better subserved by placing it in a pub
lic park, where people might admire V
at their leisure.
AMERICAN MUSICAL PRODIGY.
Miss Aucnsta Cottlo w Anion: tbe
WortU'a Foremost Mnaiciana.
Mtes Augusta Cottlow, the American
musical prodigy whose home Is In Shel
by villo, 111., Is said to be one of the
foremost musieians In the world. Al
though not yet out of ber tuUes, she
has managed to amaze and delight the
leading musicians of Europe with liet
superb performances on the piano. Foi
the past two years she has been study
ing under Herr Tapper t and Professoi
Busonl. The latter, whe asked by
Miss 0tUow for the amount of hi
charges, replied: "Gussle, there can bt
no talk of business between artists. You
are an artist Your music delights me.
If I can be of any help to you in youi
career I shall do all in my power foi
you. Yuu may take my aid as a courte
sy from an older artist to a youngct
one." Miss Cottlow began ber musical
studies at 3 years of age. At 6 sh
made her debut in public. From thai
time she vrtm in demand. At 9 ahe wai
placed In charge of Professor Wolfsoho
of Chicago and began her studies la
harmony and counterpoint under Pro-
feasor Gleason. She plays the most dif
ficult music from memory. She won
New York musicians with her perform
ances of Beethoven's concerto in C
which she played with the Thomas or
chestra three years ago. She baa latelj
turned her mind to composition. Hei
first piece, "A Romania" for violin am!
piano, was bought and published In
Germany. Miss 03ottkw Is undoubted
ly the ablest pianist ever produced Ir
America.
Gladstone's Career Equaled.
Mr. Gladstone, who celebrated lin
87th birthday on the 2h of December,
is younger than a former AiuerVin
Congressman and Cabinet miuistei
whose old age Is as vigorous n-j that ol
the great English statesman. Col
ltichnrd W. Thompson, of Terre Haute
Ind., who was a Whig leader In tin
days of Jackson and Clay, who was tin
close friend of Lincoln, and who served
as Secretary of the Navy under Hayes
will be 88 if be lives to the 9th of ncx
June.
The Millionaire' Resrret.
Dismal Dawson Funny isn't It that
a millionaire ain't happy?
Everett Wrest I see no thin trang
about It It la the time they bare wast,
ed that makes 'em sore when they
think of It
"Time wasted?"
"Sure. Don't yon know that meet of
'em. has spent their Uvea in hard
work? Indianapolis Journal.
If 70a pa your debts promptly, yon
are entitled to more credit than a man
who to charitable, or a woman who la
MI88 iUfll'STA COTTLOW.
. Ml. TALMAIiG.
Tho Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
A Ranch Sea Voraaw Is What Christ's
Followers Must Expect A Sennoii o
Solace to People Who Are In Trouble
The Storm, the Calm and the Harbor.
Text: "And there were also with Him
other little ships, and there arose a great
storm of wind. Aud the wind ceased au4
there wns a great calm." Mark lv., SO.
Tiberius, Galilee, Oeonesaret tliret
names for the same lake. No other gem
ever hail so beautiful a setting. It lav in a
scene of great, luxuriance the surround
ing hills high. t'erra;ed. Hlooed. eroved. sn
many hanging gardens of beauty; the wa
ter rumhling down between rocks of gray
and red limestone, flashing from the hills
and bounding into the sea. On the shore
were cantlcs, armed towers, Roman baths,
everything attractive and beautiful, all
styles of vegetation in shorter space than
In almost any other space In all the world,
from the palm tree of the forest to the
tree of a rigorous climate.
It seemed as if the Lord had launched
one wave of beauty on all the scene, and it
hung ami swung from rock to rock and hill
and oleander. Komau gentlemen in pleas
ure boats sailing the lake and countrymen
in Ash smacks, coming down to drop their
nets, pass ennh other with nod and shout,
and laughter or singing Idly at their moor
ings, on, what a wonderful, what a beau
tiful lake!
It seems as If we shall have a quiet night.
Not a lenf winked in the air, not a ripple
disturbed the fafle- of Gennesaret, but
there seems to be a little excitement up the
beach, ami we hasten to see what It Is, and
we find it an embarkation.
From the western shore a flotilla pu.thlng
out, not a squadron or deadly armament,
nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessels ready to destroy everything
they could gelze.but a flotilla, bearing mes
sengers of life and light and peaiie. Christ
Is tn the front of tho boat. His disciples
are In a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with
mnoh speaking to large multitudes. Is put
into somnolence by the rocking of the
waves. If there was any motion at all,
the ship was easily righted; if the wind
passed from one side, from the starboard to
the larboard or from the larboard to tlie
starboard, the boat would rock, and by the
gentleness of the motion putting the Mas
ter asleep. And they extemporized a pil
low made out of a fisherman ' coat. I
think no sooner Is Christ prostrate and His
head touching the pillow than He is sound
asleep. The breezes of the lake run their
Angers through the locks of the worn sleep
er, and the boat rises and falls like a sleep
ing child on the bosom of a sleeping moth
er. Calm night, starry night, beautiful
night. Itun up all the sails, ply ail
the onrs, and let the large boat oud tho
small boat glide over gentle Oonnesnret.
But the sailors say there is going to le a
change of weather. And even the possen-
ffers can hear tho moaning of the storm as
t comes on with long stride, with all the
terrors of hurricane and darkness. The
large boat trembles like a deer at bay
trembling amongtheclangorof the hounds;
great patches of foam are flung Into the
air; the sails of the vessels loosen, and the
sharp winds crack like pistols; the smaller
boats like petrels poise on the cliff of the
waves and then plunge. Overboard go
cargo, tackling ami masts, ami the
drenched disi-Iplcg rush Into the back part
of tho iMiat and lay hold of Christ ami say
unto Him, "Master, carest thou not that
we perish?" That great personage lifts
hi9 head from the pillow of the llsherman's
coat, walks to the front of the vessel and
looks out into the storm. Ail around him
are the smaller boats, driven In the temp
est, and through It comes the cry of drown
ing men. I'.y the flash of the lightning I
see the calm brow of Christ as the spray
dropped from His beard. He has one word
for the sky and another word forthe waves.
Looking upward. He cries, "Peacel" . i
Ing downward, ne says, "Be still!"
The waves fall flnt on their faces, tho
foam melts, tho extinguished stars relight
their torches, the tempest falls dead, and
Christ stan Is with His foot on the neck of
the storm. And while the sailors are bail
ing out the boats and while they am trying
to untangle the cordnge thedlsi-iples stand
in amazement, now looking into the calm
sea, thi'ii into the calm sky, then into the
calm of the Saviour's countenance, and
they cry out, "What manner of man is this,
that even the winds and theseaobey Him?"
The subject in tho first place Impresses
me with the fact that It is very important
to have Christ in the ship, for all those
boats would have gone to the bottom ot
Oennesnret if Christ had not been present.
Oh, what a lesson for you and for me to
learnl Whatever voyage we undertake. In
to whatever enterprise we start, let us al
ways have Christ In the ship. Many of you
In these days of revived commerce are
starting out in new financial enterprises. I
bid you good cheer. Do all you can do.
Do It on an hih a plane as possible. You
have no rlj;ht to be a stoker In the ship if
you can l an admiral of the navy. You
nave no right to be a colonel of a regiment
if you can command a brigade; you have
no right to be engineer of a boat on river
banks or near the coast If you can take the
ooean steamer from New York to Liver
pool. All you can do with utmost tension
Of body, mind and soul, you are bound to
do; but, oh, have Christ In the enterprise,
Christ In every voyage, Christ In every
Ship! .
There Are men who ask Ood to help them
at the start of great enterprises. He has
been with them In the post. No trouble
can overthrow them. The storms might
come down from the top of Mount Herinon
and lash trennesaret Into foam and into
agony, but it could not hurt them. But
here Is another man who starts out lu
worldly enterprise, and he depends upon
tbe uncertainties of this life. Ho has no
Ood to help htm. After awhile the storm
comes and tosses off the mnsts of the ship.
He puts out his lifeboat. The sheriff and
the auctioneer try to help him off. They
can't help him off. He must go down no
Christ in the ship. Here are young in n
just starting out in life. Your life will be
made up of sunshine and shadow. There
may be in it arctic blasts or tropical torna
does. I know not what Is before you, but I
know If you have Christ with you all shall
b well.
You may seem to get nlong without the
religion of Christ while everything goes
smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow
hovers over the soul, when the waves of
trial d.ish clear over the hurricane deck
and the bowsprit is shivered and the hal
yards are swept Into the sea and the gang
way Is crowded with piratical disasters
oh, what would you then do without
Christ In the ship? Young man, take Ood
for your portion, Ood for your guide, God '
for your help, then all is well all is well
for time, all shall be well forever. Blessed
Is that man who puts In the Lord his trust.
He shall never be confounded.
But my subject also impresses me with
the fact that when people start to follon
Christ they must not expect smooth sailing.
These disciples got into the small boats
and I have no doubt they said: "What a
beautiful day this Is! What a smooth sea'
What a bright sky this isl How delightful
is sailing in this boatl And as for tht
waves under tbe keel of the boat, why
they only make the motion of our littU
boat the more delightful." But when tin
winds swept down and the sea was tossec
into wrath, then they found that following
Christ was not smooth sailing. Ho yoi
have found it; so I have found it. Ii!
you ever notice the end of the life of th
apostles of Jesus Christ? You' would sa)
that if evermen ought to have had a smoott
life, a smooth departure, then those men
the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to hav(
had such a departure and such a life.
8t. James lost his head. Ht. Philip wot
hung to death on a pillar, bt. Mnttheq
had his lib dashed out with halberd
tn, Mark was Cragged to death through tht
streets. Ht. James the Less was beaten to
death with a fuller's club. St. Thomas wai
struck through with a spear. They did not
And following Christ smooth sailing. Ob,
how they were all tossed in the tempest!
John Hnss in the Are. Hugh McKall in the
hour ot martyrdom, the Albigenseo, the
Waldensfs, tbe Hootch Covenanters did
they And it smooth sailing?
But why go to history when I can And all
around me a of illustrations ot the
truth of this aab,j-th(A young man in
the gtcre trying to serve God while ms em
ployer scoffs at Christianity, the young men
in the same store antagonistic to the
Christian retiion. teasing him, tormenting
bim about his religion, trying to get him
mad? They succeed in gettini him mad,
saving, "You're a pretty Christian!" Does
this young man find it smooth sailing when
he tries to follow Christ? Here Is a Chris
tian jrlrl. IlerfatherdespisestheChristlan
religion; her mother despises the Christian
religion; her brothers n-id sisters scoff nt
the Christian religion; she can h ir lly Hud
a quiet place in which to sav her prayers.
Did s'le Und it smooth sailing when sh
tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oil. nn; a'l
who would live tin life of tho Christian
religion must sulT-'r p'-rs 'ution. If you
do not tin. I it in on way, you will get it in
another way.
f The question wai asked, "Who arc those
nearest the throne?" anil the answer came
hack, "These are they who came up out of
irr-nt tribulation" "great flailing." as the
original has it: great flailing, great pound
ing "and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb." Ol',
lo not be disheartened! O child of God,
take courage! You are in glorious com
panionship. God will see you through all
these trials, and He will deliver you.
My subject also impresses nie with the
fact that good people sometimes get very
much frightened. In the tones of thes
disciples as they rushed into the hack part
3f the boat I find they are frightened al
most to death. They say, "Master, carest
Thou not that we perish?" They had no
reason to be frightened, for Christ was in
the boat. I suHose if we had been there
we would have been Just as much affright
ed. I'erhaps more.
In all ages very good people gut very
much affrighted. It Is often so In our
lay, and men say: "Why, look at the bad
lectures; look at the spiritualistic socle
ties; look at the various errors going over
the church of God. We are going to foun
der; tho church Is going to perish; she is
going down." Oil, how many good people
are affrighted by triumphant Iniquity in
our dny and think the church of Jesus
Christ and tho cause of righteousness ara
going to he overthrown and lire just as
much affrighted as the disciples of mv text
were affrighted. Don't worry, don't fret,
as though iniquity were going to triumph
over righteousness.
A Hon goes into a cavern to sleep. Ho
lies down, with tils shnggv mane covering
Ihc paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a
web across the mouth of the catcru and
say, "We have captured him." Gossamer
thread after gossamer thread is spun until
the whole front of th" cavern is covered
with thespiders' weband the spiders say,
"The lion is done: the lion is fust." After
awhile the lion has got through sleeping.
He roijsts himself, lie shakes his iu'iiih, he
walks o it into tho sunlight, he does not
even know the spiders' web is spun, and
with his voice h shakes tho mouii'aln.
Ho men come, spinning their sophisif.'-""
tnd skepticism about Jesus Christ, ilo
liems to be sleeping. They say: "We have
faptured tho Lord. Ho will never come
forth ngain upon the nation. Christ lscap
iured, and captured forever. His religion
rill never make any enniic.-f a iioug men."
But after awhile the "lion of the trilief
Iiidah" will rouse himself aud come forth
so shake mightily the nations. What Is a
ipider's web to tho aroused lion? Give
:ruth and error a fair grapple, ami truth
irill come off victor.
Again, my subject impresses nic wi - the
.'act that Jesus was God and man in tho
same being. Here he Is in the back part
3f the boat. Oh, how tired he looks, what
ad dreams he must have! Look at his
;ounteiiauce. lie must be thinking of the
;ross to come. Look at him. lie Is a man
bone of our bone, flesh of our llesh.
Tired, ho falls asleep: ho is a man. But
then I Hnd Christ at the prow of the boat.
I henr Him say, "Peace, be still!" And I
sec tho storm kneeling at His fect and the
temests folding their wings in His pres
ence. He is a (.toil.
If I have sorrow nml trouble and wnnt
sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back
part of the boat and say, "O Christ, weary
on( of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my
Borrows, man of Nazareth, man of the
cross." A man, a man. But if I want to
conquer my spiritual foes, it I want to get
the victory over sin, death and he.!;, I 'umi
to the front of tho boat and I kneel down,
and I say, "O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who
dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief,
hush all my temptation, hush all my sin."
A man, a mnn, a God, a God.
I learn once more from this subject thnt
Christ can hush a tempest. It did seem as
If everything must go to ruin. The dis
ciples had given np tho idea of managing
the ship. The crew were entirely de
moralized, yet Christ rises, and Ho puts
His foot on the storm, and it crouches at
His feet. Oh, yes, Christ can hush the
tempest!
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was
the little child taken nway from you tho
sweetest child of the household, tho ons
who asked the most curious questions aud'
stood around you with the greatest fond
ness, and the spade cut down through your
bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an only
son, and your heart has eversluce been Ilka
a desolated castle, the owls of the night
hooting among the falling rafters and the
crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an nged mothct. You al
ways went to her with your troubles. Hhe
was in your home to welcome yoiirchildren
into life, and when they died she was there
to pity you. That old hand will do you no
more kluduess. That white lock of hair
you put away in the casket or lu the
locket did not look as well as it usually did
when she brushed it away from her
wrinkled brow In the homeeii-ie or in the
country church. Or, your property gone,
vou said, "I have so much bank stock, I
have so many government securities, I have
so many houses, 1 have so many farms"
all gone, all gone.
1 Why, all the storms that ever trample 1
with their thunders, ail the shipwrecks,
have not been worse thnn this to you. nt
you have not been completely overthrown.
Why? Christ hushed the tempest. Your
little one was taken away. Christ says: "I
have that little one. I can take care of
him as well as you can, better than you
can, oh, bereaved mother!" Hushing tha
tempest! When your property went away,
God said, "There are treasures In heaven,
In banks that never break."
There is one storm into which we will all
have to run the moment when. we let go of
this life and try to take hold of the next,
when we will want all the grace we can
have we will want it all. Yonder I see a
Christian soul rocking on the surges of
death. All the powers of darkness seem
let out against that soul the swirling
wave, the thunder of the sky, the scream
ing wind, all seem to unite together but
that soul Is not troubled, there is no
sighing, there are no tears; plenty of
tears in the room at the departure, but he
weeps no tears; calm, satisllcd, peaceful,
all is well. Jesus hushing the tempest! By
the flash of the storm you see the harbor
lust ahead, and you are making for that
harbor. Htriko eight bells. All is weil.
Into the harborof heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, home at Inst.
Softly we drift on its bright, silv'ry tide.
AVe're home at last, home at last.
Glory to God, all our dangers are o'er.
We stand secure on the glori lied shore.
Glory to God, we will shout evermore.
We're home at last, home at last.
l'rani-e has a ili:ib-i-t soi-i-ly, I lie so
ciele iles piirli-rs lie l-Yatn-c. huso presi
dent is M. Gaston I'iiris, ,f u. A, iidi-iiiie
I'raneaise. which is col lei I ing h-ei-uils iitul
songs in all parls of i'miu-c by lueuus of
the phonograph.
-in Japan, small elii Id t'1-11 of the iioor.
who have the gift of straving and no
nurses to look after them, arc safe-guard
ed by the simple preeau! ion of hanging
laliels round their necks which tell their
names and addresses.
Chioazo iihvsiL-ians and firemen are
opHsed to the use of cocaine in eye trou
bles, on the ground that it incites a taste
for the drug.
A Budapest physiologist finds that di
gestion is more rapid in the horse un
like that in man and the uog if followed
by active exercise instead of rest-
A new sieak.ing tulm for steamers lias
the piio insulated by a waterproof tex
tile covering which makes it easy to hear.
Sieech in the engine room from a distauuu
of 3IHI feet. (
Dr. I.oiubroso found that the skulls of
Italian criminals hud ten ier cent, lesx
than the usual capacity. Dr. lionlier
found the reverse condition in France.