7 B. P. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW1. VOL. LIT MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 25. 1898 NO. 24 CHAP1KR XI. , quick woman'. Instinct, that she is going Febnmry had come, bringing .ome to get the best of It. "I .hall never b spring-like days; the feathered lovers were anything to you now. A. for your pre already serenading their ladies; primroses tending to care for me, It was farce." and crocuses were springing to meet the , a farce! For a moment Tom is speech first smile of their god. And June waa less. Then he cries: decidedly growing less wan and white, j "Don't talk like that! Don't be angry her step wai more elastic. Grief was still with me, darling. It waa such an """ful her master passion; but, already. Time blow." wss doing for her what he does for the June's eye. blaze; the blood mounts to young, and indeed for the old, too, only j her cheeks. more slowly. And Tom had bravely aided j "Why need I ever have told you?" she Time. exclaims. "I have humbled myself In the ' Should you be very angry If I were to dust," and here she begins to cry, half say something to you?" he asked June 'from pride, half from shame, "Just be one day. I cause I thought it was right snd honora- "No," answers June, placidly, with : ble, and you treat me like this." tolerably good intuition of his meaning. I Tom feels himself the most utter brutt "I have been afraid to say a word yet," j be utters, still mucn pertumea in nis , m.na. -ut-uut-on my rung wlu , e-z-vTv mrm t H i v otiia m nA lira hOM fnr fffWWl j .TV j C f ' " t ' BUU -" " :..uu6u w marry me T , June ooes not answer in woras. out m, , gives a little pressure to the hand which holds hers. After that, what could any man do j under the circumstances, especially a man . madly in love, but snatch his darling to his breast and cover her face with kisses? : June trembles violently; this tune it Is not j from horror or disgust, but because the s;idden remembrance of Dallas kiss smites her, and with it the awful neces- . sity of confessing her shame to Tom. In . a moment she tears herself from his amis, f and, starting Hp, rushes over to the fire-; place. He dares not pursue her; already : he is accusing himself of Indelicacy to her grief; the moment of delight la being punished by remorse too frequent se-; quencel i At last, mnklng a tremendous effort j over herself. J line goes back to the sofa i snd sits down at a little distance from him. "I have something to tell you," she says, in a trembling voice. "No, do not come near me, do -not touch me, until you have beard it; perhaps, afterward, you will not want to." A feeling of stupefaction comes over Tom. What can she mean? Then June turns her face from him and begins to cry piteously. "Oh," she sobs, "how can' I how can I tell you?" "What do you mean?" cries Tom, at his wits' end, unable to believe a breath acainst her. but nnutterablv nained and ' ' ' . mystified by her words and her agitation. "Do you remember," she says at last, i "when when your cousin was here in you ony jjai a few times, and the summer?" j Tet " Dall What is this? Tom feels liter- j -Don't speak of himt" cried June, ve ally turning to stone. He cannot speak. leniently. "I hate the very sound of his "You went away for a day or two, and ! uanie!" and I saw a good deal of him, and I -Rut if you saw him again " fancied" oh, poor, poor June, the agony ' "Neverl neverl I desoise him. Oh. of this confession! "that I was in love H J V. .IU J " .1 .1 1 I ." .... . " - " J checking herself, and speaking in a strain eed. unnatural voice "he kissed me. Tom Is dumb; if any one had plunged the knife up to the hilt in his heart, he does not think the agony could be dead lier. June, this model of purity, on whose otlessnesg he would have staked his soul, kissed by Dallas! She has buried her face in the sofa cushions and is waiting with a beating heart for Tom's answer. There is a hose, long silence, and then a voice, distorted out of all likeness to Tom's, says: "And you let him!" Silence, utter silence. It is enough. She does not deny It. And, after giving her a full minute in which to reply he gets up and walks away, and June hears the door close upon him." She has lost him, lost the truest, brav est, kindest heart that ever beat. She is quite sure now that she loves him, that she would joyfully have been his wife, that she has lost the chance of immense happiness, and that a blank, lonely lif' spreads Itself out before her. She trembles at the bare thought of meeting him again. How will she look him in the face after this? Mrs. Ellesmere la not surprised at din ner to remark that June's eyes are red from crying that is not an infrequent event but she Is surprised, very niuob surprised at the change ln Tom's man ner toward his beloved one. The ex treme tenderness which has characterized it ever since June became an inmate of the Hall is gone, and is replaced by a careful and studied politeness. Tom's mother hopes and believes that June has been refusing to give him any definite hope or to discuss the subject of mar riage. The change In Tom's manner has in one way a beneficial effect on June; it makes her angry. She feels that he is unjust, and she resents injustice more than anything else in the world. She has told him thla shameful secret of her own free will. He Is welcome to give her up If he chooses, but he has no right to treat her in a way to arouse the suspicions of others. June's conscience being guilty, she fancies that the impression his l havior may give Is that it Is he, not she, who has broken the tie between them. But poor Tom has no Idea of giving her up; he is suffering mortal agony and try ing with all his might to conceal it. June takes a book after dinner. She will not bestow one look upon Tom. He tries to read the paPer. but glances cov ertly at her from behind it and wonders if this awful thing she has told him can be true wonders why she should be an gry, which she evidently is, and, most of all, longs to take her In his arms and say he forgives her, and to hear from her that she really and truly consents to be his. Mrs. Ellesmere, waking from ner aose, goes off to her boudoir to write some let- j ters. Tom sits for about ten minutes thinking now ne scan biijiobi.u u .uj i love, when she saves him the trouble by turning round, luyiug her book down ana saying coldly: "I have made up my mind to leave this house to-morrow. Under the circum- j stances it will be much the best thing I can do. I feel that I have already tres- , -$0t the very, very least," she answer passed too long upon the hospitality of ed - j ratj)er wonder now what I saw in Mr. and Mrs. Ellesmere." ! hlm before. Tom," In a questioning voice. Miss June, who has such a love of jus- .1;oujd y0Ui0Te two people at once?" then rice, can be a trifle unjust herself under , a iOTely, rippling smile, "I could the Influence of anger. June in a tern- not per is quite a new spectacle to Tom; he Tom's answer need not be chronicled. Is positively daunted by the manner of Jn dne the dEJ arrived to which this slim young glrL He springs from tfae Jova .quire had looked forward aa his chair in a moment, crying: wne must Infallibly be the hap- "What do you mean, my darling 7" -iMt oI hia life only that general flutter, "I am not your darling," return. Jnn m nrT1,1,aess, agitation, sgeeqW. on earth, aa men do the first time they make the woman they love madly, cry. He e , - . b b ,h . . snatches it from htm; she turns her back npon hinj; ghe nhueB t0 tccept ex. preMOI1 of hi, penitence. Annt M w, ad t0 fcaTe m TOb MiM June; Bne wiu nJt find me , trouble; she will not want to get rid ol me f h,s 8haftf we can we understand. , fr for Mrs Ellesmere, but Ton feela u nd the of ,t most keenIy. He find word, wlth whlcn t0 anBwer ltf therefore he tries once more to ynt hu arm round June To avoid hin) he jump np and rnna to firepiace. Yoa need not come and me there - h addfc Bnt thi toQ much for Tonx He approacne, her with resolution, h takea both hcr nanda ln on, of hig Bnd puU hu oth arm abont her; she may resigt ,f ghe p,eaieg but it is of no avail agam8t ni8 .trength. June does not hurt herself by strug- t:nlr. ,h h mn notent vmumi than Tom.- .tronirth In that sharn little sword which Providence has given her not only to defend herself with, but to wound hei ; adversary. " "Of course I am no match for you 11 you use violence," she says, coldly. I But even this taunt does not cause Tom ' to relax his bold. j "I have never loved any woman but ' you," he says, hi a voice that is not quite steady. "My 01 Idea of happinesa is to hare you for my wife; my one idea of ut ter misery and wretchedness is to lose you. But," and here his emotion is al ' most too much for him, "I would rathet lose you ten times over than that you -i ..ia c.j t.. Aa BUUUIU 11 1 1 V. J V ii "cm iiia.ti. b mu.onnnc tnat after you married me you should feel TOU miKht have cared for aom. one more. mistake Tom." and the girl looks up in his face . . . .. ... with eloquent eyes, "you need not feat him or any one else now. When I when I thought I fancied him. It was because I did not car. for you. I did not know you then, dear, dear Tom. nor now kind and good you were. I may tell yon frankly I never believed I could love you then; but now I do I do with all my heart." "Are you quite sure you love me?" he cries, passionately. "Quite sure," she answers, aoftly. After that there is no more talk ol doubt; Indeed, there is very little talk al nil. But yet neither of them has ever been so happy before. CHAPTER XII. The wedding day was fixed for the middle of the last week in August, and Mrs. Bryan wrote to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellesmere, and suggested the pro priety of inviting June to go to her in London for the purpose of selecting her trousseau. Mrs. Ellesmere waa extremely annoyed by the suggestion, but, after mature de liberation, she came to the conclusion that it was useless to fight against fate, and that the only thing to be done now was to make friends with June ln order that the Hall might still be open to her when she chose to go there after the marriage. So, very much against the grain, she indit ed a charming letter to her future daugh--.er-in-law, begging her to come to her, .tiid promising that she should not be drawn into any sort of gayety that would be repugnant to her feelings. Tom, not being in the secret of Mrs. Bryan's letter, was delighted with this roof of kindness from his mother, and wrote her a very grateful epistle, over which she made a wry face. Still, it was us well to have earned his gratitude, as it lay in his power to do a great deal for her if he were so minded. June was ten days ln London, and found them pass very agreeably, though she lived a quiet life enough. But the fact of seeing so many people, of being in the throng and bustle of a town, waa suffi ciently exciting after the country. Mrs. Ellesmere went out nearly every night, and Tom and June were life tete-a-tete to their mutual satisfaction. June would not hear of going to the play or even to the opera. She consented, however, to irive in the park, and to sit In the Itow with Tom In the morning, and was ex tremely amused and interested in watch ii:g the gay crowd. One day Dallas, who waa ignorant of her arrival in town, dropped in to luncheon. It was an pra 1 arrassing moment for every one, except, apparently for Dallas, who greeted June with the greatest cordiality and had evi dently forgotten that there had ever been a love passage between them. June re covered herself ln a moment, and In-liav-cd as though she were equally oblivious; . .1 . 'iv , tliat ghe feft absolutely nothing for his qllondam rjTaL It was Tom who fell the deed, sne was now o uerai Bt case. "Tell me, my darling, ne sain max night, with extreme anxiety, "has has seeing Dal made any difference in your feeling to me? june t her nand ito his, and looked ,b) .nt ui- PTes. fying, are not generally very conducive to bliss. Still, everything "went off beau- J nfully, as tne pnrase is. Miss June, a. we know, wa. a trifle self-wilUd. and, In spite of what anyone might say, she declined to be married in white with a bridal wreath and veil. As a matter of fact, .he wished to go to the altar in black; but .he wa. not allowed to offer this Insult to the god Hymen, and therefore compromised the matter by wearing a charming toilet of silver gray. And sweetly young and modest and pret ty she looked, with a faint carnation in her cheeks, and eyes bright with tears that she waa resolute not to abed. For waa she not happy? and would ahe do dis honor to her live by being a weeping, mournful-looking bride? The wedding waa a very quiet one, but a great festival waa given to the tenants. The rector and Mra. Ellesmere did the honors of that, while the bridegroom and bride were bowling away in their carriage-and-fonr on the first stage of their jour ney to Dover. For June had never been abroad, and was to see all those lovely parts of Switzerland and the Rhine, which we, who have often tetn them, turn op our noses at, but which to the novices re so entranclngly lovely and charming. And if ever two young people "did" th Continent pleasantly, Mr. and Mra. Elles mere did. Tom was the most liberal crea ture In the world, and endowed with a fair amount of wealth, and he was sensi ble enough to know that the value oi money la the pleasure it can bring you. The services were secured of an admira ble courier (who prevented their having the smallest trouble and made semi-paternal love to June's maid). Tom's pock ets were full of gold and silver and bank note., which he flung about with the gen erosity and recklessness of the traditional "mllor" (lesa well known on the Continent now than formerly); the best of every thing was scarcely good enough for bis his darling; his good temper was imper turbable, and his adoration at its topmost pinnacle. One question constantly perplexed her. How was it possible that Tom, the applf of her eye, the object of her intense de votion in whose absence she felt it would be Impossible to know happiness could once have inspired disgust and weariness in her? Sometimes she waa compelled to say, twining ber arms round his neck, "How Is it possible that I did not always love you aa I do now?" and he would an swer, pressing her to his faithful heart: "It Kerns more wonderful to me, dar ling, that you should care for me now than that you ahould not have cared for me before." (To be continued.) SHE RESCUED HER CHICKENS. Brave Deed of a Lighthouse Oirl at Matlnlcn. Rock. Several of the violent storms that have whirled over the MaUnlcua rock have tried the fortitude of the little band of faithful watchers npon it, says the Oentury Magazine. One of these watchers, Abby Burg ess, has become famous In our light house annala, not only for long service, but also for bravery displayed on va rious occasion. Her father was keep er of the rock from 1853 to 1867. In January, 1856, when she waa 17 years of age, be left her ln charge of the lights while he crossed to MatI ulcus Island. His wife waa an Invalid, his son was away on a cruise and his four other children were little girls. The follow ing day It began to "breeze up," the wind increased to a gale and soon de veloped Into a storm almost aa furious as that which carried away the tower on Mlnots ledge in 1851. Before long the seas were sweeping over the rock. Down among the bowlders was a chicken coop which Abby feared might be carried away. On a lonely ocean out post like Matlntcus rock a chicken Is considered with affectionate Interest, and Abby solicitous for the safety of the Inmates of the little coop, waited her chance, and when the seas fell off a little rush ed knee deep through the swirling water and rescued one of the chickens. She bad hardly closed the door of the dwelling behind her when a sea, breaking over the rock, broke down the old cobblestone house with a crash. While the storm was at Its height the waves threatened the granite dwell ing, so that the family bad to take refuge In the towers for safety, nnd there they remained with no sound to greet them without but the roaring of the wind around the lanterns, and no sight but the sea seething over the rock. Yet through tt all the lamps wer trimmed and lighted. Even after the storm abated the reach between the rock and Mactlnlcns Island was eo rough that Capt. Burgess could not re turn until four weeks later. Abont the Size of It. Willie Pa, what Is the reverse side of a coin? Ta It's the side the other fellow vor names when you toss him for the cigars. An incenious Iiaiter of Paris con struotod a house of felt inado out of 'J4.(V 0 old hats. This houso consists of a parlor dining room and bed-room; also a kitchen. In French trails, a mixture of ten parts of air an 1 one purl of acetylene hak proven suitable for ordinary gas engines, riving three times the- energy of ordinary illuminating g:u. The time required for Niagara to cut its gorge has N-en variously eslimaicu at Ironi 7000 to 3".K:t veal's. Among the I'hoeniriaiis the wearing of earrings was a naue oi serviitioc, iih ame custom obtaining with lie Hebrews There is enouch suit in the sea to cover 7,(NK,tHi0 square miles of laul with a layer one mile in tlii"'-".uss. Iloentt'-?' ray hai. '.- found to act on vegetiiiion like vciy weak light in exN-i'inient8 by Signor U. Tolemei. A new German church has been com pleted in Jerusalem at a cost of $'J00,0U0. The water clock, othe:v--s? the ciep- ydra, seems to have been the first sciei -itic effort at noting the hours. Mrs. Willant Kruwn, of West Kenne bunk. Me., c oned a ct n of pumpkin recently that was twenty two years old. It was sweet and apparently all right. A curiosity of the Stockholm exposition is a pine tree section four feet in diame ter from CO or 70 miles north of the Arc tic circle. There is a Sunday conscience as well as a nunuay coat, and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coay i:nd conscience carefully by to put ononlt once a week. Happiness is not attuined by making it the chief object of life. The palh to it often leads through trials and tears. Guilt arms shadows with spears. Idle men are more burdened with their time than the most busy are with their business. WORK OF NEGRO NUNS. the Only Order f Its Kind Is located in New Orleans, In the old French quarter of New Or leans with Its narrow streets, latticed windows and jealously guarded courts, where the fig and orange tree grow. Is a square of rather miscellaneous archi tecture. Its central building, 717 Or leans street. Is several hundred years old. It has a stately entrance, with great pillars and old-fashioned, ornate ly carved doors. It was once the old Creole opera bouse and ball room of the early days. Now It is the home of the colored nuns. The powdered and ringleted damsels with hoop-distended skirts who step ped daintily across that threshold to scenes of gayety In bygone years have given place to dark-robed figures whose white ruffled caps only bring Into stronger relief the bronze and ebony of their skins. The very names of the streets here are rich ln history and ro mance.' There are Orleans and Bour bon. Chartress and him of the Iron hand aud geutle heart Tonty. Shades of the past are Jostling one another, though In a gentle, shade-like way, at every street corner, and at nothing do they seem to be more astonished than at the sight of the colored nuns. Yet, the order Is not such a very mo era one after all, for It was founded ln New Orleans over half a century ago. Its members are now well-known fig ures on the streets of the Crescent City. The sueclal obiect of Its Institution was the education and moral training of j young colored girls ana tne care oi or phans nnd aged infirm people of the racel It has had the cordial support of such eminent churchmen as Arch bishops Blane, Odin, Terche, Leroy and Janssens, who successively filled Uh archeplscopal see of New Orleans. It was also a novitiate where young col ored girls are trained for the work of the order with the view of extending that work to every parish In Louisiana, and. If possible. Into every Southern State. One of the most Interesting parts ot the convent Is the orphan asylum, where children ranging In age from the wee tots just beginning to walk to girls of 12 and 14 years are cared for. Oue of the sisters ln charge of the babies was an ex-slave. She Is a real "mammy" still. "But, reverend mother, you seem to have some white children here," said the Northern visitor, commenting on the fair white skin of some of the chil dren. "Oh, no," said the nun, smiling a bit wistfully at the Ignorance of her visit or; "they all have colored blood ln their veins. Maybe they are only quadroons, octoroons; some of them, indeed, have only one-tenth colored blood, but that one-tenth black counts more than the nine-tenths white, and makes them be long forever to the colored people." One is reminded of some of Cable'k stories, the pathos and the tragedy thereof. In the orphan asylum 135 children are sheltered who would otherwise be thrown upon the State. These, as well as the sixty poor old colored men and women, and many of the women In the school, are dependent upon tHe sisters for their dally bread. Formerly the sisters obtained a fair revenue by go- )ng through the streets of New Orleans, from door to door, and Into business houses and railroad offices, soliciting alms for their charges. So quietly did they labor that few outside the city were even aware of the existence of the order, the only colored sisterhood ln the United States. But the yellow fever which broke out ln the South In Au gust causer) 'tiat section to be hemmed In by quarantine and the wheels of commerce stopped. As a pathetic let ter Just received from one mf th sla ters says: "Our friends have always been niong the poor laboring classes, who seem to feel most for us, and since this class has suffered particularly through lack of employment for three months. and their distress at present Is almost as great as ours, we cannot ln con science apply to them for aid. Even If we did. It would not be forthcoming, as they have not the means." St. Louis Republic He Knew How Hay Grew. Those who have chaperoned a com pany of city gamins sent Into the coun try by the "Vacation Fund" will per hnps be able to cap this story, told by the London Answers; Many years ago, when Londoners had not the excursion faciH-tles for get ting into the country that they enjoy now, a Cockney friend was Btaylng at a farmhouse, and soon made himself at home. Charley was wandering round, close ly examining the top, ends and sides of a certain trim, well-made object fenced round ln the paddock. He stared at it for a little while, then shook bis bead dubiously. "What are you looking for now, Charles r "Where's the doors and windows, un der "Doors and windows? Why, that's a haystack!" "No fear, uncle, you don't humbug me! Hay don't grow ln lumps like that!'' Bqnsw Men In Alaska. At Lake Lebarge we met an English man who was takli j bis wife and three children for a trip to Five Fin ger Rapids. His wife was a squaw, and her face, as were also those of the children, was painted black. I never did find out the real reason these squaws have for prlPting their faces black. Borne say tt Is because they think ft makes them more beautiful. and still others claim that It la a pre ventive from the mosquitoes. We be came quite friendly with this English man. He was taking his family to visit some of his wife's people. He had Just received news from England that the death of three people bad made him heir to a noble title and quits an In heritance, but to enjoy its possession, ptc, of course he would hare to return lo England. "Of course," said I, "yon are going at once." He looked around at his family and said, "Well, I could hardly take them with me, and I'm too fond of them to leave them here; so I think I'll stay here myself and let the other fellow enjoy my property over thsM." This was all said witk a ds- gre or pathos which waa almost sub lime, and yet I could not help ptcturrnf to myself the sensation that- that squaw wife would make at soma recep tion help among his tHled Meads If she were to enter au natural, we were looking at ber then. I think something of tbe same thought must have passed through our friend's mind, for hastily murmuring, "What might have been," etc., he looked suaptclous--ly like shedding a few tears; bade us a hurried farewell, and gathered bis small family and belongings together and proceeded on his way. There are many white men ln Alaska married to the Indians. They call them squaw men. Leslie's Weekly. S Astronomers say that one million "shooting stars" fall Into the sun for every one that comes Into oar atmos ohere. Fully nine-tenths of the stars lie In a belt of the heavens about sixty degrees wide, through the center of which runs the Milky Way. According to the computations of Prof. Hamy, the black race embraces about one-tenth of the living members of the humun spocies, or 15C,J0O,OOO Individuals. In some part, of the Milky Way the telescopic stars are so numerous that as many as two thousand may He with in the limits of a space which might be covered by the moon. Certain butterflies have very trans parent wings, and these are thin slit by Haase to be even more effectual for protection than conspicuous "warning" stripes er other markings. Meda Wllhlte, of Buckner. Ky., now four years old. Is probably the largest child of her age ln tbe country. She weighs 120 pounds, has a chest meas urement of thirty-eight Inches, and la four feet high. Professor Harshberger says that, botanlcally speaking, the dahlia Is an American genus confined to Mexico.. When the Spaniards first visited Mexi co, they found the dahlia cultivated In the gardens of the natives. It was first) grown In Madrid In 1789, and in Eng land In 1700. Professor Krebs, of Chicago Is tbe third scientist who has discovered the germ of yellow fever. If the objects found are Identical, this will be pre sumptive evidence that the medium of the disease has actually been found, and its cure, or rather Its avoidance, will follow ln due course. Tbe telegraphic tournament which la to take place In connection with the electrical exhibition ln New Tork in, May Is attracting considerable atten tion. A phonographic record Is to be made of the best transmission. Tbe same matter Is to be used as that sent by F. L. GaGvln, who made a record of US words In five minutes ln 1893. That the cinematograph Is now a val uable aid to scientific investigations was shown In the eclipse observations ln India, and now Professor Flam inarlon, the well-known French astron pier has used a cinematograph to take during the night a continuous series of pictures showing sunset, the appear ance of the stars, the milky way. moonrlse and tbe moon's motion In the ky. Contrary to a wide-spread belief that hard woods give more beat In burning than soft varieties. It has been shown that the greatest heating power Is pos sessed by the wood of the linden-tree, which Is very soft. Fir stands next to linden, and almost equal to It. Then comes pine, hardly lnferldr to fir and linden; while hard oak possesses eight per cent, less heating capacity than Unden, and red beech ten per cent. less. If an Inhabitant of another world should visit our earth he would hardly fall to notice, among Its curiosities worth reporting to his fellow-beings, the numerous observatories, some for studying the stars and others for study ing tbe weather, which, within a few years past, have been placed upon so many lofty peaks ln lands so widely scattered that they may be said to en circle the globe. He would probably Jot down In his note-book: "The Inhab itants of the earth have placed scien tific sentry-boxes all around their planet as near the sky as they can get them." The latest of tbe lofty outposts of science to be established has recently been put on the summit of Mount Kosciusko, 7.328 feet high, the most elevated point la Australia. It Is a meterologtcal observatory. lis Waa Eaprl.ne.it. "Have you a son?" asked the man who was looking at the vacant room. "No," replied the landlady. "What made you ask that?" "Because," be explained, "I want to find a boarding bouse, this time, where I may occasionally havo a chance to get the tender piece of the porter house." Spread of tbs English LangrnagA Mr. Gladstone lately expressed him self as bettering that English la to tx rha liuiraafa at tha frrt im Mr. tiA stone's reasons are based on what has happened wRWn his own lifetime, Whon Mr. Gladstone was born English was spoken by 80,000,000 of people. It U now spoken by 120,000,000. The num- ber of people la the earOi who speak English is doubled every forty yean. This forms the basis of a very simple calculation as to when tbs entire popu lation of the earth shall speak English. Tbs two great English-speaking coun tries are Great Britain and the United States. Wherever Great Britain goet sbe carries tbs English language, and whoever comes to tbs United States learns K. " Twlce-Told Teles. Writer That is rather small pay. don't you think? There were over 8,000 words la that article. Publisher I know; but, then, there were so many of them tnat you used mors than ones. Boston TranaorlDt. PRINCE OF WALES, Personalities Culled froi the Nw Book of HI. Life. He Is live feet six Inches high and Weighs ISO pounds. He has light gray eyes, a gray beard, a brown complexion and a bald bead. His bands and feet are small and neat He Is fifty-seven years old, and baa four grandchildren. Hla favorite wine Is champagne of 1889, and bis favorite liquor a cognac forty years old. He la fond of all kinds of people, es pecially If they have money. He Is a first-class Judge of horses and dogs, and he thinks be knows some thing about actresses. He Is said to be one of the best shots ln England. He sets the fashions In clothes for the whole world. He love, to labor for the working man. He is a D. C L. of Oxford, an LL. D. of Cambridge and a barrister. He has thirteen university degrees. He has laid seventy-three large aud Important foundation stones. He opened part of the Sues Canal. He has made more speeches than any other man ln tbe world, but mostly short snea. He owns the deepest mine In Eng land. He was tbe first Christian to dins with tbe Sultan of Turkey. He never allows a typewriter ln his house. He speads $5,000 a year for tele grama He only allows two knives and forks to each guest at bis table. He Is a colonel eight times over. He has one private secretary, two as sistant secretaries and a staff of clerks to assist them. He receives 200 letters a day. and an swers most of them. Every Minute of his time In London Is spent according to schedule. He has every order of knighthood In Europe. Hla uniforms are worth $75,000. He Is a field marshal and an admiral. He Is the chief horse owner, dog owner and yachtsman In England. He goes to church every Sunday morning. He never goes to tbe races on Sun day. He started llfs with an Income of $550,000 a year. He says he has no debts. He lores to travel Incognito In Paris. ne buys hundreds of theater tickets without using them. His favorite vehicle In London is a hansom cab, yet his stables cost $75,- 000 a year. Hs thinks his nephew, the German emperor. Is too sensational. He has friends in every nation, and speaks German, French, Italian and Russian. His Ufs was never attempted by sn assassin. He was obliged once to pawn his watch. New Tork Journal. No Map or tbe United States. "The school children of the Bermu das know nothing of American his tory," saya a New Tork woman who has Just returned from Hamilton. "One day I stopped and talked wKh a bright Untie colored boy on the street The Bermuda negro, you know, is su perior in Intelligence to the Southern negro of thla country. He has neither the thick lips nor the flat nose of our American negro. His superiority Is ac counted for by the fact that he has ln his veins the blood of the Indians cap-" tured In King Philip's war and taken as slaves to the Bermudas. " 'Do you go to school? I asked the boy. " Yea'm.' " 'Who owns these Islands? " 'England "Who rules England? " "Queen Victoria.' " 'Where are the United States? "South of Canada." " 'And do you know who Is president of the United States'" "'Yes'm; George Washington "When I had visited one of tbe lMtht schools at Hamilton I did not wonder that Washington was the only Ameri can president the boy had heard of. On the walls were maps of every import ant country ln the world but our own, and I found that the teachers said as little of tbe United States as they could." New Tork Sun. Men Haven't All the Privilege. She There Is a great deal of unfair ness ln this world. Women are barred out of society for things that men may d with Impunity. He That may be true, but, on the Other band, men would be barred out tf society If they did some things that women do with Impunity every day. She I'd like to have yon name Just one of them. He Well, kissing other people's wives and daughters and sweethearts, for Instance. fajarlss of a Bullet. sepoy of the thirty-sixth Sikhs when retiring from the Saran Bar pass aald he felt something hit his rifle, but, seeing no mark, when hs came to clean his rifle, he found a bullet had actually entered tbe mussle and penetrated about nine inches down tbe barrel, a seemingly Impossible tUng. but for all that true. It was lucky, says a cor- respondent of tbs Times of India, that he had no occasion to use bis rifle again on his way home, or It would, of course, have burst. Glasgow Weekly Mail. Lnckx la Both. She Teu're lucky at cards? HoVery. " 'Lucky at cards, unlucky at lover " "I don't believe It. I've been refused three tunes." Tonkers Statesman. Oettina- KM ef an Inenbna. "Say, bow 1s that for lock?" "What is It?" "Ton know bow my steam yacht has beea keeping me dead broke for the last two years?" "Yep." "Well, I'vs got a splendid Idea. Vm going ha, ha to give It to the govcrav sent." Cleveland Plain DarJe '-. ABOUT THE WIS OF THE DAY The Choice ef a Wife From a Bible Sc-eae I. Drawn a Freetlcal rnna Inspiring- Bon For All Cl of People The Celling For Special Work. Tbxt: "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro. his father-in-law, the priest of IHdian." Exodus ill., 1. In the southeastern part of Arabia a man Is sitting by a well. It Is the arid country and water is scarce, so that a well is of great value, and flocks and herds are driven vast distances to have their thirst slacked. Jethro. a Mldianito shntk and priest, was so fortunate as to have seven daughters, and they are practical girls, and yonder they tome, driving the sheep and oattle and camels of their father to the watering. They lower the biK-kets and then pull them np, the water plashine on the stones and chilling their feet, nnd the troughs are filled. Who is that man out there, sitting unconcerned and looking on? Why does he not come and nelp the women la this hard work of drawing water? But no sooner have the dry lip and print ing nostrils ot the flocks begun to cool n little In the brimming trough of th well than anmn mn In upon the scenn. and with clubs and i sbonts drive back the animals that were drinking and affright these girls until they fly in retreat, and the flocks or theso 111 mannared shepherds are driven to thfl troughs, taking the places of the other flocks. Now that man sitting by the well begins to color up, and his eve flashes with indig nation, and all the gallantry of his nature Is aroused. It Is Hoses who naturally had a quick temper, anyhow, as he demon strated on one occasion when he saw an Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gnve the Egyptian a sudden clip and buried him In the sand, and as he showed afterward when he broke all the Ten Commandment at once by shattering the two granite slabs on which the law was written. But the In justice of this treatment of the seven girls sets him on Are with wrath, and he takes this shepherd by the throat, and pushes back another shepherd till he falls over th trough, and aims a stunning blow between the eves of another, as he cries, "JSegone, you villains!" and he hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle and camels of these Invaders and drives them back; and hav ing cleared the place of tho desperadoes, he told the seven girls of this Miilinnite sheik to gather their flocks together and bring them again to the wntcrin?. The fact that It took the seven daughters to drive the flocks to the well implies that tbey were Immense flocks, and that her father wa a man of wealth. What wa? the use of Zipporah's Demeaning herself with work when she might have reclined on the hillside near her father's tent, and plucked buttercups, and dreamed out ro mances, and sighed idly to the winds, nnd wept over imaginary songs to the brooks. No, she knew that work was honorable, and that every, girl ought to have some - thing to do, a'nd so she starts with tbf bleating and lowing and bellowing an1 neighing droves to the well for the watering. Around every home there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and everj daughter of the family, though there bt seven, ought to be doing her pnrt to take care of the flocks. In many households, not only is Zlpporali, but all her sisters, without practical and useful employments. Many of tbem are waiting for fortunate and prosperous matrimonial alliance, but some lounger like themselves will come along, and after counting the large num ber of father Jethro's sheep and camels will make proposal that will be accepted: and neither of them having done nnythinq more practical than to chew chocolate caramels, the two nothings will start ou the road of life together, every step more and more a failure. That daughter of the Hidlanitish sheik will never And her Moses. There is a question that every father hdi! mother ought to ask thedaughter at break fast or tea table, and that all the daugh ters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each other: "What would you do if tbe family fortune should fail, if sickness should prostrate the breadwinner, if the flocks ol Jethro should be destroyed by a sudden ex cursion ot Wolves and bears and hyena? from the mountain? What would you do for a living? Could vou support yourself? Can yon take care of an Invalid mother or brother or sister as well as yourself?" Y'ea, bring it down to what any day might come to a prosperous family. "Can you cook a dinner if the servants should make a strike for higher wages and leave that morning?" There needs to be peaceful, yet radical revolution among most of the prosperous homes of America, by which the elegant do-nothings may be transformed into prac tical do-sometulngs. L.et useless women go to work and gather the flocks. Come, Zlpporah. let me introduce you to Moses. See in this call of Moses that Goi has a great memory. Four hundred years before He had promised the deliverance of the op pressed Israelites of Egypt. The clock of time has struck the hour, and now Moses is called to the work of rescue. Four hun dred years Is a very long time, but you see God can remember a promise four hundred years as well as you can remember four hundred minutes. No one realUes how great he Is for good or for evil. There are branchings out and rebounds, and reverberations, and elab orations of Influence that can not be esti mated. The fifty or oue hundred years of our earthly stay Is only a small part of our sphere. The flap of the wing of the de stroying angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors, the wash of the Red Sea over the beads of the drowned Egyptians, were all fulfillments of promises four centuries old. And things occur ln your life and in mine that we can not account for. They may be the echoes of what was promised in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Oh, tbe prolongation of thedlvine memoryl Notice, also that Moses was eighty years of age when he got this call to become the Israelltish deliverer. Forty years he had lived In palaces as a prince, another forty years he had lived in tbe wilderness of Arabia. Nevertheless, he undertook tbe work, and if we want to know whether he succeeded, ask the abandoned brick-kilns of Egyptian taskmasters, and the splint ered chariot wheels strewn on tho beach of the Red Sea. and the timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed over and tbe Egyptians gone under. Still further, watch this spectacle of genuine courage. No wonder when Moses scattered the rude shepherds, he won Zip porah's heart. What mattered it to Moses whether the cattle of the seven daughters of Jethro were driven from the troughs by the rude herdsmen? Sense of justice fired his courage; and the world wants more of the spirit that will dare almost anything to see others righted. All the time at wells of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells of re ligion, and at wells of literature there are outrages practiced, the wrong herds get ting the first water.. Those who havo the previous right come in lust. It they como In at all. Thank God, we have here aud there a strong man to set things right! I am so glad that when God has an especial work tc do. He has some one ready to ac complish it. Still another, see in this call of Moses that if God has any especial work for you to do He will help you. There were Egypt and Arabia and the Palestine with their crowded population, but the man the Lord wanted was at tbe southern point of the triangle of Arabia, and He picks hlm right out, the phepherd who kept the flock of Jethro, bis father-in-law, the priest and sheik. So God will not find it hurd to take you out from tbe sixteen hundred millions ot the human race if He wants you for any thing especial. O what a fascinating and inspiring char acter this Mosesl How tame all other stories compared with the biography of Mosesl Helmets made of aluminum, to be covered with waterproof cloth of various colors, according to the branch of the 9 r vice wearing lt.are aliout to be adopted a tbe French Army. In New Zealand two persons working together constitute a factory The amount of . liquid refreshment taken by a man of seventy years would equal 70,700 pints, and to hold this a pail twelve feet high and more than 234)0 times a. large aa an ordinary nail would be required. Household. RECIPES. Cheese Straws. To a cup of grated cheese add salt and pepper to taste. tw taldespoonfuls of milled butter, three tabh-siwonfuls of cold wMer and flour enixigh to make a soft dough. Mix with a folk until still enouch t' cleave from the fides of the mixing bowK Lay upon a moulding board dusted with flour, sift flour over the dough, roll g-ntly until as t!in as pio crust, cut in stris a fourth of an inch wide and bake. These will keep quite a while. Asparagus and Eggs. Asparagus and eggs make a good breakfast or luncheon dish. To each egg allow a large table spoonful o rich milk of cream and a lit tle salt. Beat eggs until light; add the crenm; heat a tablspoonful of butter in a spider until hot; pour in the mixture and cook until thickened. Have ready boiled t'le heads of a bunch of asparagus and stir it with the eggs just before removing Tom the fire. Serve on moistened toast. Orange Souffle. Four eggs, four table p.K.nfuls of sugar, four tablespoonf uls of ui-ange juice, two of water, the grated rind of one orange, a pinch of salt, liesit t'ie eggs separately; adil to tne yoins inn talt, grated rind, sugar, and lieat to a rream. Next stir in the orange juice and aater, both slightly heated; mix well, Hid, lastly, fold into the same the stifflv'-beaten whites. Turn ut Jnee into 'to a buttered pmbsing dish and bake just U minutes in a hot oven. Servd '.lie minute it comes from the oven. Apple Tapioca. Butter a quart pud ling dish, cover the bottom with tart ap ples pared and cored, and pour over them l cup o tapioca that has been soaked for leveral hours and drained. Add a oust of ilt and a cup of boiling water. Sift a tablespoonful of granulated sugar over the top of the pudding, ami bake until the tapicoa is transparant and the apples are looked and a light-brown color. Serve lurm or cold, as preferred, with sug:ir ktid cream. Mustard Sauce. Brown a tahlespoon fill of flour in a tablespoonful of butter; idd a line. v-sl iced onion and a cupful ind a half of fish stock, stirring carefully Jll the while, then add the grated nnd "f i quarter of a lemon, two cloves, a half aaltspoonful of white pepper, a saltspoon Tul of salt and a tablespoonful of good yinegar. I.et all simmer for a quarter of in hour; then add two tablespoon! uls of mustard powder; mix all thoroughly to gether and let boil gently until quite iniooth. Strain and serve hot. Pork Baked with Apple. Cut a pound Df salt pork in thin slices and freshen in c.dd water brought to a boil. T"" two tart apples, an onion ami half a 'lozon potatoes; pare them all and slice. Mix all together with tho pork in a ba i:ig tin, season with black eper, add water to barely cover ami bake for l hours. Salt Pork With Peas. Cut a pound o, pork in slices and these in large dice. Have ready a pint of split peas soaked over night 'in cold water. A carrot cui in dice may also be added. Simmer all together for two hours. Bice may In used instead of peas. Chocolate Jumbles. One cupful of but tor beaten to a cream, lieat in two cup fuls of sugar, add four well-beaten egg-, then three scant cupfuls of flour in which are two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-half teaspoonful of salt, if the butter is fresh. Add one or one half i-upful of grated chocolate to half the dough. In the other half add the juice tnd grated rind of an orange. Roll thin. Cut in fancy shapes and bake in a quick oven. These are also excellent plain juuildes. General Sports. F. P. Shuster, of the Germania Schuet zen Club of San Francisco, broke the world's record at the 'Jon-yard target tt Shell Mound. His score of 454 was two greater than the record made last year by A. Strecker. KoU-rt Fitzsimmons announced his wil lingness to accept the offer of James .1. Corliett, of $i5,0mi for an opportunity to regain the title of heavy weight pugilistic champion, lost by the latter at Carson City, March 17, 1897. and also agreed to accept the offer of $10,000 of McCoy, ami give the latter an opportunity to win the middle-weight championship. Tom Treaty, who flunked and refused to fight Charlev Johnson at Athens, is matched to box' Kid McPai tland, at Chi cago, on June 'id. The stakes for tho two extra trotting meetings at Providence filled well, guar anteeing three meetings at Narraganset Park this season. . A big regatta will be held in Toronto, Canada, in August next, under the joint suspices of the Northwestern Amateur Rowing Association and the Canadian. ma thur Rowing Association. It is proposed to have professional races on one day, and Edward Hanlon, who is managing this part, is endeavoring to make matches with some of the fast professional scul lers. Tommy West and Tommy Ryan, the welter-weight champion of the world, who have accepted the offer of a $2500 purse, which was made up for them a recently by Tom O'Rourke, will, barring piSi- fonement, meet in a 20-roiind bout at the' ce Palace, New York, on June 10. Ryan is confident of defeating West as easily as he recently whipped Hill Hefferiiaii, of Australia. John J. Quinn, manager of Peter Ma ber, has posted $1000 with Tom O'Rourke as a forfeit for Mailer's appearance for his 20-round Iniut with either Jeffries or Sharkey, which will be decided under the auspices of the Broadway Athletic Club at the Ice Palace. One hundred and seventh street and Lexington avenue. New York, the battle to be fought about June 18. Mattv Matthews end Tom Broderick are to box another 20-round match at r!. Waverly Athletic Club, Yonkert, N. Y., on May 26. Bicycle. Gougoltz and Eamberjack, the famoio French tandem riders, will meet Sager and Swanbrough, holders of the hour un paced tandem record of 26 miles lOtsi Sards, in an uulimited pursuit race ut erkely Oval. A match race has been arranged be tween Henri Cissac, one of the French members of the National Cycledrome's team, and Charles Church. The race is to be for a purse of $1000, and is to be run on May 30 at Baltimore, Md. Alfred Koecher, one of tho many "champions of Germany," is reported to i have given up riding for good to devote ! himself to the cycle trade. Belgian and t renrh track cracks in the early spring days often train on tbe road paced by motors. Eugene Huret, the Paris veteran, not rAntant 1 1 11 , -lit li.a I, i. .1 fninina ' again. He hopes to lower the 100-kilo-! meter road record any day now. I A vigorous .campaign is to be intro I duced by the Associated Cycle Clubs of 1 BLffalo with the object of securing for t that city the national 1S99 cycle meet of tho ' League of American Wheelmen. A number of Long islam! wheelmen will make a three-day Philadelphia trip on May 28, 2! and 30. The route will be through Staten Island to Perth Ambt.y, thence to Princeton ami Philadelphia. On Memorial day the home coming will be in the form of a century run via Plain field. Fred Longhead, llio Canadian cham pion, has gone into business and may lie unable to race this year. The Associated Cvclin? Clubs of Boston. j will hold a meet' on May 30, in con I junction with the spring meet of the i Massachusetts division of the L. A. W. i f ';V.
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