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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
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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.
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