P. BGHWBIBB,
THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
VOL MI.
MIFFMNTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24. 1898.
NO. 37
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CIIAITKU IV.
Kgertnu's words tmk iMrothy so com
pletely by surprise that fur some time she
unable to thiuk clearly.
Even the next ninwiing. when she open
ed hrr rye, her first feeling was painful
confusion.
She longed to bear what Mabel thought
of the wonderful event she mimt tell Mt
bel; Mr. Egerton would not mind that:
but to every one els she would be mute
so one would know oX bla rejection.
Hut Kicertnn was by no means anxious
to conceal the fact that he had offered
hiniKflf his old name, his fine estate, his
large investments to this young, iusiguifi
cant girl "a mere nobody" as the Dow
ner, Mrs. Callander, was wont to re
mark. He did not present himself as early as
usual at "The Knoll" the next day, but
meeting; Standlsh, who had been strolling
on the pier at an hour when It was chiefly
In the possession of ancient mariners, he
passed his arm through that of Standlsh
with unusual familiarity, saying, "I waa
on my way to have a little talk with Cal
lander. Will you come with me?"
"Yea, If you like; you'll be rather clever
If you vet him to talk." .
They approached the Knoll, at the gate
of which they met Colonel Callander. lie
greeted them with more animation than
asuaJ.
Egerton tolj them of his proposal to
Dorothy and her rejection of him. He
begged the two to assist him In Inducing
her to chance her mind. This Colonel
Callander readily consented to do, but
Paul Stundish did. not show any great
eagerness to exert any influence on the
mind of his ward.
"The-only person to whom I feel inclined
to confide so important a piece of intelli
gence," said the Colonel finally, "is to my
mother. It Is right she should know, es
pecially as It la probable we shall leave
Dorothy under her care when we go
away."
"Uo away! Who Is going away?" cried
Egerton sharply, with a keen glance like
a stab.
"Don't suppose I am going to do any
thing desperate," said Callander, with a
grave smile. "Mrs. Callander and I talk
of going abroad for a month or two. I
want to have a look at the battlefields on
the French frontier, and to 'go on into
Switzerland. Of course Dorothy will
stay here."
The trio dispersed, Standlsh proceeding
along the beach to a long spit which
stretched far into the waters.
Meanwhile Callander and Egerton walk
ed slowly toward the hotel where the
.Dowager had established herself. Here
'Egerton left him.
When Colonel Callander was ushered
to his mother's sitting room he found
her as usual richly and elaborately dress
ed, and knitting a huge coverlet, while
.Miss Iioothby, ber companion, read aloud.
She gave a cold straight unresponsive
tiand to her son.
"I hope you are all right after your
long day in the open air?" he said, as he
drew a chair near her work table.
"Thank you. I am as usual. I get
little sleep. My mind is too anxious to
permit of repose I"
"That's bad," said Colonel Callander,
vaguely.
' "You need not stay. Miss Boothby,"
aid the Dowager. "I wish to converse
with my son." The meek companion rose
with a smile and disappeared.
"I came to ask you if yon have any
commands, as I think of going np to town
to-morrow. I want to arrange one or two
matters before going north."
"North! Why, where are yon going
now?" querulously.
"Mabel and I think of taking a trip
through the Highlands, or to Switzerland.
I think she wants a change as much aa 1
do."
"There I agree with yon," observed Mrs.
Callander, significantly. "She has had a
worn, distressed look ever since I mean,
for a considerable time."
"You think so?" said her son, with a
quick, fiery flash from his dark eyes a
warning which even his mother dared not
disregard. "I trust she baa no cause for
distress or anxiety at ail events she
aeeuis to consider the panacea for her ills
Is a quiet Journey with me."
"I am sincerely glad to hear It," with
pointed emphasis "pray, when do you
tart?"
"Early next week. May I ask what
' your plans are?"
"If you are going away there la no par
ticular object in my remaining. ' I don't
suppose even when yon return I shall see
much of you."
"There is no reason why we should not
be as much together as you like," returned
th Colonel dryly. "However, If yuu are
comfortable here, and don't mind staying,
I should be glad If yon would, because,"
tie stopped and seemed to have lost the
thread of his discourse his eyes wander
ing to the window, and evidently preoccu
pied with some distant object visible to
the loner sense.
"Well!" said hla mother at last, looking
np from ber knitting with some surprise,
"why da yon wish me to stay?"
Her son looked at her with a bewildered
aspect, and then passing his hand over his
brow, exclaimed; "I beg your pardon! 1
forgot what I waa saying! I wished yon
to stay, because Mabel and I Intend to be
away about six weeks or ao, and Dorothy
will I here alonethat would be of no
consequence, but Egerton has just pro
posed to me for her. It seems that Dor
othy refused him, but he very wisely will
not take a girl's first no. So he begs to
be allowed opportunities of pressing his
suit and "
"Refused him!" said Mrs. Callander, in
a high key. "She must be out of ber
mind! He to a match for an earl's daugh
ter. Why, it will be quite a distinguish
ed connection. Of course she will accept
him! she must. Dorothy has her tempers,
and is altogether wanting In a knowledge
of what she owes to ns, but I alway
thought there was some moral worth ifi
tor "
"L'ltliiiHtcIv she will do on she likes, bnt
Egerton ought to have a fair chance. Now
if you are here he can see her with yon,
under your chaperonage, and Henrietta
will probably also stay otherwise he
paused.
"I never hesitate to sacrifice myself on
the altar of duty," said Mrs. Callander,
In a lofty tone, "or for the good of others,
for I cannot say I owe any duty to your
Ister-in-law, but if it is an accommoda
te yon, my dear son, I will remain until
yon return."
"You see there are no relatlonsoi
frtonds trt whom we can send Dorothy.
"I am quite aware of that," put In his
mother, sharply. Callander did not heed
ber.
"And." he continued, "even if Standish
could stay on here, he could not be the
sort of protection you can be."
"Nor do I suppose It likely he will re
main while you are away," remarked
Mrs. Callander, sweetly.
Mother! he cried, "do yon know how
cruel yon are? Do you know that mv
life Is bound up in Mabel's! In Mabel's
love and truth. Nothing yon say touches
my faith In her yet yet you torment
me. She Is she alwaya will be spotless
in the eyes of all men." '
He sprang np and paced to and fro rap-
iuiy. wnn occasional fierce gestures.
spotless! my desr Herbert! I should
hope so!" returned Mrs Callander nrlt-h
the obtuseness of a hard, unsympathetic
woman. uo yon think I meant anything
beyond the necessity of attending to ap
pearances? When a man like Mr. Stan
dish a man of the world In the worst
sense is seen morning, noon and night,
with a young woman whom some people
consider handsome, why "
"Be sllentr he exclaimed, harshly, turn
ing to face her, with such wrath in his
ryes that even the unimaginative old wom
an cowered for a moment "Understand
me! unless yon cease to insult me by harp
ing on these hideous possibilities I will
never see your face again! I should have
broken w ith you before, but that I d mill
ed that Mabel should be outrnged by
knowledge of the reason why I dropped
all intercourse with my mother. Could
yon think that sweet, simple soul could
ever be drawn from her children from
me7 Is such a possibility comprehensi
ble to you?" There was keen pain as
well as burning Indignation in his tone.
"The wickedness of the unregenerat
hesrt is unfathomable," said his mother,
severely, "and I greatly fear Mabel does
not know where to look for strength. It's
Impossible to say where nnguarded begin
ninga may lend poor weak creatures, and
your wife, though an amiable woman, is
no doubt easily influenced, in short, not
what you would call a person of strong
character."
"No, she Is not! How should I have got
on with a woman of strong character?
I say, mother enough of this. I feel my
head dizzy! If we are to bo friends '
I will never speak to you on the snb-
Ject again," said his mother, with an in
jured and dignified air. "I have done my
duty, my conscience is clear. I have not
left you in iguorancel Now, as regardf
Dorothy-
Callander was again pacing to and fro gallons of water .applying, with a sprayer,
his head bent down, lip moving slightly Add the acid at the tiuio of mixing the
as if forming nnnttered words. Then, ' soap and kerosene. It Is also an excellent
with an effort, he repeated as he paused' wash for lice on cattl Apply the mix
opposite her "Dorothy! Ay! We must ture ou uil,llnfc AU? lrUDd wUn
not forget Dorothy. Will yon stay here Pryer-
and let Egerton come to and fro, and see
her under your auspices?"
"I shall be happy to further an alliance
calculated to reflect credit on you and
yours, Herbert !"
CHATTER V.
Colonel Callander had not looked so wer.
since he returned from India as the morn
ing he started for London. He under
took various commissions for his sister-
in-law, bnt his wife said she wanted noth
ing.
"I have everything I want, and mor
than I deserve," she added, aa she kissed
her husband tenderly at parting.
Standish had gone to dine and sleep at
a country bouse at some distance. So th.
sisters had a Tery tranquil day, its only
disturbance being a visit from the Dow
ager, who came In unwonted good humor.
In the evening, a little to Dorothy's dis
may. Miss Oakeley walked In, just before
dinner, to have a little talk, she said, ac
companied by Egerton and Major St
John, who was. Miss Oakeley thought, lm.
mensely struck with her, whereas St.
John was equally sure he had made a
profound Impression on Miss Oakeley, and
was, in consideration of her endowments,
disposed to encourage her attentions.
The sisters were sitting together In sym
pathetic silence at that most witching
hour, "the gloaming."
Dorothy had of course told Mabel ol
the declaration with which Egerton had
startled her, and was somewhat surprised
at the manner In which Mabel had receiv
ed her confidence. She was not amazed,
she murmured something about hia being
nice and interesting, and a good match,
then ehe added, "Are yon quite sure that
you could not like him, dear?"
"Yes, quite sure," was Dorothy's prompt
reply. "I used to like him ever so much
better before. I cannot think what put
it into his head to Imagine be wants to
marry me."
"I don't think It is so extraordinary."
said Mabel, and dropped the subject.
While Miss Onkeley held forth with an
imation about a concert she was getting
up and Major St. John put In a word nt
Intervals, Egerton moved across the room
to where Dorothy was sitting, and snld
in a low tone: "I ought not perhaps tc
tresspass upon you, but I want to ask
pardon for my precipitancy. Will yon for
get my Ill-judged haste and let me conir
and go on the old terms? I will not of
fend again; not, at least, till I fancy I maj
do so with less chance of rebuke. I ma
never reach that happy conviction, buf
let me try."
"I have no right to Interfere with yotr
coming or going," . said Dorothy softly,
"but I do not like to give yon any annoy
ance, and I do not think I shall change.
Here both were called to share the
consultation, which was rather noisy, and
ended in an appointment for Dorothy to
practice with Miss Oakeley at noon the
following day. Then she declared she
would be late for dinner, a crime her aunt
would never forgive.
"TJiere Is a very amusing article on the
Aesthetics of Dress In one of the tnaga-
xliirs," said Egerton. I forgot it, out a
von will let me bring It over this evening
I'll rend it to you" he stood with hla
bock to Dorothy, speaking to her sister.
uni.1 wrtslnlv thank youP' she re
turned, with a little nervous catch In her
TOtce raising her eyes to his and then
.lmnnlnir them OUlcklV.
"Oh! Mabel dear! Why did you let him
.v riu.t nnrothv. as soon as the
door was closed. "I should have '"Joyed
a nice, quiet evening, and above all I don t
. f
"How could I refuse?" "kM"1'
hands together. "He had
asked Herbert and Taul to let him com
and try his chance, and Herbert toW me.
"What? did 1'aul agree w
Dorothy a kind of sharp cry "I thought
he knew me better!"
"Well, dearest, yon know you are not.
obliged to marry him." TW
"I am quite aware of that," said Doro
thy with decision, "but I object to ot
teased." . .
Egerton did not fail to keep his prom
ise. He waa more than usually agreeable,
keeping under the strain of cynicism that
often tinged hia talk. lie rend aloud
nell, and hia comments on the pnpet
when he had finished It were amusing,
the reminiscences It evoked of the vari
ous fine ladies, mistresses of the art of
Iress. interesting; he addressed most oi
his conversation to Mabel, who said lit
tle, lying back among her sofa cushion!
as If while Dorothy worked dili
gently a? a highly ornnnieutal plnafort
for her little niece, which was a blessed
occupation for her eyes. At length, af
ter a short pause, Egerton exclaimed Is
an altered voice:
"I am afraid I am boring you, Mrs. Cal
lander. Yon are looking awfully ill."
"It Is that horrid neuralgia!" cried Dor
othy, laying down her work and going tc
her sister. "She lias been suffering at
day would you like to go to bed, Ma
bel?" "Let me try mesmerism!" urged Eger
ton. "She'll have an awfully bad night
Miss Wynn. I'll make a few passes
You'll see how soon the look of pain wil
leave her."
"I don't half like It!" said Dorothy
doubtfully.
Egerton came and stood beside the sofa,
his eyes fixed on Mabel, who did not make
the slightest resistance. Slowly passing
his hand over ber face in the fashion
usual with mesmerizers, the tired eyei
gradually closed, the pained, contracted
expression passed from ber face, and sh
slept the penceful sleep of an Infant.
"It is wonderful," whispered Dorothy,
who felt an indescribable impulse of pity
and tenderness toward the gentle, loving
sister who seemed so mysteriously op
pressed the tears were in her eyes, and
her voice faltered as she added: "I wish
yon could give me this power, that I
might enable her to rest! she seem sc
helpless."
"She Is," returned Egerton In a deer
tone full of feeling. "Hut unless you hav
the power I could not give it you. I did
not knew I possessed it till that strange
mystic Bohemian Orafin I told you about,
whom I knew some years ago at Pragiie,
assured me I had it and made me experi
ment on some of her people. I am half
nshnmed of it. I would never use my
power save to give physical relief. There
is a prejudice against it, too. Perhaps it
would le as well not to Inform Mrs. Cal
lander, for instance, thnt I was able to
give your sister some repose."
"Oh, certaiuly not!" cried Dorothy.
"The less said the better, people are so 111
nnturcd. I hope my dear sister will not
want your aid any more. I shall sit and
watch her till she wakes, and so I inusf
say good-night now."
(To be continued.)
Farm Notes.
' Fleas become pests on some locutions,
' An excellent mode of exterminati g them
is to use the well known kerosene emui-
I sion, adding to every gaiion m iue ""':
sion'a gill of crude carbolic acid and 10
T n.i that kns lon seeded to crin.on
clover and the crop turned under has
been found to contain twice as ucl
humus, moisture and nitrogen as that
i.i..k no clover. This demonstrates
that it pays to grow crimson clover as a ,
manurial crop, leaving oui iu
nitrogen entirely, the large amount of
extra moisture retained by the clover
land is an important gain when consider
ing the noxt crop to be grown on tho
land.
J Good vinegar is usually a scarce arti
cle. There is at all times a iuu supply
the market, but not the best cider vinegar.
Farmers who use windfall apples, or
those that are decayed, make a mistake.
Tho best vinegar can only 1 made ol
sound apples, and where such crops can
not be sold at fair prices they should Ie
converted into choice vinegar. If fruit
growers would make a socially of good
vinegar and seek buver therefore they
will not find it difficult to secure an extra
price for a sufirior article.
To keep butter cool in summer-somebody
says: In the middle of your cellar
floor dig a hole or vault 312 f.-ct deep
and 3 1-2 feet square. Wall it up with
brick laid in lime mortar and cement and
floor it with soft brick. l ay a frame of
good hard wood in mortar upon the top of
this vault. Hinge to the frame a trapdoor
of plank two inches thick, makirg it fit
smoothly. over tho top. Then after the
is .tmriitf.l ami cooled put it down
I in tho vault to ripen, Butter may lie
. . . . A 1 . V 1. . MUlnmi, ftlRO.
Kepi ineie m me (; -
Butter makers, as well as cheese manu
facturers are interested in the measure,
for every pound of milk turned into
cheese leaves the mai Kei in iinn m
better sliae for butter, and aside from
personal interests, we are all desirous of
seeing dairy products more largely con
st! d locause of their wholesomeness,
palatal.ility and low cost for nutriment
f urnished-
An authority savs that to n.ake an in
delible marking ink for sheep use shel
lac, two ounces; borax, two ounces; water,
25 ounces; gum arabic, two ounces: and
lamp black. Boil the borax and shellac in
water until they are dissolved and with
draw from 'the tire. When the solution has
become cold add water to make 2S ounces
and lamp black enough to bring the
preparation to a. suital.ln consistency.
When it is to tie used with a stencil it
must bo made thicker than when it is ap
plied with a brush. This formula gives a
black ink; for red ink substitute Vene
tian red for lamp Mack.
When the green corn is cut for cattle
open a row lictwecn the furrows and plant
more corn. The late corn may never ma
ture, but it will assist in providing green
food later in the season. It requires but
little lalmr to plant coi n in drills ai d the
cost of late forage is small compared with
its advantages.-
The day has passed who.' farmers enn
afford to dig potatoes with the hoc. Tr
tato diggers, which buns the tubers to
the surface and screen them from the
dirt, are used, which lessens the labor, ns
well as cheapening the cot of the crop.
Horses that are moderately worked
fvery Ttav should have go.d iippetlt.s
and their digestion should lie good. Kerne
horses seldom have grass or preen fol.
In such cases the food should c varied as
much as possible, ard linseed merl should
be usod t.i prevent constipation.
The flesh of young giraffes is extreme
ly good, somewhat like veal, with a game
Hike flavor.
Intl Kelvin bats the age of the sun
at 1(Mi,ihmi,ismi vi-ars. As its present rale
of combustion the sun will last from
7,0(H.imhi to 15,inhj,uuu of years before
burning itself out.
The Kiver Jordan makes tho greatest
descent in the shortest distance of almost
any stream.
Twelve . thousand mail cars of the
German railroads arc uow lighted by
t electricity, storage batteries Ix-ing em
ployed. The lrgut has given tun sansiac
tion and is also said to lie cheaper than
the gas light used hitherto.
A drop hammer just erected in some
iron works, at Hartford. Conn, is said
to lie the largest iu the world. The drop
weighs three thousand Munds, and the
anvil ninety thousand pounds.
THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN.
fheir Heroism Bhown ! ftaviae Ha
n Life.
That women are capable of rising tc
in emergency and allowing aa great
bravery aa the other aex Una been
proved so often that it la with no at
tempt at argument that we relate one
ir two records of woman' heroism In
trying circumstance. Women are leas
often, perhaps, placed In positions call
ing for physical strength and courage
than are man, hence these few anec
dotes are ef Interest. .
The dowager Queen pla of Portugal,
who la aa fine a swimmer aa the queer,
regent of Spain, or Prlncese Helen ol
Orleans, iuys Household Words, pos
sesses a highly prized badge, won by
her having at La tiranja, some yean
ago, swam out Into the sea, fully
dressed, and rescued two children
whose boat had been capsized.
la an Irish adventure chronicled not
l.ng ago, a young lady distinguished
herself by a very heroic act, quite put
ting to shame the men of the party.
Some young men and women were tak
ing an evening ramble near Clandy,
Couaty Dcrry, whon a young man from
Belfast, whs had come to marry one -of
the girls, missed hla feotlug la cross
ing a wooden bridge over the Itlver
Fangan, and fell Into twenty foot of
water. The girl, distracted by the ter
rible occurrence, besought the men
around her to rescuo him, but In vsJn
none of them was willing to risk almost
certain death. Ilcr lover had come to
the surface for the third and last time,
when she leaped Into the river herself
and clutching tho now exhausted mai :
with one hand, managed with gre.it ,
difficulty to wlm to the riverside, )
where hands, now willing enough, re
ceived them both.
Something of the same kind took
place at Canterbury. While a young
miller waa assisting Miss Mason,
daughter of the ex-mayor of Canter
bury, to launch a canoe, he accidental
ly fell Into the river at a spot just
above the floodgates of the Black Mall,
where the water is very deep. He
could not swim, and MIrs Mason, who
In noted locally as a splendid swimmer,
unhesitatingly plunged In and man
aged to keep him above water until as
sistance came, and both were brought
safely to shore.
A very touching Instance of the devo
tion of a mother occurred at Colchester.
The wife of a sergeant-major of the
King's Dragoon guards was wheeling
her baby in a perambulator In the cav
alry barracks when the carriage and
Its occupant were knocked down by a
restive hors ridden by a soldier. The I
mother crawled on her hands and
knees and had scarcely covered the In
fant with her body when the horse
backed and trampled on her. The
brave woman had several ribs broken
and her right lung Injured, while her
face was much cut and braised. She
was taken to the hospital In a critical
state, while the child, whfeb would
certainly have been killed but for the
mother's prompt and devoted heroism,
escaped with only a shaking.
LONGEVITY -AND THE BRAIN.
r he Necessity of Working On Until tta
Close of Life.
Speaking at Selkirk, Sir James
Crlchton-Browne dwelt on the dangers
to health Involved In Indolence and dis
use of the brain. The medical profes
sion, he said, adapting Itself to the
needs of the times, had felt It lncum
be.it upon It during the last decade to
Insist mainly on the evils of misuse
of the brain, on the excessive strain not
seldom Imposed on it in these days In
the fierce struggle of the race to be
rlcls, and more especially on the over
pressure Imposed on It In the name ot
education when In an Immature state,
but they were not less keenly alive to
the correlative evils of the disuse of
the brain.
Elderly persons who gave up busi
ness and professional men who laid
aside their avocations without having
other Interests or pursuits to which to
turn, were In many cases plunged In
despondency or hurried Into prema
ture dotage. lie did not know any
surer way of Inducing premature
mental decay than for a man of active
habits to retire and do nothing when
Just past the zenith of life; and, on the
other hand, he did not know any surer
way of enjoying a green old age than
to keep on working at something till
the close. It had been said that one of
the rewards of philosophy was length
of. days, and a striking list might be
presented of men distinguished for
their intellectual labors which they
had never laid aside, who had far ex
ceeded the allotted span of human life.
Galileo lived to 78, Newton to R5,
Franklin to 85, Buff on to 80, Faraday
to 70, and Brewster to 84 years. Sir
James Crlchton-Browne drew special
attention to the great age genorclly
attained by our Judges. London Lan
cet. r 1
DECADENCE OF THE NEGRO.
Statistic. Show the Black Race to Be
Rapidly Approaching Extinction.
The race problem In the South seems
destined to be settled according to nat
ural laws, unless something Is done,
and done soon, to save the negro from
the results of his own vices and neg
lect of elementary hygienic laws, sayi
the Medical Record. The testimony of
those who have studied this subject Is
all but unanimous, and It has received
additional confirmation through the In
vestigations of Dr. R. H. Johnson of
Brunswick, Go, himself a colored phy
sician. The figures which he has gathered
from a study of the vital statistics of
iiearly 300 towns In the Southern
States show that the death rate of
negroes Is double that of whites In the
same communities, and not only this,
but the birth rate is also smaller
among the colored than among the
white population. Furthermore, the
day of the stalwart negro Is passing, If
not already gone, and the members of
the younger generation" of - the race
moke a poor showing aa regards their
size and physical constitution wber
compared with their grandfathers and
grandmothers.
Dr. Johnson attributes this degen
eracy of his race rightly, wo believe
to the careleasneso, want of fore
thought, and dissipation go un&rtv.n-
ately characteristic of a, large portion
of the colored population In the South
since the civil war. "In antebellum
days," says Dr. Johnson, "the negro
seemed to be an Immune to consump
tion, and many great medical writers
and teachers boast of never baring seen
such among the negroes. Enforced
temperate living and sanitary precau
tious madb the black map physical
giant, but the giants are disappearing;,
and In their places Is coming on a race
ef smaller stature and decreasing vi
tality." That this Is the true reason ef the
colored man's physical deterioration is
further, shown by what 8urgeon Gen
eral Sternberg has to say In his recent
ly Issued annual report concerning the
health' of the colored soldiers. "Great
Improvement," he says, "has taken
place In the past few years In the san
itary condition of the colored troops.
Tho white troops have participated In
the Improvement, although their rates
have not fallen so rapidly as the col
ored men. .The colored soldier lost 0.42
days from disability during the yenr,
the white soldier 12.71, the average
time of treatmeut of each case was,
among the colored troops, 10.84 days;
among the whites, 11.22 days."
O'd Annala.
In nooks and corners of libraries ons
now and then comes across a small or
nate Early Victorian or Pre-Vlctorlan
volume bearing In gin letters some such
title as "Friendship's Offorlng," "Tho
Gem," "The Forget-Me-Xot." or "The
Book of Beauty." As a rule, one Is not
tempted to "linger 'mid Its pages," as
the Annual Itself would say; and yet a
glance at Its contents suggests reflec
tions which are not without Interest.
Vox In ephemeral productions like these
one sees most clearly the popular tastes 1
aud Ideals of a given time. Even Jane
Austen, the "divine Jane" herself, does
not throw as much light upon those of
her day as the writers In the Lady's ;
Books and Garlands of Beauty who
ministered to the passing fancies of the
fair reader and shaped their concep-
Hons of female perfection to suit the
fashion of the hour.
The exqulslrely finished copperplates
show white-robed weeping maidens
clinging to stalwart lovers who are
Imprinting kisses on their gentle
brows; devoted wives half swooning In
farewells upon tbclr husbands' manly
breasts; maidens in tears npon the
bosoms of their mothers or the knees
of their fathers, or sitting beside open
vine-clad windows and gazing mourn
fully at various objects of melancholy
interest which they hold In their hands;
ladles with Immense eyes raised to the
moon, or with lids lowered, and heavy
curls drooping over one Infinitesimal
hand, which supports the pensive head.
Widows, orphans, the deserted, the
broken-hearted, abound, with abnor
mally large eyes and abnormally small
mouths, and with a wealth of curia
falling .about their Ivory necks or veil
ing the transports of their grief. LIp
pincott's. Inaealoaa Laundry Advertisement.
While this Is not exactly the castle-In-tbe-alr
age. yet there are thousands of
persons who spend a very small portion
of their time on terra flrma. This Is
due to the "sky-scrapers," where the
upper floors are honeycombed with of
fices. Enterprising merchants have
taken advantage of the fact and are
trying everything In their power to at
tract the attention of this elevated
army, whose fleeting glimpse of the
world Is obtained from lofty windows.
The latest 6cheme Is one projected by
a laundry, which employs dozens of
covered wagons. On the top of the
wagon cover Is painted In glaring let
ters the name of the firm', and those
who look down from above can read as
the vehicles run by.
New Signaling Device.
The signal corps of the United States
army now operates about 802 miles of
military telegraphs. The most notable
advance of the year In Its system has
been the adoption of a combination
telegraph and telephone apparatus,
which only weighs sixteen pounds, and
consequently can easily be carried by
one soldier. With this apparatus one '
soldier can telegraph a message to an
other, while a telephonic conversation
with another station can be simultane
ously carried on, the distant operators
only receiving the messages Intended
for each.
Lnxnrlous Imperial Tr. velesr.
The height of luxurious traveling has
been reached by the Czar and Czarina. 1
The empress' private car Is upholster
ed In pole blue satin. The electric
lamps are all in the form of lilies, and
It contains writing and tea tables made
of mother of pearL The nursery Is the
next apartment, and Is as comfortable :
and handsome as the same rooms in
. , ... mt '
any OI tne vzara paiucvu. iihw are
dining-rooms and drawing-rooms and
several sleeping apartments. In fact,
this train Is a miniature palace. The
wheels are covered with India robber
circs.
Stimulants In Accidents.
In conditions of collapse and faint
ness the use of stimulants Is Important
When the face Is pale and bedewed
with a cold perspiration, the pulse faint
and the breathing Irregular, then li
when the Judicious use of some stimu
lating agent Is necessary. Coffee, giv
en strong and hot In small quantities,
Is a safe and useful remedy.
Alcohol Is more potent In Its effect,
and recovery Is quicker. Brandy Is the
best of alcoholic stimulants and, falling
this, rum or wine. Give a little at first
and watch for returning color and
quickened pulse, and If these fall with
hold the alcohol entirely, for It Is doing
harm Instead of good. - -
If the patient has been wounded and
much blood has been lost the amount
of stimulant given may be large, com
bining It with rest In a horizontal atti
tude and plenty of air, but If there be
no loss of blood and only nervous shock
the Stimulant should be given cautious
ly. As soon aa reaction seta In the stim
ulant should be Immediately discontin
ued. When a man refuses to sign a note as
security, he says he would like to, but
that ho has promised his wife never W
sign another security not,
Household.
Raspberry and Rice ruddinp. Pick
over and wash one-half of a cupful ol
rice.; drop into boiling United water and
boil for ten minutes. Irain, rov r wilt
milk and cook until tender and the milk
is unite absorlicd. Stir in i.n-fully oiie
nsll of a cupful of sugar, one tablespoon
ful of butter and two-well-bcatt-n eggs.
Hutter a pudding dish, cover the botu.ni
with fino bread crumbs. Put in alternate
layers of rice and fresh rasplierrics,
sprinkling a very little sugar over the
latter. Have rice for the last layer aud
Iwke for twenty minutes in a hot oven.
Serve with hard sauce into which a few
crushed raspberries have been whipped
Bed Vegetable Salad. One pint of cold
boiled potatoes, one pint of cold Imiled
beets, one pint of uncooked red cablwge,
six tublespoonfuls of oil, eight tablcspoon
fuls of vinegar (that In which beets have
been picklod), two tesspoonfuls of slt
(unless the vegetables have been cooked
in salted water), half a teasioonful of
pi-pper. Cut the potatoes in thin slid s
and the beets fine, and slice the cabbage
as thin as possible. Mix all the ingredi
ents. Let stand in a cold place one hour
then serve. Ked cabbage and celery may
be used -together ulso.
Deviled Lamb Kidneys. First procure
a half-dozen iamb kidneys; split in half
and take out the centre veins and tissues
aud let soak in cold water for two hours
without salt; second, parboil for e1(-ht
minutes in water "without salt;" third,
make a dressing of olive oil, four table
pooufuls; two teaspoons of English mus
tard, dry, and one teaspoon of cayenne
pepper and half teaspoon of paprika, and
alt to taste; fourth, let the kidneys
ttand in this dressing for three hours;
fifth, dip in beaten egg, then roll in
cracker crumbs, then in egg, then, if de
lirod, one can grill them, but if frying is
preferred fry th.m in tho best of olive
ail. The above is autlicient for a lunch
for two. This dish must be eaten to bo ap
preciated. Fried Frog Legs. One dozen frog legs;
Luke out the bones, chop the meat up fine;
Due dozen soft-shell walnuts, mash the
kernels; two eggs beaten; mix eggs, wal
nuts and frog legs together, season with
butter, pepper and salt; then add enough
pulverized soda crackers to make a paste
To be fried in hot fat.
Frogs Legs a la Melba. Have one
pound of very fresh frogs' legs; drop them
in lioillng water for a second, then season
with salt, pepper and nutmeg; put a pi-ce
of butter in a saucepan with a teaspoon
of chopped onion, six ounces of fresh
minced mushrooms, chopped truthVs and
a little cayenne pepper; moisten with a
glass of good beef stock; when frogs uie
tender, thicken the sauce with three raw
egga diluted in half a gill of cream.
Labor Notes.
Hamburg's improved method for burn
ing the garbage does the work for about
nine cents per 1000 pounds.
The earliest pottery with printed de
signs of American subjects was made at
Liverpool ot the end of the eighteenth
century.
TL-i annual report of the Sheffield Cham
ber of Commerce asserts that !K per cent,
of the razors used in the Australian col
onies are supplied by Germany and the
United States.
The Marietta (Ga.) Knitting Company
has made improvements, and may also
add 24 more machines. The production is
now H1 dozen hose per day from 45 ma
chines. Frotu official sources, says the National
I.abor Tribune, we learn that the war has
not interfered with our commerce to any
great extent, especially in the metal in
dustries. The codfish industry of Newfoundland
is the largest of its kind in the world, and
has baen in existence nearly four cen
turies. The annual .xport amounts to an
average of 1,350,000 hundred-weight.
Taxation of corp rations in l'aris has
led to the transfer of many main offices to
Brussels, French societies beini; incorp
orated there under the laws of the
Belgians to avoid the French income tax.
bhoes made in the United States and
imported into Germany have gained so
much in favor in certain parts of Ger
many that official attempts have been
made to create prejudice against their
purchase by German citizens.
The small woolen mills in Ttuh have
been accustomed to running with a mall
amount of capital, getting much of their
wool from farmers, who keep a few sh-er
and take their wool to these small fac
tories and exchange it for woolen goods
for their own use, but this trade fulls off
considerably when wool brings a high
price, as it does this present season.
Hawaii's imports from Great Britain
last year amounted to $J-G5,71.25, the
most important among them being cottcn
goods, amounting to over f'0,000; linens,
Jli.wiO; steam plwws, fcW.lHio; other ma
ahinery, about (26,000; cloth banc, about
fjl70.Ui.iO; Iron and steel rails, $37,000;
other ruilway material, $9101; crockery
and glassware, f 12,017; rooting iron,$4o,
siMI; p olographic material, about $MKMi;
woolen goods, about $50,000; lace f 10,04(1;
ribbms, $10,245; linseed oil, $14,740.
From Germany the imports during the
last year amount.-d to $l2,32.1!l, the
principal article ln-ing building mater
ial, about $25,000; machinery, $30,000;
dry goods, about $15,000, and railroad
material, about $!HioO.
Bicycle.
TTow many cyclers ever study natural
ph:losophv in hill climbing? Observe
lor youi-sclf, and you will that some
riders sit s .lid on their saddles and plrg
away for dear life, straining evei-y nerve,
when by bending slightly to their ti:sk or
riding the pedals alone one can cause the
gravity centre to bo directly under the
cranks, and thus mount a steep hill with
ease otherwise imnossi bio.
In addition to a lot of intermediate
records Willow Grove now holds the
world's record for one mile. 1-S2 3 ". n.';,l
the record for the hour, 34 miles, Vs.0
5 "janies A. Kennedy, of the American
Cycle Hoeing Association, stated t hut a
slVday bicycle race will be run by that
organization this winter atMadison hquwe
Garden. The race will be for 112 hours,
and no interference of the L. A. W. will
be brooked- . ,
Proper distribution of weight on a
wheel makes a great difference. Tio an
ounce weight to tho spoke of a cham
pion's wheel out near tho rim and tho
probabilities are that he will lose, but
ho could carry it in his pocket or under
tho saddle and win. When a wheel is
perfec tly constructed a few pounds more
or less in weight mattars but litllo.
Enormous spr ket wheels, crank hang
on dropped until the pedals do littlo
moro than clear tho ground when a turn
is made, the shortest of short heads and
tho widest of wide handle bars, with
something conspicuous in the way of
finish such as partly nickeled frames
and forks these are the distinguishing
marks of a certain olass of riders- There
is no denying the fart that they attract
attention wherever they go, and as this
is the real aim of tho riders it is pretty
certain that they are satisfied.
Many of tho officers of the League of
American Wheelmen are quoted as say
ing that the membership will bootn again
as soon as the war is over. A large
numlier of the old members who are now
at tho front or in cairp have neglected to
renew their membership-
It does not pay to neglect the small
things. Many cyclists neglect to oil their
pedal bearings, thinking it unnecessary.
These bearings should have the same at
tention that is given other running parts.
Hard-running pedal contribute toward
the hard-running of the whole machine.
Glaciers flow, like rivers, between
ranks, and follow furrows or ravines on
the mountain slope.
There is no man wise enough to know
what otliers think of him. '
SERMONS OF THE DAY
"Writing In float" the Subject A Drau.
rlmtlon or Hypocrisy The Injustice '
Condemning in Vomn Sins Thnt An
Overlooked In Man.
Text: "Jesus stooped down and will
nts Angers wroto on the ground." Johi
vill., 8.
You must take your shoes off and pui
on thn especial slippers provided at thf
door if you would enter the Mohamtnednt
mosque, which stands now where onot
stood Herod's temple, the seeneof my text.
Solomon's templo had stood there, but
Nebuchadnezzar had thundered It down.
Zeru'nbahel's temple had stood there, but
had boen prostrated. Now we take oui
places In a temple that Ilerod built, beconst
he was fond of great architecture, and h
wanted the preceding temples to seem in
significant. Tut eight or ton modern ca
thedrals together, and they would nol
equal that structure. It covered nineteen
acres. There were marble pillars support
ing roofs ol cedar, and silver tables, on
which stood golden cups, nnd them wen;
carvings exquisite, nnd Inscriptions re
splendent, glittering balustrades and orna
mented gateways.
In that stupendous pile of pomp and
magnificence snt Christ, and a listening
throng stood about Him when a wild dis
turbance took place. A group of men are
pulling and pnshing along a woman who
had committed a crime against society.
When they have brought her In front of
Christ, they ask thnt He sentence her tc
death by stoning. They are a critical,
merciless, disingenuous crowd. They want
to get Christ- into controversy and pnlillo
reprehension. If Ho say "Let hor die,"
they will charge Him with cruelty. If Ho
let her go they will charge Him with being
in complicity with wickedness. Which
ever way He does, they would howl at Him.
Then occurs a scene which has not been
sufficiently regarded. Ho leaves the
lounge or bench on which Ho was sitting,
and goes down on one knee, or both knees,
and with the forefinger of His right hand
He begins to write in the dust of the floor,
word after word. But they were not to be
diverted or hindered. Tney kept on. do
mnmltng that He settle this cose ot trans
gression, until He looked up and told them
they might themselves begin tho woman's
assassination, if the eomplainnnt who had
never done anything wrong himself would
open tho fire. "Go abend, but be sure thnt
the man who flings the first missile Is im
maculate." Then He resumed writing
with His finger nail In the dust of tho floor,
word after word. Instead of looking over
Ills shoulder to see what Ho had written,
the scoundrels skulked away. Finally, the
whole plnee Is clear of pursuers, antag
onists nnd plaintiffs, and when Christ has
finished this strange chirogrnphy In the
dust Ho looks up and finds tho woman nil
alone.
The prisoner is tho only one of tho court
room left, the judges, the police, tho prose
cuting attorney having cleared out. Christ
Is victor, and He says to the woman:
"Where are tho persecutors In this case?
are they all gone? Then I discharge you;
go and sin no more." I have wondered
what Christ wrote on the ground. For do
you realize thnt this Is the only time that
He ever wrote at all? I know that Euscbius
says thnt Christ once wrote a letter to
Abgarus, the King of Edessa, but there Is
no good evidence of such a correspond
ence. The wisest Being tho world ever
saw, and the One who had more to say
than anyono whoever lived, never writing
a book or a chapter or a paragraph or a
word on parchment. Nothing but the lit
erati! le of the dust, and one sweep of a
brush or one breath of a wind obliterated
It forever.
Among all the rofs of the volumes of the
Hrst libr-itu Icun.it,-! at TheneS'there was
not one scroll of Christ. AmiSlg the hooks
of the Alexandrian Library, which, by tho
Infamous decree of Caliph Omar, were used
as fuel to heat the baths ot the city, not
one sentence had Christ penned. Among
all the infinitude of volumes now standing
In the libraries of Edinburgh, the British
Museum, or Berlin, or Vienna, or the
learned repositories of nil nations, not one
word written directly by tho linger of
Christ. All that He ever wrote He wrote
In dust, uncertain, shifting dust.
My text says He stooped down and wroto
on the ground. Standing straight up a
man might write on the ground with a stair,
but if with Ills fingers He would write in
the dust He must bend clear over. Ave, He
must get at least on one knee, or He can
not write on the ground. Be not surprised
that Ho stooped down, nis whole life was a
stooping down. Stooping down from castle
to barn. Stooping down from celestial
homage to monocrotic jeer. From resi
dence above tho stars to where a star bad
to fall to designate His Innding-place.
From Heaven's front door to the world's
back gate. From writing in round and
silvered letters of constellation and galaxy
on tho blue scroll of Heaven to writing ou
the ground in tho dust which the feet in
the crowd hnd left In Herod's tomplo.
Christ enme down from the highest
neaven to the broiling of fish for His own
breakfast, on the banks of the lake. From
emblazoned chnrlots of eternity to the
saddle of a mule's back. From the hom
age cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, to the
paying of sixty-two and a half cents of tax
to Caesar. From the deathless country to
a tomb built to bide human dissolution.
The uplifted wave of Galileo was high, but
He bad to come down before, with His feet.
He could touch it, and the whirlwind that
arose above the billow was higher yet, but
He had to eome down before with His lip
He could kiss It into quiet. Bethlehem a
stooping down. Nazareth a stooping down.
Deatn between two Durgiart a stooping
down. Yes, it was In consonance with
humiliations that went before an! self
abnegations thnt came after, whon on that
memorable day in Herod's temple He
stooped down and wrote on tho ground.
Whether the words He was writing were
In Greek or Latin or Hebrew, I ennnot soy,
for He knew all those languages. But Ho
Is still stooping down, and with His finger
writing on tho ground; In the winter in
letters of crystnls, In the spring in letters
ol flowers, In summer in golden letters ot
harvest. In autumn In letters of fire or fall
en leaves. How it would sweeten up and
enrich and emblazon this world, could wo
see Chrkt's cnligrnphy all over It. This
world was not flung out Into space thou
sands of years ago. and ihen left to look out
for Itself. It Is still undf tho Dlvlnocare.
CI rlst never for a hnlf second takes His
hand off of it. or it would soon be a ship
wrecked world, a defunct world, nn obso
lete world, nn abandoned world, a dead
world. "Let there be light," was said at
the beginning. And Christ stands under
the wintry skies and says, let there lie snow
flakes to enrich the earth; and under the
clouds of spring nnd says, come ye blos
soms and make redolent the orchards; and
In September, dips the branches in the vnt
of beautiful colors, and swings them Into
tne hazv nir. No v'. "f mln " his.
"Without Him was not anything maue that
was made." Christ writing on tho ground.
If you could see His hand in all tho pass
ing seasons, how It would Illumine the
world! All verdure and foliago would be
allegoric, and again we would hear Him
say, as of old, "Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow;" and wo would not
hear the whistle ol a quail or the cawing ol
a raven or the roundelay of a brown
thresher, without saying, "Behold the fowls
of the nir, they gather not in barns, yet
your Henvenly Father feedcth them;" and
a Dominic hen of the bnrnynrd could not
cluck for her brood, but wo would honr
Christ -saving, as of old, "How often would
I have gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathi-reth her chickens under hei
wings;" and through the redolent hedge9
we would hear Christ saying, "I am the
rose of Shnron;" we could not dip the sea
soning from tbs salt-cellar without think
ing of the divine suggestion, "Ye are th
salt of the earth, but if tho salt hnth losl
its savor, it is fit for nothing but to be casl
out nnd trodden under foot of roei."
But when Christ stooped down and
wrote on the ground, what did He write"
The Pharisees did not stop to examine.
The cowards, whipped of their own con
sciences, Bed pell mell. Nothing will flay
a man Ilka nn aroused conscience. Dr
Stevens, in his "History of Methodism,"
says that when the Rev. Benjamin Abbott.
o nMen times. Was preaching, he ex
claimed; . "for snght I kuow there mav
be a murderer In tnts bouse," and a maa
rose from the asseinhlngo and started fot
the door and bawled aloud, confessing t
murder be had committed fifteen yean
before. And no wonder these Pharisees,
reminded of their sins, took to their heels.
But what did Christ writ on the ground!
The Bible does not state. Yet as Christ
never wrote anything except that once
you cannot blame ns for wanting to know
what He really did write. But I am cer
tain He wrote nothing trivial or nothing
unimportant. And will you allow me to
say that I think I know what He wrote on
the ground? I judge from the circum
stances. He might have written other
things, but kneeling therein the Temple,
surrounded by a pack of hypocrites who
were a self-appointed constabulary, and
having In Its presence a persecuted woman,
who evidently was very penitent for her
sins, I am sure He wrote two words, both
of them graphic and tremendous and re
verberating. And the one word waa
"hypocrisy" and the other word was "for
giveness." Yes, I think that one word written on
the ground that day by the finger of
Christ was the awful word hypocrisy.
'What pretensions to sanctity are the part
,of those hypocritical Pharisees! When the
fox begins to pray look out for your chick
ens. One of the cruel magnates of olden
times was going to excommunicate one
of the martyrs, and he began In the usual
form "In the name of God, Amen."
"Stop!" says the martyr, "don't say ln the
name of God!' " Yet how many outrages
are practiced under the garb of religion
and sanctity! When In synods-and con
ferences, ministers of the Gospel are about
to say something unbrotherly'and un
kind about a member, they almost always
begin by being ostentatiously pious, the
venom of their assault corresponding to
the heavenly flavor of tho prelude. About
to devour a reputation they say grace
before meat.
But I am sure there was another word
In that dust. From hor entire manner I
am sure that arraigned woman was re-
fientant. She made no apology, and Christ
n nowise belittled hor sin. But her sup
plicatory behavior and her tears moved
Him, and when He stooped down to write
on the ground He wrote that mighty, that
Imperial word, forgiveness.
When on Slnol God wrote the law. He
wrote It with finger of lightning on tables
of stone, each word cut as by a chisel Into
the ham granite surface. But when Ha
writes the offence of this woman He writes
It in dust so that It can be easily rubbed
out, and when she repents of It oh. He
was a merciful Christ! I was rending of a
legend that Is told In the far East about
Him. He was walking through the streets
of a city and He saw a crowd around a dead
dog. And one man snld: "What a loath
some object Is that dog!" "Yes," said an
other, "his ears are mauled ami bleeding."
"Yi-s," snld another, "even his hide would
not bo of any use to the tnnner." "Yes,"
said another, "the odor of bis carcass Is
dreadful." Then Christ, standing there,
snld: "But pearls cannot equal the white
ness of his teeth." Then the people, moved
by tho Idea that anyone could find any- .
tiling pleasant concerning the dead dog,
said: "Why, this must be Jesus of Noza
rethl" Reproved and convicted, they went
away.
But while I speak of Christ of the text.
His stooping down writing In the dust, do
not think I underrate the literature of tho
dust. It is the most tremendous of all
literature. It Is the grandest of all libra
ries. When Layard exhumed Nineveh he
was only opening tho door of Its mighty
dust. The excavations of Pompeii have
only been the unclasping of the lids of a
nation's dust.
Ohl this mighty literature of the dust:
Where are the remains of Sennacherib and
Atttla and Epaminondns and Tamerlane
and Trajan and Philip of Macedon and
Julius C'nsnr? Dustl Where are tho
guests who danced the floors of the Alham
bra or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus?
Dust! Where are the musicians who
played, or the orators who spoke, and tha
sculptors who chisled, and the architects
who built, in all the centuries except our
own? Dust! Where are the most of the
books that once entranced the world?
Dust! Pliny wrote twenty books of his
tory; nil lost. Tho most of Mennndor's
writings lost. Of one hundred and thirty
comedies of Plautus, all gone but twenty.
Euripides wroto A hundred dramas, all
gone but nineteen. Eschylus wrote a hun
dred dramas, all gone but seven. Quin
tilian wrote his favorite book on the cor
ruption of eloquence, all lost. Tulrty
hooks of Tacitus lost. Dion Casslus wrote
eighty hooks, only twenty remain. Bero
slus's history nil lost. Where there Is one
living book there nre a thousand dead
books.
Oh! this mighty literature of the dust. It
Is not so wonderful, after all, that Christ
chose, Instead of an Inkstand, the Impres
sionable sand on tho floor of an ancient
temple, and. Instead of a hard pen, put
forth ills forefinger, with the same kind of
nerve nnd muscle nnd hone and flesh as
thnt which makes up our own forefinger,
and wroto the awful doom of hypoorlsy,
and full nnd complete forgiveness for re
pentant sinners, even the worst. We talk
about the ocean of Christ's mercy. Tut
four ships upon that ocean and let them
snll out in opposite directions tor a thou
sand years, nnd see If they enn And the
shore of the ocean of the divine mercy. Let
them sail to the north And the south nnd
the cast and the west, nnd then after tho
thousand yenr4 of vogage lot them come
back and they will report "No shore, no
shore to the ocean of God's meroyl"
And now I can believe that which I rend,
how that a mother kept burning a candle
in the window evory night for ten years,
and one night, very late, a poor waif on the
street entered. The aged woman said to
her, "Sit down by the fire," and the stranger
said. "Why do you keep that light In tho
window?" The aged woman said, "That Is
to light my wayward daughter when she
returns. Since she went away, ten years
ago, my hnlr has turned white. Folks
blame mo for worrying about her, but you
see I am her mother, anil sometimes, half a
dozen times a night, I open the door and
look out Into the darkness nml cry, 'Liz
zie! 'Lizzie!' But I must not tell you any
more aliout my trouble, for I guess, ' from
the way you cry, you have trouble enough
of your own. Why, how oobl and sick you
seem! Oh, my! can It tie? Yes, you arii
Lizzie, my owu lost child! Thank God that
you are home again!" Anil what a tlmoot
rejoicing there was In that house that
night. And Christ again stooped down,
and Tn the nsbes of that hearth, now lighted
up, not more by the great blazing logs than
by the joy rf a reunited household, wrotq
the same liberating words thnt had been
written more thnn eighteen hundred years
ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple.
Forgiveness! A word broad enough ninj
high enough to let pass through it all the
armies of Heaven, a million nbreast, ou
white horses, nostril to nostril, flank to
flnnk.
Relief Neeiled In Aimin.
Countess de Casa Valencia, wife of the
former Spanish Ambassador to Great
hritaln, ....penLstliroug i the London pnpera
for contributions to her fund for the Spanish
sick nnd wounded. She aavs: "There urn
many thousands lying In hosoitnls nt Sail
Sebastian, Las Palmn, Santiago do Cubit
and Guantunnmo without bandages or lint
or even beds to sleep upon, owing to Inade
quate funds. And then are many widows
and orphans Who are In most urgent need
of relief."
Careful measurements prove that the
average curvature of the glolie is 6.9S
inches to tin- statute mile.
lie who cues around In bis requests
wants couimonly more than he chooses to
pjiear to want.
Non-union Moulder Roliert Davis was
fatullv licuton by strikers at Buffalo,
N. Y."
The corn crop of Nebraska, improved
by the rains, will yield about 25,000,000
biishels. ....
With his wife's savings Lewis l.inder,
of New York, iKiiight a pistol and killed
himself.
Sirs. John Bradbury, wife of the ec
centric young millionaire of California,
has liecoine insane.
A severe electrical storm passed over
Ihe camp at Miami, Florida, resulting in
the death of 1'rivtte C'hai 1 s E. Gill, of
thn First Louisiana, and Corporal E. K.
I Humphreys, First Texas.
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