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THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25.1899.
NO. 7.
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y- By Marion V.Holli'
CHAPTER XIX.
"Lady B' a trice Selwyn will visit the
school." Those words rang in the ears
of the sa.i. gentle lady, the mistress of
the little girls who regarded Iady Bea
trice with such awe. How was she to
meet her? what was she to say? waa
her disRuise complete?
She went up to her own room before she
entered the school next morning and took
a keen, critical survey of her pale face.
She was woman enough to feel pleased
that such fair, tranquil beauty still lin
gered there. One or two golden hairs had
strayed from underneath the black front
and the widow's cap; she hastily cat them
off. No: it wfl- impossible, she thought,
that anyone could recognize her. All that
remained of the fair and lovely Lady Vio
lante was the pathetic beauty of the large
violet eyes; even those were disguised by I
the darkened brows.
"If Dr. Hearne did not know me, I
need not fear Beatrice," she thought; "he
liked and she hated me liking is quicker
than hate:"
She went Into the school room then.
Great patches of golden sunshine lay
rhu-nrr the white floor: the Ions' windows
were open, and the perfumed air came in
ireet and odorous gusts. The children
were all assembled fair-faced girls, with youth, with eager eyes and clustering
quick eyes and nimble fingers. A certain j hair, rides slowly along, looking some
nameless restlessness went through them "m at the sky above him, and some
ill; it was known that Lady Selwyn waa times at the blooming flowers. A gal
comins to the school that day. 1 lant, princely boy, with the face of a cava-
Then there was a stir among tne chil-
dren, a murmur of excitement; and one
girl older than the rest came up to her,
dropping a courtesy.
"If you please, ma'am," she said, "here
is my Lady Selwyn."
Then a tall, stately lady, clad in sweep
ing robes of silk and velvet, stood before
her a lady whose proud, regal beauty
dazzled those who gazed upon her. The
haughty tips wore a pleased smile; the
dark, lustrous eyes a calm, satisfied ex
pression. She swept, with the carriage of
a queen, through the garden into the
bright, sunshiny room.
"I hope I have not interrupted you,"
said Lady Beatrice to Mrs. Rivers. "I
am an early visitor this morning. I have
been driving to the railway station, and
have called on my return."
There was no reply. Mrs. Rivers made
a low bow, and Lady Beatrice continued:
"I wiil just look round among the chil
dren. Mrs. Kivers, and then, if yon please,
I will see you in the cottage."
Nay, not one word to have saved her
whole life could she have uttered. She
tried, but her
ler parched lipa seemed glued !
ue niorfaevouur-eiievea mat it waa i
the effect of her own august presence, a
conviction that made her unusually gra
cious and affable.
My lady swept down the room, her
costly silk and velvet trailing after her.
Mrs. Kivers followed her, still with silent
lips and tightly clinched hands. Through
the garden, where the crimson leavea lay
on the broad path, to the little cottage,
where the woodbines hung in full flower.
She entered first, and the white-faces
woman behind her gathered all ' her
strength together.
My lady seated herself on the little
touch, the gray silk and rich velvet fol
lowing around her.
"Be seated. Mrs. Rivers," ahe said.
"You do not look strong. I hope you are
well, and like your new home. You are
a widow, I believe?" said Lady Beatrice,
looking at the close cap.
"I have lost my husband and my son,"
was the quiet reply; by this time the vio
let eyes were raised calmly and search
ing 7 to the lady's face.
"Dear me," was the conventional reply;
"how very tad. You are glad, perhaps,
of a quiet life after a great sorrow?" said
my lady, after a short pause.
"My sorrow has been and Is a very
heavy one," replied the quiet voice.
"Are you a stranger in thia part of the
wnntry?" asked Lady Beatrice.
"I have been living for some few yeara
at Sheptua," said Mrs. Rivera.
"I hope you will make yourself happy.
I shall send you fruit and flowers from
the Hall; I have been in the habit of do
lug so. Are you fond of reading?"
"It is my only pleasure," said the gov
erness; "I have no other."
"We have so many books at the Hall,"
continued Lndy Beatrice; "you can have
what you wiil from the library. I sent
down a few; have you looked over them
yetr
"I have not had time," said Mrs. Rivera,
going to the little bookcase. "These are
very nice and useful. I thank your lady
ship very much for the kind thought"
The voire was gentle enough, the words
" L'ruu? enougn, tne woras
yet Lady Beatrice thought
tere numbie,
to herself:
"How stiff and unmoved she Is."
Suddenly Mrs. Rivers saw the volume
of Wordsworth; in one instant she recog
nized it. She remembered the very after
noon when Lord Selwyn had given it to
her. Whnt did it here? Lady Beatrice
saw it in her hands.
"Io y.,u like Wordsworth?" she asked,
Condescendingly.
Rut Mrs. Kivers did not appear to have
heard the question. She had opened the
. ,k.' aml VR looking at the title page.
"To my dearest Violante; from her de
voted husband, Vivian Selwyn."
Heaven be merciful that the Bight of
the handwriting and the words did cot
lay ner.
l.ndy Beatrice glanced at it
"No," she replied, carelessly and un
truthfully, -u.rj selwyn sent it with the
others."
Mrs. Rivers repressed the cry of an
f'nsh that ruse to her lips. Did he love
her memory so little that he gave to his
dependents tlle sifts that had been hers?
" 'onie for books when you want more,"
aid Lady Beatrice. "I have some notion
of founding a library for the use of the
nlagers; if so, Mrs. Rivers, 1 shall be
Pleased to put it under your care. Re
member, at any time and in any diffi
culty, yon must apply to me."
Sb and stood, so tall and stately,
that f little room seemed too small for
her.
"I am very pleased to have seen yon.
Mrs Rivers." she said, graciously. "Mas
ter Rupert Selwyn will be riding past the
school to-day, and he will bring you the
ruies I wag speaking about I wish you
good-morning"'
"Good-morning, Lady Selwyn," mur
mured the white lips, and a cry from the
bleeding heart went up to Heaven bet-
KKDy anKuisQ. any death, than thia!
feae waa aoae. the beautiful, stately
cvm
lady; but the ncu penuu.e ot uer Rai
ments still lingered in the room. With
trembling hands Mrs. Rivera raised the
Wordsworth" she opened It, and tore
out the title page that bore her name.
"No one else shall see how little Jbe
rare for my memory," she said. "He
might have oared for my books."
Iespite her heroism and her self-sacrifice,
she was but a woman that one little
instance of his indifference hurt her more
than bis marriage had done. She laid her
tired head down upon the table and wept,
hot, bitter tears.
CHAPTER XV
Picture a long, winding road, bordered
n either side by tall trees, with over-
uanging branches, the hedges brilliant
with wild rose and woodbine, with climb
ing foxglove and strawberry blossom, the
thick, leafy branches meeting in some
places, twining their giant arms so as to
form a shady arch, the sunlight falling
through and casting quaint, graceful
shadows on the ground. Then through
tne aunlit foliage, under
houghs of the tall trees.
the moving
a handsome
irana, grand smile or a
crowned king,
As he comes riding over the shadows
under the trees, the watcher by the gate
sees him at last, and heaven is merciful
to her that the sight does not strike her
dead.
Then a great mist came before her eyes
and dazzled her, a mighty sound as of
rushing waters filled her ears, a torrent of
love rushed through her heart, making
her tremble like a leaf in the wind, for be
had stopped at the gate, and was speaking
to her.
She looked at him helplessly; her lips
fiarted, but were dumb; her eager, yearn
ng eyes were fixed on his face; her white,
nervous hands clutched at the bar of the
gate.
"I must steady myself," she thought.
"I must remember by my own act I am
dead."
"Good morning, Mrs. Rivers," a cheery,
rich voice was saying; "Lady Beatrice
asked me to call and give you these."
Her own son heaven help her! her
only child! She longed with desperate
'onf in" herself under the horse's
He flung the relna aside and ilsmouat
ed.
"I win fasten my pony to the gate," he
said, "and come inside, if yon will allow
me, Mrs. Rivers. It is very warm, and
1 have ridden fast."
Ah! if ahe could but speak to him! If
she might but cry out: "Rupert, I am
your mother! I am Violante Selwyn !"
But the white, parted lips were still
dumb.
He, looking at her, thought her strange,
sad and quiet; but the widow's cap and
the mourning dress accounted for that.
"Too will not spoil me as Mrs. Browne
did, I hope," said the laughing voice. "She
used to make such grand lemonade fot
these warm days."
I I will give you anything I have,"
he said with trembling energy.
He looked at her with little surprise.
"Good and kind, but nervous," was hit
mental comment.
"Will you really come Into my house?"
she asked faintly, seeing that he went to
ward the door.
That I will, with many thanks for the
shelter," he said, leading the way Into the
pretty little parlor, where Lady Beatrice
bad sat so lately. "I am ao glad of a
rest," said the boy, throwing himself on
the couch. "It la awfully hot, Mrs.
Rivers; how cool you look here. I should
like a glass of water."
"Nay," ahe said softly; "I have some
thins nicer than that for you."
a nH she ran to the basket, loaded with
fruit, that Lady Beatrice had sent Her
bands trembled as she took from it a
bunch of purple grapes, and a sunny,
blooming peach. She laid them on a
plate, covered a small tray with a dainty
white cloth and took it to him.
"How kind you are." he said eagerly;
"but I am robbing you."
"No, no," she told his haatily. It waa
a thousand times more pleasure to her
that he should enjoy them.
And enjoy them he did. She sat down
near, where she could watch him eating
ihe luscious grapes. How her heart
r nrned to him. her fingers tingled to
- - - - - h , with iu cngtering
'turned to touch hi. face
once only just once, one noverea rouna
him, she stood near him; she could not
feast her eyes enough on that frank, hand
some face; all her soul was In her eyes
and on her !ip- . .ni.
"These are nice," he said. "To tell the
plain truth, Mrs. Rivera, I do not get
many grapes at home. Lady Beatrice
thinks boys shonid be brought up like
young Spartans."
"Lndy Beatrice?" she repeated.
"Yes," he continued; "my father's wife.
You know Lady Selwyn la not my moth
er." he added eagerly.
"Not your mother!" gasped the white
' "Oh no." he replied: "my own mother
is dead. She was killed in a railway acci
deut at Sedi. in Italy. My mother was
a- beautiful as an angel, Mrs-Rivers.
She murmured some reply; she nevei
knew whnt.
Vhi " he continued
decisively; "she
was just as beautitnl as an augel. 1 re
Member her face quite well. I used to
drerrr. of it for years: I dream of !t now
S,.rh ovmir ey-o. " wt hl' "J
she used to kisa me so. She used to Mid
i-ie :n her arms, and kiss me as though
her heart was breaking. I do miss my
mother." , .
The handsome face grew sad, and tne
clear eyes filled with tears.
"Xo one is quite like your own mother,
he said; "and mine loved me. My father
often tells me how she used to teach me,
and fear for me; how she alwaya longed
to see me a good and great man. M
mean to be. My mother i ?mong the
angels; but she shall aee how 1 wvea u.
She can bear no more; she la fping
wildly now. kneeling at the foot of the lit
tle couch, her whole figure shaken witb
deep-drawn bitter sob, and he is stano
ing over her in deep amaae.
"What ia the matter, Mrs. KlTersT
what ia wrong?"
killed her. she controlled h.i j
I am ashamed," she said, "of givina
way so; but I had a son, once, and I lost j
"v ",Mue me tuimt of him."
'You have lost a son, and I a mother."
of the two?"
"Mine," she said softlr. "8hll ,
come to see me often. Mt Ttirxi"
les, be-said. "1 always hked coming I lne course of the blood-vessels Id
to see Mrs. Browne, and I shall be just ,ead "Imals or birds Is new exam
na pleased to see you. Whenever my ! nd the X-rays. In order to make
ratuer ia away, and Lady Beatrice la In
one of her 'humor,' as the servants can
rn m T 1 ; I . . , , - . 1
iiM- iu nue over nere. My lady
used to think a sound box on the ears a
remedy for every fault I had. My father,
uow-ever, did not agree with her."
"I should say not" she cried indignant
ly. He laughed again.
"A woman's hand could never hurt me "
he said proudly. "Good morning, Mrs.
Rivers. I will come again often, if you
will let me."
"Come when you will," she said; and
then their eyes met The boy started.
no e earth are you like. Mrs. Riv
ers?" he cried. "I have seen you before,
I am sure; or else some one like you."
She drew back in aJa an.
"Clance resemblances are common
enough," she said quietly. "I can only
hope my face reminds you of some one
very pleasant
"That lt does," he replied. "Now I
must go."
And the next minute he was on horse
back, waving his cap in a farewell salute
her.
(To be continued.)
IN A SULPHUR MINE.
Terrible Hardship- of the Boys Em
ployed Therein.
"There are but few who admire the
follectlon of beautiful sulphur crys
tals In the National Museum," remark
ed the gentleman who collected them
from the famed sulphur mines In Sicily
to a Washington Star reporter, "who
have any idea In relation to the same
except their beauty. I don't think,"
he said, "there Is another snot on earth
where such abominable treatment, such
fiendish cruelty. Is Inflicted on the la
borer as In the sulphur mines of Sicily.
They are paid barely enough to pro
vide themselves with a scant supply of
the coarest, cheapest food, and a good
portion of the time they are in a state
of chronic starvation. When I was
last there, many of the mines were
closed, and a Sicilian paper stated that
30,000 people were starring at the
mines. The work Is of the hardest and
most exhausting character. Very few
of the mines have hoisting apparatus,
and the sulphur ore (sulphur and lime
stone combined) Is brought up from the
depths below on the backs of men and
boys. Long, sloping, narrow tunnels
lead from the surface down to the sul
phur beds 200 to 600 feet or more be
low. Miners dig the stuff out, and it Is
carried up In stoat sacks or flat bas-
they wear piece of matting, or some
thing of the sort, tel4 - string
aronnd the neck. This Is to protect the
flesh from being torn from their bodies
by the Jagged corners of the ore they
carry. No one can Imagine a more
heartrending sight than to lee the
wretched creatures toiling up the long,
steep slopes In the mine with their
enormous loads. Every step they take
wrings a groan from their tortured
frames. Most pitiful to me was the
sight of the poor, bent, broken and
emaciated old men, mere battered
wrecks, and the young lads of 10 and
12 years, who have Just began this life
of cruel toll.
"Staggering along under loads full
as heavy as a strong man ongbt to
carry, the dreadful procession winds
upward through the narrow drifts and
tunnels to the surface, where the ore
Is piled up In rectangular heaps and
paid for by the cable meter.
"An evidence of the awful severity
of the labor is the fact that a very
large percentage of these lads are so
badly crippled by the time they reach
the age for military service that the
conscript officers are forced to reject
them. And I assure you that the Ital
ian Government Is not over-critical as
to the physical condition of the men
she sends by the ship load to Masso
wah to be butchered by the Abys
slnians. When the miserable creatures
leave the Inferno underground and
reach the surface they find themselves
In a veritable corner of hades. The sul
phur Is extracted at the mine by roast
ing it in immense heaps slightly cov
ered with earth, not unlike In form to a
charcoal pit The air Is so filled with
sulphurous vapors and dust as to al
most suffocate one. Not a green thing
In sight, for the poisonous vapors kill
all vegetation. The fierce sun beats
down upon one In those vendureless
valleys with great fury. On every side
there are the hot rocks, acres of Im
palpable stifling dust, and the vapors
from the calcining air can only be
compared to blasts from the infernal
region."
Prof. Martin, the Swedish savant has
discovered In the Kremlin at Moscow
l.rim nnrtlon of the Swedish war
booty captured by Gustavus Adolphus.
It appears that the majority of the sil
ver vessels and ornaments kept In the
treasury at the Kremlin are presents
at different times by various
luauv i
kings of Swedep to the czars of Russia.
There has bsn discovered in India
a strange plant which possesses as
tonishing magnetic power. The hand
touching it immediately ' receives i a
strong magnetic shock, while st a. dis
tance of twenty feet a magnet.o needle
is affected by f.
If the earth were not enveloped
with atmosphere, the temperature on
the surface would be about 330 degrees
below zero ranrennnu
. I?- ni astionttnt savs
cater-
a x ic..- - --- . r,,
Dlllar cannot see more """-
of an Inch ahead. The hairs on its
body are said to be of as much use as
lla eyes In letting it know what is go
ing on around.
There Is a fish found in Hudson
bay which absolutely builds a nest
This It does by picking up Pebbles in
its mouth and placing them Jn a reg
!., ,av nn a selected spot on the bot-
! torn of the bay, where the water is not
I very dep.
-Calvin tells of a friend of htaread
. inTaloud to him while fast asleep, all
, ficulties.being dormant except his
hearing. ColeriOg bW
I uhilosouher ,
while fast
noems. "14-udiu
-u
puenis,
asleep.
he arteries, etc.. rive a DhotosmtDh.
r "radiograph," they are first injected
ivlth mercury. Very beautiful re
mit have been thus attained.
The Lancet says that the air of
oorn can be charged with ozone by
limply suspending moist linen sheets
n a keen, dry wind, and then hanging
:hem up In the house. It Is thought
:he generation of the ozone may be
lue to the rapid passage of atmos
pheric oxygen over the broad, wet sur
faces of the sheets. Ozone exercises
i purifying effect on the air.
W. E. Roth has recently published
:he results of his studies among the
aatlve Inhabitants of the northwestern
part of central Queensland, In Aus
:ralla. His most Interesting discovery
s that of the existence of a sign lan
guage, expressed by means of the
lands, and capable of conveying com
ilex as well as simple Ideas. Mr. Roth
rives Illustrations of 213 of the man
ia! signs employed in this language,
which Is used throughout the region
itudied by him. Cannibalism, he says.
(till prevails among some of the Aus
:rallan tribes.
Statistics are presented In a recrnt
number of Nature which tend to sup
port the conclusions of Doctor Bruck
ier that there Is a regular cycle, of
ibout thirty-five years. In the course
f which the earth experiences a
hange of weather- from a cold and
ivet period, through a hot and dry
period, back to a cold and wet period
igain. According to these- statistics
we are now In one of the comparatlva-
ly dry periods, but early In the twen-
tieth century the condition ot things
will be reversed, and the wet yean
will outnumber the dry ones.
Owing to the effects of shore-lines,
ind other Influences which are more
r less obscure. It Is very difficult to
iccount for the peculiarities exhibited
by tidal waves in various parts of the
tvorld. Interfering waves cause once-i-day
tides at Tahiti, and In some
jther places, while on the other band,
in the harbors back of the Isle of
Wight, and In the Tay In Scotland,
:here are three tides in a day. The
latter have recently been ascribed to
"overtldes," produced by the modifica
tion of tidal waves running ashore,
and resembling the "overtones" of
musical sounds.
Of the two liquid envelopes that en
wrap the globe the atmosphere la the
tnaJn one might suppose without giving
- ' , . , nnt
cne maner quo cuauenuuii. iv wij
loes the wind carry vast clouds of dust
and sand from place to place, but It
bears Inland the vapor which rises
from the ocean, and which comes back
to us condensed Into rain. All the
erosion of the soil that is accomplished
by rivers, all the transportation of solid
material that these streams and the
jcean currents are responsible for.
would be Impossible were there no air.
rhe waves, too. are raised by this
agency, and their havoc must also be
charged in part to the account of the
atmospheric sea.
The " Wlll-o'-the-WIsp."
The "wlU-o'-the-wlsp" usually ap
pears In marsny piaces or iu
yards. It Is believed to be due to the
spontaneous combustion of pbosphuret-
ed hydrogen from decomposing organic
matter, and It issues from the soli as a
long flame, while on water lt Inflames
at the surface with the production of
long wreaths of phosphoric anhydride.
It can be reproduced artificially by
throwing calcium phosphide into water
or burying lt In moist sou.
a aHentiflc Frenchman. Dr. A. Bleu-
nard. reports some remarkable observa
tions of the wlll-o'-the-wlsp at Croislc.
a seaport of France, during last August
and September, the lights having been
visible every evening over a consider
able area of water. The bubbles of gas
were very large in August, during the
season of thunderstorms, but became
mailer and smaller as the temperature
fell, until the phenomenon ceased about
the 20th of September. The bubbles
were mostly confined to two basins that
contained no mud, but were receptacles
of much fish refuse. As such organic
matter as the brain of a sheep failed to
produce phospnureted hydrogen when
decaying under water, the conclusion Is
reached that the waters of the port of
Croislc must contain some rare fer
ments, hitherto unknown and existing
only under special conditions, which
decompose organic substances rich in
nhnmhonu In a manner to set free
phosyhureted hydrogen.
The Oat Fit,
. The cat fit or conniption fit, as lt is
jimetlmee called. Is a state of mind
Into which one works himself when un
duly agitated over some matter, usually
of no Importance, in which he alone, or
perhaps he and somebody else, may be
concerned. Thus some nervous per
son getting ready for a Journey might,
as the time for departure approached,
get flurried and flushed over tne prep
arations and run from one tning to an
other without making headway, be
coming more and more agitated. Imag
ining that everything was going wrong,
and that It couldn't possibly be
straightened out In time, and finally
getting Into a regular conniption fit
That form of the cat or conniption
i fit that Is due to the actions of others
springs usually from dwelling upon
the shortcomings, real or fancied, of
somebody upon whom we may have
occasion to rely; somebody hasn't come
when expected, or ne nas aone some
thing poorly, or we fancy he has, or he
hasn't done it at all, or he has misun
derstood or ignored Instructions.
Churning these Irritating things over
and over In his mind the man gradu
ally works himself Into a cat fit, a state
of excitement disturbing to omen, ana
to himself distracting.
But whatever the immediate, cause
may be, oat fits are doe prlmArtly to a
disposition to magnify trifle and to.
fret over things not worth worrying
about
A TRUE STORY.
Strong; Attachment of Two Chlcasm
Pandwtch Men.
Those who held the theory that tha
poor cannot afford to indulge In feel
ings, and that to have enough to eat la
for them to have all their longing satis
fled, should read the story of two waifs,
one of whom lately died In a Chicago
bospltaL
They belonged, says the Interior,
strictly to the ranks of those who strug
gle for the barest subsistence, earning
a scanty living by acting as "sandwich
men." or by cobbling a little for the
poorest of the poor. They were In no
way related, but they bad lived for
years In the same room, and had learn
ed to like each other and to be neces
sary to each other. If their undivided
earnings amounted to a dollar a week
they were In comfort A little more
meant affluence.
There was one fear that pressed upon
the hearts of these men they dreaded
a pauper burial. Lest either should
come to such disgrace they covenanted
to protect each other from lt and to
pay every week fifteen cents each to a
burial society which guaranteed some
thing like ninety dollars on the death of
a depositor.
Two years ago the strength of one
of these men failed. He could do no
work, and from that time the stronger
of the two supported both, and kept up
the payments of both policies.
The end came at last. The double
task fell from the shoulders of the sur
vivor. He had yet to keep his promise
to his fj-lend, however. He collected
the money for the policy, purchased a
decent casket and honored the lie.id
man with a respectable f unreal. Then
he mailed all that was left of the Insur
ance to the blind brother of his friend,
paid two weeks' premiums in advance
upon his own burial expenses, and ob
taining admittance to a city hospital
died within ten days of a broken heart
A Shrewd Collector.
An odd way of gettirg into business
was adopted by a Cincinnati ageut
His shrewdness drew the line pretty
closely between Inadvertency and petty
larceny. He bad secured the position
of collector for a mercantile bouse and
In the line of his duties be made some
forty or flf.y calls per day on delin
quent customers. He made lt a point
to borrow a lead pencil from each one
with which to do his figuring. These
he never returned unless asked to do
so. Of course, no suspicion attached
to him on so trivial a matter, for for-
getfuloess In regard to lead pencils Is
recognized as a human falling. Nearly
every one he secured was long enough
to pass muster as a new pencil, and
fl'., collecting ,4JXKV,n this way (be
the advantages of bis bid was that he
offered to furnish pencils already
sharpened. From this start his prog
ress was rapid and a basis was thus
furnished for a commodious stationery
storeJrom which be derives a comfort
able Income.
Proved True.
A lawyer whose office was on one of
the upper floors of a tall building was
about to enter the elevator one morn
ing, but stepped back In order to let a
lady who seemed to be In a hurry pre
cede him.
The "conductor," It appeared, had
been waiting for Just one more passen
ger to complete his load, and when the
lady stepped inside he shut the door
and the elevator shot upward.
"Politeness." muttered the lawyer.
"Is not always Iu own reward."
A few minutes later, however, as
cending by another "lift" he passed
that load of passengers, stuck hair-way
between floors where they remained
half an hour by some accident to the
machinery.
"I take It back." be muttered, in the
same tone as before. "Politeness Is Its
own reward !"
REFUSED TO KISS HOBSON
How a Sensible Louisville Olrl Gained
Unpleasant Notoriety.
Any sensible and modest girl, with
t grain of self -respect, would have done
what Mies Douglass Quarrler, of Louis
ville, did and yet that act has made
her the subject of unpleasant notoriety.
She refused to make a spectacle of her
self by kiselng Hobson. The Incident
which has given Miss Quarrler such
indden prominence occurred at Mac
Cauley's Theater during Hobeon's
Louisville visit The young lady is the
laughter of a high official of the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad and Is very
popular In the most exclusive society,
not only of Louisville, but of New
Tork and New Orleans as well. The
hero, with a party of ladies and gen
tlemen, occupied a box at the theater
prior to a banquet to be given In his
honor at the Louisville Hotel. Es
appearance was greeted with a storm
ot applause, and of coarse his presence
extinguished the play. After a short
addreae, made between acts, Hobson
returned to the box, in which, among
others, was seated Miss Quarrler.
Someone suggested to Hobson to kisa
her, but when he offered to do so that
young lady frigidly drew away from
him and left ttve box. The audience san
the wbole scene and waa mtenselj
amused,
Foot-ball makes demons of tome men
and angels of otters.
There Is notSnng mot unsarlafnctor
mas noTjatAss quABBma.
THE TARTARIAN LAMB.
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A E trance Plant that Closely Bee;
blea an Animal.
Among the strange stories to be found
hi the narratives of early travelers,
few are strangt.r than that of the veg
etable lamb of Tartar. This story, as
believed by the reading public, and
even by the naturalists of two cen
turies ago. Is so marvelous, and so ob
rloasly absurd that we wonder bow the
most credulous could have believed It
to be true.
The story Is tbat In an elevated and
cultivated salt plain of great extent,
west of the river Volga, there may ba
found a creature half-animal, half
plant, to which the natives give the
name of baremets. meaning "little
lamb." To obtain It the Tartars sow
In the ground a seed like tbat of a
melon, from which. In due time, rises
the strange plant having the figure of
a lamb, with the feet, the hoofs, the
ears, and the whole bead, except the
horns, of that animal, distinctly
formed.
It grows en a stalk about three feet
In height, being, according to one ver
sion, rooted to the ground by Its four
feet, while another account raises the
whole lamb, feet and all, from the
ground on a single stem, on which It Is
able to turn, and also to bow Itself
downwards to the herbs on which It
feeds. It lives as long as there Is grass
or herbage around it but when It has
consumed all within Its reach. It die,
and withers away. Its skin Is covered
with a very white down, as One as silk,
snd Is greatly prized by the Tartars,
who pull It off. and wear It as a cover
for the head.
Inside, lt Is composed of flesh and
bones, and when wounded It gives ont
a liquid resembling blood. Wolves are
said to be the only animals that will
eat It, and they are very fond of It
Specimens of this remarkable produc
tion were looked upon as the rarest
treasures In the collections of the cari
ous In days gone by. Two different
specimens have been described In the
Philosophical Transactions," and a
third has Its portrait given In an en
graving in Darwin's "Flower Garden"
and Its history told In the florid verse
of that work.
The "lamb" Is a natural prod action.
greatly helped. In the development of
the particulars In which It most resem
bles tbat creature, by the Ingenuity of
the natives The body Is a portion of
the creeping stem of a species or fern
which generally grows as erect as a
tree. This stem is densely covered with
beautiful. Jointed silky hairs, of a rich
golden color.
On the surface next to the ground a
few roots are given off, while the leaves
or fronds, as they are called in ferns
spring from the upper surface. The
fronds reach a height of twelve or four
teen feet, and have a long bare stalk
before the leaf Is spread out The Tar-
roots, and of all the
four, which are Intended to be the legs,
two short ones for the ears, and a
stump for the tall, and then, turning It
upside down, trims the stem, and so
produces this marvel of the early ex
plorers. The fern, known to botanists
as the clbotlum barometz. Is a native
of Eastern Asia: It has been Introduced
Into our conservatories, where It flour
ishes, producing, after a few years'
growth, good specimens of the "lamb."
The silky hairs of this fern form a
favorite remedy among the Chinese for
checking the flow of blood by applying
them to a wound. In the same way as
felt or cobwebs are used by some peo
ple in this country. The more fibrous
snd elastic hairs of several species of
the same group, natives of the Sand
wich Islands, are largely exported from
these Islands to California and Austra
lia for stuffing cushions and for similar
purposes. Philadelphia Times.
Smart Boy.
There's a youngster on Joy street who
hears things, remembers them and util
izes them In hie own way at borne.
The other night there was company
for dinner and JImmie startled every
one when be thus tried to relieve a
brief silence: "Papa, you smell like a
Chinese laundryman!" I
"What do you mean, you Impudent
boy." blurted the father, both embar-!
rassed and angry.
"Through your nose, of course," and
Jimmte could hear laughter after be
had gone to bed under Imperative
orders. J
Several weeks ago there waa a meet 1
lug of charitably Inclined ladies at the
house and JImmie entered In the midst
of their deliberations. After listening
long enougl to get the trend of the dis
cussion he lxk a hand. I
"Mamma." JImmie Interrupted In a
sad voice. "I know a man not three j
blocks from here that hasn't given his !
wife a thing to eat for more than a'
week." j
The good women went Into a perfect :
spasm of Indignation, some of them '
going so far as to declare that the mon-1
ster should be lynched. But the mother I
,r,a ansnlMnna nf the demnre look on
Jlmmle's face. "Who Is this cruel man.
my son?"
"Mr. Loner."
"Mr. Loner!" gasped the excited la
dles. "Why the dear old man has no
wife and never had."
When JImmie received the slipper
treatment an hour later he remarked
that It didn't seem safe to tell the truth.
Detroit Free Press.
No Explanation Bandy.
A little girl rebuked her brother for
laughing at a man with a crooked nose
who passed the noise. "You musn't
do that," she said.' "God made him
that way." "Why, do you a'pose he
did it?" asked the small boy with in
terest "Oh, I don't know." responded
the little sister. Indifferently. "Peo
ple do funny things."
The World's Wheat Klaa
The wheat king of the world reside'
ra Argentina, according to the Bostoi
Traveler. He Is an Italian emigrant,
named Guaaone, and bis broad acret
are situated In the south of the prov
ince ot Buenos Ayres. His crop occu
pies an area of 66,270 acres. He num
bers his workmen by tne thousand, cn&
each one receives a certain share of the
profits. When his season's crop Is har
vested a IBs over SV000 railway truck
f SERMONS OF THE DAY
Preached by Rev, Dr. Talmage,
abject: "Clin to the Crons" The Mat-,
tlplleltv of OpportnniHea For 'Do'naj
Cood Tnat Men or Talent Have Within
Their Iteach Brave Stay-at-Hoines.
Tsxt: "Thou art worth 10,000 of us."
tl Samuel xvlil., 3.
One ot the most wondrous characters of
bis time was David. A red haired boy, he
could shepherd a flock or carry "ten loaves
and ten sllees of milk cheese to his brothers
In the regiment," or with leathern thong,
stone loaded, bring down a giant whose
armor weighed two hundredweight of
metal, or cause a lion which roared at hlra
in rage to roar with pain as he flung it,
dying, to the roadside, or conld marshal a
host, or rule an empire, or tbnmb a harp
so skillfully that it cured Sanl's dementia
a barp from whose strings dripped pas
torale, elegies, lyrics, triumphal marches,
benedictions. Now, this roan, a combina
tion of mnsic and heroics, of dithyrambs
and battle fields, cf conntry quierndes and
statesmanship, is to fit out a military ex
pedition. Four thousand troops, accord
ing to Jospphns, were sent into the field.
The captains were pnt in command ot
the companies, and the colonels In com
mand of the rectment", which were dis
posed Into right wing left wing and
center. General Joab, General Ablshal
and General Ittai are to lead these tbrec
divisions. But who shall take tbe field
as commander in chief? David off en
his services and proposes to go to tb
front. He will lead them in the awfu!
charge, for be bas not a cowardly nerv
in all bis body. He did not propose to bav
bis troops go into perils which he himel'
would not brave, and the battlefield re
quired as much courage then as now, foi
tbeopposing forces mat. In orderto do an
execntion at all. come up to within posi
tive reach of paher and spear. But then
came up from tbe troops and from oivtllam
a mighty protest against David's taklnf
the field. His life was too important t
tbe nation. If he went down, the emnin
went down; whereas, if the whole 4000 o
the ranks were slain another army mfgh
be marshaled and the defeat turned inti
victory. The army and the nation practi
cally cried ont: "So! No! You ennno
go to the front! We estimate von a 10,001
men! "Thou art worth 10,000 of us!' "
That army and that nation then am
there reminded David and now remind n:
of tbe fact which we forget or never ap
predate at all that some people are moral
ly or spiritually worth far more thai
others, and some worth far less. Thecen
sus and statistics of neighborhoods, o
churches, of nations, serve their purpose
but tbey can never accurately express thi
real state of things. The practical suljee
tbat I want to present to-day is tbat thos.
who have especial opportunity, espeeia
graces, especial wealth, especial talent
especial eloquence, onght to make np b;
especial assiduity and consecration fo
those who have less opportunities and lea
gifts. Yon ought to do ten times more fo
God and human npiifting than those whe
have only a tenth of your equipment. Th
rank and the file of the 4000 of the ten
told the truth when tbey said, "Thou an
worth 10,000 of us."
In no city of its size are there so man
men of talent as are gatbere J in the capita
of tbe American nation. Some of the Statu
are at times represented by men who bavi
neither talents nor good morals. Theb
political party compensates them for parti
san services by sending them to Congreai
or by securing fortuem position in the wai
or navy or pension or printing depart
meats. They were nobodies before tbej
men and men of dtemplary lives aim lie
purposes. Borne of them have the gifts and
qualifications of ten men, of a hundred met
yea, of a thousand men and their con
stitnents could truthfully employ thf
words of my text and say, "Thou art wort!
10,000 of us."
With such opportunity, are they aug
menting their usefulness in every possibU
direction? Many of them are, some of then
are not. It is a stupendous thing to bav
power political power, social power, ot
fioial power. It has often been printed an
often quoted as one of the wise sayings o:
the ancients. "Knowledge Is power." Yet
It may as certainly be power for evil as foi
good. The lightning express rail train hai
power for good if it Is on the track, but
horrible power for disaster if it leaves tb
track and plunges down tbe embankment
Tbe ocean steamer bas power for good
sailing in right direction and In safe waten
and under good helmsman and wide awaki
watchman on tbe lookout, but indescrib
able power for evil if under fall bead
way It strikes the breakers. As stean
power or electricity or water forces maj
be stored in boilers, I J dynamos, in reser
voirs, to be employed all over a town oi
city, so God sometimes puts in one mat
enough faith to supply thousands of met
with courage. If a man happens to be tnui
endowed, let btm realize his opportuottj
and improve it. At tbis time millions ol
men are a-tremble lest this nation make a
mistake and enter upon some policy ol
government for the islands of the sea that
will founder tbe republic God will give
to a few men on both sides of tbis question
faith and courage for all the rest. Then
are two false positions many are now tak
ing, false as false can be. Tbe one is that
If we decline to take under full ohargc
Cnba and Porto Rico and tho Philippine
we make a declination that wiil be disas
trous to our nation, and other nations will
take control of those archipelagoes and
rule them, and perhaps to onr humiliation
and destruction. Tbe other theory Is that
If we take possession of those once Spanish
colonies we Invite foreign interference and
enter upon a career tbat will finally be the
demolition of tbis government. Both posi
tions are immeasurable mistakes. God has
set apart tbis continent for free govern
ments and tbe triumphs of Christianity,
and we may take either the first
or tbe second course without ruin.
We ir:ay say to those islands, "We
do not want you, but we have set you
free. Now stay free, while we see tbat tbe
Spauish panther never again puts its
paw on your neck." Or we may invito
the annexation of Cuba and Porto Bico and
say to the Philippines, "Get ready by edu
cation and good morals for free govern
ment, and nt the right time you shall be
one of onr Territories, on tbe way to be one
of our States."
And there is no power In Europe, Asia or
Africa, or all combined, tbat conld harm
this nation in its world-wide endeavor. God
is on tbe side of tbe right, and by earnest
Imploration for divine guidance on the part
ot this nation we will be led todo the right.
We are on the brink of notbiog. There is
no frightful crisis. This train of Republi
can and Democratic institutions is a
throngb train, and all we want is to have
the engineer and tbe bra kern en and tbe
eonduotor attend to their business and the
passengers keep their places.
A vast majority of men have no surplus
of confidence for others and bardlv
enough confidence for themselves. They
go through rite saying depressing things
and doing depressing things. Tbey chill
prayer meetings, discourage charitable in
stitutions. Injure commerce and kill
churches. They blow out lights when they
ought to be kindling tnem. They hover
around a dull lire on their own hearth and
take np so much room tbat no one can
catch the least caloric, instead of stirring
the hearth into a blaze, the crackle of
whose backlog wonld invite tbe whole
neighborhood to come in to feel tbe
abounding warmth and see the transfigur-'
ation ot tbe. faces. As we all have to:
guess a great deal abont tbe future, let ns
guess something good, for it will be more
encouraging, and tbe guess will be just as
apt to come true. Wbat a lot of tngratei
the Lord bas at His table! People who
have bad three meals a day for fifty yeara
inrt yet fear that they will soon have to.
viiile their knife and fork on an emnty
linner plate. How many have had win
:er and spring and summer and fall
ilotbing for sixty years, but expect an
nnptv wardrobe shortly) How many have
ived under free institutions all their days,
rat fear tbat the United States may be
telescoped In some foreign oolllslonl Ob,
kut the taxes have gone upl Yes, bnt
lbnk&odV -J iaU tutor witfc . monev
lo pay the taxes now that they
ire up than it was without money to pay
the taxes when they were down. We want
a few men wno have faith in God and that
mighty future which holds several things,
among them a millennium. Columbanus
said to bis friend, "Deicolus, why are you al
ways smiling?" The reply was, "Because no
one can take my God from mel" We want
more men to feel that they have a mission
to cheer others and to draw up the corners
of people's mouths which have a lon
while been drawn down, more Davids who
can shepherd whole flocks of bright hopes,
and can play a harp of encouragement,
and strike down a Goliath of despair, and
of whom we can say, "Thou art worth 10.
000 of us."
I admit that this thought of my text
fully carried out wonld change many of tbe
world's statistics. Huppose a village ts
said to have 1000 inhabitants, and that
one-half of them namely. 500 have for
years been becoming less in body, and
through niggardliness and grumbling lei
in soul. Each one ot these is only one-half
of what he once was or one-bait of what
she once was. -
That original 500 have been reduced one
half in moral quality and are really only
250. Suppose that the other 500 have
maintained their original statu and 'are
neither better nor worse. Then the
entire population of that village is 750.
But suppose another village of 1000, and
500 of them, as the years go by, through
mental and spiritual culture, augment
themselves until they are really twice the
men and women they originally were,
and the other 500 remain unchanged and
are neither better nor worse, then tbe pop
ulation of tbat village is 1500. Meanness'
is subtraction and nobility is addition.
According as you rise in tbe scale of holi
ness and generosity and consecration, you
are worth Ave or ten or fifty or 100 or 1000
or 10,000 others.
Notice, my friend, that this David, war
rior, strategist, minstrel, master of blaak
verse and stone siinger at the giant, whom
tbe soldiers of tbe text estimated clear up
into the thousandfold of usefulness on this
particular occasion, staid at borne or in his
place of temporary residence. General
Joub, General Ablshal and General Ittai,
who commanded the boys in the right wing
and left wing and centre, did their work
bravely and left 25,000 of the Lord's ene
mies dead on tbe field, and many o' tbe
survivors got entangled in the woods ot
Ephraim and mixed up in the bushes and
stumbled over the stumps of trees and foil
Into bogs and were devoured of wild beasts
which seized them in the tbi"ket.. But
David did bis work at home. We all huzza
for heroes who have been in battle and
on their return what processors we
form and what triumphal arches we
spring and wbat banquets we s.iread and
what garlands we wreathe and what ora
tions wo deliver and what bells we ring and
what cannonades we Ore! But do we da
justice to the stay at homes? David, who
was worth 10,000 of those who went out to
meet the Lord's enemies in the woods ol
Ephraim, that day did bis work in retire
ment. BOb, the world needs a day of judgment,
to give many of the stay at homes proper
recognition. In the different wars the sons
went to the front and on ship's deck ot
battlefield exposed their lives and earned
the admiration of the country, but bow
about the mothers and fathers who through
long years taught those sons the noble sen
timents that inspired them to go and then
gave them up when perhaps a fejr word
of earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the sell
sacrifice and tte fidelity of thousands who
never In all their lives received one word
ot praise. Oh, ye unknown, ye faithful
and Christian and all enduring stay at
homoMi. I have no power now to do you
lustjiee, bxt.l tell you of one who has the
poyer and ortketlme when tbe thimble
andHiejaleflMNi darnipg needle, and
f.ov, wilrcometo3niJ."i.n appreciation
as a seventy-four pounder, or the svtord, '
or the battering ram that pounded dow o
tbe wall or the flag that was hoisted on th
scaled parapets. s
The warrior David of my text showed
more self control and moral prowess it
staving at home than be could have shown
commanding in the field. He was a na
tural warrior. Martial airs stirred him.
The glitter of opposing shields fired him.
He was one of those men who feel at horn)
In the saddle, patting tbe neck of a paw
ing cavalry horse. But he suppressed him-'
self. He obeyed thecommand of tbe troopl
whom he would like to have commanded.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terlitzes have been in backwoods kitch
ens or in nursery, with three children
down with scarlet fever, soon to join
the two already In tbe cburcbyard, pi
amid domestic wrongs and outrage!
enough to transform angels into devils, ot
in commercial life within their own count
ing rooms in time of Black Friday panics,
or in mechanical life In their own carpen
ter shop or on the scaffolding of the wall!
swept by cold or smitten by heat. No tele
graphic wires reported the crisis of the
conflict, no banner was ever waved to cele
brate their victory, but God knows, and
God will remember, and God will adjust,
and by Him the falling of a tear is as cer
tainly noticed as the burning of a world,
and the flutter of a sparrow's wing as tbe
flight of the apocalyptic archangel.
Oh, what a God we have for small things
as well as big things! David no mon
helped at the front than helped at borne.
The four regiments mobilized for the de
fense of the throne of Israel were right in
protesting against David's expose of bis
life at the front. Had he been pierced of an
arrow or oloven down with abattleaxoi
fatally slung forsnorting war chnrger.what
a disaster for the throne of Israeli Absalom,
bis son, was a low fellow and uutlt to
reign; his two chief characteristics were
his handsome face and his long hair so
long that when he had lt cut that which
was scissored off weighed "200 shekels,
after tbe king's weight," and when a man
has nothing but a handsome face and an
exuberance of bair there Is not much ot
him. Tbe oapture or slaying of David
would have been a calamity irreparable.
Unnecessary exposure would have been a
crime for David, as It Is a crime for you.
Some people think it is a bright thing to
put themselves in unnecessary peril. They
like to walk up to tbe edge of a precipice
and look off, defying vertigo, or go among
contagions when they can be of no use but
to demonstrate their own bravado, or with
glee drive horses which are only harnessed
whirlwinds, or see bow closi-'they can walk
in front of a trolley car without being
crushed, or spring on a rail train after it
has started, or leap off a rail train before it
has stopped. Their life is a series of
narrow escapes, careless of what predica
ment their family would suffer at their
sudden taking off or of tbe misfortune
that might come to their business partners
or the complete failure of their life work.
If a coroner's jury must be called In to de
cide the style of their exit. They do not
take Into consideration wbat their life Is
worth to others. Taken oil through
such recklessness they go crimluals.
There was not one man among
:hose four full regiments of four
thousand Ismelites that would have s-
xuch enjoyed being in the light as David,
ut he saw tbat he could serve ills nation
jest by not putting on helmet and shield
ind sword, and so he took the advice of tbe
irmed men and said, "What seemeth to
Fou best I will do." I warrant that you
vill die soon enough, without teasing and
cantering casualty to see if it c-an launch
rou into the next world.
Some of the screws used in wntch
es are so small that it takes 380,000 of
them to weigh a pound.
The world uses 3,000,000 steel pens
a day.
In the Black sea no animal life of
any kind is found at a depth below
1,200 feet, owing to the large amount
of hydro-sulphuric acid.
The Tibetans have a week of five
days, named after iron, wood, water,
feathers and earth.
A snake does not climb a tree by
coiling round it, but by holding on
with the points of its scales. A snake
could not climb a glass pillar.
A floral weather prophet la found
in the marigold. When the day is to
continue fine, the flower opens about
three or four o'clock; but when wet
weather is near, the marigold does not
open at all.
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