' r B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOfl-r-THE UntOn-ADD THE EHFORCEUEnT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LIU MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1899. NO. 46 UffU "1 A? L3 LiU U U L3 11 a CHAPTER It was midday when the detective en tered the door of his home after the in quint was over. There was a thoughtful look on his face, and it was necessary for his wife to ad dress him twice before he answered her. "The jury of inquest. I Mag. Why don't rod answer me? Did they, hold Kobert CnHipbvll for trial?" "Yes; I will be ready in a moment. Mar tha in a moment. Has Callian returned" I pave him a commission." "The decision of the jury of inqnest Lang? Did they hold Itoliert Cnmpbel for trial? You are dreaming again." "Oh! Yes, certainly, wife; they held hire for trial." "Poor Mrs. Campbell. Poor daughter, ind poor Robert. I don't believe he' if guilty. Lane." "Time will tell, wife." "I know you don't think so. Yoa an not satisfied. Yon have auother mysterj n your hands. I can tell when you are suzzled." "Where is Willie, wife?" "There he comes in at the gate now Since I put trousers on him I can't keep Jim in the house," "Come here, yoa rascal!" cried Lane s he threw open the door, and in a mo ment more he was tossing the urchin np to the ceiling. "I goin' do that, papa," he said, wker his father placed him on the floor. "Do what, son?" "Toss up the kids when I get to be a treat big detective." "Kids? What are kids. WillieT "Why, the boys I'm a kid." "Better put the dress back on htm again, wife. We don't want any kida in our family." "Then I won't be a kid, papa." "That'a right, son never be a kid. Ba. Callian, wife; has he returned?" "He was in the kitchen scouring np your revolvers a few minutes ago. He had quite an arsenal there. But come, let Cal ban go until after dinner. It is on the table now." "As you say, wife. You are the rnlei ttf this domain." After dinner was over, Lang returned '.o his office, filled his long-stemmed pipe, ighted it and seated himself at his desk. "Let's see," he muttered. "To-day is the nineteenth of August. Court convenes the fifteenth of September less than a month. Well, there is plenty of time, or should be, and then, the case la not apt to be called at once. Calban! Calban!" - "Here I 1 Mara Langr exclaimed the negro, as he entered the room, a bundle under his arm. "Well, did you find an opportunity to go through the barn while the inquest was going on?" "Adam was at de house watchln dc Jury, and Ben, de stable boy, was in de kitchen. I reckon I went frou' dat barn, Trom de sills up. Mars Lang. What yon link I find?" "I can't tell, Calban; but If there was tnything there of a snspicious nature, yon would be sure to find it, I know." "Golly, Mars Lang, I's got a clue! Look rere!" With a quick movement Calban tore away the paper covering from the package be had held under his arm. "A bloody shut!" he exclaimed, as he held the garment up before the detective. "And a hickory shirt, at that," said Sellars, taking the garment from his hands and spreading it out on the flat top of bis desk. "Yes," he continued, "blood! Blood, surely, both on the right sleeve and the shirt bosom. That on the bosom the wearer tried to wipe off, and as a result ipread It over a greater surface. A bloody shirt! You found it in the barn?" "Yes, Mars Lang in a barrel in de har ness room." "A suspicious circumstance at this time. Why, there are spots all over the bosom, is if they had squirted there from some jet of blood suddenly turned loose. In a barrel in the harness room, you say? Was the barrel covered, tho shirt secreted ?" "A set of harness was hanging over de barrel. Mars, and some empty grain sacks was on top of it. I moved de grain sacks, and foun' dis shut on top of a lot of ole currycombs and brushes. I took de shut, and klvered np de barrel. I 'spec' it's Adam's shut." "Or Ben's," observed the detective. "oIly, "tain't Ben's, Mars Lang. Dat hut too big fer Ben." "True, but it is not one of Adam's driv ing shirts. The banker would not have allowed him to mount the box of his car riage with that shirt on." "I allow. Mars, dat dat shut is one of his wokln' shuts, what he wears 'bout de barn dat's what I calcerlate." "Yon may be right, Calban. At any rate, this blood, in places, is hardly dry. It has not been many hours since It came from the veins of living man or beast. You have found a clue, Calban! A due! Had you talked with Adam before the inquest commenced T' "Yes, Mars Lang, and Adam worried mightily. He say he los de bes master a nigger eler had, and he 'test hisself mistily 'dignant, dot anybody kill him." "Did you learn where he claimed to be at the time the murder must have been committed?" "Adam eotirtin' a nigger gal what be long to Dr. Freeman, on Fronfstreet; she his cook. I spec' dat s why Adam courc ln' her niirirer mighty fond sttthin good to eat. Well, Adam clar he dar. in Dr. Freeman's kitchen till ten o'clock. Den he "lows he went home, and went to sleep n de ham. and de fust tluff he knowed nex was when he year Unc' Duke calliu' of him. Dat j what he claim. "Did yon ever hear Adam make ant remarks about Herman Craven?" "Dun know nutthin bout de nigger. Mars Lang. He say dis morula Mars Herman mighty oberbearin, and he 'sped he done eat he sweet broad, now he ole master dead. Nigger mighty 'ceitful some times." "White men as well, Calban." "He may have been a pliant tool In the bands ef Herman Craven, but even un nVr his training I should not suppose he ronhl have mustered np the resolution he necessarily must have had to have stolen in on his master and struck that Wow," thought Sellars. "True, Craven might have promised him his freedom, but it is by no means certain that this shirt is the property of Adam, and by no means cer tain that he placed It In the barrel." For five minute the detective, sat pon- Bering tns matter over and gazing down in the bloody garment before him. Sud ienly he turned to the negro: "What is the name of this negrrss cook f Dr. Freeman's?" he asked. "She call hersef Cindy Freeman Dr Freeman raise her." "Well, you have a severe toothache, Calban a terrible toothache!" The negro grinned. " to to Dr. Freeman, tell him I sent yon for something to ease your tooth. See this girl, Cindy, and in your own way ns ,Vr?'n if Adam was there last night ami. if so-, a,- what time he took his departure. Yon understand?" "Yes, Mars Lang. I nnderstan. I tell ber I hear dat Adam, de coachman of de rich banker what got kill, was courtin ler. She-lak dat. Den she say: 'Mr. De Kossette war here las' night.' Oh. 1 fine It oof." "Well, after jou have ascertained that p to the bankers, xou may be able to ee Hannah without anyone else observ ing yoa; If so, tell her to slip over here at aine o'clock to-night, sharp, for five min xes, without the knowledge of anyone I bout the premises. - "After that keep your eyes on Adam nn dl dark, unknown to him. Watch his ev- ry movement. The carriage will proba bly not be out to-day. Notice if Adam goes to the honse, also if Herman Craven visits the barn, and at half past eight tell Adam that I wish to see him. Mark well how ne receives the news, and bring him here with you. Do not let him visit the house or leave your presence after you have delivered this message until he stands before me in this room. Kshall be busy until that time. You may go now. You have done well." "Tank you, Massa! My"toof am hop nin" right now," and Calban, with one land at his ponderous jaw, left the room. The detective spread two newspapers vcr the shirt, placed several books on top f them, and left the office, locking the loor behind him. "This may or may not be an important clue," he thought, as he made his way iown town. "At least, it is one that must be followed np. I must ascertain, and to a certainty, how a shirt of the" negro Adam happened to bear blood stains at this critical time. For aught I know the life blood of the banker marks it, and Adam, the coachman, is the accomplice if the villain who rang the door bell. CHAPTER X. At eight o'clock the detective entered ais office, and lighted the two lamps that it contained. He laid two large revolvers on one corner of hia desk and beside them placed a pair of handcuffs, shackles and a coil of rope. "A formidable array," he thought aa he .-overed them with a paper. "Any ordi lary man's knees would quake under him at sight of that layout. It will not be difficult to obtain a confession from Adam, if he did the deed. And then, to weave a network around the form of Herman Cra ven." He was seated at his desk when the door opened, and Calban conducted the sable coachman into the room. Adam was a coal black negro of, per haps, thirty years of age, of medium stat ure, and a fair type he looked, as he stood there, dressed in the livery of Alvin De Uosette, of the old-time coachman, be fore the black race was emancipated. There was a look of curiosity, but not jf fear, on his black face as the detective said: "Come forward, Adam, and stami before this desk. The negro did so. "A little more to the left, Adam righi jppoeit the center. There, that will do. How came you with your livery on to night?" "Kaze I been spectin' orders to gear up and bring de carriage out all day, Marx Lang. I tought dey might want it in a hurry and I would be ready. I jes' tel; Ben be could take de harness off de horse when I lef de barn." "I believe you go by the name of Adam DeRossette? You never had any olhe master than Alvin DeRosette?" "No, Mars Lang, no, and I nebber 'spec' to have as good a one again. Thar ain no mo' lak Mars Alvin." "Then why, yon villainous wretch, did you murder him?" exclaimed the detec tive, springing to his feet, his black eyc Hashing and seemingly piercing to the ne gro's soul, as with a sudden movement b snntched the papers from the desk. Adam was paralyzed. An ashen coloi overspread his black features. His knees knocked together. His eyes were fixed on those of the detective, before whom many a murderer bad quailed. He en deavored to speak, but bis lips emitted no sound. "Look on the evidence of your guilt, Adam DeRosette! Look on this desk, and not at met" The negro's eyes followed those of Sel lars, and the first object that met his downward gate was a bloody garment that thirty-six hours before had rested on his own back. "My my shut! Wha whar you get dat shut. Mars Langr' he mattered, in fsurprise, almost forgetting his sudden alarm. ... "Yoa admit that the shirt is yours. v.lnm DeRosette. Where did you place ii d rtop von had perpetrated your foul crime?" -I i nnt dat shut in a barrel In de bar mom of de bam, whar I keeps my durty close, and I kivered it up wid some grain bags. Mars Lang, arter I kill some -hickens xer aoui mornin . , i j ,!,. hlnod- Adam DeRosetteT' "What dat blood came from? Why. d chickens what I W1I fer Aunt nannab t---. j tiok or com woou now, back of de kitchen, whar I cut dar heads off. Dar was three of dem. One was a rooster, and anus yoa oorn. s. when I clip his haid, de raacal flew right . J A klAAjt annlrt all ober agin me. nere, ---., "u,. " . ' t. w ,M kill rhlck- my snut. riannau ---- - - better dan aat, wneu uw - Dat's what make me put dat shut in de barrel, kaxe 'twas a clean shut dat morn in'. Lord, how yoa skeer me, Man iLangl I era scacely stand up. Fer de Lawd s sake, wha' yoa gwlne do wid dem'vorvers lad dl Oder tings? De Lnwd h.b mer cy on Adam! You's got a rope, too!" Down on hi knee, sank the negro with There. there! Get up, Adam, get up.' cried Sellars. who saw how far from ha ing a clue to the banker's murder he was. 'What did I tell yon, Calban T" ne said. turning to that Individual. "I knew I could frighten him ont of his wits. Get up, Adam, I only wished to show tjaibsn that yoa were not as brave aa he thought yoa. He has been boasting that if yoa had slept In the house yoa would have fought for your master's life." 'I I'd a fit till I died. Mars Lang." sobbed the negro, giving a deep sigh oi relief as he arose to his feet; "but whar yoa get dat shut?" - "Oh, I had to have that to carry ont mj plan. It was easy to obtain it I know they had chickens for dinner at your mas ter's yesterday." "Fer de Lawd's sake!" "Yea, and I know yoa were courting. Cindy Freeman, and spent the evening of the night of the murder with her In Dr. Freeman s kitchen r "Lawd! Ia yon got any ting agin dat, Mrs. Lang?" "Nothing, Adam, nothing. And now, mind you, not a word to a living soul that yoa have been here; not a word of what has passed." "Not one, Mara Lang. But did yoa sus picion shu nuf dat I kill ole massa?" . "Pshaw, have better sense, Adam. Was not Robert Campbell held for the murder, and is he not now in jail?" "Yes, Mars Lang, he is; but I doan be liene dey has got de right man." "Whom do your suspicions rest oa, Adam?" "I ain't got none. Mars Lang I dnnno." "Who have you had occasion to drive ibout town the oftenest in the carriage after dark during the past year, Adam?" "Why, Mars Herman," said the negro, looking nneasily toward the door. "Ole massa was never out nights, dat Is, scace ly." "So yoa have driven Herman Craven out nights?" "Yea, Mars Lang, often. Sometimes, moonlight nights, to de sound, where a lot of young gemmens would go fer frolic, :ind sometimes 'bout town. Often he keep me standin' wid de carrige till midnight." "Where. Adam?" "Well, if you believe me. Mars Lang, mos eberywhar. Bat whar my team is standin. he ain't dar. He Just tell me to wait dar." "Where does he go?" "Mars Herman not lak a nigger much, so how, and I skeered to say much 'bout iim. I wus alweya skeered he'd swade le massa to sell me; he said he could." "He did, did he? Well, your master is lead. Yoa are. not Herman's property, and never will be. Your mistress will not sell you, and I promise to be your friend. Now, have no fear." "Tank de Lawd! Well, he goes a heap ib places a young gemmen ought not to St, Mars Lang: but de place be goes de oftenest to is what dey calls de 'Planters Rest,' down on Water street. Dey says Jars gamblin' goin' on dar, upstairs what dey calls 'rowlet and 'fario' and 'poker.' " "Yes, yes, I know the place. Bo he oft en has been there until midnight? When was he there last?" "De las I knows of was "boat a week ago. Yoa know, he don't always take de carrige downtown. "Does be take those yonng bloods out with hint In the carriage, occasionally?" "Why, he hab it full sometimes, when dey goes to de sound, and dey generally has a case or two ob brandy and wine, and has awful times." "Are there any that he is especially friendly with?" "He friendly wid all on em. Mars Lrng all dat set. I spect Ward Taylor was one of his chnms till you trail him down fer de Mulberry murder." "Indeed! Has he ever brought any of these parties to the house?" "No, Mars Lang, be dassent do dat, fer fear ob ole mareter." "You are sure that yon have never seen me of them in your master's house?" "Certain, Stars Lang! Certain!" To be continued. I GENERAL SPORTS. Lew rtvall Is out with a challenge to meet any 115-pound boxer In Phila delphia. A - fifteen-round flgiit between John Henry Johnson and Ellwood McCloskey Is being arranged. A Syracuse (N. Y.) club has offered a modest purse for a fight between Joe Goddard and Kd Dunkhorst. John Bennett, of MeKeesport, Pa,. got the decision over John Jenkins, of Springfield, Ohio, In a fast eight round boxing contest before the Cadillac Ath letic Club, of Detroit. Bennett was about 15 pounds the heavier, and waa the aggressor most of the time. Jen kins, however, made an excellent show ing, and used a right hand Jab quite effectively. . Steve O'Donnell. of Australia, who was to box Thomas Carey, of New York, at Lexington. Ky.,- for twenty rounds, refused to go on. He was to get a percentage of the receipts, and gave as his reason that his share would not justify his entrance. "Kid" Mc Coy did not put in an apperaance as advertised. The Lancaster Cycling Club has or ganized a football team, and the men are hard at work getting Into ehape for the games they expect to play. Tne Active football team, of Lan caster, has reorganized for the season, with Albert Hutton as manager. "Kid" McCoy Is In Cincinnati and says his $1000 to make good his chal lenge to box Fitzslmmons will remain up until the time limit expires, for he does not believe that Fitzslmmons In tends to meet him. Meanwhile he has an offer from Wm. A. Brady, In New York, to box Peter Maher for a purse of J20.000 before Brady's Athletic Club, about the last of November. He will gladly accept this, if Fitzslmmons does not contest. Useful Hints. To make your light brilliant, rub tho lamp chimneys after washing, with dry salt. Overheated rooms are more injurious to plants than a temperature lower than is usually advised for them. Use warm water Instead of cold for watering the tropical plants, such as palms, rubber plants, orange treea, etc If black underwear, stockings or black yarn that Is to be knitted is boiled a few minutes In milk the dye will not stain the skin. Limewater will sweeten jars and Jugs which soap and water fall to cleanse. It Is admirable for cleansing milk ves sels and nursing bottles. Yellow oil stains left by the sewing machine will easily be removed in the wash if they are first rubbed over with a little liquid ammonia. To raise the nap on cloth soak It in cold water for half an hour, then put on a board and rub the threadbare parts with a prickly thistle or emery. Creamy Hair-Wash. One ounce oil of sweet almonds, one ounce strong liquid ammonia, two ounces rosewater, four ounces spirits of rosemary. Mix well. To be well rubbed in the hair. Queen Victoria wets her own tea. It ia black, and costs about SL15 a pound. ' . . NEVER TASTE WITtiR QUEER FACT ABOUT HAWAIIAN HORSES AND CATTLE. iber Coam Over m District Where There Are No Welle or Streams ana Blake lhelr Tairat by Katl the Kit veGnW The proverbial horse which can be led to water, but which cannot be made to drink, exists In great numbers In the Hawaiian Islands. Among the cattle be has thousands of cousins of the same proclivities.1 It Is a surprising statement to make, ind yet one that la ltteratly true and so commonplace that no one there, thlqks anything about It, and there are : hundreds of horses and thousands of cattle which never take a drink of wa-, tcr throughout the whole course of their lives. On all the Islands the upper altitudes of the mountains are given up to cattle ranges. The cattle run wild from the time they are born until they are rounded tip to he sent to the slaughter I e. Except during possibly two or three months of the rnlny season, there are no streams or pools of water In any part where the cattle range. V Hut everywhere there grows a re -uiubont Jointed grass, known by tho, native name of manlnla. This Is both food and drink. Horse and cattle grazing on It neither require water not will they drink It when offered. ? Our first experience with this fact was on a trip to Haleakala. A party, were mounted on horses which had jnst been brought In from the range, The Journey they made was fourteen miles. In which distance the ascended; nlM)ut O.0CO feet. The party started In the afternoon ind about sunset halted for supper. They thought It strange that the horses should leave a feed of grain to nibble) the scanty grass which grew near bj; but were witling to trust their instinct in tne matter. 5 However, before starting they hv listed that they be given water. The native guide demurred to this, saying they didn't need It, but, with the good natured complaisance of his race, yielded to requests, and led a detour of alout a mile, which brought the party to a ranch bouse, where there was & welL But, to the utter amazement and stupefaction of the travelers, the horses would not drink. i They took It as another case of in stinct, and assumed that the water, for some reason, was not good, and so refrained from drinking It themselves. It was not until the return, the second day, to Kawaapae, that the travelers learned the secret of the wonderful manlnla grass. IKEY l SAODEft AMP JgStW. ya-Opealaaj Kxpwrlaace of a ftaaart Maa froaa Mew York. "Yea know my brother Ikey, ot jourse?" said the New York man. "Ikey ind I have been partners In buameaa for twelve years. He has always stuck to the desk, while I have done the travel ing. Ikey had an Idea that New iork couldn't run a day without him. He also thought himself the cutest, smart est man In the big town. Other New Yorkers wlu never get ten miles out of town have the same idea. Things hap pened to me on the road now and then, and I told Ikey about 'em, but I never could get him to believe that there was a man outside of Gotham who knew enough to rake in a poker pot with a straight flush In his hand. A few weeks ago I got hurt, and Ikey had to go out or lose customers. When he finally con cluded to go he went with bta hat on his ear and a pocketful of 50-cant ci gars. He was prepared to dazzle everybody. " 'Ikey,' Bays I. aa he was ready to go. look a little out for gum games. You'll run across chaps wbo know a crowbar from a clock.' " 'Bahf says Ikey. as he picked up hlb rip and started off with a smile of con tempt on his face. "Well. I'm near dead ot laughing over his adventures. He got off at Albany and was lugging his grip uptown, when a boy steps up and says: " 'He-llo. Senator! Glad to see you. I'll carry that grip and make no charge.' "It tickled Ikey to be taken for a Sen itor, and It tickled htm to save a dime, I. nt the hov got away with the grip. and Ikey was hung up for two days until the police found it At Kocnemer, as he was standing around the station, stranger fell against him and said: " 'Beg pardon, but ain't yoa the man who Is going to build the Panama canal? " 'I'm thlnklns of it- said Ikey. sooet in a Judge, but three minutes later be duds his watch gone. "In Buffalo, as he came out of his aotel, a stranger asked him tf be wasn't the Governor, and then added: 'Excuse m. nrhlla I kTMCk that fl V off I "Ikey rather carried the Idea that he was the Governor, but the stranger bad got his diamond pin. In Cleveland one of our old customers set out to make things pleasant for my brother, and af ter dinner said to mm: " 'Say, Ikey, we've got a new game out hero, and maybe you'd like to take a hand In? It's called poker, and there's a great chance to show your nerve by Muffing. "'A new gamer says Ikey, as be throws up his hands. "Wly, we've been playing poker in New York for the last 200 years! "And Ikey took a band tn, and when the Buckeyes got through with him he was $70 out of pocket. Getting aJong to Toledo a man worked $25 out of btm on a bogus check, and in Detroit he was let in as a mm winner on a horse race and lost $33 more. Tnat sai night a thief entered his room and stole ill bis clothes, and he had to telegraph nie to get others to go home in. While be was on the way a ptckpocket got bis last dollar, and be Couldn't even pay . car fare borne from tne station. If a tore subject with Ikey. and yoa CeDows must handle bun gently, bat tt wtB do htm a heap of good in tbe end. Tne (weittng In bta bead bat gone down by tnira arreaoy, am ne ia unm zkm to admit that be Isn't InfaBiMe." - , Tyndall's plan for purifying wate by means of electric currents has been tried successfully In the Bruges Canal la Belgium. After being subjected t current of 1,000 volts the water be t-ame pure and palatable. Tbe acids of apples are exceeding!! dseful through their stimulating taiflu- nee upon the kidneys, whereby poi sons are removed from tbe body and the blood and tissues purified. Th acids of apples are all highly useful at a means ot aismrecttng the stomach, Since the ordinary germs that grow in tbe stomach, producing biliousness, headache and other troubles, will not (row in fruit Juice or fruit pulp. Attention Is called tn medical Jour nals to the desirability of testing rail road employes 'for defective hearing a well as for color blindness. A recent examination tn Europe developed the fact that out of eighty-two firemen and engine drivers only three possessed perfectly normal hearing. It Is sug gested that there should be a standard of hearing power for the examination of employes wbo have to depend upon found signals. According to Prof. Morltz, wrltlnc h a German medical periodical, tbe most speedy absorption of a drug Into the human system is secured by adminis tering It with water on an emptj stomach. In many cases, he says, a definite effect will thus be product d. whan no effect would be iierccptlble trom the same dose administered short ly after the taking of food. Upod taken Immediately after medicine retards the absorption of the drug. Scotch and Austrian pines have oal two needles to a cluster. These trcs, not being native to this country, are found only as ornamental foliage In parks and gardens. Tbe Norway spruce so generally liked for Christmas trees has needles that do not grow In clus ters, but singly along the short stems, and are not more than an inch or two long. Their great virtue Is tn being slow to fall; often the needles hang on a growing tree for six or seven years. Among the places visited by the Ger man exploring ship Valdivla, recently returned from the Antarctic Ocean. was Bonvet Island, which, although discovered In 1739, was only known to have been sighted twice since Hs discovery, and until the Valdlvia'g visit had not been seen for more than seventy years. The Island Is the sum mit of a volcanic mountain rising 3,000 feet above the sea. Its crater Is entire ly covered with Ice, which caves down In a steep wall to sea level. It Is situ ated about 1300 miles west of south fromtteCpe ot Good Hope The sky of Italy Is noted for Its cleat- ness. The blue is deeper, not because tbe dust there is Bner-than in the north ern countries, but because In the coun tries of tbe north, due to the greater coolness of the air, tbe vapor more readily condenses upon tbe dust parti cles. The dust particles thus become larger, and consequently not so effec tive In turning back the blue rays alone, but others are also reflected and a grayish effect Is produced. In a single location the blue of the sky may ap- pear bluer at one time than another. The sky is oftentimes said to be very blue wben some white cumulus clouds are outlined against K. The sky Is then a deep blue by contrast with tbe brill iant white. After a shower, wben the lower stratum of air Is washed of Its coarse dust particles, a deeper and purer blue Is the result. Mora Safety for Poor Jack. Twelve years ago one sailor out ot every 100, on an average, lost bis life by accident. Now the proportion has been reduced to one in 230. A Sagacious Klephnt. G. E. Peal states that he once saw young elephant deliberately fashion a surgical Instrument. He saw the ani mal In question go to a bamboo fence and break off one of the pickets; thie picket It further fractured with It trunk and one of Its fore feet until It obtained a sharp fragment some ten or twelve Inches in length. Then, leaning forward on one of its forelegs, it thrust this fragment, which It grasped with its trunk. Into Its "armpit," and vig orously moved it to and fro. As a re sult of this operation a large elephant leech was dislodged, which dropped to the ground and was at once ground to mincemeat beneath the horny toes of tbe sagacious brute, which grunted it Intense satisfaction! Jessie, the elephant mentioned above, had some knowledge of pneumatics. One day I tossed a peanut, which fell to the ground some eight or ten Inches beyond the utmost reach of her trunk. She stretched out this organ to Its full est extent toward the peanut, then blew through it a sudden, quick and powerful blast. The peanut was hurled against the wall, whence It bounded and then rolled beneath the feet of the Intelligent animal, which at once swal lowed. I tried this experiment several lmes, each time with a like result, Scientific Americaa. Dead Juanirumgea- Tbere are certain language, whlcK although they axe still spoken and written tn, are to aS Intents and pur pose dead. For Instance, Icelandic is practically Identical with the dead Norse language, out of which the Scan dinavian tongues have grown. So, too, Provencal, tbe ancient language ol Pro vine la, and the speech m which the troubadours sung, has now sunk to the level of a patois, although a certain French Uterary school Is making ef forts to revive It as a Uterary language. Hebrew, again, though still spoken, la to all Intents and purposes dead In the sense that Greek and Latin are. Corn ish, Manx and the old, mysterious Romany tongue are also example wblch should be mentioned. Polyglot Dark CoaUneoc AMcahaa very nearly TOO languages, and this fact presents great diffUmlrtes lb mlasrlfir-tTar effort. RIDES BUY WEDDING RINGS. drowla Practice WbJcfa Om Jeweler Tblaka Has aa Advaatast. Isn't that a new wrinkle?" asked die chance observer. "Whatr said the clerk. "For tbe bride to buy tbe wedding .ing, replied tbe observer, turning to look at the yonng woman wbo bad Just gone out with her purchase of a 14 karat, gold-filled ring. The clerk, who tamed out to be. the proprietor also, laughed. "Not at all In this part of town," he said. "Tbe prac tice has been In vogne here for several years and baa continued to grow In popularity until It has become quite the proper caper. Indeed, when a man comes In here now and asks to look at plain gold rings we-consider htm a lit tle off color, and feel rather mean to ward htm, as though he were usurp ing a feminine prerogative, looking at the matter from a common sense standpoint. It saves no end of trou ble. A ring from a woman's point of view is a matter not only of sentiment, but also of adornment. She wants her Jewelry, however cheap It may be, to be of the proper cut and the proper Rise. Now, what man, I'd like to know, ran go In and select the right kind of ring even If he has got tbe measure? Not one out of twenty. It Is a lot more satisfactory for all concerned for the bride to come In and pick out what he wants without troubling the bride groom, except, of course, for tbe money. He always settles tbe bill; at least. I suppose he does. "You see, this Is a neighborhood where the people don't stand much on tbe fine points of etiquette. Tbey In sist upon the ring to tie up the contract with, but two-thirds of these rings are nnengraved and sell for from $2 to $4. It's fun to see some of the women when tbey first state their errand. They beat about tbe bush and make Jielr wants known in such a coquettish way that I don't wonder, sometimes, that the young man, whoever he may be. has lost his head. Maidenly mod esty, I suppose, makes them shy. and they begin by saying they are looking for a plain gold ring for a friend with i finger "about the size of mine.' When they say that, I always smile; I know what It means." Chicago Inter Ocean. .EGEND OF A PRAIRIE GRAVE. I eaeath tbe Vlowera Lie the Remain of a t-oldler'e Yonac Wife. Near the top of the highest knoll oi. .he rolling prairie three miles south west of old Fort Hays, In Kansas. Is a lonely grave In the prairie grass. There Is a board at the bead and another at the foot. Theae boards may once have borne an epitaph, bat now they arc browned rnd worn by the sun and storms of jiany years, and they are de cayed at the ground and stand at an u ge, almost ready to falL A prairie rabbit has madrtts borrow at the foot of tbe grave. All around tt the grass" la full ot pnrple and yellow flowers. Standing by tbe grave and looktng north and east there lies stretched out landscape of wondrous beauty. Th? green sod of the plains elopr'g'radually down from the grave a distance ol three miles to the cluster of long gray and yellow empty buildings which were the barracks and officers' quarters of Fort Hays when this was the far West yais before there was a railroad In Kansas. Beyond the fort is tne town of Hays City, a group of yellow etone and red brick buildings. Beyona ' stretches the prairie, north and cast, to the horizon line twenty and thirty miles away. Diagonally across this stretch of level plain runs a thread of vivid green from northwest to southeast, the trees that fringe Big Creek. There are no other trees anywhere else tn th andscape. Tbe legend of tbe lonely grave Is that years ago, when the Fort Oys bar racks were full of troops, an army hos pital steward brought hts young wife there to live with htm. Each Sunday the officer and hts wife walked out to this hill, and they used to sit down on the shady side of It near tbe summit and gaze for hours out at the landscape below. Then they could see the herds of buffalo roaming over the prairie, and ouce In a while a band of Indians sour- -ylng across It. with a deadly fever. Before she died she nsked her husband to promts? that he would bury her body near the top ol tbe hill, at the very spot where they used to sit and look out over tbe won derful landscape. He kept the promise and there Is her grave. Tbe only flow- era be could get to plant upon It wer the wild flowers of the prairies and '.hey are blooming there yet. Annoyed by Cook's Sina-lnc A lady on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, rho was suffering from a severe head ache one day last week was annoyed by the loud staging of the cook In the kitchen. Going to the bead of the stairs, she said: "Bridget, I have s frightful headache and I do wish yon would stop staging that song." "All rolght, mum," waa tbe answer. "Pfa vong shall Ot sing?" Verasna Dlettsun-isbed. The Duke of Veragua has two claim to distinction tn bis own country be it a ltneai descendant of Columbus, and the principal breeder of bulls for tlw natloual sport of Spain. He has Im mense herds of splendid animals, which are under tbe charge of his brother, Christopher Columbus. Slavery to Fashion tn Cblaa. A missionary paper reports that th opposition to the Natural Foot Society In China comes chiefly from tbe wom en, wbo are afraid to go against fash ion. . Qo-lnt Epitaph tn wales. .at a churchyard in Flintshire an ep aph tn memory of Hugh Hughes, high sheriff tn 174S, says of that worthy functionary that In private life "his manner was constantly to attend the public worship as by law established, heartily to declare against tbe upstart sect of tbe brainsick Oalvmletle Meth odist that would have taken men off from it; timely to compose differences between neighbors ere tney beeam exasperated. By which behavior to was valued wben living and dead muh lament e4" SERMON BY Rw. Dr. Calmagc Sattjeet: The Water Brooke Tbe Gospel or Kefresbmeat Show How We May Kinds tbe Hoaada of Trouble and Safely Beach the Lak of Dlvtoe Solace. (Copyriab fxrais Klopach. Washihotoic, d. C. The Gospel as k great refreshment is here set forth by Dr. Talmage, under a figure which will be found particularly arraphle by those wbo have gone oat as hunters to Und game in tbe mountains; teit. Psalm xlli., 1, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks." ' David, who must some time have seen deer hunt, points us here to a hunted stag making for tbe water. Tue fascinating ani mal, called la my text tbe hart, is the same animal that In sacred and profane litera ture Is called the stag, the roebuck, tbe hind, the gazelle, the rcludeer. In central Syria in Bible times there were whole pas ture fields oi tbem, as Solomon suggests when be sav"- ''I charge yoa by tho hinds of the Hel-? l'belr antlers jutted from the long grass as they lay down. No hunter who has been long in "John Brown's tract" will wonder that In the Bible they were classed among elan animals, for the dntvs, the showers, the lakes, washed them as clean as the sky. Wlieu Isaac, the patri arch, longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiub compares tbe sprigbtliness of the restored cripple ot millennial times to the long and quick jump of tbe stag, saying, "Tbe lame shall leap as tbe hart." Solomon expressed his disgust at a hun'er who, having sbot a deer, is too lazy to eook it, saying. "Tbe slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting." But one day David, while far from tin home from whion he had been driven and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he bad lodged and on the banks of a pond or river, hears a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest tbe clangor startles him. and he savs to himself, "I wonder what those dogs are after." Then there Is a crackling in tbe brushwood ami tbe load breathing of some nulling wouder of the woods, and the antlers ot a deer rend tho leaves of th thicket, and by an Instinct wblch all banters recognize it plunges Into a pond or lake or river to eool Its thirst and at tbe same time, by Its capacity for swifter and longer swimming, to got away from the foaming harriers. David says to himself: "Aha! That it myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me. I am chased, their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, tbe bounds, the houndsl But look there!" says David, "That hunted deer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils Into tbe cool wave that washes the lathered flanks, and it swims away from tbe fiery canines, and It is free at last. Oh, that I might And in the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation es cape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters ot life and rescue! As the hurt panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my son I after thee, O God!" Some of you have just come from tht Adlrondacks, and tbe breath of tbe balsam and spruce and pine Is still on you. Tbe Adlrondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Once while ther4 talking with a hunter I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate in Its allu sion, and as I beard the dogs baying a lit tle way off and supposed they were on tbe truck a deer I said to the hunter la rough tDo thpdeev ' W nk? tbe wir" When tl ursued?""He said: "Oh, lister! Yoa see, they are a hot and tt jstv animal, and they know where Jte" water is, and when they hear uahffer In tbe distance tney lirt tneir ant lers and snuff the breeze and start for Eac auet or Loon or Saranao. and we get Into oar cedar shell boat or stand by tbe runway With rise loaded ready to blaze away." My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much. Its allusions are so true to nature. Its partridges are real part ridges, its ostriches real ostriches and its reindeer real reindeer. I do not won der that this antlered glory of the text makes the hunter's eye sparkle and bis cheek glow and bis respiration quicken, to say nothing of its usefulness, although it is the most useful of all game, its flesh deli cious, its skin turned Into human apparel, its sinews fashioned into bow strings, its antlers putting bandies on cutlery aud the shavings ot its borns used as a restora tive. Its name taken from the bnrt and called hartshorn. By putting aside its usefulness this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eye, with a liquid brightness as if gathered up from a hundred lakes at sun set! The horns a coronal branching into every possible curve, and, after It seems done, ascending into other projections of exquiMteness, a tree ot polished bone, up lifted in pride or swung down for awful combat! It is velocity embodied, timidity Impersonated, tbe enchantment of the woods, eye lustrous in life and pathetic la death, the oplendid animal a complete rhythm ot muscle and bone and color nnd attitude and locomotion, whether couched tn tbe grass among tbe shadows or a living bolt shot through the forest or turning nt bay to attack the hounds or rearing for Its last fall under the buckshot ot the trapper. it la a snlendld aDoearance. that tbe j painter's pencil fails to sketch, and only a hunter s dream on a piuow oi neiuiuuKs m the foot of St. Regis is able to picture. Wben twenty miles from any settlement, It comes down at eventide to tbe lake's edge to drink among the lllypads, and, with Its sharp-edged hoof, shatters tbe crystal of Long lake. It Is very picturesque. But only when after miles of pursuit, with heaving sides and boiling tongue and eyes swimming in deatb, tbe stag leaps from cliff to cliff into Upper Sarannc can you re aiize how much David hnd suffered from bis troubles and how much he wanted God when he expressed himself In the words, 'As tho hart panteth after tho water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O Qod." Well, now, let all those who have coming after them the lean hounds of poverty or the black hounds of persecution or the spotted bounds of vicissitude or the pale bounds of death or who are In anv wise pursued run to the wide, deep glorious lake of divine solace und rescue. Tbe most of the men and women whom I hap pen to know, at different times, if not now, have bad troublo arter tbem, sharp muzzled trouhles, swift troubles, all de vouring tronbles. Many of you havo made the mistake of trying to fight tbem. Bi mebody meanly attacked yon, and you attacked them. They depreciated you, and you depreciated them, or they overreached you In a bargain, and you tried, In Wall Mreet parlance, to get a corner on them. Or you have had a bereavement, and In stead ot being submissive you are lighting that bereavement. You charge on the doe tors wbo i.uve failed to effect a cure, or you charge on the carelessness of tbe rail road company through which the accident oecnrrnd. Or vou are a cbronlc Invalid, and you fret and worry and scold and won der why you cannot be well like other peo ple, and you angrily charge on the neu raltrlK nr the laryngitis or the ngue or the sick headache. The fact is you are a deer at bay. Instead of running to tbe waters of divine consolation and slaking yuur thirst and cooling your body and soul In the irood cheer of the gospel and swim ming away into the mighty deeps of God's love, vou are fighting a whole kennel of tinrrien. Home time ago I saw in the Adirondacks a dog lviug across tbe road, and he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunt ers, "What is the matter with that dog?" Tbey answered. "A deer hurt btm," and J saw he had a great swollen paw and a bat' tered head, showing where tbe antlers track him. And tbe probability Is that tome ot you might give a mlxhty clip to vonr pursuers. You might damage their business, you might worry them Into III aealtb, you might hurt tbem as much s they hart you; but, after all, it is lot worth while. Yoa only have bnrt a tound. Better be off for the Upper Sara lee, into which tbe mountains of God's sternal strensth look down and moor their thadows. As for your physical disorders, Ihs worst strychnine yoa oaa take Is fret tulness, and the best medicine Is religion. I know people who were only a little dis. ordered, yet have Iretted themselves into complete valetudinarianism, while others put thetr trust la God and came up from the very shadow of death and have lived somfortably twenty-five years with only., one lung. A man with one lung, but God srlth him, is better off than a godless man with two lungs. Some of yoa have been lor a loon time sailing around Cape FeRr IT hen yoa ought to have been sailing iround Cape Good Hope. Do not tarn back, but go ahead. The doer will accom plish more with Its swift feet than with Its Was. There are whole chains ot hikes tn tbe Idlrondaeks, and from one height you oaa see thirty lakes, and there are said to be over 800 in the great wilderness. So near are they to each other that yoar mountain gnlde picks np and carries tbe boat from lake to lake, tbe small distance between them for thnt reason called a "carry." and the realm ot God's word is one long chain ot bright, refreshing lakes, each promise a lake, and a very short carry be tween them. and. though for aires tbe pursued have been' drinking out of them, tbey are fall np to tbe top ot the green banks, and the same David describes them, and they seem so near togecner mnc m three different places be speak of them as a continuous river, saying, "There is a river the streams whereof shall make Kind the city of God." "Thou stinlt make tiiom drink of the rivers of thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly enricbest it w th tbo rivet of God, which Is full of water." But many ot you nave turnna your one on that supply and confronted your troub le, and yoa are soared witti your circum stances, ana yoa are naming society, uuu rou are lighting a pursuing world, and rrnnhlna instead of driving vou into the eool lake of heavenly comfort, have made yoa "top and turn round and lower your head, and it Is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances 1 woum nave aoce worse. But yoa are all wrong. You need to do as tbe reindeer does in FeUruary and March it sheds Its horns. The B ibblnical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures bis money In risky enterprises he has hung it on tbe stag's horns, and a pro verb in tne tar east tens a man who uas foolishly lost his fortune to go and And where tbe deer has shed his horns. .My brother, quit the antagonism of yonr cir cumstances, quit misanthropy, quit com plaint, quit pitching into your pursnor. lie hs wise as next spring will be tho deer ol the Adlrondacks. Shed your horns. But verv many of you who are wronged of the world and if In any assembly be tween tbo Atlantic and racifle oceans it were asked that all who had been badly treated should raise both their hands, and full response should be made, there would be twice as many bands lifted as persons present I say many of you would declare, "We have always done the best we could and tried to be useful, and why we became the victims of mallgnment or Invalidism or mishap is inscrutable." Why, do you not know that the finer a deer and the more elegant its proportions and" the more beautiful its bearing the more anxious tbo hunters and tbe hound3 are to capture It? Had that roehick a rngged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye ami a limping gait the hunters would have snid: "Pshawl Don't let us waste our ammuni tion on a sick doer." And the bounds would have given a few sniffs of the tracks and then darted off in another direction for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible bands, and the fat sides inclose tbe richest past ure that could be nibbled from the bank of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven, and the stamp of Its foot de- flua hu ltflr ahrwitf n-nntprn and the rifle. torh auVroVhoutKrtTrfieTfney, have If tbey must needs Dreaa tneir necs In the rapids. Ho If there were no noble tuff in your make np. If you were a bl- . furcated nothing. If you were a ' for - lorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after yon Is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sarcanm draws on you Its "finest bead;" therefore tbe world goes gunning for you with its best Wlncbester breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be as sailed in proportion to your great achieve ments. Tbe best ana tne mightiest wing the world ever saw had set after him all the bounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they Inpped his blood aftor the Cnlvarean massacre. Tbe world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. But what Is a relief for all those pursued f trouble and annoyance and paiu and be reavement? My text gives it to you in a . word ot three letters, but each letter is a chariot If you would triumph, or a throne If you want to be crowned, or a lake if you would slake your thirst yea, a chain of three lakes G-o-d, the one for whom David longed and the one whom David found. You might as well meet a stag which, after Its sixth mllo ot running at the topmost speed through thicket and gorge and with the breath of the dogs on bis heels, bos come tn full sight of Bcbroon lake and try to cool Its projecting and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass as to attempt to satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from trouble and sin, with anything less deep and high and broad and immense ana in finite and eternal than uod. ills comiort why, it embosoms all distress. Ills arm it wrenches off all bondngo. His hand it wipes away all tears. Ills Chrlstly atonement it makes us ull rlt'ht wltb the nast. and all right with the future, and all right with God, and all right with man; and all right forever. Ob, when some of you get there It will be like what a hunter tells of when he wus pushing his canoe far up north in tbe win ter and amid tbe ice floes and a hundred miles, as be thought, from any other human beings. He was startled one day as be heard a stepping on tbe ice, and he cocked the rifle, ready to meet auytblng that came near. He found a man, bare footed and Insane from long exposure, approaching him. Taking him Into his canoe and kindling fires to warm him, he restored him, found out where be had lived and took him to his home and found all the village in great excite ment. A hundred men wore searching for this lost man, and his family and friends rusbed out to meet him, and, as had been agreed at his first appearance, bells were rung and guns were discharged and ban quets spread and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of yoa step out of this wilderness, where yoa have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the Icebergs, into the warm greeting ot nil tbe villages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there Is an other soul forever saved will call tbe caterers of heaven to spread the banquet and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope In the tower, and while tbe chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from tbe turrets It will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may be there to take part In the celestial merriment. And now do you not think the prayer in Solomon's Song where he compared Christ to a reindeer in tbe night would make an exquisitely ap propriate peroration to my sermon, "Until tbe day break and the shadows flee away be thou like a roe or a young hart upoa the mountains ot Bether?" A farmer in Collin county, Tex., amused himself on a rainy day by coating a cat with tar and setting it on fire. The blazing animal sought refuge under the barn of the cruel man, and in about an hour the barn was a heap of ashes. His sport cost him about $800, aa there was no Insur ance. Last year 6,200,000 pounds of alumi num, valued at $1,716,000, were pro duced in the United States. The value per pound waa therefore 33 cents. In 1888, 19,000 pounds of that metal were produced, valued at nearly $3.33 a pound. Cannon are said to have been in use as early as 1338, while artillery con structed of brass first appeared in 1(35. t i V I! r i 1 r r v7 1 7 A , . -?.ra:-Jii.-ii..rt;..i-'
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