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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.
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