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MIFFIiESTTOWN, JUSTIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1899.
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CHATTER X. (Continued.) ce Seller, entered the door of the Caro
"7,'lieu did Herman have the carriage lina Hotel,
out last?" 11 w nearing eleven o'clock, and ht
Tlio nitht befo' de murder. Mars Lang. found but two men present In the office
and he didn't nab any ob dat crowd wid McLain, the night clerk of the hotel, and
him. He Iff de carrige in front ob Wil- Dolby Browning, one of the conductors
lise's drug store, on de corner ob Market. ' the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
ami Front streets, and tell me to wait. The detective passed through the office
IK- walk -ft towards de Carolina Hotel, into the barroom, where he purchased a
and wh.vhe come back dar-waa a man cigar, lighted it and sauntered back intc
-nid hin 5 tiebber saw befo dat I knows the office.
of. litmus taller and heavier dan Mars "Good evening, gentlemen," he remark
Herman, and older, too. He had a gray- ed, as he strode forward to the counter ou
h mustache and wore a oeaver nat. eotn
of dem was smokin cegacs, and dey got in
-na uiiiAL-in' racro r-a onn Hov ffnt in
de carrifre.
" "Drive out Market street, Adam,
Mars Herman say, and I did."
"Did you catch this party's name?"
"I heard Mars Herman call him 'Ste
phens.' I spec' dat's bis name. Well, I
drive past de house, and 1 hear Mars Her
man say, 'dar's where my Uncle Alvin
live.' "
' "Lives now?" Mr. Stephens say. Ycs.
. . . ... :
now, says Mars Herman, ana ae ratnn
ob de wheels drown de rest. When I got
'bout six blocks beyond de house Mars
Herman say: 'Drive back, Adam and 1
drive back de same way. Goin" back, I
heard dat man ax Mars Herman what
kind ob game dey run at de JPIanters
Rest.' Mars Herman say: A pretty stiff
game, sometimes.'
-0U,' Mr. Stephens say, 'dey play's fer
hih stakes in Balimore. Dars de place
fer high rollers. "
He did."
"Yes. Mars Lang. Well, dey lef de car-
rise at de same place I pick dem up, and
Mars Herman give me fifty cents and
say: "You go home, Adam. I will walk,'
and as I drove off dey was goiu' towardi
de hotel."
"Herman is liberal with money, is he
not, Adam?"
"Mos' ebery night when he keep me out
he give me a quarter or half dollar."
"I see! I see!" and the detective ran
his fingers through his hair. "Would yor
know this man Stephens if you saw hin
again, Adam?"
""Know him, fer true, Mars Lang. H
speak quick and short, and he eye might
sharp lak. Oh, I know him!"
"What time was it when you drove
home?"
"It wan' late. I spec 'bout nine o'clock."
"Yott don't know what time Herman
Craven, came home, or whether he was
alone?"
"No, Mars Lang. I wen' to bed directly
I got home: but I wen' np to get Mars
kL3rBkctm nmi, e
mora
in and dar was no one but him dar." nn employer otorninmeM. - -"Last
night yon did not have the car-! " made trip down with me." ob
rine outr . , served Browning. "I have no recollection
-Xo. Mars Lang; but Mar. Herman Jf 8ee?,him ?tore. J
was downtown. I saw him go out de gate j irummr! nd Ie" " theniFh' of
after supper.
I don't know what time
he get in."
"He carries a night key to the front
door, I snppose?"
"Certain!"
Here there was a rap on the door lead
ing into the hall.
"It's me. Lang," replied Mrs. Sellara
"Hannah is waiting to see yon."
"Yes, yes, in a moment, wife. Yon may
go now, Adam. And remember, not a
word to a living soul that you have been
here, or tha you have had any conversa
tion with me not a hint! And notice par
ticularly when you are downtown if you
see that man Stephens again. I will send
Calban for you when I want you again.
You may be of great assistance to me, and
you shall not go unrewarded."
' Golly, Mars Lang, all de 'ward I wants
is to see de man what mnrder my ole
m.irster hanged, and Mars Robert Camp
bell turned loose, kaze I know Miss Hat
tie's sweetheart nebber murdered ole
marster."
"You may earn a greater reward than
the satisfaction or seeing a guilty wretch
hanged, Adam perhaps your freedom
who knows?"
The detective had been rolling up the
bloody shirt, and here he handed it to
Adam with the words: "Take your shirt;
the stains on it Indicate indeed that 'fowl
murder has been committed. "
"Dat's so. Mars Lang," said the negro,
grinning. "Chicken murder. I's guilty ob
dat. and you's got a witness agin me In
de nex' room."
As the door closed behind Adam, Cl
ban admitted Hannah. "- t
"I id you cook chickens for dinner yes
terday, Hannah?" i
"Yes, Mars Lang."
"Who killed the chickens, and when,
and where?"
"Why, Adam, just back of de kitchen,
yestidy mawnin. He chop dar haids off
wid de hatchet."
'"Are you sure, Hannah?"
" 'Deed I is. Mars Lang. De fool nlgge
let dem chicken bloody his shut all up, and
I tell him, 'Who's gwain wash dat shut?' "
"I id yon ever see or hear of a man nam
ed Stephens, a friend of Herman Cra
ven's, Hannah?"
"I nebber did. Mars Lang nebber. L
he got friends, dough, dey nebber comes
to de house."
"Is Miss Campbell yet at the DeBoaette
residence?"
"Xo, she gone home, poor chile."
"Do you think Herman is suspicious o
you in the least?"
"No. Mars Lang, I ain't think so."
"Well, I wish you to watch his move
ments as closely as you can, also to note,
if he is absent from the bouse nights, and
who enters the house between this time
ami that of your master's funeral. I wish
also to see Uncle Duke. You can find an
opportunity to tell him to call here at this
hour to-morrow night. Caution him not
to lie observed in doing so. Keep close
mouth. Good night."
"Good night. Mars Lang." And In a
moment more the detective was the only
oecupunt of the office. On a strip of pa
per he made this memoranda:
"Planters Rest."
"Carolina Hotel Register."
"Uncle Duke."
"Mr. Stenhniia"
"P.y all meaus Mr. Stephens," mused
the detective, as he rolled the atrip of
paper into a ball and cast it in a wastf
basket.
"Calban's clue," he laughed, "while be
fng one of a fowl mnrder. was not one
tending to lead to the perpetrator of the
lom murder of which, perhaps, Mr. fcte-
voens may have a guilty knowledge.
CHAPTER XI.
Twenty minutes after Hannah had tak
en her departure from the detective's of-
which the register was lvhur.
Good evening, Mr. 80118," responded
the two men.
"Not much transient custom nowadays,
I suppose. Mack 7"
"Very little." replied the clerk, 'nor do
I suppose we can look for more before
fall."
'"I should Judge not." said Sellara, as he
bent over the open register.
"-c. two, five, seven, nine. Why, yoe
unj ; ; , . ,
""t-u arrivals io-uay.
"Yes, but half of them are drummers,"
,a,d the clerk; "they get half rates, yoi
Know. There Is not much money in
them." m ,
"Well, they will bring yoo other custom
iaier.
True enough. Mr. Solium: that ! the
inducement for giving them half rates."
"Yesterday you had even a greater num
ber, twenty-four. I declare, I see few
aumes here that I have not some knowl
?dge of the parties."
Here the detective turned back leaf
of the register.
1 he 17th, twenty-one guests. Ah, here
is the name of my old friend, Jo Anson of
Tarboro. Why. here's Norment of TLiini
lierton and Caldwell of Duplin. Yes, and
Sam Grady and Col. Hoyt of Charleston.
Next comes Stephens C. A. Stephens ol
Baltimore. It's time for me to stop now,
for I have no recollection of that name,
'fo be sure, there are plenty of Stephenses
Virginia, for instance, is full of them;
then there are the Stephenses of Cumber
land, the Stephenses of Wake and Cra
ven. I wonder if C. A. Stephens is one
of those T'
"I think not," said the clerk. "I have
no recollection of having seen this Ste
phens before. He was only here a short
lime. Arrived on the morning of the 17th
and left on the night of the 18th. He may
have been a drummer, bnt I think not, as
he did not ask for drummer's rates and
had no baggage with him."
"He was not a drummer then," said
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"He looked rather like a sporting char
acter," observed the clerk, "but I presume
he was a Baltimore business man. Cra-
eu. the cashier of the 'Cape Fear Bank,'
eemed to know him; at least I noticed
hem talking earnestly together on the
light of the 17th. By the way, that was
i sad affair of Mr. DeRosette's taking
ff."
Terrible, Mack! Terrible! It was a
hock to the entire community."
"And to think that Robert Campbell
hould have committed the murder! Why.
ie is the last man I would have suspected,
nd I heard Sheriff Cobb say there was
:o doubt of his guilt."
"'Sheriff Cobb is a very shrewd man a
ery shrewd man," said the detective.
"I understand that the prisoner had the
uidacity to call you into the case. It re
uinded me of your call in the Mulberry
ase."
"Very like! Very like!" said Lang.
'Cobb got the start of me this time."
"I am sorry for Campbell's mother and
dster." observed the night clerk.
"Yes, and I," said Lang. "Well, good
light," he added, "I must be going."
"Good night, Mr. Sellars."
"So much for Mr. C. A. Stephens.'
bought Lang as he left the office. "He
i r rived in Wilmington on the morning of
he 17th. Mack observed him in close
onversation with Herman Craven that
night, and the same night Adam drives
he two past tne DanKer s nouse. xou
tuay De straignier man j. a.
Stephens, but I mast know more about
you. You left the hotel on the night of
the murder presumably left the city the
ame night. The north-bound train left
for Baltimore at ten o clock. At tnat Hour
the banker was a living man. I must in-
erview Borden when be comes down the
road. Poor Campbell! I believe every
word of his statement. It is late, but
the mother and daughter are looking foi
i:ie. I must drop in and give them a word
if cheer. I can't be going there much In
,he light of day."
This the detective did, and when he en
ered his own home the clock was striking
the hour of twelve.
CHAPTER XII.
At the appointed time on the night oi
he 20th Uncle Duke was admitted to the
iresence of the detective. But the old
inan could give no information that Sel-
jrs deemed material. It wan evident that
lie knew less of the cashier's life, associa-
ions and careec after banking hours thap
lid Adam.
He occupied a room on the lower Boo.
of the house back of the bath room, and
usually was sound asleep by nine o'clock
at night. That had been the case on the
night of the murder, and he knew nothing
of the terrible deed that had been com
mitted until be was aroused by the com
..tin, that followed it.
IUVLIUU . m .
He had never heard of a party Ty tne
name of C. A. Stephens, nor had he ever
Known Herman Craven to bring a con
panion into the banker's house.
The night following his conversatioi
T'..i IinLa the detective met Con
A.,Mn.r Rnnlni at the Carolina Hotel and
in a discussion which he brought about in
regard to the traffic of the road, he grad
ually led 'round to the number of passen-
gers that the various couuu.-i.
over the road on their trips. In the mean
while the hotel register was open before
''The transfers from the Manchester
road form the bulk of the P"??f r
going north now." said the condor bnt
on my last trip, the night of the . 18th I
had a goodly number from Wilmington
"Yes," said Sellara, turning; back the
leave, of the register.
number of arrivals on the 17th u-"
It la ao hot here now that they not
tarry long. I suppose you carried them
nil back up the road with yoo. I see that
ihoxe that arrived on the 17th are nearly
all checked as having departed on the
night of the 18th. Jo Wallace, and Hoyt,
and Caldwell, and Turner, and Stephens.
Ky the way, I wonder what family of Ste
phenses this C. A. Stephens belongs tor
"I declare I don't know," said Borden.
"He came down the road with Browning,
t believe. If he left the city on the night
if the 18th he did not go over the road
with me. He may have gone ' south.
Grady and Hoyt went that way backlo
Charleston, I sappose."
The 22d of the month the remains of the
banker were consigned to the grave, and a
vast concourse of people was present in
the cemetery when the last sad rites were
spoken.
Ail eyes were seemingly bent on the
form of the bereaved young daughter,
who, in the anguish that wrung her heart,
rlung, strange to say, not to the arm of
Herman Craven, who seemed to shuddei
and grow pale as the clods of earth rolled
in upon the coffin, but to the arms of twe
women who were aeemingly scarcely lest
agitated than herself the mother and sis
ter of the man who lay in jail accused ol
the damnable crime of the banker's taking
off.
Many there were who looked on this
scene with surprise, bnt none with a deep
?r feeling of annoyance than Hermai
Craven and Sheriff Cobb.
To Sheriff Cobb's cold nature it was in
explicable that the daughter of the mur
dered man should seek consolation of the
mother and sister of his murderer.
To Herman Craven's mind the circum
stance boded not the easy fulfillment o!
his wishes. "Wait!" he thought. "Wait!"
Lang Sellara, as he stood some yard?
iway, leaning against a stately pine, hii
all form towering above all othrrs
bought, as his keen eye rested on the fig
.ires before him: "There will be a tie that
will bind you yet closer together. Wait!"
- It was ten o'clock on the 23d day of the
uouth, and gathered in the spacious par
ors of the residence of the late banker
vere the five directors of the "Cape Fear
'Sank" and a goodly number of those who
u his lifetime had been close personal
friends.
Seated at one side of the front parlor
near an open window, and with Jennie
Campbell beside her, was the banker's
laughter, and very beautiful, yet sad, she
ooked, clad in the habiliments that told
f her bereavement.
A number of ladies were seated near
hem, and ranged against the wall oppo
ite them were the family servants.
Herman Craven sat near a center tabic
uu versing with the old attorney of the
unk, who presently arose to his feet. In a
osition from where he could at will scan
ill features sat the great detective.
"1 have been requested, said the law
er. "by the daughter of our late friend,
y his nephew and by the directors of the
ank of which he was the honored presi
lent, to read to those here present his
ast will and testament. The instrument
s embraced in this package of papers just
'landed me by the cashier of the bank
Herman Craven."
Here Attorney Dobbs removed the rub
ier band and withdrew from the package
he banker's will.
(To be continued.)
Household.
Creamed Cabbage. Cleanse a tendei
cabbage and boil It until soft. Drain
thoroughly and press between two hot
plates until dry. Chop it slightly. Melt
a piece of butter the size of an egg ir
a stewpan, and pepper and salt; then
put In the cabbage. When heated
dredge a tablesooonful of flour ovei
and add gradually a cuo of cream.
When hot turn on to a dish and serve
Immediately.
Clam Pie. Cut til) a quart of small,
uncooked clams Into small pieces and
put them Into a saucepan with the
liquor that comes from them and let
them come to a boil over a quick fire.
Line a dees dish, both sides and bot
tom, with a rich paste, and having
chopped Into bits six hard-boiled eggs,
All the dish with layers of the clams
and eggs. Season with salt and pep
per to taste, add a little butter cut
Into small pieces and a cupful of the
liquor. Cover with a perforated crust
and bake in a quick oven.
Snowflake Cake. One cupful of su
gar, one-half cup of butter, one-half
cup cornstarch, one cuo flour, one-half
cup milk, one-half teaspoon cream of
tartar, one-quarter of soda, whites or
four eggs.
Soft Gingerbread. One-half cup su
gar, one-half cud molasses, one-nan
cup of sortening, one-half cup boiling
water, one teasooonful soda, one egg.
one-half teaspoonful ginger, little salt.
flour to thicken.
Eggplant Stuffed with Tomatoes.
Halve the eggplant and remove the in
side. Make a forcemeat of the egg
plant pulp, a cup of chopped ripe toma
toes, one chopped pepper and a cup of
breadcrumbs. Season with a table
spoonful of melted butter and salt and
pepper. Fill the hollowed sides with
this mixture, bind the two halves to
gether with wide taoe and bake as In
the last recipe, basting frequently with
melted butter and hot water. When
tender transfer to a hot platter, cut
and remove the tape, and paur a hot
tomato sauce about the eggplant.
Corn Pudding. Grate the corn (mm
14 large ears. Beat six eggs light--yolks
and whites separately mix the
yolks with the grated corn and pour
upon them, beating steadily two table
spoonfnls of melted butter, a quart of
milk, three tablesooonfuls of granu
lated sugar, a saltsioonful of salt and
the stiffened whites. Turn at once into
a buttered pudding dish, set this In a
pan of boiling water and bake, covered
for three-quarters of an hour. Re
move the cover and brown. Serve as a
vegetable in the dish In which it is
cooked.
Southern Dishes. A young Southern
housewife found last summer when
corn began to be scarce, that she
could succeed in making a larger dish
of corn If when she cut It off the cob
she added half a cud of hominy. It
was not detected when the dish was
properly seasoned with milk, butter,
etc. The same housekeeoer makes a
delicious dish which she calls "Saving
Jack." This is simply rice and green
peas cooked together with two slices
of breakfast bacon. When done she
seasocs it as she would stewed peas,
with milk, pepper, bread and a pincr
of salt to taste.
If vou would have a faithful servant
and one that you like, serve yourseir.
The brave only know how to for
give. To give forth knowledge, wisdom.
love, is not to diminish our supply, but
is, instead, the means of increasing it
many fold.
Difficulties of thought, acceptance of
what is without full comprehension,
belong to every system of thinking.
What maintains one vice would bring
up two children.
PALACE OP THE POPE.
Boly Be tha Baaallcat rvnmw Ftate
1m Kwrope.
The smallest sovereign state In Eu
rope Is the Holy See at Rome, which, by
the Law of Guarantees, passed by the
Italian Government In 1871, Includes
the Pope's Palace of the Vatican ana
ihe Vatican gardens, whleh are con
nected with the palace by two separate
extensions of the building. There are
In addition the Palace of the Lateran
tnd the Castle of Gandolfo, the latter
felng considered the Pope'a country
ouse, though It has never been occu
pied by him since the entry of the Ital
ian troops Into Rome. It will be well
known that his Holiness, as a matter of
principle, and as a protest against the
annexation of the Roman States to the
Kingdom of Italy, never quits the nar
row limits of the palace and garden still
belonging to him. The palace Is an
enormous) rambling building of not par
ticularly handsome structure, and of
various styles, dating back In Its oldest
portions only as far as the fifteenth cen
tury. It Is said to contain as many as
1,100 apartments. Only a small portion
Is reserved for the actual personal use
of the Pope, the bulk of the accommo
dation being given np to the offices of
the many organizations he controls, to
the residences of Papal officials, and to
the housing of the Papal guards.
These latter consist of fonr bodies of
men. Firstly, there la the Guardla No
blle, who as their name Indicates are
recruited from men of good birth and
are practically a small cavalry force
about fifty In number. Then cornea
the celebrated Swiss Guard, recruited
chiefly among the German-speaking
Swiss, but whose components must ab
solutely be subjects of Swltserland.
This Swiss Guard has existed for some
centuries. They wear uniforms de
signed by Michael Angelo, and are
about 100 In number. Then there are
the Palatine Guards, of which there ar
eighty, and a small number of gen
dnrroes, so that the Pope has about him
for his protection and for the safe keep
ing of the glorious art treasures en
shrined in the Vatican some 250 picked
men.
Of all these Papal soldiers none are
to striking as the Swiss, whose appear
ance Is a 'perfect feast to the eyes for
form and color as they stand at the
gateways to the Vatican. With the
greatest difficulty the writer managed
to make a sketch of this guard, which
fives a perfectly accurate representa
tion of the remarkable uniform they
wear, so striking in its originality and
splendid defiance of convention, that it
U typical of the genius of Michael An
gelo. In their ordinary everyday cos
tume the Swiss wear a kind of muffin
cap of black with a red band, but on
Sundays tbey don a black and gold hel
met, and on special feast days, or at
times of rejoicing, this helmet Is sup
plemented with a gigantic white plume.
These three forms of headdress, bow
ever, are said to have been of much
later Invention than the rest of the uni
form, as Michael Angelo intended the
Guards to go bareheaded. The uniform
tself is yellow, black and red in color.
the black being very black, the red a
rlmson scarlet, and the yellow a pure
trlght chrome. The stockings are
ktrlped black and yellow, and the shoes
are black with large bows. The bay
bnet of the rifle Is the old-fashioned
ong sword-bayonet, and not the short-
tabbing knife which Is now almost
universally used. The drummers of this,
corps wear a similarly shaped tunic and
breeches, but Instead of being black,
yellow and red, their uniform is red and
white with red stockings. On great oc
casions, when a helmet is worn at all,
the men wear a white ruff around the
neck, but this Is absent In ordinary cos
tume, and on occasions of state the
rifles are replaced by halberds. The
great-coat, which is a modern Inven
tion, of course. Is a bluish gray with
brass buttons and two large red tags
on the front of the turned-down collar.
The officers of this Guard have breech
es of alternate scarlet and crimson, and
a tunic of braided black.
Tbe Dean and the funnatic
Dean Stanley bad great respect for
presence of mind, and used with great
delight to tell a story of presence of
mind by which he liberated himself
from a dangerous visitor. Since he
was willing to see almost any one who
asked for him, be once told his servant
to usher Into his study a gentleman
who had called, and who happened to
bear a name which was familiar to
him.
When the gentleman appeared be
proved to be an entire stranger. It was
evident there had been some mistake.
This became still more evident when,
advancing with an air of great excite
ment, the gentleman exclaimed: "Sir,
I have a message to the Quean from
(he Most High. I beg that you deliver
It Instantly.".
"In that case," said tbe dean, taking
dp his hat, "there Is not a moment to
be lost. Let us go at once." They
went downstairs into the hall, and,
opening the door, the dean requested
his visitor to step out. No sooner had
be done so than tbe dean shut the door
behind the lunatic
POPE'S SWISS GUARDS.
PATAU AGE OF THIRTY-SEVEN.
Kaay of World's Greatest Man Haw
traccaaibe'l at That Ar
The age of 37 Is a particularly fata:
age. An examination of the reports of
the United States government shows
that more people die at that age than
any other after attaining their major
ity. It Is also ascertained that more
misfortunes overtake persons at that
age than at any other time In their
Uvea, and that few fortunate events be
fall them.
An examination of history develop,
the same thing. At the age of 37 a
great sorrow befell Aristotle, the death
of Plato, his friend and teacher, with
whom he had studied for nearly twenty
years. This sorrow plainly showed Its
effects upon his future life, and to It
may be attributed the sad tone of his
later writings.
It was at the age of 87 that Lord
Byron died of fever at Greece. As
Lord Beaconsfleld says, he was "great
er as a man than as a writer, and his
loss to the world was a great blow to
It"
Raphael, the glory of Italian art. died
at 37. He fell sick a week before his
birthday of cold and fever, and died
on that day. Good Friday. In him the
world lost one of Its greatest artists.
In music, like art and poetry. En
gland lost her grestest composer at the
age of 37. Purcell. the most distin
guished musician Britain produced,
died within a few days after attaining
bis 37th year. The regard in which
be was held In England placed him on
a par with Milton In epic poetry, with
Shakspeare on the stage. Locke In
metaphysics, and Sir Isaac Newton In
philosophy and mathematics.
It was at the age of 37. too. that Ea
gland tost a military genius that ah
regarded as of the highest rank and
promise. Prince Henry of Battenburg
died of fever in Ashantee ha that year
of his life.
Pascal, too, died at 37. but why seek
more Illustrations? Those are sufn
clent to illustrate the fatality of tbe
aire anions: geniuses. Where death
failed misfortune often befell.
So the age of 37 may be regarded a
the fatal age of all those after a man
passes his majority. Chicago Times
Herald.
An act of Congress, m 1872. abolish
ed flogging In the navy.
It will take a snail fourteen days and
live hours to travel a mile.
If kept continually running, a watch
will tick 160444,000 times a year.
- Ttie American soft felt hat Is all th
rage tn the leading Australian colonies.
It Is computed that "when mafchtn
soldiers take seventy-five steps . per
-nJnute, tn quick marching 108 and In
chargtng 160 steps.
A Louisville woman labored so ener-
fretimllv at combine ber hair as to
break her collar bone. Another woman
to Ohio nearly burned an eye outwith
a enrltnrr troll, and a third, this til.T-iUT
Kansas, had all her hah burned off be
cause her curling papers caught Are ac
cidentally. Necessary evils, say the
women. .
The Napoleonic campaigns lasted ten
years, the war of 1812 wore than three
years, the Crimean war two years, the
Italian war more than one year, the
civil war more than four years, the
Franco-Pruselsjtt and Russo-Turklsh
wars each about one year. What Is
known as the Seven Weeks' war, be
tween Prussia and Austria, lasted. In
fact, seven months. The Spanish-American
war will be recorded as the short
tst war of the century.
Denmark has about one million cows
The director of the agricultural school
mH Dal! no, J. Peterson, has Issued a
brochure in which be calls attention to
the fact that cows give considerably
more milk If they are kindly spoken to
and patted on the back than when
roughly handled. He also calls atten
tion to the fact that hi milking a cow it
takes 172 pounds of the first streams
of milk to make a pound of butter, and
only twelve of the last stream.
It Is said that Indian fishermen hav
an Ingenious way of training the otter.
They catch the small cub and put a col
lar round the throat. The little crea
ture, finding itself unable for days to
gether to swallow anything It catches,
gives up trying to do so, and firmly be
lieves for the rest of Us life that an
otter can only swallow such food as It
receives direct from its master's band,
and. accordingly. It faithfully brings to
the bank all tbe flsb It may capture.
There are pumpkins and pumpkin,
but It is not often that tbe growers of
the vegetable that contributes so much
to the generous enjoyment of the true
Yankee holiday. Thanksgiving, have
the luck that attended M. W. Scott, of
North Springfield. Mr. Scott had nine
vines growing from one pumpkin seed,
and their total length was 7164 feet
The weight of the pumpkin was six
hundred and forty pounds and twelve
ounces, and then number 255. Tbe cir
cumference of tbe pumpkins was fifty
seven feet nine ncbes, and they were
raised In a field which had one other
crop.
Color Dae to Bacteria,
A scientist of Rio de Janeiro states,
as a result of protracted and patient
Investigation, that the color and scent
of flowers are due to bacteria and that
these germs are often of a kind that
must be harmful to human beings.
I'arvMtlnt Potato Bun,
A right bushel basket Is the surest
and quickest way of getting rid of po
tato bugs, lc wet weather at least Tbe
bugs can be shaken off tbe vines Into
tbe basket In about half the time It
takes to parts green them.
She Had Noticed It.
Softlelgh I aw weally fohgot to
eat me lunch to-day. I'm so aw
beastly absent-minded, doncher know.
Miss Cutting Yes; 1 have frequently
had my attention called to tout al
sence" of mind.
Hie Condition.
Mrs. Peck What condition did rot)
conae home In this morning
Mr. Peck Madam, I came home In a
hack. It you please. Phtladelphia
Korth-American.
Industrial.
Skaguay Alaska) street car men get
14 a dav.
We burn 90,000,000,000 matcnes an
nually. '
Anderson. Ind- needs nunareos or.
houses.
United States possess 22.705 merchant
vessels.
Cincinnati motormen get Is t-S cents
per hour.
New York jewelers now enjoy tne
eight-hour dav.
Kingman, Art., has a tax rata oi x3.b
on the sioo.
At Roberta, Ga, cotton seed costs
15 cents a bushel.
Wyoming's coal mines are produc
ing 22,000 tons per day.
Michigan, Ohio . and , Indiana lime
makers are forming a trust.
- There are nearlv 2000 stitches In a
pair of hand-sewn boots.
The Halcyon Mill, Cohoes. N. T., has
commenced running evenings.
Both of the knitting mills at Kln
derhook. N. Y.. are running overtime.
Many Pittsburg and Allegheny
moulders have been conceded what
they struck for.
At Chippewa Falls. Wis., the tele
phone companies . consolidated, - and
forthwith the rate was doubled.
The greatest whisky industry is In
the United States, the output being
more than 80,000.000 gallons a year.
A new law requiring corporations to
pay wages at least monthly has been
declared constitutional in California.
At Tacoma shingle manufacturers
are complaining of a car shortage and
shipments are seriously delayed.
A carload of dried canned potatoes
contains 3000 bushels, but would hold
only 500 bushels in their natural state.
The American woolen Company haf
Increased wages of weavers in the An
derson Mills, Showhegan, Maine, 10
per cent.
In 1900 Duluth will be able to han
dle 42,000,000 bushels of grain, and will
be probably the biggest grain elevator
centre In the world.
Hitherto at Ottawa the rates have
chiefly been collected direct from the
tenants. It is now sought to make the
landlord primarily responsible.
The American Hide and Leather Co.
as the combine of tanneries recently
formed is known, has decided to secure
another Dlant In Milwaukee.
" The aggregate capital of the compa
nies represented at the Cleveland Con
vention of the National Paint and Var
nish Association is upward of $200 000 -000.
All street railway companies operat
ing In the city of New York are re
quired by law to run at least one
closed car In everv four at all seasons
of the rear.
Frederick Pelts, a civil engineer, has
returned from the Immense soda beds
of Dona Ana county. New Mexico
where he staked out 82.000 acres of
soda lands for a Pittsburg syndicate
Under the management of B. F. Cas
mlre, the Bell Stove and Range Works
at Muncie. Ind.. which have been idle
a year, will soon resume work with a
force of two hundred hands.
Farm dotes.
-if-the ground remains warm make a
aed on tn-WOWJldeot a Duiiding, use
plenty of manure ahoTSO ceseed.
When tne plants Come up cover tne oeu'
with coarse Utter and leave it until
jpring. If sown in a cold frame it will
oe better. Lettuce is hardy and can
nand considerable frost. If the seed is
jown late it will come up ery eaxly 11. ,
prir.g. The young plants mayoe trans
planted to other cold frames If de
sired.
Young rye is one of the most valuable
:rops after frost appears that can be
grown on a farm containing stocK, as
it serves as pasturage and provides
green food for quite a period after all
other green crops are gone. It also
gives the earliest green food in the
spring. Rye is so easily and quickly
obtained in the fail that there is no
reason why a plot of It should not be
seeded every fall where stock can be
kept. Do not allow the animals on the
rye when the ground Is wet and soft,
as they may do damage by trampling.
but otherwise the rye will stand close
grazing.
To keep onions over winter put them
n a dry location, such as a barn loft.
and spread them on the floor or on
shelves, In thin layers. If they should
happen to freeze It will not damage
them, provided they are not disturbed
when frozen. They should be covered
with sheets of paper in order to assist
in preventing sudden thawing. But us
ually, if the layers of onions are not
too thick, and the location is dry, they
will keep without difficulty.
It is claimed that if the roots of hya
inths and tulips are left in the beds
where they bloomed and the stalks cut
after blooming they will bloom annu
ally, provided the bed is well pro
tected in winter. A shovelful of well
rotted manure over each stalk, with
straw or some other covering over
the manure, will serve as a protection.
When tulips or hyacinths are grown
in glasses the flowers and stems are
praduced at the expense of the bulbs,
but when grown In rich soil the ex
haustion does not occur.
Useful Hints.
When a hat Is wet with rain it
shTSS V Jried with a
chief, brushed with a soft brush and
when it is nearly dry with a harder
brush. . .
The best thing to clean decanters is
a mixture of salt and vinegar. Put a
dessertspoonful of salt In the decan
ter, moisten with vinegar, ahake well
and rinse.
When lamps are clogged with oil the
burners should be boiled In a strong
solution of soda and water, and al
lowed to get thoroughly dried before
being used again.
For the turn of the stairs, that ugly
place In the old city houses, tall silver
taper holders of Russian workmanship
or the old Dutch candlesticks four feet
high will be found effective adjuncts.
Southerners affirm that the people
of the North spoil watermelons by too
much chilling, which renders them In
digestible. Before putting away linen take rare
that It Is thoroughly dried and well
aired. Nothing collects dampness
quite as quickly as linen. Should lin
en show signs of turning yellow wring
out In lukeworm soap and water, then
iry and store again.
A man of integrity will never listen
to any reason against conscience.
Man Is like a plant which requires
a favorable soil for the full expansion
of its natural or Innate powers.
Forbear to judge, for we are sin
ners all.
Changeable bengaline is In favor for
evening dresses, the mixture of gray
and mauve being the pet fancy.
The cheerful man's a king.
Praising all alike la praising none.
A Cleveland Councilman has prepared
an ordinance which will require motor
men to be licensed.
No matter how humble your sphere,
fill it full by pouring your best and
noblest qualities of character into it.
SERMON
BY
Rw. Dr. Calmagc
Bnbjeets Lay Hold of ChrUt The Help
lalnaM f Kcllglon In Flchttnr I""'
Battle Ba Bold For the Blent and
Trast In tha Son of God.
(OopyrlKbt. Loaia Klopsch. 1879.1
WigHiKOTow, D. C. In this discourse Dr
Tnlirage employs a very bold flgnre of tbe
Bible to bring out tbe helpfulness of ts
llelon for all those in any kind of struggle.
Tha text Is Isaiah xxr., 11. "Ha shall spread
forth his hnnds in tbe midst of them, as be
that swimiueth spraadeth forth his hnnds."
In tbe enmmer season multitudes of peo
ple wade into the ponds and lakes and
rivers and seas to diva or Boat or swim. In
a world tha most of which is water all men
and women should learn to swim. Home of
you have learned the side strokn Intro
duofld by George Pewters in 1830, each
stroke of that kind carrying the swimmer
a distance of six faet, and some of you may
use tbe overnand stroke invented by Gnr
dener, the expert who by It won tbe 500
yard championship lu Manchester in 1HR2,
the nvlinmer by that stroke carrying bis
arm intteairfor a more lengthened ranch,
and some of yon may trend the watar as
though you had been made to walk tbe sea,
but most of you usually take what Is call
ed tbe breast stroke, placing the hands
with tbe backs upward, about five Inches'
under the water, the in-ide of tbe wrists
touobing the breast, then poshing, the
arms forward coincident with tha stroke of
the feet struck out to tbe grentest width
possible, and you thus unconsciously Illus
trate the meaning of my text, "He shall
spread forth bis bands In tbe midst of tham,
as be that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
bands to swim."
Tbe fisherman seeks out unfrequented
nooks. You stand all day on tba bank of
a river in the broiling sun and fling out
yonr line and eatch nothing, while- an ex
pert angler breaks through the jungle and
goes by tbe shadow of the solitary rook
and, In a place where no fisherman has
bean tor ten years, throws oat his line and
comes home at night, bis face shining and
his basket full. I do not know wby we
ministers ot the gospel need always be
fishing In the.same stream and preaching
from tbe fame texts that otbar people
preach from. I cannot understand the
polley of the minister who in Blackfriars,
London, England, every week for thirty
years preached from tbe Epistle to the
Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me
when I oome across a theme which I feel
no one else has treated, and my text Is one
of that kind. There are paths In God's
word that are well beaten by Christian
feet. When men want to quote Scripture,
they quote the old passages tbut every one
has beard. When tbey want a chapter
read, tbey read a chapter that all tbe other
people have been reading, so that tbe
eburob to-day is ignorant of three-fourths
of the Bible.
You go into the Louvre at Paris. You
confine yourself to one corridor of that
opulent gallery of paintings. As yon come
ont vour friend says to you. "Did you see
tbat Rembrandt?" "No." "Did yon see
that KnUens?" "No. "Did you see tbat
Titian?" "No." "Did you see tbat Kaph
ael?" "No." "Weil," says yonr friend,
"then vou did -not see the Louvre." Now,
my friends, I think we are too much apt to
eonnne ourselves to one oi me (treat corri
dors of Scripture truth, and so much so
that there is not one person out ot a mil
lion who has ever noticed the all sugges
tive and powerful picture in the words of
my text.
This text represents God as a strong
sv v tovpiMtxjJftsn Jnlq
uity and sa
spread r
them
his
school, vbu. tsi sume of
you in boyhood, it. . -u 'river neur your
latner s nouse; soma oi you since you ciure
to manhood or womanhood, whila sum
mering on tbe beach of tbe sea. It is a
good thing to know bow to swiin, not only
for yourself, bnt because yon will after
awiiila perhaps have to help others.
I do not know anything more stirring or
sublime than to see some man like Norman
McKenzia loapiu froin the ship Madras
Into the sea to sure Cbnrlas Turner, who
bad dropped from tbe royal yard while
trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back
to tbe deck amid tha buzz. is of tbe passen
gers and craw. It a man bus not entnust
asm enough to cheer in sucb circum
stances, he deserves himself to drop into
thei-ea and have no one help him. The
Royal Hnmane Society of England was es
tablished tn 1774, its object to applaud and
reward those bo should pluck up life from
the de'p. Any one who has performed
such a deed of daring h is all tbe particu
lars of that bravery recorded In a public
record and on bis brensta medal done In
blue and gold and bronze, anchor aud uioa-
ogram and iuscrlption, telling to future
generations tbe bra vary of the man or
woman who saved some one from drown
ing. Bnt it it Is such a worthy thing to
save a body from the deep I ask yon if it is
not a worthier thing to save an immortal
soul. And you shall see this hour tbe Sou
of God step forth for this achievement.
"He shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as be tbat swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim."
In order to understand the full force of
this figure, you need to realize that our
race is in a sinking condition. You some
times hear people talking of what tbey
consider the most beautiful words in all
our language. One man says It is '"borne,"
another says It Is tbe word "mother," an
other savs it the word "Jesus," but I tell
you the "bitterest word in all onr language,
the word most angry and baleful, the word
saturated with tbe most trouble, the word
that accounts for all the loathsomeness
and the pang and the outrage and tbe har
rowing, and tbat word is "sin." You spell
it with three letters, and yet those tbree
letters describe the circumference and
pierce tbe diameter of everything bad in
tbe universe. Hin is a sihllnut word. You
cannot pronouuee it without giving tbe
slss of tbe flame or the hiss of tha serpent.
Bin! And then if you add three letters to
that word it descril-es every one of us by
nature sinner. We have outraged tbe
law of God, not occasionally, or now and
then, but perpetually. The Bible declnres
it. Hark! It thunders two claps: "The
heart Is deceitful above all things and des-
fierately wicked." "Tne soul that alnnetb,
t shall die." What the Bible says our
own conscience affirms.
After Judge Morgan bad sentenced Lady
Jane Grey to death bis conscience troubled
him so much for tbe deed that he became
Insane, and all through his insanity he
kept saying: "Take ber away from met
Lady Jane Grey! Take her awayl Lady
Jane Greyl" It was the voice of conscience.
And no man ever does anything wrong,
however great or small, hut tba conscience
brings that matter before him, and at
every step of his misbehavior it says,
"Wrong, wrong!" Sin Is a leprosy; sin is a
paralysis; sin is a consumption, sin is pollu
tion; sin is death. Give It a fair chance,
and it will swamp you and me, body, mind
and soul, forever. In this world it only
gives a tnint Intimation of Us virulence.
Ion sea a patient in tbe first stages of ty
phoid fever. The cleek is somewhat
flushed, tha bandssomewbat hot, preceded
by a slight chili. "Why," you say, "ty
phoid fever does not seem to be much
of a disease." Bnt wait nntil the patient
has been six weeks under it, and all his
energies have been wrnng out, and he Is
too weak to lift bis little linger, and bis
Intellect gone, then you see the full havoc
of tbe disease. Now, sin In this world is
an ailment which is only in its first stages,
but let it get under full sway, and it Is an
all consuming typhoid. Oh, it we could
see our unpardoned sins as God sees them,
our teeth would chatter and oar knees
would knock together, and our respiration
would be choked, and our heart wonld
break. If your sins are unforgiven, they
are bearing down on you, and you are
sinking sinking away from happiness,
sinking away from God, sinking away from
everything that is good and blessed.
Then what do we want? A swimmer a
strong swimmer, a swift swlmmerl And,
blessed be God, in my text we have blm
announced. "He shall spread forth his
hands is the "dst ot the1 w
swimmeth stretobeth forth his hands to
swim." You have noticed that when a
swimmer goes to rescue any one he pots
off his heavy apparel. He mast not have
any such Impediment about him it he U
going to do this great deed. And when
Cbri9t stepped forth to save us be shook
off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were
free, and then be stepped down Into tbe -wave
ot our transgressions, and it came up
over bis wounded feet, and it came above
the spear stab In bis side aye, it dashed
to the lacerated temple, tbe high water
mark of anguish. Then, rising above tne
flood. "He stretched forth bis bands in tbe
midst of them, as he that swimmeth spread
eth forth his b tnds to swim."
If yon havi. ever watched a swimmer.
you notice tha: bis whole body is brought
Into play. Tbo arms are flexed, the hands
drive tbe water back, tbe knees are setive,
the bead Is thrown baok to escape strangu
lation, the Wuole body is In propulsion.
And wbent Christ sprang Into tbe deep to
save us He threw His entire nature Into It
ail His godhead. His omniscience. His good
ness. His love,. His omnipotence, bead.
heart, eyes, bands, feet. We were far out
in tbe sea and so deep down tn tbe waves
ind so far out from the shore that nothing -short
of an entire God could save us.
Chi 1st leapod.ont.for onr rescue, saving,
"Lo, I come to do thy -wi)ll" and all the
lurges of human and satante nafo'-V
against Him, and those who watched Him
from tbe gates of heaven feared He would
zo down under tbe waves and instead of
laving others would Himself perish; but,
putting His breast to the foam and shak
ing tbe surf from His locks. He came on
ind on until He is now within the reach
of every one here, eye omniscient, heart
Infinite, arm omnipotent, mighty to save,
jven unto tbe uttermost.
On. it was not half a God that trampled
iown bellowing Gennesaret; It was not a
quarter of a God that mastered, tbe de
mons of Gadara; it was not two-thirds of a .
God that lifted up Lazarus into the arms
ot bis overjoyed sisters; it was not a frag
ment of a God who offered par Ion and
peace to all the race. No. This mighty
swimmer tbrew his grandeur, his glory,
bis might, his wisdom, bis 'omnipotence
and his eternity Info this one act. It took
both bands of God to save ut both foot.
How do I prove it? On tbe cross were
not both hands nailed? On the cross
were not both feet spiked? His entire
nature involved in our redemption!
If you have lived much by tbe water.
rou notice also that If any one is going out
:o the rescue of the drowning he must be
Independent, self-reliant, able to go alone.
There may De a time when be must spring
rat to save one, and be cannot get a life
boat, and If he goes ont and has not '
itrength enough to bear himself up and
bear another up he will sink, and Instead
ot dragging one corpse out of tbe billows
rou will have two to drag oat. When Christ
iprang ont Into tha sea to deliver ns. He
bad no life buoy. His Father did not help
Him. Alone in the wine press, alone in tbe
pang, alone in the darkness, alone on tha
mountain, alooe In the sea! Oh, If He saves
as He shall have all the credit, for "there
was none to help," no oar, no wing, no
ladderl When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the
battle charge In front of his troops, he had
1 whole army to cheer him. When Marshal
Nay sprang into tbe contest and plunged
In the spars till the horse's flanks sported
stood, ail France applauded him. But Jesus
ilonel "Ot the people there was none to
belp." "All forsook blm and fled." Oh, It
was not a flotilla that sailed down and
saved ns. It was not a cluster ot gondolas
that came over tbe wave. It was one per- -ion,
Independent and alone, "spreading
nt His hands among us as a swimmer
ipreadeta forth his hands to swim."
Behold, then, the speotaole ot a drown- -Ing
soul and Christ the swlmmerl believe -it
was in 1848 when there were six English
loldiers ot the Fifth tusileers ,who were '
banging to a capsized boat boat that-- i
adjri8en ups . b '-" jniie. -
aarbhtone "
, -;acb, guided
. i.'-fi.bat lifted their tops
He came to the beach.
,. . . -r?iua a shoreman tbat consented to go
with him and save the other men, and they
put out. It was some time befoie thay
jould find tbe place where the men were,
Out after awhile they heard their or),
"Help, help!" and they bore down to them,
ind they saved them and brought them to
shore.
If you have been much by the water, you
know very well that when one is in peril
Help must come very quickly, or It will be
f no use. One mlnnte may decide every
thing. Immediate help the man wants or
no help at all. Now, that is Just the kind
of relief we want. The case is urgent.
Imminent, instantaneous. See that soul
slnkingl Son ot God, lay hold of him.
Be quiok, be quick! On, I wish "yon all
anderstood how nrgent this gospel is.
There was a man in the navy at sea
who bad been severely whipped for
bad behavior, and be was maddened
by it and leaped Into the sea, and no sooner
bad he leaped Into the sea than, quick as
lightning, an albatross swooped upon him.
The drowning man, brought to his senses,
seized hold of the albatross and held on.
Ihe fluttering of the bird kept him on the
wave until relief could come. Would now
that the dove of God's convicting, convert
ing and saving spirits might flash from the
throne upon your soul and that you, tak
ing hold of its potent wing, might live and
live forever.
The world has had strong swimmers be
sides the one ot the text, perhaps the
greatest among them Matthew Webb, of the
British mercantile marine sorvlce. He
leaped from the deck of the Itussia, the Cuo-
ard steamer, to save tbe life of a sailor who
had fallen overboard. No wonder tbe
passengers subscribed for blm a large re
ward and the Royal Humane Society of
London decorated him with honors. A
mighty swimmer was be, by the strength
ot his own arm and foot pushing through
the waters from Blackwall pier to Graves
end pier, eighteen miles, and from Dover to
Calais. 39 miles, where he crossed, yet be
was drowned at last in our Niagara's
whirlpool. But fio strong swimmer of my
text put out alona to swim a wrathier sea
and for vaster distance, even from world
to world, to save ns who were swamped In
guilt and woe, and brought us to tbe shore
of safety, although Ha at last went down
Into tbe whirlpool of human and satsnlo
rage. "He descended into belli"
New modes have been Invented for res
cuing a drowning body, but there has been
no new Invention for resonlng a drowning
lonl. In 1786 Lionel Lnkin, a London
eoach builder, fitted up a Norway yawl as
a lifeboat and called it tbe Insubmerglble,
and that has been Improved npon until
from all the coasts of the round world par
feat lifeboats are ready to pat out for the
relief of marine disasters. In sixteen years
the Frenob Society For Saving Life From
Shipwreck saved 3129 lives. The Ger
man Association For the Rescue of
Life From Shipwreck, the Royal Na
tion Lifeboat institution and our
United States life saving service
have done a work beyond the power of
statistics to commemorate. What rocket
lines and sling life buoys and tally boards
and mortars and hammocks and cork mat
tresses and lire saving stations filled with
machinery tor saving tbe bodies of tbe
drownlngl But let me herd and now make
it plain tbat there has been no new way In
vented for the moral and eternal rescue of
a struggling sool. Five hundred attempts
at such contrivance have been made, bat
all of them dead failures. Hear itl
"There Is none other name under heaveo
given among men wbereby we must be
saved" than the name ol Jesus.
There are trifles that contain the
history of our lives, as a drop of dew
draws into itself the majesty and so
lemnity of the heavens.
When interest is at variance with
conscience, any pretence that seems
to reconcile them satisfies the hollow
hearted. You cannot give an instance of any
man who is permitted to lay out his
own time , contriving not to have te
dious hours.
The great mountains and the mighty
ocean are about the only things on this
earth that man looks at and dont sug
gest some improvement.
Constancy Is the compliment of all
other human virtues.
Every man is the architect of his
own character.
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