" T " """ : ' B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOH--THE UniOR ADD THE ERFORCEttEDT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IiTU. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1899. NO. 52 I? CHAPTER XVIII. At S o'clock on the (Tight of the "in. Hattie Deltosette was seated in the li brary of her home, the very room in which her father had so recently been murdered. Notwithstanding the fact that the bank er bad there been stricken to death, this room had been his favorite, and his daugh ter found fond memories clustered about it. It was apparent that the young heiress had lieen weeping, and little wonder. Fof three days she had been seated in the court house listening to the evidence that she felt to must minds condemned the man she lored as the murderer of her father. She had listened to the evidence of Her man Craven and reluctantly had spoken words that substantiated his statements. She had noted with feelings better im agined than described that the stern, fixed features of the jurors seemed to admit of little doubt as to what would be their ver dict. The statement of the prisoner, unsub stantiated t i it was, seemed to bear littir weight. The State's Attorney dispelled that lit tie in his long argument for conviction. He drew a terrible picture of the crime enacted in the room in which she was seated, and stated that the evidence was sucn as not to admit of a single doubt ai to who committed the horrible murder. "No other living soul!" he exclaimed, as he pointed bis shaking finger at the pris oner, "bad a -motive! This man had. Where was it? Ask him! Where is the bag of coin he that night obtained at the express otlice? How did be obtain that canceled note? The dead banker cannot answer you, and the statements of hi assassin should weigh not against the overwhelming evidence against him. His assertions are canningly contrived; but would a wretch guilty of such a crime hesitate to save bis worthless neck from the halter by false statements? You hare, gentlemen, the evidence of the murdered banker's nephew, his trusted friend, in whom he had such confidence that, on knowD to him, he had already named him the administrator of his will and the guardian of his daughter. Yes, and left him besides a fortune in his own right. lie has told you, though reluctantly and after being pressed by the counsel for the de fense, that the dead banker had expressed to him a desire to live to see the nephew and bis loved daughter man and wife. In all this, gentlemen of the jury, the daugh ter's evidence corroborates that of the principal witness, with the exception that she had no knowledge of the fact that her father hoped one day to see her wedded tc the young man who is now president ot The Cape Fear Enk.' Her father had never expressed that wish to her. Why, gentlemen of the jnry? Because of her tender years! May there not, gentlemen, have been also a motive here on the part of the prisoner for the removal of the murdered man? Did he not fear the bank er, living, would thwart him in his design to make the daughter his wife? Remem ber, gentlemen, that if Herman Craven and Miss De Rosette bad been one moment later in entering the library they would have found before them naught but the lifeless body of the murdered banker! The fiend that murdered him would have made his exit from the house. And who shall say, not without a hope, nay, a belief, that the nephew would stand before the bar of justice, charged with his murder? Mur der, so palpable and plain that even Lanv Sellars, the great Southern detective, whom he had nrged to take bis case, aban doned him." There was amazement throughout tin ourt room at the calm appearance of the prisoner during the tirade of the prose cuting attorney. Not an exclamation left his lips. He sat pale and silent, with clenched hands and tightly compressed lips, until Lawyei ltohbins HWJd taken his seat. Arthur Dobbs plead long and well foi the life of his client; but no denuncia tions of Herman Craven left his lips. The ground he dwelt on was that no liv ing soul had seen the blade of the sheath knife driven home to the banker's heart, and that the evidence against the prisoner was entirely circumstantial. In his closing plea the district attorney, an old and experienced lawyer, ridiculed the idea of the proof being of a circum stantial nature, and in closing his address ' used these words: "There he sits, gentlemen! There ii. the prisoner's box caught red-handed in his murderous act! Do your duty, and free the Old North State of a fiend unpar alleled! Take the case." The judge's charge had occupied au hour, and it was apparent that he enter tained no doubt of the prisoner's guilt. Not half an hour previous to the tim we find Miss Hattie seated in the library, and after the jury had retired from tht court room, had she left the court house, and then only after the judge bad an nounced that the verdict would be deliv ered in open court at 10 o'clock the fo! lowing day. "That is," said his honor, "if the jury agree, and they undoubtedly will. I trust," he added, "that you will not be uncom fortable in the jury room; but owing to illness in my family, I am nnable to re main and take your verdict to-night." "I would have said more, much more," thought Miss Hattie. at she pondered ore the matter, "bnt for the caution of Mr. Cellars. I would have denounced Iler man Craven. I would have accused him of having visited the attic. I would ' Her thoughts were interrupted by the entrance of her cousin. "My dear Hattie! I find yoo alone!" cried Herman, as he seated himself on the sofa beside her. You have been weep ing. I do not wonder: me tnree past days have been terrible to you; but the grave will soon open to receive the body of your father's murderer." "I I trust so," said Hattie, with a sob she could not suppress. "How brazen the fiend sat there throughout the trial. In spite of all. 1 am sorry for his mother and sister, for they are worthy people; but I assure yon I am glad the murderer's sister does not longer vek your company. It was revolting to .. e iv see yon in her company. I did not m- either the mother or sister in the couri room to-day." "They may have abandoned him to his f.-iic." said Hattie, "and he may not have desired them there to hear a son and brother condemned. . I Is it possible, my. loved cousin and ward, that at one time you lovea inis "I'ray do not apeak of It, 1 I faucied I did." "1'ure fancy and nothing more! Oh, may I not hope, dear Hattie, that you: loved father's desire may be fulfilled, and that at no distant day you will ' my wife? I love you, my cousin, and would make my ward uiy bride!" "This is no time, sir, to speak of love to me! Why, not two months have pass ed since my dear father was alive and well. There is time enough for you to ask my hand, when his brutal murderer shall have paid the penalty ot bis death on the galjw " "But men, dear Hattie? Then may l speak, and will yoo listen to me?" "If you address me after my father's murderer shall have been executed I will listen to your but I give you no reason to brieve that I will become your wife. 1 never loved you, and certainly do not now." "Bat yoo will, sweet Hattie! You will! Too will learn how devoted I am to you!" "You say It was my father's wish that I become your wife? I would certainly fulfill his every wish, but is it not strange that he never expressed such a desire to me?" "I think not, my dear Hattie. He did not desire you to think he was in haste to have you married, but he often spoke his mind to me. "Strange; but as he evidently was not in haste to have me married, neither shall I be in haste to surrender my hand, now that he is no longer alive." "Your father living, dear Hattie, you had a trusty guardian. "Have 1 not one now?" asked the heiress, looking him fixedly in the eyes. His face colored as he answered: "Why, yes, certainly yoo have, and one who loves you with his whole heart! 1 would die to serve you!" "Well, speak of love to me no more nntil I give my leave. Good night! and Hat tie arose from her seat and left the room "She Is mine, in spite of the devil!" thought Herman as the door closed behind Iher. "Ere a year goes by she will have changed the name of DeRosette for that of Craven. Now to move cautiously and retain the confidence of the directors and the public until she has become my bride. Then my plan is to convert everything into rash. Cash? I wonder what never mind, I shall hear from him soon enough. I will venture he is keeping track of vents. Afraid to write too soon, possibly. Well, he is prudent; but all is smooth sail ing, smooth sailing, and I hold the reins! To-morrow the verdict comes. I think I bear the foren.n's words now: 'UuIIty! Guilty T Guilty, beyond a doubt. Then a short season in a condemned man's cell under the death watch, and then ah! a strangling noose! A fatal drop! A dead man dangling between the earth and sky, and Alvin De Rosette's murder has been gracious, it makes me nervous! avenged, and I have nothing more to fear. "What a difference it makes whether a man be poor or rich. Poor, I was Herman Craven, the cashier of The Cape Fear Bank.' the nephew of a wealthy man, but i entitled to little consideration. Wealthy; I am Mr. Craven, president of The Cape Fear Bank' and entitled to all considera tion. To the devil with conscience and idle scruples in this world, say I! Nothing but servility and beggery travels in their wake. Now for bed, and to-morrow for another scene in the drsma. After the next one the curtain will drop. Strange, I feel so squeamish! I feel as though my every movement was being watched. Never mind, I will take a bracer when I reach my room, then sleep." A moment more and Hennas entered his room, closing and locking the door be hind aim. 'CHAPTER XIX. A black, ungainly form bad In the dis nnce followed Herman Craven from the court house to the DeRosette residence on the night of the twenty-seventh. In fact, on each night that had preceded it inre . the detective's departure with Adam, the coachman, for Baltimore, and -liis form now lay beneath an elm directly in front of the residence oi the late bank er, and but a few feet from the path lead ing from the gate to the house. A pair of large black eyes were intently fixed on the door of the mansion, and only removed from the same when from time to time the negro raised them and glanced for a moment at the light that shone forth from two windows on the second floor. Herman Craven's feelings that he was being watched belied not the facts in the case. The eyes of Calban bad never for one moment left bis form, save when he was beneath the court house roof, that of the bank, or beneath that under which he now sought repose. "Dis yere hard wnck," mattered the negro, "an I knows what Ise gwine f do when Mars Lang wine op dis case. Ise gwine sleep a week, dat I is. But I isen' gwine close dese yere eyes till Mars Lang say, 'Calban, you 'lieved now! Golly. 1 spec dat Adam tink he own de yearth, now he splorin' 'bout wid Mars Lang. I yere dem say dat de jury got de case. You better hurry up. Mars Lang! What I done wid my 'bacca? I hope I isen' loss dat! No, yere it is!" and the negro bit off a goodly piece with his white ivories and composed himself for his night's watch. In the office of Attorney Dobbs a father and son were at this time in close conver sation. "There is no question what the verdict will be, Arthur," are the words that fall from the -lips of the elder man. "But for Sellars you could have made your defense much stronger." "I know, father, bnt he protested against such a course. Too know he has bis own theories." "He is a strange man with his methods. He keeps his secrets to himself. Now as to this C. A. Stephens that be is searching for. What possible connection can ne have with the case? "Why, the man may be in Europe by this time. I think Sellars Is wrong with his theories. I believe Rob ert Campbell to be entirely innocent of the foul crime charged against him, and I believe every word of the statement be made to the jury, bnt I do not believe Herman Craven guilty of that murder. Neither do I believe him to have been an accessory to it. or to have had a knowl edge of the fact that it was contemplated. mm nll a.tl.fiad that ha believes Rob- Ctmobt1 to the Uty wretch who murdered big unci." , ., , "Possibly, father: bnt I have all faith in Sellars judgment, "Little wonder, son; bnt Sellars la this case has made an egregious blander. My theory now fa that there were two parties to this crime tramps, probably. That one was secreted in the house, perhaps in the bath room adjoining the banker's chamber, perhaps in the closet under the stairs, and that the other was on the out side of the house." "Well?" "That the object was to rob the banker; that unexpectedly Robert Campbell ap peared before that bad been accomplish ed and was admitted to the house. The tramp on the outside waited perhaps half an hoar after be had entered the house. Perhaps through the open window on the east side of the house be had a view of the two men seated in the library. Final ly he ascended to the piazza and rang the bell vigorously, with a design of separat ing the two men. Possibly he thought the younger one would come to the door." "Very naturally so." "Well, after ringing the bell he dashed away in the darkness. Robert went to the door, as be stated. There was no one there. He walked out on the piazza and examined that. Next be descended the steps and peered round in all directions in the gloom and darkness. Presently he heard a groan from within the bouse. He retraced his steps quickly. The murder had been 'committed. The tramp had se cured the bag of coin and in some man ner made hia exit from the house." "Your theory is ' "Walt! Robert was appalled at the sight that confronted him. He cried, 'Help! Murder!' and drew forth the reek ing blade from my old friend's breast: but only to find himself a moment later charg ed by the nephew with having committed the crime." "Yon draw a fearful picture, father!" "The picture was a reality, my son. Yoo, could lave made your rise stronger, much stronger! You could have shown ail these possibilities. Yon could have shaken the founded belief of that jury, as you did not do." "I know it. father, and bat for Sellars I would have done so. He protested aganst such a course, as you know, and Robert Campbell has such implicit confidence In him that he directed me to be guided by him in relation to all matters pertaining to his defense." "Robert Campbell will soon be nnder sen 'r nee of death, and for a crime that h aid not commit. As for Sellars, he has not been frank enough with us. If he has a hope of material evidence anything aside from suspicions he should have made it apparent." "Remember, father, Lang Sellars is a man of action, not of words. At the pro per time he will speak in thunder tones! Have patience, and wait!" "In the meantime Robert Campbell ap proaches the gallows." (To be continued.) BATTLE WITH WILDCAT. A Hnttr Uses Bed Pepper to Good Advantage oa a Wild Bsast. For the first winter In many year wildcats have beeu numerous along the Fulton Chain. "BUI" Harwood, an old time Adirondack guide, arrived In town last week with his head and arms done up In bandages, as evidence of the willingness of a wildcat to fight when In close quartern. Harwood and his big deerhound. Spot, had been making a tour of the lakes for winter game, when they were caught In a snow storm on Black River mountain, near Rocky Point They camped for the night in a shack left by a party of surveyors. " Along in the morning Harwood was awakened by the barking of the hound. Turning over In his blankets he saw two shining eyes In a corner of the shack. Har wood knew that It was a wildcat The cat had crawled to the entrance, when the hound leaped ahead and blocked the way out A terrific battle follow ed. The cat leaped for the hound and literally tore the dog Into shreds. Then the decayed trees holding the shack fell over the entrance and the cat and Harwood were literally penned In to fight a duel to the death. The odds were plainly with the cat for Harwood's gun had fallen with the brush, outside the aback. He was crawling to reach the weapon when the cat came down upon him, tearing its claws through his face and down his right arm. If the cat had followed the attack immediately the battle would have been over then and there. Har wood's life was saved by luck and a clever idea. As the cat leaped back for a second attack, Harwood fell for ward. His hand struck a box of red pepper, which he had brought with hjs provisions. Quick as thought he snatched a handful of pepper, and aris ing threw it at the head of the cat. The aim was good. The cat was blinded un til Harwood could crawl outside and reach his rifle. Then he dropped under the edge of the shack, and, locating the cat by the noise, fired until the auimal was dead. New York World. British P illcn For e Kuii tea. The total police force of the United Kingdom is nearly 00,000. Of these England has 41,332, Including 15.4K8 in the London Metropolitan Police Force niul OSS in the city police; Scotland, 4.744; Ireland, 12.1C5; Wales, 1.283; Isle of Man, 52. Of the large towns, Liverpool has a full strength of 1.893 men; Glasgow, 1,320; Dublin. 1.2ri5; Manchester, 1.038. Married couples in Norway are privil eged to travel on railways at a fare and a half. The only way to have a friend la to be one. He who laughs can commit no deadly sin. Grasp the Irksome duty, it shall turn to sweet delight. Love of virtue is as native to man as love of knowledge. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles Instruments and applications. Service is greater than sovereignty. Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to praise which deceives them. The preacher who starves his head cannot feed his people's hearts. Doing good is the only certainly hap py action of a man's life. . Adversity is the grindstone on which we lose enough to put an edge of use fulness on our lives. Truth, beautv and love! these are the realities other things are dreams. Public favor Is a poor platform to stand on. Look up for strength and courage, and look about you for a place to put It to use. Chance never helps the men who do not work. LIFE ON ST. HELENA. ITTLE ISLAND WHERE NAPO LEON BONAPARTE DIED. -4 'ta Inhabitants at the Present Dy Ars Happy and Contented, and Crinas Is Almost Unknown on the Island-' Industries of the People. t Few people ever think of St Helena except aa a rock In the sea on which Napoleon lived a while miserably and then more miserably died. That the rrtatest of antl -climaxed was not the ;ud of the little Islacd's 'jlstory Is bard to realize, possibly because a poet or romancer would have made It the end, ind a continuation Is therefore more or less unnatural and absurd. Be that as It may, St Helena has remained the tbldlng place of ordinary human beings who concern themselves " very little ibout the colossal ghost generally sup posed to be the island's only inhabit ant, and the report to the English gov eminent just made by their governor ibows that they have Joys and sorrows xactly like those of the folks dwell ing in places less tragically famous. for Instance, the revenues of the island last year were 9,152, a decidedly com fortable sum. but alas! the expendi tures amounted to 12,349, and that Is n excess of outgo not comfortable at 1L The governor says, however, that the bad balance was due to some extra jrdlnary drains upon the Island's re sources, and that he anticipates a sub stantial surplus for the current year. A recent Increase of the garrison and xtenslve Improvements now making ty the colonial and Imperial author! des assure the Immediate prosperity of the Islanders. St Helena hns no public debt bnt Is paying off by small annual Install ments a non-interest-bearing grant of 3,000 made by Parliament In 18TL The Imports, chiefly foodstuffs -and sulldlng materials, amounted last year jo 62.985. and the exports, almost wholly potatoes, to 4.391. Lace ma I' ll g has been Introduced among the girls )f the Island with great success, and the Governor Is experimenting with the manufacture of brick and tile. The whalers have now entirely deserted St Helena, the few ships engaged In that Industry keeping far to the north or otith. The total population of the Island Is 4.543. i The governor hopes that winter vis itors from England may be tempted by he salubrity of the climate to try St Helena, which Is superior, he says. In 'tome respects to that of Madeira and the Canary Islands, ne says the people M a whole compare favorably with the English agricultural population; with lew exceptions, all can read and write. ind the language Is spoken with great er purity than In many districts at aome. As a ruj- the people are happy tnd contenteX h little erhne among mem and much kindness In helping each other. Strangers are greatly im pressed with the general civility shewn to them by old and young. New York flmes. LOCATION OF SOLOMON'S MINES Supposed to Be Near Where Transvaal - War Will Occur. The present prominence of the Trans raal from a political aspect makes everything connected with that region it special Interest The country, though It has only In comparatively recent times attracted the attention of our present civilization, has had a past, a rery remote past civilization of which ill records and even traditions nave Jisapprared, but which has left Its nark on the landscape In the shape of i number of stone ruins of peculiar itructure, the purpose and probable listory of which Is now puzzling irchaeologlsts. These buildings are scattered over :he plateau of southern Mashonaland tnd Matabeleland, from Its mountain ous edge on the east to the neighbor hood of Tatl on the west They con dst of fragments of walls built of small blocks of granite resembling paving stones, about a foot long by six Inches ulgh, chipped or trimmed to a uniform ilze. They are built without mortar ir cement but the stones are neatly id Justed, and the walls, which taper 'rom the base toward the top, are so .hick that stability la Insured. The nly ornamentation consists In placing onie of the stones at an acute angle :o the other layers above and below, to as to produce a herring-bone pattern. The group of ruins which have at tracted the most attention are situated erenteen miles from Fort Victoria, In ututhern Mashonaland. They are mown by the name of the Great Zlm !abnye. This Bantu word Is said to leuote a stone building, but has often Seen used to describe the residence of i great chief. It is a common noun ind not the name of any particular place. It has, however, been applied tij Europeans to these ruins, which consist of two buildings, one on the top of a hill, the other In a valley. Simple and rude these structures un doubtedly are, but for what purpose were they built and by whom? An explanation of a historical char terer has been suggested. The Egyptian nonumcnts teach us that In very re note times there was a trade from loutbeast Africa Into the Red Sea. In the book of Kings we find that Solo mon and Hiram of Tyre entered Into i trade venture from the Red Sea port f Ezlon-geber to a country named Ophlr. which produced gold and dia monds. Other historical facta are con firmatory of these and Indicate at some rery remote time this region was visit ed by a people In search of gold, who were much more civilised than the Kaffirs, bnt the mystery Is not yet solved. Are they the lost diamond nines of King Solomon? Rare Book. The free library of Philadelphia has In one of Its collections of books a re markable and precious possession. Thtj collection Is the result of twenty years' labor by one of the foremost experts ot Europe, and consists of 500 works out f 21,000 said to bare been published between the discovery of printing and the year 1500. It is not only that 500 books of the earliest age of printing hare been here brought together, bnt also that specl nentr M the work of 814 different presses and types are shown, snd that the development of the art of printing Is illustrated from Its very earliest stages. It Is claimed that more than Bfty of these volumes were printed prior to any Issued by Caxton's press snd many are from presses which nevei Issued more than one or two books. So says the Public Ledger. In some case specimens of the work of that particu lar press are not known to exist else where. It Is a gratifying feature of the col lection that a large proportion of th books are In their original bindings. Among other books of exceptional rarity are the first Bible Concordance, issued probably about 1406; the first octavo edition of the Bible, by Froude, printed In 1491, and known as the Pool Man's Bible; two of the five books printed In Greek capital letters in the fifteenth century; a Latin Bible printed In Lyons In 1479, and regarded as the rarest of all the Latin Bible editions. It Is so scarce that noted bibliographers doubted Its existence. This copy Is the jnly known specimen of the work of the press that Issued It It Is said of twenty of the works that copies are not to be found even In the British Museum. The Department of Agriculture re ports the discovery that a dangerous European acale Insect not hitherto re- fported on this side of the Atlantic has recently established Itself among fruit trees In New York and Ohio, and per haps In other parts of the country. Its entomological name Is Aspldlotus os 'treoeformls, and It Is well known In Europe. .It attacks apples, pears, cher ries and other fruits. How It got acrosi the ocean Is not yet known. Dr. Moreno, the director of the Li Plata Mnseum, during a recent visit to London gave a lecture on Patagonia, ic which he declared that that countrj does not deserve Its bad reputation. Although Its present population Is small and scattered, it has, he avers, a healthy soil capable of supporting a large population, and It presents a vast eld for human Industry. In Dr. More no's opinion, Patagonia Is a remnant of an ancient Antarctic continent t Trees, and, indeed, all terrestrial veg etation, will live for months In winter when their roots and stems are wholly under water, but are killed In a few days If a sudden overflow keeps the roots nnder water in the growing sea son. The room, needing air at that sea son, are suffocated. The practical cul rjur. .ot an observant turn of mind. makes admirable use of thtsknowIRfgeT In many gardening operations. Plants desired in low situations, where they would not under usual conditions sur vive, should not be set deeply. T. S. C. Lowe, of Pasadena. CaL, the founder of the Lowe Observatory, sug gests that some storms In which elec tricity plays a leading part, like torna does, might be dissipated on the light ning rod principle by bonding the rails of railroads with copper, as In electric railroads for return currents, and at Intervals sinking large conductors Into the ground until they reach the water. Railroads running north and south, he suggests, would be especially available because the tracks of tornadoes are almost Invariably from west to south west toward east or northeast The marvelous effects' that are some times produced by music may eventual ly receive a scientific explanation. In a recent lecture at Oxford University, Prof. McKendrlck said that, while the Intricate connections of the auditory nerves are only just being unraveled, It Is probable that the roots of those nerves are more widely distributed and have more extensive connections than those of any other nerves In the human tody. Researches on the auditory nerves indicate that there is scarcely a function of the body which may not be affected by the pulsations and harmonic combinations of musical tones. If the sponge ss brought up fresh from the sea-botiom were a familiar object says Dr. Lydekker. few would be In doubt as to its being an animal. When fresh. It ta a fleshy-looking sub stance covered with a firm skin, and If cut It presents somewhat the appear ance of raw meat Its cavities are filled with a gelatinous substance called milk." American sponges, and those of all other parts of the world, are In ferior to the sponges of the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The finest of all sponges Is the Turkey toilet sponge, which Is cup-shaped. Th American sponge most nearly approach ing It In quality is the West Indlav glove sponge. Aootdonts with Lamps. Any table on which lampa are placed should be of firm construction, large top, and of sufficient weight at the base not to Up easily or jar when touched. A great many so-called acci dents with lamps are caused by plae Ing them on light rickety tables. Clocks for Qar Uses. One of the latest developments of thi common domestic clock Is worthy of se rious attention. . It comes from Switz erland, and takes the form of a phono graphic attachment to an ordinary clock, which at any dlslred hour of the morning will shout "It Is (7) o'clock; get up! Now, don't go to sleep again V The possibilities of an extension of thU principle are Immense. There might be clocks for the boxing ring, saying, "Time, gentlemen,' and clocks tor the parliamentary bore, with a cry ol Vide! 'vide!" Church congregations which have suffered many things at the hands of long-winded preachers might subscribe for a clock which should nttei a sonorous "Amen" at the end of a suitable period. Equally valuable vey a gentle hint to the unwanted call-1 er; Indeed, this particular development la so attractive that I am thinking ol enlisting Its aid for the purpose ol shortening editorials Interviews ai Truth office. London Truth. THE REAL "DAVID HARUM. ftsalat Hero of Wcstcott's Book Is David Hannnna of Homer, N. T. The real "David Harum," the charac ter In Edward N. Westcott's book of that name. Is David Hannum, of Homer, the New York village West cott has made fa mous. When Ho mer read "David Harum" It recog n I e d underneath the literary paint the rugged, wide awake, homely c o u n t e nance of david hankcm. D a v I d Hannum, who had been a character In a town of quaint long-beaded, dryly humor ous characters up to a few years ago. Homer Is full of stories of Hannum, banker and horse dealer, droll, shrewd, sharp, yet tender. He would rather trade horses and make $200 than make 12,000 In a business operation. He be gan without a cent In the world, made a fortune and died with no money. In 1853 New York gave a, grand ex hibition at theOrystnl Palace. "Dave" found a horse whose mane was so thick that It gave him somewhat the appear ance of a buffalo. Hannum bought the animal and took him to New York, trimmed Its mane so as to heighten the Illusion, and exhibited him as the "buf falo horse." New-Yorkers flocked to see the curiosity and added many dollars to "Dave's" stock. Some one dug up the stone Cardiff giant an alleged prehistoric man, which turned out to be a fake. Han num saw It and bought an interest In It and made more money. Yet when again poor, no family In Homer ever went without Thanksgiving turkey. Hannum borrowed money to send them to the poor. Mrs. -Gibson. Hannum's sister, has never read Westcott's book and saj she never will. "He put words and spelling Into David's mouth such at any one In Homer will tell you he never ased," she says. TRIBUTE FROM LOVINQ FRIENDS Memorial to Winnie Davis, Unveiled in Richmond. In a lovely plot in Hollywood Ceme tery In Richmond, Va., at the foot of a steep hill and by the side of her father, repose the remains of Winnie Davis Daughter of the Confederacy. Recent ly a memorial was unveiled over bet grave, a tribute from admiring women all over the country, to perpetuate th memory of one who was beloved in life and mourned !n death. This is prob ably the first time in this country's his tory that a monument has been erected to a woman soley by women. The design represents the Angel of Grief seated on a granite pedestal, on hand holding a wreath as if to place 11 on the grave. In the pose of the figurt dignity and sadness are blended, and is the face of the angel is unfathomable sorrow. From every point of view tht outline Is perfect and the poise of tht wings Is exquisitely graceful. Delays are dangerous advertise now. No good business man leaves his ad vertislng for the sheriff to attend to. A black hen can lay a white egg but you can't be successful If you don't ad vertlse. It Is the momentum of advertising that carries a business along. It Is like the steam power which carries along the railroad train. Cut off the steam and the train will move on for some distance without perceptible diminution ol speed. But gradually It comes to a stop. It Is the same way with advertis ing. The way to keep the business en gine going, whether tie engineer be an Individual or a combination, Is to keep up action. Four HStaT Poker Hands. An English paper tells of the wonder ful deal at poker seen recently at Simla, India. The pack had the small carda out up to the six, and when the hands lealt four out of five players "stood." The game proceeded In the usual way, ind when the four hands were exposed they were found to be a royal flush to the king, a royal flush to the queen, tour aces and a king full Reasonable. ' The reasons for orthography are among the things which pass man's un derstanding. Some explanations, bow ever, have a plausible sound. A minister was recently called upon to marry a couple in private, and had occasion to ask how the name of one of the witnesses was spelled. "M-e-H-u-g-h," replied the man. "Haven't yon a sister Margaret?" In quired the clergyman. "Yes, sir." "Well," said the minister, "she spelli her name, M-e-C-u-e.' " "That," said the witness, "is because my sister and ma, we went to different schools." THE WIKSIK DAVIS MEMORIAL. SERMON BY Rco. Dr. Calmagc abjset: -Victories of Fescs Tn Many Blessings For Which Wo Sboald Bs Thankful Machinery Has Lightened Burdens God Kent ths Wheal. rnonht. Lorn. Kloch 189..1 " ' . Washisotoh, D. C. This discourse of Dr. ralmage is sermon of preparation for the national observance and In an unusual way ealls for the gratitude ot the people; the text, Eiekiel x., 13, "As for the wheels. It was erled unto them in My hearing, 0 wheel!" The last Thursday of the eleventh month oy proclamation of President and Oover- nors, is observed In thanksgiving for temporal mercies With what spirit shall we enter upon It? For nearly a year anl a halt this nation has been celebrating the triumph of the sword and gun and bat- tery. We have snng martial air and ehred returning heroes and sounded the requiem for the slain in battle. Methlnks It will be a healthful change If this Thanks- giving week. In church and hom-stead, we celebrate the victories of peace, for not h- Ing was done at Santiago or Manila that wis of more importance than that which In the last year has been done in farmer's field and mechanic's shop and author's study by those wbo never wore an epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went a hnn-lred miles from their own doorslll. And now I call your attention to the wheel of the te, ' Man, a small peclt In the ani verse, was set down in a big world, high mountains rising before him. deep seas arresting his pathway and wild beasts capable of bis destruction, yet he was to conquer. It could not be by physical force, for com- pare his arm with the ox's horn and the elephant's tusk, and how weak be Is! It could not be by physical speed, for com- pure htm to the antelope's toot 'and pt.r- mlgan'swing. and . how slow he 1st It could not be by physical capacity to soar or plunge, for the condor beats him In one direction and the porpoise In the other. Yet he was to conquer the world. Two eyes, two bands and two feet were Insaffl- cient. He must be re-enforctd, so God sent the wheel Twenty-two times is the wheel men- tioned in the Bible, sometimes, as In Ezekiel, illustrating 'providential' move- ment; sometimes, as in the Paalms, crush- Ing the bad; sometimes, as in Judges, rep- repeating God's charioted progress. The wheel that started In Exodus rolls on through Proverbs, thr. ugh Isala'i, through Jeremiah, through Danlel.through Nahum, through the centuries, all tbe time gather- Ing momentum and splendor, until"seelng what It has done for the wor d's progress and happiness, we clap our bands in thanks- giving and employ toe apostrophe of the text crvine -0 wheel!" F I call on you in this Thanksgiving week to praise God for the triumphs of machin- ery, which have revolutionized the world and multiplied its attractions. Even para- dise, though very picturesque, must have been comparatively dull, hardly anything going on, no agriculture needed, for the harvest was spontaneous; no architecture required, lor they slept under the trees; no manufacturer's loom necessary for the weaving of apparel, for the fashions were exceedingly simple.' To dresc the garden could not have required ten minutes a day. Having nothing t , do. they got into mil- chief and ruined tnemselves and the race. It was a sad thing to be turned oat of par- adlse, but, once turned out. a beneficent thing to be compelled to wort. To help man up and on God sent the wheel. If turned ahead, the race advances; If turned back, the race retreats. To arouse your gB--esxalt yon-;-tfe I would - - ,-tae- -. domestic world, forth' for the traveling worldTfor the liferarV wni-M fn h 1. -- I unto them In my bearing, O wheel!" In domestic life the wheel has wrought revolution. Behold tht, sewing machlnel It n Jhai Z.,T' has shattered the housewife's bondage and wheel wheel of 1 ght wheel of civ lisa prolonged woman's life and added lmmeas- I "on' wheel of Christianity, wheel of divine nrable advantages. The needle for ages 1 momentum! had punctured The eves and pierced the ?.P..8?J0"rTD.8e,gTtD,,t of'he 9e.T,"ff side and made terrible massacre. Te pre- ( pare the garments of the whole household 1 fn the spring for summer and in the an-1 lumn ior winter was an exnausting pro- "Stitch, stitch, stitch!" Tboinae Hood set it to poetry, but millions of per sons have found It agonizing prose. 81ain by the sword, we buried the hero with the "Dead March" in "Saul" and flags at half mast. Slain by the needle, no one knew it but the household til-1, watched her health giving way. The winter after that the children were ragged and cold and hungry or In the almshouse. The hand that wielded the needle bad forgotten Its ennning. Soul and body had parted at the seam. The thimble bad dropped from the palsied finger. The thread ot life bad snapped and let a suffering humans life drop Into the grave. The spool was nil un wound. Her sepnlcuer was digged not with sexton's spade, but with ashiirper and shorter Implement a needle. Federal and Confederate dend have ornamented graves at Arlington Heights and Klchmond and Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but It will take the archangel s trumpet to find the million graves of the vaster army of women needle slain. Besides all the sewing done for the house hold at home, there are hundreds of thou sands of sewing women. The tragedy of the needle Is the tragedy of hunger and oold and Insult and home-sickness and sui cide five acts. But I bear the rush of a wheel, woman puts on the band and adjusts the instru ment, puts her foot on the treadle and be gins. Before the whir and rattle pleurisies. consumptions, headaches, backaches. heartaches, are routed. The needle, once an oppressive tyrant, becomes a cheerful slave roll and rumble and roar until the family wardrobe is gathered, and winter is defied, and summer is welcomed, and the ardors and severities of the seasons are overcome; winding the bobbing, threading the shuttle, tucking, quilting, rnnling, cording, embroidering, under-braldini; set to music; lock stitch, twisted loop stitch, ( crocket stitch, a fascinating Ingenuity. No wonder that at some of the learned Institutions, like the New Jersey State Normal school, and Rutgers Fomale insti tute, and Elmira Female college, acquaint ance with the sewing machine Is a requisi tion, a xoung lady not being considered educated until she understands It. Winter is coming on, and the household -oust be warmly clad. "The Last Rose of Summer" will sound better played ou a sewing ma chine than on a piano. Roll on, O wheel of the sewing machine, until the last shackled woman of toil shall be emanci pated! Roll onl Secondly, 1 look Into the agricultural world to see what the wheel has accom plished. Look at the stalks of wheat and oats, the one bread for man, the other bread for horses. Coat off and with a cradle made out of five or six fingers of wood and one of sharp steel, the harvester went across the field, stroke after stroke; perspiration rolling down forehead and cheek and chest, bead bllst-red bvthe con suming sun and lip parched by the merci less August air, at noon the workmen ivfng half dead under the trees. One of my most painful boyhood memories is that of my father In harvest time reeling from ex haustion over the doorstep, too tired to eat, pale and fainting as he sat down. Tue grain brought to the barn, the sheaves were unbound and spread on a threshing noor. and two men with nails stood oppo site each other, honr after hour and day j after day, pounding the wheat out of the stalk. Two strokes, and then a cessation j of sound. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump! Pounded once and then j turned over to be pounded again, slow, , very slow. The hens cackled and clucked and the horses half asleep and dozing over the mangers where the bay bad been. " j .1. u w I, 1 K j , 1 tnd the horses half sslesn ind noxlnir ovar ! Can yon Imagine anything more beantt. tul than the sea island eotton? I take np n.m.iini ia in mvhsnd. How beau- tifnl It isl But do you know by what pains , taking and tedious toll It passed Into any- the pockets of the poor, thing like practicality? If you examined There is a probability that a large that cotton, you would find it full ot sewis. warehouse for the displav of Amerl t was a evere process by which the seed can manufactured products will, in the was to be extracted from the fiber. T.ist near future, be established in Tokio, populations were leaving the South be- japan. cause they could not make any living out of this prodnot. One pound of green seed eotton was all that a man eoaid prepare in one day, but Ell Whitney, a Massachusetts Yankee, woke up, got a handful of eottoa and went to constructing a wheel for the parting of the fiber and the seed. Teeth on cylinders, brashes on cylinders, wheels on wheels. South Carolina gave him 50,000 for his Invention, and, Instead of ona mil taklnff s whnla dav In nranar , pound of eotton for the market, now he may prepare three hundredweight, and the I South Is enriched, and the commerce of J the world Is revolutionized, and over 8,- 00'000 "' .r 8"on PPrei this year, enougn to keep at work in tnis coun- try 14,800,000 spindles, employing 270,000 hands and enlisting tJ81, 400,000 ot capital, Thank you. Ell Whitney, and L. 8. Chl- Jhester, ot New York, his successor. Above ill, thank Ood for their inventive genius, that has done so much for the prosperity jf the world. Thirdly, I look to see what the wheel has done fotoe trA,eiing world. No one can te bow m noble and self sacrificing inTento hae been crushed between tb5 . , , . . . . , ?feh wh"81 ,d 'ne mo8rn onitiv. between the paddle and the ocean steamer, , T li? ?DheriJS k dS 'ST8?. m to wBlher ion Fi,oh, or nob?? ?nltOD ?r T?om,M Somerset the Inven- orf t.he steamboat. They all sof- 'd ?. wer? 7 of the wheel, and th.1na1l ,h?nored. John Fitch wrote: Tb? "l9t ' January 1743. was the fatal t,mB of bringing me Into existence. I know of nothing so perplexing and vexatious to m,,w-,eS11?15,,,8 iurbalent w'i? "d J"' b""d'n8' lIbe f0 ,h q Li. .itf n,,l. Lfff.Aj "! "?d ou.btedly haJ.V,f ?a.ted 'be la"er ,in the same man- ner; but, for one man to be teased with fn.nSS8'!?- IT, " ,!" mSt n'ortunate man In the world." 800 'ae rl? move out of one of our inDt,Jor, Jtl 'ZL JU!.' ney' t L h. i J1 1 el and i' f.l'l'lTlr1, ; "n Vh.?j!'.l .n J 'fhf ' ,pph, '.7' ?H 'L -V . l V 1 A !ed1e8 w'",re an ,nob off the track would b8ttbe d'erenee be,WT a hfUndr1fd " TD8 and a b"nd,red fA '"i'!,?! "nilftwo.11ine,h- ,JSL!,fn,m . "f1. T .? LV. ifkiC' T.2 wbl9' 8 andhW?- n0.-? h ' ?'a D" , thS h.ee.Vii. ?i f ! 'i"" ' h J" h,?fl, "j'iL .1. ' thunder and see the whlrlw nd as the train shoots past, a city on the wing. Thrilling, tartllng tubllme magnificent spectaole- a " fin in llJhtBl,,l Process on. rtJh5"6h"Leta?1hb" fj. Wbr' ' "5. 1 ' C?L ,' ''-?h! w wbB18 ?' t"8 carr'a9or,ib8 tw?W ' ?' tbe1c' " w" not D,nt",If7- "t1V,B ?n; 8n,MI tx1D09't,!on.,,at b'8'l'' that ,b8 m. lra c,'8 ' 'be n'n8teenth century rod 1 ,f8 D , ?cle; v. ,, .Ti 8 world could not believe its own eyes. and D? "tU quite far on In the eighties "f,,1" Souu'"ltf 8nen"ntl with the ?hirii??- ""bl"g. dominating spectacle ol s machine that was to do so much for the pleasure, the business, the health and the P'0" nations. The world had needed it to'"." years. .,,... ,. ourtb,T,' ! ik ,,nt0,lhe "terary worl.l ?nd 880 what the wheel has accomplished, f am more stouoded with this than any- thing that has preceded. Behold the al- most miraculous printing press! Doyen SiS'JinSl'S "fHi.u "m..,' 1 J'w- ". ?D,1,lad;lPh,a' Washington, and Western da"!e??w 8omo ' ns remBmb when the UIr ?.ri and b Rr8at ha9t.8 800 .C0P,H9 of .the v" ae P"1B,,,P, " S,Ti TLl.D9 d"y f' ,n "Te? ',8t' ?atu,De?ti?P has froJed Tet'on J?d "'j 8!l "1 ?, typing, electrotyplng, taking their places, i.h .STAl "''J" anJ hl PP'.' "nJJL." at"h: 1 "LTS? ,M iSfJ h 7 h TLllTitfIlZll P- ' I ??. f with the newspapers com- ! puW'i- on ot innumerable books jx .... it'' .'t''i--- . f "'L?Lb PP0'. r '.'i'?'v -tito, encyclopedias ana oiDia. some 01 forth the most accursed "anv Dul ooa predominates. Torn wlS 1 ,h ,, k. 1 - liT?5toeom?liZ " that ?' tb,e Print,n UTtlZV P pre" ant prosperity. And now I gather on an Imaginary plat form, as I literally did when I preached In Brooklyn, specimens ot our American products. Here is corn from the West, a foretaste f the great harvest that Is to come down 10 our seaboard, enougl for ourselves and for foreign shipment. Here Is rice from the South, never a more beautiful product grown on the planet, mingling the gold and green. Here are two sheaves, a sheaf ol North irn wheat and a sheaf of Southern rice, bound together. May the band never break! Here Is cotton, the wealthiest product of A nerica. Here is sugar cane, enough to sweeten the beverages of an em pire. Wbo would think that out of such a humble stalk there would come such a luscious product? Here are palmetto trees that have in their pulses the warmth of southern climes. Here is the cactus of the South, so beauti ful and so tempting It must go armed. Here are the products ot American mines. This Is Iron, this is coal, the Iron repre senting a vast yield, our country sending forth one year 800.000 tons ot it, the coal representing 160.000 square miles of it, the Iron prying out the coal, the coal smelting the Iron. This Is silver, silver from Colorado and Nevada, those places able yet to yield silver napkin rings and silver knives and stiver casters and silver platters for all our people. Here is mica from the quarries ot New Hampshire. How beautiful It looks lu the unligbt! Here la copper from Lake Su perior, so heavy I dare not lift it. Here is gold from Virginia and Georgia. I look around me on this imaginary plat form, and It seems as if the waves of agri cultural, mlneralogical, pomological wealth dash to the platform, and there are four beautiful beings that walk In, and they are all garlanded. One Is garlanded with wheat and blos soms of snow, and I find she Is the North. Another comes in, and bur brow Is gar landed with rice and blossoms of magnolia, and I find she Is the South. Another comes in, and I find she Is gar landed with seaweed and blossoms ot spray, and I find she is the East. Another comes in, and I find she is gar landed with silk of corn and radiant with California gold, and I find f lie is the West. Coming face to face, they take off their garlands, aud they twist thera together Into something that looks like a wreath, but it Is a wheel, the wheel ot national prosperity, and I say in an outburst ol Thanksgiving joy for what God bas doue for ths North and the South and the E 1st and the West, "Oh wheel!" At different times In Europe they have tried to get a congress of kloirs nt Berlin or at Paris or at St. Petersburg, but It has always been a failure. Only a few kings bare come on. But on this Imaginary platform that I have built we bave a convention of all the kings King Corn, King Cotton, Klug Rice, King Wheat, King Oats, King Iron, King Coal, King Silver, King Gold and they all bow before the King of kings, to whom be all the glory of this year's wonderful productlonl harlem flat owners are talking about organizing an association which shall have for Its object the securing of legislation that will give them the right to hold the furniture of a tenant who tries to leave without paying rent. cation of his house, and the dav fol- . .'.... lowing the removal this sign adorned his little domicile: "These premises nave moved across the street. Canaries, amounting in value to 250,000, are annuallv raised in Ger- many. Most of this monev goes tnto wretch r 2" .H'fTW"' 1 -ry-:Cj-.
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