X- - T ft'.; i 5 4S ft li B. F. SCHWEIER, 1 THE CORSTITUTIOn THE UniOR ARD THE ENFORCENERT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. L.IV. MIFFLIXTOWK, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1900 NO. 34 ; '-'. x--- n . - ' 1 on I 4 -- CHAPTER XXI. Yes. they were all at it again the lin oet and robin; the mavis and merle; the nukoo telling us of his whereabouts in the heart of the thicket; the larks tilling all the wide spaces of the sky with their silver song. But for this universal twit tering, and clear earoliug, and Buttering of wings, the world was still enough and silent enough. The red kiue hardly mov ed in the meadows golden with butter cups. The olive-green masses of the elms, rising far into the pale blue of the heav ens, did not stir a leaf. The warm sun light seemed to draw forth a hundred scents from herbs and flowers, that hung in the motionless air. V As one is idly gazing at all these things, nd speculating as to how far a certain white butterfly, that has started earl; an his travels, will wander before the heut of noon causes him to close his wings on a head of clover, there is a juiet stirring of the willow branches, and then a footfall on the gang board con necting the boat with fue shore. Turning forthwith one finds that it is Miss l'eggy who has come down through those yel lowed meadows, and it is Sir Even Cam eron who is steadying the plank for her. She has been abroad thus early to gathei flowers for the breakfast table, and is each hand she has a great cluster of but tercups. As for the June roses in hei cheeks, where did shr get them on sc extremely still a morning? And as foi the speedwell blue of her eyes But she passes hastily into the saloon, for the flower glasses have to be filled. Then this long, sandy-haired Ilighland officer has he anything to say? He ob serves that the morning is beautiful which is no secret. He thinks he saw a trout rise a little bit further along, Pres ently he puts this question: "Shall you have any need of Murdoch's services this autumn?" "I fear not." '"He is an exceedingly handy fellow don't you think so?" "I do." "And very willing, isn't he?' "He is." "Well, now, don't yon consider that youug fellow like that would be better in a settled situation than in doing odd Jobs about Tobermory, with an occasional month or two s yachting in the summer "I dare, say he would if it was any thing of a situation." "Do yon think he would come to me it" Inverfask?" 'Inverfask?" "Yes. I would give him a fair wage: he would have employment all the yeai round, and he might look forward tc some increase of pay if he deserved it." "A permanent' place at Inverfask U that what you mean?" "Yes." -i- "W.1I, when yon put that offer before him, Murdoch will be a proud lad." "And you are sure you don't want him this autumn?" "Almost " certain besides, that could not be allowed to interfere." "I will go and ask him at once," said he: and he, too, disappeared into the sa loon. Well, now, the "Nameless Barge" seemed to be just filled with secrets auO mysteries on this busy morning: but ot course one had no time to pay heed tt luch trumpery things, for we had to nitfki an early start in order to get through th chain of locks outside Devizes. After leaving Devizes there are fifleei miles of plain sailing without the inter ruption of a single lock, so that we uiadt good progress this afternoon. The caual which is here so little used that ii abounds with all kinds of water plants the white buttercup conspicuous anions them winds along a high plateau whict affords extensive views over the neigb boring landscape. Not that we saw thh somewhat lonely stretch of country un der most favorable conditions.' As wi stole along by Bishops Cannings and AI Cannings and Stanton Fiuwarren the still air seemed to be threatening thun der; the skies were of a cloudy milky white, and the hills that rose to the hori zoii line both on north and south Hough bridge Hill, Easton Hill, St. Ann's Hill Etchilhampton Hill, Wivelsford Hill auc the like were slowly deepening in gloom Then came rain, and forthwith these idli people tied into the saloon, to books ant writing, and tea and what not. All bm the faithful l'eggy. that is to say! Mi Peggy not only went and fetched tui steersman his waterproof, but she al.s brought out her own; and, having drawi the hood over her pretty brown hair am fastened it securely under her chin, sin took up her position on the steering thwart Was she still anxious, then, n show her gratitude, in some vague, tenia tive way? At all events, her companion ship on this somber afternoon was sulii cieutly welcome. But one soon began to discover wha had brought Miss l'eggy out-Jiito tli. rain; her remarks about the weather wer. B,"Hasy CoT'Cameron.'.' she asks, pres entiy, with a very becoming hesitation 'has Col. Cameron said anyth-ug-an, thing particular, to you?" Nothing very particular. "No I suppose not." she continues with the same pretty hesitation. 1 ha. Jo ask him not to say anything, bccims. because don't wish Mr. Duncombe t. Jnow. But you ought to know; yes. y ouTmkl don't know?" -And'iw. b the way they ..ay', secreti-making it as "J nose on a - lose On a luu" :llir put- ,n a steeple. And yon are WM ous to conceal it fro... Jack D.m o von? Don't you think it P l" 5 r nun.-o.ube may h,, 'You've fnirs to attend to? W . wen. done it at last. I suppose; nd"sr-. tittle you know of the fate you .reJ rurt lug upon-you poor, fluttering, tunut sr . u..;.i.nuiit to the re- nary creature. i,a... -- nrPtfT gions of perpetual ice-that is PW future for you. Think of the gales howl ing down from the North S-" blocked up with s..ow-no ej with the rest of the wordl-the riverf . . h.il changing tc anu lanes uaiu - - , - inlai sleet, and sleet changing to bear prowling round tne noiv '""And a earpenter-Tion pnstj't forget $Y WILUAM J) LACK. - ues ne wear bis decorations Palace?" at "uckiugh "Haven't th laa Uo. The Victoria Cross, anyway. He must wear the Victoria Cross at any state cer- ""' wuere tne queen is present, sure 17 Is it true that when the queen pre sents the Victoria Cross to any one. sh p.- on us Dreast with her hands?" "I believe so." 1 snould like to see that done," she """nra, aDsenuy. xnere was a long-nrotracted ramlil. and the curiosity of our youug American friend about everything relating to the Highlands and the modes of life there proved to be quite insatiable, just as i: was simple, honest and ingenuous. When we got back to the boat the dusk had come down, and all the. little red windows lere aglow; but Mrs. Threepenny-bit did not go on board; Col. Cameron did; and we guessed that she had sent him to sum mon Mr. Duncombe away from his books "Your servant, colonel!" says Mist Peggy, as we come np. "What do you mean?" the smallei womer woman answers. "Have yor. changed services, Teggy? You've beet a sailor all the way through; are you go ing to leave the navy for the army?" "Yes." says Miss Peggy, lightly. "J have enlisted. And what's more, l'v cot my marching orders." "Where for?" This tall young recruit brings up th palm of .her hand to her forehead, and wakes a very fair imitation of a military salute. "For Inverfask, colonel," she says, and the night conceals the laughing shyness if her cheeks. CHAPTER XXII. Early on this fair morning the welcome sunlight is all around us, touching here and there on the red roofs half hidden among the willows and elms, making tht old-fashioned inn and the ivied bridge quite picturesque, and striking into the clear water so that we can see shoals ol small fish darting this way and that over the beds of green weed. And here is Miss l'eggy herself, as radiant as the dawn, her eyes shining and without mal ice; placid content upon her tranquil lips. "So this is the last day of our voy age?" she. says. "The last full day. We shall leave a few miles to do to-morrow, so as to get into Reading about noon." "When one looks back," she says, rath er pensively, "all those places we have seen appear to be very far away now. Doesn't it seem ages since we saw Wind sor Castle, with the royal standard high up in the pale blue sky? Do you remem ber the fearful rain at Oxford, and the floods V "And Mr. A'Becket? yes. Tell me. did you ever answer the letter he was sc kind as to send you about the antiqui ties of Gloucester?" "Well, I did not," she says, hastily. "Don't you think your wife will do that for me? She ought? The information was for the whole party." At breakfast there was clearly a fore shadowing of the end; for already these sood people were beginning to talk ol the chief impressions produced by this long water-ramble of ours. Miss I'eggy't fixed ideas seemed to be the remoteness and the silence of those solitudes through which we had passed, Wd the profusion of wild flowers. Mrs. Threepenny bit, on the other hand, had some fancy that in these rural wanderings yon got to under stand something of the hold that the Church of England has on the national mind, the prominence of it even ia the landscape the small, venerable, strong, square-towered building dominating the tiniest Tillage, the great cathedral the principal feature and fhe proudest pos session of the town. As we glided along through the hawthorn-scented air our chief difficulty was n ...it whether we were on a river or a .-anal, for the Kennet and Avon canal and the river Kennet inienw.si .ueuiKita in a remarkable manner and seem tc .11 their chief characteristics Id common. About midday we came in sight ol Newbury, the pink houses of which look ed very pleasant amoug the golden mead ows and the various greens of poplar and maple. We had a delightful stroll in the after noon along the banks of the winding wat erway that is sometimes the canal and sometimes the Keunet. and sometimes T,oih combined. That night was our last ,.n board, and yet it cannot be said we were a particularly mournful company. To-morrow we should tie back Ih the Thames again, at Reading. Should we take her down to Kingston, whence we bad started, and find her quarters there Or should we send her up the river to Henley, with a view to the forthcoming regatta? . . - ..1 mi tl that matter for yon. said x .,: , Col Cameron, as we ssi i rather I have settled if for you. "Or 1 am going to buy this boat. "Really?" says one of ns, who seems to think he might have been consulted "I will explain," says this tall High lander, with great equanimity. "Just be low the belt of wood at Inverfask there is a quiet little bay, very fairly protect ed by rocks-in fact, close to the shore it is perfectly sheltered. I propose to an chor a buoy some way out. and have a wire rope connecting it with the land; then, you perceive, by means of a travel er you could run this boat along when ever you wished, and you would be out 'arse! safe and secure-a sm. l I flo.t.ng home that wouia j -7- . l.i-d things. You might want to n mw" 3! - roirt in the ;,;rht have a little " .-. jecured Murdoch :00k and stewaru. . j luite by yourselves; yoa eveuing. just step on board, and haul in shore, you Or, again, suppos- yourselves out o -ng .ng Mr. """Zhe wUl-and wanted a Vdirt -wort don wouldn't that be ,uiet day"t5,0WmT There could be I secure retreat for more per- , better isolation cTto feet silence. Ana- w "tel .w certsinly." young "If sonnus '.-' - hl . .np rvpruit'0 " wit n haksDesre m oustful visions 01 I : twfore his niiuu. . Seating oeiore to ask per . Of course you rse you - T, . "and not mission, from ma Inverf ask """" 1 propose It ia 4?t for BVJ1 1 vrr to maae (he purchase. .e present," - Why was it that aU this time our pret Y PeT had been sitting with eyes lowncaat? Did she know of this auda cious scheme; and could it concern her ia my way I "Then." said he. "when I have got pos session of the boat then she will no long m be known as the 'Nameless Barge.' Oh, no; when she Is at her new moorings m the North we mast find a proper name for her. He looked across the table and Peggy's tyes were still downcast. -And do you know what I propose to call her? Well, I have been thinking I could not do bet M than call her Rosalind's Bower." (The end.) PAPER COLLARS STILL IN STYLE. Lr" Quantities Are Btlll Manmfac tnred for Western Trade. "It may surprise you to know that paper collars are coming into demand again," said traveling aalesuian who naaaies men's furnishing goods, ''"and it may also surprise you to know that the demand right along, for years and years back, baa been large enough to keep three or. four good-slxed factories going continually at full capacity. I used to wonder what became of the output, for I never saw anybody wear ing the things, and finally I made It my particular business to ascertain. I was astonished at the extent of the trade. It reaches all over the West and South west, and along the entire Northern frontier, from Seattle to Bangor. Wher ever the towns or camps are widely scattered. Implying, I suppose, that where laundries are scarce and poor, there Is a demand for paper collars. TOe largest shipments, however, go Into the lumber districts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the men wear an outlandish costume peculiar to the re gion and not to be found elsewhere on the continent Their 'Sunday' trousers, for Instance, are generally plaids seven or eight inches square, in the brightest colors Imaginable; their hats a re in solid red, blue, green or purple, and a paper collar on a fancy flannel shirt Is considered a very effective combina tion. "Thousands of gross go to dealers In the small towns throughout the Umber belt up there, and almost as many are sent Into the Adirondack counties of Northern New York. -Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. I noticed that there was an especially large and steady demand from the maple sugar district in fact, there seems to be some sort of mysterious affinity between pa per collars and forests, leading people who earn their livelihood in the great woods to yearn for paper collars when they 'dress up.' It would be a. nice problem for students. Still another sec-. Hon where the sales have been enor mous ia In the northern end of Nebras ka, where the country is settled up al most entirely by Swedes and Norwe gians. I was amused. In looking over the order book of one of the big facto-' rles, to note that the collars sent to Nebraswa were all of one pattern a pe- j cullarly hideous, narrow, little tnrned over, tne design or wnicn must nave been Imported from Europe. I have seen pictures of Baltic peasants wear ing such chokers, but have never en countered one In the life. To return to the point in reference to an Increase In the demand, I know positively that It has almost doubled since the 1st of August and that several new factories are now In course of equipmeut. Whero the new trade comes from I haven't the least idea." New Orleans Tlnies Demo crat Not Well Assorted. Marriage is in any case a difficult ar rangement, and even the best-mated of human pairs sometimes feel the rhaflnga of restraint, and the clash of wills. If this be so with those who are well assorted, and who know It, bow great must be the necessity for the careful exclusion from marriage of all unnecessary causes of division and mis understanding! And, among the un necessary causes, few are more. self evident than differences of social stat- of taste, and education. To illus trate by example, we would say that. If a young and impressionable woman, to whom love seems a sufficient guide. Is struck by the good looks and manly air of some young fellow of her ac quaintance, and feels sure that be Is honest and trustworthy, bnt again is struck at times by the suspicion that be is Inclined now and again to de cline Into vulgarity. It to worth her while to pause very seriously, for that vulgarity will have to be lived with through long years, and be a burden. and shame, and dread In many circum stances. The man who marries a wife palpably his Inferior does not Inflict upon himself so great a trial because he has greater freedom in seeking pleasure away from home. Still, his life Is practically spoiled. In brief, the safest of all course la for men and women to marry persons of congenial tastes, and intelligence equal to their own that as the years pass they may still keep step together. Qaer Law.alt, An Adrian County (Missouri) court fcas been wrestling with a peculiar law suit. In which rats cut the principal figure. A farmer named Sturgeon hir ed one Walker to klU the rats on his place, agreeing to pay 1 "nt apiece for the tails of 1.000 of the victims. When 750 talis had been presented for tally. Walker asked $7.50 as pay for his services. Here the trouble began, for the farmer refused to pay for any number less than 1.000. He also claim ed that Walker tried to pal " mouse tails on him as tails of young rats. The hired dm secured a favorable verdict in the lower courts, but Sturgeon will continue bis legal fight to escape pay ment. Mexico" Prosperity. Mexico to the past nine years haa doubled Its revenues, doubled Its ex ports, doubled the number of Its fac tories and multiplied by three Its bank ing capitaland the continence jt this great prosperity Is now quite as pro nounced a ever during the decade. Boot people are good for no other doiuv -- , than that the mar better I !- . " ' abuse tnose wnnw. .' ,1 -':."Tr"" ,JZ$Kr ?s'f? -' Oft the Trigger's pdll. 67 xxiSRK Is always trouble of one sort or another when a woman meddles with those things which do not concern her sex. Obviously, car bines were none of Miss Mlvarfs concern. . If she felt that she had to play with fire arms she should have kept to Flo be rt rifles. Noth ing would do. However, but that she must learn to shoot a carbine, and the result waa that the whole post rose up ind cut Burton, to a man; so that there was no peace (or blm any longer In that regiment and he haa to seek trans fer to another. There were other re sults, also, bttt they come further on. Some thought that what Miss Mlvart lid waa done on purpose, and some thought that It was a piece of idiotic silliness. The latter based their argu ment upon the general frlvolousness of ler ways, and upon the Innocency of J rei rouuu, oiue eyea. ne loruer ueiu o the belief that Miss Mlvart was one f those women favorites of Fortune vho look greater fools than they are. They said, with a certain show of rea ;on, that Georgia Mlvart was a child f the service and not an importation rom civil life. She had been born in n garrison and had played with rowjs it empty .green-rimmed cartridge-shells it an age when most little girls play pflth paper dolls. She had hummed matches of the bugle-calls before she :ould talk, and the person she had ad mired the most and obeyed the best tor the first do?en years of her life lad been Kreutzer, Captain Mlvarfs :wo-headed striker. A few years of jonrdlng-school back East could not lave obliterated all that. Besides, the veriest civilian, who haa lever come nearer to a carbine than to natch a Fourth of July parade, might easonably be expected to know by In tuition that In a target-practice comp Ition every trigger has got to pull Just to hard, whatever the regulation nun er or fraction of pounds may be. Otb irwlse. it Is plain that the nearer yon wme to a hair-trigger the better youi ilm will be. However, whether Miss Mlvart was Tally aware of what she was doing, lobody ever knew, unless perhaps It jras Grevllle and he, like Zulelkn, lever told. But Burton had a bad time f it, and all his beautiful score went tor worse than nothing at alL That though, was the end. And the seglnnlng ought to come first. The be ginning was when Miss Mlvart under took to learn to shoot a carbine. There was a target-practice compctl lon going on at the post; not one which was of any Interest to the service, or ven to the department at large; just s little social affair, devised to keep up :be esprit de corps of the troops and to Ighten the monotony of life. There irere three contents, one for troops and companies, as such; one for Individual privates, and one for the officers. This nst was to finish 3d, and then there aras to be a big hop. Every one knew from the first, when rinrton and Grevllle shot with their xoops, that the officers' competition vould lie between them. This made It ntercstlng In more ways than one, be cause the rivalry was not confined to :he target range, but extended to the winning of Miss Mlvarfs hand and leart, and every one believed that this a-ould settle a- matter she did not a it war to be able to settle for herself. Vot that she was to blame for tlin:. tny one, oven a person much more cer aln of her own mind than Miss Mlvart was, would liavo been put to it to shoose. They were both first lieutenants, and loth cavalrymen, and both good to 00k upon. Burton was fair and Gre rille was dart, but she had no Used prejudices regarding that She lis.! ften said so. Also, both were as much n love with her as even she could have wished, and were more than wlllin;; iiat all the world should see It--than which nothing Is more pleasant and toothing to a rlgbt-iuinded woman. The rifle contest lasted ten days, dur xtg which time the air hummed with die ping and sing of bullets over on the augc, and with the rails of the niark srs In the rille-pits. Only scores and. records and bets were thought an-' talked about Miss Mlvart herself had bet with all Iho daring wickedness of a krtten teas ng a beetle. She even went so far as bot ou both llurtou and Grevllle at sncc. The ndjutnut undertook to x flalu to her that that was called "hclg ng," and was not looked upon as alto tether sporty. Miss Mlvart waa hurt. SV'as It really dishonest, she wanted to tnow. The adjutant felt that be had Men unkind. He hastened to assuic ler that It was not not dishonest in the least; only that It took away from Jie excitement of the thing to a cer tain extent Miss Mlvart smiled and shook her bead. No. she didn't think t did, because, of course, she knw lerself which ooe she wanted to have rtn. The adjutant admitted that that night possibly be Just as Interesting 'or herself and the fortunate man. And which wa he. If he might ask. Miss Mlvart shook her head . and smiled gain. Na. she didn't think he might tsk. As the man himself didn't know, lb could hardly tell any one else Just yet could she) She had her own ideas about fair play. can shoot a carbine, myself," she told the adjutant with her cleft chin proudly raised; "and my shoulder la all black and blue. Mr. Burton Is teach ing me." "Ohr said the adjutant "and what does Grevllle think. about that?" The . . . . . . adjutant waa married, so he waa ouf k- .. ot the running , ". ". ' v' 1-"" .' - ;y - :i "Mr. Grevllle la teaching me, too.' said Georgia; "and here he cornea foi me now." Burton was safe on the target range, over behind the barracks. Miss Mlvart tad Grevllle went In the other direc tion, by the back of the officers' row over In the foothills across the creek. Grevllle nailed the top of a big red pasteboard box to the trunk of a tree, and Miss Mlvart hit it once -out of six teen time when she was aiming at the head of a prairie dog at least twen ty feet away to the right The otuet fteen shots were scattered among the foothills. Then hes shoulder hurt her so that she was ready to cry. Grevllle would have liked to have her cry upon hit own shoulder, but as she didn't he did some fancy shooting to distract ber. He found a mushroom-can, and threw It Into the aid and filled It fuU of holes. She had seen Burton do the same thing that morning with a tomato-can. Ia fact from where she sat now, on lichen-covered rocksbe could see tht mutilated can glittering In the sun, over beyond the arroyo. So she thirst ed for fresher sensations. "I'U tell you," she said to Grevllle. as he held up the mushroom-can for bet to Inspect the eight boles he had made with five shots, "let me toss np yont bat and you make a boe through the trade-mark In the crown. It was a nice, new straw hat Gre vllle had sent East for it and It had come by stage the day before. It had tost him, express paid, four dollars and seventy-five cents. This, too. at a time when anything he had left after set tling hi utess and sutler's and tailor's bills, went into stlck-plns and candy and books and music and riding-whips for Miss Mlvart But he took off the bat and gave It to her without even a IUugerlng glance at that high-priced trade-mark within. . And he felt that It was worth four times four dollars, and Seventy-five cents when she tricked up the tattered remains, at last, and ask ed If she might have them to hang In her room. Then she looked down at her grimy land and considered the first finger, rrooklng It open and shut "I think it's going to swell," she pouted. "That is a perfectly awful trigger to pull." - Grevllle did what any man' might have been expected to do. He caught the hand and kissed It Miss Mlvart looked absolutely unconscious of It. She might have been ten miles away herself. Grevllle, therefore, thought that she was angry, and his heart was filled with contrition. Vet he was old and wise enough to be a first lleuten ant He walked beside her back to the post In a state of humble dejection she could not understand. The next morn ing It was Burton's turn. Grevllle waa over on the range now. vainly trying to bring his record up to where Burtou's -wan. This time Miss Mlvart fired at a white pasteboard-box cover, and bit it three times out of twenty. She was jubilant and so waa Burton, because she was making such progress under his tuition. "That's an easy carbine to shoot hm't it?" she asked as they wandered home: "it Isn't at all liard to pull the trig ger." Burton glauced at ber. and she' met Ids eyes Inuocently. "It's Just like any other trigger, he told her. "Yes, of course. And Is that the very snme carbine yon use in the competi tion the one you shot with yesterday, and will use- this afternoon when you finish up?" He told ber tbat it waa "Well." she said, complacently, "I liluk I'tn doing very nicely, don't you.. hit tae target three times, and my list finger doesn't hurt a bit- this norulng." Tbat afternoou the competition cams 10 an end, with Burton a good many lolat9 ahead of Grevllle. And that night there was the big hop. It had leen understood from the first that the man who won was to take Miss Mlvart to the hop. So she went over with Iturton, and gave him one-third of her lances. Orcvllle had another third, ind the rest were open to the post at large. Grevllle did not look happy at alt 'It was not the target record he minded. He never thought about that It was having to go down the board-walk to the hop-room behind Burton, and to watch Miss Mlvart leaning on his arm 1 .id looking up Into bis face from under the white mists of her lace hood. He was not consoled at all when she look ed up into his own face area more sweetly at the beginning of the second dance, and whispered tbat aha waa "so sorry." Now as tte second dance had been Grevlllc's the third waa Burton's. That was the way it had been arranged. As the band began the waits. Miss Mlvart stood beside Grovllle In the center of quite a group. The commanding offi cer was In the group, so was Burton's captain, and so waa the adjutant. There were some other as well, and also some women. Miss Mlvart may have chosen that position, or It may tniply have kapined ee. Any way. Just as the waits started. Burton, light-hearted and light-footed. :ame slipping and sliding over the can- lie-waxed floor, and pushing his way into the midst "Ours." ha said, tri umphantly. But Miss Mlvart did not heed him at )nce. She was telling them all how she had learned to shoot a carbine as well as any one, and they, the men, at iny rate, were hanging on her words. "Mr. Grevllle taught me," she said, "and so did Mr. Burton." This was the first either had known of the oth er's part In It and they- exchanged a look.) "They taught me with their own carbines, too. The very same ones they used themselves In the competi tion. But i not best with Mr. Burton'a carbine. He must have fixed his trig .gex m puu more easily; 11 was almost L- :.I . ..... ger to pull more easily; It waa almost u , "-"'r '""r - jiisli .saa'asjuja She looked about for an answer, aad saw on their facea a stare of stony bor-i rdr aad surprise. They had moved aj little away from Burton, and the com manding Beer's steely eyes' were on bis face. The face had tamed white, even with the sunburn, and Burton's voice was J oaf a trine unsteady as he! spoke. "This to oar dance. I think. Miss Ml vart" be said. . ' The lanocent round, blae orbs looked just a little coldly Into his. "No." she! told him, l think yoa are mistaken. ItJ Is Mr. Greville'a dance." Aad sh turned aad laid her. hand on GrevlUe's arm. San Francisco Argonaut Aa To riaa. The following Is a literal copy of a composition written by a Georgia, schoolboy, the original of which Is nowJ In my possession. With all Its crude-, neaa the essay shows considerable hon est effort to learn and give facts re lating to the subject "The pin," which waa selected by the teacher: "A pin la a very useful apparatus Invention. It la very useful to the people of the United States as well as the people of other countries In Enrope. It Is used In pinning dresses and other toilets. The pin la very cheap in this town, and other counties of Georgia. They are, 2 or 3 packs for 5 cents, and sometimes sold for 4 or S packs for 5 cents. IHns were first used In Great Britain and they were first made of wire In 1540. Brass ones were imported from France by Catherine Howard. At first pins were made by filing a point of proper length of wire. In some parts of France the thorns are still used as pins. Supposing a boy was climbing a fence and he accidentally tore his coot, and he was scared bis mother would whip 'IUC1 W VUBU VI all him If she would -ee that whole In his j Triven outof '-'i&Ztv. a7 waTAreha soat but If he had met another com- gathus because of his bold hut unsuccess panlon of his on his way home, and j ful attempt to save a patient, thla boy had a pin, of course the boy 1 . Bl,t tj1 world from the very beginning , . ,,,,. fc- kept calling for surgeons, and their first would feel better, and go home on a mM is spoken of in Genesis, where they Sly. and slip In the bouse Without see- employed their art for the incisions of a Ing his mother. Some days after this -sacred rite, God making surgery the prede the boy's mother would notice the X&E.naU" whole In her son's coat of course the stepped on some cracked latticework in bov's mother ask him about this whole, j the palace, and it broke, and he fell from and the boy ,e hi. mother the truth j "Pner '"floor. and he auoui mis. ox course uie uuy iwmb uei- ter after this, and after the boy re- -elves a wniDDing ne meets tne noy that gave him the pin and thanks him This Is the good of a pin." Truth. Expressing Hla Disgust. Probably most writers of serial stories are familiar with the sensation of receiving letters of commendation or disapproval from Interested readers who are following np the stories as they appear in their regular weekly ot monthly installtnenta Occasionally some curious person asks for private In formation as to what the outcome Is to be, while others offer suggestions as to the disposition to be made of the villain, or express a fear that the au thor Intends to marry the hero to the wrong woman. The writer of a serial story In one ol the popular magazines a few years ago received the following letter from an Indignant reader. The names are changed for obvious reasons: Dear Sir: I take the liberty of tell ing you that I regard your 'Simeon Stacy, now running through the Blank MagazlDe, as a little the thinnest novel nave ever read. Furthermore, the principal chaiacter In the story, tc whom you give the title role, so tc speak. Is so thoroughly detestable t man that I have taken the most effect ive means In my power to show my contempt for him by changing my name which happened to be the same as bis to something aa unlike It as possible. Yours truly. "ANDREW JACOBSON. "(Formerly Simeon Stacy)." Indians Gave It the Name. M. Perrault gives an Ingenious ex planation of the origin of the word Canada." Giovanni Gaboto, who is also known as Cabot landed In that country In 141)7. being the first Euro pean to arrive there. After him came some Spanish ves sola, and In 1500 Denys, a Frenchman and Verrazznni, a Venetian, took pos session of the country In the name ol ..MA ,n n I rauce. At that time, says M. Per rault, the French often heard the na I tivus use the Spanish words "Acs ua.la," which signify, "nothing here.' The natives had picked up these wor.U from the Spaniards who had searchec for gold and silver, and who, because they had found nothing, had speedily departed. The French came to the -.inclusion that the words so often usee by the natives were the original name of the country. Another explanation I- tliat Canada means a village or a town Revy Sclcnttflque. Victoria's Coronation Coach. Queen Victoria has at her disposal when she wishes to take a ride Innu merable carriages. Of these the coro nation coach is first. This carriage It unknown to the present generation, as It has never left tbe royal mews at Bnckingham palace since 1801. It Is lovely, but cumbersome, was designed for George III. and every portion la richly decorated and glided. Outside Its panels are pictures painted by noted artists. Ch aess Barbers. The barbers in towns in China go about ringing bells to get customers. They carry with them a stool, a basin. 1 towel, and a pot containing fire. When any person calls to them they run to blm, and planting their stool In a con venient place In the street, shave the head, clean the ears, dress the eye brows, and bniBh tbe sbouldeta, all foi tbe value of only half a cent Feel of Hoar Kara. An English writer, who for fifteen years or more has been a student of criminal anthropology, says that lurgi-. voluminous ears are the most marked characteristic of the criminal. Waste Material Ut llamt Pin ajld hemlock stnnina anil aIH 1 .t . ... 1 1 l - I .. -us-vv- . u-ve ue- , come wortnicss years ago. are being. gathered In Northern Michigan to be I manufactured htto lath. I If you don't like a book you can shut it an. Women do not resemble book a- - SERMON Y Rco. Br. Calmag? BnfejMt t The MlMlan of Christ Row Itlvlm Power Will lloml SUa World Ju th. Surgeon Whs Will EiK pmla the Dianua of 81a. (CoryrUUt iwmlI WashiSOTOS. D. C In thin diarnnrse Pr. Talmage puts in an unusual light the mission of Christ, and shows how divine power will yet make the illnesses of the worm tall hack; text, Matthew xi. 5. The blind, receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear." "Doctor," I said to a distinguished sur geon, '"do you not get worn out with con stantly seeing no many wounds and bro ken bonoa and distortions of the human body?" "Oh. no," he answered; "all that is overcome by my joy in curing them." A aublimer and more merciful art never came down from heaven than that of sur gery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Our rripplcd and agonized human race called for surgeon and family plivsician for manv rears before they came. The first surgeon's who answered this call were ministers of relioion namely, the Egyptian priests. And what a grand thing if all clertjvmen were also doctors, all D. D.'s were M." D.'s, for there are so many cases where body and soirl need treatment at the same time, ronsolatinn and medicine, theology and therapeutics. As the first surgeons of the world were Also ministers of religion, may these two professions always lie in full sympathy! But under what disadvanta ees the early surgeons worked, from the fact that disaectfon of the human body was forbidden, first by the pagans and then by the early Christians! Apes being the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human body might be infolded for physiological and anatomical exploration, and the surgeons had to guess wnai was manic the temple hy looking at the outside of it. If thev failed in anv . . . - for aid, and Aesculapius, who wrought ' such wonders of surgerv that he was del " -k- built for hiR wor ship at Pergamos; and Kpiilaurns and Podelirins introduced ftir the relief of the world phlebotomy, and Immopedes cured the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer of his queen, and Hippocrates put successful hand on fractures and intro duced amputation, and Praxagoras re moved obstructions, and ITerophilus liegan dissection, and Krasistratus removed tu mors, and Celsus, the Roman surgeon, re moved cataract from the eye and used the Spanish fly; anu Hcliodorus arrested dis ease of the throat. and Alexanderof Trades treated the eye, and Rhazas cauterized for the'prevention of hydrophobia, and Perci val Pott came to combat diseases of the spme, and in our own century we have had, among others, a Roux and a Larray in r ranee, an Astley Cooper and an Abemcthy in Great Britain and a Valen tine Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel p. Gross in America, and a galaxy of liv ing sureeona as brilliant as their predeces sors. What mighty progress in the baf fling of disease since the crippled and sick of ancient cities were laid along the streets, that people who had ever lieen hurt or disordered in the same way mipht suggest what had better be done for the patients! But notwithstanding all the surgical and medical skill of the world, with what ten acity the old diseases hang on to the hu man race, and most of them are thou sands of years old, and in our Bibles we read of them the carbuncles of Job and Hezekiah, the palpitation of the heart spo ken of in Deuteronomy, the sunstroke of a child carried from the fields of Shunem, crying, "My head! my head!" King Asa's disease of the feet, which was nothing but out; defection of teeth, that called for ental surgery, the skill of which, almost equal to anything modern, is still seen in the filled molars' of the unrolled Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused oy the juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving the peo ple blind hy the roadside; epilepsy, as in the case of the young man often falling into the fire and oft into the water; hy pochondria, as of Nebuchadnezzar, who imagined himself an ox and going out to the fields to pasture; the withered hand, which in Bible times, as now, came from the destruction of the main artery or from paralysis of the chief nerve; the wounds of the man whom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine wine to cleanse the wound and oil to soothe it. Thank God for what sur gery has done for the alleviation and cure of human suffering! Hut tne world want a surgery without nam. lira, farre and riickman and Mmp- son and Warner and Jackson, with their anjBAiiiK acinus, caiuv lurwoxu. BDU Willi their aegthet'ic benumbed the patient with narcotics and ethers aa the ancients did wish hasheesh and mandrake, and quieted him for awhile, but at the return bf consciousness distress returned. The world has never seen but one surgeon who tould straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy without pain, and that surgeon was Jeans Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw or ever will see, and He deserves the confi dence and love and worship and hosanna of all the earth and halleluiahs of all heaven. "The blind receive their sight and the lame walk : the lepers are cleaned and the deaf hear. I notice this surgeon had a fondness for chronic cases. Many a surgeon, when he has had a patient brought to him, has said: "Why was not this attended to five years ago? You bring him to me after all power of recuperation is gone. You have waited until there is a complete contrac tion of the muscles, and false ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken plAce. It ought to have been attended to long ago." But Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One was a hemorrhage of twelve years, andllestnpped it. Another was a curvature of eighteen years, and He straightened it. Another was a cripple of thirtv-eight years, and he walked out well. The eighteen-year pa tient was a woman bent almost double. If yoa could call a convention of all the surgeons of all the centuries, their com bined skill could not cure that body so drawn out of shape. Perhaps they might stop it from getting any worse, perhaps they might contrive braces by which she might be made more comfortable, but it is, humbly speaking, incurable. Yet this di vine surgeon put both His hands on her. and from that doubled up posture she be gan to take on a healthier hue, and the muscles began to relax from their rigidity, and the spinal column began to adjust it self, and the cords of the neck began to be more supple, and the eyes, that could see only the ground before, now looked into the face of Christ with gratitude and np toward heaven in transport. Straight! After eighteen weary and exhausting years, straight! The poise, the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated. The thirty-eight years' case was a man who lay on a mattress near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. There were tive apartments where lame people were ; brought, so that they could get the advan I tasa of these mineral baths. - The stone Um of these mineral baths th bath : tiU .jm. ,thoU(fh the waters have disappeared, probably through some convulsion of nature. The b"h. 120 feet long, forty feet wide and eight feet deep. Ah, poor man.- if you rU Sotre ''Hi. . vou7 Why, twenty-eight rears hi morefthan the average of human life. Nothing but the grave will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon walks along those baths, and I have no doubt passes by some patients who have been only six months disordered or a year or five years, and comes to the mattress of the man who had been nearly four decades helpless, and to this thirtv eight years' invalid said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The mightiest scientists liave put their skill to its retiming, and sometimes they stop the- progress of its decadence or re move temporary obstructions, but not more than one really deaf ear out of 100, 000 is ever cured. It took a God to make the ear. and it takes a God to mend it. That makes me curious to see how Christ the Surgeon suc ceeds as an aurist. We are told of only two cases He oper ated on as an ear surgeon, nis friend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted hv a man bv the name of Man- chus. and Peter let his sword flv. aimine at the man's bead, but the sword chuped n! hewed off the outside ear, and our Surgeon touched the laceration and an other ear bloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed away. But it is not the outside car that hears. That is onlv a funnel for withering sound and pouring it into the hidden and more elab orate ear. On the beach of T,ake fialilce our Siireenn found a man deaf and dumb. Th patient dwelt in perpetual silence and wns siiec-hless. He could not hear a note of music or a clap of thunder. Tie enn'd not call father or mother or wife or children hy name. What power can waken that dn'l tvmnanuin or reach that chain rf small hones or revive that auditory nerve or open the gate between the brain and the outside world? The Surgeon put His finsrers in the deaf ears and agitated them, and kent on ntritatins them until the vibration gave vital energv to all the dead parts, and thev responded, and when our Surgeon withdrew His fingers from the ears the two tunnels of sound were clear 'or all sweet voices of music and friendship. For the first time in his life he heard the flash of the waves of Galilee. Through the desert of nainful silence had been built a king's highway of resonance and acclama tion. But yet he was dumb. No word had ever leaned from his lip. Speech was ?hained under his tongue. Vocalization ind accentuation were to him an impossi bility. He could express neither love nor indienation nor worship. Our Surgeon, having unbarred his ear. will now unloose the shackle of his tongue. The Surgeon will use the same liniment or salve that He used on two occasions for the cure of Mind people namely, the moisture of His own mouth. The anplication is made, nd lo. the rieidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the tonmie and teeth was born a whole vocabnlarv and words Hew into expression. He not onlv heard. Sut he talked. One gate of his body swung in to let sound enter, and the other gate .wiine out to let sound depart. Whv is it that, while other surgeons used knives and forceps and probes and itethoscopes. this Surgeon ned onlv the ointment of llis own lips? To show that ll the curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And if He touches 11s not we shnll hf deaf as a rock and iumh as a tomb. Oh. Thou greatest of all irtists, compel us to hear and help us to ipeak ! But what were rhe Surgeon's fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues ind withered hands and crooked hacks? The skill and the painlessness of the op erations wereworth hundreds and thou tands of dollars. Do not think that the cases He took s-ere all moneyless. Did ITe not treat the nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the ruler's daughter? Did He not effect a cure in the house of a centurian of great wealth alio had out of his own pocket built a tynagogue? They would have paid Him large fees, md there were hundreds of wealthy people n Jerusalem and among the merchant ;astles along Ijike Tiberias who would have (riven this Surgeon houses and lands ind all they had for such cures as He could ffect. For critical cases In our time great sur geons have received 10rt0. &M10O, and in one case I know of 950,000, but the Sur leon of whom I sjieak received not a shekel, not a penny, not a farthing. In His whole earthly life we know of His having had but 6'J'A cents. When His taxes were due, bv His omniscience He knew of a fish in the sea which had swal lowed a piece of silver money, as fish are pt to swallow anything bright, and He sent Peter with a hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was ex tracted a Roman stater, or 62 cents, the only money He ever had, and that He paid out for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of all the centu ries pave all His services then and offers all His services now free of all charge. "Without money and without price" you mav spiritually have blind eves opened nd your dumt ears unbarred, and your riumb tongues loosened, and your wounds healed, and your soul saved. If Christian people get hurt of ImxIv. mind or soul, let 'hem remember that surgery is apt to hurt, but it cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. Besides that, there are powerful anaes thetics in the diyine promises that soothe and alleviate. Xo ether or chloroform or cocoaine ever made one so superior to dis tress as a few drops of that magnificent anodyne: "All things work together for good to those who love God." "Weeping may ensure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." What a grand thing for our poor hu man race when this Surgeon shall have completed the treatment of the world's woiinrtH! 1 he day will come when there will be no more hospitals, for there will le no more sick, and no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall be brought under arboriculture, and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and no more war, for the swords shall come out of .'he foundry bent into pruning hooks, while in the heavenly country we shall see the victims of acci dent or malformation or hereditary ills on earth become the athletes in Klvnan fields. Who is that man with su.h brilliant eyes close before the throne? Whv. that is the man who, near Jericho, was blind and our Surgeon cured his ophthalmia! Who ia that ercet and graceful and queenly wom an before the throne? That was the one whom our Surgeon found bent almost dou ble and could in nowise lift up herself, and He made her straight. Who is that listening with such rapture to the musio of heaven, solo melting into chorus, cym bal responding to trumpet, and then him self joining in the anthem? Why. that is the man whom our Surgeon found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by touches opened ear gate and mouth gate. Who is that around whom the crowds are gathering with admiring looks and thanks giving and cries of "Oh, what He did for me! Oh, what He did for mv family! Oh, what He did for the world!" That is the Surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist, the aurist. the emancipator, the Saviour. No pay He took on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven pay Him with worship that shall never end and a love that shall never die. On His head be all the crowns, in His hands be all the scepters and ut His feet be all the worlds! The Gilbert House Is the favorite place for all Philadelphia people visit ing New York City. A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little. Talent, to be Important, must be ex act. The height of some men's ambition is to be able to say "I twl.l you po." Brilliant sayings are not always mor al ones. Rocks In the downward path of fit struction are seldom seen from the sum mit. A lie feels easy only when It forgets that it has a truth on Its track. Cheap flattery is always dear; the best sort of flattery Is honest imita tion. The human heart is like a grapho phone cylinder and the sweetest records . are often cut by the stylus of pain. -VI fsenVvlv jV-0 '-- - o
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