Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, October 24, 1900, Image 1
B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COIISTITUTIOn THE Union AND THE ENFORCEUEItT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LIV. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1900 NO. 46 (feptaii? BY B. 7WT. .yilitapy.omaDce.of.gout.fpica CIIAPTER XVII. The Marchers bad joined the column to viliiih Teddy's regiment wss attached. Tbey had recently encamped on a deso late. idespreading plain, awaiting the g.-in-ru! advance. The force wii divid ed iniu three huge laagers, inside of whi.h were picketed the cavalry horses, the stores and the oxen; outside were the t,-n!s and guns, irregular troops, native runtimn-ut and rooking fires. Captains rlralmzou and Gee had had their little bell twits pitched as usual side by side; the former is to be found in his at the (present moment, sitting on his bed read me a U tter by the light of a lantern at tached to the pole above his head, lie has torn open the envelope with hasty, nervous lingers and turned it completely inside out in the hopes of discovering a line from Ksme; but no, there was noth ing: so with a sharp spasm of misgiving he falls back on the epistle in bis hand. "Dear Captain Brabazon," it says. "Your letter has just arrived, with a full account of your unhappy mistake and fatal precipitation. I am truly and sin cerely sorry for you. It is the most un fortunate thing I have ever beard of in all my experience. Esme's disobedience and your rash, hot temper must, 1 am afraid, share the entire blame. Of course it was a most painful time for all of us last September; bnt luckily the wedding was to have been such a quiet affair that the real facts have never transpired be juud our own circle; and people imagine that you received a sudden order to join your regiment. Esme was naturally greatly troubled. Her pride received a mortal wound; but I am glad to tell you that a very gay visit to Brighton com pletely restored her spirits, and 1 cannot be too thankful now that the dear girl's heart was never very much centered .n the match. Of course, when the marriage was so very advantageous in every way, I did not analyze her feelings too closely, and I knew that you would make her an excellent husband. But now that you have h.irdly any means besides your pay. things are quite different, as 1 need scarcely point out. Both battalions of your regiment are abroad in countries where it would be impossible for Esme to j live; and you see, my dear Miles, much 1 as I like you, I cannot consult my own ' feelings in the matter. I stand in a very responsible position to Esme. I fill the place of both her parents, and it would not be right to allow her to marry a cap lain in a inarching regiment, with nothing but his pay. It costs me a great deal ( to write this, but it is my duty, and from my duty I may not shrink. 1 appeal to! your honor, to your love for Esme, and . your desire for her happiness before your own, to renounce her completely. There is nothing more wearing or more misera ble for a girl than a long and hopeless engagement. I am sure you will agree with me. Esme desires me to say that she rei-eived your letter, and sends her kind regards; and I am, your sincere well-wisher, "SARAH BRABAZON." This, then, was the death-knell of his hopes. -Her kind regards!" How unnat mul, how almost ludicrous, such a mes sage sounded! Firmly crumpling up the letter into a ball, he flung it down pas sionately, and, burying his face in his hands, sat without moving for many min utes. .Some time later Captain Gee looked in, to borrow a bootlace, and found the tent still empty; the lamp flaring away in soli tary extravagance, an envelope on the bed. He glanced at it distrustfully. "A woman's hand, and an old woman's slight mourning. I'll bet It's from that old serpent, Mrs. B., giving him a piece of her mind, breaking off thewhole busi ness," said Dicky to himself, blinking fiercely. At this moment the crumpled i-tter lan raueht his roving eye. There was a suggestivenes of wild, ungoverna ble fury in its present crushed conditio that spoke whole volumes to. the farse- ins little gentleman, who surveyed It med- ; itatively, as he anxiously pulled his tea derly fostered sandy mustache. j "So that's it," he remarked, after a pause, "as plain as a pike-staff. Ill say ( nothing. I'll say nothing, though I know a- much about it now as it ne naa iwiu u.e the whole story. If he likes to make a clean breast of it, well and good. 1 think myself, he is well out of it. A girl without a penny! However, I'll say noth ingsilence is golden." With this valua ble precept in his mind, and bestowing oue last significant glance at Mrs. Braba zon's ill-used effusion, he put his bands in his pockets and slowly took his departure. As to Miles, he found plenty of work line specific, and had now hardly ever an idle minute. His mind was filled with other things besides blighted hopes and black despair. Foraging parties, fuel, hrearms, forage, ration boards, etc., occu pied his thoughts, and he had very little leisure to dwell upon his lot. Love, as Gussie had quoted, "is a mere pa rent he-, sis iu a man s life; he is not so fond or allowing himself to dwell on harrowing recollections as a woman, nor do his thoughts, like hers, find a melancholy pleasure in visiting the grave of dead hope9. Days and weeks went by, not so slowly as might be supposed; weeks spent in foraging, wood cutting, scouting and bringing in spies, and listening to their mauy marvelous tales tales that woujd have compelled the great Munchausen himself to veil bis face, for a Boer's im agination can bestir itself at times. Most of Teddy's spare hours were passed with his cousin, and he had become a very popular visitor In the Marcher camp. He was even welcomed by "the ugly little fel low with freckles," as he mentally called Captain Gee, who bad now completely got over what Miles termed "his ridicu lous stiffness about the legacy," and was prepared to extend the hand of good-fellowship to this other young Brabazon. For instance, they vere both fond of horses, of shooting, of arguing the point, and of lots of red pepper with their daily stew. To improve the flavor of this said stew, with some ingredient foreign to the everlasting trek ox, was the object of uuiiiy a long expedition undertaken by this pa.r. Miles did not lend himself to these excursions; a 20-mile ride for a brace of quail was "not good enough," he growled, in answer to their frequent aud pressing invitations, and he looked rudely contemptuous when, as occasion ally happened, the sportsmen returned with nothing but a couple of voracious apoetites and an empty bag. grabafot? CROKER lou are not on duty to-day, for a won der. Miles," said his cousin, bursting into his tent one morning. "Shove away that venerable newspaper 'and listen to me. There's not a stir toward the front, and 1 invite you to join a foray party. We are going about twenty miles west to burn some kraals, and It's better fun than stick ing in camp doing nothing." "Another of your raids!" contemptuous ly. "You live a few hundred years too late. You'd have been in your glory in those old border times, lifting yonr neigh bor's cattle, and harrying them from year's in to year's end." "Can't harry these beggars enough to please me! Come along. Here's a chance to see some fun:" "Fun! my good Teddy! If thexe were any fun I'd go like a shot; but burning a few filthy kraals does not strike me as a very humorous employment. However, it I can't raise any other job I shall go. Just taai von." "That's right, and it does please me. There will be half a troop of ours and some irregular horse, and who knows what may happen before we get back';" Who knows indeed, Teddy? Little do you imsgine as you mount your brown chsrger thst to-morrow your saddle will be empty. That to-morrow and for many to-morrows the snimal now moving so buoyantly under you will paw the ground and whinny shrilly, and strain at her picket rope in vain, "for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still." And thus they set forth, a goodly little band, nearly fifty sabers, bent on carry ing fire and destruction into a hitherto impracticable part of the country, beyond some nigged, distant hills. Away they went, for miles, across the barren plain, scored with yawning dongas, through bush and scrub snd niealie fields, and finally arrived at the rocky hills, where they found a number of deserted kraals. A few gourds and mats and skins were the only spoils that fell into their hands. The place was thoroughly searched for buried grain, and then from every kraal a thin line of blue smoke was seen rising, transparent against the rocky back ground. This feat accomplished, the par ty off-saddled and turned the horses loose to grave, not without some qualms anent the deadly tulip-root, had some bread and cheese themselves, and after a short rest, set out homeward. Teddy, careless and foolhardy, brought up the rear, with his cousin, at some dis-' tance in the wake of the irregulars, the lancers and their captain being percepti bly ahead. "I think we had better be shoving on," remarked Miles, noticing the crimson sun set, which wss now bathing the veldt in its fiery flames, and the lengthening shadows of the bowlders and big quartz rocks. "Oh, nonsense; it's all right, there's no hurry," returned Teddy, placidly. "1 know every inch of this ground well. We're only about seven miles from csmp. The horses hsve had a hard day's work, let's take it easy. I never have a jaw with you now alone. Miles. Dicky Gee is all very well, and I like him awfully; but we can't bang out the family washing before him. EhV" grinning. - "What are you driving at impatient ly. "I had a letter from home last night; I found it when I got back from Esme," giving his companion a searching glance. "She does not mention you." "No; I suppose not." "What's the row between you now?" "Nothing. There is ao row, as you call It," "Oh, but there is. I can see it. And to be wroth with one you love doth work, like patent-spring back-action, madness on the brain. I know you think I'm an interfering, meddling young owl. That's understood." "You don't know what you are talking about, that's all," with a amile of dis dainful tolerance. "Oh, don't I? Perhaps I know as much about it as my elders. What would you say brace yourself for a shock if 1 told you I could sing 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,' too?" "I would ssy I did not believe you, that it was only one of your jokes," re turned his cousin, coolly. "She is the only child of a retired col onel a ferocious looking old widower with heaps of money. It was pretty good cheek for a troop-sergeant to raise his eyes to his dsughter. How it happened was this," now riding knee to knee with his companion. "I was walking alone one evening, for a wonder, about two miles from barracks, when in a country lane I heard no end of a shindy: snarling and howling and screaming. I found the row esme from a big lurcher who wss half killing a fox-terrier, and a girl who was vainly belaboring the lurcher with her umbrella. Much he cared. 1 choked him off, and got an ugly bite for my puins. but rescued the terrier, more dead than alive. I bathed bis wounds in a stream bard by, and his mistress snd I became quite Intimate over the performance, and then I tenderly carried him home behind her, about half a mile. When we reach ed the gate she stopped, and got very red. and stammered, and seemed greatly con fused; for she was quite young, only about eighteen. At last she stammered out, 'If you were only an ordinary sol dier, I would offer you money, as well as my thanks; but, as I think you are a gentleman, I offer you my thanks alone: and she bowed. You can't think the odd feeling it gave me, to see a lady bow to me once more. I was only a sergeant, and she a lady: the gulf was a pretty wide one. I won two prizes at our tourn rment. She was there, she saw me she smUed-at least I imagined she did when I carried off the first prize. "Of course you never wrote to nerr "Never!" emphatically. "Never spoke, never wrote. Well, un der these difficult and delicate circum stances, what was your next move? "I sent her flowers. ..t-red "Oh! Hsving previously mastered their language?" f h , "No, not quite such a fool as all tnat. I got them from Covent "fa'Z no object, as Gussie ssys-and I u climb the wall and la, them on an old sun dial in the pleasure "My poor Teddy! It was a desperate bad case!" In a tone of sincere commis- '"awaitta. Before we were ordered off I St . bouquet of ''' 2 big as an umbrella; and then we inarched way, and of course there was an end 'everything, for the present!" And, pray, what is to be the sequel?" I hope the sequel will be, when this business is over, we, of course, will be sent home. I shsll get leave, I shall go to York, like a shot out of a 74-pounder, and get Introduced to my present charac ter, and I shall ask her to marry me some day. Some day." beginning to whistle in the air. MA girl you have only spoken to once in your Hfe. Edward Brabazon, 1 had no idea that you were such a susceptible young idiot: no milder word will do." said his companion emphatically. "Why am I an idiot?" angrily. "At least I've seen and, to a certain extent, known her for nearly two years. Why, yon went all across the world to marry a girl you had never set eyes on!" "I did. And all I can say is that 1 hope yonr venture, if yon persist in it, will turn out better than mine." - "Hulloa! What's this in front?" sud denly setting spurs. "Boer allies? You've got your revolver all right. We must cut our way through them, not a second to lose. ' Come on." CHAPTER XVIIL Captain Brabazon was quite correct; about fifty natives in full war dress, probably on their way to join an impi, seemed to have sprung from the esrtb, and cut off the irregulars and the two Brabasons from the rest of their party, who were now just disappearing over the crest of a hill. Yelling like demons their war cry, "Usuti! Usuti!" they closed round the little band, armed with a formidable ar ray of guna and assegais. There was nothing for it but to charge them, which they did at full gallop, discharging their revolvers with telling effect. The dust, the smoke, the firing and the shouting lasted about tnree minutes; ana tne sav agea had melted away among the high grass and rocks; four of their number lay on the ground, a trooper also, on his face, dead; Miles Brabazon had an ugly cut in his forearm, and that waa all. "Come on, Teddy," he shouted, impera tively. "We deserved this; that poor fel low is dead," looking at the trooper; "we can't do him any good, and there is no use in loitering." So saying, he put spurs to bis horse and galloped after the oth ers, who were now endeavoring to over take their party. They had now gone above a quarter of a mile, when, turning to Teddy to make some remark, he was struck, even in the deepening twilight, by the drawn and agonised expression of his face. "What is it?' he exclaimed, reining up in alarm. "I'm hit," faltered his cousin, now reel ing in his ssddle, and falling forward on his horse's neck. "I can't go any fur ther; you must leave me here. Go oik Go on, I tell you." Miles and a trooper carried him care fully into the shelter of a big bowlder, away from the track. "You go on. Miles," were the first words he faltered. "I'm hit here," pointing to bis chest, "and it'a all over with me. Go I desire you. never mind me go, 1 im plore you." The Irregular horse, all but two, had al ready vanished, considering that it was best to live and fight another day, not unnaturally believing that- now behind every bowlder or rock lurked a score of natives and to the two who still remained Miles said: "Gallop into camp as hard aa you caa lay legs to the ground, and send out an ambulance and a doctor. Go, there's no time to lose! I'll stay here!" "No, no," interrupted his cousin, feebly; "you shall not. You would be mad it means death." "Nonsense, Teddy!" returned Miles, res olutely; "for what do you take me? Is it likely thst I should lesve you? There's no fear; we shall be all right." quoting unconsciously Teddy's saying. The two troopers needed no second bidding, but. mounting at once, and setting spurs to their horses, were soon out of sight. So was the Murderer, Miles' horse, who, un picketed and loose, followed them with streaming reins and a delicious sense of freedom; and then the last little speck of dust disappeared over the hill, and Miles and Teddy were left alone, with the gray mists of evening creeping gradually around them. The iornie'r reuloveTl Kit ty's peaked ssddle, and made it a pillow for her dying master; he put bis own coat over him, after vainly endeavoring to stanch his wound it was a bullet in the chest, and bled internally. (To be continued.) Devonshire Vanity. Many a refusal to sit for a picture hat been given because of a knowledge of advancing years and fading beauty. It remains for the Devonshire folk, how ever, to give a new point on "making up" for a sluing. 8. Baring-Gould s "Book of the West" supplies the inci dent -- The looks of Devonshire and Cornish lasses are proverbial. A complexion of peaches and cream, a well-proportioned body and well-molded features are the characteristics. West Country women, as tbey are called, cannot forget tbey were once comely. An old woman of 75 was brought for ward to be photographed by an ama teur. No words of address could In duce her to speak until the operatio ' was completed. Then she put her fin gers into her mouth. She said: "You wouldn't ha' me took wi' my cheeks failed In? I just stuffed the Western Mornln' News Into my mouth to fill'n out." Personals. General and Mrs. Lew Wallace have presented to the Wabash College Li brary the original manuscript copy of "The Prince of India." The pages are In General Wallace's fine handwriting, and show corrections and suggest oia in the handwriting of Mrs. Wallace. "The Prince of India" was begun in ISM. on the Kankakee River, and was fin ished In 1892. In recognition of Major General Baden-Powell's gallant defense of Mafe klng the British residents of Natal are going to present to that officer a shield made of Transvaal sovereigns. Lord Roberts is but the third of all the British Field Marshals, past and present, to be appointed to the com mand of an army In the field after hav ing attralned that rank. The other two were the Duke of York and the Duke of Wellington. The Paris Exposition authorities have awarded a gold medal to Professor EL W. Scripture, head of the psychologi cal labratory of Yale University, for a device for testing color blindness. The device Is of great practical value for testing the sight of applicants for rail way and naval service. i .hnM .hiiwt like the bea- con light to lead men about us Into a higher and better Urine. Mountains of difficulty always ap pear steeper at a distance. MatjoriB's j3 OOD-BY. Marjorie, my darling; write often to your boyJn blue.' "and may heaven bless you for the promise yon have given me. Yon little know what it means to me, who have felt myseir alone In the world, to know that there Is one heart beating In re' sponse to my deep love, and a dear face watching for my return. As heaven bears me witness, you shall never have cause to regret it." , "Good-by, Herbert. I ahall pray for yonr safety and speedy return. Take care of yourself, for (with drooping lids and an almost Inaudible voice) you are my life." Herbert Lord drew the beautiful girl to him in a closer embrace, and the last moments of their parting, though silent, were full of eloquence. Marjorie had watched her handsome lever as he mounted the hill. When be reached the summit he turned, and she stretched out both bands to him In mute entreaty for his return; then she summoned her courage and gayly kissed her hand to him. He raised his cap, returned her salute, and with head still bared, disappeared from view, Marjorie leaned against the tree and covered her face with ber hands. She felt a loneliness that she had never be fore experienced. AH unconscious that their parting had been witnessed, the young girl sat musing nntll she was startled by hearing a voice almost In ber ear: "Why these tears. Miss Marjorie? Surely no one has less cause for nnbap- plnces than the beautiful Miss Gardi ner." Marjorie turned and saw before ber Thomas Braeme. How she loathed him at that moment! Yet, why? She knew hla to be immensely wealthy; he waa considered a great catch by mammas with marriageable daughters; he was lionized by society; and yet Marjorie In voluntarily shrank from his smooth tongue and persistent attentions. She bad once refused his offer of marriage. and this act on her part had Len the cause of many bitter reproaches from her family. When she heard his voice she drew herself up. and Ignoring his out stretched hand, replied: "Pardon me. Mr. Braeme, I am not unhappy; and If I were I fail to see how it could pos sibly concern you." His eyes flashed ominously, but he controlled bis anger and replied: "Anything that affects you concerns me, Marjorie. No; bear me. You know that I have loved you that I still love yon. and I now come for the second time with your parents' approval and good wishes for my success. Marjorie, marry me and you shall have every- I thing that makes life worth living. I will be a good husband to you." Husband! At the thought of Thomas Braeme as a husband her face grew white and a shudder shook ber frame. J She answered, coldly: "Mr. Braeme, I can only answer you as I did before, and I ask you to accept ' this as final. Your persistency In this matter annoys me. and I beg of you to cease." She turned to go, but he stopped her. "There Is some one else you cannot deny it!" "Neither does that concern you," she haughtily replied. In his anger be cried: "And do you imagine that I do not know your little game? You have met Herbert Lord against your parents' wishes and many of your clandestine meetings have been witnessed. A common sailor! Where is your sense of honor that you stoop so low?" Marjorie was thoroughly aroused by this attack, and ber reply, though ut tered In anger, carried conviction. "I will tell you. My idea of honor lies in the fact that when a man re sponds to bis country's call and is worthy to wear Its glorious uniform, poor man though he be, he has reached a degree of honor which a rich stay-at-home can never attain. Listen! Her bert Lord Is poor, you are rich; but one button on Ms coat Is worth more to me than all yonr piles of boasted gold. I respect him, and If he lives to return I shall marry him. Now, If yon have one atom of the honor for which you are looking In others you will never men tion this subject to me again!" Marjorie Gardiner turned and walked away. Every argument was used to Induce her to change her decision, but Marjorie remained true to ber promise, and when she was married a year later It was a quiet affair, as befitted the bride's fu ture station as the wife of Herbert Lord. After a brief honeymoon they went to reside In Derwent, where Herbert owned a cottage. At the station tbey were met by a smartly liveried foot man, who touched bis hat respectfully as Herbert Lord and his bride alighted. "Everything all right. Matthew?" "All right, sir," with another touch, as he led tbe way to an elegant carriage drawn by handsome bays. As they rolled comfortably along, tired aftet their journey, Herbert Lord thought it time to prepare his bride for the sur prise in store for her; so, drawing net to him, be remarked: "This is rathei more comfortable, isn't It, dear?" Marjorie looked at him with a look of unutterable content as the replied: "Yea. Herbert, bnt I fear you hav Induged In another bit of extravagant as wind up to our month of luxurloui Uvlng." "No. my little wife. I can afford to dc what I have done. I have practiced a little deception which I hope you will not find It too hard to forgive. I am not the poor sailor you thought me, al though I am proud of my connection with Uncle Sam's navy. I have won the truest little woman In tbe wldt world for my wife, and It will be the one great pleasure of my life to give her the luxuries that the ao bravely fought against sharing with Thon lease. Here we are. Wolooms bome. jailor my darling wife, and may yon be at happy as you bare made me." They drew up before a colonial man sion of fine architectural design, and as they reached the steps the masstvs door was thrown open and the pleasant though respectful expressions of greet Ing from the servants bespofe the lovt and esteem In which their master wat held. - Father and Mother Gardiner spent several weeks of each year at the Lard mansion, and loud and long were th praises they sang of thelr,jpa?-Herbert. To Marjorie he waa the same her gal lant, true-hearted sailor lad. Boston Post. MARRIAGES IN THE ARMY. Stringent Kea-ulationa tOrorce m Bev . era! Countries. The restrictive conditions at present In force with regard to he marriage of omcers ol tne Russian army, says a writer in the Brooklyn Citizen, forbid this privilege under any circumstances in the case of officers under the age of 23. Between the ages of 23 and 28 years the dot of an officer's wife must amount to a sum representing the mint mum Income of 250 rubles yearly. On comparison of these condition! with those regulating the same ques tion in other European armies. It may be noted that In the Austro-Hungarlan army the number of officers authorized to contract marriage Is limited by a fixed proportion assigned to each grade, and, these totals being reached, all further marriages must be deferred pending tbe occurrence of vacancies In the married establishments. Tbe Italian army regulations, which fix the Income of the fiancee at a mini mum of from 1.200 to 2.000 lire, would appear to be more rational In their operation. Italian officers, however, apply a somewhat liberal interpreta tion to this law, with the result that the number of marriages occurring under actual provisions does not exceed more than one-eighth of the total number, seven-eighths of the officers being uni ted under the conditions of the re ligious ceremony only, and thus expos ing themselves to all the Inconveni ences which attend a marriage not rec ognized by civil law. - Similar disabilities would now ap pear to be Incurred by the Russian of ficers, and suggestions have been made by the press In Russia that a general revision of the law is necessary. The question Is assuming more importance from the fact that Russian officers, reaching a total of nearly 40.000. repre sent one of the most Important classes In the state. Electricity Interferes witb Science. Tbe observations of earth currents at Greenwich observatory have been made practically useless for several years by the electric railway from Stock well to London, modern Instru ments being so sensitive that Indica tions of tbe current of this railway b:ive been detected more than 100 miles away. An early effect of tbe railway led to a funny experience. Tbe gener ating station was visited by the mag netic superintendent of the observa tory, and on bis return to work the tracings of his magnets showed a curi ous deflection, wntcn continued day lifter day. but only during the hours of his attendance. The idea that be was magnetized was a startling one. But 5tie day be left his umbrella at home ind there was no disturbance, the um brella having been a permanent magne since the visit to the power station His Bat to Do. It was an aristocratic bouse. Ths well-trained butler had left, and the Iuewly engaged man, a Swede, was in .irocess of breaking in. Callers came, and he took tbe cards to bis mistress in bis ungloved bands, leaving tbe silver card tray resting quietly In tbe ball. "When you bring things In here. Swen son," said she, "use the tray. It 1b not proper to bring them In your hands." "Yaas," he replied. Mrs. H. Park bad a new toy terrier The guests wished to see it, and she sent for Swenson to fetch It. Soon there was a succession of staccato yelps and whines. The door opened, a very red-faced Swenson appeared with tbe silver tray In bis left hand and a tiny dog terrier held firmly down on It with tbe other. New York Doesn't Furnish Speakers, There has not been a New York speaker in the House of Representa tives for seventy-five years. The last New York member to hold that office was John Taylor, who served from 1825 to 1827. There have been Demo- ! cratlc speakers from other States since the close of the war Indiana, Pennsyl ranla, Kentucky and Georgia. Kansas City Journal. Eaxllest Sea Fight. The earliest authenticated sea fight is said to have been that between the Corinthians and the Corcyreans, In which the former conouered 004 B. U- A Swim in the Dead Sea. Every one has heard of the buoy incy of the water of the Dead Sea. It s virtually impossible to sink in tbe Dead Sea, and so great Is the quantity f salt in the. water that If you dip rour hand in and draw it out aga n, fou will Immediately see the salt crys tallizing in tbe sun. It Is needless to -erstark that an Involuntary mouthful f jbead Sea water is a horrible expe ieiice, never likely to be forgotten by :he bather. However. If you don't stay n tbe water too long, a swim in the Dead Sea Is a very extraordinary and Measurable experience. The shores, as s well known, are strangely desolate. I tnd they are strewn with bits of wood ! ind branches of trees all crusted with j nine In the most curious manner, and woe unto any one who goes Into tftls trater having open cuts or scratches on tils body. TWO WOMEN PICTURE-MAKERS. ffcer BeprcMated Americas Wohm im Artistic Photocrapby at Paris. The work of American women In ar tistic photography has been represent ed at Paris by two delegates, both of wbom are ably fitted by reason of tal ent anQ artistic achievement, to speak tor the feminine exponents of the pro fession. Miss Beatrice Tonnesen read a paper before tbe International Con gress of Photography at the Paris Ex position. Miss Tonnesen Is a Western giii. coming originally from Osbkosh, Wisconsin. Her professional career Is. . however. Identified with Chicago, and from a provincial girl, equipped with the foundation of a thorough tech nical knowledge of photography, she has become a well-known business woman of tbe metropolis of the West with a thorough understanding of pho tography aa a fine art. Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, of Washington, read a paper before the International Congress of Photography, her subject being "The Work of the Women of the United States in Pho- tography." Miss Johnston may bt taken as the representative of the East, although ber reputation Is national She has made a study of photography as a means of illustration from an ar tistic and mechanical standpoint. She was the first photographer to give to the world photographs of the frescoes In tbe Congressional Library, having taken them from the scaffolding. Sbe has photographed almost all the promi nent personages In official and social life in Washington, from Mrs. McKIn ley and the ladles of the Cabinet down LAW AS INTERPRETED. Discretion In the surrogate to with hold commissions from an executoi who has not given proper attention tc bis duties Is held, in re Rutledge (N. Y.), 47 L. R. A. 721. not to be denied by the :ode provision that the surrogate "must allow to him" certain commissions foi his services. statute making It unlawful to per mit the escape of natural gas Into tbe epen air from a well for longer than two days after It Is constructed is held. In State vs. Ohio Oil Company (Ind.), 17 L. R. A. 627, to be constitutional and t decision to the same effect is render ed by the United States Supreme Court In 177 V. & 190. 44 L. ed. Setting of a back fire without negli gence by one whose property is threat ened witb imminent destruction by tire Is held. In Owen vs. Cook (N. D.). 47 L. R. A. 646, not to make the owner liable for the destruction of the property of another person In case his acts add oi contribute to Its destruction, but tbe fire from which he seeks to protect him self will be considered as the direct and proximate cause of tbe loss. An explosion of gas in a dwelling supplied by a low-pressure line, caused by connecting therewith a high-pies lure line, leaving the gas uncontrolled by the regulator. Is held, in McKenna vs. Bridgewater Gas Company (Pa.). 47 L. R. A. 790, not to make the gas com pany liable, in the absence of negli gence on its part, where the connection was blunderingly made by an employe of another gas company who was s trespasser In so doing. Damages to property for which com pensation must be made under a con stitutional provision that property shall not be taken or "damaged" for public purposes without Just and adequate compensation Is held. In Austin vs Augusta Terminal Railroad Conipauy (Ga.), 47 L. R. A. 755, In which tbe af fair is elaborately discussed, to be lim ited to such damages as result from some physical Interference with Hit property or with a right or use appur tenant thereto, and not to extend to the diminution In the market value of pmp erty caused by the noise, smoke and cinders made by operating the railroad Cleaning Hallway Cars. The cost of ordinary cleaning In a railway passenger car after an average run of ISO miles Is 16 cents per day. and cars on leading lines are cleaned once only In six or eight days more thoroughly, at a cost of about 1.50 per car. Two or three times a year tbey are cleaned in the shops at an expense of glO. Cleaners are paid at the rate Of 12ft cents per hour. When Capt. Jack, the chief of the Modocs, once tbe terror of the whites, was captured and about to be executed, a clergyman waited upon tbe tough old chieftain to offer consolation. He end- fa up a long exhortation by saying: And If you repent of your wickedness In fighting good white men the Great Spirit will permit you to go to heaven. nth all the politeness In the world ipt Jack Inquired: "Do you think ou wlU go to that placer' "Certain ly." said tbe minister; "if I should die y I would be there before night" u,c " D L , m " you will take my place and be hanged lo-morrow I will give you forty ponies." (The offer was not taken and the clergy-1 ban sought heaven by a less dlrec- 2T Quick as a flash came tbe answer: "If . j .... 1 If a man attempted to keep track of , aa ibut km as hla wife keens In mind, be would bare to hire a bookkeeper and a atenosraDher. IUSS BBATBICB TOXXBSKN. mm OF THE Mi Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage SnbjMt: An from Howe Perils That Beast the Youn; Man SreVing Fortune lnger nnl Temptation. Tnnt Surround Him. IDopjnxUt l:M. Washington, D. C Dr. Talmaise staid in London to occupy tht famous Wesley pulpit in the City' Road !.- pel, where he preached severul times brfjrc, always receivinj: hearty welcome. Thence he went to Ireland, preaching in lie I fa t and Dublin. The discourse he lias sent this week describes the behavior of a young man away from home and suggests practical lessons for people of everv aire and class. The text is Daniel i, S. "And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank, so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king." My text opens the door of a college in Babylon snd introduces you to a young student seventeen years of age, DaTiiel by name. Be not surprised if in the college you find many hilarities. Put a hundred young men together and they are sure to have a good time. There is no harm in that. God does not write out the trees, and the grass, and the blossoms, in dull prose. The old robin does not sit moping in the nest because of the chiming and the lively adventures of the fledgelings that have just begun to fly. Do not come into an orchard looking for winter apples on a May morning. But Daniel of our text is far from being gay. What oppressive thoughts must have come over him as he remembered that he was a captive in a strange land! ine music tnat came into his study win dow was not the song of ion, but the sound of flute, snckhut and dulcimer in the worship of the heathen god. More over, he had no hope of ever getting back home aga- and meeting those who had missed him long and missed him bitterly, wondering if he were still alive and find ing many a luxury tasteless because they did not know but Daniel might be lacking bread. When you and I were in school or col lege and the vacation approached, we were full of bright anticipation, and we could not study the last night. The lexi con and the philosophical apparatus were transparent, so we could see right through them into the meadows and the orchards. Not so with poor Daniel, lie diil not know that he should ever eoca)e from cap tivity, or, escaping, he did not know but when he got home the loved ones would be dead and he would go. wandering and weeping, among the sepulchers of his fa thers. Besides that, the king tried to make him forget his home and forget his country and for that puiiose actually changed his name. The king wanted him to be a prodizy in personal appearance, and so he ordered meat and wine sent from his own table to Daniel, hut Daniel refuses all this and puts himself upon the humblest diet, the poorest of all herb, called pulse, and plain water. His attend ants cry out agaiust this and tell him he will perish under such a diet. "No." he says; "you try us for ten days, and if at the end of that time we are not full cheeked and robust as any it will be sur prising." Ten days pass along, and the students come up for examination, and all declare that none are so ruddy and robust as Danhl and his fellow captives. The days of industrious pupilage and the years pass by, and the day of graduation has come, and Daniel gets his diploma, signed by the king and reading as follows: "In all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them be found them ten times better than all the ma gicians and astrologers that were in all his realm." And so Daniel took the first ! honor. a.nd ere thf,8tory1Tn8'rtr "li1' the student, hereafter will be Daniel, the prime minister. The next thought suggested to me by this subject is that young men may be carried into captivity by their enemies. There is a captivity more galling than the one in which Daniel was transported. It is the captivity of evil habit. Men do not go into that wittingly. Slyly and imper ceptibly are the chains forged ujon them, and one day they wake up to find them selves away down in ltabylon. Cyrus after ward consented that some of his captives should return, and 50.0(10 of them accepted the opportunity. Hut tell me what evil habit ever consented to let a man go. Ten plagues made Pharaoh consent to the de parture of God's eople, but tell me what I'haraoh of evil habit ever cheerfully con tented to let any of its victims go. Men talk of evil habits as though they were light and trivial, but they are scorpion whips that tear the flesh; they are spikes more bloody than the patn ot a itranman; they are the sepulchers in which millions ire burned alive. The young are in mora peril because they are unsuspecting. Tliei lions are asleep in their soul, and their power is not suspected. The time when i ship's company makes mutiny is when the watchman is off his uard. When a spider meets a fly, it does not say, "f!o iown with me to the place where 1 murder insects." No; it says, "Come and take a bright morning walk with me on this sus pension bridge of glittering gossamer." Oh, there is a difference between the sparkle of a serpent's eye and the crush of its slimy folds There is a difference be tween the bear's paw toying with a kid and the crackling of the bones in the ter rible hug. Pike s peak looks beautiful in the distance, but ask the starved travelers by the roadside what they think of Pike's peak. Are there those around whom .sus picious companions are gathering? Do their jests and their entertainments make the hours go blithely by when you are with them? Have you taken a sip from their cup of sin or gone with them in one path of unrighteousness : turn nack. From Babylon they came, and to ltaby lon they would carry you. If so many plague stricken men would like to enter vour companionship liefore any one is al lowed to pass into the intimacy of your heart put on them severest quarantine. My subject also impresses me with the fact that early impressions are almost in effaceable. Daniel had a religious bring ing up. From the good meaning of his name I know he had pious parentage. But is soon as be comes into the possession of the king his name is changed, all his sur roundings are changed, anil now, you say, will begin the demoralization of his char acter. Before his name was Daniel, which means "God my judge;" now his name is to be Belteshazzar. which means "the treasurer of the god Bel." Now you ex pect to see him overthrown amid all these changed circumstances. Oh, no! Daniel Started right, and he keeps on right. When I find what Daniel is in Jerusalem I am not surprised to find what he is in Baby lon. I wish I could write upon all parents' hearts the fact that early impressions are well nigh ineffaceable. When 1 see Jo seph, a pious lad, in the house of his fa ther, Jacob, I am not surprised to see him acting ao nobly down in Kgypt. When I find Samuel, a pious lad, in the house of his mother, Hannah, 1 am not surprised that he gives a terrible smiting to idolatry as soon as he comes to man hood. David planned the temple at Jeru salem and gathered the materials for its building, but Solomon, the son, came and j put up the structure, and that goes on in all ages. The father plans the character of the child and its destiny for time and eternity, then the son completes the struc ture. You might as well put down a founda tion ten feet by five and expect to rear I on it a great cathedral as tb put down ' , meted character in a child's soul and . yet rear npon ;t ,mething extensively rand and extensively useful, j Let me say to those Christian parents I who are doing their best in the education ! of their children: Take good heart. Your tons this morning may be far away from run nrl In a distant citv. but God. to you and in a distant city, rhnm vnn dedicated them. ' hom vo dedicated them, will look after iimn The God of Daniel will take care of them far away in Babylon. "Train up child in the w he should go, and when je . old he will not depart from it." He may wander away for awhile and fall into in and break your heart, but before he is done with his life, you. having commend ed him to God, he will come back again, for I put the emphasis in the right place nd on the word "old" when I reieiit that passage and say. "Train up a child in the way be should go. and when he is old he will not depart from it." Are you fond of pictures? Here is one irawn by Solomon: "Who hath woe! Who hath sorrow? Who hath conten tions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? They that tarrv long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup. At the last it biteth like a jerpent and stingeth like an adder." "Do you know what you are doing?" said a mother who had broken into a res taurant, the door locked against her, her son inside. She came up to the counter and saw the man of the restaurant min ding t' !ntosk"tin cud for her own son. She said to the man behind the counter, "Do you know what you are doing?" "No," said he; "I don't." Says she, "You are latteuing graveyards." 1 was told at Des Moines of a u-nin f cars going through a very stormy night over one of the western prairies. The young man who was present told us the story. In the night there was a little child in the sleeping car fretful and worrying and crying hour after hour. A man on the opposite side of the car lost his patience and said, "Kit her make that child shut up or take it to its mother!" Then another man on the opposite side of the sleeping car. a man with a broken heart, pushed back the curtain and looked out and said. "Young man, that child's mother is dead in the baggage car. and the little thing is wailing for her." Then the man who hail committed the affront rose and offered his services for the night and took care of the child until the morning, and all the pas sengers in the car were broken down with emotion. Oh, if the cry of one child could arouse so many sympathies, what ought to be the effect of the ten thousand voiced shriek of orphanage and widowhood from the ine briate's grave! God save this country from the perils of strong drink. My subject also impresses me with the beauty of youthful character remaining incorrupt away from home. If Daniel had plunged into every wickedness of the city of Babylon the old folks at home would never have heard of it. If he had gone through all the rounds of iniquity, it would have cast no shadow on his early home. There were no telegraphs, there were no railroads. Jit Daniel knew that God's eye was on him. Tnat waa enough. There are young men not so good away from home as at home. Frederick tending his father's sheep among the bills or thrashing rye in the barn is different perhaps from Frederick on the Stock Exchange. Instead of the retiring disposition there is bold effrontery. In stead of an obliging spirit there is perhaps oppressive selfishness. Instead of open handed charily there is tight listed stinginess. Instead of reason able hours there is midnight revel. 1 seak to many voung men on this matter yon who may have ieft your father's house ami others who, though still under the par ental roof, are looking forward to the time when you will go forth to conflict, alone in this world, with its temptutions and its sorrows, and when you will build op vour own character. On. that the God of Daniel might be with vou in Babylon! t I think the most thrilling passage of a young man's life is when he leaves home to make his fortune. The novelty and the romance of the thing may keep him from any keen sorrow, but the old people who have seen the destruction of so many who have started with high hope cannot hi-';i but be anxious. As long as he was in his father's house his waywardness was kindly chided.and although sometimes he thought the restraint rather bitter and rather se vere in his calmer moments, he acklowl edged it was salutary and righteous. Through the influence of metropolitan friends the father has obtained a situation for his son in the city. The comradts ol the young man come the night is-fore his departure to bid farewell to the adven turer. The morning of his going away he walks around the place to take a last look at things, perhaps comes upon some ob ject that starts a tear, some old familiar place, but no one sees the tear. The trunk is put upon the waon, the young man is off for the city, lie is set down amid excitements and amid associates who are not owrcareful about their words and thought"- and actions. Morning comes. No fam! ..- altar. Sabbath comes. No rural quiet. The sanctuary conies, but all the faces are strange, and no one cares whether he comes to church or does not come.- On his way from the store he sees a placar.1 announcing a rare anil a vicious amusement. He has no greeting at the door of the boarding house, lie has no appetite for the food. No one cares whether he eats or des not eat. Rather he would not eat. It is cheaper. After the tea he goes into the parlor, takes up a book, finds it dull, no Bister ti look over it with him. Goes upstairs to his room in the third story, finds it cold and unin viting, and in despair he rushes out, caring for nothing but to get something to make him stop thinking. He is caught in t li first whirl of sin. He has started out on the dark sea where the gleam of the joy is the flushing of the pit ami the lautihter is the creaking of the gate of the lost. Oh. how many graves there are in the country churchyard which, if they could speak, would tell of young men who went off with high hopes and came back blasted and crushed to disgrace the sepulcher of their fathers. And yet this exodus must go on. As from distant hills the rivers are poured down through tunnels to slake the thirst of our great cities, so from distant coun try places the streams of incorrupt popu lation must pour down to purify our great cities. To-morrow morning on ull the thoroughfares, in every steamboat and in every rail car will be young men going forth to seek their fortunes in our great towns. O Lord God of Daniel, help them to lie as faithful in ltabylon as they were at Jerusalem! Forget not, O my young friend, in the great seaports the moral and religious principles inculcated by parental solicitude, and if to-duy seated in the house of God you feel the advantage of early Christian culture forget not those to whom you are most indebted and pray God that as old age comes upon them and the shadow of death the hojie of heaven may beam through the darkness. God for bid that any of us through our misconduct should bring disgrace upon a father's name or prove recreant to the love of a mother The dramatist t ade no exaggeration wher he exclaimed, "How sharper than a ser pent's tooth it is to have a thanklesf child!" Oh, that God would help you at parents and as young people to take tc heart the lessons of this important subject, and if we shall learn that there is danger of being carried into captivity and that early impress. -ns are almost ineffaceable and that there is something lieautiful in Christian sobriety and that there is great attractiveness in piety away from honie, then it will be to you and to me a matter of everlasting congratulation that we con sidered how Daniel liehaved when he be came a college student at Babylon. Cannibalism is on the decline in tbe New Hebrides. Electric Sparklets. A high speed electrical car running between Providence and Fall River re cently made a record of 85 miles an hour. . A trolley car built on the lines of a tally-ho is doing service in Detroit. It has been designed for the use of visit ors and makes a complete tour of the city at regular intervals each day, pass ing all the points of Interest, which are pointed out to the sightseerera by the attendant. Mankind are fond of mystery; they would rather suspect something than know it. --.--'.a. snUcasasfcreW1- -' '- " ''" ' " v -ft'