.-.? S. i i ' B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOn THE UlllOfl ARD THE ERFORCEaERT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LI V. MIPFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1900 NO. 47 - " . w faptait? BY B. 7-Y. ilitaiyomaDeeor.gog.if, CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued.) . "It's uo use. Miles!" he gasped, faint ly, with half-closed, glazing eyes. "I'm bound to go; but I can't bear to think ol jour running this risk for me, when ev try douga way be full" of those fellows, .vt-r.T bit of bush swarming with them." "There's not a soul on the veldt but ourselves, Ted," returned the other, bold lj; "don't you be uneasy about it. Tht ambulance ought to be here in an hour snd a half, and we will hare you in camp Is less than do time. You must not talk like this." -Hut 1 must I hare so little time. May food by to all the fellows for me, and to Farrar. my chum; he took my duty to day. Weil, I'll never pay him now." What could Miles say? A horrible eh. 11 conviction that what Teddy said waa trur was creeping orer him. His .fail lug. struggling breath, his feeble voice, all painted to something more mortal tbiu a severe wound. "Dou't talk, Teddy, my dear boy," h Implored; "it's the worst thing you cap do." "Let me go on," with a faint gesture; I hare so little time. 1 know I'm go ing." be gasped, "and 1 won't say I'm out erry, for I am. She will never know now " A pause of some secouds, and then he (.poke again. "Give my love to Gus aud Flo and Aunt Jane yea, and" with a visible effort, "Mrs. Brabazon why should 1 bear her ill wUl now 7 and Eatne this will be hard on her," catching his breath; "but she will marry you, Miles I know it tell her I said so. And you will take Kitty poor Kitty and tx. kind to her, for my sake. Kitty," rais ing his failing voice, "come here; put down your head, old girl, and say good by." Imk sa he spoke, her eager ears heard his well-known call, and she came at once and gently pushed her soft, brown nose into his hand. "You will send everything I have it's not much to Bsnie, and let me be buried as I am in my uniform. 1 did not weai It long"' "Oh, Teddy!" exclaimed his compan ion, in a broken voice, "you cannot give yourself up like this. What can 1 do for you? IJeaven knows how gladly 1 would give my life for yours. How could I go honie without you? What could I say to Estue? I dare not face hex aloue," wiping his damp forehead, chating his hands as he spoke, and pouring the last few drops of spirits down his comrade's throat. "Keep up; the ambulance and the doctor have surely left cauip by thi time. We ought to have them with us in leas than an hour!" "Yes, but I won't be here when they come they will be too late. I'm glad you are with me. Miles you who have been a brother to me it's not so very hard to die, after all. Where is your' hand? Let me hold it for I'm going to set out on a long, long journey longer than we thought when I left camp this morning" a pause, then a faint pressure of the hand, and a still faitner. almost Inaudible whisper, saying: "Miles, are you there? Tell Esms it will be all right," and this was the last word. Vainly Miles spoke, vainly he bent his ear to his cousin's lips. There was no sound now only a vast, irresponsive si lence. Thick, black darkness bad sudden ly set in; the night was cold, the moments leaden. Miles himself was weak from loss of blood. Vainly he chafed Teddy' hands; vainly he told himself, "He had only fainted." He strained his ears anx iously for coming hoofs and welcome voices. There was no trampling of horse men, but his practiced sportsman's keen seDe of hearing caught another less re assuring sound, the sound of many foot steps stealthy, bare footsteps stealing through the high grass close by. There were great numbers; probably a portion of the impi they had already encountered, for the stealthy march lasted for a long time. The huge bowlder sheltered him effectually, and they passed in the dark ness. The last tread at length died away, and that moment of throbbing suspense was tided over in safety. When the end came Miles never knew; gradually, gradually, the hand in hia hand relaxed its hold, had become first cool, then cold, then icy. He waa dead. Teddy was dead. How strange, how impossible. It sounded to say. "Teddy is dead." How was this to be told to Esme? Esme. whose whole heart was given to this fa vorite brother! How dark and silent and bitterly cold it was! The black sky above, the hard veldt be neath him, were whirling and reeling In one giddy circle, and he remembered no more. Long afterward, when a strong party arrived, with lights and rugs and restor atives, and an ambulance, a party com prising one or two officers, including Cap tain Uee, that little gentleman, for once In his life, became livid when his quick ..es rested, as he first believed, on the two desd Brabasons, with the faithful brown charger keeping guard over them. On closer examination it was discovered that Miles was only insensible from ex posure and loss of blood; but with the knitted cardigan coat, of which he had deprived hime!f hours previously, they covered a corpse. Next morning, at daybreak, there was a military funeral, and Teddy was buried within a short distance of.the camp. His cousin, pale as death itself, with bis arm In a sling, walked alone behind the rude coma us chief mourner, and Kitty follow ed her ma' ' the last time, lbe cotlin was covered by a Union Jack, and carried by the men of Teddy's regiment: not a few rough troopers felt a very un nsual tightness in the throat when they heard the hard, yellow earth rattle on the coffin of "Gentleman Brown." The dead trooper was buried beside him. They lie on the spur of a hill, around them there stretches a wide sea of waving grass; above their heads are two rude wooden crosses. So foot Is likely to come that way; no voice, no sound, disturbs sneir repose; only a vast plain, only an awful silence, only two soldiers' ""raves. And Miles was as one who mourned for his brother; he was stunned. How pain ful was the gap irf bis life! How he miss Mi the bright face, the cheery voice, that half a dozen times a day had been thrust nto his tent; the face he had known but o recently, and yet had liked so Weill How blank were rides and foraging per ries now. when he waa forced to say to himself, "Last time we came here it waa with Teddy r' grabaot) CROKBR tie collected bis belongings, which w-.e nl P them up with the u:d of Teddy'a soldier servant, whose voice was husky, and who many times turned away to rub the back of his homy haud across his eyes. But there was one little box that Miles investigated aloue; it coutain td two photographs of Esme: a small, battered, brown, prayer book, presented I y her ten years previously, in a strag iling round hand between its leaves were two or three withered llowers; there was hia watch, with a broken mainspring; a program of the regimental tournament t York, and last, not least, carefully fold ed np in silver paper and an envelope, a tiny four-button woman's g'.ove.. rather worn. "It was not Esuie's," said Miles, as he turned it carefully over, with a lover's critical discrimination. "It probably be longed to Teddy's nameless sweetheart." He did not put it up along with the other relics, for it told a tale intelligible 10 him aloue; it was not to be thrown sway, this token that Teddy had treaa ured; no, he himself would keep this lit tle tan glove, belonging to a girl he had uever seen, w hose name he would never know; nor would "she herself ever learn the fate of her mysterious, unavowed lover: Ue had died, and made no sign. Miles took part in that fifty minute' battle, when a solid square of English kept the bold and reckless enemy at bay by deadly wall of fire, and snbsequent- ' ly returned with the column to Natal. I Of course he was the owner of Kitty, having purchased her for one hundred 11 nd fifty pounds, a purchase which reduc i i d his exchequer to a very low ebb; but lie was resolved to have her at any price, and a feeling that he had the best right ! io her restrained the lancers from bid J iing for her, when their late brother offi cer's scanty possessions were sold by the .-ommittee of adjustment. CHAPTER XIX. To Mr. Bell was sent the telegram an nouncing Teddy's death, and it was with a heavy heart that he walked up to Bar utmford that lovely June morning. He himself had been very fond of the fam ily scapegrace, and his usually cheery, ruddy countenance was downcast and '.u.lrAif mvw anil 1 Hnrifl th.n llalial Everything around seemed out of keeping ith the tidings of which he was the jearer. A bright blue sky, unclouded by ven one tiny white fleece, busy bees -oaming importantly to and fro, butter dies flickering and darting across his Lth the air loaded with the sweet ner- ,'ume of new-mown hay, and birds sing- ng in tne tiusnes as it tney were noiuing i morning concert. Mr. Bell, with eight ivords in his pocket, is going to turn this iouse of sunshine and laughter into a jouse of gloom and mourning. The swing loor flew back with a bang, and display ed Gussie, tennis bat in hand, a grotesque tcarlet felt hat with embroidered sun lower on her head. "Hurry, hurry. Ka ne, don't be a U day! Oh. Mr. Bell," aa he suddenly confronted him, this is a piece of luck! the very man fo make up t set at tennis," she cried, affectionately. "Come along at once, you shall be my partner. There's going to be a tourna ment at the Clipperton's to-morrow, and xe want to get our hands well in." Well does Mr. Bell know that neither :o-morrow. nor for many to-morrows, will ihere be a tennis tournament for them. Ills face unconsciously conveys a reflec :ion of his thoughts, his round, merry ountenance looks grave, his twinkling, frank, blue eyes dim and misty. Annie, who had seen that there was .nmethinz wrong at the very first glance, hurried to him with a white, startled (see, and said, meekly: "It's not Miles, is it?" -" he returned, averting his glance and shaking his head. "Then it is Teddy." cried Esme, with iivld lips, hsving but that moment come upon the scene. "It is. it is. I see it ia your face, Mr. Bell. He has been wound Mi! I'm sure be has," with sudden con viction, seizing the rector by the arm as she spoke. "Oh." in s voice of concen trated anguish, "do not be afraid to tell ne the worst! I can bear it. I can. in ieed. I have a right to know first, in-orruMuna- herself between him and the drawing room door. "Is he badly wound ed?" "I must see Mrs. Brabazon." he re turned, huskily, pushing her aside with turned brusqueness. and shaking off her detaining hand witn a gesture ... decis ion. For once he was glad and thankful to seek sanctuary with the head of the house in her own spartment. and to shut out that girl's agonized white face. What news was be telling Mrs. raba ion behind that fast shut door? The three he hsd left outsidr str-d in the hall in a torture of suspense that petrihed the oower of speech, but their eyes asked lather the fatal question, "Who was it" Miles was safe, both Annie and Esme felt with a blessed thrill of relief; but Teddy. Florian? Alas' they would know soon enough. Within half an hour not only they the bo"hold-but Jne and the entire village bad heard the bad news, that neither as private nr officer would any of them again see Edward Brabazon !ever again would his hearty laugh . ami constant if somewhat tuneless, whistle, ne heard about the Mexton lanes never .Tn would he pound the field with the harriers on a four-year-old colt. This time the blinds were pulled down in earn est for poor Teddf. . n .nd waned and Mrs. ttraDazou yr - . -carried on." to quote th, would set up mbo.w" tious black borders to meet the ersu ' u . s almost unrec- oguizX frEsme had never shed one t'l 1 "V iUtthrnou; an air of gh.stly colore, very quiet, very jale . naturally cairn. "w" "wished she other, to whisper that Aey - 8 would cry, that B,d ed relief or teara, "" . aTway. been so easUT Peeked U was useless, she could not. 1 c?"' . M it." she said to her ;ster v.-, . jf Se OTnVrwouldit; my nean .n.,h!ne now. a i nma It Ka RlUUr. have no feeling " 'vddT her could be for anyone. She W --.- ave neen so gooa 10 IiTm wfees fee came home, have him stay in her smart London house, and visions of her handsome lan cer brother adorning her little receptions. al loated more than once through her brain; but now there was an end to all thia. and really she waa very, very sor ry. How abominably trying mourning w" to '. e told herself frankly, r lo was quite demonstrative; he order d himself a snlvof black, "for the broth er he told hia tailor. He put the fol 'V J! notie w the PPr: "Killed, near the Umbolosi river. South Africa, Ed ward Brabazon, Lieutenant, Prince's Lancers, aged twenty-four, deeply regret ted and he talked a good deal to the fellows in the club about "My poor broth er," till anyone would have imagined that they had been the most devoted of rela tions; in fact, a modern Castor and Pol .rx. One morning, about three weeka afte the arrival of the telegram, Mrs. Braba zon. in distributing the contents of the post bag, drew oat an envelope covered with foreign stamje, a travel-stained en velope, and handed it to Esme hesitat ingly. Those who were present will nev er forget her half-sobbing, breathless cry of boundless relief, of too painful happi ness as ah snatched it, exclaiming: "A letter from Teddy! Yes," she gasp ed, "ia his own handwriting! Oh. lius ie! Mrs. Brabazon! Flo!" looking round the table with eyes that were now drown ed in tears. "I always knew it was a mistake he was not dead see." tearing it open with trembling fingers. "Here ia proof r and she began to devour the lines' before her, as well as she could see1 through her tears, which were falling) over the paper now like rain. Poor Esme! She did not understand that the hand that traced the lines be fore her was stiff and Cold,- and now that! where a letter took live weeks to travel, a" telegram could come in five hours. this is what she was reading witn paipii tsting heart and awimming eyes: - 1 "Dear Esme I've not had a line froni yon for ages and ages. This sort of thiuji won't do, you know. I've heard the whole! account of your trouble from Miles him self. The Marchers are in our .column. I met him first quite -accidentally ouej night on picket, when I was carrying disJ patches to their camp. He did not know1 who I really was from Adam, but 1 had1 it out with him next morning, aud you never saw a fellow so taken aback or so cut up in your life. He never sicaks of the business now, nor you. I believe he imagines you will never forgive him, and he is awfully down in the mouth; but you must, Esme, for I've gone se curity for you. It waa all my fault from first to last, aa you and I know. If I had imagined he would have cut up sofright fully rough that day at Portsmouth, 1 would have let him into the secret the moment he landed In the country. How ever, the money is gone, and there's no help for spilled milk; but you stick to him, for he's a rattling good fellow; the more I see him the more I like him. Ill dance at your wedding yet. I mean to bring you home a Zulu lady's full cos tume aa a wedding present. Love to Gns; I'm glad she's going to marry Vaahon; he is a good little chap, and beauty is only skin deep." Who was to open her eyes? Who was to point to the date? Not Gussie, not Flo. They hurried from the breakfast table, on various shallow pretexts, and left her alone with this letter from the dead. She took It down to .Miss Jane, and he it was who, with faltering voice and many tears and it ia a sad and au un usual thing to see an old woman weep, they have mostly outlived all emotions made her niece to understand and realize the truth, made her renounce this des lieratc clinging to a straw, made her juenoh hope and embrace despair. (To be continued. I . Household. Spiced Plums. For every six pounds of fruit make a syrup of one quart of vinegar, five pounds of sugar, one ta bleapoonful each of cinnamon and mace and one teaspoonful or cloves. Divide spices as for peaches, and slowly bring the syrup to a boil. Prick each plum twice with a small silver fork and place In the pickle Jar, shaking down occasionally to fill the interstices. Pour over the hot syrup, cover and let stand three days; then carefully skim out the fruit, boil the svrup uncovered) until I . tklfll. artA fn, t Vl O lfl.t tiTTIA DOUf hot over the packed plums. Cover and treat as aoove. nnmnitfiM Thpflp are verv at- 4 1 Ulll vump"". tractively made by sifting three cup- fuls of flour, witn wnicn iwo fuls of baking powder nave been min- i .nin0 in a honnlnar teasooonful Ricu, "'"'"li " " " of butter, and making into a soft dough with water, our in a cuiiiui ui using either stewed fruit or the canned article, according to the season. Par tially fill cups with the batter, set them in a pan of hot water in the oven j . hair tinur. Invert the KUU BlCOlll dumplings on dessert plates and serve warm wun uquiu , tAc. .,.. vta On. run of ma Die sugar, one egg. butter the size of a walnut, and one-half cupful of milk, added at the last. Bake in two crusts. . t TlA One eara. one CUD Apple iuwn . - - of sugar, one large apple, grated rind from one lemon. Chop inside of lemon with apple and bake with two crusts. i c3 n ... Whi-n arrated cu- . L fr-iml flah Aa A. cumner is kh ; sauce, the cucumbers are pared, grat ed ana arainea. " " - cucumbers add a half teaspoonful of salt a teaspoonful of onion Juice, a tabl'espoonjul of olive oil. and a dash of cayenne pepper. . . n TItio Clinful Of fOtaiO XI Cnnnifs- w- mashed potatoes, one egg. a saltspoon ful of powdered sage, the same amount of salt and half as much pepper. Add one taDiespooniui u - .Sallow tinTnd bake tn a quick oven. Place slices around the Pjatter of flsh. Or the potatoes may be fried in small long rolls and used in the same man ner. Dixie Cakea.-Pour a pint of boiling water over one cupful or corn meal and hnll five minutes, stirring constantly. Add one teaspoonful of melted butter fwo wen-beaien eggs, one cupful of water one cupful of milk, and one Lltspoonf ul of salt.- Bake In a well griddle. Thev are dellclou Milk Shake. This refreshing drink i. ade at home by pouring the aweet e'eTand flavored 'nSk. having plenty IS Vni.hed Ice in it, from one bottle to anot?erhaklng it' well until It foam There is coquetry so weak that it ia entirely harmless. Where there la the most love of God there will be there the trjest and most enlarged philanthropy. To him nothing J P8slbie J?,,,!8 always dreaming of his past poasibll- UNo evil will endure a hundred yeara. A book that ia shut makes no scholar. Every life touchea many other Uvea tall After an Idea ia conceived, the fewer words it is clothed in the better. Saved by a FHBOI8ELT what all th row was about, I don't profess to remem ber," said the old quartermaster, aa he lit hia pipe afresh, and puffed and pulled at it until it was under full headway, and glowing like a live coat, "but the Chilians and Peruviana were In the harbor two weeks, blockaded by the former, who had a fine fleet outside. We were having altogether a lazy tlma of It in our steamer, and had nothing In the world to do. until the blockade should be raised or an earthquake should shake out some new channel through which we wight get to sea. Of course the captain and agents were out of temper, but the rest of us didn't care how long the blockade lasted, as we were drawing good pay right along. "The town lay in a basin-like forma tion of the shore, with large white atone forts at both ends of the harbor, mounting a few heavy rifled guns, of English make; and there were batteries back of the shipping .wharves at the foot of the hills. Our ship lay inside of the forts, and well protected by f stone Jetty. She was just out of range of the Chilian fleet, which generall) rode at anchor 4n a line across the har bor's mouth. "The blockade was not exciting. For days not a shot would be tired by either side; but at other times the men-of-war, taking advantage of a good tide or wind, would steam tn closer and fire away at us In a lnzy fashion all day, the forts replying at loug Inter vals. Occasionally the enemy's shell would strike ti'- water or burst quite near us, but u?.. ally the shots passed over and beyond the vessels, falling among small houses, of the poorer class. In the town down by the water. "The blockaders ventured In too close one day, and. a stiff off-shore breeze springing up, some of the big guns in the fort, served with extra powdei charges, plumped a few holes In them to their evident confusion, for they promptly got out of range and then . remained. We were usually very quiet at night but on dismal ralnv mo' HOW A SHOT lng mere was a great commotion out aide, with much banging of guns. The renorts sounded at one moment like muffled thunder, or, when the wind shifted against the fleet, like some one shutting a heavy barn-door sharply. At about breakfast time, we were sudden ly Ft 'rtled by escaping steam. We rusUJ on deck to see. lying beside us In the misty rain, a long, low torpedo boat. We expected Immediately to be blown up, and our captain was on the bridge vociferously assuring those on Che little stranger that we were neu trals; nor did he stop until one of her officers politely assured him that they were Peruvians, and that, under cover of the attack of a Peruvian ironclad on the blockading fleet, they had atolen in quietly during the confusion. "It did not take long for the block aders to find out that the town had been re-enforced by a torpedo boat, far she Immediately began a system of attack and annoyance which made their lives both day and night one continued round of apprehension and misery. "She was a bandy little open boat, with a good outfit, and could steam about eighteen miles an hour. She had been brought from England by specula tors and sold to the Pruvians down the coast They bad named her 'La Cbl qulta, the Little One. She would lie beside us all day at the atone pier with steam ready, her crew sleeping about the decks in the hot sun, most of the time, while her officers played dominoes under an awning aft, and plotted mean: while some novel method of frightening the blockaders. Occasionally, when they knew the enemy were at dinner, they would make a rush down the har bor in a most warlike and threatening manner. Then the foe would beat to quarters, slip their anchors, and put themselves in a state of commotion, whereupon the torpedo boat would oome leisurely back to the dock. In thia way they made the Chilians burn tons of coal which It waa difficult for them to get and for which they had to pay big prices. "It was at night however, that La Galqnlta was in her glory, for In a few minutes after her departure from the dock there would be banging and boom ing of guns along the enemy's line, and we could tell about where she was by the uproar around her. Once she stole out close along shore and with a rush I came in from the sea through the Chil ian ships. "Their guard boats were unprepared ror this attack; uul oerore tney anew It she was alongside the admiral's ship, and exploded a torpedo which blew up two or three small boats at the gang way, hurt several sailors, and smashed glass and windows. The she made off ! Into th harbor before a gun In the fleet j could be brought to bear on her In the J darkness. This scar waa too much for the I Dons,' aa the Chilians are called, so they put their heads together and seat Single Shot. 5? to Valparaiso for neip. it cam finally. In the shape of two brand-new topedo boats of German make; each of them waa larger and faater than La Chi qulta. - "The day after they arrived, a alight defect had been discovered in the ma chinery of our little dock companion; and as her native engineer had fallen sick of a fever at the same time, and was not quite up to duty, one of our engineers, a Yankee boy by the name of Clark, from Boston (and a smart fellow he was, too), volunteered to tinker up the engine. While their own man was up In town getting some sup plies, Clark was putting the engine to rights, when a telegram arrived aboard stating that the enemy's two torpedo boats bad started early that morning to go down the coast. The lookout at the luirbor entrance had sent word that the fog was becoming heavier, and the Pe ruvian commander ordered I -a Cblqulta out to take advantage of the situation by doing what mischief she could. "The boat of course, waa ready Id a few minutes, but their own engineer was ashore, and the fog prevented their signaling his recall from the town. Go they must, and something must be done at once. But what? While they were discussing the question. Clark, who had finished repairing the engine, was about putting on his Jacket, when the captain drew him aside and, after explaining matters, asked If be would act as engineer for that trip, saying It would be nothing more than an excurs ion or frolic and that he would be well paid. Now, the Yankee boy had long oeen wisniug tor a trip 01 tais kind, but despaired of getting leave of ab sence for any such purpose. Here was an opportunity, and an excuse for tak lug advantage of it, and while coolly replying that be would do It 'as favor, be turued on steam, and In few minutes the saucy little boat was lost to our view and speeding out Into prise for the Chilians. "But, as very often happens, the sur- WON A FIGHT. prise was destined to come from the atber side; for the Chilian torpedo boats had started down the coast only as a ruse, and under cover of the fog had stolen back again, and were quietly lying behind their men-of-war prepared to give their little annoyer a warm wel come. "Quietly and swiftly La Chlquita stole on until the largest of the enemy's ships was seen to be near a dull gray mass without a sign of life about her and apparently at anchor. Still closer ran the torpedo boat and all waa quiet on the big ship. . She was ataost along side, and yet the sleepy siiry did not I heed. The young Peruvian captain rubbed his hands in glee at the glorious opportunity afforded him, and he had just made the signal for the lowering of the torpedo when 'Bang went the sleepy sentry's gun. 'Never mind,' cried the gay captain, as be felt the bullet pierce his cap. 'You are awake at last my boy, and just too later But not A dark object darted out from beyond the ship's stern, and behold there was one of the absent torpedo boats! To add to the consternation of the Chlqulta'a crew, the second torpedo boat now hove In sight rounding the frigate's bow. ' 'We are in a trap,' yelled the cap tain. 'Stop her! Back her! Starboard your helm. -Hard? and he fairly danced with rage as the bullets began to sing about him. "lit less time than It takes to tell It the Peruvian 'surprise party' was in full retreat through the fog, followed closely by the Chilian boats and a hail of small shot which dashed up the spray all around them. The big ships, too, were -In pursuit surging and rock ing, their black smoke and their masts visible above the low-lying fog. "For ten minutes the race progresses finely, the crew of the fleeing craft do lug their utmost to escape the fierce pursuers. The officer distributed hit men about the boat so as to give bei thi' Iwvt possible hnlnnon Soft ' was being burned and dense black smoke and sparks were pouring furi ously from her funnel, but l.t was evi dent that the two other torpedo boats were overtaking her, although the men-of-war were dropping behind. "The officer looked anxiously at Clark and asked. 'Can you not make her go faterr Clark glanced at the steam gauge and at the safety-valve, from which a Jet of steam waa already fly ing, and shook hia head. He screwed down the valve a little, however. The gauge showed ten pounds more pres sure, but that was all be dared put on. La Chlquita was rushing like a streak through the water, faster than she ever went before, but It waa of little use. The larger boats were steadily gaining. A few minutes more would have ended It It waa too bad, for La Chlquita waa almost In the harbor. She had run ont of tha foe and could see tha forta, which dared net fire, however. for tear of hitting their own vessel. The Peruvian sailors crouched in the bottom of the boat while Clark coolly tended bis engine, parts of which moved so fast, as he afterward told me they looked like a whirling blue mist 'Senor.' said the officer to Clark, "we have done our beat but It won't help us.' They are too near to ns; we must give up,' and aa he said this b proceeded to take from hia pocket' a handkerchief to- wave In sign of sur render. -Clark glanced back, and there, not four hundred feet away, was the first pursuer, her sharp snout cutting the water like a.knife and throwing the spray to each side. He observed quick ly that from her brow projected a spar, on the end of which was a large, black, pear-shaped, vicious-looking torpedo. Its head studded with percussion caps. Thia torpedo was ready to be thrust further forward to blow up La Cbl qulta as soon as they should come with in striking distance. As Clark's keen glance returned along the boiling wake of his own boat he noticed In the stern- sheets a rifle which belonged to the captain. It was Just like the one with which the engineer used to 'pick off qui&rels In the States.' "He motioned to the captain not to wave his flag of surrender. He gave the engine one more drenching of oil. and the safety valve another twist, then seized the rifle, carefully adjusted the rear sight, wiped the oil from his trig ger finger, raised the piece to bis shoul der, and took aim. He stood solid as a rock, with feet wide apart to steady himself against the rolling of the boat His head was bare and bis sleeves were rolled up to bis elbows. 'What can be be going to shoot at? muttered the cap tain. 'No one Is visible on the othet boat' But he noticed that as the pur suing boat now but three hundred reel sway, rose and fell with the swells, and Its torpedo bent and swayed from sid to side on the end of the spar, the muz zle of Claik's rifle was following It Now up, now down,' now this way, now that It swung, as If avoiding that keen pvs lookinar through the sight But finally, for one moment It paused and waa quiet. It was that for which Clark waa waiting. There was a sharp re port from the rifle! the torpedo, struck by the bullet fair and square on on of the caps, exploded with a tremcn dous report The par and torpedt flew In fragments through the air. aud as the on-rushing boat emerged from the cloud of smoke. It was seen tha her bow was shattered and split anc that she was sinking rapidly, while bci crew were beard calling upon the othei Chilian boat for help. "Clark laid down the rifle and turnet his attention to his engine again as I: nothing had happened, and. amid thi booming of guns and the dipping o: flags In salute. La Cblqulta ran Into th harbor and was soon at her moorings thanks to the cool Yankee boy who hat aved the vessel with one shot" PUBLIC PARK FOR OREGON. Proposal to Preserve Fceoery Aronnr Crater Lake. It has been proposed to park the re gton about Crater lake In Oregon, on 9f the most remarkable bodies of wate in the world. It fills a large, deei ;rater In the mountains, and the walli rise sheer to a dizzying height abovi the surface. In the Indian tradition: It was the abode of dangerous mon sters creatures that doubtless symbol ized the fear created In the minds o the savages by its wlldness. but that among the civilized, gives place to i sense of admiration for its sublimity It would take little. If any, money t set aside this district for a park, ant It Is hoped that the measure offered fo: that-purpose will be successful. Wi have allowed the vandal to despoil ou. wonderful natural scenery at his pleas ure In the past A growing sense o the fitness of things demands that hi; pernicious activities shall cease ant that the great body of the people shal advantage by what Is finest and no blest In the landscape as In the re sources of the country. Our finest and most impressive seen ery is in the West, where the populs tlon Is still sparse and where real es tate values are still low. Indeed, it 1 not unlikely that the region about Cra ter lake has never been taken uc Those who have seen It declare It to b the scenic equal of the Yosemlte, an. to allow the chopper, the blaster, th shanty builder, the sign painter, the en gine driver to mar It will be to dlscout age visits to the place and to dlsgus and dishearten Just the class of pec pie who are most naturally drawn t spectacle. In this country we have n Immense private parks for titled arlt too racy. Whatever Is best Is for th people. Let them take that best whil It Is still to be had and before selfls' commercialism bars them from I There should be a park in every Stati P Brooklyn Eagle. Tha Child Mind. A little girl wishing to get her ca from a dark room asked the nurse fo It The nurse told told her that sh should not be afraid of the dark, as Got was In the dark as well as In the light The little girl looked doubtfully lnt dark room, then walking bravely t the door, said: "Ood, please, sir, ham at my cap." A little child in a Sunday schoo class, being questioned how Eva cam' to be made, hesitated some time, am then brightening up. said: "God lookei at Adam and said. I guess I can do bet ter than that and he then made Eve.' Harper's Monthly. IaUls at High Temperature. In a perfectly dry atmosphere anima life can exist at a temperature of 30 degrees Fahrenheit. This Is 88 degree: above tne boiling point of water. AMoma Lengwagea. Africa has very nearly 700 languages, and thia fact presents great difficulties to missionary effort A man cannot be said to be quite at meek aa a worm so long aa he refuse' to co over to a neighbor's for milk. A poor brass baud is a sign th.-i community in which it exists lack. flnement and civilisation. DR. TALMAGE7S SERMON. UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. InhJeet : A Preelons Bnrdew Sclom of tha ' - - . . . . I JIODW OI A'JIVIU M . i.. ! , A Lesson From the Slaughter of tha Princes Lead Childraa to Christ. (Coprrlabtlsas.1' Washington, D. C. In this discourse on a neglected incident of the BiL'.e Dr. Talmage draws some comforting lessons,, and s! ws that all around M are royal na tures that we may help deliver. The text is II. Kings xi, 2, 3: "Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Aha- zian, took Joash, the son ot Abaziab, and stole htm from among the king's sons ,bles of the earth should be destrcyed. a. I which were slain, and they hid him, even these lamps of life that blaze in our pul him i-I his nurse, in the bedchamber pits and in our families extinguished, in from Atl.-'iah. - ''at he was not slain. the very day that inhdelitv av m sno:ii(i And he was with her hid in the house ol ! be holding jubilee over the universal ex the Lord six vears." I tinction there would be in some clo et ol Grandmothers are more lenient with backwoods cmirch a secreted copy of tin" their children's children than thev were jjjj,,, an(j ti,;g Joaah of eternal lit.-rature with their own. At forty years of age if wou,j PO:I t , oome hp and take the discipline be necessary chastisement is tlirone and the Atlialiali of inlidolitv and used, but at seventy the grandmother, ' p.rsociir:on would llv out the back door ol looking upon the misbehavior of the grand- j tne ,aaee an, drop" her miserable carcnsi chill is apologetic and deposed to sub- un,ier tu(. hoofs of the homes of the kinc't suiiue coniecuonery lor wnip. mere is Semite coniecuonery lor wnip. l nere is nothing more beautiful than childhood. I Grandmother takes out her pockethand- kerchief and wipes her spectacles and puts them on and looks down into the face of ; her mischievo-s and rebellious descendant 1 and says: "I don't think he meant to do it. Let him off this time. I II be rcsponsi ble for his behavior in the future. My mother, with the second generation around her, - boisterous crew, said one dav: "I suppose they ought to be disciplined, but I can't do it. Grandmotbers are not fit to bring up grandchildren." But here in my text we have a grandmother of a dif ferent type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the oc currence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient young king and his assassins there is noth teinple and climbing the towers of the mjj bn. the frail an of a woman. But king's palace. Here in the text it is old : why should we si 'nd our time in praising Athahah, the royal murderess. She ought this bravery of expedition when God asks to have been honorable. Her father was the same thing of vou and me All a king. Her husband was a king. Her son ' ar0und us the imperiled children of a was a king. And yet we find her plotting great ijing. Thev are born of Almighty for the extermination of the entire royal parentage, and will come to a throne or a fanuly, including her own grandchildren, crown if permitted. But sin. the old Ath The executioners knives are sharpened, aliah, goes forth to the massacre. Mur Ihe palace U red with the blood of princes jerous temptations are out for the assas and princesses. On all sides are shriek ! g;nat,ion. Vaiens. the Emperor, was told and hands thrown up and struggle and tnat there was somebody in his realm who death groan. No mercy! Kill! kill! But would rsurp his throne, and that the name while the ivory floors of the palace iun Df the man who should be the usurper with carnage and the wnole land is under wou)d begin with the letters T, H. K, O, the shadow of a great horror a lleet 1 p, and tie e(i;ct went forth from the Kin footed woman, a clergyman's wife. Jeho 1 juror's throne. "Kill everybody whose sheba by name, stealthily approaches the! name begins with T, H, E, O, ')." And imperial nursery, seizes upon the grand- hundreds of thousands were slain, hoping child that had somehow as yet escaped by that massacre to put an end to that massacre, wraps it up tenderly, but in one ns,irper. But r.in is more terrilic in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down jtg denunciation. It matters not how you the palace stairs, her heart in her throat ; fipell your name, you come under its knife, lest she be discovered in this compassion- under its sword, under its doom, unless ate abduction. Get her cut of the way at ; tnere be some omnipotent relief brought to quick as you can, for she carries a pieciou! ; the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is burden, even a young king. With thu ; SMCh a thing as delivering a royal soul, youthful prize she presses into the room Who will snatch away Joash? of the ancient temple, th church of olden , now. few f us appreciate the fact that time, unwraps the young king and puts the cuhrch of 3od is a hiding place. There him down, sound asleep as he is and tin- j are many people who put the church at so conscious of the peril that has been threat- ow a maik that thev begrudge it everv ened, and there for six years he is secreted thing, even the few dollars they give to in that church apartment Meanwhile old . warJ lt. Thev make no sacrilices. Thev Athahah smacks her lips with satisfaction d0c a little out of their surplusage. They and thinks that all tile royal family aw I pav their butcher's bill, and they nav their dead. But the six years expire, and it ii doctor's bill, and thev pay their landlord, time for young Joash to come forth and and they nay everybody but the Lord, and take the throne and to push back into t,ev comc in at the last to pay the I-onl disgrace and death old Athahau. in His church and frown as they say: The arrangements are ail made for po- "There, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in htical revolution. The military come and fui, and don't bother me soon again! ' taice possession oi tne temple, swear ioy-1 alty to the boy Joash and stand around for liis defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is ready. Now Joash. half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of author ity is put in his hands, the coronet of gov ernment is put on his brow, and the peo ple clapped and waved ana huzzaed and trumpeted. "vYbat is that?" said Atha liah. "What ia that sound over in the temple?" And she flies to see, and on her ciate the house of God as the great ref way they n?et her and say: Why, .i if - i.il.li-n , t r, ,,n to haven t you heard? ou thought you had slain cli the royal family, but Joash has come to light. Then the royal mur- deress, frantic with rage, grabbed her man- tie ana tore it io i.-uiers ana cnea unm she foamed at the mouth: '"You have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason, treason!" While she stood there crying the mili tary started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the royal stables, but the battleaxes of the military fell on i : .i. i 1 i f- . j 11,1 111 me "III 1 1 .1 L'l u Him ll" tiiniij n uuj when the horses were being unloosened from the chariot alter drawing out young Joash the fiery steeds would snort and rear nassing the place as they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the extermination of rigr t eousness is an impossibility. A hen a woman is good she is ait to be very good, and when she is bad she is apt to be very bad, and this Atbalian was one ot the latter soft. !?hewouia exterminate tn bhe would exterminate the last scion of the house ot lavid. through Whom Jesus was to come. Ihere vat plenty of work for embalmers and under- takers. She would clear the land of all Ood fearing and God loving people, fche would put an end to everything that could m anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. She folds her hands and says: The wprk is done. It is completely done. Is it? In the swaddling clothes oi that church partment are wrapped the cause oi uoa ana ine cause o; goou gov ernment. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash, the God-worshiping reformer. It is Joash, the friend ot God. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Baalitish idolatry. Rock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, you may kill nil the other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman's wife, Jehosheba,' will snatch him up from the palace nurs ery and will run down with him into the house of the l.ord, and there she will hide him for six years, and at the end of that tune he will come forth for your de thronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just us poor a botch does the world always make of extin guishing righteousness. Superstition rises they in rest their ivearv souls. Klash up and says, 1 will just put an end to gome i,eht from vollr chandeliers upon pure religion. Uomitian slew 40,000 tl,eir darkness. .Vith some soothing Christians. Diocletian slew 841,000 Chris- ,vmn huth these griefs, tians. And the scythe of persecution has j 0h, church cf God. gate of heaven, let been swung through all the ages, and the me through it! All otl.r-r institutions flames hissed and the guillotine j chopped, Bre ,inK t, fall but the church ot God and,the Itostde groaned, but did the toes its foundation is the Kocfc of Akcs. its of Christianity exterminate It ? Did they I chart(,r , for eVe.-asting years, iu k-vs exterminate Alban, the first Britsh sacri fice, or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman, or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or C'ranmer? Great work of extermination they made of it. Just at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family of Jesus nmp .lnnsh wnuh 1 siirini? un and out and take the throne of power and wield a very scenter of Christian dominion. IntiaVlity says, "1 will exterminate the Bible," and the Scriptures were thrown into the strec for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on tire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas i'aine said: "In my 'Age of Keason' I have annihilated the Scriptures. Your Washington is a pusil lanimous Christian, but I am the ioe of Bibles and of churches." Oh. how manv issanlts upon that -vord: An the nostiu ties that have ever been created on earth tre not to be compared with the hostilities : i nna hwilr Knifl niu man ill .. . t- i.v must not be reading that Bible." and he ! snatched it away from her. And thouih - his inhdel desperation io nia wiie, -1 I - . I. -. Tl. V. I n-aa lwlr nt HAIT III III,1 dead child the only child that Cod had I I ever given them he pitched the book with I j its content into the fire and stirred it" its contents into the fare and stirred it With the tong. and soat on it and cursed "" u" it and said, "Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here." How manv individual and onani.ed at tempts have been made to exterminate that Bible? Have its enemies done it? Have thev exterminated tfie American the British ana Foreign Bible .Society? Have they exterminated the thousand of Christian institutions whose only oDjeci ;t mnitinltr fnniea of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast arounii tne world? They have exterminated until in stead of one or two copies of the Bible in bur houses we have eight or ten. aiyl we pile them up in me corners of our Sabbath school rooms and send great Vr.es f them everywhere. If they get on as well as thev arj now going on in the work of extennii.ation. I do not know but that our child., n may live to see the mil en nium. ea, it there should ome n tune nf uiruriitlnn in which all the known Bi- ... v t J I . , . gtables. You cannot exterminate inn gtables. You tianity! Vouch ie second t mr subject is tt cannot kill .loash! "thought I hand you frorr ia tkaf tliat-ft nm ft! iHOrt lin ll ICS : -.h:h mn mav save roval life. You i . u.. ' f t.,tnr i'. rnnleie with gtorjeg 0f stranded monarehs and of yonm? princes v o have Deen puc out oi mc way. Here is the story of a young kins saved. How Jehosheba, the clergyman's wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash! How she hushed him lest by his erv he hinder the escape! Fly with lnm. Jehosneba! You hold in your arms the cans? of God and good governm it. Fall and he is slain. Succeed, anil you turn the tide of the world's history in the right j;.i it na if l,etnrn that There is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what tne church is. Where are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions one-tenth of their income? Where are those who, having put aside that one-tenth draw upon it cheerfully? Why. it is pull and drag : hold on and grab and clutch, and giving is an affliction to most people when it ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that God wouid remodel our souls on this subject and that we might nppre- liveg o virtlle and happiness, thev will porne up under the shadow of the chinch, i the church does not get them, the world will. ak when von ns aw-av and t w not ass away- be long before you do when you pass away, it will be a satisfaction lo see your children in Christian society. Vou want to have them sitting at the holy sac raments. You wan1: them mingling in Christian associations. You would lika to have them die in the sacred precincts. Y hen you are on your dvinz bed and your i;(i - , ,,n i,i ,",,r l:,i ..n... ... . "p . - nnd you look into their bewildered laces. you will want to leave them under the church's benediction. I do not care how hard you are, that is so. And so, ih ugh you may have been wan derers from God, and tliouch you may have some times caricatured the churcll of Jesus, it is your great desire that your sons and daughters should he standing all their lives within this sacred inc'osiirc. More than that. You yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortOTge is foreclosed, when vour .;nA ter -ust bloominc into womanhood, sud denlv clasps her hands in a slumber tli.-.t knows no wai;ine: when the gaunt t.-ulile wuk8 through the pari r and i lie ini? room and the di ning hall and t!ir mu. ' , you wi)1 want gome silelter from the tem Ah gome of vou have b-cn run upon bv mi8fortune and trial. Why do you not" come into the shelter? j sai, to a wldowed mother oficr she had buried her only son months niter i jj to ller "How do vou get nlon now- adays?" "Oh," she replied. "1 get alim$ tolerably well except when thcsiiu simies. I said, "What do you mean by tlr.'?'' when she said: "I can't bear to see he sun shine. My heart is so dark that all the brightness of the natural world see ns a mockery to me." O darkened soul! O broken Ir-aWrd man, broken hearted woman 1 hv do you not come into the shelter? 1 swiiii it from wall to wall, ('ome in! Come in! You w p place where j'our troubles shall b interpreted, where your burdens shall be unstrapped, where your tears sliall be wiped away. Church rf God. be a hiding pl.vr to all t linen In t h,.. i ., t ..-I..... a are neiu o tne universal j'ropr dividend is heaven, its oresiilent IT. IIS Go.i: "Sure cs Thy truth shall last. To Zion shall lie iven The highest glories earth can yield And brightest bliss of heaven.'' God grant thai, all fliis audience. th youngest, the eldest, the. worst, the best. 1 may tin. their site and glorious hiding mace where Joash found it in the tcnii.'- A wild coffee of the Island of Re union, in the Indian ocean, in stated to be free from caffein, but to have much of the odor and stimulating ef fect of ordinary coffee. It Is suggested that, improved by cultivation, this cof fee should be made a valuable product in Cuba and the Philippines. The Republic Iron Company, Mun cie, Ind., has notified its nut and bolt workers of a reduction of fifteen pr cent. The buisnef-s of working up coal dust into bricks or briquettes in or der to utilize material that would oth- ' cra-isA ho ... ostcil ! crlonslvolv no. ! " , ' iT, n,r V. w j ried cm in Europe. But as yet l parat vely little is done in this ii V ''111 ine in . " - are out of work and threaten an out- , . , -Corean paper is so strong and dense that it can be used to cover umbrellas.
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