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CHECKMATE.
Through ancient oriel window
The mellow sunlight strayed;
Ltt up the duaky reoeil
When youth and wlntonM maid
EBgared In mimic warfare.
There, carved with cunning hand.
Were slender, Ivory chessmen,
Brought borne from eastern land.
The pastime grew to earnest:
How swift the hours had flown!
He watched her dainty fingers.
Then said, In undertone:
"Why strive against me longer!
The game Is almost done.
If fate should crown me victor
I ask your heart, dear ono!"
"Nay. not bo fast. Sir Iioasterl
No loser yet am I.
Behold I Tour queen's In danger!
Look where the perils He."
"My rjueen?" he swift retorted.
(A knlsht leaped o'er the field!)
"Thus would I icunrri her honor.
Had 1 the right to shield."
Alas, for haplens maiden
Who plays u losing part!
She may defend her castle
Whllo love Invades her heart
One last move! Then the victor.
With Jnyout eyes, elate,
low hendlnir. softly whispered:
"Sweet, la It not. checkmate?"
-Helen I. Allen, In Atlanta Constitu
tion. HIS LAST FAVOR.
By HCFrr.V.N ATKINSON.
T1IKY were i!tciilci!ly a dirty pair
of men. 1 don't know that they
were dirtier tlm ii the rest of us, but
ihcy vtere not the sort of follows their
mothers vroukl have talked 10 for live
minutes Trithont lUggeating roap.
You sre, when life becomes a matter
of lying down nt night, if you are lucky
enough not to be on guui-d or picket
liuty, wherever your company line may
happen to be, and that without refer
ence to the vrenther or the condition of
the ground; and of getting up nt day
light and scrambling for a tin cup of
field-made coffee, with some fllnt-iike
cracker, nnd, perhaps, a small chunk
of salt fat pork; ami thou of falling In
c ml marc hi tiff nl! day to a similar camp
ing ground, with the lame kind of
morning following; It, opportunities'
lor making careful toilettes are few
and far between.
When we came into the service, we
carried knapsacks filled with changes
of tinderclothca, and' BOOka, and Kiblet,
and daguerreotypes of grandma, and a
lot of other eleyancles. Nut only did
they cut on the collar bone like the
mischief, but they were a thing of
scorn to the real soldier. Later, we
laughed In our dirty philosophy as we
remembered the pangs we felt at toss-
inf them over the fence, when the
whole regiment throw them away and
st their teeth tight for that awfully
lonjr day'a march, ending witfa a fight.
Of course there were breaks in this
marching nil day nnd sleeping in the
dirt at night. Occasionally we fought
genernlly on Sundays) Heaven knows
why and sometimes we had few dayi
in one resting place, when the fellow
who owned a piece of soap, if he were
win, uewtl It before lending it. Tfidi
there wero blissful days when WOCOUld
get under shelter in dome deserted
hn or outhouse; lint, of course, the
officers usually got llicso plums in the
pudding. Still, to bu fair about it, the
nfflcert had. taken as a class, to put up
with pretty much what was going !n
i he west.
So that explains why my two com
rades were dirty. One of them, the
younger, was a farmer's son who had
been a fresh-fa ceil, rather chubby Hd
"hen he Joined u; hue he was pretty
lean by the fall of '63. and, Instead of
round, pink eheeks, he had Bat, tan
colorei) jaws. Tbn man he was talking
with, his chum and "partner." was, per- 1
imps, SO years old.
II had been a frequent Wanderer,
nnd, I fancy, a shiftless ne'er-do-well.
A smattering of every known trade whs
hia. and a tnblltns Impudence which
made him quite equal to otTerlng t.i
build a cathedral or repair a chronome
ter. They wer not bad types of volun
teer soldiers, although their uniforms
were mnoh the worn for wenr. Wear
la eempeugiMng; means mod and grease,
to any nothing ef rent nnd burned I
botes. The attrition of ganteel porerty
doesn't ahow on a private's uniform.
Tfcey were sitting on a low bttnk
mad by the road, and the younger man
was frettlnf at his ungainly shoe and a
rot place on the ankle whom the sharp
efifs of the course, sanboiind army
N ether had baatiy chsfesi thestooking-li-as
skin, and made every atep causo
him the gTOAtnt pais.
"I with I could jfo barefoot, like 1
iiei to whon I was a hoy," he (rrtrwleci.
"I'd fee'i better, and trarel btter."
.Tnat then the bugle aaoug the.
lirignde sounded "Attention." and tho
soldiers slouched Into their regular col
umn formation, and stood awaiting or
der.. The mulee) In the wafonsi Jingled :
their chair., as they moved, against the
collar,
"Forward!" and the straggling,
weary inarch began again, the men in
front keeping a pretty ovem pace, but
those in th reetr having short, rexa- j
tious halts every time a hill, n patch of j
bad mud. or other obstacle rolled the
ranks back on them; a tiny halt wave, it
would be at first, but it would grow
larger and larger in proportion to the
length of the column of so!diers.
If nn Infantryman hates ami despises
anything on the march, It. is a cavalry-
man. Ana ft from the ntrirnivatlon of 1
seeing a fellow-soldier carried on a
horse, there in the irritntlon of hnving
to crowd half off the road to let a troop
er pnss in n cloud of dust; and the poor
devil with his musket, his blanket
rolled diagonally across his body, his
canteen. linversacU, and other burdens,
tees a laay lonfer in tho trooper who
carrire nothinsr of weight and makes
7r?od 'imc with no grenter exertion
than tb-.t of Jabbing spur Into his
horae once in awhile.
Hence, the infantry assail the stray
trooper with such remarks as the:
"We must be attacked from the rear,
now the cavalry ia going to the front 1"
! "Can't trust the foola for sense 'less
i they're given a horse nplece to help
i out." "Speak low, boys, you'll frighten
the cavalry." "See a dend cavalryman
I and look around for an hunest sutler."
Army volunteer jibes nre sometimes
' pithy, never polite.
Hut the dreary, stumbling march
over the worn mud roads that day was
interrupted by n longer hnlt thnn
usual, and then the spitting of musket
ry in front told that something was
happening which promised to break the
monotony.
"Ilowly smoke!" said a red-haired
, Jrish private, unslinging a smoke-nnd-grease-defiled
skillet which hnd Leen
Happing against his back since day-
' light, "there's poin' to be a foight pur
ty soon, fellers!"
rtnek galloped nn aide-de-enmp, a
dandy boy. afraid of nothing but sour
generals nnd lamo horses, and yelled
something to our colonel. Down went
half a doen panels of the rail fence, on
the left of the road, and the lending
company Jumped through the gap the
column following. The regiment,
through and in the field, swung dingon
ally "left into line," and the rear com
panies shed everything but guns as
they ran forward faster than mere
double-quick.
Aa tho line was at right angles to the
road and going toward tho cedurs at
the top of the field, bang! bnug! came
from the top of the slope, and wc saw
through the trees a few mounted men
riding away like mad. A few shots
were wasted after them, and we were
where they had fired from,
Tho ridge sloped down the other side,
nnd In the valley, rising to higher
ground opposite, our skirmishers were
already nt work. It was rather Jolly to
get a few minutes' halt here, and to see
the detached puffs of smoke way down
below, while wo ourselve were safe
and sound'
"Look pooty to see fellows srhootin'
when you don't have to take It yerself,
don't it?"
"You bet; hut the way things look,
Komo luckier fellows will soon be watch
ing us giving exhibitions down there
ourselves, ami thnt won't be so nice,
eh!"
Bugles were cnlllng, nlds galloping,
mounted officers paasing back: of the
lines, while the men were bringing
cartridges to the front of their belts,
re-tylng shoe, nnd generally getting
ready for the "fus." A little fun was
passing hsro and there as a recruit was
charTd or some country wag made n
Joke. Ofltcers repressed this and looked
serious.
"Forward!" and off the men started
down the slope, trying with indifferent
success to keep th line, broken so fre
quently by stumps and dead trunks) and
small gullle. We passed where the
skirmishers were shooting the firing
sounding heavier from our right. Two
men hnd to be stepped around; one
dead, flat on his back, hand clenched,
one knee drawn up, nnd nightleaa eye
balls staring at the cloud, "lie got
hi mediolte," The other was compos
edly waltlDg fur some one to help him
to the rtvxr lie had managed to ban
tlhge clumsily hi shin, and hi hands
nnd clothes wero bloody.
"What's up, bos?"
"Cussed rebel liked to hlowed the
wholo leg off me. Don't gueaa I caught
It anywhere elte leastways, don't feel
it. Watch out for 'em. They're wicked
tills morning." ADd we stumbled on
and left him.
High! ncross onr froDtruinbled a bnt
lerv of brass field pieces on a dead run,
uphill ns it waa. The horses, with bowed
heads, l&slied into a gallop, seemed to
Jerk the pieoe forwnrd at each stride,
nnd 'he guns careened and bounced so
that it was a miracle how the artillery
men kept their seats on the caissons
Something like a cheer went up from
cur lime, for It wa a regular battery,
and roltioteer infantry feel toward reg-t-.lar
artillery a a liig man with hia flats
feel toward a small man with a pistol
who come over on hk side in a row.
Just aa w reached the top of the
slone we caught it. From th fence on
the 11 n of the timber ahead a volley was
loured into rav la ian Instant ovary
nxin waejkrwa. ,Soom ooukdn't gat up
until tbeiy were ilfted. A riderless
lorse, cttbtimI with fear, galloped, tail
in. th air, right through u aa we rose
firing and went at the fence. Everyone
was tiring now. mostly too high, and the
"Johnnie" behind the fence gare aa
good aa they go that's certain.
There was no time to spare to count
nose yet, even if th smoke allowed it.
Officer swore and waved their sword,
men yelled and went ahead blindly,
until the fence wa reached, and a few
deepetate devilt who wouldn't go track
clubbed or jabiied with the bayonet un
til they quit fighting and wehad car
tied the position in apito of the furious
tnd stubborn opposition they had given
in. We veare victors.
Thu, to straighten fhe linee, close
up, aud await the neat order; for the
work had only Just begun.
"Whore's Joe?"
"Kaok there; think he caught It in the
lung. See him splttin' a power of
blood as he dropped." A
'Th colonel's on foot. I see him
n-wringin' his pew, and the blood
IprinkUn' around got hi knuckles
cracked, likely."
"Soma of our fellows muat bedosJgin'.
This nin'tall that's left of our company.
Surely there must bo a lot more some
where, liar comes one of 'em Sure
ly there must be a lot more somewhere.
Hello. Shorty! Thought you'd wait till
ve got to a tavern, did you?"
"Hold on. boys! I tried to save th
captain. Xo use. He's down for good,
(lot any water? My canteen' busted.
Hole right through it." And he ex
hibited a buttered canteen, with the
ragged tin edge of a bullet-hole show
ing over lta soiled brown cloth cover.
"Bill, where's your gust"
"Some awkwasd cuss knocked it oat
of my handa a we got up to charge.
Like enough it's ruined. Lieutenant,
I want to go back and get me a gun. I'm
no use here without one. and was an
idiot to come up barehanded; but I
wouldn't like anyone to say 1 flinched."
Useless to tell how the battle raged
how nt times it seemed as if the lines
ahead of us were too stiff to get
I through; how each charge by us or on
I us left fewer men and officers; how
j we fought ut times in companies where
j we wero coin pa retire strangers at'
I ways finding ourown again, and always
i finding fewer men in it; how madly
1 the few water courses crossed were
I drunk from, all muddy aud defiled us
they were; how a fellow wanted to
smoke until his mouth nnd throat
ached: how our last halt for the da
; proved, after all. to lie our retting
: place for the night, little ns we bus
- peeled it; ond how that day was sc
long that the events of the morning
1 stemed like old thlugs passed n year
ago. riut the log Area, with scanty ra
lions saved, nnd a tripe of niggerhead
j tobacco, brought peace '.o those unhurt
, or not attending to the wounded. At
such time there I no consolation which
is o atisfying ns thnt derived from :i
pi pa
in n log hut, In n mile In the rear of
he Inst position carried, were lanterns
rr.d groans. All the floor was cum
bered with renting figures, nnd, at u
crude table in each room, officiated
whnt had been a surgeon in the morn
ing, but go re-bespattered, grim. nni
with nil the human sympathy splashed
cut by human blood, was n butcher to
ri IghU
A hospital steward with iissistntite
would remove t.he Inst burden from the
table and substitute Htiother, groan
ing, perhaps, but often strangely quiet .
though great drops of beaded sweat
might fctand on the temples and the
teeth tie clenched until the jaw mus
cles stood out rigid as stone. Most of
tho boys were true grit clean through,
nnd bore their terrible suffering like
the brave men they were.
To this temporary Held hospitnl came
fhe colonel not for aid for his ban
dnged band; that was an episode; but
his wounded men were calamities. To
the once chubby farmer's son. lying
ere of a row on the floor, come the
colonel, speaking kindly: "Why, Char
lie, I knew you were hurt, but thought
't only a acratch. How budlr are vou
hit?"'
"Well, colonel, they took my foot
off, but," with a weok chuckle, "I got
a Joke on the doctor, anyhow. The foot
he's left me is ns sound as a nut. nnd the
r. ne he tuck off wasn't worth much, any
how. It hnd two corns on it that had
been pestering me ever since 1 enlist
ed, an' there waa something like a
bunion coming on it. too. So I ain't near
nit bid off a I might be. Hut, colonel
I'm afraid it lets me out of the regi
ment. I aaippose there's nothing for It
but to etay home like one o' the old
women home-guarda, or enlist again
us a cussed cavalryman. That's ,hat
disgrace me."
It doesn't matter what the colonel
said about our of his Ixiys being dil
graced; but it ntude the lad feel the
worse for the loss of his foot and hi
ploce in th regiment.
Could the colonel get anything foi
Hie wounded one?
Well, If he could get a few ripe apples.
FnmeW) aa If they would taste good am.
eool.
Next day, a foraging party took
ihe boy's chum as one of Its member,
nll-mlndful of the lioy's longing for
apples.
The sergeant warned blru M,:it, like
iir uot, some of the bushwhack- r were
si ill hanging around Just such places
as that orchard on the hillside, aud
that he'd better look out.
lie was careful, so careful that wheu
there appeared above the rail fence a
stock head, surmounted by a dark
slouch hat with the bushwhacker' sign
of a tquare white paper on It, the boy's
partner promptly tent a minie ball
imchtng through it that is, through
the head; tbe aim was Just below the
lint and went on seeking a few more
r.pples. fie had determined to go liaek
to tite forage wagon, when a econd
luehwhacker fired at him. A he
wheeled about, he caught part of the
contents of a second barrtl, buckshot
loaded. A rapid run soon brought him
up to his party.
The fellow plugged you in the face,"
aid the sergeant. "Lucky he carried
one o' them shotguns. If he'd a rifle
he'd have muffed you out."
"I reckon," replied the apple lear
rr, smearing the blood from hia cheek
and craw ling on to one of the wagons.
Reaching camp, he bore hi apple to
the hospital, now arranged in some
r.emhlance of order, with lurge tents
surrounding the log slaughter-house.
He asked the orderly to let him carry
hi handful of fruit in to hia wounded
rhum.
"See the doctor; no one can't go in
'less be says so."
"Hello." 'said the doctor; "how did
you get hurt?"
"Guerrilla salted me with a double
barr'led shotgun. Tain't the face, doc
tor, it's omeUiing here," opening hi
blouse and gray flannel shirt and point
lug to a tiny hole and a few drops of
blood Jiut below his hairy cheat.
"The deuce!" aaid the surgeon, scru
tinizing It; "I suppose you know it'
mortal?"
"So I allow," said the chum, simply;
"but Charlie's bound to have his npples
all the same. See't he gets 'em," and
he at down quietly to awuit thechauge
Saturday Evening Post.
A I a r-Secl nt llnshand.
Mr. Miuley Charles is such a dear
fellow! He never goes nway without
kissing me.
Mrs. Sowcrby Vou don't suppose
there ia anything like "business before
pleasure" in his mind when he is go
ing away, do you, dear? Hoston Transcript,.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Leaaoa la latentatlssml Series foe
Jaaaarr 8, 18O0 Christ's First
Disciples Joaa 1 tSS-tO.
Arranged from PelotrbM' Select Note.
GOLDEN TEXT. Behold th Lamb of
Gc.l.-John 1:3.
TIME. February, A. D. 72. directly after
' th temptation In the wlldernea.
TOE LESSON.
L John Prepares the Way Kefore
Him. -John 1:19-34; Murk 1:1-8; Luke
3:1-18. John was the voice of one cry
ing In the wilderness: "Prepare ye the
way of the Lord." He prepared .the
way (l) by preaching repentance and
reformation ns the one condition of the
coming of the Kingdom of Heaven to
i themselves or their nation. (C) John
prepared the way by announcing that
the kingdom of Heaven wns nt hand.
(3) lly baptism, symbolizing and con
firming men in the new life and prep
S ratios for the new kingdom. (4) He
pointed to Jesus ns "the Ijimb of Clod
which tuketh away the sin of the
: world."
II. The BaptlsTD of .lesirs. Vs. 32,
33; Matt. 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke
I 3:21. 22. This was Jesus' public en
i trance upon His work, n public declara
1 tlon of His position ns opposed to all sin
nnd on the side of true religion.
III. The Temptntion of Jesus. Matt,
i 4:1-11; Mark 1 : 12. 13; Luke 4: 1-13. Jan
I nary A. I). 27. Jesus was tempted "like
hs we nre. yet wit bout sin."
rV. Jesus Gains His First Two IWs
ciples Through John the Jtaptist. Vs.
'i;-40. After III 40 days' experience of
temptation in the wilderness, and His
victory, Jesus returned to liethnhnrst
(liethnny). where John was baptizing.
John recognized Him ns the one whom
he had baptized, and upon whom the
Spirit had descended like a dove, and
be pointed him out to his disciples r.s
! the Messiah.
35. "The next riny:" After the first
testimony and recognition of Jesus on
His return from the scene of His temp
tation. "Two of Ills disciples:" One
was Andrew (v. 40). The other wus
probably the Apostle John himself.
36. "Ijooking upon (the word ex
presses a fixed, earnest gaze) Jesus as
He walked, ' or wns taking n walk. "Re
bold the Lamb of fiod!" Tho words He
bad nted the doy before.
37. "And thry followed Jesus:" The
Greek means Originally, "they walked
in the same ron-!:" hence to attend on,
to follow ns a disciple, in the same
spiritual pn:b
3. "Saw them." The original means
"looked steadfastly on them as if study
lng them." Then Jesus turned. He
met. them hnlf way in their senrch.
"What aeek ye?" Tills ia the first word
of J cans' ministry, so far ns recorded;
nnd with Ills second sentence, "Come
nnd eee," expresses the attitude of
Christ toward men. Ills welcome, and
the way they are to find the blessings
He he to give.
IT. How Jesus Gained nis Third Dis
ciple. by Invitation of Another Dis
ciple. Vs. 41, 42. 41. "He first find
eth:" Either (1) the first thing he did
after he left Jesus was to find his broth
er; or, (2) (as Godet), the two disciples
set themselves to seen each "bis own
brother:" that is, the one Teter, the
other Jnmes. Of the two, Andrew was
the ftrt-1 who stioceeded in finding his.
42. "Aud he brought him to Jesus:"
With him, ns with nil who find Jesus.
Ihe firt derire was to mi.':e known to
those they loved their new-found treas
ure. "Thou art Simon:" That is your
present name. "Thou shalt be culled
Cephas:" Cephas Is Aramaic. This
language would not be futniliar tit
ISphcsus, where John wrote, therefore
he translates it for them into Greek.
"Which is by interpretation, a stone:"
The tense would perhaps lie given bet
ter by keeping the rquivnlent proper
nunie by interpretation Peter, that is
a stone, or rather a mass of rock de
tnehed from the living rock.
V. How Jesus (lained His Fourth Dis
ciple by Hia Direct Invitation. Vs. 43,
44. 43. "Jesus would go," was minded,
had a purpose, to go "forth irito Gall
lee:" There had been His borne and
there were the friend and acqualnt
anoes of years. "Findeth Philip:"
Jesu eeks him out.
VI. now Jetis Gained His Fifth Dis
ciple Through Another Disciple. Vs.
45. 40. 45. "Philip findeth Nnthanael:"
Observe that the young dltciple does
not wait, but as soon as he has found
Christ begins to declare hi discovery
to others. So with Andrew above (41).
w ith t he woman of Samaria (chap. 4:23,
29), with Paul after hia conversion
(Arte 9:20). "We have found Him, of
whom Moses in the law:" The l'enta
tench, Ibr five boolvl of Moses, thus dis
tinguished froui the other books of tho
Old Testament (see Gen. 49:10; Xum,
24:17-19; Dcut. 18:15). "And the
prophets, did write (1st. 7:14; :6. 7;
52:13-15; 53:1-12; E. 34:23-31; Dan.
9:14-27).
40. "Can there any good thing:" Any
eminent, grent personage and grand
and world-wide movement. "Come out
of Nazareth:" Hecause Nazareth was
n small tow n, near to Cnnn. Nathanacl's
home, with probably not the best repu
tation in the neighboring town, but not
necessarily a rude, degraded, vicious, or
disreputable place. Nathanael's sur
prise may have arisen from his expecta
tion that the Messiah was to come from
Bethlehem as foretold, and not from
Nazareth. "Come and see: " That was
the true answer to such an objection
(see above on v. 39).
Wbeat d CkasT,
It requires abundant grace to with
stand abundant prosperity.
Facts never bliuk under the sunlight
of evidence.
Adversity tests faith, and prosperity
test love.
Scars of suffering here, may mean
tars of glory there.
Never despair when you look at any
tinner.
The Grent riiysician nerVr lacks pa
tience, and ne knows that the bitter
jst medicine often cures the quickest
Ram's Horn.
SCHOOL AUD CHURCH.
Montana has 00 Methodist church,.
The Lutheran ekmrab ha 112 inttil
tions of learning ia taa United Stete
In Fran degree and diploma &M
granted by the gov rem, t. , ot.
the universities, aa ia this country
The student of Pri.ioe.ton support
foreign missionary, who ia elected yJ
ly by popular vote.
Th Lutherans of VTaynesboro, p4
have decided lo adopt th use of i, '
vidua! communion cups.
The will of .lame W. Keep, late of
Westfleld, Mas., leave the rum of $j
000 to Northflead samlnary.
The number admitted to church mem.
bersliip in the. Cciversallst church rur.
ing 1807 wa 8.518. showing a net gain oi
5ltt names, and a total membershin
51.24T. V
In neerly 8(iO London churches aoil
chapels on a recent Sunday aermom
were preached by clergymen of even
denomination on Ihe duties of citizer".
ship. Fire years ago a movement took
shape t ewtabrish wbat is now known
as "Cltisrn Snnriay," those clergymen
committing themaelve to tho pla,,
pledging themselvo to try on one Sun
day in live year at th time of the elec
tions toinenleat th prinoiplaaof good
citizenship.
HOT A LOTH MATCH.
Union Wtrkelaalaa's Marv4ajrp Win
lie l4tvsrty nvrwMl by He.
t State.
It ha been widely heralded that the
engagement of Holland's young queen
and the prince of Wed is ono in which
love eutr more ef a dlguro than any
thing else. There is very good reason
lo believe that whllo there may be
more affeerion between the two than is
usually the ease in royal marriages, ren
so:ia of state have aa much to do with
the prospeetlre union as anything else.
One of these reasons has just been
pointed ont by a European authority.
The royal family and tho people of Hol
land generally want to avoid the possi
oility that by th marriage of tho young
sovereign to a prinee of n ruling fam
ily it might happen after some time
that through tnherltnneo a ruler of n
foreign country might become also
king of Holland. This might easily
happen If the yenng queen should
marry a prince ef any ruling European
house. The Dutch royal family and
the people ef Holland do not wish to
repeat the experiences which the coun
try hee had in the past. Such mar
riage were the reasons for the Dutch
war of Independence In the sixteenth
century, and ladirtatly for the dividing
of Belgium and Holland into two king
dans In ISM,
Jwet siieh a consort as was desired by
th Detah people I found In the prince
of Wled, whose family is absolutely
without pelltteal Influence in Qermnny.
During the d eminence) of Napoleon in a
large SH European affairs the
Wled wee deprived of their throne.
After tne eveeuatlon of Germany by
the French it wa considered best by
the rulers ef all the largo German
states not t restore their thrones to
th smaller prtneea, inoluded among
whom were the prlaeee of Wled. The
former territory ef the Wleds was
therefore given to Prussia In 1815. since
when the prinee of Wled have been
Pruaslee subject, with lees influence in
llermaay than many of the oldest noble
families. Heverthslsee, tho Wled fam
ily te considered to be of equal birth to
the other mysl fiemvin families. Their
title remain, but that la all, aa they
have very mall family possessions. As
Ilufwer seye: The mate for beauty
should be a atnrn. net a money cheat,"
and when the beauty le also a queen this
rule should bold denbly good. The
prince, beiag an exceedingly present
able yeuag fallow aad without any
chanee ef stieglng up complications
suck as the eautiov Hollanders feared,
we Jtsst the man te mete with her
majesty Queca Wllhelmtna. Hence his
selection. His reysl highness is po6,
but hie wife will have enough for both,
and she te believed te know enough to
so so a nag affaire that her royal con
sort will be keM hi ebeek should ne
ever manifest seek gay tendencies as
bare ehaeeeterised 1ke ruler of the
nelgkhrtag ktagdesB ef Belgium. Chi
cago Chronicle.
Svt-Baek Churok.
Tber i a colored people's church in
the country srTToy,S. C, named Set
Back, from the character of the discip
line of Ha member. "The Amen, cor
ner" is eeceplod by those tnahigfi state
of grace, and from there on to the doer
the aplritewl value ef the seats grotf
u;9ly decreases. The vileet sinner sits
by the doer till in improvement! in, con
duct give kim promotion. Th caretl
nal rleee ere fbrbting and bad lan
guage; se antes' -tempered Jane never
I.i.c the delight of the "Amen cor
ner" "Mies 'Litbrth, I 'clar ter gra
cious, I bin sp ter de stove five times
han'runnla', when Aat hypcrit Nancy
rase me ter be sot back! Eber time
she sss aae git most up ter her she low:
Make beast roan' our way a heap lately!
He den't sets ter set ea much W
by you. Jane, ee yoei think fur' en so
ou till I jes bless her out ft)' I kin think,
en Brer Banks set me bade ' Ef I could
kill dat nigger cot my way, I could
inaroh etealgbt ter de gloryeeatl"
Truth.
Pasta Eatraajrh.
Mrs. Beesley I can't understand how
the Malvins manage to lire so well on
his income.
Mr. Beaeley 1 can. I went up to hi
office to see him, yesterday, and 27 men
who were waiting in the hall cried out
in chorus asking what firm I was col
lecting for. Cleveland Leader.
Htma Tea S tor Her.
Unole Batch II might at least bare
given yoa a pure gold ring.
Minnie Why, uncle, pure gold ia too
of.
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