ide Fa faith half ! | he had Ealned sneh information ar EAmainnt ou To en ; Pang of fear? pe Heart wh v beatest thon se wildly? y wiiriense of grief? Ant are not sli things ehiy brief? Quell Hey temples till more mildly may o question Noy, then ot broken: Diath thy ship, like bers, hath gpoken— we, petting sail from here, it darker mere. Montague Danes, | in 8 “English Lyries of a Finnish Harp." ibg of the pres: narrative steyrred sev. Jaded 10 sigh tly. a St n aphis packet, was on her was rounding or cross: | the mouth of the Ohio, ler burst, and she was a people were killed ont- rod explosion, others were ni death put an end to their and others received severe % Injuries. Cairo at the time, and shall it the heartrending scenes ef Hotel, to which most were brought, and | ay on pallets in the rooms many of them black as ne ny with the skin falling from with none of these I have to i% barrative follows the for. ‘man who jumped overboard. preferring to trust the river rather than to the hoose, for reasons that are him, to call him John H. mply because this name is 88 can be from that which d to him. He was Kingston, Canada, his t of English birth, but had AX several years in Alton, F had accnmulnted consid: in the grocery business: thelr, near forty years of pt house in a cottage of his ther pretty German girl tk. The mysterious the German girl, for m did not account satis occasioned anpleasant “fom- Me Very serious facts out ta be brought to light. ie snddenly Jeft Alton, having ely disponed of his cottage and es. It was hecause of this circumstances that he hap be a passenger on the Ben the time of the explosion. fudiped overboard, as 1 Be bad a _compnuion. This * holding to the door, ¥¢ put in an appearance might not hitherto have 8 to Seymour. As his face fearfully scalded. Ye was Speak and appeared to be hausted. Yet, although he eons, so horribly marred and Seymour could not help ob. in hix countenance a certain Hance to Lilmaelf. 1t wax then strange and sudden thought into his niind. 1 am not record: ressions by means of the on, but derive them from $8 which he subsequently d the fact that he had been eave Alton because of dis- Joa were about to be mde, Lio a crime with which he eanse bimself to as ; that he should so nse the ex- : ad es evident that Te ve long. : reflected that he wore unon is left hand a peeuliar and hile diamond ring, which was well Alton, and which had been and admired by many on the * that ring should be found disfigured body, it would settle on of identity, and be could td to give it for the purpose gading the public that he was Fis resolution taken, he watched his but valuable companion nar. rowly, walting for his death: but they for nearly halt an hour, and 30 other clung to the door. But 'ength was failing all the while, last Seymour saw hin grasp re- nd then he was gone. was not permitted to sink: he valuable to be lost. Seymour t him, took a handkerchief from | packet, and made the body fast that remained on the door. his desire was to reach the land, tried. by swimming, to push he direction of th Mis. advertisement for hin body | what was believed to be the lody of | LO feet from 1 property as his own, Would suit his purpose, went to Kings ton and presented himoeif to David Beymour as his long-lost brother. David failed to recognize him ar was not surprisimg after so long » separation, and ¢alled for his proofs af identity. Replette was prepared with these and showed the ring. upon tanse, with newspaper slips describing who were missing after the explosion of the Ben Lewis, poded steamer, hut gave no informa. or friends. This he accounted for by | tdoring his residence in Illinois, which | mor was able to make and he Rte. ceeded in beaching his float upon the sand, where he found himself in an exhausted condition, and his burden. | some companion quite dead. He did not wait long to recover his strength, but soon proceeded tn “busi ness.” Removing the ring from his finger, he placed it on a similar finger of the dead man's hand. Then he felt in his pockets, to see if there wore any. thing there by which be might be iden: tified. Finding nothing he took from his pocket Some wetted cards bearing his address, and transferred them to a vest pocket of the other. Finally he dragged the body a little way up on the sand, obliterated the foutmarks, and his task was dona His next object was to resch the mainland, and he succeeded in pushing his float over to the Kenturky shore, where he was cared for and hospitably entertained, 48 a survivor of the great steamboat disaster, His money and securities were on bis person, wet but unmutilated, and he had Jost nothing but his tronk and his ring. Thus he passed out of the world as John IH Seymour, re-entering It as Benjamin Rinnott, and read with satisfaction the tind its final discovery and burial, There was one fact, however, whlch should have been published, but which did pot appear In any newspaper ace count which eae u der his notice, Nothing wax sald absut his valuable and noticeabis ring, and this omission was quite perplexing to Sinpott, alias Seymour, This mystery 1 proceed to solve by explaining that the body on the Island was first discoverad by a man named Wilson Replette, who bad been search ing with a skiff for relics of the disas ter. He, also, had seen a description of Seymour, and had recognized the man on the island by the ring on his left hand. Hix cupidity being too strong for his conselence, he possessed himself of the ring. and left the body where he had found it. It was afterward dis. covered by others and buried as the body of John H. Seymour, Not long after the Ben Lewin disas ter, news came to Canada of the death of an uncle of the supposed dead man, in England. This uncle bad been a well-to<do merchant, and his property descended to John H. Seymour and his elder brother, David, their parents be ing dead. David Seymour was a man of remarkable honesty in purpose and in action. As soon ss he learned of this unexpected windfall, his frst thought was to find his brother, of whom he hand heard nothing during many years, and secure to him that portion of the property whieh was rightfully his. Aecordingly, be sdver tsed In a unmber of nowapsjers in Canada and the States, telilng Jobo 1 Seymour that he would hear of soe thing to his advantage by eommunieat ing with his brother David, at Kings ton, and requesting all who might be possessed of any information cincern ing him to send it to that address This notice ¢xme under the ere of a gentlemas who had known John IL Sevmour in Alton, and he wiatey to David, Informing him that Lis brother was supposed to have perished in a steamboat disaster on the Misses fn, Farther inguiry brought out the parte. | wlars of the explosion of the Ben Ley wis and of the discovery and burial of John HH. Revmour, The evidinoe this effect was »o convincing that David Seymour was compelled to be fiove that his brother was dead, and WAS preparing to use his share of the when a claimant put in an appearance, representing himself to be Jolin HH. Seymour, wio was sapposed io be lost In purstance of my purpose not to allow my readers to be mystified, nl though this phase of the ease might be “worked up” in a sensations] man ner, 1 proceed to state that this cluim- bad nearly carried him to his grave, had also entirely destroyed all memory of his former life. David Seymour was almost, hut not quite, convinced that this man was really his. heether. Before acknowl- sented, in deference to the advice of his lawyer, to write to Allon, of John H. Rermour to eome on to Kingston and identify him. Rome men cams to Kingeton from Illinois In answer to this request bat not the men expected. They were de tective officers, provided with s requi- sition from the Governor of 1inois, for the arrest of John HH. Seymour bo a criminal charge A= this requisition was of no efiort in Canada, they des coy Replette aeross the river into New York, where he was arrested and taken to llinoin When David Seymour diseoversd that the man whom he simost hellevad ti be his brother had been kidnaped and carried away, he was highly indig- pant. He hastened to write to the lawyer at Alton, with whom he had previously eommunicated, and was getting ready to go to llinosls, when he was con fronted by unother elaimant to the preperiy which his uncle had left This was no other man than Jolin H. Beymanr Yimxelf. He had been liv. ing in Tennessee under the name of Rinnott, and he, as well as Regplrtte, bad kept up with the current Hteratore of the Ban Lewis disaster. David Sey mont’ ® advertisement had luckily cote ander his notices, and he saw Do ressm why he should pot go and take posses gion of his property. Canada was nit His United] States. and be did not sup vee that any search woald bs made for him, as he was believed to be dead, Hoe went to Kingston, accordingly, who did no? recognive him, ae it was wo long since they had met, and who told hiny of the claimant who had lately ap. peared. wearing the riog that bad be longed to John HH. Seymour. The rend John HH, bad no means of Klentifying himself, except Ly bringing to the rensembranice of Lis brother scenes and incidents, and words in cannection with thelr early life which were known only to themselves, This process was tiiccosafyl after a while, the relating ship being admitted by David Rey. wane, and the proof being satisfactory oven to his Jawyers, A¥ for Beplette, it was soon digo. ered at Alton that he was not the man hee liad represents] himself to be, and he was set at Hberty. He hamlenod to Kingston, but a letter from Allon had reached David Reyvmonr previous to his arrival, and be only experienced 8 Joss, in being forced to give up to John EL Sevmonr (he ring which had played stich a proudnent part in this little draswua, The Revrmours went ta England, where they received and divided thelr property, awl where John HH. is still Hving in spite of gxtradition laws, plain varrative of facta is suyfielently sipgalar to suit my purpose. New York Weekly, Hobin That Hanged Ttaelf, Do birds commit suicide? seen from clreamstantial evidence that they do. Recently wile passing 4 larxe sxceampore tree in the State Pandversity grounds, says a writer in Forest sod Stream, 1 happened by Peete chance to look up into the tree, # robin about twonty I saw the ground hanging 0 a giving: bY the neck. Each end of the wiritiz was wrapped around mls nou eighteen apart, and the middle wan wh arotsl the robin's fivek, that it was banging abont pydwny between the two limbs, fir thnnhi it was desd, Toaki at 10 1 saw its wings move, wpnet there bak 2st inenes Wisin ¥iy I Wht 1 I rusiad into the bulldings, get! 1 1s der ard xen bad it rescued. Its Hife was neariy pote, but after fa little while It revived and few ant was no other than Wilson Replette of Kentucky, who had taken the ring from the dead Prnd of the supposed | Seymour. David Seymour's advertisement cams | TP snake nnder his notice, and he saw his way pretty clearly into stepping into a for- tune. He had been a careful reader of all the newspaper literature in con- nection with the Ben Lewis disaster, and was aware that John KH. Sey mour's peculiar and valuable ring was a very important eletaent in the gues | tion of his Ilentification, as its yhrence from the body created a doubt as to whether John H. Reymour had really died and been buried It Is not at all surprising that he turned his steps foward Canada, with the view of per- gonating John H. Seymour and elaim- ing his share of the property of the Euglisa uncle, First, however, he went to Alton, to learn something about the life and 8 | character of the man whom he was to esent. He prosecuted his inquiries not to excite suspicion, and when away. A partly built nest in the {ree Pywenthd indicate that it was carrying a string 1o put in with its building mae terial, aml in some way became et tanglsd in the string with the above a a The Eallway a Pescemalier, For preserving the peace in a partly civilized country a raliway, according to a farpous statesman, 8 worth more than an army oorps. Although the rafiways which are building from Haifa to Damascus, in Palestine, and from Damascus sonthward toward Mecca, are primarily for military pus poses, they will open up a country which was prosperous and fertile 2000 years age, but has since beenme ane of the waste places of the earth. They are already using American harvesting machinery on the plains of Jegreel When the®* proposed railways are fine ished there will be a demand for the accompanying modern agricultural ms. chines. Galilee and the country be yond Jordan will again Liossom as the | which he chiefly relied to sustain lie ft minutely, among other distinguish ing marks upon the persons of projde He also had a great deal to relate concerning his life in Hlinois, and his experiences in connection with the ex: thon ahout the years he had passed in | Canada, or abont his parents, relatives | saying that a severe attack of fever, request | {ing some of the former acquaintances and presented himself to his brother, I midght have worked up these nel § dents into a sensational story, bat the It would ; Where, I at hut while vith unequivocal paliteness, NCIENT Greece wis the leader of the world. Her Phfiesupliere | were of the greatest. Her sculptors and architects are stil} insurpassed. The gening of ber pre-Christian sons shites forth #a girong today as when they Jived. The whole stmosph 01d Greece was one of truth and beanty. Her temples, works art, drama, philosophical conceptions were 8ll the utes L which the world has yet produced. Now all is changed. and forever Why this change? Because the rich young blood of Greece was poured out upon the brows | { #ofl In warfare. Old Greece, with its art and philosophy, {18 creators of beauty and searchers for truth, was robbed of its strength and depopuisted by warfare. The best | of her sons were sent forth to shed their precious gore on the fields of battle Those young minds, killed off in the full flush of youth—what if they had gone | in the paths of their fathers, following the gleams of beauty and of froth? Where is Greece to-day? Sapped of all her virile manhood, with none but | the descendants of the weak stayat-homes for her survivors desolate, she | i Kt P * edging Him ns such, however. He t00- stands, never again capable of resuming ber former place among the tations of the earth. Eo much for Greece. And what shall we gay of Rome? Rome was the ruler of all the world. Her empire stretehed from | sea to} ges. The Romans were a practical] Jot. They had po art; philosophers wers few. The (reeks built temples; the Romans hullt aqueducts. The Greeks | wrote philosophy. the Romans wrote laws, Where are those Romans who swayed the world? their strength? What has dissipated their power? Rome went down for the same resson that Greece did. : Generation after generation, the youlig men who wers the representatives of her strength, courage and endurance were sent forth to die. Her weakest | thrived while her best went out fo paint the soll with thelr red blood These suicidal wars worked their inevitable result. “The Roman Empire, : says Seeley, “perished for want of men.” Spain's history shows a repetition of the experience of Greece and Rome. “This is Castile.” sald a Spanish knight: “she makes men and wastes them.” There you have it! Precious life, in a world where the best in Done too good, ruthlessly cast away. Is there any wonder that our young, strong, bloodful Americs shomd have | *Henrietta heard it and said Nt was so handily disposed of poor, weak. bloodless Spain? Her real blood is gone; she no longer breeds the Spaniards that lived of old. Spain's wars were hey doom. Blood which ix spilled can never be replaced. New York American but it certainly is a fact that there is nothing more Jacking in the United States than independence. In spite of the Declaration of Independence. which is bee | coming mythical, the av erage American bas become An en tirely dependent anid sycophantic crestars, who not only con | farms in every respuct to the opinions of the stupid majority, but deliberately tries to maks bBimself the chattel of his | neighbors. , There are seven political parties in France and a dozen in Geran, but in this country there is practically no difference of opinion on political questions. between them is that while the one ix in power the other is ont There are wany religious sects in the United States but no one ever hears of controversiss between them on matiers of belief. The only struggle in which they take any interest Is that for more members, more woney and wore property, There are many colleges, but not one bas ever dara! to hold an exhibition of its finished products fessor who is [no danger of being discharged. It 1s the timid and non coamittal professor who has a life job. The ideal of all our universitiea is not the des velopment of a nobler brand of men and women, bot the manufacture of a greater number of the present inferior sort. In fact, In this Mutual Slavery Association which we call society, i# 8 man appears who is truly independent, who swings on his own pivot and cares sothing for the crowd, every one at once belleves that hls course of action je a | wheme out of which more money can be made than by conformity. It is becoming my strongest conviction that all the plans of sncial reform, ail the cooperation of world-menders, would do less to establish industrial Justice and to promote moral and intellectual improvement than wonld a few score of independent and fearless men or women who would stand out like giantx amid (he SOONO0 human grasshoppers that populate this soantry ~ New York Evening Journal, : By George Harvey, OMERGDY has recently raised the question ax to whether the eid-slyle doctor, with his queer, curt, stern manner. has really disappeared or is merely superseded by oa spiril of the sage type who has learned to be politic among those of kis patients from wonm he may expect a goed considernstion for Kin services, Without goiug too deeply as particularities, 1 seving To us that the etbicd of the professivn have not merely improved, but Thy artistic temperament oan xx an : Greece is one of the weakest and most usprogressive of he nations. She has no philosophers, no makers of art. Her leadership is gone, | There are two parties, it ix true, hut the only differeace | At all the large colleges it is the independent pro- | have been actually regenerated bat this mw exceptionally the ease, belong fa oa msn of pening and nowhere more #0 thas in the medical profession Of true genitses io wiedicioe there have been not A few, | sud by no means have all of these attained the distinction and received Yhe honor of a Harvey or n Jen however warthy: hut. Hie great men EXOT Yr they were chaacterized by that wevehess, that altrglsm, that luek of pretense, which deminds po praise apd has need of none. Sush, by thelr modesty and sympathy for the weaknesses of mankind, have made the world a more hahimble place and have set aloft noble ideals for (uture generathons, Falés zeniuses, like false prophets ta ge tredal, among doctors, but it is needless to say decried them anid refused them réecsen : of fel are the olatirepedous end pretentious quacks who depsaid for tf wives nudeservsd SReum mn and in watters involving standards of taste are alsolutely incompetent. “Art for art's Rake” forms Bo part of their creed, while selfishness and avarice proinee the inevitable resglt-viz, a perfect lsek pathy for the foibles of humanity and that disobedisnces to every mandate of conscience Walch eniy the abso lately bigoted and noserupuloes can show, The ecventric may be defined as an individus! of average ability who dee rives hig chief inspiration from his own self glory. Consequminy. he is en. tively a self-centred person whose love of the coRsplenous is manifest in long, shaggy bair sod English trousers of the greatest possible width and most impossible pattern. Whether there be such who practice the healing art or mot we do not know, but, in any case, the delosion as to his greatness is harmle 88 enough, and so easily diconosticated as to he unworthy of serious attention, The Ol School seldom produced the schelur, and almost never produced the refined zentieman, and in this les Hs chief distinction from that of olay. its disciples were brusque, somatitoes boorish, and often abrupt to the point of salt, yet beneath it all lay the kindly spirit and the generosity begot by a iife spent in the service of wankind. Some of us can remember the coaniry doctor of long ago who, summaned at midnizbt fo a sevire case of puew- monia, lot us say, would ride a dosen wiles through mud awd slush, apbrakl Lis patient most unicersmoniously, and then proceed to give the minntest dk rections to the attendants, with a parting word to “send fur ee again if be gels worse” But times bave changed. The New School demands the best4 men iberally educated in our universities, wha van combine atiselute firmness The polished gentleman is coming into the tanks, and there is less occasion for the artistic temperament in medicing today than ever before. The entire question is one of encouragement a Kiosyucrasy and of ignorance in matters of taste. Harper's Weakly, ¥ 2 t nabs ever have been plentiful t the profession, as a whole, has | [i af win | Record-Herald, ettangers.” "Life. — pi FIGURE IT OU7T. _ Jolk—"When may a knothole be said 0 be pot whole? Polk—"What are you talking sbeat? Jolk— "The answer is: When oly BUS of the knot is not.” —Philadeiphis A GENTLE REMINDER Clerk—"Here's an order from Sx. 8 TTI of oe Tao A a 9 what kind.” Cirocer—"'Send them bilibegrien. The) owe us over 3s hundred dollard "De trott Vree Press. HE'D BE ALL RIGAT THEN. "How learned would you Iike to be old man? “Td like to be 50 leurned thet I could premounce big words wrong and 80 3 wronld dare to correct me fw “might be right.” ~Chicage News. RESENTED. "Didn't you once say that your ify —a the making of you?" “Only once.” answered Mr. Moeokton, vary unkind and unjust to Dime ber in that manner.” Washington Sas, CARELESS, “Bo you had to walk bome after your sntomobile ride 7” "Yes," answered Mrs. Gamxle. "Pub it was ear own fault. We took a new trond instead of keeping within easy Sletancs of the car tracks” — Washing ton Star. -- A SINCERE COMMENT. “How is your youngest daughter get. ting an with her music? “Splendidly. ” answered Mr Cumres. "Her instructor says fast she plays Magart in a way that Mosart himeeif wold never have dreamed of." — Wash ington Rtar. HANDICAPPED. “Bat if the professor is se abheents minded that be can’t remember his awh name, why doesn’t he write it on pa “He tried that, but he found that be { coxildn’t read his own writing "(Copy right, 1963 by Brooklyn Life) ma LACK OF EXPERIENCE Harry"1 can't understand why a married man should ever think of such & thing us going on an Arctie voyage of fhrize years” Eek --"Natorally. You never were married, you know.” — Roston Trane seript, THE RETORT COURTEOUS. Snapp "He's got a schene for mak. {ing money that seems to be all right in f theney.” Slerapp—"Hud! all men with theories are foods” Bnapp-“lndeed? That's your thes ory, is it 7" —Philadelphia Ledger. A WS ONE OF THEM. “1 am sorry to heur your enfortunste nephew haw been closed out by the | sheriff,” said the friend of the family. “Elitve you any idea what his Habilities are” “Yes, Fre an dee he's liable to call on ne fur help about the fust thing he ¢ doen” responded Uacle Silas —Chicage Tribune, INCONSIDERATE FELLOW. “He suid be'd die If [ didn't marey bins” “And still you refused ™ “Yes, I wished to fod out before promising whether he really love! me as much as that or sot. Oh, Harriet, I'm p-p-perfectly miserable! He seems to be wretchedly healthy, and I d--ilo love him s0 much™ — Chicago FAVORABLY STRUCK. “Papa, have—-bave you seen Harold sinte you told him be was too poor to think of-—of marrying me?" “Yes; I ran across him ar the clad last evening. We ot into conversation
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