Pittston Gazette

              •« Kstabtlnhod 1H50. I V OL. XLIX No. 7. t Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 1898. A Weekly Local and Family Journal* lll .OO a Vnr : la AdTUM. ions. Kou re ricn. * on only stana to lose the cost of the consignment and if that gets confiscated it won't mean much to you." rily down channel at top speed (through the same impenetrable fog) the little skipper whistled danoe music on the upper bridge and caught the notion for a mofct pleasing sonnet That evening the crew came aft in a btate of mild mutiny, and Kettle attended to their needs with gusto. pioked up his marks and steamed in confidently, with his Bide lights dowsed and three red lanterns in a triangle at bis foremast head. He was feeling pleasantly surprised with tbe easiness of it all. port. D'or eignt seconds tne omcer commanding the gunboat did not see what was happening, and that eight seconds was fatal to him. When the inspiration came he bubbled in noisy orders. He starboarded his own helm, he rang "full speed ahead" to hia own engines, and be ordered every rifle and machine gun on hia ahip to sweep the British steamer's bridge. But the space of time waa too amall. The gunboat oould not turn with enough quiokness. On so short a notice the engines oould not get her into her stride again, and tbe shooting, though well intentioned and prodigious in quantity, was poor in aim. The bullets wbisped through the air and pelted on the plating like a hailstorm, and one of them flicked out tbe brains of the Danish quartermaster on tbe bridge, but Kettle took tbe wheel from bis hands, and a moment later the Sultan of Borneo's stem crashed into tbe gunboat's unprotected Bide just abaft tbe aponaon of ber starboard quarter gun. sure mat ne naa not tuKeu it as sucn and would assert his rights to tbe bitter end. And when he thought of what that end must inevitably be he sighed over Owen Kettle's fate. V. *y Ci/rcurre. Xy*e^ own. as you are going snortly to maka your maiden speech, If you oould contrive to break down a little I tblnk the house of oommons would take It as a compliment, and you will be all the better for it." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Carnforth grinned. "You pay my business qualities a poor compliment, captain. You can bet your life I bad money down in bard cash before I stirred foot in tbe matter. Tbe weapons and tbe ammunition were paid for at 60 per cent above liat prices, so as to cover tbe trouble of secrecy, and I got a abarter for tbe yacbt to bring tbe stuff out here which would astonish you if you saw tbe figures. No, I'm dear of the matter from this moment, captain, but I'll not deny that I shall take an interest in your future adventures with tbe cargo. Help yourself to a cigarette." LESSON II, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER- But tbe person he was chiefly sorry for just then was Martin Carnforth, M. P. He remembered with clearness that a few hours before he had offered Kettle personal service, und he saw no practical means of avoiding the pledge. Poor man,' he'd a lot to go through before begot baok to London town. There are occasional failures to get off one's maiden speech, though It may have been oonned hundreds of times. The moat extraordinary breakdown that over oo ou.'red in the bouse happened some years ago. The addfess in answer to the queen's speech was To be seconded by a young oountry member in a maiden speech. Hs came attired, as is customary on the oocaaion, in uniform—in the gorgeous attire of a captain of mounted yeomanry. Ha stood up in bis plaoe, and, grasping the hilt of bis sword with his left hand, in* dulged in some graceful gestures with his right, but though his lips were seen ta move not a sound could be heard by the bouse. NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. 9. But when the steamer bad got well into the bight of the bay and all the glasses on tbe bridge were peering at the shore in search of answering lights a blaze of radianoe suddenly flickered on to her from astern and was as suddenly eclipsed, leaving them for a moment blinded by its dazzle. It waa a long truncheon of light which spouted from a glowing oenter away between the heads of the bay, and they watohed it sweep away from tbem over the surface of the water and then sweep baok again. Finally, after a little more dallianoe, it settled on tbe steamer and lit her and the ring of water on whiob aha iwam like a chip in a lantern piotura. Test of tlu Lhioh, II Chfoa. xvll, l-lO. Mtrnurj Turn, 8-6—Golden Tail, Pro*. 1U, ®—Couiuiituji by the B«t, S. M. Stearns. He prefaced hia remarks by a slight exhibition of marksmanship. He cut away the vane which showed dimly on the fore topmast truck with a single bullet and then, after dexterously reloading his revolver, lounged over the white rail of the upper bridge with the weapon in his hands. 1. "And Jebosapbat, his son, reigned ia his stead and strengthened himself against Israel." Israel, or tbe ten tribes, bad proved themselves to be the enemies of Qod, and to stand with God iuettns to stand against His enemies (Jas. lv, 4). How great the oontrast In chapter xvlll, 1, where we see Jebosapbat joining affinity with Ahab, tbe king of Israel, and thus necessitating tbe rebuke of tbe Lord In obapter xlx, 2, "Sbouldest thou help tbe ungodly and love them that bate tbe Lordf" To be for Qod at all times and under all circumstances is a rare thing snd is seen perfectly only in the Lord Jesus Christ. THK END. He told tbe malcontents he was glad of tbe opportunity to give them his views on matters generally. He informed them genially that for their personal wishes be cared not one decimal of a jot. He stated plainly that be bad got tbem on board and intended by their help to carry out hiB owner's instructions, whether they bated tbem or not And finally be gave tbem hia candid assurance that if any our among them presumed to disobey the least of bis orders be would shoot that man neatly through tbe bead without further preamble. Oar Wild Cherries. ber decks the Saltan of Borneo waa being unmoored from the bollards on tbe quay; within ten, ber winches were clattering and backing as they warped ber across to tbe black straddling coal shoots at tbe other aide of the dock, and with in half an boor tbe cargo waa roaring down ber hatches as fast as the railway wagoua on tbe grimy trestle overhead could disgorge. Tbe halo of ooal dust made day into dusk; the grit of it filled every cranny and settled as Ah amorphous soma on the water of the dock, and laborers hired by the boar toiled at pieoe work paoe through sheer terror at their employer. If his other failings oould have been eliminated, the little skipper with tbe red peaked beard would oertainly have been, from an owner's point of view, the best oommander sailing out of any English port No man ever wrenched snob a magnificent amount of work from his bands. But it waa tboae other failings which kept him what be waa, tbe pitiful knockabout shipmaster, living from hand to month, never certain of bis berth from one month's end to another. In tbe early history of America two species of cherry were found wild. The common one grows to a large tree and was named by the botanists Cerasus scrotina. This is what is usually understood when referring to the wild cherry. Wild cherry bark and wild cherry tonics of the drug stores are obtained from this species. There is another species which seldom makes a tree of any size and is more commonly known as a large shrub. This is the Cerasus virginiana. It is better known, in distinction to the other, as the oboke cherry. It is more closely related to the bird cherry. The bird cherry is known as the Cerasus padus. Since the introduction of the common cherry of the old world birds have curritd seeds from the gardens to the woods, and this cherry has now become almost as common in some of the woods around certain cities as though it were indigenous here. This is even called the wild cherry when speaking comparatively with tbe garden one. But tbe names tend to confusion with tbe American wild cherry. Nurserymen, in order to prevent confusion, have almost universally adopted the name of mazzard for tbe wild forms of the garden cherry.—Median's Monthly. "The shore part muBt lie entirely with you, air," said Oaptain Kettle. "It's mixed up with tbe foreign enlistment act and tbe Alabama case and a dooen other things which may mean anything between jail and confiscation, and my bead isn't big enough to bold it. If you'll be advised by me, sir, yoo'U see "Then it seems to me," said Kettle acidly, "that you'll look at me just as a bare set on to run for your amusement."For nearly five minutes tbe honorable snd gallant gentleman oontinued this dumb show and sat down. Tbe most remarkable feature of the incident was that the honorable gentleman did not himself miss tbe sound of bis vocal organs; all through the incident he seemed to be under the impression that tbe house was listening with rapt attention, to bis eloquent periods, set to tbe exquisite musio of bis voice. The yacht owner laughed. "You put it brutally," be said, "but that's about tbe size of it. And, if you want further truths, here's one: I shouldn't particularly mind if you were caught" Carnforth swore aloud, and Captain Kettle lit a fresh oigar. Those of the mongrel crew who were on deck went below to pack their bags. Tbe steamers thrilled like kicked biscuit boxes, and a noise went up into tbe hot night sky aa of 10,000 boiler makers all beading up a rivet at once. real first class solicitor and stand him a drink and pay bim down what ha asks right there on tbe bar oounter and cat to know exactly bow the law 6f this business stands before yon stir foot in it Tne law here in England," said tbe little man, with a reminisoent sigh, "is a beastly thing to fall foul of. It's nev- "Well, air," said Kettle cheerfully, "here we are. That's a Spanish gunboat, with searchlight, all oomplete. " He screwed up his eyes and gased astern meditatively. "She's got the heels on is, too, by about five knots, I should •ay. Just look at tbe flames coming out of ber funnels. Aren't tbey just giving ber ginger down in tbe stokehole. Shooting will begin directly, uid the other blackguards ashore have apparently forgotten all about us. There isn't a light anywhere." 9. "And he placed forces in all tbe fenced oitiss of Judab." Every king was king for tb« Lord (II Cbron. lx, 8), and his strength was to be la tbe Lord and sot in bones and chariots (Dent; xvll, 16). When we put our trust In things visible, we are apt to oease to see and rely upon Qod (Jer. xvll, 6). This Is a oonstant temptation and a snare. Tbe Lord Is often proving us as He did Philip, and we, like Philip, venture to suggest to Him bow It might be done, but all tbe while He Himsslf knows what He will do (John vi, #-7). When ws obediently and trustfully, under God's guidance, make ordinary provision, sll is well. Tbe difficulty is when we oease to sea God. 8. "And tbe Lord was with Jebosapbat." This is the secret of all blessing. The Lord was witb Joseph (Gen xxxix, 8, 8, 81, 88). The Lord was witb David (II Sam. v, 10). His oomfort to Moses, Joshua, Gideon and Jeremiah was tbe assurance that He was with tbeia (Ex. Ill, 18; Josh. 1, 6; Judg. vl, 10; Jer. I, 8). So when the Lord Jesus sent His followers into all tbe world the greatest encouragement Hs oould give tbem was His assaranos: "All power 1s given unto Ms In heaven and oo earth. Go ye, therefore, and, to, I am with you alway, even unto the end of tbe age" (Matb. xxviii, 18-80). 4. "He sought to the Lord God at bis father and walked in His commandments." It 1s written of flachariss and Elisabeth that they were both righteous before God, walking in all tbe oozumandmenta and ordtaanoes of tbe Lord blameless (Luke I, «). God bad said to Israel that If they would obey His voioe and keep His covenant, they would be a peculiar treasure unto Him abovs all people (Ex. xlx, 6), aad In Titus 11, 14 (R. V.), It Is written that He gave Himself for us to Redeem us from all Iniquity and purify unto Himself a people for His own posssi sion, zealous of good works. 6. "Therefore tbe Lotd stabllshed tbs kingdom in his hand." Joshua was told tbst If he would obssrve to do according to all tbe law, bis way would be prosperous aad he would have good suooess( Joshua I, 7, 8). In II Chron. xx, 80, Jebosbaphat is heard saying to tbe people, "Believe la tbe Lord your God, so shall ye be established," and la Isa. vll, B, Is the oontrast, "If ys will not believe, surely ye shall not be established." In God and hi His word is tbe only establishment, for all else shall "Because, my dear skipper, if tbe SpanialT&kptared this consignment, tbe patriots would want another, and I should get the order, whereas, if you land the stuff safely, it will Bee them through to the end of the war, and my chance of making further profit will be at an end." "How's that?" k This elegant harangue did uot go home to all bauds at once, because, being a British ship, the Sultan of Borneo's crew naturally spoke in five different languages and few of theni bad even a working knowledge of English. But the look of Kettle's savage little faoe as be talked and the red torpedo beard whioh wagged beneath it conveyed to them the tone of bis speech, and for the time they did not require a more accurate translation. They had oome off big with the intention of foroing him (if necessary with violence) to run the steamer there and then into an English port They went forward again like a pack of sheep, merely because one man had let them bear the virulenoe of his bark and bad shown them with what accuracy be could bite if necessary. "And that's the beauty of a mongrel crew," said Kettle complacently. "II they'd been English, I'd have bad to shoot at least two ot the beasts to keep my end up like that." On both ships tbe propellers stopped as if by instinot and then, in answer to the telegraph, the grimy oollier backed What Sympathy Could Do. It is difficult to Imagine a bright side to prison life, and when to oonflnement is added the gloom of insanity the darkness seems impenetrable. Tbe author of "Tbe Dungeons of Old Paris," however, gives a touching picture of what womanly sympathy once accomplished even in so extreme a case. er done kicking you,'once it's got a fair start and you never know where it will shove out its ugly hoof from next No, Mr. Gedge, give me tbe States for nloe, comfortable law, where a man can boy it by the yard for paper money down, and straight pistol shooting is always remembered in his favor." "You have a very clear way of putting it" said Captain Kettle. "Haven't I? Which will you takegreen chartreuse or yellow?" There was a strangely sympathetlo side to this saddest of the prisons of Paris (St. Lazare, for women). Tbe siok and worn out were always tenderly regarded by their fellow prisoners, and If a woman died in the prison it was not unusual for tbe rest to olub together to provide a costly funeral. "And, Mr. Gedge, can you tell me, air, bow be stands over tbis business?" "What are you going to dor" asked Carnforth. "Ob, you bet, Gedge knows wben to oome in out of Uie wet! He's got tbe old Saltan underwritten by tbe insuranoe and by tbe On ban agents op to doable her value, and nothing would suit bis books better tban for a Spanish cruiser to drop upon you." "Follow oat Mr. Gedge'* instructions, sir, and put this cargo on the beach. Whether the old Sultan goes there, too, remains to be seen." Tbe young man wbo owned tbe steamship Saltan of Borneo tapped his blotting paper impatiently. "Stick to tbe point. Kettle. We're in England now and have nothing whatever to do with legal matters in America. Aa for your advice, I am not a fool. You can lay your ticket on it I know to an inch how I stand. And I may tell yon this, the shipment is arranged for." That afternoon Captain Kettle signed on his crew, got them on board and with the help of his two mates kioked the majority of them into sobriety. He reoeived a visit and final instructions from Oedge at 6 o'clock, and by nightfall he had filed in bis papers, warped out of dock and stood anxiously on tbe bridge watching the pilot aa he took tbe steamboat down through tbe crowded ■hipping of tbe river. Hia wife stood under the glowing aro lamp on tbe dock head and waved him good by through the gloom. "That gunboat will cnt yon off in a quarter of an hoar if yon keep on this coarse." In tbe early years of tbe restoration a pretty peasant girl named Marie was sent to St. Lazare for stealing roses. She had a passion for tbe flower, and a thousand mystical notions had woven themselves about it in her mind. She said that rose trees would themselves from their roots and, glide after her wherever she went to her to pluck tbe blossoms. One in a garden, taller than the rest, bad compelled her to climb tbe wall and gather as many roses as she oould, and there tho gendarmes found her. He Captured General Merrltt. Captain Kettle got up, reached for his cap and swung it aggressively on to one side of his bead. "With that extra five knots she can do as she likes with us, so 1 shan't shift my helm. It wonld only look suspicious. " There is an old ex-Ooiifederate officer in Knoxville who bad the honor daring the civil war of capturing Wesley H. Merritt, now general commanding the department of the east. Colonel James C. Malone, a prominent cavalryman, was the captor of General Merritt. It was during the campaign in West Virginia in 1863 and in the neighborhood of Cheek mountain that the incident occurred. General .Rust had been order-' ed to attack a strong force of Federals on the mountain and the First Tennessee regiment of Maney's brigade, Lorin's division, was waiting orders to advance. Colonel Malone was at that time • lieutenant of the Rock City guards, a company whiob had gone out from Nashville. While drawn up the company saddenly saw not 100 yards in front of them a Federal engineering officer ride up alone. His capture was easily effected, as he was completely surprised, not having any idea that the Confederates were near. He was very much disoomfited at his mishap and grumbled excessively at bis bad luck. He was sent to Richmond with other prisoners, and Colonel Malone did not know hiB subsequent war career. —Atlanta Journal. "Very well," be said. "That's your side of tbe question. Now bear mine. That cargo's going through, and those rebels or patriots or whatever they are shall have their guns if half tbe Spanish navy was there to try and stop me. Yoa and Mr. Gedge have started aboat this business the wrong way. Treat me on the square, and I'm a man a child might handle, bat I'd not be driven by tbe queen of England—no, not with the emperor of Germany to help her." "I'd like to see as cleared," said Captain Kettle doubtfully. "Good Lord!" said Carnfortb. "A* if oar being here at all isn't suspicion itself!" "No one will interfere with the clearance. The Saltan of Borneo will leave here in coal, consigned to Havana. A private yacht will meet her at sea and transship the arms oat of sight of land." " You're a marvel,'' Carnfortb admitted. "I'm a bit of a speaker myself, bat I never heard a man with a gift of tongue like you have got." Bat Kettle did not answer. He had, to use his own expression, "got his wits working under forced draft," and be could not afford time for idle speculation and obatter. It was the want of the answering signal ashore that upset him. Had that showed against the black background of hills he wonld have known what to do. The war tUamer ranged up alongside. astern. But the war steamer did not move. Her machinery was broken down. She had already got a heavy list toward her wounded side, and every second the list was increasing as the water poured in through the shattered plates. Her crew were bnzzing with disorder. It was evident tbat the vessel had but a short time longer to swim, and their lives were sweet to them. They bad no thought of vengeanoe. Their weapons lay deserted on the sloping decks. The grimy crews from the stokeholes poured up from below, and one and all they clustered about the boats with frenzied haste to see them floating in the water. This poor girl excited the most vivid Interest in that sordid plaoe. The prisoners plotted to restore her to reason, christened her Rose, which delighted bar, and set themselves to make artificial roses for her of silk and paper. Those fingers, so rebellious at allotted tasks, created roses without number, till Marie's cell was transformed into a bower. Captain Kettle reoeived his first fright as he dropped his pilot jast outside the Tyne pier heads. A man-ofwar's laanoh steamed np out of the night, and tbe boarding offloer examined his papers and asked questions. The little captain, conscious of having no contraband of war on board jast then, was brutally rode, bat the naval offloer remained stolid and refused to see tbe insalts which were pitched at him. He had an anpalatable duty to perform; he "I'm poisonous when I spread myself," said Kettle. "Tyne coal for Cuba? They'd get their coal there from Norfolk or Welsh steam coal from Cardiff or Newport" "I wish I was clear of you," said Carnfortb, with an awkward laugh. "Whatever possessed me to leave the yacht and oome on this cruise I oan't think." "It seems not Tbis contract was placed long before a ship was asked for to smuggle out the arms." "Oh, look here, captain 1" said Carnforth. "Don't get your back up." Meanwhile the Spanish warship waa closing up with him hand over fiat, and a decision was necessary. Anyway the choice was a poor one. If he surrendered, be would be searched, and with that damning oargo of rifles and machine guns and ammunition under his hatobes it was not at all improbable tbat hi* captors might string him up out of hand. They would have right on their side for doing so. The insurrectionists were not "recognized belligerents." He would stand as a filibuster ooofessed, and as such would be due to suffer under tbat rough and ready martial law which cannot spare time to feed and jail prisoners. On the other hand, if be refused to heave to the result wonld be equally simple. The warship would sink him with her guns inside a down minutes and, reckless daredevil though he might be, Kettle knew quite well there was no chance of avoiding tbia. With another crew he might have been tempted to lay his old stealer alongside the other and try to carry her by boarding and sheer hand to hand fightiuK. but ezoepting for those on watoh in the stock bold his present set of men were all below packing their belongings into portable shape, and be knew quite well that nothing would please them better than to see him discomfited. Carnfortb was neutral. He had only his two mates and the engineer officers to depend upon in all tbe available world, and he recognized between deep drafts of his cigar that he was in a very tight place. An interested director of prison labor seconded these efforts, and opened In St. Lazare a workroom for the manufacture of artificial flowers, to whiob Marie was introduced as an apprentice. "Well, it looks fishy, anyway." "I'll not trade with you," replied Kettle. "Some people never do know when they're well off," said Kettle. "Well, »ir, you're in for it now, and you may see things which will be of servioe to you afterward. You ought to make your mark in parliament if you do get back from this trip. You'll have something to talk about tbat men will like to listen to, instead of merely chattering wind, which is what most of them are put to, so far as I can see from the papers. And now, sir, here's the steward oome to tell us tea's ready. You go below and tack in. I'll take mine on tbe bridge here. It won't do for me to turn my back yet awhile, or else those beasts forrard will jnmp on us-fro in behind and murder tbe whole lot while we aren't looking." "I can't help that" said Gedge irritably. "I'm telling yoa tbe naked troth, and if truth, as usual, looks unlikely it's not my fanlt Now, have yoa got any more objections to maker' "Yon're a fool to your own interests." "I know it" said the sailor grimly. "I've known it all my life. If I'd not been tbat I'd not have found myself in such shady company as there is here now." Here she made roses from morning till night, and her dread of the future being dispelled the malady of her mind reached its term with the end of her sentence, and she left tbe prison cured and bappy. She became one of tbe most successful florists in Paris. "No, sir," said Captain Kettle. "None that I can see at present" There was no more to be feared at their hands for tbe present "Very well, then," said Gedge. "Do yoa care to sign on as master for this cruise or aro you going to cry off?" "Look here, yoa ruffian! If you insult me I'll kick you out of this cabin and over tbe side into your own boat" Carnfortb clapped Kettle on the shoulder in involuntary admiration. "By God!" he cried. "What a daring little scoundrel you are! Look here! I'm on your side now if I can be of any help. Can you give me a job?" Happy Old Age. "They'll bang me if I'm oanght" said Kettle. "All right "said Kettle. "Start in." In our time the axoepeion&lly health? and long lived constitutions seem to have altered the period of decline from the eighth to the ninth decade; for them the eighth Is still a time of aotivity, while even the ninth itself is by no means a time of senile decrepitude, but only of qolet occupation in the place of strenuous labor While I am writing these pages ~ is ringing with the success of a joyous opera written by a oomposar who gave ten hours a day to pt perlntendence of its production, house of commons is listening most eager attention to an orati who came froni Biarritz to Londoi* out breaking the journey and rough passage in stormy wintei held a cabinet council immediately «. arrival. The physical perfection of living is to have good health and muoh activity till 70, then gradually less activity and an increasing economy of effort till about 00, when the old man feels tired of living am! quietly falls asleep. Carnforth half rose from his seat and measured Captain Kettle with his eye. Apparently tbe scrutiny impressed him, for he sank back to bis seat again with an embarrassed laugh. "You're an ugly little devil," he said. be shaken. "Not they. They'll only talk big, and tbe British consul will get yoa clear. Yoa bet they daren't hang an Englishman for mere smuggling in Cuba. And besides, ain't I offering to raise your screw from £13 a month to £14 so as to oover the risk? However, yon won't get caught You'll find everything ready for yoa. You'll slip the rifles ashore and then you'll steam on to Havana and discbarge your coal in the ordinary humdrum way of business. And there's a £10 bonus if yoa pall the thing off successfully. Now, then, captain, qniok. You go or you don't?" dom whloh cannot be shaken let at bave grace whereby we may eerve God acceptably with reverence and godly (ear, for our God la • oon turning lire (Heb. xll, 88, 80). "I'm afraid, sir," said Captain Kettle, "tbat tbe old Sultan's work is about done. She's settling down by tbe bead already. Didn't you see those rats of men scuttling up from forrard directly after we'd rammed the don? I guess tbat was a bit of surprise packet for them anyway. Tbey thought they'd got down there to be clear of tbe shooting, and tbey found themselves in the most tioklisb part of tbe ship." Verdi to Life In Milan. Verdi baa decided to leave bis estate, Sant' Agata, at Busseto, Italy, to take up bis residence in Milan. He will live at a hotel where he has been accustomed to stay (or the last 30 years whenever business called him to the old Lombard city. There are many bonds that connect him with Milan. His first wi(e and bis two children rest there, many o( his works weie performed there first, and in that city be has (onnded a fine home (or superannuated singers, which has just been opened. Verdi some time ago asked permission to have his second wife buried in a little graveyard at Sant' Agata, and it was granted, but the master has changed his mind and he wishes now to bury her in the chapel o( the new home and to rest there himsel( when he is dead. "I'm all that," said Kettla Ia Seals *• "And his heart wm lifted np In the a merry and ways Crf tbe Lord." The margin says that 0f 80 110 wu ®noouraged In the waya of the neraonal au- Lordi who 10 in the way the Lord thall not lack encouragement .withthe Thar.will bam-y 0r&t0P lead im in Hla way (Ruth 11, le'.'^They after a that wa" upon the shall renew their er weather strength, they ahall mount up with wlngi - on hie M m*1* (r«- •*)• The way of th« "And I'm not going to play at rough and tumble with you here. We've neither of as anything to gain by it and I've a lot to lose. I believe you'll ran tbat oargo through now tbat you're put on your mettle, but I guess there'll be trouble for somebody before it's dealt out to tbe patriot troops. Gad, I'd like to be somewhere on band to watch you doit!" The voyage from that time onward waa for Captain Kettle a period of constant watchfulness. It would not be true to say tbat he never took off his clothes or never slept, but whether be was in pyjamas in tbe cbartbuuse or whether he was sitting on an upturned giuger beer case under tbe shelter of one of tbe upper bridge canvas dodgers, with his tired eyes shut and tbe red peaked beard "There'a humor in the situation," ■aid Carnforth. "Bat the case will keep. For tbe present it strikes me that this old steamboat is swamping fast." "1 go," said Kettle gloomily. "I'm a poor man, with a wife and family, Mr. Gedge, and I can't afford to loae a berth. But it's that coal I can't aw allow. I quite believe what yon My about the contract. Only it doesn't look natui4l. And it'a my belief the ooal will trip ufc np somewhere before we're done and bring about trouble." Lord «h w attractive and enjoyable that the way of the world and tbe deyll became distasteful and tbe bleb plaoee aad groves were taken away. We cannot walk with God unless we bumble ourselves ao to do and make up oar minds to be igniad with Him (Mia yl, «; Amos Hi, 8). "I don't object to an audienoe," said Kettle. "She is doing that," Kettle admitted. "She'll have a lot of plates started forrard, I guess. But I think she's oome out of it very creditably, sir. I didn't spare her, and she's not exaotly built for a ram." "ByJovel I've half a rniud to oome with you." "You'd better not," said tbe little sailor, with glib contempt "You're Lot the aort that oarea to riak his akin, tnd I can't be bothered with deadhead passengers.'' It may be said that thia U an Ideal. If so, It baa the advantage over moat ldeala that It has been in some Instances actually realized. It has been twloe realized in the Germany of our time. England and Italy are in a lair way to realize it in Mr. Qladstone and Verdi, while it must be remembered that these examples are taken from a most limited class, that of European celebrities, so that if the same proportion of healthy old men is to be found among the far more numerous classes of the obscure there must be thousands of them in the population of the world. And next to those who oombine health with extreme longevity there are ten times as many who combine it with a moderate longevity —that is, who have enough of physical well being for the enjoyment of life to the age of 70 or 75.—Hamtrton's "Quest at Happiness." 7. "Also in the third year of bis reign be sent to his princes to teach in the cities of Judah." What a suggestive foreshadowing of the time when "A king shall reign in righteousness and prinoes shall rule in judgment, and the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever" "I suppose it's a oase of putting ber on the beaob?" "Which, of course, you are quite a atranger to," aaid Gedge slyly. "There's nothing else for it," said Kettle, with a sigh. "I should like to have carried those blasted coal* into the Havana if it oould have been done, just to show people ours was a bona fide contract, as Mr. Gedge said, in spite of its fishy look. But this old steamboat's done her whack, and that's the square truth. It will take her all she can manage to reach shore with dry decks. Look, she's in now nearly to her forecastle bead. Lucky the shore's not steep to here, or else"— "I'll take my ohanoes with posterity," said the poet whose effusions had been refused. Safe Decision. "Don't taunt me with it, air," aaid Captain Kettle. "I quite well know the kind of brute I am. Trouble with a crew or any other aet of living men at aea la just meat and drink to me, and I'm bitterly ashamed of tbe teste. Every time I ait underneath our minister in the chapel here in South Sbielda I grow more aahamed, and if you heard the beautiful poetical way that man talka of peace and green llelda and golden harps you'd underatand." "That aettlea it," said Carnfortb. "I'm coming with yon to run that blockade, and if the ohanoe comes, my cantankerous friend, I'll ahow you I can be naeful—a'.ways auppoaing, that is, we don't murder one another before we get there." Still tbe dark shore ahead remained nu beaconed, and tbe Spaniard was raoing up astern, lit for battle, with her crew at quarters and the guns run out and loaded. She leaped nearer by fathoms to the seoond, till Kettle ooold hear tbe panting of her engines as she chased him down. His teeth chewed on the cigar butt and dark rings grew under his eyes. He oould have raged aloud at his iinpotenoe. Wtth the morality of the affair he troubled not one Jot. quite sympathised with Kettle'a feelinga over the matter, and he got back to hia launch thanking many atara that tbe affair bad ended so easily. "Of coarse you will," sneered the editor. "You know mighty well that posterity can't get at you."—Detroit Free Press. (Isa. xxxii, 1, 17). There oannot be any- thing more important than that men should know the Lord and His ways, and when kings and prinoes take up this as their mission, the kingdom will either have come or be very near. Just now oar government has given $60,000,000 for defense, for the purchase or manufacture of warships or war material, but was It ever beard that any government ever gave even 91,000,000 to make known the living Godf 8. "And with there Levltesand priests." The priest's lip* should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he la the messenger of the Lord ot hosts (Mai. 11, 7). Their calling la simply set forth in II Ohion. xxix, 11, in these words, "My aona, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath choaan yon tw stand before Him to serve Him and that ye should minister onto Him and burn incense. " Prieeta, prophets and kings wan to reoognlae God alone as thalt Master and live only unto Him. 9. "And they taught In Judah and had ' the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the olttee of Judah and taught the people." There is nothing on earth so heavenly as the Word of God. It is all "true from the be ginning"and "forever settled in heaven" (Pa. cxlx, 80, 160). We are to receive It meekly, hold it fast, rightly divide It and hold it forth, for It la an engrafted word, a faithful word, a word of truth and n word of Ity (Jaa. 1, SI; Titos i, 9; II Tim. 11, 15; Phil, U, 10). If all ministers and teachers tanght only the Word of God and honored It as the Word of God, how much more would be accomplished for God! But when thoae who profeea to be Its friends diabonor and even aet aaide many portions of it what shall we aayf Just thia, "Forever, O Lord, thy word ia aettled In heaven." But Kettle rang on hia enginea again with very unpleasant feelings. It was clear to him that the aeoret was oozing out somewhere; that tbe Sultan of Borneo was suspected; that hia oourae to Cuba would be beset with many well armed obstacles, and be forthwith made hia first ruae out of the long succession which was to follow. He had been instructed by Qedge to steam off atraigbt from tbe Tyne to a point deep in tbe North aea, where a yacht would meet him to hand over the consignment of smuggled anna. But he felt tbe night to be full of eyes, and for a Havana bound ship to leave the usual steam lane wbioh leads to tbe English channel was equivalent to a confession of her purpose from the outset. So he took tbe parallel rulers and penciled off on bia chart tbe stereotyped oourae which just clears Whitby and Flam borough Head and the Sultan of Borneo was held along tbta steaming at bar steady nine knota, and It was not till she was out of tight of land off Humber mouth and the sea chanoed to be desolate that be starboarded his helm and stood off for the ocean rendezvous. A white mist shut the channel aea into a ring, and the air was noisy with the grunts and screams of steamers' sirens. Captain Kettle was standing on tbe Sultan of Borneo's upper bridge, with his band on the engine room telegraph, which was pointed at "Full speed asternCarnfortb and tbe old second mate stood with their chins over the top of the starboard dodger, and all three of them peered into the opalescent banks of the fog. NEVER MET HER HERO. New Story of Blanche Willis Howard. Writer Is a Kindly Novelist. The war steamer ranged up alongside, slowed to some 60 revolutions so as to keep her place, and an offioer on tbe top of her cbarthouse hailed jn Spanish: The original of Blanohe Willis Howard's "Marigold Michael," the leading story In ber book of short tales, is the Englishman, Edward Carpenter, one of the best known writers on socialism of the day. Miss Howard admires him extremely, as one may see from the story, and has corresponded with him for several years. Remarkably enough, they have never met, for Miss Howard, or, as she is known to her friends, the Baroness von Teuffel, spends the greater part of her time in France and Germany, and Mr. Carpenter rarely leaves his home in an English shire, even to go to London. Keoently, however, while the baroness was stopping with her dear friend, Alice Meynell, the charming English poet, a meeting was arranged between the two old correspondents, whioh Mr. Carpenter was ooinlng to London to bring about. It would be interesting to know how he really impresses Miss Howard, for Michael Is a wholly ideal conception.. "Yea, .yes," said Gedge, "but I don't want any of your excellent minister's sermons at secondhand just now, captain, or any of your own poetry, thanks. I'm very busy. Good morning. Help youraelf to a cigar. You haul alongaide the ooal shoots to get your cargo at 8 o'clock, and I'll be on board to see yon at 6. Good morning" And Mr. Gedge rang far tbe clerk and waa busily dictating letters before Kettle waa clear of tbe offioe. From beneath there came a bump and a rattle, and tbe steamer for a moment halted in her progress and a white crested wave surged past her rusty flanks. Then she lifted again and swooped farther in, with tbe propeller still squattering astern, and then once more she thundered down again into the sand, and so, lifting and striking, made her way in through the surf. Gradually her stern was forced round, and she was beaten up tbe beach broadside on, with the green and white water at times making a clean breach over her. She was past all oontrol. More than one of tbe hands was swept from her decks and reached the shore by swimming. But as the ebb made the hungry seas left her stranded dry under the morning's light, and a crowd of insurrectionists waded out and climbed on board by ropes which were thrown to them. They were men of every tint, from gray black of the pure negro to the sallow, lemon tint of the blue blooded Spaniard. They were streaked with wounds, tbin as skeletons and clad more with nakedness than rags, and so wolfish did they look arms for such a crew to wreak vengeance on their neighbors. They had reason for their anxiety. upon his chest, it was always tbe Bame. He was always ready instantly to spring upon tbe alert. One dark night an iron belaying pin flew out of the blackness of the forecastle and whizzed within an inob of his sleeping head, but ho roused so quickly that he was able to shoot tbe thrower through the shoulder before he could dive back again through the forecastle door. And another time when a powdering gale had kept him on the bridge for 48 oonsecutive hours and a deputation of tbe deck bands raided him in the cbarthouse on tbe supposition that exhaustion would have laid him out In a dead sleep, be woke before their fingers touohed him, broke tbe jaw of one with a camp stool and so maltreated the otherB with tbe same weapon that tbey were glad enough to run away even with tbe exasperating knowledge that they left their taskmaster undamaged behind them. So, although this all nation orew of the Sultan of Borneo dreaded the Spaniards much, they feared Captain Kettle far more, and by the time tbe steamer closed up with the island of Cuba they had ooncluded to follow out their skipper's orders as being the least of the two evils whioh lay before them. A Singular "Gunboat ahoy." Kettle bawled back, "You must speak English or I can't be civil to you." A singular prediction was made by James I regarding the evils likely to reault from Laud'a acts of oppression and violence. It was uttered in the oouree of a conversation whioh the king had had with Archbishop Williams. The king waa strongly pressed to give Laud promotion, when he replied: " What ship is that?" They bad reason for tbeir anxiety. Not five minutes before a long, lean torpedo catcher bad raced up out of tbe thickness and slowed down alongside, with tbe obannel spindrift blowing over her low superstructure in white hailstorms. An officer on tbe upper bridge in glistening oilskins had sent across a sharp, authoritative hail, and bad been anawered, "Sultan of Borneo; Kettle maater; from South Shielda to the Havana." "Sultan of Borneo; master; out of Shields." "Where for?" "The Havana." "I Intend to keep Laud back from all place of rule and authority because I find he hath a restless spirit and oannot see when matters are well, but loves to tsaa and change and bring all things to a pitch of reformation floating in hia own brain, which endangers the steadfastness of that which is in a good pass. I speak not at random. He hath made hlmaelf known to me to be auch an one." The little Bailor went down the grimy ataira and into tbe street and made toward the smelling Tyne. Tbe black cigar rested unlit in an angle of hia mouth, and he gnawed aavagely at tbe butt with hia eyeteeth. He cursed the fates aa he walked. Why did they use him so evilly that be waa forced into bertha like these? As a bachelor, be told himself with a sneer, be would have jumped at the excitement of it As the partner of Mrs. Kettle and the father of her children be could have shuddered when he threw his eye over tbe future. For a week or so she could draw hia half pay and live aumptuooaly at tbe rate of £7 a month. But afterward, if he got caught by some angry Spanish war atoamer with the amuggled titles under bia hatches and abot or hangod or impriaoned or otherwise debarred from earning inoomeat hia craft where would Mm Kettle be then? Would Gedge do anything for her? He drew tbe cigar from bia lipa and apat contemptuously at the bare idea. Promptly tbe query came back, "Then what are you doing in here?" Carnforth whispered a suggestion, "Fresh water run out; condenser water given all hands dysentery; put In here to fill up tankx." "I thank you, air," said Kettle in the same undertone; "I'm no hand at lying myself, or I might have thought of that before." And he shouted an excuse across to the spokesman on the charthouse roof. "What cargo?" came tbe next question.Laud's after career amply justified the king's words. Miss Howard's life Is filled wltb many kindly acts which the world never hears of, and, more than ever, since she became a widow, more than two years ago, she has devoted herself to trying to lighten other folks' lives. For many months after the death of her husband sh) was entirely crushed—so much so that she took no Interest in anything and for more than a year did not put pen to paper—but her Intercourse with those whom she bad befriended gradually brought back ber interest in life and the desire to write again. At the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was at the very summit of hia power the Marquis of Welleeley gave utterance to the "Coal." A hand on the fore topsail yard picked up the yacht out of the gray mists of dawn, and by eight bells they were lying hove to in tbe trough, with 100 yarda of oold gray water tumbling between them. The transshipment waa made in two lifeboats, and Kettle went across and enjoyed an extravagant breakfast in the yacht's cabin. The talk waa all upon the Cuban revolution. Carnfortb, the yacht'a owner, brimmed with it "What?" To his surprise they seemed to give weight to it. There was a short consultation and the steamers slipped along over tbe smooth black waters of the bay on parallel courses. "Ooal." him follow lug memorable words regarding "Then, Mr. Tyne Coal For tbe Ha vana, just heave to while I aend away a boat to look at you. I fancy you will be tbe steamboat I'm sent to find and fetch back." "His eagerness of power Is so Inordinate, his jealousy of Independence so fierce, bis keenness of appetite In all that touohes his ambition so feverish, that be must plunge into dreadful difficulties. He is one of the order of minds that by nature make for themselves great reverses." "Have you got dysentery aboard?" came the next question. The decks of the unoomfortable warship had hammed with men, a pair of boat davits had swung outboard, and the boat had been armed and manned with naval noise and quickness. But just then a billow of the fog had driven down upon them, blauketlike in its thickness, which closed all human vision beyond the range of a dozen yards, and Oaptain Kettle jumped like a terrier on his opportunity. He sent his steamer hard astern, with a slightly ported helm, and while the torpedo catcher's boat was searching for him toward the French shore and sending vain hails into the white banks of the mist he wa9 circling slowly and silently round toward the English coast. Once more Carnforth prompted and Kettle repeated bia words. "Look at my decks," said he. "All my crew are below. I've hardly a man to stand by me." 10. "And the (mt of the Lord Ml upon all the kingdoms of the lands that mn round about Judah." There was no war. Other nations brought presents and tribute, and Jeboeaphat waxed great exceedingly (verses 11,18). The remaining verses of the chapter tall that hi* army waa 1,190,000, but the very next chapter tella Bat they gave him small time for sentiment of this brand. They clustered ronnd him with leaping hands, till the morning sea fowl fled affrighted from the beaoh. El Seuor Capitan Inglese was the savior of Cuba, and let every one remember it Alone, with his unarmed vessel, be had sunk a warship of their hated enemies, and they prayed him, in their florid compliment, to stay on the island and role over them as king. Last winter, while staying with Mrs. Meyneil, one of the children, Miss Howard's godson, was sent to the hospital to undergo an operation for his eyes, which kept him there some weeks. He was heartbroken at the thought of leaving home, and his godmother's promise that she would oome at 11 every morning to read to him for an hour did much toward pacifying him. The promise was faithfully kept, and after a few days Miss Howard noticed that the patients in other oots were craning their necks to hear, too, and it ended by her moving her ohair into the middle of the room and reading to them ali. So interested did she become in her hour that when the boy was sent home she continued to ko dally to the hospital and read to the other patients and made it a duty that was one of her great pleasures all during the wlntor. This prediction might well have been uttered after Instead of before the event Oarnforth's way of looking at the matter was peculiar. He all a hearty man's appetite for adventure and all a prosperous man's distaste for being wrecked. He bad taken a strong personal liking for the truonlent little skipper, and, other things being equal, would have cheerfully helped him; but, on the other hand, he could not avoid seeing that it was to his own interests that the crew should get their way and keep the steamer out of dangerous waters. And so when finally he decided to stand by noninterferent be prided himself a good deal on his forbearance and said so to Kettle in as many words. That worthy mariner quite agreed with him. "It's the very best thing yon could do, sir," be answered. "It would have annoyed me teirlbly to have had to shoot you out of mischief's way, because you've been kind enough to say you like my poetry and because I've come to see, sir, you're a gentleman." "If yon can run the blockade, oaptain," said be, "and land these rifles and the Maxims and the cartridges, they'll be grateful enough to put up a statue to yon. The revolution will end in a snap. The Spanish troops are half of tham fever ridden and all of them disoonraged. With these guns yon are carrying the patriots oan shoot their enemies over the edges of the island into the Caribbean sea. And there is no won why yon should get stopped. There are filibustering expeditions fitted out every week from Key West and Tampa and the other Florida porta, and one or two have even started from Mew York itself." There was more oonsultation among the gunboat's offioers, and then came the fatal inquiry, "What's yoor cargo, captain?" Some of oar ancestors were veritable slaves to the pernicious habit of snuff taking. It is related of a Liverpool gentleman that he oontracted such an a ment to the snuffbox that he never less than 20 pinches before bre»v more before dinner and 60 be' In all ISO. Up to Snaff. - ,—T of bla downfall. UuUh was marveloualy an tttaoii- «u ha waa atrong, but bis strength waa bis wwakni— and the oauae of bla fall (" Chron. art, 16,16). Our only strength night, te |„ Ba strong la the Lord umI , pinch, la thapowarofHlamlght were very •Dg orama materia) ollfciflloiiefof | RHEUMATISM,! snuffbox ■ immiTAT* .... -n^jasUe Increase iLfiEINll ME0I6IL Lllt^ enormous by SKinant jhjdeiiamJM areoon- MK OR. RICHTCR'8 439M actor!ea by m _ aa«kilAH MKHH lelr snuff- Hr Ai|("ll|jll 77D^ — " fPAIN EXPELLERI I tf IMNEST MUM. sst creed ■ 13 Brnol Iww OwmOlaaaworka. ■ will bleed- U mmt IS ak, I.«»■■»' n11 mir *"* *T fame. riuia a rati, aa um a s(ck and a. c. «Lica, HMtMiMi. I. M. MH7CI* thrttHiM.  Clead f WTtato*. r*. iD"* mO£V ' shrine a* __^^55555li^——21——————- assuage WEB8" 8AVINQ8 BANK, With the morality of the affair he troubled not one jot The Spanish government and the Cuban rebels were two rival firms who offered different rates of freight according to the risk, and he was employed as oarrier by thoae who paid the higher price. If there waa any right or wrong about the question, it was a purely private matter between Mr. Oedge and his God He, Owen Kettle, was as impersonal in the business as the ancient Sultan of Borneo herself. He was a mere oog in some oomplex machinery, and if he waa earning heaven it was by piety inside the chapel ashore and not by professional exertions (in the interests of an earthly employer) elsewhere. "Oh, coals," said Kettle resignedly. "What, you're bringing Tyne coal to the Havana?" "Just ooals," said Captain Kettle, tvitb a bitter laugh. He spent a full minute over e«c and thus about 14 hours a week rationally and profitably ernplc, kllng his nose, which, from belli med so frequently, underwent revolution In its physical form, as It were, a kind of elasticity tarily oocking itself up when the was introduced not unlike thr proboscis of an eluphant. The tone of the Spaniard ohanged. "Heave to at onoe," he ordered, "while I send a boat to search you. Refuse, and I'll blow you out of water." But the little sailor took them literally. "What's this?" he said. "You want me to be your blooming king?" On the Sultan of Borneo's upper bridge Carnforth swore. "Eh, bo, skipper, " be said, "the game's up, and there's no way out of it You won't be a fool, will you, and saorifloe the ship and the whole lot of us? Come, I say, man, ring off your engines or that fellow will shoot, aud we shall all be murdered uselessly. I tell you the "El rey!" they shouted. "El rey de los Oubanos!" So long as the mist held the Sultan of Borneo was as hard to find as a needle in a cargo of hay. Did the air clear for ao much as a single instant she would be noticed and stand self confessed by her attempt to escape, and as a result the suspense was vivid enough to make Garnforth feel physical nausea. He had not reckoned on this complication. He was quite prepared to risk capture in Ouban waters, where the glamour of distance and the dazzle of helping insurrectionists would oast a glow of romance over whatever oocurred. But to be caught in the English channel as a vulgar smuggler for the sake of commercial profit and to be hauled baok for bard labor in an English jail was a different matter. He was a member of parliament, and be understood these details in all their nioetles. "By James," said Kettle, "I'll do it! i was never asked to be a kiug before, and the chance may never come again. Besides, I'm out of a berth just now, aud England will be too hot to hold me yet awhile. Yes, I'll stay and boss you, and if you can act half as ugly as you look we'll give the dons a lively time. Only remember, there's no tomfoolery about me. If I'm king of this show, I'm going to carry a full king's tioket, and if there's any man tries to meddle without being invited that man will go to his own funeral before be can think twice. And now we'll just begin business at once. Off with those hatches and break out that cargo. I've been at some pains to run these guns out here, so be careful in carrying them up the beach. Jump lively now, you black faced scum I" It Is several years since Miss Howard has been to America, and she and her busband were coming together the spring that hs so unexpectedly died. Irately, for the drat time since then, she has spoken again of coming, and it is probable that she will oonie over again next fall.—New York Press. "Bat they haven't got through," suggested Oaptain Kettle. Snuff taking lb largely on the aiming the gentler sex, and quantities of the pungent powder sumed In our mills and manuf the fenialeoperatives, who take t boxes to the tobacconist to be regular intervals.—Strand Map "Not all of them," Mr. Carnfortb admitted. "Bat, then, you see, they ■ailed In schooners, and yon have got steam. Besides, they started from the States, where the newspapers knew all aboat them, and ao their arrival was cabled on to Cnba ahead, and yon have the advantage of sailing from an English port." He took ferry across the filthy Tyne and walked down alleys and squalid streets, where coal dust farmed the mad and the air was sour with foreign vapars. And as be walked be champed still at the unlit cigar and brooded over the angularity of his fate. But when be passed between the gates of the dock company's premises and exchanged words with the policeman on guard a change came over him. He threw away the cigar stump, tightened his lipa and left all thoughts of personal matters outside the doorsilL He waa Mr. G edge's hired servant His brain waa devoted to furthering Gedge's interests, and all the acid of his tongue waa ready to spur an thoae who did ttoir mmrasl game's up." Tbey came to this arrangement on tbe morning of the day they opened out the secluded bay in tbe southern Cuban shore where tbe contraband of war was to be run. Kettle caloulated bis whereabouts with niceness, and after tbe midday observation lay the steamer to for a couple of boars and himself supervised bis engineers, while they gave a good overhaul to the machinery. Then be gave her steam again and made bis landfall four boors after the sun set. "By James," said Kettle, "is it? Look there," and he pointed with outstretched arm to tbe bills on tbe shore ahead. "Three fires!" he cried. "Two above one in a triangle, burning like Elswiok furnaces among the treea. They're ready for us over yonder, Mr. Carnforth, and that's their weloome. Do you think I'm going to let my oargo be stopped after getting it thus far?" He turned to the Danish quartermaster at the wheel, with his savage face close to the man's ear. The malady known as "stage fright" la by no means confined to,the stage or to people deficient In self confidence. It is one of the peculiarities of the house of commons, as related hy Mr. Michael Mao- Donagh in the "Book of Parliament," that it not only expects but demands a oertain amount of stage fright In a member's maiden speech as an indication of a "becoming awe of the august assembly listening to his words." For Humanity. Not for the pride of arms nor In base Nor with the hope of an exalted nap Do we unsheathe the sword with blk. For action. 'Tis the strongest, cleares Fur which Columbia's valiant sons r The love to brother man, of sac ret Christ taught it while be healed th "I don't see where the pall comes in," said Kettle gloomily. "There isn't a bleaaed oonntry on the faoe of the globe more interfering with her own people than England A Yankee oan do as he darn well pleases in the filibustering line, hat if a Britisher makes a move that way the blessed law here stretches oat 20 hands and plnoks him baok by the tail before he's half started. No, Mr. Garnforth, I'm not sweet on lame, And shall woe at our portal vainly If blood be spilled that steadfast strength May euttsr in where war and tumi If a new dawn illnme tbe Cuban ak With light of peace, from hearth ana But Gnptain Kettle took the situation differently. The sight of the torpedo catcher stiffened all the doubt and limpness out of bis composition. His eye brightened and his lips grew stiff. The scheming to escape acted on him like a tonio. and whan an hour later When Mr. .Joseph Chamberlain was first elected, an old friend, who was also an old member CDf the bouse of commons, oaiue to him and nave him this bitjDf advice: "You know you have cufine Into the bouse rather late, and you have some sort of reputation outside. The house of commons does Dot like outside reputation. It is accustomed to wake VP* vnautk* U* They saw tbe coast first as a black line running across the dim gray of the nigbt It rose as they ueured it and showed a crest fringed with trees and a foot steeped in white mist from out of vkiab nain IW falsi hallow of sort Qwtoin *eHK ahas • « t*a Carnforth listened with staring eyes. What sort of broil was this truculent little scamp going to mix in next? He knew euougb of Spanish character to understand clearly that the offer of tbe arowa waa merely an amply civility. B» attaHtoml KagO* to* "Starboard," he said. "Hard over, you bung eyed Dutchman. Starboard as far as she'll go." length A fervent land shall pray that God  Her grief at death for wronged humanity. —Abigail Taylor. M or Pmwrow. Interest paid ob Deposit* twioeijw, BmotI baafc&i lnwln ma do—. _ „ _ _ n .A-A. BBT9I#, ftatf** , * nii'im Ww Tbe wheel engines clattered briskly in tbe bouse underneath, and tbe Saltan tf Borneo's he§d swung off quickly to Furniture repaired. H. 1? WiH( it.