Pittston Gazette

              •  H H r» ■ latabllihed 1MO. I VOL. XLIXJio. 18.) Oldest NewsDauer in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. Ill OOkYear ; in AdvaDC ». £ BY W. A. FRASER. £ "7* i Copyright, 1898, by tbe author. 1\ film then will he tell her to take It to the police thakine." There was no time to be lost, for it would be discovered that he had stolen it, and he would also lose the ruby. .Putting the palms of his hands together in front of his face in the form of supplication, Hpo Thit said: "The red stone which I took from the Kyoung, even from the forehead of the Buddha, is in the polioe thakine's body. I fired it from my gun the last time because I had no bullets and because, if it oould work a miracle, it would stop the polioe, that I might get away." medalist 01 nis year in caigianu. The Phoongyes were notified, and there was great rejoicing among them. They came and beat tamtams all night long in front of Valentyne's bungalow. This was to drive the Nahts away, so that they would not steal the Beda again. Valentyne was loaded down with presents and feasted like a bullock for the sacrifice. ques w icq toe conquerors 01 earcu aua we hierarchs of heaven. The petition was to be forwarded to the viceroy through the ohief commissioner and prayed that the superintendent of police, Valentyne, should be delivered over to them that they might regain the most sacred relic in all the Buddhist empire. EAETHIY EXISTENCE. tne live years, or tne ten years, or tne id years, In which she o&rae every night for a kiss, ail the tones of your heart pealing forth at the sound of her voice or the soft touch of her hand!* Because In some financial Euroclydon your fortune went into the breakers, did you forget all those years in which the luxuries and extravagances of life showered on your pathway f Alas, that is an unwise man, an ungrateful man, an unfair man, an unphllosophio man, and, most of all, an un-Christian man, who measures his life on earth by groans and tears and dyspeptic fit and abuse and scorn and terror and neuralgic thrust. Begla Today. DR. TALMAGE PROPOSES A NEW WAY This it a good day in which to begin a new style of measurement. How old art thonf Tou see the Christian way of measuring life and the worldly way of measuring it. I leave it to you to say which la the wisest and best way. The wheel of time has turned very swiftly, dnd it has hurled us on. The old year has gone. The new year has come.; For what you and I have been launched upon It God only knows. Now let me ask you all,- have you made any preparation for the future? You have made preparation for time, my dear brother; have you made any preparation tor eternityf Do you wonder that when that man on the Hudson river, in indignation, tore up the tract whloh was handed to him and jnst one word landed on his ooat sleeve—the rest of the tract being pltohed into the river—that one word aroused his soulf It was that one word, so long, so broad, so high, so deep—"eternity I" A dying woman in her last moments said, "Call it back." They said, "What do yoa wantt" "Time," she said, "oall It baokl" Oh,.it cannot be called back! We - - '• oall them and, perhaps, good nam* • gone is goo« Soma of His opportunity to steal the ruby had come to him just as he was leaving Moung Ouray's house, after having put the opium in the box. For some unknown reason, probably owing to the poay, he had found the temple deserted for a few minutes and had knocked the ruby out of the alabaster wit£ his dah. Then the sudden fear and the chance to implicate Moung Ouray as the thief, his other scheme having failed, had led him to put it in the box. Now he knew that Mi Mra must have seen him put it there, and as he would be accused of stealing it anyway he meant to get the ruby back. TO MEASURE IT. The Beat Mode of Estimating Life Is by the Good One Hay Accomplish. Mere Worldly Pleasures Bring No Heal Joy—A New Year's Greeting. They were willing to pay an indemnity to his family, but the ruby they must have. This statement took away the breath of the court. The silence was unbroken for a full minute. Then the chief Phoongye said: "Hpo Thit is telling lies. He has hid it. We must swear him." "I shall be a rich man," he said to Corbyn, "if the thing holds off for a time." For a time it looked rather blue for Valentyne, for the vioeroy was a rn»n who had great ideas about the rights of the natives. In fact, he went in for it very much as a baboo plays lawn tennis, without much scienoe in the game, but with his whole soul and ponderous body dead on the ball. But the incessant drumming and poay making about his bungalow was driving him nearly mad for want of sleep [Copyright, 1898, by American Press Association.]Washington, Jan. 1.—Appropriate to the exit of one year and the entrance of another year are the praotloal suggestions which Dr. Talmage puts In this discoBfee, which propose a different mode of measuring time from that erdioarily employed; text, Genesis xlvll, 8, "How old art thouf" "Yes," said the deputy commissioner, "he must make oath to that," for things were better done judicially. Waited Yean. Again, I remark that there are many people who estimate their lite on earth by the amount of money they have aooumu* lated. They say, "The year 1866, or 1870, or 1898, was wasted." Whyf "Made no money." Now, It is all cant and Insincerity to talk against money, m though it bad no value. It may repreeent refinement and eduoatlon and 10,000 blessed surroundings. It is the spreading of the table that feeds the children's hunger. It la the lighting of the furnaoe that keeps you warm. It is the making of the bed on which you rest from oare and anxiety. It is the carrying of you out at last to deoent sepuloher and the putting up of the slab on which 1s chiseled the story of your Christian hope. It la simply hypocrisy, this tirade in pulpit and lecture hall against money. Then one day Corbyn made a disoovery. It was only a boil, the result of mango eating. When the strong arm of the law reached oat tar Moung Ouray and gath- great merit, so that when he cued we "Beda Buddha" worked miracles. He ordered tbe clerk to swear him on the palm leaf Burmese bible. The papers at home took it up, and, a nice gentleman one evening at Exeter ball poiufetd out to the B P. that evi- The Phoongyes were in despair. Just about that time Hpo Thit walked into his bungalow one day and, bumping his forehead on the floor, begged Valentyne's forgiveness for wounding him. He had served his time and was going away. If he remained in Burma, they would kill him for stealing the Beda, so be was going to some other country. and In Hpo Thit instead. It waa this And now for 1,200 years had the ■acred eye, the "Beda ruby," done even so. Slipping away from the others as they came out of Moung Ouray's house, he quickly sped away to San Shwe's bungalow. "No, thakine," said the priest, interrupting, "he is not a disciple oi, Buddha. He is a jungle man, and we must swear him on a branch of the leppan."The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In ships and barges there had been brought to it from India frankincense and cinnamon and Ivory and diamonds; from the north, marble and Iron; from Syria, purple and silk; from Greeoe, some of the finest horses of the world and some of the most brilliant chariots, and from all the earth that which oonld best please the eye and charm the ear and gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with red sandstone, entered by the gateways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hleroglyphlos and wound with brazen serpents and adorned with winged creatures—their eyes and beaks and pinions glittering with precious btones. There were marble oolumns blooming Into white flower beds. There were stone pillars, at the top bursting Into the shape of the lotus when In full bloom. way: The night after the boat raoe at the water festival at Thaywtemeo Hpo Thit The mad frenzy of the priests seemed like tbe petalent temper of children. Their thin brown bodies, draped with the sacred yellow robe, swayed and looked in the weird light of their fiick- oame to Valentyne, tbe mpexintendent of police, and said that there were As he approached oautiously be oould see Mi Mra and her mother and father sitting on the bamboo floor earnestly discussing something. "They will deoide. I will wait," he muttered, squatting on his heels at the side of the road. But after the oath it was tbe same —the red stone was in the polioe thakine's body. might Ion our fortunes ant back, we might lose our healtt oeoover it, we might loee oui tnd get that back, but time » forever. you daring the past year made fa* eternity, and It makes do Tou really, as to the matter of «r yon go now or go some whether this year or the next your feet on the rook, the dash around you. Tou oan say, refuge and strength—a very ' Tou are on the rook, and ill earth and hell to over- I oongratulate you. I give jay. It is a happy new year to 10 sorrow at all in the faot /* are going. You hear some 'I wish I oould go back again ' I would not want to go baok hood. I am afraid I might life out of it than I have oould not afford to go baok to it wen possible. You might do worse than you have done, gone! Look out for the future 1 " ft is a time of gladness. years are going. You are learer home. Let your ooun"" up with the thought. Nearto the Center. Dne oan sooner gt/j to the _ , is he not to be o&gratuwants to be always in the many balls of opium hid away in Moung Ouray's house. When he spoke of Moung Ouray, Valentyne Halted a UtMoung Ouray mil Mra'i fmt&ar, and Mi Mra—she had the daintiest way "A thief luu stolen the " "I think it is the truth," said the deputy commissioner. And that was the last anybody ever saw of Hpo Thit in Burma. "It is true," said the priests, "and the polioe thakine must give up the Beda." Then Mi Mra came out and started off across the dried maidan toward the superintendent's bungalow. Three years more of playing Buddha at the rate of 10,000 rupees a year passed, and this time there oould be no mistake about it, so Corbyn said. The ruby was coming not far from the place where the boil had been. In fact, it was the irritation of the Beda that had most likely caused the boiL preparation difference to of doing her hair, all looped up with circlets of Jasmine flowers, and tbe "Well, we'll see what can be done in the matter," answered the deputy commissioner, and Hpo Thit was remanded to await developments. aafety, whether other year— year. Bttt wtveimaj "God ia om present help, yon may defy throw you. you great you. nattiest little sapari pellets she used to chew. Valentyne was always potting tbe little Burmese worked silver suparl box away out of sight. Fellows were That was Hpo Thit's chance. Bet while all this la so, be who una money or thinks of money as anything but a means to an end will find oat his mistake when the glittering treasures slip out of bis nerveless grasp and he goes out of this world without a shilling of money or a certificate of stock. He might bettor have been the Christian porter that opened his gate, or the begrimed workman who last night heaved the ooal into his oellar. Bonds and mortgages and leases have their use, but they make a poor yardstick with which to measure life. "They that boost themselves in their wealth and trust In tbe multitude of their riches, none of then oan, by any means, redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him that he should not see corruption." "If you tell about it," he said, as he left her, "I will swear that you and Moung Ouray stole it and gave it to ma Then the judge thakine will ask how you should know that I had it if you had not given it to me." "By Jove," said the surgeon, when he heard about it, "that accounts for the infernal thing taking that corkscrew course." always dropping in on him, and those things looked so odd lying about. Hpo Thit knew all about that, only Valentyne was not aware that he knew. It was the same old thing over again —tamtams, and poaya, and presents, and much praying, and the working of charms to keep the Nahts away—only stronger than before, for they were sure of it this time. Along the avenues, lined with sphinx and fane and obelisk, there were princes who oame In gorgeously upholstered palanquins, carried by servants in scarlet or elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow white horses, golden bitted and six abreast, dashing at full run. On the floors of mosaic the glories of Pharaoh were spelled out in letters of porphyry and beryl and flame. There were ornaments twisted from the wood of tamarisk, embossed with silver breaking into foam. There were footstools made out of a single precious stone. There were beds fashioned out of a orouohed Hon in bronze. There were chairs spotted with the sleek hides of leopards. There were sofas footed with the claws of wild beasts and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stand on the level beach of the sea on a summer day and look either way, and there are miles of breakers, white with the ooean foam, dashing shoreward, st it seemed as if the sea of the world's pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capital for miles and miles flung Itself up into white breakers of marble temple, mausoleum and obelisk. Mi Mra went back to her father's' house. She wanted to think, wanted to do that which was the least trouble. "You'll have to get it out of him some way," said the deputy commissioner, "for it's worth about two lakhs of rupees, and, besides, it won't be healthy for Valentyne to live in Burma with the eye of a Buddhist god in him." "How do yon know of this thing, O Opium Walla—of the balls of opium in Moung Ouray's house?" queried the superintendent, with a hard, Impatient ring in his voice. "Did yon pot tbe loan m that oar year* people mj, " to boyhood, ■gain to boy make* worn made. Ton In the morning she told Valentyne Thankyne about it, and in an hour he and the sergeant and a file of polioe were ohasing after Hpo Thit But Hpo Thit had gone. One more daooit had been created. His brother tbe thuggie's gun had gone with him. The tbuggie didn't know that, for Hpo Thit had stolen it It was an old fashioned muzzle loading musket Corbyn oould take his fingers and push it about under the skin, and the grim, butternut colored faces of the Phoongyes relaxed when they realised how close they were to getting the heaven sent relic. beastly stuff there yourself, and then Devout Burmant were prostrating them•elves at hit feet. oome to aaokle about tbe eggs of your "Look here. Grey," said the surgeon, "I am jiggered if I probe for the cursed thing again. I nearly let Valentyne's life out of him the other day for fear of poisonous cousequenoes, for I thought it was a slug. But if it's a good, clean out ruby it will probably never hurt him, and I'm not going to take any chanoes." dently it was another case of oppression of the poor native. One of their temples had been desecrated, one of their most sacred idols violated, and a jewel, to which they attributed miraculous powers, stolen, and the jewel was now in the possession of one of the government superintendents of police. boyhood U a great deal The paat 1& „ To all Chrlattani I am glad thr coming oo n tenanoe light or homol Get Mow, when sen tear of uDw Atodf Who war _ rash man olaaaf We * ' he Blblioa' know we own laying r* But I remark, there are many—I wish there were more—who estimate their lite by their moral and spiritual development. It is not sinful egotism (or a Christian man to say, "I am purer than I used to be. I am more oonseorated to Christ than I used to be. I have got over a gnat many of the bad habits In whioh I used to indulge. I am a great deal bettor man than I used to be." There la no sinful egotism in that. It is not base egotism for a soldier to say, "I know more about military tactic* than I used to before I took a musket in my hand and learned to 'present arms,' and when I was a pest to the drill offioer." It is not base egotism for a sailor to say, "I know better how to clew down the mizzen topsail than I used to before I had ever seen a ship." And there is no sinful egotism when a Christian man, fighting the battles of the Lord, or, if you will have it, voyaging toward a haven of eternal rest, says, "I know more about spiritual taotios and about voyaging toward heaven than I used to." "No, thakine Abdul, who is a pariah of a Mussulman, saw Moung Ouray take it off tbe ftreboat which Even the officials were pleased— pleased with Valentyne, pleased with themselves and with the way they had managed the affair. The Phoongyes would have their ruby back again, and Valentyne would have done well out at the deal. In fact, he might be reinstated in the service if this spirit of Buddha were cast out of him. .» goes up the river." It is difficult to run down a Barman in the jungle, and it was the next day before they came up with their quarry. —» didMAbdaklh° ertag earth oil ohirags, as they calta Moung Ouray pal the blaak oar0e of their offended godhe&C "No, bat where would "?® "aPrelif°ua *hief .. „ ■ . ... . , stolen the rnbv—taken the sacred Beda WoddhapntM. VaJentyne waa horror strook at thi ■ndaclty of the thief, for the Bedi h i ! , Buddha was the most sacred image ii Jt! •" Burma. Pilgrims oame from al where over the Burmese empire to strike wit! the stag's horn the cresoent shaped gonj SJr+* hanging there at its side aid thei »*** y Cor.*00 pS With forehead prone on the ce men ted floor in front of the god, for thC a little soft rustle Just be- Beda with Buddhi Tod the plaited hamboo wall which Tfae phoon watcbed it night  roaa an the inner aide of the veranda, . _ . „A ®  eloee behind the thakine's headlt *?7', TI ® managed tc might SiSd.™^ MUa«. ,T"?. u»'°p°' *» *■«»—» In the meantime Hpo Thit had glided the noises thrown, so gentle was gijgotly back through the orotons and Then there was a little metallic click. fa*2uthe bnDflow * The very air was full of demoniac oring tbe ° noises as Hpo Thit slipped into thC a toes in his chair bangalow. ,,ar C*CD"*• arouaed th« and coughed long andlmrfly. Sat P^Pe". I. J* 1. . t7 shrieking in a bUr tamarind that tow- TS^S^S,S?eWmU*h*^e high above the champac. m Mi Mr* Within all was quiet, and Hpo Thil wrapped the lemon colored silk scarf ther ktelvLmhed'fw the about her throat Mid slipped like a h*l so lately searched for the down the back stops of °^heUttJe chirage burning, . so he oould see just where to put the bar alight dgn!T«itt«l aped li"1CD. ™nd he took from the £^ta b" »"«* *« ™U" Hi Hal ' J"* P°' I* down in a oonier of ate£. did. Wa ahall --- *in ha, t»t" and llttle plac* '.)f yellow oloth in which it —- tlL iT. was wrapped and took a long, loving Juice at the supari, in the flick- look *? ** £8 I1® 10110(3 it ln hia band tiring i near J°tioD httle . 1L4. . -Z_iT. ro°™ seemed bathed in a flood of warm •Zit h2T %AA blood "d "8ht- Qreat ruby tinted rays £ 7?? HpoThit had told nntil the da*- him. His duty was straight enough, .._ _L J r1izZ i_i „„T^. ~~~ allng brightness lighted up the unoer- Jrs. tL™ "hutT" s DMaar trick of ruining a man." 7?® a een hlgh ,n ,Moh RMntn.il* h-rm-iL.-L. v_i_... u.. night was being made hideous with the th,n°°°- pro0eeded t0 I TherewM wmuoh of terror, so much he unlocked C* * the hoarse roar of the —j.j *. „ I who had 1)6611 attracted by thpir cries First theh*ndmfme and then, -^tSo^ur^sr17' I As he » -mall figure In the bottom was a big round lacquer ont 'rom a penang mat box When the sergeant lifted thTlid, * v^f"7 •here were four bXthem-four oral, ,5? wSbeTfwthw * " WM 10 Mra" '' H0' **°C HpoThit, Moung Ouray knew th!?he had Mi Mra that pot put the egg. there. He did not 7™. T?™' make a pantrTrf his clothesbox; also becaiiBe of that Ml Mra would have S?not HpoThit left them. The balls £othi°« to do you, you would ar-si tssS&T roond and black, not at all The two Punjabi policemen were th® onlaide grinning from e» to mto hoMe- u wai 80 Sive a sarcastic little laugh and asked a" .. . . po Thit If that was the opium he had ._8°°n }he™ 4116  seen Moung Ouray carrying off the 01 me° are accustomed to St ran i rr marching, and onoe more the Buperin"Here is not got aflm," said the ser- and the sergeant and the police «d -k«, « k.M. oonld «»-« • £r£TL opiom," Hpo fiendish uoroar smote uoon his eara. It  was as though the the whole Thit was saying, "or else Moung Ouray dash of bazaar been sudden- 8!Ven lt to 801116 T' 5° 8011,0 of ly emptied into the compound of the op J?" "J™*? ?e Pboongye Kyoung across the road. FT !° the vT , . . . , - . forehead of the ffod Beda. If the opium It was a proper oriental babel, the " „ cry of "thief" cutting through the gen- ® ? 1  m.1 ilk,, rnby is not here, we shall find the '»»-*" ?toe-,,k; the «rg«ot ' £ thaklne. hn. «... „ Oa wa7 ol "We'll have to go and look into that f«T im!,w «-hCs i. „„ aTW» . lint," said the roperintendent, "and , ,? think S"* Ahi?r 18 no end 01 • Hxm, wu tow «uu (TKtTtA «*iri Valentvne to the we'll come back here and finish the sergeant, "but we might as well finish search after. You must come, too. On- March here while we are at it. •ay. so that this Sheitan cannot say Where shall we look first?" that you had a chance to hide any- "la the box, thakine," eagerly interposed Hpo Thit. "If the opium is not That also was diplomatic, but lt was there and be has the ruby, there shall the little slip of losing track of Hpo we find it." Thit that gave the Nahta chance to So once more the sergeant continued work mars mischief. his interrupted search for the bo*. "Somebody is murdering a Phoon- There was nothing tfeyond a pair of p«,'f he said to the sergeant as they Chinese patent leather shoes, a palm leached the road. leaf, Buddhist bible and Moung On- Rushing into the pagoda, he found fay's silken headdresses, many of them the Pboongye. in the temple durtered away there in the bottom. about the big Buddha, the "Beda Bud- "There is nothing here, Hpo Thit," dha," as it was known. (aid the superintendent brusquely. The priests were prostrated at the "What I really ought to do is to arrest test of the great image, raving and Is- yon, Hpo Thit, for a dangerous lunatic; meeting and shrieking in despair. but I'll see to that tomorrow. In the !fWhat's the matter."' asked Valan- meantime, sergeant, just beat up the lyne. surrounding oountry for the budmash "A thief has stolen the Beda, the Bye that has taken the ruby." of God, the rnby." That the ruby was gone was a facer And they pointed to a great hole in *D Hpo Thit. first, the balls of opium the forehead of the Buddha, where the had disappeared, but that he had atkacred "Beda rnby" had been far IS tributed to Moung Ouray; now the ruby psnturies. had vanished, and Moung Ouray had How calm and dignified the alabaster been with the polioe all the time, tod seemed, sitting there With the Then he saw something which gave band resting in his lapl Through IS him a olew. It was an innocent looking centuries of strife and passion and blood circlet of jasmine flowers lying in It was such a circlet on their hair, and it ag there when they before. Mi Mra as taken the HpoThit, "and has of San Shwe, who is da»8hwa will keep it. i He had a couple of shots at them ia a blundering sort of way with the old musket without hitting anybody, but just as Valentyne charged in on him at the head of his polioe Hpo Thit fired again at close quarters, and the superintendent went down, shot in the shoulder.The deputy commissioner was in despair. The Phoongyee, headed by their archbishop, haunted his office and his bungalow night and day, clamoring for the ruby, for their sacred Beda, for the eye of their Buddhist god. There was a cook and boll story, he said, about it having been shot into his body, but evin if it were so they ooald Dot set a whole nation of Buddhists by the ears for the sake of one man. In common honesty they mast giro the jewel up, and if this man oomdn't part with it, why, ne would have to gti with it, that was all. itod.v Qod in this world by the photograph at him; but wo all kn aan ;n five minutes of Interview with a frieuu get a more accurate idea of him than we can by studying him BO yean through pioturee or words." The little ohild that died at 6 months of age know* more of Qod than all Andover and all Princeton and all New Brunswick. Does not oar common sense tenoh us that II la better to be at the oenter than to be olear out on the rim of the wheel, holding nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled Into light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical Instruments trying to peer in through the cracks and the keyholes of heavens-afraid that both doors of the oelestlal mansion will be swung wide open before our entranced vision—rushing about among the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this is good for rheumatism, and that Is good for neuralgia, and something else Is good for a bad oough, last we be suddenly ushered Into a land of everlasting health when the Inhabitant never says, "T am sinV •• The chief commissioner graciously extended his patronage to the extracting of the stone. But the surgeon was obdurate. Apart from all this it had a great surgical interest All the medical fraternity in Rangoon asked Valentyne's permission to be present. In fact, if he had chosen to charge an admission fee of two rupees a head he might have had his compound filled at that price the day Corbyn summoned the Phoongyes to be present to take delivery of the ruby. It was to this capital and the palace of Pharaoh that Jacob, the plain shepherd, came to meet his son Joseph, who had become prime minister, in the royal apartment. Pharaoh and Jacob met, dignity and rusticity, the gracefulness of the oourt. and the plain manners of the field. The king, wanting to make the old oountryman at ease and seeing how white his beard Is and how feeble his step, looks familiarly into his face and says to the aged man, "How old art thou?" " Valentyne is a friend of mine," he said, "and I'm not going to murder him to please any yellow robed Phoongye. I wouldn't do it even if he were an enemy. I'd leave the service first" Only for the Bergeant Hpo Thit would have been carved up into regulation slioes—only for the sergeant and Valentyne, too—for he bellowed out: "iJon't kill him. Take the beast alive." The viceroy seemed inclined to look at it in this light, too, and it really peemed awkward for Valentyne. Of course the deputy commissioner had to report it to the commissioner, and be to th» 'chief commissioner. In the meantime a civil suit to recover the value of the ruby had been instituted in the courts in Rangoon against the government in general and Valentyne in particular. "Bring him here and search him at once," said Valentyne, who was sitting up now, though feeling deuoed groggy, and while the sergeant bound up his wound they stripped Hpo Thit clean as a whistle. But there was no ruby— nothing but much tattooing discovered. The report read that the sacred Beda, the famous ruby, had been stolen from the forehead of the image of Buddha in the pagoda there by a hill man. Hpo Thit; Hpo Thit had been captured and the ruby traoed to the possession of the superintendent of police,-Mr. Valentyne; that it appeared from Hpo Thit'a evidence that he had fired it from a musket into the superintendent's body, but as to whether Hpo Thit'a evidence copld be accepted and the superintendent held to be in innocent possession of the stolen goods or not or whether be should be arrested aa receiver of the stolen goods he was not prepared to say. That must rest with the higher authorities to decide. He suggested that it might be better to refer it to the judicial commissioner. Why, there are those in thia presenile who have measured/' lanoes with many a I foe and unhorsed ltt There an Christian men here who have beoome swarthy by hammering at the forge of calamity. They stand on an entirely different plane of character from that whloh they once occupied. They are measuring their life on earth by golden gated Sabbaths, by penteoostal prayer meeting, by oommunion tables, by baptismal fonts, by hallelniaha is the temple. They have stood "on Sinai and heard It thunder. They have stood ox Plsgah and looked over Into the promisee land. They have stood on Calvary anC seen the cross bleed. They can, like Pau the apostle, write on tnfcir heaviest trou bles "light" and ' but for a moment." The darkest night their soul is Irradiated as was the night over Bethlehem, by th faces of those who have come to proolaln glory and good oheer. They are only watt lng for the gate to open and the chains ' fall off and the glory to begin. Luckily far Valentyne the secretary of state was a hard headed man, not much given to nonsense, and he said in equivalent official language that he'd be d— d if he'd see an innooent Englishman deliberately out up to recover any fetich bauble. Everything was in readiness. The arohbishop bad brought a sacred dish that was supposed to have at one time belonged to Buddha Guadama, to reoeive the Beda in. Win of Mfunrtng Time. Last night the gate of eternity opened to let in, amid the great throng of departed centuries, the soul of the dying year. Under the twelfth stroke of the brazen hammer of the city clock the patriarch fell dead, and the stars of the night were the funeral torches. It is most fortunate that on this road of life there are so many milestones, on which we can read just how fast we are going toward the journey's end. I feel that it is not an Inappropriate question that I ask today when I look into your faces and say, as Pharaoh did to Jacob, the patriarch, "How old art thou?" "What have you done with the ruby?" asked the superintendent, but Hpo Thit wouldn't answer. Valentyne's back was bared. Corbyn made an incision with his scalpel, pressed gently-with the forefinger of his right hand downward, and in a second something lay in his left hand. Then they got back to Thayetmyo as quickly as they could, carrying Valentyne on an improvised dbooly in the shape of a charpoy, which they got from the woon of a neighboring village by the gentle art of zabar-dasti. But all the same the superintendent would have to be retired on half pay, for his usefulness was gene. The two oould not be combined, the dual position at Burmese god and superintendent of polite, for the natives still persisted in reverencing him, though ready as soon as the word was given to out him up. He gave it a little rinse in a bowl of warm water he had ready and held it np to the expeotant gaze of the many enming heads. I What fool* we all are to prefer the oiraod | oumlerence to the center! What a dread" ful thing It would be If we should be suddenly ushered from this wintry world into •i the May time orchards of heaven, and if oar pauperism of sin and sorrow should be j,, suddenly broken up by a presentation of an emperor's oastle surrounded by parka with springing fountains and paths, up and down which angels of God walk two and two I In 1865 the French resolved that at Ghent they would have a kind of ihusioal ' demonstration that had never been heard of. It would be made np of the chimes of bells and the discharge of oannon. The exw periment was a perfect suooess. What With P®n the ringing at the bells and the report et to" the ordnance, the olty trembled, and the hills shook with the triumphal march that to was as strange as it was overwhelming. With a most glorious aocompaniment will Qod's dear ohildren go Into their high residence when the trumpets shall sound and _4 the last day has come. At the signal giv- an, the bells at the towers, and at the *nd lighthouses, and of the cities will strike *to their jweetnuss into a last chime that shall ring into the heavens and float off upon the sea, Joined by the boom of bursting mine and magasine, augmented by all the jathedxal towers of heaven—the harmonies Iof earth and the symphonies of the oelestlal realm making up one great triumphal march, lit to oelebrate the asoent of the | redeemed to where they shall shine as the 01' «e taved His Baeoa. When Hpo Thit was brought back by the polioe, he was met by a reoeption committee composed of orthodox Buddhists, who were gathered together with the avowed object of honoring him with the crucifixion. It was a piece of oblong lead—a slug. People who are truthful on every pther subject lie about their ages, so that I do not solioit from you any literal response to the question I have asked. I would put no one under temptation; but I simply want this morning to see by what rod it is we are measuring our earthly exlstenoe. There is a right way and a wrong way of measuring our earthly existence. There is a right way and a wrong way of measuring a door, or a wall, or an arch, or a tower, and so there Is a right way and a wrong way of measuring our earthly existence. It is with reference to this higher meaning that I confront you this morning with the stupendous question of the text, and ask, "How old art thou?" Hpo Thit had lied, that was all, and had the ruby away with him—at least It was never found Just when he thought his troubles were at an end and he might go home they applied for an injunction to prevent him from moving the ruby out of Burma. They showed to the oourt on medical authority that them was every possibility that the ruby might work i tee If out some day, and so be recovered; but if Valentyne were allowed to leave the kingdom the chances of the rightful owners ever beooming possessed of it were very slim indeed To guard against his attaining Nirvana by a fluke, aa it were, he was to be crucified head downward. Valentyne in the meantime had to be guarded at the hospital, for Mi Mra discovered that the Phoongyes had set a scheme on foot to kidnap him and incidentally carve him up to find the sacred stone. THK END. TIM Only Way to Oat Married. Joy of Doing Good. Valentyne, who was very weak by this time, had great difficulty in explaining to them that the government eould not allow such a thing to take place. There is a virtue in the ipsissima ▼erba prescribed for ceremonials which aome people can never be got to understand. and at Peterborough this denaeneaa led to the postponement of a wedding. In the ohnrch were duly assembled the gneata, the officiating clergyman and the bride %nd bridegroom. The aervioe oommenoed, and all went ■noothly till the priest asked the question, "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?" I remark again, there are many—and wish there were more—who an estimating life by the good they can do. John Bradford said be ooonted thai nothing at all In which be bad not, bj or tongue, done some good. If a max* There were many reasons why they should recover it as soon as possible. Their Buddha had lost all prestige since his maltreatment, and no pilgrims oame now to lay their generous offerings at his great square feet. The pagoda had oeased to do a paying business, for Uzzana's ruby had been a drawing card. It had been a good investment that for 12 oenturies had gone on making money for the priests. "Have patience, good friends," he said. "We must be merciful," and he talked cheerfully of the lifelong years of living hell Hpo Thit would surely get on the Andaman islands for his part in the little circus. gin right, I cannot tell how many tear* may wipe away, how many burden* They undertook to pay Valentyne a salary of 10,000 rupees a year ao long aa he remained in Rangoon, and all they asked in return was the privilege of coming to worship the Beda at oertain periods, and that a medical offloer, appointed by them, should have free aooess to Valentyne'a person with a view to keeping track of the perambulations of the ruby, and that when it made ita appearance near the akin anywhere, ao that it might be extracted without danger to him, that he would relinquish all claim upon it and allow the surgeon to hasten its appearance. may lift, bow many orphans be may oon fort, bow many outcasts be may reolalm. There have been men who have given their whole life In the right direction, oonoan tratlng all their wit and Ingenuity mental acumen and physical force enthusiasm for Christ. They climbed mountain and delved Into the mine There are many who estimate their life by mere worldly gratification. When Lord Dundas was wished a happy new year, be said, "It will have to be a happier year than the past, for I hadn't one happy moment in all the 13 months that have gone." But that has not been the experience of most of us. We have found that though the world is blasted with sin it Is a very bright and beautiful place to reside in. We have had joys Innumerable. There Is no hostility between the gospel and the merriments aDd the festivities of life. I do not think that we fully enough appreciate the worldly pleasures God gives us. When you recount your enjoyments, you do not go far enough baok. Why do you not go baok to the time when yon were an infant In your mother's arms, looking up Into the heaven of her smile; to those days when yon filled the bouse with the uproar of boisterous merriment; when yon shouted aa you pitched the ball on the playground; when, on the cold, sharp winter night, muffled up, on skates you shot over the resounding Ice of the pond? Have you forgotten all those good days that the Lord gave you? Were you never a boy? Were you never a girl? Between those times and this how many mercies the Lord has bestowed upon you! Bow many joys have breathed up to you from the flowers and ■hone down to you from the stars, and chanted to you with the voloe of soaring bird and tumbling cascade and booming sea and thunders that with bayonets of fire charged down the mountain side! Joy! Joy I Joy I If there is any one who has a right to the enjoyments of the world it is the Christian, for God has given him a lease of everything In the promise, "All are yours." But I have to tell you that a man who estimates his life on earth by mere worldly gratification is a most un- V?ine man. Our life is not to be a game of chess. It is not a dance In lighted hall, to quick musio. It Is not the froth of an ale pitcher. It la not the settlings of a wine cup. It la not a banquet, with intoxloation and rolatering. It la the first step on a ladder that mounts into the skies, or the first step on a road that plunges into a horrible abyss. "Bow old art thou?" Toward what destiny are yon tending, and how fast are you getting on toward it? In a general sort of way the sergeant explained to them that they, who knew little about suoh things, could only make Hpo Thit wish he had not done this thing for a very few minutes at the outside, but the thakine, who was the government, oould cause Hpo Thit to revile the day be was projected into the world by a thief of a jackal for years and years. "Tea," said the prospective husband, who evidently did not go In for archalsma.Valentyne applied for and obtained sick leave, handicapped with an order that he must not take the ruby out of the jurisdiction of the Burmese oourta. dropped at last Into martyrs' graven waiting for the reaurreotion of the Just. They measured their lives by the ohains they broke off, by the garments they pat upon nakedness, by the miles they traveled crossed the sea and trudged the dosert It was explained to him that "I will" was the regulation reply. Whereupon the bridegroom began to argue about it, insisting that "Tea" waa quite sufficient far the purpose, and that as he meant to do hla duty by the girl the exact form of aaaent oould not matter. It was a splendid bit of judioial ruling that, and the deputy commissioner smiled grimly when it passed through his hands. alleviate every kind of suffering. They felt in the thrill of every nerve, in the So Valentyne was taken to the hospital and Hpo Thit was put in a cage behind iron hars. 1nst like the mamrv tiger they had seen down at Rangoon. their heart, In every respiration of their lungs the magnlfloent truth, "No man liveth unto himself." They went through oold and through heat, foot blistered, oheek smitten, back scourged, tempest lashed, to do their whole duty. That is the way they measured life—by the amount of good they oould do. tion ol every muscle, In every throb The surgeon swore like a trooper when be heard about it, for he had ordered Valentyne off to Darjeeling for a change.. "You can't stop here," he said, "because if you don't die of fever they'll murder you sure. By Jove! your body will be worth something for dissecting purposes, though, if they don't get the first slash at you." Valentyne's oounael, seeing which way the wind waa blowing, agreed to accept thia ruling of the oourt, only stipulating that Oorbyn be appointed surgeon, for the nether stone had Buffered most in the grind, and Oorbyn waa out of the service. At last his attitude became ao aggressively positive that the parson shut his book and refuagd to oontinue the aervice, and the oonple had to leave the ohuroh unwed.—London News. "And now"— Oat of the corner of his eye the cannibal king MHirmt himself that the pot was babbling merrily. "We will take dinner with you. Prepare to die." F The ahipwreokad sailor eoowled. "Say," he aaid, "what fall'* da matter wit* yooae guytt" Theaavageeetnhangert glanoesof dis« may. "He oertaintaria tough," they aald. And wltt addeoed mien the king or* dared en everyday dinner of boiled vegetable*"I'll have the bullet out of you in a jiffy," said the civil surgeon to Valentyne, as be rolled up his sleeves and opened his case of shining instruments. "D d if I can understand it, though," he said, as be probed away, for the Jiffy time had gone by and he hadn't even touched the bullet yet. "It must be one of those infernal skew gee slugs of theirs that he has pumped into you. It seems to have struck yon under the arm as you were flourishing that sword of yours, and then traveled on down along your ribs. God knows where it is now, for I can't find it You've lost enough blood over it for just now, anyway, but if there seems to fce any complication setting in I'll have another try for it" One little formality the oonrt demanded, and that was that the archbishop and three or four of the chief Phoongye should go on a bond for Valentyne's personal safety. So the superintendent was lodged in a beautifully furnished bungalow and was treated very much like a distinguished state prisoner. Bin thing. Do yoa want to know how old Luther was: how old Richard Baxter was; bow old Philip Doddridge wasf Why, you cannot calculate the length of their Uvea by any human arithmetic! Add to their llrea 10,000, tiroes 10,000 years and you hare not expressed it—what they have lived or will live. Oh, what a standard that Is to measure a man's life by 1 There are those In this house who think they have only lived SO years. They will have lived 1,000 —they have lived 1,000. There are those who think they are 80 years of age. They have not even entered upon their infancy, for one must beoome a babe In Christ to begin at all. In a learned work on ariminology it is stated that out of 08 young men criminala 44 did not blush when examined. Of 123 women criminals 81 per oent did not blush. From this it seems that writers of liotion are all in the wrong, and that, instead of making their heroines betray their emotions by blushing, they should leave that part of the regulation programme to their admirers of the other sex. But Valentyne steadily improved. The wound was healing up nicely, the ruby seemingly giving him no trouble whatever. As soon as be was able to sit up and move about he discovered a new source of annoyanoe. Devout Bur mans were constantly coming and prostrating themselves, at his feet, touching their foreheads to the ground and muttering their prayers. Life went very pleasantly with him, and it did not seem such a bad affair after all. But they made the sailor eat at the ■eeood tabie Tim Mi Mra was living in Rangoon, too, as it happened, and Hpo Thit, in consideration of his turning queen's evidence against himself re the ruby, was let off with two years in jail and waa then busily engaged in puahing a convervancy cart about town with a clanking chain running from hia waist to either ankle by way of ornament It is also noted by the anthor that women blush about the ears rather than on the cheek. Perhaps some time soon scientists will be able to tell us why, without apparent reason, one or other of our ears suddenly blushes and burns, and if, aa the old wivea tell us, it is a sign that some one is speaking of ua how we can tell who it may be. We all know that It ia "right for spite and left for love," but the knowledge ia not very useful to ns, and nowadays we like to know the why and the wherefore of everything. Tk* Psltussl Aatrleu Typewriter. American firms have practically a monopoly in supplying the world1! market with typewriting machines. Firms la other countries make the machines, but they cannot be considered In the light of competitors to the American* article, the superiority of which Is generally oonceded. To adapt the machine to universal use special keyboards are now made for various languages, such as German, French. Greek, Russian, eto., and when the home market is supplied there yet remains a worldwide field for the American article. —New York Commercial. , "Whatdoesit all mean?" he asked Moung Ouray. A Bright View •( Life. The surgeon saw it was about time to desist, for Valentyne was looking pretty well used up. "Sar, they are worshiping the Beda which you, by the grace of God and that wicked Hpo Thit, have got" Now, I do not know what your advantages or disadvantages are; I do not know what your tact or talent 1b; I do not know what may be the fasolnation of your manners or the repulsivenesQ of them; but I know this—there Is for you, my hearer, a field to culture, a harvest to reap, a tear to wipe away, a soul to save. If you have worldly means, oonseorate them to Christ. If you have eloquenoe, use It on the side that Paul and Wilberforoe used theirs. If you have learning, put It all Into the poor box of the world's suffering. But if yoa have none of these—neither wealth, nor eloquenoe, nor learning—you, at any rata, have a smile with which you oan enoourage the disheartened; a frown with whioh you may blast Injustice; a voioe with whioh you may oall the wanderer back to God. "Oh," you say, "that is avery sanctimonious view of. life I" It Is .not. It is the only bright view of life, at)d it is the only bright view of death. Contrast the death scene of a man who has measured life by the worldly standard with the death scene of a man who has measured life by the Christian standard. Quln, the actor, in tils last moments, said, "I hope this traglo scene will soon be over, and I hope to keep my dignity to the last" Malesherbes -aid In his last moments to the confessor: -' Hold yonr tengue! Your miserable style puts me out of conceit with heaven.'1 Lord Chesterfield in his last moments, when he ouxht to have been praying for his soul, bothered himself about iRe proprieties of .ho sickroom and said, "Give Dayboles a nhalr." Godfrey Knoiler spent his last hours on earth in drawing a diagram of his own monument. Then Hpo Thit was brought up before the deputy commissioner for a committal hearing, aa it were, charged with stealing the sacred ruby, and with attempted murder of the superintendent. * "This is intolerable," thought Valentyne. "I am a ruby mine and a Burmese god and a receiver of stolen goods all in one." The Europeans, in Rangoon, with oriental playfulness, bestowed upon Valentyne two or three names expressive of his occupation. He waa known down at the "Gym" as the "Burmese god," "Beda," and the "Jewel Merchant." . As he got better the beauty of his new life was further enhanced by the deluge of official correspondence that pommenced to pour in upon him. But the priests were clamorous for the ruby eye of their Buddha, for the matter of Valentyne dying or not they did not bother their heads—even they would let Hpo Thit go free, so be it they oould oome by the sacred gem again. The Burmese archbishop, the Thathanabaing, had oome down from Ava to see about the reoovery of the stone. By order of the chief commissioner he was asked to explain how he meant to make good to the pagoda the value of the ruby he was still retaining on his person. It was cheerfully pointed ont that if half his salary was escheated for this purpose it would take at least 40 years to make up the valne of the jewel. "Mrs. Gladstone cultivated the art of listening to her husband to a perfection that I never saw equaled,'' says an English writer. "When he spoke, her absolute attention was always at his command—in fact, I do not believe anybody ever was so absorbed as Mrs. Gladstone looked. I suspect that she had learned how to wear that absolutely listening air while her mind followed its own track. But it was a decided help to him, for it secured at table and elsewhere a general silence when he wished to deliver bis opinions without any appearance that he personally was demanding it Mrs. Gladstone's own tittle speeches to the women Liberals, too, were always oh one topio, what her husband thought or how he was feeling. In short, for the old ideal of wifehood, Mrs. Gladstone was a perfect model." Mrs. Gladstone aa m LUteatr. 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You have been betrayed and misrepresented and set upon and slapped of impertinence and pounded of misfortune. The brightest life must have its shadows and the smoothest path its thorns. On the happiest brood the hawk pounces. No escape from trouble of some kind. While glorious John Milton was losing his ejfe sight he heard that Salmaslus was glad of It. While Sheridan's comedy wtu being enacted in Drury Lane theatre, London, hlB enemy sat growling at it In the stage box. While Bishop Cooper was surrounded by the favor of learned men, his wife took his lexicon manuscript, the result of a long life of anxiety and toil, and threw It Into tbe lire. Misfortune, trial, vexation for almost every one. Pope, applauded of all the world, has a stoop In the shoulder that annoys hliu so much that he has a tunnel dug so that he may go unobserved from garden to grotto and from grotto to garden. Cano, the famous Spanish artist, is disgusted with the crucifix that the priest holds before him because it is such a poor speuimen. of sculpture. And so, sometimes through taste and sometimes through learned menaoe and sometimes through physical distresses—aye, in JO, 000 ways—troubles come to harass and annoy. . One or two playful attempts on his life relieved the monotony of his existonce, but as these laudable efforts were usually frowned down both by the Phoongyes and the officials, and as one of his assailants caught a cold steel in his right lung, they oeased altogether after a time, and he was leading a comparatively bappy life. They begged the deputy commissioner to give Hpo Thit promit# of pardon if he would only disclose where he had hidden the Beda. A delay of this sort would hardly be fair to the Phoongyes. Besidos, in that uncertain climate bis salary might cease at any moment. At any rate, under the 55 years' service rr.Je, he oould not retain his position in service for that length of time, and his pension would be barely enough to live upon. "I can't do that," he said, "for the wounded sahib may die. The dootor has fished for the bullet and can't get it, and it looks bad for the superintendent's life. If he dies, Hpo Thit will have to swing." He almost began to wish that the ruby would stay where it was. C• We're fixed for life," he said to Oorbyn, "if this Beda thing doesn't turn np. I must he more careful of myself. I must stop riding, for the shaking up may dislodge the iufernal thing and start it working out," The civil surgeon was raked over the coals for not acting upon the deputy commissionerls suggestion and probing the matter to the bottom, as it were— for not making another effort to recover the jewel. But if the Beda might be recovered they would pay to Valentyne's family his full value in good English sovereigns. v The deputy commissioner was as anxious to reoover the jewel as they were, as he promised Hpo Thit that if be would tell where it was it would help him much when the time of his sentence came. It was in vain that he wrote in answer that the superintendent's life would have been endangered by another operation. He had got used to seeing the natives plump down in front of him and fall to praying. A. Clever TrU*. It oertainly Woks like it, but there 1* really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has lame back and weak kidneys malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away Dy taking Electric Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acta as a stimulant to the liver and kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures constipation, headache, fainting spells, sleeplessness and melancholy. 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Oh, my friends, this world is a false god) It will consume you with the blaze tn which it accepts your saoriflee, while the righteous shall be bcKl in everlasting remembrance, and when the thrones have fallen and the monuments have crumbled and the world has perishedJkbey shall ban- Strangers always took him for the chief commissioner when the; saw this sort of thing going on, and many were the mistakes made in consequence. "I will tell," said Hpo Thit, "because it will be easy for the thakine to get it and then the thakine will remember at the time of the sentence." His answer only brought another literary wigging, in which he was curtly reminded that the British government expected its officials to do their duty Irrespective of personal feeling or considerations of personal safety. Onoe he received an offer from Barnum at a salary which made his paltry 10,000 rupees looks like pin money only. The enterprising American guaranteed to smuggle him out of Burma also, and pay all legal claims tqo- The priests craned their thin, shaven, buzzardlike heads eagerly forward. Even the deputy commissioner was intensely excited, for if he should reoover this sacred Beda it would be well; if not, the papers all through India would have their fling at it and his life would be made miserable answering inquiries from the government. ACTIVK SOLICITORS WANTED EVERYn where for "The Story of the Philippines," by Marat Halstead, commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department The book was written in army campsat San Francisco, on the Pacific with Gen. Merritt. in the hospitals at Honolula, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne Tnsum nt camps with Aguinaldo, on the deck of tne Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battli at the fall of Manila. fbr agents. Brin fnl of original %k in by Koveran eat photographers on thC ap t. Large book. lxDw prices. Bite profits. Fi ,„ur paid. Creditjrftub. Drop all trashy unofficial war book". Outfit free. Address, F T. Barbar, Seo'y, Star Insurance Building, Chicago. "Hang them for a lot of bloodthirsty swine," exclaimed Corbyn, for that was the surgeon's name, "they mean to have that ruby out of Valentyne, even if it costs him his life." had carnage had it looked -with oalm {root of the" box |j ierenity man the struggles erf the little as the girls wore men whohad ooroe and gone. h».ln't been ly • Twelve centuries before had King Marched the boy pawns given it to the Talojrtns at "Of a certaintj Pg*»IM»_thp son of Misnssrim, roby," murmured mtifmmtm gftmrnm-- torn to the houar Ipp Msanntt ms*: *-• After he had been in the business 4 bout two years he began to feel a pain his back. He eonfided his fears to his attendant physioian. "It's working out, I'm sure," he said sorrowfully. .A nil yet It is unfair to measure a man's life by his misfortunes, because where thore Is one stalk of nightshade there are 60 marigolds and harebells; where there luone cloud thunder charged there are hundreds that stray across the heavens, the glory of land and sky asleep In their bosom. Beoauae death oame and took your child away, did yon immediately forget ail Then the Phoongyes got up a monstrous petition, signed by all the Buddhists, living and dead, in the whole Barman empire. It was cleverly worded, having been drawn up by a young Barman barrister, who wait the raid The oonrt was as silent as the graven image at Buddha itself as they waited loot Hpo Thit to SDttak And so it appeared, for a distinct lump was forming just below the shoulder blade.  tmtif Ms heart fail Freeh shell oysters. E H Williamson. --"VO