Pittston Gazette

              BatablUhml D ▼OI.. XLlXNu. :l« i Oldest Newsbaner in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. (txoo* Year : in AdTUM. as the troopers found out THE 1)1 VI Mi SCALES. tions. Hnw many times ho has put tne Spanish monarchy into the scales and found It insufficient and condemned It! The French empire was placed on one side of the scales, and God weighed the French empfre, and Napoleon said: "Have I not enlarged the boulevards? Did I not kindle the glories of the Champs Elysees? Have I not adorned the Tuileries? Have I not built the gilded opera house?" Then God weighed the nation, and he put on one side the scales the emperor, and the boulevards, and the Tuileries, and the Champ Elysees, and the gilded opera house, and on the other side he puts that man's abominations, that man's libertinism, that man's selfishness, that man's godless ambition. This last came down, and all the brilliancy of the scene vanished. What is that voice coining up from Sedan? Weighed and found wanting! and all nations are to lie weighed. The unforgiven get in on this side the balances. They may have weighed themselves and pronounced a flattering decision. The world may have weighed them and pronounced them moral. Now they are being weighed in God's balances—the balances that can make no mistake. A11 the property gone, all the titles of distinction gone, all the worldly successes gone, there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an immortal soul, a never dying soul, a soul stripped of all worldly advantages—a soul on one side the scales. On the other side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded sermons, 10,000 opportunities of mercy and pardon that were cast aside They are on the other side the scales, and there God stands, and, in the presence of men and devils, cherubim and archangel, he announces, while groaning earthquake and crackling conflagration and judgment trumpet and everlasting storm repeat it, "Weighed and found wanting." MR. EPIZOOT WILKINS. EMBASSADORS' SALARIES. j Ik Rut of the Wis las. I Studj/ard Jfipling. How long this panic lasted I cannot eay. I believe that when the moon rose the men saw they had nothing to fear and by twos and threes and half troops crept back into cantonments very much ashamed of themselves. Meantime the drum horse, disgusted at liis treatment by old friends, pulled up, wheeled round and trotted up to the mess veranda steps for bread. No one liked to run, but no one cared to go forward till the colonel made a movement and laid hold of the skeleton's foot. The band had halted some distance away and now came, back slowly. The colonel called it, individually and collectively, every evil name that occurred to him at the time, fcr he had set his hand on the bosom of the drum horse and found flesh and blood. Then he beat the kettledrums with his clinched fist and discovered that they were but made of silver paper arid bamboo. Next, still swearing, he tried to drag the skeleton out of the saddle, but found that it had been wired into the cantle. The sight of the colonel, with his arms roupd the skeleton's ptlvis and his knee in the old drum horse's stomach, was striking, not co say amusing, tie worried ine thing off in a minute or two and threw it down on the ground, saying to the band, "Here, you curs, that's what you're afraid of!" The skeleton did not look pretty in the twilight. The band sergeant seemed to recognize it, for he began to chuckle and choke. "Shall J J take it away, sir If" said the band ser* , geant. "Yes," said the colonel, "take it I to hell and ride there yourselves!" THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE HUMAN LIVES AND ACTIONS WEIGHED Stephen, the French Peasant Boy, rttoae of the United States and Great IN THE BALANCES. Ilia Army and Ita Fat*. Britain Compared. In the year 1213 there burst forth among the children of France the idea of rescuing the children of Jerusalem—the city where the Saviour had died—from the hands of the Turks. Mr. Joseph H. Choate is not so well known on this side of the Atlantic as fkune of his predecessors who bore the name} of Lowell, Lincoln, Bayard and Hay. On the other hand, he has a great lawyer's record in his own country, and he combines political integrity and personal distinction as notably as any former embassador of the great republic. It is accepted doctrine in tho United States that the minister to Great Britain shall be a man of some private means, since the remuneration is but $17,600, whereas our embassador at Washington has nearly double that amount, or £6,500 a year. Even this sum is small in comparison with posts of infinitely leu Importance. Sir H. Drummond Wolff gets £5,600 even at Madrid. Rome is £7,000, or less by £1,000 for Sir Philip Currie than his former post at Constantinople, which is worth £8,000. That sum again Is, absurdly enough, £200 a year more than our embassador gets at St. Petersburg. The embassadors in Berlin and Vienna have £8,000 a year, and the prize of the diplomatic profess}"!-, -Paris, which is now paid at £9,000. Dr. Tnlniaup I'renohm on Prraonnl It e*|»oiixilDIMt.v, Tnklnur HI* Text From the Hand» rltiiiK CD» (lie Wall at llnliylon The leader of this youthful army was one Stephen, a 12-year-old boy of Cloyes, France, the son of a peasant shepherd. Washington, May 21.—In these days of moral awakening this pointed sermon by Dr. Talinage on personal responsibility before (iod will be rend with a deep and solemn interest; text, Daniel v, 27, 'Thou art. weighed in the balances and art found fCopyrlgrht, Louis Klopsch, 1899.] One day, as Stephen tended his father's iheep on a lonely hillside, he met a stranger, who represented himself as a pilgrim returned from Palestine. It was not in the open fight Dumber burned in on the poor, stiff, upturned near fore. wanting." He asked for food and then lingered to tell the boy of the wonders of the orient and of the heroes who had fallen in battle while endeavoring to capture the Holv City. We threw away the sword, But tn the lonely watching Babylon was the paradise of architecture, and driven out from thence the grandest buildings of modern times are only the evidence of her fall. The site having been selected for the city, 2,000,- 000 men were employed in the rearing of her walls and the building of her works. It was a city fiO miles in circumference. There was a trench all around the city, from which the material for the building of the city had been digged. There were 25 gates on each side of the city, between every two gates a tower of defense springing into the skies, from each gate on the one side a street running straight through to the corresponding gate on the other side, so that there were 60 streets 15 miles long. Through the city ran a branch of the river Euphrates. This river some times overflowed its banks, and to keep it from ruining the city a lake was constructed into which the surplus wijter of the river would run during the time of fresh ets, and the water was kept in this artificial lake until thno of drought, and then this water would stream down over the city At either end of the bridge spanning this Euphrates there was a palace— the one palace a mile and a half around, the other palace 7 miles around. Personal Application. In the darkness by the ford. The waters lapped, the niRht wind blew. Full armed the fear was born and grew. And we were flying ere we knew From panic in the night, Thus was the drum horse of the White hussars buried—the farrier sergeant grumbling. The sacking that covered the corpse was smeared in places with black paint, and farrier sergeant drew attention to this fact. But the troop sergeant major of E troop kicked him severely on the shin and told him that he was undoubtedly But I must become more individual and more personal in my address. Some people say they do not think clergymen ought to be personal in their religions address, but ought to deal with subjects in the abstract. I do not think that way. What would you think of a hunter who should go to the Adirondacks to shoot deer in the abstract? Ah, no! He loads the gun; he puts the butt of it against his breast, he runs his eye along the barrel, he takes sure aiip, and then crash go the antlers on the rocks! And so, if we want to be hunters for the Lord, we must take sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussions. If a physician comes into a sickroom, does he treat disease in the abstract? No; ho feels the pulse, makes the diagnosis, then he writes the prescription. And, if we want to heal souls for this life and the' life to come, we do not want to treat them in the abstract. The fact is, you and I have a malady which, if uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Now, I want no abstraction. Where is the balm? Where is the physician? All M»t Be Welshed. Finally the itranger announced himself " a messenger from Jesus Christ and Stephen to preach a crusade among the children of France, at the same time presenting a letter to the king of France commanding that sovereign to aid the young crusaders In every possible way. Stephen at once went about calling upon the children to enlist. He preached in the churches to crowds who thronged to hear him; he rehearsed the storibs told to him ■jy his strange visitor; he promised the protection and care of God to all who would follow him. But say some who are Christians: "Certainly you don't mean to say that we will have to get into the balances? Our sins are all pardoned; our title to heaven hi secure. Certainly you are not going to put us In the balances?" "Yes, my brother, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and on that day you are going to be weighed. Oh, follower of ChMst, you get into the balances! The bell of the judgment is ringing. You must get into the balances. You get in on this side. On the other side the balances we will place all the opportunities of good which you did not improve, all the attainments in piety which you might have had, but which you refused to take. We place them all on the other side. They go down, and your soul rises in the scale. You cannot weigh against all those imperfections. Well, then, we must give you the advantage, and on your side the scale we will place all the good deeds you have ever done and all the kind words you have ever uttered. Too light yet I Well, we must put on your side all the consecration of your life, all the holiness of your life, all the prayers of your life, all the faith of your Christian life. Too light yet! Come, mighty men of the past, and get in on that side the scales. Come, Payson and Doddridge and Baxter, get in on that side the scales and make them come down that this righteous one may be saved They come and they get in the scales. Too light yet I Come, the martyrs, the Latimers, the WycUfs, the men who suffered at the stake for Christ Get in on this side the Christian's balanoes and see if you cannot help him weight it aright. They come and get in. Too light! Come, angels of God on high. Let not the righteous perish with the wicked. They get in on this side the balances. Too light yet! I put on this side the balances all the scepters of light, all the thrones of power, all the crowns of glory. Too light yet! But just at that point Jesus, the Son of God, comes up to tbp balances, and he puts one'of his scarred feet on your side, and the balances tDegin to tremble from top to bottom. Then he puts both of his scarred feet on the balances, and the Christian's side eome$ down with a stroke that sets all the bells of heaven ringing. That Hock of Ages heavier than any other weight! Some people hold that an English cavalry regiment cannot run. This is a mistake. I have seen 437 sabers flying over the face of the country ir -Kject terror; have seen the r»giuj«!«v that ever drew bridle wiped off the army list for the space of two hours. If you repeat this tale to the White hussars, they will in all probability treat you severely. They are not proud of the incideut. —Beoni Bar. It must strike anybody that, considering our American trade and, above all, the imperial responsibility specially attaching to our representative at Washington, the United States should not be rank* ed in the matter of pay before Rome, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and—Constantinople! It would be an open sign and seal of the virtual alliance of the A  glo-Saxon race if, when Sir Julian Pauncefote retires In April, the embassy at Washington should be raised to the first rank and put on a par with that of Paris, or at the very least of Berlin and Vienna. The compliment would be felt from Maine to California and from Lake Superior to the Mexican border. And the compliment would represent a fact—a serious fact—that in the future we must look for the closest sympathy not in Enrope, but in America, and that no one less than our very best man (not that Sir Jn. llan Pauncefote is less than our best) should speak for us in the mighty state which Washington founded and Lincoln ruled.—London Chronicle; tfrutfk. On the Monday following the burial the colonel sought revenge on the White bussars. Unfortunately, being at that time temporarily in command of the itation, he ordered a brigade field day. He said that he wished to make the regiment "sweat for their damned insolence," and he carried out his notion thoroughly. Tl#t Monday was one of the hardest days in the memory of the White hussars. They were thrown against a skeleton enemy aDd pushed forward and withdrawn and dismounted • and "scientifically handled" in every possible fashion over dusty country till they sweated profusely. Their only amusement came late in the day when they fell upon the battery of horse artillery and chased it for two miles. This was a personal question, and most of the troopers had money on the event, the gunners saying openly that they bad the legs of the White hussars. They were wrong. A march past concluded the campaign, and when the regiment $ot back to its lines the men were »ated with dirt from spur to chin jtrap. He Writes of Ills Experiences In Wash- ington and of the Obstacles That Pre- The idea spread like wildfire. Boys and girls came from cottage and castle to enlist under the banner of the shepherd boy, and on July 7, 1212, there was mustered at Vendome an army of 30,000 children, many of them under 8 years of age. At the sound of a trumpet ranks were formed and tho march was begun. Banners were raised, a hymn of victory was sung and 30,000 innocent little ones were led forth, most of them to meet death and destruction. You may know the White hussars by their "side," which is greater than that of the cavalry regiments on the roster. If this is not a sufficient mark, you may know them by their old brandy. It has been 60 years in the mess and is worth going far to taste. Ask for the "Mc- Gaire" old brandy and see that you get it. If the mess sergeant thinks that you are uneducated and that the genuine article will be lost on you, he will treat you accerdingly. He is a good man. But when you are at mess you must never talk to your hosts about forced marches or long distance rides. The mew are very sensitive and, if they think that you are laughing at them, will tell you so. ▼ented Him From Accomplishing the Object of HI* Mission. Washington, D. C. Tu the Editur. The band sergeant saluted, hoisted the skeleton across bis saddlebow and I am ni ontu hartbroken and diskurridged ginerally. I hev been sot down on, buncoed and politikally hoodooed. I her hed all mi plan* upsot and hoomiliashun heaped ontu me bi men hoo klaimed tu be Dimicrats, but voted with the Republikins wen their votes wuz needed. I wuz originally sent heer bi Grover Cleveland to bust the Spanish treety and prevent its ratificashun. I thankfully accepted hiz munney with thet objick in vue, and I onestly ment to fulfill mi part uv the contrack. But everything hez workt agin me, and it lz doo tu him thet I relate even at this late da how it wuz that I faled tu akkomplish the objeck uv mi misshun. Mi fust dooty, uv kource, wuz tu see the Dimicratic senaturs and yoose mi inflooence tu hev them vote agin the treety wen it kum up in execootiv session. I hurried around and introdooced miself and told 'em thet Grover and I expected them tu du their doOty. I wuz dubbly surprized tu find thet none uv 'em hed heerd uv me before, and thet tha didn't care a kontinental kuss about Grover nor what he wantid. Wen I explaned tu them the need uv a grate national issoo tn enthoose and rejoovenate the two wings uv the Dimicratic party and make 'em flop tugether in harmony I wuz larfed tu skorn and no attenshun wuz pade tu mi advice. Sum uv the yunger senaturs hed the Impudense tu ask me where I wui frum, and one on 'em askt me If ml muther allowed me tu go out after dark. "Sich remarks ez thet I kail inaultin' tu a Noo Gersey Dimlcrat," sed I, ."and I kin punch the •noot uv eny man thet makes 'em. I em a peeceful citizen, I em," sed I, "but I don't allow no man tu tork tu me like thet nor tu make eny disparagin' remarks about mi frend and next door nabur, Grover Cleveland, en sum u\|yu seem inklined tu du." I wua In the smokin' room uv the senate at the time, and wen I hed fiuisht ml bluff I thot the senaturs wood sa I wuz rite. But tha didn't, and I win further hoomiliated bi bein' run out bi the kapital police. led off to the stables. Then the colonel began to make inquiries for the rest of the regiment, and the language he used was wonderful. He would disband the regiment, he would court martial every soul in it, he would not command such a s.et of rabble, and so on and so on. As the men dropped in, his language grew wilder, until at last it exceeded the utmost limits of free speech allowed even to a colonel of horse. People say there is a day of judgment coming. My friends, every day is a day of judgment, »nd you and I today are being capvassed, inspected, weighed. Here are the balances of the sanctuary. They are lifted, and we must all be weighed. Who will come and be weighed first? Here Is a moralist who volunteers. He is one of the most upright men in the country. Ho comes. "Well, my brother, get in—get into the balances now, and be weighed." But as ho gets into the balances 1 say, The wife of Nebuchadnezzar had been born and brought up in the country and in a mountainous region, and she could not bear this flat district of Babylon, and so, to please his wife, Nebuchadnezzar built In the midst of the city a mountain 400 feet high This mountain was built out into terraces supported on arches. On the top of these arches a layer of flat stones, on the top of that a layer of reeds and bitumen, on the top of that two layers of bricks closely cemented, on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead and on the top of that tho soil placed—the soil so deep that a Lebanon cedar had room to anchor its roots- 'I'hprp vvere pumps worked by mighty machinery fetohlng up the water from the Euphrates to this hanging garden, as it was called, so that there were fountains spouting Into' the sky. Standing below and looking up It miuthave Deemed as if the clouds were in blossom or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. All this Nebuchadnezzar did to please his wife. Well, she ought to have been pleased. I suppose she was pleased. If that would not please her, nothing would. Tbere was in that city also the temple of Bleus, with towers—one tower the eighth of a mile high, in which there was an observatory where astronomers talked to the stars There was in that temple an Image, just one image, which would cost what would be our $52,000,- 000. After days and days of weary marohing, over hills and valleys, through parched fields and by dry river beds, with blistered feet and aching limbs, the youthful army reached Marseilles by the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Here they found rich merchants who offered vessels to carry them to Constantinople.A HOME BAPTISM. As the White hussars pay, it was all the colonel's fault. He was a new man, and he ought never to have taken the command. He said that the regiment was not smart enough—this to the White hussars. who knew they could walk round any horse and through any guns and over any foot on the face of the earth! That insult was the first cause of offensa ' But the vast army that had started from Vendome had melted away like snow In springtime. Some had deserted, thousands nad died of exposure. The 30,000 had dwindled to 7,000. Martyn took Hcgan-Yale aside and suggested compulsory retirement from the service as a necessity when all was discovered.' Martyn was the weaker man of the two. HoKau-Yale put up his eyebrows and remarked, firstv that he was the son of a lord, and, secondly, that he was as innocent as the babe unborn of the. theatrical resurrection of the drum "My instructions, " said Yale, with a singularly sweet smile, "were that the drum horse should be sent back as impressively as possible. 1 ask you. Am I responsible if a umle headed friend sends him back in such a manner as to disturb the peace of mind of a regiment of her majesty's cavalry 1" "What is that bundle you have along with you?" "Oh," he says, "that Is my reputation for goodness and kindness and charity and generosity and kindliness generally." "Oh, my brother, we cannot weigh that; wo are going to weigh you— you. Now stand in the scales—you, the moralist. Paid your debts?" "Yes," you say, "paid all my debts." "Have you acted in an upright way in the community!'" "Yes, yes." "Have you keen kind to the poor? Are you faithful in a thousand relations In life?" ''Yes." "So far, so good. But now, before you get out of this scale, I want to ask you two or three questions. Have your thoughts always been right?" "No," you say; "no." Put down one mark. "Have you loved the I«orU with all your heart and soul and mind and strength?" ''No," you say. Make another mark. "Come, now, lie frank, and confess that In ten thousand things you have come short—have you not?" ' Yea." Make ten thousand marks. Come, now, get mo a book large enough to inake the record of t'ie moralist's deficits. My brother, stand In the scales; do not My away from them. I put on your side the scales all tho good deeds you ever did, all the kind words you ever uttered, but on the other side the scales I put this weight which God says I must put there—on the other side the scales and opposite to yours I put this weight, "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." Weighed and found wanting. Am Episcopal Clercmaa Who Read the Whole Evening Service. The Rev. Dr. Campbell Fair, dean of the cathedral at Omaha, who oonducted the mission at St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, this city, told a story In tha course of one of his sermons which seemed to be much appreciated by the congregation. When rector of the largest church in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dr. Fair said, he was requested to baptize a child in the private home of one of the wealthiest members of his congregation, notwithstanding the law in the Episcopal church which prohibits baptism in a private home save where the person to be baptized is in a state bordering on death. The White hussars have one great and peculiar privilege. They won it at Fontenoy, I think. Seven ships were made ready, and on the last day of August the vessels sailed out of the harbor with their precious burden of innocent sailed not to the resoue of the Holy City, not to glory and victory, but to despair. Many regiments possess special rights, such as wearing collars with undress uniform, or a bow of ribbon between the shoulders, or red and white roses in their helmets on certain days of the year. Some rights are connected with regimental saints and some with regimental successes. All are valued highly, but none so highly as the right of the White hussars to have the band playing when their horses are being watered in the lines. Only one tune is played and that tune never varies. 1 don't know its real name, but the White hussars call it "Take Me to London Again." It sounds very pretty. The regiment would sooner be struck off the roster than forego distinction. /'dismiss" was sounded, the officers rode off home to prepare for stables, and the men filed into the lines, riding easy—that is to say, they opened their tight buttons, shifted their helmets, and began to joke or to swear as the humor took them, the more careful slipping off and easing girths and curbs. A good trooper values his mount exactly as much as be values himself, and believes, or should believe, that the two together are irresistible where women or men, girls or guns, are concerned. Then the colonel cast the drum horse —the drum horse of the White hussars! Perhaps you do not see what an unspeakable crime he had committed. I will try to make it clear. The soul of the regiment lives in the drum horse who carries the silver kettledrums. He is nearly always a big piebald waler. That is a point of honor, and a regiment will spend anything you please on a piebald. He is beyond the ordinary laws of casting. His work is very light, and he only maneuvers at a foot pace. Wherefore so long as be can step out and look handsome his well being is assured. He knows more about the regiment than the adjutant, and could not make a mistake if he tried. On the third day out a terrible storm arose, and two of the vessels were dashed to pieces on the island of Falcons. The other five ships passed the dangerous rocks in safety and finally reached shore, where the children discovered they were the victims of a vile plot—they were to be sold into slavery. The two merchants of Marseilles were slave traders, the pilgrim who had appeared to Stephen was a man who had been Instigated to act the part, and the children who had set out with such high hopes were to beoome, not champions of the cross, but slaves to the fierce Moslems. When Dr. Fair arrived at the home, supposing he was to baptize a sick child, he was more than astonished to find a most elaborate order of arrangements laid out. The spacious rooms were filled with relatives and friends, arid a splendid repast at the hands of a fashionable caterer was awaiting the conclusion of the ceremony. When the infant was introduced, brimming over with vitality, Dr. Fair took in the situation at a glance and decided instantly upon his course. He announced to the assemblage that he was about to take the entire evening service, as was his custom when a large congregation was present, and he went through the whole service of 46 minutes, Including the reading of the two lessons. After this he oourteously and wildly informed the astonished congregation that It was likewise his custom to take up a collection. Then the bouncing baby was produced, and baptism was duly administered. It was the only child that Dr. Fair baptized in that family.—Baltimore Sun. Martyn snid, "You are a great man, and will in time become a general, but Cfcrlat OitwvlRhi All. I'd give my chance of a troop to be safe But says the Christian, "Am I to be allowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If some one should come and put on the other side the scales all your Imperfections, all your envies, all your jealousies, all your inconsistencies of life, they would not budge the soales with Christ on your side the scales. Go free I There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Chains brokeni prison houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed in the balances and nothing, nothing wanted. Oh, what a glorious hope! Will you accept it this day? Christ making up for what yoq lack. Christ the atonement for (ill your sins. Who will accept him? Will not this whole audience say: M| am insufficient, I am a sinner, J »m lost by reason of my transgressions, but Christ has paid it all. My Lord and my God, my life, my pardon, my heaven. Lord Jesus, I hall thee!" OH, If you ooUld only understand the worth of that sacrifice 1 have represented to you under a figure—if you could understand the worth of that sacrifice, this wlti'lu audience would this moment aocept Christ and be saved. out of this affair." Providence saved Martyn and Hogan- Yale. The second in command led the colonel away to the little curtained alcove wherein the subalterns of the White hussars were accustomed to play poker of nights, and there, after many oaths on the colonel's part, they talked together in low tones. I fancy that the second in command must have represented the scare as the work of some trooper Would be hopeless to detect, and I know that be dwelt upon the sin and the shame of making a pub lie laughing stock of the scare. Handwriting on the Wall, Upon landing on the coast they w«« taken to slave markets and sold. Tbey were sent far and wide, to drag out weary lives in harems or among the gang of laborers in the fields. Not one ever saw tly shores of France again. Oh, what a city I Tho earth never saw anything like it, never will see anything like it. And yet I have to tell you that it Is going to bo destroyed. The king and his princes are at a feast. They are all Intoxicated. Pour out the rich wine into the chalices! Drink to the health of the king! Drink to the glory of Babylon! Drink to a great future! A thousand lords reel Intoxicated. The king seated upon a chair, With vacant look, as intoxicated men will —with vacant look stared at the wall. But soon that vacant look takes on Intensity, and it Is an affrighted look, and all the princes begin to look and wonder what is tho matter, and they look at the same point on the wall. And then there drops a darkness into the room that puts out tho blaze of tho golden plate, and out of tho sleeve of the darkness there comes a linger —a finger of fiery terror, circling around and circling around as though It would, write, and then It comes up, and with sharp tip of flame it Inscribes on the plastering of tho wall the doom of tho king, "Weighed in the balances and found wanting." The drum horse of the White hussars was only 18 years old and perfectly equal to his duties. He had at least six years more work in him and carried himself with all the pomp and dignity of a drum major of the guards. The regiment had paid 1,200 rupees for him. Such was the sad fate of the innocent ohildren who left their homes to join the crusade to capture the Holy City.—Household.h • Wclih Sunday School. Having, a few years ago, to make a long stay on account of my health In a Welsh fishing village, I was asked to take a class In the Sunday school. The Welsh people deeply appreciate the truth of the old saying about never being too old to learn. A number of the scholars held seen at least 70 winters. Old and young formed the bulk of the pupils, but there were representatives of all ages, from the old lady of 80 years to the demure maiden of 5. I was asked to take a class at a branch school chiefly affected by fisher folk. I observed that every teacher had a small pile of kneeling mats. Balance* of the Sanctnat-y. But the colonel said that he must go, and Be was cast in due form and replaced by a washy bay beast as ugly is a mule, with a ewe neck, rat tail and cow hocks. The drummer detested that tnimal, and the best of the band horses put back their ears and showed the whites of their eyes at the very sight of him. They knew him for an upstart and no gentleman. I fancy that the colonel's ideas of smartness extended to the band, and tha* he wanted to make it take part in the regular parade movements. A cavalry band is a sacred thing. It only turns out fcr commanding officers' parades, and the bandmaster is one degree more important than the colonel. He is high priest and the "Keel Row" is his holy song. The "Keel Row" is the cavalry trot, and the man who has never heard that tUDO rising, high and shrill, above the rattle pf the regiment going past the saluting base has something yet to hear and understand.Still the balanoes of the sanctuary are suspended, and we are ready to weigh any who come. Who shall be the next? Well, here is a formalist. He comes, and he get* into the lialances, and as he gets in I see that all his religion is In genuflections and In outward observances. As he gets Into the scales I say, "What is that you have in this pocket?" "Oh," he says, "that is Westminster Assembly Catechism." I say: "Very good. What have you in the other pocket?" "Oh," he says, "that ia the Heidelberg Catechispa." ''Very gftod. What is tha( you have under your arm standing In this balance of tho sanctuary?" "Oh," ho says, "that is a church record." "Very good. What are tlDe«e hooks on your side the balances?" ''Oh," lie says, "those are Calvin's Institutes.' " "My brother, wo are not weighing books; we are weighing you. It cannot be "that you are depending for your salvation upon your orthodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds and the forms of religion aremorely the scaffolding for the building? You certainly are not going to mistake the scaffolding for the temple. Do you not know that men have gone to perdition with a catechism in their pocket?" "But," says the man, "I cross myself often." "Ah, that will not save you." "But," says tho man, "I am sympathetic for the poor." "That will not save you." Says the man, "I sat at the communion table," "That will not save you." ''But," says the man, "I have had nijr name on the phurch record." "That will not save you." "But I have been a professor of religion 40 years." "That will not save you. Stand there bn your side the baJauoes, and I will trive vou the advantage—I will let j on have all the creeds, all the church records, all the Christian conventions that were ever held, all the communion tables that were ever built, on your side th« balanoes. On the other side the balances I must put what God says I must put there. I put this million pound weight on the other side the balances, 'Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof..' " Weighed and fo\inC) wanting. I hed diskuvvered, doorln' mi personal eonversashun with the Dimicratic senaturs, thet tha hed bin tampered with bi tUet dangerus yung man, Mr. William J. Bryan, and the time wuz tn short tu undo all uv his politikal Intriggin. I begun tu feel it in ml bones thet we wui goin' tu git a larrupin in the senate wen a petition sined by Grover Cleveland and Carl Schurz and a lot of Massachoosits mugwumps wui red, prayin' fer tu hev the Fillipinos select their own stile uv guverment and run it themselves. I hed notist, doorin' the days uv our party's prosperity, thet whatevf r Carl Schurz and the mugwumps wanted wui alwuz beaten. Therefore wen I herd thet tha wui agin the idee uv expanshun I sumhow felt thet mi musshun wood prove abortiv, and thet expanshun wood probably git a chance tu expand. With sum uv our senaturs fallin' intu line with the Republikins, only wun hope wuz left, and thet proved an illoosiv wun. "They will call us," said the second in command, who had really a fine imagination—"they will call us the 'fly-by-nights,' they will call us the 'ghost hunters,' they will nickname us from one end of the army list to the other. All the explanations in the world won't make outsiders understand that the officers were away when the panic began. For the honor of the regiment and for your own sake keep this thing quiet." -i Then the orderly oflicer gave the order "water horses," and the regiment loafed off to the squadron troughs which were in rear of the stables and between these and the barracks. There were four huge troughs, one for each squadron, arranged en echelon, so that the whole regiment could water in ten minutes if it liked. But it lingered for 17, as a rule, while the band played. Reaped a Harvest. Boston florists know how to turn an honest penny now and then by doing other things than selling pinks for $30,000. On* enterprising member of the profession reaped a harvest at the time of the funeral of Fanny Davenport When the noted actress died, this flower man sent a prepaid dispatch to every well known actor and actress in England, France and America, asking each one if he or she wished to tx represented at Miss Davenport's bier by C floral remembrance. The majority of then readily accepted, expecting that a few dol tars would cover the bilL But the Boston man was generous, anc he knew that stage folks are not stingy li such things, so he stripped his shop anc sent the remembrances by the wagon load to the funeral. It was a splendid display and the friends and admirers of the dead actress were amazed and delighted. Bm now the bills are coming in, and there ii nore amazement, but not so muoh delight We go away off or back Into history to get some Illustration by which we may set forth what Christ has done for us. We need not go ao far. I saw a vehicle behind a runaway horse dashing through the street, a mother and her two children in the carriage. The horse dashed along M though to hurl them tQ d.e&thi and a mounted policeman, with * shout clearing the way, apd the )ior«e at full run, attempted to seize those runaway horses to save a calamity, when his own horse fell and rolled over him. He was picked up half dead. Why were our sympathies so stirred? Because he was badly hurt and hurt for others. But I tell you today of how Christ, the Son of God, on the blood red horse of sacrifice, came for our rescue and rode down the sky and rode unto death for our rescue Are not your hearts touched? That was a sacrifice for you and me. O thou who didst ride on the red horse of sacrifice, come and ride through this world on the white horse of victory I After prayers I noticed the teachers collecting the kneeling mats and sitting op them. Those belonging to my class had disappeared. When I had read my verse, there was silence, but for a very brief space. With one accord my class went for the rest of the school. They hart knotted up the kneeling mats in a manner peculiar to themselves, and these rather formidable weapons gave them a great advantage. The fight was short, but glorious. My class victoriously drove the foe before them—right out of the school, indeed. No great damage was done. One lady had her hat spoiled, and another got a black eye; but, as wasafterward explained, It was her own fault for not getting out of the way. There was no more school that afternoon.—Church Gazette. Tho bang of heavy fists against the .gates of the palace is followed by tho breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike into a thousand quivering hearts. Now death is king, and ho is seated on a throne of corpses. In that hall there is a balance lifted. God swung it. On oue side of the balance are put Belshazzar's opportunities; on the pther side of tho balance are put Belshazzar's sins. Tho sins come down. His (importunities go up. Weighed in the balances—found wanting. The band struck up as the squadrons filed off the troughs, and the men slipped their feet out of the stirrups and chaffed each other. The sun was just setting in a big, hot bed of red cloud, and the road to the civil lines seemed to run straight into the sun's eye. There was a little dot on the road. It grew apd grew till it showed as a horse, with a sort of gridiron thing cn his back. The red cloud glared through the bars of the gridiron. Some of the trocpers shaded their eyes with their hands and said, "What the mischief 'as that there 'orse got on 'im T" The colonel was so exhausted with anger that soothing him down was not so difficult as might be imagined. He was made to see gently and by degrees that it was obviously impossible to court martial the whole regiment and equally impossible to proceed against any subaltern who, in his belief, bad any concern in the hoax. I nu thet Agoncillo, the representativ uv Aguinaldo, wnz in town, and tu him I went tu see whut ade and knmfort I eood git frum the Hilipeen insurgents. I went tu hiz hotel and told him hoo I wuz. He sed he wuz glad tu git help, even frum a Noo Gersey Dimicrat, for hiz koz needed bracin* up, and now wuz the time fer action. "Yu will heer grate nooze tu-morrer," sed he. "I hev cabled tu mi supeerier, Aguinaldo, fer him tu taik the aggressiv, and drive the Araerikins out uv Manila. Thet will "enkurrlj all our frends In the senate and yoonite Dm ez wun man agin the treety. With the help uv sich Republikins ez Hoar and Hale and sich Dimicrats ez yu represent, Mr. Wilkins, I hev the asshoorance tu announce in advance thet a grate victory awates u«." In order tu establish thet sentiment in mi mind he ordered up sum shampnne and invited me tu drink with him. I wuz not nkknstumed tu sich rich nurrishment, hevin ben brot up on plane applejack, but I wuz disposed tu be soshul, and so I tuk sevril large drinks, expectin' each wood be the last. E« we progrest in the diskussion uv internashunal affares I saw more and more konstitootional reasons whi the treety shod not be ratifide, and whi a furrin' peeple ijoo were reddy to go it alone shood not fee Interfeered with. I also felt fer th£ time bein' thet I eood la aside mi prejudis agin niggers, or half niggers, or even quarter niggers, ez long ez tha eood pa four dollars a bottel fer shampane and let me drink it. "But the beast's alive! He's never been shot ut all!" shouted the colonel. "It'8 flat, flagrant disobedience! I've known a man broke for less, damned sight less. They're mocking me, I tell you, Mutman! They're mocking me!" There has been a great deal of cheating in our country with false weights and measures and balances, and the government, to change that state of things, appointed commissioners whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deal of the wrong has been corrected. But still, after all, there is no stieh thing as a perfect balanpp on earth The chaip may break, or some of tho metal may lie clipped, or in some way the equipoise may be disturbed. You cannot always depend upon earthly 1mlances. A pound is not always a pound, and you may pay for one thing and get another, but In the balance which is suspended to tho throne of God a pound is a pound, and right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, and eternity Is eternity. God has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods in the wrong way, then tho Lord weighs the goods ugaln. If from the Imperfect measure the merchant pours out what pretends to bo a gallon of oil and there is less than a gallon. God knows it, and he pplls ppap his Recording angel -to park H. "So much Wanting in that measure of oil." The farmer conies in from the country. He has apples to sell. He has an Imperfect measure. He pours out the apples from this imperfect measure. God recognises It. He gays to thp recording angel, "Mark flown so many apples too few—an Imperfect measure." We inay cheat Ourselves, find wo may cheat the world, but we cannot cheat God, and In tho great day of judgment it will he found out that what we learned in boyhood at school is correct —that 20 hundredweight makes a ton and 120 solid feet make a cord of wood. Dio more, no less. And a religion which does not take hold of this life as well as the life to come is no religion at alL When the colonel cast the drum horse of the White hussars, there was Dearly a mutiny. (or they range from $60 up to $200. Sardou was charged $160 for his floral offering, and Sir Henry Irving, Beerbohm Tree, Olga Nethoraole, Mrs. Kendal and. In fact, nearly all of the celebrities were saught by the trick.—Troy Times. The officers were angry, the regiment was furious and the bandsmen swore —like troopers. The drum horse was going to be put up to auction—public auction—to be bought, perhaps, by a Parsee and put into a cart! It was worse than exposing the inner life of the regiment to the whole world or selling the mess plate to a Jew—a black Jew. In another minute they heard a neigh that every soul—horse and man—in the regiment knew, and Baw, beading straight toward the band, the dead drum horse of the White hussars! Once more the second in command set himself to soothe the colonel and wrestled with him for half an hour. At the end of that time the regimental sergeant major reported himself. The situation was rather nove} to him. but he was not a man to be put out by circumstances. He saluted and said, "Regiment all come back, sir;" then, to propitiate the colonel, "An none of the horses any the worse, sir." MEN OF MARK. Ex-President Harrison Is getting stoat He gained ten pounds last year. THE SPICE OF LIFE. An Ex-SUtc'i Gratitude. Governor Powers of Maine intends soon to visit Cuba and Porto Kico, taking his 6taff with hini. A pathetic story is told* is Washington illustrating the affection borne by same of the negroes for the families of farmer masters. Employed in the capital is an old negro named Robert. Robert was formerly the slave of a prominent citizen of Danville, Va., for whose memory he cherishes the strongest affnotion. Not long ago members of congress calling on the president noticed Robert In the outer offioe accompanied by an intelligent looking white boy abont 16 yean old. He was asked by one of the members what he was waiting for. On his withers banged and bumped the kettledrums draped in crape, and on his back, very stiff and soldierly, sat a bareheaded skeleton. A Pennsylvania editor has been charged with arson. Some men always insist on writing red hot stuff.—Paris Republican. John Fullingbon of Huntsville, Mo., is 84 years of age and never took a dose of medicine In liis life. The colonel was a mean man and a bully. He knew what the regiment thought about his action, and, when the troopers offered to buy the drum horse, he said that their offer was mutinous and forbidden by the regulations. The band stopped playing, and for a moment there was a hush. Another Italian cabinet has fallen. The Italians really seem to be able only to make a peanut stand.—Philadelphia North American. It Is said that Aguinaldo and Agoncillo had Chinese fathers, named respectively Ah Quln and Ah Con. Then some one in E troop—men said it was the troop sergeant major—Bwung his horse round and yelled. No one can account exactly for what happened afterward, but it seems that at least one man in each troop set an example of panic, and the rest followed like sheep. The horses that had barely put their muzzles into the troughs reared and capered, but as soon as the band broke, which it did when the ghost cf the Arum horse was about a furlong distant, all hoofs followed suit, and the platter of the stampede—quite different from the orderly throb and roar of a movement on parade or thorough horseplay of watering in camp—niade them only more terrified. They felt that the men on their backs were afraid of something. When horses once know that, all is over except the butchery. The colonel only snorted and answered, "You'd better tuck the men into their cots, then, and see that they don't wake up and cry in the night." The sergeant withdrew. There is one objection to having women remove their hats in church. It gives the minister a view of all the sleepers tn the congregation.—Philadelphia Ledger. Governor Candler of Georgia will make the opening address at the Atlanta university negro conference on May 30. But one of the subalterns—Hogan- Yale. an Irishman—bought the drum horse for 160 rupees at the sale, and the colonel was wroth. Yale professed repentanc—he was unnaturally submissive—and said that, as be had only made the purchase to save the horse fcrom possible ill treatment and starvation, he would now shoot him and end the business. This appeared to soothe the colonel, for he wanted the drum horse disposed of. He felt that he had piade a mistake, and could not of course acknowledge it Meantime, the presence of the drum horse was an annoyance to him. William Rockefeller of the Standard Oil company will build a handsome house at Putnam Hill, near Greenwich, Conn., for his son and namesake. His little stroke of hiynor pleased the colonel, and, further, he felt slightly ashamed of the language he had been nsing. The second in comruand worried him again, aud the two sat talking far into the night. Still the balances are suspended. Are tberp any others who would like to be weighed Or who will be weighed? Yes; here comes a worldling. He gets into the scales. I can very easily see what his whole life is made up of. Stocks, dividends, percentages, "buyer ten days,"' ''buyer 80 d«ys." "Get in, my friend; get into these balances and he weighed— weighed for this life and weighed for tht life to come," He gets in. I lind that th« two great questions in his life are: "How cheaply enn I buy these goods?" and "How dearly can I sell them?" I find he admires heaven because it is a land of gold, and money must be "easy." I find, from talking with him, that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vulgar interruption, and bo hopes on the way to church \o drum up a new fustomer-l All the weelc he has been weighing fruits, Weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing coals, weighing cynlections, weighing Worldly and perishable commodities, pot realizing the fact that he himself has been Weighed. "On your sido the balances, O worldling! I will give you full advantage. I put op your side all the banking houses, all the storehouses, all the cargoes, all the insurance companies, all the factories, all the silver, all the gold, all tho money vaults, all the safe deposits—all on your side. But it does not ailtl one ounce, for at the very moment we are congratulating you on your fine house and upon your ' princely income God and the angels are writing in regard to youy soul, Weighed and found wanting!1 " There are some indications that the peace congress will simply arrange for the disarmament of those nations whloh it is proposed to gobble up. — Philadelphia Ledger, He replied: "I am waiting to see the president This boy is the grandohild of my old master. The family has lost all its iyoney and I want the president to give this boy a place so be can earn money to get an education. My old master was mighty good to me, and if It had not been for the war this boy wonld be my young master. I am going to tell the president what a good family it ls and how good old master was to me, and I think he will find a plaoe for the boy." James H. Merrill, mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., bears a striking resemblance to the cartoons of Uncle Sam. He is a lawyer and has a state reputation for his after dinner speeches. A new Ohio police magistrate is determined to have a clean record. All prisoners brought before him must be previously soaped, scrubbed and washed.—Philadelphia Times. Next day tut one there was a commanding officers' parade, and the colonel harangued the White hussars vigorously. The pith of his speech was that since the drum horse izj his old age had proved himself capable of cutting up the whole regiment he should return to his post of pride at the head of the band, but the regiment were a set of ruffians with bad consciences. The late ex-Governor Oglesby of Illinois was once asked what he got by his overland trip to California in 1849 in search of gold. "No gold," he replied, "but enough experience to make me what I am." The stoamer Panama has started for Manila with 800 miles of cable, but this is only a slight preparation for the wire pulling that will go o» there later. timore News. I retired tu ml virtmis couch thet night with the firm beleef thet the treety wuz beeten. and thet I eood go bak tu the farm tn Noo Gersey and feel thet I hed dun grate wnrk. For moro than a year President McKinley has suffered from frequent toothache. A dentist has just completed the filling of the exocutlve teeth, and the president is taking a special treatment for neuralgia. Friend—Well, you look happy. Badness picking up? A C li»t. Yale took to himself a glass of the old brandy, three cheroots, and bio friend, Martyn. and they all left the mess together. Yale and Martyn conferred for two hours ii Yale's quarters. but only the bull terrier who keeps watch over Yale's boot rees knows what they said. A horsf, hoc ed and sheeted to his ears, jeft Yale's stables and was takes, vefry npwillingly into the civil liies. Yale's groom went with him. Two men broke into the regimental theater and took several paint pots and some large scenery brushes. Then night fell over the cantonments, and there was a noise as of a horse kicking his loose box to pieccs in Yale's stables. Yale had a big, old. white waler trap horse. Admiral Kauta reports that the Samoan king i$ a trifle shy on trousers. It is pretty hard to keep anything on with three or four great powers pulling and hauling In different directions,-DMipneapCdU Jour Alas! how all ml hope* wuz dashed the next da wen we jput word from Manila thet Agulnaldo's torses hed run up agin the Amerlkin army and Rut most kussidly lickt. and thet Agoneillo wuz on hli wa tu Canada. I cood still feel the effecks uv the latter's arlstokratic drinks wen the distressin' informashun wsi brot tu me. I hed no hart tu du ennything after thet, fer it is no yoose to •rgify agin akkomplisht fa*. The Amer ikin flag hed bin fired on, Amerikin sogers hed bin shot down in Manila, and grate publik indignashun wuz bein' manifestid all over the kountry bekoz the Insurgents in the senate hed de)ad« aokshun ujton the treety. Wen the final vote win taken upon the ratlflkashun uv the treety I wui not dlsapptnted tu heer thet the game wuz up. We hed buckt the tiger uv publik indignashun and hed bin chawed up bi him. Cleveland, the mugwumps, Agoneillo, Aguiualdo and Hoar and Hale wuz tu much uv an inkongruous kombsnttshun to snored. We shel her tu be more kareful in the fucher wen we want tu kiver up our tracka. Druggist (cheerily)—Bather.- I J net pit up a prescription for the plumber wfoo thawed out my water pipes last month.— Life. Troop after troop turned from the troughs and ran—anywhere and everywhere—like spilled quicksilver. It was a most extraordinary spectacle, for men The White hussars shouted and threw everything movable about them into the air, and when the parade was over they cheered the colonel till they could not speak. No cheers were put up for Lieutenant Hogan-Yale, who smiled very sweetly in the background. Philip 1). Armour's annual European trip will this summer take him to Carlsbad. Ho has been greatly shaken by the death of his brother and the attack of the grip, which kept him abed for several weeks last winter. Brooklyn C P^J"7or over ALt- NAr.^^gl ■T of the Globs for f rheumatism! I jljSU nATiftlA and similar Ooirplainta. I and prepared under the stringent MEDICAL LAW S,^| by eminent phydoianir^M |N| DR. RICHTER'S (Km W" ANCHOR "*5a fPAIN EXPELLERl I World renowned{.Remarkably sueeewf nl! ■ ■Only genuine with Trade Mark" Anchor,"* l|F id. UehtM •■Co., 816 PeariSt., New Tort. ■ i 31 HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ 19 Braaoh Hornet. Own GlauworH, ■ B Ott'Hik. |,dnv4iD4iwu»Mk; ■ riaaiR a race, to imu amm, «. C. SLICK, *0 !UrU BD1C StrMt, J. H. HOCCI, 4 llorLh Kftl* St. riTTBTOI, FA. I "ANCHOR"*"nontwu. beat for I 1 Stomach CocnpUlMtm. 1 ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY - where for "The Story of the Philippine®," Marat Halstead. oommiaaioned by the Gov —* as Official Historian to the War P ' "" book was written , 0C»V»TD- •" » But, my friends, that Is pot the style of bahuioes I am to speak of today; that is not tho kind of weights and measures. I aui to speak of that kind of bnlunceq which weigh principles, weigh phurches, weigh men. welsh nations and 'What! ' you say. ' Is it possible that our world is to be weighed?" Yes. Why, you would think If God put on one stdo of the Ralauees suspended from the throne the Alps and the Pyrenees and the Himalayas and Mount Washington and all the cities of the earth they would crush it. No, no! The time will oopiy God will sit down ph the white throne to see the World )yelglu-d, and oil one side will be the world's opportunities and on the othef side the world's sins. Duwp wlU tiu, sins, and away wW go the opportunities, fiul Hod will say to the messengers with the torch; "Burn that world! Weighed and found wanting!" Weighing I'rliivliilM A New Jersey minister has begun a crusnde against Sunday funerals. If he should succeed in abolishing the undesir able things entirely, Sundays and weekdays, none of us would rise to file a protest Denver Post. pal and horses were in all stages of easiness, and the carbine buckets flopping against their sides urged the horses on. Men were shotitihg and cursing and trying to pull clear of the band which was being chased by the drum horse, whose rider had fallen forward and seemed to ba spurring for a wager. Thomas B. Reed had to catch a train one day not long ago and was not awakened in timo. To the profuse apologies of the hotel clerk ho replied: ''Well, I dressed myself in three minutes, but I do like four. One can do it a shade better." Said the second in command to the colonel unofficially: "Thtfe little things insnye popularity If the fad for sending messenger boys on long journeys takes hold of this oouu try, there V'11 be a rush to secure places in tho service, only equaled by the strife for tho privilege of carrying water to the circus elephant.—Omaha Bee. and do Dot the least affect discipline." The colonel bad gone over to the mess for a drink. Most of the officers were with him, and the subaltern of the day was preparing to go down to the lines and receive the watering reports from the troop sergeant majors. When "Take Me to London Again" stopped after 20 pars, every one in the mels'said, "What on earth has happened?" A minute later they beard unmilitary noises and saw far across the plain the White huasars scattered and broken and flying. "Bnt I went back on my Word," said the colonel. Many years ago General Gomez first met General Arthur MacArthur. The other day he said of him, "I do not know many of the American soldiers in the Philippines, but I know MacArthur, and if he cannut win America's battles no man in the world can." "Never mind," said the second in command. "The White hussars will follow you anywhere from today. Regiments are just like women; they will do anything for tfinketry." Protect us, hoaven! They have begun sending snakes to New York druggists through the mail. At least a druggist says he got one. Of course it is possihj? ho may have been putting up yook and ryv for medicinal purposes. — Indianapolis SeritineJ, The next day was a Thursday, and the men, hearing that Yaie was going to shoot the drum horse in the evening, flMefmined JO eJVa the henst a rpxrn 1pr regimental fnneral—a finer one than they would have given the colonel had be died just then. They got a bullock dart and some sacking and mounds and mounds of roses, and the body, under Jacking, was carried out to the place where the anthrax cases were cremated. Two-thirds of the regiment followed. There was no band, but they all sang "The Place Where the Old Horse Died" as something respectful and appropriate (o the occasion. Whep the corpse was Clumped into the grave and the men began throwing down armfuls of roses to cover it, the farrier sergeant ripped out an oath and said aloud, "Why, it ain't the drum horse any more than it's me!" The troop sergeant majors asked him whether he bad left bis bead in the canteen. The farrier sergeant said that he knew the drum horse's feet aB veil as lw knew his own, but he was .i week later Hijgan-Yale received an extraordinary letter from some one who signed himself "Secretary Charity and Zeal, 8709, E. 0.," and nsked for "the return of our skeleton which we have reason to believe is in your possession. " flic First Scrutiny Samuel Adams of" Guilford, Me., informs the oitizens that, although he is 67 years old. his faco has been sullied by the contaminating touch of a razor but twice —once when he enlisted in the army and once when he was mustered out. He now wears a long, flowing board Rut I must go faster and speak of the final scrutiny. The fact Is, my friends, we are moving on amid astounding realities. These pulses which now drumming thp march pf life $nay after awhile call a iD»lt. ' We walk on a hair hung bridge Over chasms. All around us are dangers lurking, ready to snrine on us from am Tho Her. Winfleld Hawkes, who has spent 11 years In Utah, says the Mormon girls favor polygamy and the young ul('B are opposed to it. This is natural. The young men know what It is to have to foot tlhUr own bills when they go shopping, and the girls know what It Isn't.-r- St. Louis Republic. I hev no grate expecktashuns uv bein' able tu du much until the trubbel in the Fillipeens iz over. It lz hard tu maik peeple beleave thet eny alliance with the furrin" enemies uv the kountry iz tu the politikal advantij of the party thet trize it. I shel, however, du ml best tu devise sum plan tu bring about a condlshun uv affares thet will put us in a more patriotik attltood. but jest at present 1 must konfess it looks ez tho we wuz fltin' With bows and arrers- agin rifles and rapid fire kannon, jest e« Aguinaldo't beethec did at Manila. The colonel was speechless with rage, for he thought that the regiment had risen against him or was unanimously drunk. The band, a disorganized mob, tore past, and at its heels labored the drum horse—the dead and buried drum horse—with the jolting, clattering skeleton. Hogan-Yale whispered softly to ilartyn, "No wire will stand that treatment," and the band, which had doubled like a hare, came back again. But the rest of the regiment was gone, was rioting all over the province, for the dusk had shut in, and each man was bowling to his neighbor that the drum horse was on his flank. Troop horses are far too'tenderly treated, as a rule. jThey can on emergencien do a great deal. even with 17 atone on their backs. "Who the deuce is this lunatic who trades bones?" said Hogan-Yale. So God will weigh churches. Ho takes a great church. That church, great according to the worldly peculate, must be weighed- ffe puts it on one side the balances and the minister and the choir and the building that cost its hundreds of thousands of dollars. He puts thetty op_ one side the balances. 0n the sirfe of the scale he puts what tlwwcJfiirch puj#ht to be, what its consecration ought to bo, what Its sympathy for tho poor ought to be, what its devotion to all good ought to be. That is on one side. That side comes down, and the church, not being able to stand the test, rises in the balances. It does not make any difference about your magnificent machinery. A church is built for one thing—to save souls. If it saves a few souls when It might save a multitude of souls, God will spew it out of his mouth. Weighed and found wanting 1 General Agnus, tho editor of the Baltimore American, has been appointed by President McKlnley a member of the board of visitors to tho Military academy at West Point, this being tho second time that he has been so honored. He was chairman of tho board of visitors appointed by President Harrison in 1892. "Beg your pardon, sir." said the band sergeant, "but the skeleton la with me, and I'll return it if you'll pay tbe carriage into the civil lines. There's a coffin with it, sir.'1 .. , .. i'j.v t.UV. I, . . 1,1^1.1, l.ol KUOVll'g whether we shall arise ip the morning We start oiitforoiirCit*;tn ation, not know trig whether we shall come back— crowns being burnished for thy brow or bolls forged for thy prison; angels of light ready to shout at thy deliverance or fiends of darkness stretching out skeleton hands to pull thee down into ruin consummate! POLITICAL QUIPS. Hogan-Yale smiled and handed 2 rupees to the band sergeant, saying, "Write the date on the skull, will The presidential bees have gathered very little honey thus far in the campaign. —Los Angeles Express. Recipe For R Happy Day. Take a little dash of cold water, A little leaven of prayer, A little bit of sunshine gold Dissolved in morning air. bs ernmei... «o vu. »* — partment. The v~— -o in armj campe at San Francisco, on the Pacific with Gen. Merritt, In the hospitals at Honolula, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne insurgent camps with Agulnaldo, on the deck of the Olympla with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brimful of original pictures * en by government photographers on the tot. Large book. Ijow prices. Big profits. Freight paid. Credit piren. Drop all trashy unofficial war book*. Outfit free. Addrees, If. T. Bar* bar, See'y, Star Insurance Building, Chicago* yon ? Suddenly the judgment will lie here. The angel, with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, will swear by him that liveth forever and ever that time shall Iks no longer: "Behold, he cometh with cloudR, and every eye shall see bim." Park to the jarring pf thp mountains. Why, that is tlie getting down of tho scales, the balances. And then there Is a flash as If from a cloud, but it Is the glitter of the •kinlug balances., and thev are hoisted. It is coming to pass in this country that it is almost libelous for a newspaper to call a man a politician. It Is the imputa tlon that he is guilty pf things criminal.— Binghamton Herald. EPIZOOT WILKIN'S. Frnm Applejack Farm, wlch iz next ttj Grover Cleveland's, in the stalt of Noe Qersey. j  If you doubt this story and know where to go, you can see the date on the skeleton. Bnt don't mention the matter to the White hnssars. Add to your meal some merriment, Add thought for kith and kin. Add then as a prime Ingredient A-plenty of work thrown in. If Princeton wants a professor of politics as is a professor of politics, she will not experiment with Grover Cleveland, but go straight to Dick Croker or Matt Quay.— Louisville Courier-Journal. I happen to know something about it because I prepared the drum horse for his resurrection. Ho did not take kindly to the skeleton at all Bittersweet. O love, thou hast forever been A tangled web of hope and doubt! You're hone; when we're falling in„ Bat horrid when we're falling oat. Flavor it all with essence of love And a little dash of play ; D Let a nice old book and a glance above Complete the well spent day. 1 -««od Health. So we perceive that Qod estimates na- -L A. W. BulleUa.