Pittston Gazette

              I, MtaMlaltod 1850. I TOMUX No. 46. f Oldest Newsoaper in the Wvomine Vailev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JULY ji, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. I SI.00 a Year ' in Ad vane*. v * ras for remaining all nigbt on shore cinder the tree, and tbe good skipper gave bin permission free enough for them to do it. 8ome, however, who preferred their berths in the fo'castle to the aand and shingle of tbe island went back to the ship, but I was one who staid ashore. a-lylng more nor two cables or two cables and a half's length from the shore. I felt a bit lonesome and creepylike as I recollected that here was I on a island about which there was something most certainly strange and with a man marked for death alongside of me. However. I tried to dismiss them thoughts from my mind and to see what'I conld do for Will. He, poor man, was now a-lying flat on his back, with his eyes staring up to the stars through the branches of the tree, and with his hands a twitching convnlsivelike, and be was a muttering something of which I could catch no words, or only the word 'tree.' But what he was talking about, or what he wanted to say, I have never known. was a little paler, looking indeed more like blood mixed with water. arear'd to cast our eyes to tne tree. 'We are in the hands of Qod. But still there is something here no mortal man can fathom. Mate, let us wake them— though our watch is not yet run out, nor their sleep at an end. Better, better far that they wake and come away from that tree than remain there—better'—THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN endeavor.' WHEN MEN WERE SERFS. "And now upon the captain's face there come a look of relief, and, 'Men,' says he. 'this here ain't quite as terrible as we thought. That weren't no blood of poor Will Winter's what dropped upon my shoulder, but only the sap what this strange tree exoods. Look here I' and with that be rabs bis finger on tbe moisture and shows it to ns, and sure enough it was the sap of the tree itself, but red as blood. Topic For the Week Beginning Jmly 23—Comment by Ret. S. H. Dorl*. Topic.—Honoring the Lord'a day.—Ex. xx, 8-11; Rev. 1, 10. Coadltlom of the Working People 1b | "One Tree Island/' | * JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. £ 3r [Copyright, 1899, by John Bloandelle Barton.] rs LESSON IV, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- the Middle Aicea. NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 23. In the early period of the middle ages nearly all the working people were serfs, and there were tew free artisan* or laborers. The serf* had an interest in the •oil and for that interest performed .certain labor or made payments in kind. The serf wa* bound to the soil and transferable with it. His children were born to his condition, and neither he nor they eould depart from it without the consent of their lord unless he became a citizen it some city or an ecclesiastic. One of the most vital questions of Christianity today is that of "honoring the Lord'a day." It is being dishonored more and more. The enemies of Christianity disregard and denonnce it, and, what is worse, the professed friends of Christ are neglecting tor keep it holy and sacred to Qod, and claim that it was only a commandment to the Jews and abrogated by Christ with the symbols and ceremonies of Jndaism. Such a claim is preposterous. Man's body, mind and soul need the Sabtath day as mnch as ever they did. The Sabbath was an eternal institution and no distinctive part of Judaism alone, being instituted centuries before Abraham or Moses was born. That Christ did not do away with the Sabbath is proved by the fact that He kept it Himself. At Nazareth on the Sabbath day He weDt to the synagogue, "as His custom was." That man wonld be prone to forget this day Qod realized, for He began the commandment, "Remember the Sabbath day." We are commanded to remember what we are likely to forget.Text of the Leaaon. Dan. v, 17-31. Memory Veraea. 24-28—Golden Text, Pa. Ixxv. 7—Commentary Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearna. "Well, the night fell swift upon ns, and, having slept mnch and refreshed onrselves daring the day, we waa not oversleepy at night, and so we aat talking and yarning, and sometimes giving a friendly halloo to tbe men on tbe ship, and asking them how they did, and we fetched oat rations ashore, with oar ram and some tobacco, and were as comfortable as with the heat we well might be, and, gradually, one by one, tbe men dropped off to sleep, me and a seaman named Collis being the last to keep awake, and now a strange thing happened."But here I was stopped with a yell so awful that the other words I was going to utter died on my lips. In a moment we had faced round once more to that tree, and there we see what might have frozen a man to death with fear. [Copyright, 1899, by ID. M. Stearns.] 17. " Lot thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another, yet I will read the writing unto tho king and make known to him the interpretation." Thus spake Daniel to Belshazzar when brought in to read and interpret the handwriting on the wall. For the third time the wise men of Babylon had failed to understand the things of God. In chapter ii they could not tell the dream, in chapter iv they could not interpret a dream when they heard it, and now they fail either to read or interpret four words plainly written on the wall before them (verse 8). These three instances fully demonstrate the utter inability of the wisdom of this world to understand the things af God. How much a chair is needed to teach our student* " 'AH the same it do look like blood,' says one on ns. But now the captain— because, maybe, he would not give in to no sooperstitiona nor yet encourage them in his men — laughed at their "All the sleepers were now on their feet, snonting and "yelling—that is to say, all bnt one, Mark Deacon, and be —be, shipmates, was a-hanging by one arm to one of the lower branches of that tree, his feet being some distance from the gronnd, and the branch itself was shaking violently. Bat it was not even this that was so horrible as it was for ns to perceive that he was not holding on to the branch, bnt that the branch itself was opening and shotting like a vast month—thongh never dropping him— and that, already, it had swallowed his hand and arm np to ,ihe forearm, and that it was gradually drawing the whole of his body into itself. So have I seen a snake draw in the of an animal, for to nothing else can I compare this hellish sight If the serf ran away and wa* found, lie could be brought back and punished, but he could not be deprived of hi* rights to the soil. If he refused to perform his Dbligations to hi* lord, he could be punished, but hi* rights in the soil were not affected. If ha could reach a city and *emain for a year and a day without distovery, he became a citizen and could lot be taken back by his lord, but he of course lost his rights in the soil. If he was ordained by the church, he was no onger subject to hi* lord. CHAPTER L "Matey," he Hid. aa be rcee and pat hia twisted bit of paper between the bara of tha fire and lit hia pipe, "that there's a good yarn, specially for a king'a man what don't sail over pecoolar aaaa, and I don't deny it Bnt, this here being a rough night, and we all aaaavhied comfortable, I thinks aa how I can tell yon one that'41 take the wind ont ol the aaila of yonrn, and this ia how it gom." It waa • raogfc night ontskie, aa —. had aaid, and the old ftignboard of thC ' Fair Wtbd, " silken neckercher I wtar would go down our English March wind, and we conld not even hope that onr ship conld bold together much longer, but feared that ehe mast break to pieces. Likewise, too, we was in ranch distress, for oar longboat was gone, and onr other boats most be dashed to bits against the ship's aides ere we conld get them off. " 'Will It avail ns, Bnnce,' says onr •'! *««in tome, 'to fire the carronade, i yon ? Or are we oat of the lin* of commerce now t* ideas. i " 'What is it. shipmate V I said, a-bending over him and moistening his lips with some ruin and water. 'What cheer t What can I do for you T' But be give no answer as I could understand, so I made bim as comfortable as I could, and then I lay down near him. bnt away from bim a bit and nearer to the sea, and so, sometimes raising myself to look at him, and wondering as to whether he woald live till morning. I commended him and myself to Qod—as all good, right feeling sailors should do —and so I fell asleep. " 'Why, men,' he says, 'have you never seen, at home or abroad, plants and trees what have a liquid in tbem like blood? Whatabont theschumack of the Americas, or tbe beet of our own dear land, to say nothing of the cochineal ? Go to I These ideas is unworthy of British sailors.' "Collis and I was a-sittiog side by side, not lying down like the rest, and I was idly tossing the stones beneath ns aboat—aiming at a whiter one than the rest that was some feet away—when Collis turns fierce upon me and says, 'What makes yon touch my hair like that?' and moves off a bit away from me, as though offended like. "Yet, all theBame, laugh at and banter us as be might, there waB many of that ship's crew-who did believe most solemnly that the blood from that tree was, in some way or other, connected with the disappearance of poor Will. Serf* often made contracts with bailffa of lord* to keep cattle, as the dairies, •r to labor of various kinds. The nore thrifty serfs saved money and by mrchase commuted their labor obligaions into money payments, thus obtainag their freedom and keeping all their right* in the soiL The temper of the time* favored the relief of the serf, and tii* manumission was regarded as being in accordance with public policy, religion having softened the feelings of the lords to the condition of their serf*. After the black death the higher wage* which the serfs obtained enabled them to commute their- labor payments into money payment* much more rapidly, and it may be truthfully said that the black ieath set free the serfs of Europe.—H. U. Beadle in Donahoe's. how to depend upon tl e Holy Spirit! lb, 19. "O thou king, the Most High God (rave Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, a kingdom and majesty and glory and honor." Then he refers to Its worldwide character and the power of the king. The great thing to be noted In these two verses is that all this kingdom and glory was the gift of God. The king did not obtain it by any power that he had. One of the great truths which God sought to impress upon Israel was that all their power and wealth was not gotten by their hand, but that He had given it to Diem (Deut. vlii, 17, 18; ooinpare I Chron. xxix, 11, 12). 20. "But when his heart was lifted np and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him." The story of his humiliation is fully recorded in his epistle to all the world found in chapter Iv. He was faithfully warped by Daniel as God's messenger and ffid a whole year given him'ln which to profit by the warning, but he failed to lay it to heart, and the chastening came upon him. 21. "Till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that He appointeth over it whomsoever He will." The name "Most High God" is first used in Gen. xiv, 18, 16, in connection with this other title, "The Possessor of Heaven and Earth." As such He has perfect right to do what He will with His own, and this Nebuchadnezzar learned, as he states in his epistle. "He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest Thouf (chapter iv, 86; compare Ps. exxxv, 6; lxxv, 6, 7). ibip and diV inn in which ~*i think not, your honor.1 says I. we were .11 Hitting at Portsmouth, was 'bnt the™ ar« in theae bn* fe* creaking dismally in company with that larger sbii» than ours. Even though of the signboard of the King's Head- ther« J*"*1* ]* other* near to «• " the head of his present gracious majes- mnst ***** they are in the same plight ty King George III-Qod bless him- 88 U88Dd b«* h"le abl* a8fwtopposite, and we certainly were all Yet, » the hopes that there moat comfortable round the parlor fire. mi*hi some Christian vessel near Two marines, "king's men." as he bad onto as. the captain bade the gunner aomewhat contemptuously called them, to fire signals of distress. and two Milurs of the same vessel they lt'°deed th"r« had othervesaela were on were drinking a bowl of pnnch near]a"to B8- wh,cb we, ®owf«r'wbetween them. He who bad spoken aa ward" Wa" DOt' and ?7 h?d above was drinking hot rum. two or 'n.a» ca8« » three other Jack Tars of the trading Friend, it wou d have been but little  aervice were drifting hot gin and wa- help th®y have J* **• ' ter, and all were amoking. mateys. ours were a sorry plight Our i I alone was neither drinking nor mainsail was. as I have related, gone, amoking, for. in truth. I waa then 80 WM onr «Pritsail yard, and, what nothing hat a beardless, not full grown wa9 *e *or8levil °'al1' we had 8prtJ°« boy. who my dear mother-the Lord • leak- tho,n/b 88 no one among the rest her soul-would sometimes let sit 8ail°™ TOnld fl°d oat wbere 14 was. in the parlor of the inn and bear the the morning wore on the stories told by the seafarers who naed , wmd did •M"»ewh«t abate of its  oar house, she being the landlady of 1 nee8D •®d tbe cloada b"*8" to clear, and the Ship and Fair Wind. And perhaps «t lastJhe captain tried to take an obit was because my father had been cast fvation, wh»ch- however, be failed in. •way and lost in tbe mm ofT tbe Ber- for 91,11 WM tbe Bnn obscured. Yet ever * madas that I listened always with such w" " noticeable to us that the storm very great eagerness to all the stories *88 P884 that indeed ita that theae rovers of the ocean would fnr7 8Pent- and tbat the waves tell and hoped myaelf to be one of them w«e becoming calmer and the ship not aome day, and perhaps also because of filing so m the sea. theae very stories my mother allowed . "And now tbe captain, who was a-givme to dt in the room and harken to ln« order8 to the sailors to bring up them, abe hoping good mother—tbat my father's dreadful fate the bold with which, if God was good. and theae terrible stories of shipwrecks. we un,lak? the ™al?laa*- battles by sea and l«d and awful en- that the leakcould be foandooanters with aavag? beasts in the wa- calltt ™ and says, 'Bos n, come here ter and on the shore would drive from And- nP to 1 "• that he oat of my boyish head the hopes I en- was a-looking careful through his pertertained of myaelf being, aome day, a "pectnre f~"„ . , , great sailor. But thia they never did. 14 is 'till a hazy morn.' says be. "YiT"he beiran "this is how it 'Wh8t do yon make that out to be. goea. And you. matey, as a king's man, abont'' he OD- P°int8 off on I listen most attentive. For never, in the our quarter? few bsm aa King George's—his health, 1 takes myself a Jong look, ebip- God blew him—vessels sail in will mates, and I sees something about two you have the prospect of encountering but what with the haze and ■och an adventure as thia here which the mist-pecoolar to them seas after a I'm a-going to telL " storm—and the still rolling of tbe ship The marines and tbe king's sailors ' cotUd not at first make anything of ■wiui scoffing! y at this remark, or at '1- ®nl *t last the captain is able to least I think they meant to do so. and and be *0 me th» —ni. 'By God-8 grace, it is an uland. ed a v«ry ropenorlook. as «rongh a small one and a hare. There. ; aay. we are the real sailors who plow is nothing on it that I can see except strange distant seas and visit faroff one Tbe rest is sand. savage lands, and be himself, a ragged, ' Y«* enough, captain, aays I, weather beaten, scar fawd man. who 'to lie by in and to refit. If we can bad lost three fingers of his left hand, makeit, we can find tbe leak and stop lit again his pipe, took one more great " 8Dd so make for the mainland.' gulp of his rum and then proceeded . , doubt not that we shall make with his story. And I, a gaping boy— *• rePlie8 tbe captain, 'but fortunate though now; aa I write this down, a indeed it is tbat we are well found with man and the captain of my own ship, both water and provisions, for, so far trading between tbe port of London 88 £.can 8ee' on that island there is and tbe Indies-was not his least spell- nothing but tbat one tree, and to me it bound listener. looks not like a fruit bearing one. And "It was more nor 15 years agone," tb*n he gives orders from the poop he now proceeded to tell as, "being, as where we was a-standing to give way • I afterward beard, the very year when b,t "id to bear up gently for that isvaj old King George I—whose memory I and* drink—died, that we waa a-making for "Friends all, we made tbat island, Cambodia, in the gulf of Biam. where we «nd being, aa it were, half tide, we wm tending for rice, or was in hopes of gently bescbed our ship. Thus we trading for rice, in exchange for tbe "hould at low tide be able to discover bfliah goods and stuffs we bad on where was the leak she bad sprung, board. Oar vesael. the Loving Friend, and to calk and repair it add at high was a ship about 240 tons harden, and tide to float her off again. wo carried 11 gnns and 80 men. besides "Bat at first, so faint and weary was the master, bis wife and his boy. me we hands bad been at work being tbe bos'n. We had been oat the long night battling with the storm, from the port of Bristol more nor a year that tbe captain—always a good man •nd • half, a-trading in and out duriog and a tender—says that here we would •11 that time, exchanging with one re«t and take our ease for at least some country the goods whst we took in an- d8y« and until the storm was quite past other, bat always keeping together and gone. many bales of English'stuff, which we " 'So now, my lads,' says he, when purposed to exchange at the last port the ship had been gently beached and it which We meant tirade, which was was a-lying peaceful on her port side. Hi* port of Cambodia. Well, we waa 'there ain't naught but a small watch §t«Mikiog far the gulf of Sfom, or as I required; so tumble in and take your should tell you, shipmates all, for tbe rest, bat let first a party go the rounds Chin* sea. we having come away from of this island to see as their ain't nc Maw Guinea and tbe Papons, with toe, human or otherwise, upon it It whoa we'd done a little trading in will not take you half an hour- Bunce. beada and colored clot ha. We waa 8° 7°° with them-' through tbe Sookwaea and likewise tbe "It took but little while for oar party MSodoro aea, and obeerving easy tbe is- to go around tbat island, friends, for in land of Palawan a-lying north north- all its 'scomferance it were not more Mat. and being then in about the lati- than half a mile, and on it there were tnd* of 7 degrees 16 minutes, and steer- nothing but that one tree. And tbat ingaway northeast by east, with a good was down new th« water's edge, bard MO miles of open sea before us. By by tbe shore Friend was good fortune for as tbe rains, that last lying. On it there were nothing else in theae latitudes from May till August, bat sand and sgasbells—not a blade of wm over, and tbe hot air of these here grass, nor a herb nor bush nor flower— regions waa tempered by tbe gentle no, not so much as a place where a rabwind that wm a-blowing from tbe south- bit could bave hid, let alone a wild wcat and a-taking us on our course, beast or a aavage man. Well, when we By good fortune I tfty, ma tea all, for see all this and found out as bow there we had loot three on our men by the wern't nothing to fear on thia little calenture, two more was down with it, island, we turns back to tbe ship and •nd ooe man had been washed over- passes by tbe tree, and. naturally, we board, ao that tbe ship was worked "tope to inspect it phert banded, and a boon to us it were "It was a tree, mateys, of most pecooget thaf breeze a llowing up off t]tie lar appearance, and what struck us all fppa pf the great mountain ridge that m tbe remarkablest thing was that in pip through the island of Borneo. f island where there weren't not an»»0O thia way we WM six good bands ptber stick of growth there should be ffetirft, and the mofe and more did our »uch a vast tree as this. For vast i| skipper thank heaven—for a right God was. As big, I may say, as one of our fMring man wm be, a Quaker by birth, old English oaks waa it, with a huge and hia grandfather having suffered trunk and with great branches growing much at tbe handa of that cruel and oot straight from that trunk, beginbloody tyrant King James II, wbo poa- uing at abont the height of nine feet asosed no virtue bat that he wm a from the ground. Tbe leaves was not, bold sailor—tbat tbe breese did day by however, leaves like tbe oak leaves, but day bold fair, and that ao the ship long and thin and looking more like Mked not much working. fingers than aught else, and of a dry "Bat comrades all a-sitting round brown color. And they grew not  tbis good aea coal fire, knowed ye eyer together, but very sparse and'scant, the time, specially in them seas, if so •» that easy could cne see tbe top and be M how some on ye has ever sailed so the heavens above and perceive that iq •pd here be cocked a wicked eye its branches were neither fowl of tha ppon the king's msrines and alaoon the air nor bats nor nothing. fpippteman drinking with them —"I "And now, mateys, the aan wm high fay knowed Jp pyer tbe time when suci) in the heavens and tbe storm was past gpod fqrtupe lasted t My lada all, w«| Dnd tbe beat waa terrible—so terrible Waa. m well m wp could make it, ip indeed and fierce tbat the men who latitude |0 and 10 minutes, pr about were still aboard the Loving Friend |tO miles eaat of Cape Cambodia, where petitions tbe captain to be allowed to •U that good fortune with that breeze come ashore and sleep bepeath tbe left na. By sundown the southwest branches of that tree, where they would Wind WM gPB#t in its place there get *1? and shade both. And tbe capfell upon u» a portbern wind, sweeping |aifl. seeing nq call for to refuse, grants down from fttfpau and past the Para- jnstantly their request, and. setting be Is and making ua to 'bout abip and only tbe watch necessary, all on up run before it for any part of Borneo we comes ashore—including the captain's could reach. And yet it was not thus wife, a sweet and delicate young thing that our course waa to be determined, be had lately married—and we spreads for before the morning broke once mors ourselves out at full length on the the wind had changed again and waa sands, and there we sleeps and dozes all •-blowing southeast by east of tbe Ma- the day until the quick nighta of these layan coast. And. shipmates, this here parts falls upon us. were such a storm as out our nils to "But with tbe night there seemed to ribbon*—nay, la on* event aending out come but little less coolness than had aaninanU.dean.th* wind.MaMX atkk previously bew» in the day. and auu^ " 'Touch your bair, matel' says I. 'Why have I got three arms and bandsT I ain a-cbucking stones, ain't IT* "I fell asleep. I say. but, ob. friends all, what a sleep it was I At first 1 dreamed that I was dead, and then that Will Winter was a-calling to me and that I was strangling to wake up and belp him, bnt that something held me to the earth, and that alt'the time the leaves in the great tree were rnstling and shaking with the wind (which, in my waking moments, I bud not seen them do) and that those fingerlike' leaves was opening and shotting and clenching, as a cat opens and clenches her paw, and that all the while 1 could bear that awful hollow langh that 1 bad heard in echo of mine and that all through this I conld and did still bear Will Winter yelling and screaming for help and calling on his Maker—and that, strive as I might, I conld not awake nor stretch out a band to belp him. Bat awake at last I did. fcy the hallooing of many voices in my ears and by rough hands shaking me, and, springing np into a sitting posture, I saw that the daybreak bad come, that the son was up above the sea and that half the crew of tbe Loving Friend bad come ashore—also the captain— and was all a-standing round me. "But, mateys ail, there was sammat else to do than to stand a-gaping up into tbe tree and sperkerlating about It A search party mast be made to go around the island to see if by any chance he could be on it, though it wern't no way likely that be was. and arterwards they was to take one of the boats and rowaroand it to see if by any other chance be was floating in the water or under the water, into which one could see deep, for it was as clear as a trout stream at home, and also there was tbe leak to be found and calked and tbe Loving Friend to be somewhat repaired. That we ebonld honor the Sabbath day scarcely needs proof. (1) We shonld do so in imitation of God. God rested on tbe Sabbath day and hallowed it. We shonld therefore, in imitation of God, rest on and hallow the Sabbath day. (2) We shonld honor the Sabbath because God commands ns to do eo. He Himself has commanded ns to "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." To refuse to do so is to break • solemn command of God. (8) We shonld honor the Sabbath,God requires, for our own sakes. We need the rest and the opportunity for worship of God and communion with God. (4) We lose nothing by giving this dav to God. Six days of manna in tbe w*derness, provided for seven days' necessity.' In the providence of God six days' labor will provide for seven days' and thus He has made it possible to keep this day without loes or injury to our temporal well being in any way. "Collis looked at me a moment, unbelieving like, and then he sd?s. 'All the same, yon touched my bair—lifted it np like. Don't do it no more.' " 'Hold on to his legs,' I bawled, as I ran up to him, 'and some on you—you with axes and knives—swarm up the tree and lop off that branch. Lop it off, break it off, do anything, bat stop what it is about.' "Now. Collin was the man what bad been aboard to fetch the food and ram, and thinks I to myself that when at tbe s tor en be bud taken a drop extra for iiimself. Bo 1 says no more, bnt only laughs. Bnt blow me. shipmates all in this here room in Portsmouth town, if there weren't a echo to that laugh close by into my ear. But it were a kind of gurgling, crnel laugh, which didn't sound like mine. At least, I hoped not. Tben Collis gets up, after staring at me again for a moment, and says, says be: 'Bos'n, good night I've changed my bnmor; I'm a-going aboard,' and with that be starts off down the sand to tbe ship, it being sow low tide, and I see him a-clambering up ber side by aid of a rope chucked him by the watch. "Bat to lop off a branch from a tree that is as thick round as an ordinary man's body is no task, work as hard as one may, ana, though two men bad already got up the tree by tbe belp of the other's shoulders, and were backing and slashing away at the branch with good will, they made but little progress, and, as tbey hacked and slashed, with every blow they made, tbe blood poured from the vast cuts until at last the sand below was deluged with it and looked more like a quarter deck after a three hoars' fight with a gang of Sallee rovers than tbe shore of a desert island. Bat at least one good advantage did occur from their efforts. Wktn the Colored The grading of papers from the recent examinationi of colored candidates for certificates to teach schools has developed that many of them were weak on questions in the branch of civil government, and some of them humorously so. Fol| lowing are a few questions and answer* Pell. "So to work we all sets, no me on as over me island, wnere we touna naugni, not even so much as a foot mark which might have showed which way Will had gone; some on as round tbe island in a boat, peering down on the sand through the clear water, and some on us working on tbe ship. And in this way tbe day passed and the second night come on us again. in point: Q. What ia a bill of righto? A. A bUl of righto ia a bill that has been passed and been enforced by the people to abide by the lawa therein to the expense of the God Himself has told na how to honor this day. It is to be hallowed, to be kept holy and sanctified. We are to rest from physical labors, bnt rest is not tba end, bat only the means to the end. Best is necessary that the day may be sanctified. Thousands of laborers are incapacitated from making this a hallowed day because they are not allowed to rest from their labors. John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Rev. i, 10. Let ns be in the Spirit on that day, and we will keep it holy and sacred, and will, like John, receive visions of Qod and of heaven. committee. Q. What are the principal duties of the secretory of war? A. To keep a record of all that goes on of interest, write out and read all the laws that are executed and a great many other things that would befall the secretary. "Well, I was a-pondering deep upon ttfat laugh I beerd. when, bust me, if I didn't feel something a-dragging of "Bat dooring all the day and over oar discussions as to whatever could have happened to Will we had been arranging plans for tbe coming niglit, for all on us had come to tbe certainty that that tree was in some way answerable for his disappearance. How it waa so answerable we could not say, bat we felt it, and, even if it were not answerable for tbat, it must at least be so for the deadly fever which had seised on him, for now we was fall certain that it was not tbe calenture he suffered from. Oar arrangements for the night was therefore as follows: " 'What does this mean. BunceT' tbe skipper auks, looking down stern upon me aa I sat there. 'And is this how you keep watch over a sick comrade T* 5 Q. What are the qualifications of a state senator? A. The senator's otfice is one of the highest offices in the state of Kentucky—chosen for life. 22. "And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this." Anion and Zedekiah are mentioned among the kings as those who humbled not themselves, though they knew th»y ought te» (II Chron. xxxlii, 23; xxxvi, 12). The Spirit says by James that God resiateth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble (Jag. iv, fl), and in Prov. xxix, 23, "A man's pride shall bring him low, but honor ahftii uphold tbe bumble in spirit." " 'Keep watch, captain.' says L 'Why, I done my best for him—and— and—is be dead ?' Q. and i State the sources of the sehool fond trace the channels through which the hers' money passes. A. The teach' money passes through the state and county superintendents. — Henderson " 'Dead I' exclaims the captain. 'Nay, that I know not Bat—he is gone.' (Ky.) Journal. " 'QoneT' I says, jumping to my feet and gating at the spot where bat a few hoars ago I left him lying sick and helpless. 'Why, where is he gone tot' "Fast, of coarse, • few hands mast man the ship for tbe watch and to stand by her as she righted with tbe night tide and as she again slewed over to port as the tide went oat, bat naturally not many was required for this. Bible Readings.—Gen. ii, 1. 8; Ex. xvi, 14-30; xxiii, 13; xsxi, 13-18; xxxiv, 81; Lev. xxv, 1-7; Nom. xv. 82-36; Dent, v, 13-14; Neb. x, 81; xiii, 15; Isa. lviii, 18, 14; Jer. xvii, 81-87; Mark ii, 83-28; Luke iv, 16. A Kuiu Girl's ABn»Mti. MUa Mahalay Bartlett went to Osawa'* recently and after taking in the —lum returned a day or two »ho has been con" ~ nast ten 1\ " 'That we wish to know. Have you no conception yourself ?' 23. " The God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thoa not glorified." How apt we are to forget tbat "in Him we live and move and have our being (Acts xvii, 28); that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps; a man's heart deviaeth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps (Jer. x, 28; Prov. xvi, 9). So we go on not considering that the life God gives and the unceasing care day and night from the beginning of oar existence are intended to lead us to Himself that we may know Him. A4-W. '4 This is the inteniretatinn al the •» " ' a for a grai " 'Conception T* I answers. 'No, none. And indeed it is not possible tbat be should have gone by himself.' "Secondly, the rest of oar crew was a-going to stay on tbe ialaiid, taking turn and tarn about at sleeping and watching, but all to be directly beneath the tree. We knowed, mateys all, tbat there were some danger in this. We knowed tbat Will Winter had landed on the island a sound man and waa a r "Hold on to his legs," J bawled. for at last the branch—as some savage, wounded beast might have done—weakened by their blows, let go its hold, and poor Mark fell to the ground. D How la Christ Miaunderatoodf Christ is misunderstood in several different ways—first, by failing to stndy and compare His teachings. We read them separately and remember them in a degree, bat fail to realize that they onght also to be Btndied side HH " 'Yet it is even aa' X e It t "And then, friends all round this flr«, re gased abonftbat snail island, we ooked out to sea, to north and south rod east and west, and we stared aghast Into one another's eyes and wondered "Daring all tbe time I bad been callg to them to lop off tbe branch be,' i of m ican. \ . "Yet," he began, "t\U it howU goea," jgDy hair op in« kind at manner u , when we waa boys, we dragged a atone op with a tracker. Then I gives my head a wrench and ao seems to get free of whatever bad got bold on it, and I myself moves off a bit I ain't got none of them eooperstitions what moat on them in oar calling has, or I should have thought the island waa bannted. But that, I saya to myaelf, could not be. There wern't no gboet up in that tree, I could make very sure, aeeing aa bow I could aee every branch of it and nearly count every leaf on it in the clear moonlight, and there waa nowhere else for a gboet to harbor. fallen upon na and by what dreadful disaster we «u surrounded. And. helpless and staggered, I turned niy eyes np into the tTee and saw nothing there by the brancnes and the long finger shaped leave* and tbe aky beyond them. tbem instead* cut on nia arm ana set him free, and indeed bid'toe done ao he would have suffered bat little more or scarcely have been a greater loser, for. when released at last, be fell to the gronnd. tbe arm was gone—eaten away by that devilish tree—and naogbt but a mangled stump protruded from his shoulder. But his life was saved, and, instead of his whole body, he bad but lost a limb. tnlng; MIKK; God hath nVimberedthy kingdom and finished it." It was not a whole hand that was seen writing these words, but part of a hand; only the finger* (verses 6, 24). Sometimes God causes a voice to be heard and sometimes the messenger is wholly visible. He doeth according to His will and always with a reason. Great things doeth He which we cannot somprehend (Ezek. xiv, 23; Jobxxxvii, 6). If we are wholly His, He will perfect that which concerneth us. i from "V'» T~— - " Seylax, 2:16%, has been shifted to tha. pace, and has already shown 2:18% at that gait. Que Allen, 2.-09%, the European champion, has burst; his foot and may be unable to start this year. Bin gen, 2:00%, was hitched to a sulky for the first time this year June 16, and stepped a mile in 2:25. A green trotter, Flower, by Baron Rose, dam Fleet, 2:18%, is credited with a mile in 2:14% at Poughkeepsie. touching us; we knowed that Will bad disappeared; bat we knowed not bow it all happened, and bow it happened we meant for to find out. into them, because we fail to their oriental character and value of the they were ottered. „ .. them without tryi»x -to grasp their meaning, and are content with a superficial understanding. Sometimes we forget that He was not a teacher of dogmatic truth, and came less to erect a system of theology than to illustrate and recommend a certain type of character and life. —Congregationalift. in "Tbe first watch was tbe mate—tbe captain as in dooty bound staying by tbe ship—and six men, there being me and aix others sleeping. Tbe second watch was me and them six while tbe first watch slept The watches was to be of five hoars, and naturally no dog watch. "But as I still looked up at all this I see a drop of something fall from one of tbe lower branches and light upon tbe shoulder of tbe captain and mark tbe white bolland jacket that he was a-wearing. "And now, friends, what more need was there to doubt where Will Winter had gone to or what befallen him Y It was certain we had come across a horrible something—for who could call it simply a tree?—that by some dreadful freak of nature was part cannibal, part wild beast and part demon; something, I do think, that no eyes but those of tbe crew of the Loving Friend had ever seen, something that no mortal man could ever have imagined had be not seen it 27. "TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting." The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. All the ways of a man are clean iu his own eyes, but the Lord welgheth the spirits (I Sam. ii, 3; Prov. xvi, 2). Job desired to be weighed in an even balance, but while men of low degree are vanity men of high degree are a lie; tc be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity (Job xxxi, fl; Ps. lxii, 9). "And, dazed witb fear and horror, I give a groan and pointed at that drop and drew all tbeir eyes to it, and they, like me, shrank shndderingly and fearfully away. Doty*s Brigadier, 2:29%* has been sent to Honolulu. The bay gelding worked a mile shortly before being exported in 2:19. "We begun that nigbt witb a prayer, tbe captain coming ashore to say it and all on us a-kneeling down, and when in conclusion he prayed for light to lighten our darkness, amen was said most fervent by one and alL And then the first watch was set, each man having a musket, loaded witb slugs—but what there was to fire on no one knowed. though all felt there was danger in the air—and soon we others was all asleep. "Then I looks down at the men, thinking as bow perhaps some on them was a-playing of a trick on na, bat they was all aaleep—if ever I see men asleep in my life. I say they was all asleep, and so they was a minute before, bnt even as I looked at them tbey all with one accord springs up, some sitting, some standing, some robbing their eyes, come coning and swearing, and two on 'em falling to a-fighting. Mistaken Sincerity. Sincerity is an admirable thing in its proper place. Bnt sincere persona often mistake when they think that because a truth is obnoxious it onght.therefore to be spoken. We saw yesterday a man with the nose of Cyrano de Bergerac. A truthful and very obnoxious statement might have been made to him concerning it, bat it would have been neither conrteons nor timely. Timely truth* may be unpopular, bnt it does not follow that unpopularity is a sign of timeliness.—Christian Register. Miss Logan has a colt two years old, named Harry Logan, that worked a half this spring letter than 1:10, but Will not be raced until is a 4-year-old. A new one has joined the stable of W. J. Andrews at Grosse Pointe track, Detroit, in the Michigan bred horse Don Sphinx, 2:14%, by Sphinx—Miss Dixon, by Monarch, Jr. "For tbe drop that had fallen on tbe captain's shoulder was a drop of blood." CHAPTER IL By tbe time that be bad reached this part of bis narrative we were all—as you may understand—much roused to curiosity. Tbe marines and the minuteman had even let tbeir drink get cold in the bowl while they listened to the story he was telling in rude language, but certainly most graphically. The privateer's men were regarding him with a look of admiration as though proud of one who was of their own class of sailer, and, as for me, I was staring at him more open mouthed than ever, and tbe work in the kitchen being now done for tbe night, my dear and honored mother had opened the little window through which the dishes were handed from that place to those partaking of food in tbe parlor, and was herself listening with all ears to tbe seafarer's story, and behind her could be seen tbe red head of Belinda—our kitchen wench —who was gaping over my mother's shoulder with wide staring eyes. 28. "PERES; thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." In the first year of Belshazzar Daniel saw in the vfbion of wild beasts that which Nebuchadnezzar had seen in the vision of the great image, the succession of kingdoms, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian and Roman, then the kingdom without end. The differences in the visions are at least suggestive of this fact—that to a man of the world like the king of Babylon power is something precious as gold or silver, but to a man of God, waiting for the kingdom of God, the present governments of earth are like devouring wild beasts. "Shipmates, there was left but one thing more to do, and that we done at daylnreak when all the crew had come ashore and when the skipper, who well understood chirurgery, had bound up poor Deacon's wounde(J stump. "We got all the axes that were on board. We hewed down that tree, we lopped off all the branches, and at first more blood flowed from it, though at last it ceased. And the blood that came from it was about as much as the body of a man might contain. In those branches we found more pulp that we knowed bad been bones, and in the tree, near where tbe branch had grown out, still more. And. mates, we found some teeth. Here's one on'em." Nothing seems to be worrying John R. Gentry, as he paced a mile at Urosse Pointe track the other day in 2:05, last quarter in 29% seconds. The half was reached in 1:04. " 'Stop this here,' says I, a-interposing between the two fighting ones. 'I'll have no fighting here. I'm in command on this island. Stop, I say!' "That sleep was nnbroken, and when we was awakened to take our turn we tbought as bow there was going to be no return of last night's alarms. But tbem good hopes was soon to be disappointed.When We Love Christ. Squeezer, 2:13%, the chap that won an eight heat race at Dover, N. H., last year and followed it up by beating a good field at Old Orchard, Me., is in Jock Bowen's stable. •• "tie polled me op oot or my sleep,* says one. 'Yon're a liar,' says the other. 'Yon palled me op.' And another on 'em sits op right straight, and Bays, Bays he, 'God, I feels like death!' and all the others mombled and mattered to themselves. More I can neither wish, nor pray, nor desire for you than Christ, singled and chosen out from all things, even though wearing a crown of thorns. I am sure the saints are at best bnt strangers to tbe might and worth of the incomparable excellence of Christ. We know not half of what we love when we love Christ.—American Friend. "The nigbt air bad turned cold—as in them latitudes it often does, sometimes linking as much as 80 degrees from the beat of tbe day—so cold as we were flad to walk up and down a matter of »ome 100 or 150 paces to keep ourselves warm. Even the moon—which was at her full—looked like a ball of ice as she •ailed in the sky. By the records the fastest new trotter of the year is Maid Thome, by Egthorne, 2:12% who took a record of 2:17% over the Bethlehem (Pa.) half mile track the other day 29. "They clothed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom." Thus he is again honored before men because he honored God. As it is written, "If any man serve Me, him will My Fat her honor" (John xii, 20), and again, ''Them that honor Me I will honor" (I Sum. ii, 30). All earthly honors are very fleeting, and Daniel sought them not. He sought the honor that cometh from God only (John v, 44). " 'Mates,' says I to them, 'listen to me. There's a something on this island as ain't right Whether it's in the air or whether it's in the soil or whether it's in the sea aronnd ys I know not. Bat there's something here as fihoald not be. Yoa was all a-sleeping peaceful two moments ago and nobody poUed any on yon, and yet here yoa all are raying as bow some one did do so, and one on yoa aays as how be feels like death.' Keating's stable is called the "Big Casino" string, because it is supposed to contain ten 2:10 performers. Five have already done the trick and five others are thought capable of it. Snrmonntlnar DMcnltiea. "Now, as Job Harris and I, who was walking together, and with onr muskets over our shoulders, looking mere like twosodgers than two sailors, passed under that tree, we see a strange sight One of tbe branches which was standing straight ont from the trunk at about tbe height of eight feet was opening along its lower part, for all the world as you may see an overripe pea pod open in a garden and show all tbe row of peas within it, or. as sometimes, a horse'chestnut shell will open and show yon the not shining bright within it But when this here branch opened it let fall with a splash a great blob of what the skipper bad called sap. but what we con Id not but think was more tike blood. At this peculiar thing, wbicb, however, at the moment struck me as nothing so very terrible, though Job's face was blanched witb fear, be made as though be would up with his gun and fire at that branch, bat I put my hand on bis arm and checked him. Surmount difficulties by the help of other difficulties as the sailor "tacka" his boat and tbe boy raises his kits against head winds.—Christian Standard.And, feeling in his shirt, this strange wanderer produced a pouch, from which be took a human double tooth and threw it on the tabla Sweet Marie, the bay mare by Blyria that took a record of 2:25% in the firstheat of the 2:30 pace at Rockport, was bred by George H. Ely, and is out of Enigma, by Epicure. She is five years old.  Then, when the company had inspected it and bad stared wonderingly at him and into each other's eyes, they slowly withdrew, while I, holding my mother's hand, went trembling up the stairs to bed. 30. "In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the C'haldeuns, slain." And what of his soul, the person, the one who in that body, now dead, hod spent his last night on earth at a drunken, God defying feast? We think of the words "Thou fool! This night thy soul shall be required of thee,'' and of the rich man who when he died lifted up his eyes in torment (Luke xii, 20; xvi, 23). Poor indeed is he who has a kingdom, but no Saviour I Again he took a great draft of his ram, which by this time wae as cold as tbe punch in the bowl, and again be lit his pipe and smoked a few whiffs, doing so silently, and as though thinking deeply, and then, when be saw that we were all a-waiting most eagerly the continuance of his story, be began again. Make Room For Me. We boilt a castle, she and 1 together. Not like those we read about in fairy tales, With dingy rooms or dungeons, halls and turrets.FRANCE. " 'And so I do,' says the man—Will Winter by name 'I feel death npon me.' Withstanding boldly wars and wintry galas. All French generals, from their photographs, look alike to us.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal." 'To the fiend with death,' saya I; 'get up and walk about.' Twas fashioned like a very humble cottage, On a hilltop, in a shad; grove of trees. Where flowers bloomed in beauty at its doorwayA Palate Tickler. France appears to be Buffering from a bad attack of political tuberculosis.— Sioux City Journal. " 'I can't,' says be; 'I can't. I can't move.' And be couldn't. Friends all, that man was hi a kind of parlytic state, as the doctors call it, and he con Id not move. "Years ago, when I belonged to a coterie of gay young cavaliers in New York city." eaid Colonel Henry Watterson at Chain berlin's, "I designed the dish now generally known as lobster a la Newburg. I gave my idea to Charlie Delmonico, and he saw that it was carried to successful execution. John Mc- Cullough was one of ns, and to John is due the appearance of broiled live lobster in the east. He had canght on to that epicurean way of preparing it daring his stay in California. In after years I attained some fame as a manipulator of certain dishes, terrapin, perhaps, being my masterpiece. "Mates all, and yon, too, mistress," with a dnck of bis head to my mother, aa he resumed, "yon may well believe that that there drop of. blood a-falling from the tree peaily froze all the blood {n oar own veins yrith horror. For in no way could we conceive bow he who bad so mysteriously disappeared should have left bia blood—for we never doubted that it waa hie—upon that tree. For, first of all. aa we debated among ourselves, be was not a wounded man, but one who was sick, and sick, as 1 thought, of the calenture, so that why be should bleed we knew not. And, 86C* ondly, he had been so ill and fevered and prostrated that he could not rise from the ground, so bow could it have come about that he could ever have got up into that tree, whose lowest branch was a good eight feet from the earth t And. thirdly, eyep allowing that he could have got there, what bad become of bim. for that he was up in the tree there could be no possibility T We could see up into it and through it. and most certainly he was not there So again we asked ourselves, 'Where was be?' And oast their sweetness on the stunner breeae. 31. "And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." It was in the first year of Darius that Daniel, understanding by the prophecy of Jeremiah that the captivity was alDout over, gave himself to prayer and supplication for his people, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes (Dan. iz, 1-8), and to him it was revealed by Gabriel that after 483 years more of Jewish history the Messiah would oome and be cut off without bringing the kingdom, but that after another seven years of Jewish history (for which seven we still wait) there will be an end of their sins, and they will become a righteous nation lot ever. After the Dreyfus case is disposed of, France will feel funny mornings to wake up and find that she is plumb out of crises.—St. Louis Republic. We furnished it with fairest dreams and fancies,We put our life and hope within its walla. But, like blocks, which childish flngen fashion. Too high, the crumbling ruin round us fails. V says I. 'this won't do, men. Tbis here is worse nor the storm. Let's hail the ship.' And with that we bailed per. ?Wha$ cheer f' I sings oat $q the man I ponld see on the fo'past)e. 'What cheer, shipmateV And he sings back: 'All's well aboard. What chee?, shipmate, ashoreV The only thing that will give France a place among the uatious is a thorough reform of its antiquated system of jnriaprudence.—Sioux City Tribune. We waited—yos, we waited; we were patient. Trusting that our castle In the air Would not always float so far beyond us. But desoend to earth and settle there. r far »wr ALL NATl " 'Stop,' says I; 'there may be more curiosities to be seen. Let's wait and see.' Mateys, there waa more to be seen, as I will tell yoa. Our bleeding hearts orjr oat amid the darkness, Wh/, oh, why, must every joy depart? But to each there comes a solemn answer, "My child, make room for Ma within thy heart." " 'Bad,' answered I. 'We think thia land is infected. Tell the captain Will Winter says he'a dying.' Well, with that we hears voices on the ship and see a lantern moving, and then the captain bails us. 'What's this, I hear, Buncet' be calls to me. "When that blob of what I called blood bad fallen—splashing as it fell some of the men who were nearest to it —the part that had opened closed again- But it only, closed for a moment, for gifectly afterward Dt once more parted and from it fell something white— something about as big as a duck's egg. And then, once more, it closed up. Job was by now almost beside himself with terror, but I was calmer, and in my calmness I advanced to that white thing a-lying there in the moonlight pnd picked it up. while Job looked over my elbow at it- "Curiously enough, all the newspaper stories have given me credit for being an artist in the preparation of oyster stews, but my experience with the bivalves is limited. I always left them to John Chamberlin, while he would not allow any one but myself to attend to the diamond backs. —Philadelphia Ledger. THE CYNIC. THE ICEMAN. " 'Will Winter took with sickness, skipper,' I replies, 'and I think we are all going mad, captain. We can feel something as we can't see  ing hold on ns and a-dragging of na.' Diamonds won't save some women. Civilization usually means more scheming aud less work. The iceman runs his business most on the block system.—Philadelphia Bi tetin. As soon as a man saves up a tew dollars he begins to lie about his ancestors. It is cold casl* that a man must lay down for his ice. bill.—New Orleans Picayune. 1 "I can't begin to tell you how mnch of this ingredient or the exact quantity of the other to put with the terrapin, but I know bow to blend them all in an instinctive sort of way, and I've never yet found the man who didn't admit that my cooking wae of the highest order."—Washington Poet When a paper speaks ill of a man, he begins to discover that it has a large circulation.The iceman doesn't kick because all that glitters isn't gold. He's got something just as good.—Philadelphia Record. " 'Come aboard,' hallooe back th* skipper, 'all on yon, at onat.' Bnt here whs a difficulty. We others could all have clambered np the ship's aide—alj on ns excepting Will Winter. Bnt, aq for him, he couldn't move, and there wern't no moving of him—and natere}, and sailorlike, we wasn't a-going fq leave him there—the more so as therp was no doubt that he was like to di& You conld see it in bis face, friends, as be lay there nnder the tree—mateys. you could see it in the horror of fcia eyes! Every insane man seems to be sane enough to buy a gun without exciting suspicion. The iceman is so gleeful these days that he involuntarily does a cake walk in delivering his wares.—Philadelphia Record.31 " 'We are in (Jod's hands.' our skip per said, 'and be alone directs our course. And in bis goodness be has seen tit to land ns upon this terrible island We must bow to him.' Before telling your troubles to a friend make sure that he has just eaten and feels comfortable. ' 'Shipmates all. in this here town, do yon kpow what that thing were? It were a bone of some sort—alas, we (eared it were a bone of poor Will Winter's, crnsbed and bruised into a pulp. b hhull uU a raca, — tm Depends on What We Are. UCB, M Im-U Bftl ILBOCCK, (tottll rirntoi, pa. THE ROYAL BOX. When some people are lonesome, it Indicates thnt they have a secret to fell aud are looking for some one to tell it to. Temptations are the crises which test the strength yf one's character. Whether we stand or fall at these crises depends largely on what we are before tbs testing cornea—Presbyterian Journal. " 'Bnt, capen,' says pur mate, 'what is to be done? Since he is not there he mast be somewhere—unless it be that be has cast (iiniself into the sea. "Slowly I let my hand fail, and I knowed now that uiy face must be as horror struck as the face of the man before me. and, slowly followed by him, I walked away from under the branches of that accursed tree. And, as we moved off, I think it done ns good to see the light glimmering on the fo'castle of the Loving Friend and to know that in that brave Bbip there was something apart from the terrors by which we were surrounded. The queen of Spain always goes to mass at 7 a. m. It is not necessary to talk loud in saying anything bad altout a person. A whisper of such a kind can be heard ail over the neighborhood.—Atchison Globe. King Charles of Roumania has pub lished his reminiscences in three volumes. " 'He had no strength for that.' ) said. 'Last night be could neither move band nor foot-' "However, I sends all the others down to the ship, and I hallooe off to the captain, telling him that all my men was coming on board, excepting only Will Winter, who couldn't move, and myself, who was a-going to stand by with him and help him. And of this the captain approved. Queen Victoria never signs state papers on a Friday which happens to be the 13th day of the month. Consecration. I bring Thee myself, dear Lord, UTTED EVERY - the Philippines," loned by we Govi to the War De- THE ONLY WILLIAM. Aud all that I want to be. My joy» and my weary oarea. And consecrate all to Thee. by Marat Halntec erament as Officii pertinent: The cam peat San Prai Merritt, in the he Kong, in the Ami tne insurant oa deck of the (Myrow of battli at I for agents. Brin by governs eat Large book. IxDl paid! Creditjfivt war booka. Onti bet, Seel, Star i " 'Yet,' says the mate, 'he could get np there,' and he pointed to the branch of the tree off which the blood had dropped. Meanwhile onr captain had been examining of that tree most carefal and was a scratching at the bark on its trunk and, as be scratched, forth from it there ooeed a dark 1*4 liunid that itself logkad like blood, but Violets, the pet flowers of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, have Income quite sacred in the eyes of his wid- Somebody wants to know if speeches of the kaiser may be debated by German statesmen. Certainly they may, but it is unhealthy employment. — Kansas City Journal. Garments of Gel. The German empress is like her contort in at lenst oue respect. She is an early riser, not because her husband wills it, but from choice. The imperial pair are always uj. a long time before tfc* breakfast boot of 8 u'cloca. Sorrows are often like clonds, which, thongh black when they are passing over us, when they are past become as if they were the garments of God, thrown off in pnrple and gold along th« i ikj.— Bma Ward Beeches.  wey, and in the nila. Bonanza pictures t en i on the Tot. roflta. Freight raahy unofficial ess, F T. Bar- I loch der kaiser! He won a race with bis yacht, sailing the vessel himself, winuiiig, probably, because the rest of the contestants were afraid to pass him.— I'yifeka Capital.  "So off they goes to the ship, and right glad, I think, they was to do it, and. although the Loving Ftfemd, vuiu't " 'Th« skipper was right.' wys I. as we gated on the ahip, both on us a'moat . Drc free.