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WtablUhed 1850. I TOL. XUXNO.M. I Oldest Newsoaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. (•l.OOaYsa* ; In Adrane*. I The Treasure Fishing I lot ot grog was served out, coast fashion, at eight bells, and the slop chest tobacco bnrnt slowly and cost only 2 shillings a ponnd. Bat there was one thing worried me and that was Miss Bradbury. She had joined at Liverpool as rosy a lassie as one conld wish to meet, and here she was getting whiter and thinner every day. Yon conld almost see the flesh slip away from her bones, and she'd an appearance of scare and worry abont her face that made one sick to look at. All hands saw it There was no avoiding snch a thing. Bat they pat it down to anxiety about Cameron. corpses and were prospecting me as food, and the idea made me shudder in- chance explorers. Then they were going to tell Captain Boyd that the job beat them and get his permission to blow into the Corinth's strong room with dynamite from the outside. The explosion would be so contrived that the steamer would be rived to pieces and the ooze would cover all her fragments. church and crumpled a couple of £2C Bank of England notes into my hands, and, "Those," said he, "are from the salvage company. I told them I thought you deserved the—I told them I thought they were owing you a matter of £270,- 000, but I conldn't get more for you, Mac, my lad, and perhaps you are better without it. Companies are not addicted to giving away tips when they aren't forced, and third engineers, Mao —well, they have thirsts, haven't they, my lad?" SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE. THE SUNDAY SCHUOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. A. PenniiylviinlA Squire'* Original War of Reaching It. LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- Tople For the Week BecUilac An*. Squire Henry Grelle of Beltzhoover is attracting some attention as a magistrate. He administers justice impartially in his homely way, and, while some of his decisions may not be according to the books, still they carry the force of originality. Squire Grelle does not like lawyers. He believes that they stir up too much trouble by dragging musty old books into his office and insisting that he follow the precedents they dig from them. He has the full approval of his constituents. His justice is the sort that is equitable between man and man and not that misnamed stuff that depends on the technicalities of lawbooks for a standing. NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 6. Tone.—Drifting.—Eph. It, 14; Ju. 1, 1-8. 6—Comment by Rev. 8. H. Doyle. We are living in an age characterised by the nnsettlement of faitba. The tendency of the age is to cast reflection and doubt upon the beliefs of the past, in science, literature, history and religion. Many past scientific beliefs are doubted or discarded. Literature fend history fare little better. Doubt baa been cast upon Homer's authorship of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," William Tell's existence, Shakespeare's title to the plays which have been attriboted to his name. This Bpirit is specifelly prolific in the sphere oT religion. What is not doubted by some onet The refeult is that many are unsettled and unstable. Many do not know what to beliSve. They are drifting. They are "children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." | — B,_ " | * CUTCLIFFE HYNE. £ i [COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY CUTCLIFFE HYNEJ Text of the Leuon, Esek. xiztI, 25-36—Memory Verses, 25-27—Golden Text. Eiek. xxxvl, 26—Commentary Prepared by Hey. O. MD Stearns. "Yon think that the Gleaner would return home then?" I asked. "There would be nothing else for it." "But the company would send out another expedition." [Copyright, 1899, by D. M. Stearns.] 25. "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be ole&n from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will 1 cleanse you." The topic of our lesson is "The New Heart," but we must notice the context and observe to whom the words are spoken, then take the lesson for our own* hearts. The previous verses speak of the land of Israel, the mountains of Israel, the people of Israel and of Israel's shameful treatment of Jehovah, on account of which He scattered them in many lands, but verse 24 says that He will take them from all lands and bring them to their own land, and our lesson begins by saying that then He will cleanse them. -I have found but one thing in all the Bible that Ood says He will do with all His heart and soul, and that is that He will thus put Israel in their own land (Jer. xxxii, 41). "Let them send oat ten; they'd find nothing." Well, I suppose he was right. I know I had clean pockets a week later. The pair of them 'were openly engaged to marry by this time, and I mast say the way that he and the other diver worked was a caution. Of coarse the water was warm, bat it was fairish deep, and I never saw men stay down longer. They never eeemed to give in while they had strength left to lift a hand, and when they came to the surface and bad their gear taken off they'd be almost fainting with weariness from what they'd gone through. And it was not a one day occurrence either. They were always the same, and the weeks away till they bad ran into a month,'and still none of the gold bad been brought to the Gleaner. "And afterward?" "Storey and I were going to charter a schooner, put diving tackle on board and come-out here again by ourselves. We cculd weigh the gold in a couple of days, and I know of a market." CRIPPLES TO ORDER. 1 fancy the two divers mast have been in it from the very first, and indeed I've a strong notion the whole plot to steal the treasure was in the beginning theirs and theirs alone. I can't be sure, bat I've an idea that Miss Bradbury came into the business soon after we sailed from Liverpool, and, if one may hazard a guess, it was because Willie Cameron, the diver with the black hair, fell in love with her and let oat the secret. However, I didn't arrive at any of this till later, and, *t it hadn't been lagged into the business by the veriest outside chance, it's my belief the three of them would have walked off with all the gold, and the salvage company would never have aero so much as the bare color of it A Horrible Industry Discovered at at first she disguised this, before we rose the Canary mountain above the sea line she was not shy of letting it be seen by any one who chose to look. And Willie Cameron liked her in return, and, if ever I saw it, love glowed out of the eyes of those two. ToloMa, In Spain. One of Squire Grelle's early cases was brought against a friend of his, who was accused of cruelty to animals. The man had been bothered by a vicious dog, and he shot at it. The bullet cut a piece off its tail, but did no other harm. The trial attracted a large crowd. There was conflicting evidence as to the dog. Some of the witnesses said it was a gentle animal, and others declared that it ought to be killed. The Journal d'Hygiene of Paris reports the artificial production of cripples, who are afterward made to beg upon the street. "Well, Storey will naver use limbs or tongue again." "I'm sure of it, Mac. You must take his place. We two and one other can work the schooner, and a year from now we'll be rich men. Think of it, lad —rich beyond what yon ever thought of I Think of it—no m«re having to stand your watch at sea, no more sea at ■11! Yon can stay in England and marry and live a decent life. Think of it, Mac I" The seat of the manufacture is Tolosa, near San Sebastian, Spain. Agents of the factory travel far searching for children who are clubfooted or deformed. These are brought to Tolosa usually when 7 or 8 years old and made as much worse as possible. We were fellow countrymen, Cameron and I (I am Scottish myself), and The tendency to drift with the Current in such times is strong. OnHbe other hand, the importance of steadfastness and stability in religions faith \i$ unquestioned and unquestionable, that wavereth, that donbtetb, hath no power with Ood. "He that wavereth is like a wave of the eea driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think thft he shall receive anything of - the Lord." Strong, real, unquestidbed faith in Qod is the first essential to a satisfactory, progressive religions life. To safeguard ourselves against drifting is therefore a very important matter. Some directions for doing so are suggested in the topical references. 1. Knowledge is a safeguard against drifting. Ignorance is the cause of much lack of stability. Knowledge is therefore the cure. The ignorant, like children, are easily influenced and easily deceived by the cunning craftiness of men. Christ has therefore appointed teachers of His word—apostlee, prophets, evangelists, pastors—for the viry purpose of the edifying of the saints that they may not be imposed upon and deceived by false teachers. The regular attendant upon the ministry of the word is better safeguarded against the assaults of the tempter than One who neglects God's house. Qod also promises us wisdom in answer 'to prayer. "If any man lacketh wisdom, let him aak of Qod * * * and it shall be given him." Pray for wisdom to»*emain steadfast in faith. 2. Christlikeness is a safeguard against drifting. The reception and practice of Christian truth leads as "unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ," and thus we are safeguarded. The nearer we are to Christ in tbcrtight, word and deed, the harder it will be to lead us away from our faith in Qod, in Him and in a blessed future life with them. Bible Readings.—Deut. x, 20; Job xi, 14. 15; Math, vii, 24-29 ; I Cor. xv, 58; CoL ii, 5; I Thess. v, 21; H4b. il, 1-4; iv, 14; x, 28; xiii, »; IPW. i, «-#; v, 8, #; H Pet. iii, 17, 18; Rev. ii, 10. "I will reserf my decision nntil next weeg," said the squire after he had heard the testimony. Once a year the padrone—it is "padron" in Spanish, but the thing is the same—gathers his poor little charges, each strapped on a little box on wheels, and smuggles them into France. Traveling by easy stages and lagging by the way, they reach Paris in time for the annual "Fair of Spiced Bread." He was not satisfied as to the dog, and while he had the case under consideration he made some inquiries in the neighborhood. He learned that the dog was a bad one. But the maiming of it by depriving it of part of its tail was undoubtedly a cruel act, and he did not see how he could get over that, even to favor his friend. The silt was the trouble, it seemed. As fast as they dug it cut just so fast did it slide down again into the steamer's bowels, and the strong room, which lay right down against her keel, could not be come at. Of course one understood that Cameron's reputation depended apon his bringing off this salvage jA successfully, bat I don't see the force of a man killing himself, and I told him so more than once. I fancied at the time that Miss Bradbury was telling him the same every day. But be didn't take any notice of either of us, nor did Storey, the other {liver, and the pair of them just worked themselves to rags. 26. " A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." As when the Lord God said to the serpent, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman" (Gen. iii, 15) He toidicated that He would do it Himself, so here the giving of the new heart and spirit is His work alone; but notice that while God is willing to give the new heart we must be willing to reoeive it, or rather, Him, for Christ Himself in us is the new life (I John v, 12; John I, 11, 12). The gold was beneath and around us, In I was thinking of it As I sat there watching the heat lightning wink among the black hills of the island I was remembering that it was a chance snch as I bad never had before in all my life, and one which would never come to me again. I'd been kicked abont the world ever since I first went a wee bit wrong in Ballindrochater. and I'd sworn never to see the place more till I'd enough siller to bnild a house there as big as the manse itself. 1 hungered for the old spot again, with its gray houses and the brown moorland at the back. My mother was still there and poor. I could do a power of good in the placa (the de'il told me then) if I went back rich and enlightened with all my store of foreign travel. But then what the captain had said to roe came back—how he reminded me I had been born a gentleman, and how he'd treat me as my father's son and trust to my honor—and I stood to my feet and swore. iron bound boxes. side my rubber clothes. Then I thought good to see exactly what was going to happen and slipped through the hatch after Cameron. In 1887 the French ministry of the interior estimated that -100 such little cripples were either made or made worse and taken into France. The industry has probably not grown larger since. There waa a distinct understanding between me and Captain Boyd when I signed on as "third" of the Gleaner that I was only doing it as a personal obligation to himself. The berths of second and chief engineer had been filled. They wanted a man who would not mind bearing a hand if anything went wrong with the diving tackle, and they couldn't have picked a better than myself. I was thoroughly well grounded in the shops before ever I thought of. the sea, and, though I say it, tow better fitters and all round mechanics have ever stood on the footplates of a steamboat's engine room. If it wasn't for the board of trade and their rotten examinations, I'd have been chief long ago, and with a chief's ticket in my pocket yon may be sure I'd have got the master band over the whisky, at any rate at sea, and in sight of any one that mattered ashore. When the day came for him to give his decision, it was evident to the crowd that had gathered in his office that he had made up his mind. He called the defendant up. We were in Corinth's strong room The gold was beneath and around us. in iron bound boxes, built together like the bricks of a wall. Cameron lifted an end of one of the boxes and nodded his helmeted head toward me impatiently. I took hold, and together we "swung it up through the water and out through the hatches. Then be scrambled up himself, and I followed. Again we lifted the box. treading with care along the slimy alleyways so as not to foul our air pipes. I could feel the bones of the dead shift beneath my feet, and my chest was tight with labor. In spite or the buoyancy of the water, the box of gold was as much as the pair of us could struggle along with. A somewhat simily associatioa gathers littfe Savoyard boys to become "sweeps." They are practically beggars, since there are few chimneys in Paris they can enter. "Ycia admld shooting this dog?" he asked. ''Yes, I do, squire, but that dog is"— "Dot will do. Sid down," and he called the owner of the dog forward. 27. "And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk In my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them." Not by might nor power of man, not by prayer or striving, not by intellect or education, but by the Spirit of God is the new life to be lived (Zech. iv, 6). When we receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour we at once become the abode or mansion in which the Father, Son and Spirit will dwell (John xiv, 17, 28). Then it becomes true that we are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwelleth In us (I Cor. Iii, 16). 28. "And ye shall dwell In the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God." The first part of this verse can only be under stood In the light of the promises made tc Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from Gen. xii onward, and which still await fulfill ment. The church, the body of Christ, has no land on earth, but is a company of people gathered out of all nations, whose home Is to be the New Jerusalem. As to In either case the wretched sham sweep or the equally wretched beggar brings 30 or 40 cents each night to liis padrone or he gets !Deaten. And if the beating makes the poor child look even more miserable, so much the better for the padrone. The pennies will flow more generously if the child looks wretched.— New York World. "Your dog is a bad dog," he said to him. "Not be isn't squire," said the man; "he's as gentle as"— "Dot will do. Sid down. I haf my mind made up. I fine the defendant $1 and gosts for shooting dot dog." There was applause from the side of the room on which the friends of the dog were gathered. ▲ stopper was put on their game, however, in a way they did not expect. The steward brought word one that the captain wanted to see me, and I turned out of my bunk and went on deck. He seemed in a bit of a worry. at one time and another the pair of us put in a fairish deal of talk. HiB air pump needed a bit of an overhaul, and as I was set on to help him we had plenty of opportunity. But I'll not soy we got much' off general topics. He seemed a man in a desperate hurry to get rich, and most every day he'd ask me if I could point him out a plan. But my answer to him was always the same Cameron was the man she tang for. One of the grounds which Hugo Lambey alleged in his suit for divorce against Anna Lambey, which was tried in Judge Zachritz's court the other day, resulting in a decree for the plaintiff, was that his wife believed in witchcraft. The allegation in his petition on that point avers "that the defendant is very superstitious and a believer in witches and witchcraft; that against the wishes of plaintiff she has been in the habit of consulting mediums and witch doctors and performing ridiculous incantations and ceremonies, tending to turn plaintiff into ridicule and contempt among his neighbors and friends, and that she accused the neighbors of bewitching her and threatened to assault them for looking at her with the evil eye." She Believed In Witches. "Order, order!" commanded the squire. •' I haf not vinished. I will fine the defendant $1 and gosts for shooting dot dog, bud I will gif him one more shot at the dog." —Pittsburg Times. "I've told that man a dozen times to take drugs, sir," said I, "and he never j would." "Mr. Storey's had a stroke," says ha At last, with infinite trouble, we came out throngb the companion hatch and lowered the box with a rope down to the bed of slime below. We followed it, lifting it between us again and wallowed on with it through the morass of ■lime. The herbage of the sea brushed our shoulders as we struggled on. The Skeletons of the dead stood sentinel along our path, and the golden silence of the water crushed into my spirit. We held our way right round the steamer's bows, and there, against her keel, we came upon a pit. It had been dug through the slime w&h infinite labor and shored up with planking. With a rope we lowered the gold chest down into the pit and Cameron followed. I switched on my lamp and saw him heaving and thrusting it down a gallery which led far beneath the iron sheathing of the wreck. A shovel lay against a sea shrub at the lip of the pit. I took it in my band. I was away from the world of air in this lonely world of water. Cameron and I were the only human occupants, with none to overlook us, and I felt that I ought to be on my guard against him. From his point of view it was claar I knew too much. "Look here," I said to him. "I give you your choice—those boxes are to be taken back from the pit and stowed back inside the Corinth tomorrow; then we'll announce that we've dug away the mud, and can get at the strong room, and next day we'll warp the Gleaner across, rig a whip and let her hoist them on board one by one with her own winch. If you'll do this, I'll work with you so long as my arms will move; if you refuse, I'll go to the old man now And tell him what I know." "Drugs are all very well for us, Mac," says he, "that have ordinary stomachs, but drugs wouldn't have saved Storey what he's got, and that's paralysis." Of course it was a condescension for a man like me to be third on a bit of a steamboat like the Gleaner, but I was drawing £8 a month, which was the same as the second engineer got, and I'll not deny I was in a manner forced into taking the first berth that offered. I'd bean paid off from my last ship in Liverpool. and I'd met friends who knew Ballindrochater, where my father had been Free kirk minister, and we'd got a little noisy and found trouble. The fat English brute of a magistrate Hid give ns the option, but it took all the money I had left to pay myself out I might even admit, too, that the business of the Gleaner had some attraction for ma She was off treasure fiahing to the Canaries; she was chartered by a little company that called itself the 8. fi. Corinth Salvage association, and the work for her engineers promised to be light We should steam down ahannel, through the bay and down to the spot among the islands where the Corinth had been sunk, and then we should swing anchor while the boats want off with the divers to do their work. We should keep banked fires in cue an onshore breeze came and we bad to steam out, but as a general thing there would be no watches for us engineers and full pay going all the time Mr. John £. Wilkle, chief of the government secret service, who has just distinguished himself anew by unearthing a band of counterfeiters, is a graduate from uewspaperdom. John, like all good reporters, was in his early youth a good deal of an enthusiast. He served his apprenticeship as night police reporter on the Chicago Tribune, and on the day that he was appointed to that position (an event that took place about 4 o'clock in the afternoon) he had dressed rather more carefully than usual—whether for a wedding or a matinee or a mere promenade history telleth not. The then city editor of The Tribune, Mr. Fred Hall, as mild mannered a gentleman as ever rewarded a "scoop," smiled pleasantly on his boy reporter and advised him to "change those nice clothes" before reporting at police headquarters. The Secret Service Chief. "My certie!" said I. "Man," I'd say, "I'd no be acting as third engineer on an odd job steamboat like this if I'd a plan handy to my fingers such as you seem to wsnt." "It's true," said the old man. "It took him while he was in the boat \ Cameron had just gone down and Storey was going to follow when be was seized. They took off bis helmet and brought j him back here, and he's down in his room now with half of him dead and no speech left the last part of the verse, we are authorized in II Cor. vi, 16, to appropriate it to every believer. And then he'd shake his head and sigh and fall to talking about the methods by whicb he and his mate hoped to get the gold boxes out of the wreck and down into the Gleaner's hold. I suppose I ought to have seen what be was after then. But I didn't. I'd only get it in mind that he wanted to marry Miss Bradbury and didn't see his way to fingering enough money ready to set up housekeeping upon. 29. "I will also save you from all your unclean nesses, and I will call far the corn and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you." Here we may appropriate the first part of the verse as being true for the believing gentile as well as for national Israel, but the last part has special reference to Israel In the time of their restoration. In II Cor. vil, 1, the promises oi Qod to be a God and Father to those who are willing to separate themselves unto Him are used as a reason why we should cleanse ourselves from all fllthlness of the flesh and spirit. "It may be a dangerous deal for you yet," he said grimly. "Ah. there," said I, "I've insured myself. I've thought that if an accident Lambey stated in his testimony that his wife on one occasion put what was termed a witch's love potion in his coffee. While the potion did not have the desired effect of increasing his love for her, it produced a very uncomfortable effect on him physically. Another peculiar practice of his wife, Lambey stated, was that she would boil certain Ingredients in a pot at midnight and stir them with a feather.—St. Louis Republic. "It's a complaint, I've heard, that often does seize divers." "It does if they stick to the trade too long. Well, Mac, I'm wanting some fine to take bis place, and I give you first offer. It'll mean £5 a week above and beyond your present pay, and there's nothing to hinder your earning it" "Hold your Hoc," I read, "and We'd an easy bay and a good run down, and we made Grand Canary one morning tbe dawn. We ran into Las Pal in as harbor and saw Tenerife far away across the sand neck, with its sunny head, rosy in the sunriaa We'd a day there making arrangements and getting in some stores, and then we steamed out again and made for the spot where tbe Corinth had gone down and brought up to an anchor and lowered fires. Even in those days Mr. Hall was a trifle nearsighted, and on returning from dinner, toward, 8 o'clock, he passed in the hallway a tall figure, the chief points in whose make up were a wide sombrero, a pair of tall boots and a bulging hip pocket. He gasped gently and, on reaching his desk, inquired of his assistant, "Who was that confounded bandit?" 80 thet „ ye shall Ine foi us also the "And I will multiply the fruit of "Nothing that I see, sir. Storey and I are just in a build and I can wear his suit." Jt Washington Pic Srrmon. Tee and the increase of the field, that receive no more reproach of fan- It was said of Melik Shah, one of thC oaong the heathen." This is specially noblest of the Seljuk emperors, tbat "tC but contains things for beJong to hia household, to told bit •D, When the people of God run to _oa t „„ . world for pleasure. It is like saying was not merely an honoj 1oes not - - ■ - • - - and a privilege. It was also an appren Tk» Company of Ckrlat. John Head rick Bangs in The Woman's Home Companion tells this story: "Very well, then, just give me your hand for half a minute and look me in theeya" "My Uncle Jed was a preacher, and he used to speak entirely from notes which he would make out the night before and place in the pocket of his black coat. I took the notes of his next day's sermon ont of his pocket one Saturday evening and put in their stead a—ah—a recipe for what we called Washington pie—and a very good pie it was. I have never regretted that trick of my boyhood, although my particular uncle gave me a distressingly acrid and dreary lecture on my certain future when he found out what had happened. Yet what did happen, though mischievously intended, resulted in great good, for when the dear old gentleman stood up in the pulpit and started to preach the next morning, with the recipe for a Washington pie as the only available note at hand, he pulled himself together and preached offhand the finest sermon of his life, and he discovered then the secret of his after success. He became known ultimately as one of the most brilliant preachers of his time and from that moment never went into the pulpit with auy factitious aids to his memory." Presently he returned from out of the pit and was about to go back again round the bows of the steamer, but I touched him with my shovel and be turned. Then I pointed to the front glass of my helmet, and he came up close and peeied at my face, and as quickly recoiled. Then again he came toward me—this time with clinched fists—but I menaced him with the uplifted shovel and he kept his distance. How I longed for speech then to say td him what I wished I "That, sir," replied the assistant, "was Johnny Wilkie. He goes on night police tonight." God satisfy us, and so we turn tc you for comfort, and thus the name of the Lord is reproached. I did that. ticeship in principles. In serving the saltan one grew like him, and a standard of conduct was thus set np, modeled npon the life of the royal master, the pattern and exemplar of the age. A chief or governor was esteemed by public opinion in accordance with the degree in which he conformed to the saltan's example." These words coold scarcely be improved npon as a statement of the privileges and dnties of Christian discipleship. How trnly to belong to Christ is "not merely an honor and a privilege," bnt "also an apprenticeship in principles!" If in serving the famons snMan one grew like him, mnch more is this trne of the follower of Jesns Christ.— Evangelist "Now," said he, "you'rea servant of tbe Corinth Salvage association, and I'm another. Your father was a gentleman, wasn't he?" "Ah," sighed the chief contentedly. "I think he'll do." And It seems as if the Johnny Wilkle of today catches thieves Hs well as he once dressed for the task of writing about them. 31. "Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves In your own sight." There Is a deep and helpful lesson here for every saint, for until we learn to loathe ourselves we have not truly seen the Lord nor known ourselves. Pon der prayerfully Job *111, 6, 6; Isa. vi, 5; Dan. z, 8; Rom. vii, 18; Phil, ill, 8, and. turning from all that is of self, learn to say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord!" Before us lay the open sea, behind were the dry cinder bills of Grand Canary, and above were bine heaven and a ran of dancing brass. The day was frizsling. the island gave ns a lee ont of the southeast trade, and there was no breath of wind astir. The water lay like • sheet of metaL No divers coqld have asked for a better prospect. We got their two boats into the water, each with air pump, rowers, cockswain, man to tend the life lines and men to pnmp, and off they rowed, 100 yards apart Presently the air pnmps began to tnrn, and the diver, like some white, uncanny sea beast, went over from each. After a panse the boats polled slowly ahead. Cameron and his mate were walking along the sea floor, searching for the wreoV. "He was that, air, and one of the moat honored Free kirk ministers in Scotland." "It'll be the softest job yon've tumbled into for many a long day, Mr. Mc- Todd," aaid the old man when be offered me the berth. "We shall be qnite a family ship. There's a big, large cabin, and we aha 11 all mess together—mates, engineers, divers and passengers—with your chief at one end of the table ana me at the other." An Unhealthy Business. "Then yon most be a gentleman, too, thongb I dare say yon are not always treated aa such. Now swear to me, Mac, on yonr honor, as a gentleman, that yon'11 be trne to those that are employing yon." . "They tell me," said the old friend of the family, "that Billy Is goln to be a writer—like them what prints pieces in the papers." For a full minute we stared at one another and then with a sudden gesture he picked a fragment of stone from the ground and wrote . a message on the rusted plating of the wreck. "He wuz," replied Billy's father, "but I've done steered him in another direction. I don't think the writin business Is good fer his health." \ 82. "Not for your sakes do I this, aaith the Lord God, be It known unto you." The same thing is said in verse 89, with the addition "for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went." It is a solemn and searching thought that we are ever honoring or profaning the name of our Lord, that worthy name by the which we are called (Jos. il, 7). It is oomforting to know that He forgives us, not for any merit on our part, but only for His name's sake (Isa. xliii, 26; I John 11, 18). 88. "I will also cause you to dwell In the cities, and the wastes shall be builded." This and the following verses are wholly for Israel, but there are suggestive thoughts for all saints. David caused Mephibosheth to dwell in Jerusalem and to eat at his table, yet he oontinued lame on both feet (II Sam. ix, 18). We may dwell both at Jerusalem and Hebron, or, better still, in God Himself, and continually enjoy His bounty, though in ourselves unworthy and helpless, lame on both feet. I looked at him in the face and did it cheerfully. When a man treats me properly (and Ood knows few enongh of them have tried it) he's got a fellow to work for him he ought to valne highly. • •••••• "Passengers?" said L "I thought this waa a salvage job." tongue, "That's funny." "No, it ain't. Leastways it waxn'e funny to Billy. You know, he j'lned the literary society, an he come to grief at the fust meetih. While they wuz discussln literary matters the president drawed a razor an slashed him on the neck, an the secretary and treasurer hit him over the head with a heavy oopy of Shakespeare, while the sergeant at arms knocked him senseless with the 'History of Georgia.' He wuz laid up fer three weeks, an he jest crawled out yesterday. I don't think the literary business agrees with him."—Atlanta Constitution. "They are coming just for a cruise— • Mr. Kent and bis wife and her sister, • Miss Bradbury. Of coarse the Gleaner hasn't got a passenger certificate, so they will have to sign articles like the rest cf us to get to windward of the board of trade. The ladies will be stewardesses and Mr. Kent can take bis choice between being doctor and fourth ante." "Hold your tongue, Mao," I read, "and yon shall share." you shall share." happened to me below the water yonder you might forget to be honest. So I've written ont an acconnt of what I know and sealed it, and if I don't turn up the envelope will be opened." "You've pinned me?" he said. "I think so." "I wrote* laborious reply with the peak of the shovel: "Cannot deal with you. Am bound to employers." Good Advice. I got into the suit as the boat rowed me out to the buoy, and when we picked np the mooring the men screwed on the helmet for me and started the air pump. It wasn't a new. experience to me; I'd been diving before in the Clyde to bore holes into a sunken pier with a ratchet drill. It will not pay to be always asking, Will it pay t Infidelity plucks the flowers and scoffs at the gardener. He scribbled "£35,000" and watched my face. How Latvton Looks. I was off watch and stood leaning my elbows on the t'gallant rail of the lower deck and smoked and looked about me. The water waa full of these little pink sailed jellyfish that we sea folk call Portuguese men-o'-war, though "nautilus" is, I believe, the fancy name. I pointed them out to Miss Bradbury, who waa standing near, and asked her if she'd like one canght I shook my head inside the helmet. He wrote "£30,000" and looked at me again. He stared at me qneerly for a minnte, and then be spoke again. "Do yon know, Mac," said he, "I'm not so sorry for it as yon might think. I was led into this precious scheme by some one else. But I'm not going to blame anybody, now that can't be here to speak for himself, and, besides. I'll freely admit that I was keen enough upon the chance when it was pnt in my way; it seemed so safe, and it such a thumping big plum to go for. I guess we've most of ns kept honest through fear of being found ont." The Chicago Inter Ocean thus describes General Lawton: "Today, 56 years of age, Lawton is as good physically as he ever was. And he is a physical marvel. He stands 6 feet 3 inches and weighs 210 pounds. He is straight, long armed, deep chested and thin flanked. He does not carry aD ounce of fat; he is bone and sinew and muscle. His teeth are sound, and his stomach is perfect. His only sign of age is a few gray hairs. Neither starvation in the southwest nor ease in Washington nor the sun or fever of Cuba and the Philippines has left a mark. When he feels like it, he works 48 hours at a stretch. When the mood takes him, he sleeps as long without turning over. He may fast two days and then eat two dozen reed birds at a sitting. He is a bachelor. If he ever had an affair of the heart, his friends have never heard of it. He is not a pretty man. His hair stands up like bristles on a brush. His forehead is high and narrow, his cheek bones prominent, his jaw square and his lips thin. His mustache droops. His eye is the fighter's eye—gray. It ia only the coward that finds II necessary to be cruel. It ia not opposition without, bat apathy within that hinders. "Are they interested in this salvage business?" I wrote "Not for £270,000." I saw he was ready to spring upon me and held the shovel edge above my shoulder handy to cut him down. "Not a bit," aaid Captain Boyd. "They're people of means, and Mias Bradbury writes novels. They pay for their grub and rooms like tbey would on a regular packet. They're just coming to see the divingand get a blow of aea air, and I abouMn't wonder but what the young lady writes a book about it when she gets home. So keep your hair combed straight, Mr. Mc- Todd. It's a pretty big affair, anyway. Tba Corinth took down £370,000 worth at gold with her when she foundered. She waa a Cape boat, you know, coming home." I went over the side, took the rope and lowered myself hand over flat through the gray water till the leaden soles on my feet touched jcroond. The corky feeling was a bit new again at first, but I soon got over that, and then, as my air valves were working all right, and I could breathe quite easily, I set about looking for Cameron. He was somewhere out of sight, bnt his sir tube was lying on the mud among the sea sbrnbe, like a thin white eel. and I followed that easily enough. Competition may be the life of business. bat it is the death of the cbarch. The safety vaults of your heavenly treasures may be the hands of the needy. The boyootting of the luckless Mexican embassador by representatives of the other powers at Washington recalls an anecdote of a recently deoeased clubman. He was present one evening at a little musical gathering when an aspirant for honors as a pianist seated himself at the piano and began playing one of the national airs of Mexico, "La Paloma." Robbed of Ita Sting. He considered for a minute and then wrote: "If yon blow on me yon will kill her. She knows. She never liked the idea, but I persuaded her into it. We wanted to marry, we wanted to be rich. There was no other way. She is half dead with anxiety. Yon must have seen that." To turn a new leaf is not enough, there must be a new life to make the record. "Do you think there's much danger, Mr. McToddt" says she. 84. "And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by." How many lives of professing Christians are desolate of all that is refreshing to God or man I It is never springtime with them, but always the bleak and cold winter season. There is life, but it is not manifest either in spirit, flowers or foliage, and no one is attracted to Christ through them. "They've just a wee sting to them if tbey get upon your bands," said L "But there's no need to touch them. Too can just gratify your eyes, and then we will fling them overboard again. They're no beauties that you'd care to keep and take home with yon, like a canary bird." Many a man will slam the door in the devil's face and open a window to let him in.—American Hebrew. "And, besides, things are not always as safe as they look." His execution was deadly, and he banged and thumped the piano until it was a fit object for the interference of the humane society. Finally he whirled around on the stool and said: "Did you notice the air I was playing? Well, when they led Maximilian out to be shot they asked him what tune he would like to be shot by, and he selected 'La Paloma ' Do yon know why?" I nodded. He wrote on: "Then consider her, Mac, and make yonr own fortune at the same time." A Dear IchooL It led me to the Corinth, where sbe lay with her decks straight up and down, and I saw it passing away through the watery blackness down ber companion hatch. These seemed something wrong here. Where were all the great moving banks of slime the divers had told us about ? Where was the filthy ooze which slid back against the steamer as fast as tbey dng it away ? Slime there was in plenty, I sank in it knee deep in spite of the buoyancy of the suit, but it was quite manageable, and the Corinth's companion lay far above its mark. A rope lay against the upright deck beside the white air tube. I thought a minute and then laid hold and swarmed up. Inside all was dark, fcut I switched on light in t.be electric lamp I had with me. and the glow lit the place like a foggy street. "Ycn're right, Mac, and I'll remember that for the future, and I guess it'll scare me into keeping straight.". Experience keeps a dear school. Bat fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that, for it ia trae we may give advice, bat we cannot give conduct However, tbey that will not be counseled cannot be helped, and if yon will not bear reason she win sorely rap your knuckles. —Franklin. I could not stand any more of this. 1 have been poor enough all my life, and, God knows, I ken the value of siller. If it bad not been that Captain Boyd treated me in the way he did, and looked in my eye when he gave me the job, I'll not say what might have happened. It takes a strong man to resist the bigger kind of temptaticns, and—I'm no ower lusty. I beckoned to the water surface above with my shovel and took a step forward. With his arm be implored me to pause. "Yon's not a very healthy way of looking at it," said I. 35. "This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden." Such is the transformation in a life when the soul sees the beauty and loveliness of Christ and becomes yielded to and filled with the Holy Spirit. There are foliage, flowers and fruit to the glory of God. There are Joy and gladness and continual sunshine because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are filling the temple and have full oontrol In it, working in it both to will and to do of their good pleasure (PhiL 11, 18). "Her propeller shaft broke, didn't it, somewhere in ths after end of the tunnelt""What do you meant" says she. "I'm talking of these Portuguese men-o'-war." "I'll admit that," said he, "bnt from society's point of view it's a very useful one. We're funny animals. I feel far easier now than I did an hour ago, and I know some one else who'll be easier too." "That's the idea, Mac. There was a breeze on at the time, and I suppose sbe was racing badly. And it ripped the stern plating to smithereens when it went Of course, the sliding door to tba abaft tunnel jammed when it was wasted, and so sbe just bad to swamp. There waa no help for it. They'd half an hour to get clear In, and the boats, saved about two-thirds of her people. I Ktbe rest of the poor beggars are r new, and an ugly sight they'll be for the divers when they go down to try to weigh that gold." She put her band upon my arm, and I looked up into ber face and saw it was aa white as paper, aaving for black rings under the eyes. "I beg your pardon, Mr. McTodd, for being so inattentive. I'm afraid my thoughts are under the sea instead of on top of it la this diving very dangerous workT Their air tubea might get entangled." " Yes," replied the clubman as he glared at the executioner of the tune. "1 suppose it robbed death of half its terrors." Rata on Ice. Rats on ice presented a novel spectacle the other day to some of the residents on South Tenth street. One of these, while carrying in an extra supply of ice to her refrigerator, was surprised to see a large gray rodent squatting on all fours ou top of a block of ice which had been chopped in the yard receptacle, nor would he move at the word of command, simply winking at her until dislodged by means of a clothes prop. Even when chased out of the back gate the rat did not run away, but, with his gaze on the iceman, followed him to the next stopping place, where he again ensconced himself on top of an ice block. It is supposed that the extreme heat drove, the rodents to seek this relief.—Philadelphia Record. Aata In Manila. The Christian who prays that fail debts may be forgiven of God should aot act on the assumption that in liea of that forgiveness he may escape bia just debts to man.—Christian Intelligencer.■Mafisc Debt*. "That will be Mies Bradbury yon're speaking of?" "I always imagined," says a Kansas boy in Manila, "that New Jersey was the headquarters for mosquitoes, but Manila has deprived that neck of the woods of all such honors. And ants—gee whiz I They are here by the millions—red ants with jaws like crocodiles, black ants with a stinger sharper than any bee that ever manufactured honey, brown ants, gray ants, ants with wings and ants with nothing but a determination to make life miserable for a soldier. They build nests in vour hair, pull your ears, fll* your nose, 'crawl over your shirt an* under your «ehirt, and, in fact, they gef In your shoes, torture you in daytime, sleep with you at night and eat with you at dinner time. Why, as I write, a couple are crawling over this very page, as if to show oontempt for my opinion of antf. So, you see, soldiering in the Philippines Is no snap." 86. "Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate. I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it." "Maybe so, maybe no," said he. "The person I have in mind writes books and has a great liking for romance and told me almost as soon ae we met that it was a pity the old days were gone, when there were pirates and all that sort of stuff, and sea life was more exciting. We got intimate, that writer and I, Mac, and the tale of this game here with tbe gold boxes slipped out. I claimed there was every bit as much romance in that as there was in the old time buccaneering." "Are yon going to report what yon have seen?" he wrote. foul." "They're too old hands to let them Whether in Wfe, | the watch. 8we«t Young Thing—The not open far enongh to let me get my Upa to hia picture.—Jewelers' Weekly. . . of the GkDbt for | RHEUMATISM! I NEURALGIA and similar Complaints, I and prepared under tbe stringent M sending MEDICAL LAWS,^ Thus yworibed by eminent physicians:\Jgfgk - Mm DR. RICHTER'S |Kfl D2 fPAIN EXPELLERl W Ttfrnmnlt TTr—■■in iMfiit ■ by Aac5ar,M| g IfF Ad. UektM *■€«., 816 PewiSt., New York. ■ J 3! HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ IS Bnaeh Honssa. Ova Glassworks, m B hmn«, M '*UU * MCI, M hum !«■«, C. SUCK, llhrtkUlMMt, J. B.IOCCE, 4S«rt*lalaSt. raimi, pa. ACTCVlE SOLICITORS WANTED KVKRY" where for "The Story of the Philippines," by Marat Halstead. commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department. The book was written in army camps at San Prancisco, on tbe Pacific with Gen. Merrttt, in the hospitals at Honolnla. in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne Insurgent camp* with Agninaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brio iful of original pictures » en by gorernneat photographers on the fat, Latye book. TxDw prioee. Big profits. Freight t£°*JsP^crashyEKiflaeial jKr[ Bee's, Star lasnramca Building, Chicago. "Or tbey may get swept away by currents." I elirngged my shoulders. Israel or the church or the Individual The Poor Dear! Jeweler—So you're dissatisfied with What ails it t "I give you fair warning," he wrote on the rusted iron, "that if yon do I will kill you first and then myself. So yon will not find it cheap to ruin me." God must be glorified, and when we an willing that He shall be glorified In us, that It shall be "Not I, but Christ," then He will work and people will glorify God In us (Gal. 1, 24). But the next two verses following our lesson tell us that God wishes us to ask Him to do for us that which He offers to do. He puts before up the possibilities of a life wholly for but If there is no'-esponse on our part "Their life linea will keep them in tow." The captain had other business to atteod to then, so I left him, bat after we got fairly started and had dropped on Mersey pilot at Point Lynas there was information a boot the work ahead for any one who chose to listen. The talk was npon nothing else. The three passengers fairly brimmed with it Tbey said treasure diving waa "so romantic. " case doea "Sharks are always feared at divers, Kiss Bradbury. No, miss, yon may believe me, those two men are as safe down at work below as yon are here, or safer, seeing that they can't get snnstroke, and yon very likely will if yon stay here away from the awnings with no hat on." "Or sharks." The first step landed me on something that crunched. I looked down and saw ifwas a enit of bones, skimmed clean by the fishes. Some poor wretch had been drowned here when the steamer foundered. Well, of course. I bad seen a skeleton before, but somehow or other those bones didn't seem to cheer me. There was something wrong. The yarn the divers had brought up and the real thing as it lay were two entirely different matters. It occurred to me that I had stumbled (by the accident of Storey's paralysis) upon something intended to be bid, and I was quite man enongb to know that trouble might very possibly follow. I nodded my bead to show I understood and beckoned bim to go on. He lifted bis bands—I thought be was going to grapple with me. and I slashed at bim with the shovel. He drew back and, once on the move, I drove him before me furiously. He might be desperate, bnt I was savage enough myself. The thought of all that wealth lying within touch made me grit my teeth in cruel rage. If only the skipper had not said what he did I "And she agreed to let you go on with it just because she loved you," said I, "and then ate her heart out with fear lest you should get dropped upon. Man, you need not go further with the yarn. It's been plain to the eyes of every one that's watched the lassie about the decks that she was just fretting herself to a shadow about something." passes by, just as when He walked The squire's son had just been ordained, and on the following Sunday he was to take the morning service in bis native village. A Little Mlatalce. the two to Eminaus on the For myself, when I thought of those dead hones guarding chests of gold far down in the slime and the weed and the cold wash of the sea, I thought the basin ess was merely grisly. But then I sever did understand the ways of those writing people. They wonld have ■sited my father better. He was a writer that every ose who reads will have heard of. It was be who wrote "Sixty-two Years In Ballindrochater," by ▲ Soosrger of Sin. She shivered, and thanked me, and went away into the sbad|, and I turned again and watched the boats and the two moving patches of muddied water which tbey were following. It struck me at the moment that the Steamship Corinth Salvage association were putting a vast deal of trust in the two men whom tbey employed as their divers— £270,000 worth of gold is a very vast bulk of wealth for poor men to be near. PERT PERSONALS. POLITICAL QUIPS. % tr i •• •' i" ■■ He was a young man and very nervous. However, he did his best and returned to the vestry, having accomplished the service to his own satisfaction. Mayor Jones appears to be something of a Toledo blada—Boston Herald. There is talk in Kansas of John James Ingalls to congress, far, however, Mr. Ingalls betrays alarm.—New York Mail and Express. We plowed our way across the slimy sea flocr to where the boats lay at moorings, and first Cameron went up, and then I followed. On the row back to the Gleaner we said nothing. slither of us. and for long enough we did not find opportunity of being alone. But that night, when most of the hands were turned in. he and I sat ont together on the bridge deck, and he talked while 1 looked cut at the stars where they hung above the black ridgw of the island. Tom Reed's first jury will be strongly tempted to vote him down for the mere novelty of the thing.—Washington Post. "It's made me nearly cry to see her." "I think I got through the service without a mistake, John," he remarked to the old clerk, who was helping him off with his surplice. "Well, man," said 1, "it's over now, and she can begin to put on flesh again bo soon as ever you choose to tell ber the new plan. If I mistake not, yon'a the flutter of a dress in the companion way this minute. I'll be away forrard and turn in. Maybe you'll have business here you'd rather talk of out of my hearing." Men who persist in running for should not imbibe the belief that b doing they become possessed of a v right in public support.—St. Louis Star If General MaoArthur is not already in the thrashing machine trust, he is certain* ly eligible to membership.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ■F I stopped where I was and thought I'd n big mind to go back then and report what I had seen. I felt I should be earning my pay by doing that But at the same time I liked Cameron; be was a fellow countryman and more besides, and I didn't want to report him as acting off the square, so I stoutened my heart and went on down below. "It was iirst rate. Master Dick," said the old man, with enthusiasm. "I don't know as Ipever heard it better done." After a pause he added, "But the old parson, he never gives us the evening service in the morning."—Loudon Stand•wlIt has been decided in thunder tonet the people of Rhode Island that there no room in that state for a new constitution and, furthermore, that it is best to let bad enough alone.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. They did not find tbe wreck that day or the next. Indeed not till a week had passed did they come across her, and then tbey found that she had settled on her broadside into a little gulley on tbe sea floor where a current bad carried silt over her till she was almoet covered out of sight. They buoyed her when she was found and that day I went off in Cameron's boat and tried to see if I could make her out from above. But she lay is 16 fathoms, and the water was gray with mud from them working below. Looking down into it was like peering through a mist. It Is plain from the lawsuits that he is bringing that Mr. Kipling has a due appreciation of the white man's boodle.— Pittsburg Times. I cannot my either that Miss Bradbury was my Idea of a woman who oonld write a book. To begin with, she waa young, and as bonny looking a lassie aa yon could pick dnring a three boon' aearcb in Buchanan street, Glasgow. She'd a fine color to her cheeks ind big brown eyee that fairly lit when the warmed up in her talk. She was aot amall, bat her white canvas shoes iroald stand within the palm of my Mind. I tried that one day when the iteward waa pipeclaying them. She'd a. pillar with her on board, and when we tot to aonth across the bay and the lights grew warm ait out in tbC And a minute later I beard the bum of their voices and guessed Cameron was getting rid of his new version of the tale. 80 that was the way tbe gold boxes from tbe Corinth found their way into the Gleaner's hold, but I fancy Captain Boyd must have thought all along that there was something going on which was not quite according to rule. Still, how he found it out I can't say. Storey couldn't have told him, since the man never found speech again; it was certain that neither Cameron nor Miss Bradbury would have let it out, and most assuredly I did not Scmpronlna' Speech For War. My voice is still tor war! Goda! Can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? No; let us rlae at once, gird on our swoids. And at the head of our remaining troops Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of hia thronged legions and charge home upon him. It was right and proper for Mary Anderson Navarro to come back to America on the Majestic. She is that kind of a woman.—Kansas City Star. He told me the whole tale of what he and Storey intended to do. They cculd not go far from the wreck, as the air bubbles, rising to tbe surface, would advise their movements, so they had to set to work and make a hiding place foi their plunder close at hand. They de cided to dig ont a chamber beneath tbC steamer, and infinite labor it cost them Meanwhile, to mask what they wert doing, they gave out the tale of theoozt covering the treasure out of reach. Their efforts were nearly ended when Storey got his stroke. The pit was made, part of the gold was already transport ed, and, when the rest was hid, then they intended to cover the mouth of tbe oil go that it never nwiM be loand THE SNORE CURE. The white trail of the air tube led me down the stair to the lowest berth deck, then along the alleyway right aft, and then into the cabin, with a batch in the floor. Bitting on the lid of the batch was Cameron, who turned around when my light fell upon him. He beckoned me with an impatient gesture and slipped down into the blackness below. It was clear he did not recognize me. He took it for granted that I was Storey delayed by some accident. For a moment I staid outside irresolute, and a shoal of small fish, attracted by the light, brushed past my legs. I remembered that they had been browsing on It is reported that Qrover Cleveland has purchased a plover field. This will furnish amateur poets with another base of attack on Mr. Cleveland's first name. —Chicago Democrat. The New York woman who cut her husband's throat to prevent him snoring has at least placed an effectual cure on the market.—Washington Post. Perhaps some arm more lucky tban_ the rest Hay reach his heart and free the world from bondage. lugersoll has been sued for 9186 for breaking a statue of Charles Dickens in a house that he rented furnished. The owner has only himself to blame, for Colonel Ingersoil is a notorious loonoclast.— Boston Traveler Because a New York woman murdered her husband to stop his snoring it doe* Qot follow that a man would be justified In killing his wife just because of her fold feet.—Kansas City Times. I 2 Rise, fathers, rise! 'Tis Rome demands your help! Rise and revenge her slaughtered citizens Or sharp their fate! The corpse of half her senate Manures the fields of Thessaly, while we Bit here deliberating, in cold debate, U we Bhould sacrifice our lives to honor Or wear them out in servitude and chains. Rouse up, for shame! Our brother* of Pharsalia Point at their wounds and cry aloud, "To bat- The Gleaner swung at ber anchor over the western ocean swells, and the sun bleached ber awnings to the whiteness of new fallen snow. For myself, but for one thing, I never bad such an easy time on fall pay daring all my ■aajniiiii There was qo work to do- A Fine thought* are wealth for the right use of which H uhhi II Sage gave a little flower girl whom he accidentally jofciDed a $6 bill, and Iietty Green has leased a cottage at Newport Is the millennium in the offing, or have those New York reporters been stringing us nhent these worthy peoples - Qlnslsna Plain lkalw Men are and ought to be accountable If not to Thee, to those they influence 1 Grant this, we pray Thee, and that all who read moonlight tad sing. Her music wai nothing ia my Ub«, though. It wm all a flighty tort Bat, then, it wm Dot But after we got to Liverpool and all hands from the Gleaner turned out to see our diver married to hia girl the old BMUD pulled me aside m we left tbe tie I" Gnat Pompey's shade complains that we are (low. Ami Scipio's (hast walks anfevanawi srane «a Or utter noble thoughts may make them their* And thank God for them, to the betterment Of ihib moondim
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Title | Pittston Gazette |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette, Volume 49 Number 48, August 04, 1899 |
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Title | Pittston Gazette |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette, Volume 49 Number 48, August 04, 1899 |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 48 |
Subject | Pittston Gazette newspaper |
Description | The collection contains the archive of the Pittston Gazette, a northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper published from 1850 through 1965. This archive spans 1850-1907 and is significant to genealogists and historians focused on northeastern Pennsylvania. |
Publisher | Pittston Gazette |
Physical Description | microfilm |
Date | 1899-08-04 |
Location Covered | United States; Pennsylvania; Luzerne County; Pittston |
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Full Text | WtablUhed 1850. I TOL. XUXNO.M. I Oldest Newsoaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. (•l.OOaYsa* ; In Adrane*. I The Treasure Fishing I lot ot grog was served out, coast fashion, at eight bells, and the slop chest tobacco bnrnt slowly and cost only 2 shillings a ponnd. Bat there was one thing worried me and that was Miss Bradbury. She had joined at Liverpool as rosy a lassie as one conld wish to meet, and here she was getting whiter and thinner every day. Yon conld almost see the flesh slip away from her bones, and she'd an appearance of scare and worry abont her face that made one sick to look at. All hands saw it There was no avoiding snch a thing. Bat they pat it down to anxiety about Cameron. corpses and were prospecting me as food, and the idea made me shudder in- chance explorers. Then they were going to tell Captain Boyd that the job beat them and get his permission to blow into the Corinth's strong room with dynamite from the outside. The explosion would be so contrived that the steamer would be rived to pieces and the ooze would cover all her fragments. church and crumpled a couple of £2C Bank of England notes into my hands, and, "Those," said he, "are from the salvage company. I told them I thought you deserved the—I told them I thought they were owing you a matter of £270,- 000, but I conldn't get more for you, Mac, my lad, and perhaps you are better without it. Companies are not addicted to giving away tips when they aren't forced, and third engineers, Mao —well, they have thirsts, haven't they, my lad?" SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE. THE SUNDAY SCHUOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. A. PenniiylviinlA Squire'* Original War of Reaching It. LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- Tople For the Week BecUilac An*. Squire Henry Grelle of Beltzhoover is attracting some attention as a magistrate. He administers justice impartially in his homely way, and, while some of his decisions may not be according to the books, still they carry the force of originality. Squire Grelle does not like lawyers. He believes that they stir up too much trouble by dragging musty old books into his office and insisting that he follow the precedents they dig from them. He has the full approval of his constituents. His justice is the sort that is equitable between man and man and not that misnamed stuff that depends on the technicalities of lawbooks for a standing. NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 6. Tone.—Drifting.—Eph. It, 14; Ju. 1, 1-8. 6—Comment by Rev. 8. H. Doyle. We are living in an age characterised by the nnsettlement of faitba. The tendency of the age is to cast reflection and doubt upon the beliefs of the past, in science, literature, history and religion. Many past scientific beliefs are doubted or discarded. Literature fend history fare little better. Doubt baa been cast upon Homer's authorship of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," William Tell's existence, Shakespeare's title to the plays which have been attriboted to his name. This Bpirit is specifelly prolific in the sphere oT religion. What is not doubted by some onet The refeult is that many are unsettled and unstable. Many do not know what to beliSve. They are drifting. They are "children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." | — B,_ " | * CUTCLIFFE HYNE. £ i [COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY CUTCLIFFE HYNEJ Text of the Leuon, Esek. xiztI, 25-36—Memory Verses, 25-27—Golden Text. Eiek. xxxvl, 26—Commentary Prepared by Hey. O. MD Stearns. "Yon think that the Gleaner would return home then?" I asked. "There would be nothing else for it." "But the company would send out another expedition." [Copyright, 1899, by D. M. Stearns.] 25. "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be ole&n from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will 1 cleanse you." The topic of our lesson is "The New Heart," but we must notice the context and observe to whom the words are spoken, then take the lesson for our own* hearts. The previous verses speak of the land of Israel, the mountains of Israel, the people of Israel and of Israel's shameful treatment of Jehovah, on account of which He scattered them in many lands, but verse 24 says that He will take them from all lands and bring them to their own land, and our lesson begins by saying that then He will cleanse them. -I have found but one thing in all the Bible that Ood says He will do with all His heart and soul, and that is that He will thus put Israel in their own land (Jer. xxxii, 41). "Let them send oat ten; they'd find nothing." Well, I suppose he was right. I know I had clean pockets a week later. The pair of them 'were openly engaged to marry by this time, and I mast say the way that he and the other diver worked was a caution. Of coarse the water was warm, bat it was fairish deep, and I never saw men stay down longer. They never eeemed to give in while they had strength left to lift a hand, and when they came to the surface and bad their gear taken off they'd be almost fainting with weariness from what they'd gone through. And it was not a one day occurrence either. They were always the same, and the weeks away till they bad ran into a month,'and still none of the gold bad been brought to the Gleaner. "And afterward?" "Storey and I were going to charter a schooner, put diving tackle on board and come-out here again by ourselves. We cculd weigh the gold in a couple of days, and I know of a market." CRIPPLES TO ORDER. 1 fancy the two divers mast have been in it from the very first, and indeed I've a strong notion the whole plot to steal the treasure was in the beginning theirs and theirs alone. I can't be sure, bat I've an idea that Miss Bradbury came into the business soon after we sailed from Liverpool, and, if one may hazard a guess, it was because Willie Cameron, the diver with the black hair, fell in love with her and let oat the secret. However, I didn't arrive at any of this till later, and, *t it hadn't been lagged into the business by the veriest outside chance, it's my belief the three of them would have walked off with all the gold, and the salvage company would never have aero so much as the bare color of it A Horrible Industry Discovered at at first she disguised this, before we rose the Canary mountain above the sea line she was not shy of letting it be seen by any one who chose to look. And Willie Cameron liked her in return, and, if ever I saw it, love glowed out of the eyes of those two. ToloMa, In Spain. One of Squire Grelle's early cases was brought against a friend of his, who was accused of cruelty to animals. The man had been bothered by a vicious dog, and he shot at it. The bullet cut a piece off its tail, but did no other harm. The trial attracted a large crowd. There was conflicting evidence as to the dog. Some of the witnesses said it was a gentle animal, and others declared that it ought to be killed. The Journal d'Hygiene of Paris reports the artificial production of cripples, who are afterward made to beg upon the street. "Well, Storey will naver use limbs or tongue again." "I'm sure of it, Mac. You must take his place. We two and one other can work the schooner, and a year from now we'll be rich men. Think of it, lad —rich beyond what yon ever thought of I Think of it—no m«re having to stand your watch at sea, no more sea at ■11! Yon can stay in England and marry and live a decent life. Think of it, Mac I" The seat of the manufacture is Tolosa, near San Sebastian, Spain. Agents of the factory travel far searching for children who are clubfooted or deformed. These are brought to Tolosa usually when 7 or 8 years old and made as much worse as possible. We were fellow countrymen, Cameron and I (I am Scottish myself), and The tendency to drift with the Current in such times is strong. OnHbe other hand, the importance of steadfastness and stability in religions faith \i$ unquestioned and unquestionable, that wavereth, that donbtetb, hath no power with Ood. "He that wavereth is like a wave of the eea driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think thft he shall receive anything of - the Lord." Strong, real, unquestidbed faith in Qod is the first essential to a satisfactory, progressive religions life. To safeguard ourselves against drifting is therefore a very important matter. Some directions for doing so are suggested in the topical references. 1. Knowledge is a safeguard against drifting. Ignorance is the cause of much lack of stability. Knowledge is therefore the cure. The ignorant, like children, are easily influenced and easily deceived by the cunning craftiness of men. Christ has therefore appointed teachers of His word—apostlee, prophets, evangelists, pastors—for the viry purpose of the edifying of the saints that they may not be imposed upon and deceived by false teachers. The regular attendant upon the ministry of the word is better safeguarded against the assaults of the tempter than One who neglects God's house. Qod also promises us wisdom in answer 'to prayer. "If any man lacketh wisdom, let him aak of Qod * * * and it shall be given him." Pray for wisdom to»*emain steadfast in faith. 2. Christlikeness is a safeguard against drifting. The reception and practice of Christian truth leads as "unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ," and thus we are safeguarded. The nearer we are to Christ in tbcrtight, word and deed, the harder it will be to lead us away from our faith in Qod, in Him and in a blessed future life with them. Bible Readings.—Deut. x, 20; Job xi, 14. 15; Math, vii, 24-29 ; I Cor. xv, 58; CoL ii, 5; I Thess. v, 21; H4b. il, 1-4; iv, 14; x, 28; xiii, »; IPW. i, «-#; v, 8, #; H Pet. iii, 17, 18; Rev. ii, 10. "I will reserf my decision nntil next weeg," said the squire after he had heard the testimony. Once a year the padrone—it is "padron" in Spanish, but the thing is the same—gathers his poor little charges, each strapped on a little box on wheels, and smuggles them into France. Traveling by easy stages and lagging by the way, they reach Paris in time for the annual "Fair of Spiced Bread." He was not satisfied as to the dog, and while he had the case under consideration he made some inquiries in the neighborhood. He learned that the dog was a bad one. But the maiming of it by depriving it of part of its tail was undoubtedly a cruel act, and he did not see how he could get over that, even to favor his friend. The silt was the trouble, it seemed. As fast as they dug it cut just so fast did it slide down again into the steamer's bowels, and the strong room, which lay right down against her keel, could not be come at. Of course one understood that Cameron's reputation depended apon his bringing off this salvage jA successfully, bat I don't see the force of a man killing himself, and I told him so more than once. I fancied at the time that Miss Bradbury was telling him the same every day. But be didn't take any notice of either of us, nor did Storey, the other {liver, and the pair of them just worked themselves to rags. 26. " A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." As when the Lord God said to the serpent, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman" (Gen. iii, 15) He toidicated that He would do it Himself, so here the giving of the new heart and spirit is His work alone; but notice that while God is willing to give the new heart we must be willing to reoeive it, or rather, Him, for Christ Himself in us is the new life (I John v, 12; John I, 11, 12). The gold was beneath and around us, In I was thinking of it As I sat there watching the heat lightning wink among the black hills of the island I was remembering that it was a chance snch as I bad never had before in all my life, and one which would never come to me again. I'd been kicked abont the world ever since I first went a wee bit wrong in Ballindrochater. and I'd sworn never to see the place more till I'd enough siller to bnild a house there as big as the manse itself. 1 hungered for the old spot again, with its gray houses and the brown moorland at the back. My mother was still there and poor. I could do a power of good in the placa (the de'il told me then) if I went back rich and enlightened with all my store of foreign travel. But then what the captain had said to roe came back—how he reminded me I had been born a gentleman, and how he'd treat me as my father's son and trust to my honor—and I stood to my feet and swore. iron bound boxes. side my rubber clothes. Then I thought good to see exactly what was going to happen and slipped through the hatch after Cameron. In 1887 the French ministry of the interior estimated that -100 such little cripples were either made or made worse and taken into France. The industry has probably not grown larger since. There waa a distinct understanding between me and Captain Boyd when I signed on as "third" of the Gleaner that I was only doing it as a personal obligation to himself. The berths of second and chief engineer had been filled. They wanted a man who would not mind bearing a hand if anything went wrong with the diving tackle, and they couldn't have picked a better than myself. I was thoroughly well grounded in the shops before ever I thought of. the sea, and, though I say it, tow better fitters and all round mechanics have ever stood on the footplates of a steamboat's engine room. If it wasn't for the board of trade and their rotten examinations, I'd have been chief long ago, and with a chief's ticket in my pocket yon may be sure I'd have got the master band over the whisky, at any rate at sea, and in sight of any one that mattered ashore. When the day came for him to give his decision, it was evident to the crowd that had gathered in his office that he had made up his mind. He called the defendant up. We were in Corinth's strong room The gold was beneath and around us. in iron bound boxes, built together like the bricks of a wall. Cameron lifted an end of one of the boxes and nodded his helmeted head toward me impatiently. I took hold, and together we "swung it up through the water and out through the hatches. Then be scrambled up himself, and I followed. Again we lifted the box. treading with care along the slimy alleyways so as not to foul our air pipes. I could feel the bones of the dead shift beneath my feet, and my chest was tight with labor. In spite or the buoyancy of the water, the box of gold was as much as the pair of us could struggle along with. A somewhat simily associatioa gathers littfe Savoyard boys to become "sweeps." They are practically beggars, since there are few chimneys in Paris they can enter. "Ycia admld shooting this dog?" he asked. ''Yes, I do, squire, but that dog is"— "Dot will do. Sid down," and he called the owner of the dog forward. 27. "And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk In my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them." Not by might nor power of man, not by prayer or striving, not by intellect or education, but by the Spirit of God is the new life to be lived (Zech. iv, 6). When we receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour we at once become the abode or mansion in which the Father, Son and Spirit will dwell (John xiv, 17, 28). Then it becomes true that we are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwelleth In us (I Cor. Iii, 16). 28. "And ye shall dwell In the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God." The first part of this verse can only be under stood In the light of the promises made tc Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from Gen. xii onward, and which still await fulfill ment. The church, the body of Christ, has no land on earth, but is a company of people gathered out of all nations, whose home Is to be the New Jerusalem. As to In either case the wretched sham sweep or the equally wretched beggar brings 30 or 40 cents each night to liis padrone or he gets !Deaten. And if the beating makes the poor child look even more miserable, so much the better for the padrone. The pennies will flow more generously if the child looks wretched.— New York World. "Your dog is a bad dog," he said to him. "Not be isn't squire," said the man; "he's as gentle as"— "Dot will do. Sid down. I haf my mind made up. I fine the defendant $1 and gosts for shooting dot dog." There was applause from the side of the room on which the friends of the dog were gathered. ▲ stopper was put on their game, however, in a way they did not expect. The steward brought word one that the captain wanted to see me, and I turned out of my bunk and went on deck. He seemed in a bit of a worry. at one time and another the pair of us put in a fairish deal of talk. HiB air pump needed a bit of an overhaul, and as I was set on to help him we had plenty of opportunity. But I'll not soy we got much' off general topics. He seemed a man in a desperate hurry to get rich, and most every day he'd ask me if I could point him out a plan. But my answer to him was always the same Cameron was the man she tang for. One of the grounds which Hugo Lambey alleged in his suit for divorce against Anna Lambey, which was tried in Judge Zachritz's court the other day, resulting in a decree for the plaintiff, was that his wife believed in witchcraft. The allegation in his petition on that point avers "that the defendant is very superstitious and a believer in witches and witchcraft; that against the wishes of plaintiff she has been in the habit of consulting mediums and witch doctors and performing ridiculous incantations and ceremonies, tending to turn plaintiff into ridicule and contempt among his neighbors and friends, and that she accused the neighbors of bewitching her and threatened to assault them for looking at her with the evil eye." She Believed In Witches. "Order, order!" commanded the squire. •' I haf not vinished. I will fine the defendant $1 and gosts for shooting dot dog, bud I will gif him one more shot at the dog." —Pittsburg Times. "I've told that man a dozen times to take drugs, sir," said I, "and he never j would." "Mr. Storey's had a stroke," says ha At last, with infinite trouble, we came out throngb the companion hatch and lowered the box with a rope down to the bed of slime below. We followed it, lifting it between us again and wallowed on with it through the morass of ■lime. The herbage of the sea brushed our shoulders as we struggled on. The Skeletons of the dead stood sentinel along our path, and the golden silence of the water crushed into my spirit. We held our way right round the steamer's bows, and there, against her keel, we came upon a pit. It had been dug through the slime w&h infinite labor and shored up with planking. With a rope we lowered the gold chest down into the pit and Cameron followed. I switched on my lamp and saw him heaving and thrusting it down a gallery which led far beneath the iron sheathing of the wreck. A shovel lay against a sea shrub at the lip of the pit. I took it in my band. I was away from the world of air in this lonely world of water. Cameron and I were the only human occupants, with none to overlook us, and I felt that I ought to be on my guard against him. From his point of view it was claar I knew too much. "Look here," I said to him. "I give you your choice—those boxes are to be taken back from the pit and stowed back inside the Corinth tomorrow; then we'll announce that we've dug away the mud, and can get at the strong room, and next day we'll warp the Gleaner across, rig a whip and let her hoist them on board one by one with her own winch. If you'll do this, I'll work with you so long as my arms will move; if you refuse, I'll go to the old man now And tell him what I know." "Drugs are all very well for us, Mac," says he, "that have ordinary stomachs, but drugs wouldn't have saved Storey what he's got, and that's paralysis." Of course it was a condescension for a man like me to be third on a bit of a steamboat like the Gleaner, but I was drawing £8 a month, which was the same as the second engineer got, and I'll not deny I was in a manner forced into taking the first berth that offered. I'd bean paid off from my last ship in Liverpool. and I'd met friends who knew Ballindrochater, where my father had been Free kirk minister, and we'd got a little noisy and found trouble. The fat English brute of a magistrate Hid give ns the option, but it took all the money I had left to pay myself out I might even admit, too, that the business of the Gleaner had some attraction for ma She was off treasure fiahing to the Canaries; she was chartered by a little company that called itself the 8. fi. Corinth Salvage association, and the work for her engineers promised to be light We should steam down ahannel, through the bay and down to the spot among the islands where the Corinth had been sunk, and then we should swing anchor while the boats want off with the divers to do their work. We should keep banked fires in cue an onshore breeze came and we bad to steam out, but as a general thing there would be no watches for us engineers and full pay going all the time Mr. John £. Wilkle, chief of the government secret service, who has just distinguished himself anew by unearthing a band of counterfeiters, is a graduate from uewspaperdom. John, like all good reporters, was in his early youth a good deal of an enthusiast. He served his apprenticeship as night police reporter on the Chicago Tribune, and on the day that he was appointed to that position (an event that took place about 4 o'clock in the afternoon) he had dressed rather more carefully than usual—whether for a wedding or a matinee or a mere promenade history telleth not. The then city editor of The Tribune, Mr. Fred Hall, as mild mannered a gentleman as ever rewarded a "scoop," smiled pleasantly on his boy reporter and advised him to "change those nice clothes" before reporting at police headquarters. The Secret Service Chief. "My certie!" said I. "Man," I'd say, "I'd no be acting as third engineer on an odd job steamboat like this if I'd a plan handy to my fingers such as you seem to wsnt." "It's true," said the old man. "It took him while he was in the boat \ Cameron had just gone down and Storey was going to follow when be was seized. They took off bis helmet and brought j him back here, and he's down in his room now with half of him dead and no speech left the last part of the verse, we are authorized in II Cor. vi, 16, to appropriate it to every believer. And then he'd shake his head and sigh and fall to talking about the methods by whicb he and his mate hoped to get the gold boxes out of the wreck and down into the Gleaner's hold. I suppose I ought to have seen what be was after then. But I didn't. I'd only get it in mind that he wanted to marry Miss Bradbury and didn't see his way to fingering enough money ready to set up housekeeping upon. 29. "I will also save you from all your unclean nesses, and I will call far the corn and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you." Here we may appropriate the first part of the verse as being true for the believing gentile as well as for national Israel, but the last part has special reference to Israel In the time of their restoration. In II Cor. vil, 1, the promises oi Qod to be a God and Father to those who are willing to separate themselves unto Him are used as a reason why we should cleanse ourselves from all fllthlness of the flesh and spirit. "It may be a dangerous deal for you yet," he said grimly. "Ah. there," said I, "I've insured myself. I've thought that if an accident Lambey stated in his testimony that his wife on one occasion put what was termed a witch's love potion in his coffee. While the potion did not have the desired effect of increasing his love for her, it produced a very uncomfortable effect on him physically. Another peculiar practice of his wife, Lambey stated, was that she would boil certain Ingredients in a pot at midnight and stir them with a feather.—St. Louis Republic. "It's a complaint, I've heard, that often does seize divers." "It does if they stick to the trade too long. Well, Mac, I'm wanting some fine to take bis place, and I give you first offer. It'll mean £5 a week above and beyond your present pay, and there's nothing to hinder your earning it" "Hold your Hoc," I read, "and We'd an easy bay and a good run down, and we made Grand Canary one morning tbe dawn. We ran into Las Pal in as harbor and saw Tenerife far away across the sand neck, with its sunny head, rosy in the sunriaa We'd a day there making arrangements and getting in some stores, and then we steamed out again and made for the spot where tbe Corinth had gone down and brought up to an anchor and lowered fires. Even in those days Mr. Hall was a trifle nearsighted, and on returning from dinner, toward, 8 o'clock, he passed in the hallway a tall figure, the chief points in whose make up were a wide sombrero, a pair of tall boots and a bulging hip pocket. He gasped gently and, on reaching his desk, inquired of his assistant, "Who was that confounded bandit?" 80 thet „ ye shall Ine foi us also the "And I will multiply the fruit of "Nothing that I see, sir. Storey and I are just in a build and I can wear his suit." Jt Washington Pic Srrmon. Tee and the increase of the field, that receive no more reproach of fan- It was said of Melik Shah, one of thC oaong the heathen." This is specially noblest of the Seljuk emperors, tbat "tC but contains things for beJong to hia household, to told bit •D, When the people of God run to _oa t „„ . world for pleasure. It is like saying was not merely an honoj 1oes not - - ■ - • - - and a privilege. It was also an appren Tk» Company of Ckrlat. John Head rick Bangs in The Woman's Home Companion tells this story: "Very well, then, just give me your hand for half a minute and look me in theeya" "My Uncle Jed was a preacher, and he used to speak entirely from notes which he would make out the night before and place in the pocket of his black coat. I took the notes of his next day's sermon ont of his pocket one Saturday evening and put in their stead a—ah—a recipe for what we called Washington pie—and a very good pie it was. I have never regretted that trick of my boyhood, although my particular uncle gave me a distressingly acrid and dreary lecture on my certain future when he found out what had happened. Yet what did happen, though mischievously intended, resulted in great good, for when the dear old gentleman stood up in the pulpit and started to preach the next morning, with the recipe for a Washington pie as the only available note at hand, he pulled himself together and preached offhand the finest sermon of his life, and he discovered then the secret of his after success. He became known ultimately as one of the most brilliant preachers of his time and from that moment never went into the pulpit with auy factitious aids to his memory." Presently he returned from out of the pit and was about to go back again round the bows of the steamer, but I touched him with my shovel and be turned. Then I pointed to the front glass of my helmet, and he came up close and peeied at my face, and as quickly recoiled. Then again he came toward me—this time with clinched fists—but I menaced him with the uplifted shovel and he kept his distance. How I longed for speech then to say td him what I wished I "That, sir," replied the assistant, "was Johnny Wilkie. He goes on night police tonight." God satisfy us, and so we turn tc you for comfort, and thus the name of the Lord is reproached. I did that. ticeship in principles. In serving the saltan one grew like him, and a standard of conduct was thus set np, modeled npon the life of the royal master, the pattern and exemplar of the age. A chief or governor was esteemed by public opinion in accordance with the degree in which he conformed to the saltan's example." These words coold scarcely be improved npon as a statement of the privileges and dnties of Christian discipleship. How trnly to belong to Christ is "not merely an honor and a privilege," bnt "also an apprenticeship in principles!" If in serving the famons snMan one grew like him, mnch more is this trne of the follower of Jesns Christ.— Evangelist "Now," said he, "you'rea servant of tbe Corinth Salvage association, and I'm another. Your father was a gentleman, wasn't he?" "Ah," sighed the chief contentedly. "I think he'll do." And It seems as if the Johnny Wilkle of today catches thieves Hs well as he once dressed for the task of writing about them. 31. "Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves In your own sight." There Is a deep and helpful lesson here for every saint, for until we learn to loathe ourselves we have not truly seen the Lord nor known ourselves. Pon der prayerfully Job *111, 6, 6; Isa. vi, 5; Dan. z, 8; Rom. vii, 18; Phil, ill, 8, and. turning from all that is of self, learn to say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord!" Before us lay the open sea, behind were the dry cinder bills of Grand Canary, and above were bine heaven and a ran of dancing brass. The day was frizsling. the island gave ns a lee ont of the southeast trade, and there was no breath of wind astir. The water lay like • sheet of metaL No divers coqld have asked for a better prospect. We got their two boats into the water, each with air pump, rowers, cockswain, man to tend the life lines and men to pnmp, and off they rowed, 100 yards apart Presently the air pnmps began to tnrn, and the diver, like some white, uncanny sea beast, went over from each. After a panse the boats polled slowly ahead. Cameron and his mate were walking along the sea floor, searching for the wreoV. "He was that, air, and one of the moat honored Free kirk ministers in Scotland." "It'll be the softest job yon've tumbled into for many a long day, Mr. Mc- Todd," aaid the old man when be offered me the berth. "We shall be qnite a family ship. There's a big, large cabin, and we aha 11 all mess together—mates, engineers, divers and passengers—with your chief at one end of the table ana me at the other." An Unhealthy Business. "Then yon most be a gentleman, too, thongb I dare say yon are not always treated aa such. Now swear to me, Mac, on yonr honor, as a gentleman, that yon'11 be trne to those that are employing yon." . "They tell me," said the old friend of the family, "that Billy Is goln to be a writer—like them what prints pieces in the papers." For a full minute we stared at one another and then with a sudden gesture he picked a fragment of stone from the ground and wrote . a message on the rusted plating of the wreck. "He wuz," replied Billy's father, "but I've done steered him in another direction. I don't think the writin business Is good fer his health." \ 82. "Not for your sakes do I this, aaith the Lord God, be It known unto you." The same thing is said in verse 89, with the addition "for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went." It is a solemn and searching thought that we are ever honoring or profaning the name of our Lord, that worthy name by the which we are called (Jos. il, 7). It is oomforting to know that He forgives us, not for any merit on our part, but only for His name's sake (Isa. xliii, 26; I John 11, 18). 88. "I will also cause you to dwell In the cities, and the wastes shall be builded." This and the following verses are wholly for Israel, but there are suggestive thoughts for all saints. David caused Mephibosheth to dwell in Jerusalem and to eat at his table, yet he oontinued lame on both feet (II Sam. ix, 18). We may dwell both at Jerusalem and Hebron, or, better still, in God Himself, and continually enjoy His bounty, though in ourselves unworthy and helpless, lame on both feet. I looked at him in the face and did it cheerfully. When a man treats me properly (and Ood knows few enongh of them have tried it) he's got a fellow to work for him he ought to valne highly. • •••••• "Passengers?" said L "I thought this waa a salvage job." tongue, "That's funny." "No, it ain't. Leastways it waxn'e funny to Billy. You know, he j'lned the literary society, an he come to grief at the fust meetih. While they wuz discussln literary matters the president drawed a razor an slashed him on the neck, an the secretary and treasurer hit him over the head with a heavy oopy of Shakespeare, while the sergeant at arms knocked him senseless with the 'History of Georgia.' He wuz laid up fer three weeks, an he jest crawled out yesterday. I don't think the literary business agrees with him."—Atlanta Constitution. "They are coming just for a cruise— • Mr. Kent and bis wife and her sister, • Miss Bradbury. Of coarse the Gleaner hasn't got a passenger certificate, so they will have to sign articles like the rest cf us to get to windward of the board of trade. The ladies will be stewardesses and Mr. Kent can take bis choice between being doctor and fourth ante." "Hold your tongue, Mao," I read, "and yon shall share." you shall share." happened to me below the water yonder you might forget to be honest. So I've written ont an acconnt of what I know and sealed it, and if I don't turn up the envelope will be opened." "You've pinned me?" he said. "I think so." "I wrote* laborious reply with the peak of the shovel: "Cannot deal with you. Am bound to employers." Good Advice. I got into the suit as the boat rowed me out to the buoy, and when we picked np the mooring the men screwed on the helmet for me and started the air pump. It wasn't a new. experience to me; I'd been diving before in the Clyde to bore holes into a sunken pier with a ratchet drill. It will not pay to be always asking, Will it pay t Infidelity plucks the flowers and scoffs at the gardener. He scribbled "£35,000" and watched my face. How Latvton Looks. I was off watch and stood leaning my elbows on the t'gallant rail of the lower deck and smoked and looked about me. The water waa full of these little pink sailed jellyfish that we sea folk call Portuguese men-o'-war, though "nautilus" is, I believe, the fancy name. I pointed them out to Miss Bradbury, who waa standing near, and asked her if she'd like one canght I shook my head inside the helmet. He wrote "£30,000" and looked at me again. He stared at me qneerly for a minnte, and then be spoke again. "Do yon know, Mac," said he, "I'm not so sorry for it as yon might think. I was led into this precious scheme by some one else. But I'm not going to blame anybody, now that can't be here to speak for himself, and, besides. I'll freely admit that I was keen enough upon the chance when it was pnt in my way; it seemed so safe, and it such a thumping big plum to go for. I guess we've most of ns kept honest through fear of being found ont." The Chicago Inter Ocean thus describes General Lawton: "Today, 56 years of age, Lawton is as good physically as he ever was. And he is a physical marvel. He stands 6 feet 3 inches and weighs 210 pounds. He is straight, long armed, deep chested and thin flanked. He does not carry aD ounce of fat; he is bone and sinew and muscle. His teeth are sound, and his stomach is perfect. His only sign of age is a few gray hairs. Neither starvation in the southwest nor ease in Washington nor the sun or fever of Cuba and the Philippines has left a mark. When he feels like it, he works 48 hours at a stretch. When the mood takes him, he sleeps as long without turning over. He may fast two days and then eat two dozen reed birds at a sitting. He is a bachelor. If he ever had an affair of the heart, his friends have never heard of it. He is not a pretty man. His hair stands up like bristles on a brush. His forehead is high and narrow, his cheek bones prominent, his jaw square and his lips thin. His mustache droops. His eye is the fighter's eye—gray. It ia only the coward that finds II necessary to be cruel. It ia not opposition without, bat apathy within that hinders. "Are they interested in this salvage business?" I wrote "Not for £270,000." I saw he was ready to spring upon me and held the shovel edge above my shoulder handy to cut him down. "Not a bit," aaid Captain Boyd. "They're people of means, and Mias Bradbury writes novels. They pay for their grub and rooms like tbey would on a regular packet. They're just coming to see the divingand get a blow of aea air, and I abouMn't wonder but what the young lady writes a book about it when she gets home. So keep your hair combed straight, Mr. Mc- Todd. It's a pretty big affair, anyway. Tba Corinth took down £370,000 worth at gold with her when she foundered. She waa a Cape boat, you know, coming home." I went over the side, took the rope and lowered myself hand over flat through the gray water till the leaden soles on my feet touched jcroond. The corky feeling was a bit new again at first, but I soon got over that, and then, as my air valves were working all right, and I could breathe quite easily, I set about looking for Cameron. He was somewhere out of sight, bnt his sir tube was lying on the mud among the sea sbrnbe, like a thin white eel. and I followed that easily enough. Competition may be the life of business. bat it is the death of the cbarch. The safety vaults of your heavenly treasures may be the hands of the needy. The boyootting of the luckless Mexican embassador by representatives of the other powers at Washington recalls an anecdote of a recently deoeased clubman. He was present one evening at a little musical gathering when an aspirant for honors as a pianist seated himself at the piano and began playing one of the national airs of Mexico, "La Paloma." Robbed of Ita Sting. He considered for a minute and then wrote: "If yon blow on me yon will kill her. She knows. She never liked the idea, but I persuaded her into it. We wanted to marry, we wanted to be rich. There was no other way. She is half dead with anxiety. Yon must have seen that." To turn a new leaf is not enough, there must be a new life to make the record. "Do you think there's much danger, Mr. McToddt" says she. 84. "And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by." How many lives of professing Christians are desolate of all that is refreshing to God or man I It is never springtime with them, but always the bleak and cold winter season. There is life, but it is not manifest either in spirit, flowers or foliage, and no one is attracted to Christ through them. "They've just a wee sting to them if tbey get upon your bands," said L "But there's no need to touch them. Too can just gratify your eyes, and then we will fling them overboard again. They're no beauties that you'd care to keep and take home with yon, like a canary bird." Many a man will slam the door in the devil's face and open a window to let him in.—American Hebrew. "And, besides, things are not always as safe as they look." His execution was deadly, and he banged and thumped the piano until it was a fit object for the interference of the humane society. Finally he whirled around on the stool and said: "Did you notice the air I was playing? Well, when they led Maximilian out to be shot they asked him what tune he would like to be shot by, and he selected 'La Paloma ' Do yon know why?" I nodded. He wrote on: "Then consider her, Mac, and make yonr own fortune at the same time." A Dear IchooL It led me to the Corinth, where sbe lay with her decks straight up and down, and I saw it passing away through the watery blackness down ber companion hatch. These seemed something wrong here. Where were all the great moving banks of slime the divers had told us about ? Where was the filthy ooze which slid back against the steamer as fast as tbey dng it away ? Slime there was in plenty, I sank in it knee deep in spite of the buoyancy of the suit, but it was quite manageable, and the Corinth's companion lay far above its mark. A rope lay against the upright deck beside the white air tube. I thought a minute and then laid hold and swarmed up. Inside all was dark, fcut I switched on light in t.be electric lamp I had with me. and the glow lit the place like a foggy street. "Ycn're right, Mac, and I'll remember that for the future, and I guess it'll scare me into keeping straight.". Experience keeps a dear school. Bat fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that, for it ia trae we may give advice, bat we cannot give conduct However, tbey that will not be counseled cannot be helped, and if yon will not bear reason she win sorely rap your knuckles. —Franklin. I could not stand any more of this. 1 have been poor enough all my life, and, God knows, I ken the value of siller. If it bad not been that Captain Boyd treated me in the way he did, and looked in my eye when he gave me the job, I'll not say what might have happened. It takes a strong man to resist the bigger kind of temptaticns, and—I'm no ower lusty. I beckoned to the water surface above with my shovel and took a step forward. With his arm be implored me to pause. "Yon's not a very healthy way of looking at it," said I. 35. "This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden." Such is the transformation in a life when the soul sees the beauty and loveliness of Christ and becomes yielded to and filled with the Holy Spirit. There are foliage, flowers and fruit to the glory of God. There are Joy and gladness and continual sunshine because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are filling the temple and have full oontrol In it, working in it both to will and to do of their good pleasure (PhiL 11, 18). "Her propeller shaft broke, didn't it, somewhere in ths after end of the tunnelt""What do you meant" says she. "I'm talking of these Portuguese men-o'-war." "I'll admit that," said he, "bnt from society's point of view it's a very useful one. We're funny animals. I feel far easier now than I did an hour ago, and I know some one else who'll be easier too." "That's the idea, Mac. There was a breeze on at the time, and I suppose sbe was racing badly. And it ripped the stern plating to smithereens when it went Of course, the sliding door to tba abaft tunnel jammed when it was wasted, and so sbe just bad to swamp. There waa no help for it. They'd half an hour to get clear In, and the boats, saved about two-thirds of her people. I Ktbe rest of the poor beggars are r new, and an ugly sight they'll be for the divers when they go down to try to weigh that gold." She put her band upon my arm, and I looked up into ber face and saw it was aa white as paper, aaving for black rings under the eyes. "I beg your pardon, Mr. McTodd, for being so inattentive. I'm afraid my thoughts are under the sea instead of on top of it la this diving very dangerous workT Their air tubea might get entangled." " Yes," replied the clubman as he glared at the executioner of the tune. "1 suppose it robbed death of half its terrors." Rata on Ice. Rats on ice presented a novel spectacle the other day to some of the residents on South Tenth street. One of these, while carrying in an extra supply of ice to her refrigerator, was surprised to see a large gray rodent squatting on all fours ou top of a block of ice which had been chopped in the yard receptacle, nor would he move at the word of command, simply winking at her until dislodged by means of a clothes prop. Even when chased out of the back gate the rat did not run away, but, with his gaze on the iceman, followed him to the next stopping place, where he again ensconced himself on top of an ice block. It is supposed that the extreme heat drove, the rodents to seek this relief.—Philadelphia Record. Aata In Manila. The Christian who prays that fail debts may be forgiven of God should aot act on the assumption that in liea of that forgiveness he may escape bia just debts to man.—Christian Intelligencer.■Mafisc Debt*. "That will be Mies Bradbury yon're speaking of?" "I always imagined," says a Kansas boy in Manila, "that New Jersey was the headquarters for mosquitoes, but Manila has deprived that neck of the woods of all such honors. And ants—gee whiz I They are here by the millions—red ants with jaws like crocodiles, black ants with a stinger sharper than any bee that ever manufactured honey, brown ants, gray ants, ants with wings and ants with nothing but a determination to make life miserable for a soldier. They build nests in vour hair, pull your ears, fll* your nose, 'crawl over your shirt an* under your «ehirt, and, in fact, they gef In your shoes, torture you in daytime, sleep with you at night and eat with you at dinner time. Why, as I write, a couple are crawling over this very page, as if to show oontempt for my opinion of antf. So, you see, soldiering in the Philippines Is no snap." 86. "Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate. I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it." "Maybe so, maybe no," said he. "The person I have in mind writes books and has a great liking for romance and told me almost as soon ae we met that it was a pity the old days were gone, when there were pirates and all that sort of stuff, and sea life was more exciting. We got intimate, that writer and I, Mac, and the tale of this game here with tbe gold boxes slipped out. I claimed there was every bit as much romance in that as there was in the old time buccaneering." "Are yon going to report what yon have seen?" he wrote. foul." "They're too old hands to let them Whether in Wfe, | the watch. 8we«t Young Thing—The not open far enongh to let me get my Upa to hia picture.—Jewelers' Weekly. . . of the GkDbt for | RHEUMATISM! I NEURALGIA and similar Complaints, I and prepared under tbe stringent M sending MEDICAL LAWS,^ Thus yworibed by eminent physicians:\Jgfgk - Mm DR. RICHTER'S |Kfl D2 fPAIN EXPELLERl W Ttfrnmnlt TTr—■■in iMfiit ■ by Aac5ar,M| g IfF Ad. UektM *■€«., 816 PewiSt., New York. ■ J 3! HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ IS Bnaeh Honssa. Ova Glassworks, m B hmn«, M '*UU * MCI, M hum !«■«, C. SUCK, llhrtkUlMMt, J. B.IOCCE, 4S«rt*lalaSt. raimi, pa. ACTCVlE SOLICITORS WANTED KVKRY" where for "The Story of the Philippines," by Marat Halstead. commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department. The book was written in army camps at San Prancisco, on tbe Pacific with Gen. Merrttt, in the hospitals at Honolnla. in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne Insurgent camp* with Agninaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brio iful of original pictures » en by gorernneat photographers on the fat, Latye book. TxDw prioee. Big profits. Freight t£°*JsP^crashyEKiflaeial jKr[ Bee's, Star lasnramca Building, Chicago. "Or tbey may get swept away by currents." I elirngged my shoulders. Israel or the church or the Individual The Poor Dear! Jeweler—So you're dissatisfied with What ails it t "I give you fair warning," he wrote on the rusted iron, "that if yon do I will kill you first and then myself. So yon will not find it cheap to ruin me." God must be glorified, and when we an willing that He shall be glorified In us, that It shall be "Not I, but Christ," then He will work and people will glorify God In us (Gal. 1, 24). But the next two verses following our lesson tell us that God wishes us to ask Him to do for us that which He offers to do. He puts before up the possibilities of a life wholly for but If there is no'-esponse on our part "Their life linea will keep them in tow." The captain had other business to atteod to then, so I left him, bat after we got fairly started and had dropped on Mersey pilot at Point Lynas there was information a boot the work ahead for any one who chose to listen. The talk was npon nothing else. The three passengers fairly brimmed with it Tbey said treasure diving waa "so romantic. " case doea "Sharks are always feared at divers, Kiss Bradbury. No, miss, yon may believe me, those two men are as safe down at work below as yon are here, or safer, seeing that they can't get snnstroke, and yon very likely will if yon stay here away from the awnings with no hat on." "Or sharks." The first step landed me on something that crunched. I looked down and saw ifwas a enit of bones, skimmed clean by the fishes. Some poor wretch had been drowned here when the steamer foundered. Well, of course. I bad seen a skeleton before, but somehow or other those bones didn't seem to cheer me. There was something wrong. The yarn the divers had brought up and the real thing as it lay were two entirely different matters. It occurred to me that I had stumbled (by the accident of Storey's paralysis) upon something intended to be bid, and I was quite man enongb to know that trouble might very possibly follow. I nodded my bead to show I understood and beckoned bim to go on. He lifted bis bands—I thought be was going to grapple with me. and I slashed at bim with the shovel. He drew back and, once on the move, I drove him before me furiously. He might be desperate, bnt I was savage enough myself. The thought of all that wealth lying within touch made me grit my teeth in cruel rage. If only the skipper had not said what he did I "And she agreed to let you go on with it just because she loved you," said I, "and then ate her heart out with fear lest you should get dropped upon. Man, you need not go further with the yarn. It's been plain to the eyes of every one that's watched the lassie about the decks that she was just fretting herself to a shadow about something." passes by, just as when He walked The squire's son had just been ordained, and on the following Sunday he was to take the morning service in bis native village. A Little Mlatalce. the two to Eminaus on the For myself, when I thought of those dead hones guarding chests of gold far down in the slime and the weed and the cold wash of the sea, I thought the basin ess was merely grisly. But then I sever did understand the ways of those writing people. They wonld have ■sited my father better. He was a writer that every ose who reads will have heard of. It was be who wrote "Sixty-two Years In Ballindrochater," by ▲ Soosrger of Sin. She shivered, and thanked me, and went away into the sbad|, and I turned again and watched the boats and the two moving patches of muddied water which tbey were following. It struck me at the moment that the Steamship Corinth Salvage association were putting a vast deal of trust in the two men whom tbey employed as their divers— £270,000 worth of gold is a very vast bulk of wealth for poor men to be near. PERT PERSONALS. POLITICAL QUIPS. % tr i •• •' i" ■■ He was a young man and very nervous. However, he did his best and returned to the vestry, having accomplished the service to his own satisfaction. Mayor Jones appears to be something of a Toledo blada—Boston Herald. There is talk in Kansas of John James Ingalls to congress, far, however, Mr. Ingalls betrays alarm.—New York Mail and Express. We plowed our way across the slimy sea flocr to where the boats lay at moorings, and first Cameron went up, and then I followed. On the row back to the Gleaner we said nothing. slither of us. and for long enough we did not find opportunity of being alone. But that night, when most of the hands were turned in. he and I sat ont together on the bridge deck, and he talked while 1 looked cut at the stars where they hung above the black ridgw of the island. Tom Reed's first jury will be strongly tempted to vote him down for the mere novelty of the thing.—Washington Post. "It's made me nearly cry to see her." "I think I got through the service without a mistake, John," he remarked to the old clerk, who was helping him off with his surplice. "Well, man," said 1, "it's over now, and she can begin to put on flesh again bo soon as ever you choose to tell ber the new plan. If I mistake not, yon'a the flutter of a dress in the companion way this minute. I'll be away forrard and turn in. Maybe you'll have business here you'd rather talk of out of my hearing." Men who persist in running for should not imbibe the belief that b doing they become possessed of a v right in public support.—St. Louis Star If General MaoArthur is not already in the thrashing machine trust, he is certain* ly eligible to membership.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ■F I stopped where I was and thought I'd n big mind to go back then and report what I had seen. I felt I should be earning my pay by doing that But at the same time I liked Cameron; be was a fellow countryman and more besides, and I didn't want to report him as acting off the square, so I stoutened my heart and went on down below. "It was iirst rate. Master Dick," said the old man, with enthusiasm. "I don't know as Ipever heard it better done." After a pause he added, "But the old parson, he never gives us the evening service in the morning."—Loudon Stand•wlIt has been decided in thunder tonet the people of Rhode Island that there no room in that state for a new constitution and, furthermore, that it is best to let bad enough alone.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. They did not find tbe wreck that day or the next. Indeed not till a week had passed did they come across her, and then tbey found that she had settled on her broadside into a little gulley on tbe sea floor where a current bad carried silt over her till she was almoet covered out of sight. They buoyed her when she was found and that day I went off in Cameron's boat and tried to see if I could make her out from above. But she lay is 16 fathoms, and the water was gray with mud from them working below. Looking down into it was like peering through a mist. It Is plain from the lawsuits that he is bringing that Mr. Kipling has a due appreciation of the white man's boodle.— Pittsburg Times. I cannot my either that Miss Bradbury was my Idea of a woman who oonld write a book. To begin with, she waa young, and as bonny looking a lassie aa yon could pick dnring a three boon' aearcb in Buchanan street, Glasgow. She'd a fine color to her cheeks ind big brown eyee that fairly lit when the warmed up in her talk. She was aot amall, bat her white canvas shoes iroald stand within the palm of my Mind. I tried that one day when the iteward waa pipeclaying them. She'd a. pillar with her on board, and when we tot to aonth across the bay and the lights grew warm ait out in tbC And a minute later I beard the bum of their voices and guessed Cameron was getting rid of his new version of the tale. 80 that was the way tbe gold boxes from tbe Corinth found their way into the Gleaner's hold, but I fancy Captain Boyd must have thought all along that there was something going on which was not quite according to rule. Still, how he found it out I can't say. Storey couldn't have told him, since the man never found speech again; it was certain that neither Cameron nor Miss Bradbury would have let it out, and most assuredly I did not Scmpronlna' Speech For War. My voice is still tor war! Goda! Can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? No; let us rlae at once, gird on our swoids. And at the head of our remaining troops Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of hia thronged legions and charge home upon him. It was right and proper for Mary Anderson Navarro to come back to America on the Majestic. She is that kind of a woman.—Kansas City Star. He told me the whole tale of what he and Storey intended to do. They cculd not go far from the wreck, as the air bubbles, rising to tbe surface, would advise their movements, so they had to set to work and make a hiding place foi their plunder close at hand. They de cided to dig ont a chamber beneath tbC steamer, and infinite labor it cost them Meanwhile, to mask what they wert doing, they gave out the tale of theoozt covering the treasure out of reach. Their efforts were nearly ended when Storey got his stroke. The pit was made, part of the gold was already transport ed, and, when the rest was hid, then they intended to cover the mouth of tbe oil go that it never nwiM be loand THE SNORE CURE. The white trail of the air tube led me down the stair to the lowest berth deck, then along the alleyway right aft, and then into the cabin, with a batch in the floor. Bitting on the lid of the batch was Cameron, who turned around when my light fell upon him. He beckoned me with an impatient gesture and slipped down into the blackness below. It was clear he did not recognize me. He took it for granted that I was Storey delayed by some accident. For a moment I staid outside irresolute, and a shoal of small fish, attracted by the light, brushed past my legs. I remembered that they had been browsing on It is reported that Qrover Cleveland has purchased a plover field. This will furnish amateur poets with another base of attack on Mr. Cleveland's first name. —Chicago Democrat. The New York woman who cut her husband's throat to prevent him snoring has at least placed an effectual cure on the market.—Washington Post. Perhaps some arm more lucky tban_ the rest Hay reach his heart and free the world from bondage. lugersoll has been sued for 9186 for breaking a statue of Charles Dickens in a house that he rented furnished. The owner has only himself to blame, for Colonel Ingersoil is a notorious loonoclast.— Boston Traveler Because a New York woman murdered her husband to stop his snoring it doe* Qot follow that a man would be justified In killing his wife just because of her fold feet.—Kansas City Times. I 2 Rise, fathers, rise! 'Tis Rome demands your help! Rise and revenge her slaughtered citizens Or sharp their fate! The corpse of half her senate Manures the fields of Thessaly, while we Bit here deliberating, in cold debate, U we Bhould sacrifice our lives to honor Or wear them out in servitude and chains. Rouse up, for shame! Our brother* of Pharsalia Point at their wounds and cry aloud, "To bat- The Gleaner swung at ber anchor over the western ocean swells, and the sun bleached ber awnings to the whiteness of new fallen snow. For myself, but for one thing, I never bad such an easy time on fall pay daring all my ■aajniiiii There was qo work to do- A Fine thought* are wealth for the right use of which H uhhi II Sage gave a little flower girl whom he accidentally jofciDed a $6 bill, and Iietty Green has leased a cottage at Newport Is the millennium in the offing, or have those New York reporters been stringing us nhent these worthy peoples - Qlnslsna Plain lkalw Men are and ought to be accountable If not to Thee, to those they influence 1 Grant this, we pray Thee, and that all who read moonlight tad sing. Her music wai nothing ia my Ub«, though. It wm all a flighty tort Bat, then, it wm Dot But after we got to Liverpool and all hands from the Gleaner turned out to see our diver married to hia girl the old BMUD pulled me aside m we left tbe tie I" Gnat Pompey's shade complains that we are (low. Ami Scipio's (hast walks anfevanawi srane «a Or utter noble thoughts may make them their* And thank God for them, to the betterment Of ihib moondim |
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