Pittston Gazette

              •tmblUfaed 1850.1 TOL. L No. 11 f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vallev P1TTST0N, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER!^? A Weekly Local and Family Journal. j SI 00 a Year . in AdTUM. This man glanced keenly at the box and from the box to the woman and threw a "Five dollars" carelessly at the official. returned Tommy, giving himself an irritable shake. "Hand me my bill." that be was like to add the discomforts of dyspepsia to his mental griefs. MISSION OF HORNETS I r innoyancea tnat are newing, aigging, , ..... cutting, shaping, splitting and interjoin- wfl LMAN HflMF AliAIN ing your moral qualities. Rata may sink 11 Villi. HUHII1. a ship. One lucifer match may send destruction through a block of storehouses. Catherine de' Medici got her death from smelling a poisonous rose. Columbus, by stopping and asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discovery of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, between nothings and everythlngs. mny be the arrogance and inconsiderateness of employers; but, whatever be the fact, we all admit there are these insect annoyances winging their way out from the culinary department. If the grace of God be not in the heart of the housekeeper, she cannot maintain her equilibrium. The men come home at night and hear the story of these annoyances and say, "Oh, these home troubles are Tery little things!" They are small, small as wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves were all unstrung when she rushed In asking Christ to scold Mary, and there are tens of thousands of women who are dying, stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet." These small insect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irritations. There are men here who went through the 24th of September, 1869, and the panics of 1873 and of 1893 without losing their balance who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances—a clerk's 111 manners, or a blot of ink on a bill of lading, or the extravagance of a partner who overdraws his account, or the underselling by a business rival! or the whispering of store confidences in the street, or the making of some little bad debt which was against yoor judgment; but you wanted to please somebody else. It is not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics come only once in 10 or 20 years. It is the constant din of these everyday annoyances which is sending so many of our best merchants into nervons dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. When our national commerce fell flat on its face, these men stood up and felt almost defiant, but their life is going away now under the swarm of these pestiferous annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet." 1 have noticed in the history of some of my congregation that their annoyances are multiplying and that they have a hundred where they used to have ten. The naturalist tells us that a wasp sometimes has a family of 20,000 wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life brooded a million. By the help of God, today I want to show you the other side. The hornet is of no use? Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us they are very Important in the world's economy. -They kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere. And I really believe God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to clear the atmosphere of our skies. Wake Da From Lethircr. These annoyances are sent on us, I think, to wake us up from our lethargy. There is nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and I think that these annoyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this is not a world for us to stop In. If we had a bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want of heaven? We think that the hollow tree sends the hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your opinion. "The Lord sent the hornet." Then 1 think these annoyances come on us to cultivate our patience. In the gymnasium you find upright parallel'bars with boles over eaeh other for pegs to be put in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in each hand, and be begins to climb, one inch at a time or two inches, and getting his strength cultivated, reaches after a while the ceiling. And it seems to me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worriment a peg with which we are to climb higher and higher in Christian attainment We all love to see patience, but it cannot be cultivated in fair weather. Patience is a child of the Btorm. If you had everything desirable and there was nothing more to get," what would you want with patience? The only time to cultivate It is when you are lied about and sick and half dead. "Oh," you say, "if I only had the circumstances of some well to do man I would be patient too." Tou might as well say, "If it were not for this water, I would swim," or, "1 could shoot this gun if it were not for the cartridge." When you stand chin deep in annoyances is the time for you to swim oat toward "I'll make it $10," said the dealer quickly. "Come now. You can find her. I'm eorry for the old party too." Tbe morning of the primaries, absorbed as both men were, they nevertheless perceived that Mrs. Fitzmaurice was agitated beyond all control. She sweetenedSfrjpmy's coffee twice, which did not matter, for Tommy gulped it down unheeding. But she omitted to sweeten Patrick's cup at all, which was quite another thing. Yet as he raiaed his eyebrows preparatory to the just rebuke tbe look on her face made him suddenly give her the kindest smile in day a "1 declare, yon 're worriting yer•elf sick, Ellen," raid he. "Come what may, it ain't a killing matter for Tommy. If they down ns this time, we'll iown them next." SERMON BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE ON 8MALL ANNOYANCES. "West Side dealer," commented the newspaper man in an nndertone to Tommy. "Be thinks there's something in it." "Eight" said Tommy, making as if to go. The Famous Explorer Returns to America. "Nine," said the dealer in a dying voice. The Minor Trouble* of Life Which Test Christian Fortitude and Patience—The Leuon of Trivial Irritation*.The old woman raised the bid—as before by a nickel As before the man jumped the intervening cents to a dollar. The old woman, her agitation momently increasing, repeated the same maneuver, with the same resnlt on the part of her opponent The nneven bidding continued until the bids were $27, bid by the dealer. The old woman turned desperately to the girl, and the latter in a second called loudly a raise of 10 cent a "Make it nina We'll all chip in," called tbe most distant man in the crowd. Tbe hat went ronnd with Tommy's bank note and $1 from the reporter. It returned laden with $8.90, and Tommy grimly threw in a cigar, which he said he bought in Chicago for 16 cents. It was not five minutes before the sailor man headed an interested procession, bearing the box back to the old woman. EXPERIENCES IN THE NOBTH. Terrible Hardships and SaCcrlif. Mil Broken Leg Still Troubling. Him—'Thinks Andree Is Dead—Future of Arctic EiylorlBg. I [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.] Washington, Oct. 8.—This sermon by Dr. Talmage deals with a subject which appeals to al) classes and conditions of men. His text is Deuteronomy vii, 20, "The Lord thy God will send the hornet." It seems as if the insectile world were determined to extirpate the human race. It bombards the grainfields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato beetle, seem to carry on the work which was begun ages ago when the insects buzsed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornet flies out on its mission. It is a species of wasp, swift in its motion and violent in its sting. Its touch is torture to man or beast. We have all seen the cattle run bellowing under the cut of its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand cautiously looking at the globular nest hung from the tree branch, and while we were looking at the wonderful covering we were struck with something that sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. It has captains over hundreds, and 20 of them alighting on one man will produce certain death. The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but the elephants and the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up, and the besieged city was rescued. This burning and noxious insect stung out the Hittites and the Canaanites from their country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture of an insect. "The Lord sent the hornet." My friends, when we are assaulted by great behemoths of trouble we become chivalric, and we assault them. We get on the high mettled steed of our courage, and we make a cavalry charge at them, and if God be with us we come out stronger and better than when we went in. But alas for these insectile annoyances of life, these foes too small to shoot, these things without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats and the midges and the flies and the wasps and the hornets! In other words, it is the small stinging annoyances of our life which drive us out and use us up. In the best conditioned life for some'grand and glorious purpose God has sent the hornet. I remark, in the first place, that these small stinging annoyances may come in the shape of a nervous organization. People who are prostrated under typhoid fevers or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, bnt who pities anybody that is nervous? The doctors say and the family say and everybody says, "Oh, she's only a little nervous; that's all!" The sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, a want of harmony between the shawl and the glove on the same person, a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind from the east, any one of ten thousand annoyances, opens the door for the hornet. The fact is that the vast majority of the people in this country are overworked, and their nerves are the first to give out A great multitude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was told by his physician that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would die, responded, "Doctor, whether I. live or die, the wheel must keep going round." These sensitive persons of whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and these people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in the context—they have a very thin covering and are vulnerable at all points. "And the Lord sent the hornet" Now, be careful to let none ot those annoyances go through your soul unarraigned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail sometimes produces lockjaw, and the clip of a most infinitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul without its making you better. New York, Oct. 9.—Supported by crutches, Walter Wellman, the arctic explorer, made his way down the gangplank of the steamship Umbria when that vessel reached the Cunard line pier yesterday. Wellman has the use of only one of his legs, the other having been fractured while the explorer was seeking the north pole. For months he has been in England under the care of specialists, and his object in coming here at this time is twofoM confer. With the government "Sure, It's sorry I am for th$ creachure," Mid Mrs. Patrick Fitzmaurioe to her only son, Tommy. This was in the year when Tommy was in training as a candidate for mayor—indeed, the primaries were to be held that week. As the little Irtah woman spoke the glanced up wiet fully at Tommy'a handaome face and brushed an imperceptible trace of dust from hia coat sleeve. Tommy began to gueaa what was coming. "And what does he want you to do, ma I" aald he, allpplng hi* arm about her walat and looking fondly down a' the faee that waa pretty to him still, though to aome people it waa but a wrinkled little Irish faee with viole he was always ascing anner yonr roine young son at the university." Old Patrick humped his shoulders and muttered: "Things was different thin. I'm thinking meeelf that he wants to be greased, ana Tommy won't grease him!" "And really," said Tommy to the reporter about two hours later, "she took it well—a kind of dignity." "Of course, mother," said Tommy, and be went over and kissed her. He did not pay any especial attention to her broken murmur of meaning it for the best, and she never meant to hurt mm. ne said: "mat's an right, mother. You're the best mother in tbe world I" and kisoed her again and so left her comforted. "Twenty-eight 1" shouted the man The woman sank back into her chair. She trembled so violently that for a second Tommy thought that she might faint, and he hurried to put a flask to her lips, while the newspaper man ran for water. She motioned tfce flask away. Her eyes went piteously to the girl Conquer Small Things. "I guess we shan't be any the worse off for her prayers," said the reporter Our national government when It wanted money did not think it belittling to put a tax on pins and a tax on buckles and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggrejrate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, O Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and annoy. Mrs. Fitamaurice, as innocent a soul as ever was sent into a wicked world, had lived too long with Patrick not to understand. She sighed. "Is he loike that, thin T I didn't think it And is Mr. Paulsen the same?" authorities as to his researches, and second to have his wounded leg cared for. The explorer left this city for Washington last night. "Shan't I help you out?" said Tommy. The words rolled back in the roof of his mouth at the girl's expression. "Well, I'm glad you ain't taking it out on the wimmin," said Patrick. "I ain't axed you any quistions about what I heard from McGinnis, but if it's"— "I guess not"—with a abort laugfa— "yon couldn't buy Panlsen any more than yon oonld coax a mule with a greenback. Oh, he's honest but he's obstinate, and it's loike a mule that way too. Yon niver know which end of him is going to kick t Harry Lossing was tilling me be mistrusted he'd be fighting us." Speakinf of his experiences, Wellman said: "I left Tromao, Norway, in May, 1898, and returned there on Aug. 17, 1899. The ship was the steam sealer Frithjof. We went to Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land, where we landed. This is the point at which Nansen accidentally met Jackson. "Then we went east and into headquarters at Tejetthoff, Franz Josef Land. When working north, an accident hafcD- pened which hindered further progress. 1 was on my sledge to which the dogs were harnessed, when suddenly the dogs stopped. When onoe they come to a standstill, they will not move on again until they feel the motion of the sledge. You have got to start it for them. "We don't haf got no more money," said she stolidly. "The mother has been saving for this year and I also, and it was $27, but we baf also the car fara We bid all. It was not enough. No, don't look, don't look!" she cried in her own tongue. But the old woman rose and watched the aoccessful bidder lift down the box, an irrepressible moan bursting through her lips. •yea and a long upper lip. "She's after yon for something; that I know." "Why, she has no since at all, Tommy, and she pate me ont of my temper with the way she goes on till I clean forget she la me third oonaln on me stepmother'* aide, and I want to tell her to be quiet, bnt then I think of how old abe is and with no children. Never a "It's nothing I'd be ashamed to tell you or mother," Tommy burst out "and I will tell you now if you like"— "You needn't. I believe yon," said Patrick. "And I say agin this ain't no killing matter. But what's Paulsen got there?" A returned missionary told me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. The earth has been strewed with the carcassest of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. What would you say of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the conflict because it was only a skirmish, saying: "I am not going to expend my ammunition on a skirmish. Wait until there comes a general engagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and what battling I will do 7" The general would say to such a man, "If you are not faithful in a skirmish, yon would be nothing in a general engagement" And I have to tell you, O Christian men, if you cannot apply the principles of Christ's religion on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a larger scale. If I had my way with you, I would have you possess all possible worldly prosperity. I would have you each one a garden, a river flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on the sides and the grass and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. I would have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the beds should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. I would have every hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then 1 would have the four quarters of the globe poor is all their luxuries on your table, and you shonld have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of yoa have the finest horses and your pick of the "Well, you'll find Tommy'11 match him," said the mother confidently, to which the father only granted, being, however, like many has bands, secretly cheered by hia wife's unreasoning hope. But she, poor woman, staid awake all night Wondering whether indeed ahe bad jeoparded her son's prospects by Bending him away and struggling darkly in her mind after some way to reach the incorruptible and obetinate Paulsen. "Say, why do you want the box?" asked Tommy. "Can't I"— Paulsen was haranguing a crowd. "A young man! Well, what's the matter of a young man? I found oudt all about Thomas Fitzmaurioe. I said I wait till I find oudt Now, read that baper, and you Beet what kind of a man he vast" chick Bar a child did Tim and she have to bless them. Tommy, and many's the time she looks at yon, and I can see the sigh in her eyes that she's too prond to let drop from her lips, and then I think: 'Well, if she does make • time over an onld box, it's hers, and maybe the forlorn creachore vnllys it Maybe, not having any humans to love, die has to take it ont on her things.' " "That boy she lost in the custom boose in Chicago, I suppose," says "It was by mine vater," said the girL "Dey vus lif 88 years by vun anadder, nnd dey vas nefar qvnarel, bnt ven dey coom over be vas die on der road, nnd dey put him in der sea. She didn't bave notings, no grava Und dey vas charge so mooch vat yon call it duty dat ve don't can take der box, nnd so she nnd I ve sava. Bnt it vas no use. Koom, kooml" Tommy could see a paper fluttering from hand to hand. A trusty henchman was instantly dispatched for the paper, which Patrick awaited in a stony calm. At intervals he patted Tommy on the back. H*w Ha Hart Hta Leg. "The place where they stopped was covered with rough ice. That waa on March SO, 1889, and the latitude 82 defrees. Ahead of the sledge was a crack about 18 inches deep, and while trying to start the sledge 1 stepped into it, braised the bone and sprained my leg. At the time I thought little of it, and for eight days I allowed it to go without attention. Finally it became so painful that I would fall to the ground, and at such times it was impossible for me to pick myself up. "Then 1 consented to lie on my sledge and let my men drag me, as they wanted to do at firat When we retreated to the headquarters house, my temperature waa 103 degrees, and my leg had swollen from the toes to the hip. 1 nad a first class physician with me, but he knew nothing of surgery, so he could not aid me. "The surroundings were not conducive to rapid recovery. It required half an hour for me to get to my sleeping bag and two hours more before the warmth of my body melted the ice into water. Then 1 began to feel comfortable. From April 9 to July 4 I was laid up in the I J _ i t_ je Tommy, meanwhile, had gone easily to Chicago, and the next morning, having fonnd the box, was loitering with a conscience at rest among a bnndred odd people who were at the sale of *'un- unclaimed and seised merchandise" in the government warehouse. Next to Tommy stood a yellow haired yonng man with his hat on tlfe back of his head and a pad bulging his breast pocket. Tommy and he were the only persons present not bidding. The sailor lifted the unlocked cover of the She declined the tin cnp which the reporter was holding rather helplessly at them, and would have supported ber mother out of the room. The old woman looked dizzy. She only said in Qerman, "It was his picture, my Emil'a picture I" box. "Don't yon mind what they eay," be repeated over and over. "I ain't going to be worried. Don't you be! And we'll pay 'em up I" Tommy patiently. "She isn't nagging Ton to have me go to Chicago, ia abet" "Well, that very same die ia. Tommy. / ud I tonld her, says I, he's busy wid important bnsiness of the election, Bays I, and be hain't got the time. But the creacbnre don't seem to have good since, for all she says is, 'It was owing to him I took it to Chicago instid of to Naw York to the customs there, and sow it'a lost!' Meaelf, I wonder she didn't lose ivery box she bad, coming a wake before abe waa ixpected and we not meeting her, for she can't as much as go down town alone." Tommy wm awaDowing bis annoyance. He loved bis mother, whatever be |jv, might think of her stepmother's third t0t cousin, and be knew bow bia mother moat have b§pn harried to bring her tc the point of aaklng a journey of bin this particular week. It was a nuisance •Bd It r-' * ' * thoughtfully. "But, eayt You've misted your train, and you bad an important appointment, didn't you say t That was taking grandma home yourself in a carriage." The messenger returned grinning. He banded the paper to Patrick, and over his father's shoulders Tommy read in bold headlines the grateful offering of the reporter that his mother had warmed: "The Hon. Thomas Fitamaurice of Iowa has a heart. But he ia no fool either. How the dealer outbid the aged widow and the Hon. Thomas bunkoed the dealer and restored a cherished treasure A pathetic happening in real life." And there beneath was the story of Tommy's humanity. Itwaa fluttering all around the field. "She wasn't fit to walk," said Tommy. "If—if she'd been my mother, I'd have wanted her taken home." "Yon wait a minute," said Tommy. "Don't yon stir from her, and I'll see if I can't bny that back. There is nothing of valne—no money, no watch t" "Live in Chicago ?" said the yonng man. "That's right," said the reporter. He did not say anything else, though he looked at Tommy with a kind of lightening of his sharp smile, and just then Tommy hailed a cab to save tbe next train if he could, and so they parted. Tommy, flattered by the inference, ehook his head and named his town. "Pretty town," said the yonng man. "I nsed to live there. I need to be on The Evening Scimitar. Now"—he flnng his coat open, disclosing his reporter's badge. Tommy read the name of the great city paper with a tinge of respect The reporter asked questions about familiar names, ending with Tommy's own personality. "Fitsmanrice! FJtzmauriceT Ton aren't"— He hardly waited their denial to rush off with the unheeded and amused reporter at bis heels. The latter thoughtfully poured the water on the floor before he put the tin cup on a window iilL Tommy was not lucky enough even to catch his second train, wherefore be was obliged to pasa the night in the city and return home in the very early morning hours in a decidedly irritable frame of mind. He did not repent of his humanity, but I must confess that he did wish that his mother had not put him in the way of being humane. Harry Loosing and another root fast political friend were waiting at the depot, nor did their aspect of reproachful gloom tend to ease his mood. The junk dfcaler had his box on the floor, meditating over it, a screwdriver in his hand, as if preparing to open it by the binges. It was a clumsy box of wood with iron hinges. A triena near by wagged a sympathizing and curious head on the other side. Tommy grew a rose red and looked wildly about bim. It was at this instant that he beheld Harry and McGinnis beaming. quipages of the world. Then I would have you live 150 years, and yon should not have a pain or an ache until the last breath. "As to I our i in k might well be ■ risk to leave jns bow, bnt be wonld chance it, and, bay lng resolved to chance it, be wonld not •poll a kind act by an ill grace in thC doing. Therefore be laughed aa bC smoothed his mother's thin bnt atll! silky hair and told her that he conk manage to get off to Chicago and thai As might ssrure Mrs. Sullivan that hi wonld look np every unclaimed articli of luggage in the Chicago customs. He might have felt repaid bad i» aeen bis mother that evening wiping her eyes while she repeated the scene t( "I'm Patrick Fitzmaurice's son," ■aid Tommy composedly. "His place was dowo on Third street." "It's all right I Paulsen's all right I" says Harry. "Invoiced at $12," said the friend. "That ain't no $12 box, Dorryl" "Bnt that confounded paper" (thus are the mercies of the press slighted). "Do yon—Harry—you don't suppose I"— "Not each one of us?" yon say. each one of you. "Not to your eneoc Yes. The only difference I would with them would be that I would little extra gilt on their walls and' a extra embroidery on their slippers, you say, "Why does not God give these things?" Ah! I bethink m He is wiser. It would make fool sluggards of us if we had oar way The reporter eyed Tommy askance. He could not place this well dressed, well mannered young man, with his handsome Irish Norman face (that clean cut, delicate face, which is no more like tbe caricatures of the Irish Celtic face than—the newspaper Celt is like the man himaelf); be knew Pat Fitsmanrice's place, bnt here was a flower from a saloon window; he did not quite know bow to take Tommy's calmness. Tommy, whose hurry had been displaced by the idlest sauntering air, craned bis neck forward. "That's rigbt," said he. "There ain't $12 worth of truck in that box. The government's got a great head running this kind of tottery business. Things of value are bound to be claimed." "How are thingsf" he ventured after they had silently taken his bag and walked him into tbe street. "My dear boy, calm yourelf, the paper was sent to your mother, and sbe sent it to me and to Panlsen, of course. Sbe was tickled with it, I suppose, or she thougbt it would do good. It did. It bit Paulsen jusf right I fancy, old man, you'll owe your election to your mother." "If you mean tbe election," said Harry, "everything is going wrong. Paolaen is on bis high horse." "Why didn't you show up at the meeting?" asked McQinnis, the other friend, in the tone of an executioner demanding of his victim which side of the block be preferred. a of o man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of his house. Ood meant this world to be only the vestibule of heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we are aspirins. We most not have if too good in this world, or we would want no heaven. is IK added We ai The jank dealer play folly cocked one eye. "xoo trying to traytbat box, my Christian friend?" 110 W lllauu*D I I *. HAV v w lean names on the straits, islands and points, the first time American names have been bestowed upon newly discovered territory, with the exception of one or two points in the De Long expedition 20 years ago." TUmlu Aadrc* Dead. Commenting on the finding of Andree'a north pole buoy, which led some persons to believe that Andree had discovered the pole, Mr. Wellman said: "I think it only confirms my impression that Andree sailed to the eastward, a little to the south from the point of ascension, Dame island, Spitsbergen, on July 11, 1897, and was destroyed by coming in contact with ice. Tou remember the one authentic word from Andree was attached to a pigeon, and the message waa, 'Making good voyage east, ten degrees south.' "All the probabilities are that he perished in the open Barents sea east of Spitsbergen. The ice in that sea is nearly always broken up in summer and adrift, with open spaces. If the gas in the balloon lost its buoyancy, he was of necessity forced to come down, and his car rebounded, scattering buoys and anchors and unfortunately himself and companions, Fraenckel and Strinzburg. "The message of the pigeon and thC anchor found on King Carl island indi cate this fate." Tommy was standing, Tery thoughtful. "More than you think maybe," said be. lie father, who pnffed hard on bis pipe "And yoo won't deny, Pat, be la th« bist son in the country f" "I ain't thinking of sons," said the ex-saloon keeper. "I'm thinking of mother* that lets their sens throw away their chances to gratify the fool whims of a doddering onld woman. Tom is no lmaineas to be ont of town this wake, and well be knows it" "I must have been out at the university when you were there," said Tommy, still unconscious, "for I don't remember you." "Big finds in those boxes sometimes," said tbe junk dealer's crony. "I missed the train," said Tommy meekly. Polycarp was condemned to be burned to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it. The fagots were placed around him, the fires kindled, but history tells ns that the flames bent outward like the canvas of a ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, instead of destroying Polycarp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poniard. The flames would not touch him. Well, my hearer, I want you to understand that by God's grace the flames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to yon the blessings and the promises, as he did to Polycarp. "When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand, but you shall know hereafter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet. "Big disappointments, too," raid Tommy. "I bet that you'll be swearing mad when you open thst box." HOW DIAMONDS ORIGINATED. "They had a son at school. Mrs. Fitzmaurice used to tell me about him. I hope your mother is well. Mr. Fitzmaurice, she was an angel of mercy to me one awfully cold night when I was out on an assignment about a fire, got wet through and my clothes froze on me. I went in and she made me hot coffee herself. She said I was too young for whisky, loaned me some of your clothes, by the way, to get home inall not knowing I wasn't reeling off a lie to her." "Yon missed the train!" McOinnis' heavy voice rose a note in canstte sarcasm. "Well, Tom, I didn't think yon was the kind of man to miss trains or I'd never hav« gone in for yon. Did yon have a pleasant time? I hope that mnch, for you're likely to miss yonr nomination tool" Discovery That l««u to Throw tbc great headlands of Christian attainment, so as to "know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to have fellowship with his sufferings." Nothing but the furnace will ever barn eut of us the clinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in regard to small annoyances and vexations. It takes just so much trouble to fit us for usefulness and for heaven. The only question Is whether we shall take it In the bulk or pulverized and granulated. Here is one man who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken or his eyesight put out, or some other awful calamity befalls him, while the vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rather have it? Of course, in piecemeal. Better have five aching teeth than one broken jaw; better 10 fly blisters than an amputation, better 20 squalls than one cyclone. There may be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and homeopathy, but in this matter of trouble I like homeopathic loses, small pellets of annoyance rather :han some knockdown dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the lornet. If you have a bank, you would I great deal rather that 50 men would •ome In with checks less than $100 than :o have two depositors come in the same lay, each wanting his $10,000. In this atter case you cough and look down to he floor and you look up to the ceiling serore you look Into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have these imall drafts of annoyance on your bank Df faith than some all staggering demand lpon your endurance? But remember :hat little as well as great annoyances Kjually require you to trust io»Christ for mccor and for deliverance from impa:ience and irritability. "Thou wilt keep lim in perfect peace whose mind is stay»d on thee." In the village of Hamelin, tradition lays, there was an invasion of rats, and ;hese small creatures almost devoured he town and threatened the lives of the Dopulation; and the story is a piper "How much do you bett" sneered tbe jonk dealer, trying bis screwdriver on the heads of tbe screws. Light on the Subject. The Retailers of Gossip. Again, the small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you cannot be with for half an hoar bat you feel cheered and comforted. Then thero are other people you cannot be with for fire minutes before you feel miserable. They do not mean to disturb you, but they sting you to the bone. They gather up all the yarn which the gossips spin and retail it. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person. about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour It. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you laugh, too—outside. These people are brought to our attention In the Bible, in the book of Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful and with the finest worldly prospects Into another land, but after awhile she came back widowed and sick and poor. What did her friends do when she came to the city? They all went out, and instead of giving her common sense consolation, what did they do? Read the book of Ruth and find out. They threw up their hands and said, "Is this Naomi?" as much as to say, "How awful bad you do look!" When I enteral the ministry, I looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or five years, many times a year 1 was asked if I had not consumption, and, passing through the room, I would sometimes hear people Bigh and say, "A-ah, not long for this world!" I resolved in those times that I never in any conversation would say anything depressing, and by the help of Qod I have kept the resolution. These people of whom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest field of discouragement Borne day you greet thom with a hilarious "Good morning," and they come buzzing at you with some depressing information. "The Lord sent the hornet." The origin of diamonds, which for so long has been a debated question, appears to be explained by a recent discovery near Kimberley. In both the Indian and the Brazilian diamond fields the gem occurs like a pebble In certain gravelly strata, but has not been traced back to any rock that gives an indication of its genesis. After the discovery of diamonds in the river sand on some South African rivers a peculiar material of brownish buff color, which turned to a dark bluish tint, was found. It became harder as the miners dug down. The diamonds lay In this material, together with several other minerals, such as garnets. Iron ores, augite, olivine, etc. "Well, I bet $5 to a nickel you can't sell the whole contents of that box for $12. How's that?" "And for why not, Pat t" "Foe why T Because he has to go tomorrow, no later, to the meeting, and Paulsen will be at the meeting, and the other men,and specially for Paulsen they Two or three men drew nearer, and instantly a dozen more were drawn by the sight of them, as is the way of a crowd. "Drop that. McGinnis!" said Leasing. "You know perfectly well Fitzmaurice isn't that kind. What was the matter? Paulsen makes a great offense of your not coming. Says yon are not to be depended on, and this shows It. and a lot of rot"— "Is it a kind of gameT" said one man. £ ' ' "Well, the clothes came back," said Tommy. "I beard about it Mother's always up to such tricks." "I'm not likely to make muclk by it," said Tommy. "Five dollars to a nickel I" "Aw, Paulsen is only talking for a blind. He won't vote for an Iriehman nohow. And that's where the hair is thin. I heard he eaid he never knowed an Irishman wonld do a good tnrn to a German, and be had it from Wade, who'd knowed you from a boy, that yon was too slick to be honest. Maybe if you could have got at him yesterday yoa might have done something for him. Mr. Lossing and me, we couldn't move him!" "Mothers are a big thing. They keep a fellow sure there's some good left in the world. And yours was one of the motherliest mothers going." "Let's see your money," said tbe reporter, glancing out of the tail of his eye at the dealer, whom he knew slightly. Excavations, begun systematically, were eventually carried on such scale that near Kimberley they have reached a depth of more than 1,400 feet. Here the rock is about as hard as ordinary limestone. The blue ground is found only in limited areas. The rocks found are of dark shades, banded with bard sandstone, in which sheets or dikes of basalt or some material which was once in a molten condition is occasionally found. The blue ground fills a sort of shaft of colossal size iu these other rocks and is Itself cut up by similar dikes. The opinions of geologists differ as to whether the gems were produced where they now lie or have been formed of some volcanic explosions. It is thought that the mystery has been at last cleared up. CURTAIN RAISERS. Tommy blushed with pleasure, but could think of aotbing better than to band the reporter a cigar. And it was just at this softened moment that his eyes fell on an old woman who had just entered. She was poorly clad in a worn, limp black skirt, made short enough to ■how her coarse shoes, and a basque of mat uncnanging model "affected by elderly German women of tbe humbler kind. The bair under the old fashioned bonnet was gray, almost white. She walked in with a quick step, like one in haste, her dim eyes wandering anxious ly over the array of boxes on tbe platform. Theq she whispered to the young girl at her side, who seemed to be a servant and wss a comely, fresh colored, honeet looking lass in tbe cheap travesty of tbe fashion that so soon replaces the trusty old blue stuffs in this country. The girl glanced about her and after a second's hesitation whispered to Tommy, "Is dose t'ings on der platform all vat dey is ppje?" The dealer laughed. He wasn't afraid of games, be said, and he proffered his nickel to tbe reporter. Tommy gravely placed a bank note beside it. Maud Adams contemplates appearing some time during the season in a new version of "Peg Woffington." "Shenandoah" goes out this season with the complete production that was used at the Broadway theater, New York city. "Well," said the dealer, "Idon't object to giving you all a peep. But who's to decide as to the value T" Anton Van Rooy has been engaged for the opera season in London. He met with an immense success in Baireuth as Wotan in "Die Walkure." San Francisco, Oct. 9.—The hospital ship Solace has arrived 35 days .from Manila, via Guam and Yokohama. She brought over 100 discharged sailors from various vessels of the Asiatic squadron. The officers on board, some of whose terms are about to expire, were Commanders A. W. S. Swinburne, C. H. West and B. Belknap, Lieutenant Commanders J. H. Perry and H. Merrill, Surgeon L. M. Atlee, Assistant Surgeon W. M. Wheeler, Lieutenants W. Kellogg, A. Retchler, J. P. Parker, A. A. Ackerman, C. Arnold, R. B. Higgins, J. M. Elliott, N. Jones, E. H. Durell, A. H. Robertson, W. t. Montgomery, G. Lyon, R. C. Bulmer, M. S. MeCitel and B. M. Love and Ensign R. C. Haden. Boatswain's Mate Daniel Duff died on the voyage and was buried at sea. The Solace Return Prom llsslls. "Ton can pick two men and I'll pick one," said Tommy carelessly. As he anticipated, the dealer chose his friend and the reporter. Tommy hit at random on a grave and rubicund man who had tbe attitude and the wide footed standing posture of a steamer deck. "Well, I'm sorry," said Tommy ruefully. But he didn't explain why he missed bis train, not even when Alderman McGinnis capped Lossing's "I think if yon promise the chief of police to a German we may do something," with, "I think it's awful to help foole I" "No," thought Tommy. "I mean to be a gentleman, and a gentleman does not brag of being barely decent, and if Paolsen were to bear of it he'd think I was ■ fool for sure to lose my train that way." And these mixed motives prompted him to say, "I missed that train doing a kindness to somebody if you must know, and that's all there is about it." Orrin Johnson will be leading man of Maud Adams' company for the coming season, succeeding Robert Edeson, who has retired from the stage. US The dealer found little difficulty in wrenching one-half of the hinges free. He lifted tbe lid and forced it back on tbe lock. About two years ago the manager of a diamond mine near Kimberley picked up a specimen in which smaller diamonds were imbedded In a garnet. This led to an Investigation of various bowlders, one of which was found to contain diamonds. The rock is of the description known to mineralogists as eclogite. It is apparently composed almost exclusively of red garnet rock and a rather peculiar light green augite. The rock is coarse crystalline and In all probability was once like garnet in a molten condition, the diamond being one of its original constituents. Experts now tend to the belief that the blue ground in which diamonds were found is not their true birthplace. The bowlders are often watermarked and may have rested for ages in an ancient grave at the very bottom of sedimentary rocks of the district. In course of time volcanic explosions shattered the rock floor in which the diamonds were imbedded, of which the bowlders were only samples, and dispersed It, together with the overlying materials. It is believed that this is the true explanation of the formation of the diamond bearing blue ground.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Janet Waldorf heads a quartet of players who have been giving scenes from Shakespeare and the stock drama in Japan. They are on a tour of the world. -I ain't thinking of tor*." want Tommy to be there. Ton know bow Tommy talks and tbe persuasive- "Let the referees take out the things," said Tommy. A version of "Hamlet" in cheap paper form finds a large scale on the streets of Paris. This is due, in part at least, to the Interest stirred by Mme. Bernhardt'* Impersonation of the Dane. There was revealed at first glimpse nothing better than a neatly folded layer of coarse and worn woolen clothing, the cause of the heavy duty. These displaced by tbe seamen, there came a cheap German Bible, a pair of heavy, patched shoes, and a small box ornamented with shells, most of which were broken. At the sight of tbe box tbe dealer's color turned, and be held out his hand. "I'll take that," said ha "The value of tbe box is in there I" boh of him." Tbe father could not hide It has been whispered along the Rialto that Charles Frohman has in view a combination of Miss Ada Rehan and John Drew for the season after next in a round of Shakespearean plays. It is now six years since these two stars have appeared together. • lurking smile. "Well, they're hoping . whin Paulsen bears him he'll listen to reason and go in for him. And Harry fcowing, he's going to see Paulsen and persuade him bow sound Tommy is •bout kaping the saloons down and yit raising enough rivinuefar tbe ixpenses, and bow he'll pave the dty, but he'll look moigbty scharp after tbe contracts, and there won't be no boodling games Countenanced noways. Of coorse Tommy can't be telling what a foine mayor £De'll make for himself. But Harry will aay it, and more. And then at tb« meeting he'll ask Tommy any quistions thst Paulsen will want answered or thst he Alderman McGinnis drew a long, gad sigh from the depths beneath his glossy shirt front. "Only tell me it ain't a woman. Tommy, that's all I ask I" he moaned. "So far," says Tommy, "yes, ma'am." He spoke tbe last words to the old woman and smiled reassuringly. She seemed so feeble, so agitated and so lost among tbe crowd of idle men and junx dealers that be was minded to comfort her. It is astonishing how some people prefer to write and to say disagreeable things. That was the case when Henry M. Stanley returned after his magnificent exploit of finding David Livingstone. When Mr. Stanley stood before the savants of Europe and many of the small critics of the day, under pretense of getting geographical information, put to him most insolent questions, he folded his came out one day and playeH a verj sweet tune, and all the vermin followed him, followed him to the banks of the Weeer, and then he blew a blast, and they dropped in and disappeared forever. Of course, this is a fable, but I wish I could on the sweet flute of the Gospel draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoyances of your life and play them down into the depths forever. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Never use soda In washing a baby's clothes, for If not very carefully rinsed ont it Is a source of Irritation and chafing to the delicate skin. "It was a very nice, respectable old woman," said Tommy firmly. The law in England forbids the wearing of the British army or navy uniforms by others than real soldiers. It is not enforced against actors in plays, but a manager who posted two imitation sentries in front of his theater to advertise a military piece was fined $500. 4'And no young woman for a daughter or a neice or somewhere hitched to the outfit t Good Lord, Tom, yon ain't blushing 1 Tom, this is awfall What made me bet on yon T One big thing was yon didn't seem to know the difference between a pretty girl and a homely one. But if yon're going to let the women come a game on yon and miss trains—why, great Scott, boy, what will yon do when we send yon to the legislature and they git at yon for the clerkships and them offices, and"— Again Loesing, looking thoronghly annoyed, bnt loyal even in this stress, interfered to rescue Tommy and to again propose the offering of the head of the police on a charger to the powerful Panlsen. To fasten knife and fork handles that have become loosened, take a piece of quill, put it into the handle and pnah the knife or fork In firmly after heating it. She gave b)m a grateful glance. Her bands were clasped, one over the other. They were hands disfigured and roughened by toil, with the prominent veins and distorted knnckles and withered cleanliness of years over the waqbtub. Tommy remembered how in his youth be bad resolved that one day bis mother nhonld have white, poft bands, like the mother of his school friend, Harry Loosing, and how he had spent come of bis very first earnings in a weird assortment of cosmetics which bis mother faithfully used. "No, yon won't take it. Play fair," said Tommy. "Bat I guess yon are right abont the value of the box being there. Please open it, captain." arms and refused to answer. At the very Patience la Required. time when yon would suppose all decent How many touches did Mr. Church men would have applauded the heroism gjve t0 his picture of "Cotopaxi" or his of the man there were those to hiss. The "Heart of the Andes?" I suppose about Lord sent the hornet." And when after- 50,000 touches. I hear the canvas sayward that man aat down on the western ing: "Why do you keep me trembling coast of Africa, sick and worn out, with with that pencil so long? Why don't you perhaps the grandest achievement of the pnt it on in one dasll7" "N0," says Mr. age In the way of geographical discovery. Church; "I know how to make a paintthere were small critics all over the world inK It will take 50,000 of these touches." to baza aad buzz and caricature and de- ncj j want you, my friends, to underrid* him. and when after awhile he got stand that it is these ten thousand an|he London papers as ne opened tnem noyances which, under God, are making out flew the hornet. W hen I we that ' e • t0 be h th.ere.»re «° man.y IDeople. ,in last in the galleries of heaven, fit for anwho like to say d.sagreeable things and \ knowg Uow make write disagreeable things, I come almost ® . ture in my weaker moments to believe what a / ' sculptor's studio and see man said to me in Philadelphia one Mon- him *h .tatue. He has a chisel in day morning. I went to get horseat lnallet in the other, and *e livery stable, and the hostler a plain hp K,vps a yery Kentle stroke-ciick, click, man, said to me, Mr. Talmage, I saw t say C«why don't you strike hardteni.T°" Yes TJd "No Pr?" he "that ™uld Z J M.V. .".MuSLOT'S.1™ • t.'bX'oS' J mL I* 1 . m u» must do it tliis way. oo he works oil) The small insect annoyances of llfe £ featureg COme out, ™ and everybody that enters the studio U physical trouble which does not amount , j i r x w u ri * * to a positive prostration, but which both- charmed and fascinated. Well, God has er. you when you want to feel the best, your soul under process of development been'th" 'nl" "ft an Sons of* life S££T323£B£t^S s,"'hr°r-"" w,h™ ihe%™crv„'S* «ss?g the hour you cannot make your appear- _ , .. , n r ance. Perhaps the trouble is between f»rf *«° "D■• heaven. Ah, no! God say, the ear and tile forehead in the shape of «»* «■ «iot the way, and so he keeps or a neuralgic twhige. Nobody can see it or by 8trokf'8 of little vexations until at las' sympathize with it, but just at the time yo" s,ha" a K'ad for angel, when you want your intellect clearest a"JJ , H,en'. „ . and your disposition brightest you feel 4 You know hat a large fortune may bC sharp, keen, disconcerting thrust. ''The , 8fnt ln,sT and a vast amoun r.J' »il„ u (i of moral character may go away in smal rd sent the hornet. depletions. It is the little troubles of lif. It Ifritatt""«i I - The sailor—he really was a first mate, but he took the title without wincing—lifted the unlocked cover of the box and took out a photograph of a man. The man in bis ill fitting tidy holiday suit, with a smile on his honest face, and both large, toil marked hands spread on his knees, was, one could easily guess, the owner of the clothes {n the box. CURIOUS CULLINGS. A sewing machine needle may be easily threaded by those with Imperfect sight if they place behind it a piece of white paper. This Immediately shows up the eye and removes any difficulty. In the king of Saxony's museum at Dresden there is a cherry stone upon which, by the aid of a mfcroscope, more thun 100 faces can be distinguished. bears Paulsen will want. And Tommy will have bis innings thin. Do yon see T But now wid your blethering ould aonsin and her box you'll git him off, and maybe he'll not be back. Tbere iraa a washout only yisterday on the road, and, loike enough, there'll be another, and Tommy'll be losing the mayor's office to git"— "Oh, Pat, la it that bad?" cried the mother, clasping her hands. "Sure I'll drive to the depot and beg him to pMyt" The shipment of two wives by express from Issaquah, Wash., to their husbands at Dawson City by the Nuggett Express company is something of a novelty in the express business. A fancy work basket can be made at home by removing the seat from a large campstool and filling Its place with a pocket of cretonne lined with sateen and letting it hang down below the seat. Whenever yon find yourself inclined to dwell with more than common severity of temper on the sins and shortcomings of other men and to be lax and liberal in judging yonr own faults, yon will do well to inquire whether yon are not in a backslidden state. If you have in any measure overcome the world, the flesh and the devil, you are bound to know how bard the task is and to entertain feelings of sympathy for all that are engaged in the same fight. The best people Are the most charitable. Saintliness is tenderness. The immaculate Son of Man bad a kind word and a helping hand for all struggling souls. He did not and does not break the bruised reed nor quench the Bmoking flax.—Nashville Advocate. Look Inward. "That's all," said the sailor. A Missouri jury in a lunacy case returned the following verdict, "We, the jury impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire into the insanguinlty of Hezekiah Jones, do occur in the affirmative." If you only have bare floors and rugs in your house there need never be a regular housecleaning period. The house will be cleaned from week to week, and carpet cleaning as an exceptional function will not be known. His mother's bands were white now, and there were rings on them. But Tommy remembered how they used to look. The reporter and the other representative of the junk dealer quickly verified bis words. Tbat was all. An oath slid between the dealer's teeth. He seised on the clothes and examined every pocket, every seam. Some one made a jocose comment, and the crowd laughed. Lot after lot was disappearing and being bundled down to the new owners. The old woman, who had slowly regained composure, all at once rose suddenly from her teat and instantly sank back again, clutching the purse in her hand Her face had gone a dull gray, the streaks of red were ebbing sowly from her cheek. Tommy heard her thin elderly pipe, "One dollar." "One dollar I" called the girl in a louder key. "I'm bid one dollar," began the auctioneer, "one—do I hear two dollars t Thank yon, air. Two dollars, two dollars."But he is glad to this day that he swallowed his feelings and bore his father's reproaches in eilence. The old man was broken hearted at the prospect of losing the office, and the more that Wade made a handle of Tommy's not coming on time and tales not fitted for Tommy's mother's ears, were bandied about among the enemy- Tommy went home red with chagrin An Englishman just home from the west coast of Africa says he saw a whole village swimming out to the steamer, wearing, as they swam, renovated secondhand stovepipe hats in all the glory of the white tissue paper in which they are shipped out for sale. 0b* meant her words, and her hand l"NV yu on the doorknob, but her husband stopped her. "Yon will not, Ellen," ■aid he, with an ironic chuckle, "for ft'a off already, be la. Ton will set down and hope yon ain't done mnch harm dndlng him off!" ♦'And who would harm him, snreT" ''Well, tbere ia Alderman Wade, who || after Panlaen from morning till sight' pecking at him with 'Tommy ia an Irishman, Tommy is shly, Tommy bates the Dutch I' You'll see, that's the way be gets at him, making him think Tommy wouldn't cross the street to save a German's life! And Paulsen has got a tremendis lot of pull wid the Dutch, i » —m cfthefiWMfcr "No," said Tommy, "I won't take your money. I knew what was in that trunk, and that poor old soul who had been saving for a year knew too. Gentlemen"—be turned to the crowd, a sizable number by tbia time and agog with curiosity—"jet me explain." SUFFERING FRANCE. Paulsen bad been seen. Paulsen had been offered the disposal of office. And Paulsen had declined to commit him self. "I'm looking round for der besl man," said Paulsen, which was dis couraging. France stands today among the civilised nations of the world as the opera bouffe republic of the galaxy.—Philadelphia Times. 80 Tommy with all the fiery Irish eloanence in bis power explained. And then, while the crowd settled closer, ne flung his offer at the bewildered dealer. "Yon, sir," to the reporter, "pass tbe bat Let tbat $5 stay in. Look here I What will you sell for T That $6 bill T" God'i Favors Qod multiplies His favors Day by day and botir by boar they come trooping along according to exUting need So continuous and opportune are mercies and bounties thai often take them as matter of course, attribute them to secondary causes and fail to trace them, with due intelligence and gratitude to their divine source. Never ought the Pond that feeds us and the Heart which responds in love, sympathy and kindness, be forgotten or onacknowiedgmd. Ooodneea itwumi r**ncnitif -Pmbytw- The real struggle that, is now going on in France is the struggle of the republic for the mastery in its own house.—Lon- London Daily News. "And five cents," called tbe girl, while the woman's eyes strained after every twist of the auctioneer's head, every swing of his hand. Tommy had not reproached his moth ex. In fact, be had been more than or dinarily kind and gentle to ber, for tht poor soul was in such deep tribulation that to be cruel to her would have re quired a heart of stone. Patrick, the sorely wronged and disappointed Patrick himself, did not go beyond an eloquent dumbness at meals. ' "And Tommy In pity ate so much— to show The rank of an officer in the French army seems at times to depend less on what he knows than on what he is able to forget.—Washington Star. '•AD. 4 1 m a i and that'atbe fact He ain't, sofar's I kin find out, be ain't opened the month pf him yit whether it's for or whether }t'p ag'in Tommy. But Tommy best b« lound when he does, that's all." "But why would Alderman Wade be waatiag VD hurt Tommy t I mind well. "No, I won't," said the dealer. "I can get more from tbe old woman." "Dollar five, dollar five, yes, sir— thank yon, sir. Three dollars"— darted a glance at {he reporter, and that nimble witted young man promptly took bis cue. "She's gone," said he, looking in another direction from the place where they left the two Germans. I can't am her!" The only way to "restore the honor of the army" in France is to get rid of Metcier, Roget, Boisdeffre and the other forgers, liars and conspirators who have dishonored it.—Brooklyn Citisen. Here a map shouldered bis way through the crowd, a atout, florid man In a checked suit, baggy as to the knees of tbe trousers and illuminated aa to shirt front by a vivid bat aoited tad Uoraen tt. JM, Perhaps these k *iall insect annoyancei will come in the shape of a domestic irrv ♦rtlon. Tue parlor ana toe kitchen dC Ml always harmonise. To get gooc wnUi aa£ to keep it is on* of the great qpMtoM «t the eoontry. Somattmea it that are having more effect upon you than great ones. A swarm of locusts will kill a grainfield sooner than the incursion of three or four cattle. You say, "Since I lost my child, since 1 lost my property, 1 haw been a different man." But yon 4e not reogiUM tfct architecture of Ifttje » If ruptured, boy a uu« at Fie mi • I Ptuucmso cor. W oming 4c Detawai»4*\jJI rr*Bid«'tear®toClCDa*Tttt»*"