Pittston Gazette

              M ■"V .; ' i ■tabllahed 1850, C TOt,. L S«. 31 | ♦©♦0^0#0#0^0#0^0#0#0#0^0^0^0^0^0^0#0^040#0#0#040^0^ 0#0#0#0^0#0#0^0^0^040^0#0*040^0^C*0^0^0*0^0^0#0#0#0 | Count Terrapin. I Mis r Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1900. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. I 81.OO a Tear . in AdnnM. must fairly say that I would rather be kicked than hold skein. Fred certainly has patience to burn. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. ~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. wouiam: ue lei moue, particularly at night. I calculate, guessing roughly, that I have walked him between midnight and dawn some 4,000 miles. I seldom complained, but when I did Mrs. Tupp reminded me of what the doctor had said about my sedentary habits and the need of exercise. It did me good, she said. MEN OF MARK. THE BOOK COLLECTOR. MAtRON AND MAID. ' Topic For Week Beginning March IS—Comment by Rev. 8. H. Doyle. Topic.—Ye must 1* born again.—John iii, 1-15. (Meeting led by the pastor.) But what I first took exception to in the boy was a way he had of patronizing me and extolling his mother. I recollect his helping his mother from the cart one day with quite la grande air and as though she were a duchess and then turning about and lifting me violently into the air and depositing me like a kog of nails beside Mrs. Tupp. LE8SON XI, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 18. I)wight L. Moody prided himself on the fact that not one expert shorthand reporter out of 50 could make a verbatim report of his sermons. He Made a Swap Which SatlsSed the Secondhand Dealer. "It's astonishing bow book collecting will blunt a man's conception of the rights of meum et tuum," said the proprietor of a delightful old secondhand store on the south side of the town. "1 wouldn't trust a confirmed collector as far as I could throw Jackson square by the monument. They all consider themselves licensed privateers, and when one of them wants any particular volume and can't buy it the chances are It will disappear the first time be pays you a visit. I am on to most of the tricks of tbe fraternity, however, and It takes a pretty smooth Individual to secure any plunder In this shop. "Only recently I circumvented an old gentleman In a manner that Is apt to adbere to his memory for some time. He is a passionate admirer of Dickens and ho 8 a fine collection of early editions and books in general relstlng to the great novelist. One of his sets, a very handsome print with the original Crulkshank pistes, is short one volume. Mme. Patti's display of $1,290,000 worth of diamonds, which she wore at Lady Lansdowne's war concert at Covenfr Garden, muat have been worth the pric* of admission alone. n p ♦a Copyright, 1899, by MetotUc PhUipt. 4c .^♦^♦©♦©♦©♦©♦©♦©♦©♦©♦o#o4o#o#o4o4o#o#o#o#o4o#oC I married one of the loveliest women * *ver born—the loveliest, as a matter o The topical reference includes the conversation between Christ and Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, at the time of the first l'assover in Christ's public niinistrj*. Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night to inquire the way of life. Christ's reply must have been a surprise to him. It was that life withib must be changed. "Ye must be born again." Nicodemus probably had the idea that leligion largely in reformation and was'" not unnaturally taken aback and confused when Jesus told him that It consisted in regeneration.WA Humorous Tale of a Turtle, a Pretty Girl, a Large Sou and a Small Father. Text of the Leaiion, Mark II. 18-21. Memory Verm, 15-17—Golden Text, Luke v, ST—Commentary Prepared hy the Rev. D. M. Stearna. Charles L. Tiffany, the founder of the Tiffany establishment in Union square, New York, recently celebrated his eightyeighth birthday anniversary. Miss Louise C. M. Habermeyer, for eight years instructor in German at Welleeley college, has resigned her post* tion to accept a place in the Girls' High school In Brooklyn. It certainly did the kid. It's an actual fact you could see that boy Fred grow. He wasn't a stupid either. I'm a little bit hazy about .dates, but I think he read nie the Declaration of Independence when he was 4, and I do remember distinctly that his mother gave me a great surprise on the Seventh anniversary of his birthday. It was then he recited "Arma Vlrumque Cano," etc. [Copyright, 1900, by D. M. Ste»rn».) Archbishop Patrick J. Feehan of Chicago makes a fad of the cultivation of flowers. In the season he spends all his spare time in his private garden, attending to his plants. By Melville Philips. "What do you think of that for a tackle, dad?" said he. 13. "And He went forth again by the ■••side, and all the multitude resorted ■nto Him, and He taught them." As to that which He taught them let any one read all that is written of His teaching in the four gospels, and they cannot fail to get a fair knowledge of the style and matter of His teaching, and as we read remember that He is still teaching, th» same Jesus speaks to us in His word bj His Spirit as spoke to the people that day by the seaside, and if we are only teachable the Spirit will teach us all things as Jesus said (John xiv, 28; xv, 26; xvl, 13). Whenever we see our Lord by the seashore -teaching the people one can hardly help thinking of the work of the present age in which His body, th« church, is beiag gathered from -all nations, for waters are suggestive of nations (Rev. xvii, 15; Isa. viii, 7). By the will of Josephine B rod head, who died recently in Washington, the town of South Newmarket, N. H., will receive $10,000 for a public library on the condition that the name of the placa be changed to Newfielda. '.IS "I didn't tell him before the coachman. but I told Mrs. Tupp afterward In our room what I thought about it and told her also of my iutentlon, long considered, of disciplining Frederick and reducing his self conceit a peg or two. Former Senator Edmunds of Vermont is said to walk a mile every day over the marble corridors at the capltol in Washington. He has resumed the study of law and has a large practice "on the hill." Suddenly bis arm shot out, find his aim missed the turtle by an Inch or two. The porter had disappeared, and the rC»ar door of the car was slammed to violently. As quick as a cat I hopped from the berth and collared my precious infant, which was gazing at the lamp In a state of mild wonder. Back In the berth again I lay. listening. A faint sound, as of mirth, came from tlie lower berth opposite, but when I stole a look the curtains were tightly drawn. The sleeper above me was "making mush" or "smoking a pipe," and there was considerable snoring roundabout. Miss Emma Bnrggraf of Hoboken settled her doubts as to which of two men she should marry by the simple expedient of having them draw lots. The successful contestant chanced to be, also, the one best provided with this world's goods. Miss Maud Gonne, the Irish agitator, now in this country, is remarkably tall for a woman, being six feet high and well proportioned. She has regular features, / bright black eyes and a delicate complexion. Her sister, Mrs. Pilcher, is the wife of a British officer. Mrs. Hammond, the lady of Swaffham \f flnnr L- Pnirlan/l dlnil I fact She. stands 5 feet 10 laches iu her socks—she wears mine occasional- Fred was a great boy and a good boy. The wonder to me is that with all the potting he got from his motfter —and I'll have to admit I did a little bit of It myself—he wasn't completely spoiled. But he wasn't. Now and then I'd hear reports from the neighbors about his "licking" one of their sons, but of course that flattered me. "I won't have it!" said I. The way Mrs. Tupp smiled up at me made me uiadder than ever. 1. The necessity of the new birth. Christ taught Nlcodeinus thw the spirit may be born again and. further, must be if we are to be saved. The necessity of the new birth is clearly evident. Man In his natural, unregen erate state is an alien from God. He Is not subject to the laws of God. nei tber indeed can be. Therefore it neces sacil.v follows that if b»* is brought inti the proper relation with God he mns' be changed—uot wlthont, but within Elis heart must be changed. His (lis position toward God must be changed A new principle of living must In placed within him. This change C'hrii calls the new birth. "Ye must be bon again." Alan Arthur, the son of the deceased president, is rarely seen in New York. He travels a good deal, but makes his home in Paris. He is a man of wide culture, an accomplished linguist and a most agreeable gentleman. ly, and that's why I mention f -h a delicate detail—and I've often w W !ored what could have attracted such a magnificent creature as Mrs. Tupp to me. Now, this Isn't * case of false modesty. 1 know very well that I've got some good points. Stature Isn't one of them. I'm exactly 5 feet 3 in my new boots. But really "with my plug hat on and an ulster I don't look so bad. Dora says so herself, and if "Are you aware that Fred Is old enough to lDe married?" said she. "The fact is he's engaged to be." I stood and looked at Mrs. Tupp. I was quivering all over, but I managed to say. "Is it with your consent?" Tennyson Jones and Byron Brown are two worthy citizens of a Georgia settlement. Recently on a wager Tennyson devoured two baked possums at a'sitting. Byron is distinguished by having consumed seven boxes of sardines in ae many minutes. "Yes." The boy must have grown like the deuce. The first I knew of it was when he celebrated his birthday. He was "Well. It's without mine. I hope you have made provision for the support of his family. He doesn't get a cent from me. I'm not interested in football."the eighth. I have * copy of the same edition, and he baa tried repeatedly to get me to break it so as to complete his own, but 1 have of course refused. "Then I noticed that he began to drop In of afternoons with a book under his arm, looking up and down the shelves. The volume he carried bore a close external resemblance to the copy of Dickens he wanted, and I suspectcd at once that I would some day find them exchanged. Consequently I locked up the coveted volume 8 and substituted a worthless treatise on mathematics bound In tbe same manner. My visitor knew the exact location of the book on tbe shelf, and the other day 1 purposely gave him an opportunity to make the shift It was done in a twinkling, and presently he strolled out 1 haven't seen him since. The book ha left was a very pretty copy of Keats. I am well satisfied with tbe swap."— New Orleans Times-Democrat she doesn't know me who in the name of guns does? 14. "Follow Me." Thus He spoke t« Matthew or Levi, as passing by He saw him sitting at the receipt of custom. Th« account of this is given in almost th« same words by Matthew and Luke ix, 9) t, 27. Why He should pass by so man) others and give a distinct call to Matr thew, the publican, we may not know. It is enough for us to know that, "As fo» God, His way is perfect" (Ps. xviii, 30). He chose Cyrus and Josiah and Jeremiah and John the Baptist and others before they were born that they might do th« work for which He had appointed them. Known unto God are ail His works froot the beginning of the world and also th« people through whom He will accomplish them (Acta xv, 18). We may infer from the fact tnat Levi so promptly arose anA followed Him that he was one of thoat who looked for redemption in Israel. Ex-Senator Matt W. Ransom, now 73 years old. raised on his estate, near Weldon, N. C., more than 1,000 bales of cotton this season. He has not sold any of it. After George Yanderbilt, General Random Is the largest landowner In North Carolina. ter of Mary T3harwortn, loved to hopelessly. Miss Charwoi_ married a Mr. Musters, who took the family name of his wife.' Miaa Mary H. Ross iter, who has charge of the collections for the Willard memorial temple fund for the United States and Canada, is now in Chicago in furtherance of the work. She Is a resident of London and hAs originated several ingenious plans for frying on the work. The admission to practice in the Minnesota. supreme court of Miss Kate H. Pier and Miss Harriet H. Pier, on mr tion of Mrs. K. N. Pier, makes up a qnr tet of Minneapolis women lawyers, ' fourth being Mrs. Caroline H. T Roemer, a sister of the first two n' above and herself married to a lar Miss Frank E. Buttle offers * the New York Public llbrar~ * of meals that have to her in near'- world on ' .. mtR rather funny the way we met She's a Virginia girl, high strung— —biff—touch me If you dare—oh, she's out of sight! Dear little girl! Presently the door of the car opened again, and I heard voices, one saying, "Well, where Is it?" I was dead in earnest, and she gave me a startled look, saying nothing, but pulling slowly at the threads in a ribbon that was roundabout her waist There was a brief silence, and a furtive glance showed me the half clad conductor on his knees gazing down the aisle, with the porter, still open mouthed, behind him. I was coming up from the Eastern Shore on the midnight train. Pocomoke had been burned to the ground a Then with a crash the two swinging doors went wide open into iny library, and Fred stood before us. big and smiling and very red in the cheeks. 2. The agent of the new birth. I! Is the Holy Ghost. The chanjre is s radical that no power of man can ot feet it Man may reform to some ex tent his outward life, but he can no change his own heart. This God onl can do, and He docs It through H : Holy Spirit. "Except a man be bor: of water and of the spirit he c-annu enter into the kingdom of God." The multimillionaire Collis P. Huntington, founder of Newport News, said recently, "Virginia is a state for which I have more honest regard and affection than for any other state in the Union, because It has treated me with a consistent and uniform fairness and liberality."month or two before, and I had myself "It was right dar," said the latter in a loud whisper. sustained something of a shock before I boarded the train that midnight. It was a simple affair, but I might as well tell you about It. The fact is that 1 bad returned to the hotel quite hungry from an Inspection of Sullivan's Landing, where giant oysters are good enough to propagate their species. I came back to the hotel with au appetite. fostered by peach brandy, equal to anything short of boiled buzzard. "Mommie," he cried, "it's all right! She says it will be whenever you say!" The conductor stood up_ and shook himself angrily. "Well, it ain't there now, you dura Idiot! If it was as big as you say it was"— Then to me: "Dad, I'm going to be married! Congratulate me!" Senator Test Is a Missourian almost by mistake. He was on his way to California in 1853 to practice law there, was snow bound at Georgetown, Mo., and, not being too well supplied with money, decided to practice there for the rest of the winter. He did so well that he gave up the Pacific slope plan. "Hones' to Gawd, Mis' Jackscn, It was that long!" He measured off about a foot and a half of atmosphere with his black hands. "1 was a-blackin away an a-wbistlin when I look up an see um. He had eyes In um like a coppah snake's, an I up an threw that dar genl'man's shoe In numbah 8 at um. Oar's the shoe. Hyah!" He ran down the aisle and picked It up. "I threw it at um, an he came a-leapln at me like a—like a—a alligatab." I looked at him coldly. "What are you going to get married on? I'll thrash you wifbin an Inch of your life If you dou't drop this nonsense!" said I. 3. The mystery of the new birth. Nlcodemus could not understand how a man could be born again. The Idea that the spirit could be born again was new to him, and he could not grasp It And. although this idea of the new birth is so familiar to us, yet we cannot solve the problem of the new birth*. It Is still a profound mystery. That the Holy Ghost does change the hearts of men we do know, but how we do not know. By results only can the fact be He studied my face an instant then turned to his mother and In a placid, bewildered way said, "Why, mommie, I thought"— Well, what 1 ate seemed good enough. I ate two portions of the dish 15. "Jesus sat at meat in his house." Luke v, 29, says that Levi made him • great feast in his own house. This indt cates his gratitude for the gracious cal) from his Lord and also his desire to ho» or his Lord before his friends and ao qnaintances. There was doubtless a strange company of saved and unsaved, of disciples and invited guests and simply curious people, and Jesus had living bread and water for all who were willing to receive Him. Alderman Coughlin of Chicago, better known aB "Bathhouse John," Is one of the most conspicuous advocates of the Boer cause in Chicago and gives evidence of the fact by wearing a Boer hat, which resembles the golf hat, except that its hand is of heavy cloth, representing the 1 colors of the Transvaal republic. "Fred," said she. "yonr father doesn't understand. Walt a moment" She went swiftly from the room, and we sat motionless until she came tripping back. THE LEADING ARTICLE. •f tke E4I- Adveit and torlal la Newspapers. "I know what leaders' are, for I ha' Mrs. . "Sam," said the conductor quietly, "you've been drinking again." "Look at that, dear!" she said, holding something dark and oval before my eB- known Frederick D. Underwood, second vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was while superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway most popular with his employees. He never forgot a face and, having a good memcfry, knew by name many of the men to whom he himself was personally unknown. written them," said Benjamin Disraeli in the coarse of a speech in the house of commons, and, though all of us may not have written "leaders" for The Morning Post and other newspapers, like Disraeli, we all at least know the meaning of the term "leaders." For more than 100 years after the publication of the first dally newspaper The Daily Courant, which consisted of a smiftl sheet printed on one side only and made its appearance In London Id Uafth, 1702, the "dallies" con- uao uccu IU ' there had to do able stock and 1.1 I .aJ .1 "Mis' Jackson, I taik two kumm&h's uv peach—two hummahs—hones' to Gawd!" 4. The proof of the new birth is a new life. When born again, old things pass away and all things become new. A new heart means a new life. The outward life Is but a reflection of the Inward principle of life. Change the principle, therefore, and the reflection must change. It Just as necessarily follows that an unchanged reflection Is positive proof that there has been no uew birth. Sant's eyes opened like the lid of a JacKiit-Oic box. Gazing intently, I saw that It was the carapace of a terrapin, doubtless my old friend the "count" "Oh, get to work!" said the conductor. "You saw a coacliroach, I guess." 16. "How is it that He eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?" These proud, self righteous, blind, fault finding scribes and Pharisees seem to be everywhere and ever the same. Non« are good or worth knowing or associating with but themselves. They are very high caste and deem it a disgrace to fellowship with any but their own set Her* they ask how He can, and in Luke xv, 2, they murmur because He does receive sinners and eat with them. There are people today who call themselves Christians and who think it a great mistake, to say the least, to waste so much time on so called heathen, whether about us or in distant lands, not knowing that they themselves may perhaps be in God'a sight the greater heathen. then 16, and about to enter Yale. He had his young friends at the house, and we were getting along nicely until I heard some one say: -Well?" said 1 Indifferently. throp, the first cli Mass., who accept 1632. ______ "Cockroast!" cried Sam Indignantly as the door banged. "Cockroast!" He conld say no more, but with wrath shining in his eyes and sculptured on his lips he took up the shoe and brush again and wagged his bead at the aisle ominously. Then Mrs. Tupp burst Into tears. - ■■■ And then, as well as I can remember, for things became a trifle vague after that my son Fred went over to his mother and petted her and then took off his coat and laid It on his chair, and I can recall his saying to me: "Pop, stand up like a man! You "Why, Mr. Tupp, Fred's bigger than you are!" Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago, who has already given away $2,500,000 of hi* fortune to colleges and charitable Institutions, preparing to dispose of the remaining $1,500,000 in the same way, with the provision that he receive an income of $30,000 a year for himself and wife during the remainder of their lives. Dr. Pearsons will be 80 years old In a few weeks. There was a mirror opposite, and my eyes caught it and verified the statementEndeavorers, what do your lives show as to the new birth? Do you profess to have been born again? If so, do your lives prove It? Are they different from the lives of the unregenerate? Do yon think that others would have any doubt from your lives aa to whether you are born again? These are questions worth considering. Before we can be saved we must be born again, and we ought not to be satisfied unless we have positive proof that we have been born again. . While the train ran on I lay there hoping for sleep and amusing myself meanwhile by pulling the tails of the terrapin as they occasionally projected through the meshes of the side net. An hour went by, perhaps, and my Insomnia had not weakened. I had counted some f2,000 sheep jumping over a fence when of a sudden there arose on the affrighted air, clear and resonant above the muffled thunder of the speeding train, a bass snore—a deep, prolonged and piteous sound, as of one in distress. I looked out. It was the porter. "Nonsense!" said I, slapping Fred paternally on the back, but at the same time I got a smile from Mrs. Tupp, and I didn't half Uke it. fined themselves to what is the proper business of a ne1 the publication of the largest amount of news, and made no whatever to mold or direct put "How did you enjoy your ratf" )t meat which I took to be rabbh Then I went out Into the office room where there was a big stove with a cir cnlar lawn around it filled with sawdust. It wa« the chief object of interest to the men who surrounded it. They Ad not mean to treat it with contempt, I presume, when they spat at it They were ail lndnstrions, Presently the proprietor came out and drew a chair alongside of me. "Goln back on the 12:15?" he asked. "Yes," said 1. "sure." "Got your terrapin with you?" 1 laughed and pointed to my over- Mat. Fred went to Yale. It was a sad parting. I felt for Mm. Tupp and In a way pitied Fred and myself. But Fred didn't seem to mind. He went away as blltlte as yon please, strong and frisky a« a young bull. Be left ' us pretty lonely, ORCHARD AND GARDEN. ion. At the opening of the ni tnry "the leading article" ed In the morning papers. lnally called the "leaded . cause of the "leads" or s duced between the lines to the article and give it an 1; pearance in order that it m attract the eye of even the  reader. After a time it was 17. "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." There are none whole, there are none righteoua apart from Him, but there are many wuo think themselves righteous and despise others, and to such He spoke the parable of Luke xviii, 9-14. There are those who justify themselves before men, but God knoweth their hearts, and He tells us that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God (Luke xvi, 15). There are those who think they are rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and do not know that they are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked (Rev. iii, 17). Never plant a tree unless you are willing to take care of it Prune annually, and the cutting off of large limbs will be unnecessary. Mm- But there were his letters, at any rate, long ones and regular as clockwork, telling us all about bis student life, bis chums, the professors and, above all, about the college athletes. The letters always got down to that, and at length they had nothing else in them but news relating to the prospects of the varsity crew or football team or some such thrilling message as, "Tell dad that Hockip threw the hammer yesterday three inches farther, but that's on the Q. T." There Is no use in planting out an orchard unless the ground is well prepared. THE PRAYER MEETING. It is best to plant out young trees not more than 2 years old rather than older ones. This meeting should be led by the 'itasttir, as suggested by the committee ou prayer meeting topics. "Come, my love," said I, plucking the estimable "count" from the net— "the stars are shining!" I adjusted him in the aisle and directed his footsteps. He was slower and more sedate in his progress than the Infant and decidedly more impressive. I waited until he had approached to within a proper distance of the porter and then coughed to an extent that put out the pipe of the personage overhead. Bible Headings.- Gen. vl, 3; Ps. II, 10; Jer. xxlv, 1-7; xxxl, 31-34; xxxil. 86-40; Ezek. xl, 17-21; xvlil, 30- 32: xxxvl, 22-30; John vl, 03; Acts 11, 14-21; Gal. v, 10-20; Eph. v, 8, 9; Jas. 1, 17, 18; I Pet. i, 22, 23. One advantage with apples is that the market for them is not local, and they can be held for an indefinite period for good prices. "leading article" or "leader" or "editorial," names by which It Is now universally known in newspaper offices. At the beginning "leaders" were published only tentatively. Tbelr publication was irregular. In form they were brief—we should call them "editorial all fruit tree better. B. The cause of moss appearing on the stems of aople and other fruit trees is wet, cold, undrained land or a very humid climate. Hi "They're in the coat," I said. You gee, down at Snllivan's Landing I vae shown a terrapin pen and, as a probable purchaser of the place, had been presented with an infant ball terrapin and a diamond back "count." After a brief silence, "How did you enjoy your rat?" said the genial proprietor.The Smaller Gifts. Cut all apple and other limbs close in pruning. Such wounds heal sooner and make the healthiest trees. Long knots left in pruning are unsightly and injurious.paragraphs" now—and they were principally used to direct special attention to some important event recorded in the news columns. But 75 years ago they became a settled and regular feature- left Havana yes i for the province i «-V. J!_ That kind of thing began to make me tired, and I wondered at the interest Mrs. Tupp seemed to take in it TJicn with a crash the two suinijing doors went wide open into my library. A thousand times to come short of the mark of tlie high calling and yet to have courage is a noble result. The unbroken will must be dear to God- If we are not frustrated a thousand times, we hare no strength. The buckler is brightened b.v scouring; the sword is sharpened by grinding. To attain courage is a noble achievement; ♦o sink down into limpness and invertebrate acceptance of the thing called fate, to be a moral jellyfish Instead of a highly organized human being, with a bold power of resistance and defiance, is to be abhorrent to God. So the little sheaves are all bound into one sheaf of man's performance, which as a whole is sublime. The great man, humanity, needs all its little {tarts. God needs them all. The defective, the erring, still are parts, still in some way subserve, and the destiny of the individual is lifted up and ennobled by the thought of the whole and God working In and moving and Inspiring the whole. So let the gatherer of the little sheaf rejoice und be glad and through mistakes and tears, discouragements and sins, slips and falls, still see the vision of God's acceptance of the smallest gift given in the spirit of love and consecration of Ills service, which is also the service of the brother.—Christian Keg- 18. "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Thy disciples fast not?" Luke y, 33, says, "Fast often and make prayers." What our Lord thought of some of their fasting He tells us in Math, ri, 16, "When ye fast, be not as'the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast." If you would know more of His thoughts concerning them and their formal worship, see Math, zziii, and Isa. Iviii, 3-6. A mere form of worship, however correct and seemingly sealous it may be outwardly, if not from the heart unto God through Jesus Christ and His sacrifice is not accepted.It was a beautiful success. This time Sam's eyes opened like the lid of a Jack-in-the-box. He gave one look, dropped shoe and brush and vanished. The next instant I had captured the "count" and was finding some recompense for my loss of sleep. Again I heard that soft giggle over the way. I looked, but the curtains were still drawn. Then came the sound of the conductor's voice once more, and this time angrily. "Look here," said I to her one day, "it looks to me as though Fred was taking more Interest in sports than in the humanities. We didn't send him to college to educate the brute in him, but to eradicate and refine It out of him. Judging by his letters, It appears that be would rather be captain of his class crew than"— just said you'd thrash me within an Inch of my life if 1 didn't drop all idea of marrying Miss G'alton. Well. 1 ain't going to drop that idea. Now, you try to lick me!" So far as the growth of the tree will admit, plant deep. By deep planting the roots will get more moisture and will be firmer in the soil and will not so readily blow over. of the dally newspaper and a potent agency for promoting opinions, political. religious and social.—Cornhill Magazine.made the eight mile trip over the electric railway line from Begla to Gnanabacoa in 14 minutes. Mr. Cecil Gondie is the manager of the line, which is the first constructed in Cuba. The executive committee for the Paris exposition expects that the exhibit from Cnba will lead to substantial gains for the island's traCfe. In this belief they are relying not so much upon the exhibits of well known products, like sugar and. tobacco, although these will show that Cuba still produces, for instance, the best cigars in the world, as upon the exhibits of products not bo well known, such as the marble of the Isle of Pines, iron, gold and copper ores, sponges, asphalt, hemp, honey and the various woods, all of which will go to show the variety of the island's wealth. "My what?" "The rat—at supper?" J glanced round about the stove. Nobody seemed to be surprised. I did try—I tried hard—but the odds were against me. He had 12 inches and a hundred pounds advantage of me, and I must say for Fred that after he had me over his knee he spanked light, and I would really have no cause for complaint if Mrs. Tupp hadn't humiliated her husband by giggling. The average woman Is a born fool. THOUGHTS FROM RUSKIN. Hla Hint For a Raise. "Did you say rat?" "There is in tbe employ of oar house," said the hardware drummer, "a young man who is assistant bookkeeper. He's a steady chap, minds bis own business and is as shrewd as they make them. The other day the senior partner of the firm, who seldom comes around, made a tour of inspection, and as be approached tbe assistant bookkeeper he noticed the solemn expression on his face. Desiring to be genial, he said; He took his cigar out of his mouth and looked at me Inquiringly. "Yes, rat—musk rat. Yon seemed to like It." "Oh, it was a rat, was It?" said I, feeling a trifle faint. "A musk rat, eh? Yes, I ate a lot of it, I suppose a couple or a dozen. It makes no difference." But of course it did. and that's why 1 paid my bill at once and took my overcoat, with the two terrapin In it, and We are not sent into the world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. "1 only wish they would elect him," said Mrs. Tupp wistfully. "Do you think he stands a chance?" "You black fool!" it said. "You're on the verge of the Jams. Where's any turtle V No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our own enemies are also the enemies of God. I glared at airs. Tupp foj almost a minute and then said: "My dear, there Is something of the savage in you too. No wonder Fred"— 19. "As long as they hare the Bridegroom with them they cannot fast." He speaks of Himself as the Bridegroom in the parable of the virgins in Math. xxt. John the Baptist spoke of Him as the Bridegroom in John iii, 29, and of himself as the Bridegroom's friend. The name takes us back to Ps. xiz, 0; Isa. Izi, 10; izii.5, and sereral places in Jeremiah; and onward to Rev. ziz, 7; zxi, 9, and to all the erents associated with His coming again In glory. Where His own thoughts ran as He thus spake we might like to know. Did they go back to the first bridegroom and bride who were typical of Himself and Hi* church (Eph. v, al, 32)? I'm getting tired of having terrapin on my birthday. "He come agen. Mis' Jackson—hpnes' to Gawd, he did—the same turtle! That big!" He measured off two feet. "He open his mouf, an I see his teef, an"— Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it, and the vital question for individual and for nation' is never "How much do they make?" but "To what purpose do they spend?" Fred makes a pretty fair lawyer. Here's our business card. Call on us. "I'll be savage enough if he Isn't elected," said she absently. went out into the frosty night and thought about things, chiefly rats. The cold drove me back to the stove, however, and there I sat for hours, drinking an occasional glass of peach brandy and discussing the silver question. The train came at last in time. "Oh, go die!" said the conductor, flinging himself *$ray and leaving Sam a thing to be photographed- He was elected, and when he came home to us in the early summer triumphant and roRy and taller by an Inch the contagion of his enthusiasm got Into me somehow or other, and I liked to take him down to the office Mid say In an offhand way, "Judge, this is my son Fred." " 'How aDx» you, young man? 1 see you are at your work. That Is good. Close attention to business will always bring Its own reward. Tell me, what ~ 'ou earning now per weekT • young man, without a moment's ion, answered. Twenty dollars, " only get half of that.' "—Phil- FREDERICK TUPP & SON. Whenerer money is the principal object of life with either man or nation it is both got ill and spent ill and does harm both in the getting and spending, but when it is not the principal object it and all other things will be well got and well spent. Murderer Meets Bloody Dei Columbia, S. C-, March 10.—B. 1 roll, the man who six years age Fred Nix, the most famous negi tician in the western part of thi was shot to death yesterday in the . of Black? ille by D. P. Johnson. C_ son stood in the doorway of a store Carroll walked by, then flred a dc barreled shotgun, sending 30 buck into his body. He finished his wor standing over Carroll and firing five lets into his body with a revolver. 1 quarrel was of such a private nt that not a word had leaked out aboi Carroll was to have been tried foi life in a few days, having killed Ji Bolin, white, last Christmas. Be Bolin and Nix, he had killed two other men, but had never been convicted. Johnson is in jail. Then I distinctly heard the giggle ngaln across the aisle, and I opened wide the curtains and caught a fugitive glimpse of a very pretty face laughing all over. A Frightened Deer. Paddling close to shore on a lonely rlrer in northwestern Maine, we saw a small buck feeding about 100 yards from us. After watching him for some time he began to show signs of nervousness, probably bashfulness, and we immediately observed that he had found our scent, and we also percelred that he was unable to tell from which direction it came. Finally he made a bold guess, but at the same time a serious mistake. Instead of taking to the Woods, he made straight for us. Each bound brought him nearer to the canoe, but he left off the last one, which would actually hare brought blm Into the canoe, if not beyond It into the water. We stood absolutely motionless, but the creature dlscorered our human forms when he had come within a yard or two of us, at which point, with eyes half out of his head, he stiffened his fore feet with surprising promptness, and, turning, bolted for the woods like an Indian pursued by a smallpox germ. hesi sir, but" adelphia My berth was made up for me, but the remembrance of the rat had been stimulated by the peach brandy, anO I felt inclined to sit up and talk. There was By this time it was nenring dawti. There was no use trying to entice sleep, so I up and washed and dressed and coaxed from Sam a story that thrilled me. He bad been awake all night, and he had seen "sumpln" he'd never forget. "But dar ts no use talkin 'bout It Nobody'd b'lieve me. Yas, sah, turkles—bigs yah hat!" And every one admired him. It was always. "By Jove, Tupp. that's a fine figure of a boy!" or: "In Yale, eh? They'll have you at end or center next year sure." 20. "The days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days." A sample of this is seen in the sorrow that filled tbelr hearts when it began rery feebly to dawn upon them that He was really going away (John xvi, 5, 0) and in the sadness of heart that filled the two who walked to Emmaus that resurrection day (Luke xxir, 17). One of the rery strange things of today is that so many Christians seem well content to hare Him away and to hare Him stay away and care nothing for His return and His marriage and His kingdom, not knowing that His kingdom cannot come till the church is completed and gone and returns with Him. THE COOKBOOK. Their Little Weaknesses. "Nations and women are a good deal alike." -f7 "Ip what way?" » i A dirty coffeepot will spoil the strongest infusion; so wash and dry the coffeepot each day after use. wu asleep, and even the colored porter, seated on a camp stool, fatfng down the aisle of the car, was dozing over a half blacked boot. I tried to draw Mm oat but he drowsily opened his eyes an instant said, "Yas, sah," and mechanically resumed his arduous labors. So 1 smoked one cigar and then turned in. no one to talk to, however. Everybody They did. He played left end on the football team In his sophomore year and when transferred to full back made that great run of 70 yards for a touchdown at Berkeley oval. After that he captained the team during his Junior and senior years. ister Lettueef or celery may be kept fresh and crisp for sereral days by wrapping in a cloth wrung out of cold water and then pinning the whole in a thick newspaper.Fe«r, "Well, when one woman gets a new bat her neighbor wants to go right away and get a better one. and when one nation builds a new warship all the others start right out to get bigger ones."—Chicago Times-Herald. The uncertalnyreates alarm and often leads to the use of unwise methods for relief. Such fears confuse the mlud. unnerre the arm, weaken the will and darken the understanding. When I had smoked my last cigar and knew that all the berths had been folded away, I went TDack to my seo tlon, sat down en face of a clergyman of tremendous growth, whom I of course assumed to be the author of the midnight noises overhead, and then turned quickly to my right When you hare finished frying, allow the fat to cool a little, then pour it through a grary strainer Into the proper bowl. Thus any loose crumbs, pieces of batter, etc., are taken away at once. I will always think It was the duty of Mrs. Tupp to have informed me of Fred's preposterous growth. How was I to know? The boy looked big, to be sure, but a parent can never entirely dissociate the memories of childhood from his grown up child. Fred when graduated from Yale, with no scholastic honors, but with what the alumni and undergraduates seemed to think was very much better, a brilliant football record, stood about 6 feet 3 Inches In his socks. So I've been told. That is, he was, say, a foot taller than I— thereabouts. I realize It now, but then I didn't. I was so accustomed, you see, to petttag and patting the boy that his egregious altitude had quite escaped me. Our fears magnify our enemies and minify our friends, producing forbodings that foretell disaster, for these, indulged in, defeat our wisest and best laid plans. Cold Comfort. I don't remember exactly how it happened—it doesn't matter—but I suppose that la stowing away my overcoat in the rack overhead I must have for gotten the terrapin. At any rate, 1 was soon sharply reminded of their existence. it is not exhilarating to start out of an Incipient nightmare relating to cats aad look Into the carious eyes of a young terrapin. The diamond back was trying to climb up my whiskers, and his feet were not warm. At Mr. Penn—Sir William Thompson Bays that the end of the world will not be brought about by fire, bat by frost, and that the finality will come in 10,- 000.000 years. Fotue Try potatoes (boiling) with a sharp thin bladed knife. They will not slip apart as they do when they are tried with a fork, which acts like a wedge, and they will not show where they are pierced. I do not believe the punishment wfH be any greater in the next world for what we do and perhaps not so great as for that which we do not do. A. poor, unfortunate being, born of depraved parents, Knowing nothing but sin of the worst kind, surely is not as responsible for his condition as onn born of good parents amid Christian surroundings. If we sit with our hands 'olded, Ted up with silly pride. She was looking at me and smiling, and I knew she knew, and she was Just the sweetest faced— In our distress our tears blind us to all that would prove helpful in these moments of unrest, our sorrows are multiplied, our griefs augmented, and dlsapiwiutijient is our doom.—Philadelphia Methodist. 21, 22. This parable of the new and the old, the new cloth on the old garment and the new wiue in the old bottles, teaches at least this much—that the old natural man caqnot receire the things of and that our Lord does not take a natural man and try to patch him up into a uew man, but makes a new man or a new ressel throughout. The old can only be put off, reckoned dead. It is past improring. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." There is a new birth to begin with, and then that new birth grows day by day as the new nature is fed upon the things of God until in the consummation we shall be like Him (II Cor. t. 17; Eph. iv, 22-24; Rom. ▼iii. 7).  Mr. Pitt—I# there is any comfort In that. It Is cold comfort.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. DROPS OF WATER. - But never mind about that Later on. I got right up. laughing, and went over and sat down beside her. feud without a word of introduction or explanation I said. "You must let me tell you the sequel to Sam's tragedy." The huge geysers in the great Yellowstone park are said to be slowly becomiug exhausted. If I had not been so dumfounded at his sudden approach, I actually bellevt* I could have grasped his dainty horn or ear, but afterward would probably hare regretted somewhat my ejection. —Forest and Stream. In a map of China recently published by the China Inland mission it Is pointed out tbat it is wrong to speak of the "Yang-tse Kiang river," as klang means river. To Fulfill I'ramlm, Recent obserratlons indicate that the time is not rery far away when the Dead sea will be nothing but a dry salt mine. afraid of the opinion of society, afraid afraid i yt to oilf . 0 IKi mil. under GERMAN UW«i\g ban WW U the But tfaer* to lor W NEURALGIA, 1 1 Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout:I DR. RICHTER'S World-Renowned ■ I "ANCHOR" I I PAIN EXPELLER. I ■ pnirinw wlthoot Trade Mart "Aatihw.»B 1 One well-known pqeon'a letter out of mamrJ |D* v N«w York. Oct. 12* I897.\ I I *-Dr.R:chter*"ANCHOW I I ? M PAIN EXPELLER Is 900d I Hod* I or local applications lit I it I 1qjaendRhaumatha. ■ ad- I 25c. and 50c. at all drutfttts or tbroagft I a BK. Ad. RlehUr ACo.,S15 Pearl 81, New lerkfl sired Ik 36 mim.M IK*as=^aaaaai^i the moment I tossed him off with a The same volt* that spoke the unl rerse Into being spake aiso the promises. The power that was more than sufficient to fulfill the creative com mand» will be more than sufficient tc fulfill the promises of blessing.- Lutheran Observer. ■mothered yell I kicked at the covers With all my might, for there was some •_ thing cold clawing along my legs vhl£h Tmuod told me was the "count." I got hlrpTkut gillgerly. with an icy sweat on my brow, and, placing the two adventurers on their backs, I peeped cautiously out between the curtains to see whether I had alarmed the car. No, pot at all. And there still sat the colored porter, with closed eyes, polishing away at the same boot, I presume, at the rate of a stroke a minute, the brush hitting the boot about one in five. An opportunity like that was not to be lost. I had been scared wide awake. I wanted company, and it seemed too bad that even the porter should have the advantage of me. I decided he shouldn't. She said nothing, only looked at her gloves and kept smiling. to lend a helping band. to love tbem and afraid of their love, surely God Is more displeased with us, with our foolish pride, than He Is with them In their sin and ignorance.—Martina R. Adams Nixon. "If you will take the trouble," sain 1, "to look back toward where Sam was sitting last night, you'll see an overcoat—blue, with a velvet collar, about 200 years old—and that's Sam's. It may not surprise you to learn that pockets have been let Into it. But I hope you'll be delighted to know that In each one of the larger pockets I have deposited a terrapin." The reason why the Great Salt lake in Utah U growing smaller, according to Professor James E. Talmage, is that the volume of water from Its four tributary rivers is being more and more diverted by irrigation. Some husbands suggest nothing so much as that more or less backbone came away with the rfb that woman was made of.—Detroit Journal. Black Skin Turned White. I take it that the woefulest storm and stress period In the life of a boy who has gone In for athletics in his college Is that following upon his graduation, when the newspapers no longer chronicle from day to day his ph.iWcal con dltlon or his acts of prowess and he is at liberty to think with Beranger of "the brave days when he was 21." Fred had come to that Therein, you see, lies the real and only harm done to |boys- by competitive athletic sports In colleges. Ix»ng before their characters have knit they have tasted of the joy of reputation. And then, after a year or two, this quarter back or that center rush leaves college, and, oh, how he misses the portraits of and the talks about himself in the newspapers! Before he can vote perhaps he is already a distinguished veteran In the athletic world. He has l»een intoxicated with the "Io triumphe!" borne to him by 23,000 people. He has seen lovely girls In their teeus and white whiskered gentry in considerably more teens wave flags at him in frantic delight. He has been carried from the field on the— But not for long. I was injured in a railroad wreck on the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad. I was a fireman on a passenger train that was wrecked beyond Rhilolt, closa to Nebula. We were running at a veryrapid rale when my engine left the track, anCl uiy engineer and myself stuck to our engine, and she turned over and went down a 40 foot bill, aud I was badly injured, and the engineer was killed. I was scalded on the left shoulder just under the shoulder blade, and aH healed except a place about five Inches which refused to heal. !Dr. Jordan clipped about GO pieces off my arm, about an eighth of an inch square aud would graft in some each day. You could see the little fibers run out from patches of skin in 24 hours like flue cotton strings. I had a colored nurse that let the doctor cut a few pieces from his arm, and they turned white in a few days and in a very short while my back was entirely well.—W. K. Ma hone In Atlanta Journal. A Xew Variable Star. Tk« Bird* of Sadaeaa. WOMEN'S WAYS. The career of Charles Francois Felu, the armless Belgian artist, who died recently in his seventieth year, is one of the most striking instances on record of success in overcoming the deficiencies of nature. Bora June 26, 1830. at Waermaede, near Courtrai. North Flanders, entirely without arms, he nevertheless achieved considerable success as n paint er. Beginning the study at Antwerp wheft already 23 years old, by means of his feet be copied some hundreds of the best masterpieces to be found all over the world, especially in America. One of his earliest recollections was of sitting in the garden while his mother taught him to grasp with his baby toes the bright flowers for which he cried. Very soon he learned to gather them for himself, aud. steadily pursuing this form of instruction, his feet soon became flexible and useful. Fein's Talented Feet, The Pencil's Genealocry. K very blunt pencil was resting one day Reneath a desk's lid where some white paper lay; ilow it managed to write I never could learn, Hut these were the word) you might clearly dia- Mme. Ceraski of Moscow has dlscovoml In the constellation Cygnus a star of between the eighth and ninth magnitude which undergoes wonderful variations in Its light. It belongs to the same type of variable stars as the celebrated Algol, but its variation is larger. Its period is 4 days, 13 hours and 45 minutes. When at a minim You cannot prevent the birds of sadess from flying over your head, but n may prevent them from stopping taild their nest In your hair.—Cath- When a woman suffers untold agony It's usually because she has no oue to tell it to.—St. l'uul Dispatch. New wrinkles in dress please a worn an. but a new one in her face has the op poftite effect.—Chicago Nirws. Then she laughed—leaned back and laughed aloud—and I felt like a hero, and, hoping to please her more, tipped Sam an extra quarter, and when 1 put her into a coupe I had her address, which Is now mine. cern "While I've still a point a tew line* to tndlte, I wish to announce that my name la Graphite; Why nicknamed 'Lead Pencil' I'm sure I can't A I'ittsburg woman waited 20 yearsfor a man. It often requires time and patience aud great mental anxiety, but the dear creatures will have us just thf same.—Denver Post. It Is three magnitudes fainter For leads are too heavy and dull to write well. when at a maximum. In other words, it periodically loses and then regains go much light that at one time It Is 16 times brighter than at another. In stars of this type the changes of light are supposed to be caused by a dark body revolving around the star and producing eclipses as It conies within our line of sight. Yes, that's bow 1 came to know Mrs. Tupp. Now I'll try to tell you how, 18 years later, 1 came'to know her son— and mine. "That we're an old family maybe you know. And many ijuite famous connections can allow; Our rich Coal relations inherited ground Where ages ago lofty forests were (ouaCt. 81* Words, First I took tlie Infant diamond back and placed him gently in the center of the aisle, his head pointed toward the rear of the car. He meditated a moment and then pawed forward as frisky an a colt. I waited until he had got wel| within the lamplight and theii Coughed loudly. The porter started, looked Inquiringly at the shoe, then at the brush, murmured something that sounded like "Yas, sal»," and waa about to relapse again when, as his head lowered, his eyelids and mouth suddenly sprang wide open, bis arms dropped to his sides, and he gathered In his feet and bent forward, staring hard. The deadly terrapin steadily ad- Its little wordi lay claim to ma each passing day— Fred, our boy and only child, weighed 11 pounds at birth. I know tDeenune I did him up in a towel and weighed him with the hand scales down 14 the kitchen. How I blowed about that boy! I nughl, I rmmt, I can, I tcfK, I dare, I may. I Ought—that is the law God on my heart has "Grandfather Fern owned a very large farm And there thought his children might livs sate from harm The mark for which my soul is with strong yearn wiitten, But one day a rivrr ewept In like a aea And drowned every branch ol the family tree. Ing smitten. I Must—that is the bound aet either side the way By nature and the world so that 1 shall not "tray. I Can—that measurca out the power tntruated ma Of action, knowledge, art, ;kill and dexterity. "In the -»deremind tomb where grandfather list n?st mi united by family ties; The IVa and the Anthracite people bound, And somD .imes a diamond cousin ia found. The little devil grew. It seemed to me, an inch a day. EverylDody talked about It lie was walking when he was 10 months old. When he was a year, be galloped up stairs, down stairs and all about the house. Of course he owned ft. .Mrs. Tupp woulq never let me punish him. She said he was high spirited, an Inheritance from her side of the family, and that all Frederick needed was to be let alone. Tb*jgeat difficulty was that Frederick When painting. M. Felu leaned slightly backward to enable him tt raise his foot to the level °f the canvas. He opened the paint lDox and mixed his colors without difficulty nnd worked quite easily. Holding the palette by the loft great toe passed through the orifice like a thumb, with the other foot he manipulated the brush with astonishing skill and confidence. At meals he used a knife and fork and managed his own drinking glass. Until the last few years he always shaved himself and never had an •eeident. His one grievance was that he CHid not gain mastery over a buttonhole The late Duke of Westminster wu known to be strongly In favor of cremation, but it nevertheless came as a snr prise to the public to find that his had been committed to the furnactr Woking instead of being buried after fashion of his ancestors. He is the duke who has been cremated in Engli and it is uo secret that the queen was little grieved, not to say shocked, wb she heard that the late duke bad der to be cremated, as she entertained t ndice against this manner of the dead.—Loudon Let Us. The First Duke Cremated. | Will—no higher crown on human bead can rest; 1'ia freedom's signet seal upon the soul impressed."They died and were buried a long time ago. Gut graves have been opened their treasures to Old Fashioned I.lfe Preservers. I Dare la the device which on the aeal you read. By freedom's open door a bolt for time of need-1 May among them all hovers uncertainly; shuW, And in the same ground where the Ferns are St Many years ago a fire occurred on a Htaten Island ferryboat which created a panic. Bnt in those days women wore balmorals and hoopskirts, and all who had the courage to leap Into the water were saved, for their hoops ballooned their clothes and kept them afloat until help arrived.—New York Press. But never mind. It's enough to say that after all such splendid distinction it must gall one a little bit to spend day after day in the country riding farm horses and holding skein for TOOT mother. I auureciate that and The moment must at last decide what it c*all be. I ought, 1 must, 1 can. 1 will, I dare, 1 may. We were found wearing also the family crest. The'six lay claim to me each hour of every day. Teach me, O God, and then, then shall 1 know each day "So pardon the prompting of family pride. With the Leads we were never remotely allied, And when with good pencils you sketch at you That which I ought to do, must. csn. will, dsn sud may! —"Wisdom U the Brahmia." write, 1 pray you remember our name ta Graphite." - —Julia M. CoUaa ia Outlook.