Pittston Gazette

              V m % I ■ihlMllhod 1850. | TOl. L No. ST f Oldest Newsoaner in the Wyoming Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1900. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. jS1.00»Y«ar 1 lDAdTUM. 1 Mam' Scpbany's Qucsri J FRANCIS LYNDE. q [Copyright, 1900, by Francis Lynde ] "N I face," he said. "Tell her to stand Just as she is for a moment, please. If s a chance in a thousand." Lois called to the unconscious poseuse: "Stand still, Mam' Seplyiy—don't move. Mr. Russell it going to take your picture." The effect of the warning was altogether unexpected and not a little disconcerting. The old negress threw up her hands, shrieked and disappeared, and the man on the lawn caught up his scythe and made aa If he would charge the group on the veranda. Lois laughed merrily. i "Dear me," she said, "I quite forgot that Mam' Sephny might object" And then in explanation, "If ■ a foolish superstition among the older ones; somehow connected with the 'evil eye,' I believe.""She didn't object soon enough," said Russell, laughing. "I got ber before •be moved." He said it in an ordinary tone, but the stalwart negro overheard. With a had the scythe blade, but he was loath to abandon his purpose. around on the front steps an old negro Another rocked herself back and forth, crying softly and trying to hold a stalwart giant In her arms, as she had long ago held her lost man-child. OCR NEW YORK LETTER TAKING THE REINS. VIRGINIA WIFE BEATERS? ~ THE DRESSY WOMAN.""! "Doan' yo' git en de way. Miss Lois. I ain't gwlne ter hu't him none. I'se des almln ter smash dat debbil's hoodoo box of hls'n." Charley Doble will sit behind Lord Vincent, 2:08%, this year. There Are Nonet It la the Wive* Who Do the Thrashing, Fan plaiting* more or less deep are be* log inserted to give Increased width to the bottom of dress skirts. AN UNPRECEDENTEDLY EARLY AND EXTENSIVE SUMMER EXODUS. • Robert J, 2:01%. will poll a 50 pound road wagon on the New York speedway. A sensation has been caused in Virginia by the assertion of Representative Powell of Brunswick county that Virginia women are in the habit of beating their husbands."You've killed him!" she Bobbed, kneeling beside the felled one. Then, with a sudden upblaze of authority: "Run—run to the house and call my father! Tell him what you've done and bring him quickly! Go!" The smart little out of door coats at black silk or satin which have been introduced this season are made more or lest like jacket bodices, with somewhat pronounced revers. Seboenboln sal B11 Cotton. On March 18, 1846, Shoenbeln wrote to Faraday: Splau is said to favor Boralma's chunces for the trotting championship of 1900. Real Estate Agents nnd Owners Are Bine Abont It, bnt Storage Warehousemen Are Moving Habit—Snrplns of Servants. "1 am enabled to prepare In any quantity a matter which, next to gunpowder, must be regarded as the most combustible substance known. So Inflammable is this matter that on being brought in contact with the slightest spark It will Instantly be set on fire, leaving hardly any trace of ashes, and If the combustion be caused within closed vessels a violent explosion takes place. What shall 1 do with that matter? Shall 1 offer It to your government?" British agents are scouring Texas for army horses, with the result that prices have jumped from 30 to 50 per cent. The statement is made In the heat of argument on a bill in the legislature providing for the whipping of wife beaten. Mr. Powell, who is a married man, made an impassioned appeal to the legislature not to pass it. He almost sobbed as he detailed the woes of Virginia husbands. The expensive silk warp summer erepons which are tentatively displayed by importers who believe their vogue will bet continued show novel and stylish arrangements of their soft, fanciful surfaces.When Russell opened his eyes, he thought he was on a train whlcb was roaring through an Interminable tunnel. Not otherwise could the din and clamor drumming in his ears be accounted for. Then the Imaginary train ■hot out Into darkness and starlight and silence, and he remembered. None the less, there was a gap and things unaccountable In It. Something had ■truck him fairly between the shoulders, and he had fallen face downward. Now he was lying on his back, with bis head pillowed. He groaned, and the hallucination returned. It was a train, after all, and be must be In a berth In the Pullman, with the roof of the car gone and the stars twinkling sleepily overhead. Undoubted stars they were, and in a clear sky, and yet It was raining. He felt a drop plash on his cheek and was vaguely conscious of a prompting to get up and seek shelter. But when he would bave essayed It two soft arms went about his neck, and a pair of tremulous lips touched his forehead. As a baif stunned man might, be said the first thing that suggested Itself, "1 don't care if it rains pitchforks!" A green 4-year-old filly by Direct, 2:05%, out of Rosita A, 2:14-%, pacing, recently paced a quarter in 33 seconds at Pleasanton, Cal. New York, April 30.—[Special.]— Real estate owners, real estate agents and storage warehouse people all unite in saying that the warm weather immigration from the metropolis is going to be unusually early this season—in fact, that it has already begun, though It's only a few days now since the robin's song was first heard regularly on the Island of Manhattan. "What!" he cried. "You mean to pass a bill like this, that will give to the world the impression that men in this state beat their wives? That would be an unfounded aspersion upon the reputations of the men who sent you here. There is no wife beating in Brunswick county, where I come from. On contrary, there are few women there who do not systematically trash their husbands on the slightest provocation and frequently without any provocation at all. The green 4-year-old pacer Sharkey recently worked a quarter at Pleasanton, Cal., in 31% seconds. He is by Direct, dam by Nutwood. The latest news from Paris is that th« summer will bring the smallest and moat charming of little capotes and other tiny, toy bonnets in its train, styles not designed for elderly women, but for youthful wearers. Many fashionable dressmakers prefer ganging or gathering the skirt rathe* than having wide plaits, which, despite the broad box plaits at the back of thf gown, give but little more liberty to the figure than the out of date habit styles. Many of the best designs for street gowns have thus far been made with bolero or bolero effects, aad a great portion of the light cloth walking costumes are *Is you all de cap'n of dlaliyer railroad, mhf Russell looked up from bis desk. It was sot the omnipresent negro vender of persimmons or muscadines. It was a woman, gray, bent and wrinkled and with the pleadlngest old eyes that ever looked out upon a masterful world. She wore a knotted bandanna on her bead, and her dress was of the coarsest, but Russell, whose glance was that of a trained summarlst, remarked that everything about her was scrupulously neat and bpotless.' "I am the passenger agent," he said. •What can I do tor you 7" "Yea, sur: dat's whut dey tole me, •n I dea cllmm up dem sta'rs ter see ef you all couldn' holp de po* ole niggab 'ooman git back ter ole Flrglnny. I'se dls nigh -home, mahsteh, but dese ole lalgs dey aln' gwine cyar me dabno, sub. Dey des mek out lak dey ring worn on a suggestive finger of Miss Dickson's left band, the gift, some one bad told bim, of a cousin gone to figbt the Spaniards. Tbe ring was in evidence when be shook hands. I Direct, 2:13, is showing speed early in his work at Pleasanton, Cal. He was given a milfc recently and after stepping the half in 1:14% was given his head and came home the other half in 1:04%. "Thank you for coming to meet me," he said when they had faced about for the walk to the cottage. Having perfected his remarkable discovery, be visited England In August with the view of securing patent rights, and he then writes to Faraday as follows:That the fact is as they state It the veriest stranger In New York could tell after making one trip up or down Fifth avenue, for that thoroughfare of wealth and fashion shows a surprisingly large number of houses with doors and windows boarded up for the summer. Indeed the strange air of desolation that usually invests Fifth avenue not earlier than late in May or early in June is already apparent there. S. O. Cheetham, Urbana, O., has sold King of Belair, 2:24, to M. E. Ellis, Grayville, Ills. King of Belair is the youngest stallion living, with two as fast performers as Indiana, 2:06%, and Dan T, 2:06%. She laughed softly, and E thought of gurgling brooks and perlng leaves and such like similes. "Don't thank me. It w who couldn't wait to thank you. don't know what you've done fot How did you ever happen to think itr whJslyrte\a I M rou hapa T^l yon of all  Bide Ise to dfl  re-  even- u P?^ nen'  \ you 4fflfa(n%}M Do |j V %» ihe V f ▼ She ~*l"P "If we are to protect any one in thia state from corporal punishment," he went on, "it should certainly be the Virginia husbands. The custom of husband beating in this state is growing more general every jmar. Up iu Brunswick county a man cannot look cross eyed at his "The affair which has brought me over to England refers to my explosive cotton, which 1 have So mucb Improved that it has aU the appearance of becoming a dangerous rHjal to ffunpow jler. As to Its explosive power, 'gun cotton,' as T call It, Is very superior tt powder. In (fiven cases on* part of it does the work of four parts of pun powder, and under the most favors' kD circumstances the force of gun oott .r is as two to one that of powder the course of the last two tnr.r ' bave made many experinien* cannons, mortars, rifles, ere # tained results which I nra rD' call highly satisfactory may be said with re?rar' ' rocks" — Letters of Far Schoenbeln. Tom Keatlng's horses are going well for him at Pleasanton, Cal. He hi# driven Eureka, 2:15%» a mile in 2:18, Corinne Neilson a trial in 2:22 and a 3-year-old colt by Charles Derby showed him a mile in 2:24. wife without getting a sound thrashing. All the women have clubs and whips and know how to use theoi. One of the commonest sights in my district la that of an angry wife chasing a blubbering husband up the high street." skirt or drapery. Shirtings, side plaitings, tucks, pi with rows of Insertion between n frills lapping each other and wide insertions are all much in evidence C latest models for summer toilets ol muslin, French organdie, b grenadine and etaminl.—New;York "If you'll tell me what 'If is, perl I can explain." v Lcsh Farm, Goshen, Ind., has sold to a horseman in Pennsylvania the 4-yearold brown gelding The Lover, by Ontonian, 2:07%. dam Allie K, 2:26%. This colt has been a half in 1.-07 and will be campaigned this year. "Why, Mam' Sephny, how did ever come to send her tip hero, places In the world?" Naturally this early exodus Is a matter for the storage warehouse people to congratulate themselves upon. It will increase the average storage season by at least a month, and this, of course, will add at least 25 per cent to their summer Intake. Their only trouble just now comes from the fear that their quarters will be too small to accommodate all their patrons. It Worlca Both Way*. So eloquent was Mr. Powell that ths bill was defeated. A canvass of the legislators brought out the fact that wife beating is practically unknown in Virginia, but that there is plenty of hnsband beating. "She got next to the sympathetic of me, and I didn't know what ( do with her. And I happened to member what you said the other lng about the old time negro wo What have I done?" apuldn'." Ildrim. who was an unlucky colt last season, Inasmuch as he failed to win when he was by long odds the best youngster in his class, has developed into a fine 3-year-old. Gene Leigh recently refused an offer of $10,000 for him, a big price for a maiden. THE CENSOR. "Where are yon from, aunty?" Rus- MU was new to the south, and all negroes of a certain age were yet "aunties" and "uncles" to him. "Oh, I am so glad!" said a voice with a sob in it "1 was sure he had killed yon! Where are you hurt?" One of the legislators confessed shyly to a reporter that his wife frequently inflicted punishment upon him with a shingle. "But only when I well deserve it," he hastened to add. There is a coffee war and a sugar i and now all that 1b necessary to comp the combination is'a kick on the part the cows.—Troy Record. Modern Japan holds the light of a I civilisation in the east and is apparel using the light to look for trouble i Pnasia _PkUa(1/Dlnk(a TllQCB. " him on "If you bad been our good angel couldn't have done a lovelier thing, you know who Mam' 8epbny la? Is papa's own old *black mammy.' _ was a house Servant In Qrandfatl Dickson's old home In Virginia." "I'se Coca Alabama, suh, dls las' time, yea, suh. Done tromp all de way Tom Montgomery, suh." Russell came to his own in the matter of self possession with gratifying celerity. There would be no fear of this sort, of course, were the early flitters confined to the swells of Fifth avenue, because, as a rule, they do not store their belongings when away from home, but that is by no means the case. There are thousands among the outgoing throng who are too poo to own houses on the avenue or anywhere else, and this circumstance causes depression among the real estate owners and agents that is quite as pronounced as the resulting elation among the storage people. "As long as 1 lie perfectly still I'm not hurt anywhere. Don't move, please. Was It the craiy headed negro?" BRITON AND BOER. POULTRY POINTERS. "Do you think that many of the legislators are beaten by their wives?" he Mow, a railway passenger agent, being stationed at a principal junction .point of human desires and disabilities, must needs harden his heart, but it Is a long walk from Montgomery to Chattanooga. "What wll| you do when you get tc Virginia? Have yon relatives there?" "Kinfolks? No, suh. But dah'a wha' I'm bo'n an rals'." "How long have you been away?" "Ala* been dah sence.de wah time, suh." was asked. "Well, I'll be. blessed! You don't say! Why, it was the merest chance in the world! As I say, I didn't know what else to do with her." The negro atood over him with a great stone uplifted. Instead of a "walkover" General Roberts is having a "standstill."—New York World. With turkeys, sice and weight are to be bred for, since pounds count. "More than half of them," he whispered. "They are not whipped every morning or anything like that, but every now and then the wives make a break for them with a broom or something. The women are impulsive and will not stand any nonsense from the men. I think it is a very good thing, too, because, as a rule, when a husband is beaten he deserves it. Some people think that any man who lets his wife whip him deserves what he gets anyway, but I don't know about that." ** With the cur side and the concert other the saltan's time seem to hare oome agi Ledger. It mar be safe to asau  railroad construction in the in 1800 will call for a | 2,000,000 tons of steel phla Record. The major of Cam decided that whiat is i game i — ~ New E ▼arietjr quick tnrust or nis Doot neei ne kuocked the scythe blade from Its socket, and It became a sword to slay. Catching up the weapon, he made a dash for the veranda. • "Yea; it was David. He thought you had 'hoodooed' Mam' Sephny, and he waa trying to smash the camera." A duck fattens very readily, and this must be guarded against when laying. Will the British finally have to hire detectives to slip up on the Boers and chloroform them?—Kansas City Star. "Where Is be now?" While it is important to feed growing chickens liberally, care must be taken not to feed too much corn. "It was an—an inspiration, I think," declared Lois impulsively. "Papa can't make enough of her, and she—well, I just thought she would die with the sheer joy of it Poor old woman! She has bad such a dreadfully hard time of it" "He has gone to the house for help. Oh, I do wish they'd hurry!" From the looks of things it might be just as well to defer awhile the preparing of these St. Helena accommodations for President Kruger.—San Francisco Bulletin.Russell saw him coming and realised dimly that he might presently have to fight for his life with a superstition erased maniac. But at the critical instant the artistic prompting was stronger than the self defensive. The man on the steps, with his weapon swung high, became for the moment a camera subject not to be duplicated in a lifetime. The rays of the setting sun, streaming over the shrugged shoulder of the mountain, fell full on his rage distorted face, and a livid scar, Invisible at other times, gashed one black cheek from temple to jaw angle. If there had been -certain death In the biting of the scythe blade, Russell could not have resisted the Impulse to photograph the man as he stood. As a general rule it is not a good plan to feed sitting hens on the nests. They need all of the exercise they can have. "Don't. I'm quite comfortable." Then In a spasm of reluctant thoughtfulness, "But you'll take cold sitting on the ground." Too much stimulating food causes overproduction of eggs, and the result will be poor hatches, weakly chickens and inferior fowls. * a Will you walk into my ambush? says the Boer to the Briton. And the innocent Briton generally accepts the polite invitation and walks right In.—Boston Herald. So general |8 the exodus to be this year, in fact, that the receipts for rentals to the owners and of commissions to the agents will fall off quite as much as the receipts of the storage warehousemen will increase. And the worst of it Is, from the agent's point of view, that the exodus is not only beginning early, but It is also going to be far more general than ever before. "Since the war? Why, you won't find anybody there now that you • knovr He made a shameless pretense of rising, and the two arms held him down, as he had hoped they would. One of them was unsleeved for a little way, and he kissed it Representative Powell wu asked if he intended to introduce a bill punishing husband beaters. "Not much!" he replied. "I wouldn't dare to go back to Brunswick county if I did. The right to beat her husband when he deserves It is one that the Brunswick county woman values above all others."—Richmond Cor. New York Journal. "Has she? I guessed as much—from her eyes, you know." * "Then she didn't tell you her story?" "No." General Roberts would have had a better reputation if he could have become ill and returned home immediately after the occupation of Bloemfontein.—Indianapolis Press. When a hen is sitting, she comes off as regularly to dust herself as she does to feed. It is one of the best ways of ridding herself of lice. "Mo, suh; I don't 'spect ter. But I'ze lak ter lay my ole bones en de ole manneh fahm wha* de mahst€b an de "It is fairly heartrending. She had a child, a little boy who was 3 years old when she lost him. It was In the last year of the war. and Wythe county was overrun with negro stealers, making the most df their opportunity while It lasted, papa says. They stole the boy, and Mam' Sephny could never learn anything more definite about him than that be was sold south with a lot of others, old and young. Wasn't It pitiful r "Oh, I don't believe you are hurt at all!" wiu men missis la sleepln; yea, suh, I would." Kuseell put business aside and wltb It the stereotyped rule In such cases made and provided. An application for half tare "account charity" shoult One reason why the hen that steals her nest always hatches well is that she is not too fat, and every egg has the same vitality, while in sitting a hen the egga are usually gathered from a number of different hens. to t "Yes, I am—dreadfully, you come to be here?" How did Oom Psul hss bellowed "Look out!" to Bloemfontein and is ready to bombard it. Oom Paul gets a little more skirt dance Into his tactics than Joubert did.—Davenport Republican. come E Japai in the : eye upc are aire "I saw David following you." 'Then you were not In such a hurry to go in aa you said you were." Hew York's Afirtmeit Dwellers. A MOTHER'S OFFER. hare come from the proper official of the county court, but he waived the formality. **Wh*t hi your name, aunty?" he •iked, dipping hla pen. "We shouldn't have any such trouble," said a real eatate agent with a big lot of apartment houses on his list, "were the renting system here such as it should be. There was a time when In New York, as In most cities, tenants had to have yearly leases in the main. Then we didn't care whether they remained in town all through the hot weather or not; the rent money came in just the same to the owners, and the commissions to the agents were not reduced. Young and old fowls need sufficient nutritious food to keep them in a thrifty condition. The object in feeding well Is to increase as' rapidly aa possible the size of the growing chicks and to furnish nutriment and material for the laying hens.—St. Louis Republic. "I—I was going In when I saw him." Since his forces met the bsrb wire and the Boer traps General "Bobs" is better sble to appreciate why General Boiler preferred to devote so much time to crossing the Tugela river.—Milwaukee Sentinel.Tryimg to Save Her CUM. Dollar* to Doctor* "Oh! And then you ran after him and tried to save me, like the brave little girl that you are. Lola, my darling, I suppose you've got to be true to the other man, but I love you—love you a thousand times better than he ever could If he tries till doomsday!" With a distracted mother urging them to their best efforts with the offer oi a reward of $10,000, five Brooklyn doctors labored in vain to save her child from death by strangulation. The mother is Mrs. Vincent Geralde, and the child was her 2-year-old daughter, Annie. The physicians who strove vainly to save the ohild's life wep»~CkDctors of the neighborhood, summoned one after the other. The child was fretful, and Mrs. Geralde gave her a button bag to amuse herself with. When Mrs. Geralde went into another room for a few minutest the child The click of the camera shutter broke the spell for all of them. Lois shrieked, her father sprang from his chair and the negro dropped his weapon. It was the major who first found speech. "Sephny Dickson, sub — yes, sob fin* yon kln'ly, suh." ♦'Dickson 7" ft was a family name U the passenger agent was deeply Interested for cause. Tea, snh; Sepbny Dickson." Rnssell filled oat tbe order for half rates, but when tbe money stage of tlM small transaction was reacbod tbe little beap of nickels and dimes wbicb tbe old woman took from'a knot in tbe THE j The young man nodded. He had abolition blood In his veins, and It made him glad to the finger tips to know that a daughter of slaveholders could also sympathize with a black mother bereft. THE ROYAL BOX. THE BEECHER FAMILY. "Why, David, yon black rascal, yon! What are yon about, seht Put that scythe back on the snath and go to youh work! Do yon heah me?" "The other?" There was a whole fusillade of queries In the two littls words, and be lifted her band, the one with the ring on the finger, and kissed It King Leopold of Belgium has been obliged to give up resding and writing for a time owing to trouble with his eyes, caused by overwork. The Beecher family, the sons and daughtera of Dr. Lyman Beecher, constitute one of the famous familiea in this country's history and are not surpassed by any American family save the Adamses of Massachusetts.—Syracuse Herald."Of course there was nothing for her to do at the time," Lois went on, "bat when grandfather and grandmother died and papa was reported killed ft Petersburg she was free, and she started out to hunt for her baby. Did yon ever hear of such a hopeless task?" The man turned sad went back to his grass cutting without a word, and when he was out of earshot Russell laughed good as tn redly. "But now It's different. Only a small percentage of the apartments are leased at all, the tenants taking them from month to month, with perfect liberty to get out on one month's notice. Of course this plan has Its advantages for the owners and agents as well as for the tenants, since it makes It possible to put out an undesirable tenant whenever we want to, but it does us up all right such a year as this. Why don't we change It? Because we can't. You Ree that, although New York is growing with tremendous rapidity all the time, the Increase of houses and apartments Is much faster than the population. This causes Intense competition among owners and agents, and in such circumstances Insistence on leases would be tantamount to having no tenants at all In a large percentage of cases, The youngest Hohencollern, Prince Helnrich's son, the Germsn emperor's nephew, was christened the other day as Heinrich Vllctor Fried rich. "Yea; the man who put this ring on your finger." She bent above him till her eyea eclipsed the stars. "Do you think you love me better than be does?" she said softly. "You've known me only a few months, and he—he has known me all my life." Thomas Beecher was In fine a broad minded, warm hearted, forcible, uncompromising and generous man, knit up of contradictions, which were nevertheless perfectly accordant in his very striking personality and service.—Springfield Republican.opened the bag and took from It a big bone burton. She placed it in her month, and it slipped down her throat, lodging in the windpipe. Mrs. Qeralde heard the child gasping for breath and harried into the room. The mother frantically tried In vain to dislodge the button. Finding her efforts unavailing, she sent for a physician. The doctor came at once and tried in rain to get the button from the child's throat. Mrs. Gerald®, almost beside herself with fear, hurriedly summoned two other physicians, of the neighborhood. The continued efforts of the three physicians, however, failed to dislodge the button, and they despaired of the child's life. Mrs. Qeralde would not give up hope, and, thinking they might know of some method of dislodging the button which the physicians in attendanc1 had not tried, she called In two more doctors. The five doctors, too, agreed that it was hopeless to try to saare the child's life. They told Mrs. Oeraide that they had employed every method known to them to get the button oat, but that It could not be dislodged. corner of her kerchief was all too fpuUl. and the charitable causeway broke 0own In a new plac*. "la that all yon have, aunty?" ."tea, rah; ev'y laa' picayune, rah." "You're been telling me all along thM I've a gocf bit to learn abont the brother in black, major, and I'm beginning to take It in slowly. 'Pon m y word, I believe that fellow really had It in mind to kin me!" The queen of Hanover, who celebrated her eighty-second birthday on April 14, passed the severe winter in perfect health st the villa of her son, the Duke of Cumberlsnd, near Gmunden, in upper Austria. the Street of Nau^ represented by an au.„ and a varied exhibit. The to let the flag of the cxar fl, own national emblem. One of the remarkable exl Paris exposition will be a sen light pictures shown by a Ct tographer. They will consist of the United 8tates senate h the honse of representatives at a view of the Chicago board of a busy day. It is said that the British exh exclusive of those in the art c number only 647. This seems a incredible in view of the fact that . American and 4,000 German houses be represented, bat it is said to be.C|» to the coolness caused by Fraa friendliness toward the Boers. the ''Never," said Russell, trying to imagine himself seeking a loved one, say, a sweet faced young woman with starlike eyes, under like hopeless conditions. "Did she find the boy?" "It Isn't bait enough, even (or the Wt'ttR.* The dim, old eyes filled with tears. "Daf s—daf s des what I'xe skeered of, pah. 'Bpect I'ze des got ter tromp It fOl, How fur Is It, mahsteh?" Russell's hand sought his pocket, bat something In tbe old woman's manner made him withdraw It empty. "It's too far for you to walk. Can't 70a stay here till you've earned money enough to pay the half fare?" i The young man gyaed. "Don't tell me you love him. Lots; I couldn't stand that!" Perhaps the best prlvste collection of stuffed snd living birds in the world belongs to the king of Portugsl, who is an enthusiastic ornithologist. Scientists from all parts of the world sdd to his esses snd cages, snd it Is believed that he has one specimen of every Important bird family st present known. From that the talk drifted easily to oblsm and racial characteristics and things atavistic, and it was late when Russell rose to take his leave. Lois rose, too, and went around to the side veranda to look for the Incline signal at the Point hotel. It had disappeared. Thomss K. Beecher not only preached, bat practiced. He had several adopted children, and his life was full of good works. His influence was large and helpful in a wide circle, and it will linger long In the community his labor blessed. —Indianapolis News, "Oh, no; it wasn't to be expected. She has spent her whole life going from place to place all through the southern states', looking and asking and always hoping. But she has given it up at last and she was trying to get back to the old home place in Virginla.""But I do." There were hurrying steps In the road above them, and the flickering light of a lantern cut yellow swaths In the starlight She bent lower, and again her lips brushed his forehead. "Yon wouldn't want me not to love my own father, would you? It was mother's ring, and he gave It to me." •The last car has gone down," she announced, going back to the two men at the steps, whereupon the hospitable major made Instant offer of bed and breakfast, but the young m»n would not fray his welcome. The death of the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher and of Mrs. Mary Beecher Perkins removes all but two of the 11 noted sons and daughters of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, the most famous of which were Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.—Chicago Tribune, RAILWAY TIES. "Yes; to die and be buried beside her old master and mistress. She £old me that Ifs very pathetic,'"and—and. Miss Lois, you don't know how glad 1 am that you can sympathize with her." He said it because it was in him and clamosing for speech, but he was quite unprepared for her half reproachful protest There are now 93 German towns or districts with electric railways as compared with 77 of the previous year. There are 30 new lines projected and In progress and 39 extensions, The total length of the lines is 1,270 miles. "Dat*s what I'se layin off ter do twel I tried, yes, suh; but I'se mighty ole an no 'count an de white folks dey wants de young ones nowerdays—yes, suh, dey does." This was how it came about that the major, coming hastily with an Improvised stretcher borne by an ashen hued David, found the young man on his feet with Lois In his arms, anCJ When they had all gone back to the bouse It took the better half of a fresh cigar on Russell's part and two charglngs of the long stemmed pipe on the major's to work out the explanation on the vine shadowed veranda. When It was made, the case of one David Jackson came up for trial and sentence. "He's youh man, my son," said the major. "Of course he's a grand rascal, and it's youh privilege to send him to the coal mines, but"— "I shan't mind the walk In the least" be protested. "It will do me good. 1 don't have enough exercise anyway." The SfOTtnsr Habit la Hew York. "The extravagant prevalence of the moving habit in New York Is very largely due to the overplus of living quarters. It Is doubtful whether this habit prevails anywhere else so ex-, tensively as In this town. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. In Paris, where already people are forbfdden to stand up in street cars, the police have just made a rule compelling eight seats in each car to be kept vacant from the starting point to the first stopping place, so that people waiting at the latter point may be accommodated. BIRDS. kIA. Russell recalled something which had been said on the occasion of his latest visit to a certain hospitable household the hither slope of old Lookout. fCCan you. cook, aunty T' he queried, ft kin dat, sho'Iy, suh/' "Would you like to get a place In a good family here for awhile 7" "'Deed I would dat! Mo' 'spesbully «l dar*s any chlllun." Mother of pearl articles should be cleaned with whiting and cold water. Soap discolors them. » Professor Forbes, the state entoi gist of Illinois, has estimated that out the assistance of birds the sti Illinois would be carpeted with it one to each square inch of ground, end of 12 years. So it was concluded, and Russell shook hands with (lis host. Lois walked to the gate with him, and, since there was now no car haste to be considered, the leave takings were prolonged until the light in the upper windows of the cottage warned Lois that her father bad gone to bed. "Oh, do not let her die," she cried. "I will fire $1,000 If yoa save ber!" "Glad, but surprised—is that it?" she queried, with a little note of antagonism in her voice. Narrow strips of ticking tied to a piece of broom handle is the best whip to beat upholstered furniture. "I'd be afraid to say how small I believe the proportion of well to do apartment dwellers who never live In one apartment more than a year to be. They seem to be Imbued with a desire f6r change that cannot be controlled, and the money that is needlessly spent every year carting the goods of New Yorkers In May and October must mount up into the hundreds of thousands at least. The doctor* shook their heads, but continued working on the child. little Annie was slowly dying, and the physicians toJd the mother that her daughter could live hut a tew minutes. "I sftppose I ought to be polite and say 'No,' but I'm going to be truthful and say 'Yes.' I've always been led to believe that your attitude—that is, the attitude of the southern people— toward the—er—the negroes wa§—a"— He stumbled, not knowing just bow to put it in the least offensive phrasing, but be needed Dot to go on. The old remedy for removing tar is butter. Tar Is soluble in fat and especially in butter. Apply the butter to the tar spot and let it stand for some time. Both the butter and the tar may then be washed oft by a sponge with soap and water, Tha Union Pacific railway has established a new record for train hauling. Recently a train left Cheyenne made up of 113 cars loaded with 8,471 tons of freight. Another train was composed of 110 cars laden with 4,935 tons and hauled by a 150 ton engine 102 miles. Many birds form their sounds withoot opening their bills. The pigeon is a well known instance of this. Its cooing can be distinctly heard, although it does not •pen its bilL The call is formed internally in the throat and chest and is only, rendered audible by resonance. A French naturalist quoted by Popular Science News asserts that "if the world should become blrdless man could not inhabit it after nine years' time, la spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manufactured for the destruction of insects. The bugs and stags would simply eat up all the orchards and cropa In that time." "I would give my own life for hers," •aid the mother pitifully. "Save her, and I will give yew $5,000." issell smiled under his mustache wondered if a certain young lady totted of, a young woman who bad Btlj attained to the dignity of be- "Really, I must go now," she said across the gate for the tenth time at least "Do be careful, and be sure to take the road. It's longer than the path, but it's much safer." The physicians looked at each other helplessly and shook their heada again. Medicine stains demand a combination of fuller's earth and ammonia and should be removed before the article is washed. Make a paste of fuller's earth or pipe clay and the ammonia and rub it well Into the stains. Let the paste dry. Before putting the article into the ordinary wash rub it out in cold water. "I will give you $10,0001 I can pay you; only save her!" "But a southern gentleman wouldn't Invoke the law because an ignorant negro was terrified enough to knock blm down, you would say. Well, neither shall L Indirectly, he has been the means of making me the happiest man on top of the earth." POLITICAL QUIPS. % C** V J f m J*pW 0*£c\JEJ!\. I I J» 1 i ■ r 1 t giiAl 1/V jV ■Tt^ - "| "I know," she laughed, and the little Whiff of antagonism was gone. "But after you've been here longer yon will understand. They are men and women to you yet, I suppose, but to us they are simply good natured, overgrown children. And we are kinder to them than you will be until you know them as well as we do." - The young man laughed and was glad. What he would fain have said could never dare say Itself while she ■till wore the old fashioned pearl ring, but It was worth something to have her anxious for his safety. To the novice politics seems rotten, but to the cultivated taste merely gamy.— Detroit Journal. "The fact that there are so many good localities for summer residence close to New York is one of the factors which contribute to the constant changing, of course. There is an enormous number of families of the middle class who dwell here only in the winter, living at the seashore or In the mountains in the warm weather, and their number, which decreased in the period of depression beginning with 1893, is now increasing rapidly." "It is useless," said one of the doctors, turning away from the little girl. "The child is dead."—New York Times. He who helps to harmonize and capital does more tor humanity than a whole army of talking politicians.—Min- Minneapolis Tribune. A story which goes to show W. A. Clark's luck or pluck is that a prominent western smelting company was financially embarrassed, and, as it was at a time of panic, the company could not obtain ready money. Clark examined its books and, finding them in good condition, took $100,000 stock in the company. In going over the books he noticed a carload of ore once In awhile that was exceedingly rich and made Inquiry of the name of the mine from which the ore came. He was told and went to the mine dressed as a miner and hired himself out to the four young men who owned it and went to work as a miner. After seeing the wealth of the mine he bought It for $200,000, and this mine is now making him million#.—Indianapolis Press. Clark* Way. t This may account for Davld'a reappearance on the lawn three days later wheq Russell was again a guest fit the Dickson cottage. They were waiting tor Mam' Sephny to call them to dinner, and Russell was showing the major and Lois the pictures taken on the eventful evening of assaults and happinesses. "Don't borrow trouble on that ■core," be rejoined, slinging the camera over his shoulder. "I doubt If 1 could find the path |n the dark If I Should try. When may I come again T' RAILROAD TIES. THE CYNIC. The Santa Fe Railroad company Is to use oil for fuel on all its engines in California.THE CYNIC. The young man suspected that be was getting upon thin ice and made haste to go back to Mam* Sephny and safety. Too are always looking "tor tan." Brer have any? Know anybody that is baring any? Bo many reformers are working for th» people that tt la surprising that the people are not better off. The people are surprised at each other a great deal, considering how well they know each other. We are all jays—to the other fellow. Her blush made him thrill with pleasure. He could not see It, but he knew it was there. Metal culverts have been used with much success on the Kongo railway, in Africa. Masonry is extremely expensive there. Cans* of tit* Early Kxodns. "Will you tell me what the old aunty's name is?" be asked. "Ifs been puzzling me all day." "When do you want to come?" "Tomorrow and the next day and the day after that and"— Self reliance means learning early that if you are in trouble no one is going to get up in the night help you out. General prosperity is the chief cause of the early and unusual exodus this year. Added to it Is the Paris exposition, and, despite the predictions which have been freely made that the attendance from America would not b« so large as was at first expected, the present Indications are that It will be larger from this city than any one predicted. At all events, it Is as large as it can be since ev«r? outgoing steamer is crowded to the rails. The Pastilon play at Oberammergau also Is bound from all indications to be witnessed by more New Yorkers than ever before. "He looks peaceful enough now," said the young man, with a glance at David- "You'd hardly recognize him as the fellow who posed for this/' Massachusetts has 116 street railway Companies, controlling 1,492 miles. Last year the increase in mileage in the state was 35. Every young man needs a lot of sister* to take the conceit oat of him which Ma mother's adoration has pot in. " 'Persephone,' of course," said Lois. "She cried when papa called her that; said she hadn't beard her 'chu'ch name' since her old mistress died. But you mustn't call her 'adnty.' That's only a brevet title, you know, 8be 11 A man of 50 regards a girl of 16 silly becatue she laughs at nothing, but it is the same thing that he worries over. "Hush!" she commanded. And then by way of reprieve: "I'm glad you like our mountain. Come whenever you please. Papa U always glad to see you." "Innumerable electric lights," in a society report, usually mean a dozen. We hare taken pains to count them. The thieves will finally start a story that honesty is not the best policy, and give reasons why honest men should not be respected.—Atchison Globe. The photograph Was a study in ferocity, and the livid scar stood out on the pictured face like the welt of a broad whiplash. The surprise at an amateur concert is the number of good places for stopping which are disregarded by UC« performers, who keep rigljt ou. Prussia began absorbing railroads in 1876. In eight years she owned 8,000 miles. Now nearly 16,000 miles are under ?o$tpDl of the state. 'mammy. A sudden access of daring filled his sooL "And you?" be queried. "Ifa simply horrifying," said Lois, shuddering. "But that Is a beautiful picture of Mam' Sephny. Come here, mammy, and see bow you look to other people." When you hear a man abused for being stingy, defend him. Too many inen are spendthrifts and become burdens on their relatives. A stingy man who has sense enough to save his money is rare enough to be appreciated—AtchisoD Globe. Preached * Flat Eartk. Russell promised to remember and Opened the gate for his companion. A moment later he was trying to explain to Major Dickson that his sending of Mam' Sephny was the purest bit of haphazard and so quite thankless. POLITICAL QUIPS. Joseph W. Uolden, who died at Otisfleld, Me., recently, was the Professor Uolden who for many year* preached the theory that the earth was flat He started life as a farmer and was very successful. He was «t one time a trial justice and at another"* member of the state legislature. He got his notion of the earth's flatness by sitting up several Sights and noticing that the watw in his millpond did not run out when, according to other theorists, the globe was upside down. "Et mol aussl, toujours," was the laughing concession as the fluttering draperies disappeared up. the path. The musip of the words sang Itself over and over as be went bis way down the starlit lane making shift to forget the dull luster of the pearls on Miss Dickson's finger—temporarily, at least. • Senatorial sp#eehes on pending questions are rarely as deep as they are long. —Philadelphia Ledger. A ROYAL PAT. "Thank you Jar coming to meet me," hs The naming of the Duke of York's son Patrick suggests the question if Ireland would find a British king under another name any sweeter.—New York Tribune. said. The ancient negress bad just come out to announce dinner, and Bhe vouchsafed no more than a single contemptuous ere sweep. UHuh! Dat ole niggah Wench me? No, ma'am 1 I ain't no-wha's nigh as ole an upgly as dat." Then she caught sight of the grotesque ferocity. "Faw de Lawd's sake, young mahsteh. gimme dat one, pleaae! Wha'—wha' yo' git datr The number of statesmen who get over an affection for private Ufe Just before a political convention is always remarkable.—Washington Star. \ag her father"* housekeeper, would HOnsent to pose as a child for Aunt fclephny'a benefit Then be took bis courage lu both hands and wrote a pot*: "Dear Miss Lola—I beard you say the other evening that yon would be flad to get oue of the pld time, before the war 'mammies' for a house servant. Here la one who stumbled Into the office a few minutes ago, and I hope she will Impress yon as she haa me. She will If you'll give her a chance to work upon your sympathies. Will yon pardon the liberty I'm taking And send her back to town If you do go* wa*t her J" When it was written and inclosed, ke found his hat and closed his desk. ' "Come with me, and I'll put yon on "But our obligation Is the same," said the major. "Why, bless my soul, seh, I couldn't feel mo' gratified If somebody had made me a present of the old home place In Virginia—I couldn't, for a fact! Being from the north, you cyahn't quite appreciate our feelings toward those old black mammies of ours; you'd hare to be southern bawn for that Will you walk out to youh dinner, seh?" THE PARIS SHOW. Employment agencies report that a surplus of house servants, something qUuost unheard of here, is going to result from the wholesale exodus. Will the future playmates of the new heir of the Duke of York ever venture to address that highborn youngster by th« familiar appellation of "Pat7'—Philadelphia Bulletin. The New York Times will be published daily on the grounds of the universal exposition iu Paris, To 1,1 states of the Unioi» * "been confined the honor of provid* j nation') rulers, while all the otht? yalt thei: *urn.—Albany Times-Unlit BRITON AN[g Lois stood at the edge of the porch pntll the shape of him was but a darker blur against the shadowy background of the forest at the lane's foot. Then she turned to go In, In the act the had a glimpse of a shadow darting quickly across the lawn. It disappeared In the blacker shadow of the cedar hedge, and something Impelled her to go back to the gate. She was just In time to see the flgur4 of a man glide through aq opening in the cedars. It crouched for an Instant, as one who gropes for a missile In the dark, and then ran swiftly down the lane. Lois saw and needed no explanation. It was the negro David, and his superstitious rage had again got the better of his fear of consequences. In the catching of her breath she understood that Henry Russell's life lay in her hand, and the next moment she, too, was flying down the starlit lane. Dexter Marshall. Tfje Parts exposition will have the largest theater in the world, accommodating 12,000 to 15,000 persons. LEGAL LIGHTS. ter. THE PE.UACiO(iUfc. Professor S. W. Shattuek of the University of Illinois was seriously injured by a gasoline explosion the other day. Henry M. Dunlap of Savoy, Ills., a member of the state senate of Illinois, has been appointed United States com missioned of horticulture to the Paris exposition. He is said to be well Qualified for the place. Judge Capron of Indiana holds thai when a church agrees to pay a preacher a fixed salary the salary must be paid if the church property has to be sold for that purpose, court of appeals of Kentucky has held that a person who was learning to ride a bicycle upon*a street and while doing so was injured hi a trolley car wa» not guilty of contributory negligence so as to preclude recovery of damages. The British have what to do with Krui ly decided they hare ake up their Bussell gave her the picture, and once more the old eyes filled with tears. Professor A. N. Wells, who was offered the position of professor of art at the Emmons Blaine institute, has decided to decline the offer and will remain with the University of Illinois. ' -• , Under the circumstances the table talk was Inevitably of faithful old servants and the patriarchal system of bygone days, but later, when they had all adjourned to the veranda, the major with his long stemmed pipe, and Russell with his camera, the young man made good his promise to Induct Miss Dickson Into the mysteries of the fad photographic. Lois proved an apt pupil, and when they had taken snap shots of the valley, of each other and of the negro man working on the lawn the young girl sighed for fresh sub- "Dat's my Geo'ge Washin'ton Allgzandah Dickson, growed up an cuiue to be | main. Dat's de same scar whut be got ag*inst de ole bot stove in ole missis* kitchen! Oh, mahsteh, wha' you all git datr* minds.—Chicago Recori some time yet in whici One of the most convincing signs of Lord Roberts' thoroughly military method is the fact that be is giving little heed to York Press. Over the main gateway to the Paris exposition at the entrance to the Champs Klysees a startling innovation in sculp- Jure will be seen. The figure of the "City of Paris" will be represented as a woman dressed according to the latest fashion of 1900. In Englewood, a Chicago suburb, the board of education compels pupils who have been absent from school four days or more to submit to a medical examination by a physician appointed by the board before being readmitted to school. Oo» Paul prophesies that the British xrttl never reach Pretoria. This looks as if he were preparing to put Pretoria into his pocket and then trek.—Seattle Post-1 Intelligencer. mtr, The man on the lawn bat) dropped his rake started toward the bouse, inajor rose. I Mil MM* i without 1ia4« »nt wm Datth ti a nam*. p*atk if the portal Death. know of a place for you." The shadow of Chattanooga's great sentinel mountain was matching out across (he valley when Russell boarded the Incline car at St. Elmo that evening. He was to be a dinner guest at the Dlcksons', and when he dropped from the ascending car at the end of the white paved battlefield boulevard the major's daughter was there to meet him. She was a sweet faced young girl of the type known to our forbears M Winsome, and to the young Illlnoi•an the four mile pilgrimage from Chattanooga to the mountains was long enly In tta retracing. None the less ttm waa aty labia pot of ointment the street car," he said. "I think I "I mistrust David's your own boy, sure enough, mammy. I recollect that scar myself," he declared. And when the old woman tottered down the steps, with her trembling anna spread wide, the soft hearted veteran seized upon the two young people and marched them to the farther end of the long yeranda. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. Onto « klghar way. Ub U iUiuL Man Is Immortal, , Ikialnc victorious, , Bad!ant, glorious, , Out o( tka olaj; Out of tha bounds of ttm*t Into tha realm* aubUma, Into a golden dim*, Into tha d*i. One thing is pretty certain—Lard Salisbury will not hang Paul Kruger before the litter gentleman is caught. Threats to this effect are ridiculously premature. —Troy Press. H. F. Marks, a delegate from the British educational department and a lecturer on education at Owens college. Manchester, England, is spending two weeks at Teachers college, Columbia university, examining its methods and equipment. »OSWCSTIt3*fST. . . YorKAuf urt fO*®97 / rinding fh»D Dr.Richter* f SHOII PAIN CXPCU.CR* \ ir«ln» excellent Inaradi* \ • for H* of Rh«u« J The bubonic plague is primarily due to a specific organism or microbe of infinitesimal size—so small that probably 250,000,000 of thenj would be-required to cover a square inch of surface. Jects. There appears to be very little reason for believing that the war in South Africa can be ended within the next four or five months. It may last until the close of the year.—Cleveland Leader, •n4erMii*«j|h "I wish we could get Mam* Sepbny She's a type, you know, and one thai Is nearly extinct Is there lighl enough? Shall I call her?" She came upon the two men at the first turn In the main road, and at the sight her tongue clave to the roof of her mouth, and her bones became as water. Russell was down, and the negro stood over him with a great stone uplifted. POLITICAL QUIPS. The latest marvel of surgical science is the making of voices to order. The larynx, or vocal box, is removed, and a new larynx and vocal cords are inserted. The new voice is capable of but very slight inflection, but the possessor is perfectly able to carry on a conversation. —Denver Newt "I reckon the dinner*!! have to wait awhile," he said. "She's been waiting thirty odd years, you know." After which, with an Inclusive arm sweep, meant to cover a speedy retreat into generalities, "Do you have any mo* delightful prospect than this up yonder In youh country, Mr. Russell?" A Deathless Flower. Bit hop* la treacheroua only whoa* lov* dlts With beauty, which la varylnf every how, But in chute hearts, uninfluenoed Uy the power Of outward change, there blooms a deathleM flower When a politician is bad, his constituents cannot expect him to make any promise good.—New Orleans Picayune. Before Russell could reply, and as If the wish had evoked her, the aged negress came arounq we corner of the house and stood with arms akimbo scanning the man at work on the lawn. Her pose was exceptionally good, and Boaaell made haste to adjust the cam m. So Similar and Yet So Different. Be brings unto my mind the mighty oak It is estimated that there are only 95,- 000 feeble minded persons in the United States, and yet look at the men who get elected to congress!—Philadelphia Ledger.Whoee leafless branches boldly flare above. And yet, withal, he never did a stroke To win men's homage or command their lov*. "David!" Speech and strength came back to her In a tidal wave of conflicting emotions, and ahe flung herself between them. Trying many colors, H. J. Moeller has found that medicinal agents are best protected from light by black, red, orange, yellow, brown yellow and pure green glasses. Blue or colorless glass offered no protection against Um chemical rayv That breathes oa earth the air of paradise. —Wordsworth. Be never stood against a storm aa though To cause the angry elementa to atop, Bat. vainly thinking people may not know, taor t*U»w. ha la dyeing at the topi Come deep! O sleep, the eeftala knot ol peas* The baitiag plaee eC wit, the taUa ti wo*. Th*»*M aiai wealth. Use priaoaar**  W D — * Mi* bstwws ttaMcjkartWt The average man who takes an interest in politics does not work to help a friend who is running tor office, but to do op as enemy.—Atchison Globe. resent ties, ■r ly rx "The ttaht to euctb debt m bet B* drooped, the stone* aa he And so they discussed the view and kilted time witbsst purpose* while ■ • a 1. A. : '