Pittston Gazette

              i tltehed 1880, D IL. L No. 30 f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vallev P1TTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. (•l.OOaTMr ; in AdTUM. TO CAPTURE III HEIRESS, f An Interesting Adventure In the Career of Captain Kettle. "No, she's there In the flesh, sir, right enough; lots of flesh, according to what I've gathered. A serang on one of the B. and I. boats who'd been In Dunkhot told me about her only last year. She makes war, leads her troops, cuts off heads and does the eastern potentate up to the mark. The Berang said she was English, too, though I didn't believe much In that. One-tenth English would probably be more near the truth. The odds are she'll be Eurasian, and those snuff and butter colored ladles, when they get among people blacker than themselves, always try to Ignore their own Uck of the tar brush. The serang said she was a big buffalo bull of a woman, with a terror of a temper. I don't know what's Mr. Wenlock's business, sir, but he'd better make up his mind to square her first and foremost." she was only a yarn." straignt on to xne paiace. ' "Show the way, then," said Wenlock curtly. mess, as tnougn it was one or tne regular appointments of the place, a couple of the guards trundled a stained wooden block Into the middle of the floor, another took his station beside It with an ominous ax poised over his shoulders, and, almost before Wenlock knew what was happening, he was pinned by a doaen more—pinioned at wrist and ankle and thrust down to kneel with his neck over the block. With every subsequent would be passenger this maneuver was successfully repeated until the stage had returned to the original point where Bothern had boarded It, when, luckily for the receipts of the company, an important engagement compelled blm reluctantly to leave It."—New York Tribune. ; ; ble people more miserable. The fact j IT |Q DDVAII Akin TAlililC that others cut and slash you Is uo ex- | I I lw UN I All AllU I U Wflt cuse for adopting their mistaken policy. With a little modesty and a little kindness you can do missionary work every day and accomplish a great deal of good.—Atchison Globe. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Kettle gave the word to the white robed pilot, and together they set off down the narrow winding streets, with an ever increasing train of Arabs and negroes following in their wake. Wenlock said nothing as he walked, but it was evident from the working of his face that his mind was very full. But Kettle looked about him with open interest and thoughts in verse about this eastern town came to him with pleasant readiness. LESSON VIII, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 20. Populist Convention at Sioux Falls Names Ticket. T«*l of the Lenoi, Math, xiil, 1-8 •J»d 18-23—Memory Verses, 22, 23. Golden Text, Lake vlll, 11 — Commentary by the Re*. D. M. Stearns. By Tie Newly Elected AMeraaa. 10 OPPOSITION TO 8ILYEB LEADER MATRON AND MAID. When a politician has Just been elected a member of the council and the directory man comes around next day and asks him what his occupation is, he has to struggle with himself sometimes not to answer, "Statesman."— Somerville Journal. Nomination Made by Acclamation. Vice Presidential Candidate, How* ever, la Settled Upon Only After a LonK Flght-Tbe Platform. CUTCLIFFE HYNE. "Do you say," the i«ly emir repeated, "you unwilling marry meT" [Copyright, 1900, by Cutcliffe Hyne.] Dr. Alice H. Luce of Wellesley college bag accepted election as dean of Oberiin university. 1. "The same day went Jesus out of the house and sat by the seaside." Although these words describe an actual incident in His daily life, they are very suggestive of His leaving the house of Israel to gather from the sea of nations a chosen people who will share His kingdom with Him. Having determined to kill Him (12-14), He began to speak in parables that unbelievers might not understand the secrets of His tingdom (verses 10, 11), for the secret of the Lord la with them that fear Him, and He will shew them His covenant (Ps. xxv, 14). 2. "He went into a ship and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore." We think of His teaching from Simon Peter's boat on another occasion (Luke v, 3), and we sought to learn then that He will use any vessel that is yielded to Him. He will use any one who is .willing to let Him live in them and speak through them. The power either to live or speak is all of Him, and we have the treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of Ood and not of us (II Cor. lv, 7). [Copyright, 1900, by D. M. Stearns.] "I'm a British subject!" Wenlock shouted. "I've a foreign office passport in my pocket I'll appeal to my government over this." The royal residence was the large building enclnctured with gardens which they had seen from the sea, and they entered with little formality. There was no trouble either about obtaining an audience. Armed guards to the number of some 40 men were posted round the walls, and at the farther end, apparently belonging to the civil population, were some dosen other men squatted on the floor. In the center of the room was a naked wretch In chains, but sentence was hurriedly pronounced on him, and he was bustled away as the two Englishmen entered, and they found themselves face to face with the only woman In the room, the supreme roler of this savage south Arabian coast town. Harriet P. Dame, war nurse from New Hampshire, known by name to thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers, died in Concord, N. H., a few days ago. Sioux Falls, May 11.—The nations Populist convention concluded is set sion at 1 o'clock this morning and a4 journed sine die after nominating Hob William J. Bryan for president and Ho» Charles T. Towne for vice president) The nomination of Mr. Towne was onlf accomplished after a struggle of several hoars' duration, in whieh an effort wtt made to have the question of the nonA nation of a vice presidential candidal* referred to a committee to confer with the Democratic and Silver Republics* parties in their national conventions. A motion to this effect was defeated by ;a rote ef 268 to 42. Senator Allen of Nebraska nominated Celenel Bryan for president Seconding speeches were made by General Jamil 8. Weaver of Iowa, Jerry Simpson, QC E. Washburn of Massachusetts, "CyD clone" Saris of Texas, Senator Butlei •f North Carolina and W. J. Thomas «sl Colorado. The semination of Mr. Bryan wai made by acclamation under suspension $ the rales with the greatest enthusiasm. Dra*HlD of the Platform. The resolutions on imperialism and miV itarism deplored the conduct of the ad1 ministration in the Spanish-America! war and denounced its conduct in conD nection with the Philippines. With refc erence to Porto Rico it was set forth th# the Declaration of Independence, constitution and the American flag one and inseparable. It was also dC ed that the island of Porto Rico is s of the territory of the United 8 made so by our promises and the cC of the Porto Ricans themselves. There was a strong resolution t pathy for the Boers, a declarator "My lad," said. Kettle, "yon won't have time to appeal. The lady isn't being funny. She means square bis. If you don't be sensible and see things in-the same way she does. It'll be one che-opp, and what happens afterward won't Interest you." CHRI TIAN ENDEAVOPl. ' The Parakeet bad discharged the last of her coal Into the lighters alongside, had cast off from the mooring buoya and was steaming out of the baking hang it all, captain, you must see that no man of his own free will would be Idiot enough to resurrect a long forgotten niece Just to make himself into a beggar." Dr. Maud Speer of the Tamaqua board of health and Dr. Ida V. Reel, who for seven years has been secretary of the Coatesville health board, are said to be the only women in Pennsylvania to sustain such honors. SO—Comment bjr Rev. 8. H. Doric. Topic For tk« Week Beginning Jbf Tofic.—The power of a temperate life.—Dan. i, 1-17. (Quarterly temperance meeting.) beat of Sues harbor on her way down toward the worse heat of the Red sea beyond. A passenger, a young man of eight or nine and twenty, lounged on a camp ■tool uader the upper bridge awning and watched the Parakeotfs captain as he walked briskly across and across, "PtMutly, when the Utiift tailor •v he nodded as though be bad that was In his The early life of Daniel la very obscure, practically nothing being known about it except that he was probably of royal descent and possessed unusual personal endowments. He was taken "I don't-Bee why not, sir, If be got to know sbe was alive. Some men have consciences, and even a lord, I suppose, Is a man." "Is she the head chiefs favorite wife, then ?" "That's the funny part of it; she Isn't married. These orientals always get husbands early as a general thing, and you'd have thought they'd have married her to some one about the town whether she liked it or not. But It seems they didn't, because she said she'd certainly poison any man if they sent her Into his tenana. Guess there wasn't any man about the place white enough to suit her taste." "Those spikes," said Wenlock faint- Mrs. Alexander Sullivan Is the first American woman journalist to be recognized in an official capacity in France. At the opefilng of the exposition she was given the chair fourth from that of the president of France. "Above the water gate?" said Kettle. "Queer, but the same thing occurred to me too. You'd feel a bit lonely stuck up there getting sun dried." "I'll marry her." N. "This present earl has far too good a I time of It to worry about running a i conscience. No; I bet be fights like a thief for the plunder, however clear a case we have to show him. And as he's the man In possession and has «s a captive to Babylon in 'the third year of Jehoiaklm" and was educated for the king's service. In this position he proved the power of a temperate life by abstaining from the king's luxuries and living plainly and yet being fairer and healthier than those who indulged in the king's meat and drink. This topic is a timely one and the illustration one that illustrates. The young and rising generation needs to be taught that temperance, and especially sobriety, means power and that intemperance means weakness, incapacity and failure In life. There is physical power in a temperate life. Daniel lived for ten days on pulse and water, and yet at the end of that time he was "fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the king's meat." Temperance makes for health, intemperance for weakness and disease. Many have the impression that alcohol is a food and that it builds up the body. This is false. Alcohol destroys. It is destruction and not construction; it tears down Instead of building up; it weakens rather than strengthens the human body; it does not warm in winter or cool in summer; it does not give muscular strength, tone the heart or build up the nervous tissues of the body. These facts have been scientifically demonstrated by a great scholar, who sums up alcohol as a food In thM wise: "I find it to be an agent that gives no strength, that reduces the tone of the blood vessels and heart, that reduces the nervous power, that builds up no tissues and can be of no use to me or any other animal as a substance for food." With this Wenlock poured out all the pretty speeches which he had in store ind which he had looked to use to thin very woman under such very differeni ter pipe ana gripped both hands on tl: trooper's sword till the muscles stoo out In high relief. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst has presented to the University of California a complete equipment for the department of pathology, which will make this department equal to if not greater than that of any university in America. She wag seated on a raised divan, propped by cushions, and In front of her was a huge water pipe at which she occasionally took a meditative pulL She was dressed quite In oriental fash- Ion, In trousers, souave jacket, sash and all the rest of It, but she was unmistakably Bullish In features, though strongly suggestive of the Boadicea. She was a large, heavily boned woman, enormously covered with flesh, and she dandled across her Knees that very unfeminlne scepter, an English cavalryman's sword. But the eye neglected these details and was Irresistibly drawn by the strongness of her face. Even Kettle was almost awed by It. "Well, sir?" said Captain Kettle. "1 wish you wouldn't look so anxious. We've started now and may as well makfc up our minds to go through It comfortably." Kettle went out then under the awnings of the bridge deck and told Wenlock that he would probably be able to earn his fee for helping on the marriage, and Wenlock confidently thought that he quite understood the situation. The people of St. Paul and Minneapolis are raising a fund to pay off a mortgage on the home of Mrs. M. C. Wilkinson, whose husband, Major Wilkinson, was killed in the Indian outbreak at Leech Lake, Minn., in October, 1898. "Do you say," she demanded, "yo unwilling marry me?" " 3. "Behold a sower went forth to sow." He begins a series of seven parables, all spoken on this same day, with the parable of the sower. Four of the seven were spoken publicly and three privately In the house to the disciples only. The whole seven cover this present age, the mysteries of the kingdom (verse 11), or the time between the rejection and the restoration of Israel. The explanation of the parables of the sower and of the tares was given to the disciples privately when they were alone with Him in the house (Mark iv, 10). The sower soweth the word. The seed is the word of God (Mark lv, 14; Luke vili, 11). It will never return to Him void, but will accomplish all His pleasures (Isa. lv, 11), 4. "Some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up." In Luke vili, 6, it la added that it was trodden down. The four different kinds of soil describe the four different classes who hear the word of God. Only those who hear the word of God are included in these parables, and we see in them how the word of God will be treated by those who hear it during the whole of this age or dispensation "till He come." "Quite so." said Kettle. "I'm thinking out how we are to do this business In comfort and safety." And with that lie resumed his walk. "Yes," said Wenloek, with sullen en phasis. "Skipper's a bit of a methody," thought Mr. Hugh Wenlock, "but If he gets me snugly married to that little girl he'll be cheap at the price." She turned her head and gave cir orders in Arabic. With marvelous mn circumstances. But be did uot even suggest taking his future spouse back to England. Mrs. Jerry O'Neill, who recently died at Rockland, Mich., was known to have had money, but she refused to make known its hiding place before she died. The neighbors were called in, and a digging bee was held, resulting in the unearthing of $3,400 in the garden back of the house. The man beside him had Introduced himself when the black workers were carrying the Parakeet's cargo of coal in baskets from the holds to the lighters alongside, and Kettle had been rather startled to find that he-carried a letter of Introduction from the steamboat's owners. The letter gave him no choice of procedure. It stated with clearness that Mr. Hugh Wenlock, solicitor, had laid his wishes before them and that they had agreed to further these wishes through the agency of their servant, Captain Owen Kettle, In consideration of the payment of £200. Dunkhot stood od an eminence, snugly walled aud filled with cool, square bouses. At one side the high minaret of a mosque stood up like a bayonet, and at the other, standing in a ring of garden, was a larger building, which seemed to call itself palace. The Parakeet lay to, rolling outside the entrance, flying a pilot jack and waiting developments. She, too, when she graciously par doned his previous outburst, mentioned her decision on this matter also. "1 am emir here," she said, "and I could not be emir in your England without many fights. So here I shall stay, and you with me." Miss Janet Russell Perkins of Chicago, who recently took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Heidelberg university, has been made a member of several leading German scientific societies. She has passed all her examinations with the highest possible mark that has been given man or woman In these societies. % V But Captain Owen Kettle was not a man who could be kept in awe for long. He took off his helmet, marched briskly up toward the divan and bowed. ! I*5 The moilah had come in, and they were forthwith married, solemnly and Irrevocably, according to the right* and ceremonies of the Mohammedan church as practiced In the kingdom of Dunkhot. , "Good afternoon, your ladyship," he said. "I trust I see you well. I'm Captain Kettle, master of that steamboat now lying in your roads, and this is Mr. Wen lock, a passenger of mine, who heard that you were English and has come to put you In the way of some property at home." Captain Kettle might have his disquieting thoughts; still outwardly be was cool. But Mr. Hugh Wenlock was on deck In the sprucest of his apparel and was visibly anxious and fidgety, as befitted a man who shortly expected to enter into the bonds of matrimony. Mrs. Leland Stanford has given the old Stanford home in Sacramento to Bishop Mora of the Catholic church, together with a $75,000 endowment with which to maintain it as an orphanage. This 1* the house where Senator Stanford lived for 20 years and where his son, in whose memory the Stanford university was founded, was born. liSI» CQUlUCIBuvw _ The Parakeet was a cargo tramp ant carried no passenger certificate, bat i letter of recommendation like this wai equivalent to a direct order, and Kettl« signed Mr. Wenlock oo to his crew list as "doctor" and pat to sea with an anxious mind. Wenlock watted awhile, watching squalid Sues sink Into the sea behind, and then he spoke again. "Look here, captain," he said. "Those ■oath Arabian ports have got a lot worse reputation than they really dewvs. The people down there 20 years to ware a pack of pirates, I'll grant n, bat nowadays they've got the fear the gunboat always handy, and "I shall marry the fair Teresa." plenty of ready cash for law expenses, the odds are he'll turn out too big to worry at through all the courts, and we shall compromise. I'd like that best myself./ Cash down has a desirable feel about it" "And now, Mr. Wenloek, if you please," said Kettle, "as you're comfortably tied to the lady of your choice, I'll trouble you for that fee you promised."The lady sat more upright "I am English," she said. "I was called In the glaonr faith Teresa Anderson." A double ended boat came off presently, manned by naked Arabs and steered by a man In white burnoose. She swept up alongside, caught a rope and made fast and the man in white introduced himself as a pilot Mrs. Charles Ewing Green has established an alcove in the Chancellor Green library, Princeton, N. J., to the memory of her husband. It will consist of books on general, ancient and classical philology. This alcove will help to carry out the late Mr. Green's wish of making this library "the best 30,000 volumes for a university reference library In the world." 18, 19. Our Lord's own explanation is that the wayside hearers are those who hear, but for some reason do not understand, and the wicked one, the devil, represented by the birds, catches away the word lest they should believe and be saved. Those who have always heard the gospel, but have never with meekness received the word (Jas. 1, 21; John xvli, 8), yet continue to sit under the preaching of the word from week to week, are some of these wayBide hearers. They have heard it all again and again, and to them it is the same old story and unattractive. They count themselves religious because they go regularly to church, at least once a day, and always contribute something to help pay expenses. Perhaps they are church members in good standing; they may be trustees or even elders, but whatever they may be before men, if they have not truly received the Living Word, even Christ Hlrmelf (John "I'll see you In somewhere hotter than Arabia!" said th« bridegroom, mopping his pale face. "It baa, sir," said Kettle, with a reminiscent sigh. "But will the other relatives of the young lady, those that are employing you, I mean, agree to that?' "That's the name," said Kettle. "Mr. Wenlock's come to take yop away to step into a nice thing at home." "I am emir here. Am I asked to be emir in your country?" "Now, look," said Kettle, "I'm not going to scrap with you here, and I don't want to break up this happy home with domestic unpleasantness, but If you don't hand me over that £50 I shall ask your good lady to get it for me." The pilot spoke some English. He could guide them through the reefs in the most complete of safety, he said, and be could guarantee fine openings for trade, once inside. Temperance gives mental power. Daniel was not only physically superior to his associates, but surpassed them mentally and rose higher than they in the king's service. The old theory that alcohol permanently stimulates the brain has been exploded. Temperance alone keeps the mind clear and unclouded and fit for meditation. Intemperance weakens the memory, dulls the Imagination and enfeebles the "Don't I tell you, captain, I'm on my own hook? There are no other relatives, or at least none that would take a ha'p'oth of interest in Teresa's getting the estates. I've gone into the thing on sheer spec and for what I can make out of It and that please the Lord, will be the whole lump." "Why. no," said Kettle. "That Job's filled already, and we aren't thinking of making a change. Our present emir in England (who, by the way. Is a lady like yourself) seems to suit us very well." "I dare say." grunted Kettle under his breath; "but you're a heap too uncertificated for my taste." THE BEEKEEPER. that*a a wonderful civilizing power. I toll yon, captain, yon needn't be frightened; that pirate business la exploded for now and always." -I know all about the piratical hankering* of those south Arabian niggers, sir." said Kettle stiffly, ''and I know what they can do and what they can't do as well as any man living. And I know also what I can do myself at a posh, and the knowledge leaves "me pretty comfortable. But if you choose to think me frightened I'll own that I — Its the navigation down there Wenloek sullenly handed oat a note. Frames should be added as the site of the colony increases. Then he turned to Murray. "Now, look here, Mr. Mate, I'll leave you In charge. Don't let any of these nigger* come on board on any pretense whatever, and If they try It on steam out to sea. I'll get through Mr. Wenlock's business ashore as quick as I can and perhaps pick up a ton or two of cargo for ourselvea." "I do not understand," Bald the worn"I hare not gpoke your language "Thank yon. 1 know you feel Injured. If you don't quite like wbafs been done, you must remember that ifs your own fault for not wording the agreement a bit more carefully. And now, as I seem to have got through my business here. If ifs agreeable to all parties 111 be going. Goodby, Mrs. Wenloek, madam. Let me call yon by your name for the first time." an. See that each colony has a good laying queen and plenty of food. "But how? The young lady may give you something In her gratitude of course, but you can't expect it all." "Do i/ou fdiv." the lady emir repeated, "you unwilling marry met' Use the best combs for the brood nest, the roughest for storage. Do not shift the location of the bees from one place to another. Brain workers, certain victims 1 ce. "I will tell "I do, though, and I'll tell you how I'm going to get it I shall marry the fair Teresa. Simple as tumbling oft a house." When the season opens, give the bees abundance of room for storing honey. I, 12; I John ▼, 12), they are not sai S, 6. "No deepness of earth, and the sun was up they were scorched because they had no root they wit away." Lake vi«, 6, says, "It wit away because it lacked moisture." Nucleus as applied to bee culture signifies • small swarm of bees of from one-fourth to one-tenth of a full colony. Black bees may easily be changed to Italians by simply removing the black queen and Introducing an Italian In her place. This may be done in any hive. alcohol. Of all the people who cannot stand It, It Is the brain workers, and yon know It Is the brain workers who are Increasing In number*." Mental power and success demand temperance, total abstinence for alcoholic drinks. Kettle drew himself up stiffly and walked to the other end of the bridge and began ostentatiously to look with a professional eye over his vessel. Below, the pilot clamored that a ladder might be thrown to him, so that be might come on board and take the Parakeet forthwith into the anchorage, and to him again Kettle turned and temporized. He must go ashore himself first, he said, and see what ofTer there was of trade before he took the steamer in, to which the pilot, though visibly disappointed, saw fit to agree. The lady emir set back her great shoulders. "That is not my name," •be said. "I am emir. My name doea not Amoge." that gave me cold shivers the first moment you mentioned it" "fWhy, If s no worse than the Bed sea here anyway." "The Bad sea's bad, bat yon can get charts of It and rely on them "I don't like the Idea of that sort of marriages," said the little sailor acidly. "Beg pardon," said Kettle. "He takes yours, does be? Didn't know that waa the custom of this country. Well, good afternoon." explanation in verses 20, 21, is that these hearers receive the word with Joy, but cannot stand tribulation or persecution for the word's sake, or as Luke vtli, 13, says, "In time of temptation fall away." These, like the wayside hearers, are not saved people. They can and do seem to appreciate a good sermon; they talk with interest of some of the things of God, and as long as all is well with them they seem to be real Christians, but when they are in trials for Christ's sake or are spoken against by others who bear His name they want no more of such Christianity or of such people; they do not see "Jesus only;" they are not staid upon Jehovah; they are absent from church and prayei meeting and soon back in the world, where they really belong. They are described in Heb. vi, 4-6; I John ii, 19, etc. In breeding queens artificially it is very important at first to get good cells from brood that is of the right age for transformation. It is safest to use fully developed cells. Wenlock shrugged bis shoulders good humoredly. "Neither do I, and if 1 were a rich man I wouldn't have dreamed of It Jnst think of what the girl probably is. She's been with those niggers since she was quite a kid. Of course you'll say there's romance about the thing. But then I don't care tuppence about romance, and, anyway, It's beastly uncomfortable to live with." Temperance Is necessary to moral and spiritual power. Men of weakened minds and enfeebled bodies are more easily corrupted morally and spiritually than If their minds and bodies were strong and vigorous. He who would be proof against temptation must learn to keep under his body and" to bring it Into subjection. Piety, virtue, spiritual power, are the handmaidens of temperance and sobriety. gooc .  South Arabian coast la no better, ana the charts aren't worth the paper they "But do you want no present?" said the lady. the (old standard act o. eongreaa was denounced in and it was asserted that, " out tke Money of the cont__ law opens the printing mints C urr to the free coinage of p to earich the few and imp man j." The party was pledged anew __. cease agitation until the financial spiracy is bletted from the statute b the Lincoln greenback restored anc bonds all paid and all corporation m forever retired." "Now, sir," said Kettle to Wenlock, "Into the boat with you. The lew time that's wasted the better I shall be pleased." 'Thank you," said Kettle, with a cock of the head, "but I take presents from no one. What bit of a living I get, your ladyship, I earn." Plenty of storage room has much to do with the swarming of bees. So also has the siae of the hive. The honey season also has much to do with it. A very large hive does not give good results.— St. Louis Republic. are printed on." "I wouldn't like you to wreck the steamer down there. Jt might be awkward (or me getting back." "Quite so," said Kettle. "You're ♦hiwfciny of yourself, and I don't blame you. I'm thinking of myself also. I'm a man that'* met with a great deal of misfortune, air, and from one thing and another I've been eight years without a regular command. I had the luck to bring in a derelict the other day and pocket a good salvage out of her, and my present owners heard of it, and they put me as master of this steamer. Just because of that luck. I am not anxious to pile up this steamboat on some uncharted reef." "Ail right," said Wenlock, pointing to a big package on the deck. "Just tell some of your men to shove that case down into the boat, and I'm ready." "I do not understand. But you are sailor. You have sheep. You wish cargo T' "I was not looking at that point of view." Captain Kettle snapped bis fingers ecstatically. "Now, ma'am, there you've hit it. Cargo's what I do want I'll have to tell you that freights are up a good deal Just now, and you'll have to pay for accommodation." PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH. Religion, science, prudence, all nnlte to praise temperance and to condemn Indulgence and Intemperance. How can we go contrary to these three great life teachers? Carolus Durer si ways smokes while painting on a portrait, except, of course, when a lady is the sitter. He says that he finds the greatest inspiration in a pipe. "Let me tell you how I was fixed," said Wen lock, with a burst of confidence. "I'd a small capital. So I qualified as a solicitor and put up a doorplate and waited for a practice. It didn't come. When the news of this girl Teresa came, I tell you I Just jumped at the chance. I don't want to marry her of course. There are ten other girls I'd rather have as a wife, but there was no other way out of the difficulty, so I Just swallowed my squeamlshness for good and always. Seer- Kettle eyed the bulky box with disfavor. "What's In it," he asked—"a since I was child. Speak what you say again." present?" "I'll leave it to Mr. Wenlock, your majesty, if you've no objections, as he's the party mostly lnterempd. I see you don't mind smoke," he added and lit a fresh cheroot. 7. "And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them." Mark iv, 7, says, "It yielded no fruit." The explanation in verse 22 ia that the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of richness choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Mark iv, 18, adds, "The lusts of other things." Luke vili, 14, says they bring no fruit to perfection. It seems to me that this class of "hearers represent saved ones who will be saved as by fire (I Cor. ill, 15); saved, but without rewords; no crowns to cast at His feet; Christians, but not disciples; glad to be saved by Uim, but not willing to deny self and follow Him. The cost of salvation was wholly paid by our Lord Jesus Christ and is a free gift to every true penitent, but the cost of discipleship falls upon the saved one who, if he would be a disciple, must forsake all and follow Christ. The system of Issuing injunctions eases of dispute between employers a. employees was under certain circun stances denounced as an evil. The election of president, vice president and limited States senators by direct rote of the peepla was urged and also were govern* meat ownership of railroads and telegraph lines, hotte rule in the territories, the employment of idle labor on public works in time of depression, the pr ment of just pensions to disabled so' and the establishment of postal banks. "Well, If you must know, captain, if s occurred to me that Teresa Is probably an occupant of somebody's harem and that I shall have to buy her off from her husband; hence the case of THE PRATER MEETING. "I do not understand." James M. Barrie, the novelist, in consenting to stand for parliament, shows a decided change of opinion in such matters, since only five years ago he said that he would rather be flogged than have to go into politics. Have a special temperance meeting. Illustrate the subject by story and song. There are many forcible stories and touching temperance songs which illustrate the power of temperance and the fatal weakness of intemperance. "Of course you don't, yonr majesty. But just give me a line to the principal merchants in the town, saying that you'd like me to have a few tons of their stuff, and that'll do." rifles." Now, it was clear from the attitude of the guards and the civilians present that Kettle was Jostling heavily on court etiquette, and at first the lady emir was very clearly Inclined to resent it and had sharp orders for his repression ready upon her Hps. But she evidently changed her mind. In the meanwhile Mr. Wenlock was stating his case with small forensic eloquence. The sight of Miss Teresa Anderson In the flesh awed him. The woman before him, whose actual age was 28, looked SO and even for a desperate man like himself was Impossible as a wife in England. He felt daunted before her already. ▲ queer look came over Captain Kettle's face. "And you'd still marry this woman if she had another husband living?""I'm as keen as you are not to get "You wish me write. I will write. Now we will wash hands, and there Is banquet." South Africa the magnet for authors these days, and J. M. Barrie is the latest to join the writers' colony at the front, which included, up to recently, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, Julian Ralph and several others. BIBLE READINGS. the steamer wrecked, and if there's any way she can be kept out of a dan~~»ous area, and you can manage to * ashore where I want in a boat, ou say, and I'll meet you all I tut at the same time, skipper, if n't mind doing a swap, you 7e me a good deal of help over r in return." 1't heard your business yet, you're told me is that you De set down in this place, and be taken off again after ild there four and twenty Ps. 1, 1-6; Prov. xx, 1; xxlil, 1-8, 29- 32; I Cor. vi, 0-20; ix, 25-27; GaL y, 10- 26; Titus i, 7-0; 11,1, 2; II Pet 1, 5-7. "Of ceurse. Haven't I told you that I've thought the whole thing thoroughly over already, and I'm not inclined to stick at trifles?" "It was Miss Teresa Anderson I was pitying," said Kettle pointedly. tours later Captain Kettle returned to And so it came to pass that some 24 Harana Receipts For April.  Washington, May 11.—The statement s made by the division of customs and nsolar affairs of the war department chat the receipts at the port of Havana Kthe month of April were $900,887. e receipts at that port for the month of April, 1899, were $859,574. The receipts for April are divided as follows: Import dnties, $813,408; export duties, $41,749; foreign tonnage dues, $22,689t coastwise tonnage dues, $1,310; fines, etc., $291; special harbor improvemAt tax, $14,805; cattle inspection fees, $1,- •19: capitation tax, $1,195; overthnt work, $849; consular fees, $91; all other sources, $597; storage and cartag* charges, $1,400. Footfall Waylay Cyclist. Newark, N. J., May 11.—While Georgt Prentiss of Union was riding on his wheel along Irving place, between Irving- Ion and Union, two men called to him to step. It was in a lonely spot, and, suspecting their purpose was robbery, Prentiss tried to get past them. One of them, however, grabbed the handle bar of his bicycle and threw him heavily. Then they struck him on the head with soma blunt instrument, "went through" him, taking his watch and $12, and left him unconscious. trie Parakeet, sun scorched and flushed with success, and relieved the anxious Murray from his watch. The mate was naturally curious to know what had happened ashore. Lady Stanley, the wife of Sir Henry Stanley, whose delightful pictures of London street arabs are so well known, does most of her work in a large room, which is filled with curious relics collected by her husband on his various explorations. Her studio, in fact, is a piece of Africa itself. Things Which No Money Cut Bay. "Good Lord, man, why? Isn't it the finest thing in the world for her?" Beware lest thou in any sense, in any respect, despise the poor man because of his poverty. Ever since Jesns Christ lived In a poor man's home and worked at the carpenter's trade the poor man's house has been a sacred place and the laboring man's vocation a sacred thing. The earthly life of the Son of Man has illuminated and glorified the plain and homely things of human life. A man's house may be a very humble one. There may be no carpet on the floor, the furniture may be plain, the fare may be simple and scanty, but there may dwell a glory there which shall cause the plainest and poorest things to shine with a radiance as from heaven. Things may be there more pre* clous than any that can be purchased at the furniture dealer's or at the clothier's. Peace, contentment, kindness, affection, may be there—things which no money can buy.—Christian Intelligencer. "Very well," said Kettle. "Now, let me tell you, sir, for the last time that I don't like what you're going to da To my mind it's a dirty thing—marrying a woman that you evidently despise Just for her money." "It might be fine to get away from where she is and land home to find a nice property waitlDf. But I don't care to see a woman have a husband forced on her. It would be nobler of you, Mr. Wenlock, to let the young lady get to England and look round her for awhile and make her own choice." "Let me get a glass of Christian beer to wash all their sticky nastiness from my neck, and I'll tell you," said Kettle, and be did with fine detail and circumstance.8. "But other fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, aome an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold." Mark iv, 8, says, "Fruit that sprffhg up and increased." The explanation in verse 28 is that the good ground represents those who hear the word and understand it, or as in Luke vlii, 15, "They who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience." From John xv we learn that the one thing God seeks in us is fruitfulness, fruit, more fruit, much fruit, that the Father may be glorified. "Filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God" (Phil. 1, 11), the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy. peace, etc. (Gal. v, 22). Now, while it is this last class that the Lord seeks, He sees that the other three classes will exist all through this age until He come again, and yet He Is not discouraged (Isa. xlii, 4). His word will accomplish His pleasure (Isa. Iv, 11). There Is therefore no room for the child of God to be cast down as he faithfully sows the Incorruptible seed of the word of God and does not see the results whtch he thinks he ought to see. Some will fall by the wayside, some on the rocks where there Is but little soil, some among thorns and aome on good ground. Let us for ourselves seek to glorify God by the hundredfold, wholly His, fully yielded, nothing reserved, filled with His Spirit, believing His every word. Wenlock flushed. "Look here," he said. "I refuse to be lectured, especially by you. Aren't you under promise to get £50 from me the moment I'm safely married? And didn't you fairly Jump at the chance of fingering It?" BRITON AND BOER, But the lady emir looked on Wenlock in a very different way from that in which she had regarded Kettle. Mr. Wenlock possessed, as Indeed be had himself pointed out on the Parakeet, a fine outward presence, and, in fact, anywhere he could have been remarked on as a personable man. The lady emir had not remained unmarried all these years through sheer distaste for matrimony. She had been celibate through an unconquerable pride of blood. Here, now, stood before her a male of her own race, handsome, upstanding and obviously Impressed by her power and majesty. He would not rule her. He would not even attempt a mastery. She would still be emir—and a wife. The chance had never occurred to her before; might never occur again. She was quick to make her decision. -Du see, I didn't want it talkforehand. If the newspa,ld of the yarn and made a bout it, they might upset a rlage that I've very much upon." ?ttle looked puzzled. "I quite follow you, sir." hear the tale from the Ve have plenty of time ust now. Tou remember "Well, Wenlock's got his heiress, anyway," said Murray, with a sigh, when the tale was over. "I suppose we may as well get under way now, sir?" ~ Both rains and reputations are reported to be falling in South Africa.—Baltimore American. "I'm too hard up to be noble," said Wenlock dryly. "I've not come here on philanthropy, and marrying that girl Is part of my business. Besides, hang It all, man, think of what she is, and think of what I am." He looked himself up and down with a half humorous smile. Between farming, fighting and moving, the Boers are about the busiest'people on earth.—New York World. Captain Kettle merely smiled grimly and said, "Get down Into the boat, you and your case of rifles." "Not much." said Kettle jubilantly. "Why, map, I've squeezed every ton of cargo ney have in the place and stuck In a way that would surprise you. They daren't say no to any rate. Oh, 1 tell you that emir woman has a wonderful power over them. We'll open a market here and keep It all to ourselves. It'll be as good as a back yard gold mine. The bulk Isn't much, of course, but you should see the freight And mark you," said Kettle, hitting the table, "that or more will be here waiting for me every time I come, and no other skipper need apply." The mortality rate among British military reputations in South Africa is unusually high.—Soranton Times. For the moment Wenlock started and hesitated. He seemed to detect something ominous in this order. But then he took a brace on his courage, and, after a couple of deckhands had lowered the rifles Into the dancing boat, he clambered gingerly down after them and sat himself beside the white robed man In the stern sheets. Kettle followed, and the boat headed off for the opening between the reefs. The British conquest of the Boer republics Beems to be one long succession of relief expeditions.—Buffalo Express. "Still," said Kettle doggedly, "I don't like the idea of it" he Rangoon 7" Boer talents in the matter of getting out of tight places might well be studied by Baden-Powell and other gentlemen who have found such gifts extremely handy.—Brooklyn Times. ornlug home from East _ WL wasn't she, and got oq Hr5T somewHre off Cape Ouardaful? Only about ten of her people saved, if } remember.", "Thafs about right," said Wenlock. "Then let me give you an Inducement. 1 said I was not down here ou philanthropy, and I don't suppose you art' either. If you'll help this marriage on In the way I ask, I'll give you £50." One of the most remarkable disappear ances of the time is that of Lord Kitchener. A little while ago he seemed ubiquitous, but now he cannot be fouud even in the dispatches.—San Francisco Call. We live In an enemy's country. Satan is the god of this world. He claims to own It and to distribute his prises to those who serve htm. He blinds human minds and sways human hearts. Jesus Christ seeks to gather out of the world in which he holds such sway a peculiar people, eealous of good works. They are beset on every hand with perils and temptations. Satan Is not willing to give them up. It becomes them to be on their guard as they travel onward to a better country. Grace Is promised them all along the way, and they are safe only as they keep close to their Saviour and in the path of duty and holiness marked out for them by an unerring Guide.—Presby* tertan. In u Eaemr'i Country. "There's no man living who could do more nw.fullv with £50 if I raw mv way to fingering It. I was wondering, ■lr, If I could earn It honorably. You must give me time to think this out, and I'll try and give you an answer after tea." •It's 25 years ago now. Among others lost was a Colonel Anderson and his ,wlfe and their child, Teresa, aged 4, and what made their deaths all the more sad was the fact that Anderson's elder brother died Just a week before, and be would hare come home to find a peerage and large estates waiting for him." The boat passed between the cluster of ragged shipping swaying at the anchorage, and Wenlock might have stared with curious eyes, had he been so minded, on real dhows which had even then got real slaves ready for market In their stuffy 'tween decks. Over the arch of the water gate, for which they were heading, was what at first appeared to be a friese of small, rounded balls; but a nearer view resolved these Into human beads, in various stages of desiccation. Wenlock stared at the gate, with its dressing of heads, as though they fascinated him. Heartless. {tilling potentates are not as other folk with their love affairs, and the lady emir of Dunkbot unconsciously fell In with the rule of her caste. The English speech, long disused, came to her unhandily, but the purport of what she said was plain. She made proclamation that the Englishman Wenlock should there and then become her hus' band, and let slaves fetch the mollah to unite them before the sun had dropped below another bar of the windows. "H'm!" said the mate thoughtfully. "But will Weulock be as civil and limp next time you call, sir?" "Did that man ever write anything that attracted attention?" House Hunter—But are you sure that the cellar Is perfectly dry? Eully Managed. "Oh, yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "I know some people who have office® near him. He composes on a typewriter, and It Is one of the noisiest ma* chines ever constructed. Anything hf writes attracts the attention of the entire bnlldlng."—Washington Star. Captain Kettle had not seen ueces sary to mention the fact to Mr. Wenlock, but while that young man was talking of the Miss Teresa Anderson who at present was "quite a big personage In her way," a memory had come to him that he had beard of the lady before In somewhat less prosaic terms. All sallormen who have done business on the great sea highway between west and east during recent years have bad the yarn given to them at one time or another, and most of them have regarded It as a gratuitous legend. Kettle was one of these. Hut be was beginning to think there was something more In it than a mere sailor's yarn, and he was anxious to see If there was any variance In the telling. Captain Kettle winked pleasantly and put a £50 note In bis lockup drawer. "That's all right, my lad. No fear of Master YVenlock. If you'd seen the good lady, his wife, you'd know why. That's the man that went hunt lng an heiress, Mr. Murray, and, by' the holy James, he's got her no error." Real Estate Dealer-Oh, you may be sure of that! Never was a drop of water ever seen In It even In the wettest kind of weather. "I can feel for that man," said Kettle.House Hunter—Barry about that. Do you kqow I have a theory that a damp cellar la the healthiest thing In the world. _In my opinion the water in a cellar absorbs noxious gases, and, besides, it so moistens the whole atmosphere of the house as to make it more grateful to the lungs. "I can feel most for the daughter," ■aid Wenlock. Got Over the Limit. over 30 yeafni I RICHTER'S  d-'Renown«d ■ Anchor" I Expeller I '* b*i£Li£!Li£££Lif Itr I The late Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin was a very generous giver of charity and of presents, which neither he nor the benetieiary would have cared to denominate as charity, though the gifts amounted to much the same. He told a friend one day that he was going to turn over a new leaf and try to keep his donations down to a limit that would not exceed $1,000 a month. Three months after he had announced this resolution his friend asked how he had made out. "How do you mean, sir?" "Well, Colonel Anderson's dead and •his wife's dead, but the daughter Isn't, any rate sbe was very much alive 12 months ago; that's all. The whole lot of them, with others, got Into one of the Rangoon's boats, and after friz fling about at m till they wore nearly Starved got chucked on that south Arabian coast, which you say is so rocky and dangerous, and were drowned; all barring Teresa, that is. She was polled out of the water by the local niggers and was brought up by them, and I've absolutely certain information that not a year ago she wa§ living in Dunkhot, as quite a big pet: sonage In her way." "And she's 'my lady' now, if sbe only knew?" She did Dot ask her fnture husband's wishes or his permission. She simply stated her sovereign will and looked that It should be carried out forthwith. Dr Worl 4f One of Bothera'a Kits. "And Teresa will have been brought up within sight of all this," Wenlock murmured to hlnself, "and will be accustomed to' It. Fancy marrying a woman who has spC*nt 24 years of her life in the neighborhood of all this savagery.""The late E. A. Sothern was an In ■veterate Joker," said a man who knew the actor. "He would go to any amouut of personal Inconvenience and trouble to carry out one of bis jokes, and 1 remember his telling me once with great glee t)QW he had got Into an empty stage in the lower part of Fifth avenue and succeeded to riding the length of the route and return without any one getting aboard or the company receiving any fares except his own. The manner in which he accomplished this he explained to be as follows: For long enough Wenlock stood wordless In front of the divan, far more like a criminal than a prospective bridegroom. The lady, with the tube of the water pipe between her Hps, puffed smoke and made no further speech. But at last Wenlock, as though wrenching himself Into wakefulness out of some horrid dream, turned wildly to Kettle and In a torrent of words implored for rescue. Real Estate Dealer—Come to thlnH of It, It was that «ther bouse on the other side of the street that has the dry cellar. The cellar In this house Is never free from water. Really, sir, I think It will suit you Immensely—Boston Transcript If yon want your church to prosper, be faithful In doing your part. Seek out nonchurchgoers and Invite them to come to church with you. Notify your pastor of any who would be glad to receive a call from him. Be regular In your attendance at all the services of the church.—Christian Instructor. Do Your Part. Pain » They panned In through the gate, the sentries staring at them curiously, and, once Inside, In the full heat and smell of the narrow street tteyoud, Wenlock said: "Look here, skipper; you're resourceful, and you know these out of the way places. How had we better start to And the girlV m So be sent for Murray, his mate; made him sit, and commenced talk of a purely professional nature. Finally be said: "And since I saw you last thfD schedule'* changed. We call In at Dnnkhot for that passenger, Mr. Wenlock, to do some private business ashore before we go on to our Persian gulf ports." Diplomacy (a the Pulpit, "I started out pretty well," he replied, "and If I hadn't given an old friend of mine In Wisconsin who had struck hard luck $10,000 last month I think I should have kept within the limit."—Philadelphia Bulletin. "Jes' one word," said Uncle Remus from the pulpit as the collection was .bout to be taken; "dar's been a mighty sight ob chicken stealln 'bout here lately. Now, dtDn' any you niggars dat help steal dem chickens put nuffln In de 'lection box. I'ee not goln bab any you 'sgracln de good Lawd dat way, nohow!"—Harper's Bazar. I Gout, Neuralgia,etc. I ■ vARlOUS Rheumatic Complaints! I Only 250. aid 50o. at all drugglsta I L F. M- RlchUr t Co. J Bk 215 Pearl Street, jmM New York, XA/ANTKD-BBVBBAL PEBSON8 FOB DIS- V V trlct Offloe Managers in thia state to represent me In their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly *800, payable weekly Desirable employment with nnnraal c portunities. Beferenoes exchanged. Rep' Mlf-addressed -J " envelope. 8. ▲. ADVERTISING AXIOMS. •# - V The little sailor heard him quite unmoved. "You asked my help," he said, "In a certain matter, and I've given It, and things have turned out Just as I've guessed they would. You maundered about your dear Teresa on my steamboat till I was nearly sick, and, by James, you've got her now, and no error about It." Advertising is the "golden gate" to prosperity. Kettle glanced coolly round at the grim buildings and the savage Arabs who jostled them, and said with fine sarcasm: "Well, sir. If you'll take the tip from me, you'll crowd back to my steamboat as fast as you can go. You'll find It healthier." "The stage had proceeded some three blocks when It stopped to pick up a couple of women who had signaled It, whereupon Sothern, who could not of course be seen by the driver, began to dance up and down the Interior of the stage, wave his arms about and grin and chatter in idiotic and expansive manner. The women decided that they would have pone of that particular stage, as they did not consider riding with • lunatic u condu* YrfrF f H»ut afn-wni- Try m Ckange. Advertising is the lever that moves the business world. "Well, not that The .title doesn't You have probably tried the plan of making others miserable and found little comfort In It, Try making others happier. Possibly It will suit you better. Too many people have the habit of saying disagreeable things to and about others. There is no pleasure In It, but there Is so much unhapplness In the world that you can gain genuine satisfaction by saying kind things of people, by doing kind things. Don't cut and ulash. It onlz makes mlaera- Do you want to feel the pulse of the buying world ? Advertise. descend In the female line. But Colo-* Del Anderson made a will In her favor after she was born, and the present earl, Who's got the estates, would have to shell ont If she turned up again." "My owners In their letter mentioned that yon were a solicitor. Then yon are employed by his lordahipi sfcrT" Mr. Wartwk "Hot aw*." Murray repeated the name thoughtfully. "Dunkot? Let's see. That's on the south Arabian coast, about a day's steam from Aden, and a beast of a place to get at, so I've heard. Oh, and, of course, that's the place where that she sultan or queen or whatever she calls herself la boss." Procrastination of advertising plans may be the thief of prosperity. A Father to Be Appreciate*. Teacher—I called to see you, sir, about your son's schooling and am sorry to say that he is behind in his studies. In almost every business there is one leader. Where is your place in line? "I'm going on with It," said Wenlock doggedly. "And I. ask you to earn your £50 and give me help." Now the lady emir was not listening to all this tirade by any means unmoved. Although she did not understand one word In ten of what was being spoken, she gathered the gist of It SUa throw away the ioaky stem oC war The public is just as anxious to buy your goods as you are to sell—if the merit is there. "So there la really a woman of that Usi thare, to there T Fd heard of her. "Then, If you distinctly ask me to help you on Into trouble like that of —th» bmt tbUm to - The proper time to prepare an advertising campaign is bow. Be re«dy.-~Bo»- to* Hmti  Parent—That's all right. If he wasn't behind, bow could he pursue thetaV- Pf Btamp». -r--. C«J Gaxtoo Building, Chicago.