Pittston Gazette

              ■itlMtoked 18SO. I TOL. L No. 49 ) Oldest Newspaper in the Wv- .nine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1900. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. C SI.00 a Tear, 1 iaAdTUtw. llSTif Trespasser. | f| An Bp'sode on a Boer Farm. Showing How Two Travelers In the Transvaal IT Suffered the Loss of Their Supper. J" 5 P. Y. BLACK. 5 [Copyright, 1900, by P. Y. BLACK.] £ I would be the better word—and at last l I heard the voices and scrambling j steps of the hunters returning. It alarmed me afresh, however, not to distinguish amid the sounds the rolling curses of the farmer. I waited awhile and beard nothing, and then the thought of that trooper, snuggling in a cozy hidden nook somewhere near, preparing the duck for supper, overpowered me, and 1 rose and set out to find him, bearing my hard won pumpkin still along. The moon passed behind clouds, and It became pitch dark. For a long time I pottered about, afraid to call oat, for I knew something of a Boer's shrewdness and tenacity, and I felt more than uncertain that the farmer was dodging about, waiting a chance at me, and the fact that his voice had been abBent from those of the party returning made me suspicious and nervous. 1 had accidents. 1 fell Into a pool, and 1 bruised my knee badly. It grew bitterly cold for that land, and the dew fell heavily, and, above all, I began to grow weak and sick from hunger after that 20 mile tramp. I began to shake and shiver, but I held on to the pumpkin.THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN endeavor. STATE BOUNDARIES. HE BEGAN ALL RIGHT That afternoon Mr. Rasher, the agent, called me Into his office and said: TAFT REACHES MANILA. LESSON XI, SECOND QUARTER, INTER- Topic For the Week Beginning Jam IO—Comment by Rev. 8. H. Doyl*, Topic.—Live* tbat lift.—Luke xiii, 20, 21. Controveralea Which Have Been In "Sammls, has your wounded dignity been healed?" "Yes, sir." NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 10. frovreii For a Century. BUT THE NEW TENANT DID NOT CAR- New Philippine Commission THE PARABLE. The controversy as to the boundary line between the states of Virginia and Tennessee which lias been in progress for more than 100 years and involves jurisdiction over a strip of land in the Cumberland mountains nearly 100 miles long has at last reached the supreme court of the United States, which has been asked to appoint a board of commissioners to Burvey and officially to declare where Virginia ends and Tennessee begins. This contest, one of the oldest between the states, is one only of several similar controversies which have been going on for many years. Some of the states involved are Maryland and Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri, Texas and Arkansas and California and Nevada. RY OUT HIS PROGRAMME. Tpit of the Lesson, Mark vl, 14-20. Memory Verses. 21-24—Golden Text, Kph. r, 18—Commentary Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. This topic is illustrated by the prffable of the leaven and the meal. It is associated by the evangelists with that of the mustard seed—the one representing the external growth and spread of Christ's church and the other the internal growth of Christian principles and their universal extension. After the parable of the mustard seed, Jesus said: "Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened." "Then don't take any more redheaded women up in the elevator. Such little affairs as that In room 68 cause gossip and hurt our business." Ready For Work. He Thought He Coald Bluff the Ofllce Elevator Boy, and There Is Where He Made an Awful Mistake—The Boy'a Story of Hta Revenge. THE CHAIRMAN OUTLINES POLICY. Just at present our building ia as quiet as a graveyard, and I hope it may long remain so. Something may bob up at any moment, however, but If It does It will not be the fault of 14. "And King Herod heard of Him, for nis name was spread abroad." In Math, xiv, 1, the words are, "Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus." His works and His words were being talked about, or, in other words, that which God said and did through Him (John xiv, 10) was noised abroad. How much or how often are you telling the doings and sayings of Jesus to make His name known? We are not on earth to make a name for ourselves, but to bear His name and magnify it that the Lord alone may be exalted, that in all things He may have the pre-eminence (Isa. ii, 11; Col. i, 18). [Copyright, 1900, by D. M. Stearns.] Insarrectos Moat Lay Down Their Arms and Then Civil Government Will Be Established aD Speedily a# Possible. [Copyright, 1900, by C. B. Lewis. 1 A few weeks ago, when Mr. Rockaway, the kodak agent, moved into room 68, be took an early opportunity to say to me: SAMMIS, the Elevator Boy. M. Quad. Manila, June 4.—The United Statet transport Hancock, from San Francistx April 17, has arrived here with the mem bers of the Philippine commission. Thj members of General MacArthur's stall welcomed the commissioners on board the Hancock. At noon the commissioners landed anQ drove to the palace, escorted by General MacArthur's staff, a band and two companies of the Twenty-sixth infantry, with artillery. At the palace the commissioners wera welcomed by General MacArthur in a short and forceful address. After Judge William H. Taft, president of the commission, had replied the commissioners returned to the Hancock, where theD will remain until they have selected suitable dwellings on land. During the morning the members dt he Filipino supreme court, the local ea- There are moments and occasions when utter strangers greet with effusive heartiness and a brotherly leaping of the heart. I do not knCvw that the apparition of my wealthiest frleud would have more lightened my spirit vanoed a step with a salute. Up went the gun to the Boer's hip, and his abuse poured faster. I ventured to speak. The gun went to his shoulder. I retreated, and I heard the door 6lam behind me. "Sammis, there are owners of skyscrapers, and there are agents and Janitors of skyscrapers, but the elevator boy is the real boss." ALL ATE THEIR HUSBANDS. "Yes, sir; he is." I humbly replied. to Make Spider* Weave Silk. Utter Failure of a Costly Experiment THE INTERPRETATION. "If he stands in with the tenant, that tenant is all right; if he don't stand In. then the tenant might as well hunt for another office. I want to stand in with you, Sammis." As long ago as the beginning of the eighteenth century the idea of using the thread that the spider spins from its body as a substitute for the thread unwrapped from the cocoon of the flHkworm was broached, but with little practical result. An Englishman, Mr. Rolt, secured 20,000 feet of silk thread from 22 spiders in two hours. and more quickly have dressed my face in smiles than did the presence on the roadside of that wandering extrooper of the Bechuanaland border The trooper was awaiting me with greater anxiety to baste away than I Imagined bis lounge by the quiet pond would have excited. He received my nfws very calmly. The kingdom of God represents the church which is to spread over the world as the leaven throughout the meal. The leaven represents the word of God, or the new living principle brought Into the world by Christ, which is to be implanted in the hearts of men and which will lift them as leaven lifts or raises the meal. There is no significance in the fact that there were three measures of meal or that It was a woman who hid the leaven in the meal. This was the usual amount, and the work was such as a woman usually performs. Tennessee was admitted into the Union in 171HS. At that time the surveys of the mountain districts which are partly within Virginia and partly within Tennessee were imperfect and to some extent misleading, and since then the controvesy as to where the line of division runs has been continued steadily, but without as yet any positive determination. Few American states are separated by ordinary geographical lines, such as separate, for instance, New Jersey from its neighboring states. This line of boundary is the Delaware river, and New Jersey lies between the Delaware river and the Atlantic ocean, north Df Delaware bay. But the northern boundary of the state, which runs along the south boundary of Orange and Rockland counties, N. Y., is indefinite and 'ias long been the subject of dispute. In ike manner so has the boundary line between New York and Connecticut. Geographically, the line which would divide New York from Connecticut and Massachusetts would be the Hudson river, the head of navigation of which at Troy is almost exactly opposite the boundary line between Massachusetts and Vermont But for other reasons more cogent than those of geography the east bank of the Hudson is included in New York as weli as the west and like considerations account for some of the divisions between western states. 15, 16. "It is John whom I beheaded. He is risen from the dead." In Math, xiv, 2, it is said that Herod added, "Therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in Him." Why Herod should associate mighty works and one risen from the dead we are not told, but we do know that in every believer there ought to be manifested the power of a resurrection life. We should pray as Paul did, "That 1 may know Him and the power of His resurrection," and give heed to the commandments, "Set your affection on things above." "Yes, sir." ease and a possession of confidence 1 which, on that lonely veldt,- GO miles j police. He reclined, with an a: "It's a pity the beast wouldn't give us some coffee, at least," he said, "but C?ome on." "You are a widow's son. Here's half a dollar to cheer your mother's lonely heart. You are trying to pay off the gigantic mortgage left on the estate by from an inn In a stranger peopled Iff country, rejoiced me as with the nearness of a home. A dwarfed tree afford- Then came the culmination of all my woes. It began to grow darker, with a very heaviness of black, an almost tangible darkness. My feet had hitherto engaged all my attention, but 1 now looked up. The moon was high in the sky, but there was but little of it visible. A black shadow was stealing across it, was almost completely over It It was in process of eclipse. Then I gave up hope of finding the trooper, of finding the trek even, in the well of blackness which was near at hand, for I was now seeking the trooper off the road. And I sought, it being now near midnight, a place to rest in and unroll my blanket. I stumbled along toward a solitary tree, which I thought might keep off some of the dew, and by the last flicker of moonlight I saw a man seated beneath it. He had his back to me and was sitting on a stone, and I would have sworn 1 saw the sides of a shovel shaped beard sticking out above his shoulders. Something rested between his knees. My conjectures jumpeel to a certainty that It was the farm- Very sulkily I followed him through the trees, past a rude barn, where lay exposed some pumpkins and other veg- Of late some experiments have been conducted byv curious persons to ascertain which spider produced the best and largest quantity of silk, for it has been demonstrated that It is an excellent substitute for that of the silkworm. Spiders from Paraguay and Argentina, from India, China and Australia, were tried, but the best results were secured from the spiders of Madagascar.was not far off. His blanket was thrown beside him, and a billy of a convenient size reposed between the extended military breeches. Doubtless an extra sincerity was afforded to my cordial greeting by the ed him shade, a nearly dried up pan t Vc^ Ik IMP y*| ■nr/vfl9fl THE APPLICATION. 17, 18. "Herod himself had sent forth and laid bold upon John and bound him In prison." This he did because John had rebuked him because of sin in his life. Thus the righteous for righteous' ness* sake find imprisonment and death, while the ungodly prosper in the world. This perplexed David and Asaph (Ps. xxxvli and lxxiii) and many a righteous one before and since, but our Lord Jesus taught that the righteous are in the world as sheep in the midst of wolves and must not fear them who kill the body (Math, x, 10, 28). Sixty years after He had returned to heaven He said to the xhurch on earth that she must expect suffering and tribulation and the hatred of the devil, but He encouraged her to faithfulness by setting before her the crown of life (Iiev. ii, 10). All that will live godly In Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution (II Tim. iii, 12). tD. "Herodias would have killed hfm, but she could not." She was a murderess at heart and therefore related to him of whom our Lord tells in John viii, 44. The murderers on earth are very many, for "Whosoever bateth his brother is a murderer" (1 Johu iii, 15). Instead of having a quarrel with .him the margin says she had an inward grudge against him. If an inward grudge is as murder in the sight of iiod and a lustful look or desire breaks the seventh commandment (Math, v, 28), should not each one ask himself, What does God think of me? This parable very naturally suggest? the lifting force of Christianity upo:j the lives of men. It not only suggest lifting lives, but sets before us somfacts in reference to lives that lift. dainty vapors which arose from tbat billy as I drew near. A hot mouthful prevented him from doing more In the way of invitation than waving me to a •eat on the bowlder peppered turf. It was enough. My knife was handy, and I forked from the pot by Its aid a tenderly stewed bird's wing. Our eyes therefore sufficed for a space to It was found that after laying her eggs the female spider spins most freely. Six of these were selected and confined for the test From one 2,000 yards of thread were secured in ten days; from the second, 1,350 yards in seven days; from the third and fourth, 450 yards In four days; from the fifth, 1,400 yards in 11 days, and from the sixth, 4,200 yards in 27 days. 1. Lives tlint lift must themselves first be lifted. All men iu their natural estate are like the meal. They need a leaven to raise them from a condition of sinfulness before God to a'position that is acceptable to God. It is easy to see that this Is necessary before our lives can influence the lives of others for good. The blind cannot lead the blind. The unreformed cannot reform. Before a portion of meal could leaven that adjoining It It must Itself 1hD leavened. N'o man can lift the lives of others by this new force which Christ has brought Into the world until we ourselves are ChrlstianlzetPbnd lifted. \ r gratify any natural curiosity, our mouths It would have been a rudeness to Interrupt The meat dispatched, the trooper pushed the billy my way, A German manufacturer was so de-1 lighted with this test that he made elaborate arrangements for having a - -- -• and, In the absence of spoons, I drank from It a fair share of the soup, which be promptly finished. It was then my New York's boundaries, though apparently settled in 1776, have been subject to critical examination from time to time by various commissioners and agents and have been re-examined and established under authority of various legislative enactments. An act was passed by the legislature May 20, 1875, directing the commissioners to resnme the work of examination of the true location of the monuments which mark the several boundaries of this state as authorised by the senate resolution of 1807 and in connection with the authorities of Pennsylvania and New Jersey respectively to replace any monuments which may have become dilapidated or been removed on the boundary lines of those states. A committee was appointed for this purpose June 1, 1875. In 1880 the New York commissioners met commissioners appointed by the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey for the purpose of ascertaining the boundary lines as originally established and marked with monuments. The commissioners were authorized to renew any dilapidated or lost monuments and to erect additional ones if deemed necessary. Under the provisions of this law the New Jersey boundary line was completed as recently as 1883 and the Pennsylvania line in 1885.—New York Sun. spider silk mill, importing a large number of the spiders from Madagascar to Germany. All went well until the females had laid their eggs and begun to spin, when all at once the males were found to have disappeared. Their larger feminine companions had grown so fond of them that each female Bplder had eaten her mate. This catastrophe ended the costly experiment.— Washington Post. good fortune to contribute to the repast the last capful of coffee In my possession. At the pan 1 cleaned the billy and filled It with fresh water, while the trooper placed some more fuel upon the smoldering fire. "I fear," said I, "that I have no sugar." "This Is a beast of a country," said THEN 8HE STARTED IN TO WRECK THINGS. your father. Here's another half to assist you. This is simply preparatory, Sammls. Quarters and halves and dollars will chink and rattle around here and pass from me to you with astonishing frequency. All you've got to do is to look out for my interests." I teas confronted by an enormously big er's gun. 1 was almost upon him. I was too hungry and tired and weak to run. 1 stepped to bfm stealthily with almost hysterical despair and raised the great pumpkin at arm's height and dashed it on his head with all the strength my muscles and my desperation could muster between them. He seemed to groan and fall forward, and I turned and staggered away, wondering dizzily If the blow of a pumpkin could be fatal. Utter, horrible blackness set in, and the eclipse was complete when* 1 dropped at last, unable to move a step farther. All that nlgbt I shivered from cold and dozed from weariness, but before break of day the cold grew so great that 1 had to move on or shiver to death. Somehow 1 staggered to the trek, though I did not know which direction I was going, and stumbled along it, afraid to remain still for a moment 1 felt pretty sure, however, I was on a road, ft«d I followed It in dumb consciousness that It would lead me somewhere, if only back whence I started In Bechuanaland. At last 1 came through the blackness to a bank and assumed a stream. Die or not die, 1 could not ford it then and utterly collapsed on the brink. I soon fell into a stupor, from which I roused at the first cold dawn. The water lay at my feet, still and currentless. It seemed broad as I lifted my eyes—it seemed familiar. I partly choked a yel1. ?CDr H was the farmer's duck pond! At the cry a figure on the other bank—a shivering, miserable, prone wretch—sat up and groaned. It was the trooper, and in his right hand be held the duck by the neck. But at the sight of me he dropped the duck and came running and threw his arms around me. "By Jove, old man," he spluttered, "I am awfully glad to see you. I saw you rnnning and heard that blessed beast •hooting. It is rare for these fellows to miss, and 1 made sure yQU were dead, so I was going to eat the duck myself! How 'I'd vnn horo*" "I don't know, I murmured In b«D wilderment "I've been walking all night, dodging Boers, looking for you and the duck, and at last thought, or at least hoped, I was on the road forward.""My case," he said weakly. "I nearly ran Into the farmer looking for you and a pumpkin—did you come away without a pumpkin?—then I sat down under a tree with a club I picked up to bash the Boer with If he came bothering me, and Just as the moon was finally eclipsed the tree or something fell on mo, and I didn't know anything more until I woke up here. I believe I thought I was somewhere pear Johannesburg. I am horribly stiff and cold, and my neck's broken, I think, by that tree that fell. Did you get that pumpkin?"» . JUDGE TAPT. " " itors and many of the leading repaired to the transport, n convened with the commission Admiral Rtmey, in command o ed States naval forces on tl station, called officially during noon. Tomorrow General 1 will return the call of the comi The family of Judge Taft * for awhile in Japan. The f the other commissioners arr them. Judge Taft, speaking .. powers and future work of sion, said: C*Balni«a Has Pull Im "We have full instructs tensive powess. The latter exercise until we have had to acquire sufficient know) situation to enable us to pro legislative changes and refc narv to the establishment .. civil government. Until we « thority Oeneral MacArthur wi to perform the duties and ea powers formerly performed deed by Oeneral Otis, and eve take active and full part in tL__ ment Oeneral MacArthur will as the executive head until, ommeadation to President shall seem to the president lioer. 2. Lives that lift must come In actual contact with the lives that need to be lifted. The leaven had to touch the meal before It would be leavened. So, by the touch of our lives in some way, the principle of new life which we possess must be Implanted in the hearts and lives of others If they are to be lifted Cliristward and heavenward. By personal example, by personal attentions, by personal persuasions, we must make our lives touch the lives of others If we are to win them for Christ. etables on a stone door In the shadows of the quickly falling night. Wheu some distance away, the trooper turned to me and chuckled comfortably. He patted the blanket roll round his shoulders and smiled. Then I noticed the roll was swelled In the center, like a constrictor's stomach when it had gulped a hearty meal. the trooper. "I haven't had any sugar In my coffee for three days. Come to "Should a woman call here, Sammls —an oldish woman, with red hair and a sharp nose and a voice like a file"— "Yes, sir." A Truthful HoneaelatiK. think, I haven't bad much coffee either. Well, there Is always tobacco somehow. I am economizing on native." i'I have yet a pipe or two of birds ejre," I was glad to say, and with that we fraternized. It was early in the day when we slung oar blankets about our shoulders and stepped out along the lonely trek cheerfully, for to each some companionship was that morning the most needful thing. For nearly a week my way bad been entirely one of solitude, •o that my own voice had sounded startlingly in my ears if 1 had called out to rfdse a chance bird In my path. (So. it appeared, had been the fortune of the stranger, and it was now a mu- In a certain household the true and only Vermont maple sirup has never lost its sweetness, and several times a week from the head of the table paterfamilias pours out Judiciously measured quantities of it on the plates of his children. To give piquancy to the ceremony he always explains that this time he is going to give Bob an ostrich and Mazle an antelope, with something else from the nursery books for Teddy. One day the latter small philosopher was seen to regard the various plates for a considerable space of time in silence. "What Is it, Edward?" his mother asked. "You are out, of course. She's the woman who wants contributions for the heathen, and you don't want to be bothered." "O man," said the trooper, "these ducks were too fat. I annexed the fattest. I have frequently noticed In an unfriendly land that Providence never falls to send supper to thfe deserving." 20. "Ilerod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him." The margin says, kept him or saved him. Although he beard him gladly and did many things, he was unwilling to break off his sins by righteousness (Dan. iv, 27). The revised version says Bhe was much perplexed. "Exactly, Sammls! And you are a jewel!" he said as he patted me on the head. "I am always to be oat when she calls. You are to discourage her from calling again. You may even hint that I have removed to Chicago or St. Louis. I see you closely scrutinizing my side whiskers, Sammls. Don't you like the color?" 3. The greatest lifter of lives Is Christ Himself. He is the life. The leaven is really not so much the word of Christ as It is Christ Himself. Christ In the heart lifts the life. Christ In the world Is lifting the whole world. Christ lived and died that He might raise men from the lowest depths of sin and misery to the highest heights of glory and happiness. But He not only lifts the lives of those who accept Him, but He places within them the power of drawing others to Him, that they may be lifted up. He Is not only the great moral and spiritual magnet who draws all men unto Him, but He magnetizes those who are drawn, and they possess the power to draw men up unto Him. Have we been lifted to Christ? Are we lifting others to Him? "But," I said, rather alarmed, "we'll go to trouk (Jail) for a certainty If we do this sort of thing. Besides, if s"— "You talk like a recruit," said the trooper. "Kindly recollect that the Boers hate Englishmen; therefore the Transvaal is an unfriendly country; therefore foraging—foraging, please— la permissible, Justifiable, according tq the rules, and In every way eminently praiseworthy." 21-23. A king's birthday party, with revelry and dancing, a sample of what the devil gives people to enjoy and of the way he works out his purposes. Herod is so carried away with this girl's dancing that he offers her anything she may ask, even to the balf of his kingdom. See the three times repeated similar statement of the king to Esther (v, 3, 6; vii, 2), but contrast the circumstances. In Esther's case it was to resist the devil, but in our lesson today it was to gratify the devil. "Yes, sir, but they are false." "Ah, Sammls, another quarter for the gigantic mortgage. It's a little notion of mine to wear false whiskers for a few weeks, and nothing need be said about It What we know we know, but we keep mum about it. You trust me; I trust you. We'll make that mortgage look sick in a month or two. Ta, ta, Sammls! I think we understand each other." "Nuffln," replied the hopefuL "I was just flnkin that me an Bob an Mazle alius seems to get birds an snakes an flngs wiv skinny legs, but pop, general- Aa Uncommunicative Flagman. tual delight to keep step and chatter. J He pleased me. His gray eyes twinkled humorously, his laugh rang heart■omely. He strode athletically forward with the frank front of one who Did you ever ask a flagman a question about some other subject than one connected with the railroad? The flagman, always smoking a pipe, will set his teeth hard on the stem, will look up the road, then down the road, then up the road again. He will not look at you. For two full minutes he will not give any Indication that he has beard your question or that you are in existence. He will then look up the road and down the road again. This time he may take his pipe from his mouth, but he will not look at you. He will work the tobacco down into his pipe with bis forefinger and look up the road again. Still be will not look at you. He begins, however, to give a faint sign that he has heard your question. A minute later, looking down the track, he may ask you to repeat your question. You want to know where John Brown lives. He looks up the road again, takes several strong pulls on the and gazes long and earnestly down the road. He has not as yet looked at you. "But"- *'Bnt a pumpkin would, as "yon wore going to say. Improve the stew greatly. It is an excellent suggestion you make, and I have still some pepper and salt." ly gets a el'phant or a hlpperpotamus." —New York Commercial Advertiser. would meet all adventures with the confident Indifference of alert strength and the consciousness of a will and liver equally good; also, though he was garbed In the uniform of a private, it was no surprise to me to find blm of education and breeding. He was readily catalogued—a prodigal and an exile ftbe ot the South African army wht had left bis past, perhaps his name, ii England, despairingly seeking a nev 24, 25. "And she went forth and said unto her mother. What shall I ask?" Did ever a mother mnke such awful request through a daughter, "The head of John the Baptist?" Let a righteous man be slain. Perhaps such request was never made to just such words, but it may be that many a mother has, like Athaliah, counseled her child to do wickedly (II Chron. xxii, 3), for even Rebekah led Jacob into deceiving and lying to his father Isaac. How much better is the testimony concerning Timothy that from a child be had known the Holy Scriptures. Wasted a Stoae. "You want me to st"— ''Have I not always been generous with you in the matter of household expenses?" he demanded. has arrived for the appointmi execntive and for making 1 for cm manly auxiliary in til* civil government, to be ai in cases of emergency for the of lawless violence too form overcome by the regularly o "Sh! No, my dear fellow. Just slip back to that barn now It's dark enough and levy It." I thought so, too, and It was all right for two or three weeks. Mr. Rockaway didn't come down with any more halves, but I didn't lay that up against him. It was what he said and did that hurt my feelings. One day at the fourth floor a lawyer's boy called me a sawed ofT liar. I stopped the elevator to punch his head and thus was late getting up to answer a caH from Mr. Kockaway. He was mad about it. and, taking me by the ear, he said: "Yes," she replied bitterly. "I asked for a stone and ye gave me bread." I looked at the plump duck, and my nostrils fancied grateful smells. 1 thought of the uncivil Boer, and 1 went. THE PRATER MEETING. Then he realized that he would have to get her the diamond she desired before there would be peace in the family.—Chicago Poet. Have a biographical meeting. Arrange a special programme, with Ave minute papers or addresses on the lives of men which have been conspicuous for their lifting powers—Peter, Paul, Barnabas, Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Murphy, Moody. eal police. "We are awin that there are isaves of deep interest to the E_. upon which it is our duty to take ai Some of these involve judicial in gatlon and decisions upon legal ri Others call for the careful exercii political power in order to secure eC ble adjustments. Upon the latter of issues we cannot now speak. will go on to that spruit we saw from the road." the trooper said, "and get things ready and build a fire. Bring the biggest." repute. "It la unnecessary," be remarked when we bad exchanged names, "to •sk If you are for the Hand." "It la the loadstone," 1 said. "Everybody Is drawing there, and for my purposes. which are pretty vague, Johannesburg Is perhaps the most promising place In South Africa." SlrMrcr In the Pnlpit. 26. "And the king was exceeding sorry, yet for his oath's sake and for their Bakes which sat with him he would not reject her." His honor in the eyes of others was more than all else, for be not God and therefore thought not of Him, though he had beard of Him by the mouth of John. He preferred to reject what he had heard from John and the God of whom John spake rather than reject the wicked request of this wicked girl and her mother. It is ever the same, either living for God and doing right in His sight or living in eyes of the world and thinking only of what the world says and thinks of us. "How did you gather such a large congregation of old and middle aged people?" asked the young minister of the old one. It was dark and silent, moonless and still. I gained the baro*. selected a pumpkin, slipped off with it cuddled in my arms and stepped out again almost on top of the towheaded boy. My gaze upon him was momentary, and I fled; be also. There was no explanation possible, and 1 ran without a word, clinging to my pumpkin, my supper. The child, as he darted to the bouse, uttered a yell which aroused the farm, even to the distant ducks, which I beard quacking on the pond's banks with, 1 Imagine, a note of revengeful delight Math, v, 43-48; John 111, 14-16; *11, 32; Gal. vl, 1-10; l'hll. ill, 12-14; Col. Ill, 1-3; I Tim. lv, 12-16; II Tim. Iv, 1-8; Heb. xii. 1, 2; Jas. v, 19, 20; I Pet. II, 20-25. BIBLE READINGS. "You trifling young monkey, but I'll have no more of this! I've a good mind to report you to the agent and have you bounced} What do you mean by such conduct?" "I advertised a sermon to the young," was the latter's reply,—Chicago News. "Representing the sovereignty of the United States in the Philippines, which it is the purpose of oar government to maintain, we are here to do justice to the Filipinos and to secure for them the best government in our power and such a measure of popular control as is consistent with the stability and security of law, order and property. We are civil officers, men of peace. The field of our work is necessarily 'confined to regions where the armed enemy has ceased his operations. We cannot deal with armed men. General MacArthur and the army will do that. "When those now in arms shall hare laid them down, relying as they certainly can upon the justice, generosity and clemency of the United States, we shall give them all a full hearing upon the policy to be pursued and the reforms to be Initiated. We purpose to inaugurate as comprehensive a school system throughoat the islands as circumstances will allow. I am surprised that Manila has not received news regarding the Spooner bill, a measure calculated to help as greatly in our work here." "I'm sorry, sir." Pleaaarea of Opnlence. That stretch of road on the Bechu»na skle of the Transvaal—If we may Hatter tt by calling It "road"—1« terribly moQotonoDs, through unwooded In Honorable W«ra, "That makes no difference. From this time out I shall have an eye on you, and you'll either walk chalk or get the bounce. Do you hear me?" Dorothy—Pa, I do wish we were rich. Dorothy's Pa—How rich would you like to be? The church should discountenance all niett\QsU tor raising money which tend to cheapen religion. She cannot afford to ignore conscience in her financial oiDeratiouB. She must be both honest and reverent in replenishing the Lord's treasury. Due regard must be had for the proprieties of life on the one hand and respect for the Master aud His house on the other. Nothing must be done to lower either Itlm or His cause in the eyes of others, even if thereby nmre money comes into the bag. Christian principles are needed in all the benevolent and church schemes of the day. No amount of good ends can Justify the use of questionable means for their attainment. The Lord wants His depleted exchequers filled only in legitimate, honorable aud becoming ways.—The Presbyterlan."Phat Brown is It?" the flagman may then ask. Dorothy—Oh, awfully rich; rich enough to snub people and still be called agreeable!—Chicago Record. ▼eldt, sinking to dried up brooks, rls- "John Brown." The Iron struck home. From that hour I waited and longed for a redheaded, sharp nosed woman to appear. Luck was with me. On the afternoon of the fifth day she walked In and made straight for me and said: to* to dusty summits, wearily interminable. We met, I remember, in over 20 not a living creature—nor Bqer nor Kaffir. We were fortunate In baring cold coffee and plenty of tobacco, and It was not until we began to feel hungry that, in the proper fashion of the road, we cast about for a method of providing supper. We bad not between us. It Is to be thought, a sixpence. Of |odglng we were well assured. Our Wide bed spread all about; our blankets were ready to unfold at sundown. But the taste of the morning's stew was dead upon the palate, and our nether garments bung slackly from the waist We chirruped ngt so gladly •nd began to reconnoiter the surrounding veldt with a yearning for the sight of a farmstead. "It's Jerry Brown you want?" "No; John." "Is he wid the Big Four?" "No." 27, 28. "And Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought, and he went and beheaded him in the prison." Thus the girl received on a dish the head of the man who Was great in tbe sight of the Lord, no greater ever born of woman (Luke I, 15; Math, si, 11), and she gave it to her mother, and so that wicked woman had k?r desire and John was slain. Thus Herod's birthday was celebrated and Johu found a birthday in heaven, absent from the body, present with the Lord (11 Cor. v, 8). That God should thus permit the devil seemingly to triumph over His saints is a mystery until we enter the sanctuary of God and consider the end (Ps. Ixxiii, 17), for death is not the end, and the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed (Rom. viU, 18)1 Stephen was stoned to death, James slain With the sword, and thousauds upon thousand* of the people of God have been permitted to be touched by him that has the power of death, that is the devil (Heb. il, 14) since, so long ago, Cain killed his brother Abel; but no child of God has ever been really harmed. A German tailor who died at Breelau In 1837 had such keen sight that he was able to see two of Jupiter's four moons with the naked eye. It was now quite dark, and 1 stumbled as 1 plunged along the rough road to the bed of the stream, where the trooper was to await me. Behind me came a great scrambling of feet and a blether of voice. I distinguished the farmer's easily. It had a baying note to It which was particularly menacing. I knew little of his language, but I was aware that he was calling on me to stop anC3 probably saw me with the clearness of plgbt vision a Boer shares with the savage. Still the flagman continue* to look up the aud down the road. lie takes the pipe from his mouth, never looking at you, never giving a sign that you are in existence, and says, "If he isn't wid the Big Four, how the mischief should I know Mm?"—Indianapolis News. "Bub, I'm looking for a man named Rockaway. I'm his wife." Hailstones In India are said to be from 6 to 20 times larger than those In England or America. "Have you got business with him?" I asked. "I have—strict business. la there such a man in this building?" "There la a Mr. Rockaway here, but he'* got side whiskers." THE ROYAL BOX. A Twice Fallen Idol. m There are to be seen in Munich and Vienna and probably In many other places fragments of a meteorite that has bad a rather curious history during its comparatively brief residence ou this planet. "Oh, he has! Well, I'll pull 'em oft in three seconds! Take me right up." The literary proclivities of King Oscar of Norway and Sweden moved him while In London the other day to leave his card on Swinburne and Henry Jamea. Suddenly there was a pause in the rush behind and a cessation of his yells. In a moment I beard tbe crack of his gun—it sounded horridly near— and a bullet zipped over my bead. I left tbe path then and sought the shadows of the bush, where a few trees and big rocks might render my safety more probable. Over the pnevep ground I dashed, panting, and heard the shouts renewed behind me, but they seemed to keep to tbe road. Soon they faded away, but I did not slacken speed, and all the time I stuck obstinately to the big, fat pumpkin. It was within me a contest between fear and hunger. If there was a sinking of the heart, there was still as powerful a sinking of the stomach. When I halted at last, listening between pants, tlie monster vegetable was still mine and supper yet probable.I took her up. I am not a bad elevator boy at heart, but a boy In my position has got to maintain his dignity among the tenants. I held the elevator until I saw her enter room 68 and beard the first shock of collision, and then I had business elsewhere. What happened after that was told by the t/pewrlter in Mr. Rockaway's office. \Vhen the redheaded woman bounced into the room, she first attacked those ueautiful side whiskers, and they were wrecked in a breath. Then she started iu to wreck things, and her language was English, and her tones loud. She had the whole floor alarmed in two minutes, and the people who rushed ia found the typewriter girl hiding under the desk and Mr. Rockaway on the floor and mixed up with broken furniture. It was lively while it lasted, and the redheaded woman had breath enough left to explain that the man on his back was her lawful husband, but had run away from her in Buffalo a year before. He had nothing to say in reply, and when the agent came up and told him that he had better look for other quarters he prepared to move. 1 didn't see him until the remains of his office furniture had been sent away. Then he rang for me to take him down. He had not resumed his side whiskers. There were scratches all over his face and neck, a lump on his Jaw, and the wlldness yet lingered in his eyes. I expected he would threaten or reproach me, but he didn't feel at all that way. On the contrary, there WW sadness in his voice and gentleness in his hand as he reached out for a farewell shake and said: 1 I looked at him, conscience stricken. "I lost the bally thing," I chattered, for I shivered cruelly. "Th-then," said the trooper, chattering as badly, "we—we'll broil tbe duck. Wait till 1 get It, and we'll clear out of this neighborhood. It's t-too warm for us here." In one sense It was, but In another I felt I would never be warm again. Before the trooper could move 1 clutched him and dragged him back, and we sank down In some long grass. From the house came the towbeaded boy, and the conscienceless rascal was as bright and cheerful as If he had not been the source of all our woes. He had somo corn In bis hands for, apparently, the ducks, but that boy's eyes missed nothing. He saw the dead bird on the bauk; he picked It up and ran with it, yelling, back to the house. The trooper and I caught at each other's hands like lost children and fled together, hungry and heartbroken. The sun was well up when we lessened our pace and list&oed for the sound of the big Boer's putsutng voice, but it did not come, and we sank, exhausted."This Is a beast of a countryl" said Count Elemer Lonyay will be unable to take his bride, the Crown Princess Stephanie, to his home after the honeymoon, as his castle at Bodwag Olaszi has just been burned down. More Trouble at Wrl-hai-wei. Tacoma, June 4.—News from Shanghai states that the troubles at Wei-haiwei continue and are more threatening. A. boundary commission was attacked by a mob from the villages in that province, and after a fierce fight, in which the Chinese soldiers under command of British officers are said to have fought desperately against their countrymen, the rioter* were driven back and many killed. Ma- KPenecacre and Captain Pereira, Britofficers, were killed. Faith In the Bible, It fell in 1853 at Duruma, in east Africa. The natives regarded it as a message from heaven aud hastened to pay it appropriate honors. With great solemnity it was anointed with oil. wrapped in costly fabrics, adorned with pearls and installed in a temple, which had been specially constructed for it. Thenceforth It was looked upon as the palladium of the tribe, lent to it by heaven, according to the priests. It neared sundown when we found what we sought, a mile and more from tbe trail, a bouse of comforting proportions wrapped In an outer cloak of woods. An oblique path led down to It, jtad this We took to levy wallaber'a tribute upon the farmer. Tbe sun sank rapidly as we approached, seeing nobody about, and It was dusk when we baited to consult by a large pond, a little distance from the house. By this the trooper pat him down and grinned jtt me. v. ?fMy dress,•' he said, "is obnoxious to tfife Boer, who has shot at such a uniform before and may again.' Yon go alone and do your best. It does not matter If he doesn't Bpeak English. He's pretty sure to understand you." I left him scraping crumbs from his pockets to feed the ducks in the pond and went on to the bouse. Rising ground soon hid him from my sight. Following the path, I was met by a If our Sunday schools are turned into Bible schools, where the very words of Holy Writ are studied and helps and methods less depended on, those who teacli and those \yho ?vrp taught will derive that illumination which ever comes from the entrance of the truth of God. If the whole Church of Christ were to present a united front of such a character instead of one of halting and declining faith in the book they profess to love, an impression might and would be made upon the world. Even were it impossible to induce the visibly church to unite in taking such a stand, those who do it would at least be faithful witnesses for the truth, and the result could not be foretold.—Episcopal Recorder. The health of the young king of Spain will necessitate his leaving Spain earlier than usual this year. Accompanied by the queen regent, he will in a few days go to Covandonga, in Asturla. M mm - m Abdurrahman Kahn, the ameer of Afghanistan, who is now trying to get more money by playing the Russians off against the English, is already receiving from the latter people $1,000,000 a year. 29. "And when his disciples heard of it they came and took up bis corpse and Uld It in a tomb." Math, xiv, 12, says, "His disciples came and took tip the body and buried it and went and told testis." | always like to commend Anna Shipton's little book entitled "Tell Jesus," for it makes so plain and practical our privilege of telling Him everything. The very next verse following our lesson says that the apostles told Jesus all things, both what they had done and taught. Phil. Iv, 6, 7, forbids anxious care about anything and commands that everything be laid before God, so that His peace, passing all understanding, way keep our hearts and minds to His glory. British Fleet May Vlalt V*. In vain did European missionaries offer tempting sums for the stone. It was not to be had at any price. Halifax, June 4.—Admiral Bedford will take the British fleet to Bar Harbor if he can arrange the dates so that they will not conflict with his trip to Quebec and Montreal. This will likely be in the latter part of this month. He may extend his trip to New York. THE WRITERS. But three years later the tribe was attacked and almost wiped out by the warlike Massal. Thereupon the eyes of the survivors were opened to the Impotence of their Idol, they lost faith in its divinity and soon parted with it for cash. Mme. Sarah Grand has finished her new novel. It is to be called "Babs, the Impossible." Rudyard Kipling, according to London announcements, is to visit the United States next autumn. The author says he does not lay his former illness against the American climate. But I was lost. In daylight the unaccustomed traveler may easily, does frequently, get lost by leaving the track to examine the bush. In the darkness of a moonless night it would be madness In ordinary cases to step off the road. At last I found the thin and trickling stream, which in that dry season represented the river of other months, and I followed it down with pain and difficulty, now stepping in a pool, now cracking my ankles against the bowlders. Soldiera Sail For Cape None. Seattle, Wash., June 4.—The United States transport Rosecrans has Bailed for Oape Nome with two military companies and the first season's shipment of war department supplies. The companies are k and K of the Seventh infantry. Its fate was Identical with that of a great many gods and idols which have been promptly deserted by their worshipers as soon as their uselessnesa was proved. Since Mark Twain announced his candidacy for the presidency other humorists are falling into line, and among the most promising is M. Quad, who promises, if elected, to put a tax on all dialect stories. PERT PERSONALS. The ameer of Afghanistan does not propose to let the world rest under tjDe Impression that he only exists as a comic opera theme.—Baltimore News. •mall barefooted boy, on whom I lav- BRITON AND BOER. Le Qallienne, the poet, was the other day exploring a dangerous cave in a cliff near Hyeres. Swung by a long rope, he was caught in the rocks. It took his companions nearly an hour to disengage him. The Baby. All day be work* like everything; He'll tug and roll and And when he's dead worn out folks dug Three hours to maka him sleep. —Chicago Record. | Jsbed my smile#. The suspicious little (ascal did not pause to return them! but turned and ran swiftly to the housq door. Now, undoubtedly, there was little In my appearance pt the attractive. \ week's wallaby, with a half grown beard, had possibly added to the picturesque aspect of my personality, but A truly rural lover, with a truly rural cot, Truly Rnral. The reports that the Boers were discouraged do not appear to have reached Ooni Paul mid his burghers.—Washington Item. Mr. Clark of Montana may take occasion to remind Mr. Daly that one losing hand does not decide a game aud that he has a number of chips left,—Washlng- Wooed a truly rural maiden all the May; Said the truly rural lover, "Truly rural is our lot; Let ui marry in a truly rural way!" the trooper Prefer AJDnae Silence. An hour brought me tq the ford, but there I was confused. The faint light of the moon, Just peeping alDove the rtm of the veldt, allowed me to set* dimly that the road at the drift broadened out to a great width. I cornprenenaed that the wagons, passing in tne wet season, had each sought, according to the driver's judgment, the safest place to cross. In such manner are South African roads ilrst made. "That there is an actor on earth who does not peruse the nrticles and newspaper criticisms concerning him Is past liollef," writes Franklin Fyles in The Ladles' Home Journal. "Only here and there one makes any such pretense. An estimable and conspicuous actress said publicly that she never, never looked at anything printed about herself. Privately, on that very same day, she wrote to a journalist to protest against something he had published. However, the attitude of the majority is dignified In this matter. A minority send mutual friends to ask for kindness, employ so called 'press agents' and do pot flinch at notoriety if they cannot have fame. The excuse put forward for such conduct Is that publicity is the actor's breath of life. Dion Boucicault once wrote to a critic, 'Praise me if you can, but abuse me rather than let me alone.' He once owned up to the authorship of a published letter violently assailing his own drama of 'Formosa.* Hte aim was to The Jlritish army will take time to recuperate anil the Boers will probably embrace the oppottunity to do some more farming.—Washington Star, ton Star, So a truly rural wedding and a truly rural feast Made two true truly rurals truly one, For nought not truly rural truly cared they In the least. Oh, two truer truly rurals there arc none! ' —Life. Herbert Spencer has just celebrated his eightieth birthday. Forty years ago the doctors decided that he could not live, but Mr. Spencer very sensibly decided otherwise.—Minneapolis Journal, Parting Compliments. So reckless and wild was he. The grave and reverend faculty, ■ Observing he had no thirst for knowledge, One day expelled the young man from the college. Dr. RICHTER'S  World-"Renown«d a Boer, least of all men, has the artist's eye. I was conscious that a new hat and a shave would have increased Some war automobiles are going to be triod in South Africa. It will be a struggle between Boer mobility and British automobllity.—New York World. In Bleaaed Slnnleneae. He heard, as he rode away, A neighboring donkey'* Justy bray. " 'Tis the mourului fcoodby," he said, "of my Andrew Carnegie has goue to Europe lor rest and recreation, after having been tied down to the Florida golf links all winter. This thing of being rich m terribly oppressive.—Chicago Times-Herald. Squire (engaging coachman)—Are you married ? Coachman—No, sir, These 'ere scratches came fropi a cat.—Punch. "Samrak, I cannot blame you. I began right, but I did not carry out the programme. I started in to be a father to you and to help lift that gigantic mortgage, but later on I decided that bluff would be the game to work. You saw my bluff and went one better. It was you who brought her up?" "Anchor" any farmer's liking for me. Still trusted to what suavity of speech anC manner I could muster. My disgust was then marked when, |en yards from the threshold, I was The war iu South Africa seems to have outlived its interest. The news from there is more monotonous than the soldiers find the flghtiug.— Boston Globe. clam, And Uie valedictorian, of course, is an aaa." PainExpeller haj prorcn to be lor Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia,«ic AKIOua Rheumatic Complaints, Only 25o. ami 50c. stall druggists or through I stood at one side of the road. The otber was possibly half a oiile off. Whereabouts, then, In that maze of ruts and blackness, should I seek the trooper and, of more consequence to me, iu py starving condition, the duck? While J hesitated the sound of voices struck my ears once more uot far from me. i could not mistake who It was; the words, "Verdamter uitlander," again came too distinctly across the trek. I slunk back up stream, not willing to stand another shot. Crawling Into a little Uoof In the bank, 1 lay BtlU. like a hare, perhaps, considering Jfc* mid on pood and- barp—a fox —Chicago Tribune. Maktag It llaanlmons, To be advanced in all thing! Natural History. confronted by an enormously big Boer, with a beArd cot shovelwise, who bore a rifle with a very long barrel and Informed me fn a shout that I was a "verda inter ultlander." He told me Other things probably equally discomposing, but that was all I understood, and between his legs peeped out the tow head of the youngster who haC7 given the alarm, a face stretched li the most delightfully malicious grin ever beheld. BEAUTY SPOTS. FOUR BALLS. With her beeomea * rage, When she cannot longer hide the lact Tlilt she'a advanced tn age. Sandy Pikes—When a woman shakes her head, 'tain't no use to argue any longer.Brisk w&!k» in a misty rain are recommended to give the skin a delicate freshness and glow. Imposing fines on Impudent players on the bnllfield has begun early, but not too early to meet the impudence, apparently. —Boston Herald. —Detroit Journal, "And you gave my side whiskers "Yes, sir." Pellucid Pete—Same way when a bull shakes his head.—Chicago News. Sonnda Plausible, Dorsal Itt Bobby—What is a fan as applied to baseball, pa? Pa—It's an abbreviation of the word fanatic.—Syracuse Herald. away?" The stomach is responsible directly for an oily complexion. The eating of fruit, green vegetables, lean meats and other simple foods always will result in a clear skin. One thing can be said in favor of the St. Louis Baseball club—it usually manages to occupy first place at least one? during the season.—St. Louis Republic. "Yes, sir." Her Clila, Too. la Indlapeaaable. "Weil, it was my own fault. Office gone, whiskers gone, typewriter gone and the redheaded woman camped on my trail. 1 am financially ruined, Sammis, and can't say that I have even saved my honor. However, here's my hand, and I bear yon no ill will. If I die, I shall forgive you; if I live on, It will be a great moral lesson to ne."  Lot9 of people get through life on self assurance. Even the bearded lady of museum fame wouldn't stand much of a show if it wasn't for her cheek.—Philadelphia Record. Perspiration that annoys may be greatly helped by the use of saleratus. The part affected rub with this ingredient aft ot the skin has been wet. Leave on until after the bath. It can be applied when % bath la not to be taken. It is to be hoped that the separation of Washington from the League will not create the impression among baseball enthusiasts elsewhere that the Diatrict of Columbia has been taken off the man.— Washington Star. The Acme of Hupplaes*. Happiness la aometimea portrayed F. If. Richter L 218 Pearl Str By the man who has reached the tofe And tkaa again it comes to a man Wfco ta "anaf* In a barber akop. —Ckicago l*em. "What did you have your gear altered from (SO to 90 for?" "Becaose pa's la 60 awW«ck's is 90." -Ofcr-Pkk-Me-Pp.  A Good Reason.. was surprised by the *"®3» : •? U C* stfw