Pittston Gazette

              • v\V I® \ fflfc* fifth am' tit ini ~ &mf Pmn xrD Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA I 9 VstabUsbed i860. I VOL. XLlX .No.24 ) Oldest Newspaper in the FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. J SI.00 a Year ; in Advance. Lia fena, -was saveu iruut tue wrecs, and there I was allowed to grow up without eduoation or restraint of any kiud. Yon know what life is ou a Mexican rancho and what qualities of hu man nature are moat likely to be developed in snob an atmosphere. Well, as a boy, I was perbapa worse than the average. I am extremely passionate, and when I am aroased I lose all con trol over myself to such an extent that I am not muoh better than a wild animal. I ongbt to have been shot or put out of the way long ago, and sooner or later that is the fate I expect to meet. nnd tub gorrriiui » j.uviwo aCua. mj where-.)boots were unknown, but it was supposed that 1 had left the country with tbe money. Finally I wus tried in secret se*. ion of tbe court. Of course I wus found frailty, aud as 1 was sentenced by default my mother's estates were confiscated to repay the governor first aud tbe state afterward out of what wus left. It ail mattered very little to Uiti, luwt DU1, tut nunc - Had ed my poor mother bad died—of grip, I was told—Meruedes had disappeared; not even Homobono bad been able to lind h r. I did not give up all hope of fiudinu her until a' month later, but than 1 learned it wya all over—she had died, aud insane." | "Eraclio Solis, Highwayman." | The remembranoe Eraclio gave me was the little gold bell—thus it came iiito my possession. Subsequent events proved that Eraclio's presentiments were well founded. His day was over, and from that day forward his existence became more and more precarious His men felt he bed lost his grip, and they iu turu lost their unbounded confidence HOUSEHOLD TRIALS. garret to ceuar, ana tne uoa or ueoornn and Miriam and Abigail is the Qod of tbe housekeepers! Christ never married, that he might be the especial friend and confidant of a whole world of troubled womanhood. I blundered. Christ was married. The Bible S&ys the church Is "the gride, the Lamb's wife," and that makes we know that a woman has a right to go to Christ with all her annoyanoes and perplexities and fatigues, for by his oath of conjugal fidelity he hath sworn to sympathize. George Herbert put the thought in three or four verses, quaint and peculiar, but strong, and in one verse saying Is the banker ot tier borne, tfie president, the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk, and ever and anon there 1b a panic. God knows the anxieties and the cares, and he knows that this is not a useless sermon, but that there are multitudes of hearts waiting for the distillation of the divine mercy and solace in their hour of trials and their home duties and their own fatigues. The world hears nothing about them. They never speak about them. Yotf oould not with the agonies of an inquisition bring the truth out of them. They keep it still. They say nothing. They endure and will until God and the judgment right their wrongs. "Oh," says some sister, "are you not trying to show that all a woman's life at home is one of self sacrifice!"' Yes, my sister, and that is the only kind of life worth living. That has been the life of Florence Nightingale; that was the life of Edward Payson; that was the life of the Lord Jesus Christ; that Is the life of every m*n or woman that Is happy—a life of self sacrifice. Those people living for themselves—are they happy? Find me one. I will give you all the nations of the earth to find me one. Not happy—no, not happy. It Is the self sacrificing people that are happy, for God pays so largely, so gloriously, so magnificently, In the deep and eternal satisfactions of the soul. Self sacrifice! We all admire it in others. How little we exercise of it! How muoh would we endure —how much would we risk—for others? CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. »IEV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS TO WIVE8 Topie For the Week Beslnalnc Fefc. AND MOTHERS. Itt—loniueul by Rev. 9. H. Doyle. % Topic.—A missionary -churoh.—Acts xlii, 1-12. (A missionary meeting.) ' j fstlfsti and Annorueea •( Home Lite Are Preparatory Step* to Ht(k R«H«rd-Lr»una Drawn From the Story of Mary and Martha. The cbnroh at Antioch was the most illustrious church of apostolic days. It surpassed in ltd achievements even the church at Jerusalem. It was founded as a result of missionary effort, it was nourished and built up by missionaries, and in the providence of God it became the starting point from which proceeded the great missionary movements by which the heathen world was brought to the foot of the cross, by whioh we ourselves know of God and salvation through Christ. in him One day the troops surrounded their camp, and though the majority of tbe bandits cut their way through the oaotus thicket Eraclio remained behind. W ben the soldiers came npon him, he was seated on a bowlder beside the bodies of two of bis men. Oautiuusly tbe soldiers cloned around the famous ontlaw. but he ueither moved nor noticed them. Now that escape was impossible, many a man among his captors wished it were otherwise, for Eraclio was a popular hero, an ideal to many a Mexican heart. He bad often defended them against the law, when it was nn justly applied, he bad been kind to the poor, and tbey loved him. Not a few in the line of troopers owed him thanks for some good deed or timely help But it was too late. [Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso- ciation.] WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—This discourse of Dr. Talinage seems to open all the doors of home life and rouses appreciation of work not ordinarily recognized; text, Luke x, 40: "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me." The servant by this olanse makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for thy lawsmakea this and the action fine. "I was only 17 when 1 had a qnarrel with a friend over a girl we both fan cied. We had a fight, of course, and 1 killed him. I can't say that I felt much remorse at the time. On the oontrary, I was rather prond of my victory. No one had seen ns together, so I was not afraid of it being discovered. My rival was out of the way, aud I profited by it. Then a few days later, satiated and disenchanted, I realized what I bad done. So, between fear and remorse and shame, I determined to Jenve the countrystretched along the horizon Lraclio stepped short, bu« his faoe expressed more than any word oould base done. It revealed such capacity for sifferiuy tbat 1 turned away. Towatcb bis face seemed an iwpertinenoe. A young woman of brilliant education and prosperous surroundings waa called down stairs to help in the absence of tbe servant, and there waa a ring at the bell, and she went to the door, and an admirer entered. He said, "I thought I heard music in the house. Was it on the piano or tbe harpf" She said: "Neither; It waa a frying pan accompaniment to a gridiron I In other words, I was called down stairs to help. I suppose some time I shall have to learn, and I have begun now." When will the world learn that every kind of work that is right Is honorable? Among the many odd trifles which I have brought borne front my travels is • little gold bell, ou the table before me now. It waa given to me some years ago aa a souvenir by the only highwayman it baa been my ohance to meet, and often since then I have wondered what had become of the interesting rascal to whom it belonged. While I rat there, waiting and wondering wherein lay the undeniable 3barm of tbis dreary landscape, a horseniau rode up, tied his animal to one of the posts and started to enter tbe house, but catching sight of me he stopped, touched his hat aud came- toward me smiling. Yonder Is a beautiful village homestead. The man of the house Is dead and his widow has charge of the premises. It Is Widow Martha of Bethany. Yes, I will show you also the pet of the household. It is Mary, the younger sister, with a book under her arm, and in her face no sign of care or anxiety about anything. Company has come. Christ appearing at the outside of the door makes some excitement inside the door. The sisters set baok the disarranged furniture, arrange their hair and in a flash prendre to open the door. They do not keep Christ waiting outside until they have newly appareled themselves or elaborately arranged their tresses, and then with affected surprise some out and pretending not to have heard the two or three previous knocklngs say, 'Why, U that youf" No, they were ladies uid always presentable, although perhaps nhey had not on their best. None of us ulways have on our best. Otherwise very noon our best would not be worth having on. They throw open the door and  Christ. They say: '"Good morning, Master. Come in and be seated." Christ brought a oompany of friends with him, e.ad the influx of so many city visitors, Dou do not wonder, threw the country Lome into some perturbation. I suppose the walk from the city had been a keen appetizer. The kitchen department that day was a very Important department, and I think as soon as Martha had greeted her guests she went to that room. Mary had no anxiety about the dinner. She had full confidence that her sister Martha could get up the best dinner in Ilethany, and she practically said: "Now, lot us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook, and I'll sit down and learn." This ohurch may therefore be looked upon, in a peculiar sense, as a missionary ohurch, and by studying it we may" learn what a missionary ohurch should be. Every churoh Bhould be a missionary church, and every Christian Endeavorer should strive to make his church one. Let us, therefore, study the t characteristics of this world renowned missionary ohurch and try to make our church** like it He lighted another cigar presently and said: "denor, I was aloue in the world, poor, dishonored, without ties or obligations of any kind, aud 1 burned to revruCnD riiv&olf. and T took for mv motto. 'An eye far an eye aud a tooth for a tooth.' A few days ago I received a letter from a friend in Mexico telling of his death. How vividly it recalled our interview ! Iu tbe spring of 1884 I was obliged to take tbe tedious journey from Alamos to Mazatlan, In tbe traditional stagecoaob—a picturesque experience to remember, but an agony of five nights and four days to endure. At tbe time I ohafed over the slow progress of our civilisation wbich foroed me to travel in • restless, tin sheathed wooden box, but today tbe perspective has changed, and I look upon the geographical limitations of Yankee enterprise with a decided feeling of satisfaction. There are ■till some things to do that everybody has not done; some sights that cannot be had for tbe prioe of a ticket; some men to meet outside of ofltoesand clubs. "Don Jnan of the Rochin mine?" be asked pleasantly. I rose, answered th%t I was Don Juan, but the man's face was totally unfamiliar to me, aud my perplexity was evident, for he said: "An, £iUropei iDuu ouau, mat was a revelation to me. 1 bad never seen anything of civilization. I saw it first in Paris. For a few months I lived the reckless, profitless life of most Spanish- Amerioans abroad, but at last its shallowness palled upon me. I saw that whenever our people oame in touch with intelligent foreigners our inferiority was painfully evident and it made me angry to be only second rate. Tbe remedy was obvioua I made up my mind to work instead of play. I was as good as they, and if work could prove it tbey should know it. I set my teeth and 1 worked like a horse. Now and ther the wild animal in my nature got tbe better of me and I bad to let him loose, but not as before, for eduoation bad given me a strong bridle, aud after each outbreak I pulled up and went back to my books with new ardor." "There was my weakness, seuor. A greater mau would even then have forgotten personal wrongs Bud remembered only nobler purposes, but prison life exerts the most demoralizing influence. A good man may come oat of it ah r good man still, but bis goodness is no longer a power. It is merely a latent, useless quality, not to say a weakness. Even that is the exception rather than the role. A strong mau usually beoomes a bad man, and a bad man grows worse. So it was with me. My vitality, my energy and strength were neither broken nor impaired, but with only bad influences around me I became a leader of bad men. Revenge was my only thought, my only dream, my aim and purpose in life. In that prison I planned ray subsequent career and formud the nucleus of my present baud of brigands. "You may have beard of our escape? It was dynamite—horrible—so bloody that the people realized that a family of human tigers bad broken loose, and that the public safety was endangered. Still, senor, it was some time before I began my work of revenge, for I did not feel I could rely on my men iu an emergency. As for inyeeli, I was lackiug in coolness, nerve and the praotioe of cruelty, which I knew I should need in the future. So for two years I did no more than rob coaches, raid a ranch or two and figbt the soldiers sent out against us by my former chief. He was no longer governor when be heard of my escape, and knowing that he had a Home Economies. A young officer stepped forward and, ooveriag him with his revolver, oalled out: As Martha opens the door I look in, and I also see the trial of severe economy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine households out at a thousand are subjected to it either under the greater or less stress of circumstances. It is especially so when a man smokes expensive cigars and dines at costly restaurants. He will be very apt to enjoin severe economy at home. That is what kills thousands of women—the attempt to make 96 do the work of 97. It is amazing how some men dole out money to the household. If you have not got the money, say so. If you have, be cheerful L The church at Antioch was a weij, informed church. It had "prophets and teachers." The prophets "were under the ecstatic influence of the Holy Ghost. The teachers were expounders of Christian truth under the teaching of the Spirit." By such eminent prophets and teachers as Antioch possessed it is easy for us to believe that they were not only informed as to their personal and local needs, but also of the need of the world for the gospel. We cannot imagine Barnabas and Paul neglecting the cause of heathendom. A church that aspires to be a missionary churoh must be well informed along . missionary lines. Knowledge creates an interest and inspires with a desire to help in  the work of evangelizing the world. It is the lack of information that causes many churches to be indifferent to missions."You are wondering who I ain, Don Juan? It is true, we have not met before, yet we are hardly strangers." He drew a chair up to tbe table and said: A very rough schoolmaster had a poor lad that had offended the laws df the school, and he ordered him to come up. "Now," he said, "you take oft your coat instantly and receive this whip!" The boy declined, and more vehemently the teacher said, "I tell you, now, take off your ooat—take it off instantly!" The boy again declined. It was not because he was afraid of the lash—he was used to that in his oruel home—but it was for shame. He had no undergarments, and when at last he removed his coat there went up a sob of emotion all through the school as they saw why he did not wish to remove his ooat and as they saw the shoulder blades almost cutting through the skin. As the "Eraclio Solis, in the name of the nation, yon are my prisoner!" "I am Eraclio, the outlaw.'r "Eraclio!" The highwayman raised hi# bead, gaaged his captor, and smiled. Then he looked around at tbe circle of soldiers, drew himself up and without paying any further attention to the lieutenant, he spoke to tbam. "At your service, senor," be answered, amazed at my astonishment. "Yon expected to meet me yonder on tbe road, yes? Bat really it would not have beeu worth while. I knew that yon were tbe only passenger and that yon do not travel with more tban a few dollars in yonr pocket. Gracia'a draft on Mazatlan is of no use to me, for unfortunately circumstances do not allow me to go there. As for your rifle and your pistol—you might have been tempted to use them, and—I bear- you no ill will. £nt, carambal Why don't they bring us something to eat?" and springing up with an oath be went to the bouse and gr.ve some orders, whiob were obeyed with eager alacrity. "Friends," he said gently, yet firmly, "the time has come, and I am more glad than sorry. Perhape more glad than any man here. Try henceforth to $1 the expenditure. Your wife will be reasonable. "How long does the honeymoon last?" said a young woman about to enter the married itate to her mother. The mother answered, "The honeymoon laata until you ask your husband for money." "How much do you want?" "A dollar." "A dollar! Can't you get along with 50 cents? You are always wanting $1." This 80 yean' war against high prioes, this everlasting attempt to bring the outgo within the income, has exhausted multitudes of housekeepers. Let me say to such it is a part of the divine discipline. If It were best for you, all you would have to do would be Just to open the front windows, and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you had baked 50 times from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel of Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and the children's shoes would last as long as the shoes of the Israelites in the wilderness—40 years. Eraolio Solis was one of these men. He belonged to a species unknown to the railroad freighted Philistine who naively believe* tbat be is traveling two generations; hence the race of such men aa Eraclio will be extinct. schoolmaster lifted his whip to strike a roseate, healthy boy leaped up aod said: "Stop, schoolmaster; whip me I He is only a poor chap; he can't stand 11?; whip me!" "Oh," said the teacher, "it's going to be a very severe scourging! But if you want to take the position of a substitute you can do it." The boy said: "I don't care. Whip me. I'll take It. He's only a poor chap. Don't you see the bones almost come through the flesh? Whip me." And when the blows came down on the boy's shoulders t.hia healthy, robust lad made no outcry. He endured it all uncomplainingly. We all say "Bravo!" for that lad. Bravo! That is the spirit of Christ! Splendid! How much scourging, how much chastisement, how much anguish, will you and I take for others? Oh, that we might have something of that boy's spirit! Aye, that we might have something of the spirit of Jesus Christ, for in all our occupations and trades and businesses, and all our life, home life, foreign life, we are to remember that the saorlflce for others will soon be over. Eraolio stopped, and for tbe first time siuoe he began to talk he looked at me. "You wouldn't own up to all this, would you? Would you have catalogued your virtues and left out the vines? Tbat is an Anglo-Saxon trait and one of the meanest of its characteristics. You all tbink a man can't have his failings known and still be a man. Hypocrites! Shakespeare and Fielding painted their men naked, part good and part bad, true human beings—their men will live wbile all the sawdust manikins yon put up today will be forgotten tomorrow. 2. The church at Antioch was a spiritual church. They fasted and prayed. They kept as far as possible from the world and as close as possible to God. They were on intimate terms with the Holy Ghost. He spoke to them and revealed His will to them. More devotion, more praying and self denial, more of the Holy Ghost would make many a churoh more of a missionary church than it is. 8. The ohurch at Antioch waa an obedient churoh. It obeyed the Holy Ghost without hesitation and without oomplaint The Holy Ghost requested that Paul and Barnabas be separated for a speoial work. They faated and prayed and laid their hands upon them "and sent them away." The task assigned to the missionaries was tremendous. The difficulties must have seemed insurmountable, yet they obeyed at once; yet they went, poor, unpracticed and unarmed, and in spite of all obstacles succeeded. An obedient churoh must be a missionary ohurch. The command of the Master u to send the gospel to every creature in the world. The churoh that fails to do its share of the work is a disobedient churoh. 4. The church at Antloob waa a self denying churoh. Some people may think it gave nothing to missions. How mistaken they are! They gave a gift that must have been a great sacrifloe, that must have cost muoh self denial on their part. They gave Paul and Barnabas! What church would want to deny itself of such workers as these? It would certainly cost more than to give money to the cause of mission^. I had beard much about him, for in thoee- years he was a more important factor in the government of northwestern Mexico than all the state governors combined. In spite of a detachment of cavalry stationed in tbe neighborhood at Los Hornitos, Eraolio held up every alternate stagecoach within a mile, men or less, of tbe same place. Tbe soldiers always arrived upou tbe scene • few minutes after his band had disappeared, and whenever they escorted tbe ooach it was sure to be attaoked as soon as their protection was deemed no longer necessary. As be stood by tbe door, one of bis men came up aDd spoke to him, a huge, swaggering desperado, and it delighted me to note the superiority uf tbe graceful, agile and youtbfnl captain over bis bulky lieutenant. Eraclio looked so simple and thoroughbred beside the melodramatic) bandit—be was unmistakably the commander. Two Slaters Differ. The same difference you now sometimes use between sisters. There is Martha, Industrious, painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some new pastry, discovering something in household affairs. Here Is Mary, fond of conversation, literary, so full of questions of ethics she has no time to discuss questions of household welfare. It is noon. Mory*4s in the parlor. Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better for them to have divided the toil, and then they oould have divided the opportunity of listening to Christ. But Mary monopolizes Christ while Martha s welters before the fire. It was very important that they have a good dinner that tUy, for Christ was hungry, and he did not often have luxurious entertainment. Alas, me! if all the responsibility of that entertainment had rested with Mary, what a repast they would have had! But something went wrong in the kitchen. Either the fire would not burn, or the broad would not bake, or something was turned black that ought to have been only turned brown, or Martha scalded herself and, forgetting all the proprieties of the occasion, with besweated brow she rushed out of the kitchen into the parlor, perhaps with tongs In one liand and pitcher in the other, and she cried out: "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me." Christ scolded not a word. If it were scolding, I would rather have him scold toe than anybody else bless me. There was nothing acerb in the Saviour's reply. He knew that Martha had been working herself almost to death to get him something to eat, and he appreciated her kindness, and he practically said: "My dear woman, do not worry. Let the dinner go. Sit down here on this couch beside your younger sister Mary. Let us talk about something else. Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful"Period of Preparation. When be came back, he unbuckled bis pistol belt and threw it down on tbe bench between us, so as to be much nearer me than him, aud as he did ao, he looked at me meaningly. It might have been merely a trick, and ao I prudently refrained from following bis example, tbongb I liked the man's appearance, aud instinctively felt tbat I bad nothing to fear. He noticed my hesitation at once, and said, with a short, hard laugh: "I have seen a good many English and Ameriaans, Don Juan, and if 1 have found them perhaps stronger and more generons as a whole tban men of other nationalities I have found them not a whit less human. The men in your A ew spa per b and tbe men in your novels are not tbe same species. Yon smile? Of course—of course—tbe theories and criticisms of a Mexican bandit are only fit to be laughed at But yet you cannot honestly deny the truth of what I say. However, tbat is neither here nor there. So, senor, I worked hard and learned something. I traveled aud studied both in England and Germany; tben one day I awoke as from a dream, and 1 came home to Mexioo. Oh, my friends, all these trials and fatigues of home life are to prepare you for heaven, for they will make that the brighter in the oontrast I A dying soldier was asked by a friend, "Have you any message to send to your father?" "Yea," said he. "Tell him I have gone home." "Well," said the friend, "have you any When be left Alamos, Ben Hill, tbe gambler, called out to me aR we drove pa* bia bouse, "Here's good luok to Eraolio; tell bim I'm all right," whereupon my neighbor asked if I were going beyond Fuertie. I answered that I intended to, and then he assured me tbat I should certainly make the bandit's acquaintance, as this was the regular marked trip. Shortly after leaving Fuertie my last companion got out, and I was left alone. The certainty of being •topped by the brigand had gradually grown upon me during tbe past 86 hours, and aa I sat suspiciously scanning tbe cactus brush on either side of tbe ooach, my rifle between my knees, and my revolver ready for immediate nse, I debated with myself what course I ought to pursue. message to send to your wife?" "Yes. Tell her I have gone home." "You have other friends. Would you like to send a MATRON AND MAID. "Erruiin Sfilia, in the name of the nation, message to them?" "Yes. Give them the same message; they will all understand it. Tell them I have gone home." And that heavenly home will compensate, will fully atone, for all the hardships and the trials and the annoyances and the vexations of the earthly home. In that land they never hunger, and consequently there will be no nuisance of catering for appetite. In that land of the white robes they have no mending to do, and the air of that hilly country makes them all welL No rent to pay there; every man owns his own house, and a mansion at that. It will not be so great a change to step into the chariot of the skies if on earth you rode. It will not be so great ft change if on earth you had all luxuries and satisfactions. It will not be so great a change for you to 6lt down on the banks of the river of life if on earth you had a oountry seat. Julia Marlowe Is quite as graceful at home In the role of hostess as in any of her stage parts. you are my prisoner.'" remember whatever good I have done you aud to forget tbe harm. Yon are all sons of Mexico, aod I charge you, let that be ever uppermost in your thoughts. Because I forgot tbe doty every man owes to his flag, I stand before you now an enemy of my oountry, which no man ever loved more than I. Many of yon are my friends, yet I am your common enemy. Tbe good of the country requires that I should die. So let it be here, at once and at your Hands. I do not yield. I command. Salazar, and yon, the Ave next, step forward 1 Are yon ready? Good! Now, when I drop my arm aim low and steady. This is my last request." "Doyoudistrustme,Don Juan? Well, I don't wonder! I have a bad name, and perhaps if you knew as much abont me as 1 do myself you would trust me still less. It is not altogether my fault, though." Tben changing the subject suddenly, he continued: "Isuppose you keep pretty well artued up at tbe Rocbin mine? Ob, don't fancy I am trying to get any information. I know you keep a large amount of silver there and have about 20 white men on whom yon can depend. Now, suppose I were to pay you a visit—now would you receive me?" Mrs. Virginia Key, a daughter-in-law of Francis Soott Key, is living quietly In Chicago at the age of 86. / \ t Mrs. Fuller, wife of the chief justice, Is In very poor health and during this season will take no part in the festivities of Washington. The widow of Millet, the French artist, Is a simple peasant woman and Is living on a sum raised for her by the admirers of her husband's work. "We love our country, Don Juan, in our unintelligent, passionate way, and tbe jico to me means perhaps even more tban tbe union does to you. With my knowledge, my fortune and my will I felt strong. 1 felt that I should become a great leader aud that my name would passed a few days in Oolombia, visiting some relativea, and one night out on tbe plains, as we eat by tbe catnpflre, one of tbe older men spoke of Bolivar. I see bim now, Dan Juan, standing in tbe glowing light, bis deep voioe trembling with emotion, thundering forth Bolivar's proclamation of independence. Even tben, ignorant boy tbat 1 was, the soene impressed me profoundly, and tbe respect, tbe veneration of bis listeners, as tbe old man ended witb the invocation, 'Ah, Bolivar—liberator!'—I have never forgotten. Bolivar I Why not Solis? It is a great purpose tbat makes a great man, and I believed tbat my purpose was a great one. Throughout the land of Mexico, wide aa it is from north to aoutb, Eraclio Solis should be a household word. Ha I Aa it has beoome indeed. A household word throughout the land, quoted in the annual reports among the cursed of Mexioo, on tbe same pages with yellow fever, famine and drought." Mrs. H. E. Wright of Chicago has oome Into possession of a kettle oven whloh was onoe given to Martha Washington in payment for a knitting task. Beyond my arms I bad really nothing to loae, and it seemed foolhardy to attempt to resist, single handed, tbe attacks of a band of trained highwaymen merely because my Anglo-Saxon prejudices forbade me to yield without a struggle. I did not wish to risk my life for tbe sake of a mere prejudice, but I rebelled at the idea of holding op my hands without making use of them. Miss Ruth White of San Francisco is said to bear so striking a resemblance to the Liberty on the new dimes that her friends supposed her the model. i " Why, about as roughly as we know "Even if I bad CO men bebind me?" bow!" He poured out a tumblerful of wine. daugeron* foe in me be fled to the capital. When I wa» ready—not ao very long sine*—I raided and destroyed bin ranches one after another and in irach qnick succession that there was no time to prepare defenses. I killed his men, drove off his cattle, burned hia baciendus and wrecked his mines, ontil on tbe verge of ruin be was obliged to come here himself and attempt tbe resone of his property. Then I tracked him from plaoe to place. Finally I captured bim at tbe Oescauso. For years. Don Joan, 1 had exercised all ray ingenuity in planning new, unheard of, monstroos tortures for this man, but when we were alone faoe to face in tbe big hall of tbe rancbo bouse, when after all these years I saw him in my power— this man whom I bated with every fiber of my being—when it flashed over me what I might have been but for him, what I was because of bim, by heaven, tenor, I burst into teara!" Eraclio looked up at the pale, hard sky overhead and across the ragged line of cactus brush, ao typical -at his country. Above in the ovenlike dome a buzzard, tbe eagle of Mexico, arched slowly round and round. He followed it with his eyes, until it alighted on a tuna near by. Beyond tbe sierra, purple and blue and white, crowned tbe horizon, and while be gazed with a faraway look over tbeir heads the men leaned on their carbines and waited. But, oh, the Joy for the weary feet when they step into the celestial equipage, and, oh, the Joy of those to whom home was a Bible Readings.—Pa. ii, 1-9; Isa. xlii, 6, 7; lii. 7; Nah. i, 16; Math, xiii, 81-38; xxviii, 19, 30; Luke ii, 25-38; John iii, 16; xv, 16; Acta i, 8; viii, 26-40; Rom. i, 14-16; x, 14, 16; Rer. xxii, 17. "Unless yon came witb a whole army behind you," I answered. "I don't know tbat tbe number would make much difference. If you attacked tbe Kocbin mine, we should defend it" Mrs. George P. Greeley of Vermont is a sister of Admiral Dewey, from whom she has received, during the latter's entire service, a letter written at each post at which he touched. martyrdom on earth when they go into that home where they will never have to do anything they do not want to do I What a change from the time she put down the rolling pin to the time she took up the scepter! If Chatsworth Park and the Yanderbllt mansion were lifted Into the celestial city, they would be looked at as uninhabitable rookeries, and Lazarus himself would be ashamed to be seen go- Wbile I was thus undecided, the driver settled tbe question by calling to me to take off my shooting irons aud olimb up beside bim. "Don Juan,he •aid to me as I braced myself to tbe box •t bia aide, "you've got nerve enough, ao I may aa well tell you tbat Eraclio will stop us in a few minutes. When we reach tbe top of this grade, you will aee tbe atroyo bondo, and on tbe rice beyond probably the horsemen, too, but perhapa only Eraclio himself Mow, for be* v en'a sake, don't go shooting. There will be 80 rifle sights leveled at ns from behind tbe cactus bush, and the minute you pull the trigger we shall be riddled.The Duchess of Westminster still wears the largest flawless turquoise owned by any private Individual, and the Duchess of Sutherland possesses the only complete necklace of black pearls. "Good! That is one thiug I like about English aud Americans. Odds don't frighten tbern. Mow a little while since I went up to the Boaario and bad an fbterview with Schmidt, tbeir superintendent. 'How many are yon?' I asked. 'Ob,' be answered, '1 bave only 24, bo walk in aod belp yourselves.' Schmidt is not a coward, but ouoe be was an officer in the German aruay, and tbere be learned tbat two men always beat oue. Two nnits always beat one, that's' trne, and it* large armies the average luatiJiuett is at its lowest. However, I'll get even with bim," he added with a somewhat cynical laogb. "1 shall take good care to have fewer men than be tind force a tight, for I don't like robbing witbont some danger or excitement. It is too much like thieving." The Ckirek ud the Poor. As Martha throws opan the door I look In today, and I see a great many household anxieties, perplexities, fatigues and trials, and about them I am going to speak if the Lord of Mary and Martha and Lazarus will help me by his grace. We do not need to deplore the supposed decadence of the eharoh. If the influenoe of the charoh is declining, it ia in part because we are neglecting our plain doty to the lowest of the people. The churchy that can and does reach down to the very substratum of society and rescue the perishing ones who are there hovering over the month of the pit will deserve and receive the Master's approbation. Let us turn aside a little from oar elaborate rituals, our elegant social functions, our denominational rivalry, our higher criticism and oar worship af creed and devise and execute ways and means for oarrying the word of God to oar poorest and most needy neighbors.—Evangelist. Mrs. F. E. Groves, who died recently at La Crosse, Wis., was a great-granddaugh- Then the outlaw raised bis bat and tbe locks olioked—a moment later tbe simultaneous bark of the six carbines crashed through the aiienoe. Eraclio fell. Salazar alone had understood. Tbe other five with mistaken generosity bad shot wild. lng in or out of them, so great are the palaoes awaiting all God's dear children, and so much grander the heavenly architecture than the earthly. It is often not only the toll of the housekeeping, but it Is the sickness and the sorrow that go along. It is a simple fact that one-half of the women of the land are Invalids. The mountain lass who has never had an ache or a pain may consider household work of no very great weariness, and at the eventide may skip out to the fields and drive the cattle home, and until 10 o'clock at night may fill the cabin with laughing racket, but, oh, to do the hard work of the household with a shattered constitution—after six weeks' whooping oough has raged in the household, making the nights as sleepless as the days, then it is not so easy. And then this work of the house has often to be undertaken when the nerves are shattered with some bereavement that has ui, utmoianon in every room 01 ine nouse and sent the crib into the garret because ter of the historic Hull and moreover claimed to be a direct descendant of William the Silent. An«raa«ei of Home lDlfe. Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of the senator, is a lover of fine horses and an admirable whip. She may be frequently seen driving about the capital a four-inhand with the grace and ease that betoken an expert. As I look Into that door, in the first place, I see the trial of nonappreciatlon. That was what made Martha so vexed at Mary. Mary, the younger sister, had no proper estimate of the elder sister's fatigue, just as now men having annoyances of store and factory and shop or at the Stock Exchange come home at night and hear of some household annoyance, and they say: "0h, that's nothing I You ought to be In a factory a day and have 10 or 15 or 20 or 100 subordinates. Then you would know something about annoyance and trouble." O man, let me tell you that a wife and a mother has to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing establishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a library, and has to be health officer, police and president of the whole realm! She has to do a thousand things, and to do them well, In order to make things go smoothly, and that is what puts the awful tax on a woman's nerves and a woman's brain. I know there are exoeptiolis to the rule. Sometimes you will find a woman who can sit in the armchair of the library all day without any anxiety or tarry on the belated pillow, and all the cares of the household are thrown upon servants who have large wages and great experience, but that Is the exception. I speak of the great masses of housekeepers, to whom life is a struggle, and who at 30 years of age look as though they were 40. The fallen at C halons and Austerlltz and Gettysburg and Waterloo are a small number In comparison with those who have gone down under the Armageddon of the kitchen. Go out to the country and look over the epitaphs on the tombstones. They are all beau tiful and poetic, but If the tombstones could sell the truth thousands of them woul 1 say, "Here lies a woman who was killed by too much mending and sewing and taking and scouring and scrubbing," and Che weapon with which she was klllec. was a broom or a sewing machine or a ladle. The censorship is so strictly applied to the Turkish press that it was forbidden to give any account of the murder of the Empress Elizabeth at all resembling tbe truth. According to tbe accounts that were allowed to appear, she was takiug a walk and was suddenly seized with illness. She fell to tbe ground, got up again, and again fell unconscious. In half an hour she was dead Tirklik Preas Onaorsfctp. Mrs. Margaret C. Shlpp Roberts, the latest addition to the home of Congressman Elect Roberts, will not talk of her husband. She is 46 years old and practices medicine. Her name was changed from Shlpp to Roberts in 1895. "Did yon ever bear how Ben Hill vh filled witb lead? Well, I can tell yott, for I was driving. Erndio appeared in the usoal way, and I stopped, of course, m soon as be waved hituille, bat Hill jumped out and fired.f- Whew! How the bullets began to come in—a perfect hailstorm! Twominufes later it was all over. Three of were dead beside tbe wbipper aiid one of tbe pasaengers. As for be was lying on tbe road witb six ballets under his rirfn—enongh to kill man —-but there be lay, lirinfMway at the cactus, with the blood rawing down over his forehead and as mud as though be had been eating papasbes all tbe morning. £raclio bnd a bard time preventing his men from finishing bim, bat the gambler was an old friend of hia, and be kept tbe coyotes off. " 'Ben,' said he, 'why did you shoot? Are you drunk?' SoJis had risen from bis ohair. He was muob exalted and spoke quickly, with passionate utterance and unconscious gesticulation. Though be waa speaking to me, be had about forgotten my presence, except as an impersonal recipient of bis confession, and I took care not to interrupt him. As he stopped, be leaned against one of the posts of the veranda with bia back toward me, and for some minutes looked away over the plain. When he eame baok to the table, he poured oat a tumblerful of wine and drank it down at one gulp. Solis paused a moment. He drew his hand over his forehead—he had been talking vehemently—his face was quivering, but almost immediately be stood up and said, "I shot bim down like a our!" Miss Beatrice Cutler, a trained physician, has been appointed inspector of the women pilgrims at El Teb, Egypt, by the Egyptian quarantine board. Her duties are to inspect the women coming back from Mecca for this year on account of plague. They are kept In camp in quarantine for 12 days before being allowed to return to their respective countries. "You draw rather nice distinctions," I said. Ho frowned, and for a moment seemed annoyed, then be went on. "Ob, let ns talk of something else; it la so rare nowadays oat here tohaveachanoe of passing an hoar or two with a man of edooation that I most make the moat of it. Yen have been in Europe, of oouree? Well, tben, let ns get as far away-from Los Hornitoa as possible. Ab, Don Juan, I bate this life." be added passionately, and in an instant the whole ezpreaaion of bis faoe obanged. His fists were clutched on the table before biin, and his lips were drawn baok over his teeth until he looked more like an animal about to spring forward than like the handsome, good humored young fellow ba bad hitherto seemed to be. But tbia expression vanished again as quietly as it had oome. He drank off a tumblerful of wine and lighted a cigar, wbile I reflected on the danger of irritating sncb a fearful temper. For an boor or two we chatted very pleasantly. He was especially interested in French affairs and begged me to give him m bundle of papers which I had just been reviewing and happened to have with me. I bad beard that be was of good education and that lie had traveled for a number of years, but I waa not prepared to meet one so familiar with French, English and even German books as his conversation proved Solis to be. Work In India. In addition to Tamil, Telogu and Kanarese, the Model Christian Endeavor constitution is to be pat into Malayalam, another language of southern India. It is now found in at least ten different languages of India. He walked away to the end of tbe porch. He stood there so long that I tcrned to see whether be bad gone. No, bo was apparently watching the men who were harnessing the mules When ht came back, all traces of emotion had disappeared, but be looked at me as if expecting me to say something. I did not know what to say, and be sat down again opposite me. The use of tbe words anarohist, nihilist, etc., is forbidden, so tbe newspapers have been saying "disturbers of tbe pehce," "lawless element," etc., but now the censorship has forbidden even these and has required tbe substitution of "Utopians" and "Utopianism." its occupant has been hiished Into a slumber that needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, it was a great deal easier for her to brood the whole flock than to brood a part of them, now that the rest have gone I You may tell her that her departed children are In the bosom of a loving God, but, motherlike, she will brood both flocks, putting one wing of care over the flock in the house, putting the other wing of care over the flock in the grave. Nothing but the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ can take a woman happily through home trials. All these modern religions amount to nothing. They do not help. They do not comfort when there is a dead babe in the house. Away with them and give us the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ that has comforted so many in the days of sorrow and trouble! PERT PERSONALS. In heaven above there is no night No Mafht There. To shroud the day in gloom. For God is there, and He is light, And He doth heaven illume. "Ab, Don Juan, I am very tired of it all," be began again after a short pause. "There is a reward of 2,000 pesos for bringing me to Culiaoan, dead or alive, and aometimes I feel that the best thing I could do would be to ahoot myself in tbe house of some poor devil who needs the money. J will tell yon bow I became an outlaw—?1 have given you the beginning and end of my story, but a good deal lies between. This is understood to be positively Patti's farewell appedrance as a jride.— Boston Globe. In order to maintain tbe fiction that all north and central Africa, so far as it is Mohammedan, is snbjeot to the sultan of Turkey, it is forbidden to mention tbe English advance in the Sudan. If anything is said, the names of places must be changed, for tbe Sudan, Kongo; for Lake Tchad, the lake of Kuka, and for Erythrea, Schoa. On the operatic stage plain Adellna Patti will still be greater than the Baroness Oedarstrom.—Philadelphia Ledger. No night of sorrow spreads a shade To pall the sunny hours, For Joys are there that never fade And never lose their flowers. y\ J; "Ah, Don Juan,1' he began again, "tliat's what a brigand is made of—just a man, wrongly developed. Some day —who knows—you may bold me up. Gone now, tell me honestly what do you tbink of me? A miserable rascal, eb? An embarrassing question?" His margin was so narrow between good bunior and tbe most violent passion that I hesitated at passing judgment upon tbe fine animal before me. I could only admin i. It Is said that Mr. Rockefeller's Income Is 925 a minute, day and night. Time 1s very valuable to him.—Atlanta Constitution.There Is no night of weeping there To dim the bending skies. For tears have ceased and every care And with them grieving sighs. " 'Qoieu anbe?' tbe other answered. 'I'm pickled now anyway. Look here, Xraolio, be generous with me. There are 8,000 pesos in my valise, and (bat ought to satisfy yoo. Bat there's my wile, abe has all her jewelry along, and Bow that 1 am laid op 1 think yon might look after her. Can't'yos take her down to Onliaoan? I can scrape up a couple of thousand more when I get homn, and tf yonll do that I'll send tbe& to yon Mid welcome. Is it a bargain?' When Russell Sage heard that Joseph Ohoate had been appointed to the oourt of St. James, he remarked, "God save the queen." This story Is on Mr. Choate's authority.—Minneapolis Journal. No night of trial there descends To cast Its shadows dun, For there the Christian's battle ends. And victory is won. " When I came home from Europe, 1 applied for a government position, and I wm appointed private aeoretary to the governor. He wbb an able mau, bnt bad—totally unscrupulous—the kind of uian I might have beoome if I bad remained at home. He recognized the advantages of his offloe, bat uot tbe obligations. He wua ostensibly apathetic— really one of tbe moat violent men ] ever met, aa crnel and vindictive • villain as could be found in Mexico. It was oar joint misfortune to fail in love with tbe Mime woman—Meroedes, tbe daughter of old Homobono Paral. No Cause Cor Alarm. Several persons wfcre making purchases in tbe grocer's shop on a very stormy day, when an old man with a stick in one baud and a bundle in tbe other entered and asked: If Promoter Hooley has to go to jail, there will be a spice of poetical justice in it. The man who has perpetuated suoh gigantic sells on other people will then have a nice little cell of his own.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. And there no night of death e'er falls To breathe Its noisome breath, For over heaven's crystal walls Ne'er leaps the form of death. Romance and novelty may (or a little while seem to be a substitute. The marriage day has only gone by, just gone by, and all household cares are atoned for by the Joy of being together and by the tact that when it is late at night It Is. not necessary to discuss whether it is time to go. All the mishaps of the newly married couple In the way of household affairs are not matters of anxiety or reprehension, but merriment. The loaf of bread turned into a geological specimen, the slushy custards and jaundloed and measly bisoultst Oh, it is a very bright sunlight that falls upon the cutlery and mantel ornaments of a new home I Romance and novelty will do for a little while, but after awhile the romance is all gone, and there is a loaf to be made, a loaf that cannot be sweetened by any earthly condiments, and cannot be flavored with any earthly flavors, and cannot be baked in any ordinary oven It is the loaf of domestic happiness. All the ingredients from heaven. Fruit from the tree of life and sweetened with the new wine of the kingdom and baked in the oven of home trial. God only can make that loaf. You can cut It, but it takes God to make It. Domeatto Happlaeaa. " Yon have been very unfortunate, Don Eraclio," I said finally. "I believe you might have been a great man in yon:: oountry." And I put out my hand. Solii grasped it eagerly, and he still held it as he said: "Did any of you drive up here in a The hirsute embellishment of Jonathan Ross, the new senator from Vermont, so effectually knocks out Peffer's whiskers that they make a real news item. Mr. Ross is a new man. Perhaps after he has been a senator awhile and has displayed high qualities of statesmanship his whiskers will be forgotten.—Cincinnati Enquirer.No darkness there, no waning light! Oh, what a heaven this— A heaven with radiance ever bright And with unclouded bltBs! " 'Bah!" the other answered, laughiog. 'Friend Beu. between thieve* the Portent accounts are beat. I'll take your money for the men, but the seuora aha 11 reach Culiacan safely. I'll see to that myaelf.' And be did it, Dud Juan. Hi pat three of' his men inside, made ■M do the whipping and drove himself right np to the hotel, thongh be knew well enongh that there was a big placard on the door—'Two thousand (2,000) paaoa for the body of Kraclio Solia dead or alive.' "Yes, I did," replied one man. "Wae it an old white hoaa?" cart?" Tb; housewife rises in4he morning half rested. At an irrevocable hour she must have the morning repast ready. What if the fire will not burn? What if the clock ■top? What if the marketing has not been sent to? No matter that; it must be ready at tho Irrevocable hour. Then the children must be got ready for school. But what if the garmeuts be torn? What if they do not know their lessons? What If tho h»t or sash is lost? They must be ready. Then you have the duty of the day or perhaps several days to plan out But what if the butcher sends meat1 unmastlcab! e? What if the grocer furnishes you articles of food adulterated? What if the piece of silver be lost, or a favorite chalioe be braken, or the roof leak, or the plumbing full, or any one of a thousand things occur? No matter. Everything must be ready. The spring is coming, and there must be resolution in the family wardrobe, or tBe autumn is at hand, and you must shut out the northern blast. But how '.t the moth has preoeded yt»a to the chestF How if the garments of the last year lo not fit the children now? What If all tie fashions have changed? —Philadelphia Ledger. V of theGlotwfor V f rheumatismI ■ NEUBALGIA And similar Ooirpl&inta, J and preptrod under the stringent LGERMAN MEDICAL LAWS,^ prescribed by eminent phyricians In) DR. RICHTER'S 1JU ANCHOR "*33 fPAIN EXPELLERl ■ TV orld renowned T Remarkably successful! 1 ■Only gennlne with Trade Mark" Anchor,"® ■ F Ad. Blchtei lCt, 816 Pearl St., New York. ■ 31 HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ 13 Praneh Houses. Own Glassworks. ■ M S* ul 10 ,u. RaSam* aa4 nmmmfmir* Ctj FAKItKB A PECK, M Unrn knmm*, «. C.6LHX, HD H.rtk *«1« Sirert, J. H. HOCCK, 4 .Vorth gal» St. MtTSTOK, I "ANCHOR" STOMACHAL beat fori "[ thank yon, Don Joan; I shall not forgBt yon. Will you take a little thing to mmeinber me? My end ia not far off, aencr. I believe that I am on the down grade. So far revenge was my right, but that: ia past now, and fur the fntnre whs t can I do? I am not a brigand by nature. If I bad aomething to live upon, I SDould probably turn to my books aga n, for of conrae I can never be a pnblic man now. Bnt 'as it ia 1 don't owii 10 pesos in the world; besides I havsa duty toward my men. I must atacd by them, as they have stood by me." "Yes." "And an old woman on the seat?" "Quite right." "And oan she manage that boss?" Eventually 1 expressed my surprise at his unusual knowledge, and I asked him bow be managed to keep ao well informed ont in the wilderness. "'You are married,'I said to him half joking, one day, 'and I am not. I bave the right on my side!' "I should think ahe can." "Then it's all right," aaid the man of the atiok and bundle. "The old boas baa run away, and the old woman is banging to the tailboard, shouting 'MurderI' with all her might, bnt if ahe can mauage it there'a no use anybody getting excited over it. What'a the prioe of eggs today?" — Pearson's Weekly. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. "Do yon know anything of my past life, Don Juan?" be asked in retnrn. " 'But might is on mine,' he answered, smiling good naturediy, 'and yon know that in this oountry might is right.' Nature Is the mother, and habit is the stepmother. "Gracia has told me something," I answered, "but not much, after all! He was a friend of yours once, was be not?" The lack of money Is the root of a great many eTils. "You never saw him? Well, acnor, he's a caballero, you will see, and I say we oogbt to bave just suoh a man for fdternor He knows what the poor peo pU need and what U good for them. Vaya, if be were governor for only one year, they woald make him president lb* next. Tbe greatest man in Mexico, Moor, and they are trying to kill him." j But in apite of Martin's predictions •■d apparently much to his diRappointmeut we drove off unmolested across the arroyo hondo and into Los Homitos. "'But it isnot'-uvef* I retorted. 'I have my right «nd her love too. So jour might will not help you much in tbis case'—fool that 1 was) "He is now, for the matter of that," Solis answered, "at leaet as far as circumstances will allow bim to be. ' The trouble with the bore is that he never troubles himself. The unbidden guest affords his host great pleasure—when he goes. For souie minutes tbe outlaw remained silent, looking blankly at tbe table before him, while bis thoughts were evidently far away. When be spoke again, he did no with unmistakable diffidence aud hesitation. "1 remember the quick start that he gave, and his sarcastic emphasis as be said very quietly: Thackeray on T»Drioa-iMl. "I suppose yoa mast, Don Eraolio, unions you were to leave, the country. Wouldn't you do that?" I suggested. Thackeray wrote; "Alfred Tennyson, if be can't make you like him, will make you admire bim. He seems to me to have the cachet of a great man. Hie conversion ia often delightful, I. think; full of breadth, manlineaa and bumor. He reads all aorta of things, swallows them and digests them like a great poetical tDoa ooostrictor, as be ia. Now, 1 hope, Mrs. Proctor, you will recolleot that if your humble servant sneers at small geniuses be has, ou the ooutrary, a huge respect for big one*. Perhaps it ia Aifted Tennyson's great big yellow face aud growling voioe that have made an impression on me. Manlineaa and simplicity of manner go a great way with me, 1 fancy."—Mrs. Ritchie in "Thackeray Sketch Books." A man is apt to have decided views when his wife decides them for him. Men are seldom as good as they pretend to be or as bad as they are said to be. "'Ah, Solis, you Mercedes'lover.' Then, suddenly obanging tbe conversation he asked for certain papers and gave me instructions as to what answers I should send. Then be left the room. After he bad gone I sat down to write, bnt our conversation had made too daafp an impression. I began to fear the consequences. I wanted to tell Mercedes herself, so I threw tbe papers into my desk, saddled a horse and rode off to Paral's ranch. It waa uot a long ride, but before it was in fight fuddenly my horse waa tripped. I waa bound, gagged, and that night I was carried to an outlying prison, where 1 passed the next eight months. I was not inacribed in my own name, so it will hence be unknown officially tbat Eraelio Solia lived behind bars—a remote satisfaction, to h» Nn. It waa not until long after my jMMjhy tbat my jailer told m* I waa "Impossible!" be aaid. "No, no, I can t do that"— but he did not explain. We aat awkwardly for a few momenta after our oonveraation. Any other topic seemed out of plaoe—yet sileuoe waa embarrassing, so it waa a relief to see the horses coming ready to start. I rose, tightened my straps, and Eraclio aaked, "You are going home, Don Juan?" Solomon wrote out of his own miserable experience—he had a wretched home; no man can bs happy with two wives, much lese with 700, and out of hla wretched experienoe he wrote—'' Better ia a dinner oi tieroa wnere tove is tnan a stauea ox and hatred therewith." Oh, the responsibilities of housekeepers! Kings by their Indigestion have lost empires, and generals through Indigestion have lost battles. One of the great atatlatlcians aaya that nut of 1,000 unmarried men 80 were criminals, and out of 1,000 married men only 18 were criminals, showing the power at home. And, oh, the responsibility resting upon housekeepers I By the food they provide, by the couch they spread, by the books they introduoe, by the influence they bring around the home, they are helping to decide the phyaical, the intellectual, the moral, the eternal, welfare of the human race. Oh, the responsibility I No matter how much a man wants, he is compelled to put up with the little he gets. "Our conversation has recalled my student days—the best period of my life — ho vividly—aud the contrast between then and now." He did not finish the sentence, and again for some minutes he smoked on silently, while I sat equally silent and waiting. Many a poor man would be glad of the opportunity to make an after dinner speech. Tbe little rancho was crowded, and I ordered my dinner served outside under tbe porch, where I sat down alone to wait. Tbe view from my taut was hot, iaaolate and depressing, typical of onr draary life west of tbe Sierra Madre. To tbe left stood a broken row of low, flat roofed adobe buts, joined together by Imgnlar cactus hedges, and on tbe tops Oi tbe fiOtfld gray green columns three AT four buzzards perohed motionless. On tba right by tbe roadside lay odd looktag piles of rusty mining machinery, SaHaa of aonte abandoned enterprise. Trials Appreciated. When a married man turns out bad, his mother says his wife didn't understand him and his wife says his mother spoiled him. The house must be an extemporized apothecary's shop or dispensary. There must be relief for all styles of ailments— somet hing to loosen the croup, something to cool the burn, something to poultice the Inflammation, something to pilence the jumping tooth, something to soothe the ettrache. O man of business, if you had ai many cares as that, you would be a fit candidate for an insane asylum! If Marti a make under such circumstances an impatient rush on the library or the drewlag room, be patient, be lenient. Oh, my sister, though my words may not arouse in many souls any appreciation of j year »DU, let bp* assure you tram the kind Ums» with wMch J«sua Christ met Martha I Hjiiilifii •£ jw tflalstrom "Perhaps you do uot know, lienor," he began presently. "I of good family. My anoestors came over from Spain about tbe beginning of the last century, which may or may not be true. At any rate my father was an intimate friend of General Calzado, whom the Juarez government outlawed, aud about the time I waa 10 yeara old both were captured, exeouted side by side aud all tba property confiscated by the state my mother's hacienda. " k'o«, by h roundabout rook, but I shal! come back, tiers.'' The woman who shows her teeth and ■miles will attain her object much quicker than the one who shows her teeth and growls.—Chicago News.  "J wish I were going, too," be said, "bo; where? It you come book, we mnsu meet again. Von way find me a bettor tnan—or, if not, a far worse. Vvyitl" be cried, pulling himself together suddenly. "Today I ana at tbe zenith of tuy power. 'Joiue, drink another glass with we- a big glass this time—here's to look!" ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED KVERYwhere for "The Story of the Philippines," by Murat Halstead, commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department The book was written in army camps at San PrancisC!o, on the Pacific with Gen. Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolala, in Hang Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne maurijtnt camps with Agninaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battl D at the fall of Manila. Bonanta for agents. B.*in f il of original pictures t* en by Kovernn eat photographers on the tot. IDarge book. IxD»' priicea. BiC profits. Freight paid. Credit lIvwe. Drop all trashy unofficial war books. Outfit bee. Address, F T. BaD» bar, Sec'y, Star Insurance Building, Chicago Skeptics Torn Believers and are Cnred. 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