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C H A P T E R V I I I . — (Continued.)
* W « H " said Mr. Front. “ W hat 1a op
bow, air?"
" I came over with Dobroaki from Bel
gium this morning,” said O'Rourke.
“ With Dobroaki?” returned the visitor.
“ Dobroaki baa an introduction from nte
to you. Unless he has to know it— that
la to say, unleaa he finds it out by com­
ing here while you and I are together—
h e need not know that we hare met to-
day. He haa a plan which will serve our
purpose perfectly. With hia name behind
It, I think It certain that our people
w ill accept i t "
He sketched Dobroaki’s nightmare rap­
idly, and Mr. Frost listened.
“ There is ability in it, o f a sort," he
said.
“ As a fool-trap, it haa merits;
bait it w on t act."
“ There are great advantages to you and
be mb in this plan, wild as it looks," re­
plied O’Rourke; “ but Dobroaki must be
bandied with extreme care. 1 send him
to you la the first place because I can
trust year acuteness and your sblf-inter-
est. I want him to be treated with per­
fect deference. I want him to be greet­
ed with enthusiasm. I want at first an
stir of consideration for his plan, and
then a fiery acceptance of it. I am going
back to Belgiuni. I hare important busi­
ness there, and I shall be compelled to
leave the matter in your hands. Per­
haps if yon manage it to my satisfaction
I may be o f service to you. I am not
»altogether without influence, and I may
have something to do with the nomination
o f the auditors."
• “ I am at your service, Mr. O'Rourke,”
he said, “ and I will do my beat. T o tell
the plain truth, there haa been a good
deal less in the business than I looked for,
aad it carries a good deal of danger
with It.“
“ I think are have said almost all we
f, " O’Rourke said, rising. Frost
hooked him forward with a beckoning fin-
gsr.
“ Not all on my side. Listen to this
and don’ t flare out, now. There’s an
ampty house in the Old Kent road. Now,
doa’ t flare out. I'm going to give you
nothing but the number. You’ll do your­
self a very considerable service with the
British government, and yon’ll provide
something for tha Timas to get np and
bowl about and yon’ll be of the greatest
use to me on the other aide o f the water.
Come now, Mr. O’Rourke. I t ’s a capital
thing all round— good lor yon, good for
the newspapers, creditable to the police,
and good for me. Yon stand secure in
the confidence of the government and
they’ll catch nobody. The stuff’s there
to be seised, and for no other earthly
purpose. I ought to know, I reckon. And
w e do want a splash of some sort real
“ Is everybody abscftutely mfe?”
“ Absolutely mfe. I guarantee i t "
“ Very well. Good afternoon. Frost.”
“ Good afternoon.
Shall I am yon
again before yon go?"
. “ I think n ot I shall probably start
to-morrow. Remember. The utmost def­
erence and enthusiasm for Dobroski." Mr.
Frost nodded and took his way. “ A very
finished rascal la F r o s t" mid the patriot
to himself when the visitor had been
shown out of the front door. “ But capa­
ble. It took me a year to And him out,
though I was guided by that shifty eye
o f his. It is surprising to notice how
very few of these fellows think it worth
while to study manner.”
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C H A P T E R IX .
There was only one thing just now that
troubled' O’ Rourke.
lie wanted to get
back to hia heiress hunt, and he did not
want to leave Dobroaki in hia lodgings to
bring there any mad theorists and blood­
thirsty dynamiters who might choose to
gather about him. But Dobroski himself
saved him from this dilemma.
“ You will not think, sir," he mid on
the second morning of his stay, “ that
do not value your hospitality.
But
shall be more free to move if I am
aw ay from yon, and shall still, after the
publicity of on? joint arrival here, be
able to communicate with you with per­
fect freedom.”
O'Rourke was more than politely re­
gretful at parting from Dobroaki, bat
be recognised the wisdom of the pro­
posal, and the old man took lodgings
a t a quiet hotel much frequented by
Continental people who were not of the
conspiring clan*. This left O’Rourke free
to go back and pursue his suit, and he
bad written a hasty looking note to Dob-
ro«.ki to my that he was unexpectedly
called to the Continent, when a serving
maid brought op the card of no less *
perron than his friend Maskelyne.
H e hardly knew what to make o f the
and could only conjecture that
kelyne was here to make some sort
o f appeal or protest, with respect to
Angela.
Bat he stood with a look of
friendly expectancy on his face, and held
the door of his room back With one hand
while he reached out the other in welcome
to hia friend.
“ Why, Maakelyne, old fellow, what
brings you in London.
Come in, old
chap, come in."
Maskelyne
ebook
hands
cordially
«nough, but with extreme gravity, a grav­
ity unusual even for him.
‘‘ Dobroaki’s staying with yon, I be­
liever* he mid, questioning!/. “ I have
« a important message for him. I follow­
ed him to Bru seels, bat could I earn noth­
ing there until I found ont last night
that yon and be had come over together,
and that ha waa actually staying with
poo."
“ He waa, until this morning," said
O'Rourke. " I wanted to show these peo­
ple here that an Irishman isn’t afraid
o f sympathising with him. They were
talking about our getting into holes and
corners at Janenne? and seemed to think
Chat I dare not own the grand old fellow
la London."
“ Where is he staying now?” Maake­
lyne naked. “ I want especially to find
i
mk
Rtf
What?” cried O’Rourke, gayly, sitting
at hia desk té write the
L
‘ Is Maakelyne also among the anarch-
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“No,“ said Maskelyne. “ I'm an out­
sider there as elsewhere." I f this speech
expressed any inward bitterness, nsitbet
voice nor manner declared It
“ You’re going back to Honfoy, I sup­
pose?" said O’ Rourke, la a casual friend­
ly tone as he wrote.
'W ell, no,” said Maakelyne. “ I fancy
not Or not at ail events for a time.”
“ O h o!“ cried the other to himself,
taergetlcally applying a blotting paper to
the address, aad looking round smilingly
at hia friend. “ Beaten out of the field
already."
“ Do yon go back to Jananns?“ asked
Maakelyne.
T start to-night” returned O’Rourke,
“ I promised Farley to go b a d again.”
O f coarse Maakelyne saw through that
little subterfuge, and o f cooraf O’Rourke
knew he would.
"T o -ifig h tr mid Maakelyne.
“ You'll
do me a service» won’t ypu ?"
“ T ry me," returned his friend, with
smiling seriousness.
' I ’m staying at the Langham,” Mas­
kelyne said. “ There’s s lsdy there— an
American— whom I knew at home. She’s
going to visit Brussels, and except for
her maid she’s alone. Neither she nor
her maid speaks a word of French, and I
shall be obliged if you’ll put yourself at
her service in ease she wants anything.”
“ Certainly, certainly,” cried O’Rourke.
’Do I know her?"
“ I think n ot” answered Maskelyne.
‘ She’s a youngish widow, rather pretty,
and sinfully rich. A Mrs. Spry.”
“ And what state of riches might a poor
nan like yourself care to catt sin fu l?"
“ Well.” mid Maskelyne. with a smile,
*1 think two millions may deserve i t ”
“ Tw o millions!”
O’ Rourke whistled
and then laughed. “ Dollars?”
“ No. Sterling.”
'
“ Tw o millions sterling? Maskelyne. I
ask you seriously, as a man o f money,
do you think there is such • sum? To
an Irishman and a journalist it sounds
fabulous.” «
’ Yes. It ’s large, isn’t it? But people
to go for all or aothing in our part
of the world. They’ re not afraid o f rim ­
ing what they have. They are not afraid
o f risking what other people have, either.
The poor girl’s husband only died six
months ago."
In due time O’ Rourke sent out for a
cab and drove to the Langham. carrying
his simple baggage with him. Maskelyne
received him, and wore v his cu»*omary
manner with perhaps an extra shade of
gravity.
“ And now for the lady," mid Maske­
lyne, when the repast was over, “ I must
introduce you.” He rang the bell, and on
the servant's entry, made him convey his
compliments to Mrs. Spry, and to ask if
it would ba agreeable to her to receive
him. "You may my,” he added, “ that
Mr. O’ Rourke is with me.”
The man came back in a very little
while to my that the lady would be pleas­
ed to receive Mr. Maskelyne and hia
friend, and led the way to a handsomely
appointed sitting room. The lady before
whom O’ Rourke stood bowing a moment
later was small and plump, and carried
her head on one aide with a pensive co­
quetry. She had large eyes, and a rather
coquettish little nose, turning up at the
tip. When ahe smiled she showed white,
small and regular teeth. Her hands were
small, delicately white, and very helpless
looking.
“ Prettyish!” mid O’Rourke to himself.
“ She’s worth a score of» Miss Butler.”
But perhaps he mw her through, an at­
mosphere o f dollars.
“ O f course you know of Mr. O'Rourke
already?” mid Maskelyne. “ He is one
o f the notabilities on this side o f tfce
water, and is pretty often heard of on
our own.”
v
“ I have the pleasure to know Mr.
O’ Rourke already,” mid the lady, in her
pnrring voice— soft, languid, American.
“ I beard him speak at New York. I was
very tench impressed by your address,
Mr. O’Rourke.”
Thpy set out for the railway station,
where they were joined by the young
widow, who wore a traveling dress of
tweed, cut in such a manner as to dis­
play her pretty figure to the best advan­
tage, and a wondroualy enticing little cap
of tweed to match the costume.
The bustle o f departure began to grow
rapid and urgent about them. Maakelyns
shook hands and went his way. and
O’ Rourke and the charming widow found
a carriage. I t waa empty, and the young
man made no demur about accompanying
the lady, and the lady gave no sign« of
displeasure at being accompanied.
There was still a soft twilight in the
streets, in which all objects could be
plainly seen, but the gas was already
alight within the station, and a lamp
burned in the carriage ro o f.'
“ I don’t think,” said Mrs. Spry, “ that
women ought to be so helpless as they
are. It ’s the fashion to be helpless. We
can’t get outside the fashion— can we
now? Bat it’s the tyranny of mankind
that makes It.”
“ Don’t you think," returned O'Rourke,
with his bright face beaming and his
manner at the same time full of gentlest
deference, the sweetest good-humored po­
liteness and gayety in combination— _
“ don’t yon think that ladies tyrannise'
over us much more than we over them?”
“ You don’t think that,” she returned,
setting her little hesd rather more than
ever on one side, and looking at him out
oft her big, expressive eyes. “ You don’t
really think It, Mr. O’Rourke.”
“ I think it.” declared Mr. O’ Rourke,
and at that instant the train began to
glide out of the station. “ Rut for my
own part I don’t object to the tyranny.”
forever like this."
A knock at firn « r e fe dear W k r rt*
thread o< hia gmrtfaags, but ha «wat
on paring etili, and did ant hear a stop
which cama btandtsing ap the main sa*
and baited outside h i* door.
"Gome t a r ha cried, in startled an­
A M ission ary Boa.
swer to a tapping on tbs panel, aad a
“
Listen,
gi.rU!” au id Auu* Lola, when
slatternly servant girl pnshed bar head
the sowing circle b id settled ltaèlf to
round the edge o f tha door.
“ Here’s somebody for yon. Mr. Front.1 work, and needles uud todguea were
Gentleman with a portmanteau.
Ha m errily b u y . “ H ere’s something that
didn't give no upna.” ---- y —
t wi l l interest yon,'* A a d she road from
" I H coma down and have a link at t newspaper an item in which appeared
hhn,” returned Mr. Frost, takta« np hia the naine o f R ev p h lj« A. Townsend,
candle.
Four separata flights o f dirty
and some good thing be bad done.
wooden stairs, uncarpeted, brought him to
‘‘ What o f It, Aunt Lola?" asked one
high.
the hall. Frost, holding hia
o
f
the younger women. She w as “ Aunt
fh ia
advanced toarard the shadowy
odd, Lolsv to them all, and they w ere all
guest. “ I t ’a yo u !“ he said, with
“ girla " to her.
laugh. “ Come upstairs.”
mo, I “ Why, that’s the man w e packed a
• The guest, aelslag the
dingy
mounted after him. and the d
ifgy Apart- ' missionary box fo r— let me see— It must
m m
was (filched.
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meat at the top of the
house wab
forty years ago. I don't suppose any
la this the palace yon continually o f you remember, but I do. H e waa a
live to?” asked the guest, with tha faint­
student then, and a bright one, too,
est possible trace o f eome foreign Accent
In hia voice. “ I had expected from your but had to stop fo r a w hile fo r lack o f
last letter to have found yon in marble money. W e had no minister at the
halls, with vaaaais and serf* at your side. time, and he came here as a supply.
Oho! yon have been at it again. I sup­ Everybody liked him, and M id
be
pose,” mid the visitor, making a ’move­ would grow to be a great man i f be
ment in imitation of the dealing qf a pack could only finish his education. But
of cards. “ Isn’t it time yen dropped
that was the trouble. H e was In debt
that? Haven’t you lost enough by this
already, and our church waa small « m l
time? What should you have done it I
couldnt’ do much to help him, and I
had not turned np?”
“ I don’t know.” Frost answered, care­ don’t know whether he ever could hake
lees] y enough. “ But I was thinking at succeeded i f w e women hadn’t taken
the very minute when I heard yen.knock hold apd helped.
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at the door, and saying to myself, ‘ I ’ll
“ W e made him a missionary box. W e
drop it.’ I ’ll tell you the truth, Ztoo— ” knit stockings, and made underclothing
“ Tell me as much of the solid truth as — good warm flannels, too— and ever So
your constitution will allow, bat do not
many useful things. H e ksdn’t spent
call me by that name. Wroblewakoff will
answer. It ’s a jawbreaker, hut it’s very much money for such things, I ’m pretty
easy when yon come to know It. W ell," sure. And besides the useful things
said Mr. Zeno, smiling still, “ this is the w e put In a good many nice little knick-
,
advantage of talking over things I have knacks and notions.
lived in New York a year or two. Yon
" I remember that box just as w ell,
knew me there. You meet me here. You and how we sent lt to him when he
know me to be s safe m a n -a man to b# flnjt
t ^
to
H e wrote u.
depended upon.
\ou introduce me to
beautiful letter of-thanks» And now
j
Dobroski------
W ell, at « J ia t a r e you
he's pastor o f that great city church!,
staring?"
“ I will see you boiled in oil,” returned I tell yon, girls, this society baa done
Mr. Frost, with extreme slowness ; “ I some real good things.’ ’ /
“ Do you suppose bo rem m b ara It?”
wHI see yon roasted on a gridiron»-’ ! will
see yon cut up so extremely fine that a asked one o f the members.
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microscope won’t find you— and then l
“ I believe I ’ll w rite to him, and aee,”
won’t introduce you to Dobroaki."
said Aunt Lola.
Zeno got up from his seat, and kneel­
Th e next meeting o f the little society
ing on the floor unstrapped hia portman­
teau and took therefrom a raaor ease, a /ound every one ready to hear the let­
small metal soap bowl and a brand new ter which, as they had learned already.
shaving brush. Frost watched him in si­ Aunt Lola had received. Th e man had
not forgotten. H e remembered the very
lence.
_Zeno took off Ms coat and threw it day o f the month on which he received
serosa die hack e f a chair, t a n produced the box, and Aunt Lois's letter reached
a pair o f scissors, and taking a great him almost exactly fo rty years after.
handful of his beard, sliced it off before I t brought back his earlier gratitude
the glass; then another, and another, and
w ith new meaning when he recalled It
another, until he was close cropped all
over thè cheeks and throat and chin. Next ¡ » » through the memories o f fo rty years,
be attacked the mustache, and cropped Aunt Lois removed her spectacles twice
that also so close as the scissors Would to wipe them while reading his letter,
go to the skin. Then pouring a little f Then she recalled some o f the sacri-
hot water into the metal howl, he began flees which the little society had made
to lather himself with great energy, and ln the floing Qf BUCh deeds In the years
then to shave.
Even to himself the o f i(g fljgtory, and added, “ But Just
metamorphosis he
one letter like that is enough to pay
seemed more than a little droll. Under
the raaor he came out no longer Greek ,
the w ork o f the *>rty ye* r* ’
and austere in contour, but chubby, with | Further Inquiry bad been made by
fat round cheeks, and a chin very cu ri-, the members o f the society, who now
ously thrust forward and pointed, and told what they had learned e f Mr.
beneath the lower lip and the base of the ! Townsend. The good work done for
chin there was a good half inch In length I iilm had been passed on to others, A
lees than one would have expected to find. ,nj|n w jj0 f lu good In many ways, be
The change was amasing. and when Mr. had taken a ni)ec(a i interest ln young
Zeno drew a spectacle case from a waist-
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coat pocket, set thé glasses on his nose, '
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and, removing a wig. appeared with half ! Riven financial aid to at leaaf fourteen
an inch of sandy natural hair below I t , 1 young men to enable them to complete
and a forehead an inch higher than it had their education. He had been a dlseov-
been, the disguise looked impenetrable, jerer o f genius. One o f his proteges was
He took a handkerchief from his coat j a w riter o f note. Another, whom he
pocket, rubbed a corner of it on the soap fla(j a(i0pted as ids own son, was a
in his shaving bowl, and applied It jlffor- ; scnlptor, and had récen tl^ completed fo r
ously to his lips. The corner of the
a Western city a ten-thousand-dollar
handkerchief ’ went crimson,-and Mr.
.
. .
.,
Zeno’s cherry lips grew pallid and dry.
which cr Uca pra sed highly.
He soaped and moistened another corner
"O girls,” said Aunt Lois, when
of the handkerchief, and scrubbed at his ¡these things were rehearsed, “ when I
eyebrows.
The handkerchief bream# think how fa r a little good goes, when
black, and the eyebrows sandy, like the 0nce jt gets started, and bow it keeps
hair. Then he resumed hig coat, set the ' ^ multiplying Itself in ways we can
two cyndles upon the table, drew a chair never |{n0W( i take new heart, and it
between them, and sat down.
makes hard work easy.” — Youth’s Com­
(T o be continued.)
panion.
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tianity, but on C h rist Mark that little
but great word ’ion.” It Is not iuougb
to believe “ In” G h rls fje e u s . Millions
o f unconverted people believe tn Jesus,
Just ae they .believe in Howard as a
noble philanthropist, or In Newton as a
teacher o f science.
But they do not
trust their soula to Jesus.
When a
miner looks at the rope that la to lower
him Into the deep mine, he may coolly
say, *1 have faith liff that rope as well-
made and strong.” But when he lays
bold o f It, and swings down by It Into
the tremendous chasm, then be Is be­
lievin g on th e rope. ' tt Is not a mere
opinion— It Is an aoC Th e miner Just
lets go o f everything else and bears
hU whole weight on those well-braided
strands o f hemp. Now that Is faith.
And when a hitman soul lets go every
other reliance In tbs w ide universe and
bangs entirely upon the stoning Jeans,
that soul believes on C h rist— Rev. T.
L. Ooyler.f
A w v » m v »-» w »,
re v .
Father In Heaven, T h y name Is lo ve,1 \
„ . . . . . .
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and oar h eart, would be filled w ith the
^ Joan of Are
great passion. I f w e possess heavenly
1487— Cornish rebfta defeated at Black-
love we shall know the secret o f life.
- heath.
M ay e ll that la noblest and sweetest
1535— John Fisher beheaded for deny-
In thought and pure desire flow about
I p * the supremacy of Henry V I I I .
us to-day. G ive us tender jym p eth y
164$— Hampden killed at battle of Cbal-
fo r the downcast and sad and unfortu­
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nate, and g iv e ns true affection
1675— First stone laid for 8t. Paul’s
those near and dear to ns In the
eathedral in London .
W e aeek rest to-day may we nuu a
— W ar ^
England
tbs
W e want soul refreshment a fter the t o » l
£ „ lted g UUa commenced.
o i the w e e k -n m y lt com ogo us. Touch u n s -W ellln g to n defeated King Joseph
the springs o f oiir nature So that therey ;
Spain st Vlttorla.
aball arise tn ns a Joy , that nothing on i 815_ p ower ot Napoleon L crushed at
earth can take away. W ipe the te h n ]
the battle of Waterloo.
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off all facto, and give strength end 1817— Waterloo
bridge.
across
the
courage to tbe weak, ahd a strong hope ■/ Thames at London, formally opened.
fo r good In the days before us.
1837#—Hanover separated from Greet
Britain by the accession of Queen
T k s W i s e 17 m • ( W s l s k s s .
K Vletorle.
v
I t la not the chipping o ff o f the d ia ­
1888— James R. Paulding of New York
mond’s surface that polishes the die-,
became Secretary o f the Navy.
id, bat lt Is by the w ise use o f the*
1842—Shanghai
captured by the British.
amond dust or chlppluffs, In the hands
1848—
Isaac
Toucey
of Connecticut be­
o f a skUied lapidary, that the dia­
came Attersey General of the United
mond's polish Is'fin ally secured. I t Is
States. •
not the making o f mistakes that makes
1848— Russians defeated the Hungarians
a man, but it is the wise use o f mis-’
at P e red. >
takes that enables a man to be mad#—
1856— Republican national convention at
to become a polished man In his beet
Philadelphia nominated John C. Fre­
sphere. W henever w e aee the light and
mont of California ancl William L»
glow o f a beautiful character, we may
Dayton of New-Jersey. ,
,
know that Its*Illuminating power came 1884— The Alabama sunk by the federal
through ita alow polishing by its own
gun boat Kearsargr.
diamond dust, at the banda o f the Great 1887— Steamer Champlain burned in
Lapidary-— H. Clay Trumbull.
Lake Michigan; 22 Uvea lost
1888— Republican national convention at
O B IG E * OF T H E E A X X GOTHAM.
■Chicago nominated Benjamin Harri­
son and Levi P, Morton. ,
F ir s t A p p lie d to Si
I s a ▼*
C it y k| 1888— Mary Anderson, tbe actress, mar­
i r r l s g la *
ried to Antonio N a va rro.. . .C ity of
This n a n » Gotham was fip t applied
Fort de France, Martinique, nearly
to the city o f Manhattan ip a book of
destroyed by fire....E n glan d ceded
Heligoland to Germany.
humorous sketches called ’’ Salmagun-
(Jl,” w ritten about 1807 by Washington 1898—rLlssle Borden acquitted of the
mflrder of her parents at Fall Biver,
Irvin g in collaboration w ith his broth­
Maas.
er Peter and tbe poet Paulding.
It; .
waa evidently Intended to suggest that 1884— Many persona killed by an earth*
* quake at Yokohama and Tokie,
the people o f New York made undue
pretensions to wisdom, and that tberflj
w ere both satire and w it ln the W
geetlon is shown by tbe story o f the
original Gothamites.
Gotham was a parish in Notting­
hamshire. England. Tbe old story tells
how K in g John wished to pass through
tbe pariah. Tbe people bhere, fancy­
ing that tbe passage o f the king over a
route made it a public road, decided
to prevent tbe transit by all pretend­
ing to be craxy.
/
Therefore, when the king and his
party arrived they found every* one o f
the Inhabitants employed in some pe­
culiarly foolish task. Thus, a group
w ere Joining hands around a tboriw
bush to keep a cuckoo from getting
a w ay;-som e were trying to drawn an
eel, others dipping w ater w ith a sieve,
and so on.
When tbe king saw these _perform­
ances be swore at thè peop'le fo r «
pack o f idiots, and, turning, departed
with all lit» retinae. T b e Gothamites
were delighted w ith tbe success o f
their scheme fo r turning' aside tbe
king, regarding lt
as superlatively
clever.
A fte r this Gotham came to have the
reputation o f being a sort o f head­
quarters fo r opncelted fools.
In tbe
time o f H enry. V I I I . a book entitled
“ Th e M erry Talee o f tbe Mad Men o f
Gotham” was published. Among these
was the story o f tbe “Three Wise Men
o f Gotham,” one o f whose exploits vta*
to go to sea In a bowl.— Housekeeper.
A queer little animal Is tbe one call­
There are two ways ln which a tree
ed the “ slipper animalcule,” but which grows. It grows ln its roots and it
men o f science call "Paramoeolom .” grows ln Its branches; and i f yon pre­
Tne most wonderful thing about tb it vent it from growing in one o f these
little creature Is tbe rapidity with respects It w ill not grow tn tbe other.
which it multiplies. B y a beneficent I f yon wall a tree round below and do
provision o t nature they seem to be-' not allow Its roots to expand, lt w ill
come exhausted and die a fter the 170th very soon cease to grow in Its branch­
generation.
A
naturalist points out es. There are two ways ln which tbe
that i f a Paramoecium fam ily should Christian grows. H e grow s in personal
have « run o f luck and all members holiness o f life and conversation, but
F r o m t b o B o u n t i f u l E a s t.
live for »SO generations they would be only grows Ih outward conduct be^
A small proportion o f the flora Is*in-
crowd every other living thing off the cause be also grows in the knowledge
dlgenOus.
The m ajority emue from
earth and be themselves ln bulk bigger and love o f God. Upon the depth and
tbe east, like a ll the great ideas o:i
than the whole planet, while if th e y ' reality o f his relation with God hia
which onr culture Is founded- and were
were to have enough luck to survive t o ' moral and religious character w ill de­
developed and Improved on this classic
the 000th generation the sun. moon and pend. As God becomes more and more
noil. Ita ly received tbe lemon find the
stars would be floating in a universe o f to him “ a living, blight reality,’* so bis
orange from the Semites, who In tbelr
them. These little creatures an* p len -1 personal life and character becou:?
turn had obtilned them frm i India.
tlfu l ln stagnant water.— Chicago T r i­ more fully developed, and the benury
The olive, thq fig. the rliic* and the
bune.
o f tbe Lord w ill be exhibited In I i I j palm -were grown by the fe.nltra long
conduct.— W . M. H ay Aitkin.
B c g t s s l s s th e F i r s t TIIT.
before their cultivation imnltfnted to
Mr. Youngbusband (reading from pa­
t'M? west. Th e laurel and myrtle. In­
T k e P r a y e r L if e .
p e r )— Married— Blanche De Bm.vthe to
Prayer, dot only ln tbe morning deed. nre Indigenous In Italy, but their
W alter W ellington Deere.
W hat old watch, but prayer sent voiceless from uso fo r ceremonial
purpose* came
memories that name aw akens!
the
the heart from hour to hour, makes ncrcfs the Mediterranean from
Mrs. Y. (blu sh in g)— I never Im a r life wakeful, hallowed, calm. I t be­ ea st The home o f the c rp f is* la not
Ined you knew o f my Engagement to comes beautiful with that beauty o f In Italy, bnt In the Greek archipelago,
W alter.
God which eye hath not seen. And northern Pends. H ild a and Lebanon.
Mr. Y. (c h illin g ly )— I was alluding day being hallowed thus, do not omit — From Strasburger’s "R iviera .”
to Blanche.— Tatler.
to make holy the n igh t Take by tbe
Them T b e re W aa a R ow .
power o f prayer, through tbe wl|d land
V e r y L ik e ly .
"N ow , air,” ahe commanded,' “ look me
Jenks— Is this a monkey trick, to o f dreams, the sanctifying presence o f In the face and deny, i f yon dare, that
tarn out the lights and leaves us In One who loves ns. Prayer continually you married me fo r money I”
lived in, makes the presence o f a holy
the dark like this?
H e raised bis eyes until they Were
Mrs. Comeup— Indeed, I feel real ner­ God tbe air which life breathes, and by directed to her countenance and fal-
vous In this simian darkness.— Balti­ which It lives, so that, as It mingles
consciously with the work o f the day, te r e d :..
more American.
“ W ell, I think I turned tbe cash,
it becomes also a part o f every dream.
don’t yon, dear r — London Mail.
f i s t a G ood n o d s e r .
T o ns, then, it w ill be no strange thing
C H A P T E R X.
“ I ’m s frs ld this motoring ernze w ill to enter heaven, fo r w e h iv e been liv­
It was night in London, and a sum­
Ska W aa (h a G irl.
mer rain falling. Mr. George Frost sat be tbe death o f me.”
ing In tbe things o f heaven through
Th
e
W
idow
er— I ’ve always said that
“ I didn’t know yon had an autol”
in a dingy apartment illuminated by a
prayer life here below.— Rev. J, G. I f I married again I abonld choose a
" I haven’t ; but I ’ve got a gam e leg.”
single candla, by the light of which he
Jackson.
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g irl who Is as good as she Is beautl-
waa scribbling unmeaning phraaas on a — Houston P o st
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dirty sheet of letter papar.
Rapid growth o f tbe finger nail* is
“ Believe on tbe Lord Jesus Christ sudden, George, bnt I accept yon, o f
“ No grub, no funds.
Thirty
a sign o f good health.
and thou ahalt be saved.” Not In Chris­ cofirsa.— Pick-M e-U p»
pounds dropped last sight.
Ill
Japan.
*8D 5-fiariem •*■*»
New York
City, formally opened....... Jury In
the Laidlaar-Sace case returned ver­
dict for the plaintiff for $40,000....
Baltic canal opened by Emperor W il­
lia m ....T h e Resebery Liberal min­
istry in England resigned.
1887— Queen Victoria began tbe celebra­
tion of her jubilee.
1886— Thirty-seven spectators drowned
, at launching of the British battle*
* ship Albion.
1900— Republican national convention at
Philadelphia nominated M cK&ley
and Rbosevelt.. ►. .F irst attack on
the legations at Pekin by, the Chi­
n ese....T a k u forts in Chins captur­
ed by the a llies.. . .Baron von Ket-
teler, German minister to China,
murdered by a mob in Pekin.
1901— Gen. Chaffee appointed military
governor of tbe Philippines.
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1902— Serious riots at the strike of ‘silk
dyers in Paterson, N. J.
1903— George White, a negro murderer,
horned at the stake la Wilmington,
D e l.. . .Great strike of textile opera­
tives at LoweJI, Mass., ended.
1905— fligh t persona killed in wreck of
tbe Twentieth Cenrary limited train
in Ohio.
1906— United States Senate approved o f
. the lock canal for Panama. . . . King
Haakon V II. and Qneen Maud o f
\ Nosway crowned.
L a n d lo r d is m Cur b e d .
The village of Rhinebeck, N. Y., near
Poughkeepsie, has drawn attention to a
certain tendency toward landlordism on
tbe part of tbe wealthy idle class la
America by tailing action to limit the
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private
estate ______
of John Jacob Astor. As-
tor’s estate, which al ready comprises
2..VK) acres and touches the village boun­
dary on two sides, was about to be ex­
tended by tbe purchase of another larga
fi rm, when a wealthy resident of the
(own bought the farm, with the avowed
jNirpcse o f checking the further extension
of A ■■tor’s pronprty. The purchaser has
ferm ej a hhml-building syndicate, with
tbe intehtion of placing the contested
tract of 360 acres at the disposal of small
homeseekers, part of it to be reserved
for public use. In the test few years Mr.
Astor has destroyed at least twenty-five
dwelling houses, has exterminated one
village, and disposed of several public in­
stitutions, in order to create an exten­
sive private pork, or banting ground.
The property is known ns Ferncliff, and
Astor’n intention is to extend it to 10,000
acres. Mach of tbs tend bought up now
lies unused, awaiting^ the perfection o f
ti,e ¡ar**r «cherne, thus tending to restrict
tb# lncfW * of
B ars Tklnar.
“ By the way. Jack,” said tbe dear
gliff, dreamlngly, "don’t yon think you’d
better speak to father this evening?” —
Philadelphia Press,
Th
rftll— W hy la it yon never bear o f
football umpire getting, slugged Ilka'
the baseball umpire?
Jill— Because tbe football players
gre too bnay slugging one another —
Yonkers gtatysmnn.
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