ON THE VELDT
A South African Love Story
. . A „ , A . . A .
( Conclusion. )
The day broke at last , and the
"guards entered the tent and cut the
bonds that bound the prisoner's legs.
The upper part of his face was envel
oped in a thick woolen muffler , and
thus blindfolded he was led out to die.
His grave was already dug , and they
stood him beside it The firing party
consisted of four men ; three of the
rifles held blank cartridges and the
fourth was to deal the death blow ,
but none of them knew who held the
deadly weapon.
The firing party were in charge of
an officer who held a revolver in his
hand. Should the prisoner be alive
after the party had fired , it was the
officer's duty to execute the sentence
himself.
"Present ! Fire ! "
The rifles rang out , and Hendrick
stood by his grave unhurt. Without a
word the officer advanced to within
three paces of the doomed man , rais
ed his revolver , and a bullet crashed
through Hendrick's brain. He fell
forward , and then rolled on his back ,
the bandage slipped from his eyes , and
the face of the dead man lay upturned
to heaven. His executioner took a
step forward , and then a cry of agony
startled the morning air.
"Hendrick ! Hendrick ! My God !
My God ! Hendrick ! My brother ! And
I have killed him. Oh , God , forgive ,
forgive ! "
Paul Hoopstad placed his revolver
to his forehead , and fell across the
corpse of his brother. They loved each
other in life , and together they joined
the great unknown.
That morning the English army
stormed the heights of Glencoe , and
the Boers wore defeated with heavy
slaughter , and side by side with Cap
tain Dick Harvey rode John Martin.
In the engagement Captain Harvey
was wounded , and sent to Durban ,
where Nancy nursed her soldier lover
back to health. He told her the story
of Hendrick's death as he had heard
it frem one of the Boer prisoners.
"He loved me , " she said , as the tears
ran down her cheeks. "He said he
would serve me to the death , and in
rescuing my father he lost his life ! "
( The End. )
The Mercy of the Boer |
A Wartime
Story of the Transvaal
XV
7JC
Night had just fallen upon the veldt.
The short dusk had suddenly deepened
into a heavy , thick obscurity , im
penetrable for a space until there rose
the rim of a full moon over the edge
of the plain which showed hard and
clear against the great disk. The ant
hills , that alone broke the monotonous
flatness , flung interminable inky shad
ows as the cold , white glare , electric
in its fierce intensity , shone out level
across the plains.
By the edge of the marsh a transport
wagon had outspanned for the night ,
and within the circle of firelight ,
where moon and flame struggled for
the mastery , loomed the wavering
outlines of the trek oxen tethered to
ithe disselboom , and now and again
the figure of a man.
The only sounds were the crackling
chirps of the bullfrogs in the vlei , and
'the ' voices of two men who sat leaning
back against the kaross of meer-kat
skins flung over one of the wagon
wheels.
"No ! " repeated the elder man , the
transport rider and owner of the
wagon raising his voice. "With us
they shall not come either she or the
brat"
"But look , Jakob , " persisted the
other ; "it is now three weeks , four
weeks , that we are on the trek , and
she has followed all the time , and car
ried the child , too. How the poor girl
lives I do not know. Take only the
child , Jakob. "
"How are we to eat ? How is the
vrouw to eat ? " demanded the Boer
querulously. "Are there not enough
mouths to fill already ? And God
knows how much further the span can
go without water in this accursed
country ; they have enough to pull , as
it is. And why should I feed the wife
and child of every black schelm that
is fool enough to want them ? Ver-
domte swartzkop ! " And he spat
angrily into the fire.
"But the child , " persisted Piet ;
"that is small and eats but little , not a
quarter as much as a dog. Besides ,
Klaus may run away if the girl falls
sick , and he alone knows the road and
the drifts across the river. "
There was a moment's pause. "Well ,
then , the brat , in God's name , " snap
ped the other. The girl can walk , as
she has walked these three weeks , " he
added , and rolled himself into his rug
to avoid further surrender.
Piet rose stiffly to his feet ; the night
breeze was growing chill. He knocked
the ashes out of his pipe , kicked some
fuel into the embers of the fire and
went around to the other side of the
wagon , where the three Basuto boys
were lying.
"Klaus ! " he called. "Here a mo
ment ! "
A grunt from one of the blankets
answered him.
"Baas Jakob says a baby may ride
with the vrouw in the wagon , but the
girl must still walk. "
There was a sudden movement at his
feet and a dark figure rolled out of
the blanket.
"No , boy , no ! Not that ! " His hand
was being covered with kisses. Piet
drew it sharply away , and , taking a
strip of biltong from his pocket , thrust
it into the Basuto's grasp. "Here , this
may help for the girl ; it was all I
could get , " he answered roughly , and
turning on his heel he went back to
where his brother lay sleeping. Baas
Piet was as averse to being generous
as the transport rider , though for
other reasons.
For a while Klaus lay still.
Presently , carrying the piece of hard
sundried meat and his own suppea of
boiled mealies , he crept shivering from
his blanket and went slowly out to the
silent veldt , in the direction from
which the wagon had come , as he had
gone every night to listen for the
signal that told him Betta was there
among the ant hills. Then he would
cheer her up and sit beside her while
she ate some of his poor rations ,
though they were not enough for her
and the child.
Klaus grasped the kerrie dangling
from his belt at the recollection of
the cut across the mouth that the
drunken transport rider had given him
with his sjambok when he had asked
his permission. Besides , there was the
baby , and he could not have left both
of them behind , so'far from the kraal
and her own people. But Baas Jakob
was a hard man , and he did not under
stand such things.
Ever since they had left Burghers-
dorp many weeks ago she had
walked after them , the baby slung on
her back ; and there were yet three
weeks more and the desert strip to
cross before they reached the Great
Belt and the river. But the baby waste
to ride in the wagon now with the
vrouw , and the girl would not bs
so tired.
Ah ! Baas Piet was a good man bet
ter than Baas Jakob. He would help ;
and later on he might even be rich
enough to buy a few head of cattle
and some ponies and they would all
go back to the old place on the Krei ,
and * * * He started to his feet
as the pipe of a honeybird came faint
ly out of the distance. Betta was
there at last.
* * * * *
The wagon was creaking along un
der the burning noonday sun ; the oxen - . .
en stumbled lazily with lolling ton
gues ; crawling at snail's pace without
fear of the flick of the lash , for every
one was asleep except the little voer-
leper trudging in front of the two
leaders , crooning an endless native
song to himself. S ]
Suddenly there was a stir under the a :
tilt. The curtain was flung aside , and G
Baas Piet stepped out on to the fore Gk
part of the wagon , yawning sleepily. k
"Boy ! " he shouted , "onsaddle the
mare. I shall ride on to the water w
hole beyond the drift. . It cannot be
far off now. " SI
SIJi
Klaus appeared from underneath the Ji
wagon , where his blanket was slung Jiai
hammock fashion in ai
the day time.
"No , Baas Piet , the spruit should IE
not be more than one hour's ride now ,
and the hole is only two , three miles
further. "
Presently he brought the mare
around from the back of the wagon , Si
where she had been tied up , tightened Sidi
the girths and rolled up the riem of diai
the neck halter. Baas Piet swung in
himself off the edge of the wagon into tn
"Tell the Baas when he wakes up , "
he said ; and with a shake of the reins
cantered off through the dust.
"It cannot be far now , " repeated
Klaus to himself , as he watched him
until he became invisible in the midst gi
of the vast brown expanse of sun fo
scorched hillside. th
It was now five days since they
had left the last vlei , and he had giv of
en nearly all his share of the hot in
muddy water that the vrouw served tu
out to the girl for the last few days , tum ;
but that was very , very little , and she 17
was sick , too. te
The baby was certainly the most fa
contented of all , lying in an empty Sc
sugar box under the shade of the tilt , in
engaged in coiling the soft end of the IS
eighteen-foot lash round and round
its chubby arms. It grew fatter and
merrier every day. The vrouw rather
liked it , black as it was , for she had
no children of her own. Kz
All at once came a warning shout
from the voerloper. They were right Cl :
on the edge of the drift , and the lead an
ers began to pick their way slowly NcHJ
down the steep bank over the loose HJ
rpcks and sand. Klaus was busy putting yo
yom
ting the heavy iron shoe drag under m (
one of the hind wheels , while Baa's ele
Jakob , in a bad temper at having his an
anf
sleep disturbed , sat upon the front of : f
the wagon , swearing at him and the Ur
other boys for being lazy.
Now sliding sideways over a smooth , an
shelving rock , now 'plunging down Nc
over a ledge with a jar that wrenched
every bolt and wheel spoke , the heavy
wagon crashed down the bank only
to come to a dead stop at the bottom ,
Imbedded in sand up to the axles.
The span were knotted in a tangled
mob of clashing horns and twisted
yoke reins , snuffing and pawing up the
sand with Impatient hoofs ; instinct
told them that water was there but
It was far , far below , for the rains had
fallen many months back.
"Verdomte rooinecks ! " raged the
angry Baas , beside himself. "Twist
their tails ; get that iron spike here.
Hendrik that will make the devils
move. "
But it was of no use ; the span only
became more hopelessly entangled. In
vain Klaus dashed in among them ,
sjambok in hand , kicking here and
slashing there , while Hendrik and the
voerloper called upon the beasts by
name and urged them forward. Wa
ter they knew was there , and water
they would have.
"The whip ! Why don't you take the
whip , you scheims ? Where is it ? *
roared the infuriated Boer , rising and
glaring about the wagon.
As he went forward he stumbled
over the baby and its box , upsetting
it and sending the child rolling acrosa
the floor of the wagon , where it lay
in a ball on a heap of skins , crowing
with delight. People so seldom play
ed games with it.
The Boer thrust the empty box back
against the side with his foot , and
snatched up the bamboo whip handle.
Poising it carefully above his head in
both hands , he gave a preliminary
flourish , but the end was caught in
something the brat again , curse it !
It opened wide eyes of pleasure at
him , hofding up its dimpled wrists ,
wound round with the end of the lash.
With a savage oath he kicked it off
the end of the wagon into the midst of
the struggling cattle and brought the
great whip down upon them with all
liis force. Again and again it uncoiled
and whizzed down with a crack like a
rifle shot , cutting into the steaming
flanks of the plunging mob until they
bellowed again. Scarred and bleed
ing , deafened by the report of the whip
ind the hoarse yells of the men , the
uaddened beasts straightened out.and
ivith Klaus and the voerloper tugging
it the leaders' heads , strained , pant-
ng up the further bank of the drift.
It was late that evening before
xlaus crawled stealthily away from
he wagon , taking a full beaker of
resh water from the pool , and his
iuppel ; the Baas was very angry with
lim because the wagon had stuck in
he drift though how could he help it
f the oxen would not be driven ? and
lad forbidden him to leave the wagon
o see Betta. But no Baas could keep
lira from doing that , no matter how
nany hidings he got for it.
Klaus walked for many hours , but
he girl did not come. Of course , hav-
ng the baby to carry again would
aake her take longer ; for Baas Jakob
lad told him how he had seen it roll
ff the wagon that morning trying to
each a big tortoise on the road and
rawl after it unhurt , and how he had
matched it there until Betta had pick-
d it up when she came along. Still ,
he would catch them up next evening ,
nd he left the water beaker and the
oed tied up in a piece of a rag under
heap of stones in the middle of the
oad , so that the aasvogels could not
et at them , and Betta might find
liem there in the morning.
But Betta did not catch the wagon
p next evening , or the next.
Four days afterward they had passel -
el the edge of the desert and out-
fanned among the shady tamarisks |
nd the willows by the banks of the
reat river.
"Never mind , Klaus , " said Baas Piet
indly , patting him on the shoulder ;
hunger is a bad death , but it is God's
ill. Besides , " he added , with a smile ,
there are yet many good girls in BaI I 1
itojand. But you will stay with Baas
ikob and me yet a bit ? " i
"I stay with you and Baas Jakob , " c
iswered Klaus simply. "He treats
le as well as any other Baas. "
( The End. )
Strasburjr'g Astronomical Clock.
The celebrated astronomical clock of
trasburg is in the minster , or cathe-
ral , and was originally designed by t
i astronomer named Isaac Habrecht ,
i the early part of the sixteenth cen-
iry. Previous to this time , in fact as
irly as 1354 , Strasburg had an as- t
onomical clock. It was in three
irts. The lower part had a universal
ilendar , the central part an astro-
be , and in the upper division were
jures of the three Magi and the Vir-
n. At every hour the Magi came ' &
rward and bowed to the Virgin ; at ,
e same time a chime was played , and
mechanical cock crew. This clock .
the Magi , as it was called , stopped j 1 :
the early part of the sixteenth cen-
ry , and was replaced by a clock ! h
ade by Habrecht , which ran until
S9 , when it stopped , and all at-
mpts to put its works in order
iled. In 1S3S a clockmaker named
ilnvilgue undertook to remodel the
ternal machinery , and finished it in
42.
Miss Kate Kceil.
Thomas B. Reed's daughter , Miss
itherine Reed , was among the forty-
; ht young women who received the
lancellor's certificate of the wom-
's law class of the University of
> w York the other evening. The
ill of Madison Square Garden. The
ung women have completed the five
jnths' work which teaches them the r :
jmentary principles of jurisprudence liei
d gives them ei
a working knowledge
commercial and business law. The tlPi
liversity prize scholarship was Pi
arded to Miss Louise Brewer , and la
essay prize of $50 to Mrs. Frank eibi
irthrop. bih
h ?
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PREACHES ON MAY CHANGES
OF RESIDENCE.
Timely Ulscour.no In Which the
Need of 1'atlouco anU Kqulpol/io Is
Set Forth Moving Into the Father's
Home.
[ Copyright. 1900 , by L.ous ! Klopsch. ] [
Text , Philippians iv. , 12 : "I know
both how to be abased , and I know
how to abound. "
Happy Paul ! Could you really ac
commodate yourself to all circum
stances in life ? Could you go up with
out pride , and could you come down
without exasperation ?
We are at a season of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence. Having been born
in a house , and having all our lives
lived in a house , we do not have full
appreciation of what a house is. It Is
the growth of thousands of years. The
human race first lived in clefts of
rocks , beasts of the field moving out of
the caverns to let the human race
move in. The shepherds and the rob
bers still live in caverns of the earth.
The troglodytes are a race which to
this day prefer the caverns to a house.
They are warm , they are large , they
are very comfortable , they are less sub
ject to violent changes of heat and
cold. We come on along down in the
history of the race , and we come to
the lodge , which was a home built out
of twisted tree branches. We come
further on down in the history of the
race , and we come to the tent , which
was a home built with a round pole in
the center , and skins of animals reach
ing out in all directions , mats on the
floor for the people to sit on.
Time passed on , and the world , after
much invention , came to build a house ,
which was a space surrounded by
broad stones , against which the earth
was heaped from the outside. The roof
was made of chalk and gypsum , and
coals and stones and ashes pounded to
gether. After awhile the porch was
born , after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds of years passed on , and in the
fourteenth century the modern chim
ney was constructed. The old He
brews had openings in their houses
from which the smoke might escape if
it preferred , but there was no induce
ment offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys opened
the door , or the keyhole was large
enough to allow the finger to be in
serted for the lifting of the latch or
the sliding of it There being no windows
dews , the people were dependent for
light upon latticework , over which a
thin veil was drawn down in time of
winter to keep out the elements. Win
dow glass was , so late as two or three
hundred years ago , in England and
Scotland , so great a luxury that only
the very wealthiest could afford it. A
hand mill and an oven and a few leath
ern bottles and some rude pitchers and
plates made up the entire equipment
of the culinary department. But the
home planted in the old cave or at the
foot of a tent pole has grown and en
larged and spread abroad until we have
the modern house with its branches
and roots and vast girth and height
and depth of comfort and accommoda
tion.
Gnorl Houses fo Live In.
Architecture in other days busied it
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basilicas and
hippodromes and mausoleums and col
umns , while they allowed the people
[ or residences to burrow like muskrats
in the earth. St. Sophia's of Constan
tinople , St. Mark's of Venice , St. Pe
ter's of Rome are only the Raphaeled ti
walls against which lean the squalor
ind the pauperism of many nations. I
rejoice that , while our modern archi-
; ects give us grand capitols in which
: o legislate and grand courthouses in
to administer justice and grand a :
ihurches in which to worship God.they
ilso give much of their time to the hP
banning of comfortable abodes for our hA
ired population. I have not so much A
nterest in the arch of Trajan an ai
Beneventum as I have in the wish that fc
ill the people may have a comfortable fcol
ihelter , nor have I so much interest in ol
he temple of Jupiter Olympus at Ath- tld
ins as I have in the hope that every d <
nan may have an altar for the wor- cc
hip of the true God in his own house.
Lnd I have not so much interest in the
cience of ceramics , which goes crazy 01
iver a twisted vase , or a queer handled th
ug in use 3,000 years ago , or a pitcher Pi
Piw
iut of which the ancient pharaohs w
loured their drunken debauch , as I yc
iave that every man have on his table of
plate with plenty of healthful food th
nd an appetite to attack it. or
Thank God for your home not mere- hi
y the house you live in now , but the en
ouse you were born in and the many pa
pam
ouses you have resided in since you m
egan your earthly residence. When a
ou go home today , count over the isl
umber of these houses in which you ca
ave resided , and you will be surpris- lie
liew
tl. Once in awhile you will find a man w ;
ho lives in the house where he was fo
orn and where his father was born lia
nd his grandfather was born and his ca
reat-grandfather was born , but that is nc
ot one out of a thousand cases. I th
thwl
ave not been more perambulatory wl
iaii most people , but I was amazed to
hen I came to count up the number stc
E residences I have occupied. The fr.ct thin -
; , there is in this world no such tiling in !
5 permanent residence. mi
In a private vehicle and not in a va
lil car , from which you can see but stc
ttle , I rode from New York to Yonk- ho
s and Tarrytown , on the banks of yo
le Hudson the finest ride on the cai
lanet for a man who wants to see pa- en
.tial residences in fascinating scen- er
yIt was in the early spring and byte
sfore the gentlemen of Xew York to
tome
id gone out to their country resi- ; me
dences. I rode into the grounds to ad
mire the gardens , and the overseer of
the place told me and they all told me
that all the houses had been sold or
that they wanted to sell them , and
there was literally no exception , al
though I called at many places , just
admiring the gardens and the groun-ls
and the palatial residences. Some
wanted to sell or had sold because
their wives did not want to reside in
the summer time in those places while
their husbands tarried In town in the
night , always having some business on
hand keeping them away.
Change of Ile l < ! ouco.
From some houses the people had
been shaken out by chills and fever ,
from some houses they had gone be
cause death or misfortune had occur
red , and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the dirdc-
tory of any city of England or Ameri
ca and see how few people live where
they lived 15 years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. I
saw Monticello , in Virginia , President
Jefferson's residence , and I saw on the
same day Montpelier , which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence , and I
saw also the white house , which was
President Taylor's residence , and Pres
ident Lincoln's residence.and President
Garfield's residence. Was it a perma
nent residence in any case ? I tell you
that the race is nomadic and no soon
er gets in one place than it wants to
change for another place or Is com
pelled to change for another place , and
so the race invented the railroad and
the steamboat in order more rapidly
to get into some other place than that
in which it was then. Aye , instead of
being nomadic , it is immoral , moving
on and moving on. We whip up our
horses and hasten on until the hub of
the front wheel shivers on the tomb
stone and tips us headlong into the
grave , the only permanent earthly res
idence. But. bless God , even that stay
is limited , for we shall have a resur
rection.
A day this spring the streets will be
filled with the furniture carts and the
drays and the trucks. It will be a hard
day for horses , because they will be
overloaded. It will be a hard day for
laborers , for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another. It will be a hard day
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched , and the crockery broken ,
ind their carpets misfit , and their fur-
aiture dashed of the sudden showers.
ft will be a hard day for landlords. It
tvill be a hard day for tenants. Espe-
jial grace is needed for moving day.
Many a man's religion has suffered a
'earful strain between the hour on the
norning of the first of May , when he
: ook his immature breakfast , and the
lour at night when he rolled into his
; xtemporized couch. The furniture
jroken sometimes will result in the
Breaking of the Ten Commandments ,
rhere is no more fearful pass than the
lall of a house where two families
neet , one moving out and the other
noving in. The salutation is apt to
> e more vehement than complimcn-
ary. The grace that will be sufficient
or the first of January and the first
if February and the first of March
ind the first of April will not be suffi-
ient for the first of May. Say your
irayers that morning if you find noth-
ng better to kneel down by than a
oal scuttle , and say your prayers at
tight though your knee comes down
n a paper of carpet tacks. You \ill
rant supernatural help if any of you
love. Help in the morning to start
ut aright on the day's work. Help
t night to repent. There will be
nough of annoyance to make a Xan-
ippe out of a Frances Ridley Haver-
al. I have again and again been in
rises of moving day , and I have
teed appalled and amazed and help-
; ss in the shipwreck , taking as well si
s I could those things that floated sitl
shore from the breakers , and I know tlfi tlP
ow to comfort and how to warn , and fi
ow to encourage the people , so I fip ;
reach this practical May day sermon. h ;
11 these troubles will soon be gone ,
ad the bruises will heal , and the stif-
; ned joints will become supple , and
our ruffled temper will be smoothed
f its wrinkles , and order will take
le place of disorder , and you will sit
awn in your new home seriously to cc
mtemplatc. of
Itcverses of Fortune. ofT
But there are others who will move m
it of large residences into smaller is
isat
irough the reversal of fortune. The at
operty must be sold or the bailiff ea
ill sell it , or the income is less and ar
ni cannot pay the house rent. First sli
! all , such persons should understand of
iat our happiness is not dependent Si
i the size of the house we live in. I la
ive known people enjoy a small heav- ra
i in two rooms and other suffer a pc
indemonium in twenty. There is as va
uth happiness in a small house as in ha
large house. There is as much &at- on
faction under the light of a tallow th
ndle as under the glare of a chando- ex
; r , ail the burners at full blaze. Who ca
is the happier.John Bunyan in Bed- ho
rd jail or Belshazzar in the saturna- be
L ? Contentment is something you to
n neither rent nor purchase. It is ca
it extrinsic ; it is intrinsic. Are pr
ere fewer rooms in the house to va
lich you move ? You will have less th
take care of. Is it to be stove in- ut :
; ad of furnace ? All the doctors say ad
e modern modes of warming build- ric
53 are unhealthy. Is it less pier an
rrors ? Less
temptation to
your uc
nity. Is it old-fashioned toilet in- an
sad of water pipes all through the res
use ? Less to freeze and burst when Mr
u cannot get a plumber. Is it ! ° ss ab <
i-riage ? More room for robust
ex- an
: ise. Is it less social position ? Few- anME
people who want to drag you down
their jealousies. Is it less fortune
leave in your last will and testa- otl
int ? Less to spoil your children. Is the
s
many disagreeables.
hearing so
at the
I meet you this springtime
I
and white
door of your new home ,
over
clotheaboaket
lift the
help you
Is getting
the banisters and the carman
ting red in the face in trying to transport
of furniture to some
port that article
new destination I congratulate you.
time
have a better
You are going to
than you eer
this year , some of you.
had. Yoi take God and the Christian
religion In your home , and you win
bo grandly happy. God in the par or-
that will sanctify your sociabilities.
God In the nursery-that will protect
your children. God in the dining hall
that will make the plainest meal an
Imperial banquet. God In the morn
ing that will launch the day brightly
from the drydocks. God in the even
ing that will sail the day sweetly into
the harbor.
And get Joy , one and all of you .
whether you move or do not move. Get
joy out of the thought that we are
soon all going to have a grand moving
day. Do you want a picture of the new
house into which you will move ? Here
It is , wrought with the hand of a mas
ter , "We know that , if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dis
solved , we have a building of God.
a housa not made with hands , eternal
in the heavens. " How much rent will
we have to pay for it ? We are going
to own it. How much must we pay for
It ? How much cash down , and how
much left on mortgage ? Our Father is
going to give it as a free gift When
are we going to move into it ? We are
moving now. On moving day heads of
families are very apt to stay in the old
house until they have seen everything
off. They send ahead the children.and
they send ahead the treasures and the
valuables. Then , after awhile , they will
come themselves. I remember very well
in the country that in boyhood mov
ing day was a jubilation.
Going1 to the Father's House-
On almost the first load we , the
children , were sent on ahead to the
new house , and we arrived with shout
and laughter , and in an hour we had
ranged through every room In the
house , the barn and the granary. To
ward night , and perhaps .in the last
wagon , father and mother would come ,
looking very tired , and we would come
clown to the foot of the lane to meet
them and tell them of all the wonders
we discovered in the new place , and
then , the last wagon unloaded , the
candles lighted , our neighbors who hail
lielped us to move for In those times
[ icighbors helped each other sat down
ivith us at a table on which there was
ivery luxury they could think of.
Well , my dear Lord knows that some
) f us have been moving a good while.
iVe have sent our children ahead , we
iave sent many of our valuables
ihead , sent many treasures ahead. We
: annot go yet. There is work for use
o do. but after awhile it will be to-
yard night , and we will be very tired ,
ind then we will start for our new
lome , and those who have gone ahead
if us they will see our approach , and
hey will come down the lane to meet
is , and they will
have much to tell us
if what they have discovered in the
'house ' of many mansions , " and of
low large the rooms are and of how
right the fountains. And then , the
ast load unloaded , the table will be r1
pread and our celestial neighbors will /i
ome in to sit down with our reunited
amilies , and the chalices will be full ,
ot with the wine that sweats in the'
at of earthly intoxication , but with
the new wine of the kingdom. " And
tiere for the first time we will realize
'hat fools we were on earth when we
jared to die , since death has turned
ut only to be the moving from a
mailer house into a larger one. and
le exchange of a '
pauper's hut for a
rince's castle , and the going up stairs
om a miserable kitchen to a glorious
arlor. 0 house of God not made with
ands , eternal in the heavens ! i
CITY OF SAULT'STE. MARIE.
estlned to Bo Metropolis
of Upper
Sault Ste. Marie is destined to be-
> me at no distant day the metropolis
: the upper peninsula of Michigan.
his will be the result of the develop-
ent of its
immense
waterpower , which
second only to that of Niagara. Here
; the natural
gateway between the
ist and the west , the United States
id Canadian governments have built
lip canals and locks for the benefit
the vest commerce to and from Lake
ipericr. The waters of this great in-
nd sea go tumbling down St. Mary'rf
pids , forming one of the finest water
iwers in the world. A portion of the
ist water power has already been
irnessed and put to commercial use
1 both sides of St. Mary's river. On
e American side $3.500,000 is being
pended on a mammoth water power
nal that will
develop 40,000 actual
irse power , all of which has already
en leased for t'se in establishments
be erected for the manufacture
f
: >
Icium carbide , chemicals and other
oducts that will use to the best ad-
ntage the raw materials
existing in
is
neighborhood and
such as can
ilize most -profitably the remarkable
vantages enjoyed by Sault Ste. Ma-
s for the
assembling of raw materials
d the distribution
of finished
prod-
ts.
When all the projected industries
2 completed and in operation it will
suit in the
up-building of Sault Ste.
trie
from its present
population of
out 10,000 to
a city of
great import-
ce as a
manufacturing center. N. L.
irtin in
Milwaukee
Journal.
Hie less people know about
each
ler the more polite
they are when
; y happen to meet.