BE CHEERFUL
Though earth cures oppress Ihca
And adversity twine
Her durk wreaths about thee
Yet oh maltf no sign
Tread firmly lifes mazes
Repressing the tear
That fain would oft gush forth
Foor wanderer here
Perhaps on the morrow
Prosperitys sun
May shine on thy pathway
And sorrow be done
The way once so desolate
May take a new turn
And bright flowers erst hidden
Our eyes may discern
Cheer up Oil theres magic
In these little words
You hear them in the streamlet
In songs of the birds
Look up see them written
In the depths of blue
Press onward look upward
The light will break through
-Utica Globe
THE GHOST OF
A GALLOWS
It was an extremely awkward situa
tion Even I who am somewhat slow
to think as a rule realized that in
stantly At my feet in the dusty road
way lay a revolver still hot and smok
ing from its discharge the report of
which had just startled the quiet of
that country lane while not far away
from me there lay in the road the body
of a man who had fallen from a dog
cart to the ground apparently stone
dead and the worst of it was that the
man who lay there in the road was my
bitterest enemy
The horse stopped and swerved with
terror at the discharge of the pistol
and this action threw the man dead or
wounded from the cart The groom
who was sitting back to back with his
master jumped from the vehicle and
ran toward the prostrate figure while
the horse left entirely to his own de
vices went on in a mad gallop
As a drowning man thinks so did I
L t I 1 I I Art- fT 1 C yi
AS A DROWN IXC MAXTniXKS SO DID I
m that brief period When the groom
reached the body of his master he saw
In an instant that the man was dead
Then he looked at me I was still re
viewing the situation But there wasnt
much time to spare
It was not I who fired the fatal shot
The road on this side was lined on one
side with a high hedge and 1 knew
that the murderer had tired from this
ambush and dexteriously thrown the
revolver to where it lay just at in
fect But I was quick enough to real
ize that no jury in the world would
ever believe this unless proof of the
real murderer could be produced
Instantly I knew that my only hope
lay in his caprure and I immediately
dashed through the hedge in search of
him while the groom thinking no
doubt that I was attempting to make
my escape came in hot pursuit after
me
Inside of the hedge there was no sign
of any living being The fair green
fields stretched away to the hillside be
yond which the white Avails of a farm
house were just visible as peacefully
as if there could be no such thing as
the tragedy which had just taken place
on the other side of the hedge I looked
up and down the long hedge row in
vain There was not the slightest
clew to the murderer to be seen
However 1 determined that the man
might possibly make for the railroad
station whence I had just come for I
knew that there was a train for the
city due in a few minutes Could the
ruffian catch it And could I overtake
him before he did so If not I reflected
1 might easily telegraph to the next
station and have him apprehended
I was running all the time as hard as
I could inside of the hedge and toward
the railway station The groom had
given up pursuit of me doubtless
thinking it his duty to return to his
masters body It wanted six minutes
before the train was due as 1 saw by
a hasty glance at my watch but I did
not know how far the station was from
where the murder occurred
I never ran so hard in my life before
but I felt that my life depended on the
chance of securing the murderer and
consequently the effort cost me no
strain My wind began to tell on me
however at the end of the first quarter
mile and I was just wondering vague
ly how long I could keep it up when I
came upon the empty dog cart with the
runaway horse quietly cropping grass
by the roadside Here was luck indeed
I jumped into the cart as speedily as
my exhausted strength would let me
and gathering up the reins I struck the
horse and we were off as fast as the
animal could run toward the station
I estimated that there were still two
minutes before the train was due and
I felt sure that the station could not be
more than a third of a mile distant
Suddenly I heard the whistle of the
locomotive and with it came an in
spiration
The murderer mjght never be found
At all events I could not lay hands on
him just then Why not take the train
ajid make good my own escape while
the oportunity presented itself It
seemed a terrible thing to thus flee
from justice because of a crime which
I had not committed but I could not
for my life see any other course open
So I urged the animal to still greater
speed and pulling up at a bend in the
road before I reached the station I
jumped down and ran just in time to
scramble upon the train as it was mov
ing off
It was a curious freak of chance if
indeed it was chance alone which had
brought me down to Hopeville that
morning and thrust me Into the unen
viable position of a suspected murder
er I had received a telegram from
Randolph Cutting the man whom I
had just seen murdered asking me to
come down immediately to Hopeville
and in obedience to this summons I
had taken an early morning train down
from New York Hopeville is an ex
cedingly unpretentious little New Jer
sey village if indeed a country store
and two small houses besides the sta
tion could be so described When 1
stepped out of the train I looked about
in vain for Randolph Cuttings car
riage As it was not to be seen and as
anything in the shape of a hired con
veyance was an utter impossibility at
Hopeville I set out at a brisk walk in
the direction of Randolph Cuttings
place which I knew from a former
visit was about a mile and a half from
the station
Randolph Cutting and I were second
cousins and the very slight degree of
affection which alwajs existed between
us was not increased materially at the
death of an uncle of ours who left his
money to me and whose will was so
involved that there was a lawsuit be
tween Cutting and myself As it- hap
pened by the terms of the will most
of my uncles property was left to me
and Cutting tried to have the will
broken upon certain technical grounds
which are not essential to this story
The courts upheld me however and
declared the will perfectly valid As a
consequence Randolph Gutting and my
self had not spoken for five years and
I of course had not been near his
home until that eventful day when I
hurried down there in response to his
telegram True I did think that W
was a curious thing for Cutting to do
to telegraph for me to come down to
Hopeville but on second thoughts 1
concluded that some business of im
portance in connection with certain in
terests which were still mutual re
quired that he should see me and that
perhaps he was unable from illness or
some other cause to leave his home
This brief explanation of the cause of
my visit to Hopeville was only a small
part of the thoughts which crowded
my brain when I was safely seated in
the train and whirling toward Jersey
City As I have said Randolph Cut
tiug and I were bitter enemies and
the evidence which pointed to my hav
ing committed the crime seemed so
blackly conclusive that I could al
most feel the rope tighten about my
neck When the train stepped at the
next station I trembled in every limb
fully expecting to see some one come
into the car to arrest me Nothing of
the sort happened however and I
passed several more stations in safety
However I did not allow myself much
hope for I felt sure I Avould be appre
hended at Jersey City After some
thought I concluded that it would be
the best plan to go right in rather thau
get oil at any out-of-town stations as
there would be much less risk of being
noticed in the crowd which would get
off the train there
When the train pulled into the Jersey
City depot I made my way with all
possible haste to the waiting room and
greatly to my surprise I was not mo
lested Suddenly I heard the trainman
call out a train for Philadelphia and
acting upon impulse I hastily secured a
ticket and was soon comfortably en
sconced iii a parlor car on the way to
the Quaker City
I can never describe that night of
horror which I spent in Philadelphia
Some idea of my feelings may be imag
ined when I saw in an evening paper a
dispatch telling of the murder of Ran
dolph Cutting a well known New
Yorker near his country place at Hope
ville N J The account in the paper
said that detectives from New York
were at work upon the case and that
although they refused to give out any
of the facts they were in possession
of a clew which they felt sure would
enable them to capture the murderer
within a few hours
I sought a quiet hotel upon a side
street registering under an assumed
uame and then endeavored to compose
myself to await results I hardly think
OFF AS FAST AS THE ANIM AL COULD RU2T
I slept a wink that night but tossed
feverishly upon mj bed wondering
whether I had not acted very foolishly
in thus running away when I was per
fectly innocent Undoubtedly by so do
ing I had strengthened the chain of evK
dence against me but under the cir
cumstances I did not see what else I
could do There was still a chance for
me I thought Cuttings groom was no
doubt a neAV one as his face was not
familiar to me and he probably did not
know who I was No one else in Hope
ville knew me I had not mentioned my
intuition of going down there to any
one in New York My only hope lay in
keplng perfectly secluded until the
thing had blown over and this I
thought I could do as well in my hotel
in Philadelphia as anywhere else
Then when I would arrive at this
point in my reasoning the thought of
that clew that the detectives were
working on would come to me and I
would break into a cold perspiration
from nervousness and anxiety How I
ever got through the night I cannot
tell As soon as I could get into my
clothes in the morning I procured a
morning newspaper There I found a
fuller and more thrilling account of the
murder most of which I skimmed
through hurriedly until I reached th
following words
Detectives Warden and Seabury of
the Pinkerton force reached Hopeville
shortly after noon having been tele
graphed for by Mr Cuttings family
They at once set to work upon a clew
furnished them by Davis the groom
who was with Mr Cutting when the
fatal shot was fired Davis was sitting
with is back to Mr Cutting but hap
pening to look toward the side of the
road he saw a man whom he recog
nized as a discharged servant of his
employers level a pistol at Mr Cut
tings head and fire Mr Cutting fell
to the ground and Davis jumped to his
masters assistance only to find him in
stantly killed The horse had taken
fright and run away when Davis hap
pening to look up saw a figure in the
roadway Instinctively he ran toward
him but the man darted behind the
hedge and Davis lost sight of him He
was able however to identify the mur
derer fully when he was arrested by
the detectives late last night The man
whose name is James Simpson was
found in an empty hay shed not two
miles from the scene of the murder
When confronted with his crime he be
came panic stricken and made a full
confession
T- If
And that yas the nearest I ever came
to being hanged Philadelphia Times
i c3p5tsWvJ sSss
Mrs Margaret Deland author of the
famous John Ward Preacher has
finished a group of five short stories
which will apear under the title The
Wisdom of Fools
namlin Garlands new book Way
side Courtships is made up of short
stories dealing with the influence of
women exerted often by chance upon
mens careers
Dean Farrars new theological work
is on the eve of appearance in London
In its twenty three chapters Dr Farrar
treats of the allegorical method of
exegesis as untenable and deals with
the dangerous results of the supernat
ural dictation theoiy Necessarily
the book will arouse wide attention and
keen controversy
In the Jewish Era Mrs T C Rounds
has gathered much interesting matter
relative to the cause represented the
Chicago Hebrew Mission the conver
sion of the Jews to Christianity The
leading article is by Prof H M Scott
and is to the effect that Judaism can
not survive in a world of religious lib
erty because it is not a proselyting re
ligion
The Romance of Isabel Lady Bur
ton is said to be practically an auto
biography The real facts concerning
the burning of her husbands Persian
translation The Scented Garden are
told and her real motives given One
of the interesting features of the book
is found in numerous and important
letters from Gen Gordon which have
never before been published
Francis G Burton writes and tne
Technical Publishing Company brings
out Naval Engineers and the Com
mand of the Sea It is devoted to
proving that Great Britain must insti
tute many reforms in respect of the
engineers in its navy and points out
what is certain to happen otherwise by
detailing two imaginary wars As En
gland whips France which treats its
engineers properly in one and the Uni
ted States which treats them even bet
ter in the other the moral is not 6
vious
The American Youth the weekly or
gan of the Waifs Mission seems to be
fod on the literary fat of the land The
editor Susan Gibbons Duval has not
only made of it an excellent juvenile
paper but has secured stories and arti
cles from the ablest pens Anthony
Hopes new story Victory of the
Grand Duke of Mittenheim is begun
in the latest issue Among the writers
who have promised to contribute dur
ing 1S07 are Capt King Hamlin Gar
land Lillian Bell Octave Thanet Jo
seph Jefferson and a score of others
almost equally noted The American
Youth evidently has a high standard
and lives up to it
Women as Pack Animals
The new woman will find much need
ing emancipation in her Indian sister
of Alaska There women are convert
ed into pack animals at times Not an
unusual sight is to see n long pack
train of dogs loaded with twenty or
thirty pounds each and here and there
a woman laboring under a 100 pound
pack
She Recovered
White Did old Green recover from
that railroad accident yet
Black No but his wife did to the
tune of ten thousand New York Tri
bune
When a man makes a mistake of any
kind he usually lays the blame on a
false friend
H
sS afiKw
ij
CSH rf l A l
During the reign of Charles the Sec
ond one Signor Leti proposed to write
a history of the court You will give
offense urged his friends Were I
as wise as Solomon said Leti I
could not avoid that Then be as
wise rejoined the king who was pres
ent and write proverbs not history
Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes once
made an address in his native town to
a medical association The president
of the association was the son of a man
who had been the druggist of the vil
lage when Dr Holmes had studied
medicine there It is good to look at
this young man said the genial auto
crat and trace his fathers liniments
in his face
On one occasion Gordon told Cecil
Rhodes the story of the offer of a room
ful of gold which had been made to him
by the Chinese government after he
had subdued the Tai Ping rebellion
What did 3 ou do said Rhodes Re
fused it of course said Gordon
what would you have done I would
have taken it said Rhodes and as
many more roomfuls as they would
give me It is no use for us to have
big ideas if we have not got the money
to carry them out
Two green reporters Englishmen
were sent by the city editor of a news
paper to a suburban town to write up
the burning of an orphan asylum Late
that night when the news editor was
wondering why no copy about the
fire was coming by wire a telegraph
messenger rushed in and handed him a
dispatch He opened it and read
Dear Sir We are here What shall
we do It was signed with the names
of the two men sent to write up the
fire The news editor made a few re
marks then he wrote on a telegraph
blank this brief message Find out
where the fire is hottest and jump in
Several days ago Congressman Wat
son sent several large sacks of flower
and garden seeds home for distribution
among his constituents The papers
announced this fact and for three days
there was a constant stream of
persons coming to the Congressmans
law office in Columbus On the last
day a man came up and asked for
beans He was given two packages
ne demurred to this and reached over
into the sack and began to fill his pock
ets When called down by the attend
ant the lover of beans said I havent
got enough for a mess yet It takes
more than a quart of beans to make a
mess for my family
Canon Ainger master of the Temple
is a great favorite with children and
upon one occasion was asked to assist
as a juvenile party Arriving at what
he thought was his destination a house
in a row of others exactly alike the
canon made his way up to the drawing
room Dont announce me said he to
the domestic and thereupon the rever
end gentleman went down upon all
fours ruffled up his white hair and
crawled into the room uttering the
growls of an angry Polar bear What
was his horror and amazement to find
when he got into the room two old la
dies petrified with astonishment He
had found his way into the next door
house instead of into the one to which
he was bidden
The proudest moment of Nelsons life
is said to have been when he received
the swords of the officers of the San
Josef Nelsons ship which was the
smallest of her class in the service at
that time was dismasted and upwards
of eighty of the crew killed and wound
ed Nelson himself being wounded The
Culloden commanded by Nelsons
friend Captain Trowbridge who fol
lowed Nelsons load in the breach of
orders which resulted in this famous
capture lost even more heavily For
his breach of discipline Jervis did not
mention Nelsons name in dispatches
but when one of his captains pointed
out the disobedience to orders he
promptly said When you commit a
like offense Ill forgive you r
Some time ago at a fashionable su
Ion the Baron dAlmerie was one of a
group to whom he was imparting an
account of his pedigree which he
claimed was derived from the Pha
raohs of Egypt Just then Baron de
Rothschild approached the group and
one of its members called out Baron
come and let me make you acquainted
with the Baron dAlmerie He comes
of Pharaonic stock and you ought to
know each other Yes said Baron
de Rothschild bowing gravely I
think said the Baron dAlmerie you
should know our family as your ances
tors took from us certain pledges when
they decamped from Egypt True
replied Baron de Rothschild but those
pledges were redeemed by a cheek on
the Bank of the Red Sea
In order to boom business an enter
prising grocer on a certain day adver
tised several thousand five cent loaves
of bread for sale at one cent each His
rival was in despair until a brilliant
idea came into his head He hired a
small army of boys and girls to buy
up all the loaves at a cent each At 2
oclock grocer No 1 had sold all his
bread and those who came later de
nounced him as a fraud who had fool
ed them with a lying advertisement
Meanwhile the foxy grocer around the
corner with more than a thousand one
cent loaves stacked up on his kitchen
floor put out a big sign Fresh Bread
A Five Cent Loaf for Two Cents We
Never Advertise What We Have Not
Got He thus not only discomfited his
rival and turned the tide in his own fa
vor but made a profit on the bread as
well
The Santl Blast
General Benjamin C Tilghman of
Philadelphia invented the sand blast
process It is used for cutting boring
pulverizing and engraving stone glass
wood and other hard or solid sub
stances
The well known abrading power of
sand when driven by air or water
j against hard substances suggested the
1 sand blast to General Tilghman and led
j hiin to make his first experiment He
fitted up a veiT simple air blast pro
ducing but a few ounces of pressure
aud by means of a concentric jet of
glass this air was made to drive the
sand against the object to be cut he
found that holes could be bored through
common window glass in a few sec
onds Further experimenting he dis
covered that he had only to improve
the apparatus to get increased ef
ficiency
The sand blast performs both heavy
and light work For heavy work a
high pressure and great velocity are
necessary the heavy sand blast is used
chiefly for ornamenting and dressing
stone after it has been quarried For
light work the pressure is light and the
velocity low
Letters may be cut in marble by
means of the sand blast in the follow
ing manner The stone or marble is
first covered with a thin sheet of wax
and the letters are cut in the way leav
ing the marble exposed Next the
marble is passed under the blast and
the sand cuts the letters deep into the
stone without injuring the wax in the
least In like manner any ornamental
design may be cut into the stone
Glass too may be ornamented by
means of the sand blast If a piece of
glass be covered with line lace and
passed under the blast not a thread of
the lace will be injured but the pattern
will be beautifully cut into the glass
The sand does not affect soft yield
ing substances but quickly cuts away
iron steel stone glass or any other
resisting substance The workmen
can hold their hands under the blast
and receive no injury by simply wrap
ping their finger nails in little pieces of
soft cloth
Thrown Upon the World
A visitor to one of the Government
offices where women are employed in
one of our cities desires to give in the
Youths Companion an exact account
of what he saw and heard there He
was conducted by the superintendent
an old man of large experience The
last room inspected was filled with
women at work
The visitor remarked This is a
higher class of women than that em
ployed at the same work in some othei
kinds of business These women have
been educated and have refined faces
and voices I should judge they are
not used to manual labor of any kind
They are not was the reply In
almost every case they are the widows
or daughters of men whose income
died with them but who while living
gave to their families luxuries beyond
their means
That young girl by the window was
in fashionable society in New York
two years ago Her father Avith a sal
ary of five thousand dollars lived far
beyond his means The woman in
mourning is the widow of a physician
whose income averaged six thousand
dollars He probably spent eight
That pale girl is the daughter of a
master builder who lived comfortably
among his old friends until he was
seized with political ambition He
moved into a fine house had his car
riage servants and gave balls He
died and his daughter earns twelve
dollars a week on which she supports
her mother There is hardly a woman
here who is not the victim of the vul
gar ambition which makes a family
ape its wealthier neighbors in its out
lay
That is an ambition not peculiar to
us Americans said the visitor
It is more common among us be
cause in other countries social position
depends upon birth while here it is
usually fixed by money How many
families in every class do you know
who are pretending to a larger pecuni
ary wealth than they have
The visitor passes on the question to
the reader
Found by a Tenderfoot
There is an axiom among mining
prospectors that while a knowledge of
mineralogy is a first necessity for a
man starting out to hunt for the pre
cious ores yet the richest finds are
often made by the rankest tenderfoot
It is well illustrated in a recent rich
find near Salt Lake City Utah Will
ard Weihe a violin soloist in the tab
ernacle was walking in City Creek
Canyon on the outskirts of the city
when he kicked aside some rock that
struck him as being unusual in ap
pearance Out of pure curiosity he car
ried a piece of the rock back to town
and had it assayed It showed Jj00
in gold and 40 in silver to th ton
Weihe was so much surprised he al
most fainted Then when he recov
ered he hurried back to where he found
the rock without mentioning the mat
ter to anyone and staked out a large
number of claims for himself and
friends Now a considerable camp has
sprung up and the workings bear out
the promise in Weihes chance strike
Not Color Blind
There are some crabs that actually
dress themselves Some species array
themselves elaborately by gathering
bits of seaweeds chewing the ends
and sticking them on their shells so
that they look like stones covered witli
weed They spend hours In making
these pieces adhere trying the same bit
over and over again until they suc
ceed They have a fine sense of sym
metry too and always put a red piece
on one side to match the red place on
the other and a green piece to match
a green piece though how they know
red from green in the dark pools where
they live is hard to say unless it is
by taste or smell Whon once their
dress is completed it improves with
age as the weed actually grows upos
thenu
THREE CURIOUS PLANTS
tfie Cannibal Tree Grapple Plant afo
Vegetable Python
Three of the most dangerous of veg
etative plants in the world are th
cannibal tree of Australia the
death or grapple plant of South
Africa and the vegetable python of
New Zealand
The cannibal tree grows in the
shape of a huge pineapple and attains
a height of eleven feet It has a series
of broad board like leaves growing in
a fringe at the apex which forcibly
brings to mind a gigantic Central
American agave and these board like
leaves from ten to twelve feet in the
smaller specimens and from fifteen to
twenty feet in the larger hang to the
ground and are easily strong enough to
bear the weight of a man of 140 pounds
or more In the ancient times this tree
was worshiped bj the native savages
under the name of the devil tree a
part of the interesting ceremony being
the sacrifice of one of their number to
its all too ready embrace The victim
to be saerified was driven up the leaves
of the tree to the apex and the instant
the so called pistils of the monster
were ton hed the leaves would fly to
gether like a trap crushing the life out
of the intruder In this way the tree
would hold its victim until every parti
cle of flesh would disappear from his
bones
The grapple plant is a prostrate
herb growing in South Africa Its
flowers are purple and shaped like the
English foxglove Its fruit has formid
able hooks which by clinging to any
passer by is conveyed to situations
where its seed may find suitable condi
tions for growth Sir John Lubbock
says it has been known to kill lions
The vegetable pj thon whicli is
known to the naturalist as the clusia
or fig is the strangler of trees The
seeds of the clusia being provided with
a pulp and very pleasant to the tropical
birds whicli feed thereon are carried
from tree to tree and deposited on the
branches Here germiation begins
The leafy stem slowly rises upward
while the roots flow as it were down
the trunk until the soil is reached Here
and there they branch changing their
course according to the direction of any
obstruction met with Meanwhile from
these rootlets leafy branches have been
developed which pushing themselves
through the canopy above get into the
light and enormously accelerate their
growth Now a metamorphosis takes
place For the hitherto soft atrial
plants begin to harden and spread
wider and wider throwing out side
branches which flow into and amalga
mate with each other until the whole
tree is bound in a series of irregular liv
ing hoops From this time on it is a
struggle of life and death between the
forest giant and the entwining clusia
Like an athlete the tree tries to expand
and burst its fetters causing the bark
to bulge between every interlacing but
success aud freedom are not for the
captive tree for the monster clusia has
made its bands very numerous aivfA
wide Not allowed expansion the tree
soon withers and dies and the strangler
is soon expanded into a great bush
almost as large as the mass of branch
es and foliage it has effaced It is
truly a tragedy in the world of vegeta
tion Los Angeles Herald
Can Hold Her Tongue
Ten years ago Miss Lueretia Hillman
of Jacobstown N J was an earnest
advocate of womans suffrage says a
daily press correspondent and in 18SI
refused to pay her tax assessment and
it was not until she was threatened
with incarceration in the county jail
that she handed over the money When
she had received a receipt for it she
raised her right hand and declared that
she would work from that hour to
bring about woman suffrage and until
the right of franchise had been granted
to women she would not utter a word
to humankind She was laughed at but
she kept her vow Frequent attempts
have been made to get her to talk but
without avail and for ten years she
has not uttered a word to any human
being She has contributed a good deal
of money to the cause of woman suf
frage and feels sure that some day she
will be permitted to go to the polls and
Cast a vote
The correspondent says that Miss
Hillman owns and manages one of the
best farms in her neighborhood She
pa3s special attention to truck garden
ing and puts a snug sum away in the
bank at the end of each year She hires
men to do most of the work but it is
not unusual to see her mounted on a
mowing machine behind a pair of
horses or to find her following a culti
vator through a potato field
Miss Hillman is a stalwart woman
nearly six feet high She is as brown
as a beny has a step as firm as that
of a grenadier and when she gets hold
of a plow she handles it as if it were a
plaything She knows all about horses
and cows and is not to be fooled on
any subject that pertains to farming
Most CompTimentary
Do you know Miss Barker Im
mighty thankful
And what Mr Jones are you thank
ful for
That all my meals are not eaten in
your company
Dear me not very complimentary
are you
Indeed I am I should starve to
death just gazing at you Harpers
Bazar
An Automatic Singer
An Automatic Singer was exhibited
to the editorial staff of a Paris news
paper The apparatus is in the form
of a tripod on the top of which is a
machine smaller than the phonograph
into which the cylinders are put The
sound is transmitted by highly perfect
ed boards to a metallic trumpet and it
is stated that the voice can be heard
220 yards off
k