The diamond river
BY DAViD
OHAPTlOlt XVI.
Tho Ofiy arranged for tlio conduct of
tiro sham ftuiurnl wns nothing less thnn
ghastly. The lead-colored sky tn!Htncil to
ninlllo the very rhlmneys of the (own,
mid from the low roof tho rait) InnWI
flown In n console torrent for hoifrVrti
hour. Monboddo lind prepared everything
nnd aoon nfter breakfast, ho mid Harvey
not out together for tins village cemetery,
which win poven mlle from their start
ing point.
Jothroo himself had insisted upon lit
lng ono of tho party, nnd not hint; would
mitlsfy lilm hut thnt hn should kco tho
ceremony through; but IiIh friends had ut
leant succeeded in persuading lilm not
to bo neon on an occasion ho Important to
his own sufoty In n society which might
Instantly hnvo Identified him nnd brought
nil liin iilniiH to naught. Ho followed the
mourning couch, therefore, In u four
whcolcr. Tho driver of the vAlileln was more
tlinn oner xtnrtlfd by whnt he took to
be ,"im: '.iif-' ! ' iiflitf from Ills
faro, iu. ,.. niKi Hie wind made
tho man uncertain.
A Hiirpriae wan waiting for .lethroe,
but he met it with nn Imperturbable
fnco. A.s his fly ilrcw up at tho lodge
of thn cemetery a door opened, and with
in tho doorway stood gassing carelessly
out at tho weather tho one man on whom
tho keen ndvciiturcr had been moot upon
Ida guard from thn very beginning of his
enterprise. Tlio man wns thick not and
burly, and round IiIh neck iio wore a linen
bandage, whic had partly slipped away,
ravelling the fact thnt he had suffered
omo Injury there, which might, by the
look of it, have been n Heald. Ho looked
up at the low sky nnd the plunging rain
from side to side, nnd then, seeing .loth
ioo in the act of advancing toward him.
ho recoiled a atop to make room, nnd
In that very instant raised his eyes to the
nowcomcr'n face. His mouth gaped nnd
his eyes stared, and Jelhroe looked at
him with an aspect of sudden inquiry,
nn if to ask why a stranger should stare
o hnrd. The man turned nwny and
looked out of the window across the
Honking place of burial, and bit Ills mills
In perplexity, lie could not refrain from
u furtive glance now and again, but .loth
roe had set up his eye glass by this time,
nnd wan regarding him with a look of
pucxlod displeasure which ho could not
face.
"'Bout what time," asked .lelhroe,
with n "Wild West" accent which was
Imltntod to the life, "Is this melancholy
business expected to bo over, .Mr. Mon
boddo?" "By mid-dny, sir." said Monboddo-
"by mid-day."
"Well," said .lethroe, "J want to see
him planted safe and good. It's live and
twenty yearn since I parted with him,
nnd I don't pretend to bo ns much cut
up nn 1 might hnvo been If I had known
him cloBor; but ho wns my mother's sis
ter's bod, and blood's thicker than water,
and it's a respectful thing to see the last
of him, siuco I happen to be in this coun
try." "That is undoubtedly so, Mr. or -.Mr.
...cr
Monboddo, muddled, hail let slip his
employor'n simple alias.
'.Tones, sir," said Jelhroe ".lethroe
Jones, t was christened nftcr his father,
out of family compliment. Is this gentle
man," ho asked, stooping forward in n
hnlf-whlspcrlng iiunlry, and signaling the
mnn with a sideway cast of the thumb
Is this gentleman a relative of the de
ceased?" "No," said tho burly man In a sulky
tone, "I'm no relation. I'm nn old ac
quaintance, though p'r'nps about tlio
oldest acquaintance Martin Jothroo had."
"In that so, sir?" asked .lethroe.
"Your hand, Bir, if you do not mind.
Whon nil Is said and done, I nm the
roprcscntntlvo of tho family, sir."
Tho burly man accepted Jetliroc'a prof
fered hand, but he feigned no heartiness
over It.
"Singular likenesses runs in families,"
ho said In what nppeored to bo his cus
tomary manner n manner, thnt is to
say, of hangdog ill temper and stubborn
ness. "Thnt is so, sir," said .Tethroc "that
Is so, but it is not so invariably. My
fortunate cousin' nephew, for example,"
Indicating Harvey ns ho spoke, "does not
feature his uncle."
"You feature his uncle," said tho man,
with n queer flash in his eyes.
"Say!" said .Tethroc. "Is that so. now?
It lined to be romarked when wo were
boys, but growing up makes n difference.
Hnblt makos n difference. It makes a
dlfferoneo whether n man works or
whether he lounges, sir; whether he trav
els or stays nt homo: whether he drinks
freely, Rlr, or drinks guardedly. Now,
my poor cousin Harvey nnd me, so far
ub I could lenm about him, wnB just
.nbout as' Hko in our ways ns need be
Voth wanderers, both hard workers and
iard livers. Yes; 1 guess we'd Btart nliko
it ml stop alike. There was one thing
"bout poor Ilnrve you call him Martin,
notloc, Bir, but wo always called him
Harvey In hia youth thoro was ono
thing 'bout him I could never equal. Ho
hnd tho knack of making money, gentle
men. I'vo got, perhaps, as much as I
want oh much na is good for me, maybe
-but It's willed money mainly; and If
I'd over been right on the hard pan. liko
poor old llarve, I'd have stayed there."
The demeanor of the burly man was
strange. Ho wan hangdog, ho was fur
tive, ho looked hko ono who hnd been
overcrowed, and yet through all his dis
comfort there was n hind of peeping oc
casional indication of something like
triumph, A keen watcher and a prac-
HMmmnM
MURRAY
tii'fil physiognomist would havo seen that
he wan alternately bewildered and as
sured, and that his bewilderment nnd his
certainty each knocked the other on the
head with a curiously rapid alternation.
1 ho keeper of tho place came to cull
them, nnd tho quartette .lethroe, Mon
boddo, Harvey, and the stranger ran
through the rain to where the tlrst part
of the service was to be held. The young
er Jethrou hung his head. Hia whole
heart revolted nt thin subterfuge, nnd In
found himoelf wishing Hint ho had never
engaged in it. The sacred words were
outraged, to his mind, nnd the whole
business was n debased uud debasing
comedy. Happily for him, It wns noon
over. Tlio wet earth was being shoveled
over thai repellent imposture of n coffin,
nnd he wns driving back with Monboddo,
when that worthy spoKo for tho first tlmo
that dny of his own Initiative.
"Hid you happen, sir," he began,
smoothing tho'o trembling nnd bibulous
lips of his as he spoke "did you happen
to recognize the mnn with whom you col
lided In the corridor in the smnll hours
this morning?"
"No," said Harvey. "What nbout
him?"
"That." replied Monboddo, "was the
mnn at the cemetery. Did you did you
observe him closely nt tho cemetery?"
"No," said Harvey. "I thought It
safest not to dlsplny any Interest in
him."
"Ye, yes, exactly quite quite so,"
said tho doctor, who lived in a nervous
hurry to propitiate mankind at large.
"Hut T observed him I, sir, I observed
lilm. He knows your uncle, sir; ho pierces
tho disguise. The whole gamo Is played
out, sir; the plot Is ousted."
"What is to be done?" naked Harvey.
"If this man knows my uncle, the whole
plot, is spoiled "
"I have an idea," said Monboddo.
"Mr. Jelhroe, I havo uu iden! Pray
don't tulk. Leave mo to think it out.
Yes, sir, I hnvo nn idea."
Within a hundred yards of the hotel
Jethrou'B four wheeler drove past the
mourning coach, nnd whon Harvey and
Monboddo renched the porch Jctliroo was
waiting there.
"Come with me," he said, nnd led the
wny swiftly to Hnrvey's silting room.
"That fellow suspects," he whispered,
when ho had closed tho door.
"He knows," said Monboddo.
"No," said .lethroe, laughing nt the
doctor's fnce, which was mottled nnd
shining with anxiety; "he doesn't exnet
ly know, but In suspects. Now, it's your
business, Monboddo, to knock him off hi
perch. You'll get Into converse with
lilm; he stays in this hotel. You'll play
tho fool, you understand the loose
tongued fool who cnu'l hide anything.
You'll hint ut n mystery. Harvey hero
is to be horribly dejected because he
can't find something which the deceased
Is supposed to hnvo possessed. Work up
to tlu problems. Do It cleverly, Mon
boddo. You mny drink up to a point,
nnd you may make him funcy thnt you're
tipsy; but, Monboddo" ho paused nnd
shook his heavy forefinger in tho doctor's
face "If you let him be right In thnt
guess "
"Oh. I nssurc you!" cried Monboddo.
"I shall lay you out, Monboddo," said
.lethroe; "I will till that cofllnl"
"No, no!" cried the doctor, ns if tho
threat had boon n real one. "There shall
he no need for you to trouble about any
thing of that sort, 1 do nssure you. sir
1 reully and truly do assure you, sir."
"You can trap that fellow as easily as
you can kiss your hand," said Jelhroe.
"See you do it. And now go. I have
something else to tnlk nbout."
Monboddo hnd n holy dread of this
big nnd blustering patron, nnd was glad
to shullle from his presence. The hotel
smoking room was cozy, with its snug
flro nnd Its deep nrmchnlrs, nnd the
sound of the censclcss rain that beat
against the window nindo the place ten
fold moro comrortnblo nnd nttractlve.
Tho stranger of tho cemetery was thore,
with a big tumbler before him.
"A dreadful, dreadful day, sir," said
Monboddo.
"Yes," said thn stranger, "it's a dirty
day."
Monboddo drow up his chair to the
other's table.
"Do you know," said .lethroe to his
nephew, striding up to him and seizing
him by the nrm nt tho Instnnt nt which
they were left alone, "do you guess who
that fellow was who was at tho cemetery
to-day V"
"No," Harvey answered. "How should
1?"
"That," .lethroe whispered, crouching
his tall llgure till his eyes wero on a
level with his nephew's, and gripping
him unconsciously until ho winced, "that
is the man of whom that fellow Taylor
spoke as 'Little William. "
"Tho murderer?" Harvey asked.
"The murderer," said Jothroo, with a
dozen slow nods of the head u'.d n pout
ing under lip that seemed to threaten
something, "the mnn who uioant to have
my life tho very night you nnd I first mot
in Chicago; tho man who killed my de
faulting purlner hi mistake for me."
"And he suspects your Identity now,
In spite of all your plotting and con
triving?" , t
"He suspects; but If Monboddo man
ages his business well ho will not sus
pect long."
"But why," cried Hnrvey, In a sud
den anguish of rnge, "why skulk and
hldo from n murdorer? Why not appeal
to the police?"
"I hnro nnswerod nlrotuly," said .Teth
roc, as cool upon n midden ns if the tnll;
had boon about tin woather. "All the
pollco In tho world could not guard my
secret. If I hnd evidenco to hang this
scoundrel, I would hang him; but thnt
would avail mo nothing, for there is n
whole syndicate in pursuit of mo and of
what I enrry nbout with me. Monobddo
should hnvo something to report this
evening. In the meantime shall we sit
down to n game of chess?"
"Chess!" cried Hnrvey Impatiently.
"I couldn't play chess at n time Hko
this to save my boiiI!"
"Ah, well," said Jethroo, with onu of
his qileor laughs. "I supposn It's a quo
Hon of temporament."
CHAI'TKIt XVII.
Monboddo, reaching over from whero
lio sat, prized the poker and stirred the
fire. Ho did this like an artist, and wns
not satisfied until be had turned the
glowing fnco of every Individuul cont to
tho outside. When he hnd propped the
poker In its place, he mopped his fnco
with a largo silk handkerchief. Ho sat
enwrapped before that happy vision for
a time; then, nftcr rubbing his hands,
ho caressed both sides of tho tumbler
with ids palms. He did not drink at
that moment, but, having performed this
net of benediction, he sunk back In his
deep armchair and smiled at the stran
ger. "A drop of something warm, sir," said
tho strnnger, "Is nn uncommonly com
fortable tiling on n day liko this."
"You are right, hIt," said Monboddo;
"you are Indubitably right." And, ns If
tho speech had reminded him of a duty,
he emptied the tumbler. He set It down
with u contented sigh.
The stranger smoked also, and tho two
kept silence for a time. The Mre purred
nnd rustled as a comfortable lire will
when it is nt Its best, and tho rain
lashed the window pane-.). The stranger
had n stout walking stick between his
knees, and in his abstraction ho was toy
ing with tlio hnndlo of it.
Finally the stranger did a strange
thing. He tapped Monboddo on tho
shoulder with the crook of the stout
walking stick mid said:
"Was tliero a corpse In that collln,
doctor?"
Now, if this surprise had come upon
Monboddo nt any other than tho psycho
logical instant at which ho wns prepar
ed to meet it, he would certainly have
betrayed himself. The first thing in the
morning anything bowled him over. As
the day advanced his nerve gained tone.
His sixth tumbler left him Invulnerable
to fate for five minutes. Could ho have
kept himself In that condition, ho would
have been a man to be envied.
As fortune would havo it, he was there
In nil his forces to withstand the shock
the stranger had brought against him.
He raised his eyebrows, and he stared nt
the stranger .in the most natural manner
in the world. Ho had very large and
rather projecting eyeballs, and when he
stared there avuh n trreat deal of red
veined white visible. His thick lips were
apart nnd he scratched his cheek with n
forefinger. Doubt snt upon him. Ilia
wholouttitude seemed to inquire if he
hnd heard nrlght.
The stranger hnd leaned forward,
walking stick in hand, to signal his com
panion's attention by that tap on the
shoulder, nnd ho had spoken with a truc
ulent air and tone. "1 know everything,
nml it isn't worth while to nttcnipt to
humbug me for a moment," said tho
stranger's eye. But when Monboddo
turned round to meet tnnt threatening
aspect, and did it with so complete an
appearance of surprise, the certainty
gradually vanished from the other's look,
and a half-shocpKh wonder slowly took
its place. At length 'things went so 111
with tho strnnger, under Monboddo's
starim; amazement, thnt there wns noth
ing left for hlni but to withdraw his gaze
and betake himself to bin tumbler. He
drnnk with u most feeble attempt at a
swagger, nnd Monboddo, still looking
amazed at him across his tumbler, drank
also.
Then that medico set himself to work
to pluy n fnntasia on the emotions of tho
stranger. Tie did it like an artist, and
his companion, watching him closely, be
lieved timt he could rend his reflections
liko n book. Now this particular art of
pretense is practiced by thousands every
dny. It Is a part of the nccustomed
liar's stock In trade. But it Is a fortu
nate thing for the world at large that
the enormous majority of those who seek
to practice it are extremely clumsy, and
that they are bowled out nlncty-nino
times in a hundred. But whnt Dr. Mon
lioddo's mnnner said to the stranger wa.s
so convincingly said Hint It wns much
more persunslve than words. First of
all It said, "What on earth Is this mnn
talking about?" Then it said, "Dear me,
now! that's really very remarkable, be
cause it reminds inc." Then It said. "Up
on my word! there's soniething very curi
ous going on. I'll Inquire nbout it."
Thou it said. "No. I won't." nnd then.
"Yes, 1 will," nnd thou, "No, 1 won't,"
again. Having carried on his voiceless
soliloquy so far, Dr. Monboddo assumed
an air of profound cogitation. When ho
next spoke there wns a husky thickness
in his voice which he could have cleared
away had ho so chosen. It served his
turn, however. Ho left It to do its own
work on the understanding of his com
puulnn. "Excuso me, sir," he begnn. "but hnd
you known our deceased friend's af
fairs?" Uo wns grotesquely omphntic with a
wnvoring forefinger, and he wore a look
of solemn perspicacity, ns if ho were
saying to himself, "I'll turn this fine fel
low Inside out Hko a glove." And the
stranger rejoiced within doors, thinking.
"If this follow doom know anything,
how'b my tlmo." Ho nnswered quietly
that ho had at ono time boon In Mr. Jetb
roe'n businoss confidence.
(To be continued.!
Hor Hpcchilty.
Blocker Your wlfo 13 something of
n wit. Sho tried to mnko game of mo
nt the reception last night.
Meolcer Huh I That's nothing. She
often Thakes me quail.
THE FiKLD OF BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
THE WAR.
The Vutcrniin of the Rebellion Tell nt
Whistling Bullets, Bright Bnjoiictu,
WhiHtllntf Illinois, uriKlit Jfiljoncm,
JlttrHti; ItouiliH, Itloori.r Buttles,
CiinipIirc, Fcntlvc Hiitfs, JCtc, lite.
"Yen," sulci Captain Fowler, "we
frequently llrod at nn enemy when we
couldn't see u man or n gun. At. Av
crysboro, N. C, Gen em! Kllpatrlek or
dered my section of Hie battery for
ward to dislodge the enemy. When I
reported to the general the litiCK wero
quiet and I could see neither our own
troops nor the rebels. I asked Kilput
rlck where the enemy was and he
waved IiIh hand dramntleally toward
about half of North Carollnti ami Haiti,
'Right over there.'
"I turned to look for u position for
my rifled ten-jioundorn, when a oliell
from the enemy whizzed over the gen
eral and staff. Kllpatrlek flattened
himself on his horse, Haying a moment
Inter: 'I ahvny.s dodgo theso things
I don't Htijipnse it cloeH any good, but
It is humun naturo to dodge, anil I
dodge. But, I say, captain, can you
dismount that gun without seeing It?'
I told lilm wo could, nnd going into
position we opened fire nt l.fiOO yards
and tho enemy soon concentrated the;
flro of six smooth bore twelve pound
vvt on my two rifled ten pounders.
"The range wns too great for the
smooth bores, nnd I lost mt a slng'e
linn. But we located the enemy's
guns, ono by ono, and the gunners,
with three years' practice, put every
shot In the right place to make trouble.
Soon an orderly rode up to say; 'The
general's compliments you have dis
mounted a gun.' In ten minutes he
came ngaln: 'The general's compli
ments, and you havo exploded a cais
son.' In live minutes another cavalry
man disturbed us with: 'You have
disabled another gun.' Then for live
minutes the rebel battery was silent.
"Whoa it opened again the boys let
drive with the two guns and literally
ilemollsi- 'd one of the rebel guns,
breaking tho carriage and turning the
gun end for end. We saw it later
when the rebs hud retreated, and when
wo discovered we had been tiring over
our own men, who wero near enough
for their lookout to see our shots
strike. When the lines came together
the affair was over in fifteen minutes,
nnd Colonel Uliett, a South Carolinian
ti command, was a prisoner.
"Two or three hundred of llhott's
men were captured with him. Just
before their capture, Captain Duncan
of our own army, who had been cap
tured at Fayetleville, reported to (!en-
r-rnl Sherman minus hat, shoes and
?oat. Ho stated that Wade Hampton's
men made lilm get out of nearly every
thing ho wore til tho lime of his cap
ture, and appropriated all tho articles,
und that when he appealed to Hump
ton for protection he was answered
with a curse. Hearing the story, Kil-
pr trick ordered that Bhett be penult
ted to march on foot to Goldsnoro.
"By the wny, when tho Union troops
concentrated for the battle of MissioTr;
nry Hldge, our battery was left at
Dallas without support to guard (he
river crossing. The reus on tho other
side of the river knew a battle was in
progress, and tho first day shouted ut
intervals: 'How is tho fight going?'
fivcry time our boys shouted buck:
Yoti'uns Is getting licked.' As the
rebs accepted this without comment
we suspected they had more Informa
tion than wo hud, and knew the battle
ivas going against them. However, wo
traded coftoo for tobacco tho day
Hooker went over Lookout mountain,
ind exchanged views on tho situation.
"Tho rebels had quite a largo for-oo
in their side of the river, and that
alght one of tho pickets shouted: 'Wo
will be relieved soon. Good-ny, Yanks.'
l'he next morning a flatboat loaded
with men in gray camo over to our
side under a flag of truce and said as
their whole army wa.s retreating thoy
would like a cnanco to get Into Ken
tucky. Another boat, loud came later,
?lvlng us news of Missionary Ittdgo
ind expressing a willingness to sur
render. When they saw that our bnt
rery was unsupported they allowed
:hey could have taken us In out of the
wot if they bad known the Infantry
aad been withdrawn.
"At Stone Hlvcr wo had smooth
aore guns, but wo did a good Job.
Aftor the rebs rel routed avc followed
Dcyond Murfroesboro on the Munches
:er pike. The rear guard made a
Uand while a heavy column crossed
tho pike just out of our range. Tho
noys noticed, howover, that when the
solid shot struck tho hard surface of
he pike they ricoehotted forward to
:hc point whoro the heavy column was
.rossing, so they tired glancing shoK
using tho pike as a bouncing board,
ind did effective work. A general otti
vr who rodo a white- horse tuid who
vug very busy was struck and killed
Dy one of theso rlcochettlng eunnon
onlls."
"Spenking of glanelug shots," said
the lieutenant, "there wua a ease, In the
ITiiJlppIncs that beat the record. Tho
d';y General l.nwton wttn only two
hundred men wns cut off from hia
command, operating south of Manila.
(ht-TC was groat excitement on the
Monadnoek. We could see that tho
general wns in n scrape mid that the
Filipinos were closing In to ctnro
hlin. Klnuh.v the general signaled for
help and ordered that men bo landed
from the warships at oneo to come to
his rescue.
"Tho vessels started live or nix hun
dred shoreward and opened with all
available guns on the Flliplnon in tho
bushes. As all tho world knows, tho
rebels liore driven off, General Law
ton was rescued and established com
inunlentlon with tho other parts of tils
command. When tho bluejackets re
turned to their ships they were or
dered to remove the cartridges from
their guns. One man failed to obey,
and on the Monadnoek there was a
commotion when a shot came from a
group of men putting their guns uwny.
"The bullet struck n man in the foot
glanced from the deck, cutting another
man In the hand, went a considerable
distance until It struck the capstan,
where it divided into two pieces, one
of which took a section out of nn olil
cer's ear and the other struck n man
In the leg. This sobered everybody,
but only one man knew where the ec
centric bullet came from, and ho inndo
uo remarks."
"1 was down at Bridgeport, Aln..
some weeks ago," said the major, I
things are not as they were in 1804.
On one occasion In tho Inst year of tho
war I went to Bridgeport tired, sleepy
and hungry. Tho hotel was without
glass In the windows nnd without
doors. Tliero were no beds and very,
little furniture oC any kind. Yet tlio
rooms were full of lodgers sleeping on
cots or on the lloor, and of boardera
who paid self-appointed guards a high
price for army rations served on a
table in what had been a dining room.
"A comrade with mo said ho must
have sleep under shelter, and, offering
a high price for a place to sleep, ho
was given a box In a limber ro -m Eto
wrapped himself in a blanket, und.
stretching himself on tho box, Blcpt the
sleep of a man who doesn't euro for
trifles. In the morning, when daylight
made It. possible for him to inspect hia
bed nnd surroundings, he found that
he was sleeping on an empty collin. I
told him when 1 came back that
Bridgeport could do better now and at
a lower price." Chicago Inter Ocean.
J, out llin Is'crvc.
While reading somo of tho Incidents
of the lalo war, written by my com
rades, a circumstance cornea to my
mind which 1 would Hko to relate.
I was a member of Company Br
Fourteenth Indiana volunteers, and it
was while we were camping at Elk.
river valley, western Virginia, I think.
In our company we had an Irishman
whose name, of course, was Pat. This
Irishman had a particular friend in
the company whoso name was Joo
Gnthrldge. One afternoon Col. Wilder
came to us with tho order that wo
should be ready to march that even
ing, immediately after dark, at tho
same time explaining: "Now, boya, wo
are In the enemy's country, and In a.
mountainous country, where the ene
my can view our every movement, so
don't make any unnecessary move
ments, but be ready to march at dark
with two days' rations and your cart
ridge boxes fun of ammunition."
We were called Into lino at dark
and received order No. 2: "Boys, don't
make any noise; don't speak abovo a
whisper. 1 shall bo t the head of the
column, and If anything happens you
will hear from me."
We marched along until about two
o'clock In the morning without stop
ping, whon the colonel, thinking wo
needed a little rest, said, "Halt and
lost," Just loud enough for the first
company to hear. The next company
knew what It meant and followed suit,
but the next company didn't know
what it meant, as they hnd heard no
command, and by tho time it reached
tho tail end of the regiment there was
quite a confusion. Some one said
"charge of cavalry," and you could
hear guns click, click, but our olllccra
ordered us to stand until we received
orders. Just then Col. Wilder rodo
down the line and explained tho cause
of the confusion; thou said, "Fall Into
rank, keep tho same order, and move
very quietly."
Just as wo wero ready to march wo
beard a voice calling front tho top of
a tree near by: "Oh, Joe, and wliero
In the dlvil Is mo gun?" It was our
worthy Irishman. Should any of my
comrades happen to road this, will
they remember how Col. Loomls can
nonaded tho breastworks of Green
Brier Bridge?
The number of limber sleepers on
the railways of the world is calculated
to bo about l,'ll)i,000,000 nnd tholr
value Is estimated at about $000,000,
000. This Item makes a serious drain
on tho timber supplies of the world.
It Is only when at work that man
fulfills his proper place In God's crea
ture scheme. They are Indeed rare ex
ceptions who "al3o sorve, who only
stand nnd wait"
Homo la tho seminary of nil other
institutions. -13. II. Ohtiuin.
