PMAINTOM SNIP
—OR—
The Flying Dutchman.
BY CAPTAIN MARRY AT.
CHAPTER XXII.—(Continued.)
The Utrecht Hailed with a flowing
sheet, and was soon clear of -the Eng
lish Channel; the voyage promised to
he auspicious, favoring gales bore them
without accident to within a few hun
dred miles of the Cape of Good Hope,
when, for the first time, they were be
calmed. Amine was delighted; in the
evenings she would pace the deck with
Philip; then all was silent, eicept the
splash of the wave as It washed against
the sides of the vessel—all was in re
•pose and beauty, as the bright south
ern constellations sparkled over their
heads.
When the day dawned, the lookout
man at the mast-head reported that he
perceived something floating on the
Mtill surface of the water, on the beam
of the vessel. Krantz went up with the
glass to examine, and made it out to be
ti small boat, probably cut adrift from
Home vessel. As there was no appear
ance of wind, Philip permitted a boat
to be sent to examine It, and after a
long pull the seamen returned on
board, towing the small boat astern.
"There is the body cf a man in It,"
fiald the second mate to Krantz, as he
gained the gangway; “but whether he
is quite dead or not, 1 cannot tell."
Krantz reported this to Philip, who
was at that time sitting at breakfast
(with Amine, in the cabin, and then
[proceeded to the gangway, to where
the body of the man had been already
jhanded up by the seamen. The sur
geon, who had been summoned, de
clared that life was not yet extinct,
|and was ordering him to be taken
below, for recovery, when to their as
tonishment the man turned as he lay.
isat up, and ultimately rose upon nls
Ifeet and staggered to a gun, when,
lafter a time, he appeared to lie fully
recovered. In reply to questions put
(to him, he said that he was in a vessel
twhich had been upset in a squall, that
•he had time to cut away the small
boat astern, and that all the rest of
;the crew had perished. He had hardly
made his answer, when Philip, wiiu
Amine, came out of the cabin, and
^walked up to where the seamen were
crowded round the man; the seamen
•retreated so as to make an opening,
when Philip and Amine, to their as
tonishment and horror, recognized
their old acquaintance, the one-eyed
pilot Bchriften.
ae: » apiani vauueruecKeu, i
believe—glad to see you in command,'
and you, too, fair lady.”
Philip turned away with a chill at
hia heart; Amine's eye flashed as she
surveyed the wasted form of the
wretched creature. After a few sec
onds she turned round and followed
Philip into the cabin, where she found
him with his face buried in bis hands.
“Courage. Philip, courage!" said
Amine; “It was indeed a heavy shock,
and I fear me forbodes evil; but what
then? it Is our destiny.”
“It Is! it ought perhaps to be mine,”
replied Philip, raising his head; “but
you. Amine, why should you be a
partner—”
“I am your partner. Philip, in life
and in death. I would not die first,
Philip, because it would grieve you;
but your death will be the signal for
mine, and 1 will Join you quickly."
"Surely, Amtne, you would not
hasten your own?”
“Yes! and require but one moment
for this little steel to do its duty.”
“Nay! Amine, that is not lawful—
our religion forbids it."
“It may do so, but 1 cannot tell why.
I came into this world without ray
own consent; surely 1 may leave with
out asking the leave of priests! But
let that pass for the present ; what will
you do with that Schriften?"
“Put him on shore at the Cape; I
cannot bear the odious wretch's pres
ence. Did you not feel the chill, as
!>efore. when you approached him?”
"I did—I knew that he was there
tiefors I saw him. but still 1 kuow not
why. I feel as if I would not send him
away."
“Why not?"
“I believe it is because I am in
clined to brave deatlny, not to quail at
It. Th«* wretch can do no harm.”
“Yes he can- lunch; he can render
the ship's company mutinous and dis
affected, beside*, he attempted to de
prive me of my relic.”
“1 almost wish h# had done so; then
must you have discontinued this wild
ssarch.”
“Nay, Amine. «sy not so; it |« my
duty, snd I have taken my solemn
oath
llut this richrtften you cannot well
put hltu ashore at the '’ape, he being a
company a officer, you might send him
home If you found a ship there home
ward bound, still, were I you. | would
let deetiay work He le woven in with
ours. that ia certain Courage Philip,
and let him remain "
Perhaps you era right. Amine. |
may retard, hut cannot eerape what
ever may he my Intended fate "
IsM him remain then and let him
In hi* worst. Trsnt him with htndneae
who h»«** what •* may gain from
Mar
' True true Amiaa he has tmaa my
aaemy without suae Who <aa tall*
parhage he may be. ume m< friend "
“hag U nut. you have does your
duty “
The Ctreehl arrived si the Cape,
eatered and fnssaM >n her voyage,
aad alter Its moalhe of diM« ult aav
Igatlua. .-eat twist off rtamhreua
Duriag this Urn* Aatitte had he«a ua
ceasing in her attempts to gain the
good-will of Schrlften. She had often
conversed with him on deck, and had
done him every kindness, and had
overcome that fear which his near ap
proach had generally occasioned.
Schriftep gradually appeared mindful
of this kindness, and at last to be
pleased with Amine’s company. To
Philip he was at times civil and courte
ous, but not always; to Amine he was
always deferent. His language was
mystical—she could not prevent his
chuckling laugh, his occasional "He!
he!" from breaking forth. But when
they anchored at Oambroon, he was on
such terms with her that he would
occasionally come into the cabin; and,
although he would not sit down, would
talk to Amine for a few minutes, and
then depart.
The Utrecht sailed from Oambroon,
touched at Ceylon and proceeded on
her voyage in the Eastern seas. The
ship was not fair from the Andaman
Isles, when Krantz, who had watched
the barometer, came in early oiie morn
ing and called Philip.
"We have every pospect of a ty
phoou, sir," said Krantz; "the glass
and the weather are both threaten
ing."
"Then we must make all snug. Send
down top gallant yards and small sails
directly. We will strike top-gallant
masts. I will be out in a minute."
Philip hastened on deck. The sea
was smooth, but already the moaning
of the wind gave notice of the ap
proaching storm. The vacuum in the
air was about to be filled up, and the
convulsion would be terrible; a white
haze gathered fast, thicker and thick
er; the men were turned up, every
thing of weight was sent below, and
the guns were secured. Now came a
blast of wind which careened the ship,
passed over, and in a minute she
righted as before; th^n another and
another, fiercer and fiercer still. The
sea, although smooth, at last appeared
white as a sheet with foam, as the
typhoon swept along in Its impetuous
career; it burst upon the vessel, which
bowed down to her gunwale and there
remained; in a quarter of an hour the
hurricane had passed over and the ves
sel was relieved; but the sea had risen,
and the wind was strong In another
hour the blast again came, more wiki,
more furious than at first; the waves
were dashed into their faces, torrents
of rain descended, the ship was thrown
on her beam ends and thus remained
till the wild blast had passed away, to
sweep destruction far beyond them,
leaving behind it a tumultuous, angry
sea.
"It is nearly over, I believe, sir,”
said Krantz. "It is clearing up a little
to windward."
"We have had the worst of it, I be
lieve," said Philip.
"No; there is worse to come," said
a low vo’lce near to Philip. It was
Schriften who spoke.
"A vessel to windward scudding be
fore the gile!" cried Krantz.
Philip looked to windward, and in
the spot where the horizon was clearest
he saw a vessel under topsails and
j foresail standing right down. "She is
a large vessel; bring me my glass."
The telescope was brought from the
cabin, but before Philip could use it a
haze had again gathered up to wind
ward, and the vessel was not to be
seen.
"Thick again," observed Philip, as
he shut in his telescope “We must
look out for that vessel, that she does
not run too close to us."
"She has seen us, no doubt, sir,"
said Krantz.
After a few minutes the typhoon
again raged, and the atmosphere was a
murky gloom, it seemed as if some
heavy fog had been hurled along by
the furious wind; nothing was to be
distinguished except the white foam of
the sea. and that not the distance of
half a cable's length, where it was lost
in one dark-gray mist. The storm
staysail, yielding to the force of the
wind, waa rent Into strips, and flogged
and cracked with a noise even louder
than the gale. The furious blast again
blew over, and the mist cleared up a
little.
“Ship on the weather beam dose
aboard of tia"’ cried one of the men.
Krants and Philip sprang upon the
i gunwale, and beheld the large ship j
■ bearing right down upon them, not 1
three caMes' length distant
“Helm up* !ihs litres not see ua. and I
! *he will t»e aboard of it#!* cried Philip, .
Helm up. 1 say, hard up. quick'"
The helm was put ug. as the men. ,
perceiving their imminent danger,
j climbed upon the gnus to look |f the
I v**eei altered her course, but no
dnwn *h* cam* tod th* bead**!!, of S
j ihe Ttreiht having been carried away,
to their horror they perceived that »i»*
would not answer her helm end pay ,
j off as they repaired
j rihtp ahoy1" cried Krants un the ;
j gunnels waving hie hat It we* use- .
lees down She cease with the waters j
foaming under her Inst, and am* now 1
; within pistol »h<U of tfc> ITreehl
fthip ahoy'" roared ail the •adore
with a shout that must hare twee
l heard. It was not attended In down
I >nm» the »easel upon them sad no*
her ewt wnter *e* ntthln tan rarde of
the ITreeht The men of the t‘tre*ht, !
wha expected that their reatel ettwld
ha eeverad in half hy the «wa< wee too
.limited upon Ihe weather gunaaie, til [
ready to catch at the ropes of the
other vessel and climb on board of her.
Amine, who had been surprised at the
noise on deck, had come out and had
taken Philip by the arm.
"Trust to me—the Bhock-” said
Philip. He said no more; the cut
water of the stranger touched their
sides; one general cry was raised by
the sailors of the Utrecht—they sprang
to catch at the rigging of the other
vessel’s bowsprit, which was now point
ed between their masts. They caugnt
at nothing—nothing—there was no
shock—no concussion of the two ves
sels—the stranger appeared to cleave
through them; her hull passed along in
silence; no cracking of timbers; uo
falling of masts; the foreyard passed
through their mainsail, yet the canvas
was uiirent; the whole vessel appeared
to cut through the Utrecht, yet left no
trace of injury—not fast, but slowly,
as if she were really sawing through
her by the heaving and tossing of the
sea with her sharp prow. The strang
er's forechains had passed their gun
wale before Philip could recover him
self. "Amine!" cried he, at last; "the
Phantom ship! My father!"
The seamen of the Utrecht, more
astounded by the marvelous result than
by their former danger, threw them
selves down upon deck; some hastened
below, some prayed; others were dumb
with astonishment and fear. Amine
appeared more calm than any, not ex
| ceptlng Philip; she surveyed the vessel
as It slowly forced Its way through;
ghe beheld the seamen on board her
coolly leaning over her gunwale, as if
deriding the destruction that they had
occasioned; she looked for Vander
decken himself, and on the poop of
the vessel, with his trumpet under his
arm, she beheld the Image of her
Philip—the same hardy, strong build,
the same features, about the same age
apparently; there could be no doubt It
was the doomed Vanderdecken.
“See, Philip," said she; “see your
father!"
"Even so. Merciful heaven! It Is—
it Is!” and Philip, overpowered by his
feelings, sank upon the deck.
The vessel had now passed over the
Utrecht; the form of the elder Vander- 1
decken was seen to walk aft and look
over the tafTra.il; Amine perceived it
to start and turn away suddenly; she
looked down and saw Schrlften shak
ing his flat In defiance at the super
natural being! Again the Phantom
ship flew to leeward before the gaie,
and was soon lost in the mist; but j
before that Amine had turned and
perceived the situation of Philip. No j
one but herself and Schrlften appeared
able to act or move. She caught the j
pilot’s eye, beckoned to him, and with
his assistance Philip was led into the
cabin.
(To be continued.)
Supplying Stationery by the Ton.
The supply department of the postal j
service is an immense business in
itself. Over six tons of stationery,
blanks, books, twine, scales, etc., are
mailed every day from the department
at Washington. Facing-slips put
around letters and packages numbered
550.000. 000 last year; blanks, over
90.000. 000; lead pencils, 200.000; pens,
13,700 gross; sealing wax, over five
tons. The wrapping paper cost as
much as the president's salary. De
spite rigid economy, $90,000 worth of
twine was called for. Paper by the
ton, blanks by the thousand, ink by the
barrel—till figures grow weak and un
satisfying. The division of suppliee
occupies a building formerly used as
a skating rink. One room contains
supplies of every blank used In every
postoffice in the country, another room
is filled with wrapping-paper and
twine, another great room has thou
sands of the 217 different articles of
stationery fuT first and second-class
offices.
Cinderella of Ancient Egypt.
“Cinderella'' is not entirely the
product of fiction. Princes* Hhodopi*
of Egypt was the first Cinderella She
was bathing in the Nile, and a bird,
which Strabo calls an eagle, flying
past, picked up one of her slippers, or
sandals, fit w away with it, and
dropped it on the lap of Prince Paam
nieticus, who was holding a court of
Juetlce in Memphis. He was so struck
by the dainty manufacture and smkU
size of the sandal that, being then in
search of a bride, he at once vowed
that he would only wed the maiden
whole foot fitted the sandal There
were two elder daughters of the first
mairiage who greatly envied her good
fortune and here we have all the es
sentials of the story.
Turns.l IIum,
"I came to ask you for your dxugh
| ter." said the young uiatt who has uoth
1 mg but what he expects to earn “hut
I can't express myself." "Kxpreaa
> ourselfsneered the plutocratic
parent. You don't even need to gu
by freight Walking Is . * *edltlo«g
' twmgh In ihistase lion t forget your
| ha! "* iMrtrolt Kree Presa
4n I splaaeOea.
I would be thought more of." Mr.
iHnmal I H»w Mill explained if people
i only understood tn> nature more bat
j tar 1 am that kind of a guy that
| never give* up when he has onca
•tatted *0 do somethin' Tha' * the
reason I've alwaye been afraid to mart
in nt anything Indtaaapwli* Jeimat.
tin* a » sissies*
Ik* iuu go to school my little man*4*
aaked the smiling visitor "Mm,"
draw’ed ik* kopeful In mat' -Thg
Nival
Ptaare la burdened with Wo duo pah
Ikr oNIvlala *t<etiag ike state CU.dltd,
a**1 francs a year
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
THE BRIDE OF NATIONS. LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
From Chapter I.XII of Iaalah, Verne Iv,
aa Follows:—“Thy UbiI .Shall He
Married''—The Kepublte la Cursed by
Qreedy Monopolists.
(Copyright 1899 by Louis Klopsch.) *
As the greater Includes the less, so
does the circle of future Joy around
our entire world Include the epicycle
of our own republic. Bold, exhilar
ant, unique, divine Imagery of the text.
At the close of a week In which for
three days our National Capitol was a
pageant and all that grand review and
bannered procession and National An
thems could do, celebrated peace. It
may not be Inapt to anticipate the time
when the Prince of Peace and the Heir
of Universal Dominion shaM take pos
session of this nation, and “thy land
shall be married."
In discussing the final destiny of
this nation. It makes all the difference
in the world whether we are on the
way to a funeral or a wedding. The
Bible leaves no doubt on this subject.
In pulpits and on platforms and In
places of public concourse, I hear so
many of the muffled drums of evil
prophecy sounded, as though we were
on the way to national interment, and
beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre
In the cemetery of dead nations our re
public was to be entombed, that I wish
you to understand it is not to be obse
quies, but nuptials; not mausoleum,
but carpeted altar; not cypress, but
orange blossoms; not requiem, but
wedding march; for "thy land shall be
married.” I propose to name some of
the suitors who are claiming the hand
of this republic. This land is so fair,
so beautiful, so affluent, that it has
many suitors, and it will depend much
upon your advice whether this or that
shall be accepted or rejected. In the
first place, I remark: There is a
greedy, all-grasping monster who
comes in as suitor seeking the hand of
this republic, and that monster Is
known by the name of Monopoly. His
sceptre is made out of the iron of the
rail track and the wire of telegraphy.
He does everything for his own ad
vantage and for the robbery of the peo
ple. Things went on from bad to
worse until the three legislatures of
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl
vania, for a long time Monopoly de
cided everything. If Monopoly favor
a law, it passes; if Monopoly oppose a
law, it is rejected. Monopoly stands in
the railroad depot putting into his
pockets in one year two hundred mil
lions of dollars in excess of all reason
able charges for services. Monopoly
holds in his one hand the steam pow
er of locomotion, and in the other, the
electricity of swift communication.
Monopoly has the Republican party in
one pocket and the Democratic party
in the other pocket. Monopoly de
cides nominations and elections—city
elections, state elections, national elec
tions. With bribe he secures the votes
of legislators, giving them free passes,
giving appointments to needy relatives
to lucrative position, employing them
as attorneys if they are lawyers, carry
ing their goods lit per cent less If they
are merchants, and if he find a case
very stubborn as well as very impor
tant, puts down before him the hard
caan or oriDery.
But Monopoly Is not so easly caught
now as when during the term of Mr.
Buchanan the legislative committee in
one of our states explored and exposed
the manner in which a certain railway
company had obtained a donation of
public land. It was found out that thir
teen of the senators of that state re
ceived $175,000 among them, sixty
members of the lower house of that
state received between $5,000 and
$10,000 each, the governor of that state
received $50,000, his clerk received
$5,000, the lieutenant governor received
$10,000, all the clerks of the legislature
received $5,000 each, while $50,000 were
divided among the lobby agents. That
thing on a larger or smaller scale la
all the time going cn In some of the
states of the Union, but It Is not so
blundering as It used to be. and there
fore not so easily exposed or arrested
1 tell you that the overshadowing
curse of the United States today is
Monopoly. He puts his hand upon
every bushel of wheal, upon every sack
of salt, upon every ton of coal, and
every man, woman and child In the
United States feelg the touch of that
moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in
twenty-four states of the union already
anti-monopoly leagues have been es
tablished. God speed them tu the
work of liberation.
I have nothing to say against capital
ists. a man has a right to make all the
money he can make honestly I nave
nothing to say against corporations as
•uch. without them no great enterprise
would he possible, but what I do »ay Is
that the same principles are to tie ap
plied to capitalists and to corporations
that are applied to the poorest man
and the plainest laborer What Is
wrong for me Is wrong for great cor
porations If I take from you your
property without any adequate com
pensation. i am a thief, and if a rail
way damage* the property of the peu
pis without mahtag any adequate cum
pensaitoa. that la a gigantic theft
What t» wrung on a small eml* te
wrong oa a large scute Monopoly la
■England has gtuuad hundreds of thou
*atid* If her heat people into samt
•tsr« aitou se t la Ireland has driven
mutttiodtaowa tenants almost tu mad
see* and in the United dtalee propose*
. to tahe the wealth of slaty or seventy
millions «# people and put II In a few
silken weilet*
Monopoly btasen fared Iron Angered
vulture-hearted Monopoly offers his
hand to this republic. He stretches it
out over the lakes and up the great
railroads and over the telegraph poles
of the continent, and says: "Here is
my heart and hand; be mine forever.”
Let the millions of the people North,
South, East and West forbid the bans
of that marriage, forbid them at the
ballot-box, forbid them on the plat
form, forbid them by great organiza
tions, forbid them by the overwhelm
ing sentiment of an outraged nation,
forbid them by the protest of the
Church of God, forbid them by prayer
to high heaven. That Herod ghall not
have this Abigail. It shall not be to
all-devouring Monopoly that his land
is to be married.
Another suitor for the hand of this
nation is Infidelity. When the mid
night ruffians despoiled the grave of
A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's church
yard, everybody was shocked; but In
fidelity proposes something worse than
that—the robbing of all the graves of
Christendom of the hope of a resurrec
tion. It proposes to chisel out from
the tombstones of your Christian dead
the words, "Asleep in Jesus," and sub
stitute the words, "Obliteration—an
nihilation." Infidelity proposes to take
the letter from the world's Father, in
viting the nations to virtue and hap
piness, and tear It up into fragments
so small that you cannot read a word
of it. It proposes to take the consola
tion from the broken-hearted, and the
soothing pillow from the dying. In
fidelity proposes to swear in the Presi
dent of the United States, and the Su
preme court, and the governors of
states, and the witnesses In the court
room with their right hand on Paine’s
"Age of Reason," or Voltaire's "Phil
osophy of History.” It proposes to
take away from this country the Book
that makes the difference between the
United States and the Kingdom of Da
homey, between American civilization
and Ilornesian cannibalism. If Infidel
ity could destroy the Scriptures, it
would in two hundred years turn the
civilized nations hack to semi-barbar
ism, and then from semi-barbarism
into midnight savagery, until the
morals of a menagerie of tigers, rat
tlesnakes and chimpanzees would be
better than the morals of the ship
wrecked human race.
The only impulse in the right direc
tion that this world has ever had has
come from the Bible. It was the
mother of Roman law and of healthful
jurisprudence. That book has been
the mother of all reforms and all char
ities—mother of English magna charta
and American Declaration of Independ
ence. Benjamin Franklin, holding that
Holy Book in his hand, stood before
an infidel club in Paris and read to
them out of the prophecies of Habak
kuk, and the infidels, not knowing
whar. book it was, declared it was the
best poetry they had ever heard. That
book brought George Washington down
on his knees in the snow at Valley
Forge, and led the dying Prince Albert
to ask some one to sing ‘ Rock of
Ages.”
• • *
We have been turning an important
lfet in the mighty tome of our national
history. One year at the gates of this
continent over 500.000 emigrants ar
rived. I was told by the commission
ers of emigration that the probability
was that in that one year 600,000 emi
grants would arriwe at the different
gates of commerce. Who were they?
the paupers of Europe? No. At Kan
sas City, I was told by a gentleman,
who had opportunity for large investi
gation. that a great multitude had gone
through there, averaging in worldly
estate >800. I was told by an officer
of the government, who had opportun
ity for authentic investigation, that
thousands and thousands had gone,
averaging $1,000 in possession each. I
was told by the commission of emigra
tion that twenty families that bad re
cently arrived brought $85,000 with
them. Mark you, families, not tramps.
Additions to the national wealth, not
subtractions therefrom. I saw some
of them reading their Bibles and their
hymn books, thanking Ood for his
kindness in helping them cross the sea.
Some of them had Christ in the steer
age all across the waves, and they will
have Christ In the rail trains which at
live o’clock every afternoon start for
the great West. They are being taken
by the commission of emigration in
New York, taken from the vessels, pro
tected from the Shylocks and the
sharpers, and In the name of Ood and
humanity passed on to their destina
tion; and there they will turn your
wildernesses Into gardens. If you will
build for them churches, and establish
for them schools, and send to them
Christian missionaries.
Are you afraid this continent is go
ing to be overcrowded with this popu
lation? Ah, that shows you have not i
been *o California, that shows you
have not been to Oregon, that shows
that you have not been to Texas. A
hehlug smack today on I,ake Ontario
might as well be afraid of being crowd
ed by other shipping before night as
for any one of the nest ten generations
of Americans to be afraid of being
over crowded by foreign population* in
this country The one state of Texas
is tar larger than all tha Austrian em
pire, yet the Austrian empire supports
W IWM.UMM people The OHS stats of
T«iaa is larger than all Trance, and
Trance supports it ismimo people The
one s at* of Teaae far surpass#* in
six* the Orrmantr empire, yet the tier*
manic empire supports tl muixsi p.**»
pie I tell you the great want of tha
Western states hi more population
Whit# aoma people may staad at tha
gates of tha city saylag Stay ha. h' "
to foreign populations I press out as
tar beyond those gates as I can preen
out beyond them sad beckon u> foreign
nations, saying "t'um*. unm' alt ye
people whs are honest sad industrious
and God-loving!” But say you: “I am
so afraid that they will bring their
prejudices for foreign government*
and plant them here.” Absurd. They
are sick of the governments that have
oppressed them, and they want free
America! Give them the great Gospel ^
of welcome. Throw around them all
Christian hospitalities. They will add
their Industry and hard-earned wage*
to this country, and then we will dedi
cate all to Christ, and "thy land shall
be married.” But where shall the
marriage altar be? Let It be the Rocky
Mountains, when, through artificial and
mighty irrigation, all their tops shall
be covered, as they will be, with vine- .,
yards and orchards and grain field*.
Then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pa
cific coast come to the marriage altar
on one side, and then let the Boston*
and the New Yorks and the Charlestons
of the Atlantic coast come to the mar
riage altar on the other side, and there
between them let this bride of nations
kneel; and then if the organ of the
loudest thunders that ever shook tn*
Sierra Nevada* on the one side, or
moved the foundations of the Alle
ghantes on the other side, should open
full diapason of wedding march, that
organ of thunders could not drown
the voice of him who would take the
hand of this bride of nations, saying.
"as a bridegroom rejoiceth over a
bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee.”
At that marriage banquet the platters
shall be of Nevada silver, and the chal
ices of California gold, and the fruits
of Northern orchards, and the spice* ^
of Southern groves, and the tapestry of
American manufacture, and the con
gratulations from all the free nations
of earth and from all the triumphant
armies of heaven. ‘‘And so thy land
shall be married.’
THE PALACE BELL.
How the lltllmuk.-r’i Daughter Helped
to Make It.
There hangs in the palace tower in
Japan a wonderful bell whose sweet
tones can be heard for over a hun
dred miles, and in the evening when
the clear music is heard across the sun
lit fields the stranger is told this leg
end: Ixing, long ago the emperor
wrote to the maker of bells, bidding
him cast a bell larger and more beau
tiful than any ever made before. He
bade him put into it gold and silver
and brass, that the tones might be
sweet and clear, and that when hung
in the palace tower Its sound might be
heard for a hundred miles. The maker
of bells did as he was told; he put
gold and silver and brass into his great
melting pot, but the metals would not
mingle, and the bell was a failure.
Again and again he tried, but in vain.
Then the emperor was angry and sent
saying that if the bell was not made
at the next trial the bell maker must
die. The bell maker had a lovely
daughter, who was greatly distressed ■<
for her father. Wrapping her mantle
about her, she went by night to the
oracle to ask how she could save him,
and the oracle answered that gold and
brass would not mingle until the blood
of a maiden was mixed with them in
their melting. Again the old man
made ready to cast the bell; again all
his efforts seemed useless, until his
daughter, standing by his side, threw
herself into the midst of the molten
metal. When the bell was finished it
was found to be more wonderful and
perfect than any other ever made. But
there is a sound in its thrilling tones
that brings tears to the eyes of all and
a pang to the heart, and the sound Is
the voice of the maiden whose blood
of sacrifice gave to the bell its match
less sweetness.
PLACED DEAD COWS ON TRACK
After Tliut They Collected Damage*
from the Railroad.
"It was a great scheme," laughed
the claim agent, 'and if I hadn’t by the
merest, chance tumbled to the old
man's game It might have been going
on yet. Some time ago I was notified
that a man down the road had put in
a claim for damages. 1 looked the mat
ter up, and as it was perfectly straight
on the face of it there was nothing to
do but to settle with the old man on
the best terras I could get, and I did
so. and was hardly back when I was
again notified that the old man had
had another cow killed by the cars.
I looked into that claim a little more
carefully, but It was all right as far
as I could see, and 1 settled with him.
Before I had time to catch a train
back to the city the old man sent me
word that he had had another cow
killed by the cars. This struck me as
being very strange, particularly so as
none of the train crews hail reported
killing any cows. Moreover, they all
denied It when questioned altout It. I
went out where the row was still lying
by the side of the track and found It
almost rut to pieces. I was about to
settle With the old man. as there was
no other way out of It. when his 10*
year-old hoy came running up. 'Pop!'
he gasped, 'there’s another cow dead'
Hurry up. ami we'll drag her down
here and make the old railroad think
that they have killed two this lima*
Well, the I ruth of the matter was that
the old mans stuck had l>*en dying
from some cause, and he with great
forethought had dragged the victims
down hv ihe railroad grade, pounded a
few holes in them with a pirhai. and
• hen calmly notified the railroad Ur
settla.'*- New York Mua
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