Tfie (ZbmGxxTfanf (led called n little soul to Him, Forth from His qulrlng seraphim, A little spirit, spotless white. Out of His multitude of light. “Wilt leave the glories of My throne. And venture thee in ways unknown. To acquaint thyself, from youth to age. With yonder human heritage? "Weaponed for warfare shalt thou go, In armor such as mortals know, To wrestle through the unresting years With sins and sorrows, foes and fears." “O gallant quest! O high emprise. To tight beneath my Father's eyes! Thou. Lord, my perils proudly past, Shall crown me victor at the last!" A weary soul, one midnight late. Knocked humbly at the heaven gate. With dinted helm and broken sword And downcast head before the Lord. "Through mist and storm, Thy will 1 sought; Witness my wounds that I have fought; The unequal strife was fierce and long, Alas! I bring no triumph song! "Nor wiles I had nor countermines Against the cunning Foe's designs; 1 can no more—my strength Is spent— Bid me, disgraced, to banishment!” Then did the Lord upon Hia breast Fold that poor bleeding soul to rest. "Thou strlvest well, my child." said He. "X spake not aught of victory!" Crushing a Scorpion. DV REBECCA L. FRIPP. (Copyright. 1300. by Dally Story Pub. Co.) It was the year 1883. that memorable year which did more to change the ; geography of the South Sea archipel ago than ever Napoleon did to change j the map of Europe. At the time of which I write, the city of Anjer, with Its 60,009 souls, still rested in fancied j security upon the shores of the Java. | For three' months the solid earth had been trembling and Krakatoa had set aglow a lamp which went out neither night nor day. The people had grown used to it. They did not shriek now, nor start up in terror when the rhythmic tremor of the earthquake set the windows rattling. Bah! It was nothing—a mere undulation. As for Krakatoa—the old mountain would burn itself out, and then there would be an end of all this. The ordinary avocations of life were resumed—at morn the fishing boats set sail, at eve they anchored in the bay. On the hillside, a mile or two inland, a number of Europeans had set their beautiful and comfortable villas, thus escaping the intense beat and deadly malaria of the lowlands. Here they lived sumptuously in the midst of a cosmopolitan civilization with all that wealth could lend to mitigate the pangs of exile. They, too, had grown heedless of the unnatural conditions. Krakatoa had broken out in May. It was now mid-August, and all that time the warning had not ceased to he heard in the dull rumble of the earthquake. It was the morning of the 12th of August, a glowing. Sabbath morning. The foreigners were sipping early tea on their verandas. Gorgeous, bewild ering in its lavish profusion of beauty, the tropical landscape lay before them, the dew still glittering on the rich and varied foliage of the undergrowth. Great tropical flowers glowed like many colored lamps in shadowy re cesses under giant palms. A young girl and a young man came strolling leisurely down a little path almost hidden in the dense shrubbery. They were unmistakably of Anglo Saxon blood. The girl was very beau tiful. with the pallid, fragile beauty of one who had long languished under the influence of an enervating climate. Thoro was no healthy color in her lovely, oval face, though sometimes it flushed like a June rose as her com panion whispered something for her ear alone. The man was of a different type; his was a mature youth. Ho A young girl and a young man. was perhaps thirty years of age, tall, eunbrowned and sturdily built. He had an air of self-reliance and respon sibility that sat well upon him—a strong man in every way he seemed. The girl was the eldest daughter of a rich American merchant, whose pal atial villa dominated the height above them. The man was a member of tho British Ecological Survey, at present stationed In Java in order to investi gate the )ecent seismic disturbances. It was but natural that he should spend much of his spare time at the American's hospitable home. To a man wearied with wandering in many lands, it was like a bit of Eden. It was but natural, too, that be should ' lose his heart to the loveliest of the lovely daughters of that Eden, al- j though to her it seemed a strange and wonderful thing. It was a short woo ing, whose end was from the begin ning. The glory of first love lay around the girl; her footsteps trod in an en chanted land. As for him, no one else, he told himself, had ever filled his A long line of fire. heart before—no one else had realized the ideal of his dreams. He was as in toxicated with her beauty and grace as any boy might have been. To find her here, in this out of the world place, it was like the fairy storips of his almost forgotten childhood. She was like a rare songbird that had flown out of this little world of flowers to blossom in his heart. He laughed at himself —he had a trick of laughing when he did not care to analyze a thought too deeply. He did not want to go beyond his love and happiness today. He would let no vision of his haughty English mother disturb him; nor did he pause to consider the difficulties of his chosen career—today here, tomor row at the other end of the world. What business had he with a wife! l»ve paused not at such questions. Family pride, interest, ambition, were j meaningless words before the deeper reality of this. Love alone was life. Sud denly, across the path, a little reptile darted. The girl sprang back, scream ing. “A scorpion!” she cried. Her lover laughed, and aimed a care less blow with the knotted stick he carried, but before it could descend a great stone, loosened perhaps by an earthquake tremor, went rolling down and crushed the creature to atoms. It was a trifling incident, unworthy of mention, but the girl was strangely shaken. “It meant to sting you," she declared with trembling lips. “Even so, Sweetheart,” he answered lightly, indulgently. “You see the devil takes care of his own." "How can you!" she protested, the indignant color flashing in her face. “It is a poor subject for a jest. Tho sting of the scorpion is death.” “I know—l know; but Vivien, Sweetheart, I am too happy to bo se rious about life or death. Let me laugh while I can. When I get you over in England, away from this beastly malaria, you’ll laugh, too. I want to show you to my cousins. You will be like a lily among red roses.” She shivered in the warm air and drew closer to him. "Let us go back,” she said, abrupt ly; “it is growing hot, and the ground, how it is shaking! Will these awful earthquakes never end!” Below them the city of Anjer lay in its Sabbath repose. In the bay, the empty fishing boats were anchored. It was all very beautiful and peaceful. “Look!” cried the geologist. Far out at sea. thirty miles away, a great tongue of tire darted up from the bosom of Krakatoa! ****»• If heaven was in the heart of Conrad Dunlow, hell burned in the bosom of Antonio Menzada, the dark-browed Spaniard. In vain the girl assured him that she could never love him— lie would not be denied. With fren zied jealousy he watched her growing interest in the young officer, and warned her, in note after note, that he would brook no rivalry. She scorned to answer, and bade the ser vant refuse him admittance. When she told Conrad, he laughed, as he laughed at, everything. That very morning Antonio's worst fears had been confirmed. A mali cious servant from the villa told him of Vivien’s betrothal to the English man, and then fled for life before the demon he had aroused. There was nothing generous or great ia Antonio at any time, and now his whole being was concentrated upon me idea—revenge! Antonio’s stiletto glittered as he let the sunlight fall upon it. lie was the only son of a rich coffee planter, and had never known a wish ungratifled. To be foiled in the su preme desire of his life was more than he could bear. To tear the girl from her lover was now his one thought, and it possessed his soul like a devil. The bearer of evil tidings was gone. He stood upon the shore alone. A i.ttle boat rocked idly on the waves. Ho untied it, jumped in, and seized the oars. A few minutes brought him to a vantage point, whence he might sur vey the American’s villa. It was an old trick of his. With the aid of a small glass, he singled them out in the little group upon the veranda. The tea-drinking over, he saw the young couple wander away, through the trim garden out into the screening foliage of the woods. With clenched teeth and muttered curses, he turned the boat toward shore, conscious of the keen stiletto by bis side as of a living presence. He had nearly gained the shore. A few more strokes and he would be within reach of vengeance. What was the matter with his arms! Strive and strain as he might, he could not ad vance one inch. His muscles stood out like knotted iron, but their strength was useless now. Slowly, re sistlessly, the boat was dragged back ward as by an unseen cable. A great hissing roar became audible, and look ing up at last he saw a long line of fire rising from the very bosom of the sea and extending even to Krakatoa it self! The ocean was pouring its whole volume into the abysmal fires that yet were not extinguished, and on the crest of that awful and majestic cataract his little boat whirled on to doom. The cowering wretch sank down and hid his face. The tremendous roar of the waters drowned out his frenzied prayers and curses. He strove to make the sign of the cross in the cold sweat on his brow. In that inferno of waters, his now senseless body was drowned and crushed, beaten and burned, into its elemental atoms. * * * » * • From the commanding height above supporting the fainting girl in his arms. Conrad Dunlow watched with fascinated horror the scene below. He saw the fishing boats drawn one by one into the fiery whirlpool, and knew not that in one of them, a scorpion lay crushed. There came a mighty roar, a univer sal crash as of a world in dissolutiou. The air grew black around him. He closed his eyes for one instant, and when he looked again, the city of An jer, with its 60,000 souks, was gone, and the hungry waves of ocean bellowed at his feet. Tile Gr»v» of Columhus. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, died at Valladolid, Spain, May 20, 1506, and was buried there; but in 1513 his remains were removed to Seville, whence, in 1536, with those of his son Diego, they were taken to Santo Domingo, in Hispaniola, now commonly known as the Island of Hay ti. in 1796 they were, it is stated, transferred to the Cathedral at. Ha vana; but there is some reason to be lieve that by mistake it was the bones of the son Diego and not those of his father which were removed on that occasion. At present both Havana and Santa Domingo claim his ashes as their treasure. Reflection Unwelcome, Clara Well, aunt, have your photo graphs come from Mr. finappeschotte’s? Miss Maydeval (angrily 1 —Yes, and they went back, too, with a note ex pressing my opinion of his impudence. Clara—Gracious! What was it? Miss Maydeval—Why, on the back of every picture were these words; “The orig inal of this is carefully preserved.”— Stray Stories. Death in u Mosquito's Sting. A mosquito caused the death of Mrs. Anna I-awler of Elizabeth, N. J. a, ! lew weeks ago she was stung by the insect on the ankle and blood poison ing followed. On a recent Tuesday she I was buried. Kiport* and Imports of (iold. In 1896 we sent, abroad $79,000,000 i more of gold than we received; in 1898 we received $104,000,000 more than we sent; in 1899, $51,000,000 more; ]ast I year the excess of exports was $3,693, ! 575. linger for Kcrcngc. Flat dweller—Say, we had a robbery l in our hotel last night. Detective—So I’ve been told. I am working on it | now. Flat dweller—Say! I'll give you $10 If you'll arrest the janitor.—Som I erville Journal. ! BOUNDARY LINES. NATIONAL FRONTIERS ARE NOT ALWAYS DELIMITED. Th* Alimk%-C»n;n1?* I,l»e, for a (lrra< Part of It* Length, Can Only !>• (itipsfleri at AiMertM This Writer— l’onslble t'ontrover*y. Dr. Mil!, the British geographer, re cently called attention to the fact that Great Britain has still one important colonial boundary entirely undelimlt ed in a little known region, where gold fields will probaby be found ox reported before long, and where there fore, a serious International question may suddenly arise. He says it would cost a comparative trifle to survey the region in question and to lay down the boundary line before the gold fields are touched, so that no interna tional trouble about it could ever arise. Dr. Mill did not mention the particular boundary to which he re ferred, but there is little doubt that he was thinking of one of two lines. The boundary between Alaska and Canada along the 141st meridian has not yet been delimited except along its southern part. The exact frontier between the two countries, for several hundred miles, can only be guessed at until it has been scientifically deter mined and marked at frequent inter vals by boundary monuments, such as the United States and Mexico have erected along their entire frontier be tween the place where the Rio Grande ceases to be the boundary and the Pa cific ocean. It is not at all unlikely that gold may be discovered in the neighborhood of this boundary at any time. When this occurs it will be a source of inconvenience to miners if they do not know definitely whether their claims a;e in the Cnited States or Canada and history would only re peat itself if the misunderstanding arising from this lack of knowledge should result in some international unpleasantness. It is possible, how ever, that Dr. Mill refers to the bound ary line between German southwest Africa and the British possessions. It is known that the German colony is rich in minerals. New discoveries are frequently made, and no one knows yet how extensive the profitable mining region may prove to be. The larger part of the boundary extends along the meridian of 20 degrees east longitude, but this line has not been delimited. It is certainly better to determine by an exact survey the position of such boundary lines before the value of the land near them may give rise to dis putes and result perhaps in blood shed. We had an illustration in .Tune ast of the embarrassment which is apt to result from ignorance of the lo • ation of a boundary line. It will be remembered that some of our miners have invested considerable money in claims a little to the north of Mount Baker, which is in the state of Wash ington, before it was discovered by a survey that our citizens had opened their claims under the provisions of nur mining laws in territory that was clearly over the border in Canada. The result was most energetic claim-jump ing on the part of Canadians and therr was some trouble and bad foeling be fore the matter was finally adjusted. It was, of course, unfortunate that the boundary question between our coun try and Canada in the neighborhood of Skagway had not been settled be fore the interests of the citizens of both countries were determined to hold on tenaciously to territory which each declared was in his own country. This boundary question is still unde termined, though a modus vivendi has been arranged. It sometimes costs a great deg,l of money to postpone the settlement, of boundary questions until claims have been pegged out on debatable land. The historic controversy between Venezue la and British Guiana should be a warning to all nations that danger lurks along the line of unsettled boundaries.—New York Sun. Saved by III* Oulbtntry. Good matters have always been rec ognized as a valuable help to com fortable living, but a story told by An lrew Lang, who declares that he had it from a descendant of the gentleman in the case shows that they may also afford, on occasion, the only way of living at all. Roderick Macculloch. a Highland giant, no less than six feet four inches in height, had been ar rested for treason and was on his way to the Tower, when the procession was temporarily blockaded. A lady, look ing out of a window, called to the vic tim: “You tall rebel! You will soon be shorter by a head.” Roderick took off his hat and made a profound obeis ance. “Does that give you pleasure, madam?" he asked. “It certainly does," replied the lady. “Then, madam.” re torted Roderick, with another flourish, "I do not die in vain." The answer so ■aptivateii the sensibilities of the lady that she made an immediate appeal for clemency to the reigning monarch, George II., and Mr. T.ang declures that he saw the rebel's pardon, beautifully engrossed within a decorative border, in the wall of his descendant's study. A novelist would have married the lady to the gallant Roderick, hut there seems to have been some objections tc chis romantic conclusion. I’olit** Custom in Sweden. It is the custom in most cou,.tries in Europe to hold the hat in the hand while talking to a friend, in Sweden, to avoid the dangers arising from this during the winter, it is no uncommon thing to see announcements in the dally paper Informing the friends of Mr. So-and-So that he is unable, through the doctor’s orders, to con form to this polite usage. H ow Truly the Great Fame of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Com pound Justifies Her Orig inal Signature., Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 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