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MflW CHAPTER III. ( Conthtoed. )
HhL So Eoon as our first hearty greetings
K < WJE were over , I proceeded to ascertain how
hV'SI the last year hnd treatcd Carriaton. I
HB i * both deliShted aIa astonished at
HiA' the .great change.for the .better-which
HSg I liad taken place in his manner , no less
HWH l "than his appearance. He looked far
M Hg more robust ; he seemed happier , bright-
H W er altogether more like ordinary huM -
M Wei ) inanity. Not only had he greeted me
Kff "with almost -boisterous glee , but dur-
VM ing our drive through the wonderful
flflfscenery he was in the gayest spirits
HH and full of fun and anecdote. I con-
Et sratulated him heartily upon the
| KStx marked improvement in his health ,
HB kJ both mentally and physically.
"Yes , I am much better , " he said.
H "I followed a part of your advice gave
HyJI "P moping , tried constant change of
H&HtS scene , interested myself in many more
HK ) things. I am quite a different man. "
HH'1 - "No supernatural visitations ? " I
HP asked , anxious to learn that hie cure in
HH [ that direction was complete.
Kf B His face fell. He hesitated a second
MUk * . before answering.
WJ/m/ "No not now , " he said. "I fought
DK against the strange feeling , and be-
Bjt lieve have got rid of it at least I hope
Hp T said no more on the subject. Car-
mVAm riston plunged into a series of vivid
| k1 and mimetic descriptions , of the vari-
Hfjjv [ eties of Scotch character which he had
Hf m ° t with during his stay. He depicted
H ; his experiences so amusingly that I
Hl laughed heartily for many a mile.
Hlt "But why the change in your name ? "
bV I asked , when he paused for a moment
flin ) his merry talk.
K He blushed , and looked rather
N
v ashamed. "I scarcely like to tell you ;
HL * you Aviirthiuk my reason sabsurd. . "
flW/ "Never mind. I don't judge you by
Kf * the ordinary standard. "
90 > "Well , the fact is , my cousin is also
Bp in Scotland. I feared if I gave my true
fl I name at the hotel at which I stayed on
b my way here , he might by chance see
B > it , and look me up in these wild
H * regions. "
m\ \ "Well , and what if he did ? "
H l "I can't tell you. I hate to know I
Hfc feel like it But I have always , per-
nv. haps without cause , been afraid of him
h | and this place is horribly lonely. "
HE/T Now that I understood the meaning
K- of nJs 'vvorls ( * thought the boy must
KXr be joking ; but the grave look on his
HBp" ' face showed me he was never further
Ai from merriment.
HK "Why , Carriston , " I cried , "you are
HK& positively ridiculous about your cousin.
Hp You can't think the man wants to mur-
t der
K "I don't know what I think. I am
HBHB & * \ saying things to you v/hich I ought not
F [ \ to say ; but every time I meet him I
K feel he hates me , and wishes me out of
H | > the world. "
Hfy "Between wishing and doing , there is
Hfr a great difference. I dare say all this
KIv is fancy on your part. "
KmI "Perhaps so. Anyway , Cecil Carr is
HzP as good a name up here as Charles Car-
Hk riston , so please humor my whim and
HL say no more about it. "
E ' As it made no difference to me by
Bv -what name he chose to call himself.
V I dropped the subject. I knew of old
Rl. that seme of his strange prejudices
HlE were proof against anything I could do
Br to remove them. At last we reached
HSfr our temporary abode. It was a sub-
HF stantial , low-built house , owned and
H& inhabited by a thrifty middle-aged
HT -widow , who , although well-to-do so far
Hf as the simple ideas of her neighbors
H -went , was nevertheless always willing
fl& & * to add to her resources by ticcommo-
HHf dating such stray tourists as wish 2d to
B bury themselves for a day or two in
B- ' solitude , or artists who , like our-
H Ht selves , preferred to enjoy the beauties
Bj ml of' nature undisturbed by the usual eb-
fljflr bJ nS anu" flowing stream of sight-seers.
-
HR > y As Carriston asserted , the accommo-
J fl dation.if homely , w.as good enough for ,
Mh * * / - - two single men ; the fare was plentiful
flj } and our rooms were the picture of
HGl , cleanliness. After a cursory inspection
Hkn $ I felt sure that I could for a few weeks
Hfy | ' make myself very happy in these quar-
Bk X. I had not been twenty-four hours in
Hf/ ' th house before I found out one reason
H for the fgroat change in the better in
H B Charles Carriston's demeanor ; knew
V * why his step -was lighter , his eye
B/ brighter , his voice gayer ; and his
R whole bearing altered. Whether the
BJ % reason was a subject for congratula-
B | § tion or not I could not as yet say.
Y * The boy was in love ; in love as only
H RJb a passionate , romantic , imaginative
BPk nature can be ; and even then only
Hfllbonce in a lifetime. Heedless , head--
H" strong , impulsive , and entirely his own
B | master , he had given his very heart
VI aiS' soul into the keeping of a woiaan.
B | * * iv74
B HAT a man of Car-
HH / _ griston's r a-n k ,
BS / \ " W breeding , and re-
Bh : - aL / 'T M h finement , should
B , / W 5 ? * > meet his fate "with
i WiSSM&iiW/ the walls of a
*
B W4 Vr lonely farm-house ,
B S / | vigJil beyond the Tros-
BV ( , - fv sachs , seems * n- [
B1 ; - ] rNJ ) credible. One
Hk | fM would scarcely ex-
Bl ! tL pect t0 find amons !
BBJ Jif * such humble surroundings a wife suit-
m\ \ , , ' * able to a man of his stamp. And , vet
Bi | when I saw the woman who had won
Bfc liirn I neither wondered at the con-
flf < iuest nor did I blame him for weak- ;
H ness. .
K I made the great discovery on the \
H morning , after my arrival/ Eager to
H taste the "freshness of the morning air :
B. 2 rose betimes and went for a short '
stroll. I returned , and whilst standing
at the door of the house , was positively
startled by the beauty of a girl who
passed me and entered , as if she were
a regular inhabitant of the place. Not
a rosy Scotch lassie , such as one would
expect to find indigenous to the soil ;
but a Glim graceful girl with delicate
classical features. A girl with a mass
of knotted light hair , yet with the ap
parent anomaly , dark eyes , eye-lashes
and eyebrows a , combination which , to
my mind , makes a style of beauty rare ,
irresistible , and dangerous above all
others. The features which filled the
exquisite oval of her face were refined
and faultless. Her complexion was
pale , but its pallor in no way suggested
anything save perfect health. To cut
my enthusiastic description short , I
may at once say it has never been my
good fortune to cast my eyes on a
lovelier creature than this young girl.
Although her dress was of the
plainest and simplest description , no
one could have mistaken her for a ser
vant ; and much as I admire the bonny ,
healthy Scotch country lassies , I felt
sure that the mountain air had never
reared a being of this ethereal type.
As she passed me , I raised my hat in
stinctively. She gracefully bent her
golden head , and bade me a quiet but
unembarrassed good-morning. My eyes
followed her until she vanished at the
end of the dark passage which led to
the back of the house.
Even during the brief glimpse I en
joyed of this fair unknown , a strange
idea occurred to me. There was a re
markable likeness between her deli
cate features and those , scarcely less
delicate , , of Carriston. This resem
blance may have added to the interest
the girl's appearance awoke in my
mind. Anyway , I entered our sitting-
room , and , a prey to curiosity and per
haps hunger , awaited with much im
patience the appearance of Carriston
and breakfast.
The former arrived first. Generally
speaking , he. was afoot long before I
was , but this morning we had reversed
the usual order of things. As soon as
I saw him I cried :
"Carriston , tell me at once who is the
lovely girl I met outside. An angel ,
with dark eyes and golden hair. Is
she staying here like ourselves ? "
A lock of pleasure flashed into his
eyes a look which pretty well told me
everything. Nevertheless , he answered-
as carelessly as if such lovely women
were as common to the mountain side
as rocks and branches : -
"I expect you mean Miss Rowan ; a
niece of our worthy landlady. She live
with her. "
"She cannot be Scotch with such a
face and eyes. "
"Half and half. Her father - was
called an Englishman ; but was , I be
lieve , of French extraction. They say
the name was originally Rohan. "
Carriston seemed to have made close
inquiries as to Miss Rowan's parent
age.
age."Eut
"Eut what brings her here ? " I asked.
"She has nowhere else to go. Rowan
was an artist. He married a sister of
our hostess , and bore her away from
her native land. Some years ago she
died , leaving this onq daughter. Last
year the father died , penniless , they
tell me , so the girl has since then lived
with her only relative , her aunt. "
"Well , " I said , "as you seem to know
all about her , you can introduce me by
and bye. " /
• "With the greatest pleasure , if Miss
Rowan permits , " said Carriston. I was
glad to hear him give the conditional
promise with as much respect to the
lady's wishes as 'if she had been a
duchess.
Then , with the liberty a close friend
may take , I drew toward me a portfolio ,
full , I presumed , of sketches of sur
rounding scenery. To my surprise Car
riston jumped up hastily and snatched
it from me. "They are too bad to look
at , " he said. As I struggled to regain
possession , sundry strings broke , and ,
lo and behold ! the floor was littered ,
• not with delineations of rock , lake ,
and torrent , but with images of the
fair young girl I had seen a few min
utes before. Full face , profile , three-
quarter face , five , even seven-eighth
face , all were there each study per
fectly executed by Carriston's clever
pencil. I threw myself into a chair and
laughed aloud , whilst the young man ,
blushing and discomfited , quickly hud
dled the portraits between the covers ,
just as a genuine Scotch lassie bore in
a plentiful and , to me , very welcome
breakfast.
Carriston did favor me with his com
pany during the whole of that day ,
but , in spite of my having come to
Scotland to enjoy his society , that day ,
from easily guessed reasons , Avas the
only one in which I had undisputed
possession of my friend.
Of course I bantered him a great deal
on the portfolio episode. He took it in
good part , attempted little or no de
fense. Indeed , before night he jHad
told me with all a boy's fervor how he
had loved Madeline Rowan at first
sight , how in the short space of time
which had elapsed since that meeting
he had wooed her and won her ; how
good and beautiful she was ; how he
worshiped her ; how happy he felt ;
how , when I went south he should ac
company me , and , after making a few-
necessary arrangements , return at once
and bear his bride away.
I could only listen to him , and con
gratulate him. It was not my place
to act the elder ; and advise him either
for or against the marriage. Carriston
had only himself to please , and if he
rr n rr 1 mimiimhinnini'ifir nnwrimmfl miTinrm
1 • ' - • • 3
made a ra3h step only himself to blame >
for the consequences. And why should
I have dissuaded ? I , who In two daya
envied the boy's good fortune.
V.
AW a great deal
of Madeline Rowan.
How strange and
out-of-placo her
name and face
PS amid our
surroundings. If at
first somewhat shy
and retiring , she
soon , if only for
" Carriston's sake ,
consented to look
upon me as a friend , and talked to me
freely and unreservedly. Then I found
that her nature was as sweet as her
face. Such a conquest did she make of
me that , save for one chimerical reason.
I should have felt quite certain that
Carriston had chosen well , and would
be happy in wedding the girl of his
choice ; heedless of her humble position
in the world , and absence of befitting
wealth. When once his wife , I felt sure
that if he cared for her to win social
suecess , her looks and bearing would
insure it , and from the great improvement -
ment which , as I have already said , I
noticed in his health and spirits , I be
lieved that his marriage would make
his life longer and happier.
Now for my objection , which seems
almost a laughable one. I objected on
the score of the extraordinary resemblance -
'
blance , which , go far as a man may resemble -
semble a woman , existed between
Charles Carriston and Madeline Row-
an. The more I saw them together ,
the more I was struck by it. A Stranger -
er might well have taken them for twin
brother and sister. The same delicate
features , drawn in the same lines ; the
same soft , dark , dreamy eyes ; even the
same shaped heads. Comparing the
two , it needed no phrenologist or phyi
siognomist to tell you that where one
excelled the other excelled ; where
one failed the other was wanting.
Now , could I have selected a wife
for my friend , I would have chosen
one with habits and constitution
entirely different from his own.
She should have been a bright , bustling
woman , with lots of energy and com
mon sense one who would have rattled
him about and kept him going not a
lovely , dark-eyed , dreamy girl , who
could for hours at a stretch make herself -
self supremely happy if only sitting at
her lover's feet and speaking no word.
Yet they were a handsome couple , and
never have I seen two people so utterly
devoted to each other as those two
seemed to be during those autumn days
which I spent with them.
I soon had a clear proof of the closeness -
ness of their mental resemblance. One
evening Carriston , Madeline , and I
were sitting out of doors , v/atching the
gray mist deepening in the valley at
our feet. Two of the party were , of
course , hand in hand , the third seated
at a discreet distance not so far away
as to preclude conversation , but far
enough off to be able to pretend that
he saw and heard only what was intended -
tended for his eyes and ears.
How certain topics , which I would
have avoided discussing with Carriston ,
were started , I hardly remember. Prob
ably some strange tale had been passed
down from wilder and even more solitary -
tary regions than ours some ridiculous -
lous tale of Highland superstition , no
doubt embellished and augmented by
each one who repeated it to his fellows.
From her awed look , I soon found that
Madeline Rowan , perhaps by reason of
the Scotch blood in her veins , was as
firm a believer in things visionary and
beyond nature , as ever Charles Carris-
ton , in his siliest moments , could be.
As soon as I could , I stopped the talk ,
and the next day , finding the girl for a
few minutes alone , told her plainly that
subjects of this kind should be kept
as far as possible from her future hus
band's thoughts. She promised obedi
ence , with dreamy eyes which looked
as far away and full of visions as Car- '
riston's.
"By the bye , " I said , "has he ever j
spoken to you of seeing strange '
things ? " <
"Yes ; he has hinted at it. "
"And you believe him ? " 3
"Of course I do ; he told me so. "
This was unanswerable. "A pretty '
pair they will make , " I muttered , ps ]
Madeline slipped from me to welcome ]
her lover , who was approaching. "They ]
will see ghosts in every corner , and {
goblins behind ever curtain. "
; to be iiosrisuau.i
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Sir Isaac Newton's Absence or Mind. < '
Sir Isaac Newton , too , frequently for1 1
got whether he had dined or not. It •
is reported that on one occasion his <
friend , Dr. Stukely , being announced , i
Sir Isaac asked him to be seated , and t
he Avould join him shortly. The philosopher - i
losopher repaired to his laboratory ,
and as time went on , it became evident c
that the visit of his friend had entirely \
escaped him. The doctor was left Git- *
ting in the dining-room until the dinner - (
ner was served. This consisted of a
:
roast fowl. The host not even now j
putting in an appearance , Dr. Stukely \
seated himself at the table and demolished - - ,
ished the fowl. When Sir Isaac entered |
the room , and saw the remnants of the |
meal , he apologized and said : "Believe (
me , I had quite forgotten I had dined. "
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A Striking Likeness. _ j
Miss Susan is an exceedingly refined
young lady , who has seen some five r
summers. She is full of airs and of ]
graces , reserved , self-contained and decidedly - c
cidedly uppish. She cut her uncle
dead in the street one day , and when
he reproached her for her extreme j
hauteur , she said , with her most pronounced - ]
nounced society manner :
"Oh , I saw you , uncle , but I thought c
it was auntie ! " Harper's Round Table. c
Germany imports 800,000 tons of
pickled herrings every year. *
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\ FARMER'S ADVICE LAST SUN
DAY'S SUBJECT.
from the Following Test : "Seek Him
That lilakcth the Seven Star * and
Orion" Book or Amos , Chapter- #
Verse S.
ef = jl COUNTRY farmer
. y \V \ wrote this text
L M Amos of Tekoa. He
ift&mWIxk plowed .the earth
( jgFp = = = cjlt and threshed the
LfflBrf&ilb eraln by a new
' " bSmsw threshing machine
jj $ i 5 il9 iust invented , as
i /j formerly the cattle
Weal trod out lhe grain-
IS S He gathered the
fruit ol the syca
more tree , and scarified it with an
ron comb just before it was getting
'ipe , as it was necessary and custom-
iry in that way to take from it the bit-
.crness. Ho was the son of a poor shep-
aerd , and stuttered ; but before the
stammering ; rustic the Philistines , and
Syrians : , and Phoenicians , and Moa-
Dites : , and Ammonites , and Edomites ,
ind Israelites trembled.
Moses was a law-giver , Daniel was a
prince , Isaiah a courtier , and David a
.ling i ; but Amos , the author of my text ,
was a peasant , and , as might be sup-
nosed ; , nearly all his parallelisms are
aastoral : , his prophecy full of the odor
3f ; new mown hay , and the rattle of lo-
3iists. : and the rumble of carts with
sheaves : , and the roar of wild beasts de
vouring ' the flock while the shepherd
same : , out in their defense. He watched
the i herds by day. and by night in
habited i a booth made out of bushes so
lhat I through these branches he could
see i the stars all night long , and was
mere i familiar with them than we who
have tight roofs to our houses , and
hardly I ever see the stars except among
the tall brick chimneys of the great
towns. ' But at seasons of the year
when the herds were in special danger ,
he ' would stay out in the open field all
through ' the darkness , his only shelter
the ' curtain of the night-heaven , with
the stellar embroideries and silvered
tassels ' of lunar light.
What a life of solitude , all alone
with his herds ! Poor Amos ! And at
twelve : o'clock at night , hark to the
wolf's bark , and the lion's roar , and
the I bear's growl , and the owl's te-whit
te-who ! , and the serpent's hiss , as he
unwittingly i steps too near while mov
ing i through the thickets ! So Amos ,
like 1 other herdsmen , got the habit of
studying ! the map of the heavens , be
cause < it was so much of the time
spread ' out before him. He noticed
some stars advancing and others re
' ceding. < He associated their dawn and
setting ! with certain seasons of the year
He had a poetic nature , and he read
night ' by night , and month by month ,
and ! year by year , the poem of the con
stellations [ , divinely rhythmic. But two
rosettes of stars especially attracted
his ' attention while seated on the
ground , or lying on his back under the
open ' scrol of the midnight heavens
the ( Pleiades , or Seven Stars , and Orion.
The former group this rustic prophet
associated : with the spring , as it rises
about ! the first of May. The latter he
associated ! with the water , as it comes
to ' the meridian in January. The Plei
ades , or Seven Stars , connected with all
sweetness and joy ; Orion , the herald
of ' the tempest. The ancients were the
more ' apt to study the physiognomy and
juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies ,
:
because they thought they had a spe
cial ' influence upon the earth ; and per
haps they were right. If the moon
every few hours lifts and lets down the
tides of the Atlantic ocean , and the
electric storms in the sun , by all scientific
\
tific admission , affected the earth , why
not the stars have proportionate effect ?
And there are some things which
make me think that it may not have
been all superstitution which connect
ed ( the movements and appearance of
the heavenly bodies with great moral
events on earth. Did not a meteor run
on evangelistic errand on the first
Christmas ' night , and designate the
rough cradle of our Lord ? Did not the
stars ! in their course fight against
Sisera ? vWas it merely coincidental that
hefore the destruction of Jerusalem the
moon was hidden for twelve consecutive
nights ? Did it merely happen so that
a new star appeared in constellation
Casseopeia , and then disappear just be
fore Charles IX. of France , who was
responsible for St. Bartholomew mass
acre , died ? Was it without significance
that in the days of the Roman Emperor
Justinian war and famine were pre
ceded by the dimness of the sun , which
for nearly a year gave no more light
than the moon , although there were
no clouds to obscure it ?
Astrology , after all , may have been
something more than a brilliant heath
enism. No wonder that Amos of the
text , having heard these two anthems
of the stars , put down the stout rough
staff of the herdsman and took into
his brown hand and cut and knotted
fingers the pen of the prophet , and ad
vised the recreant people of his time
to return to God , saying : "Seek him
that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion. " This command , which Amos
gave 7S5 years B. C , is just as appro
priate for us 1S97 A. D.
In the first place , Amos saw , as we
must see , that the God who made the
Pleiades and Orion must be the God of
order. It was not so much a star here
and a star there that impressed the in
spired herdsman , but seven in ono
group , and seven in the other group.
He saw that night after night and sea
son after season and decade after de
cade they had kept step of light , each
one in its own place , a sisterhood never
clashing and never contesting prec
edence. Prom the time Hesicd called
the Pleiades the "seven daughters of
- - -i ti - . , . . - • >
, r1ni. „ , _ u niT-fr L m iy
Miiniiiiiirifiim < imTffl'iTrilis
Atlas" and Virgil wrote in his Aeneld
of "Stormy Orion" until now , they have
observed the order established for their
coming and going : .order. - writtcnmot
in manuscript thatmay be pIgfeon-
holed , buLwith- the * hand of theM -
mighty on the dome of the skj\BOthat
all nations may read it. Order. Per
sistent * order. . Sublime order. Omnlp.
otont order.v
What a sedative to you and to me ,
to whom communities * * and nations
sometimes seem going pell-mell , and
the world ruled by some fiend at hay-
hazard , and in all directions malad
ministration ; The God who keep3
seven worlds in right circuit for six
thousand years can certainly keep all
the affairs of individuals and nations
and continents in adjustment. We had
not better fret much , for the peasant's
argument of the text was right. If
God can take care of the seven worlds
of the Pleiades and the four chief
worlds of Orion , he can probably take
care of the one world we Inhabit.
So I feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get a grist ground ,
and I , a boy of seven years , sat In the
back part of the wagon , and our yoke
of oxen ran away with us and along a
labyrinthine road through the woods ,
so that I thought every moment wo
would be dashed to pieces , and I made
a terrible outcry of fright , and my fath
er turned to me with a face perfectly
calm , and said : "De Witt , what are you
crying about ? I guess we can ride as
fast as the oxen can run. " And , my
hearers , why should we be affrighted
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movements of worldly events , especial
ly when we are assured that it is not a
yoke of unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on , but that order and wise gov
ernment are in the yoke ?
* *
Again , Amos saw , as we must see ,
that the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an un
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in '
this herdsman's life-time , and his fath
er , a shepherd , reported to him that
there had been no change in his life
time. And these two clusters hang
over tire celestial arbor now just as
they were the first night that they
shone on the Edenic bowers , the same
as when the Egyptians built the Pyra
mids from the top of which to watch
them , the same as when the Chaldeans
calculated the eclipses , the same as
when Elihu , acording to the Book of
Job , went out to study the aurora
borealis , the same under Ptolemaic
system and Copernican system , the
same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras ,
and from Pythagoras to Hersohel. Sure
ly , a changeless God must have fash
ioned the Pleiades and Orion ! Oh , what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life , and the flux and reflux of the
tides of prosperity , to know that we
have a changeless God , "the same yes
terday , to-day , and forever. "
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. Fifty thousand people
stood around the columns of the na
tional capital , shouting themselves
hoarse at the presidential inaugural ,
and in four months so great were the
antipathies that a ruffian's pistol in
Washington depot expressed the senti
ment of many a disappointed office-
seeker. The world sits in its chariot
and drives tandem , and the horse
ahead is Huzza , and the horse
behind is Anathema. Lord Cob-
ham , in King James' time was
applauded , and had thirty-five thou
sand dollars a year , but was
afterward execrated , and lived on
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the Great after death re
mained unburied for thirty days be
cause no one would do the honor of
shoveling him under. The Duke oi
Wellington refused to have his iron
fence mended because it had been
broken by an infuriated populace in
some hour of political excitement , and
he left it in ruins that men might learn
what a fickle thing is human favor.
"But the mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting to them that
fear him , and his righteousness unto
the children's children of such as keep
his covenant , and to those who re
member his commandments to do
them. " This moment "seek him that
maketh the Seven Stars and Orion. "
* * *
And I am glad that so many texts
call us to look off to other worlds ,
many of them larger and grander and
more resplendent. "Look there , " says
Job , "at Mazaroth and Arcturus and
his sons ! " Look there , " says St. John ,
"at the moon under Christ's feet ! "
"Look there , " says Joshua , "at the sun
standing still above Gibeon ! " "Looh
there , " says Moses , "at the sparkling
firmament ! " "Look there , " says Amos ,
the herdsman , "at the Seven Stars and
Orion ! " Do not let us be so sad about
those who shove off from this world
under Christly pilotage. Do not V us
be so agitated about our own vo'.ig
off this little barge or sloop or canal-
boat of a world to get on some "Great
Eastern" of the heavens. Do not let
us persist in wanting to stay in thi3
barn , this shed , this out-house of a
world , when all the king's palaces al
ready occupied by many of our best
friends are swinging wide open their
gates to let us in.
From Jersey.
The reed bird delicate and delicious
lay supine on a bit of toast , when
Uncle Caleb of New Jersey sat down.
"Are you fond of the little fowl ? "
asked the hostess. "Well , " he re
plied , "ez fur taste , they're fine. Hut
ez fur 'pearance , I must say they
mind me of a mosquiter growed up. "
Macaulay's memory was so retentive
that , after reading a book once , he
could give all the salient points of it
and recite many long passages of it ver
batim.
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St. Joskph , Mo. , Jan. M7. I'nrlc 4 , | J |
Stcrlinp and George I5oone , residing' fkij
-near Hamilton , Mo , , went on a .spree fill
yesterday. Last night they started | 'II
home. Their bodies were found l > e- I II
- , s > ido the road this morning.It ia j II
thought they became numbed by the * II
cold and.laid down to sleep , , ' fl
Klfty Itclow In Manitoba. | 31
WiXNKi-EG , Manitoba. Jan. : J7. Last I , . II
night the temperature fell to the lowest | 1
point in this county recorded for years. \ II
Fifty below zero was generally re- j , II
ported from the Red river to Ban IT , In , fl
the mountains. The weather is now SB
moderating considerably. { M
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• Tall Delivery Was riannod. '
Maxskiem ) , Mo. , Jan. " 7. G. W. '
Johnson , sheriff , and ex-l'roscer ing-
Attorney Farnsworth of Ava , Douglas ' fl
county , took the train here last night fl
for West Plains , Mo. , to which place fl
they had been called by Jailkeopeir ' fl
Wilcr to get Ed Perry , murderer of ' fl
the Sawyer family , who will be hanged \ fl
nt Ava Saturday next Perry has
been at West Plains for safekeeping- , v fl
and a jail delivery plot was discovered. I HJ
Perry will be taken to the court hou.su HJ
at Ava and heavily guarded until the | HJ
hour of his execution Saturday. } H
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jKFFEnsON Citv , Mo. , Jan. 27. Gov- f H
crnor Stephens this morning sent the HJ
names of two new police commissioners - |
ers for St. Louis to the Senate. They M
arc A. C. Steuver , a wealthy brewer. Hi
and General James Lewis , a leading- M
lawyer. Despite this action of thu ji M
governor the Senate , in executive ses- ' fll
sion , confirmed the appointments of HJ
Forrester and Bannerman , St. Louis flj
police commissioners appointed by HJ
Stone before he retired frou > office , HJ
also Regan and Vannotta , police com- HJ
missioncrs of St Joseph. H
Failure Follows Failure flfl
Canton , N. Y. , Jan. 27. The High ( > aVJ
Falls Sulphite , Pulp and Mining comflfl '
pany assigned this morning. Tha IJ
plant is said to have cost $300,000. HflJ
President Usher of the National Iianlc flflj
of Potsdam , which closed its doors HflJ
yesterday , was interested in the comflfl ]
pany. Cashier Price of the NationaL flfl ]
Bank of Potsdam said that the failure flHJ
of the Piercefield Paper and Mining- HHi
company started a run on the bank HHJ
which it was unable to stand. 'flflj
Police Commissioners Appointed. 'flflj
Toi'EKA , Kan. , Jan. 27. Governor HflJ
Lcedy this morning appointed police flflj
commissioners for Topeka and Fort 'flflj '
Scott as follows : • For Topeka J. It. HH
Dillard , Populist , president : M. D. flflj
Henderson , Populist , secretary , and. Hflfl
Wilson Keith , silver Republican. For flflj
Fort Scott Robert Stalker , Democrat , Hflfl
president : .7. A. Bamburger , Democrat , ' Hflfl
secretary ; J. E.i Ball , Populist. GoverHflfl
nor Lecdysays there will be no char go Hflfl ]
in the Leave- worth commission. HHH
The Stevens Murder. flflfl ]
Chilt.icotiik , Mo. , Jan. 27. County ft HflH |
Coroner Dr. II. II. Cabell held an in- f ] jHHflJ
quest over the remains of Charles 3 HflHl
Stevens. Four gunshot wounds were tt Hflfla
found in his body , but no evidence was p HflHl
obtained to fix the responsibility on. HHflJ
anyone. More trouble is feared , as it , HHfl
is reported that other witnesses HflHl
against Stevens for the murder o HHflJ
William Ellis , and whose lives have HHflJ
been threatened , are restless , and wilL ' ' HHflJ
take no chances from the friends of HflHl
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ing Inspector John K. Oilman was HflHfl
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dictment. His arraignment was deHHHfl
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charge is boodling in connection with JHHflJ
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soldier ' s home board , of which he is a flflflfl
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noics , has sold his farm of 4,000 acres j flHH
in Sac county and will remove to
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east of Galveston and proposes to es HHHJ
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of stealing a registered package conHHHflJ
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