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VOLUME XXVII.
A FAVORITE SONa
AMES WHITCOMB
Riley has addressed
the following verses
to Prof. Crouch, the
dying author of
"Kathleen Mavour
neen": Kathleen Mavour-
neen, the seng
is still ringing
' As fresh and as
clear as the trill
of the bird.
In the world-weary hearts it is sobbing
and singing.
In pathos too .sweet for the tendcrest
word.
The old harpstrings quaver, the old
voice is shaking,
In sighs and in sobs moans the yearn
ing refrain.
The old vision dims and the old heart Is
breaking
Kathleen Mavourncen, inspire us
again!
THE REASON OF IT.
"No," said the doctor, throwing his
arm over the back of a chair and set
tling himself comfortably for one of the
long stories he delighted to tell and we
to hear, "I have never been able to un
derstand iL"
"Understand what?" asked Charlie
Brown, lazily. "What is it which is
too much for your wondrous compre
hension? Unburden yourself at vncc.
my dear fellow, and tell us all about it."
"'Well," answered tbc doctor, nothing
loath to comply with this request, "we
were talking about John Hinkleman.
You know he is married at last."
"Why at last?" queried Charlie, light
ing ft cigar with his usual indolent
grace and winking at us to express his
satisfaction at having started the doc
tor off on the entertainment of the
evening, "has he been in danger of com
mitting matrimony before?"
"Do you mean to say you never heard
of his love affair?" the doctor almost
hhoutcd. actually sitting tip in his as
tonisument. "Why, be has been in love
with is wife for seven years and has
proposed to her regularly every three
months during that time. And what we
were wondering about is why she ac
cepted him at last."
"Well, fire away with the story,"
spoke up Arthur McCaffcrty from his
usual recumbent position on the lloor,
and after lighting a fiesh cigar the doc
tor complied.
"You all know, of course, about the
yacht which John owns," he said,
when the operation had. been success
fully completed. "Well, it -was this
yacht, the Oneida, the boat which he al
ways declared was wife and family to
him, that led to his marrying her.
"He was very fond' of cruising about
Lake Michigan, and one summer after
noon, after spending several days upon
the water, he came to a little river
wlii eh ran away from the lake out into
a beautiful wild country. No the river
doesn't exist in my imagination alone,
Charlie; it really runs through a neigh
boring state, or part of it, and manages
to make a little island of one spot a
hundred miles or so away from where
it joins the lake. To reach this island
fiom Chicago it is necessary to travel
first by train, then by boat, then by
stage - impolitic as this last sounds in
this day and generation. And to reach
the home of John's wife a distance of
six miles or so must be traveled by
foot and over the loneliest road in the
world, too. Hut from tbc river the
island is easily 1 cached, and the day
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IN THE DEPTHS OF BLACK DES
PAIR. John's boat ran into the little bay just
-below the farmhouse it looked like an
oasis dropped into a desert of water.
"A pretty girl came down to the
shore pret-cntly. and after the first
jjlancc at her. John was never himself
again. His stay upon the island was
piolongcd until his companions were
iniuatient. and lie only left at last be
cause pre or them looked admiringly
at the gill he had fallen in love with at
first sight. Two days later he went
back again, and after that everybody
began to suspect something queer. And
never a week of that summer passed
but the Oneida ran into the little bay
and poked her nose up toward the farm
house. And never a time did she go
but she carried some 1 retty or useful
present for the girl who had charmed
particular John until he could see noth
ing but her in all the world. One day
she carried a jeweler's tiny box and on
the pi city pink cotton inside it lay a
shining ring, with a big solitaire dia
mond gleaming like a star in a sunset
siy.
'After that John wa: loo happy for
his rapture to last he as in the condi
tion which the Scotchmen call fsy
' that state of joy which often presages
a corning sonow in the opinion of pes
simists. This state of beautitude
lasted until the cold weather had m.ide
a trip to the island almost impossible.
"When the lake can no longer be used as
a means of travel, the inhabitants of
.the island, few in number and widely
scattered, resign themselves to their
own society and resources until spring.
John knew that as his sweetheart
would not be married until spring he
could not sec her until the warm
weather unlocked the lake and Iver, so
he consoled himself with writing long
flowery answers to her short, business
like cristles, and sending her a present
every week. He was the happiest man
in creation.
- "Then one day I went to see him and
found him in the depths of a black de
spair. -Slowly and with much work I
dragged the story out of him. She had
written him a curt note breaking the
engagement. On the table at his elbow
lay the jeweler's tiny box with the beau
tiful rag iui&e.
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"I took it up and looked at it, woa
dering meanwhile why a girl should re
fuse a man like my friend, rick, fine
looking.tenderly loving, able to give
her all the things for which she longed
and desiring nothing in the world but
to fir at her beck and call. After a lit
tie I put he question -to him:
" 'What reason did she give?' he an
swered, looking up with wild, blood
shot eyes. 'None! She merely "desires
to break the engagement" And yet 1
know she has no other lover. Who-is
there upon that desolate island who
could be attractive to her? And t hate
a letter from her mother, dear, kind
soul, in which she telk me that Irene's
conduct Is a mystery to her. BuHt Is
of no use to discuss It. I shall go mad
soon enough without that.'
"Nor could I rouse him from this state
of despairing sorrow. He went from
bad to worse until 1. was. forced to at
tend him in my professional capacity,
and at last I yielded tokUl solicitations,
and ceaseataato aceeskpaby hfTwpsn
a trip to the island.
"It was bitter winter weather and I
shall never forget how we suffered with
cold during that awful trip. Even after
we reached the island we had that hor
rible six-mile walk to manage, and we
were spent with cold and fatigue when
we arrived at the farm. John was too
weak and exhausted to do more than
yield passively to the ministrations of
myself and Irene's mother. But the
next day he commenced to seek for an
opportunity to talk with the obstinate
girl.
"But it was useless; she evaded us
both, for I would have spoken in behalf
of my friend. She kept out of our way
with a persistence and success which
was marvelous, considering how closely
wo were all kept together by the sold,
which made outdoor life an impossibil
ity, and we were compelled to return
borne at the end of a week without hav
ing wrung so much as a word from the
girl herself. Her father, mother and
sisters were upon John's side and it was
evident that the girl herself was suffer
ing deeply. But she bade her lover
good-by with an icy handshake and re
turned to her work in the kitchen be
fore we were out of the barnyard.
"John was in despair, but he is per
sistent by nature, and as I said at the
beginning of my story, he wrote and
proposed regularly every three months.
And so several years went by.
"At last, one day about a month ago,
he called me up by telephone and began
to talk wildly and a little incoherent!'
about how happy he was and nonsense
of that kind.
" 'What is the matter with you?" I
asked at last, fearing that he was ill
and delirious. I shall never forget his
answer.
' 'Can't- you tell what is the matter
with me?' he called back. 'Irene has
written that we may be as we once were
and I am too happy to be lucid.
"Yes, that was what she had done,
with woman-like unexpectedness. And
John was almost too happy to live. He
made a flying trip to the island that is
the going there was hurried. He was
slow enough coming back. When he re
turned the day was set for the wedding.
So two days ago he started back, the
happiest man in the world, and last
night I got a telegram saying that Irene
was his wife, and, although she still
refused to say why she had acted so
strangely, he was quite satisfied to have
got her at all and was supremely
thankful.
"In that week he spent here in the
city he furnished a beautiful flat, de
voted himself to so doing, taking notes
of things he saw in other houses to
which he had the entree. Everything
is ready for the coming of the bride
tonight, even to the stationery, tinted
her favorite color and marked with her
monogram her new initials, of course.
Framed photographs of her island home
hang upon the walls, he has prepared a
room for her sisters to occupy when
they visit her.and even the fires are laid.
I must go now or I shall be too late to
welcome them to their new home,
which I have promised to do. as well,"
with a whimsical smile, "as apply a
match to the fire in the parlor, so that
a cheerful blaze shall greet her when
she steps inside the door, and I would
not omit this ceremony for anything.
No. Charlie, you can't go with me; I am
invited, and I alone, so I must bid you
all good-night You can all send John
a wedding present, of course, and no
doubt he will invite you to visit him.
and make the acquaintance of the girl
who has acted so strangely. And per
haps you may some of you be able to
do what passes my ability discover
why she refused him so many times, to
marry him at last. 'The way of a maid,
says the old proverb, 'is hard to under
stand,' and I should alter tbc ancient
maxim to agree with that of a well
known political orator.
" 'Some discourses,' he said upon one
occasion, 'are like the peace of God.
which passcth understanding, and not a
few are like His mercy also; they are
from everlasting and without end.'
"The first part of the sentence I
would apply to Irene's cond:t, and the
last to John's patience. Good-night."
And with that half-cynical, half len
der smile upon his face, the doctor went
away, and the rest of us fell to discuss
ing John Hinkleman with a freedom
which is only possible to a men's club.
Girl Stnilcnt Klope irith a Barber.
Wittenberg (Ohio) University was
startled Tuesday by the discovery of
an elopement of one of the young wom
en students Miss Louise W. Corley
and a barber named Clarence Duffy.
Miss Corley is the daughter of a prom
inent family of Sutton. W. Va., and
will herself fall heir to a fortune of
?2T,000 on her eighteenth birthday. She
is now 17, pretty and popular. Even
Miss Corley's nearest friends were not
aware that she bore any regard to the
barber, and the elopement caused the
greatest surprise.
tlectlajr Hta DatiM.
"John," said the eminent statesman,
"it has been more than a week since I
said something real bright Are you
aware of that'"
"Y-yeessir," stammered the hireling,
ling.
"I'll give yon three days more, and if
I haven't uttered something coruseat
ingly brilliant by that time I'll have to
get another press agent, that's all. You
hear me!" Indianapolis Journal.
Flour thrown upon burning oil will
Instantly extinguish it. while water will
1 only spread the flames.
A YOUNG EDifOft;
Kla er Ol4 aad Ht aTratr-flva
KtaMcrlbcr
This 19 about a 9-year-old hoy who
is editor and proprietor of a two-page
weekly paper with seventy-five paid
subscribers and a new and enlarged
publishing plant, purchased fromrthe
earnings of his paper in the year and a
half of its existence says the New York
World. Frederick FblgerrThfis is
the young editor's name, and his paper
is the Hudson Star, published at Hud
son, N. Y4
It contains all the news of the day
In the Juvfehile circle of the editor and
his subscribers, editorials, verse)
humor, illustrations, cdmplete weather
'reports and frequent graphic accounts
of occurrences of interest to the readers
of the Hudson Star. The editor's terms
aro "10 cents per volume, four papers
per volume. When the. terms are
marked' with bine pencil it is a. nbtice
tMatyenr-subserlptionhas' expired."
The idea of getting out a paper is
his own from the beginning and the pa
pereditorial, reportorial, art. business
and publishing departments is his
work alone and unaided. For the first
six months his paper did not appear
regularly, but since March 1895, it has
appeared without a break, except for
the time the "editor" Was sick with
the chicken pos4 The elaborate four
page Christmas number the "editor"
wrote and illustrated while he was sick
in bed with that unfortunate juvenile
affliction. The paper is printed in
colored inks on a little "printer" by a
gelatine-plate process. Of his seventy
five subscribers there are some half
dozen in California and as many in Chi
cago. "His business department is very
methodically managed. He makes out
bills, folds, wraps and adrcsscs his pa
pers, besides delivering them to sub
scribers in the city. The enlarged pub
lishing plant consists chiefly of a new
press or "printer," which cost $5, and
was purchased from his earnings in his
journalistic venture. The boy attends
school two sessions a day and takes
piano lessons and, with the growing list
of subscribers and increasing work the
"editor's" mother has finally prevailed
upon him to make the paper a fort
nightly in future.
A graphic editorial explains a rcicnt
delay in the paper's reaching its
patrons: "My subscribers must kindly
excuse the editor for not being more
piompt, as he was sliding down a hill
and run into a fence, which struck him
right under the eye. Another time, a
few days after, he was again sliding
down hill when he struck a log, which
sent the sleigh, with him on it, to an
other fence, hurting his arm his right
arm very badly, nearly breaking it,
and so he could not write at all. His
arm is still badly bruised, from the el
bow nearly to the wrist." He announces
later: "I thank my subscribers for
paying me as well as tbey did, for I
am able to buy a very nice desk as
high as my eyes." .
Adaptability,
Inspector of Prisons "In providing
you with work your former occupation
shall be taken into account. What
were you?'
Convict "An anarchist."
Inspector "Urn, urn. We can put
him to road blasting." Flicgcndc
Blactter.
SOME WONDERS OFTHE OCEAN
Careful scientific experiments nrove
that at the depth of one mile ocean
waters have a pressure equal to one ton
to the square inch.
The Red Sea is so called because its
surface is literally covered with minute
crimson animalculae. The waters of
that are as clear as crystal and cf a
bright hue.
A spot near the Friendly islands, lati
tude 24 degrees 37 minutes south; longi
tude 175 degrees 8 minutes west, is
twenty-three feet more than five Eng
lish miles in depth.
The Mediterranean is not an ocean,
and should not properly be meutioned
here, but there are nine different places
known in it that.aie over three m'les
in depth, just the same.
Dr. School, the German hydrogra
phcr, says that there are not less than
20.000.0.Q0 tons of mineral matter per
day added to the store which the occin
already holds in solution.
Herbert and Sloan, the English chem
ists, are authority for the statement
that all known chemical elements r.rc
held in solution in the waters in any
one of the great oceans.
Every ton of Atlantic water, when
evaporated, yields 81 pounds of salt; a
ton of Pacific water, 79 pounds; Arctic
and Antartic waters yield 85 pounds to
the ton, and Dead sea water 187 pouud3.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Elize Lamay is a successful shoe
maker in Lewiston, Me., though net in
manner at all new womanish.
Italy proposes to take the sale of qui
nine out of the laads of druggists and
make it a government monopoly.
Davenport (Iowa) city officials report
excellent success in the use of brick
pavements laid on a concrete founda
tion. I Gold shipments to the tune of a:iout
?100,OCO,000 arc accounted for by the an
nual exodus of pleasure seekers to
Europe.
An oil well drilled in American, 'ash
ion at the foot cf the Dhara Mountains.
Tunis, is reported by French authori
ties as successful.
Fifty-four English towns leport on
the use of tarred macadam as a raving
surface in general, that it is cleanly
and durable for light traffic.
The Rhode Island State Fair in Prov
idence, will have next fall, an exhibi
tion of horseless carriages, with trials
of speed, etc.
Johann Kirchebner, of Steinach, in
the Austrian Tyrol, is a tanner. What's
more, so have been the male Kircheb
ners before him for 340 years.
The students of the Boston Institute
ol Technology won four prizes in the
Beaux Arts competition in Paris this
year.
The northernmost railroad in the
world is the Swedish government line
from Langsel to Boden.' But there's
colder weather along the Canadian Pa-
cific.
A laborer grubbing roots recently in
Bowmanville, 111., found, three feet be
low the surface, and below the roots of
a tree 300 years old, a fine tbree-potind
stone ax.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17,
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EVIDENCE TO ORDER J
NEFARIOUS TRADE PRACTICED
BY SOME DETECTIVES;
Hlfad te tot iMai(Itj TMtlnvay ir
It Caaudt lie round Thar ManaUe
tara It Oat of Flctlea blMStrea
Results ami aiahy Vicili
ER appearance in
dicated clearly that
she was not a wo
man's wdman; and
yet she was. strik
ingly handsome
cays the New Yorls
Sun. She was above
the medium height,
with large; dark
cyes,...and red
brown hair. Her
superb figure was expensively clad,
from boots to bonnet. She was some
what past 30, and in the expression of
her face there was lint something
which told that, as Kipling says, she
"knew the worst too young." She was
of the half-world, and she bore the
haif-world's stamp. As she passed a
Broadway hotel in the procession of
late afternoon promenaders through
the Tenderloin, she attracted the atten
tion of a man-about-tow.ij who was
talking with the hotel detective, once
a centra office man.
"Who's your friend, John?" asked
the man-about-town. "I ddn't remem
ber to have cvor seen her before."
"Probably not," answ.rcd the detec
tive. "It's not often that shfe- joins the
procession. Slid lives Very quietly tip
tdwn in a home that would make any
woman contented. Remarkable wo
man, that. Another victim of the
private detective."
"What do you mean?"
"It's- not an uninteresting story. She
is but we won't mind the name. She's
the wife of a wealthy lumber dealer up
THE REAL JUGGERNAUT OF INDIA.
All the world has heard the word
Juggernaut. Not half the world knows
its vast and ancient significance. To
the average New Yorker this day it
calls to mind only a death dealing trol
ley car. But to the East Indian, reared
in the faith of his fathers. Juggernaut
implies all the religious mysteries, all
rower ard perpetuity.
A correspondent has sent to the Jour
nal an interesting photograph of the
great car of Juggernaut before which
the Hindoo devotees used to cast them
selves, thinking that, so sacrificing their
lives, their coiils passed at once to
Heaven.
Jiiggpruaiit (which is Sanscrit for
Lord of the World) is a name given to
the Indian god Krishna, the eighth iu-
in the northern part of the state. Her
parents are wealthy, and live in Al
bany. She was educateJ at a female
college, and afterward went abroad.
There she met the man she married.
Four years ago she came to town to do
some' shopping. Her husband had a
mean, jcalcus disposition, and he got
it into his head that she was met here
bv a voting fellow who lived in the
same town, and who seemed to greatly
admire her.
"The hUoband came to New York
im hired a private defective to shadow
his wife. In his anxiety to learn just
exactly what his wife did. he, like an
idiot, te!d the detective he'd pay him
h2nd-ome!y if he found anything
wrcng. When her chopping wan fin
ished the woman returned home. She
hadn't looked twice at a man during
the week she was here. That didn't
matter to the detective. He reported
to the husband that the wire had been
guilty of all manner of high crimes and
misdemeanors. He gave names and
dates and hotels, backed up by affida
vits. It was a pack of lies from begin
ning to end."
"Was the detective permittci to live?
Didn't she have some one who was
willing to draw and quarter him?"
"Humph!" replied the detective.
"He's bobbing up serenely, and is doing
the same kind of work for others.
That's the way he lives, and there are
.- Plent-V more ust Hbe ,lIm"
i- "You're a 'bit hard on y
rour profes
sion, John."
"Oh, we're not all like fhat. You
see the private detectives here are di
vided into two classes. In one class
are those who o a strictly criminal
nj
aid corporation business. That is.
ley run down crooks, forgers, burg
lars, sneak thieves, and the like, at
tending at the same time (6 any detec
tive work thai railroad arid Other cor
Derations have. This class or work la"
done almost entirely by detective
agencies, in comparison with the num
ber of private detectives, there are few
of these agencies. Tbey are. conducted
by men of character and men who haVe"
made reputations in their business.
They have established places of busi
ness! and they number among their
natrons some of the best known people
la the city. One of these agencies has
private telephone and burglar-alarm
cannectioh with three df the Vander
bllt houses and with many dthcrs iM
craded in the Four HiimlrCd,
''There is another class of detectives,
tljough, that includes the choicest col
lation 6f blacklegs aiid scoundrels in
tAcity. Some of then! work thfdUgtt
agencies, but' most of them have thew
offices in their hats. They style thiri
selves 'social detectives' arid 'family
watchdogs.' Their business consists
almost entirely of shadowing. They
cut prominent 'figures in divorce courts
and in getting evidence tor shyster
lawyers. They find out what kind of
evidence is wanted by the persons who
employ them, and they niake it their
business to get it. The notion of bas
ing evidence on facts never occurs td
them. Of cdurse. if they find facts to
support the evidence they want, so
much the better. THe absence of facts,
however; never deters" them from pro
ducing the evidence.
"They will swear to anything them
selves, and they have .i. gang of pro
fessional witnesses who will corrob
orate their testimony. Of course,
these professional witnesses testify for
revenue only. Among these profes
sional witnesses are ho'cl clerks, broken-down
lawyers, blackleg notaries
public, and what not. These detectives
make it their business to get members
of their gang into hotels of question
able reputation as clerks, or ihey at-
carnation of Vishnu. The temple Is in
Puri, a town on the Bay of Bengal.
The image is a rude one, of wood. The
body is red, the face black, the arms
gilt. The face is hideously daubed with
color. The deity is supposed to be
shut up within the cavity of the idol's
heart. The periodical worships are at
tended by thousands. The .idol for
merly was drawn about on a giant car,
which is 200 feet high. There was
shouting, singing and fanatic excite
ment. Flowers and sacrifices were
strewn in the idol's path, and in their
fervor the wretched worshipers hmied
themselves beneath the car and were
crushed to death. Under the influence
of British nffe .that suicidal practice
has been discontinued.
tach the clerks to their staffs. If it is
necessary to furnish affidavits, their
lawyers draw them up and their no
taries attest them.
"If a lawer, who will take any kind
of case, wants evidence to bolster up
that ease he goes to one of these detec
tive agencies. As a result of his visit
he gets the evidence he wants. You
must not get the notion, though, from
what I have said, that the clients of
these detectives arc always served
faithfully. There may be honor among
thieves, but not among some detectives.
They manufacture a case against some
body, anu" they find out whether that
eomebedy has more money than their
employer. If he has, then the skill of
the detective as a blackmailer is dis
played. He approaches the person
against whom he has been employed
to get evidence. The sleuth tells his
victim something of the natur? of the
case that has been made out against
him, and then suggests that, for a con
sideration, the evidence may be sup
pressed. In about five cases out of ten
terms arc agreed upon and the evi
dence is suppressed."
The Hoase of God.
In the house of God, God, not man,
speaks. He gives a divine message
through His servant, the pastor of
His church, which is inspired by the
Holy Spirit, and in merely giving utter
ance in the medium of languauge by
the man of God. The church is a holy
place, for where Gcd is specially ap
pointed to speak to His people noth
ing should be Introduced of a nature to
f defile. Rev. G. Hoyme,
' "'
1896.
ABOUT LOVING CUPS.
PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE
THEV HAVE COME TO STAY.
Origla la Eaatertf At Brwagh
Promlaeaea by a WaaalagtM W
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Hera la Catcaga Darla taa Fait
MaaafaetaMd by Tkaaaaaaa,
CCORDINGta pres
ent Indications, the
'loving cup" has
come to stay. First
ClaM silversmiths
are making them
by the score; first
class glassmakers
blow them by hun
d r e d , potteries
have them by thou
sands; beer mugs
take their name, counters are covered
with them wherever well-bred mortals
are served, and no family with the
slightest pretension to distinction or a
long-winded ancestry is supposed to be
without one, says the Washington
Times.
Societies of all names and for all pur
poses have their "loving cups" on tap,
so to speak, and have begun to bestow
them upon those they delight to honor,
and the ceremonious rite of the presen
tation and use of the "loving cup" is
the prodigious fad of the hour all over
America.
This renewal of an ancient custom,
originated in eastern Asia many thou
sand years ago, is due to the poetic
forethought and enthusiastic ancestor
worship of May Whitney Emerson of
Washingtod, D. C, who called together
a company of her kinsfolk In July,
Worlds-Exposition year, in Chicago,
and gave them all a drink frdm A tot
ing cup made expressly for her and the
occasion, from a model known to be
over 1,000 years old and once belonging
to her (and their) ancestor, Heolf, con
queror of Normandy.
The original had been used St II cer
tain yuletide festival in S93, when Leif
Ericson "took a vow on the cup" that
he would find and colonize "Vineland,"
already discovered by BJarrl, Heolf's
Ron. The vow was kept the following
year.
This is. however, not the only time
that the loving cup has figured conlc
uously in American history. Two hun
dred Slid seventy-two years ago a great
silver loving clip, with two handles,
brought to America on board the May
flower from Ley den, was Used by Gov.
Carver at Plymouth, when Mass.t3oit,
the great Indian sachem, made his first
visit of welcome to the white invaders.
In the clip was "pesset," made of Hol
land gin, sugar, spices and water.
GOv. Carver first tasted from the cup
and passed it to Mnssasoit, who, noth
ing daunted, drank courageously,
though such a concoction was as un
known to him as the Greek 'tongue.
The cup was then passed to each of Ihe
red men of his party and after to all
the whites, who drank in turn.
This was the same "fealty-vow" use
of the cup of old Norse days revived on
American soil by the Puritans after 700
or more years, aid Is called by Jane
Austen "the first International treaty."
The loving cup used in Chicago at the
Sancto-Claro banquet to the Vikings,
July 19,1S93, contained one good Cali
fornia orahge wine, and after its use
there It was taken to Norway by Capt.
Magnus Anderson, to whom It was pre
sented by Mrs. Emerson, who, lineal
descendant to Heolf through her father,
is also, through her mother, derived di
rectly from "Pastor John" Robinson of
Ijeydcn Mayflower fame, who sent the
great silver loving cup of "the first in
ternational treaty" to America.
The loving cup of today is in its sym
bolism identical with the "Arvcl cup"
of Norway, the Holy Kraal, or Graal, of
Africa, the Sacced Arc of Syria, the
covenanting cup of the Jews, the san
greal of France, the mother cup of
ancient China and the grail of King
Arthur's quest.
It is also the same in meaning and
derivation as the "cup" of the. commun
ion service of the Christian church,
and was always and everywhere used
with a "formula of remembrance" and
fealty, its contents signifying the
"united blood" of the drinkers.
Its significance in America, if called
a loving-cup, means brotherhood and
fealty to the gods of Truth, Justice,
Liberty and Love.
Ciot tho Wronc Man.
Old Mr. and Mrs. Shuman, from Bry
an, went to Atlanta, and in going to
the hotel for dinner saw a crowd around
a justice's court. The old couple, with
pardonable curiosity, inquired the
cause of the gathering. They were in
formed that a man was on trial for
beating his wife. Edging their way
through the bystanders to get a look
at the prisoner, the o!d lady whispered
to her husband: "What a murderous
looking creature the prisoner is. I'd
he afraid to get near him." "Hush!"
warned her husband. "That isn't the
prisoner; he hasn't ben brought in
yet." "It isn't? Who is it, then?"
"It's the judge!"
A Volatile Carload.
Twelve and a half tons of silver
bullion, valued approximately at $375,
000, will shortly be shipped from the
Eureka hill. Ti-e shipment, while not
large enough to fill a car. is as expen
sive as would be rcrmiUed. This, it
is said, will be the largest single car
shipment ever rosde from a mine in
Utah and it is behced in the world.
Salt Lake Tribune.
Ilr.l n Ta?.
Johnny Jameson had arrived at his
eighth b:rthd?y and thought that it
would be real nice to write a letter
to his papa, and this is the way he
began:
"My Dear Papa Whenever I am
tempted to do wrong I think of you
and say, 'Get thee behind me, Satan.' "
Our Girls and Boys.
Not STarrled.
Wife What a happy-lcoking couple
those two are! I wonder how long
they've been married?
Husband Oh. I guess they're only
engaged. New York Weekly.
Gat trued to It.
Woman How can yon go on
the
stage in such a scanty costume?
Another Womaa Ob, you get ud to
the draught after twhile! Detroit
i Tribune.
TEACHING THE BIBLE.
A Haw ttrtbad for Baaat
igaars.
Another new bible is soon to be issued
says the New York Journat It differs
widely from all others and none will be
more useful in the work of spreading
tie gospel. The peculiarity of this book,
kowsver, lies not in the interpreta
tion at ti meaning of the scriptures
but in the typographical arrangesagnt.
It is intended to render the perusal of
the volume a matter of greater ease to
forslftnera and this will be accom
plished by tke nse of the Cosmo-Roman
alphabet. Tn idea originated with
Robert W. Mason, a young New Yorker,
while a student in the New York Mis
sionary Training institute at 690 8th
avenue. It Is In this institute that
young men who wish to labor in the
missionary field are tausht the secrets
of that work.' While pursuing his
studies Mr. Mason noted tbc efforts
made by foreigners to read a bible
printed in the English language. It
occurred to him that it would be a
potent aid to such persons if ah alpha
bet could be invented which differed
less widely from their native lan
guages. After two years of study he
invented what he calls a Cosmo-Roman
alphabet of fifty characters with an
English division of forty-five char
acters. Mr. Mason believes this alpha
bet as perfect as can be made and he
feels sure that it will revolutionize the
study of the English language by for
eigners. Since conceiving the plan3 Tor
printing the new bible in the alphabet
invented by him he has moved to
Bridgeport, Conn. "I have one very
important idea in connection with my
undertaking." he said, in discussing his
new idea. "That is. of teaching for
eigners the English through the bible.
It is my belief that a knowledge of the
bible will lead not only to a complete
repression of anarchistic principles,
but to a rejection of them as well for
all time. It is my hope to make the
bible a text-book for the study of Eng
lish, and if my work meets with the
approval of good people I propose to
have huge placards printed and posted
in all prominent landing stations,
docks and shipyards In this country
telling foreigners that the new bible
is ready for them." In every sensa of
the word Mr. Mason's bible will be
unique. He will sc the new testament
first. The first two or three pages will
be devoted wholly to illustrations, rep
resenting familiar objects, such as are
seen in the "A, B, C" books given to
children. There will be, for Instance,
the word "gun," and just beneath it
the picture of the object named. AH
the illustrations are on the same order,
the Intention being to familiarize the
reader with common words and names
of objects. The forty-five elementary
sounds of the English language will be
accompanied by as many explanatory
pictures, making a combination pho
netic and pictorial alphabet. The text
will be printed in large type and in
parallel columns. The first column
will contain the English reading and
the second the phonetic or pronounc
ing version of the same. Mr. Mason
says he will use no foreign language
in the book except on the cover page.
Knglaad and Ransla.
Anyone who carefully feels the public
pulse of Europe must be struck by the
extraordinary ebb and Row there is in
the expression of feeling of the French
as to England, according as France im
agines herself basking in the full blaze
of Russian friendship or sees that
friendship setting below her western
horizon toward England. As for En
gland, the friendship of Russia is, as we
now stand, a slender reed to lean on. I
have it on the highest authority that
the present czar of Russia is a man of
no fixity of purpose, quite unable to
seize on a great political idea and al
ways swayed by the last speaker. I
am told that he is even unable to grasp
the contents of a long state paper and
that he either wearies of the effort or is
too indolent to try and master it for
himself. In this he is following the
practice of his father, who, being really
too thick-headed to understand things,
invariably left it to his old tutor to
make him a precis of the document
with marginal notes of the leading
points. This mode of dealing with im
perial affairs is leaving untold oppor
tunities in the hands of persons whose
Interests are frequently opposed to
those of their nominal ruler and com
pletely at variance with the professions
made personally by him. It is this
which makes the power of an autocrat
perilous beyond words, when the power
he Is supposed to wield is really in the
hands of others. Therefore the friend
ship of the czar for the prince of Wales
and his closely interwoven matrimonial
alliances with our royal house counts
literally for nothing and are a mere
featherweight in comparison with a
glimpse of the assassin's dagger, pro
duced at the psychological moment by
those who disapprove of an English
rapprochement. Fortnighly Review.
Nearly Rart na Welili Name.
During the Jameson raid in London
the stenographic reporters had a hard
time .with the boer name3 that came
trippingly off the tongues cf the wit
nesses. In one instance a place is men
tioned which ai pears in the deposi
tions as Van Uithoouis Winkelspruit.
The nearest the Evening Standard re
porter got to it was Van Nit Hookis
winkel Sprint; the Globe gently modi
fied this to Van Nit Hoorisw'inkcl,
while the Sun simplified it to Van
Oudtchoorn'n, and the Evening News
bcldiy made one fearrcme word of it,
thus: Vancudtsehawanswinkel. The
rest of the repcrtcrs, like prudent men.
declined it altogether.
How Willis Fonn:l tlit Pin.
"Too bad." complained Mr. Heming
way; "been hunting an hour for my club
pin. Dropped it out on the lawn and
wouldn't take any money for it."
When he came home to supper he
found the pin beside his plate.
"Whoop-ee!" he cried; "where'd ye
find it?"
"I let Willie go barefooted this after
noon," explained Mrs. Hemingway,
softly, as she poured the tea. Eastern
Argus.
Hebrew View or Chrkt.
We deplore and condemn the cruci
fixion of Jfsus of Nazareth. He was
without doubt one of nature's noble
men, pure in sentiment and action, a
great leader and reformer of men, and
as such fell a victim to the fanaticism
and jealous power of Rome. Rabbi
Joseph Silverman.
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