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drous Christmastide, that has ebbed and
flowed through 1000 years. The church
service never seems more solemn than at
sea. Jack may be rough and ready-aye,
and reckless, too; he deliberately breaks a
rule Of the ship and is punished by week
IN irons in the brig but his heart is sim
pie as a child's, and the chaplain's voice is
to him only an echo of the message he hears
In every wind that blows, the love and
power Of the God OF sun and storm. There
are traces OF tears ON many bronzed cheek
when the chaplain says Amen"
A mess" on shipboard consists of eish-
teen or twenty men who, for convenience,
dine together. They have a cook and his
assistant or ''streker." The gear" con-
sisting of plates, knives, forks, spoons, etc.,
are kept in wire-faced lockers on the lower
deck; and at the order, mess gear" the
cooks and strikers swing up the tables,
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the arm or fire drills the simple service of
the church. The men are mustered aft on
tine gun deck, ana the chaplain, standing
little apart from the officers. at the foot of
the companion hatch, reads the impressive
ritual. Then he prays for the safety of the
good ship and her crew and for the dear
ones ashore. The sermon is a short one, but
il goes home to every one before him; for
he tells the simple story of the cross, of the
ChriSt-ehild, borne earthward ON that Won
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jumps into his trousers and shoes, then folds
his hammock and carries it up through the
matches to the MEETINGS in the bulwarks.
Fifteen minutes are allowed for this duty
and fifteen more for coffee and a smoke
Then all hands turn TO and work until
breakfast time, for ships routine never
varies for a holiday There are decks tn
scrub as usual. and before it is light enough
even to turn off the electric circuit on the
spar deck the pumps are working and Jack.
with bucket and broom, is making his ship
tidy for the day.
But il is a healihful exercise after all. and
when the bnS'n's pipe whistles ''mess gear
at 30 In the morning, the sailor man has
an appetite for breakfast. The meal.
which IS eaten at O'Clock, consists ordnar.
iiy OF bacon, beans Or mush, hard tack and
black coffee. For Christmas fare the men
have probably set apart some of their wages
before leaving the last port, and if thew
have not been long out the mess NAV pro.
vide bacon and eggs this morning. con-
densed milk for the coffee and canned fruit
OF some kind.
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On the bridge the quartermaster at the
wheel has no thought apparently beyond
the COMPASS in the lighted pinnacle before
him; the officer of the deck, in rubber coat
and boots, stands beside him on the bridge,
looking off through the gloom across the
waste OF heaving water. or giving glance
aloft now and then at the bellying sails, and
again ahead at the lookouts by the bowsprit.
The green and red lights in the starboard
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and port rigging shine bravely, and the
masthead light sends glmmer down to the
deck, where the men on watch lie about in
sheltered hooks and the sergeant of the
guard walks to and fro with a semi-military
swing that accommodates itself wonderfully
well to the motion OF the ship.
1t is cold gray morning; sky dark with
hurrying clouds, and the wind blowing In
sharp gusts from the northeast, with
wicked promise OF more before long, driving
sleet and frozen spray full in your face and
coating the scanch cruiser with ice from
stem to stern.
The sound of the bell has scarcely died
away when the clear notes of the buglecome
swelling after, sounding the reveile. Then
the gruff voices of the boatswain's mates
call: A-all ha- a-ands! Up all hammocksp
Everybody turns submarines, apprentice
boys, fremen. cooks, sailors-each man
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CHAPTER 7.

ESnsaaszEssS1IS ISIS CELIA WILDER
h lGSASsfSsIE61 did not stop at the public
VI S1#MQkSSSf library, as her custom
9 9IESylkKk was. on her way up the
d SlFNSasAeaS hill; yet she had in
Il Ss NSSSHSI tended to stop. Though
s GS SSSH rs it was the day before
EA@S Christmas and Miss Celia
was loaded with bundles she still had enough
loose silver left in her pocket to pay her
passage in the electric car that creaked ard
whirred up the hill past her-a red BLUR in
the winter dusk-crammed like beehive
However, she would not ride, she would
walk and go into the library for the " Crime
of Sylvestre Bonard," TO be finished ana left
there for her to-day by Mrs. Rollins.
Indeed, she did walk as far as the Ii
brary and paused outside the door. The
library is thin, high brick building, with
an unhappy accident of tower on one side,
but Mss Celia admired it because her father
had given it to the town. She looked now
with sentiment approaching to fondness
on the great oaken doors and the little shops
which flared in front. One shop was MILL
ner's aud the other a confectioner's, and in
the latter window was a glitter of iced
cakes and sugar forms, ali under the eye of
Santa Claus appearing Christmas-tree.
Had there not been this window Miss
Celia would have gone in for her book; be-
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Arab Pasha Is slowly diving In Ceylon.
the place Of his lifelong exile. 1t has been
suggested that an appeal be made to the
British Government asking that some more
fitting place be selected where tile unhappy
Arab chief can serve out his exile.
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which consist of single board, to hooks
overhead, spread oil cloths over them and
bring on the food. The men of each mess
SIT on benches ranged on either side of the
table. The dinner on Christmas, like the
breakfast, will depend entirely on the fore
thought OF tile men and The time that has
elapsed since the ship left port There NAV
be fresh meat and vegetables but The
chances are all in faver of canned goods.
Plain feod and plenty Of healthful exercise
has made the sailor less exacting in the
choice OF a bill OF fare than a iandsman
would be; and if this Christmas dinner in
cludes plum duff, with wine sauce and Or
anges or apples, he is content.
AT O'Clock the men Oh watch tumble nm
on deck and busy themselves about the
snip, Just as on other days. On the gun
aeek the men who have four hours ''off''
can employ their time as they please.
Some doa little mending, for Jack is his
own tailor; others read, look over their
di,ty-boxes, spin yarns OF play cards. Nearly
all are sm king: Banjos and guitar are
brought out, and to the rhythmic music of
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CHAPTER II.


Reggy's donkey and cart were waiting for
him in the morning; SO was his miniature
typewriter, as well as gaudy company of
BOOKS and toys; and, in the first rapture of
his riches, he seemed to have forgotten any
other desire.
1t is true there was one dampenjng
moment when he stood searching every
corner of the room, in single, blank.
solemn glance. But it was only moment:
he said not word /; and then he was off for
his donkey, bowling and skipping with Joy.
Miss Celia (wh0 looked pale, though
smiiing), went away to church, quite re-
lieyed about him. Privately, l think Miss
Celia would have given a pretty penny TO
the poor box could she thus have purchased
leave to stay at home. She dreaded the
leisure to think, the music with its mem
cries, the saftenins influences OF the season.
MISS Celia did not want to be softened, she
wanted to be hardened But there would
be the talk If such a regular attendant
stayed away, and there were the Kol.inses
invited to dinner. Miss Celia donned her
black velvet gown and fastened her laces
with her diamond brooch and put large
white silk handkerchief over them under
her pelisse, and maddox tied her bonuet-
strings and gave her a new pair of gloves
out Of the sachet; and she went to church.
How much or how little the service and
the sermon did for Miss Celia's soul, can
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Count ven Moltke attributes his attain
ment of old age to Goods mercy and mode
ration in all things" He specially advises
that no one shall ever spend whole day in
doors. not even if the day be rainy
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WRITTEN FOR THE MORNING CALL BY OCTAVE raAxE1

within stones throw of each other and
never speaking"
"And if they meet, what do they do?"
Nothing; pass each other like strangers.
Once they were together at church socia-
bic, and some one tried to introduce them"
mercy! What did they d0?"
" Miss Celia drew herself up and said:
must decline to know Mrs. Brace like
that. and turned on her heel, while Mrs;
Brace went all sorts of c0lors. l was told
that she was willing to be introduced, but
Celia is obstinate. You've heard about her
wanting to join the church-no, of course
you haven't Well, she did, and came to
Tad about it, and he told her that she must
first become rec9nciled to her sister,"
6 Was she wlling?"
mo; she wouldn't join the church. l
was afraid she would go to the cathedral
or even to some other denomination.
wanted Tad to be little kind to her; but
you know what he is abOut-what he calls
yield a jot-quoted things out of the Bible.
Well, he was right; but / can't look at
things quite SO independently. And she
gives $500 year. But she made no differ
ence at all: went TO church and subscribed
just the same. Why. Betty it is half-past 5
time for US both to CO."
Long before they went Miss Celia had
climbed the little space between the library
building and her house. The house was
large square house, the roof OF which for an
apex had a cupnla. In front of the
house was wide veranda and it
was set far back In deep lawn and old
fashioned garden, where the chrysanthe-
NUNS were only little done blooming
BY now the lone hill before her, the short
hill behind her, Strengthened into business
streets, were pIicked out in yellow and white
sparks of light. The great electric tower
had white blaze with radiating bristes,
like weird porcupine. The snow was crisp
under her tread. just as she came opposite
The church the chimes broke forth.
Sweet and keen the notes pealed through
the air.
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when 10 Use n Seine.

Ifany person shall place or main
tain or cause to be placed or main
tanned in any of the waters of the
State any seine, net, gill net, trammel-
net, bag, wire or other devices, or by
any such means shall tske or catch
fish in the waters of this state, he
shall be deemed guilty ola misdemean.
or, and, upon conviction thereof, be
fined 10 a sum of not less than FIVE
dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars. Provided, however, that
during the months of May
June, July, August, September, Oeto-
Der, November, December, January,
February and March, any fish may
be lawfully taken with ines, set
nets, wing-ne:s or fsh-traps. the
meshes of which shall not be smaller
than two inches square. Provided
the provisions of this section shall not
apply TO persons who own land adj
joining such waters from taking fish
for their OWE family use; and provid,
ed, further, that they shall not pre-
vent the free passage of fish from pass
ing up and down said waters.
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\ Race for a Rride.

Cincinnati, o., June 3.-Harry
Goodwin and Cora Skinner, of Law
renceburg, Ind, ran away yesterday
to get married. They found Squire
ST. Ring was at Elizabethtown, O.,
just 200 yards over The state line.
As they reached the squire the girls
father could be seen in the distance
pursuing on horseback. Sterling,
the situation, told the lovers
to grasp hands and run for Indiana,
as the license was not good in Ohio.
The three scrambled over fences.
Crossipg the line the squire stumbled
and fell, but had just sufficient breath
to pronounce the words as the angry
father galloped up, to late. A large
crowd witnessed the race and cheered
the bridal couple. The father left
without bestowing his blessing.
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Weather fortune

Ira Il. Hicks, in his storm chart for
1880, has been remarkably accurate in
his forecasts, especially for the month
Of May. Here is what he says about
June:
"The first two or three DAYS of June
will be cool aud clear On entering
the first storm period about the 3rd it
will turn very warm and eliminate in
some bard storms about the 4th, 9th
and 9th. On or near the 10th and
18th there will be hard re-actionary
storms. with much raip, in all proba-
-blllty continuing into the storm period
from the 18th to 18th. This is the
summer-solsiice period and much con-
tinued rain with whole nights of con-
tlnuous lightning and thunder, is very
probable. Do not be alarmed. if it
occurs it will be grander than danger
GUS. Mercury on the 25th will pro-
long the re-actionary tendency from
about the 21st, so that a continued
wet spelP may fill the gap up to the
last period, beginning on the Both.
Upon the whole we calculate that
June will be a very wet month,
With many active and some danger.
Gus storms.
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Mr.. Stark, who is visiting in Okla.
homa City, Oklahoma, writes as fol-
lows:
81 found, upon arriving here, a
town of 10000 inhabitants. The
residences are not quite so elegant as
those at home, but are built in q very
antique style, some are built of logs
with the bark on, and ,others of the
mother earth, commonly known as
"mud novels" the streets are lighted
in the daytime by the sun and at
Night. (everyitwo weeks) by moonlight.
The people are very much mixed, as
to nationality, being gathered from
the four parts Of the globe. There
are brighter times ahead. though, and
In course of time, Oklahoma CITY
will be a city indeed.
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"a WINE o. s:Aap,.
Stolen Last Night.

Sometime during last night a sneak
thief entered the stable of Capt. K.
w. Elders, and purloined therefrom a
set of buggy harness, saddle and
bride and leather buggy cushion.
The stable is situated in the rear Of
his place of business on Ohio Street
He has reason to believe it was done
near midnight. The harness was a
good set of single harness. The
BAzoo was in hopes that those depre-
dations that were being committed a
while back had been stopped but it
seems like the police are getting
weary of watching or have too
many places to watch, one or
the other. In the language
of another paper, it is hard for
policeman to be in more than one
place at time but it does seem that
Jim Gossage ought to be in several
places, there is more about Jim than
one would think, to look at him.
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La Porte, Ind, June 3. John Lin
yard, of Mill Greek. this county, was
taken with a violent fit IF vomiting
last Saturday, and during q seveie
struggle small lizard was elected
from his stomach. The caeature was
dead and was partially encysted. It
is supposed that he swallowed it about.
two years ago, as he had suffered
great deal from pains in the region of
the stomach fer about that length of
time. The long retention of the ami
NAL bad poisoned Mr.. Linyard's en-
tire system. and his death ensued YES
terday. He is an old resident, hav-
ing lived in the county forty.eight
years.
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What Did They Catch ,

Messrs. Harry Buckley, Gid Ross
and Will Stark went out to Lamine
fishing yesterday. They spent the
whole day on the banks of the stream.
Every time they threw their hooks in
they would pull out something. No
matter if it YVES bubble or a stump.
they fshed just the same. Along to-
ward night they concluded something
was wrong and all being good Sunday
school boys they knew of Jonah, -
and "shOok' to see who it was. Alas
Harry Bulkley was the one who
threw "eraps" twice and consequently
was voted the "Johah." The bows
returned home with 100000 lbs. of
fish which they evenly divided. This
is the tale that leaked out this morn.
ing although the boy had agreed to
say nothing.
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A Miracle OF the Nineteenth Cen
fury.

Owing to bad state of the blood, / have
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years, and have used crutches for ten years.
/ have expended large sums of money fos,
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1 Square Deal for Everybody.

10 enable home and land-seekeis
to visit the farming section of Mime.
sofa, North Dakota, South Dakota
Montana, the Great Northern Rail-
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with stop over privileges, good for
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This will enable purchasers to see
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the wonderful Red River Valley, Dew
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the Missouri, Milk, Teton and Marias
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The Great Northern Railway runs
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Your home agents can sell you ex-
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Missouri's Resources.

Grand Old Missouri to-day leads
the entire country in the manufacture
of chewing tobacco, while it is second
only to Minnesota in Touring and
grist mill products, and the third in
point of iron machinery products !:
second in manufacture of filrs, hats
and caps second in malt products :;
third each in the manufacture of ears.
carriages and wagons in the west |;
third in the west in packing-house
products first in rank among the
states of the Mississippi Valley in the
manufacturing and refining of lead,
zine and silver ores ; second in plan
ming and saving lumber first in the
of brick, tile and vitri
fled sewer pipes t; first west of PENN
slyvania in the drawing and manu-
featuring of wire second in all the
states in the manufacture of plate and
window glass, and third in the manu-
facture of fine furniture. -Moberly
Monitor.
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Boys.

1t will require $4,000 tons of Irvine
to bind the grain crop of this country
this Sc son, should il be an average
crop. Every pound should measure
about 500 feet. Now, boys, suppose
you had all this twiLe for kite-string,
how high could you hy your kite i?
1000, SOC 17-264 miles. That's right.
The kite might go up out of your
sight and surprise the man in the
moon. Some of this Irvine is very
good and strong, made of Manila and
Sisal, and some of it is so poor We
fear it would fail you just at a time
when the kite was highest.
If You want a PERFECTLY safe and
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best fibre, in the best manner, and is
Of great strength, and induce your
father to buy this for his harvester,
and it Will serve either his purpose or
yours and make both of you happy.
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The usual treatment for catarrb !

nv uShai SiCotiuCnt IOf SdIdIEu Il
very unsatisfactory, as thousands of
despairing patients can testify. A
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per local treatment is positively nee
essary 10 success, but most of the rem
edies in general use by physicians af-
ford but temporary benefit. A cure
cannot be expected from snuffs. pow
ders, douches and washes" Ely's
Cream Balm is remedy which COM
bnes the important requisites of
quick action, specific curative power
with perfect safety and pleasantness to
the patient.
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These pills ars scientifically ,mpoupdeJ.
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Kansas City Times.
The announced serious illness of
Hon. Waller Young, ofSt. Joseph, on
the eve of the state convention will be
received regretfully. Senator Young
has been wheel horse of democracy
for To-! these many years. The
sturdy character of his political faith
never tolerated compromise with the
enemy or accepted defeat before q
was over.