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"But you know the Senators are sworn to
secrecy, while you are not"
"Then there's all the more likelihood
that wouldn't blab. When you swear a
man to keep a secret he has two incentives
for telling 1.-THE desire to let somebody
into il and the desire to violate his oath.
What did they do at that secret session
Have you heard 2"
"Oh, yes; the papers told it all, of course,
next morning. They merely confirmed q
lew foreign appointments"
"Did they confirm the appointment of
Murat Halstead to his new position in Will
iamsburg?"
"I believe not"
81 don't see how any Senator could object
to that. 1t was too bad that Colonel Hal
stead was not sent to Berlin" added Mr..
Mast. HE could have got even with Bis
msrck for objecting to the American hog"
How? should like to know"
"Why, OF course if he had gone over there
he would have taken his pen with him.
But then perhaps it is just as well, since he
has now transported 1t to y place where it
will probably do the greatest good to the
greatest number"
While Mr.. Mast was uttering these for
eign opinions watched his pencil. I could
not make out what the tumble of strange
q
ing nose to them. 1 Irecalled what Napo-
leon said about noses, and fancied 1 could
see the Emperor looking in admiration at
this picture and declaring his willingness to
abdicate in favor Of the owner and possessor
of that nose.
just then Senator ingalls, came in and
looked over the Senate with a searching
eve. Seeing nothing else that he wanted to
take, he took his seat.
DRAW him? OF course can draw him.
He's nothing to draw" said Mr.. Mast,
vanking a picture out of the air, as it
seemed, and slapping it upon the paper.
Anybody can draw him."
"A good many Senators have tried it with
out very successful results"
"Pshawl Senators can't draw"
Guess you haven't heard about Don
Cameron filling out that bob-tail straight
flush the other night"
81 1suppose Senator Ingalls, has been drawn
more than any other public man of the pres
ent time" said Mr.. Mast.
We'll, to be perfectly frank, I must say
he looks it. And as for this picture of yours,
Th., he looks as if he had been drawn
through knot hole"
May be you don't like that picture"
said he, in quarrelsome sort of way.
well, candidly, don't"
What's the matter with it?'
"Why, it looks as if the Senator were
conscious that his picture was being taken,
and had struck an attitude for the purpose.
Now that sort of thing is what one may ex-
pect of theatrical actors, but it is hardly up
to the dignity of United States Senator. L
think your picture does Senator Ingalls,
great injustice in this respect, Mr.. Mast"
81 suppose, then, you want something of
the conventional sort. Very well, how does
this life-size portrait suit vou?"
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lie sat with his eyes glued to the cynical
senatorial face for a long time. Presently
ie said:
How aHectionately the Senator treats
Iimselfr'
What do YOU mean?"
why, see how lovingly he wraps him
elf round himself"
That is not affection, Mr.. Mast; be is
1ereiy seeking to contain himself, to keep
imseli from getting away from himself"
do Senators ever lose themselves?"
sometimes. Oftener, however, they give
themselves awav."
Il thought it was his affectionate nature
hat made Senator Evarts hang on to him.
Ell in this manner"
imsel about his neck and press himself
.nderly to his loving breast. But YOU see
only hugs his UNDERSTANDING
Mr.. Mast studied this pro -ound PROPOSE
on in silence for several seconds. Then he
aid:
II don't believe either of us is right. 1
mink have discovered why he sits in that
lvolved position"
"Why?"
HE is framing one of those remarkable
sntences of his"
I had to admit that the Senator's attitude
"a fayorite one with him-did seem to bear
ut the supposition; and when the gifted
)gician, Jew moments later, began max
lg a speech l could not but notice that
Dne of the sentences bore a striking re-
.mblance to the portrait which Mr.. Mast
as making of the man. I imagined /
Duid see them winding their way up and
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necessary expenditures. Fortunately We
have no telegraphs yet in Siberia.''
"Yes, indeedi FortunatelyP' repeated
the Governor, ''Put back your book, my
dear gendarme, 1 am ready to confirm
with my signature all have said so far
Schelm could not brook delay. He said
to Palkin:
81 implore you, Colonel, make haste to
bring that woman back here She must be
brought back l'
II told you your measures would be with
out result, said the Governor. Besides,
have ordered all post horses on the route
to be reserved for my own use so that
could first of all overtake her-and then I
should certainly accompany her on her
journey"
And thus protect her against being ar
rested ?''
Certainly
"Well, we'll see how that will be looked
at in Petersburg" Schelm exclaimed, per-
lectly beside himself
''Yes, yes. And now wish you goodby.
My substitute will report to you, Mr.. Re
visor"
The Governor left them with slow, digni-
ned steps. Palkin and Schelm looked at
each other rather anxiously.
That is our worst enemy" said Palkin
at last "All my denuneiations avail moth
ing as long as he enjoys the Cars favor.
We must make haste to destroy Lanin and
to prevent this woman from reaching Peters,
burs, or we are lost"
Schelm shook his head.
81 do not know why, but have had pre-
sentiments and almost ear"'
"That Is your wayP' laughed Palkin
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therein COMPLICATION anybody ought to
have known whose feet and shins those were
that were published last week-but as an
evidence Of Mr.. Nast's good faith in the
matter, and as an indication that had he
been permitted to remain in the gallery dur
ing the secret session he would have made
some very readable pictures.
"0f course, you know who that Senator
u.s." said, as entered the gallery and
found Mr.. Mast busily engaged upon the re-
naming hall of the picture.
1.-THE far-feaching Senator? Oh, yes"
said he, II have seen him many time at
the Union League Cub in New York. By
the way, does he occupy both the New York
:hairs?"
"Bless you, no; the other one is occupied
by his colleague"
"But it seems to be vacant most of the
time"
"ExactlyI That is what 1 say; it is
occupied by the other Senator from New
York"
Mr.. Mast seemed to be very much drawn
o Senator Evarts; and when a man
ira*s Mr.. Mast, Mr.. Mast always re-
urns the compliment by drawing him.
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THE MOTOR GANGLIA.
Explanation of the Activity in Flesh After
Denrh Hns Occurred.

Explanation of the Activity in Flesh After
Denrh Hns Occurred.
Washington Evening Star.I
Tear out the heart of a human being
quickly and it will continue to beat for
some seconds after it has been parted from
the body. A frogs heart will pulsate for
"a hours after it has been taken from the
batrachian. Ignorant persons suppose this
to mean tLat the heart is still alive, and
their notion is very natural. But the fact
is merely that there are in the frogs heart
certain groups of movement nerves, called
"motor ganglia," which keep on agitating
the organ until they are starved out by want
OF nutrition, though no actual life is pres
ent. There are motor ganglia in the human
beart also, but they are not SO strong in their
action.
When the flesh of a turtle is cut up in
pieces for a stew the scraps continue TO
culver for many hours. The popular notion
is that the turtle is SO tenacious OF existence
that it keeps on living, though chopped up.
In reality the fragments of the motor nerves
in the flesh, stimulated by cutting, keep up
an automatic movement. Galvanism was
accidently discovered through the eNnce
contact OF an electric wire with q trog's leg
on Galvini's table. A human being dead
tor quite while may be affected in like
manner by the electric current.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22

ED FROM THE RUSSIAN FOR The D1sPA
BY META DE VERA.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

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lence against the representatives of the
Cars authorities are quite eloquent
enough. A band of exiles dared attempt
the life of tine Colonel here. and the Cap
tain, whom you appointed, is also in
volved."
The General replied with studied cour.
tesy and quiet:
1.-THE events to which you allude are
known to me; but consider them in diE
erent light. That act OF violence was pro-
voked BY the abuse of which the Colonel
was guilty"
General, such operations, +" broke in Pal
kin. But the Governor did not allow him
to finish.
Have you also been appointed revisor,
that you dare interrupt your superior?
When shall cease speaking you may de-
fend yourself"
'If your presence, Mr.. Revisor, had not
for the time suspended my authority I
should already have ordered an inquiry into
the matter, but as I heard of it only at the
time when your coming was announced,
postponed action"
Schelm was more and more convinced that
the General was giving way, aud this idea
filled him with arrogant pride. He said
curtly:
"What else?"
The General could not suppress an ironical
smile, but he continued quietly:
As to the Captain. OF whose criminality
am not informed, as the Colonel keeps him
q prisoner in his own house, beg to observe
that promoted this man, who is unknown
to me. at the special request of Colonel
Palkin. Hence the responsibility would in
the first place seem to rest with himself"
I'VE shall inquire into that hereafter"
said Schelm.
The consciousness of seeing his vanity
gratifed made him very happy. He
thought the Governor had humbled himself
before him and was surrendering at discre-
tion. He said, therefore, reproachfully:
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"And believes in reincarnation?"
flT

"And believes in reincsrnation?"
"I presume So"
"What fine old tree he must have been
when he was on earth beforeP'
"Why tree?"
"Don't you notice how much his mind Is
like tree; how his mental sap starts up the
trunk of q subject and turns off into every
branch, every twlg, every stem and every
vein of every leaf?"
eyes; and results in shutting of the light
from every shrub and herb beneath it."
This conversation was waxing so super
poetic that 1 shut it off by calling Mr.. Nsst's
attention to Senator Evarts' face in repose.
At once his pencil began to jiggle through a
series OF odd gyrations. But his mind was
not wholly on the picture he was making.
His injured soul seemed to be grating its
teeth over the ignominious manner in which
he was hustled from the gallery last week:
But executive sessions are secret, said.
"What of that?" he answered. tartly.
''Ill bet can keep a secret as well as any
Senator here"
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,wn the labyrinthine twistings of his Iecs
rinting in the harrow confines of 81,
ighs, dragging themselves up the rugg.S
traces Of spine, excursing through tba
giles OF his arms. and ultimately io6gino
his head, to be on tap when he shouId
,e and need good, long sentence to reel
and wind and wind and wind about the
nate.
"It has been whispered" said gentle
an sitting near us, ''thst Mr.. Eyarts has a
ach OF theosophy in his religion"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22
He Sketches Senator Eyarts in His
Celebrated Act of Long-Sen-
tence Evolution.
THE EFFECT OF A NOSE In REPOSE.
A Few Short Lines That Produced Nan
More Like ingalls, Than Ingalls,
is Like Himself
HIS STRIKING ATTITUDES REPRODUCED
The Great cartOonist not Yet RecOncied to Secret
Session Severity.
rooRHEsroxDrxcE OF THE DrsrAroH.1

WASHINGTON, June 21.-It will be re-
membered that in my last letter 1 related
how Mr.. Mast was sunceremoniously whisked
out of the Senate gallery week ago, when
he insisted on staying there and making
pictures during one of the secret sessions,
and how it therefore happened that he had
but half of his last picture completed when
went to press. According to promise
made at that time 1 now have the dis
tinguished pleasure OF submitting the
other half of that picture, not neces-
sarily to enable the reader to recog-
nize the Senator whose portrait is
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MUST BE ORIGINAL.
Partisan Belle Will Not Tolerate Par...,
Handle Like Any Other Bellies.

Inc Season.i
Partisan ladies devote especial care on the
choice of their parasol handles. According
to their idea, an elegant lady's parasol must
have perfectly original handle. such az
not possessed py any OF her rivals, Whole.
sale goods are of no value. There
are ladies who even sacrifice their
jewelry to this principle. For in
stance, the ring with the figure resting
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22

on its curve was once bracelet, the two
dragons once figured as brooch and shawl
pin on their owners bosom; the button-like
handle in the middle OF the illustration was
originally the stopper of scent bottle, and
the snake formerly wound its golden coils
round fair, white arm. These things are
avery innocent luxury and very beautIIul.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11
Nothing Saved.

A little boy was walking with his
father one day. AS they trudged along
the father saw an old horseshoe lying in
the road, and bade the boy pick it up
and take it along.
The lad looked at the shoe carelessly
and replied that it was not worth carry
ing, whereupon the father said nothing
more, but quietly picked it up himself.
He pretty soon sold the old iron for a
penny at roadside smithy and invested
the coin in cherries.
The day was hot, and presently the
man noticed that his sen was beginning
to cast longing eyes upon the box of
cherries, but did not offer any to his son.
He made pretense of eating them, and
dropped one to the ground as if by acci-
dent.
The boy picked it up quickly and ate
it with RELISH
A little further on another dropped,
and this, too, the lad lost no time in Sc
curing. So, one by one, all the cherries
were dropped and picked up.
''Well," remarked the father, when
the last one had been eaten, sit did not
pay to pick up that horseshoe perhaps,
but if you had stopped once for that you
wouldn't have needed to bend twenty
times for the cherries"
The moral of the story is an old one,
but more generally known than heeded:
Lazy folks take the most pains. -
Youths Companion.
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THE NATIONALIST MILLENNIUM" !"
The Voice" Reminds Nationalists That
Prohibition Must Come First.

The Voice" Reminds Nationalists That
Prohibition Must Come First.
1t is reported that Mr.. Bellamy says
that when he wrote Looking Backward"
he "did not mean to do it'-write great
book-start a movement millennium
ward. Well, he has come very near
doing it, whether he intended so to do or
not. "But," say many, "there is much
of theory, much that is visionary in this
nationalism." That may be, but, in our
judgment, the millennium lies some
where in the direction this movement is
heading. 1t may be ten thousand years
distant, but it is we'll to remember two
things: Direction is the important thing,
not distance; also that we are living in
an electric age, an age in which thou
sand years may be compressed into a
single day. We propose in our columns
to odiscuss, from time to time, nationalism
and other reforms in which Prohibition
lists have become deeply interested, Civ
ing both sides a hearing.
At the outset we wish to impress upon
Nationalists thought or two. To Sc
cure social reform of the tremendous
magnitude Mr.. Bellamy and his friends
outline will require the reorganization
and thorough cleansing of the political
party machinery of the nation. This re-
form must be wrought very largely
through politics. How can it be worked
out with politics corrupt and corrupting
as now? AS first step politics must be
lifted to higher plane; conscience must
be forced into politics. What better way
opens for the accomplishment of this
than through the Prohibition party? In
truth, what other way is open? Here is
the political machinery that the reform
needs made ready to hand. Drive the
saloon out of politics and alcohol out of
the voter, then you will have clear, clean
brains of voters in which to SOW your
seed and through which to work. Friend
Nationalists, the Prohibition party road
leads your way.
Another thought: Mr.. Bellamy tells US
that in the Nationalist millennium there
will be no Prohibition or liquor drink
ing, for no one will wish to drink what
will be hurtful to him. In the millen-
MUM, yes. If no one today wished to
drink anything hurtful we would be
done with the Prohibition agitation.
When man is law unto himself, then
the objective law has finished it's work.
Today, when people are drinking what
is hurtful to themselves and families and
the community, drinking themselves by
the thousands into imbecility, lunacy,
idiocy, disease, poverty, crime, doing So
ciety an incalculable hurt, Prohibition is
necessity. Today and all the way to
the Nationalist millennium Prohibition is
and will be necessity. Let us make
clear distinctions and keep our heads
very level. The times demand it.
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BILE home, and the hard, humiliating work
which saw no way to prevent your doing
but now that you have husband and po-
sition to sustain in society it is titung that
you should know who you are, and that moi
drop Of my humble blood runs in your
veins"
"You are good and kind, and have been a
true mother to me; you shall not under
rate YOURSELF" said Isabel, warmly; "but,
ohl do tell me of this strange thing"
1--WE were just married, John and L
Isabel, child, pardon me if 1 continue to
name you as u relative.n
',Auntte" interrupted Isabel, deprecat-
ingly.
"Yop can not realize, perhaps that John
was kind husband, and that was one O.
the happiest of wives, We lived in large
handsome cottage then, and were quite well
to do at the time you were born. The frs
shot had been fired at Fort Sumter the
previous January, and young Southern
gentleman came here with his young wife,
who was an invalid, and he had brought hor
North not only to escape the fierce heat of
a Southern summer, but to avoid the eX-
citement of the troubled times which she,
in her weak state, was poorly able to bear,
He was of a rich and influential family, or
he could rot have passed the lines, even in
that early stage of the National troubles,
and nothing but the devoted love he cher
ished toward his wife would have kept him
out of the fray.
They were accompanied, of course, by an
old black nurse, Maum Chloe, who had
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11
Public Sentiment and PoodIes.

We are told that public sentiment Is
not ready for Prohibition. answer that,
if God had waited for public sentiment
to get ready, we never should have had
the Ten Commandments. There is
fashionable law in New York which
DEGREES that woman may with perfect
propriety carry poodle dog in Fifth
avenue; but what would be thought of
the same woman who would carry her
own child in the public thoroughfare?
That is consequence of public sentiment;
and you and every one else but those who
live in the inner circle of fashionable
emotion know that that public sentiment
is false. By an abominably false educa-
tion it is considered perfectly right for a
political party to put the rum jug in its
platform, and perfectly wrong and
cranky to put the home there. This po-
litical public sentiment in favor of dis
eliminating against home in favor of the
rum jug is no more right than is that
fashionable public sentiment in favor of
discriminating against the child in favor
of the poodle dog.-George w. Balm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11
What Is the Price?

What Is the Price?
What is the price of the boy who stands
Noble and fair as o god of old,
Reaching to life his innocent hands,
Dreaming the dream that lips never told?
What is his price, kird father, say?
What is his price, fond mother, pray?
But the rumseller says: TO make him my prey
l bid one thousand dollarsl"
What is the price of the daughter who leans
On the arm which supports her, noble and fair
being of beauty, one Of earth's queens,
Pure as lily, glorious and rare?
What is her price? Oh ask of thy heart,
Parent who loves her, whoever thou art!
But the rumseller says: For her, in my mart,
bid one thousand dolars"
-ISsua
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11

The people of the United States are
spending for intoxicants more than ST.
100000, 900, and increasing the expendi-
ture at the rate of 100000 a year.
What nation can long endure such
drain? How can we helphaving poverty
and distress? The immensity of the OUT
lay can be seen by considering the fur
ther fact that the total imports of the
United States in 1888 were but 1928, ,s79,
S13, and the customs duties collected on
the same were only 1919, 9,O01, i 173.-Voice,
Nov. 21, 1889.
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Isabel, dear Isabel, Is it indeed your
and Lottie looked in the face of her friend
with wan delight. II was just wishing for
you"
''Yes, Mrs Falconer, Lottie has really
pined for you," said Mrs. Ford, as she took
Isabers hand in hers, and locked up into
the bright face with a wistful expression.
Then she shall pine no longer" replied
Isabel, with happy smile, ''for have come
10 take her home with me. whore she is to
grow well and strong agaln, little mother" I"
and she patted the wrinkled hand in ner's
coaxingly for she knew there would be
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heavy gold, set in a rim of small, sparkling
diamonds. and suspended on a chain of rare
value 1t was indeed a beautiful grlish face
which looked out at Isabel as she touched
the spring reverently; the other face was,
IS Mrs. Harmon had SAID, one of great
force and character, and she could see her
own resemblance to it as she looked at it
long and earnestly.
This is indeed a revelation, Aunt Debby,"
she said, pressing the pictured face to her
| S, land you We're wise that you did not
III me before, for it would have made the
Unhappy phases of my lot doubly unhappy
t l had known they were not my birth
light, and still have been powerless te rem
,dy the wrong, but now am sure Mr., Fal
'oner will never rest until he has found out
vi there is TO know about my family"
''You see now, my dear Isabel said Mrs
Iarmon, ''that it is not right for me to ac
pit this assistance from you, now that you
now the facts"
Il only see that l am the more indebted
you, since there is not even the sligh'
les of blood which l supposed to bind me
oyou."
But loved you, ehlld, and SO much that
did not call you by your own name, fear
ag that you would not love me Us well il
rou did not believe yourself to be my kim
red" SAID Mrs. Harmon. Il fear have
Zen too selfish in my love, and ought TO
ave Drought you up as Isabel Darlington"
And don't love you, toos' cried Isabel,
tpulsively, ignoring Mrs, Harmon's self
roach; ''and yet you refuse me the
nall pleasure of making you comfortable
fer the long, weary years of trouble you
I'VE endured; but l shall not listen to your
)lections." and she shook her head will
my. las you will find out when l unfold
Iy plans, since you object to planning for
.le.n
II was very pleasant TO the widow to have
stronger will to plan and think for her,
nd she submitted with gentle remon-
frances, while Isabel made the purchase
If larger and more convenient house. re-