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grown radiant,

Never was voice sweeter in her ears
than the somewhat thin and exhausted
MARBLE of Mademoiselle Resale de
Vigue, the prima-donna; never did
scenery glow with such natural tlnts or
footlights shine more softly. Kate
Marcy declared that the opera was ''per-
lection"
eyes, but" said pert little Nina Cum.
mings, 'sdo look at Charley Emery, with
that little old woman! Why couldn't
he have come to sit with US"
Kate bit her lip. In the crowd now
surging out of the aisles of the little
opera house she could scarcely venture to
express her entire opinion; but she said,
in a low, earnest tone:
81 don't know what you think of it,
Nina, but I, for my part, respect MIR.
Emery a thousand times more for his po-
likeness to his mother"
And, almost at the same second, she
found herself looking directly into
Charles Emery's eyes.
For a moment only. The crowd sep
arated them, almost ere they could recog-
nize one another; but Kate felt sure
and her cheek glowed vivid scarlet at the
certainty-that he had heard her words.
"CharIey," said little Mrs. Emery,
looking into her sons face, as they
emerged into the vail of softly falling
snow, which seemed to enwrap the
whole outer world in dim, dazzling mys-
terry, "who was that girl9'
"What girl, mothera" with a little
pardonable hypocrisy.
ssThe one, Charley, with the big blue
ewes, and the sweet face wrapped In a
white, heecy sort of hood-the enc who
said she respected yous"
ssIt was Kate Marcy, mother"
.She has a face like an angel" said
Mrs. Emery, softly.
The next day the foreman of the roll
lipg-mills went boldly to the old Marcy
homestead, whose red-brick gables,
sheeted over with ivy, rose up out of the
leaaess elms and beeches, just beyond
the noise and stir of busy Crystalton.
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was very indignant end said, ~ give you the
ginger cake for the whisky" "Well. but
you didn't pay me for the ginger cake said
the barkeep.r.
'Darn you,' said Joe, "you've got the
ginger cake. There it Is on the shelf right
where you put it," aRd he walked out like he
had been ipsulted. Now what is the matter;
why can't we turn the money loose among
the people and let it pay a big lot of debts
and get back to the banks againl These
financial panics are distressing and there
cught'to be q remedy-a balance wheel, q
safety valve, a regulator. a something that
would restore the equilibrium. The rich can
fatten IN these panics, while the average
merchant or trader or farmer can be crushed
by them. Our taxes are q burden too great
to be borne. They now amount to 10 per
cent. Of the acreage mans income-that is
If he lives in a tow or city that has gas and
water and public schools. But maybe things
will brighten up again after a while. The
times are awful herd, but it Is not so bad az
it was. Sorrow enduretn for a night, but
Joy cometh n the morning. The grip has
got me and got Mrs. Arp and W. Of the
children, and we are all fUssing about who is
the sickest, but it is not so bad as it was. and
there is still room to be thankfuL.-B Bill
ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.
P. 81 have scores Of letters from Massa-
chusetts to California asking for General
Jackson's address, but the general writes me
he has no copies. He will soon issue it in
pamphlet form with important addeuda and
will be pleased to give it to the public.
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BURGLARY long ago attained the
dignity of an art, but it has rarely
been so perfect in all the details as In
the incidents connected with the raid
upon an Iowa postofice. The thieves,
having broken open the safe and Sc
cured 81, 500 in money and stamps,
then stole a horse and buggy with
which they escaped" The postmas-
ter at Indianola, Iowa, will of course
be on hand at the opening of Con-
gress with a bill to relieve himself
and his sureties from responsibility In
the matter, and no doubt the bill will
become law, as many such do in every
Congress. But it would seem the
time has come when postmasters and
all other custodians Of United States
funds should be held to a more rigid
accountability than they have been
in recent years. In this case it will
be especially pertinent to inquire why
80 small an Office had so large an
amount Of money ready to the hands
of thieves.
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THE GREATEST MONOPOLY ON EARTH.

The population Of the United States to-
day is about sixty-two millions. OF this
number about 240, 900 are retail liquor deal
ers, or one person out Of every 25s. The
gross income Of the business is over eleven
hundred million dollars each year, an aver.
age to each dealer Of nearly 5000. the best
partof which represents clear profit.
One person out Of every 25S has the privi-
lege Of going into this business and reaping
the enormous profits. He alone has the per-
mission OF the law. The other 257 are de.
barred from the business, and an attempt on
their part to sell liquor will be followed with
legal penalties. Before a man can enter
into this business, in any State of the Union,
with few exceptions, he must secure the per-
mission Of certain men. He may have all the
capital necessary, all the facilities required
by trade. all the knowledge essential. He
may profPer the amount OF the license fee in
good cash; but nothing will avail If those
few men say no, he shall not have a license.
A few years ago the Excise Board of New
York City decided that the number of
licenses should not be increased, and no new
ones should be issued except as the old ones
expired. This meant that out Of every 169
persons then in New York City, 159 were
absolutely debarred from going into the
business.-Ths Voice.
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THE r AGES.

My dears, when I was young like you
o, days that long ago took wing!-
Ihad your wit, your sweetness, too.
And loved. like you, the spring.
Fondly do I remember still
How dear to me were fields and flowers;
How dear the hearts in lighter hours
Made captive in the gay quadrille:
A merry child like you, my dears,
And such was I at fifteen years.
Later, my heart, less wild and gay.
To one devout espousal moved;
And welded joys, how sweet are they,
To love and to be loved!
But sometimes pensive and apart,
I prayed in secret signs to heaven,
That some dear angel might be given
To stir in me mothers heart;
Wife and fond mother, too, my dears,
And such was I at thirty years.
o laterl Onward still and on
Time flies, like an advancing wave.
And summer. autumn, both are gone,
With all the joys they gave!
Yet, while we droop with age and pain,
The heart that to our babes we give
In their sweet innocence may live,
And with their babes be young again;
And such l am at length, my dears,
With my full span of eighty years.
George CottereH, in the Argosy.
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"Miss Marcy" he declared, "without
intendingto be an eavesdropper, heard
what you said last night"
cit was not intended for your ears,
Mr.. Emery" said Kate, coloring a soft,
ross pink.
"Bur," he pursued, looking her full
in the face, 81 cannot be satisfied with
mere cold respect, Miss Marcy. I want
a warmer, tenderer feeling toward my
self. If you could teach yourself tolove
me-"
The dimples came out around Kate
Marcy's coral-red lips. wreathing her
smile in wondrous beauty.
"The lesson is already learned, Mr..
Emery" said she. "I do love you. ]
have 10 we'd you for a long time"
And the foreman of the rolling mills
went home, envying neither king nor
prince that day.
"But I never should have loved you
so dearly" his young wife told him af-
terward, eff you hadn't been so good to
that dear little mother Of yours. In my
eyes you never looked half so handsome
as when you stood bending over her gray
head in the crowded hall of the opera
house that night"
"You see," said Emery, laughing at
her enthusiasm, 81 agreed with'the hero
of the old Scotch ballad.
"'Sweethearts I may get many a one,
But of mithers ns'er another"
The Ledger.
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u she lad once heard Mr.. Emery
say that blue was his favorite color.
"Going with some one elsea" she re-
peated. swell, of course he has a right
to suit himself"
And she kept within her own soul the
fevered fire of girlish resentment, the
gnawing pangs of jealousy that disturbed
her all the while that she was sitting
waiting for the great green curtain to be
drawn up.
Until, of a sudden, there was a slight
hustle on the row of seats beyond, and
Mr.. Emery entered with his mother. =,
And then Hates overgloomed face
grew bright again. She drew a long
breath of relief and turned to the stage;
it was as if the myriad gas-lights had all
of a sudden been turned up; as If all the
mimic world of the opera house hao
grown radiant.
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Novel Advertising Scheme.

A member of the company OF actors a.
q Prussian theatre was to have q benefit
night, and the question was how to get
together a good audience. Accordingly,
some days before the eventful evening,
there appeared in all the papers an ad-
yertisement to the following effect: "a
gentleman, who has a niece and ward
possessing a disposable property OF Sl5,-
600, together with a mercantile estab-
lishment, desires to find a young man who
would be able to manage the business. and
become the husband of the young lady.
The possession of property or other
qualifications is no object. Apply to"
Hundreds upon hundreds OF letters
poured in in reply to this advertisement.
On the morning of the benefit day each
person VINO had sent q reply received the
following note: "The most important
point is. of course, that you should like
one another. I and my niece will visit
the theatre this evening. and you al
Just drop in upon us in box No. l." u
As a matter OF course the theatre was
crammed. All the best paying places IN
the house we're flied in the evening with
a public mostly male, get up in a style
seldom seen even at the royal opera It.
self. Glasses were levcled on all sides
in the direction of No. 1 box, aad eyes
were strained to catch the first glimpse OF
the niece when she hculd appear IN COM
pany with her uncle; but uncles are pro-
verbally .swicked old men," and, in the
present case, neither uncle or niece was
to be found and the disconsolatc lorers
of a fortuns--were left to clear up the
mystery as best they miSat-Londaa
TI,t p;to
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

There are aluminium sounding boards.
Accordingtoss doctors estimate, q
person in nine is ~left-handed.
A French officer IN Buisson has in
vented a hippometer which will register
the places and ground covered by q
horse.
It is estimated that 10, 900 electric
lamps, aggregating 10000, 900 candle
power, will be required for the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
Recent delicate experiments with kites
show that the amount of electricity I'M
the air is proporsionate to the height
above the eartn.
The rudder of the French ironclad
Brennus, which was recently launched,
was eighteen feet high and thirteen feet
wide, weighing seventeen tons.
Some French authors have adopted
the practice of using greeu-tinted paper
for manuscript, finding it less harmful
70 the eyes than white paper.
Paper properly treated with chemicals
and then subjected to a great pressure is
preferred for flooring material and for
general use in building as a tre.reslsting
substance.
When q gun is fred absolutely in the
vertical the ball will fall a few inches
south and west from the gun in northernI
ATTITUDES, due west at the equator and
northwest in southern latitudes.
Professor Srernwitz, the Assistant
State Geologist OF Texas, who spent all
the summer in geological work in the
northern part OF the State, says he is
convinced of its great value as a mineral
region.
Recent y two cases of idiocy in Gin
c%innati, Ohio, resulting from retarded
skull growth, were cured by a surgical
operation followed by trephining. Cap
able surgeons believe that all similar
cases can now be cured.
A French authority tells that if pota-
toes are immersed for ten hours ina So
luton. of II per cent. of commercial
sulphuric acid they will keep without
alteration for more than a year if or
binary care is exercised in handling
them.
Some observations made by Arthaudt
have convinced him that consumption is
contagious, and that the incubation
period is about two months. Consump-
tiYes in ill-ventilated shops OF In close
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R o FATHER TO SON.

One day q young man entered a merchants
Office in Boston, and with a pale and care
worn face said: "Sir, l am in need of help.
I have been unable to meet certain payments,
because certain parties have not done as tbey
agreed by me, and I would like to hire $10,-
600. I came to you because you were o
friend to my father, and might be q. friendto
me-" "Come in" said the old merchant,
''come in and have a glass Of wine" NO."
said the young man 'Idon't drink "Haye
8 cigar, them" mo, I never smoke.n
"Well,n said the old gentleman, 81
would like to accommodate You but I don't
think I can" Very well,'' said the young
man, as he was about to leave the room: 81
thought perhaps you might. Goodd day, sir"
Hold on" said the merchant; you don't
drink p "No." ''Nor gamble, nor any
thing of that kind?" "No, sir, I am super:
intendent Of a Sunday school" "Well,n
said the merchant, .'You shall have It. and
three times the amount If you wish. Your
father let me have $4,000 once and asked me
the same questions. He trusted me and I
will trust you. No thauks-I owe 1t to you
for your fathers trust."-[Ex.
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Galvanized Into Life.

A remarkable recovery from snake
bite is reported from Cranbourne, New
Zealand. Hourigan, an engine driver
and inspector Of pumps on the, Gipps-
land railway line, wa oiling the plunger
of a pump, when a snake bit hinton the
hand. Hourigan scarided and sucked
the wound, and felt no inconvenience be-
yond a general drowsiness. Last Friday,
declaring himself quite well, he again
proceeded to Pakenham. and fndingt the
necessity to give the tsplunger' asecond
oiling, he was in the act Of 90 doing
when q snake again bit the same hand.
only half an inch from the first wound,
the fangs penetrating SO deep that HouE
rigan had to knock the snake OF with
his left hand, suffering acute pain. He
hurried to the Pakenham station, and
the stationmaster applied ligatures Ct the
wrist and above the elbow, and sent the
sufferer to Berwick, where he appeared
to be dying. The local doctor injected
strychnine and then sent him to Dande.
nong, where the doctors injected the
thirtieth Of q grain Of strychnine and
kept the patient walking up and down.
till after q few hours he became black IN
the face and his limbs were perfectly
limp, when another thirtieth OF q
grain of sstrychuine and twenty
minims of Ammonia we're injected and
brandy administered. Then ~eappcared
somewhot better, but relapsing, the tn-
i~ecticns were repeated for the third time,
but in an hour time he collapsed, Ether
was injected without avail, and then the
~galvanic battery was applied to the nape
Of the neck and the apex OF the heart,
~galvanizing the man into life, when ne
became nearly mad with rage, owing 70
congestion Of the brain. The doctor
opened a vein, but the blood was too
thick to aow and cupping was resorted
to, four ounces of blood being removed.
From this time the sufferer showed signs
of recovery, and he is now considered
out of danger, although the battery
treatment had to be used until 3 o'clock
the next morning. The battery wss .
strong %bichromato cell battery.-saa
Francisco Chronicle. d.
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CHEERFUL PIETY.

Cheerfulness, that compound Of many ex.
ceIlencies, comparable unto "the powders Of
the merchant" may scarcely be claimed to
be called a virtue; but it Is the friend and
helper of all good graces, and the absence Of
it is certainly a vice. II cheerfulness be not
health, ~assurediy melancholy is disease.
Practically ,~cheerfulness occupies a very high
position, and without it the Christian laborer
is destitute Of very considerable element Of
strength. Cheerfulness sharpens the edge
and removes the rust from the mind. A
joyous heart supplies oil to our inward ma
cbinery, and makes the whole of our. powers
work with ease and suficiency; hence it
is of the utmost importance that we maintain
q contented, cheerful, genial disposition.
The longer I am engaged in my Masters
service. the more l am confident that the JOY
Of the Lord Is and must be our strength, and
that discomfort and moroseness are fatal to
usefulness. With all my heart would / say
to my fellow servants, "Rejoice In the Lord
always" not only for your W sakes, but
for the sake of the work which is so dear to
you. Whoever may advocate ydreary dull
ness, I cannot aud dare not do otherwise
than impeach 1t as an enemy Of true religion.
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TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR.

What DO you 90 to church for? Did you
ever stop to thinkp
I knew a title girl whose mother asked
her one morning il she were going to
church. She waited a minute, hesitated and
then answered, 81 'spose there is no use In
having new shoes if you don't wear them.
Yes, III be dressed, and go.n
Is this your object to be dressed, to show
new shoes? Do you 10 to look about at
strange faces and new bonnets?
Remember what the Bible says: "The
Lord Is in his holy temple Remember
what Christ said: "When you gather to-
gether in my name, Il will be there n:the
midst of you" ].
God Is In the church. Christ Is there and
we go to worship them. Though we can
not see them, they see deep down into our
hearts. They know all we have done
through the week, and what we are doing.
and thinking now. Fl
II we cannot understand what the minister
says, we can always think this-"Christi is
here! He who loved the little children,
and said, "Sufer them to come unto me-"
and took them ir his arms and blessed them.
Christ is there; he will forgive my faults,
and teach me how to be good.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
ABtr OF HEAVENLY BLUE.

a BIT OF HEAVENLY BLUE,
When clouds o'erbsng your pathway, friend,
And many are your cares,
And, with discouraged heart, you find
No answer to your prayers,
Remember there are always flowers,
Somewhere, of lovely hue,
And somewhere, shining in the sky,
A bit of heavenly blue.
Our world would be a dreary place
If this, friend, were not so,
And even Hope would drop Ler wings
Beneath a weight of woe;
But, thank God. there are always flowers,
Somewhere, Of lovely hue,
And somewhere, shining in the sky,
A bit of heavenly blue.
-GVick's Magazine.
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RICHES do not seem to lengthen
life. The man who is 80 rich he a
20 North in summer and South in
winter, does not live any longer than
the poor fellow who has to stay at
home and SILVER or sweat with every
change of weather.
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TEMPERANCE.
pRUNKARDs TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.

DRUNKARDs TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
against drunkenness, the Medical Board Of
Saxony has unanimously resolved to express
the opinion that persons who violate the
laws in a state Of Inconsistencies, or morbid
disturbance Of the mind, should be held re-
sponsible if the said condition be due to
drunkenness for which they were themselves
to blame. The Medical Board will also adj
vocate the framing Of a statute which will
make it possible, under certain conditions,
to place drunkards under guardians. SO
says the London Lancet.
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ABOLISH cANrEEN BEER SELLING.

Beer is in no sense a necessity in army life,
and the present arrangement for its sale in
connection with the army canteens ought to
be abolished. Sundry subordinate officers
report in its favor, and their reports have
been widely heralded throughout the coun-
try. But one superior to oil of them in
rank, whose word may be relied upon in the
ticapated, against beer-selling in the army
canteen. It should be stopped by the War
Department, aud prohibited by act of Con-
gress.-NationdL Advocate.
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THE first victim Of the Broadway
cable in New York was the notorious
Freddy Gerhard, who caught the
wheel Of his dogcart in the slot and
was overturned. If cable railways
prove fatal to persons Of the Gebhald
stamp many of their evils will be
forgiven them.
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WASHINGTON may not be thought
of these times as much as he might
be, but the farmers and others as
they see the big crops can't help
thinking of the fodder If their
country. - :
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EVERY man thinks that If his
neighbor could be in his shoes for a
few days, he would 90 back to his own
position contented for the rest of his
life.
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South Carolina produced more than
one-third of the entire amount of phos-
phate rock mined in the world last year,
the output being 600, 900 tons.
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The new Swiss ~railway-the Brenzer
Rothhornbahn-is the highest in the
Alps. 1t is 1886 feet at the summit
level.
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There are $50 students at Princeton
this season against S51 last year.
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HE cold-gray
8 b a d 0 W 8 of
the wintry
twilight had
enveloped tree
and meadow
and sluggish
forest streams
in their uncer-
tain mist, the
factory chin:
news hunp their
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HIS. MOTHER.

BY NM RANDOLPH.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-17
The First Protestant in Japan.

The first Protestant Christian in ia
pan was one Murata, a military retainer
of the Lord of Saga, in the southern is
land of Kiushiu. In 1860 he went to
Nagasaki, by order of his chief, and one
evening, as he was crossing the harbor
in boat, he picked up book that was
floating about in the water. The writing
ran from side to side, like the crawling
of crabs" and upon sending it to one of
the Dutch then settled at Nagasaki, he
learn that it was the Christian Bible,
then prescribed book. Curiosity spur
red him on, and he had one of his as
sistants learn the language of the book
and translate it for him, sentence by
sentence.
His study was continued in secret,
with a few friends, after his return
home. When difficult passage was
found, a messenger was sent to DR.. Yer
beck, a well known missionary then in
Nagasaki, for it's Interpretation. Murata
was afterward baptized, and his name
now stands first on the roll of Protes-
tant Christians IN Japan. - London
Times