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The advocate., 1894-12-05
CHAPTER X.
AN INVESTMENT IN UTOPIA.

Neither spoke for some time. Their
hands were deposited each in the 9TH
ers. What other place of deposit so
safe and nsturalS They sat on a rustic
bench long enough to accommodates
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CHAPTER TX.
ABOVE THE CROWD.

WOO AOAH AVAAAOAAOCAOA AAA A~A~4NAS"N@S
county, not on account of the contest
of the attorneys, for the utmost good
feeling and agreement Of opinions pre-
vailed between the opposing counsel,
neither for a surprise in the verdict, for
no verdict was reached. In fact, the
popular sentiment had concluded some
time before the day set for the COM
mencement of the case that Deborah
Shrouds was alone the guilty party.
This belief of itself would have pre-
vented a conviction Of the accused. To
add to the difficulties Of the states at
torney the Witness-in-chie Amos VIII
liams, was nowhere to be found. So
that gentleman, in the best spirit, and
with a most winning grace, declared
when the case was called that he was
satisfied that there was nothing what
ever to hold Miss Ford upon, and
moved the court to enter a qlOlle prose-
qui, which was accordingly done with
out loss of time, and Miss Nettie Ford
was declared once more a free woman.
The judge laid especial emphasis upon
this statement: 81 congratulate you,
Miss Ford, that you are thus exhonOr-
ated. Let no one hencefOrth remem-
Der this unfortunate episode during
which you stood under the shadow Of
crime. You 60 from this court as fully
absolvPl Of the suspicion of wrong
doing as though the charge had never
been made" and the fat, well-fed rep
resentative of the law rubbed his slick
hands together as though washing from
them possible stains.
Then came the surprise. Nettie Ford
rose, and with a voice somewhat quak-
ing at first, but soon becoming steady
and distinct said: "Your honor, is
this all the redress an innocent woman
can receive who has been rudely ar
rested, flung into jail, and forced for
months to lie under the accusation OF
criminal act? 1t is easy, it seems to
me, for you to say to me, GO in peace,
and bear away the assurance of your
innocence | have never borne any
thing else during all this terrible or
deal. Is it little thing that woman,
who cannot vote for the men who make
the laws, who owes no relation to the
laws but that of prisoner, who is never
recognized in her own proper right as a
citizen, except when she becomes a
criminals it a little thing, yourhonor,
that an innocent woman, pure and
proud woman, shall find herself the
target of vile and Villianous tongues,
and banned and branded as a felonp
Do you think that few soft words,
such as you have just uttered will COM
pensate for this awful wrong?"
BY this time the awe-struck baliff
had found his voice, and piped out,
"Order in COURT Sit down, madam"
while the Judge rubbed his hands
harder than ever, and fidgeted on his
revolving chair. But Nettie stood her
ground.
"I ask for an answer, your honor. Is
there no recompense that you can offer
me for this wrong done me in this
courtP"
The judge quailed as the indignant
woman looked into his eyes, and fal-
tered, "Why, as to that, madam, this
10 h,,t ono of tho axiOancias of iugtice
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average adults besides this couple.
Which proves that estimations do not
always estimate. Nettie looked be-
yond at the scenery. Charlie was try
ing to determine in his mind whether
a certain curl was not more bewitching
when out of place and saucily poking
itself over her forehead, than when de-
murely tucked away under her sun
shade hat. AT last she, seeming to
catch the idea away out yonder some
where, asked solemnly:
81 wonder if Habakkuk is down
there?"
AS her eyes swept over the view, re-
turning they fell upon a couple who
were coming toward them on the Bel.
mont drive, having been probably late
Visitants at the agricultural building.
The man she instantly recognized as
their old feiend Hsbakkuk Shrouds,
AS they came within short, range that
worthy began to fire one of his inter
minable speeches.
"My dear young friends" he began,
"neVer in this world of changes and
ViCissitudes here below was L gladder
to see anybody. A word in secret, l
said lately when meetin' another trsV-
'ler through this vale Nv tears, she bein'
nobuddy but my concert Deborah
Shrouds, but bein' as | am at present,
under the cloud of her wrath. an dare
not speak to her till future orders is
civ, l Wanter introduce Mrs. Shrouds,
Mrs. Calvin, Mr.. Calvin, good friends
er mine. Mrs. Shrouds is not the one
who did cutting act we heV hearn
tell of as she'll tell ye herself. Well,
how do you like it, eh?'' addressing
Calvin as he shook hands with both,
while Mrs. Shrouds deigned to lay her
clammy claw in their palms, and with
a fsr-sWay stony stare at the atmos-
phere above CalVin's head remarked as
to some power OF the air.
eff he has told you that l was ever
suspected of a feloniouS act, it would
be no more than l should expect of
Him." the pronoun ever emphatically
capitalized. "He lets pass no occasion
to insult me-" she added very signif-
cantly, "When am absent"
eff so be that peoples characters is
peculiar, responded the assailed party,
''people shouldn't scringe. Ask her if
1 ever treated her disrespectful to her
knowledge"
"Ask him." the irste spouse broke
in, ''if he wants to keep up fight
which is wearing me into the graVeP
Ask him if he can bye an bye look on
my poor head-stun an read, unmoVed,
the touchin' inscription which 1 will
have inscribed onto it, Deborah
Shrouds nee Starbuck, Died of a
Broken Hearth" Ask him if in deny
ing him the right for time to address
me he is not justly punished for his un-
feeling conduct?"
"Lordp laughed Habakkuk, "ask
an it shall be given unto you. What all
this sniflin' an whinin' an pantods is
for, nobody knows. If l could only
make up my min to take the Inglsh
plan an use small stick not bigger
than my finger" holding up a digit al
most as thick and black as a link Of
bologna, "there'd be peace. No pan
LII Ronnnn / nnr Pnntin, / atan1 for
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some process of natural selection, care.
full training and unfagging Watchful-
ness to create a marital condition
which shall be cool and calculating in
its first stages, and which shall warm
up imperceptibly as time advances and
the connection continues until the
areana of love be realized in the later
days of the pair? l mean nothing here
to apply to the instructive, the marital
relations of the welded. That will go
its own way spite the teachings of
Aristotle or Solomon. 1t has but an
inferior place in the Hymenlan temple.
The touch which speaks better things
than even the voice, the look which
fits eye to eye as respOnsiVely and as
blissfully as lip to lip, confidence, re-
gard, respect, founded upon a mutual
absorption which outlasts human life
and looks out on the strandless ocean
of the eVermOre. Why may not this
flower of futurity burst into fullest
bloom when locks are gray and the
croWsfeet brand our templesP But un-
til this process is discovered, and | pre-
sumo that will be when everybody can
say "eyther" without blushing, when
John Sherman can agree with Dick
Bland on a bimetallic basis. or when
Pope Bob celebrates high mass in St.
Patrick's, people of all ages will fall
into the disease known as love, and
fall out again as easily and as cause
lessly.
Charlie and Nettie, as known to each
other when darling" and "dear" did
not represent each, one beautiful June
morning drifted on until they found
themselves on Georges hill. From
this slight elevation a complete pano'
rama of the magnificent view, sylvan
and urban, opened to the entranced
gaze. Beneath their feet lay the ex-
tensiVe grounds, with its great edifces,
fewer in number and less in extent
than those at the greater show at Chi
cago, but the most capacious upto that
time of any international fair. Along
the tree-bordered avenues poured
crowds of pedestrians, massed most
around the several buildings. There
were glimpGes of little lakes, half hidS
den under the cool, green foliage Of
arbored groves. Yonder, like silverrib-
bon lying in slight curves upon the pic
ture, glinted the Sehuylkill, embalmed
as securely in its crisp, aboriginalname
as costly embowered in woods, the
lineal descendants of the elm under
which the shreWd Quaker drove close
bargain for a principality in the name
of philanthropy. Beyond the river,
alive with boats, and spanned by a
number of high bridges, lay the city, a
vast meadow of houses. thickly beSet
with spires and towers which shot out
from the uniform growth below, like
tall weeds from bed of onions. But
in the morning light of rare June
day, and to the eyes of a couple of
mutual deVotees, who could see moth
ing hideous even in the architecture of
the agricultural building below them,
or hear nothing majestic in the strains
of "Was Ist des Deutschen Vaterland'
lit was German Freethinkers' day, and
by delicious cORtretempS of which the
average fair managers are 80 capable,
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A PAIR OF CRANKS.
BY HI. M. GREENE.

Iuo WrOuB VlCOAnls NO mOG6S MlSS-
FOrd--no more-really no use-glad
you are-free-next case-ah, l see
State VS.. Fothergill. Are you ready,
gentlemen? Goodbye, Miss-Ford."
To this day Nettie's questionremains
unanswered.
X X X
The celebration of a century of pro-
gress in the life Of a great nation con-
Veys to all peoples of earth the most
impressive lesson which man and his
creations are capable of imparting. 1t
is the apotheosis of the modern man,
for from the head of everything speaks
the voices of infinite study, patience
and toll, the plant of poverty and ne
glect in construction, of tardy appre-
citation and ill-recompensed endeaVors
after accomplishment. There is un-
requited love, foiled ambition, per
petual anxiety, the hiss Of jealous
rivals and the cuckoo chorus of small
detrsctors. Every invention, every fab
ric and production has been forced to
run the gauntlet of savage enemies to
the accompaniment of the bsrbaric cry
which has even cheered the blows of
the aagillsnts upon the unfortunate,
who has dared to think or act in ad-
vance of the dullest of his day. A col
lection Of martyrs, truly, and like all
martyrs happy IN posthumous fame.
They have won the crown of triumph,
and henceforth are canonized in the
minds of the executioners who pelted
them to glory.
But why speak of the pathetic phase
of anything, when the brighter view so
readily smiles in our facesP Who re-
members the dust and WEAKNESS of the
march, the pangs of unassuaged hun
ger and thirst, aye, the shock and
smoke and battle blood of the ap-
proaCh, when the bugler sings victory,
and the bells all over the land chant
Te DelLnp at the consummation? Vic
tory is here in all these works, radiant,
almost vocal in her sublime assertion.
Work almost infinite in endurance, in
pain of procrastination, but it hath
wrought out success, and success in
this age stands for all.
America sent notice to the nations
that she would be "st home" on the
hundreth anniversary of her majority,
and asked them to come and see her,
bringing something of the distinctive
work of each country as a contribution
to a picnic of materialism. Come to
this old city-old on this side-of broth
erlY love, whose streets are as straight
as the ethics of her people, whose
dwellings are as uniform as their
genius, and whose site is as fiat as its
society," Come and bring your best!
They came; 10 millions of them, citi
zens and aliens. And among the 1C
millions were the young people we left
in the court room. 1t does not once
occur to them in the throng which
surges around them so densely and un'
concernedly that they seem to be shut
up to themselves and to a solitude
deeper than that of the lone sea shore
They are aimlessly drifting on with the
tide which covers the broad grounds
and eddies around those great build
ings and flows in and out of them al
day. Are they weary? Possibly. Yet
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strongest Of Living Creatures.

"What living creature is possessed OF
the greatest bodily strength in proper
tion to its size?" was a question asked
by reader. The answer is as follows:
This honor must be divided between
the Cockchafer, the hive bee and the
flea. 1t is rather difficult to apply a
test to prove which particular insect
among the borers, the jumpers and car
ricrs is the strongest, but there is no
question that in proportion to their
size insects undoubtedly possess tho
greatest strength among living crea-
lures. The flea can jump foot high,
more than 100 times it's own length,
and taking its average jumpas 80 times
its own length, it is as if a man jumped
as high as the gallery of the monu-
ment. The spring of the tiger and the
leap of the kangaroo are insignificant
when compared with this. A cock
chafcr is strong enough to lift 24-3
times it's own weight, a small hive bee
a3.5 times the weight Of itself. Judged
by this standard, there is nothing COM
parable to it among other insects or
among the larger animals, and it may
be safely asserted that these three in.
sects divide the honors between them,
for though boring insects pierce the
hardest wood, it il by the wonderful
adaptation of their boring instrument
rather than by abnormal strength
pearscn's Weekly.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Six million copies of the Bible were
distributed in Germany during the
year 1893.
Sixteen Of the seventy-one members
of the class graduated at Vassar won
honors--the best record for the institu-
tion.
The Mohammedans believe in the
existence of seven hells, the hottest oil
which is reserved for liars and hypo-
critics.
-Twenty-one young women have
been graduated from the hospital OF
the Johns Hopkins university as trained
nurses.
The Congregationaiists of Massa-
chusetts have adoptedn q plan for bring
ing together churches without pastors
and pastors without churches.
The year book of the Young Mems
Christian association, for 1894, shows
that there are /, ,439 associations, with
an aggregate membership of 232,653.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army.
and his captains of either sex have been
officially declared to be ministers OF re-
ligion within the meaning of the law.
The Irish Presbyterian church re-
ports 1O4,57s members in 1894, gdin Of
1865 over the past year. The total in
come is $4,000, which is little over
IS head of the membership.
If the Bible had not been book OF
immense spiritual vitality, it would
have been killed long ago, not SO much
by its supposed enemies as by its mis-
taken friends. ds.-Christian Register
The late President Carnot, of
France, was never baptized. He be-
longed to the Theophilanthropists,
founded by La Revilliere-Lepaux.
Among the original members of the
sect was Lazare, grandfather of the
president.
In the secondary schools of New
York there are 20, $50 girls of academic
grade and only is,243 boys and more
than two-thirds of the honors last year
went to girls. In the colleges there
are 2,923 women, of whom 761 are in CO.
educational.
Mr.. Moses Handy, writing to the
Chicago Intcr-Ocean, says of Rev. DIR.
William Henry Furness, who is now
ninety-two years old, that he can
''preach sermon, smoke a pipe, enjoy
a play, or take morning constitutional
of a few miles, with as much zest as
most men who are fifty years his Junior.
He is one of the most interesting men
I ever met, always reminding me OF
Gladstone in his clean and wholesome
trend of thought, in his versatility. in his
thorough permeation with the spirit Of
good-fellowship, and his domestic vir-
tues. He WAS classmate OF Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and bosom friend o1
Lcngfellow and Alcott."
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p.,uI,ar Qualifications.

Great Editor-I advertised for pri-
yate secretary, whose chief duties
would be to sit in the ante-room and
keep poets, bores and other unde-
sirable persons at bay. The position
requires something of diplomat as
we'll as a fluent linguist. You would
not do at all.
Ricketts, (who shutters trife)-
That's wh-wh-where you make num-
mum mistake, squire! AS sus-sus-
soon's a bub-bore cuc-cuc-came in
Td bup-bur-begin to tell a l-l-long
s.s-storv, and before I'd gug-gug-got
half wav through, bub-bub-between
wbn.wh-what I'd sus-sus-say and
w.what I'd tried to sus-say, I'd have
him cuc-cuc-compietely tut-tired out
amt mum-mum-much Of dud.dipio. o.
mat, perhaps, but as l-l.linguist I'm
i. cyc-cuc-caution.-N. Y. World
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THE ROSES OF PERSIA.
This Name Should Be Applied to Her
Beautiful Women.

beautiful women.
Persian women, generally speaking,
are usually bright and shrewd, as well
as very beautiful.
The climate that develops a rich and
lovely vegetation moulds also the hu-
man beings that belong to the land,
and the typical Persian lady, with her
delicate frame, her flowcr-like skin,
her great, dark eyes aflame with intel
ligence, and her soft and graceful man
ners, is as much product of her clear
climate as are the masses of blossoms
that surround Persian homes and
hearts, and that have so naturally per-
vaded some of their domestic decora-
ton as to condemn it, according to the
strict art canons Speaking as a lover
of flowers, l should say the roses of
Persia is not more out of place peeping
in effigy from tile or painted page the
in the English garden, which owes its
boasted rosery to Persia. The rose is
never out of place. But the real rose
of Persia is the Persian woman!
She is a very different creature from
the Turkish, the Cairene, and especial
ly the Tangerine woman. The Per-
sian woman is naturally active-ninded,
with strongly-poetic temperament
and liking for art. letters and politics
themselves when she can get them.
She has considerable power with her
men-folk, and in most affairs of mo.
ment her finger may be traced.
The harem life prevails, no doubt,
and all the insipidities and heartburn
ings are present, of course, as in all
Moslem countries. Nevertheless the
Persian woman has always held an ele-
waited legal position above her Moslen
sisters-a position indeed which has
sometimes been quoted as superior to
that of European women. Atleast she
has long been permitted to enter trades
on her own account, to possess indie.
pendent property. to appear as witness
in the courts, attest documents, etc.
She is also responsible for her debts,
and IN divorce has right to her own
children.-N. Y. Journal.
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HE REMINDED HER.
His "I Done It" Stories Had Nettled the
Girl From Boston.

His IT Done It" Stories Had Nettled the
Girl From Boston.
An uptown young man, who is fresh
to degree that surpasses endurance,
and who persists in talking all the time
there is anybody in sight, went out for
the evening one night last week and
met girl from Boston.
Although the young man talks con-
tinually, he occasionally uses some very
bad grammar. One fault is particular
ly glaring. He invariably says: II
done it" for II did it," and, as he is
continually talking about himself, he
makes this mistake many times in the
course of an hour.
He engaged the Boston girl in con-
versation and told her some fairy tale
about something or other that had hap
pened to him. When he got through
she expressed surprise that such thing
could happen, and asked him:
Ibid you really do it?"
81 done it," replied the young man.
proudly.
Then he branched into another ro-
nance.
This was even more startling than
the first. The girl from Boston lis
tened patiently, and, when he had fin
ished, politely exp ressed her great as
constituent. Why" she said, "can it
be possible that you did anything SO
wonderful?'
"That's what I DONE" replied the
young man, chucking out his chest as
no made the remark.
The great success of his two stories
spurred him to further efforts, and he
recited another condensed dime novel
for the benefit of the girl from Boston.
When he had finished the girl said:
"Oh, do you know, you remind me SO
strongly of Banauo's ghost?"
you mean the ghost in the Shakes
peare play?" inquired the young man,
in hesitating sort of way.
Yes"
"And why?'
"Don't you remember that Macbeth
said to him: Thou canst not say, did
| it?"
And until this day the young man
does not know why everybody laughed.
Buffalo Express.
The Van Buren press., 1894-09-15
FUNERAl. FLORAL TRIBUTES.
Enormous Display In the Procession Which
Did Not Include Carnot's Body.

Enormous Display In the Procession Which
Did Not Include Carnot's Body.
In none Of the accounts describing
the procession which have seen was
justice done to the display OF flowers
piled upon the ten special cars built
for the purpose and each Of which con-
tanned at least. two tons, but there
were thousands of wreaths carried up
on the shoulders of bearers in front OF
special delegations. Every public body
and every society and delegation TAX
ing part had its wreath. Despite the
oppressive heat and tremendous crowds
one could not help feeling refreshed as
these sweet-scented and generally ar.
tistic emblems were borne past. IL Is
estimated that six hundred thousand
dollars was spent in this way, while
only twenty thousand dollars was
voted by parliament for the remainder
of the funeral arrangements The
most striking fact in connection with
the funeral cortege, however, was this:
The coffin which, was borne along
with SO much pomp and ceremony
from the Elysee to the Pantheon did
not contain the remains of President
Carnot. Only two or three persons were
aware of this fact on Sunday. As a
matter of fact, the remains Of M. Car
not were removed to the Pantheon
Thursday in the dead of night. 1t will
be remembered that Mime. Carnot re-
fused to have the remains of her hus-
band embalmed. The consequence was
that, owing to the very hot weather,
decomposition set in much sooner than
would otherwise have been the case.
On Thursday morning the body had
swelled so much as to break the sides
or the oaken coffin, and another and n
larger one was substituted. But later
in the day those whose uty 1t was to
remain constantly in the Chapelle Ar
dente became very forcibly aware OF
the presence of odors of the most un-
pleasant and dangerous description,
and it was then decided to remove the
remains and substitute another coffin
in the ehapelle. The consequence was
that the thousands of patriotic French
men and sympathetic friends who filed
through the chamber on Friday and
Saturday actually made their homage
to an empty coffin. or, rather, one
weighted with lead.-London Figaro.
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The dude was thinking. 1t was not
a pastime for him but a task, and yet
he was thinking profoundly. He had
called on the girl of his hopes the night
before and had proposed to her.
my darling" he had said, II want
you to be my wife"
"Oh, thank you, Mr.. Devere," she
had replied, chow nice; but I'm not in
marrying mood to-day"
Possibly not" he had said, with
blind, unfaltering devotion, "but you
may be tomorrow"
Possibly she had replied dreamily,
''for Will Smith is coming to see me. y
And this is why the dude was think
ing. g.-Detroit Free Press.