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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-16
Riding thus,

the wind stir shis hair. Riding thus.
exalted thus. one night he shaped a des-
perate resolution: he determined to call
on her just as he would on a girl at Viro-
guy with whom he was on the same In
timacy OF footing.
lie was as good as any class. he was
not as good she was. for he lacked
her sweetness and purity OF heart. and
because she lived in a great house and
wore beautiful garments did not shut
him Off from calling upon her.
But week after week went by with
out his daring to make his resolution
good. He determined many times to
ask permission to call. but somehow
he never did.
He seemed to see her rather less than
ut first. and on her part there was a
change. She seemed to have lost her
first eager and frank curiosity about
him, and did not always smile now
when she met him.
Then again. he could not. i'm working
dress ask to call: 1t would seem SO in1
congruous to stand before her to make
such a request, covered with perSpira-
ton and DIST. 1t was hard to be dig
nified under such circumstances: he
must be washed and dressed properly.
In the meantime. the men had dis
covered how matters stood. and some
of them Tade very free with the whole
situation. Two of them especially hated
him.
These two men had drifted to the
farm from the mines somewhere. and
We're rough, hard characters. They
would have come to blows with him,
only they knew something Of the
power lying coiled in his long arms.
One day he overheard one of the men
speaking of Edith. and his tone stopped
the blood in Arthur's heart. When he
walked among the group of men, his
face was white and set.
You take tina: back" he said. in a
low voice. You take that back, or I'll
kill you right where you stand"
do him up, Tim shouted the other
rufiian. but Tim hesitated.
"Ill do him then" said the other
man; II owe him one myself"
20 (Nnntinns1
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SYNOPSIS.


Arthur Ramsey. fine. handsome young
fellow, and "a graduate of a western asri-
cultural college. comes to the city of Red
Rock. In search of Il position as foreman
on q ranch. After looking in vain for
place he meets Major Thayer, a wealthy
cl,zen OF Red Rock, who gives him a
plowman's position on his ranch near the
city. There Arthur meets with many ht-
miliations. and is particularly enraged
by the patronizing airs OF Thayer's Eng
lishN partner. Salisbury, who, however,
turns out to be IA good fellow, unnaccus-
toned to American ways. Just as Arthur
begins work on his chores one evening II
party of Thayer's friends come out from
the city to look about the farm, among
them "A lovely Young girl from Washing
tn. Edith. the majors niece. to whom
Arthur's attention Is at once drawn. she
also seems 10 be impressed by his appear
ance.
PART II.
"Oh. do YOU drive the horses?' she
asked quickly.
Eyes. for the present | am the plow-
man." he said. in the wish to let her
know he was not Il common hand. Her
eyes rested moment longer on his
study figure and his beautifully
bronzed skin, then she turned away.
After they had driven away Arthur
finished his work In silence: he could
hardly bring himself to speak to the
horses his mind was in such a thmult.
He went up to his little room and sat
down facing the glorious mountains:
and he sat there until the engulfing
gloom of rising night climbed to the
glitterng crown of white, soaring
1000 feet above the twinkling lights
of the city. He did not see the noun
tains: his eyes only turned toward
them az cat faces the light of a
hearth; ii helped him to think, some
how.
He was naturally keen. sensitive and
impressionable: his mind worked
quickly, for he had read Il great deal
and held his reading at command,
His thought concerned itself first OF
all with the attitude these people as
sumed toward him. 1t was perfectly
evident that they regarded him as a
creature of inferior sort. He was their
} servant.
1t made him turn hot TO think how
terribly this contrasted with the ilam-
boyaIt phraseology OF his graduating
OratiGn.
He came back for relief to the face
of the girl, the girl who looked at him
without scorn.
The impression she made on him was
one of daintiness and light Her eager
face and her sweet voice. almost child
ish in its thin quality, appealed to him
with singular force
She was strange to- him. in accent and
like; she was good and sweet. he felt
sure of that, but she seemed so far
away in her manner of thought. He
wished he had been dressed little bet
ter. his olq hat troubled him especially.
The girls he had known. even the
daintiest of them. could drive horses
and We're not afraid of cows. Their
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From the Chicago Times-Iierald.
States in war for two sufficient reasons.
First. because she is dependent on for
eign soil for more than half her food sup
ply. Secondly. because in addition to
starvation her people would be threatened
with paralysis Of their industry.
1t has been suggested that both food and
raw cotton might escape the tperils of
such war by being carried In neutral
ships. This expedient England herself
knows well would be worthless. In 1856
the United states was willing to secure
| all private property at sea. Great Britain
refused to consent. This II one of the in
stances that prove how vastly it would
have been to her advantage to let the
United States add one more chapter to in
ternational law. Even II the British mer-
chandise were transferred to foreign flags
II would not be immune unless the trans-
fers were actually made before the out
break Of war, which is clearly impossible.
ILL.,
When, last year, the question CT
strengthening the British navy was up be-
fore parliament and the country the Lon
don Times said "Our own maritime COM
merce Ia our life blood. To arrest its flow
means nothing less than dissolution of the
body polite. 1t must be carried under the
British nag If 1t is to be carried at all
There is not tonnage enough in the world
to carry 1t under any other flag, even II
It's transfer to neutral flag were likely to
De respected Dy DeIllSefent whose
strength at sea had rendered such a trans
fer expedient." Lawrence in THE EX-
emption of Private Property From Cap
ture at Sea- says: I'VE (the British
have all the seas of the world to patrol.
1t Is not a question of naval superiority,
but of naval omnipOtence."
Should Great Britain engage in a for
eign war involving any power having
means OF attacking her on the sea- that
power, wrote Geffcken few months ago.
before there was any danger from the
United States, would ''know perfectly we'll
that the necessity of importing food and
raw material Is England's most vulner-
able point" Boyd Kinnear told Great
Britain few years ago: IF our COM
merce by sea IL stopped We perish by star
vatton." England could manage to get
cotton In as private property in neutral
bottoms, she would lose gradually the food
supply from this country, which could not
be made up by any other; and even If she
got food enough into her harbors, her peo-
pie would not have money with which to
buy it, for her exports would be COM
pletely stopped, partly by actual peril Of
capture and partly by reason of the timld-
ity of capital that would not incur the
risk.
But could she get cotton? 1t has been
intimated that she is not seriously de-
pendent now upon the United States for
her chief textile import. Here, however,
are the figures:
Percentage Of imports of raw cotton
from the United States into the United
kip0dnnn--
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Chicago Live Stock.

Union Stock Yards, Ills, Jan. 15.-Cat-
tie. 100 head: market firm and 10 cents
higher; common to extra steers, 81. 4a4.S5
stockers and feeders. s2.soa365; cows and
bulls, $l.65a3.60; calves. $3.60a6.25: Texans,
50. .25af.l5. HOgs-Recelpts, 25.00O head;
market firm and cents higher; heavy
packing and shipping lots. So. 7Oa3. 80; COM
mon to choice mixed, $365a3.S7ls; choice
assorted. $3.s0a3Sla; light, $365a3.S7ls
pigs. $2.90a3. Sheep-Receipts, H.0OO head;
market steady; inferior to choice. $2aS.60;
lambs, S3,o5a3%J
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In the face of these figures and facts 1t
seems idle to make arrangements to fight
Great Britain. A country that, by declar-
ing war upon the United States or making
1t necessary that we should make war
upon her, would run the double risk Of
industrial paralysis and starvation. would
be committing suicide. As the London
Times said. ut would be dissolution OF
the body polite"
There will be no war;
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tiOns dull. steadier: January and F'ebru-
airy. 2ac.; March. 2AiAc.; May, :4isc.;l spot
2oisc.: No. : Chicago. sJa2'4c.: No. J IT
23i<c.: No. } white. 2iLc.: mixed western.
?4,fa,5isc.: white do. 25a2sc. white state,
?oa2 a Provisions-Qu.et and unchanged.
I.aro-Market unchanged. Pork-Firmer.
quiet: mess, $40. 25al0.75 Butter and
Cheese-Fairly active, unchanged. Eggs
Steauier: state ana Pennsylvania, i7isa
l9c.; southern, 16isai7lsc.: western fresh,
l7alSc. rest unchanged.
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Io,edo Grnin Market.

Toledo. Jan. l5.-Close. Wheat-Re-
ceipts. 6.t6S bushels: shipments. 5000 bush
els: quiet; No. > red cash. &c: May. Csc. :
July. 6tiAc.: No. red cash. 65s4c. Corn
Receipts. 22.6UO bushels; shipments. li,s0o
bushels; easy; No. mixed cash. 2skc.:
No. do, 26isc.; No. ) yellow. 2Sc.; No. 3
white. 26iac. Oats-Receipts. none: ship
ments, 1000 bushels: nothing doing. ClO-
verseed-Receipts, go bags: shipments.
SO bushels: firm; prime cash and Janu-
ara. @isiac.; March, A.22l2; prime alske,
$3.50
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New York Produce Market.

New York. Jan. 15.-Flour-Quiet, un-
changed. Wheat-Spot market dull
stronger; No. . red store and elevator
7Oha7Olsc.; afioat. 71sza72c.; I. o. b., mac.
ungraded red. 65a73c. No. ! northern, 70i4 q
7Oiac.; options were fairly active and
strong at lsassc. advance on local cover.
6slsc.; February. 6ss4c.; March, 6sstc.; May
67ase.: June. 6sssc.; July. 6eetc. Corn :
Spot quiet, stronger; No. 2 at 369tc. eleva.
tor; 36asc afioat: options dult, firm at Aa
&c. advance. with the west and on local
cc''er!~~: January and February, S6kc.
May, 35Nc. Oats-Spots, dlhI. nrmer: op.
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Gplds, Group, Gatarrb, Consumption
"It Started with q Cold"

So said one of the greatest of doc
tors. and he was right.
All throat and lung diseases begin
with q cold. There is only one way
to cure them. Something must be
taken to quickly remove the sore
ness, and inflammation. For years
the greatest scientists and physicians
sought for some discovery and at
last It was found in the form of
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Philadelphia TaIlow Market.

Philadelphia Jan. 15.-Tallow was dull,
but demand was light. We quote: City
prime. in hogsheads, 3ac.h country.
prime. I'm barrels. 3esc.: do. dark. in bar
rels. 3ha3lec.; cakes, 4c.; grease. sac.
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Ruffalo Live stock.

Buffalo, N. V, Jan. 15.-Cattle-Steady
for good, slow for common: good stockers
s2.75a3; bulls, $2.25a2.65: veals, light to
good, $4a6.50. Hogs-Higher; Workers.
$3.50; light do. 1895; mixed packers, $3.9 80
4: roughs. s3.15a3.3O; Sstags, S2.50a3 Sheep
and Enthusiastically for lambs, slow for
sheep; best lambs. $4.75a5: fair to good
S3.S5a4.65; mixed sheep. good to choice
$3a3.4O; common to fair. i$2. .25a275
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his inherited nature.
His father had been a rather mOrose
man. jealous of his rights, quick tn
| anger but Just in his impulses. Arthur
| had inherited these stronger traits. but
| they had been covered up by the smiling
exterior of youth.
Edith came up nearly every day with
| the major in order to enjoy the air and
| beauty of the sunshine, and when she
did not come near enough to nod to
Arthur life was weary treadmill for
| the rest of the day. and the mountains
became mere stacks of gloomy debris.
Sometimes she sat on the porch with
the children while Mrs. Richards. the
fOreman's wife, n hearty, talkative
woman. piled her with milk and
cookies.
1T must he heaven to live here and
feed the chickens and cows" the young
girl said one day when Arthur was
passing by-quite accidentally.
Mrs. Richards took a seat. wiping her
face on her apron. Wal, don't know
about that. when it comes to waltin'
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WHY THERE CAN BE NO WAL

OIL CITY, Pa, Jan. 15.-Oil opened, high
est, lowest and closed, $l.5O.
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From the Chicago Times.Herald.
Great Britain will not engage the United
States In war for two sufficient reasons.
First. because she is dependent on for
eign soil for more than half her food sup
ply. Secondly. because in addition to
starvation her people would be threatened
with paralysis Of their Industry.
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Oil Market.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-05-28
TRICKS PLAYED BY PLANTS,

DIR. Lnndstrom has recently de-
scrlbed some cases of alleged plant
mimicry. The cultivated plant known
as calendula may, in different condi-
tions, produce at least three different
kinds of fruit. Some have sails and
are suited for transportation by the
wind, while others have hooks and
catch hold of passing animals, but the
third kind exhibits more desperate
dodge, for it becomes like caterpillar.
Not that the fruit knows anything
about it, but if it be sufficiently like u
caterpillar, bird may eat it by mis-
take, the indigestible seeds will be
subsequently dropped, and SO the trick
succeeds.
The next case is more marvellous.
There is very graceful wild plant
with beautiful delicate flowers,
known to man as the COW wheat.
Ants are fond of visiting the COW
wheat to feast on sweet BAN
quet spread out upon the leaves. DR..
Lundstrom has observed one of these
ants, and was surprised to see it max
ing off with one of the seeds from an
open fruit. The ant took the seed
home with it. On exploring some ant
nests, the explorer soon saw that this
was not the first COW wheat seed which
had been similarly treated.
Many seeds were found in the ant
nurseries. The ants did not eat them
or destroy them; in fact, when the
nest was disturbed the ants saved the
seeds along with their brood, for in
size, form, color and weight, even in
minute particulars, the seeds in ques-
ton resemble ant cocoons. Once
placed among the cocoons, it requires
q better thai an ant to distinguish the
tares from the wheat. In the excite
ment of fitting, when the nest is dis
turbed, the mistake is repeated, and
the seeds are also saved. The trick
is found out some day for the seeds
like the cocoons, awake out of sleep.
The awakening displays the fraud.
The seeds are thus supposed to be
scattered; they germinate and seem to
thrive in the ant nests.
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A SLAVE MADE A BISHOP.

American travellers in EAy gland, as
a rule, make pilgrimage to the an
clent cathedral of Canterbury, which
is filled with associations of moment
to the historian and the Christian.
Here the Crusaders kept vigil before
departing to the Holy Land. Here
Beckett was murdered. The stone
steps are still here, worn in deep
hollows by the knees Of countless pill
grims in past centuries. Every stately
pillar and carved stone has it's record
of dim, far-off days in English history.
One scene, however, which has been
witnessed in this great minister, is
more significant to Americans, vexed
as they are with their race problems,
than any murder or coronation.
Here before the high altar, with all
the solemn splendor of the ceremonial
of the English church, poor freed
slave, with a skin as black as coal, was
consecrated the first bishop of the
Niger
Adjai, Yoruba boy of twelve, was
taken prisoner with his mother by the
Foulah tribe and sold to Portuguese
traders. His mother was left in
Africa. An English man-of-war ran
down the slave-ship, and brought out
from the hold the wretched prisoners
frantic with terror at the white skins
and blue eyes of their rescuers. They
mistook the cannon balls on deck for
skulls, and the carcass of hog IN the
cooks cabin for human body, AMI
tried to escape from the supposed
cannibals by jumping into the sea.
The boy, Adjai, was sent to the
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{ { E{!G{;albiIdTsS ST(;S.I(2oDuml).l

mission school at Sierra Leone. There
be was taught the Christian faith, and
trained to be carpenter. He was
baptized under the name of Samuel
Crowther, but kept, too, his own name
Adjai, saying proudly:
81 am Christian. But am always
black and Yoruba."
He proved to be so faithful and
practical, both as Christian and Afri-
can, that he was sent to England to
make known the condition and wants
of his people. Large sums were
given him, which he used with much
sagacity for his race. The queen sent
Bibles, Prince Albert steel corn
mill and other farming implements,
which Adjai taught his people how to
use.
On his second visit he was made
bishop. He returned to his own tribe,
ana after long search found his
mother. He took her to his home
and she became q devout servant Of
Christ, and lived to great age. But
she persisted in wearing always the
Yoruba costume, and in speaking that
language, answering all arguments by
saying:
II am an African. Jesus will know
me in my own skin and in my blanket. !"
No man in Africa served the Master
more faithfully than Bishop Adjai
Crowther. The thoughtful reader in
the story of his life can find mean
ing which rightly used, will uplift his
own. Youths Companion.
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NJ. Pratt in SunbeamS.
THE Beavers TRAITS.

Tho beaver is found in the northern
part of Europe and Asia, but more of
them are found now in the northern
part of North America. It has two
layers of fur. The under hair is gray
and very short, the outer hair is chest
nut in color and is long and thick.
Jackets and cloaks are made of it be-
cause of its warmth.
The hind feet of the beaver are
webbed. It's tail is like the rudder of
a boat. It does not have fur on it,
but is covered with scales. The beaver
is gnawing animal. It's food is the
bark of trees. 1t is two feet from the
nose to the root of the tail. The tail
is over one foot in length.
When they build dam they find a
suitable spos where there are trees on
the side of the stream so that they can
gnaw them. The beaver gnaws tree
SO that it will fall across the stream.
If it is not large enough they will
gnaw another one. This is the foun-
dation for the dam. They gnaw more
trees SO that they can float them down
the stream. When they reach the
other trees they are caught among the
branches and packed with mud and
stones. It goes on this way until it Is
high enough. They do this because
in very cold countries the shallow
streams freeze to the ground and in
the short hot summers they dry up.
Their houses, which are near the
dams, are made of branches of trees,
moss and mud. Two or three beavers
can live in one of these houses. They
dig deep bitches SO that they can sc
into the stream without going over
the land. Beavers cut number of
small logs and fasten them near their
houses so that when they are hungry,
they dive for one of these logs and
strip off a piece of the bark and eat
it.-Trenton, N. J. American.
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S 90 a Year, in Advance.
NO.. a..
You Will Forget.

You will forget-a few short hours,
Fortune and fame and all to WOO.
And ere the bloom forsakes the flowers
The lips you kiss have kissed for you,
And ere the morrow's sun is set,
You will forget.
You will forget-a mile or so.
And out of sight is out of mind;
The easy tears soon cease to flow
When life's before and love behind;
Aye, love, while still your eyes are wet
You will forget.
You will forget-in other years
When you behold that white star shine
We see so dimly through tho tears
When you shall pass these doors of mine,
Or that dear spot where first we met,
You will forget.
1ou will forget-let me love on,
You have been all in all to me;
30 when the past is dead and gone.
Like some fine golden phantasy,
Let me love on, to pay my dobt-
You will forget
Pail Mall Gazette.
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After a Bargain.

ga dollar" she exclaimed when the
clerk had told her the price. "Why,
that's exorbitant."
"We can't afford to sell it for any
less" replied the clerk.
"Well, I know where I can get it
for less," she returned, "ani am too
good a business woman to pay more
than thing is worth.
And then she marched out of the store
and paid 10 cents for Car fare to go to
a place where she could get the same
thing for 80 cents.-Chicago Post.
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HUMOROUS.

Untold wealth is thing we'll known
to the tax assessor.
Trees are like lovers: when the
time comes for them to leave they
stay right in the same spot.
Mr.. Fosdick Ito his wife)-''Do you
call your new hat stylish?" Mrs. Fos-
dick-'Certainly I do and SO will you
when you get. the bill. The price
was $40"
'1t is sad," said one girl, "that SO
many men nowadays have great
deal more money than brains"
Eyes," sighed another; "and so little
money at that.
"My good fellow" said the dude to
the halter, ''how's trade?" There's
really nothing in hats nova days."
replied the halter, trying one on the
head of the dude.
kitty, why has our French Revo-
luton club called Oh extra meeting?"
"Oh, Nan, we are so bothered; we
can't find out whether we've read two
volumes or three
Belle-"You know jack Gddiboy of
course; don't you think he is just out
of sight" Sadie Indeed he is very
personiication of the old saying: out
OF sight out of mind"
He can't pay his board, for his star OF sue
cess
Beneath the horizon has sunk;
He's an elephant now on his landlady's
hands
And that's why she's holding his trunk
Parson Bloomfield-"I' afraid,
my friend, your heart isn't right"
Dying Sinner-"Well, parson, you'll
have to settle that with the doctor.
He says it's my liver.
Mr.. Specilate-''Awfully dull in the
wheat-pit today. Buyers and sellers
didn't get together at oil. ." Mrs. Speci-
late-"Why don't they mark it down
and have bargain sale?"
"What do you mean by
taking that piece of cake? When you
asked for it didn't I say no?" Tommy
-"You did; but last night heard
papa say that when woman says no
she always means yes."
81 understand your daughter has
given up bicycle riding" Eyes, she
sold her wheel as soon as she found
out she couldn't wear high-heeled
shoes on it with any degree of sue
cess"
Maud-'I hear that proposing par.
ties are all the style this winter. The
girls do the proposing and tho one
who proposes the best gets the prize.
Have you been to any?" Ethel-"No;
but had proposing party come to
me the other evening. How do you
like my ring?"
"Willie," said the boarding house
mistress to her sou, az was ashamed
of you at dinner, You kept your
arms on the table during the entire
meal" eyes, mamma" was the hope
ful's reply, II didn't want to give the
boarders chance to say there was
nothin' on the table"
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Biggest Pine Tree i'm Wisconsin Falls

What was believed to be the largest
pine tree in Wisconsin was cut down
a few days ago at Amigo. 1t was
well-known as a landmark. Several
years ago, the top was blown off, leav-
ing the trunk standing. This trunk
measured twenty-five feet in circum-
ference and proved to be $50 feet in
length. 1t was two feet in diameter
at the top. The full length of the
tree was 260 feet. 1t required five
grown persons to reach around it with
extended arms. Milwaukee Wiscon-
sin.