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Evening star., 1897-01-16

people thronged and whispered. The
priests muttered one to the other as theA
moved to and fro The cardinal summoned
ore to his side and conferred with him
But still the man did not move There he
lay. face downward, on the marble stairs
when the procession swept past him on its
way to the sacrstry. Slowly the people
dispersed The syndic had slipped out
quietly and sent for the officers. The
vergers began to go hither and thitheI
putting out the lights
Presently, 1 stood and watched, the
man raised his face, white and tense with
agony of soul. He heaved himself to mis-
feet, as if his muscles had lost their power
and moved only by strong effort OF
will He went slowly and painfully down
the aisle, the few townsfolk who remained
shrinking from him as from a mailman
In the matter CT Giovanni Lupo, had not
his wife been condemned, he cleared? Why,
then, should he thus accuse himself at the
high altar? Why, even if the thing We're
true, could he not quietly confess to some
easy father, and work to buy masses for
the soul of the dead soldier. who doubtless
richly deserved the knife thrust he got
Leo Perrone walked stiffy to the great
door of the Duomo, leather padded. swing
ing ON noiseless hinges. He CROPPED his
hands little before him, like one whose
eyes are dim, whose nerves have received
a shock. He opened the door,
I'm the kings name!" cried voice as he
went out into the darkness.
Half a dozen bare blades We're at his
breast before lie could move. Ine man mt
ed his hands and held them toward the
gendarmes with gesture which said clear
ly:
II will go with you whittier you wil!'
"March! cried a voice from the street.
"Halt!' said another-my own-out of the
dusk Of the porch.
With the instinct of obedience the men
halted. Their officer came threateningly to-
ward me- with anger in his eye. So soon,
however, as he saw my uniform of general,
his sword rose and dropped again in the
salute.
Pardon, excellency? I failed to recog-
rize you in the darkness. What shall l do
with this man who has accused himself of
murder?'
Send him to my lodging. and bring his
wife. Maria Perrone. directly from the pris-
on. 1 would confront them the one with
the other!"
Evening star., 1897-01-16

No. no, Margherta: you saw it not it
was l! 1t was !, cried Maria: Tell them
it was your mother, child, who killed the
| man, or, as I live will curse you with
| the curse of mother-the curse that God
| taken off,
Speak the truth! All the truth" said
Leo Perrone again, sternly and quietly.
IT was Lupo, the soldier, at last the
little girl spoke out looking very modestly
at me, land he had come often to our
house. Ny mother hated him. My father
warned him not to come. But one night
When my father was among the mountains
| on his business, Lupo the Wolf came and
first spoke ill words, and then at last he
tCok hold of my mother to hurt her.
Whereupon my mother cried out: Leo,
Leo, my man, my man! Help met"
yes, yes. And I struck at him with my
own knife, Margherita, did l not? Speak,
| all he's will into her eyes to make the child
say the thing she desired her to say.
But But with her eyes, on my face the child
Then, when my mother cried 'Helpp my
| father opened the door, and his face was
very white and angry, so that it was not
good to look upon at. And he never took
his eyes from the eyes OF Lupo the Wolf,
who began to make iexcuEes and to laugh
| and jest, saying THAI he aaid but play. But
my father. being vdry angry, came forward
| mothers cutting boaud. he took Lupo by the
throat, and tellingehim first that he was
| about to kill him for the insult he had done
to his wife, drove the paint to his heart.
And SO Lupo diedl''bi 80
The womans shrek rang through the
room at the last words. She had risen to
her feet while the tale was being told, and
now only the strong, ARM of Stephano kept
her from leaping upon Margherita.
"Ye have lied, lied in your throat. devirs
| spawn! 1t was not Leo who killed him,
but l. Have 1 notVsworn it on the reli-
quaries Of the saints? Have not pledged
| my souls salvation for the truth of it?
He accuses himself, he says, for his soul s
sake Body and soul both have not given
| for him?'
She paused and gazed around. And as
she looked she read unbelief in every face.
Then all suddenly she flung up her arms.
Oh there is none of you all that will be-
i1eve me! And have told you SO often.
have done all I could. and they will hang
him-hang my Leo! Oh, God, God, kill me,
thrust me down to lowest hell. but let them
not take away my Leo, my man Leo
And she fell all her length upon the floor.
The strength OF her strong soul had given
way at last.
Then while Stephano and one Of the SOL
olers ifted her up, bethought me deeply.
Let all three be warded tonight in one
| room OF the prison-the best apartment;
tnat, think, Master Jailer, In which you
Evening star., 1897-01-16
4 Te1ltaIe Object.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
A champagne cork was lying on the
front porch of an uptown house and q
caller noticed IT as she rang the electric
bell
so you are acquainted with the
Mumms?' she remarked to the hostess
THE Mumms?" echoed the surprised
lady.
why, yes; L saw their card as / came
in"
And the puzzled matron didn't know
what in the world she meant until she her.
self went out and found the cork.
Evening star., 1897-01-16
QUEEN VICTORIA.

The Men I'm Public Life and Service
Whom She Has Outlived.
From the London Public Opinion.
1. All members of the privy council who
were alive in 1887.
2. All the peers who held their titles in
1887 except the Earl of Darnley, who was
ten, and Earl Nelson, who was fourteen
in that year.
3. All the members who sat in the house
of commons Oh her accession to the throne
except Mr.. Gladstone, Charles Villiers, the
present Duke of Northumberland, the Earl
of Marlborough and the Earl of Mansfield
and John Temple Leader.
4. Her majesty has seen eleven lord chan
cellors, ter prime ministers, six speakers of
the house of commons, at least three
bishops of every see and five or six of
many sees, five archbishops of Canterbury
and six archbishops of York and five COM
manders-in-chief.
5. She has seen five dukes of Norfolk
succeed each other as earls marshal, and
has outlived every duke and duchess and
every marquis and marchioness who bore
that rank in 1887.
6. She has outlived every member of the
Jockey Club and every master of fox
hounds that dourished in 1897.
Z. She has seen seventeen Presidents OF
the United States, ten viceroys of Canada,
fifteen viceroys of India, and France sue
cessively ruled by one king, one emperor
and six presidents OF republic.
Evening star., 1897-01-16
A Curious Resemblance.

a CUfl0ub HeBemDIdnce.
From Judy.
Virgins carriage, with that awful pair
Of horses. always suggests a modern man
sof-war to me-"
'sHow's that?'
Because it's provided with twin
screws
Evening star., 1897-01-16
Her Estimate of Him.

Her Estimate of Him.
From Harper's Bazaar.
May I give you a Christmas present.
Miss Mary?"
why, yes, If it is of little or no value"
"Er-I-er-thought mebbe you'd accept
er-me?"
"Oh, John, this is SO sudden, but-but I
dn -
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
Giving Away Brides for Living.

"In addition to our business of let
ting our wedding-dresses on hire
said member of a well-known firm of
costumers in the west-central district
of London, 1--WE often perform other
little services for the bride.
"You, of course, recognize the fact
that in this great city there are scores
of hard-working girls who are miles
away from their relations, and who
have always been too busy to cultivate
many friends. Well, when these girls
are about to marry young fellows whd
are similarly circumstanced, the ques-
ton arises as to who shall give away
the bride.
II can answer that question for
them at once, for / have connected
with my business an ex-maior in the
army, a member of an ancient family,
and man, too, of unimpeachable
character. He is poor, but he dresses
well, has beautiful white hair, and
looks the kindly father to perie etion.
l introduce him to the bride and BRIDE
groom, and he, for moderate fee,
gives the former away.
Sometimes he takes the whole ar
rangements of breakfast and so on
upon himself, and he is fine speaker
on occasion. He is always a welcome
guest with these people afterward. -
Answers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
A Big OId-Time stock Farm.

John Cantacuzene figures conspicu-
ously in the affairs of the Byzantine
Empire in the first half of the four
teenth century. That empire was fast
declining as the Turks were first getting
solid foothold in Europe. Cantacuzene
had experience in most leading matters
of state and church, including those of
the emperor and monk, and besides
he carried on stock farming in no or
dinary scale.
Gibbon gives us view of this stock
farm. "He does not" says that his
torian, "measure the size and number
of his estates, but his granaries were
heaped with an incredible store Of
wheat and barley; and the labor of a
thousand yoke of oxen might cultivate,
according to the practice of antiquity,
about sixty-two thousand five hundred
acres of arabic land. His pastures
were stocked with two thousand five
hundred brood mares, two hundred
camels, three hundred mules, five
hundred asses, five thousand horned
cattle, fifty thousand hogs and seventy
thousand sheep"
Gibbon refers to this as "a precious
record of rural opulence in the last
period of the empire, and in land,
most probably in Thrace, so repeatedly
wasted by foreign and domestic hos
tility." That was before Cantacu-
zene manipulated his way to the pur-
pie.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
An Arizona Plum Tree.

Delegate Marcus Smith the other
day was telling group of Washington
politicians of the wonderful results of
irrigation in Arizona. The glorious
climate of California, according to him,
was nothing as compared with Arizona
irrigation. He told of sweet potatoes
as big as beer kegs; of watermelons
which made the Georgia product taste
like pumpkin; of grapes so luscious
and fragrant that it was enough to i'm
bibe the atmosphere around them. He
told of these and of other wonders
without making an impression. FL
nally he hit an illustration which salts
fed the group of politicians that Ariz-
ona irrigation was all he claimed for
it. "Why," said he, "Ill tell you
what we can do down there. We can
irrigate an acre of ground, plant q
plum tree this spring, and next fall il
will bear plum for every fellow that
wants an office"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

The blind men of New York City are
combining. Every year each total
blind male adult who is a citizen of
the United States, and who has re-
sided in New York City for three
years, is given certain lump sum by
the department of public charities.
Last year each deserving member of
this class got $50. Since the agitation
of the Greater New York scheme these
men have been troubled. They fear
that when the sightless adults of
Brooklyn, Long Island City and other
places are brought into New York the
individual allowance will be cut down.
They are going to protest. They have
formed an association, with dues of ten
cents per month, and the money will
be used to defray the expenses of max
ing a proper representation of their
claims II last years figure is made
the pss1aanent rule they will be salts
ted.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

A few years ago the world rejoiced
over the discovery of cocaine as a local
nnesthetic. DIR. Lambuth, declares a
writer in the New York Press, who
has been practicing medicine in Pekin,
China, says that the Chinese have long
had similar anesthetic, the principal
ingredient of which is frog-eye juice.
1t costs 81 an ounce, and is prepared
in small, hard cakes, resembling bees
wax, but of darker color and semi
transparent. He dissolved piece in
water, which required twenty-four
hours, and tried the solution on his
lips, hands and tongue, each of which
became numb instantly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
WHEN HILLS ARE GREEN.

When hills are green.
Sweet secrets lie In all the earth,
The stone knolls. even, soon give birth
To blue-eyed violets, and vie
In azure charms with NIL the sky;
For beauty knows no elan or cline
When hills are green.
when hills are green.
With springtime sympathy we henr,
All far and near and faint and clear,
Sweet. woodland music, set ailoat
BY many n Joyous feathered throat
The richest phase OF vocal rhyme,
When hills are green.
When hills are green.
The southern breezes. dancing pass
With sun-tipped feet along the grass,
And kiss the clover blossoms out
Till spicy scents float all about
Where'er the wind may choose to blow,
When hills are green.
When hills are green.
Each rising curve is set with gems
That sparkle on their slender stems,
For snowy petals-gold and blue,
In soft green cradles bud anew,
And bloom where'er the south winds so,
When hills are green.
When hills are green.
Our life is not rs yesterday.
The world seems one long holiday.
We sing with everything that sings,
And feel the lark's ecstatic wings
Give impulse to our quickening feet,
When hills are green.
When hill are green,
The round white clouds like foothills rise
TO distant mountains In the skies,
And fair life angels come and go
Along the lofty paths of snow,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Ger had narrowing parting. The
latter lost her temper over his pro-
crastination and burst into tears. 1t
nearly broke his heart and entirely si-
fenced his tongue.
After she was gone, ,hopelessly gone,
he determined to reveal the secret Of
his heart by letter. But he put off
doing it. Instead, he swung in his
hammock all day and thought of her
blue eyes and pretty face and guile
less smile and regretted his erstwhile
constant companion. The ambulance
would return, empty of its lovely load,
in five days. He knew that. He would
write when it returned.
So, on the afternoon of the fifth
day, he sat, still swinging in the ham
mock and smoking pipe, the ashes
whereof besprinkled his coat, when
the four mules and the ambulance rat
tied into the post. They stopped at
the majors quarters in cloud of dust,
and two men and n woman alighted.
There was no doubt about who the
woman was. In his delight Randolph
lost his head. He strobe down the
broad walk to the Roches'.
Miss Spencer was still standing by
the ambulance, hunting-with the
drivers help-for something under
one of the seats. The major and Teddy
had gone indoors.
"Why, Miss May" said Randolph,
and this time there was no drawl--
how delightful! What brings you
back?"
"Oh! my husband Teddy and ]
got married in Socorro and joined the
dear old major again in Carthage the
same day"
"How delightful" Randolph re.
peated, weakly.
"Well, Teddy seems to think so, but
the dear, sweet old major didn't Any.
way, you know, he was so horrid
about my shoes on the bad-lands that
day." She smiled demurely.
And that was all anyone ever knew
about 1.-THE Argonaut.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Chancellor Day of Syracuse On. Y.)
university in an address to the Meth
odist conference, quoted the remark
Of a Methodist some years ago that the
permission of baseball in the university
would ruin the institution. But base
ball was permitted, and, while its
critic is dead, the number of students
has increased from $50 to 1135. DIR.
Day was enthusiastic in his approval
Of college athletics.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

The total number of applications for
patents for inventions during 1896
was 42,077. The total number of
patents issued to citizens of the United
States was 21,2S5, and to citizens of
foreign countries 2027. New York
heads the list of states with 3SS pat
ents, while Nevada stands at the
bottom with nine. Connecticut leads
in the proportion of patents issued to
inhabitants, the total number of pat
ents being 9S3 or one to every 759
persons in the state.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
The Old Sergeant of the Regular Army.

Ihe VIA sergeant of tHe Neguhr army.
The characters reproduced from the
recollection of army life for many
years are typical and were once, and
nre today, found in every regiment in
the army. Moreover. there is char
acter who is study alone, sui generis
the old sergeant. Discipline and n
stickler for discipline that he may
maintain his own dignity, he never
forgets the respect due his superior
officers, though he may, as he often
does, so thoroughly influence the cap
tain or lieutenant as to all intents and
purposes command him as much as if
in control by special orders from the
war department.
In no instance is this seductive re-
spect so manifest as when a raw young
lieutenant Just out Of West Point is
given command of scout with vet
eran sergeant in charge of the detail.
The lieutenant is made to believe he
is in command, that he maps out the
days march and selects the camp, but
it is at such suggestions as these:
"Did I understand" says the SER
geant, very insinuatingly at reveille,
''the lieutenant to say we would march
to the Huerfano today? There is
good water there, as the lieutenant
knows, and good wood at hand"
Yes" returns the lieutenant, 1--WE
will march to the Huerfano today.
There is good water, camping ground
and-and-grazing there"
Eyes, good grazing" reioins the
sergeant-and the march mapped out
by the lieutenant is begun to the
sound of the bugle.-Chicago Times
Herald
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

The largest Lutheran synod in the
United States is that of Missouri,
which embraces many states within its
limits. According to the latest statis-
tics, it has 2916 ministers, 1915 con-
gregations, and $50, 900 communicates.
1t has also 1927 parochial schools, with
S7,90S scholars. The number of bap-
tisms last year was 36, 6,233, and there
were 1S, 167 combinations.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

In North Topeka, Kansas, there has
been found n father, AYERS the New
York Sun, who gave his son twenty
five cents for doing some work about
the house, but repented after the boy
had gone to bed and picked the little
fellows pocket. To follow out his
creed to the end, he reproved the
child the next day for carelessness in
losing the money.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
Silenced Him.

The master was asking questions
masters are apt to ask questions, and
sometimes, too, the answers are apt.
This question was as follows:
snow, boys, how many months have
twenty-eight days?"
can of them, sir" replied boy in
front.-San Francisco Examiner.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
Men Working in Show

Men Working in Showers of Molten steel.
Modern Machinery of Chicago, in de-
scribing the work done in steel foun-
dry, tells of remarkable instances of
nerve displayed by the men. When
the furnace is tapped there is torrent
of scoria that scatters over n wide area,
descending in an umbrella-shaped
mass of sparks that envelop the men
at the ladle.
Through the pyrotechnic display Of
the rain of fire and luminous retiec-
tions you can see workman shrug his
shoulders or wriggle little. This is
the only sign he gives that a spark Of
molten steel has fallen inside his fan
mel shirt. The manager said that in
the performance of their work the men
would run into deluge of flying sparks
so thick you would think no one could
go into it and come ont alive ; and that.
too, in summer when they were stripped
to the waist and had not even shirt
to protect them. In the shadow of the
furnace and ladle it would often regis
ter 125 degrees, and the very life was
cooked out of the air. Some of the
men are singed and scared more than
veterans of many battles heroes of
the workshop, they stand under fire
every day of their lives and expect no
songs to be sung in their honor or
monuments to be erected to their mem
cries.
The manager related an incredible
incident which he gave merely as a
sample of the nerve these men have.
One day the foreman of the casting
department had started ladle of steel
on its journey among the moulds and
was seen to shake his foot several
times. He went on, however, and not
until all the steel was safe in the beds
of sand did he hobble to the wall,
where he took a piece of steel as big
as his thumb ont of his shoe. 1t had
burned into his great toe Joint and the
man was laid up for weeks.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
AcRAvEYARD A OF HOPE.
President Haycs's Little Book-secretary
EOster,s SnccessfuI "KIck.n

President Haycs's Little Book-Secretary
Fosters Successful "Kick."
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster was talking to me one day about
Rutherford b. Hayes. Foster repre-
sented Hayes's district in Congress
when Hayes was president. They
were political and personal friends Of
almost lifetime standing. Said Fos-
ter to me:
II got plenty Of patronage under
Hayes, to be sure, but for long
time never landed the men of whom
I was most particular and earnestly in
terested. 1 would go to the president
and lay the claims Of my man before
him. He would usually acquiesce in
everything that / said, because in
most cases he knew the applicants as
well as I did. Well, in every instance
where some devoted friend was con-
cerned, the president would say: 'Oh,
well, Charlie, we will fix that in day
or so. Then he would reach down in
n drawer, pull out a small book and
short stub of pencil and make note
of the man and his wants. / would
then, for days to come, scan with
much interest the list of appointments
sent to the Senate, but none that had
found n place in the presidents note
book were to be seen among them.
Still, didn't complain much. for /
knew that Hayes was doing the best
he could. Time went on, and finally
called at the White House to insist
that certain friend of mine who was
then in Washington be instantly APP
pointed as a consular agent abroad.
This gentleman had political claims on
me and also on the president. /
stated my case as briefly as possible to
the president, who listened attentively.
When I had finished the president
said
"'Why, certainly, Charlie. Yes, yes,
to be sure, and then he dived for
that book of his
Just as he was opening its leaves !
| grabbed his arm and said: Hold on
| there, general, I'll he switched if that
mans name goes in that jackass bookp
The president saw the humor of it and
/ got my constituent appointed then
and there. Chicago Times-Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

japanese cotton weavers prefer the
long staple cotton of Texas to any
other they can find for use in n major
ity of their manufactures from this
staple. That accounts for the pres
ence of japanese buyers at the cotton
exchanges Of the South.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Electric lighting will cost New York
City 1880, 900 this year. Philadel-
phia will spend $G47,O00 for the
same purpose; Brooklyn, 1850, 900; Bal
timore, Sl4O, 900; Cincinnati, SO, 900;
Washington, ID. c., and st. Paul,
Mimi, Sl75. 900 each; ST. Louis and
San Francisco, 100000 each, and
Buffalo about $685. 900.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

A recent census of Buenos Ayres,
Argentenia, shows population OF
G63, $50. which makes il larger by
100, coo than Rio lie Janeiro, and the
metropolis Of South America.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Tie Imperial University of Toxic
has undertaken the task Of preparing
an exhaustive history of Japan, and n
committee Of sixteen scholars is now
at work classifying the voiuminous
materials.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Italy gives to the world outside her
borders $500, 900, 900 oranges; Spain,
IA, 600, 600, 900; Portugal. $4,000, 900;
Paraguay, 10000. 900; Florida, nearly
as many as Paraguay.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02
Rebuned.

"How do You stand on this ire
pressible financial question, Chump-
ley9"
"Sorry, old man, but / can't spare
you a cent today. Detroit Free
Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

The latest eraser for ink and pencil
marks is attached to finger ring, 30
that it will always be in its place when
wanted.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-02

Finland employs six thousand hands
in paper manufacture, and is making
itself felt as n competitor for the paper
trnde of the world.