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I THE CRIPPLEI it . AND H it FROM ?? BY W. R. ROSE. , Jt was a dingy little house and stood perhaps one hundred feet from the highway. A weed covered pathway led to It, and midway Avas a wclj. The great surgeon had caught night-of the well box and wan coming up the pathway. He was a connoisseur In water 'drinking and keenly alive to the poasl l>ili ties of discoveries along this line of Investigation. He drew up the ancient bucket and dipped his pocket cup into it. The water was excellent. The surgeon, sumpled It with a smile of gratification. Then he drank'four cups in rapid succession. As he finished the *.- ? >.?.! 1 ?.? Vi . i, r? TT? meant to remember It. That water was too good to' lose track of. 'It- was just an uncouth, one story building* sadly In need ot paint, with a door and "window In front and a single chimney from which a lazy line of bluish .smoke wavered. For a moment the surgeon saw no sign of life, and thvn his eye caught sight of a face that appeared a moment at the window. It was a white little face, the face of a child. It disappeared and came again ?Just a quick vision of baby features jid UulTy blonde hair?and then was gone. "A shy little girl," thought the surgeon, so he waved his hand toward the house. A slender hand fluttered above the sill as he turned away. . The great surgeon had come down to iWUllamston at the earnest solicitation of the capitalist whose summer palace crowned the P'.ny ridge above the little town. The capitalist was a sick man. For the present he needed constant attention of the most skilled character. The great surgeon was deeply interested In his case. Besides, he felt that he needed a change himself, and he knew there wasn't a better place to recoup than that famous resinous region. So lie was for an Indefinite time guest as well as physician at the .palace on the ridge. The surgeon was a great walker. There was, to his way oC thinking, no gymnastics to compare with , this natural exercise of the legs. The horses placed so freely at his disposal had no attraction for him. His delight was to wander away across the rldgss and along unfrequented roads, breathing in the aromatic air, and shuffling his feet In the pine needles, and then to come loping back at a brisk pace with his body glowing and a mighty appetite. He had enjoyed the road over the hill by the lonely home, and he-had enJoyed the water from the well, and the next afternoon he went that way again. The dingy little house seemed even nnfittrnrtlvf? thnn It hml nrmpar ed the day before. The surgeon looked toward It as he drnnkj. Again the lit tie face appeared at the window. This time it did not vanish. On the contray, the little head nodded as the 11 uOfj' curls shook. The surgeon nodded back and went a few paces nearer and smiled and nodded again. Then the little face beamed all over, and the big blue eyes shut and closed rapidly, finally resolving themselves Into two staring circles, while the little mouth became a perfect O. Then the tense, lines relaxed, a smile rippled across the child's face and the thin hands closed into bony fists that shock themselves at the surgeon in mock defiance. The surgeon hadn't "made faces" for rnariy years, but now he let his unaccustomed features twist themselves In to grotesque shapes that filled the child audience with waves of delight. Ho had come so close to the dingy house that his head was just on a level with the lower panes in the window. . "Hello," he said to the face within. A thin little hand motioned downward as a muffled voice said something h'e coufd riot understand. But he obeyed the motion and looked beneath the sill, and there was an opening a few Inches long and perhaps two inches wide, and through this slit four clawlike lingers protruded. "I- see. you." said a thin voice through the opening; "I sec you stealIn' our water." "I'm very sorry," said the great eurgeon with his mouth close to the slit. "You're just sorry 'cause I saw you," cried the thir. voice, with a laughing break In it. "You know vrell enough it was'six glasses-for a ccnt." The surgeon fumbled in his pocket and brought forth a bright new dime tinu imusi u wirougn ine opening. , .'That's five cents for water arid flvc centa for fine," ho gravely announced. . Thfc <;bild laughed merrily. "I ort to send you right straight to Jn{ 1!" she crted and laughed again; then she suddenly added, "I'm Martha Johnson, goln* on nine." "And I'm Robert'Meredith, going or. fifty-four," ?ald the great surgeon. The child looked at him through tin glas^. und gravely, bowed; thon the blonde curia ducked down and the thin V^lce came throush thct opening: "How do you do?" ' ''Pretty "well," thank you." r-plled the surgeon. "And how do you do?" "I ain't able to be out y:;t," laughed the child. "But I can alt up and eat." "And why can't you go out?" " 'Cause dad locks me In. Dad Ib th' blacksmith down to tho village, an' wh-n he go?*s away in th* mornln' he locks everything up with me Inside. An' so I Just ntay here an* takv cans o' things?all 'cept th* water. Folks will at?al that." "And arr you not v*ry lonesome?" Inquired the surgeon. ' "I ku<s* 1 ain't." said the child. "I got mfj picture books an''my dolll?s, an* I 1 car. f'v; an* darn some, an* once In n long while somebody goes by, like you. An' then I'm always thinkln' pretty *r,on, too. It. v Uj b: Fur,day, an' th-n daddy will 1*: hotr.e n?l day* An' when K> most time for him to corrr I b<dl th' kittle an' lay th' tab).\ an* th*n J (,'tt rr.y drar little J!ag an' stick It throu?h thl? holer?d?iddy cut It for rn?, an* 1 ?MOUSE OW IT WAS RELEASED f| THE TRAP. f <i> (J ?? dnddy can nee It way down th' road, an' then lib knows everything la all right." "But you run' out and play sometimes?" qticrled the surgeom The child shook her head at . him through the glass. "No," she culled, "I can't run. My feet are bad." "What's tlio matter with your feet?" "They are very bad," replied the child. "They turn In so that when I walk I waIk on myself. The boys cull me 'club-foot,' and they laugh. Daddy made me a little carl, and on Sundays ho draws me out if I don't rain. And he's goln' to whip the boys If tlwy laugh at mo any more." "Will you let me see your feet?" asked the great surgeon, gently. "You'll laugh," crl'wd the child. "No," said the surgeon, gravely. "I'll promise you I'll not laugh " He heard her drawing a chair to the window. He heard her scrambling up. A moment later she tapped on the pane, and then he saw the distorted feet In their coarse yarn sliocklngo poised on the window sill. "Yes," he called to her, "that will do. Now I must go." "Oh, but you Just came," cried the child, with sharp regret. , i "I'll come again to-morrow," said the great surgeon. "GQod-bye, little mouse." There was an added spring to the I surgeon's walk as h:> swnnir ni'of thr> I hill, and so on across the ridge to the j capitalist's home, and a fresh sparkle brightened his clear gray eyes. "By the way," he said,, to the rlchl man that evening. "I want to borrow the low phaeton and a steady horse to-' morrow." And so early the next afternoon h? drove down Into the village, and up to the door of the blacksmith's shop, and there he and the blacksmith had a Ions talk. It ended when the blacksmith handed him a key. That ride In the low phaeton was the great event of Martha Johnson's rathet prosaic, life. To sit In the softly cushioned carriage by this wonderfully gray | haired- man, who knew and had seen I everything, was a pleasure of such magnitude that it quite took the child's breath away. She was very quiet for a time, and then she broke forth and chattered like a magpie. And the face of the childless man beside her relaxed when he heard her, and pretty soon It would have been quite Impossible to tell | which was enjoying the ride the better. I And when they returned and he tied | the horse at the roadside and carried I her in?she. was only a fragile little bundle?she was quite willing that ho should make a careful examination of | her crippled feet. I When it was finished, he hurried 111 way to meet a man with ivhom he had I an appointment. The man was the j blacksmith, and the blacksmith listened to Ids story with a troubled face. He was u alow man, was the blacksmith, i and not of a hopeful disposition. "Understand," he said at last in his Blugglsh way, "I'm a poor man, and I I'm in debt. I tried farmin', and It ! didn't pay. and blacksmlthln' Isn't a j great deal better. You'll have' to Walt | a long time for your money." "Do you imagine I am forcing my sendees on you?" cried the surgeon I sharply. "There'll be nothing to pay." The blacksmith's lean face clouded. , "Nothln" to pay!" he repeated. ! "What are you doln' this for?" "For science?and my own pleasure," said the great surgeon sharply. "Well," growled the blacksmith, after a little pause, "there is one thing you must understand. Martha's all I've i m me won u. mere's gain' to be no experlmentlnY' "And there's one thing you must understand," said the surgeon quickly. "There %vill be ho more of this locking an innocent child in a dull old house like a crippled mouse in a trap." And then the blacksmith, whose heart beneath his rough coating was big and warm, put out his great hand and gave the lingers of the surgean an ' eloquent pressure: That evening the surgeon said to the rich man, "I have an important surRUcumattc pains are the crics of protest and distress from tortured muscles, aching joints and excited nerves. The blood lias been poisoned by the accumulation of waste matter in the system, and can no longer supply the pure aud health sustaining food they require. The whole system feels the effect of this -cid poison; and not until-thc? ! ?? ????.? 1 ' . ?- ... uwlu IUCU uuu brought back to a healthy condition will the aches and pains cease. Mr*. James Kell, of 757 Ninth street. N, Washington. P. C., write.* at follow*: "A. f'.-w months a^o I had an attack of Sciatic Rheuina. turn in itt worst form. The , pain was v> intense that I became completely pre*trated. TUe-tuct wa? an unusuallv severe one. and my condition wjb regarde<f as being *ery danger- 'w YW* ous. I was attended by UA FgQ one of the mo?t able <lcc-' '. \'/2~ J?rs tor> in Washington, who is al*o * member tf the facu!tr of a leading raedf;al ij5%l0^wU^1nV<J college here. He told me 80 - *^JaCs MXl to coutinne hi* prescription * and I would fret well. After hnvic^ i filler? twelve time* without receiving t>e benef.t, 1 declined to continue l?U treatment an* longer. Havingheardof S.:i.S.(S'?^ft'nSpecific) reconsmetided for Khctimatism. I *;rei4#?l, ulm^t in de*palr however, to fjire the nedlcine t. trill, and ntcr I had tahm u fevr bottle* I r.s\nbte to hobble around on crutches cud v ryr.ooti tlirreafter had r.o u?e for them cl t", S. U. fi. having 1 enred me srnnd and veil. .'-'I the dWtrr/siujj 1 pain* have Irfi r??, my appetie )? ? returned, . rd 1 am happy U be astir. isv.ercJ to perfect I health. /35< the crc.1t vcjrl.iWc l\3 f<S p:*.:ifipr r.rA louic, it V\ *.0\ ideal remedy i:t r.li tv v { > / r'.:cmnatic troubles. C.i^y <?2js There ate no opiate* or I minerals in it to disturb the digestion sr.d le.nl to rv.ir.o-/* habits. ; We have prepared a cpccial book on I Tibcum.-.lisru trhi-.'t cr?rv rnffcrer /rem | thin painful di&cuf-sread. It i* th? J rac?t .cocipfets o?-.t intertfin^ book of the uind itv existence. It v, HI bo tent free to any one desirir.;' it. Writs our plmi* dans fully and freely about your case. \Ve cnVe nr> charge A>r*mrdic3l advice. iHZ iVim tPZCI?IC CO- ATLANTA. OA% glcal case In the city on Wednesday and will be gone two days." It was a pleasant afternoon just three months later, and the blacksmith stood on the little platform of the railway, station. He was cleanly shaved and attired In'his best, and there was a bright and hopeful look In his face. Hack of, the platform stood the rich man's carriage and handsome horsiis, for the great surgeon had gone up to the city the day before and was expected back on the coming train. Presently it rumbled up to the little platform, and a moment later the' surgeon emerged from the single passenger car. On his arm leaned a slender little girl, a neatly dressed little girl, who carlied a cane and walked a trifte stiffly perhaps, but wlicse bright'face was radiant with happiness. "Daddy!" she crlcd as the blacksmith pressed forward and she threw hersslf In his arms. "Look, look!" sht added, and pointed at'her feet. And the blacksmith, looking .down with moistened icycs, saw,that they were straight and trim and neatly shod. j-ie am Ji," said the child ok she touched tlie surgeon's sleeve reverently. "Thank him, daddy; thank him!" But the groat aur^oon drew a way. "Pooh, pooh, b'acksmlth," he quickly said, "a man dgean't want thanks for such a,common act of humanity as letting'a-crippled mouse out of a trap."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. BROUGHT UP AS GENTLEMEN. A Texas Father's Grief Over Two Wayward, Sons. . Austin (Texas) Telegram to New Orleans Picayune: Charles W. Barnes, jr., and Channlng B. Barnes, who are Implicated In the hold-up of thb Illinois Central railway train on the morning of July 11, three miles south of "Wlckllffe, Ivy., formerly resided In Austin, and arc the sons of Mr. Charles \v. Barnes, sr., a prominent merchant. Mr. Barnes, the father, when asked regarding the boys, stated that they were his sons, and that he .was very sorry to ! learn that they were implicated in such | a serious crime. "They were brought up as gentle' men," said Mr. Barnes, "and they had | every opportunity of remaining so. I have spent more than 515,000 on the education of my sons. Channlng,the elder, passed a course through the University of Texas. They had the education to engage In almost any profession fchey wanted to, and we left nothing undon-.i to make gentlemen of them. Channlng , left here about seven years ago, and I have not seen him since. He Is about thirty-two years of age and Is married, his wife living In St. Louis. Charles was twenty-one years of ago at his last birthday, and he Is also married, and his wife is living In St. Louis. "It Is better that they are In tip hands of the law, as. if they were not arrested, there is np telling where thi whole thing would end. I fondly love my boys, but I would rather ree them ' where they are than pursuing a career of crime, as they were not brought up that way." Chanr.lng Barnes, who is operating under the alias of John Nelson, waa convicted several years ago in California on a charge of robbing a bank of $30,000. and spent several years In.tlu penitentiary in that state. Charles Barnes began his career of crime here a few years ago, when he robbed the dry goods store of Scarbrough & Hicks, for which lie was tried, convicted, and sentenced to a term in the Gatesville Reformatory, his youth keeping him out of the state penitentiary. RATTLESNAKE AND A BIRD. Alter a Hard Task a Vulture Overpowers a Snake. When the International boundary commission reaurveyed the territorial lines between the United States and Mexico, the naturalists of the party cnthorr?i! n rnrtnnrt nf notM.nl v t ? specimens. Dr. Mearns, who, with his t assistants, collected nearly 20,000 sped- f mens of birds and mammals, tells of s a light In the air between a California e vulture and a rattlesnake, which he saw while exploring the mountains of Lower California, according to the 1 Youth's Companion. c It was in the early morning. The big j bird had seised the snake behind the head and was struggling upward with ^ Its writhing, deadly burden. The snake's I captor appeared aware that Its victim j was dangerous. The burden was heavy, as the reptile was nearly Ave feet long. The grip of the bird on the snake a body was not of the best. The snake t seemed to be squirming from its cup- \ tor's talons, at least sutllclently to cn- . able it to strike. Its triangular head was seen to recoil and dart at the mass f of feathers. t It did this once or twice, and f.hen with u shriek the vulture dropped its prey. The bird was probably 500 feet or so above the observers. The aston- { ished men were then treated to a spec- \ tacle seldom seen. Few birds but a vulture could accomplish such a feat. The instant the snake escaped from > the bird's clutches It dropped earth- ( ward like a Rhot. And like a shot the ^ bird dropped after It. catching It In midair with a grip that caused death. c Al any rate, the snake ceased to wriggle. and the vulture soared away to a mountain peak to devour its hard urn iicu ineui. That the snake did not bite the vul- f ture and cause its death can only be i explained by the fact that the thick feathers probably protected the flesh from the reptile's fangs. v * Y But One Issue Involved. a Springfield (111.) Journal: No D;m- ^ ocratlc newspaper In New York or In a the nation has been more vigorous or c able in opposing ftepublican principles f and policies than the New York Times, e and none has been more persistent In Its opposition to protection and other cardinal principles of Republicanism. D For there reasons special significance ^ attaches to Its announced determlna- t tlon to oppose Bryan and to advocate n the re-election of President McKlnley. p And the reasons It gives for this deter- t inlnatlon appeal with special force to . nil rinnifiCP1l? ll'hfi t rn lnlnrmli?l In the welfare of the nation, nnd who be- * lleve In the maintenance of the national s honor, In taking this patriotic po- ' Hi lion, The Times finds Itself In excel- ( lent comymy. A large number of Democratic newspapers of character and Influence already have announced f a similar decision. Like many of the most prominent Democrat* of the na. . Hon. they have a hlxher regard for the national honor, national safely, and national prosperity than for mere par- ' tlsanahlp, and thoy realize that all of I these demand the defeat of Bryan. c I 131?UDOCK Blood Bitters gives a mnn c a clcar head, uu uutlve hraln, u strong, ? vigorous body?makes blm fit for the battln of life.?I- I - ,* ?lfa SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. I Simplified Photography ? The Mosquito-Malaria Hunters?The Light Cure ? A Hekt-Besisting Wallr [; Yet Another Serum?The Southern Lights ?' Pood-Control of Growth. . A Doubted Transmutation ? The Mosquito's Lifo-Spnn. The "combined developer and fixer" of Messrs. J. E. Thornton and C. F. S. Rockwell, English photographic chemists, consists of some such mixture as fifteen grains of anhydrous sulphate of sodu, nine grains' of caustic soda and twenty grains' of anhydrous hypo, which are ground and used 'With nine grains of kachln. The whole is mado' Into a strong solution with sugar or dextrine, and the sensitive plate Is coat-, ed on tho back with this, n covering of paper or soluble gelatine Delng then attached to protect the chemical coating. On placing tho plate In water, the chemicals quickly dissolve, when the covering can be removed nnd thrown away, development and fixing being ef rected by the solution, photographic printing paper Is similarly prepared,'a 1 coating of water-proof varnish being applied to the back before the developlng and fixing agent. 11 The spot In the Roman Campagna where Drs. L. Sambon and G. C. Low arc to remain until October is described as the Ideal home, both of malaria and of the species of mosquitoes supposed to. carry the infection. It Is on the edso of an undralncd swamp two miles from 1 Ostla, at the side of a canal filled with water plants, and within a stone's throw of a pine forest. The Investlga- ' tors expect to pass the day time In ex- j perlmcnts and among the few feverstricken people Inhabiting the district. . Just before sunset they Seal themselves '* up In their hut until sunrise, and hop?' s thus to avoid mosquito bites and pass v the season In health. r t Phototherapy, or treatment of lupus n and other skin disease by the chemical ^ rays of sunlight or the electric arc, Is 1 now given a special department at thr London hospital. Expensive apparatus r has been presented by the Princess oI I( Wales, and nurses have been speclallj j trained. r The latest bft of newspaper enter- r prise in scientific linos In the London n Journal's expedition to Patagon'a Ir. search of the Mylodon, the giant sloth lately supposed to be extinct. 1 Gypslne Is a new firo-proof material, t made of plastic hydraulic lime mlxe? t with coke, sand and asbestos, the mix- u ture being compressed into bricks, tn 1 rccent test by British fire commissioners, a partltloi^about eight by ten feet In slzr? was bu'llt of tfcr* v..v ?..ww, l??.0 ?| In hydraulic mortar, the exposed side j, being coated with a thin layer of hyiraullc clay. The Are was kept up toi d in hour. The temperature rose to 2,050 L legrees Fahrenheit, yet the material y tras unaffected, and the surface of th-s t. jartltlon opposite tha fire remained sc.' :ool that matchcs held against It would .. 70t Ignite, even- when the temperature \> vaa highest. " 1 . Antlethyline, the serum used by Drs. j, ?apeller, Thebault and Broca forv treat- ^ ng drunkenness, is taken from a horse ^ ;hat has had alcohol mixed with Its Q ood for a certain time. It is contended ^ :hat injections .of this serum awaken otlex acts that restore man's natura' . listate for alcohol. It Is claimed that tJ n the treatment of flrty-seven drunk- [( irds, thirty-two were cured, and nine ? vere?improved, the failures being at- ^ :ributed to irregularities of treatment r ir unfavorable conditions. As evidence ^ hftt thp <3>jrrp?!*l?>n U-ora 1 ? tglnation, it is stated that the impres- ^ lionuble patients gave the least favor- l( ible results. a The aurora austjtalis, as seen by Arc- U owskl on the rccont trip of the Bol- ^ rlca, was strikingly similar to tha vurora borealia as witnessed bv Nordtnskjold about twenty years ago.' The ihenomenon was observed sixty-two j Imes, generally between 7 p. rn. and 2 fi i, m., with a maximum intensity be- ? ween 0 and 10 p. m. Its greatest freluency was not during the-months, of >olar night, and the most brilliant disdays were near tho equinoxes. . .. A novel Idea for sportsmen seems to t< >e of PortuRutsj origin. An electric amp is placed on the collar of the u Hinting dog, and this frightens foxej y ind badgers from their burrows when o he dog enters. ^ b An electric rack-railway, with a si jauge of forty Inches, part of the track (I )elng raised nine and one-half feot ^ ibove the towing-path, Is being tested vlth satisfactory results on the Finow i< :anal, between Berlin and Stettin. The c. )oats can be made heavier than those a lrawn by horses. tl ?? w Certain physiologists are being atracted by the Idea that growth delends largely upon diet and exercise. A f> French writer, M. A. Peres, calls utten- tl Ion to the experiments of Dr. Springer ^ vho, with a simple decoction of cereals, u ins so Influenced the rate of growth of lr inlmals and children th^Lt ho believes ,l ie can make giants of them when their irganlzatlon Is favorable. It'ls record- y] d that the celebrated I3lshop Berkeley, h irobably through suitable food, dellbrately caused an orphan boy to grow E o a height of eight feet two Inchos and it sixteen. Motat fords and stfch Irlnks as tea and milk tend to Increase he stature, while dry and spiced foods ind especially alcohol, tend to retarl c| ;rowth. This explains why the people* n if northern Europe are no much taller r< han those of the south. Too great ui ilae, however, docs not appiar to be de- J4' ijraujc, lis ujjs j? uxeiy lo.pnng umunRhcd activity, lncreanert . liability to 11 llBeasc, nml early death. Arsenic obtained clKht yearn ag.i rom the action of ammonia ?aa or. )IiO?phoroa* tva* f?uppc/?ed to Imv? p ?pen an Impurity of the phoyphonnm. a rht? afltonlithlng announccmeju, 1m new v* nade by I'rof. F. Flttlca thai! jtrr.'rifc a not an clement, but In u nltroun ucl ) l<( :ompound of phonphoroua. It lnw boon ?*? >roduccd Hynthellcally from pitonphor* us. Amorphous phoBphoroua?fret* rom aracnlc?wan hoatnd v/lth flnoly, lowdercd ammonium nltrutc, tliu ro?' pi Tkimk AhesBgi This In addressing Mrs> Pinhhsm you are com* munioating with M Wdihmm A woman whose expo? risnce In treating fontale His is greater than that of any Saving person, male or femajla. She has fifty thousand such testimonial letters as we are constantly pubU!t~~ t-S * 9 Jte A H #9_ iiisntiiy snwvmg mm a.ytzss S. PSnkham's Vegetable j Compound is daily relieving hundreds of suffering woman. Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Finkham has restored to health. Mrs. PSnkham makes no statements she cannot prove* Her advice is fwfl/x, Lvdia K. Plnkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. ulting mass being cooled, dissolved in vater and treated with hydrogen sulfide; anO the: yellow* precipitate being hon dissolved in ammonium carbonate, nd treated with hydro-chloric acid ."he arsenic sulphide precipitated Is (. cognized by the usual tests. The ordinary full life-term of thf n.osquito is placed by Mr. W. It. Coledge at three months, specimens.havng.been kept in captivity for eighty or Inety days.- When kerosene cannot be onveniently. applied to their breeding tools, the introduction of a, few mlniowb will lead to speedy destruction of irvac and pupae. , Tuberculosis caused 12,311 of the GJ8S deaths In Paris In 1S39, or more > . > ill ciuu iHHStS'llLLUa UL Ull C he deaths between tile ages of twenty J nil forty were due to this cause. * Modern Martyrs in China. r From the Shanghai Mercury of'May *3 3; The following is a statement given c y a man whose friend Is a njember of r he Boxers. This friend saw the mur- t or of Mr. Ellas, an evangelist of the r .ondon mission, and of Mr. Lin Chlng- 1 un, a member of the mission at Kung- ? sun. R The man who saw the murders said: fi On the 34th of the fourth moon?May ? I? the Boxers, numbering about fifty- v ayer. men, wpre crossing the river li sz-tsun (about one English mile from 1 lung-t'sun), and while passing the ^ Ivor mot Mr. Lin Chlngyung In a boat, hey knew he was a Christian, and at nee attacked and wounded him with leir swords. Then they dragged him ut of the boat and tied him up secure to a .tree on'the river bank. Then icy went to the chapel of Kung-t'sun, >und Mr. Chao. bound his thumbs and reat toes tightly together, and carried im to a tree near to that on which Mr. In was hung up. They then cut off [r. Bin's arms, disembowelled him, and jt off his head, and threw the whole ilti the river. Afterward they all set ) work and hacked Mr. Chao to nieces nil threw nil Into the river. Then they j1 iturned to the chapel, looted the fur- n iture nntl smashed the Inscription t: oard and went away." n ^ n v Power of ."Rank. One day at the Kremlin, in Moscow, e Ilss Hapgood, un American lady, was ti lvored with an amusing manifestation f' f the all pervading Inlluence in itusnian li fe of "offlclul" rank, a While looking at objects of Interest hi he noticed a lar^e, handsomely bound a oolc tlanked by pen and ink on a side 1! able. As she opened the book an at- h mdant pounced upon her. h "Don't touch that," he said, peremp- o >rily. 1 Why not? If you do not wish people fl >, look at this collection of ancient dor- f ments? I suppose that is what it is? n ou should lock It up or label It, 'Hands e ff!" retorted the annoyed lady. h "It Isn't ancient documents, and .yon a re not to touch it," he said, taking the o ook out of the lady's hands; "It h h trlctly reserved for the signatures,of. d lstinguished Visitors?crowned heads, t; >yal princes, ambassadors and the o ke." h "Then If It does not interest me In the * ast, and if you would label It to that H ffppt no ono would care to dlHtnrh It." It nswcred the American woman. tl fcoon after she was Joined by one of Cl tie powerful otliclalH of the Kremlin, 1' 'ho had made an appointment to show ' >e American lady about. A* Hlie went om one object to another with the ot!l? P tal, the attendant hovered respectfully 1 th?* rear, evidently 'impresKed with 10 friendly tone of the conversation, /hen the round had been made, and tie oillclal had departed to his duties, o! jo guardian of the autograph album u ivltcd Iter to add her name to the "11IHtrloUH" l|j?t. She refuted, ho entreated, and at Inst ' ilrly dragged her to the table and II tood guard over her while jiho wrote u er name.?Youth's Companion, ^ 'oyt Committed Until lie Rccovern. HARTFORD, Conn., July 26.?Charles [ . Hoyt, the playwright, appeared be- ^ >rc Judge Freeman this morning to u ppose an application committing him 11 i the. retreat for the Insane, in thin ty. Mr. Hoyt's rcrnarJcs were per- p ictly rational. He admitted llr.it his . inilltlon wan Mich that ho itcoijix) real (! nil attention, but he ?l|il not think ho inuld bo conllncU In an Institution. ,l Ju<l;co Freeman, nt the concluMon of ie hearing, ordorerl that Mr. Iloyt bo nninlttcil until he reoover# from hl.i ?' renent trouble. Mt' ' 0 A Iloaylly Mort^njfml. ti 1'ITTHmmOH, I'a., July M.?Tim orl I'ltt Oah Oorrtpuny to-day pfnepr| " morlKOKe of $1,000,000. on itn property 111 Ith tlu* Union 'J'ruMt Company mi hi untev. The money injured Ih for I he >tlrlnrr of out.MUuulln/f bowln of tlin jh ;vcrnl utih companion wjilcli tvere re. '' cully coiin&iUlato'l. F.CZEMA, iieahl head, blvnn, Itchlnteia i 1 the nUIn of any wort Inwtaolly mII"V? ; I, permanently mired. Doan'rt Dint- 1 ont. At any druK rttnre.^a# 'It. M INTERNATIONAL S. S. LESSON July 29, 1900. Luke IX, 28-80. The Transfiguration. The setting' suited ihe gem. The dazzling whiteness of everlasting snow; the Immovable might of rocky barricade; the solemn arch of r.lght?a more appropriate environment for the mosc lovely and majestic of scenes can not be imagined. Purity, power, solem nit/,'were in tfie race or mature us anu beheld, her Creator's apotheo3ls. * It was a week after Peter's confession of the Messiah's Divinity and Jesus' revelation of the sufferings In store for him?a week spent In the same locality ond crowded with converse about thesu matters?that the Master went up at night into one of Nature's oratories, some spur of Mount Herraon. He took with him the three most advanced of his disciples, the dominant spirits ot the Apostolic College ? the ltockman and the Sons of Thunder. " Lifted toward heaven, and above the possibility of intrusion, the four bosVed In prayer. Then, a a afterward In Gethsemanae, the Savior went apart for a season , of personal communion with his Father, and the apostles wrapped themselves In their outer robes and ' fell asleep. Possibly, in that darkest hour Just before dawn, Lhey awakened with an Intuitive apprehension of "something preternatural transpiring. They saw a sight cf fadeless splendor. A third of a century afterward, Peter wrote of It as If It had transpired the day before. l'he form of the servant. In which Jesus had condescended to clothe himsblf-thirty-three years before, was now Jlssdh'lngv1 The fullness of the Godlead was unveiled. He shone, not ike Moses, with a reflected light: like .hi? sun, his radiance was self-derived. His seamless robe became a,web and ivoof of electrical light, his countenincc like snow on which the sun In thlnlng. or like the sun Itself In merldan. But language of earth lfl bankrupt Tn1'effort to describe that scene. * ' " The etlierlaHzcd body of Jcsms rises, md two holy, ones come from glory to ncet him In the air. Tho souls of the ipostles, keyed up to the occasion, (:ec)gnlze the visitants os, the 'one, the nan of Sinai; the other, the man of Sarmel?the founder and the "restorer )f Israel. The subject of their con* rersatlon Ik the same as that which | Tesus had with ills dlpclples at tho > msc of that very mountain?the cup le was soon to drink, the baptism he vas. to be baptized with, the expde he vas 3oon to make. Peter, In the icstacy of his Joy, burst In upon the :onvorsatlon of the Immortals.' The [ voody slopes, with their wealth of colar boughs, suggest the improvising if hasty shelters, afte-* tho manner of he Tabernacle feast-time. He -;>vill aln prolong this scene until all Jsrae' :an be summoned to thnt mount, arid >ehold Moses and Elijah, the law and he prophet, humbly paying court to the jlorMed Messiah. That will end al! ^position. The nation will no lontrcr )e faithless or unbelieving. Ineffa>ly glorious as the scene has been u'~ eady, it has not yet reached Its cllmnx. "hat cloudshaped splendor that appearffl to patriarchs and prophets, anr" f.ctnil nr thn ?I *U_ -1 iblin, appears once more in these later days. Moses, Elijah, Christ, law, >rophecy, atonement, are all wrapped n one. But the superiority of Christ nd his atonement 1h avouched for by he voice of the Father.. If the lauIver and prophet have such an exalted ;lory. what must be the Divine mafsty of the One in whose train they folDwf He hath on his vesture a name written?King of kln^s, and Lord of srds. In the supernal radiance of th' rangfleuratlon mount we worship thee > Christ! We acknowledge thee to be he Lord! The Teacher's Lantern. The transfiguration Is the heavenly tmen to the earthly confession of th Mvinity and Messiahshlp of Jesus lardly had that comprehensive crecd ramed Itself-on Peter's lips, and ban een consented to,by the apostles, than hey were all shaken by the revelation f the Ignominious death In store for he Messiah. That ineffable scene on lermon fixed and settled a lalth that .'as tottering to Its fall. It nerved hem for Gethsemanae and Calvary, t was fitting that they should see the clestial evidences of his eternal Gudead and glory on the hither side of be croas. lie fore they saw his visage larred: they were privileged to see It ransilgured. " " That scene had its lerclful ministration for Jcsub' sulfas *ell as his apostles. It was notAmert"- ( 7 scenic and pictorial; it.'was .of sub- ' tantlal comfort to him who was touchd with a feeling of Infirmity'. and jmpted. * -Well says.Stler: '."lie who Dr us Is to enter by a voluntary dsaih i nto glorification must first learn and . ctUftliy.experience Jn rx-ffardvio him- . ilf, otherwise thnn by the lcnowlwcdge rising troth faith, that the glory. 01 ght and life Is already present In hi* umanity; that ?lt can break forth in 1m, and radiate from him, even with ui inn IIUR.1u1b ini'ougn uimud. i 'ho descent from the Mount of Trans- ! juration was Hike a second descent rom heaven?Jesus' earthly life In ilnlature. Wo see him whence he ame, what glory he laid aside when he uinblcd himself and took the form of servatit. " * We have an exutnpl-' f the honor nnd Joy of the ministering that.Kent forth to minister. Incscrlbable bllHH, unapproachable dK'n!y to hold hlglx, converse with the Man f ttnlllce, and uoothe and fortify him as e approached the crucial experience! These mlnlHtrantH cajne from th" rave, but from the grave conquered, llljah experienced the "chanue" which liose who are alive at Jesus' second Dmlhff shall undergo. Mones died, but l? body was probably Immediately nlaed itfjve agnln. Ho t)?- two are imples of the paradisaic for>.? and ap? earnnee; German rrc33 Still Snarling. BERLIN. July 2fi,?The 0 rman forIgn otllea, which has received no addlonal news from China lo-day point' lit that the conditions for mediation umanded by President MclClnley pubidled In llerlln this morning, places th-> 'lilted States In subHtantlully tin same osltion as Germany ami France, Novorthclejw thu ttcrm.in prem conmuch to unxort that thy 'Wnnhlniiton owriuiwnt In trying I hit p/irt company 1th thu pow.TH. Tho. Frublnnlgo Zol>n? romurkn: "All the power# with nno except Ion lfunt? to by ili'wIvM InnK'jr by Chine*') nuble Usn.llni?i Thiit exception l? th* 'ijKetl HtntfM, which him forumlly hnndonod the conccrt of the powurn." i Unvc you Oatni-rh TnlntP? 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