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BTORY OF THE DELUGE
By Virginia Ilorton
HERB was a time
b c f o r o Jupiter
reigned In heaven
when pence and
love and gentle
ness ruled the uni
verse Tho world
was full of the
glory of a perpetu
al spring Tho sun
shono with kindly
warmth and light
vivifying the yielding earth which
brought fresh blossom and fruit in
plenty A carpet ot grass continually
renewed Itself and treos wero ever
fresh and green
It was one long holiday to the peoplo
Who lived in the innocenco and purity
of childhood There was no need for
work for the earth their kind mother
gave all that was necessary for their
welfare without need of their labor
It was the Golden Ago of the world
and laughter and music were as com
mon then as trouble and misery aro
common now
Why did this age over end you won
der It came from the desire to rule
Jupiter ascended tho throne of heaven
and earth a code of laws and morals
was instituted and as heretofore the
peoplo had done right from tho Intui
tions of their souls they were suddenly
and rudely awakened to the possibility
of evil
With this mental conception came as
a result a material change The Golden
Ago was succeeded by tho Silver Age
Tho peoplo did not suddenly become
evil but there was a gradual dropping
away from tho old childlike faith The
world grew older and the people who
thus far had been always young began
to grow old too The perpetual spring
gavo way to tho four seasons and heat
and cold in their Intensity drove the
peoplo to seek shelter in caves
Then the earth did not yield so
abundantly and man was driven to sow
tho seed and for the first time the oxen
were placed under tho yoke to drive the
furrows
So ago succeeded age the Brazen the
producer of a warlike race was fol
lowed by the Ago of Steel with the
men hard as that metal Itself
Then the crime burst upon tho world
Hko an alldovourlng fire sweeping
beforelt and annihilating truth honor
justice and mercy Fraud and cunning
and violence and greed came Into the
hearts of men and fathers could not
trust their sons nor husbands their
wives Not satisfied with what tho sur
face of the earth yielded the men must
needsdlg lnto tho bowels and cruel iron
and mischiefbreeding gold had their
birth
Wars then broke out and the two
metals were used as weapons and tho
father was not safe from his son In his
greed for the Inheritance Family love
lay prostrate In the mire and so sad
and heartrending was all this to the
newlyejected gods that In fear of con
tamination they left the earth and as
cended into heaven All save Astraea
THE DELUGE
departed she the goddess of purity and
innocence still found u refugo in the
hearts of some young maidens But
after a while even she was forced to
leave
And then with no hand to stay Its
deadly leap to destruction tho worjd
swept on and blackness was too light
a word to describe Its state
Jupiter looked down from his throne
on high at tho pitiful stato of the earth
but only anger found place In his heart
at tho peoplo who dared to destroy
their beautiful garden and make it a
prison house dark and drear And in
his anger he called an assembly ot tho
gods
Then camo one and all along the
Milky Way which was the royal road
to the Palaceot Heaven The abodes
of the great rose on each side ot this
silvery pathway the gods of lesser
might dwelling remote from tho central
sphere
When all had asseKbled a hush foil
upon tho company Jupiter sat upon
his throno aritiyed In all his dazzling
tplendor His right hand grasped the
thunderbolt which at his will he
hurled through the air at wrongdoers
Juno sat upon his right and shared the
throne with him Mercury frornwhoso
Itace even Japltcrs dark frown could
sr jiTsvwj
not dispel the bright switching smile
hovered bver the lord of tho counsel
awaiting his every command The other
gods and goddesses stood or sat around
the hall and from all faces an anxious
suspense was reflected
Could tbo world in its wickedness
have known ot tho sorrow and anguish
It caused the high potentates of heaven
would It have been better and re
frained from evil doing Who can tell
After a long silence Jupiter addressed
the assembled host He told of all tho
glory that had been upon the earth
of all tho wrongdoingand made known
his determination to destroy so un
worthy a raceand to repso ple tho world
with more grateful beings
When ho had finished he raised his
hand to throw a thunderbolt which
would flro tho world and utterly destroy
it but Mercury held his hand
Sire would you destroy heaven too
by so rash a deed7
Jupiter then realized how so great a
conflagration might set fire to the heav
enly bodies and changed his plan
Mercury was dispatched to chain up
Aquilo tho North Wind which drives
away tho clouds and to call forth
Notus tho South Wind who soon cov
ered tho land with a pitchy blackness
Then tho rain descended In torrents
but Jupiter still unsatisfied called on
his brother Neptune to let loose his wa
ters Then hurling a thunderbolt he
rent the world from end to end and
thus drove up the raters from the sea
In solid walls which rose hundreds of
feet In the air and fell with resounding
crashes destroying plants cattle
houses peoplo
And so the world was destroyed Tho
highest treetops were covered by the
surging waters no trace of human habi
tation could bo seen and tho whole
world was a great sea extending where
tho top of Mount Parnassus rose as a
little Islalid in its midst
When Jupiter saw his object accom
plished he commanded Notus to retire
and Aquilo soon drove back the dark
veil of clouds while Apollo smiled upon
tho waste Then Neptune commanded
Triton to sound upon his horn and the
waters retreated The land rich with
moisture soon put forth Its strength
and the world Boon became a garden
of beauty again So out of death is
there a regeneration and a new life
Iris the goddess of the rainbow and
the messenger of Juno looked down
upon the radiant garden and saw on
the top of Parnassus two beings who
wore all that had been saved when tho
devastating waters flooded the world
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha both
just and faithful and good saw tho god
dess smile and hope filled their hearts
With now vigor they sought the tem
pi ofthe oracloc and wlth Tjpweu heads
and sllentpfayers asked guidance how
they might repeoplo tho world with a
race as good and pure as their ances
tor Prometheus had done long ago
As they knelt In tho temple covered
as it was with slime and ooze a soft
rushing as of distant waters sounded
upon their ears It soon became a dis
tinct sound which formed itself Into
these words
Depart Into the woods and with
flowing hair and unloosed garments
cast behind you the bones of your
mother
Pyrrha and Deucalion thought they
must have hoard an avenging spirit
speak for ho w could they bo so wicked
as to desecrate the remains ot tho de
ceased But suddenly as they wan
dered dejectedly along a bright
thought camo to Deucalion
Pyrrha It I mlstako not tho earth
Is our mother the great parent of all
Tho stones aro her bones Let us cast
thom behind us it can do no harm
Pyrrha readily assented and they did
as tho oracle commanded
And so the new races rose to life
Tho stones thrown upon the ground be
came soft and took on the shape of rude
block forms which by and by appoared
as living Images Tho stony part bo
camo the bones the slime and moisture
tho flesh and blood and tho veins re
mained veins only with different func
tions All those thrown by tho wom
ans hand became women and those
that Deucalion cast behind him became
men Under the guidance of Pyrrha tho
women became noble and good and
worthy of the land they Inhabited The
men following Deucalion were brave
and honest truthful and lawabiding
and so in those early days was laid tho
foundation of tho principles that must
ever bo kept fresh and vigorous that a
nation may live
Then Jupiter looked down Upon his
new creation and ha was pleased And
the smile from his countenance caused
a glory to descend to the people And
they we re roused from the sluggish la
bor of mere bodily toil and felt the
spirit within them moved
And some rising P beyond their
fellows looked upon the glory of the
past 6aw the promise that waved as a
banner of light for all who would attain
it and strove to wing their souls to the
fountain whence light and truth come
to man
And tho reward was not held back
and we today feel tho Joy ot it For
that upward flight of the spirit in those
times long dead yet living for us has
given to the world art music poetry
science And we still lookupon tuelr
works and listen with attentive ear to
tho heavenly strains and wo are Ufteo
up and borno In spirit to the very land
to the very time when all tills wondei
was upon the earth and tho wonder
Is not yet dead It lives In the immor
tality of tho race and will continue so
long as man continues to havo a speck
of tho divine within him
SUPERIORS BlEAK SHORE
Allnont as > Mrt yr InrlU un the elroat
L keCt t ut Sen
Tho accldentfto tho steamer Missoula
tends to show inoio clearly than any
thing thnt hasoccurred tho vast area
of Lake Superior and the posBlblllty of
a vessels crew reaching land after
shipwreck and yet being unheard of
for a couple ot weeks after starting on
a voyage says tho Detroit Free Press
Tho shores of Michigan Wisconsin and
Minnesota on the big lake aro traversed
by railways una telegraph lines and
the towns and small settlements on tho
American sldoqf tho lake even to tho
Islands furnish ready means of commu
nication with tho larger cities but not
so on that part of tho Canadian shore
north of tho lakes where a wilderness
inhabited by a fow fishermen and In
dians exists This Is especially true of
tho Canadian shore Just above Sault Ste
Mario and for a long stretch of country
to tho north and east of the point where
the Canadian Pacific Railway turns In
to the shoro of tho lako and traverses It
on toward Port Arthur and Fort Wil
liam
When the Missoula broke her shaft
and was rendered bolpless she was less
than twentyiflvd miles from Caribou
Island on tho course down toward Sault
Ste Marie She w p somewhat off tho
regular course of vessels bound down
from the head of Lako Superior but it
she had been ablo to make any headway
toward the Sault or care for herself at
all on tho course she was following
sho would havo been picked up very
soon after the accident by somo passing
vessel But a southerly wind drifted her
out of tho course of even tho few vessels
trading to Canadian pbrts at the head
of the lakes and sho was Working over
toward the wildest partot tho Canadian
nortlu Bhore territory when her crow
wero compelled to abandon her
A glance at tho chart will show that
Brule point whero tho crew of tho Mis
soula first made land Is scarcely more
than seventyfive miles from Sault Ste
Marie where 15000000 tons of freight
passes through a canal In a slnglo sea
son and yet tho men in ono of the Mis
soulas yawl boats spent nearly two
days working along the shore of the
lake before they found any more Blgn
of life than a deserted fishermans
shanty in which ifrgy built a flrq and
dried their wet clothing The fishing
season had closed but even fishermen
are scarcb In this territory during tho
most active periods It is not strange
therefore that tho men from tho Mis
soula were nearly a full week in finding
means ot communicating with the own
ers of the vessel after they had landed
on the dreary north shore of Lake Su
perior
Has Illackllatetl Insanity
The following story Is told of John
Brennan of Stevens Point as a crim
inal lawyer The story goes that a
farmer who had killed his wife in tho
northern part of tho state sent for Mr
Brennan to defend him offering to
deed him his farm if he would tako the
case Brennan wanted his pay In ad
vance and so the farmer made over the
property to him The murder was a
most brutal and coldblooded one and
Brennan knew that there was but one
plea that might save his client from
a life sentence and that was Insanity
Tho trial was one of the fiercest evei
fought In a Wlscopsjn court Tho at
torney for the defense occupied a whole
day In hs closing address to the Jury
and the effort was a masterly one The
Jury found the man insane and he was
sent to Oshkosh Onco there ho im
proved rapidly nndlna few weeks was
discharged His first act was to sue
Brennan for the recovery of his prop
erty on the ground that ho was Hnsane
at tho time he deeded it
In the face of his ownargument that
the man was insane Brennan could do
nothing and the farmer won the case
Bronnan has blackllsTed insanity as a
defense for murderers Milwaukee
Journal
rtiiterotvjkl nnU th llanjo
The other day when Paderewskl wai
dining at a hotel a fine nickel platec
banjo was sent In by a banjo player
with the request that the great plant
player should write a short muslca
sentiment on the shecpskinhead Pado
rewBki compiled with the re quest and
this is the sentiment to which ho at
tached his signature I haye not the
pleasure of being a performer on thli
beautiful lnstrumehtiam only > plant
player Nov the banjo playc asklns
his friends If the ylrtuosowus Jolly
ing him <
Church tirovrtli
The growth of tho church Is not keep
ing pace with tho growth of tho cities
In 50 of our cities statistics of six large
denominations show a falling oft o
about 37 per catrKeVi W A Star
toiiBantls t PittsbuYg7
Health in Old Age
AH OLD LADY lINDS THE TRUE
iOURCD OF VITALITY
A Itcnortcrn Interesting Interview Willi
fc Ltulj of Borentytwn Tcnrg
Vh lellt u Mttrrelous
btory
From tho Union Port Jervls N T
Hut b short time ago In a distant
part of the country wo heard of a
cure by the use ot Dr Williams Pink
Pills which seemed almost marvelous
and inoro recently another substantial
evidence of their value reached our
cats Being of an Inquiring turn of
mind mid wishing to know Just how
much there was In the story a reporter
w ir uent to Interview tbo perron said
to be thu benefited It tho narratlvo
as It bad reached our ears was true
It wan only rlmple Justice to let it be
known If It proved untrue It would be
well to know It
The perron alluded to above as having
been thus greatly benefited by the use
ot Pink Illls Is Mrs Jane Hotalen ot
Hainesvlllo N J a pleasant hamlet In
Sussex County about fifteen miles from
this office The reporter had no diffi
culty In finding Mrs Hotalen After a
few preliminary remarks In explanation
ot the cull she was asked It she had
any objection to giving us tho details
of the caso nnd hotf she came to try
this now famous remedy
Not at oil rnld she If my expe
rience can be of any good to others I
am sure they are welcome to it It can
do me no harm
When wero you taken sick and what
was the nature of tho malady7 was
usked
It was about two years ago The
trouble was rheumatic In character
sciatica they called It nnd It was very
painful Indeed The difficulty began In
my hipand extended the whole length
ot the limb crippling me completely
I suffered Intensely from It and the or
dinary treatment gave me not tho
slightest alleviation I was under treat
ment about a month as stated but grew
worco Instead of better nnd was fast be
coming discouraged
Whnt fciought Pink Pills to your
notice
My son called my attention to an
article In a paper In which It was stated
that a Mr Struble ot nranchvlllo a
Ullage In this county had been greatly
benefited by their use nnd suggested
that it would bo a good plan to try
them But 1 was skeptical lp regard
to their value In fact I had no con
fidence In their efficacy and rather
laughed at the suggestion Hut the
trouble Increased and I waB badly crip
pled A few days later my son was
about to visit a neighboring town and
cugscsted again that It might bo well
to try this muchtalkedof lemedy and
I then consented He bought me a box
of them and I began taking them at
once At the end of a week I noted ft
marked Improvement and by the time
I hnd laker tho first box I was nblo to
walk without a cane I continued their
use tuklng several boxes and am as
you see in a very comfortable state of
health
Have you had any return of the
trouble
Not as yet though at myjtlme of
life seventytwo It would not be sur
prising If I should have If Jtcomes I
should at once begin the use of the pills
I suppose1 I Inherit a tendency to
troubles of this kind my mother died
from them
Did you ever note any ill effects from
the use ot Pink Pills
None whatever They never dls
turbed my stomach In any way or
caused me any annoyance I am able
as you see to attend to my own work
Tho reporter thanked Mrs Hotalen
for her courtesy and bade her gooc
day It Is not often that one can wit
ness such a complete recovery from
nich a pertinacious troublo at such an
advanced oge and such Instances can
not fail to prdfiuce a profound impres
sion Renders of the Union may rely
on the absolute accuracy of all the
statements here given nothing has
Even exaggerated nothing withheld
Dr Wlllfams rink Pills contain all
the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves They are for sile by
by all druggists or may be had by mall
ftom Dr Wtlltams Medicine Company
Schenectady N Y for 60c per box or
six boxes for 1250
No king can rulo others well who
is not master of himself
A plgcin is within a fowl and both
aro within a goose iu a Yorkshire pie
A new feature in tho flour industry
has recently developed In Spokanes
trade with Guatemala The flour Is
packed In 100pound sacks which when
thus packed is admitted free ot duty
to the ports of that country The mills
of Spokane havo worked up quite a
trade with Guatemala and Chile which
is increasing rapidly Spokane mills
will havo a capacity when the now
mills are completed of from 2000 to
3000 barrels of Hour per day which
means a consumption of from 10000 to
15000 bushels of wheat daily In round
numbers a fair estimate tor a year
would bo 3000000 bushels
For Lung and chest diseases Plsos Cure
Is tho best medicine we have used Mrs
J L Northcott Windsor Out Canada
No man over roach heaven over a
ladder of his own make
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IterveKostorer boFluanertbuflrfttdaystibe
Marvelousrurcs TrcatlMand t2tllsl bottlefreet >
Vllctues beDato > rKllnu93lArchstllulal > a
Sin will banish men from Gods
presence but it can not separate them
from His love
The D V Bholes Investment Mining
Company of Cripple Creek Colorado can
furnish you strictly reliable Information con
cerning mining properties In the Cripple
Creek district We always have options on
some choice properties that are bargains and
handle no others Local and eastern bank
references given on application Cone
spondence solicited
There aro a good mauy things in
everysinners lilo that ho tries to bide
from himself
A London paper lenms that tho
young man who lo to marry Miss Pull
man Is well educated and of high
birth Thero must bo somo mistake
about that Nothing Ices than a double
lower berth con In the Pullman family
Drnry College needed money and a
wellknown brewer tub3cribed 51000
which caused a rival I rower who heard
of the offer to say Put mo down for
a thousand too Tho students ob
jected however ahd It Is believed that
on account of tho protest both brewers
will withdraw their money
Nov York pays her aldermen 1000
a year and thoy aro striking for nn in
croaco of Ealarles Gotham should not
grant this lncreaso Chicago pays her
aldormen only 3 a week and they are
sufficiently prosperous
A young man from Wabash Ind
went out hunting a day orlwo ago and
now has a ntory to tell of how he saw
a flock of grasshopper It Is apparent
that Wabash hunters u co for ammuni
tion tho same invisorallns ctimulant
that Illinois fichcrrrcn Insist ci taking
for bait
The 2000000 flro In Philadelphia
that drovo tho guests ot a hotel from
their bods early in tho morning has had
one good effect It tins shown to tho
world that it is posclblo to awaken a
Phlladelphlan
A St Paul man who had kissed an
other mans wife somo 2000 times was
iscessed 3500 damages by a Jury It
this is tho regular market price for
kissing f o h Ilpa In St Paul ono can
not but bo glad that kind fato peralta
him to live in Chicago
A woman In Fcstorlft O had tho mis
fortune to get shut In a folding bod
She hoyover kicked tho end out ot the
bed and managed to get out And yet
thero aro some men who aro foolish
Enough to think they can raarago a
roman
Inbllo IlintU In OklHiinma
A careful Investigation of the publlo
records discloses tho fact that there aro
yet sevetal millions of acres of public
land3 In Oklahoma yet subject to homo
stead entry and settlement
It has generally been understood that
all tho lands In Oklahoma fit for agri
cultural purposes are already occupied
but such Is not tho fact OwLg tu tho
mcthodndopted for the opening ot these
lands to settlement in many cases as
high as five or six persons would settlo
on n single track on tho day of the race
and rather than stand the expenso of a
contest or run the risk ot other trou
ble would unknown toV eacl i other
abandon theMantlV AgalnKth o main
racotorjlands at tiiosoopenings wai for
tractsnear the cities or proposed town
sjies nnd along tho linen of aljroads
nnd thus many hundreds of almost
equally as goou larms as are In Okla
homa were pasesd over in tho mad rush
tor homos
It Is true that a largo portion of the
yet unclaimed public lands are mote fit
for stockraising than for agricultural
purposes yet thero are still hundreds ot
goodTiomes awaiting the taking la that
country and undoubtedly a large num
ber of eastern people will lako advan
tage of the samo tho coming season
Tho elovll can make uuythlug ho
pleases out oi n loaler
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Rev Frederick of Qnilard Mission
St Louis Writes to Veno Ceiti
fyins That Wm Hess of 813
Chouteau Avenue Had Been
Crippled for ThreeYears
front Rheumatism
Three Bottles of Vcnoa Electric Fluid
Were Rubbed IntoMr Hess limbs
and in 30 Minutc3 He Stamped
His Feet Leaped for Joy
and Walked Homo
Leaving His Cane
St Louis Chronicle
Wnr Hess of S13 Chou
teuu ave St Louis was
a cripple yesterday to
dcy be walks without his
cane and us well as ever
Yesterday he had rubbed
Into his limbs three bot
tles of Venos Eloctrlo
Fluid before a large au
dience He was taken to
Veno hardly able to hob
ble but In thirty mlnufea
after Venqa Eloctrlo
Fluid hod been rubbed in
to bis limbs Mr Hess
Jumped stamped bU feet
and declared himself free
from pain The excite
ment was at its height
when ha started home
leaving bis cane with
Veno The great audi
encecheeredlteclf hoarse
These cures aro not per
formed by magnetism
Veno has no faith In such
nonsense It isthe extra
ordinary power of Veno1
Electric Fluid and Venoi I
Curative Syrup The
Abo fa Is the opinion or tho Bt Louis I
Chronicle one of whose representatives I
witnessed several of tho remarkable cures I
performed by Venos remedies
VENOB CURATIVE SYItUP 50 cents l
bottle Is a positive cure for nervousneesj
malarial fever weak stomach dyspepalal
constipation liver kidney and blood dlsj
oases sleeplessness und poor appetite amf
when used with
VENOS ELECTRIC FLUID 0 cents 1
bottle will cure the worst and most de
perate forma of rheumatism paralysll
troubles sciatica
spinal neuralgia
muscles numbness
joints weak and
aches and pains Guaranteed to cure pj
manently If your drueslst has not l
those medicines usk him to got them
you or write to tho Veno Drug Co IHJ
burg Pa