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VOL XIX.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, TIIUHSDAY,FEimUARY 4, 1807-
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THE BOND
Weird Tale of Life
Mountains.
BY EDGAR
MIAPTFR II. Continued.
II o boon contrived to murmur in my
ear: "I woold not heebato. Olaf Avel
ing Is ready whenever you are. L'ottor
tako what ris'.c thero la thau go on, like
this, iu anxiety ami self-torment."
" Very well," I answered, "toll hlni.Jf
you boo him boforo I do, thut I am will
ing It shall bo to-morrow night."
And to-moirow night It was. But be
fore then I had n long talk with Linda.
To some of this C .nrn 1 listened, and I
thought (hat ho did so with a hungry
eagerness, varied by suspicions glances
at myself. Tho io.t fellow teamed to
have tome distressing doubt of my own
continued love fur him. I well knew
that this was at tho mot of all his un
enslnpfi. it refreshed mo wonderfully
when ho at length yielded cilhor to my
will power or his own weariness and
lapsed into a feverish yet deeldod
t-liunbor.
I promptly addressed I.lnda then
with those direct ami tremulous words:
"You have shown mo that you care
for mo. I I can only speak in whis
pers like this, or he will hear. Do you
understand.'"
"Yes," the answered, faintly, droop
ing her eyes
"Oh, L'n tit." I pursued, "how muob
do you really earo for mo?"
' I, VLtorc" she fal'ered; "why, I'm
your fond, din o'od sister. Have I not
suld this to you more than tnoo?"
"It bas meant nothing tome, Llndo,
I 1 lovo y(u iu another way from that.
You must luive hi en?"
"Victor, what are you saying?"
. "Then you think me madly foolish?"
"Oh, yes, yes; why not? '
"You mean bocnuan of him?'1
"Conrad yes."
"Hut. listen, I.lnda. If I were freod
from him, what then?"
"Treed from Conrad? Oh, you ran't
be serious you can't."
"Hut I nm. There is a possibility of
our separation. Avellnj has bdd you
nothing of it?"
"No. no," she answered. In consterna
tion and nTrluht. "Victor, you don't
dream ibnt biich a thins could be neoom-pll.-hed'"
1 controlled my yearning to toll her
the real truth.
"It ccitainly might be accomplished,
Linda." And hero I seized hor land,
ru'nlng fo't and soundless kisses upon
It. "if it were. Linda, what then'"
"What then' ' she repented, bewilder
edly, letting m retain her hand. Then,
on n Hidden, precipitately riulng, she
threw hor arninubout my neck and kiS6sd
mo full on tho lips. Afterward, like a
flush, sho j'bded from my sight.
I felt, with great, lleree, intoxicating
thrills that I had had my answer. And
euoh an nnswi r! It nerved mo for un
told budily agony to come.
That night, artor Conrad and I had re
tired, I knew that the operation would
occur. Tor somo time my brother lay
sleepless at my r.ido. and plied mo with
questions.
"Why are you to wakeful, Victor?" he
queried,
"J, ( oniad:" camo my response. "It
is you wh ) (lie wakeful. You know I
do not sleep as readily as yoursolf."
"Rut you're excite 1. Your heart is
beating fast. Why in that?"
"You only Imagine, Conrad."
"No, no; I feel it bont. I feel it all
through my frame. Why do I feel your
heart beat like this, Victor? Why?
Why?"
" You do not, Conrad," I strove to say
calmly, "you only fancy it."
"Fancy it! 1'ah! You're unhappy
ebout something. A'i, I know I know,"
and hia voice became tearful. "You're,
sorry we're jo mil toother. Y'ou
you want, to liavo us cut apart. Am I
not light, Victor?"
"So," I 6aid. s'eadying my voice as
best I couid. "No, indeed. There, are
you BHliBfied?"
"I I oan't to.
"What puts such 6trango thoughts
Into your in.nd, Conrad?" I urged, re-
EHE THREW KIR ARMS ABOCT Mr KICK.
proachfully. Meanwhile 1 was using all
my hyinn ia power lo lndueo sleep in
him, for I kuew that Aveling and bis
fellow physicians must now be waiting
not far away, ready to appear at the In
stant that I should sound a peal from
the small bell ou the wall just above
my pillow.
"Ye, yes," persisted Conrad, with
wild plalntiveness, "I am right.! I am
rightl" Here ho gavo a dreadful shud
der. "But I'll never consent to an op
jeratlon, Victor, never!" And now he
embraced me as If In suppliant alarm.
"If I did, you might recover, but I
would die."
, "Xo, Victor."
"Yes, that is what they've all said
all except Dr. Aveling, and he wants to
make himself famous at any price. It's
not that I'm so afraid to die, Vlotor
not that I even fear dying at all."
, "Xo, Conrad?"
"But it's loavlng you. Ah, if we
could both go together. Then I should
not care In tho least."
I turned, fueling like a Judas, and
kissed him on the brow. "Wo probably
will go together," I said, "when our
times comes," and I meant what I said,
though In asuifie wholly different from
that in which ho doubtless took my
t sinful words.
It seemed an eternity before he fell
4ltp. I wm rcmoiMful, and yt
II in
OF FLESH.
from the Tyroiese j
FAWCETT.
burolngly bont on carrying out my proj
ect, (somehow I already hatsd myself
for the very force of dotorm nation
which controlled me.
Conscience, however, kept applying to
Its hurt ono aovoroign lenitive. 11a I
not Aveling as6uired mo that our
chanoes of life woula hi equal? I ro
posod oil my sulf-justitio.ation on that
solo assurance. For the rest, my love
of Linda mado action, eonsonr, ncqulos
ceneo nlmost fatally eu-y.
When peor Conrad slept, and I was at
last confident that ho (lid ho, I sounded
the bell.
Avellnj entered very softly. In no
time I had a-sisled him lo place the
sponge of ether at Coniad's nostrils.
The light In the loini wus still dim.
Hut I could see Aveling's fneo perfect
ly. It was calm, and perhaps a little
paler than usual.
"Y'ou'ro excited," he said, with his
hand on my pulse.
"Oh, natura'ly," I answered. "Is
everything ready?"
"Everything."
"The other physicians are walling In
the noxt room?"
"Yes. and the work must necessarily
be brief. You w.ll have no sufforinj.
Would you care to sco Sclireiui r for a
moment?"
Toes ho desire. It?" I askol.
"Ho does and does uot. He Is un
nerve I, and "
"Very well; don't let us meet, then.
Ho might unnerve me." I guvo ft faint,
broken laugh now. "It Is so horrid to
take that drua. Could I not go through
the thing without It?'-
"No, no!" refused Avol'ng, "don't
dream of it. All hopo of safety lies in
your perfect quiotudo and unconscious
ness. "Very well," I sa'.d. .tust then the
breathing of Conrad at my e do grew
stertorous, and a languor, whose camo
I could not but know, stolo through my
veins.
In another moment I felt a sponge
touch my own nostrils. Then there
came a struggle against tho heavy, as
phyxiating viipora of the amcwtlietle.
I FELT A SrOWiE.
And Just before I quite lost all count of
things I have a clear lecolleotlon of
seeing tho lights of tho room lurr.od up
to their fullest extent and several malo
figures tn oping in through an open
door.
That was ail. Immediately
afterl became unconscious Conrad and I
must huve been lifted from our bod into
tho adjacent room and placed on an
operating table prepared to receive us.
CHATTER IU.
I remember nothing until t perlo.l
which mu6t have be. n two or three
hours later. And then, as it actreours
to me, I wus so weak and yot thorough
ly peaceful that I had no do6iro to uso
iny memory at all. This was no doubt
aresultot the g. eat ulood-loss which 1
hna suslainou. Aiterward camo a blanit,
1 learned, later, that, this blank lasted
for nearly f days. Tho nurses watch
ing mo twice decided that I had ceased
to live. Then vitality flickered ba-k
into a vague semblance of its old swav,
What I first cloariy recall is refusing
to drink a certain potion put by the
nurse to my lips, and saying w.th ve
hemenco that I had alr ady eaton and
drank more than w us good for me. At
this time my watchers wore sfraid that
I nughtuie or starvation, since the in
lections of nourishment on which I had
been living had begun to fail of their
nutritive otuce.
But from that hour, s' might along, I
began to recuperate. Once started, my
Douiiy recovery was rapid, yot. so,
nowovor, my mental rncovury. tor a
good while I saw Conrad at my side.
though ho was no longor there. For a
good while 1 spoke to him and thought
that ne returned my answers. The
realization that we had been separated
in a bodily way crept, upon me with
drowsy slowness. At last I inquired of
my nurse:
"Where is my brother?
"We thought it best, sir," camo tho
glib reply, that you should be kept
apart wane you ro w.n so ui.
"Then ho is alive?"
"Oh, yes, sir."
"ThaukGod! And has ho suffered?"
".Suffered? Oh, no, sir; not at all."
I heard rayeolf heave a etiong, grate
ful elgb just a9 I sank into a sleep
whloh thoso few sentences made one of
exhaustion.
But a little later I rallied most appre
ciably. 6tlll to weak too leave my bed,
I could yet hold converse with two or
three dootors who visited mo. The ab
sence of Aveling became a source of
surprise, and I soon inquired for him.
"He has been called away," said one
of the doctors.
"Yes to Farls, I believe," stmok In
another; and then I saw them exchange
a quick, peculiar smilo a smllo which I
was destined presently to understand.
"Where is my dear old friend, Oscar
Schreiner?" I next questioned. "Why
doos be not come to me he of ail
others?"
"We thought jou were not strong
enough yot," I was answered.
"Xot strong jnou'h? I roturned, al
most mockingly; "why, that Is really
absurd. Let him come at once."
Hut they refused, and three good
days had passed before Oscar appeared
at my bed-side. He wus very crave of
demeanor, and looked torn what hag
gard. After a littlo while, during whlrh
he held my hand and stroked it with
fondues.", ho broke to mo tho tidings
that Conrad had died (wholly without
pain and still unconscious) ou the even
Ing of the operation.
"Dead! lenrad dead!" I cried, and
swooned completely away.
More r"ays passed boforo I Jenrnod
news equally harrowing, in a way even
lar more so. iosirin most earnesny
to see Linda, I was told that I could
not, for tho reason that sho had become
Mrs. Olaf Aollng. and was on her wed
ding tour with her now-married hus
band. 'lhen tho wlv le batoful truth burst
upon me. Trembling with pns6ionato
revolt and disgust, 1 rose from tho great
arm-elnir In which I was seated, and
shook my c ; netted hand at Oscar.
" OlatAvellng wanted lo perform thut
oporailon," I cried, "because ho be
lieved it w.nild kill rao also."
"Victor!" exclaimed Oscar Schreiner,
shockod and horrified, "how can you
denounce as a murderer the mau who
has given you your liberty?"
"Liberty!" I echoed, with a scornful
sneer. " What Is my liberty worth, now
that Linda is lost to mo I.lnda whom I
loved with my wholo 6onl?"
Oscar visibly shuddered and raised
one repelling hanl.
"I had r.o dream that you eared for
her like this," he began, "until Aveling
himsoir told me."
"And then," I ehoulod, "you forced her
to marry that treacherous devill"
"I persuaded her "
"You forced hor," I struck In. "Y"o.,
you must havo forced her, for sho loved
mo, she loved me. I had seen it; I had
felt it through every fiber of my life!"
"But, Victor, listen. It seemed such
a sacrilege for hor to marry you, after
C nrad's death. Forgive mo If I thought
this, tut "
"You consented, however, that sho
should marry the assasfciu of my
brother."
"Oh. Viator! Thin!;! If ho bad wished
to kill you, might ho not havo donn so?"
1 broko into a laugh of bitter iron'.
"Xo. He was watched by those other
doctors. And you joursolf havo told
me that I was only 6aved by a miracle."
"Victor, Victor," sighed my listener.
"Remember that you are not yet well
that excitement llko this may reopen
your wound!
"I'll reopen it myself," now rang
fiom my lips. And with reckless hands
I tore from my sldo tho bandages which
clung to It. A great flow of blood fol
lowed, and for days I was onco more
prostrated. I wanted to die, and even
ptoyed for death. Hut. health asserted
itself in obstinate refusal of my prayer
Within another month 1 had completely
recovered, and fti soon as regained
strength permitted I departed from Os
car Schrelner's house.
Almost immediately I wont back to
my native town among the Tyroiese
mountains, and have lived there in soli
tude and retirement ever since. I am
an old man now, and the story of tho
severed bond of flesh has becomo half
forgotten. It gavo Olaf Aveling a great
surgical reputation, however, an 1 he
has grown rioh In consequence.
Hundreds of tlmos, In my regret and
repentance at the death of poor Conrad.
1 havo lelt like taking my own lifo. But
that is all past now; I am in a measure
quite at peace. Past, too, are the wildly
vengeful impulses to 6eok out Olaf
Aveling and end his life by a retribu
tivo blow of hate. I comprehend tho
utter failuro of my now oxistoneo, yet
Btrivo to convinco myself that it is a
penance justly inflicted for having r re
sumed to tamper with the decrees of an
inscrutat lo destiny.
Often do I bless tho mighty hills
which engird me, and often it scorns to
mo that thoy havo somehow taught mo
noble and wholesome lossons. I watob
their grandeur for hours, and learn
from it ftr, perhaps, only fanoy that 1
leurn) the ctcrod wisdsin of patloace.
TlIiS Elf D. I
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rights returned.
The IIop-1'lckcri.
A chronicler of tho past and pres
ent records, in tho New York Even
ing I'ost, the degeneracy of the busi
ness of hop-picking in the lDterior of
JS'ew York State. In his boyhood all
the young men apd women who were
in need of money or out of health
repaired to tho country annually,
picked hops for tho farmers, shared
tho meals of their wives and daugh
ters, and returned borne with a nest
egg of $25 or bo. The earning were
very acccptablo to the poorer work
ers, and to the others they meant
somo extra fineries or a trip to New
York. The occupation was regarded
as proper and desirable, and more
over, the day oit-n ended with a
country dance or some other innocent
amusement. But the introduction
of tho city hop-pickers has spoiled
this bucolic picture. Tho chionicler
says of them: The pickers aro gath
cred indiscriminately aud are com.
po-ed of an indolent class of men and
women, who do not care to lab ir in-
dustriously for tho money thoy would
earn, but go rathor for the 'good
time' there is in it. Drinking and
revelry, an absence of all decency,
brawls, midnight marauding, aud an
occasional murder are the results of
their annual visit to the hop-field.
It follows that decent and Industri
ous country people havo been driven
from a good orcupatiou."
If it takes forty-five days fast tc
cure dyspepsia, as seems to te the
opinion of a man in New Jersey, it is
not. strange that so many people have
It. 'The better way is to live properly
tnc dyspepsia cannot get a ljdg-
menu ' -
"I'll nEorts ir urotur.
RELIGIOUS CORNER.
RELIGION AND REFORM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
the Living Tresent JeiUS If Me By
Our Owp JVeiW Wo Nun Korkou
The Holy Communion Ouo of tbo
Very Boat Ways.
j VERY day Is a
r fresh begin-
"M3VVv made new;
(feslKl 1 You who aro
weary of sor
row and 6in
nlng. A Jlero is a beauti
ful hops for you;
A hopo for me and a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over.
The tasks are dono and tbo tears aro
shed,
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterday's wounds which smarted
end bled
Aro healed with thd healing which
night has ehort.
Yesterday's now Is a past forever;
Bound up in o sheaf which God holds
tight.
With glad days and sad days which
never
Shall visit us more with thoir bloom
and their blight.
Their fullness of sunshine or sor
rowful night.
Let them go since wo cannot reveal
them.
Cannot undo and cannot alone;
God In His mercy receive, forgive them;
Only tho new days aro our own,
To-day Is ours, and to-day alone.
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.
And, spite of eld sorrow and of sin
ning. And puzzles forecasted and possible
pain,
Take heart with the day and begin
again.
Susan Coolldge.
Ji-nn., It's Me.
A( a religious meeting In the south
of London, a timid little girl wanted
to be prayed for; she wanted to como
to Jesus, and 6aid to the gentleman
conducting tho meeting: "Will you
pray for mo in tho meeting, please,
but do not mention my name?"
In the meeting which followed, when
every head was bowed, and there was
silence, tho gentleman prayed for the
little girl who wanted to come to Jeeus,
and he said, "O, Lord, there is a little
girl who docs not want her uame to bo
known, but thou dost know her; savo
her precious soul!" There was a per
fect silence, and away In tho back of
tho meeting a littlo girl rose, and a lit
tle voice said, "Please, It's me, Jesus;
it is me!" She did not want to have a
doubt. Sho meant it. She wanted to
be saved and she was not ashamed to
riso in that meeting, little girl as &be
was, aud say, "Jesue, It's me."
By Onr Own Deed.
You have individualities that may
be eccentricities, says the Philadelphia
Methodist, but they need not be; they
may be your points of strength. Your
efficiency may depend upon them. Do
tho work to which you are adapted.
Make a distinct lmpreesloa in the
sphere of your activities. Be In league
with others, for sometimes you will bo
unable to do much alone, but be sure to
do something. To vol to do some
thing, or for others to do something.
Is frequently all that Is done. We. shall
not be Judged by trie deeds of the or
ganization of which we are a part, but
according to the deeds that are distinct
ly chargeable to us.
The Holy Communion.
No ono has lived the inner life with
out seasons of early passions when the
romance of Jesus had captured the
Bout without experiencing seasons of
later declenslou when the greenery of
spring grew gray in the city dust. It
is in such hours of coldness and weari
ness we ought to reinforce our souls
with the sacrament of the bread and
wine. As one makes a Journey to somo
country kirkyard where the dust of his
departed Is lying, and cleanses away
the moss that has filled up the letters
of his mother's name, bo do we In the
holy communion again assure ourselves
of a lova s amazing that It passes
knowledge, but so utterly divine tha.
It murft be true. Ian Maclarcn.
One of the Best Wr.
One of tho best ways to bo loved iu
a com nunlty is to seek its welfare by
refusiag to hear and retail gossip, by
fair, kind, generous and helpful action,
by showing respect for others' opin
ionn, by expressing one's own iu a
polity but firm way, and by discharg
ing duty with courtesy, conslderateness
and fidelity. Moro than anyone else,
the wife should havo tho graco of si
lence; the crowning household bless
ing. She should know how to hold her
peace. She Bhould know when to ro
frain from speaking, even though her
words be those of affection and en
dearment. 8lf-RMpc t.
Many people are accused of thinking
too highly of themselves, but the fact
lg that the majority do not respect and
reference themselves enough. Even In
tre most secret place we should scorn
to do anything that would make us less
at tr to respect ourselves. We should
be like Socrats, who ud to say that
there was ono man of whom ho waa
terribly afraid, and that was Socrate
Few men and perhaps no woman, pasj
a glasG or mirror, or even a well-pol-islied
door handle, without looking at
themselves in it. This would not be a
bad habit if they would reason in this
way: "If I am handsome I must tako
care that my character corresponds; If
ugly, let mo bo all glorious within, eo
that I may compensate tor tho plain
nes3 of my features.
Etll SprnkhiR.
1. I will speak no unkind or harsti
word of nnyon.
2. I will repeat ro unkind remarks
I hear of nnyoue, and discourage oth
ers, as much as possible, from saying
unkind things.
3. I will Judge my neighbors len
iently, remembering that my own
faults are probably far greater.
4. I will never say ono thing to
others, and yet think quite differently;
this is hypocrisy. "Deceive not with
hy lips.'
6. I will make no Injurious remarks
on the failincs of others, remembering
these words, "Consider thyself, lest
thou also be lemptcd."
6. I will put the best construction oa
tho motives and actions of all my
neighbors. I'rosbyierian Review.
How to Hear ir.t Sorrow.
Strangely do somo people talk of
"getting over" a front sorrow over
leaping it. passing if. by, thrusting it
into ohlivion. Not. so, no ono ever does
that, at loast no nrturo which can be
touched "by the feeling of grief at all.
The only way 15 to pass through tho
ocean cf affliction solemnly, slowly,
with huniilily and faith, as the Israel
ites passed through the sea. Then its
very waves of misery will dlvido and
become to us a wall on the right side
and on tho left, until the fulf narrows
and narrows before our eyes and we
land cafe on the opposite shore D. M
Crallt. "I
How Wo fan Work lletit.
Everybody can do something to help
on the work of tho church, and most of
us can do some things for which wo do
not yet pereilvn our own fitness
Tastes, circumstances, mtural advan
tages nnd evident opportunities suggest
how wo can work best, but. even those
who aro not aware of any particular
cal lof duty will soon becomo Interested
and useful when onco fa Irly set at
work. Where there is such a willing
and zealous purpose the fruits of true
spiritual enterprise soon appear,
Can Nm'cr Dl.
Our souls c.t' never die,
Tho' In the tomb
Wo may nil have to lie.
Wrapt In its gloom.
Whai though the flesh decay.
Souls pass In penco away,
Live through eternal day
Wiih Chris! above.
The liitflifst riteh.
To be patient under a heavy cress fs
no small praise; to bo contented is
more; but to bo cheerful Is the highest
pitch of Christian fortitude.
Corns of Thought.
Books aro the masters who lnafroet
us without rods and ferrules, without
hard words and anger, without clothes
or money. If you aproach them they
are not asleep; if. investigating, you
interrogate them they conceal nothing;
if you mistake them they never grum
ble; If you are ignorant they cannot
laugh t at you. r.icbard de Barry.
God bo thanked, tho meanest o! His
creatures
Bopsts two soul sides, one to face the
world with,
Ono to show a woman when he loves i
her. R. Drowning. I
It is not thy works which aro almost 1
as infinitely little and the greatest no
greater than tho least; but only tho
spirit thou workept in, that can havo
worth or continuance. Carlyle.
Lifo differs from tho play only In
this, it has no plot, all is vasue, de
sultory, unconnected until the curtain
drops with the mystery unsolved. Lyt
ton. Lifo is a festival only for the wise;
seen from the nook and chimney-side
of prudence. It wears a rugged and dan
gerous look. Umcrson.
It is not explanations which survive
but the things which aro explained, not.
theories but tho things abou which we
theorize. A. J. Balfour.
Good nature will always supply the
abrence of be;,uty, but beauty cannot
long supply the uIimtcc of good nature.
Addison.
lie tu.it fu'ls into sin !s a man; that
grieves at it 13 a sii.i'; that boasteth
of It is a devil. Thus. Fuller.
Little minds a.re tamed and subdued
by mi.-fiuiituc: but great minds riso
above it.--W;nibii,giiiu Irving.
Love not pleasure, love Rod. This
the everlasting yea. wh.-roln all contra
dict ion is solved - -Cm lylc.
It i: fie customary f it? of new truths
to beciu :u heresies and lo end as sup
crstitioni;. Hult y.
Little chiY.re-n are rtill the symbol
of tho rtein.il marriage between love
and duty. Kliot.
He who h:ts ihe. truth a' his hear:
need never fear the want of persuasion
on his tongue. Rusk in.
Honesty is the best policy, but ho
who acts on th it principle Is not sn
honest man.-AVhately.
One crowded hour of glorious life, is
worth an age without a name. Scott.
Irratlonaly held truths may bo more
harmful than reasoned errors. Han
ley. It costn more to revenue Injuries
than to bear them. Bishop T. Wilson.
Renunciation remains a sorrow, but
a sorrow borne willingly. Eliot.
He Hint Is of a merry hwirt natll
continual feasts Froverbs
RAPID SCENE SHIFTING,
th Latest Mechanical Effect la a
uropcau 1 beater.
It h a remarkable fact that when au
audience has become Interested in the
plot and progress of a play tho Inter
ruption ueccss.ity for the change of
scenery seem to be much longer than
they really are. A wait of five minu'L-s
is amply eullicient to 6end the impa
tient male American out "to see a mau"
and ect the ladles' fans In active mo
tlou. In France the scenes are chanc
ed almost Instantly.
Tho French system Is distinguished
by the use of masts upon carriages run
ning In grooves or slots In the tag", the
scenery being adjusted to the movable
mast eo ns to bo rolled ou to Its evect
position. Ouu scene is attached to lis
masts vhllo another Is being played.
At the closy of the scene the t;deau de
nounjres, or cloud curtain, !s used. This
consists of two curtains painted ns
clouds, one descending, ':hi other as
cending from a slot In the stage, after
tho ancient Roman method. The mo
ment the bottom curtain has risen suf
ficiently to hide the audience the cm
ployes beupath the stage run off the
carriages of tho past scen. and on tho
now. This Is so quick that, it Is dono
by tho time the ascending and descend
ing curtains have met, and their course
is Immediately reversed, disclosing Hi"
new scene, in the spaco of a few sec
onds. The English aud African meth
od of quick changes Is clumsy com
pared to
The most recent, nnd in more than
one sense revolutionary, I. the Inven
tion of Karl Tittutensehlngtt, the master
machinist of the Resideu.i-Hof Theater.
Muuich. The entire stap) Is i tumM
ble, such. Indeed, as we imty see ar bd.v
locomotive shed on the railway. The
proscenium opening, about 0.1 feet,
dominates enn-fourtti of the periphery,
nnd the stage can le arranged to hold
from one to four scene accord ins 10
REVOLVING STAGE AT THE
desire. The motive power used is elec
tricity. The stage was used for the first
time last May iu a production -of Mo
zart's "Dou Giovanni." The accom
panying Illustration shows the entlro
arrangement, otic sld of tbo prosce
nium being supposed to be cut a way,
showing the garden scene ready to
swing round luu.iosltlon as soon a toe
ballroom scene is finished.
Another method b that '.u me in the
theater at Ttudanest and some others; In
Europe, where secncs can bo set to
come up tbrouch blots 1a the Mage,
while the previous seeno Is 6lnk!a?
through similar openings.
QUEER KIND OF BUNNIES,
They I u habit the Lonely V'aratlone
Inlands.
A peculiar rabbit Inhabits the Faral
!one islands. The material difference is
that the bunnies of the Islands eat
raw fish and crabs, and have no spe
Clal desire for gweu things. However,
they do est greens when they happen
to find some. When the rabbits are eat
ing the fih thc-y look very much as
they do when they are eating cabbage,
and nibble It la the s.iiuo way. They
do not seem to be in the least partlcu
lar as to tho condition of the fish they
are eating, and will make s meal off
one that has lain ou the rocks a week
just a. soon ns fmru one that has Just
been washed ashore. It Is interesting
to know that the rabbits that live on the
Farallones have contracted their pros-
tlAHniT EATINO A CRAtl.
cut mode of living within the last thir
ty years, as they are the descendants
of tame rabbits that were brought
there by the first lighthouse-keepers.
They are not as pretty as their ances
tors. In fact, they have become very
lean aud haggard looking, and have
much the appearance of a half-starved
cuvote. Hut the fact that they have
adapted themselves theU' new con-
ditlons is only another example to show
that there Is some foundation for the
Darwinian theory.
Mrs. Alex- infer Hamilton.
A writer In the Atlautle Monthly says
that when sho wus a child of twelve
she knew Mrs. Alexander Hamilton,
then a charming old lady of ninety-live,
overflowing with reminiscences. Ona
was of a great gathering of the Indiana
of eastern New York, at Saratoga,
which was then only a lo? fort. Tha
chiefs and greatest wnrriou of the Six
Nations, dressed In barbaric ptmip, bur
with pence on their face, srood waiting
the approach of a sninll group of whirrs
one or two olllcers iu full uniform and
a tall, commanding man, iu the prima
of life, leading by the baud a Um girl
ef thirteen.
Tho tallmna was On. riillip Schuy
ler, whom the ludlans honored us they
did no other white man; nnd they had
met to offer him n tribute cf devotion.
At a sign from the great chief, their
ranks parted ! admit tiett. Schuyler,
who fidv.'ineed Into ti:" open space still
lending his link' daugli'.-r. Tln-ri. with
many ei-ieuionles. the hil 1 was formal
ly adopted bv the Si Nation, the
j chiefs ending (be twered rite by laying
Uhir hnmbs upon her hi-a l. and giving
j her an Indian name, uieanin.i ' Ouo of
us. ' Aud Mrs. Hamilton was nm urnr
maid
Ono day th-- o'd boiy wis t.ihtins
about men of boiidy stn-nuth. and eln
told iin lueiilent whii-li milit have hap
pened s'lun after her lii'iiri.ire, fe,r sh
was at the ttuue l;i bc-ad-iua'ters with
her husband. t;.-n. Wn.ihiniti.m was
writing In Ms c-tii'e. a 1. Mini on the- t-ec-oud
li'X'V of a firm Iimuv-. The farm
er'? wife, wi.ii v;i v., -!,:; .r clothes,
suddenly discerned that 1 !:- shed rewf
was on lire. i?he rushed screa miug into
tliH house and Washington came
bounding down the stairs, picked up
or.e of the large wash tubs full of suds,
ran upstair with It, got out ou the roof
KING'S THEATER, MUNICH.
and emptied it on the blaze; then he
rau for another tub and stlil another
before he succeeded In putting out the
fire.
One night Mrs. Hamilton seemed sad
and nlcnt-miuded, and would not go
into the parlor where there were visit
ors, but at near the fire and played
backgammon for a while. When the
game was done, she leaned back in her
chai j lou, time with closed eyes, as
if lost to all around hor. Presently th
siloneo was broken by tho murm.Tcd
words:
"I am so tired; It Is so long. I want
to see Hamilton!"
What thoughts must have come t tt
from the past! For sho bad griefs be.
youd the tiMUil lot of women. Her old
est sou, rnillp, fell In 3 duel before his
father met a similar fate; aud the old
est daughter, a lovely young creature,
was 60 fdjoeked by her brother's cruel
death that she liocame Insane. ThougU
she lived to be an old woman, it was as
an Inmate of a private asylum.
A I-'atal Omelette.
Ignorape.. of cooking Is not oren th
direct ause of n man's death, but such
an Instance Is related by Miss Edith
Lionel In a recent volume entitled.
"The Story of Two Salons." Iu the
limit of tho French Revolution, one
Monsieur Condor-crt. upon whec-e bend,
as an aristocrat, a price was set. sought
refuge with n friend. Monsieur Suanl,
who bade him return at nightfall, when
tnoaus if escape would ba provided.
T'uhapplly Condoreet. being unable to
exist without tobacco, went Info a tfiv
eru to buy sonic. Si ill prostrate from
fatigue, he tlioucht be would take ad
vantage of this opportunity to get somo
dinner, ami ordered an omelette.
"How many eges do you wish to be
used'" Inquired the landlord, who had
been eying lilni suspiciously. The in
nocent t -oiidoreet was at his wits' ends:
be reflected on the size of the ordinary
omelette.
"Twelve," he boldly replied.
Ills fate was sealed; none but an aris
tocrat could he no Ignorant or so ex
travagant. Ho was arretted and lod
away 10 prison, front wbleb be never
emerged.
Itneon That lawyer you recommend
ed is not n man of his word. Egbert
Why not? "He told m 1 could talk
freely to Mm, and look at the bill he'a
sent me!" YonkTS Statesman.