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FRANKBIN PRESSo THE V0LUMEX1X. FRANKLIN; N. 0., WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 1904. NDMJ3I51: 20. r Mystery of the By Solving It Peter Joyce Cleared Himself of the Suspicion of Murdering Peter Joyce had Just been discharged' from the employ of the 0. L, W. Rail way Company at Manassas Junction. There were several machine shops In the place connected with the road. The company had been throwing off Its men, but In the latter part of Octo ber, 1K2, there was an unexpected In crease of work, which recalled many of the Idle men to their posts and sent skyward the hopes of those who re mained. Joyce was chuckling to himself over the situation when, on Oct 21, he re ceived a blue envelope. He took It . mechanically from the paymaster's hand, stood in the doorway for a mo ment like a man who has been stunned from a sudden blow, and then, with an oath and some other words of which he was scarcely conscious, turned and left the place, not observ ing the strange glances sent after him as he went down the tracks. It was quite dark when he went out, stumbling over the rails like a drunk en man in the rain and sleet which had begun falling an hour before. He was so full of anger and shame at the oc currence that he could scarcely see where he was going, and once he actu ally ran Into the end of a flat car, rais ing his arms only Just In time to avoid a dangerous contact with the bumpers. He would not go home yet. to the dreary little room in the boarding house he called home. The rain and sleet were far better. He crept into a deserted coal shed and sat down upon the rough clinkers for an hour or more. Mason had discharged him, and for what? Over and over again he re viewed the man's sharp voice, the quick, impetuous words, his own voice making some reply which he could not now remember. And then the glances of the men of which he was only too well aware as he started down the tracks. But as he was stealing along like a hunted wolf between the lines of heavily loaded freights, he stumbled over something In hiB path, and the next Instant be was kneeling above the body of the man he hated more than any one else In the whole world. He managed to drag the body from the rails where It would have been left so that a passing train would decapi tate It, and in less than Ave minutes afterward he burst into the shanty of one of the night watchmen, covered with perspiration, bis eyes rolling like those of a man taken In a sudden lit. "The man, Thompson, the man!" he gasped as soon as he could find his voice. V "The jlason, the superintendent! Wt a sight!" t aido you mean, Pete? Speak out iA man! Accident, wreck, fire. whatisltT" Joyce staggered tc his feet. "Come out with me. Bill, and see." And oil they started on a run from the shanty, dodging the shifting freight cars and moving engines with a reck lessness peculiar to men of their class; and so made their way at last to the place where the body was lying. Thompson stooped and looked It over with a troubled face. "A bad Job, Mr. Joyce," he began In a constrained voice. "It it is do you?" It was hard to speak the words, but Joyce understood, and In the dim light, amidst the falling "sleet, be raised his band solemnly. "Before God, William, I didn't! I would not have had the strength to do it!" .. Thompson stood up and rubbed his hand across his eyes, as if trying to think of something. "Let's go back to the shanty, Pete. There's no one there, and we can talk it over together." Once Inside the hut the watchman bolted the door, pulled down the cur tain at the window and faced his mate. "What we have to do must be done quickly, Pete. Some one will surely be along before midnight" Again be looked over the trembling form of Joyce doubtfully. "I only wish I knew what to do with you, Pete, until the clouds roll by. It looks stormy for you now, my lad." With a sudden inspiration he went to a little desk and wrote something on a sheet of paper with a pencil. "Here, Pete, take this. It's an order oa the lower shops for a couple of crowbars and a coal shovel. It is dat ed Ave o'clock, and If any one asks me about it I will say I sent you down ' there about quitting time, not knowing you had been turned off. "When you get there, for the love of heaven patch up some kind of a story which will agree with mine that I will sen? them by the 'phone, and be . careful what you aay I If you" He stopped and ran to the door, lowered bis light and looked out When he turned to Pete his face was ' white. "There's men coming np the tracks now! . Here, crawl out of the window and I will shut it after you. Be quick, '. peter, ran, man; run for your life!" . Thompson closed the window after htm," Ut his pipe and was busy sweep ing the' floor when the men rushed in. At their first words he sank back In his chair, gasping and trembling. "Where is he? Who did it? When did it happen?" he asked. Consummate acting it was, and not a man that went back with htm to the scene of the murder suspected that he had been there before that sight. The men aid not say mucn ai irsi, out . stood around the body examining it "with awe-struck faces, ' ."Where's Joyce tonight?" The words were the ones that the . man had been most dreading, and In' an absent minded manner he turned to the questioner , "Pete?" he replied. "Why, I sent him - out oa an errand to the lower yards about B o'clock, but I did not know the " poor fellow had lost his Job until later. I would not wonder If he was talking , to the men around the shops about something to do there." "We Understand that Joyce made some threat tonight when he was dis charged, G. L. W. Railway; His Superior. How harsh and rasping the voice sounded.; , "Pete's been there, ever since, for I talked" with him over the 'phone only minute before you came In," he said. "And another thing. Look at the long red marks on the man's throat Pete's hand could never lit those dents, not on your life." The men drew aside and stood hesi tatingly In the doorway, evidently re luctant for some reason to go out again Into the darkness. In a few moments the railway surgeon came 1ft and ex amined the body with a pussted look. "I.have seen many a man killed In my day," ho said, at bat, "but I never before saw a man who had been killed in the way this man was. "I would have been here sooner, but as : was passing under the railway bridge at Elm street my horse shied at something I could not see, sad I had to drive him back a little way, and conn on foot. I never knew him to act that way before." j.,., The men went away together after a while, removing the body in an ambu lance. It grew colder with the morning hours, and Thompson, lifting some fresh coals to the stove, heard a noise at the window behind him. With a cry of terror, he turned about to look Into the wild and panlcstruck face of 'Joyce, who had crept up behind the shanty and was looking In to see whether it was safe for him to enter. But his clothing was shockingly torn, his face and hands covered with blood and soot "Something chased me on the way back through the yards over the tops of the flat cars," Joyce said. "I hid once , under the old plough near the water tank, and there it lost me." "What was Iff" gasped the watch man. "It's Satan himself. Bill. It did not make any noise, but it kept up with me all the time. "When I stopped it stopped, and when I began to run it would run, too. I crept under a train of boxcars, and there It lost me. I could not see It, but I heard It breath. "Merciful powers. Bill, it's time now for No. 4. Hear it whistling In the distance? Have they struck It, too? "She's- coming through the yards now. Lord, see the stream of Are, and what does Wilson whistle that way for? "Hear that, Bill. The alarm whistle Is answering him. Is it a Are?" The night was still Intensely dark and not a sign of Are could be seen as The twcTSien stooiT Ih the door of the rtianty and looked out But way down the line they could hear the shrill blasts sounding from the Aler as It passes through the outskirts of the place, sounding like a human being screaming In distress and mortal agony. Instantly all the telephones In the place woke, and Thompson was busy as he ran to and from the freight office near by answering the calls. "They all think it la a Are, Pete," he exclaimed as he came In at last dripping wet "But the yards are as black as coal; Indeed, you can't see the second line of freights from here. I ne ar see it worse, beats a London fog. 'Isn't that schreeching awful, Pete? You can be sure that there la death and destruction to pay somewhere along the line." When the long night came to an end there was a curious crowd gathered about the superintendent's office. where a bulletin had Just been issued. At the sight of Thompson and Pete approaching them, there was a sudden bush and the men fell back so that they could gain access to the bulletin, and many eyes were watching the men as they stood together on that morning of fate, and waiting to fee what they would do and say. "You read It Bill," whispered Pete; my eyes are sore and I can't read." Thompson unconsciously held np his hand like a witness to the word as he , read out the words: "Engineer Wilson of No. 4 killed In his cab by some mysterious agency at t.10 this morning. Train ditched, several killed and wounded. Engineer evidently strangled. Further particu lars later on!" There were already whispers circu lating among the men that they would not work any longer for a haunted road, and they suddenly began to leave the place, while Thompson and Joyce went back to the shanty.. "Bill," said Joyce as they entered the placet "I was the man that they suspected, snd I will be the one to clear up this thing. If I die in the at tempt" "Lord, Pete, don't do it" replied the other In a panic ."Mao alive, don't do It; Think of yourself, my lad!" Thompson, tonight I shall go oat alone to meet this terror? I don't want any help; for like as not we would be firing into one another daring the Bight watch. This this thing only follows up one man at a time, it seems, and I shall go." And so all day long the two men wrestled with each other upon the mat ter, but, the more Thompson pleaded the more resolute became, the young man at his side. All day there was a strange quiet prevailing about the yards, and at half-past Ave Joyce crept out (if the watchman's place and started off down the tracks alone. . ? ' i . - v. . There wss not a sound to be heard except the puffing of the switching en gines working more than a mile away. and soon these became sliest . Whenever Joyce came to a break la the lines of freight he would creep through the opening Inch by Inch, his arms extended. "At midnight he west Into a deserted flagman's house. Hs unlocked the door, went In 7 and warmed himself ever the stilt glowing coals which had been left la the stove. ,,He remained there for half aa hour looking out of the little window, until the increasing chill inside led him to lies to his feet examtne his arms and then What was that which passed la front of the place? Surely that was not a whiff of smoke, a -column of soot, travelling across the rails! ; In an Instant he was In the open air, running swiftly alongside the coarse which the unexplalnable terror was taking, with only a single line of flat ears between them. : Not a sound reached him, while bis heart beat almost to-suffocation. 8tep by step he advanced, now stopping to look beneath the cars, now standing and listening at their sides. At- last he came to an opening In a long line of freights, and there, not 69 feet distant and made visible In the dim light which came from the lower shops, hs saw the. dreadful form, its eyes like coals of Are, standing upon the ground on the other side of the train, Its great shaggy arm reaching across the Intervening space as II searching for his throat -. The sound of his revolver seemed tc wake all the echoes otthe surrounding hills, and with a shrill scream, a roai of fury, the horror leaped into the air, over the top of the Aat car directly at his bead. .- Hs ran through the opening between the cars, turned about and faced II again, as It raised Itself for a second clutch at his throat Again and again hs fired directly Into its eyes, and still It screamed with an early voice as it tried with desperate energy to reach him, . , Even when he saw it at last begin to stagger and reel back against the side of the flat-cars, he draw the hatchet hanging In his belt and struck at II repeatedly, until It lay at last a shape less bulk at bis feet i In the morning light It was dragged back to the company's offices and ex. amlned by the railway surgeon and other officials with utmost astonish ment It being pronounced to be aoml form of great ape, neither a chimpan see nor gorilla, which -had doubtless escaped from a distant travelling show, possibly breaking out from a boxcar In which it had been transported dur ing a night ride. But the memory of Its presence in the switching yards of the O. L. W. Railway Company lasted tor many a month, and for a long time afterward it was difficult to And .men who were willing at any wages to work on the night force In the vicinity of the lower shops. New York Sup. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Australia wants 300.000 British wives, Canada wants 90,000, and the Cape would like 30.009. It Is not essy to explain ' why a white cat with blue eyes Is deaf, but this seems to be a rule with few ex ceptions. The biggest panorama ever painted was of London by Mr. Homer. It 46,000 square feej hlbll was ex- he Coliseum. The bears In Norway amuse them selves by climbing' telegraph poles, and, squatting on the crossbeams, swaying themselves to and fro. In many cases the poles fall. A gentleman In London, who likes to be a little ahead of the fashion, has a half-tone picture of hia residence on his visiting cards. Underneath the nlcture are these words: "My Bouse. Come and visit me." i.him In the Arctic regions are neither so large nor so numerous as those seen in the Antarctic seas, but they ere usually loftier and more beau tiful, with spires and domes, wnen the sun shines on them, they look like a fairy city. The nrince of Rampore has a pecul iar method of celebrating the birth of a daughter to the ruling bouse. He tamiaa an edict when the daughter Is born that a sum of money be deducted from every state employe equal to one week's pay, which Is expended in pay ing for the expenses In ' connection with the general rejoicings. Man and Bear Wrestle en London Stage. We had the "boxing kangaroo" years ago. Now comes toe wrest ling bear." At the Palace theatre last evening R. Fitsslmmon, described as A&e champion wrestler of America at hit own weight" engaged In a contest with Manrot a huge, griitly bear, be longing to the Spessardy troupe of performing animals. Wearing a huge muixle, the bear was fsstened to the "files" with a rope, by which, presumably, control was maintained over It by some one in the wings In case matters looked ugly for the man. Mtialmmona onened matters by clutching the animal round the neck. He tugged and pushed and Writhed and suddenly went down on his bands and knees. Two trainers stood close bv. one with a whip and the other with a huge bar of wood. , ; The contest went oa for about lour minutes. Then , Fitistmmons went down again. This time the bear sat on him. It was tunny, but not very edifying. London Express, The Unmarried Woman. It Is not the rich and presumably self-indulgent women alone who Is ad monished to mead her ways and mar ry. The sentence extends to the work ing classes, who are held to be much h, f.nlf ahum tha factnrv rtrl. tolllnc for her daily bread, has been' made the subject of censure as unjust as It Is severe. What If she does covet the few poor luxuries the neat shoes and pretty frock, which represent her share of aesthetic development? What If she does enjoy ner maepenaeucw, and the power to spend as aha pleases the money for which she works so hard? These things are her inalienable rights. To limit them is tyranny, to denounce them Is Injustice. We may . sincerely believe that she would be j better and happier U sne marneo; and that the bringing np of children en the precarious earnings of a work ragman would be a more legitimate field for her Intelligence and Industry But It Is her privilege .te decide this point for herself; and it Is no one's right te question her decision, tine does not owe matrimony -to the world. Agnes Reppller, iii Harper's , Easari ' " ; TEA GROWING IN INDIA. LIFE Or PLANT FROM SEED TO FINISHED PRODUCT. Stages of Curing the Leaf Withering, Fermentation snd Sorting Unbrok en Buds ths Finest Grade Retiring ths Flnsl Process. j Well-cared-for tracts of level or mountainous lsnd are used In India for the cultivation of tea. , Ths term "gardens" Is used to denote these tracts, which vary In size from 100 acres In the hill districts of the lower Himalaya mountains to 1500 acres on the plains. The tea bush Is raised from seed, which Is now carefully planted about one Inch deep la a nursery of soft fertile soil. In the eai'.y days of tea planting the seed was sometimes scattered broadcast from the back of an elephant The young plants re quire a rich soli and a very moist heat in order to thrive well.'.- When the plants- have obtained a height of 12 Inches they are transplanted. It is generally considered that a bush re quires about 16 square feet of well-cultivated soli around It to gain the best results. The tea Is planted in regular rows, either Insquares or triangles. The triangular planting, which giving each bush exactly the same space from Its neighbors, effects a saving of nearly 16 per cent space, as It Is possible to plant US bushes in the same area that would be occupied by 100 plants In rectangular planting. By the third year the plants should be from four to fire feet high, -and they are then pruned down to about 20 inches, so as to promote the growth of new branches Snd tender shoots and thus produce a larger number of new leaves. The methods of pruning vary greatly and In some cases the plants are pruned before they are taken from the nursery. The bush Is so pruned and trained that instead of growing tall It Is kept short and broad In or der to furnish a greater plucking sur face. When the young bushes have developed succulent shoots upon which there are four or five leaves they are said to have produced their "first bush" that Is, they have sprouted sufficient ly to pluck. During the rains succes sive "AuBhes" occur at Intervals with 15 to 20 days, varying according to the soil, cultivation and climate. The top part of the shoot Is the only por tion that Is plucked. It Includes the bud and the first two or three leaves, according as fine, medium or coarse tea Is wanted, for tea can only be made from the young and tender leaves, and the younger and tenderer the leaf the better the quality of the tea. Plucking Is performed T tumina the thumb downasjfTT-T nlDDlng off the JttSHSeTween the thumb nail and the forefinger. It is done almost entirely by women and children, as It Is com paratively essy work and does not re quire any physical strength. Each plucker carries a large open-mouth bamboo bssket about two feet In di ameter and three feet In length, taper insr toward a rounded bottom. The leaf is thrown Into this basket and pro tected by a covering from the rays of the sun, which would otherwise cause It to turn red. Late In the afternoon th la in hroua-ht to the factory, where it Is carefully weighed and ex amined by the manager and his as iitmtn and the several amounts en tered in a book against each plucker's name. To earn a full day a pay a cer tain number of pounds of leaf must h. hrnnffht In. This amount Is deter mined beforehand by the manager, and varies, as It depends upon the condi tion nf the flush. Extra pay Is given for whatever quantity Is brought In above the required amount of tne aay, and In this way many good workers earn double pay during the height pt the season. The rate of pay for the extra work Is always relatively higher than the regular wages In order to of fer an Inducement for hard work. The leaf is token to the withering room after It haS been weighed, and evenly spread upon wide trays, the mei) who spread the leaves wore wiui remarkable dexterity, making a pound of the green leaf cover about one square yard. By morning the leaf is sufficiently withered to be roiled witn rmt being broken, and Is then taken to the rolling machine. The object of rolling Is to liberate the Juices of the leaf cell, and during the operation the leaf changes color from a bright green to a slightly yellowish tint In former years the rolling wss done oy nana, and SO pounds wss a good day's work for one man; now the machine does about three times that amount In one hour. The rolled leaf Is then token to a cool, dark, moist room, where it Is spread out on a cement floor, or In long trays, and covered with a wet cloth, where It Is left to ferment or oxidise, which turns the leaf a dull, rusty color. This fermentation Is a most Important part of the preparation of the tea leaf, and upon the process depend the flavor and appearance. There Is no rule for the length of time of the operation, one garden's product requiring six hours, while another may take only two. After fermentation has proceeded far enough, ths leaf la roll ed again for a few minutes, when, It Is taken to the firing machine, and subjected to a blast of hot air, between 140 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. This Instantly stops fermen tation and removes ths moisture from the leaf, and causes It to curl tip and blacken. . It comes out of the machine three-fourths fired, and Is then again fired at a much lower temperature. It Is now dry and crisp, and Is the tea of commerce. During the process of curing It Is estimated that about three ouarters of ths weight of the green leaf Jla tost ' ' The tea Is then taken to the sorting Am when It Is first spread on a ee- 1 meat floor, and women carefully pick J out any foreign matter, such as little sticks and pieces of stone, which eome- bow find their way into the mass of , tea. It is then put Into a long sieve in which are wire meshes of different sizes. Ths tea which drops through the different meshes Is called "unbrok en tea," which Is the finest grade, as It la made un of the tip of the bud and I the delicate part of the leaf. The tea t . L ft. It- tfMih tti. WHICH aim un uuu 'v v- 1 meshes traverses the entire length of the sieve snd falls Into large baskets, from which It Is taken and placed In 'a machine to be broken up fine and again sifted and autw" sorted Into) various gr1s. TU "i to the different qualities are as fol lows: The unbroken teas are divided Into Flowery Orange Pekoe, Orange Pekoe, Pekoe, and Pekoe Souchong. Thebroken teas include Broken Orange Pekoe, Broken Pekoe Souchong, Brok en Pekoe, Fannlngs, and Dust The, division into these classes Is not uni form among the different tea gardens, and as the names given to the various grades are more or less optional, soms confusion arises when attempts at com. parison are made. Just before It Is packed Into lead-lined chests contain ing 100 pounds. It is retired a short time to remove any traces of moisture gathered while being worked. LONELY TELEORAPH LINES. Repairs In ths Australian Desert Sav vsges and ths Wires. A break occurred about three months ago In the telegraph line that extends up the Shire river from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa. In such coun tries, where there la little civilization, weeka sometimes elapse before acci dents to the telegraph can be repaired. Oa this route, however, the stations are only about 50 miles spart and the line Is usually put In order within three or four days after the break occurs. Probably the line with the longest distance between repair stations is that which crosses the great Austra lian desert from Adelaide on the south to Port Darwin on the north side of the continent, 1700 miles. There are no human Inhabitants In the desert, except a few wandering blacks. The stations are about 200 miles apart. At each station there are usually two operators and four line repairers. They have no nearer neighbors than the occupants of the next station, and of course, the men lead a very lonely life. Whenever a break occurs two men start from either of the stations be tween which the line has become un. workable. They take with them cam els, loaded with food and water, re pair Implements and a field telegraph apparatus. At every ten miles each party taps the wire and communicates with Its own station. So each moves on until one or the other finds and repairs the breakages. Communication being restored, the news Is conveyed to the other party and both retrace their steps to their quarters without having seen one an other. They venr'seldom see a white man, except their own comrades. Many persons have wondered how telegraph Hpsft can be protected from barbaroua"natlves through whose ter- ass. This problem has been slcioWully IWIWH Will U 'uuu tralla and In Africa, though the meth od In one continent differs from that In the other. When the line was being stretched across Australia it was feared that the blacks would constantly Interfere with the wire. The plan adopted has worked like a charm and the blacks have never touched the wires, though on several occasions they have at tacked the stations and killed operat ors and repairers. Every effort was made to fill the savages with awe of tho wire. Their nerves and imagination were worked upon by telling every black who was met while the line was being built that the wire was the white fellow's devil, snd not a single native came Within reach who was not treated to a gratu itous electric shock. There Is not a black In Australia who Is not con vinced that the white fellow's devil is something to let severely alone. In Africa, on the other hand, every chief of the tribes through whose land the telegraph lines extend Is In the pay of one or another of the colonial governments. He receives a small monthly subsidy, and Is held responsi ble for the wire in his territory. The will of these chiefs Is law, and although many hundreds of miles of wire are now extended through vari ous parts of barbarous Africa, only two or three Instances have occurred where the natives have Interfered with It In fact the natives are used to some extent to keep the lines In order. New York Sun. The Luckv Golfer. A remarkable accident with a touch of that humor which Is showing Itself ever in this wonderful game, took place In this country. Two well known players were engaged in a close con tARt. One of these, at an advanced hole of the match, was a little down. Both had made equally gooa anves, hut a. noor second shot had put the player who was behind with a high board fence between him ana tne noie. The other man Dlayed. and placed his ball neatly on tho green. He walked onward with all the commence wnicn itiunna from lvinsr almost dead, while one's opponent is playing one more In a less advantageous position., sua nenhr he saw the other ball roll across the rrass, and came to. lost within a root of the flag. 10 piay over the fence was almost Impossible to do with any accuracy, liulnl oppo nent bad played and made a poor shot His ball, however, instead of striking the fence had passed neatly through a knot hole, and come to rest in a position which enabled him to putt out winning the hole, George Hlbbard In OuUnav:;;;V.:-:.,-v: Declined to' Strike Out i Danny Coogan. the new baseball coach engaged by the University of Pennsylvania, was a well-known base ball man when he went to the univer sity In the early nineties. He was the receiving end of the famous Bayne Coogan battery- When Bayne died poor Danny was nearly heart-broken. Danny was very popular at the university, and pos sessed a fund of Irish wit and humor that generally kept the crowd e-laugh-Ing. He Is a little fellow with a big voice. " "" "' ' - He tolls a good story on himself when he started but In life after college, Ills father, bad been giving him good advice about hla career. - ".Ml I have to aay 1 this: You are now going out Into the world, my son, and you'll find It quite different from college life. The road will be rough and atormy. But strike out my boy, strike out" ' . "N-tiOJi your life,", said Danny. I'm golps to be a basnbaK player." BISMARCK'S BITTERNESS. . His Story of Forced Resignation Strange Mixture of Eloquence snd Loquaciousness. - After describing his estate, the prince begad speaking English "so that that fellow," pointing to the coachman, "may not understand us" and surprised me by his fluency, his command of idiomatic expressions, and his very slight accent He began with these words, "Since I have been kicked out of office," which so aston ished me that I begged pardon for in terrupting him and said: "Prince, that is an Americanism; where did you pick it up?" He answered that he did not remomber where, but the expression fitted his case exactly, for the manner of his dismissal was but the equiva lent of an application of the toe of a boot He then proceeded to tell the story of his forced resignation. Such a rapid flow of keen wit of cutting sarcasm and bitter denuncia tion aa followed for Iialf an hour I had never heard before and never heard again. It was a strange mixture of el oquence and loquaciousness. Bis marck's voice seemed not as deep and struts as his stature led one to expect but It had a pleasant sound. A most Intense sense of the wrong and Ingrat itude he claimed to have suffered made itself manifest. As an example of his unjust treatment he recounted what he had done to unify the nation and to aggrandize the Hohenzollern dynasty. There was not only sn unhesitating as sertion of his own deserts as the found er of the Oerman empire, but an al most sneering and even contemptuoua depreciation of other performers in the historic drama of his time, Including even the old Emperor William, the un fortunate Emperor Frederick, and the Empresses Augusta and Frederica. His language became a perfect diatribe wf en he referred to the present em peror and some of his ministers, whom he held responsible for his removal. His expressions regarding them were not only amazing but embarrassing to me, as I had close social relations with many of the ministerial objects of his scorn. "Some of those rogues I picked out of the very gutter," he once said. Fortunately, he did not stop for any word of assent but went right on un til his pent-up wrath was expended. As he remarked, when It was all spent: "If was quite a relief to me to have this opportunity to speak without re straint to a gentleman who, I am sure, will honor my confidence." Even were It not for this restriction, some of the sayings I heard and noted down at the time were so extraordi nary that If they were repeated, their reality would probably be doubted, f$i gartainiy the lese-majesty they i nTlTni T-'niiTTYffllltr it m,f" 'or me to venture again on German From Henry Vlllard's "A Visit to Bis marck," in the Century. Medical Service of Japan, The British Medical Journal says the Japanese military medical ar rangements are so extremely up-to-date as to be scientifically comparable with those of any nation, while in point of generosity of the provision of medical officers, elasticity and adapta blenesa to varying conditions, the dif ference is, perhaps. In favor of Japan. Thus, while base hospitals, field hospi tals, dressing stations of three types, bearer companies and hospital ships all And their place, each division of the army has a medical reserve which la mobilized simultaneously with It and serves In the base or reserve hospitals. The medical department also has Its own Independent transport and every Infantry regiment cavalry, artillery, engineer, and general transport battal ion has a medical staff attached to it of a very complete kind. ... Be sides all these standing arrangements, the regulations provide for an auto matic addition to the personnel of the hospitals In accordance with the num ber of patients present, without refer ence to headquarters. Moreover, so long as a military medical officer re mains in chief command additions may be made from the civilian population; everything, too, Is done to facilitate the co-operation of the Japanese Red Cross society. The Russian arrange ments are also good upon paper, and Russian military surgeons have an ad vantage over the majority of their European colleagues, Inasmuch as that they habitually do the work of nearly all the civil hospitals. ' Seven Good Reasons, Bishop Mallalleu, of the Methodist church was recently condemning the small salaries that congregations able to Day more sometimes give their pastors. ,"I once knew a capital yonng man," said the bishop. "He was in the church. His salary was small, but he was hopeful and happy, for he was Just married, and believed, as he had a right to do. tn nis anility, some II or If years went by. I bad lost sight of this young minister forgotten him, as we do forget sometimes when I met him in Boston.-He was dressed well, but not at all clerically. We shook hands. He said he was doing excellently. ', ' "'What church!' said I " 'Oh,' said he, no church the wholesale hat business!' , " 'But why did you leave the Church?' I asked. - " 'For seven, reasons,' said he., "What were they!' I asked. "A wife and six children!' he an. swered." A Koresn Cinderells. . In Korea the people tell a Cinderella story that Is much more ancient than that familiar to western people; The key of the latter story Is the slipper, but not so theirs. Peach Blossom, the Korean Cinderella's name, Was the family drudge. Ond day as the moth er was starting off with the favorite daughter to a picnic she said to Peach Blossom: "You must not. leave until you have hulled a bagful of rice and Ailed the broken crock With water." While aitttng here bemoaning her bard lot she heard a twittering and -fluttering of wings. Looking up she saw a flock of sparrows pecking the hulls off the -rice. Before recovering from her surprise a little Imp Jumped out of the fire place, and so skillfully repaired the crock that but a few min utes' work was required to fill It with water. Then she went to the pt-p!c sr. 4 fcsd a royal t!in.C!si i . A SmON FOR SUNDAY A DISCOURSE ENTITLED t ULTIMATE jlj . AMERICA." in. ', A ratrlolle Andrew ky tka n.1. Atauw der Jeaklat, l-Mtot of tmmaaael Can gnisttoBal Charch--Tkli Outry the Bpiritmal Tsachn ( the Xatteas. Bboosxtr, N. Y. In Temple brael the Rev. J. Alexinder Jenkins, paator of Im manuel Congregational Church, delivered n addreaa to a large audience on "Ulti mate America, ths Spiritual Teacher of the Nation." He Mid among other things: It is a eommooplac of the newer think ing that the evolutionary proceu culmin ates in the soul of man, the whole mighty movement being satisfactorily explained, iccording to the thinking of the theistio nrolutionist, when matter endowed with ife and perfected through countless gener itions, mi at last given to the mind of the human being the instrument for the ele mentary exercises of its endless life. The struggles of the ages are justified in the soul. The student of history is perplexed as he hears the groanings and witnesses the tra railings of the nations through the centur ies, and his nsturai and legitimate query, is he beholds the rise and fall of nations, is. Where lies tho goal of the peoples and what juntifirj the toils and agonies of the race? The answer to this inevitable ques tion is this: Almighty Ood is leading the nations toward the goal of the highest life, and the struggles ofthe ages find justifica tion in the birth of the world-soul. And if the fact that Ood breathed into man's nos trils the breath of life, so that he became a living soul is sufficient recompense for the bloody brute battles of the world's gray dawn, the thought that He will breathe a soul into the nations should like wise be deemed ample compensation for the gropings snd grappling of the aspir ants for national permanency and suprem- The American colonists were not the first men to fight for independence, but the motives that produced the Declaration cf Independence made their fight epoch marking as no other fight had ever been. Other nations had given up slavery, but no nation was ever before called upon to furnish so awful a proof of sincerity of motive in striking the shackle from the limbs of the enslaved. Other nations have had to deal with the problem of undesir able aliens, but no nation ever felt aa feels America the imperativeness of a course of action based upon righteousness and jus tice. Other nations have seised the terri tory of the weak and helpless, but none has felt such deep, unselfish solicitude for a dependent people as has characterized our country in her dealings with a primi tive people committed to her care as the outcome of her intervention in the inter ests of humanity. Other nations have had to effect adjustments between employer and employe, but no nation has ever been called upon to effect such an adjustment when the condition presented revealed so clearly the fact thai a great principle of universal importance i involved. The act tlement of tne "labor problem" in demo cratic America mean the eetlement for the world, for her the employer of the high st type meets the worker of the highest type, and the final result will be in keep ing with the character of the contestants. So we are learning the lesson of deliber ateness; and one of the most promising ligns of the times is the tendency to deal with great question cautiously and calmly. The result of this course will be that what the new America settles will star settled. She will settle, and that for all time, the esnon ot toe rignt ol interior peopli ti question. to thacharacterbf ihdjpBhfilr age now on earth, on most te-bt-deir4the quattion'of Think of IfTSarah Is well past eation the relation of emnlover to emoloved America is to-day solving the accumulated problems of the age. And Ood is willing that she should have time to complete her task. In view of what has been said, it will strik us as a fact of solemn import that our country is preparing for her yet larger service through the slow, constant develop ment of her religious conaciouanei. The existence and growth of this consciousness the superficial observer of our life and in stitutions might feel inclined to deny. Nevertheless, w are convinced that thia moat necessary condition for present and future leadership exist. Where shall we seek for thi religious consciousness? Shall we look for it in the institution set apart a avowedly relig ions? No man haa the riaht to scoff at or ganised religion. Our schools, our churches, our synagogues are, on the whole, true to their mission. But the truly effective re ligious consciousness mast be found in other places aa well in the editorial sanc tum, in the political gathering, in the mart and the busy street. Let us find this con sciousness in these place, no natter what its form, and w shall have as good a guar antee of the divine favor aa though we had gated upon overflowing house dt worship and listened to the eloquence ol the elect. The religion spirit which make for Amer ican pre-eminence may be discerned in many phase of the national Ufa, but it is strikingly evident in the new press, the new politics and the new social ideal. There are many, doubtless, who would not concede that the press of the country fur nishes aa evidence of growing national righteousness, but the fact remain, that in the newspapers of our land there is s dis tinct trend toward righteousness and god liness. The truthfulness and force of our pres ent contention will seem to many hard te reconcile with the well-known fact that in the United States the avowedly religious, journals are steadily losing ground. But, even thia fact, rightly interpreted, is not an evidence of national de"7. The relig-; tons papers of to-day have a choice between degeneraton and evolution. The signs of degeneration ar stubborn adherence to de nominational shibboletha, fierce champion ship of exhausted dogmas snd growing im patience with progressive interpretation of truth. The signs of evolution are the throwing overboard of useless issues, snd the adoption of the leading features of the great "secular" papers. The great relig ion papers of the country to-day ar such la name only. Were the contents of ons of thee papers rearranged and printed in newspaper form it would pay as a' news paper, minus the newspaper up-to-date nmbjieea. In tha aaeular Dress, on the other hand, there Is steady progress and increasing vitality. The moral tone of the Americas people is reflected in' the aevr journalism, and the fact that the eitisens of the republic desire righteousness is pat ent to all who seek the underlying motives of journalistic enterprise of the highest type. And this fact it most significant when we remember that the great agen eise of publicity, free discussion snd edu cation have a direct bearing upon th shap ing of the ideal of the inflowing millions of ear population. The spirit , of the American journalism is eommamcatea to the' AsMrieanised reptesentetivea of these foreign peoples, snd they in tun five it te their dependent fellows through the eoV amns of their publications. W have no right te assume that papers published in foreign tongus stand for Old World an tnhy : we should, th rather, heartily eoa eede the fact that these journals, prints J la Italian, German, Hebrew, Webb and ether language, eonrtituto a greet mis sionary agency for doing foundation work in Americanism and altruism. Indeed, the very fact that our eitisens in the making eagerly grasp these informing agencies is i s prophecy el great thing to com. Wc have here no iso,td ctnsrine, telf-setia-fisd sgaregatioa of human bong, but we Save millions of men who are being: in pired by th air of a free country and by her institution. Th newspapers in the hand of these men are aa banner waving encouragement to faraway nations lying la darknes and distress. . ... When w come to speak of the new American politic w invite the ridicule of those who e in American politics at its best only s crads "shirt-sleeve diplomacy, and at its worst a contemptible vtem of loot and graft. And the self-satisfied crit ics of our political life igaor their own in consistency in that they expect a govern ment which they take pains to tell m m "only an experiment" to fun With th smoothness of an old governmental ma chine. The man who i content to live ia a primitive cabin, " i't to the limitation of a semi-barbaric Inc, mnv hve t' i ii and pence of a r"n "'. It 'e t ,.i,.l N te U"t r- t tlon. A a nation we are bufUrng tiie better house. We have found that it coi labor and blood to secure the site for our edifice, that our material, cut from tiie forest of the Old World, is rough and un seasoned; that sometime our workers fil to enter unselfishly into the pint of the enterprise. We at time discover, too that w have not followed correctly the plan ot the great architect, and then it becomes necessary for u to humble ourselves lijr tearing down part of the structure. But, after all, the building grow, and its pro portion already begin to challenge the ad miration of the world. The critic, a he it at the cabin door of monarchy or aris tocracy, begin with vague alarm to con taat the cracked and crumbling walla and the leaking thatch of hi abode with the rising mansion in th distance. ( The nation' social ideal , make inexor-' able demand upon every citixen of the re- j public. The world of to-day marvel at . the matchless benefactions of our men of j wealth, and the nations are asking why it is that this unprecedented philanthropy is so peculiarly American. It is due to the imperative claim of our social ideal. Fub-j lie sentiment demands, and men of wealth recognise ty demand aa just, that private wealth hci d be spent for the good of the nation vT for the good of the race. The educ"" Jls the same pressure. He hears the people summoning him to li for truth. The true labor ices the same stern call to ser becomes a mediator, an arbi en two great force. The old , good Book tell, us that a-. Babel a mighty calamity befell the race that there the speech of mankind became confused. In this land of our Babel W I re versed. The nations are here assembledi to build the greater tower of truth, ancr-, the confusion of the Babel tongues give place little by little to a new language, the, language of love, spoken by the toiling millions, so that in a sweeter, grander sense than ever before it is to be true that the whole earth shall be "of one language and of one speech." ' ' ' Thale of old, with so shadowy a con ception of God that we know not whether to classify him aa atheist or as theist, yet. strangely conceived of deity aa creating the great world temple and so possessing it aa to reveal in its every part the pres ence of the Creator. The world of ourj time may seem ptrangely indifferent to that presence of God which the seers o the race feel to be the moat tremendous; fact of life. But the world will not remain; forever content with mere thing. The time is to come when the nations must feel the Divine Presence. When that time comes the crv of the people will bej "Wherewith shall we come before thai Lord!" God grant that in that solemn day of the world's supreme need it may be granted unto us as the teacher of the na tion to shout the great reply: "He hath bowed vou, 0 nations, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." ., - TWIN STARS OF DRAMA. t Victorian 8ardou and 8arah Bern- ; hardt a Great Team. Perhaps It may bo considered disre spectful to the 5hosts of William Sbakespeere and Augustln Daly to say that Vlctorlen Sardou and Sarah Bernhardt form the greatest theatri cal combination that has ever flour-, ished. But at any rate, Bernhardt snd Sardou are unequaled and unap proachable by any double team of and Sardou Is nearly 73, and yet be- tween them they have been able once more to make themselves tbu supreme sensation of the boulevardtu Paris has gone wild over the divine Sarah's personation of the heroine ol' Sardou's new play, "La Sorciere." This la in Ave long acts, of which the fourth la the -"big act" It shown the torture chamber of the Holy Inquisition. On the first night, after the fourth act, there were eight curtain calls. But Sardou, who thus made bis Arst appearance for Ave years as a dra matist, Is said to have been very ner vous, and even during these elfht calls, according to Edith Kenwarv the Paris correspondent of the Nea York Dramatio News, which reprinted the accompanying caricature from Parisian Journal, he shook his silvery mans, saying: "Tie rasculs! They wont catch me going through this or deal again." 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