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14 THE EVENING STAR a SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1894—EIGHTEEN PAGES. TIED TO A BERG! First Sunday Spent by the Wellman Party in the Arctics. PLOWING THROUGH THE ICE MASSES The Various Kinds of Ice That Oppose the Hardy Explorer. AN ARCTIC SABBATH CALM (Copyright, 1804, by Walter Wellman. All rights reserved.) Correspondence of The Evening Star. ON BOARD THE RAGNVALD JARL, SPITZBERGEN, May 6, 1804. T 1S A BEAUTIFUL Sunday afternoon m the arctics, and we are tied to an iceberg in latftude 78.50 north. We are off Prince Charles foreland, about five miles from its northern termina- tion, or only thirty- eight miles from Dane's Island, the point which we are trying to make for the establishment there of our summer headquarters. Since yesterday we have had several battles with the ice, in each of which we have come out Victorious. Our first encounter was not a very serious one. When we rushed on deck yesterday as the prow of the Jarl for the first time ran against the serried front of her enemy and shivered all her timbers in the effort, it was in the expectation that we had met the heavy pack ice which comes down from the north, and were doomed to many days of provoking delay. But not so. The ice was light, or what is known as spring ice, having been recently formed by a drop of the temperature upon water wherice the heavier or winter's ice had been floated away by wind or tide. ‘There are many different kinds of ice in this region, and ovr introduction to them has so far been on an ascending scale. . Mr. Cabin. ‘The mest formidable of all ice is that known as the pack, formed through season after searon, broken up or underrun till the natural thickness of about eight feet is in- creased sometimes to thirty or forty feet. ‘We have as yer seen none of this ice. Next to it is what is called winter ice, which is wsually comparatively level and from five to eight feet thick. Third in the list is this spring ice, which we are now meeting. It is from one to three feet thick, though rare- ly the latter. Plowing Through the Ice. if it lay in continuous sheets, a ship could mot be forced through .it, but fortunately it Mes in small masses, all snow covered, and the Jarl easily forces them aside -and plows along. Capt. Bottelfsen is in the erow’s nest, spyglass in hand, picking out the road. This loose winter ice, which was encoun- tered off Bell sound, a sort of bay corre- sponding generally to the Melville bay of the Greenland waters, gave us little trou- ble till we had reached its farther end, and there the tide and wind together had press- ed it so compactly that the Jarl moved but a few feet in a minute and finally stuck fast. Then Capt. Bottelfsea sang out an order to the machinist, the engines were backed, leaving a clear waterway forward, id with the machinery driven at double speed we rushed forward. With a bump and a grind and a final long pull, the Jarl forced her way through the obstacle, and on reaching the open water beyond bounded away like a boy let out of school. Our detention here had been of but a few hours’ duration, and with clear water along the coast and the southern end of Prince Charles foreland, about twenty miles away, we steamed along in the best of spirits. At the right are the snow-covered moun- tains cf the Spftzbergen coast, and the air is so warm and genial that we accuse Capt. Botteifsen of having played some sailor- man’s joke upon ts and brought us to the tropies instead of the arctics. For answer he points to one of the peaks which guard the entrance to fee fiord and remarks that it is in latitude We congratulate one On Deck. @mother upon our luck, which is already seen to be phenomenal. In the morning of the fourth day out from Tromsce we are well within the Spitzbergen seas, and our per says we are likely té- find a clear skip; road to Dane's Island, with the cautious Proviso that trouble may be met with off the foreland, a little farther north. Capt. Pedersen, experienced skipper in thes? waters that he is, said before we left Trom- soe that he would wager 100 kroners we should not reach Dane's Island before the Ist of June, and one of our Norwegian members tells us that the wise professors of the Christiania University had declared we should not be able to make our head- qvarters before the middle of Jul Wa We retired last night with the welcome whirl of the engines to lull us to sleep and to kelp in overcoming the unfavorable in- fluence of the midnight sun streaming in our cabin windows. We had visions of reaching Dane's Island within thirty hours, gnd thus being able to break all records. But you can never tell what is going to happen in the arctics. About 3 in the morning Capt. Bottelfsen had found it necessary to stop the ship and make an- chor in a safe port, as the ice was rather Reavy ahead. He had, in fact, been able to reach nearly the northern end of the foreland, or to within fifty miles of Dane's Island, before stopping. From this point the cautious skipper had run back five or six miles in order to anchor where there would be no danger of nipping should the Pack ic> set in from the north. We found the ship in the midst of a most beautiful scene."No country village in Christendom could have such absolute calm and quiet this Sunday morning as we have here. The ice scarcely moves, and when ft is in motion it has only vel- vety touches, which produce no sound. Gulis are circling about the steamer, and cn a piece of ice near by a number of seals are basking in the warm sunshine. Three or four miles distant, but seemingly but a gunshot away, is the grand coast of the reland, with mighty glaciers running ywwn between the mountains to the sea. ve cam trace them as far as the eye can reach, offering a toboggan course eight or ten miles wide, perhaps fifteen or twenty Jong, and with an even, hard surface over , a sled would slip like a ball out of a Fog lingers along the mountain slopes, but above the fog the sun lights up the snowy p2aks Ti ture of the air is omy th the dryness of the atm ~ sh cold unobservable. It is a perfect day in the aretics—at the very beginning of the arctic spring—and as usual we take our shower bath in the sea water on the aft deck. The bucket from which Sailor Ellef- sen dashes water upon our naked bodies is half full of fine ice, but. we have already learned that a bath frappe is the most enjoyable of all baths in a country where the hot room of a Turkish establishment cannot be had. Anchored to a Berg. A little before noon Capt. Bottelfsen asked me to go to the crow's nest with him to take a look at the ice. He thought he saw a way out of our difficulty, but owing to our great desire to save coal wherever possible he did not like the responsibility of moving with- out orders. After Capt. Bottelfsen and I had studied the situation for half an hour we decided upon a course, and I remained there long enough to make my debut as an ice pilot. The result of the consultation between Capt. Bottelfsen and myself in the crow's nest—he hanging by his eyelids, as it were, cn the rim of it while I occupied the interior, and Bottelfsen furnishing about all the in- formation and judgment—was that we should go forward first toward the coast, and, if no opening could be found in that direction, then out toward the sea where a water sky indicated open way. The arctic navigator depends much upon the color of the sky near the horizon. If it is dark or brown, there is water underneath. If it is white, rosy or orange, there is ice, the tint being formed ‘by the reflection of the sun's rays, or of the light even, if the sun is not shining, upon the ice. This unfailing indica- tion of pack or frozen surface is called the bee eng awe making steam and approachii the coast we found a way through ‘and were able to proceed until within a few miles of the north end of the foreland, where we were again stopped by elosely packed ice. Determining to wait for the tide to open out the mass, advantage was taken of the presence of a large iceberg, against which the prow of the ship was gently run, while @ nimble sailor, line in hand, jumped from the bowsprit to the floe and made fast to a couple of protrusions from the surface of the berg, which greatly resembled mooring Posts and appeared as if they had been put there by the kind hand of Dame Nature for our convenience. No better harbor could be desired. The bers, nearly square in shape and about 120 feet on each of its sides, rose an average of fifteen feet from the water, and was deep enough, therefore, one-sixth perhaps of its bulk being above the surface, to ground in water fifteen fathoms deep. Though the tide was carrying the light ice to the south at a rate of fully two miles an hour, our anchor berg remained fast, and in the lee cf it we found a perfect haven. A Fa Curtosity. While tied to the big berg occurred one of the tragic incidents common enough to the arcties, but quite shocking to ama- teurs like ourselves. A big seal was seen in the water several hundred yards from the ship, and Capt. Pedersen, who is as sly a dog as ever navigated these parts and up to all the tricks of the trade, began calling out in a siren voice: ‘‘Oo-lah, oo-lah! Lah, lah, lah! Oo-lah, oo-lah! Lah, lah, lah!” Wlereupen the seal, filled with curiosity to krow what these cries meant, was lured nearer and nearer to the Jarl. As he came within about fifty yards and was in the act of climbing upon a piece of ice Mr. Frank- iin let drive with his rifle, hitting the poor brute in the head and causing the blood to discolor the sea. Though we made every ef- fort to get a boat hook into the dying vic- tim in time to rescue his carcass, he died too quickly for us and sank to the bottom of the sea. It looks like cruel sport to lure @ poor devil of a seal to his fate in this manner, especially when we neither need his flesh nor have much chance of getting it before the waters swallow him up. Divine services were held in the cabin this evening, at which all the members of the expedition were present. Dr. Mohun read the Sermon on the Mount, Mr. Dodge led in singing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” accompanied by Mr. Franklin on a har- monica, our only musical instrument, and Professor Oyen offered prayer in Norwe- gian. Thus passed our first Sunday in the arctics. WALTER WELLMAN. —<se0____— RIGHT GLAD HE OBLIGED. ‘The Truth About an Unusual Scene in a Railway Car. From the Utica Observer. “Will you kindly keep your eye on my luggage for a2 moment?” asked one occu- pant of the benches in a railroad station of a gentleman who sat beside him. “Certainly,*sir,” was the reply. So the first speaker strolled out on the platform and lighted a cigar. He seemed somewhat preoccupied, and the minutes lengthened into fifteen, the train he was waiting for came, the cigar was tossed away, and the traveler took’a seat in the day coach beside the prettiest girl on the train, who, by the way, greeted him most effusively. Just as the train ‘started the gentleman who had been asked to keep his eye on that particular luggage pushed his way up the steps and into the door of the coach with his own satchel and a bundle in one hand and the stranger's satchel, hat box, umbrella and overcoat in the other. He pushed his way down the aisle in the coach till he reached the seat occupied by the un- known and the pretty girl. They were en. Saged in an earnest conversation that was only interrupted when the good-natured watcher and protector of the luggage de- posited the satchel, hat box, umbrella and overcoat with a bang. “Did you expect me to act as your por- ter, mister?” he inquired rather testily. “[ beg your pardon, sir,” said the gentle- man beside the lady, and at the same time he blushed deeply and rose so he could speak to the one who had done him a kind- ness without using a tone of voice loud enough for other passengers to hear. There were a few moments of explanation, several noddings of the heads, and smilings by the trio—for the pretty girl also joined in the consultation—considerable blushing, and an exchange of cards. That was all the pas- sengers noticed, and the gentleman who had watched the luggage shook hands with both, bowed very politely, slapped his un- known friend on the back, and went into the smoker. “They're going to Albany to be married,” he explained to an acquaintance. “She lives west of here a ways and he's in bu: ness in Brooklyn. Her parents are dead, and her brother and an old maid sister objected to her marrying on account of some property complications. He went up the road to meet her and stopped off in Utica till her train should arrive. Of course he couldn't think of his luggage. I don’t blame him a mite. I'm glad I accommodat- ed him, by ginger! I'm going to in Albany and see them married. And he did. —__——-+ee-- The Reversible Pommel. From the Philadelphia Press. If you are about to invest in a side- saddle to take with you to the country, by all means take one with a reversible pommel. There is a danger of becoming one-sided if a woman rides a good deal. The remedy, or rather the prevention, Kes in the saddle, which you can use either on the left or on the right side. It was the Princess of Wales who first set: the example in this direction. Other Eng- lish ladies followed the fashion. In New York Miss Anna Brackett was the first woman to use the reversible pommel. Now, nearly all the children in well-regulated families who ride are taught to ride in this way. Doctors advocate the idea,and fashion seconds it. ———-+ee On a Starboard Tack. From Life. BENTON’S BIG FIGHT It Lasted. Three Years in the Sen- ‘ate, but He Won. THE FAMOUS EXPUNGING RESOLUTIONS An Episode in Gen. Jackson's Figh Against the Bank. PARLIAMENTARY TACTICS Written for The Evening Star. ULL OF INTEREST as are the proceed- ings of the American Congress of - these times, yet they lack many of the dramatic incidents that enliv- ened the “days of old.” It is seldom now that a contest over any measure lasts beyond one ses- sion, but there have been struggles which lasted for years, not- ably that over the “expunging” resolutions of Senator Benton. Senator Benton's strug- gle lasted for three years, and was dramatic in the extreme. “Old Bullicn” could do nothing without being dramatic, whether it was fighting a duel, engaging in a street brawl, or addressing the Senate. He was a@ man of unquailing courage, dogged per- sistency, full of resources, keen and sagac- icus in management of any question, and he did everything in the most dramatic manner possible. At one time he and Gen. Jackson had engaged in a street brawl, in which both were badly wounded, and they remained bitter enemies for many years. but during Jackson's occupancy of the ex- ecutive chair he had no warmer advocate and defender than Senator Benton. The causes which led up to the famous expunging resolutions were connected with the controversy over <he United States Bank. Gen. Jackson was an avowed enemy of the great fiscal institution of the country, holding that the granting of the charter by Congress was unconstitutional, and that the bank was an enemy to a free press and to the purity of the ballot box. One of his first messages to Congress contained a Passage arguing against a renewal of the bank charter, which had nearly expired. Up to that time the officers of the oank had taken no steps to secure a renewal of its charter. But President Jackson bided his time, renewing in subsequent messages his opposition to the bank. The House appointed a committee to in- vestigate the matter. The Senate followed suit. Both committees reported in direct variance with the views of the President, declaring that the granting of the charter was clearly within the purview of Congress; that it had been sanctioned by Washington, who had signed the original charter; that it had fulfilled the ends for which it had been established, and that expediency and a due regard for the public interests would dictate its continuance. In 1832 the bank asked for an extension of its charter for another terms of fifty years. The opposi- tion to the bank had been growing in the meantime, under the continual attacks of the President, and a majority of the Sen- ate committee reported against the bank, charging it with a violation of its charter by illegal transactions, but the Senate passed the bill granting the extension, and soon after the House also passed it. The Government Deposits. The majority in each house was small. The President sent in a veto strongly con- demning the bank, and its friends were not powerful enough to pass the bill over the veto. By limitation of time the charter would expire in four years, and the bank would be compelled to wind up its affairs, but that did not suit the President, who was determined to absolutely crush the in- stitution. By its charter it was made the depository of the funds of the government, which had been the basis of its operations and credit. During the recess of Congress the President determined to withdraw the government deposits. Mr. Duane, his Sec- retary of the Freasury, refused to issue the order, holding it was illegal. Mr. Jackson immeditely removed Mr. Duane from office and appointed Roger B. Taney, who at once made the order. With the withdrawal of the deposits the bank was compelled to close its doors. This proceeding of the President caused the most intense excitement throughout the country, and on the reassmbling of Con- gress the Senate, led by Clay, Webster, Cal- houn and others, adopted a resolution of censure declaring that “The President, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the revenue, assumed upon himself au- thority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in dercgation of both.” President Jackson sent to the Sen- ate a fiery and indignant protest against the resolution, but the Senate refused to re- ceive it or permit it to be entered of record. The wrath of the President was something terrible, and his friends were soon up in arms in his behalf. Senator Benton was his most powerful friend, as he was the most persistent. At the very first oppor- tunity he presented a series of resolutions ordering the censure expunged from the journal, and declared his unalterable resolu- tion to renew his attempt to have the ob- noxious proceedings expunged until success should crown his efforts, or he should end his political life. His resolution rehearsed the principal events of the controversy, and then declared: “That the said resclve be expunged from the journal; and that for that purpose the secretary of the Senate, at such time as the Senate may appoint, shall bring the manu- script journal of the session, 133-34, into the Senate, and in the presence of the Senate draw black lines around the said resolve, and write across the face thereof, in strong letters, the following words: ‘Expunged by order of the Senate, thi: day of —, in the year of our Lord —. The Long Contest. For three years sucessively Mr. Benton brought forward his expunging resolutions, and again and again suffered defeat. The debate at each time was of the most bitter kind. Clay, with his indignant and burning eloquence, inveighed against the proposed “desecration” of the journal; Webster brought all his ponderous eloquence and Icgic to bear in the same direction, while Calhoun attacked the proposition with his scathing satire, but still the Missouri Sen- ator would not down. Finally, in 1837, vic- tory perched upon his banners. There had been changes !n the Senate, and the friends of Jackson were slightly in the ascendant. Benton determined to push the matter to a final conclusion, and, to succeed, he saw it ‘Would be necessary to have the friends of the measure agree to hold a continuous ses- sion until a vote was reached. He knew that the minority was powerful enough to prevent a vote unless his friends would con- sent to sit it out. He also knew that some of his friends were growing a little shaky over the con- tinued struggle, and would have to be con- ciliated. On Saturday, the 14th of January, 1837, he invited all the friends of the meas- ure'to a supper ,at Boulanger’s famous restaurant. It was a convivial entertain- ment, and lasted until midnight, Wright of New York, Allen of Ohio and Linn of Mis- sourt being the most active leutenants of Benton. Serious differences arose, but be- fure the evening ended all was satisfac- torily settled, and the following Monday was agreed upon as the great day of battle. It was agreed that the resolutions should be called up immediately after the morning hour, and that no adjournment should be had until the whole matter was completed, and that there should be no speeches in favor of the resolutions except by certain chosen ones. The burden of defense was principal- ly to be left to Rives, Buchanan and Niles. It was intended that the proceedings of the meeting and the agreement reached should be kept secret,but as such things usually oc- cur, long before Monday morning came the rumor began to be circulated that the great struggle would be renewed on Mon- day, and long before the regular hour for opening the session arrived the small gal- lertes were crowded and hundreds were clamoring for admittance. End of the Struggle. Every Senator in the city was promptly in his seat. Mr. Benton knew the difficulty of holding men together who were both tired end » and gave orders td have in one of tnd Finste rooms an abundant supply of cold ham, turkey and beef, with wine and hot cgffee. The opponents of the resoltition realized that the hour for the struggle had come, at first contented themseives in making dilatory motions and all Se eageersteg Teeeeces a Seas mand™to the consideration of the measure. Finally one after another of the great lead. ers of the opposition took the” floor. Mr. Call as especially bitter. He closed a most ioned speech with the follow- ing words: - “The day is gone; night approaches, and night is suitable to the dark deed we medi- tate; tl is a sort of destiny in this + tHe act must be performed, and it is an act which will tell upon the political his- tery of this country forever.” ¥ Mr. Webster was the last to speak in op- Position, and declared that the act’ was: ur constitutional, was derogatory to the character of the Senate and bore the im- pression of compliance with power. Mid. night apprcached. The galleries and: lob- bies were still densely thronged, while the floor of the Senate was crowded with Rep- resentatives and others, who had come to witness the final struggle. The question was simply a trial of nerves and endurance, and finally the opposition gave way and let the vote be taken. ‘The blanks in the resolution were filled and the roll call began. A majority of five in favor of the resolu- tlon was found, and as the chair announced that the resolution had been adopted, Mr. Benton called upon the secretary to produce the journal and carry out the order of the Senate. It was ready for the occasion, and.with- out a minute's delay was laid upon the secretary's desk open at the page where the resolution of March 28, 1834, was re- corded. A square of broad black lines were drawn around it, and across the face were written the expunging words. Immediately a storm of hisses and groans arose from every part of the gallery. Mr. Benton had expected some violent demonstrations, and arms had secretly been conveyed into the Senate chamber, but tle feelings of the peo- ple were vented only in groans and. hisses. The Fresident expzesse] his «ratification by giving a grand .linner to ihe expunyers and their wives. —+e+-____ HUMIDITY IS MUGGINES! Mr. Dunn Disc en the Distressing Phase of the Weather Nowada: From the New York World. “It's the *mugginess that makes the weather insufferable,” said Mr. Dunn yes- terday, “the close, sticky sultriness which we call high humidity. Lots .of people know that the weather is more disagreeable one day than another, yet the thermometer is the same, and they can’t understand it. The highest register is 92 degrees. The percentage of humidity today, however, was 76 degrees. That means that the air is ever three-quarters water, or words tq that effect, for if the humidity had reached 100 degrees it wculd have rained. In fact, the humidity is cur salvation in many ways, for if it be great enough it means showers. I think the weather will be cooler for a few days now. In San Francisco the inhabi- tants rejoiced with only 5 degrees.” A curious man wandered into the World office yesterday and asked to look at the 1888 files. He wasn’t a cool looking man, either, and as he turned page after page he seemed to look more cheerful. Finally he got to the month of March, and then to the 13th. Whether he was really looking up facts qf that date nobody inquired, but from the, headlines it was evident to those a few feet away that something of note had happened.then. An audacious office boy looked over the visitor's shoulder, and there in all:its refreshing ccolness lay the story of the great blizzard. The visitor dwelt on it for several moments and then turned on until be. fgund what he was possibly look- ing for, je his notes and retired, leaving @ delightful coolness in his wake. aac aS 3 CARELESS ABOUT THE TEETH. The Great Majority Are Negligent in © Pein Important Matte: From {he Popular Health Magazine. Much bas been and will be written on the care of the teeth, because so many persons do not appreciate these valuable organs of masti€ation, If teeth are well cared for and regularly inspected by the dentist, de- cay will hardly have an opportunity to do great harm before it is stopped. Decay often has its beginning in bits of food} sticking between the teeth and forming the starting point of a diseased tooth. The toothpick should be vsed regularly after each meal and after eating. It need not necessarily be employed during a meal or be carried like a cigar in the: mouth-after: eating, but in the privacy of one’s room the quill toothpick should search out each cor- ner and angle between the teeth and all foreign ter should be removed, then the toothbrush should be used, and as the spaces between the teeth are vertical in a standing person, so the toothbrush should be used up and down rather than across, so that fresh water may be scrubbed be- tween each tooth. The toothbrushes that shed bristles are rot desirable articles of the toilet, for not only are the loose bristles a great annoy- ance, but they may even work in between the teeth and in the gums and cause pain- ful points. Such loose bristles pony | come from cheap brushes or those used for too long a time. These injunctions about the care of the teeth have to be repeated again and again, because it is such a matter of every-day observance that persons careful in other matters are careless about their teeth. As the teeth are not only very visible, and when in a bad state, very prominent, but are aids to digestion, and if imperfect may lead to dyspepsia and kindred _ troubles, they should be scrupulously cared for. ——___ ee ANOTHER USE FOR PAPER. Water Pipes May Now Be Built Out of Paper Pulp. From the Boston Commercial Bulletin. The experience with the new paper pulp pipes, which are made on pretty much the* same principle as the fiber pail, has dem- onstrated that the idea will eventually prove successful. As it now stands, the hand-made pipes, formed from crudely worked and irregularly subdued pulp, are well enough made to warrant that they will stand: the wear and tear to which street water pipes are subjected. However, it would be more of a wonder if the plan of making the water pipes should be a boom- ing success from the start. Time and ex- periments are essential to the development of all new things. With each new test of the proposed pipes a step in advance is made, and this would seem to indicate that after a few more trials perfection will have been attained. The matter as it now stands is about as follows: P% pulp, in which there is a fairly good fiber, is agitated with water and runs into molds and is cast into the form of the ordinary water pipe. The same molds that are used in connection with casting iron pipes are employed. The mode of progedure is substantially the same. Of course, there are various strengthening materials, compounded with the pulp, other- wise not stand a great pressure. The inventors report that these are inexpensive and simple. os 4 His Future. From Harper's Drawer. An ojd farmer and his son called upon me the other day. The toy is about eleven or twelve years old, and a gawky, ugly daw- dier. He wandered aimlessly about the office, running the tip of his finger over the backs of my, books. At last I asked, “Well, my boy, would you like to be a lawyer?” “Naw.” “Nawthin’.” “By thunder! that’s what you will be!” commented his disgusted father, earnestly. ——_+e+_____ A Laughing Plant. From the Philadelphia Times. A “laughing plant” grows in Arabia. It obtains its name from the effects produced by eating its seeds. The natives of the dis- trict where the plant growa dry these seeds and reduce them to powder. A small dose of this powder has similar effects to thoge aris- ing from the excessive use of intoxicants. It causes the most acber person to dance, shout and laugh, with the boisterous excite- roent of 2 madman, and to rush about cut- ting the most ridiculous capers for an hour. At the expiration of this time exhaustion sets in and the excited person falls asleep, to wake after several hours with no recol- lection of his antics. AT LAST. Written for The Evening Star. Sach a little ler! Seen through a mag- nifying glass its poor little body would seem in the last stage of inanition. But it sat in its web and waited. “All things come,” and you know how bountifully they come to the web, etc., of the waiting. “I don’t see, Paula, how you can waste your time watching that bush. Do you ex- pect golden leaves to put out suddenly from the almost whithered stalks?” “Hush,” said Paula. “I want to see what comes into the parlor of this poor, hungry little spider.” And lo! a fat wiggling thing, a thing with out wings that might have helped the wig- gling a bit, fell from somewhere above just” into the stronghold of Paula's protege. The girl was all excitement. “See,” she cried, “how patience is rewarded! I shall take it for a sign and believe that the rain must soon fall, the grass grow green again, the cow yield better measure and the flow- ers that_paid so well a while since, yes, the flowers bloom again. How empty the luck box is, to be sure,” she whispered. “And wee Nannie’s fever running so low. And the flowers all promised for the next week's night when the fine ball comes off at the red. house. Little spider, little spider, help me pray for the goed fortune that will bring things right.” And her mood changing swiftly she cried to herself, but not so that wee Nannie rhould hear; no one heard nor saw, but the spider hidden away in the spider bush and swelling, swelling, even to his legs from the luscious repast which the wiggling thing- furnished. Angry Margheretta had left Raula to her strange “idle way.” “Better take to her needle, she can sew when she wills, and times are growing worse and worse. I can't ‘think what is to come of those two, and the little one failing so fast. Whatever made them come away to this strange land to die. Father, mother and now wee Nannie; for where is the wine and the broth to be got that will strengthen her to fight the fever, and Paula so heedless.” Then relenting, “but. such a brave heart, too, and 80, so beautiful.” 2 Old nurse Margheretta watched her as she came into the house at wee Nannie’s call. She seemed to. have gathered new heart and she would insist that Nannie was better. A-nice bath which she would give, herself, to the sick child, “and then you'll feel stronger, little sister. And the rain is coming and the soft cool breeze, and Margheretta and I will put your bed out under the trees and you shall watch the And, Nannie, I have found a little spider that is telling me a tale. It tells me that you will get well, little sister. But we must be patient. You will not get well in a day. We must wait. Paula was so hopeful—so full of her new fancy. The loss of sleep with wee Nannie the night before seemed to have left no trace of weariness. She felt that her play- n.ate, her dear little sister, must get well. She had so long withstood this fever. And so all day she watched the cloudless sky, believing that the rain speck would come, and toward evening wee Nannie grew restless, but only for a little while. Paula watching her, saw a sudden twitching of the lips and stiffening of the limbs. a “Margheretta,” she cried, and when the nurse mother came Paula raised her hands imploringly, a dread questioning in her eyes. Fer Paula had seen father and mother die; and the clammy coldness which now began to creep, creep, slowly up wee Nannie’s feet chilled also the hope in Paula's heart. The little sister did not go at once. They kept her with them until the early morn- ing, and when the rain drops began to pat- ter softly on the rooftop and to fill the fam- ished, outstretched mouths of Paula's flowers, wee Nannie smiled and slipped away out of their care forever. CHAPTER II. The rain fell steadily for three days. Maybe it soaked down through the ground and into where the worn little body and prettily made frock were put away. It came not too late to save Paula’s flowers, but somehow she forgot even to look after them. The money they brought had been for wee Nannie, and now— The sun came out and the blossoms seemed laden with jewels. Paula did not fee; the tears were so thick before her eyes. But: Margheretta had bee. into the empty larder. When the footman from the red house came down to say he wantel all the flowers now “open, and ,“would the young lady bring all she coulf gather for the ball,” two days hence, Margheretta gave a ready assent. “We must live,” she told Paula; and, looking at the ol] nurse through her tears, Paula echoed wearily, “Yes, we must live.” “Oh, little sistes little sister, why could not you?” she cried and, going out into the night which was coming on, she crouched under the spider bush. When her tears were spent she sa’ there still, looking up at the stars and pon- dering the loving words that father, mother and wee Nannie were even now speaking about her, and she seemed to feel how they pitied her loneliness down there. A tiny thing crawled down her hair and around her throat. Absently she put..up her hand to.crush it. The spider seemed to spring aside, alighting upon the back of her wrist,-and as her eyes: in the starlight fell upon her small companion a tender recollection of how she had spoken of it to the little sister caused her tears to flow afresh. The spider passed over a bridge of his own making back to the little corner where he could safely blink down upon his griev- irg. frierd, who seemed not to know that the thing best to do was still “to wait.” Before the sun had power to wilt them, Paula gathered her wealth of blooms and carried them, on that morning of the ball, up to the grand red house on the hill. She toiled slowly up, not noticing a tall, stern- looking old man in the path confronting her, until the deep tores of his voice sound- ed close to her ear. “Your burden is fair to look upon and most fragrant, but in a few short hours they wither. Are they to deck the rooms for tonight's empty mirth? Come again to- morrow, young girl, and look at your gal lands.” And he laughed harshly as he mov- ed_aside to let her poss. Frightened and hurt, Paula tightened her hold upon her basket, and sped up the path; but only for a few steps. Something seemed to turn her and lead her back to the bitter old man. She lightly touched him on the arm. “I will come, sir, tomorrow morning. Will you mect me here? Some- thing hurts you sorely that you turn upon my flowers. Oh, sir, they cannot help it any more than could my poor little spider.” She looked so tenderly brave, not shrinking from the bent brows of the haughty, dis- appointed old man, only wistfully regarding him. And it was so new, this pity for him, that shone in the soft gray eyes. So long he had stood alone in his pride, steeling his heart as life's disappointment, disgrace, death and doubt in the honor of mankind followed fast upon his footsteps. Wealth he had, but the fawning flattery of the syco- phant sickened him of it. The butterfly life of those about him, living in the moment, were the theme of his constant satire. But here was this child of nature, poor and in deep distress, and she pitied him. A mem- ory of his own childhood and youth, almost forgot, stirred within him. The girl, almost a child, looked tired. “Shall I help you carry those?” he asked, and together these two, the hardened man of sorrow and the troubled young girl, bore up the path the fruits of that rain which came too late to save wee Nannie. ‘Was it better? Better that at three-score years and ten there should have come, through the coming of the rain, a softening influerce to that proud, hard heart? For Paula still treads many paths with the friend whom she found that day; and the cheerless life that was but a repetition, day by day, of a ceaseless warfare against the ineviteble is lightened and comforted by the young girl, who has shown him that pity for others brings us tendernes: So, like Paula's spider, his brought to him a plenteous repast. It was spun in a night, The web so light. And the dew in the morn, t glistened and shone the beautiful rays That herald God’s days And fall ‘thwart the spider's home. J. BP. W. Fonda SS Sete Safe for the Ducks. From the Chicago Record. Mr, Hamen—“How is it you manage to keep the ducks on your country place from being killed off? The members of the gun ~~ I belong to are hunting here all the Mr. Portanvs—“That'’s just the reason. They're the only ones I invite.” AVES TO. THER HOMES, Physicians Prescribe Paine’s Celery Com: pound for Such Women. 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