Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1898, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1898-24 PAGES. WOW Nsekse) POO LOO Ww : 2) 2 RAR ¥. Corporal Healy rose wh tle of beer had been open silence and leaned his fing: table of Mother Revell’s kitchen in the manner of accustomed after-dinner speaker. Yell excuse me bowldniss said he, “but oi'm afther roisin’ te perpouse hilth an’ long leife to Misthress Revell, an’ sure oid b er be namin’ her Mether Revell at enct, fur it’s that the whole rigimint names her, more power to her.” Hear! hear!” cried the newly-made ser- geant, patting his mother’s wrinkled hand, a hand of a boiled-looking white from much laundry work in the old troop. nd boy, Healy!” eried old Fin Strait, the farrier. Wait till I get a pencil to re- port that speech. an ignorant ould blatherskite, Fin; yez couldn't- report nothin’. Whut wud the the second bot- a. commanded an loike o vuse be doin’ wid a pencil?” the corporal asked, grinning. * till of be through spakin’. Martin, me yez be young te be a sargint, but, faith, natural yez shud jump over me, who's corp'ril an’ bruk an’ corp'rii an’ bruk in the rigimint tin toimes over. It’s iver bin me plisint practice, Martin. an’ yer moth- er’s, to, te tache a promisin’ young non- com the roight way to do his duty, which thrubbie an’ foightin’, to the consated frishness uv young >ms ginerally, who think they know it But youse wuz bor'rn wid the throop, cud larn his drill te any Johnnie-come- lately frum Wist Point. An’ fur them manifowld blessin's, Martin—sure of shud say Sargint Revell—yez'll thank yer moth- er. fur why? She's bin the bist frind uv ivry man in the ould throop since youse wuz in frocks, me son. She's saved min. @ wan frum a bobtail discharge, an’ min: @ wan frum hell, God bless her. An’ what we wudnt do fur Mother Revell an’ her boy ain't worth doin’, begab and begob! *s all, an’ now yez con blow off all the mind to, Fin Strait, fur oi'm has bin fruitful uv owin’ through wid me spaki “Hear! he: ae old Fin croaked. “I'm no y, Mrs. Revell, because I've y we're here to wet so we'll open another bot- . He bugier when sixteen and a corporal at twent:, now he’s a sergeant at twenty-two, nd there's not a man jealous of him, either. Martin, I spanked you when you was small for the love of you. and I'm proud to think them spankings helped to make a man of you. Keep on, my son, an’ you'll be first Sergeant of the old troop in another year, like your father before you.” ‘Achoo!” Healy seized with an attack of sneez- ing. so that he buried his face in his hand- kerchief. Little Mother Revell’s tanned and wrinkled face tened and she looked reproachfully at the farrier with big, gray, orrowful eyes. Fin himself turned red and opened several bottles of beer in his con- om nd 1 bet my father made a good one.” said the young sergeant. “En, mother? You never tell me much about him.” “It was so long ago, dear,” the laundress answered in a whisper. There came a rap on the door, peremp- tory and official, and Martin rose and open- letting into the room a shiver-com- and a whirl of snow. he cried. “What's up? snow-bespattered orde +» coated and ered with a stamping of ever- shoes. “With th» major’s ccmpliments to Mrs. he know Reve he said, formally, “an When stripes should be wetted. The erderly. grinned and plac tles of wine on the table and ¢ in to resume his 5 t the major commanding 1 two bot- hed out house of ee ars sprang to Mother Revell's eyes, and her son : “H K she said. “He's been a good friend to me. To think remembers, ~ you think he » moinds furt hin woz » nor him ther Revell, nervously. egsed, red-hair-d shall I be afther openin’ a bottle shampeen ed the farrier, ex- “or maybe sherry wine?” bottle, Fin, av ye pl * of Il be afther tellin pert, an old-fashione Mishtress Kevell, me i dozens uv it in his castie ounthry. here,” gintleman’ father " ould farrier cried, waving a * said the corporal, suddenty E while he frowned upon his friend. “In a matther ef this gintility, ye’ll be koind »ugh to remimber me is Shuperior to yours.” And he opened the bott! They had but once sipped the unwonted 1 were beginning to when once again there car door, a rap 4 rempiury th n rial as the first. Fin St fearful of intrusively thirsty throats, hid the sec- i bottle and Mother Reycil drew n t of the openirg door. A, ed in as Marun Revell a way from the draft ain the snow drift- aswered the knock, show-bespattered order time it was the order the sergeant major’s offi try to disturb you, Mrs. Re “Ord-r from the adjutant’s shout+d the sergeant, Paymaster coming up from n, Healy.” srowled the corporal. “It's of the escort to t him at Wolf creek—start right awsy— i omorrow nooa. That breaks up farrier cried. “The sergeant ow how to run a roster. It's = c ear list,” said the orderly, briefly. “Thank you, Mrs. Revell— |} r health! My word! Wine? You're report at the office with my men and his toe the stov is your mother, 1 finish the wine vu."” tall boy out, k isht, and returned with a vod 7 the fire aid the farrier, softly, “I beg for that siip about his father; said Mother Revell, paling. only you and Healy ‘and the t knows the truth of it. The you've all mine. The r know trou- There was a tear in her eye as she sip- ped the wine. The harness of the six-mule team sh¢ mertiiy in the moonlight, but the whee!s of the escort wagen were almost soundless: in the ceep snow. The wind tossed up great drifts, through which the mules plunged with snorting breath—breath that ssed out en the freezing air in white clouds. Round and round, all about, west where the foothills cuddled close to the mountains, north, east and south there was nothing to be seen but the soft, white moonlizht, falling upon the belder white of the flat and snowy plains. The escort, not yet appeased at their fortune in be- ing turned out for such duty on so cold a night, growled within the canvas covering of the wagon, or tried to sleep. The night Passed thus, monotonously, and it was Bearly dawn when the junior sergeant NOONE NOME THE SERGEANT OF THE GUARD, WRITTEN FO2 THE EVENING STAR BY P. Y. BLACK. (Copyright, 1898. by S. S. MeClure Co.) PAOVOWE DOWD E INOOWE IN zeise (se) sekse) selsetsehse) sel setse): on the little | | bulan a v¢ 5 \ > | awoke and was softly called by the team- ster in front. They were fording an icy {ream at a bend, where the creck spiit 1 breke about a wooded Island, a bushy ip of Jand some twenty yards broad. t toward the isie. artin, when you was a t school, and the paymas- brought in jead and the here they done it— i remember soraething of answered, “ten or twelve year of them was shot. There's ne: le up here since, has there’ Nop.” said the teamster, yawnmg. All day they made camp ind crested their mules at Wolf creek: lit a roaring na ate steaks from an anteiope ¢ shot had gathered in. At noon there dasb- ed up, with a clatter of hirness and a clovd of crisp snow, the ster's em- and behind it from Fort Nickerson. The impatl rT, anx- lous to get on, announced ki resting just long enougn to feed ond re- fresh his team and then riding through the night, and pay! Once more the escort d into t wagon shortly before su but had to dispense with the canvi and keep broadly awake, following the paymaster’s montane <fous with the trea of two pay for 400 men. The moonlignt 1 gray clouds had suilen! r up by the scourging wind. » snow drifted » thickly that the air looked as in a snow -’ Martin pack. One been ary ng off next da slim storm. By 10 o'clock at night, when they came to Wild Herse Bend. the teamsters were pressing forward thei s and thinking of blizzards. The cs fifty yards behind, when the ambalince mules slowed down and began to ford the stream your promotion, Mar-! THE ORDERLY wky j gray eyes glanced from one to the other motherly. “Brown,” she said, “is them your best boots? Mind you draw a new pair next elothing issue. You'll be on the sick report with pneumonia if you don’t take care. Billy McNab, how's your arm? Though: you knew better than to let your horse throw you. Have you got enough coffee? Martin, bo; “How, mother?” Mrs. Revell glanced at the barred and clesed docr of the common prison room. “Mayn't they have some, poor things?” “Oh, we're empty tonight, mother. There's cnly old Barney Constable—the usual thing—and he's sleeping it off.” “Poor old Barney! I doubt but they" bobiail him in the end. Where's the—the stage robber?’ she whispered. “Sulking in nis cell there. I guess they'll ship him off to the civil authorities soon, if the roads open up. If it hadn't been for the blizzard they'd have sent him before this. We've had nim five days now, and the adjutant don't like the responsibility of keeping such a desperate murderer in this old wooden shack. Mother Revell had a little of a Woman's curiosity, and a great deal of a woman's tenderness. “He must be cold in that dark cell,” she murmured. Von't you give him a mug of hot coffee “He'd only growl and refuse it.” “Let me,” said Mother Revell, with in- nate Red Cross proclivities. She took the tin cup and filled it steam- ing full, and took as well a: piece of pie. With these she stepped lightly along the ic corridor to the furthest cell, a dark nd chilly dungeon, utterly lonesome, se- curely barred. She paused timidly a foot away from the grating. By the smoky light of the oil lamp in the corridor she mace out to see a bundle of blankets in the far corner. Would you like a cup of coffee and a piece of hot pie?” asked Mother Revell. The blanket was slipped from a shaggy gray-haired, gray-bearded head, and two cyes, redshot, stared out. e brought you a cup—” The blankets were tossed aside, and the prisoner made a spring at the bars. His lips were apart in surprise; his hands shook; his eyes were eager. ood Lord! Are you still with the boys?” he whispered. ‘The mug of coffee shook in Mother Rev- ell’s hand until much of the draft was spill- ed on the wornout boards, but Mother Rev- ell had courage and wit and presence of mind, developed by her unusual training. ENTERED THE. ROOM. She neither screamed nor fainted, but her breath came pantingly. ‘You again!’ she whispered at last, and they were silent. staring at each other, at the island. The soldiers’ sore y. facing the wind and _ pie . and the teamster was t to swear much as he org -d his wagon the lighter vehicie. They were but ards behind, when from the busi 1 few of the isle sounded the quick crack of a rifle end the ambulance driver gave first a cry of pain and thea a tem The echo of the first sit in the wood, when “bing, bin, “1 the re- vers of the ready paymas and his clerk. Somebody +h a command four dark forms leapel from. the 1 “Hands up! Grab that. bag. fr Quick! Drop that bag!” cried the paym:: Sergeant! Aad then came a dreadful scream as Hands up, | Pistol cracked at bis ey2 and he fell back | dead. | The soldiers were out of the wagon. Plunging through the drifts, | the paymaster fell § and even as srgt. Revell discharged comiment | reading | a an hour,” said the | t mothe! bitter cold night for escort duty, ther Revell, anxiously. “Weer all in, and take as many blank- se for camp. Wait, ors port.” Fin Strait murmure | carbine and dashed to the rescue, fol- | lowed by the men. At the ambulance the clerk was fighting furiously: the preciou | bag he had thrown be | the soldier: j all ov: j enough In their daring dash. ‘The man | the heads of the plunging mules slipp | off first and the other three dashed acre | the half-frozen water at sight of tho | blue and belted overcoats. The squad fired | a volley after them, futile in the storm and darkness, but Sergt. Revell suddenly dart- jed from the others, plunging knee-deep into the creek. One of the outlaws had slipped and stumbled in the stream. In a breath the agile lad was on top of him, and strugeling, choking, half-drowned, but clinging like bulldogs, the two men rolled | over the pebbly bottom. Martin held fast, and quickly others came to his assistance with ropes. In a few minutes the prisoner, | beund cruelly tight, lay at the bottom of | the wagon, a mat for the soldier's feet, and the teams were away at a swift trot for the post, the pay chest safe, but the pay- master murdered. ween his fee were upon them, and rhea Ww: it The robbers had not been q 11. Mother Revell, old campaigner and fear- less of weathers, pulled on a warmly lined pair of rubber boots that showed honestly th her sensibly short skirts, wrapped m shawl over her head and shoulders vniured boldly away from her little cottage by the creek, plodding through the knee-deep srow. The blizzard which the | and again the wind was stilled, so that the ! drifts lay motionless, freezing crisply in | the moonless night. Number 1 on the guardhouse porch, beyond the lines of bar- racks and officers’ how lonely in , srimness, saw her coming, a cloth-covered basket on her arm. and challenged her h | smiling ceremony. ; “Who comes there?” he cried, and she answered cheerily, “A friend.” “You bet you are, Mother Revell,” sail the sentry, and helped her on to the porch. | “Want to see the sergeant?” He opened the guard room door and push- ed her gently in. “Ano-ner prisorer for you, said, and grinned. ‘Holloa, mother!” cried the sergeant of the gnard, coming forward from his littie office bed rcom. “What brings you out in the snow?” “It's Mother Revell!” the troovers called out, throwing aside cards and jumping from their bunks; “and a basket! What's in the basket?” ‘L thought,” said the little gentle-eyed woman, who, for all her long, rough 1 with the army. could yet blush’ pleasantly “I thought as it was Martin's first guard as a sergeant, you boys wouldn't mind if I just fixed you all a lunch, seeing it's so cokl. The sergeant laughed, and gave the little woman a boy's hard sqeeze. “You ought to be brevetted colonel!” screeched the young trumpeter. “Ach! Mutter Revell! Why vas you not Secrevary of Var made alretty?” a Dutch- man granted. Number 1 poked his head in at the door anxiously. “Make them keep some for me, Mrs. Revell,” ne cried, earnestly. “I've half an hour yet to freeze out here,” Hot mince pies and a can of better than mess room coffee came from the big bas- ket, and the soldiers ate with boisterous good humor. Mrs Revell sat on the edge of a trunk and eyed them comfortably. She knew them all, knew many of their secrets, as she had known recruit and vet- eran, private and sergeant of the old: troop for twenty years and more. Her quick sergeant,” the man with an astonished, half-pleased smile, the woman white and dazed. At lest she found hersclf and pushed the coffee nd pie between the bars. Drink 1 she murmured. “I shall see you again. He nodded to her and gulped the hot drink down and took the pie. Mother Revell had been gone but two minutes when she came back to the guard- room. “Did that brute frighten cried Martin. “You are white as your apron.” Hush, Martin.” said the old lady with a shiver. “Don’t call him that. It was only the dark and the cold of that lonely cell that frightened me.” “Ha, ha!’ the troopers taughed. “A veteran ef the war frightened by the dark! Oh, Mother Revell! The @eiicate flush, so readily en “Mrs. Revell’s cheek, from being again notic “Has the major seen quictty of her son. “No, only the adjutant, but the fellow's cute. He won't talk. Nobody is allowed to see him. Angels of mercy are, of course, excepted He patted his mother’s cheek, and she tried to laugh, then -took her basket and bade them all good night and a quiet guard. She walked steadily home, tramp- ing bravely through the drifts, answering cheerily enough the greetings of a party of officers she met as they came out of the club, but, once home, she locked and barred the door, put out the light, and sat, her j face hidden in her hands, until morning, the stove. Before the bugles sounded reveille round the white counterpaned parade ground she was up and busy, poking into odd corne for something she frowningly sought. At st she found it little steel tool, and she lipped it in the bosom of her dress. She fed the stove and made coffee again and you?” provoked saved her pallor d. him?” she asked Mother Revell Ran Out. filled her can. Then, while the dawn hung timorously in doubt, and the sky in the east was very slowly trembling from violet to gray, she pulled on her boots and took her shawl,and once more started for the guard- house. There the men were weary, and those not out on post were sleeping. The young sergeant was wrapped in his blank- ets, sound and snoring, and a drowsy cor- poral was in charge. He brightened at sight of Mother Revell’s can. “Begum, but you'll spile the sergeant nee yer coddlin’!” he said. “Shall I wake Mother Revell shook her head, and peered out a mugful for the grateful cor- poral. “Is he asleep?" she asked, nodding to- ward the prisoner's cell. aan Just now he was swearin’ at the cold. “It is horribly cold in there,” she said. “Won't you give him a cup? “Shucks, Mrs. Revell, ye're all heart. ‘Twas him killed the paymaster.” “That's not certain yet,” said Mother Revell, suddenly shaking. “But it would be cold for a dog in there. Let me.” “The corporal shrugged his shoulders. It es hard ee obese eevee anything. again she slipped along the corridor. The prisoner must have heard her voice, for ho was already at the bars. “Bessie,” he hoarsely “You're the samo as ever—a good girl. And you haven't forgotten the old man. A corner of your heart for him still, eh?” =~ She shrunk from his bloated face for a moment, the next she stepped determinedly to the grating. “Listen, she murmured __ hurriedly. “Don't touch my hand. I'm going to help you, but not for your sake—for the same Feason I helped you before, when, in your drinking craze, you shot the cowboy in Dodge. I wanted to save my boy the shame of hearing his father was hanged. I want to save him again.” Bessie, is he “Little Martin—the baby! here? Let\me sce him—Bess" “Never, \'she cried fiercely. “He's doing well, he’s &. boy to be proud of. He studies and ‘will pass a commission in time. He knows'nothing of ycur life, of you. and neyer shall. I'd dic first. Do you think I'd see the boy creep about in shame for his father, a deserter, twice a murderer? Could he hold up his head among his com- rades when he’s an officer and a gentle- man, as he willbe, as he deserves to be? See you! = Never! You must go away escape, else there are some here will recog- nize you." =. She was trembling now, and he gulped the steaming coffee sulkily. The men snored; the corporal nodded over his stove. “What neme have you gone by? You dare not call yourself Revell?” “Hardly,” he grinned. “Take this,” she said, and gave him the tool from her dress. “It’s all I could find— a gimlet. You bore hole after hole in the planking of the floor, until a piece is loose. It's slow and you must be cautious of- the guard seeing you. Get through by night after next if you can, for they are.eager to send you to prison. ‘There's a foot and a half between floor and ground. You can crawl out. It was dene once by a man at Fort McKinney. Look out for No. 1. He passes round the guardhouse every quarter of an hour.” He took the tool eagerly and she turned lay on the snow and the prisoner had the carbine. H> was off again with a dash, but now the guard came running out, Sergeant ae ten paces in advance, revolver at the ready. “Halt! or I fire!” he yelled. The prison2r swung about and brought the carbine to his shoulder. A scream came from the spring, and Mother Revell ran out, wringing her hands. ‘No! no! both of you! Don’t shoot!” She rushed to her son and flung herself entreatingly on his breast, but not b=fore his revolver had cracked. The prisoner was j 2 Second later. Unhurt by Martin's bullet, he returned the fire as Mother Revell clasp- 2d her boy. Martin heard his mother cry out in pain, and felt her fall heavily for- ward"upon his rescuing arm. The guard rushed past, carbines ready, in pursuit of the fugitive, hut the sergeant of the guard paid no attention to them. H> picked the little unconscious woman up in his arms and dashed away to the post hospital, ter- ror in his eyes. “How is she?” “Is she better?” “Is there any chance for her?” All day long the men came slipping up to the hospital and whispered their anx- ious inquiries in the attendants’ ears, and went off in the gloom when the steward pursed his lips and shook his head. Toward evening she became sensible, and found Martin in the room with the doc- tor, and a tall mustached figure in the shadows of a corner. po Martin,” she whispered, “are you hurt, oy 1 wish I were, dear little mother,” he cried, “so that you were safe.” ‘Hush! None of that now, sergeant, or you'll have to get out,” the doctor said, as the lad flung himself’on his knees by ‘the Mother Revell petted her boy's hand weakly, and her eyes sought the corner. “Is it you, major?” she asked, softly, a the officer commanding came’ silenti. her side. “Mother Revell,” he whispered, “don’t you wish to speak to me?” She paused, closing her eyes, and then Iv. A Planisphere of the Heavens, showing the I'¢ the Horizon May 1 THE HEAVENS IN MAY She paused. “I saw in a paper that Pollock was made a major. He always had luck. You and I remember him as a big buck private when I was a sergeant in the war. Say. is he—is he stuck cn you still? I cut him out for fair then, didn't I? I half thought you'd get a divorce and marry him.” She looked at him fiercely. | | ened them ‘upon the doctor. “The major's.a good man, not fit for you "ve seen many of the poor boys go, doc- i to name. Get away from here as quick as | tor,” she said. “Tell me! es Information of Interest to Amateur you can, and remember this—there’s only And he told her. The doctor took Mar- one thing I love in the world, and that is tin by the shoulder and pushed him out be- Astronomers. the boy.”” fore him gently, and the major and Moth She slipped quickly from him and | Revell were lefi alone. At once she asked: ae si through the guard room, past the dro’ y He was caught?” corporal, and regained ‘her home before] “He was shot down dead, Bessie.” the sun was yet above the plain’s far rim. “And you recognized him?” “But nobody else, Bessie. Nobody shall know he was Sergt. Revell.” ‘Thank you, major,” she sighed with a content that almost stifled her pain. “Mar- tin will never know when—when he’s an STARS THAT CHANGE POSITIONS Ill. The young sergeant came to his mother’s little breakfast table in a poor humor. Studying the Effect of Aberration “Mother, can you give me something to officer and a xentleman. Major, youve of Light. eat?” he cried. ‘They've detailed a new pe aeEy: very good and Kini ig 7 ake beans or ave done more if you'd let me, cook, and he can’t either bake : Bessie” ha sneweren, y t me, make coffee. The ;mess breakfast was! «14 ’tt tortor Martin,” she pleaded. ruined. This is something like. Nobody, | “He's not like his father. “{TO LOCATE THE PLANETS alive or dead, ever made hash like you,] ‘ no, Be: ike you, dear giri, like mother, and this is coffee, not bootleg. Say, | You, Bess. Be See She looked at him with a faint shake he head. sess, give me a right to be a father to the boy. Thrice I've asked you, and as refused, though Revell was good as d ‘or your sake, major. I'm only a laun- mother, you're pale. What have you been | doing to yourself?” “ “12 she answered, and the soft, sweet pink spread on her cheek. “I’m all right, Martin. Are you off duty today? He shook his head. “No such luck. Guard,” he answered, and bent hungrily over his plate. Written for The Evening Star. ACING THE NORTH at 9 o'clock this even- all find the per direct! above the Pole Star a Tose from the ran! he replied. “I Mother Revell paled again and trembled. | don't want to think thar the tabeuitwhe and nearly overhead. “Guard!” she said at last. “Why, Mar-| spoiled your life won to the end. I've been On our left and near ere on the night before last. patient. Let me remember you as my wife the horizon in the help it. Schiedermann’s gone |—take my name." faarisiane? Ge ant ba Foley's acting sergeant major; Mc- in she motioned “n; 5 "s on detached service, mending tele- | * graph wires; Fairleigh's provost sergeant, and so on. ‘There's only Bob Otis and I for duty—one night Tp." “it's a shame,7} she cried, jumping up in a passion of fepr. “You can't, you must not liant star Capella, in the constellation Au- riga. On our right, at about the same alti- tude in the north- east, is the equaliy brilliant Vega, in the Lyre. Before us are the constellations Ursa Minor, Draco and, just skimming the northern horizon, Cas. Bess, and Martin will be on—I have influence, and Martin, as on, will draw on it naturally. a attack the weaker wing, major,” nswered, and pressed his hand. Sau He stooned and kissed her and hur- ried out to send his orderly for the post chaplain. .Martin, bewildered, was there, nd the doctor, and th lene saw Moth- Why, mother?” “You—you—I'll go major!" “What on earth! and speak to the Mother, you know such é e r Revel : ’ . a icpela. A half hovr can be spent profit- en, It’s’ all in the five |" Revell acknowledge the mistake of her | © ene Dore sepaxcited.” 5 hasty girlheed, and marry at last the man } ably with these circumpolar stars. ““You—you'll ba ill,” she began to ery. | Who had patiently waited. To begin with, the Pole Star itself— It'll tire you out." After that she lay in pain, sinking swift- kacwn among astronomers as Polari: iy YOURCNE ly. and grew a little delirious. and saw “ eee. Shae aeeeepp ing Oa sige into the future. speaking of her boy as | Pepularly as the North Star—its position of all people, know one night in is no hard. | Capt. Revell, a gallant officer and gen-| nearly in line with the two outer stars ing to ask the hospital steward to send | her of her children—the grief-stricken | 25 these stars are called, affords a ready you down a tonic, and don’t you move from your stove today. I'll run up and see you at dinner time.;Now I must hurry and clean my belts abit.” He left her shaking silently, but turned at the open door. “That hangdog road agent is to be sent to the railway tomorrow. The sheriff will take charge of him there.” Mother Revell huddled up in her chair as the door closed behind her and became a nervous bundle of anxious fears. “Tonight.” she muttered. “He must es- cape tonight, and Martin on guard! If he troopers. Shortly to open the windo' cold, and they did “I want to hear the bugles,” she said, y sounded—the last! last, friend- I to rest—taps > CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES ‘The Y. P. 8. ¢ of Sixth Presbyterian Church elected the folloy 2oth instant: President, means of finding it. Its distance from the near of the pointers is about equal to the length of the Dipper, and since it is th brightest star here—it is rather below the full second magnitude—one can hardly n.s- take its identity. The Pole Star can also be recognized easily from its position at the end of the handle cf the Little Dipper. This constel- lation, iike the Great Dipper, is formed by seven stars, of which three—Polaris and the two which correspond in position with the Pointers in the Great Dipper—ure of whis! ‘d to them though it was very Harry - . 5 is the second magnitude, the others being hould fail, if the guard shoots him—a son | vice president, Miss Lula McDade; secre- inte ich - = of Hoot his fate de eety On ome r siderably less bright, one of them of n e And if he | tary, Wilton Hall; treasurer, Miss Flor- | only the fifth magnitude. suc Martin will be tried for allowing 2 = : : 3 s y has subscribed the escape, for neglect of duty 1 be re- | ence Woltz. This society I fr es $60 to the Y. M. C. A. building fund. duced! It will ruin his chance of promo- y depirtment of Faith Chapel tion. Oh, ch!” prian Sunday School gave a soc The bowl of the Little Dipper will be found tonight above and at the right of the Pole Star. This is the constellation called anciently Ursa Minor, or the Smaller Bear. The She sat stunned until the bugles on the spear cao } handle of the dipper forms the bear's tail pede round -anneunced guard Mount. | at the chapel on Thursday evening, that | while the bowl forms its rather diminutive hi: t all the familiar, | the parents of the pupils might get ac- | body. S stirring maneuvers were performed in the | @utinted with the teachers. The Dog's Tall. bright winter sun. The band ceased, the adjutant and sergeant-major saluted, the shrill bugles advanced and the new guard Another ancient name for this group of stars was Cynosura. The name Is Greek, and signifies “Dog's Tail,” whence we may President Leet of the District C. E. Union gave a quiet hour talk at St. Paul’s Luth- eran Church, and secretary of the w ion, and peiehteyes pe pecan: ihe ta" | paul E. Sleman, gave a talk on the same | gather that the constellation was some- mand. She could hear his clear voice even | Subject LircoIn Memorial Congregation- | times regarded as a dog rather than a when he was out of sight at the distant | al Church, Sunday evening. At tne | bear, particular stress being laid on the guard house—“New guard! Present arms!" | lest named place forty-one ‘ons have | great length of its caudal appendage. The Evening stable call and the troopers in | ¢?rolled as comrades in this new move-|Cynosura, and not the present Pole Star, white stable dress, trotting at double time | Ment. The tota! enrollment throughout the | was the compass ef the Greek and Phe. country has now reached 6 The Christ-Filled Life. interesting service took place at y Baptist Church las ing, when twenty-three memb Christian Ende: y medi- through the frosty air of the failing day supper call—retreat and the sunset gun Martin ran in to see her and found her white he resolved to bring the post s geon in tht morning. Darkness, but she iit no lamp, and at last came tattoo and taps nician sailors, the pole of the heavens ing in their day something like twelve grees distant from the star which marks its position (very nearly), and b nearer than now to the body of the Litt Bear. The change has been brought about be- tation 50 now to us! in @ windy night, with white ed from that to the young people’ by the same slow, wabbling motion of the clouds swiftly crossing the half. moon. | Society. The pastor, Rev. 5. H. Greenc, | earth, as it spins on its asis, to which is Night—the final click of the billiard balls | @istributed the diplomes, the intermediate | due the “precession of the equinoxes,” the iviser, Miss Wise, e tender words of farewell, and Mr. J. E. Dawson, Presi- dent of the Y. PS. C. E., extended them in the club, the final song at Captain We: evening party, the first silent round of the officer of the day. The sentry at the guard “poles” of the heavens being s y two points toward which the happens to be directed. The the arth’s axis position of ee eae a cordial welcome into his organization, | the northern pole 2.000 years ago is indie Sa ear ee pccoa NOlaAs tnz| Which they formally entered on Tuesday | cated on the planisphere by a small cross. cavalry stables, from the haystacks ana | °Venine- It will be seen that the two bright outer General Secretary Baer reports 8,687 as the tenth legion enrollment this week. The endeavor societies will tomorrow consider the tcpic “Little Ways of Better- ing the World.” On the evening of the 224 the Endeavor- ers of Congress Street M. P. Church as- sisted in giving a very enjoyable reception to Rev. W. S. Hammond, the pastor. from the distant saw mill replies of lonely sentinels— all's we! Mother Revell rose up, unable to wait longer to bear suspense. She stole from the house. Well she knew the old post and how to hide in the shadows and how avoid the sentries. Unseen, filled with a shuddering disgust at herself at having 20 stars in the bowl of the Little Dipper then served as pointers, and, indeed, these two stars are still known aS the Guardians of the Pole. From Cynosura comes our word cynosure, applied to an object which at- tracts all eyes. The space between the Lyre and the two Bears, or Dippers, is occupied by Drai the Dragon. The head ef this monster lie ame the swift o'clock and The following newly elected officers of | about midway between Vega and the bowl to hide, she gained the rear of the guarl| +he y. P. 8. C. E. of Ebenezer A. M. BE. lof the Little Dipper. It consists of a house. ‘There stood a little clump of scrub oaks by a spring of clear water, and in their shadows the little woman crouched and watched. Tramp, tramp, tramp, to the end of the porch; to the rear, march! and tramp, tramp, tramp to the other end; shift car- bine to the other shoulder, and it's time to patrol round the guard house. So went No. 1 monotonously, distractingly. Once, twice, thrice and four times he passed round the building, and it was 1 o'clock. Again he sang the hour, and again came back the distant echoing sentries’ calls, “All's well Mother Revell was in a fever: she felt ro cold: her eyeg sought continuously the yawning blickness between the walls of the old guard hopse and the snowy ground. Again the faithful sentry passed around and went Back to the porch. A minute passed and, something protruded from be- neath the guard house, reaching out to the white snow, sted{thily, on its belly, like a great, :neafling gat. Mother Revell clasp- ed her hands and shook and watched. Inch by inch he ¢ame—the murderer, a big man, while the hole was narrow. The mooi glanced upoy him, and she saw the glitter of his excited, getermined eyes. Inch by inch, without und, he dragged himself to freedom, ,and No. 1 continued to tramp the wooden porch unsuspectingly. The man was out nd_on his feet, stooping low. glancing here and there to make sure of the right digection to run. “Quick, crguareh man, be off with you, Chureh have just been installed by their pastor, Rev. J. J. Evans, for a term of six months: President, Lottie R. Crusor; vice president, William A. Carter; recording secretary, M. E. Ferguson; corresponding secretary, M. E. Tilghman; delegate to district union executive committee, Ella Cc. Nash. The chairman of the various committees were also anncunced by the president. The Y. P. S. C. E. of First M. P. Church is composed of earnest and enthusiastic young people who are of much help to the church. They are planning for a straw- berry sociable to be given early next month The correspondence ccmmittee of the dis- trict unicn, Miss Bell, chairman, meets at Calvary Baptist Church next Monday evening at > o'clock. Press committee work will be considered. The May meeting of the district union executive committee will be held at Cal- ary Baptist Church at eight o’cloeck Mon- cay evening next. After reports of com- mittecs are received, the committee on rominatiorns of unton officers for the year beginning September J will be appointed. The meeting will then be addressed by Rev. H. M. Wharton, D.. D., pastor of Brantley Street Baptist Church. Baltimore. upon the topic, “The Prayer Meeting and Music in the Meeting.” The meeting will be more or less in the nature of a mass meeting, a general notice and invitation having been sent all Endeavor societies in the union. trapezium of stars, of which the brightest two—a pair which closely resembles the two Guardians, both in magnitude and in distance apart—are referred to in ancient descriptions of the constellation as the Dragon's fierce’ (torvi) or “burning (ardentes) eyes.” The general shape of the Dragon's tortuous body is that of a re- versed letter 8. The tip of the tail lies about midway from the bowl of the Great Dipper to the Pole Star. From this point the body can be traced, barring its numer- ous imaginary ccils, by a line of third- magnitude stars, which sweeps partly around the Little Bear and then takes an outward curve toward the head. Former Pole Star. The third star from the tip of the Dragon's tail, midway between the Guard- ians of the Pole and the middle star in the handle of the Dipper, is Alpha Draconis. Some 4,000 years before the Christian era the north pole of the heavens was within four degrees of this star, which was, the: fore, the pole star of that epoch, The larger of the pyramids of Egypt are thought to huve been built at about that time, and it has been pointed out as a _re- markable and doubtless significant f: that the passageways leading into the pyramids, on their northern faces, all hav: an inclination such thet from the bottoms of these passages the then polar star could be seen when at its lower culmination—that is, when directiy beneath the true pole. This pole star of €,000 years ago is marked on_the planisphere by a letter A. Another star of historic interest in the Dragon is the star Gamma, the lower of the two “eyes,” as the constellation is now posed. It was from observations of this star that Bradley discovered the “‘aberra- ” a discovery which decided | a long-standing question whether light | quick!” mugmareg Mother Revell. As if he;jheard her, he started to run through the deep snow, soundlessly. One step he tcok, and Mothre Revell closed her eyes in despair. The man’s legs, cramped by confinement, were uncertain. His toe struck a rock in the snow and he fell, noisily bumping against the wooden wail. At that he forgot himself, or became at once reckless, and swore aloud. “Sergeant of the guard!” the sentry shouted, and dashed round the house. while inside turult.and clashing of stecl resounded. The prisoner picked himse'!f up, but slipped and slid again before he eculd start af . SO that No. 1, carbine loaded and cocked, was on his heels. It was no intention ot the pentry's to kil’, but rather to recapture alive. He broughi the butt to the front swiftly, and thrus: viciously to knock his man over like a rab- bit. The running blow missed, and in an instant the prisoger turn2d, a shaggy, wild- eyed image of tion, They closed, but for a second. pext Instant the sentry es (Copyright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) 15 psitions of the Principal Stars which are above 31, at 9-8-7 PM. fall perpendicularly. He is sheltered, say by a broad-brimmed hat, which protects him so long as he stands still, but Jet hi start to run in any direction and the r: will beat against him in front. He against the falling drops, and the m the same as though, while he stood a wind drove the drops against him- a= though they fell, not perpendicularly, but slantingly. Aberration of Light. Here is the principle of the aberration of light. Light moves lke a falling rain though inconceivably faster. The ea and the observer upon it move like the mar who runs, and from the combination of tt two movements it results that the direct from which the light of a celestial seems to come, or, in other worms, the «i rection in which the body appears to bx is not its true direction. A star is alway seen a little out of its true place in th heavens, except when the earth is moving directly toward it or directly from it: it appears to be a little ahead with reference to the direction of th earth's moveme of the point in the heavens where it n is—just as to the man who runs in rain the drops seem to come from a part the sky in advance of that from which tl actually do come: and since, as the earth swings around im its orbit. the direct in which it moves continually chan star, always out of its true place. corrésponding movement. Pears to move in a little or the same form as the have viewed from the The effect of d + Which earth’s orbit wouid direction of the star. berration i quite too small to be observable to the naked eye; but it is a matter of which the astronomer must take account and for which he must allow in determining the position of a star fi observation. ane A great deal of time has been nt by astron Ss in determining its amount one of the problems of exact astronomy, at which they still working. The v adopted for t 5 stant of aberra s this quantity called, at the conference of astroiome. held in Paris in 1896, is 20. angular measurement. seconds of This will be better understood when it is explained that. the displace- quantit med is the test ment of a star due to this cau. half of the longer diameter of the lipse which the star seems to desérity the course of the year. A chain of forty. five such ell ° just about Ir enough to reach ac face of the full moon, While we are upon the sub; movement a word may be “proper motion ment just spoken of, this is # merely an apparent movement Changing Positions. It has been found that many of the stars are slowly changing their positions with respect to their neighbors, Sirius, Arctu- rus and Aldebaran have move places assigned them two thous: ago, a distance greater than the diameter of the moon. It is pi none of the stars is reali are rapidly moving in space in various di- rections, though so enormous are their dis- tances from us that even in the the most rapidly moving it requires turies to effect a change that can be tected with the naked eye This is the movement calle tion.” With the telescoze only zeross the line of sight can be ed, since the movement of a star directly to- ward us or directly from us obvious!y would not affect its apparent plane on celestial sphere. But with the ros rt is possible to de “in the line of sight”—movement of proach or of recession—and even to determ. ine the rate of its movement. To instan a few cases, Arcturus, Vega, Dubhe, Delta of ste! about t th from the bable that ” but all 4 “proper mo- me »» et a@ star's movement Andromedae and Alpha Arietis ar ap- proaching us at the respective rates of forty-two, thirty-six, forty-six, fifty and ten miles a second; Alde aad Rigel are spectively, miles a second. To illustrate the effect of proper motion in the long run on the appearance of ti constellations arrows have been attached cn the planisphere to the seven stars of the Great Dipper, indicating the directions in which the several stars are moving and the distances to which they move in about thirty thousand years. It will be seen that the movements are such as eventually 1 change very materially the figure of this group of stars, and that at a remote epoch in the past also it must have had form quite unlike its present form. Yet <o siowly does the change take place that at a time as far back as history takes us Dipper must have looked almost precisely as it does tonight. The Planets, Mercury will be a morning star throu out the month, reaching its greatest elor ation west of the sun—24 degrees 45 min- utes—on the 28th. It should be visible during the last week of the month south of east. Venus has been an evening star since February and will continue to be suc! until December 1. She ts already a con- spicuous object for an hour or more after sunset low in the west. Mars is a morning star, rising at about 3:30 a. m. at the beginning of the month, exactly in the east. He crosses the equi- noctial today, passing from the southern to the northern hemisphere, and moving rapidly eastward. Jupiter still shifies magnificently as an evening star, crossing the meridian soon after 9 p. m. He is still retrograding. On the 27th he will be stationary and there- after his movement will be direct or ea: ward. Saturn and Uranus, in the Scorpion, s row evening stars and both are abov horizon at » p. m. low in the southcast Saturn will be in opposition to the sun on the 30th of the month, Neptune, in Taurus, sets before 9 p. m. teeta: “Doesn't Jimper bore you to death?” “He never comes near me since I lent him #2.” “Cheap enough.”—Chicago Record. —-- A Practical Demonstration. From Harper's Bazar.