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... .f-r.'. ' ; ?r ' TWO SINGERS AND .TWO SGJJCS A poet Fang in lofty strains. , Proclaiming faith he did not know; His measure was a faultless one. His lines were splendid in their flow; But they that read forgot the words, Or scoffed at what lie ha i to say, And left the poet all unknown To vainly preach and fret away. A rustic, all uncouth, untaught. In lhnninz measures, sang a song? A song of faith, full from his lierrt. And heard it echoed by the throng; The lines were rough, but truth wai wrought Within the fabric of his rhyme. Wherefore the world agreed to make The singer and his song sublime. ?S. E. Ki.tcr. | tea I q ? WT"7 HERE was a man." said J the skeptic, who was sen ted in front of the open tire at the cltih *who had the conra.no of his convictions. There was no scare in him ever when death beckoned* and finally gripped him." "Yes," assented the half-way skep tjc at the other side of the fireplace, Old Page was certainly a consistent atheist. I did not hear anything about his death bed. but I suppose be died in the solvit in which he lived. Ho was built that way." A man with an acetic face and with a coat of clerical cut stood between the speakers* He is the rector of a litiie Episcopal church stowed ; away in a poverty-stricken district .of the city, lie is a club member and moves in flic smart, set when lie isn't workffig away in the slums. The : smart set and ilie club get about one1 tenth of his time, ihough, as he often confesses, h? believes that they stand in sharper need of missionary work than do most o.' the dwellers i:i ibo district in vrhic-h he casts nine-tenths of his lot. \ "You say. Nelson." said the rector. ? addressing the nrst speaker, "mat uni j Page a: death had the courage of Ids I convictions. You nevef said a truer *. word in your life: he did liavf. I know c. something about it. because the hofcpi' tal where, he died is in uiy district and on my daily visiting list. Neither of you lias lived here very loug and dou't know the whole story of Page's life. I know all about it. **You see. Old Page was a bibliophile from the day he lirst saw the letter A u In his picture alphabet as a baby. The man was actually book crazy. Some of the first hooks that he read and loved were ngnostfc in tendeucv. This . ~v "TkT j " I Hfj (x - I B 4LOOK AT II FOR HOURS AT A TIHg. led him to read absolutely atheistical works, and finally liis book-collcctiug mania turned toward volumes of that class. Old Page probably had the finest collection of Shelley, Voltaire, Paine and the skeptic scientists' books that were ever held b7 the book shelves of any .private house. Do you know that it was Page's boast that he had never read a religions work in his life; that he had never turned ihe pages of a Bible nor seen the inside of a common hook of prayer? He chose every.king except what I. iu humble imitation, call "the best part.' Page would go without food if it were necessary to buy some rare first edition of a work with a faith undermining tendeuey. There was a clergyman one day bolder than the lest who went to the bibliophile and said. 'Why don't you collect cad reud both sides. Mr. Page?' " 'file rea?io:i is. parson.' said Page, 'that tliaie io cnly ou? side.' "That answer showed beticr than anything else tho bout of the man's iniud. You may hate hoard, perhaps, that hf was a great friend of Evarts, another collector, but who bought and brought together books of all kiuds irrespective of the nature of the teachings which they contained. It was Page's wont to sneer a little at .he missals, the Old Fathers, the Breeches Bible and tlse rest that Evaris had on his shelves cueek by jowl, so to speak, with Voltaire and our other unbelieving friends. Mow Page knew EPart's library and the 'lay' of the books as well as did the owner himself. Page used to go to his friend's home, take out a certain copy of Voltaire and Look at it yearningly rud lovingly fo; hours at a time. It was th.? etvy Vol fYr . talre which he himself did not posses He knew viils litile hook was the lir or.e of the series of athcist'c and aj nostic volumes iu Evans' possession The hook next it at the left was ti last one of the religious and theolo: leal volumes. \Yhen Page picked ti this particular Voltaire he would ear fully brush off ihe left-hand cover wit his handkerchief to remove eon tan iuatioii. Yes, lie was a consistent atli ist all right, lie told Evarts once tin 9 lie would give his right arm to posse; that Voltaire and that he thought pressed for more payment that lie' sacrifice his right log along with tl arm. "Well, you know it was only tw I weeks ago ihat Evans* Louse caugl lire. The flames started in the basi incut and spread rapidly. The o] frame structure was like tinder. Pap lived only a block from Lis friend Louse and he reached the scene of ti; lire ' as-quickly- as did the firotuei The flames Lad eaien from the Las* ment through the flooring into tli ; library. The bcokroom was a -furnari Evarts stood outside in the street wit a look of pathetic misery in his fact and with his thoughts lined on hi 1 burning books. Page grasped his an and fairly howled in his ear, 'Thr Voltaire will be lost.' "In another instant and before h . could be detaiu.d, Page had darted u 1 ; ^ - iri DARTED CP PROXT STEPS. the front ieps of the burning house A fireman dashed after him, but wta driven back by a sheet of liame. Tag was inside. "He'll get nothing bu death there,' was the thought weigliini on every heart. It seemed an age, bu it probably wasn't forty seconds be fore out from the shrouding smoke ani leaping flame the bibliophile appenre< holding a little book tightly to hi breast. His hair and clothing wer ablaze and he was frightfully burned "The firemen picked up Old Pag tenderly and carried him to an ambu lance. He held tight the volume h had saved. 'I have got the Voltaire, he said, and despite the feebleness o 'tis voice there was a ring of triumpi it. They -ook him to the hospita 1 did what tliey-could for him, hu had inhaled flame, and death wa y a question of a few days. The; mght he was unconscious at on ?IL*, UUU UliU Ui iuir UU1-3VO > remove the book which Page ha< raved from the liames. Fiercely hi . aid, 'Leave it.* "Then wlib a sort of renewal strength he lifted the volume ant opened it. He stared at it almos blankly for a minute, and then an as touishment came into his face. I th not know whether Page, bibliophih and atheist, saw the hand of God in i or not, but the book that he had savei at the cost of his own life, but let m say to the salvation of his soul, wa: not a rare edition of Voltaire, but i cheap copy ol* the priceless Gospel o Jesus Christ. "Suffering as lie was. lie read thi book for the lirst time in his life an; believed. I baptized him one hour lie fore he died. Ho called in all hi atheist friends to witness the sacra ment. O, yes. Old Page had the tour age of his convictions.**?Hdward H Clark, in the Chicago lieeord-Herald,. ltepresents Napoleon's Army. An interesting gift has been auWe< to tlio Musee d'Armco. rans.. .-In tivi great ca3es are placed' 10/&A) tfgitro of soldiers, about two iuclje^ Ijigh. a] branches of the a nay bring represent cd with tlie utmost ctcactimdcs, regard iug uniform and {inns.. Xhe toy army marching past Napoleon, has for s?t ting a village with the'populace' in th street cheering tin?, soldiers. This pic turcsque work occupied the lifetime o an old Alsatian ^vho fought uuder tli "Little Corporal." Knn;arj'? B?? Towns. Iliingary has eleven towns of 30,00 inhabitant or more, according to th recent ?.ou?us. Budapest has 73-.00C Szcgedin 103,000, Maria Theresiopc . S2.000, Dehrccziu 75.000, rresburg (J'i 000, Kodmerovasarhely 61,000. KeH kernel 57,000. Arad 33.000, Temcsva ."3.000, Creswnrdein and Klaiisenhar 50,000 each. A gram, in Crcmia, ha G 1.0?0 inhabitants. IN CONGRESS. S-i ? ? 11.; Detailed Doings of Our National Law. makers. S*; HOUSE. Seventy-Ninth Day.?The House c' made fajr progress with the river an.l *" harbor bill. Arter.tne close or general [1"! debate 27 of the 116 pages cf the bill ^ were disposed of. No amendments were adopted. The general debate was j. featureless. Several members took j advantage of the latitude allowed in general debate to discuss other topics. Mr. Lewis, of Georgia, spoke in favor 0 of tariff revision. Mr. Small, of North it Carolina, protested against the failure p. ol' the committee to provide properly j for improvements in his State, and Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, explained ;l> '.he scheme for the improvement of s :he Cumberland river. SENATE. Seventy-ninth Day?During the enc tire session of the Senate the bill prop. viding for the protection of the Presili dent of the United States was under ? consideration. Mr. Spooner, of Wis ! ccnsin. made an extended argument in support of the measure. He contended that the government had an absolute 11 and inherent right to protect itself from assaults made either upon Itself e or upon one of its officers. He maini tained that an assault upon the Prcsi_ dent was in the very nature of things an assault upon the government, for | ihcre never was a time when the Pres ident waj not in the exercise of the duties of his office. His argument was largely legal and constitutional, but throughout was forceful and entertaining and instructive. Mr. Hoar, in charge of the measure, elucidated some a-guments he had made previously, and Mr. Teller, cf Colorado, and Mr. Bailey. of Texas, spoke briefly upon the bill. The Texas Senator caid he could not support the measure as it l ' stands, because he could conceive of an ) assault made upon the President as a ' , person and as an enemy of the govern; 1 ment. Th* assailant in that event. ought to be punished precisely as if he j1 had assaulted any other citizen. Replying to Mr. Bacon, of Georgia. Mr. Spooner declared that if Mr. Bacon's argument was crystalfzed into i law, "this would be an impotent government unable to protect itself acainst obvious crimes, endangering ( our institutions and obstructing the operations of the government." A legiAt ? - * - liiuait; uumnuaiUJi uu.u mc ocuaiui a arscument, he said, would be that this is the "weakest government under the I sky. It is not." It was an evident ' right of the government of the United - States to protect its own officials from assault or assassination wbhe engaged s in the discharge of their official duties. e "If the function Is a Federal one," he t j declared, "if it involves the safety or the sovereignty of the government. 5 there are no State lines." He asserted 1 that there was no time when the President of the United States was not en1 gaged in the performance of his offil j cial duties. He could perform his dus tics and exercise his powers anywhere e uay or night. An assault upon him. , therefore, was an assault upon the government. e Mr. Teller, of Colorado .objected to - the provision giving to the President e a military guard and suggested that ; the guard about him should be from ? the civil department of the governj ment. Mr. Bailey of Texas, maintained that the government had ample authority ' to protect its officials in the performs ance of their duties but he doubted its y authority to punish a man who should e assault or kill any government official I merely as a person. The demand of j the people was th3t the govcrnra-mt should lay it3 heavy hand upon the anL' achist. He was in accord with that ' demand and would hound the anarcb1 ists from one section to another until 1 > he had no resting place, but he warned t the Senators to not make anarchists of themselves in the effort to protect the _ President against anarchy. He could not support the measure as it stood. 2 Directly In line witn the suggestion f contained In Mr. Bailey's remarks. Mr. 1 Bacon, of Georgia, introduced a bill for a 1 the deportation and exclusion of alien s anarchists. It was the bill, he said, l' which, introduced by former Senator f Hill, of New 'iork. had been passed by i the Senate, but had failed in the Houoe. He offered it as a suggestion to the e judiciary committee. Personally he 1 j was in favor of the "mo3t extreme le? islat'.on that can be devised and justi3 i fied fcr'the accomplishment of the pur. j pose8-stated." __ Pcmands Rcfu?ed. ' JCetv Orleans. SpeciaJ.The street railway union filed its demands. The clause i which creates most objection outside of [ the nine hour and 20 per rent advance L> I'provktes for a union committee of two s for each road to consider cases of dis- j 1./ m's?al for short fares. The railroad ] "companies will consider the demands -) and agree on an answer. The demands _: will be unanimously refused. The out- j /. j come is uncertain, depending upen | it I whether further conferences can be arL> ranged. ii' ' e " To flake No Exhibit. Harrisburg. Pa.. Special.?A meeting : of the committee of the Pennsylvania commission to the Charleston EJxposition was held here and it was decided c to make no State agricultural exhibit at the exposition which closes June 1. ! The last Legislature appropriated ?3,- j 1 000 for an agricultural display and j Wm. F. Hill, of Meadville, master of j r i ? the State Grange, was recently chosen ; ^ to arrange for it. Mr. Hill reported to i the commission that the time was too i short la which to prepara an exhibit. J. H. WBDDlft HARP1 />/-v r~> r zy k irdue dum i Wc are leaders in our business, , prepared to supply the requirem We sell Syracuse Steel Beam | JL ? iiWHIIWW^? 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