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\ m <&. CONQUEST ., OF CANAAN 3y CCOTH TARXINGTCN. J" AttHor ?f "Cherry." "Monsieur Benac*.:re." Clc J ' i>|ivrr?!it. Iiy Harper'<& BntCrn r ?j (Continued from pise 6 ) on each syllable?"Roos-cyoo the Toocooeh-oong!" At unexpected intervals two male voices, qpidently belonging to men who bad contracted the bablt o>" holding tin in tbelr mouths, joined the lady in a thorough search for the last chord. That was the last of silence in Canaan for an hour or so. The organ was merely inaugural. Across the street a piano sounded. Firm, emphatic, determined vocal competition with the Instrument here also; "Rock of Ages" the incentive. Another piano presently followed suit In a neighbored. house?"Precious Jewels." More distant, a second organ was beard. Other pianos, other organs, took op other the rues, and. as a wakeful puppy's barking will go over a village at night, stirring first the nearer dogs to give voice, these In torn stimulating those farther away to Join, one passing the excitement on to another, until bounds in farmyards far beyond the town contribute to the loog distance conversation, even so did "Rescue the Perishing" enliven the greater part of Canaan. It was this that made Ariel realise a thing of which hitherto she bad not been able to convince herself?that she was actually once more In the town where she had spent her long ago girlhood, now grown to seem the girlhood of Some other person. It was true her foot ftas on her native heath and her name was Ariel Tabor?the very name eC the girl who bad shared the town's disapproval with Joe Louden! "Rescue ^rtbe Perishing" brought it ail back to ' her, and she listened to these sharply familiar rites of the Canaanite Sabbath evening with a shiver of pain. She turned from the gate to go into the bouse, beard Eugene's voice at the door and paused. He was saying good night to Mamie. "And please say *au revolt to Mias Tabor for m^" he added, peering out aader his band. "1 don't know where she can have gone." "Probably she came In and went to her room," said Mamie. "Don't forget to tell her 'au revoir.'** "I won't dear. Good night!" a ???a. m OU- kA. "AxOOU Dlgui: out UILCV1 UCI mix. and be kissed ber perfunctorily. Then be ctoe down tbe steps and went * slew!/ toward tbe gate, looking about r W him Into tbe darkness as If searching for something. But Ariel bad fled away from tbe path of light that led from tbe open door. She skimmed noiselessly across the lawn and paused at tbe side of tbe heose. leaning against tbe veranda, where, on a night long past, a boy bad hid and a girl bad wept. A small creaking sound fell upon ber ear. and she made out an ungainly figure approaching. wheeling something of curious shape. "1b that you. Sam?" she said. Mr. Warden stopped close by. "Yes'in." he replied. "I'm a-gittiu' out de hose to lay de dus' yonnah." He stretched an arm nioug the crossbar of tbe reel, relaxing himself apparently for conversation. "V'nil done change ?^ consid'able. Miss Airil." he continued, with/the directness of one sure of privilege. "Van think S.-tin"**" "Yw'm. Er'ybody think so. I reckon. Be'n a tni-bfe lot o* talkuin "boot you today. Duu:to bow all detn otb' young ladles goin' take it." lie laughed with Immoderate delight, yet as to the volume of tnere sou'id discreetly, with an eye to open windows "You sot 'em all beat. Miss Alril! Dey aln' le?'n no one rouu' dis town evali cot in a thou8an' mile o' y mi.' I'er looks an* de way you walk an' ea'y yo'self an' as fer de clo'es?name o* de end Ian','honey, dey ain* nevali see s'yle befo'! My ole woman say yon. cot mo' fixlu's lu a minute dan de whole res' of 'em cot iu a yeah. She say wh-.vi she helpin' you onpaek she must *a" s > - mo'ii a hnuenl piihs o' slippahs alone! An* de pood man knows I 'menihnh w'en you run uin' rouu' Jo back .rods sin" up de alley rompin' 'itb Joe Iguide:: same you's a ^ iwy!" "Do you ever see Mr. I.ouden nowadays?" she asked. His laugh was repeated with the same discre* violeuce. "Ain' I seeu him dis ve'y day fur up de street at de gate yonnah. stan'in', *ith you w'en I drivin' de Judge?" "You?you didn't happen to see him anywhere this?this afternoon." "N'o'rn. I ain* see him." Sam's laughter vaaished. and his lowered voire became serious. "I ain* see him. but I hearn about him." "What did you hear?" "Dey be'n consid'able stir on de aidge o' town, I reekon," he answered gravely, "an" dey be'n bavin' some trouble out at do Beach"? "Beaer Iteach. do you mean?" "Yesw. Dey be'n some shootin' goto* biTout dat way." She sprang forward and caught at ^ his arm without speaking. Fjviden all right." he said reas suringly. "Aiu* nuflfum happen to him. Nigb as I kin tnek out fin de talk, dat Happy Fear son*? on de rampage ag'iu. an' dey batta sent fer Mist* Louden to come in a hurry." (Continued next week.) I j AMBERGRIS. This Valuable Substance Comes From Diseased Sperm Whales. Ambergris is one of the most valuable products of the sea. The mariner wbo spies floating on the waves a grayish mass, fatty in appearance, will, if he knows what ambergris is, betray considerable excitement. for the substance brings high prices. ; The origin of ambergris was once a mystery, but it is so no longer. It is a morbid secretion due to a disease of the liver of the sperm whale, in the intestines of which animtd lumps of it are occasionally, though , rarely, discovered. Dr. ('. H. Ste: venson of the United States fish j commission, who made a special ! study of the subject, said that the i whales which yield ambergris are I invariably sickly and emaciated. Anciently the substance was I known as am!>er, a name which was ! subsequently applied to the fos?il gum now commonly so called. But to distinguish t he two one was called "amber gri>" (gray) and the other "amber jaune" (yellow). So it appears that ambergris means simply gray amber. Like the fossil gum, pieces of it were found now and then on the seashore, where they had been cast up by the waves: hence doubtless the giving of the same name to both. Ambergris usually contains the beaks of cuttlefishes, on which the sperm whale feeds. Sometimes it is black, but the finest is gray in color, j When dried, to cure it, it is light | and inflammable and yields an odor | faintly resembling honey. On being melted bv heat it evaporates slowly, leaving no trace behind. The substance has been used for in iMcerdotal rites of ffie I church and with fragrant gums was formerly burned in the apartments of royalty. To some extent it was: employed as a medicine and to fla- j vor certain dishes. Nowadays it is i utilized almost exclusively by per- j furaers in the preparation of fine | scents, being first converted into a tincture by dissolving it in alcohol. ?Saturday Evening Post. A Losing Agroomont. A Jenkintown grocer says that there is nothing like being accomi irodating, even if it goes so far as to cause a loss in cash. About a year ago a character well known in that section of Montgomery county, who * n i ?1? j lives aione in a smau auuw uwn; j a mile back in the country, happened to be in the store and said his | stock of provisions was low. He I asked the grocer to sell him 8 cents' j worth of flour. "Why don't you buy a dollar's worth ?" asked a bystand- j er. "I ain't got no bag," was the j reply. "Oh, well, I'll lend you one," said the merchant. "But I ain't | got no money with me," the mt.n said. "You can pay for it when you bring back the bag," was the reply, and the man went home with his flour. One day last week the man was again in the store, and the grocer said to him: "I have a little bill against you for flour. Do you remember about it?" His eves open- j with astonishment as he crazed at the grocer and replied, "I ain't brought the bag back yet." Tie bill has been charged to profit and loss.?Philadelphia Record. No Room For Argument. Promotion time in the public i schools is invariably a season of undue elation and of heartburnings among the pupils. "Did you get promoted?" asked a small girl in front of a Brooklyn school of a larger companion. "Yes. It was easy for me in that class,? wa6 the reply. "Well, they left me back," remarked the small girl, and then, with bitterness, "But you're not so i smart anyway." "Oh, I don't know," said the oth' er, with an air of superiority. ; "There ain't many in this school j that has a better education than me. I I was promoted, and the teacher was { left back."?New York Globe. Cells of the Honeycomb. Honeybees are generally credited ! with instinctive skill in making the 1 cells of the comb hexagonal in j shape, but it is probable that this ! construction is merely the ordinary ! result of mechanical laws. Solitary j bees always make circular cells, and the bees in a hive no doubt make them circular also, but mechanical1 pressure forces them into a hexagonal form. A well known naturalist in speaking of the matter says that all cylinders made of soft, pliable substances become hexagonal under such circumstances. Stood Up For Him. "JJo you ininK your sisier iia.es ! me, Tommy?" "Yes. She stood up for you at dinner." ''Stood up for rae? Was anybody saying anything against me?" "No, nothing much. Father said he thought you wore rather an ass. but sis got up and said you weren't and told farhor he ought to know l.ftfor than judge a man by hia looks."?London Tit-Bits. i MORBID JEALOUSY. A Disease That, Unless It Is K>!:eo, Will Ruin A.iy Life. When a man is afraid to remark at the breakfast table, even mildly and casually, that, from what h? I had heard, Cleopatra was a beautii fill woman it is fair to ass?me that ! the s]>ecter of constant jealousy dwells in that household. When a ! wife fears to look at the moon bei'cause she may be accused of aiiniiri ing the ruan in it tiie husband needs ! to be gently reminded that he is i taking a very rapid short cut to kiii| ing the love be seems to hold so j sacred. I.ove is fed by confidence, i trust, faith and serene, restful reli| auce, hut morbid jealousy is a poij son of doubt, suspicion and injustice that dulls the* love it does not ! j ucuwei;. 1 Jealousy is a disease that can be { cured only by the object, not by ; any one else in all the world. No matter how gentle, kind, forl>eariug, forgiving and forgetting the object ! of it mav be. this in itself will not j " 7 | i cure the attacks. The subject j whose heart is thus swayed by fierce gales of jealousy must first awaken to the folly of it, the injustice of it; must be conscious of the trail of bitterness and unhappiness it brings to both, must realize the cruel continued assault on the tolerance, love, loyalty and patience of the other and when the next attack comes seek by strength of will, by force of character, by every weapon in the armory of the soul, to kill the feeling. Jealousy must be killed in the thought. In the mind, the battleground of the soul, must the | fight of extermination be waged. 1 f K/viKvltf mncf 4 Via lAotAiiuf Ill I lie lllUli^lli X1XUOW lilt be neutralized by faith, conquered by justice and transformed by trustful love into a restful, abiding confidence that only absolute proof and certainty of just cause for jealousy can ever reawaken. ? William 0. Jordan in Delineator. O. K. and Its Origin. There have been many theories advanced as to the origin of the expression 0. K. Some of them have been partly correct, and some have not. Over a century ago a great deal of the best rum and tobacco came from Aux Caves, which was pronounced 0. K., and the best of anything was said to be 0. K. The meaning of this phrase is still retained and figures largely in the business world. No doubt many have thought that 0. K. came from "Oil Korrect." During the campaign of General Jackson his enemies did all in their power to injure him in the eyes of the people. Once he signed some papers and wrote after his name, "This is 0. K." The Democrats took up the phrase and said that it was an abbreviation of the customary indorsement of the general, as "Oil Korrect." They put it on their banners, and the meaning "Oil Korrect" stuck to the letters. Tartars' Holy Wall. A holy well or spring away up on a hillside near Kazan and overlooking the river is believed by the Tartar villagers to possess extraordinary healing properties. The spring flows into a rocky basin about ten feet square and three feet deep. The water is a pure, clear crystal, sparkling in the sunshine, and the marvelous thing is that the bottom of the well is thickly covered with silver coins thrown in by sufferers who came to be cured by the water, to propitiate the spirit of the well. Although the tank is only three feet deep and no watch is kept on the spot, no one has ever been known to touch or attempt to take any of the coins.?London Globe. Th# Wrong Pocket The cars were packed to the doors with suffering humanity. Suddenly a little man standing in the aisle thought of pickpockets and of money in his outer coat, pocket. lie plunged his hand in a pocket and was somewhat shocked at encountering the fist of a fat fellow passenger. "Aha!" exclaimed the little man. "Leggo my hand!" "Pickpocket!" hissed the fat. man. "Scoundrel!" the other yelled. T.urn a tall person in their vicinity looked tip from his paper. "1 get otf here," he drawled, "so you fellows had better take your hands out of n.y pocket." ?; 1 Wanted to Know. An eminent novelist, remarkable more for his vagueness than for his brilliance, habitually dictates his brain products to his secretary. When the heroine, through a stroke of bad luck, had suffered the amputation of a leg, lie was perplexed as o how long it would be before she could 1h> out and about. Absentmindedly, walking up and down the room, he suddenly inquired, <;1 say, Clarke, you haven't ever lost a leg, have you ?"?Pall Mall Gazette. . HIS KNTRODUCTIOIi. The Happy Way a Young Fallow Geft Acquainted at Home. How a young fellow who had got into the habit of spending all his evenings away from home was brought to his senses is related in ! the Baptist Commonwealth: One afternoon his father eame to , him and asked him if he had any engagement for the evening. The l young man had not. "Well,. I'd like to have you go somewhere with me." "All right," said he. "Where shail I meet you ?" ! The rest of the- story is itr the j young nirn's own word a. "He s" ^s'ed the Columbia ho! tel at hail ust 7, and I was there. ; When he appeared he said he wanted me to call with him on a lady. 'One I knew quite well when. I waaa young man,' lie explained. "We went out and started straight for home. "'She ia staying at our house,' he said. "I thought it strange that he should have made the aDnointment I" ' ~ r i for the Columbia under those cir! cumstancbs, but said nothing. "Well, we went in, and 1 was introduced with el! <!':e formality tomy mother and sister. "The situation strut-It me a3 funny^ and I started to laugh, but the laugh died away. None of the three even smiled. My mother and sister shook bands with me, and my mother said she remembered me as a boy, but hadn't seen much of me lately. Then she invited me to be seated. "It wasn't a bit funny then, although I can laugh over it now. I sat down, and she told me one or two anecdotes of my boyhood, at which we all laughed for a little. Then we four played games for awhile. When I finally retired I was invited to call again. I went unstairs feeling pretty small and doing a good deal of thinking." "And then?" asked his companion. "m? T ?J- .? tkot 1 I1CI1 X luauc U|/ Hi J Iiuiiu ?ua? my mother was an entertaining woman and my sister a bright girl. "I'm going to call again. I enjoy their company arfd intend to cultivate their acauaintance." Raw Salmon Po;sonous to Dogs. There is no specific cure for salmoned dogs. In general an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Keep the dog away from salmon, if possible, but if he succeeds in poisoning himself with thia fish console yourself with the idea that, whether he lives or dies, he will never be salmoned again. Tlio rw?r/v>ntfl!7i? of salmoned dotrs * "v r o; # ? ? which are curec i3 very small. Physic of any kind in large quantities is the most effectual remedy. 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