THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor ad Proprietor. MIFFLINTOWfl. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1S93 NO. 21. ""rTi -ir tt1 En ''1,1 T yJli All V 11. HE,. DR. TALMAC& The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: '.V Rrooklyn Pastorate. Text: "Ami round about the thmnewers four anil tu-entii sent, ami unn the seats I taw four and twenty elders. " Kevelatioi? lv., 4. Thw t. xt I cIioosp chiefly for the numpraU It mention nani-ly, f.iurau l twenty. That was the nutnb r i f eld.-rs seatel nroun I tha throne ot io.l, but that is the nunilwr of year seated around mv liroo!:lyn ministry, ami every puloit is a throne of blessinz or Mastm;, a throne of good or evil. And to. day in tliis my twenty-fourth anniversary sermon 'J4 yrars eorno anJ sit aroun.l m aud they sieuk- out in a reminiscence of gladness an 1 t-ars. Twenty four years ao I arrived in this city to hcpher.i sueb a flock an mit;bt come, an I that day I carried in on my arms tLe in'ant son wh in two weeks from to dav 1 will h?lp ordain to the eospul ministry, bor.mg th it he will be preaching lone alter my poor work is done. We have received into our luembrshln over .MX! koiiI--, but they, I think, arsonly a mall portion of the multitit les who, coin ing from all parts of the earth, have 'iu our house of lio i beeo blesse 1 and saveX Although we have as a church raised 1, 10 -000 for religious purpose, yet we are in tho trance position of not Knowing whether in two or three months we shall have auy church at all. and with audience of tiOOJ or 7tAJU people crowned into this room and the adjoining rooms we are confronted with the question w nether I shall go on with my work here or go to some other field. What an awful necessity that we should have been obliged to build three immense churcbea, two of them destrove i bv tire. A misapprehension is abroad that th unsocial exigency ot this church is past. Through journalistic aud nersoual friends a breathing spell has been all ir lei us but lie fore us yet are tinincial obligations which niut promptly lie met, or speedily this bouse of God will go into worldly uses and beooms a theater or a concert hall. The 113,000 raised cannot cancel a floating debt oi 1140,000. Through the kindness of those to whom we are indebted fib),!) would set us forever free. I am glad to say that thecal Is Dot hopeless. We are daily in receipt of touohlng evidence of practical sympathy from all classes of the community aud from all sections of the country, and it was but yesterday that by my own hand I sent for ontributious gratefully received naarly 51 acknowledgments east, west, north and south. Uur trust is in the Lor 1 who divide! th Red Sea and "ma le the mountains skip like lambs. " With this paragraph I dismiss the financial subject and return to the spiritual. This morning the greatness of Odd's kind cess obliterates everythin and if I wanted to build a groan I do not kuow in what for est I would hew the timb-r, or from what quarry 1 would dig the foundation stone, or who would construct for me an organ with a treraelo for the only stop. And so tbis morning I occupv my time in building one great, massive. Id ;h, deep, broa I, heaven tiercing halleltii lh i. In the review of the ist 24 years I think it may b useful to consider some of the characteristics of Brooklyn pastorate. In the first p are 1 remark that a Brook lyn pastorate is always a difficult pastorate. Kooity under the sun has a grander array of pulpit tal-nt than Brooklyn. The Metho dist, the Hap: 1st, thn Conzrentionalist, the Episcopalians, all the denominations send their brightest lights h re. H.i who stands In any pulpit in Urookly n preaching may know that he stands within Hi teen minutes' walk of seruious which a San r in, and a pourdalone, and a John M. Mason and a George Whitetield would not be ashamed of. Vo city under the Min where a poor sermon la such a dru on th market. For forty year a Brooklyn has been sur charged with bomiletics, an electricity of loquence that struck every time it tinned from the old pulpits which quaked with the powers of a Bethune, and Uit. and a Boencer, and a Spear, a"d a Vinton, and a Farley, and a Beeclier, not mentioning the aiagnincent men now manning the Brooklyn pulpits. So during all th) tune there has keen something to appeal to every man's taste and to gratify every man's preference. Now. let me say to all ministers of the gospel who aro ambitious for a Brooklyn pulpit that it is alvviys a difficult pastorate. If a man shall come and stand before any audience In almost any church in Brooklyn he will find before him men who have heard the mightiest themes discussed in the mightiest way. You will have before you. If you fail in an argument, ti ty logicians in fidget. If you make a slip iu the use of a commercial tlL'iire of speech, there will be frJO merchants who will notice it. If you throw out an anchor or furl a sail in tho wrong way, there will be ship captains right off who will wonder if you are as ignorant of theology a you are of navigation! So It will be a place of hard study, if you are going to maintain yourselr, you will find a Brooklyn pastorate a difli uit pas' terate. t 1 remark still further, a Brooklyn pasto rate is always a conspicuous pastorate. Tba r Tinting press of the country has no greater orce than on the seaeoast. Every pulpit word, good or bad, wise or ignorant; kind or mean, is watched. The reportorial corps of these cities is an organ. zed army. Many of them have collegiate education and large culture, and they are able to weigh oration or address or sermon. If you say a silly thing, you will never near the end of it and If you say a wise thing it will go into per petual multiplication. There is no need of decrying that fact. Men whosa influence has been built by the printing press spend the rest of their lives in denouncing news papers. The newspaper is the pulpit on the wing. More preaching done on Monday than on Sunday. The omnivorous, all eyed printing press is ever vigilant. Beside, that, a Brooklyn pastorate ll always conspicuous in the fact that every body comes here. Brooklyn is New York In iu better mood. Strangers have not seen New York until they have seen Brooklyn. The East River is tha chasm iu which our merchants drop their cares, and their anxieties, and their business troubles, and by the time they have greeted their families In the home circle they have forgotten all bout Wall street and Broadway and the shambles. If they commit business sins in New York during the day, they coma over to Brooklyn to repent of them. Everybody comes here. Stand at ths bridge entrance or at tho ferry gates on Kabbath morning at 10 o'clock, or Sabbath vening at 7 o'clock and you sea north, south, east, west Europe, Asia, Africa, New Zealand, Australia coming to Brook lyn to spend tba Sabbath, or part of it in the persons of their representatives some of Kern fresh from tho sea. They have just landed, and tbey want to seek the house of Ood publicly to thank the Lord for their deliverance from cyclones and fog banks off Newfoundland. Every song sung, every prayer offered, every sermon preached in New York and Brooklyn and all along this aea coast in some shape goes ail round the world. A Brooklyn pastorate is at he greatest altitude ot conspicuity. Again I remark that a BrooklyD pastorate Is characterised by brevity. I bethink my elf of but three ministers of tha gospel now preaching here who were preaching when I came to Brooklyn. Slost of tha pulpits around me have changed seven or eight times since my arrival. Sometimes the pastorate has been brier for one reason and sometimes for another reason. Sometimes the ministersof the gos pel have been too g.xxl for this world, and fianvan ha trnnsnlan ted th&iu. Sometimes they changed places by the decree of their amominauon. tsomeumes mey great blare of trumpets proposing to carry everything before them, and got extin- K isbd before they were distini?uiened. me got preached out in two or trre-7sars and told tha people all tbey kneir. jomo wiut haiy speed did in a short time work whtoh it takes a great many years to do. Whether for good or ba I reasons a Brook lyn pastorate is characterized by brevity, not much of the old plan by which a minis tor of the gospel baptized an infant, then re ceived him into the chinch, after he ha, 1 be come an adult married him. bantixed his children, married them and lived on long sjouzh to hnrv almost everybody but him- Glorious old pastorates they were. oi as rememher tnera ur. onn, rr Lahangh, Domini Za brisk (a, DaniaJ aiJk AiXHRB!' - l,J!,!ine?. the ""roVltel from their fore. trpVe?led the "of0'ad,n coronal Pastorate, of 30, 40. 50. 55 vearS continuance. Some of them had to ba helped ito the pulpit or into the carnage? r Were " oM 1 decrepit, but when the I. . TT00" th9T "P In rigorous asanfithlete.anla. weaaw the wheelsot i "n5throa?hthogato,of tho sun. oht'iT1 5", M7 'ather. T '"'her. theVer maith' "oraemeo I remark again a Brooklyn pastorate Ir characterised by iu hap-i-ji, Nodty nndor tha run where" people caN neb good care of their minister I pf nortion as the world outside may euraV boniregation stands dose up by the maa whom they believe in. Brooklyn ic?ety Pu"ritPnl (u"',tion " elemenSlthJ Puritanic, which always means a quiet Sab- w Mn;,.tbe """"""I. whlchmn?. , on me top of this an admixture of all national itie-th, brawny Scot, the solid English, the vivacious Irian, the polite French, the nhtlosopMo Gorman and in all this intermingling of population the universal dominant th-u- !,. . can do as he please, provi led he doesn't dis turb anybody else. A delightful climate. While it is hard on weak throats, for the most of us it is bracing Not an atmosphere made uo of he discharged gasesot chemical factories or the miasms of swamps, but comin? panting right off 30; miles of Atlantic O -em bs fore anybody else has bad a chance to breathe it I All throu ;h the city a society of kind, genitl, ganerous, sympatbetio people. How they fly to you when you are in trouble 1 How they watch over you when you are sickt How tender they are with "" "h"" too hare .bori4 our dradi orooklyn is"a good place to Hva In, a good plac to die in, a good place to be buried in, a gooi placo from which to rise in tba beautiful resurrection. In such a city I have been permitted to have 24 years of pastorate. During these J rears how many heartbreaks, how many oases, how many bereavements! Hardly a family of the church that has not been struck with sorrow. But God has sustained you in tba past, and He w.ll sustain you in the future. I exhort you to be of good cheer. Oil thou ot tue broken heart. " Weep ing may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning." I wish over every door of this church we might have written the word Sympathy" sympathy for all the foung. We must crowd them In hero by thou sands an 1 propose a ra liant gospil that they will take on the spit. We must maks this place so attractive for tha young that a young man will come here on Sabbath morn ing, put down his hat, brush his hair back from his forehead, unbutton his overcoat and look around won lering if be has not by mistake got into heaven. He will see in tb f.ices of the old people not the gloom which some people take for religion, but the sun shine of celestial peace, and he will say, "Why, I wonder if that isn't the same peace th it shone out on the face of my father and mother, when they lay dying?" And then there will Co lie a dampness In bis eyes through which be can hardly see, aud he will close his eyes to imprison the emotion, but the hot tear will break through the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon tha coat sleeve. He will put his head on the back of the pew iu front and oh. "Lord God of the old people. h"lp me!:t We ought lo lay a plot here for the religious capture it nil the yonng people in Brooklyn. Yes. sympathy for the old. They hava their aches and pain, an i distresses. They cannot hear or walk or see as well as they used to. We must b reverential in their presence. On dark days we must help them through the aisle and help them find tba place in the hymn book. Some Sabbath morning we shall mis them fro.n thair place, au I we shall say, "W iere is father So-and-so to-dayf" and tae answer will be: "What, haven't you heard? The King's wagons have taken Jac b up to the palace where bir Joseph is yet alive." Sympathy for business men. Twenty four years of commercial life in New York and Brooklyn are enough to tear one'i nerves to pieces. We want to make our Sabbath service here a resoue for all thesa martyrs of traftlc, a foretaste of the t laud where they have no rents to pay, and there are no bu-inest rivalries, and where riches, instead of ta dng wings to fly away, brood over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, remembering that they ouht to be pitied as much as man run over with a rail train. The fact fa that in the temptations and misfortunes ol life they get run over. You and I in tin same circumstauces would have done ai badly. We should have done worse perhaps. If you and I ha I the same evil surrounding an I the same evil parentage that they ha and the same native horn proclivities to evl that tney had, you an 1 I should have bees in the penitentiary or outcasts of society "No," say. some self righteom mau, -l couldn't have been overthrown iu that way. You old hypocrite, you would have been tbi Irst to fall I We want in this church to have sympathy for the worst man, remembering be is brother; sympathy for the worst woman, remembering she is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gosoel is. Ah, yes, sympathy for all the troubled, for the orphans iu their exposure, foi widowhood with its weak arm fighting foi bread, for the household which erst re sounded with merry voice, and pattering feet now awfully .till broad-winjed ym pathy, like the feather, ot the Almlghtyi warm-blooded sympathy, everlasting sym pathy; sympathy which shows itself in th. grasp of the hand, in the glittering tear of the eve, in the consoling word of the mouth; sympathy of blankets for the cold, of bread for the hungry, of medicine for th. uck, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy I tt it thrill in every sermon, lot it tremble in every song. Let it gleam in every tear and in every hiht Syrapathyl Men and women are .ighin? for sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sym pathy, tumbling off into uocleanliness and crime and perdition for laci of sympathy. May Go I give it to usl Fill all this pulpit with it from step to step. Let the sweep of thse eallerie. surest iU encircbng arms. Fill all the house with it, from door to iloor. an.l from fl xr to ceiling, until there Is no more room for it. and it shall overflow Into the street, and paraersby on foot and in carriage shall feal the throb of ite magnifi cent benediction. Iet that be our new departure as church. Let that be my new departure as a pastor. Sympathy I Gratitiite to God de mand, that this morning I mention the fact that during all these 2 years I have missel but one service through sickness. When I entered the ministry 1 wa. so deli cate I did not think I would preach throe months, but preaching has agreed with me, and I think the healthiest thing in "H the earth is the religion of Jesus Christ I Bless the Lord. O my soul I Wnat morales we are in regard to our health I I must, in gratitude to Ood, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been per mitted to preach. It is simply miraculous, the attendance morning by morning, night by night, and year by year. an3 long after it has got to ba an old story. I kno w soma people are dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As for myself, 1 like big crowd. I would like to see an an.lienco large enough to scare me I If this gospel is good, the morv that get it the better. Many have received the gospel here. Dot others have rejected it Now, 1 tell you what 1 am going to do with some of my dearest friends who have hitherto rejected tue gospel. You are not afraid of me, n('J am not afraid of you. and some day. O brother. I will clasp your ban I. together, and I will turn your face the ether war, and I will take hold of your shoulders, and while you are helpless in my erasp I will give you one he Hong push into the king drio of (Jo. I. Christ says we must compel yon to come In. I will compel you to come in. Can I consent to anything elss with these men, who are as dear to me as my own son! I will compel rou to come in. Profiting by the mistakes of the PJ't. I must do better work for you and bett -r work for God. Lest I might, throuih soma su iden illnem or casualty, be matched away before I have the opportunity of doing so. 1 take this ocoislon to declare my love lor you as a people. It Is different work It pastor is place I In church lready built uTand be is surrounded by established cir cumstance. There are not ten people In this church that have not been brou?nt into the church through my ministry. Xou are my family- I ' ' ""? J hoLheri-" I do in my residence on Oxford street. You are my family my father, my mother, my ster.myaoo, my daughter. You ar. my .. "L'. pr""nt an3 Vr:alniT welfare tha object of my ambition. I have no worldjy ambition. I bad once. I have cot now. i know the world about as well a. any one knows It I hare heard the hand clapping of it. applause, and I have heard the hiss of its opposition, and I declare to you that the former is not especially to be ought for, nor is the latter to be feared. The world ha. given me about all the com fort aud prosperity it can give a man, and I nave no worldly ambition. I have an all consuming ambition to make full proof of my ministry, to get to heaven myself and K1-8 crow 1 with me. Upon your table and cradle and armchair and pillow and lounge and nursery and drawing room and kitchen may the blessing of the Al nighty God come down! During theae 24 year, there i. hardly a family that has not been invaded by sorrow or death. Where are those grand, old men. 'hone glorious Christian women, who used lo worship with usf Why. they went away into the next world so gradually that they had concluded the second stanza or the third stanzs in heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before you thought tbey had dropped the staff of the earthly Dilerimaira. And then the dear children. Oh. how many have gone out of this Church 1 You could not keep them. You folded them in your arm. and said: "O God, I cannot rive them up I Take all else, take my prop srty, take my reputation, but let me keep tus treasure. Lord, I cannot bear this." Oh, if we could all die together! if we sould keep all th i sheep and the lambs of the family fold together until some bright prlng day, the birds a-caant, ani the waters a-glittex, anl then we ooull alto gether hear the voice of t le good Saepherd and hand in hand pass through the flood I No, no, no, no I Oh, It we only had notice that we are all to iepart together, an I w oould ear to our families: "Tue time hi. some. The Lord bid. n. away." Ani then we could take our little children to their beds and atraighted out their limbs ani say: "Now sleep the last sleep. Good night un til it U good morning." And then we oould go to our own couches and say: "Now, altogether we are ready to go. Our cuil '.ren are gone; now let us depart." No, no t It is one by one. it may be in the midnight It may be in the winter aud In the .now coming down twenty inches leap over our grave, it may be in the trange hotel and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It may be so suddenly we nave no time even to say goodby. Death is bitter, crushing, tremendous curse. I play you three tune, on the gospel harp f comfort "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy ooraeta in ths morning." That is one. "All things work together lor rood to those who love God." Th it i. the lecond. "And the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shsll lead tnem to liv ing fountains of water, and God shall wipe ill tears from their eve." That is the third. During thesa 24 year. I have tried a far a? I oould by argument by illustra tion and by caricature to All you witn dis gust with much of this modem religion which people are trying now to substitute tor the religion of Jesus Christ and the relig ion ot the apostles. I have tried to persuade you that the worst f all cant is the cant of skepticism, and in stead of your apologizing for Christianity It was high time that those who do not be lieve in Cnristianity should apologize to you, and I have tried to show that the bi;get villian. in the universe are those who would try to rob u. of this Bible, and that tha grandest mission of the church ot Jesus Chris i. that of bringing eoul to the Lord ss soul saving ohn. on. But now tnoso years are gone. If you have neglected your duty, iff I have neg lected my duty, it is neglected forever. Each year has its wort if the work is performed within the 11 months, it is done forever. If neglected, it is nelectjd for ver. When a woman was dying she sail.. "Call them back." They li I not know what .be meant. She bad been a disciple of the world. She sai I, "Ou, call them backl" They .al I, "vVno do you want us tocall backf "Oh," she said, "call th-m back, the days, the months, the years I have wasted. C ill them back P' But you cannot call the n back; you cannot call a year back, or a month bacii, or a week back, or an hour book, or a second back. Gone once, it is irone forever. When a great battle was ragin;, a ms sengercame up ami said to the general, who was talking with an officer, "general, we have taken a standard Iro n the eue.ny." The general kept ngut on conversing with his fellow officer, an 1 tue messenger said again, "General, we have taken a a an Ur 1 from the enemy." Still the general ka it right on, and the messenger lost nis patience, not having his menage soemingly apprecia ted, and said agaiu, "General, we hive taken a standard from the enemy." Toe general then looked at him and said, "Take another." Ah, forgetting the things that are bed in I, let us look to those that are before. Win another castle; take another standard; gain another victory. Holl on, aweet day of tha world's emanci pation, woen "the mouuiains and the hills shall break forth into sioiug, in I ail ibe trees of the wood shall clap their hands, and instead ot the thorn snail come up 'he fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree, an 1 it shall be u.ito tue Lord for a name, for an everlasoinj tis that cannot bu cut off." riiologiaphs on Cups anl Saucers. A EOTe'.ty bu been introdted by a Boston woman that bids fair to become a maaia in tha cultured society of thit city. She hat a complete breakfast er vice of cups, saucers and plates for her large family on which are given, fro n photographs, the likeness ot the mem bers, so that the servant can properly place the china to be used. Old HaU Snp.r-eJe Autographs. An old maa who formerly dealt in second-baud clethiog now does a brisk trade in the discarded hats of N.sv York's eminent men. lie buys them for a song and sells them to relic hunters at fancy prices. On Monday be sold a derby once worn by Grover Cleveland. The object fetched 21. New York Herald. FOOU FOR THOUGHT. Character is whan we are when we th nk we are not watcheC "Not Tor ourselves, but others,' is the grand law inscribed uu every pait of cieaiion. Capital and labor could pet on well enough together It there were not po many men trying to get capital without labor. Whosoever Is not woiklur is beg ging or stealing. It is be man who knows all who has tbe most to learn. A satisfied younz remn is moit ait to be good looking. It is a wise child that cow out of the room when the old man smashes his thumb. Try to keep your mind and mouth together. Quiet conscience gives q tiet sleep. Sweetened poison will kill as quick at that which Is bitter. To-morrow is the fool's seed-time. Tbe whip grows awfully near the for bidden fruit. Duty rounds tbe whole life from onr entrance into It tilt our exit from 1: duty to superiors, duty to inferior, duty to equals duty to man and duty to God. Tbe devil, like tbe qaack doctor, charges nothing for advice, bat makes you pay dearly if you follow IU ELOSSOMS IN ACE. Yon Is an apple tree. Joints all shrunk like an old man's knee, liapinii trunk half eaten away, t'luinlili visitiry day by day; K-aiiches dead, or dying fast. T-inmst limb like a suliutered mast. Vet behind, in the prune i f May. How it b ooms in the sweet uld way! Heart of It brave and warm, r pile nf many a wintry slorin : 1 nr.ilitiiiii still Willi th' lie. p desire Burning still with f he eauer lire, thriving still with the z--al and truth OI t tie gladsome niorntnu days of youth. Still todo and to be, forsooth. Something worthy of Him whose care, Sum mer or Winter, failed It ne'er This is motive fur you and me. When we grow old like the apple-tree. Janus Bueiham. In the Christian Union. BERRKYALE ANCHORAGE. BY DUANB MORLEY. Not always wrs it an anohorage, nor was it always called ISerrvvale. When father bought l he old place and moved n ou it, repairing I he old roomy house, TeconMrnctinir the shapeless, untidy garden, trimming np tha nhrnbbnry and the trees of the orchard, tearing ont the old rail fences and substitut ing Dew post and board ones in their stead, then it was that the place was givou the uame llerryvale. The wild strawberry flourished in every fenco correr, and scattered about amongst the huzel brush of tbe wood lot were blacklx-rry vines in profusion, to say cothing of the wild sweet plums, which grew on the moister lands along the .wide. uo tlay at the dinner table, though 1 wa-s a mere child, I recollect it well, nftcr saving grace over the meat, father excluimeJ; "I've found a Dame for it." Father was always finding names for things, and when mother asked what it was ho had fonnd a name for, be re plied: "ilerryvale. This place is to be ca'led llerryvale. One cannot step witbont treading on vines: it is the natural home of the berry, and Berry vale it uinst be called." The old place was in a narrow valley, sheltered by the hills from the cold north winds, and by a belt of timber from the east winds, which, in less sheltered localities, sometimes blighted the apple crop. Many a tired mother and complaining children have rested from a long drive, and been regaled in the broad front room of the dear old house with a cup of tea, and a dish of lierries swimming in sweet, rich cream and plentifully sngared. Mother's was no half-hospitality, nor did her neigh bors abnse their privilege, boon alter we were settled there father gathered us children about him one evening, at one aids of the large table where Another sat knitting or sewing, and told ns his ideas of home. Said he, "it is about tbe only place on e.rlh where yon can come anywhere near doing as yon please." Of course, yon cannot qmte come to ilie mark of perfect freedom even here; lieoau.se yon must be guided by older aud bi tter judgment than your own; and, too, there are other rights to con sider." Then he went on to tell ns what a haven home was; what a plare of qtiiet anchorage; how safe from the storms of busy adventurous life. I was al ways impressionable, his words fairly burned into me, and don lit lens had their full effect in ever keeping me npon the dear old place. We were not many; there was Nellie my elilent sitter, Jennie next to her, and little Knth, small of her age, but my senior by three years. 1 was the only son. My sisters grew np into womanhood and I to manhood; father's locks be ciime white, mother's face furrowed, and still the years did not stop. It is tho delight of remorneless. Time to take the velvet cheek and make it hard and rongh, and tbe smooth white brow and wfih his ploughshare drive into it, deep furrow and creaae. Mister Nellie married a well fo do merchant, a Mr. Sutton, of the firm of Sutton and C raddoek,ding business in a large town twelve miles away; whilst Jennie murru-d a machinist connected .with the railroad shop at 1). Iiut little lttith was an odd piece of timber, nn chosen for many years: and if the sch. ol teacher had not boarded at our honse one winter, and bad not eolis.'ed her services in the school exhibition at tbe close of the term, 1 suspect that she, like myself, would have alwnyp re mained siuple. bister llutU wasaqniet croatnre, and Ben Kns.-ell, tbe teacher, a lively, en terprising fellow, whom everybody liked, besides he was money-making and money-saving. An epidemic swept tbe poor fellow off the filth year of his wedded life, and little Knth, a childless widow, came back to Berry valo to live. Then tbe little place was a garden, the low swale land reclaimed from its wild state into beantifnl meadw, and the npland, loose and loamy, were ex ceedingly frnitfnl. The old wild ber ries had given place to improved culti vated ones, and onr greatest harvests were from the vines. Through all the years, from the time when father first named it, it was bis ambition to make tbe place worthy of its title. When he had fairly succeeded, and when the railroads had brought a market almost to his very door, be rigged np a nice ninrket wugon, and had painted Berry valo Fiuit Farm" npon it in letters of red aud gold. Eventually father grew feeble, and the care of the place fell altogether upon myself, with what Knth could do in the bnsy berry picking season. Abont that time we met onr first misfortune. Knth was despoiled of her money, nearly three thonsand dollars, by an absconding loan broker, in whose bands it had been left to cr-mplete an investment. So Ruth was left penni less, but believing that she never was to bo left homeless, she bore her loss philosophically. Then, in the order of our simple chronicling, onr dear mother's health failed her, and after a few weeks illnessshe passed away; and within a year onr father followed ber, father had made no will, but from what ho had at different times said to ns, we thought that he wanted his property equally divided amoDg bis four children. When a reasonable time had passed after hi death, I proposed to my three sisters to take the necessary legal steps to wards a settlement of the estate and tbe division of the preperty. We were all together at the time I spoke of it, at tbe o d I lace and in tbe broad front room. Nellie's immediate inquiry was: "Do you mean, brother, that we shall divide it by acres; so many acres to you, so many to Jennie and so on?" 'Why no; Nell,' I answered, "I mean tell it and divide the proceeds of the sale equally among tb four of ns; so many dollars to you, so many to Jennie, and so on." "That must never be!" she instantly exclaimed. "Father never would rest in his grave, I do believe, if ferry valo were sold ont of the family, and yon know that father was trying to tell ns something during the last few minntes before be died, bnt could not artieu late it. All be con Id niter was the word 'keep.' Several times be made the effort, bnt each time failed. Onr thought then was that be meant for ns to keep fanning bim; bnt I am sure now that bo meant for us to keep the place in the family and not Bell it away to strangers." Jennie said. "What do we want of the money? We might lose it in some bad speculation, " "Or be cheated ont of it, as I was of my three thonsand dollars," put in Kuth. "And," she continued; "a home is all 1 want, a place of refuge ont of the storm, ss father told ns so many years ago, a qniet anchorage." 'Just tbe best idea;" cried Nellie, ablnzo with ardor, "anchorage. Berry vale Anchorage. When any, or all of us are sick; when onr property is swept away ; when old sge comes npon ns and we cannot work; when the idea of business becomes, irksome to ns, then we'll come back, cast onr anchor in this quiet haven and ride ont tbe remainder of onr lives npon its peace ful waters. What do you ssy Je'nnie?" "I toy the same," was Jennie's re sponse. "And I, too," said Knth. "And brother John," said Nellie, "shall have the place, rent free, during the time we are away, for onr support, may of necessity be drawn from it, it we return in old age poor and sick." Abont five years, i think it was, from father's death, that Mr. iSntton met with business reverses. His part ner bad, in the meantime, died; his widow had withdrawn ber husband's share from the stock, and Sutton bad continued tbe business upon the limit ed capital in the trade. Though Sut ton bad fair ability and a goodly number of friends, the basiness did not thrive. A fire in the block de stroyed considerable of his stock, and the adjustment of the losses by the in surance companies involved, being npon a compromise basis, he recovored bnt little. Naturally a proud spirited man, he took his losses to heart, allow ing them to pray npon his mind and consume his energies. Nellie tried her best to rally her husband from his de cline, bnt failed. Then she had the bnsiness closed ont altogether, and re moved Sutton to the Anchorage to die. Berryvule Anchorage; haven of rest. Thongh greatly broken in mind, he clnng lo the consolations of eternal redemption and peacefully passed away. Of my stewardship of the old place, X ever had faithfully acconnted to my sisters, sharing the income with them from time to time, and sup plying them with the frnits in their seaton. Now Nellie and her daughter May, a most charmin? girl were buck at the Anchorage to live. May was nineteen years of age, and with ber pleasing ways, her ever joyons dist osition. she revived ns from the sorrow through which we bad just passed. One day while we were at dinner, a sturdy fellow of twenty-eight or thirty years of age made bis appear ance at the door. 1 n these days he would be classed as a tramp. Daring the meal, which he shared, he said that be was looking for employment, and finding no en couragement along the more general lines of travel, be bad branobed off into onr little qniet valley. I was just abont to tell him that we hired no help, but, encountering a peculiar lot k from sister Nellie, spoke in gen ersl terms ouly of the question of Islnir, though 1 invited him to remain for an honr to rest. Soon after the conclusion of the meal, Nellie called me aside, and said: "We mnst give that fellow a chanco to pull np again. 'Ibe world is cold and nnfriendly to those who are in ad versity, and this man's look is so honest, and his manners so artless; snrely we must share onr 'anchorage' with him and help bim to bnsiness somewhere in the volley." I'antiouxness is well developed with me, and the best I then would agree to, was to furnish him with a few days' work and keep a lookout for his wel fare among my passing friends and acquaintances. The new comer im proved npon acquaintance very much; his language being chaste and elegant, and his thonghts vigorous. I even conceded to Nellie and Kuth one day, that we had stumbled npon an original. There was hardly a topic that he was not master of, and besides he was well np in practical horticulture and a flor uit of no mean ability. Moreover, he Was a reader of the great New York weeklies. The Herald and Times came to my address and he eagerly devoured them. Hereof is an inci dent. He bad been with ns less than two months, and one day while we were resting from onr labors in the shade of the east porch, he reading tbe paper as nsnal, when he suddenly dropped it, saying a9 he did so: "This means met This means me, and I mnst go backl" His speech was moreexcilable and his manner more dramatic than I bad ever before noticed in him, and as I picked np the paper he had let fall, 1 asked the meaning of his excitement. "That," said he, pointing to an ad vertisement in the "Personal" colnmn. "If this meets the eye of Hngh v erington, an Oxford graduate, he mnst return at once to his friends. James Noel has made a dying confession. Hyke and Orimshaw, barristers, Lin coln Iron Fields." "Yes, that means me," he reiterated, as he paced the porch floor, "and how am I to get there? I seed a clean, twenty-five pounds, one hnndred dol lars United States money." "I'll lend you a hundred dollars, Mr. Kverington," said Sister Nellie. And in less than a minute more, she added, "more if you want it " So hearty and fnll a response as tbis to his nootl, brought to his eyes tears, which he vninly tried to conceal. He took tho proffered assistance as a loan, writing out a cote to mat ore rix months from date, and adding to his signature his London address. There was a pe culiarity in the advertisement, viz: that part of it about the dying confes sion of James Noel; and when I saw Everington off npon the train at V, be said: "I have been voluntarily living under aclond;bnt six months -from now I'll return, explain the matter and redeem tbe note." Immediately after his departure, as we commented npon his good qualities, we began to speak of him as "our adopted brother;" and only a little biter on as "brother Hngh." Six months passed and Hugh did not return. His coming bad in some manner been delayed. Then another six months rolled by, and still no Hugh, no letter, no intelligence. I frankly confess that there is a measure of suspiciousness in my nature, and it was aroused. One day I said to Nellie, "Yon have seen the last of yoar hun dred dollars, and we have all seen the last of Hugh." "What do you mean?" she cried. "Nothing," I answered, only, that Hugh Bteered the cleverest kind of a 'bunco game' and most likely had it iu mind from tbe very first. " "Why, brother John! How can yon be so crnel? Hngh Everington is as honest as daylight." "Perhaps he is," I replied, only it does not look so. Snrely 1 hope I may be proved mistaken " My theory was that the advertise ment was a fiction, and that his excite ment npon its perusal, as manifested, was fraudulent and intended to de ceive. Nothing more was said abont it, yet I believed that Ruth thought as I did. Abont that time, sister Jennie's bus band met a frightful death, being crushed nnder tbe ponderous wheels of a locomotive that be was repairing in tbe shops at I J. So Jennie was in dne time back to the Anchorage with her two bright boys to live. "Come to live off yon, brother John," said she, the day she came home. "Not that, Jennie 1" I replied, "bnt back to your own again as before, and thrice welcome, you, and your little ones." The second year of Everiogton's ab sence was well along, even into its lost half, when Nellie fell ill. All we could do, and the help of every physioian we could summon, was of no avail to cheek the advanoe of her disorder. She, herself, said that her illness was mortal, and she had penned a message to Hugh, when be should corno to receive it, saying how much and constantly we had thought of him and wished for his return. About the middle of one of ber worst afternoons, a back from tbe de po. brought Uugn np to onr door. His first inquiry was for Mrs. Sutton. Informed of her dangerous illness he immediately sought her bedside, aud when apprised of the fact that three physicians had pronounced her case hopeless, be pooh-pooh'd their deci sion, made a diagnosis of her case, and installing himself as physician and head nurse, with May Sutton as assistant, be started in to cure. And cure, ber he did, to tbe astonishment of the three inetlicient practitioners, who had pre ceded bim. In less than two weeks she was ont in the broad front room again, and in a month she was perfectly re stored. "What school do you practice?" 1 ventured one day to inquire. "I cannot say," was his reply; "I am not a regular. I exercise commrn sense, have read medicine, know some thing of tho natnre and origin of dis eases; and when I think I can accom plish a given thing, I pnsh the obstacles oat of my way and go ahead." Hugh was surprised when told thai Mrs. Sutton had received no money from bim; he having sent her fifty pounds immediately npon his arrival in England. His absence was protracted by tbe death of au nncle, and his own inheritance thereby of a rich barony. Upon a more elevated site-not far from the dear old house, which is still pre served, stands the newer Anchorage; not palatial, but massive and substan tial. And centrally located in the lit tle valley, is as handsome a chapel as any country district can boast of. It is called "Everington Chapel," Hugh's gift to the religious people of onr sec tion. May Sutton, Nellie's charming daughter, is not with ns; her graceful ness charms tha English circle in which she moves American wife of a noble-hearted Englishman. At least, be was nobly self sacrificing enoogh to shield a fellow student from the con sequence of bis crime, himself bearing the impututlon of it for years. My three sisters, and myself, comfort each other about the ruddy coal fires of our new abode during the -cold stormy days of tbe winters, and in the sum mers we creep ont to overseo the cul tivation and care of onr berries. Berry vale Anchorage is a quiet har bor; here we have lived and here we shall die. Occasionally Hugh writes, dear Hugh I of whom I was once so foolishly suspicions: "Take good care of the Anchorage; feed the poor that corre to its doors for me; aud when old age comes on, there too, may I cast my bonroa in its quiet placid waters." i-EHSONAL. Four women have been made honor ary members of the Aotb.-opologic.al Society of Washington, In recognition of their contributions to ethnology. Th?y are Mrs. Tilly Stevenson, who Is cnuipletelng ths Pln lhs of the Zuiii tribe which her husband did not l.ve to finish; Miss Alice Fletcher, who has made studies for the feabody Institute of Cambridge among the No1 hern In dians; Mrs. French-Sheldoj, the Afri can explorer; and Mrs. Anita New comb McQee, D. M., the daughter of tbe great astronomer. Mr?. Oliphant receives about 15,000 for a story, and she writes several every year. All ber work Is done at night and she never touches a pen in the daytime. Her sthole life is organized with a view to this strange habit, but s'.e declares that It Is the only way In which a ml tress of a bouse can work quietly and without interruption. In this department another gift con sists of six panels containing one hun dred and nine medals and plaques in bronze or sllvered.by Txiuis Oscar Roty, and Jules-Clement Chaplain of Paris, both distinguished sculptors and medallists, and members of the Insti tute. Tbey represent portraits or art ists, authors, and of other profess ions. Mrs. Lucy Hall Fake, of Chicago who was for a while secretary to George H. Pullman, is chletly responsi ble for the admirable library of Full man, Ill.nuis. She male an exhaustive study ot libraries, and then designed and equipped the Pullman building which now holds the library of ber se lection. No library in the State sur passes it in perfection of detail. Mrs. Fake is a successful newspap.T woman. Chicago University is to have the largest and most powerful telescope iu the world. The object glass, wh oi will be made by Alvan (i. Clark, of Cambndgeport, Massachusetts, will be forty-five inches in diameter. Tbe telescope is a gift from Charles T. Yerkes, will cost $500,000, and is to be finished in three years. The largest pieee of copper eve taken ont of Michigan mine was bronght to tha surface from the Qainoy Mine the other day. It weighed about nine tons and will be exhibited at tfef World'a Fair. IN A CEMETERV. TILLIE J. BlKER. (Ve pass thro' quiet winding ways. l a sli.ilow. d path, neath waving leaves And statin by newly sndiletl grave Where tinned, lie Ka.th s ripened heaves. One woman rich i fruitful years. lias just Ueen laid aw.y for rest: Her rl.nd looks down thro' falling tears( lier KranCi-hlld breaths a calm 'lis test, i And leaning down, holds In her arms Her biibe, and whl it croaltiii-playtl. It tanvled aee hands in the crass And smiled, of death all are .bald; So by the Saint at rest Ihev pass. Kmin o it. this city near the bean; ne rahe asleep, with bits of crass Close clasped, 1 s dimpl. d lips apirt. LITTLE STKANGERS. BY MUSI. M. BKETOX. Fond mothers' love, felt instinctively through all ages, decrees that these "little strangers" about whom I con cern myself to day are "harmless and loved, although so new to life." Loved and cherished are these little strangers by fond mothers, with true mothers' hearts, even if a flock of little ones al ready flock the nursery; bnt the Jlrst little stranger who intrudes his pres ence npon a household is not only loved and cherished by the fond yonng mother, bnt is tbe adored pet of a host of admiring relatives. The inno cent little being becomes the focus, as it were, of a new, loving, and beauti fully unselfish instinct, which he un consciously develops the more he is excessive in infantile waywardness. Nothing is too good for this new comer, who is to a certain circle of people "the prettiest, the dearest, the cleverest, in fact, the only child that was ever worth a thought." Small wonder, then, that as these little prizes are valued so highly, the preparations for their reception should be consid ered a matter of great import to every really natural little matron. Many girls have the good fortune to possess a kind mother, whose advice on snch occasions cannot possibly be equalled. Many yonng matrons there are however who have the misfortune to be far removed from any kindly parents or relations to whom they can refer for information concerning pre parations for "Baby's" wardrobe and toilet. To those, then, whom fate has thus situated, perhaps a few reliable suggestions on layvttea may b9 wel come. In days gone by it was considered tbe sacred and almost bonnden f every young matron to work wi. .er own fingers every stitch required for the first "little stranger's" layette; some still look npon the matter in the ol.l-fashioned light, aud I admire the perseverance of those who act np to their ideal. But L for one, do not lake onr grandmother's view of tbe case; at the same time, however, I strongly advocate home-made laycttea unless "money is no object;" for to withstand the constant washing to which such garments have to be sub jected, every article should be com posed of good materia, and neatly and strongly pnt together; which two es sentials combined are rarely met witn except in high-priced goods; whereas for a very inconsiderable ontlay sum, good material can be bought, satisfac torily cut out from a good pattern, strongly and neatly made into the nec essary garments, and trimmed simply or elaborately, according to the avail able funds. I am not one of those prejudiced against "machining" linen work. in fact think that it is as important for every girl to learn to use a sewing ma chine as to excel in hand needlework so, strongly recommend those to whom fiwie ami money are both object, to manufacture with a sewing machine as many as .ossible of ibe layette gar ments; a good loek-stich machine mnst, of course, be employed, the greatest care must lie exercised to ob serve extreme neatness and only finishing off and trimming will need to be done by hand. The number and quality of garments comprised in a baby's layette must necessarily ditler according to taste and circuniktances, but the variety of articles required to clothe our "little Btrangers," whether wealthy or not, remains much the same. A useful ivetto was that included in the list I gave my correspondent "Little" two or three weeks ago. I will here enumer ate the numbers of the one and a-half dozen artioles required: (1) Six soft flannel binders, (2i nine or twelve fine lawn shirts, (3) three to six dozen Dapkins, (4) Bix or eight flannel pilches, (5) four or six long night fiannwls, (6) four or six day flannels, 7) eight to twelve nightgowns (suit able to answer the purpose of monthly gowns) or six night gowns and four or six monthly gowns, 18) six to eight long petticoats, (9) six to eight simple robes, two to six more e)alorately trimmed, (10) four to six head flannels for night wear, 1 11) ditto for day wear, (12 ) three or four knitted jackets of soft wool, (13) two or three warm white woolen shawls of various sizes, (14) three to six pairs of knitted boots, (15) one or two cloaks, (16) one or two bonnets, (17) two or three veils, (18) six bibs, and a length of ribbor .'or shoulder bows. a few less of some of the above might suflice, but it is woll to have as many as possible to enable the babe to be kept dean and sweet with convenience. '1 he bassinette and toilet basket are of course quite as important as tbe layette proper, and should be chosen of strong composition, light, and easily portable, yet firm on their stands. Both should be daintily trimmed, but where money is an object, the draper ies, although light in texture, should be of a color and fabric which will not readily soil or become tumbled and messy-looking after the rst two or three weeks in use. The bedding for the bassinette should, I need scarcely mention, be of the softest description, tbe sheeting of fine longcloth, and the blankets warm and woolly, bnt light withal, and, moreover, that two or three macintosh sheets should also be prepared. In conclusion, let me advise you to have everything txcei t actually the sewing on of trimming to bassinette and basket completed (at any r.ite, the greater number of each variety of garments) at (east two months before the expected arrival of the distinguish ed stranger; and if you are wise you will take this precaution whether the layette is bought ready made, or whether you make it at home. Special advice on household subjects yon know, 1 always gladly give any of you in need of such, so do not hesitate to write to me for help, if in doubt regarding pre parations for the "little stranger." Straws will indicate the direction of the wind and will also tell when the take in the oven is done. Employ wealth rather for opportu nity of action, than for boastfnlneas of talking. 1 was born for higher things than to be the slave of nj body. NEWS IX BRIEF. Baltimore, Mi?., in 1816, Introduced gas. There are 60,000 telephones in Loudon. Spanish theatres have no pro grammes. In 1390 872,941 persona died ir '.his country. Manchester, N. II., used to bi called Deny field. Tne heart of a Greenland whale I i said in diameter. Professor Herman las photograph ed the sound of vowtla. The magic 1 tnten was the inveo tlon or Roger Bacon in 1200. There are 14,000 miles of railroad' in the Dominion of Canada. Girls over twelve can make valid wills under tbe laws of Scotland. Tragedy was first represented on a wagon by Tbespis. at Athens, B. C. 535. It would require 083 freight cars tc jold tbe gold and silver in the Bank of Vrance. The French Government still ha? faith iu the practicability of sub marine "oats. Austria announces an electric Iocs motive which Is to travel 123 mllei an )our. Tanning extract Is used to treat railroad ties to prts-rve them from 1ecay. In Monterey, Mexico, a school has been opened in which scholars are fed ree ot charge. The delic.ite threads for ban glng the galvanometer needles are usually nade of silk. There are 313 farmers in tht Missouri Penitentiary, tbe latgesi epresentalion. John MiHon, according to Profes sor David Massou, was editor of a Loo ion newspaper in 1001. A Waldoboro (Me.) woman trea sure's a blue-edged plate upon wblct 455 pies have been bake J. It is said tbe city of Pittsburg, Penn., now stauds on ground once giv nn iu exchange for a violin. Spaniards never use tobacco pipes and it Is impossible to procure one in latlve tobacco shop. Bacteria grow most rsp'dly In tht warm, sultry conditions which usually nrecede a thunderstorm. In Arkansas there Is a thirteen-fear-old gli 1 who makes the weighing nachine tremble at SOG pounds. Mercury expands and contracte more than any metal and is therefor generally used iu thermometers. The Egyptians employed oaraytlc figures, afterwards called cray tides, at 'east 2600 years before Chtlit. Quite a number of rocially distin guished New Yorkers have rented houses in Chicago for the World' Fair. In a stare at Athens, Ga., stands in oUl-fA-iliioneJ cl ck which was made In Liverpool. It hasu'n missed a tick 'or forty years. There is no truth whatever Iu the telief that any oue falling Into the sea necessarily ris and sinks three tluiei efore drowning. An Ingenious Boston man has just patented au electrical device designed 10 automatically play bauj mando tus, guitars aud harps. Incandescent lamps are ridiculous ly chip in Swedej, the price of those with all vollait-s up to 125 beiug abou' twenty cents, The old Greeks used beds cupport ia iron frames, while the Egyptians had couches shaped rude liKe easy hairs, with tollow backs and seats. About 5000 words In the Fugllsh language have no rhyme to them. These include such Important words is honor, virtue, gulf, mouth, ant cho. A well-known resident of Frede ricksburg, Va., who has recently died, h id a name that was old enough to itiru't attention. It was X. X. Chart 'ers. Tbe waters of tbe Atlantic Ocean are a sort of whirlpool on a gigantic jcale, the central point of which is a short distance to the Bouthweast of the zoies. Among some recently observed Interesting results of application of sold. M. liaoul Flctet has found that at 15 ) degrees a 11 chemlc al reaction i? 'upprrssed. A Russian Is now in Siberia pre paring for the transportation of a manimotn, which was discovered friz -a in tbe ice and In a perfect slate of pre servation. Processor Laiigley, of tbe Smith sonian Institute, is credited with hav ing bjilt a mackerel shaped flyiug machine, which Is sa'd to have solve the question of sarlal navigation. In 1794 the first turnpike road was made, sixty-two miles long, between Lancaster, Penn., and Philadelphia, so called becaasq it was required to be so hard that a pike could not be driven through ir. A Brussels dispatch says a new pharmaceutical bottle has recently been Invented which Indicates the hour at which the medicine is to be taken. A Belgian establishment has secured the sole right to manufacture these bottl. s Miscellaneous Trading-. The Esquimaux wear reindeer skim or clothing. They buy them from the Siberian Chuckcbees, who come over to an international fair that is held every summer on Kotzebue Sound, just above Behring Strait on the Alaskan side. For tbe pelts seal 011 and walrus oil are exchanged. There is much dancing and feasting on these occasions, as well as trading. ' All the trading is done by barter, no sort of morhLW being In circulation. At this fair also many wives are bought. One can purchase a very good article of a wife for $10, Wives among the Esquimaux people are usually bought. Sometimes the women are consulted. We follow the world in approving ath'trs; we go far before it in approv ing ourselves. Col too. rtWhat are you doing in my housst" asked a man who surprised a burglar at his unlawful work. "Your house 1" ex claimed the burglar, as be commenced once more to put stiver spoons in his pocket. "You seem to imagine that I don't know the title to this property la U wtfa'soaiiw." Brooklyn Uf, , ret : vjnyr ,
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