f- (PIT VOL. XLVH MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER n, 1S93. NO. 43. vfSrtWJ Hill h H ill 2n ll'vll vsJv iTwftiTlYlH AV&ViY sro H S ZJ MYSVYW.' f2i Vf trt$Uto KY mfttx&&j&i& mmwmmmmml jBmSSk mm ipp Will F. aOHWEIER, i i i I . . 1 1 i , , , THE GON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor tad Proprietor. KKV. im. TALMAGE. ni!-. i;i:oo:cly- nivixn's sux. "AV SKliMOX. SiibYci: "A l ii.p.isiCon fo CplrToran hf Nineteen Hundredth llirth lay of Christ by an Inter national Jubilee." """' 1 ' " " c'lild i torn," Isalitfc ix.t H it U r, lrnn..rn.!o!M hour in thn history " l!,:,,lI.v ''' iinmortHl spirit is in. """'. !- 4 af of " v"v il-iri elou l ther very l.r.lit morning. One Uh v -.1 I another g.ven. All th bells o' ;'""- r ;; ' ',v',r, V",' ,'ri"!1'- 1 tnow not .-inv ..U. should .lotil.t that of oid a Mat -I .-.own to the Saviours hirtl,nla,-e for .-. stt.r c f joy point down to every honon'it.lr ii.-ittvtv. new eternity (iat.sj from tbat : ..- 1 1 1 1 i. In lit r. H-i uiifui and appropriate Is the custom ol ..'.iitmg the anniversary of sivh auevent ...ti.l clear on into tho eighties and ninetiw th- r...-urrenee of that day ot the year In an Id man s life causes recognition and more or less .ngratulation. So also Nations are ao-eii-tnnied to erlel.rate the anniversary of their I irth an d the anniversary of the birth . u. ..r L.-r.-it h-roes or deliverers orbenetae f.rs. Ii;i2.1 of rebruary aud the 4th ot J.:., are never allowed to ptu-s fn our land without banquet and oration and bell rin--iim-iin d canuonade. Hut nil other birthday anniversaries are tamo compared with the Christmas festivity, which celebrates the I irtn.lay described in mv text. l'r..testant and Catholic- and C,rek churches, with nil tho power of mn; i iritritiu 1 and procession and ilovolo v f.ut fie words of my text into National and Von Mi'i.tal and hemispheric chorus, 'To us a child is born." On the 23th of December a h year that is the theme in St. Paul's and M. Peter s and St, Mark's and St. Isaac'saud .t.i the dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meet l::tr I; . uses aud churches clear round the wrl.l. We shall soon reach the nineteen hun dredth anniversary of that happiest event of nl! time. This century is dviuir. Only seven .u. re pulsations, and its heart will cease to . c it. 1 he flnirers of many of von will i-it t at the head of your letters and the foot of" euir lT.ponant documents, "l'jOO." It will : . a physical and moral sensation unlike HrythiiiL; e:-e you have before) exprleneed. S 't one hnnlth.it wrote that "ISO!" nt the in lu :ion of this century will have, cunning t t -vri:o l'.Ol" at the induction of an- .'l'-T. i ! d .ith of on.? century and the birth of ni. tiier century will be sublime and sn f -live and sti:.endous beyond all estimate. 1" st in 1 by the L-rave of one centurv and by the .-ni lie of another will be an opportunity i !i as w!:de eucritions of the world's in I a--:t;i!it n.-vr experienced. I pray Uod th"rc ii. ay be no sickness or casu iltv to hm !-r your arrival at th.it iroal or to binder 1 ir t.ikiuit part in the veledietorv of the im :.i;iu,- century and tuo salutation of the. li'W. liitt as that season will bo the nineteen. I.i.n.ire Ith anniversary of a Saviour's birth, I n. w nominate that a preat international ju iilee or exposition be opened in this cius-:-r of cities by the seaooast on Chr.stmasl Jay, the 25th of Pecember. 1U0O. to be cou-i :i:.iel for at least one month into the year 1:'.'!. 'i'his century closing Ih'cember .'list, 1 ""i. and the new century t.einniu J mii ?.rv i-.t. l.ioi. will it not be time tor all Na ;.;! , mm a-i ! for a few weeks or moptns r t. I'verrtniuv; c's and en-).ii8te.thbirt j :' the .t .it . -t I..'i;i4 who ever tou-heU our : i ri - r . an t co-ii.l th.-re be a 'n.'tre appropri--te tinci for sti.-li co-nmemoration than this "'T :i i;i it i-n of the centuries which are d-jte '.' 111 ii's ifitivity? You knoA' that all h.s- ry .'..:tes cither fro n be'ore Christ or nftet; ! rit. Irira P.. ('. or A. I. It will be the r o: oar Lord 1'jOO paasin iuto the year V.v have had the Centennial at Fhiladel ' hia. , r.itive of tho one hundredth an iiivers .ry of our Nation's birth. We have :: i 1 the magnificent exposition at New Or- ins and At'ant i i.a I Augusta and St. Ve have the present World's exposi :h Kiit ("lii.-jjo, ccleorative of tins eonti :c :.'.'s cinereii ".. an 1 tic-re are at lsast two t ' r L.-r--;U celebrations promised for tni.s ..tmtry, and other countries will have their iitor:.- events to co nmernor.ite, ,ut theon i. ' -v. nt ti'-it has most to do with the we!rarcf :-f all Nations is the arrival of Jesus. I !.nt on this planet, and all the enthusi-ism. -v. r w'.tu-sse.l at London or Yica!i:i or I'aris 3r any of our American citi-s would be -!i s.d by the enthusiasm that would cei.s. 1 r ite the ransom of all nations, the first step :- v:ir 1 tiic ae.-omplishin' of it beini: taken' ' y an infantile foot one winter's niLtht about :'ue n.ih s from Jcnisaben, when the clou is iroppe.l the auifeHc cantanta, "(iloryto Go. n the hiithest, and on earth penes;, goodwill :o men." The threa or four questions that would bo sl:ed me concerning this nomination oftimd in ! place I proceed to answer. What prac- :t'al u- would come of s.r:h inte.ruation'il sel 'brat ion? Answer The bitrest Btridrf :he world ever took toward the evangeliza tion of ail Nations. That is a crand and wonderful convocation, tiio reliifious con jtres at Chicago. It will put Intelligently be fore the world the nature of false religions trhi.-h have been brutalizing the Nations,' iraiuj.iiic; womanhood into the dust, enaet liiit tlio horrors of Infanticide, kindlinir funeral pyres for shrlekinij victims, and rolling jue-i.-ernauts across the mangled bodJ l.-softiieir worshipers. I Hut no oue suppos-s thnt any one will be converted to Christ by hearing Confucianism or li nl Ihism or any form of heathenism euloi.ed. That is to be done afterwards. And how .-an it so well be done as by a cele-t-ration of many weeks of the birth and char & -ter and achievements of the wondrous and unprecedented Christ V To su 'h an exposi tion the kin;;s and queens of the earth would not send their representatives they would torn, themselves. '1 tic storv of a Saviour's advent could not. be toid w thout telliuir the story of His mis lion. Ail the world say, "Why this ado this universal demonstration?" What avlvid presentation It would be, when at such a con vocationthe physicians of the world should b-U what Christ has done for hospitals and the as-uagenicnt 0f human pain, and when C hristian lawyers declare what Christ has done for the establishment of nool laws, an I Christian couqu rors should tell what Christ had done in tti -. conquest of Nations, nn V Christian rulers of the earth would teli wnat Christ bad done in the Government of earthly dominions ! Thirty davs of such celebration would do more to teil tho world who Christ is than any thirty years. Not a land on earth but would hear of it and discuss it. Not an ey-i to dimmed by tho superstition of navs but would see the "illumination. The difT-rencj of Christ's religion from all others is that its one way of dissemination is by a simple 'tellinei" not argument, not skilful exeet lsts, polemics or the science of theo'ogieal fistcuffs, but 'tellinR.'' 'Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy Kini? cometh." "(Jo ouickly and tell His disciples thnt He has risen from the dead." "Go home to thy friends and tell them how giaat thintrsthd Lord hath done for thee." "When He is come, He will teil us all things." A religion of "telling." And in what way coul 1 all Natio.w so well be told that Christ had come as by such art international emphasizing of His nativity? All India would crv out about such an affair, for you know thev have their railroa Is an I telegraphs. "What is going on in America? All China would cry out, "What is that groat excitement in America?" All the islands of the sea would come down tho gangplanks of the arriving ships and ask, What 1 that thev are celebrating in America?" It wonl I be the mightiest mission iry movement tho world has ever seen. It woum uo mo turn ing poi-it In tho world's destiuy. It would wak-n the slumbering Nations With ouw touclu Question the Second How wonld yon have ue(i an international jubilee conducted i An. t-wer All arts should be mnrsbnled, and art 'in ita most attractive and impressive shnpe. I'irst, architecture. While all academies of Jursi. , and all churches, and all great halls would be needed, there should be one great u litorium erected to hold suoh an audience fls has never been seen on any sacred occ iion in America. If Serltjocius Curio, at the cost of a kin!?' do:n, could build the first two vast aiuphi theatres, placing them b3ek to back, hold Jne great audiences for dramatis represents Jiou. an! .then by wonJerfiU macUJjeT ;r,d;e,n,inth6tTlpmrou" with all thetr .-irehltP. la orders of Greek for puirowTnf JL, ,.'000 "xnding. and all -ent ZZl . Mnt 'at their ,m soetoS.K 1 5"id ,rom 50-000 to 100,000 degradation "T? 'r carou9'l J moral SST " JB.. Cn'i"iamty afford hold and .nth Ti ,Q'VHment tnat would Pies? n aU IU 50'0a0 Christian dlsci V,Zd ?h J Y'lyno ""'nan voice could h "a"hPar --"--.thhrvee And the time Is near at hand when In theo- w . . uuaar'. wnere our young men are v ng trained for the ministry, the voloe will developed and instea-l of the mumbling who 'P with " low yo3 cannot hear uuleaa you len forward and hold your hand behind your ear, and then ! ? fxeas th8 neral drift of the suh ct and decide quite well whether It is atwut Moses or Paul or some one else instead of that you will have coming from the theologi cal seminaries all over the land young min isters with voloe enough to command the at tention of an audience of 40,000 people. That sthe reason that the Lord gives us two lungs instead of one. It Is the Divine way of B".V1U3 physiologically. "u, heard !" That la the reason that the New Testament in beginning the account of Christ's sermon on the mount describes our Lord's plaia articulation and resound of utterance by sav ing, "He opened his moutu." In that mighty concert hall and preaching place which I suggest for this nineteen hundredth unniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring 11 the orchestras, all the oratorios, all the Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn so oietles. Then give us Haydn's oratorio of the Creation." for our Lord took part in uni verse building and "without him," says John, "was not anything made that was made. and Handel's "Messiah" and Uoothoven's 'Symphonies" and Mendels sohn's "Elijah." the prophet that typitled our Christ and the grandest compositions of German and English and American masters, living or dead. All Instruments that can hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or -lap or trumpet orthunder the praises of the Lord joined to all voices that can chant or warble or precentor multitudinous wor snipers. What an arousing when 60,000 join in "Antioch" or "Coronation" or "Ariel,', rising into halleluiah or subsid ing into an almost supernatural amen! Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals all round that building the forms of apostles :nd martyrs, men and women, who spoke or vrought or !u(Tered by beadsman's ax or lire. tVm re is my favorite of all arts, this art of - -ulpture. that it is not busier for Christ or cat its work is not better appreciated? Let it come forth at that world's jubilee of the uativity. We want a second Phidias to do or that new temple what the first Phidias did for the Parthenon. Let the marble of Carrara come to resurrection to celebrate our Lord's resurr.vtlon. Let sculptors set up in that auditorium of Christ's celebration ns-relief and intaglio des?riptiv9 of the bat ties won for our holy religion. Whro nro the Canovas of the Nineteenth Century? Where are the American Thorwaidsens aud C.iantreys? Hidden somewhere, I warrant you. L-t sculpture turn that place into another A-To'iohs, but more glorious by as much as our Christ is stronger tana their Hercules, and has more to do with the sea thp.n their Septuuo. and raises greater harvests than their Ceres, an 1 raises more music in the he.art of the world thn thetr Apoilo. "The gods of the heathen are nothing but dumb Idols, but our Lord made The heavens." In marble pure as snow celebrate Him who came to make us "whiter than tnow." Let the chisel as well ns pencil anl pun bo put do-u at the feet of Jesus. Yen. let painting do its lest. The foreign galleries will loan for such a jubilee tiieir .Madonnas, their Angelos, their lltibeus. taeir Iiaphaels, their "Christ at the Jor lau,' or "Christ at the Last tjpper,"or "Christ Com ing to Judgment," or "Christ on tho i'hron.j of Universal Dominion." and our own Morans' will put their pencils iuto the nineteen hun dredth anniversary, and our Kiersta Its from sketching "The Pomes of tne Yos -mite"' will ?ome to present the domes of the world con quered for Immanuel. Ad led to all this I wonld have a floral decoration on a scale never equaled. T ie fl-lds and open gardens could not furnis l it, for it will be winter, and that auosau appro priately ohosen, for it was into the trostsand desolations of winter that (Jurist immigrated when he came to our world. But while the fields will be bare, the conservatories and hot-houses within 200 miles would gladly keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro matic during all the convocations. Added to all let there be banquets, not like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan Opera House, New Y'ork. celebrating the oentennial of Washington's inauguration, where the rivers of wine drowned the so briety of so many senators and governoi and generals, but a banquet for the poor, thJ fee ling oi scores of thousands of people of a world in which the majority of the inhabi tants have never yet had enough to eat. not a banquet at which a few favored men an i women of social or political fortune shall sit, but such a banquet as Christ ordered when He told His servants to "go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in." Let the mayors of cities anil the governors of States and the President of the United States proclaim a whole week of legal holiday at least from Christmas day to New Year's day. A ided to this let there be at that Interna tional mornl anil religious exposition a mammoth distribution of sacred literature. Let the leading ministers from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and the world take the pulpits of all these cities and tell what they know of Him whose birth w i celebrate. At those convocations let vast j sums of money be raised for churches, for asvlums, for schools, for colleges, all of which institutions were born in the heart ol Christ. On that day and in that season when Christ gave Himself to the world let the world give itself to Him. Why do I propose America as the country for this convocation? Because most other lands have a State religion, and while nil forms of religion may he tolerated in many lands America is the oniy country on earth where all evangelical denominations stand on an even footing, and all would have equal hearing in suoh an International exposition. Why do I select this cluster of seacoast cit ies? Answer By that time Deeemlwr 23. 1900 these four cities ot New York, Brook lyn, Jersey City and Hobokeu. by bridges and tunnels, will be practically one and with an aggregate population of ahont 6,000,000. Consequently no other part of America will have such an immensity of population. Why do I now make this nomination ol time and place? Answer Because such a stupendous movement cannot be extempor ized. It will take seven years to g ready for such an overtowering celebration, and the work ought to begin speedily in churches. In colleges, in legislatures, in congresses, in parliaments, in all styles of National assem blages, and we have no time to lose. It would take three years to make a programm. worthy of such a coming together. Why do I take it upon myself to mnkesncb a nomination ot time and place? Answer Because it so happened that in the mysteri ous providence of God, born in a farmhousi and of no royal or princely descent, the doon of communication are open to me every wee by the secular and religious printing pressei and have been open to me every week foi many years, with all the cities and towns and neighborhoods of Christendom, and indeed in lands outside of Christendom, when printing presses have been established and 1 feel that if there is anything worthy in this proposition it will be heeded and adopted. On the other hand, if it be too sanguine, or too hopeful, or too impractical, I am sure it will do no harm that 1 have expressed my I.K .h .n International jubilee, cele- iratlve of the birth of our ImmanueL i Mv friends, such a birthday celebrat on nt the close of one century and reaching into a iew century would be something la waieh .feeTvenlwdwrtaoouidJoin. It would not 1 only bVtaternatlonal, but Interplanetary, . &teiiar. tatercUaUon. U you re member wWo n'ntnf.?v JnaTnlnhi. you know that it was not a joy ffiSS I wW worKL-JTn. choir .bM. Bethfehem was imported from another world, and when the star left its usual sphere to designate the birthplace all bstronomy felt the thrill. If there beany thing true aliout our religion, it is that other worlds are sympathetic with this world and in communication with it. The gloritled of heaven would join in such a celebration. The generations that toiled to have the .world for Christ would take part in suoh Jubilation and prolonged assemblage. ! The upper galleries of God's universe would applaud the scene, whether we heard the chip of their wings and the shout of their voices or did not hear thom. Prophets who predicted the Messiah, and apostles who talked with Him, and martyrs who died for ' Him would take part In the scene, though to our poor eyesight they might be invisible. The old missionaries who died in the malaria swamps of Africa, or were struck down bj Egyptian typhus, or were butchered at Luck- now, or were slain by Jiornesian cannibals would come down from their thrones to re joice that at last Christ hod been heard of, and so speedily in ail nations. At the Prst roll of the first overture of the tirst day ol that meeting all heaven would crv : "Jlearl Hear !" Aye! Aye i I think myself such a vast pro cedure as that might hasten our Lord's com ing, and that the expectation of many mil lions of Christians who believe in the second advent might be realized then at that con junction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. I do not say it would be, yet who knows but that our blessed and adored Mas ter, pleased with such a plan of worldwide observance, might say concerning this wan dering and rebellious planet, "That world at last shows a disposition to appreciate what I have done for'it, and with one wave of my scarred hand I will bless and reclaim and save it." That such a celebration of our Lord's birth, kept up for days and months, would please all the good of earth and mightily speed on the gospel chariot and please all the heavens, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, arehangelio and divine, is beyond question. Oh, get ready for the world's greatest festivity 1 Tuneyout voices ror tne world s greatest anthem. Lilt the arches for the world's mightiest proces sion. Let the advancing standard of the army of years, which has inscribed on one side of it "1900" and on theotherside "11W1." have also inscribed on it the most charming name of all the universe the name of Jesus. Whether this suggestion of a worhl's cele bration of the nativity be taken or not, it has allowed me an opportunity in a some what unusual way of expressing my love for the great central character of all time and all eternity. He is the intlnite nonesuch. The armies of heaven drop on their knees before him. After Bourdaloue, bofore over whelmed audiences, has preached Him, and Milton in immortal blank verse has sung Him, and Michael Angeio hns gloritlod the ceiling of the Vatican with II is second co n ing, and martyrs while girdled and enno- ded with the flames of the stake lave with burning lips kissed his mem ory, and ia the "hundred and forty and four thousand" of heaven with feet on sag Gj glass intershot with sunrise, have with up lifted and downswung batoQ, and sounding cornets, and waving banners, and heaven capturing doxologie celebrated Him. the story of His loveliness, and His might and His beauty, and His grandeur, and His grace, and His intercession, and His saerillee. and of His birth, and His death will remain untold. li His name on our lips while we live, and when we dioafter we have spoken farewell to father iind mother and wife, and child let us speak jhat name which is the lullaby of earth and the transport of heaven. Before the crossing of time on the mid night between December 31, I'.iiiO, and the 1st o! January, 1'JOI, many of us will bo ttoiix Some of you will hear the clock strike twelve of one century and an hour alter it Ihear it strike one of another century, but puany of you will not that midnight hear either the stroke of old the city clock or of the old timepiece in the hallway jf the home b;ea.l. Seven years cut a wide swath through (tlie churches and communities and Nntions. But those who cross from world to world before Old Tim in this world crossis thnt fnldnight from century to sentury will talk jimong the thrones of tho coming earthly jubilee, nn l on the river bank and in the house of many mansions, until all heaven will know of the coming of that celebration, knat will fill thoearthly Nations with joy and belp augment the Nations of heaven. But whether here or there we will take part in the music and the banqueting if wo have made the Lord our portion. Oh, how I would like to stand at my front door some morning or noon or night and see tlie sky part and the blessed Lord descend in J.erson, not as he will come in the last judg ment, with fire and hail an 1 earthquake, but in sweet tenderness to pardon all sin, and ileal all wounds, aud wipe away all tears, jtnd feed all hunger, and right all wrongs, and illumine all darkness, and break all tKjndage, and harmonize all discords. Some think he will thus come, but about that eoming I make no prophocy, for I am not Enough learned In the Scriptures, as somaof kny friends are, to announce a very positive opinion. ' But this I do know, that it would be well lor us to have an International and an inter world celebration of the anniversary of His birthday about the time of the birth of the new century, and that it will be wis3 beyond till others' wisdom for us to take Him as our "present and everlasting coadjutor, an! if that Darling of earth and heaven will only nceept you and me after all our lifetime of linworthiness and sin we can never pay Him what we owe.though through all the eternity to come we had every hour a new song an 1 everv moment a new ascription of homage and praise, for you see we were far out among the lost sheep that tha gospel hymn BO pathetically describes Out In the desert be heart! Its cry, S.ck aa.l i elite- an t rea iv tf. .lie, Jiut all firoim i th ninaiirain taujjor riven. An I 'i from the rocky steep. There i-liMu aery t. the (cut" of hp.iven, "KeJ .ice, 1 have toiln.l iny s'li-cp: ' An l the attip.t echo rotiu-t the threne, "Hejolce, fur the LhjdI Lrini back Uu utva! Hislory ot Herin Sea. Kamschiitl;a Sea is the oil nnme foi the sea which, wo call Bohrin, or "Jering. It has not been used within twenty years, we think. A further change in the name has been author ized by the United States Bour-1 on 'Geographical Xumes, which has de cided that, as the discoverer of the se t was named Berintj, tlie sea should be so called, instead of IVhrin j. The liseowrer was Vitus Berinur, a (Sernmii m tho Kiissiun service His descend ants still live itt Germ my, nn 1 a col lateral branch is famous in London tho Barings. Xew York Dispateli. FOOD Foil THOUGHT. One drop of regret will embitter a bucketful of bliss. Vanity is a weakness, and nifty be a sin. VT axe rich only through what we give. Charity is as much of a privilege as it is a duty. Self retpect that cornerstone of all virtue. The sweetest joys are consoled sor rows. Pleasure is the lard in the piecrust of time. There is no malice like the malice of the renegade. Foresight is very wise; but for-sor-row is very foolish, and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons in the air. Trne love is love of love, not love of the pleasures of love. There is no house so small that it has not room for love; there is no castle so large that it cannot be filled with it. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Toliteness is a very good substitute for brains, and it has been known to succeed where virtue and modesty have failed. ENIGMAS. ! ' TJ0 tb. iwoep of the wild wt wanth us, Tha lting lih and iii r&ln'. tr hJl. ran ton of the trnan ns tn.r .waved loflctuef. Th lliitirelr.i gray that wh ove tbeui aid Wboee roar .peak, luure tnao alanguag. .pok.a WardtfM.and wonderful, o y on cry, Ihe nub of an earlb taut la vised ml broken, Xbo an erlug it,b of a brcken aky. j What onnld thoy tell m? We see them ever, j The trees and the tky and .tratch of the landj 3ut they giro ui u w n.l of their secret never; " They UU no .torv wf. nmieretaiid. i Sot hazily tba gn.ji.iiRs b.rch out ond-r Know, much in a itluc-td and eilent way ; Therein might le I hit the gray clouds Kinder, 1h whida repeat what the violet. uy. Why w.ep the rln 1 Po y oa know it aorroiv 1 li you know why the wtu4 is ao .ad. ao iJ I Have you .Looa in a til i 'iwixt a day and a mo. row, Een their hand, tnoet and their eyes grow dad I. the tree', pride .tr muj at it. toia VB,emnt ? I. tba whit rose mjiu of a taint Uiau tne re . 1 What thinks t'uu star aa it aoe. thruuga ti.. CAMUlClit A young girl lying, beautiful, dead? ; THE 1IALF-S0VEUEIGXS. Durinuthe year 13 , tho ruoro prosperous parts of Ireland were flooded with counterfeit com. It was ' well manufactured and passed readily. The evil became so preat that even i tho Dublin authorities wore stirred j up, and I was sent, as a competent. I dotectlvc, to ferret out the nest of coiners. I had next to nothinar to puidc me. I had but one solid fact, and that was that the Fuuclieslowii races were) coniins on, ami my p;st experience ' told me that bad money often circti-1 lated readily among the happy punters. Accordingly, thither 1 pro-1 cecaea. 1 spent roiir d i.vt ;ti tlto vicinity, and cut nollim.- fur my pains. 1 could not even lay my hand. on a siugle pk-ee of counterfeit ct.in, much less clap my paws o i tin cul prits. Yet complaints had fie.iuetjtiy beeu made- before my arrival th.it bad money was being passed t'lcre. I began to grow discouraged, and reallv thought I sht.u'd be obliged to return home without having achieved any reu't. One day, I re ceived a letter from my wife reiue-il-ing that 1 w u!d send her s..me money, as sin; was out of funds. I went iuto the batik and asked fur a draft, at the same timo handing a sum of in (lie y to pay for it, in which thero were several half-sovereigns. The clerk p'ish-d three of tho hali borcreigus back to me. Couuterft.it," lie Fa!d. "Vt'hai:" said I. ''do you mean tc'.l me tho-e liitlf-sovcrclgiis counterfoil:1" "1 do." "Are vou c.:i tain?"' Terfeetly certaia, They r-rc markj.hly well cxii'iued. but tlie are re- are deficient in weight. See for your self." And li.i placed one in the sca'.es against a rcuuine half-sot ereign ; theotherside. The latter weighed down the former. 'This Is the best executed coin 1 ever saw in my life," 1 exclaimed, ex amining them very closely, "li all the counterfeit coiu in circulation here of the same character as thi?"' "Oh, dear no"' replied the clerk, "it is cot nc.irlv so well done. These are tho work of Kcd 'H'illett, the fa mous Cockney counterfeiter. I tn .'.( them well, fv-r I have handled a gr--al many of them in tnv time. Here some of the money that is In circula- i tion here," he added, fikin;j several thick one? from a drawer. "You s . the milling is not nearly as perfect a . 'ed Willett's, although It is pretty1 well dune, too." 1 compared the two and found t'.ai ho was right. I supplied the place of ' tho three half sovereigns with good! coin, and returned the former to my pocket again. ' A few d.ys after this I received in- formation which caused me to take a jcurney to a village situated about 1 four ml!es from runchestown. I ar rived thero at night, and took up mj quarto; a at th? only tavern in tlu place. It was a wretched dwelling, and kept by an old man and woman, the surliest couple I think it has ever beeu my lot to meet. In answer to tny inquiry as to whether 1 could have lodging there for the night, I noticed that the host gave a peculiar look nil his wife, and after soma whispering I was informed, in the most ungracious manner possible, that I could have a lei. 1 have frequently, in the courss ol ray life, been obliged to put up with wretched accommodation, so 1 did not allow my equanimity of temper to La destroved by the miserable fare set be fore nie, aud the still more miserable sleeping apartments into which 1 was ushered after I had concluded my re past. Frescntly I bgan to grow weary, and throwing myself on my pallet I was soon plunged into a deep slum ber. IIow long I slept I know Hot, but I was awakened by a dull sound, which resembled some one hanimer Infj iii the distance. I suppose it -was the peculiarity-of the sound which woke me, for It was by no means loud, but conveyed to ru? t'.ie idea of some bne str.king iron with a muffled ham mer. I r.i-e uo from my bed and went to the window, the moon was low in the w. s'.ern horizon, by which fact I ku-'w it .iiust be near morning. Tho sound 1 have referred to reached 09 finoxe distinctly than when Id the back part of the chamber. It ap peared to come from so. no out-h ous.m which were situated, about a hundred yards dlsiant from tho house. JNow, i am naturally or an inquir ing mind, and this sound, fccuniiur, 31 it did, In the middle of the nigni, hi such a remot ;,out-of-the-way place, piqued my curiosity, and I felt an ir resistible desire to go and discovert!)'! causof it. This desire, as the sound continued, grew upon mo to sut h iu V?nsity that I resolved to gratify it at any price. A few stps brought me iuto the lower spartment, which I found en tirely deserted. I crept quietly ti the door, and, ttnf.vteuing it witho'.il naklng the slightest noise, vi as soon 'n the moonl ght. Not a s'ui w3 visible, but tin ound still continued, and grew more i'stinct as I approached the p!ac3 'roni Whenca it nrorceilcvl. At. hisi foud myself before a lonir. low Duilding, through the crevices U vhloh I could perceive a lurid glare ssuing. I stooped down ana peered hrough the keyhole, ami to my cx-;-eiue iurpri3 I saw half a Uuzen itrops-looking men, with their c;8ta ;t ani l6ove3 turned uo, pcrfcVrraing a variety or strange oorn natrons, Some were working at a forge, otben were superintending the casting ol moulds, and some were engaged Id the process of milling coin. Ia a moment the whole truth burst upon rue;. Here was the gang of counter feiters 1 was in search of, and th landlord and his wife evidently be longed t ) the same band, for in ona corner 1 perceived them employed, the mar. polishing off some "gold" pieces, just tinned from the moulds, while the woman was packing the finished cuius into rolls. I had soeti enough, and was about to return to my apartment ngain, when suddenly I felt a heavy hand placed upon my shoulder, and turning my head round, to my horror found Myself in the grasp of as ill-looking a c-i'.:ti Ircl as ever escaped the gallows. ''.hat are you doing here, vou V" 1:.: exclaimed in a grull (oiee, giving me a shake. "Taking a siroil by moonlight," 1 replied, endeavoring to maintain mj presence of mind. "Well, perhaps you'll just take a stroll in here, will you?" returned tlie rufllan, pushing open the dooi and dragging me after him. All the inmates of the barn im mediately stopped work and rushed towanl us when they saw us. "Why, what's this?" they all ex claimed. "A loafer I found peeping outside," said 11 e man who had captured nie :...'. a traveler that came to th tavern to-night and asked for lodg ings. The last time I saw him he was safe iu bed," sa d the landlord. The men withdrew to a corner ol the apartment, leaving one to keerj guard over me. I soon saw they were in earnest consultation, and they were evidently debating som important question. The man keep ing guard over me said nothing, but scowled fiercely. I had not uttered a single word during all the time I had been in the barn. I was aware that whatever I might say would in ail probability only do more harm than j good, and it has always been a maxim of mine to hold my tongue when In doubt. At last the discussion seemed to be settled, for the blackest and dirtiest of the whole gang came for ward, and without any Introduction exclaimed: "Wi-'il Mjon put an end to you." I dl 1 not move a muscle, nor uttet aeworJ. "You have found out our secret, and dead men tell no tales." I was st. 11 silent. "Wo will give you ten minutes U f-ay your prayers, and will allow you 1 h; privilege of saving whether you will be hanged or shot." Miibieniy an idea struck me. J re ms:n bored something that might save m V life. I burst into a violent tit ol laughter; hi fact, it was hysterical, but tlicv (lid not know that. They looked Iro.n (.tie to the other in the greatest aniatmcnt. "Well, ho takes it mighty cool, anyhow." said one. "I suppose he don't think we're in earnest,'' said another. My only reply w.is a lit of laughter more violent than tlie li ;t. "Th" man's mad." they exclaimed. "Or drunk," said some. 'Well, boys." I cried, speaking foi the Mist time, ' this is the best joke 1 ever seed. What, hang a pal?" "A pal you a pal? "1 ain't noihin else," was my ele gant rejoinder. ' Wii.it's y .tir name?" "Did vou never hear of Ned Wlllcttl I asked. "Yin Ain't, he sion'.-" "Well ' You, may be certain of that, it the head of our profes- then. I'm Ned Ned V.'illett?" Willett." they all ex- claimed. Yoa may bet vour life on that," I returned, swaggering up to the corner where 1 had seen the old woman j acking the counterfeit coiu. Fortune favore i me. None of the men present had ever seen Ned Wil lett, although his reputation was known to them, an l my swaggering, inso'ent manner had somewhat thrown them o3 tiieir (.mrd, yet I could plainly sec that all their doubts were not removed. "And you call thece things well done, do you?'' J asked, taking up a roll of money. ' Well, all I can say 1 that if you can't do better than this you had better t-hut up shop, that's all." "Can you show usanything bettor?" asked one of the men. "I raytherthink I can. If I couldn' I'd go and hang myself." ': Let's see it," they all cried. This was my last coup, and one on which I knew my life depended. ; "Lookee here, gentlemen," I ex claimed, taking one of the counterfoil half-sovereigns from my ro:ket which had been reieeted at tlie I ank, "here's my last job: what do you thtnk of it?" It was passed from hand to hand, soaie saying it was no counterfeit aS ull, others saying that it was. "How will you prove that it is a counterfeit?" asked one of them. "Jiy weighing it with a genuine one." I replied. Tina plan was Immediately adopted, and its character proved. "Perhaps he got this: by accident," I heard one of the men whisper to an other. "Try the e," said I, taking tha other two from my Docket All their doubts now vanished. " Beautiful ! " exclaimed some. "Splendid, bogorral" AVhen they had examined them to their satisfaction, they all ot them cordially shook mo by the hand, every particle of doubt having vanished from their m-.ids. I carried out my part well. Soma questions were occa.-tiouaHy asked me, involving some of the technicalities of tho businc-s; thesa, however, I avoided by stating that I was on a journey of pleasure, and would much rather drink a glass of whiskey than answer questions. Tha whiskey was produced, and we made a night of it, aud it was not until morning bad dawcod that we separated. The next day I returned to Dulln, and brought down the necessary as slt.taoce,and captured the whole rnng of counterfeiters in the very act. The tlea was brokeu up forever, and most ci them were condemned to serve a term cf years la chokcy. I have those counterfeit half-sovereigns still In my possession, and In Jcgd peyer to part tbem. for - - A ...Jia -gML- ... iiimi i '3rrJr7."'r -xw they were certainly the means of sav ing my life. Skilled Fingers. In feudal times, when gentlewomen w?re forced to lead isolated and mo notonous lives, the embroidery of rich stuJs, and tine needlework of all kinds, was their favorite occupation. T he unhappy Mary Stuart possessed rare skill in this direction, and had am pic leisure to apply it during her eighteen years of captivity. No glimpse of her life brings her more favorably before the mind than the scene in which she is described as seated in her room in Fotheringay Castle, surrounded by her women, she and they alike engaged on some won derful embroidery intended as a gift to i'.m sister queen who held her as a prisoner. Gowns, tunics, gloves, gir dies, mantels all were profusely decorated in those days. Noblemen wore their coats-of-arms embroidered on their breasts; heraldic animals played an important part in dre9S ornamentation, and an old French chronicler in the fourteenth century gravely notes the fart that a pair of shoes with lions wrought on the toes formed u necessary adjunct of the at tire of every well-dressed gallant Men's dress equalled that of a wo man in magnificence and variety of hue. Magnus, a French king of the twelfth century, had crimson silk lion embroidered on his trunks; and a noted French gallant a couple of hundred years later, appeared at court in a tunic, oa the sleevea of which were worked the words and music of a song then very popular, the tirst line of which ran: "Madame, I am more joyous." Ti e notes of the music were composed of some six hundred pearls. In the South Ken sington Museum, a veritable store house of priceless relics, there is pro served a white linen jacket literally tovcred with fine silk embroidery In gorgeous tints, and this very showy ailiele was intended for masculine wear Indeed, the male love of orna ment and color remained almost un checked until this practical century had nearly reached its majority. ' Even now, most men are glad to per mit themselves some license In color when possible. Our gilded youth have been laughed at for their love of finery in the matter of silk shirts and gay house-jackets, but it Reems to ma a foible which on many ac. counts their sisters and sweethearts would do well to encourage, and with the work of nimble fingers assist in the gratification of a pardonable weakness. r.a Ua Ita Ita." In the Chinese language tha yime ord may be giveu several different meanings by the modulation of tha voice. The same thing may happen to the English "yes," which may be pronounced so as to mean "I as sent, to that," or "I am doubtful," or Indeed!'' Professor Max Muller, in his "Lectures on the Science of Lan guage, gives an amusing illustration uf these modulations in the Anna mil it: language,a monosyllabic tongue spoken bv the people of Tonquln and Co' hin China. In this language the syllable "ba," pronounced with a grave accent, means a lady, an ancestor. Pro nounced with the sharp accent, it means the favorite of a prince. Pro nounced with the semi-grave accent, it means what has been thrown away. Pronounced with the grave circumflex, it means what is left of a fruit after the ju ce has been squeezed out. Pro nounced with no accent, it means three. Pronounced with the ascend ing or interrogation accent, it means a box on the ear. Thus "Ha ba ba ba" is said to mean, if properly pronounced, "Three ladies cave a box on the ear to the favorite of the prince." Illarovere.l. M. de Sartines, at one time chief of the polico of the city of I'aris, was a master of his profession. The crimi nal to whom he gave his attention was almost sure, sooner or later, to be brought to justice. An incident which illustrates the thoroughness of his work is recorded, reluctantly one may Imagine, in the Vienna police reports. The chief of the Vienna police wrots to him describing a criminal who had lied from Vienna and taken refuge in Paris, and requesting Sartines to dis cover and seize the fugitive. Sartines gave hisordersfor a search for the man. Two months passed. Then he wrote tho Vienna officer: 'I have sought the criminal you described on all sides, aud for a long time in vain. But at last the efforts of my agents are rewarded. We have found the man. "Ho is in Vienna, which city ho has not left at all. You will find him at Fauburg X , Number 56. There is a flower pot in bis window." flis Only Chance. "IIow does SamuT make out ass scholar, Ph'lander?" inquired Nathan Scott of his brother. "Is he easy tc I'arn, or is 't uphill work with him same's 'twas with us when we was yearlin' boys?'"' "I can't say that Samu'l is master fond of his books," replied Ph'lander, cautiously, "but there's some things he gits od poorty fair with, an' then aglu there's others like spellin' fer instance!" "Aint much of a hand at spell-in'.-" ha arded Nathan. Well, no," said Th'lander, "ycu rouldn't rightly call it 't he is, 1 cal'late. He can reckon quite lively, sceui's If; Aggers come kind o' natural to him: an' he's got a consid'able number o' dates fixed in hii mind; an' he hes the names of most o' the L'nited States right bv him, an' a fair to middiin' idee o' furrin t'ographv, too. "Hut when, you come to spellin' ivel!," said Ph'lander, In a tone of iepondent conviction, "I enkerredge sa nu'l ad I ken, an' shell contlnner to do it, but I cal'late that if ever SamuT gits to be a speller, it'll jest e b' main stren'th!" Close Time for Money. The Bank of England wa compelled to 6uspend specie pay ment. It was on Feh. 22. 170?. It. resumed In 1623, after the financial disaster following tho French war had passed awa. SMtPS OF THE AIR. Bom of til Complication. Which llay Fallow Their far. The question of aerial navigation is being pushed with so much vigor nowadays, it is being discussed by ho many scientific journals and is being made the subject of experiment by so many scientific not to mention un scientific men, that it begins to look as if it were among the possi bilities of the near future that thn thing which has baffled man for so long would at last be among the things which human wit has con quered and which are tote reckoned as difficulties overcome. If this is to be, it Is really time that there was somebody considering what the ef fects upon the country anu upon the world are to lie from a political and from a social point of view bv the in troduction of aerial navigation. It Is best to look the matter over be forehand, since when the time conies for an instant and practical applica tion it will be too late to give to the complicated problems the minute at tention which they demand and de serve. Of course the first practical consid eration which will suggest iiseif when once ships begin to sail the air as now they sail the seas, will be tlie defining and adjusting of all those rules which embrace the right of way and kindred matters. In gen eral it will be natural that the regu lations adopted shall be those which" now govern tho h:gh seas, but it Is to be rememb?red that in the case of the air-ships, it will be necessary to treat the rules in two dimensions, so to say. Instead of as one. Sea-ships are confined to one plane, and must pass one another on one side or tho other; while crafts of the air will also bo able to go the one above the other, so that it will be necessary to define which has the right to go aloft in given circumstances and which must keep below. Very likely when enough is known about the matter to allow of its being done there will tc some sort of a regulation attempted in vir tue of which the relation of airships to tho electric currents of the world will be as accurately defined as is now tne relation of vessels on the sea to the wind. It will be Inadmissible for an air-ship under certain circum stances to come between another and the magnetic north pole, and all that sort of thing. There can be no doubt that the subject is going to bo an im mensely complicated one; but it is also one which must be fully worked out if there is to be any safety what ever in tho case of air travel. It will also be necessary to define the relation of air-ships to folks un derneath. If tha voyagers through the blue aro to have the right, for instance, to throw overboard their empty bottles and rubbish generally, as has been from time immemorial the custom of the seafarers, it is go ing to bo practically impossible to live in the tracks of the airy argosies. To risk a thump on the head from a bottle or a tomato-can which has fallen through half a mile of air is not a possibility to be contemplated with indifference; while the possibil ity of being deluged with ballast-sand or with refuse without warning or with warning, for that matter would be so much the worse as it is the more undignified. There would be all sorts of national complications, moreover. It would le necessary to define the air limit just as it is now necessary to define the neutral line along tho sea board. There must be a limit below w hich foreign air-ships could not come ex cept under those conditions obtain ing in regard to vessels which coma within the three mile limit on the coast. Just how this could be measured it is not easy to say, unless it could lie idted from the top of the new thirty or forty story buildings at Chicago: but of course it would be necessary to have this matter rigidly attended to. In case of war it would be one of the first points to be thought of. The use of air ships, it may be re marked in passing, would in case of war give an immense advantage to the invading army. It would only bo necessary to give battle over a hostile city and tlM unhappy town below would suffer from the effect of the ammunition of both friend and foe. It is so probable, however, that with the introduction of aerial navi gation the whole course of warfare would be altered that It is hardly necessary to consider this. Such are but a few of the compli cations which will te introduced by the practical development of aerial navigation, and when one considers how difficult it is all going to be to bring into proper shape, one half won ders whether it is not on the whole better to let things go as they are aud not attempt to make our way through the air after all. Jiew Core for Ptufumi. The vibrometer is a newly invent ed instrument for the cure of deaf ness. The principle of its operation is the massage of the souud, conduct ing apparatus of the oar by means of vibratory forces. By this method vari ous conditions can be relieved which could not be reached by the regular modes of treatment, and which arc the principal causes of deafness In a very large proportion of those afflict ed. The phonograph has been used for this purpose, and although Its adaptation was effected in a very comparatively crude manner, the re sults attained justified the belief that an instrument embodying special im provements on the same lines would be of the utmost value. Such an in strument is the vibrometer, and so successful has been it application that many persons whose deafness was from five to fifteen years' stand ing can now, through its use, hear ordinary conversation from ten to twenty feet away with their back! turned to the speaker, and others with never-ceasing noises In their ears have been completely relieved. Warning to Poatonloe Clerka. The tramp shuffled up to the gen eral delivery window of tho postofflcc nd asked for a letter for Flossie Franklin. "She's jist a little bit of a gal," he explained to the clerk with a pathetic quiver in hU voice, jnd tha clerk, moved thereby, was verj careful to, looking over the F box so that Flossie should have her letter if possible. A moment or so later he smiled quite tenderly and handed out a letter bear ing Flossie's name on the envelope, postmarked Washington, which the tramp put In his pocket very carttfully nnd carried away. "He's a hard-looking customer," remarked the clerk, sympathetically, "but he isn't all bad, and somewhere there is a little girl waiting for him, as dear to him as my little girl is to inc." On the outside of the ofllcc tho tramp met his partner, nnd at once they hurried oil to an alley. "Well, : u said vou were goin' to surprise me," said the partner, when thev had reached a sheltered place, "now what is it?" "Gimme a chance," replied the first one taking out the letter ami opening it. "Sassafras and tar," exclaimed the partner as two one dollar bills and some change fell out, "whee did it come from?" "From the Lord, Bill," was the solemn reply. "Bats!" growled William. ' Give us the racket. How'd you git it? Some of yer rich kin die and leave it to you or how ?" The first tramp grinned all ever. "Got it frum the Lord, I tell yer," he persisted. "You've heerd of the dear little girls in Sunday-school story books with sick mammies or hard-up daddies, wriliu' purty sweet letters fer something nice fer mammie, er fer a new dress fer her i!o!lie er s..:ne thln' of that (ort. nu i then direct in" it to tho Lord and d.-epteu' it in tho maii, hain't yer?" The other one nodded as.-ent. "And when it gits 'round lo the dead-letter ouice," the tirst one went on, "and the tender-hearted clerks opens it and gets on to what it calls fer, they chip riiiht in, bless their kind souls, and st n l the dear little girl more than enough money to sup ply her wants, besides strenglheniu' her faith in religion. See?" His partner not only saw, but he laughed the laugh of stieres-. "This letler I got w.is 1 1 iut kind of a one," resumed the old sinner, "and sweet little I h.s-ie l-'ianklin wrote it." "Who'se 1'!. i-ie'.-" inquired his partner "I'm little i'e.ssie,'' he answered with a smile. "A ltd how touch v,vag did little Flossie swipe'" ' 'he's see," and litlle l-inssie couute.,1 it; "two dollars a.sd twelve cents to buy her poor si.-k m omnia some nice fruit, with." "Kr twenty-two biers, ami two cents f..r postage on another letter to the Lt !.." suggested the partner. "That's the kind of a iittl: Flossie I am," smiled the projector of t he tchenie, and the two woithies slo;.eu into a saloon arid began making in vestments Free Press. Art In A Uy -! ni.i. We tolliul the- walls of the ciitirclie in Abyssinia covered with pictures of s'riptural history, and the walls of the cathedral with the exploits of Johannes. His -victory over tho Egyptians at Gorr.i, and tho valley ol Gundet, are fu'.Iv represented hi tones as florid as those of advertising jxisters at home. The native artist does not make up for (-rudeness ol color by the accuracy of his draw ing, and if these pictures have any merit it is In their originality of treatment. For instance, m tho cathedral ol Gundet, in a picture representing the Israelites crossing the Kt-1 Sea, Pharaoh carries In his right hand the latest specimen in six-sho"te: s. and in his left he h . ids a pair of opera glasses, while tlie Egvpt ianhost sport Kemlngton rill. s. All movement of figures is from right to left, and in till pictures head are full-faced, with tlie exception of Satan and tlie hated Egyptians, win. are painted In acute profile, to show their lark of hotie.ty and good faith, and their inability to look you straight iu Cm face. lt is a deplor able fact, and one which, ladies will say at once, only proves t he h'noi atiee aud barbarity of the Ethiopians, that the evil spirits in these composition arc always represented by tic softer sex, generally showing their naughti ness by exhibiting their tongues. The church painter g..s so far as to question tlie gallantry of St. George, the Abyssinian patron saint, by depiet ng that warrior, instead ol doing batt'e with th" dragon, as (spearing the gra cful, undulating form of a long-tongued woman Cen tury. l-'umlshril j li.-ir Own Ot.it .hit ie-. Tlie Philad iphia Ledger still maintains its pii til position as the leading obit nary p..p r in the conn, try. Before the oXj edition for the relief of Lieut. Peary .-'art.-d out for Greenland, each and every on- of its members was Invited by the Ledger to prepare his obituary for the use of that paper. The fai t of a man sit ting down and transmitting t paper a record of his own life which wiil never appear in print until death tol.s his hand of its cunning causes a cold tdiiver to run up an I down one's spinal column, but the Peary lex ti.-rs did it just the same, and Mr. Child's piper will have an exclusive r.eoop if they never come l a -lc I.o-loti llcr ald. A WIb TKilor. Strawlcr I want to get a service, able suit; one that I can wear at the World's Fair Tailor Are you goin to wear that suit out to the W Id's Fair, sir? Strawber Certainly 1 am. Tailor Then I shall have to ask you 'o jay iu advance, I 'droit Free Pi ess. Whea Igaorxore 1 IllUa. 7 X She I shall have to break my en gagement to-morrow. Ife Why, darling? She Jlyhusbai'd iaci.miriz town to sp3nd Sunday. s .:t3rm; - s v'ij5r. h
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