7 - U, F. SOHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE I.AWS. Editor- and Proprietor. VOL. XL VII. MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19. 1S93 NO. 18. i i REV. PH. TALMAGIj. The Iirooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject : "The Sleepers Awakeced.' Try ".Voin !. t hriat n'm rom ffce da am! twm. f,,,. i,-,t fruits of them thai itpt. 1 Corinthians xv., Vu tins gloriou Easter morninsr. amid tht nmsu. an i I he ll jnrers I Rive you a Chris tian sanation. This momma: Kimsian nieetin.' Kussian on tnestre-ts or tit. Peters, bur umls him with the salutation. "Christ uriwiif' anl is auswerel bf his frieol ia aiutti..n. "He is rNen indeed!" Xa um. pari, of Ln-ianJ and' irelan I, tj this very day, there is the u -erstition that on Eister n'.rain the sun dance in the heavens, an I w ll ni.iy we forK,v aucn a superstition winch il.uitrste toe fact th it the natural world aeeins to sympathise with the sou-it-uai. Hail, Easter mornintrl Flowers I Flow er, I All of them a-voice, all of them s tongue, all of them full of speech today I tn I over one of the lilies and 1 hear it say tinnier me line or tue ueld, how they grow, thy toll not. ne.ther do thev sni tl Solomon in all nis glory was not arrayed ll cue of these." I bend over rnu 1 i It seeun to wb.wiM.-r: "1 am the rose of Sha ron.' And then 1 stand and listen. From all i.les there conies tbe chorus of flowers. ?,?' ,"' U elo,U?'' he-(rrajsof the field, which to-day is an 1 to-iuorrow is cast Into the ovrn, MiaH tie not much more Flowers I im! Brail them Into the brid.s hair. r lowers! Flowor strew ! Miaul u?w t;ie ifravas or tha - . prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers! J lower,! Twist them into a garland for my Lord Jesus ou b.tster morning. "(ilory be to the lather, aud to the Hun, and to the iioly Ubost; a. it was ia the bezinnme. U no and ever shall he." Uh. how brigut an I how beautiful the I flowers and how inu.-u they make me think o. "iiM.nuu c.ia religion that brightens our character, brightens society, brightens the church, brightens everyt! iuI You who go with gloomy coiiiiieuiuue preteniing you re better than 1 am because of your luu briousuesa. jou cuDuot cheat me. Pretty case you are tor a man that proteases to be more thau a conqueror. It is not religion ttiet makes you gloomy, it is the lack oi it. There is just as much religion in a welding in a burial, juntas in tie u religion ui a uiile as in a tear. These gloomy Christians we sometimes see are the people to whom 1 like to lend money, for 1 never see them suu. The women came to the Savior's tomb, an 1 they dropped p;c?s all around the tomb, and those spices were the seed that bean to grow aud from t.ieui came all tde flower of this Easter moru. The twoaujels robed it white took hold of the stone at the Savior's tomb, and tb-y hurled it with such fores down tbe bill that it crushed in the door of the world's sepulchre, and the stark aud th dead must come lorib. 1 care not how Ubyrinthiue the mauso leum or how costly the s ireoph.-iijus or hotr ever beautifully parterred the family grounds, we w int them all broken up by tlie Ixrd or the rteui rection. 1 hey must come out. Father and mother they must come out Husband and wife they must come out. hi-othir an 1 sisrer they must come out. Our darling children they mu-t come out. The eyes ttiat we close witii such tramMinj fingers must opu aaiu in the radiance of that morn, tue arms we I'oldel in dust must join ours in an embrace of re union. The voice that was hushed in our dwelling must be returned. Oh, how loni some ot you sewn to In waiting waiting for the resurrection, waitmgl And for these broken hearts to-liy I make a soft, cool ban lae out o; Ea-ter d iweis. lly I'rieu.ls, 1 tin I in tbe risen Christ a prophecy o( our own resurrection, my text selling forth tbe ideathat as Christ bas arisen so Hispet.ple will rise. H; the drst sheaf of the resurrection barv-sr. He "the tlrst fruits of them that slept." Hafore I get through this morning 1 will walk through all tbe cemeteries of the deal, through all the country graveyar.is, where your beloved ones are buri I, anl I will pluck off these flowers, and I will drop a sweer promise of tbe gospel a rose of hopp, a lily of Jiy on very tomb the chilo's tomb, the husoand's tomb, the wife's tomb, the father's grave, the mother's grave, and while we celebrate the resurrection of Christ we will at tbe same time celebrate the resurrection of all the good. "Christ the first truits of them tost slept." If i stiould come to you this morning and ask you for the names of the gret conquer ors of the world, you would say Alexander, C'sBaar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ah! my frien is, you have forgotten to mention the name of a greater conqueror than all ot these a cruel, a gba6tiy conqueror. He who rode on a black horse across Waterloo and Atlanta and Cbatons, the bloody hoofs crushing the bearU of nations. It is the conqueror Death. Again and again has he done this work with all generations. He is a monarch as well as a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher; bis fountains the ialtiu tears of a world. Blessed be Uod, in the light of this Ei-tr morning 1 see tne prophecy tnat his scepter shall be broken an 1 his p tlace shall be de molished. The hour is coining when all who are in their graves shall come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise. JesU9 "the first fruits ot them that slept." Now, around tnis doc trine of th resurrection toere are a great many mysteries. You come to me this morning and sav, "If the bodies of the dead are to be raised, how is this and how is tint?' An I you ask wsa tnousand questions 1 am in competent to answer, hot there are a great many things you believe that you are not able to explain. You would be a very foolish man to say, 1 won't believe anything i can't understand." 1 find my strength In this pasin. 'All who are in their graves shall come forth." I ilo not pretend to make tne explanation. You can goon and ay: "Suppose a re turned missionary dies in Brooklyn. When he was in China, his font was amputated. He lived years after in England, and there he bad an arm amputated. He is buried to-dy in Greenwoo 1. In the resurrection will the foot oome from China, will the arm come from Englaml, and will tbe different parts of the body be reconstructed in the resurrection r How is that possiblef" You say that "the buman body chamres very seven years, and by seventy years of ge a man has had ten bodies. In the resurrection which will come upf' You say, "A man will die and his body cnimtde into dust and that dust be taken up into tne life ot the vegetable. An animal may eat the vegetable, men eat the animal. In the resurrection thst bodv, distributed in so many directions, how "shall it be gathered bl" Have you any more questions of this style to ask? Come on and ask them. I do not pretend to answer them. I fall back upon tne announcement of Uoi's word. "All wco are in their graves shall oome forth." x ou have notice 1. I supnose, in reading the story of tne resurrection that almost every accouut of th Bible jives the i lea that the characteristic of that day will be a great und. I do not know that it will bs very " j i, nut 1 know it will be very penetrating. In the mausoleum, where silence has reigued a thousand years, that voice must pene trate. In the coral cave of tha deep that oice must penetrate. All along the sea route from New York to Li'erpool at every lew miles whre a stera went down departed soirits coming back hoveriag ev-r the wave. There is where tc City of Boston perihe I. Found at last. is where the President perished. Hteamer found at last. There is where tha tentral America went down. Spirit noveringhundreds of spirits hoverinsf, waiting for the reunion of body and aouU VJut on the prairie a spirit alights. There is where a traveler died in the snow. Crash! goes Westminster Abbey, and the poets and orators cmud forth; wonieriul mingling of rod and bsd. Crash! go the pyramids ot yj' i the monarch come lortb. ho can sketch tne scene? I suppose that one moment before that general rising thsre ixin,bnan ?"tir "" aw you hear the of a Whwl or c,atte'' of the honfs Brtencan P5" intJ the cemetery, on toe h9 C'1T", of th rtn- Silanca to u . n tbe mou,ltli"- Silence dowa -.leoce. 7' nl ar out mto the But in a moment I-.- run Z trumpet comes peal- ImLZV0' cro" mountain n4 S earth tftoma, tazriAa mwt der. and the graves of th dead will hear hke the waves of the sea, and Ostond and Sevastopol and Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid air, and tha drowned will com up and wring out their wet locks above the bil low, and all th land and all th aea become one moving mass of lite all face, all age allconditiona, gating in on direction and upon on throne-the tliron. of resurrection, forth.- m U""r baU oome "But-you aay, "If thU doctrine of th resurrection Is true as prefigured by thia SteTum.0,,,", ChrUt. th nrrt frJiUof them that slept Christ rising . nmn,i Jti a prophecy oi the rising of all Hi mod!. ' can von tuM n- , KH I rected bodyr I can. There are mntein ?Ut but 1 l"-t-a you three orfour 1 m to th. reurrirbov had not marred and df 1 it Take th. snoat axoulaise atrta. that w- ItTrT-Tz an artist and chip it here and ohlp u tber. I w.th a chisel and batter and bruise It here " " tana it out tn the storm, of a huntlred years, and th beauty would be gone. Well, the human body has been chlppe.1 and battered and bruised and damaged with the storms of thousands of years the puy. ical defecU of other generations coming nown from generation to generation, we in benting tne infelicities of past generations, but in th morning of tha resurrection tbi boily will be adorned and beautified accord ing to the original model. And ther la no uch difference between a gvmnast and an emaciated wretch In a laxsre'tto as there will be a difference between our bodies) aa ther are now and onr resurrected forma. Ther you will aea the ni-f.t ... . th. water, of death hay washed out th atalns of tears 4. study. There yoa will n!'-tb15erfec,n"n l aft'r tha knot of toll hav. been untied from tbe knuckles. Thane you wUI see the form erect and elastic after the burdens have gone off th shoulder tha Tery lit of God in the body. In this world the most inipremlv thint the most expressive thing, t. th. human face, but that face is veiled with the griefs or a thousand years, but in the resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from th face, and the noonday sun is dull and dim and stupid compared with thenutflaminz glome, of the countenamwe of tbe saved. hen those faces of the righteous, thoea re surrected faces, tarn toward the gat or look up toward the throne, it will be like tne dawning of a new morning on the bosom of everlasting day I On, glorious resur rected body I But I remark also, In regard to that body which you are to get in the resurrection. It will be an immortal body. These bodies are wasting away. Somebody has said as soon as we begin to live we begin to die. Uiiles. we keep putting the fuel into the furnace the furnace dies out. The blood vessel, are canals taking the brea Istuffs to all parts of toe system. y e must be reconstructed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness and death are all the time trying to get their prey un- uer iuo tenement, or to pusl us on tne em bankment of the grave; but, blessed be God, in the msurrection we will get a body im mortal. No malaria in the air, no cough, no neu ralgic twinge, no rheumatic pang, no flut tering of the heart, no shortness of breath, no ambulance, no dispensary, no bosplta1, no invalid's chair, no spectacles to improve the dim vision, but health, im mortal bealtbl Oh ye who have aofees and pains indescribable this morning Oh ya who are never well Oh ye who are laoerated witb physical distresses, let me tell you of the resurrected body, free from all diseue. Immortal i Immortal! I will go further and sav, in regard to that body wbich you are to gt in the resurrec tion, it will lie a powerful body. We walk now eiibt or ten miles, and we are fatigued; we lift a lew hundred pounia,and we are ex haust!; unarmed, we meet a wild beast, and we must run or fly or climb or douga, because we are incompetent to meet it; we toil eight or ten hours rigorously, and thn we are weary, but in the resurrection we are to have a body that never gets tired. Is it not a glorions thought? Plenty of occupation in heaven. I suppose Broadway, New York, in the busiest season of the year at noonday is not so busy a. heaven I. all tbe time. Grand project, of mercy for other worlds. Victories to be celebrated. The downfall of despotisms on earth to be announced. Great eongs to be learned and sung. Great expeditions on which God shall send forth His children. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you are seated under the trees of life, it will not be to r st, but to talk over with some old com rade old times tbe battles where you fought boulder to shoulder. Sometimes in this world we feel we would like to have such a body as tnat There is so much work to be done for Cbrht ther are so many tears to be wiped away, there are so many bnrdens to lift, there Is so much to be achieved for Christ, we sometimes wish that from tbe first of January to tbe last of liecember we could toil on without stopping to sleep, or take any recreation, or to rest, or even to take food that we oould toil right on without stopping a moment In our work of commending Christ and heaven to ail the people. But we all get tired. It is characteristic of the human body m this condition. We must get tired. 1 it not a glorious thought that after a whil we sre going to have a body that will never get weary? Oh, glorious resurrection,day. Gladly will I fi.ng aside this poor body of sin and fi.ng it into the tomb, if at Thy bid ding 1 sball have a body that never wearies. That was a splendid resurrection hymn that was sung at my lather's burial: Ho Jeans slept. Goa l dying Soo's ... fsseed tnrongb toe grave and blessed the bed. Best here, blest saint, till from His tnrooe To. niornio O.'raks to pierce Ul shade. 0 blessed resurrection I Speak out, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers, while you tell of a risen Christ and tell of th righteous who shall rise. May God fill you this morning with anticipation I 1 beard ot a father and son whs among others were shipwrecked at sea. Tbe father and the son climbed into the rigging. The father held on, but the sou after a whil. lost bis hold in the rigging and was dashed down. Toe father supposed be bad gon. hopelessly under the wave. The next day the father was brought ashore from the rigging In aa exhausted state and laid in a bed in a fisher man's hut, and after many hours had passed be came to consciousness and saw lying be side him on th same bed his boy. Oh, mv friends, what a glorious thing It will be When we wake up at last to find our loved ones beside us. Coming up from th same plot in th graveyard, coming up in th sain morning light th father and son alive forever, all tha loved one. aliv. for ver, nevermore to weep, nevermore to Dart, nevermore to die. Slay the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that jrreaS shepherd of the sheep, through th blood ot tbe everlasting covenant, mak you perfect in every good work, to do His will uJJ this brilliant scene of th morning our thoughts to th grander assemblage be- bIugurt assemblage i to nothing eora Tared with it Tha one hundred and forty P"1? i ..! the "araat multitu IS ana tour mww. - . . that no man can number." some of our best friends among them, w after awbil to Join tha multttud. Blessed antic.pat.oul Jfy soal anticipates the day. w ould stretch ber wings e. soar swsy To aid the song, tbe pelm to bear Aad bow. the chief of sinners, there. From stat istics o vi ring the list 32 yenrait is computed that the average I. fe of wt-uie'i i'i France lia3 been 38 years, anil of men 36 yera. Durli.g last year, however, tbe average roee to 40 J ears for both sexes. M. Felix, the well known Parisian man-uiilhner. has always condemned crinolines in an ehape. He Ukea oo.e credit to himseir for having brongt.t In to vrgue the infinitely more graceful stle tliat has reiprn1 of late. Tterortsfrom Few OrleaDS rhow that the Louisiana ut r . rop reached last year 189 500 tons upon which the bounty will be $7,6S0,00O as against f 6 83 E90 raid In bounties laat year. i-A body weirnmjf lO.OfO pounds at the rtrutoc -vsut,. wtHib 10,031 pounds la London Trailer, tbe famous dog wblcn died la Southern Oregon tbe otherday, during bis llfetim" caught 106 tmn, besides pantbert -ad wildcats. THE TONE OF VOICE. It to not so much what yon siv. As the manner In w h eh y mi say If : It Is not so much the lanen o;e you use. As the tone In which y.m convey It. Come here f I sbar y aid. And the baby mve e and wept: "Come here!'' I co a I, and ha looked and smiled And straight to my Up he crept. The work may be mild snd fair. And ihe tones m.iy treree like a dart ; The words may be soft as the Summer air. And the tone may break the heart. For words but come from the silnd, And grow by stu-iy and art: But the tones leap from the Inner self, And reveal the suite of the heart Whether you know It or not Whether you 11. e.in or eare, O-nileuess. kindness, love and hat. Envy aud auger aie there. Then would you quarrels avoid. And In peace aud love rejoice, K en inyer only not out of Tour words. Hut keep It out of your voice, delected. A MYSTERY SOLVED. Mr. Joseph Touco was a spare-built clean-shaven man of about forty, with gruy hair and no whiskers, and with nothing rciuarkuble about liitu except a deep cut over his right eye Vow. When ho first came Into the neigh borhood the i;o-iips of llradtown had speculated a great deal as to who and what he was. but without any basis or their conjectures. About the time our story corn, uienccs the Captain had got into some trouble. Ills landlord, an easy going, well-to-do tradesman, began to think that, as be suid, he sh'nild like see the color of the Captain':? iioney. The patience of his creditors was nearly exhausted, when one day a circular letter was sent to them ap pointing a meeting for 12 o'cliek on the following Monday, "when," tho Captain wrote, "he would satisfy all claims, as a legacy left by a distant relatiou had been paid into his ac 'Xiunt at the Balston Hank." On Saturday the Captain hired a gig at the King's Arms to take him to Ifalston. Johnny Wilson, the land lord's son, drove him to the bank at Balston, where he staid about ten minutes, and camo out at the end of that time buttoning into the breast pocket of his coat a fat-looking pocket-book. Johnny waited for him while he made a few purchases in tho town, and then drove him straight home to the "building." At 8 o'clock on Sunday morning the Inhabitants of quiet High street were aroused by a violent knocking st the door of the police station. The policeman who was or. niirht duty opened the door and Mary Wil corube, the Captain's servant, white with terror and panting with exer tion, nearly fell into his arms, gapp ing out that her master, the Captnirv, bad been robbed and murdered in th night. The Inspector was immediately called and the whole available police force of the village, consisting of two policemen, set off with him for the "building." Mary Wilcombe, who seemed lit terly prostiated, remained under the re of the Inspector's wife. On reaching the "ouilding" the In spector found the front undisturbed, the windows closed and the door 'ocked. On going round to the back the door leading from the dining-room to the garden, which sloped down t the river, was found to be open, and on entering the sitting-room drops of blood were seen along the carpet be tween tbe staircase and tbe gnrder door. On the staircase itself the drops of Vlood were more frequent. The bedroom, however, was clearly the place where the murder had been committed. The table by the window had been pushed out of its place; the only two chairs in the room were found lying on the floor. The bed, which had not been slept in, was deluged with blood, and in the middle of it was a deep Indenta tion as If a heavy body had beep pressed down upon it. A large clasp-knife, stained with blood, was lying on the pillow, and by the door on the floor was an oper tocket-book. So much the inspector saw at a glance as he entered. He took the pocket-book and looked carefully through it. It was empty; but lying near it'and behind the door was a piece of neatly folded paper. It had evidently fallen from the pocket-book while the miir lerer was emptying the contents. It was a half-sheet of note papet folded in three, and written on it were the numbers and value of the bank Dotes, the total of which amounted to 270. Policeman Jones was immediately sent off to Balston with the paper to inquire of the bank manager whether those were the numbers of tbe notes which bad been paid to the Captain the day before, and if so to take measures to stop them. He also received orders to telegraph immediately to Scotland Yard an ac count of the murder and any facts he might ascertain at Balston. After locking the bed-room door the inspector proceeded to the garden. Outside the door, on the grass, wer the footprints of a man, the toes pointing toward the house and the heels deeply indented in the soft earth. The rest of the footprints were partially obliterated, as if something heavy had been dragged over them. The murderer must have gone out of the sitting-room backward, drag ging the body of his victim after him. Across the small grass plot and half-way through the belt of trees the footsteps continued. There they ;cased. On the soft m:id and leaves was an impression as if a heavy body had been laid there. Near the Impression, lying on the ground, was a spade, and at a distance of a few feet the ground bad been dug up as if it had been in tended to bury the body there. On the river baDk the footprints were again found. This time they pointed forward and not backward, and tho Impression was clear and tharx Tbe body must have been carried. The river at this point was deep and eluggish; there would be no little tlirheu'lty In dragging it. Drags were sent for and the In Kpector went home to breakfast, leav ing a policeman in charge of the premises with orders to admit no oue except on business. The Inspector had hardly finished ' hi breakfast when Policeman Jones ' returned from Balston. He had been eminently successful. ( The bank manager bad identified the numbers ou tbe paper as those of the bank notes paid the day before to tbe . 'Japtain. , The money, it appeared, had been paid to him in pursuance of an order contained in a letter received that Saturday morning from their London correspondent, Cowie, Nabob At Co., .he great China and Indian bankers. The drags nad n w been at work some time, but without success. The river had been dragged up and down, and sideways and across, and at every conceivable angle, but no body had been found. The Inspector was getting Impa tient, when a gig drove up to the "building' and a dapper little man in a frock coat, buttoned to bis chin, and with a heavy black mustache, lumped out. The crowd which had collected by this time made way very respectfully, for it was whimpered that t his stranger was no other than Detective Perkins 'rom London. Iu a few minutes the detective had hoard all that the Inspector bad tc tell. They entered the "building." Tha crowd outside was getting more ex cited. They thought that now the London detective had come the murderer would toon be dragged from his hid ing place and handed over to justice. Time, however, went on and Per kins was still inspecting the premises, while his character was rapidly tail ing in the opinion of the crowd out tide. 'He's no conjuror. I told ye so afore," 6aid one sturdy countryman who had been a skeptic from the first. And this time his assertion did not mee, with the disapprobation it had ailed forth when pronounced half an hour before. The crowd was tired oi waiting. Perkins, meanwhile, unconscious of hostile criticism, had looked over the kitchen and Mary's bedroom, but without making any discovery. When be came to the Captain's bedroom he stood in the middle of it and took a general survey. He then proceeded to the details. He raised tbe chairs and then put them down again in their original position, repeating this operation two or three times, watching with great uteres i how they fell. Then he camo to the bed. He looked at it from all points first a full view, then a three-quarters, then one side view, and then the other side till he had exhausted it and the patience of the Inspector. He then stovi and mentally threw himself upon it In such a position as to make the impression which still remained on it. There was some hitch, f- he shook his head. He pulled out the drawers and examined the wardrobe of the de ceased man. A pair of boots lying in the corner of the room next attracted his atten tion. He examined them carefully. Some thing in the lining of one of them seemed to Interest him, for he brought out his pocket-book and referred to something written in it. He then examined the boot again and seemed satisfied, for he pocketed it. At last Perkins finished his exam ination of the bedroom and went down-stairs, inspecting each stair as he went- These were apparently more satis factory, for his face brightened con siderably, and after be ha-J been shown the tracks of blood along the floor of the sitting-room, it had ex panded to a broad grin. "You see how it was done?" asked the Inspector, whose opinion of Per kins had by this time reached the lowest ebb. Perkins smiled; he was not the man to commit himself. He walked to the table and turned over the books and papers till he found some sheets of blotting paper. These he examined attentively, holding them in every possible direc tion. The result seemed to be very satisfactory, for he pocketed them. The footprints In the garden, the .half-dug grave under the trees and the impression in the wet leaves seemed to interest him little. He examined them, but onlv like one preoccupied with his own thoughts. They came to the river bank. "We've dragged the river," said the Inspector, pointing to the two boats which had now been working unsuccessfully for some hours. "Ah. yes!" said Perkins, as if the necessity of doing it had never struck him. "The man' a perfect idiot," thought the Inspector. "And now about this Captain," said Perkins, choosing the clearest footprint he could find in the soft mud and pulling the boot out of his pocket. "His name is Tonce, you ay. What is he captain of?" "Nothing that I know of, but tbey do say that he has been a captain in tbe China trade." "China?" repeated Perkins, as ll the idea of that country gave him ex quisite delight. "Yes, China," repeated the In spector, gruffly. He was losing all patience; how on earth did such a born idiot become a detective?" What sort of a man is he?" Tall, spare-built, about 40, gra hair and no whiskers." "Deep cut over the right eyebrow?" added Perkins, quietly, as he stooped and fitted the boot into the lmpres lion. "Yes," said the Inspector, puzzled at Perkin's knowledge. "He never went by that name here, did he?" said Perkins, handing the boot to the Inspector, on the lining it which was written "A. Oompton." "Never." He was getting more tnd more puzzled. "OomptJn, alias Wathins, alia Ctei4Tt4 Bow 0M Tons ll wanted him these two years," saia Perkins, cheerfully. "I've got him T10W." "Yes." said the Inspector, grimly, "he's safe enough here." And he erked his head toward the river. "Bless you," laughed Perkins, "he's nearer China by this time. He'll die with a roDe round his neck vet. It's a plant, man. Don't you see? He ! has murdered himself and bolted with the swag. That room some how looked queer. It was overdone; too much blood and too regular. When I found that boot I thought how it was, and this settled it," said Perkins, putting the sheets of blot- i ting paper out of his pocket and hand 'ng them to the Inspector. There, all over them, were the words Cowie, Nabob & Co., in a neat clerk-like hand, with that peculiar ' flourish at the end which those who i have, dealings with that eminent i house knew so well. "That letter to the Balston bank Is a forgery. It is not the first time be bas sereved Cowie, Nabob & Co. this trick. He was in their counting-room for five years, came over with a forged character, robbed them to the tune of 2,000 and bolted. He's been smug gling and thieving all over the world since then. But when is the next train to town? I wouldn't miss him 'or anything." Perkins was right. The manager of the Balston bank found to his astonishment that Cowie, Nabob & Co. repudiated the letter which purported to bear their signa ture. It was a forgery. On the following luesday the Cap tain was arrested at tbe London docks as he was booking his passage for Melboune, and at tbe Balston as sizes he was tried by the name of Joseph Tonce on a charge of forgery and sentenced to penal servitude for the rest of his natural life. His cred itors at Bradtown were the only per sons who regretted him. OSTKICH FARMING IN CALIF OF N1A. Mont people have heard something of ostrich-farming in Soith Africa, but few, comparatively, know that within the last ten years ostriches have been imported into Southern California, and thrive well in that beautiful olimate. 1 was lately staying," writes our cor eesdondent, "on an ostrich-farm, owned by sn Englishman, at Norwalk, Los ADgeles County, California, and took some instantaneous photographs of these interesting big birds, with their 'attitudes queer and quaint,' as well as some sketches. When going amongst the birds it is sometimes neo essary to carry a long, forked stick, and if they sbonld show fight tbey are literally 'choked-otF by tbe application of tbe fork of the ttick to their necks, fighting ia the paddock, nd the men rushing np with forked sticks to choke them off before tbey have time to in jure their fe it hers. Their diet is varied by giving them chopped up sngar-heets, maize, and alfalfa-hay, cut up and well moistened, and thus even a small farm of twenty acree, highly cultivated, can Buppoitoie hundred ostriches. The first plncking, from chicks six months old, averages 17 a. per bird at whole sale prices, after which the birds are plucked every seven months, the sec ond plucking averaging 10., the third and alter 4, nntil tb.9 birds are full-grown, when the annual proceeds ironi the festhcrs of an ostrich are over 71. Tbe unfertile eggs are blown, and have a ready tale at Hf, and upwards, a dozen. '1 he admission fees cf visit ors to the ostrich-farms are also another source of profit. A duty of twenty-five per cent, levied on raw feathers im ported into the United States gives the ostrich-farmer there an additional ad vantage." - Abnuc the t otato. This bacciferous herb with esculent roots, as Houghton calls it, or opti mum benignl Nuininis donum, dapes grata diviti; pauperi panis, as an eminent botanist styles it, was first discovered in America, according to Gerard's Herbal, published in J597, which authority is quoted by thr Encyclopedia Britannlca. The Spaniards met with it in the neighborhood of Quito, and Spanish books refer to it as early as 1553. Jt was introduced into Spain from Feru by Hieronymu9 Cardan, a monk. Thence it passed into Italy and Bel gium. Sir Walter Baleigh carried it from Virginia to Ireland, according to the vime authority, in 1610. The American Encyclopa?dia says: "It is thought that its (the potato's) occurrence in Virginia was due to a recent introduction by the Spaniards; there is no proof that it was in culti vation by the aborigines of this coun try or those of Mexico." THE FOREMAN. BY SAM WALTIR TOSS. The foreman's head sticks through the door, I want to aet." we he.tr him roar. Three column, added to this tale In thirteen second, without fall I And this seven-column piece yoa see I want to set cut down to three. Your editorial, to day Are seventeen Inches ont the wav, Thev sre too loin: to read. I know. Put .eventeen inches short for .how. And that new sd' of Wa.henVs Snap So crowds your ten-vered poms on 'Hope,' That I ean'see no wsy to do Kut you mu.tcut It down 'o two. Hold on I I hiive not flni.hed yet. There', lots er more I wa-it to set. I want four 'take." of fnnnv column With which you ninke your readers solemn. Five chunk. f anecdote and stuff And two more .torle. I. enotiffn ; And after you've got till. mu-h writ, I'll tell what else 1 want to get." The foreman's word fills me with aw Tis like a Mede and rrUti law. I do not d re to an.wernev. But Just keep .Dent and nt eyr For hat are foremen for, good sirs. But just to edit editors' My editorials t dilute To All the proper place to suit. My poem f.iir I cut and ira.h A Heart trln( sn ip. at every slash ThouEb through grief a darkness drear I grope. 1 must make room for Wathem's Soap; 1 Drar e'en this outrageous stroke For lol the foreman be has spoael And so I smother down nr hlle And greet him with my sweetest smile. For it is my especial pi hie To keep the monster satl-flei; I've stuffed him with my loftiest themes, ' I've fed hlra on my sweetest dreams, And part be eats with eaeer zest And asks me to "hash up" the rest. But once I near slipped his control A mighty cnurai-e tilled my soul. That dy. I well remember yet. He came and said, " waul to get" And I was Just about to say, (My courage was Immense tbat day), " You want to get,' without a doubt, You want to get.' Well, then, get out P But, ab, those words were never said -For fear tbat be would smite me dead. It was a grand and glorious Joke, Bat, Ilk siy best jokes, staid unspok. THU ISC OF EMPTIED M MART EVANGELt.NB BCBOft. In many b on pes empty boxes and pots, etc, are often thrown away, when, with the expenditure of a little time and tronble, tbey might be easily con verted into r retty aud nsefnl articles, tbe lint of which it w n! J cot be pos sible to exhanst. However, I intend here to suggest how some of these can be made, and inventive minds and handy fingers will soon evolve many varieties for themselves. . Empty fruit-boxes can be utilized ia mauy waVS. Tbey make capital flower boxes if painted greeD, and used with a little drainage in tbe way of broken flower pots and stones placedat tbe bot tomland the boxes themselves stood on i nidi supports an inch or so high, so i a to allow water to escape. In Fig. t you will see exactly how an empty box can be turned into a very convenient receptacle for banging above yonr watduttand. to contain the many bottles, etc., which, thongh nse fnl, are not as a rnle ornamental. If yon merely stain tbe box, yon should plan j any nneven surface, and then nse whatever stain or emimel yoa select But if you cover tbe entire box, inside and ont, with either some pretty chintz, or calico, or with artistic wall paper, all infl-mitlr s of nneren ness are hidden. A frill or curtain, as yoa will see, is nailed across tbe box, and this keeps the contents of the latter free from dust. If yoa prefer no. to have it so that it can be drawn qnite aside, yon should mount it upon r ngs to run upon a stont cord, or better still, a tod fastened on the box. At any house furnishing store you will get some "eyes," to be fastened at the back of the box, by which it can te hung agairjst the wall. This kind of thing, if made with a larger box, is very useful as a boot-box. Boots snd shoes are by no means improved by being left out in tbe dust, nor are tbey an ornament to a bed-room. A charming work-box or table, ratter which I once saw made by a friend of mine, is well illnst rated in Fig. 2. TLie is made of a square emp ty wooden box, which is fastened upon four legs. The latter are t-iinply 1rnomatika cut thei length suitable for a table, and iasteued into j tha Iwi hv heinir unshed thronch . holes easily made in the bottom of I the box, a red hot poker being a I bandy way of doing this. The legs win. 3. ar thsn painted or enameled in what ever color yon select, and the box it self js lined carefully with fateeo, cretonne, silk, or anything yon pleae. Yoa should make pockets to hold spools etc.; fasten a pin-eus'iion in one corner, and nail down a strap with inter vals at various distances, which can hold scitsors, crochet-hooks, thimble, eto. Tl e bot om of the box is covered neat ly by biking a piece of cardboard tbe FIG. A. exact sire, ana alter laying fnme wad ding upon it, turning the edge of the material over i, gluing it down, and then glning the whole thin? tipon tbo bottom. This secures the hiding of all tbe e lges of the lining, which thus can be left a few inches beyond the inner edge of the liox. Round the out side of the box is drawn a piece of em broidered material of a color to har monize with the lining. Art serge em broidered in crewels is very pretty; and if yoa wish for som thing thut shall be richer in effect, yoa can nse Roman satin, and embroider yonr pat tern in filoselle or other silks. This band is nailed down with fancy nails, and the cover, which is loose, should be of tbe same material, also embroid ered. If yon like it yoa can fasten castors to the legs of the table, whioh, when complete, is extremely pretty. In iig. 4 yon see how an etagtre is made with a couple of boxes fastened one os top of another, side upon side. There are also planed and enamelled, or grained, or else covered and lined according to fancy. An embroidered strip of material is sailed at the top, and tbe same or a narrower border where the boxes join. A pretty scrim ia draped at the sides, and tha whole stand is found very orna mental. If at all inclined to be riokat- v JLJi ty, yon can secure it in its place by screwing it to the floor aud attacking "eyes" bs for the boot-box. Of course the size of the stand depends upon the boxes you obtsin. Tl ee, by the way, if you have not got them by yon, enn l obtained very easily and cheaply at any grocer's. y y A large empty box can be converted , into a loniige if some little tronble and I taste are exercised upon it- Unless yoa have a gool box with a hinge which, ' when covered, will serve as an ottoman to open and sLnt, it is belter to Dal down the cover, or, if ft is broken, to take it off altogether, and tarn the ease . down, bottom upwards. On this yon I can place a narrow mattress. Cover this in any way yon like the plan ad- mits of many variations in the way of frills and drapery generally; and when done nith taste, and pretty cushions placed upon it, the lounge is one which . few would guess is made out of a pack-1 ing-ca.se I Fig. 5). j Window-seats and "cosy-corners" ran be made very easily out of cases managed in tbe same way. Fig. 3 j shows ns a dre- sing-table also made ont of parking-ciiHes, wilh small boxes, j en- me led and draped, which serve as supports for the camllee. and also to contain any odds and ends. The front , of the case is, as you see, facing you, and the empty space forms a capital j place for bonnet-boxes, eto. The drap ery, if it is intended to be a ashed of- ( ten, should be mounted on a running 6tring and just nailed at the corners, and here and there, under tbe loose toilet-cover. In draping the wall above and round tbe looking-glass, it is well to remember the proximity of the can- I dies, and to bear in mind the danger of fire which muht easily be induoea if ertat care was not taken. Unless the muslin is fire proof I cannot rec ommend this, in spite of the pretty ap pearance of the plan as seen in the drawing. If obtainable, an electric light, well protected, might be placed over the table and no danger incurred. HQ. 6. Foot-stools can easily be made from small square boxes turned over. pad- ded well, end covered witn some pretty stuff, embroidered or not, as your taste and power of working dictate. The work-bag in Fig 6 is made from an old barrel covered with embroidered material, and lined carefully with some pretty stuff or silk whio'i, drawn up as 4yoa will 6ee it done, makes a capital bag. The lining can be glned down inside. The shove plan answers very well for a w'te-paper casket oox rainer which n snch a convenient appendage to a writing-table. It is often useful too in any room, whether writing be done there or no, for, as the French so truly call it, it is a cache d' ordre. Ends of strings, snippings of paper or stuff, and any odd snd ends to be thrown away, often litter a room, par ticularly when there is not a fire into which to throw tiiem. Empty baskets, such as strawberries are soli in, can le turned into very charming pincushions if stuffed and trimmed, and these also form good foundations for work-tags. These are merely suggestions, and 1 have no doubt that if you are clever ana inventive, yoa win fooq nave a list of yonr own of tbe many pretty and usefnl thiDgs which can be made ont oi what is often thrown away, or looked upon as useless lumber. FAMOUS GERMAN BANDS. Now Behearslns; In Berlin Prepara rr tom,.o m.i; tory to Conilng- to the Fair. 6a;7sn GermaTVcomlng torte r.,. ,,., pear in the German vi.lage, on 5lid way Plaisance, and give concerts fre quently during the day. They are the flower of the German army. Be fore any of the musi cians were accepted they had to submit to a rigid exaruin ition, cooducted by the royal rmy band inspector, G. Rossberg: the royal ct urt musician, J. Kos- ck; tbe royal musical irector, E. Rusche- weyh; cavalry band master, G. Herrold.and eminent musi- The last two BKRn k. Kcsi.nie-oi.iiei wtn cians. named gentlemen were engaged a Inadora rf rVip hnnds. -1 ' '- - ' ' W no. s- V'LV. M '- i&VlfcMY'-d In tho brilliant uniforms of the lvy copicu. it is reauy an anvcr Gerraan arm? these famous musicians tisement in disguise for the concern -in for,r. i-nnrort. at. the which manufactures vaseline, and Fair. E. Ruscheweyh, e inductors, is famous rne of the beyond thr frontiers of Germany. . no has conducted the Tlvoli concerts for fif teen years. Herr Rus ! cheweyh looks bark up ' on a military career of ! more than thirty years. Herr Herrold, ma-ter j of the cavalry band, has served in that capacity for twenty years r rom .OO. lUii: feu. wwrna 1 1001 io iom uo "i-- Kins a tached t o the Royal novo. Music Academy at Berlin. Royal Court Musician Kosleek, who is also . coming, has taken charge of the exer- J cises of the old historic trumpet music upon the antique valveless special order of the Emperor, Intro- dared in several cavalry regiments of trumpets This sort of music was, by the Prussian army. Kn.K manufactures were established in Europe in A. D. 550. Th notation system of writing moais was invented in 1070a FICS AND THISTLES. tVbaix WtnnowiBc of the Epts.rammatle' Km'. Bora. MALL peopre like to te made much of. This cindle Ij not seen umU It is lighted. "He that cov. creth his sins shall not pros per." The man who buries his tal ent buries him. Nobody can be happy without first being useful. F.vkky big devil was once an in. noceot-looking imp. Feoi'le who claim to love God should not hate soap. God Is dead to us until we find out that he loves us. When children get hungry the cry for bread, not pie. "Evert one of us shall give ac count of himself to God." If your burden is heavy it Is not the burden of Christ. Evert step we take in grace makes our Bible bigger. Our best successes are built upon t foundation of failures. Tfie cross we pick out for ourselves s always the heaviest. To reject God's word means thai rou have rejected his Christ. Ah optimist is a man who believes that all eggs will hatch. "To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin." The only people who love the world are those who do not love Christ. God is not in tbo revival that, winds up with a church entertain ment. Until you can see God in vour owa heart you can not see Him anywhere.' Christ only had to say. "It is writ ten," three times to make the devil run. "The eves of the Lord are in evcr place, beholding the evil and thf good. " God is a stranger in the world where He can not prove that lie can suffer. The nearer a Christian gets to Christ the more charity he has for others. A pessimist is a man who believe that all tbe chestnuts have worms ia them. "Happy is be that condemneth not himself in that thing which he al- loweth." The worst thing about some busL cess men's failures is the failure of conscience. It is only in a world where there Ik suffering ihat God cau prove that Hf ' suffers. As sure as you undertake to fight' the devil with lire you will get the worst of it. I The Christian is the only man who can go straightforward while looking straight up. I The devil's power over us is de stroyed whdii we fiud out that God loves us. I The monev that is the root of all evji ls the money that is in another'i Docket. I The children of a millionaire nevet get much acquainted with their father. The Christian army divided, Is beaten as Napoleon defeated his ene mies in detail. "God is a Spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Heaves means more to those in it necause of what they see of God's doings on earth. The less religion there is in a church the more oysters and ice cream j jt taie9 to run it. God does nothing for which we should not adore Him, if we could know the whole truth. A Hlra ate Umnbag. The American Analyst is a Journal published in New York, and is of very modest, unpretentious size. Bu6 the character of Its contents more than compensates for this disadvan- tage, if indeed it be a disadvantage. Analyst is gold mine of reliable Information. From it we quote the following: 'Ladies should be careful how they ase vaseline on the face, for the result of a number of experiments bas ln- 'duced the suspicion that a persistent use of it will cause hair to grow on lmost any part of the face. There have been instances known of ladies inducing a heavy growth of hair on jthe upper lip and chin by using vas 'elinc to drive away pimples. Like ' soma other medicaments, vaseline is too new to allow of all its properties ; being yet fully known, but the fact that It will induce a growth of hair, if persistently used, seems to be fairly j well settled." Tbe above clipping Is going the rounds oi tne press, ana Deing seem I ingly valuable information, is exten- I 1 , J -T . . 1 1 J claims to nave tne exclusive right to sell pumpwax under that name, me worst, oi it is tuat iu con tains an unmitigated untruth. Vas eline will not make the hair grow, but not being a true fat acid ls really Injurious to the scalp. Our advice is to avoid it. This bubble about tbe virtues of vaseline must be pricked. Some time ago a similar squib went the rounds of newspapers, wherein vaseline was recommended as a good application for shoes and leather. Every currier can tell you that it ia absolutely injurious. Let it alone. JAPANESE IVY. From the middle to the enl of April ia the time for setting ont young plants of the Ampelopsis, or as it is more Su i it fcright foliMJ qne UU) ,n the autumn, and as yet is without a for quickly. peer aa a hardy climber beantifully and permanently covering rtone and brick buildings, fences, or any othei thing to which its tiny A,- ers aan eling. f
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