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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.
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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.
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