pii H, P. BOHWEIER, THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprtetor. VOL. XLVII. MIFFLINTOWfl. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APIUL 26. 1893. NO. 19. REV. DR. TAL11AGR The Brooklyn PiYinc's. Sunday Sermon. Pu y-C: "Ti e Dark S!!e of Cty Life.' Tftt: ".In th' darkness niht," Cieuesis i.. 5. He ea'Jei Two cxan 1 divisions of ti.n. The one c tunllglit, the other of slm low; the one for wc.rli. the other for rest; the on a tynol v.rythins clad an t beiutii'ul, the ottaar u.-ed in ll Iiiut"j as a tvp of tnlnn and stHic-tion an i sn. Tim two divisions of tune may have, nornenciatu' of human Invention, hut the lor;np hM 1 uo itsiiu-ky tn.w to the Lor), nn I He bmtiz -1 it, ths lw .ir pp ti fro n His ringers as He give it came, 'Mn.i the ilir'cnesn He callel night ' 11 y subject is nl.iniiht in town. Ths tbuuderof th city tin railel out of the air. The s'.izhtest sou n is cut tha ni-iit with ?urh distinc ns as to attrs.t your attention. Tb tin'iliny of tin bMI of the street car in the distance an ! the harm" of the doz. Th stamp of a horse in" the next street. The slamming of a saloon donr. 'lhehiccou:h of the drunkard. To ihrieks of the steam whistles five mile away. O i, h w suestiv , my IrienJi midnight in town! There urn hon-st men nasjin;;up anl dowu the street. Here is a c.tv missioniry w v baa been rarryin? a scutt'eot oil to that joor family iii tint .lar place. Here is au undertaker goini; uo the steps of a bud lin ir.im which ther? cj:nes a bitter cry which indicates that the destroying an lei his .nit-; ten the first Lorn. Here is a minister of re ligion who Las he.n giving the sacrament to a dying Christian. Here is a physician passing along in vreat haste, ths messen ger a few steps nliei I hurrying on to the household. Nearly all the lijhts have gone out in the dwelling. That light in the win low is the liirht of the witcher, fur the nieiiciues must t a liuinistere i, ani the fever must be w itc'ae 1. an i the ret!ess tossing off of the coverli J must be resisted, and the ice must be kept on the hot tem'- rles, and the perpetual prayer must go up roiu hearts stK-n to be broken. Oh the midnight in town I What a stupau' louf tu'uuuf a whole city at rest! Weary arm preparing for to-raorrnw's toil, hot bniu I. in- cojlei off. Rigid muccle relaie.1. KxciteU nerves soothed. The white hair of the K. toenar an in tain drifts acr.iss the pillow, frsh fall of dikes on snow already fallen. Cliildhool with its dimpled hands thrown out on the pillow, and with every breath tannic in a new store of fun an I Irobc. Liod's slu nberlea eye will look. Ld.-t one great wave of refre-hin' slumber ro!l over the heart oT the great town, Fubmermi; care aud anxiety and worrunent ana pain. Let the city sleep; but, my frienls, be not dec-ived. There will bj thousands to-niut who will not sleep at all. (io up that dark alley and l cautious where you triad lest you fall over tlie prostrate forui of a drunk ard lying on his own doorstep. Look about you left you feel the gar.-oter's bu?. friok through the broken mudow pane and see what yen can see. You sav, "Notuing." Then listen. Wuat is it? tioi heip u!" No footlijrats, hut tra-e ly ghastlier and mightier thun Ri-iton or E iwin Bo tn ever eiiacicj. iio iigut, no nre, no Dread, no hope. Shivering in the cold, they have bad no foo 1 tor 24 hours. You say, -Why don'C they befif ' I hey do, but they tret nothing. You fay, "Why ciou't they deliver thsio. 'wives over to the alinshou?'' Ah, you would not ask that if you ever heard the titter cry of a man or a child when told he nut go to the almshouse. "Oh," ynu say, 'ihev are th vlci us poot, and therefore they do not de:n in I our sym pathy." Are thev viciuu-7 Si much more nee1 they your pity. The Christian poor, Ood helps them. Ihronh their nig'it there twinkles the roun 1, merry str of hope, and through the broken wiudov pan tuoy see the crystals of heaven, but t'ie v.cious pior, they are more to lie pitie I. Their list light has gone out. You m;u yourself from helping them by saying tiiey aresooal they brought this trouble on the-nsal ves. 1 re ply, where I give 1) praer loe the iunj cent who are siitferin? 1 wid giv 3J prayers for the guilty who are suir-rin. The lislieriuan, when he sees a ves-el dash ing into the breakers, co.ne-j out from bis hut and wrajis the warmes: 11 inne'.s arjuad those who are mo-it chille 1 an I most bruised and most bafered in the wreck. And 1 want you to know that these vicious por have bad two snipwrec :s shipwreck of the bo iy, shipwreck of the soul shijiwreck for time, shipwreck lor eternity. -Pity, by ail means, th. innocent who are suileriug, but pity more the guilty. l ass on throuu the alley. Op-m the door. "Oh," you say, "it is Iccke I." No, It is not locked; it has u ver been locked. No burglar would be tempted to go in there to steal anything. The dor is never locked. Only a broken chair Ftan Is against the doar. Mhove it bark. Oo in. Strike a match. Now look. Beastliness and rajs. See those glaring eyeballs. Be cureiul now whit yon ay. fro not u'ter any insult, do not ntter anv suspicion, if you vilue your life. What is that red marie on tue wallf It U the mark of a mu.d-rer's bandl Look aq those two eyes rising up nut of the darkness and out from the strw in the corner coin lug towar I you, and as thev come near you y i ur light goes out. Strike another match. Au! ttis is a babe, not like the beautiful children of your household, or the beautiful children tmihur around these altars on bap tismal day. This litt.e one never smiled; it never will smile. A flower flun? on ad aw:ul!y barren beach. O Hiavenly Shep herd told that little one in Thine arms) Tfc rap around you your shawl or coat tighter, for the colli uilit wind sweep through. Htrme another match. Ablis it pitsibh that that young woman's tcarrtd and brui- 1 face was ever looked into by ma t.rnal teuderness? Utter no scorn. Utter ho harsh word. No ray of bope has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hone ever will dawn on tan t brow. But the light has gonj out. Uo not strike another light. It would be m-KMery to kindle an other light iu sucli a p ace as mac. Pass out and pass down t.'ie street. Our cities of Brooklyn and .New Yor and all our great cues ar. lull of such homes, and the worst time the mi lmht. Di you know it is in the midnight that criminals do their worst work? At half past 8 o'c'oek you will find then in the drinking sal'ion, but toward 13 o'c o kthtygo to their garrets, they get out the:r tuols, then tiiey start on the street. V atching on either side for the police, they go to their work of darkness. This isal ur (lnr. and the false key will son touch the tore lock. This is an incendiary, and be fore iiiorning there will be a ligut ou the kv and cry of "F.rel Kirel" Tii:s is an as ass u, an I to-morrow morning there will be a ileal oo ly in on.of the vacant lots. lur lng the diy.iiue th-se viliams in our cities I lounge al mt, so ne asleep an I some awake, but when the third watcti of the night ar- rives, t.ieir eye keen, thi ir brain cool, their I arm strong, their loot fl-.-et to Ay or pursue, thy are rany. j Many oi ttiese poor creatures were brought I up in tiint way. Tney were oorn in a thieves' j gurr. t. Their childish, toy was a burglar's dark lantern. Tue first thing tney retnem- I ber wms their mother PaiMaging the brow of I their tatner, s ruok by the police club. They I benan ry rob.iin boysf pockets, and now ' they have co ue to dig I be underground pas- ! Ve to the eel ar Ok the b:mk aud are pre- pui m; to blast the gol 1 vaulc Jutj long as t ere are neglecte-l chil dren of the street, j j-t so long we will hava these ilespera Iocs. Some one, wishing to nKe a g o I Christiau point and to quote a ' Ps:'-ge ot fcri tuie, ex icctiog to get a oinnaial passage iu answer, said to oue of tbesM po.jr a ,Si cast ,,t n(j wretched, : heu your t ither au i mother forsake ' J(ju, wuo tii -ii willta.ce you u:jF' and th M 8i l, "Tue periled, the iiernce.1 j iu th. nuiuiht gambliug does its worm "rt. llat though the hours t slipping "st an 1 Kion-rh th wife be waiting in th rls home? St r no the fire. Brin?oo we drink.. Put up more stakes. Thai omerc!iil house that only a little while rnt out a sign of copartnershio will "eason ls wrecke,l on a gambler's table. 17 ' many a money till that will : ? '" A Member of Congress liwi!? witn Meraber-elwt and won kiVu Jhe 0,', wy of Iff Ming a llTlna: l ; Th o11 WT of getting a fortune is g-?y". mQet ns too aPJw ' !!.k" V1 XKTT up to tua millionalra gamb.er in the stock market. of rbV!ii,inilht bo,?r OT dow rU click of th.Hr.lCan anl hep cuck or th.dice and the sharp, keen ta of the poolroom ticker. At theii place, m of miT' di,.n?anf. "i legislators tired them A tek: respite in breaking J??-. All classy of people are roUbel by "B crime, the unnortsr .f fnr.i-. .in , i kJLZt' '"Chatham .treat pocket hand 17??: o' to take . . suutLors are put up, and the wn.TTi. 4th urt W iUe w7 their time woile the jury is out. .?ie.n"Maden- when htcitr was the greatest of all gambling places on earth, it was no nnusu tithing ths next morning in the woods around that city to find the sus pended bodies of suicides. Whatever be the olendor of the surroundings, there is no ex cuse for this crime. Tue thn-iders of eter rial destruction roil In the dee? rumble of that gambling tenpin alley, and as men Borne out t j Join ths long procession of ain 11 the drum. -J oe beat dead maroa t.hu,anJ. ou'a- In "e Tear In the city of New York there were J7.OJ0.000 sac rificed at the gaming table. Perhaps some of your friends have bec mitten of tnissin. Prhios soras of you have been smitten by it. Perhaps taere may be a vtranzar in the come from some of the hotels. Look out f jr those agents of Iniomtv .ho t.-. a lbout the hotols and as't you, "Would you like to see tbe cityf Yes. "Have you ever seen :bat splendid building uptownr No. Then the v.liain will undertake to show you what he calls the "lions" anl the "elephants" nd after a young man, through raorbi I ruriosity or through badness of soul, has leen the "lions" and tbe "elephants" he will be on enchanted ground. Look out for iueao HlrZ ij C7 it? hotela with leek bats always sleek hats and patron izing air and unaccountable Interest about your welfare aud entertainment. You are i fool If you cannot see through it. Th?y ant your money In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while 1 was living iu that city, an incident occurred which was lamdiar to us there, in Chest nut street, a young man went Into a gam bling saloon, lost all his property, then blew nis brains out, and before the blood wa washed from the a xjr by the maid the com rades were shuffling cards again. You see there is more mercy in the highwayman for the Isolate 1 traveler on waose body he hsaps tbe stones; th ru is more meray in ths frost for tbe flower that it kills; there is more nercy in the hurricane that shivers the itea'uor on the Ling Lslan 1 coast than there a mercy in the heart of a gambler for his ictim. In tbe mi lnight hoar also, drunkenn'ssi loes its worst. The drinking will bs re live table at 8 o'clock in the evening, a little lushei at t, talkative and garrulous at 10, ic 11 blasphemous, at 13 the hat falls off and ;h man falls to the fixir asking for more Irink. Strewn through the drinking laloons of the city fathers, brothers, lusban Is, sons good as you are by nature, rbaps Letter. in the high circles of society It Is hushed lp. A merchant prince, if he get noisy in I uncontrollable, is taken by his fellow 'evelers. who try to get him to bed, or take lim home, where he talis flat in the entry. Do lot wake up tbe children. They have had lisgrace enough. Uo not let them know It. Hush it up. But sometimes it oannot be lUihe 1 up when the ru n touches tue brain nd the man becomes thoroughly franx.e i. Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you can lot bush it up. You do not see tbe worst In tbe midnight meetings a great multitude lave been saved. We want a few hundred Christian men and women to come down 'rom the highest circles of society to toil imid tnese wandering an 1 destitute ones and '.indie up a light in t le dark alley, even th ialnessof heaven. Do not go irom your well d ial tables with ,he idea tnat p ou tatk is going to stop tne rnawing of an ejipty stomaca or to warm .tockingiess feet. Take bread, take raiment, lake medicine as well as take prayer. Tnere a great deal of common eense in what the o ir woman sai l to the city missionary rhen he w is teding her how she ought to ove God an i serve Him. "Oal" said she, if you were as poor and col 1 as lam, and a hungry, you could think of nothing else." A great deal of what is called Chris. ian cork goes for nothing for the simple reason t is not practioal, as after the battle of smtietaai a man got out ot an arahulanoe with a bagot tracts, aud be went distribute ng the tracts, and George Stuirt, one of the best Christian men in this oountry, said m him: "iV'hat are you distributing tract or now There are 30 W men bleating to leath. Bind up their wounds, and then dls (rihuM the tracts." We want mire common sense In Chris ,ian worn, taking tne breai ot this lice in mehand. and the breai ot the next life in ;he other han.i. No suon inapt work as :hat done by the Christian man who, during tbe war, went into a hospital with tracts, nd coming to the bed of a man whose logs had been amputated, gave him a tract on tne sin of dancing I 1 rejoice before God that never are sympathetic words uttered, never a prayer off -re-i, never a Christian almsgiving Indulged In bnt it is blessed. Tnere is a place in Switx viand, I have been told, where the utterance of one word will bring buck a score of echoes and I have to tell you this morning that a sympathetic word, a kind word, a generous word, a help ful word uttered in the dark place of tbe town will bring back ten thousani echoes 'rom all the turines of heaven. Are there in this assemblage this morning those who know by experience the tragedies of midnight in tow.if I am not here to thrust you back with one hard word. Take tbe bandage from your bruised soul aad pu on it the nothing ealTe of Christ's gospel and of God's compassion. Many have come. I see others co ning to Ojd this morning, tired of einfui life. Cry up the news to heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread the banquet under tne arches. Let th crowned heads come down and lit at th jubilee. ....... . I tell you there is more delight In neaTeo over one man that gets reformed by the grace of God than over ninety and nine that pevcrgotoffthe track. I could give you the history in minute ot one of the best frien Is I ever had. Outside of mr own family I never bad a better friend. H welcomed me to my home at the west He was of splendid perjoml appearanoe, and be had an ardor of soul and a warmth or af fection that made me love him like a brother. , . I saw men coming out ot the saloons an gambling hells, and they surrounded my friend, and they took him at the weak point, bis social nature, and 1 saw him goin down. nd I had a lair tai wnn ouu, - " nid not talk with on L. ...M.tnr hi. habits if you talked with him in the right way. I said to him, "Why don'tyougiTeuoyourbad habiU and be cmeiCh?lsti.ur,, I remember now Just u h. ikxL leaninz over his counter, as UU 1W u 1 .wh . , h.l,e.l. "I W.sh I COUld. Oh. sir. I .i i in,., tn ha a Christian. but 1 have eone so fir astray I can't get back. 6 Z Toe tame went on. After awhilej .i - nf -."LrnAK. came. x was luiiiiuwi"" his sickbed. I hastened. It took me but a " -nr. to ret there. I r- nrised a I went in." I Hf" Srdlntry clotnes. fully dVhfna!. top of the bed. I gave him my ?"d"cl iPZZi ,roonvuTs,Tely and iu where you sit now my mother sat las n"ght! Sue ha. been dead ! years. Now I & want you to think I m out of mj mini, or that lam superstitions; but . ihe sit there last night just as certainly ven sit there now-the same R "f! and ,-craclea. It was my old mother-sh. sr there." ., . , j. mi Then he turned to bis wire fu 1 aid: I wish ynu would take these brings off tbt bi. Somebody is wrapping strings around me all the time I -Ish yo-ojU annoyance." She said, r-.ih. . .i t tt wn. delirium. Mesaia. nere. iuru " . w l- Aw.4Sl TntA W in w ni 113 e ' air, - ...... in. -Ught his soul went to theLorf feat made. Arrangements w.r - - Bsther -tk. nnMtion was raised wnetner quies. ine q"f"""" " church. Some. HT. wViS i Just where you sit now mj .ryi andshTd! -Well. I wishyou would do bett-l wish you would do better. I Vfofier I wisb 1 could do ranter. 1 ZT? do b2Sr. but'l can;t. Mother . you i used I to help me. Why can't yon help me nowr And sir. I got out of bed. for it wi resJ ty. man as that into the caur-sh. I said: "You will bring him in the ehursh? He stoo 1 by me when he was alive, and I will stand br nun when he is dead. Bring him." A "I tool In the pulpit and saw them cirrying the boiy up the aisle, I felt as it I could Teep tears of bio .d. On one side of the pulpit sat his little ch Id J el 7rs. a sweet, beautiful little g.rl lhat I bad esen him hug convulsively in hi n'f mnmat. He pot on her all Jewels, ul diamonds, and gave hr all pictures and toys, and then he would go away as if sounded by an evil spirit to his cups and louse of shame, a fool to the correction of he stocks, she looked uo wonieringly. she knew not what it all meant, ishe wsi lot old enough to understan 1 the sorrow of ui orphan child. On the other side tbe pulpit sat the men ho bad ruined him. They were the men who had poured wormwood into the or phan' cup; they were the men who had xiun 1 him hand and foot. I knew them. Sow did they seem to feel f Did they weepf So. Did they eay, "What a pity that suoh i generous man shonld be destroyed r No. Did they sigh repentingly over what they ad donef No; tbey sat there. looking as rnltures look at the carcass of the lamb whose heart they have ripped out. So they at and looked at ths coffin lid, and told them the Judgment of God upon those who had destroyed their fellows. Did they reforaif I was told taey wore In the places t iniquity that night after my friend was aid iu Oakwood cemetery, and they hlae semed, and they drank. Oti, how merciless nen "are, especially after they have de Itroyei youl D not look to men for com ort or help. Look to God. But there is a man who will not reform. He sayst "I won't reform." Well. then, low many acts are there to a tragedy f I telieve Are. Act the First of the Tragedy A young nan starting off from home. Parents and haters weeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hill. Farewell kiss flung Dack. King the bell and let the curtain 'all. Act the Second The marriage altar. Full trgan. Bright lights. Loug white veil Braiilng througji the aisle. Prayer and oou rratnlation ana exclamation of "Ho it well he looks r Act Third A w imtn waiting for stag gering steps. Old garments stuck into tue Broken window pane. Mark, of har.isliip in the face. Tbe bitiuz of tbe m is of sloodless fingers. Neglect and cruelty and leepair. King tne bell and let the curtain Irop. Act the Fourth Three graves In a dark place grave of the child tnat died for lack f medicine, grave of the wife that died of a &roken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. Oh, what a blasting nealh of hree gravesl fleuty of wee is, but do lowers. Ring the bill and let the curtain trop. Act the Fifth destroyed soul's eter- nty. No light. No music. No hope. a-ngulsh coiling its serpents around the leal t. Blackness ot darkness forever. But ( cannot look any longer. Woe! Wo?! I Hose my eyes to this last act of tbe trageiv. Juiokl Qiilolil Ring the boil and let the surtaln drop. "Rejoice, O young man, in ihy youth and let thy heart rejoice in ths lays ot thy youth, but know now that f? ill these things God will bring you into judgment." "There is a way that seemeth lght to a man, but tbe end thereof is death." (diaa Self-Mnrder anil S: li Torture. "Cases of suicide, especially by han tap, ar rare tmong the Indians," said Major A. V. Lclben, of Pierre, Sjntn i Dakota, to tbe Star representative at tbe Jxlord. "The only itntau;j that I Know of where an Indian niu len cotu xiitted suicide occurs to me. Indian rirls, likd other maidens, tall in love, tod it is not always re uittei. In this :ase h was jilted by a 3 oux brave, and the thereupon hanged herself. Indians believe that if they die by banking they will not enter ths happy hunting grounds, which makes this case the more remarkable. II or lover married another tquaw and tbe dramatic taking oil of his drst flame did not apparently ca.ise liiru much remorse. Indians torture tliem lelvcs to show their jjrief, and tlio mother of this maiden hacked her boily tod limbs with a knife in greit islics until every step she took was marked vith blood. "Speaking about self-torture inflicted by Indians reminds mi of the horrible light one witnesses when a brave wishes to demonstrate his fitness to go upon the warpath and become a full-fle ted war rior. Before this honor can be obtained n Indian brave must prove his woithi Dcss. This is how they do it: Tbey cut two deep parallel gas ios in the musoles of the chest. A thou? of raw hide is inserted in tbe flesh and tied in a loop. This is then fastened to a bent sapling sufficiently strong and elastic to raise toe Indian oil bis leet. Here be will bang suspended by the thong several feet above tbe ground, writhing and twisting in his agony, until the thong tears itself out of the bleeding flash and ha falls to the ground, sometimes in sensible from pain. Frequently the struggles ot the tortured man are not sufficient to tear asunder tbe quivering flesh, and he hangs there until be be comes Insensible and is cut down. Squaws and braves are seated around bim in a circle, wailing and bo iling nod beating drums. This terrible ordeal once passed signifies that the brave has the necessary courage to be entitled to promotion as a warrior. To see one or more, and sometimes there are half a dozen, Indians banging suspended by thongs through their flesu without manifesting their su 3ering by cries of pain, surrounded by the members of their tribe, is a sight that indelibly im presses itself upon one's memory.". Washington Star. One of the smallest pieces of money t Venice is callei gazette; and as the literary newspapers, wbico were pub lished in single sheets as early as the Sixteenth Century, were sold for a ga zette each, newspapers were called, from thence, gazette, r gazettes. Whenever th i-rcMchiT takes a pquaxe aim at sin, every liyiKciite in the church begins to cindc An urrliiht judge needn't e ashamed of his snr.tetiC'SS even in the presence of the tlr:cust grammaiiaus. Tbe first man to can torn aloes wa . the late narrison W. Cooper, and they were sold at 60 ceuls pei can. Th s was In 1848. It is said to be ro.nible to cut down a growing tree and make it into paper ready for the printing press witbiu tweDty-four hours. In some parts of CbiDa a formal in troduction is given in these words. "This is rxfy friend. If lie steals any thing I will be responsible." What Is supposed to be the longest; beard In existence is attached to tbe chin of tbe French sculptor, .Louis Cou Ion of Montiucou. It measures 7 3-4 feet In length and is still growing. A discussion is in progress as to whether English or French ss tbe more economical language to use In convers ing over the jlondou 1'arls telephone line. Tcemen during the winter declared that nien could see to read a newspaper through the clear ten-Inch Ice In the Hudson Klver near Fougbkeepile, AN. y. THE BABY. The Htfl tottering baby feet, V. fc Hb faltriug atps and slnw. With pattering actions soft and sweet, l&ie idv heart they go; They slro go, in grimy i lays. In inudily pools and dusty ways. Ilim through ths bouse in tracklul mat They wander to aud fro. Tbe baby hands that clasp my neck With touches deex to uie Are the eaioe bnndatbat pinaehand wreck Tbe Inksland toul to eee; They pound the mirror with a cane, Tbey rond tbe manuscript in twain. MAfpread tfeetractiou they ordain. In wasteful jubilee. TVf dreamy, murm'rlng baby voice 1 bat coos He l ttle tune. That inal", my listening bear: rejoice Like bl..in leafy June. Can wake at mldniaht durk and stllL nd all the sir with h- w ing Bli 'ibnt i-i llt tie air with echoes shrill, jLikw coruote out of tcne. ASL'U'lH KM SALE. In 1SC9 Lawrence Nutting was a United States Marshal in the southern district of Virginia. The State was at that time fairly overrun with out laws of all classes. Bushwhackers, highwaymen, counterfeiters and nioonshi tiers nestled in all the country side among the mountains and upon the lonely rojds;while gamblers and desperadoes swarmed in aud about the settlements. Crime was frequent, and the life of a United States officer was a series of stirring adventures in vol viiiir t'leat danger, and demanding as gieat tact aud personal bravery. Uiit Nutting proved himself worthy ami tit for the otlice. A young man of temperate habits, quick wit, flileiulid physique and dashing cour age, he was never at a loss how to . act, and the vermin that infested ! that region soon learned to bate and ! fear him intensely. ! I . . -.l.A II. : l : .1. a'kiiij niic llic CAJXTlllLMUia WHICH the officer had led, many bis escapes, aud many the prisoners safely cap tured and walled by his efforts; but one niao evaded him. The shrewd est and worst moonshiner of all was still at large; despite all his efforts, Nutting had not yet secured liuloif Alleu. This man was known throughout the Slate. His career had been that of a criminal from his birth. In the fastness of Southwestern Virginia he manufactured whisky on a grand scale, and was the owner of a do.en or more queer stills, aud snapped his Ingers at the law. i Several times bad Kutting sought this quarry; twice he had actually j caught him, yet twice he had escaped, i and at the time of which we speak he 1 was still free. Nutting sat at his office window : one evening musing, half dreaming. I when there fell a light touch on his i shoulder. lie 6tarted up quickly. A urangcr stood before him. , "Tne United States Marshal?" said he, intoropatively. "Yes, sir," said Lawrence, rising. ! 'Be seated. What can I do for vou?" "I would speak with you alone, be. said, as he glanced around. "I have matters of importance to com ounicate." "This office is out of hearing of the street," said Nutting, "and we are )y ourselves. You can speak freely." The other drew a c mple of cigars from his Docket, offered ono to the Marshal and lit the other one him self. Nutting followed his exam ple; then the man drew his chair nearer, so that he sat between the officer and the desk whereon lay his belt and pistols, threw open his coat so that the butts of two heavy revol vers might be seen, and blowing the smoke from his cigar said in a quiet Vine to his companion: "You are desirous of arresting a noted moonshiner, one KulofT Allen, ire you not?" "There is no doubt about that,' -.aid the Marshal, smiling. "I am the man." Nutting's cigar never stirred In his lips; his hand did not quiver nor his breath come auy the quicker. A 6ingle sign showed how deeply he was moved; his eyelids dilated, then he aughed soft and low. "You you Ruloff Allen! My friend, I know Allen. His hair is red; yours is black. His face bears a scar across the chin; yours a beard. His teeth are broken, yours are per fect. The joke is good, but you are lot Allen." The other he3:tatcd a moment, then striking a wig from his bead, ?. beard from his chin, and removing a single false tooth, he turned again to Nutting, red-haired and smiling. "And now?" "Y'ou are Allen." For a full moment neither man moved. It was as though two large tigers gazed at each other. Then the outlaw said: "Listen! I am armed; you are not. I am fnllv as desperate a man as tho report makes me. 1 am as strong as you arc. Do not try to arrest me, for I shall then be obliged to kill you. I am here for a private talk, but it was necessary you should know who I am. I will not molest you if you will do 'the same by me, and give me fifteen minutes to escape when we have Inishfd." Nutting measured his chances. Un armed, in the presence of a man to whom murder was not hew, he deemtl prudence tho better part, and replied: 'I agree." "(Jood," said Allen, removing his own pistol belt; "your word is equal to mine. We shall be both unarmed. nd now I would tell vou a 6tory." Then he drew his chair still nearer the marshal, and as the twilight fell and night descended he told of bis life a wierd, strange history, every line intense with the throbbing pnsilon of a lawlessness which mad the man what he was. The other listened breathlessly; the darkness shrouded both, and the cigats were finished long before the story was ended. At length, however, the Tisitor paused, and then concluded as fol lows: "So have 1 lived. As a wild man almost; and that life has for the past Hve years been more a mania than ever before, but with a method. 1 aai and have been seeking money and nioncv only. Not so widely different, i - ' you may say, from nil th world, ex- j cept that my search was without the pale of tbe law. And now the end has rome. I am rich. I have enough, and now I desire to return to clvlliza- ' tlon. You can permit It you can prevent It. I am an outlaw. Very well! I will cease outlawry, I will turn over my stills to the Government, will swear a great oath and Keep it, too for my own Interests demand it to become a worthy citizen, and If you will accept the prodigal son and kill for me the fatted calf of pardon, all will be well. I came here to ask you tc Intercede for me. Will you do so?" Nutting hesitated a moment This man was a veritable Robin Hood Could he trust him?" The other spoke again "Such assistance from an official is what 1 need, and I can pay well for it If you will get a free pardon for me I will give you five thousand '" "I cannot do it" Allen's face paled, and his hand crept toward his hip; then restraining himself with a scoffing laugh, be said: "Be it so. Then we are enemies. L to you and the law; you to me. Re member my iffteen minutes, and be ware when next we meet!" He threw his cloak about him, buckled his pistols at his waist, and disappeared, but as he left the room a little piece of metal fell from his person, and rolled unnoticed upon tbe Moor. A minute later the ring of his horse's hoofs sounded through the night as he rode toward the mount tins. The morning following, as Nutting entered his office, his aged servant bowed low before him, extending his brown and wrinkled hand, aud said, n an awe-stricken voice: "Foun" dis on de floor, massa. S'pose him your'n, bad ting, massa, bad ef ye'iow old nigger to say so?" The Marshal leaned forward in sur. prise. Lying in the outstretched palm of the black was a silver pistol bullet "Why, uncle," said he, taking it "that is not mine." "Not your'n massa! Tank de Lord! I'se pleased, I is, massa. Foun' it , yer, dough. Dat ar's a seweyside 1 bullet, massa," he continued, lower ing his voice to a whisper, while his eyes rolled like ships in the midst of . white and seething billows. "I know 'em! My ole massa he had one cast, an carried it many years. Deyneber kill no one but de fellers dey's made for. Massa John, dough, he didn't ' get a chance for to use his'n," and the 'jld man chuckled. "A suicide bullet," said Nutting, with a smile, as he examined the silver sphere. "That's a new idea to me. Why make a special bullet, uncle? I should think one of those deadly enough." And he pointed toward some of the heavy cartridges belongine to his own pitols which lay on the table near. "Dey mought miss, massa. You know de dcoil cares for his own, an' dis bullet is made by his help, at night, in de grabeyard, an' can't miss. I knows 'en., massa. I'se seen 'cm afore." Then, drawing nearer, he whispered. "I'se made 'em!" "And did they do their work?" said Nutting, laughing lightly. "Dey did, massa." The officer now opened a drawer in his desk, and took from it an old fashioued dueling pistol, which ho had picked up somewhere, and fitted the bullet into its rusty muzzle. "It's just the thing, uncle. Bring mc my flask, and I'll load it with the suicide bullet It's best to have it handy by if I get the blues. And he 'aughed again. The servant obeyed. "No use to fix 'im, massa. 'Twon't only kill de one who it's made for, shuah, an' ye couldn't shoot yourself vid it, nohow." "Well, uncle, I'll load the smooth bore, .any way," said the Marshal, suiting the action to the word, and this afternoon we'll try it at a mark. If I miss a half dollar a dozen paces, I'll give up that you're right If I hit, your suicide bullet' is no better or worse than a leaden one." "AH rh'ht, massa, but yon won' hit," replied the old darky. Just as Nutting completed the charring of the weapon a visitor called, and It was thrust hurriedly into a pigeon -bole in tbe desk. His visitor's business detained him from the office until night, and the plan of the morning was forgotten. The dueling pistol with its silver missile at unnotb-.d for months in the desk. The days and weeks passed, sum- mer came and went and fall ripened the year. A dozen times had the Marshal organized expeditions and scoured the country, seeking the no- torious Allen, but each time he bad returned unsuccessful. One final ef fort however, was to be made. Cer tain information which he knew lobe reliable had at last he felt sure, put tiie outlaw ir bis hand, and he looked to his horse's shoes and lo.-.ded bis uistols with unusual care. At his orders mounted guards men on whom he could depend pa trolled all the roads. Upon the mor row at dawn, with a posse of seven fearless nwustalueers, he was tc stori the stronghold of the moon shiners, and to-morrow night would find, a vacancy either In tbe Gov ernment office or in the ranks of the Illicit distillers. The expedition had thus far, Nutting believed, been kept a secret Because of this ho looked forward with strong hopes of success. Tbe ollicer sat at his desk wriiingr. ne had but a few pages to complete, a letter or two to prepare for them ail. and some memoranda to destroy. He might never sit at that desk again. As his eyes wandered over the masn jf papers, documents and duplicate reports filed neatly before him, he suddenly noticed the butt end of his ' old duelling pistol, half hidden in one of the compartments, and as the memory of how it came there flashed ovtr him he was about to draw it ' from its hiding place, when a shuffling step at the door arrested him, and an instant later an agea ana bent wo- man entered the door and came to- 1 vard him. ... ! The hour was late, and Nntting re garded the new-comer with surprise as he rose to offer her a chair. She accepted it with a whine of thanks, u uvi oaiAiv pailblllK lulu J b. Ilia illax- 6hai resumej his seat at the desk. I and sank panting into it The Mar- You are the Gov'ment man. I reckon?" said the woman, after a pause, raising a brown and wrinkled . ace, bfOf bidden. b toaMJf I green spectacles, Yes, madam,"replied that worthT "For an old woman. I've come 4-lght smart piece to see ye. I'm true grit, I am, but getting wore out These yer mountains aire a sight steeper than they was forty year ago," and she sighed. "But see here, I'm on business, I am. I want to talk to ye. You don't know me, now, I reckon?" "I cannot say that I do," said Nutting. "I reckon not as ye never 6ee mi oefore. I am Mrs. Allen Bethsheby Allen and my boy, he's Ruloff Allen. Ye hev heard of bim, mebbe?" and she paused and gazed cunningly lntc her listener's face. "Yes, I know him," and the man's orow darkened. "WalL now, I tell ye. It seems yei n a raid after bim to-morrow -ye see I know a thing or two an' ye've got the boy badly cooped up this time, shore. Not but what he'll fight, and some on ye may ketch suthin' besides moonshiners. My boy is smart, he is, I tell ye, an' he'll tote ye round considerable afore ye gather bim In; but he's cooped all the same, and I'm afeared ye'll get him. I'm his mammy, ye know." The old hag paused and wiped hei eye. She was a woman, even vet j and Nutting's heart softened toward her. 'What can I do in this matter, Mrs. Allen?" began the marshal. "Your son is a " "Never mind what he is you can iave him. He's trapped, catched. cooped. But he's my boy an I want i ye to let him go. Take his stills an' his whisky, take everything but let I him go an' I give my word it's good uethsheby Allen never broke it yet that in less than three day's we 'll be" "My dear madam, what you ask is impossible. I'll try not to hurt your son, but capture him I must and iball." "But if he should capture you what then?" At these words the green glasses tell, the hood was throw back, the bent form become straight as a lance, and before the eyes of the dazed offi cer Ruloff Allen himself stood, a look of dead hatred on his face, a heavy revolver in bis outstretched band. Silence reigned a moment as thb oung man gazed Into tbe deadly tube before bim. "I came here to give you the last ;hance, and me the same!" hissed the moonshiner. "The chance is lost to both ol us. I go back to tbe mountains and outlawry you retire from active service. Can you pray? If so, do It now. In three minutes I shall kill fou." Slowly Nutting's eyes ran about j the room. Escape was imposiole help would not come. A single cry , meant instant death he was lost! His heart sank. Suddenly the butt of the old duel ling pistol came within tbe circle of his vision. Cool as his would-be mur derer, he turned to him and said: "Will you let. me smoke once more?" The fellow eyed him sharply. "Smoke? Yes, one cigar," he saia at length. And lowering i,he muzzle or his weapon he thrust it into his pocket to supply his victim's wants. I have some here," said Nutting; and like a flash his band shot up to ward the old duelling pistol in th pigeon hole. "Down with you hand!" cried Al len. It was too late. There came a 6harp and ringing report, a single cry, a sickening thud upon the floor, and all was over. And the moon, breaking in between che rifted clouds without, looked through the open window at the face of the dead, while Nutting, pale and trembling, held in bis nencless hand a smoking pistol. The silver bullet had found iU mark and returned to rls owner. The United States Marshal was saved. TraefieotASny. Tracheotomy is a surgical open . don by which the trachea, or wind pipe, is opened. It is an operation lesorted to by physicians In cases where tbe throat is stopped uo and admission of air to the lungs Is ob structed. It has also sometimes been used in the case of drowned persons ! tn order to hasten the inflation of the lungs with air necessary for their re vival Tr. la V.v u 1 1 ,nn. that the operation is not without danger, and in the cases in which it is most frequently performed, those of obstruction of the throat it does not cure the disease, but simply pro. longs the life of the patient until the trouble can be reached by deliberate means. The manner of performing this operation consists in making an incision at tbe middle of the throat and cutting iuto tbe windpipe, cau tiously avoiding Injury to the nerves and iuusc.es as far as possible. When the windpipe U exposed and the bleeding, which Is slight Is stopped, the windpipe is cut vertically and a part of it removed and into tbe open ing thus made a silver tube Is thrust which, when obstructed by mucus, caa be removed and cleansed at any time. As soon as the throat disease Is hea'.ed. this silver tube can be taken out and the edges of the wind pipe allowed to heal. There are no after evil effects from this operation, except a slight weakening of the voice and a tendency to constriction and tigntness of the throat upon taking a slight cold, and perhaps an in creased sensitiveness to exposure. The Maw Submarine Cable Tue laying of the new submarine cable between the Bahama Islands and the United States was a skillfully executed job. It was done by men who are experts In the business of cabl laTlnK- 11 was done rapidly nl A1 and without any trouble. Its layers 1 deserve commendation. The cable : was not expensive. It is 230 miles ; long, and cost $150,000, or about (650 i for each mile of its length. It will i be of more value everv vear to the Ra. - - hama Islands than Its total cost, and it win rcuouuu to uie ouuor oi 1 us Originator, the Governor-General SIX Ambrose Sbee, nooa and a pair or toward Nutting. how some men propose. One rersoa Whs Is JrHed la the anbjeet. "1 am a crank," said the club man, on the subject of proposals. I would rather hear a story of how a man asked the woman he loved to marry him than to take a trip to Europe. I don't know why I take so strong an interest in this, unless it is that I had such a hard time to get my wife to accept me. I bad been in love with her lor years. I had proposed to her seven times and she refused me every time. Finally I went to her in despair and said: "Well. Mollie, I've asked you to to marry me 1 seven times, and you have declined my name. I'm going to ask you oace more, and if you j don't marry me, I shall go out W est aud stay there.' "Well, Jack,' she said, if vou feel that way about it I'll marry you.' To this day she cannot tell me why she refused me so often to marry me after all "There's my friend, Congressman X . He was a poor young man, and one day be went to a young wo man whom he had known for a long time. " 'Neil,' he said, 'I have been wait ing till I had enough money to get married. My salary was raised yester day. Will you marry me next week?' " "Wait until next month,' she said. ' 'No, next week'; and they were married next week. "Brown, the lawyer, was a careless young fellow. The woman whom be loved would not marry him. " 'You are the most reckless mat. in the world,' she said, 'about money affairs. W hen you get 85,000 in the bank I may marry you; if you still want me.' "He went away and saved $5,000. She married him and to-day he's a rich man. He learned economy while winning his wife. "My friend Colonel n enlisted at the outbreak of the war. "'Joe,' hesaidto the girl he wanted to marry. I am going down South to fight. Will you marry me now or wait till 1 come back.' " 'Right now, Sam,' she said, and that afternoon he marched away. " My brother proposed in a cool way. He hadn't been able to make up his mind what he was going to do in life, and one day the woman who is his wife now said: " -Charley (they were second cousins), what in the world are you going to mane out of yourself?' " -Just whatever, you make out oi ie.be said, 'you've got lots more .use than I ha've, MamY' " me, sense "Has any one here any 6torics tc tell about proposals," continued the Etory-telier. "I don't know of a 6-ngle case where a man went down on bis knees. I would like to bear oe. No one will tell one, eh? Well I'm sorry. I like to hear about posals. New York Tribune. pro- The Care ot diok Children. The young mother who is far from a physician mav remember for her comfort that a child very really requires medicine, Elisabeth Robinson Scovil, department in the Ladies' Journal. What it needs Is what she can give without danger proper food, pure air, cleanliuess and rest, Most of the disorders of children, par-' noble should be admitted into their ticfliarly of infants, arise from some ! circle. The Senate, therefore, de derangement of the digestive tract j cided that as soon as any person is The food is nst of proper quantity or admitted to the privilege of nobility quality. It is not assimilated; that Is, taken up by the blood forthe nour ishment of the tissues, and the child suffers. It is pale and fretful, throws up its food in uudigested masses, and does not thrive as a healthy child should. The first thing to be done is to change the food. Add a table spoonful of lime-water to each six of Xijcd: if this does not succeed, try using one-fourth cream instead of all milk with water. Vary the strength of the food by adding more or less water. If Still unsuccessful, try some of the artificial foods until one is ! found that does agree with the baby. With older children an error otdiet is very apt to be followed by fever ishness and restlessness. High tem perature does not mean as much with children as with grown persons- A child may have a temperature of 103 or 104 degrees at night and yet be comparatively well in the morning. A simple enema ol soap and water, given with a syringe 6uch as should be in evory household, is the safest way of producing a move ment if there is constipation. A child 2 years old mav have half a tea i spoonful of liquid citrate of magnesia, ' if there Is rpn-nn tn thlnlr that. inH. ! gestible food is the cause of the at tack. When this arts there will prorx.V.y be an Immediate improve ment The ffewlne; Meohlne Ae;-iit' Tale. I don't suppose the man was ever in politics or read a newspaper, but one day as I drove by bis cabin In tbe mountains he was out in frpnt at a wood pile with a saw hard at wotk, while a thin, raw-boned woman in a faded calico dress and a slab-sided sun-bonnet sat on tbe cabin sters i smoking her pipe and watch. ng bim. ' Good morning," I said to him a I stopped my horse. "Mornin'," he answered so low i could scarcely hear him and without the barbarism of bygone ages. Man stopping his saw. I kind has hardly recovered from the nensani weainer were naving,- ventured next but he made no answer. "Pretty bad roads you have around here," 1 said, 6till pleasantly, as be sawed away. "I'm selling sewing machines," 1 eaid, coming down at once to busi ness but be sawed on. "Have you got one in your house?" ! I asked, after waiting a moment for I jae sawing to stop. oneVarmyneVtastrsawkert ripping along. Xrn anewpr nnrt ftt. Inict rmitA nrrfc voked, I said: "Why in thunder don't you talk?" He kept right on sawing, hut look- mg furtively over his shoulder toward nis wut, wuo uwi u.h iuuvcu, ui reolied: "Stranger, I'm sawin' wood. Go long to tbe bouse and It the old woman do the talkin'." ' 1 wen but I dldn'til ft machine Fao a Bear. One fosgy morning the sleepers la d hunters', camp on the bank of a Florida river were roused by the "Geow-ou-ou-ou!" of the dogs, roar ing in chorus. Before any one could get on his feet a huge black bear dashed out of the fog, through the camp, and, followed by the hounds, entered the dense canebrake that fringed the shore. Hunters and ne groes rushed after the bear helter skelter, over grassy holes and into sloughs, intent upon his chase. The ei'perience of two or three of the hunters is related in "Wild Sports in the South." There was a pause, and the pro- J ponged "Oo-ooo-o!" of the hounds i showed that the bear was at bay. In ;a close thicket of canes I saw the the bear on bis liauncbes, with his back against a bank, his eyes red, his mouth open, shedding foam. The d( gs were in a semicircle around him, ' panting with rage, and bearing j marks of bis claws that bad taughr them discretion. The "doctor" sat In front of the bear, six fttcps off, his feet buried to sand, his coat and vest wide open, and his ax held in both hands direct ly in front f him, the handle sticking in the ground, and the blade pointed at the lear. He had tumbled down the bank in front of the iea&x, who was rampant I leveled mv gun; a dull snap fol lowed; tbe bear shook his head. An. other snap, and anotner; my run was wet with the dew. The bear growled and tossed its nose. The dogs rushed forward; the bear boxed them off with his fore-paws, sending one a dozen paces in the air, and giving another a long cut with his claws. The "doctor" sprang up and aimed a blow at the bear's head; but with a slight motion of his fore-paw the fellow sent tbe ax flying among the canes. The "doctor" fell on his face, and the bear rushed off, tel. lowed by the felling pack. Another pause, and then the pe culiar notes of the hounds told us that the bear was again at bay. We started to overtake him, and found the brute seated on the limb of a tree, about whose base was the dogs. Mike came up, g.anced at the bear, and said: "The bear." A rifle-shot nd Bruin fell inert to tbe ground. Kneeiaa Stability. The Russian nobility is constitu- , tionally not an exclusive caste. There is constant fluctuation in its numbers. ' Dun' I PersoA9 of thf,.low" ?asses f re 1 j f i '?2 22. often them selves deserving In the Government service, and nobles are degraded if for the commission of crime the courts deprive them of their "titles and pre ferences." A complaint has reached the Senate that an assembly of no ties had refused to enter upon their rolls the names of persons recently raised to their station. Upon further Inquiry it. was found that the assem blies of many districts had made ft a practice to do the same. When a person who had been made a noblo 6ought for admission into their coun- seldora cflsthey would decide his case by writes, j ballot If he did not receive a sum in her clent number of votes he was ex Home clud. d from their rolls and asseiu- biies. The "pedigree nobility" have zealously watched over such ballots and taken care that no new-made he becomes defacto a member of tha assembly of nobles of his district. It is the duty of the assembly to enter his name upon their rolls and to notify him of the constitutional and special meetings be'.d by their body. They have no option In this matter, and their balloting for new candi dates is a mere farce. Consumption ol Timber. To make shoe pegs enough for American uie consumes nnnnallv 100 . GOO cords of timber, anl moire lucifer matches, 300,000 cubic feet of the best pine are required every ear. Lasts and boot-trees take 500,000 :ords of birch, beech, and maple, and tbe handles of tools 500,000 more. The baking of bricks consumes 2,000.000 cords of wood, or what would cover with forest about 50,000 acres of land. Telegraph poles already represent 00,000 trees, and their annual re pairs consume 300,000 more. The ties of railroads consume annu illy thirty years' growth of 75,000 acres, and to fence all tbe railroads in j the Uuiied States Jwould cost 145, j 000,000 with ayea-rly expenditure of llo.00J,000 for repairs. These are some of the ways which American forests are going. There are others; packing boxes, for Instance, cost in 1384 412,000,000, while the timber used each year in making wagons abd agricultural implements is valued at more than 100,000,000. Evert month or so tbe world Is convulsed by a rumor that some startling change Is to ba made in woman's dress. It is very significant j that these reports vary widely, some 1 indicating a desire for reform in the direction of comfort and practicabil ity r.rhers nresai7ini7 A relanse infn shock experienced at the announce ment that crinoline was likely again to become fashionable, yet here we have the report of the national coun cil of women on the subject of drees rcTorm. In this document business fsroales are advised to adopt any one of several grotesque and outlandish costumes, the main featnre of all be ing that they are "dual at the bot- Daiicaan t ha t trr ovtramii it. t''B".7 rClUaiU UW4U nUCIB I. .9 U yibKUUi ' Whatever real reform has been ! effected in this matter has been in the direction of relinquishing the tight corsat. With that abomination entirely done away with woman's rircM would bo healthful and com- fortabl. and it is quite attractive enough now to make her the greatest Influence for good ox evil on tbt) 11 ;..4
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