fir. sit . . . mm jj, F. BOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor nd IVopr-totor. VOU XLVII. MIFF LINTOWIS , JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 17, 1893 NO. 22. 10, DR. JAUIAGR The liruuUlyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Ok r a 1 For. vcr." TTTT : ' j'.ir 4' - f..r d-le ami fe.l. world Mill t!w i look-d f..r '-inn. wfto ji otvr n- rs the world had ln waiting -wait while empires rose u. r .rs came and made the i i 1 of making It better ' .t !,..,,;,,, walll,j Tb . ..i i..r.ow, looked for Him la 1 .r an m imperial robee, paliec. :' looked f.T Hi! last they stood ii! ar r l foruer '.v r- ;i 1 1 " a U U. 1 MM Aalt I. tl.:.a the amrels. for ,, i stall, wfailtt the ' " iiiM th hut.r u- r r.'-r.sai;:r enure tie r I " cantata s!i l re, ant l.ii m i: or Him i,, tbe inn b- e to ,,., the bote) ex- ii; star uml tii aiii,-elio a V-'il r-lll.-ll.'M ni riu what . .' . .7 ,D "P i". who is over all, me woria u.--a r-. J;nt i-i : the di:" r- i. l.Olli of ewu. Cl-m. If I e hand de-ide If! t who came? A. tn '-tw.-en ,li!rr-ut denominri . -.ii I'lirist.ans I have no -ou-u. ! I 'J' the luriiinit over of my Hli. tu.r all the world shall at r .iwlio-listor ( onu're-itional last bclla; ;:-! 1 rs yt.-niin. I would not t then; nr.; dc-trines which .1. If Christ he tint fl.l turn n. y h..nd. J lire vit-! tii liie We ttfrt l.lu-.tV rs. To th; Christolofrurai tirr-lf tins morninir unit question J j my (.,.,1 i,, , i wo .aay think riitbt and do nn;..t :u r - ;ir 1 to a un ction in which mis take l". I'a'ili.l . l.n--!- tliatt): majority of those here to-day a-m!.icd lelieve the IUhle. It re quir.f us u.u -h faith to Le an inlldel as to he a ('hri.-::ii!i. It i laitii is a dilTer. nt direo tioiL '1 1:- flir.Miau has ftttb in the teaoh tosof latt!i.-w. l.uke. Jol.n, 1'aul, ltfaiah, lios.-s. II," iml.iMi l:,s a.ti, iu tI)B ,rtHJ thin..-!-. . l ave fa:tij in one class of men. lh.-y lav- fa-tli in !i!i-.ther class of men. But an the n.a.or.-.y of those, p-riiaps all of those liTe ..s-!i.l i,-,I, rare v. .itfntc to take the Ilii.lo for a .taudard in morals and in faith, I mak Mjji Ivult my xtartins point. I suppose you are aware that the two ppa rajs who have mar-:jn!ed the -real armies aaiu.t the d.-!ty of Jesus C hrt are Strauss ani le iien. 'n:e number of their slam will Hot be counted until the trui-inet of the ar.-h- .r.illi .. r..i, eall o. tne resurre.-t.on. n.e.r t)a , is c.v., tvi Th'.he uien and ITttl-y e..'i!d the thv.-y oouid t. st i.ie-.i ui iinrneies Christi.-itiitv th.. Were rii.-ht. Surrender the irorae'i.-. i.r.,1 v,,r. surrender rhr.stiauity. The great (ier man exeg.te says that all the miracles were myths. 'J he great I'r. ueh exfgete savs that all the mira. I. s wre le- -uus. ThJy propose to take verythinu-supernntural from the n:e or ( nrt an.i everytliiugsupernatural from the Bihle. '1 hey prefer the miracles of buamu ii, n- i.-o to the glorious miraolea o' lesus ( hr St. '1 hey say there vtms no miraculous Mrth In Bethlehem, hut tli:ir it is all a faneliul storv, lust like the sr., ry of llouuilus said to have l--en I oru ot 1.1,. ;l Silvia and the god Mars. Ihey jay no star ...Mnte,! to the manger: it was eiiiy the Hast, of a paf-slug lantern. Thev say th.-r-w .s no n.ra.iPoi.s makingof brea.f, tut that it is a orruptiou of the slorv thut Llisha L-ave :0 ; , .v. ,,f i r. ad to a hundred nu n. lhr ys ivthe water was never turned Into wine, i ut mat it is a corruption of the story thai th.. K.-yptian plague turned the Water Into i l.,,. 1 hey say- it is no wonder thai Ci.r.st swat t-r.-at drops of t.lood , he had he,.u ..at in the niu-ht air and w.is taken suddenly ill. They say timt there were in Umgu. a of lire on the in-ads of the disciples at the l'.-nt- -i.-t ; that there was only a great thunder -ti.rm. tin. 1 tae air was full of !. tri ,-ity. whi. h snap) .! and tlcw all around about the head- ot the d.s -.I.les. Tin y say thai Mary and Martha nnd Christ felt it imp .rial. t to tret up an excitement for the forwarding of their reli-jon. and so they dramatized a iiineral and Lazarus plaved the Corpse, and Mary nnd M inba played the We.-p.-rs, an 1 Christ was the tra .-e.uan. I put it in my own words, but tins is the exact meaning ol their si.item. tils. They say the liil.le is. a spurious hook written "l,y super stitious or lyine; men, ha-'ked up hy men who died for that, whi -li th-v d: 1 not believe. Now, 1 take back tee limited statement Which I made a P-w raoTuents ago, when I said it requires as much faith to be an in Bdel as to 1 a rhr.sti-u;. It requir a thousandfold more faith to l e an inlldel tan to he a Christian, for if Chr.st.aJiity demaud that the whale swallowed Joiiah, then skepticism il.'imin.U that .tr-nati swal!owei the wh'-iel I ,-,.n prove to you thnt Christ i sr.- Cod, not onlv ny sup. riiaiura! appear- Cucie on that Christmas niuht. but by what lnspir-il men said ol Him, by what He sacs of Himself and by His wonderful achievements, "Chr st came, who is ovr all." Ah. does not that prove too much? Not over tbe Caesars, not over I'r. derick, not over Alex- ander the Great, not over the Hnrvs. not over the Louises Yes. pile all the thrones of all the ages together, and my text over - spans them as easily as a rainbow overspaus mountain, "Lhri.-t came, who is over alb Then He must he liod. The Bible says that all tbincs weremndehy Him. Does not that prove tooinuc'i? Could It be that He made the Mediterranean, that He made the Black sea, that He made the Atlantic, the Pacific, that He made Mount I Lebanon, thnt He made the Alps, the Sierra I kievadas, that He made the lleniisperes, that He made the universe? Yes. The Bihlesays bo unit leet we in. too si nrid to understand , John winds np with a magnificent reiteration , . , . . and says. W ithotit Him .was not anything Blade that was made Then He was a God. The Bible says at the name of Jesus every nee shall bow A II haven must come down on Its knee Martyrs on their knees, epos-; ties on their knees, confessors on their knees, tbe archangel on his knees. Before whom? A man? o.,He is a God. The Bible says every 11 f To whomVOo.!. nK;Hnd""fo4.hrT,t TTot ! I,,.,,,,,,,,,.) , i tx . r.iT" ?' 1o we .not ch",'Je? r,"9 Does not the mind change? Does not tbe evu euiirt i v "-nmre m seven yearnr , heart change? Christ the same yesterday. V-!y and forever. He must be a God. 1 hilosophers say that the law of gravfta tlon decides everything and that the centrip etal and centrifugal forces keep the world from clashing and from demolition. But Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on which everything turns, and that Christ's band Is the socket iu which even-thing is set. Hark the words. "I'pholding upholding all things hy the word of His power." Tnen He iust he a God. Then look at what Christ says of Himself Now, certainly, every one must understand himself better than any one else can under stand him. if 1 ask you where you were boru and you tell me, "i was born in Ches ter, England." or "I was horn In Glasgow, B.vtland." or "I was horn in Dublin, Ire land," or '-I was born in New Orleans, the United stati-s." you being a man of integrity, I shoul.i believe you. If I nsicl you how many pounds you". -ouhl lift nnd vou should ay you could lift 100 pounds or ItOO pounds or 300 pounthi. I should believe vou. It i a trader personal to yourself. Yon know 1 ter than any one e!se . an tell you. If I ask how n.uch I'state vou are wortu atid you say iiD.on.i or ilOU.iKX) or 300.0K), I beheve what you s.iy. You know better than any one .Is... ow. Christ must know bett.-r than anv one eise who He is and what H 15. whu, 1 ;lsk plm i,nvr ol,( j3 He says, p,...,)rM Al rahain was, I am." Abraham mJ , Q il(.ai, i02s ytarSi Va9 Christ -Jut years old' Yes, He savs Ho is Older tnau that. Before Abraham was. I '1 hen Christ savs, "I am 'ie Alpha." Alpha Is the lirst l.-iterof theGreek alphabet, and Christ iu tiiat utterance de-lared, "I am A of tne alphabet of tbe centuries." Then u "iUst be a God. i-an Clu-ut a nian be in n thousand places ntonce? says lie is 111 a th.,ns..i.,l i.!nce at r.e' "W l'"r" two or three are gathered to m -)' name, there am I in the midst them." This ovi rv v! -reativeness, ) it J-tenstlc oi- a maaoro, 8 God? And i, m m"-'ht think this evervwhereativeuess wouja cease. n,j K0,.g on nuJ lle intimates M. .? .Wi" 1 '" in ali tl,B ot ne earth BrnKh ln E,lrt'I"'. Asa, Africa, Xorthnnl n ..t Tl" th" ,iay L'fr the world burns th.j0: m Wlth )'ou alwavs, even unto JeVotl wtll-" Why, tben, He must 1 imUm He takes 41 vine honors. He a man ot large experience ana neat no. is a God. If h- H,7.r " a. a - r. , " " impostor. uiu u rr nH ib with J-ilh your plac o' businea. with Jiwuh oountHimiA. . -w maa says, .-r jtoo Ranker, or London. 1 have tbe wealth f Nations in my pocket. I loan" tbaTui acwant -,..l . ... . - yorman . DUE RITtfr a mhlU .. . . . - never loaned V. i '""J J waww u ILHIV or BtliltHa . mat be nevAr hm4 i . . . u-kiKD cnuun mar ia wM.i.ar kb; km f huf u. . , What la her An bpoor7 Chrtv, tba sO). an a tnoaaaad hlito , fLrnlwrl Rnowaa ah ud -i3J, ln" nnivcrsn ; Ho U the banker of all Ninons, la net It Ha i ir i. . n.A A man enters the Wluta Hnnu It c v.i xucu ne u an impostor. ton. He says : "I am Emperor William of Oermany. 1 am traveling incognito. I nava come over here for recreation and pleasure. 1 own castles in Dresden and Berlin." But th"-..! mt.h, nt. th- ncTtday ti-l ha Js not Emperor William , that he owns no cas tles at Benin and Dresden j that he baa no authority. What is he? An impostor. Christ says He is the kini; over all tbo king Immor tal, invisible. If He is. He is a God. If He la not. He la an impostor. Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries to get out of it by saying that Christ was sin ful in accepting adoration and worship. Kenan tries to get out of it by saying that Christ not through any fault of His own, Lot through the fault ot others lost His th ?nh con5kV. he slyly intimate,! ou .dn t.od. Now you believe the Bible to be true. I it you do not. you would hardly have an. L.JLm?!9ur'h- Vouwould have gone over and joined the Broadway Infidel club or you would go to Boston and kiss the foot of the statue of Thomas Paine. You would ......... i., who iniscuurcn, where the most Z Bnt le ut,lu'lBl "! who believe in a whole rs hie and take it all down as ea-ily as you swallow a .ipe slrawuerry. I have shown you what inspired men said OT ( hrist : I hVK :. . . ... . " Ju uai burial of hiaiself ; now, if you believe the Bible let ko out and see His wonderful achieve. meuia surgical, alimentary ary- Surgical achievements' Where lathe medical journal tiiat irives An neenunt nf . .V, exploits as Christ wrouirht? He used no knifoj. He carried no splints. He employed no compn-ss. He made no patient squirm under cauterization. He tied no artery Yet liehold Him I With a word He struck fast Malt bus' amputated ear. He stirred a little dust nnd spittle into a solve and with it caused 1 man who was born blind and with out optic nerve or coruea or crystalline lens to open bis eyes on the sunlight. He beat music on the drum of the deaf ear. He straightened a woman who, through contrac tion of musele. had been bent almost double for well nigh two decades. He made a man wno had no use of bis limbs for S3 shoulder IPs mattress and walk off. years Mr Astley Cooper, Ahernethy, Valentine Molt, stood powerless before a withered arm, but this doctor of omnipotent surgery, come in and He sees the paralytic arm usoless and lifeless at the man's side, and Christ says to him. "Stretch forth thine band," and be stretched it forth whole as the other. He vas a (lo,!. Alimentary achievements ' He found a tad who had come out of the wilderness with five loaves of broad for a speculation. Perhaps the lad hail paid rive pennies for the nve loaves and exported to soil them for ten pen- ; nies, and so he would double bis money. Christ took those loaves of bread and per formed a miracle by which He fed 7000 fam ishing people, and i warrant you the lad lost nothing, for there were twelve baskets of fragments taken up, and If the boy bad five : loaves at the start I warrant you be had ' at , 'east ten at tbe close. The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh bor s house to help iret up a wedding party. : By calculation she rinds out that the amount ! ol wiuu is not sufficient for the guests. She ' calls in Christ for he.p, and Christ, not by the slow decay of fermentation, but by a word, I i.akes l:ti gallons of pure wine. Marine achievement! HetJraa a w,,o' school of fish into tbe net of men who were mourning over tneir poor luck, until the boat ' is so fuil they have to halloo to othe? boats. and the other boats come up, and they are laden to tbe water's edge with the game, so that the sailors have to be cautious in going from larboard to starboard lest they upsot the ship. I 'lhen there comes a squall down through j the mountain gorge, and Uenucsuret, with long locks white foam, ris.-s up to battle it, and the coat drops into a trough and ships !a sea. and the loosened sails crack in the .' tornado, and Christ rises from the back part ! of tuo toat and comes walking across the and there He wipes the spray from His brow and bushes the crying storm on the knee of His omnipotence. Who wrestled down that euroclydonr Whose feet trampled the rougb 'ialiiee into a smooth floor? Let philosophers and anatomists go tc Westminster Ahbey(and try to wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu man power ever wakened the dead. There is a dead girl in Capernaum. What does Christ do? Alas that she should have died so young and the wond so fair I Only twelve years of aire. Peel her cold brow and cold tan.ls. Dead, dead I The bouse is full of weeping. Christ comes, and He takes hold of ttie band of the dead girl, and instantly hPr eyPS open her heart starts. The white my ot deatU blushes into the rose of life and health. She rushes into the arms of ber rrioicing kindred. Who wokeup that death? who restored her to life? A man? Tell er-1omes a tt which more that S ?)- H. ! or man. iou rememoer iiuh greai passaxa which says. "We must all appear befbre th. f judgment seat of Christ." The earth will be .... ; ... r-t..;.. ' tvu. . stunned by a blow that WIU mats u stagger j in midheaven ; the.SU" will circle like dry I leaves in an equinox : uio will unroll ' the bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh will come into incorrupti ble conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and darkness and trinmoh. On one side, piled up fti galleries of Ught, tuo cr.e bundled anii forty and four thousand yea, the quintil (iors of the saved. On the other side, piled up in galleries of darkness, the frowning, the glaring multitude of those who rejeoted God. i Between these two plied np galleries a throne, a high throne, a throne standing on two burnished pillars justice, mercy a throne so bright you had better hide your eye Icet it be extinguished with excess of vision. But it is an empty throne. Who will come up and take it? Will you? Ah, no r you sav . "I am but a child of ' dnst. I would not darn to climb that throne. Would Gabriel climb it? He dare not. Who : will njieend it? Here comes one. His baok is ' to us. He goes up step above rtp, height above height nntil He reaches the apex. Then J . He turns around ami laces an tne nauon. i and we all see who it is. It is Christ I nr.,1 .n,l nil earth, and all heaven, an . the clJ',l! ' 1,-lt kneel crviiur It is a God I It is a God ! We must ail uppear before the Judgment seat ' of Christ. , j Oh, 1 am so glad that tt Is a Divine behu, I who comes to pardon all our sins, to com- fort all our sorrows 6ometimes our griefs are so irreat they ere lieyond any human sympathy, and we want Almlirhty sympathy. Oh vewho cried all last night because of bereavement or loneliness. I want to tell you it Is an omnipotent Christ who is come. When the children are in the house ana ' the mother is dead, the father has to be more gentle in the borne, and he has to take the office of father and mother, and it seems to mo Christ looks out upon your helples Lness, and He proposes to J father and mother to your souL Ho comes in the strength of one, in the tenderness of the other He one breath. -As a father pitieth his ehlllren. so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. and then with the next breath He says 'Asone whom his mother comforttth so will I com fort you." Do you not feel the hush of the divine lullaby? . kiM Oh, put your tirod head down on the heav tag bosom of divine compassion while He puts His arms around you ud says, -u widowed soul I will be thy Ool Oor- "iy Ub thy protector. Do not cry. Thn He touches your eyelids with His nnirer and aweepa Hi. flnne down your eheek andwipea away all the tn of l"on!l oeaa and beroayement. Oh. what a tender and sympathetic God has come for us ' I do not ask yon to lay hold of Him. Peruar yott ara not strong enouirh for that. I do not ask lt . PSyl Perhaps you are too bewild- tall baok into the arms of eyerlnstlnv; love Soon you and I will hear the cliek of'tht latch ot the door of the sepuh-her. Mrou men wiU take us in their arms and carry us down and lay us In the dust, and they cannot brlna; ns back attain. I should be s. ared with Infinite fright if I thought I must stay in the frraye, If even the body were to stay in the grave. But Christ will come with glorious loonoelasm and split and grind up the rocks and let as all com. forth. The Christ of the ajuLnge. is t& Christ of the throne. FOOD FOR THolGHT. Don't have money transactions with your friends if jou can avoid them. There is one sljrn of breeding- vul garity seldorr assumes simplicity. The concensus of the science in a central and suierlor whola is philoso phy. Inspiration is th supplement itlon of the original act which created the man. The apt use or symbols Is the errea ar. for ruling Hie operations or liuaiab bralLS. Idi iitry is a disease of the Imagina tion; Idealism the aiip:raliou of the spirit. Symbolism is the translation or the fe'ofn'ot.r ki"K(l0,n0r ,n' 7 T. auol"er- In the recoil of cur own spirit and the returns of our own deeds. Nemesis Is perpetually Doru. All of us know how other eople should siiend their mrney. What a heavf burden is a name that has too soon become famot s. God employs no hired uiin. IIU work is a!l done by His sous. Even in war mora! power is to physl cal as three parts out or four. lie that is good for m tklii? excuses is seldom eohmI for anything else. A bad man cau Devi r own anything that is fireproof. Prejudice Is lias Independent or tbe facts. The richest men don't always know how to be rich. Do your eneiiy a f.v.r every c lit nee you get, and it will cut like au ax, If ou do It in the right spirit. If there Is honor anient; thieves they stoie it. Tbe earth is tjiled with broken sil ences. what Is most beautiful in a face ast longest. When hope dies heli tiegins1. All suoshlne makes the de ert. Mlence is the wil of fool- and one of the virtues of the wise. In Christian life uo man can live tiny blgbrr thai, be looks.. A genius is a person who Dmls out htngs lor other people. The inertly surprising surprises but a few times; the Intrinsically admirable h ever more ana more ad tuned. History Is the conscience of htimar- The telephone costs London $100; Paris, $80; Berlin, $&0; Naples, $25; Borne, $20; Switzerland from $19 to $24. Last year the net profits of the Metropolitan Company, of New York City, were about $3,400,000. How long, O, Bell? how lonri? Mitchell h:ts accepted condition ally the opportunity to fl jlit Corbett for $40,000. Next to the fact tht the dog of Col. North lias returned from wandering to and fro upon the earth, this is probably the cream o.' international sporting news. Telegrams from Washington Indi cate that tbe naval authorities have not decided whether to paint Uncle Sam's warships green or black. II they can't be painted red, as the young oQlcers would prefer, then let them be green, by all means, toplcaee the majority of the crews. Thk employment of the Pinkerton hirelings at Homestead has had one good result. It has secured from the House of Representatives of the leu nsy Ivan la Legislature the pass age of a bill prohibiting the employ ment of other than citizens of the State in the preservation of thr oeace. Emix Pasha's latest deatu Is as cribed to the violent dislike of a na tive. Eruld has heretofore peribhed by famine, pestilence and war, to say nothing of poison, timers, snakes and heart-fai' are. The cat, with only nine lives, must turn an eye flowing green with envy, in the direction ol 'he African traveler. TnK recent legislation ln Maine bearing upon fire insurance, it is thought, may lead to tho retirement of companies from the State; as was the case ln New Hampshire a few years ago. Some of the companies, regarding it as a sort of prohibitory insurance- legislation, are considering the question of withdrawing thei; agencies. A rECTrLTAit weekly recently marls the following statement: "To U torn or water is to come into kuowl kUo of divine scientific, through the ippilcution of which the new immor tal bid is structured. " It is not too iiu.h to tay that this thought would tcver have occurred to the average ntid, and possibly bad it occurred, ould not have been recognized as a tbough IX not act the rascal with your farm, y taking lrom it more than you give tack to It in tbo way of fertiliser. If yoc can see notbl lg bat tho bad, but your 6) cs. Better be bliud than loaWo to wo too bo-iutiful and good KI'lil.NG TIME. te?' "bter departs, bis bleaV kingdom resigning. And everything welcomes the life bringing breeze. Lot again in the fields flocks and herd are reclining, lnd again the green leafage is deck ing the trees. n. Hay, why is the earth w:ih its glorie so teeming? Aiid why are the meadows with flow ers eo br'ght? Cay, why are tbe heavens with new loveliness beaming In fathomless depths of celestial light? in. And why do the birds, their green shel ter despisiug. Soar aloft to the skies on contemptu ons wing? Iheee all are the signs and the beauties arising, like heralds proclaiming the coming of Hprnig. it, Lol woodland and field are with frag rance abounding, lnd all Nature smiles, and is happy and gay; Lol tl e air with the mutio of birds is resounding, 4nd the nightingale carols her favor ite lay. AUBV OOVE'M PET BUT TEltrXY. .T FIjW IV AT HER WINDOW THE DAT AF TFR THE QVAKEB TOET WAS Bl'KIED. "Did yon ever hear of a pet butter fly?" afeked a woman the other day. "So; why, did you?" "Yes, and I will tell you abont it. i'ou know, f,or several summers past, previous to his death, John O. W'hit tier pasted the Season at Hampton Falls, Sew Hampshire, at the obi Gove homestead. The only member of the old name now left there is Miss Abby Oove, to whom Whittier was greatly attached. The day following Whittier s funeral, which service was held at tbe old house, A.Mss Gove opened tbe windows of the quaint, old timey 'keeping room.' and following the burst of sunlight and snmmer breeze came a large golden-brown butterfly. It lighted on tbe casement, its pulsating wiugs a bronze dazzle of color. Quakeress as she was, Miss Gove gave tbe tiny gnest welcome, and left it to enjoy its rest. The fol lowing day it was there just the same, and it flew about tbe room making light, graceful poises betwetn its fit tings. Thrre "days pmrsciI, but the butterfly remained. On the fourth day Miss Gove took it, with pect.e touch, t utting it outside the window, Thinking j erhaps it n.ight have forgot ten the way to liberty. Cut on the next day, whea the window was opened, the little guest came back. Twice afterward it was put oat of doors, but it invariably returned. Miss Gove then took a plate and one of the olil-fahioued wire screens, such as are associated in one's niiml with the cheese dish on the farmer's dinner table, and taking the butterfly, she put it on tbe ( late, covtritig it with the screen. It seemed onteut-jd and happy. Food was rr quired for it, no its owner bonght a toy cup, in which she mixed honey and water, and this the tiny insect evidently approved. A new cage, like that used to house canary birds, was bought, and around it a piece of fine wire netting was placed. This is the butterfly's perma nent home now. It has learned to know and to be fond of Miss Gove. ben i-he opens the door of the cage the butterfly poises at once on her out stretched hand, and while there mnkos a pnrriDg noise, exactly similar to that of a contented kitteu, only of slightly less volume of sotind. If any one comes near Miss Gove the insect flies away, seemingly mneh perturbed, but when the stranger withdraws it returns to her baDd, resuming its happy pnrr. Its mistress now al ays feeds it. Its method of absorbing its food is this: The enp of honev i.nd water, being held in the baud of Miss Gove, ti e butterfly lights on her linger, and runs out a needle-like proboscis an inch and a half long; this it tbnrsts into the liquid curling it around on tbe surface of tbe auhfatance; then it thrusts, with quick strokes, tho end of this natural tube into its month. When it has eat en all it wants, the proboscis is drawn in, and it is then that the purring is loudest. I saw it eating a meal tho other day, and it was a curious sight, but to hear tbe song of comfort it pnrred forth afterward was to me more wonderful. Miss Gove takes it about with her, and last week, while visiting Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chare, of Paw- tucket, K. L, tbe curious little pet at- trao'ed wide attention from callers. "Has it seemed to languish or de crease in . nze? asked one inter ested listener. "Sot at all; it appears healthy, brisk ind happy, and its mistress has a great affection for this singular creature." "Does anybody sy it is Whittier's sonl come back in new guise?'' inquired an imaginative hearer. "Mo, hnt somebody dideay that, were the gentle old poet alive he won Id write some words about it that would outlive the butterfly by a century." FUNNY. NO ONE XHOPGHT OF IT I5EFOKE. It has remained for a woman to in rent and patent glass doors for ovens. The wonder is that the idea has not long ago been thought, of by some Koman who cooks. All cooking in structors lay tbe greatest stress ou the care to be observed opening an oven door to watch the progress of cakes and mnffins. Maria I'arloa making sponge rake touches the knob with tbe most delicate care and lightness, dread ing even to jar the rake within, and peeks through the smallest crack that will afford tbe necessary glance. What l relief to walk boldly np to the oven tnd through these transparent doors wbich the genius of a Michigan woman Las discovered study at leisure the pro gress of rising cake dough or crisj iag fowL Flies, white Ii all respects excepting tboir eyes, which were red, were found in an old mine recently reopened in Bangor, California. The insects, upon being exposed to the light under glass, regained their lost color. Expcrikxcb teaches ns that luxnri ras self-indulgence and hard-bearted-lesa toward others la ono and the same Oct. "HlXQd OLD AND NEW. It has been discovered that drafts bills of exchange and promissory notei were in nse among the ancient Baby lonians. The longest single span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph wire, and is stretched over the river Kistnah, between Bezorau and Sectanagrom, In dia. It is over 6,000 feet long, and is stretched from the top of one moan tain to another. The name, Sandwich. Islands, L English. When Captain Cook discov ered the gronp in 1778, about a cen tnr? after the Spaniards had first land ed there, he christened them in honor of Lord Sandwich, of the English Ad miralty, who had taken much interest in Cook's voyage in the Pacific. It is said that his lordship was the origina tor of the food combination known a tbe sandwich. The tea plant was known in England so early as 1650, and in lGGOit began to be need as a rare luxury in the London "offee-houses. It was nearly 100 years before the exports were very large or its nse became extensive in England and in the English-American colonies. In 1770, the cultivation of the tea plant was undertaken in Georgia, and from time to time the attempt has been renewed. Some bridge builders who were sink ing a caisson in the middle of the Mis souri Kiver at Bellefontaine, discovered at the depth of a 110 feet a hnman skull, resting on a stratum of lime stone. It is supposed to be a relio ol the gjacial period. In Arizona, a short distance east o the Tucson oraole stage road, is a rock which bears a striking resemblance to a camel. Ii is about sixty feet high, and no effort of imagination is required to perceive the wonderful similarity of tbe rock lo a camel. Sable Island, which is abont a bun dred miles nearly east of Halifax, baa lately changed its position. Sailors never know whether lastyeur's chart ic a saN guide for navagation in the ad jacent watt rs. Many a ship has beer wrecked upon its treacherous co ast It has been called tbe Cemetery of the Ocean, and it deserves the Dame. It would have no population if the Cana dian government did not hud it neces sary to support a score or so of people there to look after tne lighthouses and care for castaways who are thrown npon tbe island. Twilve hundred beds at a penny night each, are offered to London' homeless poor in a new Salvation Army shelter, erected on the bank of the Thames, near Blackfriars' Bridge. It is designed to revive at Covet.. Garden this summer Halevy's "La Juive," last given in London forty years ago under Sir Michael Costa, w th Mario and Tamberlik. Tho Paris hot-water fountains, fo. the ue of the poor, supply eight quarts of heated water for one cent Eveiy gem known to the lapidary has been found in the United States. OUK NATIONAL EMBLEM. What plant of our splendid flora shall we choose for a national emblem! asks E Ina Desn Proctor in the M-trch Ladies' Jiomn Journal, and her answer is an interesting one. It should be one which is purely American, which is wide-spread, dis tinct in character and rich in associa tion The plant which fulfills these conditions iu the highest degree, and from its importance transcends them ail, is our stately grain, the maize the corn. It is indigenous to Amerioa.and peculiar to it never a kernel else where in the world until car nod from here. It grows, in many varieties, from Northern Canada to Southern Chili. With its commanding height, its graceful, curving leaves, its crown of flowers, its silken tassel's and pliant husks Nature's choicest wrappings for her stateliest grain and, above all, for its golden ears, true cornucopias, symbols of abnndaaoe and joy, it is distinguished lor beauty and dignity and individuality. It is associated with all life on this continent It was the food, with game, of the primitive peoples here of the wandering tribes, the Azteos, tbe Incas and the object of their prayers and thanksgivings in songs and dances and rituals, as it is of their descendants to-day. Among our selves It is our most important grain product, nearly equaling in valne that of all the other cereals together. Then it lends itself with such effect to deco ration. Its leaves, its flowers, its tas sels, its ears, with their varied tints and forms, make it unrivaled for artistic nse. And always it is so unique, so American! The eagle flies for other lands, the maizo is native only of oni own. Let the States choose each what flower they will; but for a National em blem let us have the only plant that is Amerie.in enough to symbolize ns tbe maize, the corn. The arbutus and the golden ro1, The heart of the N. rth may cbee-. And the mountain laurel for Maryland Its royal clu-ters rear. An i Jasmine and magnolia The cre-t of the Pouch adorn. But the wide Hepubllc's emblem Is tho bounteous golutn Corol Al. H. Correvon. Director of the Jardiu d'Acchmatntion, Geneva, writes to tbe ifarrienera' Chronicle that he has received from the mountainous regions of f'ervi and Montenezro sev eral interesting plants which have not been introduced into cultivation. One of them is Chrysanthemum cinerarire- folinm, which has large and beautifnl flowers and lotig-stalned leaves.donble lobed. Another is Aivssnm renena. from Mount Dnrmitor, where it was collected at an elevation of 6,003 feet It is a dwarf-spreading species, with yellow flowers, wbich surpass in beauty those of most other Alyssums. From the Southern Caucasus, at an altitude of 2,000 feet, comes a beantifnl Fox glove, Digitalis ciliata, which resem bles D. grandidora somewbar. and is an erect, graceful plant, which flowers freely from Jnne to Seotember. After all. ffettinr ffrarwa frnm nn neighbor's vines is only a matter of pluck. One san journey with delight in the ideal, but one reposes well only in the reality. Enveloped in a eommnn mtmt seem to walk in clearness ourselves. uu ueuom - omy tne mist that en shrouds others. ThB sweetest mn1A fm irfi 1m 41. oratorio, but in the human voioo when i speaas in tones oi tenderness, troth or coinage, A RECONCILIATION. ,11 ELLA DIET! C1TSKB. I do not know III were wrong or you ; It grieves me so lo think I gave yon pain That I my sift must rue, AlU lane It back imu. I do not know If you or I were right: Your tears have caused me woe, nd if vou werp attain I shall grow mure contrite. And covet all our lulu. I do n. t know Nor care which one was right; For hen your dear eyes now 1 eaunot s. eak fur nam. And tear-mists blind my sight Until you iuule azain. So let tt go VY e may have both been wrong, Or partly so; But sin Is purged by pain. And royal souls are strong To wouud and heal again. Bazar, AJNIMAL TK1ALS BY JURY. BX ALEX. H. JAPP. There can be no doubt that in ani mals the sense of justice is more or le-s developed, and that in some instances it reaches a very high level. Sot only do they individually exercise the re venge for injuries which Lord Bacon deQued as a kind of wild justice; but, in certain circumstances, they will com bine for protection, and actually pro ceed precisely as men do in parlia ments and in law courts against ene mies to the common good. This is especially noticeable among certain orders ot birds, but it is not unknown umoDg mammals either; the most care ful observers and the closest thinkers, however sceptical of many stories, having to admit that, in not a few of tbe most remarkable cases reported, there could be no room to doubt that animals hud instituted Law courts, con ducted what were nally trials by jury, and appointed certain of their number to seo the sentence carried out that is, to act as executiouers of the will of tbe majority, or of the whole met in solemn council. A few of tbe most stiiking and tLoroiijhlv verified instances may be given, and, we think, csnnot tail of interest for our readers. AmoDg the beavers it is undoubted that lourts were held, and judicial functions exercised, and the si ntences carried out with most exact discipline. This is proved by the fact that near to every lu aver settlement there exists a class of what are called "bachelor bea vers." This is composed of two sec tions, old males who hal lost their mutt s and were held to be no longer of true use to the community, and younger "bachelors" who had been expelled the settlement for miscon duct, idleness, and laziness, more gen erally theft, and by a jury awarded a sentence of perpetual exclusion, a sort of renal servitude, which all the com munity of beavers were bound to join in order to see thoroughly carried out. These "bachelors" live alone, not iu warm houses protected by dams,' as in community, but in holes in the banks of the rivets prison cells, in fuct whero (hey just manage to live, and where tbey can at a pinch succeed iu storing sufficient winter food. Home times their privations must be great, but there is no escape for them. If tbey endeavor to build a proper beaver bou.se at all events, within ken of any of their old assooiatesj it is reported, and it becomes the bouuden tluty of f members of the cimmunity to turn out and destroy what has t een dene. Penal servitude among l eav. rs really exists, as it does among u-. The beaver-thief is compelled to work hard, in isolation from h s family, and yet cannot secure tbe most primary personal comforts- -cannot exercise himself in that craft of construction in which he alone can find true pleasure. He must atone to society for his limit, ju t as our convicted prisoners uo. Anyone who has seen the beavers at ti e Zoological Gardens ceaselessly com forting themselves and passing their time in constructing houses that they do not need, will realize what a punish me it a jury of beavers mete out to one of their own kind wlo is idle or lazy, or has been guilty of theft, or violated any of the essential laws of the beaver community, when tbey make him a 'bachelor" beaver and will not let him reot a house near to them. Dogs will often sit as jurymen in eases of any wrong from which they have all alike suffered I know one case in which this happened. A big, rough dog, a cross between a collie and a hound a sort of lurcher, in fact, which used daily to accompany a milk cart into the town I come from, had for a long time, borne the character of a surly tyrant, dealing blows, in the ahtpe of bites, to the little dogs in the town, till more than one of them bo e his memorial marks on head or body. He was a big bully of the worst sort, ill used dogs smaller than himself, and took care not to meddle with a bigger one. With a friend 1 was walking in tbe twilight one evening, along a lane a little distance from the town, and not far from the larm where that I ig, rongh lurcher stayed. What was our surprise to tie overtaken by a bevy of dogs, big and little, some dozen or fifteen of them rushing past us from the town with such speed that they made quite a wind as tbey went. Next day, we heard that Nelson's "Victor" bail been found in a dreadful condi tion at his master's door, bleeding an 1 torn, and witii jast life left iu him and no more. A very noticeable change was to be detected in him when he got better after that, and came into towu as before. He did not meddle with the little dogs any more; bnt kept clone beneath the master's cart, instead of roaming about and dealing punish ment to smaller specimens. It was a matter of common remark, indeed, that Aelson's "Victor was a changed dog. Are we not justified in assum ing that tho dogs had sat as a jury on it perhaps engaged one or two bigger dogs in their cause and themselves proceeded, as we saw them, to be the executioners of tbe law? The dogs anted I reciseiy as boys at school do, when at length they Lnd out "tbe bul'y." and. led hy a lad of energy, determine to to. eh him bettor manners and put him lown. Among birds the exe cise of judicial functions ii still more common. Wjo has hot heard accounts of trials by jury among crows? At the building time more especially, young crows will be found rather apt to try to ssve tliem se'ves the trouble of foraging for the necessary sticks and lining mat ri:i); sDd will go and pull a bit or two out from the nest of another pair moro ad vanced in their work, and during their absence. Found ont in their pilfer ing, tbe offending pair are taught that, whatever the crows may do outside their settlement, no thieving la allowed amoros themselves Crow courts,or 'jrials by jury, hv often been ob served and described. What a cha tering and lend eaw -cawing there is three are the calls to come to court Then one old fellow, the head village man, patriarch, or e'lief, who for years on years "baa led the clanging rookery home," as the poet sings, takes np the parable and addresses his companions in tbe most solemn judicial tones. Then there follows the chorus of agreement in the law laid down, "caw, caw," "hear hear," "let jndgment be done," and straightway the nest of the offend ing pair is torn to pieces to be worked into other nests by-and-by, and the offenders are driven ont for a time at all events to find a site for their nest building and pairing elsewhere than with their own family or tribe. Mr. Romanes in his "Animal Intelli gence," into which he admits no state ment that be hid not thoroughly veri fied, gave the following at rage 324, from the pen of the late Bishop of Carlisle: "I have soen a jackdaw in the midst of a congregation of rooks, apparently being tried for some misdemeanor. First, Jack made a speech, which was answered by a general cawing of the rooks; this subsiding. Jack again took np his parable, and the rooks in their turn replied ln chorus. After a time, the business, whatever it was, ap jveared to be settled satisfactorily. If Jack was on his trial, as he seemed to be, he was honorably acquitted by ac clamation; for he went to bis home in the towers of Ely Cathedral, and the rooks also went their way." Even the shy and shrinking swal lows have been known to sit as a jury and to resolve cn combined action against an enemy. Here's a story of the way in which the wiles of a cat to make prev of some of their number were defeated by them. It was told 1 and vouched for by the Rev. Philip okelton: "I once 6aw a remarkable instance of tbe s6Dse and humor of the swallows played off upon a oat whioh h id, on a very fine day, placed herself on the top of a gate-post, as if in quiet con-t-mplatiou, when abont a dozen swal lows, knowing her to be an enemy, t tok it into their heads to tantalize her. One of these birds, coming from behind, flew aerofs to her ear, and sb.4 made & mAtcb at it Knt it waa too late. Another, in five or six see : otitis, did the same, and she made the I s .me unsuccessful attempt to catch it. i Tben followed a third, and a fourth, and all the rest; and every one, when it passed, seemed to set up a laugh at the disappointed enemy. Then they formed a kind of circle in tbe air, and flew round and round her for nearly an hour; till at last pussy, tired of be i, g made a I ntt of, jumped down and fled, as much baffled, 1 believe, as I had been diverted." There aro certain insects which very closely imitate the colors of bees, and iutrude themselves into the hives ol these bees, with the definite object ol robbing them of their honey. When they ore detected there is great excite ment in the hive, one bee com muni eating to another, and considerable disorder seems to prevail, until, fit-ally, a sort of court is held, alter which tht business of dealing with the intruderi comes on, when a certain number ol iees, as though deputed for tho pur-ros-, proceed to seize with their pin cers t.ie unlucky personator, audeithei turr. him out or tear him to pieces. Here is another instance of jnry-lik deliberation issuing in definitely con certed action for punishment, on tb part of ducks, not generally credited with much cleverness or power ol united action, vouched for by anothei clergjinm. He writes: One more anecdote in evidence c the sagacity of tbe duck. 1 had five Aylesbury ducks, with a number of fowls. The lord of the yard, a most despotic chanticleer, would never suffer the ducks to Ti ed with his family and friends when, at the regular meal-times, tbe gra n wua scattered for their com mon use. Ferocionsly and without pity ho drovj them from the ground. This had been goiug on for many weeks, and one day, at the nsua! twelve o'clock repast, the act of expul sion was performed as nsnaL I wa present, and saw the discomfited ducks retire to another corner of the yard. There they evidently held s conference, or resolved themselves intc a jury. Having been so engaged some five minutes, they proceeded with de liberate and resolute air, in single file, as is their wont, towards their oppres sor. Having reached the tyrant, they surrounded him, each duck turned hie posterior towards the enemy, and with concertod action fairly hustled him clean ont of the yard. To see the sur prise of the cock, as he jumped from side to side to avoide tbe pressure ol the attacking party, was ludiurous in the extreme. The victory was complete; from that hour the ducks were never again molested." Now, concerted action, in all thes, cases, with a definite penal purpose, conld only have resulted from confer- nee at which n systematic process ol procedure was settled on. Tbat the animals perfectly understood and agreed to this was essential to suc cess. We might cite many more cases, but the principle in all is tbe same the recognition of a common cause, or right, or interest first; next, the full consciousness that individual action conld not avail, bnt that nnited action would prevail. There could hardly be a higher or more definite proof of the exercise of reason. The animals suff r from tbe fact that they have no clerks to make record for them, as we human beings have; but human beings, ob s: rviug their action are compelled to draw certain inferences, tbat anima's. the more closely they are observed, re veal more and more likenesses to men, even in the higher aspects of moral and social development Snrely, that nice ob.-erver and thorough lover of the animals. Henry Thoreau, was right when be summed np bis deliberate conviction in the words, "Animals are undeveloped men stauding on their defence awaiting their transformation. The Rones or Uaulel Boon. DnnicI BooDe's remains weio brought back from Missouri and placed beneath a big limestone rock looking riown upon the Kentucky River, but before bis coffin was sealed his skull was taken out and a cast was made of it The cast of the skull of the great pioneer occupies a duty. shelf, in a dusty case ln the apart ment occupied by one of his descend ants C. J. Norwood, who Is now State Inspector of Mines. Below this room is the land office, in which nre preserved many of the document! in the way or records of original sur veys prepared by Boone himself, writ ten and siKne 1 with his own goose quill, "IX l oone." But It docs not seem that this preservation of a cat of the skull (of the hard-headed old pioneer Is inappropriate. Courier-Journal wo BOYS. SJT C B. J0UN5T0SI. B. A. A ycu'h nf h'ch dcree: fig navy bcks well smalmed with redolent cosieetic. Who iroes. line Ae. somewhat mlnclDgly, Bad form to seem too energetic." An oily, placid smirk Plays soltly round the cherub's angel feature. To show the scorn that iu his heasa sjit luik ror a I bis paltry fellow-creitures. A chubby, grubby boy. Whose face and collar fr. cue-it drops Of Ink besp.itter; Mere turt cannot hU hipilnes4 destroy. Whose Diotto is "It doesn't mailer." Uls rebel hair Is rciueli. With tie nl-tied, and boots both Innocent of lce; His fingers "sicklied o'er" with sugar-stuB; Uis ouiy art Is mnWlng faces. The one a little dear," His in. liner sas, nor marks his most offentlre svtaircer. The other no such paragon I fear, Bui Just "a Joby little begvar." COLONEL POPE'S GOOD WORK. We have long been wishing to say a good word for the good work, which Colonel Pope is doing in the way of encouraging, coaxing, and taunting t;ur remiss authorities into giving us tbe good roads which we have a right to demand of them. While we are still thus wishing we have found our ideas well expressed in the following para graph, which we clip from an article in Lippincott's Monthly for the current month. We would preface the matter by .ailing attention to the fact that in every State there are prisons full ot convicts, who are iving at the expensev of the honest and hard working part of the community, who ought to be compelled to eiru their bread by hard labor on the public roads. This would be a great saving to the State and a boon to every inhabitant, besides giv ing the criminal the physical and mor al benefit of open air exercise. "Almost every State in the Union i now moving to secure revised laws and better roads, nnd iu each may be found a long list of distinguished and publio spirited men who, at great personal sacrifice, have given much time to this educational measnre. Foremost among the e in the East may bo mentioned Colonel Albert A. I'ojie, of Boston, Massachusetts, who is iudefatigable in his efforts to secure results in every possible way and by the most impres sive and practical methods, viz., object-lessons. To this end ho has not only endowed a chair at tbe Massachu setts institute of Technology with special reference to instruction iu all matters perta nmg to roads, but he has delivered numerous lectures, published many speeches, distributed c iculars, petitions and memorials, all bearing npon tbe question of the establishment ol a better condition of our publio ways. Oue of his latest papers is an appeal to editors nn.l publishers urging tbem to stis'-iin the movement and to correct tl e e l oueons impression which seems to j re-ail that it is intended or desired to have the national govern ment interfere in any way with the sovereign rights of the several States, by assuming to bnil.l national roads, buch is not his purpose, which is dis tinct y state 1 to be the establishment of a bureau of roads lor educational purposes, to coileet statistics and to disseminate iuforniatiou about roads to the feudal public, somewhat in the I uianuer of li e recent eor.su'ar reports on Roads and .streets of foreign coon tries, but to Lave it worked up by specialists and put it in such form at to be of much greater practical utility. There is no moro fear that such a bureau would trem-h upon tbe rights ol States than that the Bureau of Agricul ture would undertake the j.rovince of farming. Bnt we would go even further, and believe that there should be not only a bureau of roads, bnt also a de partment df public works, to include within its jnrisJiciou all the ways ol communication by land and water, domestic and foreign. The collection of statistics, concerning our railway! ind waterways, commerce and naviga tion, rivers and harbors, and even the construction of the improvements in this latter sphere, might very properly ' be assigned to such a civil depart- J ment. Tbe snccess of all popular move ments is undoubtedly dependent npon the amount of interest which the indi vidual not only leels, but on the ener gy which be is willing to exert upon those who have been elected to execute such measures. Hence it is that stress is laid npon the importance of individ ual and personal appeals to legislators by petition, by private letter, by inter views, and in every other legitimate way, to impress upon them the great need and desirability of reform or ot revision in our road laws, tbat we maj be enabled to secure better results, at it is evident that our present laws dc not give us good roads, and that nc improvement can be expected until the preseut system of working out the taxes be abolished for one that will convert the present narrow-tired road destroyers into broad-gauga road-preservers. Colonel Pone's petitions should re ceive tbe immediate and personal atten tion of every one int rested in good toads." L. M. UACPr, in May Lippin to It's. fun eaucaed IXoosier Cockroach. While a gentleman was at hisofflci desk a day or two auo one of these disreputable In-ects ran across the pa per on which be was writing. He flipped it against the all with bit linger and it I ounJed lack on tbe desk, lighting on its back. It re mained motionless fir seine time, until it recovered from the shock, and then endeavored to get upon its feet again, but in vain. Smaller roaches passed by their prostrate brother, evidently without noticing It, but a larger one came alone pretty soon, stopped, went over to the one that lay upon its back, straddled across it, and, giving it a quick jerk with iti foreletrs. landed It deftly up on its feet, an! the two disappeared together over the eJjje of the desk.. Indianapolis News. Keeping the l"lre lr. A common trouble in country olacksmith shops, even in private houses, is the goin ; out of the fire while the smith or servant is dolDg work away from it This annoyance can be prevented hy keeping at hand 1 box containing sawdust When the fire seems tj be out throw a Landfill of sawdust on the coals, and I gcol blaze" will ouicklv follow. inis may seem a small matter, there are many who will flud raggestioa a yiseiui quo. :-Z ;-J s-jw -C
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