7 a .1 B, P. BOHWEIEH, THE OONBfTrrUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor Md Proprietor. MIFFXJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1S93. NO. 34. 1TST VI T7TT 'ggta:gSSSS , , , ' III'! I HtV. DR. TALLAGE. The Krooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject : "Sharpened Axes." Tf-tt: ".Voir. We 'ra no umifli fnunA P.n.u.i'.-mt aU llw l,i,.d uf Jtrtil." r.'c Samuel xiii . 13 21. Mir lnvlns unrein,! nictitation to this nn romitod li.Kt. fhnutauquan. Christian En deavors, irosj.ol wrkcB nnil their friend from all parts of VTisonin nnd America dinn and sinner ! My text is ?lorlonsli ..r.;.riat.'. What a sail in? unl.jii'jation the Israelites tit siifTeriiur I The Philistines had carried off all the Min-kamlth and torr down all the blacksmiths' shops and abolished Vi Maeka-nirh's trade In the land of Israel These Philistines had a part leu Ur fmidgj against Mn.-ks-r.itlis. although I have alwav admired them ami have sometimes thotu.-hl I ouitht to have heen nn myself. The I'hil. Wines would not even allow these parties to work tl -.ir valuable minis of brass anil iron Mr hiIl-M thev make any swords or spears! There were only two -ords loft in all the Ian. I. V-a. these Ministries went on tintil they ha. I taken all the r:ndstonei from the land of I-rael.so thnt if an Isrielitish Tar-ni wanted to sharpen bis iAiw or his nx ha 1 to iro over to tho crnrrlsin of the Philistines to (rut it done. There was onlv one sharea. lnir instnvnent left in tin- land, ami tht was a fll. The farmers an 1 the mechanio hav ing nothing to whet up tho coulter, and th iMad. and the pickax save a simple Hie, in dustry was hindered ami work practlcallj dis'-Taeod. Thevreat idea of those PhilLstinoa was to keep tho Israelites disarmed. They might get iron out of the Jiills to make swords of, but they would not have anv blacksmiths to weld this Iron. If they cot the iron welded, they would have no irrinlstones on which tc Lrlng tne instruments of nirrieulturo or thf military weapon3 up to nn edge. Oh, you poor, weaponless Israelites, red need to a file, how I pity you ! Put these Philistines wer not forever to keep their hol on the neek ol God's children. Jonathan, on his hands an 1 knees, elimfis up a irre.it ro-lc beyond which were the Philistines, an I Ids armor bearer, on his hands and knees, climbs up the. same rock, an I these two men. with their two swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So It was then : so it is now. The two men o' God on their knees mightier than a Philistine host on their feet. I learn fn-t from this subject how danger ous it is for the elm r-h of God to all w its weapons To stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites mil.t a-aln and aLaln have oi tained a simply of words and weapons, ns for instance, when they took the spoils of tha Ammonites, hut tiiese Israelite seemed ct-ritent to havn no swur!?. no spears, no blacksmiths, no grlndston s. no active Iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. I see the fanners tuiririnif alontr with thir pickaxes and plow, and I say. "Where nro you proiutf with those thinirs?" They say. "Oh. we are jroimr. over to the frarrii-on of the Philistines to (jet th sq things sharp ened." I say. You foolish men , why don't you sharpen them at home?"' "Oh," they say. "the blacksmiths' shops are all torn down, and we have nothing? lelt us but a fjl." So It Is In the church of Christ to-dnr. We are-too willing to elve up our weapons to tho eooiny. The world boasts that It has gob bled up the schools, and tho colloid's, and the arts, and the sciences, and the literature, anil the printing press, lmldellty Is making a mltrhty attempt to (ret nil our weapons in Its hand and then to keep them. You know It Is making this boa.st all the time, and after a while, when the srrout battle between sin aud righteousness has opened, If we do not look out we will be as badly oil as theee Is raelite, without any swords to flight with and Without any sharpened Instruments. I call upon the superintendents of literary Institutions to gee to it that the men who ro Into the classrooms to stand bosido the Ley den Jars, and the electric batteries, and the microscope or telescopes be children ol tied, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers of this day ar. trying to (ret nil the Intel lectual weapons of this century in their own grasp. What we want is scientific Christians to capture the solen'. and s.iholastio Chris tians to eaptnre theseholarship, and philoso phic Christians to capture the philosophy, and lecturing Christians to take bifk the lecturing platform. We want to send out against Sehenkel and Btwiuss and Iienan of the past men like the late Theodore Cliristlieb of Bonn, and agttlnst the Infidel scientists a Go l worship ing Billlman and Hitchcock and Agassis. We want to enpture all the philosophical apparatus and BWing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them we can see the morning star of the Kedeomer. end with mineralogicat hammor discover the "Hock of Ages," and amid the Horn of the realms find the "lioue of Sharon and the Lliy ol the Valley." We want a clergy learned enough to dis course of the human eye, showing it to be a microscope and tekcope in one instrument, with 800 wonderful contrivances and Il ls closing 30.000 or 40,000 times a day, all its nrasolos and nerves and bones showing the infinite skill of an Infinite Go l, and then winding up w.th the peroration, "He that formed the eye, shall He not a-vT' And then we want to discourse about the human ear. its wonderful Inteiruments, membranes and vibration, nnd its chain of small bones, and its auditory nerves, cloning with the question, "He that planted the ear, shall Ha not hear?" And we want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and the astronomy of the worM, until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the field shall I in league" with the truth, and "tho stars in their coursi-s shall fight against Bteem." Oh, church of God, go out and re capture these weapons. Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Let all the printing press of this country spe tk out for Christ, and th reporters, mi l tne typesetters, and the editors and u .lisher swear allegiance to the Lord Go l or truth. Ah, n. v friend, that day must come, and II the great body of Christian men hav.) not the faith, or the courage, or the consecration to do It. then let some Jonathan on his busy hands and on his praying knees climb up on the rook of hindrance, and in the name ol the Lord God of Israel slash to pieces thos literary Philistines. If thesu men w..l not be converted to Gol, then they must be destroyed. . Again, I learn from this subject what n large amount of the church's resources is actually hidden and buried and uudevelope L The Hible intimates that that was a vry rich land this land of Israel It says. The stones are iron, and out of the lilllf thou Shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds ol thousands oi dollars' wjrth of this metal was kept under tho hills. Well, that is the diffi culty wlththechurch of Go 1 at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of Its energy could bs brought out. tt might tase the public iniquities of tho day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to tho Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade this whole earth to surrender to God. There is enouirh undeveloped Christian nergy in the Lmtwi States to bring the whole world to Christ, but it is buned un der stra;a of indifference and under whole mountains of sloth. Now. if it not time ior the mining to begin, and the pickax- to plunge, and for this buried metal to be brought out and put into tho furnaces and tie turned into howitzers and cari.ins lor the Lord's host? The vast majority ol Christians hi this day are us.-l.s. 1 he most of the Lord's battalion In-long to the r.erve corps. The most of the ere w are asleep ui the hammocks. The most ol tne uital is under the hills. Oh, is it uot time ior the chur-h of God to rouse up and understand thiit we want all the energies. a.l the talents and all the wealth enlisted for Christ's sake? I like the alck namn that the Knglish soldiers gave to Bin eher. the commander, They called him "Olo Forwards." We have had enough retreats in the church of Christ ; let us have a gloriom advance. And I say to you now as le general said when his'troops wero affrighted. Itl-iing up ill his stirrups, his hair Hying in thwwind, he lifted his voice until 20,0J troops heard him, crying out, "Forward, the Whole line !" ' Again, I loarn from this snbjoot that ws sometimes do well to take advantage of tho world's sharpening instruments. These Jeraolltes were ree"! to a file, and so they MrKak!? -PWit The fact is we fight with too dull weaDons Wk'anJwu! 7 dU" PlSPT; clean rZ T l""" we oai-'h a cienn stroke. Let us go over amonir hnm anrfle,m;Vn,,K amo "h'-P U?55r 5s? ana find out what their taste Is aa 1 then IransfeMttothe cause of Jhrist'. If tuey rub against It In other words l, us em" lo, tb8 WOT,W' 'l. We will liZ, n on r Te- d We wlU wOB thoiracu iTnni.W8wl1 n"etbM,r Krindstone.. and iTJ i brrOW tI,eir Philosophical apparatus J" ' operimnts,and we will bor- llibles. and we will borrow their rail trains carry our Christian literature, and we mlsshlnX theiF 'report olr hl !!vWarrWhM. ""V16 I,ul"'h a master in o!.m 3LUe.n?.t on,y KOt "u the learning he oould get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward standing on Mars hill and in crowded thor oughfares quoted their poetry and grasped their logie and wielded their eloquenTHTd employed tue.r mythology un,uMi)iny9lu3 the Areopagite, learned In the schools of Athens aud Heliopolis, went down under his tremendous powers. That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power hi his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for - .UH nia snug To gether, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Ed wards his Influence in his day. He cou quore 1 tho world s metaphysics and for svi it into the service of God, until not onlv the bid meeting house in Xorthampten, Mass., but all Christendom, lelt thrilled by his Christian power. Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose their edges. We want no rusty blades in this fight. We want no colter that eaunot rip up the glebe. We want no ax that can not fell the trees. We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team. Let us gi-t tho very best grindstones we can find, thou.ru they lie in the poss.mston of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank, while we bear down with all our might on the swit revolving wheel until all our enorgies an J 'acuities shall te brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again, my sutiject toaches us on what a mall allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the miuos, and then they took the spears and tho swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones, and they took verything but a tile. Oh, that is the way sin works. It grabs everything. It begins with roliliery, and it ends with robbery. It de spoils tliis faculty and that faculty and keens m until the whole nature is gone. Was toe man eloquent before, it generally thlokens his tonirue. Was he tine In personal appear ance. It mars bis visage. Was he affluent, It sends the sheriff to sell hlra out. Was he in fluential, it destroys his popularity. Was be placid aud genial and loving. It makes him splenetic- and cross, aui so utterly is he changed that you oan see he is sarcastic and rasping and that the Philistines have left him nothing bat a file. Oh, "the way of the transgressor is hard." His cup is bitter. His night Is dark. His pangs are deep. His end is terrific Philis tine iniquity says to that man, "Sow. sur render to me, aud I will give you all you want music tor the dance, swift steeils for the race, imperial couch to slum ber ou, and you shall be refreshed w.th the. rarest fruits la baskets of golden filigree," He lies. The music turns out to be a groan. The fruits hurst the rind with rank poison. The filigree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch is a grave. Small allowance of rest, small allowance of peace, small allow ance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough noth ing but a tlie. Bo it was with Voltaire, the most applauded man of his day - Tne Serlplore iru his je-itho.ik. hpnw he drew It. uinol to icall the ChrlMttan and the Jew; An mn.lol warn wcl . buc what wneo Irk? oh, then a uxt would touch tuiu to the quick. Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs In Paris, where be had gone to be crowned in the theater as an Idol of all Krun.-e, ha sends a messenger to get a priest that he may be reconciled to the ohurnh before he dtns. A grtat t-rror falls upon him. He makes the pis re .'Jl round about him so dismal that the in, -se declares that she would not for all the wen:th of Europe se another infidel die. Philistine iniquity had promise I him all the world's garlands, but In the last hour of bis iife, when he needed solacing, sent tearing across his conscience and his nerves a file, a tile. So It was with Lord Byron, his unoleannnss in Kngian i only surpassed by his un 'lean ness v? Venice, then going on to his brilliant mis iry at Mlhsoloughi, and fretting at his uur." Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting it the world, fretting at God, and he who gave to the world "Gliilde Harold," aud "Sardanapalus," and The Prisoner of Chlilon," and "The Siege of Corinth," ro luced to nothing but a file I Oh, sin has great facility for making pxom-s-si. -.TV it baa just as great facility for . rej in ; them, A Christian life is the only L-w.;-i life, while a life of wicked surrender is re.uorse, ruin and death. Its painted glee is sepulchral ghastlinees. In the brightest .lays of the Mexican Empire Montejcuma s.ud Le felt knawlng at his heart something like a canker. Sin. like a monster wild i least of the forest, sometimes licks all over its victim in order thiit the victim maybe more easily swallowed ; but generally sin rasps and gulls and tears and upbraids aud tlli-s. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hil debrand? Is it not so, Kobespierre? Aye! aye ! it Is so ; it is so. "The way of tlia w. eked He turueth upside down." If.story tells us that when Rome was founded, on that day there were 12 vultures Hying through the air, but when a trans gressor dlei the skies is black with whole Hocks of them. Vultures ! When I see sin robbing so many people, and I see them go in; down day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salvation of my own soul. Hover, the pirate, pulled down the warning bell on Ineheape rock, thinkingthat he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but oao night his own ship er.islted down on this very rock, aud he went .town with all his cargo. God deoiar.-s. "Whca I say to the wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that sa:ne man shall die in his Iniquity, but his bloolwilll re quire at thy hands." I learn from this subject w'qat a sad thing it is when the church of God loses Us metal. These Philistines saw that If they could only got ail the metallic weapons out ol the han.u of the Israelites all would be well, and thero forethey took the sworls and the spears. They did not want them to have a single me tallic weaon. When the metal of the Is raelites wnis gone, their strength was gona. This is tho trouble with the church of Go 1 to day It is surrendering its courage. It has not got enough metaL How seldom it is that yutiM-ea man taking his position in a pew or in pulpit, or In a rohgio is so -icty, ant holding that position again.: all oppression, .in lall trial.aud all persecution, au i all orit eim The church ef God to-lay wants more backbone, more defiance, more i-onseor-Ued bravery, more metal. How often yoa S(M a man sta out In some good enterprise, and at the first blast of newspapurdom be has collapsed, and all his courage gone forget ful of the fact that if a man be r ght all the newspapers oi the earth, w.th all their col umns pounding away at him, cannot do hiu any permanent damage ! It Is only when a nuin is wrong that he can he damaged. V hr, Ood is going to vindicate His truth and He going to stand bv, you my friends, in every effort yoa make for Christ's cause and the salvation of men. k 1 .o netimes s .y to mrw.fe; ""i something wrong: the newspapers have not assaulted me for three months I I have not done my duty against lhto to'J'1" rrrvfof ro ltsith us anl the God of t of8theVerm,nation of ionathanT I do not suppose he was jry wonderful man. but he got on his knees and clambered up the rock, and with the help of h'" armor hearer he hewed down the 1 hillstin , and a man of very ordinary In tellwtual attainments, on his knees, can storm anything for Cod and for the truth. We wint something of tho d-tcnnlnallon of the general who went into the war. and as he entered hi first battle h s knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees and said, "Ah. if you knew wiiere I wxs going to take you, you would shake worse than that !"' Then, js oniy one question for you to ask an l for me to as. What does God want me to do? Where is the field? Whore Is the work? Wiiere Is the anvil? Where is the prayer meeting? Where Is the pulpit? And finding out wiiat (iod wants us to do go ahead and do it all the energies of our ho ly, mind and soul enlisted in tho nu.lert.ikinV. Oh, my brethren, we have but little time in which to light for GoJ. You will be dead soon. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you, "What thv hand flndetu to do, do it with all thy might, for tlw re is neither wisdom iior device iu the grave whither we are all hastening." Oh, is it not high tlmethat we wake out of sleep? Church of Go.i lift up your head at the coming viiv tory 1 The Philistines will go down, and the Isracliti-s will go up. Wo are on tile winning side. Hear that on the winniig aide I I thliiL just now the King's borsoa are. l-e-Ing honked up to the chariot, an I when He does nde down the sky there will be such a hesanna among His friei ls an 1 such a wail ing among H-s ejiemlesas will make the earth tremble anil the heavens sing. I sue now the plumes of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in the air. The nrehan rel beiore the throne has a'ready burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its golden lips to bis own, an 1 be will blow the long, lou l blast that will mae all Nations fr-. C:ap your hands, all yj p;ople! Hark' I hear the falling thrones and tho dashing down or demolished in iquities. Meep iu JMsttseJ Jnarrip. One of the most curious an.l deplor able sitrlits in connect. on with pauper ism during the winter in Paris is tba influx of peripatetic bejrgurs who in vaie at night t'.ie disused quarries of Argenteuil and Montmartre, where they huddle tivt-th'.-r, ns close as they safely can, to the limekilns, in order to obtain a little warmth. AI0114 tho suburban roads ia the direction of Paris they can be peon in twos aud threes bent double almofct and hungry, hurrying on and footsore, in the hope of being in time to obtain a night's shtlter in the isiles de nuit niglit refnges of the capital. But iu those buildings, according; to the Philadel phia Ledger, t'aere is imt sullicient room to accommodate all applicants. Their hospitable doors ore open only for a short time Iste at night, and when snce they arc closed all entreaties for admission are rigorously unheeded. In the disused quarries they enn find plenty of room. A whole hrmy of mendicants coul 1 easily old tin shelter In their lunj; galleries a warm corner to huddle up in nnd a convenient atone for a pillow. Moreover, there are 110 --Ttward niiCftion asked an at the aisle dfe nuit, such as "Who art thou? From whence coineth thou? What ia thy calling?" And so from all direc tions leading toward Pnris they come in large numbers at night, niud-be-hattered, hollow-cheeked, worn out wfth fatigue, and numbered by hun dreds as they desccn I iuto the quar ries, whtre, pressed pell uiell one against the other, they endeavor by contact to keep out tho cold. The largest number and deepest of thesj disused quarries are in the neighbor hood of Argenteuil, and there it is that the police often make their raids when in seoreh of some criminal who has escaped enpture, nnd who, it is thought, may be hiding among the "malfrnta." Baretooted Among Snakes. While we are telling snake stoiiea the following good one comes to ns from the mountain regions, E. T. Duli a standing aa authority. The sotiutry between Lfttle Big Black M jMutm'n is a ginseng region, aud tho Parker iamily are noted ns "senders." The girls go out barefooted in the mountains, though the country is in foeted with rattlesnakes and copper head, and dig tlia ginseng, for which they get good prices at the stores, and from which it ia taken to Pennington Gap for shipment. But along Clover Gap and np Rattle snake Creek there are numberless rep tiles. Bockie Parker is a girl, about nineteen years of age, strong, healthy looking and handsome, but with a very determined face. She is a splendid rifle shot and is often seen with her Winchester. She goes after ginseng barefooted and often alone. Tho roots are gath ered iu May and September, and dur ing the month just past she did a thriving business. One day, however, she came across a den of rattlesnakes. She had only stones and sticks with which to fight tho desperate battle. Some of the snakes were larger than a man's arm, and few of them as large aa the calf of a tnun'a leg. For hours ahe fought them as they hissed and writhed and rattled around her. But the brave, determined girl battled with them until she exterminated every one that did not succeed in hid ing among the crevioos of rooks and ia tho dense underbrush. When she had crashed the last one to be seen he counted the dead, and there were just sixty-three. Fredericksburg (Va.) Star. FOOD FOli THOUGHT. Tt takes 9 philosopher to rcaion out hia faults. The weak may 1 e jeked out of any thing but their weakness. Keasons of tlr'nss are rather to te taKeu by weleht thau tale. Geld Is the fool's curtain, which hides all h!s defect! from the wor'.d. Experience teacheth that resolution Is a t ole help In a great need. No one ought to complain If the world Dt eaeuree him as he measures others. To measure one with his own yardstick: may be hard. Lot H Is also fair. Most of our troubles are cowards If we face t' em bravely. When a man gets short of "rocks" ard has not much "si.n 1'' he has an incllna Hon to make mountains out of moleJ hills. Forgetfulness ar.d carelessness are the byway ti ail ad to fi.lure. The fairest ornament for a woman's I breast is the fresh flower of humanity. I Tl enifn who fa'd you couldt.'t eat your cuke and have It too e vide t!y was not a dyspeptic. In all things it is I etter to hope than to despair. The sun can't shluo through a broken heart. tiOLUtN BUBBLES, Pesirs sot Ihiu too greatly, for. like lira Destroying hit it enfolds, so Is detira. Uuccfc that was his thought, his hope, hit aim. Afield or housed, noon, midnight, dusk 01 dawn. That dazzling image his heart dwelt upon. For, if he slept. Imagination's flame Purnt like a steady torch, Mgbtinc the same Determined path which way his soul had gon.; And if he waked, the dream, still unwita drawn. Remained, unchanged, his conscious force to claim. it lafct 'twas his. An airy figure brought, Litrht-balanced on soft finger-tips, s sphere Oi Cne-wrought gold. But his trained hands forgot Their skill for one brief instant, in the rear I'o lose the gift. Too eagerly they caught This glittering ball, which crumbled int4 naught. V So strength may win what it may fail to keep! This world's gifts vary only in degree. They are but air sphered in the thinucst gold; The bubbles must be jostled tenderly. Robert Burnt H'lisoii, t'a Harper's. Babv Versus Husband. BY MATTItt DYKIl BUM' IS. "TTello, Katt?" "Yts!" answered a voice above stuir, as Charley tlraut called from the cosy little hall below. "Come down herd I've got some thing to tell you!" Charley's hundsotue face was bright enough to tell anybody that his news pleased him greatly, as he stood waiting for hU wife to come down. And r.by not, since his pretty cousin, Jessie Kingsbury, had come ut one time very near filling the place which Kate hid uow? But Kate was as sweet and pretty as ever Jess had been at least, she used to be, before Baby Johnnie came and and well, Kate appeared at the in.-tant, and even Charley could not call her pretty, now. Her golden hair was all bunched up and tucked buck with an ugly comli, her wrapper unbelted, no collar on, und her small feet thrust iuto clumsy old slippers. Charley's friends used to say he was a perfect fiend ou the subject of untidy women, and he couldn't help a simile crossing bis face as he remembered how trim and nice Kate was when they were first married. But the shade passed as swiftly as it came, and he stooped to give her the usual kiss, as he said: "Busy, to-day?" "Yes. Hush, Charley 1 Don't speak to loud, you'll wake the baby!" "Oh, bother the baby I He's always going to sleep or waking up, or doiug something to make life miserable for other folks!" "Why, Charles Grant! Aren't you ashamed to say that of your own blessed Uttle son?" And Kate's eyes began to 11, while her cheeks reddened. Charley hastened to undo his mischief by saying, tenderly? "Now, there I Tou know I was only joking, dear I He's the fiuest baby ever lived, no doubt 1 Isn't supper ready? I'm as hungry as a hunter!" "Yes, it is waiting. I'll ring it up at once. What was it you wanted to tell UKwOharley?" "There! Bless my soul, if I hadn't forgotten ! Who do you think is here?" "I couldn't guess, so I won't try. Tell me?" "Cousin Jessie Kingsbury! She is over at Brother John's now. Cuuo to day !" "Did she?" There was no very intense interest iu Kate's toue, for she was not over glad to heur of the young lady's arrival. Uuestd were troublesome, but she felt obliged to say, as Charley waited : "Will we have to invite her here?" "Why, of course, Kate I We'll do our part of the entertaining, with Stella and John. We must call to-morrow and set a time for her to come to us. Sho will stay a mouth or two. Jess is so lively, we can't be dull while she is Here." Kate was just conscious of a qucei twiuije at Charley's words, but she led the vay to the table, and poured the tea with her usual pleasant manner. " There 1 I forgot comcthing else, too," cried Charley, suddenly clapping his hand on his pocket. "I've got u jeat for us to-night." "What is it?" asked Kate. Charley took two small squares ol pasteboard from his pocket aud held them up to her. 'What are they I" said she. "Theatre tickets?" "Yes. 'Faust,' by a splendid com pany. I knew you always wanted to hear Faust,' so I got 'em on purpose foi you." Charley looked pleased, but Kute't (air face clouded, as she answered: 'Well, I am sorry jou s-ieut the money. I can't go." "Can't go! Why in the world can'l you, then? You are so fond of good opera. I thought this would be a real treat. "So it would, Charley, if I could leavt 'he baby." "But I thought you had a good girl?" ''Well, I have a perfect treasure." "Well, don't you think she ruighl manage to rock the baby for two hourj on one occasion?" naked Charley, seri ously. "Oh, but Charley, he might be taken sick or something." "Yes, the house might burn down; but I don't think it will," returned Charley, more shortly than he often poke to Kate. "I'm very sorry you wou't go," he added, as he rose from the table, his appetite quite spoiled. "It is disappointment to me." "Why, you can go, I'm sure, Charley. X shall not care at all." "Na; I'll stay with you, and we can have our own music. I have not heard Tou sing for a month." Kate hesitated a moment, then she aid : "But, Charley, I must stay up in the jursery. I never trust Johnnie to Sarah f evenings." Charley frowned, stood irresolute an tistant, and said ; "Oh, well, then, I don't see why I fiouldn't get some pleasure, if I Can. I'll just drop otsr to John's and see if hey are going. As I have two tickets, I Jess cares to go we might all make (Mtj of it." "Yet, certainly; go, Charley. I don't want you to stay at home because I hav to." "Tou know I had rather be with you, my dear. But it's dull work sitting down stairs alone all erening." Then Charley kissed her, put on hii overcoat and went away. But after hi was gone Kate began to be conscious ol a lonely, uneasy feeling, and to wish slit had gone, too. Of course, Charley wat as loyal and true-hearted as a man coulc be. But, to think of him sitting besidi that dashing, black-eyed Jess all tbt evening and showing her all the little at tentions which he knew so well how tc give a woman ; it worried her, somehow, and she could not help it. She was not jealous. Oh, no! She had told him tc go and really hoped he would enjoy it. But but she did wish she had left Johnnie to Sarah for one evening and made one of that opera-party with th rest. As for Charley, as he walked rapidly over to his brother's he wondered if he wasn't a precious rascal for wishing that blessed baby had never come into hit house. To be sure, it was a bright little thing, sweet and cute, and h would have loved it dearly and beet very proud of it (as he was, after all, il he had only known it), but since it ar rived, Kate had been no companion a' all for him. She was everlastingly up ic that nursery, and she neglected her dresi and her hair, and never read or sang tc him or went out with him, and he was feeling the change sadly. "Of course, it is right to bo a devoted mother," he said to himself ; "but I do wish the mother had not so entirely dis placed the wife. It's hard on a fellow, and I don't like it. I don't wonder men get tired of their wives, if they all do the same way." Just then Charley ran against a passer by, and as he glauccd up to apologize, saw his brother. "Ah, John!" was his greeting. "Fa just on my way to your house." "Well, I'm on my way to yours," re plied John. I.'iiiL'hinL'lv. "We want vol I and Kate to go with us to hear 'Faust to-night. "No use to go on," returned Charley "I have been trying to induce Kate tt go but she woj't." "She won't? Why not?" "She cau't leave that precious young stcr. I got her a ticket, but it was n go. So I wns coming over to say if yoi want to hear the opera, my tickets are a your service." "2ot uuless you go with us, Charley Of course, you will, though. And Je? can use one of your tickets." "Why, I hardiy know about going my self, John. I don't like to leave Katt ut home alone, you know." "Nonsense! It is her own fault. Come, I won't hear a word more. For ward, march! It's time to be off." Charley submitted, feeling a little re proached, for, though he had set out with the inteution of going to the play, when he took a second thought, he dii not care to go without Kate. But Mist Jessie was very willing to be escorted bj her handsome cousin. Kate had gone to bed before he got homo, and he would not disturb her. But at breakfast, next morning be told her what a grand time they had enjoyed. "Ye-es? I am very glad, Charley," said Kate, rather faintly. "Oh, yes. We only missed you.dear. But Jess is so lively, one couldn't help having a good time with her. By the way, Kate, she says, as you are so busy w ith the baby, she will not staud on cere mony and wait for you to call on her. She is coming over with Stella to-diy. We must have her to stay here, you know. If you can't spare time to enter tain her, why, I can." A sudden fecling,which she could not explain, fired Kate's heart, and made her say, with some spirit: "I shall do my part, of course, Char ley." "That's a good girl!" he returned, in tones of real pleasure. "I knew you would if if t'uut wretched'' "Charles (J runt!" "Oh, excuse me that precious baby did not absorb ull your time. Then you'll invite her to stay when they call?" "Yes." "You're a darling! Wish I could bt here, too. But you can make them stay to dinner. Ooo.l-bye!" A kiss, and he was off. "Oh, yes! She'll stay, fast enough!" sighed Kate, as she went upstairs. "But what I wish is that people would just stay at home as I do. However, as Miss Jess has no husband and baby to keep her at home, it is to be exacted that she will go anywhere where she can find amusement." Aud then Miss Kate nodded her head, nnd her eyes had an unusual sparkle in them, as if she had suddenly come tc some resolution which she was deter mined to carry out. Knte flc-w around in her nursery that morning with a will; and before het callers could possibly be expected she hal taken off her untidy wrapper, curled uer fiuir ami made herself as pretty as she could. If she took a bit of a crj while she held the curling-iron, it might have been because that small instrument of torture was too hot. They CRiue, and it seemed to Kate thai Jess looked slightly surprised tat her ap pearance. "Why, they told me you bad grown quite domestic, dear! Given np society, and all that!" the young lady cried, settling her silken plumage -in Katc'e cosiest chair. "But I declare, you look as fresh and blooming as evert I am quite vexed with Charley.' "I hope you enjoyed the opera, last night?" ohsctved iate, rather coolly, not replying to her words. "Oh, yes, ind'.id ! It seemed like old times to be wt'.h Charley again. Oh, by the way, did ho tell you he was going to take me out riding this afternoon?'1 she rattled on. "I told him he ought tc lake you, but lie said you wouldn't go.'' "Not to-day. Some other time, with pleasure," anered Kate. But het usual "I coulan'. leave the baby" was not spoken, and Stella stared a little, and then smiled and nodded her head, is if she had suddenly chanced upon c bright idea. Kate gave the invitation Charley had ruggested, but the visitors aeclined to .0 remain to dinner that Say. Miss fessie promised to come in a few days ind spend a week or two with them. At noon, instead of Charley, cane the )ffice-boy, bringing a little note, to say hat she need not wait, for he would not ;otn to dinner. Had an engagement or the afternoon, but would come home airly to supper. "An engagement? Yes; to ride with is cousin'" said Kate, to herself with a utile. "All right, Mr Charley Tha' aext time, I roller think I will be of tht party." She was very busy that afternoon. But when Charley came up at tea-time, it was the old Kate who met him in the hall, with fluffy hair and faultless dress, as he 'lad not seen her for months. "Why, Kit!" he cried, his handsome face all aglow. "Has any one come? Are you going out?" "Yes, I thought if you cared to go, we would run 'round to Stella's awhile, this evening," she answered, putting her hand on which her diamond ring again shouo in his broad shoulder. "But, the baby?" asked Charley, loubtingly. "Sarah can do very well with tli6 baby," said Kate, though her checks red dened under his glance. "Sarah? Why, Katie, what docs it all nean? Is it possible " "Yes, it is quite possible that I aa not going to neglect you any more. Char ley, my dear," she interrupted, blushing eddcr. "Hallelujah!" And Charley caught her to him in a swift embrace. "Kate, I'm the happiest fellow in town just thi. minute!" "Then I shall take care to keep you jo," said Kate. "Come to supper, silly boy." She kept her word. The LeJjer. in Incident Iu a New York Hospital Here is an exact transcript from life in a well-known hospital not a hundred miles from the City Hall. Oa one sidu of the ojierating room is a room where patients about to lie operated on are etherized, and on the other side is what is known as the recovery-room. Not infrequently all three are occupied at once. One day not lonu; ago a young physician dropped into the hospital aud found this state of things oue patimt on the operating-table, a second being bandaged in the recovery-room and a third inhaling ether on the other fide. Thinking to bo facetious, he turned to the operating surgeon and inquired with gravitt "Where do you station tho undertaker?" "Oh," said the surgeon, "he's down at the foot of the stairs." "You don't mean it!" exclaimed the young man, with some consternation. "Certainly I do," was the answer, aud the surgeon stepped out in the hall and called down stair.-: "Are you there, Mr. So-and-so?" mentioning the name of a well-known undertaker. "Yes," came back the answer, while the young doc tor's eyes opened wide in wonder. "Aren't you Mr. So-aud so, the under taker?" continued the surgeon. "Of course I am," was the response; where upon the surgeon turned with an air of triumph to his young friend, who was al most aghast with amazement. He could not doubt the evidence of his own senses, but it was hard indeed for him to believe that what he had suggested in the merest jest was literally true. The explanation is really a simple one. It happened that at that moment the undertaker in ques tion was waiting at the hospital to learn the result of an operation which was about to bo performed upon his wifeV father. A Firi Tribune. California Revisited. Tho old miner, full of cherished mem ories of that wonderful past, on revisit ing the scenes of his early labors sees no winding line of miners by the river marge, with their rattling rockers or long toms; no smoke from camp-fire ot chimucy arises from the depths of gorges ; cabins are gone ; no laughter nor cherry voico comes up from the canons; no ounce a day is dried by the supper tire. Gone are most of the oaks aud pinej from the mountain sides; the beds of tho rivers are covered deep with the accu-i mutated debris of years, over which tha, river, once clear and cold from tho melt ing snows of the Sierra, goes sluggishly j laden with mud, in serpentine windiuL't from bank to bank. On the tablelaiiij above, in the chasms made by hydraulic power in the pleioceno drift, the hollow columns of iron that once compressed the water stan 1 rusting away; the monitors lie dismantled like urtillery in a captured I fortress. All is silence ami desolation where once was the roar of water and the noiso of busy life. The same red and brown soil' is beneath your feet, the same alternation of ridges and gorges is here, tho same skies undecked by clouds from May to November are overhead ; the samt pure air is left to breathe in spite of courts and monopolies; a considerable portion of the soil is cultivated; scat tered here aud thcro over the mountain slopes are homes surrounded with flow ers and fruits but the early miner seei it with the sad belief that the glory il one. Century. A liiillternl Poem. In a volume of poems, "Songs Singularity," by the Landon Hermit, re dently published in England, is the fol lowing specimen of au alliterative poem. I: is supposed to be a serenade in M flat ung by Major Marmaduke Muttonhea:! to Mademoiselle Madeline Mcndoza Mar not: Mr Madeline! my Madeline! Mark my melodious midnight moans, Much may my melting music mean, My modulated monotones. My mandolin's mild minstrelsy. My mental music magazine. My mouth, my mind, my memory. Must mingling murmur, "Madeline." Muster 'mid midnight masquerade. Mai lt Moorish maidens, matrons mien 'Mongst Mureia's most majestic maids. Match me my matchless Madeline. Mankind's malevolence may make Much melancholy music mine; Many my motives may mistake. My modest merits much malign. If r Madeline's most mirthful mood Much mollifies my mind's machines; My mournfulness's magnitude Melts makes me merry, Madeline I Match-making ma's machinate. Manoeuvring misses me misween; Mere money may make many mate My magic motto's "Madeline." Melt, most melliftou melody 'Midst Mureia's misty mounts marine, . Meet me by moonlight marry me, Madonna mia! Madeline. An Almost Human CanmaVer. A machine that makes cans for a fruit, packing concern in California is just now attracting attention on account of its great ingenuity. The machine cuts a piece of tin into four parts, and then passes them to a feeder where they are seized by a revolving wheel by which the can is formed. It is completely soldered by an ingenious process, after which the machine tests it by dipping it ia hot water and subjecting it to pres. sure. When finished by this marvelous ma chine the can has no solder on the inside and is perfectly free from acids. jYm Tori Journal.' " A LADY REFORMER. Lady Somerset, Treatdent of tb British Temperance fnlon. What Frances E. AVTllanl is to tb rause of temperance in this country, that Lady Henry Somerset Is to fro- perance In Lng land. She is president of the British Woman's Temperance Asso ciation, and Is a woman of strong 1 n d i v 1 d u ality. Between the two women a strong They are united LADY SOHKRSEC friendship exists. In heart and mind In the work of moral reform, and under no greater leaders could the force- of temper ance be marshaled. Lady Somerset was born an heiress. Fastnor Castle, Heigate and Somers Town were her destined heritage, i.'.nr Somerset's homc the former being the principal seat ol her father, Karl Somcis. Fortunate ly or unfortunately, her marriage was a niesallianco, and this it was that in cidentally threw her Into the ranks of tjmperance workers. In 1872 she married Lord Henry Somerset, but this nobleman's conduct was such that a separation followed and by a t decree of the courts Lady Somerset 'became the guardian of their only j child, a sin, who is now arrived at manhood's estate and who Is rough lng It In tho Canadian northwest The former husband now forms one of the English colony at Florence and there possibly may be his brother, Arthur, for the latter had to fly froir F.ngland at the time of the Cleva land street scandal iu Loudon. Subsequent to the separation Lad) Somerset became interested In France L Wlllard and Journeyed to Chicairc to see her. There she took up the cause of t"inp;Tanre and did some heroic work in Its behalf. She lec tured, she wrote, she gave receptions and accorded interviews and lab red as enthusiastically as another Father Mathcw. Feturning to England sh took up the work there and to It hei life has since been devoted. Last fall Lady Somerset again visited this country, and. as on the first occasion, she was treated very generously b. the American people aud press. RUSSIA'S FURS. tier Wonderful Display of The 111 at t)i t'oluuiblHn tiposltlon. No country has a finer or more .avlsh exhibit at the World's Fair than has Uussia. who is represented in every department. Her most unique and characteristic display Is her furs. It Is a magnificent exhibit that will turn many a man's head, not to mention women's. Americana who are astonished by some of the pr'tes paid for sealskin garments w:ll s-tand aghast at the previous ekius shown by Russian exhibitors. Here one may see two rol es of Rus sian sables, each $(i,o01. One ol them is made up of ninety skin There Is a sealskin cloak lined with sable and quoted at $3,500. A beaver cape can be bought for the tiitling sum of H00. Many skins are not made up, and one may see a sin gle beaver's fur worth $300, or an other from Katiischatka, about live feet long and liner than silk, valued at $2,500. These are only a few d scores of pieces to show what bar balns can be picked up In Russia. Two booths are appropriated to furs. One is covered with the pre cious skins of sables, beavers, seals, mink, silver and black fox, squirrels, wildcats aud other animals, and looks like a great tent made of glossy furs of tho softest texture. Red fox skins are drawn at the door like portieres, exquisite sables hang on the inside as draperies, and on the outside a row of black, brown and polar bears, erect and with forelegs extended. I stand guard like so many sentinels. 'The adjoining Uxith, also with a rav llshlng display of furs and skins, has wolves reclinin on Its floor In the familiar attitude of dogs, and other fur-bearing animals are scattered about It may well be doubted il such a wonderful display of furs wap ver before s-:en in America. In the reign of Q ieen Elizabeth, il )ad Osh w as sold to the poor, the knav ish fishmonger wai decorated with a necklace ot his unsavory commodity, ind was then perched on a stand In the market. In India a huge funnel of wicker rork is planted in a si ream below a aaterfall, and every fln-iy creature :oming down drops It: to It, the water training out and leaving the flappy ?rey in the receptacle, a'l realy to bt fathered in. Sosos are plentiful and cheap, bui, the lay of the hen still brings 30 cents a dozen. If we could throw ourselves away ike broken china, every time we think ire have spoiled ourselves and all our itory, the backyards ef creation would oe full of the pit ful flinders of us. Frivolous curiosity about trifles and aborlous attentlou to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who front thence is thought, and not un iustiy, incapable of greater matters. 1 vSsiys i'.K'i ' p-- yUfr-irS: SeiialiS A PART Or KCSSlVS FVH EX til D1T. I NEWS IN BRIEP. F.gypt has over 2.C00 obel sks. There Is an electrical rocking chaij, A whale develops 14o horse rowet alien it fl ps its tail. The Jamaica obeah practice Is iden ical with the totuhrn voo loo. Vaudyke b-oaght poirtraiture to ilie hluhett degree tf perfection. Sixty per cent, of the earthquakes lour during the winter months. The first railroad, three miles long, as opened iu S2o at Qulncy, Mass. M. xlco took over CCOJ.OOO bushels of corn from this country hist y 1 ar. Tl erear two ways of telling a gorse; iy Its gabble and Its walk. In Kan tas City. Mo., persons who 'rll to vote at an election a-e fined $.0 Tha best sj oaimens of aUbaiter rarvlngs have been exhuuiel at Xiue fth. Intense m -lantholy amounting to naniu is sometimes caused by iuto'ise lvat, The bones or tombs of over 2X giants have been found iu various parts uf Europe. The average strength of a horse is teven and a half tin es gieater thau ihat of a man. The uumber of rods in the retlua, mppoted to lie tbe ultituatd of 1'gli', il istimated at ',000,000. The note or bUhost value issued by ;he Bank of Euglnn 1 iu the ordiliaiy :ourse of business is for $ J5.00.I The condor, when rising from the tarth, always describes circles In the ur aud can rise In no other way. More than 401,000 tons of me;v xmltry and general provl. ions are eaten ay the people of Loudon every year. Thare is an average of 131 iiiiciiltsa yei r among every hundred :h. usand men In the Austrian army. Some of the Comstock mines are so leep that 1.0 mean have as ytt beeu levised to overcome the xces-iive heal. A fjvcial commi-sion has been or lered by the French Parliament, to itudy ways and means for improving .lie breeds of sheep. A co py of the first dictionary, ma.a ny Chinese scholars in the yei-r 1100 li. C. is f ti 11 preserved amoug the ar Jhives of tie Celestials. The very first pages of human his :ory, the amal of t ie Egyptians, record ihat the progenitors of our race were worshipers of the do. Mrs. Mirgaret Sullivan, or the Chi sago Herald, who Is conced-d to be the tblest woman j lurualist in t'ie country, :om mauds a salary of Slt.'O per week. In the human body there is said to bj more than 2,000,0i 0 peinpiratiou ilan Is, communicating with the sur ace by ducts, having a total length of uuie ten miles, EUctricity operates all the usua? ia ic' lnery on the farm of a Scotch lady iu Wlatonshtre, and lights the house is well. The current is generated by Aattr powe-. England lepoits a ten-ton culler ibout to tie built ot the new tuetat The theory i3 that aluminum hull, with the usuhI lead keel, ought to be light and stable. Comfort for tho fat and the lean :in be derived from soma recent medi al statistics which show that at theaee )f thirty-six leau men become fatter ind fat men le.mer. IheMmls'er of Public Instruction In Fiance hasdeciiled to establish 1( 00 more experiment fields in addition to the OCO that now exist in connection with the priuiaiy schools. Alameda. Cal., has a horseback rid ing club composed of forty women, Tour of whom have discarded the old rashloued riding habit and wear divided ikirts. The new central station for electric lighting will be oiiened in Japan this summer. The power in each case Will be furnished by IV.ton water wheels. All the equipment will be constructed in Jar an. Miss Charlotte M. Young is now :bred tcore and ten, and has written far naore than the wnw number of books. She began novel writing when she was twenty. 1'hllllppa F.twcetf, who won such jreat distinction as serior wrangler at Oxford, England, has made her'appea rance on the platform. She spoke at Cambridge recently on"IIome Rule." A large piece of cryslall zed soda, weighing 2,810 pounds, from the soda lake near Laramie, Neb , is on exhibi tion at the World's Fair. George Haywood has just Jieen ilected Town Clerk or Concord Mas., for the 4 1st time. For over a centuiy !iis family- has had charge of the town records. A railroad built ti run Irani Hot springs, Tenn; to Lau:el, S. C, a tlis Unce of twenty-four miles, has a gauge sf only twenty inches, making it the narrowest gauged road iu the world. In true kleptomania the victim loes net always dlstinjuidi between article of valueand those which have none. Same will p'ck up chips or wood l bits or gravel rather than nothing. Raisins From i rapes. RaUlos are merely dried grapes pre fBired by several processes, but in Europe inly two ate generally practised. One af these consist in partially cutting through the stalk of the ripening bunches ind then allowing them to hang on the vines until the berries shrivel and dry by the heat of the sun. These are considered the best raisius and are known as the Muscatels. Large quantities are raised and exported from Malaga. Iu the other process the grapes when gathered are hung on lines or spread out on drying floors to dry in the sun. When dried they are dipped in hot lye, to which has been added a little olive oil and salt. After dipping the fruit is spread out ou wicker work to drain and dry still more, after which the raisins arc stripped from tho stalks aud packed in boxes. But all the grapes from which raisins are ma le are different from any of our native species and varieties, none of which will answer for raisics, as their pulp is not firm and hard enough, aud when we undertake to dry them there is little left but skin and sc-eJs." A good lai-siu yraiu must have a fleih of a firm consistency, somewhat like that of a good plume or prune, as the imported article is called. The raisins of California are made from the European varieties of the grape and not from any of the American species. Raisin grapes will not thrive in Pennsyl vania unless raised under glass, agaiust walla, or other prated 1 situations. Kc Yori a. v f