a. or R F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Kdltor ud Proprietor. VOL. XLVII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1893. NO. IiEV. TALMAGE. Tin: H) )Kf.YV DIVIXE'S SUN DAY SERMOX Snlit: "A Huntius Scene." ':rn:H-i hri'l ilrtour he tUuU-lioi-l'V'e oif.''- Xil.t.. ;- a;o sr) r.jn en-a-npet a'oa? I-..aa I railroad so as to be ready ; viortiimr, wiiloH waa the llrst tf-r I, ' ',.r rl- f -r w r w f r iho. 1 .-Mi' r ft'iatin?. Between sun in tlie amrnoon of that !) shot Oo the 29th of 5 and Iorist resound with rw and am tracked ol r te.-aus4 the quail are .fortiie sportsman. 1, ..MT- ri: :;..n 4 i'!v u:i .1 t .lav ii i .tumim 1 vou can r.j-ii of tae sportsman's gun. . .-' hunting has began, and .-r.n atTord the timo and ara- rai; draw a bead starts for th ilion grew eloquent in regard t auiitm;. In t!io far east pio it mount.!, i-'nas the tiger. The :: lian darts his arrow at the bu! io irii.'ht'n'cl herd fall ovtr the an noLde. are oftn fonn 1 tu '- u: 1 at the ttai hunt. Francris : t;i fatiior of hunting. Mos.m N. rural, "lie was a mighty r : A1!. i: tM : I ;. -a. of !: ..airlit t.) -.r-'.np Lord. ili"roore, In all ! world, the iaa.nj-ry of my text iio : ,t:-wtivo, wntlicr it means a r a fox or u man ait?r a lion. will (! i .I.i o' hi- o:: .'. iyiuj'. is ti-lliuir the fortunes ir. n. lie f.rophesies the dovour usit of B-uja:nin and bis de- .n :au:. v .u nm max oiu km It looa i.T an I f.'s t!-.e hu'itfrs goin? out to the 8-: !. r.vuiti them ail dny, and at nightfall vT!::..; l:o:::e. t!: pirns slung over the j'-.'-ai !".-, it. i r"aniilni the door of the tent t le ti::n'-rs Se.-ia to distribute the same, and oietit-' a 'ou,v, nnd another a rabbit, and gn i;. r a nt. "In the morning he shall de t ."ir tl;v f r y, an 1 at nilit he shall divide ! ; " Or it may bo a reference to the h.mti ol wild ba.ttthat aLff their prey an I thaa dz it buck to th. car or hur and di rlis il a.iion? th. yeunj. I rai. my taxt, in th. first pla?., as d -nr!ivo .f those paopla wko Id the aoru ia.g of tfc.ir llf. give thems!lvi-s up to hunt In the world, bnt afterward, by the grace of God. ia the evpn'n? of thelt Ufa divide a:n"i th-Tnsiv the spoils of Christian rhsrucfcr. There :ru nnd Clirilian men and w-'.T.fla i::tii! hous". who. ifthy gave tsti rc jcy. w uM tell yo:i that in tho morning of tiieir lif. t'i-y wr- a'ter the world as in tent, a? i hoiia-1 aft r a hare, or as a fal'"n w p up n a ga::e'.l, T.iey wanted tae a-er.'i's ; a i lit. and the world's gain, rh-y felt that if they conld get this world llev !! I have everything. Borne of the:n -:ir'"i '..it rr the ple-irtures of the world. Til' 1 1 '.:.;' t that th-? rnaii who lauglied i.s hai.i'iest. Thev tried repartee n ! .uu.in lru:a aa-1 hurlesqu-and raadri'rii!. i j-v t!i ui.-l t ::iey wuaiil like to be To n !!. -r C!jars Lam' or Edrnr A. Poes. T i- v :riiii-ie 1 wiu': and rr.usio and the spc n.ar. l'iiey wer Torship-rs ol the har-I- i i a. an 1 the M rry Vu irew, an 1 the l uf fovi. in 1 the j-ster. Life w.M to them fo:i"a iu l . u 'i.ie n 1 ae!iinn:ition anJ royotertiic in -rl:r.. Tuey w.-re so full of glee th.ey oii d nar tly repress their mirth even on ol T.ri ii i.-:vns. and they came near buret ins e-.t iii:nr;o:.s':y even at tho burial because :;ere w s ornething so dolorous ia thetoue it ".lu'e'ian.'O of t'ue .lndwrtakor. A "t.-r awhile misfortune strode thei harl a the i..ic Thev found there was so-ne-'Mut thf eonld not lauli at. Coder their ; iie hoars their health gave way or there was a.i"ith in tho Inuiiie. Of ev?ry greenthing f-u.i i.nit wa et'oliated. They found out tnat life was more than a joke. From the I; .-.ri r.f Ood there h'.az.M into their soul an -:ri M!ie-in thev ha 1 never lolt before. They to their sinfulness and their immoral y ii 1 hi re they S;t at slx'.y or savenry .e.iri o ;iL,-e us appreeiutivj of all innoc-nt :.nrih as tny ev-r were, but they are b nt ?n it e of at's'ai'tinn whicli In early life C:ey nnver hunred the ev.iuingof theird is r iit-r tlv.n the inorntae. In the morning y '.' voiire 1 the prey, but r.t night they 1 vi led the spoils. I'Lec ttiro .are othrs who started out for i".r. :a! gn :.;"s. They see how limber the rtr.: r.f a Trail's hat is when be bows down i. -.i'-rt cn transpicuous. They felt y '.Jll like to see how the world looked : a win. low of a SfciOO turnout. They . u!it tht y would like to have the moru i t vtnllght tD4ie.t ia the headgear of a I S'.inr i,p a:i. They wanted the bridges in .he p;.ra to res'jurad nader the rataplan of h-ir swi't Loo's. T.'i.-y wantsl a gilded .1 iri ,! 1 i tnev started on the dollar : if. Tfci T cnase l it up one street and ''iu"dit down aaot'aer. They followad it r len it burrowed- in tae cellar. They treed u n "he e.o. X'a -rever a dollar wc.s oipeotci to be, ! : were. TUoy chased it arossthe ocean, i'.iuv rhtid it a tj-s the lan L They stopped i ; y- the nL-ht. Hearing that dollar, even .ii tfie iVir.n -. s. thrilled them as aa Aiiron .. . T,nr:. ,!.. i. thrilled at midnlizht by u !. a' laugh. Tay cha'el that dollar to the .ueyvai.lt. They chased it to the but-i-j-nea: :reasur-. They rot:ed it from i: : 1-r tno counter. AH the hounds were out -.ill the pr.'.nt-rs sad the setters. Thay 1-ar.eJ t'-m neJ hir that dollar, and they J . -'Kari cwr.y! A dollar! A dollar T A.a ". when at last they eamo upon it and bad i. -as.illy ;aptitrM it their exoitement was li'cetuatot a fal-oier who has successfully i! :r.g his ftrt haw..-. lu the tnorniair of the-'rlHe. oh, how they devoured th pr-v ! linr th.ro enme a bet ter time to tfielr soul. They fouad oat that mi immortal nature cannot lire on bank Ho-k. They took up a Northern Pacini? lent, au 1 there was a hole in it through whieh they could look info the uncertainty "f all earthly treasures. They saw somt Alston, livln; at the rate of i5,000 a month, leaping from a San Franoisejj wharf because he could not eoutUue to live at the sam ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic bankers who had chunked their souls jiitc molt.a gold stamped with th. image of the eart!-. eart'av. They saw some great souis bv avarice turned into homuneud, and they said to themselves, "I will sik after higaer treasure." , . From that time they did not care wliettier they walke.1 or rode if Christ walked with them : nor whether they lived in a mansion er in a hut U they dwelt under the shadow or the Almtghty , nor whether they ware robed in Trenah broadaloth or in homespan If thev had the robe of the banonr s right eousness ; nor if they were sandalled wiib morooce or calfskin it they were shod with the BTenaration of the Go.speL low you ef peace on their countenance. Now that man t "Whntalooll was i with this world. Why, I have more sas' -tlon in nva minutea in the sorvice ot . W id than I had in all the first T ' while I was gaingettlng. I like this even ng of my day a great deal bettor than I did the morning. In the mornlnr I greedily de voured the prey, but now it la evening, and I am gloriously dividing the spoil. My friends, this world is a poor thing to hunt. It is healthful to go out In the woo.u and hunt. It rekindle, the luster of the eve. ft strike fhe brown ot the aurnmnal eaf in- u- ... t ;.a the rheamatio limbs the afrenrth'to leso Uke a roe. Chrlatopher North lng off ..Kn In ' i. .v. nniar.itv halls burgh. It is healthy to go hunting in the field., but I tell you thai it is belittling nd bedwarflng and belaming for a man to h ml this world. The hammer comes 'ln . ilu guncap, and the barrel explode, and kins you inStead of that which yoa e pursuing. When you turn out to hunt the world, tae ivorld turns out to hunt you, and " n. eporuman aiming his gun at a patn heart has goae down under tae "r'P'' "law,, .f while jorx have be;m "ttempting to devour this world the world has been de vonrlngyon. So It was with f"; So it wis with Colerid,re. bo it was i wit h Catherine of Russia. Henry IL went out. hunting for this world, and its JJ, ; through his heart. Francis L aimed at the , -.i.i ht the assassin's dagger put an end. world, but the assassin's dagger put an lo hi ambition ami m e "hr " ,i Mary Queen olSuote wrote on the window v:. ki.- hi. life at one Krone. vi her castle yrom the top qf s" T Tn'Snrf. Jilshao hath laid n ' th" da9t- . The Quei Dowager of Navajre was ofTorsd fai her wedding day . .amtly VJ pair of Klovee, and she put them on.but t nT were poisoned gloves, and ' he.yt?flcBht9hr(11nfta SetteJa bare band of eold pnvtion thana warm and poisoned glove of nMOiu weee-. "Oh," aays some young mauu - . ir viL k. nn are nreasAlng. i boi 's pet gun, tne mucaie-ui"- "" ',',- ... '.4 VI .. r cto- inthe summer in tne iori ' ,v,- ifr ilma in the eloquence that of EJin- of Chitauu chaxaV- r !ho spoils while to aow iV, Uttle I only want be good. ood." ' ana tnen I will ont.bi7,!f'mJ7l'er9an,,th'reln nelds H-Aprii The ,act U ht th" tides of the yean are so strong that men go down under them before they get to be sixty, before they get to be fifty, before they get to be forty, before they get to be thirty ; and if yon my young brother, resolve now that you will spend the morning of your dave in de vouring the prey the probability la that you will never divide the spoils In the evenin hour. Ha who postpones until old age tho Where ar!?.,"" Chr V"- " forever. v here are the men who, thirty years a-o S"d()to om ChrisnansLd ag; putting it off a certain number of yea?, They never got to be old. The railroad col .H,0n ?u !he stemoat explosion, or the J;,UI M. h filing ladder or the denpe11 Pt n end to their opportuni ties. They have never had an opportunity since, and never will have an epportunity "! They locked the door of heaven against their soul, and they threw away the treys. They chased the world, an J they died 'a the chase. The wonnde.1 tt .e-i taem. They failed te take the game they pursued. Mounted on a swift courser, thay leaped the hedge, but the ooufser fell oa them and crushed them. Proposing to bar ter their soul for the world, they lost both and got neither. .WhUe this is an encouragement to old peo pie wuo r.o iiu uupar ioue.i, it 1S no eu eouragemont to the younj who are putting off the day of grace. This doctrine that the old may be repentant is to be taken eau- """j- " ' uieojcme mat Kills or cures. The same medicine given to different patiem -in one ease it saves life and in th. other it destroys it. This possibility of repentance at the close of life may cure the old man while it kills the young. Ba cautious in tak ing it. Again, my subject is uescrlptiye of thosa who come to a sudden and radical change. You have noticed how short a time it is from morning to night only seven or eight hours. ou know that the day has a very brief life. Its heart beats twenty-four times, and then it is dead. How quick this tr.msi t'on in the oharacter of thso Benjamites' ''In the morning they shall devour the pivv, and at night they shall divide the spoils." Is it possible that there shall be such a trans formation in any of ttf oharaouvs? Xes, a man may be at 7 oVIeelc la tre morning an all devouring worldling, and at 7 o'clock at night he may be a peaceful distributive Christian. Conversion is instantaneous. A nan passes into the kingdom of God quicker than down tae sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may he anxious about his soul for a great many years ; that does not mnke him a Christian. A man may pray a great white ;tbat dons not make him a Christian. A man may jesolve on the reformation of his oharacter and have that resolution going on a great while . tiiat does not make him a Christian. But the very inntant when he flings his soul ce the nierey of Jeans Christ, that Instant is l nitra tion, emancipation, resurrection. t'p to that point he is going in the wrong dilu tion ; after that point he is going In the riht direction. Before that moment he is a rh;:d o! ain ; after that moment he is a ehlll of G1. Before that mojient devourm the prey ; after that moment dividing the SjiciL Five minutes is aS good as Ave years. My bearer, yon know very well that the things you have done yon have dory, in a flush. Yoa made np your mind in an in stant to buy, or to sell, or to Invest, or lo stop, or to start. If vou had missed that one chance, you would lave missed it lorev Xow. just as prei lpitateand quick and spna aneons will be the ransom of your soul. Some morning you were making a ea'.eu a lion. You got on the track of some financial or social game. With your pen or pencil you were pursuing It. That very morning you were devouring the prey, but that very ni-'ht vou were in a different mood. You fou.a 1 that all heaven was offered you. Yon won dered how you could get it for youre"!f auC tor your family. You wondered what r- jourcs it woad give you now and hereafter. You are dividing peace and comforts and snt Isfuction and Christian reward in your soul. You areflividing the spoil. One Sabbath night at the eloe of the ser vice I said to some persons, "When did yon first become Berious about your sou' V" And thy told me, "To-night' And I said to others, "When did you give your heart to Ood?" And they said, "To-night." And I said to still others, "When did yonresoiveto serve the Lord all the days of your life" And they said, "To-nli?hi." I n by the gayety of their apparel that when the gra -e of 'Ood struck them they were devaurlnc tu prey but I saw also in the flood of joyful tears, and In the kindling taptnree on tne:r prow, and in their ehllarant and tracsport tng utterance", that they were dividing the SpIf 'you have been In this building when C- lights are struck at night, you know that with one touoh of electricity they are ad blazed. Oh, I would to God that tno dark ueas oi your soul might be broken p. and that by onu qufek, overwhelming, Instanta neous flash of illumination yoa might be brought into tho light and the liberty of the sons of God I You, see that religion Is a different thing .hi.t.ome of vou oeople suppose. Vou thought it was a decadence. You thougij religion was maceration. You thoug.it a was highway rooDery j mm , , down and left him half dead that it pluc.ed out the eyes : tbnt It pmccej'oui inn pium.-, of the eoulithat it broke the wing acd crushed the beak a it came elaw-nj wrtJwis black talons tnrougnTno air. a,ui "' TelUHtis religion7 It is dividing the spoil. It is taking a defenseless soul and panoply ing it for eternal conquest. It isthe distribu tion of prizes by the king's hand, every medal stamped with a coronation. It Is an exhilar ation, expansion. It is ImparaJksatioa. It ii enthronement. Religion makfi a man master of earth, of death and hell. It go' s forth to gather the medals of victory won I y Prince Emanuel, and the diadems of heaven, and the glory of realms terrestrial and oel-s-tial, and then, after ranging all worlds for everything that is resplendent, it divides the "rWhat was it that James Turner, the fa morrs English evangelist, was doing when ia bis dying moments he said "Cnrist is a.. I Christ is all?" Why, he was entering into light. Ui was rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He was dividing the spoil. What was tho aged Christian Quakeress doing when at eighty years of age she arose in the meeting one da and said "The time of r. y departure is come. My grave clothes tuo falling off?" She was dividing the spoU. Sb. lowreil with wlnTS to flr away And mix wlta that ewruml day. What is Daniel now doing, tho lion tam-r, and Elijah, who was drawn by the flaming coataers. and Paul, the ratt ling of wuo-a chains made klngsquake. and all the other victim, of flood and Are and wreck and guu-lotine-where are they? Dividing the spoJ Ten ttionwid time, ten thonnona. In unarming raiment bright, The ariniM laeranaonu-d saints v Xnron up UK steep ot Uzat. Tl nnln"1. 1 Is flnlshe'V Their ntil wftto deatn ana u. lift Mim roar sold" eat And lot th. Tit-tore lu. Oh what a grand thing it is to be a Chf tlan ' We begin now to uitiu mo the distribution will not be completed to all eternity There is a poverty .truck soul, there is a business despoiled soul, there is a sin struck soul, there is a bereaved soul--why do you not come and get the epoileof Christian character, the comfort, the joy. th. e.ee the salvation that I am sent to offet vou in my Master's name? Thih tout knees knock together la thouch vour haad tremhla In fear thougn your ' '" "" " rrollablaweeping-oome and get the epoiU Best for all tho weary. Pardon for a.l t e guilty. Ilescue for all the bestormed Life forall the dead. I verily believe that there are lome who have come in here downcast because tho world is against them, and be came they feci God is asainst them, who will go away sayinir 1 earn to Jem a I was, Weary and worn are una. I toun 1 in Him a rejiiiw place, W ' I-' ' - . ,. f Thoue-h you came In children of the world, you me? go away heirs af haaven. Though this very autumnal morning you were de-..7r,,,-in the irey. now, all -worlda witness- Ana ill. uw buwb n . . log, you may divide the spoil. in,.n t vloi vouuar wo urepared, a'n- j,.t, fnr Hfrtt now we prepare them for examinations," w a bit of truth from Jules Simon, IH8 COUNTRY FAlTiS. H In the country's hear '' Where the Ta-s is green, U'fe is the same .weet lif. f A it e'er hath been. Irnst in Ood still lives And the bell at mcra Floats with a thought of Go4 : O'er the rising corn. Ool comes down in the rain, And the crop grows tall TbU is the country faith.. And the best of all. Norma Gal IS BLUE AS HER EYES ST MART KYLE DALLAS I j are loaded. Aunt Jane," said Patty, . -. running down to help her aunt with .. 4 tbe hnTH a n il K? bundles she was bringing up stairs. "Don't talk," said Miss Jane. "Madame Spriea- cJ heimer will have the most she can out of ever bodv. and when work waj ever she gave us each four bandboxes to leave as we came over in tha morning. 'It vill gift you en early valk,' she said; 'and you vill ret some rosea la your cheeks by that, j I do it for jour bealts, Old screw she ' cots it to save errand girla' wages; and it moans getting up at five o'clock. For we are not to be late she conveyed that idea to us very plainly." t "What a shame 1" said Patty. "I must say," eaid Miss Jane as sho put the bandbores upon the table, "that I do not believe that there was ever a Paris bonnet lovelier than Mrs. Figga'a." "Mr?. Fig.?s?" queried Patty. "A retired grocer's young wife," said Miss Jane. "He's old himself. She's nervous but beaitiful. They say sho throws things at hint and has hysterics, anl then he forgives her and gives her dia:mn:ls. She is very vain. She or dered a bnanct 'just tho color of her eyes blue, you know,' and ravlano matched the silk to them. Well, it is lovely 1 Take it out of the box, the white oae, and look at it." Patty obeed, aui went ol into 'o'u's I" and "ah's!" as the children do over skyrockets on the Fourth of July. "I made that," said Aunt Jane. "If cvtr I get a little money I'll start a place of my own and call myself Madmoiselle Jauette Sinit'uette." With this she carried the boxes into the middle room, put them on the bed, shut the door, and the two sat down to tea, which Patty had made ready. Rather a high tea, with eggs aud bicon and fried potatoes, for neither got home to dinner. And while they ate and chatted a knock came at the door, and in bounced a small boy, Ben Brown's brother Ben a s a brakeman on the IT. R. R. ?' " Why, Tom 1" cried Patty. "Hullol"said Tom. "Ben seat me over to say he's oil to-night, and is com ing to take you to the theatre he's been given some tickets." 4i A "How nice," said Tatty. ' -'i ' "Have some supper, Toail" queried Miss Smith. "Xo'ki," sail Tom; "I've got to tell Cea if she'll go." .1 "Of c lurse I will," sail Patty. "" r The boy wai oil. A moment after Patty cried . "Oh, I have got to wear that old felt turban I" "Lands!" exclaimed Auat Jane, I've bcea ttying to cet timo to make you a hat, for two weeks. What a shame but jou can cover it up with a veil." Patty pouted. Aunt Juno had no boouot to lend her, for she was in mourn-in-. Invitations always came like that, she Jiouht. "If I had a pretty bonnet, Bea would not have had the tickets." Sho left Aunt Jane taking aa extra cup f tea, and went out into tho middle room to dress. "If I could wear it to-night," she thought, "I coald put ahandkerchiof on my held under it, aad it would not be soiled. Perhaps Aunt Jane would say 'Vest' No, she would not, I know bet ter that that. I've a mind to do it. I can cover it with a veil. She'll not open the boxes to-nght; no one will ever find it nut. Oil, il does so become met" She dropped her own brown turban iato the box aad put the cover on. "What harm could it do i" she queried of some invisible familiar. At tliis instant tho door dashed open and she ducked below the head-board. Ilcr gray suit fitted well, and was quite new so were her gloves. Some one bad given l.cr a lit'.lo buach of blue flowers; the water she bad put them in had kept then fresh. They looked well ia her belt. Oh, if she had not had to put on hat old brown felt turban! Then it c.tmo into her mind to try oa Hh. Pigg hlua bonnet. '3'ue as htr eye," she repeated, "ot qairie, for the matter of that!" And out of the bandbox it came. And whea it was perched on her fair hair oh, well, words will not suffice to describe the eject. Miss Jane had come in aad ruihcd out aa. and in a momout more she cried out: "Hurry up, Putty I" culled Boa'we'r none too ea-'yl" And Patty covered tho beautiful bon net with her veil, and went into the other room. "I'm saved one walk," said Miss Jane; "Mrs. Figgs's maid came for her bonnet. She went tc madamo's first, and madatr.e sent her terc. It coems Mrs. Figgs got one of her nervous spells, and danced on all her hate, and then burne l them in the grate, so eho had to have this at once I just gavo her the bandbox saved me a walk, Ears I." "Oh, you didn c give u toherl" cried Patty. "Why not!" c.-id Mi Jane. 'H I hail but known '." gasped Patfy. ' "You taw me coras and sret it," salt! Ti'-.i. "Bit why i "Bit why-Ah, Isw-youthiak it is a trick to steal it. Bat I know E'.ira by sight, nd sho had a note from nadarue." "Come along- and don't stop talking of bonnets," said Bea, jocosely, hauling ?atty off. Despair seize! trpon fhe poor girl's l.eart it seemed to her that the end of 'ho world had come. What would bo dona to her to her leir Aunt Janet She waa scarcely herself as Bsn bar. rlcd down the Wfa Wn anc v y mm bailed a trolley-car she sat beside him,' mutely. Tho pin came out of her veil and it dropped to her Iao. "Patty, 1 declare you have got a pretty bounet this time," said Ben. "It will coit me eaough," mutterel Patty, between her teeth. "hi" said he, wonlering at hei frighteued face. At the next corner the car Btappel an old geotlemaa helped in a young lady. They took tho seat before Ben and Patty. They were tal't'.n, fa3t aal loul, the r.-or.U came to the girl's ears: "Bit, my love, you could wait until to-morrow," said the old gentle nan. "Mr. FiggV' said the lady, "I'd con sider myself a coward if I did. Eliza says that when Miss Smith opened the door of the iancr room, she saw ber niece there, with a blue bounet oa, aad that she hid bihind the bed-heal, and in the bandbox wis this old turban that I bave oa my head. Tho girl meant to wear it to-night and send it home to-morrow, no doubt. But I'll show this to ma la ne Erst, au 1 thca get a wat rant for tiie ar rest of both women I'll punish them." Patty suddenly threw her veil over her head. Evidently this wis Mrs, rfgs. The poor girl felt very ill. "Did Bea hear?" sie aiked herself. "Did he guess the truth?" Ben, however, wis interested in cer tain Viariei of the electric ltii'-s, which bliukel and flared sur;iriiiug.y. "Well, now, that's Kinder hard on the poor women," said the grower. "I will have revenue 1'' said Mrs. Figgs, gritting her teeth and becoming hysterical. 'Tneri! there! yoa shall, dearest, " ;asped Mr. Figgs. "Ain't we going .he-e a? fat as we can?" " Voa're always thwarting me !" so'obed :he lady. "I ain't," plea le i Figgs. "Way, wifey, I ain't no such thing. I al.vuri lo what you want, only '' At this mjrncat tha electric lights blinked mally and went out altogether mimic lijhtnin? began to play along the fl or of the car, and cries wore heard outside. The cir ato-ip:d; Bja jjna iel up aal walkjd to the door. 'Lcol us a haul," said the guirJ. "Ay," replied Bea. Tho car waj in utter darkness. A iud leu jerk overset Mr. Figga, and he sprawled on the floor. Mrs. Figgs shrieke J : "I'm struck by lightning! I'm deadl It's all jour fault, Mr. Figgs, all your fau't!" aad went into hysterics. But Patty did not. Sae seizid the op portunity. With one hand she pulled down the shade;, so that not even the faint light of tho street could betray her; with the other she whisked her old tur ban from Mrs; Figgs's heal, and in an instant had pinned the blue bonnet tt her golden braids. Then sha seated herself, put her despised old hat, so precious nosv, upon her own head and covered it well with her veil. J."Ob, thank goodness 1" she gasped, "thank goodness!'' - The light flashed up again. . "AU aboard!" roared the guard. Ben was at her side explaining all that tad been done all the danger, all the value of the aid he had offered. She did not understand a word, but she beamed upon him. "Seems to have cheered you up," he said. "Well," said Patty; "a little excite ment does, now aud then." "Abominable things these cars," said the passongers, in chorus; "fright ful accident some day a msrey we were not all killed." "There's one gentleman struck," sail an o'J lady. But Mr. Figgs" had only been wedged between two seats Bsn extracted him afcly, and he resumed his position be tide his wife. . -i- "Better, love?'? ho asked. "Xo, I shall never get over this," said Mrs. Figgs, "acd you ought not to bave taken a trolley car I am Bure you did it to be rid of me." "I didn't," said Mr. Piggs; "my dear, your hair is down and jour hat askew." Mrs. Figgs put up her bands, took oil her hat, and deftly twisted her bcautl fil, golden hair. Then she looked at tho blue bonnet, lying In her lap lif ted it turned It about, gasped and glared. "What does this mean!" she said' "Mr. Figgs, that shock of lightning has driven me mad what does this look like to you?'' "As handsome a bonnet as I ever saw you wear, dear," said Mr. Figgs, "aad a lovely blue just like your eyes, pet." This Is the one I ordered to match my ejes,"said Mrs. FJggs, "but when I left home I had on a greasy, brown tur ban. You saw it, Eliza saw it why It's supernatural work spirits, or some thing r "I guess," said Mr. Figgs; "somehow or other, electricity has done it." "I'm frightened to death; take tne home," said Mrs. Figgs, and they alighted at the next corner. Bun and Patty arrived at the theatre a little late, but they enjoyed tho per formance. In its midst, Ben said to Patty: "Why don't you take off your veil and show us your pretty bonnet?" "It's rather ugly, and quite old, Ber.," said Patty demurely. "Only my old brown turban." But she removed the veil. 'Why, Patty, I'd have sworn you had a new blue bonnet on," said Ben. 'Bright blue as blue ai your eves." "Vou see I haven't," said Patty de murely, "I hope I'm not irettinz color-blinl." said Ben, in a terriSed tone. That would be a bad job for a railroad maa." "Oh, I suppose it must have been tha olootricity that made it look blue," said Patty. And Ben nodlud, but still looked be wildered. As for Aunt June, shs never knew anything about all this. Bat before next Sunday sho had made Patty a bonnet, as blue as her 0749, she said, and as pretty, if not xi costly, as that which hysterical Mr3. Figgs now refused to wear, Be- I n " wm oowiwaea, anv na turnea changed back again, all in an hour." Family Story Paper. Ciear Iroot "My wife is a singularly ingenious woman," remarked the married man. "Indeed'." said the bachelor, with a languid effort at interest, "Indeed! I assure you. It was only yesterday that she found a new place to bide niylip pen "Texas Sil tings. '-v - A Country Doctor's Bis; Fee. . In the summer of 1S73, writes O. E. ' Mason, I was sojourning with a friend for a few weeks in a little fishing vil lage on the coast of Maine. One night my friend was seized with a sudden and painful illness which necessitated mj summoning the only doctor in the vil lage, who lived on a farm a mile dis tant from our hotel and who combined agriculture with the practice of medicine. I aroused the sleeping physician with some difficulty and stated my errand, but despite ray importunities he flatlj refused to leave his home, is it wat igainst an inflexible rule to leave hii house at night, no matter ' urgent the call. However, he generously consented to compouid a mixture, with which 1 hastened back to the hotel, where 1 found my friend racked with pain and pleading for medical assistance. 1 again traversed the road to the doc tor's house and thundered at the door, determined to force or bribe the pill compounder fro-n his domicile. Wnen the identity of the intruder was dis covered the usually placid physician became irate and somewhat abusive. In vain I urged the necessity of the visit and plea led the cause of humanity. Finally I oilcred any fee, in or out of , reason he mibt deaiaud. This gradu ally soltened nun. ana looking at me critically to see the full effect of bis words, he said: "Young man, if I go up there with you it will cost you a prettj penny." Apprehensive of a mammota fee beyond the resources of a compara tively slender purso, I queried somewhat timidly, "Whnt would you charge?" td which, with the same quizzical look fixed on his face, the answer slowly came: "If I so u4i there to-uight it wiT cost you $1.5 J" Joyously consenting to the condition, while concealing my amusement, I has tened home, aud by a recital of the story put the sufferer in such good hu mor that the doctor, on his arrival, found the patient so far on the road to recovery that two visits completed the restoration. Subsequently I learned that the fees charged the villagers dur ing the doctor's exclusive practice among them of four decades had been fifty cents for calls made after midnight and but half that sum. for visits in tho day time. Detroit Free Press, Bag Up a Colonial Satp Maybe it is lot) years since the old ship whose remains have just been uncovered in Front street, New York City, sailed the seas. She was a ninety-footer and a three-master, and she may nave been a ship-of-war, for an old bayonet was found on her, as well as a seven-pound cannon ball. Tho finders were workmen engaged under Superintendent J. A. Heary in excavating for the Front street power-house of the Broadway cable road. Oie day the Italian cellar-diggers reported to Supetintendent Hcarj that they had struck a solid timber aa 1 could go no further. Trenches we.-a 1. -I ,T, mnSB .1 .....l i.It t , . ,, ? ... l u i I lug UUU VJl BU VIVA BBUIU TU3CI, UUIIU 1 almost twenty feet below tho level of tu street. The oak ribs were as solid as if they had just been turned out of a ship yard. The rtbs were eight by ten inches and fastened together with wooden pins. There was not an iron nail found abou' the vessel. An old salt said that he had alway known ot a tradition that an English, vessel had been sunk by tho colonists in New York harbor about the time of the tea riots In Boston. He was convinced now that tho tradition was founded ia fact and this was the ship. Old maps of tho city show that just where the vessel was found was at one time a dock fenced In by a breakwater. The old hulk may be that of the ship Jadith, a Nan tucket whaler, which was sunk off the Batter in July, 1710. Chicago Herald v- Mulberries. The mulberry hat been a neglected tree ever since the passing of the "Multicau lis craze" of the thirties, although it possesses decided value in ornamental planting, and some of the varieties, Pro fessor L. II. Billey tolls, are useful for lodges, shelter belts and small timber. Tie fruit has merit for dessert, is easily grown and is produced more or less continuously throughout a period of two to four months of every year. In a bulletin issued from the Cornell Uni versity Station ai. Ithaca, N. Y., Profes sor Bailey names sixteen varieties as iruit bearing kinds, the new American being recommended for the Northern States. Black Persian is occasionally grown in the South and on the Pacific Coast. Hicks is a heavy bearer of indifferent fruit, but valuable for poultry. Stubbs is a profuse bearer of large fruit, of ex cellent quality. The Russian type is valuable for orna mental hedges, especially in the prairie States, for planting sparingly as single specimens or in croups and for small timber. The mulbarry ia easily grown npon ordinary soils. It is often tender in tho North during the first two or three years. The mulberry is propagated by cut tings of the mature wood of the roots, by root and crown grafting, and by bud ding with dormant buds in the spring. New York World, - Idolatry and t'roruiitty. The Western jokers continue to manifest an envious spirit whenever the Intellectual superiority of Roston is mentioned. One of them has in vented this little dialogue: Miss Baekbcy No, we don't speak to each other any more. I don't ' recoenize a ifirl who induliii jes in pro- fanity. Miss Pitts You don't mean to say "Oh yes, I do. e were talking of Browning, and she said, Oh, bother Browning!' ". T.ut 'bother' is not profanity." "May be not; but 'bother Brown ing' is." Pure Milk. You cannot keep milk pure if yon have no properly arranged milk cellar or spring house. If milk, butter, turnips, onions, potatoes, and other kinds of farm produce are stored in the same place, the milk will absorb odors. . Ducks. Ducks will enjoy themselves on pond, but they quickly succumb il 11 J - 1 1 .1 . 1 -r J?????Jr?SJm Make a board floor to your duck house 1 and keeD it covered with bar or staw. RAILROADS' EARLY DAYS. The! :ara Were Uchted wtth Candle, and Moated wtth 'Wood. There is a vast difference between railroading now and what it was in ante-bellum days, said a veteran rail roader the other day. It is a snap now to what it was in those days. Then every man had about threo times as much work to do as now.and got about half as much pay for it. I began my career as water carrier on the Pennsylvania road in Ohio. My business was to carry water through the train to the passengers- every twenty minutes, for in those days we didn't bave water coolers and ice wa ter in the cars. Railroad tracks w, ro built with stringers and o!d-titne iron rails ami frogs and switches. It was considered unsafe to travel over fifteen or e'gbt cen miles an hour and the fastest pas senger train never made over twenty miles an hour. Rules and regulations and time-cards differed considerably frra those of the p-csent'day. The oldest conductor in the service always had the right of way of the track, and if his train was behind or dis abled all otlvr trains had to wait on his. Freight trains would wait thirty minutes for each other at pars ing or meetinir i oints, and if neither showed up at tho expiration of that time, they both lost the right of way of all trains of the same class- You see we had no telegraph stations then, and trains could not be moved and run by sj cci;il orders as now. We used to do what was known as turning curves that is the flagman would go in fiont of the train around every curve and look out for another train, and when two trains i would meet the one nearest to a switch would back to it and let the : other one pass. Coal and coal oil j were not ued at alL The cars were j lighted with candles and wood was j burned on the engines and in the car ' stores. The old-time train generally ' con-isted of an encinc and three coaches instead of cinht or ten cars as now; and such a thing as a sleep I ing car was not known. We bad no I postal, express and baggage cars, but one coacli was used as a mall, express and Luggage car combined. The next coach was used as a smoking car aud for colored passeneers, and the seats were all wood instead of cush-' ions. The third and last coach, known as the ladies' car, was the nicest of all, but not anything like the hand some and luxuriously furnished cars of the present time. The cushions on the seats were made of leather in stead of the flue velvet and plush fin ished ones now in use. The lunniest thing about the old-time trains was the engines, which were made with the old-time walking beams running up and down like a propeller, instead of cylinders, and every part of the en gine was usually covered with brass. Old Commodore Vanderbilt of the trie road, was the Drst man who did away with the brass on an engine, and as soon as lie started it all other roads followed suit. Ilrass ou the engines was not of any service except to make them look pretty. All the engines u-cd to be named after the nllicers of the road and after the dif ferent cities and states, but they are numbered now. Conductors and trainmen never wore uniforms in thosedavs, and they had lots else to do besides helping la dies on and off the car and make mashes; but they had to work and work hard. A brakeman had to clean out all the cars, wash the windows, sweep and dust out, carry in the wood, make Arcs, get the train In or der generally and do all the work pre paratory to each trip. Look what a change there Is in the tickets of to-day and thirty years ago. At that time tickets were not punched, but the conductor would take them up, return them to the auditor's oilice, from which they would be distributed to the different stations sold from, and used again. There was no passes used then, but if anyone was entitled to a free ride the president or superintendent would come down to the train and tell the j conductor to pass the party to their lace of destination. PaHlor. l'ond. In the ancient town of Fairfield, Conn., there used to be a pond said now to be filled up which bore the name of Pastor's Tond. About this somewhat peculiar name there still lingers a story that takes us back to the early years ol the present century. It was the practice of many good di vines of that day to divide the long Sunday sermon into two parts, one of which was delivered in the fore noon, while the other, in the phrase of the time, was deferred till after intermission." The story in hand re lates to an unpremeditated "inter mission." Parson Larriby nad a bad habit of putting off till to-morrow what ought .o have been done to-day. Having something to do with a bottle of aqua fortls, a violent and destructive acid, which he should have used on Saturday, but which oc casion he had put off till Sunday, he forgot how time passed, and was sur prised to hear the church beil ring for morning service. Hastily putting the glass bottle into the pocket of his buckskin breeches the parson started for church in a hurry. In the course of his ser inn, as he warmed with his subject and gesticulated with great force, his body came in contact with the hard oaken pulpit and smash went the bottle. With banas uplifted, as he was about to close a fine sentence, he rushed down the pulpit stairs, through the center aisle, and out of the church, all the congregation following him. Had tne good man gone crazy? On he rushed, until he came to a large pond a short distance from the church. Into this he flew up to his mirldlp. while t he onirroffat.ion stood Jn amazement, wondering if their pastor was about to commit suicide. He soon explained how matters stood, and in a short time, after get ting some dry clothes, he returned lo the church and finished his sermon. An Electno DeviL "When the United States warship Prenton visited Corea shecarried into t L n ' that harbor the first electrical instal- lation ever seen there, and the first that the natives bad ever beaid of. Immediately after her arrival at tha port the Coreans flocked to her sides in their sampans, and many of them were allowed on board. They ex. pressed great surprise and wonder at the many tne things they saw during1 their visit, and were delighted. When night came, however, anc the electric lights were set going, they were filled with aonishment and awe. They were shown the elec tric bells, annunciators, torpedoes, etc , and at once they believed the foreigners were in league with the devil. A native would be told to press a button, and a bell would be heard ringing at a distance, where upon the who.e company would rush to that part of the shlD to see who was ringing it Finding no ope there, they would attribute the phenomenon to be an evidence that the evil spirit reigned over the vessel. Some of the visitors made ineffec tual attempts to prevent the ringing of the bell by grasping the wire tightly in their hands, hoping in that way to head off the evil one who was playing such freaks for their amuse ment. An electric primer, immersed in a bucket of water, was surrounded by half a dozen dirty denizens ol the benighted land, while another native was told to push a button at a dis tance, whereupon the primer ex ploded, throwing water all over tho surprised party, who were looking eagerly into the bucket. Some Incandescent lamps wore low cred far down into the water, and be ing suddenly lighted, no one being near, the natives were tilled with hor ror, and without stopping to look at the uncanny switchboard, which they regarded as an important- part of the anatomy of the evil spirit, they hastily scrambled over the sides of the vessel and hurried away from the devil aud the Trenton. An Automatic Grain-Weighing Machine. There has long existed a need for an accurate grain-weighing machine. In measuring grain by hand, the margin of error is generally reckoned at about 13 Dcr cent, and the process is wretchedly slow. Weighing by hand has reduced the margin of error to about ii per cent., and now an auto matic weiihinii machine has been de vised which will further diminish the percentage. The latest machine of this c'ass Is said to have reduced the margin of error to as low as l-4,000th. It is made to weUh accurately and without any motive power or hand labor, and automatically book the weight not only of wheat, barley, malt, rice, seeds, and maize, but also of cement and similar materials. A machine of this kind, standing in a space of less than four feet square, will till three or four sacks per minute, besides effecting a further economy j by saving the quantity usually given I to "draw." Each weigh-in is regis tered on a dial, and, therefore, the expense and liability to error on the part of a clerk are avoided. Standard weights are used, and the correctness of each separate weighing may be verified l.y Inspecting the index, as on an ordinary beam scale. The ma chine is designed on the principle ot the equal-armed beam. Its makers ciaim that it Is the automatic weigher which can be set and worked at any speed up to Its maximum, say trom one weighing per hour to four or five per minute, and the machine will weigh only just fast enough to keep the mill supplied, and will stop and slfli t automatically with it Excellence vs. Mediocrity. Whether a stock company or a star company is to be the company of the future Is at present a vital question to those interested in matters the atrical. Once upon a time a companv that had not a star was not worth going to see. Barn-stormers had to loat one barn-stormer who ranted above the others. A little while later a company that was all on a higher level of excellence and did without a star, entered the field. 'ew both companies furiously rage loget'.ier like the heathen, both clamoring for the public favor, and both claiming victory. A star company lives by its star. It is like the Presbyterian Church all are very fine when you have a first-class minister, but dreary as a twice-told tale when you have a dull one. If your star is a genuine star, beaming, and flashing, and steadily ill in ing, then he can shine alone, and the world will not think twice about his satellites. But if he is a second rate star, then you feel that the stock company idea is a great deal the bet ter of the two. The taste of the modern has for some time run to stock companies. People want everything on a medium level of unvarying excellence, the majority not being up to the point of appreciating a star, and yet being above the point where they can toler ate a wretched support. Besides, the stock companies took to giving a form of entertainment dear to the cotem poraneous heart a drawing-rooa play. tlpcneer at ItllUarda. Apropos of Herbert Spencer, a cor respondentof the FrankfurterZietung, recently reported the following an ecdote, which, though it may not be quite new, seems worthy of being re peated: Mr. Spencer daily spends some of his afternoon leisure in the London Athenaeum, the famous club for scholars and literati. Here he will regularly play his game of billiards. One day a young man who hac been Introduced to him asked for tin pleasure of having a same with him. The philosopher started the ball, but when his young acquaintance seized his cue he proved to be snch an ex pert on the green cloth that he finish ed the game by one run, so that Mr. Spencer found no further occasion fcr using his rod. Darker and darker grew the clouds that gathered on the scholar's forehead while be was an parently following the game with the greatest interest. When finally the young man, after the last snot, smi lingly turned to bis opponent to re ceive the philosopher's compliments the latter, in the most serious man ner, remarked: "Sir, moderate proficiency lu such sport is a sign of (Food education; such mastership, however, as you exhibit is the proof of an lllspent youth," Thus speaking Mr, Spencer took his hat and dlsappeared-BalUmora Sua. - NEWS IN BIEir. The nnmberof Chribtiansisestima" dat 40SOOO.0OA The leaf of the pineapple plant can be wrought itito a serviceable cloth. The greatest nnval action in Greek history was that at Salnmis, B. O. 490. In India there ia abont one Protes tant missionary to every 500,000 peo ple. Geography, as a science, was intro- Inoed into turone by the Moors abont 1240. Theoitvof Benares, on the Ganges, is to the Hindoos the holiest pi ico op arth. There are in England, according to Lodge, only seven peers of the blood roval. About 2,5S8.00d.OOO rounds of wool re prcduced every year in the United Hates. Schools of commerce business col leges nave existed ia Europe for over u j years. The Israelites learre.l Burvevin" from the Egyptians who had practiced 1 ie ages. Roman school bovs used a wax tab let and a pointod stylus instead of slate uid pencil. The most numerous body of relig ionists is that dovcted to Buddhism. i'20,0 JO, 000. The shortest names mentioned in the Bible are Ai, Ar, Ed, Og, On, So. Ur, aDd Uz. The first medical school in the United States was founded in Philadel phia in 1764. Diamonds to the amoniit cf 15.00O- 100 carats have been found in thf nines of Brazil. A farmer at Mason. Mich . Las s dwarf pear tree that put out two sets o' leaves this season. The first, sea fiht mentioned ic history was between the Corinthian and Corcyreans, B. C. CGI. Vermont was tho first slate to isstK a coinage on its own authority'. Cop per coins were issued in 17S5. The first woman's face represented on a coin was that of l u cheria, th' Empress of the liistern Empire. There were no italics used ia the biblical translations until tho timo o tho King James version, 1 Gil. Camphor is cultivated at Hioga, Japan. About one-fourth of tho pro duct comes to tho United States. The wild strawberry is found voi almost all the Northern Heiaispiir above the thirty-eight parallel of iati Tide. A Maine man used tho profits ol his pumpkin field to pay the expenses o; himself and his wife to the World' Vuir. Some insurance companies will al low the nee of none but the old-fashioned sulphur matches in the houses the.' nsare. Bicycles for military couriers and big dogs for sentries and ambulanco service are curious features of the tent ed field. Velvet is rarely used nowadays foi binding books, but it was a favorite ma terial for that purposo in the early day of printing. Queen Victoria's household con tains titled and salaried olliculs, froit .the Lord Steward down, to the nuui ber of nearly 1,000. An apple tree, which is claimed tt have borne fruit for the luHt century and a quarter, is still in bearing in at rchard near Lenoir, l The Navnio Indians are great shep herds, unlike most reduaeu, and ar said to have herds of a million slice; near Flagstaff, in Arizona. The family with the longest knowr pedigree is that of Confucius, vhicl forms the aristocracy of China, Con 'ticius lived 530 years B. C. A pumpkin eight feet in circumfer ence and four feet in height ia au iua pressive object in the field in rvhich i grew in Sulino County, Missouri. By the force of a wave at Bishop 'i Rock lighthouse, tho bell was tort from its fastenings, although situatei TOO feet above high water murk. In tne fifteenth century the bishoji and monasteries of Franco, Knglami and Germany did an extensive businesi in coining money under royal sanction Tho superiority of the soldiers of the French Revolution was partly duo to the introduction of a lighter niuskoi with a stock shaped like that now ir ISO. The Grafs Valley (Cnl,) Telegrapt says: "A mining location notice wat recently recorded which reads: "1 hereby claim 15 0 feet of this ground np big Squaw Ravine iu a wobbly di ection." The janitor of tho rrcsliyteriai Church at New Richmond, Ohio, i Thomas Perry, seventy-six years old He is a descendant on his mother' Bide of Joseph Brandt, tho famous Iro quois chief. An interesting find is a library ol 500 volumes, including seventy manu scripts of the tenth and eleventh, and some with wonderful miniatures of tht fourteenth centuries, which were recent, ly discovered in a Franciscan cloiste near Rieti, Italy. No aissing ever ocenrs in Japan ex sept between husband and wife, not sven between a mother and child, nc shaking of bands in salutation. If on were to off ar a kiss to a J apanese mai den she would probably think she war ;oing to be bitten. Tho young dandies of the Latit Quarter of Paris wear tall stovepipi bats whose brims have an exaggerated downward droop, and tthose higl crown has what an artist would call a' "entasis," or decided convex curve. A coon, with a ler.lhor strap aroutic its neck, which was lost by a youni woman at Chester, W. Va., about fif teen years ago, was found the other daj by a hunter in the woods near Chester. Ihe animal still had the leather colla vrouuil its neck. Quarantine. The best place to quarantine is on the farm. All animals that are pur :hascd should be kept separate from ihe home stock for a sufficient length f time for the development of dls jase, and when an animal become sick on tbe farm It should be at one cmoved to some isolated location. A o'.d man's idea of a jeke is to shave off his whiskers, and go Loa-c and :.a.-Llo his wife. " ' "
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