B. V. ROHWEIER.
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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VOL. XL VI I
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 27, 1S94
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It' a eol col wort when the sun don't ibine,
But there ain't no use in repinin';
There's a bright, sweet fcpot wbere tho Xosct
twine,
la' a lire when the sun aio'Vshiniu'I
An' the wimls may h'otr.
An' the trt may kill;
Jt' the let oie vvutI'
lu the country still!
It's a pnT, col' worl when the ihcr, gone,
hut there ain't no u-e in hewaillii';
Thr m iii run hitfli. but the snips roil on
Au, tuts unions lug with the &iUn 1
An' the wind may blow
An' the tiKhtin' kill;
It "s the bst ole worl'
In the ryuutry atilll
SAM DOLLAXS' CLAIM.
A great rush had poured into
Thunderbolt Canon, and .Sam Dollans
had followed it,
1 Kill a ns was a luckless individual
who had been hanging around the
mining camps for two or three years,
apparently no good to himself or to
any one else.
None of the miners knew anything
(jf bis past life, but despite his long
unkept hair and heard, and the gen
eral appearance of a tramp which he
had, there was something about him
ttiat testilled to his having seen bet
ter days.
It was an impossible matter, how
ever, for ttie citizens of Thunderbolt
Canon to believe in the former re
spectability of Sam Dollans, and a
moetimr was held in front of a huge
boulder to decide the question of run
ning him out of the new camp.
Tlicr ole cuss lies been hangic'
round every camp we've started for
the last two years, an' he's kep' bad
Iuck folleiin' us up an' down every
milch twixt this an' Golden. I'm for
kickin' him out, "said Shorty Murphy,
with emphasis.
"Her.-, too:" agreed Big-Gullet
Sykes, with an oath.
"Count my foot in for the kickin'!"
cried another.
"Anything ter change our luck."
"Ycr bet"'
"Out with ther old plaster!"
"Yes: out with ther ole barnacle:"
Peep and threatening were the ex
cited voices that broke the evening
quiet down in the canon.
.No doubt some of the threats would
have been speedily carried into exe
cution, had not Hen Haworth in a
clear, calm tone taken it upon him
self to defend poor Sam Dollans.
'Look here, men"' he addressed
them. "You re letting your supersti
tions get the better of your good
sense. Give Dollans a chance, lie's
never done anything for himself yet,
but he may share my tent and grub,
stake out a claim, and go to work
like the re-t of us. Let's not kick a
man out because luck has been
against us."
'Well, it he'll go to work like a
man, I'm wiiliu' to his stayin' In
Thunderbolt, " returned Shorty
M urphy.
"lie needn't feel ther heft o' my
cowhide sandals, cf he's willin' ter
work," approved Jenver Kit, "but
dog-gone a blamed ole barnacle!"
Had it been any one less popular
in the camp than lien Haworth, who
had taken up the defense of Italians,
it Is safe to say no attention what
cver would have been paid his words.
But Hun was a stalwart young miner;
whose true worth and bravery had1
been tested too often in the hard
scenes which they had been forced t'
face among tha Kockies, for the mi
ners to act contrary to his advice.
1'oor Sam Dollans was only too glad
to accept lien llawortli's offer, and ho
transferred himself that very night
to the young miner's tent.
Somehow Hen's faith that he
would do something for himself if
gived a chanc , inspired him with a
courage he had not felt since but he
did not care to recall that, lie was
trying to forget it the one dark page
in his life.
The next morning he shouldered a
pick, a loan from Hen, and started up
the can m to stake out a claim for
himself. Jle felt lighter of heart
than he had fe't for ten years. It
might not be t o late to redeem him
self yet.
For a mile and a half up the canon,
mine s and prospectors were busy
staking out claims, or chipping oil
bits of rock, which were immedi
ately subjected to a minute examina
tion Some of them nodded in a half
friendly manner to Sam, but others
merely shouted derisively after him.
Unheeding them, he passed on and
slaked out a claim for himsc'f at the
cvtreii.c end of the canon, a good two
n..s from the active camp.
"1 reckon they can't tlnd fault
with my nearness," he remarked to
himself, as he began picking off a
piece of rock here and there.
An one corner of his claim a moun
tain torn its way through the solid
wall of the canon. Sam hcu'an care
lessly p ekin ; In the dry sand and
pebbles w hich lav in a dence lody in
t he Irregular cleft.
Suddenly an exclamation burst
from his Hps, li is eves sparkled with
intense delight, and stooping over he
possessed himself of something al
most too heavy for him to lift.
It's a rock loadea with gold:" he
shouted aloud to himself. "Thank
God for a chance to redeem myself.
1 don't care for the gold for myself,
but it will Ining comforts to Elsie."
"Ah, Sam Dollans!" said a deep
voice at his elbow,
Sam turned to tlnd himself con
fronted bv a short, thick-set man
with dark hair and brows, and a pair
of ivstless grav eyes.
"Ha. ha?' he laughed sardonically.
"I see from your face you didn't ex
pect me. The truth is I got tired of
the faro-shop at Heauty Camp, and
thought I'd come over to Thunder
bolt and see what the prospects are.
I was loafing around the camp when
I saw you pass out this way, and hav
ing no better emplopment 1 followed
you. What's that? Gold:" he cried,
breaking off abruptly and examining
the rocri which Dollans still held.
"Why, where did you tlnd this?"
ie asked.
"Kight here," answered Sam.
"It's a great find! Whose claim Is
.hi?"
"My own."
"Yours? - How long since?"
"Just staked it ou before you
came."
"Dolla,n, we'll play parjjj uu. this
claim." -
I gucs not Jeff StcfTen. I take
this claim for Elsie."
"Your daughter, well, I'll take my
share, too, if you please."
"What'll you give for a share?"
"Glvel It's not customary to give
anything when a man holds the drop
on a fellow as I do on you, Sam tol
lans," be hissed meaningly.
"My God! "Why did you follow me,
when for Elsie's sake I had at last de
cided to be a man again?" poor Dol
lana appealed helplessly.
"Ah! I see: you wouldn't have me
tell the miners here that Sam Dollans
helped run a valuable pair of
horses out of Missouri into the Indian
Territory. You know how the min
ers hate a thief. You'd soon make
bacon for the buzzards. I guess you'll
conclude to let me share your claim
on my own terms, Sam "
'You might have spared me for my
child's sake."
"I will for a share of your gold.
Your secret's safe."
No little excitement stirred the
rough souls of Thunderbolt Canon
when Sam Dollans' wonderful discov
ery was made known.
But the surprise and wonder oc
casioned bv "the And" were less, if
possible, than those created by the
fact that Sam had suddenly and with
out any reasonable explanation, left
Ben Ilaworth's tent and had shared
his claim with an unprepossessing
stranger.
"Blame him:" said Shorty Murphy,
gritting his teeth. "If Dollans had
been white, he'd shared with Hen,
after he took him in an' started him
on his feet, stid o' sharin' with thet
stranger cuss from Beauty Camp.
Thar's a screw loose between them
chaps. Like as not they've been
pards before in some devilment.
They will bear watchin', I reckon."
Several of the citizens down in .
Thunderbolt Canon shared Shortv
Murphy's views of the sudden and
strange partnership Even cool Ben i
Haworth had his suspicions that
something was wrong. I
A week later, after much consider- I
ation of the question, a party, headed
by Murphy and Haworth, was formed
to go up the canon to Sam Dollans'
claim and try to investigate the mys- ,
tery of that peculiar partnership. j
As they approached the tent up the
canon, Ben Haworth, who was in ad- ,
vance of the others, came to an ab-,
rupt halt. 1
"Shorty," he called in a quick tone
to Murphy, "there's something wrong
here"
"That's wot I've been a-tellinr you
galoots all along," he replied, as he
paused by Ben's side. i
"Look!" and Ben pointed toward
the still, prostrate form of a man. ly
ing in the bright moonlight before
the door of the tent. ;
Hastening forward they were soon
bending over the fallen man. They
were not long in identifying him. ,
It was Sam Dollans, and he lay in a
lifeless condition, a severe cut on his
head.
A little stream ran near the claim,
and after applying liberal quantities: j
of water, the miners were glad to
note some manifestations of recovery.
When Dollans had revived suffi
ciently, Ben llaworih supported him
in his strong arms, while he talked:
"It was because 1 said 1 was going
down to tell Ben to-night, that Stef
fen struck me, then escaped with all .
the gold," Dollans began feebly.
"I felt mean and hated myself for
the power which Jeff Stcffen held
over me," he went on. "Ben is the
first man who has expressed any faith
in me since I went wrong. When
ever I thought of this, I knew Hen
pught to be the one to share my luck, j
and not Steffen. Hut 1 was a coward. !
tUeffen knew of my one dark act, and
threatened to blow on me to you
miners. I knew you had no love for
fne and would drive me away from
,mv flfd, if he told. So for my Utile
Elsie's sake, I accepted his terms. I
But 1 had no peace with Steffen, and
I decided to go down to Hen's tent
to-nlsht and tell him all.
"Eleven years ago I was a happy
man living in Missouri. But a chain
bf bad lucic fell to my lot. My wife
died, leaving me and my little Elsie
alone; then a mortgage took my farm,
and everything was being swept away
from me. In an evil hour I listened
to a bad man, a noted horse-thief, who
offered me a large bribe to help him
run off a valuable span of horses. I
fought a (rood while with my con
science before 1 yielde I, but I must
have money to make a home for 'my
Elsie. So I took the bribe, but 1 was
captured and lodged in jail, while my
chief got away. One night, how
ever, he returned, and aided me to
make my escape. 1 dared not re
main in my old neighborhood, and
finding that mv sister had come from
Kansas while 1 was in jail, and had
taken Elsie away with her, I came
out here and have tried to bury the
past in the rough mining camps.
"Stiffen, who was a dissipated bar
tender in a saloon back in Missouri,
knew me there, and some evil genius
led him to this part of the Hockics.
"e .vn 'n the r'wn when I r " lo vv
End, and demanded a share In mj
claim. I was too cowardly to refusf
his terms, much as 1 hated to accede
to them. And now he has given me
mydeathblow, and taken the gold
which I have been saving for Elsie.
"If Stiffen hadn't dogged mv steps,
like the villain he is, 1 might have
redeemed myself yet Thank you,
Ben, for " ,
But Dollans did not finish his sen
tence. His recital had taxed his
strength too much. He fell back in
In Ben's arms, white and lifeless.
"II ty ther pore ole chap couldn't a
picked himself up agin, fcr his lectle
gal's sake," remarked Shorty. "Hut
sich is life out hyer 'mid the Rockies.
Ben, you an' Slim Dave stay hyer an'
look after Dollans. Me an' ther other
bovs will git a rope au' foller up thet
blamed cur's trail."
About 10 o'clock the next morning
Shorty Murphy and his band returned
to Thunderbolt Canon. They lugged
back a heavy sack with them, but a
certain stout rope which had accom
panied them the'preceding night was
conspicuously missing. i
"Thar, Ben," said Short, "thar's,
ther ole chap's dust You kin take '
Leer of It for his lcetle gal " 1
'And Steffen?" asked Bea j
"Him!" with decided contempt I
"He ain't never goln' ter deprive any
other pore, unlucky cuss of a cbauce
to redepseJJI reckon. j
Tnat was ail tnat was ever sata
about the affair, and the meu went
off to their claims, no more ruffled
than if they had stopped a minute to
run down a luckless rabbit.
Sam Dollans lingered several days,
and Elsie, a quiet sensible girl of 19,
reached him in time to receive his
last words,
"Forgive mo, Elsie," he begged.
"I meant to undo the past nd make
you happy. But trust Ben; he's good;
he will show you what to do with th
claim."
The poor, grief-stricken girl did
trust honest Ben Haworth, and his
kindness made a deeper impression
on her lonely heart than the big,
roughly-clad fellow knew.
She taught a school over In a val
ley, some distance from the canon,
entrusting Ben with the full manage
ment of her father's claim.
When it came to a settlement be
tween them, Elsie declared that Ben
should have half the profits. He
wouldn't take a cent from her. She
insisted, but he was firm. Then she
broke down, and he couldn't stand it
He took her in his arms and told hi
love. Yankee Blade.
Koine Sena at
Tiie American girl (says Harper's
Bazar) no louger laces herself to
breathlessness, and a red nose, and a
pimpled forehead, pushing what flesh
there is into regions where it makes
deformity; she wear corsets, but only
to outline and partially support never
to pressor pinch,and thus her digest
ive organs are kept free to do their
work and assist in preparing the
rounded and velvety surfaces, the
glow in the eye, the blush upon the
cheek, the dye of the soft lips; for,
unpoetical as it appears, the labora
tory of beauty is in the stomach. In
addition to all this, the American
girl is no longer ashamed of her toot
She u-ed to think it a disgrace if she
wore a larger shoe or boot than a No.
if she wore fours, she managed
them; if she wore fives, she hid her
foot. Now she understands that it is
a law of statuesque beauty that a
Ijody should have an extremity ap
parently eiiual to its support, a wo
man a foot big enough to stand on,
and bit a rhnufxrt bitn yautce, she never
dreams of lengthening her skirt be
cause her shoe is a six or a seven, oi
of keeping her bands out of sight, be
cause they did not stop growing when
she was 10 years old. Owing to this
last act of wisdom, she can walk with
freedom where she will, without
pinched feet or any of the discomfort
that urrcs her to sit still; and thus
she takes with delight the exercise
which does so much for her, which
fills her lungs with fresh air, and
oxygenates her blood, and gives it all
its lite and sparkie wherever its ef
fects arc visible. After all, it is com
mon sense, the appreciation that
nature says, how much to cat and
what to wear, that has reformed an
ailing and early withered woman into
a beauty of the old Greek type.
Iarbr anil Juan.
The names Darby and Joan arv
synonymous with man and wife. This
originated in a popular ballad called
"Darby and Joan," written by Henry
Woodfall in the last century. It is
not generally known that the two
ch-iracters of the ballad were real
perxmages, John Darby and his Joan
were "Mire enough" man and wife.
They lived at Bartholomew Close,
and died in 173a In the poem, Joan
gets dissatisfied with being a house
hold drudge, and declares that her
work is harder than her husband's
labors in the field. He offers to ex
change places with her, ana she c:n.
sents. The result is that both are
quite content to go back into their
legitimate sphere. The Darby ami
Joan party is something new and
amusing, but quite simple. All that
is needed is two small tables, one
furnished with a wood-box, thimble,
needle, thread, and buttons to
gether with some bits of cloth. The
ot her table has a hammer and nails,
and some blocks or pieces of board.
Each young man in turn seats him
self before the work-box. puts on the
thimble, and sews on two or three
buttons. Each young lady tries her
hand at driving nails. A prize is
given to the young man and the girl
who succeed best and do the task
most gracefully, and a booby prize is
awarded to the most awkward anc
unsuccessful.
FIRST USE OF PETROLEUM.
Its i'irot Ilscovery and Its Supposed
Medicinal Value.
In a diary kept by one of the sur.
vcyors engaged in a survey of the
Holland Land Company's purchase at
the very beginning of this century an
tntry occurs to the effect that near
the head waters of the Allegheny
Biver, in New York, was a spring
upon the water, from which, when
conducted into shallow pools, would
collect quantities of oil. This the
Indians collected and used, says the
Utica Observer.
For unknown gerferations the In
dians had held this spring in high
veneration, believing it was a direct
gift from the Great Spirit They
dried the oil by exposure to the sun,
and made an ointment that they used
In mixing their war paint, as well as
for remedial purposes. This oint
ment was the vaseline of the present
day ip its crude state, for the oil
skimmed from the spring was crude
petroleum. The oil spring and a plot
of ground one mile square were given
to the Indians as a reservation, and
Is so held at the present time, being
known-as the Oil Spring Reservation.
In after years enterprising whites
collected the oil, and it was bottled
and sold under the name of "Seneca
OIL" It bad a wide reputation and
was eagerly sought by many, who ex
tolled its merits in the most extrav
agant terms. Had It not been for
the fact that the inquisitive whites
found out a way to get petroleum from
the earth by sending the drill down
through the rocks, "Seneca Oil"
would, doubtless, now be a popular
medicine worth $1 a bottle.
TnE happy father of twins in Liv.
errool telegraphed to his brother at
Manchester as follows: "Immense
Joy; we've got twins. More later on.'
Spare Moments.
You can't do everything you want
to do, but there are a good many
things that you don't want to do that
can. be avoided.
IN THE EDENIC ISLES.
VERDANT OCEAN SPECKS WHERE
SUNSHINE LINGERS.
Che Coral Itle and Key and Reef lua
M.k. l p the Health - Beatorloc la-himu-Some
of Their Feature Where
Columbus Fit Touched.
Scenery I Picturesque.
The Bahama Islands are noted as
a health resort, and their popularity
is increasing every year. Beautiful
Islands they are, t jo, with a climate
bright and charming as a perpetual
summer, and with a vegetation that
ravishes the eye and heart The
islands may be called the first chap
ter in the modern civilization of
America, for here Columbus first
touched and here ho found that gen.
tie race of aborigines whom he eulo.
glzed in his account to Ferdinand
and Isabella. One of these islands
he called Fernandina, after the Span.
Ish sovereign, but it is now known as
New Providence and is the most Im
portant of the many little specs in
the ocean that comprise the Bahama
collection. Columbus was especially
unlucky in his christening of places.
Were he alive now, would he not be
somewhat piiued at the inconsistency
of naming this continent America
Just because it was discovered by
Christopher Columbus? L'u though
the name of Fernandina is changed,
the beauties of the island remain us
Uhen the great navigator was search
ling for a jassage to the Indies. The
l.lBRAItr IX NASSAU.
entire surface of the coral Island is
covered with every kind of bush,
tree and vine that nature can sustain.
Evt n on bare rocks, w ith here an 1
there a crevice in which is a little
earth, beautiful trees and flowers
flourish. In fact there Is a 6pscles of
plant, the "life-leaf," that defies na
ture's laws. You can cull a leaf of
this plant, pin it to the wall and not
only will it remain vigorous, but lit-
Hle plants will sprout from its edges
una grow just as comfortably as
though they were planted in th
gr mnd.
Nassau is the capital of New Prov
idence and contains almost all the
population of the island. It is a well
located town and exceedingly pictur-
TORT FlNCASTLe.
Ssque. Darkies are everywhere In
Every Imaginable costume. They
Stand in groups upon the streets;
they sit on the stoops of residences;
they laugh, chat, sing and steal:
they peddle the products of the Island
from luxui ious flowers to centipedes
and tarantulas; they flirt and are
l.appy, but they never work. They
don't need to labor. The climate is
warm and clothing little needed.
Food falls into their mouths, without
nn effort on their part They are
lotus; eaters, too, and their lotus Is
lassos?
TBI OLASS W1XCOKS, BaRBOU ISLAND,
easily obtainable, and thus they spend
their lives in dreamy existence.
A curious sight in Nassau is Fort
Flncastle, which some have asserted
is a petrified ship. It looks like a
side-wheel steamer built of stone and
the f!ag-staff resembles the foremast
i. r. set. T c forr. is orrlon"J
fcy a few men whose duty it Is to sig
nal the approach of vessels.
There Is no lack of islands and
slets in what might be called the
Hahamian archipelago, which stretch
is some 600 miles from San Domingo
oearly to Florida. The collection
comprises thirteen ialands, 661 keys,
B.337 reefs and cliffs, and 3,060 islets.
The scenery in many of these Is most
picturesque. Perhaps the "Glass
Window"," on Harbor Island, on the
northern edge of the group, is one of
the most striking natural sights, In
the Bahamas. It Is an arch , ninety
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A HASSAC IIAXSIO.Y.
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Vet above" the level, bf the sea." The
entire imputation of the group Is not
more than 50,000.
A Dog's Career.
Recently there died in Boston, ar.u
was "buried at sea" with something
like funeral honors, a dog who had
lived a useful life, as well as an ex
tremely long one for his kind. His
name a very inappropriate one, for
ae seems to have been a dog of staid
nabits and serious life was Sf ort;
and he was believed to be twenty-liv
yeais old when he died.
He was known to be more that
twenty, for it was twenty years ago
when he a large t u"-terricr, who
looked then as if he iniiii. U an old
log was found wan:!c;in:r alout T
. liarf in Boston. He seemed to bo
l friendly fellow, and his appearance
must have been favorable, for sev
eral men who belonged to a sailing
craft tried to iax him aboard their
vessels, and several storekeci ers a!s
offered to adopt him.
He declined the advances of .
save the men who were in the employ
of the Sprague Towboat Com pan v,
which had an office on the wharf.
To the concern he steadfastly at
tached himself, arid was adopted 1 y
the crew of the tugboat ChaUi rtun.
About half his time he speut on
ooard this tug, and tha rest of it
about the company's office. It was
here that he developed his most use
ful trait About the compaay's
premises many cans of oil were kept,
and for this, as well as for other lea
rons, smoking was forbidden.
Nevertheless, not inl'reoujutly cm
;'oyes of the tugs and others came
smoking about the premises. Sport
tarly learned what the rule was. and
j m..de it his business to see that it
ws not transgressed. Whenever a
: ain entered the office with a pipe or
rt cigar, .Sport went at once to him,
fallowed him about wauMu'ly, and
If he approached the oiltmks, he
! v'iu!d seize him t y the tiou c:s' leg,
; ijwling at the same time.
j 'I his always had the effect to stop
the smoking. Sport was a large ter
rier, weighing fifty-six pounds, and
j is the boatmen said, "had a head like
an anvil." He never hurt any one,
but had ben known to give a smoker
i slight pinch in the leg if he did not
! lesist from his smoking.
' 'the men placed his body in a stout
i lox, weighted with prate bars. A
1 small flag was tacked to the box.
, Then the tug steamed with the box
a distance of ten miles outside the
harbor, and there the coffin was siid
off the gangplank into the depths of
the ocean.
Tiic 1'iiiiiti Hrougtiam.
The bomb brougham is a weird vc
aicle which has been seen veiy fre
(;u ntly of late in ttie streets of t!:c
French metropolis. When an infer
nal machin" is discovered the bomb
brougham is sent f jt and the danger
ous concern gingerly deposited with
in it. It is then driven oiT to the
last home of the anarchists' abortive
explosives. The vehicle has a hood
cd seat and a bo ly well detached
from It, hung on a jcrfott system of
springs. In fact, no monarch ever
traveled in greater comfort than does
the unexploded bomb. It is consid
ered safe to the utmost degree, and its
actual seat ia this array of rubber
ami delicate springs is such thtt
not the least Jolt or agitation can by
any possibility upset its uncertain
temper. An ambling and ancient
horse draws the bomb brougham, and
;t is driven by a little, mid He-aged
nero who was once in the artillery.
In transporting this cla-s of fare no
little caution is ne-essary. Lonely
itreets are cho cn for the bomb's
lourney; the polico know that vehiclo
when they sec it and signal to other
vehicles to keep out of the way, for a
collision with the bomb brougham
might scatter a deal of discomfort
for everybody concerned.
Gcorgo Washington KcwanieJ.
As the 22d of February was draw
ing near, a public school teacher,
whose pupils are about nine or ten
years of age, determined to find out
how many of them had ever heard
the famous chcrry-tieo story. She
herself had been brought up on it,
so to speak, but had an idea that it
had fallen into "innocuous desuetude"
af late years. She was not suprlse.l,
therefore, when only two hands were
raised.
"Well, Tom, you may tell it," saio
the teacher.
"I don't know it all," Tom began,
"but George Washington never told a
lie."
Here the other boy almost dis
membered himself In attracting tho
teacher's attention, and finally was
permitted to tell all he knew, which
he did thus:
"When Georgo Washington was a
littlo boy his father gave him a new
hatchet, and George went out to
chop something. There was a nice
young cherry-tree, and George chop
ped into that When his father saw
the tree he called George, and said:
" 'George, did you cut that tree?'"
" 'Yes, father, 1 did; I cannot tell
ille.' And his father gave him a
Waterbury watch!"
Vaccination.
The word vaccination Is derived
from "vacca," the Latin name for
cow. Dr. Jenncr, who first suspected
that cowpox and smallpox were two
forms of the same disease, was a
physician in an English country
town. He once overheared a milk
maid declaring that she would not
take smallpox because she had al
ready had cowpox. This led him to
take note of a popular notion among
the country pcDple that the two dis
eases wer9 antagonistic. The idea
that cowpox might really be smalt
pox modified by its passage through
a lower animal took possession of bis
mind and he devoted himself to tho
elucidation of the subject. Investi
gation and experimeLt satisfied him
of the correctness of his theory, an I
his whole subseiuent life was de
voted to advocating the cause 1 1
vaccination as a preventive of small
pox. t As soox as a man gets near enougn
to a great man to become iutimat ;,
he discovers another fool.
Pkobably no man approves of the
way an old man trios to amuse himself.
REV. DR. TALLAGE.
ihk nnooivLYx mvixK'3 sux-
PAY SEIJMOX.
Subject: "Tho Kxcitcd Governor.'4
TexT : "Felix t rimbl I .in 1 ans weraj, Ga
thy way for this tim". Vhtn I have con
venient season I will call for thee." Acts
xxiv., 25.
A city of marble was Cassiren wharves of
marble, houses of marliln, temp of mar
lie. This beins the or.Iinary arch it not are. of
the platre, yon nay imagine somerhinc o'tha
pplentior of Governor Felix's resi tene Ia
a room of that palace, floor tesf;llatel, win
dows curtain'?. 1. eell'ii? frnttod. the wholo
scene nfilunt with Tynan purpla and stat
ues and pictures an 1 c:irvincs sat a very
ilark compiexioneel man oi tho name of Ko
lix, and Ix-side him a woman of extraordi
nary beauty, whom ho hail stolon by break-in'-
up another domestic circle. Sho was
only eighteen years of aire, a princess by
birth, and uuwittinipy waiting for h-rdooin
that of bcinij bnriotl alivj in the ashes and
scoriie of Mount Vesuvius, which In su Men
eruption one day put an en 1 to her atxmi
linti.iMS. Well, one afternoon Drusilla, seated in the
palace, weary with the maunilleent stupidi
ties of the place, says to Felix : "lou have
a very distiniruijihed prisoner, I believe, of
tho nnmo of Paul. Do you knmv ho Is one
of my countrymen? I should wrymtich liko
1o seo him, and I should very much like to
l.e ir lihnrsnealc, for I have heard so mueh
alut his eloquence. Besides thnt the other
day, when ho was beins tried In another
room of this palace and the windows were
open, I henr 1 the applause that Kreotedthe
spcivh of Lawyer Tertnllus as ho denounced
1'nu1. Now, I very nmch wish I could hear
Paul 5"peaW. Won't you let mo hoar him
speak'" "V. s," f-aid Felix, "I will. I will
order him up now from the guardroom."
Clank, clank, comes a chain up the marble
stairway, and there is a shuflbi at tho door,
and in comes Paul, n littlo old man, prema
turely old throuiruexpn-ire, only sixtyyeara
of atte. hut looking as though he were eighty,
lie hows very courteously before the gover
norand t!:o tieautirul woman by his side.
They say : "Paul, wo have heard a Croat doai
about your'speakintr. Give- us now a speci
men of your eloquence." Oh, If thero ever
was a chance fer a man to show off. Paul
had a elinn ?o tlierol He might have har
angued them nhcut Grecian art, nbout the
wonlerful waterworks he had seen at Corinth,
about tho Acropolis by moonlight, about
prison life In riiilippi, nbout "what I saw in
The-waloniea." about tho old mythologies,
but "Xo !" l'aul said to himself, "I am now
on tho way to martjTtlom, and this man and
womnn will soon bo dead, and this is my
only opportunity to talk lo them about tha
things of eternity."
Aud jut thcro and then thero broke In
upon the seeno a peal of thun ler. It was the
voice of a judgment day speaking through
thowor lsof th decrepit apostle. As that
grand old missionary proceeded with his re
marks tho Hoop begins to ro out of his
boulders, nn 1 he rises up, and his counte
nance is illumined with the glories of a futuro
life, nn 1 his shackles rattle and grind ns he
lifts his feiterod nrm and with it hurls upon
his abashed auditors tho boits of God's in
dignation. Felix grew very white about tho
lips. IPs h"iirt beat unevenly. Ho put his
hand to his brow ns though to stop the
quiekp.:s and violenco of his thoughts, lbi
drew ids robo tighter about him, as nnder a
sudden chill. His eyes glare, nud his knees
shake, nud ns ho clutches tho sido of his
chair ia a vary ptiroxysm of terror he orders
the sheriff to take l'aul back to the guard
room. ''Felix trembled andsaid . Go thy way
for this ti:ne. When I have a convenient
season, I will call for thee."
A young man came one night to our ser
vices, with p-m-Ml in hand, to carieaturo the
whole scene nnd make mirth of thoso who
should express any anxiety about their souis,
but I met liiin at tho door, his face very
white, tears running down his cheek, as he
sal. 1, "Do you think there is any chance for
me'" Felix trembled, nu l so may God gran
it may bo so with others.
I proposo to give you two orthree reason
why I think Felix sent l'aul back to the
guardroom and adjourned the wholo subj.-et
of religion. Tho first reason was, he did not
want to give up his sins, lie looked around.
Thero was Drusilla. He knewthat when he
became a Christian he mut send her back to
Azius, her lawl il husband, and ho said to
himself, "I will risk tho destruction or my
Immortal soul sooner than I will do that."
How many thero aro now who cannot get to
be Christians because they will not uhandon
their sins! In vain all their prayers nn t all
theirchurehgoing. You cannot keep these
darling sins and win heaven, and no w so.no
of you will have to deei le between the wino
cup nu 1 nnlawful nnms -iients an 1 lascivi
ous gnitill-Mtions on Lie oiio hand and eter
nal salvation on the other
Delilah sheared the locks of Samson; Sa
lome danced Herod into the pit , DriHilla
blocked up til i way to heaven lor Felix. Yet
whi n 1 present t hi: sub ject now I fear that
some of you will say ! "Sot quitoyet. Don't
Ito so preoipiti.to in your demands. 1 havea
few t; eis yet that I have to use. 1 have a
lew eii,':i;enients that I must keep. 1 want
to stay a little longer in the whirl of con
viviality a few more gufTiws of nnclean
laughter, a few more steps ou the roa I to
death, and then, sir, I will listen to wnat yon
say. 'Uo thy way ior this time. When I
have a convenient sea-son, 1 will call for
thee.'"
Another reai-on why Felix sent Paul to tha
gunr.iroom and adjourned this suojeet was
ho was so very lu-y. iu ordinary limed he
found the affairs of state absorbing, l.n
those wero extraor lin irv times. Tim whole
land was ripi lor iasnrirction. Tho Sicaril,
ft band of assassins, wero already prowling
around tho palace, aud I suppose he thought,
"I can't attend to religion while I nm so
pressed by affairs of state." It was business
nmnng other things that ruined his soul, and
I suppose there are thousands 5f people who
are not children of Go I because they have so
much business. It is business in tho store
looses, gains, unfaithful employes.
It is business in your law ofH-o sub
poenas, writs yoi have to writo out, papers
you have to file, arguments yon have to
make It is your me lleil profession, with
Its broken nights and the exhausted nnxie.
ties of life hanging upon your treatment. It
13 your real estate oltice, your business with
landlords and tonnnts aud the failure of men
to meet their obligations with you. Aye,
with some of those who are here it Is the an
noyanco of tho kitchen, an ltlie sitting room,
and the parlor tho wearing economy of try
ing to meet lartre expenses with a small in
come. Ten thousand voices of 'business,
business, busiuess'' drown the voice of the
eternal Spirit, silencing the voice of the ad
vancing judgment day, overcoming the voice
of eternity, nnd thev cannot henr ; they can
not listen. They say, "Go thy way for this
time," Some of you look upon your goods,
look upon your profession, jou look upon
your memorandum books, and you see the
demands tnat aro made this very week upon
your time and your patience nnd your
money, nnd whilo I am entreating yon nltout
your soul and the danger of procrastination
yousny "Go thy way for this time. When
I have a convenient season, I will call tor
thee."
Oh, Felix, why be bothered about the af
fairs of this world so much moro than nbout
the nff:iir3 of eternity? Do you not know
that when death comes you will havetOBtop
business, though it be in the most exacting
period of it between the payment of the
money an 1 tho taking of tho receipt? Tho
moment he comes you will have to go. Doath
waits for no man, however high, however
low. Will you put your office, will you put
your shop la comparison with the attains of
an eternal world, affairs that Involve
thrones, paltces, dominions eternal? Will
you put 290 acres of ground against Im
mensity? Will you put forty or fl fty years of
your life against millions of ages? Oh, Felix,
you might better postpone everything elso,
for do you not tuow that tha upholstering
Of Tyrian purple In yonr palace will fade,
and the marblo blocks of Creiarea will
crumble, nnd the breakwater at the beaeb,
made of great blocks of stone sixty feet
long, must give wiy ftwfora tho per
petual wash of the s-a, but the redemption
that Paul offers you will be forever? And
yet and yet and yet yon wave lilm back to
the puardroom, saying "Go thy way for
this time. When I have a convenient season,
I will call fcrtnee.'
Again, Felix ad jonrae l this subject of re
ligion and put off Paul's argument because
he could not Rive up the honors of the world.
He was afraid somehow ha would be com
promised himself in this matter. Kemarks
he made afterward showed him to be In
tensely ambitious. Oh, how he hugged tha
favor otmen!
i"InevereaTT thenoraofithisworld la
their hollownoss and h'ypocrtsy so much as I
In the life and death of that wonderful man,
1 naries sumner. as ne went toward tna
place of burial, even Independence Hall, in
Philadelphia, asked that his remains stop
there on their way to Boston. The flags were
at halt mast, and the minute guns on Boston
Common throbbed after his heart had cease. 1
to beat. Was it always so? While he lived
bow censured of legislative resolutions , how
caricatured of the pictorials ; how charged
with every motive mean and ridiculous,
how all the urns of scorn and hatred and
billingsgate emptied upon his head hew,
when struck down in Senate chamber, there
were hundreds of thousands of people who
said, "Good for him ; servos him right r"
how he had to put the ocoan between him
and his maligners that he might have a lit
tle peace, and bow, when ha went oU sick,
they said be was broken hearted because ha
could n-, get to be President or Secretary of
State I
O, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who
Is that man that sleeps in your publio hall
covered with garlands nud" wrapped In the
atnrs and stripes? Is that the man who, only
a few months before, you denounced as tho
foe of republican and democratic institu
tions? Is that the same man? Y'e American
people, ye could not by ono week of funeral
eulogimu and newspaper loa lers, which tha
dead senator could neither road nor hear,
atone for twenty-five years of maltreatment
an 1 caricature.
When I sea a man like that, pursued by
all tho hounds of thepolitical kennel so lon
as he lives nnd then buried under a great
pile of garlands an 1 amid tho lamentations
of a whole nation, I s:iy to myself What an
unutterably hypocritical thing is all humaa
spplause nfliall human favor' Ton tooi
twenty-flve years ia trying to pull down his
fame and then take twenty-five years in try
ing to build his monument. My friends, w.ii
there ever a 'letter commentary on the hoi
lowness of nil enrthlv,favor? If there are
young men who readthis who are postpon
ing religion in order thnt they may have the
favors of this world, let me persuade them
of their complete folly. If you are looking
forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or pres
idential chair, let me show you your great
mistake.
Can it bo that thero is now any young
man saying: "Let me have political office,
let me have some of tho high positions of
trust and power, and then I will attend to
religion, but not now. Go thy way for this
time. When I have a convenient season, I
wilt call for thee f "
And now mv subject takos a deeper tone.
nd it shows what a dangerous thing is this
deferring of religion. When Panl's chain
rattled down tho marble stairs of Felir, that
was Felix's last chance for heaven. Judging
from his character nlterwar.l, he was re
probate and abardonod. And so was Dru
lilla. One day in the southern Italy there was a
trembling of the earth, and the air got black
with smoke intershot with liquid rocks, and
Vesuvius rained upon Drusilla and upon her
on a horrible tempest of ashes aud lire.
They did not reject religion. They only put
It off. They did not understand thnt that
tlay, that that hour when Taul stood before
them, was the pivotal hour upon which every
thing w..s poised, and that it tipped the
wrong way. Their convenient season came
when Paul nnd his guardsman entered the
palace. It went away when Taut anil his
guardsman left. Have you never seen men
Waiting for a convenient season? There is
such a great fascination about it that, though
you may have great respect to the truth of
Christ, yet somehow there is In your soul
the thought ''Not quite yet. Jt is
not timo for me to become a Christian.'' I
say to a boy, "Seek Christ." He says, "Ko.
Wait until I get to be a young man." I say
to the young man, "Seek Christ." ITesnys,
"Wait until I come to midlife." I meet the
same person in midlife, nnd I snv, "Seek
Christ. He says, "Wait until I get old."
I meet tho same person in old ng ) and say to
him, "Seek Christ." He says, "Wait until I
am on my dying bod." I nm called to his
flying couch. His last moments have come.
1 ben 1 over the coach and listen for his Uist
wonts. I have partially to guess what they
are by the motion of his lips, he is so feeble,
but rallying himself he whispers until I cau
hear him say, "I am waiting for a
more convenient season," nnd he is gone !
I can tell you when youreoyvenient season
will come. I can tell you tho yc . It will
be 1S;1. I can tell vou what kin.l of a liny
it will bo. It will ba the Sabbath day.
I can tell you what hour it will be. It will
be between H and lOo'eloek. In other words,
It isnow. Do you ask me howl know this
is your convenient season? I know it tie
cause you are here, and heermso tho elect
sons and daughters of God nro praying for
your redemption. Ah, I know it is your
convenient season because some of you, like
Felix, tremblo ns all your pat life comes
upon you with its sin, and all the future life
comes upon you with its terror. This night
air is nglaro with torches to show you up or
to show you down. It is rustling with wings
lo lift you into light or smite yol into de
spair, and theru ia a rushing to and fro, nn 1
a beating against the door of yoursouls with
a great thunder of emphasis, telling you,
"Now, now is the best time, as it may be tho
cnlytime."
May God Almighty fo.bid that any oT you,
my brethren or sisters, act the part of Felix
nnd Drusilla anil put away this great sub
ject. If you ore going to be saved ever,
why not begin to-night? Throw down your
sins and take the Lord's pardon. Chri.it has
been tramping after you many a day. Au
Indian and a white man became Christians.
The Indian, nlmost ns soon as he heard tho
gospel, believed nn 1 was save t, but tho
white man struggled on Jn darkni'ss for n
long while before ho ioun 1 light.
Alter their peace iu Christ tlo white
man said to tno Indian. "Vhy was it that I
was kept so tonkin the dnrneiS mil you
immediately found peace" The Indian re
plied : "I will tell you. A p.-Inee comes
along, nnd he offer you a con'. Ton looli
at your coat, and you s.iy, .'.Iy eoat is
good enough, ,nd you reiuo his
offer, but the priiico comes alon,
nnd ho offers mo tho coat, and 1
look at my old blanket, and I throw that
away and take his offer. You. sir." contin
ued the Indian, "are clinging to your own
righteousness, you think you are good
enough, and you keep your own righteous
ness; but I have nothing, nothing, and so
when Jesus oilers mo par ion an I pe ie(
simply take it."
My reader, why not now throw away the
Wornout blanket of your sin and take the
robe of a Saviour's righleousnu.- a robo so
white, so fair, so lustrous, that no fuller on
earth can whiten it? O Shepherd, to-nignt
bring home tho, lost sheep ! O Fatner, to
night give a welcoming kiss to tie waj
prodigal 1 O friend of Lazarus, to-nigh?
(Teak down the door of the sepuieher and
say to all these dead souis as by irresistible
lint : "Live I Live I"
Never allow itoy mun to leit yo't iu
politeness, if the most bumble man on
tho street touches his bat to you, touch
yonrs in return.
Men are never so likely to .settle a
question rightly as when tuey discifs
it freely.
Those who ueiioiiui-e capital ss a
curse seem, however, anxious to have
the curse come home to tbem.
Kindness is the s-un of life, thecburm
to cuptivnte and the aword with which
to conquer
Adversity, if for no other reason; is of
benefit, Kir.ee it is sure to bring a sea
son of sobi r reflection.
He who sows eonitesy reaps ftiend
ship.
Don't be afraid to seek mi 1 take al
vice. liucksii.iing often begins by looking
back.
It is the joy of trnth to bo looked in
the face.
A fool sometimes builds his house
o books.
The love cf reading enables a man to
exchange the weurisomo h urs of li'e,
which come to every ono, for hours of
delieht.
Many people would lie more trutufol
bnt for their nncontrolloble desire to
talk.
Failures are often the stepping-stones
to success.
Every woman lias nn idea that it
ought to le a pleasnre for a man to
work for money for her to spend.
News in Brief.
Italy has 27i0.)0 inmates or the
poorhouses.
Illuminating oil is made from fnpe
seeds in Italy.
There are only forty miles of rail
road in China.
It takes an orange two years to
grow and ripen.
The almshouses of France have
291), 000 inmates.
Berlin charity hospitals receive an
annual subsidy of $:i5(i,0C0.
Piiny, in the first ceDtury, was tha
first writer to describe the diamond.
During the Franeo-fierman war
the French lost "23, 4'.K men from small
pox. The avarage cost of criminal prose
cutions in England at present is Slbj
each.
The farmer in Japan who baa ten
acres of land is looked upon as a mon
opolist. Tho pearl is only carbonate of lime,
is readily effected by acid, and burns
iuto lime.
The Greek Church employs two rings
in the marriap-e ceremony one of gold,
the other of silver.
Nine lambs on the farm of Howan
Daut, of Hay wick, Ky., are covered
with natural red wool.
The annual army expenditure of
Greece is 18,000,000 draebmi. A
droebmn is twenty cents.
There are 100 students K t'je
course of electrical cLginecring at tho
University of .Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The earliebt advertisemut iu an
English newspaper was the noticj of
the theft of two horses lu the London
Inpartial Intelligencer in ltils.
There is a remarkable "burning
Bpring" in Lincoln County, Kentucky,
whic'.i regularly overflows iu banks
every afternoon at -1.30 o'clock pre
cisely. The city of Sau Salvador, capital of
the Sonth American Kepublio of the
same name, is called "Swinging Mat,"
on account of its Liimerous earth
quakes. VaynesvilIo, Pulaski Connty, Mo.,
has only 1-T) people, but it is one of the
most intelligent and lust rei.d towns in
America. It takes thirty-Lino daily
newspapers.
There is a snake in India which ia
siid to possess the peculiar power oi
firoducinp insanity in any pel sou who
ooks into its glittering eyes for more
than ten minutes.
Ono of the oldest tunes in the world
is said to bo the air sung to tho words
"Wo wont go home till morning."
It is known to date back to the time
of the Crusaders.
Ernestino Dittmar, proprietress ol
a boarding-ho'ise in Milwaukee, Wis.,
Imk entered suit agains. Lmdwig Carl
voltb rerht to recover a thirty years'
board bill. The amount claimed is $ ViSi
A lTj-ponnd trout, is said to have
been the largest tish ever caiicbt in the
Truckee Kiver, was hauled out of that
etream by a lucky angler neur Ileuo,
Nev., tlie other day.
There are four round churches in
England. Northumberland possesse
one; Little Maplestead, in Essex, an
other; Iho Tetuple Church, London, ii
tho third, and Holy Sepuleher, Cam
bridge, U tho fourth.
Excavations in Babylon Lave
brought to light a number of brielis,
the stamps on which prove them to be
at least 4000 years old. They appear to
be as got d now as when they were
first baked.
Indians believe that typhus fever ii
conveyed from one person to another by
a (lying demon, who selects dark mghU
for his visits and waits until the inten
ded victim is alone. 'lhe fevt r is saiJ
to develop within twelve, hours.
The cat's-iye stone, now prized as
nn ornament, is a very dilferont tbiug
from the ancient cat's-eye or eyestonc
of India, an agate cut so as to show the
so-called eye or eyes. It is supposed by
some that this latter wiik used as money
in parts of India four centuries a,o.
Mrs. Harah Howard, of Iloultoo,
Me., has tamed two iniibkrats so thut
they come iuto the house aud eat out ol
tho cat's dish. Tabby seems willing to
give up part of her milk, and is as kind
to the muskrats as if they wero kittens.
Joseph Baker, a while-hr.ired man
of seventy, w ho has spent, nearly all hit
life in prison, says ho wants to end hU
days in the .State .Prison at Waupun,
Wis., which ho declares to lx) the most
"comfortable" institution of its kind is
the country.
Oliver Ames, Jr., of Boston, tot
built what ia said to bo the finest do?
kennel in tho United States. It cost
$2000, is thirty-flvefeft long is lighted
by ten windows, and the interior ii
fiuishod in hard wood, polished and
shellacked.
Tho famous Darlington butter,
made in Chester Couuty, Pennsylvania,
by tho old Quaker family f Darling,
tons, has sold for $1 a pound for twenty
years. The supply is limited, and now
customers have to wait for old cus
tomers to die before they can get any
butter.
Tho oldest inhabitant of Berlin,
Germany, is a watchmaker named J. G.
Hagemann. Ho was 102 on March 2.",
still goes about tho house, and liii
appetite i3 excellent.
Tho body of an unknown woman
was found on a Boston railway crossing
recently. A man who positively iden
tified tho body as that of his wife uml
arranged for its burial, was greatly
surprised later on to find his wife j
home and alive.
Tiik devil is a living lie, and he
makes his followers ju.it like hitu.
Unu:.-s u man hits poor health, ho
helps tho devil when he wears a long
lace.
God and woman gave the world a
Saviour. Man and the devil . rucIfleJ
Hi ;n.
It is not a good means of grace for
tho head of tno family to do all the
jiving.
This dovil a'.wa)-3 come i back to the
man who don't say no as though he
meant it.
What the devil did In the K.:rden
ttt Eden every sinner would try to do
In Heaven.
To makk a law without a penalty
a to oTer a standing invitation to
wronc doing.
"Delight thtsclf alo in the I orj
tnd He shall give thee the dc.lio of
thine heart."