THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor ud Proprtotw. B. F. BOHWEIER, MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 25, 1894 VOL. XLVIII NO. 32. REV. DJ. TALMAGE. THK JJKOOKTjYN DIVINE'S DAY SERMOX. SUX- Subject: "I he Rustic in tbe Palace. Trr: "I will co aal gee him before 1 die." Genesis xlv., iiS. Jacob hnA lonsr since nwl the hua-lreA year milestone. In tbo- times people wers dtstlmrnlshed forlOT?v!ty. In the centuries afterward persons live 1 to era-it a-. Gilen, the most eelet-rate.1 physioian of hi tltn", took so little of his own mulleins t hit he Jived to 140 year". A man of urxinnMel veracity on the witness Rtanl la F.nlnnl wore thut he rmember-.I in event 150 yin before. Lorl Kacon speiks of a couutesi who bad cut three sets of teeth aal die 1 at 140 year. Jos-ph Crele. of Pnasylvaalii. lired 140 years. In 1S57 a boo' w.n printed containing the n-imes of thirty-sevan per sons wio lived 1 M yeir. an 1 the names of eleven persons who lived 15) r-ir. Amoni? the ffrand old people of whom we have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the text. But he had a bad lot of boy. They Were jealous an 1 ambitious and ev.sry way onprineiplel. Joseph, howev9r, seemed ti be an exception, but he had been ffonmiuy years, and the probability wis tu-tt ha was dead. As sometimes now in a house yoa will find kept at the table, a vieint chair, a plate, a knife, a fork, for si:ne deoeasei member of the family, so Jacob kept in his henrt a place for his beloved Josoh. Thre nils the oi l roan, the flock of 140 years In their flicht havin? alighted Ion? enoa?h to leave the marks of their claw on forehea 1 and cheek and temple. H's lon-rbear 1 snows down over his chst. H'S eyes are some what dim. and he cm see farther when they are closed than when they are op-n. for h ran see clear fta-k into the time when beanti ful Kachel, his wife, was livini; an I his chil dren, shook the oriental a Vale with their merriment. The centenarian is sitting drevninsr over the past when he hears a w.iiron runblln? to the front door. He feti up and ifoes to the door to see who has arrived, and hi ion;; a)Sent sons from Exypt come in and announce to him that Joseph instead of be In dead Is still living in an Egyptian pilao, with all the investiture of prime minister, next to the kin? In the mightiest empire ot all the world I The m;vs was too sudden and too clad for tlv ol 1 man, ani his ehseks whiten, nndhtvis a dised look, and his staff falls out of his hand, and he would have dropped had not the sons caught him and led him to a lounrre an 1 put col 1 w iter on his fuee and fanned him a li:tl". In that half delirium th old man mum bles something aNout hi son .fosph. H says: "You don't mean Jop'i, do you rr.y dear son who has been do I so Ions? You don't mean Joseph, do you?" But after they h-i 1 ftillv r-suTOltated him ani tbnewj was confirmed the tears liigin their win link way down the rroroils of the wrinkl, and the sankn lips of the oi l mm quiv.-r, and ho brini: his bent ftnsore tojetner ni he siys : "Joseph is yet alive. I will go nnl Bee him before I die." It did not take tha old man a trit while to cet rsadv. I wirrint you. Hi put ot the l.pst clothe tint the sheph-rd's w.irdro'ie could arfr I. If-trot into the wv,-on, ani tiioucrhthe aijed are ciutiom and like to rifle slow th j w.ion did not et alon.? t.-ist enough for thiB old man, an 1 when the wanon with the old man met Joseph's ohnri tt comins down to meet him, and Joep'i pot out of the chariot aal not into thi w.ir on and threw his arms around hi f:it1er'd neck. It w is an nntitheis of royalty and rus ticity, of simplicity and pomp, of fllUl affie tion and internal love, whleU leave us so much in doubt about whether wi ha I better lnush or cry that we do both. SoJaco'jkept the resoluti-m of the text, "I will j?o ani see him before I di.." What a stron? an I unfailing thin? is pir enla! attachment! Was it not alraort time for Jacob to forget Joieph? The hot s tus ol many summers ha 1 blaaed on the heath ; the river Kile had overflowed and rece le I, over flowed nnd receded again and again; th seed had been sown nn l the harvast reap j 1 ; stars rose and sot ; years ot plenty and years of famine had passed on. but the love ol Jacob for Joseph in my text is overwhelm ingly dramatic. Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pulled on by many de cades I Though wheu the little child expired the parents may not hav3 been mora than Iwenty-flve years of ae, ani now they are seventv-dve yet the vision of the eralle, an 1 the childish face, and the first utterances of the Infantile Hps are fresh to-day, in spite of the passage of a half century. Joseph wis as fresh in Jacoh's memory a ever, tbouja nt seventeen years of age the boy had dis Ap peared from the old hoin ustesd. I foun 1 in our r.milv record the story of an infant that had died fifty years bafore, Bnll sild to my parents, "What is this record, an I what does it mean?" Their chief answer wis a long, deep sigh. It was yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all mem? Why.it means ourchil Iren departed are ourj yet, and that cor t of attachment reaihin ; across the years will hold us until it briegs us together in the palace, as Jacob nnl Joacph were brought togother. That i oris thing that makes old people happy. T.iey realize it is reunion with those from wa03 tbey have long been separated. I am orten asked, as pastor, an 1 every pastor is asked the question t "Will my ohlldren he ohll Iran in hoavsa and forever children' Well, there was no doubt a great change In Joeph from the time Jaio! lost him and the time when Jacob foual him between th9 boy s -venteen years of age and the man In mid-life, his fordhanl dev Hoped with the great business of state bat Jaaab was glad to g-3t back Joseph aayhoy, and it did not make much differenne totheold man whether the boy locked older or lookol younger. And it will be enongj joy lor that par?nt it he caa get hack that son, that daughter, at the gate ot heaven, whether the departed loved one ahall come a cherub or in lull grown angil hoo '. Thero must bo a change wrought by that celestial climate ani by those sapiraal years, but it will only be from lovelinoss to jnor loveliness nnl from health to more ri'.mt health. O pi rent, as yon think of the uarHng panting and waitein me nbrim ous croup I want you to know it will be f;loriously b -Iter in that lanl where tnere as never been a death aa 1 wnere all th3 In habitants will live on in the great future a long as Go 11 Joseph was Joseph, notwith standing the palae.?, ani your chil l will bi your child notwithstanding all tha reigainr splendors of everlasting noon. What a thrilling visit was tbat of the oil shepherd to the prime minister Joseph! 1 seehe old countryman seatel lu tho pa' ace looking aroan I at 'the mirrors, an 1 the foun tains, and tiiecarvad pillars, ant oh, hb he wishes that Kachel, his wife, wis alive and she could have co ne there w.tl him to see their son in his great hou?! "Oh," eavs the old man withiu bi nSJlf, "I do wis' Kachel could I'e here to sae all this!" I visited the farmhouse of the father of Millard Fillmore wiin the son was President of the Unite 1 States, an I the octogenarian farmer entertain ed me uutil 11 o'c'.o-'i at night, telling me whnt great things he saw In his son's house at Washington, and what Diniel Webster aaid to tiim, and how gran lly llillarl treated his father in the Wh'te Hons. Tne old man's face was illumine 1 with the story until almost US mi Inight. He had just been visiting his sou at the capital. Aal I suppose it was something of the sams joy thut thrilled the heart of the old saopherl as he stood in the palace of the pran minis ter. , , It Is n groat dav with you w i-a your ol 1 psueuts come to vis t you. Your little chil dren stand around witn great wide open eyes, wondering ho .v anybody could be 3 old. The parents cannot stay many day, forthevare a little restless, and especially nt niyhtlall, because they sleep better in their own bed, but while they tarry you somehow feel there i a benediction in every room in the house. Th"- are a littl' Ifeeble, and yon make It as easy a von ca for them, an t yon realize tner win pro- ably not visit you very o'ten perhaos never asraln. Yon "go to their room after thet have retired at night to see If the light! are properly put out. for the old peopl understand candle and damn better than the modern aoparatns for illumination. In the morning, with real interest In their health, von ask them how they rested last nli?hf. Josenh. in the historical scne of th text, did not think any more of ha father . . . i n.w. i. i . : i man vou ao oi vour p.rvDii. xu irwinuu- Iff Is," before thjr leSve your honsethenaU imoll your children with kindness. Grand- father and grandmotheraramorelenlent and indulgent to vour children than. Uerey wera witi yon. And what wonders of re velation in th. bombazine no -t of the one and th. sleeve ot the other t Rlese-t is that l. n i. nw : - - M - A v:att l I IVL.. I 1 ' .1 . . nnsiBTnr may nave le-nu t.-io myio ui no arehltectnre wbea they came, It i a palaee before thv leave. If they visit von fifty times, the two most memorable Visit will be the first and the last. Those two pictures will hang in ths hall of your memory while memory lasts, aal you will remember just how the? lookel, and where they sat, and what they said, and at what figure of the earp-t, and at what doorrtll they parted with yon, givinr vol the final ireodt. Do not be ebarris.l It your father eome te town and he have the man ner of the .heph-rd. ol if your mother come to town and there b In her hat no sign of eoetly millinery. Th wlte of the Bmperor Tho losins raid a wks thin? wh-n sheaald, "Husbands, remember what yon lately were and remember what yon are an i be thankful," By this time yoa all notice what kindly provision Joseph made for his father, Jacob. Joseph did not say : I can't have the old man around this place. II. w clumsy be would look olimbing np these marble sta'rs and walking over them momles ! Then be would be putting his hands upon some of these frescoes. People would wonder whera j that ol 1 greenhorn oame from. Be woul I sho;k all th. Kirypti.a oonrt with his rase- I ners at table. Besides that he might get i sick on my hands, and hemightbeqnerulous, ! ani be might talk to me as though I wers only a boy, w'a.n I am the seaoal mw In all tbe realm. Of eotroe be must not euT'T, and Uth Is fitmin in this country and I hear there Is I will eend him o-m pro visions, but I cai't take a man fro-n adaaaran and Introiaw him into this Sollte Bgyptlan Conrt. What a nulsanoe It i to have poor relations'" Joseph did net say that, but he rushed out to meet hts father with perfect abandon ot affection, and brought him up to the palaee and Introduce I him to the emperor, aid provided for all the rest of tne father's dave, and nothing was too good for the old man while living, and when he was deal Joseph, with military es?ort, took his fathur's re mains to tha family cemetery. Would Qoi all children were as kind to their parenrs ? If the father nave large property, an 1 he be wise enough to keep ft fa hi own name, he will be respected by the heirs, bat how often It is when the son find his father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famins, the young penp! make it very hard for th old man! Taey are so surprised he eati with a knife Instead of a fork. They an chagrins I at his antediluvian habits. Th.y are provoked because he cannot hear as well as he used to, and wheu he asks it over again an 1 the son has to repaat it he bawls in the old man's ear, "I hops yoa hear that V How long he must wear the old ooat or the old hat before they get him a new one! How chagrined they are at his indepndenoe of the English grammar! How long ha hangt i on ! Seventy years, and not gone yet 1 Seventv-flve vears. and not gone yet eighty years, and not gone yet I Will h. over go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in hi. last sickness, an 1 go up to tna drug store, ani get a dosi ot something that makes him wor anleaonom'z on a ooffla, anlbsatthe nn lertaker doTa to the last point, giving a note for the ra Jaeed amount, whinh thev nevsr pav. I hava offlnlated at obseiules of age 1 people where tas family have oesn nt inordinately resigned to Provl denoe that I felt like taking my text frox Proverbs, "The eye that tnooketh at Its father ani rafasath to obey Its mother, ths rAran? o! the valley shall pick it out, nn l tho yjnn? eagles shall eat n. in otiwr woris, u3o an ingrate ought to have a flbJk ot crow for pallbearers ! I congratulate yoa it you nave tne nonor oi providing iwr par ents. The blessings or tne .Lion uoi o: Joseph ami Jaoob will be on you. , I rejoloo to remember that, though my father llvs 1 in a plain house thi most of his days, he die 1 la n mansion provi Is 1 by tha filial piety ot a son who ha 1 aohlsvel a f or tune. There th9 octorsnirian sat, ail th servants waited on him, and thero wera plenty or horses an 1 plenty or carriages to convey him, an 1 a bower In walh to sit on long summer aftoraobus dreamful over the past, and tnere was nor a room ii rue ooto where he wis not wiloome, ani there were musical instruments of all s-)rts to regale him, ani when life hal passe 1 the nelghoor earns out and express 1 all honor possible aaloarrlel him to ths village Jtaohpelah ani put him down bssi le thb Rie'iel with who a ne naa nve-i more man nan a cen tury. Share your excesses witn raa oia people. The probability Is that th. principles they incnloatod aehlovel your fortune Oiv them a Christian per.'entag? of kin lly con sideration. Let Joseph divide with Jacob the pasture Held ot aoshoannltns glories ot the Egyptian conrt. And here I woaid itssto sia? no praises ot tbe sisterhood who remain tin married that they might administer to age t parents. Th brutal world calls thess saorifiolag ooes peculiar or angular, but it yon have had as man annoyances as they have had Zan- tlpps would have been aa angel compared to you. It Is easier to take oare of fl v relink ing, romping children than of one ohtldtsb old man. Among tbe best women are thoie who allowed tna diootj ot lire to pass away while they were caring for their parents. While other mal lns were soun 1 asleep they wers soaking the oi l man's fe-jt or tucking up lie covers aroun i ina lavaim mother. While other maidens wera in the cottlloa they were dauslng atteudauea upoa rheumatism and spreading plasters for the lame back ot the eeptenariaa and hsattng ontnlp tea for imomnla. In almost every clrale of our kindred there has been some nueea ot self saorlflcoto whom jeweled hand after JowaleT hand was offered in marriage, nut wao iyni on im vm place beaause of the siass of filial obligation until the health was gone and ths attraetive nes of personal presence had vanished. Brutal so jlety may call sneh aons by a nlok name. Oo t calls her daughter, an 1 heaven calls her saint, an 1 1 call hr domestte raar- trr. A half doain ordinary women navenor as mnih nobllitr as could be fount in tn. smallest Joint of the little finger Ot her left hau J. Although ths world has oo I 6003 years, this is the first apotheosis of maiden hood, although in the long line otthosa who have declined marriaga that they might be qaatiSed for eome especial mission are the names of Anna Ross an l Margaret Breokln ri lge and Mary Shelton and Anna theridg. ant Georgians Willatts, ths angMs of the battlefields of Ft'r Oaks an 1 IViogont Moun tain an 1 Chanci! torsvllle, ani though single life has been honorad hv the fast that ths threi greatest men of tua Bible John aal r.ml nnl Christ ware cVioites. Let the ungrateful world sneer at the maiden nunt, but Gol has a throne bur nished for her arrival, an 1 oa one side o! that throne in heaven thero Is a vase con taining two jewals, the one brighter than the Ko iinoorof Loa Ion Tower and the other 'argertban any diamond evor found in ths districts of Qo'.con la the one Jewol by the laol lary of the palace cut with ths words, "Inasmuah as ye did it to father;" the other Jewel by the lapl lary of the palace cut with the words, "Inasmujh as ye did it to moth er." "Over the Hills to the Poorhouso" is the exquisite ballal ot Will Carlcton, who found an old woman who ha I been turned off by her prosperou sons, but I thank God I may mil la my icxt -uvcr mi nun i me palace " As If to disgust u with nnfliial conduct, the Bible presents ns the story of St'enh.wuo tole the 1100 shek!s from his mother, and tne story ot awoti. wnotnei to anrons hts father. But all hlstorr is beautiful, w!t!t stories of filial fldelllv. Epaminen Ins. ths warrior, found his cMf delig'at in reciting to his parents his victories. There coe jBnees from burning Tror, on hie shoulder Anchlses, hi. father. The Athenians pun ished with death any nnflllal conduct. There eos beautiful Ruth escorting venerable N'soml across the desert amid the howling of the wolves and the barking of the Jackals, John Lawrence, burned at the stake In Col Chester, was cheered In the flames by his children, who said, "O, God, atrengthen Thy servant and keep Tuy promise !" And Christ In the hour of excrucistlon provided for His old mother. Jacob kept his resolu tion, "I will go and see him before I die," and a little while after we find them walking the tessellated floor of the palace, Jacob and Josph, the prime minister proud of his Shepherd. , I may say in regard to the mrst of you that your parents have probably visits I yon for the last time or will soon pay you such a visit, and I have wondered if they will ever .i.it Von In the Kina-'s oalaoe. "Oh," you ' ,'ssy, "I am In fne plFof sin f Joseoh was in ths pit. "Ob," you say, "I am in the prison ! ! of mine Iniquity l" Joseph was once in prl- '.on Ob," yoa say, "I didn't nave a ia-r chance. I wa-s denleJ maternal mm. Joseph was denied maternal attenlane i"Oh," yoa say, "I am far away from . th maternal attentate. land of mr nativilv I" - Josepu. was larrou far Irqoa home. "Ohr," "yon say. -a have been be traved and exasperated P Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a pas sing IshmaelitUh caravan? Yet God brought him to that n blaaoned residence, an 1 if yon will trust His graoe la Jesus Christ you, too, will be em palaeed. Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks eome from an adjoining mansion in heaven and find yon amid the alabaster pillars of the throneroom and living with ths King I They are coming np the steps now, and ths epaaletel ruard of ins palaee rushes In and says t "Four father's coming ! Tour mother's coming!" Aal when under the arehes ot precious stones and on the pavement ot porpfcyry yon greet each othet the soene will eottpte the meeting on the Goshen highway when Joseph and Jacob fell oa saoh other's neck and wept a goal while. Bat, oh, how changed ths old folks will be I Thetr cheek smoothed into ths flesh of a little child. Their stooped posture lifted into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with ths sprlghtllaees of a bounding ros as they shall say to you, "X spirit passed this way from earth and toll us that yon were wayward aal dissipated after w left the world, but yoa have re pented, oar prayer has beea answered, and yoa are here, and a we ased to visit yea oa earth before we died now W. visit yon in your new home after oar aaens!on.n And father will say, "Mother, don't yoa see Joseph is yet alive?"' And mother will say, Tea, father, Joseph is yet alive." Aad then they will talk over their earthly anxieties In regard to you, ani ths midnight supplications in your behalf, andtbey will recite to eaoh other the Id aeriptare passage with whtoa thay used to cheer their st.gf.ring faith, "I will be a God to tnee and thy seed after thee." Oh, the palace, thepslaoe, the palaee 1 That ts wnat Kienara Baxter eauea "ins saints' everlasting rest." That is what John Bar van oalled the "Celestial City." Thar is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exultation. Tnat Is Gray's "Ele gy la a Churchyard" turned to resurrsotlon spectacle. That Is tbe "Cotter's S.uur lay Night exobaaga-J for ths Cotters kwoont a morning. That is the shepherd of Sallebary plains amid the fioeks on tbe hills of heaven. That is the famine struck Pa Una ram turud into ths rich peetnre flel.lr ot Goshen. That is Jaoob visiting Joseph at the emerald castle. Where ths Largeit Biris Hare Llrel. The countries south of the equator furnish fossils of ths largest bird forms that have been developed oa the earth. New Zealand, Australia, Madagascar, and South Amorioa, mak ing ths eireo.it of ths globe, with great intervening stretshes of osesn, ail present fossils of the various families of th-ve great bids attaining in New Zealand height of some ten to twelve feet, and in. Malsgsiaar a height of considerably graatef. Daring the first settlement ot New Zealand by Euro peans the bones still lay scattered in great qasatities on the sarfase, and ware also found imbedded in the mftrahes w'uers, for soma eaaso or other, the birds had hnddled together by the huiJreds. It is hardly necessary to state that no a s ot these huge birds were flyers. Sam?, in faot, wore windlass. Tiiey are interesting as illustrating the limit to whioh the principle of flight is oar ried in tha applicatfon of nature, as she could neither couoontrate the mus cular win.? force necessary ta flight, nor combine wing material to stand the necessary beating of tha atmos phere in aerial propulsion. The stt'l existing emu, cassowary and ostrich, representative of the largest bird life, havo wings to aid them as runners, but thay are all ut terly incapable of flight. These an cient birdft, known as mens and whose familifls are known as Promornts, tha Espyornls ani n.'oitora's, hare no fair m .ieru represents: ivjs, and in corirma with myrials ot other life lorns, seem to have met, in some mu tation of nature, sudden an 1 universal death. It is a curious fact that while these wera etrietly land birds their distribution extended aronul tha eartb, while their habitats whera sep arated by vast expanses of oseaa. If wa may asiams that the SotitUara con tinents were nearly or quite oon lect ed, when ths area between the Rocky and Apalachtan Mountains a as tha Mississippi Sea, prior to tha ruih of waters southward, then this distribu tion problem around the Southern hsmisphero solvos itself. Pittsburg Dispatoh. Eggs In rcrpctnal Frestincjs. Soma months ago a Dab tin ia rod tor olaimed for a preparation of his that it would preserve eggs in per petual freshness. To thorough1? tost the efBaaoy of t'j invention, which, if Qcoesnfnl, would revolutionize the egg market, au experiment was car ried out at the Freeman office. A sample ot eggs immersed in tha pat ent solution, which is a thin grayish paste of tha consistency of houey, hava remained undisturbed there for a period ot four months, ani when opened tbe other night in the pres ence of experts wera found to ba all perfcotly fresh. "When a idan takes a partner in bus iness thtso days it is an indication ha wants eotr-e one to divida expenses, not tr divide profits. Atchison Globe. Tenements and high-class apart ment houses- Comprise forty-two per ct-nt. of X-.w YorJt dwellings. D not t-pfuk ot your happiness to a man li-as fortunate than yourH?lf. - Wo think vf ry Ii'w people sensible xi-e.t tLose who are of out opinion. A 'Virnr coufictcnee" is one of tbor.o k'nd of things that no one Las ever had yet. . Ambit tun it is Inn', wives men tho ens ercy imd the will t uccoaip'.ish great things. Two )!rrtons Lave never yet teen known to ice tho sunie giiobt ct the same time. ltillutnce is thd eslial.i'i n of chnr !r.dcr. Ceasj !o lament for tli it th in cnst n t h"ip. Civility ccsts nothing and b.iys every thing. Tho vo:co of the majority u no proof of jnftice. Ve never desire crdeully what we desire rationally. Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. Of ail bliLtls thaltbut up uien'bVision the worst is self. One umrder made a villain; millions a hero. Numbers sanctified tho crimes! 'Vh.TO J on are is of no moment, but only wkat yon are doing ibcre. It is not the place that ennobles yon, but you the place. Decision of character will often give to au inferior mind command over a superior. Ho who has not a good memory should never take npon him the sins of lyin?. The way to gain a -good reputation is to c ndeavor to te t j be what you desire to appear. LOVE'S FIRST KISS. Sweetheart, twae bet a while ago it scarce seems yesterday, Though now say looks are white ns snow and all your curls are gray When, walking in the twilight haze, ere stars had smiled above, t whispered soft : "I love you," and you kissed me for that love I Tha first kiss, dear I and then your hand your little hand so sweet, and whiter than the white, whito sand that twinkled 'nsath your feet Laid tenderly within my own I Have quetiu such lovely hands? ; Ko wonder that tho whip-poor-will nude : sweet the autumn lands I ! It seemed to me th&t my poor heart would xurdicioas grin : beat to death and bread;, j 'I:;rss Beau Erummel Le Eoj While all the world, ST7eatheirt! sweetheart I might hclr him to remember it bet seemed sin glng for your sake ; ter. " And every rose that barred the way in lid 'Go on with your books, sir ?" and dyinr graoe, j Tlio cashier spoke in a quick, fetern Forgot its laded summer day and, leaning, voice, winch admitted of no retort or kissed your face ! ! disobedience. Silence ensued, except I envied all the roses then, and all the rosy ways That blossomed (or your Bake are still my life's bright yestordaya ; Cut thinking of th-t first sweet kiss and that first clasp of hands, Life's whip-poor-wills sins sweeter eot) though all tho winter lands ! Fran- L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. AiN U.NPl'xSiED CBD1E. n tcciA BmrroK mokse. E KOY, you were well warned of this in ample time to prevent its occur rence. A year ago, when you left col lege, I settled all your debts, in creased your allow- ance. cave you a rood start in vour chosen profession. r and told you "decidedly then, or tried had by mutual, though tacit, agree to impress npon yon, that all further ment taken up tho old habit of dining einp.nditnre mutt come within tha limit of your personal income. Tour standing the demands of society upon opportunities for making that income the time of each. To-night, Mr. a large amount were better than most Leonard reasoned, Lo Koy would young men start out with, and if it has probably not come home. Or perhaps failed to meet your expenses you must ho was not aware of the fact that the settle the matter in the best "way that check had been shown to his father. It vou cun. The affair is youra alone. " would be better to wait in that case The Hon. Amos Leonard turned until he did know. It would nhso again to his paper., as though to dis- afford Mr. Leonard more time to think miss the matter, while his bod, vrhoeo tho matter over. affairs had been returned to liimseli He stepped to n window to lower a with eo much decision, crossed the shade, where tho sun blazed in too room and stood looking out of tho wiu- glaringly in its red setting light, dow, whistling softly as he jingled the lown the avenue he saw Lo Eoy corn coins in his pockets. j iag home. He had not expected this rebuff. 'i'ha futhor stood taero watching his. Kevrr hefnra bad his indnlo-ent father son. as ho had dono a thousand times rofused to help him out in whatever difficulties were brought to him for consideration. It -mav have been in ono feense the fault of this Tiarent that his onlv Eon had irrown to manhood with a disre- card for dollars, which led his tren- erous, happy-go-lucky nature into wild and reckless extravagance. Leroy Leonard had been a very lit- tie bov when his mother and older sitter died, leaving him alone to his father's care. So it was the most natural thins: in tho world that, after the first paralysis of crief had worn away with time, Mr. Amos Leonard centered all his love, and hope and pride in this lonely fel- low. Whatever happiness was left in the world for his father was embodied in Lo Boy. What wonder is it that tho boy grew to a man with the idea that all nlistur-les would be insomo wav removed from the nath of tho courted Le Boy Leonard. He had gone through college with every confirmation of this ides nnd it was not until he started out in business, that his father realized the utter lack of discipline or manage ment in his adored son. Then with his usual mixturo of indulgence and in consistency, he gave him a generous start and absolutely withdrew all further aid. It cost tho Hon. Amos Leonard more than his son dreamed to hold out in this matter. He would deny himself anything in reason, or out of it, to save this bright natured son of his one extra care or trouble ; and this self-denial for Lo Boy's own good was hardest of all because it brought its hardships to him as well as to his father. . This idea of discipline had occurred to Mr. Leonard rather late perhaps, bnt he was determined to undo the wrong of former "years, at whatever cost of self-sacrifice. There are many who will criticise his judgment in this case rightfully, too, perhaps but he was doing what ho thought best. His motive was good, indeed ; it was only that he was a man a father, not a mother. Le Boy stood whistling for more than half nn hour. Thrn he took his hat and started toward tha door. ''I shrill dino with you at home to night, father," he said, pleasantly. "Good-bye, sir." "Good-bve, my son," his father re plied, looking np as Lo Boy left the room. He looked at tae aoor lor some minutes after his 6on had passed out. "The boy is all right," he said, half aloud. "It was only a bit tie firmness that ho needed. I have never been quite firm enough." So he turned and wc-iit on writing. , Lo Boy walked down the avenua to Twenty-third street and stood for a few moments in the porch of the rifth Avenue Hotel. His debts were larger than usual, end two of them were w hat is called in n certain circle "debts of honor." They muft bo paid to-morrow at the latest, and his entire iscome for several months ahead waa long ago consumed. His profession was not yet paying divi- dends. He had been three times to his latner, ana no rcaiizea now mat no meant to refuse all aid. Suddenly, standing there in the bright winter sunshine, LeBoy Leonard jrvf very pale and started slightly, liter thut he stared intently ot the tquaro opposite fcr five minutes, and then walked hurriedly off down. Eroad wnv. "What is this? I have no note ol such a sua." "It is quite correct, sir. The amount is a large one and the check was pre sented bv your son. Yon must recol lect." The cashier of tho down town bonl. placed in the Hon. Amos Xeonara t i o'f Le Hoy's debts, not a "cent more fa lesa. It avas Burned avith the Hon. ' Amos Leonard's name, in his own peculiar chirography, but not by his hand. Only he knew that he and one , other. 'Aiyes! my memory must bo fail ling a little, I yes, of course." jWr. Leonard forced a short, harsh lancrh. I 'I recall it now yee, yes perfectly. I It is all right, good day, good day, I perfectly indeed." ' A young clerk, with his slim legt tnviFted among tho rounds of a high stool, watched the stately old mac, as he made his way out. When tho heavy door swuag togother, ho dipped his pen in the ink again but paused before he usol it, to say with a throwd, 1 for the scratching of the pens. I Mr. Leonard's f ultering steps carried ' him homeward unwittingly and he sank into his deep chair before tha library fire, conscious of a desire to think it all over and a corresponding dread of the same. Perhaps it might not be long before he ceased thinking altogether. He felt that he had grown to be an old, old man in the lost few hours. How brightly the fire was burning. The great library looked unusually neat and well appointed. He re membered that it had lately been cleaned and renovated. He hoped that Harry had mislaid none of hisboo!:s cr papers. Ah I pepera! Re must begin to think now ubont that Bauer he had seen at the bank. When ho had warmed his bloodless hands well, then be would think about it. Sinco Le Koy had entered upon his nrofessional career, father and son had rarely met during tho day, but they together almost regularly, notwitn before. Lo Boy had grown into tho habit of expecting him there, and now just as ha had always done, he Enatched off his hat and waved it boy- ishly over Lis head. Tno Hon. Amos Leonard nodded his white head then laughed aloud at the mockery mused. think, He was waiting in tho library when L Boy canio down stairs dressed for dinner. He sat down by his father and read tho evening papers until tha menl was announced, Then ho arose, and juet as he haa j done ever since he grew to his father's ' height, offered his strong young arm and led his father to his place nt the head of the table. The evening dinner had always been happy ono to those two old friends when they dined alouo together. So it was to-night. There were no guests. Le Boy's bright talk cheered the lonely home and his father joined in it with more than usual vivacity. It was no time to think; whilo "tho boy" was present. After dinner came a game of chess, and that finished, Le Boy got out his guitar and accompanied his rich, sweet baritone in the ballads his father loved to hear. Usually after this, Le Boy went out some where. Occasionally tho Hon. Amos Lcmi:rd went with him, but to night neither ; aemed inclined to leave tho lusury oi home. Not until the great hall clock chimed tho hour of midnight did Le Boy rise and bid good-night to his father in tho old, boyish and unusual, perhaps, but in finitely sweet to the old man, who had no one else to bid him good-night in any way. After that it was too late to think. "To-morrow," said Amos Leonard to himself, "he will know and ho will not come." "To-morrow" pased slowly and yet the father had not found time nor win j to think. That dull old grief had come upon him again just as it had when he was first left with only Le JSoy in the world. Sometimes he seemed to hear the boy's childish prattle, as he did in the days past, when it wns meaniogless to him, coming through his mist of Eorrow. At five o'clock he rosi and stood in the window ngain, with the western And there, gun blazing in his lace. indeed, came his son Le Koy up tho street. Off came his hat again ; bob went tha curly head, and whot could his father do but bow and smile as of old? No one outside should know. When Le Boy should come down to dinner he would sneak. xlfnner was announced, however, before the young man appeared, eo it must Bgain be deferred. If Lo Eoy knew that his father had seen that check he was either a most .m.-lriiUjt ti-.-ir rtr a h-ii-flenod villain. There waa in his manner not the slight- ! put traca of nervousness or fear. If any chango could be discerned it was a slight increase of the respect and tenderness in his manner toward his fnther, which had withstood all inuul- gence. j Aa they passed into the library after dinner, Le Boy remained standing at the table when his father was seated. I "I am going to the opera to-night i with Mrs. Van Crnger's party," ho ' said ; "but before I go I want to say to ! von. sir. that I have been thinking things over for the past few days and I I i : x 1: t -V,n ....n , have done for me. I have never been j i appreciative nor grateful, I know, and j I a great deal of it all has been thrown j away, but whatever I can do now to 1 make np for it I shall try to do faith fully, and honestly. Good night. sir. And leaning down he nut his arms around his father's neck as he had I done years ago and kissed the glow ing, grand old face with new reverence and solemnity. It was the only reference either man every made to this one dishonesty in Le Boy Leonard's brilliant aud honor able career. Elmira (Jf. T.) Argosy. Bell Founding. The art of bell founding is undoubt edly of great antiquity. The Saxons are known to have used bells in thc.il churches, although probably bnt email ones, for the Venerablo Bede, writing at the end of the Seventh Century, al ludae to them in terms which eeem to show that they were not unfamiliar things. The towers of the Saxon period I have belfries of considerable dimen sions, in most cases ; and at Crowland Abbey, in South Lincolnshire, there i was famous peal of seven bells many years before the Norman Conquest. ; The monks at ihat time, and for long after, were the chief practitioners ot tho art of bell founding which, in- j deed, is one of the many things those well-abused men have handed down to ns. Their bella were rarely without inscriptions, often in very bad Latin, containing perhaps some obscure joke, the point of which is quite lost. More often they were of a religious nature, sometimes, we fear, not unmixed with a dash of superstition, as when the bell demons of the air who caused peitil ence and famine, liehtning and thun derstorms. As a rule, unfortunately, they put no dates on their bells, a de feet which haa been in some measure I overcome by the researches of many enthusiastic campanologists, Dut wmcn IB liaeiy lu WJfp liic cttiiy uiawty wi bells shrouded in darkness for a long time to come. Gentleman's Maga- ! zine. ! Festival in Janan i lue "03r8 lesUTaI m Japan, I The great event of May, in Japan, ia the celebration on the fifth day of the j monta or tne dots iesuvai. n is called Nobori-no-sekku, festival oi flags, or Shoby-no-sekku, festival of reeds. Before the door of every abode which has been blessed by the birth of boys during tho past seven years, rises a tall bamboo pole, from the top oi which are flung to the breeze gigantic carp koo made of paper or woven Etufis in brilliant colors, one for every son. This particular fish is chosen for a symbol because it swims stoutly against stream, and even up rapids, leaping cascades to tho higher waters. This implies thai the boys in like man ner must be sturdy and indomitable, stemming courageously the stormy currents of life's stream. Flags alsc are raised before tho houses, bearing pictures of the Chinese mythical hero fthoki, as an example of strength anil bravery. Weapons, armor and pic tures of heroes and horses are chosen for the decoration of tho tokonoma, the slightly raised platform which ia i early chrysanthemum, and a particr.l varie ty of bamboo, called moso-chikr, are also used. Bundles of reeds an J mugwort are fastened to the projecting roofs of the houses on this day. Dcniorest. A Generous Cat. A member of tho Zoological Society says: "I once had a cat which alwoys sat up to the dinner table with me, and had his napkin round his neck and his plate and some fish. He used his paw, of course, but he was very par ticular and behaved with extraordi nary decorum. Y.'hon he had finished his fish I sometimes gavo him a pieca of mine. One day he was not to bj found when the dinner bell rang, so we began without him. Just aa the plates were put round puss camo rushing upstairs and sprang into his chair, with two mice in his mouth. Before ho could be stopped he dropped a mouso on bis own plate and then one on mine. He had di vided his dinner with me, as I had often divided mine with him." Lon don Answers. Courteous Bandits of China. The robbers of China are banded to gether, and form a terrible compuct. j If a bank in the city wishes to send a J large amount of money to IY-kin, the j banker sends a gift to tho chief of th.) ' banditti infesting the territory through '. which tho money is about to pass, t.dl- ! jng him the time tho silver will be sent, nnd requesting that it be not disturbed. When such a request is made, ac companied by a handsome present, it is usually honored. These banditti nru not tho only robbers. The Government is engaged in tho same business. Taxes are very high, nnd every timo one comes in contact with the rulers it iosts something. Brooklyn Citizen, He'd Keep It. "Hello, Jinks, what are you dolna here?" "I'm waiting for old Mig'er." "That old skinfilntV" "Yes. 1 have an engagement with him for this morning." "Humph! Think he'll keep it?" "Of course he wllL Wig zer's fo stingy he'd keep anything he could lay hl3 hands on." Harper's Bazar. ; Ills Ood father. Mrs. Brown Johnny's god.'athet has made him a present of a real pistoL Only fancy! Mrs. Smith What a funny thing! What did he do that for, I wonder? Mrs. Brown I'm sure I don't know, but he waa always prejudi ed against the poor, dear boy. Ally Sloper. No Reason at AIL I VUsmiri judire Stand UD. sir. Have you anything to say why the acntence of the law should nofrbe passed on you? "I'm not the pris oner, yer honor, I'm a detective " Judge (fiercely) Is that any reason? Cleveland Plain-Dealer. IJteraUy Speaking. His Mother Ycu shouldn't throw away your piece of buttered bread in that wasteful war, Willie; you may , 6ee the day you would be glad to have lli. tier oon nuu. m nuuiuu ! Veep. Rochester P. st-Exprer-s. 1 and tne place ox nonor in every uvmg- r .-V r-I.T " While tho moionnan was teliimr his f ,.nAm I IvU IVlUVIlvU TVVlgUU, IIHU 1-JVtlllUUl.O . , " . i.:..w tr. recommended it for use on ventllat- story the manager noticed sometlnng ' iV V , - 6v V T- lnff fans ran!d-flrin Kun stoerinir. a little out oi tne oru.nary in inc ap time to this festival is the xris; but a kind r ! ID .tans; raP a, ur,n. ,Kun 8l7rm' f hU. an h .!. Gas de Smith. "I suppose the rea cnriosity Aroused. I eon j9 Decause the workingmen have Mri. Honser (meditatively at the gotten out of the notion of doing any museum) I'd just like to know wors nowadays." Texas Siftinira. Honse Know what? Mrs. Honser , It that India rubber man waa ever William Boyer, of Honeybrook, one of tbe bouncing babies we read penn., ia the1 owner of a pair of mittens about in the birth department of tbe knitted by his grandmother ia 1777. newspapers. Buffalo Courier. CIGNALING AT NIGHT. deetrle Dvla for Communication Bo- twooa Gnnboatn. An interesting apparatus used on tonrd tne Government vessels for nlnht signaling Is tho Ardols6ignal ct. It consists of fire double signal lanterns similar to that shown in tho IBS ABBOIS KKVBOARD. Illustration, each containing two len-es, one red and one white, and lighted by a thirty-two-candlo incan descent lamp. These lamps are con nected by a standard cable to the keyboard, an illustration of which is given, which is usua'ly placed in bf this keyboard sixty-two different comb nat.ous of lights can be made. torrcsponding to a sp?clal code of Eignals. The introduction of electric motors pa noard naval vessels has been quite i hrorrrnent in tho last few years. The many uses for which tho electric A TREE-TOP HOME. The Wonderful Mipls of RjttlborRoora for Twenty Teop'e la It Branches. In the town of Batlbor, province of Silesia, Prussia, on the left bank of tbe Oder Kiver, stands a maple tree wh'ch is a wonderful combina- THE MAPLE OF RAT1BOR. tlon of nature and man's ingenuity. It is said to be more than a century old. and, as will bo seen from tbo il lustration, has been turned Into a kind of temple of two stories, each of its compartments being lighted by eight windows, and capable of con taining twenty people with case. The floors are constructed of boughs skillfully woven together, of which the leaves make a sort of natural carpet. The walls are formed of thick leafage, in which Innumerable birds build their nests. Qjiclc as Lightning. A photographic camera has been specially devtced for registering the distance of lightnin? flushes. The slide holding the plate is inclined at a considerable angle to tbe axis of the lens. Consequently, thero will only le one point where the flash comes Into focus, and from the posi tion of this point upon the plate it is possible to determine tbe distance of the lightning flash. Gave Him Hiccoughs. j A needle was swallowed by John ; Minchin, of Goshen, 2s. T., and for three weeks thereafter he had in cessant hiccoughs. A physician pumped out the needle and then John's hiccoughs ceased. Orange Trees. It is estimated that there are 10, 000,000 bearing and non-bearing orange trees in Florida. California is credited with having 6,000,000 and ! Arizona about 1,000,000. Myaterr Explained. What is tke reason there aro so i many worklcgmen's associations now ' adavs?" asked Pete Amsterdam of TUB SIGNAL LAXTE11N. 'nan nniara ann ttw ricnnn rrt ipninorw i i - w . ... . -- - I HOW HIGH WILL A KITE GO? eighteen Uradred Feet the Maximum At. tlto.de That a Single Kite Can Keacb. It is one of the most difficult un dertakings imaginable :o even ap proximately estimate the height of a kite above the earth. This is on ac count of tbe fact that objects float- -ing In tbe air 6ecni to be fartnet away than they really are. It may be sately said, says tbe St Louis Ke public, that I,s00 feet is the maxi mum altitude that can tossiolc l attained by a simile kite. A kite liv ing at tbe height mentioned trill ap pear even to a conservative observe! to be nearly if not quite a half milt above the surface of the earth, but a careful measurement of a string ati'l ; Its angle will qui kly p ove that it , could not have been more than a ; fourth of a mile above the ground. Ordinarily a kite will go no hi her. even if more string be paid out; that is because the wind depresses the cord and causes the kite to really re cede when it appears to rise. It ha been said that it is possible to ar range several kites in such a mannci that they will reach a hither alti tude than it is possible to attain with a single, kite. In this lnannei where three, four, or even a dozen kites have been used remarkabje heights liave been rca hcd. Where mo:e than one kite is used only the main one is atta hed tc the end of the string, the others beinu attached along the main line lc a manner similar to the arrangement of the hoots along a "trotliuc") at an average distance of about twenty feet apart. Hinkleman, who made experiments at IJuda-1 esth, and lrl sou and Watson, whose investiga tions under the Russian Academy ol Sciences were carried on at Eile na, Findland, report curious results. Where single kites could be forced upintotheatmo-phe.ro to a height of 1,500 feet, a pair could be made to ascend to a height of from i'.ooc to 2. 1 00 feet, and a tanden easily reached the high-water mark of 2,500 feet. Tho three experimenters al-. judel to believe that with a proper arrangement of the Kites, and with A scientific adjustment of both the tail and strin-r, a height of two miles will eventual'y be reached. UNABLE TO JUDGE DISTANCE. X Failing Among Klvcttlo Motormcn Which Frequently Ciuac Accidnnte. The general manager of the Jersey i City and KewaiK electric street car lines thinks that bo has discovered the cause of many of tbe collisions and other accidents on the roads. One of Ins mnturmcu ran into a wagon not long ao and demolished it. The accouuts or tbe accident given by bis driver of the waon and tho motorman tallied except as to tho distance between them when tbe warnlnir ung was first sounded. pearance tloned him about his slifht. Ti.o man answered that it wis good, or, at least, that he ha 1 not discovered any defect in it. He was sent to an oculist for examination, and the lat ter found that tho motormon's judg ment of distances was very poor, ob jects appeared to him to be fanner away than they really were. Mnco then, says the St Louis I'.epubllc, the eyes of all tho other luolorincu ! In the two cities have been eaiuir.e 1 ! and their Judgment in regard to dis tances tested. l,iuite a number of ; them failed to pass tho examination, ' and their places on the motors are ' now tilled by men with good vis on ' and with at least fair judgment as to ' distances, 'ear-sighted, far -sighted, 'cross-eyed, and colorblind applicant! ' for the position of motormen will Lo ruicd out ;n future without fu tlier examination. The ruio will extend to other defects of vision. hveti w.th people whoso eyesight Is good the tstimatiug of distance correctly isadilllcult matter. If called upon to give a number of leet between tbe walls of a room, most of them will miss it several feet. Hnr Itcvcngo. Got a boat?" she brusnuelv do ' manded of a 1 etroit photographer a3 the wa.ked in the other day. Yess'm." "And a Dsn pole:" "Yess'm." 'And a painted ocean for a back" ground." "Yess'm. " "Look like Cape Mai?" "It does." "Can you get a good-looking young man to sit on the boat with me?" "I can." "Then I want six photos." "Yess'm. Do you want to go to the seashore this summer?" "Saw! Dad's busted in business and we've got to take ctvap hoard on a farm. I want the photos just the same, you know. Want 'cm to send to a girl friend who is sick and can't get anywheio this summer. She'll think I'm down there all .ight" "Sort of an illusion eh?" "Sort o' revenge, rather. We were down there last season and she stole my summer young man away. I want to make her belie vo I've got him back. Hurry up with the feller, and tell him he can sit with one arm around me and his moustache touch ing my ear." Free l'ress. Explained. A man of the world more famous for his fondness for the pleasures of tbe table than for anything else, went to a physician not long ago and asked htm to explain a singular cir cumstance. "Doctor," said he, "my hair ts perfectly black, but my whiskers are turning white: now why Is that?" "I don't know,' said the doctor, "unless it is because your jaw- hav worked a great deal harder than your brain:" Whet Bbe Vonld Think. Tipple What should you think if . a man threatened to commit, suicide I if you refused him? Bob I should I think he had made up bis mind to ; try again. Exchange. Don't Agree. j The wolf and the lamb lie down to gether; but it is always the wolf that makes tbe proposition, ana ne is lia ble to get hungry the moment he feeli wicked. Is'cw Orleans Picayune. J. t.fl likMf
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