z J r B. P. BOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THK UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. XLVIJI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1894 NO. 37 Ml REV mi TALMAGE. II1K BliOOKlYX DIVINE'S SUA. AV SKIiHO.V. Subject: "Suicide." Text i "He drew oat his swor J anl would Eave killed hlmsalf, supposing- that the pris oner bad been fled. But Paul criei with a load voice, saving, Do thyself no barm." Acts rrL, 27, 28. Here Is a would he salcMe nrrested In tils deadly attempt. He wns a sheriff, and ae cording to the Roman law a bailiff hlmseil most suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years then the sheriff must be en. dungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner breaking juil was to have sulk fared eapital punishment then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not bad conQdence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergy men, about whom there seemed to bsvsome thlDg strange and supernatural. Sure enough, l y miraculous po axtky are free, and the sheriff, waking r sound sleep and supposing these minister have run awny. and knowing tbey were to die for preaching Christ, and realising that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and suffer public disgrace resolves to precipitate his own decease. But before the sharp. keen, glittering dagger of the shem could prisoners arrests the blade by the oomman.ft ' "Do tbvsell no harm nis In olden time, and where Christianity bad not interfered with it. suicide was con sldored honorable and a e:irn of courasrn emereo. nonoraoio ana a sign ot courage, property, and bis body all aflame with InsV Demostbenes poisoned himself when told )blr 'Aarouucles, and everything gone that Alexander s embassador bad demanded . i . ...V. .k. -v.i. 1 1 .1 - U, the surrender of the Athenian orators. ocraies Kiiiea mmseii ratner man sur- than submit to Julius C'tear. took his own i jne, ana arter inree times nis wounas nan been dressed I tore tbom open sod perished, j Mlthridates killed himself rather than sub mit to Pompey. the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed his life by poion Irom his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suickle, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-omperor arise, put i something in a g.ass and drink It, and soon . deaths of its di-scipl-s, it U a fact alarmin after the groans arouse all the attendants, ' ir p-it-nt that su Mi Is on the increase, and it was only tbrou-n utmost medtcal wUIit is th caus-V I charge upon inli.Ielity skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of t agnosticism this wno.e thing. If there tnePiaSe- . , . . . ,5 e no hereafter, or if that hereafter be bllss- Omeshave changed, and yet the Amerl- ,, witbout reference to how we Uveandhow Oaai conscience needs to be toned upon the wn die wh- not mova back the foldingdoors eabject of suicide. Have you seen a paper betwwn this world and the next? And when in the lobt mojtn that did not announce the our existence here becomes troublesome why passage out of life by one's own behest? not p:tss right over into Elysium? Put this Defaulters, alarmed at the Idea of exposure. iowu am0ng yonr mo solemn reflections quit life precipitately. Men losing large Bna consider it after you go to your homes iortunes go out of the world because they thero has never been a ease of suicide cannot endure earthly existence. Frustr:- where the operator was not either demented, ed affection, domestio infelicity, dyspectio . , therefore irresponsible, or an infldel. I impatience, bnger, remorse, en7, Jea.ousy, I cnaiienge all the ages, and I challenge the iestitution, misanthropy, are considered ( wno e unrerse. There never has been a sufficient causes for alseonding from i this j8isa of OTlr destruction while in full aiipre llfe by Paris green, by laudanum, by bella-1,, Bton of his immortallty and of the fact donna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by ' tnilt that immortality would bo glorious or leap irom the abutment of abridge, by Are-1 wretL.ned according as ho accepted Jesus arms. More cases of "felo dese" in the last J (jbrlst or rejected Him. two years of the world's existence. The evil you Bay t s business trouble, or you say Is more and more spreading. tt i8 electrical currents, or it is this, or it is A pulpit not long ugo expressed some that, or it Is the other thing. Why not go doubt as to whethc there was really any- dear back, my friend, and acknowledge that thing wrong about quitting this life when it I in every case It is the abdication of reason or uuuouaKrw!ui, anu mere are iuuuu m i respeciaoie circles people apologetic lor me crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that ruicide Is the worst of all crimes, jind I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in bis bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is very great, I charge all those who have bad Christian Irlends under cerebval aberration step off tho biund.iries of this life o have no doubt their happiness. Thodea Lord took them right out of their dazed an 1 fren rled state into perfect safety. Ho Christ leels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demoniac r Gardara and the child lunatic, and the po tency with which ha hushed the tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of Intellectual giants, bad none grander than Hugh Miller, great for science and great for God. He came of the best Highland blood, and he was a descendant of DoDald Hoy, a man eminent for his iety and the rare gift of second eight. Ills attainment?, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished ad miration of lineteHn i and Murcbison, the scientists, anl Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities apellbound while he told them the story of wbnt be had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to sliow that the God of the hills Is tho God of the Bibie, and he struck hi? tuning tork on the roks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testi mony of the Hocks." proclaimed the banni of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this latter book he tolled day and night, through love as r.ntiirc and love of Cod, until he eonld not Meep, .m l his brain gave way, and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets ono for blm and the other for the gunsmith who. at the coroner's Inquest, was examin ing It and fell dead. Have you any doubt 01 the beatification of Hugh Miller after his hoi brain had ceased throbbing that winter nighi In his s'.udy nt Portobello Among th mightiest of earth, among the mightiest o h"aven. J.o one ever doubled the piety ot Williair Cowper, the nut nor of thnaa three great bvmns, "Oh. For a Closer Walk With Go.l r What Various Hindrances We Meetf "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood" William Cowper, who shnres with Isaar Watts and Charles Wesley tho chief honon of Christian hymnology. In hypochondris he resolved to take his own life and rode tc the river Thames, but found a man seated 01 some goods at tho very point from which h expected to spring nn I rode back to hit home and that night threw himself upon hii own knife, but the blade brokn, nn I tben b hanged himself to the coiling, but the rop parted. Ko wonder that when Go 1 merci fully delivered him from that awful demen tla he sat down and wrote that other bymc just as memorable : Co1 mores In a mjftterkms way His wonders to tterform. fie i l&ntA His f.Mt-tp In the se. And rides upon tne ftorm Bl'n'l unbeller Is ture to err And scan His work to vatn. Qod Is Ills own tnti-rpreu r. And Ho will make it plala. While we make this merciful and righteom allow.". noe in regard to those who wen plnnged Into mental laeoherenefffl deeian that the man who in the use of his reason, by bis own act, snaps the bond between hil body and his soul goes straight inte perdi tion. Snail I prove it Revelation "-. 9 "Murderers shall bnvo their part In the laU which burnetii with Are and brimstone r Involution nil., IS, "Without are dogs nnd .or ifvers nnd whoremongers and murder ers " You do not believe the New Testa ment. Then prhnps yon believe th Ter Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill. Do you say all these pn.".ges refer to the taking of the life of other. Tben I ask yon if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of others? Ood gave yon a special trust in your life. He made you the cnsto lian of your life as lie made you the custodian ot no otcrlile. lie gaveyoi as weapons with which to defend It two arms 1o trike back assailants, two eyes to watch for Invasion and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on th alert. Ass isstnation o' others Is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in the latter case it Is treachery to an especial trust. It is the surrender of a castle you were especially appointed to keep, it Is treason to n natural law, and it is treason to God added t j ordinary murder. To show how God In the Bible looked npoa this crime I point you to the rognee' picture gallery In tome parti of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have com mitted this naaitnral crime. Here i the headless trunk of 8aul on the walls of T.-ith-shan. Hera Is the man who ehased little David ten feet In statne chasing four. Hera is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, witch M Endor. Here is a man who, whipped In battle, Instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, asks his servant to i'ay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hilt of the sword In the earth, the sharp point sticking npward, and be throws his boly on It and expires, the coward, the suicide. Here is Aliilbopbei, the Machiavelll of olden times, be.royiiu his brat friend, David, in order that he mm be es 31 e prime minister of Absalom and joining that fellow in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics betnkesahort cut out of a disgraced life Into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the Ingrate I Here Is AMmetech practically a suicide. He Is with an army bombarding a tower when a woman in the tower takes a grind stone from Its place and drops It upon his head, and with what lire he has left In a cracked skull faeco-nmandshisarmor bearer, "Draw thy swor 1 and slay me. lest men say a woman slew me." There Is his post mortem Ehotoirap1! in the book of Samuel. But the ero of this group Is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Doune says he was a martyr, and we have in our rlav apologists for him. And what won der in this day when we have a book reveal ing A'-rcn Burr as a pattern of virtue, an I in the day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of litera ture, and In this day when there are be trayals of Christ on the part of some of His pretended apostles a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white ! Yet this man by bis own hand bung up for mi execration 01 an tneages, J udas iscanot. . A" lhe K00 mPn 1,11,1 women of the Bible 'r,t ' Go'1 ,no decision of their earthly ter- &a"J,., .55?! SnTJ1?.? man ever n: wnat witn nis destroyed , ,tiferom wife-and four garrulous Deo. 1 pelting htra with comfortless talk while heap of aahes scratching his jca' with a piece or broken potterr. yot mvin. nnt in irinmnh "411 thai Hn nt mi. ,pponted time Willi wait till my chnng come. Not wit hat an ling the Bible is against this evil and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle ot those who have huried themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christ ianity is against it ant the argu- m-r -n,i th ,',. I liv ,n,itu niriZ, the teaching or mnaeiiiy wmon practically may "If TO von don't Bke this life, get out ol It, and you will land either In annihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecu tions to suffer, no gout to terment, or yoa will land where there will be everything glorious and nothlngtopay for it." Infideli ty always has been apologetio for self immo lation. After Tom Palne'a "Age of Reason" whs published and widely read there was a marked increase of self-slaughter. llousseau, Yoltaire, Gibbon, Montaigno, uu '.er certain circumstances, were apolo geti ) for self immolation. InHvIolity puts up no bar to people's rushing out irom this world Into the next. Theyteachus it does not make nuy difference how yoa live here or go out of this world, you will land eitner in au onlivious nowhere or a glorious some where. An I infidelity holds the upper end oftheroDH for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out. and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day an l persuade the majority ot people that it does not made nny dlftV-rence how you go out of the world you will lanl safely, tne rivers would be so full ot corpses the ferry boats would be Impeded in their progress, nnd the crack ot a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble ot a street car. Ah, Infidelity, Stan 1 up and take thy sen tence 1 In the presence of God and angels anl men, stan 1 up. thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, tby cheek scarred wifi lust, thy breath foul with tho corrup tion of the agesl Stand up, satyr, -lilt hy goat, buzzard of tho nations, leper of the centuries 1 Stand up, thou monster infidel ity, part man, part panther, part reptile, p ut aragon. stand up and take tby senteuce' Thy hand is red with the blood in wuict thou bast washed, tby feet criosoa with thr human gore through which thou hast waderL Stand up nnd take thy sentence ' Jbso with thee to the pit and sup on the sous nnd groans of families thou hast blasted, an I roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharp eue t for others, and let thy music be tne everlasting miserere of tbos'J whom thoa hn--t damned I I brand the forehead of iu l delity with all the crimes of suit immolation for the last century on the p irt of those who bad their reason. My friends, It ever your life tbrou-h its Lnuuous and its molestations should awn to be unbearable, ana yoa are tempieo te quit it by your own behest, do not considnt yourselves as worse than others. Christ Himself was tempted to cast Himself from the roof of the temple, but as He resisted so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life in stead of death. People who have bad It worse than you will ever have It have gone songful on their war. Remember that God keeps the chrono o.-y ot your ute wuu as much precision as He k'.-ups the chronology of nation. Whv was It at tniduiiclit. last at midnight. the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 430 years were up at 12 o clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11. and 1 o'clock wouldbavebeentar.lv and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the de stroying angel struck the blow, and Isruel was free. And God knows just the hoar when it is time to lend you up from earthly bondage. By his ?rsce make not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you mast take the pills, do not chew them. Yonrever tssting rewards willaecord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa chain of gold as heavy as had been bis main of Iron. For your usking you may nave the same grace that was givf n to) the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in tho larkest of dungeons, dated his letter from 'the delectable orchari of the Leonine pris on." There Is a sorrow'.ess world, an I It is so radiant that the noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, confoumllug ss ronomers as to what it can be, isthewav ng of the banners of the procession come to t -ike the conquerors home from church militant to church triumphant, and you and I have 10,000 reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self immolation or lmpenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ who came to do that (hing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arrange, and from a couch divine ly spread, and then the clang of the sepul chral gates behind ns will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. O God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's Lurial, a Christian's Immortality ! Don't refuse to do good ia fractions, when you can't work tn whole nnmbsrs. Never minl where you work; le your care Le fr the work itself. Good is best when soonest wrought; lingering labors eome to naurght. The ambitions young graduate now goes forth to Lnnt up some tides to stem. EINOING OF YOU. blossoms ami blossoms and Uoasonu! ana ' birds singing of m so sweet I tre-ing the down of their bosom, 'gainst th flowers that fail at your feet ! t Clinging and swinging and flinging theii iZ, to the heavens so blue-T , O, sweet to my soul is their singing, bemuse they are singingfyou! I j Shigiag of you in the dawn and the dew Singing ot heaven and singing of you' ttossoms and blossoms and blossoms! one , just sparkling with beautiful pearls, rwining themselves for your tresses, and tali tug and kissng your curls ! j ISA all th. MM. .wl.rla. and Sinn. Ihol I souls to God's heavens ot blue. And my soul dreaming soft In their singing because they are singing ot yoa 1 Singing of you In the dawn and the dew Singing ot heaven and singing of yoa' Frank L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution slackmaIys gtjlly. BTB.IL HOKE. TwasacoldJanuar nieht when Jama mdtM .VhA home cam 4k.nnv. ,t, j! looTrVn tKaHft w in the neighbor hood. A heavy snow had fallen th, previous day, succeeded by a rain whicl a sudden north wind had frozen to slippery crust The moon, ono nigh. on the wane, was a half hour above tht eastern mountain, silvering the lonf stretch of snow, and turning the ice o! the trees into diamonds. Blakestoppei a moment on the summit of the hill, to admire the snectral beautv of th. night, and to cast an awed glance dowx to the hideous gully into which th hteep and jagged side of the hill felL The place was upon the farm of younc Bod jioy Black man, and ever since tin accident death or murder of the eldei Blackman there many years before, il had been regarded with aversion anc horror by the country folk. It may be that Blake stopped, too, more firmly to set his courage for hii errand. He was a prosperous younj mechanic in Templeton, the villagt whose lights twinkled in the valley U his left, and was going to learn Marj Graham's final answer to his declara tions of love. Beset by the ;uKtomary ... . . Z . ness or coquetry on Mary's part, h Karl svooerl br f- it ' . now determined to have the qncstiot settled that night. Mary's father was a well-to-do far mer. Mary herself was a vigorotu country girl, who might well have beer an ideal of rural beauty, and who set upon herself an estimate by no meant too low. She was not backward ii making known the standard by whicl the successful wooer must measure. Whether James Blake so measured wat a much discussed question in tho lo cality. It was admitted that ho wat an ideal of muscular and honest man hood, and if his means did not quit equal Mary's prophesied dowry, h had n capital of vigor and determina tion well worth taking into consider ation. Another of the obstacles had been set up by Farmer Graham. He declared that, having no son of his own, the man who won Mary must come and live on tho farm and learn to care fot it after he was gone. To many thii would have been and, indeed, was i ,j I xl - etacle, but Blake was interested and successful in his business enterprises, and ho stoutly asserted that the woman, , nA -ii v.- t, To'sTSerce: asTc'll Z 7 to tret a final answer from Marv. that v i,i,.i .w v at the front door of the Graham farm house, and was bidden "Come in !' Mary sat knitting by the wood fire in the capacious chimey place, and seldom have hearth flames brightened a pret tier domestic picture. James put his hat on the table, pulled a chair over near her, and, after a few prelimina ries, began to state the purpose of his ..oil ir,,. v , i t. m j, j x , Tn't its been coming to see you now? ' ,.x it.Bjamee, "It must be," she replied, pausing mt ii T -at. , , , , ,1 mischievously, as if she did not know 1 fl ?be rxlness with which she had, the exact time to the day, a ycar, yea him away died now like a spark inyhow, isn't it ?" "It was two years ago yesterday." "Is it, indeed?" she said, in captious astonishment. "I wouldn't have thought it" 1 "Mary," ho said, in mild censure, ' "I'm serious to-night, and I'd like you to be, too. I think you remember ai well as I do t hat it's two years since tbij first niaht I hrono-ht rnn h nm n frrtm the protracted meeting in Templeton.' X have told yon often that I love you; and want you for my wife, but yon) have been pleased to turn away thd subject, and I see you are disposed ti hold mo off to-night. I want to te: you that I como to get yes or no. " He paused, and she looked up in recj wonder at the decisive tono marking the last statement arv -r, - -1 , . , , ,, Ycs, I m in dead earnest to-nitrht. 1 . "; vr-"bi, he continued. "What is your anewer? 9I tJle ,rolit vam,t Dus Uow 1 There was no sound save the click-; know jt vas Brown looking in. Ho ing of her knitting-needles but ehd heard Mr. Blake call him a coward, and gave hsr head an independent toss,; be has pushed him into the gully for and pursing her lips in like spirit, sho tjmt and other reasons. Go and do replied I your duty." "And suppose I don't choose to givd 1 The accusation was as a draft of air you any answer to-night?" Mupon their sraonlderinjj hatred of "Well, no answer this evenin? will 1 Brown. Tho whitmora of the Ufa he i a V 1 1 l 1 - to find out If yon can love mo a3 aj husband, and if you cannot tell mo) now I'll think you don't want me, and' I'll nevtr ask you again." ; "Very well," r,he said willfully, "you needn't I'm not so anxious to ca ta rempleton to lio auyuuw. a entit led here. Thero are plenty of young nen who'd be glad enough to com lere to live an father wishes. Yoa are; ;ho only one that refuses to, nnd I'd mre no ono is trying to cotnpt"! you.', Why, even Reginald Brows, with all his money and his fine house, was c er- this afternoon, end told me ho wr,3 v L!l ing to como any time," "Reginald Brown," ho cxokin-ci jontemptuoualy. Brown was tit) richest young mtm of the neighborhood, and t&arefoTO conr siaWad 1'irtrrt -r- I that Mary Graham would never marry ' I RladrA an Inn cr aa ttiAVA van a chance on P"8 Brown, and the former weli e" f ch Pmlv0n' ,BrOWn 4 Jf West f or a number of years, nd ?r had ?a P f Tdd .U not. fTimtnal, doings there, but, in view of his financial worthiness they remamedl whers and finally dted away .'"J0?,; said the girl, a note of alarm escaping; aer. 'Ho was here to-day, as I said,' and he is very bitter against you. He did not threaten you openly, but ho many things to show that he hates Bnd hat ke means to be even with you for the snub you gave him at the me ek' 3 . . , "UI1H lUO Ul CU.HU, anirrilv. "to come with his threats to a woman. Why doesn't he come to me and make them?" "Reginald Brown is a man not to be defied," Mary said, putting down her knitting to conceal the trembling of her hands, "and you had best not be bo outspoken. If he should hear you, you might regret it" "Pshaw," he cried impatiently, "J'W not afraid of him. If you want him -Mary, just say so ; don't try to scare me away." ' 10"HU uuuml . V.J 1! Tl. cuw . n-rmTt1ngto scare you away. Mr- to h probably the same right to consideration as you. .He here to-day, ns I have said, just as fcr try to get B flnRl n' Pm dii y i?1 rheMkedWive:. .. ' . you rign. 10 b r xus fwU teU you anyhow I gave him fh.e,8me Bnswer . Pvo ou- I ake. m7 tln to Mer- 1 J00 to anyone until I am I'eady. I have no answer to give you to8ht- That is your answer ' W4nB X0MAawJL7'Ai t k at om toUe, and Talked trd rhe.door' DeeP despondency waa up- nr. fa on his face as he turned there, and said: ' "Mary, I see it all now. You love Brown. You love him when he comes to you, trying to win you by threats of a rival. That isn't manly." . "Haven't you done just as much? You have called him names to-night" "He deserves them. I don't fear bis threats and I'm going to leave you to him. I'll take the liberty, though, of saying that you'll never be happy with him. I repeat that he is a cow ard. Good-bye." He turned again, and, with sudden impulse she moved one hasty step toward him, but determination came back to her face, and she restrained ter mpuke and let him go out Ha hastened down the walk to the road, and turned aside into the path leading : past lilackman s Uully. , Mary walked back to the chair and resumed her knitting, but soon let it fall to the floor. She was restless ; looking into the fire a moment, then rising and walking to and fro. Once she put on her shawl and a red hood and stepped to the door, but there she stopped, took them off, and with a forced laugh said: "Nonsense, it was only imagination, or the frost on the pane," and sat down again by the fire. r "Of course it was only the frost," the repeated. "I am like a child. But I didn't do wrong. If he is so in dependent about not wanting to como iiere to live, I can be independent,' oo. And then the way he demanded lay answer. I just won't stand it, and I'll " 1 1 She was interrupted by the distant crunch of tho frozen snow under run ning steps. They came rapidly near-; k-r, and when they turned into thd yard, she leaped up and stood ready to receive the comer. Her father huri ned V1' fT V startled. . ?f a bed readf ""ftj : ha.8al,Lt.. Te5e. taTe terrlbH doings this night , I 'orbodingly. I 'Vti wil I 1rTim nnn m tnan . iou. wm A man haa AVI V U4 AilV" DVVUs been thrown over into Blackman'a Gully. . As I was coming home I saw hiin lying part way down the steep j tide, where he had lodged against ai tree. It's mighty lucky it's moon- 1 light, or he'd have frozen to death, ifl he's not already. . I roused the neigh-j bars and they're bringing him here.: Be quick and prepare the bed." : J "Father," she asked, tremulously I catching his hands, "tell me right '"t J'8 James; I know u s James. , , uu me ueBxtn, uuu gavo place so sii anxiety which would have rendered her helpless to get ready for his comingf bad not her father sternly bade her1 obey. ! The unconscious man was brought in! and placed in the bed. While aj physician, who had accompanied the turners, was examining his injuries,! KT fTl - , a! J a - . . - 1 was thoroughly active and earnest) now, and calling their attention in the titting-room, sho said : ; "Men, Reginald Brown haa donej this. I know it He was here this afternoon and he threatened Mr.i Blake. Mr. Blake was here to-night,' wd when I told him of Brown's threats' he called him a coward. At the mo-! ncnt he called him a coward I saw a, I- - 41 Z .1 at T aia ' hhd au buo nuiuuw lucre. aoio. 7-1 V- 1, . .- -. , , , , loll ot tll tim it Iraq n-ilv iha ilutia ! . . . . had led in tho West sounded again in their ears as loud corroborating voices. There wac not a man in the crowd to whom James Bloke hod net shown his fairness and generosity. Of course the scoundrel Brown had committed this deed. Ho had thought to cover the act under tho probability that a roan could easily slip into tho gully on such an icy night. One of the men, a burly, resolute fellow, who had often denounced Brown, constituted himself loader and marched tha crowd off to terown'e residence. Notwithstanding hia protestations ol ' innocence, he was . rudely taken from ! Lhe house, hurried before Justice, and lodged in jail to await the result of Blake's injuries. These wore a broken log and rib, and aa internal QiS7. Nation tho doxtijcffl"""''' perious. In addition,- he-hadbeei almost frozen. Had he not prov identially lodged against a tree, h would have been dashed to pieces ol the rocks in the gully, or, escaping these, would surely have perished it the awful cold of the night The nar rowness of the escape sent a shuddel through all the community, and as th facta of to case were freely and closelj discussed, opinion as to Brown's guili became fixed, and indignation increased as the horrors ot a lonely death is Blackman's Gully were graphically de tailed. Meanwhile, with remorseful solici tude, Mary Graham watched ovei James through the long hours of un consciousness. He was near death; but at last one day, when she and hei father sat by the hearth, talking il alternate hope and despair, the doctoi came down from the sickroom and told them that the young man would livej thai he had just come out of a quiet sleep ; and that, in view of the serious ness of the charge against Brown, s question as to his guilt would not harm the sufferer. Mary and her father ascended to tin lickroom, and James feebly welcome them. "James,- 'said the farmer, "do not excite yourself at the question I am jftoing to ask. You know, I suppose, that you were found down in Black; fian's Gully. A man is in jail accused f pushing you down, and a word from you will decide his guilt. Did Regi nald Brown push you into the gully?" ! "Brown push me into the gully?". Blake repeated, weakly, but in great surprise. "Why, whul made yon think that? Of course he did not 1 was careless, and I slipped on the ici and fell dowa myself." Farmer Graham hastened away, an James, reaching out his trembling hand, asked: "Mary, I know I mustn't talk, but how about my answer ? Are you ready yet?" "Oh, James, how cruel I was t you," was all she could say ; but h knew from it what the joyful answei was an answer which he was only toe glad to meet by relinquishing his re solution not to come and live on the farm. Yankeo Blade. Cast-iron Pillars. "Have you ever noticed," said a St jLouisan, "those massive iron pillan bow standing erect in the basement ol the new Planters' House? Well, did you ever stop to think of tho immense weight they will be compelled to sup port steadily for many, many years! Eh, you have? But I suppose you ive thought the manufacturers jusf Ede those pillars and sold them with i knowing anything about how much ight they would bear or how long jthey would bear it. Let me tell you hbout that. ! "Those pillars are cast in the 6urut manner as cast-iron stoves by running the liquid metal into sand molds ; but blongside of each pillar is cast an iron bar from the same metal. The bar if precisely an inch square and five and one-half feet in length. When cold it is subjected to a very simpls test Each end of the bar is placed upon a table and weights are suspended from the centre by a rope. It must bear a tensile weight of 500 pounds to the square inch. The test may begin with 400 pounds and be gradually in creased until the bar is found to be perfectly supporting tho required weight If it breaks, for instance, at 180 or 490 pounds, then the pillar cast from the pot of metal which- cast the bar is discarded, broken up and put into the pot again, with more pig iron added. The pillars, you know, are largely made from scrap iron, and the manufacturers cannot know the strength of the cast until it is tested. The addition of pig iron, in the event Df failure, brings the cast up to thr standard. "Six or ci. t of the pillars designed for the new i'lanters' House had to be recast in this way." St Louis Repub lic Growth of a Snake's Battle. The growth of the rattle of the rat tlesnake has been studied by Doctor Feokistow, who finds that tne rattle is frequently shed; and, after being shed (his snakes wero kept in a very warm room), in three or four mouths two rattles were present, their appear ance having nothing to do with the easting of the skin. The snakes were made to register the vibrations of the rattle on smoked paper, and it was found that tho vibration was a com' pound one, consisting of the vibration f the tail as a whole, and of the rattle independently of the toil vibrations. The approximate figures of vibrations aere for the tail seventy-five, of the rattle 110 a minute. New York Inde pendent. Rather Knowing Cat. J. W. Moses of Megquier Hill, has an unusually intelligent cat, called Isaac, who Is very fond of fresh fish. Recently while the cat was lying on the floor a member of the family said to It: "Isaac, do you want us to go a-flshing?" and then added, "if we had a frog for bait we would go. " On this old Isaac got up with a knowing look and trotted out, only to return la a few moments with a good-ized frog, which he had caught ia a swalr near by. Portland Press. Etching. When etching is done by the aid of electricity a wire la soldered to the plate to be etched, by means of which aa electric current Is passed through the etching solution, which is made much more dilute than In the case oi; ordinary etching. This action Is much Increased la Intensity, and, in many cases, acids, which under ordi nary circumstances are insert, can be used, as, for Instance, copper and weak sulphuric acid. Sow men would never marry it they could not marry a grass widow. A UADaSa 0,UE8CT0ir. Teacher "For what is Switzerland noted!" Pupil (after a pause) "SweiUer k&se." "Yes, but for something,, much mors grand, awe inspiring and majestic. Try again.'' (Making another effort) 'Limburg cr." Chicago" Tribune. ... NEW TROLLEY TRAVELER. Device Whlofe Avalds Much laconvsa- laaes sad Dolmy. It is a half-hourly occurrence with very electric trolley car that the irolley wheel leaves the wire, usually it a curve or crossing, stalling the r and not infrequently causing a pretty close approach to profanity on the part of the conductor, whose luty it is to bring everything back to ihip shape. It is somewhat to be wondered at, therefore, that inven tive progress has not yet given birth to any thoroughly satisfactory device for maintaining uninterrupted com munication between a trolley wire ind a car. Putting projecting prougs OERtfAN TROLLEV WHEEL. SUBSTITUTE. n each side of the trolley wheel, to ratch the wire as the wheel tends to dip off, has been tried at Chicago with fairly goo 1 results, but, after ill, this expedient represents oulj a partial solution df the problem. On sue German road, built at the city of Barmen, the conventional trolley wheel has been entirely abandoned, Its place being taken by an oblong metal frame, the upper side of which beirs against the under portion of the conducing wire. The frame is supported by something analogous to 1 trolley role, and the theory of action apparently is that the width af the frame will permit considerable lateral movement without breaking contact. OF INTEREST TO OLD SOLDIERS. Ilonament to the Andrews Haider at Chattanooga. This monument Is Ohio's tribute to the Andrews raiders, and is placed in the national cemetery at Chatta nooga, Tenn., to commemorate the bravery ot twenty-two Union sol iiers, who stole the locomotive "Gen- MONUME.NT TO SHE HAIDERS. jral" from the Confederates at Big Shanty, Ga., in April, 1862. It was their intention to seize a locomotive ind train of cars and then dash back In the direction of Chattanooga, cut ting the telegraph wires and burning the bridges behind them as they ad vanced until they reached their own lines. Tho twenty-two men were :aptured and placed in jail at Chat tanooga. Their leader, James J. Andrews, was tried and executed as 1 spy. Twelve of the number were transferred to tho prison at Knox ville, and seven cf them were ar raigned before a court martial, charged with being spies. All the prisoners were rirujvcd to Atlanta, Ga. On Juno 18, 1S62, their prison door was opened and the death sen tence of the seven who were tried at Knoxville was read to them. They were at once tied and carried out to execution. The remaining fourteen made their escape from prison in Oc tober, 1862. Six reached the Union licci, six were recaptured, and of the remaining two nothing Is known Many of tho visitors to the World's Fair will remember seeing the old lo comotive Gewral' in the Trans nortatlon Building. Asparagus. Asparagus, deservedly a favorite vegetable, was extensively cultivated by the ancient Bomans, but was not introduced into England before 1660. In some parts of Europe the seeds are used as a substitute for coffee, and a spit ltuous liquor is made from the ripe berries. Asparagus is both littaic and diueretlc, and its roots ) ere once extensively used in medi cine. The young tender sprouts oi stems, from six to ten laches long, are the edible parts, and those that are entirely green are the most ten der and delicate. The white aspara gus is, as a rule, very tough, the tips alone being eatable. In some old recipe books directions are given fot boiling asparagus one hour, but this Is a great mistake. Twenty or thirtj minutes Is long enough to cook it sufficiently. Girls in Case. Girls are said to be treated In a curious way in the Pacific island ol New Britain. From two or three rears old until they become of age they are kept In cages, made of palm leaves. They are taken out once ev ery day to be washed, but la all oth er respects this kind of imprisonment Is very strict. In spite of this seem ingly harsh usage, however, they grow up hardy and healthy. But it may be doubted if this custom is really senerally observed by the is!andcrs. Vniqoe Record. Bev. Dr. Scarrow, of Russell, Kan., within one week recently had ser vices for a man whose body was to tally consumed by fire, for a man who lied in the penitentiary, for a mur lered man, and finally over the bod ies of three murderers lynched by a nob. Lost Ilia Last Friend. 1 That's a well-developed industry," iuddenly remarked the man who tries to be smart "To what do you re fer?" iuquired the unwary acquaint ance. "To the traffic in petroleum." And that is how be came to lose his ast friend. Washington Star. HIS HOEICOH. wr t yvv , t. ,1,. ,tn B. Got "I am very woUHiw.-j Puck. I --- - ' " ' COW3 AND HIRED MEN. Points Wall Worth the Attention of Fi ery Dairy Man. Every discerning farmer, who hat kept cows, knows in a general waj that there is a great difference in th amount of milk they will get from the same cow. As between two hired men in milking ten or twelve cows of equal flow, one man will be worth double what the other Is in his in fluence over his cows. Until Dr. Babcock made a special experiment on this matter but little was really accurately known as to the extent of ' this personal Influence la affecting the profits of cows. How much ve have learned on old, old questions the past tea years! The Doctor made a careful test, which was published In the Dairyman some years ago, but which should be mentioned frequent ly, on account of Its importance to the dairy farmer. It is important that the size and scope of the mat ter become a living, vital principle with him, guiding him in his own I treatment of his cows and in the ed ucation of the men he employs. A hired man who is well educated in the handling of cows, who has a quick brain, a kind heart, a patient man ner, and a skillful hand Is worth double the amount that a man of opposite character will cost. Dr. Babcock found that one milker obtained from four cows 26.2 pounds of butter fat in seven days. From the same cows the week following, another milker obtained 21.8 pounds. Mere was a difference of nearly four pounds and one liaU of butter fat depending for its value, of course, on tho price of butter. Neither of these milkers was abusive, and both milked the cows equally dry. By this convincing experiment any dairyman can see how important it is to tike especial pains to educate the hired man, as well as himself, to an under standing of. what he has at risk. The usual number of cows rriiked by one person in a largo dairy Is from eight to fifteen. In Dr. Babcock's experiment if butter was twenty-five cents a pound one man was worth at least twenty-eight cents a cow a week more than tho other. When a man is milking, say ten cowj, this would amount to $-60 a week', or nearly $12 a month. This is but one of the hundreds of fine points that throng the pathway of dairy farming. It shows so clearly that this unthink ing, unreadlng, unskillful way of handling cows that so many farmers practice can not pay ia the nature of things. Hoard's Dairyman. Xo Advantage. A clerical looking gentleman ot the "Private Secretary" pattern was among the arrivals at the St. Cloud yesterday. "While he was registering, Frank Lincoln, the globe-trotting humorist, watchcJ him curiously. At the proper moment he stepped up to the hotel register and read the newly signed name, "G. Rupert Coxe, England." Turning to him, Lincoln extended his hand, and said: "How do you do, Mr. Coxe. Let me wel come you to America." "Keally, you must pardon me," re plied tho Englishman, very timidly and evidently doubting his new ac quaintance, "but I really " "Oh, don't you remember me? We met at Luxor, up tho Nile, and after ward traveled up the Mandalay t gether." "Ah, yes; ah yes," drawled the En fcllshman. "You were giving enter tainments, imitating American cock tails, and such things. I am reall.' glad to meet you." "That wa3 a horrible ride up the Mandalay," remarked Lincoln. "Very beastly," was the reply. "Just think, twenty-four hours to go 316 miles. Well, you'll see tho difference in this country," said Lin coln, throwing out his American chest. "Our trains sometimes travel that many miles In an hour." "Ah, yes, I know," answered the Englishman quickly, "but unfortu nately you generally arrive in pieces." New York Telegram. Rarest Stamps Tor Collectors. At the philatelic section in th rotunda in Vienna, a Swedish col lector exhibited a very rare stamp a "the" (Instead of tre) skiliings, yel low, of 1853 which misprint was at once purchased by the Field Inter national Postage Stamp Museum for the sum of 2,400 florins, (11,108 Uni ted States currency) tho highest price ever paid thus far for au ob llteratcd European stamp. The rarest and most costly postage stamp any where is, up to the present day, the British Guiana one-cent of 1856, which is valued at 30,000 marks, and of which only a single specimen is known to exist In the unique collec tion of M. PhiUp Ferrari, Paris, j Kest in value (15,000 marks) is the : two-cent Sandwich Islands stamp, i first emission and a British Guiana i two-cent stamp, of 1850, estimated at 6,000 marks; while Mauritius Post Office Id. and 2d. (non-obliterated1 recently sold In London for 14,00( marks a price which might be ob talned even for obliterated specimens ' American Register, Paris. lie Explained. In Washington County, Miss., Which is liable to annual inundation from the father of waters, dwells old Jesse D . On one occasion he was witness in a case, and prefaced hit answer to every question with th Irrelevant remark: "Wa'al, I wai desp'rately overflowed that year." Annoyed by the constant petition of this remark, the examining counsel finally said, in a rather sneering tone: "Mr. D , will you please state to the court and Jury what you mean by being 'desp'rately over flowed?'" Straigthening himself up to his full height six feet three and with a drawl of corresponding length, he replied: "Wa'al, sir, I mean thar war too much water for wagonin' and not enough for boatin'." The counsel gave It un, How the Sultan ot Turkey Dines. The Sultau of Turkey dines in solemn (Ute in a room overlooking the Bos phorus. - Ho sits on a divan sad uses neither table, plates, knife or fork, but only a spoon and his fingers, with which implements he fishes out his food from series of little saucepans. He generally has a large retinue in attendance, but he always eats and dilnks alone, not even a few of his favorite wives brssilngbreid ft. ?1tny,'Vnt-lr"AVert!Mr.V SUPPOSE WE SJITLE. NUMEROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. fleasnnt Incidents Occurring the Worlj Over Sayings That Are Cheerful to the Old or Toons; Fanny Selections That Everybody W1U Enjoy Reading. Her KItsI. Mrs. Dearlyloved Boo-hoo-hoo! 1 im so miserable! I shall get a di rorce. Mrs. Bynthayer Why, my iear, what's the matter? Mrs. Dearlyloved (with a fresh outburst) 1 got hold of Charlie's exicnsc book last night and since Easter bo las spent JltiO on some "Kittle" he's been spending his evenings with. 'udge. Suspicion. nicks Did you hear about tha jow a Howbig's house? Mrs. II. dis rovered a letter in his pocket in a ady's handwriting. Wicks The leuce she did! Do you know, I al ways suspected Howbig. Hicks It was a letter that Mrs. Howbig wrote ten days before and gave him o mail. Boston Transcript. Eminently Fitted. Mr. Peighwcakly 1 should think, Jrs. Slimdie.', that you would bo nore successful if you turned your soardinghouse into a hotel for in ralids. Mrs. Sllmdiet What kind if invalids ought 1 to take in? Mr. Pelghweakly Well, you miubt run u anti-fat sanitarium, for instance- Hobson's Choice. Father (who is on the point of fall ng, But, young man, will you bo ible to take care of my daughter in lhe way she has been living. Young Han I'll guarantee iu, sir, or return, (ho girt Father Er well never, ulnd the guarantee, you can have the' rirl, anyway. Exchange. Would Not Do So Again. Mrs. Goodc Aren't you the tramp sho was here this morning? Odorous Jliver Yessum. "Well, I missed a ke I had left in the window." "I look it, mum." "Didn't you know Jetter than that?" "No, muni, not ;hen. I hadn't eat it then, mum." -r.ew York World. ile Was Mistaken.' "Will you kindly pass me the but er?" said a guest at the hotel to a xnipous looking man on tho other ilde. "I'm a gentleman," he retortcc', i-i he beckoned to tho waiter. "That's what I thought when 1 asked 'ou," said the first man, quietly. Exchange. Overneard In the llenhouae. Speckled Dominlcker I learned lomethingawfulaboutMiss Plymouth tfock to-day. Mrs. Leghorn Whytc For gracious sake, what was it? "She prides herself nn her family :onnectlons you know, and she hasn't my. She was hatched in an incu lator." When They Are Out Late. Returned Traveler What you night call the society girl among the lative savages wear rings in their loses as well as in their cars. Wag cigh That's nothing. Some of the lociety girls here have rings around iheir eyes. No Money There. First Burglar Hark! 1 hear .some lian talking. Second Burglar What's he saying? "That ho will aever bet on another horse race as one as he lives." "Let's get out of this. No money here; he's lost cv very ent''' Exchange. An Awful Crime. A Kentucky paper which slated that tho courts had decided tho ques tion in regard to separate coaches for :olorcd people "on purely coonstitu tional grounds," tries to lay tlin blame on the compositor. Indiana oolis Journal. Elevated. Tapa," prattled thegolden-haire'l ooy, "is it true that 1 was born in a seventh-story flat?" Yes. my child," -nswered the father and then after a moment's thought he added: "You came high but we had to have you.' Truth. Hard X.nck. rusty Baggies Wat's the matter, Weepln'? Weeping Watson I' vo Just bad de orfullest nightmare. I dreamed I found a barrel of beer wld the bung all out and (sob9) couldn't Ind no straw. New York SVorld. Better. First Politician I can say this, that our party conducted the cum. paign in an honest, fair, and straight forward way. What more can you say of your pcrty? Second Poiiticiar We won. Boston Transcript. Like a Cat. 'I wish you were a cat," said Bar low, ruefully, as Mrs. Barlow stepped on his foot in the danc . "Why so?" queried madam. "The cat aiways lands an her own feet," said Barlow Harper's Bazar. Under the Weather Hicks Your milk was pretty bad last night. Mrs. Hicks I expected that thunder shower to affect it some. Hicks Thundei? Our can was hi by a cloud bursty They've Chanted it, lhe New Young Man Then thert Is no hope foy me? There is no hopt for you in the way you mean. Bui but I will be a brother to you. New York World. -. Of the Smart Set. Teacher Her dress was plain Can you express that idea in mor polite language? Little Miss (one ol the 400) Her gown was ghastly. Exchange. Great Grief. A lady had Just just lost her bis band. A gentleman, living cexl door, on calling to 6eo her, fount! her, to his great surprise, playing oi the harp, and said: "Dear me! 1 sxpected to find you in deep distress." "Ah!" the lady pathetically replied, "you should have seen me yesterda: af ternooB. M L' Arlequin. The newest fcience ia seismology, the study ot earthquake. il
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