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THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8
B. P. BOHWEIER.
K4ltr J Proparteter.
VOL. XLVIJI.
MIFFLINTOW1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 0. 1894.
NO. 43
REV. DR. TALMAGli
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 8Vtf
DAY SBHMON.
Subject: "The Tax Collectors
version."
Con-
Titt: "This day ts salvation came to this
honse." Lake xix., 9.
Z-tcc'iens was a politician ant a faxsath
erer. TT had an honest calling, but tht
opportunity 'or "stealing" was so Innre
the temptation was too mti'-h tor him. The
T!IMenv ho "ma a sinner" that i. intho
ru'lie sense, now manr fln men have been
m'ne.l by official position ! Tt Is an awful
thinir foranv man to seek office under rov-
rnnient unless his principles of Integrity
nrn rteeplv flxd. M iiny a man upright In an
Insignificant position has made shipwreck In
a irrent one. A far as T can tell, in the city
o' Jericho this Zaccheus helonged to what
rniirht be called the "ring." They had things
theirown way. fiiccessfully avoiding expo
Mire, if hy no other way perhaps by hiring
Fomebodr to break in and steal the Toneb
er. Notwithstanding his bail reputation
there were streaks of good abont him, as
there are aotit almost every mnn. Gold Is
fonni in nnirtz, and sometimes In a small
Iienvntaire.
Jesus was coming to town. The people
tnrne 1 out en masse to see Him. Here He
comes, the Lord of glory, on foot, dnst cov
ered and travel weary, limping along the
r, enrrving the griefs and woes of the
world. He looks to be sixty years of age,
when He is only about thirty. Zaccbens was
a short man and could not sea over the peo
ple's heads while standing on the ground,
o he o? up into a syenrr.-e tre that swan;
'ts nrm clear over the road. Jesns advanced
nml'l th; Tild excitement of the. surging
crow'. The most honoralilo and popular
men ff the citv are looking on and trying to
pain His attention. Jesus. Instead of re
cur iimr them, looks no at the littte man In
tt.o free and siys : "Zaecheus. come down.
I am pofng home with you." Everybody
wns disgust a 1 to think that Christ would go
home with so dishonorable a man.
I see Christ entering the front door of the
rnne of Zuccheus. The King of heaven
tin 1 earth its down, and as He looks around
on the pine sn i the family He pronounces
the tx ne.lli't'on of the text. "This day is ssl
v:'fon come to this house.
.icrrieii na'i monnien i ne sreamore tree
it of mTo inon sitivenes. He wanted to
on
se how tbis stranger looker the color of
Hiaevcs. the length of His hair, the contour
or His eitnre. the height of nis stature.
Aii-i tii.iuv i-'OT'ie in mis iiny get up in-toihe:re-et
curiosity or speculation to see
Christ. T'lev ask a "thousand qu-er ques
tions aliout His divinity, about God's sov
ereignty and the eternal decrees. They
speculate and eriticis nnd hang onto the
ontside limb of a great sycamore, but they
must come down from that if they want to
l saved. We cannot be saved as philoso
phers, but as little children. You cannot go
to heaven by way of Athens, but byw.iyol
II tnlepem.
Wiiv be perplexed about the way sin cams
Into the world when the great question Is
bow we shall get sin driven out of our hearts.
How many spend theirtime in criticism and
religions speculation ! They take the rose
of Sharon or the lillv of the valley, pull ont
the anther, scntfer the corolla and say. "Is
that the beautiful flower of religion that you
are talking at ontV" No flower is beautiful
after you have torn it nil to pieces. The path
to heaven is so plain that a fool need not
make nny mistake about If. and yet mea
stop an I cavil. Suppose that, going toward
the Pacific slope, 1 had resolved that I would
stop until I could kill all the grizzly beara
and the panthera on either side of the way.
I would never have got to the Pacific; coast.
When I went out to hunt tho grizzly bear,
the grizzly bear would have come out to
hnnt me. Here is a plain road to heaven.
Men ssy thev will not take a step on It until
they can make game of all the theories that
bark nnd growl at them from the thickets.
They torget the fact that, as they go Jont to
hunt the theory, the theory comes oat to
hnnt them, ami so they perish.
lr. Ludlow, my professor in the theo
logical seminary, taught me a lesson I shall
never forget. While putting a variety of
questions to him that were perplexing ha
turned upon me, somewhat in sternness,
but more in love, and said, "Jlr. Talmage,
vou will have to let God know some things
t hat you don't." We tear our bands on the
spines of the cactus instead of feasting our
eye on its tropical bloom. A great com
pany of pople now sit swinging them-
Bf!ive UU (U9B)Ui:ilira lien ui uinu uuur,
and I cry to you : Zaecheus come down !
Come down out of your pride, out of your
inquisltiveness, out of your speculation.
You cannot ride Into the gate of heaven
with coach and four, postilion ahead and
lackey behind. 'Except ye become as little
children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of
God. God has chesen the weak things of
the world to confoundthemlglity. Zioctieus,
come down, come down !"
I notice that this taxgatharer accompanied
his surrender to Christ with the restoration
of property that did not belong to him. Ho
says. "If I have taken anything by falsa ac
cusation, I restore fourfold" that Is, If I
have taxed any man for 1 10,000 when he had
only f 3000 worth of property and put in my
own pocket the tax for the last $3000, I will
restore to him fourfold. If I took from him
tlO, I will give him 4n. If I took from him
tto. I will give him 1K0.
Hundreds ot thousands of dollars have
been sent to Washington during the past few
rears as conscience monev. ' I innnoM
that money was sent by nvn who wanted to
be Christians, but found they could notuntil
they made restitution. There Is no need of
our trying to come to Christ as long ns we
keep iraudulently a dollar or a farthing la
our possession that belongs to another, tiup
po you have not money enough to pay
yo:.r debts and for the sake of defrauding
your creditors you put your property in
your wim's name. You might cry until the
It. - -d judgment for pardon, hut you would
r -t - ;t it. without first making restitution.
In times of pro-perity it is r'giit, ngaiust a
r-unv day, to assign prop-rty to your wife,
I ut if, in time of perplexity and tor the sake
of defrauding your creditors, you makesaab
esML'nmcut you become a culprit before
Go.l, an 1 you may ns well stop praying un
til you have made restitution. Or suppose
one man loans another money on bon i or
Hiortgnge, with the understanding that the
mortuage can lie quiet for several years, but
as soon as the mortgage is given commences
foreclosure the sheriff mounts the auction
block, and tho property is struck down at
half price, and tho mortgagee buy it in.
The mortgagee started to get the property
at half price and is a thief and a robber.
Until he makes restitution there is no mercy
lor him.
You say : "I cannot make restitution. The
partus whom I swindled are gone." Then I
s iy, '-Take the money up to the American
liiblo Society and consecrate it to Go 1."
Zuccheus was wisa when he disgorge 1 his
unrighteous gains, and it was hisilrst step in
the rignt direction.
The way being plain, Christ walked Into
the house of Zaecheus. He becomes a differ
ent man ; his wife a different woman ; the
children aredifferent. Oh, It makes agreat
chani in any house when Christ comes into
it ! How many beautiful ho nes are repre
sented among you? There are pictures on
the wall, there is music in the drawing-room,
and luxuries in the wardrobe, and a full sup
ply in the pantry. Even if you were half
asleep, there is one word with which I could
wake you and thrill you through an;
through, and that word is "borne V There
are also houses of suffering represented In
which there are neither pictures nor ward
rore nor adornment only oae room, anl a
plaincot, or a bunk In acorner. Yet it is the
place where your loved ones dwell, and
your whole nature tingles with satisfaction
wb' n yon think of it and call it home.
Though the world may scoff at n and pnr
te u. and all the day we be tossed about,
"t eventide we sail into the harbor or home.
Thcnch there be no rest for us In the busy
world, nnd we go trudging about, bearing
burdens that well nigh crush ns. there Is a
refuge, and it hath an easy chair in wbtcn
we mny sit. and a lounge where we may lie,
and a serenity of peace In which we may re
ros. and that refuge is home. The English
soldiers, sitting on the walls around Bevas.
topol, one night heard company or mu-
"icians playing "tiome, dwwji
Home, and
it 1 mm ht the whole iriiT broke oat Into
sobs and wailing, to great was their home-
s'cl-re-s. Cod pity the poor, miserable
wretch who has no home !
Now. uppos Christ should come Into
your honse. First the wife and the mother
would feel His nresence. Religion almost
flwnys begins there. Tt easier for women
to become Chr'ss;.".r.s tl-an Vr tis men. They
.'o not fight so against God. If womnn
fcn-pd man orlcinally away from holiness,
row she tempts him back. Bhe may not
ke sny fnss abont If. but Fomehow every
body In the honse knows that there Is a
c"inn-e In the wife and -lother. She chide;
the children trore r"-itiy. Her face some
time lights up v'.ih an nnearth'v glow.
8he goes Into some unoccupied room for a
little while, an 1 the husband goes not after
hr. nor nb hr se t- there. Heknowt
w'thcut sskfpg that has been praying.
The husband nofrs that herfacels brighter
than on th"iv when, years aito. thev stool
ett'.o vrri-ige a'lar. and he knows lhat
J-tn. has been rmttin? upon her "brow a
n-r-Mh sweeter than the orange blossoms.
K'-c pnts the children to 1ed. not satisfied
with the formal prayer that they once offered,
but rhe lingers now and tells them of Jesus
wr.o Messed little eMMren end o' the goo I
place where thev all hope to b" a! l ist. An 1 .
then she k'ssrs ' -i rood nlt'ht w'th some,
thing that th" child feels to be a he-iven'v
benediction something that shall hn'd onto
the bov a'fer he has I ecome a man fortv of
fl t v years of ecr". for there Is soretblng fu a
coo i. lov'ni-. Christinn toother's kiss that
fl'tv rears cannot wipe off the cheeif.
Now the bnehnnl Is ditress l ar l an
noyed and almost vsft. If sh- wonl 1 on'v
speak to hi-n he wo:tM "'.loir her un." H
does not liko to sav anvt'.iin? aSout it. but
he knows that she has a hop thst he his
not ant a ptc" tint he has no. H knows
that, dyin? as he now Is. he emnot goto the j
same place. He cannot .tand it anv longer, j
Rome Sunday n'ght. asthersit inthe church j
Md by side, th floods o" bi. con1 brvilc
forth. He wants to iriv. 1 ut 'n--s tof kno:r
how. He hides his face lest oue of his j
worldly friends see him, but Ool's s-'r t
arouses him, melts him. overwhelm' h'm.
And they go home, hns'nn 1 an I wife, in
silence, until they get to their roo n, w en ,
he cries out, "Oh, pray for m !'" Am! th-y
kncel down. They cannot pe:iV. T'i 1
word will not come. But Go 1 dors not wnt !
any words. He looks down an 1 answers oh
and groan anil outrunning tend-rnes. That
night they do not sleep nny for tnlkin-j of all
the years waste 1 au 1 of that Sivonrwiio
ceased not to call. Before morning th"
have lnld their plans for a new life. Morn
ing comes. Father and mother drscend
from the bedroom. The children do not
know what Is the matter. They never saw
father with a Bible in his han I before. He
says. "Come children ; I want yo j all to s't
down while we read nnl pr.iv." The chil
dren look at ench other and an almo-t rii--
t posed to lau'-a, put tn-y s o tn:r p ir.-n'a
. are in deep earnest. It is a short e.ianrer
that the father reads. He is a good re t
at other time, but now he does not get oi
tnuob. He sees so much to linger on. His
voice tremble". Everything is so strangely
Dew to him. They kneel that is, the father
nnd mother do. but tho children come down
one by one. They do not know that thev
must. It is some time before they ail get
down. The sentences are broken. Tho
phrases are a little ungrammatical.
The prayer begins nbruptly and ends ab
ruptly ; but, ns far as I can an Jerstnnd what
they mean. It Is about this : "O Saviour,
helpns We do not know how to pray.
Teach a '. Wo cannot live any longer in the
way we have been living. We start to-day
for heaven, nelp us to take these children
along with us. Forgive us for all the past.
Strengthen us for all the future, and when
the journey is over take us where Jesus is
nnd where the little babe is that we lost.
Amen !" It ended very abruptly, but the
angels came out nnd leaned so far over to
listen they would have fallen off the battle
Blent bnt for a stroke of their wings and
Vied : "Hark, hark ! Bjhold, he prays P
That night there is c rap at the bedroom
door. '"Who is there?" cries the father. It
Is the ol 'est child. "What U the matter?
Are you sick?" "Xo ; I want to be saved."
Only a little while, and all the children are
brought Into the kingdom of God. And
there is great Joy in the house. Years pass
op. The telegraph goes click, click I What
is the news flying over the country? Coma
home. Father is dying!" The children all
gather. Some come in the last train. Some,
too late for the train, take a carriage across
the country. They stand around the dying
bedofflhe father. The oldest son upholds
the mother and says : "Don't cry. mother. I
will take care of you. The parting bless
ing is given. Xo long admonition, for be
has, through years, been saying to nU chil
dren all he bad to say to them. It Is a plain
"good-by !" an 1 the remark, "Iknowjou
will ail be kind to your mother." and all Is
over.
Life's duty dn-. as sinks the rlar.
Llfrht rrorn lt load, the spirit rites.
While heaven and earth combine to car
How Lle'd the 1 1 .hteous wbea he diss.
A whole family saved lorever! If the de
luge come, they are all in tho ark father,
mother, sons, daughters. Together on earth,
together In heaven. What makes it so? Ex
plain it. Ziccheu oneday took Jesus home
with him. That Is all. Salvation came to
that bous.
What sound is it I hear to-night? It I:
Jesus knocking at the door of your bouse.
Behold a stranrer at th door!
He gbtlr Kneckfl has kno-kel tKfore.
If you gazel out of voar window and satf
me going up your front steps, you would not
wait, but go yourself to open tho door. Will
yon keep Jesus standing on I In outside, His
locks wet with the dews of the night? This
dav is salvation come to thy house. The
great want of your house is not anew carpet
or costlier picture! or richer furniture. It is r
Jesus
Up to forty years men work for them
selves, after that for their children. Now,
what do you propose to leave them. Nothing
but dollars? Alas, what an inheritance! it
Is more likuly to be a cura-j than a bl sing.
Your own common sense and observation
tell you that money, without the divine
blessing. Is a cur:". You must soon leave
your children. Your s:ioulJer3 are not so
strong as they were, and yon know that they
will soon have to carry their own burdens.
Your eyesignt is not so clear as once. They
will soon have to pick out their own way.
Your arm is not so mighty as once. They
will soon have to tight their own battles.
Oh, let it not be told on judgment day that
you let your family start without the only
safeguard the religion ot Christ. Give
yourself no rest until your children are the
sons and daught-rs ot the Lord Almighty.
Your son does just ns you do. He tries to
walk like you and to talk like you. The
daughter imitates the mother. Alas, if
father ami mother miss heaven, the children
will ! Oh, let Jesus come into your house.
Do not bolt the hail door, or the parlor
door, or the kitchen door, or the bejroom
door ag linst Him. Above all, do not bolt
your heart.
Build your altar to-night. Take the family
Bt lo lying on the parlor table. Call together
ns many of your family as may be awake.
Bead a chapter, nnd then, if vou can think
of nothing else besides the Lord's Prayer,
sav that. T.ia- will do. Heaven will hav
ut, a y,i..r ...-U-". You enu put your lr
ku uur pillow, lejiiug that, wnether yoj
Wake up in this world or the next, all u
well. In that great, ponderous book of the
judgment, where are recorded all the im
portant events of the earth, yon will read at
last the statement that this was the day
when salvation came into your boose. On.
Zaecheus, come down, come down I Jesu
is passing by 1
The natives of MahooS in the
interior of Jndin, dvo their noses bin !
jnst before entering ba'tle.
The Kepnb'ic of Mexi o eontaics
twenty seven StaU-p, trvo terri oms und
one t'ederil district.
Ducks fattened on celerpossess an
exquisite flavor stmilnr lo that of the
famous canvjsbnck of the epicure.
Minneapolis miKssawover 3o0,0ilf),.
OCO feet -of lnmbr every yesr. ocd
turn out 7 nnO.Ono barrels of flour.
1 be moon is lelieved to he the only
member of the planetary ytem wl ic'i
is without an atmosphere.
The State of Oldo spent S20,00D
in military protection d ir;ng tho r
cent strike of coal miners.
The protective pover of co wpox
inoculation against smillpox via
discovered lv Edwrd Jenner, of t.i g
land, ia 1749.
Five men can easily hold down a
lion, tut Bine are required to hold a
t tiger.
IF MOTHER WOULD LISTEN1.
If mother would listen to me, dean,
Bad would freshen tn9 faded gown.
She would sometimes take an hour's rest,
And sometimes - ir.p to town.
tVnd it shouldn't to all for the chlldrea
Tlio fun .ml tliu cheer an! the play j
With tlio patient droop on the tired mouth
Au 1 the "Jlother has had her day !
True, mother has had her day, dean.
When you won ba'ies three,
led she stepped about the farm and the
house
As busy as eTer a bee.
TF hen she rocked you all to sleep, dean,
And sent you all to school,
and wore hersalf out and did wither.
. And lived by the Golden Rule.
And so your turn has come, dears.
Her hair is growing white,
&nd her eyes are gaining the far-nv , '.V:
That peers beyond the night.
One ot these days In the mornn -
Mother will not be here ;
ghe will fade away into silence.
Tie mother so true and dear.
Then what will you do In the da j " .
And what In the gloaming dim ;
Ind father, tired, lonesome, then.
Fray, what will you do for him?
(f you want to keep your mother,
You must make her rest to-day ,
Must give her a share in the frolic,
And draw her into the play.
4nd, if mother would listen to me, de :
She'd buy her a gown of silk,
With buttons of royal velvet.
And ruffles as white as milk.
And she'd let you do the trotting.
While she sat still in her chai-;
That mother should have it bard all through,
It strikes me isn't fair.
Mnrguret E. Sangster, in the Interior.
TO THE RESCUE.
BZ RICHARD IMVTUXa.
XTILi my dyln
hour I will re
member my first
Sunday in Lon
don. In the middle ot
the week I bad
gone np on busi
ness which kept
me closely occu
pied till Saturday
night. I was unacquainted with the
city beyond the Strand, Chancery Lane
and Arundel street, in the last of which
I lived at Weldon'a, small private
hotel.
On Sunday morning came one of the
thickest fogs of the year. Misled by
the darkness of the midwinter morning
1 was late for breakfast. When I got
down to the dining-room I found only
one person, a young man of about my
own age, at the table. He had arrived
very late the night before, and was
quite unknown to me. His appearance
nnd manner attracted my attention at
once. He was tall, dark, good-looking,
courteous. Several times during
the meal, at which he only drank a cup
of coffee, he seemed on the point of
speaking to me about something. He
was restless and overwrought. I felt
strangely drawn toward him, and ex
perienced a feeling of relief when at
last he said .
' 'My name is Victor Grame. The
landlord here knows me. Are you
going to church this morning? The
rest of the people have set off already."
w were alone.
"My name," I said, "is Marcus Fall.
I had intended going to Newington,
but I could no more find my way there
than through the centre of the earth to
New Zealand."
"There is," said he, "a part of Lon
don to which if - do not find my way in
a couple of hours I shall be a dead man
before night. " He groaned and dropped
his head into his hands.
Xo one could mistake his words, tone,
manner.
"In that case," said I, "cf course,
the fog will not hinder you.''
"Xo, no," said he, raising his face
from his hands. "The fog will not
hinder me. I could find my way if I
were blind. It is the place where the
girl I am engaged to lives. " He turned
his pale face to the window and stared
t it with eyes that did not see.
"She is not very ill. I hone?" said L
"Xo ; not ill ; and yet she may be at
the point of death. If you have fin- '
ished vour breakfast, and can spare a
few minutes will yon walk outside?
This place suffocates me." J
hen we reached the street tho log
was so thick we could not see the house
opposite.
"lamina terrible position!" said
young Grame. "I do not know a man
in London bnt Weldon, our landlord ;
and he is too old for help. My girl's
life is in danger in danger from vio
lence." "Good Heavens!" cried L "Ir.t
aren't there the police?"
"The police!" he whispered, with n
swift trlance round and then a look of
horror in his face,
of the police would
'The mere rumor -
be fatal! fatal! .
Her life hangs on a thread." He leant
against an area railing and wrung his
hands.
In a while he roused himself, drew
his hat low over his brows, caught my
nrm, and turning toward the Ktrand,
said :
"Mr. Fall, under ordinary circum
stances it would be inexcusable to
trouble you, a stranger, with my af
fairs. Bnt the circumstances are not.
ordinory : they are extraordinary be
yond belief, beyond endurance. You
r.re young yourself. You can sympa-j
thize with me. If you permit me, I;
will tell you how I am situated. "
"l'ou may tell me with full assurance
of my sympathy and assistance, " I said.
"For twelve months," he began, "I
have been engaged to Miss Folgate,
who is now twenty years of age, and
r.:i only child. Her father, a solicitor.
i i dead. Her mother was glad to take
tho position of housekeeper at Sir Ar
thur Fennyfather's town house in
Dlt'ov Square. Miss Folgate lives with
per mother, and now ana then 1 come
up to Durham to see her. Mrs. Fol
pate i only nineteen years older than
ier daughter. She is a woman of rc
tcarkably youthful appearance and
great personal attractions, romantic
tad painfully anxious to marry again.
"For some time, a very 6tylish and
fascinating foreigner a count, he sayi
has been leading Mrs. Folgate tc
think he wants to make her his wife.
Sir Arthur and Ids family are in tha
Biviera. The Derby Squaro house has
been nsed by this foreigner ts. a postal
address. There have beea Electing ol
foreigner! in It meetings; of men eon-
faected with some fllegalscheme. Yes
terday I got this from Miss Folgate.
As he spoke he handed me a ragged
piece ot paper covered with faint pen
cil lines, crossed and recrossed.
"You can't make it out easily and
there isn't time to puzzle over it. Tho
substance is this : Miss Folgate has in
voluntarily overheard what passed ot
one of those meetings. The conspirator's
discovered her, and she is a prisoner
in Derby Square. If she makes any
disturbance,' they will kill her. If they
are betrayed they will kill her mother,
who is no longer in the house. To
day between 1 and 3 o'clock there will
lui no one in the house but my dis
tracted girL I am going to try to
snatch her from the knives of '...---
murderous ruffians."
"And I will go with you, if I may.''
He seized my hand and for a moment
could not speak.
"If you will help me to-day you may
count on my devotion for life," he saiil
at length.
"Will you go armed?"
! "Armed? No. If it comes to weap
ons we are lost we are dead men ; and
she but I will not think of her. It
would paralyzed me, and the time for
action is almost at hand."
"How do you intend getting into the
house?"
"I must break in. You now know
how doubly dangerous in the enter r-so.
It is not too late for you to dr.. v. back."
"I am with you heart rh.I soul," said
I, taking his arm.
He set a rapid pace west.
"My poor girl," he said, "in locked
in an upper room, no doubt. I intend
getting in through the fanlight. I can
stand on your shoulders. Once hi, I
will open the front door. This fog is
all in our favor."
It was a long walk, during which he
never could see across the street. He
seemed to find his way by instinct. He
never paused or. hesitated.
At last he drew up. ' "We are in
Derby Square," he whispered. "Tho
house is on the south side, Xo. 37. We
will cross the roadway and stand with
our backs against the railing of the en
closure. We have twenty minutes to
wait"
"Now," whispered he, when he drew
up, "we are directly opposite the house.
I know the spot by this drooping ash
tree." He took off his hat nnd wiped
his forehead.
j Those were the longest twenty min
utes I ever endured. To hi.a they
must have been hours. During tlio
whole time he never said a word. He
leaned motionless against the railing,
watch in hand, his eyes fixed upon t ho
dial. We could not see even the mid
dle of the roadway.
At five minutes to one I heard a door
open and shut softly, then cautious
footsteps stealing away. I looked at
Grame. He didn't look at nic. He did
not move. He kept his eyes fixed on
the dial like one hypnotized. I gazed
at the watch myself ; I found I eotild
sot now take my eyes off it. I saw the
hand pass the hour ; I saw it creep one,
two, three minutes beyond the hour.
Had he forgotten, or was ho really
hypnotized by too intent thought nnd
gaze?
When the hand touched the fourth
minute, he pnt the watch in his poc
ket, and catching me by the shoulder
moved across the roadway and up to
the door of 37.
( "How will you break the glass? Will
there not be a great noise?" I whiHperd.
I "No; the fanlight is stained glass in
lead. Give me a back. "
i . In an instant he was up, standing on
tDy shoulders and working at the fan
light. I could not see, but he must
have wrenched out the pieces with
amazing celerity and care, for in a few
miutes he whispered . "I am going to
hang on by my elbows. Take hold of
my feet and push me up,
I I seized his feet and pushed them up
t with all my might. In another minute
1 he had scrambled through and dropped
into the halL
' He opened the door. "Come inside.
Close the door and wait for me. 1
any of these men are Iwre and I fall,
fly. All will then be lost. Save your
own life."
I He darted past me. For a few mo
ments all was silent. Then I heard a
crash, as though of a door burst
This was followed by the soft, joyf k
l
cry of a woman, and presently two fig-,
area ran down the stairs. I opened the
door, and the three of us darted out.
I closed tho door softly behind. Grame
led ns across the road and we set off at
a quick pace through the fog in un
broken silence.
When we were clear of the square
Grame stopped, took the girl in his
arms, and crying, "Thank Godt my
Aggie 1" burst into tears.
The instinct which had guided Grame
infallibly earlier in the day now failed
him, and we lost our way hopelessly ;
but we did not care. It was 5 o'clock
when the three of us got to Weldon 's.
The lovers spent that evening in the
urawing room, and I saw little of them.
The peril of Mrs. Folgate's position
made absolute secrecy still imperative.
Next morning I met Grame at break
fast. He said there was no use. of try'
ing to thank me for himself or Miss
Folgate, whom Mrs. . Weldon had for-,
bidden to leave her room, as she was
suffering from nervous prostration, but
that he owed me a debt he could never
pay. I was leaving by an early train
for the West, and he promised to write
to me no soon as news had been heard
of Mrs. Folgate.
Four days later I got a tester saying
that Mrs. Folgate had been released
unharmed, and that there would be
some reference to tho affair in the
London papers that day or the day
after. Next morning the newspapers
had an account of the clever frustra
tion by the "Vienna police of a daring
and gigantic attempt to swindle the
banks of that city by a man calling
himself Count Wolinski who, with a
half dozen accomplices, was arrested
just as they had brought their nefarions
scheme to perfection and were about
to pnt it in operation.
"The plot," said the Vienna dis
patch, "was one of the most daring
ever designed, and among other of the
means used by the swindlers to mislead
was the fact that letters for their basi
of operation, London, were addressed
lo tho mansion of a well-known rich
baronet, whose town house is in one of
the ciost select West End squares. "
A few months after I received cords
and wedding coke, which assured me
tiuxt rll had gone well with the young
pi'Gi lc; let from that day to this I
na.it not sceu Urarne. or Mrs. Grame,
. who was Miss Folgate the first Sunday
I spent in London. New York Advertiser..
Flesh-Eating Plants.
i A familiar example of the carnivor
ons plants or flesh eaters is the little
drosera, so common in various por
tions of the country. The plant is
"small and inconspicuous. The fizst
one I ever saw caught my eye by a
sudden flash of fiery red light, end
kneeling on the damp grass I fairly
caught the little carnivore in the act
which has rendered it so famous.
There wero several tender, delicete
Ftalks m the center.
and round about
it near the ground foe? or five singnlar
round, pad-like objects, about the size meroe, in this city, "on its last legs."
of small buttons. With the extinction of whaling will
These were leaves and their upper end one of the most glorious periods
surface was covered with reddish ten- of American sea life, for more true
l.icles thKt stood boldly up, each bear- heroism and romance havo clustered
jng a deli?i( drop of the dew that about the hardy mariners who havo
gleamed and glistened in the sunlight sailed out of Nantucket and New Bed
like a veritable garuct. Across the top ford harbors three hundred years and
of the leaves a long legged fragile in more to engage in tha perils and hard
sect lay, caught but a second before and ships of whaling voyages than Sir Wal
dying a most terrible death. ter Scott ever dreamed of investing his
Five or six of the hair-like tentu.f heroes with. But, like the feudal
were thrown across its legs and wingi--,
holding it down and pressing its body
nearer and nearer to the leaf, while
other rich blood red stalks wera in all
positions, bending over to encompass
the viciim. The sight was a horror in
a miniature and reminded me of the
B(.ions of an octopus, or devil-fish, ns
the little cephalopod is common" v
called. It ha3 eight sucker line. I
arms radiating from a small, ba.
shaped body, and each arm has all the
sinuosity, all the possibility of motion
ui' a snake, ever undulating, quivo riu-
us if with Burpresscd emotion, while
over tho enti.-e moss waves and varied
shades of co!or seem to ebb and flow.
California Magazine.
Miners Killed by Hundreds.
A frightful lit of finalities is em
bodied in t)ii report of the fc-ecretary
of Internal Affairs, which is made up
from tho reports of the Mine In
spectors of Pennsylvania. This re
port has just been issued, and the sta
tistics contained in it and quoted by
the Philadelphia Eecord are valuable,
for they show that apparently little
has been accomplished in the effort to
doorcase the number of deaths in the
mines. The anthracite region of the
State is divided inio tight districts
and over each district n Mine Inspector
has charge. Ho is appointed after a
competitive examination by the Gov
ernor. . The bituminous coal
region is also divided into eight
districts, each under the super
vision of o:ie Inspector. The total
amount of anthracite coal mined in
Pennsylvania in 1892 was 45,833,54a
tons, and the total amount of bitumin
ous coal mined was 46,018,277 tons.
Whilo the output of the two great
fields ,was almost equal, the cumber ol
fatalities lii the 'acthlueite collieries
was a! lout three times as great as tho
number iu the soft coal mines. Of the
eight anthracite districts, fatalities
were reported from seven. The total
deaths in the mines in these seven dis
tricts was 311 ditfing 1892. The In
spector of tho third sent no tignres,
but ths fatalities there added to the
other seven would tiring the total up
to at least 370. This many men and
boys were killed outright, and several
times as many more were injured.
Figures were given by six of the eight
bituminous Mine Inspectors. In six
districts 103 people were killed and
probably thirty moro were killed in
tho two districts not reported. That
would make a total of 133, as against
370 in the anthracite fields. Several
inspectors report that the greater tho
proportton of foreign miners, th?
greater the number of fatalities.
A Uailway's System of Oiling,
The system of oiling the engines ol
tho East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Bailway is to allow so nricli
oil to so many miles for passenger,
freight, switch and work locomo
tives, making a distinction between
the different classes. From thirty to
thirty-tivo miles to a pint o- lubricat
ing oil, ana trim 1UU to ju miles to a American vessels, by tho way, vrith
pint of cylinder oil is considered good S0n3One 1 and salted Down East sksp
sorviee for large passenger engines oi per3 in command, reached the splendid
heavy trains. For consolidation totai o 3,445,200 pounds, which
freight engines twenty-five miles to a was rth an average of forty cents a
pint of lubricating oil aud seventy-iivj ,)0un;i. Notwithstanding improved
to 100 miles to a pint of cylinder oil U anj moro destructive, methods of fish
considered good service, and foz la?t usa cf staam vessels which
switch engines forty-five to fifty miles ,ollij f0n0w tha whole in young ice,
to pint of lubricating oil and 125 to inj the invention of the terrible boom
150 to a pint of cvlimler oil. lb
figures represent good average prac
tice, but they are frequently exceeilt:i
with light trains, there being a record
of a light passenger locomotive iui:
cicg 200 miles with but a pint oi
cylinder oil. New York Newij.
Ready of Tongue.
The death of Edmund Yalcs, the
clever journalist who built up the
fortunes of the London World, br'ng
about a revival of ane dote concern
ing him and his associates.
Douglas Jerrold was one of h's.
familiar friends, and lutes u;ed i
tell the story of escorting him homo
one night, when they met two or
three drunken roisterers. The ui'.n
stumbled up against thctu. and one
of them apologized, and asked the
way to "Judge and Jury," a popular
entertainment of the day..
"Straight on, young man." sa t
Jerrold, bending forward to address
tho speaker. "Continue in the path
you are now pursuing, and you can t
fail to come to them."
A week before Jerrold died Yates
met him at a dionc. where also w;:
Albert Smith, whose engagement tu
be married was much talked about,
The host asked Smith to rioir the
bell for dinner, and Jerrold said;
"Yes, Albert, why don't you ring
th it belle?"
Of his godfather, Edmund Byng,
x ates had one capital anecdote.
Uyng once asked a guest at his owa
able:
"How did you like that dish?"
"It was very toed."
Good, sir! Of course it was good,
Everything is good that comes tc
this table. I didn't ask you if it wai
good; 1 asked you how you liked it:''
;
"he's aui right."
"Does Digby feel encouraged abouf
his matrimonial prospects?"
"Yes. He's second choice of tw
girls and third choice of four more.1
Judg - "
-- . - '
WHALEBONE SUBSTITUTES
lATTSES THAT ABE KHXIHCI
QEEAT MARITIME INDUSTRY.
17i Product of the Leviathan of the
Seas Being Driven Out of the Mar
ket hy Cheap Devices.
"I T OR the last ten years there haa
1 has been a widespread feeling
I among the coast towns of New
J England as well as among
Jealers in sperm oil and whalebone in
all the large American seaports that the
American whaling industry in, to use
the language of one of the largest deal-
ers in baleen, the whalebone of corn-
times of the Middle Ages, with their
barons and knights and mail-clad war
riors, the whaling epoch of American
seafaring life, it seems, mast disap
pear. Already its sun is far down
toward tho ocean rim, though stout
craft and stouter hearts are still fitted
out in New Bedford to chase the sperm
whale through tho "rolling forties" of
the Atlantic, or to follow the "bow
head" in tho frozen seas of the Arctic'
Devices to supply the place of whale-l
bone have been multiplying with fear-i
fnl rapidity of reseiit years, until now
he Down East winding masters are
JreauiriT, as stated above, that tho
tctual extinction of the whaling indus
;ry is oniy a question of a few years.
1 dozen ye::vs ago the thin, flat strips
of whalebone were considered as es
sential in tha make-up of a woman's
;orset as the laces that drew it snugly
to the form of the owner, while now,
according to the statement of a leading
manufacturer of corsets, it is the ex
ception and not the rule that whale
bone is found in a corset. The factory
aiaile corset is libbed with such sub
Mitutes for whalebone as "feather
bone, " hornbone, flat strips of steel,
wire, rattan, roed aud coralline, and
even a vegetable fibre that grows on
the Spanish dagger plant of the Far
West is brought into play, sewed down
r.nd passed off on the public because it
is cheap, and much of it palmed off as
genuine whalebone.
Nor are corsets the only things into
.he manufacture of which whalebone
enters largely that is being cheapened
and the business being revolutionized
by substitutes for the whalebone.
These substitutes are gradually driving
whalebone out of the factories where
whip handles are made, and from the
milliners' establishments where whale
bone has been used largely in the fash
ioning ( f hats and the shaping of
waists of dresses, especially the latter.
Steadily, but surely the cheap substi
tutes are forcing out the genuine ar
ticle in dozens of other directioi
where it long held a monopoly, su i
as the stiffening of shoes for persoi i
with weak ankles, etc.
The flooding of the markets with
substitutes for whalebone began e
dozen years ago, but the practice re
ceived an immense impetus in 1883,
partly through natural causes and
partly through the folly of n few owu
ers of whalebone in trying to put an
outrageous price on the stock of bono
held by them, practically all the bone
in the market at that time. In the
summer of 1891 a sale of whalebone
was made in this city, 500 pounds for
EG. 70 a pound, waicn was the tiptop
price ever paid for whalebone in this
or any other country. At that time
practically the only whalebone held in
the world was tho stosk of 50.00J
pounds owned by the Pacific Steam
Wlnlmg Company of San Francisco.
This hhort supply was due to several
successive seasons of poor luck and
disaster for tho whaling fleet in the
Arctic. The records of whale fishery
show that in 1351 the bone brought to
American ports by vessels engaged in
the pursuit of right whales, nearly all
lance or harpoon, and its accompany
ing destroyer, tho shoulder gun the
industry in 1882 yielded only 271,999
pounds of bone, which, however, sold
it an average of $1.71 a pound. The
rar 18S3 was ono of miserable luck in
;he Arctic. The catch amounted to
;uiy 231,037 pounds before the fleet
sras blown out of the whaling grounds.
The price, because of tho shortage,
began to rise, and it rose steadily,
though wi h fluctuation as the news
came, good or bad, from the North to
the excessive figures reached in 1S91
mentioned above.
As ths price soared the milliners and
mwrnfarturer. of Europe and America
gan to appear rapiuly. Ahe .racinc
Steam Whaling. Company realized that
they ware killing the goose that ha.l
been laying the golden egg for a cen
tury. It is related that Mann Isaa?,
Berlin, one of tho heaviest users of
irhalcbono in the world, when the price
jrot ti S3, gave out notice that he
oahl not buy a pouad. He kept his
oid. . Whitaerjie.usqd.sabstit'at.'s or
wl",t he "' nonc of the Anr.tticnc
irhalebone dealers seem to know. Last
cimmer, however, when iho price had
recoiled 1 1 a somewhat lower figure.
nir. Isan3 placed an order in America
ror 30,009 pounds. What he did on a
Urge scale nearly every body cIst
t"i5 bnsinsss did in a letr ;.-
enormously.
The chvap -aivice to fill
the place of the genuine bone mnlti-
plied and flourished rankly, like tha
.icked. They struck their roots 'Into
tho business world so deeply that
whalemen see the future as through a
glase, darkly, and expect nothing short
of total extinction of their business.
And this, with the North Sea full of
whales ! Fuller, in fact, than ever be-
j-or if the assertion of some New
Bedford owners of whales are to bo
believed. But it must be said that the
views of these New Bedford whalers as
to the number of whales left are not
shared in by the body of people who,
while they inay have no special kaowl-
( edge of the subject, are firm in tho
laith that one ot the greas causes ol
reduced output of whalebone is tho
extinction of the w'uIci. Xew Yurie
Tribune.
4. PHILOSOPHER.
Au Old Fisherman Tells What lie Tblnkr
of City Lire.
The following incident, which is an
actual fact, has in it a sharp sugges
t on to every one of us.
lioa.e wealthy young men jn New
York who had tccn fishing and shoot
ing last summer at a lonely sea island
0.1 the Southern coast, brought homo
their guide for a few days visit,
prompted partly by . kindness,
and partly by a nrschieveous desire
to surprise the ignorant old saage hy
the luxury and splendor of tlicit
home.
Joe, h wever, walked quietly about
In his clean homespun su t, manifest
ing little surprise and less admira
tion. "Now, Joe," said one of the boys,
nettled somewhat by his calmness,
"tell me canJidly what you think ol
New York? Isn't it grand?"
"It 'pears too shut in for to call it
that," the old fisherman said, re
luctantly, unwilling to be ungrateful
or uncivil. "My cabin has all out
doors behind it, an' thersca in frvne.
Thet's what I call grand."
'Uh, certainly. Hut wouldn't you
like to give up your drudge y and
live as New Yorkers do?"
"No," said Joe. thoughtfully.
" Taint as easy livin' here. Your
uncle sets in his bank all tiler day,
an' your father in court, an' 1 set in
my boat. They fish for men. an' 1
Ush for mackerel. They hcv to i-tudy
an' fret to catch their tlsh. I don't,."
"Well," said the boy, discomfited,
"wouldn't you like your wife to live
In a bouse like this?" glancing around
the stately rooms filled with costly
draperies and bric-a-brac.
"No!" said Joe. laughing. ".lane
scrubs our two roo:i.s an'cleans them
up, an' then she sets an' rests, or lias
some fun. f-he nevcr'd linisli l.cp u'
this house tidv."
"Oh, my mother has plenty of serv
nts to do that"
"Yes. An' she told me
a onbcarable weight an' a
her. "
"But wo see people,"
they wa;
worry on
ursjed the
lad, "anc. have musi-, and
and many things to see?"
gaiety.
We have company, too; we ain't
buried! Ther neighbors come an, set
round evenin's au' tell stones an'
sing. I reckon we enjoy ourselves ne
much as you do at jour big dinners."
There was a sin rt silence
"We've got friends, like you," Joe
went on gravely, "an' our famblies.
It's the same thing in ther lon run.
Your preacher in that cilt pulnit
sa d pretty much the sa:uc words as
old 1 'arson Ma:tin doe.-i. An' when
we d!c we rest jest as quiet under the
crass as under them thousand do lat
monymints you showed me.
"I'm glad I've seen it all," he ad
ded, smiling, ".in' it was kind in you
to show men. But It don't seem to
make such a difl'rence between vou
an' me as I thought it would. In
side we're pretty much al.ke."
"That's a good sermon you've
preached to me," the lad said laugh
Ing.
'I wasn't awecr I was preachln1,"
"oe said anxiously.
How Did Io Morny Die?
In the March of 18;i"), while the
young Russian l'rincess Troubct'.koi
(whom he had married eoiiic years
before, and, though tar more than
double he age. had fascinated as he
lascinaled every one) was preparing,
all unconscious of the impending
doom, a mid-Lent ball de Morny
died. He had been ill for some time,
ill with a mysteAous illness about
which the physicians seemed reti
cent, but which be bore with a stole
calm. The pillule story of Daudet
must be taken with a vast proportion
ot grains of salt, and great allowance
made for the Imagination ot the pro
fessed romance writer.
Undoubtedly de Morny was in the
habit of taking a certain prescription
daily, and an overdose, taken subse
quently to 'his doctor's death, may
have resulted in much harm to him;
in fact, after the autopsy his heart:
was found to be simply metallic, ia
very appropriate condition, by the
way, for the heart of de Morny,) but
the real cause of death has never yc
been given. I will give it now.
The doctor's call de Moray's com
plaint internal disease caused by the
passage of a sword through the inte
rior a most pitiful complaint, ikj
doubt. Morny avait fait une bonne
fourtunc de trop, and the husband,
an old General, after a severe alter-;
cation, called him out, says one
story. They fought a duel immedi
ately afterward in the garden at the
back of tbb "Statesman's bouse, and
the result was as mentioned above.
Hut this Is not true either.
What really took place was mor:
tragic than that The old General,
in a lit ot fury at the interview men
tioned, stabled Morny, where
well where iledda Gahler's lover shot
himself. This, the true version ol
de Moray's death, has, of course,
never even been hinted at ia print,
but I am quite certain as to my
facts, though as the lady who caused
the tragedy Is still living I prefer ta
give no names. The heroic stoicism
of de Morny's death is splendidly de
scribed by Daudet, though, of course,
the part played by the Dr. Ollifle,
who really predeceased his patient,
and whose son orrfy died the other
day, is imaginary, except as regards
his manner, appearance, a- d Irish
birth, which are alike excellently de- :
scribed. The Fortnightly Keview I
He salilwno was so lovely that
If she -went to the Fair,
No oneTvould loot at other thing
While She was staying there.
Whereon upon his flattery
The maiden straightway feat.
And said if he went out there to-
They'd rent him for a Flat. .
Harper's liasc;.
sEaiors.
Tom "I called on a vonn
ag worn a:
lfi.i t
Tant. m" n-li f mm.'...! : i. a
Dick "How? Bun ucross her I
father?"
Ton "Yes." -
4 What did he do? Fira yon?"
Tom "No. He said he was ;;lr. I f
see me and asked me to come nai.
and often." Detroit Free Press.'
l-LECTmiCITY.
KKPOHTS OX ITS KMPLOYMEX7
IX AGRICULTURE.
fts Use in the Propulsion of Farrr
Machinery and in Plant Pro
pagationVery Little
Progress So Far.
A.CJ Ol a yen
of the Unit
4 V countries
(, the Depart
V BOUT a year ago the Consult
United States iu foreigr
were directed bj
rtment of State si
Washington to collect and send hom
all obtainable information in regard tc
the employment of electricity in ogri
culture. This direction was given ir
accordance with a resolution of th
United States Senate. A large numbt-i
of reports on the subject of the iuiptiri
have been received, and have just beer,
published by the Bureau of Statistic!
of the State Department,
i Most of the reports show that clet
tricity is not employed in ogrieultur.
at all in the consular districts to whiei
they relate. There are a few excep
tions, however.
The inquiry of the State Depart men
was twofold ; first, as to use of elec
tricity as a power in the propulsion ol
fiirin machinery and implements; and,
Kccoidly, as to its use in the propaga
tion of plants. Electricity does not
seem to be employed as a motive powei
in agricultural operations in any for
eign countries except Belgium ami
England. In Belgium Mr. A. Dumont
has a large place at Chassart, where h
carries on scientific farming upon t
very extensive scale. Hero he runs t
thrashing machine by means of an elec
tric current, whieh exerts a force equal
to twelve horse power, and is carried
over a distance of 2600 feet. In Eng
land, all the machinery at the Blyth
wood Electric Dairy, belonging to Mr.
James Blyth, of Stanstead in Essex, ii
worked by electricity. The Consul
General at London writes that thil
is the only example of the une of elec
tricity in connection with agriculture
that lias come under his notice. Its
this dairy there are said to b nearly
two hundred of the finest butter-producing
Jersey cows in the world, and
tho separators nnd churns ore worked
wholly by electricity, which also fur
nishes light for the establishment.
In reference to iho influence of elec
tricity in the propagation of plants,
vii'v full reports have been received
from Mr. Albert II. Washburn, United
States Commercial Agent at Magde
burg in Germany, and from Mr. V
M. Burton, United States Vice-Consul
nt Birmingham, England. Mr. Wash
burn reviews the various experimentt
which have been made by scientific
men in Germany since 1833, on the in
fluence of the electric current and the
electric light on plant life. As to the
question whether artificially induced
electric currents passing through thf
ground are benciicial or injurious to
vegetation, he declares that it has not
practically been solved up to the pres
ent time in Germany, adding that,
"while it is true that some few isolated
experiments have been highly favora
ble to electricity, those conducted on
the most extensive scale have resulted
iu very iudiffcreiit success." As to the
influence of electric light Mr. Wash
burn mentions the experiments of Mr.
V. V. Siemens in 1880, indicating thai
the effects of the nuked electric light
seeiiied to be injurious to plants, ami
the experiments of Mr. T. P.
Deherain iu 1881, who nLso found that
the direct rays of the eleetrle light
were harmful. Mr. Burton writes that
with the exception of u few experiment-:
by Mr. Chamberlain, there has
been nothing done at Birmingham in
the application of electricity to the
growth of plunts, but ho sends to the
j-'tii',.' Department a copy of a pupei
lead liefoic the Society of TelegrapL
Engim ers in 1880 by Sir William Sie
mens, wln-re the author describes ex
periments which lie says go to prove
"that electric li'lit is efficacious in
promoting the formation of fruit rich
in bloom nnd aroma, and, if these re
sults should be confirmed, the horti
culturist will be able to make himsell
I r tctically independent of solar light
for producing u high quality of fruit
ut all seasons of tin-year."
It is i bo noted, however, thot al
though thirteen years have elapsed
siiu-o this opinion was expressed, very
ittle progress has been made in utiliz
ing the electric liglit for horticultural
purposes.
The results of the inquiry instituted
by tho State Department, by the di
rection of the Senate, show that up tc
the present time electricity in pgricnl
lure is for the most part a plaything
rather than a practical agent. Xew
1'ork Sun.
Teeth Pulling Willi Fingers.
It may sound incredible, but it is th
ruth that one of the bci-t known den
;ists in this city with a very u lect and
remunerative patronage, has never
nulled a tooth in his life. Ho tells
jhis himself. He sends his patients
Who want teeth pulled to n practitioner
aoted for his skill in t lint ::; '. ii'iil;:r
iirection, and reserves hiiurelf u r
ikilful operations and otln r i muiien -live
work. He tells ni., that lie i'.mU
It much better to do this 1 ban to m:
lertako to pall teeth, ns one, i.i
be proficient ia this werk must hav.? a
ipecial twist of. the wrist, acquired
inly by continued experience.
This recalls the statement f recently
aw printed that in Japan ite deutM
sulls one's tooth by the use of h:
angers. He reaches in, feels for the
sooth, seizes it, gives it a sharp twist,
nd the offending member is out. The
srriter tells how children are trained
Tom youth up to become experts in
;eeth pulling by being obliged to pull
join boards little wooden pegs which
ire driven in by tho instructor, who,
is the pupil becomes proficient, drives
die pegs in farther and more firmly.-
ew York Mail and Express.
AS UNKIND ADDITION.
Mrs. Van Gabler "Beticence V; mj
favorite quality."
Mr. Van Gabler "In others, I pre'
ume. " Truth.
IU3 HOPES.
May "Don't you thinK your land
ady's little boy is an angel?"
j Frank ".Not yet; but 1 OAv
j toaesl" Life.
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