P, F. SOHWElB,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
VOL. XLVHI.
MIFFJUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A. . WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 31.1894.
NO. 46.
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REV. DK. TAUfAGE.
THE DKOOK1W DIYIXfe'YsCK
AY SKIiMOX. . .-
Subject: "The Oarsmen Defeated."
Text "The men rowed hard. to bring
If to the Ian ', but they eouM not, when
for they cried uuto the Lord." JouaA
i.. 1. 14.
Xavic-atlon la the Meditteranenn Beaal
mo w" pTilon', especially so In early
tinici. Vessels were propelled partly by sail
and partly ly our. When, by reason of (Treat
pftvssofwoather.lt was rnwRurf to Tft
the cnnvns or haul it In. then the vessel was
entirely .'Hfifii tent upon tilt oars, sometime,
twenty nrthirty of them on either si In of
th- r-x-sel. Yoo would not venture outside
your hurl or w:th sneh a craft as my teat
Cn.is Jmnh sail nf in. but lie hid not much
choif" of vf'". Ho was running nway
Jp.m the Lord, and when a mm Is rnnnlni?
away from the Lord he has to run very fast.
Co 1 ha I fold Jonah to go to Nineveh to
rr-afh n!:out the do tmi-tion of that city.
Jo.nnh .!iso!rfve I. That nl ways makes rouirh,
wr.tir. whether In the Mediterranean, or the
At 'untie, or the Tie! do. or the Caspian Sea.
It is a very har 1 t'ling to scare sailors. I
hv wn the... when the brow of the vomel
wris almost nn Irr water, and they wore
walklnir the deek knee deep In the surf, an 1
the small boats by the side of the vessel ha I
1 n crn-'hel as snail as kindling wool,
whistling as though nothing had happened,
I nt the BiMa says that these mariners of
W'lOm I "pink were friuhtened.
That which sailors call "a luun of a sea"
fvn be'ome a blinding, deafening, swamping
fury. How mad the wind can get at the
.ter, an 1 the water can pet at the wind,
rnu do not know unless yoa have been
i-n -(-tutors. I have in my house a piece of
the sail of a ship, no lartfer than the palm of
mv raDd. That piece of canvas was all that
r:is left of the largest sill of theshlp Greece,
that w-nt into the storm 200 miles out Xew
foun llan I. Oh, what a night that was I I
stiipose it wasin some such, storm as this
t h it Jonah was caught.
He knew that the tempest was on bis ne-eo-int.
an t he asked the sailors to throw him
overboard. Sailors are a generous hearted
ri"e. and they resolved to make their es
t ipe. 11 possihle, without resorting to such
extreme measures. -The sails are of nous-,
an 1 so they lay hold on their oars. I se
the long bank of sblning blades .on either
side the vessel. Oh, how they did pull, the
bronzed senmen, as they lay back into the
oar! But rowing on the sea is very differ
ent fnm rowing upon a river, nn I as the ves
P"l hoists the oars skip the wave and miss
the stroke, and the tempest lau -hsto scorn
the flying paddles. It Is of no US", no use.
There co nes a wave tb.ir crashes the Inst
mast and sweeps the oarsmen from thir
places an 1 tumbles everything In the con
tusion of impending shipwreck, or, as my
text has if, "The men rowed hard to bring
it to the Ian but they colli 1 not, wherefore
they cried unto the Lorl."
This scene is verysu'jgtsrive to me, and I
pray God I may have grace and strength
enough to represent it Intelligently to you.
Y am a go I preached a sermon 03 another
phase of this very subject, and I got a letter
from Houston, Tex., the writer saying that
the reading o (hat sermon in London had
led him to God: And I received another let
ter from South Australia, saying that the
reading of that sermon In Australia bad
brought several souls to'Cb.-ist. And then, I
thought why not now take another phase of
the same subject, for perbap that Go 1 who
ean raise in poweotbat . which is sown In
weakness msyiffv, -through another phase
of the samo:soJert,;;Vring salvation to the
people Who halt hear end salvation to the
people wbo-shail rend. Men and women who
know how to pray, lay hold of the Lord God
Almighty, and wrestle for theblesing.
Bishop Larimer would stop sometimes In
bis sermon, in the midst of his argument,
and say.. "Now, I ri1I tell you a fable," and
to-day I-would like to bring the scene of the
text as an illustration ff a roost Important re
ligious truth. As thoe Mediterranean oars
men trying to bring Jonah, ashore were dis
comfited, I have to toll yoa that -they wars
not the only men wb have broken down on
their paddles and have been obliged to call
on the Lord Tor help. -t want to say that tha
unavailing efforts of those Mediterranean
oarsmep bave a counterpart la ths efforts we
are making to bring souls to the bhore of
safety and set their feet on the Book of Ages.
You have a father or mother or husband or
wife or ohlld or near friend who is not a
Christian. There have been times when you
nave been in agony about their salvation.
A mlnisterof Christ, whose wife ws dying
without any hope in Jesus, walked the floor.
Wrung his hands, cried bitterly and said, "I
believe I shall go insane, for I know she is
not prepared to meet Go L" And there, may
have been days of sickness in your house
bold, when you feared it woul 1 be a fatal
sickness, an i bow closely you examined tha
face of the doctor as he came in and scru
tinized the patient and felt the pulse, and
you followed him into the next room and
aid. "There Isn't any danger, is there, doe
torV' And the hesitation and the uncer
tainty of the reply made two eternities flasS
before yonr vision. And then you went an J
talked to the sick one about the great future.
Oh, there are those here who have tried
to bring their friends to Coll They
have been unable to brin thorn to the shoro
of safety. They are no nearer that point
than they were twenty years ago. You think
you have got them almost: to the shore, when
you are swept back again. What shall you
do? Put down the oar? Oh, no, I do not
advise that, but I do advise, that yos
appeal tothar nod to wnom the Me nterra
nean oarsmen appealed the Go 1 whe coul 1
silence the temp st and bring the ship in
saiety to the port I I tell you. my frinn Is,
that there has got to be a gool deal of pray
ing before our families are brought to Christ.
Ah, it is an awful thing to have half a house
hold on ona si le the line an I the other p it
of the houshoid on the other si leof the line I
Two vessels part on the ocean of eternity,
one going to the right an I the oiher to tin
left farther apart and farther npart uutil
the signals cease ;o be recognise 1 and tliera
are only two specks on the horizon, and then
they are lost to sight forever I
I have to tell yoa that the unavailing ef
forts of these Mediterranean oarsmen have a
counterpart In th) efforts some of us are
making to bring our ohildren to the shore of
safety. There never were so many tempta
tions for young people as there are now.
The literary and the social influences sie.n
to be against their spiritual lnteres. Christ
seems to te driven almost entirely from the
school and the pleasurable concourse, yet
God knows how anxious we are for our
bildren. We cannot think of going into
heaven without them. We do not want
to leave this life while they are tossing
n the waves of temptation and away
from Go L From which of them eoald
we consent to be efrnally separate?
Would It be the son? Would it be the
daughter? Would it be the eldest? Would
It be the youngest? Would it bo tha onj
that is well and stout or the one that Is
let? Oh, I hear some parent saying to
night : "I have trie i my best to bring my
children to Christ. I have laid hold of the
oars until they bent in rny grasp, and I have
braced mysel I against the ribs of the boat,
and I have aarM for Mieir eternal rescue,
I ut I can't get them to Christ- Thn I ask
youto imitate the men of, the text an 1 cry
mlghtly nnto God. . We want more Im
portunate praying for children, suon a
the father in lulged in when he had tried to
bring his sue sons to Christ and they had
wandered oil into dissipation. Then he got
down in his prayers and said, "O Qoi, take
way my life, ff through that mean mjr
ons may repent and be brought to Christ,
and the Lord eiartllngiy answered tho
prayer, and tn a few weeks" the father was
taken away, nod through the solemnity tho
six sons fled unto OoL Oh, that tether
ould afford to die for the eternal welfare of
his children I H. rowed bard to bring them
to the land, but could not, and then heoried
Onto to. kord. . ...
There ara nnrent. W10 ar3 almost dt.'Otr-
irert hnnt their children. Whers Is your
nn ti. ,1,1? He has wondered oOf prhan?
to the ends of the -earth. It seems as If he
cannot get far enough away from yonr
Christian eoirnsel. wnat m.nr ......
ho trrTm ht come to roar brow, n'Hvit
theanlck whitening of the hale, nbont t je
fact thatjour back begins to stoop wltn thf
burdens Why, he would not oaro muMi
- a ft in . .a4i.ii
tie heard yoa were aeau 1 . i.dwoi
letter that brought the tiding ho would put
in tas same piffa?e wtth otHef : letters P
1 .v- f hi. ahnme. What
are yoa golt to -do? Bajli
paddles broken at tho middle of
th-u..i- Mil ma nnll him ashore? I
throw you one oar now wK wWeh I beljevo
yn eaa hang Urn tnto harbor. B V
irlortou. prooalJte, si wim be a roa to toa
and to thy seed after thee.' Ob, broken
hearted father and mother, you have trie!
everything else s now make an appeal for
tho help and omnipotence of the covenant
keeping God, and perhaps at your next
family gathering perhaps on Thank.Tivinx
Day,- perhaps next Christmas Day the
prodigal may be home, and if yoa crowd
on his plate mors luxuries than on aay
-other plat at tha table I am sora tko
brothers will not bo Jealous, bat they
Will wake np all the mno In the honso,
'because the dead Is alive again and beoaaso
the lost la founl." Perhaps yonr prayers
have been answered already. Tie vessel
may be coming homeward, and by the Hght
of this night's stan that absent son may bo
pacing the deck of the ship, anxious for tho
time to corns when ho can throw his arm
around your neck and ask for forgiveness
for tnat Be ns. neon wringing your on near
so long. Glorious reunion, that will be too
sacred for outsiders to look upon, but I
would Just like to look through the window
when you have all got together again and
are seated at the banquet.
Thouoti psrenta may la covenant ho
And hav. tnelr h-.ava In vtetr.
They are not hanpy till thaj m.
Tola anil m happy too.
Anfn. I remark that tha unavailing effort
of the Mediterranean oarsmen has a coun
terpart In the effort which we aro making to
bring this world baok to Got. His pardon
an i safety. If this world eoald have been
saved by human effort. It would have been
done long ago. Joan Howard took hold ot
one oar, and Careytook hold of another oar.
and A lonlram J udson took bold Of another
oar, and Lnttier took bold of another oar,
and John Knox too hold of anntttnr oar and
rhey potto until they fell back dead from
the exhaustion. Soma dropped in the aahea
of martyrdom, some on tho scalping
knives of savages and some into tho
plague struck room of the lazaretto,
and still tho ehalns are not broken,
and still the despotisms are not demolished,
and still the world is unsaved.' What then?
Put down the oars and make no effort f I
do not advise that. But I want you. Chris
tian brethren, to understand that tha ohuroh,
and the school and the college, and the mis
sionary society are only tho lustra mentali
ties, and if this work la ever done at all God
must doit, and He will do tt in answer to
oar prayer. "They rowed hard to bring It to
the land, but they could not, wherefore they
eried onto the Lord."
Again, the unavailing effort ofthoss Medl-'
terranean oarsmen has a counterpart tn
every man that is trying to row his own soul
Into safety. When the eternal spirit Dashes
upon us our ooadition, im tzy to aoo ejtr-
el vea. We say, "Give me a stout oar lor my
right hand, give me a stout oar for my left
hand,and I will pull myself Into safety. Bo.
A wave of sin 'comes an I dashes you one way,
and a wave of temptation comes and dashes
you in another way, an I there are plenty ot
rocks on which to foun ler, but seemingly no
harbor Into which to sail. Sin must be thrown
overboard, or we must perish. There
nre men who bave tried for years to become
Christians, They believe all I say in regard
to a future world. They believe that re
ligion is the first, the last, the infinite ne
sessity. Tneydo everything but trust 'in
Christ. They make sixty strokes in a mla-
nte. They b"nd forward with ail earnest
Bess, and they lie back until the muwles ar3
distended, and yet they havs not m ide one
Inch In ten years toward heaven. What is
the reason? That is not the way to go to
work. You might as well take a frail
skiff and put It down at tho foot of Ni
agara and then head it up toward th
churning thunderbolt ot waters and ex
pect to work your way up through tha
lightning of the foam into calm Lake Erie
as for you to try to pull yourself through
the surf of your sin Into the hone and par loa
and placidity of the gospel. Ton cannot do
tt in that way. Bin is a rough sea, an 1
longboat, yawl, plnaaoa and goniola go
down unless tha Lord deliver, but If you
will cry tn Christ anl lay hold of divine
mercy you are as safe from eternal con
demnation as though you had been twenty
years in heaven.
But glory be to God that .Jesus Christ Is
able to lake us up out of our shipwrecked
and dying condition and put us on theshoul
derof His strength, and bytbeomnlpotenco
of His gospel bear us on through all the
journey of this life and at last through the
opening gates of heaven I He is mighty to
save. Though your sin be long on I black
and inexcusable an 1 outrageous, the very
moment you believe I will proclaim parlon
quick, full, grand, unconditional,' uncom
promising, illimitihle, Infinite. O i,thegra
of God 1 1 am overwhelmed when I come to
think of it. Give me a thousand ladders.iaSiW
ed fast to each other, that I may scale the
height. Let the line run out with the an
chor until all the cables of the earth are ex
hausted, that we may ton -h the depth.- Lit
the archangel fly in circuit or eternal agis in
trying to sweep around this theme. Oh, the
grace of Got I It is so high. It is so broad.
It is so deep. Glory be to my Go 1, that
where man's oar gives out God's arm begins i
Wbv will ve carry your sins an t your sor
rows any longer when Christ offers to taks
them? Why will you wrestle down your
fears when tins momeut yon might give up
and be save I? Do you not know that every
thing is ready?
l'ieiity of room nttne least, j sjus nas tae
ring of His love all rea ly to put up jn your
hna 1. Come now an 1 sit dow J, ye hun rry
on -s at the banquet, xe who ariinrars
Of sin, take the robe of Christ. Ye w 10 ara
w impel by the break -rs trout 1 you. cry
to C irist to pilot yoa into snoith, still
waters. On account of thJ pjculiar phasi
jf the su'iject I have drawn my present
illustrations, you s-e, c'aieil, iron the
water. I reinsmior that a ve4ei wiat to
pieces on the IJ jrmu las a great many year
tgo. It had a vast treasure on 00 ir I.
But. the vessel being sunk, no effjrt wis
made to raise It. After wdv years nil
passed a company of adventurers wot
ant trotn agiaai, nm buki n iu
ige they reaehel the place where the vtssjl
s-assai lto have sunk. Taey gat into a
tmall boat and hovered over the pi ice. Then
:he divers went down, an 1 aey uro so
hrouga what looe I like a lira Mtoue cover
ing, and the treasures rolled out .va at w is
ound afterward to be, in American money,
worth 1,500.000, and the foundation 01 a
great business house. At that time tha
vv.iole world rejoiced over what wasoallel
;he lack of these adventurers. O. ya who
have been rowing toward the shori
ml bave not been aln to rauu
it, 1 want to tell you to-nigiit that yeur boat
aovors over in.luite treasure i All t ie riches
af Goi are at your feet treasures that
ai'ver fail and cro .vus that never grow di n.
Who Will go down now anl sees their.? Wno
will dive for the per. of greit pr.3?? W 10
will be prepare! for lilo, lor death, for
judgment, for the long eternity? See tJ
hands of bloo 1 stretched out toward t iy
oul as Jeous says, "Co ne unto ma, all yj
:hat labor an 1 ara heavy laden, and 1 WjI
jivo you rest.
Food for Thought.
Wo f. l ow T rtcn'.eut aa liUi a ii
givrsustue ailvanta'ro.
Pt ople who never look up are to
uocount at iiitiuu'iip.
The crank's - mttbui's are naturallj
nitre or ls revo:i.t;ou ;ry.
A mail may impur bis immorta
-otil by ii'it kcJii'i hs scales oil
aoced.
It ci--t inly takes vory ht.lo to ma'.e
vatu jit'i-i 1 i i;py-
Sjiuc people niij?litas well be crazy;
they have ii8.l(j.
rlensnre is for sweeter as a recrea
tion than a bui-iness.
"t Lifeis tootbort to waste ei-hir in
id eoets or overwoik.
T.ovi is n laDCT -nut the dappom- .
ted tebderlT-cultivate. .
Tiie thoughts that di,tari nien most
ntver enti r a woman's bead.
A pdssip can fo mi.rc uithtbe toDgn
7n rueuetk tfan the viciim can do
vi!li h-s entire body 111 a Tear.
Music is the chaste or votnptuous
ila iiSe of sonniH. r-
-"Hypocrites nro ttitfiBOinterrdit coin
ge of mankind.
Imitatonisthefirst attempt of tn
child at education.
RAjUT THAT COMES OVEI,
THE HILX.
Tie rata thai cornea over tha hill the rain
The muaioal, mystical rain,
sterna on from the stretch of the temperate
skies
The skies that are gray as are my love's eyes,
Oh the rain I
7ilh tha small of young wheat from the
upland plain
Tha rain that comes over the hill.
tain that comes over the hill the rain
Tha mighty and merciless rain,
Chat drench o. the green, shaking woodland,
and sweeps
dike tt avalanohe over the Mmi tossing
j teeps.
j . Oh the rain I
Chat falls with a roar on the Tale's grass!
floor1
A- The rain that comes over the hilL "
The rain that comes over the hill the ralni
The gleeful and glittering rain.
That play hide-and-seek with the sun and
the shade,
tn shower of jewels that sparkle and fade.
I Oh the rain !
. That veils the deep meadow and laughs 1
I the glade
j f The rain that comes over the hilL
Che rain that comes over the hill the raln
The gracious and plentiful rain,
Refreshing the sun-fevered spaces accurst
When the forest is faint and the fields an
athirst.
Oh the rain!
fhat brings back her soul to, the Summei
again
The rain that comes over the hilL
The rain that comes over the hill the rain
The dewy, miraculous rain.
With the comforting clouds that drift cloM
: to the breast I
Of the transfigured Earth, by the soft mists,
caressed.
Oh the rate!
That disturbs not, nor breaks the enchant
ment tt makes
The rain that cornea over the hill.
The rain that comes over the hill the rain
The tearful and tremulous rain,
That sobs by the wide-open windows at dawa
Where the grieving trees weep on the noise
less ls.vo.
Ob the rain! ' .
rolling softly, like shadows of hopes that art
gone
The rain that comes over the hilL
B. B. Burns Wilson, In Harper's Weekly.
MES. DENVER'S LODGER
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
OW, Josie, I do wis!
you would listen to
reason. "
Mrs. Denver,
plump, spectacled
matron of some live-and-forty
autumns,
looked with a glance
of admonishing re
proof at her niece,
who aat on a low
divan, with drooo-
Ing brown curls, velvety dark eyes,
humid with tears, and a cherry lip
pouting ominously.
Josie Denver was very pretty, with
the fresh, sparkling beauty of eighteen,
and Josie Denver was in love, and, as
all the world knows, the current of
true love never does run smooth ;
hence the tears, and the crimson flush
on the cheeks, and the trembling of
he pouted lip.
"I love him. aunt."- ' '
"Love ! What nonsense I There
isn't any such feeling, except in story
papers and sensational novels. It's all
bimple respect and esteem."
But Josie knew better ; she only bit
her lip, and thought of Frank Elling
ton's last impassioned words. What
lid Aunt Denver know of love?
"He's a poor lawyer," went on Aunt
Denver, "with not practice enough to
starve on, and I can't let yoa enter on'
a life of care and drudgery, with your
pretty face and boarding-school educa
tion. I'm astonished at Frank Elling
ton's presumption, and still more aston
ished at you for allowing it. So now
get your embroidery, and think no
vore about this child's play."
Josie took up her embroidery, ac
cording to orders, but as for the rest
of Aunt Denver's commands, she in
ternally resolved to take her own way
about it. She had confided to Frank
Ellington her trials on the subject of
Aunt Denver's systematic opposition,
and Frank had bidden her "cheer np
and never mind the old Turk." But
it was so easy to talk.
"Hush!" cried Mrs. Denver, sud
denly starting np and dropping her in
evitable stocking-darning. "Wasn't
that a ring at the door-bell? As true
as I live and breathe it was, and I
wouldn't a bit wonder if it was a lodger
tor our best front room.",
A lodger it was ; a brisk old gentle
man, with a shining brown wig, and
Line spectacles, and a yellow silk hand
kerchief tied in multitudinous folds
round his throat, August weather
though it was, while m hia two hands
he held respectively a colossal silk um
brella and an apoplectio hand-bag.
"1 see 1 you have rooms to let, ma'am,
said the old gentleman, nodding to
ward the papered notice to that effect
which adorned the left hand side of
.he door.
"Yes, sir ; a sitting-room and a bed
room." "Can I look at them?"
"Oh, certainly, sir. Josie! here,
Josie! Come and show the rooms." v
Josie obeyed unwillingly .enough,
while the old gentleman trotted after
her like an overgrown spaniel.
"I hope your rooms face the south,
said the old gentleman. "I couldn't
think of any other aspect, on accouut
of my rheumatism." .
"Due south, sir," said Mrs. Denvar.
A bedroom and a sitting-room."
"res, yes," commented the lodger
elect, ' "and very nice rooms they seem
to be.- "I 'hope you don't keep a cat,
na'arn I've an antipathy to cats."
"So, sir." . .
'No publio sdhool in the neighbors
hood, with bawling children? Kor eni
gine-house?" ..
So, sir." .
What'a your price?
Twelve dollars a week, sir, includ.
fug gas and fire."
"111 take the rooms, and - here's t
month's pay in advance," said the bin
gentleman, " p.romptlv. "My . ronx
shall be wnt to-night, la this-yom,
daughter, nia'amj"
U nlMA air.
'A nioe eirll" was.ihe-'.approviliTi
answer.
'Lots of bettis,-! '11 go bail. '
1
Brfc. Dearer ' parses cp Hit or.
primly.
"No, air ; my niece is too sensible foi
any sweh folly."
Josia only pouted and blushed.
The new lodger was duly installed n
iha sitting-room and bedroom, and Sir -si
Denver rtjiced in spirit.
"It's so much better than if he wer i
silly, sentimental young spark, put
ting all sorts of nonsense in that feather
head of Josie's," she thought.
OThe weeks crept on, and the old ger -lamas
read hia newspaper, and puJfe.'i
away at his meerschaum, and went tod
dling off daily to "business," and pai 1
his bill with a regularity which fille J
Mrs. Denver's heart with delight.
1 Xhere'ea lodger for you I" she said,
exultantly. "I just wish he'd keep tha
rooms forever !"
I It was a bright October evening
when Mr. Wiggleton sent for Mrs. Den
ver to come np to his room.
I "Dear me I" thought the fluttered
I housekeeper ; "whatever can the mat
ter be? It's too bad. I believe he's
going to find fault with your guitar
practice, Josie."
"I can't help it," said Josie, pite
onsly ; "I must get on with my guitar
lessons."
Mrs. Denver obeyed the unwonted
summons. Mr. Wiggleton, who was
aittincr in a big chair, cleaning hii
meerschaum with a bit of chamois, laid
j down his work, and solemnly adjusted
' his blue spectacles.
"Mrs. Denver," he said, "I'm think
ing of being married."
"And leaving me, sir?" ejaculated
the housekeeper, with failing heart.
"It won't bo necessary, ma'am, to
leave you."
"Oh, indeed, sir! Then you will
bring your wife here?"
"My bride will be here already,
ma'am. It's Miss J osie. "
"My Josie 1"
"Yes, ma'am, your Josie."
Mrs. Denver's heart thrilled with
pride and gratification.
"I'm sure, sir, Josie will be very
pinch flattered."
"Would you kindly speak to her,
ma'am, and, as it were, break the ice
forme? You see I'm rather advanced
in years, and I'm not used to this sort
of thing."
"Certainly, sir oh. certainly,"
cried Airs. Denver, smoothing het
apron. "I shall be honored."
She went down stairs as fast as if
there were no such things as neuralgia
pains, or stiff old bones, in all the
world, to where Josie sat reading in
the little parlor.
"What do you think, Josie?" she
fried, exultingly. "Here's good luck
for us ! Mr. Wiggleton has fallen in
love with you." .
"With rue. aunty?"
"Yes, and he's willingto marry you,
if you will be a good girL Xow, isn't
that good news!"
But to Mrs. Denver's amazement
Josie burt into a psssion of tears, and
flung her book upon the floor.
"I won't marry him. An old bundle
of flannel and rheumatism. No, I
won't."
"Josie !" !
"I wonder you dve ask me such a
thing, aunty, and poor . Frank, too !
Never I I'll go ont to service first. "
"Child!" cried the dismayed aunt,
"you are raving. There wipe your
hyes, quick, and smooth your hair;
he's coming down stairs."
Apparently, in Mr. Wiggleton's idea
of things, the process of "breaki'
the ice" was not a protracted one for
his step was now heard deliberately
(damping down the stairs.
"Hev ! hello! Miss Josie crying!
My, w'hat'a the matter?" cried Mr.
Wiggleton.
"I won't? There's no use asking
rne !" sobbed Josie.
"She don't mean it, sir," apologized
Mrs. Denver. "She'll sulk quite dif
ferently presently."
"Will you leave us alone together,
ma'am?" requested the ancient suitor.
"No don't, aunty. Please don't,"
cried Josie. I
"Certainly, sir, by all means." And
Mrs. Denver whisked out of the room.
' She avent down stairs, and sat by
the window trying to knit, but secret
ly worrying in her mind about the
willful lassie upstairs. Surely she
would never be so crazy as to refuse
Mr. Wiggleton. Yet girls were so un
accountable sometimes. She wished
riow that she had insisted upon it,
threatening to turn her out of doors,
else been imperative. "But, oh,
dear I" sighed Mrs. Denver, "wisdiam
si ways comes too late."
Presently the door opened.
"Mrs. Denver!" called out tha voice
of Mr. Wiggleton a jocund, compla-1
cent voice, like anything in the world i
but the acoents of a discarded lover.
Mrs; Denver hastened up stairs with
throbbing heart, and eager, question
ing countenance. 'Josie sat smiling
and blushing on the sofa with one or
two tear-drops sparkling on her eye
lashes, while Mr. Wiggleton, with
brown wig somewhat disheveled, bent
chivalrously over her.
"Is it all right?" asked Mrs. Denver,
faintly, laying her hand on her heart.
"Its all right, ma am she has prom
feed to be mine. "
"And when?"
"Next week."
'Oh, not so soon !" pleaded Josie.
"Dearest!" cried Mr. Wiggleton,
laughingly, "true love brooka no do
lay. Jscxt week it must be."
'Don't be foolish, my dear," said
llrs. Denver to her niece. ' 'The sooner
ihe better." .
So Josie, overborne bythe majority,
ras forced to yield.
"My dear," said her aunt, approv
ingly, "I never gave yon credit for
lalf the good sense you have shown to
iay." "Didn't yon, aunty?"
"But I'm delighted with you ; and
you shall have the nicest wardrobe
money can buy."
The wedding-day arrived, and Josie,
looking very lovely in a luktroua white
silk, shadowed by the snowy cloud of
a tulle vaiL was dnly married to Mr.
Wiggleton in a new brown wig and a
suit of the choicest broadoloth.
Mr Denver, who had remained be-
I hind to superintend the preparation of
I the wedding breakfast, was at the door
f v welcome her new nephew-in-law
and his bride. . She led the way up
stairs to the parlor.
"A hem m I" contrhed Mr. Wiiwrle-
ton. "Jf ow that we are safely married,
my dear Jose, I do not see tho . neces-
ty for keeping np these absurd ap -
-pearanceaaj Josser,.' - --
' . He calmly removed ns wi?, cl J
playing profuse brown curls, anl too j '
the blue spectacles from a pair o:
rilliant hazel eyes. A pair of iron-.
gray side-whiskers were coolly drawr
from hia face, and the luxuriant foldi
of the white neckcloth suddenly re
vealed a very handsome throat. Whilt
;n.t.r,f.r,oo..w T.overin.r from ,
bhronio stoop, and straightening him-.' lungs, veins, arteries, and the gen
pelf, Mr. Wiggleton altered, as if from ' eral capillary arrangements. Profs.
the
Mr.
Mrs. Denver . uttered ft hjBterioa;
scream.
"Frank Ellington !"
"At your service, my doar aunt !'
"Are you Mr. WiggletouV"
I 'I was five minutes u.jo."
"But you you are not laarried tc
my Josie ?"
'So the clergyman says, ma'am."
"You are a a deceiviug wretch!'
tried the aunt, sinking upon a chair,
'Josie, how dared you?"
"You asked me to marry Slr. Wiggle
ton, aunt, and I married him."
"But -I never dreamed of the bast
trick that was being played upon
me.
"Oh, well, you see I couldn't lic-h
ai a : T : - .1 , -..1
"Stop a moment," said tho bride -
groom, with a commanding air that
e ' a .
-
even Airs. Uenver could not rosist;
"let me explain matters. I em nu
longer the penniless suitor to whom
you objected, madame. The day pre
vious to my engaging yonr rooms 1
received a bequest from an uncle, ren
dering me independent for life. 1 had
no doubt but that you avottld immedi
ately withdraw your objections to my
marriage with your niece, but I pre
ferred, remembering the obstacles you
had always interposed in our path, to
jwoo and win her in my own way. 1
think we are quits now, Mrs. Denver;
shall we be friends henceforward ?"
He laughingly extended his hand.
Mrs. Denver took it, and pressed it,
half pleased, half vexed.
"Quits, then, Frank. And you will
keop the suite of rooms?"
"I shall duly comply with all that
Mr. Wiggleton promised."
So, instead of one lodger Mrs. Den
ver had two. And Josie and her aunt
were both suited. Xew York Weekly.
Wonderful Stories About Storks.
What wonderful stories are tolti
about storks. A certain Baron Bur
chinck told Mrs, Andrew Crotsa the
following, which she had printed. It
j a story of a trial by a jury of storks :
' A male stork, having some grievance
with his mate, determined not to take
the law into his own hands, but let a
jury of his peers decide on the case.
The Baron says the storks selected an
open field, where they formed a circle
and put the guilty lady in their midst.
They had a discussion, the outcome of
which was that six birds left the ring
and pecked the unfortunate offender to
death.
Alexander B. Japp, an English writer,
says penal servitude exists among
beavers, and declares this punishment
is meted out to old beavers who have
lost their mates and also to "bachelor
beavers." These unfortunates are not
permitted to live in the commnnity,
but have to burrow in the river banks
in wretched holes. If Mr. Japp speaks
the truth beavers are immeasurably
hard hearted, for they will not permit
a rusticated beaver to build a house,
but will tear it down when the convict
commences operations.
The Australian kea has been written
about considerably, and a writer in the
Cornhill Magazine ascribes to them an
intelligence which can be called noth
ing but devilish. He says the kea was
once a harmless bird, but with the in
troduction of slaughter-houses it has
developed a taste for animal food and
especially for kidneys. Thvy like the
kidneys 'of dead sheep so well that when
these failed they proceeded to eat ont
the kidneys of living sheep, leaving the
poor beasts to die a most agonizing
death.
In India the adjutant bird holds k
position similar to the Dutch stork.
He is a scavenger and is respected and
protected by law. The adjutants are
the forerunners of the rains in Bengal,
and toward the end of May they make
their appearance at Government House.
Xo old resident expects rain in Cal
cutta until he has seen thirteen of thesf,
polenin bird sitting on the Viceregc?
palace. The rains, they say, cannot
tome until this occurs, and the rest
dents of the City of Palaces would nl
jiiost die of despair if they did not to
ward the end of May see these majestio
Inrda. Twelve would not do, the;
must be the regular thirteen.
' IT. Cansheil at Tils Tferoes. .
In a recently published book A
titled:- "An Englishman in Paris,"
and attributed to Sir Richard Wal-
lace, there is an interesting anecdote
of the elder Dumas, illustrating the
famous author's perennial flow of tine
spirits. Sir Richard had gone to call
on the creator of "Monte Cristo" and
bad been ushered into a room adjoin
ing the host's studio, the servant tell
ing him to go in, as M. Dumas was j
alone. "At that moment," relatc-a !
Sir Richard, "I heard a loud burst ot
laughter from the Inner apartment, i
to I said, I would sooner wait until
monsieur's visitors are gone.' 'Mon-'
(ieur has no visitors; he Is working,'
replied the servant with a smile. ,
'Monsieur Dumas often laughs like '
this while at work. It was true
enough, the novelist was alone, or
rather in company with one of his
characters, at whose sallies he waj
simply roaring. "
A .w Trick.
A Parisian sharper has developed a
new form of swindling. He stops at
an hotel and registers hi3 name,
which strangely happens to be the
came as that of the proprietor of the
house. This is so remarkable thai
the guest and the host have a friend
ly chat about it. The guest request
him to pay special attention to the
letters that come for him, which arc
da.ly banded to tho guest's "valet."
Two or three packages come, and th
. "valet" takes them also. - Then i
small package, neat-looking and cvl
den My valuable, arrives. When tin
"valet" gets this, he and his mastei
are seen no more. The next meeting
Is between the hotel proprietor and
I Jeweler, who presents his bill foi
ewoiry lurnisiied to tho value or-
ay twenty thousand francs.
' A rare copy of "Oiiver
TwiV
uuj nuu ior,cj in .uonqo
on.
Around la Twenty-five Seeoatts.
Medical workers have made many
.Tirious experiments, but none more
wonderful than that by which they
ascertained the exact time required
for the blood to make one entire trip
through the system, which all stu
dents of physiology kno.v means a
zompieio circulation itirougn
tba
IV 11 lA'Ll. 1ICI lUl, a viuuiV .i's-ta u
; tucl, and Blake have been the chief
j Investigators in this line, the first
in this particular branch of research
fiom having the experience of others
j to fortify himself with. All the old
I school anatomists believed that acon
( siderable time elapsed, say from three
to nine minutes from the time when
the blood left the right side of the
heart, traversed the whole system,
and then again returned to the start
ing point; DaUon has shown that the
time is much shorter than was form
erly generally supposed. The chief
agent used In his experiments was a
salt known to chemists as fer
rccyanide of potassium, which can be
readily detected in the blood on ac
count of its chemical reactions. Prof.
....,- rlnL'ni.llu a tha Anarntlnn In T.rtA
! t5ih
, wln ?gULBLTd, Tu'
iflrnnrn fnm till lllinflflr Vein Or ttlft
opp site side, and the interval which
elapsed before the appearance of the
foreign salt in blood drawn from the
second opening indicated the time re
quired for the blood to pa9S from the
point of Inaction through the vena
e.iva to the heart, from the right side
of the heart through the lungs to the
left cavities, from the left ventrical
through the carotid arteries and the
capillary vessels of the head, and
thence downward to the Jugular vein
on the opposite side. Dozens of care
fully tabulated tests of this some
what extraordinary subject show
that the blood of man makes a com
plete circulation once every fifteen
to twenty-five seconds, according to
the physical conditions of the subject
I experimented upon."- Medical Ecc-
W4, . -
Flower Making In Farts.
The manufacture of flowers and
also of feathers for millinery purposes
In France Is a family affair. On
family devotes itself to the making
of roses and dee? nothing else. Tha
man and his wife are equal partners,
and tho children, and sometimes
yonng relavlves, who come up from
the country for that purpose, assist
in the work.
Notwithstanding that France fur
nishes the largest proportion of these
goods for the world, there Is not
within its limits what is known a
a manufactory for making them.
Each worker is a specialist, and
those who work with him are indi
vidually Interested In the work.
Nothing is scamped or slurred.
The prices which these flower-making
families are able to command for
their goods depend upon the origin
ality and creative ability displayed,
whether it is roses or orchids, pansics
or dahlias that they make.
By the way, it is usually the wo
men who furnish the original Ideas,
for it in no way Interferes with a
woman's profession, but rather in
creases her desire and opportunity
for pursuing it. Anions the flower
makers the commercial part of the
business is undertaken by the men.
Kli.ved by VF holesale.
I went to the Baltimore & Ohio
depot yesterday to take a train.
Finding I had twenty minutes I re
solved to get shaved. I went into
Robinson's barber-shop near by and
sat down in a chair.
"Haircut, sir?" ..sked Mr. Robinson.
"I haven't time," I replied. "My
train goes in twenty minotes."
"I'll fix you all right in that time,"
said the tonsorial artist. He called
"Mr. Smith," his assistant, and both
began their work on me. One cut
on one side and the other at the
back and other side, while the brush
boy polished my shoes. In eleven
minutes my hair was cut and the
shaving began. Each man took a
razor and I held my breath, for each
seemed-to be anxious to do his full
share of the work, and when they
came to the chin I was morally sure
they were going ta cut it off; but
they didn't even scratch me, and in
six minutes I was 6haved and my
toilet made, giving me plenty of time
to catch my train. I think I am the
only man who ever had three men at
work on him in a barber-shop at the
same time. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Answered.
At a recent trial in Scotland a cer
tain lady got into the witness box to
lie examined, when the following
conversation took place
between her
and the opposing council:
Counsel How old are you?
Miss Jane Oh, weel, I am an un
married woman, and dinna think it
right to answer that question.
The Judge Oh, yes, answer the
gentleman how old are you.
Miss Jane Wcel-a-wee, I am fifty.
Counsel Are you not more?
Miss Jane Weel, I am sixty.
The inquisitive lawyer still fur
ther asked . If she had any hopes of
getting married, to which Miss Jane
replied:
"Weel,- sir, I winna tell a lie; I
hinna lost hope yet;" scornfully add
ing, "but I widna marry you, for I
am sick and tired o' your palaver al
ready." i Sugar Is Hal Fp.-r.
j Everybody knows that it is the
practice of the retail grocer to weigh
paper in with the sugar and the con
sumer has probably not felt seriously
aggrieved by It. But the question
has been raised at Wolverhampton as
to its legality. Three grocers, to
gether with their assistants, were
summoned before the stipendiary
magistrate recently for offenses under
the weights and measures act, in
having included the paper in the
weight of the article sold. While
recognizing the fact that the prac
tice was sanctioned by custom the
magistrate nevertheless stigmatized
it as a "deliberate fraud" on the pur
chasers and convicted the defendants.
Tli. Batter Way.
, Ethel Every time Mr. Doodly calls
papa is inclined to make light of It.
Her Mamma Yes; and on the con.
trary, I notice you are inclined to
turn down the gas. 1 rather prefei
lour father's way, cstoo Pgst
. ' ftapld Traek-Xjtyfofi J
f TVhen It was proposed to build th
Central Pacific- Railroad a civil en
gineer of twenty-five years' experf
ence reported that ho road could not
be completed in twenty years, with -all
the money of the Bank of England
to back the enterprise. But it was
built, and completed seven years be
fore the expiration of the time fixed
by Congress. The act of Congress
allowed the Central Pacific to build
its line eastward until it met that of
the Union Pacific
Inasmuch as every mile of roan
brought with It a subsidy In bonds
and land from the United States,
there was a race between the two
roads. As the tracks neared each
other, the pace became rapid. Tha
Union Company laid a little over
four miles in one day. Soon after
ward the Central Company completed
6ix miles in a day. The Union Com
pany excelled that feat by laying
eight miles.
Mr. Charles Crocker, who was push
ing forward the Central, said:
"We'll take off our coats and beat
them; but we won't try It until we
are so close that they won't have a
chance to get back at us."
When the Central approached with
in fourteen miles of the Union, the
final struggle began.
"We are going to lay ten miles ot
track in one day; you can make up
jour mind to that," 6aid Mr. Crocker
to his foreman, who had expressed
doubts of the possibility of utilizing
men enough to do the work.
"I have been thinking the matter
over for a fortnight, 'and I know
what I am about. Each train-load
will contain matevials enough for
t wo miles. As soon as one train has
dropped its load, forward the rails as
fast as the men can carry them.
Then bring up and unload another
train.
"Have your men in readiness foi
spiking. Let the first man drive in
only one particular spike, and pass
on from one rail to another; let the
man who follows him drive in tho
second spike on the same rail, and so
on. bee that you - have
enough
spikes on hand, so that no man stops
for an Instant or passes another man.
Then let the straighteners follow,
and see that they advance without
stop or hitch. Close on their heels,
but not so close as to interfere, bring
forward the levellers and fillers."
Mr. Bancroft, who describes tho
scene in "Chronicles of the Builders,"
quotes an eye-witness, a general
officer.
"It was," said he, "as if an arm
marched over the ground and left be
hind it a railroad finished. I rod a
beside the workmen, and at times
the track was laid as fast as my horse
could walk."
Ten miles, and one hundred and
eighty-five feet additional,. was laid
In that day of days in the history at
track-laying.
the Hardest.
A young dentist, who opened an
office on Jefferson avenue last week,
finds a good many discouragements.
His first patient was a thin young
who wore no waistcoat, and -
man
triced up his person with a pink and
yellow belt.
There was a profitable hour or two
in the chair, during which the young
dentist told his funniest stories as he
filed aad chiseled and buzzed. At
length, instead of filling up the big-., there was such a thing as ancient his
gest cavities with gold and charging tory when she was little."
10 apiece, the conscientious beginner
said:
Shall I put In a soft filling, sir?1
"I board," replied the exhausted
occupant of the chair, briefly.
"Beg pardon," said the dentist
doubtfully. "I asked you about a
60ft filling."
"Thunder and lightning!" shouted
the patient, sitting up in the chjir
and pulling his mouth into shape, "I
tell you 1 live in a boarding horse,
and if you've got any ground-glass'
amalgam or rolled-steel caps, use 'em.
Soft filling! You crazy coot, do I
look like a suicide?" Free Press.
Fortune. In Banana..
There is great money In the banana
business. The Honduras people
would be the richest communities in
the world from the profits of three
banana crops a year if they were not
such abject slaves to poker and cock
fights. Fortunes have been made
out of bananas. Seven years ago
Oteri, the fruit man of New Orleans,
sold "banans" out of an arm basket.
To-day he owns seven ships, which
carry on his fruit traffic.
Readers of fiction are accustomed
to all sorts of expressions descriptive
of the attractiveness of heroines'
eyes, lips and other features, but when
a writer in a Boston paper remarks of
a certain fair creature that she is
"beautifully eared" he adds a new
term to the lover's vocabulary. And
this same Boston writer would doubt
less scorn to speak of a fellow being
as "well heclod."
Oxb 6T Ihe "causes' of the rapid
spread of cholera is the sup.rstitiofl
of the people In the countries where
it originates, or In which it first takes
hold after leaving its original seat.
A chief constituent of this supersti
tion is fanaticism, based on igno
rance of the working of natural laws.
The populations now comprehended
In Russian rule la both Asia and
Europe, whether Christian, Moham
medan or other, are all more or less
fatalists, believing that the dread
disease is a scourge sent from heaven
and that It Is sacrilege to endeavor
to arrest Its progress. This fact
affords a clue to the hostile feeling
exhibited by them toward those who
set up quarantine or establish hos
pitals. "It Is the will of God," says
the peasant, and he folds his hands
over his breast. ' lie will take no caro
of himself because "God ' would stop
the pestilence if He wished."
This
apathetic resignation has depopulated
vast regions and swept into the grave
innumerable hordes. Before such
all-pervading fatalism the best inten
tions, the utmost exertions of the
government are unavailing.
The first folio 1623, edition 01
"Shakspeare" is under process of re
production by means of photography.
The marriage rate of Germany ros
ten per cent in the year following the
Franco-Prueaian war. The same phe
nomenon was observed after the Fxenci
war which ended in 1816k .
MOTHER 60Kd.
Soft sleeps the earth In moonlight blest j
Baft alssps tha bough above tha seat s
O'er lonely depths tha whlppoorwul
Breathes on taint note and all to euu.
Bleep. little darling- j night Is long
Sleep while I slag thy cradle aeoc
A bout thy dream the drooping Bowel
Blows her sweet breath from hour to BSur.
And whit, the great moon spreads her wtngm.
While low, while far, the dear earta awta.
Bleep, Uttls darling 1 all night long
Tha winds shall sing thy slumber song.
fowexa ot tha earth aad of tha air -1
Bhali have thee In their mother-oarsi
And hosts of heaven, together prest.
Bend over the, their last, their best.
Bosh, little ds,l"g 1 from the deep
Borne mlghtr wing shall fan thy sleep.
Harriot P. Bpofford, la Harper's Batia
PITH AND POINT.
Laid by for repairing Widows.
Beads of perspiration are the jewelry
of toil.
The Londoner who saves up for a
rainy day must be kept pretty busy.
Puck.
Silence may give assent, but it
doesn't favor the request for any
larger loan. Truth.
Examiner "What is your opinion
of this case?" Candidate "The sam
as yours. Professor."
Death, taxes and the sprays from a
street sprinkler are all hard things to
Vdge. Troy Press.
When Italian robbers vent theif
feelings in song, it is generally gives
as a banditty. Puck.
It takes nine tailors to make a man )
but ninety-nine lawyers cannot alwayr
collect the bia Puck.
Don't sit in a draught. If yon do,
the doctor will in all probability bt
the one to cash it. Troy Press.
Arthur "May I see you home thii
evening, Miss Edith?" "No, thanks.
-I'm invited out" Arkansas Traveler.
He was a fresh younir dudelet gay
. Togged out from shoes to hat 1
- But fresher was, I'm pained to say.
The paint in which he .at.
Buffalo Courier.
"She appeared to me like one wo
man in a thousand." "How so?" "1
saw her at the bargain counter. " De
troit Tribune.
While the experienced bicycle rider
. escapes without any falls the beginner,
as a rule, doesn't get off so easily.
Buffalo Courier.
"What is a house without a baby?"
asked a lady writer, and an old bache
'or editor replied: "It is compara
ively quiet!" Tit-Bits.
Ho (passionately) "I love yon
above all others on earth." Hhe "I
never though you would go back on
yourself like that." The Club.
. Go. sluggard, to the ant and see
Her methods, ever spry.
And if you want the ant's address,
Beek first the picnic pie.
Washington St.or.
. "Did he marrv the srirl who could
fnt things on crockery ware
"No: he married the one who could
cook things to put into crockery ware."
New York Press.
Katie "Oh, dear, I wish I was a.
old as Mips Century." Why do you
wish that?" "Well, I don't suppose
Exacting Father "James, how ai
you getting along with that job ol
wood splitting?" Rebellious Son
"I'm making about three knots an
ronr." Detroit Free Press.
houth signs of summer that perplex
T May often come to hand,
he ioe cram sign is one thnt all -'
TThe lasses unierutani.
.Vashinirton Sta
Clara Gilttuan "Are you paid for
all the jokes you writs, Mr. McCom
mick?" Humoribt "Yes, Miss Clara,
all my jokes are made at some 0111
else's expense." Joseph Banister, in
Raymond's Monthly.
Twoaweek "Sir, I wish to marry
your daughter." Gruff Father
"My daughter, young man,' will con
tinue under the paternal roof." Two
aweek "No objection will be raised
to that, sir. "Tit-Bits.
"You say she tried to stop the car"
by whistling at it. Did she make a
success of it?" "Yes, iu a way. It.
wasn't her whistMng that stopped the
car, though. It was the face . she
made." Indianapolis Journal.
"How do you like your new music
master?" "He is a very nice, polite
young man. When I made a mistake
yesterday, he said : 'Pray, Mademoi
selle, why dy you take so much pains
to improve upon Beethoven?' " Le
Figaro.
"Yes," said the man with the ycllot.
diamonds, "there is a heap more
chance for graft in the ice business
than there is in elling"coal.'r "Why?"
asked the man with the straw-colored
vest. " 'Cause the ice business comes
in ' hot weather, when the people are
too lazy to kiok about the prices you
stick them for." Indianapolis Jour
nal. The Groom Declared Himself.
Among the passengers on an Indians
train the other day, says local paper,
where a newly-married couplo, who
made themselves known to such an ex
teat that the occupants of the car be
gan passing sareaatio remarks about
them. The' bride and groom stood th
remarks for some time, but finally tha
latter, who was a man of tremendous
aize, broke out in the following lan
guage at his tormentors : "Yes, we're
married. Just married. We are go
ing 100 miles further on this train,
and I'm going to "spoon" all the way.
If you don't like it, you can get out
and walk. She's my violet and I'm
her sheltering oak." During tha re
mainder of their journey thev wers
left in peace. New York Tribune.
II Is omethlnft orer a fccntrry
ilace the declaration of Independence
wits promulgated, but certain tyrants
still hold sway In this favored land.
Did King Coal, with the Reading
combine for bis prime minister, im
poses taxation without representation.
This tyrant needs serious attention.
Utocta inost be some where la
South 'America. It Is stated th4t
(hey have a variety of cat down thero
that never yowU fit night . " -
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