Sif-u'iis isiv I?.. F. BOHWEIEK, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. ZCJr' VOL. XLVIII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1894. NO. 47. HLV. DR. TALMAGE XH BBOOKLTN DIVINE'S 8U1. PAY HttMOB. fubject: "Autumn Thoughts." Text i "The stork In the heaven knoweth lier appointed time, and the turtle, and the rrane, and the swallow observe the time ot their eomlne, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." Jeremiah vili., 7. When Ood would et fast a hoautifnl thoneht. He plants it in a tree. When Ho would ptit it afloat. He fashions it Into a fish. When He would have it elide the air. He molds It into a bird. My text speaks of tour birds of beautiful instinct the stork, of such ftrons affection that it is allowed familiarly to come in Holland and Germany and build its nest oyer the doorway: the sweet dlsposltloned turtledove, min;;line in color white and black and brown and nshi-n and chestnut ; the crane, with voice like the clans of a trumpet ; the swallow. twift as a dart shot out of the bow o' heaven, fallinc, mounting, skimming, sailing four birds started by the prophet twenty-five centuries atfo, yet flying on throucn the ages, with rousing truth under glossy wing and in the clutch of stout olaw. I suppose it may have been in this very season of the year nu'.iimn and the prophet out of doors, tliluking of the Impenitenoe of the people of his day, bears a grat cry overhead. Now, you know it le no easy thing for oni with ordtnary delicacy of eye-sltr'it to look Into the deep blue of noonday heaven, but the prophi looks up, and there aro Hocks of storks and turtledoves and cranes ant swallows drawn out In Ions; linns for flgiit southward. As is their hahit, the cranes bsdamtntred themselves in two lines, mak taff an aoifle, a weli;e splitting the air with wild velocity, the old crane, with command ing call, bidding them onward while the towns, and the cities, and the continents slid under them. The prophet, almost blinded from looking Into the dazzling heavens, stoops down and be gins to think how muoh superior the i-irds axe in sagacity about their safety than men are about theirs, and ho pule his hand upon the pen and begins to write, "The stork in the heaven knowcth his appointed ttmt-e.anl the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their cotninv", but my people know not the iu-Wment of the Lord." If you were in the field to-day, in the elunip of trees at the corner of the field, you would see a convention of birds, noisy as the American Congress the Inst night belore adjournment or as the English Parliament when some unfortunate member propose, more economy in the Queen's household. a convention of birds all talking at once, moving and passing resolutions op the sul ject of migration, some proposing to go to morrow, some moving that they go to-day, but ail unanimous in the fart that they must 00 soon, for they have marching orders from the Lord written on the first white sheet of the frost and in the pictorial of the ohanglng leaves. There Is not a belted kinslKher, or n ehafflnch. or a fire crest ed wren, or a p'ovor. or a red legged partridge but expects to ' spendtfie winter at the houth. for the apart ments have already ben ordered for them in South America or in Africa, and after thousands of miles of flight they will stop in the very tree where they spent Inst January. Farewell, bright plumage I Until spring weather, away ! Fiy on, great ban I of heavenly musicians! Strew the conti nents with music, and, whether from Ceylon Isle, or Carolinian swamps, or Brazilian groves men see your wiuirs or hear your voice, may they jet bethink them selves of the solemn words of the text, "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming, tut my people know not the ju igment of the Lord." I propose so far as Ood mny holp me In this sermon carrying out the idea of the text to show that the birds of the air have more sagacity than men. And I begin by par ticularizing and saying that they mingle imalc with their work. The most serious undertaking of a, bird's life is this an nual flight southward. Naturalists tell us that they arrive thin and weary an 1 pluaiago ruffled, and yet they go singing all the way, the ground the lower line oi the music, the ky the upper line of the music, themselves the notes soaftered up and down between. I sappose their song gives elasticity to their wtngand helps on with the journey, dwind itog 1000 miles into 400. Would God that w. were as wise as they In mingling Chris tian song with our everyday work I I be lieve there Is suoh a thing as taking the pitch of Christian devotion in the morning and keeping It all the day. I think we mfght take some of the dullest, heavies', most disagreeable work of our life and set It to the tuna oi "Antiooa" or ".Mount Pis gah." It to a good sign when you hear a work men whistle. It is a better igu when you hear blm hum a roundelay. It is a still bet ter sign when you hear him sing the words of Isaao Watts or Charles Wesley. A violin chorded and strung, if something accident ally strikes It, makes music, and I suppose there Is suoh a thing as having our hearts so attuned by divine grace that even the rough collisions of lilo will make a heav enly vibration. I do not believe that the power of Christian song has yet been fully tried. I believe that if you could roll the "Old Hundred" doxology through the street it would put an end to any panic. I believe that the discor ls, and the sorrows, and the sins of the world are to be swept out Uf heav-i-born halleluiahs. Some oneasked HKydn, the celebrated mustcian. why he al ways composed such eheeriul music. "Why," he said. "I can't do otherwise. When I think of GoJ, my soul is so full oi Joy that the notes leap and danc from my pen." I wish we might all exult melodiously before the Lord. With God for our Father and Christ for our Saviour, and heaven for our home and angels for future companions, and eternity for a lifetime, we should strike all the notes of joy. Going through the wilderness ol this world let us remember that we areob the way to a summery clime of heaven, and from the migratory populations flyinc through this autumnal air learn always tc keep singing t Children of the Heavenly King, As ye journey, sweetly sing. Sing your Saviour's worthy praise. Glorious In His works and ways. Ye are traveling home to God In the way your fathers trod. They are happy now, and we Soon their happiness shall see. The Church of Ood never will be a trl umphant ohurch until it becomes a singing hurch. ... I go lurther and remark that the birds ol the air are wiser than we in the fact that in their migration they fly very high. During the summer, whenthey are in the fields, thej often come within rwaoh of the gun, but when they -start for the annual flight south, ward tfiey lake their places midneaven and "go straight as a mark. The longest rifle that was ever brought to shoulder can not reach them. Would to God that we were as wise as the stork and crane in our flight heavenward I We fly so ow M are within easy range of the world the flesh and the devil. We are brought down by temptations that ought not to oi't,l.n mile of reaching ua. Oh for some of the lalthot George Muller of England and Alfred Oookman,xuce of be church militant, now dtieolmrch triumphant I So poor is t he B.Bi.iuiii. - , Moles tocy such thing as a " CZZh never did believe tn eagles. But my breth ren, because wa have not Jhe,t ' heights ouiselves, shaU h J?0 tbt there any suoh ielghts? A man was 21 .Tu7!L H-n.,L the famous engi- aeer, about the lenvtho! the railroad from r .!, m mi The engineer said t " not 3 tp-eat. We suali have "er wtn a steamer run rime trons Ensrlaan to New Yrrtk." They laughed him to scorn, but we have gone fro far now that we n:Jva eeased to Inugh at ffnvHiiog as impassible for human achievement. Then I ask, Is any thing impossible for the Lord? I do not be lieve that God exhausted all H'S grace In Pllrt anil T..tiinar an.l V. 1 ivard I'll von. I r ami r. iwum - higher points of Chrwtlan ST in ,mare aS believe there are attainment to be Of thlt rhrlill.n nrl 1'on tell me that Paul went up to the tip top Of the Alps of Chrlsvian attainment. Then I tell you that the stork and crane have found above the Alps pl-nty of roo n for tree flying. We go out and we conquer our temptations by the grace ot God an 1 lio down. On the morrow those temptations Tally themselves and attack us, and by tho grace of Ood we defeat them again, but staying all the time in the old encampment wo have the same old battles to fight over. Why not whip out our temptations and then forward mareh. making one raid through the enemy's country, stopping not until we break ranks aft er the last victory. Do, my brethren, let as hare some novelty of combat, at any rate, by ehangfhg.by going on, by making advancement, trading off our stale prayers about sins we ought to have quit long ago, golngon toward a higher state of Christian character, and routing out sins that we have never thought of yet. The fact is. If the church ot GoJ, If we as individuals, made rapid advancement in the Christian life these stereotyped pray ers we have been making for ten or flftoon years wonld be as InaDDronriate to us as the shoes, and the hats, and the coats we wore ten or fifteen years ago. Oh, for higher flight in the Christian life, the stork anJ the crane in their migration teaching us the les son' Dear Lord, and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate. Our love so faint, so cold to Thee, And Thine to us so great f Again, I remark that the birds' of the air are wiser than w. becausa thev know wbnn to start. It you should go out now and shout, "Stop, storks and crane, don't be in a hurry !" they would say t "No, we cannot stop. Last night we heard the roaring in the woods bidding us away, an 1 the shrill flute of the north wind has sounded the re treat. We must go." Bo they gather them selves into companies, and turning not aside for storm, or mountain top, or shook of musketry over land and sea, straight as an arrow to the mark, ther go. And if you come oat this morning with a sack of corn and throw it In the field and try and get them to stop they are so far up they would hardly see It. They are on their way south. You could not stop them. Oh, that we were as wise about the best time to start for God and heaven ! We say- "Wait nntil it is a little later In the season of mercy. Wait until some oi these green leaves of hope are all dried np and have been scattered. Wait nntil next year." After awhile we start, and it is too late, and we perish in the way when God's wrath is kindled but a little. There are, you know, exceptional oises, where birJa have started too late, and in the morning you have found them dead on the snow. And there are those who have perished halfway between the world and Christ. They waited until the last sickness, when the mind was gone, or they were on the express train going at forty miles an hour, and they came to the bridge, and the "draw was np," and they went down. How long to repent and pray? Two seconds ! To do the work of a lifetime and to prepaie for the vast eternity in two seconds 1 I was reading ot an enter tainment given in a king's court, and the were musicians there, with elaborate pieces ot music After awhile Mozart earns and began to play, and he bad a blank piece ol fmp T before him, and the king famtllarly ooked over his shoulder and said : "What nre you plnying? I see no musio before you." And Mozart put bis hand on his brow, as much as to say, "I am improvising." It was very well for hlra ; but, oh, my friends, we cannot extemporize heaven. If we do not get prepared in this world, we will never take part in the orchestral harmonies of the saved. Oh, that we were as wise as the erane and the stork, flying away, flying away from thetempest ! Some of you have felt the plnehlng frost of sin. You feel it to-day. You are not happy. I look into your faces, and 1 know vou are not happy. There are voices within your soul that will not be silenced, telling you that you are sinners, and that without the pardon of God you are undone forever. What are you going to do, my friends, with the accumulated transgressions of this lite-time? Will you stand still and let the avalanche tumble over you? Oh, that you would go away Into the warm heart of Go l's mercy 1 The southern grove, redolent with magnolia and enctus, never waited tor northern flocks as God has waited for you, saying "I have loved thee with an everlast ing love. Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I Will give you rest." , Another frost is bidding you away. It is the frost of sorrow. Where do you live now? "Oh," you say, "I have moved." Why did you move?" You say, "I don't want as large a house now as formerly." Why do you not want as large a house? You say, "My family '-s not so large." Where have they to? Eternltv I Your mind goes back through that Inst sickness, and through the almost supernatural effort to keep life, and through those prayers that seemed un availing, and through that kiss which received no response because the Up were lifeless, and I hear the bells tolling, and I hear the hearts breaking. While I speak I hear them break. A heart! An other heart! Alone, alone, alone i This world, which in your girlhood and boyhood was sunshine, is cold now, and, oh I weary dove, you flv around tbls world as though you would like to Btay, when the wind, and the frost, and the blackening clouds would bid you away iito the heart of an all con forting God. Yon may have noticed that when the chaffinch, or the stork, or the crane starts on Its migration It calls all those of its kind to come too. The tree tops are full of ohlrs and whistle and carol, and the long roll call. The bird does not start off alone. It gathers all of its kind. Oh, that you might be as wise in this migration to heaven, and that you might gather all your families and youi lriends with youl I would that Hannai might take Samuel by the hand, and Abra ham might take Isaan, and Hagar might take IshmaeU I ask you if those who sat at your breakfast table this morning will sit with you in heaven. I ask you what In fluences you are trying to bring upon them, whnt example you are setting them. Axe you calling them to go with you? Aye, aye have you started yourself? Start for heayen and take your children with you. Come, thou and aH thy house. Into the ark. Tell your little ones that there nre realms of balm and sweetness for all those who fly in the right direction. Swifter than eagle's stroke put out for heaven. Llk the crane, or the stork, stop not night or day natil you And the right place tor shopping. Heated to-day in Christian service, will you be seated in the same glorious sery. lee when the heavens have passed away with a great noise, and the elements have melted with fervent heat, and the redeemed are gathered around the throne of Jesus? The Saviour calls. Ye wanderers, come. Oh, ye benighted souls, Why longer roam? The Spirit calls to-day Yield to His power. Oh, grieve Him not away, "X1 mercy's hour. A German military writer Las figured ont that in the r'raDco-J?rnfiau war 1:500 shots were tired for every man killed. Malsria h said to be caused by a vege table micro-organism inhabiting the blond of man and sonio of tue ani I als. lower A vecetuble freak was recently found in a Newman, Oeorgifl, garden It was a pepper pod which, when open ed, was fonnd to contain another per fect pod. A perfectly formed face is one third forebead, one-third nose, one third upper and lowor chin. Uodr water find soil wood lasts forever and a dnv. In the n usenm at Maveuce are shown a large number of ; 1, nil. -s used Dv me u m S ID thousand bnildiu? a bridge itere veurs or so ago. i .i(rht off Flaraborongh, Eugfan l. the other day was found to have fifty-nine fish hoiU., all butted, iu his stomach. A i oliceman in Jers y City, . J., finding a thief was setting away from him, jumped aboard a trolley car, im press -ig t into the oityV fervice, gve K withir. and perfectly overhauled and cptured h a man , Vinetv tlBV repmea 7 - - ' "J carter snaKe cut in ' by Vtr aKt Washington Mo Several uiiidavHs upi o 111 rarittD, can ioujcu.- - . title and location on the shelves of every one of 110,000 volumes. A SONG LI Te Is Tu'l o beauty Lots o' love an' bliss, 'nder m:xl w'th duty Sweeter, too, for this ! Has a little painin' But we worry through Mostly, when it's ralnin". Bun's a-shinln', too ! (Rain's a bit sain' flowin' From the thoughtful skies Keeps the crops a-growin' Hakes the roses rise ! Live your life, an la! or. An' you'll find each day. Heaven your nearest neighbor Love your peace an' pay ! Atlanta Constitution. A HALT AT DAWN. BY FI.OIIENCE HULL. ARGAKET DAX. VERS stepped aboard the southern bound sleeper ai Chicago one stormy March evening, and) Mj-. as Bhe walked com ZKbTx posedlv to her berth. "i car, the eyes of every person present -were riveted upon closely fitting gar sable, which envel- ter. She wore a meiit of Russian cped her completely, and a large bearer hut with drooping plumes, and from the single fine diamond at her thropt to the tips of her dainty Suede boots she looted the model of a fash jonablo beauty. She was the only woman on the cur, and before she hail f.iirly settled herself comfortably, alj the men ha 1 mentully pronounced their opinion of her looks and style, ant hazarded a conjecture as to her age, Hot attendant, a florid man of middle jge, received the slight degree of at tention justified by his seeming only an adjunct of the moment. Ashe left her, he put into her hands n bunch of costlv roses, which she received with a smile and luid upon the opposite seat t.ie instant he was gone. Ji the score ol passengers, two or three knew her by siht, for she was, in a way, a public character, but as it happened, none were really acquainted with her, and before long even those most deeply interested in her appear ance yielded to the apathy peculiar to sleeping cars, and subsided into their newspapers or their rugs, preparing to wear out the evening until bed time, Margaret amused herself in watch- ilg the flying snow and in reverie. Too used to traveling to even care to look about her, she yielded to the prevailing somnambulistic influence j&st enough to dream without sleeping. At twenty-eight she was her own mistress, earn:4ig an independent in come through the use of her beautiful Voice. The teaching Java and the drudgery of the class room had passed, and as a concert singer she was favora bly known in more than one Western city noted for its critical taste. After a successful winter in Milwaukee and Chicago she was now on her way to fulfil an engagement in Balti- j more, which promised more than anything in which she had yet engaged. She was in the heydey of ber powers, admired, in radiant health, conscious of her beauty and talent, and nntir.'Iy satisfied with life. What did It mean that, as she looked from the window with a proud smile on her lips, some tantalizing thoughts should in trude themselves, and the mind so en tirely self-poised should feel, for the first time in years, the weakening in fluence of some emotional fancies. It was her boast that she was never lone ly, never sad, that her whole heart was in her work. By nine o'clock Margaret, enveloped In a down wrapper of dark red, lay courting sleep in her section. Over her was spread the fur ulster, none too warm above the blankets, even for her warm blood. The thermometer outside would have registered zero, and whiffs of icy air found their way every now and then into the car. Every thing was quiet save her thoughts hich began to utter themselves with loud, importunate voices, as if answer- x 11 : . 1 a : .1 1 . tog souie iiui iiuoui., luuoiicuuou. v.i her control. "I have happily been able to say all my life that I don t know what nerves were," said Marga ret to herself, "but I begin to think that from some inexplicable cause I am fcervous." "Richard Allen !" She started as if the words had been spoken in her ear. Swiftly memory flew back ten years, and she saw herself standing bare headed at the gate of her father's house in the Highlands of the Hudson where her child hood had been passed ; and beside her, bending tenderly to catch her lightest word, the form of her first lover, then a poor, obscure young lieu tenant in the army. With an indiffer ence scarce tinged with pity, since it hardly occurred to her in those days that men could really feel, she had met his pleading affection with an enthus-. iastic outburst of her ambition to lead the urtist's life, to spend her energies in self-development, and show what a woman wholly devoted to an intellect- ual and artistic career migni Decome. They had sung in the choir together, had mingled their voices in moments when, inspired by devotional ecstasy, it seemed that the two spirits united into one, in that mysterious fellowship hich belongs alike to religion ana to love. And yet she had no feeling for nim aoove regain , ictue j one, for anything but art. "You mutt not think I am deficient in womanly sensibility," she had said to him, with one of those soft glances of the meaning and effect of which she was entirely careless and unconscious. "But some women must regain spin sters, you know, and I think I sua meant to be one of the sisterhood. Ton do not know yourself. Xhi luy will come when ambition will seem uothiug to you; when the homely things, the real things, will take on their true value to your eyes, and a 'career' will seem a mere artificiality -hat has nothing to do with what U best and sweetest in life." The words had passed her by C3 an 'die phrase, evohed from disappoint ment. And she and Richard Allen ha I tnrted, he going to his post on thelml 3 rizonn, aud she to Italy to study. V'ld vet nothing passes from us cr. ':relv Here, without warning, with-. V -t Ler intention, tho little scene came j bsfote her a"J Bhe ww B,n tm : pple orchard In blossom, the " redj br chimney of the school-honss ! an-oMS the way looming up in the mooif pif;ht, the hills in the distance, tag f-trtmg, proudly-carried figure at beg fcide. Au I then scene after scene came hip before her, always with the two lagures present : the manly, devoted Hover, the self -absorbed girL A jar, a shock, a sudden stop, as li the train had ran against a wall of rock, iind Margaret started up and drew the leurtuin aside instinctively. A fall through space what was it, oh, where was she. Had the train fallen down a embankment? , After a minute she realized that she !had been thrown from her berth across the car, that other persons lay about, pome groaning, some hastily picking themselves up. She shut her eyes: there was a sharp pain in her left arm and n weight upon her side. A falling lamp (had struck her, and from some cause ehe could not rise. There was a terri ble confusion, much talking, and hail a dozen people bending over her pity ingly and asking her questions. "What has happened? Is anybody (killed?" she asked. Several persons answered at onoe. They had run into a freight. The en gineer on their own train was killed ; ;ne one else. Many were Hurt. Uoulo whe bear to be moved? "I must," she returned, setting her lips, for agonizing pains began tc shoot through her foot, and th thought of beinj touched was suffer ing. "Fortunately we are just on the loutskirts of Frithville there are houses near." It was the conductor who spoke now, and he at once took charge. She was lifted carefully, wrapped in blankets and carried out. Their ear had sustained less damage than any other, being in the rear, and there was no difficulty in getting out. "If she could stand it to be taker over yonder," said some one, pointing to a house some distance away, "she'd be more comfortable, I reckon. " "Where are we?" asked Margaret, bravely suppressing her pain. "Somewhere in southern Indiana a little town called Frithville," a mac answered her. "If she could stand it to be takes over to the doctor's house" said the persistent first speaker. "I can stand it," she interposed; "take me there quickly. They improvised a sort of rough lit ter of mattresses, and carried hei across a field in the open country. The dawn was just breaking, and th pale moon was slowly fading out ol view before the great coming light. The air was clear, cold, crisp; anc though there had evidently been f heavy f torm during tb night, it hac rle:ied completely, and the first ray ol mulight glittered upon banks of frozei enow. The house before which thej etoiiped was a plain, two-storied Wooden stmct'ire, which seemed at first sijrht peculiarly barret looking. Clean white rnrtaini hung in straight, scant folds at the windows. The door had bees tlrab in color, but the paint had beer so assiduously scrubbed that on now took its presence on trust. Then was a brass knocker and a rush door mat on which lav a large black cat with bristling white whiskers. The door was opened by a sever Swedish girl, whose st irehed cap and b; nm snrgeited careful housekeeping, us her s-.isplcions countenance sug-pvr-ted ich.Kjitality. She made nc objections to admitting them, how t ver, aud Margaret was carefully de pot.ited up in a couch in the sitting room to wait the coming of the doctor, who, the maid said, had just left the Louse to go to the scene of the wreck. "We'll send him back to you, mu'aiu, right off," one of the men as sured h--ir. "You oujht to be 'tended to first." "Xot if others ere su Jering and need ium more," said Margaret faintly. The uugenial-lookiug Swede proved iierself to be not deficient in skill, even though sympathy was ii a meas ure lae!::ng. She made her guest ns comfortable as she could. The (-hoe was cut from the swollen ankle, which was bathed and bandaged, aud the hurts n;on tho shoulder and aide were vr,10nnoed to be only bruises which . . . , - i . ., ".tierr doctor wouia make rignt. n,i tUeIl Margaret was left to herself while the girl went to make the inevit able "cup of tea," which was to stt levery thing straight. After nwhiio her eyes began to wander idly around the room. It seemed half parlor, half study. Fold ing doors divided it from the office at the back. There was a book-case, well filled ; some good engravings on the walls; a few easy -chairs covered with r iw silk of a dull hue, much worn; and a writing table between the windows, half covered with books and magazines. Therj was something agreeable to her taste in the air of the room. She could im agine it the abode of a man whose very poverty could never become squalid. The Rreat ojien Franklin stove shoue briphtiVt am the hearth was scruu- jOUBiy ciean. Tjpon the mantel were a j.ronZ(J ofe anj B pajr 0f fine vases, daillty in tone and finiHh ; they were BOe womany touches about the )lac Noting these details half :i,ll.t-,Ilti Hlia ! bact aftin onj losed her eves. When she opened them again, they happened to glance directly over a ?orner of the room which had before been dim, but was now illuminated by a shaft of sunlight. A carved bracket fc there, and on the shelf lay a sinarular-looking little instrument. sliaped like a dagger, of Moorish tie? vice, the handle inlaid with gold, left rough and unpolished. When Margaret saw this small object, she gave a littln cry and tried to rise, but finding that impossible, she dropped back upon her pillows as if she had been shot, her eyes fixed npon the little inatrntner.t ' v.iti a IojIi of r3;o:pi:tion that wi kulf pleasure, half alarm. What I strange trick was fate about to play ' her? How could this thing be possi ble? 1 ' There was a noise ; the front door ppened and some one came along tlia fiall with a firm, measured step. Margnret's heart, that well-regulate. I rgan, beat to suffocation. She hardly ilnred listen or lojk. She threw her t-rms up over herforeli jbaI, n.-arly con lojaling her face. Souie on j iiterel f'ie rtom and pai;-.l beside her. A veil-remembered xo'.c, graver, deeper i,hsn of yors yet vrith a cheery ring ia fr, said,""x-ct me see what I cando to Jiclp yon, madam." A chair was drawn fip to the side of the couch, a gentle ?iat)d tjok her own. Her pulse wai beating furiously ; the hand was held rather long, as if something perplexed ihira. She felt searching eyes bent oipon her face and suddenly threw I town her arms. The doctor drew pack, his face paling, and the two f ooked at each other for a minute in j ilence. She spoke first, putting out Ler hand timidly. Richard, don't yon remember me?" "Remember you? As if I were likely ever to forget you." She softly touched bis empty sleeve, pinned over his breast, two tears stand ing in her eyes. "At Black Uulch," He said, "1 have got over minding it. Don't grieve. " : "You left the army?" "Ye four years ago. My health gave way. I studied medioine in Indianapolis, was invited here by an ( old friend to become his assistant, and shortly afterward he died, lhat is all." "You never never " I "Yes; I married." The words were an unexpected stab. Margaret gasped, amazed that she should care. Uer face suddenly be- 1 came suffused with color, and she turned it awar. I "She only lived a year Margaret," , said the doctor, bending down to study . the fair, flushed face, suddenly pain smitten. I "My arm !" said Margaret faintly. ' drawing his attention to the lease! hurt He was the doctor again at once, and. for the next half hour all urofes- jiioiial gravity, and as impersonal at ' the sphinx ; yet the woman felt through every nerve, like the musical vibra-' lion, me luriu 01 11 in una, warm j fingers, the scrutiny of his eyes. H was changed, worn through suffering rather than years, his face lined, hit hair grown gray ; with nothing young about him but his eyes, which sparkled with a cheer and brightness no griel could dim, for they mirrowed a mind above all personal consideration, con cerned with those large, loving inter ests belonging to humanity. The doctor came and went quietly, her eyes following him. When he in tercepted the look she blushed like s school-girl. Too busy all that day to jgive hor more than necessary atten- tion, he yet lost nothing that passed, ' ;md sho had a sense which was oddly jdeasant that he understood somethin g it what was passing in her mind. It was terible, too. There were moment i ' when she wished herself miles away. Besides all the physical pain which i he endured that long day, Margaret's 1 oul was the battle-ground of a strug gle far more exhausting. Ambition, t-ride, and love of the world fought I Siard against a tender, xtewly-bcrn im tmlsc, which it seemed that a single f ...inn mirrllt r tleath. I The coals burned red in the open -tove ; a little tea table was set in the middle of the room, and in the easiest chair in the house, piled with all the available cushions, the doctor placed Margaret, taking his position opposite her. The solemn Swedish girl brought in supper, which was well cooked aim served with a scrupulous cleanliness that almost atoned for the absence of a more dainty service. The doctor's face shown with satis faction, but his manner, although gen ial, was ceremonious. Margaret felt that, in the few feet intervening be tween them, there lay years of orm nd grief and disappointment. She ' It a yearning to bridge the chasm, to .'raw nearer to him, even though she ! hrdelf hod to take the hard steps to ward understanding. Thought the woman : "Does he love me still?" And thought the man: "Is libe tired of the world, and could she learn to love me now?" But they spoke of music ; of camp life on the western frontier ; of what they bed seen, what they had read. Not a word of what they felt. A few hours later the doctor stood in his bara little soldier's bed room, and looked in his glass. For five minutes he studied himself, and then he turned away, re solved to let no new hope spring up iu his heart. But Margaret slept tn dream of him, woke through the night thinking of him, as she could not havo ci iigiit in the old days, when he wooed her in the confidence of his fresh, hopeful youth. There was no hotel in the village, ind the few scattered houses were :rowded with the wounded passengers, lying over till well enough to proceed with their journey. Margaret was not torry that there was no other place for ler than the refuge sh had been ,aen to. "I am thinking that I am . iln-Tularly fortunate in being in the ! Sot-tor's house, where I get special at tention," she said to him, with a little fluttering smile. Iu time these shy looks wrought upon the doctor, and his stern resolu tion wavered. He found himself sounding her preferences and attach j ments, with the unconfessed design ol extracting some unguarded word that might indicate a change in her old convictions. Carrying on together these two processes determination to i refrain and resolution to pursue, which often accompanies some course of ac tion embraced in accordance with a patnral, unworldly judgment, he man-f-god to betray to the eager girl all he feished to conceal and she wished to );now. She had telegraphed to Balti more that she would be there in ten lays. Four of them had passed, and ho was free from pain and able to put tier foot to tli9 ground. The doctor persisted in helping her from her couch to the chair and back again. "But I can walk alone now," she ob jected. "We must be careful. Not nntil to morrow." She protested with great earnestness. "True I have bnt one arm," he said, with the firtt accent oi l-itterness she had heard from him. Iler lips parted to give utterance to a sudden rush of words, but she only looked at him, with eyes so eloquent that he answered the look. "Margaret, do you care? Dear, 1 have always loved you, I love yon now can you care?" ' Sh dropped her head on his shoul der, but said nothing. The doctor held her close for a minute, and then, leaving her, began to walk up and dowr tho room. "It is impossible !" "It may be impossible," murmured Margaret with a little blush, "but it is true,'" It 13 cruel in me to ask It, dear. Ton young, beautiful, brilliant with success at your feet, and I " ' She put up her hand imploringly. Jt was caught and held. "And I am Loor, obscure and old," he finished, in eyes upon her face. "I have come to you, Richard. It reems strange to me. I cannot explain it, but it seems as if everything the world has to offer me is nothing be side" "Beside my love?" he bent on one kne" beside her chair and put het hand to his lips. "I want to share your life," she said, nnd a new expression grew upon her frtt-e, a high, devoted look which was half heroic, all womanly. "I want to learn something of the great things, the true things." "You have had greater things than I can give you. Think of all you ar leaving !" She made a gesture of renunciation. "It does not seem much to leave for jou." "Ah, my darling, I am afraid you will regret it. The work-a-day world will be a trial to you. And mine it a veritable work-a-day world." He kept his eyes on her face , hall dreading to see her shrink away. But what woman is not won by an appear ance of self-renunciation? Richari could not have let her go now ; at the. l.w-t instant he would have snatched her to his breast, had she drawn away; But the misgiving that rushed over him so fiercely was a real one, a sensible one ; he felt it profoundly, and tried to read in her eyes a shadow of this coming regret. But her eyes were clear, loving, radiunt. She pressed herself against his breast, and gave Jirm the great gift of her life and her i'utnre. Would the shadow ever come 1 The moon looked softly in, an hour Int. er, and tin-ling the lovers in that delicious dream which once in a life time comes to most men and women, drew over face a gray cloud-veil and loft them to dream on. Romance. . BERLIN'S YOUTHFUL GIANT. 3m U 14 Tun Oil. 6 Feet Tall, and We'a-h 3.IO Pound. A boy of gl. antic propo.-Uons, su.'h as has uever before been equaled by similar objects -jf eu -iosity, U bein exhibited in Uerlin, says a writer in the St. LouU lost-Dispatch. Ills name is Carl Ullrich, and he was born in September, 18S0. His father Is a man of small stat ire, and his mother and thelrseven other offspring show no un'isual proportions. Up to his third year Charles are w normally; from thai t mi on he to k a spurt toward an unusually rapid de.e'op ment. He l-i now nearly six feet till and weighs 320 rounds. His head measures in circumference 27 inches. Ham's s.nd fet are enor mously developed, the middle fin ger of each band being in diameter the size of a silver dollar. Tro'es-or Vlrchow, who ha cl sely examined this juvenile monstrosity, states that ins giant Bar. a'l the bodily organs perform their functions normally, and that in all p-obabilliy the slant youngster will burpass all giant men when he reach es his majority. Carl was a bright and active pupil at school, and con verses intelligently with bis audi ence, although he has been in the museum but a very ehort time. MAGNETIC FINGERS. Ila'tl the Tips Together and Thej Cannot Be l ulled Apart. Bend your arms in such a way that with half-folded hands the two index fingers of each hand are clo e together. Tell one of your friends to apparently magnetize your arms MAO BI-1C riNOKKS. by stroking t'.e n. Rring your fln per Up-i clo-e togethe r and p-esthm lightly against each ot! e-. The nig neti.lng part is, of c ,u:s , all bun combe. iS'ow invite some one iu the crowd to si:e j our ar r.s by the wristcand pull th?m aprrt. without, however, jerxing them apirt. Thii It will le impi.ilile to do, and your little audi n e w 11 le.ieve that It Is the maineii ing of your arms wni. h ho'ds them to Hhr, nhile t U nothing more tlvn the n itutal fact that in the p ii on of ttu aruij oj have the advantage. Sot Ha Much m l.' Was. "Hello, old fellow. Your wife K out, U she?" 'ies. But she isn't out as much as I am." Uetroit lurf Ires mi I J f t t ' LU1 ILLS, EXriiA03DINARY PZr.TJ 00773 IT IN A VAIETT OP K ATTJOAXi C0L033. I he Ilemarkablc Fleecy Staple of ilia Piura It is Watered Only Ones Iu Seven Years Tree Cotton. I THE oiscovery of new and nat I ural sources of wealth in Peru I is an unendintr wonder. From . the day in 1531 when Pizarro entered th3 Bay of Paita, that dtlight ful land lias presented the world an iituminited procession of revelations extending along three and a half cen- ' turies of its modert history. j Green fields covered the coast plains 1 r.nler the benign influence of the Inca ' rule, which devised the economy of ir- j rigation and impressed the discoverers TitU a sense of the wealth and beauty j of the land now become a bald, gray j sterile waste, bnt showing here and there a brilliant spot of verdure in the midst of the general aridity. ! The lands of the Piura lie four to . five degrees south of the equator, and once in seven years are visited by floods that wet a narrow belt along the bank?, whereby some 1600 acres are made available for cultivation, all of which is now appropriated to cotton. This one wetting gives five crops, two per r-r and tlipn the land r.af ts to finif h the cycle of seven years and another I succession of five cro;s. The waters of the Pinr.i continue to flow until some time in October, when the people ( who live iu t'ae valley begin to sink wells in the sauds of the river bottom for their daily supply. The disap- J pearance of the river is so gradual it if ; not possible to designate the day when it takes place. Not so, however, its arrival, in February or March, when the bed of the stream has been dry for months and has been occupied by truck gardens. I Then the people become thirsty for the river. Every traveler from up the ! valley is questioned as to where the river was when he passed. If he report j that it is coming a crowd of eager list-, euers and questioners surround him a; if he brought important news from so-ue foreign loan commission ; and naturally enough, for the condition ol j the river, whether it contains much o j little wat jr, is the prophecy of a yesr' erop. At last, geueially about the middle ot February, one hears that the j river is twenty leagues away and is coming; a lew nays later 11 is oniy ten leagues distant, and as it passes tht upper haciendas the Indians turn oul and welcoma it with dium and fife and fire rockets. Sometimes there comes a disappoint ment ; for when it seems a sure tiling and the people of the city of Piura iu the lower valley have begun to look for it the river has ceased to flow ; ii sinks away in the sands and they say, "The river has gone bask." This, however, will last but a few days. Agaiu it comes and we hei-.r in Piur that 'The river is but a league iwj and will be with us to-day." Then every horso and saddle is brought oul ! and the people leave the city to meet th9 iness;-aer of glad tidings, o! health aud r'ches to the arid land. j In all the year thtre is not in the I north of Pera a fest to etjual this. No fatigue is felt by the multitudes who travel through the heavy sands ; some on foot, some on donkeys poor brutes, mos-t patient of all created ! beingf-. carrying two or three grown ni3n a:i 1 w jm i wltii a s;u ill family of ' hilf-gi-o.v.4 children; t:lnrs again are mount jd ou mules 1 u.l then the elite on h-.irs-'s. All are glad ! When you I nice, tli 5 r.ver tin r.ver it is a luUe tricklint; strjaTiileu rduuin li.rj an 1 tliera 111 search oft'i; lowes. pi ices; it stops ti fill the ivciis in its road that were ex cavated lat season, and then runs for ward in the same little rill. A short dibt i 9 further up you will find a re spectable stream, where the boys and dogs run into it aud lie down an 1 revel, an 1 in a little time eau swim. It is for every iiody a season of real joy, and with many a carnival of frolic. 1 Tha spectacle of its approach wit- I nessed from the Bridge of Piura is a wonderful sight. You see the pioneer 1 of the marching host come tlowly around a hend of the river at the up per edge of the town, followed shortly by the surging army of thousands l people; you hear the musie oT th i '. band, the murmur of five tlioasan I ! voioes and the din of rockets whicli throw a smoking lino ulong the air. j The river has come ! It has reached the bridge in th 1 early evening anil the band plays whil . the people dauce on and under th 1 bridge ail night lour, or as long asth' f increasing flood permits. If 5000 tur 1 out to escort the river to Piura, it i' met by more than 12,000 at CatscaoF, an Indian pueblo sis miles lower tlo-v.i the stream. i The cotton produced in the valley of the Piura shows varying shades froi 1 a rich dark brown to the purest white, 1 so finely graded that one cau scarcely tell whern one color ends and tht other begins. At the present time tot! cultivable area is so small that tho de mands of the market cannot lie mei. By the system proposed it is lu!ed t i get more than a million acres of In fertile territory under the cars of ir rigation, when not only cotton, lm: sugar, coffee, cocoa, iudigo, all th vegetables and fruits of the tropics ca 1 be grown as they were centuries ago. The appearance of a Peruvian cottoa field may well astonish an American planter, for in the five years of it growth the plant often reaches a height of twenty feet, and iu th weeks of ripening has all the beauty of an immense sunlit snowdrift. The "Peruvian tree cotton," o which a good deal has been written, if really only an accident. The "trees'' are front seed deposited in some wet place during an exceptionally high flood and left without attention during succeeding years. But where the su).- ply of water permits the ito-i i - - I I luiited each seven years, the second, ;hird and fourth being the finest crop f each planting. There ara low ipota wher veritabl cotton orchards ire found ot which the trees are forty r jars old. " But they receive no atten tion, save when an extraordinary flood 3t rains may happen to give them a spasmodic vigor for a year or two. as the American sea -island cotton jntjrs largely int? th manufacture ilk, so the cotton of Peru is aliuofsi eatirely used in the adulteration ot j woolen goods to which it addsvreegtb, I l -.stre and protection against shrink- ui. Tjup colored cottons permit Jha manufacture ot cfrfaiit very stylish "merlu 1" .toj.Is of real sanitary qnali- j ties, siuop U;era is no poison from tsj use of aniliue lye., r.nd the colors b ing natural never I:;Ue. Nt'.v Y,r:' Advrtistr. iHE MAN WITH A CALr. Ha WtM Redheaded and Vlg;orouaJr De fended HI WgUim. Cn top of a load of bar whlcl came into the Western bay market the other day was a man ot rixty and a youug man of annul twenty-three. father and son. The vehicle bad ni sooner come to a halt loan bolli scrambled down, and it was lln-i, seen thai the young man's nose wa 1 about tnlce it. normal size, and li ) eyes were blackened and pulled until he c uld t-circcl. see daylight. Tui-re was blood on bis lace and shirt front, and of fours' there was a natural curiosity among the men loutiu'iiu' around to knew what had liaiiciictl. "No, William didn'i run ugiii a bridge or have a tree fall on him," said the father, as he wet his h.ii.d kercbief at the drinking trough and wiped away tho blood "The fact s that he met with a disappointment on ttie road as we was omin' in." "Wit ;t sort of a disappointment " ( tict td a policeman who intended to rrcoiu nend raw beef and perfect i.Uiet, f r three or four days. "Vva-1, yoi'isee, William wasdrivin' when wc L'ft home. We bad come i;ior.,' about three miles when wo meets a led headed man leadin' a calf A idler with a call oner turn nut and give the road to a load of hay, but this one wouldn't He jit'H turned out. hair way and stood st i.li and yelled that he'd be du ncd if he, mi)Vid another inch. Then 1 says to Liil, say 1. 'Bill, he's a peppery iuss, md you'd better tu n out'" "ies: you ought to have turned jut for a red-headed man," said tho o:lli er. 1 says that to Bill, but Bill he lays lo we, says he, 'I'll tie hanged it 1 do It he don't turn out I'll git down and make him wish he'd never 1 ten 1 i.rii into thi; sinful wold.' Then be hollers at the man and warns him of what s to come, but the red headed luuii don't skeer worth a cent, lie tics l'.ie calf and spits on his hands a d screams lor both of us to tunc !;u to t.iitc,!.' says the Detroit tree I'.e s. Yo'.i gave him half the road?'' asked ihtj ol.ccr oaii. I wanted to, but Bill he jays to me. says he 'Iad, you hold the 1 ncs and I'll git down and gin that cuss one bat on the nose and pat him to sleep fur two hours.' i didn't want 1 ill to do it, but he was sot, and down Le went. He oil with his ha. and uln a yell and bore down ou the man with the talf." "And put hiia to sleep." "Noap. He never cio-ed an eye t deep When l:iil lighted on him sutbiu' happened t l:ill. He stopped all of a sudden jikI 1 ltd down, and when l:e goi up acuin he was as you see him now. The red h aded man in vited me to come do'vu and light on dim, l, it I didn't accept. He had been gone about ten minutes when bill woke up " "What aid I .ill say " asked tht I'cor Nawthin, that I heated. Hill, did you say any thin' wheu you come o " "Num." replied 1111 with a solemn, make or the head. ".And you d dti't say a ythin' fin the next two mi e-, did you.-" '.utu " "And then all ycu said was to as' me if you'd bin stru k l y lightuin'." "Yum " "That's all, as fur as I can remein tor," continued the father, "and now if you'll sorter loo'.c out for my hay. I'll lead 1 ill to a doctor, and ses whether he's mortally injured oronl 1 rippled uc li e ome 00 1 ill. You hain't Mil sayiu' a word siucj you was struck, and all you've gut ti jo now is to step high aud lean oi cudds arm." Not Hair-Wny. He was in love with the girl ana wanted to marry her, but he was cautious and didn't believe in the pol icy of putting all bis fortunes to the touch, and then getting knocked )Ut. In other words, be didn't want to k for what he wanted unless be saw ome sign of its beitis in the shop, Bays the letroit i ree lress. It's a wise thing to do, too, as some men have found out after they have asked. "I'd like to know just what you think of n.e," he said tentatively. "Why?" she inquired with a rip pling little laugh. "Becausc it would help me in mi business " "Oh," she exclaimed. ' That's all right," he hastened to assure her. "I mean business." lleally?" she twittered. "Indeed 1 do." 'What is your business?" "To marry you if 1 can." She was sitting in the window and ne stood about lour feet from her. Mie got up and looke l blm square in the face w th a flash in her eye. "Well." she said half-lndignantly, "what do you expect me to d j to belt you." "1 don't want you to encourage mt, jnly to turn me down," be said, hedgiDg a tit. "la other words, 1 w nt you to meeu 11 e half way." Would that beof any assistance':" ihe as'.;e(l wearily. "I'd ask vou on the sp t," he re sponded with a great confidence. "Well," she said, measuring the distance between them with her eye, I am ro half-way girl, J'd have you know, sir." and as his heart hope went iown w.th a dull thud soe chared the intervening space and lit plumy on bis manly bosom. Timely Advice. An em coming from Seventh Day Adventlst sources says, Pay your debts and prepare for the toot ing of Gabriel's horn," and this moves the East Uregonian to remark that: "It seems to us that if that born is going to toot it would be effort and time wasted to pay one's debts. How. ever, the advice, 'Pay your debts' Is timely, whether the born toots or not; particula ly if it doea not tooU" Tatonm Union. The crows of Ca'Ion are protected by the peop'e b ciu -e they pnrify the atajc.oplierc j utinr a scmngers. I 1U ... .tf. 'V. -
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