F. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Bditer amd VOL. XLVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOYEMBER 28. 1894. NO. 50. TART I. ja.ny. But. then, yoor olJ endear n ways. What smdy e'er coal : cati-b UiUi To-.ir pretty fse,ture-, cnJle-s plays. Want cs-nrus e'er coi.M n Rtcli mem? Yonr lively leap o! merriment. Tour murmur of petition. To-if serious si'.euce t-f c nteut. Your laugh of recognition. Here were a puzzling toll Indeed r art rao'.t fine creations, Cr.w on, tweet taUy ; u-e will need To nine yonr transformations. eiealter, vlen revolving years Have made ou Inll. aiid twenty. Awl iTugut you Mended hojics anl fears. Ana sighs, and slaves, in plenty. CHATTER I. THE HEIKESS AT FIFTEEN. 'No, really, Jerry, I cannot have it. Ko, my dear child." you really are this really is more than I can put up with. I have overlooked a great deal, for, of course, tnis is an out of-tbe-way place, and dress is nut of much conse quence here: hut you seem to have no conscience in the matter. And really, tor a if reat girl of fitteen to be so ng f.bout such a figure - why, who. seeing you to-day, would e er drvam of taking you for a youns gentlewoman? They would take you .or a fisherman's daugh ter nay, or the fisherman himself. I BhoulJ not bo in the least surprised if anybody meeting you going alout as you are now were to take you for one of the fishermen of the vil.age!" The sugsje-tw-n was, sooth to say, not altogether uniner te I. Jerry"- a fond granddamo's ab breviatfon for tho more elegant ,-Ger-aldino" had. tor convenience s:ike. Inserted her brisk, healthy yo.ing per son into an ancient yellow oilskin fish ing coat, which completely covered everv feminine tarmetit underneat i. and the collar ot which, standing tn . rour.d her ear, was lost beneath the shade of one of those feafaring gla e 1 caps known as "sou'we te: s," whoso long fan wo Id obviously ward off tho severest wetting. With bare hands plunged deeply in capacious iockets. and a pair o tho stoutest boots which the village boot maker - a man aeeusto:ned to make for p.o ighlioys and fishermen -could pro- ouco for none but these wouiu nave pleased lis present customer) the dug.lter of an ancient house and solo heiress o a large estate, presented an appearance which, it must frankly h. confessed, was liable to confuse tho mind of any ordinary beholder. 'It really is too much, quite too much." murmured Geraldine's grand mother, in tho piteous ac. ents of weak disapproval, common to those who ha. e long since found their tyrants. "1 reaby ought not to allow it: 1 kn w I ought not." Jerry's eyes twinkled. Whoever sees you.'' began the oi l ladv iitza. n - but time was passing, and It was necessary this should be put a stop to. . Who is there to tee me?" cried the defaulter merrily. "I say 'who.-' an 1 Lcho answers 'who?' Now, my dear granny, you had best say who.-' your self, and" let me o f, there's a Hear." "How can you tell whom you mav meet." Hut I never do meet any one." 'That's not to sav jot never may. And for you, a youug lady, my grand daughter, to be marching all over tho piaco " "Oh. dear, I r.everthoug htof inarch ing. Not but what I could man-h fnoly In this nice, comfortable coat," shaking herself anew into it. "out there's th's difficulty, that there's no road whero I am no ritz, and one can hard.y march tiiro igh peal-og and birchen-wood. Oh, we arj only going to fish tho burn, and I never meant to be seen at all, not even by you, grainy. I had lcn going to slip out by tho side door, and scuttle along by the garden wall, only that I had left my rod and line in the window here, and you were such a tiresome, mis chie'.ous old granny, that you jiopped out upon me before I coal.l es a. e. It was a shabby ining to uu. ue, ... Indeed " and the sou'wester' wagged from side to side reproachfully. "You madcapthinj:" "Oh, madcap th ug," quoth Jeiry, philosophically, "you often call me that, you know. And if these clothes keep me Irom getting wet " "Clothes! my de:ir child, call things by their righL names. This sailcloth and oil skin " . "Well, this sailclota and oilskin. II It keeps me from getting a cold and 60ro throat " "Oh, if you must go out in the rain, it is certainly better not to run the risk of getting a cold and sore throat. Hut it is really high time tor you to give up this sort of th ng, Jerry. A young lady like you " "Ought to be sitting perked up on the great drawing-room sofa, winding skeins of worsted, or scribbl:ng over vnrcis of music oaper," cried Jerry, with, indignant contempt. "-No, thank voti. dear, not as long as I can help it. And I do not believe you will ever turn mo into a yo.iug lady of that sort even if I should live to bo a hundred, or a thousand," added she, still more ener getically. "As if I could sit down am. yawn beside the 1 re in that great hot urwing room this glorious afternoon, wken the waterfalls are crashing ovet the rocks, and the big trout below will be all on the alert, and it is but throw In ' a lino to have them bouncing aftei you' Oh. I couldn't do it. I reaby could not do it, if I tried ever so. And what's more, you would be sorry foi me ll I did. Madam Granny; and then 1 know how it would be, you would re lent jus too late, and never, never never forgave yourself for the cruelt of it. So there - kiss and be friends -and don't keep me one other singl second, there's a dear, gcod, Kmc cranny." ""You a ill not to.'ar. tear child " "1 ar? i ot I. I have no need to etc far. Cannot you 1 ear them? Why, the fal's have been roaring ever since noon, with tho Kimin irom the hills in the night: but it was no use lis lingtill they had gone down a little: they will ie just in trim now -at least the pool will - ' . ' Those dei p tools'" . "i ll take : re-I will indeed, dear," touched hv the sii?h which, wh le it oetoker.eu the close ot the contest, also a pealed to the generosity of the vooiueror. "Vou (.oa t know how Jareful 1 am," proiesiea errv earnest ly. "You are not going alone?" "I'onald goes with me, of course." '"Well, Donald is something," con ceded her t randmother ruefully. She could not say '-somebody," for she could h; rdly recognize a person in the ragged, bare-footed, 1: -year old brat, who wasGeraldino'sself-constituted at tendant out of uoors; but she could al low that tho presence of a cat-like creature, with eyes to dart, and long supple arms to catch, and a high yell ing voice to shout, was at best better than absolute soitude. "Lonald is something," she said, "why is ho not hero " "He is hero. Fie has been waiting for me down at the white bridge lor nsres ana ages. He must think 1 am never co ning. Oh, Donald and I will be all right, never you tear; and we bliall bring you in such a basket of I entities and see, the i a n l.as stopped, and there is the blue sky overheat and h ok. look, such a glorious stream of light ha broken outover the water! Oh, you will never stop in the bouse yourself now; you mabt get out at once this very minute. Send for Jane. and bundle on your thimrs: and I'm oif, I m o:f, and awa', over the hills aiid farawa', tra-la, tra-la tra-la,'" and bung wem the huge oak door, as with the joyous whooD of a school-boy, and the"pa,e of a whirlwind, away flew M.ss Geraldine Campbell of Ine.. marew, tho greatest heiress in the length and bread' h of Argyll. Mrs. Curai bell stood still for a mo ment ere she turned and re-enterod the deserted drawing room. 'She is only fifteen," she murmured, in a tone little resembling that in which the "great girl of fifteen" had been exhorted to better ways. "Only liitecn and there are yet three fuil years before she need lie presented to the world. Hut what if she goes on as he is doing now? Io, she will not, she must not. No, we shall see a change ere then. She will tone down, soften, grow less wild and careless, im prove in shape. At present sho Is all arms and legs, and though she carries it oil well, still her figure is that of a .jhild a fine, growing child. She will be tall presently, every few monthi there is a di:ferenco. Her waist is too largo but waists are large at her age. 1 wonder if 1 am partial, but it seems to me the child needs nothing that time will not be.-tow upon her. Such complexion -such acolor! Fairness it self, without a trace of freckle or sun lnrn tnoUf,h sho runs in and out hat- less half the time. Hut this moist climate is certainly a charming' cos metic: and Geraidine is right, little as she thinks or cares a1 out it, when she eschews the hou-e. an 1 the warm rooms, and spends her life in the fresh air. s-itting over a fire would be tho wreck of her bloom; and as for her shape anajcarriage. not one of hor cousins, with all their gymnasiums and riding master-, can show s .ch a straight hack and open chest, and walk with such an elastic step, as my Geraldine. After nerown fashicn, my child is grace itself: and if only sho would not overdo it. and would not make herself such a guy but, how ever, I supine she will meet nobody, aid the servants must, be accustomed to her ways bv this time and she is a dear child. nnd would obey me if I seri ously desired her to do anything, so why should 1 thwart her in a t ill? After all, I nee.1 not mind what her aunts say. My own daughters! 1 brought them up without any help from themselves, s. surely I may be trusted with my grandchild. Char lotte was jealous, and always was; and Maria would like to have had poor Diarmid's daughter to bring up her self. And realty, considering that I was both a He and wil ingto undertake the charge, she need not have wished to see me laid on the shelf quite so soon!" And the old lady drew herself up and bridled, although she was alone, and no one could have the benefit. She was not really old, belne only a little over ;0, and was still handsome, cheerful, humorous, oversowing with enersry anu with an acklowledged zest for neighlnirly intercourse, pleasant scenes, summer galas, and winter din ner parties. Above all, however, did she affect the London season on the Ilowery, showery Mav days, when tho luster la yet upon It; when the a aleaj and hyacints in the parks are still more brilliant than the many-tinted throngs around them; when the shop windows' are gayest and the roar of wheels Is loudest, and even the dingiest, dustiest alleys in tho background put out jeiri little flower-pots and make a feint of enjoying life. It was the thought of all this, and the prospect of some day re turning to take her iart in it, whrjn, more than any matronly anxiety, occa sion !y found vet in remonstrances such as those with which our chapter opens it was the rteterinir.ation that in duq time the heiress should be by all the' world admired, honored and perchance envied, which made her every now and then discontented with the hum ble pleasures ana modost aspirations of her darling. For Jerry hated the very Idea of London. She had never been there vowed she never would go there. What did she want with a dirty, smoky old town, with nothing but rows of houses, shrieking underground trains, rattling omnibuses, and every Wind of horror? oh, she kr.etr-she had heard about it all: It was all very fine for granny to smile. She always knew that ,"grown-ups ' llsrea towns, ana sue 'r-nnlil remember how, as a child, she 'had been used to see the men-servante ' r a - I V1.W knn and mald-servauie m uiru the time came for going into E'llnburg f. tliA winter, and how sne una oeeu a... t.n, inctmctffd that it was very sll- y KuvuA , - . , ly and naughty for her not to be glad, too. when she ought to be thankful and proud that her pa- bad fine r""ra in Moray Place to take her lo, instead i' having, as many piouii m.:1 the ear round in the nasty, cold, vcet Ilftrhlands. where there was no one to be seen. ind not a shop nor a rfirk to be remcued, once the weather turne-.l ba 1. , That, was what the stupid maids had said, wh' n all they wanted was to get to Kdinburg to see their stupid sweet hearts. i, tnew hotter. It had been nottt' ;n,r hut "iro i must do this," and "you m.Tt nnt. i"li that." from the moment ....i n,.riu. i at. MoravHace. She had not been allowed to stir outside the doors, be tho day ever so fine, un til Katie had been free to attend her, she had not been allowed to give her do"- a run without putting on hat. "lJves, and even boots. There had been no rushing round stables, and kennels, and gardens in the dusk after lessons: no dairy, no rultry-yard to take refuge in; no hens, no pigeons, no voun- rabbits nor Arrets to feed; no JO Id M'.nnnn when she had 1 1 been let loose roin the school room xt rn. 'Miss Geradine, your ma wishes I to see u ing room: she has ladies with her." And, of course, nothing had been worse than that. Now at Inchmarew there was always something to do or to see new pup pies, or chickens, or something. And there was the shore; and on the shore It he re was always something. And there was her pony. tsut ueraidine was not prone to dwell nj-on the pony, for in her heart of hearts the young horsewoman was iivvu o that if the truth was out, her rides at Inchmarew over a rough, hilly district, and always along one monot- f' nous road, with only a choice betwixt . urning lo the right or the left as the rider emerged from the lodge gate, kyould ill bear comparison with -ho vrand swecn of country to he traversed In all directions round the Heart of Midlothian. It had been enough that she could affect to add this to her list if grievances; and so it had gone in with the rest, and helped to add up the sum total. Yes, she had hated Edinburgh, and the was ssre, quite sure, she should bate London equally, if not more. In vain granny had protested, di'ated and assured. Jerry lad invar ably listened with as much intention of be ing convinced, and of budging one hair's bioiidth from her position as a oung mule -and by this time every one knew with whom lay the reins of iiower at Inchmarew Castle. Jerry's parents had been affection ate, but they had also been selfish; in fonse.fuence of which she had never een able to lord It so completely over them as she had, since their death, contrived to do over their successor. Hit by bit granny had yielded on al most every contested point, until at Just it had come about that even the spoilt child herself was fain to be gen erous, and at times ashamed. For Geraldine had a finer nature than hal ever yet been manifested. One circumstance, it must be added. had strengthened the young girl's cause when pleading to le allowed to remain in her Highland fastnes9 undis turbed and unmolested, and this was the assurance privately received by Mr. Cambell that a few years' retire ment would enable the horses to take her place in tho v;orld more fittingly when the time came for doing so, than if the money were to be frittered away in town houses, expensive joarneys,and the lik-i, before hand. Now, of all things, as we have said, the fond grandmother desired so see her darling a great lady, and a great lady fulfilling all the duties and obli gations of her high estate. That Ger aldine should be good as well as great she sincerely wished and devoutly prayed; but she desired both. It was, to her mind, fitting and seem ly that a Campbell of Inchmarew should go abroad among the great ones of the earth. She had herself wedded a Highland chief, with her head full of all the glories of doing so, and had found all too lata that she, an tngtis'i woman born and bred, was by far tho greater Highlander of the two. The disappointment had been keen, and It had been repeated, for her only son had followed in the steps of his father had discarded the kilt, never acquired the Gaelic tongue, and knew nothing and eared less about the le gends, customs, and traditions of the house. Sh had felt herself fairly checkmated, and it had cost her many a pang. And now, behold! just when it was not wanted, and could well have been disiensed with, alt the wild blood that these two very tame specimens ot rant ing, roving chleftainhood ought to have possessed and never had pos sessed, came surging up to light through the blue veins of a fair girl, and was not to be repressed. TO IiE OONTIXUtUJ. I Ill-AdTlseil. jn dealing with royalty it is neces sary to have "a pretty reason" ready for any awkward situation; for kings and queens can never be made re sponsible for failure. When Victoria was a very young sovereign, she sat down, one day, to play chess with the (Jueen of Belgium. She had never played before, and Lord Melbourne with Lord l'alnier- ston stood behind ber chair and ad- vited her. Later, Lord John Ilobhouse tcok their place, and became somewhat confused ny the difficulties of the situation. A good deal of misunder standing was occasioned by the fact of having queens on the board and two queens at the tabla Moreover, v ictorla was constantly asking, "What must I do?" so that the adviser felt Incapable of making a well-considered decision. He lost the game, but next night the (tUeen, undlscou raged, played again. When Sir John entered the room, she ran up to him, laughing, and exclaiming: -I've won! How did 1 happen to lose yesterday?" This was a poser. Could the courtier reply, "Because your Majesty had not learned the game?" By no means. "Because," said he, "vour Majesty had such bad advisers!" Altiioitom England's farme s make a specialty of choice mutton sheen, and Australia also supplies the Lon don market with frozen meat, yet the prices for good mutton keep pace with the demand. Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou bast; there is a hand above will help thee on. Many men's thonghts are sot acorns, bnt merely pebbles. Jnst the moment man thinks he is strictly in it, some one "a ights' him. Yon will miBS it if yon undertake to measure a mau's religion by the length of bis face. There is a divinity within m who breathes that divine Are by which we are animated. To-morrows may be long coming, bnt they keep coming. Time is a mill, and to-morrows are bnt the dust of itsgnndinga. .Nobody knows what lovei'. and some people wreck their lives trying to find out Be yonr character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon yonr word. Life. I repeat, is energy of love. divine or human, exercised in pain, in striie ana trioniaiion. Men are generally mo-e careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. Some temptations come to the in dustrious, bnt all temptations attack the idle. The gem cannot be polished without frictioD. cor man perfected without trials. It is easier to enrich ourselves with thousand virtues than to correct our selves of a single fault REV. DE. TALMAGE. THS BBOOKIiTN DIVINE'S SUN DAT SEB3ION. Subject : "Home Again." Tryt "Ttr'psr IiVxt itio fatiol C.tlt anfl kill it. " Luiosv., 23. In all ages of the world ft has tjeen m tomary to relebrntn joyful event by festiv ity 4hs slffulnR of trentii's, tho proclama tion of pnaee. the Christina, thfl mnrrlairi. However much on other daya of the year rnr table may have stinted supply, on Thankasivtne there must he something bounteous. And all the comfortable homes ef Christendom have at soma time cele l rated joyful events by banquet and fes tivity. Something has happened In the ol 1 home stead (rrenter than anything that baa evor happened before. A favorite son, whom the world snpposed would become a vagabond and outlaw forever, has (rot tired of 1ffht seel n if and has returned to bis father's bouse. The world said he never would romebaek. The old mnn always said his son would come. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come bark. Now, having returned to his father's house, the father proclaims celebration. There Is a calf In the paddock that has been kept up 'and fed to utmost capacity, so as to be ready for some occasion of joy that miffbt eomealonir. Ah, there never will be a crandor day on the old homestead than this day. Z.et the botchers do their wort and the housekeepers brlnir into the table the smoklnir meat. The musicians will take their places, and the eay (rroups will move up and down the floor. All the friends and neighbors are w ithered In, and extra supply is sent ont to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table, and says erace, nnd thanks Go t that his long absent boy Is home aijnln. Oil. how they missed him ! How Rlad they are to havo him back' One brother Indeed stamls outing at the back door and says : "This i a great a'lo about nothing. This bad boy sbonld have been chastened Instead of greeted. Veal is too eood for hlra !' Bnt the father says: "Nothing fs too goorf. Nothing is good euou'Th." There sits the young man. glnd at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble he had seen. All ready now. Lt the covers lift. Music. He was dead, and he Is alive again ! He was lost, and he Is found ! By such bold imagery does the Bible sot forth the merrymaking when a soul comes horns to God. First of all, there is the now convert's joy. It is no tame thing to become a Christian. The most tremendous moment in a man's life Is when he surrenders himself to God. The grandest time on the father's honostevl Is when the bov corm-a back. Anions the great throng who, in the parlors of my church, professed Christ one nl-ht was a young man, who next morning rang my doorbell nnd said: "Sir, I caaaot contain myself with the joy I feel. I came here this morning to express It. I have foun t more joy In five minutes in serving G l than la all the years ot my prodigality, un J I came to say so." You have sepn perhaps a mnn running for his physical liberty an 1 the olBotrs of the law after him, and yon saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had pir lone I him nnd how groat was the g!e9 of that res cued man I But It Is a very tame thing that compared with the running for one's ever lasting life the terrors of the law after him and Christ coming in to par ion nnd bless and rescue nnd save. Yi;u remember John Bunyan, in his great story, tolls how the pil grim put his fingers in his ears and ran, ciy ing, "Life, life, eternal life!" A poor oar driver, after having had to straggle to sun port his family for years, suddenly was in formed that a largo Inheritance was hl, r.Tl thoro wao joy araontillut; iki liilTtncmt, but that is a small thing compared with thai experience of one when he has put in his bands the title deed to the joys, the raptures, the sp!en lors of heaven, and he can truly say, "Its mansions are mine t Its templnsnrn mine ; its songs arc nr'ne ; Its Go 1 Is mine !" Ob, it is no tame tiling to become a Chris tian. It Is a merrymaking. It Is the killing of the fntted calf. It is jubilee. Yon know the Bible never compares it to a funeral, but always compares it to something bright. It Is more apt to be compared to a banquet than anything else. If is compared In tba Bible to the water bright, flashing water to the morning, roseate, fire worked, tnounJ tain transfigured morning. I wish I conld, to-day take all the BiMe. expressions about pardon and peace and life anil comfort an'.l nope and heaven, and twist them into one) garland, and put it on the brow of the hum blest child of God in all this land, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now. wear it forever, son of Go I, daughter of the LorJ God Almiglity. Ob, the joy of the new convert 1 Oh, the gladness of the Christian service !" You have seen sometimes a mnn In a re ligious assembly get up and give his expe rience. Well, Paul gave his experience. He rose in the presence of two churches t'je church on earth and the church In heaven and he said, "Now, this is my ex perience, sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich ; having noth ing, yet possessing nil things." If all the people who read this sermon knew the joys ot the Christian religion, they would all p iss over into the kingdom of God the next moment. When Daniel Sandeman was dy ing of cholern. his attendant said. "Hava Jou mu?h pain?" "Oh." he replied, "since founil the Lord I have never had any pain except bid." Then they said to him. "Would you like to send a message to your friends?" "Yes. I would. Tell them that only Inst night the love of Jesus oame rush ing into my soul like the surges of the sea, and I bad to cry out : 'Stop, Lord ; it is enough 1 Stop Lord enough V" Oh, the joys of this Christian religion I Just pass over from those tame joys In which jou are Indulging joys of this world into the raptun-sof tne gospel. The world cannot satlsry you ; you have roun 1 out Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer nnd yet drowned in his own bottle, Byron whipped by disquietudes around the wona, Voltaire cursing nis own bo in wnne nil the streets of Paris were applauding him, Henry IL consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a Becket. all illustrations ot the fact that this world cannot make a mnu happy. The very mnn who poisoned the pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode shouted in the street, "Go 1 Save the Queen 1" One moment the world applauds, and the next moment the world anathematizes. Oh, come over into this greater Joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude. The night after the bat tie of Sliiloh there were thousands of wounded on the field, nnd the ambulances had not come. One Chris tian soldier, lying there a-dying under tb starlight, began to sing : There is a land of pure delight. And when we came to the next line there Were scores of voices united : Where saints Immortal reign. The song was caught up all over the field among the wounded until it was sail that there were at least 10,000 wounded men uniting their voicss as they cam J to th. Verse- There everli.Si.ing spring abides And never withering flowers. Death, like a narrow stream, divides That heavenly land from ours. Oh, it Is a great religion to Mtj by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart throb between yon and that relig ion this moment. Just look into the face of your pardoning God, nnd surrender yourself lor time and for eternity, nnd He is your?, and heuven is yours, and nil is yours. Some of you, like the young mnn of the text, have gone astray. 1 know not the history, but you know it you know it. When a young mnn went forth Into life, the legend says, hiB guardian angel went terth with him, and getting him into a field the guirdinn angel swept a elrele elest around vfhere the young man stood. It was a cirole of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were oblige! to halt at the circle. They could not pass. But one day temptress, with diamoned hand, stretched forth and crossed that circle with. the hand, and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stenned beyond that crl tle. Would you not like this day, by the grace of God, to step back? Ths. I say to yon, la your hour of salvation. There was In the closing hours of Qaen Anne what U called the clock scene. Plot down on the pillow. In helpless sickness, she could not move her head or move her band. She was waiting for the hour when the ministers of State should gather In aagry contest, an 1 worried and worn out by the coming honr, nnd in momentary absence ot the nurse, In the power the strange power whlei do- br um sometimes gives one she arosi ad Itood In front of the dock, and stood ther. watching the clonk when the nana returned. The nurse said, "Do ton see anything pecul iar about that clock?' She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every history. If some of yon would rise from the bed of lethargy and come ont of your delirium of sin and look on the clock of your destiny this moment, you would see ind hear omotblng von have not seen or or heard bsfore, and every ttofc of the minute, ind every stroke of the hour, and every twing of the pendotnm, would say, "Now, now, now, now !' Oh, come home to your father's house! Come home, oh, prodigal. Vera the wilderness 1 Come home, come tome f But I notice that when the prodigal came (hers was the father's j.-y . Ho did not greet him with any formal "How 'to yon do?" He did not come out and say : "You are unit to nter. Go out and wash In t.ie trough by tho well, and then you can come In. We hava bad enongh trouble wltb you." Ah, no I When the proprietor of that estate pro alalmed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love anl a father's joy. Gol Is your father. I have not much symp ithy witn that de scription of God I sometimes hear, asttiou ;a He were a Turkish sultan hard and nnsy n pathetio and listening not to the cry ot His subjects. A man told me hesaw in one or t lie eastern lands a king ri ling a'on;, und two men were tn an alteroatlon, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice, and the king said, "Then slay the man, nnd ny post mortem examtnntlon find whether he has eaten the rice." And he was slnln. Ah, the cruelty of a soene like that 1 Oar God is not a sultan, not a despot, but a father kir.d, loving, forgiving and He makes all heaven ring again when a prodigal cornea back. "I have no pleasure. He says, "in the death of him that dieth." If a man does not get heaven. It is because he will not go there. No diff-renc t'rj col or, no difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surround ings, no difference the sin. When the white horses ot Christ's vlotory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph, you may rid' one of them, and, as God Is greater than all. His joy is greater, and when a soul comes hack there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to express that glndness it takes nil the rivers of pleas ure, nnd all the thrones ot pomp, and all the ages ot eternity. It is a joy deeper than all depth, and higher than all height, and wi ler thaa all width, nnd vaster than, all im mensity. Itovertops.it utdnr jir Is, it out weighs all the anile J splendor an. 1 joy of the universe. Who can tell what God's Joy Is? You remember reading the story of a kin? who on some great day of festivity scat tered sliver and gold among the people, who sent valuable presents to his courtiers, but methinks when a soul comes back God is so glad that to express His Joy He fling out new worlds into space, kindles up new suns and rolls among the white robed anthems of the redeemed a greater halleluiah, while with a voioa that reverberates amon,' the mountains of frankincense and Is eclio I bank from the everlasting gates He cries, "This, my son, whs deal and is alive again!" At the opening of the exposition In New 0 leans I saw a Mexican flutist, and he played the solo, and then afterward the I'icrht or ten ban Is of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in, but the souril ot ttist one flute ns compare! with all the or chestra was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ti n years a father went three times a day to the "depot. His son went oft in ag gravating clrcUTStnnc.es, but the father said, "He will ecme back." The strain was too much, and his mind parte!, and three times a day the father went. In the early morning he walciicd the train Its arrival, the step ping out of the passengers, and th -n the de paitum vf train At nonn he was there nvnin, watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night them again, watching the com ing, watching the going, tor ten years. Ho was sure his son would come back. Gol has been watching and waiting for some of you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fl fty years, wait ing, waiting, watching, watching, and if this morning the prodigal should cone home, what a scene of glndness and festivity and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at your coming hornet Yon will foine, some of you, will you not? You will, you will 1 I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the ministers ot re ligion. Ob, It la a grand thing to preach this gospel I I know there has been a great deal said about the trials and the hardsnips of the Christian ministry. I wish somebody would write a good, rousing book about the joys ot the Christian ministry. Since I en tered the profession I have seen more of the goodness ot God than I will be able to cele brate in all eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they do not rise into enthusiasm, and they do not break down with emotion, but I confess to yon plainly that when I see a man coming to God nnd giving np his sin I feollnboiy, mind ami soul a transport. When I soe a mnn who is bonnd hand and foot In evil liatlt emancipated, I rejoice over it as thongh it weru my own emancipation. When. In our Communion service, such throngs of young and old stood np at the altars and in the presence of heaven nnd earth and hell attested their allegiance to Jesus Christ. I felt a joy something akin to that which the apostle describes when he says s "Wh"ther in the body I cannot tell, or out ot the bo ly 1 cannot tell. God knoweth." Have not ministers a right to rejoice when aproligil comes home? Thyb:e,v the trumpet, and ought they not to be gla I of the gathering of the host? They pointed tothe lull supply, andougbt they not to re joice when souls pant as the hart for the water brooks? They came forth saying, "All things are now ready. Ought they not rejoice when the pro llgal sits down nt the bnnquet? Life insurance men will all tell yon that ministers of religion as a class live longer than any other. It Is confirmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upon human longevity. Why is It? Tuer Is more draft upon the nervous system than In any other profession, and their toil Is most exhausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable sti pends by parsimonious congregations who wondered at the dullness of the sermon, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood and had not enough nutritious food to keep any Are In their temperament. No fuel, no fire. 1 have sometimes seen the Inside of the lifeof many ot the American olergymen never ac cepting their hospitality because they can not afford it but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of 4500 and $600 a year, the average less than that, their struggle well depicted by the Western missionary w'io says in a letter : "Thank you for ycur last remittance. Until It came we bad not any meat In our house for one year, and all last winter, although It was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find In dlffr'-nt parts of the land, struggling against annoy ances and exasperations Innumerable, no-.ao of them trees Alter week entertaining agenot who have maps to sll nnd submitting them selves to all styles ot nnnoynnoes, and yet without complaint and cheerful ot soul. How do you account for the fact thnt these life insurance men tell n that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is be cause of the joy of their work, tho joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home lo their Father's house. We are in sympathy with all innocsnt hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty "song, an I w can be merry with the merriest, but those of ns who have toiled In the service ar t ready to testify all these joys are tame com pared with the satisfaction of seeing men enter tho kingdom of God. The great erai of every minister are the outpourings of the Holy Ghost, and I thank God I have s n twf nty of them. Thank God, thank God I I notice also when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on a promontory, and there wasa hur ricane at sea. and it was blowing toward the shore, and a vessel crashed Into the rocks, and yon saw paople get ashore In the lite boats, nnd the very lait man got on the rocks In safety, you could not control yonr Joy. And It is a glad time when the church of Gol sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their feet on the rock Christ Jeeus. When prodigals come home, just hear those Christians sing I It is not a dull tune you hear at such tmes. Just hear those Christ innfTp ray I It is not astereotyped sup plication we have heard over and over for twenty years, but a puttingof the ease in the bands of God with an Importunate pleading. Men never pray at great length unless thsy have nothing to iy, and Jheif hearts are hard and cold. All tlrTTrayers la the Blfclt that were answered were short prayer . God be merciful to me. a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight. "Lord, save me or I perish. The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, leje than eight minute in length, according to the ordinary rate ol enunciation. And jnst hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home. Jnst see them shake hands. No putting forth of the four tips of the Angers In a normal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to cllnoh the fingers of one hand around the other hand. And then see those Christian faoes, how illumined they are. And see thnt old man get np and with the samO voice thnt he sang fifty years ago In the old country meeting house say, "Now, Lord, lett est Thou Tby servant depart in peace, fo: mine eyes have eeen Tby salvation." Therf was a man of Keith who was hurled ints' prison In time ot persecution, and one en he got oft his shaokles, and be came and stood by the prison door, and when thj Jailer was opening the door with one stroll he struck down the man who had Incarcera ted him. Passing along the streets of London, 1 wondered where his family was. He dfJ not dare to ask lest be excite suspicion, but passing along a little way from the prison he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation. He saw it in a window. His family, hoping that some day be would get clear, came and lived as nenr as they could to the prlsou house, and they set that Keith tankard La the window, hoping he would see It, and he came along and saw It, and knocked at the door, and went tn, and the long absont fam ily were all together again. On, If rot would start for the kingdom of Go 1 to-dajt I think some of you would find nenrly a. your friends and nearly all your families, around the holy tankard of the holy com munion fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, around thnt sacred tankard which cotra memorntes the love of Jesus Christ our Lord) Oh, it will be a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard! One on earth, one in henvon. Once more I remark that when the proa Ignl gets bnck the Inhabitants of heaven keep festival. I am v:ry certain of It. It you have never seen a tolegraphlo onart,you havo no idea bow many cities are connected tog-tlier and how ni.my lands. N rly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem retlon late ', nnd news files from city to city and from continent to continent. But more rap idly go t.ls tilings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it Is annocnoed before the throne of God. And It these souls to-day should enter the kingdom tiiere would be some one In ths heavenly kingdom to say, "That's my father," "That's my mother "That's my ion." "Thn's my daughter," "That's my friend." "That's the one I used to pray for, "That's fas one for whom I wept so many tears," and one soul would say, "Hosauna I ind another soul would say, "Halleluiah I" Pleased w;ta tha news, the saint? bjlof In sotigi their tougje? employ. B"yond the skies the tiding) go. And heaven is Oiled with Joy. Nor angels enn their joy contain, But kindle with new fire. The sinner lost is found, they sin?. And strike the soun ling lyre. At the banqnet of Luculins sat Cicero, tt". orator. At the Macedonian festival sat Philip, tho couqiioror. At the Grecian ban quet sat Socrates, the philosopher, but nt our Father's table sit all thi resurno I pro il gals, more than conquerors. The taV.e Is so wide its leaves re.io'i nroa S" is sn I a"ross lands. Its i;U"8ts nra t le re letm l of the earth and the glorifle I of heaven. Tus nn of Go l's forgiven "ss on eviry haul, tie robe of a Saviour's righteousness ndroop from every shoulder. The wine that gloirs In the oups Is from the bowls of 10,000 saora ments. Let all the redeemed of earth and all the glorified of heaven arise, and with a glenming chalice drink to the r 'turn of a thousind proligalg. Sinr, s'ov, sinul "Worthy Is the Li:ni that wis sla'u to re- OT10 bl'Oiiui tan -1 .hu n 1 ho" 1 T Rllrf7 elorv and Dower, world without end 1" TH Z TWO BOYS. rhincc Wcro Evidently Not "Evened IV Between Them. A lady accompanied by hor son, a lad of about 12 years, was riding In a street car up-town the other day. The voufig gentleman had on what was svideutlv his tlist suit of "grown-up" clothes. His shirt, collar, tie, and scarf pin were immaculate. His suit was evidently ma le by a good tailor, aud his fault'ess kid gloves were ot the latest shade. He was well pleased with himself and his mamma was well i 'eased with him. At Forty-second treet a uewsboy came on the cars carrying his evening papers He was rather more wretched looking than the average newsboy. Ilia autre consisted solely of a very ragged shirt and an equally ragged pair of trousers, which were held on by a strit) of dirty cotton cloth which served for a suspender. He was hat less and shoeless. . The most remark lble thin.; about this newsboy was that his face and hands were clean. The boy in ths good clothes bought a paper. He immediately began to read it as the men do while he ab sently held out his cloved band for the change. While the newsboy counted the pennies into the palm of the new kid ilove he looked his customer over, not contemptuously, as one might iinairine, but rather wistfully. Then he walked slowly out of the car, look ing back over his shoulder at the well-dressed boy. A change of horses was being made, and the newsboy stopped outside, ol his window with his papers under his arms and his hands in his pockets, still looking at the b:iy In the derby hatjThe wistful expression deepened and grew. One could read uion his face what he was thinking, and a gentleman who had watched the lit tie incident sil l with a sigh as tha car started out: "Things don't seenvd to be ycrj well evened up in this world," and everybody seemed to understand er, cept the boy, who was still looking at his paper, and his mother, who was fondly gazing. JS'ow York Times. The Common I.om!. "Ko, It cannot lie." said the Cos ton girl coldly t ti c tuner suitor who had pleaded passionately for hei affection. "There is no common bond of interest between us " "Vcu forget," said the Vale football man. not without hope, "i hut we ate Lotl Mue stockings." Kx h:in;e. Science will probably find a way to Jtilize in our homes the central heat of he earth. Peanut oil is a valuable ing red. out of toap. Some people aim so high that their arrows cnt nothing bnt the air. We onght to think like great minds and speak like the common people. It is bnt a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. The world is all np hill when we wonld do; all down hill when we suffer. Destruction is the conseqaenca. nev er the object, of a great mind. Most men, until by losing rendered sager, will buck their opinions by a wager. Discontent is the want of self-reliance t is infirmity of will. LS AHMED CAP-A-PIE IVHAT THE UP-TO-DATE FOOT BALL PLAYER HAS TO WEAR. Cars, Nose, Eyes, IJmbe and Trmnk Mom Ba Protected with Robber, Silk, Cottoa and Steel Player Looks UkssBarlciqu Knight In Armor. Ingenious InTentton. When several years ago the ac counts of Kugby football matches be tween the teams of rival Americao colleges began to earn a place in the news col umns alongside of rail, roa 1 wrecks and boiler explosions the cartoon ists of the country made merry with the mechan ical appliances designed to protect from sudden aid violent death the athletic young men who sought fame on the grid iron. A reproduction 1 1 a knight ot old, clad in steel and with visor AEADVTOKi."n.d-.wn, was the best re cched of many suggestions. A lay figure on exhibition in the window of a Chicago sporting and atretic goods establislirient has, accor ling to a newspaper of that city, b en mistaken by many people fur a cari cature. In fact the formidable-looking dummy disp'ays noth'n? that is not in the regular stock of ; " dealers iu this lice of goods, 'f lie most striking feature of the eiulpment Is the "headgear," or "head harness. It Is the result ot an evolution. First, the rubber mouth piece, which gives the Intensely e x- cited player some thing to clinch his teeth on, and there ! K AH MI7FF by prevent the breaking of the same bv some sudden shock, was Invented. Then the nose-uasA was designed by some one to protect a nasal bone al ready fractured from further Injury. Now it is to come Into general us as a prevent' ve of fl st injury. Then came the p added guards for the ears, which seemed to tu;".er a good deal In the rushes. But previous to this shin orotectors made of canvas and whale bone lad leen added to the quilted can. vas knickerbockers (now adopted by A'W;.A'J baseball tossers) and the tightly laced canvas jacket. For tho protection of tho PUOBOSCH TECTOR piio-abdomen an ingen ious arrangement of wire, cotton and chamois skin was pro uoed to fl:l a long-felt want, and & roajy ci was found for elastic caps and supporters for shoulders, el bows, forearms, kneecaps, ankles and wrists. An aspiring athlete c'ad In all of thee extraneous adjuncts to the football player's outfit wou'd be1 safe from injury by anything short o' a railroad collision. The nose n:asks have been wore more numerously each season. The elaborate head gear will be gr. atly in evi dence during this season. It Is made of light watch-sp ring steel, leather straps with lamb's wool AS abhominai. SIUEI.D. facings, and vulcanized rubber. In general appearance it resembles the harness worn several years ago by a dime museum freak the man with a broken neck. A wide band of leather, with the lambskin next to the flesh, passes acro-s the forehc.id to the rear ef the head. A center strap, Mtui arly constructed, passes tack of .he head. From the encircling band are wide padded straps, which encompass the ears in horseshoe shape and ex tend well forward to the cheeks. Tho rubber nose mask, a stiff affair extending over the mouth and to the chin line, is attached to the forehead st up and the cheek pieces Four little slots in its widest part permit breathing The whole harnes is held securely in place by elastic bands under the chin and at the back of the head and neck by elastic bands and bu kles. A team equipped with these unbeautl f ul arran g e m e n t a 3 4111011 a snis saver, uiigub easily oe mis taken for a crew of submarine divert or for a band ot gnomes escaped from a Christmas lantomlme. The cycl peer so emnly through the lamb's Tne foot-ball bhob. wool goggles, and a mere patch of the cheeks is presented to view. Yet it Is questionable whether this harness In its very construction Is nut after all a temptation for a good, safe grasp by an adversary, wltb the sub sequent churning of the bead of the wearer until the surrounding turf will look as If pigs had been rooting there for potatoes. The gearing looks odd just now, but so did base-ball catchers' masks and body-shields when first introduced. The pioneers were unmercifully guyed. To-day a ca .tlous club manager will not pe wit his players to dispense with the inrnTd nafWnsirrt. On th" fnt- ball field the headgearing will on.y be worn by the "tacklers" and "rush- era," for obvious reasons. DAD'S STRUCK ILE." A. Famous Expression Recalled by a Back woodsman. Death. There died a few days ago In the back woods of Venango County a ban through whom something over thirty years ago a catch phrase was added to the vocabulary of the day, which became the text for humorists, topg writers, aud even playwrights. fVv His name was Leander Jenkins. Tie lived near Franklin, Fa., in the early years of the oil excitement, and was a sort of man of all work. A black smith named Evans lived cn French Creek, and he had a plump and rosy daughter named Susie. Jenkins fell in love with Susie and she with him and they became engaged to be married. At that time large oil wells were being struck on Oil Creek, some miles alove Franklin, and everybody's head was full of tho matter. There was a well of water in Blacksmith Evans' yard, and one day, during tho early oil excitement, the water in it was found to be strongly Impregnated with petroleum. The blacksmith at once made up his u nd that thero was oil on his property and concluded to drill a well. An engine to do the, drilling was out of the question, an I he attach' d h s drill to the end of a spring pole and started in ts "kick" the well down. Evanj worked at his well only w hen he wa- not busy in hisj shop. If the e was a mule to bei thod, he dropped his drill and earne 1 his i!5 ceuts a shoe by shoeing tho mule. In that way he worked at his well for several months, until at the depth of seventy-three feet he stt ac's. oil. The oil wasn't at all like the oil they were rinding on (111 Creek. Ex perts visited his well and p oaounced its product lubricating oil of the finest quality. Evans, utilizing his spring pole as a pumping engine, kicked twenty barrels of oil a day from his well, and It sold at S.'JO a barrel. The demand for it was so great that the supply cuu'd not keep up with It. Then Evans deepened his well a little, and it rest onded with a yield of 200 barrels a day. An olfer of $500,000 in cash forone-ha f inter est In the well was made to him, but he refused it. On the Saturday of one week, by hard work, he made $5 In his blacksmith shop. Two weeks later Evans' Income was$t,000 a day. It was on the secend day after tha blacksmith's well beyan to yield iti twenty barrels that Leander Jenkins went to make his weekly call ori Susie. He was elated, but Susie m -t him coldly. "Lee," said she, "you'll liave to git X dou't want you." "How so. Susie?" said Leander. "'Cause dad's struck He." And "Lee" hal to "get" fuses pat remark soon spread a'l through the region and nil over the country, and it was the popular phrase 10114 aft?r the early oil excitement had, died away. Evans made an Immen -oj fortune out of his well, but lost it nearly all, like hosts of others, 11, subsequent speculations In oil. Susies was only 16, and her father cut he away to be educated. She returnci home in three years, a beautiful ancij accomplished girl, and Is now tho wife of a rich ranchman In New Mex ico. And Leanf!er .! nkins died tho other day, a backwoods teamster, not more than four miles from the spot where he met his fate be: aujo "Dad Had struck He." Anecdotes of It'smarck. Bismarck was a student at Gottin-. gee In 1832 and 1833, where bis skilli In fence won for him the surname; "Achilles the Invulnerable." In threo terms he fought twenty duels and re ceived only a single wound, of which the scar on his lower jaw near the ll. Is still perceptible; but as this w is caused by his adversary's blade Hying from the hilt, it was contrary to thj code, so that his reputation foritnui nerabillty remained technically un impaired. Indeed, the university authorities forb;:de him to fl;;ht cer tain projected duels, on pain of ex pulsion; and a month later he was sentenced to three days' Incarceration for a like offense. His first duel was with an Englishman, who had spoken in derision of the many petty states of Germany. With an American stu dent he made a bet that Germany would be politically united in twenty years. The wager was twenty-five bottles of champagne, to be drunk in the country of the winner. After the lapse of this score of years, in 13."3, Bismarck was preparing to cross the sea in order to pay the bet, when be learned that the American had died, and adds: "Tho name he bore did not presate a long life "oflln." She Wasn't a Tool. Dr. Guthrie once gave an excellent illustration of the regard in which the Sabbath Is held by the Scottish people. When he was visiting in Koss-shlre, Sir Kenneth Mackenzlo directed his attention to a servant girl, who was not only scrupulous, but logical in her practice. Slio astonished her master, one of Sir Kenneth's tenants, by refusing to feed the cows on the S.i'ibath. Mjj was ready to milk, but would by no means feed them and her deftnso shows that though a fanatic she wa not a fool. "The cows," she said, drawing a nice metaphysical distinction that would have done honor to a casuist "the cows canna milk themsels, so to milk them is a clear work o' necessity an' mercy; but let them ont to tho fields an' they'll feed themsels, I'll, nrrant" Some Mistake. Patient 1 want to thank you foi that last prescription you gave rue,' It was wonderful. It cured me iu two days. Doctor (suspiciously) Whe e did you get it filled? New 'fork World. A Summary. "I wonder what kind of people live In Mars?" said the philosophical g rl. "They're out of sight," replied the slanirful and confident young man. Washington Star. No Itanger. Doctor In order to effect a cure Jou will have to undergo a surgical operation. Patient Is it really dangerous? Doctor No danger; you will recover, without a doubt. Pa tient But I have understood In an operation of that character only one recovers In every 10,000. Doctor I know, but 9,i99 have already died; you are the 10,000th one, you will surely re.over. Truth. Acting on Ifer Belter. Do you believe in the emancipa Hon of woman?" demanded a Boston dame of a western woman. "Yes, Indeed," ren led the latter, "l'vo been divorced five times already. Judge-
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