B. F. HOHWEIER, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Bdltr amd Proprtetav. VOL. XLVIII. MIFFLINTOW1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1894. NO. 51. W4 w - I-IIAITKR I Continued. Cork a 'Glengary'' on one side over Jerry'.- jro i:en curls, tuck them out of view, and none could have wished for a bonnier Highland ladaie. She pos sessed the blue, bright eye and saucy lip of eery jaunty ancestor. She could whittle, she could stamp, she could feat'y execute more than on step of the sword dance and' shant-reu.-K she could go through the High land Hint; to admiration. It was her sport to respond in the w idest gutteral Gaeiic cow and again to her mystified, nalf-in tignant relative, and she waa seldom seen without a piece of bog myrtle the 1 adge of her clan in the bosom of her frock. For her looks, her dresa, her Bueech. or her manners, t are she had none. It might have been from an innate sense of superiority, it might have been trom sheer pride of birth or certainty of jo-ition. it might have been from the mere heedlessness of fifteen but certain it is that rora whateve- source it sprung, no coit-.ige maiden on tho lonely n.oorland thought less, or in deed thought as I tt e, about the effect she produced on those around he-, as did this wild and winsome Gera' dine of Inehinarow. The roughest p'aUl, the wrap most soiled and stained and worn by weather, suited her better than any finery pro cured from fashionable warehouses: and when compelled to array hersel In the latter one day in the week, and present something of a suitable ap pearance at the parish kirk, truth compels us to own that the trans formed and elegant young heiress was usually sulky, and always miserable. Enscouded in the urand old family pew, she would fidjjeT from side to side, after the fashion of a restive colt newly caught and ill at ease. She would kick her smart toes again-t the boards in front until the delicate French kid would all be worn and shabby, to be regarded by its owner w'th contemptuous disparagement ana mental reference to her own dear, do llghtful, damning hobnails at home. She would lean bacl and crush her fine Leghorn hat well aware that she wasdoing so - until notall the efforts of her long-suffering maid could restore its normal shape or freshness. She would pull otf and on her many-but toned gloves, an 1 spread and twist her fingers in them. Sue would shrug her shoulders in her pretty cape, as if it were an annoyance and a restrain' upon her movements. As for hei frock itself, it would be crumpled and creased in every possible direction: and it was only by uint of having a freshly-crimped and starched muslin or cambric ready for her to put on very Sunday morning that tho irre pressible young lady of the manor ould be rendered presentab'e at all. And yet and yet grandmamma saw through it all. With prophetic vision she beheld, through the vista of a few brief years, the hour of triumph when hor darling hould be proclaimed peerless among beauties, fairest among the fair. She could alord to wait. A faint remonstrance, bravely started, but ending in thin air, as a. rea ly described above, was. Indeed, from time to time essayed; but the an noyance would be transient, the doubt or fear momentary, while the abiding, deep rooted conviction of her heart was, that there was but one created being matchless in the world, and t'-'it one was Geraldine. CHAI'TEK It. BY THE MOUNTAIN BURN. "Thy gentlest awwp, and boldest l.ap, Tbv'rougb rock wa la, and plunging falli, TLy fi-nm-bella ringing fr.e; Tl.y pools and tby shUcwi, thy lao-wortB shadow. Thy Hurtles and sallies, tby fern-glad. aoJ valleys. Were early known to me. Very well aware was the observant young damsel that tl.is was the case: anil, being so it surely said something for her that she was neither inordi nately Belfish, nor eacting, nor al together insulwrdinato. She would not vex granny if she could help it. She wo.lt not disregard granny's hours and comforts if she remembered them. She would not de'y granny if she could got round her in any way. In her heart sha had a great affec tion not altogether unminlod with that pity which lies between love and contempt for tho poor dear whocould no longer run and jump and race all over the place, gailbp on bare-backed ponies, pull herself about in the small bout, and fish in the mountnin streams, as no doubt granny hai done in years gone by. l oot granny! Shu cruld have but few pleasures now, and those of a very tame kind. It must be terrible to be only able to ir along at a languid puce upon the Jroad liuek of stir! old bandy. Granny was, In reality, a very vigoro s dame or her years, and prided herself uton tli-i manner in which she mounted her ttuniy Sl.etland pon.-. and set oil for a rough htU r .do. i Hut Jerry would stand sorrowfully by and see, and be almost ashamed of the fine spring with which she allt upon her own little sad dto afterwards. Worse still. jnut it l) lor her poor grandmother, aha thought, to have to sit Idly In h stei n of their pretty sailing boat, en sconced in rugs and wraps, and taking no part in the hauling-in or Uttlng-out of the sheet, the tacking, and the other manouvers with which the men were proud to have t'.eir little lady think she was rendering assistance. 1'oor granny, moreo or, h Q to ttay at home whenever it was wjt and misty outside.. Now nothing v.ns more ex hilarating in Jerry's cyGi than bnlng jut and abroad in a so.iki:.g. blin iio ''117.U. swept in gust-across tho m unng or living up irom trie sca-io 'n, with a dash of salt spray aV out it that o ;ld be tasted 0:1 your liusa.'te wards. it was delic'ous to shake out her long wet locks to dry in the s n tnat would by-and-by peep out. And then what shining hnd glistening of c. ag uttd corrie, wiiat chiiviuar of re.oicing j bi ds what fr linens of treo and leaf, I and, uUvo all, what thundering iro.a the hiudea wate falls which uboun " oa the moors of Inch.narew: Tho;e fal.s were pretty well known to her - in es 1 ocial those belonging to her own t rounds, and whose syerv turn winding, pool anl shallow, she had been ac (uainted with from early years. Poor old granny could never see, never get uear enough even to guess at the half of this treasure of beaut V and ciolight. Jn consequence, granny was supposed to au:'.er such loss as rendered her an object of very real compassion and for beui ance: a:.d in her tender moments the child would even look with tatis .'action on the good time for granny which was one day to come, when, in o der to give her some enjoyment such as s..e could appreciate and partake of, she. Jerry, wo.ild sacrifice herself in so f..r as to .ollow her poor dear in and out of a wiiolo dreadful London sea son. i'es. she meant to do that, to go through even with that for her poor dear's sake granny was always her "poor dear" when in these moods and, however hateful and wearisome the whole thing might be, granny should never know how much it cost her. The resolution helped to salve the willful young conscience many a time when Jerry had been more than usu ally 6elf-assertive and independent. 8ho was going to bo good by and-by, and for the present she was going to be let alone. That, at any rate, was too often the practical outcome of a re morseful tit. With something of the kind in her mind on tho present occasion, the lit flsherwoman low ran merrily off down to the bridge, where I'onald watted, and v. as eagerly hailed by that expect ant knight. "Haste ye, haste ve. Miss Jerry,'' cried he. ' We arena' a thocht ower stine Tho burnio's iloon eneugh, and it'll be aye giintr'n' lower vet. And the sun it wull no' be the sun that we wa:.t - and the sun he wi.I be out him sel' directly," pointing as ho spoke to gleams of hcrht here and there break ing out on every side. Hasto ye. then!" exhorted the ragge 1 urchin ardently; and sei intr the t asket, and slinging it across his shoulders, while his young mistress with e ;ual dispatch took from him her rod, the two suddenly disap peared from tho bridge and plunged into the recesses of the wood, which at this poiut a; pro.iched nearer the Castle grounds than at any other. lireath was 1 reci us, and neither wasted it in words. A quarter o! an hour's hurried climb brought them to the side of the burn, which could be heard ever more and more distiac'.y roar ng in its tumuious depths but. though irlof. the transit w: s rough enough to have soaked and torn any less nurab'.e covoritig than that donned by the prud-nt li tie n aid. wbo now fearlessly followed her pioneer over mossy rock nnd quagmire, until each had slid down the slimy bank, and found themselves in the hollow, be ne, .tli a swollen and be lowing water fall. They were not to late. The waters had barely su! sided u "cicntly for sport, as their unxi U3 critical eyes assured them. A siiarp point which should pro ect from the ilea t of the fall, when the ti.; e to f sh the pool be neath had arrived, was .nst putting O'lt its no e. and before that had been dono, the stream would have been too fu'l. Donald nodded in silent ecstasy speech would have been thrown away. Both, however, understooi to 1: o e a little lower down, to whrro the black depth showed signs o." yielding and flowing out In a shallower current to-'-ards it. ocean bed, and then almost simultuneously, eaeh threw a line. Fortune wa on their side. At the very first cayt a greedy trout of lusty proportions and in excellent humor, as though as ready to be caught as the fair angler was to catch him, portirely hooked himself onto Jerry's line, and was landed in a thrice. He was but the earnest ot the fun to follow. - It was hardly fishing: It see : ed a'.l loading, all basketing1, all rejoicing, and mute comparing. At length, however, the little girl's tongue could keep silence no longer, and at an unlucky moment, for she had worked her way to some slight d s tance from the lad, she let it go. She ;ust landed a tine one. "Look, look at this, Donald." Donald at the moment drew carefully on to the rocks its counterpart. "Why, yours is still bigger. Oh, I ay, isn't it splendid?" shouted bis en chanted companion. "Isn't it glorious? Isn't it ?" "What's your wull?" He thought she had somothing to Bay, something :or him to do, or to go for. "Isn't it gkrious?" in rising accents. "Ech?" Only those who know the shrill Highland screech can Interpret that "ixh. " . whose ,eebl Southron meaning would be 'Eh?" "Ech?" screeched the urchin, wrinkling up his small, shrewd physiognomy, and put ting his hand behind h:s ear, the bet ter to hear and co 1 prehend. "Nothing - nothin," impatiently. "I only said how spiendid it was. and what beauties iney are. oawiea aiiss jerry back, unable woman-like to resist the last word. "E-c-h? ' a?ain, at the extreme pitch of Dor aid's little yelling voice. "Oh, what's the use of talking'" and Jerry stamped and frowned. "Xever mind never mind, I say. Nothing-nothing-nothing,' as the grinning, wrinkled, inquiring face was still ( iretched out for the information which the noise of the waters drowned. "Stupid boy," added she, potto Mic e, "hear that if you tan! Oh, the idiot, he is actually coming over tho rock t me. Oh, Donald, you i :iot,stop wh. r.! you are! Co back -go ba..k - I ''on i want you. Go back, I tay-Livk back!" waving a peremptory hand. Go -I ack." in a last supremeeiTort. "Can I tell the boy anything.- in quired a voice almost in her ear. So startling was the gentle sound, tnat the effect produced u; on sn;one thus taken at unawares might h:io been nay, must have been, antici pated; but on Geraidinc tiiis e:Vcct was Intensified from the fnct t'.a-. in spite of her hardihood s.r:d curly train ing, she was usually su-cc tilde to an.--th:ng of the kind, and in conse lenufj was strictly guarded from the casnco of its occurring. It could, therefore, be no inmate of Inch mare w, who, plainly with the i?i- tention of causing surprise, had th s crept up behind, and now almost breathed In her t nr. On the surfai o. tuo -.ntcrreren was, of course, pardonab e. A ci il inquiry and oiler to he:p, when il a;i e. rtd that two of a purty wore desin us of communicating with each other, an-i were unable to do so, could har.iiy to cavilled at; ana P "eat' v to grotes ue figure he had address 5 wbiried round upon him witha gestura tnat sent her h?nr-rod flying ov.r the rocky promontory, and cry that roso above the trintr of the waters, 4 he merely laughed aloud, ard that In her very face. But he cautrht her by the arm nevertheless, for her foot slipped, and the place was not ote to Blip in. "What, you young shaver," he orled as he did so, "what, I made you jump, aid I-eh.' By George! it's a giri:" catching sight of her face and of a wavy lock around her throat. ''It's a girl, by all that's wonderful! And a rare pretty girl, too. Well, my lassie, eome, come," as a burst of tears now succeeded the first shock of alarm. 'Come, come, "continued the stranger, I tatting her on the shoulder, and still aughing at the success of his trick, "no need for all this din. I would not have done it if I had known you were a girl; but after all, there's no harm done. I only meant to make you jump. And I owed you one for being before hand with me at this pool, the best pool in the stream, or I am mistaken. What business have you two monkevs to spoil the water for me eh? Little rascals like you can't catch the trout yourselves, and you only make a mess of other people's sport. Oh, I say though ' as at the moment his eye 'ell upon the brimming creel, some what ostentatiously opened by Donald, who had drawn near, and had under stood enough to perceive that some one was being rated, and that his and his young lady's fishing was, moreover, being dis; araged. "Did you catch all those?" demanded the new comer in accents which told their own tale. Donald nodded. "And here in this pool?" The brat nodded again. "Good heavens, what luck! And I'll warrant you have had the best of .hem, too, you young rascal And you, too. you Jenny or Maggie, or whatever they call you. you can throw a line as well as he. I saw you from the bank. jAnd I say, what a nice rod," picking it Up, "where did you get that rod? Wha Igied it ye, lassfe?" essaying the broad .Northern dialect in an unmistakably Southern accent, and eyeing the pretty rod, of a mak superior to that which he himself held, jealously as he spoke. There was no sort of response. Miss Campbell of lnchmarew, was for once feeling herself fairly caught In her own trap. Granny had told her, what might be the result of her pres ent disguise, andthat result had strict ly come to pass. The person making fie mistake pre dicted by the wiser head was clearly a gentleman, and poor Jerry, tearful and sobbing, had a'l the instincts of a lady. It was dreadful to her to be addressed ai she was now being not that there was anything rude or disagreeable either in the stranger's tone or m" nar. but it was sulliciently jocose and familiar to .ar upon the ear of a high bora young maiden, accustomed to a certain degree of deference added to courtesy: and although a cottage lassie, such as she was deemed to be, would probably have found no fault either with the jog of the elbow or chuck of the chin which accompanied tho last inquiry, it is hard to say which of the two actions the indignant little lady most resented. Perhaps the swl.'t recollection that she had brought both on herself was wor.e to bear than all beside. Hitherto she bad not spoken, being sufficiently occupied in steadying her till tremulous limbs, and checking the tears which, do what she would, could not all at once be restrained, but the insult conveyed in the changing of plain English for broad Scotch was too much, and enabled her, better than anything else could have done, to re gain full command of her small self. She now drew hastily away, drew up to her full fhlght alas! the cruel yellow oilskin hid the grace with which she did it and with quivering, passionate lips, strove to assert her self, her rights and her dignity. TO BE CONTINUED. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. rarn.11? Noted Calling the Wicked to Re. ABHOKEN word can never bo ruenaea. Dead men have no faults. A no sty is not a good pcatl market. Sayixo no to self is saving yes to God. Only when God honors us are we truly exalted. G i never fails to promote the faithful worker. Ir is a great misfortune to be blind to our own faults. Try not only to be good, but to bo ood for something. The higher a little man Is lifted, the smaller be looks. Men care least for honor when most in want ot bread. - Don't talk about yourself when you want to be Interesting. I r is better to fail in trying to do good than It is not to try. Ir-Ve could kuow all it would not be so hard to forgive alL The tootprints of godliness always point toward unselfishness. Ki 8 11 1 no for compliments is not much better than fishing on Sunday. It is much harder to be happy with riches than it is without tbeiu. It is only when we give Christ our burdens that we can take il.s yoke. D(iNO will never make us lit for Heat en, but not doing may keep us out. The world needs men who will do right, do matter what is to coaie ot it. Find a man whom men love, and lyou will find one wbo has Orst loved men. White, the sin of the heart on the foi reliead and who will love the 1 ght. lr is doubtful if the devil has ever been dr.ven back an inch by star preaching. Evkuy man who is carrying any kind of a burden is invited to give it to Christ. While be was thinking of how the rabbit should be cooked, another man shot it. Nothing is to be gained by talk ing of Heaien to a man who wor ships money. There is a great difference between serving the world and being the serv ant of the world. I despise the opinion of the care for the light of the snn because yon can use a candle. ! -Ireland hM 107,774 paupers-that is inmates of the almshouses or in re 'ceipt of outdoor assistance. AN OLD-TIME CLERGYMAN. Pr.iohetl the First Protest int Rcrrnoa Whers Chicago Now Standi. In Plainfleld, 111., lives Rev. Stephen IL lieggs, who preached the Orst Protestant sermon delivered in old Fort Daarborn, where Chicago now stands. Despite tlie wear and tear of n i n e ty - four years, this ' -vl venerable p r eachcr retalos a wonderfully clear memory ot tho events of his . early life and his trials ns a Methodist niinis- bit. s a begos. tcr. iiciiuus iu uiy assignment to the Chicago circuit," said Rev. Mr. Peggs the other day, "I had a circuit in Missouri. That was where I first preached after be ing ordained. Ministers nowadays have no idea of what the work was in the '20's. It took me a month to make the round of my circuit. 1 traveled on horseback, and there were times when progress from place to place was nearly impossible. Thera were no roa?s laid out, no bridges over the streams, and t.ere wou'd be miles and miles of rank woods and underbrush unmarked by human hab itation. When there were no ford-5 the traveler had to swim, and In flood seasons on part of the circu.t it came pretty near being a swim for it most of the time. The minister was not troubled much with fees In those days it was lack vf them. I worked one year and received $23 In cash, most of which went for extra cloth ing. "The next jear I received $33. The workers were called missionaries, and most of tho money received was donated them by the Missionary So ciety of the church. The mission aries subsisted on what was given them by the members of their con gregations. I had to look to the sis ters for my clothes. Tte women made them of homespun, and great times they used to have in getting a new article of wearing appard for the parson. The women of one congrega t on In the circuit would nctice that my coat was frayed and threadbare. They would get up a sewing bee, and cotton they had raised ihemselves, perhaps, would be carded, spun and woven. Then they'd make a coat of the cloth, and when I gob around again, lo, I'd have a new coat. An - other congregation would furnish a pair of pants, another a set of shirts. I had no underclothes. At the end of each week I managed to reach a post where I had a clean shirt wait. lng. I would don the clean shirt and leave the other one to bo washed. Thus, you see, it was necessary for me n.iv a ant. f fl hirtl..np that I wore and four that would be ii. , . 1 til iciu air iuu stations uiong me ci.cuu where my laundries were 1 cated." Rev. Sir. Beggs was born in Vir ginia and on his mother's sidt: is a de scendant of the old Custer family, ol which Gen. Custer was a scion. PLAGUE AMONG THE FLIES Fangon . Growth thttt Kill Them OA Rapidly In the Aatamn. During the fall of the year the housewife who has been pestered with house flies will begin to find their bodies sticking to walls and other places, and surrounded by a white, halo-like powder. A favorite place for the flies to die upon is a window pane, and upon the glass the peculiar character of their surroundings may be plaloly seen. Placed under a microscope of mod erate power, the cause of the death of the files can be plainly distin guished. It Is caused by a fungous growth, which begins In the tissues of the Insect, somewhat like a can cer, and Anally pushes through the skin and goes through a sort of blossoming, producing spores by which it Is further propaagated. Other insects are attacked by re lated growths. Grasshoppers are par ticularly subject to such attacks, and the plant that kills them Is known as the grasshopper fungus. That which attacks the fly Is called Eupasa musca. It Is a plant of simple or ganization, and Is apparently related to the black molds. About forty re lated species are recognized. This ono consists of short tubular threads. These push through the skin of the fly and produce the spores near their tips. When this happens the fly's body swells up, and he fastens him self SDmewhere to die. Vast numbers of flies are killed by this fungus every year, particularly in the autumn. The marks they leave are a great annoyance to housekeepers. Tew York Sun. neat A H tn"rr rMe.) taxidermist has al ready : tuffed and mounted thirty-nine deerskins this leason. 4&. r FORT DEARBOUX. I fc ft fWO KINDS OF BAGGAGE FIENDS One Vlllian Travel With th. Train, tb. Oher R.main. In the lieppt. There are two of thcui. the one who 1 its from station to station and dumps your poor dumb trunk with force enough to drive 1 ilea in a Gov ernment breakwater, and the one who loiters around the depot watch ing for bis chance to shatter your baggage, says Texas Sifting3. The depot baegagemaa is the mast culpa ble of the two species. In his long and daric career of smashing trunks he has knock the hoops oil his con scien e, and there is no remorse brave, foolhardy, and reckless enough to tackle bis heart strings and play on them. Tho cow-boy ro;:es the Texas steer for fun, but the baggageman ropes your trunk for a quarter of a dollar. 'o matter though your trunk be shod with half-inch strap iron and armed with solid steel corsets on the cor ners, ana double licked with a burglar-proof comnination the station baggageman wants to rope it, a 1 the Fame, and usually be terrifies all the I assengers into letting him have hij own way. lie approaches you with a 6:uile, goes away with r5 cents, and ties your bruised and battered kistei with a tow string. The strong, iron bound chest of the drummer, and the aristocratic though frag.ie frame oi the Saratoga, meet on a common level, and when they do meet the splinters fly, and while the ownei of the :-araloea is wringing her lily white hands and tucking stray bin of lace, rud.ing and bird's eye linen into the fractured corners, the dr1!!: mcr is using the most vigorous and spiritual language he can command, and a great deal of It, warming uu with the eloquent brilliancy of UU discourse. As the praye 9 of the wicked avail naught, so neither da the tears of the belle nor the curse-; of the commercial gentleman. The time table of the railroad is not changed In tho least, and the sym pathetic passengers are obliged to go abroad. The wounded trunks are thrown into the ambulance--baggage car and whirled away to the nexj slaughter-bouse farther up the road. And the dear, sweet dude, and the starchy old deacon, and the grand and impressive member of the legislature are all alike powerless in the hands of the check r.ng. Tyre and Sidon have passed away, and so will our trunks. The Goths and Vandals swarmed down upon Home and it fell. Verily, 60 do the Goths and Vandals of the modern railroad prey on our baggage and It is broken up. MONTANA HAS A PAINT MINE. Immense Deposit fornlshlnc Four Colors Jsns; Known to the Indtaua. It is not generally known that we have in this locality, very near the "Geyser," a paint mine, says the Townsend Messenger. Wemightsay ! it is a quarry, there is so much of it. One of our enterprising citizens, Jo seph Blessing, recently took a wagon I .-1 I 1 .1 . I 1 . L. . ia7 suo'ul auu ,""u,-u u, w,lu wo u ,ors jto to. .nad and brought it home, dod it up with an old hammer '"'xe'' 16 up J'1 lin9lou and put 11 on his picket rence. lie now has ?'1( of V?e handsomest fences in the D"Vi PP T 7.J . K j)"d tDf lower a aitirul maroon, 1 be mine appears to be simply inex- haustible. This mine and the "Gey ser, which is near it, were discovered, or, rather, located, about eighteen years ago by that veteran old-timer and prince of good fellows. Nay lor Thompson, whom everybody knows and likes. It was shown to him in the first place by a friendly Indian chief wbo took a likinu to Mavlor, nnd assured him (Naylor; that it was the source of supply for all the In dians west of the Mississippi liver und had been for centuries. T. osc were the days when Naylor could draw his chair up to a table and sit down without knocking the table over he was very active. Well, the Indians came thousands of miles for paint and used to decorate their per sons when on the warpath; trails led froAP the mine in all directions, show ing that it had been a natural center of meeting for the red men, just the same as the well-known pipe-stone quarry of southwestern Minnesota. Baylor never made any uso of tho paint. He was In the habit of reach ing a high state of exhilaration at times, when he would mount b s broncho and let out a few yells and go In for some fun and then woe to the tenderfoot or anyone else who got in his way. At such times he was in for fun and nothing else, and a Gatling gun would not make him change his mind when his neck was bowed. He would tben paint the town in lurid colors, but be did not use any paint from the mine that wus all long ago. He still retains his interest in the mine, and claims he can furnish paint in four colors, by the train load, sufficient to paint ail creation. If anyone doubts this Jfav lor would like to see him. Animals and Stimulants. It has lately been pointed out that man, after all, is not the only animal who indulges In stimulants. Certain animals also indulge themselves in this manner with fatal results, the vehicle of Intoxication is the case of the lower order of beings being a creeping vetch called the "loco plant." This is an inhabitant of the "Texan Panhandle," and Is a source of serious danger to horses and cattle. To them it has all the allurements which are possessed by absinthe and gin for beings of another grade, only the results of the vetch are more definitely fatal, even when taken in moderate measures. Animals who have tasted of it are liable to fail over backwards, their brains being af fected as well as their spinal cords. They leap heights in their frenzy and dash down precipice No rider of a horse who has been thus intoxicated is in a safe position. The Hospital. Origin or a Curloua Mark. A curious feature of Chinese coins, the nail-mark, appears to have origi nated In an accident very character istic of China. In the time of Queen Wentek a model In wax of a proposed coin was brought for her majesty's Inspection. In taking hold of it she left on it the impression of one sail, and the impression has In conse quence been a marked characteristic of Chinese coins for hundreds of years. 15 I RCV. DR. TALMGR XHS BROOKLYN BIYIBTErS SUB. OATIIKlfOfi, Subject: "The Sick General. Text: "Ho was a lppr." II Eintrs v., 1. TTri w h.iva a warrior sln'c. not with Tlpurll!s or rlKMiTintiams or cotiHunntlons. lint with a d'snrtB worea thnn all th"o pt toother. A r.1 mnrk hns ooms oat on tho forebeail. precursor of eo-nnWe disfiornre mpnt anl dissolution. I hiv something awful to tell yoti. Oenornl Navnnn. thn mmndrr in rhlof of all Syrian forces, has thn lprosv ! It Is on hi hin Is. on bis face, on hi ft. on hi -nt!rs p-ron. Thn lpprosy Oit out of th war of th pstl-'-n'! If hi breath strifes yon. yon are a load man. The -ommandr in ohief or all Ihn rorots of Srrla ! And yet ho would t, itla I to fxnhntiTn conditions with th hoy at hi stirrup "r tho hostlw that blnnlc!s' bis harupr. Tho news bops like wildfire alii thrnusrh the malm, and the pnn!e are vm pathetic, and they cry out. "I It possible; that our srreat hero, wo slew Ahab ami aronnd whom we eame with such voolfera tion when he rctnrne-1 from victorious bat t'e -an It be possible that our errand and Ijlorlons Naaman ha the lenrosy?" Yi-s. Evervho iy has something he wishes ne had not David, an Absalom to dissrraca Mm ; Paul, a thorn to stin him ; Job, car buncles to placrne him : Samson, a Delilah tr. shear him ; Ahab, a Nahoth to denv him , TT.man. a Mordecnl to Irritate him : Oeoru Wnshinrjton. a childlessness to affllithtm, Tohn Wesley, a termagant wife to pester him ; Leah, weale eye ; Pope, a crooked back ; Byron, a elnb foot ; John Milton, Mind eyes ; Chnrls T.anib, an insane sister, an I you nnd yon ard you somethinjr which yon nver t-arsraine 1 for and would like to f-et rid of. The rmwn of thi is that God doe, want this world to be too brleht. Ofhi'rwise we wonM always want to stay and eat th"se fruits and He on these lonngesand shake hind In the pleas -nt soeletv. W are only tn the vestibule of a erand temple. Clod do-s not want ns to stand on the door step.tn 1 therefore He sends aches nnd annoy, nnci s an I so-roivs an I bereavements of all sor s to nush n on nnd push ns np toward rlp -r 'mi:s and brighter soeletv and mora radiant prosrvrities. God Is only whipping n aVa 1 . Tiie raason that E Iward Payson nnd Ilohert Hill had more rapturous views ol beav'n than other people had was becan9e, through their aches and pains. Go 1 pushed the n n-'r-r no to it. If God dashes out ne of your pictures, it is only to show to you a briir'it'T one. ir He stinsr your foot with eont. yonr brain with neuralcria, vourtoniru with an in"XtinL-ushahlh thirst, it is only he cnuae He Is nrep irlnir to snbt tnte a better body than yon ever dreamed 0 when ih mortal shall put on Immortality. It is to pash you on and to push you np toward somthinir enn ler and better that God sends upon you, ns n did upon Gen eral Naaman. something yon do not want. Seated in his Syrian manxion. all the walls Klitterin with the shields which he had cap lured in battle, the corridors crow led with admiring yisitora who jnt wantei to see him once, music nnt mirth and bar.quatinj filling nil the mansion from tessellated floor to picture I ceiline. X.iaman would have for cotten that there was anythiae better an l would have been clad to stay there 10.000 years. But. oh, how the shields dim. and how the visitors fly the hall, and how the music drops dead from the string, and how the gates ot the mansion slam shut wire sepulchral bane as yon rea l tho closing words of the eulos'um ! "He was a leper J He was a leper!" There was one person more sympathetic, with General Naamau than any other per son. Naaman's wife walks the floor, wring ing her hands anl trying to think what she can do to alleviate hr husband's sufforin?. All remedies hava failed. The surgeon g'i ernl and the doctors of the royal staff bav met. and they have shaken their heads, as much ns to say. "So cure, no cure."I think that the office soekers bad all folded optheir recommendations and gone home. Probably most of the employes ot the establishment had dropped their work and were thlnkin? of looking for some other situation. What shall now become of poor Naaman's wife? 8he mast have sympathy somewhere. In her despair she goes to a little Hebrew cap tive, a servant girl in her bouse, to whom she tells the whole story, as sometimes, when overborne by the sorrows of the world and finding no sympathy ai.y where else, you have gone out and found In the sympathy of some bumble domestic Rose or Dinah or Bridget a help which the world could not give you. What a scene It was one of the grandest women In all Syria in cabinet council with a waiting maid over the deollning health of tho ml'ihty general ! "I know something," says the little captive maid, "I know some thing," ns she bounds to her bare feet. "In the land from waich I was s'olen there Is a o-rtnin prophet known by the nama ot El'sha, who can cure almost anything, and I shouldn't wonder It he could oure my mister. H -na lor nira right away." "On, hnsii !" you s iy. "If the highest medical talent In all the land cmnot cure that leper, there is no need of your listening to any talk of a servant girl." Jiut do not scoff, do not sneer. The finder ot that little captive maid is po.uting in the right direction. She might have said: "Tris is a judiraent upon you for stealing me from nay native land. Didn't they snatch me 11H in the night, breaking my fath- r's and mother's hearts, and many a time I have i;dn H'ld cried all night because I was fi) lio.ui sick?" Then, flushing up into cliil im) indignation, she might Have said: ,-uojd lor them. I'm glad Naaman's got l je Iri.rosy. I wish all the Syrians had 1 be leprosy." No. Forgetting her personal sorrows, sae sympatD'zes with the suffering of her Master and commends him to the famous Tle:irew prophet. And hoy o:ten it is that the finger of ehi'ilfco'j 1 has pointe 1 grown p-rsons in the ri-rlit .;i:ection ! O Christian soul, bow long is it sin .-.- you got rid of the leprosy of sin? You R iy. "Lei mu see. It must be live years now." 1'ive years. Who was it that pointed you to the D vin) Physician? "Oli,"you .-ay, "t w .s my isttla Amie or Ired or Charley thnt cix-.nered up on my knees and looked in;o my !ac and nsked me why I dbin't beome a Christian, and, all the titr.s strokin r iry cheek, so I couldj not get anicry, insisted npon knowing why I dii'.n't have family prayers." There are gran parrnts who have been brought to Christ by their little graaichildren. There are nun treds of Cnristian mothers who had their attention tlrst called to Jfsus by their ditla children. How did you get rid of the opn sv or sin? How did yon find your way to the Divine Pnysicinn? "Oh," you say, "my cjild, my dyin child, with wan and wasted finder, po nted that way. O!;, I nevi-T shall forget," you say, "that -c ne at the cradle nnd the crib that awiul night. It was hard, hnri, very hard, but If that little one on its dyiu bod had not poinie.l me to Cirlst I don't think I ever would hR.ve got rid ot my leprosy." Go into 1 he Sabbntb-S'Miool any Sunday, and you will nnd hundreds of iiitleflngers pointing iu tie same direct on, toward Jesus Christ and to ward heaven. we.-.rs aro the astronomers CC'ated th. there must be o w rld hanging at a certain point in the htiiV sns. nnd a large prize was off -red lor some one wao could discover that world. The telescope froa the great ob eervatories were pointed in vain, but a girl at Nantucket. M iss., las lioue 1 a telescopj, ml looking ibrou'j it discovcrel that star and won the pr z mi the admiration of all the astronomical world, that stood HttiKZ'd at her genius. And so it is oiten tiie caia that cr'.wa pr-opie. cannot see the HsJlit. wholesome little cnild beholds the star of p:irdon, the star of hop.-, the star of conso .atiun, the star of C-t'i!hem. the morning stir o' J sns. "Not many mighty men, not a-any wise mrn are called, i nt God hath ciios n the weak things of tn world to con 'oou'l tlie miguty an 1 base tilings and things mat are not 10 brin.- to naugijt things th it Ire." Vl, do not lpi the pratttT. ot Httle children when they are jaking about Bod and Christ and h-av--n. You see th ray yourchild is pointin?. Will you takethat pointing or wait until. lathe wrench of some wfn( bereavement. Gol shall lift that child lo another world, and th-n it will becion' roo npward? Will yon take that pointing, r will yon wait for tbe beckoning? B'essed be Ood that the little Hebrew captive polnt sd in the right direction. Blessed bs Go 1j lor the saving ministrvof Christian children No wonder the advice of this little He-j brew captive threw ail Kaoman'i mansion ind Ben-Sadad's palaeo Ttfio exottcraenF.' 3oodby, Naaman I With face scarified and ridged and inflamed by the pestilence and tided by those who supported him on either ilde. he staggers out to the chariot. Hold last the fiery coursers of tho royal stable vhlle the piorslo't man lifts his swollen wet and pain struck limb into the vehicle, Bo'stcr him np with-the pillows and let hlra take a lingering look at his bright apart nent. for perhaps the Hebrew captive may w mistaken, and the next time Naaman somes to that place he may be a dead weight n the shoulders of those who carry bim, an expired chieftain seeking sepulture amid the, lamentation of an admiring nation. GooiJ v, Naaman! Let the charioteer drive gen tly oyer the hills ot Hermon, lest ha jo'.t !he Invalid. Here goes the bravest' man it all his day a captive of a horrible disease, as the ambulanoe winds through the street of Damascus the tears and prayers of all th j people go after the world renowned Invalid. Perhaps yon have had an Invalid go ou( from your house on a health excursion. Ton tnow how the neighbors stood around andj aM, "Ah, he win nver coma oac . alive.' Oh, it was a solemn moment, I tell you, when the invalid hat departe i. an you went Into the room to make the bed, and to remove the medicine vlais from the ihelf. and to throw open the shutters, so thnt the fresh air might rush into the long closed room. Ooodby, Naaman ! There is only one cheerful faoe looking at him, and that Is the face of the little Hehrew captive, who is sura he will get c-jtM, and who is so glad she helped him. As the chariot winds out and the escort ot mounted courtiers, and the mules, ladei with sacks of gold and silver and em-, l.roidered suits of apparel, went throughl the gates of Damascus and out on the lDDtj way, the hills of Naphtalia and Ephraim look down on the procession, and the re linue goes right past the battlefields where Naaman tn the day3 of his neaitn nsetf rally hi troops for fearfal onset, and then the procession stops nnd reclines awhile In tha groves of olive and oleander, and General Naaman so slok, so very, very sick I How the countrymen gaped as the proces sion passed' They had seen Naaman go past like a whirlwind in days gone by anl had stood aghast at the clank of his wai equipments, but now thoy commiserate him. Tuey say "Poir man. ha will never get home alive! Poor man!" G. neral Naaman wakes np from a restless 5V-n in the chariot, and he says to the char;oteer. "How long before we shall reach the Prophet ElishaV" The charioteer says to a wavider, "How far is it to Elisha's lions ?" He says, "Two miles." "Two miles?" Then they whip np the lathere I nn 1 lagged out horees. The whole procession I rightens up at the prospect of speedy ar rival. They drive up to the door of tliu prophet. The oharioteers shout "Whoa" to the horses, and tramping hoofs and grinding wheels cease shaking the earth. Come out, Elisbn, come out. loa have company. Tht grandest company that ever came to your house has come to it now. No stir inside Elishn's house. The fact was. the Lord hn I informed E.isha that the sick captain waa coming an 1 b jw to treat him. Indeed, wiien you are sick and the Lord wants you to get well, He always tells the doctor how to treat ?'ou, and the roason we have so many iunglin doctors Is because they depend upon tneir own strength and instructions and not on the Lcrd Got, and that always tnakt-s malpractlae. Come out, Elisha, and attend to yonr business. General Naaman and his retinue waited snd waited and waited. The fact was, Naaman hal two diseases prida and l''proy. The one was as hard to get rid of as the other. Elisha sits quietly in his house au I does not go out. After awhile, when he thinks he has humbled this proud man. he says to a servant, "Go out and tell Gen-ril Na ynanto bathe siven times in Ihe riv-T Jordan, oat yon-ter five miles, and he will get entir-'iy well." Tae message comes DUt. "What!" says the commander-in-chief of tne Syrian forces, his eye kindling with in animation which it had not shown for weeks and his swollen foot stamping on tho tiottom of the chariot, regardless of pain. "What! Isn't he ooming out to see me? Why, I thought certainly he would come and utter some cabalistic words over me or make fome enigm itical p tsss over my wounds. Way, I don't think he knows who I ira. Isn t he coming out? Way, when ihe Slmnamite woman came to him, he rushed out and cried : 'Is it well with thee? Is It well with thy hasbnn 1? Is it well with tny child?' And wid he trsnt a poor un known woman like that nnd let me, a titled perjouaje, s;t tier ) in my chariot an I wait in 1 wait? I won't ea litre it any longer. Cnarioreer. drive on ! Wash in tha Jordan ! Ha, ha I The slimy Jor Ian the mu ldy Jor dan the monotonous Jordan I I wouldn't be seen w ashing In such a river as that. Why, we watered our horsf in a better river, than that on our way here tho beautiful river.the jaspar paved river of Pharpar. Be jides that we hava in our coantry another Damascene river, Abana, with foliaged bank nd torrent ever swift and ever clear, under the flickering shadows of sycamore and ole nder. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all tha waters of Israel?" I suppose Naaman felt very much as Americans would feel if, by way of medical prescription, some one should tell ns to go wash In tha Danube or tha Bhine. We would answer, "Are not the Connecticut and the Hudson just as good?" Or as an Eng lishman would feel if he wera told, by way of medical prescription, he must go and wash in the Mississippi or the St. Law rence. He would cry out. "Are not the Thames and tha Shannon just as well?" The fact was that haughty Naaman needed to learn what every Englishman and every American needs to learn that when God tells you to do a thing you must go and do It, whether you understand the reason or not. Take tha prescription, wuethor you like it or not. One thing is certain. Unless haughty Saamnn does as Elisha commands him, be will die of his awful sickness. And unless rou do as Christ commands yon yon will bo eized upon by an everlasting wasting away. Obey nnd live ; disobey and die. Thrilling, jyerarching, undergirding, stupendous llternative 1 Well, General Naaman could not stand the lest. The oharioteer gives a jerk to tha right dne until the bit snaps Inthe horse's mouth, md tha whir of the wheels and the flying of the dust show the Indignation of the great commander. "He turned and went away In 1 rage." So people now often get mad at religion. They vituperate against ministers, against churches, against Christian people. One would think from their Irate behavior that God had been studying how to annoy and exasperate and demolish them. What has He been doing? Only trying to cure their death dealing leprosy. That is all. Yet they wnlp up their horses, they dig in the spurs, and they go awny in a ra,-e. So, after all. It seems that this health ex cursion of General Naaman Is to be a dead (allure. That little Hebrew captive might as well have not told him ot the prophet, and this long journey might as well not have been taken. Poor, sick, dying Naaman I Are you point away in high dudgeon and worse than wncn you came? As his caariot halts a motneni his servants clamber up in tt and coax him to do as Elisha gal l. Thej lay : "It's easy. If the prophet had told rou to wall", tor a mile on snarp spikes in or der to get rid of tnis awlul disease, yon would have done it. It Is easy. Come, my lord. Just ret down and wash in the Jordan. Ifou take a bath every day anyhow, and in this climate It is so hot that it will do you good. Co It on our account, and for tha ake of tha army you command, and for tha nation tbat admires you. Come, my lord, lust try thi JorJanio bath." Well, ii says, "lo please yoa I will ?o as yon say." The - retinue Srlve to the brink of the Jordan. The horses piw and neigh to get into the stream them clv an 1 cool their hot flanks. General K-aaman. assisted by his attendants, gets flown out of his chariot and painfully come lo the brink of the river an 1 steps in until 1'ie water comes to the ankl?. and goes on deeper nntil the water ootibs 10 the girdle, snd now stan lin? so tar down in t'ie stream nst a little inclination ot th head will thoroughly immerse him. He bows onoo Into the flood and comes no and .shakes tho water out of nostril and eye. and his attend ants look at him and say, "Why, general, how muoh better yon do loo"t I And he bows a second time in'o the final and comes np. nnd tie wild stare Is gone out of his 'eye. He bows the tblr I time into the floo I, and come up, and the ghrlv.ded skin has got snoot 1 again. Hi b-w-ta fourth tima in-o the flood nut co-a-s up, ant the hair that had fallen out Is restore 1 ; th?re are thick loci? again all overth head. He boxs the fl.tii tima into tae flood, and comes no. au ti'.a hoarse- lf3 his gone' out of Ms tliroaf. Ha Ebwa tho sixth tima and comes np, and all tho soreness and anguish have gone out of tha body. "Why," ho says, "lam almost well. Tout I will make a complete cure, and so ha bow3 the seventh time into the flood and ha comes np, and not so muoh as a fester or a scale or an eruption ns big as the head of a )in is to be seen on hi-n. He steps out on the bank and sny3, "Is It possible?" And the attendants look and say, "Is it possible?" And as with the health of pn athlete he bounds back into the chariot and drives on there goes np from all his at tendants a wilil "Huzza, huzza !' Of cours they go back to pay and thank the man of Go 1 for his counsel so fraught with wisdom. Wuea they le't the prophet's honsi, th-y went off mad. They have coma back glad. People always think b stter of a minister ar ter they are converted than they do before conversion. Now we are to them nn Intoler able nuisance because wa tell them to do thlngsthat go against the grin, bnt some ol ns have a great many letters Iro n those w n tell ns that once they were angry at w.iat 11 preached, but aft-rwar 1 gla lb received the gospel at our hand. Tn;y once called n fanatics or terrorists or i'ai.iii?9. No v they call as friends. Yonder is a man who said he would never come into the ohurch a.'.tin. He sal 1 that two years ago. He sai l, "My family shall nevei come here again 11 such doctrines as that arj preac leii." But he came again, and his family came again. He is a Christian, his wife a Christian, all his children Christians, the whole hous bold Christians, and you shall dw -11 with them in the house of the Lord forever, tx: undying coadjutors ar those who once heard tha gospel and "went away in a rage." Now, my hearers, you know that this Gen eral Naaman did two thing In or ler to get well. Tae first was, he got out of his char lot, ne might hava staid there with his Bwollen feet on tha stuffed ottoman, seated on that embroidered cushion, until his last gasp; he would never have got any relio. He had to get down out ot his clianot. An I you have got to get down out ot the chariot of your pride if you ever beco-ne a Chris tian. You cannot drive up to the cross with t ie spanglos. You seem to think that tho Lord is goin to bo complimented by your coming. Oil, no, you poor, mis. era.de, scaly, leprous sinner, get dojru out of that. Wo all co:no in th Same haughty way. We expect to ride nto the kingdom of God. Nevei pntil we get down on our knees will we find mercy. The Lord has unhorsed us, un baariole i us. Get down out ot your pride. Get down out of your s-lf righteousness and your hypiiroriticism. Wo have alt got to do Uiat. That is the journey we have to make on our knees. It 1 ot'.r internal prl le that keeps us from get"ing rid of the leprosy ot sin. Dyar Lord, w.iat have we to be proud oi? Proud of our scales? Proud of our un rleanliness? Prou I of this killing iu'e rtion? Bring us down at Thy feet, weeping, pray ing, penitent, believing sunpliauts. For sinners, Lord, Ttiou cam'st to bleed And I'm a sinner vile indeed. Lord, I believe Thy grace is Irea, Oh, magnity tnat grace in me. But he had not only to get down nnt ol his chariot. He had to wash. "Oh." you. fay, "I am very careful with my ablutioas. f ivory day 1 plunge into a bright an 1 beauti ul bath." Ah, my hearer, toere is a Hoot brighter than any that pours from these hills. It Is the floo 1 that break from tha granite of the eternal hills. It is the flood of pardon anl peace and life and heaven. That flooi startei in the te-.rs of Christ and the sweat ot ti 'tase-n-tne and rolle 1 o.i, ac cumulating flood, 11 nl. 1 ail e irtu an 1 heaven could bathe in it. Z ;chari ih called it the "fountain open for sin and uncleanue." William CowpercalleJ it tae "fountain filled With blood." Your fathers and mothers washed all their sins anil sorrows away in that fountain. Oh. my hearrs, do you not feel like wading into it? Wade dotrn now into this glorious flood, deeper, dep 'r, Sleeper! Plunge onee, twice, thrice, lour imes, flva times, six times, seven tim -s. It vlll take as muon as that to euro your souU Oh, wash, wash and be clean 1 , I suppose that was a great time at Damas cus when General Naaman got back. Tha charioteers did not have to drive slowly any longer, lest they Jolt the invalid, but as tha horses dashed through the streets of Damas cus I think tho people rushed out to hail baok their chieftain. Naaman's wife hardly recoguized her husband. He was so won derfully changed she bad to look at him two or three times before she made out that it was her restored husband. And the little cap tive maid, she rushed out. clapping her hands and shouting "Did he cure you? Did he cure you?" Then music woke up the pal aoe, and the tapestry ot the windows was drawn away, that the multitu Is outsido might mingle with the princely mirth inside, and t he f. et went up ant down in the danco, and all the streets of Damascus that night echoed and re-echoed with the news: ' Naa man's cured! Naaman's curst!" But a gladder time than tbat it would be if your soat should get cured of its leprosy. T:ie swiftest white horses hitched to the Kind's chariot would rush the news into th-j eternal city. Our loved ones bofora the throne would welcome the gla I ti lings. Your chil dren on earth, with morj emotion than the little Hebrew captive, would notice the obange in your look and the change In your manner and would put their arms around your neck and say : "Mother, I guess you must have become a Christian. Father, I think you have got rid of the leprosy." Q Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on as 1 Palming. It is s;iid that the smallest piece ot palatini in the world has recently been executed by a Flemish artist. It is painted on the smooth side of a trrain of common white corn, and pictures a mill and a miller mount ing a stairs with a sack of grain oh his back. The mill is represented as standing on a terrace, and near it is a horse and cart, while a iirotip of several peasants are shown in the road near by. The picture is bcautl fully distinct, every obje t belnu finished with microscopic fidelity, yet by careful measurement it is shown that the whole paint intr docs not cover a surface of half an inch square. Worth Reinemhcrin;. According to a recent pamphlet by an Italian doctor a 6ure way of re storing life In cases of syncope Is to hold the patient's tongue Ormly. Af ter two other aoctors had worked lor an hour without result over a younir man who was apparently drowned, he thrust a spoon into the patient's nio th, seized the tongue, and worked It violently until the patient gave signs of life. Watek the horse before you feed him; the water rapidly leaves tho stomach nnd the gastric juices have full play. Water with the food weakens the digestive II u ids. II U stomach is small, therefore do not let him get too thirsty and drink too much. You can always tell a spring chick en Ur lis crow. We are reminded when we lay onr head on the pillow at night that those most interested in our welfare daring the day had something to sell. Josh Hillings siys gambling is tho strongest impulse of the human heart; it is more natural than the measles. and fully as catching. tie who proclaims himself ready to buy up his enemies will never want a supply of them. The devil is the only individual we know of who seems to thrive best the more he is ridiculed. The man who goes to church with squeaky shoes goes to the right place. His sole needs attention. If yon pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Dexter, Mo., has a curfew bell which rings at 9 p, m. "JV-
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