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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Kdltor Md Propriater.
D. F. 8QHWEIEB,
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER ?. 1894.
VOL. XLVIi
NO. 1.
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i. ii r;:i: nt. continn-ei.
She hud e .u'pped and seen h:m o(I
jo fully, atnl ho hud had no idea of go
ing ivhor he t-hould not have gono,
oorof lining what hu bhould not ha e
.-.one, until informe i by Donald, on
rather by Donald's iiego laity of his
hi h m'sdc i caimr.
Jfe s-.is now disposed :o return evil
Ioimiiii l. and instead of saying '"Thank
you"' to his lan llaiv for a merry after
loon s exi elleat sport, to si. D throujrh
aer i liters, sin 1 let her cook her uu
avory di..n- r fir some one else.
"1 should like to see the Kayi.onds
gain.'' was, however, all he said.
'J lieu l ou.e up and dine with me,"'
eplii d Jerry promptly. "Do 1 am
lure vo:i may. I a:n sure granny would
l-.-t me ask you."
"Arc you sure?'' said I'l-lienden. un
aide to" help smiling at the childish
form the invitation ha I taken. "Hut
;hcn voii see. 1 do not know
'rumlniuniiiiu. an 1 "
your
"It is not L'r.mnv's house, you know;
t is mine," anxiously.
' h. I iMi iers and."
"And if 1 ask you. ' the spoilt child
.i-aiti us orting it- eif in lier tone; "if 1
tsk vin ":
"1 nei'd no other invitation, ccrtaia
y'saiii he courteously, '"(.'nly, you
i.-e you .-u e r aily too k'nl Vou do
no! even know my name."'
"Veil. what i.-your nirro':''
'i;.d!eiv!e:i. lint I will tell you
rhat I ran do. M iss t a-.i ibe 1 "
"Don't t ail un- Miss t aiiipboll; it
makes rre f 1 fooii.-h."'
"11;. t in my turn. I t'on't know your
lame 1 mean your other name."'
"It is iei-.iMite-. l,ut no or.e eal'.s uie
.hat except t'eeil."
"I't i il nj-.i ii. ' thought tie. Cec il
s privileged I presume. V.'hit :ni I
a call win. then'' he inquired aio ul.
"Why. .lerrv. of to.ir e. Kverv oiiO
Iocs."'
'Very well. Jerry.'1 Hut shesuv.- he
ras laughing-. he was mi chanceful,
io wh in. ieal. this sprite of a cliief-
la'mess. t hat one u anient it wo '-d ho
c.islle." "my moor," "my" evi ry
r. and the next fhi: was u.-kin ; h.m
rail her "Jeriy' me thing. ! ow
sver. was clear, that Wi at she uskod
nu t he done: and aula ed at himself
or the readiness with which he fel. in
h her humors. I 'idlenden only hoped
: nil venture would proceed as eheer-
he
1
,- as ,t had begun.
"Vell then, .lerrv. what am I to do
low':"" he dutifully proceeded. ''Ami
o yet your cousin to bring me up with
lim' Am I to led hitu vol invited
lie?''
"If vou coul 1, do without telling him
.hat."
")h. 1 could, of course. But why
io you mind.' Will you not tell your
rraudmother?" for it struck him thit
mless some one were told, he could
lot very well accept of such hapha.
ird hospitality.
"Of course I'll tell cranny."' Tile
thild's eyes opened. ' I tell granny
verythiu. She doesn't matter." e
llained th; I'andid trraudehild: "an 1 I
lon't see why L sho J.i mind Ce.-il.
lit her." add-.d she bravely, "only that
! don't like to vex n;y poor dear, and ll
le were to lecture me. it would vex
:i-r. It is not. :or myself I mind," con
;ude l she wit.i earne t emphasis.
"She sha'n I be ve e l,"' said Duilen
len euieMy. "i a:i inauaye that,
jood-'ny. then, till Wt; meet atruin. I
jiust yo down now or I shall lie too
:ute. Is it str. -rht down, through the
woods'"
'Ves, vou can't o wi-onj Good
sye. Dinner is at half-past seven."
And he felt the palm of a warm, wet
little hand in his or a moment, and all
jereeption of uncouth srarb and ee
;entric lH"dyear vanisfaea in the licht
if a pair of bright eyes looking full in
a his.
"liy .love! what a ui o child!"' he
llioupht.
lb? was only just in time when tho
Soat ca i o in lontr lN-foru the few pas
H;:iL'ers had landed, tin; slim figure of
L'oeil l.'aymond. arrayed in the loiijf
ilht tra eiin i" at which was then
;he mo ie. w is clearly d scernib!e on
;he L'liiiway. while the usual para
phernaliaof asiiort man the jun case,
rod, smart portman'eati, and railway
ma whicii was visibld below could
hao belone-t d to no one e'se on
board. As swiftly as he whs him e'f
distinjruished, di,l h" distin jui.-h ( apt.
Meilen ten of the l-'ir.-t Life (luardb.
tho principal yuest and smarti st man
of th p'lrty assembled at a bachelor
cousin's for the Ascot week the pre
vious Jure.
Vounf l.'aymond had thought a great
deal of beinr included in that party,
had often since re 'erred to it. and
casually atentioned as people wil',
you know -that iiellenden had been
there.
lie had not met Uellenden since, and
the point now was, would Uellenden
know him aainv
Had tho meeting taken pla -e any
where else, anywhere but in that
lonely spot, he would hardly have ex
pected recognition - but per aps an I
ust as ho was doubting and coyitatiuj?,
his mind was set at rest in the nios.
BatisIaCtory manner ptissilde. Ho was
not only known but hailed, and halted
with reniarkabo cordiality and ferv.-w
u m nana warm iy jrrftspea, and n is ac
quaintanceship claimed without .no
ii"htest shade ol hesitation. He hal
iardly ever been more era: irted. He
who had been the veriest nonentity at
the Ascot meeting, who hau not ex
changed aliove a doen or two sen
tence's with the great man of the
party, and who h-i felt the distaneo
between him. a lad of nineteen in his
first year at Oxford, and C'apt. Hellene
den. a man of the world and certain y
ten years, if not n ore. his senior, aj
quite immeasurable, now to be met oil
eiual terms and in the easiest faohionl
There could be but oae oolution of tho
problem.
"Sloppinir at my cran .motner s,
supposo.'" ho tuyeer-li-d at once, witt
this thought in hi; mind, that s-omt
or.e must have sent tho tiave.er t.ioi
for a night's lodyiny on his way tc
more congenial ha ints. ( f i.u:-.
Inchmarew t astlo won d a v. ys oe i
re-poctable la e to oeiid any o e to
and some fr.cnd had probaMy i ci
Bellenden an intro li;e ;o;i. ii! d - b .
Bellondens last wor..s liipebed tli
idea. , -
"Indeed I am not so happy, he said
caroleasl v. "iXhera ia wber I am fitoa
Dintr." oointinff to the wretched littb
inn at the head of the pier, "lam or
my way farther up tho loch, ana ait
fairly caught and landed here for the
want of the means of proceedintr." lit
then explained his had plight morf
fully, though affecting to treat th
whole as a jest, and without throwing
out hint or suggestion of any possible
amendment. "Oh, I shall do wel
enough," ho con luded, "and I can gel
on to Kincraig first thin; to-morrow. I
only wish you would come nnd hpenc
the evening with me. l.'ut. you are
going on to friends, I suppose?"
"To Inchmarew ove r there -yes
I'll tell you what," said Cecil suddenly
"vou must reallycome there too. Vos
must indeed. There is no one bi t mj
grandmother. Mrs. Cambell. and m.v
cousin, a little girl, to whom the plact
belongs. Mrs. Campbell is a most hos
pitable old lady, and if I were to go u
without you. d rectly I told her yoi.
were here, it would only be a case o
jendingaown tho dog-cart again at
aiice. And see tho rain is beginning
Kgain. It is going to be a beasily
night. You had much better coino up
while it is only as slight as this: there
will bo a -downpour by-and-by. I can
assure you, you may trust me that it
will be all right."
"I upon my word, you are too kind.'
Xot at all. 1 am ouly mv grand
mother's spokesman, lluro you, Hec
tor, get out Cant. HeUcnden's thlnef
from tho inn. and put them into the
dog-dart with mine. And. I say, teli
Mrs. Macono. hie it will bo all i-iglr."
"Hut ;ios ng tho house is full.-'
"Inehmarew full! Oh, you have not
jeen the castle yet. It is a luiiro place.
But at present they have nobo ly, for
aiy cousin is so young that they are liv
.ng as quietly as possible."'
"I have met yo.ir cousin already, ana
he gave me permission to lish in the
itreain. I have had a capital alter
aoon"s tro ting in consequence."
"Have you.- I'm glad of that, fl
;he boat hu 1 otr.o in sooner. I h:ic
neant to run up to some of tho hi-it
Dools before dinner. I knew tho water
.vou Id be goo.l."
"Vour co sit) kindly showed mo the
high pools herself."
"Heally? 'h, you have met Geral
line herself, then' l'ut the gun-case
in here. Hector, along with m ne. The
portmaneau can go at William's feet,
un t it' Anything mere.' Hi gi.
vVhy, yes. the. can stay here, if you
like", but there's lots of room ov
tvill you get up'-"' And the tw
uounted: and of so l'.ttlo on eiiicn
iid it seem to Ixj in young i aymond'!
eyes whether or no his young cous.i
had been casual y met for a pas i:.!
minuto. or had Leen spent the who
dfternoon with, that Iiellenden did u )
think it worth his while to iuiorm hij
n the subject.
ii iriKi: iv.
PLAYFELLOWS.
' id nbicLaiu I in. st like?' she s iM :
Y. ur Chlo11, or your i ut browu u.iit t "
Driving along. Cecil chatte 1 merrily
with a sense of doing the honors na:
Ural to one who. as the r nearest m.ilt
relative, took the IxiUoin of tho taij.e
inspected the kernels, and re port ei
upon the stables, whenever he visitet
the ladies of Inchmarew."
Ho was now .n the a; olegetie vein
The property, he confined, was b.j
ing nursed at present. There was a
goo 1 deal of retrenchment going on.
The grounds were not Kept up as thej
ha1 been. His granifa'her hat
kno-ked o f a lot of umicr-st rapper:
and useless hangers on The irar.:en;
too. had been ridi uloiisly expeiisiv.
and she had curtailed t ie n tousiucr
ably.
I if erni-ae when his cousin t'ame of si r
j these things would be diilerent. Sh
could then do as she chose: but for tin
present he thought his granumothei
was very wise to spend as little as neec
be. 1 1 was not as if they were living
in the world with more of tho kind.
To all of this his companion cheer
fully assented, as ho would have ilont
to almost anything at the moment
The relief of getting away from tin
hovel, tho thought of which ha',
grown more insupportable than ovet
during the past haif-hour, was so in
tenso that he would have permittet
Mrs. Camplicll to knock o;f ever
gardener on the place, and curtail hei
expenditure in every direction, so lonj
as he was given a decent dinner to ea'
an l a decent bed to sleep.
There was, however, no call for such
indulgence. A brief exjierienee sui
liced toshow that the bovish br.iir ol n
youth, anxious to enhance the ditruiu
of all connected with him, was on tin
prwaent occasion making a great ilea
out ot a very little. There m ght b
retrenchment there was certainly ih
discomfort nor disorder anywhere.
A respectable elderly ma or- lomt
btood in the doorwav to receive tht
i.e ao.Vhi, and a trim ln in a ruiei
but neat livery ran down tho steps.anc
began to take out tho luggage with
deft dispatch. Mrs. Campbell. Mr.
Havmwnd was informed, was in the
drawing-room awaiting him. an I Itel
lenden, wiio lingered for a niomenl
affecting to be occupied with his bo
loneines, but in rea ity to allow a mo
ment for exp anation. hud soon the
satisfaction of seeing the stately damt
emerge from a uis ::nt doorway, es
coried by her nephew, all eagernesi
to present his friend.
For an expected guest the coult
wait within tho ante-chamber: bu:
couitesy to a stranger, and ono not as
surcd of a wel ome, sent her forth t
meet him.
He felt at once ail that he might
now hope for. His own manner, al
ways easy and engaging, at once
rose with the occasion, ana he bower
over the hand held out to him wit!
the reverence o; a courtier.
"He is churmirg.'' thought slit.
"Never was s.;ch luck," thought he
Kach smiled at the other, and the goof
unJerstanding waj complete.
"Jt is going ki be a very wet night
fear,' said Mrs. C.impbe! , glancing
lutsiile, as the raindrojis no., began to
Deat heavily against the tall, narrow
jrindows. fear, Cecil that there i
not much chance of your having a lino
'lay :or the n.oor to-n.orrow. I con
futed our weather wise old gardener
Macdonald on tho subject, anl he
diook his head. I nfortunately fo;- you,
a-o have had a long spell oftlne woalh
ir. it has been really too I'ne of late,
ind every ono began to fear it cojld
dot last much longer. Vou know that
August is never our best month, and
one cannot expect summer wea.hor to
last forever."
"no, we can't, er.indm.imma," Cecil
only smiled to himself, and ouly smiled
M remember how often he had heard
the tamu before. It seemed to him
that ho had heard it ever since he
rould remember the t'me-v.orn apol
ogy for the mist-i oi ' nehmj.r w. And
yet how i early he loved the place, and
its inmat s. its very rains, and foods,
a' d cloud-capped mountain-peaks were
t-acred in his e es, and he "would not
have let l'ellenden into the secret of
its infirmity for the wor'd. Who could
say but what the morning might se
clorious sunshine and melting warmth,;
and if so, why not have been prepared
for it? "i have no doubt it will clear
b)-and by," he said readily: "and let it
rain as much as it will to-night, there's
no harm t one. (. laudniamma, can we
have a tiro in tho billiard -room this
evening? I dare say Capt. Uellenden
would lil.e a gamo 'of billiard after
dinner."
"Certainly, my dear." And tho or
der was given. "And let the tire be.
lit at once." added tho o'd h.dy, anx
ioUii to do everything well. "The room
may be a little" damp:" in explanation
to Hellendeu, "for it has not been used
this stt nmer."
"Xot been used th's summer! Cooc
heavens." inwardly e aculated h .
'And I am to play on a table not used
this summer." Jt was a blow, ai.d he
wa only just able to avoid showing
that it was one.
"I am alraid it will not bo in verj
pood condition," continued Cecil llay
mond. who was but half a degree more
learned on tho s b. cl than his grand
mother. "Hut you must make ullow
nn es and. anyway, it's better than do
ing noth ng."
"And. anyway, it is a very grea
deal better than sitting in the midst of
pt at-ieek and whisky at tho "Ferry
Inn.'' rellccted his friend. And tho
tiiought restored his former equanim
ity a if by magic.
lie had. as he was wont to say of hire
self, the knack of being civil. Accus
tomed to luxury, and courted by uros
perity, ho was yet of so happy a tem
perament, that ill-fortune could not
daunt, nor a. verso circumstances rullle
him. To escape either, he would, in-d-Tt'd,
as we know, exe t ingenuity and
address; but, had these lai ed, no one
would have hear ! more of the matter.
He would have smoked a philosophical
cigar, gone to Led, and proceeded on
his o. rney the next day without an
oa h or a grumble, lie was by no
means a ' ud sort of follow.
He now dressed himself for dinnei
eerenely, with s urce a moment's re
gret for tho services of the valet, who
had been sent on to Kincraig by an
other and a swifter route, and whose
absence had I eo.i a rtial satisfaction to
his master d ring the terrib ei antici
pations of t;;e afternoon. He was not
by any mean so dependent on the very
i n.; gentleman as Monsieur I'ierre sup
posed, and i.iii.t ct.iu y pa k his own
I orinii'iitei;.!. an I p it on his own coat
when compelled by necessity to do so.
I 'v n t ire lie was a very nandsome
ir.uii and eared sii.gularly little about
it. L'.y : rt lie was a perfectly dressed
man aial mat. he consi lered, waa
e.t ry ono's b'lsiness rather than his
own. Ileweuttothe best tailor, hat
ter, hair-eut'er, and boot-maker in
town, and he could do no more. If
the res". it was no satisfactory, it was
no 'aulio: I. is, an l. in consequence, no
misgiving n r uneasine-s on the sub
ject ever disturbed his mind.
Sooner than any other person, h.
now (ieseende 1 to the drawing-room.
Oil, I in tne llrst," he began, half
aloud. "What has l ecome of my little
liiiher lass e, 1 wonder? Is she going to
give ine tae slip? Or stop: here she
come i."
It was, however, no fisher-lassie wht
now npp are I. It was tho daintiest
little maiden in the world, shy and
rosy, half pieaseu. half frightened,
and alt' get her charming, who ad
raneed up the room. To be more ex
ict, it was . erry. in the very best Sun
jav bock she could muster, starched
anil crimi-ed till it fcood out on every
side: Jerr . with tho fleece of golden
hair bri sued ami smoothed and shin
.ng. with a li.tle gold chain round her
Dlurub arm.
TO HE (Y1NTIXUED.J
r. rj.;;:::oi.o jiattees.
T1 Mr:.T I.I VETS-,
thing with which to ilarn
(.ible linen and towels is thread drewn
from them in t'.ieir early -lays and
kepi wonn-1 on n spool nrrainst the tHy
orients .iid tears. AVhcn these threads
have not be-n saved, embroidery coir
tuu or iio..s is the lx. t thing to iisl.
T1 crXAT AKI rt.EA(T.
TTero is a never failing removal ol
miido-v from wliit goods: liisso'.vo
chloriil'i of lin-.o in hot wat'T Riid
ttrain it through a lino cloth. Dilute
it with cold water. This will also
blench unbleached cotton or under
wear which has grown yellow from
poor washing or lack of use. Wet th-s
goods thoroughly before putting it
into the solution. Allow it to remain
'u the solution over night.
TO HETTOItE s-TT.-IS.
Ii you want to bo always prepare,
to 'leal with grease spots on your silk
gowns, keep the following preparation
utlmn l: l'owdereil French chalk wet
with soap suds, pressed into cakes and
dried in the sun. Then when your at
tentive escort drops a cup of chocolate
down tho front breath, smile amiably
and go home happy in the conscious
ness that you can repair the damage.
Lay the stained xicco on clean cot
ton cloth, the right side down. Scrape
your soap on tho spot. Cover with
several folds of tissue paper and press
with a hot iron for a minnta or ho.
liaise the paper. Scrape off the chalk.
Hub the placo with a torn pieco oi
pasteboard to restore the gloss.
An excellent wash for dark Bilk
dresses is made of a cup of cold water,
a half teaspoon of honey, a half tea
spoon of soft soap and half a wineglass
of alcohol. The silks that are sponged
with this preparation should be rinsed
in clear, cold water ami pressed on the
wrong side while damp.
To restore its pristine smoothness
to wrinkled silk, sponge it on the right
sido with a very weak solution of gum
araliio and press on the other side.
v jw York World.
nnrr fiinn of Two Bivers, Wis.,
i.a murriml tho same womaE three
time.
Tho bbrarv of O ettingen, Oer
many, has a ISible written on palm
leaves.
One of the famotw "big trees" of
California is conjectured to be 4,000
vears old.
Of all conqnerinff nations Spain has
A. 1-1 Al I.!,, A l,n nla
II t Hitu lumw dui'ji.-icu in
most harshly.
The largest egg it that of the os
trich, which usually weighs About
three pounds.
With half of the world to choose
from, fur seals stick to two litte islands
in Bohring Sea,
Fruit wrapped in heavy brown
paper will stand fifteen degrees more
cold than if not wrapped.
Only ono book on aluminum has
been published in the United States,
and that is now ont of print.
An airpnmp is said to havo been
devised which sweeps a room by suck
ing the dost all ont of it
Ml DR. TALMAll
SSS BROOKLYN DIYUTOrS EU2I
PAXSSBMOO.
6utJeet :
"The Objections to Hells
loua Revivals.'
Texts "They Inoloaed a irmit nrnltlrnrt
f fishes, and their net brake." Luke ., 6.
Rlmon anil his comrailes hnd pxperlenceil
the nlt-ht before what flshnrmnn call "pool
Inck." Christ mteps on ho.inl tho fls'iinst
stiacW nnd tells the sailors topnll nwav from
the bench and directs them strain to sink the
net. 8ure enoutth, very soon the net Is full
of fishes, ond the sailors bet-In to hnnl In.
Ro Inrge a school of fish wiis tnken that thfi
hardy men begin to look red In the face as
they pull, and bardlv have they betnin to ro
joice at their success when snap Konft a
thread of the net, and snap poca another
thread, so there Is dancer not only of losing
the flih, bat of losing the net.
Without mnch care as to how much the
boat tilts or how much writer is splashed on
dock, the fishermen rush about Catherine
ap the broken meshes of the net. Out
yonder there Is a shin dnncin- on the
wave, nnd they hall It, '"Ship ahoy, bear
down this way!" The ship comes, nnd
both boats, both flshin? smacks, are filled
With the floanderincf trensnns.
" Ah," says some one, "how mnch bettei
It would have been if thev had staid on
shore, and fished with a bonk nnd Mn". and
taken one at a time. Instead of hirla this
(Treat excitement, and the boit a'anwt unset,
snd the net broken, nnd having to call for
help and frettlnc sopping wet with the
ea I" The church Is the boit, the gospel Is
Ihe net, society is the sea, and a i-rent r-vt-ntl
is a whole school brought In at one
weep of the net. I have admiration for
that man who goes out with a hoot an I llns
Io fish. I admire the way he unwin ls the
reel and adjusts the bait and drops the
hook in a quiet place on a still after
noon, and here catches one and there
one, bnt I like also a big boat, and
a large orew, and anet a mile lonir, nndswifl
oars, and stoat sails, and a ntlfT breeze, and
a frreat multitude of sonls brought so srreat
a mnltltnde that yon have to P"t help te
draw it ashore straining the net to tho ut
most until it breaks hero and there, lettinsr s
few escape, bnt hrlngingthegreat multitude
toto eternal safety.
In other words, I believe In revivals. The
(Treat work of savin? men heiran with S01O
people Joining the chnreh in one dnv. and it
will close with 40.000,000 or 100.000.000 peo
plesaved in 24 hours, when nitinns shall he
born In a day. But there are objections to
revivals. Feople are opposed to them be
cause the net mh-hr get broken, an I If by
the pressure of sonls it doest not ;r-t broken,
then they take their own pen k a ves nnd slit
the net. "They Inclosed a great multitude
of fishes, and the net brake."
It is sometimes opposed to reviva 's of re
llgion that those who come Into t'. - church
st such times do not hold out ; ns lonv ns
there Is a gale of blesslngthey have th.'ir
talis up. bat as soon as strong winds stop
blowing then they drop into a dead calm.
Bm what are 1 he facts in the case? In all
oar churches the vast majority o'' the useful
people are those who are limm-tit in un ier
great awakenings, and they hold nut. Who
are the prominent men in the United States
In churche". In prayer meetings, in Sabbath
chools? For the mcst part they are thepro-
anctor great awakenings.
I have noticed that those who are brought
Into the kingdom of God throngh revivals
have more persistence and more determim
tlon in tho Christian lite than those who
come In nndera low state of religion. lVo
plebornlnan icehouse may live, but they
will never get over the cold they caught In
Iheioehonset A cannon hill d 'pnds upon
the Impulse with which it st irls for bow fur
It shall go and how swi tly, nnd the greater
the revival force with which a sonl Is started
Ihe more farreaching and far resounding will
be the execut ion.
But it Is sometimes o'decte 1 to revivals
that there Is so mnch excitement that people
mistake hysteria for religion.
We most admit that In every reviv.il of re
ligion there is either a suppressed or a
demonstrated excitement. In lee 1 If a mau
can go out of a state of cnndeuinntion into
s state of acceptance with Go I, orsee others
go, without anv agitation of soul, he Is in an
Dnhenlthy, morbid state, and is as repulsive
and absurd as a man who should borist ho
mv a .child snatched out from an ler a
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw a
man rescued from the fourth story ot a
boose on fire and felt no acceleration of tne
-raises.
Salvation from sin and death and hell into
If fe and peace and heavn forever is such a
tremendous thin -that if a man tolls mo ho
ean look on it without any agitation I doubt
his Christianity. The fact Is that sometimes
excitement Is "the most Important possible
thing. In case of resuscitation from drown
ing or freezing, the one idea Is to ex -ite ani
DiHtion. Be:ore conversion we nr dead. It
is the business of the church to revive,
srouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into li'e.
Excitement is bad or good accordin;- to what
it makes us do. If it makes us dotliat which
Is bad, It Is bad exciteaienr, but if it make us
gitnted about our eternal welfare, if it
make as prsv, if it make us attend upon
Christian service. If it m ikn us cry unto Go.)
for mercy, then It is a good excitement.
It is sometimes said that during revivals
Of religion great mtlltilu les of children nn t
young people lire brought into the church,
tnd they do not know waat they are alKut.
t has been my oljiervation that the earlier
people come Into the kingdom of God Ui
more useful they are.
Kobert Hall, the prince of Baptist preaoh
ers, was converted at twelve yrare of age. It
Is supposed he knew what he was about.
Matthew Henry, tho commentator, who did
more than any man of his century for in
creasing the interest in the stu ly of the
Scriptures, was converted at eleven years ol
age ; Isabella Graham, immortal in the
Christian church, was converted at ten
years of age ; Dr. Watts, whose hymns will
be sang all down the ages, was converted at
Dine years of age ; Jonathan Edwards, per
bnps the mightiest Intellect that the Ameri
can pulpit ever produced, was converted at
seven years of age, and that father and
mother take nD awful responsibility when
they tell their child at seven years of nge,
"You nro too young to be a Christian," or
"Yoa are too young to connect yourself with
the church." That Is a mistake as long as
eternity.
If during a revival two persons present
themselves as candidates for the church.au. I
the one is ten years of age, and the other Is
forty years of age, I will have more eonll
lenoe in the profession'of religion of the one
ten years of age than the one fortv years of
age. Why? The one who professes at forty
years of age has forty years of impulse in
the wrong direction to correct, the child lias
only ten years in the wrong direction to
correct. Four times tea are fony. Four
tlmts the religious prospect for the lad tiint
comes into the kingdom of Go I, and into
the church at ten years of age than the mat)
at forty.
I am very apt to look upon reviv.i's as con
nected with certain men who foster them.
People who in this day do not like revivals,
nevertheless, have not words to express their
admiration lor the revivalistsof the past, lot
they were revivalists Jonathan Edwards,
John Wesley, George Whitefleld, Griffln.
Davies, Osrorn, Knnpp, Nottleton and many
others whose names come to my mind. The
strength of their intellect and the holiness ol
their lives make me think they would not
have anything to do with that which war
ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to talk against re
ivals.
Do yon know where Aaron Burr stnrte
on the downward road? It was when h
was in college, and he became anxioui
about his soul and was about to put himsell
under the influence of a revival, and a min
ister of religion said: "Don't go there,
Aaron; tlon't go there; that's a place ol
wildllreand great excitement; no religion
about that t don't go there." He tarried
wy. His ser'ons fn-pressfnnt, Jnpartt-1.
He started on the downward road. And
who Is resnoniblA for his ruin? Was it the
n'nlster who warned him against that re
iv.-ii f
Now I come to fie re-il, genuine esn"i ot
ihjeetion to revivals. That is tho c m es
jf the obi-ctor. It Is thn secret and hidden
bnt unmistakable canse in everr ess? n low
ste of religion in the hesrt. Wide n wake,
rons-w-rnted. useful Christians are nver
s'rald of rev' Vila. It is the snlritually dead
who are nrrai.l of having th-ir s-pnloher
molested. The chief agents of lite dvil dur
.1
ing a great awakening are always nnoon.
verted professors o( religion. As soon as
Christ's work begins they b-erin to gossip
gainst it. nndtnkea pail of waterand try to
put nnt this spark of religious Influence,
nd they try to put out another spark. Do
Ihey sacceed? As well when Chicago was on
are might some one have gone ont with
rarden water pot trying to extinguish It.
The difficulty Is that when a revival he.
Hns In a church It begins at so manv points
hat while yon have doused one anxious seal
rith a pall of cold water there are 600 other
tnx'ons sonls on fire. Oh, how mnch bets
er It would be to lay hold of the chariot of
5nrlt"s gospel and help pnll It on rather
han to fling ourselves In front of the wheels,
rying to block their progress ! We will not
top the ohnrior. but we ourselves will be
-round to powder.
Did yoa ever hoar thnt there wm a con
smtinn once held among tho Icebergs In the
.rotie? It sems thnt the simmr was com
ng on, an I tho snn was getting hotter and
ot-er, aid there was danger that the whole
jeflel l would break up an l flow away, so
he tallest and the cnl lost and tho broadest
4 mil the icebergs, the verjr king of the nxe
Ics, stood at tho head oT the convention,
md with a gsvo! of ie smote on a table ol
ee, calling the convent'on to order. But the
on kept crowing in intnshv of heat, and
he couth wind blew stron r"r an I stronger,
.nd soon all the icefield began to grin I up,
eeberg against lceb-rg, and to flaw awav.
The flrf- resolution passed bv the convention
rn. "Unsolved, that we abolish the sun."
But the sun would not be abolished. Ths
leaf ot the snn grew greater nnd greater
intll after awhile the v ry king of the ice
lergs began to perspire under the glow, and
he smaller icebergs fell over, and tho cry
ras : "Too much excitement ! Order,
rder!" Then the whole body, the whole
leld, of ice began to Cow out. and a thou
nd voices began to ask: "Where nrs ws
o'iulIo jiow? Where are wt1f: laa tol
Ve will nil break to pieces."" By thls"tlm
he Icebergs hn l reached tho gulf strnm,
,nd they were melted Into tho bosom of ths
Ltluntlo Ocean. The warm sun is the
ternnl Spirit. The icebergs are frigid
Jhristinns. The warm gulf stream isa greal
cvivnl. The ocean Into which everythlna
nelted Is the great, w'le heart of th
mr loning and sympathizing Go 1.
But I thin!.-, a "tor all. the greatest obstieli,
0 revivals throughout Christen lorn to-day
1 an uneonver.e I ministrv. We must br
ieve that the vast majority of those who
'filefate at sacred altars are regenerated,
ait I snppnse thre may float into the minis
ry of all the denominations of Christians
nen nrhnae henrt hare np" T been ehnn-'ed
y the grace of God Of course they are all J
ntagonistie to revA-lis. !
How did thev get into the ministry? Per
nps some of them chose it as a rasp jotable
' irofi-ssion. Perhaps some chose It as a
neans of liv lihoo 1. Perhaps some of them
vere sincere, hut wore mistaken. As Thomas
Jhalmers said, he ha 1 be-n many years
(reaching the j-opel before his heart had
teen changed, and, a many miai-ters of the
rospel declnre, thev were preac'iing nnd
ia 1 b"en ordained to snered orders years
.nd years before their hearts were regener
.ted. Gracious Go I, whatasolemn thought
or those of us who minister at the altar!
Vith the present ministry in the present
emperature of piety the world will never be
nveloped with revivals. While the pews on
n" side the altar cry for mercy the pulpits
m the other side the nltnr must cry for
nerey. Ministers quarreling. 'inistes
rying to null each other down Ministers
truggling for eclesiastical place. Ministers
etniirgio with whole congregations dyinf
in theirhnnd. Wuat a spectacle!
Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews,
hilpits aflame will make pews nfiame,
Iverybody believes in a revival of trade,
verylio ly likes n revival in Uterature.every.
o ly likes a reviv.il in art, yet a great multl
u ! cannot understand a revival in matters
L . re.'.glon. Depend upon it. where yoTi
lu I n man antagonistic to revivals, whethei
ie be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be regent
riled by the grace of Gol.
I could prove to a demonstration thai
vithont revivals tin's world wdl never bs
'onverto I, an 1 that in 103 or 200 years with
(Ut revivals Christianity will be practically
xtinet. It is a matter of astounding arith
netic. In each of our modern generations
lu re nro at least :'2.000.000 children. Now
.d.l 32,000,000 to the world's population, and
hen have only 100,000 or 20,000 converted
yery year, nnd how long before the worW
riil itfi saved? Never absolutely never !
During our war the President of th
Tnited States ma le pro da-nation for 75.000
roop. Some of you remember the big stir.
Jut t;ie King of the universe to-day asks for
4)0. 00'.), 000 more troops than are enlisted,
m.l we want it done softly, imperceptibly,
ently, no ex -Itement, one by one !
You are a dry goods merchant on a largi
cale, and I am a merchant on a small scale,
m I I come to vou and want to buy 1009
ards of cloth. Do you say: "Thank you i
.'II sell you 1000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell
on twenty yards to-day, and twenty to
norrow, and twenty the next diy, and if it
nkes me six months I'll sell you the whole
000 yards ; you will want ns long as that to
ix amino the good', and I'll want ns long as
hat to examine the credit, and, besidesthat.
.001 yar s of cloth are too much to sell all
it once?" So, you do not say that. You
like me into the counting rom, and In ten
ninutes the whole transaction is consum
nate t. The fact is, we cannot afford to be
oo:s in anything but religion !
That verv merchant whoonSaturday after
loon sold me the 1000 yards of cloth at one
troke the next Sabbath in church will stroke
lis beard and wonder whether it would aot
e better for 1000 sculs to come straggling
.long for ten years, Instead of boltini in at
m" service.
We talk n good deal about the goo I times
hat are coming nn 1 nbout the world's re
lemptifn. How long beforethey will come?
I'here is a man who says 500 years. Her is
1 man who says 200 years. Here Is some
no more conlldent who says in fifty years.
Vnnt, fifty years? Do you propose to let
wo generations pass off the stage before
he worM is eonverte 1?
bupro" by some ex'ra. prolongation ol
luaiau life nt the next fifty years you should
.Talk around the world, y u would not in
ill that walk find one person that you recog
nize. Why? AH dead or so changed that
you would not know them. In other words,
if you postpone the redemption of this
world for fifty years, yoa admit that the
majority of the two whole generations shall
go oil t ne stage unblessed and unsaved. I
tell you the church of Jsjus Christ cannot
consent to it. We must pray and toil and
i.ave the revival spirit, and we must strug
gle to have tho w'.iole world s ived before the
men and women now in middle life pass off.
"Oh," you sny, "it is too vast an enter
prise to be conducted in so short a time."
Do yo j know how long It would take to save
the whole world it each man would bring an
other. It would take ten years. By a cal
culation in co.npound interest, each man
bringing ano.iier, and that one another, and
that one another, in ten years the whole
world would be saved. If the world is not
-a veil in the next t n years it will be the
limit of the ohureh of Christ.
Is it too much to expect each one to brin. .
one? Souie ol us must bring more than one,
f . . .. ..-ill t. ... An -h.fr 1. 1 1- T ninl in I
bring 10,000 souis. I should be ashamed to j
meet my God in judgment if, with all my op
portune ies of commending Christ to the
people, I could not bring. 10,000 souls. llui
it will all depend upon the revival spirit. Tui
hook i.n 1 line fishing will not do it.
Jt sei ms to mens if God is preparing the
rorld for some quiet and universal move
ment. A celebrated electrician gavj ma
IcTe-rr-ip'i chart of th worl 1. On that e'nrt
l:i wires crossing the continent af.d the
c iM"s nn ler the sea loike I ll!;e veins r-t
with blood. Oi that chart I in that the
headquarters of the lightnings are in Gr-it
Ur tain and the TTnlfed States, la Loa 'oa
nnlN'wYork the lightnings ar stabled,
waiting to be harnessd for -ora i quick dis
patch. Thnt shows you that the tolcgr.apa
is in possession of Christianity.
I It is a significant fact that the mnn who
Invented tho telegraph was nn old fash'oned
Christian Professor Morse anl that the
man who put tho telegraph un ier the sa
was an old fashioned Christian Cyrus W.
Field and thnt the president of tho most fa
mous of the telegraph roup inl-s o' this
country was an old fashioned Christian
William Ortnn going from tho communion
table on earth straight to His home in heaven
Whnt does nil that mean !
I do not suppose that the telegraph was In
rented merely to let ns know whether flour
Is ap or down, or which filly won the race at
the Derby, or which maricsman heat at Dol
lymount. I snnpose the telegraph was in
vented and built to call the world t- God.
In some of the attributes of the Lord we
leem to share on a small scale for Instance,
Ut His lovejind In His kindness. But until of
late foreknowledge, omniscience, omntspres
ence, omnipotence, seem to havo been ex
clusively God's possession, God desiring; to
make the race like Himself, gives as a soe
cies of foreknowledge in the weather proba
bilities, gives ns a spoles of omniscience In
telegraphy, gives us a species of omnipres
ence In the telephone, gives as a spocies of
omnipotence In the steam power. Discov
eries snd inventions all around, about us,
people are asking what next !
I will tell yoa what next. Next, a
ttupendous religious movement. Next, the
snd of war. Nxt, the crash of despotisms.
Next, the world's expnrgntloa. Next, the
Chrb-tllke dominion. Next, the judgment.
What becomes of the world after that I enre
not. It will have suffered anl achieve!
enough for one world. Lay it up in the
drydoeks of eternity, like an old mnn-of-w ir
gone out of servloe, or fit it up like a ship
of relief to carry bread to some other snff ir
Ing planet, or let it be demolishe 1. Fare
well, dear old world, that began with
paradise and ended with judgment con
flagration 1
One summer I stood on the Isle of Wight,
ind I had pointed out to mo the place where
the Eurydice sank with 200 or 300 young
men who were in training for the British
navy. You remember when the training ship
went down there was a thrill of horror all
over the world. Oh, my friends, this
world is only a training ship. On It
wo are training for heaven. The old
slil p sails up and down the ocean of Im
mensity, nowthro'lgh the dark wave of the
midnight, now through the golden crested
wave ot tho morn, but sails on and sails on.
After awhile her work will bo done, and the
Inhabitants of heaven will look out and find
a world missing. The cry will be : '-Where
Is that earth where Christ died and the hu
man race were emancipated? Send out
fleets of angels to find the missing,
craft." Let them sail up and down,
cruise up and lioira, the ocean of eterni
ty, and they will catch not one glimpse of
her mountain masts or her top gallants of
Boating cloud. Gone down! The training
aip of a worl 1 p risned in the last tornaio.
Oh, let it not be mtt she go s down with all
on board, but rather may it be said of her
passengers as It was said of the drenched
oawngers of the Alexamirian corn suu that
rr ts!i"il Into the breakers of Mellta,"Tney all
scaped s He to lan !.
avnl Lessons ol the War.
The Japanese have undoubtedly
illustrated afresh the value of sea
power, writes Hon. Hilary A. Herbert,
Secretary of tha Navy, in the North
American Review. This, of course,
has been taught time and time again.
in lessens familiar to all. The most
powerful factor in the downfall of
Napoleon, one that operated all tho
time from 1803 to 1814, was the abso
lute control of the sea by his arch
enemy, England. He was shut off from
transportation by sea, compelled to
rely on land communications, and
there was no point in the circle of his
conquests from the easternmost shores
of Italy along the coast of the Medi
tertanean to Gibraltar, and thenoe
ironuil the Atlantic and the Channel
n-l .tho North Sea into tho Baltic,
where the .English could not assail
him.
The geuius of the great conqueror
and the wonderful impulse the revcv
lutiun had given to his soldiery made
him master of c.uulinental .Europe,
but he could not hold it. Whenever
upon the sea thsra was a stragetio
point in his conquered territory there
were English lleets, English tliplo
raacy and English allies, and these
finally led first to the downfall at
Varis and then to Waterloo.
A more recent, possibly a moro
forceful, lesson ia to be drawn from
our own Civil V7ar. The Union lleets
blockaded the Confederacy and almost
starved it to death. They shut it in
from recruits and supplies and
munitions of war. They cut it in
twa by their fleets on tho Missis
sippi, and penetrated its vitals along
tho lines of other navigable streams.
They hovered around it as England
hovered around Napoleon and his
satrapies, and assailed it whenever it
was weakest. When the true history
of the conquest of the Confederacy is
written it will undoubtedly appear
that, in proportion to numbers en
gaged and expenses incurred, the Nary
of the United States was a far mora
efficient factor in tho final resnlt than
even the armies in tho Held. Japan is
illustrating the same lesson.
A BATH AITtOrT.
Any Kille schoolgirl who can sew c.ir
r.isily make a pretty present to hex
mother for nursery nse to be worn
when the small toddlers of the Iiotisi-'-liolil
have their baths. One yard of
canton flannel should have a two-inch
hem on either raw edge. The Fclvngo
Fides need not be touched. The hems
should lenvo the woolly sido of tho
il.inncl ot the right side.
Around three sides of tho npron
about nn inch from the edge, work s
feather stitch in pnlo pink or blue
washing silk or llnx tliro.nl. Extra or
namentation in chain stitch may bo
added in the word "splash" across one
corner, nnd if the young needlewoman
can embroider, a liltlo flight of birds
or a duck with her ducklings may be
worked iu outline or chain 6titcl neross
the oilier corner.
A yard and a quarter of ribbon, 1
inches wide, may be slipped through
the hem nt the top; tie the apron
about tho waist.
'I liis not only makes a good protoo
I've covering for mamma's dress, inex
pensive and easy to wash, but it serves
ns a soft, waici wrap for baby fresh
from his dip. St. Louis Eepublie.
News in Brief.
Mexico has an abundance of iron
ore.
-Corur.duni is worth about$200 per
ton.
London had the first literary newr
paper. Many popular perfumes are strong
antiseptics.
Hoso of aluminum is now used in
Germany.
English bachelors and widows were
taxed in 1(505.
Thyme destroys the bacilli of ty
phoid fever.
Coarse wrapping; paper is male
out of (sncflower stalks.
Tho cabbago was introduced in
England by the Romans.
Tho engines to a first-ciafs maa-of
war cost abont S70il,000.
One hundred yea's ago peltry was
the leading export of New York.
With the aid of potassium, a can
dle can be lighted with an icicle.
There was not a public library in
the United States, 100 years ago.
An egg that is half boiled and then
cooled cannot again be boiled hard.
-Only one out of every fifteen per
sons has both eyes in good conditicn.
It is the custom in Japan to buy
fish alive and in China to buy them
dead.
SOME VALUABLE FISHES
BARE SPECIMENS
YORE
c i nr.
A Hunter's Costly Tank of Curios
ities (ucer Marine Freaks That
Are Hrcd by Amateurs.
ARE and valuable fishes at
Altbi and valuable lish
I owned in New York to
J a greater extent than
d before and represent a
.-day to
than ever
rprewnt a total
investment of about $20,001). A 6tory
about some of the most curious B'jd
beautiful specimens in town and fleir
peculiar characteristics may be of gets
eral iuterest, writes a New York cor
respondent of the San Francisco
Dhronicle.
In a self-sustaining aquarium in Nctk
York, containing about nine gallons
of water, are some varieties of gold
fish of an aggregate value of nearly
J1000. Clarence McKim, the banker,
is the possessor of this valuable tank
of fish. He has collected the specimens
ut different times as they were import
fd to or bred in this country.
About tho smallest nnd yet mos
prominent pair of fish in this aquarium
is the telescope goldfish of Japan, of
which variety there are not more than
ten specimens in New York. They are
of a soft velvety black color, with
bright golden tints on tho end of
the scales. The body is dwarfed to
such an extent thnt the lish appears to
be almost round, while tho beautiful
double tails droop fur below tho ven
tral fins and give the fish the appear
ance of wearing a long train. The eyes
are as large as those found in a five
inch bull-frog and protrude beyond
the head to the same extent. These
fish are unusually intelligent and so
tame that they enn bo fed from the
hand. Their regular diet consists of a
small piece of fishwood wafer made oi
rice, flour and water, which is fed to
them every morning, and once a week
a small piece of earth worm. After r
ceivincr the latter delicncv thev usual! v
exhibit their gratification by Ktrit di-
in rr V. rt ilnrunl fin . n m.-... .... 1
f eiriniTnlnfT j".mti.1 n,i.l T(i,rwl o f f .. ..i,.l.
other, playing and curvetting among
he water plants in tho aquarium in ur
amusing manner.
A few yeurs ngo, when Admiral Am
men, of the United States Navy, was in
Japan he tried very hard to get a pnir
of these fish for the purpose of lin e l
ing them and introducing them into
this country. He found, however,
that the Mikado was so jealous of this
J rare stock leaving the countrv that ho
prohibited any dealing in this lish.
The Japanese fish cultur.st who pro
duces this variety of fish produces
artificially their peculiarities of shapa
and color. Originally, they wore bred
from the long, slender-bodied, sinzle
tailed gold fish, nnd it requires untir
ing patience on the part of the citltur
ist to develop tho peculiarities which
-five the fish their value. The Japan
ese, it is said, take tho fish when
young and place theiu in a cylindric.il
lube made of dark colored gla-s ut
each end and with two openings of
clear glass above the eyes of the lisii.
These cylinders are Inid in the small
artificial ponds constructed for 1:
purpose, nnd the water is allowed to
pass freely through tho tube. The
tendency of the tiny lish is to swim
always toward tho clear part of tiie
lylinder, and iu time the eyes grow
ant into the cavities made for the pur
jose.
The youngest daughter of the late
Colonel Elliot F. Shepurd has in her
sqimrium threo fringe-tail goldfish.
One of the fish has a brilliant citrmino
color, making tho ordinnry American
gold'.ish look pale in comparison with
this glistening sides. He presents a
1 beautiful appearance by ".isliuht when
passing from side to sido iu the
aquarium in search of tidbits from his
little mistress, Margherita. Resides
this fish, she has small American
striped dace, noted for their sym
metrical form and swiftness in swim
ming. They will jump fully two feet
out of the water after a small pieco of
scraped beef rolled up to look like an
earthworm and impaled ou a broom
itraw over the aquarium.
Master Arthur Gotthold, of West
Fifty -eighth street, raised nearly 10'J
three-spined sticklebacks this spriug
from one pair. During a period of
ten days in April the larger of these
two fish busied himself in excavating
a largo hole iu the sum! of his '
aquarium, carrying it a little at a time
in his mouth nil the way across the
aquarium. After getting the hole
deep enough he commenced to pull
little bits of branches off some of the
water-plants and piled them up until
they formed tho nest indicated, stop
ping every little while to press his
sides against tho branches to cement
them iu placo with the mucus exuded
from his scales. Occasionally he would
Bwim head down nnd poke his nose in
tho opening to maintain the proper
shape in the nest. Ho thon m i le a:i
opening on the left-hand sido near the
base, in such a way that tho water
could pass freely in at ono aperture
ind ont at tho other. Duriug this
time tne uttto Duilder changed in
solor from an uninteresting slate hue
to a brilliant redallovr the chest and
jill covers.
After the eggs were deposited by
his mate the fish took a position about
an inch above the nest, with his head
toward the opening, and began to fan
vigorously with his pectoral fins forc
ing the water in through the top of
the nest. From this time on for four
teen days he showed very little inter
est in anything else. Instead of feeding
ravenously he nte very little of the
fresh beef offered him every morning.
Whenever he did leave the nest for a
few seconds it was seemingly for the
purpose of swimming across the nqtiur
ium to unmercifully punish his unof
fending mate. At the end of the fort
night the young fish were hatched,
but he still kept up tho aerating pro
oess over the nest until tho tinv vel's
sacs attached to the bodies of the fry,
by which they nro nonri.hing, had
ilsnppeared. Then the young1 fish
iwnm out nnd were able to feed tbem
telves from the small infusoria grow
ji)L under the leaves of the water plant.
The daughter of Mrs. Soutter owns
t very interesting pair of paradise lifch,
svhich came from India, and bear tho
nost brilliant variety of colors found
n any fresh water fish. Tho head is
rray with dark spots. Tho gills are
)lue bordered with crimson, the eyes
rellow and red and tho pupils black.
fh sides of the bodv are crimson
witn ten or twelve vertical bine stripe.
The tail is crescent in shape and is
rimson with a blue border. When
tho fish is excited all its colors intensify
in brightness. The tail is covered
with small spots like the eyes on a
peacock's tail, and tho under surface
ot the fish changes nt times from iet
black to nearly whiter
MET DEATH IN THE ALPS.
Jo w Two Darlnjr Cllmbere, Tied To
gether, Were Hashed to Death.
The latest victims of ambition to
climb the Matterhorn were Andreas
Seiler, a tourist, and Johaun Itiener, a
guide. They belonged to a party of
five, and, being a little more venture
some, had gone ahead. One of the sur
viving three tells of the accident .is
follows:
The otaers wore only five minutei,
ahead, and we hnd reached a difficult
spot and were stnndinj- on steps cul
at the top of a small patch of Ice, nt an
niiKle of 50 def-reos and close to rock,
when Mooscr called out, "Beware ol
MP"
AS ACCIIlEXT ON THE MATTERHORN
stones." We pressed up close to tha
rock and listened, when the two (Seller
and Iliener) shot past us. We were nil
three close together, and Mooscr could
have touched them with his ax. They
were tied together. Seiler passed close
to us, his back downward, his head
well bent up, as if he were preparing
for a sudden shock. ISieiicr Hew l'ar
out nir.-iinst the blue sky and the rope
was stretched tightly between them.
They fell on to the Glacier du Lion, and
when the bodies wore recovered they
were still tied together. With both tha
crown of the head was cut away us
thotif-h it had been done by a sharp In
Btrumont. Seiler's watch was crushed
and his left boot wa-s missing, although
the foot was uninjured. How the acci
dent happened will never be known, as
no one saw tliem slip. I am ineline.l
to think that Seiler was climbing at the
fame time as Hiener, instead of wait
ing until he had a firm hold, and th it
Ihe former slipped, jerking I'.iener oil
tl'.a leet. I .nil sllVli.mlielled ii, -.ills Li
lief by the position of the two cilcw
them tly past.
F.ICHhST MAN I.N THE WORLD
tllim DoiiiMoff. a ltushi Whose Wenltti
Is of Iteccnl I'rentioii.
Like the Fn.'ilsli miili inaires,
those of the C;-ar's dnmin ons most ly
derive their revenues from lamlel
property. While the I r ton, le w
cver, devoUs a iaie ; nrt ol Iih
gross income toward improving his
posse-sions and to '.he ainelio.at on
of the lot of his tenants in mii way
or a not her. the i ussian, on the oth
er band, extracts every farlhin,' that
lie can from his property and spend.!
it upon liimsell, the rc.su !r b-.; ng
that iiLTiciiituie in Russia is g un,;
from b id to wor-e, that foi inc.lv fer
tile and productive e lates have now
become barren and iiiipoveiishcd,anil
that, while tho. peasantry are i"i a
state of misery bordering on furjiuc,
the nobles themselves hava 1 ecu
obliged to mo: tirade cr sell v!ie;r
lands, and are at the end of their
tlaancial tether. Of course, tliero
are some exception.-., suvh ss. for In
stance, the VououpotT-', the 1 cini
do'Js and the cheri'nietieiT.s. The
wealth or the IiemidolTs is so vast,
according to the New YorK Tribune,
that it is beyond calculation, and
Etrangely enough the fortuna is of
' relatively icccnt creation, its founder
j having been a country blacksmith iu
i the days of 1 etcr the Oreat. It was
j while trawling in the I rai Mount
ains that the latter broke one of hi:s
most valuable Knirlish pistols A vil
lage smith mended it so quickly and
so well that the Car was delighted
and asked the man's name, "i cnii
doff, 1 shall remeniiicr you," said he
as he rode oX The poor man was
beginninn to think that Feter had
forgotten him when there cams an
n'V.cial document adorned, with tho
imperial seal, granting him the free
hold of a great tract ol' cr svn land
in the neighborhood of the village.
Fciuidotf went to work on bis new
property, and found there inexhausti
ble mines of iron, silver, and mala
chite. Young Kliiu Dcojidoll ho
does not bear in Ku-shi tho Italian
title of. prince tencraHy preH cd to
his hhiiitj by foreigners Is at thu
prccnt moment the richest man in
the world. Frincess Yoiiaoupoff,
w.th her gicat turquoise mines, com
ing next in rank. Fortunately, both
of them are more free-handed and
ircnerous than their respective imme
diate uredeccssors as head of the
family, the late Anatole Doinido.f
and the late IYincn YousnupolT hav
ing been alike renowned for their
meanness and avarice, of which al
most incredible stories arc related.
Ke.vis, it i
livery stablo.
said, was born iu
shook nrajsoitE.
They were seated on the hotel piazza
ogether and, to tell tho truth, sho
found him very dull. Suddenly shf
vas seized with an idea.
"How far off is that mountain, Mr.
McGeorge?"
"Two miles."
"You couldn't walk there and bacV.
n two hours."
"Couldn't I? Well, I guess I could.
I can do it in an hour."
"Really? Well, I don't believe it.
I'll bet yon a bos of candy that yoe
can't start now and bo back in m;
hour." Harper's Bazar.
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