It ' T - ' B. F. BOHWEIEB. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor VOL. XLIi MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1895. NO. 9. CTIAPTKR X.-Cnntlua.il. TTe could not have done better. "Uts charitable" won his grandmother "unso:histicated," his cousin. Ko. Mrs. Campbell would not. In deed, have him appear, nor have hire be uncharitable, not to say un-Chris-tian; und certainly, to harbor any sort of grudge against a fri;:id, eventhoush that friend ha4 bro.'ght it upon him self, ta ored. she could not but own, of an un-t'brittian temper: wherefore, if it ha.1 been on that account that he ba l met Sir Frederick lie.lenden half way, she con!d but commend her grand-on and endeavor to follow his example Beilenden should be re ceived in Mount street And the dear old creature actually felt ashamed of her own fee!'ns. and told herself that old heads might &o:netiines take a le? son from vounsr ones. With Geraldine Cecil's wisdom had equally told. To be sure, she would not wi-h to seem uophistieated" for the world. To be s-ue, she had mistaken her cousin and misjudged nim. lie was not wauhing, he was warning her. fie meant to convey t tiraelv hint Well, she -.vou'd take his hint, but she must take it In her own way -not a is. He was quite right to inti mate tint she would do well not to let any ense of insur-y or wronjr appear: but when it cat e to the practical part" of the proceeding' she thought siie could do better than he. He might know for bim-elf. It might be right encusrh for him to accept t5ellendens overtures, and be reciprocal and re sponsive: but he hr-d not once and the hot llush rose to her brow, and her teetii were set within her rosy lips at the thought which followed. 'Do lirins him," cried she the ncx; minute. ' IX). g:ar.ny, let Cecil bring Sir J'ib 'erick li.l enden here. I want to see him again. And, granny, if i am not at hoir-e when ho comes on Sunday, you will entertain him. will you not Say you will, there's t dear." 'If you are not at home? Where were you thinking of poing, my lsve?" inquired granny in some surprise. 'To the children's service at Berke ley Chaj ui. ou know it is so near that I can easily tro alone, if Miss Cor unna does not care to go with me. U it you will not go, dear: so granny wih "be at home, Cecil, if you bring (.apt. Beilenden there now, I must remember, and so must trrannv, that he is -t apt Beilenden' no longer. J cannot think how it is that we both forget, unless" with a tinge of the old bittern "'unless it may be that we have neither seen nor heard anything of hmi siuce he became 'Sir Fred erick." ' h, sha'l you be out?" said Cecil, looking rather blank. "I am so fonl of a children's service And yo t sisters took me to Berkelej Cha;.el the first Sunday we were here and I like I it so much." 'But the serv ce will be over by I o'clo k, my dear." her grandirother reminded her: 4-I believe it is over by 4. An l you must come in to tea, sf that if Cecil comes then -"' 'Oh, I never meant to come be 'ore," said he ' I may l e back, perhaps," observe.. Ceraldine carelessly. "I only mean to say that granny would be here fo certain. It would not signify, yov know, if I went along to Grosvenoi 5qu re to tea '' 'To Grosvenor Snuare'.' To us?' said Cecil. 'But - but do they ex pect you' Of course they would be de lierhted: but. you see, iry m it er al wavs sacs to er own room to rest, and the girls "are either in the rs or off so newhere or other. My mother oes not have people in at 5 o clock on Sun days as they do at most bouses, so, thoug ' I know that of eourte they would always have you, still, you see. if nobody were in. you might hav your walk for nothing." "Should I? It is too hot to take walks for nothing, certainly," retorted Gcraldine, with a tormenting smile. "You will be in at 5, then:-" said he persevcrins'iv. ".o sir, I did not say that. And I never oini myself by engagements, ii case I feel a desire to break them If I make an engagement I keep it -1 am r.nt like so'ne people" the allusion wa nrit so veiled but that he caught it " herafore prudence suggesteth making none." And he felt that she iid not" mean him to entrap her. He was, in consequence, somewhat surprised when the day ana the hour arrived. On thinking the matter over Geral dine hid neiti.er attended the service at Berkeley Chapel nor gone to tea in Grosvenor S uare. Instead, she had arrayed herselfjna dress of the so.t esj jit-.r: MiuALiJirzTJl, ginned a, rare uiincn 01 nines in uer uosuui, miu eeatcd htrsel: by the balcony window of the little shady drawing-room. Five o'clock had scarcely struck ere the door-bell rang, and the next mo ment the two gentlemen were being usheed in. One etiick throb het pulses could not but give, a faint sba.ie of emotion could no but be felt -but outwardly the fair girl who stood up to receive them was all gentle (-miles and sweet composure, and the hand that was laid for a moment in that of Bei lenden was cool and auiet as his own. This was he. an! the meeting was O'er. The thought so engrossed Geraldine duKngtbe first few minutes which succeeded that, althoug she conversed audibly and sen-ibly with her cousin, and knew and comprehended what he was talking about," she had to exert e erv e.Tort to do so. and was aware that she durst not let not herattentior wander for an instant. A glance had .-utrccd to show that p(f'lnfln was as mu.'h altnred as tier- btJ - - Me was broader, stouter, redder than he had been. She thought he was hardly so handsome, nor so elegant in shape. It pleased her to note that he jaa a dash of gray on either temple. But his voice -his laugh? She al most wished thev. too, had changed; she knew them go well, remembered them so wei. He was talkingand laughing as easilj asof-nW, itscuiued. Her grandmother, still istent on acting ud to Cecil's in structions, waatenign and gracious as ever: and neither in his first reception nor in aught that followed had be any thing to com- lain or. And yet Beilenden knew, within the limits of that brief halt-hour, what he had and had not to expect. It was obvious that he was not to take up his former footing in the household; it was equally plain that there were to be no reminiscences, nor reverting to things past, and it was markedly clear that 2 iss Campbell had d( ue with "Jerry," or even with "Geraldine" for ever, as egarded him. ".u te the swagger young lady,' )uoth he to himself, half sadly, hulf amused; "tremendously tine and fash ionabel. I might have known it wojld be so. Those frank simple children never last. One breath of the world nips them in the blossoming. Why should I have expected her to be dif ferent from others?" 1 or he had expected it, had beet, struck with a sudden and strange sense of the beauty and innocence of that trirlish face as he had ga ed U on it, himself unseen, on the presentation day, and had felt thereafter a restless longing forahother and a nearer view. He had looked up Cecil Haymond with that purpose he liad not dared to come alone. Yet he had thought to carry it with a hiuh hand all the same. It would certainly be b st not to appear as if he had done anything to be ashamed of, and it wo. .id go ur to vard vindicating his behavior if he could appear uncon scious of there having been anything about it to vindicate. With a bold front accordingly he sat and talked. Ah' but he was ashamed for all that and the truth seemed to glare at him out of two fiery eyes. Kot Geraldine's eyes, for they wert never turned his way at a I. though they bea ned large and' liquid as ever on Cecil, on her grandmother, on anv ob ect in the room rather thn him self pot the old lady's, for they were. mi,. erene, benevolent, and regarded hm with a calmness which he hims-lf was far from feeling; not Cecil s: Ce il was perfectly happy, and perfectly un 1 onscious - secure of ba ingdene the right thing and charmed that all had turned out so well. No, the eyes were thore of his own newly-awakened and indignant con science. What a fool he had ma le of himself 1 iVhy could he not, by a little ordinary attention, have done away with all this awkwardness, and this tiresome em barrassment? A letter or two, Geral dine's present, an invitation from his mother, a liule civility shown to the Raymonds - any one of these wouid have ena' led him now not only to feel quite comfortable, but would have given him the pleasant right to be re garded in the light of one who was more than a mere acquaintance. He felt all at once a desire to be looked upon in this light: and the des're was scarcely there ere he was convinced it would never be realized. He almost sighed as Cecil looked at him, and rose to go. He had inter changed a few e-ay words with Ger aldine. She bad shown him the flow ers on her balconv, and had allowed. in answer to his inquiries, that she was charmed with all she had seen and dene, and was looking forward with de light to what was next to follow. Both had confined themselves to London and to the present. The past had not been touched upon Inchraarew never named. Then young Raymond had drawt near, and had confidently murmured something in his cousin's ear, at which the other had at once moed aside. haughty and vexed by this interrup tion, and. moreover, with a keen and bitter recollection of having once said thut Cecil would do well t obtain 1 start with the heiress. That start had apparently been ob tained. "You are going to ride with her?'' jaid Sir Frederic, as the two walked away. ''Does she ride as well as ever?' "Every bit: and we have got her such horse! "Ah' have I seen her out?" drawlec Beilenden as insinuating that he misrht have easily done so without remark ing it. "So: the horse only came up yester day. You will see her out to morrow. Ail the world saw Geraldine out on the morrow. As she rode slowly up and down the sunlit l.nw. where the shine from the glittering heavens dancing upon leal and stem, the gloss on the satin-like coats of the horses, the Butter of lan 1 r parasol. l::ce and feather among the brilliant, many-tinted i rowds, made a spectacle never to be afterward lor gcttcn, the youthful heiress was her self one of its chiefest ornaments. She baa not been there before, forii had been a Dusy time of day with her, and she had not cared to go until she cou'd take her place amongthe riders. Moreover, the previous weeks had not 1 een beautiful by the sudden blaze of it-.nshine and warmth which bad now dr.iwn forth every lingerer: eo that, although there had been always the same thing in kind going on. it had not attained to its fu ! perfection, and. hearing this, she had been content to vait. But now what a scene of enchant tnent it ws! S meti es cantering lightly over the soft, well-watered soil: sometimes -auntr-rinir past the rail nzs. scanning the loungers on the side path and be neath the sha e; anon tailing a halt at the corner where . ongcegated the greatest numbers of all. and where she was informed that anv who knew her, and knew she was to be there that day 'or the first time, would certainly be vatching. Cecil knew exactly where to go. and when to stand still. He also knew bv sight a great man; ueojile of whom, in her ino an.-e. she had barely heard, tut whom she was vc enough to perceive she ought to ihow abo .t and ought to understand ibout. Cecil evidently considered it important that she should; and he was very mun in earnest ana took a great deal of pains in the matter. He was very little less of a 3'oung don than he had been in years fast, but his wonted -olempitv and profundity now took a ii erent tu: n and, as a rising young man. and an embryo politician, and a bachelor who had his own rooms and hud h s name "down for several eood club?, pnd who could leave hi card at a fair nuiuber of good bouses, he was now ready to treat an acquirement of a certain amount of fashionable knowl edge with all. the gravity he had for nerly bestowed upon his Oxonian life. A ecu riinp-lv he did not allow the present excellent opportunity for im jirovinar his cousin's mind to nass with mt e erting himself to take advantage f. it. and presently he expressed his i itis faction thus. "You have made a very good 1 eginning, Geraldine. . You have been lucky in your day. It is not every day that brines out so many the right sort of people. I don't know when 1 have seen the place fuller," looking ro'iti complacently. "Yes 1 think it is deliirhtftil." ex- claimed she, with animation. "It is relightful altogether. The sunlight and the shade, and the people and the horses. I am afraid I shall want to come here every day, though, Ce il." "Well, of course; that Is what people do. It is the correct thing to do that. To roints only now and then is nonsense. You don't get seen, nor known, nor anything. You will soon begin to notice the most part of the riders who re here now - you will get to know them all bv sight - they come regularly, tt is quite the thing to do." "How glad I am I have got my I eau tiful 'Sir I ancelot ' " pat.ing his neck "Ay, he is quite the right horso to have. I d.:re say he has been vpry much admired. ) our horse is scarcely less looked at than yourself in the Row." "I should hope a great deal more,'' laid Geraldine, laughing, "if 'Sir Lan celot' is only to be less looked at" ani then she stopped suddenly, and bent over her saddle, and was too bus ily arranging the bunch of flo.verets in her button-hole to proceed further. "There is Beilenden over mere. observed Cecil, all unconsciously. 'shaL we ride up to him? I dare say he is come to have a look at you. " "r- 3t likely. And be is speaking to jther people. I do not think he has seen us, so we need not trouble about him, and I am tirea of the corner,' ,oth his companion, turning her horse's head round; "I should like to t ike another turn up and do.vn, Cecil, if you uo not tn'tirt. Let us go the whole length o." the ride once n ore ust once more - before we go in to luncheon. Co.ue," and she had set off re he repl'ed. Nothing loath, Cecil followed. He had been w lling to speak to Bei lenden. it was true, as he always was willing to be seen in company with a well-known presentable acquaintance but he was more than pleased that Geraldine should not care about it, and should prefer "another turn up and down" with himself. They walked past Sir Frederick tolerably close past, too chatting gaily together, as hough neither perceived him: and 1'iesently he could see their horses 61-ea;; into a canter, and the two fig- ires d.sappear a 1 ong the other riders. He almost felt as it he had been in tuited. He bad come there, as Cecil hat. aid, to see Geraldine. He did not frequent the ride at thai hour, for the scene had long ago palled upon him, and he had not his horses in town: but he hau felt he shruld like to behold the little horsewoman of Inch marew mounted once more. Why should he not' She had been quite civil to him, and there was no po-sible reason why the two should not be good friends, or, at any rate, polite, sociable acquaintances n future. It was not to be expected that she should be as demonstrative and open hearted as when she was a child nay, it was hardly perhaps to be expected that she should think as highly of him even in her secret soul as she had once eared not to hide that she had done: but he did not thin he had himself altered, or, at least, so altered aa that Geraldine should withdraw from him ll o-dinary liking. She had certainly not been warm ii her greeting the day before, but neither had she been frigid. Had she I een one or other he would have known what to make of it. But, as it w ., he had thanks to Cecil) been ba ed: and the only solution of the Croblom which had at first occurred to lui had been too disagreeable to have been long contemplated. But it now ecurred with renewed force. Her indifference could mean nothing else than that he was now powerless either to attract or to repel; and whether that powerlessnes were the result of any change in himself, 01 whether it proceeded from the ascend ency of a rival, it did not greatly sig lifv. Either way was bad enough. That he had been seen and market as he stood there in the bright ilaj sunlight, he felt on instant conviction. Ho had himself been watching the pail for some little time previously, and hac known the exact moment when eacl had a'most simultaneously discovered him. When Geraldine had turned hei horse's head he had fancied her abo.it to apr roach and renew his acquain tan eship and had responded to tht movement instantly- and then the tw had walked slowly by, to ail appear ance taken up solely with eacn other. It had been oone deuDerateiy; 11 must have 1 een of set purpose. Had he shown ? But he hai shown nothing. He did not think thai any regret, or pi tue, or annoyance either with himself, or with them, had been visible the previous afternoon, and, therefore, to pass him by so nak edly, must have been simply owing tc the state of their own feelings. They had not cared to be intruded upon. They could not be troubled withj the presence of an outsider. He went away caring infinitely mort about the whole than he had done when lie came. TO BE CONTINUED. The Czar's White Horses. The Czar of Russia has one set 01 fifty horses, all pure white, with blue eyes. They are beautiful creatures, but deaf, as white animals with blue eyes always are. These white horses are used in showy processions on state occasions, and, like Queen Victoria's famous cream- colored horses, are never sold from the imperial stables. When past use they are shot and buried wit! due ceremony. Boston Herald, News in Brief. M ngahela means a "river with out isl" ." In ii an the flute is played only by rank. a The Hudson Kiver is salty as far as Poughkeepsie, N. Y. seventy-five miles from its mouth. Portland. Oregon, Las' a military company, the height of whose members averages a x iee. ... Experimental crops of tobacco have been grown in Oregon the past season with great succes". A woman of Calais, Me., has won renown by mending a broken door- binge with a hairpin. A suit of chain mail, snch as was used about the time of William the Conqueror, often cost $1,000. Although boiling water is fatal to most microbes, some of them endure extreme cold with indifference. . There were 230 candidates for the librarianship at Lincoln's Inn, Lon don, which pays $1,000 a year. REV. DR. TAIMAGE. lUX BEOOKXYH DITTXK'S SO DAYSXBMOX. Subject s "The Dangers of Pessimism.. Text: "I sail In my haste, All men an tan." Psalm cxvi., 11. Swindled, betrayed, peroeouted David, b a paroxysm of petulance and rage, thus In salted the human race. DavM himself falsi (te1 when he said, "All men are liars." Hi apologises and anys he was nnninally pro yoked, and that he was hnMy when he harle4 snah universal denunciation, "I said In m baste," and so on. It was in him only a mo msntary triumph of pessimism. Tnere ii ever and anon, and never more than now, disposition abroad to distrust everybody, and because some bank employes defnuM to distrust all hank employes, and because some police oSoers have tnken bribes to bei lleve that all polleemen take bribes, and be naose divorce enses are In the court to be lieve that most, if not all, marriage relations are unhappy. There are men who seem rapidly oomim, to adopt this creeds All men are liars, scoundrels, thieves, libertines. When anew case of perSdy eonrv to the surface, thos people clap their bands in Klee. It gives plqnaney to their breakfast If tbe morning newspaper discloses a new exposure or a new arrest. Tbey grow fat on vrmln. Tbey join the devils in hell In Jubilation over recreancy nd pollution. If some one arrested Is proved Innocent, tt Is to them a disappointment. Tliey would rntherbalieve evil than rood. They are vn'tuces, pre ferrng cnrr:on. Thnywonll like to be on a committee to find ?o-n t'jmg wrong. They wiBh that as eyeRl u ; s have been invented to improve the siht, and ear trumpets have been invented to help the hearing, a corre sponding instrument might be Invented tor the nose, to bring nearer a malodor. pessimism says or the cbnrcb, "The ma. Jority of the mombcw are hypocrites, although It Is no temporal advantage to be a member of the church, and therefore there Is no temptation to hypocrisy. Pessimism says that the influence of newspapers Is only oaa, and tnnt they are corrupting the world, wben the fact Is that they are tbe migbtiest agency for the arrest of crime and the spread of Intelligence, and the printing press, secu lar and religious, is setting the nations free. The whole tendency of things ia toward eynicltm, and the gospel of Smashnp. We excusi Divid of the text for paroxysm of disgust, because be apologizes for It to all the centuries, but it Is a deplorable fact that many have taken the attitude of perpetual dUtrust and anathematization. T.iem nr we mut a mit, doplonMe facts, and we would not hide or minify them. We are not much encouraged to find that tht great work of orrtcial reform In New York City be gins by a propo3ii ton to the liquor dealers to break l ne law by keeping tiietr saloons open on Sun lny Irom two In the afternoon :o eleven at night. Never since America was discovered ba there been a worse Insult to sobriety and de coney nn.l religion than that proposition. That proposition Is equal to saying t "Let law and orderand religion have a chance on Sunday forenoons, but Sunday afternoonj open all the gates to gin and alcohol an Scnfe.inm schnapps and sour mash and Jer sey lightning, and the variegated swill o( brewi ries and drankenness and crime. Con secrate the first half of the Sunday to Ooi and the la.-t rail to tbe devil. Let tbe ehik dren on their way to Sunday-schools In Nan York nt 3 o'clock in the afternoon meet thi Icobolism that does more than all otbei causes combined to rob ohlldren of theli fathers and mothers and strew the land with helpless orphanage. Surely strong drink can kill enough people and destroy enougb families and sufficiently crowd the alms houses and penitentiaries In six days of tha week w:thout giving It an extra half day foi pauperism and assassination. Although we are not very jubilant over a municipal reform that opens the exercises by a doxologr to ram. we have full faith in Ood and in the KOSDel which will yet sink all iniquity as tha Atlantic Ocean melts a hake 01 snow. What we want, ana wnat j believe we will have, is a great religious awakening that will moralize and Christian use onr great populations and make them superior to temptations, whether unlawful or legalized. 80 I see no causa for dls- heartenment. pessimism is a sin, ana those' who yield to It cripple themselves for the war, on one side of which are all the forces ot durkness, led on by Apollyon, and on the other side of which are all tbe foroes ofTlight, led on by the Omnipotent. I risk the tttntement th it tbe vast majority of people are doing tbe best they can. Nne hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand of tbe officials of the municipal and the united States governments are honest. Out of a thousand bank presidents and cashiers, nine hundred and ninety-nine are worthy the position thev occupy. Out of a thonsand merohants, mechanics and profes sional men, nine hundred find ninety-nine are doing their duty as they understand it. Out of one thousand engineers and conduc tors and switchmen, nine hundred and ninety-nine are true to their responsible posi tions. It is seldom tbnt people arrive at positions of responsibility until they have been tested over and over again. If tbe theory of the pessimist were acourate. so ciety would long ago have gone to pieoes, ant civilization wouid have been submerged 1th barbarism, and tha wheel 01 the cen turies would nave turne t back to the dark ages. A wrong Impression Is made that be cause two men falsify tneir bank aoconnts those two wrongdoers are blazoned before tha world, while nothing is said In praise of the hundreds of bank olerka who have stood at their deska year In and year out until their health is well nigh gone, taking not pin's worth of that which belongs to others lor themselves, thongh with skilful stroke of pen they migbt have enriched themselves and built their country seats on tbe banks oi tbe Hudson or the Kblne, It is a mean thing in human nature that men and women are not praised for doing well, but only excoriated when tbey do wrong. By divine arrangement tbe most ot tha families ot the earth are at peace, and tha most of those united In marriage hav for eaon o:ner amnity ana aneotlon. Xnej may have occasional differences, and hen and there a aeason of pout, but t he vast ma jority of those in tbe conjugal relation chosa the most appropriate companionship, and are happy In that relation. You hear nothing of the quietude and happiness ot snch homes, though nothing but death will then part, hat one sound of marital discord makes the ears of a continent, and perhaps at a hemisphere, alert. Tbe one letter that ought never to havt been written printed In a newspaper makes more talk than the millions of letters that arowd tbe postofflcea and weigh down the mall carriers with expressions of honest;loye. Tolstoi, tbe great Russian author. Is wrong when he prints a book for the depreciation of marriage. If your observation has nut yon in an attitude of deploratlon for the marriage state, one of two things Is true In regard to yon. Yon have either been un fortunate in your acquaintanceship, or yon yourself are morally rotten. The world, not as rapid as we would like, but still with long strides, is on the way to the scenes of beatitude and felicity which the Bible de picts. The man who' cannot aee this is wrong, either In his heart or liver ot spleen. Look at the great Bible picture gallery, where Isaiah has set up the pictures of arborescence, girdling the world with cedar and fir and pine and boxwood and the Hon led by a child, and St. John's pictures ot waters and trees, and white horse cavalry, and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown and harps struok, and nations redeemed. While there are 10,000 things I do not like, I have not seen any disoouragem n' for tbe causa ot Ood for twenty-five yeais. The kingdom is coming. Tbe earth Is pre paring to pnt on bridal array. We need to be getting our anthems and grand marches ready. In our hymnologywe shall hav mora use for "Antioeh" than for "Wind flam," for Ariel," than for "Nomi." Let 'Hark, From theTomba a Do'elul Cry l bt submerged with "Joy to fie World, thi Lord Is Come 1" Beally, if I thought thi human race were as determined to be bad and getting worse, as the pessimists repre sent, I would think It was hardly wortl saving. If after hundreds of years of gos pellzation no improvement has been made let ns give it up and go at something els besides praying and preaching. - My opinion is that if we had enough fait! in quick results and could go forth rlghth equipped with tbe gospel call the battle fot ftSiLutirtshleonwess would cad .with toil nineteenth century, and the twent'etl ceatury, on'y Ave or six yeais off, wonld b gin the millennium, and Christ wonM relirti, either in person on some throne set op between tha Alleghanles and the Booklet or in the institutions of mercy and grandeul set np by His ransomed people. Discouraged work will meet with defeat. Expectant an buoyant work will gain the victory. Star out with the idea that all men are liars and 'onudrels, and that everybody is as bad ai he o.-in be, and that society, and the church, and the world are on the way to demolition and the only use you will ever fee to th( world will be to increase the value ot lots in a cemetery. We need a man cheerful front in all our religious work. People have enough trouble already and do not want to ship another cargo of troublt in tbe shape of religiosity. If religion hal been to yoa a peace, a defense, an lnspinv lion an r a joy, say so. Say it by word oi mouth, by pen in your band, by face illu mined with a divine satisfaction. If tbti world Is ever to be taken for Oo 1, it will not ba by groana, but by halleluiahs. If w oulii umau tns Christian rulls-loa as really Is, in Its true attractiveness, all thi peopla wonld accept lr, and accept it right is sr. The cities, tbe nations would crj ut: "Give us tb.v, give it to us in all iti toly magnetism and gracious power I Pot hat salve on our woun Is ! Throw back tht ibntters for that morning light. Knock o these chains with tnat silver hammer ! Oivi is Christ Sis pardon. His pa -e. His com fort. His heaven 1 Give, ns Christ In song Dhr.st in sermon, Christ in book, Christ If iving example!" As a system ot didactics religion has nova rained one inoh of progress. As a tech. llcnlity it befoirs m r. than It irradiates. Ai 1 dogmatism it is an awful failure. But as fact, as a re-rnforcomeiit, as a transfigura tion, it la the mightiest thing that evei ie-oendel from the havnsor touched thi ona. ExamplLfjr It in the life of a soon man or a good woman, ana no ons can help but like it. A city missionary visited a houss. In London and foun 1 a sick and dying boy. There was an orange lying on his bed, and tbe missionary said, "Where did you gel (hat orange? He s-iid : "A man brought it to me. He comes here often and reads tha bible to me and prays with me and bring! me nloi tbtnga to eit." "What Is fail name? s:nl the city missionary. "1 forget his nme," siid th sick boy, ''hut he mvL'f s great speeches over in Mi.it great building," pointing to tht Parliament House of London. Tbe mis ionnrv asind, 'Wis his cami Mr. Glad. itoueV" "Oh, yes," said the hoy, "that il his name Mr. Gladstone !" Do yon tell ml t nvrn can see religion lie that an I not Ilk it? There is an oi l fashioned mother in a larm house. Perhaps she is somewhere in the seventies, perhaps seventy-five or sev mty-'dx. It is the early evening hour, rNrcagh spectacles No. 8 she Is reading 1 newspaper until towar i he.ittme, wben shi ialtes up a well-worn book, called the Bible, I know frOTi the illumination in her face he is reading one of the thanks rivina psalms, or in llevelatioa the story of tha twelve pearly gates. After awhile sha closet the book and folds ber bands and thinks ovei tax past and se-ms whispering the names o' hr children, some of them on earth an' lome of them in heaven. Now a smile Is a her face, and now a tear, and sometimes th mile catcbea the tear. Toe scenes of a Ion life come back to her. One minute ah ls nil tha children smiling around hei with their toys and sports and strange quel llonings. Then alie remembers several e them down sick with Infantile disorders Then she sees a short grav?, but over it en In tnnrble, "buffer tie:n to coma to Me.' th -n there Is the wedding hour, and thi ttelvhbors ,n, ani the promise ot "I will,' mi the departure from tbe old homestead then a scene ot hard times, an 1 scant broal ind s'ruggle. Then she thinks of a fes rear' with gush of sunshine and flittings o tarlt shadows and viciasitu ies. Tnn she kneels down slowly, for manj rears hive stiffened the joints, and the ill lesses of a lifetime have made her less sup pie. Her prayer Is a mixture of thinks foi lustalnlng grace during all those years, ani (hanks for children good and Chrisiiaa ind kind, and a prayer for the wandorin boy, whom she hopes to see come home be fore her departure. And then her tremblin Hps speak of the lan i of reuulon, where shs rxpeots to meet her loved ones alreadj translated, and after telling the Lord In verj llmple language how much she loves Him. indt rests Uim, and hopes to tee Him soon I hear her pronounce the quiet "Amen,"'ani ibe rises up a little more diflku't effort than kneeling down. And then she puts hoi lead on the pillow for the night, and tbi ingels of safety and peace stand sen dnel about thnt couch in tbe farn. louse. and ber face ever and' inon shows slcns of dreams about the heaven she read of before retiring. Ii the morning the dny a work has begun dowi itairs, and seated at the table the remnrk h nade, "Mother must have overslept her-. lelf." And tha grandchildren also notici Ji.it grandmother is absent Irom her usua place at tbe table. Oneot the grandchildrei roes to the foot of the stairs and cries "Grandmother V But there Is no answer fearing something la the matter, they go u to see, and all seems right. The spectacle ind Bible on the stand, and tha covers o the bed are smooth, and tha face is calm her white hair on tha whits pillow case Ulo now on snow already fallen. But her soul Is gone np to look upon the things that the Bight before she had been reading of in the gcripturos. What a transporting look on her dear old wrinkled facel She has fe-n the "King in His boanty." She has been wel comed by the "Lamb who was siain." And ber two oldest sons, having hnrriel up itairs, look an 1 whisper, Henry to George, "Thnt Is religion I ' George to Henry, "Yes, hat is religion !' There Is a New York merchant who lia jeen in bus ness I should say forty or fifty years. During an old-fashioned revival oi religion in boyhood he gave his heart to Ood. He did not make the ghastly and in finite and everlasting mistake of sowino "wild oats," with the expectation of sowing good wbe it later on. He realized tha fact that the most of those wbo sow "wild oats" never reap any other crop. He started right and has kept right. He went down In 1857, when the banks failed, but he tailed honestly nd never lost his faith in God. TJps and downs he sometimes laughs over them but whether losing or gaining he was grow ing hotter all the time. He has been in many business ventures, but he never ventured tha rxpenment of gaining the world and los ing his soul. His name was a power both in the ohureh and ia tbe business world. He has drawn morechecksforcontrl- butions to asylums and churches and schools than any one, except God, knows. He has :ept many a business man from (ailing bv lending his name on the back of a note till (he crisis was past. All heaven knows about biin, for the poor woman whose rent he paid In her last days, and the man with consump tion In the hospital to whom he aent flowers nd the cordials just before ascent Ion, and the people he encouraged in many ways, af ter they entered heaven kept talking aboul It. for the immortals are neither Hnnf nnr dumb. Well, It Is about time for the old tnerotant himself to quit earthly residence. toward evening, be shuts the sate, juts the roll of newsDaners In his Docket. thinking that the familv mav like to rvn them after he gets borne. He folds np a tl bill and gives It to the bov to earrr to oni of the car men who got his leg broken am maj oe in need 01 a little money : puta 1 tamo on a letter to bis grandson at college a letter with good advice, and an inclosur 10 mane the holidnys nappy, men look around the store or omoe ni says to tne clerks, "Good evening." and starts for home, stopping on the way at a door to ask how bis oi l friend, a tie icon In the same church, is getting on since his last bad at tack of vertigo. Ha enters bis own home, ani that is his last evening on earth. He does not say much. No last words are necessary. His whole life has been a testimony for God and righteous ness. More people would Ilka to attend hit obseqnies than any house or church wiuld hold. The officiating clergyman be gins b: remarks by quoting from the psalm ist, '"Help, Lord, for the godly man eeasetb, for the faithful fail from among tbe children of men." Every hour in heaven for all the million years of eternity that oil merchant wll see the resnlt ot his earthly beneficence atxl n lellty, while on the street where be did business, and in the orphan asylum in which he wan a director, and in the church ot wtich be was an officer, whenever his gen lafly and beneficence and goodness are re ferred to, bank director will say to bank di rector, and merchant to merchant, and neighbor to neighbor, and Christian to Olrlstian t 'That la religion. Tea, that if reVllon-, 1 seated or standi (ear yon." PA not look at him. Tor tt might unnecessary "embarrassment. Only a lew minutes ago he came down off the ateps f as happy a noma as there Is in this or any it her olty. Fifteen years ago, by reason of sisdiast pated habits, hlsTiome was a horror to rife and children. What that woman went fnrough with In order to preserve respecta bility and hide her husband's disgrace is a tragedy whl?h it would require a Shakes peare or Victor Hugo to write oat In fly tremendous acts. Shall I tell it? He struck ar. Yea ; tha one who at tbe altar be had tken with vows so solemn they made the range blossoms tremble 1 He struck her 1 He made tha beautiful holidays "a reign of terror." Instead of his supporting ber, she rapport ed him. The children had often keard him apeak the name of God, but never D prayer only In profanity. It waa tha a ddest thing on earth that I can think of 1 destroyed home I Walking along the street one day an Impersonation of all wretchednaaa, ha saw a sign at tha door of Young Hen's Christian Association "Meeting Fcr Men Only." He went in hardly knowing why he did o, and sat down by tha door, and a young man waa In broken voice and poor grammar telling how the L-ord had saved him from a dissipated lire, and the man baok by the door said to himself, "Why eannot I have tbe Lord do the same thing for me?" and he put his hands, all a -tremble, over his bloated lace ana said t "U uoa, 1 want that I 1 must have that 1" and God said. "You shall have It, an 1 yoa have it now F And the man same out and went home a changed man. in I though tbe children at nrst shrank back ind looked to the mother and began to cry with Iright they soon saw that tbe father was a otinnged man. That home has turned Irom "Paradise Lost" to "Paradise Re gained." The wife aings all day long at her work, lor sue is so nappy, and tne children rush out Into the hall at the first r iltleof the lather'a key in tha door lntch to welcome him with curesses and questions of, "What have you brought me?" Tney have family prayers. They are altogether on the ro:d to heav -i-. and when the journey of me is over tney win live lorever In each other's comptinionanip. Two of their dar ling children are there already, w ilting tor lather aud "her to come ua. What changed thit man? W.jat reconstructed that home? Wnat took that wife, wno was a lave of fear and drudgery, and ma ie her a queen on a throne of anVot'on? I hear a wntspering all through t 'lis assemblage. I kno- what yon are a tying 1 "That'a relig ion I Yes, that's religion!' My Lord and ny God, give us more of it ! Why. my hearers from all pirts of the snrth, do you not get this bright and beauti ful and radiant nnd blissful an 1 triumphant thing for yourselves, then go home telling all ronr neighbors on tha Pacific, or In Nova s.'otia, or in Louisiana, or Mtilue, or Brazil, jr England, or Italy, or any part of the round wot Id, that tney may havd It too. Uivo it for the astdng ! Have it now I Mind r3, I do not start from tha pessimistic I'.andpoint that David did, wben be got mad lad said in his bnste, ''Ail men are liars I" Dr Irom the creed of others that every man la as bad as he ctin be. I rather think from your looks that yoa are doing about as well is vou can In the circumstances whioU yon ire placed, but I w int to invite you up into heights ot safety and satisfaction and holi ness, as rauob higher than those which the world affords as Everest, the highest moun tain in all tba earth, is higher than your Tonl doorstep. Here He comes now. Who is It? I might e alarmed and afraid If I had not seen Htm efore and heard His voice. I thought Ha would come before I got through with 'itis termon. Stand back and make way for Him. Se comes with'soara all around Hia forehead cars in tne center 01 trotn nanas stretched aito greet you ; scars on the Instep of both Jie f-iet with which He advanoes 1 scars on the breast under which throbs tne great leart of sympathy which feels for you. I an- lounce mm. 1 introduce mm to you, Jesus f Bethlehem and Olivet and Golgotha. Why tomcat Thou bitber'tbis winter day. Thou ot the springtime and summery heavens I He tnswers t To give all this audience pardon lor guilt, oondolenoe for grief, whole regi ments of help for day ot battle and eternnl Ife for the dead 1 What response shall I rive Him? In your behalf and in my ov. kehalf I hall Him with the ascription t "Un to Him who hath loved us, and washed u irom our sins la His own blood, and hath Dade ua klnga and priests unto God and His father t to Him be glory and dominion for ver and ever. Amen." Invented the Artificial Leg. In a quaint old house at 609 Mar shall street, Philadelphia, lives Frank D. Deachamps, who, although over seventy years old, has been inventing things all his life. Mr. Deschamps is is active as a boy of twenty, lives all alone amid his models and contriv ances, cooks his own meals, acts as his bwn housekeeper, and is as happy as the dny is long. Mr. Desohampss first Invention of note was the artificial leg. It was over fifty years ago when Mr. Deschamps, then an apprentice, was asked by his master to see what he could do for a foppish Frenchman who had lost a leg. At that time only wooden legs were known, and the Frenchman was dissatisfied with this by no means elegant substitute. In two days young Deschamps had fin ished a complete model of an artificial leg, with every movement of the na tural limb duplicated. His master had it patented, aud it yielded him a fortune. "I got fifty cents oat of it," laughingly remarked Deschamps. "The Frenchman gave me that and told me to go over to Smith's Island and enjoy myself. And I thought I was in great lack." New York Ad yertiser. A tioat Smuggler. Some years ago a tame long-haired oat formed part of the regular crew of a passenger steamer on service be tween an English port and a Conti nental one. After a time the customs authorities discovered that it wore a false coat, many sizes too large for it. The goat's own hair was clipped very close ; round its body were packed cigars, lace, etc., and then the filse coat was skillfully put on, and fastened by hooks and eyes. Notes and Quer ies. Birds, as a rule, cannot focus their eyes on an object save at a considerable distance, and then only with great difficulty. KeDler firmly believed the moon to be inhabited. He always spoke of the supposed people of that orb as "tha Selenites." The whole of tho land on the globe abf've water level, if shovelled into the iraciho ocean, would nil only one- seventh of it. Automatic machines have been devised for use on a moving train which mechanically reord the condition cf every foot of the track. ' I -The White House corner stone was laid in 1792. and the building was first occupied by John Adams. Fried hominy is held by epicures in general to be the proper accompani ment for canvas back duck. A Cincinnati physician had diph-! theria in bis eye, where a particle of mucus from a patient lo-lged. I Canadian Indians have the old Bo-. man habit of alternately gormandizing and sleeping when there is a moose at ) the lire. - The phonautograph is a newly in- vented machine which, it is claimed, combines the phonograph and the type- writer. CITY WITHIN BUILDING FUTTJKE The rapidly enhancing value of real estate In large cities and the tendency to utilize to the fullest extent every foot of available space by erecting sky scraping buildings has led a Boston architect to make a very bold and strik ing prediction. He has put on paper a design for what he terms "the building of the future." which for originality probably exceeds anything ever con ceived In an architect's mind. The building he has drawn is circular in shape, with breaks in its interior at In tervals for light and air shafts. It is a structure fifty stories high, and is de signed to accommodate 20,000 people. It will not only provide living apart ments for that number of persons, but will also contain the necessary stores. TOOLS SURGEONS USE. be New Inventions Greatly Assist In Brain Surgery. The modern surgeon must be some iilng of a practical mechanic. He k required to handle a large number of delicate and complicated tools, and he must understand how mechanism may aid in securing the bast results. The recent great advances In surgery have teKsasa or tub sicrxt, bt sikaks oi THX BIAMOXD DRILL. been made possible very largely by th. discovery of new mechanical appli ances, which have in nearly every In stance been the Invention of surgeons. In the treatment of epileptics, where Jie surgical interference consists In opening the skull over the spot where the affected motor center Is known to be, and either removing It or In taking way a splinter or bone or bullet, which presses upon it, the success of the op eration Is vastly increased by the use f an Ingenious Instrument, and an even more adroit apparatus which has been very recently invented by able sur geons. One of the Illustrations of this article shows the skull of a patient opened by the use of Dr. Pyle's diamond drill. It Is needless to state how vastly superior Is this Instrument to that of the ordi nary and now old-fashioned trephine. The trephine entirely removes a button of bone, and to do this it is necessary to detach It altogether from the scalp and periosteum, and so prevent Its fur ther usefulness In the healing process or as a protection to the exposed braiD assue. But in the illustration it will be seei. that when the bony protection of the brain has been entirely cut through In ail parts, except at its base, by thest diamond drills, it is pried and broken back by the use of a lever, which ac- the Battery. TZLEPHOXIO PROBE, (b) Ear piece or receiver. Probe extractor. a) (c) companies this set of Instruments, and to still retains at this base Its connec tion with the scalp and the matted tis sue Immediately enveloping the bone which I have called periosteum. It is thus possible simply to turn bad. Ais flap of bone and scalp Into Its place. stitch Its outer surfaces of thin flesh together, and leave it there to heal as a natural (and not foreign) protection of the brain wound. In many operations by the trephine a metallic button la em- ployed to lie between the brain and th replaced flap of scalp. t8tU " W0r .U . r.."" . .utT,ment com bines the utmost nicety of mechanical mmpactnesa with the most recent de velopments of electrical science. It sonslsts of three parts. First, there l . tne probe, which Is zentlv Insinuated through the tissues: second, a lmia pocket battery, connected with the ear piece; and, third, the ear piece itself. which la exactly like the correspond!". oart of a telephone. It Is used In this way: The flap is cut with th Pyle drill and turned back. Tnen h chain which dangles from the prone is screwed Into one of the keys which projects from the ear piece, and the b4ah, feg (erator Is slm- OF THE ONE BUlLDINt "S WHICH TTILL CONTAIN A CITT. theaters, ball-rooms, etc., to supply all their needs for food, clothing and pro visions and for their entertainment In fact, the building will be a complete city in Itself. Besides Its business fea tures it will contain 2,000 flats for living apartments. Thus a man could live In the building with his family, conduct his business, do all his shopping, enjoy theatrical performances, concerts 01 balls from year's end to year's end without ever once going outside of this structure. It Is designed to have this city within a city covered in Its entirety by a huge plate glass roof like the Crys tal Talaee at Sydenham. This r of is to be so constructed that by the pres sure of a finger it can be lifted and laid aside to allow a free and unobstructed entrance of air. ilarly connected with another key la the ear piece. The 6urgeon then takes the probe Ir the right hand, puts the ear piece to his ear, and gently presses the probe through the delicate tissues of the brain until it touches the foreign body, bone or bullet, as It may be. The minute this contact Is accomplished quite a distinct sound is carried through the circuit to the operator's ear. By an In genious device a pair of teeth are pro jected on each side of the end of tha probe, and take Immediate hold of the foreign substance thus found, which inn be deftly drawn out of the wound. Tho detective and extractive powers of this instrument are said to be In fallible, and the extraordinary fineness of its work is particularly servlceablo In the brain, whoso tissues are so easily damaged, and where, naturally, tho Wery least amount of laceration is de sirable. TOO FAT TO WORK. And He Is Nov.- Being: Shaved of I So Pounds. Who has not heard of the proverbial fat. Jolly man? The expression has be--come so hackneyed that it almost seems as though no man had a rl;ht to feel jolly unless he was fat. Well, Thomas Bower, of New York, Is fat. He weighs 3S0 pounds and he Isn't Jolly. On the contrary he has worried so much that "ie may never bo Jolly again. Thomas was a waiter in a hotel, nv was a llrst-class advertisement for the dining-room, to be sure; but Unfortun ately space Is valuable iu New York and poor Thomas grew so fat that he could only with dillU-u'ty move be tween tables, and he liad to go. lie ap plied elsewhere fur work, but his ap pearance was against hiui nnd ho was rejected. This made him worry, but as ho had worried before his discharge nnd through d road of It he only grew the fatter now that physical exertion vas removed. Finally he entered I'eilevue Hospital and Implored the i'!ivieiaiis to relieve Iiliu by cutting Lira iu two. They are now engaged in re ducing him by ISO pounds, nnd the probabilities are that he will be waitet again. But he'll never be jolly. Worri meut lest he get fat again will prevenf him. He Saw Mora than tho Lawyer. During the trial of an assault case at a recent petty session In a country town In Ireland, a very corpulent bar rister cross-examined a witness, who had the misfortune to be blind of one eye. "Tell me, my man, on your oath, did you see tho prisoner strike the plaintiff with the weapon mentioned?" "Yes, sorr, as sure as gun's iron I saw hini!" "Come now. none of that But how can you positively swear you saw him do It, and the sight of your eyes not altogether as good ns It ought to be?" said the barrister, triumphantly. Witness (to magistrate) Shure, yet honor, that don't make a bit o' differ ence; and if it conies to that, shure I kin see more than him" (pointing t lhe fat barrister) "any day." "How Is that?" said the magistrate. "Well, yer honor, I kin see his boots, nnd that's more than he can see at any Mine as he's got 'era on." Complete collapse of the barrister, and loud laughter in the court Venetian Glassworkers. In Murano, a small islaud near Ven ice, over half the population work at glass-making. Bone Xeedles Used. Needles of bone, very delicately made, have been found in the Swiss lake dwellins"1 Where ii w.. t, ...oit Good. The discreet Chinese warrior now wears his breast plate across his shouj ders. Washington Star. No Temptation to Fib. "And didn't George Washington ever tell a lie?" asked little Willie. "No. dear," said his mother; "why io you ask ?" "I was Jus' thinkin'," said little WIi He, "that his mother must have been a mighty poor hand at puttin' up pre serves or else she always kept 'em locked up where George couHn't get at 'em." Brooklyn Eagle. Washington's New Museum. Washington is to have a museum for all sorts of curious life-saving appli ances, including the earliest kinds of lifeboats, rockets and lifo-preservftrs rv ! i I i ? 31
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