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MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. feaNNA;, WEDNESDAY: FEBRUARY 20. 1895.
YOU XLIX
NO. 10.
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CH.trTER Xi. .
fisiimoK';e1's
OCTSID
window.
III Lomlon. If folk tU-lnsi'tta-r arp iit.
A b mi mav lie lri.t. or n ijii! Hiay l: "t!t.
Wi.rlKinz-! wiiliont c:i 1: Hli.l l !:!'". o
AH wanti arr .at imiifl. :uiil all wWies -ui will.'
A fewdays a't T thw. in Dfl'enilcn
wai ttroliWiff u; Uo::d u-oetat anearlv
hour - for he was an earlier man now
than he hai been wont to be - he 6aw
cominp; toward him lieraldino and Miss
Cornnuaon the same side of the pave
ment. Wiio tho iatter miirht be he knew
not: but he took off his hat. and half
( au.fd. as hojiii g that pomething-more
than a were Low might be fortheotning
from the liht liure nearest to him.
No' huitf -a?,' The ladies passed on,
and their ipearanee. op rather t.'er
nUiine's. huvirg awakened .afresh a
.'train of thougtit U.-i-pinins rap dly
familiar. to hia i-reasl. he stood still for.
a moment. ub-ent:y a. iag into a fa
vorite shop. window, without, on this
occasion, seeio,? what it contained.
" The shop was firover'j. well known to
11 lover, of an,;.'liuaaud it was never
pas.-eJ 1y t5elle;ia-ja.. without a thor
ough survey o' its eoo!. fresh, sbininjy,
tetuotin-; eolent-i. HUfootstep-s eased
Bceoriliuijly ot themselves, and he was
to all apj cai aiii-es . completely en
grossenj wiiei. ,ust.as ho was turning
to jToee'e'd,' Mies.l'a:npbeli" catn.e trip
pintr bacl. an;l ulorte.
Sliehad "dropped net companion at
the Gfosvenor Gallery, and was hurry'
in home iu time to make ready for
tier ride. RelU-nden eould'haroUy have
avoided the jrioetit. had he wished to
Co f o, and us it was, he looked her full
In the faee, and the looK was men a
ej!d not e ignored. ' 1 or there was
some: hiii;; ad. a t: or.tod, aJm(t pite
ous in it. and mereiteSiS- and: who e
hearted as the ymnpr gir felt, she
o.ild net piers on without impropr.ety.
It was the first time sue had ever seen
ir.y man look at h?r like thav
Oj the Sunday UeiienUen Had been
jheerful and sociable and she had nc
Idea that lie had. not felt as brisk as he
had looked, on the' Monday she sad uot
eoen him at all: ejti.epti in the distance
Tho earec iBo.ement forward bad not
indeed bet n lost uucif her: and it had
I een delightful so coolly to frustrate it;
but she hud not siippoted she had been
able to cause ar.ythiusf beyond a faint
twinge, ol , mortification. How foul
eatisfyinjf it would be if it should now
prove that she had reully the C3pacitj
to do mare: - . .
I was thinking of yo i just now,'
said he. looking down upon her. He
could still look down upon her, tall at
(ihe had grown. : . .
"Well. yes. I passed a minute ago,'
replied Geraldine, pro.-apjlj-. "1 sup
pose yo j are studjingtnjStth.xonger t
window?. 15vr.v one .UQ&.ythink. I
can never jiaas'.it Dy myse i-llCI have a
moment to spare - wh cB.ihave. not to-,
day." she wa about to add,, i hen he
interrupted her. - ' " " ; '
Thev remind tee.' he said, "of the"
whninr bank at Inchmarew."
' Which? The col' Or the turbot:
Orthe lobsters.-'' criei Geraldine, mer
rily, ".-ureiy you forjret. We had
doneof these "at Inchmarew. We have
only common things there; but, of
:oure, vo 1 have forgotten-1
...'I.have forgotten nothing.''
-Xo, really.' ii t 1 must run. or they
will think I have forgotten what
o'clock it is. I am to ntfe with my
cousin, and I only just took a -moment
to see my old governess off on a pk-t re
hunt " 1
Was that your old go-.erness?" said
- Eellenden; with still the same danger
ously retrospective tone? "I I should
have looked at her with much greater
- interest had I known.''
- Whereat ( eraldino - alt- credit tc
her-stared at him? Stared, as blank
: ly and magnificently as though she had
been hern and bred in Uelgravia.
What crt earth dii he mean? the stare
demanded.. What was he thinking oiy
1 he mun tnust Jiave gone cra'y.
'Good-bye,'-she' sa'd the next mo
ment-, co further comment seeming to
bo needed, r ' Gopd bye," dnd away she
stepped as light. as- a feather, looking
prettier and friskier than ever iaher
d;tinty summer i-oe." with her little
white sunshade BaWjvng overhead. As
long aa bh was within' sfght, even
.("iju-'o her Cai-k. was .towards him,he
eutup he tniDe - and a trace, of the
s.are - b .t. once: within doors fcnd
within ' her" own room, the 8 enf.
'.changed." ' ' , " " " . ' .
" You wouid, you hyiocrite?"'"blazec
. firth the. little vixeai in sudden fury,
' -'you would.' And you think to make
too now "believe - you dare almost open
. ly lo insinuate that you have kept up
,our interevt in -in. me through all
th years?. These years during
wh vh you have never vouchsafed one
of us a word or thoucht? Jfou would
like to begin it all' over again, would
vo i not? 'ou wou'd get me alone, and
' vbis.'er your soft 'Jeasant things, and
1 rini1 me gilts, and teli me to remember
you hy them. and drsrw'.nie on to be so
fool stt and so hateful, that I canrot
think of it.now. now, without a cringe;
. within myself. No. sir -not again.
Mot a second time, Sir Frederick tJel
lenden. I think 1 am a match for job
now. Wfcat is m re, yo J shall have to
own it. I'll not avoid him: oh. dear,
no ' I'll speak to him' danee with him;
ride with him:- almost-all but flirt
' with him. I'll ,i0t.not flirt with' him,
ijeesuse granny woiM -not like it. But
if Ii ever tries--again to be senti-
menta'. or to make allusions aim gic
ir,tc h did itisfr-tw, let him
be
warer Ho . does net yt
little
ierry of Inqhmarew.- " . .....
The next "thing was-Jerry 9 first bah
and a farao e ball-she hadorit.
Of co.irse she could have had almos
any partners she chose; for the fame tf
her had begun to whi-pered, una
the lashionab-!e woiMswas on the alert,
abuut tho pretty beirets. - Every one
u asking his neighbor about he
-comings and goints,--tbfr. genulnenees
of hr charms, and th extenfc ner
i nt i-ii i w n, vnnni? alike tnougn
that an introduction, even it jt we,?4 "
further, could ao no harm. ' i-aav jf
niond somewhat sourly "warned ner
nother of the necessity ol beip; care-
fu'. '- ;'.;-.. .
-Feople are so outMiareQUS,'.' ahede-f
elared. ' "Hoallv. one is -ashamed Ol
w,..v (oiu-iu nmrarlavi TMrectlV
girl with uonev appears - upoll.;tn.
pcene, the men swarm after her like a
hive .of bees. Ani a fine, uneneuni
"bered estate like Inchmarew U no in
the market every day. 'ray bo par
ticular as to whoso acquaintance you
jermit.''
it aid just occur to Mrs. CampbeL
that her daughter might have been
some at'raction for the bees save in
the hue, unencumbered estate, and
thatbespoke withsome acerbity when
she described Geraldinn as ' a irirl
j w i . ii money. it maue uer ur lu . o up,
and cut Charlotte somewhat .short in
I iier next remark, so that I a'dv Ray
mond feared afterwards that she bad
not on the whuie done Quite so well aa
she had expected. She bad meant to
suggest that application as to the
cui-t.cter and tenets beld by the bees
in uuestion should be made by her
mother to her son. and that Cecil alone
should furnish the password to granny s
goisd graces; but she was obliged to be
satisfied wi:h vaguely hinting at what
h :e had intended putting into good
round terms. ,
' ' As for Cecil him elf, he was perfectlj
t at if tied with tne situation as it stood.
In thq double character of bis grand
"mother's aide de camp, and Geraldjne's
instructor and companion, he went
a'oout with the ladies everywhere; and
im the occasion of the ball in cjue-t on
had the honor of presenting his cousin
with her bo net of -facing her. in the
carriage and of following her up the
broad, red-i-aroc-ted stepd Into the 'es
tive balls. --r' -r-- -.--.'
The scene that here met - her eyet
was as new as all the-rest- bad been to
the little Highlander, but, true to her
self, she now walked demurely through
tr e banks of flower and shrub, and be
tween the long lines of Bilvery lamps,
looking neither to right no to left lest
Cecil should see aught amiss in her de
triment. ' They were rather late, and
dancing had begun. .
Truth compels ue to state that Ger
faldine was cot a go d dan er. .AH the
running and cUmb'ng in the world wil
not teach the swing of the waltz with
out tome pains bcinj; taken in its ac
orap ijhiDent: and, accordingly, ul
tho gh partners were rife, as we have
said, they speedily discovered that the
pretty heiress did not. care to be long
upon the floor. and,-that they might
jyfully exchange the fatiguing exer
cise tor a I uiet stroll tnrougn tne gal
leries or," better -still, a lounge under
the awning of the balcoay. .
- The latter was the moit "affected by
the' lady. . " .
She ha-1 never done anything of tbfc
kind, and never seen anything of the
kind before.
lore sitting or standing o :tslde a
l.ondoa ball roo n, amidst - a cro x-d'of
ball-goers, in her brilliant balL-bress,
on a warm, eweet-seented cummer
night, while the music went tinkling
on. .within the vast ea'oons, and the
dancers went circling round, and soft
voices and laug .ter and light patter
ing feet filled the air on every side - it
was like fairyland. She wondered if all
the giris there were' having as good a'
time as she.
Some of them looked at her rat hoi'
hard. ' she thought: and so, for that
ma" ter,- did the men. What was it
they saw? " ...
With all her shrewdness and her in
lorn share of native self-importacce.it,
did not occur to her that they were
saying 'That is Mis Campbell. That
is "the greats otch heiress.' and that;
thereupon, some fell a musing,' ani
some to picking her to pieces. '
-My dear, you must ' positively stick
a little closer. to.your grandmother, or
tjiine "her AuntChariotteadmonished
her somewhat sharply at last.:- "Do as
your pou.-un-t do. tthel and Alicia are
atwayatcoroing I ackwardsand forwards
to uathey show they are 'and r our
charge by staying with us when they
are not dancing." -
' But 1 have been engaged for every
dance." '
"Wneijc then have yoii been? You
have not?Teen in the ball-room."
"Outsidei- On the balcony " begat
Garaldine, "but could proceed no fur-'
ther.
"That does not do", my dear; it doet
not-do," frowned her- aunt, with a
terrific whisper. '"J though you wou'd
have known better.- Kthel and Alicia
never go out on the balconies never.
I ought to hare told yoii. Cecil ought
to have told you " '
'Why, I have just been there witl
Cecil." said Jerry, opening her eyes..
"Oh0" and Lady Ttaymond wished
the had held her tongue-. "Oh? Oh?
Oh.J ".she 6aftf,Tiot knowing what
else to Bay. -"Well, of course, my dear,
of course, thatahem". makes a differ
ence, to be .sure," in an entirely -al
tored tone, "to be bure that ahem? .
completely alters the cae. It is only
my anxiety --tht-you -should, be the
same as one of my own (laughters, you
know, Geraldine; and. no doubt, Cei i
-Cecjl, no doubt " nopnderlng on, "J
dare say "he" took care aSttT whohr yoii
.we're jvitB,m'concluded, tamely." '
"He introduced nearly all of them.'
The next-moment, however, brought"
a new introduction.- "Geraldine. my
love "said her grandmother's . voice
General Dacre' wishes to know-vou
He was a friend -of your poor father's,'
added she, Jower, "he asked of him
sell to be presented;", and . there stood
a fine, soldierly-looking man;- with
crisp, gray bair, a -thick.' gray mous
tache, an aiuiline nose, and a magnifi
cent star of diamonds on his - breast.
Jerry had never felt 'prouder in her
life. . . - ? . . :
A generai'with a star, at 'whom,, fo
all ho'r-eighteen summers.- she. would
only "have ventured to gaze iivhmnble
admiration, bad he not himself solicited
a nearerJacauaintaaee! She. did ind'eed
feir honored, 'as she took his arm, and
Vnoved about here, and there, lancyinir
all aiound must gaze at the pair with
.wonder and wi h envy.
,This fine'oll warrior, whose notice
bad been felt to confer such distinc
tion, and for whom she had been rack
ing her brain to find topics not too
'rivolous and foolish, proved to be
neither more -nor less than a nighty
old fool, anxious still to play his part
uiion" the dandies of the day. and in
ronsecfuenre, to Le seen in attendance
on any pretty girl who was the mode.
That the reigning bell of the nvening
chanced to bo the daughter of " an old
friend dead and gone, was -a Piece ol
luck n6t to be thrown away-.v but bav
ins made a stepping-stone of tbe lact
ho had not had her ear many - nu'a
ere he had thrown it aside: He had
no notion pf bein? longer looked upon
in the light in which he had. first pra
sented:himself, and, indeed, soon be
to twaddle so foolishly and-so flip
Jantly, that the poor chiltf, disgusted
and ashamed, begged to-be taken a k
to her cha eron, with a Teremptori
oes which admitted of-no denial. - t .
fche -was very, short and- reserted
with her next partner, an- lesrao
youth, who forthwith iegan tbe.uauai.
prattle about Ascot" S.ndown.v-.Hur.
Iingham, and the Ukefc to which she
-nowluiBcominfc'afle.itomed. iha,
wo lid make "ouick work ot him, Jerry
thought: and -with the tip of her pretty
nose in the air, sh all at once volun
teered a piece of information which
she had not U.therto been eager to im
part. "I -know nothing of 'these -places,'!
inesaid. "I am jusf come up. My
tome is in the Highlands of Scotland."
Wonder of wonders, the effect was
precisely contrary to that expected.
The Highlands of Scotland? The Scot
tish Highlands were his Paradise, his
Elysium. His whole face lighted up at
the mere mention of their name, lie
was a lorn Highlander himself, born
and bred within the wilds of Lochaoer.
Of course he had known that Miss
Campbell must be Scotch, probably
from Argyllshire- with a smite but
he did not know, he did not tnink, be
thought . girls "cared for nothing but
London, and -and but did she really
care for the heather, and .tne sea. and
the tartan, and the pipes? He waa
leacning the ..pipes himself." He 'be
longed to a Highland regiment, and be
was learning from his own pipe-tnaor,
the finest i lpe-ma.or : in the service.
The pipe-major had himself composed
a "ui. kste " and a "Hornpipe," and
was to play one or other of them, he
was not sure which, at the ?'ecth'ern
Meeting that a itumn. ..Did Miss '41140-.
bell ever go -to the XartJUafBytcaliug.?
No? . Well, heould.'Uut;ayrhiyyu'on
for it very much himselt,"it wasettiug
so awlullv big and- cocneyiied3tiU,
he should go, aa their pipe-major, was
to compete and so on, and soon. . 5
Never had he a more appreciative
listener. .There was a true ring in the
lad's school-boy., enthusiasm which de
lighted and exhiliaratedGeraldine and
which came like a breath-, of -fresh air
after the false, artificial .vapors which
befor,, -had -been --supposed to be her
proper. atmosphere. ' '
v It- was not, moreover, lost upon het
that she had been twii.e misled within
one short half-hour; so granny was not
wrong in thinking experience, was
gained, to which, we may here" add,
every succeeding evening, brought its
luota.
Bellenden was never.at the balls, lie
was not a dancing mun, and. never had
been: so" that having .persistently declined'-
invitations, -hithertoy.he-could
nit now have turned round -and accept
ed them, e-Ven had he wish edvfor none
were sent him.' ' '
' Neither did he so wishrheL only dis
liked to hear young. Kaymond inces
santly reverting to things that -had
happened- the night lefore, or the
night before that, .whenever it happened-and
it happeucd pretty often
that he was in company with the two
cousins.' He met them on -most morn
ings in-the Row, -pretty often in the
afternoons, too, at one place o;- another
.perhaps he noted where they were
going) and now and .then in Mo nt
streets- Not by themselves, of course;
but what was grandmother, or ei-sov-erness-
or -cousin.? Oply some one
standing by for propriefy's sake, some
one, .top)' sure to be engrossed with the
pictures, or the music or the a-t treas
ures, or whatever it ws thatGeraldino
had, by .the way, -gone to .see, hut
vrhi'ih tietlenden ieryjnucIU-doubted.,
whether she ever did see. She. never
looked.at them after he was there, at
any rate. She did not look at him
much, neither; -Her eyes, her ears,
her Qucstiona and answers were forCe-cil-or
so it seemed to Cecil's rival.
Still Bellenden waited. There wert
times solitary moments when he did
not feel quite so sure about this as h
might have been.'; "He had sometimes
ieen himself shot "a glance; a flash of
.the eve, a furtive, 6wiftiy-wlthdrawn,
searching, home-thrusting loo, wnicif
puzzled Wm. - .
... . pQ BE cONTlNlT:ii-
The Rud of Dnahen.
Mme. d'Abrantes did not seek her
hero JT apoleon on his brief return from
exile. -Such: a-meeting would have
been trying even to her "rare mental
flexibility." She was in Home during
the Hundred Days, "surrounded," ac
cording to the Xouvelle Uiographie
Generate,.. 1'by artistic and literary
friends." .
Few and meagre are the particular
-which can now be gleaned of her later
years; there are hardly any materials
for bridging the : gulf between the
Parisian Queen of society and the
broken-down wreck of Chorley's lurid
ketch.
The revolution of 1830 found her at
he Abbaye-aux-Boi3, whither the total
loss of her fortune compelled her to re
tire. She says that on the reappear
ance of the tri-coldr she was "saisie
d'une de ces joies sans mesure qui
reVetent le ciel," -but it in no way al-.-leviated
her' melancholy . fate. ' From
1831. to 1835 her memoirs were in course
-of publication. She wrote some othe'r
books and many stories and -papers,
some.of .whiph appeared in" The Iievue
'leFarist.. .', . ' ' "
Mme. d'Abrantes, reduced to utt
.destitution, died at Chaillot on June 7,
4839; two days aftcrfbeing admitted to
a small hospital, havjng been reiusea
shelter in one-of more pretensions with
out payment in advance. "Abandoned
fy ail whom she loved," (which would
seem to imply that her , children' had
forsaken her,) "but receiving " tue last
jconsolations of religion from the hands
of the. Archbishop Of Paris." TempV
liar." -''. v - ' ...
Mudle'a Library.
Miidie's circulating library in Lon-'
don has 3,5000,000 books constantly
in circulation and employs 178 people.
Forty years ago its cirrnUtion' rebelled
100, which paused a aenaaUun.
Siberion women are raised as abject
. 1 i
Blaves, nntiay in uress, anu are uuauui
with money or cattle. .
. Brazil nu!s are more properly
seeds, about sixteen of which are en
closed in a large shell.'
-Vooviv fi f th. nf .the hnman race
die from consumption or some other
form of pnlmouary disease.
-Of "over '5,0ft0,000" children in ele
mentary schodlslh England only 800,
000 pay for their tchoolmg.
In Greece there is ,503. miles of
railroad in operation, 30 under con
struction, and 214 more chaxtared. .
' : .IThere ia a dock ranch m the Bliie
Mountain of fennsytvania which sends
12,000 birds to tho TQarket yearly.-
' Disease of the eyes is the corse .of
tne ' ' Herman people.-' - -in- - -uerman j
there are at present 37,800 blind per
sons.' " " -": ' ' ..-"-. r- - ". I
' 1 The trlowworm has' a brush attickod
to ita tail because it ia necessary to
show its light that the back be xept
clean.. . :. ... '.;-:'
From 1880 to 1890 .there -were
.3.064 Lutheran churches built in. this
conntry. This is at tha rate of six a
WQoil. . .-
REV- TALMAGEj
a
CUB BKOOKIiYH DIVIXK'S bUSi
' DAY SBBMOX.
Subject. ".OpportunUy.''
' Text: "As wo fcave therefore optvirtunl
'ly, let ns do good." Ga'ntians vi., 10.
At Denver ynars na audience had a"
mllel for divine worship. Tho paitor ol
th church for whom I was to preach thai
rJjht, in'Tefitwl in the goat in? of tho peo
1h, Htoo-1 in the pulpit looklnir from siilo to
side, an i when no more pooplo rnnld ba
crowded within tho walls ho turned t ma
and said, with startlin emphasis, "What an
opportmilty!" Immediately tha tword bepan
to enlarge, and while a hymn was beinaunq
at every stanr the won! "opportunity"
swiftly and mightily nnfoldud, and whlleth
opennjar prayer was leln made the word
piled up into Alpo and Himalayas of mean
ing and spread out Into other latitudes and
loneitmle of piimineanee until it beeam
hemispneric, and it still Rrew In altitude and
ciriMimferenee until it en"in'led other word!
and swept out and nn and around until it
wa. as bit; as eternity. Never since have
read or heard that word without being
thrilled with its magnitude and momentum.
Opportunity! Althonch in the text to som
Itmajraeem a mil. I and quiet note, in th
-Hreatjcosperiiarmony it is a Btaeeato pas-sa?-v
sit is one ol the loveliest and awfulest
worifs Jnrour langune of more than 100,000
worW of English vo'-ahula-y. "As we have
opportunity, let us do (tofiA."-.-
What is an opportunity?TheleT' :raphei
would eoolly tellfou it" is a e'.njunotion ol
favorable circumstanees for eeomplLhln(r a
purpose. Tmi wop!.-" r.i uiot tell what it is.
Take 1000 years to manufacture a definition,
and you aould not sueeessfully diwrilio It.
Opportunity! The measnrinff rod with which
the anael the Apocalypse measured heaven
eould ot measure this" pivotal word of my
text Stand on tho edire of the precipice ol
all time and let down tha fathoming line
hand under hand and lower down and lovet
dowifand for a quintillion of years let ii
link, -Wild the lead will net strike bottom. Op
portunity! lint while I do not attempt tc
measure, or define the word I will, God help-
Ing bio, tAke the responsiliility of telling yor A
tomatniog aoout opportunity.
First, It is very swift in its' motion. Same
Mmes within one minute it starts from the
throng of God, sweeps around the earth aud
reaseends the throne from which it started.
Within less than sixty seconds it fulfilled itf
Biisahm --
In; 1-he. second place, opportunity nevei
comes Vjk.' - Perhaps an opportunity very
miu'h lie it may arrive, but thattme never.
Naturalists tell us of insects whinn are born,
fulfill their mission and expire in an- hour,
but .wiany "opportunities die so soon after
thr'yaw.norn that their brevity of life is In-,
calenjalile. What most amazes mo is that op
portunitfrs do such overshadowing, fat
reaching and tremendons work in such short
eaKhlv allowanne. You are a business man
of" large experience. The past eighteen
months lmve been hard on business inon. A
yonng merchant at his wits' end came Into
yonr ofilce or your house, and you said:
''Times are hard now, but better days will
fomV I have sen thintrs as bad or worse,
but we g.it out. and we will get out of this.
The brilitcst da vs that this country ever saw
are vet to come." The young man to whom
yon. saf.1 that was ready for suicide or some
thlng'worse namelv, a fraudulent turn tc
get ant of his despairful position. Youi
npewiness inspired nun lor all time, anc
thirty yenrs after you are dead he will.)
reaping the advantage or your optiniism.
Tonr onoortimitv to do that one thing foi
that yoUSS maTTWM ni"t halt as longBsthi
time I have taken to re'enrse it.
Ia yonder third gallery you sit. a man ol
tho -world; tint you wish everybody well
While the elerhs are standing round In youi
store, or.the men in your factory are taking
their noon spell, some one says: "Have yon
neard that one ot our men nas been con
verted. ' at the revival meeting in the
Moth'oifist Church?" While it isbeingtalked
over vou sav: 'Well, I do not believe in re
vivals Those things dor not -last.- People.
get excited and join the church and are no
Wterthan they wore before. I wish oui
men would keep away from those meetings."
Do yon know, O man, what you did in thai
minute of depreciation? There were two
young men in that group who that night
would have gone to those meetings and
been saved for this world and the next, but
you decided them not to go. ' They are
social natures. Thev already drink more
than is pood for them and are disposed to be
wild.- From the time they beard you say
that they accelerated their stepa on the down
ward road. In ten years they will be through
with their dissipations and pass Into the
great beyond. That little talk of yours de
cided their destiny for this world and the
next. Vou had an opportunity that yon mis
Improved, and how will you feel when yot
confront those two immortals, in the last
judgmerlt and they tell you of that unfortu
nate talk of yours tht flung them over the
precipioe? f man of the worid, why did yon
not sav In that noon spell of conversation:
"flood!-- I anrglnd that mun has got re
ligion. I wish I hail it myslf. I.et us all gc
to-uijf'nt Come on. I will meet you at the
church door at 8 o'clock?" Tiou see, you
would have taken them all to heaven, and
you would have got there yourself. Oppor
tunity lost!
The day I left our country homo to look
after myself we rode across the country, ana
mv father was driving. Or course I said
nothing that implied how 1 felt. But there
are hundreds of men here wh.? from their
own experience know how I felt. 'At such a
rime a voung man must be hn'pefuKand even
fcnnatientto cut Into the Iwttler of life foi
himself, but to leave tho homestead -whered
everything has neen done lor you.youriamei
or oilier brothers taking yowr part when yon
were imposed on by larger hoya, and youi
mother always arcjund when you irot tha cold
4th.m.uMar"d' application's for the chest 01
herb tea'to m'ake.youweat off th fever and
sweet mixtures in the cup by the bed to stop
the cough, taking ; sometimes too much of ii
becaue-1t wew pleasant to take, and then tc
go ont,:'wita no, one .to stand between you
an(t flt .world, gives-one aohoJtlng sensation
nt the throstand a home sickness before you
have got three miles away from the old folks.
There was on the day I spoke of a silence for
a long while, and then my father beran tc
tell how good the Lord had been XO him in
sieknTs and in. health, and when times ol
hardship enme how' Providence had alwnyt
provided t"io means of livelihood for the
large household, and he wound up by Bay
ing. "De Witt. I have alwavs found it safe tc
truHt theiord." My father has. been deai!
thirty years, but In all the crises of my life
and there bavo' been many of them- I hav
felt the mighty. Iioost of .that lesson In the
farm wagon, f'Do Witt, I have always found
ft safe to trust the Lord. The fact was my
fathersawthat was his opportunity, and h
Improved ,tfc.. ...... ....
.. 'This is one reason why I am an enthusiasm
tie friend of alf Ycmnr"5Iens Christian As
jbciatrora. They get hold of so manyyount
men 'just arriving In the city and while thej
-are Very-impressionable, nnd it Is the best op-
portHiutsv -Jiy, now big tne nouses loouec
to us as we first entered the great city, andst
many people 1 It seemed some meeting mas
have' just closed to fill the streets in that way
and then the big placards announcing al
styles of amusements and so many of them 01
the same night and every night, after our boy
hood had been spent in. regions where onlj
Once or twice in a whole year there had beei
an entertainment in school-house or church
That is the opportunity. Start that innocen!
young man in the right direction. 6ix weeki
after will be too late. Tell me what such 1
young man does with bis first six weeks in tha
great city, ana 1 win ten you wnai ne win w
throughout his life on earth and where hi
will-spend the ages -of eternity. Oppor1
tunity! . . . .
Wo all recognize that commercial and liter
ary and political successes depend upon tak
ing, advantage- of - opportunity. Tha greal
surgeons of England feared to touch thi
tumor of King George IV. Sir Astley Coopa
V oked at it and said to the king, "I will cut
your majesty as though yoi were a plow
man."-'That was Sir Astley'a opportunity.
Lord dive was his father's dismay-, cWmbinij
church steeples-: and. doing reakless things.
His father .sent him to Madras. India..as a
slerk in the service of an English oulcer.
Clive watchS'l his. time; and-when war brokir
out e.-ime ti be-' the' chief 'Of- rho.host thiit
sv4 -Iifdia -for England., That was Lord
Olive's opportunity. Tajiline Lucca, f'rn
almost matchless singer, was but little reoof,
.nized. Until in the absence 01 tea eoioisi
st iiit
I bel
tdki
the German choir aba took her place and
gan-UlQ enohantmant ol.toe wousk-Xoat
was Ijocca's oppdrfunfty. John Scott, whTJ
afterward became Irrd Eldon, had stumbled
his wav along in the practice of law until the
case of Aekroyd versus Smithson was to ba
tried, and his speech that day opened all aye-'
trues of success...: Xhat was Lord "Sldon'a.or,
portunitv.
William H. Seward was given by his father
(1000 to get a collegiate education. That
money soon gone, his father said. "Now you
must fight your own way," and ne did, un
fl gubernatorial chair and United Statue
Senatorial chair were his, with a right to tha
Presidential chair if the meanness of Ameri
can politics had not swindled him out of it.
Hue day when his' father told him to fight his
own way was William H. Seward's oppor
tunity. John llonry Newman, becalmed a
whole week in an orange boat In the Strait ol
Bonifacio, wrote his immortal hymn. "Lead,
Kindly Light." That was John Henry New
man's opportunity. You know Kirk White's
immortal hymn, "When Marshaled on the
N)-btty Plain." He wrote it in a boat by a
lantern on a stormy night as he was sailing
along a rocky coast. That was Kirii White's
j na importance of making tho most of op
portunities as they present themsulves is ac
knowledged in all other directions. Why
not in the matter of use'uless? The differ
ence of usefulness of good men and women
is not so much the difTerexy-o in brain or so
cial position or wealth, but in equipment of
Christian common sense to know just tha
time when to say the right word or do the
right tiling. There are good people who can
id ways be depended on "to say the right
thing at the wrong time, A merchant selling
goods over the couner to a wily customer
who would like to get them at less than cost,
the railroad conductor while taking up the
tickets from passengers who want to work off
last year's free pass or get' through at half
rate a child fully grown, a housekeeper try
Las to get tha talna ruauv ia time fur .aniet.-u.
although the oven bos neglected to fulfill the
order given him those are not opportuni
ties for religious address. Do not rush no to
a man in the busiest part of the day and when
a half dozen people are waiting for him and
ask, "How is your soul?" . .. .
But there plenty of fit occasions. It it
Interesting to see .the sportsman, gun In
a nnd and pouch at side and accompanied by
ih3 hounds yelping down the road, off on
hunting expedition, but the best hunters in
this world are those who hunt for oppor
tunities to do good, and the game is some
diing to gladden earth and heaven. . I will
point out some of the! opportunities. When
a soul is in bereavement is the beat time, to
talk of gospel consolation and heavenly re
union. When a man has lost bis property is
the best time to talk to him of heavenly in
heritauce that can never be levied on. When
one is sick is the bt time to talk to him
about the supernatural latitude In which una
aaita ia an impossibility. When the Holy
Spirit is moving on a community ia the best
time to tell a man he ought to be saved. Bj
word, by a smile, by a look, by a prayer,
the work may be thoroughly done that" all
eternity catuiot undo it. As the harp was
Invented from hearing the twang of a bow
string, as the law of gravitation was sug-igt-sled
by the fall of an apple, as the order
in India for the use of a greased cartridge
started the mutiny of 1957, which appalled
the Nations, so something insignificant may
open tiie door for great results. Be on the
watch. It may be a gladness, it may be a
rorror, but It will be an opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts of the
city found a young woman ia wretchedness
nnd sin. lid said, "Why do you not go
home?" She said, ."They would not receive
me at home." Hi said, "What Is your
father's mime, and where does he live?"
Having obtained the address and written to
tho father, the citv missionary got a renlv.
ton the outside of the letter the word "imme
diate . underscored. It was the heartiest
possible invitation for the. wanderer to oome
t me That was the "city missionary's op
portunity. And there are opportunities all
ahout you, and on them, written by the band
of the O-xl who will bless you and blest
those whom you help, In capitals of light the
word "Immediate."
A military officer very profane in his hab
its was going down into a mine at Cornwall,
England, with a Christian miner, for man
of those miners are Christians. The oflieei
used profane language while In the cage go
ing down. As they were coming up out ol
the mine the profane officer said, "If it be so
lar down to your work.' how much farther
would it ba to the bottomless pit?" The
Christian 1 liner responded, '"I do not know
how far it is down to that place, but if this
rope shoidd break you would be there in a
minute." It wa3 the Christian miner's op
portunity. Many years ago a clergyman was
on a sloop on our Hudson River, and hearing
a man utter a blasphemy the clergyman said,
"You have spoken agatn.st my best friend,
Jesus Christ. beveu years after this same.
elwryman was on his way to the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian Church at Phila
delphia, when a young minister addressed
him and asked him if he was not on a sloop
on the Hudson Jtiver seven years before!
Tho reply was in the affirmative. "Well,' '
Bail the young minister, "I was the mar
whom you corrected for uttering that oath.
It led me to think and repent, and I am try
ing to atone somewhat for my early behavior
I am a preacher of the gospel and a deiegati
to the general assembly."- Seven years be
fore on that Hudson River sloop was th
clergyman's opportunity.
I stand this minute in the presence of man
heads of families. I wonder If they all real
ize that the opportunity for Influencing the
household for Christ and heaven is very briel
and wi 11 soon be gone ? For awhile the house
Is full of the voices and footsteps of children.
iou sometime leei tnat you can naruiy stand
the racket. You say: "Do be quiet! It seem!
is if my head would split with all this noise."
and things get broken and ruined, and it is
'Where's my bat !" "Who took my books?
"Who has been busy with my playthings?"
.nd it Ls a-rushing this way, and a-rushins
that, until father and mother are well nigc
DesMe'themsel ves.
It is astonishing how much noise five or si
;hildren can make and not half try. But the
pears glide swiftly away. After awhile the
roices are not so many, -and' those which staj
we ragj-tt sedate. . First this room gets quiet,
md then that room. Death takes some,
lud marrfdge take others', until after awhile
:ho house is awfully still. That man yondoi
would give all he is worth to have that- boj
who is gone away forever rush into the room
once more with the shout that was once
thought too boisterous.
Tiirit mother Who was onco Tried because
her little girl, now gone forever, with care
less scissors cut np something really valuable
would, like to have the child come back,
willing to put in her hands the most valu
able wardrobe to cut as she pleases. Yes, yes.
The house noisy now will soon be still
enough, I warrant you, and as when you be
gan housekeeping there were just two,of yoii,
there wiil be just two again. Oh, the' alarm
ing brevity of infancy and childhood I - The
opportunity is glorious, but it. soon passes.
Pan nts ma say at the close of life, "What a
pity we did not do more for the religious
ivel Tare of our children while we had them with
11s!" lint tho lamentation will be of no avail.
The opportunity had wings, and it vanished.
When your child gets out of the oradle, let it
slimb into the outstretched arms of the beau
tiful Christ. "Come thou and all thy house
into the ark.
But there Is one opportunity so much
brighter than any other, so much more invit
ing, and so superior to all others that there
are innumerable fingers pointing to it, and it
is haloed with a glory all its own. It is yours!
It is mine! It is the present hour. It is the
now. We shall never have it again. While
I speak and you listen the opportunity is rest
less as if to be gone. Vou cannot chain it
down. You cannot imprison it. You cannot
na'ce It stay. All its pulses are throbbing
ith a haste that cannot be hind red or eon
Tolled. It Is the opportunity of invitation
in my part and acceptance on your part. The
loor of the palace of God's mercy is wide
)pen. Go in. Sit down and be kings and
pieens unto God forever. "Well," you say,
'I am not ready." You are ready. "Art
rou a sinner?" "Yes." , "Do you want to
te saved now and forever?" "Yes."
"Do you believe that Christ is able and will
ing to do the work?" "Yes." - Then you are
saved. You are inside the palace door of
Ood'a mercy already. You look ohangod.
You are changed. "Hallelujah, lis done!"
Did you ever see anything done so Quickly?
(Invitation offered and aocepted in less -than
a minute oy my watcn or unit clock, sir
Edward Creasy wrote a book railed "The
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, From
Slarathon to Waterloo." But the most de
uisive battle that you will ever fight, and tha
greateet viotory- you will ever gain, is this
tnonf ent when you conquer first yourself and
then all the hindering myrmldous of perdi
tion by saying. "Lord Jesus, here I am, un
ions and helpless, to be saved by Thee and
Xaeo alflne." .That makes a panio la helU
that makes celebration In heaven. Oppor
tunity! - . . ' "
On the 11th of January,' 18G6, a collier brig
ran into the rocks near Walmer Beach, Eng
land.' Simon -FritoharbV -standing on the
beach, threw off hit coat andaaW, "Who-wlll
help me save that crew?" Twenty men
shouted, "I will," though only seven, were
Deeded. Through the awful surf the boat
dashed, and in fifteen minutes from the time
Pritchard threw off his coat ail the ship
wrecked crew were safe on the land.
Quicker work to-day. Halt that time more
than necessary to get all this assemblage into
the lifeboat of the gospel and ashore, stand
ing both feet on the Hook of Ages. By the
two strong oars of faith and'prayer first pull
for the wreck and then- pull for the shore,
Opportunity!
Over the city went the cry,
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
Let the world go. It has abused you
incragh, and cheated you- enough, and slan
dered you enough, and damaged yon enough.
Even those from whom you expected better
things turned ont your assailants, as when
Kapoleon in his last will and testament left
(000 franca to the man who shot at Welling
ton in the streets of Paris. Oh, it is a mean
world! Take the glorious Lord for your
Km pardons hi p. I like what the good man
laid to the one who had everything but re
gion. The affluent man boasted of what he
wned and of his splendors of surroundings,
putting into lnsigmncance, as ne tnougnt,
Ihe Christian's possessions. "Ah," said the
Christian, ".Man, I have something you have
aot." "What ls that?" said the worldling.
The answer was, "Peace!" And you may all
iave it peace with God, peace with the
past, peace with the future, a peace that all
the assaults of the world and all the bom
bard men ts Satanic cannot interfere with.
A Scotch shepherd was dying and had the
pastor called in. The dying shepherd said to
Bis wife, "Mary, please go iuto the next
room, for I want to see the minister alone."
ft'hen the two were alone the dying shepherd
laid, "I have known the Bible all my life.
ut I am going, and I a:n 'afeered to dee.' "
Then the pastor quoted the psalm: "The
Lord is my Hhepberd. I shall not want."
."Yea, mon, said the shepherd, "I was fa
miliar with that before vou . horn, hut 1
am a-goln', and 1 am aieerea to ace." mer.
tiiid tiio pastor, "You know that the psalm
lays, 'Though I walk through the valley of
Ihe shadow of death, I will fear no evil' "
"Yes " said the dying shepherd, "I knew
that before you were born, but It does not
help me." Then said the pastor, "Don't you
know that sometimes when you were driving
the sheep down through the valleys and
ravines there would be shadows all about
fou. while there was plenty of sunshine on
Ihe hills above? You ore In the shadows now,
Jut it is sunshine higher up." Then said the .
lying shepherd: "Ah! that is good. 1
never saw it that way before. All is welk
Though I pass through the valley of tha
lhadow of death, Thou art with mv
Bhadows here, but sunshine above." So the
dying shepherd got peace. Living and dy
tUg, may we have the same peace 1
Opportunity 1 Under the arch of that splen
lid word let this multitude of my hearen
pass into the pardon and hope and triumpL
Df the gospel. Go by companies of a hundred
each. Go by regiments of a thousand each,
the aged leaning on the staff, the middle
aged throwing off their burdens as they past
and the young to have their present joyt
augmented by more glorious satisfactions.
Forward into the kingdom I As soon as yoa
pass the dividing line there will be shouting
till up and down the heavens. The crownel
Immortals will look down and cheer. Jesus
nt the many scars will rejoice at the result
bf His earthlv sacrifices. Departed saints
will be gladdened that their prayers an
answered. An order will be given for the
ipreading ot a banquet at which yoa
wi'l bo th4"Jtnored. jtuest. From the Jin--penal
gardens the wreaths wiil bo twist--t;d
for your brow, and from the hall ol
eternal niusio the harpers will bring theii
harps and the trumpeters their trumpets, and
all up and down the amethystine stairways ol
the castles and in all the rooms of the house
of many mansions it will bo talked over with
boly glee that this day, while one plain man
Itood on the platform of this vast building,
giving the gospel call, an asemblage made v
from all parts of the earth and piled up i j
these galleries ohose Christ as their portion
and started for heaven as their everlasting
home. Ring all the bells of heaven at thi
tidings! Strike all the cymbals at the joy!
Wave all the palm branches at the triumph!
Victory! Victory!
A New Care for Hiccoughs.
, Samuel A. Hochkin, of West Haven. Co Tin. '
Was hioeoughing his life away at the home oi
pis nephew, Charles E. Hochkin, Newark, N.
J., until Dr. Bailey was called in. The pa
tient is seventy-three years old.'On'January
b he began hiccoughing violently. The usual
remedies were prescribed, but lr. Hochkin
grew worse.
At this time Dr. C. H. "Clark, of FTainfleld,
was afflicted with the malady, and the reme
nies used in his ease without avail were
tried. Dr. W. O. Bailey was called in. Dr.
liailey saw that the aged sufferer could
livelong unless the throat spasms ceased.
There were Intervals of half an. hour of rest,
wh'en-the hiccough returned. Mr. ' Hochkin
had given up the battle for life and told his
wife, who accompanied him from West Haven,
jthat he proposed to settle up his - earthly af
fairs. ....
Late that night Dr. Bailey bethought him
pf the "musk" oure, and prescribed moschus
In ten grain doses to a drachm, gi ving one
Hrachm every three hours. The-" ef-
Eect was electrical. " Tho 'throat spasms
easod, and Mr. Hochkin was pro
nounced out of danger and gained strength
rapidly. The remedy in this case was for
warded to tne physician attending llr. Clart
nt Plainfteld in the hope of saving the lot
WViife.
. -
. . Amputated Ilia Foot Himself. -
Two years ago Bobert' Galbraifh, aged
eventy-four, a farmer of Tayne Township,
Indiana County, Penn.. fell from a load oi
my and injured his left ankle and foot. The
injury has caused him. great suffering ever
rince, and the family physician has long in
sisted that unless the foot was amputated the
armer oould never be any better. Galbraitb
itubbornly refused to have the operatior
performed." '
One morning recently the farmer' daugh
ter went into hia room.
' "Delia,"' aaid he. "tho job's done. The
foot ls Amputated."
On the bed by his side lay the foot. On
the other side was a razor. The old farmer
pad amputated his own toot with his razor,
and had done it neatly, too, at the anki
(oint. ,
Although he is seventy-six years old.Farm
er Galbraith is not even suffering from shock
from his self-amputating operation, and the
loctor says he could not have. taken the foo'
off more neatly himself.
A Tear of Fire lo Baltimore.
-The aggregate damage by Are in Balti
more, Sid., in 1894, as compiled by the Fire
Department, was (542,18d.29. The depart
ment responded to 631 alarms. -
News in Brief
. A white qnail was shot by a sports
man nearPalatka, r'la., a few days
ago.
The onchi ilium, a species of shel-
less snail has innumerable eyes on its
back.
' Seamen nearing land can toll that
fact bj the deposits of dew on the
vesseL
Ancient needles were all of brass,
and in size approximated onr darning
neediest '
There are citizens of McFall, Mo.,
who object to the cemetery being used
as a pasture.'- v -
- Louis Cyr.the Canadian Sampson,
lifts 3500 pounds . with6ut harness or
other apparatus.
- Liinsey. woolsey was first made at
the town of L-insey, in Suffolk, Eng
land, abontl530.
. Tusks - of a mammoth have been
found of a length of nine feet, measured
along the curve. .
The St. Croix Rivtr, in Maiae, was
named from the cross made by two
rivers at its month.
THE FIELD OF SEDAN
GERMAN AND FRENCH eATTL'E
MONUMENTS. -
ioit Which Witnessed the Terrific
BtrucKlO that Ended Imperialiar-i in
France and Effected German Feder
ation.
Blatorlc Memorials.
In Its results the most important bat
tle fought since Waterloo was that of
Sedan. By It Imperialism was brought
to an end in France; the third republic.
which still endures and prospers, was
proclaimed; the federation of the Ger
man provinces was effected, and King
William of Prussia became the ruler of
united German empire. The battle
of Sedan, fought September 1, 1870,
virtually ended the war, which the
third Napoleon had foolishly declared
against Prussia, and on the battle field
I.'apc-leon himself surrendered hit
sword to the Prussian king.
Since that day 24 years ago the bat
tle field of Sedan has greatly changed.
Nearly every relic of the eventful strug
gle has been removed. Long ago' the
plow leveled the graves of many; In
other cases the remains of tho dead
combatants were exhumed and remov
ed Into the graveyard of the local vil
lages, where their resting places are un
marked by any memorial. There Is one
Interesting memento of the struggle
remaining the weaver's cottage, near
Douchery where the Emperor Napo
leon and Prince Blsvnarck had an In
terview on the morning after the bat
tle. But the historic cottage ls now
CBXPT CONTAINING BONES OP TRENCH
AND GEKMAN SOLDIXBS.
jninhablted and In dilapidation and
soon, like other relics of the battle
"ld, will pass away forever.
" Monuraenta In the Field.
. There are but two. memorials on tho
ictnal field of battla. One was erected
CQXTMENT .OK THE BATTLEFIELD OF
. SEDAN.
Dy France to the memory of her dead;
and the ptiier ls a conventional monu
ment erected- at the Joint expense of
France and Germany to the memory
and in a. certain Eense to the preserva
tion of the Bavarian and French sol
fliers who fell in the bitter and savage
fighting In and about the Ill-fated tU-
age of BazellleS, which: shell and thi
torch laid in ashes.. The base of the
latter mohnment consists of a great
jrypti the center of . which Is pierced by
i wide passage, on either side of which,
ire- vaults with barred7 fronts,' behind
r.-ttS nrft gtr-i r---TH.-" l '1 - -
- MOUKDSX, TEE SACKED CITY OF MAXCIIURIA.
Wfthln these walls, it Is believed, is stored the imperial treasure, the accuiaulution 0
more than 200 years, and amounting to about $2,000,000,000.
What was the greatest height of ava
rice ever dreamed of by man? Did ever
philanthropist estimate the amount of
money with which he could set right all
the wrongs of the world? What ls a
"princely fortune?" Or, to go further,
what Is Imperial wealth? Make np
your figures, grasp for an Instant at the
enormity of them, and then try to con
soive the vastness of the store of
wealth which well-authenticated state
ments give to Monkden, the capital of
Manchuria, and ' sacred city of the
Uancbus.-
Moukden, even by the time this ap
pears in print may have fallen Into the
bands of the Japanese army, command
ed by Connt Tamagata. And the Im
perial treasure ls estimated at 1,200,
000,000 taels. The value of a tael Is
about $1.50 of onr money sometimes
more. This would place the Imperial
hoard at nearly two billion of dollars!
There can be little error in these cal
culations, say thsse best versed In mat
ters concerning the Chinese gorern
ruent It is well known that for At
least 200 years past the reigning Chi
nese Einpc or haa sent an annual con
signment of 6,000,000 taels to Moukden
pi bo stored,
HTB "WEAVER'S cottaob.'
(Where Bismarck and the Emperor met th
morning after Sedan. ,
parts of skulls. In rear of which are
piled tangled heaps of mlscellaneoM
bones. The remains of the enemies In
life remain still separate as they slowl)
moulder; the German bones are In the
caves on ono side of the central passage,
those on the other are tenanted by thi
bones of Frenchmen.
Tested Her Sincerity.
The Count de Lesseps never seeme
to lose sight of the education of his
children, even In the smallest detail
One morning at breakfast, a beautiful
Dresden tea-cup was broken. "Ah!"
cried the countess, "a dlsast&rl Twa
more of that set will now be broken,
It always happens so." "Are yon sd
superstitious," asked the count, "a
really to believe that two more will be;
broken?" "I know It" "Then let ul,
get It off our minds." And, taking twa
of the cups by the handles, he dashed
them together. The anger and dismay
of the countess proved, conclusively
that she had not seriously held to her
superstition. It also loosed any hold
the absurd Idea may have had on tha
minds of the children. .-
LEVEL OF THE GULF RISING.
't Ia Now One Foot Higher than II
W'na in 1S50.
According to the engineers of tha
hydrographie bureau, the level of tha
Gulf of Mexico ls one foot higher than
It was In 1S59, and, of course, the en
croachment on the surrounding coasts
has been greater or less, depending on
their character. In some places, where
the marginal lands are composed of
some high, rovky bluffs, this change of
level has goae on from year to year
without attracting attention. On tho
other hand, many low-lying points
(some that wero once inhabited by tho
primitive inhabitants or bythe pioneer
"liite settlers) are entirely submerged.
The cause of this change of level has
lot. as yet been ascertained, but It Is
reasonably certain that It is the result
of either a settling of the dry land or of .
a general and uniform rising or up
heaval in the gulf bed. On the contrary,
there isn't tho least doubt but that
there ls much less. However this may
be, if this aqueous encroachment ls
steadily maintained, Keokuk will be a
deep water harbor and St Louis and
tho whole of Missouri will be entirely
submerged In less than 40,000 years
from Jan. 1, 1S93.
A Slight Mistake.
A foreigner, not absolutely certain ot
ill the shades of meaning In our En
glish words, recently attended a recep
tion at Vassar College at which tha
young ladies of the Institution were ar
rayed in all the lewildering beuuty of
evening toilets. Said he to the Presi
dent: '"I have never before seen ivj
grand a sight ns thos-j young ladles lu
their ninhtijowns." St Albnus Messen
ger. A Pplendld Catch.
The Old Lady AVould John be a
good catch for Mary?
' The Old Man Splendid! He's In thu
'oot-ball business and his life ls insured
for $ip,000.-4.tlanta Constitution,
PiHCOuraced Tlicru.
. Minister So you say that you snn
.strtne' boys out 'fishing' on Sunday, Bob
bio. I hope you did something to dis
co iro.ge them.
Kobble Oh, yes, sir, I stole their balf
- M-irlnm T.tfe.
doubtless much of the Chlneso Em
peror's -panic over the successes of tho
army marching upon Moukden Is caus
ed by frantic fear that this enormous
fortune will bo taken from him, and
reduce him, no matter what the final
outcome of the war may be, to compar
ative beggary! It is reported that th
treasr.ro has already been secretly re
moved from the palace to a less Jmper
Hied hiding place. If the treasure hat
been taken outside the walls of Mouk
den which Is extremely Improbable
It cannot have been carried far. In
the present anarchic condition of Man
churia It would be as well to leave tho
vast treasure for the Japanese victors
as to expose It to pillage by the turbu
lent Manchurlans.
Should the Imperial treasure of Mouk
icn fall Into the hands of tho Japanese,
would it belong to the latter govern
ment? Most assuredly, and tha only
civilized power that would be liable to
make even an attempt at a protest
wouid be England. Should England
Interfere to prevent this splendid loot
by Connt Tamngata's nm.y, tho Jap
finese, who have a passion for hlslory,
would sardonically Uqulraj "YThafj
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