"' ---- I- 1 4 x m Jf -ma rBssKW I B. F. BOHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Bsttter ejal Props VO L. XLIX MIFFLINTOWJS. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3, 1895. NO. 16. ! ssssvi r CnAl'TER XV rontinn.4. "Well did she recollect the su ites blaze of childish fury which had risen within her breast when Cecil, (rail tauntinjr, had whispered about kn RhU who loved an i ro le away, ere his own resentment had been awakened by th4 prediction having been vcrLed. Cecil had been right, and she had been wronr-onee. Who was to suy which! won a be tho truer prophot now? Of one thin;?, however. Gera'dinoi was cle r she very earnestly desired! that Co tl Kaymond should not bo awaro of how far Bellenden had al ready pone, how often the two had met, and to what extent they had ad vanccd in intimacy. She never men tioned to her cousin Sir Frederick name. She looked as un-'onacious a she could if ho were casually referred to by others. And if she knew ha were to bj any place at any hour on the wat?h for her and ready to join) her. she would sooner have civen u the mectine alto -ether than have hai on her other side the playmate of her" . .i- I youth. With a heavy heart she now pro rnrcd for a two days' vin't at Aunt Maria'. Shu knew'how it wou'd bii when she uot there. She could already ho.ir her two aunt-' whisperings, amj r. urk. the conlklen es interchanged nnd tho plnn of the campaign orawnj -dp. For Mr. St. Geoge. having nil children of her own, and being we 1 a o.ned towards her nieces and nephl ews in i eneral and Cecil Kavmond particular, would o. er oved at bein I e only toe much called in to assist him at this all important juncture. Cecil won id bo paired off with hii (o;;oin at tho dinner-table, in the boat, at the 1- nchcon party, throughout th entire vvoceeding.-;. She could pro rihotical'ly 1'oho'd him carrying her t-liawl and fetching her arasol. wait ing for her if sho were behindhand, nnd waiting for no one else if sho werq in front. Sho know for what purposo, 1 h, hK.i bo c-ht a white cotton cove I for his umbrella, an 1 almost felt its' shuie beforo she had ever seen it un furl ed. All proved correct only too correct. It was Cecil here and Cecil there. jus as bad been anticipated. Cecil wai directed to look after the Mount street juggiiire even at the railway station, and" he took the r tickets and founcj their compartment subsequently. H$ it was who sat on the box-seat of bit aunt s ca riage. looking down back wt;rds to point out tnis view and thai as they whirled along the dusty lanes, ami hU hand was outstretched to help them to alight ere any assistance could bo offered. Then tho net was drawn still closer Cecil was told off to show the cousin, who was a stranger, the beauties of the shady garden, with its cool retreats and rustling water banks. Cecil had to gather for her the evening button holo from his aunt's flower beds. And, Cecil was advised to take her out in the little boat that only held two later on in the evening. That she declined, but escape from tho rest had been impossible. Tho next morning was a repetitioi of the same She lound her cousin in the Beat beside her at the breakfast table, and he followed her out into the veranda directly the meal over. Hefore tho very beginning of the fray she wus sick to death of it, of him, and of everyone, PY-1 1 . . 1 1 .... 1 ...r...,l hn.linil no beauty in her ey es. The blue, gilt- toring rivor, winding its 1 wa Deiween. its willowy banks, with its usual re poso broken by the tliousan is of rain-bow-tntu-d holiday makers, all plying car and sail for the same point-sho S"arco cared to look upon it. The warm hay-; elds, merry with haymak ers, with" their 1 ucKground of solemn loliage. all one milky, gray-green hue in tho Ja.y sunshine she beheld the fair s'-eno"as tho gh it were a b igbear. Silent and sullen she sat, scarce lift ing her gazo from the water at her side her 1 rgo sunsha ie screening her from the ob ervation of the rest, her thoughts e sewhere. Ce 'il was rowing, and looking hit best in his nice new flannels. He was not altogether happy, poor fellow; he had a gnawing sense of being un- I l aciousiy met and repelled at evory Uu-n that day: and as until new he had l.ever experienced any actual rebuffs, and bad never been able to ascertain positively t at bis cousin had even v.-ii.ully avoide 1 him - since excuse and explanation had always been so glib upon ner tongue tho bed of roses he had proposed for h'mso.f in Aunt Maria s vine covered cottage, was like to prove but a thorny couch. Somehow he had reckoned on Geral dine s leing all his own if he could once detach her from Bellenden. It had seemed to him that to Bellenden's baneful influence only, was due his cousin's variable moods and slippery ways of la1 e. She had been forever eluding him sometimes on one ac co nt. sometimes on another he could not catch her tripping, but it had I een so. as a fact, to whatever ca. se duo. He thought, nay he felt sure, thai Isellenden was at the bottom of it. Bellenden and he were now almost opnlv ant gonistic: had been for the past fortnight: and Geraldine, while affecting to perceive nothing, .was, he could not but think, covertly on Bel 'enden's side. But if 1 nee he could undermine Bel lenden's influence, and counteract the Impression which he had apparently made afresh, he tho ght ho co Id soon reinstate himself with the cousin. That Sir Frederick was not seriously in earest, that he had no aim beyond standing well with one of the reigning beauties of the season and being seen in her train by those who chronicle such records, we must do yo me Hay iond the justice to say was his honest and deli b -rate conviction. His own feeling for Ceraldine v.as Df tho caln est and steadiest. Ho had always been fond of her as a child he had "seen her open to improvement, nnd he saw her o en to improvement now: b it he admired and was attracted, and the fact that the match would be one to pleaso his parents and sisters did not in any wise detract from its II erits in his eyes, as such facts have been known to do, But Bellenden had in all probability no idea cl a match at all. Bellenden tva not a marrying man. He had a manner; it meant nothing. He had employed it with Ethel, and it had misled her and her mother. He wai now making ffo with Geraldine, and the, foolish chil l, was once again fall ing into the snare. Was it for him to stand by and see his dear, sweet, lore able cousin thus trifled with? Assuredly not. CHAPTER XVI YOU ARE A PATIENT MAX, SIB FRED" ERICK. If Geraldine had only known what raa passing in the young roan's breast! She fancied, as people have done, and w 11 do to the end of time, that whatever misrht be her own doubts, an 1 fears, emotions and agitations, they were sa'ely hidden In the inner most recesses of her heart, secure from every one's Ice n but her own. It was her one comfort that no one nit even her poor dear dreamed of those nightly musings and the dally strug g e. and that Cecil, Ce -il of all people, Cecil, to whom she had so long been after her manner, sub'ect, of whoe opinion she still had a cold dread, and for whom she still entertained a cer tain uneasy respect that Cecil should hue made the tumultuous upheaval of her soul the subject for his calm, dis passionate dissection, would hare been niaici.'iit to let us see what it did do when the lrightful truth burst upon her. All that day Cecil was on the watch. His hand was the one on which she bad to depend for support, as she stepped ashore upon the green bank, so well known at Henlev, where the l . i.. favored few are permitted to excite the envy of the multitude, where they can feast spaciously and luxuriously, in tho long, cool grass beneath the shade, unencumbered bv the vulgar, and where they can at ease promenade presently, un ostled by the clamorous. Cecil was his cousin's escort towards the snot where Aunt Maria's well- trained servants had already almost co r.pleted their tempting arrange- iaf-ments. where the lamb, and chicken, and lobster, and salad, the salmon and cucumber, the pie and the ) ate were repeated up and down the snowy table cloth, and where the champagne bot tles were i d to their necks in the ice pails behind the tree. Geraldlne's p. ace was selected in the shadiest corner, behind which there was a niche: not yet to be tilled up.but into wnica some one would by-and by insert himself: some one who was so Dpeniy and paipaoiy ner cavalier lor the nonce, that none of the other young men of the party durst so much s ofter her a pieco of bread, although there was more than one present who would fain have done so. Did she want to go on the river, luncheon being over? Cecil's own lit tle cushioned boat was lying reaiy,and he would be too proud to take her. No? Would she prefer the Guards Inclosure? The "'Isthmian'' inclosure? The Hungarians were playing in the latter; but either inclosure was open to her. as Cecil had passes for both. What was she to say? Any inclosure that inclosed her, and excluded him Hardly. Would she then see the next race rowed? If so, he would show her the right place, the point from which s fine open view, unencumbered by house-boats, might De obtained? Oh, she was too tired to walk. Would she take a seat? There were Beats in abundance among the trees; and to be sure there was a glare on the river, it would be cooler and pleas anter to get among the trees even as be spoke, she had turned away from him with an exclamation. She had fancied she saw Bellenden. freviously, no idea of the extent and magnitude of the festival had entered into her mind, and she had supposed that, once there, she would have had no difficult v in being found by one minded to fi nd her. A regatta was not a racecourse, she had argued; and sue had been at regattas before having . 3 . X. 7 . among a few hundred spectators to see them come in (which they never did.) but of the great regratta of the south, ot the crowd, the din, the confusion and strife, the Babel of tongues, the difficulty of movement, and the almost impossibility of meeting without pre vious ap; ointment, she had had no sort of conception, while B.llend:n had been e jually ignorant. Had he ever been at Henley Hegatta before he would have known, indeed, to confine his search within certain limits', but he had not learned his lesson, and had lomehow picked up a vague impres sion that the ladies' quarter was near the bridge, on a large and thronged platrorm, an I finding none ot the Ray monds there had somewhat discon certed him. He had, however, pro ceeded with his search, scoured the water, assailed the inclosure. peered over the decks of house-boats, and been everywhere and looked every wnere but in the one place where his dove had hidden herself, and in conse quence he had of course searched and scoured in vain I inall he had given it up, and gone home in disgust, but meaning to have compensation in Mount street pres ently. Geraldine had evidently been kept from him by the Hayraonds and St. Georges in collusion; either she had not been at the regatta at all, or she had been kept out of sight on purpose; in either of which cases there would be no sort of use in his going down again on the second day. The train had been a purgatory, the rush at the ticket office, and the scramble lor a seat something to shudder at, the w hole affair a noisy, vulgar, unremu- nerative day. He had not seen a thing, he had scarcely met a person he knew, he had never endured four hours of greater martyrdom. And, after all. very little would have been obtained, even if he had found Seraldinn in her present company. The Haymonds were obviously holding ber fast for the son and heir, and she was for the time unattainable. It would have been but a word, or at most a brief half hour by her side and that probably with Cecil, or some deputy of Cecil's on the other side. It would be but that if he went on the second day; and on the evening of the second day the ladies were to return to town. He decided to stop in town, and present himself in Mount street during that evening. The moment the decision had beet Arrived at, it assumed a form that made up for all the past. Bah! the idea of telling a love tale amidst the roar and riot of that horrid place, beneath a scorching sun. and surrounded by gap ing crowds! True, She had meant to wait, and had hoped for the best for some opening, soma chance invitatioa which might lead to a twilight spent in r'aradice, supposing Mrs. St. George, for instance, had proved to be a good natured, hospitable woman, and he had gone back with tho party to The I wn? But this hope had faded away during the long, hot, fruitless search, and at the close of the day he had felt him self a fool ever to have entertained it. The little balcony in Mount street, tmong the blue pots of field daisies, would do a- well as, or better than the banks of the Thames. So it would, and so it might have done, had the lover not been antlci -yjtffd. It was late for some people, early for others n brief, it was past 0 o'clock when the announcement of Sir Fred erick Bellenaen's name made GepaJ tline start from the chair into which the had thrown herself to wear out the remainder of a wretched day. She had not dreamed of his, or of anyone's coming in at that hour; and her hair had been unloosed, her hat, gloves, and parasol thrown down Anywhere, and her handkerchief, wet through and through, allowed to drop by her ' side, as she leaned ber flushed face I . 1 1 .1. ii ,l .. ' upvu iicr imuu, mummy over uu bunk bad taken place. Granny bad retired for the night, still more worn out and exhausted; for the family gathering had not been a success, and both she and Geraldine had issued from it as it were, in dis grace. Her two daughters had alike resent fully held her at arm's length. Maria I had 'subjected her to questions and comments, Charlotte to innuendoes. She had seen them Interchange glances now and again on the recep tion of her replies, and had by degrees come to grasp the situation in all its details, and to penetrate into the secret of the displeasure which she had her self lnourred. It had become plain that she was now understood to be unfavor able to the sisters' views. It had be come equally obvious that those views bad met with some great and unex oected check. When the hour for departure hadar rived, she and her charge had been suf.ered to leave without any of those cheer.'ul prognostications and pleasant words and wishes usual on such o casions. There had been no little lov ing attentions and flatteries, and scarcely even a respectable show of response to her cwn thanks and fare wells: instead, there had been an oml iiojs silence, lowering looks, and cold kisses ard Cecil had been nowhere to be found. That had informed her of the whole, truth, and Ceraldine, when tasked, had not even sought to deny it. Yes, it was as granny had surmised; Cecil, foolish boy, had made himself ridicu ous and her very angry; ho had been very rnde, he "Kude." Granny might well open her eyes. She had never known Ce cil Raymond rude in his life. What should ho be ru le for now? "Because I could not agree with him, and because I told Mm be was a spy and a slanderer," then had Durst forth Geraldine, with cheeks aflame; "that was why oh, that was why," she had rereated, her tosom heaving t the recollection. "But, my dear, my darling, I do nol understand" no wonder the poor old lady had been mystified "I under stand that Cecil, oor fellow, forwhom I am very sorry"' (''poor, dear boy, I wish ho had held his tongue," in pa renthesis "I understand that you cannot care for him as he does for yo 1; tut why should you have been so so hasty with him? Why should you not quietly and kindly have refused to 'isten " 'I did refuse to listen; but not until he had spoken oh, not until I had ' card him say such things " and up 1 this the poor child had wept and so iied afresh, and no more tad been o. thcoming. TO BE CONTINUED. SPOILED MACREADY'S ORATION n Unusually Strong l'lnoh of Snail Mad. the CorpM Sinn on the Staff.. When Macready was a young mat. classical drama in blank verse held the stage, says London Figaro. One of these was umilius; or, the Fall of Rome." iEmilius was played by an actor named Pope, and the exigencies of the play required him to be brought on the stage on a bier, supposedly dead, and Flavius, acted by Macready, spoke an oration over the body. Pope was an inveterate snuff -taker, and just be fore going on one night he borrowed a pinch from one of the stage attend ants. He was accustomed to a mild invigorant, but the borrowed tobacco was the fiery Welsh stuff. Pope was duly brought on the stage by the usual army of "supers," and Macready be zant "Thou last of the Romans, thy bleed ing country calls thee in vain. Time and fortune may do their worst. Since thou " Here, to Macready's astonishment, Pope's face began to work, and then came a sneeze from the dead lEoman that shook the flies. Macready started a if shot, and the audience began to 'i'ter, but he went on: "Since thou hast left us we are en compassed by enemies who " Ho-e the corpse began to show ani mation, and then came a succession of sneezes. Boiling over with rage, and in a voice beard all over the house Macready muttered: "Drat your blo.od, sir, why don't you do your sneezing off the stage?" The audience shouted and the scene ended by the corpse stalking off to find and kill the man nho gave him the snuff 'Know Ihyfelf" it is a problem that never has L-e'en solved, nr never will be. The man who wil' sit still and let yon pityj.im, will fit still aud let yon abuse uim. Men are like potatoes fiey nerer kno bow soon they will be in hot water. Fulsehools not. only disuaree with truths, bit iminlly quarrel among thf in selves. Prdigree Dever made a gentleman, but Ls made ma :y a loafer quite un-benrabl.-. Contentment has been praised more, and practiced les., than any other condition of life. The great art is no', lo tnow bow- to make money, bat to know how to use it after it i- mad". All affectation is odious; even a monkey, so long as he sticks to the monkay, is buite respectable. Tho sooner a man becomes convinced of the things he can't do the quicker be wi'l succeed in life. Life is too short to was'e in critic' reep or crnio bark, quarrel or repn-: maud 'twill soon be dark. HEV. DfL TAIjMAGIL ffQBBBOOKLTll DlVflOPS UVM DAT BfflftlHOiM. Subject; "Wholesale Divorce. Titt: "What, therefore. Oof hath Joined jngether lot not man put asoutfac" Matthrv tlx., 6. That there are hundreds and thousands o Infelicitous homes in Amerisa no on. wil doubt. It there were only ose skeleton hi the closet, that might be Ineked up and abandoned, bat in many a home there is t'tcleton in the hallway and a skeleton in all Vue apartments. "Unhappily married are two words de Mriptive ot many a homestead. It nee'ls nt orthodox minister to prove to a badly mated pair that there is a hell. They are there now. Sometimes a grand and gracious woman will be thus incarcerated, and her life will b. a crucifixion, as was the ease with Mrs. Sigoui ney, the reat poetess and the f-rat souk Sometimes a eonseorated man will be united to a fury, aa wan John Wesley, or united to a vixem, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and generally, both parties are to blame, and Thomas Carlyle was an Intolerable scold, and his wife smoked and swore, and Froude, the historian, pulled aite the curtain from tin lifelong squabble at Cralunputtock and Five Cheyne Row. Some say that for the alleviation of all these domestlo disorders of which we heat easy divorce is a good prescription. Ood sometimes authorizes divorce S3 certainly as He authorizes marriage. I have just as much regard for one lawfully divor-ieil as I have for one lawfully married. But yon know and I know that wholesale divert is one of our National scourges. I am not surprised at this when 1 think of the influences which have been abroad u.il. lating against the mar Tinge relation. For many years the platforms of the eonn try rang with talk about a free love millen nium. There were meetings of thlskindheld in the Cooper Institute, New York; Tremont Temple, Boston, and all over the land. Some of the women who were most promi nent in that movement have since been dis tinguished for great promiscuosity of affec tion. Popular thems for such occasions were the tyranny of man, the oppression ot the marriage relation, women's rights and the affinities. Prominent speakeis were women with short curls nnd short dtess, and very long tongue, everlastingly at war with God because they were created women, while on the platform sat meek men with soft accent and cowed demeanor, apologetio for mascu linity, and holding the parasols while the termagant orators went on preaching the doctrine of free love. That campaign of about twenty years so. more devils into the marria? relation than will be exoivised In the next fifty. Men and women went home from such meetings so permanently confused as to who were their wives and husbands that they n-wer got out of their perplexity, and the criminal and tt9 civil courts tried to disentiinsle the "HinT of woes, and this one got alimoryt and that one got a limited divorce, and thji mother kept the children on condition that thi father could sometimes come and look at them, and theee went into poorhou?es, and those went Into an insane asylum, and thos went into dissolute public lifs, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made atiiust the marriage institution wa that free love campaign, sometimes undei ?ne name and sometimes under another. Another influence that has warred upon the marriage relation has been polygamy in Utah. That was a stereotyped caricature ol the marriage relation and has poisoned th whole land. You might as well think that yon can have an arm in a state of iuortiflcaa tion and yet the whole body not he sickened as to have these Territories polygamlaed and yet the body of the Nation not feel the putre faction. Hear it, good men and. women of America, that so long ago as 1.HC3 a law wai pwed by Congress forbidding polygamy in the Territories and in all the places where they had jurisdiction. Tweuty-fonr years passed along and live administrations before the first brick was knocked from that for tress of Ubertinis.n. Every new President in his inaugura tickled' that monster with the straw ot con demnation, and every Congress stultified it self in proposing some plan that would not work. Polygany stood mora intrenched, and more brazen, nnd more puissant, ana more braggart, and mere internal. James Buchannan, a much abused man of his dy, did more for the extirpation of this villain; than most of the subsequent administra tions. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and although it was halted in its work still he accomplished more than some of the admin istrations which did nothing but talk, talk, talk: At last, but not until it had poisoned generatitij, polygamy has received its death blow. Polygamy in Utah warred against the mar riage relation throughout the land. It waj impossible to have such an awful sewer ol iniquity sending np its miasma, which was waited by the winds North, South, East aad West, without the whole land being affected by it. Another influence that has warred agains the marriage relation in this country has been a pustulous literature, with its millions of sheets every week choked with stories ol domestic wrongs and infidelities and massa cres and outrages, nntil it is a wonder to aie that there are any decencies or any common sense left on the subject of marriage. One half of the newsstands of all our cities reek ing with the filth. "Now," say some, ''we admit all thest arils, and the only way to clear them out or correct them is by easy divorce." Well, be fore ws yield to that cry let ui find out how lasy it Is now. I have looked over the laws of all the States and I find that, while in soma States it is easier than in others, in every State it is easy. The State of Illinois, through its Leg islature, recites a long list of proper causes for divorce and then closes np by giving to the courts the right to make the deeree of divorce in any case where they deem it ex pedient. After that you are not surprised at the announcement that in one county of the State of Illinois, in one year, there went 833 divorces. If you want to know bow easy it is, you have only to look overthe records of the States. In the city ot San Franc'sco 833 divorces in one year, and in twenty years in New England 20,000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio continue the ratio ol multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce we are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all yon will have to prove a-rainst a man will be that he left his newspaper in the middle of the floor, and all yon will have to prove against a woman will be that her husband's overcoat is buttonless. Causes of divorce double in a few years doubled in France, doubled In England and doubled in the United States, To show you how very easy it is I have to tell you that in Western Reserve, Ohio, the proportion ot divorces to marriages celebrated is one to eleven, In Khode Island is one to thirteen, in Vermont one to fourteen. Is not that easy 4noughY I waut yon to notice that frequency oi divorce always goes along with the disso luteness of society. Borne for 500 years had not one case of divorce. Those were her days of glory anil virtue. Then iho reign o, vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If you want to know how ri.pidly hu empire wwit dow as1 filblioa. What we' want In this con..try and in all lands is that divorce be made more and more and more difficult. Then nvopie be fore they enter that relation will be per auded that there will probably be no escape from it except through the door of the sep nlcher. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation until they are fully satisfied that it is best, and that it is right, and that It is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriage in fun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with the idea it is only a trial trip, and if they do not like it thej can get out at the first landing. Then thil whole question will be taken ont oi the friv lous Into me tremendow, ana tnsre win ds do more joking about the blot, oms in bride's hair than about the cypress on a aomn. Wnat we want fs that the Congress of thfc United States change the National Constitu tion so that a law can he passed which shal be uniform all over tho country, and what shall be right in one State shall be ri?ht In all the States, and what is wrong in one State will be wrong in all the States. How is it now? If a party in the marriagt relation gets dissatisfied, it is only necessary to move to another State to achieve libera tion from the domsstio tie. and divorce effected so easy that the tint one party knows ot it is by seeing in the newspaper that Bwr. Dr. Somebody on March IT, 1896, lntrodaead In a new marriage relation a membar of ths household who went off on a pleasure axon si on to Newport or a business exooxsiaa t Chicago. Married at the bride's boose. No eirds. There are States ot the Union which practically pot a premium upon th. disin tegration of the marriage relation, while there are other States, like oor own Nw York State, that had for a long time the pre-eminent idiocy of making marriage lawful ai twelve and fourteen yean of age. The Congress of the United States needs to move for a change of the National Constlra tion and to appoint a committee not made np of single gentlemen, but of men of fami lies, and their families in Washington who shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, com prehensive, uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden Ham. That will put an end to broken ties in marriages. That will send divoree law yers Into a deeent business. That will set Deoole aeitatwl for many ream on th. qace on ot how shall they get away from ease other to planning how they eat adjust them selves to the more or leas unfavorable otrcum vtanoes. lioic difficult divorce will pat an estoppe. to a great extent upon marriage as a finan cial speculation. There are men who go in to the relation just as they go into Wall street to purchase shares. The female to be Invited Into the partnersh ip of wedlock Is utterly unattractive and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows it but this mas culine candidate for matrimonial orders, through the commercial agencv or through the county records, finds out how much estate la to be inherited, and hi calculates it He thinks out how long it will be before th old man will die, and whethei be can stand the refractory temper until he does die. and then he enteca the relation, far ha anZaj .''It I cannot stand It, then through the divoroe law I'll back out." That proses ts going or all the time, and men enter the relation with out any moral principle, without any affee tion.and it is as much a matter of stock spec ulation as anythlngthat transpired yesterday In Union Pacific, Illinois Cent ral or Dela ware and Lackawanna. Now, suppose a man understood, as h ought to understand, that if he jtoes Into that relation there is no possibility of his getting trot, or no probability, he would bemore3low to put his ne-' in the yoke. He would saj to himself, "Bather than a Caribbean whirl wind with a whole fleet of shipping in its arms give me a zephyr off fields of sunshint and gardens of peace"." Let me say to the hundreds of young peo pie in this bouse this a ternoon, before you pive your heart and htnl in holy alliance use all cautions. Inquire outside as to habits, explore the disposition, scrutinize the taste, question the ancestry and find out the am bitions. Do not take the heroes and the heroines of cheap novels for a model. Da hot put your lifetime happiness in the keep Eng of a man who has a reputation for being a little loose in morals or in the keeping of woman who dresses fast, Eemember that, while good looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Re member that Byron was no mors celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Be rnemberthat Absalom's hair was not more splendid than his habits were despicable. Hear it, hear lti The only foundation foi happy marriage that has ever been or .vex will be Is good character. Ask God whom you shall marry if yot Ciarry at all. A union formed In prayer wil e a happy union, though sickness pale thf cheek, and poverty empty th. bread tray, and death open the small gravw, and all the J ath of life Le strewn with thorns from thf tuarria'e altar with its wedding march and brunge blossoms clear on dowa to the last farewell at that gate where Isaa-; and Betiecoa, Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted. And let me say to yon who are in this re lation, if yon make one man or woman hap- r.y, you have not lived In vain. Christ says hat what lie is to the church you ought to be to each other, nnd if sometimes through difference of opinion or difference of dispo sition you make np your mind that your knarriage was a mistake patiently bear and forbear, remembering that life at the longest Is short, and that for those who have been badly mated in this world death will give quick and immediate bill of divorcement written in letters of green grass on quiet graves. And perhaps, my brother, my sis ter, perhaps you may appreciate each other better in heaven than you hava appreciated each other on earth. In the "Farm Ballads" onr American poet puts into the hps of a repentant husband after a life of married perturbation these sug. gestive words: And when she dies I wish that she would be laid by me. And lying together in silence perhaps we will agree. Vnd if ever we meet In heaven I would not think it queer If we love each other better because we quar reled here. And let me say to those of yoa who are It happy married union avoid first quarrels; have no unexplained correspondence with former admirers; cultivate no suspicions; In a morapnt of bad temper do not rush out and tell tha neighbors; do not let any of those ga l-alouts of society unload ia your house their baggage of gab and tittle tattle; do not stand on your rights; learn ho. 7 to apolo gize; do not be so proud, or so stubborn, oi lo devilish that you will not make up. Be memljer that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little Infelicities. The whole piled up train of ten rail cars telescoped and smashed at the tout of an embankment 100 feet down came to thut catastrophe by getting two ot three inches off the track. Some of the great est! domestic misfortunes and the wide re sounding divorce cases have started from little misunderstandings that were allowed to f;o on and go on until home and respeotabilt ty and religion and immortal soul wen down in the crash, crash! And. fellow citizens as well as fellow Chris dans, let us have a divine rage against any thing that wars on the marriage state. Blessed institution) Instead of two arms to tight the battle of life, four; Instead of two syes to scrutinize the path of life, four; in stead of two shoulders to lift the "burden ot life, four. Twice the energy, twice the ouraii. twloe the holy ambition, twice tha probaojflty or worldry success, twice the prospects of heaven. Into the matrimonial oower God fetches two souls. Outside that bower room for all contentions, and all bick rlng", and all controversies, but inside the bower there is room for only one guest the uigel ot love. Let that angel stand at the Boral doorway of this Edenio bower with irawn sword to hew down the worst foe of ibat bower easy divorce. And for every paradise lost may there be a paradise re rained. And after we quit out home here nay we have a brighter home la heaven, at :he windows of which this moment are fa xdllar faces watching for our arrival and ronderiug why so long we tarry. orwegiaa Settlement for Vortk Carolina, The P.ev. Mr. Stiltwelt, a Nonraglan Luth. Tan minister of North Dakota, arrived in Durham, N. CL, a few days ago. He is visit, ng that section with a view of selecting some ocallty to which he can bring a colony of bis el low countrymen. His report of th. con lltions of the farmers in some parts of tha )akotos is truly doleful. He says there is a itrong Inclination on the part of many Nor egians in the Northwest to remove South, rhich they regard as a more inviting field 'or them. News in Brief. The new catalogue of the British Mnseum will contain 1,400,000 distinct itles. Ot the 218,373 foreigners living in Great Britain, nearly one half, or 95, 053. reside in Liondon. Uruguay and Nebraska are of nearly the same size, the former having 72,000, the latter 76,000. The name of a steamship hailing from Honolulu, Hawaii, is Likelike pronounced "leaky leaky." Keep your own miseries; don't offer to swap rheumatism with any man. (rood advice is scarce, and those who have the most of it to spare are the last ones on part with it. ONLY WOMAN SAVED. WisS5- J Tho above is a portrait of Miss Anna Boecker, the sole female survivor of the ill-fated steamship Elbe's passen gers. She ia a governess, and was on her way from Bremen to take a posl- aBTOaiamiBUmaniia-SBmaiBBiiuBKiiiiSBaiBDiis VOLCANOES OF THE NORTHWEST Peopla Now LIvlnaT Claim io Have Been. Mnmeroa Krnptiona. Colonel Fred O. Plummer haa mad extensive researches and collected data which shows beyond question that the big mountain peaks in the Northwest have been volcanoes in the memory of people yet living, says the Tacoma News, and thia is why Colonel Plum mer thinks that Mount Rainier is likely to break ont again at any time. Bor dering the sound country there are at least twenty prominent peaks from which eruptions may take place, or which may be centers of earth tremors or shocks, and several of these have within recent years given ample proof of life. Among the mass of data is tho story of John Iliaton, an Indian now1 living, that he witnessed an eruption of the mountain in 1S20. It was accompa nied by fire, noise and earthquake. He had heard from older members of his tribe that this bad happened many times. lie had also seen fires from Mount Baker, and a tradition of hi i race is to the effect that this mountain was much higher, and that a tremen dous explosion threw down the entire south side. The present shape and condition of the mountain confirm this tory. An old historian. Rev. Samuel Par ker, tells that "the Indians say that they bare often seen fires In the chasms of Mount Hood. Tilkl, the first chief of the Dalles Indians, who is a man of more than ordinary talents, said that be had often seen fire in the fissure of the rocks in the mountains." A few years ago Captain Symonds, in his re port on the Columbia River, notes that "persona who hare visited Mount Hood say that near Its summit are places where hot, sulphurous gases still es cape, and there are many who claim to have seen smoke in large quantities Issuing from the mountain." In the story of his explorations Mr. Parker re lates that "there was in August, 1S31, an commonly dark day, which was thought to have been caused by an eruption of a volcano. The whole day was nearly as dark as night, except a light red, lurid in appearance, which was perceptible until near night Light ed candles were necessary during the day. The atmosphere was filled with ashes of wood, all having the appear ance of having been produced by great fires, and yet none were known to hava occurred In the whole region. The day was perfectly calm, without any wind. For a few days after the fires out of doors were noticed to burn as though mixed with sulphur. There were no earthquakes. By observations which were made after the atmosphere be came clear. It was thought the pure white, perpetual snow of Mount St. Helens was discolored, presenting a brown appearance, and therefore It was concluded that there bad been a slight eruption." In a footnote the author says: "I have been credibly in formed that lava was ejected at that time from St Helena." There are many other facts that go to prove that St. Hoi ens was very active In 183L Settlers of Whatcom County have jften seen Mount Baker In a state of eruption. In January, 1853, persons living down tha sound could distinctly see a long black streak on the south west slope of Mount Baker, which was variously estimated at from 1,000 to 2,000 feet In width. It was several months before tha mass of lava, cooled so as to receive the falling snow. In 18C1 people at Port Ludlow saw Mount Olympus, in the Olympic range, in ieruptlon. On Sunday, June 27, 1869, at about 8:30 p. nx, quite a severe earth quake shock was felt at Seattle. Very little damage was done, although dishes were thrown from pantry shelves and many people were startled by tho sharp ness of tha shock. On Sunday, Dec. 12, 1880, about 8 o'clock at night the en tire region around Mount Rainier ex perienced a series of sharp earthquakes which were accompanied by deep rum blings. Tha ground seemed to wiiggla and twist. In the summer of 1883 Ta coma received a severs shock, which the motion of chandeliers hung on hooka showed came from the direc tion Of lffHint f?o!nti Cir Tnn. 1 A J 1884, at about 7 o'clock, p. m, jets of team were plainly seen shooting up ward from Mount Rainier to a consid erable height. This phenomenon was continued at short Intervals until dark ness shut off tha view. There was no lira, and no aarth tremors wore raport t& ltc4fsMt.o taWJQMsagej J ' tion with a prominent family in Ports mouth. The young woman has recent ly scornfully refused an offer of $400 per week to exhibit herself in a London museum. hava frequently seen eruptions of Mount Hozomeen, which is eastward from Mount Baker, in recent years, and, considering these reports, this vol cano Is the "Old Faithful" of the Cas cades. Should there be a very violent eruption of Mount Rainier, there would be no danger hi Tacoma. Tho moun tain Is too far away forty-four miles. The following table, which is among the volcanic records in Colonel Plum mer's office, shows the year and dura tion of eruptions of the big peaks In thlr vicinity from 1S20 to 1S01, inclusive: Tear Mount Rainier 1820 Mount Ranier 1S4-1 Mount Ranier 184(1 Mount Ranier, 2 hours' duration. . . .1SS4 Mount St. Helens, 12 hours 1831 Mount St. Helens 1842 Mount St. Helens 1S4J1 Mount St. Helens, S5 days 1S4.1-4 Mount St. Helens 1S41 Mount Baker 1S20 Mount Baker 1S4H Mount Baker 1&"3 Mount Baker 1880 Mount Hood, 3 hours ISC!) Mount Hozomeen 1801 Mount Olympus ISfil Mount Olympus, 3 hours 18SC Minute, of the Court. "Have you got the time?" asked th prisoner of the Judge. "I have," replied the Judge. "81; months!" Atlanta Constitution. Something Like It, Wipgs (quoting) "There's nothKis like leather," you know, old boy. YVagjTS Isn't there, though! Yob never saw any of the pie crust that out new hired girl turns out SomervllW Journal. The Bin of Cain. Teacher What was the sin of Cain Tommy Askin' "Am I my brother xeeper?" "How do you make thnt out?" "Anyway, paw says that remark a his has been the cause of more people foolln' with other folks' business than anything else ever said." Clnclmutt Tribune. Advice Ia Cheap. It Is a great fool who buys good aa- Vice when so much of It may be had for nothing. Atchison Globe. Ha Waa Justified. Old Gent Young man, when I was your age I thought a horse car plenty food enough for me. Youth (alighting from hansom) Bv you were never the only son of a rich father or you would not have taken such risks. New York World. At the Club. Hlbbs Is De Frlsky's new rlsqo book out yet? Dibbs Yes; but he isn't He got su months. New York World. Simple.' A conjurer Is naturally supposed t be the cleverest man in the company. sometimes, however, he Is only next tc Xhe cleverest One evening, a man was performing the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket-handkerchief, when he reinurta ed to a little boy In fun: "Say, my boy, your mother can't gel tggs witnout hens, can she?" "Of course she can V replied the bov "Why, how is that?" asked tha con. lurer. "She keeps ducks!" replied the boy. amid roars of laughter. Youth's Com panion. Why Ha Hit Him. Teacher Why did you hit Willie Winkum with a stone? Little Johnny He he got mad ana looked as If he'd like to hit me with something; so I jus' chucked the stone over to him so he could throw it at ma -Good News. There Are O there. Mrs. Doozledoff Mrs. Bumpus is s woman of tremendous push. Mrs. Criggleston I should say s&. Where did you become aware of tha fact? Mrs. Dooaledoff At the bargain conn ter Brooklyn Eagle. Had Noticed It. Mrs. DogooxJ You dont seem to real ize that time is money. Dusty Rhodes Yea, I do, mum: man times have I had occasion to notice that f 10 was tha equivalent of ten daraw New York World, SUPPOSE WE SMILE. HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIO PAPERS. PImaant - Incident. Occurring" tha World Over Saying. That Ar. Cheerful to th. Old or Tonns; -Funny Selection That Kvarybody Will Enjoy Beading. Taking; a Mean Advantage, nail How did you get rid of that ral road stock? I didn't think anyont would touch it considering the condi tion of the road. Ball Well I found a party who wat hot posted. Hall Who was he? Ball One of the directors. Brook lyn Life. No Use for Them. "I never cu'd undustand dls storj about Diogenes huntln' around wit' a lantern fur an honest man," remarked a New York City statesman. "Are you surprised that he should have found them so scarce?" 'Naw. W'at I don't see is w'at hi Wanted wit' 'im." Washington Star. Satisfactory, -u5IJi.i Mistress What are your qualifica tions as a cook? Applicant None; but I've got tin jcandal of the whole block down pat Mistress You'll do. I'll come dowi and help you out with the cooking onc a day. Great Luxury. "I suppose Newrlche's new house li sumptuously fitted up?" "Yes, Indeed. He has everything yot enn think of that is most costly. Why, bis fire extinguisher Is kept full of champagne all tha time." Harper' azar. Llvinc Evidence. Wife The cook says she never wat with a family that lived any bettei than we do. Husband Yes. The policeman ot the corner has gained twenty poundi since she came. Life. A li rector. Lawyer Did I understand you to say that your son was one of the director "f the company? Mrs. Muggs Why, yes; you man, know him; he's that bill fellow who stands in the hallway and directs thi people to the elevators Now York World. An Awful Bore. The man who always tells everybody he meets all the dreams he has can't ex pect to have a very large attendance of sincere mourners at his funeral. Ex change. A Grammatical Fine Point. Teacher Tommy, would you say thai man lies easy or lies easily? Tommy It depends on the iuau. In. dianapolis Journal. ,The Instinctive Question. Prisoner Your honor, this policeman ttruck me. New York Magistrate For ho much? Washington Star. Mr. Dolan on 6trlkea. "If anybody lver catches ma strolk ln" said Mr. Dolan, "'twill be vhin Ol'm out av enipl'ymlnt an hov nothln' betther to do." Washington Star. Green Beyond a Doubt. "There Is no possible doubt that you friend Is a green grocer." "Of course not But why do yot speak of It in that way?" "He Just told me that he had sold a n of goods to Bilker on credit" Buffalo Courier. Ilia Reason. "I hear that you let an Eastern dud call you a liar," remarked Itednosed Johnson. "How about It?" "Yas, It's so," replied RubbernecV Bill. "Me and the undertaker is n II tt la at outs Just now an' I ain't goln' t throw no business his way, you bet" Indlnnapolls Journal. Why XI. Didn't Attend theChnrch Fait She Why didn't you come to out church bazar? He Well, I'm strictly business, i buy in the lowest market She What you never carry rellgto. Into your business? He No. I always give chauge.-s Life. Pushed for Money. New York News. A Mu.oum lplsodc Manager What's the row in the dining-room? Waiter The Two-Headcd Wondei has got tangled up eating maca rout Truth. Bad Break. Wool Hicks made a bad break at tb table d'hote bast night The waite" brought him a bottle of claret and als a bottle of meat sauce. Van Pelt Well? Wool Before he discovered his ml take he drank the meat sauce ani poured the claret on his meat Nev York World. A butcher in .Belfast, Ale., t training a hog to harness, driving hlaT behind a sled. . .. i - 1 II; -- -i. - -;- v. - . V . . i-V: 0Vi-wS- -S.r-.-V.-.i- -Wo s--
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