Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, April 10, 1895, Image 1
' ' - ' '-" . ' " " ,r ' "" iim -MSHSSBMSWSS'aHBMBSmMBrBBammBBmSBeaS'''- ' MMMtaaMMniMV " ' .. ' .. ... .....; . - L-- ' tSv. -..-.' mm V U, F. BGHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. XL1X MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APEIL 10. 189S. NO. 17. 1 CHATTKlt XVI Continue. Tho result was, that granny had . gone off to bed, worn and weary wit i Byaipathizinjf first on tho one side u J then on the other for it must not be suppose I she had no feeling' for her one and only grandson, nor that she could contemplate tho probable family broil to follow wit lout genuine dis tress and vexation, so that she and Geraldine ha I nat irally agreed to tay no moro to each other about it that nipht, but to leave till the morrow all future ronsiderations. Little did either think that the day's work was not over yet. "'i oa are alone?" said Bellenden, glancing' round quickly. "Is Mrs. Campbell " "Lone upstairs. We we have not returned lunar , and she-she did not expoct anyone." Here the speaker's eye tell on the wet handkerchief, and the stooped to nick it up and hid it in ier hand. "And you you did not expect me either'-,'in.iuired he, his voice sinking- at once, as he took a chair near her. No answer: a slight retrograde move ment on her part. 'Did you think I could wait another day," proceeded the speaker, in thai same s-ignificant tone, "not knowing where you had been, nor with whom, nor whether whether yon hai e.er missed me, nor looked lor me? ' 'Oh. yes," said Geraldine, 6uddenlj facing him. Wait? Oh. ye3: very well, I should think-very well, in deed. Why not?'' she continued, with a hard little laugh, reminding him on the instant of tho mocking tienl who gibed and taunted him that bright morning in Bond street. "Oh, Sir Frederick. I think you could ha e waited. You are a patient man. o I can wait much longer than that for tidings of your friends, we all know." I' Angry, by Jove! The best sign in the world:'' cried Bellenden, exulting to himself. I Aloud: Are you "twit ting me with my stupidity in not find ing you yestei-duy? Vou do not know how dearly 1 paid for it. Where were vou" Where could you have been? I give you my word th'at I hunted up and down, in and out. all over the place, for hours aud hours, and all in vain. I Dnlv cave up when nearly every one had left the place." "I did not mean thut." almost whis pered (ieraldine, for now she was be pinning to shake all over. "I I why do you f-ay such things?" she burst forth with sudden passion. "vVhatrighl have you to say them? How do you dare to resume that it's anything to mo whether you seek me or not? Vou you I never told you to look for me; I never pave you leave. You roust not-you shall not do it. Under Dtand, sir. that I will not have any more of this. I forbid it-I -1 " ' Do you forbid this, Geraldine?" said he, very gently, taking her hand in his. "Do you forbid my asking for this hand, and offering in exchange only my poor heart, which is already yours? l sought you, dear, because I loved you. I think you know X love you, and 1 think 1 know that you " "That I love you?" cried Geraldine, wildly: "is it that which you would say? You know that? You would tell me that? But you you are mistaken, fcir Frederick Bellenden. I am not quite the child, the fool I once was. I I Oh. how can you how can you ?" and, unable to articulate more, she could only wrench from his the hand he still held, and let loose the brimming floods which would nc .onger be restrained. "vVho has done this?' he cried ughast. "Who? What do you mean? Who?" "This is not your own doing. This Is not yourself speaking." proceeded Bellenden. in much agitation. "Soma smooth-tongued whisperer has been " "Never mind that never mind that. He did but tell me true, if it has been so; you have chosen to take it for granted that I care for you " "And you do not love ? But no. you would not play me false?" "How am 1 playing you false?" "Look ba-k upon "the past few weeks," he said. "What am I to think? Have you not given me reason to suppose Could I thin other wise than that you saw. understood, and returned my feelings for you? Had you meant to reject me Geraldine, you cannot, you cannot mean it." he continued, with increased emotion. "You cannot nave been trifling with roe " but the word awoke a fata) echo in her heart. "Trifling?' she cried, scornfully, "and why not 'trifling,' if It suited ma to trifle? Why should I not have my turn? You thought little enough once f trifling with me." "I? With you?" "You thought I was but a little girt, a child to be taken up, and petted, and petted, and played with, and dropped. You thought you might say what you chose, do what you chose, kiss me if you chose," and she struck her face upon the spot his lips had burned, "and then -and then no more. I was to forget all as you did. I was to think nothing of it, to laugh at it, to know that others jested about it; I was only a child, you know. What have you to say now. if 1 have, as you call t, -trifled' with you?" ne was silent too much amazed iot word". "Good Heavens! Why, Cera'dine," he exclaimed at length after a mute pause during which each had involun tarily drawn ba.-k a pace, and stood quickly breathing in each other's faces. "Why, Geraldine.what strange delusion is this? I " be passed hi hand over his brow, "I cannot yet un derstand. Of course, I ought to have written, to have Pshaw! that is not what you can so deeply have re sented: tnere must be more. Is It pos sible, then, that I that you that any thing ever passed between you and me In the old davs which could have been taken in so ill a part that it must needs rise as a barrier between us for ever more?" "What did pass between us? Stop where you are," for he had made a movement towards her. '"What did 'Why, we Vfera companions, friends we liked to be together. I was fond of you. and you by Heavens! if I had ever thought ever imagined But you cannot mean it " "I do mean it." "You cared for mo. " his voice fait red. "I did care." "Y ou? A mere child?" "I was no 'mere child' " . "But yo i could not have known it Is not possible you could have known what love meant. You could never have telt " "Not have felt? Not known? Ol how little, how little, can you know?" cried she. wee ping afresh. "Not have known, when you yourself had taught me! Not have felt oh, I think I shall never feel again -can never feel again us I did then. You ask me now for my heart? You stole it then. How dm I get it back? Only through your neg lect and utter indifference. But I ha e it now fast; never, never to part with it more. No! not now not again" as he on e more endeavored to speak and to be heard. "Not again. Once in a lifetime is enough. Oh, you had it that once" here her voice was al most lost in convulsive sobs "that once," she whispered, "but but a second time neverl" and with a sud den rush, she flew past and vanished from his sight, leaving him dumb, motionless, and alone. CUAPTEU XVII CONCLUSION GRANNY TO THE FROXi. Haa she then all this time been but revenging herself? Bellenden asked himself the humil iating question a thousand times, smarting with shame, disappointment, and. worse still, disenchantment. Had the girl to whom he had given B'Jch a high place in his imagination as well as in his ' heart, been playing towards him a part so unworthy? Had she, whom he had all unwittingly 6lnned against - for it had been unwit tingly, when all wai said and none hai this bright, beautiful creature, with her noble bearing, and her proud a orn of all that was false and mean, stooped on his ac ount to a vengeance K far beneath herself? He could hardly believe it. Had an angel descended to soil its wings he e uli not ha e felt his faith in goo 1 ness, purity, and truth more cruelly shaken. Could this have been Geraldine whe had just tied from him, as though his touch were contamination? Could it have been she who had poure l forth t-u;-h derisive taunts, and announced such a petty, base, and degrading scheme as her own? Could it have been her sweet face, so many a time and oft turned towards him. shy as a blush ing rosebud, which had now been over spread by the angry glow, and whose I features had been, alas! distorted wiiq a iury wnicn ne naa oeen mo b ect? lie felt as if a rough touch haa been laid on bis shoulder, anl arougn voice in his ear had bidden him awake from a fair dream anl face a hash reality. His iaol had been shattered, md lay in pieces at his feet. She, for her part, spent the night in .ears. Why make a mystery of it? Of course the whole had been Cecil's work. He had contrived, goodness knows how! to draw his cousin apart, and get her to himself at last, on the second day of the festival: aud he had then first pleaded his own cause, and pleaded, as we know, in vain: and sub sequently, and doubtless with more at rimony than might otherwise have been vented, turned his attention to wards blasting the hopes of his pre mmably more successful rival. He had meant to order his plan of action on this wise. It was to have been thus: Clear the course ol Bel lenden, then walk the course, Ray mond. But lovers seldom keep to their pro grams on 6uch occasions, and Cecil at the critical moment bad come to grief. His own wreckage had been a cer tainty almost from the outset; but he had done himself none the less damage in that he had sought to involve Bel lenden in his ruin. It must be supposed that finally this had been apparent to him. But there is, as every one knows, a certain fierce consolation in hitting back, even though each blow recoils on the head of the striker; and Geraldlne's suitor, beholding his suit hopelessly rejected, may be pardoned if, not being a man of tine character, he had not taken the downfall of his hopes quite so well as he should have done. He had been as unable to bridle his tongue as a woman, and sore from his own wounds, had recklessly delivered i as many as he could in return. Nothing he Knew would heart the proud-spirited girl more than any re verting to the old childish folly, and accordingly we are sorry to say it it had been to this that the defeated candidate had turned at once. A very indifferent talo it had been to hearken to. He had been watching his cousin, he had a1 lowed, and had been very mu.li afraid, very apprehen sive and anxio s on her account. He had hoped against hope that he had been mistaken. Not less on her account than on his own ion his own he would now say nothing that was past and, therefore, and only since it was past, was he now free to raise a note of warning;) but, on her account, he thought he really o ight now to spea. He must speak as a relation, as a Irother, since she would allow him no nearerjind dearer title. A certain fiightly friend of his she must know to wbom he alluded was now, he feared, playing the same game that he had tried on with Geraldine before. All had known this, and had noticed this. It did not become him to judgo whether or not he would this time meet with a like success; but Geral dine knew, Geraldine must remember how her iancy had once been caught by Bellenaen's foolish and unmeaning gallantry he had got no further. So far he bad 1 een heard out, since, in her bewilderment and consterna tion, sue had no words wherewith to stop him: but all at once she had real ized that her childhood's roraantlo dream which had cost her so dear, but which she had deemed all her own, had been, and still was, the sport and scoff of others. Cecil had exaggerated, perhaps na turality, in saying .that "air had known and noticed, but he had cer tainly, in furtherance of his end, been happv in the hint; it bad been caught up at once by the sensitive ear on which it had fallen, and had been con strued into something yet further from the truth than was actually the case. She had been trossiped about, giggled over, smirked at oh! how terrible. ! Never, never could she hold up hei J head again among those who had made her their jest; never again could she I meet BeJUenden io their presence, jior hear them pronounce his name wn out a shiver. As for quietly going on her way, having daily inter. ourse with the re lations in Gi-osvenor Square, meeting Cecil going in and out he had begged that there might be no alteration in tho usual routine) it was not to be thought of. The earth had shaken under hei feet. She had do ibted everyone, dis trusted everyone, almost hated every one that cruel summer day. A little wisdom, and a little common sense, even a few hours' repose and time to think the matter over, might have put a new face upon past and future: but Bellenden had been too precipitate; he hai appeared when the storm had been yet at its hlght, and had come in smiling, happy, coniident !ar, far too confident, to her mind and be had even a worse time of it than Cecil Ray mond. So now. what was to be done? Imagine granny's consternation wheu, the next morning, the headstrong girl, neither calmer nor wiser than on- the night before, announced her next de cision, which was that back the two must hie and that without a moment's breathing spa: to the wilds of Inch mare w. It was the first week in July, and some of the pleasantest part of London season was yet to come; there were the garden parties, the suburban fetes, the river excursions, the little frolics hither and thither for which no time could be tound earlier must all these be sacrificed? Aud for what? for lnchmarew in July? In July, when grim St. Swithin holds his cheer less rule in the west country, when the crisp freshness of the summer is past, and the mellow warmth of au tumn is uot yet begun? When the young vegetables are over, and -the fruit is barely ripe? When no one actually no one not the veriest waif or stray is yet to be found along the coast of Argyll? Poor Mrs. Campbell grew almost tearful over the sub ect, and fleshed her irettiest pink demonstrating and protesting. She had little anticipated such extreme measures. She l ad thought the Raymond affair might be patched up without any great diffi culty. It might, it probably would, have its disagreeable side: it might produce awkward mo nents and un comfortable restraint; bus surely it was not of sufficient importance to break up their whole tenor of life for the time being. She had taken the bouse for ancther month, and no one was expecting them back at lnch marew. The rooms would not be ready, the repairs not finished, the painters and paperers not oil the premises. Nothing would be propared, and it did seem a pity to let such a she did not exactly say "a trifle," but the tone in which she said "a thing as this" implied it "it did seem a pity to let such a thing as this put ou( so many people, anddisarrange so much." Of course, granny vowed an I pro tested, ot course her darling should not be tormented by Cecil, nor by any of bis family Geraldine might trust her for that. Of course if Geraldine wished it, she would forbid her grand son the house -although that did seem unnecessary, since it was not likely that he would really care to come about, in spite of his bravado in beg ging that no difference might be male. That had been Cecil all over. Hisfir.-t th ught had been to evade the com ments of the world. But even if he did wish to carry this too far, he should not be allowed to disturb his cousin's peace by doing so. to be continued. A Deadly Enemy. Even common house flics have a deadly enemy a parasite that fastens upon their bodies. Their favorite lo cation is around the wings and the shoulders. These tiny creatures grow rapidly, and soon become so full of blood as to be perceptible to the naked eye. They soon exhaust the source of supply and leave the wretched victim little more than a shell, when it crawls away to die. Any one may discover this condition of affairs by observing that flies become dull and semi-stupid. They seem to fly heavily, and soon alight and begin brushing and scraping their bodies with their wings and feet. But to no purpose are all their efforts; for the leech never lets go. These parasites are very much worse in some seasons than in others. Occasionally there is a summer when they are very few, and one may look a long time without finding any. At other times, in certain localities, they almost sweep the flies out of existence. Such a con dition is thought to be fraught with dangter to the human family. Se On Your Guard. One of the most perilous experiences of a young convert is in dealing with the suggestion that he is not convert ed. To make the suggestion is one of the favorite modes of attack used by the adversary. If he can succeed in getting a young Christian to listen to it, and to go into an analysis of the case, he is very sure of cooling that converts zeal, if not of bringing his Christian life to an end. Be on yi ur guard against his whisperings. In stead of looking at yourselves, look at Jesus. Meet the approaches of Satan as Luther did. When the devil said to him: "You are no Christian," he replied: "Well, that's none of your business." Michigan Advocate. It was anything but Talm Sund;i to the little boy whose mother, for the first time, substitute;! a slipier for her own soft and tender palm. Food for Thought. We are shaped by our yesterdays. Tractxal wisdom avoids bir wordr. He who feasts every day, feasts no -ay. No man is a hero to bis mother-in-law. Courtship is a sonnet, marriaga an epic The perfect man is never the (eri'ect artist. Ill-balanced praise ia worce than silence. Every hf art has its own definition of love. Advice should be well shaken before taken. Fanaticism, the false fire of an over heated mind. The meanest man will sometimes give himself away. To morrow's advertising may be a day too late. fiEV. D& TAIMAGE. rm BROOKIiYH DmXBS HTJM DAT SKRWOK. Subject: "Tongues ot Fire." Text: "Have ye received the Holy Ghost. Acts xix., 2. The word ghost, which means a son, oi spirit, has been degraded in common par lance. We talk of ghosts as baneful and frightful and in a frivolous or superstitioui way. liut my text speaks of a Ghost who U omnipotent and divine and everywhere pres ent and ninety-one times la the New Testa ment called the Holy Ghost. The only tim I ever heard this test preached from was in the opening days of my ministry, when a glorious old 8-joteh minister name up to help me in my village church. On tho day of my ordination and installation he said, "I you get into the corner of a Saturday night without enough sermons tor Sunday, send for me, and I will come and preach for you." The fact ought to be known that the first three years of a pastor's life are appallingly arduous. No other protest, sion makes the twentieth part of the demand on a young man. It a secular preacher prepares one or two speeches for a politi cal campaign it is considered arduous. II a lecturer prepares one lecture for a year, ho is thought to have done welU But a young pastor has two sermons to delivee every Sabbath before the same audience, t3 sides all his other work, and the most ol ministers never recover from the awful ner vous strain of the tlrst three years. B sympathetio with all young tnliiistoje aol withhold your criticifms. Sly aged Scotch 'frnd responded to mj first call and came and preached from the text that I now announce. I remember noth ing but the text. It was the last sermon h ever preached. On the following Saturday ht was called to his heavenly reward. But 1 remember just how he appeared as, leaning over the pulpit, he looked into tha face oi the audience, and with earnestness and pathos and electrio force asked them, in thi words of my text, "Have ye received th Holy Ghosts" The olllee ot this present dis course is to open a door, to unveil a Person age, to lutpvjuce a'force not sufficiently re ognlzed. He is as great as God. He Is G 1 The second verse of the first chapter uf thi Bible Introduces Him Genesis i., 2. "Xa Spirit of God moved upon the faco of thi waters" that is, as an albatross or eagl spreads her wings over her young and warm them Into life and teaches them to fly, so th Eternal Spirit spread His great, broad, radiant wings over this earth in its callow and untie !gd state snd warmed it into lift and II uttered over it and set it winging iti way through immensity. It is the tip top ol all beautiful and sublime suggesti veness. Cut you not almost see the outspread wings ovei the nest of young worlds? " 1'he Spirit ol God moved upon the face of the waters." Another appearance of the Holy Qhost w at Jerusalem during a great fe:L-t. Strangers speaking seventeen different languages wnt present from many parts of the worl.L But in one house they heard what seemed like th coming of a cyclone or hurricane. It made the trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What is that?" And then a forked flame ot Are tipped each forehead, and wltal with the blast ot wind nnd the dropping II r a panic took place, until Peter explained thai It was neither cyclone nor conflagration, but the brilliance and anointing and baptism power of the Holy Ghost. That scene was partially repeated in I forest when Bev. John Easton was preach ing. There was the sound of a rushin , mighty wind, and the people looked to t.. sky to see if there were any signs cf a storm, but it was a clear sky, yet thi sound of the wind was so great that horses, frightened, broke loose from their fastuniug.3. and the whole assembly felt that the sound was su pernatural and pentecostal. Oh, what an infinite and almighty and glorious person age is the Holy Ghostl Hj brooded this planet into life, and now that through sin it has become a dead world He will brood it the second time into life. Perilous attempt would be a comparison between the three persons of the Godhead. They are equal, but there is some consideration which at taches itself to the third person of the Trin ity, the Holy Ghost.that does not attach itself to either God the Father or God the Son. We may grieve God the Father aud fcrleve God the Son and be fortriven, but we are directly told that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost, which shall never ba for given either in this world or in the world to eome. And it is wonderful that while on the street you hear the name of God and Jesus Christ used in profanity you never hear the words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak ot the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, as a hu man constructor, as a solace for the broicu hearted, as a preacher's re-enforcement. The Bible is a mass of contradictious, at. affirmation of impossibilities, unless thj Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. The Bible says of itself that the Scripture is not for "private interpretation," but "holy man of God spake as t bey were moved by the Holy Ghost" that is, not private interpretation, but Holy Ghost interpretation. Pile on your study table all the commentaries of the Bible Matthew Henry and Scott and Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes ami B'isli and Alexander, and all the arena) ilogies, and all the Bible dictionaries, and all the maps of Palestine, and all the international series of Sunday school lessons. And it that is all yon will not understand the deeper and grander mean ings of the Bible so well as that Christian mountaineer who, Sunday morning, aftei having shaken down the fodder for the cat tle, comes into his cabin, takes up his well worn Bible, and with a prayer that stirs the heavens asks for the Holy Ghost to unfold the book. No more unreasonable would I be if I should take up The Novoe Vremya of St Petersburg, all printed in Russian, and say, "There is no sense in this newspaper, for 1 cannot understand one line of all its col nmns," than for any man to take up the Bible, and without getting Holy Ghost il lumination as to its meaning say: "Thi: Book insults my common Bense. I cannot understand it. Away with the incongruity!" No one but the Holy Ghost, who inspired the Scriptures, can explain the Scrip.ures. Fully realize that, and you will be as enthu siastic a lover of the old book as my vener able friend who told me in Philadelphia last week that he was reading the Bible through the fifty-ninth time, and it became more at tractive and thrilling every time he wont through it. In the saddlebags that hnng across my horse's back as I rode from Jeru salem down to the Dead Sea and up to Da mascus I had all the books about Palestine that I could carry, but many a man on hi? knees, in the privacy of his room, has ha I flashed upon him more vivid appreciation ol the word of God than many a man who hai visited all the scenes of Christ's birth, an.i Paul's eloquence, and Peter's imprisonment, and Joshua's prowess, and Elijah's ascen sion. I do not depreciate any of the helps for Bible study, but I do say that they all together come infinitely short without a di. rect communication from the throne of God in response to prayerful solicitation. W may find many interesting things about the Bible without especial illumination, as bow many horses Solomon had in his stables, or how long was Noah's ark, or who was the only woman whose full name is given in the 8criptures,or which is the middle verse of the Bible, and all that will do you no more good than to be able to tell how many beanpole; there are in your neighbor s gar.l The learned Earl of Chatham oeard thi famous Mr. Cecil preach about the Hoi; Ghost and said to a friend on the way hoim from church: ' I could not undersiand it, and do you suppose anybody understood it' "Oh, yes," said his Christ Ua friend, "thor were uneducated women, and some littli children present who understood it." I war rant yon that the English soldier hai uadet supernal influence read the book, for aftei the battle of Inkermann was over he wai found diiad with his hand glued to the pag of the open Bible by his own blood, and tut Words adhered to his bands as they buried Mm, "1 am tho resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me. though dead, yet shall he live." Next consider ths Holy Ghost as a hnmai .econstructor. We must be made over again, Christ and Nicodemus talked about it Theologians call it regeneration. I do not care what yon call it, but we have to be re constructed by the Holy Ghost. We become new creature, bating what we ones loved and loving what we once hated. If sin were luxury, it mast become detestation. I) we preferred bod associations, we mast pre fer good associations. Ia most eases it man com Diet chjuure that .the world notices the difference and begins to aski "What has eome over that man? Whom hai he been with? What has so affected him What has ransacked his entire nature! What has turned him square about?" Take two pictures of Paul one on the road te Damascus to kill the disciples of Chrit, the other on the road to Ostia to die for Christ Come nearer home and look at the man whe found his chief delight in a low olass of olub rooms, hiccoughing around a card table and then stumbling down the front steps aftei midnight and staggering homeward, and thai same man, one week afterward, with hit family on the way to a prayer meetins What has done it? It mast be something tremendous. It must be God. It must bi the Holy Ghost. Notice the Holy Ghost as the solacer o. broken hearts. Christ calls Him the Comforter. Nothing does the world so much wont as comfort. -The most people have been abased, misrepresented, cheated, lied about, swindled, bereft. What is needed ii baimm for the wounds, lantern for dark roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, ntt from the marble slab oi tombstones. XJie to most has been a semtfallure. They have not got what they wanted. They have nol reached that which they started for. Friends betray. Change of business stand loses old custom and does not bring enough custom to make up for the loss. Health beoomee precarious when one most needs strong muscle anil steady nerve and clear brain. Out of this audience of thousands and thou sands, if I should ask all those who have been unhurt in the struggle ol life to stand up, or all standing to hold up their right hands, not one would move. Oh, how much we need the Holy Ghost as comforter! He recites the sweet gospel promises to the hardly bestead. He assures of mercy mingled with the severities. He consoles with thoughts ot coming release. He.teils cf u heaven where tear is never wept ana burden Is never carried and Injustice u never suffered. Comfort for all the yount people who are maltreattd at home, or re ceive insufficient income, or are robbed ol their schooling, or kept back from position! they earned by the putting forward of othert less worthy. Comfort for all these men and women midway in the path of life, worn oul with what they have already gone through and with no "brightening future. Comfort for these aged ones amid many lnllrmitiei anl who feel themselves to be in the way ix the home or business which themselves e 'ablished with their own grit. The Holy Ghost comfort, I think, general iy comes in the shape of a soliloquy. Yot. II nd yourself saying to yourself: "Well, 1 ought not to go on this way about mj mother's death. She had suffered enough. She had borne other people's burdens long enough. I am glad that father and mot hei are together in heaven, and they will be waiting" to greet us, and it will be only a lit tle while anyhow, and God makes no mis takes." Or you soliloquize, saying: "It is hard to lose my property. I am sure I worked hard enough for it. But God will take care of iu,.aiJ, as to the children, the money might have, spoiled them, ' and we And that those whoyfcavo to struggle fot themselves generally -uraTout best, and it will all be well if this upsettingof our world ly resources leads us to lay np treasures io heaven." Or you soliloquize, sayings "It was hard to give np thai boy when the Lord took him. I ex pected great things of him, and, oh, how ws miss him out of the house, and there are so many things I come across that make one think of him, and he was such a splendid fellow! But then what an escape he has made from the temptations and sorrows which come to ill who grow up, and it is a grand thing to have him safe from all possible harm, and there are all those Bible promises tor parents who have lost children, and we shall feel drawing heavenward that we could not have otherwise experienced." And after you have laid that you get that relief which comes from on outburst of tears. I do not say to you, as some say, do not cry. God pity peo ple in trouble who have the parched eyeball and the dry eye lid and cannot shed a tear. That makes maniacs. To God's people tears are the dews of the night dashed with sun rise. I am so glad you can weep, li it you think these things you say to yourself are only soliloquies. No, no; they are the Com forter. who is the Holy Ghost. Notice also the Holy Ghost as the preach er's reinforcement. You and I have known fireaehers encyclopedic in knowledge, brill ant as an iceberg when the sun smites it. and with Chesterfleldian address and rhetorical hand uplifted with diamond big enough to dazzle an assembly and so sur charged with vocabulary that when they left this life it might be said of each 'of them ai De Quincey said of another that in the act o! dying he committed a robbery, absconding with a valuable polyglot dictionary, yet no awakening or converting or sanctifying r suit, while some plain man, with humbles I phraseology, has seen audiences whelmed with religious influence. It was the Hol Ghost. What a useful thing it would be i I every minister would give tho history of. hU sermons! Years ago at an outdoor meeting in the State of New York I preached to many thousamls. There had been much prayer on the grounds for a great outpouring ot the Holy Ghost at that service, and the awakening power exceeded anything I ever witnessed since I began to preach, with per haps the exception of two or three occasions. Clergymen and Christian workers by the score and hundreds expressed themsolves as having been blessed during the service. That afternoon I took the train for an out door meeting in the State of Ohio, where I was to preach on the night of the next day. As the sermon had proved so useful the day before ami the theme was fresh in my min.l, t resolved to reproduce it, and did reproduce it as far as I could, but the result was nothing at all. Never had I seemed to have any thing to do with a flatter failure. What was the difference between the two serv ices? Some will say, "You were tired with a long journey." No, I was not tired at all. Some will say, "The temporal circumstances In the first case were more favorable than in the last." No, they were more favorable in the last. The difference was in the power ot the Holy Ghost mightily present at the first service, not seemingly present at all at the second. I call upon the ministers of Ameri ca to give the history ot sermons, for I be lieve it will illustrate as nothing else can tha truth of that Scripture. "Not by might nor by jower, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." Oa the Sabbath of the dedication of one of ur ohurehes iu Brooklyn, at the morning service, 323 souls stood np to profess Christ. They wore the converts in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where we had been wor sniping. The reception of so many mem bers and many of them baptized by immer sion had made it an arduous service, which continued from half past ten in the morning until half past two in the afternoon. Freix that service we went home exhausted, be cause there is nothing so exhausting as deep emotion. A messenger was sent out to obtain a preacher for that night, but the search was unsuccessful, as all the ministers were engaged for some, othei place. With no preparation at all foi the evening service, except the looking fx Cruden's Concordance for a text and feeling almost too weary to stand np, I began the service, saying audibly while the opening song was being sung, although because ol the Bulging no one but God heard it: "Oh Lord, Thou knowest my insafuciency foi this service! Come down in gracious powei upon this people." The place was shakex with the divine presence. As far as wecoulc find out. over 400 persons were converted that night. Hear it, all young men entering the ministrv; hear it, all Christian woresa U was the Holy Ghost. rn the Second Reformed Church, of Somer vilie, N. J., in my beyhood .days, Mr. Os borne, the evangelist, came to hold a special service. I see him now as he stood in tho pulpit. Before he announced his text and before he hail uttered a word of his sermon strong men wept aloud, and it was like the lay of judgment. It was the Holy Ghost. In 1857 the electric telegraph bore Strang messages. One of them read, "My dear pa rents will rejoice to hear that have found peace with God. Another read, "Dear mother, the work continues, and I, too, have been converted." Another read, "At last faith and peace." In Vermont a religious meeting was singing; the hymn, "Waiting and ! w atoning ior jne. i ne song rouea out on the night air, and a man halted and said, "I wonder if there will be any one waiting and watching for me?" It started him heaven ward. What was it? The Holy Ghost. In that 1857 Jaynes's Hall, Philadelphia, and ' r uiton street prayer meeting, iew lore, wi sgraphed each other the number of souls saved and the rising of the devotional tides. Noonday prayer meetings were held in ill the cities. Bhips came into harbor, captain and all the sailors saved on that voyage. Polios and Are departments met ia their rooms for divine worshio. AtAlban the Legislature ot the State of New York as sembled in the rooms of the Court of Appeals for religious services. Congressional union prayer meeting was opened at Washington. From whence came the power? From the Holy Ghost. That power shook New York. That power shook America. That power shook the Atlantic Ocean. That power shook the earth. That power could take this en are audience into the peace of the gospel quicker thaa you could 1 1 ft your eyes heaven ward. Come, Holy Ghost! Come, Holy ?hostf He has come! He Is here! I feel Sim in my heart. There are thousands who 'eel Him in their hearts, convicting some, laving some, sanctifying some. The difference in evangelical usefulness h .ot so much a difference in brain, in schol arship or elocutionary gifts as in Holy Ghost power. You will not have much sur prise at the extraordinary career of Charles G. Finney as a soul winner. If yoa know that oon after his conversion he had this experi ence of the Paraclete. He says: "As I turned and was about to take a seat iy the fire I received a baptism of the Holy Shost. Without any expectation of it, with out ever having the thought in my mind that there was any such thing for me, with out any recollection that I had ever heanl the thing mentioned by any person in the world, the Holy Ghost descended cpon me in t manner that seemed to go through me, ody and soul. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me like im mense wings. No words ean express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love. These waves came over me and over me and over me, one after the other nntil, I recall 1 cried out, I shall die if these waves continue to pass over me.' I said, 'Lord, I oannot bear my more." Now, my hearers, let COO of as, whethei jlerical or lay workers, get such a divine visitation as that, and we could take this world tor God before the clock of the next century strikes 1. Bow many marked Instances of Holy Ghost power? W fieri a oiacic iruuipbTer vOS His place in Whitefleld'3 audience proposing to blow the trumpet at a certain point in the service and put everything into derision, somehow hs could not get thetrampet to his lips, and at the close of the meeting he lought out the preacher and asked for his prayers. It was the Holy Ghost. What was .he matter with Hediey Vicars, the memora ole soldier, when he sat with his Bible before him in a tent, and his deriding comrades came in and jeered, saying, "Turned Metho dist, eh?" And another said: "Yoa hypo crite! Bad as you were I never thought you would eome to this, old fellow." And then he became the soldier evangelist, and when a soldier in another regiment hundreds of miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxie ties to Hediey Vicars, saying, "What shall I lot" Vicars telegraphed as thrilling a mes sage as ever went over the wires, ''Believe on me ixrd Jesus Christ and thou Shalt be laved." What power was being felt? It was the loly Ghost. And what more appropriate? For the Holy Ghost is a "tongae of are," nd the electricity that flies along the wires Is a tongue of fire. And that reminds me of what I might do now. From the place where stand on this platform there are invisible wires of lines or influenoestretahing to every Heart tn all the seats on the main Boor and up Into the boxes and galleries, and there ore ither innumerable wires or lines ot influence reaching out from this place into the vast beyond and across continents and under the seas, for in my recant journey around the world I did not find a oountry where 1 had not been preaching this gospel for many rears through the printing press. So a tetooraah. warator site or stands at a given point and sends messages tn all directions, snd yoa only hear the click, cliok, click of die eleotrio apparatus, but the telegrams go an their errand. God help me now to touch ihe right key and send the right messags slong the right wires to the right places. Who shall we first call up? To whom shall I lend the message? I guess I will send the 1st to all the tired, wherever they are, for there are so many tired souls. Hera go s iheOhristly message. "Come unto Me. ail yj vho are weary, and I will give you rest." ONLY TWO FEET TALL, Jeatb or s Dwarf Who Lived Twentv-two Years and Never Walked or Talked. Charles E. Mintram, a dwarf, whose singu lar existence has created widespread atten tion, die. I a few days ago at the home of his father, E. Mintram, at Pine Bush. Orange County, N. Y., of pneumonia. He was in bis twen'.y-seoond year and was only twenty four inches talL He was born in Worten dyke, X. J., and was one of nine children. The lirst year he was as bright and thrivL.g 33 the others, and increased a little in weight and stature, out he never walked or talked, and grew to manhood with the same baby face that he had twenty years ago and the same helpless body. The boy had been ex amined by many physicians during his life, but none of them could give any satisfactory axplauation of the case. As a child he was is bright mentally as any other child until development ceased, and he became an ordi nary baby all the rest of his life. He was passionately fond of musio and understood til taat was said to him, and was healthy un it his lost sickness. MONSTER CRAPE FRUIT FARM. fa Ie One of the Largest Fruit Orchard in California. One of the largest enterprises in the plant ng of fruit orchards now in progress in Call iornia has just been beirun within three miles )f Pomona by Henry M. Loud, a millionaire f Detroit, Mich., who owns 600 acres of One !ruit land in the valley. Sir. Loud is the tlrst nan to undertake the production of grape Suit on a large scale on this coast. He has sontracted for 3000 trees of this variety of fruit, all that can be had in that part of the State for immediate planting, put the succesc 3f the experiment will be watched with in terest by fruit growers and followers in all parts of the country. Grape fruit has eome to be la demand at eood prices in the Eastern markets, and has been one of Florida'3 most prolltable crops, but the recent oold weather along the Atlan tic coast killed every grape fruit tree in thai State. Japan's National Exhibition. The fourth Industrial Exhibition of Japat. rill be held this year at Kioto. It opened on April 1 and will continue until July HI. This is the Japanese National exhibition, also being held in commemoration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding ot Kioto is the old capital of Japan. Kioto is now known as the Western capital, though in reality no longer a seat of government, and is the most fascinating city of the empire. Temples abound in and about Kioto and it is the home of th net nrmiuctso Jaai see loom. News in Brief. A new telegraph invention will convey 2000 words a mmute over the wires. j The skin is rough because by that means it is better adapted to receive sensations. i Many pairs of sandals have been recovered at Pompeii. The soles are fxstencd with nails. Dr. Joule's studies in mechanical equivalents of heat brought forth the co pound engine. There are said to have been five suicides in five years in Divinity Hall, Cambridge, England. In nearly all arid land regions artesian wells can be obtained at a depth of from 303 to 600 feet Half a teaspoonfnl of sugar scat tered over a dying fire is better that kerosene and has no element of dan ger. Xo receptacle has ever been made atrnnc nnmrh tn resist tha bnrarjnsr power of freezing water; 20-pound shells nave been rent asunder as though made of pottery. LET US ALL LAUGH. JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VARIOUS HUMORISTS. Pleasant Incidents Occurring" the WoriC Over Savings tha Are Cheerful tm the Old or Young Funny Selections that Everybody Will Enjoy Reading. From a Westerner. "What is that noise?" asked the stranger, who had gotten np early so as to see all the sights. "That's the boom of the sunrise gun." "You don't say bo! Well, that may do very well for booming the sunrise, but unless you put In a few cornets and a trombone It wouldn't go six Inches toward booming Western real estate. Washington Star. A Bad Beginning;. Miss Jingle Back so soon T I thought yon were to take a lesson In memory training. Mr. Jangle I did Intend to, but thi professor bad forgotten the appoint ment A Faet mm Possible. Trlver How fast can your horse go i Driver Well, you see my horse Is like one of these blooming dudea that Is spending his father's money. He only goes as fast as be can. Philadelphia Inquirer. Indicated. Mrs. Tcots Where have yon beenl Toots To the (hie), my dear, club. Mrs. Toots I might have known that from your club-footed gait New York World. Doing Splendidly. "How la young Blaggles dolug In business?" asked her father. Splendidly," was the confident re ply. "He snys that he considers bln elf very lucky at the store." "Have they raised his salary?" "N-no. But they threatened to dis charge him and didn't do It." Wasl 'ngton Star. A Question of Time. Dlmpleton I was playing poker with my father-in-law last night and I won til he had. Dashaway Was he mad? Dimpleton Oh, no. He said I would have gotten It any way. Exchange. Their Own Medicine. Barblow I see that the hotel pro prietors of the city have given up their Idea of having a reunion and banquet Beeblay Why? Barblow Not one of the hotels could get np a banquet to suit them. South Boston News. Very likely. Mrs. Houser Have you any idea what the papers mean when they say a man is dabbling In stocks? Houser Er that he has gone Into Vool, most likely. Buffalo Courier. He Gracefully Resinned. I Fanner If you want work I'll give, you a Job. I Wlggley Waggles Well. I'd like to j take advantage o' yer offer, boss, but I ' see a man comln' up the road that ; looks as If he had a family to support, an' as I'm a bachelor I will resign In his favor. Tid-Bits. Telly Bad Lnckee. i Chinese General Are there plenty ot guns and ammunition for to-morrow's battle? Aid Tesee; but dlshpan crack ee so not makes muck noise, j General My, my I Then we'd better ' retreat New York Weekly. Wonld Feel Homelike. "And now." said the FIJI chief to the Boston missionary, "have you anything to request before we proceed with the ceremony?" "Only this," replied the missionary, "please put a few beans In the pot with ma." London Talk. All Due to the Diet. Dr. William (of Normal) What have you been feeding that kid on, madam? Mrs. Rockedweller Nothing but tin cans. j Dr. William I thought so. He baa ' cancer of the stomach. Splendid. Wiggles I know Just what to take for sea-sickness. Waggles (eagerly) Do yout What la It? . Wiggles An ocean steamer. Somer rille Journal. Wanted to Be Certain. Roberts (extending a cigar) There If A cigar that I can recommend. , George Thanks; but I should prefel one that y on wonld care to smok yomf Ml& Boston Transcript. ' TWO QUEER OLD HERMITS. ihcj Are Brothers and They Live la Illinol. Anderson County, Illinois, enjoys thv, proud distinction of being the home ol two of the queerest old hermits liv ing. They are William and Georga Coombs, brothers, aged respectively 63 and 84 years. They live In a rudd hut, which was built by their father about seventy-five years ago. Until three years ago the roof of clapboards was secured simply by long poles laid across and tied. Now the boards are nailed on. Tho window .it the side of the door was formerly filled with glass, but of late years it has been closed with a tightly nniled piece of sheet Iron. When this hut was built Indians and all sorts of wild animal I roamed the then limitless forest, and EOME OF TOE HERMITS COOMBS. the lonely pioneer wns frequently roused from his fitful slumbers by tho fierce war-whoop of the savage or tho wild shriek of the deadly panther. Now the vast forests are but a memory and well-tilled farms occupy the spot that once were the Indians' hunting grounds. William and George Coombs were, born in Kentucky and came to Clark Cvjnty when the latter was a small boy. Itumor has It that In ):'t arly manhood William was Jilted by :i cruel maiden, and he then and there ubiured the sex forever. Ills faithful brother. George, whom he to this day terms "the baby," becamo his companion, and the two have ever since lived their life alone, solitary In the midst of teeming civilization. Their hut Is In the center of a 400 lcre tract of land, which they own and rent out on shares. They will never sell their grain unless they set the price they think they should have or they have to have money to pay their taxes. They never keep any money by them. The produce they raise on tho five-acre tract surrounding the hut aud the eggs from their poultry supply them with tho necessaries of life, all of which they purchase of a huckster, never going to any town unless per emptorily summoned. The only visit they have ever paid Marshall In many years was when they were summoned on a trial a few years a so. The old men yet preservo all their faculties. Sight and hearing are good. In their earlier days both were mighty hunters, and thousands of wild turkeys as well as numbers of deer and bear fell to their rifles. Both still pride themselves on their marksmanship, old as they are, and not without reason, for their aim ia still deadly. LUca Globe. A Funeral Dance. On one occasion, near nice, Dakota, I witnessed an Indian funeral dance. The brave, a man of influence in tho tribe, and who carried on his left hand the scar of a fearful wouud, said tn have been received at Fort Phil Kear-t ney, was laid out stiff and stark In' the tepee in which he died. Tlie women. Just as Christian women do, washed thai corpse, and then dressed lilm Iu all hl ornaments. A red blanket was wrnpt ped about him, nnd a bow and quiverf ul of arrows were added to the equipment of death. Then the body was carried on his favorite pony, led by a woman, to the place of rest. On four poles witli, crotches, freshly driven into the ground, x platform of sticks was laid at ai height of about ten foot. On this phit-l form the body reposed, as If the war rior was asleep In his blanket, with his bow and quiver beside him. Then the living braves circled about the scaN told with a slow, sorrowful motion,1 uttering a song or plaint. They ma do three or four rounds; then, silently mounting their ponies, they returned to camp, leaving their dead comrade to the company of the birds of heaven. In. the dry air of Dakota the body becomes rapidly desiccated, and one can be In the neighborhood of scores of theso burial scaffolds wlthoufnotlclng any thing offensive. It Is also a singular fact that the carrion birds seldom loolt for food among tho bodies thus expos ed. The motive for disposing of re mains In this way probably Is to save; them from the wolves, which would tcratch up a grave. Bodies arc some times high up In the branches of trees, and It used to be no unusual thing in the river bottoms of the Missouri ta come across a departed warrior tbui disposed of. Reassuring. Nervous people who are haunted by the fear of appendicitis every time they eat grapes or berries, trouble them, selves unnecessarily, according to a prominent physician. The general Im pression that this singular ailment iJ caused by the presence of a seed or stone In the appendix Is erroneous. A small bit of digested matter gets into the little sac. If the neck if It is open far enough to receive It It may re main there for years and cause no trou ble, and then again It may bring on appendicitis almost Immediately. Whera the patient Is In good health, in four cases out of five the operation for re moving the appendix is successful. Many people who have heard about ap pendicitis have given up the luxury of small fruit In fear of It, and some of the extremely sensitive ones have even been constantly worried lest some seed that they had swallowed in the past might give themthis disease which Is amosg the rarest diseases any way. It Is time to explode the seed story; II has caused too much discomfort al ready. Also Familiar. "Do yon remember those lines ot Longfellow's about the village smithy V tsked the quotatlous boarder. "Smithy? Smithy?" responded th Cheerful Idiot, with a puzzled tlr as sumed for the occasion. "Can't saj that I do. Are you sure It Is not the brownie yon have reference to?" Cla. cinnaU Tribune, .4 i 'U .