Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, April 24, 1895, Image 1
'' -- .'Kir.v'. v. ii.- liiiii a: or iiiiai B. F. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. &dltsr md yitapr VOL. XL1X MIFFUNTOWK. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APKIL 24. 1895. Na 19. CHAPTER I. A slowing September morning n pouring its gulden light through the opei window of a morning room or study, ii the eastern wing of a picturesque oil house -standing half way up a hillside ii one of the Midland shires. A backgrouiit of beech trees framed in its mellow rvi brick wiills, and before it lay a wide, uu dulating plain, many colored, and bound d by distant dim blue hills. A plcasauter room could scarce l found, though the furniture was old-fash ioned, the curtains and carpet faded. Th bay window opeued ou a terrace, below which were pleasure grounds, and ill iO recess stood a table, spread with daint china and delicate silver the remains o: the breakfast and a vase of hot-housi flowers, from a conservatory into whii-r a glass door admitted. The side occupant was a gentleman, slight, elegant looking man of thirty o) upward, with silky, wavy dark hair and small mustache, and an unmistakable ai' of distinction. A pile of letters lay beside him, whij he had pushed away his plate to niaki room for a book, which he was studyinj apparently with deep interest. 1'reseutly he raised his eyes "eyes 01 most unholy blue" and looked upon thi goodly landscape which lay before him Hut his vision was evidently directed ti some far distant object, and after a mo merit's thought, ho took up a pencil an began to scribble calculations on the bac) of a letter. "Yes," he murmured, "if it can be car .-ied out, I shall be a free man." Thei opening the letter on which he had beet scrawling, he turned over a page or tv covered with small, firm writing, and rea slowly: "I shall do nothing about a second tnik tec until after your festivities," ran the paragraph he had selected. '"Resides, every one is away at this season. XeeJ I say I have perfect confidence in you?" He folded it up and put it under ai elastic band, which held some other let ters together, and tearing the envelop! Into minute fragments, threw them iutii the waste-paper basket beside him. As he did so, a soft indistinct soun from an adjoining room the door intc which stwd open caught his ear. lit paused and listened. The faint rustling drew nearer, ami a pleasant voice began to sing in n low tone, us if the singel thought in song. The listener seemed t recojinize the music or the voice. Hit face brightened; he half rose from hii seat, but resumed it, as if ho wished to hear mure. The next moment a lady walked through the doorway and stopped opposite to him. A young lady, tail and slipht, thougl found and graceful; she was simply dress ed in a maize-colored priut and a pretty miisiiu and lace npron tied with brown ribbons, a sash of the sume marked het shapely waist, and tan gauntlets hid hit hands, one of which held a large garden hat adorned with a couple of pale-pink chrysanthemums. The face it had shaded was fair and fresh, and lighted by a cou ple of large dark-gray eyes eyes, lashes, eyebrows, all dark, compared to the light brown hair that curled ia a small fringe over her brow, and was gathered neatly back into a large knot. She gazed for an iusiant in frank amaze ment at the gentleman, who rose to greet her then n quick, bright smile curved her red-lipped, Lind!y mouth, and made a little Coquettish interrogative dimple ir one cheek, ns she cried: "Why, how when did you come, squire' Wo all fancied you were in Scotland." "Well, you see I am not," he returned, advancing toward her with an outstretch ed hand, in which she placed hers., "And what are you doing, I should like to know, Invading my premises iu this burglariou fashion?" "You know very well I always come to the library for any books I may want, am! 'by your leave,' too. You're such an ab sentee you ought not to be surprised if thieves did break through and steal." "No, I am not iu the least surprised,' with emphasis. "Well, I was, a little, when I found the library window open," resumed the young lady, "but I thought Mrs. Storer was having a thorough cleaning, so walked in, and, imagining she was in the room. I " "Unearthed the master! I shnll accept four coming ns a good omen." His hand some, though somewhat worn, face was aglow with pleasure as he spoke, but her eyes were attracted to the pile of letters and the open book, and she did not notice him. "I arrived quite unexpectedly last night, to the great disgust of my few faithful re tainers," he went on. "Do you know, I have been planning great things? things that will rejoice you, nia belle Leonore." "l'ray, don't give me my long name," (he exclaimed, with a pretty Impatient nod. "It always reminds me of that hor rid raven tapping at the chamber door What are your great things?" "Dorriugton and Isabel are coming to tiey with me, and the Harveys, Algy Bal four, Mrs. Kuthven and a Jot more, and I am going to give a big ball to the no bility, gentry, and even the cads, of thf surrounding country." "No, really?" with evident delight, "yon ire quite charming for thinking of such i thing." "I am glad your estimate of me coin cides with that of society in general." "How awfully conceited you are, squire, out I am glad Lady Dorrington is coming, and I shall be delighted to dance at youi ball. Now I must go. How late you are! The breakfast things still on the table?" and glancing at the book as she walked to the window, "What are your studies? Chemistry? Who are you go ing to poison? I did not think you werr scientific." "Nor am I; I am only a student of hii xnn nature. But don't you want a book! I-et us find one, and I will carry it horn for you." "You are too obliging. I want a vol Tim. or rope, i naa a dispute TEsnnyn. with Mr. AVInton about a passage in th Ilape of the Lock, aud I want to prove myself right." "Ah!" a long-drawn "ah." "Is he here. Well, find your book, and I will escort von back." He gathered up his papers, thrust them Into a bureau, which he locked, and rang or his valet. Ilia ricWK -t iirnal n tllO lift Ml 17. & large somber apartment pervaded with a I faint deliirhtful odor of ltnss A leatner, I and from one" of the well-Blled shelves selected a booi. Then putting on her hat, she passed through the glass door by which she had entered, and stood gazing at the wide landscape visible from the terrace. "AH this seems tame enough after con tinental scenery," said the squire,, joining her. "It has a great charm for me. There h a sense of life, and freedom, and cheerful ness in English landscape that you scarce ly ever find elsewhere." She descended the step, to the graveled path beneath as she spoke, her companion following, and coming up beside her. "You have preserved a large amount ol patriotism in spite of your long sojourn broad." "I hare; yet I love Germany, too. I wai ery happy there." "Were you ever unhappy?" he asked, with a slightly contemptuous uplifting of his brows. "Well, no, I do not think I ever was. 1 have been Tery, very sorry for the tronbla of my friends, but not on my own ac count." So talking, they walked across thi pleasure grounds, and through a gate which aduiitted them to a wide, park-like stretch of pasture, bordered at one side by a strip of woodland into which the path led. Soon the ground began to slope steeply down to a shallow valley, at the bottom of which ran a Bmall rapid river, chafing and murmuring anion big. black, wet stones, aud leaping gayly over an abrupt rocky barrier, some few hundred yards above, where they struck upon the stream. A narrow, ivy-grown bridge spanned the fall, turning toward which they came In sight of a low, irregular house, or rather cottage, on the opposite xide. "How thoroughly English this looks, said the squire. "It is Arcadian; but yon will be awfully bored after -awhile, and the sight of your abode reminds me I have not asked for Mrs. L'Estrange." "She is quite well, and will be very nleased to see you." "And I shnll be only too glad to trouble you with my presence; but not this morn ing. I have a pile of letters to answer, and an appalling amount of arrangements to make. In short, I ought not to have eonie so far afield with you." "You are a voluntary truant," she re timed, pausing on the bridge. "That I acknowledge. Now I have seen you to the edge of your own territory, I will say good-by. If I come and beg a cup of coffee about eight or nine this even 'ug, I suppose I shall not be barred out?" "If the door is locked we will let you in through the window." He bowed, and raising his soft felt hat with easy grace, stood looking after her as she walked away with a smooth, light step down the path which led toward the cottage. Clifford Marsden, the squire of Eves leigh, was one of the fortunate individuals sometimes described as having been "born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Ho hail succeeded his father while still a schoolboy; the savings of his minority enabled him to start clear of all incum brances when he came of age, aud the sixteen or seventeen years which had since elapsed had been diligently occupied -vy mm in creating tresli ones. He had lived with boundless extrava gancc and self-indulgence. He had dont everything, seen everything, exhausted everything possible for a gentleman whose character was still fair, whose popularity was undiminished. Bankers and city men knew that his lands were heavily mort gaged; but society, ns yet, only admired his magnificence, without doubting bis lolveucy. Evesleigh had seen little of its niastei of late years, but in his boyish days, and for some time after attciniug his major ity, Marsden hunted and shot in due sea ion at Evesleigh. His near neighbor and relative was Colonel L'Estrange of Brookdule, the cot tage just described. The beauty of the site had probably nduced tho builder of Evesleigh House to place that edifice on the verge of tho estate, for the stream above mentioned was its boundary on this side. The farm and residence of Brookdale had been pur chased by the squire's great-grandfather, who settled It on his only daughter. This lady had married a penniless soldier of good family. Colonel L'Estrange was her grandson. He had married in India, and soon after his return home, his delicate wife died somewhat suddenly, leaving him a baby girl of about five years old. The colonel, a grave, taciturn man, old for his years, and unsociable in habits, lived on in his humble home, finding consolation in sport, and looked up to the' young Squire ot Eveslelgh as a mighty hunter, an unerring shot. When Leonora, or Nora L'Estrange, who was a pet and plaything with her cousin, had reached her tenth yenr, het father suddenly discovered she was too old to be left entirely with her nnrse. Of a boarding school he v. ould not hear, and, in short, the only solution to the difficulty which found favor In his eyes, was Imme diate marriage with a pretty, pale, timid girl, the orphan daughter of a former friend, whom he found in a dependent po sition, as companion to a rich old maiden lady. In tho neighboring cathedral town of Oldbridge. The new Mrs.' L'Estrange was barely twelve years older than her step-daughter, and the Oldbridge gossips prophesied that the young lady would be too much for he; father's wife. But, by some mysterious influence of sympathy or mutual comprehension, they drew to each other. Indeed, the old nurse did not hesitate to say that her young lady was regularly bewitched, and, for ht-r part, was free to confess that it seemed horrid unnatural for a child to be so tak en up with her step-mother. However. Colonel L'Estrange bavin been ordered to some German bath for cure of rheumatism, brought on by stand ing knee-deep in the river, fishing, re moved his family, now increased by an other daughter, beyond the reach of Old bridge gossip, and, for reasons best known to himself, let Brookdale for several was already half forgotten when the local papers announced his death at Dresden. His widow continued to reside abroad till the term for which Brookdale had been let expired, and had only returned, with her own and her step-daughter, in the preceding spring. The ladies of Brookdale had finished their midday meal, which was luncheon to their neighbors and dinner to themselves, teaching a depressed looking Dachshund, Little Beatrice, Nora', half-sister, was uui-iurueu lura, iu - wrier maidopened jjoqr and Hid : "If you please, ma'am, Mr. Wintou ii In the drawing room." Mrs. L'Estrange rose from her seat at if to join him, but Nora cried: "We had better ask him in here. He has been shooting, 1 suppose, aud you may be sure he is hungry." "I will go and fetch him!" excluimec Boa. jumping up aud letting the biscuit with which ttha liflfl luien hriliitii. thn Tl.t.-lia full n f.A -- al.A ,-.t..,.l ' " " 1'" uway. She was a delicate little creature j ot seven or eignt, witu lug, dark eyes, north three gates; on the south three gatesi and fair hair, an idle, clever, willful mon- I n the west three gates." Revelation xxL, 13, key, w ith whom her mother strove in The Cashmere gate of D.dhi, where eon vain to be strict, and who imposed a verged a heroism that makes one's nervei good deal on her step-sister. tingle, the Lucknow gate, still dented an "Ilea is quite excited," said Miss L'Es I fparred with sepoy bombardment, the Mado) trangc, laughing, and before the mothei could reply the child returned, leading by the hand a tall, large-framed man of per haps six and thirty or more, tauncd by ex posure to the sun and wind a deeper red brown than was becoming, with thick, short sandy hair, and light, gray, stern eyes. He wore a shooting jacket and knickerbockers. "I feel I am an Intruder," he said, sbuk ing hands with Mrs. L'Estrange and tliet with Nora. "I did not intend to be so early. I heard yon were in town this morning, and calculated on clearing your luncheon hour, but the birds are very wild, or I -was less keen than usual, and ot over the ground quicker." "We will forgive you," returned Mrs L'Estrange, with a friendly smile, "and I dare say, if you have not already lunched, you begin to feel the need of something to nt." "Thanks, no, I had some sandwiches an hour ago." "Still, a biscuit and a glass of sherry, suggested rora, insinuatingly. "Are not to be despised," replied Win ton, drawing a chair to the table, while one fair hostess poured out his wiue and another brought the biscuit tin. "May I have some of the pretty brown feathers from those birds you left in the hnll, for my doll's hat?" asked Bea. "I dare say your mamma will give then, to you; I brought the birds for her. Were you in Oldbridge, too. Miss L'Estrange?" he continued, looking tip quickly, as she offered him the biscuits. "No, I have sjtent an idle, unprofitable morning, dreaming over the letters I was pretending to write." "Dreaming! I thought you were far toi practical to dream. What were you dream ing about?" "The coming ball; the glories of Mra Iiuthven and her jewels." "Who is going to give a ball?" in a sur prised tone. "Clifford Marsden." "Why, he is, God knows where T" "lie is at Evesleigh. Come into the drawing room, and I will tell you all about it." Here Miss Bea was carried off by her German governess, not without loud re monstrances and reproaches addressed to Winton, who was always on the side of authority. (To be continued.) Soldiers Poor Cooks. In those Crimean days our soldiers had no knowledge of rooking, being in this respect far behind the French and Turks. But even had our men been perfect cooks, they would have had but Jttlo opportunity of exercising their skill. Camp kettles were Issued at Kal imita Bay when the troops landed. In the proportion of one to five men. Now, the kettle would cook fresh but not salt moat for five men, as more water is required to extract the brine from ialt meat than the kettle could bold, and, moreover, this number, five, repre sented nothing then, nor does lc now. in our regimental systems. Must of the kettles hail been dropper, at the Alma, or iu the subsequent nim-cli, and the soldiers were reduced for all cooking purposes to the mess tiu which each man carried on his back. These were inadequate. The lid, per haps, was most prized, for when the body is wet and cold there is a craving for a hot drink, and it took less time and fuel to roast the green coffee lur ries In the lid than to boll the salt meat in the body of the tin. It had not oc curred to any one in tho department then responsible for our commissariat that to make a mug of coffee out of green berries, ronsting and grinding apparatus was essential, and till Jan nary, when some roasted coffee was landed, our men might be dally seen pounding, with stones or round shot, the berries in a fragment of exploded shell. Sir Evelyn Wood, In the Fort tilghtly Review. Brains Versus Capital. There still lives in Philadelphia, at the age of 70 years, Frank O. Des chnmps, the Inventor of artificial legs. It was over fifty years ago when Mr. Deschamps, then an apprentice, was asked by his master to see what he could do for a foppish Frenchman who had lost a leg. At that time only wooden pegs were known, and the Frenchman was disatisfled with this by no means elegant substitute. In two days young Deschamps had finish ed a complete model of an artificial leg, with every movement of the natural limb duplicated. His master had it patented, and it yields him a fortune. Deschamps was paid SO cents for his nventlon. Better one bite at forty of Truth's bitter rind than the hot wine tliat gushed from- the vintage at twenty. Lowell. There is not a wide a margin between saving a mean thinj and doiag a mean thing, I ook out for retributive injus tice. ModestyJ n proportioned lo the occasions of life, and strongest io youth when passions is s-j to. Praise undeserved is satire in dis guise. There are al ways some weak minded people to applaud any man who knows bow to boast. The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like liviug cbildreo. It is rarely necessary lo say about othera anythiLg you could not say to them. "A word to tho wise is sufficient." A word to the fool is more than he wants. Individuals may form committies. bat it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Passion in its first violence, controls interest, as the eddy for awhile runs against the stream. Something more than finite power is needed to prepare mankind for an infinite condition. A man will follow a word with a blow, while a woman will follow a blow with a great many words. A srreat man may stand oa the top of the ladder and be in hole at the same time. tiKv. mi taJjMage. ma OBOORLTN OIVfNB' . DAY SKUMQX hirs Sablect: "The Uates of Heaven." Tbxt: "On the east three gates; on the. line gate with Its emblazonry in bronze, the hundred gates of Thebes, tho wonder ol centuries, all go out of sight before th gates of my text. Our subject sneaks of a preat motrooollv the existence of which many have doubte.1. I Mantling on the wharf and looking off upon in; up the bay, the Hats of foreign nation" Streaming from the topgallants, you immedl! atuly make up your mind that those vessel! eonie from foreign ports, and you say: "That is from Hamburg, and that is from Nan reilies, and that is from Southampton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition Is accurate. But from the city of which X aid now speaking no weather-beaten merchant, men or frigates with searred bulkhead hav ever come. There has been a vast emicral tion into that city, but no emigration from it, so far as our natural vision ean descry. "There is no such city," says the unde"vou astronomer. "I have stood "in high towers with a mighty telescope and have swc.pt the heavens, and I have seen spots on the sua and caverns in the moon, but no towers have ever risen on ray vision, no pala"-"-, no tem ples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city." liven very good peo ple tell me that henvoa i not a material or ganism, but a grand spiritual fait, and that the Biblo descriptions of it are in all cases to betaken figuratively. I bring ia replv to this what Christ said, and He ought to luiow, "I go to prepare" not a theory, not a prin ciple, not a sentiment, but "I go to prepares place for yon." The resurrected body im plies this. If my foot Is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something totread on. If my hand is to bo reconstructed, it must havo something to handle. If my eye, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled, 1 must have something to gaze on. Your adverse tliio.y seems to imply that the resurrect I body is to be hnng on nothing, or to walk in air, oi to float amid the intangibles. You may say If there be material organisms then a soul is heavea will bra cramped and hindered in its enjoyments, but I answer, Did not Adam and Eve havo plenty of room In the Garden of E len? Although only a few miles would havo described the circumference of- thai pla'ie, they hi 1 ample room. And do you not suppose that God, in the immensities, can build a d ice large enough to give th whole race room, evea though thero be ma Serial onfanisms?- H ?rseh"l looked into the heavens. As h Swiss guida puts his Alpino stock between the glaciers and crosses over fro n crag to crag, so Hersehel planted his telescope be tween the worlds and glided from startostat nntil he could announce to us that we liv in a part ot tbo universe but sparsely strewo with worlds, and he peers out Into immen sity until he finds a region no larger than oui Bolnr system in which there are 50,000 world! moving. Ami Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning there must be some where a.worl-1 where there i3 no darkness, but everlasting annshlne, so that I do noi know but that it is simply because we have no telescope powerful enough that we can not see Into the land where there is no tlarkness at all and catch a glimpse ol tho burnished pinnacle. As a conquer ing army marching onto take a city comes at nightfall to the erest of a mountain from which, in the midst of the lnndscape, they pee tho eastles they are to capture end rein la their war chargers and halt to take a good look before they pitch their tents fct the night, so now, coming as we do on thi! mountain top of prospect, I command this regiment of God to rein in their thought! and hait, and before they pitch their tent! for the night take one good, long look at th gates of the great city. "Oa the east thre gates; ou the north three gatej; on th south three gates, and on the west thre gates." In the first place, I want to examine tht architecture of those pates. Proprietors ol large estates are very a;..t to have an orna mental gateway. Sometimes they spring as arch of masonary, the posts of the gat flanked with lions in statuary, the bronzt gate a representation or Intertwining foliage, bird haunted, nntil the band of architecture genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into stone. Gates of wood aud Iron and etono guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems have inscribed upon their gatetrayi lnriptioiis from tho Korin of the Moham medan. There havo beeu a great manv fine gateways, but Christ sets His hanj to tho work and for tho nppei oity swung a gate siuii as nc eye ever gaz- l on, untouched of inspiration. With tho nail of Jlis own cross He cut into in wonderful traceries stories of j.a-t suffering and of gladness to come. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but from tot to base and from side to side it is all of penrk Not one piece picked up fro-n Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian gulf, and another from the island of Margarette, but one solid pearl picked up from the beatm o' everlasting light by heavenly hands ami hoisted end swung amid the shouting ol angels. Tim glories of alabaster vase and f orphyry pillar fade out before this gateway, t puts out the spark of feldspar and dia mond. You know how one little preeloui stone on your linger will flash under the gas light. ll.it, oh! the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck througt and dripping witn the light of eternal noon day. Julius Cassar paid 125,030 crowm for on pearl. Too Government of Portugal boasted of having a earl larger than a pear. Cleopatra and Philip IL hz!e i the world's vision with precious stones, ltut gather all these together and lift them aud a id to then; all the wealth of the pearl fisheries and set them in the panel of one door, and it doe not equal this magnificent gateway. An almighty hand hewed this, swung this, polished this. Against this gateway, on tht one side, clash all the splendors of earthly beauty. Against this gate on the othd side beat the surges of eternal glory. Oh, tli gate, the gate! It strikes an in finite ciiarm through every one that pass"! it. One step this side of the gate and we are paupers. One step the other side of the gnt and we are kins. The piltrrim of earth going through sees in the one hu -re pearl all his earthly tears In crystal. On, gate ot light, gate of pearl, gate of heaven, for oui weary souls at last swing open! When shall these eyes thv heaven built walli And iearly gates behold; thy bulvarks with salvation strong And streets of shining gold? Oh, heaven is not a dull pl.To! HeavoL Is not a coutracted place. 11 -aven is not a stupid place, "I saw tii3 twelve gates, and they were twelve pearls." Ia the second place I want you to count he number of those gates. I-nperial parks and lordly manors are apt to have one expen sive gateway, and the others are ordinary, but look around at thesocntrumes to heaver, and count them. Ono,two,three.fou-,five,i.T, seven, eiicbt, nine, ten. eleveu. twelve. Heat it, all the earth and all tue heavens! Twelvr gates! I admit this is ratherhard on sharp sectari anisms'. If a Presbyterian is bigoted, 1 brings his Westminster assembly catechism, and he makes a gateway out of that, and ht says to the world, "You go through there oi stay out." If a member of the itefonned Church is bigoted, ho makes a gate out ol tho Heidelberg catechism, and hesavs, "You go through thero or stay out." If "a Metho dist is bigoted, he plants two posts, and h says. "Sow, you crowd in between those twt posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episeopa Man may gay: " Here Li a liturgy out of whict I mean to make a gate Qo through it or itay out," or a Baptist my MH-)re is water gate. You ro through that, or yoa mast stayont," and so in all our churcha snd in all our denominations there are meg who make one gate for themselves and then demand that the whole world go through it I abhor this contrariness in religioui views. O, small soulod man, whea did God give yon the contract for making gates? 1 tell you plainly I will not go iu that gate. 1 will go in at any one of the twelve gates 1 shoose. Here Is a man who says, "I ean more easily and more closely approaoh God throng!) iE&yar book." I say Hi brottw, then use tne prayer book." Hera is a man who says, "I believe there is only one mod of baptism, and that is lmmerston." Then 1 ay, "Let me plunge you." Anyhow. I say, sway with the gate of rough panel and rottes posts and rusted latch, when there art twelve gates and they are twelve pearls. The fact Is that a great many of thi shurches in this day are being doctrined to to death. They have been trying to find out all about Ood's deorees, and they want to know who are elected to be saved and whe are reprobated to fee damned, and they art keeping on discussing that . subject when there are millions of souls who need to hav the truth put straight at them. They sil counting the number of teeth in the Jawbon with which Samson slew the Philistines, fbey sit on the beach and see s vessel going to pieces In the oiling, and instead of getting into a boat and f lulling away for the wreck, they sit discuss ng the different styles of oarlocks. God in. tended us to know some things anil lntcnde ns not to know others. I have heard sooro of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but same away more perplexed than when I went. The only result of such discussion It a great fog. Here are two truths which arfl to oompitr the world: Man, a sinner; Christ, k Saviour. Any man who adopts those two theories in his religious belief shall have nij right hand in warm grip of Christian brother tood. A man comes down to a river in time o; freshet. He wants to get across. He hns to swim. What does he do? The first thing is to put oST his heavy npparol and drop every, thiug he has in his hands. He must go empty handed if he Is going to the othel bank. And I tell you when we have oomt down to tho river of death and find it swift and ragin-r we will hare to put off all our sectarianism and lay down all our oumbroul creed and empty handed put out for the othel fthoni. "Wtm:" say you. "would you resolve all the Christian church lntc one kind of church? Would you mak ill Christendom worship in the sa-n way, by the same forms?" OU, no. Tou mightas well decide that alt peo pie shall eat the same kind of food without reference to appotite, or wear tho same kind of apparel without reference to the shape ol their body. Your ancestry, your tempera ment, your surroundings will decide whethei you go to this or that church and adopt this ai'tliat church polity. One church will best get one man to heaven and another church another man. I do not care which one oi the gates yioi go through if you only go through one of the twelve gates that J ejiu lifted. Well, now I see an the redeemed of eartt coming up toward heaven. Do you thini they will all got in? l'es. Gate the first, thi Moravians come up: th-y believe ! in tht Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate thi second, the Quakers come up; they havi received the inward light; they have trusted ia the Lord; they pass through. Gate thi third, the Lutherans come up; they had thi same grace that made Luther what he wrv, and they pass through. Gate the fourth, thi Baptists pass through. Gate the fifth, tht Free Will J aptists pass throuirh. Gate thi sixth, the lieformed Church passes througa Gate the seventh, the Cougregationalist; pass tnrougn. Gate tne eigntn. the Uormat Heformed Church passes through. Gatl the ninth, the Methodists pass through. Gate the tenth, the 8atibatarians past through. Gate the eleventh, the Church ol the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But ther are a great part of other denominations whe must come in, and great multitudes vsho con nected taemsuivcs wita no visioie enures but felt the power of godliness In. their heart and showed it in their life. Where Is thoii gate? Will you shut all the remainlna host out of the citj? No. Tiioy maj come in at our gate. Hosts of God, il you cannot get admission through any othei entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Nov they mingle before the throne. Looking up at the one hundred and forrj and four thousand, you cannot tell which gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, om baptism, one glassy sea, one doxologv, on triumph, one heaven! "Why, Luther, ho did you gt in?" "I came through the thirt gate." "Crammer, how did you get in?" "1 came through the eighth gate." Ad-miraa ludson, how did you gnt through?" "I eam through the seventh gate." "Huch McKail the martyr, how did you get through?" "I came through the twelfth gate." Glory tt od, twelve "es, but one heaven! In the thirl place, notice the points of thi eompass toward which these gates look. They are not on one side, or on two sides, oi on three side, but on four sides. This is nc fancy of mine, but a distinct announcement On the north three gates, on the south three gates, on the east three gates, on the wesl three gates. What does that mean? Why.il means all nationalities are in-'iuded, and il does not make any difference from whal quarter of the earth a man comes up; if hii heart is right, there is a gate open befon him. Oa the north three gates. Thatinsatu mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norwa; and a.veden. On the south three gates That means pardon for Hindostan un Algiere and Ethiopia. Oa the east throt gates. That means salvation for Chim and Japan and Borneo. Oa the west three gates! That means redemption foi America, It does not make any differ ence bow dark skinned or how palt faced mon may be, they will find a gati right bofore them. Those plucked tonana! nnder a tropical sun. These shot ncrosi Hussion snows behind reindeer. From Mex ican plateau, from Uoman campania, from Chinese teafleld, from Holland dyke, from Hootch Highlands they come, they come. Heaven Is not a monopoly for a few iirocious Bouls. It ii not a Windsor castle, built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw It, and he noticed that in angel was measuring it, an-1 he measured it this way, and then ho meas ured it that way, and whichever way he measured it it was 1500 miles, so that Baby lon, and Tyre and Nineveh and St. Peters burg and Canton and Pekin and Paris and Loudon and New York and all the dead cities of the past and all tho living cities of tht presunt a Ided together would not equal the census of that great metropolis. naming along a street, you can, ty thi jontour of the dress or of the fa?.. iruess where a man comes from. You say: "Tnat Is a Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that if an American." "But the gates that "gather in the righteous will bring them ia irrespective of nationality. Foreigners sometimes jret homesick. Some of the tenderest and mosi fiathetio stories have been told of those who eft their native clime aad longed for It until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heaven, will not long any more tor the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills. The Russian will not long any more for the luxuriant harvest field he left now that he hears the hum and the rustle of the harvest of everlasting light. Tho royal ones from earth will not long to go back again to the earthly court now that they stand in the palaors ot the sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spies and oranges will not long to return now that they stand nndei the trees ol life that bear twelve manner ol truit. While I speak an everlasting throng It pouring through the gates. They are going up from Senegarabia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong Kong. "What," you say "do you introduce all the heathen int glory?" I tell you tho fact is that a major ity of tho people of those climes die in in fancy, and the infants all go straight intt everlasting life, and so the vast majority o those who die iu China p.nd In-iia, the v.-w majority who die in A'rica, go straight tnti the skies they die in infancy. Ono hundret and sixty generations have been born Bind ffie world was ereateil, ana so restlmatetnat there mast be 15.000,000 children in glory. If it a concert 2000 children sing, your soul is raptured within yon. Oh, the transport when 15,000,000 little ones stand up in white before the throne of God, their chant drown ing out all the stupendous harmonies of Dus eldorf and Leipsic. Pour In through thr twelve gates. Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates. Boom yet. Boom on the thrones. Boom in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded un til all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast and the glens echo it. Let missionaries tell It in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across the western prairies. Shout it to the Laplan der on his swift sled. Hallo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. News, newsl A glorious heaven and twelve gates to get Into it! Hear it, O yon thin blooded nations of eternal winter on the north three gatesl Hear it, O you Dronzed inhabitants panting nnder equatorial heats on the south thre gatesl . . -But I notice when John saw these gate they were open wide open. They will not always be so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population and the children of God will have come hornet F.very crown taken. Every harp struck, Every throne mounted. All the glories ol the universe harvested in the great garner. And heaven being made np, of course the gates will be shut. Itussia in, and the sec ond gate shut. Italy in, and the third gatt Shut. Egypt in, and the fourth gate shut. Spain in, and the fifth gate shut. Franee in, and the sixth gate shut. England In, and the seventh gate shut. Nor way in. end the eighth gatt shut. Switzerland In, and the ninth gate shut. Hindustan in. and thetonth gateshnt Siberia in, and the eleventh gate shut. All these gates are closed but one. Now, let America go in with all the islan is of the sea and all the other nations that have called on God. The captives all freod. The harvestl nil ffnthered. The nations all saved. Tht Sashing splendor of this last pearl begins to move on Its hi aires. Let two mighty angels put their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silvery clang. It is done1 It thun ders! The twelfth gate shut. Once more I waut to show you the gate keepers. There is one angel at each one ol those gates. You say that is right 01 eourso it Is. Y'ou know that m earthly pal ace or castle or fortress would be safe with out a sentry pacing up and down by night and by day, an-1 if there were no defenses be fore heaven, and the doors set wide open with no one to guard th-m, all the vicious ol earth would go up after awhile, and all the abandoned of hell would lie up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being a world of light and joy and pea?e and blessedness, would be a world ot darkness and horror. So 1 am glad lotell you that, whilotbnse twelve gate stand open t let a great multitude in, thre are twelve angels to keep some people out Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Hii debrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth who have not repented of theli wickedness. It ons of those nefarious men who despise I G) 1 should come to the gate, one of thn keepers would put his hand on hie shoulder and p-ish hirn into outer darkness. Tiisro is no oluce in that land for thieves and liars and whorcmonirers and dofrauders, anfl all those who disgraced their race and fought against their G U If a miser should get in there, he would puli up the golden pavement If a house burner should get In there, he would set fire to the mansion, if a Uhertine should get in th-re, he would whisper his abominations standing on the white coral of the seabeach. Only those who are blood washed an-1 prayer lipped will get through. O'.i, my brother, if you should at last come up to one of the gates and try to get throu'-h, and you had not a pass written by the crushed hand of the Son of God, the gatekeeper would, with one glance, withej you forever. There will be a password at the gate r. heaven. Dj you know what that password is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the gate, and they say: "Let mo In; let me in. 1 Was very useful on earth. I endowed col leges. I built churches and was famous foi my charities, and having done so many won- flertul things tor the world 1 come up to g-l my reward." A voice from within says, "1 nover knew you." Another great crow come3 np, and they try to get through. The; say: "We were highly honorable oa eartli aad the world bowed very lowly before us. We were honored on earth, and now we come to get our honors in heaven." And a voice from within says, "I never knew you." An other crowd advances and says, "We were vory moral people on earth, vory moral in deed, and we come up to get appropriate re cognition." A voice answors, "I never knev you.'- After awhile 1 saa another throng approach the cate, and one s9ms to tie spokesman foi all the rest, although their voices ever and aaoricry, "Amen, anon!" This one stands at the Cite and says: "Lit me in, I was a won hirer from G id. I diserv i to die. 1 have come up to this place, not because I do-J'-rve it. but because I have heard that there Is a saviug power in the blood of Jesus." The gatelceepersays, "That is the password, 'Jesus! Jesus!' " And they go in and sur round the throne, and the cry is, "Worthy it the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and pow r. World without end!" I stand hero this hour to invite you Pitc any one- of the twelve gates. I toll you n v that unless your heart is changed by the grace of God you cannot get In. I do noi care where you come from, or who youi father was, or who your mother was, oi what your brilliant surroundings unless you repent of your sin and take Christ fot your divine Saviour you cannot get in. Are you willing, then, thisi moment, just whore you are. to kneel down and cry to the Lord Almighty for His deliverance? You want to get In, do you not? Oh, yoi have some good friends therj. This "last year there was some one who went out from your home into that bl-visad n Tney did not have any trouble getting through the gates, did they? No, they knew tho blessa 1 password, aid, ej uin- up, they said, j'Josus!" and tho cry was, Lift up youi hcwu ye everlasting gates, and let then) come in." Oh, when heaven is all done and the troop3 of G 1 shout the tastlo taken, how . grand it will be if you aad fare among them.'l Blessed are all they who entr in through tht gates into the city. FATAL PLAGUE. ft Carries Oft 130 of 200 Stricken n Causes Sudden Death. The following description of tho platrue in Floyd aad Both Counties, Kentucky, which has carried oft seventy-live per ceat. of its victims, i3 furnished by physicians sent to investigate the plague by the State Board of Uealth. The doctors say it is identical with th plague which swept Ireland in 1366. It if malignant, but not contagious, and Is due to local conditions, though about the exacl cause almost nothing is known. Its most appalling feature Is the rapidity of its action. It longest course does not exceed three days, and scores died in from two to eight hours. The symptoms are pain in the head, a high fever and a tendency to draw back the head and shoulders. Pains like tho stinging ol bees attack the ends of the toes and lingers, extending to the head. The eyes become fixed, crossed as death draws near, and the victim sinks into a stupor, which lasts Jonget than the more painful features of tho horri ble disease. OI 200 cases 150 died. Big Timber Land Deal. F. II. and C. TV. Goodyear, of Buffalo, S. T., Have purchased 4000 acres of Totter County (Pennsylvania) timber land from William Ieut, and the timber and hemlock bark on another tract of 4000 acres. These tracts are estimated to contain l.OOO.OOO.oo'J feet ol standing timber. The price paid was $150, 000. The tim er lands of Potter County arc now all practically in the bauds of the Good years, whose sawmills are at Austin. News in Brief. A Columbia County (Pennsylvania) farmer has succeeded ia grafting chest nuts on scrub oak, anil expects to feed the nuts to his pigs. Air. and jurs. Hurst, ot Cleveland, Oklahoma, have named a baby "Ot It;" short for "Oklahoma Territory" and "Indian Territory. Between the year 1849, the date of the discovery of gold in California, and the year 1894, this countrv pro duced $1,939,300,000 of gold. The only knowledge we have o' the air cnrrent?from 1C0 miles above the earth's surface ia what has been gained from watching luminous trains left by metors. New Zealand has set apart two isl ands for the preservation of its re markable wild birds and ether animals. Thereon all bunting end trapping are forbidden. Of the 12,000 Canadian Indians on the Pacific coast, 8000 have been bap tized or attend Christian worship. The Gospels have been printed for them in C four languages. 1 The raspberry was introduced into gland from Virgin in 1696. r . THE BROOa, looked In ths brook and saw a face Heigh-ho, hut a child was 1 1 there were rushes and willows in that place, and they clutched at the brook as the broo? ran by; And the brook it ran its own sweet way, And as it ran I heard it say i "Hasten with me T? iie roistering sea That is wroth with the flame of the morn ing sky!" 1 look in the brook and see a face Heigh-ho, but the years go by I Tho rushes aro dead in the old-time place. And the willows I knew when a child was I And the brook it seemeth to me to say. As ever it stealeth on Its way Solemnly now and not in play "Oh, come with me To the slumbrous sea That Is gray with the peace of the evening sky r Helgh-ho, but the years go by I would to Go J that a child werel Eugene Field, In Chicago News. "ME AF MY DOG." T.Y A, a. PLTMPTOS. EfQ COLE was a little black dog that belonged to Private Peck ol Co. E. There were twt very different opinions of King Colo at Fort St. Martin. One opin ion was that held by the genera publio that he was a mongrel pup of no intelligence, and the other was that of the Peck family, in particular, who maintained as stoutly that he was of a fine breed nd of remarkable sagacity. Billy Peck and Polly Peck told many an odd tale in proof of this belief. Billy said that whenever he went swimming King Cole sat upon the bank of the creek (he was none too fond of tho water himself) and at the end of half an hour, which was the length of time Billy was allowed to stay in the water, King Cole notified bim in sharp peremptory barks that his time was up. If he paid no atten tion to this notice the dog would con qr2r his dislike of getting wet, and, plunging into the creek, bring the de linquent boy to land. Polly always capped this story with a marvelou.; tata of how once when she had been trundling the baby carriage on thq slope by the creek and stopped to watch the geese there, King Cole had pushed stones behind the wheels of the perambnlator to prevent its rolling down the hilL But the general pub lic said that it had never with its own eyes seen any of these wonderful things, and that Billy and Polly Peck were given to romancing, and reas serted their belief that King Cole was a mongrel pup of no intelligence. Pri vate Peck said that no argument short of a bullet would drive out an idea after it had once got lodged in some people's minds, and that is perfectly true. Peck was an honest soldier, but he was guilty of telling long yarns, in which he bragged too much of himseli and King Cole that they had come to be called, appropriating one on his much-used phrases, "Me an' Me Dog." According to him a thing that could not bo done by this firm was not worthy of accomplishment; and if thero was a difficult job on hand some body was sure to say, jestingly: "We had better send for 'ile au' My Dog. " "When, therefore, the robbery oc curred at tho commissary department upon the very night that Peck was on guard there, jokes were passed freely at his expense, everybody sarcastically inqu ring where "Me an My Dog could have been. Peck felt very sore about it, for he knew that the malicious intimated thai the deed could not have been done without his knowledge, and that he no doubt shared tne booty with the thief. The thief was presumably one of the men called lig Brown to distinguish him from another man in the same company by tho name of Brown, who was very small for he had deserted that same night. So far he had eluded all pursuers, of whom poor Peck had been the hottest. Peck could not give tip the hope of finally capturing him, and said: "I ain't done with that vilyun yet ; only give me an my dog a chance at him an' you'll see." Whal part the dog was to play was no' specified. It was the second morning after the robbery, and Billy and Polly Peck wandered for some distance outside the fort, which was on our Mexican frontier. It was a low-lying bushy country, uninhabited except for a few Mexicans, whose poor huts were scattered at wide intervals over the chaparral as this bushy land is called. The children were now nearing one of the jacals or huts, a dilapidated affair, probably deserted. "Don't lets go any further, I'm tired," said Polly. "The soldiers hav hunted all around here." "I ain't going home till I've looked around that old jacaL Tou don't know but what that's the very place Big Brown is hiding in. " Billy pushed on. He was armed to the teeth, as the saying is, with a broken sword, a jackknife and a piece of rope. Of course you see that his purpose was the capture of the thief. The children went on very stealthily. Billy's eagerness gave a zest to the play, so that notwithstanding her fatigue Polly followed him, holding back King Cole by the collar. "See, see, here are his tracks," sud denly whispered Billy, pointing to the trampled grass. Polly remained calm, for she baa seen so many of Big Brown's tracks that day, but King Cole pricked up hi lars and Billy's eyes glistened. "You stay here and King Cole with you, 'cause you run if anything is there, ho'll bark, and I'll go and take look," said Billy. They were approaching the house from the rear. The building had no windows, but one could easily look into it through the spaces between the togs cf which it had been constructed. Then, after a second's inspection, iillv tnmArl liis fa,. m9tnnA - it waa several degrees Baler thjuxjwisj nd ' mm mm he covereS the 'distance between the hut and the spot where he had left Polly with unusual speed. "I knew he was there," he said, but his eyes were popping oat of his head with astonishment. "He is there seai: J asleep on the ground by the chimney. I guess he climbed up when he heard the soldiers coming, and so they missed him. Anyhow he's there, and we've found bim." 'Why didn't you go in and catct him like you said?" asked Polly wick edly. 'Well, I thought 'twould be kindei mean when popper's so set on catching him himself, and now I must go back to the post for him, bo he'll have tho chance. Tou must stay here, Polly, and watch and 6ee that Big Brown don't slip out." "Me?" cried Tolly. "Stay yourselt nd I'll go for popper; I'm afraid." Billy despised his sister's sex, but at that moment he thought after all it might be rather comfortable sometimes to be a girl and own to one's real feel ing. "Tou ought to stay, for you're a boy," Polly went on, "I'm only a girl, little girL" "That's the very reason, don't yoa jee?" said Billy eagerly. "There's no knowing what he might do to me, but o wouldn't hurt a girl ; a little girl." Polly was doubtfnl of such gal lantry. She looked down at a big black and blue bruise on her bare brown leg, and reflected that being a little girl had not saved her from Billy's rage, and she would much rather not risk it with Big Brown. Still she always obeyed Billy, and he insisted that she should stay. He tucked her behind some bushei irith the assurance that if Big Brown came out he would never see her, and calling the dog set out as fast as he could; with his steady trot King Colo kept a go4 1 way in advance. He mado straight for the fort with an air of pur pose, and looking back at Billy now and then as if to say there was no time to lose. When they reached tho garrison, although Billy searched in all his usual haunts, his father was nowhere to be found. There were plenty ot other men about whom if he pleased Billy could have started off in pursuit, but he wished his father to havo the jlory of capturing Big Brown. He was in great excitement, for o". course the longer the delay the greater the chance that Bill Brown might es jape. At length, leaving the barracks, Billy walked down by the guardhouse. There was no one about but the sentry pacing up and down on the porch. At one side of the guardhouse was a slight elevation on which the cannon was perched. Billy went up there and looked in every direction for his father. King Cole also looked, cock ing his ears at every moving figure in the distance, and then dropping them disconsolately when it proved to bo tome other than his master. At a military post the cannon is fired each morning and evening, and at no other time except on some rare special occasion. After gun fire each morn ing the Ordnance Sergeant at Fort St. Martin reloaded the gun for evening use. King Cole, after a funny fashion of his own, went up and with his head on one Bide inspected it. Suddenly the garrison was electrified, by the firingof thegun. Much startled, officers and men hurried to discover the cause of so unusual an event, and jwith the others came Trivato Peck. He - was instantly seized upon by pilly and put in possession of the Tact8. Taking one other man withhini and Billy as scout, he was soon scurry ing away across the chaparral, and iu an incredibly short time Big Browa was locked up in tho guardhouse. After this event Teck was proudex than ever of King Cole. "Oh, no, he hasn't any intelligence, ho hasn't," he would say sarcastically. "My boy had looked all over tho post, an' had jest given np the job of find ing me when that dog up au' fired oil the gun. Oh, no, he hasn't any intel ligence." But tho man who had been the sentry at the guardhouse and who had wit nessed the affair gave another version of it. "Yes, sir," he laughingly explained, "the lanyard that was coiled np on the beach had been blown down, an' that pup seein' the hand piece bobbliu' about in the wind, grabbed it in his mouth an' started off with it ter play. So o' course it exploded the caps an' fired off the gun. 'Twould a been a mortal smart dog that would have knowed what it was a-going ter do. But them kids o Feck's are cuta ones, and it's them that ought to hava tho credit of capturin Big Brovtu." St Louis Bepublic. Smallest Church in England. The smallest church iu Englau-l is said to be Lullington Chnrcli. abuut fourteen miles from Eastbourne, lying under the shadow of the South Down hills. It i3 sixteen feet six inches from east to west and sixteen feet from north to south. The living is in the gift of the Crown, its value is about 5300 per annum, the population is under twenty, and a servico is held in the church once a fortnight. The vicar has other duties to perform in addition to the cure of souls of tiny Lullington. New York World. wax TB3T FARTED. "So the engagement between Miss Chicago and her Detroit lover is oft " "Yes. She was too sensitive. A woman ran a baby cab over her foot, and when she told George about it he asked her if it upset the cab. " De troit Free Press. JUHPEfO BOARD. Mrs. Waldorf "In our hotels the guests are well cared for. In every upper room there ia a rope for escape in case of fire." Count De Barber e "Ah, that u most amusing. If he wish be can use it also as a skipping rope." Life. A GOOD BKASON. Featherstone "Won't you play something? Mr. Tutter says you play beautifully." Miss Pinkerly "If he likes to heai me play so much, why doesn't he call oftener?" Featherstone "He says yon always insist upon talking." Detroit Free ?teg. - - " ' ' f !: - i 1 i i.-i ..Si