limb to. ar B. F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor ud VOL. XL1X MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 1. 1895. NO. 20. 17V av -A asm ssv asr I 1 fHAI'TKiJ. 1 OontinueJ. I walked up to the Hall thia morning, resume! Miss I.'Kstran;;e. when they bat moved to the drawing room, "to look fol that passage of Pope, about which yot arc so mistaken, and there fouml ttu iiire, eatiu Lis breakfast at tc ViliM-k." Winton muttered something inurtiei "iitely. 'i'li.-n ho told me that Mrs. Iluthven, I..r.i anil I-atly I Wriiicton and a lot ol Hiijile were coming; to stay, that he win iroiiig to give a Krand ball to town and nmntry folk, ami to have great doings. So. niiml. Sir. Winton, yon are not to ruq away shabbily, but stay, like a selt-saerii 'j' inir Christian, anil dunce with me." 1 Winton glanced at her, a slow smil brightening his face. "And when I have sacrificed myself, lie said, "yon will show me your csrJ filled up with the names of the golder ti.ntlis who hover about you?" "That is a base libel! At all events, . Fhnll have no court of Kton boys an ueligibb'U surrounding me here." "Marsileii is an extraordinary fellow," resumed Winton, thoughtlessly. "Tin last time I saw him, early in July, he of fered me the shooting here, while I w.n staying with ny unnt and the canon, an( m.Ti' he lir.fi d the place, and would nevef -.re Mvesleigh again if he could help it." "How unaccountable!" cried Mrs. L'E trange. "It is such a sweet old place in. I looks so lovely in autumn !" "Yes! Do you remember our nnttin cxprditions when I w:is home thirteen years ago?" "I do, indeed," saiil Mrs. L'Estrange jrith a iuiik sigh. "Have you been thirteen years in ln ilia without once coining home?" exclaim til Miss IKstrauge. "I wonder you havi iny skin left." "I had nothing to come home for! Whca Marsdcn was in India tiger hunting 1 saw a good deal of him. lie was a prinn favorite, in great request. They said that the rich Miss Guthrie was desperate, ly annoyed not to have met him befort (die had pledged herself to her cousin. But as MarsiKn was only presented to hei u couple of days before the wedding, evei the charming Celia could not alleet an tAihauge." "Ion't you like Mrs. Ituthven. that yon Apeak so ill-naturedly?" said Miss IK tiange, looking up from the complicate mtchcry with which she was covering the pattern of a handkerchief. "I though In r lii c and sympathetic, sha was verj 'ii'id to me." "S'io is undoubteilly a charming wom en. I may have the bad taste not to like ier, that is nothing to the point." "It is odd! I am afraid you have grown ( vnkal," returned Mrs. LEstrange, gently- "I d..n't think I have." "(Vila," repeated Nora, "what an tin Tisnnl name." "Yes: I wonder where old Guthri found it! It could not have been het mother's, for she was a Portuguese half ;:iste." "Yet Mrs. Uuthven is fair," urged Mrt IEstrange. "A eaprico of nature, she will darkci us she grows older." "How long has she been a widow?" tfked Mrs. L'Estrange. "About two years. She left India aftei poor Iluthven's death, and wandered 01 the Continent till she could doff her weed Marsden ought to marry her; she hai money enough to put him straight, if, ni some say, he is a little dipped." "He must know that, for he has sonic ihing to do with her property, bus be not?' viid Mrs. L'Estrange. "He is one of her trustees," returned Winton. "The other, en old friend of hei father's, died last year. This projected i.-it and the ball looks aa if Marsden wni i:ot going to let so rich a prize slip through lis lingers." "I don't think the cqtiire is mercenary," F.iid Nora, thoughtfully, letting her work Jr.. into her lap. "Perhaps not," replied Winton, care es!y. "Are you going to spend this fin Jay in the house, Miss L'Estrange?" "No! I am going to the village. I al ways give poor old Mrs. Sykes an houi cr two in the week. She is the black ti lth's mother, and is quite blind." "You have soon fallen into Englisl; citiiitrv ways," said Winton, looking 'tidily at her. "Are yon undertaking '.jic part of Lady Bountiful?" "That I cannot, for excellent reasons,' she returned, laughing, "and I am sorrj to say I do not like visiting among the poor. I always feel I am intruding, ani many of them so soon begin to take wha' you do as a right, or cringe and whino Oh! it is so hard to know how best U help them; their lot is hard. I wondet they do not hate the rich more bitterlj than they do; I should, I am sure. Lif ltogether is a terrible puzzle." "Then don't go and read to this ol woman in her stuffy room; come, both Ot you, and escort mo back through Eves leigh Woods. They are looking theil best." Nora colored Blight ly, but shook bet bead. T must not disappoint poor old Betsy I really believe my reading is a pleasure to her, and I like it, too; she is a woman of strong character and great intelligence She and her son are Northumbrians, and he is a very stern, masterful sort of man' 1 should not like to be his wife." "Do you intend to rule your future hus band. Miss L'Estrange?" "I have no distent intentions respectiiH that great unknown; but I am quite SuM that equality is the soul of love and friend ship. Now," rising, "I must start. When is yesterday's 'Times, Ilelen? My blini old friend prefers a newspaper to tltl Uil.le." "If yon will not c.ort ma I will escoit you," said Winton. "With or without my leave?" exclaimei Vora, holding up a finger warningly. Winton laughed. "If you are graciously pleased to per Diit me," he added. "Very well, you may"cbme7 and she left tho room. Winton looked gravely after her for t. Jioment, his brows slightly knit U if b were puzzled not agreeably puzzled. Then ho turned to Mrs. L'Estrange, and said abruptly: "It is rather unusual to see step-mothei and daughter on such good terms. They generally hate each other like poison. I suspect your nature sweetens the mix ture; you were always a bit of an angel." - "luu are too flattering, and Ton do SS to Nora Justice. She is the kindest girl that ever lived; most fortunately for us. Do you know that everything is hers? She might turn us out penniless if six liked to-morrow, I had no marriage set tleneut. Colonel L'Estrange was always going to alter bis will which left all be possessed to Nora but died without hav lug done so; and my poor Bca is quite un provided for." "What an infernal shame! They ouglr aever to have allowed you to marry with out a proper settlement." They ? Who V asked Mrs. L'Estrange with a tinge of bitterness. "I had few friends, and was not particularly self helpful. They were too glad to find me provided for and off their hands, to raise any question that might delay the happy release. This was only natural! How ever, if Nora reaches one-and-twenty and Is si ill a free agent, I am sure she will tarry out her intention of making a pro vision for Bea." "When docs she come of ageT" "Next February." "Hum! Time enough to marry and plague a man's heart out before that!" "My dear Mark, what has Dut you om of humor with Nora? You must not dis like her unreasonably." "Dislike her! she is not the sort of gir. ny man would dislike! But what a con trast between you two; I strongly sus pect she bullies you I What hard lines you have had all your life; I sometimes think over old times and wonder how you pulled through." He looked at her as he spoke, a wonder fully kind expression softening his eyes. "I am very happy and tranquil now," returned Mrs. L'Estrange, "so let the past bury its dead." "If I had been " Winton was begin aing, when Nora returned with her bat on a very becoming hat "Are you not going to walk with us, Helen T' "No, dear; I promised Bca to take her to see a foal and a bnby peacock, at the Home Farm." "Well, Mein Ilerr! I await you." Winton rose, and shook hands with Mrs. L'Estrange. "My aunt hopes you will come to lun cheon to-morrow or on Friday, if you are in the town," he said. "I will write to her. Good-by for tlu present." "Oh! I had almost forgotten," cried Nora, turning back at the door. "The squire said he would come and ask for a cup of coffee this evening about eight." "He shall have it," returned Mrs. L'Es trange. Winton, who bad passed behind Nora, turned a questioning look on Mrs. L'Es trange, then followed the young lady of Brookdale through the open entrance door into the sunlight beyond, and the sound of their footsteps on the freshly raked gravel soon died away. Mrs. L'Estrange stepped out ou the ver lmla, and looked after the retreating fig ures. "He was always wise and kind," she murmured to herself. "Mother," cried Beatrice from within, "I am quite ready." chapter; ii. Some ten cays later the sun was striv ing to pierce the Bultry haze of an au tumnal day in London, and making the half-deserted streets oppressively warm. A brougham stopped at the door of a well-known hotel in Bond street, and at tracted the attention of a waiter lounging on the steps, lit descended to ascertain what the occupant wanted. She nan large, distinguished looking woman of more than a certain age, with almost white hair, and black eyes; whose travel ing costume of dark gray serge and bon net of gray straw and black ribbons bad evidently been designed by a high-clasi modistcu "Is Mrs. Ruthven here T' "Yes, "m." "Is she at home?" "I'll see, 'm." The waiter disappeared, and soon re turned. "Mrs. Ruthven Is in, ma'am." "Open the door, then." And the in 4uirer alighted. "Who shall I say?" "I.ady Porrington. The waiter ushered the visitor upstairs to a handsomely furnished room, where, before a long glass between the windows, stood a small, slight figure in an exquisite ball dress of pale-gold satin with draper ies of Gue filmy white lace, caught up at ane side with drooping bouquets of won derfully natural violets, clematis and ferns. Two women, one in a dainty cap, the other in a smart hat, were standing bnck as if they had just desisted from the task of arranging the beautiful costume. "A thousand apologies, dear Lady Dor rington, for receiving you in thia extra ordinary apparel; but I would not keep you waiting, as I know- yon have only a few hours in town!" cried the lady in tho ball dress, advancing and shaking hands with her visitor very cordially. "I am charmed to have a peep at youi robe of triumph, as I am sure it will be. tt is quite perfect. Don't let me inter rupt you; don't postpone the Important study of final touches, now that you are full of your subject." "There is little more to be done. We were Just hesitating whether to loop tip the lace on the shoulders with small bou quets, or with ruby and diamond butter flies. What do you say, Lady Dorring ton?" "My dear Mrs. Ruthven, I am no judge I never attempted to dress, t knew it was 10 nse. I just wore solid, serious clothes." "You have admirable taste, I am sure. I am inclined for the butterflies sparkling among the lace." "I think, madame," said the dressmak er, deferentially, "there would be aa el t ant simplicity In the bouquets." "If madame permits me to speak," cried the maid, in French, "I would say, the rubies and diamonds will be infinitely more distingue." Mrs. Ruthven stood a moment gazing ixedly at herself in the glass, and then said, decidedly: "I will wear the butterflies. Bring nu i tea gown, Virginia, and remember" (to the dressmaker) "I must haTe the dress complete by to-morrow; the changes yon have to make might be done in an hour." "Oh, madame! not in an hour!" "I will return immediately, Lady Dor rington," said Mrs. Ruthven, not heeding her, and sweeping away toward her bed room, the door of which stood open. "There is such a bad light in my room I was obliged to coma here to see how I looked." Her attendants followed and Lady Dorrington, taking up "The World," which lay on the sofa, chose a comfortable chair and aattiad herself. Wha MA IffTlr "T" World says, when Mrs. Ruthven re-entered in a very becoming tea gown all creamy muslin and lace, lightened by tufty knots of soft crimson ribbon. She was an attractive looking woman, with out regular beauty a soft pale complex ion, with a certain richness of tint a very red-lipped mouth, somewhat pouting a wide, low forehead, and large, dark, beseeching eyes. Her hair was profuse of a peculiar yellow, golden tint and worn In a careless. Irregular fringe which gave orderly and narrow mindec people an impression of untidiness. "And, you do not go direct to Eves leigh?" said Mrs. Ruthven, placing her self on the sofa, and folding one foot un der her, with Oriental suppleness. "No. We leave at four o'clock for Bournemouth. Aunt Ilminster has been very unwell, and wishes to se. me." "Ah, the Duchess of Ilminster!" said Mrs. Ruthven, as if a little impressed. "But how will Mr. Marsden manage his preparations without you?" "Perfectly well. He has excellent taste la will order everything, regardless ot cost, and leave the payment to I'rovl ienee." Mrs. Ruthven smiled, thoughtfully, with downcast eyes, as she opened and shut a large feather fan. "Yon are a little hard en your brother! tie has a right royal nature and a fine estate." "Yes. An estate that with a little prudence, and a little ready money would soon recover itself. I am always impatient with Clifford. He is quite old enough now to give up his follies and take to work, to ambition! There must be some dozen girls in the marriage mar ket with heaps of money, any one ol whom would Jump at Marsden of leigh. Then Parliament, and a splendid career would be open to a man of his ability! I see him embassador, secretary of foreign affairs anything in short," cried Lady Dorrington, laughing, "I am hard on my brother, because I know what he could do and see how he wastes hif lift!" Mrs. Ruthven made no reply; she looked at her fan, and a slight color rose in her cheek. "I see you have his last photograph, resumed Lady Dorrington. "Bad boy! He refused it to me! Well, dear Mrs. Ruthven, tell me how are you? I was so sorry to hear you had sprained your ankle!" "It was only a severe twist, and it is ni. right again. I was foolish enough to let myself be persuaded to climb down some rocks at Ventnor, and suffered according ly. One should always stick to one'e principle! and mine is to avoid unneces sary exertion, except riding. I now hope to dance at your brother's ball." "He will be greatly disappointed if yon lo not. He looks to you to be queen ol the fete; and I fancy the county is on the tiptoe ef expectation respecting you also." "Why! what can they possibly know ibout me?" asked Mrs. Ruthven, with a pleased smile. "Oh! we are sad gossips in Blankshire. and deeply interested in possibilities which may affect us socially." "Does not that Miss L'Estrange, wh. was staying with you last spring, live near Evesleigh?" asked Mrs. Ruthven abruptly. "Yes. close by. She has a little prop erty bordering my brother's, and is a dis tant cousin." "A little property! I was in hopes it was a big one; for I have an idea Mr. Marsden was a good deal taken in that quarter, nor am I sarprised; Miss L'Es trange is a charming girl." Lady Dorrington glanced at her keenly. "Oh, very nice, indeed, but I should never forgive her if she married Clifford; and he could not be so insane. He would not marry her. Indeed, a mere inexperi enced girl could never be so attractive t hint as a woman of the world." (To be continued.) Sad Deprivation. A certain old Doctor J. In Boston, vrho died ions ago, was famous among nil his colleagues for his scientific delight in obscure diseases. Introduce him to a strange case, and he betrayed an en thusiasm which nothing save medical zeal eeetned to rouse In him. A dear friend of his, a man about his own age, died ratlior suddenly, and the nephew, also a physician, went to call upon old TJoctor J. "Doctor." he said, when he was ad mitted to the office, "my uncle died last night" "What!" cried the doctor, "my deat old friend dead? Dear! dear! that strikes very near home. I shall uiiss him. I shall. Indeed! What did ho He of?" "We don't know, doctor. Wo want you to come round to-morrow, and make an examination." The doctor bent over bis memoran dum book, and whirled the leaves ener getically. "Let me see! to-morrow! No, I've an engagement with Doctor Holmes that can't possibly be put off. My dear boy, fret Doctor . He's doing some fine work in that line. But I can't tell yon how it pains me to say no. I can't tell rou " Tho nephew's eyes grew moist. He, xnew some tribute of friendship to the dead was about to follow, but the doc tor continued, with the same warmth ind sincerity: "I can't tell you how much I regret my inability to perform this last favor "o my dear old friend!" Moles can swim with great dexterity, heir broad foeepaws acting as saddles Men dislike details, and ecmen are never content with meie statement? of fact. A man never learns how to ptep on the tack of adversity with com foit to himself. Tbon must learn to bridle and break thy will in many things, if thoa wilt livo a quiet life. Keep your secrets to yourself. Experience teaches us one thiaa: more certainly than any otber, and that is how little we know. We often repent o. what we have said, bat never of that which we have not said. , Humor is one of tho most deceitful things in the world. If our faults wcra writtei on our faces, how quick we would all hang our heads. The more money other people male the better chance yon will l ard to make some. It is bnman to err, and human nature to say, "I told yon so." Wben good seed is sown, thi better the ground the better the crop. There is no sweeter reposa than that which is brought with labor. ' Many a man's income Is limited only by the amount he can borrow. If some men had a bull dog's teeth they would bite when he wouldn't l)o hrst thine own duty, and then look that another man do his. HEV. DSL TAJjBIAGE. FBM BBOOKLTK DIVOT'S S US- DAT SWIBIMOK. object i "Easter Jubilee. Tsxt: "Death Is swallowed up in vie ory." I Corinthians iv., 64. About 18C1 Easter mornings have wakaned the earth. In France for throa ee..turics the almanacs made the year begin at Easter un tilC'hurles IX made the year begin at J in. 1. In the Tower of London "them is a royal ynj roll of Edward I. on whloa there is an entry of eighteen pence for 400 colored and pi turod Earner eggs, with which the people sporteiL In Russia slaves were fed and alms weredistributedon Easter. Eiclesiatical councils met at Pontus. at Gaul, at ltonio, at Achaia, to decide the par ticular day, and after a controversy more animated than gracious decided tt, and notf through all Christendom in some way the first Sunday after tuo full moon which hap pens upon or noxt after March 21 is tl lied with Easter rejoicing. The royal court o) the Sabbaths is made up of II fty-t wo. Fifty, one are princes in the royal household, but F.a-iter is queen. She wears a rioher di.nlert and sways a more jewelpd scepter: an 1 it bar smile nations are irradiated. We wel come this queenly day, holding hihnpin her right hand ths wrenched off bolt ol Christ's sepulchor and holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries is Christendom. Jlytest is an eja"nla(ioa. Itisspuaout of halleluiahs. P.ilil wroto right on in hij argument ahout tlie resumption and ob served all the laws of loIe, but when he came to write the words of thn text his fingers and his pen and the parchment on which he wrote took lire, and he cried out, "Death is swallowed up in victory!" It is a dreadful sight to see an army routed and flying. They scatter everything valuable on the track. Umvheeled artillery. Hoof ot horse on breast of wounded and dyioa man. You have read of the French falling back from Sedan, or Napoleon's traclt ol 110,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Kusaia, or of the livo kings tumbling over the roksol B-thoran with their armies, while the hail storms of heaven and the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them with their fury. But ii iny text is a worse discomfiture. It se-nis that a black giant proposed to con quer the earth. Ho gathered for his host nil the aches and pains and maladies and dis tempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drilling them in the northeast wii' I, amid the slush of tempests. He threw up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tent of enamel house. Rome of the troops marched with slow tread, commanded by consumptions: some in doable quick, commanded by pneumonias. S tine he took by long be-iiegement of evil habit and soma by one stroke of tho battleax of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at thp doors ol hospitals and sickrooms and won all the vic tories in alt the great battlefields of all the five continents. Forward, march! the con queror of coDinerer". and all tho generals and commanders-in-chief, and all pausident? and kings and sultans and czars drop und-'i Xli feet of his warcharger. But ono Christmas night his antagonist was born. As most of the plttgueg and sicknessea and desp tisms came out of the east it was anpropriu'.e that the new conrpieror should come out of the same quarter. Power is given Him to aivakeu all the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and stnrshal them aiyaiu.it the blak giant. Fields have already been won. but the lait day will see the d--eisive battl". When Christ snail lead forth His two brigades, the brigade ef the risen dead and the brigade of the celestial host, the black giant wiil fall back, and the brigade 'roni the riven scpulchers will take him from beneath, and tho brigade of descending im iTiortHls will take him from above, and "death shall be swallowed np in victory." The old braggart tiiat threatened the con quest and demolition of thn planet has lost his throne, hns lout his scepter, has lost his paiuce, has lost his prestige, and the one word written ovor ail the gatesot mausoleum and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and s:ircophngus, on tho lonely cairn of the Arctic explorer and ou tho "catafalque of great cathedral, written in capitals of azalea and caila lily, written in musical cadence, written in fioxology of great assemblages, written on fie sculpture 1 door of the family vault, is "Victory. Coronal word, emban nered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphal arch under which conquerors re turn. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and B i!a';Iav.i and Blenheim; at Megiddo and Sjlfcrino: at Marathon, where the Athenians drove haz tho Medcs; at Poictiers, wuero Charles Martel broke the runks of tha Kr.i;cns; at S'i!anls. where Th"m 1st oclcs in the great sea tlht confound ed tho Persians, and at the door of the eas: u cavern of chiseled rocit, where Christ came out through a re -ess and throttled the king of terrors and put him ha"'c in the niche from which the celestinl on pusror had just emerged. Aha, when the jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down the black guint, "death was swallowed up in victory!" I proclaim the abolition of death. The old antagonist is driven ba:k into, mythology with all the lore about Htyglaa ferry and Charon with oar ami boat. We shall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloakroom at a governor's or president's levee. We stop at such cloakroom and leave in charge of the servant our overcoat, our overshoes, our outward apparel that we may not be impeded in the brilliant round of the drawing room. Well, my friends, when we go out of this world we are going to a king's banquet, and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb, we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with which we meet the storms of the world. At the close of our earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the eoat or hat may be handed to us better than when we resigned It, and the cloak of humanity will finally be returned to us improved and brightened and purifled and glorified. You and I do not want our bodies returned to us as they an now. We want to get rid of all their weak nesses, nn I all their susceptibilities to fa tigue, and all their slowness of locomotion. They will be put through a chemistry of soil and heat aad cold and changing seasons oiit of which God will reconstruct them as much better tnai they are now as the body of the rosiest an i healthiest child that bounds over the lawn is belter than tho sickest patient in the hospital. But as to our soul, we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies, independent of obituary, into a state in every way better, With wider room and velocities beyond com putation; the dullest of us into companion ship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the very best room of the uni verse, the four walls furnished and paneled and pictured and glorified with all thesplen liors thnt the infinite God in ail ages has been able to invent. Victory ! This view of course makes it of but little Importance whether we are cremated or sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer in cineration, let them have it without carica ture. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well as by general consent. Many of the mightiest and best of earth have gone through this proces?. Thousands and tens of thoucands of God's children hava been cremated. P. r. Bliss and wife, the evange list singers, cremated by accident at Ashta bula bridsei John lingers cremated by perse cution, Lnnmer and Ridley cremated at Ox ford, Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, and Alexander, a physician, and their comrades, cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius. At least a hundred thousand ot Christ's dis ciples cremated, and there can be no doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer as it has already been built, there perhaps may be no room for the lnrge acreage set apart for the resting places, but that time has not come. Plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of fire until it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But whether out of natural disintegration or cremation we snail get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, franssendunt. magniflcen?,thexpUcaMestrtif. lure called the resurraeetiou body you will have it, I will have it. I say to you to-day ss Paul said to Agrippa, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that Gov should raise the dead?" That far np cloud, higher than tho hawk Dies, higher than the eagle flies, what Is it made oft Props of water from the Hudson, other drops from the East River, other drops from a stairnant nool out on Newark flats. Ecyottdar t, emhndlad ta afll0njL.sW4 J the sun kindles it. ' If God can make such a lustrous cloud out ot water drops, many ol them soiled and impure and fetched from miles away, can He not transport the frag ments of a human body from the earth and out of them build a radiant body? Cannot God, who owns all thn material out of which bones and muscle and flesh are made, set them np again If they have fallen? It a manufacturer of telescopes drops a telescope on the floor, and it breaks, can he not mend It again so you can see through it? And if God drops the human eye into the dust, the rye which Ha originally fashioned, can Ha Dot restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer ot the telescope, by a change of thn glass and a change of focus, can make a better glass than that which was originally censtructed and lotually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the human eye may improve iti light and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold additional forces of the resur lection eye? "Whv should it be thought with you an In credible thing that God should raise the deail?" Things all around us suggest tt. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and earth. Bmurrected. lies ii rented, .i ue rair.aur Miiterily, where did )t oome from? The loathsome caterpillar. That al batrow'that smites thetempeot with its win1, where did it come Xro:a' A senseless shell. Near Bergeracf France, in a Celtic tomb, un der a block, were found llower seeds that had been buried 2000 years. The explorer took fie flower seed and planted it, and it came tin. It blomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Iwo thousand years ago buried, yet resur rected. A traveler says he found in a mum my nit in E?ypt rarden peas that had been buried there 3000 years ngo. He brought ftham - I ah T , . M 1UI I U them, and In thirty dnvs they sprang up. Buried 3000 years, yet resurrectea. "Why should it be thought a thing in eredible with you that God should raise the rtwlV" Where did all thi silk oome from- ........ planted ) the silk tlvit nrlorns your person and your homf-j? In the hollow of a st.ifl n Greei missionary brought from Chiu i to Europe the progenitors of tlunj worms that now supply tho silk mnrkets of ni;my Xations. Tlio pageantry of bannered hosts aad the luxurious articles of commercial emporium biasing out from tin silk worms! And who 1'iail be snrpristl if, out of this insignificant earthly life. jurbodle3 nnfold into something worthy of the co;niu eternities? Put silver Into diluted niter, a'-.d it dissolves. Is the lilver gjue forever?- Xo. Tut in some pieces ofcoppur, and tho silver rcapppars. If one forcn dissolves, aint'icr force reorganizes. "Why should it be thought a thing in credible with you that God should raise the dead?" The "insists fli-w aid the worm? crawled la.-t autu nn feebler and iecblerar.d then stopped. They h-ive ta'ten no food; they want none. T.iey lie dormant and in sensible, but soon t:i3 sjuth wind will blow the resiiTvciina trumpet, and the air and the raith will be full of tncru. Vo you not tnlnx that Goacau do as much for our bodies as He ! does for the wasps, an I t-n sn ders, and the n'Uls? This morning at ha if past 4 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night, the day. In a fuw wjeks there will bo a res-mrre-tion in all our gardens. Why not some day a resurrect! on a-ilid all the graves' Ever and a-i in there -3 instances of moD nd woaieij entranced. A trance is death, followed by p surrection fter a fev davs total suspension of mental power ani voluntary acfion. Eev. William rcnnoiit, a great ev.vigeiist of the last gen eration, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a aian far from bcin sr.tiin '. wrote in r.ost eulog;stle ton:s Rev. ."illiam Ten- 1 'at seeme 1 to die. ll.s s;:ric .seemed to lave depircc 1. l'j.jp'.e ca'no in day b'ter lay an i'sai-l. "II ) is t'.rn I: he is dea li" But ;he soul returned, and William Teniient lived to wriie out experiences of what he had seen while his soul was gne. It mav be found some time what is called suspended anima tion or comatJ3 stale is brie death, giving .he soul aa excursion into th4 next world, from which it comes back a furlough of a (ew hours granted from the conflict of life to uhieh it must return. D. Dot this waking up of men from tranc end this waging up of grains buried S300 years ago ma'te it easier for you to believe that your body and mine, after the vacation jf the grave, shall rouse, and rally, though ;here be 3003 years between our last breath nd the souuding of thearchangelic reveille? Physiologists tell us that, while the most of juf bodies are built with such wonderful economy that wo can spare nothing, and the loss of a ilngcr is a hindrance, and the in ury of a toe joint makes us lame, still we lave two or three apparently useless physi! eal apparati, and no anatomist or physiolog ist has ever been a j!e to tell wh:it they are good for. Perhaps they are the foundation of tho resurrection body, worth nothing to os in this sta'e. to be indispensibly valuable In the next state. The Jewish rabMs appear to have had a hint of this suggestion when they said that in the human frame thero was a small bone which was to be the basis of the resur-e'tlon body. ,That may have been a delusion. M:it this thiiigiscurtain, theChris tian scientists of our day hava found out that there are two or three snperlluities oi the body that are something gloriously sug ifesiive of another state. I called at my friend's honse one snmmei jay. I found the yard all piled up with rub bish of carpenter's and mason's work. The loor was ofT. The plumbers ha 1 torn up the Boor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone, and the paper hangers doing their work. All the modern Improvements" were being introduced into that dwelling. There was not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, although a mouth before, when I visited that house, everything was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improvement. My friend had gone with his fa 'illy to the Holy Land, ex pecting to comeback at the end of six mouths when the building was to be done. An 1, oh, what was his joy when at the ind of six months he returned and the old house was enlarged and improved and glo rified! That is your body! It loookswell now. All the rooms filled with hearth, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely recon structed from cellar to attic, every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and artery must be hau'ed over, and the old structure will ba burnished and adorned and raised and coupolaed aad enlarged, and all the improvements of heaven intro duced, and you will move into it on resurrec tion ds"- "For t know that, if our earthly bouse of this tabernacle were' Aissolvea, we have a building of God, a house not made witn hands, eternal in the heavens." Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again! They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not re-echo it? Or, changing the question, did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympathize with it. growing wan and Weak under the depressing influence? Or did yoni soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step. Surely od never intended two such good friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's last Easter morning minii oome ina soul will descend, crying, "Where is my body?" And "the body will ascend, savinir Whem U mv unnl?" And the Lord of the resurrection will bring them together, and It win De a penect soui in a perfect body, introduced by a perfect Chris "nto a perfect heaven. Victoryt Reef aad Petroleum Dearer. Beef is higher than in twenty years am) Pennsylvania potr-deuin higher than in seven 'eeu. irawaii's Fnblle Pebt. H.iwaii's public deit now amounts tol.- ioo.ooa. Importunity means lioldiag on unti yon get what you want. A thoroughly cqnicied lawyer is always a cloo Uw student. Lve often runKes a man miserable, but it very seldom kills him. Our motive power is always found in what we lack. Economy may be as unwisa as extravagance, Nature never hurries, never halts and never fails. He that can reason with a child can argue with a sage. The most unsatisfactory thing in I he wor.'d is the weather. God never needs many soldiers when they are led by a O id eon. A tale bearer is a lower order of creation than a tail wearer. It is a great thing to know how to take a bint. 1 CHOCOLATE FACTOR! WHAT COCOA 13 AND HOW XT X XIADB f he Raw Product Comes From Ven ezuela and Is of Many DifXeren' Kinds Cocoa Butter. HE biggest chocolate factor. in this country is in 2et York. It uses 100,000 ponndt of tho beans in a Tear. Thee ato not at all pretty to look at From their appearance one would never sup pose that such delicious preparation! could be made from them. Most ol them come from Venezuela. The con cern described ordinarily keeps in stock as many as fifteen different kinde of them. Varieties differ so much in quality that prices paid for them run all the way from fifteen cents to icvjnty-fiTe cents a pound raw. Fine chocolates are made from a mixture ol i'a-i different sorts of beans in carefully adjusted portions, a few pounds of the best in each hundredweight contribut 'ng flavor. Tho broien chocolate kernels, dnlj mixed, are poured into a hopper on the seventh floor. They fall through 1 B metal tube aU the war dowa to tue i first floor of the building. There they i drop into a machine which frrinds j the m between two creat steel disks J ln , ?elween two great steel aisae 11'.. I i-nw. tmv.vnntnllw . I . . . fnnK.nn of a milL From this mill they coma out by a spout not dry any longer, but in the form of a thick liquid. Thie id because the beans contain forty-fi re per cent, of oiL The cells holding the i latter are broken by tho grinding Vrocess, and the oil liquefies the pow lered substance. The processes by which the beana ere transformed into commercial choc olate are very interesting. To begin with, they ere roosted. Then they are broken in a mill, coarsely. Xext, they are sifted. The shells separated from the kernels by sifting are sold for half a cent a pound to wholesale gTo eers, who grind them np to adulterate popper with. Incidentally to the sami process the vegetative germs of the boans are removed. It is desired tc get rid of them because they are too bard to be utilized to advantage ; but they ore purchased by manufacturers if cheap candies for making a poor quality of chocolate. Each germ looke lomewhat like a little clove. All of thif irork is performed on the seventh floo; f the factory. The chocolate beans are called 'cocoa beans. " The liquid stun, some--hat thicker than molasses, is termed "cocoa. " It is transformed into the lliocolate of commerce simply by add ing sugar. It is commonly imagined" ;hat cocoa is made from tho shells of ho bonus, but such a notion 'is al mrd. 'What cocoa is really will be presently explaineil. Tho liquid stufl is transferred to a circular receptacle n which huge rollers go round. Thoi mgur is put in. Tho rollers mix the :ocoa liquid and the sugar thoroughly together. When this has been don i the mixturo is passed through oth. : iiachineswith rollers revolving agaim 1 ;ach other. It goes through them ignin and again, until it is solinelydi rided thnt there is not tho smallest .unip in it. Now it is finished and has Merely to be cooled in molds in the re frigerating room in order to be read or Eale. Commercial cocoa is exactly tilt ame thing as chocolate, without anj ragar, and with two-thirds of the ol uiken away. Hence, in a dry state, it has little more flavor than so much lust. By subjecting tho liquid stuff ta pressure the oil is squeezed out of it. Df the original forty-fivo per cent A oil thirty per cent, is extracted, leav ing only fifteen per cent. This oil i caught in tubs. It is clear and lim pid almost as transparent as water. Poured into molds it hardens when cold, and is thus turned out in tht shape of great cakes of a yellowish white color. These cakes are sold to apothecaries and other dealers. They are pure "cocoa butter." To a great extent this soothing and delicionsly fragrant substance has taken the pines of the old fashioned cold cream. It is admirable for sun-burned noses and for chapped hands. In South America tho natives have recognized its virtucr lor many centuries. Cocoa batter, obtained from the jhocolate factories, is sold by the ton wholesale. It is a nseful and profit able by product of this sort of manu facture. But how about the cocoa' It comes oat from the pressing appa ratus in tho form of dry cakes. These ere reduced to powder beneath rollers, sad the powder is then sifted through oloth to an impalpable dust. Now il is ready for market and is tionred intc s machine which fills cans with it auto matically. The cocoa butter is put tc another use. Some of it is added to the chocolate that is employed for coating creams and other candies, be cause it makes the flavor richer. The chocolate tablets for nickel-in-the-slot machines are made in molds and set in the refrigerating room to harden. Some people make a sort of tea out o! oooa beans and recommend it highly. The factory described uses most ol i . , , J . , . , : I chocolate in making candies and tha greater part of that for coating creams and nuts. The way in which ths creams are made is very odd. A hallow tray of wood is filled with finely sifted flour. Upon the smooth rarface of this is laid down a board, the under side of which is covered with excrescences in whatever shapes nay be desired. The board being re moved perfect molds of the excres sences are left in the floor. A num ber of such traye of molds having been provided, the workman goes along with a cone of canvas filled with "cream," which is simply sugar and water boiled and flavored. At the point of the cone is a small copper ipout, through which the operator iqueezes enough cream into each mold ;o fill the latter. Now it on'y remains for the stuff to harden, and the trays ire dumped into a sifter, thwiseparat ng tho molded cream drops from the Vjur. The cream drops next pass into the lands of a young woman with deft Sngers, who drops them one after an ther into a copper pot filled with hot shocolate. As she fishes them oat igain she places them in rows upon iheets of waxed paper, which cover iectanguiar pieces of tin.- To each ono the gives a final touch, as she sets it own,by a twM of her fingers, wb1" maies a sort of curlycne of chocolate n the top of it. To do this properly requires great dexterity, though one would imagine that the entire proc?ss was extremely simple and easy. It is just the same if peppermints are to be shocolate-coated, or marshmallows or auts. When finished in this manner the lollipops are placed, tin trnys and ill, upon shelves Li a sort of cabinet n rollers. Hero each trayful is core fully inspected by the foreman, who must see thnt every sugar plum ispet toct. Washington Star. The Spanish Bull The bulls used for fighting purposes ire a specially-selected, specially -cored-(or class. They are all pedigreed. Andalusia is especially the district of ha bnlL Here, at the age of one year, the young bulls are separated from the heifers, branded with tho owner's mark, and turned ont loose on the plains to graze with others of theil wn age. When a year older, the young bulk ire gathered together, in order that .heir mettle and fighting qualities may x) tested. One of them is separated xom the herd, and chased by a man m horseback, who, by the skillful ns f a blunted lance, overthrows the sscaping bull, whereupon another ridel ioru.es in front of the animal with a iharper lance, to withstand the ex pected attack. Ii the bull, on regain jig his feet, attacks the rider twice, it a passed as a fighting animal ; but ii le turns tail and runs off, then it is let aside to be killed, or to be used in igricnltural work. And so with each tnimal, until the whole herd of two rear-olds have been tested. Each bull that has stood the tea mccessfully is then entered in the herd sook, with a description of its appcar ince, and receives a name such as Sspartero, Hamenco, and the like. This process of careful selection goes n from year to year until the bull is lve years old, when, should its mettle ttill prove true.'it is ready for tho irena, and flaming posters appear on ;he walls of Madrid or Seville an lonnoing that Espartero (or whatever lis name is) will on such and such a '.ate make its first and final appeor mce. A good "warrantable" five-yesr-olf, mil for the fighting rings cost from 350 to 2400. Depth ol the Ocean. A dispatch from Victoria, British 'olunibia, says the United State3 teamer Albatross reports having made leep-sea soundings off the coast oi Lloska, reaching a depth of 4300 athoms, which, it is added, is "the rreatest depth ever reached." If by ihat is meant tho deepest soundings iver made in any ocean there must be i mistake ill the figures reported or the !laim is not correct. The depth ol !0,000 feet hos been exceeded three rimes. In what is called the "inter lational deep," near the island of St. Thomas, one of the West Indies, inde pendent soundings were made by American and English officers and a lepth of 27,306 feet established. In 1874 the British ship Challenger found i depth of 27,450 feet near $he La irone Islands in the Pacific OceaD, and in the same year the United State! ihip Tuscarora, nnder comiatind ol Captain George E. Belknap, sounded '.o the depth of 27,930 feet near th Surile Islands in the Xorth Pacific, This is the lowest point yet reached, being over five and one-fourth miles, jr nearly equal to the height of tht Himalayas. In the days before scien tific deep-sea soundings there were re ports of depths of 7000 to 8000 fnth sms having been reached, but thesi sro now conceded to have beer ipocryphal. The Tnscarora's record of 4561 fathoms stands without a riva as yet. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Deer Caught lor the Calskill Park. Speaking of the results of his at lempts to capture deer for the Cats kill Park, Oame Warden Fox said tf n Albany (X. Y.) Argns reporter: "We employed a little differen method from any of those hitherto known to get the deer. After the.1 wcro driven in the lake a boat wouli) put out, and, after firing two shots al signal for help from the other forest ers, the men would row up and slip I lort of noose made by twisting to gether two Y-like branches at the end of a pole over the head of the swim ming doe. In this way it could be held till help arrived. Then tho men in the second boat turned it on itt back and tied all four feet together, lifted it out on a boat, and there it ras secure and unharmed. "I do not know just how many wiL se cent down altogether, but I think there will be a herd of at least sixty-1 Sve in the Cat skill reserve, aside from the three dozen or so now loose in the woods. This is the breeding season, and although it is not a fact, as many suppose, that does always bear twin tawn, though they generally do, I ex pect to find about ninety or a hundred deer in that park next spring. At thia rate it will not be long before thorc will be plenty of deer in the Catskill? Again." Those twelve does were shipper through Albany via the .National Jbx press, in crates, and will be plr.ced is the park at once. The Pastor Miss Ethel, you should be engaged in some missionary work. Miss Ethel Oh, I am, and hav been for some time past The Pastor I'm so gratified U bear you sar sol Ia what field arr you engaged? Mis Ethel (proudly) I'm teaching my parrot not to swear. A Ham TIelo Horses, after the first shock of u Vound, mako no sound. A Tennessee horse thief was killed y a pet bear which was chained in tho Hable. The cavalry was the aristocratic am ,f the Greek service, All the horse men owned and provided for their own Worses. Tho sun throws vertical rays on th .nrth's surface only on nn area equal lo about thirty-five Equare miles ot anj ne time. The rei of Brazil is on imaginary loin, no piece of that denomination aein.cr coined. Ten thousond reil equal 35-43. In tan hours as many men fell a; Vaterloo as in three duys at Gettysr burg, the armies being practically o.' equal numbers; It is a fact of curious interest thai wenty-four of the 6100 murderers sr-,-ested in the United States in lS'J J vere blind men. Albert Bellows, a Brooklyn clothing intter, got his under jaw canght whilo fawning, and it took a surgeon fifteen ninutes to get it shut. There are people in tho interior dis tricts of Japan who have never tasted mimal food, nud who look with hor ror on the eating of such a diet. The Hebrew Talmud snys that whe-i idr.m was created he was a giant, his lead reaching into tho heavens nud his ountenance outshining the tun. A woman named Mury Smenton, ra iding in the suburbs of Cincinnati, tlthough past tho age of ninety-one, aas within the last year cut four ne .v teeth. So few of tho common people oi Russia are able to read that in villago rtores pictures of tho articles fur sai l ire huug on tho walls in place o: renn 'ng notices about them. The first notice of the use of coal ii n tho records of tho Abbey of Peter borough, England, in the year S50 A. D-, which mention nn item of twelvj ar loads of "fossil fuel. Human hair varies in thickness fron he two hundred and fiftieth to the si jundredth part of an inch. Tha coarsest fibre of wool is about one five anndredth part of an inch in diameter ; the finest only the one thousan dth live Hundredth part. Uncle Ardle is an aged African who, mtil the Charleston (S. C.) earth uako of 1S86, lived in a cabin on the banks of tho Savannah Eiver. Tho earthquake scared him, and he built a sort of nest in n big onk tree, where lie lived contentedly until the recent tyclone came along and blew him out. Joseph is now figuring on some other teheme to defeat the elements. file Owner ot the Indian's Land. The lands of the Fivo Xations (in (ho Indian Territory) aro ostensibly held in common, but as a matter of fact the disproportion in holdings is monopolistic to a remarkable degree. The real Indian derives little benefit From his patrimonial acres. The pale ikinned Jacob has stolen Esau's birth right. There are farms, rich and highly cultivated, of from 5000 to 25,000 acres ia a body; pastures ol long succulent grass whose fences a horseman cannot encompass from sun to sun ; mines opulent with their stores of coal; but they nra controlled by professional red men, or tho mixed breeds whose dominant blood is white. It is 6aid that a score of Chickasaw citizens, ia whom combined there is hardly enough aboriginal blood to make a full-blood Indian, control nearly ninety lcr cent, of the arable lands of that Nation. A Cherokeo squaw man is said to hold more land than is hoi .". by all tho full-bloods in the tribe. Under tribil law there is ao limit to tho extent of a citizen's iolding. He can control and enjoy the usufruct of ns much land as ho can fenco without encroaching upon tho improvements of a follow-citizen. A.s a consequence the National domain I1113 passed into the possession of th more intelligent and enterprising ele ments of tho tribes, tho iuter-married eitizeus and mixed breeds, who con ititute probably four-fifths of tha tho population. These landlords, many of whom operato on a scale colossal enough to mnko tho estates of the land barons of the Old World seem mere truck patches in comparison, utilize white non-citizen labor in the jultivation nnd improvement of their rast fnrms. Tho Indian agricultural toiler is nn anomaly, and colored labor is uncommon. As a rule, especially in tho opening up of new farms, tha tsnant not only furnishes tho labor, but the improvements also, under an innual rental contract bused on a 'bare of the crop. Harper's Magazine. In International Fat Men's Dinner. A fnt man's dinner has just taken jlsee at Grenoble, in Danphine, France, and the undertaking has been so successful as to warrant the resolu tion to make it a yearly institution. All the fat men in the world were in vited to the entertainment on condi tion that they did not weigh less than 100 kilos, or about 220 pounds. Among the crowd who put in an appearance there were only two rascals. But that they had lead stowed away in their pockets and linings was soon discov ered and they were expelled. Loudon Answers. A 'obleman Turns Showman. Baron Fricks, a Bussian noblemni, living in Copenhagen, has just turned showman. He is enormously rich, lml his eccentricities had put him in dis grace with his family. He is travel ing now with one colored man, two monkeys, three bears, one lion, four pigs, forty porrots, innumerable cocks and hens, and a brand new Hungarian wife of great beauty. Making Imitation Stones. Tho monnfocture of imitation stone at various kinds is a rapidly growing Industry in this country. It is en jouraged by the demand for a great variety of rock materials in the build ing of modern cities. Architects, are always looking for new substances to create variety and lend ornnmentatioa in construction. Tho production ol artificial stones is ono of the most im portant of tho indirect results of tlu development of geological eeieaco. WashiiiKtoa Star. ElLEfJT SIFTING. i l r. r.-:i I; f "? ji,i Tt i V i' I r.-"i v."r--
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