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B. F. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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VOL. XL1X
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 1. 1895.
NO. 20.
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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.
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