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VOL. XLIX
MIFFLINTOW1N, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1896.
NO. 24.
CIIAPTEK IV. Continued.
"We had better go on to the gate. It It
tot more than half a mile," said Mar
len.
"I will go, and perhaps Doctor Weldos
will accompany me," replied Winton, "bu
four prolonged absence will be remarked
You had better show yourself."
"I am with you!" cried the doctor, wh
had tied a large silk pocket hamlkerchiel
over his hend as a measure of precaution
"And you. Captain Shirley?"
"I shall return to the house. It seemi
hopeless and fruitless to search further.
My impression is that the jewels are irr
parably lost. They will be out of theil
tettings by to-morrow and can never b
identified."
"Still we must do our best," said Mara
den. "Come, we'll get a glass of cham
pagne and hear how Mrs. Kuthven is."
..
The announcement of supper gave everj
ne sufficient and agreeable occupation!
o the absence of the host was but llttl
remarked.
Meantime, Mrs. L'Estrange and Nora
had gone upstairs to Lady Dorrington'!
room to gain news of Mrs. Ituthven's con
dition, and to keep ont of the way, as th
nerves of both had been a good deal
shaken.
"She is a good deal quieter," said Ladj
Dorrington, coming to join them. "Sha)
had another fit of hysterical crying, which
has relieved her. My maid and her own
will sit by her all night in turns, so she
will never find herself alone. I have just
seen Clifford, who was going to wash
and brush away the traces of his search
In the shrubbery. They found a mask,
cloak and a long, shnrp knife."
"A knife!" echoed Nora and her step
mother with a shudder.
"We had better go downstairs. Thej
have gone in to supper, and I must say
feel the want of something dreadfully. I
am quite exhausted, and so infinitely dis
tressed about this horrid business; df
come, Mrs. IEstrange."
In the hall they met Winton. who had
Just returned with Dr. Weldon. Thrj
had found the Oldbridgp gate securelj
locked, and no traces of footsteps. Tht
daring robber seemed to have Tanishe'
as mysteriously ns he came.
"That is not to be wondered at, consid
ering the number of persons moving about
on such a night," continued Winton. "Tha
scoundrel had only to be cool and leisure
ly and he might have walked through thi
whole army of guests and servants.
"It gives one a frightful feeling of Inse.
curity," said Mrs. L'Estrange.
"There is no cause for fenr now," saia
Winton. "The robber has secured hir
booty. He will keep his distance. Yot
look so scared that I would advise sup
per and champagne."
"And I am glad to confirm Mr. Winton'i
advice," said Dr. Weldon. "Come, mj
dear madame," offering his arm to Mrs
L'Estrange.
"Permit me, Ludy Dorrington," said
Winton, following his example, "and Misr
L'Estrange."
"I can take care of you, Nora," iuter
rupted Marsden, who came up at that
moment, and he drew her hand through
his arm. "Why, what pale cheeks! J
thought you were a plucky girl!"
"You are pale enough yourself, squire,
and no wonder! Imagine if that dreadful
man had used his knife!"
"Oh, well, he did not! I suspect he onlj
had it to cut his way into the tent. I hope
there are a lot of accomplices; that is out
only chance of recovering the jewels; oth
erwise Winton fears there is very littla
prospect of doing so." Here he stopped
nddonlr Anil drew his cnniimnion behind
group of palms close to the door of tha '
Slipper room, as the Marchioness ol
Clankford came forth in earnest couversa
tion with Lord Dorrington.
"I am not going to be caught," he whis
pered, as he again pressed on to the sup
per room, "until you have given me thai
waltz I have been looking forward tc
through all this unfortunate business.
Come what may after, I am determined t
(natch one bit of enjoyment. Give m
some champagne," he cried to one of his
own servants, who were stationed at the
principal table, where the older and
weightier guests were to be feasted; h
held out a tumbler which he emptied at
a draught, to Nora's surprise, then he In
sisted on her taking some, and pressed
her to eat, with great solicitude,
"It seems rather heartless to go and
dance, after seeing poor Mrs. Ruthven In
such a state, her beautiful jewels torv
from her!"
"Nonsense," returned Marsden, abrupt
ly, "she is rich enough to buy others. A
true woman, I mean a true-hearted wom
an, which is another thing, would not b
inconsolable for the loss of a hundred
such baubles. It would not Injure health
r reputation or affections. You would
lot care If you lost all the diamonds of
Golconda provided those you love wert
left you; that is, if you loved any one?"
Nora looked at him with a vague feel
ing of alarm. His white face and flash
ing eyes struck ber as unusual. She had
been accustomed to look upon him as a
near kinsman, a contemporary of her
father's, the friendly head of her house.
Now, a sudden revelation flashed upon
her that, although considerably her seuioi
In years, he was as young, as full to the
lips with life, as herself that he wai
something to be guarded against why,
she did not know, nay, she would have
Indignantly denied the existence of such
an Instinct, had she been accused of It. Sc
she pnt her hand on his arm, and glided
away with htm, to the undulating music
if the Manola Waltz.
Presently she said "Stop stop!" and
Marsden brought her up, skillfully, neai
the recess of a window.
"What is the matter? Are you tired?"
"No, but I do not want to dance any
more! I was sure you were taking too
much champagne, squire!" looking
straight at him. "Do you know you held
ne so tight It was quite uncomfortable?"
"Did I?" exclaimed Marsden, laugh
ing. "I am sure I beg you a thousand par
dons! It was, of course, quite nncov
eclously.
"I dare say, but I am sure you ougbj
not to dance anv more!"
"Why? My dear cousin, do yon think 1
tannot stand a few tumblers of cham
pagne? Do you suppose I would takl
more than I could manage? You are p
Itively insulting! Come, I shall never for
give you if you don't finish the waltx wltl
."
"I really would rather not I am not li
the humor for dancing. I should prefet
going home and you are not quite as at
steady as you ought to be. You are not S
bit like yourself. Don't be angry with me,
I should be so sorry to vei you, particular
'y to-night."
"Then take another round. No, I wil
aot let you off!"
"Well, squire, I see Helen at the othei
jide of the room. I will go so far wits
rou, then I will go home."
"Say Clifford or I shall do somethini
ireadful."
"Very well! Flcase. Clifford, be verj
steady."
Marsden tried to pass Mrs. L'Estrange,
but Nora made a stout resistance, and
they presently bade Lady Dorrington
ood night.
"Shall I see you home?" asked Winton.
"I do not think either of you look par
ticularly brave or comfortable."
"Yes, do come!" ejaculated Mrs. L'Es
trange. "I shall see to all our bars and
bolts before I sleep to-night"
"I will just teli Marsden I shall return
to hear if there is any message from tht
Inspector, and will be with you directly."
"So Winton Is going to escort you
home?" aaid Marsden, coming out witl
Nora to tha carriage. "Are you sure ht
Is sober enough for such a task?"
"Mr. Winton? Oh, yea ha la neve
anything else but sober!"
Marsden laughed, not pleasantly.
By this time the story of the robber
had got afloat, and great was the ex
citement and hubbub. A thousand fan
tastic additions were made to a history
strange enough In Itself, and Marsden
was almost mobbed by his guests, eagei
for Information.
But the idea of continuing tha festlvlrj
was quite given np; the company gath
ered in groups to discuss the extraordi
nary outrage committed almost in theli
midst, and gradually dispersed to theil
homes at a much earlier hour than wai
anticipated.
And so the grand Eveslelgh ball, whlcl
was remembered for many a year, cama
'.o an end.
CHAPTER V.
The day succeeding the ball was m
of Intense excitement to Marsden's some
what scratch household.
It was many a day since the Old
bridge police had risen to such import
tore, and they made the most of It.
Evesleigh House was pervaded by stal
wart guardians of the public peace.
They rummaged the rooms, sent the high
minded house-maids Into hysterica by
examining their boxes; tramped to and
fro in the grounds, every now and then
carefully following foot-prints which had
I'cen mnde by their fellows. They near
ly took tho Italian confectioner, sent
down by the great London house which
furnished the more sublime portions of
the supper, into custody; they examined
the men, and were "sauced" by the
women; but they discovered nothing,
and they Impressed Marsden with a con
viction of their incompetence. He there
fore dispatched a telegram to his solicitor,
requesting him to obtain the assistance
f a detective from Scotland Yard.
Whf n Nora walked oyer to inquire for
Mrs. Ruthven on the afternoon following
the search she was a little surprised by
being admitted to the presence of that
lady, who arose from her writing table
to greet her with a smile.
She looked pale, and the shadows be
neath her eyes were dark, as If she rvere
exhausted by the excitement she had
tone through.
"Thank you, my dear Miss L'Estrange,
for coming to sea me! Captain Shirley
tells me you were so good as to be rery
frightened about me last night I as
sure you, I am grateful; I fancy few care
much for me!
"Oh, every one likes you! every on
must like yoo," cried Nora, touched by
her caressing manner and soft voice, "I
was awfully frightened! yon looked like
death! I wonder yon are aa well as yon
leem."
"I feel very shaky, however. Wai
there ever so andacious a crime? and
that awful long knife! I must have been
near death for a moment."
"Don't think of it" said Nora, shud
dering: "and they have fonnd no clew as
ret to the thief?"
"None not the faintest. The cloak,
hat and mask were all rolled up together,
with the knife, I am told; and are none
of them of English make? they are no
help. Captain Shirley says, no doubt
the robber had other clothes or covering
to pnt on, and probably walked away
coolly and openly, as a guest who was en
Joying the freshness outside after the
warmth within."
"But he will be discovered. Surely ht
will not escape?" said Nora.
"Not If money and perseverance cat
trap him," said Mrs. Ruthven, in a low,
resolute tone, that struck Nora as hav
ing a touch of cruelty. "What an ending
to a charming ball!" she contnued;
"though it did not quite end did it? I
believe you had a few dances after."
"Yes," returned Nora; "all the people
did not know for some time what had
happened, so the band played on, but
by half-past 2 all was ended."
Something kept her back from saying
'.hat she and Marsden had danced.
"Oh, of course!" said Mrs. Ruthven.
slowly raising her eyes, till they rested
Dn her companion's. "There was no rea
son why two or three hundred strangers
should 'cease their funning,' because an
outsider was robbed. And who did yon
iance with?"
"With the Squire; you know he alwayk
said I should have one dance with him if
he ever gave a ball."
"Very natural, Indeed," said Mrs
Ruthven, sweetly; "yon have known him,
I believe, all your life?"
"Oh, yes; when I was quite a baby, h
was so much with my father, I nsed to
think him a second one, so when I met
him again I was quite astonished to find
him so young."
"And not at all fatherly? I under
stand. How long was it since on had
met?"
"Nine or ten years; but he was just tha
jame as ever; so good-natured and pleas
ant, though he treats me like a great
baby, and never Bpeaks a reasonable
word to me," aaid Nora, smiling, and col
oring at the tone In which Mrs. Ruthvea
ad uttered her last words.
"Well, he must be a charming relative."
remarked Mrs. Ruthven, with a slight
sigh, and for a abort while they talked
pleasantly of Eveslelgh and country life;
the various places both had visited on
tho continent, and the delights of the
past season in London.
"It was rather ominous, waa it not,
ihat you should express such a wish last
night to sea all mw jewels?" aaid Mrs.
Ruthven. "If you like I will show you
what is left of them. Unfortunately I
put on the best I possessed to do honor
to the Evesleigh revels."
"Thank yon very much. I am exceed
togls issi cf seeing pretty thin"
"Come, then," aaid Mrs. Kuthven, and
led the way into her bed-room, where
her maid was kneeling beside a huge
dress-basket which she waa packing. Va
rious garments were scattered about, and
the beautiful ball dress of tha previous
night lay over a sofa.
"Are you going away, then?" exclaimed
Nora, aeelng these preparations.
"Yes; I leave to-morrow. I feal I can
cot shake off tha nervous terror which
oppresses me while I stay here; besides,
I want to be In London. Give ma my
jewel case, Virginie, and you need Dot
wait"
Mrs. Ruthven walked across to the bay
window, in which a long, low, cushioned
seat gave room both for herself and her
visitor, and drawing a work table near
her, placed tha large square case upon it
"My poor loat rubles and diamonds had
a case of their own," she said, as she
nnlocked the one before her with a little
golden key which hung round her neck.
"These are mere whims and oddities,"
she continued, aa aba displayed a variety
of costly artistic trifles on tha first tray,
and then proceeded to lift the others con
taining opala and diamonds, pearls tur
quoises, quaint richly herbaria pieces
of Indian Jewelry enough for two greedy
women.
"If yon have all these left, you are
not so much to be pitied," aaid Nora
laughing.
"My dear Miss L'Estrange, my rublet
Are worth more than all those put togeth
er. Besides, my poor father collected
them for me, and had them set for a wed
ding present I well remember Mr. Mars
den (he was at my wedding, you know,
my husband waa a relation of his) telling
me that the Queen had scarcely anything
surpass them. It la a dreadful blow
slng them, I assure you."
"Yes, I can quite understand it" aaid
Nora, "and I think you bear tha loss
with wonderful equanimity."
Mrs. Ruthven smiled, and looked
ireamily out of the window.
Marsden's ardent sympathy, his eager
ness to accompany her to London, to
comfort her In every possible way, had
been an Immense consolation. As she
did not speak for a moment or two. Nora
rose and went to look at the ball dress.
"What a lovoly gown. You were likt
t picture as you came into the ball-room.
Why, Mra. Ruthven," stooping and gently
moving the lace drapery on the body
with her fingers, "you drop your abundant
lewela about like the possessor of a fairy
nine! Here is a diamond among your
ace,"
She held It out as she spoke.
Mrs. Ruthven came forward with an air
of surprise, and stood gastng at it aa if
rtupefied.
"How could it have come there?" she
xclaimed, and stopped short
"It is a stud! Is it not like one Capt
3b.Ir.ey, or soma one, wore laat night?"
askedNora.
"Shirley !" repeated Mrs. Ruthven slow
ly. "He never had a stona like that"
She paused again, then, taking and plac
ing it in her jewel case, she added: "It
Is mine. It Is the center of one of my
tnrrings, which takes out to form a stud.
It belongs to some I seldom wear. Vir
ginie is really too careless. She must
have dropped it By the way," shutting
her jewel case sharply, "the only part
of my parure that wretch spared were
the butterSles on my sleeves. I suspect
h bad not time to tear them off." She
shivered. "Is it not a horrible thought?
That wretsh stooping over me, tonching
me while I was insensible! Pray ring
the bell, dear Miss L'Estrange. I do
to want a cup of tea. You will stay and
have one with me, will yon not? You
cheer me."
"I shall be very glad."
"Come into the next room then," sala
Mrs. Ruthven, adding, "I shall not scold
Virginia before you, It might hurt her
feelings, and she is a clever maid, but
she must have been handling my things
carelessly to let that diamond drop."
(To be continued.)
Unexpected.
A few years ago, when "Hold tha
fort" waa one of the new and popular
hymns, the superintendent of a Sun
day school In a Connecticut town took
a great dislike to the song. After hear
ing the story, readers may be disposed
to think that his antipathy was not
without reason.
It was at a children's day exercise
of the Sunday school. The arrange
ments were for the whole school, head
ed by the superintendent, to make a
triumphal entry Into the church. In
which the audience were already seat
ed. Accordingly, a hundred or more
boys and girls formed In line, each
class headed by its teacher, and carry
ing banners, marched In at one of the
side entrances. As they marched, they
sang, "Hold the Fort" The superin
tendent, smiling and perhaps a little
pompous, led the way.
At the moment of entering the
church they were beginning the second
stanza, which runs:
See the mighty host advancing,
Satan leading on.
The audience was quick to appreciate
the ludlcrousness of the situation, and
a slpple amusement went through the
church. Several In the procession stop
ped singing and smiled. The awk
wardness of his position dawned on tho
superintendent and he turned rery red.
Some of the children, seeing their oi
lers smiling, laughed outright
A complete breakdown waa imml
oent when one of the teachers began
to sing "Onward, Christian Soldiers."
This was Immediately taken np by the
whole school, and a fairly successful
entry was made. "Hold the Fort" has
neer since been a favorite with that
Sunday achooi.
All truth is nons. use o the man who
has let a lie wake its borne in his
heirt.
Despise tot little temptations:
rightly met, tbey have often nerved
the character for some fiery trial.
The man wbo makes 'bis own god
has one that drivea him with an iron
whln- . .
No matter what kind of a house
truth builds, it always puts it on the
rock.
There is no land flowing with milk
and honey tnat does not have giants
in it.
There isn't a millionaire alive to-day
whom an angel would consider rich.
There are certain ridiculous things
men and women do that are as natural
to catch from each other as the measles
are.
if we were sure of b iving enough to
last ne through to the end, it would
be the greatest wisdom to spend as we
g.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the woods near Mabanoy City.
If your religion makes yon wast to
fight to defend it you've got the wrong
kind.
1 No matter wbo has the floor, self
conceit will a) way a find a way to speak
BOW TYPE IS MADE.
IOOURAOY REQUIRED IN EVERY
DETAIL.
jack. Steaearement Vast Be Made tc
the Thousandth par of aa Inch
Typo Metal a Combination of l'ou
Ketala Extent of tha Bnalneaa.
Great Industry.
VERY type In a
font, like every link
In a chain, must be
perfect in itself, or
else the work of the
maker counts for
nothing. Perhaps
in no other indus
try, unless It be
watch - making, la
such scientific ac
curacy required Inj
every detail. Each
measurement must be made to the
thousandth part of an Inch, and If a
nold or a die Is not exact to the hair's
breadth a whole casting may be lost
for In this age of newspapers every
printed page Is Judged to a certain cl
ient from an artistic point of view, and
if the impressions of some type are
teavler than those of others or if the
tltgnment is imperfect or the spacing
woven It la subjected to condeuina
don. In this way type-founding b
somes a real art
One of the largest mannfoctoriea of
type in the world la located In Chicago
tnd the amount of type In tons which
4 turns out yearly runs well up Into
MATRIX
!he thousands. It Is a big, busy butld
ng humming with life and movement,
pore than 850 men and girls working
tt Its benches every day.
Four metals are combined to make
vhat Is known as type metal lead, tin,
sopper and antimony. The four are
nixed according to a aocret formula
ihe lead being the largest Ingredient
tnd placed In the crucible. Antimony,
which Is a most expensive metal. Is
sed because it gives hardness to the
ype-composltlon and because It haa
lie unusual quality of expanding In
ioollng, thus preventing the type when
ast from "falling away" from tht
nold and prcduces sharpness of th
lace and body of the type.
The first step In type-making la the
ratting of the letters desired on the
)nds of pieces of hard, fine steel. This
Is very difficult work and the men who
Jo It receive high wages. Each letter
tn a font must be exactly the same
height and the width must be cut ac
tordlng to rule. A separate one of these
lies or "punches" la required for each
lharacter In every font of type, and the
naklng of them Is the most expensive
jart of the business. Some of them
tost as high as $7. When a set of
punches" Is complete It goes to the
natrlz department Here little rec
angular pieces of pure copper known
is "strikes" have been prepared. For
minion or long primer type they are
about two Inches long by half an Inch
sroad. At exactly the proper point
3ear the top of each the steel die Is
Irlven In, and then the "strike" or em
bryo matrix goes to the fitter, wbo rubs
tnd polishes It down on big pieces of
landstone until It Is everywhere square
ind perfect and the depth of the letter
is exactly the same as the rest of thr
font matrices.
Next the mold Is made. This work re
julres the most skilled mechanics In
iteel. The pieces are all cut out by
athes, planers and sbapers and ground
Sown to Just the right size and then
polished on emery laps. There are
two main parts to the mold and they
may be to adjusted as to make room
for casting the bodies of letters of any
width from a 8-m size to an 1 size. A
rreat deal depends upon the accuracy
it these molds. The matrix Is now
A TTFX-CASTUO MACmSB.
fastened in the mold so that It will
form one end of the hole between the
two parta. Then one of the parts la
fastened to the casting machine and
the other to a movable arm. The metal
it kept fluid tn a little furnace heated
by gas and la projected by great force
Into the mold by means of a pump.
At every revolution of the crank the
mold approaches the pump spout takes
a charge of metal and files back with a
fully formed type, which Is cooled with
air-blasts and water from above. When
tbe movable arm Is as far back as pos
sible, a half of the mold llfta and the
type Jumps out At the lower end of
each one there Is a "Jet" of metal
which clings and haa to be broken off
by an automatic device. In some of
the larger styles of type the "Jet" to
removed by hand. When all the a's In.
the font are made the b matrix ts pnt
In, and so on to the end of the alpha
bet A casting machine will torn out
Trom 100 to 175 type a minute.
4. tTPlXoat la aomettmei measured PJ
DRIVE
weight In pounds and sometimes by
the number of rn'i which It contain.
Job fonts are always turned out by
count. The proportion of letters in a
font la interesting aa showltg bow
much more some letters are nd than
)thvs. In a 8,000 lower-case m font
it "minion 3," weighing 280 pounds,
there are 0.000 a's, 2,000 b's, 4,000 cs.
5.000 4's, 14,000 e's, 800 k's and BOO ja.
E Is used more than any other letter in
the alphabot, t la followed y a with
10,000; then by 1 and a, with 9,uuo eaai
then by s, with 8,000. The least used
letters are s, with SOO, and J and x.
with 500 each. Of the numerals 0 and
1 are most used, having 700 each. Borne
of the fractions hare fifty types to the
font and the braces have only twenty
Ire each.
The great newspaper offices use thou
ands of pounds of type every year.
But the recent Introduction of linotype
machines, which cast the type line by
line as fast as it la set, has severely
Injured the business of making body
type. A great Chicago dealer says
that the linotype machines have cut in
it least 25 per cent, the effect being
felt most in the orders from the big
city dallies. An effort Is being made,
however, to fight the linotype machine
with a machine which will set real
type, and In this the type founders
place a good leal of hope for the future.
But the business of producing new
styles of Job type and casting them If
till a great Industry.
WEARS AN ALUMINUM EAR.
AThat Science Haa Deae for an Un
fortunate BaglUkswa,
We have had people with glass eye
joroelaln teeth, and artificial whb
keca, and now along comes a man with
an aluminum ear. He Is 63 years of
use. and was adm!tltd into th Queen's
Hospital at Birmingham, England. In
April, 1893, with an epithelioma of tbt
left auricle.
-The greater part ofthe diseased eai
ffas cut off by the attending surgeon
ind a plaster-of-parls cast was taken
of the left side of his head. Then an ar
tificial ear waa built up In wax to
match the healthy one on the opposite
side. This bogus ear was then made
In vulcanite and aluminum, tinted and
enameled to harmonize with the com
plexion. No artificial contrivance.
TUB FALSE SAB.
luch as a spectacle frame, was made
use of to support the aluminum ear,
and adhesion to the bead was effected
by means of a saturated solution of
mastic In absolute alcohol.
The man can now hear aa well at
rrer, but he takes care to sleep on his
right side at night so as not to break
off his new ear At the same
time he has no fear of hav
ing It frost-bitten, and he Is prob
ably the only man alive who could
even partly comply with the request
Bf Marc Antony: "Lend me your ears.
swordsmanship Against a Tiger.
Sir James Ou train, known as the Bay
rd of India, waa a "mighty hunter"
and an accomplished swordsman. Hs
once performed the hazardous feat of
killing a tiger with his sword, and fro'n
the back of his horse. General Nlchol
son performed a similar feat
He rode round and round the tiger ax
i gallop, gradually narrowing the cir
cle, until at laat he waa near enough
to deliver his blow. He had only the
one blow, and If he failed to kill the
tiger, be himself would have been
lain.
The explanation of the feat la that
jhe tiger does not spring upon the horse
man during the circling process, be
cause he Is watching his opportunity.
As the circle draws closer and closer
upon him, he becomes bewildered by
the strange manoeuvre, so anliko thai
of any hunter he has ever encountered
Boat and Statues.
A correspondent of a scientific Jour
jal states that a bust or statue can be
most thoroughly cleaned, provided it
has not been painted, oiled or waxed.
by inverting It and fining It with water
free from iron. The water Is then al
lowed to filter through the plaster. Af
ter the filtering has been kept np for a
mfflclent time, and the outside surface
Kaslonolly waahed with water and a
loft brush, the plaster Is allowed to
lry. It Is then found that all the dust
has been wiped out of the pores of the
cast which is thus restored to its orig
inal whiteness.
In a Covered lUnt.
Canada Is probably the only place on
die continent where dancing on skates
mav be witnessed. Every afternoon
tt the abating rinks are seen graceful
young girls, accompanied by stalwart,
athletic looking youtns oanang to us
music of a military band. It Is Im
possible to describe the grace, ease and
apparent lack or exeruon wim wuico
these captivating young women gt
through the most Intricate figures. Ths
onlooker Is completely mystified and
watches the scene as if In a trance.
When It Is over, he votes ball-room per
formances insipid in comparison.
Tld Iilneo and Cotton Are Valuable,
Never destroy a bit of linen or cot-
on cloth. Moke a matter of principle
sf this, for such pieces are far too val
nable to be put out of the way. If an
artist friend does not
seize greeaiiy
spon them all. send them to any hos
. . . a
pltal; there is always a crying nera
- ... . v.
here of soft, worn stuff for bandages.
New linen will not fill the require -
menta. they must have been nsed
enougn to be free from dressing and
(tiffness.
TTnleHa some men are on the pay roll
ts.. nn TM.tr
5 . .. .
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P. DR. THUnflKL
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Words With Young SI en."
In his audiences at the New York Aeadem)
Of Music Dr. Talmage meets many hundreds
of young men from different parts of tht
Union, and representing almost every eajlins
and profession in life. To them he specially
addressed this discourse, the subject belnf
"Words With Young Men."
FATsrrra, O. -
Reverend S'.r We, the undersigned, belns
earnest readers c! your sermons, especially
request that you use as a subject for soms
one of your future snrraons "Advioeto Young
Men." Yours respectfully,
H. 8. MnxoTT. Chablks T. Rubxbt.
F. O. Millott. M. E. Eldcb.
. J. L. Shxbwood. S. J. Altmax.
Those six young men, I suppose, represent
Innumerable young men who are about uu.
dertaldng the battle of life, and who havt
more interrogation points In thelrmind than
any printer's oase ever contained, or prin
ter's fingers ever set up. But few people
who have passed fifty years of age are capa
ble of giving advlee to young men. Too
many begin their oounsul by forgetting they
ever were younj men thHmselves. Novembei
snows do not understand May time blossom
week. The east wind never did understand
the south wind. Autumnal goldenrod ma It el
a poor fist at lecturing about early violets.
Generally, after a man has rheumatism iq
his right foot he is not competent to discusa
tuvenile eiasticitv. Not one man out of I
mndred can enlist and keep the attention ol
the young after there is a bald spot on tbi
ra iilum.
I attended a large meeting in Philadelphia
assembled to discuss how the Young Men'i
Christian Association of that city might be
made more attractive for young people, when a
man arose and made some suggestions with
such lugubrious tone of voice and a mannni
that seemed to deplore that everything wai
going to ruin, when an old friend of mine,
ai seventy-live years, as young in reeunir fU
any one at twenty, arose and sali, "That
good brother who has just addressed yoq
will excuse ma for saying that a young man
would no sooner go and spend an evenins
among such funereal tones of voioe and
funereal ideas of religion which that brothel
seems to have adopted than he would go and
spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery."
And yet these young men of Ohio and aU
young men have a right to ask those wh
have had many opportunities of studying
this world and the next world to give help
ful suggestion as to what theories of life ont
ought to adopt and what dangers he ought
to shun. Attention, young men.
First, get your soul right. You see. that
Is the most valuable part of you. It is tht
most Important room In your bouse. It II
the parlor of your entire nature. Put th
best pictures on its walls. Put the best music
under its arches. It Is Important to bava
the kitchen right, and the dining room right,
and the cellar right, and all the other roomi
of your nature right: but. oh! the parlor ol
the soul! JSt particular about the guests who
enter it Bhut its doors in the faces of thoM
who would despoil and pollute it. There art
princes and kings who would like to com
Into it, whtle there are assassins who would
like to come out from behind its curtains,
and wltn silent loot attempt trie aesperatt
and murderous. Let the King come In. Ill
Is now at the door. Let me be usher to an
nounce His arrival, and introduce the Kin;
of this world, the King of all worlds, thi
King eternal, immortal, Invisible. Mnki
room. Stand back. Olear the way. Bow,
kneel, worship the King. Hare Him onci
for your guest, and it does not make muck
difference who comes or goes. Would yon
have a warrantee against moral disaster and
surety of a noble career? Bead at least om
chapter or the mule on your knees every daj
ef your ilia.
Word the next: Have your body right
How are you?" I often sav when 1 meet a
friend of mine in Brooklyn. Ha is over sev
enty, and alert and vigorous, and verj
Rromlnent in the law. tils answer Is, "I ait
ving on the capital of a well spent youth.1
On tbe contrary, there are hundreds ol
thousands of good people who are suffering
the results of early bUm. The grace of Ooi
gves one a new heart, but not a new body,
avid, the Psalmist had to cry out, "Re-
memDer not tne sins oi my youtn. xet a
young man make his body a wine oloset, oi
rum jug, or a whisky cask, or a beer barrel,
and smoke poisoned cigarettes until hii
hand trembles, and he is black nnder thi
eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then a
some church seek and find religion; yet all
the praying he can do will not hinder tha
physical consequences of natural law fra
tured. You six young men of Ohio and all
the young men, take care of your eyes, tbnst
windows of the soul. Take care of yout
ears, and listen to nothing that depraves.
Take care of your lips, and see that the;
otter no proianlttes. 'lake care or youi
nerves by enough sleep and avoiding un
healthy excitements, and by talcing out
door exercise, whether by ball or skate ot
horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarating bi
cycle, if you sit upright and do not join thai
throng of several hundred thousands who bj
the wheel are cultivating crooked backs anj
oramped chests and deformed bodies, rapidly
coming down toward all fours, and thi
attitude of the beasts that perish. Anything
that bends body, mind or soul to the eartl)
is unhealthy. On, it is a grand thing to I
well, but do not depend on pharmacy and thi
doctors to make you well. Stay welL Bead
John Todd's Manual and Coombs's Physloi
logy and everything you ean lay your hand!
on about mastication and digestion and assim
ilation. Where you find one healthy mas
r woman, you find fifty half dead.
rrom my own experience 1 can testily that
being a disciple of the gymnasium, many i
time just before going to the parallel ban
and puncning Dags ana puiues ana wetgnts,
I thought satan was about taking possession
of society and the church and the world, but
after one hour of climbing and lifting and
pulling I felt like hastening home so as to b4
there when the millennium set in. Take a good
stont run every day. I find in that habit,
which I have kept uo since at eighteen yearj
I read the aforesaid Toda's Manual, morl
recuperation than in anything else. Thos
six men of Ohio will need all possible nerva
and all possible eyesight and all possibla
muscular development before tbey get
through the terriflo struggle of this life.
Word the next: Take care of your Intel
lect. Here comes tbe flood of novelettes,
ninety-nine out of a hundred belittling to
every one that opens them. Here eome de-
elevated American journalism. Here comes
a whole perdition- of printed abomination,
dumped on the breakfast table and tea table
and parlor table. Take at least one good
newspaper with able editorial and reporters'
eolumns mostly occupied with helpful In
telligence, announcing marriages and deaths
and reformatory and religious sssemblages.
and charities bestowed, and the doings ot
good people, and giving but little place to
aasty divorce oases, and stories of erime
which, like cobras, sting those that touch
them. Oh, for more newspapers that put
Virtue In what Is called great primer type
and vice !a aoaparaU or agate!
Ton have ail seen the photographer's nega
tlve. He took a picture from it ten or t went v
years ago. You ask him now for a picture
from that same negative. He opens the
great chest containing black negatives ot
1886 or 1875, and he reproduces the picture.
Young men, your memory Is made up of the
negatives of an immortal photography. All
that you see or hear goes into your soul to
make pictures for the future. You will have
with you till the judgment day the negatives
of all the bad pictures you have ever looked
at, and of all the debauched scenes you have
read about. Show me the newspapers yoq
take and the books you read, and I will tell
you what are your prospects lor well being
J In this life, and what will be your residence
. milHnn vaam n f t il. ttiA otu An which 1
a million years after the star on which wS
now live snail nave uroppeu. out ui
Ula VODlrteluul01. i travel
1 Sunday unless It ne a ease of necessity or
percy. But last autumn I was in India in a
'Xf.une w2
I Cent to the apothecary's to get some pre-
: I jj i,h iniidind we had no eonfl-
ventitive Ol in" r- --r-
1 ."11 .H-r-, wa Durehased from
iv. ninrlona. Tha mail train waa to start
abhath evening. I said, "Frank, I think
Ihe Lord will excuse ns if we get out of this
place with the first train," and we took it.
not feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds of miles away. I felt we were right
In flying from the plague. Well, the air in
; many of our cities is struck through with a
worse plague the plague oi corrupt ana
damnable literature. Oet away from It as!
oon as possible. It has already ruined thq
bodies, minds and souls of a multitude
which. If stood in solid column, would
reach from New York Battery to Ooldev
Horn. The plague! The plague!
Word the next: Never go to any plac
where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt
that plan and you will never go to w evil
amusement nor be found in compromising
urroundlngs. How many startling casq
within the past few years of men called sul
lenly out of this world, and the newspapers
rurprised us when they mentioned the local
Ity and the companionship. To put it on tbe
least important ground, you ought not to go
lo any such forbidden place, because It vol
flepart this life In such circumstances yon
put officiating ministers in great enibarraas
fnent You know that some of the ministers
oeUeva that all wbo leave this life ji
traight to heaven, however ttrnjr have act
sd in this world, or whatever they have
believed. To get you through from such
urroundings is an important theological un
dertaking. One of the most anluons and
besweating efforts of that kind that I
ever knew of was at the obsequies of a man
Who was round dead in a snnwbanlc with till
mm Jug close beside him. But the minister
did the work of happy transference as well
as possible, although it didseem a little inap
propriate when he read: "Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord. They rest from
their labors, and their works do follow
them." It you have no mercy upon yourself
have msrey upon the minister who may be
railed to officiate after your demise. Die nt
some, or in some -lace of honett business,
pr where the laughter Is clean, or amid com
panionships pure ani elevatimr. Remember
lhat any place we go to mav become our
Itarting point for the next world. When we
enter the harbor of heaven, and the officer
of light comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at th
lght port.
Word the next: As soon as you can. by in
rastry and economy, have a home of your
jwn. What do I mean by a home? I meas
two rooms and the blessing of Ood on both
of themj one room for slumber, one for food,
Its preparation and tho partaking thereof.
Mark you, I would likj you to have a home
with thirty room', all upholstered, pictured
andstatuetted, but I am putting it down at
the minimum. A husband and wife who can
not be happy with a home made up of two
rooms would not be happy in heaven if they
got there. He who wins and keeps the arreo
tion of a good practical woman has dona
plorlously. What do I mean by a good
woman? I mean one who loved Qod before
ihe loved you. What do I mean by a practi
cal woman? I mean one who can help you
to earn a living, for a time comas In almost
every man's life when he is flung of bard mis
fortune, and you do not want a weakling go
ing around the house whining and snifilnsf
about how she had It before you mar
ried her. The simple reason why thou
sands of men never get on in the world
because they married nonentities and
never got overit. The only thing that Jobe
wife proposed for his boils was a warm poul
tice of profanity, saying. "Curse God and
die." It adds to oiir admiration of John
Wesley tho manner in which he conquered
domestic unhapplness. His wife had slan
dered htm all over England until, standing
In his pulpit in City Road chapel, he com
plained to the people saying, "I have been
charged with every crims in the catalogue
except drunkenness;" when his wife arose
In the back part ot the church and saldi
"John, you know you were drunk last
night. Then Wesley exclaimed, "Thank
God, the catalogue is oomplete." When a
man marries he marries fo.- heaven or hell,
and it is more so when a woman marries.
You six young men la Fayette, Ohio, hat"
'letter look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
high. Better rate yourself too low. If you
rate yourself too low the world will say,
"Come up." If you rate yourself too high
the world will say, "Come down." It is a
lad thing when a man gets so exaggerated an
idea of himself as did Earl of Buchan, whosa
speech Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printei,
could not st up for publication because ha
had not enough capital I's among his type.
Remember that the world got along without
you near 6000 years be tare you were born,
and unless some meteor collides with us, ot
some internal explosion oocurs, the world
will probably last several thousand year
fter you are dead.
Word the next: Do not postpone toe loni;
loins something decided for God, humanity
and yourself. The greatest things have been
lone before forty years of age. Pascal at
sixteen years of age, Grotlus at seventeen,
Romulus at twenty, Pitt at twenty-two,
Whitefleld at twenty-four, Bonaparte at
twenty-seven. Ignatius Loyola at thirty.
Haphaelat tliirty-aeven, had made the world
feel their virtue or their vice, and the big
gest strokes you will probably make for thi
truth or against the truth will be before you
reach the meridlam of Ufa. Do not wait i
something to turn up. Go to work and turn
it up. There is no such thing as good luck.
No man that ever lived has had a better tima
than I have had, yet I never had any good
luck. But instead thereof, a kind Providence
has crowded my lite with mercies. You will
never accomplish much as long as you go at
your work on the minute you are expected
and stop at the first minute it is lawful to
quit. The greatly useful and successful men
of the next century will be those who bogan
half an hour before they were required and
worked at least half an hourafter they might
have quit. Unless you are willing sometimes
to work twelve hours of the day you will re
main on the low level, and your Ufa will be s
prolonged humdrum.
Word the nextt Remember that it is onlj
a small part of our life that we are to pass oi
earth. Less than your finger nail compared
with your whole body is the life on earth
when compared with ths next life. I sup
pose there are not more than half a dozen
people in this world 100 years obi. But a
very few people in any country reach eighty.
The majority of the human race expire be
fore thirty. Now. what an equipoise ia such
a consideration. If things go wrong it la
nlvTOr a little while. Have you not enough
moral pluek to stand the jostling, and the
injustices, ana tne misnaps oi ine smaii par
enthesis between the two eternities? it is
food thing to get ready for tha one mile this
tide the marble slab, but more important to
get fixed up for the interminable miles which
tretch out into the distances beyond
the marble slab. A lew years ago on the
Nashville and New Orleans railroad we
were waked ap early in the morning,
and told we must take carriages foi
some distance. "Whvi'" we all asked,
But we soon saw for ourselves
lhat. while the llrst four or tlve
spans ot the bridge were np. farther on
there was a span that had fallen, and we
eould not but shudder at what might have
been the possibilities. When your rail train
starts on a long bridge you want to be sure
that the first span ol the bridge is all right,
but what if farther on there is a span of the
bridge that is all wrong; how then? what
then? In one of the Western cities the
freshets had carried away a bridge, and a
man knew that the express train would soon
eome along. So he lighted a lantern and
started up the track to stop the train. But
before he had got far enough up the track
the wind blew out tue light oi his lantern,
and standing in the darkness as the train
came up he threw the lantern into the loco,
motive, crviutr. "dtool Stop!" And the
warning was in time to halt the train. And
If any of you by evil habits are hastening on
toward brink or precipice or lallen span.
throw thi Gospel lantern at your mad
farcer: Stont Stout Tho end thereof ft
leathl Tonnir man. vou are caged now by
nanv environments, but you will after
twhlle iret vour win its out.
Borne one caged a Rocky Mountain eagle
tnd kept him shut np between the wires
kntll all the spirit and courage had gone
ut of it. Released one day from the cage,
(he eagle seemed to want to return to its
hrmnr nrlson. The fact was that the eagle
lad all gone out of him. He kept his wings
town. But after awhile he looked up at tha
mn, turning his head first this side and then
that side, anl then spread one wing and
(hen the other wing, and began to mount
until the hills were far under his feet, and
he was out of sight In the empyrean. My
brother, when you leave this life, if by the
race of God yon are prepared, you will
eome out ot the eage of this hindering mor.
. UUtr. anl looking ua hwrenU
heights you will spread wing for immortal
Oigbt, leaving sun and moon and stars be
neath In your ascent to glories that never
fade and splendors which never die. Youi
body is the cage, yonr soul is the eagle.
Word the next: Fill yourself with blna
raphles of men who did gloriously in the
business or occupation or profession you are
about to choose or have already "chosen.
Soing to be a merchant? Read np Petes
Cooper md Abbott Lawrence, and Jamei
Lcaujt and William B. Dodge and George
peabody. See how most of these merchant!
at the start munched thelrnoonday luncheoc
made np of dry bread and a hunk of chi-essj
behind a counter or In a storeroom, as they
Started in a business which brought them to
the top of influences which enabled them to
bless the world with millions of dollars con.
jeorated to hospitals and schools and
shnrohes and private benefactions, whera
neither right han i nor left hand knew what
the other hand did. Going to be a phvsicianl
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sit
Adam Clarke and James Y. Rimrwnn.
the discoverer of chloroform a an anaesthe
tic, and Leslie Keeley, who, notwithstanding
all the damage done hy his Incompetent Imi
tators, stands one of the greatest benefactors
of the centuries, and ail the other mk-l,t
physicians who have mended broken bones
and enthroned again deposed intellects, and
yiven their lives to healing the long, deep
?ash of the world's a-ronv. Goinir to lu
mechanic? Read up the inventors of sewing
maofeiaes sad cotton gins aal life sa.ving an-
naratus, ami the men wu w
builders and manufacturers and day iftnorert
have male a life of thirty years in thiscen.
tury worth more than the full 100 years ot
viy other century.
You six young'men of Ohio, and all t
other young men, instead of wasting youi
lime on drv essavs as to how to do irrenl
things, go to the biographical alcove of voui
village or city library, and acquaint your
wives with men who, in the sight of earth
and heaven and hell, did the great thing
Remember the greatest things are yet to ba
done. If the Bible b true, or as I had bet.
ter put it, since the Bible is lieyond all eon-h-oversy
true, the greatest battle is yet to bt
fought, and compared with It Saratrossa and
Gettysburg and Seden were child's play will)
toy pistols. We even know the name of tha
battle, though we are not certain as to whera
K wtlifnnfht. I refer tA Armnteddotv
The greatest discoveries fire yet to be made.
A scientist has recently discovered is
the air something which will yet rival
electricity. Tha most ol things 'have not
yet been fonnd out. An explorer has re
cently found in the valley of the Nile awhola
fleet of ships burled ages ago where now
there is no water. Only six out of the (M
grasses have been turned Into food like tha
potato and the tomato. There are hundred!
of other styles of food to be dlscovere,!.
Aerial navigation will yet be ma le aa saf
as travel on the solid earth. Cancers aac
consumptions and leprosies are to be trans
lesred from the jatalosrue or incurable dis
ease to tho curable. Medical men are now
lueoessfully experimenting with modes ol
transferring diseases from weak constitution!
which cannot throw them off to stout const!.
tutions which are able to throw thom off.
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be with
in hailing distance, and instead of conflnlna
our knowledge to their canals as 1 voleanooj
they will signal all styles of Intelligence t
us, and we will signal all styles of intelif
fence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted nine
teenth centnry with the dnrk aues. Undoi
the power of gospelizationthe world is golna
to be so improved that the sword and thi
musket of our time will be kept In museum!
as now we look at thumbscrews and ancient
Instruments of torture. Oh, what oppon
trinities you are going to have, young mci
all the world over, under thirty. How thank
ful you ought to be that vou "were not born
any sooner. Blessed are the cradle that art
Peing rocked now. Blessed are the student!
In the freshman class. Blessed those who
will yet be voting men when the new centurj
comes In, in five or six years from now.
This world was hardly lit to live in In tha
eighteenth century. I do not see how the old
folks stood it. During tins nineteenth century
the world has by Christianizing and educa
tional influences been fixed up until it doca
very well for temporary residence. But tha
twentieth century! Ah, that will be tha
time to see great sights and do great deeds.
Oh, young men, get ready lor the rolling ic
of that mightiest and grandest and mos
glorious century that the world has evei
seen! Only Ave summers more; five autumn
more; five winters more; Ave springs more,
and then the clock of time will strike tht
death of the old century and the birth of tht
new. I do not know what sort of a Decern,
ber night It will be when this century lit
dotrn to die; whefher it will be starlit oi
tempestuous; whether the snows will b
drifting or the soft winds will breathe upon,
the pillow of the expiring centenarian. Bui
millions will mourn Its going, for many havf
received lrom It kindnesses innumerable
and they will kiss farewell the ael bros
wrinkled with so many vicissitudes.
Old nineteenth century of weddings ant
burials, of defeats and vi -torics, of nation!
born and nations deal, thy pulse growing
feebler now. will soon stop on that Slsl
night of December! But right beside it will
m the infant century, held ud for baotism.
Its smooth brow will' glo with bright ex
pectations. The then more than l.iuu.uuo,
000 inhabitants of tho earth will hail itt
birth and pray for its prosperity. Im reign
will be tor a hundred years, nnn must oi
our life, I think, will be under tne sway oi
its scepter. Get ready lor It. Have youi
heart right, your nerves right, your brain
right, your digestion right. We will hand
over to you our commerce, our mechanism,
our arts and sciences, our professions, oui
pulpits, our inheritance. YVe believe u
you. We trust you. o pray lor you.
We bless you. Ajai tnougu iy tin
time you get into the thickest ol tn
fight for God and righteousness we maj
have disappeared from earthly scenes.
we will not lose our Interest in your strug
gle, and if the dear Lord will excuse us for
a little while from the temple servicu an
the house of many mansions we will comt
out oi the battlements of jasper and cbeet
you, and pernaps li mat nigut oi mis urm
be very quiet you may hear our voices drop
ping lrom afar as we cry, "uo mou lamiiui
-uto death and though ahalt have a crownl"
LEGAL DEFINITION OF ELBOW."
A Una Around tha Arm at ths Base of the
Kadlut.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior John
ill. Beynolds has decided a pension cast
which defines in medical phraseology ths
lines of the elbow. A pensioner was draw
ing $30 per month for the loss of the left
hand, but contended, under the act of Aug
ust 4, 1336, that ne snouia receive per
month, as his arm was amputated two and a
half inches below the elbow. In bis decision
Judge Reynolds says that the word "elbow"
in the act was evidently used in a conven
tional rather than a technical sense, and,
therefore, a line drawn around the arm at
the base oi me neai ui iuw ramus w.
beld to mark the lower limit of the "elbow."
Where the arm Is amputated at, on, or above
the said line, it is lost at the elbow within
the meaning of the act, and the rate ol pen
sion for the same will be 3G Liar mouth.
Mankind has been oftener persecuted
for righteousness' sake than for tho
devil's sake.
The man who cheats another robs
himselr.
Strength is born in tho deep silence
of long enflenng hearts; not amidtt
joy. r
Every life is a 'prayer of some kind.
Liberty has ruined more peoplo than
slavery.
The paths of righteonencas lead
straight into the valley of the shalow
of deatb.
Search for trnth is the noblest occu
pation of man : its publication a duty.
To be wise we have to learn some
thing and forget sometUiucr every day.
It is safe to assume that the man who
does not slam tho car door is a Chris
tian. So matter how much religion we
profess, all that counts is "bat we
live.
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