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V. e 1 4 I if. B. F. HOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8. Bditer ud VOL. XLIX MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. .WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1895. NO. 321 f. CLOT 4. fPJl CIIArTEU IX. (Continued.) "So I.ady Dorrington is In town," salA the latter, after their first exchange or greetings. "Indeed! I have not heard from her." ' "I don't think I was mistaken. I safl nor drive np to Mrs. Ituthveu's hotel al 1 loft this morning." "I diil not think she would be up just ct. How is Mrs. Kuthven to-day?" Wo great things." said Shirley. "Thil nif.irtutmto business has taken sneh a t.old '.11 lier. I believe she suspec-ts every smil that comes near her. irlio outfit t get a ar. arM.irg new scenes and people. It is n pity she has bought thrs villa." "It Is not a had Investment. Bbe might ell it nny day for a thousand or so more, than she gave. The owner was very hard uji for ready money." "Ah: that's always tho way those that nave, to them shall be given. And oul charming friend has a keen appreciutluP of a bargain:" "Of course it is in her blood," said Marsden, laughing. "Now I must go and look after this sister of mine. Shall jov see Mrs. Until ven to-day?" , "I hope to do so. She fancies she baa Mine faint clew to the ruffian that robbed her. I don't believe it myself. It sceml there is some suspicion about a half-caste, from I'undleherry. I scarcely know what." and Shirley pulled himself up. "I avoid the subject with her now." "We cannot wonder if she Is a little .m.rl.id: I shall call at any rate early to-morrow." They interchanged "good mornings" and parted. "I wonder the bereaved widow did no! tend for me'!" mused Marsden. "Whj does she hanjr on to that cad?" He walk ed blowly toward his club. . "I dou't fancy she cares for him, not now at least I wish she did or, for any one except my self I She might have him for a trustee (.he may have whom she likes. I am well imt of my difficulties, and I'll take deuced food care to keep clear of any more. The fact Is I am very simple in my tastes, only I fell in with an extravagant setl I wish Mrs. Kuthven would take her departure anywhere, even to another world. Has she made a will? 'Who has she left her money to? She has no relations. Sup pose she made me her residuary legatee? That would be too comic! I wonder why she is so civil to Nora? She Is always watching her. She is such a keen devil, she suspects I am in love with my charm ins cousin. Ay! but she little knows how deeply 1 That girl has given mo a fresh youth and force, and invention. Nothing shall part us. Itut I must bp cautiour Tor a littlo longer then then I So, with head erect, a delicious sense ol success uplifting his spirit, Marsden stroll ed down Turk lane and along 1'icadilly. Reaching hi club, lie found a note from his sister, commanding rather than invit ing him to dinner that day. Marsden felt bound to obey much to his annoy ance. Lady Dorrington was exceedingly form idable to him just then. She knew some thing of his life and embarrassments and she suspected more. She bad no hesi tation in questioning him. In the coolest and most embarrassing manner; more over, it was exceedingly diflicult to mis lead her. Marsden, however, prepared himself for the ordeal, and "came up smiling" at seven-thirty, with his pleasnutest, frankest manner. "Well, Clifford, and what have yor oeen doing with yourself siuco we part ed?" asked I.ady Dorrington, when din tier was over and they were left alone. "A great many things. It has been t beastly time altogether. I was over In Amsterdam, as you know, nfter these un lucky jewel I was In great hopes ol finding a clew there, but it's no use. Mrs. Kuthven will never see them again. Then I went to l'arls, to see I3e Meudon. He was awfully ill. poor fellow gastric fever or some such thing. I spent a few days, with him at his villa, and had a talk with some of the principal jewelers In Paris, but could find nothing. One of them suggested the stones might have gone to New York or Sydney. Then I enme over here to attend to Mrs. Kuthven's busi ness she. wns In such a violent hurry about that villa." "Is tho affair finished, and the monej paid down?" sharply- "Vps," returned Marsden, looking uj inrprised. "Why do you ask?" "Thank God!" said Lady Dorrliigtot tmphatically. "You know I never mince matters, and I can tell you I was in a horrid fright about this purchase, lest well, lest the money for It should not bt forthcoming In time." "My dear sister, I am Immensely flat tered by your high opinion of your only brother," bowing ironically. "That is all very Well, Clifford, but I know you, and I know what temptation a large sum of money absolutely at your disposal must be. I dreaded the appoint ment of a new trustee and the discoveries he might make; that was one reason why I was so eager to press your marriage with Mr.. Kuthven. I am still anxlout tor it, but not for its. immediate celebra- tion." "Isabel!," said Marsden quietly, but In tone of feeling, while he looked straight at her, his soft, dark-blue eyes grave j and reproachful, "I have been reckless, extravagant, everything I ought not to be, but to rob a woman, too, of whom I am. In a sense, the guardian that is an in famy of which I am incapable." He wai evidently a good deal moved. "I do no deserve such suspicions from you." "Well, I am sure I hope not," cried Lady Dorrington, with a searching look, "I beg your pardon; but I confess I have been terribly uneasy since you paid off that mortgage of (Ireonwood's, In May.'l "Ah! yes. I was wonderfully lucky las ipring. I won a few thousand at Monaco, and De Mcudon's broker managed to double them several times over; In short, I never bad such a chance before, so I was able to clear Greenwood and one ol two other small things. Vou may wel' beg my pardon. If you believed me to b suc h a bluekguard, how could you can iKiugh nboi;t me to wish me married t woman to wisa to sacrifice an Toman to me?" "Clifford," cried Lady Dorrington, "1 know that you have very little principle, yet I am fond of you. I have seen you (trow up. You have always been nice and kind to me, and you are the last of out family. I want to see you well married and free from the awful temptation ol money difficulties. If I have done you ujustlce I am very sorry." "I can afford to forgive you, Isabella w If you knew how much I value your good opinion you would not have wounded ne as you have done." Lady Dorrington, quite melted, held ut her hand, and Maisdeu rose, took It, ud kissed her brow. "Now," she resumed cheerfully, after t. moment's .Hence, "let us talk seriously oi Tour marriage." "Must I marry?" "Why, yes; of course. It Is a specla. Intervention Of Trovldence that .cut Mrs. Kuthven in your way and such an at tractive woman, too." "Yes, ahe docs her boat in that line." "And to judge by your conduct, espe daily the night oi that unlucky ball, she Is eminently siMeessfuI. You really must Lot play fast ae loose with a woman'i ttTectlons." "Affections! Y'ou don't mean to sa; you believe Mrs. Kuthven has any affec tions. She baa vanity, If you like, and gratifies It unscrupulously; they used to ell funny stories of her up In the Hills." "Still, Clifford. I do think she is sin cerely attached to you; and just consider what her money would do for you ant' your estate!" "I don't think you show much true friendship for her by trying to marry her to an Impecunious country gentleman." "Nonsense! f Y'ou only want a little ready money to put you straight again, and the estates would soon recover them selves." "Give her another chance," pursued Marsden. "Ask one or two matrimonially disposed peers to meet her, and see if my fascinations would counterbalance a coro net." "I shall do nothing of the kind," crici Lady Dorrington Impatiently. "I dare say you are talking' in this strain just to worry me. I dare say you have made up your mind to marry her all the time. If so, do not be too sure of your game be ware of that Captain Shirley. Ho is a rival, a masked rival; he Is always hang ing about, and acting as if he were her best friend." "He is decidedly objectionable; but 1 do not fear him." "You are wrong, Clifford! He is not tt be despised! I am going to persuade Mrs. Kuthven to come down with me to Ched worth. It will draw her away from her perpetual fretting about those jewels; these are a perfect craze; and I think those horrid detectives are playing upon her credulity; it is a game that pays well." "I don't believe she Is the sort of woman to waste her money In any direction. But she is a little gone off about this unlucky robbery. Do you know she seemed dis posed to suspect Shirley himself!" "Is it possible? Well, she knows him better than we do. I do not like his coun tenance!" "Nevertheless, I do not suppose his be ing objectionable to you is any proof that he would be guilty of felony," said Mars den, laughing. "Of course not! I am not so silly as tc think any such nonsense! But, seriously, Clifford, I want you to come down to Clied worth and help me to cheer up poor dear Mrs. Kuthven there is very good shooting, you know how strictly Dorring ton preserves his game and If yon do make up your mind to marry Mrs. Kuth ven which I hope and pray you will everything might be settled, and the cere mony could take place early in tho new year." "Not so fast, my dear sister. I will do my best to oblige you; but I make no posi tive promise. Do not be too sure of your little game! However, I will so far oblige you as to bestow the delights of my so ciety on you for a few days; then I may be called away, for I have some business in hand which requires my personal atten tion. So I will leave the final cheering up of our fair friend to you." More than this he would not promise. Lady Dorrington was therefore forced to be content. "I hear Mrs. L'Estrang and Nora are In town? What in the world are they doing here? Wasting their money?" "I suppose they got bored and nervous at Brookdale. Why should they not be comfortable and happy? It can cost next to nothing, Hving as they do." "Oh, you think people are strictly eco nomical when they don't drive four-in-hand and sit down to truffles, pinapples and pate de fol gras every dny. How ever, they have a right to please them selves. I wish Winton would make haste to marry Nora; it Is tlm. sh. were aet Jed." "Are you sure he intends to marry Nora?" "He Is behaving very badly if he does not. Why, he almost lived in her house til the summer, they tell me." "Is It not just possible he may marry Mrs. L'Estrange, who was his flame long ago? It looks to me very like a case of returning to his first loTe." "Ah," cried Lady Dorrington. "Is it possible? That never struck me. I don't see why it might not turn out very well, and then Nora need not make any provision for her little sister; besides, I have often thought, what a nice match she would be for Dorrington's nephew, Char lie Dyson, l'ou know Charlie? A very good fellow, and getting on very well in deed at the bar. He would be the very thing for Nora. If Mrs. L'Estrange goes to India, we must marry Nora to some one, she cannot live alone." "Certainly not; wa must marry her tt some one," agreed Marsden, with cheerful alacrity. "I will ask them all down to Chedworth for Christmas. It would ba quit excit ing If th. triple event aame off at my house." "It would Indeed. Now," added Mars den, filling and swallowing a large glass of sherry, "I must lear you; I have one or two people to see before I retire to rest, so good night, slater mine; try and believe your brother la not a felon!" "My dear Clifford, how can yon say inch thiuiai? De Sure you do not lose money at cards or anything of that kind. Let me see you to-morrow, and remember, you have promised to come down next week to Ched worth." . . .- The morning after Lady Dorrington and ler brother bad dined together Mrs. Kuth ven received a second visit from Waite. lie wa. got up in a stylo of the severest respectability, and Blight from his ap pearance bar been the secretary of a benevolent institution. He paused in the middle of th room, and made a low bow. Mrs. Kuthven looked at him steadily be fore speaking, then a smile crept round W lips. 'I think we have successfully disarmed iny suspicions or fears Captain Shirley may have had," she said. "I can afford i to wait. You have done your work well, I it only remains to give you your reward." She opened her cash box, which stood m a table beside her, and counted out joma Qts,The maa's area sparkled, as he watched her! When she stretched out the notes, which she held loosely, he again bowed low. "It has been a difficult business," he laid, taking them; "perhaps the most diffi cult I ever undertook, nor could any one have succeeded bnt for the clew you pos sessed. You have rewarded me generous ly, and you will always find me ready to do your service." "I shall be more generous," said Mrs. ituthven eagerly. "If a year passes with out a whisper, a suspicion of the truth getting abroad, you shall have twenty-five pounds. If two years, fifty; after that all will be safe. But no other creature be yond you and ma has the faintest inkling of tho fact, therefore should it be known. It will be through you. But," she dwelt an the word, and then paused, "should I be disposed to open the case, to punish the the felon" her small hand, which lay on the table, clinched Itself tightly, "your evidence will be forthcoming?" Waite bowed. "Have you brought me the papers your written account of your tearch?" "I have." He drew a long, well-filled envelope fin his breast pocket and gave it to ber. "That is well." She grasped it eagerly. 'Of course," she continued, in a changed voice, "of course my object is to get bnek my jewels. If I can do that, I do not wish to destroy any one. That would do me no good." "Certainly not, madame, if it give you ao particular gratification." "Y'ou have a wido experience, Mi. Waite. I suppose human nature does not seem very estimable to you." "We know nothing better, and certain y nothing worse," he returned, philosoph ically. "At any rate, this especial culprit has been fortunate. Had you left him to the regular police, nothing would have taved him from public trial; but, even with your help, I doubt if they would ever have tracked him. Englishmen ore clumsy in such matters, and I found my nationality, my familiarity with my father's language, of important assistance in my researches. As I said, it Is well for " "Captain Shirley," cried a waitei, growing open the door to its fullest ex tent. Mrs. Kuthven and Waite exchanged a .ook, and a slight smile passed over the lips of the latter, while Mrs. Kuthven rapidly thrust the packet she bad just re ceived into her cash box and locked it before she rose to receive the newcomer with a sweet smile of welcome. ' Waite stood back with an air of extreme deference. "Very glad to find you ore looking so much better," said Shirley, who was neat er, fresher, keener than ever. "I am almost myself again," she replied, men turning to Waite, she said gracious ly; "I need not detain you longer." "I wish you good morning, madame, tnd deeply regret I could not do you better service." "I am quite sure you have done your est. I have your address if I need your usistance further. Good morning." (To be continued.) Cold and Appetite. Trofeesor Raoul IMctet, as la weii xnown, has found methods by which exceedingly low temperatures may be obtained, Whllo the Arctic regions provide Bome fairly cold weather say 60 or 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit Monsieur I'lctet Is abla to Improve on nature's achievements, and when he wishes 150 or 250 degrees below zero, ho can obtain it. How this Is done it is unnecessary here to state. It Is Interesting to study the effects of such low temperatures on animal life. Dogs, when Introduced to such nn environment, stand It well, provided they are covered in blankets and wool, and provided tho experiment la a short one. But a curious fact Is that whim they come out they are fearfully hungry. Having seen that dogs stood the ei periruent well. Monsieur Tictet tried the effects of tho intense cold upon himself, and went down into his "cold pit" carefully dressed in warm cloth ing and furs. The temperature was kept steadily at 110 degrees below zero, centigrade 100 degrees Fahren heit After four minutes Monsieur IMctet felt very hungry, and was more so when he put an end to the experiment, coming out of the cold after eight min utes. He took a hearty meal and en Joyed It greatly; tind this seemed all the more strange because for years he had not known what It meant to be hungry. Appetite was a word without meaning to himi and the di gestion of each meal was commonly such a painful process tha,t he ate very little, and never enjoyed It He repeaed tho cold treatment daily for a week, and after eight cold baths of eight or ten minutes each, his rain and distress after eating vanished. Ap petite wns restored and digestion be came painless. Since these experiments, now some months old. Monsieur Tletet has been in excellent health, and he thinks much may be accomplished for the relief of certala diseases by the cold treat ment, which he calls frlgotherapy. The Best Thin.to Io. In a letter to the Sydney (Australia) Telegraph a missionary on the Fiji Isl ands writes thus apropos of the Krcat hurrlcnno: "I most firmly believe that the best thing a man can do In n hur ricane Is to keep on praying and nail ing up diagonal Unices." France has an a i m num. torpedo "oat Tho greatest density of our popula tion is in the region whre th; mean annual temperature is fifty to tlfty-iivo degrees. In 189.1, 12,102,311 babels of buck wheat were raised, ground itto meal ami made into cak-.-s to be duly served with butter. Ziramcrmar, the bicyclist, is able to exert one and a fonrtn horse power for six seconds at a time. This is equal to raisiup 188 pounds three feet hih in one second. ruradoxical 89 It uv sonud tbre are severel varities offish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep sea dwellers. By means of a qualruple effect dis tilling apparatns thirty-six pounds of water may lo evaporate! with . oue pound of coal. There is a spring on Pecos river in San Miguel county, New Mexico, which throws ont a' stream fifteen feet wide and three feet deep. Afghanistan has an area of 279,000 miles, or about the combined area of Idaho, Colorado and Floridp. More than one third of the foreign immigration to this county came during the decade from 1880 to 1890. FISHINCU, Alder fish pole, six feet long Looked quite straight a-growlng; Home-made fish line, good and strong- Used for harness sewing; Hook ma gave me, that she found Sticking in pa's trousers; Worms 1 dug out o' the gronnd My! but they were rousersj. So I went a-fishing, down In the white birch chopping. Waded me and Lnther Brown - Get our breeches sopping! But the trout they bit like Sam-' Just came up a-flying. Grabbed the worm and then ker-Maa On the bank were lying. Feller came along, and said 'Twant the way to take 'em, Ought to let 'em play, instead Not haul back and snake 'em, lowed he'd show us how to do, With his little feather; Fished all day, and just caught tw Laid it to the weather! Coming back, with pockets fat. Me and Luther found him. Fighting skeeters with his hat 'Bout a million 'round him. Feller said there want no trout In that dratted holler; Cussed his luck and bought us out For a silver dollar! '-New York Clipper. ONE evenintr not many years ngo George Wilson made his way through one of the streets of New naven. His full name, a.i It appeared In the catalogue of the university, was George Ellis Wilson, of Smithville, Ta. He had Just eaten supper, had hurried across the busy streets and down this little lane till he came to a dimly lighted second-hand book store. After pausing at the threshold long enough to shake the snow from his coat he entered. The air of the room had the musty odor peculiar to old books, and the lit tle old man who kept the store seemed to have absorbed some of the musty learning of bis shop, such a scholarly stoop did he have and so dusty werf his clothes. An effort had been made to sort some of the books, and over several shelves was hung the label "Keliglous," and over some others "Greek and Latin,' winie in tue extreme corner were "Translations." Wilson eyed these last suspiciously, for he had "boned" his way through preparatory school, and he had made up his mind not to "horse" through col lege. Turning to the Latin books, he looked them through till he came to a copy of Horace, somewhat the worse for wear, but still serviceable. Wilson glanced over the pages of the Horace, and, de ciding that it would answer his pur pose, paid the old man S3 cents, put the book In his pocket and went out into the street. Tho next morning he got up late, and in his hurry to get to breakfast put on the coat Just as he had left It the night before. At chapel, however, during the long prayer, while the president was Imploring "blessings for the heathen in all lands," under which head Wilson would have little thought himself in eluded, be pulled out the Horace and looked at the fly-leaf. There were two of the Initials of the ormer owner, W. B., and his class, 55. The last name had been carefully scratched out Up in the corner there wns a note, evidently written during ome recitation thirty years before, "Can you tutor me an hour in trig, to morrow?" By the time that Wilson had observed this much the prayer was ended, and the president was walking down the middle aisle, while the seniors, in ac cordance with a custom handed down from long ago, were making prodigious bows as he passed, and falling In un ceremoniously behind him. Pocketing the book, Wilson returned to his room, and, after a few prelimln iries, began to get ready to study. No one can study a book until be has thumbed it over and over and made himself familiar with it. The first thing Wilson did, therefore, was to glance over the pages of hla Horace ' and see what sort of a fellow its former owner was. On the fifth page he saw something ;hat attracted his attention. Written In a man's hand in rather small charac ters, as though the writer would not . have It too public, and on the inner edge of the leaf, was the name "Mary." Smiling to himself, Wilson turned on. Nothing else noteworthy appeared till he came to what was evidently a very diflicult passage on the fifty-first page, for the leaf was badly worn and soiled, and written In the same hand as before were the names "Mollie" and "Mame." ! Wilson turned to the first ode and worked steadily over the dictionary for two hours. Then he started for the recitation room. i The professor was William H. Hender son, but the boys always called him RIIHe behind his back, and occasionally some one made a slip and called hiir Billie to his face. He was very serious, seldom known to smile, and a regular "grinder." Sto ries were abundant about some love af fair that be had while a' student at Yale, ind of a girl whom he had been engaged jo who left him for a wealthier man and i trip to Europe. But stories about college professor, ire common, and no one pays much at tention to them. No one supposed that B1W. nenawton could, ret Jiftrt taougnt much ol anytning except Latin, Every time that Wilson took up his Horace to study his eye caught sight of "Mary" or "Mollle" or "Mame." One day. In looking over the notes In the back of the book Wilson made a discovery. Down in tho corner of a page In the same handwriting was "My Mary." "I'd like to know who that fellow wm ind what became of Mary," thought Wilson. "What a nice little plot for a true story J I could make out a whole love affair from these names In the book. Let's see. Something like this: "Chapter L Student comes to New flaven from Western home, Js hazed, meets a pretty girl, name Mary some thing or other; tries to study Horace and finds himself writing 'Mary' In his book. "Chapter IL Takes her to glee clnl .oncert, borrows money for the ticket! and gets uncomfortably In debt, be comes absent-minded and begins to write 'Mollie' and Mame.' "Chapter III. Scene A beantifu parlor; Mary, beautiful and collected, seated on a sofa. Student, with one band In coat packet, standing by grate fire, with one elbow on mantel. He com plains of his hard luck in Horace; is sure to flunk on exam. Mary consoles him tenderly. Student goes over to sofa, looks into Mary's dark eyes, tells her the trouble is that his Horace sings of no one but Mary, and that the ret of his fellows and the professor don't translate that way. Mary blushes beautifully. He takes her hand and they are very happy. "Chapter IV. The fellow goes to hh room and writes 'My Mary' In his Hor ace and flunks on the exam." Suddenly another idea struck him fie turned around and started for his room. On reaching it he took a trien nial catalogue and looked through to see what names In the class of '53 had the initials W. B. To his perplexity he found several names with these nitials. "Well, If there Isn't Blllle Hender .ion's name! I never thought of it, but I suppose his name Is really William," said Wilson to himself. "He could never have owned this book, though, for he must have been a regular grind." ' The term was drawing to a clos then one day Frof. Henderson an nounced to his class that they should bring their own copies of Horace to the class-room on the next day. They would do some reading at sight, he ex plained, and the class would be allowed to use w hat notes were to be found in their books. The next day, therefore. Wilson took his Horace to class. The passage which was assigned K aim was the one which the former own er had found so difficult and had sought relief for his feelings by writing "Mame" and "Mollie" on the margin of the page. Wilson, however, buckled lu manfully, and when called on translated with some fluency and sat down. The professor looked over the top o. als glasses and said, rather sternly: "I do not understand, Mr. Wilson, how you obtain the meanings that you give to some of the words." Wilson hesitated a moment, and thei a happy thought struck him. Something that he had seen in the notes came to his mind. "I think, professor," he said, "that mj text must differ from yours." "Ah!" said the professor. "Let m see your text." The professor took the book am glanced over tho page. His expressiot changed In a moment. Old memories seemed to come up, and he leaned his head on his hand and looked steadily at the book. Finally he raised his eyes, and, hand Ing the book to Wilson, said: "You are quite right, Mr. Wilson." After the recitation was over Frof Henderson called Wilson to bis desk. "I should like, Mr. Wilson," he said, "to obtain that copy of Horace from you when you are through with It, If you have no objection to parting with it It's an odd edition, you know," he added, in explanation, "and I I should like to have it to compare with othet texts." "Well, I'll be blowed!" exclaimed Wii son, as soon as he was well away from the recitation-room. "Who would have thought it!" And he buttoned up his coat and hur ried to his room to tell the story t Johnson. Chicago News. Consul Doty's Kanaka Wife. The telegraph brought the news a few days ago that J. Lamb Doty, Amer ican Consul to the Society Islands, had married a native, a half caste, and had et up housekeeping. It seems that the slrl bears the name Mueva Turnero Kauri, and she Is said to hare) brought a neat dowry to her husband. She is only 16, and Doty first met her a few months ago on the beach of a neighbor ing island, where she was trying to bring to shore her capsized canoe. Youns Doty Induced her to elope to another Island, where he married her according to the simple native formula, which merely requires that the con tracting parties eat togather and make a number of pledges. No wedding ring Is required, no cake, no clergyman's fees, and no license. When Doty re turned to Tahiti with his bride, he rented a house, and the pair are now living In South Sea Island style, with a . good stock of cocoa nuts and taro root. The girl's guardian appeared soon after , they set up housekeeping and wanted , to take her back to his house, but Doty ' showed him this would be unwise anl he consented to let her remain. Young Doty was not of age wheu ' Cleveland appointed him Consul at Tahiti nine years ago. Since then be has been a South Sea masher, for ha i has been engaged to two Island prin-' cesses, but in each case the relatives prevented marriage. Doty la well known In Washington, .where he has Influential relatives. His mother has a close friend In Ambassador Bayard, and his brother Is an Episcopalian clef- i gyman In Washington. He was a bright ' boy, who first started as a page In the ' House, but since he has been In the south seas ha has developed many so 1 vntrlcltles. Wa hope that when the girls go to heaven, their robes will not gap In the back, and be a source of inHnual worry. THE STEAMSHIP KORTHWEST One of th Ideal Water Palacaf Planned by Jamea J. HUL. , I HE steamship Northwest la out I of the Ideal water palaces planned by J. J. Hill, president of tht Great Northern Ball way, for the freight and passenger traffic of his line be tween Duluth and Buffalo. She 1st tht largest combination boat afloat on th CTeat lakes, steel ribbed and braced, hlgh-prowed, and with the weathei capacity e f at ocean steamer. Shi is compartment built for both water and air, and her architectural ' "nxx. unes are drawn on th basis of what Is called Clyde de signs. She Is one of the fleet ef the Northern Steamship Company, and was built with an eye to the future possibility of her traveling between Duluth and England, should American waterways ever exist with sufficient carrying capacity to bring the com tierce of the seas Inland. Like all the boats of the Northern Line, she Is white in color, with high water line, double decks, double cab fns, and her motive power under water. Triple compound engines of the latest STEAMSHIP JTOBTHWXST. pattern operate her, while her equip ment for times of danger is double that of any boat on the lake. She was es pecially constructed for heavy weather and large carrying capacity, with maximum of safety. A Mountain Tragedy. I was traveling over the Cohequld mountains when balled by a shabbily dressed woman standing in the door ray of a cabin. "Halt, stranger," she said In the sharp nasal tones of the people of that dis trict. "Air ye goln' to the stoahT' I told her I was going to the village hist beyond and asked if I could do tnythlng for her. "Ye kin, shore. I can't leave little Dave an' he's crying for a pah of new shoes. Ain't never walked a step In his life, an' he's six years old thi spring. Ain't never had no shoes, eye ther, but he's spUIn' dear-though for a paih now. Heah's the chink to get 'em with an' somefin ovah f oh yo' trouble." And she turned out some loose changr 'rom a cup aha held In her hand. 1 told her I would get the money when I brought the shoes, and she gave me a slip of paper which was just the length of little Dave's foot, and I rode off and was gone all day, going back In the lhadow of the evening In an atmosphere of fresh spring odors. The cabin door was closed, but Just outside sat a gaunt man with a rifle across his knee. He looked at me as If he saw me not. "Good evening." "Evenin." "Is the woman In?" . "She air." "I've brought little Dave's shoes. "You're plumb too late," "Is he--" "Gone evah the divide." I handed him the shoes, saying gently s I could: "Perhaps the little chap would Ukr to wear them now." He comprehended, but shook his head as he took them, and I rode away, hearing on the still night air the wail ing cry of a woman and trying to con lure In my mtnd a picture of the Uttl hap who had "never walked." On the Wall of Pasteur's Laboratory rasteur Is the most distinguished graduate of the Paris Ecole Normale, which has Just celebrated its hun dredth anniversary. In commemora tion of the event a tablet of black mar ble has been placed on the wall of his laboratory In the old Rue dLTm, now Rue Pasteur, Inscribed: "Here stood Pasteur's laboratory, 1S37 (fermenta tions), 1S60 (spontaneous generation), 1865, (disease of wines and beers), 18S3 (silkworm distempers), 1S81 (virus and vaccine), 1S64-18SS (hydrophobia reme dies)." Above Is a medallion with th "etters L. P. Interlaced. Pertinacious. Whlttier was frequently annoyed by admiring strangers who not only called on him, but thriftily Insisted on put ting up with him all night "Thee has no idea," said bis sister, "how much time Greenleaf spends trying to lose these people in the streets. Sometimes he comes home and says, 'WelL sister, I hnd hard work to lose him, but I have lost him. But I can never lose a her. Then women are more pertinacious than the men; don't thee find them so Uariar " Vroteotlna French Vines from Frost Frost bells are tolled In some dis tricts of France when frost is threat ened. Immediately the inhabitants place qualities of tar between the rows of grape Tines. The tar is lighted and volume of dense smoke arise, which protects the Tinea. Cycling Bard on Doctors. "Yes," aald a well-known Minneap olis physician the other day, "the bi cycling erase la hard on the doctors. Why, to-day aa I was coming down town I saw a man who owes ma $50 tiding a brand-new wheel, and a few minutes later his son passed on a new wheat, too. Yea, It Is hard oa as do toskt - P.DiLTBiPL The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: "The Unpardonable Sin." Texts: "All manner of sin and blam.hom- shall be forgiven unto men. but the bla phemy against the Holy Ghost shall not N forgiven unto men. And whosoever speakett word against the Son of Han It shall be fop (riven htm, bnt whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither In this world, neither in the world t roT-." Matthew xil., 31, 31 "He found nt p of rnpentanee. though he sought t chav uily with tears.'' Hebrews xii., 17. As sometimes yon gather the whole famil) around the evening stand to hear some book read, so now we gather, a great Christian family group, to study this text, and now may one ana toe same lamp cast its glow ol all the circle. You see from the first passaen that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost fot Iwhioh a man is never pardoned. One having committed it, he is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Kttrmons Itiavhff nrfulliml to lilm onniu mnv ) m ai,n to him, prayers may be offered iu his behalf. um an to no purpose, tie is a captive forthis world and a captive for the world that Is to come. Do you suppose that there is any on nerewnonas committed that sin? All Rim are against the Holy GhoBt. but my text speaks of one especially. It is very cl-ar tc my mind that the sin against the Holy Ghost wns tne aseriuing ot tne worKs ot tho spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of th apostles. There in an impression in almost everj man's mind that somewhere in the futurn there will be a chani-e where he can correct all his mistakes. Live as wo may, if w only repent in time God will forgive us, and then all will be as well as thoueh wuhal never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shal show you. my friends, as God will help me, that there is such a thing as unsuccessful repentance; that there are things clone wronij that always stay wrong, and for them yoi: may seek some place of repentance and seek It carefully, but never And it. Belonging to this ela-s of irrevoeaiilo mis takes is the foil v of a misspent youth. We may look back to our college days and think how we neglected chemistrv or geology oi botany or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all our days. Can we ever get the discipline or the advantage that we would have had had we attended to those duties in early life? A man wake up at forty year of age and finds that his youth has been wasted, and he strives to get back his enrlt advantages. Doe. he get them back thi days of boyhood, the days in college, the days under his father's roof? "Oh." he says, "if I could only get those times back again, how I would improve thero!" My brother, you will never got them back. They are gone. gone. You may be very sorry about It, and God may forgive, so that you may al last roach heaven, but you will never get over sonw of the mishaps that have come to your soul as a result of your neglect of early duty. Yon may try to undo it; you cannot undo it. When you hnd a boy's arms, and s boy's eyes, and a boy's heart, you ought to have attended to thosnthings. A man says it fifty years of age. "I do wish I could get over these habits of indolence." When 'did you get them? At twenty or twenty-five fears of age. l'ou eaimot shake them off. they will hang to you to the very day of four death. If a young man through a long eourse of evil eonduiit undermines his physi cal health and then repents of it in afterlife, the Lord may pardon him. but that does not brjtig back good physical condition. I said lo a minister of the gospel one Sabbath at the Jlose of the service, '-Where are you preach ing now?" "Oh." lie says. "I am not preach ing. I am suffering from the physical effect" f earlysin. 1 can't preach now; I amsick." a consecrated man he now is, and he mouraf bitterly over early sins, but that does not rrest their bodily effects. The simple fact is that men and womet Slten take twenty years ot their life to build np influences that require all the rest ol their life to break down. Talk about a man beginning life when he is tweuy-ono years of age; talk about a woman beginning life when she is eighteen years of age! Ah, no! la many respects that is the time they close life, la nine cases out of ten all the ques tions of eternity are deeided before that. Talk about a majority of men getting their fortunes between thirty and forty years! They get cr lose fortunes between ten and twenty. When you tell me that a man is just beginning life, I tell you he is just clos ing It. The next lifty years will not be of as jiuch importance to him as the first twenty. Now. why do I say this? Is it for the innoyam-e of those who have only a baleful retrospection? You know that is not my way. I say it for the benefit of young men ind women. I wantthem to understand that eternity is wrapped ujt in this hour; that the lins of youth we never get over; that you e re bow fashioning the mold in which your treat future is to run; that a minute, ii Itead of being sixty seconds long, is ma.Ae np of everlasting ages. You can see whr.t dignity and importance this gives to the life of all our young folks. Why, in tha light of this subject life is not something to be frittered away, not something to be imirked about, not something to be dance 1 but, but something to be weighed in the balances ot eternity. Oh, youug man, the lin of yesterday, the sin of to-morrow will reacD over lu.OOO years aye, over the great nd unending eternity. You may after while say: "I am very sorry. Now I have rot to be thirty or forty years of age, and I lo wish I had never committed those sins." ft'hat does that amount to? God may par Ion you, but undo those things you never will, you never can. In this same category of Irrevocable mi takes I put all parental neglect. We begin the education of our children too late, lly Ihe time they get to be ten or fifteen we wake op to our mistakes aud try to eradicate this bad habit ami change that, but it is too late. That parent who omits In the first ten years at the child's life to make an eternal impres lon for Christ never makes it. The child will probably go on with ail the disadvan tages, which might liv been avoided bf pareutal faithfulness. Now you see what a tnlstako that father or mother makes who puts off to late life adherence to Christ. Here is a man who at fifty years of age sayi to you, "I must bo a Christian," and ha yields his heart to God and sits in the place of prayer to-day a Christian. None of us can doubt It. He goes home, aud he says: 'Here at fifty years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish i family altar." What? Where are your children now? One in Boston, another in Cincinnati, another in New Orleans.and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your family altar? Very well, bet ter late than never, but alas, alas, that yev did not do it twenty-nve years ago! When 1 was in Cbamouni, Switzerland I saw In the window of one of the shops a picture that Impressed my mind very much, it was a picture of an aceident that occurred on the side of one of the Swiss mountains. A company of travelers, with guides, went tp me very steep places places whichbut iew travelers attempted to go up. xhef were, as all travelers are there, fastened to gether with cords at the waist, so that if one slipped the rope would hold him, the rope fastened to the others. Passing along tha most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped and they all started down the preci pice. But after awhile one more musculni than the rest struck his heels into the lea and stopped, but the rope broke, and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the res' sent. And so I see wholo families bound to gether by ties of affection and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldlinesf and sin. The father knows It, and the mother knows it, and they are bound all to gether. After awhile they begin to slidi down stnener and steeoer. and the fathei becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting hii "feetTon the "rock of agee. He stops, buj the rope breaks, and those who were onet tied fast to him by moral an 1 spiritual in. fluenees go over the precipice. On, there i inch a thing as coming to Christ soonenougt to save ourselves, but not soon enough tt a ve others. How many parents wake np In the lattei part of life fp find out the mistake! The par- i-nt say3, "I have been too lenient," or "1 have been too severe in the discipline of my children. If I had the iittle ones around u gain, how different I would do!" Y'ou will never have them around again. The work is lone; the bent to the character is given; tha Itemity is decided. I say this to young par ents, those who are twenty-five and thirty r thirty-five years ot age have the family kltar to-night. How do you suppose that father felt as he leaned over the couch of his dying child, ami the expiring son said to hluii "Father, you have been very good tc aie. Y'ou have given me a fine education ind you have placed me in a fine social pe tition : you have dono everything for mo in t worldly sense: but, father, you never told re how to die. Now I am dving, and I am ifraid." In this category of Irrevocable mistakes I place also the unkinduesses done the de parted. When I was a dov, my mother used io say to me sometimes, 4,De Witt, you will 36 sorry for that when I am gone." And I remember just how she looked, sitting theni irith cap and spectacles and the old Bible in, ler lap, and she never said atruerthingthaa that, for I have often been sorry since. While we have our friends with us we say unguarded ttiintrs that wound the feelings of those to whom we'ought to give nothing but kindness. Perhaps the parent, without In quiring into tha matter, boxes the child's fars. The little one. who has fallen in th itreet. comes in covered with dust, and a ihough the first disaster were not enough she whips it." After a whilo the child is taken, jr tho parent is taken, or the companion is taken, and those who are left say: ''Oh, if we could only get back those unkind words, those unkind deeds! If wo could jnly recall them!" Hut you cannot get :hem back. Y'ou might bow down over iie grave of that loved one and cry and sry and cry. The white iips would make no inswer. The stars shall be vilucke l out of heir sookets, but these Influences shall not e torn away. The world shall die, but Jiere are some wrongs immortal. Tho jioral of which is, take care of your friend rhiloyon have tliem. Spare tho scolding. Be economical of tho satire. Shut up in a lark cave from which thev shall nuverswarm rth all the wordsthathavo asting in them. ron will wish you had somo day very soon fou will, perhaps to-morrow. Oh, yes. ft'hilo with a firm hand you administer par ?ntal discipline also administer it very tently. lest some day thero be a littlo slab n the cemetery anil on it chiseled, "Our ft'illie," or "Our Charlie," and though you low down prone in the grave and seek a lace of repentence and seek it carefully Vith tears, you cannot find it. Thera is another sin that I placo In the lass of irrevocable mistakes, and that is ost opportunities of getting good. I never tometo a Saturday night but lean ee dur jigthat week that I have missed opportun ties of getting good. I never come to my lirtliday but I can see that I have wasted nany chances of getting lietter. I never go lome on Sabbath from the discussion of a -eligious theme without fieliiig that 1 might lave done it in a more successful way. How s it with you? If you take a certain number f bushels of wheat and scatter them ovtra jertain number of acres of land, you expect harvest in proportion to tho amount ot ieed scattered. Anil I ak yon now, Havo "ho sheaves ot moral and spiritual harvest torresponded with the advantages given? How has it been with you? Y'ou may make resolutions for the future, but past opportun ities are gone. In the long procession of future fears all those post moments will march, but the archangel's trumpet that wakes the dead rill not wake up for you one of those privi ged. Esau has sold his birthright, and thero s not wealth enough in the treasure houses )f heaven to buy it back again. What does iat mean? Ii means that if you are going to ret any advantage out of this babbatn dny fou will have to get it before the hand wheels tround on the clock to 12 to-night. It means liat every moment of our life has two wings. ind that it does not ny like a nawk in cir lles, but in a straight line from eternity to iternity. It means that, though other thariots may break down or drag heavily, iiis one never drops tho brake and never eases to run. It means that whilo at other feasts the cup may be pa'sed to us and we nay reject it, and yet nfter awhile take it, 'he cupbearers to this feast never give us but )ne chance at the chalice, and rejecting that ire shall "find no place for repentance, hough we seek it carefully with tears." There is one more class of sins that I put a this category of irrevocable sins aud that s lost opportunities of usefulness. Your usiness partner is a proud man. In ordi jary circumstances say to him, "Believe in hrist, and he will say. "ion mind your justness and I'll mind mine." But there hm leen affliction lu the household. His heart S tender. Ho is looking arouud for svtn )atbv and solace. Now is your rime. Speak, ipeak, or forever hold your peace. There is t time in farm life when you plant the corn md when you sow the seed. Let that go by, tnd the farmer will wring his hauds while Hher husbaudmea are gathering in tlm iheaves. You are in a religious meeting, indthere is au opportunity for you to seak I word for Christ. You say, "I must do it." four cheek flushes with embarrassment. fou rise half way, but you cower before men rhose breath Is in their nostrils, and you lag back, aud tlm opportunity is gone, ind all eternity will feel the effect t your alienee. Try to get back hat opportunity! Y'ou cannot find it. fou might as well try to find tho fleece thai Uldeon watched, or take in your hand the lew that came down on tho locks of tht Bethlehem shepherds, or to II ml tlm plume ol ;he nrst robin that went across paradise. II is gone it is gone forever. When an oppor- ;umty for personal rcpeutancu or of doing ood passes away, you may hunt for it; you ;annot flud it. You may lish for it; it will aot take the hook. You may dig for it; you ;annot bring it up. Itemember that there re wrongs and sins that can never bo cor rected ; that our privileges fly not in circles, but in a straight line; that the lightnings bavenot as swift feet as our privileges when they are gone, and let an opportunity of sal vation go by us an inch the one-huudretli ("art of an invb, the thousandth part of an neb, the millionth part of an inch an I no man can overtake It. Fire winged seraphim cannot come up with it. Tho eternal GoJ Uimself cannot catch it. I stand before those who hav a glorioui birthright. Esau's was not so rich m yours. Sell it once, aui you sell it Ior;ver. I re member the story of the lad on the AretM lome vears ago the lad btewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the timo of a fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Home of tho passenger got oft in the life"oats, some got off oa rafts, but 3D0 went to the bottom. During all those hours ot calamity Stewart Hol land stood at the signal gun and it sounded across the sea boom, boom! The helms man forsook his place; tins engineer was gone, and some fainted, nud some prayed, and some blasphemed, und tho powder wol gone, and they could uo more set off the sig nal gun. lue lad Drone in memagiizineauu brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed oa the rough seas of lite, some have taken the warning, havo gone off in the lifeboat, and they are safe, but others are not making any attempt to escape. So I stand at this sig nal gun of tho gospel, sounding the alarm, beware, bewarol "Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation." Hear it that your soul may live. A Shaft to Be Sunk One Mile. Sod was cut at Calumet. Mich., for shaM No. 5, Tamarack mine. The shaft will be large enough for eight compartments aud will extend vertically almost one mile intc the earth bufore striking copper lead. It will require four Years working, day and night with powerful dynamite to reactt the vein. He who has seen the light is sure of his way. The average life ot a locomotive is eaid to be about fifteen years and tha earning capacity $30(1,000. According to English authority the bankruptcies in England and Wales average 120 weekly. The annual army expenditure of Greece is 13,000,000 drachma. A drach ma is about twenty cents. The army and navy of tie Argen tine Confederation are kept up at an annual cost of $13,000,000. The territory of ancient Troy and that of the District of Columbia, are qual, to seventy square miles. ; ;. i - -':! ..( : . i. ' If t t' in tnii t t. i ill T