':';,-V r v. ys, X-w- . . w - "1 i : i B, F. BOHWEIER, TUB OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. XLIX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WM)NESDAY. JULY 31. 1895. NO. 33. ii6 - .!.' CnAPTEtt IX. Continued.) ShirU-y looked after him. , "Then he baa given up, has he?" hi asked quickly. "Fur the present, yes. There, don't Is, Bt talk any more about my misfortune I aru going to take your advice, throw thl load off uiy mind, and try what a change of scene will do for me. I have promised dear I.ndy Dorrington to go down and itay with her for a week or two. She sayf he will get a few pleasant people togeth er to meet me. It will be much bettei than going away by myself." "No doubt," returned Shirley, drawing a chair near the table, beside which Mra Kuthven sat "You look cheered up al ready." He glanced at the cash box. Weil, if I do. It is no ordinary prool of resignation. I have just had the .at Isfaction of paying heavily for my agent failure." "Oh, that's what brought Walte herel What a villainous countenance the follow has!" "I do not think so. In fact, the advan tage of his face is that it is absolutely ex pressionless; only I fear if he has no' tueoeeded. no one else will." "I suppose you will have Lady Dorrlng ton's cad of a brother at what do yor call her place?" "Chedworth? Yes. It Is highly proba ble." "I am not Important enough to be ask ed," said Captain Shirley in an injurec" tone. "Nonsense, my dear friend. But if you are, I am going to beg you not to accept." "Why? I am sure you would not le' me or any one interfere with you." "Certainly not," said Mrs. Uuthven, with sweet composure. "My renson for asking this favor is that I want you tc tell me what goes on in town." "Oh, 1 have to play the honorable pan of spy, have I?" "You can do exactly as you like. If you choose to disoblige me and break with me, you can. Only " An expressive pause. "You know very well I don't want to do anything of the sort. I confess to get out of temper when I see you determined to throw yourself away on snch a fellow as Marsden, when you might do so mucr better." "I am not jo sure I could. Mr. Mars den is evidently not the spendthrift you made out. The money you insinuated he had made away with for his own purposes was forthcoming whau I needed it. I prefer, too, being high up among the land ed gentry, to being the wife of some new made, insignificant peer." "Why not an old important one?" "Because at this moment there is scarce one available. The Peerage gives valua ble information." "And because the fascinating master of FJvesleigh happens to please your fancy?" "What is it to you if he does?" she cried, with sudden fierceness. "It Is a great deal to me. I hate th Idea," returned Shirley, bitterly. "You don't really mean to say yon still care who or what I like?" she exclaimed with a slight, not unfriendly, smile, "that Is too foolish. A strict alliance for our mutual benefit is wise and reasonable, but I think we have exhausted sentiment. The fact Is, yon hate Marsden. I can see your enmity curling the corners of your mouth, and gleaming through the glances you cannot veil. How can I trust you to tell me what goes on, without exaggera tion or prejudice. You may have nothing to report. Marsden may ask me to marry him during this visit. I fnncy Lady Dor rington expects it. If so, I fear nothing, for I do believe that if I were richer than I am rich as Croesus he would not tie himself to ma or to any woman unless she could give him pleasure! It will proba bly be but a short-lived passion. I sus pect he Is constant only to inconstancy till, temporarily, he likes me. Now if, as I have sometimes thought, he la taken with Nora IEstrange, he will be gad ding to and fro, and spending a lot of time at their miserable lodgings. I want you to keep me Informed of this. I am not going to let that girl Interfere with my plans, cost what it may to cut her outT She spoke with strong emphasis. "I understand," said Shirley, who had listened sulkily to this long speech. "It you have set your mind on Marsden or Eveslelgh, everything must give way. It is a poor marriage for you, and there can be only one explanation for It. Still, Marsden cannot be as heavily embarrass ed as I was led to believe. I was rathei surprised to find be was ready with the money for your new purchase." "Whatr cried Mrs. Kuthven. "You Im. agine Clifford Marsden would be faith less to his trust? What a base suspi cion." "I see nothing to elevate him above It," said Shirley with a sneer. "However, I will endeavor to carry out your wishes, as 1 have always done, but not for nothing." Mrs. Kuthven looked at him a curiour searching look. "Yon shall have your pay," she said, In any way you like except one." "You need not have mentioned the ex ceptlon; I am well aware of It." There was a pause. Then Mrs. Kuth ven said In an altered tone: "Lady Dorrington goes down to Ched worth to-day and I follow to-morrow." "How long do yon remain?" "Ten days, possibly a fortnight Now, my dear Shirley, I am going to be rather busy, and must bid good morning." "I understand," he said, "and obey." ....... Lady Dorrington had written a few lines to her goddaughter, excusing her self for not having called on or sent for her. Time was too short, she said. It was of the utmost importance to get poor dear Mrs. Kuthven away to a totally new scene, and among fresh faces. Mrs. L'Estrange smiled as she read the note. "I fancy Clifford Marsden will be her best comforter," she said. "Do you know," returned Nora In a wise, reflective tone, "I begin to doubt if Clifford cares as much for her as I thought he did." "Do your said Mrs. L'Estrange. "1 never quite shared your opinion on that subject though I think it likely enough they will marry. Mark Winton was say ing yesterday that there was an Idea at one time among her late husband' broth er officers that Mrs. Kuthven would marry Captain Shirley. It is curious that he should still be so much with her. When man is rejected, communications are B'iersJly jaroken oJJVl "It li mere gossip, probably the re port, I mean. Why should cot men and women be dear friends and nothing more?" "I am sure I do not know; but you don't often see it" "As education and common sense in crease, friendship between men and wom en will, I suppose, be more frequent" "Perhaps so," said Mrs. L'Estrange, doubtfully. "Mr. Winton was talking of 'returning to India yesterday. His leave of absence has not expired yet, but he seems anxious to get back to his work. He says he feels he is wasting his time here, and that for a man of his disposi tion, the only charm life possesses la work." "That la rather a dreary doctrine, is i, not?" "I told him to. He was very nice and pleasant yesterday, but I fancied there was an undertone of depression in all he said." "Why, Mr. Winton is the last man I should suspect of sentimental melan choly," cried Nora. "Perhaps he has lost some money." "I don't think you do Mark Winton jus tice, Nora. I have known him since he was a lad of seventeen, and, believe me, he has a good, true heart" "If you say so, I am quite willing to be lieve it" then, breaking off suddenly, she exclaimed t "Listen to this, Helen. The enterprising manager of Drury Lane has in preparation one of the moat brilliant pantomimes ever presented to a London audience. The scenic effects will be of an original and extraordinary character, and the ballet one of the most gorgeous ever seen.' That is something for Beal It will be such fun going with her! What raptures she will be in! By the bye, Helen, don't you think we can take in Fraulein Shrader at Christmas time? She is not happy at the school, and as she has given notice she is going to leave, they will be cross and disagreeable." "Y'es, I have no doubt we can manage It. Bea. too. might come to ns early in December." And the conversation turned on domes tic matters. Mrs. L'Estrange. who was far from strong, had taken cold, and was easily persuaded to keep indoors. The day bo ng dry and crisp, Nora took their maid, who had been In Mrs. L'Estrange's ser vice ever since she was married, to bear her company, and walked across the park to inquire for Mrs. Kuthven and bid her good-bye. CHAPTER X. When they reached the hotel Mrs. Ruth en was out and Nora prolonged her walk to Harvey A Nichols', where she and her attendant spent a delightful hour, and several pounds. By the time she reached her temporarj home, Nora felt refreshed and Invigorat ed by air and exercise. The shades of evening had begun to gather, and she planned to herself that she wonld read aloud to Helen after dinner, to atone for her long absence. The gas bad not been lit and going up stairs in semi-darkness, she ran against someone on the first landing. "I beg your pardon," said Winton. whose voice she instantly recognized, "li is so dark." "Yes, the evenings draw In to soor now," she replied, with some confusion. "I am glad to have an opportunity of wishing you good-bye. I am going out of town to-morrow for a few weeks; by the time I come back, I shall have made up my mind whether I shall return to India at once or stay to the full extent of my leave." "Has the country so little attraction fot you, Mr. Winton, that you are ready to leave it?" "Plenty of attraction; but I need not trouble you with my reasons. Good-byi for the present I hope to see you agait before long, either here or at Brookdale." He held her hand for a moment and was gone. Nora ascended slowly, thoughtfully, to the drawing room, where she found Mrs. L'Estrange leaning back in an easy chair, her handkerchief to her eyes, beside a bright fire. "Why, Helen!" cried Nora, as she ad vanced toward her. Mrs. L'Estrang started and uncovered her face; the strong light of the flames showed that she had been and was weeping. "Dear Helen, what is the matter?" "Do not ask me now. I will tell yoi all one day, but not now," said Mrs. L'Es trange. HisLng, she came quickly toward her stepdaughter, pressed her lips for aa instant to Nora's cheek, and left the room. "Good heavens!" ejaculated Nora tc self, "she has refused him. But why?" Overcome with surprise, she sat down, all dressed as she was, to ponder this unex pected outcome of their pleasant Intimacy with Winton. lie, too, seemed depressed and nnlike himself. Why why had Helen rejected him? especially as she evidently felt doing so very keenly. Could it have been because she knew that she and her little girl were unpro vided for, and that she did not like belni a burden on a husband? Winton wai fairly well off. and not likely to let such an obstacle stand In the way of his or hei happiness. Could it be any hesitation about leaving her (Nora) alone, with some mere hired stranger for a compan ion? No; Helen was too sensible for such an overstrained sense of duty or friend ship. Then, as she gazed Into the red mass which glowed in the grate, memory unrolled her long record of past benefit! and generous acta. The quiet steady kindliness, which had won her childisk heart in spite of her natural prejudice against a stepmother, the perpetual shield he interposed between the irritable, ex acting, tyrannical father and his daugh ter. Now that Nora was a woman 4 thoughtful, observant woman how man instances of her stepmother's patience, her care for every one's comfort, her en tire self-forgetfulness, came back to her mind from dim, bygone days. Her own vague wonder that Helen sover wanted to go anywhere, never sought release from the wearying attendance on her querulous, auspicious. Invalid husband, her undefin ed impression that somehow life was over for her young stepmother that she bad nothing left but endurance and kindly thought for others. What would she her self have been had she been reduced to a single-handed struggle with such diffi culties as existence would have present ed itself without Helen? How much of youth would she have enjoyed? How much of education, of pleasure, or free dom from the stunting effect of care too heavy for her years? Tea! She aaw it all clearly. Helen had been more than a mother to her, for ehe bad no claim to such tender, discriminating care. "And 11 I can repay her I will," thought Nora, her heart glowing warm and strong. "Noth ing shall stand between me and a woman t0 Wfeflja X ftWt M. HNh, ThaaJ. QodJ she is brighter and stronger now than I ever remember her. I do hope Bea will grow up a tender, loving daughter! She has a dash of my father's temper! But why why did Helen send Mark Winton away? I can fancy their whole story growing into love with each other, almost from their school days then his going away to seek his fortune, some misun derstanding separating them probably. Helen, left a penniless orphan, with no hone in the future, tempted by a chance of a settled home with my father. It is a and enough story, and I suppose a com mon one. Well, she shall have peace now, if I can secure it But why did she send Mark Winton away? I am sure she did; I must not ask her; I must not seem intrusive. Will she ever tell me?" That evening Nora was more than usu ally kind and cheerful; she Insisted on Mrs. L'Estrange lying down where het eyes were shaded from the light and she read aloud from a picturesque book of travels. When bedtime came and they partes for the night Mrs, L'Estrange put her arm round Nora, and kissing her gently, said: "Yon are a good girl, dear daughter, ot I should say younger sister, to me; you reade my life happier than I ever expected It to be." She went quickly upstairs, leaving Nora touched and surprised, fot neither was a demonstrative woman and rarely exchanged caresses. The days went by, however, and Mrs. L'Estrange did not show any inclination to tell Nora the story she had promised; still, her stepdaughter waited with loyally suppressed curiosity, and tidings reached them that Winton had gone as far at Florence with some Indian friends out ward bound to Bombay, and had passed through London without calling to see '.hem. Meantime Lady Dorrington flattered herself that her plana were maturing suc cessfully. The day after Mrs. Kuthven had been Installed hi the principal guest chamber at Chedworth, Marsden arrived from town, and made himself charmingly agreeable to every one, especially to Mrs. Kuthven. The pretty little widow visibly revived after his arrival and lost some thing of the pained, strained look in hei eyes, which bad given Lady Dorrington such uneasiness. "You ought to get out more, my deat Mrs. Ruthven," she said, as that lady was bidding her hostess good night "There are lots of pretty drives about and I have a capital pair of ponies." "To say nothing of an excellent char ioteer, in the shape of an unworthy broth er. Pray, allow me to show you the neigh borhood. 1 am duly qualified for the task of cicerone," said Marsden. "Thank you," and Mrs. Kuthven raised her eyes to his with a long, searching look. "If you really don't mind losing a day's hunting! It is a tremendous sacri fice!" "Sacrifice!" cried Marsden, laughing. "If sacrifice and penance always took such a form, what a penitent I'd be Then, if fine, we will take our first tout of inspection immediately after luncheon." The weather was all that could be de sired, more like late September than early November, and the excursion was so suc cessful that another was arranged for th following day. (To be continued.) Cooking In the Gutter. A member of the Seventh Regiment according to on article In the New York Sun, la enthusiastic over his ex perences with a tin dish and a camp fire during the late street car riots in Brooklyn. He baa been noted In bis otd circle for his delicate taste In the matter of cookery, and his skill with the chafing-dish. He not only knew when a thing was cooked exactly right bat he could cook it Just right himself, only he was so excessively fastidious that he must have Just such a dish in which to do it Now be was left to shift for himself In the street with nothing but a tin dish as a cooking utensil. "Fortunate ly," he says, "the dish bad a cover and a handle, and after I became convinc ed that there was no help for it I made a few experiments and found the re sults delicious. "The value of a wood fire had neve, been apparent to me before, but I tell you it Is wonderful. Why, I never ate such potatoes as I baked In the em bers. And the surrounding cobble stones kept my coffee as hot as I want ed It while I was doing my other cook ing. "The doings of some of the men were laughable. They had less Idea of cook ery than the average servant They would Insist upon building a fire with the flames reaching heavenward, and then they wondered why their food was burned on one side and raw on the other. One fellow who wanted ham and eggs put the eggs In, shells and alL A beautiful mess! "As for myself, I will stand up herb after for the regimental tin dish, and a wood fire with a cobble-stone founda tion. I lived like a prince; and the next time my appetite Is spoiled by the atrocities of French cooks, I am going to pitch my tent in the back yard, and win back my digestion with the sort of cookery I have been enjoying for a week." The two most widely separated post offices In the United States are those In Key West Fin., and In Ounalnska, Alaska, 0.271 miles apart Two cents will Insure the carriage of a letter be tween those distant points. Paris has a fat men's club, mem berehioin which is acquired by tipping the beam at 100 kilogrammes, or 220 pounds. R. W. A. Snnday is pushing an evangelical campaign in Indiana, and lightening- his clerical amies Dy occa sionally acting as nmpire in baseball games. The Russian military authorities have concluded that the sheepskin caps worn by the soldiers are injurious to the eyesight, and will put them in helmet. An engineer has figured ont that an inch of rain falling upon an area of oue sqnare mile is equivalent to nearly b.000,000 gallons, weighing 115,200,000 lounds, or 72,000 tons. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. Mam ice Conrant is authority for the statement that the invention of printing is due to Htal Tjong, King of Korea, who had movable types cast as early aa 1403. A Victoria cross once changed hands in Durham, England for 5125. Ceres, the first of the asteroids to be discovered, was found on the first day of the present century. Its mean distance from the son is about 257.- 00,000 miles. Dahomey is the smallest State in Africa. It has 4000 square miles, al most the exaet size ot Connecticut NOTES Of THE DAY. There are 2,954 persona In Great Brit Lin who pay tax on an Income of more than $25,000 a year. In the royal palace of Servia lights ire put out Invariably by 11 o'clock by order of the King. There are no fewer than four Euro jean banks In Yokohama and In Japan 120, all with large capital. In the gardens around London then are more specimens of the cedar of Tebanon than on Mount Lebanon Itself. In Norway a law provides that no person shall be permitted to cut down a tree unless he plants three sapling 'n Its place. The coronet worn by the Countess of Aberdeen on state occasions Is distin, gulshed by five emeralds, which are the 'argest In the world. According to a Connecticut statist! dan there are 90,000 crazy people In the United States, of whom only 6,500 ire under sufficient supervision. An eccentric farmer who died the ther day In Connecticut directed that his body should be Inclosed in an Iron casket and thrown to the bottom of Long Island Sound. It Is a remarkable fact that the actual tost of the Kiel ship canal was below the estimates. They amounted to 15G, 000,000 marks ($37,440,000), and the cost was 155,378,000 marks ($37,290, T20). A colored man was recently shows, a skeleton by a Portland doctor. He had never seen ono before and was greatly Interested. Be examined the skull closely and finally asked, "Where ire the ears?" A family In Knox County, Maine, that ileepa too soundly to be awakened by a chanticleer has a novel alarm. A big cowbell Is attached to the neck of the dog, and at a certain time In the morn ing he makes a tour of the chambers. A Boston paper which has gone dafX an abbreviations thus reports a news Item: "His Hon. the Lieut Gov. of Mass. returned from N. IL yesterday with 44 doe. other citizens of Mass., and expects next wk to go to N. Y. by way f Prov." People of middle age can rememlei arhen the only use for India rubber was to erase pencil marks. The Im portance of the article now is Indicated by the fact that In the first three months of 1S05 this country paid $6,600,230 for ts importation. Massachusetts may not grow as rap idly In population as some of the larger States, but Its wealth continues to pile up steadily. It carried a fire insurance last year of $986,000,000, or about five times that of other States with about the same population. For one person who cares about thea. .era there are a thousand persons In England wild about cricket and If the ministry had given O. W. Grace a knighthood among the birthday honors It would probably have been the most popular act of their existence. Statistics have been accumulated which reveal that In respect to color blindness there Is a remarkable differ ence between the two sexes. About per cent of men are color-blind to a marked extent while not more than 4-10 of 1 per cent of women are thus vfflicted. A store at Tempe, Art, is about to In augurate a novel cash system. When anyone desires credit he is referred to the office, where. If he be solvent, bis note Is taken for the amount needed, the cash Is advanced blm, and be goes Into the store and with the money ao quired does his buying. Lord Rosebery will this year exhlbt ao fewer than twenty-four bead of cattle and sixty sheep at the fat stock shows at Birmingham and Smlthfleld. nis lordship will thus be probably the largest exhibitor. Ills exhibits will In clude many noted prize winners at last year's Scottish shows. The first horse on record whose pedl gree can be authenticated was bred by Charles II. and called Dods worth; and, for his amusement when he resided at Windsor, be appointed races to be run In Datchet Mead, and at Newmarket, where, it is said, he entered horses and ran them In his own name. "Charley's Aunt" has reached Portu gal and Is attracting large audiences to an Oporto theater. In its Portuguese guise it la "A Madiinha de Charlee." With the exception of an original play of Shakspeare's, this Is the first time In years that an English drama has been performed on the Portuguese rtage. William Scrubby, Trenton's official dog catcher, tendered a pall full of dog's tails as vouchers for the number of canines be laid low In the perform ance of his duty and on which he based his claim for payment The officials refused to count the tails, but agreed to accept Scrubby's statement of the can lal tale as correct John Simpson, the veteran St Regis prospector, states that the kangaroos on Blue Mountain are Increasing In number and will soon furnish good sport for local hunters. Joe Reece came across a wounded one the other day and killed it to end Its suffering. He is having the bide tanned and will make a hunting coat of it The fish commissioners of California, .recently stocked the two largest rivers in the southern part of that State the San Joaquin and the Kings with 50, 000 black bass. It Is expected that not only will the bass flourish and a little later afford fine sport but that they will also clear these rivers of the small fry of coarse and low grade fish. On the roof of a building In Philadel phia a sparrow trap Is In full swing night and day. The trap la one into which the birds hop to get the grain and bread crumbs plainly In sight Once Inside the birds do not know enough to come out The sparrows feed more oa a elondv and windr 1tv than on a bright day, but no matter what tie weather la It Is a poor day when the trap will not yield fifty spar rows. Austria gives prizes te farmers tt courage them to recover waste lands and lay them down aa pasturage, and also to. erect shelters or stables for cows In high altitudes. The Importance of this may be seen from the statement that one-quarter of the total fodder re quired for cattle and horses) In the em Dlra la djclrad from Alula dlatzlotav ,. In the f restt of a house In tne ranoo le ShaerbMh, In Brussels, there Is to be seen, half burled In plaster, a can non ball which was fired from a Dutch cannon at the period of the revolution of 1830, and has ever since been per mitted to remain. Recently It was de termined to restore and refront the house, and It was decided to make the repairs without disturbing the cannon ball At Portland. Me., one of the crew ol a fishhas; schooner went out In a dory to haul np some trawls which were set off Pemaquld in thirty fathoms of wa ter. The usual number of cod and had dock were found on the hooks, but the man received one of the biggest sur prises of his life when he hauled in a forty-pound salmon. What In the world the big fish was doing out in deep water no one can explain. . Henry Elliot who has written numer als papers on the fur seals of the North ern Pacific, tells how the Eskimo, with a frail skin canoe, when the craft heavily laden with furs, bad to land Its freight on a graven beach, put a row of inflated sealskin floats in front of the umiak (their skin boat) and rolled her high and dry. Without that precau tion the thin skin bottom of their boa' would have been torn. Of all the varied changes In the YaU commencement exercises, the most Im portant la the last step which places the scientific department on a clear footing with the academic. The Intro duction of a class day, a senior prom enade and a high stand scholarship so ciety are, perhaps, only symbolic, but they have broken down the last bar riers which separate the academic frorr the scientific departments. In 18S0, Tampa, Fla., had 720 lnhab Itants, and In 1804. 15.CSS. Five lines of steamers run regularly between Tampa and New Orleans, Mobile, Ha vana, Key West and local ports. Its hotel property Is valued at $3,000,000. The city has twenty-two miles of elec tric car lines, three electric light plants, about seventy-five cigar factorles,anc Is supplied with pure spring water, through eighteen miles of mains, to th extent of 3,000,000 gallons dally. Ono of the sections of the Constlra don for Utah provides that the State's Indebtedness shall never exceed $100. 000. Another forbids the giving or loaning of State, county, city or bor ough credit to any business enterprise. Another fixes the salary of the Gov ernor at $2,000 a year. Another pro vides that trial juries shall consist of eight persons, and that In civil cases the concurrence of six out of the elgh' shall be sufficient for a legal verdict In Los Angeles, In a Jewelry store, a three-horse power motor Is used In the cutting of precious stones. The ma chine worked by the motor Is said tc be the only one of the kind In the coun try. The stone Is held by a quadrant which Is adjusted by a set screw to Its required position on the lap. As many as sixty stones can be cut at one time, and the method of adjustment is so accurate that In no case would there be tho slightest possibility of over grinding. From the registry of visitors kept at Stratford-on-Avon, it appears In the past year there have been In round numbers 14,000 visitors, of whom 4,000 were from the United States. Shaks peare's plays were among the first pre sented by regular theatrical companies In the American colonies, and the visit of Washington Irving to Stratford, with his charming description of It did more than has ever been done by any other single person to turn men's minds to ward the quiet old town beside tb Avon. The Doge of the Conclergerie. We seem to hear the baying of deep mouthed, great, fierce dogs shepherds' dogs, as one might say, since their oflic Is to guard the sheep for slaughter. Several of these faithful canluc ani mals were employed In the prison; but one of them, named Ravage, was dis tinguished for ferocity and sagacity. Jailers slept at night near the cour de preau, and Ravage kept watch there with his master. Some prisoners at tempted to escape by boring a bob In the wall. Their chief danger of detection cot slsted In the watchfulness of Ravage) but, strangely enough, he was silent His silence was explained on the fol lowing morning by an asslgnat of 100 sons, which was tied to his tall, to gether with a little note, on which wai written: "On peut corrompre Ravagi avec nn asslgnat de cent sous et ui paupet de pleds de mouton." The de praved dog walked about publishing his own Infamy, and was hailed with shouts of laughter. He was Immured, as a punishment, for some hours In cachot and emerged with an air of deep humiliation. The Quarterly Review. The Care of Farming Toola. Foreigners who have traveled throngs :he United States have always been struck by the carelessness of our farm, ers In regard to their machinery. No other farmers In the world make such general nse of the devices for saving toll produced by modern invention, and nowhere else are such Implements sr neglected when not in actual use. Too often a farmer who buys a val uable machine leaves It standing out of doors, exposed to all the vicissitudes of the weather until he has occasion to use It again the following year. Then when he examines It he finds It serious ly out of repair, and he suffers delay whjle It Is being put Into good condi tion. Sometimes the damage Is so great that he Is persuaded to trade the machine off for a new one, paying Urge sum "to boot" One good effect of the hard times bat deen the development of greater care In this respect among our agricultural population. People who have traveled extensively through the Southern and Western States during the last winter report that the f armera now keep their machines under cover more generally than they ever did before. Florida Cit izen. Bfeaaaured. Excited passenger Captain, thati ou weather the storm? Captain If doubtful; but doa't let hat bother you $very member of the erew can swim? Rochester Post-Ba press. REV. DR. THL1GL The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: "Plain People.' Tixt: "Salute Asynoritus. Phlegon, ller nss, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia." Romans xvL, 14, 15. Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Soott and all the commenta tors pass by these verses without any especial remark. The othertwenty people mentioned In the chapter were distinguished for some thing and were therefore discussed by tha illustrious expositors, but nothing Is said about Asyncrltus, Phlegon, Hwmas, Patro bas, Hermes, Philologus and Jultn. Where were they born? No one knows. Where did theydie? There is no record of their decease. Tor what were they distinguished? Abso lutely for nothing, or the trait ot character wou'd have been brought out by the aeostle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or erass ol style or in anywise anomalous, that feature would have btwn caught by the apostolic camera. But they were good people, because Paul sent to them his high Christian regards. They were ordinary people, moving In ordi nary sphere, attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities. What the world wants is a religion foi ordlnarv people. If there be in the United States 65,000.00 ) people, there are certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are 64,MK),0M ordinary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous people of the Bible and consider la our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time In twisting garlands for remarkables and building thrones for magnates and sculptur ing warriors and apotheosizing philanth ropists. The rank and file of the Lord'i soldiery need especial help. The vast majority of people to whom thU sermon comes will never lea-i an army, will never write a State constitution, will never electrify a Senate, will never make an imi portant invention, will never Introduce a new philosophy, will never decide the fate of a Nation. You do not ex pect to; you do not want to. You will not be a Hoses to lea-1 a Nation ont of bondage. You will not be a Joshua to prolong the day light until you can shut five kings In a oav4 era. You will not be a St John to unroll ad apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to pre4 side over an apostolic college. You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ You will more probably be Asyncrltus or Phlegon or Her man or Patrobas or Hermes or Philologus oi Julia. Many of you are women at the head o. households. This morning you launched the family for Sabbath observance. Your brain decided the apparel, and your judgment was final on all questions of personal attire. Every morning you plan for the day. The cultuary dopartment of your household is In your dominion. You decide all questions of diet All tho sanitary regulations ot your house are under your supervision. To regu late the food, and the apparel, and the habits and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax upon your brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling if there be no divine alleviation. It does not help you much to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things mid the criminals of Newgate, it does not help you much to be told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Bornesian cannibals. It does not help you much to be told that Flor ence Nightingale was very kind to the wounded in the Crimea. It would be better for me to tell you that the Divine Friend of Mary and Martha Is your friend, and that He sees all the annoyanoes and disappointments and abrasions and exasperations of an ordin ary housekeeper from morn till night, and from the first day of the year to the last day of the year and at your call He is ready with aelp and re-enforcements. They who provide the food of the world decide the health of the world. One of the greatest battles of this century was lost be cause the commander that morning had a fit of indigestion. You have only to go on some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of United States and Great Britain to appre ciate the fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered by Incompetent cookery. Though a young woma a may have taken lessons in music and may have taken lessons in painting and lessons in astronomy, she is not well educated unless she has taken lessons in dough. They who deoide the ap parel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance ot the world. An unthinking man may consider it a mat ter of little Importance the cares of the household and t he economies of domestic life but I tell you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen aud nursery. The health shattered womanhood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the ordinary duties of housekeeping. The wearing, grinding,, unappreciated work goes on, but the same Christ who stood on the bank of Galilee In the early morning and kindled the tire and had the fish already cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every woman to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand or the hand of her hired help. The God who ma le Indestructible eulogt ot Hannah, who made a coat for Samuel, herson, and carried it to the temple every year, will help every woman In preparing the family wardrobe. The God who opens the Bible with the story of Abraham's entertain ment of thethree angels on the plains ot Hamre will help every woman to provide hospitality, however rare and embarrassing. It is high time that some of the attention wa have been giving to the remarkable women of the Bible remarkable for their virtue or want of it or remarkable for their deeds Deborah and Jezebel and Herodia and Atha liah and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and abandoned it la high time some of the at tention we have been giving to these con spicuous women of the Bible be given to Julia of the text, an ordinary woman amid ordinary circumstances, attending to ordi nary duties and meeting ordinary responsi bilities. Then there are the ordinary business men. They need divine and Chrlstrian, help. When we begin to talk about business life, we shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold millions of dollars of goods a year, but the vast majority of business men do not sell a million dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor a quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Put all the business men of our cities, towns, villages and neighbor hoods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than 190,000 worth of goods. All these men In ordinary business life want divine help. You see how the wrinkles are printing on the countenance the story ol woniment and care. You cannot tell how old a business man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at thirty. A man at forty-five with the stoop of a nonogenarlan. No time to attend to Improved dentistry, the grinders oease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at forty or fifty when they ought to be at the meridian. ' ' Many of these business men have bodies like a neglected clock to which yon come, and you wind it up, and it begins to buzi and roar, and then the hands start around very rapidly, and then the dock strikes Ave or ten, or forty, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So Is the body ot that wornout business man. It is a neglected clock, and though by some sum mer recreation it may be wound up, still tha machinery Is all out of gear. The hands turn around with a velocity that excites the as tonishment ot the world. Men cannot un derstand the wonderful activity, and then is a roar, and a buss, and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike ten when they ought tc strike five, and they strike twelve when they ought to strike six, and they strike forty when they ought to strike nothtnir. and anddenlv thev ston. Post I mortem examination reveal the fact that all the springs and pivots and weights and ll anoa wheels of health are completely da. ranged. The human clock has simply m down. And at tho time when tha stead band ought to be pointing to the Indtutrtoui hours on a clear and sunlit dial the whok machinery of body, mind and earthly capac ity stops forever. The cemeteries have thou sands ot business men who died of old agf at thirty, thirty-five, forty, lorty-nve. ' . How,, what. to. wanted to groe diviM (trace for ordinary business men, men'wbi are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life harnessed in business, Not grace to lose $100,000, but grace to lost 10. Not grace to supervise 250 employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the book keeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to Invest iat the 1 80,000 ot net profit, but the 25O0 Et clear gain.- Grace not to endure the lost f a whole shipload of spices from the In. dies, but grace to endure the loss of a pa pel of collars from the leakage of a displaced ihingle on a poor root Grace not to endure the tardiness ot th American Congress in passing a neoessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when be ought to deliver the goodsi such a gract as thousands of business men have to-day, keeping them tranquil whether goods sell ol do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether the tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead failure, calm In all ciroumstanoes and amid all visslcttudes that Is the kind of grace w want. Millions of men want It, and they may have It for the asking. Some hero oi heroine oomes to town, and as the procession passes through the street the business men t ome out and stand on tiptoe on their stort steps and look at some one who in arctic L'limeor in ocean storm or in day of battle oi In hospital agonies did the brave thing, not laiizing tnat tney, tne entnusiastio specta- ors, have gone through trials in business ife that are just as great before God. There re men who have gone through freezing rctlcs and burning torrids and awful lareugos of experiences without moving ve miles from their doorsteps. Now, wnat ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked after the religious interests ot Matthew, the custom house clerk. and helped Lydta of Thyartra to sell the dry goods, and who opened a bakery and fish market in the wildnrdess of Asia Minor to teed the 70 0 who hail oomo out oa a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs of your bead with as much particularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, aud who took the trouble to stoop down with Ills finger writing on the ground, although the first shuffle of feet obliterated the divine oallgraphy, and who knows just how man; locusts there were In the Egyptian plague and knew just how many ravens were neces ary to supply Elijah's pantry by the brook Cherlth. and who as floral oommander leads forth all the regiments of primroses, fox gloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty and kindle theli eamp fires of oolor all around the hemi sphere; that that Christ and that God know the most minute affairs of your business life, and, however Inconsiderable, understanding al the affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle store as well as all the at lairs of a Rothschild and a Stewart Then there are all the ordinary farmers. SVe talk about agricultural life, and we im nediately shoot off to talk about Cinoln aatus, the patrician, who went from the plow to a high position, and after he got through the dictatorship In twenty-one days went back again to the plow. What encourage ment Is that to ordinary fanners? The vast majority of them, noue of them, will be pa tricians. Perhaps none of them will be Sen ators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be over forty or fifty or 100 acres of tha old homestead. What those men want is grace to keep their patience while plow ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop aud that enables them to restore the garden the day after the neighbor's cattle have broken in and trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the lima bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn in such large quantities that thev must be kept from the water lest they swell up and die; grace In catching weather that enables them without Imprecation to spread out the hay the third time, although again and again and again It has been almost ready for the mow; a grace to doctor the cow with a hollow born, and the sheep with the footrot, and the horse with the distemper, and to compel the un willing acres to yield a livelihood for the family, and schooling for the children, and little extras to help the older boy In business, and something for the daughter's wedding outfit, and a little surplus for the time when the ankles will get stiff with age and the . l-reath will be a little short, and the swing ing of the cradle through the hut harvest Held will bring on the old man's vertigo, better close up about Cincinnatus. 1 know iOO farmers just as noble a-s he was. What they want Is to know that they have the friendship of that Christ who often drew His similes from the farmer's life, as when He said, "A sower went forth to sow," as when He built His best parable out of the scene of a farmer's boy coining back from his wanderlngs.nnd the old farmhouseshook that night with rural jubilee, and who com pared Himself to a lamb in the pasture field, ind wno said tne eternal uou is a iarmer, leclaring. "My Father Is the husbandman. Those stonemasons do not want to hear about Christopher Wren, the architect, who built St. Paul s cathedral. It would he bN ter to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, and how on a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, aud how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters nandlng amid tne adz, ana tne Dtt, and the plane, and the broadax need to be told that Christ was a carpenter, with His own hand eieldlng saw and hammer. Oh. this is a tired world, and It Is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and It is a wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and recueration in God and in that religion which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ordinary people, because there are more of them. Tie healing profession has had Its Aher jrombiesand Its Abernethys and Its Valen tine Motts and its Wiiiard Parkers, but the rdlnary physicians do the most of the world's medicinlng, and they need to under Hand that while taking diagnosis or prog losis or writing prescription or compound .ng medicament or holding thedelfcate pulse f a dying child they may have the presencn tndthe dictation of the almighty doctor who look the case of the madman, and after he bad torn off his garments in foaming de mentia clothed him again, body and mind, ind who lifted up the woman who for eight wn years had been bent almost double with :he rheumatism Into graceful stature, aud who turned the scabs of leprosy Into rubi 3und complexion, and who rubbed the numb ness out of para'ysis, aud who swung wide jpen the closel windows of hereditary or accidental blindness until the morning light ;ame streaming through the fleshly ease ments, and wno knows all the diseases and all the remedies aud all the herbs and ail the sathollcons. and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent out 10, 100 doctors ot whom the world makes no rec ord, but to 'prove that they are angels ol mercy I invoke the thousands of men whose ailments have been assuaged and the thou- lauds of woman to whom In crises of bain they have been next to God In benefaction. uome, now, lei us nave a rougion ior or Unary people In professions, in occupations, in agriculture, in the household, in mer chandise, in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyncrltus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermas, Philologus and Julia. First orail. If you reel that you are ordi nary, thank God that you are not extraordi nary. I am tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraordinary people. They take all their time to tell as how very extra ordinary they really are. You know as well ts I do, my brother and sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done bj bnpretentions people who toll right on. bi people who do not get much approval, and bo one seems to say, "That Is well done.'1 l'henomena are ot but little use. Thing that are exceptional cannot be de pended on. Better trust tne smartest Tirana that swings on Its orbit than ten oomeu) shooting this way and that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their owl business, jror steady illumination Derrer x a lamp than a rocket, men. n yon xeei tne you are ordinary, remember that your po sition Invites the less attack. Conspicuous people how they have to takt It! How thev are misrepresented and abused and shot at! The higher the horns of a roe. hunk the easier to track him down. Wbat a lellnious thing It must be to be a candidate for President of the United States! It must be so soothing to the nerves! It must pour Into the soul of a candidate snch a sense ol serenity when he reads the blessed news papers! I came into possession of the abusive ear- ... . . . . , T r . . . toons in tne time oi riapoiwu i, pnmeu while he was yet alive. The retreat of tha army iromMyeoow, that axmy burled in th snows of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of the centuries, represented nnder the figure of a monster called General Frost shaving the French Emperor with a razor of Icicle. As Satyr aud Beelzebub ho Is repre. tented page after page, page after page, England cursing him, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him, Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him. North and South Ameri ca cursing him, the most remarkable man of his day and the most abused. All those men In history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore a crown of thorns. Take the few extraordinary railroad men Dt our time and see what abuse oomes upon them while thousands of stockholders escape. All the world took after Thomas Sjott,Prel lent of the Pennsylvania R.iilroad. abused him until he got under the ground. Thou sands of stockholders in that oompany. All the blame on one man. The Central Pacific Railroad. Two or three men gt all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10,000 in that company. i mention these things to prove it Is ex- . Inordinary people who get abused while -the ordinary escape. The weather of life Is not so severe on the plain as it Is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows or gains or does mure than it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes five confectionery to the children as an in ucement to take bitter medicine, and the world's sugar plum precedes the world's aqua fortis. The mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify Him, crucify Him!" and they had to say It twiee to be un- derstood, for they were so hoarse ami they got their hoarseness by crying a little while before at the top of their voice, "Hosanua!" The river Rhone Is foul when it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline when It comes out on the other side. But there are men who have entered the bright lake of worldly prosperity crystalline and came out terribly riled. If, therefore, you feel that you are ordinary, thank God for the defenses and the tran quility of your position. Then remember, if you have only what It sailed an ordinary home, that the great de liverers of the world have all oome from su :h a home. And there may bo seated reading at your evening stand a child who shall be potent for the ans. Ju.- unroll the scroll of men mighty in church aud state, and you will find they nearly all come from log :aum or poor nomus uenius aimosi al ways runs out In the third or fourth feneration. You cannot find in all his tory an instauoe where the fourth gen eration of extraordinary people amount to anything. Columbus from a weaver's hut. Demosthenes from a cutler's cellar, Bloom fled and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker's bench, Arkwright from a barber's shop, and He whose name is high over all in earth and air and sky from a manger. Let us ail be content with such things as we have. God is Just as good In what Ho keeps away from us as In what Ha givei us. Even a knot may be useful If it is at the end )f a thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb asy lum one of the children wrote upon tha blackboard words as sublime as the "Iliad," :he "Odyssey" and the "Divina Comraedia" all compressed in one paragraph. The ex aminer, in signs of the muto language, asked her, "Who made the world?" The leaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blaek. oard, "In the beginning God created the leaven and the earth. The examinei asked her, "For what purpose did Christ ;ome into the world?" The deaf and dumb rirl wrote upon the blackboard, "This is a faithful saying and worthy ol all aceep. lation, that Christ Jesus came into the world o save sinners." The examiner said to her. Why were you born deaf and dumb while 1 lear and speak?" She wrote upou the black joard, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth tood in Thy sight." Oh, that we might be laptized with a contented spirit! The spider Iraws poison out of a flower; the bee gets honey out ot a thistle, but haoDlness Is a Iteavenly elixir, and tne contented spirit ex tracts it not from the rhododendron of the jills, but from the lily of the valley. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. low the General Government and the State Are Fostering It. The status of agricultural education in the United States is given an extended review to :he year book of the Agricultural Depart ment. It shows there are sixty-five lnstitu lions in operation under the provisions of the acts of July 2, 18G2, and August So, 18U0. Sixty of those maintain courses In agricul ture. In fourteen States separate Institu tions are provided for white and colored rtudents. Special courses in dairying nnl other agricultural Industries have beeu re Oently established at a few of the colleges. The value of additions to tne equipment oi these Institutions during 18it4 is estimated at (1,415,495. Agricultural experiment stationt are now in operation in all the States and Territories. Sub-stations have been estab lished In several States. Exclusive of these the total number of stations is llfty-llve, ol which flfty-one receive the appropriations provided for by law. The total income of the stations during 18'J4 was 9!6,157, of which 4719,830 came from the Government and the remaiueer from States and individ uals. The station bulletins are now regu larly distributed to half a million ier8ons closely identified with agricultural Interests SET A PACE FOR CLEVELAND. Mr. and Mrs. Kay, ot Grafton, Call Atten tion to a Coincidence. Frank Kay and wife, of Grafton, Penn., are setting the pa -e for Mr, and Mra. Grover Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Kay have three lit tle girls, named Ruth, Esther and Naomi, born In the order given. Mr. Kay is a jobber of glassware. Struck by the coincidence In his family aud that of the President, he wrote to the latter. He received the follow ing reply from the White House: "My lear Sir inerresideut directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your recent kin I favor, in which ou inform him that your two children bear the names of Kuth and Esther and were named In each case before the children of the President were named. Both Mrs. Cleveland aud the President are much interested in this coincidence and beg leave to express the wish that your little children may have long and happy lives and that they will alway9 be a Joy and comfort to you. "ficxax tr. thcbbcb, private secretary." Made Insane by Face Powder. Miss Marv Belcher, a vounir woman wha lives at Sugar Grove, Ky., Is a mental wreck, owing to the use of complexion pow der, cjhe was a very pretty girl, but sud denly grew pale and bought the powder to hide it. After using the powder for a while coarse black hair began cropping out all over her face, and shaving only made It worse. She was a most popular girl, but when the hair continued to grow she wor ried so over It that her mind gave way, and 't Is feared she will never recover her reason Cuban Sympathizers In This Country. It Is said that the Cuban revolutionists ars ecelviDg the sinews of war at the rate oi half a million a month from their sympa thizers in this country. It does not take long to find ont" just how little talkative people know. To be happy is of far less conse quence to the worshipers of fashion than to appear bo. By gambling we lose both our time and treasure, two things most precious to the life of a man. Home men bave no to-morrow. They have borrowed it all to day, A woman's wit is sharper than it is sweet. A crowd always thinks with its sym pathy, never with its reason. Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. Half the oeople of the world are working the other half for chumps and doing well. Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and he a ill re ceive yoa into his bosom. The most happy man is be who knows how to bring into religion tha end and the beginning of his life. ' I- HI , : 1 A .1 ' ' 1 i . f-. IS 1 n ;, 1 ;ii