" - ; "J ' r - - .$.. .. . ... ... y 1 ' B. R. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. -!i;,' if n VOL. XLIX. MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1895. NO. 34. CHAPTER X. (Continued.) 'I have been thinking, my dear Mrs ltuthven," said Marsden, as he pulled it thy ponies to make them walk quietly n a long hill, "1 hare been thintitjt that lorrlngton would not make a bad trustel for you. lie Is really an excellent fel low, nnd not at all a bad man of business, Uiongh a bovine air bangs round him st 11." "lie might not like the trouble, and J im really In no hurry." "Itut It Is quite necessary that yoi ihould have another trustee. I begin tt feel the responsibility rather too much for me. I should prefer a colleague, buJ ruuse Oh, for several reasons." "Docs he wish this matter to he settlefl before he offers himself to me?" though! Mrs. ltuthven, looking into the dark-blui pyes admiringly fixed upon her; and smil ing responsively, she said: "If you thin! well, pray ask Lord Porrington." J "It would come better from yourself. You know my brother-in-law is one oi your many devoted admirers. lie will hi buttered by the request." "As I shall be if he accepts." "Which of course he will. I often wish ed I were a better man of business, fol your sake. I am, or have been, too great a lover of pleasure, I suppose I mm turn to grnvity and ambition some dny." "Were I a man, I should certainly b ambitious. I should not like to be second to any one." "What an awful vista of toil and trot ftle you conjure up; still, you make mt ashamed of myself. If I had some on near to inspire me, I might do something, I begin to think I have drifted about lonf enough." "Is it coming?" thought Mrs. ltuthven for the twentieth time, as she twisted the tassel of her parasol round its handle ir painful anxiety. "Will you drive with me to-morrow? resumed Marsden earnestly. "I want you to trust yourself to me for a longer expe dition than usual; to a charming vlllnge about ten or twelve miles off. Let us tart early and have luncheon at a primi tive little hostelry called 'the Threo I'ig eons.' We'll let the ponies rest, and b back in time for afternoon ten." To this arrangement Mrs. ltuthven a creed, and, after a pause, said sudden ly, as if speaking out of her thoughts: "Do you remember that evening, six years ago, when we were all in the veran da of my father's bungalow, and my hus band brought you in, and said. This wilt be a cousin of yours to-morrow?' " "Yes, I do well. What a lucky beggar I thought poor Charlie!" "And do you remember my father show ing my ruby and diamond necklace and earrings, and saying it would puzzlo any jeweler in London or I'aris to show ta like?" 'I do, indeed. They were superb. "He little thought." she said, with a hysterical laugh, "that I should bring them to Christian, law-abiding, well-ordered England, only to he robbed of them. Ah! Mr. Marsden, there is little to choose between the idolatrous East and the truth- telling, spiritually minded West." "Too true! So I have always thought But, dear Mrs. ltuthven, if you knew how painful the very mention of those unfor tunate jewels is to me, I niu sure y.a would avoid the subject. If you had not put them on with the gracious intention of doing honor to my ball, they would b now safely reposing in your jewel case. "Perhaps so, though I am Inclined to thing that so ingenious and daring a thief would have got at them anywhere." "He might. Now try and adopt my phi losophy, 'let the dead past bury its dead,' and enjoy the living present. I think we shall have a fine day to-morrow, and, for my part, I look forward to our little expe dition with the keenest pleasure." Mrs. Kuthven smiled graciously, and they talked and laughed gayly for the re mainder of their drive. The morrow rose bright and clear, but the projected excursion never came oft A telegram from his lawyer arrived ia the forenoon for Marsden, and when hf ought to have been entertaining Mr Kuthven at a tete-a-tete luncheon he wa steaming away to London. Marsden's summons was peremptory, fie could only send a message of fare well to Mrs. ltuthven, who usually break fasted in her own room, and assure his sister that he should return the first mo ment he could. With this glimmer of hope she was forced to be content "If he finds anything more interesting or amusing in or near London we shall see no more of him for many a day. I know what Clifford is," said Lady Dor r i-gton to her husband. "I begin to sus pert he does not intend to marry Mrs. Kuthven, or matters would not drag at they do." "Then he is a bit of a blackguard, though he is your brother; every one be lieves he U paying his addresses to her; I do not see how they could think other wise; and he Is bound to give her her op tion; Indeed " ".Nonsense, Lord Dorrington; my broth it Is no worse thnn other men; tried by yonr standard, there are few who, at one time or another, do not deserve the very Coarse appellation yon are pleased to con fer on Clifford. Still, I wish he had more sense and taste; Mrs. ltuthven is a very charming woman in my opinion." "And In mine, too; why. It Is extraordi nary luck to find money and fascination Joined together. The man who gets Mrs. ltuthven will be a lucky beggar a denced lucky beggar." "Why, Dorrington! I believe you art. capable of giving me a cup of 'cold poi son,' and trying your own luck in that quarter," cried his wife, laughing. "How ever, all I care for is to see her safely married to my brother." "Yes, it would be a capital thing fo aim. I am not so sure how it would an swer for her. Marsden would never be constant to any woman." "Yon judge him severely; at any rate, Mrs. ltuthven is a woman of the world, and accustomed to men who are not saints; she has too much sense to be ferociously iealoua." "JJon't be too sure; I fancy she Is abont as far gone after your brother as a woman can be. I saw that long ago, and I am a tolerably shrewd observer." "Yon dear old thing! you are not blinder than your neighbors, certainly; I shall write every dav to Clifford till I make him return." "Well, you can try." The evening of the day on which Lord and Lady Dorrington held this converaa tion Mrs. L'Estrange and Nora bad set tled themselves, one to her needlework. ttiv other to a naff boqjfc TJw iW tod been ynrt and stormy. In spit of which they had been obliged to go through a long afternoon of shopping, chiefly com missions for friends at Oldbrldge, and both were glad to rest. Mrs. L'Estrange bad recovered fron the fit of depression which had exercised Nora's imagination a week before, and had, Indeed, been more quietly cheerful than was her wont, since she had had a letter with a foreign stamp, which Nora shrewdly suspected was from Winton. She was a little dreamy that evening, and found it difficult to fix her mind on what tie was reading. "I suppose we shall have rain and fogs, now that the fine weather has broken op. I really think I should prefer country to town, in rain and storm," she said, laying down her book. "I feel quite tired out" Tes," returned Mrs. L'Estrange, when she had counted some stitches, "but then there are fewer resources than in town. Here one can turn into a picture gallery. and find summer or autumnal sunshine for a shilling; besides " "Mr. Marsden," announced the ex-butler, in his best style. "I thought you were at Ched worth!" OhI I am so glad to see you!" were the exclamations which greeted him. "Obliged to come np to town on busl- ness," was his vague explanation. "Ar rived yesterday. Have been torn to pieces by lawyers all day, and am come to lay aiy mangled remains at your feet," He drew a chair to the cozy fireside as he spoke. "And do you go back to-morrow?" ask d Nora, who was roused and pleased by his sudden appearance. To-morrow? Nor to-morrow, nor to morrow!" cried Marsden. "It is dull at Chedworth, desperately dull. The hunt ing no great things, the shooting no bet ter; bnt the house is crammed with bucolic chums of that excellent fellow Dorring ton, and. In short, here I am, and here J shall stay." "Lady Dorrington will be very vexed. I had a letter from her yesterday, saying how much better everything went since you had joined them. "I am glad she knew my value." "And how is Mrs. Ruthven?" returned Nora. "Oh! quite well and blooming. She is fast recovering her misfortunes." "Captain Shirley was here on Sunday,' remarked Mrs. JVLstrange, and was saying he had never seen her look so ill and depressed since he had known her. "Shirley? How did that fellow come to call upon you?" asked Marsden. "I don't know why it Is, but I can't stand Shir ley," he added thoughtfully. "And Win- ton, where is he?" "In Florence r "Florence? He is not the sort of mm. I should imagine would like Florence. "I don't think he doss," said Nora. "He went there to see some Indian friends so far on their way.' "I did not think he would have been St. ready to leave London just now," and he gave an expressive glance to Mrs. L Es trange which she did not see, but Nora did. Then he asked for Bea, and talked ot the child in terms that delighted the mother. Nora thought Marsden had never seem ed so nice and sympathetic. He was quieter and graver than usual, and she felt the relief his presence brought to the monotony of her thoughts most welcome. At length, with apologies for having kept them up so late, he bid them good night, and drove straight back to his hotel without even an attempt to find if there was any one at his club to play a game oi cards or billiards with him. His spirit's lord sat lightly on his throne. Marsden was little given to think, or trouble him self abont the future, bnt with all hli airy carelessness the last year had been one of irritating anxiety, now he had contrived to clear himself, ne could defy Mrs. ltuthven, her lynx-eyed solicit ors, and her watchful led-captain Shir ley. He owed her nothing. A little lov making, more or less, did not count with so experienced a coquette. He was per fectly free to shake her off if he chose, and he did choose. Good heavens! Com pare her with the fresh, natural, girlish elegance of Nora L'Estrange. The arch, delicate animation of the one, the studied graces, the veiled yet perceptible passios f the other. And Nora had been un doubtedly glad to see him. How sweet the candid welcome of her eyes, how un conscious her frank, gracious pleasure. Yes, it would be his delightful lot to wak en her from the slumber of childhood to the fullness of womanhood the power oi loving! Yet there was a certain strength and Individuality abont bis young kins woman that warned him she was no mere waxen doll, to be bent as he chose accord ing to his wilL She had ideas of her own tolerably clear and defined. This would but give piquancy and variety to theli intercourse. Heavens! how lovely those eyes of hers would be with the light ol love beaming from their hazel depths. Then she would be content to wait, with him, till the Evesleigh estates were free from all incumbrances before they launch ed into the costly, heavy style of exist ence suited to his position. And before the fever of anticipation let him sleep, Marsden made more good resolutions than he had ever formed in bis life before. Only give him this fair, fresh, delicate dnrling. and he wonld be a new man, with hopes and aspirations higher and better than had ever before dawned npon hit mind. "1 have done my best to carry ont youi directions," wrote Shirley to his suzerain, Mrs. ltuthven, "and have even arrived at the distinction of being admitted to the drawing room of Miss L'Estrange at af ternoon tea time. This enables me to as sure you that Marsden almost live in what yon term the 'shabby lodgings of his relatives. I have no mat him there :ertainly; but I can trace that be has Mways been there last night, and Is ex pected this evening. Evesleigh, I find, too, is to be let for a term of years Bve, I think. Old Shepherd, of Calcutta you remember the firm, desperately rich people Is looking for a country place, and t has been offered to his solicitor. - It icems to me that this indicates intentions widely different from anything you anti cipated, and points more to a marriage for love than one for, let us say, money and love. I have met Marsden more than once lounging in Pall Mall and Regent street as if he had nothing on earth to do, which certainly does not look like the ur gent business he asserted called him to town. However, you, no doubt, have In formation which may throw a totally dif ferent light on these ambiguous proceed ings. I can only give yon the result of my observations. Take it at what it is TOrth." This letter was the last pebble on tht cairn of hopes and fears, desires, doubts Iflj lUsnt. stingin, aflger. shlchhad been gradually accumulating over the bright anticipations of a few months ago, a con tinued state of agitation and disappoint ment had strained endurance beyond the utmost, and the passionate, self-willed woman gave way under it A cold, caught during a long drive with Lord Dorrington In the east wind, obliged Mrs. Ruthven to keep her room. After a day or two of anxious attendance on the part of the local doctor, high fever set In, and it was evident that Mrs. Ruthven was danger ously 11L A great physician and a couple of trained nurses were summoned from London, all the pomp and circumstance f serious sickness were established in Lady Dorrington's pleasant house, and for the time sporting men and dancing women knew it no more. CHAPTER XI. ! It was some little time before the evil tidings reached Mrs. L'Estrange and Nora, as their correspondence with Lady Dorrington was not too frequent, and she was too much taken up, and too angry with him, to continue her diurnal letters to her brother. Meanwhile Nora and her step-moth ei went on the even tenor of their way. irs. L. estrange bad gone to ftorwoot to luncheon with an old lady, a distant cousin of her mother, who had only re membered her existence after she had made what was considered a good mar riage, and had more than once Invited her. Mrs. L'Estrange always found it hard to say no, and, somewhat to Nora's indigna tion, had consented; but went alone, ai her step-daughter refused to accompany ier. It was dusk when she returned, for het hostess had indulged herself in endless in quiries and fault-finding respecting thcii mutual relations. Mrs. L'Estrange wa wearied, and longed to see Nora's kind. bright face, to describe the pecullaritiei of her testy kinswoman while enjoying a cup of fresh, warm tea. Nora was sitting on a footstool by th firellght when her step-mother came in, nuu iuo uiuc Leu muiu wub utanu utni the hearth, the teapot simmeriDg uiidei its cozy, a plateful of thin bread and but ter, temptingly delicate, beside it "How late you are," Helen," cried Nora, starting up and coming over to assist la taking off her cloak. "What has kept j you so long?" Something in her tont struck Mrs. L'Estrange; it was not im patience exactly, it was a sort of subdued excitement "It was not the charms of my hostess nor the delights of my visit I assure you," and she proceeded to describe the bitter ness of her entertainer with much quiet drollery, while Nora poured out the tea. "You don't want the lamp yet?" shi asked, after laughing at her Btep-mother'i account "It is so nice to sit by the fire." "It is," said Mrs. L'Estrange, and then was a pause; then Nora said suddenly: "Helen, Clifford Marsden called hert to-day." "Yes. lie said something about comini last night" "But Helen! He he asked me tt tnnrry him! I was so amazed!" "Well, Nora, I am surprised, too, tbougfc not so amazed as you are. I have seen that he was fond of you, but I did not think he would marry without money. How did you answer him, dear?" "I scarcely know, except that I certaln ly did not say yes. " (To be continued.) Myriad Quacks. Near Santa Monica, California, not long ago, In a little bay about els square miles In area, there were fully a quarter of a million of wild geese. The noise of the quacking and calling to ono another was at timds heard twe miles away. At San Pedro and at ths little lake In Kern County there ar said to he even greater numbers of th game, because of the proximity of tin wheat fields. Large numbers of the geese are slalt annually during their migrations. It Is no trick for a boy sportsman to gel fifty or sixty of the birds In a few hours, and hundreds of the older hunt ers In this region have often got orei two hundred geese In a day. A pnrtj of four Los Angeles sportsmen who went out for a two days' hunt over in the Orange County marshes last week, came home with over nine hundred dead geese for the city markets. Two Bakerfleld men had a three days' hunt lately and came home with a farm wagon loaded down with geese and ducks. In all the little towns along the line of the Santa Fe railroad In thli section there are a score or two of men and boys who regularly, spring and fall, turn out for a day's shoot at wild geese and ducks, and the person who does not show that he has tumbled over at least twenty-five birds is ac counted In poor luck, or a decided nov ice in hunting. Many persons will rid to the outskirts of the town, and, stand ing in a buggy or wagon, will satlsry themselves with a shot at the armlel of flying birds at long range. Occa sionally they will bring down a goose with such random shooting. All the markets and the country grocery stores now have wild geese and docki exhibited for sale at nominal prices. The craving for Thespian distinctions appears to have taken hold on Petet Jackson, the colored fighting man. He is very keen on playing Othello, and has not only learned the part perfect ly, but has memorized te whole of the piay. t A Kansas City (Mo.) paper tells about a cattish, taken in the Missouri liiver, so large that the fisherman was drowned in pulling bim out Three per cent a month, com pounding monthly in advance, was iLe tarns upon wmcu a judgment on a promissoiy note, given originally lor $310, was entered tor $1912 at San LFrancisco, Cal. George W. Cobb, chaplain of the Bethel Mission Chapel of St. Lduis, offers a lunch of sandwiches and coffee to all poor people who will attend an tour's religious service each Sunday eveniDg. Dr. Bchott believes that even in a violent storm waves fifty five feet high are rare, and even these forty feet are exceptional. Thu British are to coin a silver dol lar, for use in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and the far Kast generally, where the Mexican dollar has long been the standard coin. It is saiofiuat iu Lima, for a it u the custnm to keep animals on t le roofs of the houses. A calf makes its would be room for argument, pro and first appearance on the roof, and ntT jr Dnt a, it Is an Impossibility I felt descends until it comes down as beef. that audincet would accept It at An' important recent invention is tmce not bcauBe U w" n tapossl what is known as the magazine loom. , blllty. but from a desire to know In Hitherto one man has beun required what condition a man's mind would be to operate six looms, but it is claimed If anch an event could happen. Would that sixteen looms can be managed bj be be thus changed? . HI Identity b fr ond man by use of this invention, tPX denied, both by Mends tftPftr A CELEBRATED PLAY. What Joseph Jeff croon Ears of the Ol Bin of Kip Van Winkle. "Art hjM always been my sweet aeart," says Joseph Jefferson, "and I hare loved her for herself alone. I bad fancied our affection was mutual, so that when I failed as a star, which I certainly did, I thought she had jilted me. Not so. I wronged her. She only reminded me that I had taken too great a liberty, and that If I expected to win her I must press my suit with more pa tience. Checked, but undaunted In the resolve, my mind dwelt upon my vis ion, and I still Indulged In day dream of the future. . "In casting about for a new charactei my mind was ever dwelling upon re producing an effect where humor would be so closely allied to pathos that smiles and tears would mingle with each other. "During the summer of 1858 1 arranj- ed to board with my family at a queer I old Dutch farmhouse In Paradise val- iey at t2i foot of Pocono mountain. In Pennsylvania. Stray farms are scat tered through the valley, and the few old Dutchmen and their families who till the soil were born upon It; there and only there they have ever lived. The valley harmonized with me and our resources. "On one of those long, rainy days, that always render the country so dull, I had climbed to the loft of the barn, and lying upon the hny was reading that delightful book, 'The Life and Let ters of Washington Irving.' I bad got- , ten well into the volume and was much interested in it, when to my surprise j I came upon a passage which said that ; Be na(1 me at Keene's thea- ; ter and r remlnded blm ot my father 'in look, gesture, size and make.' "I was comparatively obscure, and to find myself remembered and writ ten of by such a man gave me a thrill of pleasure I have never forgotten. 1 put down the book, and lay there think- Ing how proud I was, and ought to be, at the revelation of this compliment What an Incentive to a youngster like me to go on! "And so I thought to myself, 'Wash Ington Irving, the author of the Sketch Book, In which Is the qunlnt 6tory of Kip Van Winkle.' Itlp Van Winkle! There was, to me, magic in the sound of the name as I repeated it Why, was not this the very character I want ed? An American story, by an Ameri can author, was surely Just the theme suited to an American actor. "In ten minutes I had gone to th house and returned to the barn with the 'Sketch Book.' I had not read the story since I was a boy. , I was disap pointed with it; not as a story, of course, but the tale was purely a narra tive. The theme was Interesting, but not dramatic. The character of Kip does not speak ten lines. What could be done dramatically with so simple a sketch? How could it be turned intc an effective play? "Three or four bad dramatizations of the story had already been acted, with out masked success. Nothing that I re membered gave me the slightest en couragement that I could get a good play out of any of the existing ma erials. "Still, I was so bent upon acting th part that I started for the city, and in less than a week, by industriously ran sacking the theatrical wardrobe estab lishment for old leather and mildewed cloth, and by personally superintending the making of wigs, each article of my costume was completed; and all this, too. before I had written a line of the play or studied a word of the part. "This Is working In an opposite dl rection from all conventional methodi In the study and elaboration of dramat ic character, and certainly not follow ing the course I would advise anyone to pursue. I merely mention the out-of- the way, upside-down manner of going to work as an illustration of the Impa tience and enthusiasm with which I entered upon the task. I can only account for my getting the dress ready before I studied the part to the vain desire I had of witnessing myself In the glass, decked out and equipped ai the hero of the Catskills. "I got together the three old printed versions of the drama and the story lt sal f. The plays were all In two acts. I thought it would be an Improvement In the drama to arrange it In three, making the scene with the spectre crew an act by itself. This would sep arate the poetical from the domestic lde of the story. "But by far the most important alter ation was In the interview with the spirits. In the old versions they spoke and sang. I remembered that the ef fect of this ghostly dialogue was dread fully human, so I arranged that ne voice but Rip's should be heard. Thli Is the only act on the stage i which but one person speaks, while all the others merely gesticulate, and I was quite sure that the silence of the crew would give a lonely and desolate char acter to the scene and add to Its su pernatural welrdne8s. It required some thought to it upon Just the best ques tions that could be answered by a nod and shake of the bead, and to arrange that at times even Rip should propound l query to himself and answer it "In the seclusion of the barn I stud led and rehearsed the part, and by the pnd of the summer I was prepared to transplant It from the rustic realms of an old farmhouse to a cosmopolitan au dience In the city of Washington, where I opened at Carusl's Hall, under the management of John T. Raymond. I had, by repeated experiments, so sat urated myself with the action of the play that a few days seemed to perfect the rehearsals. I acted on these occa sions with all the point and feeling I could muster. This answered the double purpose of giving me freedom and of observing the effect of what ) was doing on the actors. "There waa In the subject and the part much scope for novel and fanct- ful treatment. If the sleep of twenty rears waa merely Incongruous there ana ramUy, would he at last almost ae cept the verdict and exclaim: Then I am dead, and that la the factr This was the strange and original attitude that attracted bx I rr-s quite sure that -the character was what I had been seeking, and I was equally satis fled that the play was not. The spirit ual quality was there, but the human Interest was wanting. However, the Cloy, was acted with a result that was to me both satisfactory and disappoint ing. The final alterations and addi tions were made five years later by Olon Bouclcault" Boom Number Centennial. Berlin Is preparing o fete the hun dredth birthday of the bouse number. In the London and Paris of a century ago ciphered houses did not exist The coat of arms, the house name, or 'the sign-board were the only Indications to guide our ancestors wandering feet by day or dark. "Watchman, what of the night, and where the deuce am I?" must often have been the cry of these bewildered minds. Berlin began to number houses In 1705. Starting from the Brandenburg Gate, the Prussian edlles counted straight on to Infinity, neither beginning afresh with fresh streets, nor numbering the bouses by odds and evens. Vienna adopted the latter reform In 1803, and Parts fol lowed In 1805. The ciphered house came 100 years ago; the ciphered citizen is surely coming. Already-a postal so ciety is being formed In Vienna to sup press all names and addresses, and to deliver letters by a system of private marks and Identity tickets. Our famil iar addresses will look 100 years hence like the beginning of an algebraical problem, and our personality will he reduced like the government majority to a mere expression of naughts an' Tosses. Pali Mall Gazette. crtinze the Earth's Heat. r One of the schemes for future engi neers to work at will be the sinking of a shaft 12,000 or 15.000 feet into the earth for the purpose of utilizing the central heat of the globe. It is said that such a depth is by no means im possible, with the Improved machinery and advanced methods of the coming engineer. Water at a temperature of 200 degrees centigrade, which can, it is said, be obtained from these deep bor ings, would not only heat house3 and public buildings, but furnish power that could be utilized for many pur poses. Hat water already at hand Is necessarily much cheaper than thai which must be taken when cold and brought up to the required temperature. Once the shaft is sunk, all cost In the Item of the hot water supply ceases. The pipes, if good, will last Indefinite ly,' and, as nature's stokers never allow the fire to go out, there would come In the train of this arrangement many advantages. When by sinking a shaft In the earth we can secure a perpetual heating apparatus which we can regu late by the turning of a key, one trio? of life will fade into nothingness. Cur -ent Literature. England Against France. There is a good deal of cause for the prevailing opinion in France that Eng land wants to see her defeated in Mad agascar. Of course, England wants to see her defeated. Not only from a po litical standpoint, but because the or ganization of the Malagasy army has been perfected by English army offi cers. Maj. Galbraith Graves, who is acting as advisory officer to the native general In charge of the troops at Ma Junga, has been for seven years in the Malagasy army. He has caused a school of instruction to be established In Madagascar, and the cadets turned out from the school will take part in the present difficulties with France. The French consider that they have an easy job ahead of them In taking the island away from its queen, witv the unpro nounceable name.but they should not be too sure. The native army, with Its English officers and Instructors, may make things lively for the Invaders yet -Boston Traveler. Bet the Con gregatlon Sneezing. Services had just begun In the Pres byterian Church at Vlneland, N. J-, last Sunday when several packages of snuff were thrown In at the open windows. Pastor Thomas Schull proceeded with the hymn, but was Interrupted by gen eral sneezing among the congregation. Pastor Schull looked at his flock in amazement and began the second verse. The choir tried to take up the tune, but the organist had to stop to sneeze. Then the pastor was attacked with a fit of sneezing and the services were sus pended. The doors were then thrown open and the services were resumed. Th trustees of the church offered a re ward for the arrest ot? the snuff throw r. Wonld Be Convenient, "What a great pity," said the sports man who wanted to take his catch home, "that our fish trn't more like our office boys." "I don't quite see the connection," re oiled his friend. "Then the longer yon kept them the fresher they'd get" Washington Star. An Expensive Prescription. JImson Doctor, I am getting too stout for comfort and I want your ad-vice-Doctor Nothing reduces flesh like worry. Spend two hours a day think ing of the unpaid bill you owe me, New York Weekly. A 1 9-Dolla.r Dream. "I dreamed out the solution of a shortage In my account," said a well known Indianapolis bank clerk the other day. "At night I found my cash $19 short, and I could not locate it, try as hard as) I would. I stayed after bank hours and worked without suc cess. Two o'clock In the morning found me at the desk pouring over the figures for the thousandth time. I had told the president of the trouble, and waa worried to death. In my sleep I recalled handling a $20 gold piece, and dreamed that I had put It In a stack of silver dollars. There waa the cold coin as big as life In the midst of ths silver. It had been counted for one silver dol lar. The temporary loss had cost me hours and hours of worry and hard work." India nitfolls Journal SUPPOSE WE SMILE. HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. st Incidents Onmiuig whs Over Mayings Tbst Aie Cstsssfst te ths Old er Toons; -fussy BslsnHn TTsaJ Krsrybody Will Enjoy WeHns Their New Fad. Mr. Tenderfoot Do yon have man ynch!ngs here now? Quick Drop Dan WaL no. Since thli Trilby craze, the bore her taken tet niakin hoes thieves pose altogethei nd then makin' realistic symphon ies Ir at nd feathers. New York World. The Curriculum Mow. Tom Why didn't yon go back to col ege? Dick Deficient In mathematics. Tom How did that happen? Dick I calculated that I could kick lie ball clean over the goal and I didn't .each It by twenty feet. New Yorl Herald. Ia Mr. Lease Away on a Vleltt The hard times have touched eveii Co. Mary Lease. The Wichita Beacon says she Is keeping house while her ser vant is taking a rest. Atchison Globr Parson That hog Is In good condl Mon. Hodge Podge Ah, if we were all as it to die as be is, parson, you'd be out f a Job. Punch. Willing to Gnide the Gay. "And your asked the an cel. "Write me," said Abou Ben Bunco, "as one who loves his countrymen." (ndlanapolls Journal. Not at All the 8ame. Mrs. Blues Do you have to treat our cook as if she were a member of the family? Mrs. Greys Goodness, no! We hav to be very kind and polite to her. Tie Jlta. Deluded Man. A country bridegroom, when the orlde hesitated to pronounce the word obey," remarked to the officiating cler tyman: "Go on, measter It don't matter; I tan make her." Tit Bits. An Almost Unheard-Of Occurrence. Wife (at breakfast) I didn't hear on when you came in last night Husband I guess that's the reason 1 lldn't bear you. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Feast ot Season. Tommy Pa, what is an Intellectual soiree? Mr. Fig It Is generally one where ths refreshments do not cost much moif than sixpence a head. Tit-Bits. Just His Size. Fat-Boy Give me a bathing suit . Bathing Master (aside) Johnnie, ran across to the circus and borrow an ele phant cover, qulckl Daddy's Fishing; Days Over. "Is your daddy doln' much flshln iiese days?" "No; he's paralyzed an' he can't lie tike ho used to." Atlanta Constitution. Behind tn His Seeding;. Wool I'm awfully behind in my .eading. Van Pelt Hows that? Wool I got switched off on "Trilby" ind now I'm behind an at least nine or ten new lives of Napoleon. Now York World. Modern Way of Calllnc Home Cows. Since the barbed wire fence Is com ing into general use for connecting farm houses by telephone, we suggest that the next thing could be a phone In the pasture, so that the modern dairy man can telephone the cows when to wait home! Farm and noine. Pare-tta Shoald Bead This. Poor parents who are raising their laughters up to K. princesses are mak ing lots of trouble for the poor devils who fall In love with and marry them, -Atchison Globe. Marrlasa Will Ont. reople manage to keep all other ram ly gossip private except when they hare been married more than once. lhls little history always leaks out Atablsoa Olote. Prepared. iff. i. wmi the Brooklyn Divine's Sundaj Sermon. Subject : The All Seeing." Tut: "Ha that formed the eye, shall lie aot see?" Psalm xolv., 9. The imperial organ of the human system Is the eye. All up and down the Bible God honors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns It. Ftve hundred and thirty-four times it is mentioned In the Bible. Omnipresence "the eyes of the Lord are In every plson." Divine care "as the apple oi the eye," The clouds "the eyelids of the morning." Ir reverence "the eve that mooketh st Its father." Pride "Oh. how lofty are their eyes!" Inattention "the fixil'B eve in the ends of the earth." Divine inspection "wheels full of eyes." Suddenness "in the twinkling of an eve at the last trump." Ol Ivetlo sermon "the light of the body is the ye." This morning's texl: "He that formed the eye, shall He not seeV" The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists and the physiolo gists understand much of the dories of the two great lights of the human face, but the vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom. ne would nave mi Leu in creating the Human eye. We wander through the earth trying lo see wonderful sights, but the most won- lenui slgnt tnat we ever see is not so won- lenul as the instruments through which we lee It. It has been a strange thing to me for fortv fears that some scientist with enough elo quence, and magnetism did not go throngb :he eountrv with illustrated lmrtiii-M on ran. ras thirty feet square to startle and thrill and overwhelm Christendom with the marvels of !he human eye. We want the eye taken from lit us teen nnlcalules, and someone who shall lay aside all talk about the nterviromaxiilarv fissures, and the sclerotica, and the chiasms, 3t the optic nerve, and in common parlance which you and I and everybody can under- Hand present tne subject. We have learned nen who have been telling us what our orl rin is and what we were. Oh, if some one Ihould come forth from the dissecting table ind from the classroom of the university and take platform, and asking the help of the Creator, demonstrate the wonders of what rearei If I refer to the physiological facts sug gested by the former nart of mv text it is ftntv to brinir out in a Dlainer whv the then. logical lessons at the latter part of my text. ae tnat lormea tne eye. snail He not seer" t suppose my text referred to the human eye, iince it excels all others in structure and in adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple things, be Mufte they have not much to do. There Ire insects with 100 eves, but the 100 ?yes have less faculty than the human eyes, the black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes under water and two eyes ibove the water, but the four insectile are aot equal to the two human. Man, placed It the head of all living creatures must hare upreme equipment, while the blind fish in ne Jiammotu uave oi Kentucky have only in undeveloped organ of sight, an apology lor the eye, which, If through some crevice jfthe mountain they should get into the lunlight. might be developed into positive syesignt. la tne nrst onapter of Genesis we Bad that God, without any consultation. nested the light, created the trees, created me fish, created the fowl, but when he wa-i ibout to make man he called a convention of livinity, as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the ichievement. "Let us make man." Put a whole ton of emphasis on that word "us." 'Let ns make man." And if God called a Sailed a convention of divinity to create man (think the two great questions in that con ference were how to create a soul and how x make an appropriate window for that em peror to look out of. See how God honored the eye before He treated it. He cried, until chaos was irradi Ited with the utterance, "Let there be ight!" In other words, before He intro iuoed man into this temple of the world He Illuminated it, prepared it for the eyesight. Ind so, after the last human eye has been iestroyed in the final demolition of the world, stars are to fall, and the sun is to lease its shining, and the moon is to turn Into blood. In other words, after the hu ll an eyes are no more to be profited by their ihining, the chandeliers of heaven are to be turned out. God. to educate and to bless find to help the human eye, set in the mantel f heaven two lamps a gold lamp and a diver lamp the one for the day and the tber for the night. To show how God hon rs tho eye, look at the two halls built for ie residence of the eyes, seven bones mak jig the wall for each eye. the seven bones turiously wrought together. Kingly palai f ivory is considered rich, bnt the balls for he residence of the human eye are richer by to much as human bone is more sacred than ilephantine tusk. See how God honored Jie eyes when He made a root for them, so :hat the sweat of toil should not smart them ind the rain dashing against the forehead ihould not drip into them. The eyebrows ot bending over the eye, but reaching to he right and to the left, so that the rain and he sweat should be compelled to drop upon :he cheek, instead of falling into this dirine y protected human eyesight. See how God lonoreil the eye in the fact presented by tnatomists and physiologists thnt there are W contrivances in erery eye. For window ihutters, the eyelids opening and closing J3,1 00 times a day. The eyelashes so con (tructed that they have their selection as to trhat shall be admitted, saying to the dust, 'Stay out," and saying to the light, "Coma m." For inside curtains the iris, or pupli ot :he eye. according as the light is greater or ess, contracting or dilating. The eye of the owl is blind in the day rime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at oight, but tho human eye so marvelously sonstructed ran see botn by day and by night. Many of the other creatures of God ;an move the eye only from side to side, but the human eye so marvelously con structed has one muscle to lift the eye, and mother muscle to lower the eye, and an pther muscle to roll it to the right, and an other muscle to roll it to the left, and an other muscle passing through a pnlieyto turn It round and round an elaborate gear ing ot six muscles as perfect as God could make them. There also Is the retina, gathering the rays of iig.it and passing the visual impression along the optio nerve, about tho thickness of the lampwick pass ing the visual Impression on to the senorism and on into the soul. What a delicate lens, what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions, what wonderful chemistry of the human eye! The eye, washed by a slow stream ot moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling imperceptibly over the pebble ot the eye and emptying into a bone of the nostril. A con trivance so wonderful that It can see the ran, 95,000,000 miles awav, and the point of a pin. Telescope and microscope in the same contrivance. The astronomer swings and moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the telescope until he gets it to the right focus. The mioroscoplst moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts th magnifying glass until it ia prepared to do its work, but the human eye, without a touch, beholds the star and the smallest in sect. The traveler among the Alps, with one glance taking in Mont Blano and the face ol his watch to see whether he has time t llimbit. The eyes ot Archibald Alexander and Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part ot their sermon. George Whitefield en thralled great assemblages with his eyes, though they were crippled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has with a look hurled a regiment to victory or to death Martin Luther turned his great eye on an as sassin who came to take his life, and the vil lain fled. Under the glance of the human eyethetiger, with Ave times a man's strength, snarls back into the African jungle. Bui those best appreciate the value of the ey who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian bj wwwipm put out tue eye oi uis servsui. situ lesaid to his servant: "What shall I pay fou in, money or in lands? Anything you isk me. I am so sorry I put vour eye out." But the servant refused to put any financial estimate on ths value ot the eye, and when the Emperor urged and urged strain the mat ter he stid. "O. Emperor, I want nothing but my lost eye!" A'as for those for whom S thick and Impenetrable veil is drawn across ie face of the heavens and the face of one s awn kindred. That was a pathetio scene when a blind man lighted a torch at night ind waa found passing along the highway, ind some one said, "Why do you carry that torch, when you can't see?" "Ah," said he, "I can't see, but I carry this torch that others may see me and pity my helplessness, ind not ran me down." Samson, the riant, with his eyes put out by the Phil istines, is more helpless than the smallest dwarf with vision undamaged. All the sympathies of Christ were stirred when He saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and the only salve He ever made that we read of was a mixture of dust and saliva nd a prayer, with which Ha cured the eyes of a man blind from his nativity. The value Df the eye is shown vi much by" its catastro phe as by its healthful action. Ask the man who for twenty years has not seen the sun rise. Ask the man who for half a century has not seen the face of a friend. Aik In the hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the man whose eyesight perished in a powder blast. Ask the Bartimeus who never met a Christ or the man born b iud who Is to die blind. Ask him. This morninir. in mv imperfect way, 1 have only hinted at the splendors, the glo ries, the wonders, the divine revelations, the ipocnlypses of the human eve, and I stagger back from tha awful portals of the ohvsiol- sgical miracle which must have taxed the Ingenuity of a God, to cry out in your ears ih wards of my text. "He that formed th 9ye, shall He not see?" Shad Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as much as his spec troscope? Shall Swarnmerlan not know as much as his microscone? Shall Dr. Hooka not know as much as his micrometer? Shall the thine formed know mora than its mas- :er "He tnat formed the eye, shall He not iee?" J ' Tho roooil-of this nuestion is t ffe stand at tho center of a vast circumfer snee of observation. No nrivacv. On u jyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim, eyes of irchangel, eyes of God. We may not be blo to see the habitants of other worlds, aut perhaps they may be aide to see us. We oave not optical instruments enough to ii scry them; perhaps they have optical in Itrutuents stroug enough "to descry us. The mole cannot see the eaifle mid sky, hut the agle mid sky cm bee the mole mid grass. (S'e are able to see mountains and caverns of mother world, but perhaps the inhabitants f other worl.ls can eo tho towers of our Jities, tho flash of our seas, the marching of ur processions, the whita rohas of our lings, the black scarfs of our obsequies. It passes out from tha guess into the posl Jve when we are told in the Bible that the nhabitants of other worlds do come as cou roytothis. Are they not all ministering ipiritssent forth to minister to those who ihall be heirs of salvation? But human In ipection. and anirclic inspection, and stellar nspecuoD, and lunar inspection, mi l solar nspectlon am tamo comnare.i with th bought of divine inspection. "You con farted me twenty years ago," said a blank nan to my father. "How sot" said my 'athcr. "Twenty vears ir-o." said the other 'in the old schoolhousa nriver mtir. ui Bound Brook you said in vour nrnvnr Thou. God. seest me.' nnd I hit I no inder the eye of God until I became a Clirts- lun." H-rnrif. 'The eyis of the Lord are n every place." "His evt-lidx trv tha MI- Iren of men." -nis eyes were as a tlame of Ire." "I will guide thee with Mine eye." )h, tho eye of God, so full of pit v. so full of ower. so full of love. full "of indlgua ion. so full of compassion, so full of mercy! Jow It peers through tha darkness! How it mtshlnes the day! How it glares upon tho iffender! How it beams on the penitent loul! Talk about the human eye as being naescnoamy won ienui: How much mora vonderful the great, searching, overwhelm- ugeyeoi uou: ah eternity past and at ternity to coma on that retina. The eyes with which wn looi into ea-h rther's face to-day suggest it. It stands vritteu twice on your face au l twioi on nine, unless through casualty one or both lave been obliterated, "no that formed tha ye, shall He not see?'' Cm. the eyaof Odd! t sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees mr perplexities to disentangle them, sees lor wants to sympathize with them. If wa Ight Him back, the eye of an antagonist. If ve ask His grace, the eye of an everlasting riend. You often find in a book or manu- enpt a star calling your attention to a foot lote or explanation. That star tha printer tails an asterisk. But nil tha stars of the light aro asterisks calling your attention to iod an all observing God. Our every lerve a divine handwriting. Our every nusole a pulley divinely swung. Our every lone sculpture I with di vine suggestion. Our ivery eye a reflection of the divine eye. God ibovo us, and God beneath us, and God bo ore us, and God behind us, aud God within What a stupendous thiutr to live! What a tupendons thing to die! Jfo such thing at lldden trangresslon. A dramatic advocate n olden times, at night In a courtroom, per aiaded of the innocence of his client charged vith murder and of tho guilt of the witnass vho was trying to swear the poor man's Ufa iway that advocate took up two bright amps and thrust them close up to tha face of he witness and cried. "May it please ths lourt and gentlemen of the jury, behold the nurderor!" mid tha man, practically under :hat awful glire, confessed that he was the iriminal instead ot the man arraigned at the r. Oh, my friends, our most hidden dn is under a brighter light than that, t Is under tha burning eye of God. He Is lot a blind giant stumbling through tha leavens. Ha is not a blind monarch feeling 'or the step ot His chariot. Are you wronged? Be sees tt. Are you poor? He sees It. Have rou domestio perturbation of which the world knows nothing? Ho sees It. "Oh," fou say, "my affairs are so insignificant I san't realiue that God seas me and sees my ifTairs." Can you see the point of a pin? 3an you see the eye of a needle? Can you iee a mote in tha sunbeam? And has God riven you that power of minute observation, ind does He not possess it Himself? "Ha nat lormea tne eye, shall lla not see? ' But you say: "God is in ono world and I tm in another world. Ha see:ns so far off trom me I don't really think Ha sees what is roing on in my life." Can you see ths sun 15,000,03 1 miles away, and do you not think od has as prolonged vision? But you say, 'There are phases of my life and there are solors shades of color in my annoyances ind my vexations that I don't think God ran anderstaud." Does not God gather up all :he colors and all tha shades of color in tha rainbow? And do vou suppose there Is any phase or any shade in your life He has not gathered up iu His own heart? Besides that I want to tell you it will soon ail be over, this struggle. That eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned and strung, and hinged and roofed, will before long be closed in the last slumber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So Ha giveth His beloved sleep. A legend of St Frotobert is that his mot her was blind, and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day in sympathy ha kissed her eyes, and by mini clesbe saw everytutng. But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resur rection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went groping through this world under perpetual obscuration, or were dependent on the hand of a friend, or with an uncertain staff felt their way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be said that "they whioh look out of the windows are darkened" when eternal daybreak comas in! What a beauti ful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: "Hero reposes in God. Katrina, a saint, eighty-five years of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10, 140.-" Put into circulation as mnch truth and as many kind words as possible. Women talk better than men beoanie they have more practice. Life that ever needs forgiveness has for its first inty to forgive. Cultivate forbearance until yonr mind yields a fins crop of it. There is one person who is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. Gennine sarcasm cuts withont wound ing, bnt leaves aniodellible scar. Next to vanity, finding fanlt with others is the most common impnlsa of the heart. Make yourself all honey and the flies will eat yon np. Barn son brought down the house, bnt nobody called for sn enoore. i i i 'j it n hi I i 1 f; m
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