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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.
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