I ' -., 1mA wild IN aw S. F. DOHWEIEB, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. XLIX. MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1895. NO. 36. ii i ii i n ii i ii i ii i CHAPTER XL (Continued.) A week passed swift yet .low; fi Nora watched the day., with dim sens that she was commlttinjt herself deepe and deeper. The accounts from Chedworth wef worse and better alternately, and considj ering his relations with the sufferer. Mans dun felt bound to so down to his sister'!, for a day. at least, to show proper inter est in Mrs. Ruthven. His short absence was of use, for Non missed him, and recognized what a charm lug companion he could be. There was, il short, not one reasonable reattoa for rt fusing- to be his wife, and. no doubt, ai cn ii aha had nledced herself to him other hopes and new duties would helJ her to forget a folly she ought to hav surmounted long ago. A letter from him to Mrs. I-'Estrangt gave a greatly Improved account of Mrs) Kuthven. She had really taken that tur for the better for which her attendant had so eagerly watched. Marsden him elf would come tip by the night train, an see them next day. "Now bo sure yon receive him weH Nora," said her step-mother, smiling, "! think you have tried him enough." "If you only knew how hard It ia t make up my mind on such a tremendour to be or not to be.' " "Still, you cannot keep Mr. Marsdel waiting. It is as tremendous a qustioi to him too! Will you write to Boa whili I am out, and give frauleln minute an clear directions as to their Journey on tin 10th? You know if she can make a ml take she will. I promised to be with Ma ime Kennett at half-past eleven, and il is eleven now. If 1 miss my appointmenl I do not know when I shall get my dress, and she left the room. During her brief absence some notes am letters by tho second post were prougu un: an invitation or two, a hasty lettei from Nora's German friend respecting an engagement just offered to her, and another letter with a foreign stamp 101 Mrs. L'Estrnnge Nora felt almost sure I was from Mark Winton. While she looked, Mrs. '..'Estrange ro- turned. Nora t.xk up the letter am handed it to her. "Ah!" she exclaimed, opening It hastilj nd glnncing through the contents crave ly. Then looking through the window sht exclaimed: "The cab Is waiting; mere dear, yon can read It." Leaving the let ter In Nora's hand, she went quickly dowf stairs. "Dear Mrs. L'Estrange," ran the lines "I am much obliged for yours, but sorrj to find Lndy Dorrington has so serious I ease on her hands. I was afraid Mrs Ruthven would feel the effect of such I shock as she has had; but after tw months it is curious she has not thrown Y off. I trust she will pull through; she al ways struck me as a tough little woman In spite of her fragile airs. "I have been extremely uncertain as t my own plans. I am tempted to start of) with my friends back to inaia next ween, On the whole, my long-expected holida) has been a disappointment. However, at ter mature reflection, I have decided t return to London; whether I stay out th full time of my leave, or cut It short an tart at once, will altogether depend ot what I find there. I suppose you under stand this? Has Ilea joined yon yet' Perhaps I may have the pleasure of seein her at the pantomime. If I do, what I jolly pantomime it will be to me! "itemomber me to Miss L'Estrange, an. believe me, yours most sincerely, "MARK WINTON." "OhI yes; it is clear enough. Helen, like myself, has hesitated, and he Is re turning for her final decision. I womlei if she has taken this method of informini me? It is rather well done. Probably mj engagement would facilitate matters, ani we might both live happy ever after! Why not? Helen and Mark Winfon deserve It, How constant and true he has been. That is his character, though. What perfect trust one could have in him. How good be will be to his little step-danghter. Whal a funny jumble of relationships. Shall 1 be his step-daughter, too? No, no; nsithel In fact nor fiction can I ever be anythlnf to him, nor does it matter. Oh! no, noi could I have any ploasanter. more disin terested partner for life than Clifford Marsden. I ought to be thankful for se fair a lot. I shall soon grow to love him. I love him already a little. I wish h would come; I shall not tease him anj more. I will be very good very good he deserves it. Perhaps, when Helen goel to Tndia, she will leave Beatrice with me she is too old to go out just now. I d hope she will; I shall then have a little bi of the old home to cling to. Oh! how bnp Iy, how happy the last yenr has been, til' niy blind eyes were opened. What a fool Ish, conceited girl I have been. Tes. I wil marry Clifford dear Clifford; he will N very dear to me soon, and then I shall b happy again. How Intolerable nnhappl noss is. If I could but throw It off!" She wiped away the tears which woulc spring to her eyes; she put away Win ton's letter.and setting out her writiua things, resolutely fastened her attention on the directions she had promised to sen Boa's little Kindergnrtnerin. When about half through her task tht door was opened by the clerical-looking master of the house, who solemnly an nounced "Mr. Marsden." Nora sprung up with a movement of genuine pleasure Marsden was looking better and bright er than when he left. He had more color, his fin. blue eyes looked darker than usual, his distinguished figure admirably arrayed, his easy grace, his whole styW and appearance were fit for an Ideal lover. "By Heaven, Nora," he exclaimed with delight, as he clasped her outstretched hand in both his own, "yon are glad ti see me?" "Yes, very," returned Nora, with a llttlt nervous laugh, and leaving her hand in his. He drew her to the light and gaxed lntc her face with longing tenderness, while a slight knitting of the brows showed how Intently he tried to read her thoughts. "My darling," he said In a low tone, "there are tears In your eyesl What baa grieved you tell me? "Oh, nothing. What could I have tc -ry for? Yet the tears did come. I don't know why." Clifford felt in some vagn. way flat tered by her tears. "Then you have thought of tne, Nora? Can yon decide? Will you try to love me and be my wife?" "Yes," she returned quietly and dis tinctly. "I am sure I shall love yon aa ou deserve. I am growing nmJ " """ already. 1 missed you so much yesteiu... and the day before, and looked forward to seeing you, and now I aa fjtiire happy you have come that ia love, I suppose?" sinil lug archly and frankly. "Dearest," returned Marsden, with a luick sigh, kissing Uur hand befor h. re icased it. "For God's sake, spare m. ancb arguments! You only prov. how much you have to learn. However, your prom, ise to be mine ia all I ask now; assur. nis once more that yon will be my wife." Touched by the eager, pained pleading of his eyes, Nora gave him her hand again and said softly, solemnly: "I do, indued, promise to be your wife and to love you." . "Sweetest, kindest!" cried Marsden, bis face aglow with Joy. "One word more when? There la no need for useless J lays. When, Norm J' "I will not marry before the fifteenth oi next February," she said with decision. "But. Nora, that la more than twr ' months off." "Very little more than two." "And why not before T' -On the fifteenth of February T shall be il, and I want to settle part of what I ossess on Helen and Bea. Did I not tell yon once?" "Yea, yea, of course; and qnite right, too; but yonr marriage need not prevent that. I shall assist yon in making this settlement. "Yes; but I would prefer making It while I am my own mistress. "Your own mistress! Why, you will ilways be your own mistreea! But do not let ns quarrel over details; all that will arrango itself. Now, let me put this ring on your finger. It ! my signet, and I fancy it seems more like taking possession when yon wear the crest of my house. "That is a curious fancy," Mid Nora, ai she let him slip hla onyx seal ring on hei slender finger. "Your best title la my free consent." "It Is free?" he asked. "Yon don't know how I have longed and schemed for tbii moment! I never felt so doubtful of suc cess before. I never could make sure of you! Even now, Nora, yon do not love as I want to be loved. I feel that keenly. But I have your promise, and yon cannot hold back your affection from one who hungers and thirsts for it as I do! You are the one supreme good of life to me and I have waited patiently." "Not very long," said Nora, who wat tonchod and moved by the intense feeling of his voice. "Why, Clifford, we only mot at Lady Dorrington's dance in June! A that time I was a mere child! "Nearly six months ago! It is an acel Do you remember the night of thnt infer nal ball of mine when you accused roe of taking too much champagne? I knew than that I could not bear to exist with out you, and pressed yon to my heart In the waltz. I would have done so if death had been the penalty. Then I felt I want ed to carry yon away from every one te be mine mine alone." "And why why do you care for me so nuch?" criod Nora, nneaaily; his vehe mence displeased her, she scarce knew why. "How can I tell?" he returned more .nlmly. "Some witchery I could neither resist nor explain!" There was a pause, and Nora went to the writing table and began to look over her letter. "I wonder what can have detained Helen, she said; 'she ought to have returned by this time." "She has, probably, observed Marsden, smiling. "I told the servant to let her know I was here, and she has porhap kept away. "Then let me go and find her; she wil. be pleased." "Yes!" Interrupted Marsden. "She Is a nice, charming creature, and my good friend! but do not aeek her yet. I have a thousand things to say. Must yon finish that letter?" "Yea, Indeed! I shall only be a very few minutes; It ia about Bea and her travels: lha comas up with frauleln in a few lays." While she wrote, Marsden leaned over l high-backed chair and gazed at her, and then they glided into talk of the fu ture. He was full of pleasant projects, of traveling, of spending a few months at Vienna, of a cruise in the Mediterranean, of everything save residing at sweet Eves lei gh. "Now I really will look for Helen!" tried Norn, moving toward the door. Marsden interposed between her and it. "Once more," he exclaimed, "before this heavenly hour Is ended, tell me yon will love me that nothing shall separate us." I do promise, said Nora, moved by a strange feeling of -compassion. "Then give me one nnstlnted -lsa," hs cried passionately; "I want more than mere words." "Oil, yes! I will. Indeed to-morrow," ihe said, feeling curiously averse to yield, ret not liking to refuse "Good God! to-morrow! Was ever such answer given to a lover? No; now now, r I will think yon only mock me!" He caught her In his arms, and. holding her head against hie shoulder, pressed his lips to hers m an Intense, passionate kiss, while she felt the wild throbbing of his heart against her own; but, long befor. he was willing to release her, ah strug gled so vehemently to get free that he let her go. "Clifford! Cousin r she exclaimed. itanding at little distance, with crimson ,-heeks and hearing bosom, "yon frlghtes me!" If you loved as I do, Nora! But yon will! you will one day come and kiss me freely, voluntarily. "Wbrt Nora! have I affended yon so deeply?" She made no reply, but burst Into tearr nd fled from the room. CHAPTER XII. The days of Mrs. Rnthven's dangerous linens were the worst and most distasteful Lady Dorrington bad ever known. She was really anxlona about the sufferer, and the was Infinitely annoyed by Marsden a infeeling indifference. Except for the ne hurried visit, he was content with a formal daily bulletin; nor did he seem much concerned If, by any accident, that was delayed. It was disgracefully heart less as an abstract fact, and it would lave a final effect upon Marsden's chances vhen It came to the knowledge of Mrs i tit oven. What was Clifford thinking of? Had tie discovered a mine? or bad the reports which had reached Lady Dorrington, and been believed by her, as to his extrava gance and embarrassment, been exagger ated? He waa too trying! What was keeping him In London at such a time? Could there be any truth in the absurd Idea that Nora L'Estrange waa the at traction a mere nobody slenderly dow- ired and nothing remarkable in the waj f beauty? However, as the time went by, Mrs Ruthven held her ground. There waa more tenacity in the fragile-looking slen der little woman than people thought, and t lertltb aha WW able, to alt up (or a few hours, to listen to Lady Dorrington when the read the more interesting paragraphs if the newspapers aloud, and finally to read her own letters. But still there was ao intention on the part of Marsden, ap parently, of coming to offer his congratu lations in person. He wrote kindly and eordlally, but In a strictly friendly tone, explaining that he was busy arranging his somewhat entangled affairs, and the preliminaries necessary for letting Eve leigh on a lease of several years. This letter was la Itself a severe blow. It was, however, as nothing compared to one received next day from the watchful Captain Shirley. After expressing his de light at hearing of her progress toward recovery, his regret at not being on such terms with Lord snd Lar'y Dorrington that be might venture to run down and see her, he informed his esteemed correspond ent he could now assure her that Marsden was positively engaged to Miss L'Es trange. n was with her and her step mother every day, and all day. Finally he (Shirley) had been in a celebrated jow elers shop In Bond street, where his at tention was caught by an unusually Zt ring, the design being two hearts unltei one of rabies, the other of diamonds. The shopman said it was, he fancied, an engagement ring, and made to order. He had scarcely finished examining it when Marsden came in, end after exchanging a word or two with him, went to the counter and asked if his order had been executed, whereupon this very ring was handed to him. The next day Shirley had called on Mrs. L'Estrange and waa admitted, when he saw the identical ring on Miss L'Es trange g left third finger. There was bu' Dne inference to be drawn. - When Mrs, Ruthven read these lines she felt as If something had snapped her brain. Her heart beat to suffocation, and her Imagination presented her with a con fused, broken, shadowy mass of picture from the past. Waa this the result of an Mareden'i Implied tenderness and admiration ? Had he blinded her keen eyea and deceived her harp observation? He should pay dear dear! And that careless, candid girl, whose easy indifference was absolutely Insolent, whose comparative poverty and obscurity ought to have been a barrier to her advancement, was preferred befort her wealth and beauty and carefully cul tivated grace. It was too maddening. I.' she could destroy both, she would. And how every one wonld talk! She had been so sure of becoming Mrs. Clifford Marsdon, of Evesleigh Manor every on knew that the marriage was expected and now to be deceived, cheated, deserted for a mere insignificant, half-developed creature! Mrs. Ruthven felt murderous. Her head was dizzy; she passed a terri ble night, and next day the doctor was sent for in hot haste, as his patient show ed every symptom of a relapse, and before twelve hours were over she was rambling incoherently in a high fever. She must have sustained a mental shock of some description, the doctor said, bul no one could surmise what had caused It. Mrs. Ruthven had had sufficient foresight, feeling terribly ill, to tear the letter into minute fragments and burn them, and from her speech little could be gathered save that she repeatedly accused Shirley and others of stealing her jowels. This relapse was a groat additional trou ble to Lady Dorrington, who was at her wit's ends to discover its origin. "Some of those horrible letters, no doubt," she confided to her husband. ' I wish she never had had them; at such a time the absence of some confidential at tendant Is very awkward. Yon see, wo know nothing of her fonner llfo and con neotions." (To be continced.) A Snspioloos Uncle. "Kitty, what brings that young chncklehead of a Bhoonamore to this house so often?" "Why, Uncle Allen, b.9 comes to acv tne, I suppose." "What do you know about him?" "I know he's a very plenaant, agreea ble young man, who belongs to a good family, always dresses well. Is In gooc Circumstance and is well educated an,' well read." "What else do you know about hltn?' "I know that ho hasn't any of the habits to cay young men haw. He doesn't drink, smoke, gamble, a. tend -irlze fights or jo Into bad company." "Does he keep a vu horse?" "Oh, no! I am snre he doesn't "Part his hair In the ulddlo?" "No." "Let his little finger nails grow ex tremely lorj?" "No." "Quota Ibaexr "NeTor." "Ohew gum?" "Oh, no!" "Wear pointed whiskers?"' "Hs does not" "Carry chocolate creams and cara mels in his pocket?" "No." (Still suspicious) "He may me all richt Kitty, but you'd better watch him, I'll bet $4 he colls his father 'pnpa.' " Chicago Tribune. Bat Now It's the Hat. Tlia mnl aM time, war not vrlthmil their drawbacks. At a performs noe of one of Handel's oratorios In Londos, more than a hundred years airo. the tickets had a postscript which re.id: "Gentlemen arc requoate-l to como without swords nn-1 ladles without hoops." Hone Is the half-brother to happiness. It is estimated that in the large cities of the country there are twelve saloons to every church. The letter "I" in Ihe Chinese language has 145 ways of being pro nounced, and each pronunciation has a different meaning. One of the seven survivors of the defence of Fort bu alter is a man named DoraD, who was in the fort on a visit when the trouoio began. Fiance proilncss about 808,000 tons of finished iron a year. The ore for it is largely drawn from Algeria, Spain, Elba and Sardinia. A irl in Lancaster, Ky., diea of fright in a dentist's chair the other day while preparing to have a tooth extracted. A Incky horseshoe, wLich hung over an Atchison (Kan.) girl's bedroom door, fell on her bead the other morn ing, cutting a bad gash id her scalp. An Old Orchard Me. man, who ran a neeale in'o his foot, extracted the same by passing his foot nerr the dymano in the local electric light plant. Jim" Beggs. of Columbus, Ind , who went to a river to drown some kittens, got cramp, foil in and was himself drowned. In the fiords on the Norway coast the clearness of the water is wonder ful. Objects thi size of a half dollar may be seen at a depth of twenty five or thirty fathoms. SUPPOSE WE SMILE. TUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. a Incident. Owaillag th. WwM Onr-anytncs That A. Cfcasifal to th. Old a Toong -runny SaUntln Thas KwytMdy Will Enjoy Rfittaa Gettlna- Sid of It. Tve got more money than I 1 know j what to do wth!" "Well, don't be discouraged; Just start a newspaper!" Atlanta Constitution. A Liberal Discount. Mrs. Boardman And what does It come to? Mr. Clevers Eight pounds, ma'am, at S cents a pound. Eight eights art eighty-eight; take It for SO cents. Handy piece of Farnltnre. Poet "Do you digest all the poems you read?" Editor "Oh. no. I have a goat to do hat for me." New York World. Glad of It. Collector "Say, look here; I'm tired of calling here about this bllL" The Debtor "Well I'm mighty glad to hear it" Life. True. Marts "I have 30.000 volumes." Spratts "And yet I have your whole library condensed Into one book." Ma tts "What's that?" Spratts "The dictionary." New York World. Oat in Kansas. "I don't see why they call this a growing country." said the tree, as It tried to strike root In Kansas. "You must notice that It Is on the go," replied the cyclone, as It played check ers with five or six townships. Truth. Properly Valued. Stern Father "Do you realize, young man, that up to the present time It has cost me at least $20,000 to bring up and educate that girl?" Fond Lover "Yes, sir; and from my point of view I should say, sir, that she 'm fully worth It" Somervllle Journal Properly Approached. Youth "Excuse me, sir, but I am highly desirous of procuring your rare and valuable autograph." Rising Author "AhemI Certainly. How will you have It?" Youth "On the bottom of a check for your last month's laundry bill" Town Topics. Consideration. Magistrate "If you were there for no dishonest purpose, why were you In your stockinged feet?" Burglar "I heard there waa sickness In the family, jour worship." Rich mond State. A Recommendation. "Eat, captain? E'U eat anything, and 'e's werry pertlc'ler fond o' chil dren." Pick Me Up. Appropriate. He "Wasn't Brown's wife named Stone before she was married?" She "Yes, and it was a very suitable came." He "What do you mean?" She "Oh, nothing; only she threw herself at his head." World's Com la Bwalmed. Doctor (to fair patient) "Put out your tongue." (Meantime he writes out a prescription.) "There, that will do." Miss Chatterbox "But, doctor, yon did not even look at my tongue I" Doctor "No, I only wanted you to keep quiet while I wrote the prescrlp. tion." Gelllustreerd Stnlrersblad The Baa;, Mother For heaven's sake, what are Oldest Two Boys Oh, we are Just has Just fallen down a precipice and BlaeOec, Gooa AbTIrs, Mother (arranging for the summer) "I want the girls to go to some plac There the nicest men are, of course." Father "Then, my dear, you had better let them stay la town." Detrol (Tree Press. From a Married Han She "I think It's absurd for a maj to expect hla wife to share his tro blea." He "I don't know. He wouldn't have many If It wasn't for her." De trolt Tribune. 1 Hla Boy Wonder "I tell you," said Mr. Proudpaugh, "that boy of mine is a wonder. Ht has the' signs of extraordinary genlut tamped all over him in display type." "Indeed? He must be a phenom. Don." "He is. He la only 6 yean old and write a hand like Horace Greeley's, and sings worse than Trilby, land Times. Unexpected. Young Man "What did your daddy ay when he heard I had kissed y po llster?" Little Girl "He said that was r couraglng." Tld-Blta. Why Satan loe. It, Teacher "Can you tell me, Johnnie, why Satan goes about the earth like i roaring Hon?" Johnnie" 'Cause he can't cut any Ice In the place where he lives when he's t home." Boston Transcript Women Not Timid. Talk of women being timid! Non sense! Why a little meek-faced, thin slip of a girl will wear balloon sleeves right In the middle of the cyclone belt and that without, flinching. Boston Transcript Mr. Rlocnm Unkind. "I can't have whistling at the table. Mr. Blocum," said the boardlng-hous keeper. "I thought you said yesterday you liked to hear a man whistle at his work?" replied the boarder, as he made another Ineffectual attempt at cutting his piece of beefsteak. Yonkers States man. Bo Far and Yet Ko Near. Instructor "Why, lady, wot made yet come off then? Yer was getting on sr nicely." Fair Fupil (pointing to the distant water-cart) "T-h-a-t!" New Budget Her State. "What etate are you from, lltthj girl?" said a lady at a summer resort "Mischief," was the reply. "Mischief?" repeated the questioner. "Yea'm. When I'm at home papa says I'm always in a state of mischief. Detroit Free Press. A Great Triumph. Beport of a Spanish general in Cubs to the home government: "We have just won a great triumph, which will carry consternation Into the ranks of the Insurgents. We have shot one of our officers for cowardices Buffalo Express. Bow Conld 8he? "No, Victor," said Atalnnta, pensive ly; "how can I be yours when our cycle club. The Bloomers,' has just taken for Its motto. 'Divided we stand, unite we fall?" Life. Method la Hi. Madneu. Biggs "Why does Brown always write his Jokes on such thin paper?" Digits "So the editors can see through them, I suppose." Albany Journal Better Than He Hoped For. Mrs. Hashmore "You'll have to se tie up or leave." Summer Boarder "Thanks, awfully. The last place I was at they made nil do both." Life. Marriage of the Dead. A strange custom prevails among a certain tribe In the Caucasus. When a single young man dies some one who has carried to the grave a marriagea ble daughter In the course of the yeai calls upon the bereaved parents and says: "Your son Is sure to want s wife. Ill give you my daughter, and you shall deliver to me the marrlag portion In return." A friendly offer ol this description Is never rejected, an the two parties soon come to terms ai to the amount of the dowry, whlct varies according to the advantages possessed by the girl la her lifetime Cases have been known where tht young man's father baa given as muck is thirty cows to secure a dead wife foi Ms dead son. for Reall.m. you children doing? playing "climbing the Alps." Willi. we are saving life. Hnmorlstlchi KEY. DB. T11LJIGL The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: 'The worst Koe of Labor. Owinc; to umat jrrief nt the sudden eatl Jf his lamented wife. K;-. Dr. T. D Witl Palmare canceled his en-nurament to nrea-h. but in order that the vnat congregation to which he speaks throueh tht pran may not e disappointed, a famous and always-timely sermon delivered by him on a previous occasion is supplied for this week. Text: "He that earnnth wages, earnntb WH?fs to put it into a Da? wltn noles. Haxgal i., 8. In Persia, under the reign ot Dariu Hv stnBpee, the people did not prosper. The3 made money, but did not keen It. The! were like people who have a sack in which they put money, not knowing that the sack is torn, or eaten of moths, or in some way made incapable of holding valuables. As fart as the coin wat put in one end of the sack it dropped out of the other. It made no difference how much wages they got, for they lout them. "He that earneth wagea. earner n wages io put it into a Dag witr holes." What has become of the billions and bil lions ot dollars in this country paid to tha working classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase ot homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life, or to provide com forts in old age. What has become of other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming-table. Wasted In intoxicants. Put into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and 1 will build for every work ingman a house, and lay out for htm a gar den, and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in s lk, and stand at Lis front loor a prancing span of sorrel.3 or bavs. and secure him a policy of life insurance, so that the present home m-iy b well maintained after he is doa-1. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes ts intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchLst of the centimes, and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It Is to It a worse foe than monopoly, and wone than associated capi tal. It annually swindles industry out of f large percentage of its earnings. It hol-U out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon-spell, and on his way home at even tide; on Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a lare part of the money that might oome to the family, and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Within eicht hnndred yards of Ramls Street Methodist Chnrch, Brooklyn, it has fifty-four saloons, and is plotting now for another. Stand the saloons of this countrvside by side, and it is carefully estimated they wouid reach from New York to Chicago. Forward, march, says the rum power, anil take possession ol the American Nation! The ruin business is pouring Its vitriolic and damnable liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a strike universa.' against strong drink, which, if kepi up. will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the Nation. I will un dertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next ten years, if he will refuse all intox icating beverage and be saving, may not be come a capitalist on a small scale. Out country in a year spends ono billion five hundred million and fifty thousand dollars for rum. Of course the working classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful statistics show that the wage-earning classes of Great Britain expend in liquors one hun dred million pounds, or five hundred mill ion dollars a year. Sit down and think, O workingman! how much you have expend ed in these directions. Acid it all up. Add up what your neighbors have expended, and realize that instead of answering the bee of other people you might have been yonr own capitalist. Whea you deplete a work Ingman's physical energy you deplete Li capital. The stimulated workman gives out befor the unstimulated workman. My father said "I became a temperance man in early life because I noticed in the harvest field that, though I was physically weaker than othei workmen, I could hold out longerthanthey. They took stimulants. I took none." A brickmakerin Englrnd gives bis experience in regard to this matter among men in his employ. He says, after investigation: "The beer-drinkers who made the fewest bricks made six hundred and flfty-nine thousand; the abstainer who made the fewest bricks, seven hundred and forty-six thousand." The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger. eighty-seven thousand. There came a very exhausting time in the British Parliament. The session was pro longed until nearly all the members got sick or worn out. Out of six hundred and fifty two members only two went through un damaged; they were teetotalers. When an army goes out to the battle the soldier who has water or coffee In his can teen marches easier and fights better than the soldier who has whisky in his canteen. Rum helps a man to fight when he has only one contestant, and chat at tha street cor ner. But when he goes forth to maintain some great battle for God and his country. he wants no rum about mm. w hen the Russians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every sol dier. If there be in his breath a taint of in toxicating liquor, the man is sent back to the barracks. Why? lie cannot endure fa tigue. All our youngmenitnowttits. when they are preparing for a regatta, or for a ball club, or for an athletlo wrestling, they ab stain. Our working people will be wiser af ter a while, and the money they ning away on hurtful indulgences they will put into co operative associations, anil so become capi talists. It the workingman put down bis wages and then take his expenses and spread them out, so they will just equal, he is not wise. I know workingmen who are in a Serfeet fidget until tliey gut rid of their last ollar. The following circumstances came under our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his six or seven hundred dollars yearly. Marriage day came. The bride had inherited nve nunarea aouars irom net grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man tooc extra evening employment; almost ex hausted with the day's work, yet took even ing employment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did he add evening employ ment to tne aay empioymenir xoget money. Whv did he want to get money? To lay un something for a rainy day? Mo. To get his life insured, so that in ease of his death his wife would not be a beggar? No. He put the extra evening work to the day work that ne mignt get a nunarea ana nrty aouars to get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister of the bride heard ot this achievement, and was not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat up working nearly nil the nights for a great while until she bought a sealskin coat. I have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on small incomes, but I suppose the con tagion spread, and that everybody had a sealskin coat, and that the people came out and cried, practically, not literally: "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealsain coat!" 1 was out West, and a minister of the Gos pel told me, in Iowa, that his church and tht neighborhood had been impoverished by th fact that they put mortgages on their farnu in order to send their families to the Phila delphia Centennial. It was not respectable not to go to the Centennial. Between sucb evils and pan peris m there is a very short step. The vast majority of children in your aim houses are there because their parents are drunken, or lazy, or recklessly improvident. I have no sympathy for skinflint saving, but I plead for Christian prudence. You say Is Impossible now to lav no anything foe i rain V la-. 1 know It, but we are at the day i.renk of National prosperity. Honw peopb thluk it is mean to mru the gas low whei they go out of the p irlor. They feel ombap rassed if the door-b!l rings before they havi the hall lighted. They apologize lor i n plain meal, if von surprise them at the table. W-ll 4 4a if II in mil V tO 1110 DDA IT11S- erly board. But if it be to educate youi children, if It be to give more help to you l wife when she does not feel strong, if it bf to keep your funeral day from being horri- Dieneyona ail endurance, because it Is to M the disruption and annihilation of the do mestic circle it it be for that, then It is mag Vincent. There are those who are kept in povertj because ot their own fault. They might hav been well off, but they smoked or chewed u their earnings, or they lived beyond theii means, while others on the same wages anl on tne same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who was all the time com plaining ot his poverty and crying oul against rich men, while he himself keeps twe dogs, and chews and smokes, and is fall tc the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Ml. cawber said to David Copperfield, ''Copper field, my boy, one pound in oome, expenset twenty shillings and six penoe; result misery. But, Copperfield, my boy, one pouno income, expenses nineteen sntiungs ana si pence; result, happiness." But, O working man of America, take your morning dram. and your noon dram, and your evening dram. nd spend everything you have over for to- aaoco ana excursions, ana you insure dot- 3rty for yourself and your children forever: If by some generous flat of the capitalists si this country, or by a new law of the Gov ernment of the United States, twenty-five per cent., or fifty per cent., or one hundred per cent, were added to the wages of the working classes of America, It would be nc idvantage to hundreds of thousands of then? unless they stopped strong drink. Aye, un :il they quit that evil habit, the more money :h. mora ruin, the more wages, the mon loles in the bag. My plea this morning is to those working people who are in a disci pieship to whisk) wltle, the beer-mug, and the wine-flask. nd what I say to them will not be more ap propriate to the working classes than to the business classes, and the literary classes, and the prrfeasional classes, and all classes, and not with the people of one age more than if all ages. Take one good square look at the suffering of the man whom strong drink has enthralled, and remember that toward that goal multitudes are running. The dis ilple ot alcoholism suffers the loss of self respect. Just as soon as a man wakes up and finds :hat he is the captive of strong drink, he feels iemeaned. I do not care how reckless be lets. He may say, "I don't care;" he dues are. He cannot look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three-fourths of his nature Is destroyed: his self-respect is gone; he says things he would not otherwise say; ha does thing? he would not otherwise do. When s man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, the flrvt thing he wants to do istn persuade yon that he can stop any time he wants to. He cannot. The Philistines have bound him hand and foot, and shorn his lecks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind In the mill of a great horror. He cannot stop. I will prove it. He knows that his course is bringing ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he couid stop he would. He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his familv. He loves them. He would stoc if he could. He cannot. Perhaps he could ;hre months or a year ago, not now. Just ifk him to stop for a month. He cannot; he cnows he cannot, bo he does not try. I had a friend who was for fifteen years ;oing down under this evil habit. He had iar-4 means, lis had given thousands ol iollars to Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. He was very zenial, very generous, and very lovable, and whenever be talked about this evil habit he would say, "I can stop any time." But he kept going on, going on, down, down. lown. His family would sav. I wish you would stop." "Why." he would reply, "I ran stop any time if I want to." After a while he had delirium tremens; he had it twiO;-; and yet, after that, he said, "I could itop at any lime It I wanted to." He is dead now. What killed him? Bum! Rum! And yet among his last utterances was, "I can rtop at any time." He did not stop it, be cause he could not stop it. Oh, there is a point in inebriation beyond which if a man ioes he cannot stop! one or these victims said to a Christian nan, "Sir. if I were told that I couldn't get drink until to-morrow night unless I had all my fingers cut off, I would say, "Bring the hatchet and cut them off now."" I have dear frien 1 in Philadelphia whose nephew ;ame to him one daw and. when he was ex horted about his evil habit, said, "Uncle, I jan't givj it up. If there stool a cannon snd it was loaded, and a glass of wine were let on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew :hat you would fire it oft as I came up and :00s. ine glass, 1 wouia starr, lor 1 must lave it." Oh, it is a sa 1 thing for a man to wake up n this life an 1 feol th.it he is a captive! He lays. "I could have got rid ot this at onoe, 5ut I can't now. I might have lived aa hon jrable life and died a Christian death; but :here Is no hope for me now; there is no wcape for me. Dea-I, but not buriej. I am 1 walking corpse. I am au apparition of what onoe was. I atn a oaguJ imnortal beating igainst the wires of my cage in this dlrec :ioo; beating aalnst the cage until there it ilood on the wires and blood upon my soul. ?et not aie to get out. Destroyed without emedy:" I go on, and say that the disciple of ruir nlTers from the loss of health. The older men In the congregation may re- aember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified th. peo ple by his lectures, In which he showed the itiects 01 aioonoiistn on the human stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams by which he thowed the devastation of strong drink upon :ne pnysicai system, mere were tnousanas t people that turned back from that ulcer jus sketch, swearing eternal abstinence from sverythlng that could intoxicate. Uod only knows what the drnnkarl suf fers. Pain files on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with every flame, and stings with every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles orawl over his creep ing limbs! What fiends stand by his mid night pillow! What groans tear his ear! What horrors shiverthrough his soul! Talk ot the ra-k, talk of the Inquisition, talk ol the fum-r il pyre, talk of the crushing Jug gernaut leeis tnein an at onoe. Have you ?ver been in the ward of the hospital where Dese Inebriates aie dying, thestenchol theii wounds driving back the attendants, theii voices sounding thrush the night? The ceeper conies up nod savs, "Hush, now, be (till! Stop m iking all this noise!' But it Is elTootual only for a moment, for as soon ,4 rhe IrMiiiwp In (F.i-i . Ih.tf K-,-in n. .-( Oh, God! Oh. Gj.l! 11 lp! H-ilu! Hum! Hive me ram! Help! Take them off me! Fake them off me! Oil, God!" And then thev ihrlek, and they rave, and they pluck out neir nair by nanaiuis. and bite their nails into the quick, and then they groan, and they shriek, and they blaspheme, and they ask the keeper to kill them "Stab me! Smother me' Strangle me! Take the devils 3tt me!" Oh, it Is no fancy sketch! That thing is going on now all up and down the innd. and I tell you further that this Is go ng to be the death that some of you will lie. I know it. I see it coming. Again, the inebriate suffers through the oss of borne. I do not care how much he loves his wife ud children, if his passion for strong drink bas mastered him, he will do the most out- k-'cous tnings; and It be could not get irink in any other way. he would sell hit family into eternal bondage. How many homes have l-een broken up in that way no one but God knows. Oh. is there anything that will so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come? I hate that strong drink. With all the concentrated energies of my soul I bate It. Do not tell me that a man can be happy when he knows that he is breaking his wife s heart and clothing his children with rags. Why. there are on the roads and streets of this lan l to day little children, barefooted, unwashed, and unkempt want on every patch of theii faded dress ami on every wrinkle of theii prematurely old countenances, who would have been in churches to-day. and as well clad as yon are. but for the fact that rum de stroyed their parents and drove them Into the grave. O rum, thou toe or God, thou desooilerof homes, thou recruiting officer of the pit, I hate Ihee! But my subject takes a deeper tone, ana that Is, that the unfortunate of whom I speak snffers from the loss of the soul. The Bible Intimates that in the future world, if we are un'orglven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and make our torment there. So that, I suppose, when an inebriate wakes nn in the last world, he will feel an infinite thirst clawing on him. Now, down in the world, although he may have been very poor, he eonld beg or he could steal five oeatjj wjthwbjoh to get that which would slake his thirst for a little while; but in eter nity whore Is the rum to come from? Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating everlasting thirst of the drunkard in belli Why, if a fiend came u 0 to earl h for some in fernal work In a gro-shop, and should go back taking on Its wing just onedroo of that for which the inebriate in the lost world longs, what excitement would It make there! Put that one drop from off the fiend's witii on the tip of the tontrue of th destroye 1 in - briate; let the liquid brightness just touch It; let the drop be very small, if it only have In it the smack of alcoholic drink: let that drop just touch the lost inebriate lu th lost world, and he would spring to his feet and cry, "That is rum. aha! That is rum!" And It would wake up the echoes of the damned "Givs m rum! Give me rum! Give me mm!" In the future world I do not believe that it will be th- ab sence of God that will make the drunkarl's sorrow. I do not believe that it will Im th'. absence of light. I do not lielievc that it will be tho absence of holines.. I think It will be the absence of rum. Oh. "look not upon the wine when It is red, when it mov 9th Itself aright In the cup, for at the last it iteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an idder. It Is about time that we have another wo man's crusade like that which swept through Ohio ten or twelve years a-o. With prayer and song the women went into the groc geries, and whole neighborhoods, towns an I cities were redeemed bv their Christian heroics. Thirty women cli-are.l out the rum traffic from a village of one thousand inhal itants. If thirty women, surcharged of the Holy Ghost, could renovate a town of a thousand, tlireo thousand consecrate I wo men, resolved to give tbemseiv:s no peace until this crime wasextirpat d from this city, could in six months clear out three-fourths ol ihe grog-shops of Brooklyn. If there be three thousand wom-n now in this city w'10 will put their hands and their hearts to the work, I will take the contract for driving out all these moral nuisances from the city at any rate, three-fourths of them in three months, r, when that host ofthren thousand con secrated women is marshale l, there lie no 3netoleal them. then, as a minister of Ihe Most High God. I will offer to take mv position at the front of the host, and I will ?ry to them, "Come on, ye women of Christ, svith your songs and your prayers! Some f you take the enemy's rij;ht wing and some :hc left win. Forward! The Lord of Hoits s with us; the (rod of Jacob Is our rufuire! Down with t'i'i dram shops!" But not watting for th-se mouths of ho'l :o clos--, li-l me advise the working an 1 the usiness classes, and all classes, to stop st run-.' irink. While I declared some time ago that :here was a point beyond which a mnn could lot stop, I want to tell you that while a man aunot stop in his cwu strength, the Lord Sod by His grace can help him to sto: at inytlme. I was in it room iti New York where there were many men who ha 1 been reclaimed from drunkenness. 1 heart their testimony, and for the first time my life there flashed out a truth never understood. They said. "We were victims of strong drink. We trie 1 to five it np, but always failed; hut somehow linee we gave our hearts to Christ. H has taken care of us." I b-Mieve that the time will soon come when the gr ic , of Go. I will how Its power not only to save man's soul, but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate an I redeem it. I verily believe that, although vou feel frappling at the roots of vour toUiru--s an Almost omnipotent thirst, if vou will give your heart to God, He will help you by His grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last chance. I have looked off upon th- desolation. Bitting in our religions assemblages there are 4 good many people In awful peril; and. udging Irom ordmary circumstances, there A not one chance in five thousand that they Brill get clear of it. There ure men in my congregation from Sabbath to babhaih of whom I most make the remark, that if they Jo not change their course, within tn years they will, as to their bodies. Ho dowu in drunkards' graves; and as to their souls, lie iown in a drunkard's perdition. I know that is an awful thing to say, but I cannot help saying it. Uli, beware! 1011 have not yet been cap- lured. Beware! Whether the beverage be. poured in golden chalice or pewter mug. In he loam at the ton. In white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul, Bt.-ware!" When the books of Judgment are open, and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I. this morning, lu tin fear of G 1 and in the love for your soul, told you, with all affec tion and with all kindness, to beware of that which has already exerted Its influence upon your family, blowing out some of its lights s premonition of the blackness of darkness forever. Oh. if you cou'd only hoar t!ils morning intemperance with drunkards' bones drum ming on the head of the liquor-cask tho Dead March of immortal souls, methinks the very glance of a wine-oup would make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of tho bloo 1 of the soul, tndthe foam on the top of the cup would re mind you of the froth on the maniac's lip; and you would go home from this service and kneel down and pray God that, rather than your children should become cap tives of this evil habit, you would like to sarry them out soma bright spring day to the cemetery, and put them away to the last sleep, until at the oailot the south wind the Sowers would come up all over the grave sweet prophecies of the resurrection! God bas a balm for such a wound; but what Bower of comfort ever grew on tho blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulchre? CENTRAL AMERICAN FEDERATION. An Kxperlencetl Opinion of tha Senllm.nl or the Flv. Kepublics. General Pierce M. B. Young. United Statu. finlster to Guatemala and Honduras, now st home ou leave, says: "I believe a larira majority of the Intelligent patriotic citizens of Central America would like to see a union at all those republics, as greatly to the ad vantage of all. I believe that at this time all the Presidents are patriotic, conservative men. ine uovernment or the United States bas but one sentiment for these republics, iuii mm is niiec.ioil. "In the five republics there are. perhans. 1.000.000 of people. The population ol 3ua'e:nala is. In round numbers, 1,000,000. i'he people are Intensely American in sentl nent, and are great believers iu the United itates. Their idea is that federation should e based on the Constitution of the United states." Production of Almninnm. The production of aluminum In the United states In 18U1 was 553,000 pounds. The im ports were valued ai 94113. Bauxite has Jeen found in sufficient quantities to be com nercially valuable in ouly three looalitles in :he United States. These are In New Merles Arkansas and the Coosa valley of Georgia ind Alabama. Aluminum has now found he position in the arts predicted for It, and he ileinan I is increasing. Its metallurgical ise has proved mon valuable than was ex. lected. A black eagle measuring six feet nine inches from tip to tip waa recently Kiiiea in uougenviue, jy., by Taylor Hawes. The native home of wheat is sap posed to be the mountain regions of Armenia. The Life Onartls and Oxford Bines Regiments, of the English army, wero formed in 16G1. The Coldstream Foot Guards in 1660. The Fusiliers were raised in 1678. Han Diego, Cal., has a dewberry plant which is one year old and fifteen eet high. In Brazil there are said to be 300 languages and dialects spoken by the Indians. The breeches worn during the reign of Francis I. were often t"-o and one-half yards in circumference at the hips and stalled with bran or sawdust, The Legion of Honor of France waa established as a reward for dis tinguished services in any line, whether military, civil, scientific or literary. It waa founded in 1802. There ia a $5000 harp. : - t- ?! : n " ft : ii 'J 8 ST U U i';.' 1 i- Mi '.a. r:.-
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