tv' 1S 3 ICH ii: F. SGHWEIEB, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. i? 1 ' !!- VOL. XLIi . MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1895. 8 NO. 38. Bdttw md TN-oprtotsa.. MS iWa CHATTER XII. (Continued.) Marsden had braced himself up for i itonny interview with his sister. After cfirefullv reviewing his position. ud assuring himself there was no flaw ' In his armor, that the accounts of hil trusteeship were in ierf'rt onier, he da termined to announce his intended roar riage to the world. The fust person to lie informed wal Lady Ilorriiigtuii. That done, there wa not Inn more to fear. He did not reach 'lied worth till just a time to dress f..r dinner. There were on 3r two omit iv iiciirlilu.rs to share th repa.it. ami the eonversation I.ady lor rington wished to have with her brothef was postponed till the next morning. Marsden observed that his sister looked very grave and portenloiiR; hut that in no way damped his spirits or lessened hil efforts to amuse ami interest his nister' quests, which were peculiarly successful, lie listened with lively attention to th details I.ady Inrrington poured forth re specting Mrs. Ituthven's sufferings and tedious recovery. She feared that th poor invalid would si-areely be able to so aim. Marsden begged he might not lx isked to do anything not quite agreeabl' j i her. "It is no question of what is agreeable,! aid Lady IWrington severely. "It is oi ivbat will be safest for Mrs. Kuthven. Yob cannot imagine the weakness to which she is reduced. Any relapse now would he fatal. She is anxious to go away to tb south of France, or the Kiviera, but I trust she will not go alone." "No; she had much better get 6omt pleasant companion. You will find hei uiie, I dure say. Yon always have such a supply of admirable persons on hand fitted to till every iiossible position." Lady Dorrington darted an angry, warning glance at her brother, and ad dressed him no more that evening. When breakfast was over next morn ing as the frost was too hard for hunting, Marsden sauntered into the billiard room, and was knocking the billiard balls about by himself, when the inevitable messagf reached him: "My lady would be glad to see you, sir. In the boudoir." "I have been waiting for you this hall hour, I TitTord." "So sorry; 1 did not like to intrude on you till you sent for me." he returned, coming up to the fireplace, and lenniiiii easily against the mantelpiece. "Do you know you nre looking wonderfully well. In ppite of your nursing worries?" "My looks are of small consequence." aid I.ady Dorrington. sternly. "I waul some serious conversation with you. Clif ford; your conduct is very iiiiaceoiiutnhl and unfeeling. What, may I nsk. is you motive for staying in town all this time!" "f h, because because I like it." "There is something more than that or rather there is some strong attraction which I do not understand, to keep yor In London! J "ray, has it anything to di with Mrs. L'Kslranjje and Nora!" "They are very nureealde relatives and I see n good deal of them," returned Mars den. in a lazy, indifferent way, most irri tating to his sister. "Why. Clifford, you surely would not b so unprincipled as to delude Nora, you own cousin, with the notion that yon are In love with her. and you could not be so insane ns to think of marrying her! I hall certainly warn .Mrs. IKst range gainst you; you are too regardless of everything except your own amusement." "In this case I have thought more of ui own happiness." "What do you mean?" in a tone ol alarm. "Do you mean to say you have taken one of your wild fancies to poor, dear Nora!" "I do; and what is more, I have per spaded 'poor, dear Nora' to take me fo' better, for worse." "Good Hod!" cried I.ady Dorrington She sat a moment staring at him in si-!-nce. as if dazed. Marsden was quite un moved. "Clifford," gasped Lady Dorrinfr ton at last, "your conduct is most dishon orable toward Mrs. Kuthven." "How do you make that out?" "When she was at Kveslcigh, everj jne thought, judging from your manner four attentions - that you were engaged." "Then every one was mistaken." "1, myself, believed that you were de termined to marry Mrs. Kuthven." "Why? because 1 flirted with her? D-'ii't you understand she is the sort ol woman to whom the end and aim of ex i-: ii.t is to flirt? She would not thank you for friendship, however true; fol service, however kindly, if you did not offer her the homage of overt flirtation. I ever intended to marry Mrs. Kuthven." "Then you have behnved alsimiuahly, nd just think of your own Interests. Nora I.'Kstrange has nothing, or next to uoth Ing." "She has all I want." "She has nothing you really want; she Is a mere distant relative, a nobody; be fore six u ths nre over, you will be sick of her, and womli-r what madness induced Ton to tie yoiir-Jelf to her." "I think tlie madness will last a coupli if years." put in Marsden in n low tone tut his sister did not heed him. "Io be advised by me, Clifford! Break jfl with Nora L'Kstrange; she cannot care much about you in so short n time; she is reasonable and unselfish; she would not like to condemn you and herself to tho horrible fate of becoming pauper gentry. I protest you drive me to my'wit's end; yon will disgrace, yourself whatever yon do. I assure yon you have contrived to impress Mrs. Kuthven with a comictiov that you intended t.i marry her." "I cannot help her being highly imag inative, can 1?" asked Clifford, quite un moved. "I never said, and certainly never wrote, anything approaching a proposal. Now I have asked Nora to be my wife, and, after some prudent hesitation, she has consented. 1 cannot back out of that." "Hesitation! f lood heavens!" ejaculat ed Lady Dorrington. "As to poveriy, we!!, we sh.ill not starve I have almost ome to on arrangement t ei iMvesieign, wrm tne snooting, etc., ror ix hundred per annum; that will help keep the wolf from the door, eh, sister siine? Then, after a few years' wander ing in pleasant places I shall return a free Dian, and hold high revels in the ball of uy fathers." "Let Kvesleigh!" said Lady Dorrington, ighast, as if that was the lowest depth. "Yes! Nora quite approves," continued Marsden, serenely. "She is prudent, and very resolute for so youthful and charm ing a wood nymph. She will reform me, and-. mi Mttte, depend uBoa tW "And what what am 1 to say to Mrs. Ruthven V" cried Lady Dorrington, press ing her large, white hands together. "Whatever occurs to you." said Mnrs len politely. "Only that you require no hints from me. I would suggest your telling the simple fact as a matter of ordi aary gossip." "How can yon be so unfeeling, so diameless?" exclaimed his sister, her eyes sparkling with indignation. "I would not answer for the consequences, were she old too suddenly of jour treachery. 1 dare not face ner with the knowledge of your base desertion in my heart. Do you Lnow that she is worth two hundred thousand pounds, if not more?" "Two hundred thousand!" repeated Marsden, slowly. "What a delightful rhythm there is in those words. Yes, my dear sister, no one knows better than my lelf her financial position. She is not quite so rich as that, bnt, I confess, I wish her fortune was Nora's; still I dare lay we shall manage an immense amount f enjoyment without it." ''Clifford!" exclaimed Lady Dorrington, rising in Iter irrath, "yon have not the ordinary gentleman's sense of honor, yon have not the faintest regard for duty or Justice, you are a slave to the grossest s.-lfislinoss, regardless of everything ex cept your own pleasure and sclf-indul-jtence; you are weak beyond what I should have expected, for you must have yielded against your better judgment to Nora's wiles, for I never will believe that she did aot try to attract you, Marsden laughed. "You can take what view you like of the jiatter," he said, watching her with quiet yes. "Dorrington will be disgusted with yon, ind I quite give you up. As to Nora and Mrs. L'Estrange, I never wish to see them again. I did believe they were well-bred gentlewomen." "Do well-bred gentlewomen never icheme?" asked Marsden innocently. "If you had any honorable instincts. I would hope to move you," continued Lady Dorrington. "As it Is, I give you up, and I beg you will leave my house, where you will never again be a welcome guest." "Very well," looking at his watch. "There is a train at three-thirty, which will suit me, I will have luncheon and bid you very heartily farewell." Lady Dorrington took up some letters that lay on the table before her. darted in angry, scornful look at her brother, and left the room without further speech. Marsden's face grew graver and softer when he was alone. "A man can't help his nnture, I sup pose?" he muttered to himself. "I cannot look on the cant and shibboleths of so ciety as constraining truths, and I nni certainly a better man than most of my follows. How I hate unpleasant faces! The worst of this storm in a teacup is. that Isabel will not do the civil to Nora, and Nora will worry herself nbout it. At any rate I have her promise, and I feel I can trust her." He rose, drew the writing materials to aim. and quickly traced these words: "Dear Mrs. Kuthven: May I hope to see rou for a few moments, as I am obliged to return to town immediately. I should like to see with my own eyes how you are, ind shall be most discreet." To this, a verbal answer was returned. "Mrs. Kuthven's compliments. She was sorry she did not feel equal to see anv one, but would write when able." "Is luncheon ready?" asked Marsden. when the footman bad delivered this mes sage. "Not yet, sir. It will not be ready for quite half an hour." "Then you must give me something to eat first and tell them to bring round a trap. I want to catch the three-thirty up train at Rockingham. Send my man to , o Die. Lady Dorrington was In Mrs. Kuthven's room, and Lord Dorrington had gone down to the Home Farm, when Marsden set forth. So he left without leave-taking, save from the stately butler and bis satel lite footman, with whom the easy-going, open-handed, affable squire was a prime favorite. "Tout miex." said Marsden to himself, ns he gathered up the reins and dro. e off sharply. "I wonder if Mrs. Kuthven scents the battle from afar? Her mes sage sounded warlike." CHAPTER XIII. It was more than an hour before Lady Dorrington felt sufficiently recovered from the excitement of her Interview with her brother to present herself In the invalid' chamber. Lord Dorrington. whom she had sought as the only possible recipient of her Indignant complaints, was out, and his whereabouts uncertain. She felt dreadfully uncertain how to act. She was afraid to break the news of his engage ment to the deserted widow, lest It might produce a fata! effect, yet she felt it in cumbent on her to enlighten Mrs. Kuth ven as to the true state of affairs. When, nt last. Lady Dorrington entered the sitting room into which Mrs. Kuthven had been moved for a few hours daily since her strength could bear it, she found that lady writing on a movable desk at tached to the arm of her easy chair. She was very white, and looked already weary; a lace cap, with pale pink ribbons, covered her hair, which had been cut short, and a white cashmere wrapper, trimmed with cream lace over pink, hung loosely on her attenuated figure. "My dear," exclaimed Lady Dorrins ion, "you ore not surely trying to write?' "I really am," a smile parting her pale !ips. "Only a few lines, for I am certainly stronger. Do not fear any imprudence; I nm too anxious to get well. I should like to see Sir Ilarley Portman again; he will tell me when I can move. I begin to lie very anxious to deliver you from the long-endured incubus of a sick tuea.." "Believe me, we only care to see yon well. There is not the slightest need to hurry away." "I know yoo ere all goodness, bnt there are matters to b attended to that no one can do for me. I have been scribbling a few lines to my lawyer. Will you write for me to Sir Uarley?" "Certainly. But yon know when he was here last he said " "Yes, yes, that I could not move for three weeks. But one has passed, and if he sees what progress I have made I am sure he will let me go on Wednesday or Thursday next. Wherever I go ultimate ly, I must take London on the way." "All I beg, dear Mrs. Ruthven, is that you will not hasten your departure on our account. Y'ou know we are to spend our Christmas with Aunt Ilminster, so there will he no party here! I am sure yon are not equal to write, yon look so weary." Mrs. Kuthven lay back in her chair, and let her maid unfasten and remove the jesk. When they were alone she said, as she lay back, her eye closed, her figure veri stHJ.: ..... "I had a message from Mr. Marsden just now." "Indeed!" cried Lady Dorrington, feel ing exceedingly uncomfortable. ''lie had ao business to disturb you." "He did not disturb me. I would not be disturbed. He asked to see me." There was a silence of nearly two minutes, while Lady Dorrington sought in vain for some wise and cautious words with which to reply before she found them. Mrs. Ruth ven resumed very languidly, but opening her eyes and settling them on her hostess: "I suppose he wished to announce his en gagement to Miss L'Estrange. if it is true. Is it true. Lady Dorrington?" What a question! What would she not have given to be able to deny the fact with scorn and indignation? As it was, ought she not to be thankful the ice was broken? "Why. ray dear Mrs. Ruthven, who in the world told you?" -Some one mentioned it in one of the letters I have been reading." "Shirley," thought Lady Dorrington. "Viper!" "But is it truer persisted Mrs. Ruth ven. "Oh! I don't know what to think: I am afraid there is something in it. Indeed, I have been infinitely annoyed." Lady Dor rington paused abruptly, feeling inex pressibly awkward. "lou are not inclined for this marriage. then?" said Sirs. Ruthven, a peculiar and not very amiable smile passing over her face. 'Inclined for it! Why, it is the bitterest disappointment to me! Y'ou must know that, my dear Mrs. Ruthven!" 'Ah! Miss L'Estrange has bnt a small fortune, and it will take more than an ordinary one to put your brother's affairs in ordar. "Besides that," cried Lady Dorrington. "there are other considerations! Nora L'Estrange is quite unfit to be Clifford's wife. He will tire of her in six months." 'That is very probable. He is not wise. "And he actually talks of letting Eves- leigh on a lease for years, and sinking into a continentalized dilettunt English man." Mrs. Ruthven compressed her lips, and her pale cheeks flushed as she answered in a low, clear tone: "Y'our brother is changeable and im pulsive. After all, it is quite probable the marriage may never take place." 'He appears to have committed himself fully," said Lady Dorrington, who, now that the ice was broken, found it a relief to talk on this vexatious subject. Mrs. Kuthven was silent, leaning her elbows on the arms of her chair, and pressing her finger tips together, while her face, which had grown.deadly white again, expressed cold, implacable displeasure. (To be continued.) ROUGH ON THE CYCLIST. How a Practical Joker Blade a Men of Trouble. An elaborate practical Joke lias been Idayed on n Belgian cyclist. . While taking his; usual afternoon ride along the ceatral boulevard of Brussels lie entered one of the cafes for sotne re freshments. Ieavinghis machine against a lamppost. A joker seated outside on a terrace pinned his trousers in the orthodox cyclist's style, ns if he were a genuine bicyclist, and taking hold of the ma chine as if he had Just dismounted, hulled one of those long white-biotised street commissioners to be met with nt nearly every street corner In Brussels. "My man, just you look well after my bicycle, and see that no one takes It during my absence, for there nre so many bicycle thieves about the city you cannot be too careful, so keep a sharp lookout, and here's a franc for your trouble." The Joker then crossed the road, tak ing up his post at a cafe opposite to c-njoy the result of the franc's Invest ment. Out came the unsuspecting vic tim, nnd, taking the machine, was about to start. "Hold, there, old chappie, we know your measure, so off with you," said the wlilte-bloused one, at the same time gently forcing the astonished cyclist back. At first be thought the man was drunk, and expostulated quietly with hi in, but all to no purpose, the trusty guardian simply replying that "he knew what he was about." Finding persuasion useless, Mr. X lost his temper, and the discussion soon grew to angry "hienaees on lioth sides. Meanwhile a large crowd had assem bled, highly amused at the prospecta of a pugilistic encounter. The appear ance of a policeman put a stop to any fighting, and he took both the belliger ents to the station, escorted by an im mense crowd of spectators. The unfortunate bicyclist soon recol lected that he had in his pocket his license on which was recorded the num ber of his machine. In consideration, of this testimony the machine was handed over to the rightful owner. The movements of air commonly call ed winds nre due to the bent of the sun. The warm air, being lighter, rises, and the colder air flows in to take its place. This principle is beautifully illustrated at the seashore in summer, where the daily sea breezes nre due to the air over the heated land being displaced 'v a current of cooler air from the sea. Sea water is said to contain all tbe soluble substances that exist in the earth. Tho population or the German em pire Is increasing at the rate of o00,000 a year. One thousand tons of soot settle monthly on the 110 Eqnare miles of London. A Spanish paper in tho Pyrenees regnlary suspends publication in hot weather. The banks of the United States dnring the year 1894 lost over $25,000 000 by theft it is estimated that tbe gnlf stream lakes abont two years to flow fiom Florida to Norway. Aluminum felloes in bicycles r regarded by some makers as an im provement on wood. A little machine for sewing on buttons, jnst invented, is like to prove a boon to bachelors. Corals are not found within tbe range of rivers flowing into the ocean as fresh water is fatal. If tbe earth's surface were level, the water of the ocean would cover it to a depth of 600 feet The North British Bail war Com panv u bnildinff a station at Edinburgh it a cost off 1,200,000, OVER MOUNTAINS. My heart went roaming and flying Where her treasure was; The day was luridly dying, A low wind sighed, "AlasI" There was no bird at all ! Out of bis nest so warm Over the mountain wall My heart went into the storm. And when the night was mirk. And on the shrieking sea The wind was doing its work. My heart came back to me; Tapped at my window pane; Out of the storm and din, Out of the night and rain, I rose and let her in. "O heart, like a frightened bird, He.-rt, like a small gray dove. Cay, hast thon seen or heard Anything of our love?" But never a word she said. Her eye was leaden and dim. Her breast had a stain of red. She spake no word of him; And whether she saw him or not Over the mountains gray. Or whether he had forgot, I know not to this day. Good Words. AN M. P.'S INFATUATION TnB general Impression anionii Jim Verclval's friends was that he might bare done a good deal better for himself than he did In hi' matrimonial venture. An M. P., with a safe seat and decid ed abilities, young, good-looking, well connected, but having only a limited Income, he was Just the man who should have married money, and this is exactly what he bad not done. He met his wife In Paris during a holiday trip. She was a pretty, vivacious Irish wom an, ladylike and attractive, but she had no fortune, and was of no particulat family. The M. P.'s friends shook theii heads over the match, and all felt con vinced that before long he would find out what a mistake he had made. There could be no doubt that undei the circumstances his marriage was an imprudent one. With his 800 a year Fereival had subsisted comfortably enough as a bachelor, but as a married M. P. he found that his Income went simply no way at nil. To cut himself off from society and to live with his wife In economical seclusion, was, of course, out of the question. It would have made hiin unpopular with his con stituents, as well as with certain Influ ential friends ih town, to whose good ofliccs he looked for securing some posf In the government when his party came back to power. And as he had no pro fession, but had launched himself oi good or 111 upon a parliamentary career, it would have been madness in hlin to prejudice his chances of political pre ferment. The natural consequence followed Percival got into debt. He consoled himself first of all for outrunning the unstable by the consideration that ht ps-r!y must soon return to power, and that' then he should be able to recoup his present expenditure. Hut the rad icals remained "In" session nfter ses sion; the looked-for general election came no nearer, and Percival began to feel very lububrlous Indeed. He al- J ready owed nearly 1,000 a crushing liability to a man with a small Income and no capital; indeed, he did not at tempt to disguise from himself that un less something very unexpected turn ed up ho must soon be hopelessly Insol vent His wife had long been urging immediate and rigid retrenchment, but each time she mentioned It rerciva' shook his head. Tbe house was In committee on a bill which was being fought tooth and nail hy the opposition, and urgent whips bad been Issued to the members of both par ties to be as frequently as possible In their places. But there were many dreary Intervals of debate, when no big division was Imminent and during those Intervals Percival did not alway? remain In the precincts of the house. lie might no doubt have spent them at home or in escorting his wife to one or other of the famous social functions which, for his sake, she religiously at tended. But In his worried state of mind tho dullness of a domestic even ing, or the yet deadlier boredom of a political conversazione, was uninvit ing. He preferred to forget his trou bles in more enlivening scenes. Within a mile of the pa'cee of Westminster there Is, as all the world knows, a fam ous theater of varieties. It is under an exceptionable management; It puts for ward tho strongest and most enterpris ing program of the kind In London. One evening during a particularly drowsy debate a fellow M. P. had suggested to Percival that they should run across to the X. and see tho rainbow danseusc. Percival had compiled. After that night ho went to see her pretty regularly. Just bofore tho dance the stago was darkened; behind loomed a background of murky clouds, gloomy as the sky be fore an impendiug thunder storm; then a brilliant blaze of sunlight burst upon the shadaweC scene-, and, whirling wild ly In Its dazzling rays appeared the famous rainbow daaseuse. What a sight that wag! How dextronsly she managed her ir.ass of gorgeous drap eries, which floated all about her, and swirled and spun like a revolving wheel. At times nothing but the fasci nating hues of these robea was visible. At other times a lovely face, crowned with golden yellow locks, stood out among theci, radiant, spiritual, superb and then, while this entrancing ap parition sinned and the andlecco clap ped and shoned. rumblings of thunder rolled upon the air; clonds overcast the sunlight; and, amid their fathering gloom, the rainbow goddess radad slow ly from tue bccjh, If It bad ended with his merely admir ing this ravishing b"auty from a dis tance, all might have been welL But such Infatuation as Perclval'a was not satisfied to confine Itself within those modest limits, A strong desire came over him to make her personal ac quaintance, lie ought t course, to have withstood it It should have been n-fti ntwinnn to him that In giving wax t4 thj desire frJfM Tolimjarily thrusting himself Into tbe path of dan ;er. But be gave nl, nevertheless. lit went farther. He actually addressed one or two letters to the young lady. To his great chagrin she sent him no reply. At last, in desperation, he pro cured an introduction to the manager of the X., and besought that gentle man's aid In his foolish and culpablt roject "Just so." said the manager, rathe: .oldly. "Well, Mr. Percival, I will com municate your wish to the young lady, and will then let you know her reply. I cannot hold out hopes that it will be favorable; for a number of other gen tlemen have desired introduction to her, and have all been refused. You see, -the Is a simple, modest girl, who It merely using her talent to support bet family, and has no desire for a circle of male admirers. However, as I said. I will tell her that you wish to be Intro iuced." The following night, when ho ou.-rht to have been in his place In thf bouse, listening to the ministerial lead er's statement -he was hovering ncai the stage door of the X. He had mad up his mind to follow his goddess home ind so find out her private address. . Percival bad a cab waiting for Ma at the corner. He noticed anothei Jab drawn up opposite the stago door. Hr itrolled up and accosted the driver. "You're a lucky man to have such a charming fare," said Percival, care 'essly. "'Oo said I "ad a charmin' fare?" re torted the man, suspiciously. Then he added: "If that's your sort young fel ler, you may save yourself the trouble of doin" the civil to me. For she's a thoroughly good young 'ooinan, I car tell yer, and won't stand no follower! 'oolin' around not she!" Percival affected to laugh, and stroll ed away. In a few minutes he saw thi girl hurry out and get Into her cab. Then he jumped into his own having instructed the driver to follow the oth ?r vehicle and keep it carefully In sight Ills heart was beating fast He was In an almost uncontrollable excitement Yet he felt ashamed of himself at the same time. To persecute a virtuous and modest girl with unwelcome atten tion was shabby conduct In any one especially in a married man. And Per cival was conscious that he was com mitting a contemptible action. Yet. somehow, he could not help it His rid iculous infatuation had bound him bant' ind foot When they had driven about a mile his cab stopped. The M. P. got out. He saw the young lady alighting from her cal about lm yards ahead. She turned and walked rapidly away. With a beating heart and trembling steps he followed her. keeping an interval of seventy or eighty yards between them. She had not alighted at her own door, .iut at the end of a street of private houses, down which she was now walk ing, l'ercival realized with a certain thrill of uneasiness that It was 1 street, the street in which his own house was situated. P.ut something worse was In store. The young lady stopped, appeared to be carefully scru tinizing the numbers; then, after some evident hesitation, she walked straight up to the door of Perclval's house and rang the bell. A minute later slm war tdmltted. All at once the truth flashed upon the unhappy M. P. There could, of course, be no doubt upon the subject. This young lady, annoyed and frightened by Ids persistent attentions, and seeing that silent disdain had no effect in stopping them, hnd taken the ready nnd effective method of reporting him to his vlfe! Percival leaned against some Iroc railings, near which he stood, and wip ed his clammy forehead with his hand kerchief. His dismay was altogether beyond words. If he had been on bad terms with his wife if love, on either side, had ceased between them if she had not been perfectly fond and trust ing toward him, be could have stood the thing better. But as it was he felt like a man who has suddenly received knock-down blow. His knees were trembling violently; a sense of sickness, of faiutnes1) stole over him; in tho face of this fearful exposure his infatuation for the danseuse seemed to die; for the first time he realized what an abjeci idiot he had been. It was a long time before he could sake up his mind how to net Ho pa trolled the street for more than half an hour before he bad decided, and a bad half hour he found it Then he took a uddeu resolution. He would go In and mako a clean breast of the whole affair to his wife. That, nfter nil, was-the jiost honest, nnd probably the most pru dent course. She might or she might ant believe him, but he would tell her ill the truth, express his siucere peni tence and throw himself upon her worn inly mercy. Ho noiTed himself to the effort llf went In. He entered the drawing room. His wife was now alone. Sho looked up it him with a cold, altered expression. hat made him wince. But he persever ed. He spoke. He told her nil. Slit averted her face, and heard his con cession to the end In ominous silence. "And so, Jim, my make-up, my golden r!g, and my whirling draperies to say nothing of the shifting lights and shad aws thrown upon one, baffled even youi penetration, eh, sir?" J'.ai was staring at his pretty wife, who had now risen and stood before itim. smiling archly, lu evident enjoy ment of bis obvious relief and astonish mcnt "And you fell In love with my make ap. For that Is what It cornea to doesn't It Jim?" ' "By Jove!" he exclaimed with empha sis, "that explains It It was your eyes that did It, little girl. They drew me to the theater night after night to worship you. I could not resist their spell. 1 could not explain it to myself. Yet I felt there was something half familiar In their magnetic Influence upon me. To think I never guessed. By Jove! I was a duffer. I ought to have known that no such other eyes were to b( found In all England!" "Or In all America, elthcr7" question ed the rainbow danseuse, playfully. Jim's explanation was, unconsciously, tbe most diplomatic that he could have devised. Those Incomparable eye oeamed upon blm with tenderness and loving humor. "But, I say," asked Jim. an Idea strik ing him, "these social functious which you have been attending so assiduously for the past few months have tliey been simple blinds to dupe your un scrupulous husband eh, Jennie?" "Not at all, sir. I went to them all But as my 'turn' at the theater lasted only ten minutes or so, I was able to go there as well. Besides," she added, with tbe slightest tinge of playful re proach in her tone, "you have not been at home enough lately to miss me verj much, have you, Jim?" "By Jove!" he cried. "I'll turn ovei a new leaf in that respect to-night" He went up, placed his arm round hi wife, and kissed her fondly. She lean ed her head upon h'.s shoulder and belt1 up a pink slip of paper to his eyes. "There! Dear old Jim!" she exclaim ed. "Mr. Y. has paid uie what do yot think? 5 a week. That is a check fot ten weeks' salary. At this rate youi rainbow goddess -will soon dauce yor clear out of debt won't she, Jim?" And she soon did. Sacramento's Klec-tric Pnwei Tbe city of Sacramento, In Caiifo. nia, hitherto has been known princi pally as the official Western terminus of the Central racilic Railroad. It now has taken on a new dignity. It is be ing supplied with a vast current of electric power obtained from the fall of water In the American Biver at I'olsom, twenty-three miles away. The fall of tho river from the dam to the terminus of the canal at Folsom Is eighty-two feet and seventy feet of this Is utilized for power purposes. This will furnish some 10,000 horse power, SO per cent of which can be delivered at Sacramento when needed, the other 20 per cent, being lost lu generating and transmitting. At pres ent about 4,000 horse power is availa ble, and much of that was used last week in moving the street cars during the fair. Of course It Is expected to do far more than this. The Bee of that city says Sacramento Is not only tbe first city in the world to receive elec trical energy from a distance so great, hut is to-day the only city in the world that contains so large an electric plant It "has become the most favored spoj in tho United States if not In the world for manufactures, for here may be obtained the cheapest and most economical power, with a broad, free river to transport the manufactured products to deep sea water, and with lines of railway radiating In all direc tions." But this Is not all. The waters of the American River form only one of the great number of streams that flow down into the great valleys of the State from the Sierra Nevada, and It Is In contemplation to use many of these, an additional stim ulus to the improvement being fur nished by the fact that coal Is expen sive In that region. Wires for the transmission of power have long been In use in the East and in Europe, but only for short distances. The power generated at the Falls of Niagara Is carried only seven miles from the place of its birth, but it Is evident thai an extension there may be counted on when the Niagara Falls Company sees what Is being done in and around Sac ram en to. Nature's Beverage In Kentucky. The weary teetotaler, riding along a dusty white-hot turnpike in Kentucky, came to a farmhouse with a well-sweep in the front ward and a man sitti:i$.' in the shade by the gate. H3ood-day," saluted the traveler "Can I be accommodated with a driut here? I am very thirsty." "Certainly," was the hospitable re sponse. "What would you like tc have?" 'Nature's beverage, of course," re plied the teetotaler, somewhat shocked. 'All right," said the native, taking t bottle of corn Juice from bis pocket and handing it over. "There's about a pin In there and plenty more In the house Help yourself." . How to Keep Lemons Fresh. It Is not generally known that lemom may be easily and almost indefinite! preserved under glass. Some, one year were purchased on the Fourth of July, and, by way of experiment, each one was put under an Inverted goblet Thu kept from the air, they were finally re moved on Chrlstman Day, in perfec ondition, and as Juicy as ever. Crowded Out. Tho traveler shaded his eyes with lib hand and looked anxiously about blm. "Is there a man In the village," hi asked, "who can shoe a horse?" 'Yes, sir," said a boy In the crowd "but he's busy niendln' a horseless car riage, and there's six broken bicycle.' ahead o' you besides. You'd better gi on to the next town, mister." riot Water. A prominent physician of New York recently declared that hot water Is wom an's best friend. It will cure dyspep sia. If taken before breakfast and will ward off chills when she comes In from the cold. It will stop a cold, If taken early in the stage. It will relieve a nervous headache and gives Instant re lief to tired and Inflamed eyes. It U most efficacious for sprains and bruis es, and will frequently atop the flow of blood from a wound. It la a sover eign remedy for sleeplessness, and. Id conclusion, the doctor asserts, "wrin kles flee from It, and blackheads ran ah before Its constant use." Incubation of filrdsv Investigation Into the period of Incr. batlon of birds and tbe temperatun requisite to batch the eggs have led A. Sutherland, of Australia, to formulate the laws which he has discovered. It Is known that sitting birds keep at f practically constant temperature. Hi finds that for animals of the same slz the time of embryo development Is In inverse proportion to the square of the temperature, the temperature belns. reckoned from a definite point; and that at tho same temperature the period of development la directly proportional to the sixth root of th weight of ths KEY. DR. TDLI6L The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Cobjcct: "Surpaslui Splendor." Txtt: "Fve h.ilh not seen nor ear hcarJ." -I Corinlh bps il., 9. "Iam?oing to hnven! I nm coins It heaven! Hveii! Heaven! Heaven!" Thf-'i were th lust words utterwd a few days age by my preeioua wife as sh ascended to bi With God forever, and Is it not natural ai well as Chriatinnly appropriate that oui thoughts be much (iirecte4 toward the glori ous residence of which Ht Paul speaks if the text I have ehosen? Theeilyof Corinth ha been called thi Paris of antiquity. Indeed for splendor thi world holds nosurh wonderto-day. Irstooc on an isthmus waahed by two sea", the on sea bringing the commerce of Europe, thi other the commerce of Asia. From hei wharves, in the construction of which wholt kingdoms had been absorbe I, war galley! With three hanks of oars pushed out nnd confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea ou one side and transported them on tracks across the isthmus and set them down in tbe sea on the other side. The revenm offleers of the city went down through the olive (proves that fined the beach to collect tariff from all Motions. The mirth of all people sported in hei Isthmian games, and thn beauty of all lands sat in her theatres, walked her porticoes and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and tempi bewildered the beholder. There were wbit marble fountains into which, from aperture! at the side, there rushed waters everywhere known for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all thn beauties of sonlpture anil architecture, while spending, as if to guard the eostly display, was i statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases ol terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead vnses so eostly that Julius Ca'sar was not satisfied until he had captured them foi Bome. Armed officials, the "Corinthiarii," Saeed np and down to see that no statue was efaced, no pedestal overthrown, no baa re lief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent burden ol columns and towers and temples (1000 slaves awaiting at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is fl heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corintl stood and defied thn world. Oh, it was not to rustics who had neve, seen anything grand that St. Paul uttered this text. They had heard thn best music that had come from the best instruments iu all tho world. They had heard songs float ing from morning porticoes and melting in evening groves. They had passed theit whole " lives away among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped, until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had no adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing' for Taul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from thf temple of Neptune nre not music compared with the harmony of which I speak. These waters rushing in theb.-tsinot Pyrenearfl not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mer cury are not exquisite. Yon citadel o! Acmeorinthns is not strong compared with that which I offer to tnti poorest slave that puts down his burden at that brazen gate. You, Corinthians, think this is a splendid city. You think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights, but I tell you "eye hnth not seen, nor ear heard neither have entered into thn heart of man thn things which God hath prepared fortheur ihat love Him.'" Y'ou see my text sets forth the idea that however exalted our ideas maybe of heaven they come far short of the reality. Soma wise men have been calculating how manj furlongs long and wide is heaven, and ttiey have calculated how many inhabitants there are on tho earth; how long thn earth will prohahly stand, and then they come to this estimnte that nfferall thn nations had lieen gathered to heaven there will be a room foi each soul, a room 16 feet long an 1 15 fent wide. It would not be largo enough for me. I am glad to know that no humau estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. "Ey hath not seen, nor ear heard" nor arithmetic calculated. I first remark that we can in this world got no ideaof the health of heaven. When you were a child and you went out in the morn ing, how yon bounded along the road ot rtreet you had never felt sorrow or sick ness! Perhaps later perhaps in these very summer days vou felt a glow in your cheek, and a spring in your step, and an ex aberance of spirits, nod a clearness of eve, that made yon thank God you were permit ted tolive. The nerves were harp strings, and the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustling leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise thn Lord. You thought that you knew what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth. The diseases of past generations come down to us. The aim that float now on the earth are unlike those which floated tbovn paradise. They are charged with im purities and distempers. The most elastic nd robust health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom thn gates have been opened, ts nothing but sick ooss and emaciation. Look at that soul Handing before the throne. On earth Blm was a lifelong invalid. See her step nowan.l hear her voice now! Catch, if you can. one breath of that celestial air. Health in ail tun rulses! Health of vision. Health of spirits, mmortal health. No racking cough, no sharp pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no evhniistiiii' riftins. no hosDitals of wounded men. Health swinging in the air. Henlth flowing in all the streams. Health blooming nn Ihe hanks. No headaches, no snieacnes, no backaches. That child that died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringiui In the- anthem! Thnt old man that went bowed down with the infirmities of age, see him walk now with the step ot an immortal athlete forever young again! That night when the needlewoman fainted away in tun garret, a wave of the heavenly air resuscitat ed her forever. For everlasting years, tc have neither ache nor pain nor w-akness not fatigue. "Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it." I remark further thai we can in this worM get no just idea of the spleudor of heaven Br. John tries to describe it. He says, '-The twelve gates are twelve iearls," and tlia. "the foundations of the Wilis are garnished with all manner of precious stones." As we stand looking througu tne telescope of Hr. John we see a blazo of amethyst an I poarl and emerald and sardonyx and chrysopr.-isus and saDnhire. a mountain oi light, a catar act of color, a sea of glass and a city like the sun. St. John bids us look ag lin. and we f e thrones thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of t be apost les, thrones of t he martyrs, t hron of Jesus, tu roue or trod' And we turu round to see tbe glory, and it is tnrones! Thrones Thrones! Ht. John bids ns look again, an t we set Ihe great procession ot the redeemed passing. Jesus, on a white horse, leads tbe march, and all the armies ot salvation following on white horse. Infinite cavalcade passim. passing; empires pressing into line, ages lollowing ages. Dispensation tramping on after dispensation, uiory in tne track oi glory. Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America pressing into lines. Islands ot the sea shoulder to shoulder. Genera tions before the flood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus risesat thn heac of that great host and waves His sword ii signal of victory all crowns are lifte.l. nu! all ensigns flung out, and all c'uimes nm-.", and all halleluiahs chanted, and so;un erv, Glory to God most high!" nnd som-, -T --x t3 tne nn ci jimvjii - mni mui Worlliv is the Lamb that was stain!" till all the exclamations of endearment and homage In the vocabulary of heaven are exhausted. nd there come un surge alter surge of i "Amen! Amen! Amen!" "Eye hath not seen it. ear hath not heard it." Hkim from the summer waters ths brishtest sparkles, and you will get no idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile up the snlesdora oi esit!.'y cities, and they souid not make a stepping stone by whie'i vou might mount to the city o! God. Ewry Souse fs a palace. Every step a triump i. Kverv covering of thn bend a coronation, ".very mr.-il is a banquet. Every stroll ''Om the tower is a weddiug bell. Everv lay is a jubilee, every hour a rapture and very moment an ecstasy. "Eye hath not ieen it, ear hath not heard It." I remark further we can fret no idea or earth of the reunions of heaven. If yo-i have ever been across the sea and met a friend, or even an acquaintance, in some 'trange city, vou remember how vonr blood thrilled aud how glad vou were to see him. What, then, will be our joy. after we hav. passed the seas of death, to meet In :m bright city of the sun those from whom w have long lieen separated! After wn have Seen away from our friends ton or fifteen years, and wn come upon thorn, wn son how lifTerently they look. The hair has turned, nd wrinkles have come in their faces, ami wn say, "How yon have changed!" Hut, oh, .vhon we stand before the throne, all cares one from the face, all marks of sorrow dis. tppeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed mi ', mi-thinks wn wi'i say to each other. villi ail exultation wo cannot now im- ii - "How vou have changed! In li's world wn only meet to part. It is 'oudlo. iroodhy. Farewells floating in tie lir. We hear it at the rail car window nn I it the slenmhoat wharf. Goodby! Children si it and old agn answers if. Nomotimes v.) say it in a light way, "Goodby"' nnd imetnnes with anguish in which the soul ireaks down. Goodby! that is the word 'iat en'ls thn thanksgiving bnniiint; that is leTvor l that comes in to close the Chnsl- aas chant. Goodby! Goodby! lint not so in heaven. Welcomes in thi ir. welcomes at the gates, welcomes at thi 'muse of many mansions hut no goodby. hat group is constantly being augmented. l'hey are going up from our circles of eartll lo juiu it little voices to join thn anthem, Mtln hands to take hold of it in tho great home eiride,litlle fe i to dance in thn eternal glee, little) crowns to he cast down before thn fiet of Jesus. Our friends ore in two groups a group this side of the river anil a group 9n the other sido of thn river. Now them eons one from this to,that, and another from his to that, an t soon we will nil he gone over. How many ot vour lovea ones navi Ireadv entered upon that blessed place! Jf t should take paper and pencil, do you think f could put them all down? Ah, my friends. he wavers of Jordan roar sonoarselv wecan- lot hear thi joy on tho other sldn whom heir group is augmented. It is gravos hern ind eofTVis and hinr.s-s here. A little child's mother had died, and the oinforted her. They said: '-Your mother is gonoto heaven. Don't cry." nnd tie xt dav thev went to tho grave vard, and hey laid the body of 1hn mother down into jroiind. an l thn little girl caino up to tho rge of t-ic grave, and locking down at tlm odv of her motte-r said, "fs this heaven" f)h. wn have no idea what henven ts. It is le grave here. It is darkness hero, but thero s merry rcuking yonder. Methinks when a oul arrives some angel takes it around to how it the wonders of that blessed place. ho usher angel says to the newly arrived: ''V'se am the mnrtvrs thnt perished nt Piedmont; these were torn to pieces at thn nnuisition: this is tho throne of the great Tehovah: this is Jesus!" "I am going to sen Jisiis," said a dying negro boy. "I am go ng to see Jesus, aud the missionary said. xou are sure you will see itim.' "Uh, es. Thai's what t wnut to go to heaven f.r." "Hat." said the misssonary, "supposo that 'Jesus should go awav from heaven, what thenr" "I should follow him." sai l tie dving negro bov. "But if Jesus went hnvntohell.wh.it then?" The living bov bought for a moment, nnd then ho said. M:issn, wnere .lesus is then! can be no hell; till, to stand in His presence! That will o heaven! Oh, to put our hand iu that and which was wound-M for ns on theeros-i to En around nmid all thn groups of tlr: eileeined and shake Hands with prophet ml apostles and martvrs and witn our own iear. beloved ones! That will bo tho great -eunion. n cannot imaginn ir now, our .oved ones seem so far away. When wn nr. n trouhln and lonesome, they don t senm t- jinn lo us. W e go ou thn banks of the .Tor- Ian and call across to them, but thev lon't seem to hear. We say: "Is it well vith the child? Is it well with the loved inns?" aud wo listen to hear if anv foicn comes back over thn water. None! one! Unbelief says, "They are dead and xtmet forever, but, blessed Do tiou, we lave a Bible that tells us different. Weojtoa t anil nm! that tney are neither iea 1 nor xtinct; that they never were so much alivn is now; that they are only waiting for our oming, nnd that wn shall join thein on thn ither side of thn river. Oh, glorious re- nion. wn cannot grasp it now! "Eve hath lot seen, nor ear heard, neither havnentered nto the heart of man tho things which Go I lath prepared for them that lovo Him." 1 remark again, wo can In tuls world get lo idea of the song of heaven. You know here is nothing moreinspiriting than music. n the battle of Waterloo tho Highlanders Kvrc giving way. nnd Wellington found out lint thn ban-Is of music had ceased p'aving. He sent a quick dispat'h, telling them to lay with utmost spirit a battle march. Thn music started, tho Highlanders wen' Hied, a-id they dashn-1 on till the day wa- iron. We appreciate the power of secular nusie, but no wn appreciate the powor ol lacred soug? Thero is nothing more inspir jig to me than a whole congregation lifte I ip on the wave of holy melodv. v hen w ling some ot those dear old psalms and ines they rouse all tho memories of the just. Why, somn of them were cradle song. nourtathersbou.se. 1 hey nre nil spann ing with the morning duw of a thousand Christian Sabbaths. Thev worn sung by brothers n- 1 sister? roue now, by voices that wer - i ed nti I iroken in thi music, voices notv tho less iweet because they did trembl- and break. A hen 1 near these old songs snug it seems us f all the old country meeting homes join I n tno chorus, ami scotch kirk and sailor s bethel and Western cabins, until the whole lontinent lifts thn doxologv and the scepters f eternity beat time to the music. Awav hen with yonr starveling tunes that chill he devotion of the sanctuary nnd make tin people sit silent when Jesus is coming to aosanna. J5ut. my friends, if music on earth is s.: went, what will it be In heaven? They nil :now thn tune there. Methinks tho tuue of leaven will he mado up partly from thn longs of earth, tho best parts of all our iiymns and tunes going to ndd to thn song of lioses and thn Lamb. All thn bost singersof ill the ngos will join it choirs of whito robed children. Choirs of patriarchs! Choirs at apostles! Morning stars clapping their ymbals! Harpers with their harps! Ureat mt hems of God roll on, roll! on! Other em pires joining the harmony till thn thrones re full of it and tbe Nations all saved, anthem shall touch nuthem, chorus joiu chorus, aud all the sweet sounds of earth ind heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of tbe harp will be there. Gabriel of Ihe trumpet will be there. Germany re deemed will pour its deep bass voice into th I long, and Africa will a l l to the music with her matchless voices. I wivh we could anticipato that song. I Irish in the closing hymns of the churches to-day we might catch an echo that slip trom the gates. Who knows but that wh"n he heavenly door operu to-day to let somu I nil through thero may come forth thn l:rain of thn jubilant voices until we catch t Oh, that as thn song drops ilown Ironi leaven it might meet naif way a song co:n g up from earth! Tn the athletic sports which took place ai fipperary, Ireland. J. 11. llyan, the British lhainpion, broke the world's record for tin jigh jump, clearing six feet four and a halt inches. Tbnan ronnla liavA thA least VkUltV and envy who have the most of aDy- imng eise. Vnilnor iho dictate of vonr cons cience, and if you fail, Hoavcn is re sponsible noi yon. Fortune in a great flatterer, anil those who listen to her are sure io ld beaten at last. What the world wants jut.t now more than anything else is more turkey and less talk. A crnel story rnns oi wheil?, and every hand oile the wheels as they ran. There is no man so uncullivate 1 that you can't loarn something from him, I'd i 1 I1 i a Ii :-: i ii'i I 4 V r'r. I ."3' .,-. .."-i-.- j -
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