1
F. BOHWEIER,
THE OONBTIT U TION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAW8.
VOL. XLIX
MIPFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1895.
NO. 48.
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CIIArTKU VIII.
Mrs. Dene wan standing near the rail
way carriage door, chatting gnyly to tha
three gentlemen who were with her, whe
at the further end of the station she saw
the quartermaster coming toward them
with his daughter.
"Go and meet her. Gerald," she said tt
aer hnitband, and waited impatiently an
til they should came up.
The weather was wild and stormy, an
Jane had wrapped her gray alpaca dust
cloak closely round her, and drawn thi
bood over her head, her lovely face look
ing the lovelier with battling against th
wind, her eyes, brightened by excitement,
hone like two stars; and Mrs. Dene
lancing furtively from one- man to tha
rther, saw how fair they thought her.
She stepped forward and kissed her,
not so much in demonstration of her of
fection for Mrs. Dene was not one to dis
play her feelings as to show she consid
(red her a friend on an equal footing wltf
herself.
Then followed the Introductions, kb2
lane's eyes rested upon Major Larror
with something like awe, caused parti)
by the knowledge that he was bearing
now an honorary title, and would on
Iny he a peer of the realm on which nat
urally she from circumstances laid aa
exaggerated stress and partly from a
romantic admiration of his dark Byronlc
rountcnnnce, which might have been
f .-Mid-looking had it not been so grim and
gloomy. She only withdrew her gaze to
meet Valentine Graeme's laughing blua
fves, and to put her small gray-glovec
Angers into his outstretched hand.
"You have met before?" observed Cap
min Dene, who had made them formal!
known to each other.
"We are old friends," said the youni
m.m, with easy boyish cordiality. "Thai
is to say, we are already sutliciently in
timate to hare had a quarrel, and I am
a f rnid to tell Mrs. Deno on what sub
ject." "Was I concerned?" asked the lady
amiling.
"It was only a question of color," an
swered Jane. "1 told Mr. Graeme i
thought your drawing-room so pretty, and
he srtid out of pure kindness, you know.'
she fissured her listeners gravely "tha'
he liked our blue-and-white stripec
chintzes better "
"Better than mine of mignonette
green?" finished Mrs. Dene, In pretended
wrath.
"It is my ignorance, perhaps," he plead
td, humbly. "Every one is not born e
thetic."
"For which the saints be praised!" ex
claimed the Hon. Barry Larron. Then
meeting her glance of hurt surprise, h
added quickly, with an air of elaborat
gallantry, "I mean no reflection on thr
mignonette-green curtains, than whici
there is nothing I admire more. If ever;
one possessed the exquisite taste of Mrs
Dene, there would be no need of a prettj
affectation becoming a vulgar fashion."
"We had better get Into the carnage,'
aid Captain Dene, curtly.
It annoyed him always to see Majoi
Larron in converse with his wife, for be
could never for a moment forget the in
sult she had suffered at his hands, am!
he wondered suHpiriousIy why she had
inked him to join their party. Was it
only on Jane Knox's account? He hat
never been admitted to friendly inter
course since their marriage. lie hac
dined once with them when he was on
Of twenty guests, and he had called twic
the usual exigencies of society, no more.
Itut Mrs. I-n noticed nothing, and
Jumped lightly into the carriage In obedi
ence to her husband's suggestion, as Jana
turned to meet her father, who was com
ing toward them after seeing to her lug
gage. "How do you do, Mrs. Dene? It la very
kind of you to be troubled with my daugh
ter." he said, with an awkward attempt
t eae. Then addressing Janei Here u
your ticket; take care of yourself, my
girl."
"I will take care of her, Mr. Knox,"
aid Mr. Den. graciously.
"We will take care of her." supple
mented Val Graeme, with a smile.
"Good by, Jenny."
"Good-by. father."
And with a hand pressure only thej
parted, the quarter-master not being cer
tain whether a warmer farewell was com
patible with good manners, and unwilling
to compromise his daughter she, too, a
little ashamed and self-conscious. But
19 the train left the station she yielded to
the impulse that moved her, and leaning
put of the window, kissed her band to
him once, twice, thrice.
CHAPTER IX.
Colonel Prinsep had never felt so duD
as .hiring the week sncceeding his prom.
Ise to -Mrs. Dene.
In a moment of impatience he resolved
to take ten dnys' leave to get out of th
place for a while, at,d it was only what
might have been expected that he should
bend his steps toward Cawnpore, which
was just now the center of attraction, and
to which station several of his oflioeri
had already gone.
The train arrived about seven o'clock,
and he drove at once to the hotel whera
he Intended to put up. As he alighted
from the gharrie some one came hastily
Sown the steps who, on closer inspection,
turned out to be the Hon. Barry Larron.
"Why, Colonel. I did not know you in
tended coming here!" he ejaculated, Ip
onie surprise.
"Nor did I. It was an impulse moved
me."
"And a very good impulse, too, sir,"
aid his adjutant, Valentine Graeme,
joining up to them with hia long, swing
ing strides. "We are having an awfully
food time here."
"I'm afraid yon won't get a room. Tha
ootel was full when we arrived," said
tfajor Larron. "Did lou nring a tent?"
The Colonel shook his head.
"I'll lend you mine, sir. I dare say
some one will put me op," said the ad-
lutant.
"You had better come in with me, I
suppose," observed Major Larron, some
what ungraciously, not caring to have
his privacy disturbed, yet unwilling to
appear as inhospitable as be felt.
"Thanks, I shall be very glad If Den.
has not a spar. tent. I fancy I heard
tto iaj fe. had'Lsjiiwtred YsiiOtiPfcU
JKTtr
cnwilling to avail himself of the Invita
tion as his senior of&cer hau been to ren
der it. "Yon know," he explained to the
Colonel, "w. ar. camping with tha
Denes."
"Is Mm. Dene here?"
"Oh, ycel I wonder yon had not heard.
Allpore Is so desperately fond of gossip.
Shs and "
He was about to mention Jane's name,
when Major Larron, whose ill-humor had
increased by the adjutant's evident re
luctance to share his tent, palled ont his
watch.
It was nearly twelve o'clock when Col
onel Prinsep entered the mess-room of
the th Foot.
He had dined rather lata, having ling
ered over his letter-wrltter longer than bs
had intended, and then had stayed some
time smoking and thinking not of Jane.
The provocation removed, she haunted
his thoughts no more, and therefore he
was the more surprised when the first
familiar face that met his view was that
of the quartermaster's daughter.
And yet, often as he had pictured it to
himself. It scarcely seemed familiar now.
The face that had drooped and flushed be
neath his gaze that afternoon when he
saw it last, full of shy warmth and child
like worship, was radiant now, and bright
with saucy triumph. If he had thought
her sweet and pretty then in her blue cot
ton gown, how doubly fair he admitted
her to be now, in her soft draperies of
gauzy white; with straw-colored ribbons
fluttering here and there, and a knot of
pale tea-roses at her breast. Then there
had been something of pity and conde
cension in the admiration with which hs
regarded her; now they met as equals.
At that moment she caught sight ol
him. A glad light leaped into her eyes,
but she did not flush or falter in her
speech, as she would have done a week
before. She knew her power now, and
felt a natural womanly pleasure that he
should see her thus, the center of an ad
miring group, the acknowledged beauty
of the ball.
"You have become quite a woman of
the world since I saw you last," he said,
his voice unconsciously falling Into that
caressing undertone that so many wo
men have found dangerously sweet.
"What a long time it seems!" sighed
Jane.
Then putting his arm about her waist,
he drew her In among the dancers. Car
ing little for dancing for dancing's sake,
the Colonel was a man who did most
things well, while Jane, always light and
graceful In her movements, had profited
by practice. They did not stop till tht
ast Teutonic strain had died away.
CHAPTER X.
"I suppose yon can see what Is going
on, sir?" said the Adjutant to his Colonel
on the following evening, as both wers
dressing for dinner in th. tent, which
they were sharing still.
"I don't know that I can, until you tell
me what it la.
"Why, this infatuation of Major Lar
ron s for Miss Knox. Every one is talk
ing about It. You know what a sulky
brute he generally Is; but he seems trans
formed when he is in her presence. I
would not have believed he could have
made himself so agreeable as he has denr
these last few days to her.
"I suppose It would be a good match,"
said the Colonel, slowly.
"If I had a sister," exclaimed Val
Graeme, hotly, as, stooping to the looking-glass,
he struggled with his white tie,
"I'd sooner see her in her grave than
married to Major Larron!"
"Gently, gently, Graeme.1 rebuked tha
Colonel. "You can have no grounds for
snch sweeping condemnation."
"I suppose I really have not; but then,
sir, you don't know him as we do. He Is
so cold, so satirical. I can imagine him
killing his wife by inches not with
blows, but with chilly words and neg
lect. He is gloomy, too!"
"If he Is all your fancy has painted him,
there is not much chance of his suit pros
pering. I should say."
"But that's just it. Colonel. H. Is quite
different when with her. How can sh
guess that he has only donned these
Vleasant qualities for the rime being?"
"You are making him out a perfect
monster."'
"So he Is," answered the Impulsive Ad
jutant. "Remember how he behaved to
Mrs. Dene! Is not that enough to mak.
us all dislike him?"
How often an Incident or a word spoken
by another unawares seems to come in
answer to your own thoughts! It was so
now, and the Colonel's sallow face flushed
at the coincidence as he bowed over tht
girl's outstretched hand, later In the even
ing. She was looking very fair that night,
in a simple, high black gown, with deep
whit. lace falling round her throat, and
a bunch of white roses In her belt.
Stephen Prinsep, gaslng down upon hei
sunny, ruffled hair, grew confused at hia
own thoughts, and for a moment distrait
When he recovered himself, and waa
about to speak, the opportunity was gone;
Major Larron had already challenged hei
attention, and was talking earnestly In s
low voice.
Nothing that Jane could do should make
him relinquish his purpose only her mar
rtage with another should make him loss
hope; and he had no rival yet. That she
cared nothing for Valentin. Graeme hs
was certain, nor was h. sure that tht
Adjutant was serious in his attentions
Ho was notoriously a flirt, not from inten
tion, but because nature had mad. hitr
Bckle as well as Impressionable.
Meanwhile, the dinner having ended,
Jane, unconscious of the Interest she had
excited, foll.wed Mrs. Den. out Into tht
jpen. It was a balmy evening with no
noon, though the sky was bright with
tars. Coming out of the shamlana,
where it had been brilliantly lighted up,
it seemed darker than it really was.
"Let us have a camp-fire," suggested
Mrs. Dene to her husband, who had fol
'owed. "Yon will find It very hot and stifling."
"It will be mora cheerful," she per
sisted. He shrugged his shoulders, but gave the
order, and a few moments later a bright
tog-fire wss burning
But the result proved Captain Dene to
be right The warm wind that was blow
ing became unbearable now that it was
charged with the heat of the huge fir.
and volumes of blinding smok. as well as
dust.
The deputy commissioner and Colonel
Grey, with Captain Dana, walked away
froja. ljjt SZSK Jtl(VsVJMk tot OSB:
slstency's sake, tried to put op with It a
i
ltrtlA InilM inH thA nara
support her.
I "Ladles are very seldom wrong," be
' gan Major Larron, hesitatingly.
"But trae of them has spoiled her pres
tige," laughed Mrs. Dene. "Never mind,
the exception proves the rule."
"Yon onght not to stand there, the heat
Is unbearable," went on Hon. Barry, go
ing over to Jane's side.
Colonel Prinsep was standing near her,
and, without meaning it, she looked np
questionlngly Into his face.
"Yes, it is too hot; let ns go into the
cool," he said, answering the implied in
quiry by moving a few steps further off.
She accompanied him, and presently af
hia suggestion both turned and went to
gether out of sight.
Val Graeme, who had also meant to
Join her, looked taken aback for a mo
ment, but recovered himself directly,
thinking ho knew the reason of the Col
onel's interference. It was most proba
bly on account of what he had himself
said while dressing la th. tent. Reas
sured, h. walked over to where the other
men wars seated smoking
But Major Larron became white with
rage. He made a movement to follow
them, then changed his mind, and com
ing to a sense of what was expected from
him, turned back and stood by Mrs.
Dene's side.
"I am unfortunate," ha observed, with
an uncomfortable laugh.
"It was not her fault," she answered,
gently.
"No, I dare say not; but, Mrs. Dene, do
yon think that I have any chance?"
He leaned toward her, his dark-brown
eyes scanning ber face anxiously to see
If ha could read his fata, but sha shook
her head gravely
"I am the last person yon should ask.
i Even if I knew her feelings, could I be
tray her tru.t
"I forgot You are right. Only, If ever
It should be In your power, may I count
upon your help?'
Had he been pleading for her own love
Instead of merely for the aid of her in
fluence with another woman, he could not
have been more earnest.
They could see no one; but all that had
passed between them had been of vivid
clearness to the rest. The scene, framed
i .h ,ut. ... k a
in tiiv ui.aviiug us, v aiiiu I mciuitf uu ulu
into Gerald Dene's brain as he gazed, un
conscious of everything save that the
barrier which past events had erected be
tween his wife and the man to whom she
was once engaged to be married seemed
to be broken down at last.
(To be continued.)
The Drunkard's Dog.
The New York Times reports that
Policeman Logan, of that city, saw a man
lying intoxicated on the pavement, and
went toward blm, meaning to wake
him. As he draw near, however, he
saw a brlndle bulldog beside the sleep
er, and as the policeman leaned forward
to shake the man, the dog growled and
showed his teeth. Logan stepped back
for fear of being bitten. The drunk
ard's name was Collins.
"Hey, there 1" said Logan. Collins
woke np.
"Tell yonr dog to let me arrest yon."
Collins struggled to his feet, and said
to tha dog: "Come on. Bully, we're
rested."
Tha dog "heeled" obediently, and the
policeman took them to the Thirtieth
Street Station-house. There was no
reason why the pup should be locked
up, but It was plain that he Intended to
Stick to his drunken master as long as
he could, and he was allowed to occupy
the cell In which Collins spent the night
The dog accompanied Collins when
Logan took him down to Jefferson Mar
ket Police Court, and was close to him
when Justice Hogan asked:
"Well, sir, what have you to say for
yourself?"
"Talk to him. Bully," whispered Col
lins to the pup; and the pup jumped bp
on the bridge, where the Justice could
see htm, sat up, held up his fore paws,
tnd whined.
Everybody In court was watchlntj
him.
"Are we sorry?" Colllns.asked him.
The pup whined loudly and more for
lornly than before. He looked as if he
would cry In another minute.
"Well, young man," said the Justice.
"I'll let you go this time on account of
your dog. I don't think you deserve
uch faithfulness as he has shown. If
I were a dog and had a drunken master,
I would leave' him. But I guess dogs
are more faithful than men."
"Thank the Judge, Bully," said Col
lins. The dog stood up on his hind legs,
gave one short, -Joyous yelp, and bound
ed out of tha court-room beside his
master.
Very Hajrd to Pleas.
"Why don't I like America?" said an
Englishman who was drinking a cock-
tall In a New York hoteL "Why, for
many reasons. I haven't found any
thing here that I like. Take your ath
letic spirit, for Instance. It's bogus.
What Is your representative sport?
Baseball,-ls It not? Well, that simply
represents the work of hired men. It
isn't really sport. Besides, I can't un
derstand your newspaper accounts of
It. They are very mysterious. Walter,
another cocktail. Your climate Is bad,
nd your politicians are Jingoes. I have
been disappointed all around and In
everything save one. and that Is your
cocktails. I drank six last night before
going to bed. I have suffered from
your climate to-day."
A man never realizes bis worth
until he sued fur breach of prom ihe.
Frank Melrose, a supernumerary
at one of the New York theatres,
knows ail of theShakespeare's plays by
heart.
The only teachable people nre
those who know their ignorance and
want to get rid of it.
A St. .Louis physician repo-ts the
cure of five desperate cases of diphtheria
by one use of anti toxine.
In marching soldiers take seventy
five steps per minute, qnicK marching
108, and in charging 150 steps.
Two eggs joined together by a little
hollow neck of shell were recently
aid by a hen at Union Springs, Ala.
A Wet Virginia man is so
peculiarly affected by riding on a train
that he has to chain himself to a seat
to prevent bis jumping out of the car
wi-dow.
Nail biting, according to a French
doctor, is hereditary. Almost one third
of the French school children bite
their nails, and the girls are worse
than the boys.
I NEW YORK SWEAT-SHOPS.
ffolaoaae Dona Whtnc Disetae Xa
IBpread Over the Land.
New York Is the great center of
ready-made clothing. In the section
peculiarly devoted to this business
i there are 05,000 workers, while within
a radius of twenty miles from the city
hall there are probably 25,000 more a
grand total of 120,000. Of these about
D5 per cent are Americans and foreign
Jews, 25 per cent Italians, and the bal
ance of American, English and other
nationalities.
Among these the sweating system
la practiced with fearful consequences,
lot only to those directly employed
)ut to the public as welL The system
sorks In this manner: A docs a mann
.'acturlng trade that would employ for
teasonable hours a thousand men and
t proportionate number of women and
ihlldren. To build factories of this ca
pacity and fit them tip properly, giv
ing adequate breathing space and pro
per sanitary conditions for all em
ployes, would require a large capital,
i luj j. , ' . - ,
! ,HO(1 nndpr circumstances of law and
public opinion tending In a substantial
legree to limit the profit that could be
nado from each toller. Therefore he
kmploys a number of cutters, neces
tarily at hlph wages, and contracts out
Ihe cut garments to C, D, E. F and oth
irs, who sub-contract till there are two
ir three removes and as many profits
etween A and the worker.
These under shops or Bweat shops are
rcnernlly small rooms into which are
rowded unfortunate human brings.
FINISHING TROUSERS AT
who toil In poisonous and super-heated
tlr for the merest pittance. The mer
est children are employed and In these
foul shops wear away their young Uvea
mtil death in some form of disease
somes to end their harsh existence.'
From these dens where typhus,, mea
lies, smallpox, scarlet fever and dlph
Jierla are found, bundles of clothing go
ut every day, scattering infectious
eins. Statistics show that one-seventh
f all the deaths In the United States
s due to consumption, and in no place
s consumption so rife as in the sweat
ng dens In New York. The germs of
his dreadful disease and also of other
llseases are thus scattered broadcast
tver the land, more than three-fourths
if the clothing made In the metropolis
elng shipped to other States. The
.VOIDISO ISVBSTIOATIItO COHMtt"teE.
weatlng system, therefore, as carried
n In New York Is one that Congress
hould deal with. The national health
bould not be endangered by a mon
trous survival of European Industrial
aethods.
How 8 tie Wrote Clever Letters.
A woman noted among her friends for
er delightful lettors and as delightful
Iftof conversation, was asked not long
go by one of them how she managed it
Frankly," was the reply, "I strive for
L When I see In a book or hear any-
rhere a happy phrase, or a telling sen
ence, I mske a mental note of It and
rate for an opportunity to Incorporate
t In my own speech or written word.:
don't mean I appropriate other folks"
deas In wholesale fashion, but I do
teal or utilize their knack of ex p res
Ion. Another point I make Is never
o permit myself to speak carelessly,'
hat is, slovenly, any more than I let
cy hair be untidy or my gowns mud
talned. It doea not seem to me friv-
dous er bestowing too much care on
" SIXTKEJC, TWO WEE KS AGO."
betterment- I pin a flower on my drew
ror a bit of color, or adjust a bow where
I know It la becoming; why should I
not apply the decorative art to my
speech?"
Why, Indeed? New York Times.
The DVoea of Docked Horse.
Doea the fashionable woman in her
smart turnout, drawn by sleek, docked
horses, ever think of what the future
of the poor maimed creatures la to bej
Ju3t now, no" doubt. It Is very "smart,"
although neither fit nor beautiful, to
see the graceful forms than which na
ture make nothing more beautiful end
ing abruptly In a thing like a Bmooth
hearthbrush sticking out at a sharp an
gle, revealing, much that was meant to
be concealed, and in fly-time never ceas
ing 'from that nervous. Impotent Jerk,
Jerk, which tell, of the keen but vaia
longing to feel the sharp swish of horse
hair sweeping away the vicious lnsectf
whi eh torment the poor brute.
"Jf I did not think my horses wonlot
always be the petted creatures they are
now I should not have them docked,"
said such a woman once.. How docs
aha know? While they are tn her cool
tables,, carefully sheeted, their condi
tion Is not .specially to be deplored ex
cept by the humane, who cannot forget
tha awful process of maiming, and who
have Imagination enough to plcturo
what Ota feelings of the animal must
be when he terrible sense of loss cornea
over It, deprived of Its means of de
fense one of ltz greatest beauties as
well. "
Tha man or woman of alow mind and
cold heart may take tha view that no
great barm Is done, but, as a matter of
fact, the horse doea not stay in the sta
ble, sheltered and protected, for tha
term of Its natural life, nor even, ex
cept In very exceptional cases, does It
spend Its declining years In the peace
ful retirement of green pastures where
the files, by the way, are equally
vicious, as any one can testify who has
leen a group of horses, unmutllated
oui-s, placing themselves caunily two
and two, head and tail, so that one side
of each Is sheltered, and tails have only
to swing one way. The real fate of a
docked horse Is more likely to be a
changing of masters and a descent in
the scale of care and comfort. Vogue.
Was Be an Impostor?
A Hindoo goldsmith, says an English
Journal, disappeared some years ago,
and was mourned by his friends as
dead. The other day, however, a ne
NINE XJENT3 IER DOZEN.
phew of them1ss1ng man met an Indi
vidual whom he at once recognized as
his uncle. He hailed him with Joy and
carried him off to his aunt The latter
immediately greeted the newcomer as
her husband, and was soon Joined by
her mother-in-law, who saw In him her
long-lost son. The fatted calf was (fig
uratively) killed, the oldest cask was
opened, the largest lamp was lighted,
and the rejoicing went on until until
the ekdest son of the family turned up,
and denounced his nephew's "find" as
an impostor, who was not his brother
at nil; and It turned out that he was
right, too, though his mother and his
sister-in-law are of the same opinion
still, and refuse to be convinced.
"A Trolley Car In Flames.
Fire companies often have peculiar
duties, but it is doubtful if any of them
ever had a more singular task than on
Monday evening. An alarm was turned
in at Broad and Falrmount avenues.
opposite the Park Theater, in Phila
delphia, and the engines soon camo
racing to the spot On their arrival
they found that it was not the theater
n fire, but a large decorated trolley car.
the bunting and decorations being
ablaze. This unusual spectacle soon
drew a very large number of people,
who waited around until a single en
gine played on the car and extinguished
the fire.
Rifles.
A new magazine rifle. Invented by an
Italian oQcer, fires twenty cartridges
automatically without any change of
position on the part of the soldier. The
firing may be Intermittent or continu
ous at win. At a recent trial in the Cas
eins at Florence, before the Prince of
Naples, the twenty shots were fired in
two seconds and all hit the target
There are some people who claim a
certain amount of distinction because
they ha er century plant in
bloom.
An Electrical Mail Box.
There Is a United States letter box
on Grand street Peterson, with letters
In It which will not be delivered to the
addresses in the morning mail. Let
ter Carrier James Low attempted to
take them out last evening. When be
rested one band on the box and with
the other Inserted his key In the lock he
was sent reeling twenty feet away and
picked up dazed.
Others tried to open the box, with
the same result The box is charged
with electricity, and unless the current
Is cut off the box cannot be opened.-
Boston Journal.
Population of Snez.
The population of Sues la now put
down at about 18,000.
Wild doge begin to be a nuisance In
tome parts of Tttnmf,
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
"Tie Disabled."
TjTWr 7r ay: part is tht Bomu uowi tc
TTnrbatths eoe'iall his part bethat turrieth b)
the stuff." t Samuel m., 24.
It you have never seen an army e'iang
juarters you have no idea of the amount ol
bacgage twenty loads, fifty loads. 100 loarti
of bagrage. David ani his army wera about
to start on a double quick maroh for the re
covery of their caitured families from thi
Amalekitep. 8o they left by ths brook B"oi
their blankets, their knapsacks, their bas?
pagn and their carriatM. Who shall b
detaHed to watch this stuff? There an
slok soldiers, and wound i soldiers, imi
axed soldiers who are not able to ro on swift
military expedition, but who are able to dc
some work, and so they are detailed to watcli
the bagmir. There is tnanv a soldier whe
is not strong enough to march thirty mil
in a day and then ntunge into a ten I hours'
light who Is able with drawn sword lifted
against his shoulder to paee no and down as
a sentinel to keep off an enemy who mig'it
put the torch to the baggage. There an
200 of those crippled and aired wounde-1
soldiers detailed to watch the basgat A
Some of them. I suppose, had bandage!
across the brow, and some of them had theii
arms iu slings, and same of them wa ked oa
crutches. They were not cowar.ls shirking
duty. They hal fought In manv a fler-a
battle for their country and their G . The
are now part of the time in hosoita and
part of the time on garrison dotv. They
almost cry because they cannot go with the
other troops to th front. Wnile these senti
nels watch the baggage the Lor l watabec
the sentinels.
There is quite a. different scene being en
acted In the distance. The Amalekites, hav
ing ravaged and ransacked and robbed while
countries, are eelebrating their success in a
roaring carousal. Some of them are dancing
on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel
and toe, and some of them are eximining
the spoils of victory the finger ring and
earrings and necklaces, the wristlets, the
headbands, diamond starred, and the coffers
with coronets and earne'ions and neirls aid
sapphires and emerald? and all the wealth of
plate, and jewels and decanters, and the sil
ver and the gold banked up on the earth in
princely profusion, and the embroideries,
and the robes, and the turbans, and the
cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. Th
banquet has gone on until th ban
queters are maudlin and weak and stu
pid and indecent and loathsomely drunlr.
What a time It is now for David an I his
men to swoop on them. So the English loit
the battle of Bmnoekhurn because the nigat
De'ore they were in wassail and bibulous
celebration, while the Scotch were in pray
er. So the Syrians w re overthrown m their
carousal by the Israelites. So Chedorlaomer
and his army were overthrown in th ir
carousal by Abraham and his men. So in
our Civil War more than once the battle w.n
lit hncause one of the generals was drunk.
Now Is the time for David and his men to
swoop upon these carousing Amnlekite.
Some of the Amalekites are hacked to pieces
on the snot, some of them are just a'llo to go
staggering and hiccoughing off the field,
some or them crawl on camels and sneodoff
in the distance. David and his men gather to
gether the wardrobes, the jewels, and put
them upon the hacks of camels and into
wagons, and they gather together the sli" p
and cattle that had been stolen and start
back toward the garrison. Yonder they come,
yonder they come. The limping men of the
garrison come out and greet them with wild
hnrza. The Bible says David saluted them
that is, he asked them how thev all were.
"How is vour broken arm?" "Mow is votir
fractured jaw?" "Has the stiffened limh
been iintimbered?" "Have you had another
chill?" Are you getting betteri"" He salut
ed them.
But now came a very difficult thing, the
distribution of the spoils of victory. Drive u;
those laden camels now. Who shall have the
spoils? Well, someselflsh soul suggests that
these treasures ought all to belong to those
who had been out in active service. "We
did all the fighting while these men staved
at home In the srarrison. and we oiiL'ht tn
have all the treasures." But David loiked
into the worn faces of these veterans who
had stayed In the garrison, and he lo-k -d
around and saw how cleanly everything ha 1
been kept, and he saw that the bairi'ai'e
all sa'e. and he knew that the w ua led an 1
crippled men would gladly enough have b-en
at the front if they had been able, and the
nine general iooks up irom under his helmet
and says, "No, no, let us have fair play,''
and he rushes up to one of those m it
and he says, "Hold your hands to
gether," and the hands are held to
gether, and he Alls them with silver! And hi
rusnes up to another man who was sittmt
away hack and had no idea of getting any oi
the spoiLs, and throws a Babylonish garment
over him and Alls his hand with gold. An I
he rushes up to another man who hail lost
all his property in serving (lod and his coun
try years before, and he drives up some ol
the cattle anj some of the sheep that thej
had brought hack from the Amalekites. anil
he gives two or three of the oattle an I three
or four of the sheep to this poor man, so he
shall always be fel and clothed. He sees a
man so emaciated and worn out and sick he
needs stimulants, and he gives him a little ol
the wine that he brought from the Amal
ekites. Yonder is a man who has no ap
petite for the rough rations of the army, and
he gives him a rare morsel from the Amale
kltish banquet, and the 200 crippled and
maimed and aged soldiers who tarried on
garrisou duty get just as much of the spoilt
of battle as any of the 200 men that went to
the front. "As-his psrt is that goeth down
to the battle, so shall his part bs that tarrietb
by the stuff."
The impression is abroad that the Chris
tian rewar.ls are for those who do conspicu
ous service in distinguished places great
patriots, great preachers, great philanthro
pists. But my text sots forth the idea that
there is just as mil;h rewird for a man thit
stays at home and minds his own business,
and who, cripple i and una le to go forth
and lead in great movements and in the high
places of the earth, does his whole duty just
where be is. Garrison duty as important
and as remunerative as service at the front.
"As his part is that goeth down to the bat
tle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by th
stuff."
The Ear! of Kintore said to me in an Eng
lish railway, "Mr. Talmaga, when you get
back to America I want you to preach a ser
mon on -the discharge of ordinary duty in
ordinary places, and then send me a oopy of
it." Afterward an English clergyman, com
ing to this land, brought from the Earl of
Kintore the same message. Alas, that be
fore I got ready to do what he asked me to
do the good Earl of Kintore bad departed
this life! But that man, surrounded by all
palatial surroundings, ani in a distin
guished sphere, felt sympathetic with
those who had onlinary duties to per
form in ordinary places and in ordinary
ways. A great many people are discouraged
when they hear the story of Moses, and of
Joshua, and of David, and of Luther, and of
John Knox, ano of Deborah, and of Florence
Nightingale. They say, "Oh, that was all
good and right for them, but I shall never
be called to receive the law on Mount Sinai.
I shall never be called to command the sua
and moon to stand still, I shall never b
called to slay a giant, I shall never preach
on Mars hill. I shall never defy the Diet ol
Worms, I shall never be called to make a
queen tremble for her crimes, I shall never
preside over a hospital."
There are women who say, "If I had as
brilliant a sphere as those people bad 1
should be as brave and as grand, but mj
ousiness is to get ennuren on to school, an I
to hunt a p things wh-n they are lost, and tc
see that dinner is ready, and to keep account
oi tne nousenoia expenses, and to hin lei
the children from being straugu ated by th
wnooping cougn, ana to go tnrougn all th
annox'ances and vexations of housekeeping.
Ob, my sphere is so inttnitesima , and so in-
tfgfllflaf 3 -Ti clear dispsmefffM.'
otaan. Oel .la:-?s yon on ejvrlsoa
oua yTTnv reward will be jtrst SJ
great as that of Florence Nightiucrale,
who, moving so often night bv night
with aliirht in her handthroush the hos
pitals, was oallel by the wounded the "ladv
of the lamp." Your reward will be inst a
great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who bnilt and
endowed theoloirical seminary buildings.
Your reward will be just as great as that of
Hannah More, who by her excellent books
won for her admirers Oarriok and Edmund
P.Vkl'P9boaJlevnolda, Rewards K9
Dot to be given accnriingto tha amount of
noise you make in the world, nor even
according to the amount of good yon
put aecor.-ting to whether you work t
full capacity, aecor!' c to wheth or not
rou no your run torrntbe sphatw
"fl has placed vox..
Su noose you give to two of your chflflTflil
rrands, and they are to sro off to mike nur-
hases, and to one vou give CI andto the
ther you give 2". bo you reward the boy
hat you gave 20 to for purchasing more
rith that amount of money than the other
oy purchased with tl? Of course not! II
Jod give wealth or social position or elo-
mence, or twenty times the fa.'ulty to a man
(han He gives to the ordinary man. Is He go
ing to give to the favored man a reward be.
fause he nas more piwer and more influence
Do. no. In other words, if you and 1 were
x do our whole duty, and you had twenty
rimes more talent than I have, you wift get
ao more divine reward than I will. Is Qod
imne to reward you because He gave you
more? That would not be fair: that would
aot be right. These 200 men of the text who
tainted V.v the brook Besor did their whole
inty. They watched the baggage, they took
iareof the stuff, and they got as much of tha
moils of victory as the men who went to
:he front. "As his part is that goeth down
ro the battle, so shall Us part be that tar
rieth bv the stuff."
There is high encouragement in this for
ill who have great responsibility and little
tredit for what they do. You know the
names of the great commercial houses of
:hes cities!. Do you know the names of the
onfl lential clerks the men who hav- the
:ev to the safe, the mrtn who know the com-
ination lock? A distinguished merchant
roes forth at the watorint place, and he
Jah-s past, and you sav. "Who is that?"
Oh." replies some one, "don't you know?
That is the great imoorter: that is the
rreat banker; that is the jrreat manufac
turer." The confidential clerk has his week
ff. Nobody notices whether he eomes or
ro". Noholy knows him. and after
twhile his week Is done, and he sits
town again at his desk. But iod will
reward his fidelity just as much as He recog
nizes the work of the merchant philanthro
pist wnose investment tnis unknown clerk
jo carefully guai-led. Hudson River Kai'-
road. Pennsylvania Railroad. Erie Railroad,
New Yor'i and New Haven Railroad Snsi.
' ness men know the names of the Presidents
urthese roads and of the prominent direo'ors,
out they do not know the names of the en-
riniers, tne names of the switchmen, the
lames of ihe flagmen, the names of the
)ra':emn. These men have awful re-
inonsibilities. ani sometimes, through
tha recklessness of an engineer
r the unfaithfulness of a switch-
nan, it has brought to nvndthe faithfulness
f nearly all the rest of thorn. Some mn do
sot have recognition of their SArviees. Thev
nave small wiges and much complaint.
rery often ride umn Io?OTiotiv;M, and I verv
jTren asic tneqnesrion. as w shoit around
lome curve or under soma le I?e of rocks.
"How mnch wstos do you et." And I am
vwavs surprised to And how little to-snch
rast responsibility. Do yon suppose God is
not coing to recoinizethat fidelity? Thomas
?cott. the President of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, going up at death to receive from
loi nis destiny, was no better known in
!hat hour than was known last night tin
"irakeman who. on the Erie Railroal. wa
ammed to death amid the car connllngs.
"As his part is that goeth down to the hat
Ile.so shall his part be ihat tarrio.h by th'.1
Huff."
Once for thirty-six hours w expe-tni
ivery moment to go to the botto n of the
mn. The waves struck through the sky
lights and rushed down into the hold of the
ihip and hissed against the boilers. It was
in awful tim-. but hvthe blessing of fi i
md the faithfulness of the men In charge we
amo out of the cy ;lono, and we arrive I at
lome. Each one before leaving the shin
rhaniced Captain Andrews. I do aot think
:hre was a man or woman that went off
:hat ship without thanking Captain n-lrews,
nd when, years after. I heard of his death,
was impelled to write a letter of con
ioleneo to his family in LlT-rpool. Ev
rybody recognize I the goodness, the cour
ige. the kindness of Cantain Andrews, but
t occurs to me now that we never thankei
:he engineer. He stood ar. iy down in the
iarkness, amid the hissing furnaces, doing
Ms whole duty. Nobody thanked the engl
lenr, but Oo i recognized his heroism an I
lis continuance and his fl lelity. and there
will bs just as high rcwarl for the engineer
who worked out of sight as the Captain who
rtood on the bridge of the ship In the midst
)f the howling tempist. "As his part is that
joetii down to the battle, so shall his part
je that tarrieth by the stuff."
A Christian woman was seen going along
he edge of a wood every evening, and the
neighbors in the country did not understand
how a mother with so many car-is and aaxie
ties shiuld waste so mu-h tim as to be idly
Jauntering nut evening by evening. It was
Found out afterward that she w-iut ther
to pray for her household, an I while there
one evening she wrote that bsautiful hv.nn.
famous in all ages for cheering Christian
hearts:
I love to stoal aw'aile away
From every cumbering cara
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Jhall there be no reward for such unpreten l
!ng, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is a bry
xmo wants to go to college an I get an e.lu
sation. They call him a book wor.n. Wher
ver they And him in the barn or iu the
louse he is rea ling a book. " Waat a pity
t is." they say, "that Ed oanu t get an e do
tation!" His father, work as hard as he
vill, can no more than support the family
y the product of the far.n. Ode night
5d has retire 1 to his room, an 1 there Is a
lamily conference about him. The sisters
iay: "Father, I wish you would send
SI to college. If you will, we will wort
larder than we ever did, and ws will
iiake our old i Irenes do." The mother
lays: "Yes; I will get along without any
aired help. Although I am not as strong as
I used to be, I think I cau get along without
ny hired help." The father says: "Well,
I think by nusking corn nights I can get
ilong without any assistance." Sugar is,
banished from the table, butter is banished
Trom the plate. "That family is put down on,
rigid yea. sulTeriug jconomy that the boy
may go to college. Time passes on. Com-'
meuoement day has come. Think not that)
I mention an imaginary case. God knows!
it happened. Cjm nence-nont day has oomei
nd the professors walk in on the stage la
their long gowns. The interest of the oc-;
lasion is passing on, and after awhile it
eomes to a climax of Interest as the
valedictorian is to be introduced.
Ed has studied so hard and worked
o well that he has had the hon--or
oouferred upn him. There are rounds
of applause.sometimes breaking into voiifer-j
at ion. It is a great day for Ed. But awaw
back in the galleries are his sisters in thei'ij
plain hats and their faded shawls, and th i
old fashioned father and mother Jear me'
she has not bad a new hat for six years; h't
has not had a new coat for six years an'
they get up and look over on the platform,
and they laugh and they cry. and they sit
down, and they look pale, and then they aM
very much flushed. Ed nets the irarlnnds.
and the old fashioned group in the gallery
ve mejr iuii snare oi tne Triumph. J hey
have made tha' scene possible, and in th
day when God shall more fully reward self,
sacrifices made for others He will give grand
and glorious recognition. "As his part is
that goeth down to the battle, so shall hi!
part be that tarrieth by the stuff."
a ucic is iijgii trucuuragemeui in mis sui-
Jf for time wh3 once wrougat might
ily for Christ and the church, but throntrn
Sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced
vears cannot now go to the front. These two
hundred men of the text were veterans. Ixt
that man bare his arm and show how tha
muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the
turban and see the mark Of a battleav. Pull
aside the coat and see where the. spear thrust
him. Would it have been fair for those men,
crippled, weak and old by the brook Bsor.
to have no share in the spoils of triump.i?
I was in the Soldier's hospital in Paris and
I saw there some of the men of the first
Napoleon, and I asked them where they had
fought under their great commander. One
man said, "I was at Atisterlirz." Another
man sa1 "I was at the Pyramids." Another
man said, "I was In the awful retreat from
Moscow." Another man said, "I was at the
bridce of todi." Some of them were lame,
they were all agel. Did the French Gov
ernment turn off those old soldiers to die in
want? No. Their last days were spent like
princes. Do you think my Xjord is sroing to
turn off His old sol Hers " because they are
weak and worn and because they fainted by
the brook BqgojJ Are tbej going .Jojtet, ni
part of the spoils of the victory" Just look
at them. Do you think thos crevices In the
face are wrinkles? No. Thy are Imttle
scars. They fought against sickness, thev
fought against trouble, thev fought
against sin. they fought for Ood.
they fought for the church. they
fought for the truth, they fought tor
heaven. When they ha I plenty of money
their names were always on the subsTiptiou
list. When there was any hard wirk to be
done for God they were rea ly to take the
heaviest part of it. When there came a
great revival they were ready to pray all
night for the anxious an I the sin struck.
Thev were ready to do any work, endure any
sacrifice, do the most unpopular thing that
God demanded of them. But now thy can
not go further. Now thev have pnvsical
Inllr.nities. Now their hal troubles them.
They are weak ani faint by the hrok
Besor. Are they to have no shar in the
triumph? Are they to get none o' th tras
lires. none of the -nnils of onan 'st? You
nust think that Christ has a very sh rt
nemory if you think H i has forgotten thoir
mtv ices.
Fret not. ye aged ones. Just tarry by f'n
tnff and wait for your share of th spoils.
Yonder thev are coming. I hear the hlcat
ng of the fat lambs, and I see the jewels
Mint In the sun. It makes melaugh tothink
tow you will be surprised when thev throw
t chain of gold oyer vour nck an 1 tell you
o go In and dine with the king. I se vou
aeking out because you fel unworthv. The
hining ones comes up on the one side and
ne shining ones come up on the other side,
.ud they push you on. an i thev push
ou up, and thev say, "rT"ro i
.u old soldier of Jesus Christ." an-l
he shining ones will rush out towarl von
tnd sav. "Yes; that mm sav-l my so:i." or
hey will rush out and sav. "Oh, ves: ho
vas with me in the last sickness!'' An I then
he cry will go round th circle; c i ri" in,
tome in. come in. co-ne un! W. s iiv you
iway down there, ol I ani .sick an 1 de repit
ind discouraged because you con! 1 nit ci
:o the front, hut 'As h's part is that gth
lown to the battle, so shall his part b-? that
."arrieth by the stuff.'"
There Ishigh consolation also in tV-s r
Iged ministers. I see some of them htr to
lay. They sit in ows in our churches.
Thev used to stand in pulpits. Their h u'r
s white with the blossoms of th- tn of
ife. their names markel on the roll or th
general assembly, or of the consociation,
emeritus. Thev sometimes hear a t'xxt an
lounced which brings to mini a sermon they
crea med fifty years ago on the samrt u'
ect. They preache l more gospM on ? to 1 a
rear than some of their successors prenyl on
f-1000. Somo Sunday the old minister is in
1 church, ant near by in an ith -r pew
here are a husband and a rt-ife nn 1 a
-ow of children. And after the licn-'li'-inn
he ladv comes un and savs. "Tl tor.
?ou don't know me. do you?" "W-ll." he
tavs, "your faie is fniiiliar. hut I cannot
all vou by name." "Whv." sha savs, "vvi
laptized me. and vou marrio I m". an I von
mried my father and mother and sM"rs."
Oil. yes. he says. "Mv eveslir'it isn't ns
giod as it nsel to b." Thev are in nil our
?hurches "he hero's of ls'O. th heroes of
IS32, the heroes of IS57. Bv the long irr ive
trench tha cut through half a century Hi y
have stoo 1 soun ling the resurrection. T'ley
have b-en in more Balaklavasan-1 h'i- ita':en
more Sevastopol than you evir h-Mirl of.
sometimes they get a little fretful hennse
thev c innot be at the front. Tli"y Ir ir the
soun 1 of the battle an I the old war horse
hamos his bit. But the 60.001 mini-cers of
religion this day standing in the brunt of the
"rav shall have no more reward than those
f'tir-l veterans. "My father, mv fa'her.
he chariots of Israel ani the hor-i n-m
hereof." "'As his part is that goeth do vn to
he battle, s-i shall his part be that tarri -th
)v the stuff."
Cheer up. men and women of umporcia'c I
lervmes. you will get viur rewirl. if n it
mre. hereafter. When Charles Wesley .-n -s
lo to judg nent. an t the thous m Is of i.ils
will eh were wafted Into glory throu-'i his
longs shall be enn n 'rite I. h" will ta re His
hroue. Tien John W islev will coin no to
iudgment, and after his nam ' has h- vi m ri
rioneiln connection with the sal vat i m of
he millions of souls brought Go! through
he Methodism which ho foun lel he will
take his throne. But between th two
thrones of Charles Wesley an 1 John Wesley
there will boa throne higher than either, on
which shall sit Susannah Wiislev. who.
with maternal consecration in Epworth rec
tory, Lincolnshire, starte I those two souls
on their triumphant mission of sermon and
song through all the following ages. Oh,
wnat a day that will be for tnanv who
rocked Christian cradles with wary foot
an i who patche 1 worn out garments and
darned socks, and out of a small iti-oma
made the children comforta'ilo for the win-
er. . What a day that will he for those to
whom the world gave the col 1 shoulder an l
Callolthem nobodies and begrudged them
the least recognition, an I who, wcarv and
worn an I sick, fainted bv the brook Uisor.
Oh, that will he a mighty day when tho
Son of David shall distribute among
lem the garlands, the crovns. the scooters.
Ihe chariots, the thr iocs. And then it shall
be found that all who on earth .served Go t
In inconspicuous spheres reeeivo just as
mu ih reward as thos-'Wii) Mile I the earth
with uproar of a 'hiove-nent. The i they
hall understand the height, the deutli. the
length, the brea Ith. the pillared and do-nod
marnitl 'ence of mv text. "As his part i that
-Tooth down to the battle, so shall bis part b t
that tarrieth by the stuff."
DEATH IN GOLDEN ROD.
1 Wisconsin Veterinarian Itccl.lcs lti
Flower Produces itn Incarible Hisea-.
8tate Veterinarian Dr. C. F. S tt. of Wis.
lonsin, has discovere I tint uu I Tth ' shaggy
fellow blossoms of the gol l .i rod flower
there lurks the germs of tile m nt dangerous
iisease to hora-s wiiicli has ever been dii
jovered. Like consu-nptio i it Is iu ir.i ilo
u l tt affects the eipiiue iu mu tlx til s i-no
aray as that disease ea s away tin- life of man.
The horses which eat the toniptiug plant
?o into a gradual decline, the bio id is di
I'royed. the tissues waste aay an 1 thev die
In from three weeks to three months, i'h in
lands of horses have perishe 1 in the pineries
Df Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin fro n
this disease.
The State Veterinarians of these States
have for a long time tried In vain todis-iver
the cause of it. Dr. Scott sai I: "I am satis
fied this is where the trjuble lies. Tlier! is
no cure for it. Nothing can he di mo eveenr.
to destroy the leaf and roots."
Hangixl Her Child and Then llersel".
On the farm of William M.-Clarney, nun
Cairo, III., lived a man nn i:e l HVnsh wjt,
his wife ami their liitle daughter, about Tour
years old. A few weeks ago he left home fa
work, expecting to return in a few ila-..
When he returned he could not tlnd his w e
or child. The alarm was. sounded. n 1 a ft
a search the woman and her child w '
found lnthechicken house, susj ended tli a
with pieces of ro;e attache! to scautlin
Feople in Madison County,
Kentucky, wuo bnve pniii their tuxes
are entitled to be married free liy the
Sheriff.
The system of canals, conterapla
ted by Kuisia will have a total length
ot 1000 miles and will unity the lialtio
arid xslack boas.
Dr. Hunter McGmre of Virginia,
told the Virginia Medical Association
that appendictis can be cured without
the aid of a knife.
- An Arkansas hunter has n honnd
that will catch bis tail in hie teeth and '
roll down a hill faster than any other
hound in the pack can run.
A Baptist preacher in Georgia
refuses to baptise converts except iu
running water.
Dissipation uses the threud of life
to make its own shroud.
The visit f a cyclone, is usually a
seveie blow to any community.
An Alabama father has taught all
his children to read with their books
upside down.
The Khedive ef Egypt has a four
horse set of harness lor use on state
occasions whicn is mounted in goia
and cob, I11.00U.
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