Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, November 13, 1895, Image 1
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. Br 9 n H U i SEMISSfW, 1SS UJ J 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. 1 1. 'v ''