iimii Sj If l ffl IK wIL i F. BOHWEIER, TUB CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor md VOL. XLIX MIFFUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1895. NO. 50. CHArTEB XII. (Continued.) "Father, have you ever told the Colonel about me and Sergeant Lynn?" "You and Sergeant Lynn?" be repeated, vaguely, "Our engagement, father. Have yor told the Colonel about It?" "Why, no, Jonny. 1 can't say that 7 have." - ' "I think he ought to know," said Jane, In her soft, low voice, which somehow now gave the Quartermaster a greatei Idea of firmness than Mrs. Knox's ahriU and more dictatorial tones. "You are thinking a lot of nonsense rhihl," put in her father, good-hutnorodly. "The Colonel is not an old woman, to b to eager after every bit of regimental gos sip. You must And another reason be fore I go and bother him about a llttlf thing like that." "Then do it Just to please nt because ( wish It," pleaded Jane, too earnest ts betray any trace of confusion in hei manner. - "Weill, If yon put it that way." said thi Ouartermaster, '"I may as well haul down my colors at onee. You've been spoiled all your life, my girl, and It's too late to tart a reformation now. Your mother will be very angry, I'm afraid. You sea lie reckons on that engagement coming to nothing, and it will be a blow to her. She Is hoping great things for you, Jenny." Hut more was to happen to agitate Jane that day. A Well-known voire strurk upon her ear with a deadly chill, and turned all her loving warmth to Ire. It was Jacob I.ynn Btanding a few acea away from tho verandn, railing and beckoning her to join him. Mechanically she obeyed, descending the low, broad, steps with a lnggnrdncss that told too plainly of the aversion she felt. She went bravely up to her finnce, and touching hi shoulder to attract his at tentlon, she began: "It seems you don't believe fn me, Jacob?" "How can I?" he answered gruQly, not turning to meet her gaze. "I gnv. you my promise," she remon strated, gently. "A promise only!" he retorted. "Do foil think I can credit its fulfillment?" "It shall be fulfilled. I swear itl" lie turned now nnd looked down at her nd!r. Incredulous still, ltut she did not avoid hit scrutiny instead sho invited it. "You don't want anything else, Jacob?" she asked, gathering op hor gown from contact with the wet grass, and making a movement to go in. "Want!" echoing hor words with bois terous iaerrimcnt. "Why, I want you; I rant my wife, Jenny. When is she com ing home?" "You ought to be satisfied," she said, and ran away from him lightly up th atcps. But as she reached the Ternndah a thought seemed to strike her, and she turned back slowly to where he still etood. Thinking she had changed her mind, And was shy in snying so, ho went for ward eegerly to meet her, and bent his head low to catch what she was going q ay. "No, no. It Is not that, Jacob. You mnsi wait for that until we are properly on- f;aged," she told him, with a cold, flicker ng smile. "Then what Is It, Jenny?" "This application for lenve to mnrry- a whom does It go first?" "To the Colonel." "O-oh! That Is all, Jacob." 'Good night, my love." "Good-night." CHATTER XIII. Mrs. Knox, happily nnconscioua ol what had passed between Jane and he Vher, and equally so of the conversation which occurred afterward between Jane and Jacob Lynn, was living In a fool'a paradise. The only minio Jane men tioned while relating the story of her week's visit to Cawnpore was that of Val entine Graeme, and her mother had im mediately concluded that he was to take the place of the obnoxious sergeant. She showed her conviction so unmistakably that Jane, first amused, grew afterward1 almost angry. "Graeme is a very good Scotch name," fleclared Mrs. Knox, complacently, three mornings later, as she adjusted the work on the plate of her sewing machine. "Mr. Graeme's father was a brewer," pat In Jane, slyly. "Many of the best families go into trade. I suppose he Is very rich," said Mrs. Knox. "I dare say, lie Is not good-looking," returned Jane, nndergoing without winc ing; tli. piercing scrutiny to which her mother subjected her. Waa the child laughing at her or ex pressing her real opinion? And was she mistaken in her conjecture? Mrs. Knox wondered. "He is a gentleman," she persisted, feebly. "They were all gentlemen that I met at Cawnpore." But though Mrs. Knox was silenced for (he moment she was not quenched, and after awhile returned to the attack. "I don't want to lose my daughter. 1 should like you to marry in the regiment, Jane," she began, rather nervously. "I thought that was just what you did pot wish," retorted Jane, now thoroughly Incensed; for the open discussion, which seemed so natural and desirable to Ikt mother, to her seemed coarse and almost Indelicate. The tears welled In her eye, and she was scarlet from mortification. Mrs. Knox drew herself up stiflly, but Sid not respond. The reference to Ser jeant I.ynn had alnrmed her. She knew It was best to let sleeping dogs lie, and was sorry she had said so much. Mrs. Knox went on busily turning th handle of her eewlnf machine, and brine !ng out apparently endless yards of com pleted work. Jane's head began to ache with the monotonous noise, and putting flown her embroider?! ahe went and stood beside the open window. Presently she started, and smllod a little consciously. "Mother, here cornea Mr. Grucmol" The whlziing of the wheel censod with sudden jerk, and tartin from her eat, Mrs. Knox want orer to her daugh ter's side. . 1 51 CO call. How you could say be waa not good-looking passes my comprehension. always thought him handsomer that) any of the rest of. the officers." Mother, what you think will never " she warned her gravely. "Don't be too sure," waa tha confident reply. "Stranger things have happened." Sho bustled out Of the room, smiling back encouragingly to her daughter, and culling upon her not to be long In coming to the drawing-room. .Jane stood and. .watched the .Adjutant as he came nearer to tha bungalow. K6t she had not stated tha truth when aha hnd donlod his comeliness, for ha waa de cidedly good-looking, In a happy, coma mon-place way. - r Lounging along In his cricketing flan nels, bis hand thrust Into his pockets, and whistling a tuna as ha came along, unaware that any one waa watching him from the window, Jane thought him more likabla and attractive than aha had aver fancied him Wore. . - She found Mr. Graeme In the drawing room, discoursing In his happiest vein with Mrs. Knox, but he stopped abort, and jumped np to greet her aa ahe en? tored. ' i "The other fellows were all at lunch eon, so I thought I'd just run across and BBk how you were after your Journey," he explalnod. - "You must stay and lunch with us," said Mrs. Knox. "Mln Knox must come and aee the re sult of the cricket this afternoon," put in the Adjutant. So, late In the afternoon, Mrs. Knox and Jane, having promised Mr. Graeme, strolled over to tho cricket ground, which was gay with flags and the colors of the contesting sides. The nrtiliory from a neighboring atation had challenged the th Hussars, and a number of people had assembled to see how the contest would end. But the in terest was withdrawn from the game as Jane hesitatingly approached, in her pret ty soft white cotton gown and large white hat, glancing nervously at the crowd of gayly dressed ladies, who as yet had scarcely decided to receive her among themselves. Most of them had heard of Jane's short but brilliant triumph at Cawnpore, and some of them had seen her there. The General's wife, a kindly, portly lady of middle age, to whom Mrs. Dene had Introduced her, beckoned her smilingly to ait down beside her, and asked to be introduced to Mrs. Knox. Then the Hon. Barry Larron came and stood beside them, and the Quartermas ter's wife felt as if fortune could hare no further iavors to bestow. A furtive glance around had assured Jane that Col onel Friii. p was nowhere within sight, and she felt more at ease. "Which side la winning?" she asked Major Larron. "Our side, of course; we always do," he answered. "Who Is playing now?" asked Mrs. Knox. "The Colonel Is In; he and Mr. Graeme have made a tolerable score, but the high est s-ore was made by Sergeant Lynn." "Was that the man who was In just now ?" asked the General's wife. "Yes. They were lucky In getting him out for fifty runs; he is generally a very brilliant player; but he has not been very steady lately, and that spoils a fellow' game." Mrs. Knox glanced at Jane, but the girl made no sign of having heard Major Lar ron's remark. Just then a murmur of disappointment broke from the crowd. Colonel Prinscp had been bowled out, and they cheered vociferously as he came toward the tent. He was stopped, however, by Sergeant Lynn, who divested him of his pads and gloves, at the same time speaking to hinr In an evidently confidential manner. At last the conference between the two anconsclous rivals came to an end. and tha Colonel came on alone toward the tent. CnAPTEH XIV. When Colonel Trinsep left Jacob Lynn he meant to make his way straight to ward Jane, whom he hnd seen as she ar rived; but Mrs. Knox stood in his way, nnd common courtesy compelled him to stay and talk to her a moment indeed, she seemed eager jo speak to him. "Was not that Sergeant Lynn who wai talking to you just now?" she asked, di rectly she had shaken hands with him and exchanged the usual greetings. "Yes. He Is very anxious to run his lead into a noose, and seemed to expect my congratulations thereon," answercj the Colonel, smiling. "On on what?" Not noticing her scared expression, he returned quietly: " n his engagement to be married. ITc Is going to send the necessary papers in before long, I suppose, and wished to be speak my approval." "Don't give it don't, I beg yon!" cried Mrs. Knox, in uncontrollable excitement. The Colonel looked at her fixedly. The little woman always excitable, was now fOtaking with agitation, and she returned his gaze with one of breathless suspense. "You think perhaps I ought not to havi spoken?" she said, timidly. The Colonel waa too polite to press tin matter, nnd seeing she had no more t say. he went on quickly to where Jan' was walking np and down between Majo T.arron and Valentine Graeme, who ha- usf joined her. As he overtook them Majrr Larron wr ailed away by n lady of his ncn-'ni: inc?. and he took his place beside her At a sign from Mrs. Knox, who w omiug up then with another he regiment, they batit their steps away rom tho cricket ground. The aun waa own, and after tha manner of tha Indian lluiate, tho air at once grew chilly. Jane hlverod In her white frock, and Valen ino Graeme, with what Stephen Prinsep nwardly termed officious haste, wrapped tround her the worm whita shawl ha had oen carrying. "Have you heard anything of Captain !one yet?" asked Jane, quickly, to hide Oie embarrassment ahe felt at his rather narked care of herself. "Oh. yes; he Is getting on capitally; the Colonel heard from Mrs. Dene th jther day." "I.et the Colonel apeak for himself I'nl," said that gentleman, laughing. "I beg your pardon, air," aald Mr. Graeme, rather taken aback. "Did Mra. Dana Mad an maaaage to suT' asked Jane. . "She said aha would write to yon aoon." "Then w'U have to coma to yon for news," put In Graeme, who Mldom let an gBBQX&Ultty lllfc 'r - "Just as they were leaving tha cricket ground Sergeant Lynn came auddenly in their path. He had not aeen who waa coming, and fell back immediately with a salute. "How do yon do?" aald Jane, bravely. A quick gleam of pleasure flashed Into the Sergeant's eyes, but he scarcely knew how to acknowledge tha brief recog nition. They ail passed on. The Colonel and tha Adjutant both liked Jane the bet ter that aba had not been ashamed to peak to a former friend In their pres ence, but both felt the awkwardness of the situation, and were perhaps relieved that no stranger had been present. Jana walked on, pale but composed, and looked neither to the right nor to the left. By the bye, I suppose Captain Dene a Illness will prevent our theatricals com ing off Just yet, observed Val, presently! "and the Colonel did his part so well." "And so did Mra. Dene," aald Jane. But Mr. Graeme shook his head. "J ' thought ao. 6he. la Tory grace ful, and looks tha part completely, but she lacka experience and pathos. Now you would be perfect in it." But Jane, unwilling to be praised at her friend's expense, made no reply. They had reached the gate of their compound, and aha stopped to say good by. -i "Ton are coming to aee the polo to morrow?" asked tho Irrepressible Val. "Perhapa," aha anawered, smiling. "I shall go and interview Mra. Knox, and make her promise to bring you," he said, and went off with his long, swinging stride. Stephen Prinsep and Jane looked after him for a moment, and then looked at each other on his aide with a gaze so tender aa to be almost a caress, on hers with a aad, almost agonized expression. There must be an explanation aoon, and then ahe would lose all which might have made her life ao fair. "Jenny!" At the aound of her name spoken by him thus, aa though with tha right to call' her ao, ahe turned a little paler. "Jenny, when can I speak to you alone?" "Alone?" she echoed. In confusion, a warm blush mantling in her. cheeks. "Alone!" he repeated firmly. "Can you not guess what It la I have to say ?" ... That night, nearly an hour after his wife had gone to bed, the Quartermaster was startled by a faint rapping nt his office door. He had stayed np to finish Borne of his accounts, and having com pleted them, was leaning back In his chair, having a quiet smoke. "Come in," he called out in nindoo tanee, thinking it was a servant asking for admittance. To his surprise, when the door opened, it was Jane who slowly entered In a flow ing wrapper of blue and white, her un bound hair falling about her shoulders, ber eyes dim with weeping. "Why, childie, I thought you were in Aed long ago! Are you in trouble? You look as If you had been crying." "I came to speak to you about some thing else, about what I asked you the Hher day," ahe said, timidly. "About Sergeant Lynn." She nodded affirmatively. "I have done nothing yet about speak ing to tha Colonel. You see, there is al ways the Adjutant or some one In the orderly room when I am there. It would give the subject too much importance tr ask a private Interview." i "Why not go to his house?" suggested Jane. "I might do that," ha anawered thought fully. "Do, father. Will you go to-morrow taorning?" '. "There ta no hurry. Is there 7" "Yes; If Jacob spoke to him first he would think I don't know what he would think!" she broke off excitedly. "Well, let it be aa you pleaae. It ia fiot worth arguing about. You will have o take my part against your mother; If ahe blowa me up," he added, with a bois terous, good-humored laugh. "There, run off to bed, my girl; and don't spoil those tiiretty eyes of yours by any more crying. Vot a sweetheart in Christendom Is worth t, as you will know when you reach my ga." Laughing still at hla own Joke, ha stooped, and kissing her affectionately, (pushed ber gently from the room. (To be continued.) A Dakota Verdict. There la deep Indignation here over fh scnnlttal of Alice M. Giles, who was tried last week for the murder Of her husband. The prosecution devel oped wnat eeemea to do bdboiuib en dence, much stronger -than was adduc ed In the trial of William Davidson, iaat week, for the same crime, for which he received a life sentence. Tha defense In the Giles case succeeded In getting one man on the Jury whom It could rely upon to hang it. The State found this out shortly after the com mencement of the case, and could only hope for a disagreement. Imagine the surprise of every one even the lawyers for the defense when the Jury came In with a verdict of "not guilty." After the Jury had been discharged, one of the Jurymen told the story of the ver dict The Jury stood 10 to 2 for convic tion, but after being out 36 hours the ten went over to the two, because, as some of them afterward said, they hnd n "cot hnma to cut their hav." An other said he voted for acquittal be cause a new trial would De -sucn an expense to the county." Belle Fourche (S. D.) dispatch to Minneapolis Journal. Revenge is but tho debasement of yourself to a lower level than that of your adversary. There is not a single moment n life that wo can afford to lose The brain of a woman is smaller than that of a man, bit it is stated to be aomewhnt 1 irgnr in proportion to the weight of the body. It was a Boston boy who wrote from the conntry that he was "having a glorious time; been in awimminR twice anil saw a man killed by the cars." A man of the name of Overstreet has been employed in bnildiug an ele vated railroad in Chicago, The Southern Pacifio Railroad Company will nse crude petroleum from the Los Angeles oil fields as fuel for a number of their locomotives. Japan exports matches. A slick of yellow pine fifty eight feet lone and twenty-eight inches square waa quartered np last week in a Maine sawmill. The remains of Mr. BndJ, a Brooklyn artist, who was lost in the Italian Tyrol five years ago have just been discovered. The Rev. Curr, of Tristam, Enz land, has a collection of about 20,000 stulTed birds, which are to be placed in a Liverpool museum. Lead deposits of almost ill imitable extent are found in Missouri and Kansas. lLL BY ELECTEICITY,' Rochester (n. y.) used NO PRINTED BALLOTS. a.dopta a Machine Which Begiatere a Ballot Every Time a Button la Pu.h-J ed When the Voting- Ia Dona tha Total Appears in Fig-urea. Counting la Unnecessary. For the first time in Its history, and, : to fact, of the history of any large city r the united States, Rochester, N. Y. ised no printed ballots at the recent election. The Flower City of the Gen esee has led its American sisters In tht natter of ballot reform and adopted for use at oil municipal. State and no- IKCTIOS OF STEEtSIDE WALL. HEMOVKEy SUOWiaO THE ACT OF VOT1SO. lonal elections the Myers American allot machine. Invented by Jacob Hk ram Myers. The Myers machine Is a "push tha )utton" affair, and thousands of tiny iprings concealed In the back of the uachine "do the rest," so that when tht olls are closed the Inspectors simply i.ive to unseal and unlock the back loor of the booth, and the vote Is dis mayed to view. Opposite each can. lidate's name Is his total vote. Tht nspectors have only to Jot down tht Inures, make the proper subtractions ind the result obtained Is the majorit w plurality, as the case may be, of thi eadiug candidate. Fifteen minutes f 4jy 'mm b - .aval J I rbraV1--- OUT -3 -5 Walk ELECTION BOARD 11EAOT TO ADMIT VOTEU3. If ter the noils closed the returns oTThl entire ninety-three election districts ol the city were In the offices of the new papers, and the news or the election was on the streets almost before tb rlectlon Inspectors of other cities batf begun to make their counts. iier la a brief description or tni Myers machine: It is seven feet hlsh. five feet long and five feet wide. Th voter on entering the cabinet or com nartment Is alone In an obscure, con cealed room, having white walls and which la brlehtlv llshted. He find against the steel partition a numbei if vertical columns or "Kaiiot pusi fnobs," projecting three Inches from lh nnrtirlon and ttalnted the nam olor is the ballot cards beside them. To the left of each column of knobt kre securely fastened the permanent ballot of each political party (no loos allots being used or deposited). Thest aermanent ballots contain In large prlnl DPK5 AT CLOSE OP POLLS, SHOWUS BE SULT. the name of the candidate and the name of tho office to which ha la Intended to be elected. The ballots for the same party adjoin each other, and commenc ing from the top are arranged down ward In the order of the importance of the office to be filled. This arrange ment brings all the candidates for the same office on the same horizontal ot cross line, making choice easy. Each particular party has at Its bead the party name, "Democratic Ticket," "Re publican Ticket," "Labor Ticket," etc. The voter pushes the knob Inward about two Inches, when an nnseen retaining katch locks It, prevents repeating, and kt the same time locks all other "push knobs" on the same cross line, which prevents voting for any other candi date for that particular office. Tht aama result follows after voting for oni candldata) on any cross line, no mattei What column. A voter can rota rap Idly a straight ticket by pushing thi knobs of hla) choice from top to bottom or he can split his ticket by going t pother columns. Any ticket can be vo tec In ten or fifteen seconds, and there 1: yio reason why tha average electa' Should stay Inside tha booth Ion gar. Cm. rtTTrat ftfj f tbf Steal DM tltion, which Is kept sealed until th polla are closed, and opposite each can dldate'a name. Is a mechanical countei labeled with the same name, to identl fy It after the polla close. No knob cai be voted a second time, and it is onlj returned or released, ready for the next voter, by the elector who Is In tht booth opening the exit door. This dooi cau only be opened on the Inside, nnc to open It the retiring voter must pasi Into a vestibule, allowing the Inner self locking door to close, which locks hla out of the voting apartment. Whet the exit door Is opened the knobs art released, ready for another voter. Tht Illiterate vote by color and the blind by the sense of touch. A blind mas at Lewlston, N. Y., recently, unas sisted, voted a mixed ticket In elghteer seconds. When the polls close the full elecHoa board. In the presence of watchers, un seal, unlock and open the sliding stee doors of the counter compartment, and without touching any of the mechanism (which It Is Impossible to do), thej transcribe the totals to the tally sheet from the plain figures on the dials ovei each candidate's name. The machine! were adopted this year by the Corr.mor Council of Rochester principally t avoid the trouble of learning the nei Raines voting system. The cost to th city for each machine was about f SOrt. The use of ballot machines for voting has been permitted also by the Legis latures of Michigan and Connecticut and other States have amended theli constitutions to allow voting by thi new method. Jacob Hiram Myers, the inventory was born in Bellefonte, Ta., In 184lj lie studied but never practiced law, lie served as a volunteer during tht war, etfter which he superintended tht manufacture of grain binders. Laiet he cave his attention to preparing spo ctfl cations for special bank vaults mil aafes. This led to the Idea of Inventing , ballot machine that would protect the elector. He gave an exhibition lj SS7 and since then the business Tin established In Rochester has rapidly een growing. Now Inventor Myer ?iys he cannot fill all of his orders. Tha wealthiest capitalists of Uichester are nterosted In the great ballot machine factory that has been established a Kast Rochester. Wonderful Plant. The "goose plant," one of nature' ftrange- and mervelous impactions, 1:) the most rare and unique'botanlcal odd ity known to tha naturalists. Its home Is In the superheated ooze of the A ma ton river swamps, and but one speci men of It, that exhibited at the World Fair two years ago, has ever been seen on the North American continent It U bo scarce that even in Brazil it Is con sidered a wonder of wonders, and those who were fortunate enough to pet a glimpse of the specimen In tht Jackson I'ark collection may congratu late themselves on having seen soma thing that would have been a first-class surprise to a native Amazonian. Th "geese" which grow on this remarkable plant are real geese, as far as appear ances go. In the full-grown plant they tre well-formed bodies of goosely thape, size and color; breasts apparent ly formed to stem buffeting waves, and necks and heads which so exactly Imi tate those of a real goose as to almo-t make animated nature ashamed of heiv self. An Eye to Business. A well-known missionary had occa sion to give a description of his for eign work to a large audience In a cer tain town. While speaking, be took particular notice of a boy who was lis tening with rapt attention to every word the lecturer aald. The Toledo Blade explains the reason of tho boy's Interest. As Is usual in such addresses, the missionary concluded with an earnest tppeal for contributions, however imall, and thinking of bis wide-mouthed listener, he added that even children night give their mite. When the meeting was over, the boy mounted the platform, and going fop ward to the lecturer, said: "Please, sir, I was very much Interest ed In your lecture, and and " Here he hesitated. "Go on, my little man," said the mis sionary. "Ton want to help In th ;ood work 7" "No, not that," was the boy's reply. What I want to know Is, have you any foreign stamps to give away?" fehrewd Tailor's Scheme. In ona of tha leading Journals of Mont (erideo the following advertisement appeared recently: "A very rich young woman would like to marry a young m in of good family. If necessary, ana will pay the debts of ber future hus band. Send answer, with photograph, to L P at the office of the Journal' Tha Inserter of this announcement wai ao other than one Isaac Melerstein, a merchant tailor, who had Just set np n establishment In Montevideo. By this plan ha procured photographs ot many undesirable customers. Mr. Fosxleton fou make a mess ol everything. Mrs. Fozsleton Ton arc mistaken! there Is ona thing I have never been able to make a mass of yet Mr. Fozsleton What is that? Mrs. Foz tleton The flab yos catch when you go B'hlnaiT-Brooajya Ea4da, Iff. BUBLPBL The Eminent Divine's Sunday Sermon, Subject: "A Word With Women." The text was t'.ie foVoirin; letter rrci-iTsS by Dr. Talmnne: Keverend Sir .on celiv?red a OiiWonT In answer to a lette fro n s'x voun-r men ol Fayette, O.. requestor.- you to nrparlt a sr- j mon on 'Atlvice to inunff Men. Ar w instined in asking vou to oraach a sermon or 'A'lviee to Yonnir Women.' "Letteb Sioskd by Six Youso Womfj. Christ, who toolc His text from a flock 01 birils flviuir overhead, paying. "Beho'd tht fowls of the air.'" and fromthfl flo-vrs in thf Vnllev. Fftvimr "fTnnoiiler the liliea or th fl.il.l anil f--. . 1. ! . H I 1 ! lowl. sayine, "As a hen tratliereQ her ehi-lc-ens under her wine-." nnd from a crystal ol Fnlt picked no hv the roadside, swyinir. '-Salt J cood." will rrant ns a Messinc if. instead of takine a text from the Bilile. I take for m v text this letter from Cincinnati, which is only j one of manv letters which I hav receive 1 from yonnif womn in Ntw York. Nw i Orleans. an Francisco. London, Edinburgh and from the ends of the earth, all imnlvinc that, havinir some nion'hs ago prea-hed tho ! sermon on ''Advice to Yonnff Men," I could not, without nepleet of duty, refus to preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Wo- i men. " I It Is the more Important that the nnlnit b I heard on this subject at this time when wn are having such an illimitable discussion about what is called the new woman, aa thoucrh some new creature of God had ar4 rived on earth or were about to arrive. On theorv is that she will be an athlete, and t.oxi inir (jlove and football and pugilistic. en-J ; counter will characterize iter. Another ! theory is that sho will superintend ballot boxes, sit in Concessional hall and. throucli Improved polities, brim; the milleniu-n by the evil she will extirpate and the stood sb will install. Another theory isthat she will adopt masculine attire and make sacred n vuleanantsm positively horrific. Anothei theorv is that she will be so lesthetie tbni ' broom handle and rolling: pin and coal scut tle will be pictonalized with tints from sofl skies or suggestions of Rembrandt anil Itnohael. Heaven deliver the church and tho world from any one of these st vies of new woman! She will never come. I have so much faith in the evangelistic triumph and in the pro srress of all thins? in the risrht direction that I prophesy that style of new woman wil never arrive. mie would hand over tni world to diabolism, and from beinc as she i now. the mightiest agency for the world'J uplifting, she would be the mightiest forcq for its downthrusr. I will tell you who the new woman will be. It will bo the good woman of all tho ages past. Here and there a difTeren-eof attire, as the temp-irary custom may com mand, but the same good, honest, lovely, Christian, all influential being that your mother and mine was. Of that kind of wo man was Christian Eddy, who. talking to a man who was so much of an unbeliever h had named his two children Voltaire and Tom Paine, nevertheless saw him converted, he breaking down with emotion as he said to her. '"I cannot stand yon. you talk like my mother." And telling the story of bis conversion to twelve companions who had been blatant opposers of religion, they aske-d her to come and see them also an 1 tell them of Christ, and four of them were converted, and all the others greatly changed, and tha leader of the band, departing for heavn, shouted: Joyful! Joyful! Joyful!" If you know any better style of woman than that, where is she? The world cannot improve on that kind. The new woman may have more knowledge liecause she will havu more books, but she will have no more common sense than that which tried to manage and discipline and edu cate us. and did as well as she could with such unpromising material. She mav have more health than the woman of other days, for the sewing machine and the sani tary regulations and added intelligence on the subjects of diet, ventilation nnd exercise and rescue from many forms of tlrudgerv may allow her more longevity, but sh will have the same characteristics which GO'l gave her In paradise, with the exception ol the nervous shock and moral jolt of the fat she got that day when, not noticing where she stepped, she looked up Into the branches of the fruit tree. But I roust be specific. This letter befor me wants advice to young women. Advice the first: Get your soul right with God and yon will be in the best attit ude for everything that comes. New ways of voyag ing by sea, new ways of traveling by lan I. new wavs of thrashingthe harvest, now ways of printing books and the patent office is enough to enchant a man who has meehnni eal lngenuitv and knows a good deal of levers and wheels and we hardly do any thing as it used to be done: invention after Invention, Invention on top of invention. But in the mntter of getting right with God there has not been an invention for 6000 years. It is on the same line of repentance that Dnvid exercised about his sins, and the same old style of prayer that the publican used when he emphnsized it by an inward stroke of both hands, and the same faith in Christ that Paul suggested to the jailer the night the penitentiary broke down. Aye, that is the reason I tiavo more oonfl donee in it. It has been tried by more millions than I da re to state lest I come far short of the briliiant facts. All who through Christ earn estly tried to get right with God are right nnd always will be risht. That gives the young woman who gets that position superi ority over all rivalries, nil jealousies, all misfortunes, all health failings, all social disasters and all the combined troubles ol eifjhty years, if she shall live to be an octo genarian. If the world fails to appreciate her. she says, "God loves me, the angels in heaven are in sympathy with me, and I can affordtobe patient until the day when the Imperial chariot shall wheel to my door to lake me up to my coronation.' If health goes, she says, "I can endure the present distress, for i am on the way to a climate the tlrst breath of which will make me proof against even the slightest discomfort. If she be jostled with perturbations of social life, she can say. "Well, when I begin my life among the thrones of heaven and the kings and queens unto God shall be my as sociatas, it will not make much difference who on earth forgot me when the invitations to that reception were made out." All right with God, you are all right with everything. Martin Luther, writing a letter of con dolence to one of his friends who had lost his daughter, began by saying. "This is a hard world for girls." It is for those who are dependent upon their own wits, and the Whims of the world, and the preferences ol human favor, but those who take the Eternal God for their portion not later than fifteen years of age, and that is ten years later than it ought to be, will And that while Martin Luther's letter of condolence was true In regard to many, if not most, with) respect to those who have" the wisdom and promptitude and the earnartness to get' right with God, I declare that this is a good world for girls. Advice the second; Vake it a matter o. religion to take care of your physical health I do not wonder that the Greeks deiflec health and hailed Hygeia as a goddess. rejoice that there have been so many model of maintaining and restoring young wo maclv health invented into our time. The; may have been known a long time back, br they have been popularized in our day lawn tennis, croquet and golf and thi bicycle. It always seemed strange ant inscrutable that our human rase should bt so slow of locomotion, when creatures o less importance have powers of velocity wing of bird or foot of antelope, leavinf us far behind, and while it seems 89 im portant that we be in many places in a shor while we were weighed down with tncapaci ties, and most men if they run a mile ar exhausted or dead from the exhaustion. I .was left until the last decade of the nin eentn enturr ta give the speed which w e whirling through all our cities and alon I fej country roads, anl with that speed kjiucs health. The woman of the next d de will be healthier than at any time sinc tie world was created, while the Invalidism rhioh has so often characterized wman lood will ones over to manhood, which bi 1 ts posture on the wheel is coming to curved Bint and grainsad chest soda deformity toi vhieh another fifty years will not have pow ir to make rescue. Young man, sit up it might when you ride. Iarw-n says the human raoe is descende 1 rom the monkey, but the bicycle will turn a! liindre I thousand men of the present gener Uion in phvsteal condition from man ti nonkey. For good womanhood, I than od that this mode of recreation has be-n nvented. Use it wisely, modestly, Chris ianly. No good woman needs to be toll vhat attire is proper and wh it behavior i ight. If anything be doubtful, reject it. A loy.lenish. boisterous, masculine woman is he detestation of all, and every revolution if the wheel she rides is toward depreciation tnd downfall. Take can of your health. O roman: of your nerves in not reading thi I rash which makes up ninety-nine out o' 101 levels, or by eating to many cornucopias ot onfeetionery! Take cire of your eyes by tot reading at hours when you ought to b 1 leeping. late care m your ears v si .p- ring them against the tides of gossip that urge t irough every neigaborhood I Health! Only those know ts value who lave lost it. The earth is girdled with pam, 1 ind a vast proportion of it is the price paid lor early recklessness. I close this thought vith the sa'utation in Macbeth: Now good digestion wait on appetite And health on both. Advice the third: Appreciate your mother ithile you have her. It is the almost uni ersal testimony of young women who hays ost mother that they did not realize what ihe was to them until after her exit from ihis life. Indeed mother is in the apprecia ion of many a young lady a hindrance. The naternal inspection' is often considered an bstaole. Mother has so many notions about hat which is proper and that which is im roper. It is astounding how much more nanv girls know at eighteen than theii nothers at forty-flve. With what an elae rate argument, perhaps spiced with some lemper, the youngling tries to reverse the opinion of the oldling. The sprinkle of gray n the maternal forehead is rather an indi iation to the recent graduate of the female leminary that the circumstances of to- lay or :o-night are not fully appreciated. What a wise boarding school that would e if the mothers were the pupils an l the laughters the teachers! How well the teens sould chaperon the fifties! Then mothers 10 not amount to much anyhow. They are 11 the way and are always asking questions ibout postage marks of letters, and asking, Who Is that Mary D.?" and "Where d'd you 'ormthat acquaintance. Flora?" and "Where lid you get that ring. Myra?" For mothers lave such nnnrece iented m-ans of knowing iverything they say "it was a bird in the lir" that tMd them. Alas, for that bird iu he air! Will not Bonn one lift his gun and ihoot it? It would take whole libraries to lold the wisdom which the daughter knows nore than her mother. "Why cannot I lave this?" "Why cannot I do that?" And he question in many a group has been, al :hough not plainly stated: "What shail we io with tho mothers, anyhow? They are 10 fur behind the times." permit ne to suggest that if the mother lad given more time to looking after herself ind less time to lookingVfter you she would lave been as fully up to date as you. in nusic, in style of gait, ia ajstheti'- tat-s an 1 n all sorts of information. I expect that vhlle you were studying botany and chem stry and embroidery and the new opera she vas studying household economies. I5ut one lay from overwork, or sittting up of nights vith a neighbor's sicfc child, or a hi st of the vest wind, on which pneumonias are hor.-d, notheris sicic. Yet the family think she Fill soon be well, for she has been sick so ften, and always has got well, and the phy lioian comes three times a day, and there i? 1 consultation of the doctors, and the new iS gradually broken that recovery is iinposi le, given in the words "While: there is life :here is hope." And the white pillow ovei which are strewn the locks a little tinted wit i now becomes the point around which all ;he family gather, some standing, soon tneeliug. and the pulse beats the last tbroh, ind the bosom trembles with the lat breath, ind the question is asked in a whisper hj ill the group, "Is she gone?" Aad all is jver. Now come the regrets. Now the daughtec reviews har former criticis-n of materuat su pervision. For the first time she realizes what it is to have a mother and what it is to lose a mother. Tell me, men and women, foung and old. did any ot us appreciate how ueh mother was to us until she was gone? i'oung woirau, you will probably never hav 1 oiore disinterested friend than your moth sr. When she says anything is unsafe or im jru lent, you had b-tter believe it is uusife )r irnpru lent. When she declares it is mnethiug you ought to do, I think you ha 1 letter do it. She has seen more of the vorld than you have. D you think sh? tould have any mer.-enary or contemptible notive in wnat she a iviscs vou She would nve her life for you if it were called for. D ou know of auynne eUe who would iln nore than that for you? Dj you know ol myone who would do as mu--h? Ag.iir. .nd again she has already endangered hat life during six weeks o liphtheria or scarlet fever, and sin nevei incebrought up the question of whether she lad better stay, breathing day an I night the lontagion. The graveyards are full of moth- trs who died taking oare ot tneir cniidren. Better appreciate your mother before yout Ippreoiation ot ber will be no ktndness tc er, and the post mortem regrets will be nore and more 01 an agony as the years pass in. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen, ind the best epitaphs which the family put xigether and compose, and a garland ol vhitest roses from the conservatory are often he attempt to atone for the thanks w night to have uttered In living ears, and the tiif 1 words that would have done more goo J han all the calla lilies ever piled up on the tilent mounds of the cemeteries. The world makes applauditory a lo ovei he work of mothers who have raised boys 0 te great men, and I could turn to my wokshelves ami find the names of fifty dis inguished men who had great mothers Juvier's mother, Walter Scott's mother, St. Bernard's mother, Benjamin West's mother. ut who praises mothers for what they dc 'ordaughters who make the homes of Amer ca? I do not know of an instance of such eeognition. I declare to you that I believe f am uttering the first word that has evej leen uttered in appreciation of the sell lenial, of the fatigues aud goO't sense ind prayers which those mothers o through who navigate a family ol nrls from the edge of the cradle to the seboolhouse door, and from the schoolhouse ioornptothe marriage altar. That is an ichievement which the eternal God cele arates high upin the heavens, though for it auman bands so seldom c ap the faintest ap plause. My! My! What a timn that mothei had with those youngsters, and if she had relaxed care and work and advice and solic itation of heavenly help, that next genera :ion would have landed in the poorliouse Idiot asylum or penitentiary. It is whiU me is living, hut never while she is deal. ;hat some girls call their mother "materna1 ancestor" or "the old woman." An l if you have a grief already, and some 01 the keenest sorrows of a woman's life tome early, roll it over on Christ and yo will find Hi to more sympathetic than wai Queen Victoria, who, when her children, thf princes and princesses, came out ot thi schoolroom after the morning lesson hat' been given up by their governess and told how her voice had trembled in the moruinf prayer because it was the anniversary of hei mother's death, and that she hail put hei head down on the desk and sobbed "Mother! Mother!" the queen went it and said to the governess: "My pool child! I am sorry the children disturbed you this mornini-. I will hear their lessoni to-day, and to show you that I have not for Kottea tfee sad anniversary. I bring you thi ift." And tbe queen clasped on the gin a rrist a mourning bracelet with a lock of her jother's hair. All you young women the rorld around who mourn a like sorrow, and ometimes in yourlonoliness nnd sorrow and ' nsn bnrst ftnt errinir "Wother! Mother!" nit on your wrist this golden clasp of divine '; ympnthy, "As one whom his mother com orteth so will I comfort you." I Advice the fourth: Allow no time to pass rithout brightening some one's life. Within lye minutes' walk of you there Is some one n a tragedy ecmpared with which Shake peare's "King Lear" or Victor Hugo's , 'Jean Yaljeon" has no power. Go out and irighten somebody's life with a cheering rord or smile or a flower. Take a good 100k and read a chanter to that blind man. o np that dark alley and make that in ali 1 woman laugh with some good story. lo to that house from whloh that child has teen taken by death and tell the father and nother what an escape the child has had Lom the wjntej oleartJ JnlftttsJrlnjimaoJ leaven. For God's sake make some one nappy brten minutes if for no longer ati;ne. A roung woman bound on su -h a mission vhat might she not accomplish. Oh. there ire thousands of these manufa'turers ol unsliine. They nre "King's Daughters" vhether insitie or outside that delightful irganization. They do more goo t before hey are twenty years of age than selfish vomeu who live ninety, and they are so lappy just because tliey make others happy. Jompire such a young women who fcls she las such a mission with one wh.i lives n !ound of vanities, cardoase iu hand, calling n people for whooi she does not care ex tent for some social advantage, ami in mfferably bored when the call is re mrned, and trying to look young after ihe is old. and living a life of insincerity ind bollowness and dramatiz ition and sham, foung woman, live to make others h-ippv, ind you will be happv. Live for yourself. ind you will be miserable. There never has - exception to the rule; there never Rn excption. j nav8 notic(,d on mnnv of the rniiroart3 fc t rtr .,, Hr;)Un , n,j M fh9 a u i 1,. 1 j uwf 1 1 , It first surprised, but I afterward find that re are about to enter a tunnel, and its dark less is thus illuminate I. O l, kindle a light or those who are plnnging into financial or lomestic or spiritual midnight. Advice the fifth: Plan.out your life on a rig scale, whether you aro a farmer's dangh er, or a shepherdess among the hilts, or the Sattered pet of a drawing room filled with itatuary and pictures and brie-n-brae. Stop vhere you are and make a plan for your life line. You cannot be patislled with a life of rivolity and giggle and indirection. Trust he world, and it will h-nt you If it does lot destroy you. The It loubtaht was the lame of an enemy's ship that Lord Nelson ipared twice from demolition, but that same ihip afterwards sent the ball that kill vl hlrn. tnd the world on which ou smile mav aim it you the dea lliest weapon. a il.il's voman. This moment make as mighty a thange as did a college student of England, ie had neglected his studies, rioting nt light with dissipated comna-iions and ilceping in the clas-room when he ought o have been listening. A f-llow stud-'iit tame into his room one morning before the foung m-in I a-n spakingof ha 1 arisen from lis pillow and said to him: "P.iley, you are 1 fool! You are w.-istingyotir opportunities. )o not throw away your life." Taley "aid: 'I was so struck with what hesiid that I lay n bed until I ha I formed my plan for life. I irdered my Hre to be always laid over night, i arose at iiyc an I rend steadily all day. al otel to eah portion of the day its proper iran -It of study nn 1 b-'evne the seniur rr-mgler." What an hour that was when a esolution definitely placed chang'-d a young nan from a re":;loi.-t an 1 time wasting sttid int to a consecrate i man who stopped not intil all timn and nil eternity shall be debtor o his pen and Influence! Young woman, draw out nnd de-i le what rou will be and do, Gid helping. Write It nit in a plain band, not like the letters vhl"h Josephine received from Napoleon in Italy, the writing so scrawling n l scattered hat it was sometimes taken as a map of the ieat of war. Put the plan on the wall of our room, or write it in the opening of a jlank hook, or put it where you will be omoellel often to see it. A thousand juestions of your coining life you cannot lettle now, but there Is one qip-stiou you 'an settle independent of man, woman, mgel nnd devil, nnd that is that you will bi Tiod's wom-in now, henceforth and forever. L'lap handswith the Almighty. Pythagora? represented life by the letter V, because it nriy divides into two ways. Look out foi pportimities of cheering, iuspiring, rc-j-u. !ng and saving all the people you can. Ma'c league with the eternities. I seek yout present und everlasting safety. David Brewster said that a comet belonging to our ivstetn called Lexcll's oomt is iost, as it Might to have appeared thirteen times ind has not appeared at nil. Alas, it is lot only the hist comets, but the lo-t itars, nnd what were considered fixed itars. Some of the most brilliant mid tteady souls have disappeared. The world vonders at the charge of tho Light ii-igiide, mmortalized by Tennyson. Only a tew ol he 600 got back from the charge, under Jord Cardigan, of the Muscovite guns, an I illtne havoc was done In twenty-live niin ites, the charge beginning at ten minutes ast 11 o'clock, an 1 closing at thirty-live ninutes past 11, and yet nothing left on tho lold but dying and dea l men, dying an I lead horses. But a smaller proportion of he men and women who gj into the battle if life eome out unwouuded. The slaughter las been and will lie terrific, and we all need iod and we need Him now and we need Him ill the time. And let me say there is a new voman, as there is a new man, and that is he regenerated woman made such, by the ansacklng, transforming, upbuilding, tn- MJl-, in ,i, ,i... rr i;. l. ;alled for ages the Holy Spirit. Quicker han wheel ever turned on its axis; quicker linn flnnfiwl fonof ui-.l. Dl.iirtt .ha nurumanli piioker than Zigzag lightning ever droppe l lown the sky, the ransoming power I spoak t will revolutionize your entire nature. rheu you can start out on a voyage of life, lefying both caltn and oyolone, saying with Dean Alford: One who has known in storms to sail I have on board; Above the roaring of the galo I hear my Lord. He holds me when tbo billows smilf I shall not fall; X! short 'tis sharp, if long 'tis light; He tempers all. A TOUCHING SCENE. ubnn Insurgents Pay li-Zlmle to The'.t I'rlsoners Valer. Details have been receive! f; o n Cienfue- ?os, Cuba, regarding the release of the slit eeu Spanish soldiers who v-i-o captured by the insurgents iu the engagement fought at lardio Ojo He Agtia. In that encounter lixty-four Spanish soldiers had ma leagul- ant stand against ri)0 insurgents. 1 he sol liers were commanded by Colonel Valle, ilajor Sanchez and Captains Navarro an I iio, who were among those captured mi l eleased by llego, the itisurgeul leader. The atter was the llrst to greet the Spanish oiTl ters, and, embracing Colonel Valle, be said: 'Return to your comrades, heroes. You an iu honor to the Hpauish Nation, and I n-ti jroud to be abio to boait of desccn ling Tom such people." Then followed a touching moment, dur ng which the Spaniarls and the Cutie.tis embraced each other and bade each oth-r farewell, the Cubans shouting as the Simti- lards weut away: "Alios, valientes Es- pauoles." Ine Mpanish soldiers, pearly ail of whom were wounded, were well cared for while in the hands of the insurgents, and ate at the tame table ns K-go. The action of the Cu bans has caused great gojd feeling toward them. Great lSrltaln Ccttlr.g t.'e-i-Iy. Miners from Alaska say Canadian military police lire building fortii!cutious on U Alaskan boundary line. Food for Thought. GoO'l taste is tha modesty of the mind. Next to excellence islUe appreciation of it. Idleness is as fatiguing as repose is sweet. Our sonls much further than our eyes can boe. As yonr enemies and your friemls, so are yon. Shun equally a somber air and viva cious sallies. If yon Bee one cold and vehement at tiie came time, set biin down for a : fauatic. Tutting nickles ia the t-Iot is like pouring water into a rat hoie. Every man hates his rival, but some of them Buccussfully conceal it. There is nothing more serious than what some people consider a joke. The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. He that has never known adversity is but hall acquainted with himself or others. - .'- -' ,' "r. . X
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