- arm Taw irrn , f- 1 0 B. F. HOHWEIER. THE OON8TITUTION-THE DNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWR. VOL. XLIX MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1895. NO. 52. 1 CHAPTER XVII. The next day brought the news of Capj (ain Dene's death, and as she wept il sorrow for her friend's sudden bereave ment, Jane could, without suspicion. In dulse her own heart's grief. The funeral, in accordance with thi wish that had been generally expressed took place at Alipore; and Jane, standing at the window, watched the processios pass, through a mist of sympathetii (ears. Jane bad written a few lines to Mrs Tene, not attempting to condole with her. Imt only to tell her how she felt for hej borrow; and a few days after the funeral she received a note begging her to so and see her. The meeting was naturally a painfaj one, both remembering how and wher. they had been last together, but thl widow was the more composed of the two, and could but see that something els was grieving Jane beside simple grief foi her. "You hnve been in trouble yourselt Jane; can't you tell me what it is?" And only too glad to pour out all hei woes into such a sympathetic ear. Jam told the whole story. "But, Jenny," Mrs. Dene said, tenderly "you knew of this when we were a! Cawnpore together, yet it did not seem U grieve you then." "I scarcely realized it," sobbed Jane. "And something since has opened youl eyes to what it is you stand committer to?" June bowed her head. "May I guess what it is?" whisperel Mrs. Dene. "You love some one now and know what you are giving up am 1 right, Jenny?" Again Jane bowed her head this timi to hide the vivid blushes which suffused her face. "And does he love you?" "Perhaps; I thought so, and yet yet " She broke down in utter confusion. Sh could not explain what she thought eves to the friend she loved so well. Mrs. Dene remained for awhile in pus sled silence; she wanted to help the girl but could not tell how. "I do not wish to force your confidence she said at length; "but something wat told me once, and I was wondering whether I ought to tell it to you." "Not anything against Jacob Lynn? sharply "My dear, how should I know anything about him?" with a little gentle scorr that showed Jane perhaps more clearly than anything else could what a gull would divide her from all her new friendi should she marry the man to whom sh was betrothed. "I beg your pardon," she said, humbly Mrs. Dene went on as though nothin had occurred to interrupt. "I certainly should have let it react you through through the proper channel only that now the knowledge of it mighi influence your decision, and otherwise il might come too late; I don't know if yot are ambitious, Jane, but, if yon liked you might some day be Lady Larron more!" "Lady Larronmore!" echoed the girl surprised, for the name conveyed noth ing to her mind. "It is the title to which Major Larror will succeed; and he wishes I know, fol he told me to win you as his wife." "Me!" said Jane, opened -eyed an4 breathless. "Yes, you," answered Mrs. Dene, witk a faint smile that showed how sad ths expression of her lips had been before, "You are quite a heroine of rasues Jenny; surely no woman had ever snch t choice of positions. You might be queen of society, or " She stopped f little awkwardly. "Or a soldier's wife in barracks," con cluded Jane, quietly. "I have no right to ask you If yon car for Major Larron," went on Mrs. Dene "I only thought you ought to know h cared for you." "It has made no difference," said Jans "but I thank you all the same for ths Intended kindness. No, I don't even like Major Larron; and I dare say he ha changed his mind, too, since he spoke tc you, for he has never said a word I coulo construe into anything of the sort." To Mrs. Dene it was evident that th I? rl had spoken the truth, yet who conlt t be that she loved and was thinkinf about now, if her blushes were to be be lieved? Not Valentine Graeme surely he was too young, too frivolous to in spire such a tender passion; nor Colons' Prinsep why, how blind she had been of course, it must be he! Lately hei thoughts had been so much with hersell and her own affairs, that she had for fotten the fancy which Jane had alwayi so artlessly shown for the eligible bach lor colonel. Now it returned to her iu full force, and she understood that ths fancy had become a love as ardent as il was iU-advised what she had alwayi feared for her protege had unhappily tome to pass, for that Stephen Prinsej returned the girl') affection she could no' redlt. "My poor child, it is all very hard on rou," she said, presently, thinking that kow she knew all, she could understand' the straggle that was going on in Jane's Blind between a hopeless love and an en ragement that promised to be more hope less still. "It is very hard," sighed Jane. "My Bother is, of course, against my mnrry tng back into the position which shf thought we had left behind us forever snd even my father, I think, is disap pointed, though be is so good he will no' say so. Yet I know I am right. Yor think so, too, don't you?" longing for somi ne to uphold her in her resolution. Mrs. Dene hesitated, afraid of givinj a the wrong advice. you ram bust mum awww aaj last. "I should counsel yon to hold to yen word at all hazards." "I do not love him," replied Jane, in a low, ashamed voice, feeling that It waa the saddest confession she could make, for was he not the man that aha wi pledged to marry? "Then do not marry him, Jenny." "You forget that he loves) me, and though It must have been in momentary madness, I promised of my ewn free will. U h a4 bug tr goat sairloa. I might not have felt so bound; but he ! poor and almost friendless. He has noth ing but me." "Perhaps yon are right. I only hope it will turn ont to be the best; bat I shall not be here to see how it ends. I am go ing away to-morrow." Then they said "good-by," and Jane was soon on her homeward road, thinking over all that had occurred. Some one overtook her as she walked, and looking np ahe saw it was Major Lar ron. ghe save bar hand to him wits a some what nervous smile, relapsing at once into nnnatural gravity aa he clasped it closely in his own. "I am very glad we have met," he said, earnestly. "I began to think it must be decreed we should never meet again." "That was hardly likely in a small place like Alipore," she answered, brusquely. She felt it Incumbent on her to avoid a silence, which might give him the oppor tunity of saying what she did not wish to bear. "It is in these small places where one is most likely to miss one's friends. I have been looking for yon everywhere for the last week." "I have not been out much lately. Just now I hare been saying good-by to Mr Uene." "She is leaving here?" "Yes. She goes with her father to Hattiabad to-morrow." "What, Mr. Molnet? Is he here 7" He looked positively angry when Jane sssented. He had not seen Nora Dene's .father for more than a year now, and the last time they had met, he had been obliged to listen to plainer truths than he exactly relished; another such meeting was therefore decidedly to be avoided. Jane, stealing a furtive glance into hia face, saw that something had disturbed him, and was relieved that his thoughts were evidently withdrawn from her. Just then he turned and caught her criticising glance. "Yon have been playing cricket?" she stammered, blushing. "No, tennis. I had the honor of play ing with Miss Knollys." "What is she like?" asked Jane, eager ly, for she, as well as every one in Ali pore, was full of curiosity as to the ap pearance of the commissioner's daughter, who had only arrived from England twe days ago. "I scarcely noticed her; but I believe she is handsome. It is to be hoped so, since, I suppose, she is brought out with the intention of being sold to the highest bidder." "How can you say such things?" cried Jane, indignantly. "Is it not true or is it because of its truth you think it ought to be sup pressed?" he questioned, cynically. "For neither of those reasons." "Then why ? Don't all men marry those who can offer the biggest settlements?" he persisted, looking keenly into ber face. CHAPTER XVIII. In spite of the Hon. Barry La iron's somewhat deprecating description, Diana Kuoylls waa very handsome, and might have been more so had her manner been less in accordance with her appearance. She was a little above the medium woman's height, and her figure, neither very slim nor girlish, had the graceful languor which characterises those of Southern birth. Her eyes were large, and of a gray so dark as to be almost black, and all the color in her face seemed cen tered In her small scarlet-lipped month. Her dark hair was gathered high upon her head in a somewhat uncommon fash Ion that added to her height, and gave a certain queenliness to her presence. Yet It was her haughty demeanor that robbed her beauty of half its charm. She was cold as an icicle, and her voice, though musical and clear, had a metallic ring in it that grated on the ear. She was just twenty-five, not too young, she thought herself, and determined, pleasant as was her present position, to obtain as soon as possible a more assured one. Before she came out from England she nnd studied the army list to see what regiment was stationed at Alipore, and after consulting Burke as well, had come to the conclusion that the Hon. Barry Larron was the most eligible bachelor in the station; and that after him came Col onel Prinsep, who, though he had no title, nor any very probable claim to one, bad a large income and a beautiful estate in Herefordshire. Either of these would be a desirable match. She had been there nearly a week, when she decided that to give eclat to her debut, her father should give a dance to Intro duce her to his friends; and having set tled this in her own mind, she went at once to consult him upon the subject. Jane did not get an invitation. Indeed, she never expected it, and would have re fused ft even had it come. But still she felt the slight. She waa so young, and her one short glimpse of gay.ty had been so sweet that she felt it hard to be left out in the cold. And her mother was in dignant. Stephen Prinsep, on the contrary, waa glad that Jane was not there. His sole Idea was to put away the remembrance of that one sweet hope, which from its very brevity had seemed the dearer. Yet bad it been her loss only which he bad had to deplore, there would have been nothing to rankle so in his mind. Had she re fused his love because she could not love him, he was too manly to have wasted his life in vain regrets; even had she died he would not have sorrowed as one with out hope. But to his short tm had come snch a bitter, atrBsntating awaking Chat no wonder he felt dissatisfied and lad. He loved her so well, perhaps even she loved him; yet neither fact had the power to prevent ber marriage with one immensely his Inferior, who would, if there was r nything in the theory pro pounded by the author of "Locksley Hall," drag her down to his level. He was not thinking of that then. We was watching the commissioner's daugh ter, and acknowledging ber good looks was wondering whether he could not by any meana fall In lore with ber, and se banish from his memory the unwise pas sion he had contracted for Jane Knox. r or law ueiwr lurmcniiicv v& uuv i he had attached himself to Miss Knollys I early In the evening, and scarcely left ber side, while she, nothing loath, only too . graciously accepted his attentions. It pleased her that people should nonce nis apparent devotion and draw the ln svijable awatailaa, JPvenJl aba aarer married him and she wonld not if a better match offered it was a distinction to have suck a man as Colonel Prinsep in her train, such a distinguished soldier, such a declaredly eligible parti. Her eyes grew bright with triumph, and she held her head very proudly, when, though the small hours were approaching, and many of the guests were gone, he still lingered at her side. Out beneath the quiet stars he could think and almost forget that he had a companion, but presently a well-known name falling upon hia ear aroused him from the reverie into which be had fallen, and he felt the necessity of returning something more than the mechanical as sents which he had given to each of her remarks. "It baa been a success, has it not. Col onel Prinsep. In spite of the heat? And only yesterday I was gravely assured that, if I did not ask the quartermaster's daughter. I must expect a failure. The told me ahe was quit the station belle, and a tremendous favorite in your regi ment." ' "A favorite in the regiment is she?" he repeated, awkwardly. "You mean that she is not," she ob served, smiling. "Well, for my part, I think it is quite a mistake to notice peo ple of that sort. It only makes then) feel uncomfortable and out of place." A vision rose before his mind's eye. As plainly as thongh she were in reality be fore him, he saw Jane as he had seen her on me nigni 01 tne Dau at Cawnpore. He aaw her gauzy garments, all of snowy white save for the fluttering straw-colored ribbons that seemed to have fluttered themselves into his brain and wrought there irremediable confusion. He could almost fancy that the scent of the tea roses she had worn then was wafted now across his face, but looking down at his companion, he saw that she, too, wore some in her belt. "Don't you think so?" she persisted, as she met his glance. "I dare say; I am not very well up in these social questions. Have you ever met Miss Knox?" "I? Oh, no! I have never even seen her." "I think you will like her when you do meet. She is very sweet, and grace ful, and womanly I don't suppose more than that is required in the very highest circles," said Stephen Prinsep, with the slightest suspicion of sarcasm. Miss Knollys assented immediately; but to herself decided that Colonel Prinsep was neither so gentlemanly nor so nice as she bad at first supposed. She con cluded he was getting bored; and knowing that nothing was more fatal to her chances of success, proposed they should go back to the drawing-room. (To be continued.) A Rnssian Story. Mr. Barry, in his work on Russia In IS70, tells a story of the time whan slavery waa an Institution in the coun try. A certain Ironmaster caused a man who had offended him to be locked up in an Iron cage, and kept him confin ed In It for a length of time. At last, while be was absent on a journey, the case of bis wretched prisoner came to the knowledge of the governor of the province. The governor causd the man, cage and alj to be brought to the gov ernment town, and invited the tyran nical ironmaster to dinner. After the dinner was over, the governor sent for a quail In a wooden cage, and offered to sell It to bis guest for ten thousand roubles. The offer being treated as a Joke, the governor said he bad a more valuable bird to sell, and told his ser vants to bring It in. Folding; doors flew open, and the Iron cage with lta miserable captive was set down before the astonished guest. "Now," said the governor, "what do yon think of that for a quail T But this is a very expen sive bird; I want 20,000 roubles for him." "All right," said the alarmed proprietor, "I will bar this one; send him down to my works without the cage, and your messenger shall bring back the amount." The matter was thus pleasantly settled, and the com pany adjourned In undisturbed har mony to their paplrosses and coffee. A Book Warning;. Be careful what 70a write In your books. If you do not want yonr heirs or administrators to make unkind remarks about you. An old book chaser, Just home from Chicago, relates an In stance In which trouble was created by a man who thoughtlessly marked his collection of books in a peculiar man ner. He owned a large library, and, aa be bad probably suffered from borrow ers and purloiners, he stamped with in delible Ink on the one hundredth page of every volume on his shelves: "Stol en from George E. Hord." In due time death and the mutations of fortune brought this library to the hammer and the second-hand shops; but, owing to the accusatory phrase on the one hun dredth page of each book, they were sold with difficulty, and brought al most no price whatever. Louisville Courier-Journal. Language of Insects. Another learned man has been study ing the "language" of Insects. He says he has discovered satisfactory evidence of telepathy among them. Telepathy Is described as a sixth sense, by which the insects are able to communicate Ideas to one another at a great distance. The Baptists bad their name from John the Baptist they claiming to per form the rite of baptism in the manner that b Name?, says an old maxim, are things. They certainly are influences. He is a fool who cannot be angry; but be ia a wise man who will not. A tx-ggar's rags may cover as ninch pr de as an Alderman's gown. The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst suitors can choose-. Without the evidence of drawn blood it is easy to ignore the possibility ol pain. Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others. Doing is the proof of living. If hours did not hang I eavy what would become of scandal? When fame wires to posterity she most frequently uses sympathetic Human aoience is an uncertain guess. Each one sees what he carries in bis heart. Deliver me, Oh Lord, from that evil man, myself. In solitude, where we are least alone. How fast we learn in a diy of sorrow. The mind is susoeptible to a higher cultivation than the heart ALASKAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE. Knsrland Bceka Easy Acceee to the Klcxt Yukon -Cold Fields. - The time Is .not far distant when, for the fourth time, the United States will become Involved In an International boundary dispute. Vhls time It will igaln be with Great Britain, and the (uestion at Issue will be the exact lo cation of the boundary line between BTAr SHOWCte) TXBRITOBT lit DISPCTS southeastern Alaska and British Co lumbia. When the Russians transfer red Alaska to the United States In ISU7 It was understood that the que Hon of boundary was definitely set tled. The authority for this belief wat Ihe treaty between Russia and Great Britain, made in 1S25. In this treaty It was agreed that the boundary ol southeastern Alaska should be on ths south, the line which later In the ad ministration of Polk became so weli known in the popular expression: "Fifty-four forty, or fight" From Port land Channel, which Indents the coast tt this point, the line extending norta always ton marine leagues from th ooean. The western boundary of thl main body of Alaska was fixed at thi 141st degree of west longitude, placinf It forever beyond dispute. Since that treaty the question 01 boundary has not boon raised untt within the last few years. When Se retary Seward paid Kuala $7.i00.000 la fold for what was then popularly sup posed to be an arctic wilderness fen people thought that the vast area ol land would ever be of sullicient Im portance to even lend dignity to an in ternational dispute. But since two oi Us smallest islands alone have con trolled the sealskin supply of the worli snd its salmon fisheries have 6upplle the market and gold mines have beei discovered in Alaska, the people of tin Jnlted States have been slowly forced x acknowledge the wisdom and fore light of Lincoln's Secretary of State il icqulrlng this valuable possession Sot so slow has England been in real zing the situation and the posslbilitj f her gaining contra', of the Interim rold fields. The United States asserts that tht oundary line runs parallel to the wind lng of the bays and inlets ludenthij the coast, always ten marine league! rrom salt water. The two constmo lions held to by England are: 1. Tha: ten marine leagues from the oceot xteans that distance from the outer toast line of the many islands along the coast. In this case the line would n many places not even reach the maln and. Another English construction of me treaty Is that the boundary should je measured from the general coast ine of the capes and points of land of he mainland. The claim of the United States Is simply for a strip of land thir ty miles wide extending from the main F1QHT IN THE ITALIAN SENATE The Italian Government Is in financial straits and bankruptcy seems Inevitable unless substantial help comes from some quarter, It matters little where, so it comes soon. There is noth ing in the treasury to meet the enormous deficit of last year's budget, and where this year's expenses are to be derived from is a matter too remote even for con jecture. Italy wants money and wants it badly. The financiers of the country have done everything in their power to float a loan, but without success. Crisp! finally appealed to the Chamber of Depu ties. Everything that could possibly be taxed has been made to pay tribute, and to find something new on which to levy was by no means an easy matter. There were many schemes proposed, but all were found to have some serious drawback for practical application. After wveral days of spicy debate on this topic M. Oasale, Deputy from Spiro, proposed s tax on beard - His Idea was that all men who had a beard of any kind were inordinately vain of thia adornment. Rather than to sacri fice it to the cruel rasor they would pre fer to pay a moderate tax for Ms protee- Bssiaaa, this wosrtd ka a satrlsaa body of Aiaka to Portland Channel. What England really wants Is a sea port at the entrance of tha Interior country. All her claims to the southern boundary are but a cloak to oover ber real design. Once established at Tmkn Inlet, or the bead of Lynn OanaL Eng land will hold the key to the vast In terior gold country. These two Inlets are to the Interior of Alaska what Gib raltar la to the Mediterranean. Alone the unbroken coast they are the only apenlmpj through which. It la possible to reach the Yukon country ana the In terior. There can be little doubt that by setting up the southern boundary claim England hopes by a compromise to obtain seaports at one or both of these Inlets. In the controversy Eng land can Ice n thing she now pos esse) but hopes to gain valuable territory. r Apple Rust. Who that baa seen a elder press In Operation has not admired the deep,' rich, golden-red color that the juice of the apples assumes as It gathers In the receptacles? This characteristic hue of cider i almost as pleasing to the eye as the flavor of the fresh, sweet juice w to the sense of taste. It reminds one of the colors of the autumn land scapes amid which the apples bavs 1 ripened. But science says that cider I owes Its beautiful color to the fact I that it oxides or rusts. A French chemist has recently shown that the apple contains an oxidizing ferment, a kind of dlastose, which pro duces the brownish or reddish color of cider. The manner in which this sub stance produces oxidation can readily be observed by any one who cuts an apple open and leaves It exposed for a short time to the air. The cut surface gradually turns red, as the oxygen of the air unites with the Juice, or In a word, tha apple rusts. This rusting of an apple may also be brought about by simply bruising the fruit without breaking the skin. Everybody knows that apples that have fallen violently to the ground show red or rusty spots underneath the bruised rind. In this ease the oxygen Is derived from the air contained in the ducts or interstices among the tissues of the fruit, and it becomes active through the breaking of the cells that inclose the oxidizing ferment. If an apple is cooked before the skin Is broken its tissues do not oxidize when exposed to the air. This is explained on the supposition that the oxidizing properties of the ferment are destroyed by heat. But let the apple rust if It likes; the uncounted thou sands who look upon it as the king of fruits will never regard this favorite the less fondly for that And who knows how much of its delldousness in the mouth may be due to the very eleJ ment that causes It to oxidize when left wasting in the air? Presuming; Bea-Water, "Wat?r,. water, everywhere, nor aBJ flrop to" drink I" Is Coleridge's poetic phrasing of a cry that has come from the Hps of the victims of shipwreck ever since the first navigation of the sea. If the water of the ocean were drinkable, not only would an enormous outlay be spared to ship owners, but one of the greatest horrors of ship wreck would be abolished. Recently a new method has been discovered in Austria by which sea water can be j mide fit to drink. The water is forced I under pressure through a filter consist j lag of the trunk of a tree about fifteen J feet long. The water is driven length wise through the pores of the wood, and in three minutes, at the longest Issues from the end of the trunk in thir streams, and Is found to be free front salt and suitable for drinking. By "perfect confidence" a man means that his wife should not believe any tiling about him that is not creditable- OVER THE TAX ON BEARDS. thing to do, considering the circum stances. He had scarcely finished when there was an uproar from every side of the Senate chamber. All were talking at once, and Criapi, who was In the chair, found it extremely difficult to restore or der. The proposed measure was merci lessly ridiculed and its originator came in for some exceedingly cutting remarks. Finally Count Lanrensano in the heat of the debate became too personal to auif M. Casale. The Count, he said, ought not to be so touchy on this subject, see ing that it would not deprive him of any revenue. This created a great deal of laughter at the expense of the Count, whose ancestors are said to have wielded the razor for a living. The Count re torted upon Casale by Insinuating that he had never had the price of a ahave anyway. This was the last straw. The Count and hia disputant rushed at each other and M. Oasale banged the noble Duke in the nose. This was a signal for a general fight among the Italian states men, and Crispi sat powerless while the excitement lasted. The sergeant-at-arms finally restored peace. There is no tax on beards and the finances of the coun try are in tha same deplorable tjondttloa DEI. DR. TOLIDflfiL 01 me last quarter or a century, opiucmioi nenr, all to De un "er onn Government -very exceptional, and from the great revt-i n all Tree, and all Chrmtian. and the scene , . . vals of religion, and from the spreading of of Christ's personal reign on earth if. ancord- lUC eminent UlVineS blinday theouurehof Go l, and from the continent, lng to the expectation of man v good people. ' blossoming with asylums and reformatory H shall at last set up His throne in this SCnDOO. institutions, an from sn Ednnizatton which -orld. Who shall have this hemisphere. promises that this whole land ia to be a parsv Christ or satan? Who shall have the shore dise. where God shall walk. j of her Inland seas, the silver of her Nevada 1 I am encouraged more than I can tell yoni the gold of her Colorado, the telescopes of ..Mm, . .4 m w.l.. 1. , n 1 the regiments wheeling down the her observatories, the brain of her unlversi suoject . A Welcome U Congress." ,ky, and mv jeremiads turn Into doxologies,! ties, the wheat of her pra ries, the rice of her ani that which was the Good Friday of the" savannas, the two great ocean beaches the Ts;xt: "And the Lord opened the eyes 01 , jruuuit m m, 101 ns saw. ana, oenoia, the mountain was full of horses nd chariots ot fire round about Elisha." II Kings vi.. IT The American Congress is assembling. Arriving or already arrived are the repre sentatives 01 all sections of this beloved land. Let us welcome them with uravers and benediction. A nobler group of men never entered Washington than those who will to-morrow take their plaoes In the Sen- ate Chamber and tne Honse of Bepres-enta- tives. Whether they come alone or leave their families at the homestead far awav, may the blessing of th- Eternal God be upon them! We invite them to onr ehnrches .nil together thev in political spheres and we in religious circles will give the eoming months to consideration ot the best interests of this country whloh God has blessed so much in the past that I purpose to show yon and show them, so far as I mav now reach their ear or to-morrow their eye through the printing press, that God will be with them to help them as in the text He filled the moun tains with belo for Elisha. As It cost England manv regiments and S3 nno nnn mu to keen ufei tmnhie. some captive at St. Helena, so the king of Syria sends out a whole army to capture one minister of religion perhaps 50,000 men to take Elisha. During the night the army of Syrians came around the village of Dothan, where the prophet was staying. At early daybreak the man servant of Elisha rushed In and said: "What shall we do? There is a whole army come to destroy vou! We must die! We must die!" But Elisha was not scared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of super natural forces, and he knew that if there were 50,000 Syrians against him there were 100.000 angels for him and in answer to the prophet s prayer in behalf ot his affrighted man servant the young man saw .W it too. Horses or Ore harnessed to ohariots of fire. 1 A-t a in a bits of fire, and warriors of fire with brand- Ished swords of fire, and the brilliance of that morning sunrise was eolipsad by the galloping splendors of the celestial caval eade. "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man. anl he saw, and behold the mountain was full of hones and ohariots ot fire round about - Elisha." I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to fight on our side as a Nation. If all the low levels are filled with armed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains of our hope and courage and faith are full of the horses and chariots of divine rescue. You will notice that the divine equipage is always represented as a ohariot of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when they come to describe the divineequl page, always represent It aa a wheeled, a harnessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a char iot like kings and conquerors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed tire. Thit means purity. Justice, chastise ment, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? Tes, but a ohariot of fire. All our National dlsenthrallments have been through soorching agonies and red disasters. Through tribulation the individual rises. Through tribulation Nations rise. Chariots of rescue, but ohiriots of fire. But ho w do I know that this divine equipage is on the side of our Institutions? I know it by the history of the last 119 years. The American Revolu tion started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence Hall la '776. Theoolonies, without ships, without ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side, the mightiest Nation of the earth, the larg est armies, the grandest navies and the most distinguished commanders, and re sources inexhaustible, and nearly all Na tions ready to back them up in the fight Nothing, as against immensity. The cause of the American colonies, which started at zero, dropped still lower through the quarrelling of the generals, and through the jealousies at small successes, and through the winters which surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of oongeah ment. Elisha surrounded by the whole Syrian army did not seem to "be worse off .L. ui.L. ili 1 1 2 thai did the thirteen colonies encompassed and overshadowed by foreign assault. What, decided the contest in our favor? The upper forces, the upper armies. The Green and White Mountains of New England, the Highlands along the Hudson, the mountains of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full of re-enforoements, whloh the young man Washington saw by faith, and his men endured the frozen feet, ani the gangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, and the long maroh because "tht Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. and, behold, the mountain was full of horses Aid chariots of Ore round about Elisha" Washington himself was a miracle. What Joshua was in sacred history the first American President was in sec alar history. A thousand other men excelled him In different things, but he exeelled them all In roundness and completeness 01 oharaoter. The world never saw his like, and probably never will see his like again, because there probably never will be another such ex igency. He was let down a divine inter position. He was from God direct. I do not know how many can read th history of those times without admitting the eontest was decided by the upper foroea. Then In 1861. when our Olvtl War ooenad. many at the North and at the Sooth pro nounoea it national sulci ae. it was not courage against oowardioo, tt was not wealth against poverty, tt was not large State against small states, it was heroism against heroism, it was the resouroes of many gen erations against the resouroes of generations, it was the prayer of the North Against tht grayer of the South, it was one-half ot th atlon in armed wrath meeting the other half of the Nation in armed indignation. What could oome but extenuation? At the opening of the war the eommander-ln-ohlef of the United States forces was a man who had been great In battle, but old age had oome, with many infirmities, and h had a right to quietude. He eould not mount a horse, and he rode on the battle field in a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of tat four years ot the oontest on the Southern side, was a man in midlife, who had in his veins the blood of many generations ol warriors, himself one of the heroes ol Ohurubusco and Gerro Gordo, Oontreras and Chapultepea. As the years passed on and the scroll of oarnage unrolled there earns out from both sides a heroism, and a strength, and a determination that the world had never seen marshaled. And what but ex termination eould oome when Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rods in from North and South, and Grant and Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? let, we are a Nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly oourage did not decide th oonfliot The upper foroea of the text they tell us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout Mountain, but there was j something higher than that. Aoia. the horses and ohariots of God came to the rescue of this Nation in 1878, at the close of a Presidential election famous Christian religion is coming to take pos forferooity. A darker cloud yet settled dows session of every ballot box, of every sohool upon this Nation. The result of the election house, of every home, of every valley, of 1. ,M mninrinn nn vrry mountain, of every acre of our Nation- ' twoorthreeseotlons,butrevoluaoaineveni town and village and olty ot tne United 1 ! States seemed Imminent. The nrosDeet was t that New Tork would throttle New fork, an4 I New Orleans would grin New Orleans, an4 ' Boston. Boston, and Savannah. Savannah. and Washington. Washington. Some sal 4 ; mr- T,i 1 .1 1 . l. , Jt r t. All 1UUH WHOimW, WUOIO BOIU JU, ABV was elected, and how near we same to unl venal massacre some of us guessed, but Go4 only knew. I ascribe onr escape not to thl honesty and righteousness of Infuriated poll 1 tialans, but I asorlbe it to the upper fores) . ot the text. Ohariots of mercy rolled la, ani 1 though the wheels wet not heard and Vat . tljtsh m n ni ammi vaS All Shtvwiirlt rltA mnnvfc. ta ns of tha North. And the Month mil tha East, and the West, though the hoofs did not ! clutter, the cavalry ot God galloped by. I tell vou God is the friend of this Nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lto4 coin, when there was proepeot that greater) Rlausrhter would open upoa this Nation, God) hushed the tempest. Ia the awful exalte meat at the time, of fliTjliril' mmg-,"i flod put His foot on the neck of tbecyolona.! ro prove uod is on tbe side or tuts Nation a argue from the last eight or nine great Na- tional harvests, and from the National health mnm ot ts resurrection. nations crucifixion woomw me mibi- Of Course Godl works through human instrumentalities, and1 this National betterment is to some among ether things through a scrutinized ballot ; population vast bevond all human compnta box. By the law of registration it is almost; tion? Whoshall have the hemisphere? Yoa impossiDie now to nave megai voting, xnera, was a time you and I remember it very. well when droves of vagabond wandered; P n'1 nown on Election Bay, ana rrom, poll to poll, voted here, and voted there,: lal t,v everywhere, and thetv waa no challenge, or It there were; tt amounted to nothing, because, nothing eould so suddenly be proved uponi lhn vagabonds. Now, in every well OH itanized neighborhood, every voter isi wa'ohed with severest scrutiny. If I am in region where I am allowed a vote, I must tell the registrar mv name, and how old I am, and how long I have resided in the! state, and how long I have resided in the ward or the township, and if I misrepre sent fifty witnesses will rise and shut me out from theballot box. Is not that a great ad vance? And then notice the law that pro-' mints a man voting 11 ne nas Det on tne eieo- lton- A "P farther needs to be taken and :hat man foroldden a vote who has offered 3r taken a bribe, whether It be in the shape at a free drink, or cash paid down. the. mspioious eases obliged to puttheir hand on the Bible and swear their vote in If they! vote at all. 80, through the sacred chest ot. ur Nation's suffrage, redemption will come.! God will save this Nation through an! troused moral sentiment. There has never teen so much discussion of morals and Im norals. Men, whether or not they aoknowl sdge what is right, have to think what is. right. We have men who have had their, aands In the publio treasury the most of) their lifetime, stealing all they eould lay; their hands on, discoursing eloquently about' 1 lishonesty in publio servants, and men withj IW0 or tnree lamiiies 01 tneir own preacning loquently about the beauties of the seventh ; 1 commandment- The ones tion of sobriety! I nd drunkenness is thrust in the face of thlsl . nation as never oeiore ana rates a pun in aur political contests. The question of Na-. Houal sobriety is going so be respectfully and leferentlally hear ! at the bar of every Legis lature, and every House of Representatives,, ind every State Senate, and an omnipotent ; roioe will ring down the sky and across this' land and back again, saying to these rising tides of drunkeness which threaten to whelm home and church and Nation, "Thus far shalt thou some, but no farther, and here lhall thy proud waves be staid." I have not in rty mind a shadow of dls beartment as large as the shadow of a house Jy's wing. My faith is in the upper forces,! the upper armies of the text. God is noc lead. The chariots are not unwheeled. It rou would only pray more and wash your ?yes in the cool, bright water fresh from the veil of Christian reform, it would be said of yon, as of this one of the text, "The Lord' pened the eyes of the young man, and he law, and, behold, the mountain was full of; tiorses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." ' When the army of Antigonus went into bat tle, his soldiers were very much discour&ged, tnd they rushed up to the general and S lid !o him, "Don't you see we have a few forces snd they have so many?" And the sol tiera were affrighted atthe sma'lness of thelrnum ber and the greatness of the enemy. Anti ronus, their commander, straightened him elf up and said, with in llgnation and vehe nence, "How many do you reckon me to De?" And when we see the vast armies ar-i rayed against the cause of sobriety it nay sometimes be very discouraging, but I ssk you in making up your estimate of the tor -es of righteousness I ask you how many io you reckon the Lord God Almighty to be? He is our commander. The Lord of Hosts is Sis name. I have the best authority for say ing that the ohariots of God are 20,000, and the mountains are full of them. Have yon any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this country great manufactories manufactories ot lies I and the7 daT and n?ht- and they ' tnrn ont half a dozen A dav All emnnned And turn out half a dozen a day. all equipped and realy for full sailing. Large lies and small ilea. Lies private and lies public and lies prurient. Aiies cut 01 us ana lies cut diag onal. Long llmbe 1 lies and lies with double back action. Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe snd lies that all the peonle be;ieve, anil lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like' samels, ana scales like crocodiles, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as an an telope's, and stings like alders. Liies raw and scalloped and panned and steweX Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring Ilea, Lies with attachment screws and ruf flnrs and braiders and ready wonnd bob bins. Lies by Christian people who never lie exoept during elections, and lies by peo ple who always lie, but beat themselves in a Presidential campaign. I oonfess I am ashamed to have a foreign er visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand dazed, his hand on his pooketbook, and dare not go out nights. What will the hundreds of thousands of for eigners who oome here to live think of us? What a disgust they must have for the land if their adoption. The only good thing ibout it is many ot them cannot understand the Eng!ish language. But I suppose the terman and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and pe idle out the in fernal stuff to the subscribers. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop ;ueh a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The bil t'.ngsgate and low scandal through which we wa ie every year or every four years must rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great mountains from the one mountain intoning the commanl, "Thou 3 ialt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," an l from the other mount ma! iaf plea for kindness and blessing rather th in curbing. Tes, we are going to have a Nitional religion. There are two kinds ot Xntional religion. The one is supported by the State, and is a matter of human politics, an I it has great patronage, and under It men aril I struggle for prominence without refer itn -e to qualifications, and its archbishop is supported by a salary of f 75,000 a year, and there are great cathedrals, with all the ma chinery of music and canonicals, and room for a thousand people, yet an audience of tlfty people, or twenty people, or ten or two. We want no suoh religion as that, no such Sat tonal religion, but we want this kind of National religion the vast majority of the people converted and evangelized and then th-y will manage the secular as well as the religious. 1) you say that this is impracticable? No. The time is coming just as certainly as there is a God, and that this is His book and that ife has the strength and the honesty to fulfill His promises. One of the ancient emperors use! to pride himself on performing that which his counselors said was impossible, and I have to tell you to-day that man's im possibles are God's easies. "Hath He said, and shall He not do it? Hath He command ed, and will He not bring it to pass?" The Jom'D- Jhi" Nation, notwithstanding " u" ' xnat are trying to ae. going 10 live. Never since, according to John Milton, when "satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down." have the powers of dark ness been so determined to win this conti nent as now. What a jewel it is a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic Ooean. dividing us from the wornout Governments of Eu rope. On the other side the Pad no Ocean, dividing ns from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic Sea, which is the gymnasium in whloh the explorers and 1 navigators develop their con rase. A oontl. Dent 10,500 miles long, 17,000,000 square miles, and all of It but one-seventh capable at rich eulHvation. One hundred millions of population on this continent of North and South America 100,000.000, and room for njany hondrid millions more. All flora and all fauna, all metals and all precious woods, i mOa aaAaUsUa. ' i(Mi1finrflfl r 1 1 1 VV I SrT'fX "1 ganglia carrying lifo all through and out to the extremities, isthmus of Darloo. the narrow waist of a giant oontl- , one reaching from Kifflna JMV to Terra del 'Pnnim .nd the other from Rarino- Rtrlt trt Cane Horn ami all the moral and temporal nii niritnal .nil everlasting interests nt anrt 1 will decide that, or help to decide it. by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian institutions, by support of great philanthropies, by putting body, mind and soul on the right side of all moral, religious and National movements. Ah, it will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes of this con'inent, so Tar as earthly comfort is concerned. All we srill want of it will be seven feet by three, snd that will take in the largest, and thern will be room and to spare. That is all of this country we will need very soon the youngest of us all. But we have an anxiety sbout the welfare and the happiness of the generations that are coming on. and it will Ma grand thing if. when the archangel's trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulchre, like the one Joseph of A rim nth Ha provided tor Christ, is in the midst of a irarden. One of the seven wonders of the world was :he white marble watch tower of pharos of Erypt. Sostratus, the architect and sculp tor, after building that watch tower, cut his same on tt. Then he covered it with plaster, snd to please the king he put the monarch's same on the outside of the pla-tering, and :he storms heat and the seas dashed in their !ury, and they washed off the p'a-sterinir. and they washed it out, and t bey washed it down, ut the name of Sostratus was deep cut in the Imperishable rock. Sr, ai-ross the face f this Nation there have been a great many aames written, across onr finances, across ur religions, names worthy of remembrance, lames written on the architecture of our churches, and our schools, and our asylums, ind our homesof mercy, but Ooil Uthe archi tect of this continent, and He was the sculp tor of all its gramieurs, and long after through the wash of the ages and the temp ssts of centuries -ill other names shall be bliterated the divine signature and divine same will be brighter and brighter as the millenniums go by, an I the world shall see that the God wh male this continent has redeemed It by His grace from all its sor rows and from all its crimes. Have you faith in suoh a thing as that After all the chariots have been unwheeled, snd after all the war chariots have been trippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on the morning of his peril will roll on in tri amph, followed by all the armies of heaven jnwnite horses. God could do it without as, but He will not. The weakest of us. the faintest of us, th" sma lest brained of as, shall have a part in the triumph. We may not have our name, like the name of Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and eon- ipiouous for centuries, but we shall be re- meiTiOerel in a better place than that, even !n the heart of Him who came to redeem as and redeem the world, and our names will be seen close to the signature of His wound, for, as to-lay He throws out His srins to us. He sny, Ilholdt I have rravenfhee on the palms of My hand." By the mightiest of all aen-ies, the potency of orayer, I beg you seek our National wel fare. Home time ago there w re 4,600,000 letters In the dead letter pMtoflVe iu this city let ters that had lost their wav but not one prayer ever directed to the heart of Go I mis Sarried. The wiv is all el ir fur the ascent Jf your supplications heavenward in behalf I this .N itlon. Before the potal communis sation was so easy, and long ago on a rook 100 feet high on the coast of England there was barrel fastened to a post, and in great letters on the side of the rock, so it could be leen far out to sea, were tha words "Post sfflce," and when ships came by a ioat put out to take and fetch let ters. And so sacred were thoee de posits or affection in that barrel that no look ras ever put upon that barrel, although it lontalned messages for America and Eu rope and Asia and Africa an l all the islands Sf the sea. Many a storm tossed sailor, iomesick, got messages of kindness by that rock, and many a homestead heard good lews from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights of our National prosperity were !n interchange of symoat hies prayers go tngup meeting blessings coming down, pos tal celestial, not by a storm struck rock on 1 wintry coast, but by the Rook of Ages. BELIEVES HE IS A VAMPIRE. OaTlaeinatiana of a, South Dakota Mats Who Kills Cattle for Their Blood. The oattle men on the ranges west ot Pierre, South Dakota, tell a ghastly story of s madman who for some time baa eea roaming over the reservation, killing cattle with his naked hau ls to suet their blood, snd in some cases even attacking men. tfo one seems to know who the man is nor exactly how long he has been wandering sbout the ranges. He was first seen some (our or five weeks ago, and repeated at tempts have been made to capture him. but thus far without success. He is said to labor ander the hallucination that he ts a vampire, snd his actions certainly bear out this hy pothesis. How he manages, without a wea pon ot any kind, to kill the oattle on which he lives is a mystery. When found after he has left them the animals appear to have been seized by the heals, borne to the ground, by main strength and torn to pieces by the teeth snd nails ot the lunatic. A HERO BROUCHT HOME, His Reward for Saving the Lives of Others Proved His Own Death. The east-bound passenger train on the Pennsylvania Kaliroa 1 made an unusual stop two miles west of Delphos, Ohio. Just a year ago a young fnnner named Edward Carnahan was going home from Delphos. It was a dark night and Carnahan stumbled and fell over a broken rail. He secured a lantern and watched until the next train was due and succeeded in nagging it. The com pany waa grateful to the young man and offered bim a position. He thought he would like to become an engineer :ud with thU ia view the company made him a It reman. At Monroeville. lud.. he was thrown beneath the wheels and killed, and the stop just west of Delphos was to put oft the life less remains of the young rniiu, who a short year ago had saved a number of lived at the same spot. The Conquering Japs. Japanese manufacturers are reaching after the markets of the Unite J States. We enjoy ourselves only in onr work in our doing: and our best doing is our best enjoyment. Better a mundane steed well in hai- nees than Pegasus among tje clouds. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. To De innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous, ia to overcome our evil feelings and intentions. There is nothing that a man can less afford to leave at home than his con science or his good habits. Miss Lucretia Estes, Rckland Me., is 100 and threads her own needle without specs. What thou wilt thou shalt rather enforce with thy smile tu in hew it with thy sword. He deserves small trust who privy counselor to himself. is not You can't weld selfishness; a firo hot enough to fuse it consumes it. There it no time in life when books do not influence a man. An oppressor is one of the hob nails ia Saa tan's shoes. - - i
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