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THE OON8TITUTION-THE DNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWR.
VOL. XLIX
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1895.
NO. 52.
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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.
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