ff '; " BOHWEIER, THE OONHTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Kditer am Propr VOL. L. MIFFLINTOW1N, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1896. NO. G. V rv -t : irwrm3 -would CHAPTEIi XXV Continued.) After his Inst opeech Colonel Prinsefl had addressed himself to Mrs. Knox; but . I tion to what she was saying, he heard every word that passed in the window corner to which Jaue had returned. "Promise me," Jack Blount was saying, eagerly "promise me that you will wear the flowers I send you." "Miss Knox won't promise that, I'm t sure, cried alcntine Graeme, boyishly r impulsive. i . "Why not?" asked Blount, with a eon- ccited smile. V "Because I have sent her some already . and and it would not be fair!" "Favors don't go by roster!" contempt- ffi nouely. .. ' Jaue smiled, but would not commit her- J self t an opinion. 5 "How do you generally decide whiebj J bouquet you will take?" asked Barry i Larron lounging up to them, his dark j face expressive of mingled amusement : and admiration. S "I take the prettiest," answered Jane. - "Don't you think thnt is as good a way as any out of the ditliculty?" "And if they are equal in their merits?" "Thfrn I i-lioose tli one that best matches my dress." ' "Scarlet and white go with anything!": exclaimed Val Graeme, eagerly. Just then Mrs. Knox culled to him to T corroborate a statement, and as Barry ' Larron also turned away. Jack Blount leaned forward. L "I shall send you yellow roses," he said, Iln an pndertou, which, however, two people overheard. A thought Hashed across Colonel Friu- ( sep's mind that were he to send her a bouquet he would guarantee to please her taste. lie knew all her favorite scents mill flowets, and was also aware of the fancy she had for always by preference wearing white. Nor had Major Larron been less ob servant, and an idea struck him then that caused a sardonic smile to flit across his lips. Colonel Priusep rose to say "good-by," and the others followed his example, th. Adjutant and the A. D. C. staying a mo ment to wrangle about the number of dances each was t- receive. When this Was settled to the satisfaction of neithee the Hon. Barry Larron put in his claim. CHAPTER XXVI. When thrir visitors were gone, Mrs. Knox sunk down upon a chair, amy fanned herself vigorously. "What could have made him come?" she sighed out at length, and though no name was mentioned, Jane did not pre tend to doubt as to whom the pronoun re ferred. . "Perhaps it was what he said a sens, of duty," she answered, quietly. Yet, though outwardly calm, a gleam In her hazel eyes told of inward excitement, and her fingers were fidgeting nervously with the silver buckle of ber belt. She wondered whether he had noticed Mr. Blount's attention, and whether it ware in her power to Inflict a pang upon him by encouraging the same. She felt .hurt and sore, capable of doing or say " Ing anything that would move his im penetrable calm. It was so humiliating to know that she loved him still, and snust love him always, while he had for gotten quite. She bad gone into the veranda to grow cool, and so be alone, wandering round to the other side of the house, out of sight of the drawing-room windows. Presently the sound of her own name mote her ear, and turning, she saw Ser geant Lynn standing in the shadow of Bear clump of trees. "I want to speak to you," he said. In a low voice. For a moment she hesitated and shrunk back. The man was looking white and haggard, and she did not feel equal to the violent scene which his whole appear ance and manner portended. "Ton are afraid of me," he remarked, arith bitterness. This decided her. Her father's Teral hat lay on the chair, and snatching it up, he crashed it on her bright hair and ran quickly down the steps to join him. "I did not know that you were back." "We only marched in this morning, and directly I could get away I came kere. I have been waiting more than inree nours uu mo vunuw Why did yon not come to the house?" "With the Colonel, and the Adjutant ad Major Larron, salaming all the tim. like a native, to show you the great dlf r ference there is between them and me?" scornfully. "Jacob, Jacob, do not talk so wildly!" "I speak as I have felt. Surely that eed not shock yon. Though yon are as far above me as the angels, yon might pity. Instead of shrinking from me. Re Member, what I am yon have made me." "You have no right," she faltered, look ing op at him with terror-stricken eyes. "No. I have no right. Of that your father, rightly or wrongly I don't pre tend to Judge deprived me, yet I never thought that yon would have stooped to shield yourself behind his authority." "Nor did I. I know nothing of his in tentions. Jacob, yon talk of pity, yet too have no pity for me. Knowing how I tried to be true, you need not reproach me so." ! "It was the Colonel. If he had not come, yon would have been my wife "You have told me that so often, 1 wonder I do not give you hate for hate. Ion have been my evil genius. Had It aot been for you I might be my own self, Instead of the miserable drunkard that 1 am " "let, for your own sake, Jacob, If not for mine, yon might have striven against inch a terrible nabit- Father told me tnat you had promised to refrain, I was hoping ' "Hope nothing, Jenny; it ! too late for that now, whatever It might have been then. I tried at first; for a whole month I did not let a drop pass my lips; then I grew gloomy and dispirited. I knew I was only following a will-o'-the-wisp, that I had no real chance of winning you, try a I might to be steady and sober. If you would promise me something def- ute, perneps- I don't mean to marry yon 7 'ana you promise that if I asked you?" They had stopped beneath the freest .nd tTlM aiinlLb.. 'II -..J -I . . . B1UIIU1K UUUUKO me branches, lighted op the gay uniform of iue nussar, and tell upon his good-looking face as he stood waiting for hr to ieuK. "Oh, no, no!" she murmured, and hio ber face in her hands. But he drew thorn gently down, look ing sadly into her ee. "Don't be afraid, little Jenny. I was not going to ask that I know I am aot worthy of you, that it would only be dragging you down with me. Nothing now can save me from a drunkard's end." The tears were streaming down her pretty face and her figure swayed rest lessly to and fro in her agitation, for was not this all her doing, her fault? " "Oh, Jacob, let me help you let me do something to atone!" "My pretty one, your sympathy does aie more good than you can know. On euy soul I will try to amend if only to spare you grief. And, Jenny, promise me something, too promise me that you will not marry until " ; "Then so long as you wish me not to marry I will not," she substituted, meek ly; and lifted her eyes to him so full of tendered compassion that, looking into them, he could not but believe she would hold to what she said, even though his doubts might return when removed from her presence. "Tell me you forgive me," she whis pered, as she turned to go. "I do forgive you; and, Jenny, think of me, too, as kindly as you can." He grasped her hands so tightly that he nearly cried out. Hia eyes were fixed open her intently, as though wishing to keep her always so in mind beautiful in her womanly sorrow, and thinking only of him. For moment he stood so, then with a deep sigh released her, and strode away, his head raised defiantly, and cutting at the heads of the tall grasses with his whip as he went. When she went in she met her mother in the hall. "Jenny, there are some flowers come for you. Those young men spoil you, that'a a fact." "Ton know it pleases you far more than It does me," she said, smiling. - "I believe it does. You take it so quick ly that one might think you had been ac customed to it all your life. Why, child, you have been crying what about?" bringing her keen eyes to bear upon her daughter's tear-stained face. "It's not about the Colonel ?" she added, quickly. "Xo, no. Is it likely, when he cares so little for me?" lifting her head proudly. "Perhaps for that very reason," thought Mrs. Knox, shrewdly; but she would not vex Jane by saying so'aloud. "Come and see your flowers." she said, instead; "and don't cry any more, Jeany, or I shall be disappointed of seeing my daughter the acknowledged beauty of the ball. Re member, I have never participated in any of your triumphs yet." - "Then I will look my best for your sake; but" looking down indifferently at the creamy blossoms lying in their bed of green "you must have these roses, mother; they will enliven your black dress, and I shall wear those Mr. Graeme sent me." And in spite of all remonstrances she tarried her point, and Jack Blount's yel low roses, which he had taken so mnch trouble to beg, buy and steal from differ ent places in the station, instead of mak ing lovelier still the lovely face and fig ure for which they were intended, adorned the cheap black Bilk lac cap of Mrs. Knox. But after all Jane never wore Valentine Graeme's flowers. .Just as she had gone to her room to dress, the ayah came in carrying a large basket. Jane drew away the ferns that lay across the top, and discovered a bouquet beautifully arranged, with some flowers lying loose for her gown and hair. They were all white, with only delicate maiden hair ferns and their own leaves to lead a tinge of color. Whence they had come remained a mys tery. The man who had brought them had left at once, only saying that they were for the "Miss Sahib," and as he was a coolie and not a liveried servant It was impossible to guess by whom they had been sent. Mrs. Knoz was called In to give he views on the subject, but could throw net light upon It, and the quartermaster proved equally bad at guessing. "Father," asked Jane, abruptly, "have you heard anything of Jacob Lynn?" "He came in to-day with the rest of the men from the Hill depot The change of air has not done much for him; he was looking wretchedly bad, I thought." "Does does he drink still T" The quartermaster looked grave. He had had hopes of him at first; but latter ly, for he had made a point of inquiring, the accounts were very bad. "I am afraid it la all np with him!" he aid. at last. "He has been reduced to a private, you know, since he left AUpore, and now, having less to lose, will grew reckless, I fear." - "Can't we do anything for him? Don't you think if we had him here" "Herel" cried the quartermaster, en raged at the idea. "If I catch him here, I'll break every bone in hia body. What business had he to go courting yon when he knew he was no fit husband for any airL For the matter of that, I onght to Lave knows it myself, He cornea of a bad breed, and he had got Into bad habits long before I suspected anything. As Is always the case, the'we most interested is last to hear the ncWa." The subject was dropped and Jane was left at leisure to pursue other and more pleasurable thoughts. In her own mind she had decided that the lovely flowers which had come last and were exactly what she herself would' have chosen could have come from none other thaa Stephen Prinsep. CHAPTER XXVII. The mess-house of the th Hussars was a very large one. and peculiarly fitted for occasions like the present, not only were the rooms wide and lofty, but they were well shaped, as welL and cons quently easily decorated. Tim had already begun the program DL. mm. In ahvlv behind her father and another, but hold - ina- her bouquet produly la her band, as She was wondering whether Colonel Prin sep would ask her to dance, j She heard his voice speaking to her mother. As host he had come, forward immediately to meet them, and now took . Jane's hand for a moment in his own. I "You are late. Mis. Knox," he said; , and the formality of his address sent cniu to tne gin s nearr. At this moment Mr. Blount came np. "Miss Knox, I thought you were never coming. One of our dances is already finished : and, oh, why didn't you wear my flowers?" She glanced at Stephen Prinsep to see if be looked conscious; but he was talk ing to her mother again, and apparently paying no attention to herself. "I only promised to wear the prettiest, if you remember," she answered to Jack Blount. "I would have sent you white flowers, if I had known you liked them best; all white roses." ' "I am very glad yon did not," she ejac ulated, sharply. I This time the Colonel heard, and turn. "ng suddenly, their eyes met. His were m KJ J . 1 . i MyimiuB atuiu.l gry, she thought; or was it only pained? tier glance, nrst ead and shy, grew "wild with all regret" as the memories of those days which were no more passed swiftly through her mind. She moved toward Jack Blount. . "Don't let ua lose this dance, too," she said, hastily, and the next moment was whirled among the dancers. Other guests arrived, and Colonel Prin sep had social duties. to perform; but he found time ever-and anon to notice Jane as she flitted past with her different part ners. By and by he allowed himself a dance with Diana Knollys, more because she was an exceptionally good dancer than from any memory of their old acquaint anceship. "My only dance that has not been a duty one," he told her with his pleased smile. " "Ttasn I must feel flattered." "Xo, don't Air that, or you will make me vain beyond endurance. Tell me in stead how you like Alipore now that you know it better." "You forget that I have been away from it as long as you. We went to Simla for the hot weather. I did like that, but there I knew so many people. Here I have scarcely any friends. Mis Knox Is nearly my only one." "You like her? Don't you remember I told you that you would?" ."And of course prejudiced me against her. Women never like each other to order, you know. But I do like her now very much." Just then Jane passed. Jack Blount was with her, his ugly conceited little face beaming, and exerting himself to the utmost to make himself agreeable, evi dently not failing in his endeavor if Jane's rippling laughter were to be be lieved. "I wish she would not encourage him so," said Miss Knollys, uneasily. "Why, don't yon think him nice?" "I think him detestable: but then I am nearly alone in my opinion. lie was im mensely popular at Simla, and indeed everywhere women seemed to like him." "Then why should you hold aloof?" Diana Knollys smiled archly. "They say," she said, in careless tones, "he has come here especially to propoM to Jane Knox, and should she refuse him " "Do you think she will?" broke in Col onel Prinsep. "How can I tell? I hope she will, al though in that case I prophesy for her what the French call a bad quarter of an hour.' " He laughed in reply; but some twenty minutes later, her words came back to him, when he saw Jane go Into the veran da with Jack Blount, and after the next dance had begun they were both absent stilL An uneasy feeling prompted him to follow them. (To be continued.) Faithfulness. At the Greyfrlars' churchyard, in Edinburgh, Scotland, there stands a beautiful monument erected in memory of a dog. The statue of the dog on top of It coat over 12,000, and thla la the story: A poor man died and was burled there. Ha was followed to hia grave by bis dog. When the other mourners went home the dog remained and lay down on hia master's grave. The sex ton drove him away, because dogs are not allowed there. Next morning the sexton found him on the grave again, and again drove him off. The second morning he found him on the gray again, and again drove him off. The third morning was a very cold one, and the sexton found the dog again lying on bis master's grave, shivering with the cold. His heart relented; he fed the dog. Presently the lord mayor of the city heard about It and sent the dog a collar, and a man that kept a restaurant near by fed him every day. I don't know what provision they made for kennel, but during ten or twelve years, until be died, be made his home In that graveyard, and much of the time lay on his master's (rave; and now they have built that beautiful monument to tell future ages of the fidelity of that poor man's dog. His Position Filled, A class of students, holding a grudge against one of the professors, tied a live goose to bis chair. Upon entering the room the professor saw the goose, and, calmly walking up to the desk, address ed the class as follows: "Gentlemen, as you nave succeeded In getting an Instructor so mudi better qualified to direct the bent of your Ideas, I beg you will pardon me for re signing; the chair." A Pbiiaaeipnia merchant says that be employs women as clerks because in certain lines they are more efficient than men and will work cheaper. LlephanU . frequently live 120 tears. Tbe first fossil insect ever found in the southern coal field of Pennsylvan ia, according to naturalist W. Victor Lehman, ofTremont, Penn., was sent by him to tbe Smithsonian luelit jte. Susan B. Anthony emphatically de nies the report that she is to retire from pub'ic work. She is now seventy six years old and says that she enjoys excellent health. The latest magnetic invention is an improved compass, which baa been presented totha Sbahiada, ia which case tbe needle points to tbe Eastern abode, Mecca, in preference to the North, in order that His Highness may ascertain tbe exact position for prayer. The earthworm propels himself along the ground or through tbe earth by means of bristles projecting from luflk tni At tit, Iwvttf 1 Li,atenant Peary says the Eskimo .i 3 . .-. CAN AM A CANAL, tu pendens Rilrivisanreind Iaeoaa pvtauce Are li.vit.eat. It appears that work on tbe Panami -anal is still in progress. CoL B. C tVlutersmith. United States consul at L'olou, lu Colombia, reports that a thou taud men are employed on the ercava Jone not a great distance from the yorX. of Panama. They are in the em ploy of tbe French Government and ivldently are merely occupying the rround. with a show of activity. In ot ter that French rights will not be for 'eited through abandonment. The general facta stated by Consul (Vintersmlth are of interest. He thinks that the canal can be completed by as sutlay of $100,000,000 under Improved uethods of construction such as art ipplled at the present time to canal nd railroad work. The entire survey id route of the canal, from ocean ti cean. Is forty-live miles. The canal las been actually completed over about ne-half of the distance, or, say, twen, 7-two miles. A great amount of work is been performed on other portion! f the route and the greatest dlfflcul les have been partially overcome. It appears that the De Lesscps syndi Jite expended nearly $-100,000,000 on this work, at lenst one-half of which was squandered uselessly or stolen out right. Some of tbe extravagant ex penditures are described In this n port Vast rows of substantially con itructed tenement houses were bulll tor the accommodation of laborers on Uie canaL As the work progressed a few miles these buildings were vacat ed and became worthless and new buildings were erected. Thrifty and considerate contractors would have provided portable boarding bouses and Da tracks that could have been removed !rom point to point along the line of onstruction. Costly residences for the governor. Md superintendents. Immense hospitals md other buildings were erected. A mansion costing $150,000 was erectef or De Lesseps snd another at a slmllai ;ost for his son. Tbe old man made a royage to Panama and stayed fuf days a the house prepared for his residence, then returning to Paris. Young Ds '.esseps never saw his mansion. As an instance of incompetency, it h mid that 1,000 casks of a certain kind )f iron spikes were needed for a part f tbe work. The overseer made a a-ooden pattern for the spikes, which ere to be of a large size, and the ordei was sent to Paris. After the usual time 1,000 casks containing wooden spikes exactly like the model, Instead ef Iron iplkes, wer received. More than B0C locomotives bought for the work are rusting away at various points. Othei machinery Is going to decay. 1 here Is to doubt that If modern ma :hlnery and methods, explosives of nigh power And energetic management, like that on the Chicago drainage canal, should b employed at Panama the in-ter-oceanle canal could be completed n tbe original plan within a couple ot fears. kTobably Consul Wlntersmlth't estimate of $100,000,000 the cost ot completing the work Is extravagant It might be accomplished for half thr noney or less. Dlft-fflns; for Gold. An old man entered a leading ham rare store In Washington yesterday and bought some blasting powder. H la white hair hung low upon his shoul ders, his beard dropped far down upon his breast He looked like a veritable Rip Van Winkle Just awakened from his slumbers. It is not often that he comes to town, and when he does he leaves as soon ss bla supplies are pur chased. Up In the mountains the old man has a cabin where be has lived alone for many years, raising barely enough to sustain bis existence. Foi half a century be has been digging gold, and from time to time enough has been found In a little stream near bis cabin to stimulate Ms search. But there has never been sufficient to pay for opening up a tunnel, and the old man has been digging one for fifty years. He work alone, for he Is f raid to confide his secret to any man. From morning until night he digs, and when a rock Is reached that has to b blasted he buys all the powder that the money be can raise will pay for. and when that is gone must wait until an ther crop can be raised to procure a new supply. The old prospector will not live to make many more trips to Washington, and It will probably never be known whether the washings of free (old he baa secured from the stream mme from a Tela In the mountain There be baa vainly spent hie life of lot. Washington Star. Killed a Deer with a Penknife. Such a thing as a hunter having a sand-to-hand encounter with a deer that he has wounded and has turned n him to fight for Its life is not un usual; but when a boy of only 1? years :atehe and kills a full-grown doe, with ao other assistance than his hands and i rusty old pocket knife, a new mark a made for stories of hunting adven- ure. ' ., Benjamin F. Stover is a well-to-rto jarpenter Uvlng In Aaronsburg and working wherever his services are de manded In that vicinity. His son, Clar ence, having reached his seventeenth roar, Is an apprentice to the trade of his rather. The two left home to' work on t Job they bad procured about a mile ind a half distant, and while walking along the road they were overtaken by a neighbor. As he was alone In bis bug U, be Invited the elder Stover to ride with him, the invitation being accept d and the boy left to complete hit ourney by himself. In order to shorten the walk for hia lf Clarence decided to take a near cut across seme fields, and bad Just started to climb the fence at the roadside when bis attention was attracted by light crunching hoof falls" on the frosty rround. On looking In the direction the uggy had taken, he was startled to see a full-grown dee trotting toward him. tt had evidently come out of the atrip f woods In which tbe two men bad een lost sight of. Crouching down In iie angle ot the old "worm- fence, the oy grasped a large atone and waited. In a moment the deer was directly ipposlte him, and then he raised and threw the stone with all his might It (truck the startled der In Of elds and IwaxJt ras able to follow Its tracks, and as they turned back In the direction be "as going he thought he would see the joint at which it entered the woods at least, Running along, with bis eyes m the ground, he reached the top of a lttle knoll in a larg field, and. In a mrsory way looked In all directions. Imagine his surprise to see the deer ly ing under a tree just a few rods be fond. With another stone be gave It a lecond pelt, xhls time be hit on the lead, and must have dased It, for It rprang to Its feet and ran directly to sard him. At this Juncture the boy grew despet ite, and Just as the deer sped by him ae threw himself at It and caught It by vne of Its hind legs. Both went down together and a fearful struggle ensued. Deer and boy rolled over and over .he marks of the combat were viewed by many people from the village later until finally he got his knee on ts neck and held it while he drew his old rusty penknife and cut Its throat Af ter It was dead he carried It back home on his shoulder, and Is now the iero of the town. Philadelphia Tele jraph. One Brass Band la China. There Is ouly one native band U China. It Is; In fact the only band of any kind In Northern China, except those of the foreign men-of-war, and It created n great sensation when Major ron Hanegan sent It to Pekln to piny In the "forbidden city," where the Em peror lives. Neither he nor-the Em press Downger, who is the power be hind the throne, and the moBt influen tial personage In China, or any other member of the court, had ever heard foreign music before. They were de lighted. The Empress Dowager was particularly pleased, and the director of the band told me that her favorite piece was "Marching Through Geor gia." So much waa she Impressed that Li Hung Chang, who was then in dis grace and trying to get back into ber favor, sent to Paris and bought her an orchestrion for 3,000 francs, making U s condition that It should be able to play this air. In connection with four teen other selections. The Instrument came shortly before I arrived In Pekln, and was put up at the palace by a Swiss merchant, through whom It wns purchased. -When It was in order be wound It up and sent for the Empress Downger. She came into the room with her ladies in waiting, took her. seat ivith great ceremony, and then Mr. Tel Ucu turned on the tunes. Tbe old laxly was paralyzed. They say that the Em press Dowager does very little else nowadays but listen to the orchestrion. She finds It a very welcome chang from the gongs and cymbals and tri angles and drums which the Chines! asu for musla Washington Post FIRST PERSON PLURAL. " CJitor Who Fear, tbe Ttm-Haore4 "Wo" Mtr Be Overruled. Some kind-hearted editor In New England has furnished a new example tt the misuse of the prerogative of edl xrs and kings. A lady correspondent irrote him, recommending raw pota es for asthma. She said she had tried rhem, eating one every evening Just efore she went to bed, and. In short, Oie effect was all that the most exact ing before-and-after photographer Muld require. So she recommended :hem to all the similarly afflicted read rs of the New England publication i foresaid, and asked the editor If he would not be good enough to try the remedy himself, so that he could speak with authority. Thla placed the editor In a rather un pleasant predicament He, however, rracefully avoided the difficulty by re plying editorially to this effect: "We have great confidence In this kind lady In regard to her own case and others cited, but our stomach Is a rath er delicate one, and our digestion even of cooked potatoes none of the beat" It Is auch curiosities of editorial Eng lish as this that threatens the ruin of the first person pluraL Already cer tain of our contemporaries which hare a fine taste for humor (notably Life and the Brooklyn Eagle) have started the fashion. We suspect that they have done so In order that they may have many Jokes at the expense of those newspapers which still say "we" on ill possible occasions. The Washington Post will not be long In following their lead. It refers often In its brisk, crisp paragraphs to such well-known phrases as "We have a new Methodist mlnlatet In our midst," and It will doubtless ball with glee the editorial utterance quot ed above. If the first person plural Is to stay omethlng must be done to convince editors at Urge that while their mental faculties belong in a sense to their read ers, and while on questions of public policy what "we" think and what "our" policy Is, and how a .certain proposal strikes "us," makes good reading, the first person plural does not extend to the editor's personality, and therefore that references to the editorial stomach should be strictly in the singular. Here Is a subject for the schools of "Journal Ism." Syracuse Post - - 'Whitest City la tbe World. . There cannot possibly be a whiter city than Cadiz; unless It be built of; mow. The best way to approach the port Is to take a trip In one of the small ateamers which ply between the ports of Morocco and Spain. As you near the coast yon see In front of yon a White mass, which appears to oe noaani upon the Water, Just aa yon are. Th first thought of a foreigner Is that he la In eight of an Iceberg. The white mast (littering In the sun, and rendered more dazzling by the blue sea and sky, looks exactly like a monster ice moun tain partly meited, so that the outline of the castles and hills appear upon It but only for a second does the illusion last for you know there are no iceberg! In that part and yon are quickly In formed that yon are looking at Oadls, Ma Attia. tnwn fn tha world nreaenta roch a magic appearance. Detroit Frer Press. Aa Admission. Rector Sir. Jones, I am sorry to ten ron that I saw your boy fishing las Sunday. Mr. Jones Confound the young rasv sail I thought tt waa strange I couldn't lad mr fishing sad, . Tsadosj , Tela "I nrrtrflfK. Mr. W. D. Howells' forthcoming nov A Is to be entitled "The Landlord of he Lion's Hearl." - It Is a story of Lmerlcan summer hotel life. Taqulsara" Is th e title of F. Marion Crawford's new story, a dramatic plc nre of Italian life and character. .The itory will run serially in the London lueen. A new edition of Robert Louis Ste venson's little book. "The Child's Gar ten of Verses," Is to be Issued, lllus 3ated by Charles Robinson, a youny tngliah artist The new edition of Byron's work, s to be Issued in ten handsome vol mies. The addition to tbe poems of :he letters of Byron was an excellent den on the part of the editor, W. E Henley. A timely book published is "The Cltj it tbe Sultans; or, Constantinople, the Sentinel of the Bosphorus," by Clara Srskine Clement, who contributed "The 3ueen of the Adriatic" and "Naples" W the Italian Cities Series. Edwin Lester Arnold, the son of Sir dwln Arnold, publishes "The Story 9f Clla. Etc." This Is not Mr. Ar nold's first essay in fiction; his "Phra the Phoenician" was a success a year or bo ago, and he has written other stories. "The Poor in the Great Cities'" bring ogetber the best experience in dealing with the problems of the poor. The authors contributing to tbe volume are Walter Besant. Oscar Craig, WNT. "El ling, Joseph Klrkland, J.-W. Mario, J. .. Uiis, E. R. Spearman, Wlllard Par lous, W. Tucker and Robert A. iWJuds. "Thewoik will be Illustrated, and will contain an appendix on tene ment house building by Ernest Flagg. The new "Cyclopedia Of Architecture n'ltaly, Greece, and the Levant," is an elaborate and exhaustive work. There are twelve full-page plates and over two hundred and fifty text illustra tions, also a glossary and a carefully edited bibliography. The work will be Issued in a handsome quarto, decorated parchment binding, uniform with-.the Cyclopedia of Painters and ralntlng" and "Cyclopedia of Music and Musi cians," the edition limited to five hun 4red copies for America and England. Bler Dog for His Pet. At the foot of the middle butte of tht Sweet Grass Hills in Montana lives a miner named Byron Banner. He is practically a recluse, seldom associat ing with any neighbors, or even talk ing to them. He works his claim all lone, and no one knows whether he if ich or poor. Like most recluses, he has his pet bu. Banner's pet Is so uncommon, even un natural, that it deserves to be put on record. This pet, says the Dupuyer axantha, is a badger-dog. The animal a small, and has the feet and legs of i badger, while the boc'y resembles a tog. lis claws have to be trimmed even few months, as they grow out of all proportion to the foot. When It walks t has the peculiar waddle of a badger, its bark is somewhat similar to that of the lapdog. It will bite savagely when teased, but Is otherwise perfectly do ile. A cross between a wolf or coyote an 1 dog Is not uncommon, nor It is so tiuch of a freak, since they belong to (he same family. But a croeb between liferent families, as the dog and bad rer, la something for naturalists and Tolutlonlsts to think about Without Reptile. One hundred frogs taken from th. jiarehes near Berlin have been import ed into Iceland, where these animals are unknown. Certain portions of the Island are infested by swarms of gnats and flies, and these frogs were import ed to do away with tbe plague. The In habitants near Lake Myvatn (meaning Mosquito water) must wear wire nets aver the face and hands to protect themselves from the painful stings of the gnats. A Danish physician. Dr. Elders, was the first to propose the Importation A frogs, since reptiles were absolutely unknown in Iceland. The entire batrachian colony was set free near a warm spring in the en virons of Reykjavik, where after the long confinement of the sea voyage they disappeared, quacking happily. It was Interesting to note how the native ducks drew away from the novel In truders, being evidently frightened at the unwanted apparition of a Jumpuv animal" that could swim. - England Has a Female Divert Gravesend, England, boasts a woman ilver. She first went down Instead of her husband, who was ill, some years ago, and tins she did with -suck suc cess and Intrepidity that ahe afterward fulfilled' many engagements Jointly with him,-assisting largely In the con struction' of ampler at the south coast watering place. She is not a woman Of great height but of considerable physique, and is not yet 40. She has made as much as f 7 In one day, and has chiefly worked near the mouth of the Thames. She confesses to no unusual fatigue, and one of her boasts Is thai near the Medway she brought up 7,00 In one day. Not Worthy a Wife. The missing bridegroom is getting numerous. The latest one's absence from the wedding ceremony Is said to have been due to uls excessive bash ful ness. A man who is too modest to at tend bis own wedding doesn't deserve a wife, and he isn't likely to get one.' Boston Herald. A new Invention has been designed to I . prevent cuiusiuua hi kb. ai b rcvni test the force from electro-magnetic tolls stationed on board a vessel suc cessfully Influenced a chemically pre pared compass stationed some six miles away, causing It te set up an Instants aeaua oesi of pells. The Eminent Divine's Sunday Sermon. ubjectt "Armenian Horrors. Tsxt: "Tkj escaped ioto the land of A menuu'"H Kings xix., 37. Ia Bibl. a-eoirraphv this Is the first rlm that Armenia appears, called then bv tht same nam. in now. Armenia is chiefly a tableland, 7009 feet above th. level of th sea. and on on a ot its peaks Noah's ark Inmied, with It human family and fauna that war. to fill th. earth. That rtxrlon wai the birthplace ot th. rivers which fertilized th. a-ardaa of E leu when Adam and Eve lived there, their only roof th. crystal skie sod their carpet the emerald of rich grass. Its inhabitants, the ethnologists tall u. are a superior type of the Caucasian race. Th jir religion la found, i on th. Bible. Their Saviour ia our O-iri-rt. Their ohm. is that they will not become followers ot Mohammed, that Jupiter of sen-tuality. To drive them from th. face of the earth is the ambition ol all Mohammeiaas. To accomp.ish this, murder is no crime, and wholesale mas sacre Is a matter of enthusiastle appro barton and Governmental reward. Th. prayer sanotionxii by hio-best Moham medaa authority and recited everv day throughout Turkey and Erypt, wide styling all those not Mohammedans ai infldels. is as follows: '-O Lord o all creatures! O Allah! Destroy th. intlde's an 4 palytheists. thine enemies, the enemies of the retlirien. O Allah, make their chiMren orphans and defile their bodies, eauw their feet to slip, kivi them and their families, their households anl their women, their children and their relatives by marriage, their brothers anl their frieads, their possessions and the rat, their wealth aud their lands as booty to the Moslems, O Lord of all creatures!" The life of an Armenian in the presence of those who make that prayer is ot no more value thai the life of a summer insecr. The Sultan of Turkey sits on a throne Im personating that brigandage and assassina tion. At this time ail civilized Nations ara in horror st theaitempts of that Moaomme daa Government to dnMrovsll the Christians of Armenia. 1 hear sometKKiy talking us though some new thing were happening, and that th. Turkish Government bad taken s new role of traely on the stage of Nations. No, no! Khe is at the same ui-i busiuces. Overlooking her diabolism of other centur ies, we come down to our century to And that la 182'i the Turkish Government slew 60,000 anti-Moslems, and in 150 she slew 10.000, and in 1830 she slew 11.000 and in 1876 she slew 10,00 J. Anythiag short of the slaughter of thousands of human beings does not put" enough red wine into her cup ol abomination to make ft worth quaffing. Noi Is this the only time she has promised re form. In the presence of i n. warships at the mouth of the Dardanelles she has prom ised the oivilized Nations of the earth that she would stop her butcheries and the inter ternational and hemispheric farce has been enacted of believing what she says, when all tbe past ought to persuade us that she is only pausing in her a'.rooities to put Na lions oft the track and then resuma the work ot death In 1820 Turkeyin treaty with Russia prom ised to alleviate the condition of Christians, but the promise was broken. In 149 the then Sultan promised protection of life and property without reference to n-tigion, and the promise was broken. In 1844, at the de mand of an Eng.ish minister plenipotentiary, mo nuitan aeciared after tn a putilto execu tion ot an Armenian at Constantinople that no such death penalty should again ix Inflicted, and the promise was broken. In 1850. at the demand of foreign Nations, tht l nrlci.su txovernmeut promise I protection tt Protestants, but to this day the Protestant! at Stain boul are not allowed "to build a church, although they have the funds ready, and cna wees l-rotestnnta, wno nave a church, are not permitted to worship in it. In 1856, after the Crimean War. Turkey prom ised that no one should be hindered lu tht exercise of tbe religion he professed, anc that promise has been broken. In 1474, at th. memorable treaty of Berlin. Turkej promised religious liberty to ll her subject! in every part of the Ottoman Empire, anc! tne promise was Droken. ot once in all tht centuries has the Tiirlcish. Government kepi her promise of mercy. So far from any im provement, the condition of the Armenian! has become worse and worse year by year, and all tbe promises the Turkish Govern ment now makes are only a gaining of tlmt by which she is making preparation for tht complete extermination of Christianity froar her borders. No wonder that the pby sicians of that re gion declared thit among all tne men and women that were down with wonnds and sickness and un-ler theircare not one wanted to gee well. Remember that nearly all the reports that have come to us of tbe Turkish outrages nave b?en m inipulated and modi- ned and soitened oy tne lurks themselves. 1 he story is not half told, or a hundredtt part told, or a thousandth part told. Nont but God and our suffering brothers and sis ters inthat.lar-nff land know the wholegtory and it will not be known until in thecorona tions of heaven Christ shall lift to a specia throne of Riory these heroes and heroines eayintr, "These are they who came out o great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in tbe blood of thi Lamb." My Lord and my God, Thot dirist oa the cross suffer for them, but Thou, surely, O Christ, wilt not forget how much they have suffered for Thee! 1 dare not deal in Imprecation, but 1 never so much enjoyed tn. Imprecatory songs ot David as since I have heard how those Turks retreating the Armenians. The fact is, Turkey has got to oe divided up among oth er Nations. Of course the European Nation: must take the chief part, but Turkey ought to be compelled to pay America for the American Mission buildings and Americar schoolhouses she has destroyed and to sup port the wives ana cauaren ot tne Atneri cans mined by this wholesale butchery. Wnen the English tion and the Russian beal put their paws on that Turkey, the America tagle onght to put in its bill. bo are these American and ngllsh and Scotch missionaries who are being hounded among tbe mountains of Armenia by tht Mohammedans? Tne noblest men aud wo men this side or heaven. Some of them men who took the highest honors at Tale and Pnnceton and Harvard and Oxford anc Edinburgh. Some of them women, gentle and most Chnstlike, who, to save peopit they never saw, turned their backs on luxu rious homes to spend their days in self-expatriation, sayiug goodby to father and mothei and a'terward goodby to their ova children as circumstances compelled them to send tht little ones to EngUnrt, Scotland or AmaricH. I have seen these foreign inlssionariet in their homes all around -the world and I stamp with indignatioi upon the literary blackguardism ot for eign correspondents who have deprecatec these heroes and heroines who are willing t live and ,lie for Christ's take. Tuey wil have the highest thrones in heaven, whilt their deiamers will not get near enough to the shining gates jo see tbe faintest glint o an' one of the twelve pearls which make u; the twelve gales. This defamation of missionaries is aug merited bv the iia-olute Englis i, Americai and Seotch merchants who go to ti.reigi cities, leaving their families behind them Tnose ilissolnte merchants in foreign ci-.ia leads life of Kuch gross immorals that tut pure households of the missionaries are i perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did be lieve in tifivep, and ir there is anything tha mebt-ha-'e hates it is the water lily. Wha the 550 merican missionaries have stifle-.et in the Otto men Ecnpire since 1320 1 1-to th archangel to announce on tbe day of judg meat. Von wilt see it reasonable that I pu so much emphasis on Americanism in th Ottumxn Empire wnen I tell you that Amer ica. hotwithstanding all the disadvantage) uaiaed, ha now over 27,000 students in ta; scn-ols in that Empire and S5.0 0 childre In her S-tbbatb-snboo!s, an't that Amsric has expended ia tba Turkish Empire for its betterment ever 10,600,000. Has not America . a right to be heard? Aye, It will b. heard! I am glad that great in dignation meetings are being held ail over this country. That poor, weak, cowardly Bultaa, whom I saw few years ago rid. to hJU jaosoue Jof .wqrjhlg, awdi Jy 7000 arm -vx men, many or tnem mounted on prancing chargers, will hear of these pvm- fiathoilo meetings for the Armenians, f not through American rep-n-ters, then through some of his SfiO wivm. What to do with him? There ought to be soma fit. Helena to which he could be exiled while the Nations of Europe appoint a ruler of their own to clean out and take possession, of the palaces of Constantinoole. T.i-nlirht this august assemblage In the capital of the United States. In the name of the God of Nations, Indicts th. Turkish Govenment for the wholesale assassination in Armenia nnd Invokes the interference of Almighty God and the protest of Eastern aad Westerr Hemispheres. But what is the duty of the hour? Sym pathy, deep, wide, tremendous, immediate! A religious paper, the Christian Herald, of New York, has led the way with munificent contributions collected from it sutMi-ribers. But the Turkish Government tt opposed to any relief ot th. Armenian sufferer, as I personally know. Last August, be'ore I bad any Idea of becoming a fellow citizen with von Washinctonians, SSQ.OjO for Armenian reUef was offerei me ft 1 would personally take that relief to Armenia. My passage was to be engaged on the City of P iris, but a telegram waa sent to Constantinoole asking if the Turkish Government would grant me protection on such an errand of mercy. A cablegram said tbe Turkish Govern ment wished to know to what points in Armenia I desired to go with that relief. Iu our reply four oities were named, on) of them the scene of what had been the chief massacre. A oablegram came from Constan tinople saving that I hid better send the money to the Turkish Government's mixed commission, and they would distributo it. So a oobweb of spiders propose I a relief sommitte. for unfortunate flies. Well, a man who would start no through the moun tains of Armenia with 5'1.0-30 and no Gov ernment protection would be guilty of monu mental foolhardiness. The Tjr iah Govern ment has in every possible way hiu !r? Armenian relief. Now where is that angel of m-rcy, Cnra Barton, who appeared on the battlefields of Freierioksburg, Antietam, Falmouth nml Cedar Mountain and under the blaze, ol French and German guns at Metz and P.irn and in Johnstown floods ami Charletown earthquake and Miahig in flres aud I'.u-I.iu famine? It was comparatively of little i-n-portanc that the German Emperor dec orate 1 her with the Iron Cross, lor Go 1 hath decorated her In tbe sight ot all Nations with a glory that neither time nor eternity can dim. Born In a Massachusetts village, she came in her girlhood to this cityto serve our Government in the patent office, but af terward went forth from the door of that patent office with a divine patent sigue 1 and sealed by God Himself to heal all the wounds she could touch and make the horrors ol the flood and fire and plague and hospital fly her presence. God bless Clara Bartou. Just as I expected, she lifts the banner ot the Bed Cross. Turkey aud all Nations are pledged to respect and defend that Bed Cross, although that color of cross does not, in the opinion ot many, stand for Chrisi Un ity. In my opinion it does stand for Chris tianity, for was not the cross under which most of us worship red with the blood of the Son of God, red witn the best blood that was ever shed, red with the blood pouring out for tha ransom of the world? Then lead ou oh, Bed Cross, and let Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish Government is bound to protect her, and the chariots of God are 20.000 and their charioteers are angels ot delivurauoe. and they would all ride down at once to roil over and trample under the hoofs ot their white horses any of ber asai ants. May the 1 500,000 she seeks be laid at her feet! Then may the ships that carry her across Atlantio and Mediterranean seas be guided safely by Him who trod into sapphire pavement beetormed Galilee. Upon soil in carnadined with martyrdom let the Hit cross os planted until every demolished vil lage shall be rebuilded and every pin? of hunger be fed and every wound of cruelty be healed aud Armenia stand with as much liberty to serve God in its own way & in this tbe best land of all the earth, we, the defendants of tbe Puritans and II illnn lers and Huguenots, are free to worship th Christ who came to set all Nations free. It has been said that If we go over thern to Interfere on another continent that will im ply th. right for other Nations to Interfere with affairs on this continent, anil so tbe Monroe doctrine be jeopardized. No, no! President Cleveland expressed the sentiment of every intelligent and patriotic American when he thundered from the White House a warning to all Nations that there is not one acre or one inch more of ground on this continent for any transatlantic Government to occupy. And by that doctrine we stand now and shall forever stand. But there Is a doctrine as muoh higher than the .Monroe doctrine as the heavens are higher than the earth, and that is the doctrine of human itarianism and sympathy and Christian help fulness which one cold December midnight, with loud and multitudinous chant, awakened the shepherds. Wherever there la a wound It is our dnty, whether as indi viduals or as Nations, to balsim it. Wher ever there is a knife of assassination lifted it is our duty to ward off the blade. Wher ever men are persecuted fo their relig ion it is our duty to break that arm of power, whether it be thrust forth from a Protestant church, or a Catholic cathedral, or a Jewish synagogue, or a mosque of Islam. We all recognize tbe right on a small scale. If, going down the road, we And a ruffian maltreating a child, or a human brute insulting a woman, we take a hand in the contest It we are not cowards, and though we be slight in personal presence, because of our indignation we come to weigh about twenty tons, nnd the harder we pun ish the villain the louder our conscience ap plauds us. In such case we do not keep our hands in onr pockets, arguing th it if we in terfere with tha brute the brute might think he would have a right to inter .- i with us, and so jeopardize the Monr)e iln -. rihe. The fact is that the persecution of the Armenians bv tne l urks must be stoop-1, or God Al mighty will curse all Christendom for its damnable indifference anl apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection is about to sound for Armenia. Did I say in opening that on one of the elu of Armenia, this very Armenia of which we speak. In Noun's time tne ark land ed, according to the myth, as some think, but according to God's ''say so," as I know, and that it was after a long storm of forty days and forty nights, called the deluge, and that afterward a dove went forth from that ark and returned with an olive leaf in ber beak? Even so now there is another ark be ing launched, but this one goes sailing not over a deluge of water, but a delugeof blood the ark of American sympathy and that ark, landing oa Ararat, from its window shall by tbe dove of kin-mess and peace to And the olive leaf of returning prosperity, while all the mountains of Mos.em preju dice, oppression and cruelty shall stand fifteen cubits under. Meanwhile we would like to gather all the dying groans ot all tbe 500,000 victims of Mohammedan oppression and intone them into one prayer that would move the earth and the heavens, hundreds of millions of Chris tians' voices, American and Europ-an crying out: "O God Most High, spHre Thy children! With mandate from tbe throne nurl back upon their haunches the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop the rivers of blood. With the earthquakes of Thy wrath shake the foundations of the palaces of the Sultan. Move all the Nations of Europe to command cessation of cruelty. If need be, let the warships of civiiized'Nations boom their indignation. Let the crescent go down before the cross, aud the MightyOne who hath on Hia vesture and on His thigh name written 'King of Kings and Lord ol Lords.' go forth, conquering and to conquer. Thine. O Lord, is the Kingdom! Haiiuluiuhl Amenl" A dentist's battery is among the recent inventions. Tbe idea is to ob tain an electric battery which can be worn in the mouth of a person for its therapeutic effect, snd also to give strength to the plate when false teeth are worn. Nearly all the counties in Colorado placed women on their tickets for the place of county superintendents of schools. The widow of Bishow Frszcr, of Manchester, England, has bequeathed 1750,000 to various religious and charitable purposes. SB" r.i'-5;-sir&'' -"rs jcyg. -r-. j&e? ij Vgv-- f .Uie?
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