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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.
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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.
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