Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, February 05, 1896, Image 1
D BOHWEIEB, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. K41tsr- ud 'Vol. 1 7 . MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1896. NO. 8. CHAPTER XXVIII. (CouHnusd.) But Valentine Graem. would not hear of any compromise. H. waa stags-manager, and waa especially bant upon these theatricala being a success. Nor had h. now any fear for the result. Colon.l Prinsep was one of the beat amateur actors in India, and particularly good at the love-making, which waa the principal part of the small comedietta they had chosen, while Jane, too, had considerable talent, aa she had shown at Simla. The first rehearsal ahe had with Col onel Prinsep was a decided failure. She had gone through the piece with Val Graeme several timea and had been pro nounced by him letter-perfect. Now aha missed her cues, stumbled over the sim plest sentences, and by her general awk wardness and stupidity sent down the en thusiasm of the stage-manager to zero. Nor waa the next rehearsal more prom ising. Jane spoke ber words correctly, but infnsed no spirit into the part. And this time Colonel Prinsep waa also im practicable, repeating his lover-lika speeches with parrot-like precision, bnt avoiding carefully any sentimental In flection. Barry Larron, who was generally pres ent when they rehearsed, guessed the rea son of the stiffness which waa mutually assumed whenever any tenderness was required. lie knew that they loved each other still, and therefore dared not trust themselves to pretend what they really felt. Yet he did not give up hope. And so the evening arrived. The tims had been so short that they had no full- dress rehearsal; and the station, being a mall one, would scarcely furnish an aadi cnce for two performances. "It will be only for this once, so we can make a supreme effort," aaid Colonel Prinsep to her as they stood alone in on. of the wings waiting for the rising of the curtain. She was trembling visibly; bat aa h. spoke encouragingly she tried to smile. "You must not be nervous," he went on. "After all, it Is only acting, and no one will misunderstand if you throw you aelf into your part, as I know you could." The hell rang; and a minute later ah. Was called to go on the atage. A sturm of applause broke from the audience as she stood before them in her old-fashioned, short-waist ed frock and sandal shoes, her white arms almost hid den by lier long mittens, and her brown hair gathered on to the top of her head With a huge comb. The enthusiasm In creased when Colonel Prinsep came on, boyishly impulsive, and 'betraying the love he felt in every glance and gesture. And Jane was so daintily coquettish, so bewitching even in her declared heart lassness, and again so pathetic in her despair when he left her; and the curtain fell aa she laid her head on the table and sobbed aloud. They were encored vociferously, Jan. responding to the call, led on by Colonel Prinsep, ber cheeks crimson from excite ment, and her eyes still red from th. tears that had really fallen. Then the band played during th. twen ty minutes' interval, which waa supposed to be equivalent to thirty years. Jane waa now a sweet old lady. Quak crishly robed in plain gray satin, prema turely silver-haired, and leaning for sap port on a gold-headed stick. Her voice, sfhJcb before had been so joyous, was subdued into habitual pathos, and man ner and appearance both spoke of th. sadness which had pervaded her life. The years bad dealt very differently with ber lover. The romantic boy had grown into a crotchety, matter-of-fact, middle-aged man. Yet her loyalty never faltered, though it waa keenest pain to m how entirely he had forgotten th. venta of the past which by her had been so treasured. Jane was acting almost beyond herself. It waa all so like a dream that for th. moment she believed it might be actually true that she and Stephen Prinsep had Bet in the after-time of their own life, ah. loyal aa her nature waa, he oblivious mt everything save the merest details of time and place. In his careless, boisterous way h. de clared she had never loved him, and as ahe sadly put aside the doubt, an accent so pitiful and tender came Into her voic ' that Colonel Prinsep himself forgot that it was acting, and involuntarily glanced Into her face. There he saw the whole truth written so plainly that he waa on th point of answering very differently from the book. I recollecting himself, he tried to recall his part, but for a moment failed. The prompter came to their rescue, and to most it had appeared only a momen tary forgetfulness of their parts; but to two of those who were looking on it seemed clear enough. Major Larron bit his lip with rage. The other who bad noticed, and under stood what passed, had no such com mand of facial expression. He stood up, his eyes glaring, his face distorted with the violent passions that moved him. Several of the men around him looked at him curiously, but he never heeded them, he saw and knew only what hi. jealousy hnd shown him. The play was ended, and when Jane had spoken ber Inst word she allowed her glance to .weep the audience, but It was arrested by the first object on which it fell the tall fim re and passion-distorted face of Jacob Lynn. She shuddered so violently that he hand, being in Colonel Prinsep., he de tected her agitation, and led her at once off the stage more quickly than waa laid down in the book. -The strange thing about it all, con fided Valentine Graeme that tame night fo Mapor larron. rode beck with him to thoir quarters, "waSjthat their best just where I expected them t jn tn bwe-mnkinav . -Humph P ejaculated th Baa. BtRR ad made no other remark. CHAPTER XXIX. A lovely morning in November not Xfovember as it Is known to England, Wit leaden skies and bleak, biting winds that whistle mournfully among bare trees v...nhr aa it ia in India, warm -till, w.t gratefully cool after the exhaust lag heat that baa gon. before: in sun i lln,5 !r "'fiL CnnWiilhii" was the 7th of Vnw., k v never forgot the date, though the "thought bad crossed her mind several time, dur ing tn. morning how uneventful th. days duHneaa?0 re"emb,ln' othe' ts theatricals, and aha had seen nothing of naa been fine, once or twice there had oeen a shower of rain in the evening. in. clock had just struck four on that fecial afternoon of that date, when she heard footstep. l the veranda. It waa the hour Stephen Prinsep had generally chosen for his visits, when they were en gaged; and ahe thought It might be the Colonel now. But when a few momenta passed and no servant came to announce him, ahe opened the sitting-room door and went Into the hall. No one waa tnere, but almost Immediately Mrs. Knox cam. out of th. quartermaster writing room looking flushed and put out, A native Came rnnnintr .1 - J ... n ..vus iiiv m joining compound belonging to a hone. wuiiu, on account of th. reputation ft had gained for unhcalthlness . cupled, and now formed a convenient short cut to the parade-ground. moling up with casual interest. Mrs. Knox s attention waa irmM k. t,:. terrified expression, and ahe stopped short in her complaints. -What Is it" she asked, sharply. The man, a respectable-looking servant tt the Mussulman caste. waa rnr time unintelligible by reason of his fright, and could only fold hia hands and Im plore pardon for the fault he declared he had not committed. It was only after an impatient cross-examination that Mrs. Knox elicited the fact that a "S.kit," lying dead some few yards away. aiore uaeiy tipsy," was her contemptu ous observation. It took them some minutes to reach the spot indicated, and then when they came within a few yards of It, Mrs. Knox hurried on, to spare her daughter what might be an unnecessary shock. But as she came np and saw who it was, she forgot every consideration in her own horror. The first glance had assured her that the servant', supposition was cor rectthe man was indeed dead; and as she had swiftly scrutinized his features another truth was borne upon her, that be had not died by his own hand. Sh could not repress a scream. "It ia Jacob Lynn murdered!" she cried, and turning, waa just in time to catch her daughter in ber arms or she would have fallen to the ground. "Mother, say he is not dead! It can't be true! He is ill, hurt; but not that not that!" Against her firm conviction Mrs. Knox knelt down, and laid her hand upon his heart, hia pulse, and even upon hi. fore head, from which th. blood was trickling alowly down. He was warm still, and for a moment ah. thought he waa alive. She raised his head upon her knee, and sent the native for water in th. almost forlorn hope that it might be of use. For the first time Jane acknowledged the good looks which to every one else had been always patent: and looked him with pity that though in nowise akin to love, was yet so tender that the tears came welling into her eyes as she thought of his lost opportunities and possibilities of good. Whose hand waa it that had struck him down? The question fell upon her mind's ear so clearly that involuntarily ahe turned to see if any on. had spoken. They were alone still, her mother and she, with ail that remained of the man to whom she had been engaged, and to whom ahe had been so dear. He would never vex her more! She wished she had been less Impatient of that love which ahe had never valued. Now that it had vanished from her life, she felt it as a loss. Yet only a week before ahe dread ed his very presence, and begged Stephen Prinsep's aid in delivering her from his attentions. I will get rid of him somehow, never fear," he had assured her. Was it possible that in that lay the anawer to the question which was trou bling her? Had he taken these terrible means of removing Jacob Lynn from her path forever? Oh, heaven forbid! Mrs. Knox laid the head of the hand some hussar gently on the ground again and rose to her feet. "It is no good, Jenny he is dead!" And as she spoke some troopers from the barracks came running up. Full of conjecture as to the cause of his death, they surrounded him at once, and as they did so, a sudden remembrance struck Jane that, before their feet had obliterated it, there had been the mark of a boot so distinctly printed on th. oft, sandy soil that a triangular cut In the sole had been clearly visible. There were no such marks on the boots of Jacob Lynn. The only clew lay in Jane's keeping, and it seemed to her as though the foot print had been seen by her alone that the, who had been the indirect canse of his death, might be also its avenger. - A court of inquiry was convened by the Colonel, but nothing transpired at it beyond the fact that the murdered man had once been engaged to marry the quartermaster's daughter. This lent to the affair an adventitious interest, and public curiosity waa proportionately dis appointed when it -was decided that to call Mrs. Knox and ber daughter to give evidence would be needlessly distressing them. "Died br the hand of some person or persons onknown," was the verdict. At d so th. matter was allowed to rest Che deceased had no relation, to insist w enrthar investigation, and th. gen- ,ral opinion seemed to be that all Inquiry would be of no avail. It had probably Men a drunken brawl: and even if there ind been any witnesses to it, a feeling of oyalty would prevent them from saying what they knew would ruin a fellow wldier. They would indeed be apt to look only too leniently on a crime that, though so fatal tn its results, bad yet been accidental, and not the fruit of malice. Yet his death had been a great shock to the whole regiment, and the sympathy felt was shown by the number of those who followed him to th. cemetery. Most it the officers wot. present among them the Colonel and the Adjutant and Just h. aarvlca bu the wife and daugh ter of the quartermaster cam. up quietly ..A ataad beald. th. crave. Mrs. Knox - dressed, though not actually I ki bhM. t s-rr4 to th. MUchel, scislori; but Jane was In rigid mourn ing, and her pale face looked the whiter by contrast with, her sable gown. Jh. quartermaster waa not with them; tot? p Jhe """'"i .rit" 7.T end, Stephen Prinsep moved toward them with the Intention of seeing them home. But Jaue. with a gesture of repugnance that he could tot understand, still less at- count for, shrunk back behind her mother and drew her qnickly away. For a moment their eyes had met, and 0fjSi0h t VZ? ,n.ert ""!!? k lnrP."b v or speech or action, transfixed by the look of fear etramrelv mineled with contemnt mar she had cast upon him. wuen ne recovered himself, ahe an( her mother were out of sight, and the troops moving noisily away reminded him that there wanjio reason he should re main behind. (To be continued.) THERE WAS A DISTINCTION. and the Hitherto Moral Yonns; Mass Got the Heaviest t'entence. When Lawyer Charles W. Brooke practiced at the bar ln Philadelphia years ago he one day waa vailed upon to defend a man In the Ln'ted States district court before Justice Cadwalla der for counterfeiting. Mr. Brooke's client was a young man who bad never before been charged with crime. Hia companion was a well-known counter feiter, who had served a term of im prisonment. Both men were convicted. When they were brought to the bar for sentence the old offender was the first to hear the Judgment of the court. Jus tice Cadwallader, who was an old school gentleman of punctilious polite ness, said. In a mild tone: "Mr. Jones, rou have been cxivicted, unfortunate ly for yourself, of the crime of coun terfeiting. Very Justly, Mr. Jones, the law prescribes a severe penalty for the offense for which you have so un fortunately been found guilty. It be comes my duty, Mr. Jones, under the law, to pass sentence upon you, and I therefore, under the circumstances and In consideration of your having upon a previous occasion been found guilty of a similar offense, sentence you to the term of twelve years' Imprisonment' Jones stepped back, and Mr. Brooke's client took his place at the bar. "Your honor," said Mr. Brooke, "I would like to call the attention of the court to th fact that this young man has never ba fore been convicted of a crime, and has always, up to the present, bornr a most excellent character." "Verj good. Mr. Brooke, very good," said the justice. Then to the prisoner: "Younp man, you have doubtless beard the re marks that I addressed to your partnei In this offense. It Is unnecessary that I should, therefore, repeat them to yon It becomes my painful duty to sentence you now, and I will likewise send you to prison for the term of twelve years." "But, your honor." protested Mr. Brooke, "my client has never been con victed before, and has had an excellent reputation. There surely should be some distinction between his punish ment and that of the other man, who it an old offender." "Ah, that Is quit true. Mr. Brooke," said the Justice. "I thank you for reminding me of It There ought to be a difference surely, and there shall be. Mr. Clerk, make the sentence for Jones sixteen years In stead of twelve. Thank you again, Mr. Brooke, for reminding me of what I overlooked." New York World. The Deadly Railroad Mortgage. It la eald that the late Samuel J. Tilden waa the Inventor of the modern railway mortgage, with all Its deadly possibilities of foreclosure, receiver ship, lawyers' quirreU and general wreck and disaster. It was a diaboli cal Invention. It has made the for tunes of thousands of lawyers and has proved the undoing of many thousands of stockholders and bondholders. The lawyera have a pudding when the rail road gets into the hands of receivers. The comptroller of one of the great transcontinental lines, now run by a United State District Court, told me lately ln New York that it had cost the past year $600,000 more to operate the line under the receivership than it would have cost had It been run in the regular way by a board of directors. The lawyers got most of this big lot of money. A lawyer told me ln Mil waukee the other day that there Is no law whatever authorizing a court to operate a railroad and that the practice has grown up during recent years with out any sort of statutory provisions regulating it A judge now takes a railroad, appoints receivers, requires them to account to him. Issues orders to buy rails and locomotives, to construct new roadbeds and bridges, to make or abandon leases, to pay interest or not to pay Interest on bonds, and practical ly absorbs ln bis own person all the' functions of president, directors, audi- i tor, treasurer and general manager. He Is only a lawyer raised to the bench and he knows nothing about railroad ing, but he runs the road year after year with the absolute authority of s czar. Chicago Times-Herald. Silk hats have a muslin body as a basis. From two to six thicknesses of muslin are employed for the brim and on. or two for the top and sides. A street cur in Glasgow Scotland, with a new oil motor in pine of boron was exhibited recently. While on the trial trip the oil Unk tojk fire and burned the whole exhibit, A grandson nf Mr p. Si'ldo'p, the tropin muse, fell dead in the IjodiIod streets tbe other day. He was an artint, and so poor that lie peddled bis oil paintings on tbe sidewalk1). Twenty millions of meteors are said to fall npen tbe ear h everv day their aggregate weight amounting to sometning like two tons. Conrt dress in Berlin is to be mod elled on the Venetian costumes of the renaissance. The Deputies will ap pear as Venetian Senators. Perfumes were exclusively usedio ancient Eypt in the embulment of dead bodies. A man ia as ol.l as his arteries. 1 they are soft and compressible, the deteriorating effects of old age have not yet appease Frofessor d'Arsouval of the College of France has been making a aeries of experiments with the torpedo fish. Princess ManL ot Wales has carved a meerschaum pipe for ber b othed Princo Karl, of Denmark. Ouedavi every 3 ear Lord and Lady At servant, Lady Aberdeen always dine with their HEARD THIRTY MILES AWAY. the Wonderful Mnaic of t'a. 7,001 Ball, of Bmch. ! "LI" the morning stars when they . . .. 7" ' mnft t0etner the melodious thunder ,r MlX ln Kremlin Tower, and weet as the harp of David are the bells j f V'aldla," Is a Russian saying. In the ' cry heart of the vast, treeless plain if Central Russia, Moscow Is huddled aealnst the blasts. Above the ,.i.. - ... . . . . u"dred of thouaanda who buy and ell In the markets the Kremlin lifts Its (olden dome. Under its semlspbericaJ TIU GREAT BELT, OP MOSCOW. roof the great, brazen bell, of sixty :ons weight five times the size of Big Rej, In London, swings lightly on bor- lers of oak and steel. Twenty-fout nen pull, not the bell, but the ponder ous clapper, until it strikes the sides ike a gigantic hammer. Out the tone loats, full, deep, mellow, over the roofs f the city, over the plains. Thirty niles away the peasant crosses himself ind the traveler kneels in the road to ray. There Is no sweeter music In all the orld than the music of Moscow's belli n Christmas day. The boom from the Kremlin wins response from 2.000 treat bells and 6,000 small onea all ver the city, and such is the quality f tone of the largest beir In the world that It simply rises above the chorus of lesser bells like the lovely, higher- keyed tenor in an oratorio. Bells of ilver. bells of copper and tin, bells of brass, bells of mellow bronze, bells of itrange alloys and strange unearthly tones like the voice of the pope's angel n the pontifical choir ln Rome; chimes nd peals and carillons swell the might inthem of praise that rises and knocks it the door of heaven on Christmas nornlng. The devout Russians look ibove for that light which never shone in sea or land. They they go to the bell chapel to rorshlp. More than 200 years ago :he great bell was cast Into the mold of :lay. Wars passed over it, fire and lood and pestilence. For nearly two renturles it lay ln the earth. When It as raised It stood twenty-one feet ligh and was covered with Inscrip Jons and carvings. A fire cracked it ind a great piece fell out It was rais ed on to a pedestal of stone, the broken ?lace serving as a door, an altar waa placed inside and now every pilgrim :o the city pauses for prayer at the !k11 chapeL Its computed weight Is 220 tons. AN AUTOMATIC VALVE. f hi. One Partly Close, or Opens a. th. Preaanre I. More nr I ir.s A valve adapted to close proportion- it el y on an Increase of pressure and pen correspondingly with decreaslni Treasure In the flow of gas or ofhei luld Is shown In the accompanying Ulus tratlon. The valve seat Is comparative y deep and conical ln shape, and the ralve la held on a stem sliding loosely AUTOMATIC VALVE. m a cap on cue lower ena or a cage, which also slides loosely ln the cap of me vaive ooay, the cage being adapted be raised or lowered by a threaded tern on which Is a band wheel. On the upper end of the valve stem Is t cap against which presses a colled iprlng, and an Increase In the pressure if the gas flowing through the ralve, iauslhg an Increased pressure also igalnst the top of the ralve, moves the atter downward against the tension f the spring, thus decreasing the open- ng between the ralve seat and the ralve, the spring lifting the valve and inlarglng the opening aa the pressure lecreases. The RnasJjta Charge at Eylan. It waa a caw and bitter dav: durlnir iie morning there were occasional isw flurries, and at midday a heavy lownfall. Bennlgsen seised the lnl Ha lve, and opened the battle by a cannon- de. Napoleon, divining hia plan, sen! messenger for Key to come and trengthen Soult At nine the Rnsslao ight advanced and drove the Frenct eft, which waa weak, to the town,. Al hat moment the order waa given foi lugerean and SaJnt-HUalre to more. It h. driving snow thai- lost connactlor with each other, and the latter was re) pulsed by Russian cavalry, while Auge reau's corps was almost destroyed bj be enemy's center. The dashing horse men of Galitzln reached the foot of tbi rery hlU on which Napoleon stood. an 1 panic aelsed all about him, not ex opting Berthler and Bessleres, who ex iitedly called up the Guard to savi Jielr emperor. The emperor, however remained calm, exclaiming, "Whai boldness! What boldness r The, pur men feU back exhausted, and Mural ln turn dashed with his cavalry toward the gap between the enemr'a centei and right So worn out were both sides however, that without a coUlalon thej ceased to charge, and began to flreJ Century. ' , CLEVELAND'S -MOTHER. 7 Bhe Uaad to Cat Ororefa Hair WheJ He Was loaag. The accompanying cut Is taken from a portrait of President Cleveland? mother. She came from Baltimore. Neal wai ber maiden name. Her husband Graver's father, was once her school :eacher. He was much older than she Ulent and severe; she sunny and cheer uL The qualities are mixed in Grover Ihe was not ambitious. She thought irover would amount to less than thi ther children, because he was alwayi 10 fat and dull. She died before hei ion became great She always fed hei ihlldren well, allowing them to eat tweets. She never had alcohol ln anj MBS. CLEVELAND. 'orm on ber table. She was never rich ihe used to cut Groverls hair and maki lis clothes herself when he was young Ber home was a happy one. THE WAY THEY DO IT. Bow a Portuguese Hotel Hia Pre sent. III. Bill. A Portuguese writer finds fault with English hotel-keepers for using a print U rorm or bill on which the plain re lulrements of a simple traveler are lost tmid a multitude of Items. In Portu fal, when the traveler asks for hl bill Jie l;i;rIlord pleasantly rubs bis bandi together and answers: "Whatever you; wcellency expects to give." Of course this will not do, for thi raveler is sure to offer too little or toe nuch, and to be thought either a spend 0rift or a niggard; so he has to mak 1 speech, thank the landlord for hit onfldence, and beg for a detailed state sent Then the landlord, politely dep .coating anything of the kind, la alow y persuaded to check off the varioui terns upon the fingers of his band, wltl 1 long argument before each success! v lnger Is done with and doubled down "What does It come tor' asks thi raveler, taking out bis purse, when thi land and account are closed. "Wbai lid his excellency not add up?" Hli ncellency, having been incapable 01 :h!s act of mental arithmetic, the addl don Is gone over again, from the llttit lnger backwards with a finger er two, erbaps remembering forgotten Items rought Into aconnt from the othej land. The sum total Is gladly paid ind host and guest part, mutually con ent, the guest knowing that he has no) een overcharged more than perhapi 1 thumb and one or two fingers. Pitts rorg Dispatch. Taey Were Unmanned. ' 'Come, be brave, nowl Don't dh rrace your bloomers." It waa the tail, masculine woman who spoke. Her younger companion held her protector's arm nervously and book visibly. Oh, but," she said, "it Is so dreadful. and It is coming this way." just tnen tne monster came with a rush and a swish and a hypnotic glittet In his beadlike little eyes. It dodged right between tbe feet of the new wo man and vanished through a little hole In the wall, while the cat which had troused It sprang after, but brought up with a thump against the wall un able to follow further. There were two shrieks, a wild dutch. (tig of bloomers, a leap toward th. table, and then a fall. The younger woman had fainted. Nature had again isserted herself. The new woman war inmanned. Buffalo Express. . - - Sound Advice. "Mickey," said Mr. Dolan to his son, "Ol do be afraid ye're gettln' to be a lude." , 1 , "I hope not" t "Well, Oi've noticed yes wearln' yei lunday clothes tbe week t'rongh, an' xiat ye gave up yer job In theeblack imlth shop. Ol want to say widout larrum till anybody's feelln's, that It'll lo res no hurt to, be rollln np yei il ceres more and yer trousers leea." Killed try av Spider's Bite. Harry Moore, a well-known Mary land farmer, living near Bedd'a Corner Prince George County, Md was blttei by a spider on Wednesday morning an lied yesterday from the effects of th bite. Wednesday morning Moore wai at hia woodpile collecting wood. A large spider ran across his hands an ran Inside his clothes. Moore felt thi harp sting, but nothing was thought 01 It at the time. Soon after the fleet around the bite began to swell and Dr Warren was called Ira. He could d nothing, however, and the swelling ex tended until early yesterday morning when death resulted. Moore was over 60 years of age. Exchange. . u.i Bag 'Mlsa Beacon Hill Dear met Strange but I cannot remember. Where lr Dresden? Xonng Lakeslde-0, that'f easy. In China, Saw the asSdrese Ix ahow-wUidowtoday Trath, " ROYAL FIGHT AT SEA. Btfsssti Iadala. Tfcetr Asiarry Paso ion. oa Board aa Oceaa Btaaaaer. William Newman, known as "Ele phant Bill arrived yesterday on the Bambnrg-Amerloan liner Persia, wltn even of the smallest elephants) know to be ln captivity. "I went to London mat May," New nan said, "with the two big elephants, luno and Modoc, and left them with Unify, for his show. After I saw thai Ihey were well behaved I started out to get small elephants and I got them keantles, every one. I have seven that LPi?L! 1 an,bur- The A25'000-. Thv are from one nd half to twelve years old and from 1 Shfee and a half to five and a half feet I algh. The darling of tbe lot la Baby ttutn. Bhe Is the youngest and tbe imaUest and la as gentle and playful ta a kitten. The only others that are tamed are Pilot and Albert, the two males of the herd. Tbey are bouncing foung fellows, weigh about 8,500 pounds each and have no affection for tach other. "We had them all In a great box stall tetween decks, each chained by th. Toot to the floor. Everything went peaceably and quietly with them until the 21st, when all at once we beard nost vicious trumpetlngs In the stall tnd then I knew that something had riven away. I called my helper and some f the sailors, opened the stall door and Tound my seven pets In an uproar, and Pilot and Albert pummeling each other n the most approved jungle style. They were both loose and were slashing at wch other with their trunks and bat r!ng away with their heads. Before we could separate them they had bang. d their heads together two or three times and made a noise that could be beard all over the ship. We had to take pitchforks and iron rods to sep trate them, and, even though they were I in all. It was no easy matter. When s-e would think we had them In control they would break away again and I srash their heads together ln a way j :lmt would make the stall tremble and itart all the others trumpeting again. IV e had a hard time of it before we got :hem chained. Their fight and anger uade them somewhat dyspeptic, I think, for a time they did not care to sat, but simply snapped their little eyes it each other as much as to say: Ton lust wait till next time.' "New York rimes. NOVELTY IN SKATES. he Pneumatic Road Fkat. I. th. Jate.t Invention. The pneumatic road skate is the latest Invention In England. The new appli ance, which Is really an adaptation of the principle of the bicycle to the old (ashloned roller-skate, can be used on practically any ordinary road or foot path. It is furnished with ball bearings tnd pneumatic tires, and It will proba bly not be long before the Ingenious Inventor will contrive to introduce the principle of geared action, and thus still further Increase Its resemblance to the bicycle. The new skate will Indeed prove a very formidable competitor to ill other forms of wheeling, since by its see one can combine all the pleasure of jsmd traveling by means of one's own rxertlons, with a very small amount if preliminary trouble and a merely IB FSCtTataTlO MAD SKATE. nominal expense. It la claimed that tbe kate may be safely used on both np sad down grades aa well aa on the level roads, and that with very little practice a speed of ten or twelve miles an hour ran be attained. It Is highly probable that the new form of skating will be some as fashionable as cycling itself; tnd It seems clear that a prosperous future awaits the conductor of an en terprise possessing such obvious advan tages from a commercial point of view. The skates can be folded for traveling tnd can be easily carried under the arm ar like a small grip. Vegetarian Boot..' Vegetarian boots are now advertised the uppers are made ot "pannus cort am," the sole of closely waterproofed flax belting. To show that tbe skins of slaughtered animals are not necessary the vegetarians say that "India rubber, gutta perch a, steel and Iron and brass nails, and brass caps, cashmere and cotton, elastic and webbing, wool and list cork and straw, ailk and Jute, and aven brown paper and wax go to form the modern mystery which still carries the old name of boot or shoe." London Telegraph. c French Pools Impregnable. French bookmakers were recently violently attacked in the assembly by Abbe Lemire, a Catholic socialist dep uty, who spoke of the demoralizing ef fect of the "Paris mutuels" on the working classes, and asked to have them put an end to, or at least that the Government should not profit by them. As the Government receives 1,800,000 a year from the tax on mutual pools, tnd charitable Institutions draw 12, 900,000 from tbe same source, the as sembly, while admiring the Abbe's rea sons, voted him down. New York Sun Only Two of Them Left. With the exception of Morrill, ol Vermont, and Sherman, of Ohio, th rreat men with whom Mr. Thurmaa was associated In the Senate have pass ed away. His death recalls the giants arlth whom he served. Sumner, Wade, Wilson, Trumbull, Conkllng, Seward tad the long line of American states xten with whose name Mr. Thurmani a written at the head of the proudest rpoch ln the history of the Unite ttates Senate. If a man behaves himself, peonls ami te is cunning, ana niaat his M. DR. IflLlGL The Eminent Divine's Sunday Sermon Subject: "The Power of Example. Text: "An Abimelech took an ax In hli "and and eat down a bouirh from the tmet and took it and laid it on his shoulder and mM unto thn peouln that were with hlmt what ye have seen mo do make haste and do as I have done.' And all th peoole like, wise cut down every man his bough." Judges Ix., 4S Abimelech is-a name malodorous In Biblt fdstory and yet full of profitable suggestion. Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell where tbe rocks are. The snake's rattle Is maeous. but It gives timely warning. From ir-ariners to stand off from that dangerous point. 80 all the Iron-bound coast or moral ganger is marked with Saul and Herod and Behoboam and Jezebel and Abimelech. These bad people are mentioned In the Bible not only a- warnings, bnt be ause there wers sometimes flashes of good conduct in their lives worthy of imitation. God sometimes drives a very straight nail with a very pool hammer. The eity of Sfhechem had to be taken, and Abimelech and his men were to do it. I see the dust rollimr un from thir urituri n,.i. I I hear the shouting of the captains and the I yell of the besiegers. The swords clack sharply on the parrying shields, and the vo- """ iwu armies in ueatn grapple Is horrible to hear. The battle goes on all dav and vsthesua is setting Abimelech and his army cry "Surrender!" to the beaten foe, and. unable longer to resist, the city ol Bbechem falls, and there are pools of blood and dissevered limbs an I glazed eves look ing ud beggingly for mercy that war never show?, and dying soldiers with their head on the lni of mother or wire or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kindness and nixerrion, ana a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because 1 here is no spot for 'it to rest, so full is the place of other groans. A city wouuded! A 4ty dyins! Acitv deadl , Wail f.ir Snechem, all ye who know the hor- i ors of a sacked town. I As I look over the eitv I find only one building standing, an J that is the temple ol the god lieritb. Some soldiers outside ol the city in a tower, finding that they can no longer defend Hhuchem. now heirin to look out for their own personal safety, and they fly to this temDle of Berith. Thev on wikin the door, shut it. and they say: "Now we are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole oity, but he cannot take this temple ot Berith. Here we shall be under the protec tion of the gods." O Berith, tbe god, ao your best now for these refugees. If you have eyes, pity them. If you have hands, help them, if you have thunderbolts, strike for them. lint how shall Abimelech and his army tnke this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified? Will thevdo It with tha sword? Nay. Will Ihey do it with the spear? Nav. With the battering ram rolled up by hundred armed strength crashing against the wnl's? Nay. Abimelech marches his men to a wood in Zalmon. With his ax he hews off a limb of a tree and puts that 'imb apon his shoulder, and then he says to' lis men. "You do the same." They are obedient to their commander. There is a struggle as to whosha'l have axes! The who wood is full of Itendini; boughs, ind the crackling and the hacking, and the Jutting, until every one ot the host has a Mmhof a tree cut down, and not only that, but has put it on his enoulder just as Abi melech shoire.l him how. Are these men all irmed wifh the tree branch? The reply lomes, "AH armed." And Ihey march on. 3h. what a strange array, with that strange quipm.-nt! They come up to the foot ol :he temple at Berith. and Abimelech takes lis nmb or a nee and throws it down, and :he first platoon of soldiers come up, and :hey throw down their branches, and the munii piatoon; ana tne tnird, until all round about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. Tlie Stiechemiles lout jut from the window of the temple upon what seems to them childish piny on tha parts of their enemies. But soon the flints are itruek, aid the spark begins to kindle the brush, and the flame comes uo all through the pile, and the red elements leap to the sasement, and the woo i work betrinsto blaze, tnd one arm of flame is tnrown up on the right side of the temple, and another arm of Same is thrown upon tbe left side of the temple, nntil thev claso their lurid Dalms under the wild night sky. and tbe cry of 'Fire!" within and "Fire" without announces the terror, and Ihe strangulation, and the doom of tbe becheniites, and the complete overthrow ot the te-npleoftbe god Berith. Then there went up a snout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests ot Abimelech and his men as they stood amid the ashes and the dust crying, "Victory, ictory!" Oh. my friends, thn"gopel is not a syllo rism; It is not casuistry; it Is not polemics, or the sclenoeof squabbles. It is blood red fact; it is warm hearted invitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with a I sum mery glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade. I have seen the sun rise on Mount Washington, and from the Tiptop Hou-e, but tnere was no beauty in that compared with tbe daysprlng from on high when Christ gives lignt to a souL I have beard Parepa ing, but there was no musle ln that com pared with the voice of Christ when He said, 'Thy sins are forgiven thee; go ln peace." Good newsl Let every one out down a branch ot this tree of life and wave it. Let him throw it do wn and kindle it. Let ail the way from Mount Zalmon to Snechem be fllle I with thetossing joy. Good news! This bon fire ot the gospel shall consume the last tem ple of sin, and will illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Any new plan that makes a man quit his sin. and that nros- trates a wrong, I am as mu h in favor of as tnougn an tne doctors, and the bishops, and tbe archbishops, and tbe synods, and the academical gownsmen of Christianity sanc tioned it. The temple of Berith must come down, and I do not care how it comes. Still further I learn from this subje-t th power of example. If Abimelech had sal down on the grass and tod his men to go and get the boughs and go out to tbe battle, thev would never had gone at all, or If they had It would have been without any spirit ot effective result, but when Abimelech goes with his own ax and bews down a branch and with Abimelech's arm puts It on Abime lech's shoulder and marches on, then, my text says, all tbe people did the same. How natural that was! What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic com manders of this century? They always rode ahead. Oh, the overwhelming power of ex ample! Here is ihe father on the wrong road. All bis boys go on tbe wrong road. Here ia a father who enlists tor Christ. His children enlist. I saw in sorre ot the picture nailer ies of Europe that before many of the great works of the great masters, the old masters, there would be sometimes four and five ar tists taklrg copies of pictures. These copies Ihey were going to carry witn them, perj haps to distant lands, and I have thought that yonr life and character are a mas terpiece, and it is being copied, and long af ter you are gone will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you and be a Gor gon or a Madonna. Look out what you say. Look out what you do; Eternity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted it a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve Him yourself. If you want others to shoulder their duty, shonldei yours. Where Abimelech goes bis troopi go. Oh, start out for heaven to-day, anc your family will coma after you, and you: buatnes. associates will oome after yon, ant your social friends will join you. With oni braneh of the tree of life for a baton, marsha just as many as yon can gather. Ob. tbe hi finite, the aemiomaipotent Dower of a goo er baa .xamplel I saw last xummer, near the beach, . wrecker's machine. It was a cylinder with some holes at the side, made for and thrust ing in of some long poles with strong lever age. and when there is any vessel In tlOUbll or going to pieces in the offing, th. w reckon shoot a rope out to the suffering men. The) grasp it, and tbe wreckers turn the cylinder and the rope winds around th. cylinder, anc those who are ship wrecked are saved. So si yonr tnut, to-day, ther. Is an influence witfc a tMrqandons leverage Jthi xsp. attaohsj 10 it swings iar out into the biiiowy tuiuia. Your children, your children's children and all the generations that are to follow will grip that influence and feel the long reach ing pull long after the figure on your tomb, stone are so near worn out that the vi(toi cannot tell whether it was 1396 or 1798 o 1696 that you died. Still further I learn from this sitbjeit th. advantage of concerted action. It Anima te h had merely gone out with a tree branch, the work would not have been ascomDilshed, or If ten, twenty or thirty men had gone, but when all tbe axes are lifted and all thi (harp edges fall, and all these men carry each bis ire. branch down and threw il bout the temple, the victory is gained the 1 empie rails. My friends, wbere there is ons I man in the church of God at this day shoul dering his whole duty there are a great many who never lift an ax or swing a bough. It seems to me as if tnere were ten drones in I svery hive to one busy bee; as though there - .- 7 ijm iiui.i wuu'l .".,r-rj iu ,11, ihip's hammocks to four men on the stormy leek. It seems as if there were 6.1.OO ) men belonging to tne reserve corps, anj bi; 1000 active combatants. Oh, we eant oui lunsbale, while others are blistered in th. heat and rnll until tha oarlocks groan and Ihe blades bend till they snap. Oh, you re ligious sleepyheads, wake up! you have lain so long in one place that the ants and saterplllars have begun to crawl over you! (V'hat do you know, my brother, about a llv ng gospel made to storm I he world? Now, ny idea of a Christian is a man on lire with s-al for God, and If your pulse ordinarily Jeats sixty times a minute when you think r other themes an 1 talk about other themes, if your pulse does not go up to seventv-tlve r eighty when you eome to talk about Jbrlst and heaven. It is because you do not mow the one, and have a poor chance of ettiog to the other. In a former charge one Sabbath I took nto tbe pulpit the church records, and 1 aid them on thn pulpit an I oieued them ind said: Brethreu here are the church ecords I And a great many of you whose lam-s are down here are off duty." Home vere afraid I would read the names, for at hat time some of them were deep in the vorst kind of oil slocks and were idie as to Christian work. But if ministers of Christ o-day should bring the church records into he pulpit and read, oh, what a flutter there rould be! There would not lie fnus enough n church to keep the cheeks ool. I do not :now but It would be a good thing if tha niuister once ln awhile should bring the hur.-h records iu the pulpit and rail thn oil, for that is what 1 consider every church word to be merely a muster roll of the lord's nrrny aud the reading of it should eveal where every soldier is and whut he li oin?. Suppose in military circles on the mornini f battle th" roll was called, and out ot KKW )eu only J 00 men In ihe regiment answered. That excitement there would be in t tie amp! What would the colonel say? What lgh talking there would be among tha aptains and majors ant the adjutants. U'iposn wont came to headquarters that hese delinquents excused themselves on the :round that they had overslept themselves, r the morning was damp aud they were Jraid of getting their feet wet. or that they rere busy coo ting rations. My friends, this 3 the morning ol the day of God Almighty's altle. you not see the troops? Hear e not alt the trumpets of heaven and all he drums of hell? Which side are you on? f you are on the right Hide, to what nvalry troop, to what artillery (service, o what garrison duty do you belong? u other words, in what Sabbath school lo you teach? In what prayer nveilng W you extort? To what penitentiary do you ieclare eternal liberty? To what almshouse to you announce Ihe riohes ot heaven? Vhat broken bone ot sorrow have you ever ei? Are you doing nothing? Is it possible iiaf a man or woman sworn to be a follower f Jus Christ is doing nothing? Then hide he horrible secret from the angels. Keep it iway from the book of judgment. If you ire doing nothing, do not let the world find t out, lest thev charge your religion with leing a fa seface. Do not let your cowardice .n l treason be heard r-iong the martyrs .bout the throne, lest tbey forget the sane ity of ihe place and denounce your betrayal dihat cause for which they agonized and 'led. The temple of Berith is very broad, and II s very high. It has been going up by the amis of men and devils, and no humau eu nneering cau demolish it, but if the 70,000 ninisiers of Christ in this country should tach take a branch of the tree of life, and all heir congregations should do the same, sad ve should march on and throw these ranches around the great temples ot sin and vorldliness aud folly, it would need no natch or coal or torch of ours to touch off he pile, for, as in the days of Elijah, Ore vould fall from heaven and kindle tbe bon lre of Christian victory over demolished sin. Still further. I learn from this subject tha ianger of false refuges. As soon as these iohechemltes got into the temple they bought they were safe. They said: "Biritn rill take care of us. Abimelechmay batter lown everything else. He cannot batter town this temple where wo are now hid." 3ut very soon rhey heard the timbers c mak ing, and they were smothered with smoke, ind they miserably died. I suppose every erson in this audience this moment is step ling into some kind ot refuge. Hre you tep in the tower of good works. You say, 'I shall be safe in this refuge." The battle nents are adorned; the steps are varnished: ra the wall are pictures of all tbe suffering rou have alleviated, an 1 all the schools you lave established, aud all the fine things you lave ever done. Ud in that tower vou "feel rou are safe. But hear you not the tramp ol four unpardoned sins all iran I the tower? They each have a match. You are kindling :he combustible material. You feel the heat ind the suffocation. Oh, may yoi leap ln ime, the gospel declaring. "By the deeds o' ne law snail no flesh living t 'n-iined. "Well," you sav. '! have been driven out f that tower. Where shall I go?" Ster nto this tower of Indifference. You say. "II bis tower is attaokej. it will be a great while before it is taken." You feel Ht ease. But there is an Abimelech with ruthless as lault coming en. Death and his forces arr fathering around, and they demand that you turrender everything, and they clamor foi four overthrow, and they throw their ske. ton arms in tbe window, and with their iroi aststbey neat against the door, and whl vou are trying to keep them out you see thi torches of judgment kindling, and every for sst Is a torcn and every rnoun ain a torci tnd every sea a torch, and while the Alpt ind Pyrenees and Himalayas turn into a livi 3oal, blown redder and redder bv the whir'- ind breath of a God omnipotent, what wl) become of your refuge ot lies? "But, says some one, "you are engige. In a Very mean business, driving us fron tower to tower." Ob, no. I want to- tel you of a Gibraltar that never has been am never will be taken, of a wall that no saiani assault can sjale, of a bulwark that th' judgment earthquakes cannot buigu The Bible refers to it when it says, "in Go Is thy refuge, and underneath thee are th everlasting arms." Oh, fling yourself in it. Tread downunceremnniouslyeverythini that intercepts you. Wedge your way then There are enough hounds of death and perl after you to nmke you burry. Many a msi has perished Just outside the tower with ht foot on the step, with his hand on the lalca Oh- get inside. Not one surplus seeou have you to spare. Quick! Quick! Quicki Th. total ordinary expenditure of th Government ia 1895 were e358,193,2ii3. A Rochester (N. Y.) barber is being fcned for S5C0D fr ubav,uz off a man's nins ache. In 1894 it cost Ureat Britain no less thaa $24,010 to combat the locust plague of Cyprus. Tbe highest inhabited b'uiUo in Europe is tha Alpine clniihouse, on ML Rosa twelve thousand ieut above ea level. Tbe conversation bracelet is fortue l ot rare coins that form an incentive for talk when all other topics are worn threadbare. Queen Victoria won the champion plate gold medal and challenge cup for the beat animal exhibited at the Smith field Cattle Show. All power, even the, most despotic rest, ultimately on opinion. . f S. . : ' mm ill mu ininmniii 1 win iiiiii