T V Up: WW n. F. BOHWEIER, THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Batter ud VOL.1T MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1896. NO. 12. i il I n CHAPTER XXXIV. Mr. Dene arrived two days later, ant found everythng in her house far moe luxurious and home-like than aba expect td She had brought only a few of he food and chattel with her, intendin) to rough it for a month or so, bnt tin Commissioner, among whose faults In hospitality was not, had decreed othet wise, and had made the place so cosy il the limited time, that even Jane, who hat been backward and forward many timet scarcely recognised it when she paid he) last visit. Ail pore seemed very little altered, t truck Mrs. Dene that Jane, who wai seated opposite to her in sympathetic al lenca, was the most changed of all. Shi thought of her as she remembered her H Brat, a shy, pretty child, slowly develop Ing into the coquettish beauty, the ao knowledged Simla belle. She was lovelj till, lovelier than ever, she was fain U confess, bnt it was such a pale, wear) (ace that owed nothing of its beauty U happiness or animation. Among the first who called on Mr Dene was Major La iron, but, though hil manner was very gentle and sympathia lng to herself, she could not fail to set that the real object of his visit was Jana His gaae rested on her all the while, eager to forestall every wish, to lose M movement of the white fingers whict twined so restlessly one with the other, nor a glance of the sorrowful hazel eyel which roam as they would, never me als own. His suit had not made much progress It was very seldom that he could see her. and when be did happen by sheer pep severance to come in her presence, hei thoughts were evidently so far away that he knew it would be of no avail t push his own cause. Mrs. Dene couli not help feeling sorry for him, he aeeinev so terribly in earnest besides, long ago ahe had promised him her aid. "Come and see my flowers," she said, presently, when the conversation begat to languish. "I have such a capital garden. I suppose the Commissioner'! mollies hare kept it in good order. A Hattiabad I had nothing but a bare ex panse of kunkur, and a well." Major Larren rose to follow her, an artfully addressed a remark to Jane ai the moment, so that the common civil ity obliged her to follow them; and onei In the garden Mrs. Dene soon made a excuse to leave them. "Mrs. Dene Is not looking well," hi began awkwardly, when that lady wai sot of hearing. "She is not well. She came here fo a change of air, you know." "Ah, yes! I understood so, of course. And yourself, I wish I could see yof looking better," he went on. "There I think your kindness mislead! sou. Major Larron. I am in perfect health" a little stiffly. She walked away a few paces, less with the Intention of avoiding him thar to calm her own agitation. She did not love him; sometimes she even regarded him with an instinctive dislike, even fear; yet for a moment she was carrie away by the passion in his tones. "Am I so distasteful to you that too will not stay beside me?" he asked he sadly, standing still a little way apart. "It is not that," she murmured. "Then listen to me, Jane; yet what it It after all that I can say! I have so little to offer you nothing except wealth and rank which seem such worth less things now that I have to stake my all upon them. I am too old for youj older than the Colonel by some years." He stopped abruptly. Fool that h was to mention the very name that should have been avoided! He saw at nce how Jane's face, which, touched by his self-depreciation and humility, grew softer and kindlier ss he spoke, idenlv hardened into stone. "If you had every advantage It were possible for man to nave, it woum maae ho difference," she said, quickly. "I hall never marry!" ic.r mam me: but there la some ,ther "There is no other," she declared, with ulet sadness. Rh had moved on and Major Larron was walking beside her. Now, she spoke, a sudden turn brought them face to face with Mrs. Dene, who was coming In their iirection with Colonel Prinsep. An impulse, of which she repented the next instant, cansed Jans to turn round sharpiy and go down anotner pain, and naturally Major Larron accompan led her. "Oh, how stupid of me! What will they think? Let us go back," exclaimed the girl, excitedly. "Not yet, Jane not yet. I have some thing to aay still. Thi la no tlms fot make believe of any sort, and I will not pretend to be b!nd to the fact that there la another who is my rival, and that oth er Colonel Prinsep. I also know thaf you wUl never marry him." "Never, never!" ejaculated Jane. T-.t von will dsss most of your life in Us near neighborhood, and the next two rear at least will be uvea wnere wiwr Lynn died." . . , He was playing his last card, and play lag u knowing well that it was no legiti mate game, yet his voice never faltered. He would have betrayed his dearest friend to have won that upon which hii heart was set. av. .nAA-roA FT. knew hi baft had gone home, and hastily followed up blf success. . "Be my wife, Jane, and leave the past behind you. I will take you where noth ing shall remind you of It. I will sur round you With a love that nothing harm ful shall be able to penetrate. My wnoM Ufa shall be spent in making yours happy. Ton do not love me now. but you wills Mfc lore as mine begett low. I worship you, I adore you la It such a hard mat" tr to consent to be adored I" Aa she hesitated, meaning to aay 'ya . and so escape from ail that had bees taoubling her of late, now half held back ay the knowledge that all her future bung upon the word that she might utter she beard Stephen Prinsep peaking aa, be walked with Mrs. Dene a little dis tance off. , , At the Bound of the low, musical tones AeraJI-onneA resolution fajtarjd, How couM aha promise to let another love her, nnothera wife, in the close vicinity of the man to whom she had avowed all these things before, within hearing even of the voice by which she had been ah, so willingly! wooed? "Do not press me. I cannot answer now," she said, hastily, a piteous ex pression coming over her upturned face. Turning, she walked toward the house and overtook Mrs. Dene, who looked at her scrutlnlxingly aa ahe came up. Had he or had ahe not accepted Major Lar ron? Colonel Prinsep too looked keenly, wistfully Into her face. Surely it was not possible that she had forgotten what had been between them. She loved him him only he could not doubt that, since he had surprised her In his bun galow kissing the words he had written. The reason of that stealthy visit he bad failed to discover, nor could be guess what the barrier was that ah. had dak elded must divide them, but surely there waa nothing that need drive her so Into the arms of another. Mrs. Dene had been addressing herself to Major Larron, and kept up a brisk conversation with him, under cover of which the silence of the other two re mained unnoticed, and it happened that aa they went into the house for a mo ment the Colonel and Jane were left alone. Jane looked up quickly. In her eyes then Stephen Prinsep saw only doubt and distress not love for one lover, nor regret for the other. "Colonel Prinsep, they are making fresh inquiries about Jacob Lynn's death. They are going to send the case to the High Court; Mr. Knollys told me so!" she exclaimed in an excited undertone. "And then?" he asked, with what she considered an almost shameless calm ness. "The murderer will be found out; they know so much already, and more will be discovered then." "And you don't wish that the criminal supposing it to be a criminal case should be brought to justice" with a curious look into her troubled face. "Oh, no no! How can you ask it?" In an anguished whisper. He was silent for a moment, pulling his fair mustache with a puszled air as of one who finds himself in a difficulty and knows not how to extricate himself. Then he asked her in a voice aa lew ar her own: ... "Tell me, what la It you wish me to do?" "Go away from here. Leave the place before it is too late. It is the onlv chance!" And so saying she swept past him into the house. He stood looking after hei until she had disapeared through a door at the other end of the hall; and then he too went in, and entering the drawing- room stayed some time talking to Mrs. Dene, perhaps in the hope that Jan might return. But she did not. CHAPTER XXXV. Mr. Graeme had always been a favor te of Mrs. Dene, so it happened that, coming often to the house, his former friendly relatione with Jane were insen sibly renewed. She forgot that once she had been so hurt at hia having made her the subject of a bet, and he that unex plained meeting at the gates of Colonel Prinsep's house. Mrs. Dene encouraged hia visits, not only for her own sake, but because she thought that perhapi something might come of this friendship, with Jane. The girl was looking so un happy now, so unlike what she had al ways been before; and, woman-like, Mrs. Dene had a vague idea that matrimony waa a remedy for all ills. Although sh had promised her support to Major Lar ron, she would have been Infinitely bet ter pleased to see her protege engaged to Valentine Graeme. "I wonder you never fell in love with Jenny," Mrs. Dene said to Graeme, after they had been sitting some time together. "How do you know I never did?" he retorted qnickly. "I am not sure myself. I know I like her better than any girl 1 aver met." "Then why have you never tried to win her?" "A foolish bet I made about her with Larron. Then it has been a whole chap ter of accidents something occurred which put me off again." "What was it?" asked Mrs. Dene. "Something which made her appear less simple; not not so perfect as I had al ways thought her." "She is as good as gold!" ejaculated the f oung widow, warmly. "I used to think so; but then no one is faultless, and In thia case she may not have been so much to blame as It ap peared. Only I was disappointed and chilled. You see we like our wives to be as Caesar's wife was above suspicion." "Aa she is take my word for that, Val entine. She is In some secret trouble now, and it may be something in connec tion with that which gave you cause to doubt," "I wish I could tell you all and let you judge, but I promised I would not." "And nothing you could aay would shake my faith. Hers is one of the sweet est, and at the same time noblest, char acters I have ever known. If you love her, really love her, Valentine, don't let any suspicion of her come between you. Take my advice, tell her about your bet with Major Larron, and for the rest trust implicitly that whatever she did was done for the best." "You are a very loyal friend" smiling. "And you are a very o!d lover. I be lave you would aa soon many Diana as Unci" "Why do you always bring j Miss Knollys' name?" exclaimed Val, petulant ly, rising from his seat te poke the fire rigorously. "And why do yon always resent it so, Cf indeed she is no more to you than any one else?" asked Mrs. Dene, maliciously. "Make up your mind which yon prefer, and " She Stopped short, and In her embar rassment knocked down a small vase that stood on a table at bar elbow. Both girls had come In from the veranda and stood aide by side, aa though purposely affording an opportunity for choice Diana, her head as usual held daintily high, her lovely figure almost defiantly erect; and Jane, eyes cast down, blush, lng violently at the words they bad both verheard and suspected might have re arence to themselves. So babd nils Mi cbfilge J " Miss Knollys. Ah, well, it was beat so, for even if he had loved her, aa ahe with, out doubt loved him, she cocld never have overcome her pride sufficiently to have married him! She whose family waa one of the oldest in England, to stoop to bear a name which was only celebrated In the particular line of business his relations had selected! Yet why did she feel such a dull aching pain in her heart. If Indeed the would not have it otherwise than it was? "Do not go. Miss Knox, I have some thing to say to you." Valentine began, ind ahe looked up in such evident dis may, that he added hastily, "It is only a Confession I have to make. "Confession always obtains absolution. Bay on. I am sure it is nothing very dreadful." "It was a foolish bet that I made about you some weeks ago. that you would merry Mr. Blount. Don't look so hurt. Miss Knox; indeed, I hardly thought it possible. I only made the bet in the hope that I might lose it. I am such an un lucky fellow that I always lose my bets and, indeed, I should not have accepted the proposition, only I was feeling wretch "Who proposed It?" ssked Jane. "Ah, that of course I cannot tell you! I only want to win yonr forgiveness for myself, not to shift the blame upon an other. Tell me, are you very, very an gry?" "I knew It before" quietly. "And that is why you spoke so coldly to me for some time afterward. I wish I had made a clean breast of it before. I wanted to, but who told you. Miss Knox?" "That is my secret. Tell me with whoor the bet was made." "I cannot you know I cannot," said Valentine, distressed. "Well, I will be less punctilious. It was Major Larron who told me on the night of the th Hussars' dance." "Major Larron! Why, it was he I mean " "I can guess what you mean, Mr. Graeme. It was Major Larron who sug gested the bet, and it was he who hasten ed to inform me of what you had done without mentioning his own share In the transaction." "He shall anawer for it to me!" cried Calentine. "No, to me. Please let me tax him with als treachery to you, and his implied un truthfulness to me." Such a determined expression made firm her mobile lips that Mr. Graeme said no more. Perhaps, too, he was glad to be relieved from the awkwardness of such an explanation with his senior offi cer. Yet his indignation in nowise abated, and he was resolved nover to meet Barry Larron in friendship again. "Let ua go in," said Jane, presently. "Mrs. Dene will be wondering where we are. Diana and Mr. Graem. left early in (he evening; and just aa Mrs. Dene and Jane were speculating as to whether it would be too late to go ont themselves Mrs. Knox drove up. To be eon tinned.) Agaseis'e Test. It is said that however widely Pro fessor Agasslz, the famous zoologist, might differ In bis opinions from an other scientist, he never undervalued any contribution which a scientific op ponent made to zoology. lie extended the fame of Owen, the eminent English soologlst. In this coun try, by enthusiastically pointing out to nil questioners his grounds for a sin cere admiration of that scientist, and It was only by chance that his auditors learned how widely Agassiz's opinions differed from Owen's on certain muclr disputed questions. But for amateurs who took facts at second-hand, and built up systems by combining the discoveries of various specialists In science, he bad a some what contemptuous Indifference. One of his friends asked him on one occa sion bow he felt about the attack which had been made on his scientific posi tion by a certain accomplished scholar who bad studied the different theories advanced by eminent zoologists, and bad decided that Agassis must be rank, ed In the second class. To the amazement of hia friend, who regarded the attack as a matter of con siderable seriousness, Agassis burs forth Into a roar of laughter. "Why. Just think of It!" be cried. The man undertakes to fix my place among zoologists, and he Is not him self a zoologist!" And then seeing that lis friend did not apparently appreciate the Joke of the affair, he added, with evident enjoyment, "Why, don't you know that be baa never been an ob server?" With him "observation'' meant not only the training of the eye Itself, but the cultivation and exertion of all the faculties behind the eye. He once said In reply to a friend who asked blm, after he had been fifteen yean In this country, what be considered the best result of his teaching. "I hare educated five observers. One of them, to be sure, baa turned out to be my deadliest personal enemy; but I still affirm that be la a good observer, and that la the best compliment I could pay him were ha my dearest friend.' Of Cow Undoubtedly there Is something la the theory that disease germs are trans mdtted by kisses. The wind, for ex ample, la forever kissing the Cheeks of lovely damsels; and the air, you know, la full of microbes. That a bow they gat there, of course. Boston Transcript Mnnriy 2000 tors of deal wood are utilized auunailv in skewering toe hJ bartbs of outs meat, whioi is the fate 0126,(100 horses every ytar. In the stomacli of a cow killed at Gardiner. Me., the other day, was tound a gold dollar, two lead bullets and a dozjn tenpenny nails. A new steamboat, just launched for the Hudson River service, will cost 81,000.000 and be provided with en ginea of 8000 horse power. The Chicago Park Board is trying to sell off a job lot of turplns lions, bufialo and elk. The shape ot tha fiU hook was doubtless suggested by that of various thorn", or by the claws of the cat, lion r tiger. Ovid, Mutial and Ilorscs all refer in their poems to the use of artificial teeth as common in their time. The mouth of the leech is a power ful suaker, which will sustain many times the weight of the animal. India has now become, next to China, the largest tea growing conn try. Railway laborers in Holland aver age from thirty -six cents to. sevent cents per aay. A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH, flowing the Wonderful Proa re of Dentistry la the Last Fifty Years. Perhaps no profession has made more n-ogress in the last thirty years than lentlstry bas done. Half a century ago lentlstry, as a separate branch of the nedlcal profession, was but little mown, and dentists were but very few, rren In the great cities. The regular wyslclan pulled the aching tootnand re bave even seen a case where be fiU id it, and the filling, owing to the heal Jiy character of the bone possibly, re gained In that tooth for all of a long lifetime. At that period the dentist traveled about from one town to anoth u through a wide district, and people sho availed themselves of his services sere thought to be rather fantastical, ind foolish and extravagant as well. In a case where new front teeth were ranted the old tooth was sawed off and the nerve was destroyed with bot Irons tnd Infinite torture. In order that a new tooth might be driven In on a wooden eg, a tooth that was a perpetual trou lie and never permanent. A tooth that iched then was extracted without Ve norse, says a writer In Harper's Ka lar, and a filling, when fillings came to be known, as often dropped out .as itayed In. Now, on the contrary, if a 1 tooth must be parted with, there rre 10 many ways of evading the pain thr t, tad they existed in the old time, Isaac f York might have kept bis money, tnd the anodynes are so used that tiie patient Is conscious and sees the whole rperation and suffers nothing at ail. But no tooth is taken out now that can possibly be kept In. If a nerve niuat he killed It Is usually killed painlessly, ind the tooth that once could not beer permanent and solid filling Is treated all It Is able to do so. Even when a tooth Is so nearly gone that retaining points for the filling are not to be bad, tiny gold screws can be Inserted whose beads answer for the points, a fine gold wire can be Injected Into the gum or ap plied to It and do away with much of the pain once attending a bad excava tion or a tender filling. Fillings are uade so artificially, too, as almost to be beautiful in themselves, and It Is iven possible. In case of a cavity on the front surface of a tooth, to Insert a bit f enamel so deliberately that even the tracks cannot be discerned. Perhaps, however, as great a success la any that has attended the progress f dentistry Is In certain surgical meth His where It has changed the shape of 'Ma Jaws and overcome deformity. It las long been able, by means of sliver ind rubber clasps, and clamps and tlates, to regulate teeth that have corns it sixes and sevens; but now it can transform a narrow Jaw to a wide one, ind so bring those protruding and over langing teeth which give the mouth a rodent-like appearance Into line with. e lower ones, bring forward a receu ng lower jaw, make lips meet that once bund It impossible, and change a fright nto something like a beauty. The per on disfigured with a misshapen jaw teed not wearthedlsflgurementthrougb tfe If there is an accomplished dentist rlthln reach who has wisdom together sith his mechanical skill, his artistic teellng, and bis anatomical knowledge, Ul of which things are requisite to a -ood dentist. This, of course. If re lonrse Is bad to blm before the elgh venth year, although we believe there tave been some cases of changes and rare at a later period. Moreover, art! Iclal teeth are now made with such at tention to shape, character and color, ind the patient's age and consequent tomplexlon, with due remembrance of former Irregularities, and with perhaps 1 bit of filling here nnd there, that it akes an expert eye to know that they ire not the original ones. Once carved mt of a solid block of Ivory, like those if the father of his country, transferred !rom the mouth of the one that sold toem for a price, as poor Fantlne did In Les Mlse rabies," transferred from th laws of animals, too, and robbed from the dead of battlefields to be Inserted Into living mouths, such things now nly seem disgusting fables, and hear ing them we thank our kind fortune! that we are born Into these years ol rrace, and not Into those dark and hard lays of slower development. One il tempted to think that we are never hall rrateful enough to the workers of thes carvels, for the dentist's crucible now Is as wonder-working as that of thi tiagl of old story. If, Indeed, we wen able to do for all our other organs what we can do for our teeth, we should also be able. It may be, to reach again the limit of patriarchal years. Advloe from a Money Lender. "Here's your money," said a City Hall (Beer, banding $1 to a lawyer associ ate. Smiling, be added: "You're a rob ber, a nsurer, to exact compound Inter est on such a loan." "Yes, but I wanted to give you a les son on the evils of borrowing," aald the lawyer. "It's a pernicious practice, be cause it Is a habit easily acquired, and leads to very bad results. The money lender usually gets the big end of the born, unless the loan Is unsecured, in which case, nine times out of of ten, the loanee Is worsted. Take my advice, lont borrow at any price." Then addressing a group of Interest id friends, the lawyer said: "Compound interest is a funny thing to run up igainst. Not long ago the Bank of En (land had to pay a Urge sum to settle i compound note for $25 which bad seen mislaid for many years. The cus todian of the note claimed $3,000,000, tut was glad to accept a compromise for a much smaller sum. The loan I siade to-day, by way of a Joke, affords in Interesting study. It is payable in fDO years (or earlier. If possible), at compound Interest, at the end of 100 rears. At the rate of interest charged, 1 per cent., the borrower or bis heirs will owe me $2.75. Now If I bad charg id 4 per cent. Interest, he or his heirs would owe me $50.50 at the end of 100 rears. By charging usurious rates of nterest, say 12 per cent. wen, Td bay 84.673 due In the year A. D. 1995, and it 24 per cent. Interest the original $1 rould accumulate In a century just 12,551.798,404.- Buffalo Courier. ELECTRICITY AND STEAM. fcmpexisoa of tae Warklsng Methods ot tka Ids Oa-sam aatrjr convey an Idea of power than a steam tocomotive Just starting or arriving. The whistling and roaring of the steam, the throbbing In the smoke-pipe, the tremor of the ground lead the mind to expect a proportional effect, as from some animate monster. An electrio locomotive, in similar situation. Is an embodiment of apathy and harmless ness in Its appearance. There is neither throb nor roar, nor steam to scald the wayside passer, nor cindry, sooty smoke to blind the eyes, choke ths breath, or stain Immaculate linen. In actioa, however, the electric machine, still comparatively quiet In Its move ment, often rolls along, says a wrltei In Llpplncott's, with a tigerish purr, os a bum as of a vast swarm of anprj bees, with now and then a lurid flash weird evldeuce of the mysferloui power, Invisible as the wind, that lurki in ths miles of wires coiled round and round the maguet and armatures of tin huge electric motors concealed In thi dark interior of the massive frame. Last year, when two of these loco motives were under construction at th works of the General Electric Company In Lynn, there was one day a rare sight It became necessary to test the com parative power and economy, pound for pound, of an electric and a steam locomotive. The two huge machines one the b6mUistic and terrlfylni consumer of water and coal, the othei a silent mass of Iron came-gently to gether on a branch track of the Bostoi and Maine Railroad leading to the eleo trie works. Coupled with each othei by a strong bar each monster attempt ed to drag the other from its position the steam sometimes and then the eleo trie machine appearing triumphant This struggle for mastery was watched by many spectators, and with intensi Interest by those concerned In the man nfacture of the two kinds of locomo Uvea. Perfume. In connection with the growth of thi French perfume trade, a Paris corre spondent says: "The great perfuinen of the middle ages were. It appears, thi Arabs. The fashion of using perfum ery came into West Europe through thi crusades. Italians were the great deal era In It, and often sold disguised sub tle poisons In their perfumes. Cath erine de Medici, like many of her an cestors, gained her private and publli ends through poisonous perfumes. "Cardinal Richelieu first saw what a business could be created by distil ling the field and orange-grove flowers of Provence. Anne of Australia, tha wife of Louis XIII., could not go a moment without her scent bottle, and liked to have her linen scented. Vol. talre spoke of the perfumed bath as thi luxury of luxuries. "The sunny hills of the Var became a mine of wealth, and. remain so- to this .luy, for the scent distilled from tbelt flowers has a subtle delicacy which still gives It the primacy. The Empress Josephine gave another great stimulus to the scent Industry. She constantly held before her mouth dainty lace-bordered lawn pocket handkerchiefs on which she had sprinkled some delicioui perfume. "The perfume manufacturers ol Grasse last year put 40,000 pounds ol violets and 1S0.O0O pounds of roses lnt their scent stills. The orange flowert they used weighed 220,000 pounds. A kilo, or a little over two pounds, ol essence of May roses Is worth aboul $G00. Armament of a British Battle Ship ' The complement of a battle ship it usually largely in excess of that of l cruiser. The British cruiser Powerful now In course of construction, will bi an exception to the rule. The Nava' nnd Military Record (British) notes thai the admiralty has decided to man thi vessel with a crew of 894 officers an men. The Terrible, a sister ship, wit carry an equal number. The vessel! of the royal sovereign class (the largest battle ships afloat) carry a complement of 730 officers and men each, including the admiral's staff. The number of met to man the new cruisers will be non too many, the Record says, to work thi large number and variety of guns and tomedoes- with which tbev will tx armed. The armament will be by fai tbe most effective yet supplied to anj Teasel of the cruiser type. It will con. slst of two 9.2-lnch breech-loading twelve dt-lnch quick-firing, sixteen 13 pounder 1,200-weight guns, one 1 nnnnrter ROO-welirht boat's mm. one 1 ' . oru !,. ij . , , pounder 800-welght field service gun, twelve S-pounder Hotchklss quick-fir ing guns, and nine Maxim machine runs. There will also be supplied aboul twenty Whitehead torpedoes for us with submerged torpedo tubes, four ol whlcb will be built Into each vessel Although these ships have been In band for nearly a year, the contractor do not expect to have them ready until tbe beginning of 1897. Tbey will then have to undergo a long series of official trials, so that at the earliest they can. not be ready for sea until the sprinf of 1898. Advice Ie Cbev. It Is a great fool who buys good ad rice when so much of It may be bad for nothing. Atchison Globe. He Waa Justified. Old Gent Young man, when I was your age I thought a horse car plenty good enough for me. Youth (allgtting from hansom) Bnt you were never the only son of a rich fathef or you would not bave taken such risks. New York World. At the Club. HlbbsIs De Friaky'a new risque book out yetT Dibbs Yes; but he Isn't, Ha got six months. New York World. Simple. ' A conjurer Is naturally supposed to IM tha -lAvai-Mr man In tntk mmninr. Snraerlmee however ha la onlv next to Boraenmes, nowaver, ha is only next u -veteu Ona evening, a man waa performing ths old trick of D reducing can from a pocket-handkerchief, when ha remark ed to a little boy In fun: "Say, my boy, your mother cant get agga without bona, can anal" "Of course she can!" replied tbe boy. "Why, bow la thatf aaked tbe con jurer. "She keepa ducks!" replied the boy. axnld mm e langhtar-Tosth'a Oenv REV. DL TflLPSL . - DlVine S Sunday The Eminent Sermon . , , SUBJECT: "Gathering Around Church.' ZXLV?2l '"CTtherlngofttl. people be." Genesis xlix., 10. Through a supernatural lens, or what I might rail a propheseope, dyinK Jacob look 4 down through the corridors ot the centuries until be sees Christ the center of ail popular attraction and the greatest beineMu all the woriu.ao every wnareacKnowieaseu. u was not always so. The world tried hard to put Him down and to put Him out. Ia the year laoo.-thile excavating for antiquities fifty inrea mues nortneast ol Kome,a copper plate tablet was found containing the death war rant ot the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this Wise: "In the year 17 ot the empire of Tlberiut Csesar, and on the 25th of March, I, Pontius Pilate, governor of the Prtetore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die between two thieves. Quintlus Cornelius to lead him forth to the place of execution." The death warrant was signed bv several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet, a private citi zen. This capital punishment was executed according to law. The name ot the thiel eruoi Red on the right hand side of Christ wasDismas. The name of the thief oruoi tled on the left hand side of Christ was Oes tus. Pontius Pilate describing the tragedy says the whole world lighted candles from noon until night. Thirty-three yean of maltreatment. A wall of the eity, built about those times and recently exposed by archaeologists, shows a caricature of Jesus Chri8t,evidencing the contempt in which He was held by many In His day, that caricature on the wall representing a cross and a don key nailed to it. and under it the inscription, "This is the Christ whom the people wor ship." But I rejoice that that dav is gone by. Our Christ is coming out from under the world's abuse. The most popular name on earth to-day is the nameof Christ. Where He bad one friend Christ has a thousand friends. The scoffers have become the wor shipers. Of the twenty most celebrated In fidels in Great Britain In our day sixteen bave come back to Christ, trying to undo tha blatant mischief of their lives six teen out of the twenty. Every man who writes a letter or signs a doc ument, wittingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ. We date everything as B. C. or A. D. B. C, before Christ; A. D., Anno Domini, In the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the rose of the Son of Ood, B. C, A. D. I do not care what you call Him whether Conqueror or King or Morning Star or Sun of Righteousness or Balm of Ollead or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend ot take the name used in the verse from whioh I take my text and call Him Sbilo, which means His Son, or the Tranquilator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. I only want to tell you that "unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." In the first place, the people are gathered around Christ for ardon. No sensible man or healthfully ambitious man Is satisfied with his past life. A fool mav think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. I do not care who the thoughtful man is the review of his lifetime behavior before Ood and man gives to him no especial satis tac tion. "Ob," he says, "there have been so many things I have done I ought not to have dora;-har twi been sa many tntngs I bave said I ought never to have said: there have been so many things I have written I ought never to have written; there have been so many things I have thought I ought never to have thoughtl I must somehow get things readjusted. I must somehow have the past reconstructed. There are days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible vociferation." Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts tbe past by obliterating it. He does not erase the record of our misdoing with a ln.h of ink from a register's pen, but lifting His right hanl crashed, red at the palm. He puts it against His bleeding brow and then against His pierced side, and with the crimson accumulation of all those wounds He ruts out tbe accusatory chapter. He blots out ouriniquities. Oh. never be anxious about the future; better be anxious about the past! I put it not at the end of my ser mon; X must put it at the front mercy and pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardoning Christ. -'Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." "Ob," says some man, "I have for forty years been as bad as I could be, and ia there any mercy for me?" Mercy for you. "Ob," says some one here, "I had a grand ancestry, tbe holiest of fathers and the tenderest of mot ners, and for my perfidy there is no ex cuse! Do you think there is any mercy for me?" Mercy for you. "But," says another man. "I fear I have committed what they call the unpardonable sin, and tbe Bible says if a man commit that sin he is neither to be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do yon think there is any mercy for me?" The fact that you bave any solicitude about the matter at aU proves positively that vou have not committed the unpardon able sin. Mercy for you? Oh, the grace o' Ood which bringeth salvation! t Tbe grace of God! Let us take the sur veyor's chain and try to measure Ood's mercy through Jeans Christ. Let one sur veyor take that chain and go to the north, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and another surveyor take that j ohMn and to th" "' "nd another sur veyor take that chain and go to tbe west, and then make a report of tbe square miles of that vast kingdom ot Ood's mercy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eternity for the report of that measurement. It cannot b measured. Paul tried to climb the height ol it, and be went height over height, altitude above altitude, mountain above mountain. i then sank down in discouragement and gave lt Up, for he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and llatterhorns beyond, andi ving his band baok to us in tbe plains he says, "Past find ing out; unsearchable, that in all things b might have the pre-eminence. You notice that nearly all the sinners mentioned as par doned In the Bible were great sinners David a great sinner, Paul a great sinner, Bahab a great sinner, Magdalene a great siuner. the prodigal son a great sinner. The world easily understood how Christ could pardon a half and half sinner, but what the world wants to be persuaded ol is that Christ will forgive the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the oldest sinner, the most inexcusable sinner. To the sin pardoning Shiloh let all the gathering of tbe people be. But, I remark again, the people will gather around Christ as a sympathizer. Oh, we all want sympathy! I hear people talk as though they were Independent ot lt. None of us could live without sym pa thr. When parts ot our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home! But. alas, for those who never come home. Sometimes it seems as If it must be i Impossible. What, will thsir feet never j again come over the threshold? Will they never again sit with us at the table? Will tbey never again kneel with us at family ' I prayer? Shall we never again look into their sunny faces? Shall we never again on earth take counsel with them for our work? Alas me. who can stand un der these griefs? Ob, Christ, Thou canst do more for a bereft soul than any one else! it Is He who stands beside us to tell of the res urrection. It is He that came to bid peace. It is He that comes to us and breathes Into , as the spirit of submission until we can loos 1 up from the wreck and ruin of our brightest expectations and say: "father not my will, but Thine, be done. Oh. ye who are bereft. I ye anguish bitten come into this refuge! The roll ot those who came for relief to Christ is I larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of om nlDotent svmDathr tbe gathering of the peo- nit- le snail tie. uo. mat uiiw -iuuiu aiauu ? u tbeae empty cradles and all these deso ( home.teadg and aU these broken bearu jmd persuade us it is welil The world cannot offer you any help at eh a time. Suppose tne world comes and fffers you money. Tou would rather live OB 1 ernst in a cellar and have VOUT departed nved ones with vnn than live in Dalatlal sur jnundintrs and they away. Suppose thi rorld offers vou Its honors to console you. pThat is the Presidency to Abraham Lincoln rhen little- Willie lies dead in the Whits louse? Perhaps the world comes and says, Time will cure it all." Ah, there are griefs bat have raged on for thirty years and an paging yet. And yet hundreds have been uaXorted, tluujandsJiave JieeAOOmforted. b:j.ons have been comforted, and Christ bad i loiM the work. Oh. what von want Is sym- I fathy! The world's heart of sympathy beati rwy irregularly. Plenty ot sympathy when re do not want it. and often when we are in ippulltn? nemtot it, no sympathy. There ar ltttu.lei ot people lyio for sympathy mnnHfhv ih c nrU vmnnfhw In thai. j . , j .-.. " ' .- ...j'..-.. Iatiguns, sympathy tn their Vereavements, lympathy in their financial losses, sympathy n their phyxical ailments, sympathy in theil nlrllllal inri ar i .umnuth. ih that ,1m r.1 mniuai anxinuev, symoainy in las lime 01 . lecltntnr vears wUte.deep, hib, everlaat- j ng, slmtKhty sympathy. We must bave it. ,h(oh He is goin, to draw all Nation, to i Hm. I At the story ot punishment a man's evt lash's, and his teeth set. ami his fist liinches. an I he prepares to do battle even fconi?h it be attainst the heavens. Yet what j teart so hard but it will succumb to th. ! tory of o-npaaeion! Even a man s sym. i 1 lathy Is pleasant and helpful. When we l live been in soma hour of weakness, to hav I brawny man stand beside us and promts- see ns through, what courage it gives to - j mr heart, and what strength lt gives to out ; Inn. Still mightier is a woman's 8 vol pat hy. Let htm tell the story who, when all his for unes were gone and all the world wis 17a nst him, cane home and found in that I )tue a wire who could write on tbe top ol he empty flour barrel, 'The Lord will pro ride," or write on the door of the empty rardrobe: "Consider the lilies of the field. 1 God o clothed tbe grass of the Held, will Ie not clothe us and ours?" Or let that young man tell the ttnry who as gone the whole round ot dissipation, the shadow of t je penitentiary Is upon him, ind even his father says: "Be off! Never lome borne again!" The young man flndi Sill his mother's arm outstretchei for him, Ind how she will stand at the wicket of the prison to whisper consolation or get down on lr knees before tbe governor begging foi P'lrdon, hoping on her wayward boy after III others are hopeless. Or let her tell the tory who, under villainous allurement and inpatient of parental restraint, has wan lered off from a home of which she was the dolintothe murky and thunderous mid light of abandonment, away from Ood, and further away until some time she is tossed In the beach of that early home a mere jplinter of a wreck. W ho will pity her now! who will gather those dishonored locks Into ler lap? Who will wash off the blood from lie gashed foreheadl Who will tell her ol bat Christ who came to save tbe lost? Who rill put that weary head upon the olean rhite pillow and watch by day and watch y night until the hoarse voice of the sufferei incomes the wbispnr. and the whisper be tomes only a faint motion of the lips, and tie faint motion of the lips is exchanged foi isilent look, and the cue feet are still, and he weary eyes are still, and the frenzie i leart is still, and all is still? Who will hava lompassion on her when no others hav 10m passion? Mother! Mother! Oh, there Is something beautiful in sym. Hitny in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy, notut-rly sympathy, yea, ami neighborly lympathy! Why was lt that a city was irousn.l with excitement when a little child ras kidnapped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspapers filled with the story of a little child? It was be inuse we are all one in sympathy, and every lareut sad: "How if it had been my Lizzie? low if it had been my Marv? How it it had ' ff ; leeti mv Maud? How if it had been mv ihiM? Haw if there had been one unoccupied lillow in our trundle bed to-night? How it ny little one bone of my bone and flesh ot ay flt-h were to-night carried captive into o.ne d-n of vagabonds, never to come back to ne? How if it had been my sorrow ookin'4 out of the window watching and vaili'i that sorrow worse than death?" Then when they found her, why did we de lta re the news all tlmugl- honanhoU 'mdevsryo-sdy that knew how to pray said, Th iuk God?" Because we are all one, tounl by one great golden chain of sym pathy. Oh. ys, but I have to tell you that f you will aggregate all neighborly, manly rifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found mly a poor starving thing compared with he sympathy of our great Shilob, who has irtld in His lap the sorrows of the ages and vno Is ready to nurse on His holy heart the roes ot all who will oome to Him. Oh, what 1 Ood: What a Saviour we have! But in larger vision see the Nations in ome kind of trouble ever since the world ras derailed and hurled down the embank nents. T.te demon or sin came to the vorlt', but other demons have gone through it her worlds. The demon of conflagration, ie demon of volcanic disturbance, the de non of destruction. La Place says he saw one world in the orthern He nisohere sixteen months bnrn ng. Tyoho Bnttie said he saw another world luroiug. A French astronomer savs that in 1 190 years 1500 worlds have disappeared. I 10 not seewny mn iets nnu it so nam to De aeve that two worlds stopped in Joshua's tfme, when the astronomers tell us that 1500 irorids have stopped. Even the moon is a world in ruins. Stellar, luuar, solar catas trophes innumerable. But it seems as if tbe nost sorrows have been reserved for our vorld. By one toss of the world at TIcuboro, if 12,00(1 inhabitants only twenty-six people escaped. By one shake of the vorld at Lisbon in five minutes 0,000 perished, and 200,000 before the earth Mopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switz erland, burying the village of Ooldau. A mountain falls in Italy in the night, when MOO people are asleep, and they never Srouse. By a convulsion of the earth Japan broken off from China. By a convulsion ol (he earth the Caribbean Islands broken off from America. Three islands near the nouthofthe Ganges, with 840.000 inhabi tants a great surge of the sea breaks over Ihem, and 214,000 parish that day. Alas, lias, for our poor world! It bas been re lent ly discovered that a whole continent has rank, a continent that connected En rope and Itnerica part of the inhabitants of that con Inent going t-y Europe, part coming to tmerica over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys ot the Mississippi, and re are finding now the remains of their Bounds and their cities in Mexico, in Color ado and the tablelands ot the West. It is a kiatter of demonstration that a whole oontl tent has gone down, the Azores off the coast j If Spain only the highest mountain of that mnken continent. Plato described that con- Inent, its grandeur, the multitude of its in labltants, its splendor and Its awful de gruotion, and the world thought lt was a romance, but archsaologists have found out It was history, aud the English and the Ger man and the American fleets have gone forth with arcbssologists, and the Challenger, and the Dolphin, and the Gazelle bave dropped inchor, and in deep sea soundings they have bund tbe contour ot that sunken contiuent. Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks, mthe skv, onthj sea, onthe flora and the taunal Astronomical trouble, geological trouble, Oceania trouble, political trouble, lomestio trouble, and standing in the pres. mee of all those stupendous devastations 1 isk If I am not right in saying that the great rrant of this age and all ages Is divine sym- Sttby and omnipotent comfort, and they art and not in the Brahma of the Hindoo 01 Ihe Allah ot the Mohammedad, but in thi Ohrist unto whom shall the gathering of th people be. Other worlds may fall, but thii morning star will never be blotted from the eavens. The earth may quake, but this rock f ages wilt never be shaken from its foun dations. The same Christ who fed thi WOO will feed all the world's hunger. Tbl lame Christ who cured Bartlmeus will illu mine all blindness. The same Christ whe made the dumb speak will put on ever tongue a bosoanna. The same Christ wh iwoke Lazarus from tbe sarcophagus wil! ret rally all the pious dead in glorious res urrection. "I know that my Bedeemet !veth,"and "to Him shall the gathering ot he people be." Ah, my friends, when Christ larts thoroughly and auickly to lift this Dlserable wreck of a sunken world lt Will nt take Him lontf to lift it. I have thought that this particular age it hioh we live mav be given up to discoveries ind inventions by which through quick and Instantaneous communication all cities and ill communities and all lands will be irouirht together, and then in another period perhaps these inventions which bave been ised for worldly purpos-s will be brought lut for gospel invitation, and some preat prophet of the Lord will eome ind snatch the mysterious, sublime md miraculous telephone from the 1 land of commerce, and. all lands and king- 0ms connected by a wontlrous wire, this prophet of the Lord may, through tele- phonic communication, in an instant an- touace to all Nations pardon and sympathy tnd life through Jesus Christ, and then. tutting the wondrous tube to the ear of the Lord's DTODhet. the response shall oome kaok, "t beitevelnGoi, ths lathe- JUmlgltfy, H'ter ot heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son." I Ton and I may not live to see the day. 1 ( bink those of us who are over forty years ot tffe can scarcely expect to see th ilay. t ex. Mfet before that time our bodies will be bund aMeep in the hammocks of th old fospel ship as It ffo-e sailinir on. Bat Chriit , trill wake us up in time to see the athiv- bent. We who have sweated in th hot karvest fields will be at the door of the ear. ter when the sheaves some in. That work or which in this world we tolaed an I wept Ind struggled and wore ourselves out lhall not come to consummation anl w te oblivious ol the achievement We will te allowed to oome out and shake bandi aith the victors. We who fought tn tlie artier battles will have jtl.it as muoh riirhi to rejoice as t hose w no reddenel their fe-tr jit ;,7ntU . ' ,?' ,yB 'i , , , ull nJ V""1.?' eol'IwW"tJ!r e last Armageddon. A, yea. thoe whi' the name of a disciple; those who could nly scrape a handful ot lint for a wound-i toldler; those who eould only a lminister to ld age in his deoreptttude; those who coul 1 Inlv ooax a poor waif of the street to g 1 lack home to her Ood; those who coul I inly lift a little child in the arms ot Chris, rill have aa much right to take part ia the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as 1 Chrysostom. It will be your victory an I dine as well as Christ's, He the crnqiimrf re shouting in His train. Christ the victor Sill pick cut the humblest ot Hisdisciplesln lbs nrowd, and turning half around on thi White horse of victory H- shall point her out tor approval by the multitude as He saw, "She did what she eould." Then putting His band on tbe hea l of some man, who by his Industry made one talent do the wtr't ol ten. He will say: "Thou hast been faithful iver a few things. I will make thee rul' i ver ten cities." Two different thejr.ei vbout the fulfillment of this promise. There are people who think Christ will ome In person and sit on a throne. Perhaps He may. I should like to see the scarred feet roiug up the stairs of a palace in which all the glories of the Alhambra, and the Ta) Uabal, and St Mark's, and tbe Windsor pal lee are gathered. I should like to see tbe rorld pay Christ in love for what It did to Him in maltreatment. I should ilka to be ' ne of the grooms of the chargers holdinif the stirrup as the King mounts. Ob, what rlorious time lt would be on earth if Christ would break through tha heavens, and right here where He has suffered and died hav this prophesy fulfilled, "Unto Him shall the fathering of the people be." But failing la mat I bargain to meet you at the ponderous -ate of heaven on the day when our Lord tomes baok. Garlan is of all Nations on His Drow of the bronzed Nations of the South ind the pallid Nations of tbe North Eu rope, Asia, Africa. North and South America ind the other continents that mny arisa tneantime from the sea to take the places ol their sunken predecessors; the arch of Trajan, iroh ot Titus, arch of Triumph in tha Champs Elysees, all too poor to weiooma !his King of kings, and Lord ol lords, and Conqueror of conquerors in Bis august arrival. Turn out all heaven I 0 meet Him. Hang all along the routs ' the flags of earthly dominion, whether leoorated with crescent or star or eagle r lion or coronet. Hang out heaven's . brightest banner, with its one star of Betble tern and blood striped of tbe oross. I hear ' the Drooesslon now. Hark, the tramD of the r91, th rumbling of the wheels, the clat- Seringof the hoofs and the shout of tha riders; Ten thousand times ten thousand an. ihousandsof thousands. Put up in heaven's Ibrary, right beside the completed volume If the world's ruin, tbe completed volume It Shiloh's triumph. The old promise strug tling through the ages fulfilled at last, 'Unto Him shall the gathering of the people e." While everlasting ages roll Etexu 1 I'nu jiiati "rcHtmotr souV And scenes of bliss forever new Bise in succession to their view. WILL SUPERSEDE THE BICYCLE. ifteea Miles an Hour Can Be Attained on Fnenmatlc Skates. A new form ot locomotion has bosn intro luced through the medium of the pneumatic load skate. This skate is in the form of a niniature bicycle for each foot. Attached 10 it is a support for the ankle, and below be sole are two pneumatic wheels of about three and a half inches diameter. It is llaimed that it gives any person a speed of Irom ten to fifteen miles an hour after but tttle praotice, and much higher speed can be ibtained by experts. The skate can be use! on a rough road, up ind down hill, and on all ordinary and Imooth surfaces. It is proposed to apply t to nearly every purpose for which bicycles lave hitherto been used, as it offers a cheap ind easy means of locomotion for postmen, larriers and numerous other persons, in. lluding country doctors and clergymen. It Is well adapted to ths purposes of pleasure eekers and tourists, and, in crowded thor lugbfares, it entails tbe minimum risk of ao Hdent or hindrance by traffic. A champion ligurs skater states that it ta nuoh less cumbersome than the bloyale, and ts motion gives even more pleasure to tha irearer. Uphill work is effected with lest ixertion than with the bicycle, and tn going (own hill there is not the slightest danger ot losing control of the feet. All the skate- has to do to preserve complete command of Umselt Deing to slightly cross the rear foot. Xt Is believed that this skate will meet tha teeds of many persons who are deterred b; lervousness from riding on the bicycle. SPONGE SUPPLY IN DANCER. Carelessness ot Cuban Fishermen Threat. ens tbe Beds With Entincdmi. The sponge supply ot tbe United States la (Briously threatened by the wanton oareless- aessotthe Cuban sponge flsn-. ten. Foi leveral years they have been gat taring the mall or infant sponges witu tt j. of larger growth, 'ine Ineviiaoie rem I. is that the uban sponge beds, from w iicii the greater portion of sponges used in the United States lome, are threatened with total extinction. Already prices bave advanced, and a still .urther increase is probable in a verv short time. The shipments of sponges to dealers Vary greatly in size and time ot receipt. To gatber them it is necessary that the water hould be absolutely clear, and if for any reason the ocean is disturbed in nfbre thnu ordinary degree over the sponge beds, the Bsheamen must wait for clear water per. laps a week, or even a mont b. ine sponges which come from Cuba are known as medium grade, the variety in gen eral use. Florida and Nassau iurulsh a pro portion of the supply of this grade, but noth ing like the amount that comes from Cuba. The best sponges are known as the Mediterra nean variety, as thev come from beds in th sea of that name. They are the heavy, whits sponges, and are always higti-priced'. Even the supply of these, however, is much small er than usual. 80 people can make up their minds that thia is not a Year of oheap sponges. Doi.'c express a nositive (minion no lens yon perfectly iiailer,ta:iti what you are talking about. How cau S'icli tleep imprinted im- ngts cit-ep tun at times tin a won!, a son 'jo, awake llie.ru 7 lt is in live twice wu.n we enjoy tl.e recollections of onr, farmer life. Mv name aud memory 1 leave to meu's charitable speerjlie-', to foreign nations atul to the next age. If ntouey h not thy sei vaut, it will be thy master. It is not ahvayc well to say what we thiuk, but it is well to think what vie may not say. How is it that sane pooplo show their tempers when they lose them? How can I know wny stocks fluctuate? If I knew I would iiioke a fortune. Besponfibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble. Dignity that is a misfit is the cs lenoe of bur'esque. it is pitiful to see ths penalties xhich folly has to psy. An extreme rigor is sore to arm everything against lt, .
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