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MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1896.
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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
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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
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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,
.