B. F. BOHWEIEB, THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. 1.. MIFFUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18. 1896. NO. 14. 1 1 I 4 -7. 3. . jw' w at v.a CHAPTER XXXVII. (Continued.) After a short stay with her mother sbi determined to return to Mm. Deuo, till discovery she had mnde having made h mother's house unbearable. Aa sbe walked swiftly on her way bad ahe panned several people on the road, and a little way from Mrs. Dene's bunga low ahe overtook Mr. Knollys, also hurry ing home. An impulse she did not wair to define prompted her to quicken he ateps and lay her hand upon his arm U attract his attention. Evidently deep in thought, he did- uo notice her at once; then, when she spokt his name, he put up his glasses ant looked down at her in some surprise. "Why, Miss Knox, is that you? Sure ly thta is very late for you to be out. Th Tellings are very cold and damp." "I have just been to see my mother,' ah. explained. "Ah, you are staying still with Mr Dene, I supK8e?" "For the present, yes." "She is au exceedingly pleaaing worn an," observed the Deputy Commissioncij with more than his ordinary pomposity t manner, "and a most kind friend." "I think I ought to know that,' ats Jane, th. tears coming to her eyes as sh remembered the unvarying goodness sh had received ever since she bad knowi her first, and wondering if it would U extended to her now if all were disco ered. But Mr. Knollys, who disliked any thing approaching to enthusiasm, onlj coughed. I am glad I overtook you, Mr. Knol lys," continued Jane, excitedly, aa he di4 not respond. "I wanted to say something about about what we were talking of th ether day." Again the gold-rimmed glasses werfj brought to bear upon the girl's whittt pained face. "I shull be glml to hear anything thai will throw any further light upon thai mysterious murder," he answered, look Ing at her keenly. "I hare nothing to tell you about that,' was tho reply gireu in a low voice; "I only wanted to assure you that the sti plcion, which I believe yon shared wit! me when I spoke to you last, is entirely Withont foundation. I don't know how We could have thought it." "Huuiph!" ejaculated Mr. Knollys. "Tou don't believe me?" "My dear lady, I have no reason t doubt your word, only you must allow me to have my own opinions without reference to yours. That we at any timi suspected the same person of th. crimt la a surmise on yonr part, and no cert tainty. Of this much I may positively in form you thought doubtless it Is lndi erect to hit at a denouement to a lady-f th. murderer of Trooper Lynn will no remain much longer at large, unless-" which is not likely I have made a great mistake." "Have I any reason to be afraid?" shf ventured, tremulously. "That, my dear Miss Knox, Is a que tion yon must ask yourself. Ah, this 14 Mrs. Dene's, and our conversation is it an end." "Will you forgive me for coming back) Mrs. Dene? Will you let me stay witt yon a little longer?" she begged, her lovet ly hazel eyes, by the Intensity of theii axe, betraying that there waa mor than at first sight appeared in th. ainaplt entreaty. And Nora Dene, who was nothing If nol sympathetic, and never marred a gracefu act by awkward questions or conditions folded her tenderly in her arms. "Yon may stay with me always. If yoi" like," she replied. CHAPTER XXXVIIL It waa two days after the receipt ol Jane's letter that Barry Larron presented himself at the bungalow where she wai staying and asked if she were In. Th. re ply was In the affirmative. A few momenta later Jane stood befor Aim, and he forgot all things mnndant la the presence of th. one pure influence f his life. Now as she stood before him, her face turned away, her small fingers nervously Interlaced, he determined to strain evert nerve to win her. Th. mere dread ol losing her seemed more than he could bear. What would the reality be? H controlled his agitation by an effort, and his voice was quite calm, though full of feeling when at last he spoke. "Will yon forgive me that I wished to hear my fate from yonr own Up.?" h asked. "I still think," she answered, "It M needless pain to both." "Is there nothing nothing I can say te move you?" She shook her head; and something Id the gesture, which waa full of determine tion, sent back bis thoughts to the timt when be bad known her first, a little, shy. unformed girl.-who surely then could no have had the auojclty to refuse a man In his position. Why had h. temporised and delayed so long? "Jane," he said, suddenly, "are yor nappy?" "Do I look so?" she counts-questioned, bitterly, turning a piteous, tear-atainW face to him. "Miss Knox, for some time I have thought it waa my duty to make publit the suspicions you expressed to me ones aa to Colonel Prinsep'a complicity. If nol actual guilt, in the murder of Troopef Lynn," he observed, slowly, watching with almost diabolical delight each change in her expression. "It waa regard for you alone that induced me to keep" your secret hitherto: but you cannot ex' meet that to influence me now." "I did not expect it." He had waited so pointedly for her W speak that ah. was obliged to answer, though scarcely conscious of what sh aaid. She knew Stephen Prinsep to bf guiltless; but others had not the knowl edge that she possessed. Circumstantial ewteiKit' nvoi:TJ"Tio strong against him. Could ho prove his innocence? CoulJ he prove it for him, without betraying her father? Must the horrible choice be thrust upon her of parent or lover? An Inquiry must inevitably bring so much to light tbnt waa hidden now. "For your snke, I would keep it secret tiH." whispered Barry Larron, in her ear. "Tou would? Oh " Again her speech waa stayed as (he net his glance. It waa aaXNaaiae.Jt connect either sympathy or "pity with the hard, steadfast gate that rested on her. "I ought to have said 'my wife's sake,' to make my meaning clear. The fate of mere than one dependa on yonr reply. Come to me even now, with hatred in y.ur heart aa I hav. read it in your eyes te-day. and I will be grateful for the half loaf which la better than no bread. My wife, 1 promise you, shall have no cause for sorrow!" But Jan. only shivered and turned away. She could not even consider the advisability of what he had urged, so peat was the repulsion engendered by his words and manner. To tow to love and honor a man toward whom ahe felt like that would be a positive wrong which nothing could make right. "If that is the condition, you must de your worst. I have no fear bat that Col onel Prinsep can fight his owa battle, even against such determined malice," she replied, bravely, and turned to leave tlie room. "You defy me?" he asked. Intercepting her, and looking down meaningly late her face. Bhe returned his gase without flinching. Whatever fear ahe felt must not be be trayed to him. "I do. Allow me to pass. Major La ron." A moment he hesitated. He felt that this would be the last Interview with herj that he had played, and lost not only his stake, but even the poor friendliness that had been his before. And he loved her sol The temptation assailed him to at least taste all the wild sweetness that farewell might be. He had never kissed her scarcely even clasped her band with more than ordinary fervor, and ahe waa going from him now forever! Perhaps it was her pure, pale face, which with all Its winning prettinesa waa proud too, that restrained him; or, perhaps, he loved her better than he himself knew; at any rate, he drew back politely almost reverently to let her pass, and ahe did not even guess what madness had been In his thoughts. She sped back to her own room, and found Mrs. Dene waiting for bar there, seated on the edge of the bed reading the newspaper. "Well, dear'" ahe aaid, looking up, miling. "Is the 'bad quarter of an hour1 over?" "Thank heaven yea. Oh. Nora, he Is a very wicked man I" Perhaps you have not quite under' stood him, Jenny?" "Only too well, I am afraid." But the elder woman, who. withont knowing it, felt a tender pity still fur her former lover, whom yet she neither lovd nor regretted, shook her head. "H. waa never so black aa painted aot even so black as I fancy ha believes himself to be. If you could have cared for him sufficiently to marry him, I be lieve he would have proved the beat of husbands." Oh, Nora, I never, never could I Please say no more about It. Is that to-day's paper? Is there any news?" Not much. Except yes, this mar In- Inouiry into the murder of Troon., T,vn. . I thought it would com. to that WclL anything la better than all those hints , and lnnuendos that they have been writing I lately. Now the whole truth will come out, the murderer will be discovered, and wny, wnat la it, jenny r r or jane naa ieuen rorwara noon the bed in a paroxysm of grief. For the first time since the fresh in- herself to believe that there might be' somathlng in the rumors which had gone about. She could net but suspect that there was a little truth in the statement that the Quartermaster's daughter knew something of the circumstances of the man'a death; if not. why should ahe have been so agitated on hearing there was ta be a new inquiry? CHAPTER XXXIX. The announcement in the Indian Argus which had so startled Jane had also proved very disconcerting to th. IHputy Commissioner himself. He had thought that ha waa working so quietly, and yet already It had leaked out that he was working, which to a great extent must restrict, or might even render futile his efforts. Yet who could have so made public the Intentions which he had pur posely kept secret, only speaking of them to his thanedar and Jane Knox? That the latter would not have spoken of it he felt convinced. She was too deeply concerned In the matter to talk of It at random or lightly. One other person, beside him to whom that paragraph must hav. held such ter rible import, was seriously disturbed by it; and that was Stephen Prinsep. He knew that Jane possessed some knowl edge on the subject, and that It was this knowledge which had altered her so, and destroyed his hopes of winning har, for awhil. at least. Curiously enough he resolved to call on Mrs. Dene, and get her to persuade Jane to see him. But after all this proved an unneces sary precaution, for when he followed hie card, it was Jane herself who came in a moment afterward, her face flushed with the haste ahe hadymade to Job) him. "Mrs. Dene is out, but ahe will be back again almost directly, I think." she ex claimed, hurriedly. "And, oh. Colonel Prinsep, I have so wished to see yout" "Then I am very glad I came. Some bow I fancied you were wanting me," he answered, holding her hand In a firm yet gentle clasp. "But you will never guess why." "Are you quite sure I do net know?" "Oh, I hope not I hops not!" she esV claimed, earnestly. "I think I most have bean quite mad when I I believed "What, child what?" "That you had killed Jacob Lynn." The words were out; but, now that sbe heard her own voice express aloud what for so long she had only whispered fear fully to her heart, its whole enormity rose before her, and she wondered how for a moment she could have thought It pos sible. She fell upon her knees, her hand till held la his, the tears streaming from her eyes, "Oh, can yen ever forgive me, Sto phenr "What Is there I eould not forgive yen, Jenny?" he said, softly, in the low, ca ressing tones which, though strange to her so long, held still their powerful charm. "Tell ma why yen snsneoted me?" he naked, gently, drawing two chairs to the Ore, and s sating Mm If so naturally la one that she could net wall refuse to take fha athask 1 IAjJ then ah told him as much of ihm I mm ml-. ..1.4 L..k 1. .... ' tshe bad once believed condemnatory i seemed miserably weak, told thus to his face. "I did not always believe it," ahe fin- ,ieneo. apoiOKeticaJly "often the suspi- uua awuau aa nuicuioua ana uurouuu- ed as I know them to be now, and then- then He waited quietly for her to continue, looking straight into the fire, not at her downcast face. "1 could not bear the uncertainty any longer. I wanted to prove It on. way or the other, and to do so I went to your bungalow, when you were away, and "I know it, Jenny; I was there. I saw four An ejaculation of dismay escaped her lips, and ahe covered her face with her handa to hide Its burning crimson. She felt so ashamed, as though she could never meet his eyes again. What, oh, what must he hare thought?" "Don't be sorry about it, darling. You would not be if yon knew the comfort it has been all this time to be sure that you loved aa. stilL Impossible as It must oth erwise have seemed in the face of your determined coldness." KYou saw me at the writing-table?" he faltered. "I saw you kiss what I had written un derneath yonr photograph, and since then It has been a hundred times more dear," he concluded, warmly. "There was so much I could not understand in your be havior at that tune; but that one all Important fact at least waa clear yon loved me. That was all I cared to know. Yon wouldn't wish to rob me of that knowledge, Jenny? Lift up your face, darling: don't look so ashamed." He was standing beside her chair now. his hand resting on her shoulder; aud she looked up into his face. "I ought not to be ashamed of that, Ste phen not of loving you, 1 mean, but " "All the rest is blotted out, forgotten!" he declared. "But she repeated, nervously. "Don't say anything to spoil it, dear. Let ns talk of something else. You never spoke to any one else of your suspicions, did yon?" "Yes; Mr. Knollys asked me a great many questions some time ago, and 1 uui afraid he gathered something from my answers which made him think what I thought then. But directly I knew that you were Innocent, I told him so, only I am not sure that he believed me not quite sure, at least." "Never mind. Let him believe what he likes. Perhaps it may keep him off the right track." Then, meeting Jane's sur prised, confused glance, he added quick ly: "Tell me how you discovered it was not I." "Don't ask me," said Jane, in a low, pained voice. "It is all too terrible toe ad! (To be continued.) Hoop-Hunting. Mr. James I'ayn lived aa a boy among the Berkshire downs of England. "A marvellous expanse of springy turf," be calls them, "blown over by the most delicious airs and, though treeless, not without a certain wild beauty." Here one of the best of his juvenile sports was "hoop-hunting." a sport of which few readers are likely to have had any considerable experience. All that was requisite to enjoy this pastime was a high wind. We took our hoops, half a doxen of them sometimes, to the -top of the first bill, and started them; then, after one minute's "law" more correctly grace we followed them. But we never caught them save by misadventure. Their speed was incredible, and far surpassed that of any bicycle. Down one bill and up another they went, ap parently at the same rate; and when " wa , Dcle 8Ucn M roaa W,U1 n,8n unerveutju, ukj auruiuuuicu it with deer-like leaps and bounds, A more graceful sight could hardly be Imagined. I hare known a hoop to ran flT. miles, and to stop only because It arrived at a "bottom" the limit of the downs In that direction. It wonld have needed a race-horse to overtake them. w" hooP J brewery owned by an uncle of mine, and when ever the smell of brewing comes to my nostrils, I am, for half a minute, a boy again, caplesa, careless, with my foot on the tart and the mild west wind hi my hair. Flgnres In the Calendar. The figure 9 which came Into the cal endar on Jan. 1. 1888, will amy with us 111 years from that date, or until Dec. 81, 1909L No other figure has ever had such a long consecutive run, and the 9 Itself has only once before been In a race which lasted over a century that In which It continuously figured from Jan 1, 889, until Dec. 31, 089, a period of 111 years. Th figures 8 and 7 oc casionally fall Into odd combinations, but neither of them baa aver yet served for a longer period than 100 consecu tive years in our calendar since the present mode of calculating time was established. It Is also clear that from their relative positions among the numerals It la an impossibility for either of them to appear In data reck onings continuously for a longer period than a century. "Wearing of the Green" exists in sev eral forma and versions. The one best known In this country waa written by Dion Boudcault. It Is sung by "Shaun the Post" In the play "Amah na Pogne." Bermuda has a rifle corps of ladies. Cyclists should see that their shoe laeua a-e fastened before mounting a machine; for, at iu skating, a loose Co may cance a bad fall. The recent order ot the P esident consolidaliL-g po I' flices will add to the facilities of smaller cfiiee" and wi'.l apply to 30,000 postmasters. It is computet that there ia $1 000.OCO.00 J worth in gold and jewels a the bottom of the sea on the route be tween England and India. The influence of temper upon the 'one of the voice deserves much eon ideration. Habits of quernlouanes or ill nature will communicate a cat like qnality to the singing as infallibly as they give a quality to tho speaking voice. When an African bnflalo is wounded bv a hunter is is surrounded by several others, who immediately group themselves ronnd him and help him along in their midst, by shoving against bt side untd they have reached ; a place of safety. I -Before the coming ot the whites .e-i w PPl r,Te 7" known by a different name every few mile, in its course. Each tribe that dwelt along its banks gave It a name. ' and mora than SO of these local desig- i nations are preserved in tha narratives of the early travelers. JAMES K M'VIOKCR. . eteai Theatrical Hum' Becntt I ratatd by a Paralytic Stroke, I The recant paralytic atroke which prostrated James H. McVicker. the vet- 9rmM iit)ow manager and proprietor ot i uvkVu'i psl Z2l - co Theater, calls attention to this grand aid man of the stage. The atroke oc curred about 8 o'clock In the morning. Mr. McYlcker had been about and In hla usual . m. xTiCKan. health, attend ng ta business In the city the preceding day. Jims H. Mc Vicker la the oldest the atrical manager In Chicago and the Went. He was never profligate, but had a kindly heart and was generous to a fault. There Is perhaps not an other gantlemaa In the dramatic pro fession so popular aa Mr. McVicker, and thousands were deeply pained to learn af his affliction. Borne good stories are told of the hard Work necessary some times In the old U'riCKKB'S CHICAGO InlATIR. days to make the "ghost walk" at reg ular periods; how the stock company's salaries were paid one week with a couple of thousand borrowed from a good friend, to be returned the next week, and so around the circle. How ever, all difficulties were finally over- , rome. and, in 1S71, Mr. McVicker re built bis theater. He opened In August . of that year, himself assuming the lead ing role In the comedy, "Extremes." 1 1'he new house was then admitted to be me nanusomeet in the city, and for two months there was "standing room only" as a regular sign at Its doors. Then a drama never thought of made the theater Itself an accessory to one of the most terrible spectacles of the cen turythe Chicago tire of October, 1871. Tlile loss was a serious one for Mr. Mc- Vicker, but steadfast and determined to operate a model play-house, he went to work and rebuilt this house, and on Aug. 15, 1872. announced the opening of the third McVlcker's Theater. In 1885 the theater was remodeled, and was again burned to the ground Aug. 2fi. 1890. Mr. McVicker was sum mering In the East, and, upon receipt of a dispatch announcing his loss, de termined upon its immediate restora tion; and for the fifth time McVlcker's was soon opened to the public. FIRE PLACE, U t The Smallest Town on Earth Contains Two Hou.es. Fire Place, at the extreme eastern end of Long Island, N. Y., Is a village of two bouses and eight Inhabitants. It is the smallest village In the world and the one with the oddest history. Opposite the village and across three and a half miles of water Is Gardiner's Island, the first place to be settled hy an Englishman within the limits of New York State. The island was the first manorial estate In this country, and was purchased by Lion Gardiner In 1C39. LiDeal descendants of Lion Gardiner heve continued to own the island and to maintain a home there even to the present time. How soon after getting the Island the Gardiner began to realize the convenience of get ting to New York (where the Dutch were settled) by means of crossing to SMALLEST TOWlt OJt KARTH. Long Island and going overland is not known, but It was long ago. Return ing, they would build a fire on the beach, as a signal, and the boat would be brought back across the channel for them. The place where the boats land ed and the fires bnilt, which soon began to be called the Fire Place, was where the channel Is narrowest. When, a century after the first Gardi ser came, a house was built at tha ixtng Island landing. It was described as being at Fire Flnce. A second house was put up, and It, too, waa known t . R? Mng .at lre Flace- P. BBJn.i l,"n" lo lne two nouses, wu or wnicn .hewn, on the maps. Nor are the orfc S'u ot tho name the infinitesimal r, - .. , ., . . B'z,e ,of, tUe village the only curious polnts In resard to the P1' 14 wa8 luan camed Miller, who built the first house at Fire Place, and a man named Parsons who built the second. It Is inut! P, MiHgr, a ypeaj descjjnqn If TCt!s4Sy 1 jfpt of the first' "Miller, who now lives la the MiUer home, and It is William IL Parsons, a lineal descendant of the first Parsons, who lives In the Parson home. More than this, the ancient custom of fire building assigned to Gardiner's Island is still kept up. Ashes and charred wood from a recent fire may nearly always be found on the beaclu The Island contains over 3.000 acres, much of It billy and wooded. A stock farm is maintained there, and wild 4eer are preserved. PALACE OF FINANCE. Monetary Mart Which Waa Recently Dedicated In New York City. The new clearing-bouse recently dedi cated to New York city Is a veritable palace of marble and gold. The tradi tional notion of the grim, stern house of business is utterly exploded in this superb pile, which more resembles some Byzantine marvel of decoration and architecture than a place for tha exchange of mere money. The build ing Is situated unfortunately for the display of Its great external beauty. It was put up on a site on the north side of Cedar street, between Wall and Nassau streets. Cedar street, while convenient In location for the purpose to which the building is to be devoted, is a dark, narrow thoroughfare, and hence the approaches to the splendid structure are ill lighted and much of its gorgeousness is lost In this way. But once within Its walls there Is no lack of material for admiration from the most squeamish of critics. Two of the big apartments within are of espe cial Interest and beauty. These are the library and board-room. The bank presidents will meet In a room of gen nine splendor. There Is a golden ceil ing, laid In panels, with large cornices surported by marble pilasters. The doorways and windows are framed with Sienna marble, which is the most expensive of that material to be found. The mottled markings are softly blend ed and the surfaces polished like mir rors. A throne of oriental magnificence has been built for the Presideut. High above his bead will arl9e a massive panel of marble. The bankers will oc cupy great leather chairs of size sutll clent for two men. Nearby the board room is the library. Its walls are of mahogany, its ceiling superbly fres coed, and at one side Is a huge mahog any mantel, exquisitely carved and beautifully decorated In gold. These KEW YORK Cl.KARIKO HOUSS. rooms are on the second floor surround ing a central room In which the clerks and cashiers will work. The building, except the ground floor, will be oc cupied exclusively by the clearing house. LEANING TOWER IN RUINS. For One Day This 223-Foot Steel Shaft ile.embled Fiaa's Pride. The last vestige of the great midwin ter fair at San Francisco was removed recently when the tall tower on which the great searchlight was placed waa pulled down after several days of hard lalior. Dynamite was tried on the foundations at first without success. Enormous cables wound on windlasses were attached to the framework and pulled, while twelve Masts were fired In the four ten-foot cubes of cement that formed the foundation stones. With all that energy the tower only leaned a little to one side, and for thirty-six hours S.an Francisco had a leaning tower of Pisa. Tho number of blasts was doubled, more cables wei j attached, and at Inst In one long, grand pull, aided by twenty-four tliunderiu explosions, the T25 foot ubaft of steel toppled Flowly over, bent and twisted into fantastic shapes. The iron wa? then broken up for junk. The electric tower was a white ele phant to the men who invested money In it. It did not come anywhere near paying for Its construction. The com pany became Involved lu financial di fa culties, it is said, and when th mana gers learned that it would cost more to take the thing down than it would bring chopped into pieces they decided THK TOWER THAT WOULDN'T TOIBLE to allow the Park Commissioners to get rid of It. The tower stood in tho way of a grand concourse that Is be ing laid out This driveway runs through the park in which tLe mid winter fair was located. Some men never look for .where they axe not to find it. work BE. Di TDP6L The Eminent Divine'. Sermon. Sunday Rubject: "America for God. Tstt: "And I beheld mother bf -at aatalna ep out of the earth, and he bad tv onu 11 lamb, and he spake aa 4 cWioa." -Bevelation xriu., 1U b America mentioned in the Blbl-7 Learnm end eonsecrated men who hav. studied tht Inspired books of Daniel and Bavelatioi more than I hav. and understand them bnttm agree la saying that th. leopard mentioned la th. Bible meant G recta, and the beet meant Uedo-Persia, and the lion meant Babylon, and tha beast of the tt coming np ou of the earth, with two horns like a lamb and the voice of a dragon, means out country, because among other reasons It seemed to come np out of the earth when fk-iumbua dlsuovered it. and it has been for the most part at peace like a lamb unless as saulted by foreign foe, la which ease It has two horns strontr and sharp and th. volea of a dragon loud to make all Nations hear the roar of its Indignation. Is it reasonable to suppose that God would leave out from tho prophecies of His book this whole west srn hemisphere? No.no! "I beheld anoth er beast eomlng np out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he snake as a dragon. G-vmany for scholarship, England fot manufactories, Franoe for manners. Egypt to ttloulties, Italy for plot area, bat Amer- I start with the cheering thought that tha mm popular book on earth to-day Is tb. Bible, the most popular institution oa earta la-day Is th. church, and th. most popular sarin to-day ia Jesus. Bight from this sfidieBa. hunareds of men and women Wauia, it seed be, march out and die for Him, . Am I eonfldent In saying, "America toftody' It the Lord will help me, I will hew the strength and extent of the long HM l fortresses to be taken and give yon rorrvosons tor saying it can be done and Wilt be done. Let us decide. In this battle far God, whether we are at Bull Ban or at Gettysburg. Tnere Is a Fourth of JulyUh Way of bragging about this country, and the most tired and plucked bird that ever flew through the heavens is th. American eagle, so much so that Mr. Gladstone said to mo facetiously at Hawarden, "I hear that th. fish In your American lakes are so large that when oneot them is taken out th. entire lake is perceptibly lowered," and at a dinner given In Paris an American offered for a sentiment, "Here is to the United States bounded on the north by the aurora borealls, on the south by the procession of tha enul. noxes, on the east by primeval enaosandon the west by the day of judgment." The ef fect of such grandiloquence la to discredit the real facta, which are so tremendous they need no garnishing. The worst thing to do In any campaign, military or religious. Is to underestimate an enemy, nod I will have no part in such attempt at belittlement. This land to betaken for God, according to Hassel, the statistician, has 14.319,907 square miles, a width and a length vhat none but the Omniscient can appreciate,' Four Ell ropes put together and capable of holding and feeling, as it will hold and feed, accord ing to Atkinson, the statistician, it the world continues in existence and does not run afoul of some other world or get consumed by tha fires already burning In the cellars of the planet capable, I sav. of holding and feed ing more than 1,000,000.000 inhabitants. For you must remember it must bs held for God aa well sataken for God, anil the aat &00, 000,000 inhabitants must not be allowed to swamp the religion of the first 600.000,000. Not much u-e In taking the fortress if we annot hold it. It must be held until tha archangel's trumpet bids living and dead arise from this foundering planet. Tou must remember it ia nnlv ihnnt o'aloslc In tbe morning of our Nation's life. Great olties are to flash and roar among what arsoailed the "Bad Lands" of the Da kota and tbe great "Columbian plains" ot Washington gtate, and that on which we put Our schoolboy Angers on the map and spelled at as the "Great American' desert" Is, through systematic and consummating irri gation, to bloom like Chatsworth Park and be mads mora productive than those regions dependent npon uncertain and spasmodio raiuiau. aii inose regions, as well as all those regions already eultlvated, to be in habited I That was a sublime thing said by llanry Clay while crossing the Alleghany Mountains, and he was waiting for the stage horses to be rested, as he stood on a rook, arms folded, looking off into the valley, and torn, one said to him, '-Mr. Clay, what are you thinking about?" He replied, "I am listening to the oncoming tramp of the fu ture generation of America." Have you laid our home missionary scheme on such an infinitude of scaler If the work of bilnidnit one soul to God Is so great, can l.OOO.OUO.000 be rat ured? In thi mnnin already planted and to be overcome, pagan Ism has built ita altar to Brahma, and the Chinese are already burning incense in their temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk in other days with t he red wine of human blood at Lucknow and Cawopur and now frejh from the diabolism In Armenia, is trying to get a foothold here, and from the minarets of her mosques will yet mumble her blasphe mies, saying. "God is neat, and Mohammed la His prophet." Then there are the vaster multitudes with no religion atalL Thny worship no God, they live with no consola tion, and they die with no hope. No star of peace points down to the manger in which they are born, and no prayer ia uttered over the grave into which they sink. Then there Is alcoholism, Its piled up demijohns and beer barrels aud hogsheads of fiery death, a barricade high and long as the Alleghenies snd B -ckies and Sierra Nevada., pouring forth day and night their ammunition of wretchedness and woe. When a German wants to take a drink, he takes beer. When an Englishman wants to take a drink, b. takes ale. When a Scotchman wants to take a drink, he takes whisky. But when an American wants to take a drink hetakes any thing he can lay his hands on. Plenty of statistics to tell how much money Is spent in this country for rum, and how many drunkards die. But who will give us the statistics of how many hearts are crushed under the heel of this worst demon of tbe eenturies? How many hopes blasted? How many children turned out on the world ao eursed with the stigma of a debauched an cestry? Until tbe worm of the distillery bo eomes th. worm that never dies and the moke of tbs heated wine vats becomes the smoks of ths torment that aseendeth up for ever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing not with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from that dlrootlon it can get no help, bat with rivht hand stretahed down toward the per dition from which it came up swearing that It Will not cease as long as there are any homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men and women to destroy, any Immortal souls to damm, any more Nations to balk, any Bore civilisations to extinguish. Then there Is what in America wa call socialism, in Franc, communism and in Bussia nihilism, the three names for one and the same thing, and having but two doc trines in Its creed. First, there is no God second, there shall be no rights of property. One of their chief journals printed this senti ment: "Dynamite can be made out ot tbe dead bodies of capitalists as well as out ot bogs." One of the leaders of communism left inscribed on his prison wall, where ha had been justly incarcerated, these wordsi "When once you are dead; there is an end ol everything. Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever you can only don't let yourselves be grabbed. Amen." There are in this country hundreds of thousands of these lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore It when they cannot get work, but those bt whom 1 speak will not do work when they can get it I tried to employ one who asked mo fot money. I said. "Down in my seller I hav some wood to saw, and I will pay yon foi It." For a little while I heard the saw go ing, and then I heard it no more. I went down stairs and found TUe" wood, but thi workman had disappeared, taking lor eons psny both buck and saw. Hocialism, communism snd nihilism meal "Too wicked to acknowledge God and to lazy to earn a living," and among th. might lest obstacles to be overcome are those ot ganlzed elements ot domestic, social au political rain. i-Itareerttbe fastnesses of UflqUtTaal atheism and fraud and political eorrnptiol and multiform, hyjria beaded, million armei abominations all over the land. While tht mightiest agencies for righteousness on eart are good and healthful newspapers, ant1 good and healthful books, and our chief d pendenca for Intelligence and Ohrlstala achievement is upon them, whst word among the more than 100,000 words ia out vocabulary can describe th. work of thai archangel of mischief, a corrupt literature) What man, attempting anything for Go and humanity, has escaped a stroke of itt filthy wing? What srood una. ha. m. Its hinderment? What other obstacle in all the land so appalling? But I cannot nam more than one-half the battlements, the bas tions, the Intrenohmeuta, th. redoubts, tht fortifications to be stormed and overcome n Ihis country Is ever taken for God. The sta, H sties are so awful that if we had aothlns but the multiplication table and the arith metic tbe attempt to evangelise America would be an absurdity higher than the towel ot Babel before It dropped oa th. plain ol Shinar. Where are the drilled troops to march against those fortiflaattons as long as the continent? Where are th. batteriesthal tan be nnlimbered against these walls? Where are the guns of large enough eallbst to storm ineso gates? well, let us look around and see, the first ot all, who Is out leader and will be our leader until th. work Is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians. with 10,000 Italians. General Bharaan, os ne side, and Stonewall Jaekaon. an tha ftther, each with 10.000 troops, eould do nore than some other generals with 10,0011 troops. xnsrougB boat in which washing, ton crossed the Icy Delaware with a few salt fozen troops was mightier than the ship f war that during the American Bevolo- noa earn, through the Narrows, a goa at soh porthole, snd sank in Hell Gaia. Our leader, like most great leaders, was iu aa ttiacare place, ana It was num Die home, about flv. miles from Jerusalem. Those who were out of doom that night said that there was stellar oom motton, and music that came out ot ths llouds, as though th. front door of heaven lad been set open, and that the camels heard 9 Is'first infantile cry. Then He came to th. Burest Doynooo mat mother was ever proud it. and from twelve to thirtv vean of was off in India, If traditions there are aeon mto, ana men returned to His native land, uad for three yean had His pathway sur rounded by blind eyes that He Illumined, and epileptic patients to whom He gave rubicund health, and tongues that H. loosed from silence into song, and those a-hose funerals He stopped that He might siYH uaca to oereave.i motners their only soys, and those whose fevered pulses He had restored into rhythmic throb, and whose paralytic limbs He had warmed into health mi circulation pastor at Capernaum, but laming evangelist everywhere, hushing Iiyinii tempests and turuiuir rolling km Into solid sapphire, and for the rescue of a race suomtttej to courtroom filled with nowung miscreants, and to a martyrdom it the sight of which the sun fainted and felt back in the heavens, and then trending tha slouds homeward, like snowy mountain pen, tin neaveu iook mm back again, more a favorite than He had ever been: bnt.1 coming again. He is on earth now, and tha Nations are gathering to His standard. Fol lowing Htm were the Scotch covenanters. the ihublan legion, the victims ot the London Haymarket, the Piedmontese runerers, tne riigrlm fathers, the Hu guenots, and uncounted multitudes ol the pat, joined by about 400,000,000 of tht present, ana wun tne cert.iluty that all Na tions shall huzza at His chariot wheel Ht roes iiirtn, the moon unaer His feet and tht Mars of heiven for His tiara the might; lea ler. He of Drumcloir and Rnthnr-.ll Bridge and Bannockbnrn and the one who whelmed Spanish Armada, "Coming up from E'lom, with dye 1 garments from Bozrah, traveling In the greatnes of His strength. nighty tosave," and behind wnom we fall Into line to-day and march in the nampaign !hat is to taJre Amexio fr;Ootl. lloauualj Hosannalil Wave ail the palm branches! At His teet put down your silver and your gold, ,u uom ou juu win case ueiore mm youi With such a leader, do you not think we sanooitr av, do you think we can? Why, mail, inuifaris iiiive aireauy oeea taken. Where ia American slavery? Gone, and the South, a heartily a-t the North, prays, uPeace to lis ashes." Where g bestial polygamy? Gone by the flat of the United States Government, urged on by Christian lentiment, and Mormonlsm, having retreated In 1830 from Fayette, N. Y., to Kirkland, O., nd In 1838 retreated to Missouri, and :in 1816 retreated to Salt Lake City, now iivorced from its superfluity of wives, will oon retreat into the Pacific, and no basin Imaller than an ocean could wash out Its pollutions. Illiteracy going down under the work of Slater and I'eabody funds and Sab bath schools of all the churches of all deno minations! Pugilism, now mnde unlawful by Congressional enartment, the brutal custom knocked out in the first round! Corruption it the ballot box, by law of registration and Mher Fafeguards, made almost impossible! Churches twice as large as the old on a. tha enlarged supply to meet the enlarged de mand! Nihilism, getting a stunning stroke by the summary execution of Its exponents after they bad murdered the policemen In Chicago, received its deathblow from tha re sent treaty which sends back to Simla th blatant criminals who had been regurgitated pa oar American shore. Tje very things that have been quoted as perils to this Nation are going to help Us salvation. Great cities, to oft an mentioned as great obstacles the Ktar ot crime and th. reservoirs of all laities are to lead In the work of kospellzatloa. Who give most to home nlssiona, to asylums, to religious edu tioa, to all styles of humanitarian tndChrlntlan Institutions? The cities. From ahat places did the most relief go at the time of Johnstown flood, and Michigan fires, and Charleston earthquake, and Ohio Ireeliets7 From the cities. From what place lid Christ send out His twelve apostles to rospslize the world? From a city. What place will do more than any other place, by Its contribution of Christian men and women tnd means, in this work of taking America tor God? New York City. The way Paris roes, goes Franoe. The way Berlin goes, toes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes, toes Scotland. The way London goes, goes England. The way New York and a couple Mher cities go, goes America, Hay th. Eternal God wake us up to the stupendous sue! Another thing quoted pessimistically Is tha vast and overtopping fortune in this country, and they say it means concentrating wealth and luxuriousness and display and moral ruin. It Is my observation that it Is pwplel who have but limited resources who make the most splurges, and I ask you. Who are wdowing colleges and theological seml aarieft? Did you ever hear ot Pater Cooper and James Lenox, and sainted William E. Dodge, and ths Lawrences, Amos and Ab ott, while I refrain from mentioning living benefactors who, quits as generous and Christian, are In this assembly at this mo ment planning what they ean do in these days, and In tbeir last will and testament in this campaign that proposes taking America for God? The widow s mite, honored of the Lord, Is to have its part in this con tinental capture, but we must have more than that, and more right away. Many ol the men that expect to get the blessing for bestowing the widow's mite will not get the blessing. In the first place, they are not widows, and In the next place they have no "mite."' The time is coming hasten It, Lordand i think you and I will see it, when, as Jo. seph, the wealthy Arimathsean, gave for tht dead Cbrist a costly mausoleum, the affluent men and women of this country will rise is their strength and build for our King, one Jesus', tne throne or this A.uericaa conti nent. Another thin? quoted for discouragement, but which I quote for encouragement. Is for eign Immigration. Kow th-it from Cattle Garden we turn back by the first poor ship the foreign vagabondism, wo are gfttin people, the vast majority of whom come to make au honest living, among tlietn some ot the bravest and the best, ir yon sliould tarn back from this land to Europe the foreign ministers of tbe gospel, and tha foreign at torneys, and tbe foreign merchants, nu 1 the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of ear pulpits, our courtroom?, our store houses and our beneflcent institution, and What a putting back of every monetary, merciful, moral and religious interest of the land! This commingling here of all Na tionalities under the blessing of God will J reduce in seventy-five or 100 years be most magnificent style of man and woman tbe world ever saw. They will have the wit ot one race, tlVUiojUianes of to other nee, the kindness of another, the generosity ot another, the assthatte taste of another, tb. high moral character of another, and when that m m and woman step forth, their brain an 1 nerve and muscle an intertwining of the (Tiers of all Nationalities, nothing but the now eloj trio photographic apparatus, that can see clear through body, mind and soul can take ot them an adequate picture. . But the foreign population ot America is less than one-eleventh of all our population, a:id why all thta fuss about foreign Immigration? Eighty-nine bora Americans to eleven for eigners! If eighty-Dins of us New Jersey men or eighty-nine of us New Yorkers or eighty-nine of ns Ohloans or eighty-nine ot as Georgians or eighty-nine ot us Yankees sr. not equal to eleven foreigners, then we are a starveling, lllltputiaa group ot huniuu Nil that ought to be wiped out of existence. Bat now what are the weapons by which, nder our omnipotent leaaer. tbe real Obstacles In th. way of our country's rrangelbDation, the 10,000 mile Sevastopol, sr. to b. leveled? Th. first eolumbiad, with range aaongh to sweep from eternity to atsrnity, as the Bibla, millions otlts copies going out, millions oa millions this, the monarch of books, that has made all the aifforanos between China and the Unite i States, bstwten Africa and America; a book declaring In every styl. of phraseology that all Nations are to be eon verted, and does aot that Include our Nation? If tha Apocalyptic angel Is to fly across the con tinents, will he not fly across this con tinent? The worst Insult I eould offer you would be to doubt your veracity, and shall w. doubt God's promise? Then there are all the gospel batteries, manned by 70,000 pastors and horn, missionaries, over th. eead of each one of whom is the shield of llvine protection, and in the right hand ef aeon th. gleaming, two-edged sword f the Infinite Spirit! Hundreds of thousands of private soldiers for Christ, narohing under to. on. starred, blool griped flag of Emanuel! They are marching an! Eptaoopaoy, with the sublime roll of Its liturgies; Methodism, with Its battle ory f "Tb. swurd of the Lord aud John ITesley;" the Baptist church. w.th Its glorious navy sailing up our Dragons aad Saaramentos and Mississippi, and Pi asbrtsriaalsm, moving on with tbe tattle ary ef "Th. sword of tha Lord and fobs gees And then, after awhile will torn, the gases tides of revival sweeping over the laa ta. OS.OOO conversions in 1857 eelipaed bf (ft salvation of millions in a day. and ta. leer A atari can armies of the Lord's eost an rabies te ward eaoh other, the eastern army SjarisMag west, the western army mareblag east, in northern army marching louth, tis aeetharn army marching north. Shoulder te saoeidert Tramp, tramp, tramp! Until they meet mld-oontineut, having taken America tor God) The thunder of the bombardment Is al ready In the airf and when the last bridge of apposition is taken, and the last portcullis of atan is lifted, and tbe last gun spiked, and the last tower dismantled, and tbe last sharger of Iniquity shall have been burled back upon its hvinches, what a time ot re loicingl We will see it, not with these eyes, which before that will be closed in blessed Bleep, but with strong and better vision, when tbe Lord once in awhile gives us a va aation among the doxologies to come down and see the dear old land which I pray may always be the lamb of tbe text, mild and peaceful, inoffensive, but, in case foreigs Nations assail It, having two horns of arunr and navy strong enough to hook them back and hook them down and a voice louoer than a dragon, yea, louder than ten iii'.iu Mind thunders, saying to the billows ot jL6 atio superstition and European arrogauee, "Thus far Shalt thou go. and no fart tier, ar aere shall thy proud waves be staid:" PENSIONERS ON THE ROUU lecretarjr Smith Gives th. Senate t'wm Intarrstlns Facta. I MapoM. to m voaolutloa, ,H, Occtetisiyr f the Interior informed the Senate tuut there were, January 1, 1898, pensioners un ha rolls as follows: General law, 451,876, ui whom 100,711 are widows, mothers, children. Ito.t under aot of June 27, 18W, 481. '231, v ghlch 102,822 are widows, mothers, children, Kc. war of 1812, 85S3, of which 807 are Ri'tows and 16 survivors; war with Mexico, 1.1,165. of which 12,241 are survivors and 1921 widows; Indian wars of 1832-1812, 6979, ft which 2867 are survivors and 4112 widows. 3rand total, 966,834. July 1, 189j, this grand otal was 970,524. Tbe total loss to tbe roll from July 1, lS9.r, p January 1, 1896, is 21,112. During the six nonths covered by tbe inquiry pension certl loates were issued as follows: Under the reneral law, 3550) act of 1890, 13.314; under lundry acts, 618; total originals, 17.412. Reissues amounted to 26,443; total of nil Masses, 43,9-25. During tbe six months period, 8417 cases were dropped for destructive oauses. as fol lows: For disability ceased, 2320; on account f desertion and deficient military service, (69; on account of fraudulent testimony, 83; tor vicious habits, 18; lor Immorality, 102 all of whom were widows); on account of alsloyalty of soldiers. 637: for non-depend- anee, 46; for being pensioned under other laws. 39; disability or death not due to the (erviee, 93; on account ot re-enlistment, 2; loldlers on whose account elaim waa mad. found to be stlU living, 4; declarations being invalid, A COST OF THE CUBAN WAR. fbe Spaniards Say They Hav. Spent 00,000,000 In a Year. Madrid papers'oontaln some curious official Satisfies regarding ths war In Cuba. Ao- toordlng to these there were sent to the Island sp to March, 1896, 118.000 men. Thirteen thousand of these were sent at the time ot the outbreak of the rebellion. The eost et the war thus far is placed at 50,000,000. for the second year the cost Is estimated at 175,000,000, Each soldier in Cuo t coats the government saoo annually. Dur: ug the first rear 406 soldiers were killed aui 3472 died from yellow fever. xne Havana correspondent oi tne London Pall Mall Oaaette says that Captain-General V eyler will no more suppress the rebellion than did General Marti nes Campos. The United States, he adds, should, on the score Of humanity and her general political and Bnanoisi Interests, insist on autonomy for ti AsMtratloa for a Salt, ta Ike Hbet salt bronaht bv the Governor sf Vermont against the Rutland Herald to reoovat aiM.OOO because ot an article oharg ig th. Uovarnor with tbs responsibility for liquor soiling In ths Tan Ness House at Bur lington, owned and kept by Governor Wooy bury, a stipulation has been signed by buTa parties submitting the matter for arbitration to th. Jastiaes ot the Supreme Court. Horealass Carriages Blakins Headway. Horseless carriages are gaining headway in Paris. Four hundred and twentv-slx of jibes, vehicles have been registered at the irans rroieciure ok iroiiue. They who have lifiht in luembclves ill not revolve as patellites. A lit" of pleasure makes even the strongest nnml frivolous at lat. if you would know the vnlne of money; go at,d try to borrow sonic Tribunals fall to tb.3 ground with the peeoo they are no longer able to uphold. Some neat and attractive Gifts for Euchre Prize, Weddings and Birthday Presents at Queen's, Borne to the fasciontion of a nume surrender judgment hoodwiukad. Trust reposed in noblo nature 1 obliges luem the more. Want and sorrow are tbe wages that folly earns for itself. When a man hits an axe to grin., 1 e generally wants to u e bis neighbor's grindstone. Bad lial'ita are ai infectious by example .as the plague itself u by contact. It is easy to earn something about everything, bnt difficult to learn every thing about anything. Sharing a trouble doubles t, i
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