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U. P. BOHWEIEB,
THE OONHT1T U TION-THE UNION AMD THE ENFORCEMENT OF" THE LAWH.
VOL L.
MIFFLINTOW1N, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1. 1896.
NO. 16.
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CHAPTER XLI-(Contlnned.)
He had seen her pasa swiftly in tha
direction from which be had Just then
come, and presently heard her voic call
ins to the garden coolies, and Interroga
ting them in tnrn. Then ah. cam and
stood on the threshold of th. open door.
"Oh. Nora, hare you Been my ring?"
ah. asked plteously, in her exdtementv
nly giving the curtest possible nod t
Colonel Prinsep.
"No, dear. Hare yon lost ltt Whert
did yon bare it last?"
"I took it off while I waa transplanting
thoae cartings, and laid it down beside
me. Then when I went back for it, it
waa gone" with a distressed accent, and
a tragic movement of her handa so ezj
pressive of loss that Mrs. Dene felt halt
Inclined to smile. Not so Colonel Prin
Sep, who looked such a picture of guilt
that If Jane had not been too preoccupied
to notice, she most hare found him oat.1
"It may have rolled away," be sug
gested, awkwardly. "Let me go and help
you."
"Oh. no, thank yon! I can find It best!
myself," answered Jane quickly, and ran
ff.
Bat, in spite of her prohibition, he fol
lowed. When he cam op ahe waa stand
ing staring blankly at the rifled ring
which ahe held in the palm of her out
stretched band.
"Ah, you have found ltr ha remarked,
with an overdone air of cheerfulness.
"Found ltr she repeated, tearfully.
"Oh, yes, I have found it! But but "
Then with a sudden gleam of hope: Per
haps it haa fallen into the water. There
la a piece still missing it might have
rolled into the water, might It not?" aha
asked, eagerly.
"Certainly it might, If it it was a
round piece."
"It was round."
She looked at the water wistfully, but
did not attempt to search for it. Be un
derstood why.
"You prize the ring very much 7" he
questioned, searchingly.
The eloquence of her eyes told him how
much rather than her words, which were)
commonplace enough.
"It waa a present, perhaps?" b. went
, ejo. Inquiringly., "-'-I
i "No, no, I nou-M It myself." Of eoifrse
' - ,t know it was only silver, but? "
She stopped abruptly, no longer able to
conceal her impatience to be alone.
"Will you go in and tell Mrs. Den that
I am coming?" she asked. Imploringly.
He turned and went at once, but as he
entered the drawing-room he could not
help seeing her as she knelt upon the
ground, and with her own hands dug
among the mud in her vain endeavor to
recover what she bad lost. He almost re
pented then of what he had done, and he
felt still more penitent when a little later
Jane came in, looking so desolate and de
spairing that Mrs. Dene involuntarily ex
claimed: ,
"Why, child, whatever ia the matter? I
understood from the Colonel that you had
found your ring." , .
"Not all of it a piece is missing.
"It can be replaced" with a little gen
tle surprise at the other's exaggerated
grief.
"It can never be replaced."
"Then it must be found. I will offer a
reward for it, and that will make the ser
vants more eager in their search. You
must describe what it is like."
"I can't do that."
"Then, my dear, how can we help your"
"Not at all; I must look for it myself.
Don't be offended, Nora I am very grate,
ful to you all the same."
She had blushed so vividly that Mrs.
Dene hastened to change a aubject evi
dently embarrassing.
"Colonel Trinsep came O ask us jr w
would go to the sports this afternoon.
Should you care about it, Jenny r
"I will go, of course, if you wish It.
"But do you care about it?"
"I hate sports," declared Jane, vicious,
ly, mindful of the gymkhana at which
she bad first met and lost her heart te
. Stephen Prinsep.
"Then, my dear, don't go. Life Is too
rf,ort to be bored," smiled Mr Dene
"But you must not stay in always with
me: you ought to go out. Would yon Ilk
to4dh No?may I? I have not ridde.
Mm since we' were at Stater criedJan.
excitedly, almost forgetting her trouble.
"I did not know you wer so fond of
riding." said Colonel Prinsep.
-And you don't know Selim. He Is not
like any other horse that ever was. I
can trust him." . .
"All the same. I shall not let you go
alone. You are Bound tototh. gym
khana, I suppose, Colonel "VJ
-So. If Miss Knox will allow me to
accompany her I .ball be delighted."
And for some reason or other, perhaps
to prove how utter was her Indifference,
Miss Knox made no objection.
They started early In the afternoon.
Jane looking shyly bewitching in her neat
ly fitting habit and broad Teral bat. Col
onel Prtnaep sitting erect in hi. ..ridle,
-earcely glancing in his companion's di
rection, as he discoursed upon every sub.
EetTlikely to interest her. yet avoided
wS, intention anything personal Jan
felt as though she must bo in a dream
Stenfng to bis voice, the same, yet m
Sanged to her. Knowing nothing of th
Memories that were surging through his
brain, rendering him often unconscious of
w?a?n had said, and oblivious of he
MDliesTsb thought that it was only an.
SSriJi that be bad ceased to car fof
Jerf and made an effort to appear ut
isn'ot of a nativ. hut shouting
wUdlV and firing "t'.i'T.SS
2.toii The sensitive Arab wnlca,
Jre first beared and plunged wild
JJhen started off at a i fnriou. i gallop.
Lionel Prinsep followed as quickly at
Soared, fearing to frighten th. animal
went to near. At present
WiS rWgtu7nend between Ms
ifLvHwo or three violent buck
toS sucked in dislodging- Jan.
V-dtien. a. she slipped flown. --
,-. aouw. - -- m. neck, he stool
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When her Mcort cam. op, be found bet
flushed and trembling, still holding th.
reins, her hair falling about her in mag
nificent masses, and glinting in tn sun
Ilk autumn leaves, a hundred subtle
shade of brown and gold.
He placed his hand upon Sellm's shin.
log neck.
"Th horse you trusted," he remarked,
with what he tried to make a cynical
smile, yet felt convinced was only fool
ishly tender.
"I shall never trust anything again,''
declared Jane, with decision.
"Ah, yon must not say that! Selim was
only rash, not vicious. It would not b
fair to cendemn any on for a
fault."
Sh gave a swift glance Into his face,
wondering If he were pleading for himsalf
or only Selim. To avoid her scrutiny ha
turned and took his bora, from th na
tive who was holding it. Then mount
tng. he rode along quietly by her aid.
The winter sun that shone coldly seem
ed to have reserved a special radiane for
th. girl's bright locks as they waved
softly behind her; ther was, too, a
gleam In her hazel eyes that had not been
ther before. Everything looked bright
and beautiful that afternoon, thought
Stephen Prinsep. but nothing so bright,
so beautiful as his whilom sweetheart.
After a time their relations grew less
strained, yet also less full of tremulous
delight. They were talking as ordinary
acquaintances might have talked, when
at last they reached the bungalow gates.
Then Colonel Prinsep said, earnestly,
and without connection to what they had
been saying before:
"Jenny, will you do what I am going to
ask? Will you ask Mrs. Knox to tell you
th whole story about Jacob Lynn's let
ters?" A little nervously ahe promised; and
then put her hand in his to say "good
by." He relinquished it even sooner than
courtesy might have dictated, but stood
looking at her with gentle gravity. An
almost leafless tree with graceful golden
pods waved above her; behind a group of
banana tree. two large, milk-eyed bul
locks were working a well, and the dron
ing whir-r-r of the wheel waa the only
sound that broke the stillness. A woman
with her face almost hidden by a silk
embroidered scarf stood watching them
from a little distance. The scene waa in
tensely Indian, yet Stephen Prinsep
found his thoughts insensibly reverting
to his English home, with its trim flower
beds and well-kept walks. In fancy he
could almost imagin that even now be
was walking under th avaa. of- east 4
nuts with his bride, pointing out to her
each familiar spot they passed.
"You won't come in?" asked Jane, tim
idly. "No, J won't come in, thank you. Good,
by."
CHAPTER XLIL
When Jane went in she found a note
from her mother containing rather start
ling news. The quartermaster had been
so unwell that Mrs. Knox had called in
a doctor, who pronounced it to be an
utter breaking-op of health, consequent
on his long residence In the country, and
that the only remedy he could suggest
was a year's leave to England.
"This, of course," wrote Mrs. Knox,
"will be a serious pecuniary loss; but
we must grudge nothing that will restore
to us your father as he used to be."
"Ah, that he can never be again V
sighed Jane, as she put down the letter.
She scarcely knew whether to be glad or
sorry at the decision thus announced;
whether It would be a relief to go or
great grief. "How could ahe." she asked
herself, "leave India, not knowing wheth
er she might ever see her lover's face
again?"
Sh thought of going horn at once.
much as she dreaded the meeting with
her father; then glancing again at th.
letter sh saw that Mrs. Knox expressly
desired she would not shorten her visit.
which in any case would be at an end ia
a few daya.
Those last days, how Jane enjoyed
them I
Stephen Prinsep, wbo came every day,
scarcely recognised her in this new mood.
Waa It frivolity or heartleeanesa, or the
excitement engendered by despair? May
be th last conjecture was nearer the
truth than ah herself knew.
They never saw each other alone, so
ft waa th easier for the Colonel to keep
to his resolution. He did not startle her
again. An outsider would have thought
them merely friends. Jane herself was
often reminded of the time when her en
gagement to Jacob Lynn was a secret
still, and all unconsciously she waa learn
ing to love one whom it had seemed fated
ahe should never marry.
One day Mrs. Dene asked her to re
main with her during the year her par
ents would be away; but she put thi
temptation from her bravely.
"You are aa good aa you have always
been," she answered, gratefully; "but it
la my duty to go with them to help my
mother."
"Certainly the great reformer must
have been your ancestor," commented
the Colonel, when he heard of th offer
and Its refusal.
"Indeed, I don't think even John Knox
took so much delight In denying him
self," complained Mrs. Dene.
"I expect John Knox was good ah
round," observed Jane, quaintly, "and did
not need to distinguish himself in any
particular direction. Besides," she add
ed, gravely, after a pause, "it is my
pleasure, of course, as well aa my duty.
to go with my father and mother.
She was sitting a little distance off, ana
Colonel Prinsep crossed the room and
stood near her looking down.
"Would nothing Induce you to stay be
lind?" he asked. In a vole so low that
lira. Dece cor Id not have heard it, even if
she had not at that moment been busy
counting a cross-stitch pattern.
She shook her hefjd, not daring to trust
herself to speak.
"You might marry," he hazarded.
"Never, never!"
"Why?" he asked her boldly, his eyes
still fastened on her fac.'
Her lips quivered In such evident dis
tress that he could not press th que.
ion.
"All girls say that." he remarked in
stead, with a touch of Incredibility.
"Not, I hope, with such good reason,"
he replied, with a dignity so full of no.
row that he was silenced.
Even with th hop of consoling her
gt last, he had no right to pain bar so.
This was th last day.
Mrs. Dene's stay at AHpore had doa
az aarfgahtad
better and brighter than she had looked
for a long time, aince her husband's
death. In fact- People thought that she
waa already comforted for his loss, and
began to wonder if the would marry
again, and if so, whom. Some such spec
ulation was expressed in the hearing of
Barry Larron, and the thought entered
Into his mind that, perhaps, it might be
for his advantage if she married him.
Feeling terribly soro after his rejection
by the quartermaster's daughter, and un
able to carry out his revengeful threat
with any hope of success, he fancied h
might hurt her by so suddenly transfer
ring his attentions that she would be fain
to doubt whether they bad ever seriously
been offered to herself. To do this he
must manage an exchange to Hattiabad,
where the detachment waa, and where h
would have every opportunity of matur
ing his plans. This for two reasons
first, because even he would lack the as
surance necessary to make love to one
woman under th very eyes of that other
he had so lately wooed and secondly,
because Mrs. Dn herself was going so
noon.
But he waa too cautious to take this
aadsiv. mov. until he had satisfied him
self that he would receive a warm wel
come. Mot that he doubted it, only It
was bis nature to calculate, as well as t
scheme.
8 It happened that, when Jane and
Mrs. Den arrived at the station, the first
pon they saw walking down the plat,
form waa Major Larron.
Jan draw back at once. 1
"I will go and get your ticket, and see
after your luggage. Perhaps he will have
gone by then," she suggested, nervously.
Mrs. Dene assented, and walked on alone.
Major Larron advanced to meet her. in
Irreproachable morning costume, with a
rosebud In button-hole. The widow, h.
thought, might be mora critical than th
girt.
"I heard you were going to-day, and
did not wish you to leave without saying
good-by," he began. "I don't think,
however. It will be long before w. meet
again."
"No?" queried Mrs. Dene, so quietly
that, had he not been certain ahe must
car for him still, now there waa no bar
rier between them, he might have read
Indifference in her tone.
He was thinking to himself that report
had spoken truly; sh was looking very
well, nearly as pretty as when she waa a
girl, and far more interesting.
"I am coming to Hattiabad; to stay for
some time, I fancy."
She looked up languidly, surprised.
"You will find it very dull, I am
afraid."
"I do not think so. I alwaya like Hat
tiabad. Do you remember when w. met
there first."
"I remember distinctly everything con.
nected with our acquaintance, Majof
Larron."
She waa looking into hia face still, with
such utter coldness and dislike, as she
guessed at his intentions, that he was al
most -convinced of his mistake. But h
would not admit It yet.
"1 am afraid you have not forgiven
me," he said, reproachfully.
Her eyes were all ablaze as she an
swered scornfully:
"Forgiven you? Why, I am grateful ta
you, more grateful than I can express,
for . saving . m from a marriage that
would hara made ma wrstahad, and giv
ing me instead the noblest, kindest bus.
band that ever woman had. Thanks to
you I have known what perfect happi
ness is, and though I possessed it for so
short a time, it is enough to sweeten the
remainder of a life that would otherwise
be sad enough, heaven knows."
The Hon. Barry Larron twirled hi
J ark mustache, and tried to look unmoved.
"I don't think you have ever under
stood me, quite," he aaid, a little awk
wardly. Mrs. Dene shrugged her shoulders, not
attempting to conceal her contempt.
Though ahe had said as much herself to
Jane, she began to doubt it now. A man
who had acted with so little sincerity and
delicacy of feeling might be capable of
anything, she thought.
Well. I must not keep you longci
now," observed Larron. "We shall soon
meet at Hattiabad."
But in his own mind that scheme wai
already abandoned.
(To be continued.)
Prayer In War Time
Editor F. W. Woolard, of the Carmi
(I1L) Times, was one of a group who
were swapping stories at the Alhambra.
The drift of the conversation was upon
Incidents which had Impressed the nar
rators while here during and after the
war. "I once', beard a remarkable
prayer from an old negro," said Editor
Woolard. "It was at the time Sher
man bad pushed through Georgia, and
everybody was 'cussing him constant
ly. The old man bad unconsciously ab
sorbed the language of his master, al
though his sympathies were all the
other way. He was In the midst of
what the Irreverent sometimes style a
trash mover,' a most earnest prayer at
a blg meetln',' when he lifted his eyes
to heaven and exclaimed as a grand
finale, 'And now, Lawd, bless dem
what dun freed de po' nigger bless de
domn Yankees.' He was In dead earn
est, and saw nothing ludicrous In his
words. It was what be always heard
them called." Atlanta Journal.
Hunting Wild Oats.
Wild cats abound In Pleasant Valley
woods, a few miles east of Wlnsted,
Conn, and recently became so bold that
they attacked human beings, almost
sending to death one of the farmers of
the neighborhood. The other day a
party was organized to bunt the feline
and five of the latter, one of them
weighing forty pounds and looking ex
actly like a tiger, were killed.
A fontil rse;on fly 27 inobes Ion?,
armed with big jaws and toetb, 1um
been found in the coal meat-urea of
Allier, France.
In Egypt the natives believe that
crocodiles cry and cow like men in
distress, in order to attract and make
a prey of the unwary.
bilk thread may lie gilded by the
electro -plat ins; process, retaining i al
most its full flexibility and softuess.
The death rate among- the colored
people in Cuicago last year was
96.67 per 1000 against 15.05 for the
whiten.
The small waist' of French women
are believe 1 bysonie ecieniisvs to be
tne result oi heredity. Ages of tight
lactDi.', tttey say, ha'e produced
physical peculiarity ia tbe Niton.
A German Antarctic expedition
baa 1een decided upon and $240,000 al
loted to It. It will consist of two vea
seb, will last three years, and will
start south from Kerguelan Island.
Tbe Indiana Gas Inspector say
that tbe pressure bas diminished
throughout the gas fields about one
third and tbt tbe exhaustion of the
supply is a matter of no very long
tine.
A FK AO M E NT OF THE UNIVERSE.
Oao of tba Wosider. K.vealed tT a
Powerful kticroacope.
With a refracting telescope, baring
a forty-Inch object glass, fixed stars to
the twenty-first magnitude will be ren
dered visible showing not less than
165,000,000,000 of suns, many of them
vas'Jy larger than our sun. Arc-
turns, for Instance, la 650,000 times
larger than the sun, and. W moving
athwart the solar system a million and
a half miles an hour,and la moving to
ward us at the rate of 75,000 miles an
hour. There la little reason to doubt
that every one of these suns has from
a dozen to hundreds of planets revolv
lng about It, the number depending
upon Its magnitude, and many of these
planets may be the abodes of Intelligent
beings. To the astronomer this earth
Is only a point from whlcn to make ob
servations; Its diameter of 8,000 miles ia
of too little consequence to be taken
Into consideration in determining celes
tial distances, and the diameter of the
earth's orbit 1S5.000.000 of miles. Is
far too short to constitute the base of a
triangle by means of which to deter
mine the distances of more than half
a dozen of the nearest fixed stars. If
sucfa an orb as A returns should strike
fh sua It would transform the center
of our system Into gases and vapors In
an Instant, and blot out the solar sys
tem as you would snuff out a taper. The
dlsapnearaoc of this earth from the
heavens
would have no more effect
PPn Ttalbl portion of the universe
of which we are speaking than would
the falling of a single needle from a
single pine have upon the general ap
pearance of the forests of North Amer-
ROTirXB VCLOABIS.
Magnified 6,000 times.
! d yet we little mortals upon
- ibis atom of stellar dust regard our
i penny-whistle activities as of some con-
sequence. A tnousana minions or years
have been occupied by the world in its
growth to Its present condition. What
will have become of It and Its micro
scopic parasites a thousand millions of
years hence? The thought crushes us
with humility, while it gives us a les
son upon the Infinitely great, and the
microscope tells of almost equally Im
pressive facts In the domain of the
Infinitely little.
The following tabular statement ex
hibits the number of fixed stars or 'suns
to the twenty-first magnitude, Inclusive,,
which can be rendered visible by a
telescope with a forty-Inch object glass.
This calculation assumes that the ratio
of Increase is the same for magnitudes
below tbe ninth as It Is known to be
for magnitudes from the first to the)
ninth, which have been carefully esti
mated by astronomers. The error. If
any, one way or the other. In our calcu
lations can only be a few hundred mill
ions of suns:
NUMBER OF FIXED STARS OR
SDNS.
Magnitude.
1
2
3.
Number.
' ta
: iho
425
1,100
8,200
13.000
40.000
142,000
440.200
1,364.200
4.230,300
13,133.900
40.653.000
126.024.300
890,676,300
4
6..
7.....
&
0.....
10.....
11
12.....
13
15.....
!.....
17.....
1.211,093,400
18. .! 8.754.389,500
19. J. 11,638,607.000
21). 4 86,079,683,500
SI . 111,847,018,850
Total.. 165,107,514,000,
Out from under the Infinite and star-!
bespangled azure, in the glow and
beatitudes of healthful life, out from'
the pure wintry air Into a quiet study.'
on whose four walla stand rows of
treasured books, the silent spirits of the
great of earth, tbe loved companions of
a life of solitude. Is only a step. Amid
these sacred surroundings we spend an
boar examining through a microscope
an. animal which Is only one one-thousandth
of an Inch long. A dozen of
'them could only stretch their bodies
; lengthwise across the black line, mak
ing tn widest part or tn lines com
posing one of these printed letters, a.
being which. It la needless to say. Is
wholly Invisible to the unaided eyej
Haying around this Rotifer Vulgaris
tbe animal's name) are .hundreds of
ther forms of life, many of which are)
less than one on-hundred thousandth
f an Inch in length, and all thla life has
unple room for Its activities In a drop
f water no larger than a pin bead, and
th drop la from Laav Oabnset Xheao
JlRfJMaaUt aMaV tft
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particulars, and while we are observ
ing their antics two of them "pitch In
to" the side of a larger form of another
species and gnaw off a good supper
from his onter flesh, much to hia ap
px "ent horrorf and disgust A curious
feature of the Rotifer which we are ob
serving Is his sbility to withdraw all
the sections of the lower part of his
body Into the upper section, as tbe
siqaU sections of a band telescope are
pushed into the large section. Tbe
realization of tbe fact that this animal
has eyes, a digestive apparatus, and
probably a nervous system, and that It
begets and cares for Its young, and
that It Is a veritable whale compared
with the many forms of life around It,
Impresses the observer profoundly and
Illustrates the infinitely little In organic
life, and exhibits a world of marvelous
creations, which can only be revealed
to us by powerful Instruments. We
present two pictures of the Rotifer, one
of them exhibiting the animal's tail
extended and the other the tall largely
withdrawn Into Its body, and the cilia
about Its bead sweeping food Into Its
mouth. Each eye of this small animal,
too. Is equipped with an Independent
set of muscles enabling It to look up
ward with one eye, while looking down
ward at tbe same time with the otben
Pullman Journal.
ADDITIONS TO THE ALPHABET.
Two tVatter of Which Our Fore
father Were la Total Ignorance.
It Is a fact, not so well known but
that It may be said to be curious, that
the letters and w are modern addi
tions to our alphabet. The letter J
only came Into general use during the
commonwealth, say, between 1649 and
1658. From 1630 to 1646 Its us is ex
ceedingly rare and I have never yet
seen a book printed prior to 1663 In
which it appeared. In tbe century InW
mediately preceding th seventeenth
It became the fashion to tall the last 1
when Roman numerals were used, aa In
this example: vlij. for 8 or xij. In place
of 12. This fashion still lingers, but
only In physicians p inscriptions, I be
lieve. Where the French use It has
the power of s aa we use It In the word
"vision." What nation was th first
to use It as a letter la an Interesting
but perhaps an unanswerable query.
In a like manner the printers and
language makers of the latter part of
the sixteenth century began to recog
nize the fact that there was a sound in
spoken English which was without a
representative In the shape of an al
phabetical sign or character, aa th
first sound In the word "wet"
Prior to that time It had always been
spelled as "vet," the v having the long
sound of u or two u's together. In or
der to convey an Idea of the new sound
they began to spell such words as
"wet," "weather," "web," etc, with
two nu'a, and as the n of that date was
a typical v the three words above look
ed like this: "Vvet," "weather,",
"web." After a while the type found
ers recognized the fact that the double
u bad come to stay, so they Joined the
two u's together and made the charac
ter now so well known as the w. I
have one book In which three forms
of the w are given. The first Is an old
double v (w). the next one In which
the last stroke of the first v crosses
tbe first stroke of the second and the
third Is the common w we use to-day.-
New York Mercury.
Richard Was Had.
Richard Harding Davis, according
to Vanity, Is not an ardent admirer of
Henry Irving and Miss Terry. W hen
one recalls bis quarrel with Edward
W. Townsend over the "Major Max"
article, It la not surprising that he
should not like Miss Terry, for on
meeting him she told him Low glad,
she was to know htm, how much she
bad enjoyed his work In tbe past, and
how much 6he bad anticipated reading
his last book. "Ghimmie Fadden."
which was so weUrspokon of. Mr.
Irving also made a sad mistake when
Davis, at a dinner given to Mr. Irving,
waa honored by Bitting next to him.
Davis had arrayed himself with rows
or orders and medala presented to hlui
by tbe Sultan and th President of
Bolivia and various other dignitaries.
These orders Mr. Davis would no more
travel without than be would without
his tooth-brush. It was with the great
est satisfaction, therefore, tbat he saw
they attracted tbe attention of Mr.
Irving, and all the guests noticed thnf
the actor raised his eye-glass and scan
ned them closely, and, alas, for Mr.
Davis! all the guests heard Mr. Irving
remark: "How lnteresttug. I always
like to see college badges!"
Mystery of Shoe 8 tor.
A Boston man tells of a servant girl
tn his family who recently purchased
a pair of rubbers at a bid departmeni
store, and. having taken them home
waa astonished to find In the toe a pa)
envelope containing 87. The name wai
traced to an East Boston corporation
but they said the man had not worked
for them for eight years. How did tbt
money get Into the rubbers? My friend
had an Ingenious theory that the wifl
of the laborer purchased the pair oj
rubbers and tucked the envelope Int
the toe for safekeeping. Afterward,
she must hare concluded that the rub
bers did not fit, and forgetting all
about the pay envelope returned then
to the store, where by soma chance ot
other they remained unsold for eight
years. This Is certainly a clever ex
planatlon and for want of a better 1
will accept It The laborer, by thr
way, cannot be found. j
' Leap ta a Sack.
Some years ago a porter named Ful-;
ler, employed at Billingsgate Market,
London, made a bet that be would
Jump from London bridge tied In a
sack, his only stipulation being that
he should be provided with a knife
which be was not to open tin he touch
ed tbe water with which to rip open
the sack. He succeeded In accomplish
ing the feat, and when picked up by
some friends In a boat waa none the
worse for his dive.
He waa proposing to the Boston girl,
and in the fervor if bis plan he leaned
over her anxiously. "Pardon me," ah
aid, "are yon not getting a trlfl to
parsimonious?" "Paralzaonlous?" a
gasped. "Yes," aha said; ""or, aa th
vulgar wonld nut It. ,sWsaV-Paila-
HE!. DBJflLPGL
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Newspapers and Their In
fluence." Varrs: "And the wheels were'f all of ey w
-Esekiel x. , 12. For all the Athenians an J
BtrangRrs which wr. thm. spent their tint,
tn nothing else but either to tnll or to hear
some new thing." Acts xvii., U.
What Is a preacher to do when he finds two
texta equally good and suggestive? In that
perplexity 1 take both. Wheels full of eyes?
What but the wheels of a newspaper print
ing prets? Otnei wheels are blind. They
roll on, pulling or erusning. Tie manutao
turer'a wheel how it grints the operator
with fatigues and rol is over nerve and mus
cle anl bone and heart, not knowing what
It does. The sewing machine wheel sees not
tbe aches and pains fastened to it tighter
than the band that move, it, sharper than
the needle wbieh it plies. Every moment of
very hoar ot every day oi every montn ot
.very year there are hundreds of thousands
of wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise,
wheels of hard work, in motion, but they an
eyeless.
Sot so th. wheels ot the printing press.
Tneir entire business Is to look and report.
They are full of optln nerves, from axle tq
periphery. They are like those spoken of by
Szekiel as full of eyes. Sharp eras, neat
sighted, far sighted. They look up. They
look down. They look lar away. They take
in th. next street and the next hemisphere.
Eyes of critid-m, eyes ot Investigation, eyes
that twinkle with mirth, .yes glowering with
Indignation, eyes tender with love, eyes of
suspicion, eyes of hope, blue eyes, black
.yes, green eyes, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore
ayes, political eyes, literary eyes, historical
eyes, religious eyes, eyes that see every
thing. "And the wheels were full of eyes."
Bat in my second text is the world's cry for
tbe newspaper. Paul describes a class ot
people tn Athens who spent their time either
in gathering the news or telling it. Why
especially In Athene? Because, the more in
telligent people become, the more inquisi
tive they are not about small things, but
great things.
Tbe question then most frequently Is tht
question now most frequently asked, What
is the news? To answer that cry la tbe text
for the newspaper the cent arte, have put
their wits to work. China first suooeeded
and has at Pekin a newspaper that has bees
printed every week for 1000 years, printed on
silk. Borne succeeded by publishing The
Acta Diurna, In the same column putting
Ores, murders, marrlnges and tempests,
yrauoe succeeded bv a nhvsician writing out
the news of the day for his patients. Eng
land succeeded under Quean Elizabeth in
first publishing th. news ot tb. Spanish
armada, and going on until she bad enough
enterprise, when the battle of Waterloo was
fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, t.
give it one-third of a column in the London
Horning Chronicle, about as much as th
newspapers of our day gives of a small Are.
America succeeded by Benjamin Harris's Aral
weekly paper called Public Occurrences, pub.
llshed tn Boston In 1690, and by the first
daily, Tbe American Advertiser, puDiisuec
In Philadelphia in 1781.
The newspaper did not suddenly spring
upon the world, but came gradually. The
genealogical line ot the newspaper is this:
The Adam ot the race was a circular or nswi
letter, treated by di-ine Impulse In humae
nature, and tbe circular begat tbe pamphlet
and the pamphlet begat the quarterly, and
the quarterly begat the weekly, and th
weekly begat the semi-weekly, and the semi,
weekly begat the daily. But alas, by what a
struggle it came to its present development!
No sooner bad its power been demonstrated
than tyranny and superstition shackled it.
There is nothing that despotism so fears and
hates as a printing press. It has too many
eyes in Its wheel. A great writer declared
that the king of Naples made it unsafe for
him to write of anything but natural his
tory. Austria could not endure Kossuth's
journalistic pen pleading for the redemp
tion of Hungary. Napoleon L, trying to
keep his Iron heel on tbe neck of Nations,
said, "Editors are the regents of sovereigns
and the tutors of Nations and are only Ot for
prison." But the battle for the freedom of
the press was fought in the court rooms of
England and America and decided betore
this century began by Hamilton's eloquent
plea for I. Peter Zenger'a Gazette in
America, and Erskinn'a advocacy ot the
freedom of publication In England.
These were tbe Marathon and Ther
mopylae In which & freedom of the press
was established in the United States and
Great Britain, and all the powers of earth
and hell will never again be able to put on
the handcuffs and hopples of literary and
political despotism. It Is notable that
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration
of Independence, wrote also: "It I had to
ehoose between a government without news
papers or newspapers without a government,
I should prefer tbe latter." Stung by somt
base fabrication coming to us In print, w
come to writ, or apeak ot th. unbridled
printing press; or. our new book ground up
by an unjust oritio. we come to writ, oi
speak ot the unfairness of th. printing press;
or, perhaps, through our own indistinctness
of utterance, we are reported as saying Just
the opposite ot what we did say, and there it
a small riot of semicolons, hyphens and
commas, and we com. to speak r writ, ol
the blundering printing press; or, seeing
paper filled with divorce eases or social
scandal, we speak and write of the filth
priming press; or, seeing a journal, throngs
bribery, wheel round from one political sida
to the other in one night, we speak of th
corrupt printing press, and many talk about
tke lampoonry, and the empiricism, and th
sens oulottUm of tbe printing press.
But I discourse now on a subject you have
never heard the immeasurable and everlast
ing blessing of a good newspaper. Thank
God for tbe wheel full of eyes. Thank God
that we do not have, like th. Athenians, to
go about to gather up and relate the tiding
of the day, since the omnivorous newspaper
does both for us. Tbe grandest temporal
blessing that God has given to the nineteenth
century is the newspaper. We would have
better appreciation of this blessing It we
knew the money, tbe brain, th. losses, tbe
exasperations, the anxieties, the wear and
tear of heartstrings, involved In the produc
tion of a good newspaper. Under the Im
pression that almost anybody ean make a
newspaper, scores of inexperienoed capital
ists every year enter the lists, and conse
quently during the last few years a news
paper has died almost every day. The dis
ease is epidemic The larger papers swallow
tbe smaller ones, th. whale taking down fifty
minnows at on. swallow. With more than
7000 dailies and weeklies in the United States
and Canada, there are but thirty-six a half
century old. Newspapers do not average
more than five years existence. Tb. most
ot them die of oholera Infantum. It Is high
time that the people fonnd out that the most
Sueeessful way to sink money and keep it
sunk la to start a newspaper. Tnere comes
a time when almost every one is smitten with
the newspaper mania and starts one. or have
Stock In one he must or die.
The course of procedure is about this. A
literary man has an agricultural or scientific
or political or religious idea which he want
tn ventilate. He has no money of his own-
t
literary men seldom have. But h. talks of
his Ideas among confidential friends until
they become inflamed with the idea, and
forthwith tney buy type and press and rent
composing room and gather a eorps of edi
tors, and with a prospectus that proposes to
cure everything the first copy is flung on the
attention of aa admiring world. After
awhile one of the plain stockholders finds
that no great revolution haa been effected by
this daily or weekly publication; that neither
sua nor moon stands still; that the world
goes on lying and cheating and stealing just
as It did before th. first Issue. The aforesaid
matter of tact stockholder wants to sell out
his stock, but nobody wants to buy. and
other stockholders get Infected and atek of
oewspaperdom, and aa enormous bill at the
papas factory rolls Into an avalanche, aaa
the printers refuse to work until back wtcgas
are paid up, and th. compositor bows to tn.
r "("(f editor, and the managing edltoe
bows to th. .ditor-ln-ohlef, and th. edltor-In-amief
bows to th. dlrsetors, and th. dlres
tors bow to the world at large, and allth.
ambaeatpacs woader why taatr aapss doasat
aewspapwr is ss much or aa institution sa
th. Bank ot England or Tale College and ia
not aa enterprise. If you have th. afore
said agricultural or scientific or religious or
politloal idea to ventilate, you bad better
charge upon tbe world through the columns
already established. It is folly for any ono
who cannot succeed at anything else to try
newspaperdom. If you cannot elimb the
bill bark of your house, it is folly to try th.
sides ot the Matterhorn
To publish a newspaper requires the skill,
the precision, th. boldness, the vigil anoe,
the strategy ol a eommander-ln-ohlef. To
edit a newspaper requires that one be a
statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a
statistician, and in acquisition encyolopediac.
To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper
until It shall be fixed institution, a Na
tional fact, demand more qualities than any
business on earth. If vou feel like starting
any newspaper, secular or religious, under
stand that you are being threatened with
softening of tbe brain or lunacy, and, throw
ing your pocket book into your wife's lap.
start for some insane asylum before you do
something desperate. Meanwhile, as th.
dead newspapers, week by week, are carried
out to the burial, all th. living newspapers
give respectful obituary, telling when they
were born and when they died. The beat
printers' ink should give at least one stick
ful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say,
"Peace to the ashes." If it was a bad paper,
I suggest the epitaph written for Viands
Chartreuse: "Here eontinueth to rot th.
body of Franeia Chartreuse, who. with aa
Inflexible constancy and uniformity ot Ufa,
persisted in the practioe ot every human
vice, excepting prodigality ana nyposnay.
His insatiable avarioe exempted him from
tbe first, bis matchless tmprud.no. from th.
second." I say this because I want you to
know that a good, healthy, long lived, enter
taining newspaper la not an easy blessing,
bat on. that comes to us through the fire.
First of all, newspapers make knowledge
democratic and for th. multitude. Tbe pub
lic library is a haymow so high up that few
ran reach It, while the newspaper throws
down the forage to our feet. Public libraries
are the reservoirs where tbe great floods are
stored high up and away off. The newspa
per Is the tunnel that brings them down to
the pitchers of all tbe peop e. Th. chief use
of great libraries Is to make newspapers out
of. Great libraries make a few men and wo
men very wise. Newspapers lift whole Na
tions into the sunlight. Better have 50J,
000,000 people moderately intelligent than
100.000 solons.
A false Impression Is abroad that newspa
per knowledge is ephemeral because periodi
cals are thrown aside, and not one out of ten
thousand people files them for future refer
ence. Such knowledge, so far from being
ephemeral, goes into the very structure of
the world's heart and brain and decides the
destiny of churches and Nations. Knowl
edge on tbe shelf is of little worth. It is
knowledge afoot, knowledge harnessed,
knowledge tn revolution, knowledge
winged, knowledge projected, knowledge
thunderbolted. So far from being ephemer
al, nearly all the best minds and hearts
have their hands on the printing press
to-day and have had since it got emanci
pates. Adams and Hanoook and Otis used
to go to the Boston Gazette and compose ar
ticles on the rights of tbe people. Benjamin
Franklin, De Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jeffer
son, Quincy, were strong in newspaperdom.
Many of tbe Immortal things that have been
puhlished in book form first appeared la
what you may call the ephemeral periodi
cal. All Macaulay's essays first appeared in
a review. All Carlyle's, all Buskin's,
all Mcintosh's, all Sydney Smith's,
all Hnzlitt's, all Thaekerary's, all tbe ele
vated works of fiction In our day are re
prints from periodicals in which they ap
peared as serials. Teunyson's poems. Burus's
poems, Longfellow's poems, Emerson's po
ems, Lovelrs poems, Whittier's poems, were
once fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten
literuy men in Christendom, with strong
minds and great hearts. 'j: are or have been
somebow ooosectai with the newspaper
printing press. While tbe book will always
nave its place, the newspaper is more potent.
Because the latter is multitudinous do not
conclude it Is necessarily superficial. If a
man should from childhood to old age see
only his Bible, Webster's lMotionary and his
newspaper, he could be prepared for all tb
duties of this life and all the happiness of
the next.
Again, a good newspaper Is a useful mir
ror of life as it is. It is sometimes com
plained that newspapers report the evil when
they ought only to report the good. They
must report the evil a well as the good, or
how shall we know what is to be reformed,
what guarded agani.t, what fought down?
A new.spaper that pictures only the bonesty
and virtue of society is a misrepresentation.
That family is best prepared for theduties of
life whioh, knowing the evil, is taught to
select the good. Keep children under the
impression that alt is fair and riirht in the
world, and when they go out into it they
will be as poorly prepared to struggle with
it as a child who Is thrown into the middle
of tbe Atlantlo and told to learn how to
swim. Our only complaint is when sin is
made attractive and morality dull, when vice
is painted with great headings and good
deeds are put in obscure corners, iniquity
set up in great primer and righteousness in
nonpariel. Sin is loathsome; make It loath
some. Virtue is beautiful; make It beauti
ful. It would work a vast improvement if all
our papers religious, political, literary
should for the most part drop tbelr imper
sonality. This would do better justice to
newspaper writers. Many of the strongest
and best writers of the country live and die
unknown and are denied tbeir just fame. The
vast public never learns wbo they are. Most
of tbera are on comparative! small Income,
ana alter awniie tneir nana lorgets it cun
ning, snd they are without resources, left to
die. Why not, at least, har. his Initial at
tached to his mot Important work? It al
ways gave additional tore, to an article
when you occasionally saw added to some
significant article in the old New York
Courier an 1 Enquirer J. W. W.. or in Tbe
Tribune H. G.. or In To. Herald J. G. B.. or
In The Times H. J. B.. or in The Evening
Post W.C. B., or in The Evening Express
E. B.
While this arrangement would be a fair
nd just thing for newspeper writers, it would
be a defense for tbe publle. It Is sometimes
true that things damaging to private charac
ter are said. Who Is responsible? It Is the
we" of the editorial or reportorial columns.
Every man in every profession or occupation
ought to be responsible for what he does.
No honorable man will ever write that whleh
he would be afraid to sign. But thousands
of persons have suffered from tbe imperson
ality of newspapers. What oan one private
etllaen wronged tn bis reputation do m a
contest with misrepresentation multiplied
into twenty or fifty thousand copies? An
injustice done in priot Is inimitably worse
than an injustice done in private life. Dur
ing loss oi temper a man may nay mat lor
which he will be sorry in ten minutes, but a
newspaper Injustice bas first to be written,
set up in type, then the proof taker, off and
read and corrected, and tben for six or ten
hours the presses are bnsy running off the
issue. P.enty of time to correct. Plenty of
time to cool off. Plenty of time to repent.
But all that Is hlddea in tbe impersonality
of a neWHpapsr. It will be a long step for
ward when all is ehanged, and newspaper
writers get oretllt for tbe good and are held
responsible for tbeevil.
SjAnotner step forward for newiaper.lin
will be when in our colleges and univer
sities we ooen opportunities for preparing
candidates fur tbe editorial chair. We have
In such institutions medical departments,
law departments. Wby not e litori il depart
ments? Do the legal and bea'ing professions
demand more culture anl careful training
than tbe editorial or reportorial profusion.-?
I know men may tumble by what seems ac
cident into a newspaper office as thev ma-
tumble into other amnpatlons, but It would
be an incalculable advantage if those pro
posing a newspaper life bad an Institution
to which thev might go to learn the qnallti-
eations, the responsibilities, the trials, tbe
temotatlons. tbe dangers, the magnificent
opportunities of newspaper life. Let there
be a lectureship in which there shall appear
.tne leading editors ot tne unitea ciaiea
I telling the story ot their struggles, their
( victories, tbeir mistakes, how they worked
and what they found out to be the best
I way of working. There will be strong
men who will climb uo without auch aid
Into editorial power and efficiency. So do
men elimb up to success In other bran :hes
bv sheer grit. But if we want learned Instl-
' tutlons to make lawyers and artists and doc
tors and ministers, we much more need
I nuuni lunuuiiviu iv tun v ..0, " .
oeeupy a position of influence a hundredfold
greater. I do not put th. truth too strongly
whan I say th most potent influence for
good on earth Is a good editor and the most
potsat tnfli e toe evil Is a bad one, To
5S i
bestway to re-enforceandifnprove the news
papers is to endow editorial profe"ontts.
When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale oi
Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing of the sewsnaner is the
foundation It lays for aecnra'e history of th
time in which we live. We for the most part
blindly guess about the ages that antedate
the news)iaper and are dependent upon the
prejudices of this or that historian. But
after a hundred or two years what a splen
did opportunity the historian will have to
teach the people the lesson of tbis day. Our
Bancrofts got from the early nwspanrs of
this country, from tbe Boston News-Letter,
the New Tork Gazette, and The Amencai
Bag Bag, and Boyal Gazetteer an 1 Indepen
dent Chronicle, and Massachusetts Soy, and
the Philadelphia Aurora, aoo.wntg of Perry's '
victory, and Hamilton's duel, and Wash
ington's death, ant Boston maasa-ire,
and the oppressive foreign tax on luxuries
which turned Boston harbor into a teapot,
and Paul Revere' midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nulli
fication. But what a field for tbe ctironlo.er
of tbe gnat future when be opens the flies ol
a hundred standard American newspapers,
giving tb. mlnutia of all things occurring un
der the social, political, ecclesiastical, in
ternational headings! Five hundred year
from now. If th. world lasts so long, the
student looking for stirring, decisive history . .
will pass by the misty corridors of other cen
turies and say to the libraries: "Find ma
th. vo Lames that give the century In which
the American Presidents were assassinated,
th. Civil War enacted and the cotton gin, the
steam loeomotlve and telegraph and electric
pen and telephone and cylinder presses were
Invented."
One. more I remark that a good news
paper la a blessing as an evangelistiu in
fluence. Ton know there is a great change
in our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers of the day for I am not speak
ing now of the religious newspapers all the
secular newspapers of the dav discuss all the
questions of God, eternltyand the dei I, and
all the questions of the past, present and
future. There Is not a single doctrine of
theology but has been discussed in tbe last
ten years by the secular newspapers of ths
eountry. They gather up all the news of all
tne earth bearing on religious subjects, anl
tben they scatter tbe news abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the right
wing of tbe apocalyptic angel. Tbe oylinderof .
the Christianised printing press will be the
front wheel ot tbe Lord's chariot. I take
th. music of this day, and I do not mark it
diminuendo I mark It crescendo. A pas
tor on a Sabbath preaches to a few hundred,
or a few thousand people, and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing press will
take the same sermon and preach it to mill
tons of people. God speed the printing
press! God save the printing press! God
Christianise tbe printing press!
When I see tbe printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one side
gathering the material, and tbe lightning
express train on tbe other side waiting for
the tons of folded sheets of newspaper, 1 pro
nounce It the mightiest force In our civiliza
tion. 80 I command you to pray for all
those who manage the newspapers of the
land, for all typesetters, for all reporters, for
all editors, for all publishers, that, sitting
or standing In positions of such great influ
ence, they may give all that influence for
God and the Betterment of the human race.
An aged woman making her living by
knitting, unwound the yarn from the
ball until she found In the centre of the
ball there was an old pie;e of newspaper.
She opened It and read an advertisement
which announced that she bad become
heiress to a lurge property, and that frag
ment of a newspaper lifted her from pau
perism to affluence. And I do not know but
as tbe thread of time unrolls and unwinds a
little further through the silent yet speaking
newspaper may be fonnd the vast inheri
tance of the world's redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Dods his uc3efo-;--a Jovrcevc roup
His kingdom stretch from shore to Shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
MUST PICK BY HAND.
A Iaw That Huckleberries Must Not Br
Picked Mechanically.
The House of Assembly of the New Jersey
Legislature, in session at Treutou, bas just
passed a bill which prohibits the use of ma
chinery in tbe harvesting of tbe luscious
whortleberry, known more popularly as tbe
huokleberry. The bog men have within late
years greatly cheapened the price of the
berry, which in Philadelphia Is esteemed al
most as great a luxury as "scrapple," by
using a sort ot scoop In stripping the
bushes.
The same apparatus is also used in the
gathering of cranberries, a considerable in
dustry in the State. The berries suffer great
ly by this process, and the bogmen are all
anxious to return to the old system of hand
picking, but each fears tbe violation by an
other of any hand-picking agreement that
may be entered into; hence the appeal to tb.
Legislature by the associated bogmen. Tb
law deolars it a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine and imprisonment, to pursue tbe huck
leberry, or tbe cranberry in Its native bog
by tbe aid of any mechantoal device whatso
ever.
IN HONOR OF FRANKLIN.
emorlal Tablet Unveiled tn France to the
Author of "roar ftlenaxd."
Several hundred persons from Paris at
tended the unveiling of a memorial tablet
that bas been erect oi on the site of th. villa
at Paasy. Vranoe, oooupied by Benjamin
Franklin from 1777 to 1785. It was at this
villa that Franklin eraoted his first lightning
oonuuotor.
The dramatist. M. Manuel. President of
the Paasy Historical Society, presented th.
tablet. H. Fayey. a member of the Frenoh
Academy, spoke of Franklin's seientlflo re-
renes.
The Hon. 3. B. Eustis, the American Am
uaador. acknowledged the tablet. M.
Boubtey. director of tbe Society of Fine Arts;
Moocure Conway, Henry Bacon, th. artist;
Meredith Bead and many ladies were present
at the ceremony.
Th. 8alrrel Feat.
A pries of S2S0 for. method of Inoculatlna
squirrels with some eontagiou) fatal disease
is offered by the Commercial Association of
Pendleton, Oregon, and It la believed the
eounty authorities and various farmers'
organisations will add to the sum offered.
The farmers of that region are at their wits'
and as to how to mitigate th. plague of squir
rels. Tons of strychnine have been used la
th. .Sort to exterminate the squirrels by
poisoning them, but little relief is had from
this or any other method heretofore used.
Th. Cooopah volcanoes, seventy-five miles
southwest of Yuma, Arizona, were In violent
eruption a week or so since. The larger ones
were emitting great volumes of smoke and
some flames, and the smaller ones were
throwing out quantities of water, stones and
muu. ineroar of tbe eruptions oould be
heard twenty miles or more.
Man is never too old to love or commit
nonseise.
Rome things, after all, otne to the
poortUit can't get in at the iloors f
tbe rich, whose money somehow blocks
np the entrance way.
''Do ye nnto others as ye touI
that 1 bey should do to yon" was th
original ancestor of the Monroe doo
trine.
The two powtrs which in my opinion
constitute a wiss msn, are those of
bearing and forbeariDg.
Luck evens itself no ia the lou
-an.
Tbe right kin.l of a man plways
earna sometbtug worth knowing from
mita ke.
Man is the oaly animal that lies
standing np.
People in love believe everybody
else can't see.
liove and musk soon Iwtray them
selves. When the enrions man fi nis out a
thincr he don't value it. 1. cause the
! cariosity is all taken out of it
A great many men who haven't a
second suit of clothes have a financial
' theory.
V.