3 - ' BOBWSIEZt, THB OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP- THE LAWH. VOL. L. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 6. 1896. NO. 21 X. i V A -v, 1; r r jWgBPBWHgfli CHAPTER X. X. Sir Joan Priestly, Knight and M. D., f Berkeley street, Mayfair, have been sked by one of the most charming of oiy patients to extract from my diary por tions which refer to a mysterious drama which took place in 1872, and in which It played a email but imiiortaot part. 1 nave no hesitation in granting my fair patient's request, paraphrasing rather than merely transcribing the contents of my note book. "Beg pardon, sir; where to?" "Where to? Oh, anywhere the fintt station yon come to! No, to St. Fan cras," I replied, and was about to step into the hansom, upon which ray travel ing bag had been deposited, when a de taining hand was luid heavily upon my shoulder. I turned, and faced a man, tall, swar thy, slightly built, aud elegantly dressed. Ilia eyes were fixed with a curious expres sion npon my face. "Dr. Priestly, I believe," he said, speak ing with a slight foreign accent. I nodded. "And you are about to start upon a Journey?" he continued. "May I auk i It la of Tery great importance?" Of no importance whatever," I replied; "I was merely going away somewhere foi few days' rest and change." "That is fortunate, since you will bav leas scruple in staying. I require youl Immediate attention for a case of urgent danger." 1 I looked at him more carefully, and no ticed that he seemed much agitated, yet he was a man of stern cast of counte nance. My hesitation seemed to troubk him, for he again put his trembling baud npon my arm. "There is no time to lose," he said, "while we are standing here the patient may die. Pray cornel" Then, taking the management of affairs into his own hands, he ordered my man servant to remove my luggage from the cab, hurried me into another, took his eat beside me and we rattled away. The whole affair had taken place so rapidly that the cab had covered at least a mile before I began to wouder what it all meant. The cab stopped at the top of Park lane; we alighted, aud walked on. Pres ently we entered a side street, and stop ped before a door, which my guide opened with a latch key. We were now in comparative darkness. I could make no note whatever of the urroundiugs, but I followed quickly upon the footsteps of my guide, aud was finally Ushered Into a large room furnished as a boudoir in the extreme of modern fash ion. Upon a couch lay what apiieared to be the lifeless body of a gentleman dressed In evening attire. By his side was a lady, also in evening dress, kneel ing upon the floor, her face buried in ber hands. "Madam," said my guide, "I have brought a surgeon; will you have the great goodness to retire?" Sobbing bitterly, the lady rose, whilt the gentleman led ber to a door concealed by curtains of pale blue satin, and when ah. disappeared he returned to me. ' "That is your patient, doctor," said he; "save hia life, and you will be made a comparatively rich man." I proceeded to make a careful examina tion. The patient was a powerfully built man of four or five and twenty, with a strikingly handsome cast of countenance. His shirt front was suffused with blood, issuing from a wound in the breast an old flesh wound, which, after partially bealiug, bad suddenly reopened. "The man is in mortal danger," I said. "But he may recover?" "There is one way of treating th. case. which would mean either life or death. "Are you willing to try that method? "Well, I will undertake It." "Good I Now, to begin with, be must he removed. If he remains In thia booaa not all the akill in Christendom will sav bis life." The first thing to be don. was to drsss the wound. In the course of the opera tion the gentleman recovered conscious ness. As his eyes rolled slowly around th. room he muttered feebly s "Constance, where are yon?" Before he could say more my compan ion stepped quickly to hia aide and whis pered something in his ear. At thia th. aick man groaned, turned his bead wear ily upon the pillow, and closed his eyes. "My dear doctor," said my guide, "while von have been working I have been think ing. I have aketched in my mind our plan of action, and it must be followed or nothing can be done. For the present, then, your work Is finished. Go home and wait for your patient, who will be r moved to your house." "To my house?" "Th. whole arrangement," he contin sed, not heeding my interruption, "must be carried out with the utmost secrecy. Not a soul must see the patient carried from here not a soul must see him enter your doors. I will arrange for the se crecy here you must arrange for it on your side. Oblige me by making the re quisite preparations, and, for the present good by." Seeing that I was dismissed, I prepareo to leave the room. I was reconducted down a flight of stairs, along a Jark pas sage, and finally was shown again into th. street. My first more was to bail a hansom and drive at once to my bouse, my next to in form my servants that owing to sudden and unexpected work I should not be abl s oar mr visit to th. country. At 11 o'clock that night everything was C readiness Tor the patienra reuspooai y servants were all In bed and eleepln. soundly all except my man Bchmlts, o whom I could rely, when I was startles! by th. faint ringing of my door belL J answered it, and a figure hurriedly en tered. A lady, clothed from head to foot m black and heavily veiled. She was trembling violently, and her dress war saturated with the heavily falling rain. "Sir," ahe said, hurriedly, "I Wish t apeak to you, if you are, Pr, JMsstJyl Without a word I led the way into my study. She quietly raised her veil. Then I saw that my visitor was a young girl, about 20 years of age. Her akin waa as white as alabaster, her hair as black as Jet, while her eyes, large and lustrous, were fixed npon my face with a look wale went to my very soul. "Sir," she said sweetly, "I came to look at your face. I am glad that I came. Ths sigl.t of you gives me courage,' "Indeed!" I replied; "I do not under stand." "I will explain, sir. Too are about t receive into your care a patient, a roans man who ia Buffering from a dangerous wound. I have come to tell yon, air, thai that young man's life is more precious te me than my own; that if he dies, hia In nocent blood will be the stain npon ma which will drag me to my grave, and and," she added in trepidation, "I wish yon to receive this, and also my solemn assurance thut the day the gentleman la pronounced out of danger, I will makr vou a rich mnn!" She held a pocketbook toward me. saw that it was filled with notes. I mo joned it back. "If you will permit me to kiss yout baud," I said, "and hear your name, tha :s all I ask." At this peculiar request ahe drew her self up, and a strange look passed over, her face, but after a moment's hesitation she extended her left hand. I raised th fingers and touched them with my lips. "Your name is " "The Duchess d'Axzeglio." "Married?" "Yes, married.' ahe repeated; and aa eh Mke the words I felt unaccountably trou-bli-d and disappointed. What did it all mean? Was I mad, or dreaming? II seemed that I was both, for on. look into that face had changed my whole nature. Aud who was this man whom I was about to receive under my care? waa be her huHltand or but no, not even in thought could I couple evil with suck a face as 'hat. I rubbed my eyes to mak. aura of my wakefulness; I turned again to speak to the lady she was gone. I ran to the door, and oiiened it; there waa no sign of a soul. More mystified than ever, I returned te my room, aud the first thing I saw was the pocketbook lying upon my table. I put it safely away under lock and key, aud then, strangely agitated, I sat down (o await the arrival of my mysterious jntient. Here for the present must end the transcript from Dr. Prieatly'a note book. It is now necessary to chronicle the events which culminated in the mysterious epi sode of the wounded man. CHAPTER IL Three years before the occurrence oi the event chronicled In the preceding chapter, a lady was seated ia a richly furnished dressing room in a house ia Portland Place. It waa 1 o'clock in the morning. The lady, who was about 70 years of age, held a letter in ber left band, which hung at hex side, and her whole attitude betokened expectancy. At last there waa a light tap upon the door and a young girl looked cautiously lata the room, and crossing it, sunk upoa tha floor at the lady's feet "Dear grandmamma," ahe said, "it ia se lata for you to be up. When Osborne told me you wished to see me I could scarcely believe it Is anything the mat tarT" "Nothing is the matter that need alarm you Constance. Why are you home at earlT "The countess was indisposed, and wish ed to leave, so, of course, she brought me home. Grandma, that letter Is front Frank, Is it not?" "Yes, dear." "And it waa to speak about that that you determined to ait up until I returned from the ball?" "Yea." "Well," continued the girl, growing more nervous as she proceeded, "I had better tell you at once that Frank was at the ball to-night and and be proposed to me again I" This time the old lady did not speak, but her face grew hard aa iron. Tha girl trembled, noticing the change. "Ah, do not be angry, dear," ahe said, showering warm kisses on the withered hands. "Do not blame Frank. He lores me, and I oh, I love him so much; if yoo persist in keeping us apart, I shall not :are to liver "This is folly, Constance,' returned tbi old lady, gravely. "That waa what you said last year, grandma, and then I thought yea might be right; I did not know. And since yoa wished it so very much, I promised yoa that I would try to cease te care fof Frank. Well, I have tried; for one wholt year I have neither seen him nor heart from him, bat when he came Into tht room to-night I felt that never, until my dying day, could I love another man. Grandma, tell me why it is you are as obdurate. Do you think Frank la un worthy? Do you not sea that you at breaking bis heart and miner "Yours? Why should your heart break 1 What hare you In the world to wish fori You have a title which most girls would give their souls for and you have all my wealth I" "Wealth a title what are they with out happiness! I tell you, grandma, I would rather be the poorest beggar thar lose my Frank." Then thia la your final decision; you are determined to marry Frank Ho warth?" "Yes." "Despite all my car. and devotion, la spite of all th. money I have endowed you with; despite the fact that all my lifa I have been working to secure your hap piness, you refuse to grant the only re quest I hare ever made." "Oh, do not say sol I would do any thing In the world but that" -Anytfrljig put that! What other re quest nave I ever made or am likely to make? Welt the matter must rettt so, I suppose. Good-night." Klowly and deliberately site rose, het left baud grasping th. letter with a cruel, venomous grip. For a moment the girl watched her with streaming eyes and wildly beating heart; then th. old Indy stooped to kiss her, but ber kiss was at cold aa Ice At 10 o'clock the next morning Mrs. Meason took her place in tha breakfast room at 0 Portland place with as calm an air as if Bathing whatever bad occur red to disturb ber serenity on the uigh' before. When st length Lady Constance enter ed her face waa pale and her eyes showed signs of recent tears. It waa the dreariesl of breakfaata; scarcely a word waa spok en by either of the ladies present. When the meal waa over, and the servants had left the room. Lady Constance walked over to where the old lady sat and kuel' beside her chair. "My child," aha said, "you have doDt of your owa free will the deed I would have shielded you from. You bsve laid beneath your own feet a mine which ma; one day destroy you." "Grandma,' cried the girl in terror "what do you mean?" "I mean that the day you marry Frank Ilowarth all happiness for you will end. He has his own family tralta. Had yoa been a different girl, bad yoa bean cold, hard-hearted and callous, X abeuld bavt given a very different answer that day when this young man asked tar youi hand. I should have man lad jn te him, and through your agency your mothei tuight have been avenged. Bat X aaw that, despite my stern training: 70 bad ;rowo into a tender, timid girl, capable f loviug very deeply, and, as sing this, 1 mow that your cousin Frank waa tht nut mau on whom you should est youi n-nrt." "You disliked him so much even then, laid the girl, reproachfully. ' "Do you expect to find a fig upon a pear tree or a rose upon a thistle? He if a Ilowarth; that ia enough." There was a knock at the door; the footman entered, bearing a card, upon which the old lady read: "Captain Frank Ilowarth." "I will come to the drawing room," eh' mid, aud the footman retired. Constance leaped to ber feet her fact turning from red to deathly white; hei Initials, which trembled violently, eager!; clutched her companion's dress. "Grandma," she cried, "what will yoo say?" "If I send him away your heart will break; if he remains" the old lady sighed heavily "Welt perhapa it ia better to enjoy a few hours of happiness," she continued, "since the issue must be th same." With these words she left thi room. Fully an hour passed, when the dool again opened, and thia time the figure ol a young man appeared. He stretched forth his arms. "Constance," he said, softly. With s glad cry Constance fluttered across th room and fell upon hia breast. "One hour, Connie," said he; "but you were waiting for me, my love, so it seem ed to you like three." "Now you are laughing. If you do not become serious and tell me what I wish to know I shall go to grandma. She ia so strange; I cannot understand her, Frank. Sometimes I think she hates me." "Yea, she is very singular," returned the young man, gravely, "but ahe doer not hate you, darling." "Then why ia ahe afraid to see me happy, Frank do you know?" "Yes; but the story is a very sad on. Why ahould our happiness be clouded at the outset?" (To be continued.! Convinced. It Is said that although the celebrated Advocate; Lord Ersklne, was sometimes Jocular and occasionally a little unfair in bin treatment of witnesses, no man was batter able than he to make them realise the foolishness or otter Irrelev ance of their replies without giving offense. At one time a witness obstinately re fused to be sworn in the usual manner, but stated that although he would not "kiss tha book," he would "hold np bis hand" and awear. Ersklne asked bim what reason be bad for preferring such an eccentric way to the ordinary method. "It ia written in the book of Revela tions," replied the obstinate man, "that the angel standing on tbe sea "held up his hand.' " "That Is very true," said Ersklne, with a smile, "but I can hardly see how that applies to your rase. In tha first place, you certainly are not an angeL And hi tbe second place you cannot tell, you have no means of knowing, how the angel would have sworn if be had stood on dry ground aa you do." There waa no flippancy or Irrever ence In Ersklne'a tone, and after a mo ment's reflection the stubborn witness yielded the point Impressed by the ad vocate's common-sense view of the mat ter, and took the oath In the usu- manner. Oak Btavla. Equal parte of potash and pearl ash two ounces each to about one quart ol irat.r irtve a good oak stain. TJae rim fully, aa It will blister tbe hands, Ad water if the color be too deep. U According to La Nature, sng'e worms can lie ol tained anywhere lv wetting tbe ground with a solution of bine vitriol or with soapsuds whiah win uriug ineui oat in surprising i rjumbera. j M. Itioul 1'ictet, who has done much original chemical work at low I temperature, suggests that by makiue nfe of low temperatures syntheses may i lie obtained wbieh would be otherwise impossilile. Miss Alice C. Fletcher was elected one ot the sectional Vice-President of Ibe American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, tbe first honor of tbe sort extende J to a woman by the association. A Frenchman has fitted his bicycle for bill elimbing purposes with a pair of direct -acting cranks on tne froot wheel and a second saddle nearer the handle bars. slexiojn frnit ha become very papular in Ktnsaa City, and qaile a trade has grown np ever the Mexican railroad Chicago and Baltimore have received smaller quantities, 11ms EUa Knowlea, of Montana, settled a lawsuit between two mining companies by submitting an agreement s.) obviously just that both parties ac cepted it and paid her S 10,000. A paper published in Germany, called the Fahrrad Export, ic a eyoie trade paper with every article and ad vertisement printed in German, Eug . liab, French, Spanish and Russian. MRS. CLEVELAND'S WALKS. first Lady of the Land Takee a Dally Five-Mile Traasp. Mrs. Cleveland alweys did walk more r less, but since ber return to the White House last fall she has let very few samples of severe weather deter her from ber dally constitutional. That Is what it really is, a constitutional. Although nobody says anything about It Mrs. Cleveland baa been gaining flesh, and she has also been working energetically to keep It down. Mrs. Cleveland doesn't ride a bicycle. She doesn't skate or play golf. She doesn't ride or hunt In fact, she baa none of the fun of the outdoor llfj that Is open to women who live In an exec utive mansion and have to keep up offi cial dignity. That is why she has taken to walking. Bain or shine, no mattur 1115 MRS. CLCVELABD OUT I TUX BAIN. what Is on for the evening, Mrs. Cleve land Is ready for her constltuUoual about 10:30. Under ordinary circumstances any woman In Washington would be de lighted to be. honored with an invita tion to keep Mrs. Cleveland compauy for a couple of hours during the fore Boon. Most of them did try it i or a while. After a couple of experiences all but the strongest have been content to make a plea of sickness. Mrs. Cleveland's preference Is always ' for a black skirt This winter ahe has usually worn one of tho wide-gored black skirts of heavy cheviot Over this she has a short Jacket single breasted, with tbe buttons concealed under the flap of the coat Tbe sleeves of tbe coat are not abnormally Im mense. A superb chinchilla cape of the new winter fashion, very full and rip ply, covers her shoulders. Its high col lar Is turned up only in the most bit ing weather. It Is an immense cape, and must have been made to order to lult Mrs. Cleveland's shoulders. On ber head is a little black toque of vel vet and astrakhan, with a couple of Wings at the aide and front There Is nothing striking or especially fashiona ble about the outfit It Is quiet and i tomf ortable, and designed for ease also. The dally stretch is not less than five aiUes. If there la time and a compan ion who Is equal to It it is six or seven nllea. This is one of the reasons every body has ben saying bow well the President's wife looked, says tbe New Fork World. When she comes up the walk to tbe White nouse her eyes are clear and bright Her cheeks are Bushed with the exercise, and It Is to be hoped that the real purpose of the train ing la being accomplished. Two of the : women who have held out beet and ; have been her most frequent compan ions are Mrs. Mlnot, the daughter of Secretary of State Olney, and MIbh Har mon, daughter of the new Attorney . General of the Cabinet SOUTH AFRICAN RULER. fudge Steyn, the New President of the Orange Kree state. I Judge Steyn, who has recently been elected president of the Orange Free State, was chief justice of that conn try before his elevation to the office f the presidency. The position had been filled by the late F. W. Kelts. jtnox stxtw. Judge Steyn's election is considered a Boer victory, as his candidacy waa Indorsed and promoted by President Kroger, of the Transvaal. Dr. Jame son and his raid into the South Af rican republic had the sympathy of the nltlanders, or nondtlzens, of the Orange Free State. Steyn stood for the conservative or Boer Interests, and his election shows the tide Is flowing against British domination In this part f Africa. He is an able Jurist a good statesrrmn and a strong man. Tha country over which ha will rule Is aa Independent Dutch republic la South Africa. On the sooth of tt Is Caps Colony, on the west Oriqualand, tha Transvaal on the north and Natal oa the east Its area Is 48,830 square miles. Tbe total population numbers 207,608, of whom nearly 80,000 art whites. Tha aovarnmant a president and a council appotnteA hf the Tolkaraad. The country la divided into nineteen dlatztcta, with a "land rost" to each appointed by tfae preeV dent and confirmed by tha vuiksraadt The Tolkaraad ia a legislative bod elected by tbe adult white irarghera, half of the body vacating aeata every two yean. IN HER COUNTRY'S BEHALF. fVlfeof tke Spanish Miaieter Wwrhv law Hard for Bpala'a Caaee. One of the best diplomats that Spain has in this country la lime. Dupuy del Lome, wife of the Spanish minister in Washington. She is a tall and beauti ful woman and speaks English as flu ently as she does ber native tongue. It is said she has tried to get the wives of the statesmen to promise to use tha influence of their husbands In the In terest of Spain, and that ahe has even herself furnished documents to those who wished them. There Is no doubt . but that she takes the deepest Interest in the plans of her husband, feeling that the success of his diplomatic mis . aton depends on his efforts to stem tha tide of Cuba's popularity. She Is do lng all that her womanly attractive, nees can to make more easy her bus-1 band's difficult pathway. Nor does she confine her efforts to her own sex. She has approached Senators In a dull cate, womanly way, and it is said has : made of some of them champions of Spain's cause. a The family of Minister de Lome is ' very happy one, there being two pretty boys of about 8 and 10, who are taughf dally by their mother. BAR ROOMS HIGH AND LOW. The Highest I. oa m Mosat eatd the Lowest la a Mine. Wherever civilization goes the sale ot alcoholic liquor goes with it Thia great and remarkable fact receives fresh il lustration from the pictures of the high- AT TBC TOP OF MOHT BI-AWO. est and lowest bar rooms in the world. One of these bar noma, that at the bot tom of the mine. Is a new thing. Tha other Is a necessary attachment of a highly respectable institution, an obser vatory on Mont Blanc. One bar room Is TOO below the surface of tbe earth, in the Chantler mine, St Louis County, Minnesota. The Chant ler Is one of the numerous mines in tha Vermillion range, a bard Iron ore belt and Is about ninety miles from Duluth. Tbe miners who work there are Fin landers and Hungarians, and extremely fond of alcohol. They all carry knives,' with blades four Inches long, which they draw frequently. ' Frome time to time miners were ar rested for committing murderous as saults In the mines, and sent to Duluth for trial. They were in an advanced state of Intoxication. The managers; of the mines noticed that men who wenlj AT BOTTOM OB A COAL MIXK. down perfectly sober came np blind drunk. This could not be due to the Influence of coal dust, but tt wss some time before the true cause was disco v ered. The other bar Is a very different af fair. It is in connection with the French observatory, at the fop of Mont Blanc, which is 15,777 feet high. There you can get the best of French cognac and champagne. Everything Is in strik ing contrast to the raw alcohol of tbe mine. The Vastness of tho Oceana. The surface of the sea is estimated at 100,000,000 square miles; taking the whole surface of the globe at 187,000, 000, and its greatest depth supposed to be equal to that of the highest moun tain, or four miles. The Pacific ocean covers 78,000,000 square miles, the At lantic 25,000,000, the Mediterranean 1,000,00a "To my mind,' remarked SqukklisV Nansen's greatest difficulty to not finding the north pole." "What Is Nan sen's greatest difficulty T" asked klc-t SwlUlgen. "Finding has way back) home." Prthvburg Chronicle Tele graph, j If yon thing anyone Is wise, it ia be cause yoa don't know him very .wall. nW life ft GL MJBL om. di a rii s o m Tbe Eminem Urine SOKUIV Subject: "The Church Garden." TsxTt "Thou shall be like a watered gar aen." balan, MIL. IL The BIM. to a great poem. We have tt ta faultless rhythm and bold imagery and start ling antithesis and rapturous lyric and sweet pastoral and lnstrnetivo narrative and de votional paaua, thoughts expremmd In style mora solemn than that of Montgomery more bold than that ot Milton, more terrU bi. than th&t of Dante, more natural than that of Wordsworth, mora impassioned thaa I hat of Pollock, mora tender thaa that ol Oor per, mora weird than that of Spenser. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth Into Its coronet and it weaves tbe flames of Judgment Into its garlands, and pours eternal harmonies in Its rhythm. Everything this book touches It makes beau tiful, from tha plain stone of the summer thrashing floor to th. daughters of Nahot Ailing the trough for lbs esmels. from ths fish pools of Heshbon up to the rirs'inmt praising Ood with the diapason of storm and whirlwind, and Job's Imagery of Orion Are turns and tha Pleiads. My text leads as Into a seen, of summei redolence. The world has had a great man beautiful gardena, Charlemagne added to the glory ot his reign by decreeing that they be established all through the realm, decid ing even the names of th. flowers to bs planted there. Henry IT. at MontpelHar es tablished gardens of bewitching beauty and luxurUnoe, gathering into them Alpine, Pyrenees and French plants. On. of tha sweetet spots on earth was the garden of Shenstone.. tha poet His writings have mad. bat little Impression on the world, but his garden, "The Leasowers," will be Im mortal. To th. natural advantag of that place was brought the perfection of art. Ar bor and terrace and slope and rostio temple and reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their riobeat foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul more Ingenious, than that ot Shenstone, and all tnat diu genae and genius he brought to th. adorn ment of that one treasured spot He gave X900 for it He ;sold It for .17,000. And yet I am ;to tell you to-day of a rloher garden than any I have mentioned. It Is the garden spoken of la my text the garden of the church, whloh belongs to Christ He bought It, He planted It. He owns it, and He shall have It. Walter Boott. in hia outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think or Imagine that you oan see the blood of that old man's broken heart The payment ot the last 100,000 nacrlfloed him. But I have to tell you that Christ's life and Christ's death were the outlay of this beautiful gar den of the church of which my text speaks. Oh. how many sighs and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw Him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me. thou sua that didst hldel Te rooks thai felll Christ loved the ohuroh and gave Himself for IL If the garden of the oh arch belongs to Christ, eertsinly He has a right to walk in tt. Come, than, O blessed Jesus, to-day, walk up and down these aisles and pluok What Thou wilt of sweetness for Thyself. The church in my text is appropriately compared to a garden because It Is the place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough Irrigation. That would beastrange garden in whloh there were no flowers. If nowhere else, they would be along the borders or at th. gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate something. If it be onlv ths old fashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffo dil, but it there be larger means then you will find th. Mexican cactus, and biasing azalea, and clustering oleander. Well, now, Christ oomes to His garden, and He plants there some of the brightest spirits that ever flowed upon the world. Some of them are violets, Inoonspi i"us, but sweet as heaven. Ion have to search and And them. You do not see them very often perhaps, but you And where they have been by the brightened face of the invalid, and tha sprig of garanium on the stand, and ths new window curtains keeping out tbe glare of the sunlight They are perhapa more like tbe eanunoulus, creep ing sweet fy along amid the thorns and briars of life, giving kiss for sting, and many a man who has had in his way some great black rook of trouble has found that they have eovered It all over wttn flowery Jasmine, running la and out amid the devious, x'hess flowers ia Christ's garden are not, Uke the sunflower, gaudy in the light but wherever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted there they stand, night blooming But In Christ's garden there are plants that may be better oompared to the Mexican cac tus thorns without, loveliness within, man with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touohea them. They are hard to handle. Men pronounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them notwithstanding all their aharpnesHea, Many a man has had a very hard ground to culti vate, and It has only been through severe trial he has raised even the smallest crop of grace. A very harsh minister waa talking to a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister, "Doctor, I do wish you would control your temper." "Ah," said the minister to the elder, "I con trol more temper in Ave minutes than you do in Ave years." It si harder for some men to do right than for other men to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from fci.wiirig a man down. I had a friend who came to me and said, 'I dare not Join the ehnreh.! I said. -Why?" "Oh," he said, "I have suobj a violent temper. Yesterday morning I was crossing very early el the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a large quantity of water into the milk can, and I said to him, 'I think that will do,' and he insulted me, and I knocked him down. Do you think 1 ought to Join die ohuroh?" Nevertheless, that very same man. who was so harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and eoald not speak ot sacred things without tears of emotion and affection. Thorns without, sweetness within the best speeimea of the Mexican eaetus I ever saw. There are others planted In Christ's garden who are always radiants, always impressive, more Uke the roses of deep hue than we oc casionally And. eallel "Oiants of Battle," the Martin Lathers, 8c Pauls, Ohrysostoms, Wyclifa, Larimers and Samuel Butberfords. What in other men la a spark in them is a conflagration. Whan they sweat, they sweat great drops of blood. When they pray, their nMMMtalrA Sm Wh tk.. nnu. I, I- . fentecoet. When they fight, it is a Tnermo- ?vlaa. When they die, It Is a martyrdom, ou And a great many roses In the gardena, but only a few "Olanta of Battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more of them In tha church?" I aay, "Why dont you have In the world more Humboldts and Wellingtons? Ood gives to some ten talents; to another, one. In this garden of the ohuroh which Christ has planted I also And ths snowdrops, beau tiful, but eold-looklng, seemingly another phase of winter. I mean those Christiana who are precise in their tastes, unim- Keuonel, pure as snowdrops and as cold, ey never shed any tears; they never get excited; they never say anything rashly; they never do anything precipitately. Their pulses never flutter: their nerves never twitoh; their Indignation never boils over. They live longer than most people, nut tneir life Is in a minor key. They never run up to 0 above the staff. In their music of Ufa they have no staccato pa magna Christ E lasted them in the church, sad they must s ot some service or they would not be there snowdrops, always snowdrops. But I have not told yoa of the most beau tiful floweret all thia garden spoken of la he text It yoa see a century plant, your amotions are startled. Yoa say, "Why, this Sower has been 100 yeare gal baring up tor aae bloom, and tt will be 100 years more be tars other petals win some out" But 1 kav. to tall you of a plant that was gather lag up from all eternity, and that 1900 yean ago fat forth its bloom never to wither. B la tha nassloa slant of the eroasl Pronhen teratoid tt, Bsthleoem shepherds looked up se tt ia the bud, the roeksshook at Its burst- ana tne dead got up in its wiaoins to see its roil bloom, it is a enmsos at the roots, blood oa th se0AdJev.aU ID lea Itojer Bower blood hues Is to flU all tha Nations. ' Its breath If heavea. Oome O winds from the north, an! Winds from tbe south, sad winds from tin east, and winds tram the wast, and bear U all the earth the sweet-smelling savor a Christ my Lord! His worth It all the Nations knew. Sore the whole earth would love Him too. I Again, tne enuran may appropriately tx . torn pared to a garden because it Is a placa oi ' fruits. That would bs a strange gardes whloh bad la it no harries, no mams a peaches or apricots. Th. aoarssc traits an planted in tne orchard, or they are set out oa the sunny hillside, bat the eholaast fruits are kept in the garden. So la the world out side the church Christ has planted a great many beautiful things patianee, eharity, generosity, Integrity but He intends tb choicest fruits to be ta the garden, and if they are not there, then shame on tha ehuroht BeUgion Is not a mere sentimentality. It 1 a a pranoal, life giving, healthful fruit sot posies, but apples. "Oh," says some, body, "I don't see what your garden of the church has yielded." I reply I ask where did your asylums oome from, and your hos pitals, and your Institutions of mercy? Christ planted every one of them. He plant ed them In His garden. When Christ gavs stgnt to Barttmeua, He laid tbe cornerstone lo erery blind asylum that has ever been built When Christ soothed the demoniac of Oallles, He laid the cornerstone of every lunatic asylum that has ever been estab lished. When Christ said to the sick mani Take ap thy bed and walk," He laid the sornecstone of evarv hosoital the world has rrer seen. When Christ said: "I wsa in HisoB and ye visited Me," He laid the oor- jerstone of every prison reform assoolatioa t jiw umm iwwm WKMiaH. 1H ouiaron f Christ Is a gtourlous garden, and it to full ! f fruit V I I know there la some poor frutt in tt 1 now there are some weeds that ought to bs I thrown over the fence. 1 know there are some crab apple trees tiiat ought to be cut town. I know there are some wild grapes that ought to be uprooted, but are you going to destroy the whole garden because ot a little gnarled fruit 7 Yoa will And worm Mien leaves In Tontalaebleaa ana tnenets that sting in the fairy groves of the Champs Blysees. You do not tear down and destroy ths whole garden because there are a few ipeoimens of gnarled fruit I admit there we men and women in the church who lught not to be there, but let us be Just as (rank and admit the fact that there are hun ireds snd thousands and tens ot thousands f glorious Christian men and women holy lessed, usefut eonseomted and triumphaut. There i no grander, nobler collection in all lie earth than the collection of Christians. There are Christian men In this soius vhoee religion to not a matter of psalm sing- UK mm i iiuicu Kuiug. luiuunuv uiurniug hat religion will keep them just as oonsla nt and oonseorated la their worldly occu pation as It ever kept them at the oom nunlon table. There, are women here to lay of a higher type of char oter than Mary f Bethany. They not only sit at tbe feet of Christ, but they go out Into the kitchen to tielD Martha In her work that she may sit there too. There to a woman who has a I lrunkard husband who uns exhibited more ' faith and patience and courage that Bidley ta the fire. He was consumed in twenty nlnutes. Hers has been a twenty years nartyrdom. Yonder is a man who has been ifteen years on his back, unable to feed him Blf. yet calm and peaceful as though he lay I in one of the green banks of heaven, watch- ng tho oarsmen dip their paddle in the crys- ai river! Why, tt seems to me this moment is If St. Paul threw to us a pomologlst's latalogue of the fruits growing la this great rarden of Christ love, joy, peace, patience, lharity, brotherly kindness, gentleness, nercy, glorious fruit, enough to fill all th )askets of earth and heaven. Again, the church ia my text to ap a-oprialely called a garden because It Is dioroughly irrigated. No garden could prosper long without plenty ot water. 1 lave seen a garden in the midst of a desert, ret blooming and luxuriant All around us were dearth and barrenness, but there were pipes, aqueducts, reaching from this rarden up to the mountains, and through those aqueducts the water came streaming town and tossing up into beautiful foun- tains, until every root anil leaf and flower J sounty officers, The contest will be princl gss saturated. That te like the church.' pally between the Populists and the bemo- iue cnurun is m garaen in ine miast oi a i rreat dosert of sta and suffering, but It to gen irrigated, tor our eyes are unto tbe ill la from whence eometh our help." From the mountains of Ood's strength there flow lown rivers of gladness. "There is a river the stream whereof shall make glad the city of our Ood." Preaching the rospel to one of the aqueducts. The Bible Is another. Baptism and tbe Lord's upper are aqueducts. Water to a lake the Ihlrsr. water to wash the unolean, water tossed high up In the light of the Hon of Righteous, showing us tbe rainbow around the throne. Oh. was there ever a garden so ' thoroughly irrigated! You know that tbe beauty of Versailles andUhatswotth depends very much upon the great supply of water. I came to tbe latter place, Ohatswortb, one lay when strangers are not to be admitted, tiut by an Inducement which always seemed is potent with an Englishman as an Ameri taa I got In, and then the gardener went fat sp above the stairs ot stone and turned on the water. I aaw it gleaming oa the dry evement eomlngdown from step to step un it same so near I could hear tha musical rush and all over the high, broad stairs It sam. foaming, flashing, roaring down, un til sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. 'So it Is with the church at Ood. Everything comes from above pardon from above, joy from above, adoptios From above, santtfleation from above. Hark? I hear the Utah of the garden gate, tad I look to see who Is eomiag. 1 hear ths roloe of Christ. "I am oome Into My gar Sen." I say: '-Come in, O Jesus! We have been waiting tor Thee. Walk all through tha paths. Look at the flowers, look at the fruit: pluck that whloh Thou wilt for Thy lelL" Jesus oomes into the g irdea and uu to that old man and touches him, and says: "Almost home, father; not many more aches lor thee. I will never leave thee. Taka sourage a little longer, and I will steady thy tottering steps, and I will soothe thy trou bles aad give thee rest Courage, old man." Then Christ goes up another garden path, tnd He comes to a soul In trouble and saysi "Peace! All to welt I have seen thy tears. I have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not unite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord snail preserv. the. bom all evil He will preserve thy soul. Courage, O trou bled spirit!" Then I see Jesus going up another gardei path, and I see great esottement among th leaves, and I ham an ap that garden path to lee what Jesus Is doing there, and lol He it breaking off flowers a hart aad clean from the stem, and I say, -Htop, Jesus; don't kill those beautiful flowers." He turns to me tnd says: "I have oome into My garden to rather lilies, and I mean to take these up to t higher terrace, tor the garde around My aalaoe, and there I will plant them, and in setter soil and in better air they shall nut forth brighter leaves and sweater redotance. tnd no frost shall touoa them forever." And I looked up into His face and said: Well. It s His garden, aad He has a right to do what He will with it Thy will be done!" tin hardest prayer ever man made, r- It has seemed as it Jesus Christ took ths best; from many of your households tbe best one Is gone. Yon know that she wai too good for Into world; she was the goal- tleat ia her ways, the deepest In her effee lions, and when at last the sickness cam you had no faith in medioines. You knew bat the hour of parting had come, and whet through the rich grace of tbe Lord Jesiu Christ, you surrendered that treasure yot Mid. "Lord Jesus, take tt. It Is the bes p. have; take it. xnou art wony. others In the household may have been of it.... i.t Thou art worthy! ' 'ins grosser mold. She was or tne una. , n. hmmn of vonr little ones will not b. fairly begun until you gee imbto. ju i kindness shown them by immortals will not .khm form von. There they are, the . . . . . i . 1 1 radiant throngs that went out from your homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings. They are all well now la the palaos. Th. crippled child naa a sonna iooi now. a m tleUme child says, "Ma. wlU I be lame la , heaven?" "No, my darling, yott won't be lam. In heaven." A little si ok child says, "Ma, will I be sick In heaven?" "No, my 'buWId0s.ysrWl .heaven?" "No, my dear, yon won't be blind In heaven. They are an wen inera. I notice that the Una gardens sometimes have high fences around them and you can- not get In. It to so with a king's garden. The onlv glimpse yoa ever get of such a t. ?-0.!?. solas41duaLrrjaBT. It is. not x.wltk this gardea, this King's iraraen. I throw wide open the gate and tell yoa all to oome in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever wilt may. Choose now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world's delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. Bolt was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read hia poems, but he could not make his own heart laugh. While ia the midst of hi festivities he confronted a looking glass, and he aaw himself and said: "There, that to true. I look just ss I am done up In body, mind tad purse." Bo it waa of Bheastone, of a hose garden I told you at the beginning ot ny sermon. He sat down amid those bowers tad said: "I hare lost my road to happlne-s. ( am angry and envious and frantic, and leaptoe everything around me, Just as it ho mines a madman to do." O ye weary souls, oome Into Christ's gar ten to-day and pluck a little hearts ease. Christ to the only rest and tha only pardon for a perturbed spirit. D you not think four onanoe has almost come? You men and women who have been walling year after year for some good opportunity In which to accept Christ, but have postponed it live, ten, twenty, thirty years do you not feol as If Bow your hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation had come? O man. what rrudge hast thou against thy poor soul that thou wilt not tot It be saved? I feel as If sal ration must oome to-day in some ot your aearts. Some years ago a vessel struck on the rooks. They had only one lif'iboat. In that lifeboat the passengers and orew were get ting ashore. The vessel had fouadere.1 and Was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very iwlftly. A little girt stood on the deck WSitlnfl waiting for her turn to get Into the boat. The boat came and went, came and went, trat her turn did not seem to come. After while she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the taffrall and then spraug Into the sea. crying to the boatman: "Save me text! Save me next!" Oh, how many hav.i rone ashore into God's mercy, and yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin) Others have tooepted the pardon of Christ, but you are a peril. Why not this moment make a rush 'or your immortal rescue, crying until Jeau hall hear you and heaven and earth ring with the ory: "Save me next! Hsvn mn text!" Now Is the day of salvation! Now! low! This Sabbath U the hut for some of you. It is about to sail away forever. Her bell soils. The planks thunder back In tho rangway. She shoves off. She floats out oward the great ocean of eternity. Wave a re well to your last chance for heaven. "Oh. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often vould I have gathered thee as a hen gth- reth her brood under her wings, and ye ,ould not! Behold your house Is left uuto rou desolate. Invited to revel In a (fal len, you die in a desertl Mtiy Clod Almiifhiy, ajfore it ia too late, break that infatuation. EARLY ELECTIONS. (even States Oast Their Vote Previous to November. Elections will be h-ld In seven States ot lie Dnlon prior to the general election of November. In Ave of the Btates tho elections 1 aill be for State, municipal and county offl : rials only, but In the two other States will Include also the election of members of the ' National House of Representatives, Vermont will noid a general election nep- somber I for the election of Qovornor, State AfllclHls. Lefflalature and count v nfnclMU ' tnd the members ot the National House of Representatives. Maine will hold an election . Snptember 14, and will ohoose a Oovernor, t Legislature and oounty officers, the Legis lature selecting the higher State officers. At . this election the members of the National ! Bouse ot Representatives will also beohosen. Arkansas will hold an election September f, at whloh will be ohosen all State, oounty tnd municipal offloers, from constable to Governor, with Chief Justice of the Supreme Doart, Associate Justice and Legislature. The contest ta mainly between the Demo . srats and Republicans, but the Democrats are confident of carrying the Statu. In Alabama, August 8 baa been set 'aside I tor the election of Oovernor. other State sfflclala, the Legislature and some ot the srats, unless ine ropuuais aim ine iiepuDii should make a combination. In Florida an election will be held October I to ohoose a Oovernor, ether Utateomolals, a majority of the oounty officials, all of the Lower House of the Legislature and half of the State Senate. The campaign has not fairly opened, and tbe contest forthe notnl- Rations naa not begun. It to said thereto little doubt that the Demoorata will carry the State, and tbe Democratic State Convention aas been oaiiea tor une ie. Oeorgia will hold an election October 7, at whloh will be chosen everything exoept the Federal officials. It to said that the Oovernor aad the other State officers will doubtless be renominated. The Demoorata are confident of carrying the State, aad will hold their State convention June 25. Louisiana held an election April II for Oovernor and Stat, officers, a Legislature and district, parish and local officers. The Legislature ohosen will elect a Senator to luooeed Mr. Blanonard. SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY. Pedlcatleai at Btratfurd-on-A von ot m Wl. now Breeted by American Visitors. Ambassador and Mrs. Bayard visited Btrat-ford-on-Avon, England, and took part In the several ceremonies beld on the occasion of Shakespeare's birthday. At twelve o'clook tbe viear ot Trinity (the Bev. George Arbuthnot), whose guest Mr. Bayard was, dedicated a window, erected at a eost of S4U0, with money received from American visitors to Shakespeare's tomb and from others, whom the vicar inter- sied In the project during a recent visit to the United Btates. The most Interesting oeremony of th t day took place la th. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at tour o'clock lu the afternoon, when United States Consul Parker presented to th. theatre and museum a portrait of Edwin Booth as Hamlet on behalf of the Players' Club of New York, founded aud ed iowed by Mr. Booth. MlseWavwise la China. Minister Denby, at Pekin. has notified the Oepartmaot of State, at Washington, that kt. Oerard, th. French Minister to China, has procured trom the Tsung Li Yameu, by virtue of the French treaty of 1S58, an order dlreotiug tbe local authorities throughout all the provinces of ths Lraplre to expunge from the various editions and compilations of the flhlnwit code all restrictions upou the propa gation of the Ohristinu religion, "it gives me pleasure," writes Mr. Denby, "to add that the Minister ol France Is ontttled to tbe gratitude of the entire Christian world for his action In this Important mot tor." A custom of Puritan time ha been revived ta Maohias, Me., In the opening of the tows meeting wltn prayer. The mind grows narrow in propor tii n ai the soul grows corrupt, Tbere are no blinder people than those who think they have no faults. Man should be content with his lot and try lo lift Iho mortgage from it Neverliaten lo two sides of a story tbe second story spoils the first This world is a bad world only for thoe who have bad hearts. If good eeed is put in good gronnd , t u 1k, Btire to grow I Uood society is crow eu wuu reuie whose manners are bail. Eavy always implied conscious in feriority wherever it resides. Ah soon as some meu get their hands oa gold, they become stone blind to their own good. Courage consists, not in blindly over looking dabgcr, but lu teeiug it aud jvinnuerinir it Ooo,! Lreeding is leoevolence in trifleF, r the pi elerence of others l.i ourselves lu ine uaiiy uu-ureu , . , . . , .. I The love that never speaks nn l it loen it on a gravestone, keeps btill too long. -.-vX.
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