0 a. ar f I www B. F. BOHWEIEB, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. L. MIFFLINTOW1N. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA . WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3. 1896 NO. 25 CHAPTER X. A few days after that mysterious latter bad been thrown in at Lady Constance's bedroom wiudow, Feveral presented hlm elf at the door of the duke's house and eeut in his card. The duke was in his library, seated at a large writing desk. When the strang er was ushered in he looked op quickly and frowned. -Sir," he said, haughtily, I do not know you." "Pardon me, returned the other, po litely, "I see you hare my card to your band. My name la Federal Richard Feveral." "Well, what do you want?" "Money." "A beggar?" "Not at all a friend from Venezuela!" The duke started and turned pale. Ha felt that the eyes of the man were fixed keenly upon him. "From Venezuela V ne repeated, perr usly. "Precisely from Venezuela, returned the other, "where your grace, fire years ago, befpre you came into the title, was attache of the Spanish Embassy. "I repeat, sir, I do not know yon." "Your grace has forgotten me," said Feveral. "but perhaps I may be able to refresh your memory. In the meantime I wish to enter your service. I am clever, and sufficiently unscrupulous." I "Sir, you entered this house by a fraud) I be good enough to leave It, or I may be under the painful necessity of having you forcibly expelled." "Hear me out," ld Feveral, "and for your own sake do not Insult me before your set-rants. Engage me, and I will serve you faithfully. I know well, my lord, that the Duke d'Azzeglio is a very different person from the young count who sowed his wild oats In South Amer ica." Again the duke started, and turned deathly pale. "What do you mean?" he asked nerv ously. "I mean that at one period of my life I found myself in Venezuela, where your grace was amusing yourself. Every one was then talking of a merchant, Emilio Castelar, whose wife your grace admired. The husband remonstrated, he was thrown into a prison, where, I have heard, he died!" "Sir, what is all this to me?" "Much. If, for example, your former amusements were talked about here, it might affect your prospects as a marrying man." "What! Yon threaten?" "Not at all," answered Feveral, care lessly. I merely state the case as a matter of business. Employ me, and, as I have already informed yon, you will find me useful. Decline my services, and I might offer them elsewhere even to your rival, the cousin of Lady Constance Howarth, whom she loves devotedly." "How did yon learn this?" "My lord," returned the other, lightly, "my familiar spirit tells me everything." "I will think it over," said the duke; "perhaps you might be useful." "I am a treasure, I assure you. I shall do myself the honor of calling upon your grace In a few days." With a courteous bow he left the room. The moment the door closed upon htm the duke became a changed man. His hand clinched, and a cruel, vicious look came Into his eyes. "A thorough vagabond," ha said, "whom I should like to strangle. But I must not how my hand to him. I am In his power. He knows too much of my past life for me to make him an enemy and leave him at large. It may be well to utilize him! Such a fellow could be serviceable to me in many ways. He shall be. I will make bim my spy. Three daya later Feveral again present- ad himself before the duke and became an Inmate of the bouse. Once installed, his conduct was curious. For some mysterious reason, he kept a strict watch upon his grace's movements, and one day the duke noticed this, anl aaid sharply: "You examine me, sir! For why?" "I was merely wondering, my lord, why yon persistently woo the Lady Constance Howarth." The duke smiled. "I woo the Lady Constance because I am about to marry her." "Take my advice, my lord, and refrala from so doing." "What do you mean?" "Merely that the lady doea not lor yon. "I am perfectly aware of it." "And yet your grace persists in yonr wish to make her the Duchess d'Azzeg lio r" "I intend to do so." If by this conversation Feveral had toped to put off the contemplated mar riage of the duke and Lady Constance, he failed. CHAPTER XL Meanwhile things at the Castle had no been going well, and continued trouble was telling upon Lady Constance, and making her appear the ghost of what she nee had been. Mrs. Meason, determined to carry her point continued to point out to the girl the advantage 01 a marriage with the duke, while Constance, wearied with continual resistance, had learned to listen placidly and say nothing. Since he could not marry Frank, she said to herself, what did the rest matter? She had not answered his letter, and she knew it would be better if he never wrote gain. Then Mrs. Meason became " usry Hi. It seemed now that the old lad would die, and that Constance would Be left alone. "Constance," she said, quietly, on day, - "my child, I think that I shall die." "O, grandma!" cried the girl, "don't aay sol I should be left here alone." "Alone," repeated the old lady, feebly; "yea, I was thinking of that, my Con stance. But why should you be alone jwhan there is a good and honorable man jwbo la willing to make you his wife?" "Qrasdma, don't speak of It." . "Constance, promise me that if the Duke d'Asseglio asks yon again to be come his wife you will not refuse him." "Do you know what you are asking! "Perfectly, my child." "Then may heaven forgive you!" The next day the duke called at Avon dale Castle. When Lady Constance cum down she looked so pale and death-llka that the duke asked in some alarm If ah had been ilL "Lady Constance," said he, growing very earnest aa he spoke, "you know in what esteem I hold you. My one wish In life Is to secure your happiness; may I do so? Will you be my wife?" "Pray leave me," aha cried, piteonsly. "But I cannot leave you," replied the duke, who was becoming terribly in earn est; "Constance, I love you, be my wife!" "My lord, I I do not love you." "Become my duchess." She looked at him in dazed amazement. "Yon ask me now, your grace?" "I ask you now," he replied, passion ately pressing her hand; "do not refuse what I ask, for I adore you. Constance, speak, say you will become my wife." "Since you wish it, then, I will," she replied. Scarcely had she uttered the words when the duke took her hand, and would have clasped her in his arms, but Con stance uttered a wild cry and shrunk away. He frowned and would have spok- en sharply, but the girl staggered, then with a low cry she fell fainting on the floor. Just two months later, in a field hos pital near a recent battlefield, a wounded officer, none other Indeed than Frank Howarth, lay hovering between life and death. Just two days after he had post ed that letter to Constance he had been shot down in an engagement with the en emy. "Let me see my letters," was his first convalescent cry, "for heaven's sake don't keep them from me; you don't know all they mean to me." Seeing that to cross him would do more harm than to obey him, the nurse placed a packet of letters and papers on Frank's bed. Eagerly and quicsly Frank seized the letters, and scanned the envelopes one by one; when he came to the end of the packet tears stole from beneath the closed lids of his eyes and rolled slowly down his cheek. Presently he grew more composed, and proceeded with a hoary heart to open his letters. Here a fresh shock awaited hiin. The first letter which he opened was from his father's solicitor. It informed him that his fattier and elder brother were dead; they had both been killed in an accident to the Scotch ex press, and that as his brother had left no male issue, he himself was the Earl of Harrington. For many weeks he lay hovering be tween life and death, but again careful nursing wooed him slowly back to life. Again he examined his letters, but there were none from Constance. After read ing them all through he opened his papers, and almost the first thing that caught his eye was the following: "FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE. - "On Tuesday morning, Jan. 0, at St. Luke's Church, was celebrated the mar riage of His Grace the Duke d'Azzeglio and Lady Constance Howarth, only child of Arthur, the late Earl of Harrington." CHAPTER XII. After a short honeymoon spent in Paris, the Duke d'Azzeglio took his young duchess to Madrid, whither urgent busi ness called him. The duke was too busy a man to spend much time in paying court to his wife. Having married her, he concluded that his duty was done, and he turned his thoughts to other affairs. From the first day of her marriage Constance had sus pected that he did not love her; on her marriage day this fact was made known to her as an absolute certainty. The fortnight in Paris passed to Con stance like a dull, monotonous dream. Mechanically she performed the duties which her husband demanded of her, and he was grimly satisfied. Her beauty made the stir which he had foreseen, while her diamonds and the dresses she wore were the talk of Paris. One morning the duke informed Constance that he wished her to accompany him on the following even ing to a ball at the Tuileries, when he would present her to the empress. The next afternoon, however, he received a message from his wife. She was ill, would he excuse her from attending the ball? He went at once to the apartments she occupied, and found her in intense grief. "You must excuse me, my lord. I can not go," she said. "My cousin Is dead." "Dead!" echoed the duke. For answer Constance pushed toward him a papev; it contained an account of those officers who had fallen mortally wounded at TJlandi. Among the list of names was that of Captain Frank How arth. Constance made no reply. She shud dered, and her tears flowed faster, but more silently than before. She hardly ex pected sympathy from her husband, aa4 he himself bad taught her not to look for love. He took her band in his and kissed her cheek coldly; then he went from the room. -Well, ma chere," he aaid, coldly, "I suppose to-night I must go to the ball alone V" She sat at the window and looked out upon the busy street, feeling very much as she had done years ago when she had sat at her wiudow in Avondale Castle and looked out upon the park, and found her self wondering why people were bora into this world, since it was so very dreary. Suddenly, aa she sat there listening to the dull roar of the street, she seemed to hear a voice the voice of her friend, Alice Grey brook whisper in hex. ear: "Constance, promise me that if you ar ever in trouble you will summon me in stantly to your aide." With a cry Constance rose to her feet and rang the bell. ' "Order my carriage instantly she aaid to her aslonlsneu uiaiu. "1 am going .ut." A hut evening while the Duke d'Azzeg lio was bending low over the hand of Uie empress, uud making profuse apologies lor the absence of his wife, Constance was standing in a room in the convent waiting for her friend. She remained there several hours. Whet, at length she came forth, she was much chauged. Her face was pale and com posed at that of her friend, and that ter rible look of dull despair had in a meas ure passed from her eyes. On arriving at the hotel she asked for the duke, and was informed that he had not yet. re turned. "Let me know the moment the duke re turns," she said to her maid. When the clock struck one Constance rose, and, without sending any formal message weut at once to her husband's rooms. The duke, who was amazed to see her, was not in the best of tempera. "You are not In bed?" ho said; "yet it IsLjate, and after your grief you should be exhausted." "I have been to the convent this even ing," she began, when the duke Inter rupted her "To the convent!" he aaid; "so you could go there, but you could not come with me to the ball?" "No," replied Constance quietly, "that was different. I sought consolation and found it in the holy place. I returned several hours ago, but I would not go to bed. I wished to wait up for you." "Ah, that was amiable, but quite un necessary. Late hours and weary watch ing will spoil your good looks, and that would not please me, because I choose to have my duchess surpass all other wom en. Do you understand?" Constance moved toward the door; there she paused and looked at her husband. She took a few steps toward hfm and breathed hia name. He raised his eyes. "Still lingering? Yes? You have some thing to say?" "Yes," she answered quietly. "I came to this room intending to speak seriously to you. I cannot go until 1 have done so. in the first place, I have to ask your par don." "My pardon? For what, pray?" "For taking your name and neglecting to fulfill the duties of a wife." "Pardon me. You do yourself an Injus tice. Until to-day you have fulfilled those duties admirably." "And are you satisfied "Perfectly satisfied. I craved for a peerless wife, for a beautiful duchess," he returned, "and possess one. Take my advice and preserve your beauty. It is indeed a most precious jewel. Good night!" The next morning a telegram was re ceived from Mrs. Meason. The news of Frank's death had evidently alarmed the old lady, who telegraphed for permission to join her grandchild at Madrid at thir most trying time. The ducal residence was a magnificent place, fit to be the abode of a king; and not until she entered this palace, half dazed by the magnificence of the recep tion accorded to her, did Constance real ize the enormous wealth of the man she had married. Here, in one of the corri dors she met a gentleman, who at sight of her removed his hat and bowed low. Constance stopped and looked at him. She seemed to have seen him before. "You are staying at the Castle, mon sieur?" she asked. "I am one of his grace's secretaries," replied the man, with another profound bow. He made way for her to pass, and Con stance walked on, thinking no more about him. Meanwhile Feveral, for it was he, watched her retreating figure with eyes full of compassion. "Poor lady I" he said, "I pity her, but I cannot spare her. I warned her, and. despite my warning, she rushed upon her doom. How pale she looks, yet bow beaurifnll Ah, but I remember one who was Just as fair, and who Is sleeping in her grave through him yes, through him! That thought never leaves me; night and day it Is ever with me, urging me oo to my revenge." (To be continued.) Undignified for a, Statesman. It Is said that a woman remembers a man whom she has known well as a little boy always aa the little boy, and never can think of him aa grown up. This saying sec ma to be borne out to a certain extent, at least, by an amusing story told In connection with the ap pointment of M. Edouard Lockroy aa minister of marine in France. When Monsieur Lockroy was a small boy his father lived In a house In the street In Paris which now bears the name Rue Washington. His home was In the fifth story of this building; and It appears that he had certain habits which rendered him objection able to some of the other residents of the building particularly to the con cierge, or woman who looked out for the door. He found, for Instance, a more expeditious way of coming down from the fifth floor than by the stairs. This excellent woman Is still living. When she heard that Edouard Lockroy had become a minister, she threw up her hands In astonishment, and ex claimed: "What! That little Edouard Lock roy! And to think of his always slid ing down from the fifth story of the Palace of the Elysee on tfce balusters!" If human dwellings were constructed on the same proportionate scale as the ant hill In Africa, private residences would be a mile "h. Cut t'owt-rs will keep very fresh if a miihII inii'h of common saltpeter is put in llio water in which they stand. The ends of ibe Hteui Mionl.l lie c.it off a little evtry day ti keep open I he ub nor long rnrcfl A good jiithority ou liorepi Kays that the gray sill live the lougrsr, ft ml that the roins eome next in order. Blacks seldom live to be over 20, and cream rarely exceed 10 or 15. E-dHljIishuieiits for bicycle cleaning have been opened in 1$ rrliu. For a mail annual mib-criptmu ibe wheel is all. d f 'r, cleaned and ri turned to he t.nlenber wueuever lie ilci-ite. Leu ion city has now abont t-ven-ty-tbrte miles of romly laid with noiseless materials, throe-fourths bemg asphalt ami the rent wood. A C:iiougo paper notes that msry a merchant who does not advertise will spend Urge Mima of money in ranti, in order to lie near enough to the merchants who do. advertise to catch their overflow l-nsincss. The Jititihh Govi rnment declines to take any nteps in the matter of the re lief of Armenian dudres?, enying that it is a matter tor private liberality. One of Chicago's traction compan ies is experimenting with compressed air as a motive power for fa tree t railways. UAD FLOUR DETECTED PROCESS OF MOST SCIENTIFIC EXACTITUDE, Mie "Tester" Can Tell If Their la a Ella-fat Chaaa-e la the Kanafactara of the Floai la sua Analyst, a Millet ad m Baker, A Teat Mads Each If orailno. In a building In Minneapolis Is a nan who has the power to say that this flour can be manufactured and this cannot. He Is the flour Inspector, Hid each morning gives some atten tion to the samples that are brought to htm to test. He can tell when the lightest change has been made at the mill, and often orders a mill not to manufacture a certain kind of flour, llils Inspector of necessity is an anal yst, a miller and a baker, f It Is the duty of this tester or "In spector," as he Is technically known, to take these samples of wheat each flay and ascertain first what propor tion of gluten light and dark, what proportion of pure starch, and what of mixed starch and gluten they contain. The germ at the center of the kernel is the vital life principle; the gluten Is the most Important commercliil as well is economic element, that which makes for wealth of purse and health of body and mind as well. In the Inspector's room at one hand1 h a tiny roller mill, run by electricity, a duplicate. In miniature, of the grinding machinery of the large mill. The Wheat from one of the sacks Is ground In this mill, the steel rollers crushing . MAN WHO TESTS TUB FLOUB. the kernels Into a flaky dust Below the rollers are silk sieves which sep arate the bran from the flour. When the Hour lias been secured It Is washed thoroughly so completely that the t.in-u and the gluten are wholly sep arated. There must be not less than fi per cent, of gluten In the flour to keep up the required standard, and tho Inspector knows when he has fin ished hts washing, by the amount of the Rluten residuum, whether the wheat of the day Is up to the required standard In this respect or not. The gluten thickens or solidifies into a little patty, about the size of a tooth ionic umrslitunllow, and about the olor of a maple sugar caramel, but Slaving more nutriment In It than all the candy yon could eat In a month, t is very nearly the color of the wheat terucl as it lies in a round disc on the piece of silk whore It has been col lected. Hut not only must the Inspector know y color, weight and consistency as to Jie quality of the gluten he must lake It as well. The Inspector carefully weighs out Ixteen ounces of flour. It must le scact to the fraction of a gram. He nixes this with water in a white eartb ci bowl, ton ounces of water to the six eon of flour. He la planning for a iound loaf, and when he turns It ont f the tin fully baked It will be such a tie If the flour Is what It should be. le does not knead the flour at all Insular statement to a housewife he mils It, as candy Is pulled. Fifty pulls nixes It thoroughly. At the end of sixty mtnntes the loaf found to be baked through and TDK EI.F.CTBlO OVEN. hrough, with no trace of dongh or leaviness. Then It must be weighed (nd measured. It must be so many iches high, so many long; so many nches around it one way, so many he other. This loaf of bread Is snb ect to Iron-clad rules from the time It inters the tiny mill as whet nntll It ttands before the inspector as a fin ished loaf. When the loaf Is cooled it Is cut open ,r Inspection. It must be of Just the fight hue. Inside as well as out. If the inspector finds it has a peculiarly white interior, he knows that there is too much starch, too little gluten. Tour Ideal flour does not make the chalky rvhite bread so many people hare come to consider the best All around the Inspector's rooms are helves on which are glass jars of sam ples of each day's flour. Each sample is labeled with the details of the varl lus tests. The Jars are kept six months, f In that time a dealer In Liverpool ir Havana, or New York, or some little Iowa town for that matter, re-' ports that bis patrons complain of the lour ground on a certain date, a re lues t Is made for a sample of the flour. When It Is received the Inspector mbjects It to precisely the same test bo lives to all his flour. Then, after he tas washed and baked l nd color-tested jt. he takes the little record Jar show fci? what the llour of the mills was like a the day of the manufacture of thl articular lot of floor and compare tils record with that of the test of Jie flour under suspicion. Immediate' t he knows from the agreement or he disparity of the two flours whither he consumer has made , groundless nnipiaint or whether some unscropu Mis dealer Is trying to palm off an In ferior grade of flour upon the consumer. Eiery ma . looks as though ho meded a new suit ot clothes. lauir,,,N v';;jim HONORING SOLDIERS. Cronaa Btatnea aa Tributes to th MeaMrjr of the Nattoa'a Heroes, Two new equestrian statues ar those of Gen. WInfleld 6cott HaKOOctf and Gen. John M. Corse. That of Gen. Hancock was designed cy IL J. Elllcott of Washington, who will receive $40,000 for the monument. STATUS OF OEB7. HAXCOCX. complete. The casting was done by the ISorham Manufacturing Company, In Providence, It I., and the statue was shipped to Washington. In fourteen pieces, weighing 7.200. pounds. It rests upon a pedestal of red granite In Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, near Seventh street The sculptor has depicted "Hancock the Superb" as he appeared on the morning of the last day at Gettysburg. It was on that day that the gallant soldier was se verely wounded while making a sue fceaaful charge. The equestrian statue of Gen. John II. Corse, which Is. to adorn the base kf the Iowa soldiers' monument at Dei Moines, was cast by the American Bronze Company. Tho sculptor Is Carl Kohl Smith, whose successful figure If Gen. Sherman recently disturbed the complacency of Eastern competi tors. A second casting Is in progress for Burlington, Iowa, the birthplace f Gen. Corse, to cost $5,000, which was raised by voluntary contribution. Gen. Corse Is known to war veterans is the "hero of Altoona Pass." Corse was left on guard by Sherman with I force of only 1.500 men, and with this small garrison he successfully re-, gelled a Confederate division of 6,000, ft'hlch had suddenly attacked his posi tion. Sherman's famous signal, "Hold 'lie fort, for I am coming," was dia- STATUE OF 0 EX. COnSE, played during this engagement Gen. Corse was severely wounded, bnt con tinued to repulse the enemy. He was personally complimented by Sherman nd Grant for his distinguished serv ices and was breveted major general. MAKE WHISTLES FOR THE BOYS. How Nolae-Producera Mmy Ba Manu factured from a Willow Twin. Every boy may have a whistle, and one that will make noise enough to suit the most exacting youngster. Thi whistles may be made from a short Up cut from a willow tree or twig Whistles are made the same way every where. A smooth limb or sucker b elected and cut off. The mouth end U trimmed right, a notch Is cut In the tor for the escape of the breath, a ring U cut In the bark at the rlht distancf from the end and then the bark Is moist ened with saliva and the whistle Is laid on the knee and pounded with the knlfs handle to loosen the bark from the wood. A twist of the bark pulls it oil the wood and then a deep notch Is cut BOW TOE WmSTLH IS CUT. -. out of the wood, the bark Is put on nnd, the whistle Is finished. Many a mnn'aj most pleasant memories are of the hap-j py days be spent in boyhood In the Creek bottoms making willow whistles. In 4000 B. O. That's Just what I like." Ramesls rubbed his palms and smtleu ' tn the artist who had completed the' toterlor decorations of the pyramids. "Those poster effects give the whole ' place a chic and fin-de-slecle appvur--.ce that Is delightfully up-to-date.' Yet people talk as If Beardsley had tavented something new. Truth. There Is too much say It, and too lit he prove It In this world. " . So Trouble There. Old Gentleman It Is folly to talk marriage for years yet My daughter Is a mere child. She knows nothing bout human nature and could not be gin to manage servants. Mr. Slimpurse Oh, that needn't mat ter. We won't have any. Spare Mo ments. f9-a-a-andd ent Mr. Stammerer W-w-w-wlll y-y-y yon m-m-m mar-marry m-m m-m-iney me, d-d-d-dar-dar-dar-darlin'? She Oh, George, this Is so sudden!- Exchange. The Kind tbe Admired, ne Are you an admirer of Longfc-k low? She No; I prefer these short fellows that yon can reach when yon want tt poll their balrl Ieroit Free Press. REV. DR. TOW. The Eminent Divine's Sunday Subjects Caasea of Failures In Ufe." Tut: "M.m shall elap thnlr haMs at him nml shall hiss him out ot his plane." Job xsvii., 2S. This allusion seems to bn nnunatia. The Bible mora than om-e makes snob, allusions. Paul says: "W are ma le a thxatre or opeo taole to angels and to men." It is evldont Iro n the text that some of the halrfts of thenlmttonrs were known in Job's time, bs eausa be rieseribes an actor hlssod off the stae. The tmperoouator etrans on the boards and, etther thrtagu laak of study of the i mi it he Is to take or iaaptnwn or other ineaiuioity, the amlienoe is ofTonJ4 and ex presses its disipprobatiou an I disgust by hiwin?. "Men shall clnp th'ir hnnd at him and shall bij him out of his pla." My text Miirc-sg tbnt ach one ot as is put on the siaifn of thl world to take some part What hardemipandxuffHrineanddisulp line irreat amors have undergone v--ar after year that tlmy mt-ht tm per'ented In thnlr utrts you hnre oftfo read. Btt we. put on tho uinm of this life to represent eharity and faith and humilltv xad helpfulness what little prefiarattnn w have made, although we have throe galleries of sfwctatorx, earth and heaven and hell! Hav-t we not been morn aiti ntivn to th pat taken by others th.m to the mrt taken by ourselves, and, while we neednl to he looking at borne and onwnirntini on our own duty, we have been crlti'-Wng the other performer?, and saying, "that was loo high," or '-too low," or "too fe-hle," or too extravagant." or "too tame." or ''too demonstrative." while we ounwlves wern making a dead failure and preparing to be iffnominlously hissed off the stilt;!'? Each one is aligned a plaoe, no supernumeraries hanging around the drama of lile to lake this or that or the other part, ra they may bn called upon. No one ean take our plae. Wb can tak no other place. N-iihwr i-an we put off our chara-ft-r; no change ot npiwel can make us any one else than that which we eternally nr. uanymakea failure of their part In the dramt of lifo through dissipation. Tbey Imvvi enough intellectual equipment sad good a Idress aud genulity unbound. But they have a wine eloaet that eoutains all the forces for their social and business and moral overthrow. So 'ar bnek as the vear 9T9, KiOT Igar or England made a law "that the drinking eups should have pins fastened at a eenain point In the bide, so that the in lulgr might be reminded to stop before he got to the bottom. Jlut thnre are no pins projet-ting frctn thesid'-s of the modern wine cup or beer mug. and thn first point at which millions stop in at the gravity bottom of their own grave. Dr. Sax, of France, has disenvered something which all drinkers ought to know. H has found out that alco hol in every shape, whether of wiu or brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called bacillus potmnaulai. By a powerful miuro-sc-iptf these liviug things are discovered, anr1 whu you takn strong drink you take them 1nt- the stomach and then into your blood, hii.I gi tiing into the rimso.i canals ot life, they go into every tissue of your body, and your eullre organism is taken possesion of bv these noxious infinitesimals. When in delirium f ri-inxns, a ntau seed every form of rrt' tllmci life. It eeains it is ouly th'SH pura Biicsof tin brain iu exaggerated siz-4. it is not a hnllumnatiou that the victim Is 9m. Br ing I'ruui. He only sees iu the room what is n -tiiully crawling and rioting in his own brain. Every time you take strong drink you swallow these maggots, and every time t'ie imltiher of ah-ohol in any shape feels ver tig or rneuiiiHtisin or nnus-a it is only the juhilue ot Ihese maggots. Efforts are being male for t' lisc-ivery of some germicide that i n killthe parasites of alcoholism, but tnn only thing that will ever extirpate them is nitstineuce from ahjohol and teetotal ab stinence, to which I would before God swear ail then young men aud old. America is a fruitful country, and w ruse large crops of wheat and corn and oats, hut the largest crop we raise in this co'.uury is the crop of drunkards. With sickle made out of the sharp edges of the brokeu glass of bottle aud demljohu they are cut down, and there are whole swathes of them, whole wiatrows of tlieiu, and it takes all tbo hospitals and penitentiaries and gravevards and eemeteries to bold this bar- Vest of hell. Some of you are going down under this evil, and the never dyiug worm of alcoholism has wound around you one of Its coils, and by next Mew Year's Day tt will have another ooil around you, and it will af ter awhile put a coll around your tongue, and a coil around your brain, and a ooil nronnd your lung, and a coil around your foot, and a Roll around your heart, and some day this never dying worm will, with one spring, tighten all the coils at once, and Id the last twist of that awful convolution you will cry out. "Oh. my Ood!" and be Rone. The greatest of dr.tmatfeta in the tragedy ot Tub Tenipest" sends staggering across the stage Stephano, the drunken butler; but a :ross the stae of human life strong drink seu.ls kingly and queenly and princely na tures staggering forward against the foot lights of oonspiouity and then staggering back into failure till the world Is impatient for their disappearance, and human and di aboiie voices join iu hissing them off the Stii'je. il my nLo make a failure in the drama ol life through indolence. They are always makiug eulcu alious h w little they oao do for the compensations they get. There are more hwy minister? lawyers, doctors, mer chants, artists an I farmers than have ever been couuie.l upon. The i-ommuntly is full of iHggards and shirkers. I can tell It from the wav they crawl along the street, from the r tardiness in meeting engagements, from til" lethargies that swm to h:iug to the foot when they lift it. to the hand when they put it out, to the words when they speak. To young men in a store. In the morn ing the one goes to his post the last minute or one miuute behind. The other Is ten minutes before the time and has his hat and coat hung up and is at his post waiting for duty. The one is ever and anon in the after noon lookiug at his waicb to see if it is not mot time to shut up. Ths other stays half an hour after he might go, and when asked wh, says he wanted to look over some eu tries he had made to be sure he was right, or to put up some goods that had b en left out of place. The one Is very touchy about doing work not exactly belonging to him. The other is (Mad to help the other clerks in their work. The first will be a pro onged nothing, and be will be poorer at sixty years of age than at twenty, me other will tw a merchant prince, ludoleuon is the cause of morn lailurvs in all occupations than you have ever suspee el. People are too lazy to do what they ean do, and want to under take that which they canuot do. In the drama of life they don't want to be a common soldier, carrvtng a halberd across inn stage. or a falconer, or a mere attendant, and so tbey lounge aboutihnscenestiil they shall ba called to be something great. After awhile, bv some accident of prosperity or circunv stances, they get into the place for which they have no quauncation. . mu very soon, if ths man bs a merchant, hs isgolnjf aroun askincr his creditors to compromise for tea cents on ths dollar. Or, If a clergyman, h is making tirades against the Ingratitude ol ehurohns. Or, if an attorney, by nnskillful management ne loses a case oy wmcn wiaowi nd orphans are robbed of their portion. Or. if a physician, he by malpractice gives hit patient rapid transit from this world to tbt next. Our incompetent friend would bav made a passable horse doctor, but he wantet to be professor of anatomy In a university. He could have sold enough confectionery to have supported his family, but be wantei to have a sugar refinery like the Havemeyers. Ha Ann M hra mended shoes, but he wante I to amend the constitution ot ths United tUmtrtL Toward the end ot life these people are out of patience, out of money, oat of mends, out oieverywiaic. hwjku poorhouse, or keep oat ot it by running In debt to alt ths grocery and dry goo is stores that will trust them. People begin to won der when the curtain will drop on tne scene. Afier awhile, leaving nothing bat their com ptirannts to pay doctor, undertaker, aal ttabrtei firnDD, tne graveaigger, iney aissp- nAar. Exeunt! Hissed off tne stage. . Others fail in UtS drama of Ufe .through demonstrated seiahness. They make all the rivers empty into their sea, all the roads of emoiumnnt end at their door, and they gather all the plumes of honor for their brow. Thev help no ons. enooarare on ana, rescna no ona. "Htw big a pile ot money ean I get?" and "H tw munh of the world ean I ahsir" are the chief questions. They feel atant the e-nm-n te-pl aa the Turks felt toward tht nan, o eomnon soldiers. eoa4 Wiring the n nr nse exwpt to Oil op the ditCins with their deal oodKa while the other troops walked over them to take the fort. Afterawhilethts prince of worldly suc cess is sick. Ths only interest society has in his Illness is the effect that his po-sible da cams may hav i on th m mey markets. Af ter awhile hi dies. flr t newspaper capi tals aunonaen uo.v he startel with nothing ad ended with ev -r-'thing. Although for sake of appearance s a people pat hand kerchiefs to the eye. th tre is not one genuiae tear shed. The heirs s:t np all night whea he lies in state, disclosing what the ol I fel low has probably d aa with his money. It takes ail the livery stables within two miles to furnish funeral equipag'O, and all the mourning stores are ke.it busy in selling weeds of grief. The stons cotters send In proposals for a mon i-naiit. The minister at the obsequies roads of the resurrection, which makes th" hearers fear ihJt It tha un scrupulous flnauoinr does coma up in the general rising he will try to a "oornnr- on tom'atonns an I griveyarJ feno-s. All good men aieglal fat th moral nuisance has been removed. The Wall street specu lators are glai because therj Is mir.i room for themselves. The heirs are glad bws'iss thev get possession of the long decayed in heritance. Dropping evjry feather of all hts plumes, every eartifleate of all bis stock, everv bond of all his investments, every dol lar of all his fortune, he departs, and all the rolling ot "Dead March" in "iul," and all the pageantry of his Inter neut, and all be exqutteness of sarcophagus, aud all the ex travagance ot epitaphology. cannot hide the fact that my text has come again to tremen dous fulnllmeat, "Men shall Cap their baims at him and shall hiss him out of his place." You see the clapping come before the bins. The world cheers before it damua. So it is said the deadly asp tiokles belor.i its stin.-s. Going np, is he? Hurrah! Brand back aud let hia galloping horses dash by. a whirlwind Of plated harness and tinkling headgear and arched neck.. Drink deep of his madeira an 1 cognac. Boast of how well you know htm. All hats off as he passes. Bask for days aud years in the sunlight of his prosperity. Go ing down, is he? Pretend to be nearsighted so that you cannot sen 'bim as he walks past. When men ask you if you know him, halt aud hesitate as tnougn you were tryiu to call up a dim meroury and say, "Well, y-e-s, yes, I believe I once did know bim, but have not seen him for a long while." Cross a different ferry from the one where you used to meet him lest be ask for financial help. When you started lile. he spoke a good word for you at the bank. Talk down his ere lit now that his tortmi'V are collapsing. li put his name on twi of your notes. Tell him that yo have cii'ingnd your mind atout such things, and that you uevr indorse. After awhile his n:i -er.i come tost de;id halt, an 1 an as signment or suspension or sheriff's sale takes plaee. You nuy: "He ought to have stopped sooner. as I expscted. He made too hie a splash in the world. GiaJ the balloon has hurst. Hi. ba!" Applause wnen hn went U, sibilant derisiou when he came itowu. '-Men shad ulap their nands at bim aud liiss hi.n out of his place." Ho. high up amid tnd crags, the eagie nutters dust Into thieves of the roehuek, which then, with eyes h intietl. g.ies tum'ding over tho preci pice, the gr.-at antlers crastiingon the rocks. Noiv, compare some of tiiese goings out of life n'ith the departure of man and women w io in the dra ia of life take tho part that Go I agned them and then w-nt away hou ored tt. men and aitpiniided ot the Lord Al nigntv. it is a'Mtui II fly years ago that In a co-minratively smalt apartmeut f the citv a nowly married pair set upa home. The first guest In vi tea to tbnt residence was the liord Jesus Christ, aud the Bible given the brida on the day of her eeposual was the guide of that household. Days of sunshine were fol lowed by days of shadow. Did you ever know a home that for fifty years bad no vi cissitude? The young woman who left her father's house for her young husband s borne started out with a parental benediction and good advice she will never forget. Hor mother said to htar the day before the mar riage, "Now, my child, you are going away from Ui Of course, as long as your lather and I live you will feet that you ean come to us at auy time. But your home will be elsewhere. From long experience I find .t is best to serve uod. it Is very brignt wttD you now. my child, and you may trunk you can gnt along without religion, but the day will come when you will want God, and my advice is, establish a family altar, and, if neel be, conduct the worship yourself." The counsel was taken, and that young wife donsecrated every room iu the house to G.)l. Years passed on and there were in that home hilarities, but they were good and healthful, aud sorrows, but they were com forted. Marriages as bright as orange blos soms could make them, and burrials in which all hearts wert riven. They have a family lot in the cemetery, but ail the place Is illuminated with stories of resurrection and reuuion. The children of the household that lived have grown up, and tbey are all Christians, the latbur and mother leading the way and the children following. What ears the mother took of wardrode und edu cation, character and manners! How h'ird he sometimes worked! When the bend ot the household was unfortunate iu husiu ss, he sewed until her lingers were numb and bleeding at the tips. And what close calcu lation ot economies, and what ingenuity in retttting the garments of the elder children for the younger, and only God kept accouut of that mother's sideaon-'S and headaches and heartaches and thn tremulous pravers by the side of the sick child's cradle and oy the . eouch of this one fully grown. The neighbors often noticed bow t.rud be looked, and old acquaintances hardly knew her in the street. But without complaint she waited an I tolled and endured and accomplished all these years. The children are out in the world an honor to themselves anl their parents. After awhile the mother's last sickness cornea. Children and grandchildren, sum moned from afar, come so.tly Into the room one by one, for she is too weak to see more than one at a timt. She runs her dying fingers lovingly through their hair ana tells them not to cry, and that she Is going now, but they will meet again in a little while In a better world, and then kisses them goo lby and says to each, "Ood bless and keep you, my dear child." The day of the obsequies eomes, and tne officiating olergymau tells tne story ot witeiy ana moineny enaaranoe, and many hearts on earth and la heaven echo the sentiment, and as she is earned on thn stage of this mor al life there are ories of "Faithful unto death," "She hath done what she oould," while overpowering all the voices of earth and heaven is the plaudit ot the God who watched her from first to last, saving, "Well done, good aud faithful ser vant; thou bast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy ot thy Lord!" But what became of the father of that household? He started as a young man in business and had a small iucoine, and having got a little ahead sickness in the family swept it all away. He went through all the business panics of forty years, met many losses, and suffered many betrayals, but kept right on trusting in Gad, whether bus iness was good or poor, setting his children a good example, and giving them the bast of counsel, and never a prayer did he offer for ail those years but tbey were mentioned in It, He is old now and realizes it cannot be long before he must quit all these scanes. But be is going to leave his ohildren an In heritance of prayer aud Christian principles which ail the defalcations of earth can nover touch, aud as he goes ont of the world the church of God blesses him and the poor ring hts doorbell to see if he is any better, and his grave is surrounded by a multi tude who went on toot and stood there before the procession of carriages came up, and some say, "Them will be no one to take his place," and others say. '-Who will pity me now?" and others remark, "He shall hn held In everlasting remembrance." And as the drama Of his life oloses, all the voclf nrarion and bravos and encores that ever shook the amphitheaters of earthly spectacle were tame and ieeoie eompareu wuu mo long, lond thunders of approval that shall hmak from the eloud of witnesses In the piled np gallery of the heavens. Choose ye between the life that shall olose by being hissed off the stage and the life that shall elose a-iid acclamations supernal ao i aron angelia. Ol, m"n an t vmo on the st-igs of life many of you in the first act of the Ira na, and others In the second, ami s-noof yon in the third, aud a fear iu the fourth, aul h'iro an l there ouetu the fifth, but all of you be tween eutranun an I exit, I quote to you as the peroration of this sermon the most sug gestive passage that Shakespeare ever wrote, although you never heard it reoite.l. Ton author has often been oialmei as infidel and atheistic, so the quotation phall bn not only religiously helpful to ourselves, but grandly vin lleatory of the great dramatist. I quote from his last will and testament : "In the name of God, Amen. I, William Shakespeare of Stratfor.l-upon-Avon, in ths eouaty of Warwlok, gentleman. In perfect health and memory (Go l be praised), do make this my last will and testament, In manner and form following: First, I com tneud my soul luto the han is ot God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing through the ouly merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life ever lasting." POPULAR SCIENCE. Cork it about the most buoyant cub stance. The microscoptsts say that a mosquito has twenty-two teth. Yawning is caused by a deficiency t (be sir supply to the lungs. The carbons of electric arc lamps are aow being made of powdered graphite, instead of coke. Scales are now lade that will weigh he name ol a r idle or the smallest strand of hair plucked from the eyebrow. In England farmers always soak their eed in bluestone of vitriol to prevent smut and rust. A pound of vitriol to four bushels of wheat is the proportion used. Variations in the size of raindrop? are attributed to atmospheric disturbance and to the height from which tliej fall, those from a high altitude bein much the smaller. The new screw propeller of English origin has two flat blades in tho usual form, but the remaining two, which ara opposite each other, are looped, so that they form practically a revolving Hijiiro 8. The platinum beds in the Ural Moun tains in Russia are the only ones in tho world in which that metal is found in grains. In several places it is to be found imbedded in the hard serpentine rock, but only in the Ural in grains. A recent invention is a new type ot refrigerator car that can be run for twenty daya without re-icing. It is charged with ice and certain chemicals, the com bination maintaining a freezing temper, ature during this long period. . It is said that a really indelible ink and kind of vinegar can be produced from the juices contained in the bauau peel. The fiber of the peel, it la said, can also be utilized in making cloth of great strength and remarkable beauty. An Ottawa (Canada) electrician claim to have discovered a process for utilizing electricity for light, power or heat, so as to abstract the heat from cast iron blocks until they are reduced to the tcmpuralura of ice. He claims that this can be done at a price to compete favorably with the latter. London scientists have recently de monstrated that the purest air in tiia cities is found about twenty-live feet above the street furface. Heretofore it has been thought that tho highest floors in tenement houses had the best sir. Tho investigations above rofcrre i to slio.y that the healthiest apartments arc those on the third door. i-aper teeth are no manufactured hf a Lubeck dentist. One set hn been ij use thirteen years aud is as go.nl a- ever. A goose with three wingi is the choic est fowl in the flock of Mrs. Sumner Lutz, of Worcester, Montgomery County, Penn. The staple of food for the 500,000 na tives of Natal and the Zulus alone ii white corn. It is ground into a coarse meal and boiled with water, making or dinary porridge. The chips trim a gallows upon which several persons had been hanged was one of the items of mediiniral materia mo.lica; these were thought to be ejpecially valuable in treating cases of ojstiuato ague. C. W. Zinn, of Ivorydale, neir Cin cinnati, Ohio, was afraid that people wouldn't believe him tbo o.vncr of twin puppies without auy forelegs, so he h id an affidavit made out aud live neighbor! wore to it. It is customary throughout 3;iin for the waiters ot cafes to hit a 'Hw wiuo or liquor so that it ovor;ls upon tlu saucer. This custom, lit w.nch it is de sired to show an appearance of liberality, is called the "foothitb." The title of Prince is alin-wt as com moa in Russia ai that of Coiouel in this country. A Prince Krapotkin is a cab man, a Prince Soloykoll is a mirkut house porter in Moscow ami a Princess OalitKkin is ait equestrienne iu a ciieap circus. None Will lie Overlooked. There are some pel sous who have borne arms iu the service of the Uni ted States in wars liefore lStU who are uot ou the pension rolls. There are vc t eraus and widows of vete;.-ns of t'ie verul Indian wars between ls:ti! iimi 1S42 scattered over the West und South, and there lire Ave survivors who took part iu the Seminole war in Fl r Ida in 1817-1S1S. Of the Indian wars later than 18.12 down to lSiio there arc a great many survivors, so that the total number of beneficiaries untlor the ni t to pension those veterans find widows of veterans Is probably about 4,ih. To pension this number will reijjiio about fpTfiO.OOO a year, nnd the Scu ite Committee on Pensions has drafted a bill to this effect. Anything to tiet a Man. Sirs. Anna Colligan, of Jersey ri'v. who captured a burglar and afterward rolled down-stairs with liiui, didn't care if she did violate the proprieties a lit tle. Boston Globe. Profestor Alexander Agassiz, of Cambridge, is leading an expedition of Msinntiats to exp'ore the (rent Har rier reef of Australia this summer. The French Government, has con fened tho cross of the Legion of Houor on Profesaor W. P. Putinan, of Harvard, in recognition of bis scienti fic achievements. (a the forests of Java a species of spider has hron discovi red which pro duces eb of such exirsordtuary strength tint a knife is n quired to i ever them.
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