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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.
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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.