I THE CONSTITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. B. F. BGHWEIER, MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. J UNE 24. 1896 NO. 28 VOL. L. Ziritf&fiSfl AssnsVS POVflCftBBSW CnAPTEU XVIII. All tlint day Constance kept to her room. The duke was amazed at this, and lata In the afternoon presented himself In bia wife's boudoir. After all, fortune favored hlin; Alice was there alone. "Where is the duchess. Miss Grey, brook?" be asked quietly. "She is in the adjoining room," return ed Alice, uneasily, "and I I think she is asleep. Shall I call her?" "No," returned the duke, "it Is to yon I wish to speak. Yon know, Miss Grey, brook, in what high esteem I hold you." "Your grace, I " "I should never have left my wife alone," lie continued, "above all in Lon don, if I had not found a holy person like yourself to place by her aide, to counsel and direct her. Miss Greybrook, yof have never yet hidden tho truth from me. "Never, I " "You merit Home heavenly recom pense," continued tho duke, watching he Very intently. "Iet me beg you to ac cept thin holy cross, brought by me from ironic." lie opened a small packet which he, held in his band and revealed a hand, some erneltix. With a smile half of com mand, half of entreaty, be held this holy gift toward the girl. She hesitated. "For me, my lord?" Tray take It," said the duke. ' She held forth ber baud, then with a shudder attempted to draw it away. "No, no; I am not worthy," she cried. "My lord, what are you doing what do you want?" "I want'the truth," retnrned the duke. who had seired her hand, and was looking almost fiercely into her face. "Miss Grey brook, tell me the name of the man who met the duchess at the ball last night" With a cry which was half a moan, Alice shrunk away. "If I speak," she mnrranred to herself, "she is lost; if I lie, I lose my soul. Father In heaven," she cried aloud, "what shall I dor "It was the Earl of Harrington P The interruption was so sudden and -w.l tiyt Jicr l"v -The duke dropped ihe girl's hand, turned In the direction whence the voice had proceeded, and saw Constance. She was Very pnle, but quite composed. The duke's face was Mack as night. "Then, madam," he said, "you have; met that man again?" "Yes," returned Constance, quietly. "I bave met my cousin again, and you might have learned the truth without putting Alice to the torture." "Whom else could I question?" said ths. duke, sternly. "Me!" returned Constance, proudly. "No one knows better than yon, my lord, my frankness and my sincerity. Listen, my lord. I will give you a further proof of my candor; take me away from Kng land, for, although duty reigns suprems in my heart, the love within it can never die. Io not expose me to temptation; do not compel me to pass through fire, lest at last my spirit fails. But take me away." The duke drew himself up proudly. "It is impossible!" he said. "Remember," cried Constance, "it is for your sake I plead. I am your wife; there is peril here for both of us. Will yoo takenie away?" At that moment a servnnt entered wits a message from Feveral. "I will come to him," said the duke, and with a low bow to his wife and her friend he left the room. "Alice," cried Constance, "you see now that what I told you was right. ThU Mr. Keveral, who calls himself the duke's secretary, Is the duke's spy. I am cer tain now it was he who told the duke of my first meeting with Frank; ho has SMiken again, nnd exposed me to this tor. tare. Well, i know him now, and in fu. ture I shall lie upon my guard." There was a hurried knock at the door. "Come in," cried Constance, and th door opened admitting Feveral. At sight of him Constance seemed to turn to stone, but he came hurriedly and anxiously forward. "Madam," he said eagerly, "I musi speak to you." "I will not listen to you," she cried; "leave me, sir, for I know yon; you tried at first to corrupt me by sending me anon ymous letters wnruing uie against the duke. I have cheated you this time. I myself have told the duke the truth. Now, sir, go; and do not dare ever again to enter my apartments." "Madam!" cried Feveral, who bad been Utterly taken aback by this unexpected attack; "let me speak; as you love your life, I conjure you to listen." Without another word she summoned her maid, and when-the girl appeared she aid very quietly: "Show Mr. Feveral down. CnAPTEU XIX. For several days Constance, nnder the pretense of illness, kept to her own apart ments, but one evening both Constance and her friend presented themselves at dinner. Alice, who had dreaded the meet ing between husband and wife, was some what relieved when she saw the duke walk forward and courteously take his wife's hand. "There were several guests pres ent, nnd Constance welcomed them all. The dinner passed off well so well. In deed, that after the last guest bad de parted the duke repaired to his wife's ........ ilniiik her for her share in it. i oi rm.ro than uleased." he said. "If you will preside equally well at the re ception I shall be delighted." "The reception, my lord?" asked Con- .( . Colillv. . -Assuredly," returned the duke. "0 Tuesday evening next you give a gruaa reception; the cards have all been Issued, everything is prepared, and for yourself, I particularly wish you to look your best bat night" The days passed on, and the eventful Tuesday arrived. The reception was to commence at half-past nine o'clock, and When the clocks were striking nine Con stance and Alice eat alone in the duchess boudoir. The house was brilliantly illu- Mnated, and the great drawing room was tiled wKb cftoice sowers. .ava. von- stance and Alice were dressed for the oc casion. Then Constance's maid entered the room with a letter, which she handed to her mistress. Constance took the letter, opened and fead It, then she looked up into the won taring eyes of her friend. "A letter from the duke; he "has gone way I" "Gone away P exclaimed Alice. "Yes. Listen, dear; this Is what he ays: 1 am summoned at once to Paris to meet the Spanish Embassador. I am taking Palmatos and Feveral wlrh me. I have made Palmatos communicate with all our guests and put off our reception of thiir evening. What can It mean, Alice 7" "I don't know, dear; itt that all ho says'" "No, there is more," replied Constance, and lifting the letter again, she continued: 'For yourself, let me beg you not to spend the evening at home, but to go to Lady Mortimer's ball. I hare asked Lady Sea field to call for you. Therefore rest quietly at home nnfil she comes.' " "Oh, Constance; what shall you do?" cried the girl in terror. "Dor returned Constance, with a look f fixed resolve. "I Khali obey the duke's command to the letter. At last be has honored me with bis confidence, and I hall not betray It." The first thing to be done was to have the lights extinguished and stay all pre parations for the reception. This Con stance proceeded to do. When the ser vants, having received their instructions, bad retired, she sat down and looked again at the duke's letter. "Constance," said Alice, eagerly, "do ron really mean to go to Lady Mortimer' ball?" "Certainly, my dear, since the duke wishes it" "But do not be angry with me should four cousin be there?" I'o not fear for me, Alice," said Con- Kance, stroking the girl's brown hair. "To-night, remember, I am the representa tive of my husband, and I will try to do Mm some slight service. I am going to the kali for my husband's sake, at bis wish. It Is strange Lady Seofield does not tome, she added, "it Is getting so late. lAlice, dear, will you send one of the ser- rants to inquire for Lady Seafield? Per haps she would rather have me call for ier." Alice nodded, and went at once to do is her friend wished, while Constance lank down into a chair In-side the win low, and remained looking out upon the tioonlit park. She fell Into a reverie, from hlch she was aroused by the reappcar- fnce of her friend. Alice looked paler han usual, and her manner was full of tear. "Well, dear, have you sent to Lady reaheld 7" "No. I took the carriage and went my- "Tent yourself! Why did you da fliatr "I was terrified lest something should go wrong; I am glad that I went; the countess is in deep trouble; her father has fallen suddenly and dangerously ill! She was never asked to come for you ; sho has received no invitation to the ball! Constance, everything has been done to keep you at home to-night. I see it all now; you would have waited and waited for the countess and never gone forth at nil there is danger for you here, 1 am sure of it: I now implore you to go! To go!" said Constance, "but who will take me? I cannot go alone? Ah, I hare It, Monsieur de Santa Fe! He is the nuke's oldest and nearest relation. Send o him, dear, at once. "I will not send; I will take the carriage nd go myself." "Wry well, dear. I will remain quietly here until you return. But she was by no means composed. The moment she was alone she walked excitedly up and down the room; wonder ing whether or not Alice's suspicions could be correct. Could H be possible that the duke had deceived her and if so. for what motive? "It will be always the same, she cried, "suspected, watched, mistrusted. Oh, who will deliver me from this life of mis ery and degradation" With a sob she threw herself down op en the couch and covered her face with ber hands; at that moment the door of her boudoir opened, and the footman an nounced The Earl of Harrington!" CnAPTER XX. Trembling violently, scarcely able to be lieve the evidence of her senses, Con Stance rose and looked toward the door. It was no dream, no delusion; there stood frank, faultlessly attired in evening dress, but looking almost as bewildered as she Was herself. "Frank," she said In a voice the from Ming of which she vainly strove to con trol, "tell me, what does this mean?" "Why," he cried. I came to your re ception !" "To my reception?" "Certainly." said Frank, who wasffrow lng more and more a ma led; "did yon not end me the invitation?" "I send to -ron to come here?" she erledi "Oh, Frank, you are mad or dreaming!"' "Constance," he cried, -1 ten yon it is true. I received an invitation to come here this evening. If yon did not send it. It came from the duke," He drew from the breast pocket of his coat a card, which ha held toward her, She took it. and saw that it was a formal Invitation to her reception, written by Count Palmatos. the duke's nephew. "It was cowardly, contemptible," she cried; then, turning her flashing eyes upon her cousin, she continued, "I see It alL Frank: it is a trap." "Impossible," aald Frank; "a trap wonld be more cunningly laid. If I accepted a formal Invitation, where wonld my offense be. or yours r "I tell yon I am right; the whole thing has been planned to entrap us. Leave this house. Frank: I am Coins- out." M "So soon," eaid Frank, "and, Connie, do you send ma away nse tnia r Ob, do not JVttC " yon the ground Is undermined beneath us. rank, I entreat you, she cried, growing more and more excited. "See how late it ettlng. Alice has gone to fetch Mon sieur de Santa Fe to take me to a bail. They will both be here directly, but I will pass you through that door and no oue will see you go. She looked at him, but he did not an swer her. His face was ghastly pale; he pressed his hand against his side and seemed about to faint. What is the matter?" cried Constance in alarm; "Frank, are you ill?" Yea, I am a little faint," he gasped; "my wound." Your wound r Yes; did you not know? I was stabbed In the fray the other. night; some ruffian had his clasp knife at the throat of a youth. I interposed and was stabbed in the breast that is alL Constauce, give me some water. The pallor of his faoe stow ghastly. Terrified, scarcely knowing what she did, Constance rushed from the room, return ing with a glass of water and a bottle of cologne. So held the water to bis Him. then she took the scent, and gently bathed his forehead. When he opened hU eyes he saw that she waa crying. Connie," he cried, "what Is the mat ter?" Frank," she said, "it h nearly mid night. Do not linger now.. Since every moment is precious, and Monsieur do Santa Fe does not come, I shall go to the ball alone." "Alone?" "Yea; I shall slip In unannounced, and no one will know I went without an es cort, and I shall, at least, have fulfilled the duke's commands." "Don't speak of that man. Constance," Frank cried, "unless you want to drive me to distraction. Ahl I see, yonr love Is dead. I am nothing to you now. Well, perhaps It Is better so. Good-by!" ithout another look, without a pres sure of the hand, he turned and would have left her. She watched him, and as she did so her heart seemed torn In two. Frank." aha cried, "do you wish to toll me? Do you not ace what tortures I suffer? Ilave you no pity?" "Then tell mo that you still love me," be cried passionately. "Only once and forever avow your love for me, and I will go In peace." "In peace T' "Yes, and happy, even thnnch I ave yon forever, your words the solace and memory of my life." She drew back as if be bad struck her. Then her breast heaving with emotion. tier eyes blind with tears, she looked th. love she felt; but he staggered buck, and. with a wild cry, fell upon the couch. She rushod wildly to his side. Frank!" she cried, "What alto yoo? Speak to me! Ah, how pale he is! Frank, lean you not hear me? How dreadful he looks, and his eyes are fixed. I rankl lie is dead, and I have murdered him!" (To be eontipued.) Itatngerous Kxcltementa, Amusements of a proiier sort .ire conducive to health. The sports ol childhood not only toughen the mus cles and Invigorate the system, but prevent too much cerebral activity. At the same tunc iney ncvciopngiuiy, alertness, daring, and not a few ol the qualities essential to success io life. It is largely the same with the jports of youth, especially among Itudonts and all who arc engaged in sedentary pursuits. For some per sons all that is feasible is simple di version a change in the Hue ol thought, feeling, and care; not an en forced change, with "this for mi health" behind it, but a natural and pleasant one, which lor the time alter the currents or nervous rorco. For othors something more stirring ind stimulating is desirable, but ai. luch should lemembcr that there 19 a limit beyond which excitement is not i benefit, but a barm. Excitements may bo injurious physically, mentally, and morally. There arc the morally ruinous excite ments of tho modern bull-flfcbts and if the ancient gladiatorial shows. When women, made for tenderness, tviunathv. and love, can And thcli ilghcst enjoyment in such exhibi tions, it Is plain that moral nature it- iclf has become thoroughly atrophica, 'to young men particularly the ex ;itcmcnt of the theater often becomes io controlling that it checKS all their better intellectual tendencies, and leads to reckless expenditure and even to pilfering. Competitive games, especially Inter collegiate, in which many elements combine to carry the excitement to the highest degree, are dangerous, sot only in the Upal decisive struggle, aut lh tho long preliminary training. rhe tendency of such excessive xertions is to enlargement of the Heart. Some men can endure aliqpst anything, but many of the most am bitious and excitable run great risKs. The modern form of fouVball In volves excitements of a very danger ous kind: the players put into it the utter recklessness of soldiers on the Iwittle-flold. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal says: During the season in which the pame of foot-ball is played in England, the record of accidents more or le9 serious is practically continuous. During the food-ball season of 1891-92 there died through accidents received on the field no fewer than eleven players, while more than seventy others received injuries, mostly the shape of fractures, which would entail on them weeks of buffering and incariacitv for work." While it is true that the game ol foot-ball played In American colleges and schools Is not nearly so harmful and dangerous as that which is played in England, yet the tendency to vio lent exercise Is everywhere so great that it ought to be checked. l outb'i Companion. There are 197,14(5,420 acres of timber lands io the Honthern Hlater. and the average yield of these forests is 3,00i foet per aero. A year -old baby fell on I of a fourth tory wiutlow io Chieigo tbr other day and sustained no seriona damage. He lit in amnduole. Only one person in 1000 dies f m old re. -' French wheelmen have a 'opted a code of signals by whittle. The whis tle ia mmb nsed in France in prefei ence to the belt According to the teachings of at east one rabbi Eve was a Won ie. ' A new steamboat, just launched for the Hndson River service, will one $1,000,000 and be provided with engine) of 80l0 horse power. To Stop Hlcooaatfeuh A new method of stopping hlceougha said to have been accidentally dis covered in a French hospital. It con sists n thrusting the tongue out of the mouth and holding It thus for a short time. A IHwor of Bait. In the accounts of CapL Vanghan's travels in Persia a description Is given pf the great salt deseH in the northern pars of that country, extending st miles (real east to west and ISO miles from north to south. Tho desert Is a vast dish-shaped depression, the cen tral portion lying from 1.000 to 2.000 feet lower than Uie margin, and near its wee tern rim Is a salt-bed whoae area, la 440 square miles. The Color of Cklldkood. Professor James Sully in his studies f childhood compares the mental proe- es of white children in civilised lands .with those of full-grown sav ages, and discovers some remarkable resemblances. Among other tilings h finds that the favorite colors of the savage, red and yellow, are those which white children first take notice of, and of which they remain especially fond during the period of childhood. fib, too, the savage adutt and the white child Had a common pleasure In all bright, shining and glittering things. The Htermr Kqatnoxes, The popular belief that storms are more frequent about the time of the equinoxes, or when "the sun crosses the line-," to March and September, receives some slight degree of support from the recent Investigations of Iro- fesBorlleHmann concerning the weath er of Europe. In southwestern Europe March Is tho stormiest month, while In the British Islands and Norway Jan uary takes the lead In that respect; but considering Europe as a whole. It ap pears that storms preponderate near the seasons of the equinoxes. A Carloaa Boulder. In the mysterious Ico Age, when great glaciers advanced from the nortii over the northern part of the United rates, many strange rocks were brought from the regions beyond the St. Lawrence and the great lakes. and left far from their place of origin. scattered among the hills and plains of New England and the Ohio and Missis sippi valleys. One of these rocks, re cently -found near Columbus, Ohio, proves to be spaxtlcslarly Interesting and curious. It is not more than a foot and a half In diameter, but it Is plainly a relic of glacial times, and nobody can tell for certain whence it came. There is no rock resembling It within hundreds of miles. The supposition, la that the ice carried It from a point north of Ijako Huron to the place where It was found. Its composition shows that it was of volcanic origin. American Amber. The world's greatest source of amber to the shores of the Baltic Sea. Amber to the fossilized resin of several spe cies of pine trees. In small quantities it has been found In various parts of the globe. Including the United States, but up to the present time no Ameri can deposit of amber extensive enough to be of commercial value has been discovered. Quite recently, however, amber has been found at Cape Sable, oq the Magothy River, In Maryland, and this arouses the hope that it may yet be discovered in paying quantities in this country. The deposit at Cape Sable has been known since 1821, but only lately has a careful investigation of It been made. The fossil tree trunks In, which bits of amber are em bedded are not, like those of toe Baltic region, pines, but are believed by their discoverer, Mr. Arthur Bibblns, to be specimens of the sequoia. a Strange People. Dnrlnir the lht two years expedi tions sent out by the Bureau of Ameri can Ethnology have collected many in teres ting .facts about the Serl Indiana, who live in the western part of the State of Bonora, Mexico, along the shore of the Gulf of California, and on the Island of Tiburon In that gulf. The facta have recently been-summarized by Prof. W. J. McGee, of, Washington. From time Immemorial 'Seriland has remained practically unexplored, part ly because It lies behind: a desert bar rier, and partly on account of the war like reputation of Its fierce, and blood thirsty lnhabttants, who profess a passion for alien blood, always grati fied save when they are deterred by fear." The Serl Indians are described as of "superb physique, able to run dowif fleet game and capture half-wild Mexican horses without ropes or pro jectiles: able to run across tbe desert. waterless and foodies, so rapidly, as to escape pursuing horsemen; able! to abstain from food and water for days able habitually to pass barefoot through cactus thickets and over jag ged rock slopes without thought of dis comfort." They apeaK a distinct inn guage, and strictly practice monoga mono marriage. Their hatred for alien oeonles Is hereditary. The remains of ancient ruins In SerilaAd indicate that Its Inhabitants have always kept their country free from foreign Invasion, tnd that for centuries their customs and arts, which are crude and simple, bave remained unchanged. Phenomenon of tbe Tide Rip. A "tide-rip" phenomenon of the sea was encountered In the Indian Ocean recently by the ship Francis, which ar-j rived at this port yesterday, Tbe tide ran In many direction, apparently al most at the same time, and the pig shlp was whirled around by it like a top pr took peculiar apd erratic sheers nntll she. became uncontrollable and eonin not be kent on her course. It wna feared, at times thaj she would go to lT!! .'".j": :r,rJr pievcn, ivr.ww aro ia force. For fourteen bou xW9l"" Francis waa at the mercy of this pe culiar action of toe ocean currents, ana con afterward a cyclone struck and partially dismasted ber, a disaster which has been before reported. Two etowawaya, William H. Beatty and Stephen Munday, who had trav eled almost all the way around the globe without the expenditure of a cent, were brought on the Francis from Fassaroean, Java. They were former ly members of the crew of the British steamship Bio, which arrived at Java some time before the Franc-la left there for Philadelphia. In some way they were left behind by the IUo, and then they stowed away in the coalroom of the Frauds, where fuel Is kept for the donkey" engine and other uses. They were discovered several days after the Francis left rassaroean, and there was no alternative but to bring them along on the long voyage, which lasted 1-1 days. ' An examination mado by the Immi gration officials developed the fact that one of the men, Beatty, was a native of Florida and the other an Englishman. They were glad to lea re Java, being onable to earn more than 10 cents a day In competition with the natives. - Philadelphia Record. PROPAGATING WILD ANIMALS Proposal to Permit Tbena to MalUplj on a California Preaerve. California, which does nothing bj halves. Is to have the greatest animal preserve on earth. Here will be no tame and toothless lions, no Jaguars that laj milk from a saucer, no elephants nour ished on popcorn and circus ginger bread. No. This Is to be a simon-pure Jungle of the good old days before thi circus tent waa ever heard of. Th Rlngllng Brothers are the movers Is this extraordinary project and then agent Is now negotiating for a Ifcrgt tract of wild anil tiitcuy wooaea innq at Long Beach, near San Pedro Bay, Southern California. Tbe territory will be Inclosed by stone wall surmounted by an iron fence. Caves will be made to afford, hiding places, and tbe parent anlmaii once turned loose In this wUdernexl will be left to their own wills, sweet ot otherwise. Two commissioners an now journeying around the world ti purchase animals to stock the concern As the principal denizens of the pro serve are of the family of caruWornj tho animals upon which they naturallj prey will be provided for food. There will be tracts set apart for dell catb and mild-mannered quadrupedi like the camel, giraffe and zebra. J great timber inclnaure will be bull Inside the outer guards, to confine thi elephants. Herbs and grasses ludl genous to the native clime of the herb ivora will be imiiorted and planted within tho park for their Buslcnanca The monkey farm will be a feature ol the Jungle. There will, It Is expected lie animals mouth born Into thli strange beast gnrden to stock thj clr cuscs of tho country for years unnum bered. Disappears in the Qnioksanda. The steamship Coos Bay. which ar rived In port to-day from the Mexican coast, brought news of tbe loss at Alr t.ita of tbe Danish bark Ixttle. The L-ottle, having finished londlng a heavy cargo of dye wool, prepared to sail foi Hamburg. There are two separate channels In the bay, the dividing lint being a long and treacherous bar ol quicksand. Captain Clausen of th Lottie summoned to nis nia tne steam Bchooner Altata, which is about the only available vessel for towing servicf there. The bark got along well enough in the wake of the steamer until snc reached a narrow portion of the ;hau nel she was traversing at a point wbcr the bar was breaking with unusual force. Ilere the Lottie got Into trouble. Swinging around on the haw3r, she struck a shallow spot and In a moieent began to pounding upon the bar. Th Altata could not pull tbe barK out oi her dangerous position. Tbe captain and crew of the Lottie knew what I! meant to go aslrore In quicksand, aoc they lost no time In getting out thi boats and making for the shore. At daylight the sea was calmer a no Captain Clausen and some of his men visited their vessel. AU that remained In s'ght was her deckhouse and masts, the hull having disappeared !n th quicksand. The men, although realizing mat r. was a risky undertaking, crawled up on the deckhouse, ana in xuai wj managed to get Into their living quar ters. They recovered their clothes and valuables, and tbe captain secured hi Instruments and charts. Captain Jenson of the Coos Bay sayi that when he left Altata about twelv days ago tbe Lottie bad completely disappeared. San Francisco Examiner Remarkable Knives. In connection with a manufactory a. Sheffield Is a suite of showrooms, m which are exhibited, besides samples ol the class of work produced, a numbei of Invaluable curiosities. Chief amonj these Is tho celebrated Norfolk knlf exhibited during the exposition of 1851, comprising a richly carved pearl han die and seventy-frve large blades, con- talnlng. In addition to etchings of thi queen and other members of the royal family, charming views or ine royai residences and other notable placets Another marvel of construction Is knife equipped with l.Kw biaaes- j blade for every year In the Christian . a cf ....I era. It was conunen" since that time one blade has beer added each year. The Motive. "Why have vou pursued me all these years?1' wearily asked the princess of the drama. "I don't know," answered the wily miscreant, -unless It was to give yow a chance to wear all your costumes. Drawing his mantle more closely about him. he nodded to the leaaer oi the. orchestra. Detroit Free rresa. The War of the Fatnre. How many seamstresses have we l the arrnvT" asked the generaless. How. what do yon want to Know tnai forT asked tbe ald-de-canrp, who had been a hired girl and still retained ber lack of respect for authority. "Whv. I read somewhere that Napo laon often won bis battles by hemming - t mMm In.irnnL P. i. TQL Hie Eminent Divine's Sunda) SeraoSs Subject: "The Bitter Attlla." Text: "Thore. fell a crirnt star from heaven. tmrninir as tt were a lamb, and It fell upon tho third part of the rivers, and upon the fountnins of water, and tho una of the star is oailod Wormwood. " Revelation viiL, 10,11. i Hnnv (niSann. like Patrick and nwth, Thomas ovott, Matthew Henry and Albert llarnos aarree In saying that tbe stas Wormwood, mentioned in Hevelatlon, was Attlla. king of the Huns. He was so called because be was brillinnt as a star. and. like Wormwood, he embittered everything he toucneii. we bave studied the btar ol Bethlehem, and tbe Hornlnir Btar of the Revelation, and the Btar of Peaoa, but my present subject calls ns to gaze at the star Wormwood, and mv theme micht be called Brilliant Bitterness. A more extraordinary character bfstorv does not furnish than this man thus refarred to, Attlla, tbe kins of the Huns. One day a wonnded heifer came llmnlna alons throuirb the Holds, and a herdsman followed its' niondy track oa tbe grass to see where tbe heifer was wounded, and went on back fur-' thr and further, until be earn to a sword, fast In the earth, the point downward, as though is had dropped from the heavens and atratnsi ;ne eages oi tnis swora tne neiier bad been ent. The herdsman trailed no that sword and presented It to Attlla. Attlla said ine sw-ra must nave oroppea rrcm tne heavens bora the grasp of the god Mare and its being given to him meant that Atitla should conquer and govern tbe whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called liberators, or the merciful or tbe Rood, but Attlla sailed himself, and demand ed that others call him tbe Scourge of God. At the head cf 700,000 troops, mounted on Cappadooian hoisos. he swept everything iroin ine Adriatic to toe mack tjea. He put his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. Ho made Milan and Pavla and Padua and Verona bog for mroy, which he bestowed not. The Bysantlne castles, to nieet his roinons levy, put up at auction ma nivo silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out nnd divided into three classes the first clans, those who could bear arms, who must Immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered; the second class, the beautiful women, who were madoeantlves to the lluus: the third class, the aged men and! women, who wore robbed ol everything and let go back to thecity to pay heavy tax. ! It was a common saying that the grass' never grew again where the hoof of Attlla's horse had trod. His armies reddened the wattm of the Seine, and the Mosello, and the Ithlue with carnage and fought on the Cata-i Ionian plains the fiercest battle since the world stood 800.000 d ad left on the field ! On and on until those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces ln prayer, and, a cloud of dust seen In the disH lance, a blHbop crlvd, "It is the aid of Qod!", and all tne people took up tne cry, "It Is Ine aid of (lod 1 As the cloud of dust was blown! aside the banners ot re-enforcing armies mari'hed In to help against Attila, thei Scourge of Ood. The most unimportant oc-i enrrences he used as a supernatural re source, and after three months or tatlure to capture tbw city of Aquileia. and his army had given up the siege the flight of a storki and ber young from the tower ol the city, was taken bv him as a sign that ho was to en pi ore the city, and his army, inspired byj the same occurrence, resumed the siege audi took the walls at a point from which tha stork had emerged. Ho brilliant was th9 conqueror in attire that his enemies could not took ft him, but shaded their eyes or turned tileir heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, lliliro, who was hired for the assas sination, his followers bewailed him, not with tears, but with blood, cutting them selves with knives and laaoea. He was put into three eofllns, the flmt of iron, the second of silver and the third of gold. He was buried by night, and Into his grave were poured.the most valuable coin ana precious stones, amounting to the wealth of a kingdom. Tbe gravedlggers and all those who assisted at the burial were massacred, so that it would never be known where so muoh wealth was entombed. Tbe Boman empire conquered the world, but Attlla conquered the Human, empire. He was right In calling himself a scourge, but Instead of being the Scourge of Uod ne was tne scourge oi neiu jieoause oi his brilliance and Ititternoss the commenta tors were right in believing him to be the star Wormwood. As the regions he devas tated were parts most opulent with foun tains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic is this reference In Kevelatlon:, There tell a great star irom neaven. nam ing as it were a tamp, and It fell npon the third pnrt of tbe rivers and upon the foun tains of waters, and tne name oi ine star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought how many lmbit- tered lives there are all about ns, misanthro-, pie. morbid, acrid, saturnlni 7 ine Euro pean plant from which wormwood Is ex tracted, Artemisia absinthium, is a perennial pi nt. nnd all the year round it is ready to exude its oil. And in many human lives there is a perennial distillation of acrid ex periences, lea, mere are some wnose wnoie work is to shed a baleful influence on others. There are Attllas of the home, or Attllas ot the social clrele, or Attllas of the church, or Attilas of thn slate, nnd one-third ol the waters nt all the world, li not tw.i-tninis tne waters, are poisoned by the falling of the star Wormwood. It Is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they get greater power, become overbearing. The more power men bave the better if their power be used lor good, ine leBS power men have the better if they nse it for evil. Birds circle round and round nnd round before Ihey swoop upon that whieb they are aiming for. And it my discourse so far bas been swinging round and round this mo ment it drops straight on your heart and asks the question, Is your life a benediction to others or an Inibittennent, a blessing or a curse, a balsam or wormwood? - Some of you I know are morning stars, and you are making the dawning life of vour children bright with gracious in fluences, and vou are beaming upon all the opening enterprises of philanthropic and Christian endeavor, and yon are heralds ot that day of gospeliKatioo which will yet flood all the monnlains and valleys of our sin -ursed earth. Hail, morning start Keep on shining with encouragement and Christian hope! Some of you are evening stars, and von are cheering the last days of old people, and though a cloud sometimes comes oyer you through the querulousnew or unreasonable ness ol yonr old father ana moiner ir is omy for a moment, and the star soon comes out clear a&atn and is seen from all thn balco ines of the neighborhood. The old people will fonrive vour occasional shortcomings. for Ihey themselves several times lost their patience wh n yon were young and slapped you when you aid not deserve it. Hatl, evening alar! Hang on tbe darkening sky vour diamond coronet! But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do von scold and growl from the thrones pa ternal or maternal? Are your children ever lastingly pecked at? Are you always crying Hash! to tho merry voices and switt leet. and tbeir lanirhier. which occasionally trickles through at the wrong times nnd is suppressed by them until they can hold it no longer, and all the barriers bunt into un limited guffaw and cacniunation, as in nign weather the water has trickled through a sliirht ooening in the milldam. but afler- w..r.l makes wider and wider breach until it carries all before It with irresistible lihei? Do not be too much offended lit the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Tuen you would give yonr right band to bear one snout irom ini-irsi Unl voice.! or one step from the still foot. Yon will not any of yon have to wait very ktnir befora yonr honse is stiller than VOU want it. Alas, that I here are so many homes not known to Society For the Prevention ot Cruelty to Children, where children an put n the limits and whacked and cuffed and ear pulled and senselessly called to order and answer sharp and surpressed until tt Is a wonder that under snch processes they do not all tara out Modocs and Nana What Is rour influence noon tbe neighbor hood, the town or the city of your residence? I will su noose that vou are a star of wit. jWhat kind of rays do you shoot forth? Do yon nan tnat spionum laouiiy to trra'uaie the world or to rankle it? I bless all the aoostoUa eotleira of humorists. The man that makes me laugh is my benefactor. I do not thank anvbodv to make me ervr i can do that without anv assistance. We all err enough, and have enough to cry about. Hod bless all skillful punsters, all reparteetst all DroDonnders of Ingenious eonumdntas. jail those who mirthfully surprise us with un usual Juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine mission, and so have their successors la these times. Tbev stir Into the acid bev orage of life the saccharine. They make the Cup of earthly ezistenoe, which la sometimes stale, effervesce and bubble. They placate animosities. They foster longevity. They May tollies and absurdities which all the ser- rons ol ail tne pulpits cannot reaou. The nave for exam Dies Eiiiah. who made jfun of the Baalites when they called down Sire, ana n uia not coma, wikkiniok ium heir heathen god had gone hunting, or was loff on a Journey, or was asleep, and nothing but vociferation could wake him. saying. rCrv aloud for be is a god. Either ne ia talking or Dunning or nerad venture ha isleepeth and mast be awaked." They havn ian example In Christ, wbo wlta beaitntui sarcasm showed up tho lying, hypocritical Pharisees by suggesting that such perfect people like thenwelyes needed no improve, meats, saying. "The whole need not a phy sician but thev that are sick." I But what use are von making of your wit? lis It besmirched with profanity and unclean- psasr Do you employ it in amussraeni ax rohvsleal defects for which the victims are met responsible? Are your powers of mlm- ecry used to put religion in ooniempir is ii a bunch of nettlesome invective? Is It a bolt 'of nnlnst scorn? Is It fun at other's misfor tune? Is It glee at their disappointment and defeat? Is It bitterness put drop by drop 5nto a eupf Is It like tbe squeezing of Ar emhna absinthium into a draught al- y pnngant? Then yon are the star onnwood. Yours is tbe fun ot a rattle- trying how well It can sting. It Is the a of a hawk trying how quickly It can :rlke out the eye of a dove. But! will change this and suppose you are ar of Worldly Prosperity. Then you ave large opportunity. You can encourage hat artist bvbu vtna- bis ntcture. You can improve the fields, the stables, the highway. y Introducing higher style of fowl an l orae and cow and sheep. Yon can bless the orld with pomoiogtcal achievement ia inu brohards. You can advance arboriculture and arrest this deathfill tconoclasra of tha American forests. You can put a piece o sculpture Into the niche of that putiilo academy. You can endow a college. You can stocking a thousand bare feet from tho winter frost. You can build a church, xou can put a missionary of Christ on that foreign shore. You can help ransom a world. A rich man with his heart right can you fell me bow much good a James Lenox or a Georgo Penbody or a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge did while living, or Is doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighborhood that has not glorious specimens ot consecratod wealth. But sUDPOse you grind the face ot the poor. Suppose when a man's wages are due you make him wait for them because he can-j not help himself. Suppose that, because bis family is sick and he has had extra expenses, he should politely ask you to raise his wages! for this year and yon roughly tell him it he wants abetter place to go and get it. Sup pose by your manner you act as though he were nothing and you wereevorything. Sup pose you are selfish and overbearing and ar rogant. Your first name ought to bo Attila and your last name Attila. because you are the star Wormwood, and you have imbittered one-third if not three-thirds ot the waters that roll past your employes and operatives and dependents and associates, and the long lino of carriages which the undertaker orders for your funeral, in order to make the occa sion respectable, will be lllled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes as mere ore persons' occupying t hem. There is an erroneous Idea abroad that there are only a few geniuses. There are millions of them that is. men and women who have especial adaptation and quickness for some one thing. It may be great; It may be small. The circle may be like the circum ference of the earth or no larger than a thim ble. There aro thousands ot geniuses, and In some one thing you aro a star. What kind of a Btar are you? You will be In this world but a few minutes. As compared with eternity tho stay of the longest life on earth Is not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? Are we imbhterlng the domestic or social or political fountains, or are we like Moses, who, when the Israelites in the wilderness coinplainei that the waters of Lake Marah were bitter and they oould not drink them, cut oft the branch of a cer tain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweet and slake I the thirst ot the suffering host? Are we with a branch of the Tree of Life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we enn touch? Dear Lord, send us all out on that mission. All around us imbittered lives Imbit tered by prosecution, Imbittored by hyper- criticism. Imbittered by poverty. Irn- UHinrou muu, Kuiumvtm4 uj iiijumi Imbittered by sin. Why not go forth and sweeten tbem by smile, by inspiring words. by benefactions, by hearty counsel, by prayer. by Kospelized behavior? Let us remember that if we are wormwood to others we are wormwood to ourselves, and our life will be bitter and our eternity bitterer. 1 he gospol of Jesus Christ is the only sweetening power that is sufneient. It sweetens the disposi tion. It sweetens the manners. I' sweetens life. It sweetens mysterious providences. It sweetens amlctlons. it sweetens death It sweetens everything. I have heard peo- Ele asked In social company, "It you could ave three wishes gratified what would your throe wishes be?" If I could have three wishes met this morning. I tell you what hey would be: 1. More of the grae of U 2. More of the grace of Ood. 3. More of the grace of God. in the dooryard of my brother John, missionary In Amny, China, there Was a tree called the emieror tree, the two characteristics of which are that it al ways grows higher than its surround ings. and lis reaves take tha form of a crown. If this emperor tree be planted by a rosebush, ii grows a little higher than the bash and spreotLs out above it a crown. If It be planted by the side of an other tree, it grows a little higher than that ree and sprends above it a crown, would God that this religion of Christ, a more won derful emperor tree, mlgnt overshadow all your livesl Are you lowly In ambition or circumstance, putting over you lis crown? Are vou high in talent and position, putting over you lis crown? Oh, for more of the saccnarlno in our lives anu lessoi ine worin- oodl What Is true of individuals Is true of na- llous. uod sets them upto revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood. Tvre. the atmosphere ot the desert, fra grant with spices, coming in caravans Io her fairs, all seas clett into loam by tne keels oi her laden merchant men, her markets rich with horaes and camels from Togarinnh, her bnzanrs filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and agate from Syria, with wines from Helbon, with em broidered work from A-hur and Chilmad Where now the cleam. of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts ot her shis? Let the tlshermen who dry their nets wn re once snn Riooa, iei ine sea inai rushes upon the barrenm-ss where nnoe aha challenged the admiration of all nations, lot the barbarians who set their rude tents where once her palaces glittered, answer tbe question. She was a siar. but by her own sin turned to worm woo, I nn.l has fallen. Hundred gated Thebes, for all time to hi thv study ol the antiquariam mid hieroly pnist, her stunon-loud ruins sprea 1 ov- r 27 inil . her s-'nlp.nrs nrxwnilng In flgoras of warrior nnd chariot tne yiomn wii,. k. ln-r.nl tnn kini-S Of E'VPt ShOOk tnO . . w.i.v. nd columns. Carnae and Luxor, tne stupendous temples of her Wide! Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in thow davs when the hippodrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrine and ber avenues roared with the wheels of processions in the wake t eetnrninr eonnnerors? What dashed Ci .k. .i, i .h.nii and temnles and thrones? What hands pulled upon the ui..u of !, .lnrv? What ruthlessness jdefaeed her sculptured wall and broke obe- itSKS ana leit ner inii"3rii.i.. Ub.lnn. nt m-,nite? What SOirit Of d- unuHn. nnread the lair of wild beasts la Fu.. uni.hnN and tn.nirbt tha mlser- Eble cottsgers of to-day to bnlld huts Jn the ourts of her temples, and sent desolation an4 ruin skaliin behind the otieilsks, and (Wiring among the sarcophagi, and leaning agnlnit thn onluoins. and stooping under the arch's, and weeping in the waters which go mournfully by as tnon-;n tney vem carrjnnx tam of nil a?es? L tho mummies break their long silence and cntni up to Wilver in the dnsolntion an l pciint to fallen gnt--s nnd shattered statues and defaced sculpture, responding: 'rtmhesbutil nor one temp'e of O.vl. Thebes hatei righteousness and loved s'n. Thelies was a star, but she turned t wormwood and has lallen." Babylon, with her 231 tower anl her brazen gates nnd her embattled wnllfl, the splendor of the earth gathered within her ipnlaees, her hanging gard-ns built by NbuohadneKr to please his bride, Amytls, who had been brougnt up In a monntaiuous country and oould not endure tne unt coun try round Babylon these bnnalng gardens built, terrace above terraon, mi ar ine uuikhi of 400 feet there wore woods waving and fountains playing, the ver lure, the foliage, the glory looking as if a mountain were on the wing. On the tiptop a king walking with htxqneen. among statues snowy wnne, tout ing up at birds brought from distant lands, and drinking out of tankards of solid gold or looking off over rivers and lakes noon na tions sub Ine i and Irl.mtarv, cryinf , "Is not this great itabvlon which I have bnllt?"- What battering mm smoto the walls What plowshare upturned tho gardens? What army shattered the brazen nates? What long, fierce blast of storm nut out this light which tHumined tho world? What ernsh of discord drove down the music that poured Irom palace window and garden grove and Irallo I tho banqueters to their rev.l in I tho liancers Io their fet? I walk upon the scene of desolation to fin I an answer and Inlclc np pieces of bitumen and brink and broken pottery, tne remains or itnnyion, ana as in tha alienee of the nli)it I hoar thesurg- Ing of that billow of d"soUtlon which rolls over the scene, I hear the wild waves say ing: "Babylon was proul. Bibylon was Impure. Babylon was a star, but bv slu she turned to wormwood and nas iwien. ' From lh prosecutions of the pilgrim fathers and the Huguenots In other lands Ood set npon these shores a nation. The council fires of the aborigines went out in tho greater light of a free government. The sound of the warwhoop was fxehangod for the thousand wheels of enterprise and prog ress. The mild winters, the iruitmi sum mers, the healthful skies, charmed from other lands a race of hr.r.lv nj 'n who loved Ood and wanted to lie free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell an rose again in- to shins' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on thenar ks of lakes begin to rival cities by thn sea. The land quakes with tho rush of the rail ear and the waters are elmrnc.l white with tho stoamer s wheel. Fabulous bushelsnf western wheat m" on tho way fab ulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from thn north pass on tho river fruits from the south. And trailing in the same market is Maine lumber man and South Carolina rice inernhant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylnms scatter light and love and morcy and salvation upon Gfl.000,00.1 of people. I pray that our nation may noticopy the erimes of the nations that have perished and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood, and like them we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, ami I expect that this country will continue to advance until Christ shall como again. But bo not deceived. Our orly safety is In righteousness toward Ood and justice townrd man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land, and break His Sabbaths, and Improvo not by the dire disasters that have again and a.-aln come to us as a nation, nnd wo learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging opl demic nor drought nor mildew nor scourge of locust nnd grasshopper nor cyclone nor earthquake; if the pollt ical corruption which has poisoned tho fountnins of public virtue and hesllmod tho hitrh pbvies of authority. making free government nt times a nissing and a byword in all the earth; it the drunk enness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme In the streets ot our gruat cities as though they were reaching after ilie fame of a Ovrlnth and a Sodom are not repented of, wo will yet see the smoke of our nation s ruin: the pillars of ournatlonnl anc stato eapitols will fall moro disastrously than when Samson pulled down Dagon, nnd future historians will record upon the pngo hiwlnM with irinnroiia tonra thn Atorv that the free nation of the west nroso In splendor which made the world stare. It bad magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated Justice. It hugged its crime. It hailed on its high march. It reeled under the blow of calamity. It fell. And as It was going down all the despotisms ot earth from the top of bloody thrones hngn to shout, 'Aha, so would we have it!" whilcstrnggling and oppressed people looke 1 out from dungeon bars with tears and groans nnd eries of untold agony, the scorn of thoso and the woe of these uniting In the exclama tion: "Look yonder! There foil agrent star from heaven, burning as It were a lamp, and It fell upon the third fmrt ot the livers and upon the fountains of waters, and the nnmj. ntlliH atnr la cm1Im! Wormwood!" Ah AMERICAN PLANT IN RUSSIA. Locomotive Werhs to lie KutHhltshod at Mtjnl Nnvgor.td. The proposed establishment of an exten sive locomotive building worts at Nijnl Nov gorod. Bussia, by American capitalists was annouueed a few dnyj ago. Contracts for . -the machinery for the plaut. amounting to 500,000, have a'ready wn awardisi tne bulk of tho orders coming to Philadelphia Arms. For several years tho project of establish ing an American locomotive plant In llussla has been under consideration by capitalists In this country. The llrm of K lniuod P. Smith A Co., of Philadelphia, an I Wa tor F. IHxou, who was formerly connected wnn Ihe llogors Locomotive Works. Ii Paterson, N. J , became interested in the .u it tor, and as a result ot their visit to Hussia a company of American capitalists ha- heeu incorporat ed under the title of the Hiissinn-Amoricnn Manufacturing Company, -!iioti will build the works. The plant is to lie built in connection with the Sormova Works, an eienive establish ment in Nijnl Novgorod, manufaclurlngcars, steamboats, steam boilers, etc., and employ ing 6000 hands. Engiuoer Dixon will have satire charge of the loeoinotive works, which will be controlled joiutly by tho Itus-inn nnd American companies. The locomotive plant Will have a capacity of 200 engines a year, tnd will employ 100!) hands. It is un ler- tfood that the Czar s uovernment nas given Valuable encouragement to the enterprise. A Warning to Traveler. European travelers are warned by United States Consul-General Judd, nt Vienn:i, to obey the railroad regulations excluding cer tain articles from biggago, uuder severe penalties. He cites tho cane of a young American, Who was linen nia norms lor nav Ingsome cartridges in his trunk, and says that Servin, Bulgaria, Itoiiinania, Turkey and Ilussia have railway regulation similar to Austria in this ruoct. Reports from Texas state that charbrou or anthrax Is nitcciiig an I killing ell kinds of domestic stock from heusi to horse. Nothing moro effectually conquers n ental indolence and rouses torpid nowers Io exertion Iban Ibe necessity of mukmg decisions, muted to the con scientious desire of mnking rigiit ones. It is only the great-l.cnrtel who ran be Irne friends; lib) mean nnd cowardly can never know what true friendship ma 4ns. A dom uxl is growing no in England for California roJwo . The first watches weie mado in 174C. It is eaf y lc pick out wtrk lor th fool kill.-r. After one puts s project on foot, he then bas it on hand. Tbe rwht Io cninjnil is tho fruit o labors, Ihe price ol courage. Tn mau ol pleasure slmnld more properly lw Urniod the mau ot pain. O ie can0 nt ""rJ t,lnua .ny men are loosing mm ; ..., . - " . . .fanluitilnf si Mi I 111 some hug between a thought aud thing.
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