Q. F. BOHWEIBB,
THE OONtfl'lT U TIO N-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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VOL. L.
MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A . WEDNESDAY. JULY 1.1896
NO. 29.
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CHAPTEU XXL
ft seemed, indeed, that Frank was
dead. His face was rigid, and though
Constance spoke to him imploringly again
and again, be did not seem to hear her.
He lay cold and motionless as stone. Wild
with terror, she placed her hand upon his
heart; it seemed to bare stopped beating.
The awful stillness of the room suddenly
became oppressive she gasped as if for
air; she staggered to the door as if to pro
cure assistance she opened the door, and
fell like a stone.
When she opened her eyes Alice Grey-brook-was
bending over her. After one
wild look in her friend's face, Constance
staggered to her feet and gased wildly
around.
"Constance!" cried Alice, "for heaven's
sake what is the matter? I did not reach
the marquis' house until Tery late, and I
found that he had gone to the ball. Con
stance, what is the matter?"
"The matterl" cried Constance. "OH,
lice, look!"
Tremulously clinging to her, Constance
dragged her into the room, and to the side
of the couch where Frank was lying.
With a cry Alice started back.
"A man!" she said then, recognizing
Aim, she added with a shudder, -Lord
Harrington I"
"Yes," said Constance, still holding her
tightly by the arm, "it is Frank. Look
at him, Alice, quickly, lias he fainted?
Is he asleep? Look!"
Conquering her terror, Alice bent for
ward and touched his face and hands;
then she reverently drew back.
"He is dead," she said.
"Nor cried Constance, clutching wild,
ty at her friend; "not dead! It is false,
it cannot be! Heaven would not be so
cruel!
Suddenly Alice started, went to the
window, and looked out. When she turn
ed again to Constance her face was as
white as that of the man lying upon the
couch.
"It is a carriage coming up the street,"
he said. "If it should be the duke! Con
stance, if, as you say, this is a trap. It
must be the duke, and he will kill your
A moment later a knock and a voice
withont cried:
"Open quickly !"
Without more ado, Alice opened the
door and the newcomer entered the room.
It was Mr. Feveral.
"Pardon my intrusion at this hour of
the night," he said, "but I come on urg
ent business. The duke '
"Is he with you?" asked Constance.
"He will follow almost Immediately.'
"Your message?"
"Is simple. I come to warn yon."
"Indeed," she answered with a bittes
mile, "even yon come too late. Let us
understand each other, Mr. Feveral,"
he continued, while Alice stood trem
blingly by. "I am the Duchess d'Azzeg
Uo and you are the duke's spy. The duke's
depart ur for France was a pretense, your
coming here to-night is a ruse. Well, sir,
your work is done; we have fallen into the
trap which you and your master laid for
us. You have secured one victim look!"
She pointed to the couch on which
Frank was lying. Feveral started with a
cry.
"The Earl of Harrington dead?"
"Yea, dead!" repeated Constance, who
Seemed to have turned to stone. "Brought
here by your master's deviltry, while
till weak from his wounda he fainted
and died. Now, go to the dnke; bring
him here to look upon bis word. I am pre
pared to meet him."
"Madam, you wrong me," said Feveral
earnestly. "As I am a living man my
wish is not to betray, but to save you."
"Constance," cried Alice, clinging to
bee, "trust this gentleman, and do as be
advises. I believe be is your friend."
"And if I trust him what then? This
la the chamber of death. My husband
will soon return and find "
"Leave that to me," said Feveral. He
took off his traveling cloak and covered
the body, which lay there looking so
ghastly in the lamplight. "Madam," he
continued, turning to Constance, "I will
Velp yon all I can."
"Come, dear," said Alice, putting her
arms about her, "let me take you to your
room."
"Well," she returned, "take me where
70a please, I do not care. It Is all a
dream, Alice a fearful dream, and I
seem to be crawling forward to my grave.
I only know that all I love la dead, and
that my heart Is broken."
Sobbing hysterically, she fell upon the
girl's neck, and was gently led from the
room.
CHAPTER XXII.
The moment she was gone Feveral'.
manner changed. He removed the cloak,
and made a careful examination of the
body.
The pnlse bent feebly, and the blood
till flowed from the wouad. He did his
best to staunch the bleeding; then he ed-
ministered certain restoratives, which
partially brought Frank back to con
sciousness. Alice Greybrook returning,
gazed in amazement upon Frank's face.
"He is not dead," sh said.
"Not yet," returned Feveral, quietly.
I told the duchess I should be able to
help ber. 1 can, Miss Greybrook. Re
main here watching beside the conch. I
must go to sek assistance. The help of
a surgeon is necessary now." And he took;
his departure, leaving Alice alone.
While this was going on Constance was
lying in her room in a kind of stupor.
Suddenly she rose and passed at once into
her boudoir. She glanced eagerly at the
couch, and satv that Frank still lay there.
With r cry c mingled despair and pain.
Mm knrrled forward. Tint Alice caughf
aer In her arms.
"Constance," she whispered, "do not
peak or cry. It is not so bad as w
thought, dear. Heaven has been good t
as; he is not dead."
Constance clasped her hands and snnk
lown sobbing beside the couch. Feveral
returned with the surgeon and fonnd her
there. When she heard that a surgeon
sad come, she mechanically obeyed Fev
eral and allowed him to lead her from the
rooat1y more, ska took Jhe composing
iranght which Alice pressea nmn her,
nil very soon sunk into a deep sleep.
When she recovered her senses it wat
broad day; she lay still listening, but
;ould not hear a sound. What had han
selled, how long bad she been lying there 1
Had those strange events really taken
! place in the night, or was it all a wild
,'iream?
She rose languidly and entered the ad
joining room. Trembling violently, she
turned her eyes toward tne conch. Scarce
ly knowing what she did, she rushed for
aard to raise the cloak and look again
anon Frank's dead face when a myste
rious and detaining hand was laid upon
ber arm, and looking np, she saw her hu
band.
Yes, it was Indeed the duke, pale, cold
and stern as usual. At sight of him Con
stance ottered a cry.
"Yon here?" she exclaimed.
"As you perceive," he returned. "But
you are pale, I have startled yon. You
aid not expect to we me so soon?"
"No, I did not," she answered, mechan
ically. "1 had not gone far from London," con
tinued the duke, carelessly, "when it oc
curred to me that I had forgotten othei
business of an even more pressing nature
than that which hurried me away.
hastened back. I am here to give yoc
an agreeable surprise, and myself the un
expected felicity of your society."
"I I cannot listen now," exclaimed
Constance, wildly. "I cannot stay hen
Bnt the dnke, the expression of whos
face had grown strangely forbidding, lai
a detaining hand npon her.
"Yon must stay," he said. "Let me rc
4 nest yon to remain seated, madam, an
listen to me. A certain husband pretcne
ed to leave home. In his absence his trif
received her lover. Imagine their rapturr
Feveral, are yon listening?" for the la
tet Jjad aofUy entered .the
"JCy lord, I am all attention."
"Returning unexpectedly," continue
(he duke, "the husband fonnd his wif
temporarily absent and the lover stretch
ed insensible on a couch. He touched tht
deeping man and found him dead."
with a half-smothered cry. Constance
rose from her seat, and again staggered
a few steps toward the door, but the
duk. detained her.
"The husband instructed a certain trus
ty spy. who was devoted to him, to carry
the dead man forth and leave him near
his own door. The police, on recovering
the body, would think he had died there.
and not here."
He paused; with a wild cry Constance
tottered to the couch, and lifted the cloak.
The body was gone.
All restraint departed now. With a
shudder, Constance dropped the cloak
and turned to her husband, who, pale
With passion, was quietly regarding her..
"Oast away Into the streets!" she cried,
wildly, "by yon."
"No, returned the duke, "by a trusty
spy and servant."
"And yon nave mnrdered him," she
cried; "perhaps he was not dead, aod "
"In any case I should have killed him!"
returned the duke. "Still, having regard
to the honor of my house, and wishing to
avoid a public scandal "
"Yon have doubly murdered him," she
cried. "He did not come here of his own
free will, but through a lying message
from yon. Yon have killed blin; I am the
most guilty; kill me, too. I am your wife
In name only, for I loved my consin with
all my heart and souL"
In a fit of ungovernable fury, the duke
rushed npon her, when suddenly a firm
hand was laid npon bis arm, and a voice
said:
"Stay."
The duke turned fiercely and looked
into the eyes of Feveral, who, perfectly
self-possessed, continued to hold his anc
firmly, and turned to speak to the duchess.
Madam, he said in a clear, calm
voice, "trouble yourself to ntter no more
self-accusations; yon are as pure as snow,
and yon will live. My lord dnke." he
added, "stand aside, please. I object to
your harming this lady!"
"Are yon mad V cried the duke, aghast.
"You shall judge of that later; but be
fore I give any account of myself, let me
inform this lady that the Duke d'Azzeg
lk, who Is so covetous of his honor, 1. na
other than "
"Silence," cried the duke, "Sir, come
with me," then turning to the dnche.
be addeds "Madam, I will return later,
and finish what I have to say to yon."
Withont another word the two men
passed oat of the boudoir and went to the
duke's study.
"Now, my lord,' said Feveral, "do yon
remember me?"
"No."
"Then I will refresh your memory. I
am Arthur Clavering."
"Is it possible you are that man?"
i'Moet certainly; under that name
lived and traded In Venezuela. You mads
my home desolate, and when I raved of
vengeance, I was thrown Into a prison.
When I came forth my wife was dead
You bad vanished, but I swore to hunt
yon down. The time came, my lord, wber
von had a wife. I fWad her pare an
aotole, and I resolved to spars her, bnt I
will not spare you!"
"I tell yon, yon are raving," said the
duke; "I have no quarrel with yon I am
not the man yon seek!"
"When yon tell me that, yon lie! Yes,
yon are the devil through whose villainy
I have been tortured for years. I demand
satisfaction."
"What do yon want?
"Meet me I wish to avenge say wifel
Yon cannot refuse; there is no danger to
yon I know well yon are a practical
duelist, while I "
"We are in England," interrupted th
dnke, "we cannot fight here."
"Then come to France. If yen refuse,
I shall brand yon aa a coward, and pro
claim y.ur past life ts all the world."
"I do not refuse," said the dnke after
tome hesitation. "I will meet yen aa yo
wiah."
CHAPTER XXIH.
I After the two men left the boudoir.
Qs its mm f sJiidJfte jmJi JkjrH&
il fl kil.i-i
dream, enable to thine or move, then re
covering herself a little, she crawled over
to the couch on which the body of Frank
had lain, and passionately kissed the spot
where his head had rested.
What bad become of Frank? she asked
herself. Had her husband spoken the
truth when he said that he was dead ? If
so, Feveral had again played the villain.
Scarcely knowing what she did, she rush
ed to the door. On the very threshold
of the room she was met by Alice.
"Constance." cried Alice, excitedly,
"something terrible is happening, I am
sure. Tha duke is locked in his study, and
refuses to be seen. Mr. Feveral begged
me to seek you instantly and deliver to
von this letter."
Constance took the letter, opened It and
read:
"Madam: When the dnke said yonr
cousin was dead he spoke falsely. The
Earl of Harrington still lives; he will to
night be removed to the honse of a greai
surgeon, who is willing to undertake tht
charge. The surgeon's address I enclose,
"RIOHARD FEVERAL."
With a cry of joy, Constance kissed th
fetter.
Withont a word of protest she resigned,
herself to her friend's care. The assur
ance of Frank's comparative safety
brought a sense of happiness to her brok
en heart. She drank another composing
draught, lay down npon the bed and slept
"She must not remain here," said Alice
to herself, "or she wiU die."
She rose from her seat at the bedside
and returned to her own room. Once
there she sat down and wrote to Mrs.
Meason, warning the old lady not to be
astonished if at any moment Constance
were to arrive at Avondale Castle.
It was night when Constance awoke.
The long sleep had refreshed her, but
ber head still felt heavy and painful. Fore
most in her thoughts was the letter which
Feveral had written. With a sadden im
pulse she rose, turned np the gas, and,
withont ringing for her maid, dressed her
self hurriedly. Then she listened at the
door; there waa no sound, no sign of
living souL
Grasping Feveral's letter in her hand,
and thrusting a well-filled pocketbool
Into her breast, she descended the stairs,
and passed from the honse Into the street.
It was very dark and raising heavily,
but she made no attempt to turn back)
she had mission to fulfill, and she meant
to see it through. Quickly calling up a
hansom, she ordered the driver to take her
to the address given In Feveral's letter.
Thus it was that she paid that strange
midnight visit to Sir John Priestly, de
scribed in the first chapter.
The interview with the doctor over, she
returned to the cab and was rapidly driv
en back to Park Lane. She entered the
house as quietly as she had left it, and,
unseen by a soul, rapidly gained the soli
tude of her own room.
About an hour after Constance had paid
her mysterious visit. Sir John Priestly
again heard his bell ring. This time the
mysterious patient had arrived. Frank
was perfectly conscious now, but his face
was as pale as death, and he hung his
head as if In complete exhaustion. Fev
eral glanced at the doctor.
"The drive has been trying," he said.
"It has made my task an almost im
possible one," returned the doctor grave
ly; "however, be so good aa to assist me tf
carry him up to his room."
With morning came a great change; the
torpor had passed away, and Frank was
now not only insensible, bnt raving in de
lirious fever. The doctor tended him
with the utmost care and secrecy. Fev
eral made a second calL
"Well?" he asked.
"Cerebral fever," said the doctor, "and
the patient is in too low a condition- to
stand it long, I fear."
"Constance," moaned Frank continu
ally. "Where is Constance? That mar
will kill her."
"Something is troubling him," said the
doctor, "he might be better if his mind
conld be set at rest."
FevwraTs face grew troubled; he sat
down beside the bed and waited. Toward
afternoon. Feveral was still .at his post.
an Fran- awoke from a deep sleep ana
knew him. His first words were:
"Where is Constance?"
"She is safe," replied Feveral, hurried
ly; "her chief anxiety is for you. She
knows yon are here in safety and in good
hands, and prays for your recovery."
Feveral rose. Frank tnrned his head
and closed his eyes. Feveral beckoned
the doctor from the room,
"I may not be able to call again," he
said, but I will now confide to you aa a
secret yonr patient's name. - He is tha
Bar! of Harrington."
fTo be continued.)
A Trick on the Flea.
All persons wbo have lived in a house
which has become Infested with Seas
In summer will know how these crea
tures Inhabit the floor by preference,
and how they will jump upon the legs
and ankles of every one who passes
near them. Taking advantage of this
fact, some years ago, when the lower
floor of McGraw Hall of Cornell Uni
versity was badly infested by fleas,
which had come from animals tem
porarily kept there in confinement.
Prof. S. H, Gage Invented the follow
ing ingenious plan. He bad the janitor
put on a pair of rubber boots, and then
tied aheets of fly paper, with the sticky
side outward, around the legs of the
boots. The Janitor was then to patrol
the lower floor for several hours a day.
The result was gratifying and rather
surprising. The sheets of fly paper
Boen became black with fleas and had
to be changed at intervals, but by this
means the building was almost com
pletely rid of the pest, with a minlmun
mt trouble to every on. except the Jan
itor. Insect Life.
The air pressure on a person of or
dinary size is thirteen and a half
tons.
Fatal cases of measles in London
rose during February from fifty a week
to 119.
Returns from life insurance com
panies show a great increase in busi
ness during 1895.
One of the latest novelties is a phon
ographic clock which calls the hours
instead of striking them.
It is said that stammerers rarely if
ever show any impediment of 8eech
when speaking in whispers.
One of Chicago's traction compan
ies is experimenting with compressed
air as a motive power for street rail
ways. The sum of 196,800 a year is as
signed yearly from the Treasury of
Cuba to the Minister of the Colonies in
Madrid.
A woman in Simpson county, Ky.,
still spins and weaves all the cloth for
the clothing worn by her husband and
children.
Queen Victoria has never yet vetoed
a bill, but has several times threatened
to. The threat has usually prevented
its passage.
n ' r'li " ""i i.m , i -
LINCOLN-SHIELD? DUEL.
aiaainc Data of tne Kv.nt Fuppliet
by llll.m O. rVmttaer of Kansas.
William G. Souther, of Topeka, Kan.
a-ho claims to have been an eye-wit
less of the historic duel between Abra
lam Lincoln and Gen. James Shields
low relates what la purported to be thl
aliasing data of that event.
Ud to the time of the arrival of tn
lneling party at the Alton ferry, th
itory he tells la very similar to tht
nes heretofore printed, but from then
!t differs widely. Souther relates that
tn order to witness the duel be agreed
to drive the horses which propelled the
ferryboat carrying the distinguished
party.
'Arriving on the opposite shore,"
lays Souther, "which was a wilderness
f timber, a spot partly cleared was
elected as the battle ground. Shields
took a seat on a fallen log on one side
f the clearing, and Lincoln seated him
lelf on another at the opposite side,
rue seconds then proceeded to cut a
pole about twelve feet long and two
takes were crotched at the end. Tha
takes were driven In the ground and
the pole laid across the crotches, so that
it rested about three feet above tho
ground. The men were to stand on
either side of this pole and fight across
It. A line was drawn on the ground
an both sides three feet from the pole.
with the understanding that If either
sombatant stepped back across his own
line It was to be considered as giving
np of the fight.
"After all of these arrangements had
been completed the seconds rejoined
their principals at the different sides of
the clearing and commenced to talk
In low tones. Along with the Shields
party was Dr. T. M. Hope, of Alton,
lie was much opposed to tho duel and
reasoned with Shields for a long time.
As a result of his talk several notes
were passed between the seconds. Lin
coln remained firm and said Shields
must withdraw his first note and ask
him whether or not he was the author
of the poem In the Journal. When that
was done, he said, he was ready to
treat with the other side. Shields was
Inflexible, and finally Dr. nope got
mad at him. He said Shields was
bringing tho Democratic party of Illi
nois and himself Into ridicule and con
tempt by his folly. Finally he sprang
to his feet, faced the stubborn littlo
Irishman and blurted out: 'Jimmy,
you little wbiper-snapper, if yon don't
settle this I'll take yon across my knee
and spank your This was too much
for Shields, and he yielded. A not
was solemnly prepared and sent across
to Lincoln, which Inquired If be wal
the author of the poem In questioa
Lincoln wrote a formal reply in which
he said that he was not, and then mu
tual explanations and apologies fol
lowed.
"I watched Lincoln closely while b
sat on his log awaiting the signal to
fight His face was grave and serious.
I could discern nothing suggestive of
Old Abe, aa we knew him. I never
knew him to go so long before without
making a joke, and I began to believe
he was getting frightened. But pres
ently he reached over and picked up
one of the swords, which he drew from
Its scabbard. Then he felt along the
edge of the weapon with his thumb,
like a barber feels of the edge of his
razor, raised himself to his full height,
stretched out his long arms and clipped
off a twig from above his head with the
sword. There wasn't another man ot
us wbo could have reached anywhere
near that twig, and the absurdity of
that long-reaching fellow fighting with
cavalry sabers with Shields, who could
walk under bis arm, came pretty neat
making me howl with laughter. After
Lincoln had cut off the twig he return
ed the sword to the saabbard with a
sign and sat down, but I detected tho
gleam In bis eye, which was always the
forerunner of one of his Inimitable
yarns, and fully expected htm to tell a
side-splitter there In the shadow of the
grave Shields' grave.
"After things had been adjusted at
the dueling ground we returned to the
ferryboat, everybody chatting In th
most friendly manner possible."
How to Give Castor-Oil to a Child.
Did yon ever find It necessary to give
a child a dose of castor-oil? Did you
ever long for some magic power to fore
the nauseating mixture down the throat
of the little, obstinate, squealing, sput
tering youngster? Try administering
the dose in tho form of castor-oil bis
:uit or ginger-bread, and the difficulty
are easily overcome.
Take one-fourth of a pound of flour,
two ounces of moist sugar, a small
quantity of spice and an ounce and a
half of castor-oil. Mix all together,
roll It out and cut It Into ten little cakes.
Bake them quickly In a hot oven. Each
cake will contain a good dose of castor
oil, pleasantly disguised. One or more
pf the cakes may be given at a time
according to the age of the child.
By adding ginger and nslng mol.isset
Instead of sugar, castor-oil glngernuti
may be made, and the children will eai
them readily without perceiving th
taste of the olL
Pog Has Queer Habits.
Dogs as a rule will not eat fish, wheth
er raw or cooked, even though they art
on the verge of starvation, but on tht
McXear ranch in Marin County there
Is one that will, and she has also ta nght
all her puppies to do the same. I lei
owner says she Is the best mother dog
he ever had on the place. Topsy Is tin
name of the dog. She Is a Spitz, and it
nenrly 5 years old. Topsy acquired tht
habit of eating fish when she was young
and obtained them from a Chines
camp not far from the ranchhonse.
When her first puppies had grown
old enough to eat she Insisted that they
should liave fish. She would go down
to the river and carry home the largesl
fish she could find, and tried In every
way to let them know It was good food.
The puppies did not like it at first, but
soon acquired the taste. If other food
was placed before the yonng onea she
,vould take it away. Strange as It ma)
seem, they never touched It during ha
absence. Topsy, however, wasted aS
her efforts, for when the children grew
np and were allowed to ran around by
themselves they always preferred meat
to fish.
When she drinks water. Instead oi
lapping It np, she puts her nose Into it
and sucks It like a horse. She will not
sleep in the same part of tha stable at
1 1 - '" - '- i .-r1. ".'ii hi
the other dogs, but has a particular
corner of her own, and when she lies
down always manages to cover herself
with the rugs Instead of stretching ouJ
on top of them. San Francisco Call.
Characteristic.
A few friends, who had traveled In
number of foreign countries, recent
ly dined together, and told some aieo
dotes which. If not true, were well in
vented to Illustrate little national pecu
liarities. "No man living." said on , "Is eo obe
dient to orders as the low-caste Hind a
He never uses his mind to understand
s command. He obeys; that la alL Yoa
have heard the story of Lady Dufferln,
who once planted a bed of English
Dowels near her Ittngalow, and direct
ed a couple of native servants to water
It every morning for two hours.
"She wont to the hills to escape tht
heat, and returned when the rainy sea
con was a month advanced. During
the time there had been an Incessant
downpour. Honda, fields, the garden
lieds were pools of water; but there
Mood ).er faithful servants, each with
his wnterlug-pot, pouring a steady
stream on the dead plants, as they had
done every morning since she went
away."
"That Is just what they would doP,
in Id oue of the party who had been ihj
the railway service In India. "I re
member that a ferocious tiger, a man-1
eater, once concluded that the agent ae
raw niovihg about a railway station in
the hills would make him a comforta-j
ble dinner. The man, a Hindu, shut the
door, and calmly wired to the main1
office In Bomgay:
"Tiger outside on platform. Telex
graph instructions.'"
An American, ene ef the company,
said: "A year or two ago a tiger be
longing to Barnum's menagerie escaped
St a station in Ohio. His keeper man
aged to drive the animal Into a freight
car, which he locked and attached to an
outgoing train. Then he coolly wired
to the next station: Tiger loose In box
car. Look out!" The American," con
tinned the speaker, "is ready to grap
ple with a tiger without orders, and
quite as ready to pass him on to his
neighbor." .
"Yes, and to brag of his achievement
afterward," said the Indian official. "A
short sojourn among the calm Asiatics
show us bow apt we are to trumpet our
own merits. You know, of course, tha
old story of the dissipated Yankee In
Rome, who annoyed his Italian com
panions by his drunkenness and per
petual boasting of the superiority of
his countrymen.
"Resolved to cure him of the first
habit by a fright, they carried him
when drunk Into the Catacombs, and
hid near him to enjoy his terror when
he awoke. He roused presently, and
sitting np, stared around at the masse
of skeletons. Presently he said, grave
ly. The day of judgment! And aa
American up flrstr "
'The Italian would be too polite and
too indolent to be up first' at any
time," said the third speaker. "I re
member hearing a Neapolitan offlcet
lazily quote at a dinner the old prov
erb, 'Everything comes to him who
waits!"
'A young Irishman turned on him
qnickly. 'No, my friend,' he said. "Ev
ery thing comes to the man who knows
when to stop waiting.'
'Tho characters of the two nation
were In these brief sayings."
The Giraffe's Neck.
A railway man, responsible for the
transit of a giraffe from Liverpool to a
town, managed to get the animal on a
truck; but the stupid beast's neck both
ered him. The giraffe would not Us
down, neither would It be seated.
He coaxed It, pleaded with it, aad
tried to leg It down, but In vain. The
giraffe was hopelessly dense. It gave
the man a stony stare, and continued
Its melancholy clatter on the truck
floor.
"What are tha struggling with, Jim 7"
asked the goods guard, with a winsome
smile, as be walked by.
'Well," replied the panting servant.
"Buffln calls him a jaraff; but A'U call
him a long-legged, clattering fool; and
A'U reckon tha'll have some stmgglln'
wi' him thlsen when f train gets t'
first bridge. If tha doesn't tie his neck
in a knot, he'll have his head knocked
off." Our Railways,
Conld n't lenotl His Years.
Napoleon in the course of his
Italian campaign, took: a Hungarian
battalion prisoners. The Colonel, an
old man, complained bitterly of the
French mode of fighting, by rapid
and desultory attacks on the flank,
the rear, the lines of communication.
etc., concluding by saying that he
fought in the army of Maria Theresa.
"Yoa must be old," said Napo
leon.
'Yes, I am either sixty or seventy,"
was reply.
'Why, Colonel, " remarked the Cor-
sican, "you have certainly lived long
enough to know how to count years
a little more closely."
"General," said the Ilungarlan,
reckon my nionev, my shirts, and my
horses; but as for my years, I know
that nobody will want to steal them,
and that I shall never lose one of
them."
Two Birds with One Stone.
Fanny You take Dick Foster too
serlo isly. Nothing he says is worth
it moment's consideration. Nanny
But he Insinuated that 1 was one o
the mushroom aristocracy. Fanny
Humph! He hasn't sense enough to
tell a mushroom from a toadstool.
Jrdge.
A Noble Aim.
Parker Poor old Urownleyl lie's
become Insane, 1 hear, working at
that telephone invention. Barker
What was be trying to invent? Par
ker A device for preventing people
from calling you up when you dou't
want to talk to them. Puck,
A Case la Point.
"If, as the Bible says, "all flesh
grass,' " said the star boarder at the
breakfast table yesterday, ."this
steak must be the kind of stuff those
tough Mexican hammocks are made
cf." Philadelphia Record.
No home so small but that It has still
room for trouble; no heart so weary.
bnt that a glimmer of hope might still
sater it.
i,i.iwi'saissbtajia
USES OP COLLEGE TRAINING.
pot to Make Experts, bnt to Fit Meat
for Large Intelligent work.
"It is not entirely safe to claim that
avery kind of success, even of legiti
mate success, will be promoted by a
college training," writes Rev. Charles
II. Parkhnrst, D. D. "If I bad a boy
for whom It was my supreme ambition
that he should become rich I should not
send him to college. So far from help
ing his prospects In that direction it
would probably damage them. Money
making is a trick. The easy acquisition
of it is a knack. It Involves the con
densation of Interest and faculty along
a particular line, and that a narrow line.
There Is nothing to hinder a very small
man from being a very wealthy one.
Shrewdness does not Imply big-mind-edness.
I might say with a good deal
of assurance that It Implies the con
trary. And shrewdness has more than
anything else to do with the acquisi
tion of gain. There are a great
many things that can be best done by
the man who does not know too much,
or, at least, by the man whose Intelli
gence Is concentrated at a single point
or along a single line. The mechanic
who has come to be known among us
as the 'Wizard' would, perhaps, have
been more of a man If he had gone to
Harvard, but it would probably have
spoiled htm as a Vizard.' Genius Is
presumably always a species of mania,
and liable, therefore, to become some
thing very ordinary if successfully sub
jected to the processes of the asylum.
They had better be kept away from col
lege If the design is to make them ex
perts. College will be able to give
them a character of 'all-roundness,' bnt
knife cannot be round and sharp at
the same time; neither can a boy. If
we are going to do large, intelligent
work the prime condition Is the posses
sion of an intellect trained and stocked
in the same general and comprehensive
way. College training Is simply the
process of Intellectually getting ready,
not getting seady for this, that or the
other srawlflc mental service, bnt aim-
ply getting ready planting down a
broad foundation of preliminary big
enough to support any breadth or
height of superstructure that there may
be need or opportunity to put upon It.
The college course and the requisite
preparatory training costs about seven
years of the best and most possible
period of a man's life. But If a young
man hopes to do a large, solid work
In the world, a work In which Intelli
gence of a broad kind is no antecedent
obstacle In the way, he makes an irre
versible mistake If he considers seven
years too much to pay for a liberal edu
cation." Ladies' Home Journal.
Family Waiters.
Strange customs in social life have
been revived, though they had died out.
because of heart-failure. One of these
revivals In Young England, as de
scribed by a recent writer. Is the tuni
ng of the junior members of the fam-
ly into table-waiters, to do more honor
to the guests.
Very distressing the guests felt It to
be when the Lady Gwendoline or the
Lady Ermengarde came round with the
entrees. On one occasion at the house
of an eminent man I noticed that when
the dinner was announced his pretty
daughter had no cavalier allotted to
ber, and remarked to her on the wicked
ness of the omission.
"Oh, I am not going to dine," she said
with a blush, "but only to wait upon
you.
Khn Avldentlv did not mloT her office.
but performed It with grace and dex-
terlty. Her brother, a public school
boy, a year younger, resented the ar
rangement. With a hand In one pocket
ind a dish In the other hand, he came
killing up with his "sweet-bread cro
nuettes," as though he wished they
might choke us.
Napoleon's Ink-Wiper.
Napoleon was a hero to his valet,
jonstant, though he sadly marred the
lervant's effort to dress him neatly.
6ays the valet:
"Ills breeches were always of white
cashmere. But two hours after leav
ing his chamber It often happened that
they were all spotted with Ink. thanks
jto his habit of wiping his pen on them
and shaking Ink all around him by strik
ing his peu against the table.
"However, as he dressed In the morn
ing for the whole day, he did not change
his toilet on that account, but remained
In this state until night.
"The whole inside of his boots was
lined with white fustian. Whenever
one of his legs Itched, he rubbed It with
the heel of the boot or shoe with which
the other leg was shod, thus heighten,
ing the effect of the spilled Ink."
Great Bnlphnr Beds
it Is reported that sulphur has beea
found in Lower California, Mexico, so
pure that it may be simply shoveled
Into sacks and sent to market to make
sulphuric add. The quantity Is report
ed as large. The two best localities
at present for the native sulphur are
Sicily and California. A great deal of
acid is made from the snlphuret of Iron
or pyrite. A poor grade of iron ia a
by-product.
Not for Him.
He But, of course, you will forget
me.
She Nonsense; I shall think of yoa
when you are gone.
He Oh, shall you 7
She Yes; therefore, the longer yon
are gone the longer I shall think of you.
Won't that be nice? Boston Tran.
crlpt.
Unklndeat Cut.
That was the nnklndest cut of all,'
aid the lady to the Interviewer when
she saw how they'd reproduced ber
photograph. Judy.
Chat Among the Wires.
"Anyway, I don't send people into
eternity." remarked the telephone to
the t olley. "No," retorted the
trolley, "you merely ruin their im
mortal souls." Indianapolis Jour
nal The man who originated serials mnst
hive been an author who waa looking
r aome way to keep women from read
ng the last chapter of his novel first.
Ufa.
When a girl's pocketbool; looks- fa)
and balky, yon can bet aha has ha
fsaadaarebUf In It
11 - " "
EE!. DBJMGL
be Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "God in Everything.
Text: "ti not two snnrmws sold for a
farthing? And oat ot thm shall not fall oa
the crounii withont your Father." Matthew
You Fee the Bible wl l mt be limited in tiM
choice of symbo'H. There Li hardly a beast
or blr.l or inset which has not ben called
to illnstriitn Home divine truth the ox's
pal'ence, the nnt's iu'iustry, tho spider's
skill, tho hind's sarotootedneas. the easle'l
speed, the ilovu's centleness, and even th(
spurrow'9 meanae and Inaignlfleanofl. In
oriental countries none but tho poorest peo
ple Day tne spnrrow and eat It so very llttK
meat is thi-re on the bones, and so very pool
ts it what there is of It. The comfortable
population would not think of teaching It
any more than yon wonld think ot eatlnir a
bat or a Inmpmy. Now. says Jesus, if God
lakes snch pood cure of a poor bird that Is
not worm a conr, will He not care tor yoa,
v immortal?
We associate God with revolution. We
ran see a divine purpose in the discovery of
America, in tne invention ot tne art ot print
Inir, In the exposure of the Konpowder plot,
In the contrivance of the needle grin, in the
nun oi an Austrian or Napoleonic despo
tism; bnt how hard It Is to see Go-t in the
minute personal affairs of onr lives! We
think o' God as making a record ot the starry
iiost. but ennnot realize the Bible truth that
he knows bow many hairs are on our head.
It teems a Brand thing that God provided
food for hundreds ot thousands ot Israelites
in the desert; but we cannot appreciate the
truth t hat, when a sparrow is hungry, God
stoops down and opens its mouth and puts
the seed in. We are struak with the idea
that God tills the universe with his presence,
but ennnot understand how he encamps in
the crystal palace of a dew drop, or Anas
room to stand between the alabaster pillars
of the pond lily. We can see God in the
clouds. Can we see God in these flowers at
Mir feet?
We are apt to place Qod on some great
stage or to try to do it expecting Him
there to net out His stupendous projects, but
we forget tbnt the llto ot a Cromwell, an
Alexander or a Washington or an archangel
is not more under divine inspection than
your life or mine. Pompey thought there
must be a mist over the eyes of God because
lie so much favored Cssar. But there is no
such mist. He sees everything. Vie say
God's path is in the (treat waters. True
enoui;li; but no more certainly than He is in
the water in the glass on the table. We say
God guides I be stars in their courses.
Magnificent truth! But no more certain
truth than that He decides which road or
street you shall take In coming to church.
Understand that Go 1 does not sit npon an
indifferent or unsympathetic throne, but that
He sits down beside you to-day, and stands
beside me to-day, and do affair of our lives
is so intigniflcant but that It is of import
ance to God.
In the first place, God chooses our occu
pation for us. I am amazed to see how many
people there are dissatisfied with the work
they have to do. I think three-fourths wish
they were in some olheroccupation, and they
spend a great deal of time In reKretting thai
thi'y got In the wrong trade or profession. '.
want to tell you tha: God put into operation
all the influences which led you to that par
ticular choice. Many of you are not in the
business that you expected to be in. Yoc
started for the ministry and learned mer
chandise; yoa started for the law and yoc
are a pbysioiun; you preferred agriculture
and you beeame a mechanic. Yoa thought
one way; God thought another. But you
ought not to sit down and mourn over tb
past. You nre to remember that God
arranged all these circumstances by whiob
vou were made what you are.
Hugh Miller says, 'I will be a stone
mason;" God says, Ifou will be a geolo
gist." Davi t goes out to attend his father's
sheep: Go 1 calls him to govern a nation.
Saul goes ont to bunt his father's asses, and
before he gets back finds the crown of regal
dominion. How much happier would we be
if we were content with the places God gave
ns! God saw your temperament and all the
oircumstitnees by which you were surround
ed, and I believe DinK-tentb9 ot you are in
Ibe work you are Imst fitted for. I hear a
great racket in my watch, nnd I find that
j and the whls. and the Hng
down to the jewe'er's and say, "Overhaul
that watch and tench the wheels, and the
spring, mid the hands to mind their own
busiuess." You know a man having a large
estate. He fathers his working hands in tha
morning, and snys to one, "You go and trim
that vine;" to another, "You go and weed
those Bowers:" to another, "You plow that
touch g!ebc; and each one goes to his par
ticular work. The owner of the estate
points the man to what he knows he can dc
best, and so it Is with the Lord.
I remark further that God has arranged
the place of our dwelling. What particular
ouy or town, it reel or nouse you snan live
In seems to be a cere matter of accident
Yoa go ont to hunt for a bouse, and you
happen to pass np a certain street, and hap.
pen to see a sign, and you select that bouse.
Was it all happening so? UD. no! uoa
guided you In every stop. He foresaw tht
future, lie knew an your circumstances,
and He selected Just that one house as bet
ter for yoa than any of the 10.000 habita
tions in the city. Our house, however bum
ble the roof and however lowly the portals,
is as near God's heart as an Alhambra or a
Kremlin, Prove tt, you say. Proverbs ill.,
33, "He blesseth the habitation of the just.'1
I remark further that God arranges all out
frlen Iships. You were driven to the wall.
Yon found a man just at that crisis who sym
pathized with you and heljied you. Yon
say, "How lucky I was!" There was nc
iuck about It. God snt that friend just as
certainly as He sent the angel to strengthen
Christ. Your dom stie friends, your busi
ness friends, vonr Christian friends. God sent
them to bless yoa, and If any of them have
proved traitorous, it is only to bring out tha
value of those who remain. If some die, it
is only that they may stand at the outposts
if heaven to greet you at your coming.
You always will have friends, warm heart
ed friends, magnanimous friends, and when
sickness comes to your dwelling there will
be watchers. When trouble comes to your
heart, there will be sympathizers. When
aeatb comes there will Le gentle fingers to
close the eyes and fold the baads and gentle
lips to tell of a resurrection. Oh, ws are com
passed by a bodyguard of friends! Every
man, if he has behaved himself well, is sur
rounded by three circles of friends those of
the ontur circle wishing him well; those in
the next circle willing to help him; while
close up to his heart are a few wbo wonld die
for him. God pity the wretch who has not
my friends!
I remark again, that God puts down
the limit to our temporal prosperity.
The world of finance seems to have no
God in it. You cannot tell where a man will
land. The affluent fall; the poor rise. The
Ingenious fall; the Ignorant succeed. An
enterprise opening grnndlv, shuts in bank
ruptcy, while out of the peat dug np from
some New England marsh the millionaire
builds bis fortune. The poor man thinks It
is chance tbnt keeps him down; tho rich
man thinks it Is chance wnloh hoists him;
and they nre lioth wrong. It is so hard to
realize that God rules the money market,
and has a hook in the nose of the stock
gambler, and that all the commercial revo
lutions of the world shall result in the very
Vst for God's dear children.
My brethren, do not kick against the divine
allotments. God knows just how much
money it is best for you to lose. Yoa never
gain unless it is best for you to gain. You
go up when it Is '.lest for you to go up and
go down when It Is best tor vou to go nown.
Prove if , you say. I will. Bomans will.. 2H,
"All things work together for good to ihem
that love God. ' You go into a fai.-tory and
yoa see 20 or 80 wheels, and they are going
in different dlreeiions. This hand ts rolHng
off this way and another band another way;
one down and another np. Yoa say. "What
confusion in a factory!" Oh. no! all these
different bands are only different parts or the
machinery. So I go Into yonr life and we
strange things. Here Is one providence pnll
ing yoa one way and another in another
way. Bat these sre differsjrt parts of one
niar'jinerj tfj which He w i: advance your
everlasting an 1 present well being.
JNow yon know that a second mortRaije,
and a third and fourth mortgage nre often
worth noth'n-r. It is the first mortpasef hat
Is a good investment. I have to tell yoa
that every Christian man has a first mort
gage on every trial, an I on every disaster,
and it mnst make a psyment of eternal ad
vantage to hissonl. How many worriments
It would take out of your heart If yon be
'loved that fully. Yon buy goods nnd hope
:he price will go np, bnt you am in a fret
nd a frown for tear the price will go down,
f ou do not hnv the goods n1ng yonr best
Jlscrstion in the mntter, and then say: "Oh,
Lord, I have done the best I could! I eom
nlt this whole transaction into Thy hands!"
That is what religion is good tor or it ia
good for nothing.
There are twothiugii, says an old proverb,
you ought not to fret al-out first, thlnfrs
that you can holp, and second, things which
you cannot help. If you can holp them,
why do you not apply the remedy? If yon
cannot help them, you might :is well surren
der first as List, My dear brethren, do not
it any lunger moping about your ledger.
Do not sit looking so despondingly upon
vour stock of unsalable goods. i)o yoa
dilnk that God is going to allow yon. a
"hrislian man, to do business alone? Go.l
n I he controlling partner in every Ann. nnd
Olhough your debtors may nlwoond, al
though your securities may (nil, nlthonirlt
yonr store may bum, God will, out of an
:nftjiily of results, choose for you tho very
Jlest results.
Do not have any idea thnt yon can over
itep the limit that God has laid down for
mr prosperity. You will never get ono
neh beyond it. God has decided how much
prosperity yoa can stand honorably arid em
Idoy usefully and control righteously; and
it the end or the year you will hare just so
nanv dollars and cents, just so much ward
robe, just so much furniture, just so many
londs and mortgages, and nothing more. I
will give you ilOO for every penny you get
heyond that. God has looked over your life.
He kuows what is bet for you, and ho is go
ing coolers you in time, nnd Mess you for
Bternily; nnd He will do it in the best wny.
Your littlo 3hll 1 snys: "Pap i, I wish you
would let me have that knife." So,"
you any, "it is a sharp knife and you
will out yourself." H-says, must have
it." "Bat you c.lnnot have it," you reply.
He gets angry and red in the face, and says
he will have it; but you say bestind not have
it. Are you not kind in keeping it from him?
Ho God treats His children, I say, "I wish,
Heavenlv Father,togetthat," Go.fsiiys, '"No,
my child." I say, must have it." God says,
"You ennnot havo it." I get angry and say,
"I will have it." God pays, '"You shall not
bavo it;" and I do not get it. Is He not kind
and loving and the best ot Fathers? io you
tell me there is no rule and regulation In
thesethlngs? Tell that to the men who b.t
lieve In no God and no Bible. Tell it not to
me!
A limn of large business concludes to go
our of his store, leaving much of his invest
ments in tho buiue8s, and he savs to his
sons: "Now, I am going to leave this busi
ness in your hands. Porhap.s I may come
hack in a little while, nnd perhaps not.
While 1 am gone you will pleaseto look after
affairs." After awhile the father comes back
and finds everything at loose ends, and the
whole business seems to be going wrong. lie
says: "I am going to take possession of this
business you know I never fully surren
dered it and henceforth consider yourselves
subordinates." is he not right in doing ii?
He saves the business. The Lord seems to
let as go on in life, guided by our own skill,
and we make miserable work oi it. Uoil
comes down to our shop, or our store, and
says: "Things nre going wrong. I come to
take charge. I am Maeterand I know what
is best, and I proclaim my authority." Wo
nre merely subordinates. It is like a boy at
school with a long sum thnt ho cannot do.
He has been working at it for hours, making
figures here and rubbing out figures there,
and it is all mixodup, ami the teacher, look
ing over the boy's shoulder, knows that ho
cannot get out of it, and cleaning the sinte,
snys, "Begin again." Just so God does to
us. Our affairs get into an Inextricable en
tanglement, and lie rubs everything out and
says. "Begin ngnin!" Is Ho not wise and
'oving in so doing?
I think the trouble is that there is so large
a difference between the divine and th 9 hu
man estimate as to what is enough. I have
heard of people striving for that which is
enough, but I never heard of any one who
bad enough. What God calls enough for
man man call too little. Whut mau calls
enough God says is too much. The differ
ence between a poor man and a rich man is
only the difference in banks. The rich mnn
puts his money in the Washington bank, or
ibe Central bank, or the .Metropolitan bunk,
or some other bank of that character, wnilo
tbe poor man comes up and makes his in
vestments in the bank of Him who &uns nil
the quarries, all the mines, all the gold, all
the earth, all heaven. Do you think a man
inn full when he is backed up like that?
You may have seen a map on which if
i escribed, with red ink, the travels of the
shtldren of Is'ael through the desert to tbn
promised land. You see how they took this
and that direction, crossed that river ami
wont through the sea. Do you know God
has made a map of your life with paths lead
ing up to this river and across that sen?
But, blessed be God, the path always comes
out at the promised land. Mark that! Mark
that!
There is a man who says, "That doctrine
;annot be true, because things do go so very
wrong." I reply it Is no inconsistency on
the part of God, hut a lack of understanding
on our part., I hear that men are making
very line shawls in somo factory. I go in
on the first floor nnd see only the nw ma
terials, and I ask, ''Are the ; the shawls I
have heard about?'' "No," says the manu
facturer. "Go up to the next lloor," and I
go up, and there I begin to seo tho design.
But the man says: "Do not stop here. Go
up to the top floor of tho factory. ;i id you
will see the idea fully carried out." 1 do so,
and having come to the top, sen. the com
plete pattern of nu exquisite M'...'."l. 8o in
our life, standing down on a low level of
Christian experience we do not understand
God's dealings. He tet a us to go up higher
and higher until we begin to understand
the divine meaning with respect to us, and
we advance uutil we stand at the very gate
of heaven, and there see God's ilea nil
wrought out a perfect idea of mercy, of
love, of kindness. And we sav, Just and
true are all my ways." It is all right at the
top. Kemember thero is no inconsistency
on the part ot God, but it Ls only our mental
ind spiritual incapacity.
Borne of you may be disnpointod this sum
mer vacations are apt to be disappoint
ments but whatever your perplexities and
worriirents, know that "Man's heart d
viseth his wny, but tbo Lord direetetli his
steps." Ask these aged men in this cliuro i
if it is not so. It has been so in mv own life.
Oue summer I started for the Adirondack,
but my plans wero so changed that I landed
In Liverpool. I studied law and I got into
:he ministry. I resolved to go ns a mission
iry to China, and staid in the United States.
I thought I would like to be in tlie oast, and
I went to the west. All tho circumstances
f life, all my work, different from thnt
rhlch I expected. "A man's heart devisetU
'is way, but the Lord directeth his steps."
Ho, my dear fr.ends, this rtny inke home
his subject. Be content with such things ns
fou have. From evury grass blade under
four feet learn the lesson of divine care, and
never let the smallest bird flit n"irss your
path without thinking of the truth that two
sparrows are sold for a farthing, ami one of
them shall not fall on the ground withont
y.jur Father. Blessed be His glorious namo
Iorever." Amen.
Fatal Collapse of m Itesevolr.
By the collapse of the Goodrich reservoir
near Baker City, Oregon, it. French, his
wife and Ave children were drowned.
It is sii id that an Englishman hns
succeeded in photographing at one end
of a wire objects exposed between two
vacuum tubes at the other eti.l of the
wire.
Dr. Forbes Winslow, the eminent
authority on insanity, says that when
ever a person persists in telling the
same story over and over, that person
is crazy.
Since 1872 about scvenly lines of
rack railway, with a total length of
500 miles, have been built in differeot
parts of the world. They are worked
by 308 locomotives, the heaviest
weighing seventy tons.
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