r v THB OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP' THE l-A WK. B. F. BOHWE1EH, MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 5. 1S NO. 34. VOL. L. - CHAPTER IV. Two people went away from Lady Ches terton's ball with anything but happiness t their hearts Ida Raughton and Wai ter Cundall. She waa able to tell herself, aa ahe sat In her dressing room after her maid bad left her, that she had, after all, become enguged to the man whom she really loved; but she had also to acknowledge that, for that other one, her compassion was very great. She had never loved him, nor did ah nntil this night believe the rumors of so ciety that reached her ears, to the effect that he loved her; but she had liked him very much, and his society had always been agreeable to her. And, for ahe was always frank even to herself, she acknowledged that be was man whom ahe regarded with some kind of awe; a man vfhose knowledge of the world was as much above hers as his wealth waa above her father's wealth. Yes, she reflected, he waa so much, above her that she did not think, in any circumstances, love could have come into her heart fur him. As for him, he hardly knew what to do on that night. He walked back to hia house in Grosvenor place (he was too un easy to sit in his carriage), and, letting I himself in, went to his library, where he I passed some hours pacing up and down it. j Afterwards, When he was calmer, he went to a large escritoire, and, unlocking it, took out a bundle of papers and read ttJa. They were a collection of several old letters, a tress of hair In an envelope, which he kissed softly, and two alips of paper which he seemed to read particu larly carefully. Then he put them away and said to himself: "It must be done, there Is no help for It My happiness is gone forever, and I would not wreck the happiness of others: but, in this case, my ain would be beyond recall if I hesitated." And, again, after a pause, he said to himself: "It must be done." He rose In the morning at hia usual time, though it was nearly six before he flung himself wearily on his bed to snatch aome troubled rest, and when he went down stairs to his breakfast he found his secretary, Mr. Stuart waiting for h5i. "West told me that I should find yon looking better th-ji ever, Mr. Cundall," he said, "but I cvtinot honestly say that I do. You look pale and worn." "I am ierfeftly well, nevertheless. But I went to a ball lust night, and, what with that and traveling all day, I ant rather knocked out, but It Is nothing. Now, let us get to work on the corre spondence, and then we must go into the city." They began on fhe different piles of letters, Mr. Cundull throwing over to Stuart all those the handwriting of which he did not recognize, aud opening those which he did know himself. They went to the city together later on, and then tbey sepnrnted; but before they did so, Cundull asked Stuart if he knew what club Lord Penlyn belonged to. " 'Black's,' I fancy, and the 'Voyagers, but we can see in the directory." And he turned to the court department of that nsefal work, and found that he was right In the evening of two days later Cun dall called at "Black's" and learned that Lord Penlyn was in that institution. All through those two days he had been nerving himself for the interview that was now about to take place, and had at last strung himself up to it He had prayed that there might be no cruelty in what he was about to do; but he waa afraid! "How are you, Cundall?" Lord Penlya said, coming down the stairs behind the porter, and greeting him with cordiality. "I have never had the pleasure of seeing you here before." 'Then he looked at his visitor and saw that he was ghastly pale, and he noticed that bis band was cold and damp. "Oh, I say!" he exclaimed, "aren't you well? Come upstairs and have some thing." "I am well, but I have something very serious to say to you, and " "Ida la not ill?" the other asked ap prehensively, his first thoughts flying to the woman be loved. And the familiar name upon bis lips struck to the other' heart "She la well, as far as I know. But li ia of her that I have come to speak. This club seems full of members; will you come for a stroll in the park? It is close at hand." "Yes, yes!" Penlyn said, calling to the porter for his hat and stick. "But what can yon have to say to me about her?" Then, as they went down St James' street, and past Marlborough House into the park, there did come back suddenly to hia memory some words he bad once overheard about Cundall being in love with the woman who was now his affi anced wife. "Now tell me. Mr. Cundall," he said, "what you have to say to me about my future wife." "I have come to tell you first" Cundall answered, "that three nights ago, I asked Ida Raughton to be my wife." "What!" the other exclaimed, "yon ask ed my future " "One moment," Cundall aaid quietly; "I did not know then that ahe waa to be your future wife. If you will remember, I had only returned to London on that lay." "And you did not know of our engage ment?" "I knew nothing. Let me proceed. In proposing to ber and in gaining her love for ahe told me that she had consented to be your wife you deprived me of the only thing in this world I prize, the only thing I wanted. I came back to England with one fixed idea, the idea that ah loved me, and that when I asked her, ahe would accept me for ber husband." Ha pansed moment, and Lord Penlyo said: "While I cannot regret the cans el fonr disappointment, seeing what happi ness It brings me, I am (till very sorry to see yon suffering so." Cundall took no notice of this remark, though hia soft dark eyea were fixed pen the younger man aa he ottered It Then he continued: "Are you a strong man? Do you think rest can bear a sudden shock V -a an not anow west yon mean, 001 what you are driving at!" Lord Penlya said, beginning to lose his temper at thest atrange hints and questions. "I am sorry tor yonr disappointment, in one way, but It la not In your power, nor in toat 01 any en else, to come between the love Miss Ha ugh ton and I bear to each ether. "Unfortunately it is in my power ana f mutt do It temporarily, at least At present you cannot marry Miss Baue "What! Why not, sir? For what rea ton, pray?" "Do not excite yourself! Became shi md her father imagine that ahe ia en gaged to Lord Penlyn, and you are not Lord Penlyn r "It ia a lie!" the other aaid, springini at him in the dusk that had now aet in, "and I will kiU you for it" But Cun- dall caught him in a grasp of iron and pushed him back, as he aaid hoarsely "It ia the truth. Your father had an other wife, who died before he married your mother, and he left a sou by her. That man is Lord Penlyn." Gervase Oceleve took a step back and reeled on to a seat in the walk. In a moment there came back to bit mind' the inn at Le Vocq, in which he had aeen that strange entry, and the laud' lord's tale. So that woman was his wife and thai son a lawful one, instead of the outcaat end nameless creature he had pictured him in his mind! But was this atory true? He stood before Cundall and said: "I do not know how you are capable Oi substantiating this extraordinary state ment; but you will have to do so, and be fore witnesses." "I am fully prepared," Cundall aaid. "Then I would suggest, Mr. Cundall, that you should call at my house to-mor- row aud tell this remaraame taie in iuu. There will be at least one witness, my friend, Mr. Smerdon." "I will be there at midday. If you will receive me. And believe me. If It had not been that I could not see Miss Raughton married illegally, and assuming a title to which she had no right, I would have held my peace." Lord Penlyn had turned away before the Inst words were spoken, bnt on bear Ing them. turned back again and said: "la th rcet in your hands only, then, and does it depend upon you alone for the telling? Pray, may I ask who thla mys terious Lord Penlyn Is whom you havt so suddenly sprung upon me?" "I am heP' the other answered. "Your with an Incredulous stare "Your "Yes, I." m CHAPTER V. "I have heard it aaid that he la worth from two to three millions," Philip Smer don aaid to his friend the next morning, when Penlyn had, for the sixth or sev enth time, repeated the whole of the con versation between him and Cundall. "A man of that wealth would ecarcely try to steal another man's title. Yet he must either be mistaken or mad." "He may be mistaken I must hope he Is but he is certainly not mad. Hia calm ness last night waa something extraordi nary, aud I am convinced that, provided thia atory U true, he has told it against his will." "You mean that he only told It to pre vent Miss Raughton from being illegally married, or rather, for the marriage would be perfectly legal since no deception waa meant to prevent her from assuming a title to which she had no claim?" "Yea." "You do not think that he hopea b divulging this secret always assuming it to be true to cause your marriage to be broken off, so that he might have a chance of obtaining Miss Raughton him self? If his story is true, he can still make her Lady Penlyn." His friend hesitated. "I do not know," he aaid. "He bears the character of be ing one of the most honorable men in London. Supposing his story true, I im agine he waa right to tell it." The young man expressed his opinio,, and spoke as he thought but he also spoke in a voice broken with sorrow. If what Cundall bad told him waa the actual case, not only waa he not Lord Penlyn, but he was a beggar. And then Ida Raughton could never b hia wife. Even though ahe might be willing to take him, atripped aa he would be of his title and possessions, it waa certain that Sir Paul would not allow her to do so. He began to feel a bitter hatred risln. np In his heart It had been full of pity for that unknown and unnamed brother, whom he had imagined to be in existence somewhere in the world; for thia man, who waa now to come forward armed with all lawful rights to deprive him of what he had so long been allowed blindly to enjoy, he experienced nothing but the blackest hate. At twelve o'clock be and Smerdon war. ready to receive the new claimant to all he bad imagined hia, and at twelve o'clock he arrived. "Before 1 make any statement" he said, "look at these," and he produced two letters worn with time and with the ink faded. The other took them, and noted they they were addressed to, "My own dear wife," and signed, "Yonr loving hus band, Oervase Oceleve." And one of them was headed, "Le Vocq, Aoberge Belle-Vue." "Are they In your father's handwrit ing?" be asked, and Gervase answered "Yea." "It was in 1852." Cundall said, "that be met my mother. She was staying in Paris with a distant relative of hers, and they were in the habit of constantly meet ing. I bear his memory in no respect he waa a cold-hearted, selfish man. He won her love, but told her that his uncle, whose heir be wss. wished him to make a bril liant match. For her sake be waa willing to forego it, if ahe also was willing to make the sacrifice of a private marriage, of living entirely out of the world, of never being presented to any of his friends. They were married in that year in London." "At what church?" Gervase aaked. "At 8t Jade's, Maryleboue.' Here Is the certificate." Oervase took it vlanced at fct and re turned U to him. "They lived a wandering kind of Ufa, but In those days, a not altogether un happy one. But at last he wearied or it wearied' of living In continental towns to which no one of their own country ever came, where they passed nnder an as sumed name, that which had been her maiden name Cundall. At my birth he became more genial for a year or so, and again be relapsed into hia moody and mo rose state. He began to see toat the se cret could not be kept forever, now that te bad a son: that some day, if I lived, I mast be Lord Penlyn. And he did not disguise his forebodings from ber, nor attempt to throw off hia gloom. She bore with him patiently for a long while- bore hia repinings and taunts; bnt at last she told him that, after all, there was no such great necessity for secrecy, tnat sne was a lady by birth, a wife of whom he need not be ashamed. Then then he cursed her; and on the next occasion ot bettor live apart She took him at his ivord. and when he woke the next morning she was gone, taking me with her. He aever saw her nor me again, and when he heurd that ahe waa dead he believed 'hat I was dead also." "Then he waa the deceived, and not the deceiver?" Gervase exclaimed. "He thought that I was really hia son and heir." "Yes. he thought so. My mother'a only other relative in the world was her broth er, a merchant in Honduras, who was fast amnssiug a stupendous fortune the one I now possess. She wrote to him telling him that she had married, that her husband had treated her badly, and that she had left hini aud resumed her maiden name. His name she never would reveal. My uncle wrote to say that In such cir cumstances, and being au unmarried man, he would adopt me as his own child, and that I should eventually be hia heir. Then he sent money over for my schooling and Vinging np." He paused again, and again be went on; and it seemed aa if he was mustering himself for a final effort "When I was little over four years old she died. On her deathbed her heart re lented, and she thought that ahe would do for him what appeared to be the great est service in her power. She wrote to tell him she waa dying, and that he would, in a few days, receive confirmation of her death from a sure hand. And she told him that I had died two months before. Poor thing! she meant well, but she waa a simple, unworldly woman, and sue uac no idea of w-at she was doing." "Is that all?" "With the exception of this: When J was twenty-one this letter of my mother's, which no other eyes but mine have evei seeu before, was put into my hand. I was then lu Honduras, aud it had been left in my uncle's care. I came to England shortly afterwards, and there waa in my mind some idea of butting In a claim to my birthright But on my arrival, I found that another you had taken pos oi.i.m nf It: and. as I saw you young and happy, and heard you well spoken of. I put away from me, forever, all thoughts of ever taking away from you what you through no fault of your own nad wrong rnllv luwvtme Dossessed of." "Yet now you will do so, because I have gained Ida a love. "No. no. no!" he answered. Then h said, with a aadnesa that should have gone to their hearts: "1 have been r.sau ia your Jacob all my life. It is natural you should sumilant me now in a woman a love." "What then do you mean to do. Lord Peulvn?" Gervase asked bitterly. The mhr started, and said: "Never call me by that name again. I have sriven it to you." "Perhaps," Smerdon said, with a bitter sneer, "because you are not quite sure yet of your own right to it lou would have to prove that there was a male child of this marriage, and then that you were be. That would not be so easy, 1 imag ine." "There is nothing would be more easy. I have every proof of my birth and my identity." "And you intend to use them to break off my marriage with Ida Kaugnton, Gervase Oceleve said. (To be contiuued.1 Well Met. James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, and the bouses erected by him formed the be- giuulng of Savannah. After founding the colony he returned to ttuglana ana received promotion in the army, in which, at the time of his death, he held a commission aa general. When a young man General Oglethorpe served In the Austrian army under Prince Engene. During this period be was one day sitting at table with a Prince or Wur temberg. The prince took up a glass of wine, and by a fillip made some of it Ty in Oglethorpe's face. Here was a sore dilemma. To ha v. challenged the Insolent prince on the spot might have fixed a quarrelsome character on the young soldier; to have taken no notice of it might have been considered as cowardice. Oglethorpe, therefore, keeping his eye upon the prince, and smiling all the time, as If he took what his highness had done in lest, said: "Mon prince, that's a good joke, but we do It much better In England," and threw a whole glass of wine In the orlnce's face. The prince half rose from bis chair, hot with anger; but an old general who sat by checked him and said: "II a blen fait mon prince, vous lavez com- mencee." (He has done right, my prince; rou began It) The prince, thus admonished, recov ered himself and smiled, and so what might have ended In a tragedy termin ated in good humor aud an added re apect for young Oglethorpe. Dennis Cannot Be Fonad. A letter mailed at West Point, Ina. is now In the Lafayette postoffice ad dressed thus: "What though the anow be high as any mountain; what though the sleet and rain in torrents pour, so much that earth would seem like one vast fountain. No matter. With tbls letter swiftly soar to Mr. Garabaldl D. McGlnuls, whom Rumor whispers dwells on Burwell place. As D.' Im plies), his middle name Is Dennis; this pointer use bis whereabouts to trace." -Indianapolis Hun. Pure lesd baa been found some tbirtv feet under the ground near Chester. 111.. . A company has been organized to mine it Iowa almost from the date 01 its admission has been called the "Hawk eye stale." Hawkeye was the name ot a noted Indian chief. An evidence of the striking uni formity of size among the Japanese is found in the fact that recnt measure ments taken of an infantry regimen show no variation exceeding two inches in height or twenty pounds in weight. Experiments made by Chief Fer- now of the United States Division of Forestry, show that large beams of wood cut symmetrically develop as much strength in proportion as the smaller pieces of selected wood usually employed in teats. The value of Maryland's farm lands increased $5,500,000 between 1880 and 1890, making a total of $175, 058,550. Street railway rails in Memphis, Tenn., are being welded together with molten steel. An examination of the eyes of white and colored children in the Washington schools show that the Fatter are much less liable to shortsight edness and astigmatism. COUNT AND COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE. One of the most notable weddings In this eoantry of recent years waa that of Oount de Castellans, the descendant of a aoted French family, to Miss Anna Ueald. youngest daughter of the late Jay DESIGNS IN SWISS STYLE. A4atea to Bural 6nrroaadiaa n Monataiaowe LsadMapst There ace some styles that are par ticularly fitted to the American climate octal conditions. There are SWISS OOTTAOBW others that can seldom be used with good effect, but Inasmuch as there are occasional calls for the construction of houses In these styles. It Is fitting that they should be considered. The deaiga Illustrated herewith Is that of a Swiss cottage. Swiss archi tecture is the outgrowth of the needs and conditions of the inhabitants of Switzerland, and, like all national in stitutions. Is moat appropriate to Its natural surroundings. The life of the Swiss peasant Is divided by his o-cu-pations into two seasons, the summer, when he is watching and tending his cattle on the high Alps, and the winter. when he la forced to find shelter from the rigorous climate, with its fierce storms. In the low-lying, secluded val leys. Swiss architecture, as built In this country, has been shall we say? 1 n.o y fixrt HI ill Fl Pi rst. floof somewhat Americanised, and the ac companying sketch shows a structure that would be effective and pleasing if erected In a suitable location. The lat ter point Is one upon which all archi tect, versed as well In the technical points of landscape, should be consult ed, aa many a man spending his money freely but not discreetly In the erec tion of a house has found too late that he has made a serious mistake in trust ing too confidently to hia own taste. It may be found necessary for him to sell a house that has cost him thou sands of dollars, and because of Its ex pressing too strongly his own Individu ality, finds he will not be able to realize a third of his investment It Is the SCCOrxd proper duty of the architect not only to draw plans but to advise with his client upon the general style, accom modation and arrangement of the house to be chosen, as well as. and per ns pa above ail, to see that It harmon ises with Its surroundings and suits the artistic demands of the neighbor hood. The design Illustrating this article would be much ont of place by the sea shore, but for a country residence or the suburbs of a city, where the land is rather mountainous or not flat, but killy. Its tsustafal and striking appear- 1 sT! a - f- 94 ft pi 001- Gould. The report that a serious dis agreement over money matters haa al ready taken place between the young couple will surprise the countess' friends in this country, who were led to believe that it waa a pure love match. a nee would be most appropriate. A brief description Is given aa follows: General dimensions: Width (over all), 30 feet; depth. Including veranda, 8 feet 2 Inches. Heights of stories: Cellar, 7 feet; Erst story, 10 feet; second story, 9 feet. Exterior materials: Foundation, I brick; first story, clapboards; second story, gables and roofa, shingles. Out side, blinds. Interior finish: Hard white plaster, plaster cornices In hall, parlor, dining room and three chambers; soft wood flooring and trim; ash stairway; panels nnder windows In parlor, hall and dining-room; bath-room and kitchen waln aeotted; interior woodwork finished In hard oil. The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by tbe floor plans. Cellar under kitchen and pantry. Fireplaces with hardwood mantels in hall, parlor, dining-room, and one bed room and kltciien range Included In estimate. The cost of this design aa described Is $3,510, not including heat er, the estimate being based on New York prices for materials and labor, but In ninny sections of tbe country tint cost should be less. Copyright 1890. Onrloetty Gratified. When an Innkeeper sets up a conun drum as a sign-board he must expect to have to answer a good many ques tions; but even the most enigmatic sign floes not excuse such rudeness as a cer tain American traveler In Europe is said to have once perpetrated. The story, quoted in the Washington Post, is thus told by a Minnesota politician: I was traveling through England and Ireland on foot with a knapsack on my back, and In company with a facetious friend of mine named Morrison, and in our wanderings we came to an Inn. It waa late at night but by the bright moonlight we were able to see that the sign bore a counterfeit presentment of two asses' beads, with this not unfa, miliar legend over the picture: When shall we three meet again? We stood for a moment gating at it Then Morrison went to tbe inner door and began thumping upon it with his cane, while the echoes rang through the house. I was just going to expos tulate with him over hia unseemly conduct when an upper window was thrown open, and the Innkeeper thrust out his bead, and In an Indignant tone demanded what in tbe name of all the demona we wanted. "That's all right old man. Don't get excited." railed up my friend In the most affable voice. "There are only two asses' heads on tbe sign, and I Just wanted to see tbe other one." And with that we started up the road A Carious Little Plank. A young man who works at a desk fn a Broadway office came from his home In Rahway, N. J., with a curi ous looking plant Imbedded in some moist moss and earth. When his as sociates aaked him what It was he said: "Just watch it" They did. It was placed on his desk aear a window. In less than two hours every petal was filled with a dead fly. Then be explained to the clerk that this plant was a fly-eater. It killed and absorbed tbe flies. "My sister be longed to a botany class," he said, "and be dug this from a swamp near Perth Am boy. She loaned It to me to aston ish you fellows. It Is very rare." A fellow clerk from Savannah took a look at It and asld: "When I come back from luncheon I will show you something. He brought in a small bottle of spirits of camphor and put one drop on each of the petals. In stantly tbe flies were released and the petals closed tight as a clam. "Now," he said, "that plant will have a fit of Indigestion for about three days and then It will survive for sbout ss many weeks. They are common enough In the South." New Tork World. Her Temper. That Mrs. Naglet has the worst all round bad temper I ever knew." "Yea, even her hair snarls 1" Cleve land Plalndealer. American Grit. In writing to a friend about the re cent tornado, Blshbp Turtle, of St Louis, said: "The three American char acteristics stand splendidly out "First There is no whimpering, even among the poor people who have lost their all. They are pluckily turn ing to d5 the next best thing, in a won derful spirit of cheery self-reliance. "Second. All are opening heart and hand and purses and sympathy to af ford relief. "Third. All fall In with the police and authorities to preserve perfect or der and obedience to law. I am deep- ! ly preud of the American people."- Philadelphia Ledges 10, OB, TALMAGE The Eminent f)iv:ne's Sunday Subject: "The Law of Heredity." Tixt : "Whose son art thou, thou young tnau?" I Samuel xvii., 53. Never was there a more unequal fight tban that between David and Goliath; David five feet httrh. Goliath ten; David a shephord boy brought up amid rural scenes, Goliath a warrior by profession; Goliath a mountain ot braegadocio, David a marvel ot humility: Goliath armed with an iron spear, David armed with a sling, with smooth stones from the brook. But yon are not to despisn thesa latter weapons. There waa a regiment ol stingers in the Assvrian army and a regiment of Blinders m the Etryptian army, ana tney mad. t.rribleexecutiou, aud they coo Id cast a stone with as much accuracy ant force as no w can be sent shot or shell. Tbe Greeks In their army had sllntrers who would throw leaden plummets Inscribed with tbe irritat ing words, "Take this!" Bo it was a mighty weapon David em ployed In that famous combat. A Jewish rabbi says that the probahi lity is that Goliath was In such contempt for David that in a paroxysm of laughter he threw his bead back and his helmet fell off. and David saw tbe uncovered forehcail. and his opportunity had come, and taking this sling and swing ing it around his head two or three times, and aimimr it at that uncovered forehead, crashed it in like an eggshell. The battleover, behold the tableau: King Saul sitting, liitle David standing, his finders clutched into tbe hair of decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding In his hand the Khastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence of the complete victory over God's enemies, the king wonders what parentage was honored hy suuh heroism, and In my text he asks David his pedigree, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" Tne king saw what you and I see, that this question of heredity is a mighty one. The longer I live the more I believe In olood good blood, bad blood, proud blood. bumble blood, honest blood, thieving blood, heroio blood, cowardly blood. Tbe tndenoy may skip a generation or two. but It is sure to come out, as in a little child you sometimes see a similarity to a great grandfather whose picture bangs oa the wall. That the physical and mental and moral qualities are inheritable is patent to any one who keeps his eyes open. The sim ilarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary. are apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in suob families may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate tho dif ference. Tbe large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all the generations and is called the Hapsburg lip. The house of Stuart al ways means iu all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuniity. Witness Queen of Scotts. Witness Charles I and Charles IL Witness James I and James II and all tbe other scoundrels of that line, Hcottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancieet, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fond ness for the sea. Indian blood means roam ing disposition, Celtic blood means torvid ity, Koiuan blood means conquest. The Jewish facility for accumulation you may trace clear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says, "he was rich in silver aud gold and cattle," and to Isaac and Jacn'.i, who had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity, andtliey hare ateuacitvof life pos'.tiveiv Methuselish. Oth ers are characterized hy Goliathian stature, and you can see it for ne generation, two generations, five generations, in all the gen erations. Vigorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on ia the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes, "hil- authropy runs on in the lines of the Wilher forces. Statesmanship runs on tn the line of the Adamses. You see these peculiarities in all generations. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religious, all then-families religious. The celebrated family of Caslnl, all mathe maticians. The celebrated family of the Medici, grandfather, son and Cntherine, all remarkable for keen intellect. Tbe celebrat ed family of Gustavus Adolphus, all war riors. This law of heredity asserts itself without reference to social or political condition, for you sometimes Hud the ignoble in high place and th. honorable in obscare place. A de- sceniantot Edward I a toll gatherer. A descendent of Edward III a doorkeeper. A desceadant of the Duke of Northum'ierland a trunk maker. Some of the mighlieat fam ilies of England are extinct, while some of those most honored in Ibe peerage go back to an auce-try of hard knuckles and rough exterior. This law of heredity is entirely Independent of social or political conditions. Then you find avarice and jealousy and sen suality and fraud haviug (uil swing in some families. The violent temper of Frederick -William is the inheritance of Frederick the Grwtt. It is uot 11 theory founded by world ly philosophy, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bibte speaks of a chosen generation, of the generation of the righteous, of the generation of vipers, of an untoward generation, of a stubborn genera tion, of the iniquity ot the fathers visited upon tbe children unto tbe third and fourth generations? 80 that the text comes to-day with tbe force of a projectile hurled from mightiest catapul'. -'Whose son art thou, Ihoti yoing mun?" "Well," snvs some one, "that theory dis charges me from nil responsibility. Born ot sanctUIe I parents, we lire bound to be good, and we cauuot help ourselves. Born ot un righteous parentage, we are bound to be evil, and we cannot help ourselves." Two inaccuracies. As much as if you should say: "Tbe centripetal force in nature, bas a ten dency to bring everything to the center, and therefore all come to the center. The cen trifugal force tn nature has u tendency to throw everything to tho periphery, and therefore everything will go ont lo the peri phery." You know a well aii I know that you can make the t-eutripeiul force overcome the eeutrirugal. and you can make the cen trifugal overcome the centripi-ta', as when there is a mighty tide of good in a family that may be overcome by determination to evil; as in the ense of Aaron Burr, the liber tine, who had tor father President Burr, the consecrated; as in tbe cae of I'ierruponl Ed wards, the scourge of New York soaiety eighty years ago. who had a Christian ances try, while, on the other hand, soma of tbe best men and women of this jlayure those who have come of an ancestry of which it would not be courteous to speak in their presence. The practical and useful object of this sermon is to show you that if you have come of a Christian aucestrv then you are solemnly bound to preserve and develop the gloriom- inheritance, or if yon have come of a depraved ancestry tnen it is your duty to brace yourself against the evil tendency by all prayer and Christian determination, and vou are to find out tho family Irailtiep. and in arming the castle put the strongest guard at tbe weakest gate. With these smooth t.tones from the brook I hope to strike you, not where David struck Goliath, in the head, but where Nathan struck David, in the heart. "Whose son art thou, thou voting manr Thare is something in all winter holidays to bring ud the old folks. I think uauy of our thoughts at such times are set to the tune of "Auld L.'iutr Svae. The old folks were so busy at such times in making ns hannv and perhaps on less resource made I heir sons aud daughters happier than you on larger resources are able 10 imke your sons and daughters. 1 he snow lay two leer above their graves, but they shoo off the white blankets an i niinj-led in the holiday festivities the same wrinkles, the same stoop of shoulder nuclei the weight of age, the same old stv.e of dress or coat, the same mile, the same tones tf voice. I hope you remember Ihem before they went awny. It lot. I bone there are those who havo recited o you what they were, and that there maj be in your house some article of dress 01 furniture with which you associate theii memories. I want to arouse the most sacred memories ot vour heart while I make th Impassioned interrogatory in regard to your pedigree, nwno9e son an mon, tuou young man.' First I accost all those who are descended ota Christian ancestry. I do not ask it yom Barents were perfect There are no perfect people now, ana 1 an not suppoM mo w j MODI. HOW, .ntl & UU BW 0UffUV mw any perteet neoole then, ftrhapf there WW sometimes too muoh blood in their eye whei they chastised yon. But, from what I knot ot you, you got no more tban you deserved and perhaps a little mora cbastisemen would have been salutary. But you ar willing to acknowledge, I think, that the; wanted to do right From what you over heard In conversations and from what yot saw at the family altar and at neighborhood obsequies you know that they bad invitee God into their heart and their life. Then was something that sustained those ole people supernatural ly. You have no doutr about theirdftsttny. You expect if you ever get to heaven to meet them as you expect to mae the Lord Jesus Chrt. That early association haa been a cbara for you. There was a time when yon got right up irom a house of iniquity and walkec out Into the fresh air because you thougnl your mother was looking at you. Yom hiv never been very happy in sin because of f sweet old face that C,-uld present itself. Tremulous voices Irom the past accosted yoi until they were seemingly audible, and you ! looked around to see who spoke. There wa: an est at a not mentioned iu the last will and testament, a vast estate ot prayer and hot) example and Christian eutreaiyand glorious memory. Tbe survivors of the family gath ered to hear tbe will read, and this w.'-s tc be kept and that was to be sold, aud it was "share and share alike." But there was at unwritten wiil that read something like this "in the name ot Uod. ameu, I being of sounc mind, bequeath to my c dldren all my pray ers for their aalvaiiou; I bequeath to their all th. r -suits of a lifetime's toil; I bequratt to Ihem the Christian religion, which has bean so muoh comfort to me, aud I hope maj be solace for them; I bequeath to tbe.ni t hop. of leuniou when the paniugs of life art over. 'Share and chare alike,' may they iu bent eternal nuhes. 1 bequeath to them till wish that they may avoid my errors no copy anything that may have been worthy In tbe name of God who made me, and tin Christ who redeemed me, aud the Hoi Ghost who sacrifices me, 1 make this my las will and testament. Witness all you bos'i of heaven. Witness lime, witutau eternity Signed, sealed and delivered In this oui dying hour. Father and Motner." You did not get that wiil proved at tbe surrogate! ft IBce, but I take it out to-day and I read it to you. I take it out of the alcoves of youi heart. I shake tbe dust off it. I ask if you will accept that inheritance, or will yoi break the will? O ya of Christian ancestry, you have responsibility vast beyond all measurement. God will not let you off with just being a: good as ordinary people when you had suet extraordinary advantage. Ought not flower planted in a hothouse be more thrift? than a flower plauted outside in a storm' Ought not a factory turned by the Housa tonic do more work than a faolory tu ned b a thin and shallow mountain stream? Ough not you of great enrly opportunity bebette tbnu those who had a cradle nnolessed? t father sets his son up in business. Hi keeps an account of all tbe expenditures, w mni-h for store fixture, so much for rent, m much for this, so much for that, and all tin items aggregated, aud the father expects thi son to give an account. Your Heavenli Father charges against you all theadvan tages of a pious ancestry so tnnny prayer ao much Christian example, so many kiiu entreaties all these gracious influences, on tremendous aggregate, and he asks you to? an account of It. Ought not you to be brtte; than those who bad no such advantage? Bet ter have been a foundling picked up off tin city commons tban with suob magnincen inheritance of cons oration to turn out in differently. Ought not you, my brother. t be better, hnviog had Christian nut 11 re. thai the man who can truly say this muruiug "The first word I rememlier my father speak ing to me was au oath; the llrst time 1 re memlier mv father taking hold of me was ii wrath; I never B.iw a Bible till I was tei years of age, and then I was told it was 1 pack of lies. Tbe first twenty years of in; life I whs associated with the vicious. I seeme to Is) walled lu by sin and death." Now, my brother, oubt you not I leavt it as a matter of fairness with you ought yot not to bo better tbau those who bad uo-earl; Christian Influence? Standing as you do be tween the generation that is past and th generation that is to come, are you going tc pass the blessing on. or are you going U have your life tho gulf in which that tide o' blessing shall drop out of sight forever? You are the trustee of piety in that ancestral lint., aud are you going to augment or squaudei that solemn trust fund? Are you going tc disinherit your sons and daughters of the heirloom which your parents left you? Ah. that cannot be possible it cannot be possible that you are going to take such a position a; that. You are very careful about life insur ances, and careful about the deeds, and careful about the mortgage, and careful about tbe title of your property, beraus when you step off the stage you want you 1 children to get it alL Are you making no provision that they shall vet grandfather's or grandmother's religion? Oh, what a last will aud testament you are making, ni brother! "In the name of God, a n -n. I, being of sound mind, make this my l:it wiil andtestameut I bequeath to my children all the money I ever made and all the house; I own, but I disinherit them, I rob them ot tbe ancestral graoe and tbe Christian in fluence that I inherited. I have squandered that on mv own wor.dllnoes. Share and share alike must tbsy in tbe misfortune and the everlasting cutrage. Signed, sealed and delivered In the presence ot uod ami men and angels and devils and all tbe genera tions of earth and heaven and bell, July, 18W." O ve of highly favored ancestry, wake uc thia morning to a sense of your opportunity and responsibility. I think there must be au old cradle or a fragment of a cradle some where that could tell a story of midnigbl supplication in your behalf. Where is the 01a rooKing cnair in wnicn you weresuug 1. sleep with the holy nursery rhyme? When is the old clock that ticked away tbe mo. meats ot that sickness on that awful night when there were hut three of you awake you and Go ! aud mother? Is there not at old staff in some closet; We beg youto turr over a new leaf this very day. Oh. th. power of ancestral met v. wen il lustrated by a young man of New York who attended a prayer meeting one night and asked for prayers and then went home and wrote down tnese words: "i weniy-nve yean ago to-night my mother went to neaven, my beautiful, bleated motbei, and I have been aline, tossed up and down upon tbe billows of life's tempestuous ocean. Shall lever go to neaven? sue told me 1 must meet ner id neaven. When she took my band in hers and turned her gentle, loving eyes on me and gazed earnestly and long Into my lace ana then lifted tb.au to heaven in that lasi Erayer, ahe prayed that I might meet her ia eaven. I wonder if I ever shall? My moth. sr's prayers ob. my sweet, blessed mother 1 prayers! Did ever a boy have such a mothei as I had? for twenty-five years I have not beard ber pray until to-night. I have heard ber prayers all over again. Tbey have had, in fact, a terrible resurrection. Oh, how sh was wont to pray! She prayed as tbsy prayed to-night, so earnest, so importunate, so be lieving. Shall I ever be a Christian? 8h was a Christian. Oh, how bright and pun and happy was her life! She was a cheerfu and happy Christian. mere is my motner s sioie. 1 nave not opened it for years. Did sne believe I come ever neglect her precious Bible? She surel thought I would read it much and often How often haa she read It to me! now ate she cause me to kneel by my little bed ant put my little bands up In tbe attitude o prayer! How has she kn.lt by me and ove; me, and I have felt ber warm tears raininf down upon my bands and face! Blesset mother, aid you pray in vain ior your ooy it shall not be in Tain. Ah, no, no, it snaii . v . i 1 111 nvaiAlr Vhrs not be tn vain, l will jprav ormjwmn. yiu UU BIDllml BKWUN BU U1UUU ,md.ww..w - - .... j 1 . have? Against so many pneious prayers found a hundred times a day, and that put up to heaven for me by one of the most 1 0f doing good once a year, lovely, tender, pious, confiding, trusting of R i,pon! can ne or ea mothers in ber Heavenly Father's care and , S me very good eopie can ne er see trace? She never eoubtsd; she believed- any harm in sin while it can wear good he alwavs prayed as if she did. My Bible, I c0ihe8 and ride in a corcIi. mv mother's Bible and my conscience teach . what I am and what I nave made myself. The man who becomes a successful Oh, the bitter pangs of an accusing eon-, hypocrite, will not be much of a suc Kience! I need a Saviour mighty to save, j cegs ,t auything else. 'hen Lhimbus sighted Ian... he I am afloat. No anchor, no rudder, no com-; gave men bet'er eyes and enlarged tno pass, no book 01 instructions, tor 1 nave pui them all away irom me. saviour 01 u 1 perishing, save, or I perish." Do you won der that tbe next Jay be arose in prayer meeting and said: "My brethren, I stand before yon a monument of God's amazing meroy and goodness, forever blessed be His holy name. All I have and all I am I conse crate to Jesus, my Saviour and my God?" Oh, the power ot ancestral prayer! Hear iu I . . . . . I Bvtl tnJor moment tn UUeyb9M4 near hi evil parentage, and 1 want to tell you that the highest thrones in heaven and the might iest triumphs and tbe brightest crowns will be for thorn who had evil parentage, but who by the graoe of God conquered mn quered. As good, as useful, as splendid a gentleman as I ever knew bud for a father a man who died blnspheming God until the neighbors had to put their lingers in their ears to shut out the horror. One of the most consecrated and useful Christian ministers of to-Jay was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of evil tremendous in some families! It is like Niagara rapids, and yet men have otuut to a rock ani been resoued. fnore is a family in New York, whose wealth has rolled up into many millions, that was founded by a man who, after he ha 1 vast estates, sent back a paper of tacks beeausit they were 2 cents niord than be exmctel. Grin and irrinii and eonire in (he fourth generation I suppose it will he grip nnd grind and gouge iu the twentieth generation. .The thirst of intoxicants has burned down through tbe arteries of a huudred und lifty years. Pugnacity or combativenuss charac terises other families. Sometimes one form ofev-1. sometimes another form of evil. But it may be resisted; it has been resisted. It the family fraiitybe avarice, cultivate un selfishness and charity and teach your chil dren never to eat an apple without offering somebody else half of it. Is the family frail tv combatlveuHss, keep out of the company of quick tempered people and never answer an imtiertiueut question until you have counted a huudred both ways, and after you have written an angry letter keep it a woufc before vou send it. aud then bum it it 1 . Is the family frailty timidity aud cow ardice, cultivate ba-kbone; read tbe biography of brave men like Joshua or Paul aud see if you cannot get a little ircn in your blood. Find out . what the family frailty is aud set boJy, mind and soul lu battle array. Conquer you will, I think the genealogical table was put iu Ihe first chapter of the New Testament not only to show our Lord's edigree, but to sli-uv that a man may rise up in an ancestral line and beat back successfully all the Influences of bad heredity. See in that genealogical table that good King Asa was born of vile King Ahio. Seo iu that genealogical table that Joseph and Mary and the most illustrious Being that ever touched our world or ever will touch it had in their ancestral line so-iu.lalous Kehoooam and K-ibab and Thamar nnd Bathsheha. If this world is ever to be Edeuized and it will le all the Infected famlli'S of the earth are lobe re generated, and there will some one ar.se iu each family line and open a new genea logical table. Thero will las some Joseph to arise iu the line and reverse the evil in fluence of Uehoboam. and there will be some Mary to arise In the linn and re.ve.rse the evil influence of Batlishuba. Perhaps the star of hope may point down to your manager. Perhaps you are to be the hero or the ln-roiui that is to put down tho brakes and stop that long line of genealogical tendencies nnd switch it off on another track from that ou which it bos been running for a century. You do that, and I wdl promise you as lino a pulace as the architect of henveu can build, the archway inscribed with the words, "More than conqueror." But, whatever your her edity, let inn say you maybe sous aud daugh ters of the Lord God Almighty. Estranged children from the homestead, come b.-ick through the open gate of adop tion. There is royal blood iu our veins; there are crowus on our escutcheon; our rather is king: our brother is king; we may be kings and queens unto God forever. Come aud sit down on the ivory lu nch of the palace. Come and wash in tho fountains that fall iulo the basins of crystal and ala-b.-Lster. Come and look out of tiic uphols tered window upon gardens of nzulca and una rant h. Hear the full burst of the or chestra while you banquet with potentates md victors. Oh, when the text sweeps back ward, let it not stop at the cradle that rocked your infancy, but at the cradle that rocked ;he first world, and when the text sweeps forward let It not slop at your grave, bnt at he throne ou which you may reign for ever ind ever. "Whose son iirtthoii, thou young nan?'' Son of God! Hoir of immortality! Vuke your inheritance! HIS BIG UNDERTAKING. Samuel Plimsoll Would Unite Ynnke and Briton in Brotherly Love. Samuel I'llmsoll, who wants to unite the people of the United States ami Great Britain In btvtherly love and mutual admiration, la a womlerful man. lie recently arrived iu New York for tbe sole purpose of patching up all differences between the Yankee and tbe Briton, and is not at all ills mayed by the size of the undertaking. Mr. Plimsoll Is getting ou toward 7.", and most of bis life li.is 1 100 11 spoilt In smoothing the path of the British jail or. His present mission Is, therefore, new to him. He began life is a law yer's clerk anil changed that occupa tion for a high stool In a brewery. SAMUEL PLIMSOLL. Then he went down to Louilon and opened a place of business for himself. In IStiS be was elected to iiarliaiiicnr and was instrumental iu sei iiriii,; il,o passage of several acta auietinini llm shipping laws. These measures were of great comfort to the English sailor. In 1980 he went back to the House of Commons, but gave up his seat to Sir William Vernou Harcourt, who ;ironi- iaed to use bis Influence as cabiuen', minister to further all parliamentary matters affecting- the well being of sailors. Mr. Plimsoll haa written an-1 published two books, "Our Heanien ' in 1S7T, and "Cattle Ships' In 1S!m. Both works have done much to male the lot of Jack Tar happier. Six years ago he was made President of the Amalgamated Sailors Union, but aft erward retired. It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich leg ac J The Opportunity to do mischief is ; world. The feet of truth are slow, but they never slip Try not only to le good, but to b3 good for something. The man who will not improve hi3 chance is bound to lose it, uo matter whether it has to do with seeking sal vation or making a firti-ai. iTl y fyr- jy. '-".S their dispute he told ber that they W . 4 J 'laii.- 1 CVjv
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