THE CONSTITUTION THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWN. t BOHWEIER, MIFFLINTOWN; JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. "WEDNESDAY. AUGUST J9. 18. No. :w VOL. L. I CHAPTER VII. Continued.) Two or three members said they had spoken to Cundall, and one that he bad tal.i him he did not seem very nay, but that he had replied in his usual pleasant manner, that he was very well, but had a good deal to occupy his mind. It was some time nast two o'clock (the club having a large number of members J of Parliament on its roll, was a late one) before the storm was over, and he rose to go. The hall porter was apparently the last person who spoke to him alive, asking him If he should call a cab, but receiving for answer that, as the air was now so cool and fresh, he would walk home through the park, it being so near to Urosvenor place. The sentries who had been on duty at and around St. James' Palace were inter rogated, and the one who had been out side Clarence House stated that he dis tinctly remembered' a gentleman answer ing Mr. Cundall's description passing bj him into the park at about a quarter to three. It was raining slightly, and he had his umbrella up. He saw a laborer, or me chanic, walking some fifteen yards behind him, and supposed he was going to his arly work. 1 From the time Mr. Cundall passed this j man until the policeman found him dead, , no one seemed to have seen him. With the exception of the medical evi dence, which stated that he had been Ubbed to, and through, the heart by one swift, powerful blow, that must have caused instantaneous death, there was little more to be told. Judging from the state of the ground, there had been no struggle, a fact which would justify the idea that the murder had been planned and premeditated. The workman might have easily plan ned It himself in the time he followed him from outside his club to the time they were in the park together, but he would have had to be provided with au extraor dinarily long knife, such as workmen rare ly carry. Ixrd Penlyn sat listening to the differ ent opinions of men who had known Cun dall. Amongst others, he noticed one young man who was particularly grief-stricken, and who was constantly apiiealed to by those who surrounded him; and, on ask ing a fellow member who he was, he learnt that he vUs a Mr. Stuart, the secre tary of his dead brother. To-morrow," Peulyu heard him say, and he started as he heard it, "I am go ing to make a thorough investigation of ill his papers. As far as 1 or his city agents know, he hadn't a relation ia the world; but surely his correspondence must give us some idea of whom to communi cate with. Aud, until this uioruiug, I should have said he had not got au eueuiy in the world, either." "You think, then, that this dastardly murder is the work of an enemy, and not for mere rohlwryY" the gentleman asked Who hud brought him into the club. -I am sure of it! As to the workman who is supposed to have done it well, if he did duit, he was only a workman iu disguise. No! he had some enemy, per haps some one who owed him money, ot whose path he had been .enabled, by his wealth to cross, and that is the man who killed him. Anil I am going to tind thai man out." Penlyn sat there, and as he heard Stu art utter these words he felt upon what a precipice he Mood. Sjppose that, in the papers which were at-out to be ransacked, there should be any that proved that Waller Cundail was his eldest brother, and that he, Penlyn, had only learned it two days before he was murdered. " Would not everything point to him as the Cain who had slain his brother, and was he not making upiaruiies worse against him by keeping silence? He must tell some one; he could keep the horrible secret no longer. And he must have the sympathy of some one dear to him; he would confide in Ida! Surely, she would not believe him to be the murderer of his own brother! Yes, he would go dow n to Kellnoiit and tell her all. lie tier it should come from hiin than that Stuart should discover it, and publish it to the world. "I hope you may tind him out," several men said in answer to Stuart's exclama tion. "Is there any e'.ew likely to" be got at through the wound i" "No." Stuart answered, "I think not. Though the surgeon who has examined It says that it was made by no ordinary knife. The dagger, he thinks, must have been semi circular, and of n kind the Arabs often use. especially the Algerian Arabs." "I never knew that!" said one; "but then I have never been to Algiers. Who has? Here. Penlyn. you were there once, weren't you':" "Yes," Penlyn said, and his tongue seemed to cleave to the roof of his mouth as he uttered the words: "but I never saw or heard of a knife or nagger of that de scription." Stuart looked at Kord Penlyn as he spoke, and noticed the faltering way iu which he did so. Then, in a moment, the thought flashed toto his mind that this was the man who bad won the woniau wh im his generous friend and patron had loved. . Could he but no, the idea was ridicu lous! He was the w inner, Cundall .the loser. Successful men had no reason to kill their unsuccessful rivals! CIIAPTEK VIII. After a wretched night spent in tossing bout his bed, iu dreaming of the mur Jered man and in lying awake wondering bow he could break the news to Ida, Lord Penlyn rose with the determination of going down to Itelmont. "How ill you look!" Smerdon said, when 6e saw him. "What is the matter':" "Matter?" the other answered. "Is there not matter cnouirh to make me look dl? I have told y;i that ("uiidall is dead, slid you know how lie died." "Is there any trace of the murderer? "None w hatever, up to last . night. Meanwhile, his friend and secretary, Mr: Stuart, s.ii's that he is confident that :!ie munler was committed by some one who had reason to wish hiin out of the way. and l.e is going through his pape-s to-day to see if any of them cam throw any light on such an enemy." "He cannot, I suppose, find anything that can do yon any harm?" "Supposing he finds those certificate tie showed ua?" "Supposing he does! Ton are lord Penlyn now, at any rate. And it would give yon an opportunity of potting in a claim to his property. You are hia heii, Jf hg baa Jeft no will." . -I -'.v - ii "His heir! To all his immense wealth? "Certainly." "I shall never claim it, and I hope he has destroyed every proof of our rela tionship." "Why?" "WhV Because will not the fact that I held a position which belonged to him. and was the heir to all his money of which I never thought till this moment give the world cause for suspecting " "What?" "That I am his murderer." . "Nonsense! I Buppose you could prove where you were at the time of bis death?" "No, I could not. I entered the hotel at two, but there waa not a creature iu the house awake. I could hear the por ter's snores on the floor above, and there is not a living soul to prove whether I was in at three or not. But this secret must be told by me, and I am going to Belmont to-day to tell it to Ida." "You must be mad, I think!" Stnerdon said, speaking almost angrily to him. "This secret, which only came to light a week ago, is now buried forever, and, since he is dead, can never be brought op again. For what earthly reason aboold you tell Miss Kaugutou anything about it?" "Because she ought to know," the other answered weakly. "It is only right thai she should know." "That you were not Ixird Penlyn when you became engaged to her, but that you are now. And that Cundall being your brother, you must mourn him as a broth er, and consequently your marriage must lie postponed for at least a year. Is that what you mean?" Lord Petilyn started. This had never entered into his head, and was certainly not what he would have meant or desired. Postponed for a year! when he was dying to make her his wife, when the very thought that his brother might step in aud interrupt his marriage had been the cause of his bru tality of speech to him. Smerdon was right, his quick mind had grasped what he would never have thought of quite right! he would do well to say nothing about his relationship to the dead man. It is remarkable how easily we agree with those who show us the way to fur ther our own ends! "I never thought of that," he said, "and I could not bear it. After all," he went ou weakly, "you are right! 1 do not see any necessity to say anything about it, anil he himself forbade me to do so." "And for Ida's sake you will uot du so?" "For Ida's sake, and for the reason that I do uot wish his money, I shall not; and more especially UiT the reason that you have shown me our marriage would be postponed it I did so." "Then when you go to Belmont, be careful to hold your tongue." Lord Penlyn did go to Kelmont, having previously sent a telegram saying he was coming, and he traveled down in one of the special trains that was conveying a contingent of fashionable racing people to the second day at Ascot. But their joyousness. aud the interest that they all took in the one absorbing subject, "What would win the Cup?" only made him feel doubly miserable. And then, when they were tired of dis cussing the racing, they turned to the other gre'at subject that was now agitat ing people's minds, the murder in St. James' Park. "He stood in some ons j?ht " one gentleman said, whom, from b ar- nee. Lord Peulyn took to be a barrawer, "and that person has ettner removed him from this earth, or caused him to tie re moved. I should not like to be his heir, for on that man suspicion will undoubt edly fall, unless he can prove very clearly that he was miles away from London on Monday night." Penlyn started as he heard these words. His heir! Then it would be on him that suspicion would full if it was ever known that he was the heir; and, as he thought that, among his brother's papers, there might be something to prove that he was iu such a position, a cold sweat broke out upon his forehead. When he saw the girl he loved so much rise wan and pale from the couch ou which she haxl been seated, waiting for his coming, his heart sank within him. How- she must have suffered! he thought. What au awful blow Cundall's 'death must have been to her to make her look as she looked now, as she rose and stood before him! "My darling Ida!" he said, as he went toward her and took her iu his arms and kissed her. "how ill and sad you look!" She yielded to his embrace and returneo his kiss, but it seemed to him as if her lips were cold aud lifeless. '"Oh, Cervase!" she said, as she sank back to the couch wearily, "oh. Gervase! you do not know the horror that is upon me. And it is a double horror, because at the time of his death I knew of it!" "What!" he said, springing to bis feet from the chair be had taken beside her. "What!" "I saw it all," she said, looking at him with large, distended eyes, eyes made lotibly large by the hollows round them. "I saw it all, only " 'Only what, Ida?" "Only it was in a dream! O dream that I had, almost at the very hour he was treacherously stabbed to death." As she spoke she leant forward a little toward him, with her eyes still distended; leant forward, gazing into his face; and as she did so he felt the blood curdling iu his veins! "This," he said, trying to speak calmly, "is madness, a frenzy begotten of youi state of mind at hearing "- "It is no frenzy, no madness," she said, speaking iu u strauge, monotonous tone, and still with the intent gaze in her hazel eyes. "No. it is the fact. On that night that night of death he stood before uie once again and bade me farewell forever In this world, and then I saw his mur derer spring upon him, and " "And that murderer was?" her loveo Interrupted, quivering with excitement "Unhappily, I do not know not yet, at least, but I shall do so some day." - She, had risen now, and was standing before him pale and erect. The long white peig noir that she wore clung to her delicate supple figure, making her look unifsually tall: and she appeared to her lover like some ancient classic figure vowing ven geance on the guilty. As she stood thus, with a fixed look of, certainty on her face, and prophesied that tome day she should know the man who had done this deed, she might have been Cassandra come back to the world again. . "Hia face was shrouded," she went on, "as ail murderers shroud their faces, I think: but his form 1 knew. I am think ing I have thought and thought for hours by day and night where I have seen that form before. And in some unex pected moment remembrance will come to me." "And then?" Penlyn interrupted. "And then, if I compass it, his life shall be subjected to such inspection, hia every action of the past examined, every action of the present watched, that at last he shall stand discovered before the world!" She paused a moment, and again she looked fixedly at him, anil then she said: "You are my future husband; do you know what I require of you before I be come yonr wife?" "Love and fidelity, Ida, la it not? And have you not that?" "Yes," she answered, "but that fideli must be tried by a strong test. You mu. . go hand in hand with me in my search for his murderer, you must never falter, in your determination to find him. Will you do thia out of your love for me?" "I will do it," Penlyn answered, "out of my love for yon." She held out her hand cold as marble to him, and he took it and kissed It. But as he did so, he muttered to himself: "If ahe could only know; if she could only know." Again the Impulse was on his lips to tell her of the strange relationship there was between him and the dead mun, and again he let the impulse go. In the excitement of her mind would he not Instantly conclude that he wai the slayer of his dead brother, of the man who had suddenly come between him anil everything he prized iu the world ? And. to support him in bis weakness, was there not the letter of that dead brother en joining secrecy? So he held his peace! 'I will do it, he said, "out or my love for you; but, forgive uie, are you not tak ing au unusual interest iu him, sad as his death was?" "No." she answered. "No. He loved me; I was the only woman in the world he loved he told me so ou the first night he returned to England. Only I had no love to give him iu return; it was gl-?n to you. But I liked and respected him, and, since he came to me in my dream on that night of his death, it seems that on uie should fall the task of finding the man who killed him." She had bidden him do the very thing of all others that be would least wish done, bidden him throw a light upon the past of the dead man, and bud out all bis enemies and friends. She had told him to do this, while there. In his own heart, was the know ledge of the long-kept secret that the dead man was his brother the secret that the dead man had enjoined ou him never to di vulge. What was he to do? he asked himself. Which should be obey, the orders of his murdered brother, or the orders of bis future wife? He rose after these reflections nnd told her that he was going back to Loudon, And she also rose, and said: "Yes, yes; go back at once! Lose no time, not a monieut. Remember, you have' promised. You will keep your prom ise, 1 know." . He kissed her, and muttered some thing that she took for words of assent, ami prepared to leave her. He reached his house early in the even ing, and the footman handed him a letter that had been left by a messenger but a short time before. It ran as follows: "Urosvenor Place, June 12, IS. "My Lord In searching through tin papers of my late employer, Mr. Walter Cundall, I have come across a will 'ua.le by him three years ago. By it, the whole of his fortune and estates are left to you. your name and the title beiug carefully described. I have placed the will in the hands of Mr. Fordyce, Mr. Cundall's so licitor, from whom you will doubtless hear shortly. "Your obedient servant, "A. STL ART. "The Rt. Hon. Viscount Penlyn." That was all; without one word of ex planation or of surprise at the manner in which Walter Cundall's vast wealth had been bequeathed. Lord Penlyn crushed the letter in his hand when he read it, and, as he threw himself into a chair, he moaned: "Everything must be known, everything discovered; there is no help for it! What will Ida think of me now? Why did 1 hot tell her to-day.' Why did I uot tell her?" (To be continued.) E Iwln Arnold's Marveloutt Memory. At the Walt Whitman fellowship dinner In New York recently MaJ. J. B. Pond, speaking of a visit which be made with Sir Edwin Arnold to Walt Whitman shortly before Whitman's death, said: "We bud a very pleasant chat, and as we rose to go Walt Whit man presented to Sir Edwin and to tne a volume of his "Leaves of Crass," that had Just been republished. 1 opened the volume, which, you know. Is of several hundred pages, and began reading aloud a random line. Sir Ed win stopped me. 'Let me go on from there,' said be, and he took up the line and without a break recited the whole poem. 'Try uie anywhere,' said Sir Edwin. I did so, nnd not once, no mat ter how obscure the poem, did he fail to give every line of It correctly, I wonderingly following him with the book before me. That Is the way 1 know your poems,' said Sir Edwin to Walt Whitman, when he had fiuished the test." Congressman Robert Adams Jr., of Philadelphia, Hitt of Illinois ami Wheeler of Alabama, have been up pointed by Speaker Reed regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Au ounce of good gelatin is always tntflcient to a yuart of liquid for an lesicrt. It is hard for a haughty man ever to forgive one who has caught him at fault. 'One soweth andsnolher reaped)' is a verity which applies to evil as wel as good. It may be more honorable to tell a man bis faults to his face, but it is safer to tell them to his neighbor. Everything comes to the man that waits, except, of course, to the fellow who does not advertise.' Honesty education and politeness are what make the p rfect gentleman. A dandy is an individual whose use fulness in this world depends entirely upon the fit of his clothes. Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment Make companions of yonr children, get their confidence; this ia the best protection against evil associations. There is nothing little to tne rea'ly real in spirit TWO CUBAN NUISANCES. ITenomoaa Crawler, tkat Haks Thins. Unpleasant. With the coming of the raina In the tropics, many of the Insects and smaller j reptiles which 11 vo out of doors In tho" I tlry season seek shelter In the country I bouse, and beneath stacks of rane and I trash. While bites and stings from in sects are rarety reponeu, sun iney arw more frequent than one would believe.-! Of those which do not often trouble mankind much north of the latitude of w m Havana are the chigoe, or "Jigger." which burrows beneath one's toe-nails and lays eggs which develop festering sores; the scorpion and the centlped. In Cuba the scorpton develops into a pest, especially In the country districts; and, together with the centlped. Is a foe with which the Spanish soldiery are compelled to reckon. Both the centlped and si-orplon bide beneath rot ten wood, the "trash" of the yard and caneneld and fallen leaves. The bite of neither Is sufficient to cause deatlj iu au adult, but many children have been killed by them In every Island of the West Indies. These two are the worst, ard It would seem as though they were endowed with almost superhuman Instincts, for they appear at times and in places when and, where least expected. The centlped moves with the rapidity of a streak of light, leaving behind it if It traverses the limb or body of a hutnun being its venomous track punctured in the skin. Its punctures axe from the front pair of legs, which have poison ducts or glands; but Its bite Is worse than these, and sufficient to cause vio lent fever in a grown person. With its fiat, glistening body, its scores of legs twinkling like the mischief, aud Its rapid motions, it seems the embodi ment of evil as it Is. The island of Cuba Is almost as free A cudajt BooRriox. from poisonous snakes as Is" Ireland, and the only annoying pests are those mentioned. One miht stay In the Island for months and years without being bitten, the cities, as Havana and Santiago, not being Infested. ADOPTS AMERICAN MODES. Wife of New Japanese M in Inter Has Discarded Native Ureas. Among the recent additions to diplo matic circles In Washington are Min ister Hoshl of Japan aud his wife. Muie. Iloshi is about 33 years of age and of the most pleasing personal ap- i pea ranee. She Is short, probably 4 feet 10 inches In height. Her dark hair is very abundant, her large brown eyes are soft, yet bright, and her com plexion Is clear and rosy. In dress, her costume Is that of the American woman, yet as she has only recently laid aside her native gowns, her ward robe of western robes Is limited. She has placed herself in the hands of a tutor. In order to master the Intricacies of the English languago, and by next winter will no doubt be able to pre side at a tea in the most approved style, as far as conversational ability Is con cerned. Mine. Hoshl has been married ten years, but there is only one child In the JAPAKESS MINISTER AND FAMILY. family, a boy of 6 years of age. His name Is Hoshl Klkaru, and he is a bright little fellow, wandering about tbe house iu evident loneliness for his many playmates in the East. Tbe wife of the minister is a fine musician and 4evor.es much of her time to that art. A Who Word to Mothers. Whan the school days are finished and the home-coming over, many girls are more or less discontended In the home because there seems no special place for them to till. Iu school they have had duties and occupations, and have become accustomed to regular hours of employment. Wise Is the mother who at this try ing time Is willing to make a place iu the bouse for the little would-be re former, or tbe enthusiast who would like to put into practice some way her Ideas of bouse keeping and home-making. Let the new ways and the new ideas be tried, and show some hospi tality to them and some sympathy tv ther rlews than your own. A division of labors and responsibil ities is a happier way of meeting the difficulty than a giving up and over of one' Ideas and domain to the per haps overzealous yonng woman who should hare gained tact and sympathy and some knowledge of how to lira happily with others if her sehool days have been of any value. Encourage her to use her gifts, not only In her own home, but for oth.rs. The New York Evening Post says that the girl who has plenty of roam for expansion In her own horns la nraaliy the least anxions ts try home-making under an other roof. warning vo whisky drinker Craaada Aajainat Ftron Potattona In auatnrated by a Kentucky Druggist. Probably the bravest man In the Uni ted States is a druggist doing business In NIcholasvtlle, Ky. Ills name Is Jas. V. Gordon, aud he has fitted up In the front of bis drug store what he calls a poison window, and a bottle of the corn Juice dear to the Kentucky heart Is there. The window Is a grewsom thing. It la a whole-course of lessons to the man who wants to commit sut clile. In the middle, white and grin ning, is a skull. Clutched In Its teeth Id the deadly cigarette, an ash clinging at Its tip. At Uie right of the skull Is the bottle filled with the good corn Juice of the Kentucklan's daddies. At Its left Is a bottle of port wine. Scat tered about in the foreground are cards, dice and poker chips. The rest of the window Is filled wiU. mull jars containing liquid poisons and papers upon which are heaped powder-.- WHISKV AMONO TBE POISONS. enough of various sorts to end the trou bles of a regiment. Every article is labeled, from the cigarette to the prus slc add, and to prevent an possible misunderstanding of his meaning Mr. Gordon has fronted the whole deadly collection with a startling sign, which reads: "Every article In this window Is poison." A PERILOUS FEAT. fhree Wheelmen Perforin Foolhardj Antic, on the Btarncca Viaduct. Three New Y'ork wheelmen, en route to Chicago, a few days since rode at a rapid pace across the coping of the great Starucca viaduct at Lnnesboro, Pa. .When in the center of the struc ture they waved their hats at a picnic party below, which watched their fool hardy antics with breathless interest. The breaking of a portion of a wheel or the swerving of a few Inches and A foolhardy feat. the rider would have been hurled down Into the fields below, a distance of over 100 feet. Tbey were tbe first venture some riders to perform the hare brained exploit. Towed by a Deer. The shores of the great Lake Chelan, In Washington, one of the most pictur esque and remarkable bodies of water In America, abound In game. In some places the lake Is so narrow that a deer may swim It. A paper published at Chelan, at tbe foot of tbe lake, tells how a young man named Alan Koyce recent ly made the capture of a deer in tbv water. Boyce saw the deer from the shore, swimming across the lake. Though the chase seemed hopeless, as he had no gun wtth him, Koyce got Into a boat and rowed after the animal. He soon saw that the deer was making twitter time than he was, but. In the language of yachtsmen, If he could not outfxt the animal, he had some chance cf "out pointing" it. So he rowed across the course of the deer, forcing the creature to waver. Then he rowed so as to cut off the new course; and after a while, by heading first one way and then another, he came alongside the frightened creature, and with a quick movement seized It by the tall. Thoroughly frightened, the animal swam faster than ever, and made straight for the shore. Royee got into the bow of his boat and held fast to tbe tail; he was drawn through the water much faster than he could have rowed. Meantime his pursuit of the deer bad attracted the attention of Mr. J. -A. Green on the shore. Blr. Green got a rifle and came out in another boat tn meet them. Coming quite near he fired at the deer and killed It, ending the spirited chose. It turned out to be very large and fine buck. Coax a Etnbborn Horse. Some horses will stubornly refuse t take the bit. A boy with a Shetland pony hit upon a novel method of in ducing a stubborn animal to allow of inserting the bit In Its mouth. He kept a vial of molasses on a shelf In the stall, and rubbed a few drops on the bit every time he put the bridle on th pony. After a while the pony asso ciated the molasses with the bit, and as horses are fond of sweets, he showed less reluctance as he was thus reward ed every time he submitted. K4ndnes conquered In hia cafSj, and the sugges tion of a little molasses on the bit Is on that mar be followed. The siost tautea about summer girl this year seems to be the one whose profile appears on a silver dollar. Wil oats cost as mnoh as ever, la pHs of the fact that freaytklryi haa beea greatly rsitiesA la mtcs. - fn 1Z 25 -1- Site? r k v REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. Subject: "Reformation of Habits. Txxt: "When shall I awake? I will seel It yet again." With an insight into hnttan nntnrs pnh rs no other mna evi-r reached. Solomon, ia my text, ekf tfties th mental operation ol one who, having stepDed aside from Hu rath of rectitu.te. deal res to return. Witt n wish for o nethini; better h says: "Who Rball I awake? When shall I comft out ol this horrid niuhtir.am of iniquity!'" Bui seized upon by uneradieated habit, and forced down hill by h a passions, ho crif out: "I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more." Our libraries are adorned with an elegant literature pointing out all the dangers and perils of life comp!te maps of tho voyage. Showing nil the rooks, the quicksands, th shoals. But supposea maa hrisalr idvmal shipwreck; suppose he is already off th tract; suppose he bas already gone astray how is bo to sret back? That is a field com paratively nntonched. I propose to address myself this evening to snoh. There a-ethos in tills au litiice wao, with every pn-sion of their agonizad soul, are ready to hear this discussion. They compare themselves with what i hey were, ton years ago, and cry out from tho boa lage in which they are incar cerated. Habit fs a fast master. As long as wa obny it it does not chastise us; but let us re sist, nnd we find wo are to be lashed With scorpion whips mid hound with ship cable an I thrown into thetrnlc of bone-hraaking Juggernauts. During the war of 1812 then was n ship set ou lire just above Niagara Falls, and thc-n, cut loose from Its moorings, it came on down through the night, and tossed ovrtr the falls. It was said to have been n scone brilliant beyond all descrip tion. Well, there are thousands of men on fire of evil hnbit, cominar down through tbe rapids, an 1 through the awful night of temptntion, toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it Is to arrest them! God only can Hrrest them. Suppose a man, after live, or ten, or twenty years of evil doing resolves to do right. Why. ail the forces of darkness re allied against him. Ho cannot sleep nights. He gets down ou his knees in the midnight, and cries. '-Ood help me!" He bites his Hp; bs griuds his teeth; he clenches bis fist in a detenninat inn to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the bottles in the windows of a wine store. It Is one long, bitter, exhaus tive, hand-to-hand flitht with an inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When he thinks he Is entirely free the obi inclination, pounce upon him likea pack of hounds, with their muzzles tearing awav at the flanks ol one poor reindeer. In P.tristhere is a sculp tured representation of Bacchus, the god ot reve r. He is riding on a panther at full leip. Hi, how suggestive! Let every one who is speeding on had ways understand he is not riding a docile aud well broken steed, but he is riding a monster, wild and blood thiivty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a bet ter lire, and say. "When shall I awake?" but. seized on by their old habits, cry, "I will try it ouck more. 1 will seek it yet again." Years ago tht ro were some Princetou stu dents who were skating, and tlieieewal very thin, and some one warned the com pany bek from the air bole, and flnallj warned them entirely to leave the place, Hut one yonng mnn, with bravado, after al the rest hud stopped, cried out. "One round more!" He swept around and went down, and was bronglit out. . a corpse. My friends, there are thousands and tens of thousand! of men losing their souls in that way. It b he "one round more." If a man wants to return from evil praoi ticcs. soeiety repulses him. Desiring to re form ho says, '-Now I will shake off my old n-soeintes and 1 will find Christian com p:iiiionship." And ho appears at the churot door some Sabbath day and the usher greetl him with a look as much as to say, "Why you here! You are the last man 1 ever ez peeled to see at church! Come, take thli feat right down by the door," instead of say ing, "'Hood morning! I am glad you art here. Come, I will give you a first-rate seat right up by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, eutersa prayer meeting and some Christian man, with more zeattbai common sense, says, "Olud to Bee you; th dying thief was s ived aud I suppose there ii mercy for you." The young man, disgusted chilled, throws himself on his dignity, re solved he will never enter the house of Ood again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sidles up by some highly re spectable mnn he nsed to know, going down tbe street, ami immediately the respsstable man has an errand down some other street. Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes gome member of a Christian association by tbe hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel anti ine marKs oi dissipation; instead of glv iug lii in a warm grip of tbe band, he offer, him the tip ends of the long fingers of the left hand, which is equal to strikiug a man in the face. Oh! how few Christian peopl understnn I how much force and gosp-l there is in a good honest handshaking. Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encouragement, and some Christian man ha. taken you heartily by the baud, bavs you not felt thrilling through every fibre of your body, mind and soul un encouragement that, was just what you uueded? You do not know) anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil course, he runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, he lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the church. There are people in our crowded cities who liveathoiisaud miles from church Vat deserts of indifference betweem tbem nnd the house of Ood. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens ot thousands parish. Christ sot with publieans and sinners. But if there, comes to the houseof Ood a man with marks' of dissipation upon him, the people almost throw up their hands in horror, as much as to say. "isn't it shocking!" How thesa dainty, fastidious Christians in all our churches are going to gut intobeaven I don't know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They cannot go with publi cans and sinners. Oh! ye who curl your Hp of scorn at the fallen, 1 tell yonr plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined aud tbe Christian, you would bava been a crouching wretch, covered with tilth and abomination. It is not because you are any better, but because the merov of God has protected you. Who are you that, brought up in Christian circles and watched by Chris tian parentage, you should be so hard on tht fallen? First of all, my brother, throw yourself on Ood. Oo to Him frankly and earnestly and tell Him these habits you have, and ask Him if there is any help in all the resources of omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not go witb a long rigmarole people call prayer,' made np ot "oils" and "ahs" and "forever and ever, ameus!" Oo to Ood and cry for help! help! help! and if you cannot cry for help, just look and live. I remember in the late war, I was at antietam, and I went into tbe hospitals af ter the battle and said to a man: "Where are you hurt?" He made no answer, but Leld up his arm, swollen and splintered. I saw where he was hurt. The simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do U to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any lonu prayer. Just hold up the wound. Ob, it is no small thing when a man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways, to feel that Ood puts two omnip otent arms around him and says: "Young man, I will stand tiv you. The mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but X rill never fail you." Blessed be Ood for such a gospsl as this. "Cot tbe siloes thin." said the wife to tht husband, "or there will not be enough U go all around for the children; out the slioel thin." Blessed be Ood there is a fall lost for every one that wants it. Bread enougl and ' to spare. No thin slices at the Lord't table. I rumamher when the Master Street Hospital in Philadelphia was opened daring the war, a tel-gram came saying, 'Tbers wid be three hundred wounded men to-night: jajaa mm.r of them; ana from n some twenty ot tuny meu and women to look after these iwor wounded fellows. As they onus, som irom one part of the laud, some from an- nlli.r no nnn ms!?a-1 fvliMth,.!- thia man c-a . from Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or from ! Aliiiuesota. or from New York. There was a ' woun le I soldier, and tbe only question was now to take off the rags the most gently, aud put on the tiandag-i. and alministerthe cordin1. And when a soul comes to OoJ, He does not ask where you came from, or what your ancestry was. Healing for all your woun Is. Pardon for all your guilt. Com fort for all your troubles. Then, also, I counsel you if you want to ret bnck to quit all your bad associations. O-ie unholy lntimaoy wilt fill your soul with moral distemper. Ia all the ages of tne church them has not ben an Instance whr3 a man kept one evil avs rriate and was re formed. When a man delibenitoiy chooses bad as- poeiat on b -cause he likes it, that man has started on the ro.i 1 down. Oh, I do not care what you call it, lint association will des poil your fcoul. After you are destroyed, body, iniud and soul, what will they do for you? what will they do for your family? They will not give one cent to support your chil tren after you are dead. Tli y will not weep one tear at your burial. They will chuckle ver your damnation. I had a rare friend at the West. He was fnlt of welcome when I went thereto live. Hi ha I solan II I persons' appearance. There fs not a itran ler looking person iu this house lo-unytnau lie was: an i totals grand per sonal appearance be added all geniality and HI Kin-mess of soul tender as a child, br-amiful and loving nature, and I loved him as a brother; but I saw ev.l people coin ing up around him, evil men coming up from bad places of amusement, and they eixe-l hold of h's social and genial nature, nnd they b'gan to drug hiin down, and bo went further and further. I used to any to him. "Now, why don't you 'top these bad hablMnn l become n Cbris lan?" for I talked with him Just as I would talk with a brother, aud he understood me, and 1 understood blm. I said, "Why dou't you give np these things and become. Chris tian V" "Ob." he said to me one day, lean ing over his counter just after I boil osKed him for a hundred dollars to belp educate a young man for the ministry, and he bad given me the money before I bad the story half told "if it will do the young man any good, here Is a hundred dollars." Kight after that couveisation I said, "'Sow, you are a splendid fellow; why don t you giv. up vour bad habits and be a Christian? "Oil," be said, as the tears rari down hi. cheets, "I can't. I should like tobeaCtiris linn. You see, I have got these habits on m BO. sir. I can't get rid of them. I have beeuj going wrong longer than you would think for, and I can't stop." sometimes, in tne moments ot repentnn -e, lo would go to his home aud embrace bis. little girl of eight years convulsively to his'' heart, and he would cover her with adoru oeuts ami strew toys and pictures all about ber. and then from her beautiful presence tho beautful presence of bis little child h3 would go to tne intoxicating cup, and to tbe house of shame, as a foot to the correction itocks; and there these b 1 men k ipt pus fl ing bun on, a ship, full-winged, crashing into the breakers. I was called to bis deathbed. I hastened. and wheu I got into the room I was sur prised to find him in full everyday dress, ly ing on the top of the couch. I put out my band and he greeted me very cordially. He said: "Now, Mr. Talmage, sit down right there." I sat down and ha said: "Last night, just where you sit now, I saw my mother, though she boa beea dead twenty years yes, blr; just where you sit now she sat. I couldn t bave been mistaken. I was; as wide awake as I am now. She sat just TTbere vnu sit. Wife, I wish von would take these strings off that they are weaving around me; I wish you would take them off; they aanoy bm very muon tn this eonvers-, Hon." I saw he was in delirium. His wife, said: "There is nothing there, my dear; there is nothing there." Then he resumed the conversation, and said: "Yes, my mother sat just where you sit now. I knew ber. She ha 1 the same spectacles, and tbe same cap nud tbe same Hproc. and tne same dress. it must nave been ber, just as she looked twenty years ago she has beea dead now twenty ears. And sitting there she said to me, "Koswell, 1 wish you would do tetter; and I got up out of bed, and I knelt beside ber and said. Mother. I wish 1 could I wish I could do better; I would like to do better. Wou't you help me? You used to belp me. Why can't you belp me now, mother? Bat soon I said, "Now we will pray." I knelt to pray. He did not realize anything I said, 1 sup pose. Then I got up and said "Good-byk good-y!" That uighc be went to Ood. 1 Arcaugements for tbe obsequies were be iug made, and they said, "Oil, it won't do to bring him to the unuroh; he has been so dis solute." I said, "Bring bim, bring blm; he stood by me wuen he was alive, and I'll stand by bim when be is dead. Bring him intothe jbureb." Tbe Sabbath came. As I stood ia the pulpit and saw his body coming up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I stood there that day and I said, :This man bad his v.rtues, and a good many of them; be had his faults, and a good many of them; but let that man In this afsembly who is without sin cast tbe first stone on thia ooffln lid." On the one side of tbe pulpit sat the beau tiful child, as radiant and sweet faced as any child that sat at your table this morning. She knew not the sorrows of an orphan child; she was not old enough to realiz-i them. Sometimes when I think of that awful scene, bar face haunts me like a beautiful face through a horrid dream. On the otbet side of the pulpit sat the man who had de stroyed bim. Tbey bud put the worm woo I and the gall Into that orphan's cup. They pushed him off the precipice. I stood tner and told tbem that there was a Ood and s judgment and a hell for those who destroyed their fellows. Did tbey weep? Oh, no, not one tear. Did thevsigh repeuilngly? Not out sigh. Did they say, "What a pity that w( destroyed him?" Oh, no. They eat nnd gazed at the coffin as vultures at the carcaj of a lamb whose heart they bad ripped out. That nigbt.tbougb my friend lay in Oakwood Cemetery, I beard afterward that these tteu went right on with their Iniquities, destroy Ing tbemselves and destroying others. Gather up all the energies of body, mini and soul, and appealing to Ood for success, declare this day everlasting war against h! drinking habits, all gaming practices, ail houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing. It must ba a Waterloo. Shriek back now, and you are lost! Push on, and you are saved! A Spartan General fell at the very moment of victory, but hj dipped bis finger in bis blood and wrote oo a rock, near which be was dying. "3part: has conquered." Though your sirugirle tu! get rid of sin may seem to be almost a de.atl struggle, you can dip your finger iu your own blood and write on the Rock ot ages "Victory through our Lord Jusus Christ!" Ob, what glorious news it would be foi tome of these young meu to send home to :heir parents in the country! They g. to the postotflne every day or to gee if there tre auy letters from you. Ha anx ous :hey are to hear! . Nothing would pleas ibem half so mnoh as tho news yon miifht lend home to-morrow that you bid given our heart to God. 1 know how it is iu the lountry. The night comes ou. Tne i-utlle itand under the rack through which borst be trusses of bay. The horsi s, just ha viae risked upthrough the meadow ut the nieht all, Bland knee deep iu the bright slr.i-a :hat invites them to lie down ami rest. Tht porch of the hovel is full of fowl. Iu tb jld faun house at niulic no eandm ii lighted, for the flam-s clap bands about tht great I aokiog, nnd shako the h:H'w group np and down the wa'l. Fathci ind mother sit there for half an hour, sav ng nothing. I win 1er what they are think ne of! Atter a while tho fathr breaks the dlence and says: "Wel1. I w mder where ur bov is in town to-night?" And tb n other answers: "In no had place. I war ant yon; wo always could trust him whan le was borne, and sines he ha been nwiy here have been so many praveis offered for lim we can trust him still." Then at 8 clock for tbey retire ely In tno coantry -at 8 o'clock tbey kneet down and com nend yon to thnt God who watches in eonn ry and In town, on the land and on the lea. Some one said to a Grecian General: What was tbe proudest moment ot yonr lf?" Hs thought a moment, and said: Tha proudest moment of my life was whn I sant word nonw ro my parem m u i . rained the victory." And the proudest and sort kfIHw -"lafit la row lUt will be moment when you can send word to four parents In the country that yon have tonquered your evil habits by the grace of 3od, and become eternnl vi-'tor. Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. " dme will oome when you have neither "atber nor mother, and you will eo aroiiinL :he place where they use I to watch you, and ' Bnd them gone from the house, nnd cone Irom the field, and irone from the neighbor hood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as vou may over the mound in the churchyard th-v will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you Will take out the white lock of hair thnt was out from your mother's brow just before tbey burled her, and you will take tha ranewltn which your father used to walk, and you will think and think, and wish that yon had done just as then wanted von to, and would rive the world it you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. Ood pity the young man who his broneht disgrace oa bis father s name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heart! Better If he had never boon born better if. in the first hour of his life, lnsien l of being laid against the warm bosom of ma ternal tenderness, he had ben coffined nnd sepulchred! There Is no hilm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrow'nl grave, and ' who wanders about through tin diml cem etery, rendtne the hair nnd wringing ' bands, and crying: "Mother! mother!'" Oh. thnt to-.lav, by all the memories or the past, and by all the hopes of the future, vou would yield your heart to Oi l! Mav your father's God and your mother's God bo your God forever! HAZIN3 AT WEST POINT. Cadet Rand Receives w Sentence Tint Mav Stop the CuMntn. According to Information receive 1 n the War Department, hazing at the West Po-nt Military Academv ha received n he.ivy blow. The court martial which tried Cadet Elliott H. Rand for compelling "Plb-i" Harris and Neely to stand on their toot, rnaehed a ver dict Saturday afternoon. It sentenced H ind to one veur's confinement, with a depriva tion of all privileges, including the three month s furlough next year. After the ca dets return to barracks Rand will also be obliged to walk a tour of guard duty every Saturday afternoon, while the rest of the cadets ere at liberty. Rand's severe sentence has struck terror iotntbehearts ofall the would-behazers. The evidence did not directly connect him with the hazing of the two "nlebes," and ho made a strong defense to substantiate his denial. His sentence mav also interfere with his lass standing. He Is at present at tho hen I Df his class, but the hazing episode will seri nly mar a hithorto unble nishod re.-orJ. MERRILL PERISHED IN QUICKSAND While sinking He Direclel Men Who Tried to Kesctie Ifiin. Charles Merrill, a well-known citizen of Burlington, Wis., was buried alive a few days (go. Mr. Merrill and others were digging a well on a form three or four miies south of Bur lington. The sides caved In and buried hi.n -up to the shoulders. His companions en deavored to dig blm out, wheu quicksand was struck and the unfortunate mnn gradu ally sank out of Tsight iu the pretence bf the men, who were unable to assist him. The body was recovered next morning, work having been prosecuted a'l nicht by several shifts of men. He was twonty-seveu years of age and leaves a wife. While Merrill's head was exposed he coolly directed the men how to work la order to rescue him, but tbe quicksand engulfed him. A WATERMELON BUG. hnnM Abwat ItnrUagtoo, K. J., fear g the Entire Crop. Benjamin D. Stedaker, a prominent farmer living near Burliuglou, N. J., said that Iu two weeks there wouldn't be a watermelon or citron in the county, because of a para lite that is rapidly killing the vines. It is a smalt insect, uot uelike a ladyhiig In appearance, and In a sinijejiight deposits :housauds of eggs ou the under side of tlio leaves It favors. It also leaves a gummy substance which makes the plant look green for a time, after which the leaves wither and die. The farmers around Burlington have tried ivery means to save the vines, but nono avail, and many are plowing up their patches. RUINED THE POSTGFFICH. furner Tootc His Mail KUewiiere The Government Arre-ted Him. P. W. Turner, a rich .silk mauufa jturcr of Turnersville, Conn., has bosu arrested and hel l in 9500 ball for trial on the churgo of running a private express for carrying mr.il to the detriment of the postal service Turner was postmaster at Turnersville up to tbe time of the proseut Administration, when the office was removed a thin) of a tnile from Turner's famory. Turner objected to the change, and without his hii-dries the postotllce receipts were almost nothing. Turner put his mail in the postal eir on the Air Line. Tne Government broke up this, and theu be took his mini lo another town. Ruined by Clilneae I'liit.ip l.tlior. A monster petition to the Federal Govern ment tor further restrictions ou Chinese im migration is being circulatD.l at Vancouver, British Columbia. It may contain over 19, 000 names belore it is s -ut to Otta ,va. The pe tition recites that Chinese luo ir is driving O'lC the white workingiuen; th:u ; Unite 1 States, realizing this, hits ex.ilu ie.l n . Mon golian coolies, and thnt Caui l:i -iioiild adoptineasurestokeepttierao.it. I uri;es that a tax of i500 bs levie I u;.)u ea :.i China man entering tbe Dominion. Carrier 1'lgeoii Kegulutinii. Fear of the t reasonable use of carrier pigeons In Frunee lot to tne promulgation ot most striugeut regulations. Tno Paris Government's dtwree stipulites thnt ev-iry person wishing to possess carrier pigeons must obtain the authority of the l'le.-rpt; and every person receiving pigeous must, within two days, tnako deolttrnliou ti '.hi municipal authorities. Tne plics c enmis sary must alw-tys be present wuon the pig eons are freed. Crop, in ltufcia. With scarcely an exception, tepnrts of the , Russian winter wheat and rye are fnvjrable, and in Tamboy they are s lid to present an excellent appearuuna. Tim spring crops in tne earlier districts are thriving, an 1 tin lowing is almost completed under iavornlil-1 sonditions. li ipotts irom Poland ar-) satis factory. It isexiu.-icd th:tt wii'iii fnr.neri bave tluisbcd llul I work tha uoply of gram St the seaboard will increase. Canada Rejects Oar Silver. It is reported from Montieiltli.it Unite! States silver coin nud silver ccrliilcjics an no longer ac-upt-j 1 in I'aunjn. Food for Thought. Laugh and be fat. Better late than never. Curtain lectures are free. Iheend must justify the means. - Handsome is that handsome does. Life is not altogether a ?ar of honey Ad honest man is the noblest work of God. A coward never forgave. It is not ia his na'ure. - Potatoes in Greenland never ijrow larger than a marble. It costs more to gain an hour than to lose a day. If thou faint in the day of advenity, tby strength is small. A man who denies everything and asserts nothing is an inHdci. Every lean man thinks it would Le easy to get rid of excessive fat. wrmnr rm"IOi i ,..1 3 .,a vt
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