geiitfciE ft. F. SOHWEIER VOL. L. THE OON8TITOTION-THE DNION-AND THE RNFOROEHKNT OP THE IAWH. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 18 NO. 41 CIIAITEIt XYI-Contlnued. Then the Seuor asked for sotne direc tions u to the manner of reaching Oc cleve Chase, uuJ Lord Penlyn told hiio the way to travel there. "And I will give you a letter to my friend, Philip Smerdon, who is down there just now," he said, "and he will make your stay comfortable. He, of course, has also a (Treat interest in the affair we all have so much at heart, and yon will be able to talk it over with him; though, I must tell you, that he has very little hopes of your ultimate success." "Ah! he has no hopes. Well, we shall see! I myself have the greatest of hopes. And this Mr. Smerdon, this friend of yours, I have never yet seen hiw. I shaJI be glad to know him." So when the letter of introduction was rsjitten, the Senor departed, and on ths next day he started for Oocleve Chase. He traveled down from London com fortably eusconsed in a first-class amok lug compartment, from which he had not moved until the train deposited him at the nearest station to Oocleve Chase. The few fellow-passengers who got la and out on the way, looked curiously at the dark, sunburnt man, who sat back in the corner, twisting up strange-looking little cigarettes, and gaziug up at the roof or at the country they were passing through; but of none of them did tie Senor take any notice, beyond giving OAs Stance at each as they entered. It had become a habit of this man's life now to give such a glance at every one with whom he came In contact. Perhaps he thought that if he mlsaad one face, he might miss that of the man for whom he was seeking. At the station nearest to the "Chase" he alighted, and taking his small bag it his haud, walked over to the public bouse opposite, and asked if a cab could be pro vided to take him the remainder of his journey, which he knew to be about four miles. "X beg your pardon, sir," a neat-looking groom said, rising from a table at which he had been sitting drinking some beer, and touching his bat respectfully, "but might I ask if you're going over there or business?" "Who are you?" Senor Guffanta asked, looking at hi in. "Beg pardon, sir, but I'm one of Lord Penlyn's grooms, and I thought if you were going over on any business you might like tne to drive you over. I have the dog-cart here." "I aui u friend of Lord Penlyn's," the Seuor answered, "ami I am going to stay at Oeclevo Chase for a day or so. I have brought a letter of introduction to Mr. Smerdon." "That's a pity, sir," the man said, "be cause Mr. Smerdon has gone up to Lon don by the fast train. I have just driven him over from the Chase." "He is cone to London?" the Senor said quietly.' "And when will he be back, do you think?" . "He did not say, sir." "Very well. .If you will drive me there oow, 1 shall be obliged to you." The groom put the horse to and fetched the dug cart round from the stable, won dering as be did so who the quiet, dark gentleman was who was going to stay all alone at the "Cluise" for a day or so; and then having put the Senor's bag In, he asked him to get up, and they started for Occleve Chase. CHAPTER XVII. On the road Senor Guffanta made scarcely any remark, speaking only once of the prettiness of the country they were passing through, and once of the action of the horse, which seemed to excite bis admiration; and then he was silent till they reached the house, a fine old Queen Anne mansion in excellent preservation. He introduced himself to the house keeper, who came forward in the hall, and said: "I have a letter of introduction to Mr. Suierdou; I had hoped to find him here. Perhaps it would be as well If I gave it to you instead." "As you please, sir, but it is not neces sary. Lord Penlyn's friends often come here, when they are in this part of ths couutry, to see the house. ' It is considered worth going over. If you please, sir, I will send a servant up with yonr bag." "I thank you." the Senor sakl with his usual grave courtesy, "but I shall not trouble you much. I dare say hy to-morrow I siiii II have seen all I want to." "As you please, sir." He followed the ueat-looking housemaid to the roriin he was to occupy, after hav ing told the hoiisekeeiwr that the simplest meal in the evening would be sufficient for him. and then, when he had made some slight toilette, he descended to the lower rooms of the house. The old servant again came forward and volunteered her services to show him the enriosities and antiquities of the place; but Senor Guffanta politely told her that be would uot trouble her. "I am fond of looking at pictures," be said, "I will inspect those if you please. But I am acquainted with the styles of different masters, so I do not require a guide. If you will tell me where the pic tures are iu this house, I shall be obliged to you." "They are everywhere, sir," she answer ed. "In the picture gallery, the dining room, hall and library." "I will go through the library first, if you please. Which Is that?" The servant led the way to a large, lofty room, with windows looking out upon a well-kept lawn, and told him that this was the room. "These pictures will not take you long, sir," she said, "it's mostly books that are here. And Mr. Smerdon generally spends most of his time here at his accounts; sometimes he passes whole days at that desk." She seemed inclined to be garrulous, and Senor Guffanta, who wished to be alone, took, at random, a book from one of the shelves, and throwing himself into a chair, began to read it. Then, saying that she wonld leave him perbnp3 taking what he intended as a hint she withdrew. When he was left alone he look no no tice of the pictures on the walis (they wt-re all paintings of long-past days), but, rising, went over to the desk where she bad said that Mr. Smerdon spent hours. There were a few papers lying about n it which he turned over, and he polled it the drawers to see if they would open, tut they were all locked fast. "This room is no good to me," he salt? Is himself. "I must try others." Gradually, as the day wore on, the lenor went from apartment to apartment b the house. Inspecting each one care tolly. Ia the drawing room he spent a peat deal of time, for here be bad found What, both at Occleve Honae and at Mr. fcundftlTt bQjise in Gxosrenor jjjac, had Interested him more than anything eli tome photograph albums. These he turned over very carefully, la he had done with the others In London, nd then he closed them and went to an other room. "Did he ever know," be mattered once, "that the day would come when I should be looking eagerly for his portrait did be know that, and did some instinct prompt him never to have a record made f his craven face? And yet, he shall aot escape me! Yet, I will find him!" Later in the evening, when be had eaten paringly of the dinner that had been pre pared for him, and bad drunk still more paringly of the choice wine set before him, confining himself almost entirely to water, he sent for the housekeeper and aid: "I think I have seen everything of im portance here in the way of art, and Lord Penlyn Is to be congratulated on his treasures. Some of the pictures are very valuable." "They are thought to be so, sir," the woman answered. In her own mind, and after a conversation with another of the head servants, she had put Seuor Guf fanta down aa some foreign picture deal er, or connoisseur, who had received per mission from ber master to inspect the collection at the "Chase, and, conse quently, she considered him entitled to give an opinion, especially as that opinion was a favorable one. "They are thought to be so, sir." "Yes; no doubt But I have seen then) all now, and I will leave to-morrow." "Very well, sir." "So, if yon please, I will hsve that young man to drive me to the station. I will go by the train that he told me Mr. Smerdon traveled by." That night, as Senor Guffanta paced uf and down the avenue leading to the house and smoked cigarettes, or as he tossed upon his bed, he confessed that he was no nearer to his task. "Everything fails me," he said, "and yet a week ago I would have sworn by San Pedro that I should have caught bim now. There is only one chance one hope left. If that fails me too, then I must lose all courage. Will it fail me? will it fail me?" "It is strange, too," he said once to himself in the night, when, having been nnable to sleep, he had risen and thrown his window open and was gazing from it, "that I cannot meet this man Smerdon, this man who believes that I shall fail as, por Hue! I almost now myself be lieve! Strange, also, that he should have left on the very day I came here. I should like to see bim. It may be that I shall do so In London to-morrow." He left Occleve Chase at the time fixed, and by his liberality to the housekeeper and the other servants who had waited on him he entirely dispelled from their minds the idea that he was a picture ileulAF ) "I suppose he Is one of those foreign swells, after all, the footman who had served him said to the housekeeper, as he pocketed the douceur the Seuor had given bim; "there is plenty of 'em In Loudon society now." He reached the London terminus late In the afternoon, and bade the cabman he hired drive him to the Hotel Lepauto; but, before half the journey to that house was accomplished, the driver found him self suddenly called on by his fare to stop, and to turn round and follow another cab going in the opposite direction. A hansom cab which had passed swift ly the one Senor Guffanta was in, a cab In which was seated a young man with a brown mustache, and on the roof of which waa a portmanteau and a bundle of rugs. "Quick r the Senor said, speaking for the first time almost incoherent English; "follow that cab with the valise on the top. Quick, I sayl I will pay you any thing!" "How can I be quick!" the man said, "when I can hardly turn my cab around? Which is the one you mean?" "The one with the valise, I say, that passed just now. I will give you every thing I have in my pocket if you catch it." Bat it was no use. Before the cab could be turned and put in pursuit, the other one had disappeared round a corner Into a short street, from which, ere Senor Guffanta's cab had reached it, it had again disappeared. "Am I never to seize him?" said the Senor to himself. Then he once more al tered his directions to the cabman, and made him drive to Occleve House. He walked into the room lu which he beard that Lord Penlyn and Mr. Stuart were seated, and the excitement visible upon his face told them that something bad happened. "I have seen him," be said, going through no formality of greeting; he was far too disturbed for that. "I have seen him once again, and once again I have lost him." "Where bare you seen bim?" Stuan asked. "Not at Occleve House, surely!" Penlyn exclaimed. "No here, in London! Not half an hour ago, in a cab. And I have missed him! He went too swiftly, and I los sight of bim." "What will you do?" they both ex claimed. "At present I do not know. I feel as though I shall go mad!" Then a moment after he said: "Give me the keys of th' garden ; at once, give them to me." Penlyn took them from a drawer and gave them to Senor Guffanta, and he. bidding the others remain wliere they were, opened the door leading into the garden from the back of the house, and went out into It. It was but a few mlnntes before he re turned, but when he did so the bronze bad left his face and he was deathly pale. "Lor4 Penlyn," be said, biting his litis ta He esote, and clenching bis bands untn the nails penetrated tne palms, io wnom have yon given those keys during my absence?" "To no one," Penlyn answered. "1 promised yon I would not let any one bay them." "You have given them to no one?" Got fanta said, while bis eye shone fiercely is be looked at the door. "Te no onel To no one! Then will you tell me how the murderer of Walter Cundail has been In that garden within the last few hours?" CHAPTER XVIII. That night Guffanta stood in the library f what bad once been Walter Condall'a boose in Grosvenor place, in the room In which the murdered man bad spent boors of agony after be had learned that Ida Raughton's love was given to another! and to Mr. Stuart be told all that he knew. To Lord Penlyn's request, nay, to hi command, that he should tell him alL be paid no attention t indeed, be vouchsafed no words to him beyond these eX "I know so much," he said, speaking in the calm, cold voice which bad only once failed him the time when be had discov ered that the assassin bad in some way obtained entrance to the deserted garden during his absence, "as to be able to say that you are not your brother's murderer. But. unless there is something very strange that as yet 1 do uot know, that murderer Is known to you, and you are shielding him from me." "It is false!" Lord I'enlyn said, advauo iug to him and standing boldly and defi antly before him. "As God hears me, I swear that it is false. Aud you shall tell me what you know, you shall justify your vile suspicious of me." "Yes." the Senor replied, "I shall ju tify them, but not to you. Meanwhile, have a care that I do not prove you to be an accomplice lu the murder. Have a care, I say!" "I defy you and your accusations. And (he law shall make you speak out plain ly" "I am about to speak out plainly, this very night. But I am not going to apeak plainly to the man whose bouse affords a refuge to his brother's murderer." Lord Penlyn sprang at him, as he beard these words fall from his lips, as be bad ouce sprang at his own brother in the park when that brother told him he was bearing a name not rightly his; and once more he felt himself iu a grasp of iron aud powerless. "Be careful," Senor Guffanta said, as he hurled him back, "be careful, or I shall do you an lujury." Stuart had endeavored to come between them, but before he could do so the short struggle was over, and then the Spaniard turned to him and said, "I must speak to you alone. Come with me," aud, turning, left the room. Before Stuart followed him he spoke to Penlyn, and said: "Do not take this too seriously to heart. This man is evidently under some delu sion, if uot as to the actual murderer, at least as to your connection with the crime. Perhaps, when he has told me what be knows, we shall find out where the error lies; and then he will ask your pardou for his suspicions." "It is too awful!" Penlyn said, "too awful to be borne. And I can do nothing. I wish I could have killed him as he stood there falsely accusing me, but he is a giant iu strength." "Let me go to him now," Stuart said; "and do not think of his words. Remem ber, he, too, la excited at having seen the man again and missed bim. And if he does not absolutely bind me to silence I will tell you all." Then he, also, went away. (x'o be continued.) Ingenious Fisherman. John Wilson, known, to fame as Chris topher North, was a fisherman of in genious ways and wondrous prowess. One day, after arriving at a Que stream, where he perceived at once that the trout were nbuudnut aud rising freely, be captured from the surface of the water u specimen of the Insect upon which they seemed to be feasting; but on searching his nshiug hook, he found nothing w!tb which he could make up a east after that particular pattern u odd kind of red spider aud for a moment it seemed as If he were fated to disappointment. Suddenly he dart ed away at speed, aud entering a little village near by, went boldly up to the first native he met and Inquired if any body lived there who had "a carrotty pow." The uian wus naturally aston ished, but after a brief reflection In formed hiui that a certain Mysie, the minister's hired lass, owued "the best crop of red 4iair In the whole palish," Mysie was Immediately sought and fouud, and, either for love or money, she was Induced to purt with a tress. Back, then, went the enterprising fish erman to the burn, supplied his hook with a wisp of fiery hair twisted Into an excellent Imitation of a sprawling spider, and with this unique bait suc ceeded In filling bis basket to the brim. .How Armour Treats His Clerks Phil Armour Is very kind to his army of clerks. Some time ago a police of ficer came into Armour's office to serve a paper garnisheeing one of the clerk'a wages. Armour sent for the debtor1 and asked him how long he bad been In debt. The man replied that for twenty years be bad been behind and that be could not catch up. "But you get a good salary," aald Mr. Armour, "don't you?" "Yes," said the 'clerk, "but I can't get out of debt. My life is such that somehow or other 1 can't get out." "But you must get out," said Mr. Armour, "or you tuust leave here. How much do you owe?" The clerk then gave the amount. It was less than $1,000. Mr. Armour took his check-book and wrote out a check for the amount. "There," said he, as he banded the clerk the check. "There la enough to pay all your debts. Now I want you to keep out of debt, and If I hear of your again getting Into debt you will have to leave." The fact that only two ships bearing (he American flag were seen In Bar celona lust year Is brought out by a correspondent of a murine paper as ex plaining the Impudence of the mob 111 that city towurd the United States Consul during the recent anti-American clots. The Indian tiovernment has re solved to establish a bactertologieal laboratory at Agra and a chemical laboratory at Calcutta. It is expected that 1904) municipalities will appoint trained men for sanitary work. No fewer than 16,000 person die in Italy every year from malarial fever, and there are 4,000 communes where quinine is not to be had. Bath now boasts of three canary li-la hatched out of ono egg. The little fellows were about the fize ol bumblebees, but are alne and grow ing. The domestic pets of the world carry 39 per eent of the common contagions diseases from house to house. Experiments made at Paris by Dr. Berlil'nn have proved that kleptomania ia easily cured by hypnotic sugges tion. A prize of $20 is hereafter to be offered lenii-aimnally to tbe surcicel interne of the Boston City Hos pital "who administers either in the most tkillul and humane man ner." Nearly every moderate sized village in Switzerland ia now supplied witu electric light, tho motive power being anpplied by tbe mountain streams. fffiawis lf Veaavtwa la Actlan. A correspondent of the Companion whi visited Mount Veeuvtua last year nd again this summer found that con siderable changes had occurred in tbe flow of lava which broke through tbe lde of tbe crater In 1895. He was In formed by Prof. Palmier!, tbe director f tbe observatory on tbe mountain, that the same eruptive activity which produced the great eruption of 1872 is sMli going on, and that another pow erful outburst of tbe volcano may take place at any time. Another Karly Man. Mention has been made in this column of tbe opinion of Prof. Marsh and other savants that tbe ancient1 human bones discovered In Java by Doctor Dubois a yea" or so ago must have belonged to a bains of human characteristics, yet not So fully developed as the man of to day. The name "ape-man" baa been bestowed upon the creature supposed to be represented by tbe bones In ques tion. Recently Prof.'Nehrtng has dis covered, near Santos In Brazil, a hu ms a skull of a low type, which, la de scribed aa agreeing In some reepecta with the skull of tbe "ape-man," bnt aa Indicating, also, a much higher capac ity. Some fragments of Implements of srt'ficlal origin, the bones of Ashes and parts of the lower law of a toothed whale, were found near the slrulL Wonderful Feather Work. Among the strange tribe of men about whom little U known are the Chamacocos, living on the upper Para guay river. .An Italian artist. SIgnor Boggianl,' who visited these people not Ion? ago, has given a vivid descrip tion of their appearance and customs. Like all wild tribes In warm countries, tha wear very little clothing, bnt they excel In the art of making personal adornments from tbe feathers of birds. Thsli country abounds with birds ot the most beautiful plumage, including pan ots, toucans and trogons, whose feethera axe dazzling In color, rheas wltt gray plumes, musk ducks of a glos sy black color egrets with feathers ol pure white, and spoonbills af a dellcatt pink hue. The Chamacocoa com bin all this wealth of colored and graceful plumage In an artistic manner, and some of these savages tall and of per fect shape, walk their forest glades in habiliments more brlllinnt, If less am ple, than a Paris modiste could pro 4u.-e Tremendooe Onn Power. Recent discussion of the best means of protecting our harbors In case of war has called renew id attention to ea pet'inents on the power of great guns. The result of one of these experiments has been used as an argument in favot of placing guns of 16 inches calibre at certain points on the coast. In the case reft i red to a projectils weighing 1,800 pounds was fired from such a gun. The taiget consisted of a compound plate' of ft eel and iron 20 inches thick, and a second plate of Iron 8 inches thick, barked by a' mass of squared oak tim ber 20 feet thick, backed by a granite wall 5 feet thick, behind which was 11 feet of solid concrete, while tbe rear of the target consisted of a 6-foot wall of brick. The projectile, fired at close range, passed through the 28 Inches of iron and steel, through the 20 feet of oak, throirgh the 5 feet of granite, thiough the 11 feet of concrete, and more than balf way through tbe 6 feet nf riek behind them all! What, say the advocates of heavy guns for' coast de't nse, would be tbe chance of any battle ship In existence against such a projectile as tbat? Tipping: Hadaoa Bar. A curious result of tbe slow change of level going on at various points of the earth's surface has recently been pointed out by Prof. Bell of the Geog raphical Survey of Canada. This Is a gradual tipping up of the shores of Hudson Bay, as if some gigantic power we.f engaged In an attempt to empty that great basin of water Into tbe ad joining sea. One of tbe earliest Indi cations of what was going on Jtme to th; attention of the officers of the Hud son Bay Company when they fouud 'bat tbe water at the mouths of the riv er, -where their posts are stationed was gradually getting shallower and navi gation consequently becoming more difficult. Exainlnatiop shows that the sboic Is lined with old beaches of sand and gravel lying as high as fifty feel or 'nore above the present, level of th bar When Hendrik Hudson, In 1610 discovered the great body of water tbat beats his name, he wintered with his ships on the east coast of the bay In a harbor which has now disappeared, or at least has been so far drained off as no longer to be recognizable from his description. Napoleon After the Battle of Oresden Prof. Slonne's "Life of Napoleon," Ir, the Century, takes up the "Collapse ol the Western Empire." In describing the end of tbe Grand Army after th battle of Dresden, Prof. Sloane says Tbe night of the 7th was spent In inde cision as to any one or all of these Ideas but in active preparation for the re treat; any contingency might lie met oi a resolve taken whan the necesslry sro.se. During that night the Emperoi frr. n-!' 1 'y'l.a Tltp li"' : ' drinking strong coffee to prevent drow siness bad Induced attacks of nervous ness, and these were not diminished by his load of care. To allay these and other ailments, he had had recourse fot some time to frequent tepid bath Mucb has been written about a myste rtous malady which had been steadily Increasing, but the burden of testlmonj from the Emperor's closest associate! at this time Indicates tbat In tbe mail be bad enjoyed excellent beaJrt throughout the second Saxon campaign There were certainly intervals of self Indulgence and of lassitude, of excess Ive emotion and depressing self-exaiuin atlon, which seemed to require the off set of a physical stimulus; but on thi whole, natural causes, complex but no Inexplicable, sufficiently account foi the subsequent disasters. INDISCREET LETTERS Mover" Bafa to Pea Matter Which Toa Want to Keep Secret. Harriet Martineau. who waa very deaf, always shifted ber ear trumpet when any one asked her a question ah dlJ not wish to answer. The late Cy rus W. Field apparently did not 'beat a question tbat it would be Indiscreet to answer.' He had another good habit Letters that If seen would cause others pa.ii or might be misunderstood be de stroyed as soon as ho had read them. The following true story proves ths wisdom of Mr. Field's practice: A distinguished educator had, wltk considerable difficulty, persuaded a millionaire to found a college. The ed ucator was to have been Its president bat unfortunately he neglected Aaron Bu-fi advice: "Talk aa much as you please, but don't write a word." The founder, an uneducated man, was full of crotchets which. If express ed 'n the deed establishing tbe college, would have greatly Interfered with Its i educational work. The educator, irri gated, by the labor it required to elimi nate these whims from the founder's I mind, one day wrote a couiplatuiag let ter to a clerical friend In which be nar rated his trials, and ended by saying ol the rich man, " - is an ass." The clergyman, a careless, absent minded man, pat tbe letter Into his bat, aui called at the office of a law nrui to transact buaineaa with one of the part ners. While In tbe private ofilee be left bli bat outside, and one of tbe lawyers, seeing tbe letter, and knowing the handwriting of tbe address, read it. Ol course he was not a geutleman, and wsj without moral principle: and his subsequent conduct showed him a mis chief maker. Ha retailed the contents of the lettei to a nephew of the founder, who was bitterly opposed to his uncle's proposed disposition of his property. He report ed it to the uncle. The college was founded: but the ed ucator was never Its president. He died a broken-hearted mau, through tha carelessness of bis clerical friend aud the meanness of a legal Paul Pry. The Public Service in China. Ex-Secretary John W. Foster, whs was tbe confidential adviser of the Emperor of China in the peace negotia tions with Japan, contributes a papei on "The Viceroy LI Hung Chang" to the Century. Mr. Foster says of tho Viceroy: He does not regard the competitive educational system of admission to the public service as a perfect method, and more than once he has recommended to his Emperor material modifications in the existing system. But It must b confessed that It has stood tbe test of centuries with much benefit to China, aud its practical operation bas demon strated that It possesses two merits of Inestimable value to any nation; first, It brings all the offices of the empire within the reach of tbe lowest subject, and secondly. It diminishes the lucent Ires to, and opportunities of, corruption and favoritism in securing entrance Into official life. But in China tbe com petitive examination ends with tbe ad mission; beyond that step promotion must come through other methods. " LI Hung Chang secured the right of ad. mission to office through his assiduous application to study, and every succeed ing step in bis upward career baa beer attained by his own genius and cap city. Cowboy Way of Shooting. For some years past the cowboys ot (he wild and woolly west have employ ed a process called "fanning tbe ham mer" in using their pistols. Te do this, they either take the trigger off or tie it back, and work tbe action by striking the hammer with tbe thick part of the palm of the hand. This method has the advantage of discharging six shots In tbe time required for tbe self-cocker to discharge two by tbe ordinary method. The requisites for nse of the pistol in this way are a large hammer, a pliant mainspring, extremely smooth action, and a cylinder-stop operated from the heel of tbe hammer instead of from the trigger. This style of pistol bas become so popular that one of the big Eastern firearms companies Is going to put a line of trtggerless pistols on the ma" ket. Tbe tools for tbelr manufacture have already been completed, and th! new type of revolvers will soon be on ale. The Owl. Tbe construction of the owl's foot ti peculiar. Unlike tbe weil-known fool of the parrot, which has two toes In front and two behlni it, like tbat ol tbe eagle, or a more familiar example the common sparrow, has one toe be hind and three In front; but the first of these Is capable of much lateral mo tion, while the fourth or outer tee reversible, and, when tbe bird perches. Is turned backwards so that the bird sits on its perch with the two middle toes In front and the two outer toes be hind. Roads of fteel. if a recent suggestion of New Jersey's Commissioner of Public Roads should be carried into effect, we might before long find ourselves driving on steel roads as well as inhabiting steel build ings. The proposed plsn Is to lay broad ete-1 rails with a slight, sloping rib on each aide, to carry tbe wheels of all so-ts of vehicles. Such a road. It Is atd, could be constructed more cheap ly than a macadamized road, which, ac cording to one estimate costs $7,000 a mil: It is said that a steel track road can be constructed for $6,000 a mile. Force t,raL Prof eseor Give me uie names' of ti. boues tbat form the human skull. Medical Student I've sot tfcens all h: my bead, but I csn't recall their aanes Texas Sifter. IN IMPERIAL ROME. 4. Jewish, Boy Who Batered Oma I tka Faasoaa root Bscss, Bom was a mighty city In those day. - It bad many a mile ot streets ! and avenue, reaching out Into tbe sur ' rounding country, until nobody could tell where th city ended, although ev erybody knew that Its center waa on a bill at tbe capltoL Far from the capl tol. but still within the city, was the amphitheater, or circus, where the most wonderful show were given tbat tb world baa ever known. There were wild beasts and men were made to light by thousands, for the shows were murderous, and the vast eandy area of the ampltbeater waa often stained with blood. Cyril was walking along a narrow, crooked street, tbat led away from the capitol in the direction of tbe circus. At that moment be almost ran against a wall, and be stood still. It waa one lde of a' vast marble arch at the main entrance to tbe circus, and, aa be looked up, be saw a placard, with an Inscrip tion in several languages. He could read some of them. They were all alike, and they told bim that tbe Empe ror's prefect of the circus bad arranged Ifor prize foot-races. Ohe of these was free to all wbo could pass tbe trial race for admission. There waa to be a prize of ten aestertla, and Cyrln's brain whirl ed a little at the thought of so much uoney. "More than alx hundred shekels!" b exclaimed, after a calculation "and I can yet runt It says tbat the sub-prefect will see all who apply." He stood gazing at the placard and reading It loud. Suddenly a voice near bim aald: "That he will, and be will scourge yoj well if you fall at tbe. test. Can you run? You look Uke It Comer Black as jet waa the face of tbe Swarfish figure that Cyril at once turn ad to follow through the arch and a side door and along a tile-floored passage. In a few minutes more be stood lu tbe presence of a richly dressed official wbo for a moment eyed bim sternly. Tbe dwarf had addressed this great man very reverently, calling bim Crlspus, but a strange thought flashed Into the mind of Cyril, for be bad never seen a Roman whose face waa like that of the sub-prefect. "O Jewish boy, wbo art thou?" asked Crlspus, In Aramaic, with an accent that made Cyril' heart beat "I a si Cyril Ben Ezra, of the house ot Klsu," replied Cyril, staring bard at tbe grim. Iron-mouthed official, for something in the man's face seemed familiar. "Amen!" said Crlspus. "Answer In thine own tongue, for thou art a Gall lean. I am Reuben Ben Nassur, of Cana. I am tby kinsman. K no west thou aught of my bouse?" "Isaac the Rabbi is well," replied Cy ril, and on be went, for Reuben, or Crlspus. asked bim many questions, and they talked In Hebrew, which none wbo came near them could understand. Perhaps one reason why Crispus was sub-prefect was bis gift of tongues. Perhaps another reason was plain when e said of tbe circus: "What Is It to me or thee If the heath en slay one another? Thou shalt run. I will give thee a week of training before tbe trial, but know that I cannot save thee from tbe scourge if thou fall be fore the prefect Mark thou this, also forget that thou art a Jew until thy feet have told Tailienus that thou art a goo runner. 'Thou hast nothing to do with the Law whilst thou art a beast in the Roman circus." Bitter Indeed was the cup of poverty that Cyril was drinking. He had put away his pride, driven by starvation, and now a brother of Ben Nassur him self was bidding him put aside bis re ligion. No opportunity for. answer, yes or no, waa given, however, and be was led away by tbe dwarf to one of tbe outbuildings of the ampltbeater. ' It was, as he at once discovered, a kind of (all In which were kept the men who were In training for the races. Many of them were mere slaves put there by tbelr owners. In hope tbat they might win a prize for their masters. At all vents Cyril waa to have shelter and food, but the boarding bouse or jail of the runner adjoined great dens of wild animals, and he was kept awaka by the roaring of many Hons; for a thun derstorm swept over Rome and the im prisoned kings of forest or plain re sponded with thunderous roars of their awn making. St Nicholas. Wood Ena-ravlna;. The invention of wood engraving, likt that of gunpowder, has been claimed for the Chinese, whose books have cer tainly been printed for ages from en graved blocks. It bas even been as se tied that the art of cutting figure In relief and printing impressions ol them on paper was known and prac ticed by that nation as early as tbt reign of tbe renowned Emperor Wu Wtng. 1120 B. C. There la no deubl tbat wood stamps were used by tbi ancient Egyptians and Romans foi stamping bricks, and other article made of clay; and that wood and metal stamps of monograms, etc., were uses In various European countries for at testing deeds and other documents, al a very early period, when writing wa considered an extraordinary accom plishment even for princes. It was not however, until tbe beginning of th fifteenth century that any evidences ol wood engraving, as understood at thli day, were found. Tbe earliest print ol which any certain Information can b obtained Is tbat discovered In one ol the most ancient convents of Germany which represents St. Christopher carry Ing the Infant Savior across the sea and la dated 1423. This art was em ployed in illustrating many of the early editions of the Bible, and with rapid strides has at length reached a dcgre or perfection which la truly wonderful as may be seen by reference to nnmer ous work to be found In libraries oi book, the lights and shades and otbei minutiae ot the engraving comparing favorably with those done upon stee or copper. Wren's Chnroh Building. Sir Christopher Wren built forrr-rw. churches In London; his greatest work I St Paul'a Cathedral Don't loan anything; yon know your self how careless yon are In paying sack anything you borrow. I REV. OR, TALK Tbe Eminent Divine' Sunday D.scourse. Subject. "Pull Granaries. Tvxt: "And J a lah spake nnto him sayj e, Tnx niia ittl solemnly protest onto us, M-iug. Y shall not w n y faoe, exoept youi brother be with you." Genesis xliil., S. No'hiog to sat! Plotv of oorn in Evypt I nt gh:utly famine in Cnnaan. Tha oattlf moaning in thn sta I. M n, women and children, awfully whit with hunger. Not tho falling of one crop for one summer, but Ih falling of all th urops for seven yntr A Nntlou dying for lank of that which Is to common on your table, and ao little appre ciHte!; tbe proiluet of harvest field and grist mill and oven: the prion of sweat anil anxiety and stiiKgle Bread' Jacob, the r.slhT, has tha m-t report from tbe flour bin, an't he finds that ei-ervihiog Is out; and he say to bis son: "B ys, hook up tnewairons and Mart for Etypt. an J g ns something to eat." The fact was, there was a groat norn crib in Ei pt. The people of Egypt have been lamely taxed in all aires, at the present time paying between seventy aud eighty per cent, of their products to the Government. No wonder In that time they had a Inrtre cornrib. and It was fniL To that crib they came from the reious around about those wbo were famished some paying for tha vrn iu money; when the money was ex hHiiste.1, paving for the porn in "sheep and cult e aud boraex and camels; and when they were exhausted, Ibea selliog their own bo J lea and their families into slavery. The morning for st jniuc out on the cru sade for bread has arrived. Jacobgets his fam ily up very easily. But before the elder sooa start they my something tbat makes him treml. le wll h emotion from head to foot, and burst iuto tears. The fact was that these elder sons had once before ben In Eypt to get corn and they haa been treated some what roughly, the lord of the corn-crib sup plying them with 3om, but sayins; at tbe close of the interview, "S)W, you need not come back here for any more corn unless you bring sonietbim; better than money even your youuRer brothel' lieojamio." Ah! Ben Jamiu that very name wa suaxestive of all tenderness. The mother bad died at tha birth of that son a spirit . coming and an other spirit going and the very thought of Eartiug witU Benjamin must have been a eartbreak. The keeper of this corn-crib, neverthelis, saystothPsa elder sons. "There is no need of your coining up here any more for corn unless vou can brim; B-mjaniin, yonr father's darlintr." Now Jacob and bis family very much needed bread; but what a struggle it would be to give up tblt- son. The Oitentals are very demonstrative In their grief, and I near the ontwailiior of the father as these elder sons keep reitoratiu't in his ears the announcement of the Egyptian lord, "Ye shall not see my lace unless your brother be with yon." "Wliy did you t-)ll him you bail a brother?" says tbe old man oomplain iug and cblriiuK them. "Why, father," they said, "liensked ns all about our family, and we had no idea that he would make any such demaud upon us as he has made." "No use ol asking me," said the father, "I can not, I will u it, fcive up Benjamin." The fact was that the otil man had lost children, and when there haa been btreavemeui in a household, and a child taken. It makes the other chil dren iu the household more precious. So the day for the departure was adjourned and adjourned. HUH tbe horrors ot the famine Increased, and louder moaned the cattle, and wider opeu eracke.i the earth, and more pal lid hecame I ha cheeks, until Jacob, in de spair, cried out to his sons. "Take Benjamin and be off." The older sous tried to cheer up their father. They said. "We have strong arms an I a stout hearr, and no barm will come to Benjamin. We'll see that ha gels baek arain. Farewell!" said the younK mer to the father, in a tone of asumed good cheer. "P-s-r-e-w-e-l-1!" said tbe old man; lor tbat word has more quavers in It when pronounced by the aifcd than by the young. Well, tbe bread party, the bready embassv, drives up in front of the corn-crib of Egypt Those corn-cribs are filled with wheat and barley and oorn In ths busk, for modern travelers in those lands, both lu Canaan and In Eirypt, tell us there Is corn there corre sponding with our Indian maize. Huzza! The journey is ended. The lord of the corn crib, who is also the Trims Minister, comes down to tbne newly-arrived travelers, and says. "Dine with me to-lay. How Is your father? is this Benjamin, the younger brother whose presence 1 demanded?" The travelers are ml rod need into the palace. They are worn and beiliwted of the way? and servants come in with a basin of water in one band and a rowel iu the other, and kneel down be fore tuese newlv arrived travelers, washing off I lie ju-t of the way. The- butchers and poulterers and caterers of the Prime Minister prepare the repair. The guests are seated in small groups, two or three at a table, the food on a tray; a'l the luxuries from im perial gardens and orchards and aquariums and avlHT.es are brought there, and are fill ing chalice and platter. Now is ths time for this Prima Minister, if be has a grudge aira!nst Benjamin, to how it. Will he kill bim. now that he bas bim In his hands? O, no! This lord of the corn-crib Is seated at bis own table, and he looks over tbe tables of his KUests; and he sends a portion to each ot them, but sends a larger portion to Ben jamin, or, as the Bible quaintly puts It, "Benjamin's mess ass five times as much aa any of theirs." Be quick and send word back with the swiftest oamel to Canaan to old Jacob, that "Benjamin Is faring well; all Is well; be Is faring sumptuously; the Egyptian lord did not mean murder and death; but be meant deliverance and life when be an nounced to us on tbat day, 'Ye shall not see my faoe unless your brother be with you.' " Well, mv friends, this world Is famlne slruck of sin. It does not yield a single crop of solid satisfaction. It Is dying. It is buuer-bUten. The fact that It does not, can not feed a man's heart was well Illustrated in the life of tha English comedian. All the world honored him--did everything for bim that the world could do. He was applauded in England and applauded In tbe United States. He roused up Nations Into laughter. He had no equal. And yet, although many people supposed him entirely happy, and that this world was completely satisfying his soul, be sits down and writes: "I never hi my life put on a new hat that it did not rain and ruin it I never went out in a shabby coat broause it was raining and thought all who bad the choice would keep Indoors, that ths son did not come out In its strength and bring out with It all the butter flies of fashion whom I knew aad who knew ma. I never consented to accept a part 1 hated ont of kindness to anc thar, that I did not get hissed by the pnbllo and cut by the writer. I could not take a drive for a few minutes with Terry without being overturned and having my elbow broken, though my friend got off unharmed. I could not make a covenant with Arnold, which I thought waa to make my fortune, without making bis instead, than In an incredibly short space of time I think thirteen months I earned for him j 20,000, and tor myself . I am persuaded that If I were to set up as a baker, every one in my neighborhood would leave off eating bread." That was the lament of the world's come dian and Joker. All unhappy. The world did everything for Lord Byron that It eould do, and yet In bis last moment he asks a friend to come aad sit down by him and reaa, as most appropriate to his case, the story of ''Tha Bleeding Heart." Torrigtano, the sculptor, executed, after months of care and carving, "Madonna and the Child." ine royal family came In and admired it. Every oony that looked at it was in ecstasy; bat one day, after all that toil and all that admiration, because he did not get as much compensation for his work as be had ex pected, he took a mallet and dashed the ex quisite sculpture into atoms. The world Is poor compensation, poor satisfaction, poor solace. Famine, famine in all tbe earth; not for seven years, bat for six thousand. But, bie-sed be God, there is a great con crib. The Lord built it It is in another land. It ia a large place. An angel once measured it. and as far aa I can caUmlate it in one phrase, tbat corn crib ia lfCa miles long and 1600 miles broad, aad 1500 high: and It Is full. Food for all nations. "Oh!" sav tbe people, "we will start right away and get a supply for our soul." But stop a moment; for from the Keeper ot that corn crib there comes this word, saying, "You shall aot see Mr face except . your brother be with yon." In other words, there is no suchthln'-ns gelling from heaven pardon and comfort an I eternal life nnles we bring wilh ut our Divine Brother, the Lord J' sua Christ. Coming without Him we shall fall before we ream the coru-crih. and our bodies shall be a portion for the jaka's of the wildernnss: bnt comin? with the Divine Jesus, all the granaries of haaven will swing open before our hhI ami abundance shall le given us. We hnll be iav.ted to sit in the palace of Ihe King, an rut the table; and rrhile the Lord of heaven Is apportioning from His own table to the other table Hi will not forgot ns: and then and there it m ill be found tbat oar Benjamin's moss is larger than all the others, for so it ought to be. "Worthy is tbe Lamb that was sl iin, to re ceive blessing and riches and honor anl giory aud power." I want to make three points. Every frank and common -sense man will acknowledge himself to be a sinner. What are you going to do with your sins? Havethem pardoned, you sav. How? Through the mercv of (Jo. What do yoa mean by tha raerny o' Ooi? Is it the letting down of a bar for the ad mission of all. without resuecc to character? Be not deceived? I see a soul coming op to tbe gate of mercy and knocking at the corn- crib of heavenly supply; and a voice from within savs: "Are you alone?" The sinner rooties, "All alone." The voice from within says, "You shall not son my pardon lug faoe an'e? vour divine Brother, ths Lord Jesus, be with vou." Oh, that is thi point at which so mauv are dtscom tiled. There Is no mercy from Ood except through Jdsus Christ. Comint with Him. we are ai epted. Coming wilhuut Rim. we are re j'Cied. Teter put it right iu his great ser mou before the hi"li priests, when be thun dered forth: "NelferU th-re salvation In auy other. There I no other nvne given nnder hewn minim men wherebv we may be saved." Oh, anxious sinner! Oh, dyin t sluner! Oh, lost sinner! all vou bava got to do is to have this divine. Benjnmin along with you. Hide hy side, coming to the g.i'e, all the store-honsos of he.ivu will swia opeu before your anxious soul. Am I right In calling Jjsu B'injamin? O, yes. Kachel livel only long enongh to give a nime to tbat child, an I with a dying ktot she called bim Benonl. Afterward Jicob cuangeJ bis nam i. and he called him Ben jamin. The meaning of the nsme she gava was, "Son ot my Pain." The meaning of the name the father gava wa. "Son of my Right Han I." An I ai not Christ the 8jii of pain? All the sorrows of Rachel in that hour when she gave her child over Into the hands of strangers, was as uothiug compared with the struggle ot God when He gave up His onlv Sou. And was pot Christ appro priately called "Son of the Right Hand?" Pid not Mtephen Pwk into heaven nud see HI n standing at the right haud of God And does not Paul speak of Hon as st.iuding at the right nan I of God making intercession for us? O, Beiijamiu Jesus! Son of pang! Bon of victory! The dee;e-s' emotion.' of our souls ought to be stirred at the sound of Hint nomenclature. In your pravers plead His tears. His suffering. His sorrows, and His death. If you refuse to do it, a l the coru oribs and Ihe palaces of heaven will lie bolted and barred against yonr soul, and a voice from tbe throne shall sluu you with tha announcement, "You shall tut seo Jly lac except your brother be with you." LEPERS AT LARGE IN PARIS. Many Case of ths Ulseasc. Which Is Re ported to He Increasing. The startling announcement is ma le that there are over 150 lepers in l'ar-s. One ol thes was picked up in a fainting condition a few days ago and taken to the St. I.ouis Hospital, where there is a special leper ward. The patients are attended to by an iullrirar lan, who suffers periodically from a mild form of leprosy. Dr. Haliopeau, of the Dime hospital, does not consider tbe leprosy now in France as strongly contagious; but he affirms that It is not decreasing, especially iu the delta of the Rhone and in the Alpes Maritimes. He adda that In some parts of Central and Northern Italy the plague is concealed, and that as no attempts are made to remedy it tbt i anger will increase. Dr. Haliopeau strongly condemns the apathy of Frenoh sanitary laws, which allow scores of lepers to be at large, some of them being allowed to carry meat and other food, and to sleep at night la corners of the Unites Centrales or uuder bridges with other va gruuta of both sexes. VALUABLE SNUFF BOX'S. At a Kecent Hale In London One Loult XVI. Brought enono. Although snuff taking Is now almost a lost art, snuff boxes sometimes fetch long prices and are still in strong request with collec tors. A few weeks ago a collection abso lutely unique In extent and variety rams undertue hammer at Christie's. It consisted ol 112 boxes and realized tbe enormous total of over 1178,250. . For one box alone, a Louis XVI., tbe bid der paid tPOOO. anl next tothb an oval gold box of the Louis XV. period fetched f 5S0J. Others realized C3000 and t'iU'M, while a number of more modern designs found ready purchasers at sums varying from toOJ to t2000. At an auction last summer a silver snail box, so old that the workmanship on tbe lid was worn almost smooth, realized tbe seem ingly ridiculous price of (2050. and at ths samo sale a gold box inlaid with pearls forming a mononraiu letcned. tJ. DOGS IN ARMY MANEUVRES. A German Expedient for Locating th Wounded. A special feature In this year's German maneuvrea will be supplied by war i'ogs which have been most admirably traiui .l for seeking the wounded and carrying dis patches. At tbe command "seek," i.ccom- fianled by a gesture indicating the direction n which the dogs are to search, they will start off without allowing themselves to be disturbed by any surrounding circumstances; they will find the men wbo figure as wound- ad with unfailing certainty, take a piece of their clothing cap, helmet or piece of cloth torn off and bring this back to tbe arubu- lanoe men. wnom they then conduct to the spot Mot Sold as American Baef. According to the United States Oonsu. Johnson at Antwerp, there Is no truth in tha story which so excited American meat pack ers, to the effect that brokendown English omnibns horses are killed and packed at aniwerp as canned onei under American la bels. The consul reports to the Hi ate De partment tbat he has' made most careful in quiry and finds that while tbe English omni- dus naoas uo nome to Antwerp in large num bers, they are slaughtered ana sol I for trejh -meat and are not packed. This Company Cleans Blcylces. A house-to-house cycle-cleaning and in surance company bas been floated in Lon don with the for suoh a purpose large capital of (1,500,000. For an annual pay ment of f 6.50, it will send a man to tbe sub scriber's house to teach bim to ride and to elean bis wheel, will store tbe machine wheu not In use, and will insure him for (500 against death and (250 against serious acci dent while cyoling. Ths Champion Belt. The Louisiana Electric Light and Power Company, New Orleans, has ordered a belt even feet wide and weighing 8300 pounds. There are 150 hides in it. .... e The B.iaton fir men claim tbat the have been poisoned b tbe black uni form shirts which Ihev hive beeu com -pelted to wear by order of Commis sioner Rns-ell. Professor Forel bas calculated that in G4,t (K) years the lake of Geneva, ia Switzerland, will have been filled np completely with sediment and changed into a meadow. Telephonic communication bet wee It London aud Paris ia to be supplement ed by fonr ne wires. Tne new wires are lo be used botn for telephonio and telegraphio purposes. Don't bant for fame let farm hunt or you. cion. v
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