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THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UW8.
Xatter Mid
VOL. L.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1896.
NO. 42
CHAPTEK XVni. (Continued.)
And that night, in Walter Cundall'a
library, Senor Guffanta told hia story.
Told it calmly and dispassionately, but
with a fullness of detail that .truck a
chill to Stuart's heart.
I bad been but a few days in London.
be said'when I learnt by Walter's own
band in the letter yon hare seen that
be was also there, and that I was to go
and see him. I was eager to do so, and
on the very night he was murdered, on
that fatal Monday night, I set out to visit
him. He had tolJ me to come late, and
knowing that be was a man much in the
world, and also that, from living in Hon
duras, where the nights alone are cool,
one rarely learns to go to bed early. I
did go late: so late that the clocks were
striking midnight as-1 reached his house.
But, when I stood outside it, there was
no light of any kind to be seen, only a
faint glimmer from a lamp in the hall.
'He has gone to bis bed,' I said to my
self, 'and the house Is closed for the
night. Well, it is indeed late, I will come
gain.' And so I turned away, and, know
ing that there was a road through your
park, though I had not gone by it, I de
termined to return that way."
"Through the park where he was mur
dered?" Stuart asked.
"Yes, by that way. But before I reach
ed the gates, and when I was outside the
palace of your queen, Buckingham Pal
ace, the storm that had been thr "Vnlng
baoke over me. Carambal it was storm
to drown a man, a storm such aa we see
sometimes in the tropics, but which I had
never thought to see here. It descended
in vast sheets of water. It was impossible
to stir without being instantaneously
drenched to the skin, and so I .ought shel
ter in a porch close at hand. There, see
ing no one pass me but some poor half
drowned creature who looked as though
the rain could make his misery no greater
than it was. I waited and waited I had
no protection, no umbrella and heard the
quarters and half-hours, and the hours
tolled by the clock. At last, as it watt
striking two, the storm almost ceased,
and, leaving my shelter. I crossed the road
and entered the park."
"Yes!" Stuart said in a whisper.
"Yea, I entered the park, and went on
round the bend, and so, under the drip
ping trees, through what I have since
learned is called the 'Mall'."
"'Jo on!" Stuart exclaimed.
"I hal passed some short distance on
my road meetiug no living creature, when
but a little distance ahead of me I saw
two figures struggling, the figures of two
men. Then I saw one fall, and the other
not seeing me, there were trees between
ns passed swiftly by. But I saw him
and his face, the face of a young man
dressed as a peasant, or, as you say here,
a workman; a young man with a brown
mustache."
For a moment Senor Guffanta paused,
and then he continued:
"I ran to the fallen man, and it was
Walter dead! Stabbed to the heart! X
called him by name, I kissed him, and
felt his breast; but he was dead! And
then. In a moment, it came to my mind
that it was not with him I had to do; it
was wiili the murderer. I sprang to my
feet, I left him there there, dead in the
mod and the water with which his blood
now mingled and, as quickly as I could
go, I retraced my steps after that mur
derer. And heaven is good! I had wast
ed but two or three moments with my
poor dead friend, and ere I again reached
the gates of the park I saw before me the
figure of the man who had passed me un
der the trees. He was still walking
swiftly, and once or twice be looked
round, as though fearing he was followed.
But I. who have tracked savage beasts
to their lairs, and Indians to their haunts,
knew how to track him. Keeping well
behind him at a fair distance, sometimes
screening myself behind the pillar on a
doorstep, and sometimes crossing the
road, sometimes even letting myself fall
back still farther, I followed him. At
one time, when I brought him into my
sight again, it had been in my thoughts to
.spring upon him, and there at once to klU
him or take him prisoner. And then I
thought it best not to do so. We had
moved far from the scene; who was to
prove, how was I to prove that it was he
who had done this deed, and not I? And
there was blood upon my clothes and
hands it was plainly visible! I could
see It myself! blood that had Bonn from
Walter's dead heart on to me as I took
hint in my arms upon the ground. No, I
aid, I must follow him, I must know
where he lives, then I will take fresh
counsel with myself as to what I shall
do. So I went on, still following him.
And by this time the dawn was breaking!
He went on and on, walking, perhaps, for
half an hour or so, though it seemed far
more to me; but at last he stopped, and I
bad now some difficulty in preventing him
from seeing me. He had stopped at a gate
in a wall, and with a key had quickly
opened it."
"The gate of the garden of Occlevs
House!" Stuart exclaimeJ, quivering with
excitement.
"Yes," the Senor answered, "the gate
of the garden of Occleve House. And
now I had to be careful. I was determin
ed to see where he had gone to through
that gate, what he was doing in that gar
den; but bow to do It? If I looked through
the railings be would see me, he would
know he was discovered he might even
then be able to escape me! If I had had
my pistol with tne, I would have stood
by the gate and looked at him through it
and then, if necessary, would have shot
Liin dead. But I had it not; I had though)
of no need for it when 1 left the hotel
that nisht. I did not know what was be
fore me when I went out. But I knew 1
must do something at once, and so. see
lug that the street was empty and nc
creature stirring, I advanced near to th
gate, stretched myself flat upon the pave,
and with my head upon the ground looked
under the lowest part of the railings and
saw "
"What?" Stuart asked, interrupting
tim again in his excitement.
"A changed man. one different from hin.
I had followed. Still a young man with
a brown mustache, but a young man
whose habit was that of a gentleman,
lie was dressed now in a dark, weil-madt
uit. and with his bands he was rolling
ap the peasant dress I had seen him wear
Then he stooue.I over what seemed to b
hole, or declivity, near the wall and
dropped the suit into it, and arranged the
weeds and long grass above it, and then
lowly be went to the house, and; taking
again th. key from hia pocket, entered tht
door."
CHAPTER XIX
"What man could thus have had th
entrance to the back of the house ?'' Stu
art asked. "I am bewildered with hor-
no longer so. I knew the man's face; now
to-day I know for certain who be was.
Within the last few days it flashed upon
me, yet I doubted; but my doubts are
satisfied. I only learned of hia existence
ten days ago, or I should have suspected
him before."
"Who waa it?" Stuart said. "Tell m
at once."
"Walt yet a moment and listen to mo.
As I saw that man enter the house, a
house that I, a stranger, could see was
the mansion of some person of impor
tance, it came to my mind that this was
the owner, the master of that house, who
bad killed my friend. His reason for do
ing so I could not guess it might have
been for the love of a woman, or for
hate, or about money but that it was so
I was confident And I said to myself,
'So! you cannot escape me! I know your
house, to-morrow I shall know your name,
and, if in two or three day. the police
have not got you in their power I will
wait that while, for it is better they
should take you than I then I will kill
you.' And I went away thinking thus;
there was no need to watch more.' I held
him, for he could not escape, I thought
in my hand."
"But it was not the owner of the bouse,
Stuart said, "it was not Lord' Penlya who
killed him. He was away at an hotel at
the time."
"Yes, he was though still it would b
possible for him then to have entered bis
own bouse but his waa not the face of
the man I had seen. I learned that, to my
amazement, .when for the first time I
stood before him. But, listen again; Iu
the morning, at a restaurant, I found lu
a directory, of which I had learned the
use, that that house was Occleve House,
and that Lord Penlyn was the owner of
It. And then my surprise was great, for
onjr an hour or so before I bad found
that Occleve was the right name of Wal
ter Cundall."
"You had learned that?"
"When I lifted Walter iu my arms In
the park, I felt against his breast a book
half out of his pocket. The murderer had
missed thatl I took that book, for even
iu my haste and grief I thought that in
it might be something that would give
me a clew. But what were really in it of
importance were a certificate of his moth
er's marriage, another of his own birth,
and a letter, years old, from her to him.
They told me all, and, moreover, they
proved to me, as I then thought, that his
murderer lived in the very house and bore
the very name that by right seemed to
be his."
"They were the certificates he showed
to them on the morning he disclosed him
self," Stuart said, "and he had not re
moved them from his pocketbouk when
he was killed!"
"Yes! that he showed to them; you have
said it! It was to two of them that he
showed these papers. And one was the
friend of the other, he lived with and
upon him, be dares not meet me face to
face, he evades me! he, he is the mur
lerer. He, Philip Smerdon!"
Stuart sprang to his feet.
"Philip Smerdon!" he exclaimed. "No,
no! It cannot be!"
"It is, I say! It is be. Of all others,
who but he could have done this deed?
Who but he who crept back to Occleve
House having in his pocket the keys
whereby to enter it, who but he who
shuns me because it has been told him
that I knew the assassin's facet And on
the very night that he is back in London,
sleeping in that house, are not the clothes
that might have led to bis identification
removed ?"
Stuart paused a moment, deep in
thought, and then he said: "It cannot be!
On the day before the murder. In the
morning, he left London for Occleve
House. He must have been there when
it was committed."
"Bah!" Guffanta said, with a shrug of
his shoulders, "he did not leave London,
he only made a pretense of doing so. All
that day he, iu bis disguise, must have
been engaged in tracking my poor friend,
and at night be killed him." Then be
paused a moment, and when he next
spoke he asked a question. j
"Where was he going when he left .Oc
cleve House this afternoon in the cab,
and with his luggage?"
"He was going to Join his father, he
said," Stuart answered. "His father is
ill and bas been ordered abroad for his
health, and, having recovered some money
from his ruined business, he is going on
the Continent, and Smerdon is going with
him."
"And to what part of the Continent
are they going?"
"I do not know, though he said some
thing about the French coast, and after
wards, the Tyrol. Why do you ask?"
"Why do I ask? Why? Because I
must go also! I have to stand face to face
with him, and be able to convince myself
that either I have made some strange
mistake, or that I am right."
"And if yon are right?"
Then I have to take him to the nearest
magistrate, or, if he resists, to kill him."
"You will do that?"
"I will do anything necessary to pre
vent him ever escaping me again."
They talked on into the night, and
Senor Guffanta extracted from the other
a promise that he would lend him any
assistance in hia power, and that, above
all, be would say nothing to Lord Pen
lyn that, by being retold to Smerdon,
should, if he were actually the murderer,
help him to still longer escape.
"I promise you," Stuart said, "and the
more willingly because I myself would
give him up to justice if I were sure be
Is the man. But that, of course, I cannot
be; it is you alone who can identify this
cruel murderer. But, in one thing I am
sure yon are wrong.
"In what thing ,'
"In thinking that Lord Penlyn is in the
slightest way an accomplice, or suspects
Smerdon at all. If he did so auspect
bint. I believe that he would himself cause
hi:u to be arrested, even though they are
such friends."
"What motive would Smerdon have to
kill Walter except to remove him from
the other's path? Do you think he would
have done it without consulting Lord
Penlyn?"
"I am certain that if he did do it, aa
you think "
"As I am aa convinced as that we are
sitting here!"
"Well, then, I am certain-that Lord
Penlyn knows nothing of it. He is hasty
and impetuous, but be is the soul kof
honor."
"Perhaps," Guffanta said; "it may be
so. But it is not with him that I have
to deal. It is with the man who struck
the blow. And It is him I go to seek."
"How will you find him r"
"Through you. Yon will find out for
me where he Is gone with his father if
this is not a lie invented to aid hia far
ther escape and yon will let me know
everything. T H no set . . .
"Yes," Stuart said; "I myself swore
that I would find the murderer if I
conld; but, as I cannot do that. I will
endeavor to help you to do so. How
shall I communicate with yon?"
"Write, or come to the 'Hotel Lepanto.'
.And when you once tell me where that
man is. there I shall be afterwards. Even
though he should go to the end of the
world, I will follow him."
Then iVnor Guffanta went back to his
hotel, a ix J told Diaz Za rates that he
should soon be leaving his house.
"I have to make a little tour upon the
Continent, and I may go at any moment."
"On a tour of pleasure, Senor?" the
landlord asked.-
"Xo! ou a voyage of importance."
And three days afterwards he went A
letter had come to him from Stuart, aay
ing: "S. has really gone with hia father. He
has left London for Paris on the way to
Switzerland. They are to pass the um
mer at some mountain resort, but the
place is not yet decided on. At first they
will be at Berne. If you meet, for God's
sake be careful, and make no mistake."
"Yes!" Senor Guffanta muttered to
himself as he packed his portmanteau,
and prepared to catch the night mail to
Paris. "Yes, I will be careful, very care
ful! And I will make no mistake!"
CHAPTER XX.
The summer began to wane, and as
August drew to a close the world of Lon
don at large forgot the murder of Walter
Cundall.
It forgot it because it had so run)
other things to think about, because it had
its garden parties and fetes, and Henley
and Goodwood; and because, after that,,
the exodus set in, and the Continent,
Scotland and Cowea, as well as all the
other seaside resorts, claimed ita atten
tion. It is true one incident had come to
light which had given a fillip to the dying
curiosity of the world and society, but
even that had scarcely tended to rouse
fresh interest in the crime.
This incident was the discovery that
Lord Penlyn was the heir to all of the
dtd man's vast wealth.
The news had come out gradnally
through different channels, and it had set
people talking; but even then at this ad
vanced state of the Loudon season it
had scarcely aroused more than a passing
flutter of excitement.
And society explained even this fact to
its own satisfaction perhaps because it
had, by now, found so many other things
of more immediate, and of fresher, inter
est. Cundall had been, it said, a man of
superbly generous impulses, one who
seemed to delight in doing acts of munifi
cence that other men would never dream
of; what more natural a thing for him to
do than to leave this great wealth to the
very man who had won the woman he
had sought for his wife?
Was it not at once a splendid piece of
magnanimity, a glorious example of how
one might heap coals of fire on those who
thwarted us was It not a truly noble
way of retaliating upon the woman he
loved, but who had no love for him?
She would, through his bequest to her
husband that was to be, become euartn
ously rich, but she could never enjoy the
vastness of those riches without remem
bering whence they came; every incident
in her life would serve to remind her of
him.
So, instead of seeing any cause for sui
picion in the will of Walter Cundall, the
world only saw in it a magnificently gen
erous action, a splendidly noble retalia
tion. For It never took the trouble to learn ;
the date of the will, but supposed that tt
had been made on the day after he had
discovered that Ida Raughton had prom
ised herself to another.
(To be continued.)
Scotch Farm Laborers.
During the last tea or twelve years
we have witnessed iu Scotland an enor
mous decrease in the number of
"hands" employed in agricultural work.
In 1871 there were in Scotland 165,016
farm servants, in 1S81 there were 149.
765 and in 1891 only 120,770. Doubt
less more than one cause has contrib
uted to this result; but in the main It
must be traced back to two great cen
tral facta. (1) During the last twenty
years large tracts of arable land have
gone out of cultivation. (2) During the
same period there has taken place an
enormous displacement of band htbor
by machinery. Take the effect of but
one single invention. During the past
few seasons self-binding reapers have
rapidly sprung Into popularity.
According to the Agricultural Econo
mist, reaping and tying corn by man
ual labor used to cost from 8s. to 10s.
per acre; but with the new machine it
costs only from Is. fid. to 2s. 6d. per
acre. In other words, some twenty ;or
thirty youths can now perform the
work that formerly required fifty able
bodied men and an equal number of
young lads and lasses. This is but one
example out of many. True it Is, a lim
ited number of these crowded peasants
may, and doubtless do, find employment
at some of the various kinds of un
skilled labor, even In a comparatively
jverstocked city market. Nevertheless,
the inevitable result of all this must
be the intensification of the unemploy
ed problem in town and country alike.
Westminster Review.
Families with babies and families
without babies are so sorry for each
otbor.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah,
castles in the air cost a vast deal to
keep np.
Before we can become truly neb,
we mnst first obtain the spirit of con
tent Hpeaking- too much is sign of
vanity; for he that is lavish in words
is apt to be niggard in deeds.
Advice U Hie snow, the sorter it
falls, the longer it dwells upon, and
the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The value of the diamond is not in
what it does, but in what it ia.
Ihere are pleasures in sin, .but they
are only pleasures for a season.
Beware of the man who claims that
any kind of a wrong is right.
We promise according to our hopes,
and perform according to our fear.
When men are growing in (trace
they will be found trying to be gra
cious. Be net athamcd of thy virtues;
honor's a good brooch to wear in a
man's hat at all times.
It is folly to seek happiness while
we are unwilling to be good.
Never sigh over what might have
been, hut make the best of what ia.
Responsibility must be shouldered.
You cannot carry it under you arm.
Men are apt to be more concerned
for their credit than for their canse.
THE NEXT MARRIAGE IN
STRENGTH AND BEAUTY.
Combination to Be Secured In the New
Brooklyn Bridge Towers.
When the new Brooklyn bridge was
determined upon the hope was fre
qttintly expressed that more attention
would be paid to artistic beauty tiiun
was manifested In the case of the pres
ent structure. The commissioners had
in view from the first the artistic ap
pearance of the bridge, and Chief En
gineer Buck makes the assertion that
the great structure, though of steel,
will be thoroughly artistic and orna
mental. Mr. Buck authorizes the pub
lication of a picture of one of the tow
era. The steel portion is 330 feet high
ONE OF THE TOWER 3 OF THE NEW" BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
above the stone foundation, which will
be twenty-two and one-half feet above
high water.
KILLING PARISIAN DOGS.
Their Carcase. Are TJaed in Making
Glue and Fertiliser.
Many worthless and some valuable
doga are killed by the dog-catchers of
Parts. The animals are not drowned,
but are smothered to death. The meth
od of killing the animals la quick and
efficient. Standing on a narrow-gauged
bit of rail track is an iron cage on a
four-wheeled truck. This cage or coop
Is large enough to hold from twenty
SCFFOCATIKS THE DOOS.
to thirty dogs. As soon as there are
sufficient animals the cage is filled and
i couple of men send It on its Journey
f death.
In the corner of the room Is a huge
Iron box, with which Is connected an
enormous tube suppllod with valves
and stopcocks. The Iron cuj.i, which
fits this box to a nicety, is pushed Into
the box, which Is shut hermetically.
As soon as the cage is In and the ap
paratus closed the man opens the
valve of the large tuba mentioned. This
lets In a deadly gas that kills the dog
BACILLI FOUND IN UNFILTERED LAKE MICHIGAN WATER.
"ttt C k"r
Bloomerltes Must Pay Men's Prices
What is claimed to be the most ex
pensive thermometer in the world is in
use at one of the large universities. It
is an absolutely correct instrument,
with graduations on the glass so fine
that it ia necessary to use a magnifier
to read them. The value la $10,000,
EUROPEAN HIGH LIFE.
ilmost instantaneously. A man watch
es the death struggles of tbe dcgi
through a small glass ut the side d
the bos. It only tnkej tlirci minutes
to till the oae and dispatch its con
tents. As soon as the animals are suffocated
they are dumped Into special littht
blue-painted wagons and carted off.
The killed dogs are taken to IYtitl
lvry, outside of the fortifications. Ai
soon as a wagon arrives here it M met
by two men, who dump the caicasnci
ou tbe ground aud throw them into a
small shed. Here tbe wotk is llulsh
ed. Two or three fellows take hold el
the bodies, cut off the four feet and
strip off the hide In tbe twinkling I
an eye. Then the cadavers are passed
to another, who cuts off th flesh,
which is thrown in a heap. The hides
are sent to the tanner, the bones are
transformed into glue, and the llesh
turned into fertilizing powder. Thus
ends the career of the pampered Paris
lan pet
Hi. Science Was a Little Off.
One night a young man in Divinity
Hall at Yale undertook, with a toy
ritle, to hit a lamp. But his aim was
poor and the ball passed through tbe
window of an eminent and venerable
professor of science and imbedded It'
self in the wall.
This was the opportunity for the pro
fessor and for science. He, too, set to
work and computed the curve, and
with the exact skill of infallible fig
ures ho traced the ball right back to
the room of an innocent colleague, who
didn't even know the rifle had been
fired.
The unfledged minister flatly denied
all knowledge of the affair. But men,
even ministers, have been known to
make denials in self-defense, and tbe
professor had the proof with him. There
was the bullet, there were the marks
of Its course, and there waa the com
putation worked out.
It looked as if a pulpit career was t
be nipped In tbe bud. But the guilty
student heard what was going on. He
called on the professor, confessed the
offense, pointed out that the man of
science was 200 feet out In his com
putation, and advised that tbe matter
be dropped right where It was. And
that was done. Hartford Couranf.
Many spend half their lives finding
out which side their bread Is buttered
on before they discover that they don't
like butter.
Trout Over Two Feet Long.
A trout of the Lochleven species
weighing 11 pounds and measuring
2 feet 7 inches In length and 164 Inches
In girth, waa recently taken in King
bora Loch.
Every man admires the woman who
refuses to believe, ether men's Ilea.
THE COUNTRY STORE
tt I. Simply the Modern City "Kemper
Ism" on a Small Scale.
How the old country store used to be
nughed at! The idea that people should
juy everything at one place from a
lairpin to a pound of sugar was cause
a -city folks" of Inextinguishable mer
riment. Ytt what country folks were
'joked" for dolu city folks are to-day
lolng. and no one thinks it strange at
til. The modern dry goods store of a
Big city they like to call it by a high
sounding title, and so name It an "em
porium" contains as miscellaneous an
iKortment of all sorts and conditions
f things to sell as ever-did the moat
tountryfted of country stores, aud vin
dicates the country store by tbe im
print of the most advanced nineteenth
century enterprise.
The extent to which the country store
Idea Is carried out lu the cities is im
pressed upon us every ouce in a while
In a general way. but few of lis appre
ciate that extent when it comes down
to particulars. Tbe liook trade has un
doubtedly suffered ttie most from the
bargain counter. A city of the stand
ing and culture of Springfield, Mass.,
has no longer any book store. Th? last
one has succumbed to the rivalry of tht
dry goods store. Not long ago then
were coinplal.its that the dry goodf
stores in Brooklyn were selling liquors
and there was talk of boycotting them
by the temperance eople. What the
result was we do not recall. But tha
matter is a striking illustration of tb
revived country store. There was a
well-known family of Litchfield whose
wealth can be traced back to a country
store, one that made Its money largely
by selling rum in addition to dry goods
and groceries aud miscellaneous arti
cles. And this country store actually
grew to such dimensions that It useu
Itself to Import many of the goods it
old, and did a considerable wholesale
business In ail this sectlou. Of course,
the old country store always kept a sup
ply of ordinary domestic crockery, and
Ibis Is the latest branch of trade iu New
York to complain of the competition ol
modern dry goods stores. All of this
goes to show that we live iu a circle.
We move to a city and laugh at the old
country ideas we left behind us. Then,
when our city notions have becoins
pretty well settled, we go back to those
discarded ideas and work them over
In a new shape. We despise the conn
try store, but the closeness of competi
tion and the charnce to make money by
ffering "bargains" induces the city
dry goods shop to become a country
tore again, and sell as reui.irkabla
a variety of articles as ever were shel
tered at some cross-roads store. The
country moves to the city and the city
turns country. There Is nothing uevt
under the sun. Waterbury American,
THE DECLINE OF WAR.
Pursuit of Property and Wealth tb.
Main Cauae Thereof.
The warlike temperament of tuan
bas been one of his most prominent
characteristics from tbe earliest times.
To live to fight has been the chief aim
of most primitive peoples and has been
a leading occupation of all civilized
ones. Armies have grown in size,
ueapons have multiplied in nurubet
and destmctlveiiess, battles Ivtvi
grown more and more deadly in action,
while also becoming more merciful IE
their accompaniments; but still It Ii
everywhere apparent that. In spite ol
these aids to carnage, the military spir
it is on the decline.
May we not look for the cause of thU
in the enormously increased cost ol
warfare and Its Interference with th
pursuit of prosperity and wealth T
When the Internal losses to a peoplo
become greater than those they can
gain through conquest and annexation,
they will be very loath to enter iuto
a great conflict.
I am very far from saying that many
ether causes, such as ethics and a
growing spirit of mercy, may not hav
contributed to this paciScation of tiu
nations, but U It not true that the cost
of war is the chief preventive ol
war? If so, does It not illustrate tht
rule that the reactions set up by tht
vast technical improvements of nieth
ods of destruction have reacted on tht
primitive canse of the destruction
viz.: the human will and have lessen
ed the cause by modifying tbe hean
aud brain of man';-Popular Sclcuct
Monthly.
A New rtteatric.l Fu ;eetloo.
A New York manager has come tt
the con iusion that the w:t- to elo
vate the stae is to have an endowed
theater. Mighty good idea. Ii
fthouid have, first, an endowment o
brains; second, of actors, and. t ir-l,
of people who wilt pay to see the per
formances. huch an endow msui
would go iodiunapol.s Times.
Oldn't Kara TSu It.
Caterson (Sunday morninj) Po'i
give me any coffee this uioruing m
dear! Mrs. CatersriG--Why, 1 neve
knew you to refuse co ce before
Caterson V ell, I aiu going to ctiurc!
and I am afraid it might keep u
awake! Puck.
A Scientist.
DuUet (proudly) Miranda, I bcllevi
there Is a big future for our Tommy. Hi
must learn things in a practical way, a
well as from books.
Mvs. D. Lor", John! I uuderxt.ir
Look at the darling th.'s minute In tli
coal-scuttle, studying uiluerealogy!
Chips.
Wear of Common Roads.
Gen. Morin of France says that tha
leterioration of common roads, except
that which la caused by the weather,
la two-thirds due to the wear of tha
ones' feet and one-third to tha wheals
af vehicles. Motocyclea and rabbet
Urea would therefore minimize tha ex
of nd repairs.
Tn.y Haeaea Ha Fwaslag.
Chollv There waa one thing In
favor of the boiler-plate trousers the
old knlahts wore. Chappie What
was that? Cholly If they once got
a crease la them It would stay-
Train.
There is no substitute for thorough'
going, ardent, sincere earnestness.
REV. DB, TALMAGE,
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: "The Coming Redemption."
Text: "n the streets of the city shall U
lu'i of boys and girls playinr in tha streets
thnreof." Zaehariah vlil., 5.
Oliinpses of our cities ndsemed' Now,
boys an t girls who play lu the streets run
such rik that multitude of tb.m and in
ruio. But. In tli coming time spoken of,
onr -itis will Im so m ral that lads and
lasses shall be amfa iu i nepublio thorough
far s a in the ounery.
Pulpit au 1 priDtin; proves for th. most
part d onr Hay are busy la discussing tha
condition of tneliiw at ibis time; bat would
it not be hwilthtuliy encouraging to all
Christian worknrs. ao.l to all who are toil
ing to make tha world lnHler, if wo should
for a little whl 9 look forward to th. tim
when onr oitles shall be revolutionized by
the (Jospel of til- Sou of Ood. aad all th
darkness of sin and trouble and crime and
suffw.Dir shall be gon from tb. world?
Every man has a pride in th. oity of his
nmfvlty or m-Mocw, tf It be a oily distin
guished for auy dlicoity or prowess. Caesar
boaited of his native Bo'ne, Virgil of Mantua,
I.yeurgus of Sparta, Demosthones of Athens,
Arehimedes of Svnieuse, aad Paul of Tarsus.
I should have suspieioa of base-heart ednas
In a man who ha t no espeulal interest in the
city of h s birth or resi lenoa ao ezhilant
tlou of ih- evidence M its prosperity or its
artistic embellishment, or its intellectual ad
VKUceuteur. I have notioed that a man never likes a
eity where he has not behaved well! People
who have bad a free ride in the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When I And Argos and Huodes and Hmyrna
Irving to prove themselves the birthplaoe of
Homer I eoo'-luse at one. that Homer be
haved well. He liked them and they liked
him. We mu-t not war on laudible city
pride, or, with the idea of building ourselves
up at any time, try to pull others down.
Boston must continue to point to Its Faneuil
Hall and to its Common, an 1 to its superior
educational advantaips. PhPadelpnia must
contiuue to point to its Independence Hall
and its mint, and its Uirard Co.lege. Wash
ington must eoutinue to point to its won
drous Capttollne buildlnits. If 1 should find!
a man comlug from any city, having no
pride In that oity, that eity having been the
place of his nativil v. or now beinK tbe place
of his residence, I would feel like asking:
"What mean thing have you done lhur-?
What outrageous thing have you been guilty
of that ynu du not like tbe placer"
I think we ought and I take it for
granted you are interested in this great work
of evangelising the cities and saving the
worlil we ought to foil with tbe sunlight in
our face-". We nr. not fighting in a miser
able Bull Kun of defeat. We are on our way
to II n :il victory. We are not fol. owing the
rider on the bltck horse, leading us down to
death and darkue aud doom, but the Rider
on the white horse, with the inoou under
His feet and the st irs of heaven for His tiara.
Hall, Conqueror, bail!
I know there nr sorrows, and there
are sin, and there are sufferia is all arouud
about iim, but us in some bitter, cold winter
day. when we aretbre?lilnK oiirarmsarnuad
us to kep uur thumbs from freezing, we
think of the waim spriuir day thic will after
awhIU come; or in tbe dark winter night we
look up and see the uortheru lights, the win
dows of be.,von tiliiminated by some great
victory just so we look up from tbe night
if suffering aud sorrow and wretobeduees
In our otiief, aud we see a lirfht streaming
through from the other side, and we know
we are on tbe way to morning more than
that, on the way to "a morning without
clouds."
1 want you to understand, all you who are
tolling for Christ, that the castles of sin are
all voini; to be captureJ. The victory for
Uhrist tu these great towns is going to be so
complete that not a ma. on earth or an
augel tn heaven, or a devil In hell will dis
pute It. How do I know? I know just as
certaiulv hs (lo t lives an i this is holv truth.
Tbe old Bible is lull of it. If the Nation is
to Le saved, of course till the cities ate to be
saveil. It niaki-s a great dttTereuce with you
and with me whether we are toiling on to
ward a defeat, or tolling on toward a vic
tory. Now. In this municipal elevation of which
I speak. 1 have to reuitrk there will be
ureafer financial prosperity than our cities
have ever seen. Home people seem to have
a morbid Idea of the millennium, and they
think when the belter time comes to our
cities and t he world people will give their
time up to psalm-Bru?ing and tbe rotating of
tneir relir.ous experience, aud, as all social
lite will be purified, there will be no bilaritv,
and, as all buitnees wilt be purtflej, there
Will be no enterprise, i nere is no ground
for sucb an absurd anticipation. Iu the
time of whioh I speak, where now one for
tune ia made, there will be a hundred for
tunes male. We all know business pros
perity depends upon connience between
man and mau. Now when that time comes
of which I spak, and when all double deal
ing, all dishonesty, aul all fraud are Koue
iut of commercial circles, thorough confi
dence will be established and there wll bs
better business done, and larger fortunes
gathered, and mightier siiooesses achieved.
Tnegreat bustnessdtsastersof this country
have come from tha work of godless specu
lators and Infamous stook gambleis. The
great foe to business Is crime. Wben the
right tha 11 have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified th commercial code, and
shall have thundered down fraudulent estab
lishments, and shall have put intotbs bauds,
of honest men the keys of business, b'sssed
time for the bargain makers. I am not talk
ing aa abstraction, I am not making a guess.
I am telling you God's eternal truth.
In that day of which 1 speak, taxes wilt be
mere nothing. Now, our business men are
taxed for everything. City taxes, county
taxes. Stats taxes. United elates taxes.stauip
taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our bns.ness meu have
to make a small fortune every year to pav
th.tr taxes. What fastens on our great in
dustries this awful load? Orimo, individual
and official. We have to pay the board ol
the villains who ar. Incarcerated in our pris
ons. W. umts to take care ol tne orphans ol
those who plunged into their graves through
sensual Indigencies. We have to support
the munlo.pal governments, whloh are vast
aad expensive just la proportion as the orim
Inai proclivities are vast and tremendous.
Who support th. almshouses and police sta
tions, ana all th. machinery of municipal
government? 'The tax payers.
But in tb. glorious time of which I speak,
grievous taxation will all hav. ceased. There
will be no need of tuyperttng criminals there;
will be aocrlmlnalf. Virtue will hav. taken
tha place of vJo. There will no orphan asy
lums, tor parents will be able to leave a com
petency to their ohiidren. There will be no
voting of large 'sums of money for some
municipal improvement, whloh moneys be
fore they get to tbe Improvements drop into
the pockets of those who voted them. No
Oyer and Terminer kept np at vast expense
to the people. No impaneling of Juries to
try theft and arson and murder and slander
aad blackmail. Better factories. Grand ar
Ohtteoture. Finer equipage. Larger for
tunes. Richer opulence. Better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to those
atties, Christ's churches will be mora nu
merous and they will be larger, an 1 tbey be
more devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
and tbey will accomplish greater influences
for good. Mow, It Is often th. case that
churches are envious of each other, and de
nominations collide with etch other, mi
even ministers of Christ sometimes forget tbe
bond of brotherhood. But in the time ol
which I speak, while there will bi just as
many differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no ascerbltv, no bypercriticisni,
no xolusivenasa.
Ia that day of which I speak, do
you believe tnere will be any midnight
oaronsalr Will there be any kicking oft from
th. marble steps of shivering tnenrte.iit
Will there be anv unwashed, unfed, un
combed children? Will there be any blaspr.e
mles tn the streets? Will there be any Ine
briates staggering past? No. No win. stores.
No lager beer saloons. No distilleries, where
they make th. three Xs. No bloodshot eye.
No bloated cheek. No Instruments ot ruin
and destruction. No fist-pounded forehead.
The grandchildren ol that woman who goei
down the street with a curse, stoned by the
boys teKow bar. will be tha reformer
anJ philanthropists nn t tti-i i,iririau nw.a
and the bon-st mer.Oi inm of our citiee.
Then, what municipal uoveraments, loo.
we will bnve iu ail the cities. Some citie
are wonts thau others, but iu many ol our
eities you just walk down by the city ba'l
and look iu at soinof tii rooms occupied
by politicians, and see to wilnt a s-nsual,
loathsome, ignorant, besotted erow it
politics is often abandoned. Or they staud
around the City Hall picking their teeth,
waiting for some emoluments of mitnlis to
fall to their feet, waiting all day long, an J
waiting all night long.
Who are those wreichei women talten art
for drunkenness, and Carrie I np to tle
oourts, and put in pris n or course? Wuat
will you do with the grogshops that make
them drink? Nothing. Who are thoss
prislnners In jail? One of them stole a pair
of shoes. That boy stole a do' lar. This girl
snatched a purse. All of them orimes d tin
Hiring society less than twenty or thirty dol
lars. Bjt what will you do with the ga n
bler who last night robbed the young man of
U thousand dollars? Nothing. What siia'i
be done with that one who breaks throuu
and destroys the purity of a Christian home,
and with an a Iroitueas and poriidy tha:
beat tue strategy ol hell, fUtiits a shrink iu,
thriekiug soul iuto ruin? Noihiug. What
will yon do with those who fleeced thst
young man, getting him to puHoiu large
in ms of money from his eaioloyer th
younn man who ca-ne to au oftV-er of my
shurcb and told tbe atory, aud frantically
asked what he should do? Nothing.
Ah! we do well to punish small crimes; but
I have sometimes thought it would be better
la some of our cities if the officials would
3nly turn out from the jails the p -tty criin
aals, tbe little offender, ten-dollar despera
does, aud put in their plac s some of tha
mou-tsrs of iniquity who drive their roau
paa through tb i streets so swiftly that hon
est men have to leap to get out of the wayot
being run over. 'O.I, the damnable acUemes
that professel Cuxitiau men will so.ne
MmHL.'em,age in until Uxl pals the 11 Direr of
His letribntiou into the collar of their robe
of hypocrisy and rips it e'ear t tint bottom!
But all these wrougs will be riKhie.l. 1 ex
pect to live to see thJ day. 1 thinW I heir In
the distance the ru nbliug of the Kiug's
rharior. Not always in the minority is th
Church of God goiug to be, or are good meu
going to be. The streets are goiug to lie
titled with regenerated populations. Tune
hundred aud sixty bells rang in .Moscow
when one prince was married ; but. when
righteousness and peace kisse.v-h oth-r in
all the earth, ten thousand times ten thon
aand bells shall trike the jubilee. Poverty
rorlohed. Hunger fed. Crime banishet.
(guorance eulightened. AUthe c ties saved,
la not this a cause worth working in?
Oh, you thiuk sometimes it does not
imount tu mueb! Vou toil ou In your dit
terent spheres, sometimes with irreat dls
souratremeut. People have no faith and s:iy:
'It does not amount to anytaiug; you might
ts well quit that." Why, when Moes
rtretche 1 hts hand over the Had Sea. it did
sot seem to mean auvthlug especially. Pa-'-ole
came out, I suppose, and said: "Aha!"
Jome of them found out what be wanted to
io. lie wanted the sea partod. It did not
mount to anything, this stretching out of
ais baud over the sea. But, after a while,
:he wind blew all night from the east, aud
the waters were gathered Into a glittering
palitade on either side, an 1 the billows
reared as God pulled back ou tli..r crystal
utls! Wheel into Hue, O. Israel! march!
march! Pearls crashed under feit. Flying
rpray gathers Into ralnbcw arch of victory
for the conquerors to march under. Shouts
of hosts on the beach nnswaiiu; the shouts
of hosts amid soa. And wIil-u tli. tsst tine oi
Iir i) ites reach the boach tbo cymbals elap,
and the shields c ang, and tho w iters rush
over the pursuers, aud tha swifi -fingered
w nss on the white keys of the foam play
the grand march of Israel delivered and the
awful dirge of Egvptiau overthrow.
So you and 1 go forth, and all the people
of God go forth, and they stretch forth their
baud over the sea, tho bjjliot sea of crime
and sin and wretchedue-is. "It don't amount
to anything." people say. 1) n't It? God's
win. Is of belD will, after a while, begin to
blow. A path will be cleared for the army
of Christian philanthropist'. Tne path will
be lined with tbe treasures of Christian
beneficence, aud we shall be greeted to the
other beach by tbeclappiui;or all of heaven's
eymbals, while those who pursued us and
derided us and triej to destroy us will go
iowu uuder theasa aud a'.l that wid bs loft
at them will be cast high and dry upon tbe
beach, the splintered wheM of a chariot, or
thrust out from the foam the bieatnless ncs
jil of a riderless charger.
LIKE ONE DIG FUNERAL,
Such Was the Departure of I ho Spanish.
Truopt tur Cuba.
The Seventh Regiment, a battery of artil
lery and two companies of in autrv sailed
from San Seba-rtijo, Spa'a. for Cuba, and
judging from the lo. ai newspapers, the de
parture of the troops was iual the occasion
of a vast popular de uontt ration of patriot
ism and of a determination to wipe the re
bels off the facd of the earth. Ac.-ordlng to
somewhat belated private advices from the
icene, tha newspaper accounts do not fit tb
facts, which is not surpri-.ing, seeing that
thevbad to besubmltted to the cepor before
publication. Previous to the r.'view the
Bishop of Vtttoria celebrate 1 a re igious
service in the open air. un tb magnificent
Zurrtola Promenade, but the rftYct was con
siderably spoiled by bowls, sub) and other
demonstrations of grief by wo-nen and chil
dren, who at San Sebat.an, as in other parts
of Spuoi, made no preten-e to the possession
of Spartan spirit. Then followed a march
fiast the tunen Reaent an 1 little King. The
utter was in a cadet's uniform and saluted
the troops as they piw l with pie.-ocious
gravity and dignity. His appearance cer
tainty aroused a good deal ot popular en
thusiasm, but it evaporated a n a he
disappeared from the -acaue. A-i 'or the
troops themselves, thny m:itle no fetense
whatever of enthusiasm, 'i hey i 1 been
forced to the colors and look-das if they
were unwilling conscripts sent to light aud
die without compensation or glory. After
the march past tbey were huddled off to
the forts on the heights dominating the
town. Triple guar Is wer on duty through
out the night to prevent appreuended de
Mrtlons, and in tbe morning the deje-ted
soldiers went aboard the transport with the
air ol men going to a luneral.
NEW FIELD FOR BICYCLERS.
Here's e Chance for Them t Get Star
Bootes.
Advertisements inviting proposals for car
rying the mails on the star routes for the
uext fiscal year were issued from the office ot
tbe Second Assistant Postmaster-General at
Washington. Proposals will be received
until December 1, and bl.ls will be
announced by February 1. Full in
formation regarding the routrs In New York
State, tb. bonds required with th - bi Is and
the present pries of tbs set vice will be fur
nished ou application to lb i Department.
There are thousands of these routes through
out the country, there being 1U4 iu New
York State alone. At pres -ut n arly all are
covered by borsj aad wagon. A large propor.
ttou of these routes cau be covered by bl
ryole riders far more expeditiously thau by
the present plan, and a splendid opportunity
is presented for young men w.tli bicycles to
secure contracts. Tbe Department ts favor
able to any change which will expedite tba
star route mails and at the same time reduce
their cost to tbe Government.
Chicago is to have au oight-Ptory Gjvern
ment building. The de-iitn is unlike auf
public buildlug in the (Jul eJ State?,
A New Version.
The Bible teit given little Willie
Now Moses was an austere man and
made atonement for the situ of his
people.
Little Willie's recitation -Vow, Moses
was an oyster man and made ointment
for the shins of his people. New York
World.
When He Muttered.
A man who stuttered badly went to
consult a specialist about his affliction.
The expert asked: "Do you stutter all
tbe time?" "X-n-n no," replied the
stutterer. "I s-s-s-stut-t-t-t-ter only,
when I t-t-talk." Harper's Bazar.
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