! O. F. BOH WE1ER, THE CONSTITUTION THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IWB. Ktdtter maud Pip i 'i: VOL. J,. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1896. NO. 43. It ! V To those more directly Interested in the murder and in the discovery of the assaa liu, the passing summer seemed to brtag ut little promise of success. Lord Penlyn knew that Senor Guffanta aad left Loudon, but beyond that he did 'jot know what had become of him, nor whether it was the business of Don Rod riguez or pleasure, or the search for the murderer, that bad taken him away. Stuart, who still bettered him innocent it the slightest participation or knowl edge of the crime, yet did not feel in clined to gire him the least information a. to the Senor's movements, fearing that. If Smerdon was the man of which, as yet, he by no means felt positive he might learn that be waa being pursued; and so contented himself with saying ao little as possible. As to Dobson, he bad now come to the conclusion that the "Signor," as he al ways called him, was an arrant humbug and really knew no more about the mur der than he did himself. And aa the detective had already re ceived a handsome sum of money from Lord Penlyn for his services, such as they were, and aa he had at the present moment what he called "one or two other good little Jobs on," he gradually de voted himself to these matters, and the murder of Mr. Oundall ceased to entirely sccupy his efforts. Though, aa he was a man who did his duty to the best of his ability, he still kept one of his subordinates looking bout and making inquiries in various place where he thought Information might be obtained. But the information, as he confessed, was very long in coming. From Senor Guffanta Stuart had heard more than once during hia absence, which had now extended to three weeks, but the letters be received contained nothing but accounts of his failure to come upon the suspected man. In Paris, the Senor wrote, he had been absolutely unable to find any person of the name of Smerdon, though he had tried everything in bis power to do so. He had pored daily over Galignanl and other papers that contained the lists of strangers who arrived in the French cap ital, he had personally Inspected the vis itors' books in every hotel likely to be patronized by English people of good social position; but all to no effect. Then, determined, if his man was there, not to niiiis him, he had applied to the particulur bureau of police at the Prefec ture where are kept, according to French law, the lists furnished weekly by every hotel keeper and lodging house keeper of their guests and tenants, both old and new; and these, being shown him, be had carefully searched, and still be had failed. He was induced to think, be wrote Stu art, that Smerdon, either alone or with hia family (if he really had them with him) must have changed bis route, or his destination, aa the last moment. Or, perhaps they had traveled by Brus sels and the Rhine to Switzerland, or passed through Paris from one station to the other without stopping, or they might . have gone by the way of Rheims and Delle from Cardis to Basle. Could Mr. Stuart, he asked, obtain any further information from Lord Penlyn as to the whereabouts of the man whose face he wished to see, for if he eould not. he did not know where to look for him. In answer to this, Stuart wrote back that no letter had come from Smerdon since the day he left Occleve House, the day on which the Senor had seen the murderer in the cab, but that he had little doubt that the former was now in Swit cerland. "Why," he wrote, "since you are deter mined to make yourself sure about Sraer dn's Identity with the man you saw kill our friend, do you not go on into Switzer land? ThrTe you could have but little difficulty in finding him, for priuted lists of the visitors to almost every resort, small or large, are published daily or weekly. Any bookseller would procure you the Fremdenblatts and Llates del Etrangers, and if you could only find his name at one spot, you would be sure to catch him up at last. When a traveler leaves an hotel In Switzerland, the train, fer boat, or diligence la a sure Indication of what district he Is changing to, and any Intelligent porter or servant will In all probability be able to remember any person you can describe fairly accurate ly" To this a letter came tmck from Guf fanta, saying that he acknowledged the reason of Mr. Stuart's remarks, and that he would waste no more time in Paris, but would at once set out for Switzer land. ' "Only," he wrote, in his usual grave bug. studied style, "you must pardon uie for what I am going to say, and for what I am going to ask. It is for money. 1 have exhausted my store, which was not great when I arrived in England, and which has only been Increased by a small draft on Don Rodriguez's London banker. 1 have enough to take me to Switzerland, I find, but not enough to carry me into the heart of the country. Will you please send me some to the Poste Restante at Basle? I will repay it some day, and be sure that I shall eventually gain the ob ject we both desire In our hearts." For answer to this Stuart put a fifty pound note in a registered letter, and for warded it to the address Guffanta had given him. Then, when it had been acknowledged by the latter, he beard uo more from him for some time. CHAPTER XXI. During this period Lord Penlyn had been absent from town. He bad received from Sir Paul Raugh ton, at the time when the Senor was about to leave London, a letter telling him that Ida was much better, and that he thought that Penlyn might see her if La went down to Belmont. Sir Paul had faithfully delivered the message given him, and to Ida this, he said, bad been the best medicine. At first she would scarcely believe ii possible that her lover would ever again ee her or speak of love to her; but, when he learned that not only was he anxious to do this, but that it was he himself whom he considered in the wrong, and that, instead of extending his pardon to her. be was anxious to sue for hers, the color cam back to her chert and tin ii. 1 mnA ISna IWIW w lie V ' "Oh, papa," ahe said, aa ah. aat op on day In her boudoir ana nesuea an tm him, "oh, papa, how conld I ever think so Ul of him, of him who la eTSTythlnf that la good and noble? How wicked have been I How wicked and unjust 1" "Of course I" Sir Pan! exclaimed; "that is just the kind of thing a woman always feres, and than, Joat because be wants to VLfB auarrm aa niowm rws the thinks ahe ha been In the wrong. And. after all, mind you, Ida, although I don't believe that Penlyn had any mors to do with the murder than I had " "No, papal" speaking firmly. "Still he doe not come out of the affair with flying color. He never moved hand nor foot to find out who really had done It, and he kept the secret of poor Condall being hi brother from me. He oughtn't to have done that!" Sir Paul did feel himself aggrieved at this. He thought that, a Ida' father, he should have been told everything bearing upon the connection between the two men, and he considered that there had been some Intention to deceive him on the part of Penlyn. In hi Joy at the prospect of hi daugh ter' renewed happiness he waa very will ing to forgive Penlyn, bat a till he could not help mentioning hi error, aa he con sidered them. "Remember the letter from hia brother, papal It contained hi aolemn injunc tion rendered doubly solemn by the awful fate that overtook him on the very night be wrote them I How could he con fide the secret to anyone after that?" Her father made no anawer to thla ques tion, not knowing what to say. After all, he acknowledged that had he been made the. custodian of auch a se cret, had be had such solemn injunction laid on him as Cundall had laid on bis brother, he would have tried to keep them equally well. Honestly, be could not tell himself that Penlyn should have broken the solemn command imposed upon him; the com mand issued by a man who, aa he gave it, was standing at the gate of the grave. So, when Penlyn paid bis next visit to Belmont, there was a different meeting between him and its inmates from the meetings that had gone before. Sir Paul took him by the hand, and told him that he waa sincerely happy in know ing that once more he and Ida were thor oughly united, and then he went In to her. Not a moment elapsed before she wai folded to his heart and he had kiased het again and again, not a moment before she was beseeching him to forgive her for the injurious thoughts and suspicions sh had let come into her mind. "Hush. Ida; hush, my darling!" he said, as he tried to soothe her; "it is not yon who should ask forgiveness, but L Not because I kept my brother's secret from yon, but because of the brutal way in which I cast you off, simply for your doubting me for one moment. Oh, Ida, my own, say that you forgive me." "I have nothing to forgive," she said; "the fault was mine. I should never have doubted 'you." And so once more they ware united, united never more to part. And since everything was now known to Ida, her future husband was able to talk freely to her, to tell her other things that had transpired of late, and especial ly of, what seemed to him, the strange be havior of the Senor, and the accusations he bad brought against him of shielding the murderer in his bonse. "Oh, Grvase!" Ida exclaimed, "why Is it that everyone should be so unjust to you? Was It not enough that I ahould have suspected you though only for a moment in my grief and delirium with out this man doing so In another manner? It is monstrous, monstrous!" "Your suspicions," he answered, "were natural enough. You had had your mind disturbed by that strsnge dream, and, when you heard of my relationship to Cundall, it was natural that your thoughts should take the tarn they did. But I cannot understand Guffanta, nor what he means." He had recognised many timer daring the estrangement between him and Ida that her temporary suspicion of him waa natural enough, and that being no hero ine of romance, but only a straightfor ward English girl, with a strange delu sion as to having aeen the aaaassin In her dream it was not strange ahe ahould have doubted him; but for Guffanta'a ac cusation he could find no reason. Over and over again he had asked him self whom it could be that be suspected? aud again and again he had failed to find an answer. On that fatal night there had been no one sleeping In Occleve House but the servants, no one who could have gained admission to It; yet the Senor had charg ed him with sheltering the man wh'o had done the deed, both on that night and af terwards. "Can he not be made to apeak out open ly?" Ida asked. "Can he not be made to say who the person was whose face he saw? Why do you not force him to do so?" "I have seen nothing of him since the night he accused me of protecting the murderer, and he has left the hotel he waa staying at." "Where ia he gone?" Ida asked. "No one seems to know, though Stuart saya he fanciea he ia still looking for the murderer. ' I pray God he may find him." "And I, too!" Ida aaid. After this meeting. Penlyn acceded t the request of Sir Paul and hia fuiur wife that he should stay at Belmont foi some time, and he took op his abode there with them. Hia valet came down from town, bring ing with him all things necessary for a stay in the country, and then Ida passed happier days in the society of her lover than she had ever yet enjoyed. They spent their mornings together sitting under the firs upon the lawn, they drove together for she waa still too weak to ride in the afternoons; and in the even ings Sir Paul would join them. Their marriage bad been postponed for two months in consequence of Ida's ill health, bnt they knew that by the eud of October they would be happy, and s ttiej bore the delay without repining. One thing alone chastened their bappt sess the memory of the dead man, and the knowledge that his murderer had not been brought to justice. "I swore upon his grave to avenge him," Lord Penlyn aaid, "and I have done noth ing, can do nothing. If any one ever avenges him it will be Senor Guffanta, ind I sometimes doubt if he will be able to do so. It seems a poor termination to &e vows I took." "Perhaps it is bnt a natural one," Ida tuswered. "It ia only In romances, and f.t some few cases of real life, that a muf fler planned as this one must have been is punished. Yet, so long a w live, w will pray that some day his wicked assas sin may be discovered." "Do yon still think," Penlyn asked, that the figure which you saw in "your Iream was known to you in actual life? Do you think that if the murderer is ever found you will remember that you nave known him?" "It is a dream,'' ahe answered, "only a dreamt Yet Jt made a strange Imp res- ion on me. Yon know that I also said that. If once I could remember to what man In actual life that figure bore a re semblance, I would have hia every action of the past and present closely scruti nized; yet I, too, can do nothing. Even though I could identify some living per son with that figure, what could I, a wom an, do?" "Nothing, darling," her lover answered her, "we can neither of na do anything. If Guffanta cannot find him, we must be content to leave his punishment to heav en." So, gradually, they came to think that never in this world would Walter Cun dall' death be avenged, and gradually their thought turned to other things, to the happy life that seemed before them, and to the way in which that life should be spent. Under the fir trees they would sit and plan how the vaat fortune that the dead man had left ahould best be laid out, how an almshouse bearing his name should be erected at Occleve Chase, and how a large charity, also in hia name, ahould be en dowed in London. And even then, they knew that bat a drop of hia wealth would be spent; It would necessitate unceasing thought up on their part to gradually get it all dis tributed in a manner that ahould do good to others, "He was the essence of charity and generosity," Penlyn said, "it ahaU be by a charitable and generous disposal of hia wealth that we will honor his memory." They were seated on their nsual bench one evening, still making their plana, when they aaw one of Sir Paul's footmen coming towards them and bringing the usual batch of papers and letters. It waa the time at which the post gen erally came In, and they had made a hab it of having their correspondence brought to them there, and of passing the half hour before dinner In reading their letters. The man handed several to Lord Pen lyn and one to Ida, and they began to peruse them. Those to Penlyn were ordinary ones and did not take tag in the reading, and be waa about to tnrn round and ask Ida if hers waa of any Importance, when be was startled by a sound from her lips a sound that waa half a gasp and half a moan. Aa he looked at her he saw that ahe had sunk back against the wooden rail of the garden seat, and that ahe was deathly pale. The letter ahe had received, and the envelope bearing the green stamp of Switzerland, had fallen at her feet. "Ida! say dearestl what Is It?" he ex claimed, aa he bent toward her and plac ed hia arm around her. "Idal have yen had bad news, have you " The dream," ahe moaned, "the dreamP "What dream?" he said, while a sweat of horror, of undefined, unknown horrot broke out upon hia forehead. "What dream?" "The letter! Read the letter!" ahe an swered, while In her eyes was a look be had once aeen before the far-away look that bad been there when he first sposa to her of hi brother' murder. He stooped and picked up the letter picked ft u and read it hurriedly; and then be, too, let it fall again and leaned back againat the seat. "Philip Smerdon my brother' murder er!" he exclaimed. "Philip Smerdon. my friend, an assassin I The self-accused, fh self-avowed murderer of Walter Cundall! Ida," he said, turning to her, "ia hia the figure in your dream';" "Yea," she walled. "Yes! I recognise It now." (To b. continued.) Fate of a Doom Town. Father Time, with his reverses and cycle of hot winds, has left nls Impress upon the prairies of Western Kansas. Ten years ago the chief occupation of the people of that region was that of town building. Future county seats dotted every hillside, and commercial centers adorned every valley. Water works, electric light and gas plants) were the public utilities which were pointed to with pride by the pioneer boomers who led the march Into tha Great American desert. A few days ago the only remaining building In the once flourishing town of Terry, 1b Finney County, was moved away. This place was the Ideal loca tion for a county seat ten years ago, and Its enterprising people seriously considered the advisability of wresting county seat bonoss from Garden City. All that remains to tell the weary trav eler of the once bustling town of Terry are the cellar boles over which ones stood stately and imposing buildings. The first building erected In Terry was a two-story schoolhouse. It wai large enougb at the time of erection to bouse every child of school age In Finney County. Then a steam grist mill was built that would do credit to a city of 10,000 Inhabitants. Followltuj these In rapid succession came all tb necessary stores and shops, and wltbU six months from the time the town was platted Terry was the borne of 1.00C Is related of this town that whet the) first Sunday school was organized there a search of five miles In all di rections failed to find a man who was qualified to offer up a prayer. By agree ment this part of the exercises was dis pensed with and the business of th Sunday school proceeded St. Louis Republic. Need tor 4a Anti-Boa. Lssague. We need throughout the country something Ilka an anti-boss league, which shall consolidate all the reform forces of the land against this public enemy. Every moral and educational Influence should Join In this work. The colleges and schools should Instruct their youth againat him, and the pulpit and press should attack him without ceasing. He la a thief and a robber, who comes not In the night, but In broad daylight and filches away our rights and liberties, our national good name, and our reputation as a people capable of self-government. If we have not the courage and patriotism necessary to enable us to cope success fully with an enemy of this character, then our condition is sad Indeed. Cen tury. Hia Salt. When we say of an idle fellow that be does not "earn bis salt" or la "not worth bis salt," we unconsciously al lude to an ancient custom among the Romans who considered a man to be la possession of a "salary" who receiv ed a "salarium" allowance of salt money or of salt wherewith to savor bis food. Thus the Roman soldiers who worked at the salt mines were paid for J weir uour ui hi), juiu ueuvjv inm in. word "salary." . . . iyW ifj A Olaaatlc Bnffalo. Tbs skeleton of s bison fit an extinct I pedes Is said to have been found re rently In Western Kansas. Tbs skull was nearly four fet long. Under th skeleton lay a small stone arrow-bead. Oil frota Celery. A new Industry which Is receiving encouragement In Germany is thst of lls'llllng a strong aromatic oil from the rreen leaves of the celery plant. bund red pounds of leaves make olio pound of oiL The oil is used for flavor ing purposes. Opium Basks, The French chemist, Molssan, recent (y analysed the amoke of opium, and found that its peculiar effects due to the presence o a small quantity of mor phine. The cheaper qualities of the rug, when burned, produce a variety f poisonous compounds in the smoke, which are more injurious than the mor phine that characterizes tbs smoke of the best opium. " Tha Poison of Fat I was. Experiment have shown that fatigue causes a chemical change In the blood, resulting In the production of a poison ressutbllng the curare poison, which certain savage tribes use for arrows. Arrow poison, however. Is of vegetable origin. When the blood of a tired ani mal la Injected Into the arteries of s fresh one, the Utter exhibits all tb symptoms offatlgue. A iaoa-Aat.loste Fight. In his recently published book ou the "Game Fields of the Transvaal" Mr. F. V. Klrby describes a battle, wit nessed by blm, between a lion and a sable antelope, which resulted In tba death of both of the combatants. At first sight it may appear surprising that an antelope could kill a lion, but the sable antelope of South Africa Is a powerful animal armed with strong, harp horns. The Glacier Bear. A species of bear found among tho tlaclers along the Mount St. Ellas rang In Alaska Is regarded as being distinct from any American bear hitherto known. It has a very broad bead and a bluish-gray coat, and according to Mr. William H. Dall. it Is more nearly allied to the black than to the brown bear. An attempt Is to be made this summer to obtain an entire skin snd skull of the glacier bear for mounting. A New Oesn. Within the paat twenty years a new and very beautiful stone bas been In troduced In Jewelry. It Is tha green garnet, sometimes called tha Trallan emerald," being found In the Ural Mountains. Mr. George F. Kunz, the gem expert, says of It: "It varies iu color from yellowish-green to an In tense emerald color, and has such a power of refracting light that It shows a district fire like the diamond or sir con, and In the evening has almost the appearance of a green diamond." A Tree of Iron. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences In Philadelphia Professor Carter gave an account of a wonderful tree-trunk discovered In a sandstone quarry In Montgomery Coun ty, Pennsylvania. It Is ten Inches thick and eighteen feet long, and has been turned Into Iron through a natural process of substitution, by which the wood bas been replaced with iron hematite derived from the sand. This Is analogous to the transformation Into agate undergone by formerly sub merged tree-trunks In Arizona and tb Yellowstone Park. A Novel Flre-Kaalae. What might be described as a dou ble tandem bicycle, with four wheelu arranged like those of a wagon, and four seats for riders, two In front and two behind, and carrying a hose reel, potary pump, etc., waa exhibited at the recent bicycle show In Paris. Tbs ma chine Is Intended as a fire-engine. When the scene of the fire la reached the pedaks are thrown Into gear with the bump, the boss Is unrolled, and the riders, resuming their seats, work the pump by mesns of tbe pedals. It Is claimed that thla machine can outstrip any fire-engine drawn by horses on the way to a conflagration, and that its pump Is at least as effective ss those of th band-engines used In small towns. The Sloax la th Bast, That the Sioux Indiana once lived In Virginia and the Carolinaa, and biter in the Ohio Valley, Is the conclusion of Mr. Jsmes Mooney, based upon a study of traditions and tbe scattered rem nants of Indian languages. The pres sure of Increasing population and the advance of other tribes, he thinks, drove them across the Mississippi, In search of broader bunting-grounds long before the arrival of whit people from Europe. It la Interesting to be remind ed by Mr. Mooney that herds of buffalo yet roamed over tbe plains watered by the Ohio until tbe latter part of the eighteenth century. Yet tbe genera tion la not rery remote In the future which, dwelling upon tbe plains of Da kota and Kansas, will need to be re minded by historical records that un counted thousands of one of tha largest and most characteristic of tb wild ani mals of America gave fame to those plains during tbe first half of the nine- teenth century. Oil Yield of Indiana. A recent report of tbe State geologist saya that tb total production of oil In Indiana waa 4,380,000 barrel In 1885, valued at 18,109,800. Tb probabilities ar that tba area of territory produc tive of oil will continue slowly to spreal to tbs west and south, until it finally smbracss tbs neater part of tbe area at yielding natural raa, AUSTftM MfcXT KINO, s ta Said to Bo h Wlcheaeat Frlaca Ss Starts. The people 'of Austria are by no means pleased with Enfperor Francis Joseph for having offtclany proclaim ed as hia heir to tbe throne his nephew, Archduke Otto. When Otto's elder brother, Francis Ferdinand, was strick en wl3i consumption It was hoped that Otto's claims to the throne would be set aside in favor either of one of Fran cis Joseph's grand-nephews or of the son of his youngest daughter, the Arch duchess Valeria. Otto'a claim to the throne, however, Is not to be disputed. He Is the second son of tbe Iste Arch duke Charles Louis, second brother of the Emperor, who, after the tragic death of Crown Prince Rudolph, be came heir to tbe throne. Otto Is called tbe "wickedest prince In tbe world." He Is extremely unpop ular in Austria, while In Hungary he Is held In the greatest hatred. He Is the black sheep of tbe Imperial fam ily. Not only Is he a libertine but a drunkard as well, and be Is frequently seen Intoxicated In public. His be havior to his wife, the Archduchess Marie Josepha, a daughter of Prince George of Saxony, has been of so disgraceful a character that on two occasions she bas been compelled to leave him and return to her family. One of the stories told of Archduke Otto Is that on one occasion he stopped a peasant's funeral that he might amuse himself by leaping his horse back and forth across the corpse. Tho Emperor has no love for him. Indeed, be detests him and It la related thai on one occasion be struck him In th face because of some piece of black guardism that the young prince bad perpetrated. It was but a short time ago that several tales of his misdeeds were related In one of the leading news papers of Budapest Otto appealed to the Emperor to punish the edltfcr. but Francis Joseph refused to do so, tell ing him his only course would be to sue blm for libel, as would the mean est subject Tbe suit was brought, but the Jury who tried tbe case render ed a verdict in favor of the editor. Tbe verdict was sustained by the court and by the Court of Appeals, and thus Otto stands convicted as a reprobate of the deepest dye. BEAUTIFUL SEVILLE. There Is Always Something! Asnaains, Pictorial, or Dramatic to see. The landlord at the Hotel de Paris was very patient and good-humored with us, though we walked him all over his own libuse before "we chose a room that opened upon a small, dark, well like court, full of palms and orange trees, and with a fountain. He seem ed delighted when he found that we were satisfied. "You know," he told us, "I always say that strangers who come to Seville In tho summer time must be mad." Yet only In the summer time does one see the true character of the country, and more especially of Seville. The town was as hot ss. If not hotter than, Cordova; all Its stock amusements were off for tbe time. There were no gipsy dances, no bull-fights; but nothing could have been gayer and more ani mated than tbe mere aspect of the place. - Its narrow alleyways, where tbe flower-laden balconies almost met above our heads, were lined with houses shining white, or pale rose, or green or gold, In the sunlight Tha market places were st all hours crowd ed with chattering and Uughlng peas ants, while the air, perhaps, was cooled -y a fountain playing in the center. The shops opened. Eastern-like, with out windows, upon the streets, their wares tumbling ut almost st one's feet Hardly a green square but bad a gaudy little booth at each corner, where old men or women sold fresh water and sweet Iced drinks. No mat ter in what direction we went, then was always something amusing, pic torial, or dramatic. Now it was a wonderful church or convent or hos pital, with fine flamboyant doorway, and romantic associations; or again It was a garden of palms, a high mlra dor aflame with roses, a dark interior witn oxen in the far shadows, a long arcade making a frame for the Moorish wall of the cathedral mosque; and al ways It wss a long train of mules in gorgeous trappings coming and going, or resting In a narrow street and under the shade of a high wall with, as like aa not a row of potted flowers on Its top. Centura. . . What nasty slang this new v d ,airr! ARCHDUCHESS MA CIA JOSIPHA, FR1XCE OTTO. REV. DR. TALMAGE The Eminent Divine's Sunday Dlaxoursa. Subject: "The Day ia at Hand." Tixt "Tbe I'st Is st Hnnd." Romans xlti. 12. Baik from th mountains and th. Mastd. and the springs, and th farmhouse, youj cheeks bronzed and your spirits lighted, 1 hail you horn, again with tb. words o Oeoazi to tb. Shunammit.: "Is It well with thite? Is It wall with thy husband? Is It well with th. child?" On soma faces I so. tha mark ot reoent grief, bat all along th. track ot tears I sea tb. story of resurrection and reunion when all tears are done: th. deep plowing of the keel, followed by tb. naah of th. pboephoresrejios. Now that I hav. asked yon in regard to your welfare, you naturally ask how I am. Very well,' thank you. Whether it waa th. bracing air of tn. mountains, or a bath la tb. surf of Long Island beach, or whether it Is th. joy of standing in thU great group of warm haartM friends, or whether it la a new ap preciation of tba goodness of God, I can not tell. I simply know I am happy. It was said that John Moffatt, th. great Methodist prencher, occasionally got fast In his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry "Hallelujah:" I am In no auoa predica ment t.-day, but I am full of th. asm. rhap sodic ejaculation. Starting out thla morn ing on a new ecclesiastical year, I want to give you tho keynot. of my next twelve months' ministry. 1 want to set It to th tunes of "Aatiocb," "Ariel" ad "Corona tion." I want to put a new trumpet atop into my sermons. We do wrong if w. allow our personal sorrows to interior with tb. sior.oas fact that th. Kingdom ta coming. We are wicked If we allow apprehension of National disaster to put down oar faith in God and tho mission of our American peo ple. Tb. Qod who bath been on tne slda of this Nation since tha 4th ot July, 1776, will see to It that this Nation shall not commit sulotde on November 3, 1896. By th. time the unparali.'ed harvests ot this summer get down to tbe sea-board, we shall be standing in a sunburst of National prosperity that will paralyas tbe pessimists, who by their evil Crophesies are blaspheming tha God who ath blest thla Nation aa Ha hath blast no other. In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man had a right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that He was glum at th w ddinir in Cana ot Oaliloe's Do you sup pose that Christ was unresponsive when tha children clambered over His knee and ahoulder at His own invitation? Do yon supposatbat tbe Evangelist meant nothing when hs said ot Christ: "Ha rejoioed In spirit?" Do you believe that the Divins Christ who pours all tb. waters over tne rocks at Vernal Falls, Toeeinlte, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumul tuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only that the morning laugh, and that th. mountains lauigh, and that the seas faugh, and tbat the cascades laugh, but tbat Christ laughed. Moreover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness Astronomers disturbed'many people by tell ing them that there waa danger of stellar collision. We were told by these astrono mers that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars aud tumulis and perhaps the world's destruction. Do not be soared. If you have ever stood at a railroad centre, where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks eross each other, and seen that by the movement of the switch one cr two Inohes, the train shoots this way and that, without colliding, then you may understand how tlfiy worlds may come with in an inch of disaster, and tbat Inoh be as good as a million miles. If a human switch-tender on a shoot the trains this way and that without barm, cannot the hand that for thousands ot years has upheld the universe, keep our little world out of harm's way? Christian geologists tell us tbat this world was millions of years In buiidiug. Well, now, I do not think God woold take millions of years to build a house which was to last only six thousand years. There Is notbiux in the world or outside the world, terrestrial or astronomical, to ex cite dismay. I wish that some stout Go-. pel broexe might scatter all the malaria of human foreboding. Tho sun rose this morning at about 6 o'clock, and I think that Is ju-t about tha hour lu the world's history. "The day Is at band." The first rav of the dawn I see in tbe gradual substitution of diplomatic skUl i for human butchery. Within th. last twenty- nve years there bav. been International dif ferences which would have brought a shock o' arms in any other day, but whloh were peacefully adjusted, tbe pan taking the place of tbe sword. Tba Tenezue an controversy in any other age of tbe world would have brought shock of arms, but now Is bemir so quietly adjusted that no oue knows just how it Is being settled. The Alabama question In any other age ot tbe world would have caused war between the United States and England. How was It settled? By men-of-war off the Narrows, or off the Mersey? No. A few wis. men got into a quiet room at Geneva, talked tba matter over, and teieg-aphed to Washington and London, "All settled." Peace! Peaoej England pays to the Dnited States tha amount awarded pays really more than sht ought to have paid. But still, all that Ala. baina broil Is settled settled for forever. Arbitration Instead of battle. Bo the quarrel about th. Canadian Dish erits In any other age would hav. caused war between the United States and England. Bo th.Sitraoan controversy in auy other am would bav. brought Qermanv and the Cnited States Into bloody collision. But ail Is settled. Arbitration instead ot battle. France will never again. I think, through th. peccadillo of an Ambassador, bring ou a battle with other Nations. She sees that God, In punishment at Sedan, blotted out tha French Empire, and the only aspirant tor that throne who had any right of ex- Citton dies In a war tbat has not eventh. lty of being respectable. What is th. last that England would like to tear out ot her history? Tb. Zulu war. Down with tb. sword and up with the treaty. W. In this country might better have set tled our sectional difficulties by arbitration than by th. trial of the sword. Philan thropy said to th. North: "Pay down a cer tain amount of money for the purchase of th. slaves, and let all tbos born after a cer tain time beuborn free." Philanthropy said to the South: '-i'ou sell your slaves, and get rid of this great National contest and trou ble." The North replied: "I won't pay a cent." Tha South replied "1 won't sell." War! War! A milliou dead men, and a Na tional debt which might hav. ground this Nation to pow.ier. Why did wa not let William H. Seward, of New York, and Alex ander H. Stephens, of Georgia, go out and speud a few days under the trees cn tb. banks of tha Potomao and talk th. matter over and settle it, ss settle It they eould, ratber than the North pay in cost of wai four billion wren bunired million dollars, and tbe South pay four billion seven hun dred and fifty mill-on dollars, the destroying angel leaving the 11 rat-born dead In so many houses all the wav from tbe Penobsoot to tha Alabama. Ye aged men whose sons fell in ihe strife, do you not think that would bav. oeeu belter? Ob, yes! We have oome to be lieve, I think, In this country, tbat arbitra tion Is better than, battle. I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war between Christian Nations is aided. Barbarians may mix their war paint, and Chinese and Japanese go Into wbolsesa nassacrw, and Afghan and Zulu hurl pois oned arrows, but 1 tnink Christian Nations' have gradually learned that war la disaster to victor ss well as vanquished, snd that al most anything bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. I wth to God this Nation might be a model of willingness for arbitra tion. Mo ceed of killing another Indian. Nr need of sacrificing any more brave General Casters. Stop exasperating the red men, and there will b. no more arrows shot out from rhe amhushmeots. A General of the United States Army in high repute throughout this iand, and who, perhaps, bad been In mora Indian wars than anv other offloar. aud who had been wounded aain and again In bebalt of oar Government lu battle against tbe In dians, told me that all tb. wars that had aver occurred Between Indians and whit. men had been provoked by white men, and that there was no exception to tha rale. While w. are arbitrating with Christian Na tion. 1st as toward barbiassekrrx oo wives in a manner un pro vocative pt con tent. Let me nut myself la their place: I in herit a large eat ate, and th. waters are rioh witn Dsn, and tn. woods are aongtui witn birds, aud my cornfields are silkei and golden. Here ia my sister's grave. Out yonder, under th. large tree, my father died, an invader comes, and rroposes to drive me off end take poaseMlon of my property. H crowds ma back, he crowds m. on, and crowds me into a closer corner, until, after a while, I say: "Stand back, don't crowd me any mora, or I'll strike. What right have yon to com. her. and drive me off my prem ises I got this farm from my father and h. got It from his father. What right hav. you to CMn. here and molest me?" Yon bland ly sayi "Oh, I know mora than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter than you do. I conld put this ground to a great deal better usa than you da." And you keep crowding m back and crowding me on Into tn. closet sorner and closer corner, until on. day 1 look around upon my suffering family, and fired by their hardships I hew you in twain, forth with all the world domes to your fu neral to pronouno. ealogium. "m. to mj execution to anathematise svs iou are tb hero, I am th. culprit. Behold tbe Uuited States Government and tha North Amerlcac adian. The red man has stood men wrongs than I would, or you. We would hav. struck sooner, deeper. That which Is right in defence of a Washington hom Is right ia def.no. of a home on top ot tb. Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindling red ram dies completely out, I wish that this generation might by ooinmon justice atoa. for th. Inhumanity of its predecessors. Ia the day of God's judgment. I would ratber be a blood-amaared Modoo than a swindling United States officer on an Indian reservation! On. was a barbarian aud a savage, and never pretended to be anything oat a oaroanaa ana a savag i ne otner pretended to be a representative of a Chris tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this, the general disgust with war and th. substitu tion of diplomatic skill for tha glittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that "th day is at hand." I find another ray of dawn la tbe com pression of th. world's diataaoea. What a alow, snail-Ilk., almost impossible thing won id hav. been th. world a rectification with fourteen hundred millions of popula tion and no facial means of communication: but now, through telegraphy for the eye ami telephonic intimacy for the ear, and through Bteamboating and railroading, the tweniy flve thousand miles of th. world's ciroutn fereno. are shriveling up into inaignifant brevity! Hong Kong Is nearer New York than a few years ago New Haven was; Bom bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see tbe tele graphs ot th. land, and by th. red lines tbe cables under th. ocean. Voa see what op portunity thla ia going to give for the final movements ot Christianity. A fortress may be months or years In building, but after it la constructed it may do ad its work in twen ty minutes. Christianity haa been plauting Its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may go on in the work through other centuries; but when those batteries are thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully built, tbey may all do their work la twenty-tour Ijoura. Suppose Christ should descend on the Nations many expect that Christ will oome among tbe Nations personally suppose that to-morrow morning the Son of God from a hovering cloud should descend upon these allies. Should not thatjact.be known all the world over In twenty-four hours? Suppose Heshould present His Gospel In a few words, saying: "I am tha Son of God; I came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor row; to prove tbat I am a supernatural being, I have just descended from theolouds. Do yon believ. Me, and do you believe M now?" Why. all tha telegraph stations oi the earth would be orowded as noae of them were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. 1 1.11 you all these things to show you It la not among tha Impossibilities or even th. Im probabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do tt Instanter, when the time comes. There are foretokenlngs In tha air. Some thing great ia going to happen. I do not think that Jupiter Is going to run us down, or tbat the axle of ta. world Is going to break: but I mean something great for tbs worlds blessing and not for tbe world's damage Is going to hsppen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough, tha famines and plagues. Enough, the Astatic oboleraa. Enough, tbe wars. Enough, the shipwrecks. Euough, the conflagratlops. I think our world could stand right well a procession of prosperities and triumphs. Better ba on the lookout, better bare your observatories open toward the heavens, and tbe lenses or your most powerful telescopes well polished. Better have all your Ley. ten Jars ready for soma new pulsation of mightv ntluunce. Better have new fonts of type iu your printing oalces to set up some astound ing good news. Better bav. soma new ban ner, that haa never been carried, ready for sudden processions. Better bav. the belli In your ohurah tower wall hong, and rope within reach, that you may ring out the marriage of th. King's Son. Cleanse all your oouit houses, for the Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls ba glided, for th. great Lawgiver may be about to com.. Drive off the thrones of depotism all th. oeoopants, for the King ot heaven and earth may be about to reign. Tha darkness of tba night is blooming and whitening Into tha lilies of morning clouds, and th. lilies reddening Into the roses oi stronger day fit garlands, whether white or red, for Him on whose head are many crowns. '-The day Is at hand." On. more ray of tba dawn I see in facts ehronologioal and mathematical. Come, now, do not let us to another stroke of work until w. hav. settled one matter. What is going to be th final Issue of this great con test between sin and righteousness? Which Is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Diabolaa'r Is this world going to be all garden or all desert? Now let us have thai matter settled, ' If we believe Isaiah, an I Ezektel, and Hosea,and Mlcah.and Malachi, and John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lord Himself, w. believ. that It is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether we ar. working on toward a success or toward a dea l failure. If there la a child In your house sick, and you are sure h. Is going to gat well, yon sympathize with present puns, but all tn. foreboding i? gone. Now, I want t. know whether wa are com ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat, or on toward light and blessedness. Xou and I believe th. hitter, and if so .very year we spend Is on. year subtracted from the world's woe. and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy consummation, and by all that Is Inexorable la chronology and mathe matics, I commend you to good cheer and courage. If there la anything it arith metic, if you subtract two from Ave and leave three, then by .vary rolling son w. are coming on toward a magnificent terminus. Then every Winter passed Is one severity less for our poor world. Then every sum mer gone by brings as nearer unfading ar borescence. Pat yoar algebra down on the toD of vour Bible and reioloe. If it la nearer morning at three o'clock than It Is at two, tt ia nearer morning at foui o'clock than tt Is at three, then w. art nearer the dawn of th. world s deliverance. God's clock seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings and the bands move, and it will yet strike noon. The son and th moon stood still once; tbey will never stand still again nntll they stop forever. If yon believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, yoc must believe we are nearer th. dawn. "XtM day is at hand." There is a class of phenomena whloh makes me thtnk that tha spiritual and heavenly world may. after a wnile, make a demonstration in this world which will bring all mortal and spiritual things to a elimsx. Now, I an no spiritualist but every Intelligent man has noticed that there are Strang, and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps tb. spiritual world Is not so far off as some times wa conjecture, and that after awhile, from th. spiritual and heavenly world there may c a demonstration upon our world for Its betterment. W. call It mag aetlam, or we call it mesmerism, or we call It electricity, because w. want some term to eover up oar Ignorance. I do not know what it Is. I never heard an audible voice from th. other world. I am persuaded of this, however: Tbat th. veil between this world and th next I getting thinner and thinner, and that perhaps after awhile, at th. call of God sot at th. call of th. Dav enport Brothers, or Andrew Jackson Davis lorn ot th old Scriptural warriors, soma ot tb spirits of .other 4ysaishty far Qod a Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David, 6r a Paul., may coma down and help us In the bsttlr ' against unrighteousness. Ob, how I woulif like to have them here him ot tbe Red Sea.' him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Marx v Hill! English history says tbat Robert Clay ton, ol tb. English cavalry, at the close o tb. war bought op all the old cavalry bors last tbey should be turned out to drudgery and bard work, and bouelit a piece of ground at Knavasmlre Heath and turned out thus, old war-horses Into the thickest and lichee I pasture to spend th. rest ot their days a Botnpensatton for what they had done tt other days. On. day a thunderstorm cam ap and these war-horses mistook the thunder of th. skies for th thunder of battle and they wheeled lute line no riders on their backi they wheeled Into line reaoy for tha fray. And I donhi ms whether, when the last thunder of thl; battle for God and truth goes boomiui. .; through th. heavens, the old Scriptural war . rlors can keep their places on their thrones -Methlnks they will spring into the Unlit an-'.--exchange crown for helmet, the pain, branch for weapon, and come down out o the King's galleries Into the arena, crying "Make room! I must tight in this grea' Armageddon." The old war horses mingling In th. tight. Beloted people, t preach this snrmon b . eause I want you to toll with tha sun iu'ht it . your faces. I want you old men to under stand before you die that all the work you -did for God while yet your ear was alert am' your foot fleet is going to be counted up it the final victories. I want all these younirdi people to understand, that when thoy toi lor God they always wlntheduy, that al prayers are answered and all Christian wor(--U iu some way efftual. and that the tide setting In the right direction, aud tbat al heaven Is on our aide saintly, cherubic" archangello, otnuipoteut. chariot and throne doxology and pnx-etwion, principalities an' dominlo.i. He who bad the moon under Hi; feet, and all the armies of heaven on wbit- : horses. Brother! brother! al. I a n afraid of is, not that Christ will lose the battle, but th-it yju and I will not get into it quick enouirli to d something worthy of our blood bouirht Iro mortality. O. Christ, how shall I meet The- Thou of the scarred btow and the scarrer back and the scarred band anil the soarrei foot and the scarred bronst. If I have no scar: or wounda gotten in Thy service? It shal not be so. I step out to-day in front of tin . battle. Come on, ye fos of God, I dare voir to the combat! Come on, with pens lilppit ' 1 la maligancy. Come on with tongues forke. and viperine. Come ou with types soaker In scum of the eternal pit. I defy you ! Com- . on! I bare my brow, I uncover my h-art Strike! I can not see my Lord until I hav-. been hurt for Christ. If we do not suffe. with Him on earth, we t-an not bo glorifies ( with Him In heaven. Take (too. I heart. On On! Onl See! the skies have brightened See! the hour is about to come. Pick out al ' tbe cheeriest of the anthems. Lwt the or chestrn string tbolr best instruments. "Th ", night Is far spent, the duy Is at band." TAXES IN THE MOUNTAINS. The Collector Finds It Heat to Coat! promise in Certain Case. j I was toiling along the uiountal ' :rail with a knapsack ou my bac wUeu overtaken by a man uu a tuul He asked where 1 was going, und who I replied that 1 bad been directed t -stop for tbe ulgbt at Hopkins' cabin hi said: "I am Just gwine up to Tom's plac myself, aud we'll jog along togethe"! I hev to see Tom about bis taxes." I "How are taxes assessed up here I '.he mountains?" I asked, after a whll! "Oh. kinder so-so." j Nothing more was Bald vfiit 11 w reached tbe cabin. Mr. Hopkins waji' cutting firewood In tbe back yard, an ' ho came around aud welcomed us an queried of the man with me: li "Wall. Sam. what brings you u his way?" ; "Cum to see about yo'r taxes, Tom ;, "Shoo! How ar" taxes this y'ar?" "Wall. Tom, taxes Is up a little, 1't. sorry to say." j "How much up?" t "Yo' dun paid seven dollars last y'a f 1 believe?" ii " 'Bout seven." "And they've rlz up to nine th " y'ar." J "Shoo! Sara Davis, who rlz up thei taxes ou me?" ' "Tbe State Bo'd, 1 reckon." ; "And uhar1 tuought tbe State Bo' be at?" "Xasbvllle, I take It." r "Shoo! Jest wait a tuinlt" ( He entered the bouse for a momei -and then reappeared with a long ba reled ritle and dropped tbe butt uu tt ' ground as be said: "Shui, I ain't gwine to stand no r ap Iu taxes! Thar's no rail fur I I've got them seven dollars right yet In tbe house, but I dun doau' pay t . uu. What yo' gwine to do about Iff "Won't yo' pay uo mo'i" "Not a blamed cent!" "And yo' doaa' keer 'bout the Sta Bo'd?" "Not a bit." " A nd yo'U shoot bef o' y o' pay ax mo'?" ; "Sure to!" "Wall, then, I reckon I'll take aloi cheiu seven dollars and call It squat, and If tbe State Bo'd doau' like it tb kin cum arter the rest. How's Pe Small on taxes this y'ar?" "I'ete won't pay a cent." j "And old man Harper?" I "Him's waltln' fur yo' with a gun"' "I see. Wall, I won't bother 'em, reckon. Bring out them seven dollat Torn, aud take a receipt, and If you b any co'njulce bandy I might be coax to wet up the roof of my mouth!" X) . trolt Free Press. - Kirteea Minutes a Day. An excellent amateur pianoforte pla er was recently asked bow 6he hi ' managed to keep up her music. She w over forty, and had brought up a lar : family. Sbe had never been rich, at she bad had more social burdens tbt fall to the lot of most women. "How have you ever done It?" aa her friend, who bad long ago lost t musical skill which she bad gained '. a great expense, both in time at money. "I have done It," replied tbe oth "by practicing fifteen minutes a da i whenever I could not get more. Son: -; times, for several months together, hare been able to practice two or tbr hours each day: Now and then I ba taken a course of lessons, se far as keep up with the times; but, howev' busy and burdened I have been, unle actually Dl In bed, I have practiced least fifteen minutes each day. Tl. has tided me over from one period ; -leisure to another, so that now 1 ha still my one talent at least, as well lr proved as ever it waa, with which entertain my friends and amuee m self." C Paris policenoen ' havo be-sn suV plied with electric dark lanterns, means of which they cau see one hn drrd ani fifty feet away. j - i t - i I 'I 1 ..5.U.'siJ'WWwiw aassnfcatlai mm ' r.-?i.-;-y -sr. fKf.r.vt-Wi-.-
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