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O. F. BOH WE1ER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IWB.
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VOL. J,.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1896.
NO. 43.
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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
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