'v.jmnif-i -oa -.s M J !:. - JP. KOHWKIER, THE CONSTITUTION TH E ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWK. BdttMr -Mad VOL ).. MIFFLINTOWN. .1UNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1896. NO. 49. -A, eaaaaaaaaaaaaa.aaBSBSSSSWnSSWSSBWaSSBWBBWBW CHAPTER. VII (Continued.! The color on Hanbury's face deepened. Hia eyes Hashed. It wai Intolerable that this low, ill -aha pen creature abould re fer to Dora, to Dora to whom he ws engaged, who was to be his trite, at "a Woman In the caae." Anyway, there waa nothing for it bnt to try to mnxsle Leigh. He forced" himself to aay calmly: The lady who waa with me is " "Miss Aahton." "Yea. She told me abc gave yon her aame and mine. Well, Mr. Leigh, you Are good enougu to any yon remember me as a speaker. I am seriously think ing of adopting a public career. I could not, for a time at all events, appear on any platform of disputed principles if this anfortunate fainting of mine got into the papers. Some opponent would be certain to throw it In my face. Will yon do me the very grea persona! favor of keeping the matter to yourself?" A personal favor from me to you. Ou what grounds do you put the request?" On any honorable grounds you please. Ton said yoa were not rich " "I did not say I was corrupt." II it manner was quick, abrupt, final. Ills face darkened Ilia eyes glittered. "Mr. XIanbury, you are a rich man " "Xot rich, surely." "Ton are rich, compared with any man in this street You are a rich man. You got your money without work or risk. Yon are you tig and clever, and tall and traight, and healthy and good-looking, and eloquent and dear to the moat beau tiful lady I ever laid eyes on " "Curse him!"' thought Ilanbury, bnt he held his peace, remained without move ment of limb or feature. "Rich, good-lookiu?, sound, beloved, elo quent, young. Look at me. I'oor, ill favored, marred anil claimed, loathed, un sifted in speech, middle-aged. Do not atop me. I have no chance if I allow you, a gentleman cf your eloquence, to speak against me. Thick of it all, and then work out a little calculation for mc, and tell me the result. Will you do so can didly, fairly, honestly?" "Yes, indeed, I will." "Very well. You who are gifted, as 1 ave snid, come to me who am aSlieted, as I have said, and ask me to dv yon a favor, ask me to sell yon a favor. Sup pose the favor you ask me to do cost me den, at bow much do yon estimate its . ealue to yoa?" "A hundred. Anything you like." "X am not thinking of money." Sor am I. Anything tenfold returned to yoa I will freely give." "Walt a moment. Let me think a while." Leigh sat with his chin sunken deeply em his chest, nnd bis eyes fixed on the floor. Then be spoke in a low tone, a tone half of reverie: "Nature deals in wonders, and I am one of tbem. And 1, in turn, deal in won ders, and there are many of tbem. If 1 chose I could jhow you the most wonder ful clock in all the world, and I could how yoa the most wonderful gold In all the world, more wonderful a thousand times than mystery gold. But I will not show you these thinps now. 1 will show yen a more wonderful thing still. Will yon come with me a little way?" "Yes. but you have not set me tbat aoestinn in arithmetic yet." "I cannot do so until you have come n little way with me. 1 want to show you the most wonderful thing you ever saw." "May I ask what it is?" "You need not be afraid." "Why need not I be afraid 7" "Because yoa nre not hump-backed and chicken-breasted and lop-sided and dwarfed and hideous." "Bnt what ire you taking me to seer" "Something more wonderful and more precious than any mystery gold, than my own miracle gold or my clock, and yet of a kind common enough." "Whaf" "A woman." "But why should I go?" "Come, end if you a?k me that when yon have seen, 1 will ask nothing fur my alienee." "Only a woman?" "Only a woman." They descended the stairs. CHAPTKIt VIII. That morning when Edith Ornce fell asleep In the corner of the third-class carriage, on her way from Millway to the city, she sank into the most profound unconsciousness. When she opened her eyes again they had arrived at the next town. She was conscious of being shaken by tbe shoul der; she awoke and saw opposite her a stout, kind-faced country woman, with a basket on her arm. The woman said: "They want your ticket." A ticket collector standing at the seat, impatient of delay, was flicking the tick eta in his hand. She started and colored, and sat upright with all taste and began searching quickly, anxiously, despairing ly. "11 can't And my ticket." "It's a bad Job. then," (aid t'je col lector. The train had stopped and two passen gers got out, tbe one who had spoken w her saying: "I hope it will be all right, my dear You don't look as if 7on was up to anything bad. You don't took like one of them swindling girls tbat tbey sent to prison for a fortnight ian week." "Qhl" cried Kditb, piteously, as sbe stepped out on the pVUform. She covered her face with her bands and burst into tears She feit completely overwhelmed. IS If she should die. Tbe collector and two trainmen were standing ronnd ber. Waiting until sbe should ier herself Presently a foarta man ct.me up slowly from the further end of the train and stood among the three men. "What is the matter?" he asked softly. Has anything happened to the lady! is A shiver went through Edith. The eras aomethin familia la the voice, but aaf amiliar In tbe tone. ... Lost her ticket and hasn't got aay Booey." answered the coUeoto "looh. money!" said the newcomer, contemptuously. "1 have money. Where has the lady come from? How much is the fare? Hre you are." The new comer held out hia hand to the collector with money in it. "This gentleman offers to pay. miss." said the collector, turning to Edith. "Am t to take the money?" Tbe girl swayed to and fro, and did not answer. It was plain she had heard what bad been said. Her movement was an acknowledgment she had beard. She did not anawer because she did not know what to sey. Two powerful emotions were conflicting In her. The feeling of weakness was passing away. She was trying to choose between Jail (for so the matter seemel to her) and deliverance at his hands. "Of coarse the lady will allow me to arrange this little matter for her. She can pay me back at any time. I will give her my name and address: Oscar Leigh. Forbes bakery. Chetwynd street." Ielgh was standing In front of her. leaning on his stick and gazing Intently at her. With a cry of astonishment he let his stick fall and threw up bis arms. "Miss Grace! Miss Urace. as I am alive! Miss Urace here! Miss Grace here now! He dropped bis arms. His cry and manner bereft ber of the power of speech. She felt abashed and confounded. Sbe seemed to have treated badly this man who had Jnst delivered her from a serious and humiliating difficulty. "Pray excuse me," he said, bowing low and raising his bat as he picked np his stick. "The sight of you astonished me out of myself. I thought you were miles and miles away. I thought yon were at Eltham House. To what greet misfor tune docs my poor mother owe your ab sence? You are not please say you are not ill?" "I am not 111. 1 I was going home to Grimsby street." He hurried her into the moving train. She sat drawn back, pale and stuuneu in t a seat while he, lifting bis hat, left ber, returning only when tbey reached the ' city. Here he Insisted on securing a cab (for her. Riving the driver bis fare and the address before sbe had time to hesitate j or protest. Then he turned briskly away. Into another, rntil he turned into the dirtiest and dingiest one he had yet trav ersed. The ground floor of one of the bouses was devoted to commerce. The floor, as fnr in as one could see. was littered with all kinds of odds and ends of metal ma chines and utensils and Implements. On a washed-out board, in washed-out white letters, over the door, were tbe words "John Timmons," In Urge letters, and be neath in small letters, once black and now a streaky gray, "marine store dealer." Into tbe misty twilight of tills house cf bankrupt and forgeless Vuloan Leigh dis appeared. If a listener bad been at the back of the store, behind the boiler of a donkey en gine, or leaned over the head of the dark cellar In tbe left corner, he would have heard the following dialogue carried on by careful whispers In the darkness be low: "Yea. I bare come back sooner than 1 expected. I went to Milwaukee yesterday morning to consult a very clever mechanic there about the new movement for the fig ures of time In my clock." "You told me you were going away." "My friend not only put me right abont the new movement, but when I told bim I thought I was on the point of perfecting my discovery of the combination in met als, he told me he would be able to find a market for me If 1 was sure the new com pound was eqaal to representation. Of course. 1 told him the supply would be limited until I could arrange for a proper laboratory and for help. I explained that no patent could protect all the processes of manufacture and that for the present ibe method must be a profonnd .secret. I also told him 1 proposed calling my inven tion Miracle Gold." "There's no doubt It will be." "1 told bim my great difficulty at pres ent was tbe color-bat It was very white too like Australian gold too mnch sil ver." "That was clever, very clever. You are the cleverest man 1 ever met." "I told bim also tbat for the present the quantity would be small of the mira cle gold, but that 1 hoped soon to increase the supply as soon as 1 got fully to work." -Vbt did be say the stuff would be worth r "In the pure metal state?" "Of course. After yoo are done with It." "He will not say until he has a speci men. When can you have some ready?" "Now. This minute. Will you take It away with you?" "Xo, not now. What are you doing to night?" "Nothing particular." "Can you come to my place between twelve and half past?" "Certainly." "Without fall?" "Til be there to the minute you aay." "Very well. Let it be twelve exaC . I have a moat excellent reason of my own for punctuality. Bring soma of the si loy with yon. Knock at the doer one 111 open for yoa myself." "I shall be there punctually at twelve. Jn not keep yoa waiting for me to-night CHAPTEB IX. Grimsby street, where Mrs. Grace, nn.vi. lK liul ladriBm. to I which Edith Orace bad been driven that morning, !a one of the hem bit, dnC, dingy kind. Mrs. Grace lived at No. 38, half way j down the street. Sbe rented the first Boor nnfnMtohed. She bad lost some money . v- t.. Moh naOawed no her eranddasshter'a little all. The "most economy now became neciarr for the old woman, and she bad resolved to five ap the tiny toon nntil now KJlth'J That Ifcmrsday mora'ng when Bdtth .Hehtad frecn the oah, hUe. Grace waa lout at the placid, droh srrM. With aa ' exclamation of surprise anj dismay ike ran down stairs, let the girl Li. embraced and kissed her, crying: "My darling! my darling child! What has Happened? Is there no such place at nil ns Kltnam House, or has It been burned down?" Edith burst into tears. She was at given to weeping, but the relief at finding herself at borne after the anxiety and adventures through which she nnd gone, stoke bar down, and, with bar arm round the old woman's waist, sbe u Mrs. Grace to the sitting room. Then, In a few words, she told all to tbe old woman.. She explained bor tf.ijrht by saying this Mr. Leigh hud wearied her with attentions. She said nubing jmmt his having asked her to let him kiss l:er patrlarchally. She wound up by declar ing she could not endure him nnd his objectionable devotion, and taut sl.e bad come away by the first train, having left a note to sak the place did not suit her, and tbat her luggage was to lie sent t-ftt-r her. Then she told of the Ims of her ticket and Mr. Leigh's opportune appcut ance, and last of all, of his promise or threat of calling. Tbe story, as It met tbe ears of Mrs. Grace, did not show Leigh In a very of fensive light Off and on Mrs. Grace sat at the window nstil afternoji. At ore o'clock she ate a light luncheon; having by a visit to Edith's room found that t he girl slept, she let ber sleep on. Time slip ped away, and she began to think that after all Mr. Leigh might net come. wLen, lifting her eyes from her work, she saw two men cross the road and approicn the house. One of these was the dwarf, '.he other a complete stranger to ber, a tall, powerful-looking young man. Tbe two seemed In earnest discourse. They disap them ascend and knock. She peered from view and Mrs, Urace beard hastened to Edith, whom sbe found " Jus awake, and told her that Mr. Leigh had arrived. Tbea she went bsck to the silting room, and, when word came np that Mr. Leigh and a friend wished to see her. sent down an Invitation for the gentlemen to come up. "I do myself. Mrs. Grace, the great pleasure and honor of calling upon you to inquire after Miss Grace, and l jave taken the liberty of asking my friend to keep me company." said the tittle man, bowing profoundly. Mrs. Grace, waving ber hand to a couple of chain, said: "I am glad to sec yen and your friend, Mr. Leigh. Will you pleas be seated?" "Mrs. Grace, my friend, Mr. John Ilan bury. whose fame as a public speaker 1 aa wide aa the ground covered oy me English language." "Very happy. Indeed, to make Mr. Han bury's acquaintance, and very much hon ored by Mr. Banbury's call." said the old lady. The two men sat down. Hanbury felt uncomfortable at Leigh's bombastic in troduction, but at tbe moment be was completely powerless. He felt indignant at this man calling him a friend, but Leigh had it In his power to make him seem ridiculous over a good part of th city; there was nothing to do but to griu and bear It. "I hope Miss Grace has taken no harm of her fright?" "No, thank you, Mr. Leigh. I am surt I don't know what she would have don only for your opportune appearance on the scene. Here sbe is to thank you is person." The door opened and Edith Urace, p ;! and impassive, entered the room. Hanbury made a step forward, and cried, "Dora!" The little man laid his hand on the young bub's arm and held him back. Hanbury looked down at the dwarf is anger and glanced quickly at the girl. "My granddaughter, Miss Urace Mr. John Hanbury, whose speeches I hav often asked you to read for me, Edith." Hanbury fell back a pace and bowed mechanically like one in a dream. H looked from the dwarf to the girl and from the girl to tbe dwarf, but could find no word to say, bad no desire to say s word. He was completely overcome witt amazement (To be continued.) A Long Slide. A system of rapid transit transpor tation ia In use in California, which for cheapness of operating expense it probably the lowest In the country, despite tbe fact that the cost of con struction waa very high, says the Cin cinnati Enquirer. A lumber company in Fresno county. California, baa built a lumber flume fifty-two wiles long:, which In places has a grade of 23 pei cent and which crosses a suspension bridge 431 feet long, something on the plan of the great suspension bridges across the Niagara gorge. The flum Is V-sbaped, and, strange to say. In ad dition to carrying lumber. Is utilized for the transportation of passengers one way for, like the road to ruin In old' temperance books, the line only runs one way, and that down. Tht boat In which the passengers travel or perhaps It would be better to saj shoot Is a V-shaped box about sixteen feet long, and which Is roughly knocked together with boards, since its "good for one trip only," The front end ol the strange craft Is left off, as the ve locity of the water Is so great, despltt the speed of tbe boat. It does not rut bach Into It Preparatory to tbe trlr a plank Is placed along the bottom on which tbe passenger rests his feel while sitting single file on cross seats When all Is ready the spikes by whlct the boat Is held while loading are pall ed out and away It goes on its fifty two-mile journey. In some cases at taining the terrific velocity of sevenrj ; miles per hour. I The surest way to till a lie is to ay notbin t about it it will soon etatve ! itself to death. To J -macd nothing aod to complain of no ne is sn excellent recipo fur hap piness. Kindness works wonder it bo been known t ao well on a tuule, anct i veti on a snske. The rieiust pajplj are thoss wlo have treasures whicli ca'icot be stulen or bnreed at It is not no taach what wa pit iatn our (Kcketi, as what wa take oat tliat makes rich. O.ir future wall being las nothing to do with onr baivg s noere, unlets, we are also right. If our belief is wrong, onr lifi : wroDp, and if our life ia wrong wc il find eternity wro'ig. ever spend any timearnioa; against a succ?s ; it can't be beat anyhow. All have the gift o! speech, tut 'ew are rcescssed of wisdom. Tbe man who is simply a man ot genius suffers more, than the beasts BREAKING A WILD HORSE. A Cowboy Rider Wha Didn't Let I.lttle Thlats Trouble Him. The coolness of the practiced cow boy, who feels In duty bound to appear unhurt and without agitation even when be may be wounded and possess ed of every excuse for excitement, la well Illustrated by an --incident of rough riding In Idaho, related by a frontiersman, Just below Asotin, on the Snake Kir, there Is a cliff at least fifty feet high, at the foot of which the deep water of the river winds; It Is, In fact, rather a cape than a mere cliff, for the race of tbe rock forms a sharp. Jutting point around which a narrow bridle-path runs. To Asotin there once came a cow-boy of considerable skill named Billy Crltes; and to him was brought A wild horse from a neighboring ranch, which no one could tame. Billy at once un dertook the task of riding the animal, and stood by Impassively while his as sistants performed the preparatory task of throwing, blindfolding and saddling the bronco. When the girth had been bound on very tightly, the animal was allowed to get up, and Crltes mounted lato the saddle. "All ready r he shouted, and the bandage was removed from the wild bone's eyes. At the same Instant Billy touched the horse with his spurs; and the crea ture. Intent, as wild horses under such conditions generally are, only on get ting the rider off his back, began to "buck" violently. This performance was repeated for some time, quite In vain. Crites was far from being tbe sort of rider who could be dislodged by this proceeding. All at once the animal began the next performance on the bronco program. He started off on a dead run, and took the trail down the Snake. The spec tators looked to see Crites manage to rein him off this dangerous path, bat evidently from his unfamillarlty with the ground, tbe cow-boy did not do so, but kept straight on. "He'll be killed'." several yelled. -N human being can keep a running boras on the trail around tbat point!" This was quite true. All riders who came to this point on the trail dis mounted, even when their animals wert walking, and led them around the dan. gerous place. It was but a sloping path, and tbe rivor ran swiftly straight below. There was a sharp bend before the point was reached, and Billy and bis bronco disappeared from the specta tors' view. This added to their sus pense. The bronco went straight on to the very edge of the precipice, and then paused of his own accord as If fright ened at the gulf. But the presence of the awful object on his back overmas tered the horse's fear of the cliff, and Standing on the very edge of It he be gan to buck violently. Billy clung hard. Tbe first leap of the bronco did what must have been expected it car ried him and his rider straight down tbe precipice and into the current oi the river. When the spectators, who had fol lowed on as fast as tbey could, reached the place, neither cowboy nor bronco was to be seen. The trail of the ani mal was plain to the place where hi had gone off the rock. It waa quits apparent what had happened. By a circuitous route the men went down to the river shore, and followed along to see if they could find Billy's body. There was a deep gorge bek with a bit of shore, and there the people found Billy Crltes, not dead, but standing on the shore apparently unhurt, nnexclted, very wet, and en gaged In en attempt to fish out with a pole & drowned horse In the stream. In order to recover hia saddle and bridle! When the horse went over the preci pice' the cow-boy kept his seat, but left It as soon ts the animal's body had broken the fall. The bronco waa killed Instantly, but Crltes swam out quits unhurt Seeing the men, he yelled to know why they bad not brought him a rope, and when this was brought ts soon recovered hia saddle and bridle. Be Found His Pocket-Boo k. A true story, but one stranger than fiction, and hard to beat Is told and endorsed by the Hartford Courant, about the way in wblcb a gentleman recovered his lost pocket-book. A gentleman from Philadelphia who has been In Hartford on business lost his pocket-book, containing seventy three dollars, a few evenings ago. He made Inquiries for It at places where he had been. Including the Opera House cafe, where be bad taken some of his meals, but did not find It Aa be was walking down Main street, he beard two men behind him talking. "Let's stop In the City Hotel and have a drink," said one. Tbe other In quired wuere the City Hotel was, and his companion said It was a little way down the street "All right" said the other, "but have the drink with me. Last night I had nothing and to-night 1 have seventy three dollars." The fact that the amount named was tbe amount the Philadelphia man had lost attracted bis notice, and be turned around to see who was talking. He recognized the speaker as a man he had known In Philadelphia. Stepping aside, he let the two pass, and followed them Into tbe City Hotel bar-room. Stepping up to the man wbo said be had seventy-three dollars, be said: "Ton havs my pocket-book, and you must hand It over. It Is a little red book, and contains seventy-three dol lars and a ten-dollar Confederate bill." The man Indignantly denied It, and asked his accuser who lie was thnt he sUoulu dare to make such a charge. "IH tell you who I am," he repl.'cd, "and 111 tell you who you are. You were employed once In the Philadel phia postoflice, and I arrested you for stealing and seliine stamps. Now bnn-.l over the pocket-book or It win go hard with you." The fellow recognized his accuser, and at once took the book out of bis pocket and returned It to the owner, none of its contents having been dis turbed. A Thrifty Landlord. It la said that the secret cf success fn betel-keeping lies In letting nothing re to waato. and m taking advantage of small opportunities. This may be a good rule, but It seems that It may be carrif d too far. A commercial trav eler in the hardware Una reports to his trado Journal a case of adaptation which appeals a trifle extreme. He was In a hotel In a North Caro lina town of some size, and wanted a bath. He rang a bell and asked If the house bad any bath-tubs. "Tea. sab; nice ones, an," answer ed the waiter: He went away and presently returned, bearing on his shoulders a coffin with silver-plated handles and lid all complete. "What do yon mean by bringing tbat in?" asked the traveler. "Data de baff-tnb, aan," sold the walten. . . -The batb-tnbr "Ye, ash. Jon see, aan, de talnd lo'd, he used to be In de undertaking business, sab, an be bad a lot e' coffins on nan', when he sol out an' took dia hots!, i His son hi In de tlnsmlff bast nesa, sab, so he don had de coffins lined wid tin. sab, and dey make bery nice baff-tnbs, sab. Try It, aan; you'll Ilka it" " The traveler conquered hia repug nance, opened the cofBn-Ud, and found the strange bath-tub nicely lined with tin. He took a bath, but declared that he did not feel Just right about It Should Have Held Hia Tonaraew In London Answers there kf told a story of a watchman who threw him self out of work by hia stupidity. He had been engaged by the directors ef an Australian bank, and brought with Aim good recommendationa. The chairman of the board sent for him and proceeded to "neat him up" as to his duties. "Well, James,- ha began, "this hi four first Job ef this kind, Isat ltf" -Yea, air." "Tour duty must be ts exercise vlgl sir- "B careful bow strangers approach yon." "I win, slr." "No stranger must be allowed to en ter the bank at night under any pre text whatever." "No, air." "And our manager he It a good man, honest and trustworthy; bnt It will be your duty to keep your eye on him." "But It wlU be hard to watch two men and the bank at the same ttase," "Two men, how?" "Why, eir. It waa only yesterday that the manager called ma In for a talk, and he said you were one of the best men In the city, but It would be Just as well to keep both eyes on yon, and let tbe directors know If yea hung about after hours." Struck by LlghtnlBft. A danger long ago over, but which Is as thrilling aa any present news paper Item of the time, because It con cerned a most precious life, la describ ed In Mr. Stearns' "Sketches from Con cord and Appledore." In the summer of 1ST2 a number of persona were kill ed by lightning, and the poet Whittle! also met with a narrow escape, It was one of the last days of June, and from our piazza we could see the masses of black cloud rolling down the Merrlmac Valley. At the aame time Miss Lizzie Wbittler and a friend were seated In a room on the right band of the front door, when an electric bolt came through the wall like a rifle-shot Just above ber friend's head, laying her out on the floor and shivering a mirror Into splinters. Then It went through the doorway, met Mr. Wbittler, In the front ball, and knocked him senseless ; then seising two stots from a blind ft escaped througn an tpen window Into the gar den. None of the victims were seriously Injured, however, though their head were confused and unserviceable for several days. Mr. Wbittler was asked bow the stroke felt "It waa like a blow from a pHe-drlv-er," said he, "and I Should not like to have it repeated." Ready to Reform. Some writers of dialect stories seem to think It necessary to misspell words whioh their characters pronounce cor rectly. The Washington Star takes off thai absurdity by thia fanciful bit of criticism: "I'd like to see the man ea writ this," he said, holding hia Angers over a par a graph in the newspaper. "That dialect story?" "Tea. sir, I want to ask tm some thing." "He hi not here at present. lent there anything we can do for yonT" "Mebbe there la. Ye see, I come from tbe locality he's writing abont That's my kind of talk he's putting before the public. Whenever he uses the word come, he spells It 'c-u-m.' " "Of course. That shows it's dialect.' "Well, we're anxious to please up onr way. If you'll tell us any different way to pernounce It, so's the spelllng'll be 'c-o-m-e,' same ez yours, I'll warrant that every man In tbe community's practice till he kin do it Jea right" Kconotnlcat Husband You're not economical. Wife Well, If yon don't call a wom an economical wbo saves her wedding dress for a possible second marriage I'd like to know what you think omy Ul Atswera. Cnmalatlve Effect, Sir Boyle Roche has, as rivals among parliamentary orators, the gentlemen who repeat a meaning in several dif ferent words. In order to gain what they are pleased to call a cumulative effect One ot these was found, some years ago, In a member of Congress from Colorado. In a speech In the House In Which he assailed hotly a gentleman on the other side of the House, who dis dained to reply to him, he concluded as follows, pointing hia finger at hi vic tim: "There be alts, Mr. Speaker there ht Its, mute, silent and dumbl" "Tea, Mr. Speaker," Interrupted a member on tbe other aide, "and be lent saying a word" TALLAGE. lhe Cm nnt Olv rte's Sunday SabJecti "A Passion of Soals.' Ttt- "I eould wish that mvself wet accursed from Ohrtit for mv brethren, my klosinsa according to ths Ueah." Bonuuu lx.,3. A tousjh passage, ln-leed, for those wbi AkePaut literally. When some ot tb old theologians deolared that they ware willing to be damned for tbe glory ot God, they snll what no ouo be leved. Paul did not In the teztmanbe was willing to die forever to lv his relatives. Ha used bvixsrbo.e, M. when be declared. "I eould wish that myself were accursed from Christ; for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh," 1m mwuit in the most Tenement of all possible ways to deolars his anriitr for the salvai Ion of his relatives and friends. It was a passion for souls. Not mors than one Christian out of thousands of Christians feels Ic All ab sorbing desire for the betterment of the physical and mental eondition is very oom nton. It would take mora ot a mathema tician than I over can be to calculate how many are, up io an anxiety that sometimes will not let them slaep iilxhts, planning ltr the effllenoy ot hospitals where the sick and woundMd of body are treated, and for eve and sar infirmaries, and for dispensaries and ret rents where th poorest may hava most ski lful surgsry and helpful trsatmant. Oh, it is beautiful and glorious this Wldo Ipread and ever Intensifying movement to alleviate and euro physioal misfortunes, ttay God encouraire and help the thousaoia Of splnmlld mvn and womsa engaae-1 la that workl Bat all that is outside of mysabjsot to day, la bebolf of theimmortaUty of a m in, tbe innnr ye, tha Inner aar, tha lnnar oa paoity for gladness or distress, how few feel inything Itlca tha overwhelming ooncsntra Uon expressed la my text. Barer than four leaved clovers, racer than century plants, rarer than prima donna, have baen those of whera it may be said. "Xhey have a passion for souls." You eould oount on the Angers sud thumb or your left band atl tbe names ot thosa you ean reoAll who In ths last-Khe sighieenth eantury were so oharasierlsed. Ail the nsma of thosa yoa could recall ia Our time as having this passion for souls yoa ran count on ths Sugars and thumbs ot your right and lelt hands. There are many more such ooasecrated souls, but they are scattered so widely you donot know them. Thoroughly Christian people by the hundreds of mlldons there sre to-day, but how few people do yoa know wbo are utterly oblivious to every thing in thi world except tha redemption, of souls? Paul bail it when ha wrote my text, and the time will oome when the majoritv of Christians will have It, If this world is ever to be lifted out of tbe slough In whioh it has been sinking and floundering for near nine teen centuries, and ths betterment had bat tar begin with myself and yourself. Whan a Committee of tha Society of Friends called upon a member to reprimand him for break ing some small rale of the sooiat y, tbe mem ber replied: "I had a dream, in whioh all tha frien Is had assembled to plan some way to hnve onr meeting house cleaned, for It was very filthy. Many propositions were made, but no cono usion was rvaobed until ons of the members rose and said, 'Friends, I think if each ons would take a broom and waep tmme tlatsly around bis own seat, the meeting bouse would be olean." So let ths work of spiritual Improvement begin around ?ur own soaU Soms one whispers up from ths right hand side ot the pulpit and says, ''Will yoa please name some of the parsons in our times who hava this pas sion for soulsV" Oh. nol That would be in vidious and Impru lent, and tha mere men tioning of the namas of such persons mlgnt ea use in them spiritual pride, and then the Cord would have no more use for them. Some one whimpers up from the left hand side of tha pulpit, 'Will you not, then, men tion among the p ople of the past soms who bad this passion for soular" Oh, ynsi Samuel Butherford, tha Sooicumanof 8o0 years agj his Imprisonment at Aberdeen for his re ligious zeal, and tha publts burning of his book, "Lex Bex," in Edinburgh, and his no ust arraignment for high treason and other persecutions, purifying and saooti tying him to tbat his works, entitled "Trial and triumph of Faiih" and "Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself," and, above all, his 215 unparalleled tatters showed that ha bad the pas-don for souls; Richard Baxter, whose "Paraphrase of the Saw Testament" caused him to be dragged before Lord Jef freys, who howled at bim as "a rascal" and "niveltng Presbyterian'" and imprisoned htm for two years Baxter, writing 16S re ligious books, n s "Call to the Uaeonverted" bringing uncounted thousands Into tbe par don ot the gospel, and bis "8 tints' Everlast ing Best" opening heaven to a host lnnum erablnt Blchard Cecil; Thomas ' a Kemplt, writing his "imitation ot Christ" for ail atceaj KarlaaPtge, Bobert gaOneyae, tfsttlston, linuey and more whom I might mention, the share ct eristic of whose lives was an over towering passion for souls. A. B. Earl, the Baptist evangelist, bad it LS. Inskip, the Methodist evangelist, had it Jacob Eospp had it Dr. Bacbua, President of Hamilton College, had It And when told be had only halt an hour to II ve said i "is th at so Then take me out of my bed and place me upon my knees and let ma spend that time In celt lag en God for tha Salvation of tha world." And so he died upon his knees. Then there have been others whose nanus have been known only ia their own family or neighbor-! hood, and hero and there yoa think of one. I Witness while the preacher speaks, put a WhatanottoB thev had In prayer! Wh, , sent pleoe or, if thedmes be hard, a leant power tbey had 'in exhortation! If they ; piece n the collection platter, kind of shov walked Into a home, every member of it fait " down under tha other coin no that It a holy thrill, and it they walked Into ! might be, for aU that tbe usher knows, a C8 prayer meeting tha dullness and stolidity eold plece,9n i then, after the benediction, go Instantly vanished. One of them would quietly home to the biggest repast ot all the wake up a whole church. One of them would week. That Is ell the majority of Christians tometimes electrify a whole city. ' 'doing for the rectification of this planet, But tha most wonderful one of that ohar- j ""d they will do thit until, at the elose of aetarlsatlon ths world ever saw or heard or lw. the pastor opens a black book at ths IWt Was a peasant ia ths Far East, wearing i bsad r tbaiT casket and reads. "Biassed are a plain blouse like an Inverted wheat sack, i the dead who die In the Lord. They rest from with three openings-one for tha neck and . ielr labors and their worksdofollowthem." tha ol ber two for tha arms. His lather The sense ot the ludtoious to so thoroughly wheelwright and house builder and given to ' developed in me that whan I hear these varioas carpentry. His mother at first under : Senpturs W irds read at the obsequies of one suspicion because of the clrcumstanoes of His 01 tn religious do nothings la the churches nativity, and He chase J by a Herodlo mania i 4 V mt ? n gravity. "Taeir works out of His native land to live awhl e under . J? follow tha n." What work? And in what thashadows of the sphinx and pyramid of : Jlreetion do they follow tbem up or down? Olseb, afterward confounding the L.L. D.s 1 n'J d tb,87 tMo" ? lo or " n of Jerusalem, tnen stopping tha paroxysms I J,d oow a wUl they foUow before they ot tempest and ol madman. His path strewn nP' M, appropriate funeral text With slauTdropsies and catalepsies and oph- for all such religious dead beats would be thalmias. transfigured on oho mountain, words in Matthew Xxv., 8: "Our lamps preaching on another mountain, dying on ' out." One would think that snob z...i 2 ..i i ...ji. i Christians would show at least under whose UUIUTC WUUI1WI1I Ul i, HvruuuiH uum H . other mountain the greatest, the loveliest, I the mightiest, the kindest, the most self-eae i the mightiest, the kindest, tha most selr-eae- nnomg, most oeautuut oemg waoee ieec mc touched tbe earth. Tall us, ye deserts who heard our Saviour's prayer; tall us, ye seas tbst drenched Him with your surf; tell us, ye multitudes wbo beard Him preach on deck, on beach, on hillside; tall us, OoU aotba. who heard the stroke of tha nam mar oa ths splkeheads and tha dying groan la that midnight that dropped oa mldaooa, I did anyone like Jeeus hivathia passion for .obI,? But breaking right In upon me Is the ' question, How can wa get something of this !.ulln. ind Christly longing for saved lot-, mortalities? I answer, by better appreciat ing the prolongation of tha sonl'S enistenee; compared with everything physical and ssa teriaL How I hope tbat surgeon will sue- I eessfully remove the cataract frrai that man's eye! It is such a sad thing to be blind. Let us pray white the doctor is busy with the delicate operation. But for how long a time will he be able to give his patient eyeeight? Well, if the patient be forty years or age, he will add to his happiness perhaps fifty years of eyesight, and that will bring tbe man to ninety years, and it ts not pros- ; able tbat be will live longer than that, ot that he will 11 va so long. But What Is good rveais-ht for flftv vears mere ss com Dared with clear vision for the soul billion of centuries? I hope the effort to dVre back the typhoid fever from yonder home WlU be successful. God he p the doctors! TVs will Walt ia great anxiety until the CreS ot that fever are extinguished, and when ths man rises from his pillow and walks out, with what heartiness we will welcome bim Into the fresh air and the church and business euoies! Ha 13 thirty years of age, and If bs shall live sixty years mor tbat will make him ninety. But wbat are sixty years more ot earthly vigorcomi,ar.d w.th'tb. bf."V"T?? a yiuHimuoi nitiienntums a millennium, as yon know, a thousand yeanr 'lots world, since lilted np for man's rest-ii-nca, has exuded abont six I housand years. How mu.-ti longer will it exist'? We will tod. pose it ha I last as much longer, which Is Tory uoukmii. 11 tc wiu make its exist enea twelve thousand years. But what are or will ba twelve thousand years compared with the eteruity preceding those years and ths eternity following them time, as com pared to eteruity, like the drop ot the night duw shaken from tbe top of a grass blade by the cow's hoof on its way afield this morn ing, as comDired with Mediterranean, and arabtt-a and Atlantis and I'aclno watery do oinionJ'. A stranrer desirel to purchase a farm, bat the owner would not sell it would only let It '1 be stran ger hired it by lease for only neerop, bat he sowel acorns, an 1 tons tare that crop SO t years were nenesary. That was a practiced dojptln. but I deemva yoa not when 1 1 I you tbat the erop ot ths soul 'altea hold of attending Age. I Kee the aa hor of my te.-ct seatnd In tbe louso of Qaius, who entertained him at Jorla h, not fur from ihu over.iaaging for-'- or ro-Oorinihu-i. and meditating on ha longevity of tha soul and getting more tnd more aritated about its value aaJ ths iwful risk soma of his kindred ware running -oacerning It. anl ha writes this latter eon raining the text, which Onrysostool admired to much he had it read to him twice a week, tnd among other things ht savs those dar ns and startling words of mv text. 'I eould h t -at myself ware a .-cursed from Christ or my brethren, my kinsman, according to he limb." another way to get something, of too ?anline longtnr for redeemed Immortalities s by examiulir ths vast mnohiaery ar uq ad to sar ibis Inner and spiritual na ure. That m tchlusry started to revolve on heedce ot the garden, of Bleu, Just after he cycloue ot si a prostrated it sycamores tni tamarisks and willows aai will notease o revoiv- until the last soul or earth shall ret rt 1 ot its lost sla an I eater the heav-n!y lieu. Oa that stupendous machinery for toul saving the potr.areh put his hand, an t rophet his hand, and evangelist bis hand, tnd apostle his h-tnd, and Christ His hand, tad almost every hand tbat touche I It bo urne a crashed band. It was tha most ex tensive machinery ever constructed. It east aore to start it and has cost and wld eot core to keep It running than all tha wheels bnt aver made revolution on this planet that machinery turned not by ordinary notlve power, but by force of tears and llood. To sonasot lis ban 'S of in nuance nade out of human and Christly nerves with ill parts ot tha earth millions ot good men tud women are now at work and will be at cork until every wilderness shall besoms a rardan, and avery tear of grief siall bo a jear of joy, and the sword of diviue victory lhall glv9 the wound to ths old dreg n that iball sen I bint howling to the pit, tha Iron tatsolanging against hi-n, nevsr again lo pen. All that and Infinitely mor- to save ha soul! W ty, tt must tie a listen lous toul tremeudwits for good or tremendous br evil, tremennous tor' happiness or tra nendous for woe. Put on ths left aide of ths largest sheet ot jap-r that ever cams from paper mill a sin tie ou t, tha figure 1, and how many ciphers s-ould you have to add to tha right or that Igureto express the soul's value, anh cipher tdding tenfold? Working into tbat teheme f tbe soul's redemption, how many anrels if God descending and as-ending! How nanystoraisswoopiogonLakeaalileel H w nany earthquakes opening dungeoa and griklng catacivsns throagb mountains. from op to base! What noonday sua was put on etraatl What omnipotence lifio l and what Jodhoad was put to torture! All that for ha soul. No wonder that Fan', though pos ainir (traat equipoise of temperament when le thought what his friends and knirad sore risking ooutsermag taeir soals, flung Hide all his ordinary modes of speech, aru nent and apt simile, and bold mmaphor. and earned allusion, as unfit to express how ha !ult. and sciziag upon the appalling hyper olism of my text arias out "I ooald wish nyseif Hccursed"that la, struck of ths bundt-rbolts of tha omnipotent Qod, sunk :o unfatQomed depths, chained Into earvi aide to Abaddon and thrust inio luruaees whose fires shall never burs out If only ;bosa whom I love might now and forever be laved. Mind you, Paul does not say. "I do Irish." He says. "I could wish." Evan la ihe agoL-y be felt for others he did not lose lis balance. "I could wish m-self aoaursei." could, bat I donot. Oaly one being tbat iver lived was literally willing to give up laavea for perdition, end that was the dl- rine peasant whom I mentioned a faw no- neuts ago. Ha was not oaly willing to ex !h:Ege dominions of bliss tor dominions ot wretched-ess, but Hs did so, for, that Hs torsoot heaven, witness the Stooping Stat tnd all those who suw His miracles of mercy, ind that Hn actually sutersd ths gates of ths ivorl.i of perpetual coansgrartoa the Bible ilstinotly declares. He did not Say. with Paul, "I could," but Ha Said, "I will, I do," tnd tor tha souls of men Hs "descended into lell." In this last half of ths last decade of tha ainetceath cut cry the temperature la the marches U very low, and most of the piety vjoI i spoil if it ware not kept oa loo. .nd, taking things aa they are, ordinary Chrs ises will never reach tha point where ths tit -ry of Faul la the text will not seem Ilk ixtravaganza. The proprieties in most of the ihurches are so flX'd that all a Christian Is ix pec-ted to do on Sunday is to gat up a little later In tbe morning than usual, put on that which Is next to hi best attire not the vary test, for that has to be reserved for the levee enter tha church with a stately step, bow lis head, or at any rats shut his eyes la nrmnp tinae. or alose them enonirh In Innlr lepy. "". toward the pulpit with holy . ..... . nner thy nllstad. In one ot the fapolaonlo wars, a woman-Jeannette by name took bar position witn tno troops ana shouldered a broomstick. The colonel said, .'eonoetta. why do you take saoh a useless weapon into the ranks?" "Weil," she said. "I can sh-.w. at least, which aide I am on. " Mow. the otiect of this sermon Is to stir at least one-fourth of you to an ambition tor that which my text presents In biasing vocabulary-namely . passion for souls. To Pr Vhat " po8,bil!0JfT'.m?"l,t spirit, I bring tbe consecration of JMO foreign missionaries. It Is usually estimated that 'be" est laionri- 1 mJ LS2SS52 "S&gSSPZXii aVV Wn A Ut IJOIVUBS SW wta wi MiW awwi LU a, hw not believe there Is one. All English aud American merchants leave Bombay, Cal cutta, Amoy and Fekin as soon as they make their iortunes. Why; Because ao European or American in his senses would srsvinthitt climate after monetary lndoow meats have orated. Now tha missionaries there are out down on the barest necessities. and most or them do sot lay np SI In twenty years. Whv, then, do they stay in those lands of intolerable heat end cobras and raging fevers, tbe thermometer sometimes plaving at 133 and 1W degrees or oppressive ness, 12,000 miles from horn-, because of the unhealthy climate aud tbe prevailing lav moralities of thoee regions compelled to send their children to Engtaad or Scotland or America, probr.bly never to See tmm again? O blessed Christ! Can tt be anything but a passion tor souls? It Is easy to understand alt this frequent depreciation of foreign mis sionaries whan you know that they are all opposed to the opium traffla, and tbat inter feres with commerce, and then the mission aries are moral, and tbat Is an offense to manv ot the merchants not ail of them, but many of them wbo, absent from all boms 1 o taeir a Dominations wo, wouta uaa 19 bw at tha ante of heaven wimn tmiaa missiou arles go tn to sea how tney will hava tha I pick of coronets and thrones and mnmdons on tna oast streets of heaven. We who l-.nva bad easy pulpits and loving oouregitiiom, entering beaveo, will, in my opiuion. have to take our turn and watt f.r the Christ Un workers who, amid physical satlering and mental privation and environment of squalor, have done their work, and on tha principle that ia proportion as one h'tt bsn-a self-saorlaoing sad suffering fur Chriai's sake on earth will bs their celajiial prefer nent, Wbo Is tbat voungwomia on tbe worst street In Wablngtou, New York or Loudou, Bible tn hand and a little package In which are small vials of me-Home-, and another bundle in which are biscuits? How dare she risk herself Among thosa "roughs,1 anl where is sbe going? 8te Is one ot the queens of heaven hunting up the sick and huutrryt an 1 before night she will hare read Christ's "Let not your heart be troubled" la eignt or ten places, and eouuted out fr un those v als tbe right number of drops to ease pain, and given food to a family that would otherwise have had nothing to eat to-day, an I taken the measure ft a dead ciiild tti.it she mar prepare fork a shroud ber every a -t of kindness for the body accompanied with a benediction lor the soui. You m- nothing but the filthy street along which she walks and tha rickety talrs up which she c in Us, but sho la aucompauied by an unsiea cohort of angels with drawn swords to oofen t her, and with garlan is twisted fi.r her victories ail up and down the tmement houi.t dis tricts, i tall you then wn not so louch BXOitement when Aune B leyn. on her way to bar corona' ion, rouud the 'J'huaes Itirred by fifty Ml ie.l bnrge, with bril liant flags, tn wnioh hung s-na 1 bells cuug by each motion ot tha win i, noble tneu standiug In scarlet, aa I wnarf spread With cloth of gotd, anl all tha gateways uncounted by hucztiut; a l-iir-rj, and ma Kreets bung With or.tm m v-ia , an 1 iru n oetsand caouoa soua Hug t io jubilee, and anne, drassea in sureoa ui stiver tlsni-4, and brow gleaming with a circlet or rn i s, and imld fouiitaiujth.il piure l XI itil.ii win pa&salonto Weitmiuiter Hi, I an I role ia i a caparisoned pai ry, iu Uoo s olat.erioir a the clasi,i fl wr, nnl, di m mating, pissed Into We-tmlast -r A : -v, an l t-tw eu :be i-iioir aa 1 higu alt ir wa- eruA-'ie i on ea ut I organs an I oloirs enamiug tha Te Oium" I say then- was not maih in all it glory watch itstslej tbe eyes ol history a-u it is oonp ired with the h-aveniy re eotion w'tlch that miulsterlng spirit of the at-'j alwy aiiall reis-ive when sit- g-ws up to urination. Whan she goes in, what wel in on tae river of life, lis b:iukt ot pearl .inad wittt spln lira srap)ita nn I ia temDles )f eternal worship, whoe mui o is rots nm lad by swing of archangel.o soepter and -fore thrones whera at those who bar -elgn-d a thiusaal yean but hive just lagan thir ito ninion P or Anne B ileyn, t tw.i y-ars attar that pag -nnt, la-t lifi and throne by on-atroke of h-'idsm in, bat those ho oa earih;"hava a dlvina past'Oa for s ouls ha 1 nev-r loss their thrones, "i'nry shall Mign forever and ever." But. after all, tha best way to cultivate hat diviue pass ou for souis Is to work for heir salvation. " TJuder ao I save one, an t oa will want right away to save twi. Have two, and you will wauc to s.iva ten. Save -en, and you will want to save twenty. Save wu-y, aad youwlli want to save a hundred. .tve a hundred, and you will want to save tveryb dy. Anl what is the nss or talking ioout it when ths plnas to negia is bsrs and ha time is no? An t whi a you pray I wilt a oae minute tell all thera is ut it. Full xarUon for the wont m iu on earth If ha will jelieve Iq Christ, whose blood cu Instantly was i awuy ths foulest cr.mes. fml Contort or the uio-it harrowing llstni-s that ever rusne 1 human being. At your first ooment of belief, a process by whioh the waoie sni versa of Qod will turn dear trouad for year eternal advantage. For tbe neia asking, tf th-ask ng be la earnest, aud voa throw everything Into that aikirnr, com plete solnoe and helpfulness for the few yetrs of this life, ant than a wl ia open aeav-a whioh you ean roach in less time than U takes ma to pronounce that 1 npsrisi word, flashing with all the Joy that aa la Unite Ood knows how to bestow o ivao. In this World Qod never itoes tils b st. He San hang on tha horizon grander mornings tuan htve ever yet been kindled, aad rala oow tna skr with richer colors than have svar been arched, and attune tha oceans to more majestis doxologias toaa have avar yet onen attained; but as near ai I can tell, anl ( resale it reverently, heaven is tha place where Ood has dona His best. Hs ean balid ao greater Joys, lift no mightier splendors, roll nolo tier anthems, march no mora Im posing procession, balid no gre iter palttees, sad spread out and intarjoln and wave ne mote transporting maguidcanse. I think heaven ts the best heaven So I can ooos met. tnd it is all voum for the i-rioo asking. How do you like the offerf Oa you really think it IS worth accepting? It so, pray for It Oat not up from that pew where you are sitting, nor move one inch from where yoa are standing, before yon get a full title for it, written la ths blood ot the Son of Ood, wao Weald have all men soma to Ufa preseat lad life everlasting. If yoa have been In military lire, you know what soldiers sail tha "long roll.'' AH the lrums beat tt because tbe enemy is approach log, and all the troops must immediately get into Una, What scurrying around the samp and putting of the arms through the traps of the knapsack, and saying good-by to comrades you may never m iet again) Soma of you Germans or Frenchmen raay have heard tbat long roll Just before Sedan. Soma ot roa Italiaus may hava heard tbat long rod just berore Berga-uo. Soma ot yoa Northern aad Southern men may have heard It Just before the battle ot tha Wilderness. You know its stirring and solemn mean ing, and so I sound ths long roll to-day. X hast thi- old gospel drum tbat has for aea turiss been calling thousands to take their places In Una for this battle, on one Ida of which are all the forces beariilc and ou the other side all the forces damonlae. Here tbe long roll eall, "Who is ea the Lord's side?" "Quit yourselves like men. la solemn eoluma march for Ooi and tiappl oeas and heaven. So glad am 1 tnat I do o t hava to "wl-h myself accursed" and throw away my heaven that you may win your heaven, but that we may havs a whole sonvantioa ot heavens heaven added te heaven, heaven bai t oa heaven. And while dwell upon ths theme I begin to expert sure la my own poo seif that which I take to ha something Ilea a passion forsouls. And now unto Ood, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever. Amoal Baca Ijnd Tract In Lltlgmtloa. Tha ownership of atraot of land 40,000,000 sens in extent, all the way from Springfield, Ho., to tha Pacific Oseao, Is in lltllgatlon, the case being before tbe United States Su preme Court. Bobert Mingus claims the land, and so does the Atlantlo and Faslfto Railroad Company. If the claims Of tha railroad company should bs su-damed, all of tbe patents issued by the United States and entries allowed to settlers fnr parts ot snoh lands since lB5o would bs na lined. The Supreme Court of the Territory has de oided la favor of Mingus. Assert vonroa'n free "oru if yon will, but a' am it m'dstlf nn l quietly, respecting others yot wwh to bs respected yourself. Culttrg nnnci is c bsd practice m polities mt w nsv-j si' it n nest--igbteil tbat w-? c-iu't i.lrn'ity a thing tn. til it is InVeleJ. Spfehm-ikf rs tro remio'led that tveu the prluner whomukrsun irjct tjtvc? en-lit to tte flnwer irora wbiott he gets it. It ibonUl ho rt numbered ttat in character, m manner!', in xtvle, - iu all hinsrs tile supreme ertjUIecci is sl:n lieitj. IuSbv a r-;n, wiio fatfrra himself tbat be is always able tt ad .pi himself to the ritctimslar.cfs only succeed generally in making a niruiuce ot himself. Inherited wea'th shows that If a folio " can't snccec d himself be can snoceed his father. If yon wish to re ttne ff virion, oVerva a pel"s feiljngs towsrd the 0 liMren of his brain. t 1 i r a r 11 a i 1 n tr ! I tt I n of 3 esl ael l 1 tr- h di 3 el 6 ItJ Ot. t 0 " wtl is
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